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June 15, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show

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	As you all know, shortly after 7 a.m. this morning, a gunman opened fire when members of Congress and their staffs, as they were practicing for tomorrow's annual charity baseball game.
	Authorities are continuing to investigate the crime, and the assailant has now died from his injuries.
	The FBI is leading the investigation and will continue to provide updates as new information becomes available.
	Congressman Steve Scalis, a member of House Leadership, was shot and badly wounded and is now in stable condition at the hospital, along with two very courageous Capitol Police officers.
	At least two others were also wounded.
	Many lives would have been lost if not for the heroic actions of the two Capitol Police officers who took down the gunmen despite sustaining gunshot wounds during a very, very brutal assault.
	Melania and I are grateful for their heroism and praying for the swift recovery of all victims.
	Congressman Scalise is a friend and a very good friend.
	He's a patriot and he's a fighter.
	He will recover from this assault.
	And Steve, I want you to know that you have the prayers not only of the entire city behind you, but of an entire nation and frankly, the entire world.
	America is praying for you, and America is praying for all of the victims of this terrible shooting.
	I spoke with Steve's wife, Jennifer, and I pledge to her our full and absolute support.
	Anything she needs.
	We're with her and with the entire Scalice family.
	I have also spoken with Chief Matthew Verderosa.
	He's doing a fantastic job of the Capitol Police to express our sympathies for his wounded officers and to express my admiration for their courage.
	Our brave Capitol Police perform a challenging job with incredible skill and their sacrifice makes democracy possible.
	We also commend the brave first responders from Alexandria Police Fire and Rescue who rushed to the scene.
	Everyone on that field is a public servant.
	Our courageous police, our congressional aides who work so tirelessly behind the scenes with enormous devotion and our dedicated members of Congress who represent our people.
	We may have our differences, but we do well in times like these to remember that everyone who serves in our nation's capital is here because above all, they love our country.
	We can all agree that we are blessed to be Americans, that our children deserve to grow up in a nation of safety and peace, and that we are strongest when we are unified and when we work together for the common good.
	Please take a moment today to cherish those you love and always remember those who serve and keep us safe.
	God bless them all.
	God bless you, and God bless America.
	Thank you.
	All right, glad you're with us.
	Sad day, an assassination attempt on the House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise, somebody we've known on the program now for a long, long time.
	Um sadly, the reports, the updates have not been particularly good, in as much as it's a little bit worse than what we originally heard in terms of uh we know he's been operated on a number of transfusions.
	He's in critical condition now as we we speak, and he was one of among five people wounded Wednesday when this rifle wielding gunman literally opened fire on this baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia.
	I guess they have a an annual baseball game every year, and it was you know just a practice session.
	I guess it's uh the Republicans versus the Democrats, and uh the person is identified as a 66-year-old man from Illinois, and uh witnesses at the scene described a fire fight between the suspect who's now been killed and the police.
	By the way, I can't imagine if we didn't have these two brave Capitol police officers on the scene there to defend these these congressmen and and and senators that were out there playing baseball.
	Federal law enforcement officials now have identified this guy as uh James Hotkinson of Bellv uh Belleville, Illinois.
	Uh I thought the president gave one of his shining leadership speeches since he has been in office and talking about the horrible tragedy of everything that has happened here.
	Uh turns out this guy was a Bernie Sanders supporter and wrote on Facebook that Trump is a traitor.
	How many times after something horrible happens do we always find out these people telegraph everything that they're doing, and it raises questions, you know, what is and I'm not critical of law enforcement here.
	I'm I'm not in any way, shape, matter, or form, but I don't think that we are at all paying enough attention to what these people are saying.
	And you know, um I I uh, you know, I it's just hard to believe it's all out there.
	I just it's hard to believe.
	How many more times are we gonna say oh, this guy telegraphed it again and again and again and again and again?
	He had posted his anger with Congressional Republicans several times on Facebook, on his page on Facebook, shared an anti-Scalice cartoon.
	This was a targeted assassination.
	Don't let anybody in the media tell you anything different than this.
	Apparently was accused of pulling out the the hair of his daughter's head, this idiot, punching another woman in the face, shooting at a man in 2006.
	Why were charges dropped then?
	Well, I guess we'll review you know, there'll be some stupid ri ridiculous, you know, nuanced explanation as to why, you know, he was violent to towards his own daughter.
	Pun any guy that punches a woman in the face, why don't you get 20 years minimum in jail?
	You know, first thing my father taught me didn't matter.
	I had three older sisters.
	Did not matter how wrong they were.
	You know, they were the ones that, you know, would would poke the caged animal and I'd fight back, and I was the one that always got caught.
	Or if like, you know, a kid and I mean, it's just unbelievable.
	You don't ever I mean he would be like, you don't ever raise your hands to a woman, ever.
	Pulling out your daughter's hair is not reason enough to throw somebody in jail for abuse.
	You know, and and literally punching a woman in the face and shooting at a guy.
	Anyway, didn't renew his business license.
	He moved to uh the Commonwealth of Virginia a few months ago, was spotted at a YMCA several times near the baseball field.
	He was armed with a rifle, began firing some fifty shots.
	Anyway, it's uh Steve Scalise was actually shot in the hip.
	He was originally in stable condition and undergoing surgery.
	I understand there's a lot of blood that's been replaced in in Steve and the Congressman, or thoughts and prayers.
	I know his wife was in transport to DC, where I am today.
	And uh police officers, because he was there, were already present and engaged the gunman for several minutes has had to go on before they were able to take this guy out.
	Now the suspect was uh again as the per the person we said.
	Now, I'm gonna tell you now one thing that has come out here.
	We now know that this guy was a Bernie Sanders supporters.
	Now, I I'm I'm not gonna do what the left does here.
	Bernie Sanders is not responsible for what one of his stupid supporters have to say.
	Because most Bernie Sanders supporters are not violent and not out there trying to kill Republicans.
	And Bernie said he was sickened by the entire, you know, anti-GOP massacre here.
	All right, and I believe him.
	But if it's you know, the Oklahoma City bombing didn't stop Bill Clinton from blaming talk radio.
	You know, the unipomber remember that whole story comes out.
	Well, if we would have followed the logic of the left, you know, everybody's pointing fingers, loves to point fingers here.
	Oh, the guy had Earth in the Balance by Al Gore.
	Was that did that motivate this idiot?
	Anyway, this was a high powered rifle.
	I I happen to run into some Secret Service agents today and some other police officers today, and I stopped to talk to these guys.
	One of them actually showed me the size of the bullet that was used here.
	I mean, this is a serious, serious attack.
	And he kept unloading and he kept reloading.
	And, you know, so he ends up dead.
	He belonged to all these anti-GOP groups, apparently still distraught after the election.
	Said uh it's time to destroy Trump and company.
	Was uh Mad Ouse superfan over there at Conspiracy Theory TV and tinfoil hat black helicopter television over at MBC.
	You know, you got left wing uh left wingers on Twitter.
	I won't even repeat the the garbage that I saw in the period of time that I spent on Twitter today, because it'll make you nauseous how evil and sick social media is.
	Capitol police literally in this case prevented a massacre.
	And God forbid if you didn't have two armed guys there, there'd be more dead people today.
	Now the GOP is received uh a threatening call.
	Quote, one down, two hundred and sixteen to go.
	Wow.
	Does it get any sicker than that?
	I don't think so.
	Now uh an old friend of mine, Mo Brooks, who's running for Senate, goingors for the Senate down in Alabama.
	I've known him for twenty-five years.
	A very decent guy was at this event, and I want to play some of what he said.
	He actually described the shooting at this incident and talks about how a uh uh uh uh you know he applied a tourniquet.
	He'll be joining us later in the program today, and uh to the one to one of the shot congressional staffers that are fighting for their lives today.
	And he talks about Steve Scalise leaving a trail of blood about ten to fifteen yards from where he was shot.
	Listen.
	Uh, about to hit batting practice on the third base side of home plate, and I hear a loud bam, and I look around and behind third base and the third base dugout, which is cinder block, I see a rifle.
	Um, and I see uh a little bit of a body, and then I hear another blam, and I realize that there's an active shooter.
	Uh at the same time I hear Steve Scalise over here, uh second base uh scream.
	Uh he was shot.
	He's our majority whip.
	Um the gun was a semi automatic.
	It continues to fire at uh different people.
	You can imagine all the people in the field scatter.
	Um I run around to the first base side of home plate, and we have a batting case.
	It's got plastic wrapped around it to stop foul balls.
	And hide behind the plastic.
	You know, that plastic's not real good.
	And I was lying on the ground with two or three others as the gunfire continues.
	He heard A break in the gunfire and decided to take a chance.
	Ran from home plate to the first base dugout, which is also centered block and down about two or three feet, so you can have better cover.
	Um there were a number of congressmen and congressional staffers who help us uh lying on the ground.
	Uh one of them uh was wounded uh in the leg, took off my belt, and uh myself another congressman, I don't remember who uh applied a tourniquet to try to uh slow down the bleeding.
	Uh in the meantime, um towards the right field side of the uh dugout and there's gunfire within about five or six, seven feet of my head.
	No pen.
	And I look up and there's a guy with a gun blasting away.
	Fortunately, it was one of the good guys.
	You said that the whip, um, Congressman Scalise uh left.
	Did he was he able to move under his own power?
	Do you know where he was hit?
	Do you know the extent of his interest?
	He was dragging his body from the second base in field, where it's dirt to the outfield to get away from the shooter while all this firing was going on.
	And so here, you know, we're seeing our colleague as we're under fire.
	He's lying on the ground.
	But there's not a whole lot you can do.
	And that was of course emotionally uh distressing to know the position he was in, but he was shot in the hip.
	I think it was not a life-threatening wound, but I am not.
	Um a physician.
	Uh I don't know how deep into uh the hip area the bullet went.
	There was no exit wound that I could see.
	Um and again on when I got out to Steve, uh, as Brad Winstrip was helping to cut off the pants.
	I was applying uh pressure with a cloth to win to try to help stop the bleeding.
	But there was a blood trail about 10 to 15 yards long from where he was shot to where he crawled into right field.
	We are in DC today.
	That was Mo Brooks.
	He was an eye witness, he was there, and to his credit, he might have saved somebody's life because he applied a tourniquet.
	Uh Mo Brooks, who was at the this this tragedy today, the shooting today, this assassination attempt today, will join us later in the program.
	Also, Congressman Dave Bratt's gonna stop by or freedom caucus, and Congressman Ron DeSantis, Jay Seculo from the American Center for Law and Justice is gonna stop by and we'll get to all of the other news of the day.
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	From our nation's capital, it's the Sean Hannity show.
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	We'll come back.
	And to what extent are holding up decapitated heads of President Trump lookalikes, or killing uh the president or a Trump lookalike and the Shakespeare in the park, and all the other violent rhetoric.
	Is that going to contributing factor?
	We'll ask that question coming up.
	Sean Hannity.
	As we roll along, Sean Hannity show in Washington, D.C. today, toll free or telephone numbers 800 nine four.
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	You know, I um I'm not gonna go down the road except to say we've been spending an awful lot of time on this program talking about hatred, vitriol, directed at the president of the United States.
	Yeah, Kathy Griffin.
	You got what she did.
	You got Shakespeare in the park killing a Donald Trump lookalike.
	Kathy Griffin, it's we've got all the insanity that has been expressed.
	Uh you know, everybody from Madonna on down, Ashley Judd.
	Do you think that's a factor?
	All right, 25 now until the top of the hour.
	Toll-free telephone numbers 800 941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, we've got a busy program today from Washington, DC.
	And of course, the shooting of not only Steve Scalisa but four other people at this practice for congressional baseball game that is still scheduled to take place tomorrow night.
	And we'll have Mo Brooks.
	He was on the scene at the time, and he will be joining us later in the program today, and then we'll be checking in also with a couple of Freedom Caucus members, and Jay Secular will join us from the American Center for Law and Justice.
	I want to first check in.
	She's been down to the scene herself, reporting for Circa.com.
	Our good friend Sarah Carter is uh with us.
	Sarah, first of all, I hear that it's a it's Steve has taken a little bit of a term for the worse, has lost a lot of blood, a lot of transfusions, and now is in critical condition.
	And apparently this has become a very difficult thing to stop in terms of the bleeding that has gone on inside him.
	Uh you're down there.
	What's happening?
	It it's been it's been a terrible morning, and I can only imagine what his family is going through right now.
	Uh, you know, I know this neighborhood well.
	It's it's uh my area.
	Um it is uh family area where the park is where you see children playing all the time.
	Uh, you know, people walking their dogs.
	There's a dog park right there near Simpson Park.
	You know, this morning, um I we all thought it was construction at first because there was this this sound uh that was bouncing around in the air, and it there's a lot of construction sometimes in the area, people coming by, and uh that's what everybody imagined at first until the sirens started blaring and the police started scouring the scene.
	Um neighbors in the area I was interviewing people that were just right around the shooting.
	Um they heard fifty to a hundred rounds of shooting in this quiet neighborhood.
	People were ducking behind the coffee shop, uh, bullets uh riddled through the through the glass at the YMCA that was right there next to the park.
	Uh you can imagine the kind of terror that ensued for the people in the community.
	And I I gotta tell you, it's it's gut wrenching, you never think it's gonna happen so close to you, and then it does.
	Um and and I can I can tell you from the people that I interviewed, uh, they were actually kind of in a state of shock.
	In fact, one man, one gentleman who I interviewed, um Shaw, Mr. Shaw, Alex Shaw, who just moved in to that neighborhood uh five days earlier, said that you know, when he got up and he heard those sounds, he felt the same thing until he noticed there was return fire.
	And it was when the battle between the Capitol Police and this gunman Hodgkinson uh began to intensify that he and his family and his neighbors realized there was something really wrong, and they all started calling 911.
	You know, it's just so shocking.
	I mean, but this is nothing short of an assassination attempt against one of the leaders in Congress.
	You know, we're learning a lot more, and and I'm gonna get into this in a second.
	Um anything else you wanted to add, Sarah, but uh, you know, you've been so good at reporting on all the other stuff, and then this just stops us dead in our tracks.
	And I thought the president captured the moment today by saying, you know, we we do a lot better as a country when we get along.
	But it seems that there's such a a large vocal vitriol and hatred towards this man that so many people just cannot get over.
	I think that you can't you can't say it any better.
	There's so much divisiveness, and it is just permeating every part of our society now.
	And I think there has to be a moment where we all have to stop, and we have to find a way to reach out to one another um before we see more of these incidences.
	And you know, this this hatred, I mean, Hodginson was very direct about his feelings towards the Republicans and the GOP, and then he actually followed through and targeted.
	I mean, I don't think if you looked at his Facebook page, you would ever think, oh, this guy is gonna kill someone.
	But just look at how far this one person was willing to go.
	And I think there has to be a point where both Democrats and Republicans and the nation as a whole has to stop, take a deep breath, and find a way to move forward and and just stop this kind of hatred and this divisiveness that we've seen permeated throughout even in the media.
	It's it's something has to change.
	Yeah, well said.
	All right, our good friend Uh Sarah Carter from Circa News.com was on the scene where five people now transported to the hospital, including the House uh majority whip, which is Steve Scalise, who is now struggling in the hospital, and as uh Sarah points out, our thoughts and prayers go out to her the this man's family.
	I know his wife was making it into town, and you know, we wish her and everybody else, I think he's got young children, uh, all the best in all of this as he now fights for his life as we speak.
	You know, we're learning a little bit more about the person in involved in all of this, and it's really not pleasant everything that we seem to be learning.
	You know, one thing we just found out is that, you know, this Trump hating Bernie Sanders supporting, you know, guy that shot fifty plus shots with his rifle and tried to mow down and murder dozens of Republican congressmen.
	You know, we found out he belongs to a a number of anti-GOP Facebook groups, including one that called themselves Terminate the Republican Party.
	And it goes back to what I was saying earlier.
	Well, why in God's name is is such a group able to exist and and it's out there and they're talking about violence against our public officials, and I don't care who it is.
	How many times did I say, Linda, when Barack Obama was president, we've got to protect our presidents?
	We've got to protect our elected officials.
	I gotta tell you one other thing that uh happened here.
	There was a threat that had taken place as Congressman Claudia Tenney is of New York, her office received a a threatening email with the subject line one down 216 to go.
	Shortly after the shooter, you know, made this assassination attempt against Steve Scalise and uh open fire on all these GOP lawmakers.
	Mo Brooks was an eyewitness, he'll join us later from Alabama.
	And uh we're at the congressional baseball practice, according to her office.
	And the person who sent the email then wrote in the body of it the email, did you not expect this?
	Claudia Tenney is on hold now.
	Congresswoman, our thoughts and prayers go out to, you know, frankly, all members of Congress.
	At the end of the day, I mean, I guess you're all colleagues, and you know, it's it's such a divisive political time, but to see our elected representatives, these open assassination attempts, and I'm sure when your office got that, that had to scare the living daylights out of you.
	Yeah, thank you, Sean.
	Actually, I've uh this has become almost a weekly occurrence for me in my office.
	Uh, we've gotten all kinds of threats almost every single week, or uh it's been uh it's it just seems to be uh the normalization of a violent dialogue that's been perpetuated uh in the where we are at uh you know a lot of this.
	Well, Congresswoman, I don't talk about it either, but I gotta tell you something.
	Even yesterday I've had threats against my life.
	This is this is something that goes on.
	I don't talk about it a lot.
	It's the world we live in.
	It's it's being in the public eye.
	It sucks.
	Yeah, well, it does happen.
	And I, you know, the thing is I have it's been it's been tough for me.
	I put out a really nice memorial day message.
	Uh and I got a response.
	My son, who is uh Naval Academy grad, he's uh U.S. Marine, he's serving in the Middle East right now.
	He actually saw the message before me from the Middle East that said, I hope your son comes back bagged.
	Uh so this is the kind of dialogue that we're getting from people on the resist movement and that and that side, and it's just unacceptable.
	Congresswoman, let me ask you a very important question here.
	And by the way, I I don't hold Bernie Sanders accountable in any way, shape, matter, or form.
	That's not Bernie Sanders.
	You know, most of his supporters, you know, they they have the right to support Bernie and his views, and and they're not violent people.
	But what frustrates me is in even after these radical Islamic terrorist attacks, we find out that these people have telegraphed their anger, their hatred, their desire for for violence.
	And for example, two days ago, according to the Belleville News Democrat, uh this guy Hodgkinson posted an angry tweet about President Trump on Facebook.
	I want to say, Mr. President, for being uh an a-hole, you're truly the biggest a-hole we've ever had in the Oval Office, he writes.
	And then it turns out he's a member of all these anti-Republican groups on Facebook, including one called Terminate the Republican Party.
	The road to hell is paved with Republicans.
	Donald Trump is not my president.
	And then he, you know, Illinois Burners united to resist Trump, boycott the Republican Party, expose Republican fraud, terminate the Republican Party.
	I mean, did there is uh look from my perspective, I deal with the tolerance that they want to get me off the air, some of these, you know, Soros Clinton funded groups.
	They can't tolerate alternative views.
	In this case, you know, now we're talking about terminating the Republican Party.
	Why don't we take these these public posts more seriously?
	I agree.
	I think we should.
	And you have to remember something that from my district.
	I had a couple of weeks ago in my uh congressional district in uh nice little upstate rural New York, uh, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn were brought in as guest speakers to a group of Democrats, and uh they have a lot of friends in uh in our area.
	We have uh Susan Rosenberg, the famous uh weather underground uh woman who is charged with four and sentenced to forty years in prison for being part of that where Bill Clinton community are sentenced.
	She was invited in to be a visiting professor at one of the colleges in my region.
	Uh Ward Churchill was invited in by these same group, and these are the people that are out in front of my office, resisting and and the challenging and and it's really just all about being against Trump.
	And yesterday was interesting because we the Democrats put forth their impeachment resolution in the House, and they actually had the the gall to come out and say that if the Republicans didn't join them, we were part of a crime.
	And um and this is a dialogue, and I'm not trying to say that the Democrats are the only ones that have uh people that have this dialogue on their side.
	But I think that I've been around long enough that I've I've never seen anything like it.
	I remember I remember as a college student, I couldn't believe the dialogue against Ronald Reagan and then Bush.
	Everything was Bush's fault.
	And now we've gotten to a level where this is really getting scary.
	And when I think that the weather underground and those types of people are involved, or somewhere lurking in the background and re-emerging, I think the Democrats have to take a long hard look at the people that are uh are doing this because they certainly shouldn't be cleaving to them.
	Well, uh, Congresswoman, we thank you for being with us.
	Uh our thoughts and prayers, number one, are with your son who's serving abroad, and I'm s I'm sorry that he had to read what he read.
	I'm sorry that your office had to put up with this.
	And our thoughts and prayers obviously go out to the victims and the families in what is an assassination attempt.
	And you know, if we're gonna be very, very blunt and very, very honest here, you know, you've got to admit that there is uh I I am not saying you always hold the person responsible.
	But I'm gonna be very clear here.
	But you cannot deny this an inescapable truth that what happened in this assassination attempt on this field this this morning does not take place in a vacuum.
	You know, it just does not agree.
	I agree.
	All right, thank you for being with us.
	Thank you so much for your prayers and your thoughts.
	Thank you.
	We appreciate it, and uh feel sorry for everybody.
	The former speaker of the House, New Gingrich, he responded to the the shooting and and rightly saying it's part of a pattern of behavior.
	And and it's a very ugly, despicable pattern.
	You know, even before this shooting, this assassination attempt of these these lawmakers today, you know, Republicans were were growing used to being on the receiving end of the violence and the intimidation amidst an increasingly insane and hostile political climate where left wingers, you know, are constantly so what do they say every election year?
	They're racist, they're sexist, they're homophobic, islamophobic, xebophobic.
	It's all lies.
	They want dirty air and dirty water, and they want to throw Granny off the cliff.
	Well, you begin to dehumanize people with lies at that point.
	You know, one of Virginia representatives, Tom Garrett's town hall, featured, you know, by a heavy police presence because Garrett and his family were targeted by repeated death threats.
	This is how we're gonna kill your wife, read one message.
	I don't want to die any time soon.
	Uh I got stuff to do.
	Uh I hope, but when you put pull wives and children in, that's not cool, he said, responding.
	And by the way, this is not in a vacuum.
	So you have a Trump-hating shooter with a rap sheet as long as your arm, including shooting at somebody.
	And other records showing that he was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend and pulling out his daughter's hair, and resisting a peace officer and eluding police and damage to property.
	You have representative Chris Collins of New York suggesting that Democratic rhetoric is in part to blame for this.
	He said, I can only hope that the Democrats tone down their rhetoric, he said.
	The rhetoric has been outrageous.
	And it has been outrageous, fed by a media that has been spewing lies.
	You know, this guy, you have uh uh this congressman from Alexandria, you know, this guy out there, Mark Walker saying to MBC News, it appears he was there firing fifty shots, wanting to kill as many Republican members as possible.
	And then on top of them, Rampall said it would have been a massacre.
	He's right, if the Capitol police had not been there.
	Had two armed officers because he's the House majority whip.
	And all right, so we find out he's a Bernie Sanders supporter.
	You know, I always wonder when events like this happen who's gonna be the first person to race out there and blame guns.
	In this case, it was Governor Terry McCulloff who has dreams like Joe Scarborough that he's gonna be president one day.
	And you know, the president's uh son, Donald Trump Jr. suggested this morning there is a connection.
	You got a play depicting the assassination of his father.
	You've got a uh a so-called CNN employee, so-called comedian in an ISIS pose with a bloodied head of the president.
	Good God, what is wrong with these people?
	800 941 Sean, our toll free telephone number.
	Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama was there.
	He'll be joining us later in the program.
	My buddy Jay Sekulos checking in with us, and then we have Freedom Caucus uh members, Dave Bratt and Ron DeSantis, who was there.
	As we continue from our nation's capital, it's the Sean Hannity show.
	We'll have more on the assassination attempt of Republicans.
	We have eyewitnesses that were there.
	Jay Sekulow joins us next, and we'll get to your calls.
	All coming up, 800 941 Sean.
	Let me say this.
	I think we need to do more to protect all of our citizens.
	I have long advocated uh this is not what today is about, but there are too many guns on the street.
	We lose ninety-three million Americans a day to gun violence.
	I mean, I've long talked about this.
	Background check, shutting down gun show who poles.
	You know, that's not for today's discussion, but it's not just about politicians.
	We worry about this every day for all of our citizens.
	Why did it not the day for why are you bringing it up?
	I'm gonna criticize that you're bringing up guns at this time.
	Well, I'm I'm talking about this every single day.
	This is a very serious issue.
	You know, I just came with Colonel Flaherty recently, you know, we just buried one of our great state troopers, a special agent, with a wife and three young children.
	Needless, senseless.
	Um we've got to look at this.
	But I'm not gonna get anywhere near the investigation.
	The FBI is leading this.
	But this obviously with 93 million people a day, it's just something.
	Did you mean to say 93 million?
	That's a big number.
	Are you sure about 93 million 93 individuals a day?
	And we as a nation and all the state come together in a bipartisan way to stop the horrible gun violence we have.
	Ninety-three individuals a day are killed in America.
	I just unfortunately had to give the eulogy for a great Virginia State trooper who lost his life on the street.
	So Richard.
	I do want to ask you, though, um, we could we can hold the uh conversation about the gun control debate for just another moment.
	All right, glad you're with us hour two.
	Terry McCullof, the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
	I always wonder what anything, whenever any kind of shooting occurs, there's one liberal that will race to to make this into a gun issue.
	Oh, it's not the issue today.
	But but but but but but but but but it just is out of control.
	Anyway, we have five people shot today, including the House Majority Whip Steve Khalise, who is in in according to some reports now, taking a term for the worse.
	By the way, the managers of the Capitol Hill Congressional baseball team are going to be holding a news conference.
	Mo Brooks, who was actually critical in in helping one of the staffers uh in terms of putting a tourniquet on them, is gonna join us.
	He was there for the the whole thing at the bottom of the hour.
	Joining us now is Congressman Dave Bratt and Congressman Rom DeSantis, both of the Freedom Caucus, and apparently two Congressmen, Jeff Duncan and Ron DeSantis, described an encounter with uh with the man who described uh asked them to describe if, well, those Republicans or those Democrats practicing before the shooting.
	And then Ron DeSantis was shown a photo of the shooter, Hotkinson, who was later killed.
	Why?
	Because there were two armed Capitol Police officers That engaged in a fire fight and likely saved a lot of people's lives today because they were there.
	Alexandria police chief Michael Brown said his officers and Capitol Police Officers, they were the ones that exchanged fire with this lunatic, and sources told CNN it was a deliberate attack, and James Hotkinson is known and identified as the man who shot the majority whip, Steve Scalise, and these other people this morning.
	And then we've since found out that he's part of a group that literally talks about terminating the Republican Party.
	And then we just spoke moments ago with Claudia Tenney, a Congresswoman from upstate New York, whose office received a threat.
	Well, one down, 216 to go.
	Anyway, Dave Bratt and Congressman Ron DeSantis are with us.
	Uh thank you both for being here.
	Our thoughts and prayers go out to Congressman Scalise and his family.
	I mean, this was an assassination attempt of Republicans and had these armed law enforcement officers not been there.
	I don't think uh I think probably other lives could have been lost and other people injured.
	Uh tell us about this encounter you had with this guy, uh, Congressman DeSantis.
	Well, I'll tell you, Sean, it was uh it was kind of a a thing that you uh you you don't think it it really makes sense at the time.
	You're like, it's a little weird that this guy be asking us about this.
	Uh we left probably five minutes before he started shooting, and I was playing third base, Jeff was playing shortstop.
	He was over by the third base dugout.
	Had we stayed and finished the practice, I think both of us would have been dead ducks.
	Um so we just wanted to beat the traffic.
	As soon as we heard that there was a shooting, Jeff and I immediately said to one another, we've got to report this guy.
	Uh we did.
	Once they identified him and identified his photo, I was like, That's him.
	Jeff's like that's him, and then Jeff Staffer, who was in the driver's seat, said that's him.
	So all three of us think it was him.
	He wanted he knew they were members of Congress, it seems like, but he wanted to know whether they were Republicans or Democrats.
	And I can tell you, Claudia Tenney got called.
	I just got a call about an hour ago.
	Someone said that they were uh glad it happened and hope Trump is next.
	So there's some really disgusting stuff that's going floating around out there, right?
	You know, and by the way, it's it's a lot of people in in the public.
	I don't talk a lot about a lot about this, but I've been in the public arena now for thirty years as uh a talk radio host and twenty-two years on Fox, and you know, you guys I'm I'm sure would not be surprised at the type of things that come my way even yesterday.
	But uh Congressman Dave Bratt, uh, let's you know, we we all know Steve Scalise is a great guy.
	I mean, he works really hard, or and from what I understand, he's taken a little bit of a turn from a for the worse.
	He was in stable condition, now is in critical condition, and apparently he's having some problems as it relates to the they can't actually stop the bleeding in this case.
	And uh so, you know, he's got a tough, tough road a hoe here.
	Yeah, no, that's right.
	I was in the weight room with the Democrat colleagues, and Ron's usually there in the morning, but he's doing baseball now.
	We're just sitting there riding the bike, some extra Democrat guy, and he taps me on the shoulder and says, Look up, look up there, right?
	And they uh the the good news is never gets reported.
	These our our Democrat friends, it we're all great together in the weight room, whatever.
	And it's just the politics that gets all hot, but they all like Steve too.
	He's a connecty guy, he just breaks the ice, he's always got a smile on his face, you know, he's making light hearted comments even when he's going in the hospital.
	And so our prayers are with him.
	And we it's gonna make us all reflect now on going out to public spaces and and numbers when we've got some of us, some guys are biking, you know, several miles off of these things.
	And uh so there's there's some uh evil minds out there, and uh it's spreading.
	And we no one's talking about ethics or what the standards are.
	And uh we gotta start raising real ethical hurdles, right?
	Where you can identify when people go off the rails and when they don't on our political rhetoric.
	And so it's fine.
	You can attack policy all day.
	But these personal attacks on Trump and holding his head and blood and guts and plays and shooting.
	We're just people for any word spoken.
	I mean, you've got Madonna, you know, I dream about I really do a dream about blowing up the White House.
	You have a an NYU pr professor demanding an assault against conservative speakers.
	You know, uh yeah, black lives matter.
	What do we want dead cops?
	When do we want them now?
	Uh pigs in a blanket, fry them like Bacon, and then you've got the the typical campaign year lies.
	Republicans want dirty air, water, they want to throw Granny over the cliff.
	They're racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.
	You know, then you know, look at what's on TV every night, you know, black helicopter television on news tonight.
	And Rachel Manow saying that at the same time, you know, we oddly uh influential with the guy who wants to kill us, saying Trump wants to kill journalists, or you know, let me play just some remarks, and I want to ask you both of you think this factors in.
	Listen to some of the left-wing lunacy that has gone on since Donald Trump has become the president.
	Well, and there's a tension about that, in all seriousness in the administration because there's never been a presidency in administration that was this overtly hostile to the press.
	I mean, they're talking about like revising the first amendment.
	The chief of staff this weekend was sitting there, they're looking at those libel laws.
	What do you mean looking at them?
	They're just they don't look back.
	Like there's there's we have a First Amendment.
	We don't, you can't change it.
	They're looking at changing that stuff, and they put out their first campaign ad for 2020, which denounces the fake news and has um and they're really against it, but at the same time, there's never been a president who is more addicted to the news about himself, uh, and who's more responsive to the news that he supposedly thinks is so worthless.
	So it's it is a weird tension.
	I think it's a dangerous time for the First Amendment and for the free press in this country, and at the same time, we're oddly influential with the guy who wants to kill us.
	And to our detractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything.
	You but this is the hallmark of revolution.
	Yes, I'm angry.
	Yes, I am outraged.
	Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
	She said, Because I'm famous, because I'm a star, because I'm a billionaire, I can do things.
	Other people can't.
	What a disgusting assertion for anyone to make.
	The press always asked me, don't I wish I were debating him?
	No, I wish you were in high school.
	I could take him behind the gym.
	That's what I wish.
	We are so excited that the American public is energized to speak out against the abuses of this administration.
	The way we get outside the bubble is we take advantage of this tremendous uh public outcry against the administration.
	What we've got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box.
	And now there's the momentum to be able to do this.
	Pigs in a blanket, fried like bacon.
	Kathy Griffin is recently getting some heat for her Donald Trump stunts that she did.
	As a comedian, when do you feel like you know that you've crossed that line?
	I think uh it is the job of a comedian to cross the line at all times because uh, you know, that's 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 uh the last voice of truth in this whole thing, you know.
	And uh, 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 you know, 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.
	But I've taken up golf anyway.
	The less white babies on this planet you we got, boo blood is on the body.
	I hope they kill all the white babies, kill them all right now.
	Kill them, kill your granny keith, kill yourself, coughing bitch, go lay in a cough.
	I'm not afraid of anybody.
	This is a tough game.
	You can't be intimidated, you can't be frightened.
	As far as I'm concerned, the tea party can go straight to hell.
	I'm tired of Y'all also complaining about you don't have time.
	Well, we don't have time either.
	You know what I mean?
	We have some of us are working 40 hours.
	You know?
	40 hours and juggling.
	Different classes for white supreme under white supremacy.
	We're all operating under white supremacy.
	Just so you know.
	And we need to start killing people.
	First off, we're going to start killing the white house.
	The White House must die.
	The White House White House.
	They must go.
	The White House.
	The White House and your voting.
	I'm with her.
	Donald Trump.
	I don't give a fashion.
	Obama deported so many people that y'all still are fixated on voting for a f president.
	Capitalism.
	Capitalism is what?
	We racism.
	I know it's long, but it's a very short part of the archives we have developed before the Trump election, and then of course after the election.
	What's your reaction to that, Dave Brett?
	Yeah, well, that's what I just said, and it's incumbent on the Democrat leaders, the McCall is out there today, and Tim Kane, I heard say taking the fight to the streets in that clip.
	Former governor center of Virginia.
	And uh they're both Catholic.
	Where's the golden rule?
	Right?
	So the rule is hit hard on policy, that's fine.
	Uh, but all this stuff that you just played is just over the top.
	There's no golden rule, there's no Judeo-Christian tradition.
	So what is the line?
	And there's no talk in the country about ethics or what is that standard?
	We need to reaffirm these standards, and let's take a vote on that, right?
	If if if these far lefties uh want to form a new party with that new ethical, let's let the terroristic threat if Madonna or or Jim Carrey are fantasizing and express a desire to commit violence against the president, Ron DeSantis.
	Well, I'll tell you, I think it's really helped sow a lot of the invective we have out there.
	I mean, just this guy today.
	Um, I don't think he could have necessarily acted alone because he's from Illinois.
	How would he even know that there were b there were Congressmen practicing in Alexandria?
	I mean, well, they recently moved there and uh to Virginia, so I guess that's probably part of the story.
	Well, even still though, how would you know?
	I mean, it was stuff circulating online, was there other people who were kind of egging on and though these congressmen are out there?
	I mean, I just think that it's um it's gotten to the point where a lot of the folks have viewed the election so personally and have reacted so viciously.
	Well, he was one of them that they're letting determinate Republicans.
	All right, we'll take a break.
	Ron DeSantis himself actually confronted this guy, and the guy asked, Well, are they Republicans or Democrats before he went on the shooting spree?
	If it weren't for the Capitol Police and other law enforcement being there, this probably would have been far more catastrophic.
	As we wrote along Sean Hannity show in our nation's capital, Washington, DC, Congressman Dave Bratt, Congressman Ron DeSantis are with us now.
	Mo Brooks, who is a witness to the shooting that took place at this congressional baseball practice earlier today, and actually helped save a staffer's life by putting on a tourniquet.
	They'll join us.
	Uh what is the answer, Dave Pratt?
	Uh, what is the answer to all of this?
	In other words, you know, if you listen to the left, oh, it's gun control.
	Sounds to me like if they didn't have the Capitol Police and other law enforcement, that many more would have been, you know, injured and and perhaps murdered today and assassinated today.
	Yeah, no, I I go back to the ethics.
	We're not teaching the kids ethics anymore in K-12.
	come out after 13 years of education.
	No one is familiar with the Judeo-Christian tradition.
	No one...
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	Congressman.
	Did this change your views on on the gun situation in America?
	Uh not with respect to the second amendment.
	The the second amendment, uh right to bear arms is to help ensure we always have a republic.
	And as with any uh constitutional uh provision uh in the Bill of Rights, there are adverse aspects to each of those uh rights that we enjoy as people.
	And what we just saw here is one of the bad side effects of someone not exercising those rights properly.
	But we're not going to get rid of freedom of speech because some people say some really ugly things that hurt other people's feelings.
	Uh we're not going to get rid of uh the Fourth Amendment um search and seizure rights because it allows some criminals to go free who should be behind bars.
	Uh these rights are there to protect Americans, and while each of them has a negative aspect to them, uh they are fundamental to our being the greatest nation in world history.
	So no, I'm not changing my position on any of the rights that we joy uh as Americans.
	As as with respect to this particular shooter, I'd really like to know more about him, whether he was an ex-felon.
	All right, that was Congressman uh Mo Brooks, longtime friend of mine from uh Huntsville, Alabama, Madison, Alabama, who's the I think when I was there, he's the Madison County, Alabama District Attorney and now a member of Congress.
	He was at the baseball field when the shooting took place uh earlier today.
	I recently endorsed uh the Congressman is running to replace Senator Jeff Sessions uh in the United States Senate.
	We've been a long time friend.
	He believed it or not, he used to fill in for me back in nineteen ninety on my radio show and uh did a great job, and even if I remember correctly after I left you hosted the show yourself for a while.
	Is that not true?
	Well, it was always pinch hitting.
	Uh I didn't have the ability that you had.
	Uh you could coin a phrase much better than me, and certainly you you could talk uh with a microphone in front of you for a much longer period than I could and keeping it.
	It's really a sickness, Congressman.
	I could talk and talk to myself for hours, and it's not a normal it's it's just trust me, it's not normal.
	Look, I I honestly wish we were we had you on to talk about the agenda that needs to be advanced in the House and the and the Senate, and I and I really wish we had you on to talk about maybe a Senate race, and we'll do that at a future date.
	Uh I am sure you are traumatized by everything that went on today.
	Can you can you bring us to the scene and what actually happened?
	I can tell you as as I experienced it, uh just finished uh fielding practice.
	I came in uh to bat.
	Normally I stay out in the outfield left field during fielding practice, but for some reason uh this time came in.
	As it turned out, that was a lucky fortuitous decision because the shooter was on the third base side, and if I'd been in the outfield, I'd had no place to run.
	The fencing around uh this particular field is about ten feet high.
	So there's no escape.
	Uh I did come in and and I took some bats, I put on a helmet, I was uh on deck.
	Uh I took the third base side of home plate where we had a batting cage, uh, which means I was pretty close to the shooter because he was just past the third base dugout, probably about sixty, seventy, maybe eighty feet away.
	I heard the first blam, and at first I thought it was a car backfiring.
	I looked around and I saw what appeared to be a stick-like object uh poking uh pretty close to the uh chain link fence, uh shooting in a what turned out to be a gun, shooting at a ninety-degree angle towards the shortstop, second base right field positions.
	It took me a fraction of a second and about three more gunshots, uh, to figure out a couple of things.
	One, that's a gun.
	Two, he's aiming to kill as many of us as he can.
	And three, if I can see him, he can see me.
	At this point, I could see the shooter, I could see uh the rifle.
	Um and if he had turned thirty degrees to his right, I'd have been the closest target for him to shoot at.
	How far away was he from you?
	Well, uh I was in home plate and third base, probably fifteen feet up the third base line, and he was probably even with third base uh just past the third base dugout, um within five or ten feet of the third base dugout.
	So whatever the math is on that sixty, seventy, eighty feet.
	I'm not looking for gruesome details he uh uh the reports are he fired as many as fifty shots.
	Uh I would not be surprised if there were that many shots or more fired, although once Capitol Police started engaging him, you lose track of who's shooting which way.
	Uh but what I did immediately after I figured out that this was a shooter and that he was shooting at us and trying to kill us, and keep in mind that this was probably transpiring in two, Three, maybe four seconds tops.
	I immediately dropped my bats.
	I ran around the batting cage.
	The batting cage has a little plastic barrier around the bottom.
	If you've seen a batting cage, you know what I'm talking about.
	And took a nosedive into the dirt on the opposite side, the first base side of the batting cage, where at least he couldn't see me.
	There were two or three others there.
	Things were so hectic I couldn't even name who they were.
	But we were all trying to eat as much dirt as we could, uh, getting as low as we could as this as the shots just kept going and going and going.
	Uh then it occurred to me that I'm still in an exposed position.
	If the shooter makes it around the third base dugout towards home plate, then the two or three or four of us are who are lying there uh prone on the ground where he can't see us, suddenly we're in clear view, ten or fifteen feet away from him with no place to go.
	And so I made the decision that I'd take my chances trying to get into the first uh base dugout.
	Uh perhaps he'd have a harder time shooting a moving target, and I think the other two or three people that were there uh with me hugging that dirt were thinking the same thing.
	And so we all very quickly sprinted towards the first base dugout, which is down a little bit below ground level, like a foot and a half, and we all took a nosedive into the first base dugout uh as the shots were ongoing.
	I crawled to the end of the dugout uh towards right field uh to that set of steps.
	Uh that's the only gate.
	That's the only gate in or out of this place.
	If he had made it to that gate, there was no place for any of us to go unless we were going to be able to scale the ten foot high, twelve foot high uh chain length fence.
	And of course, with your back exposed like that, you'd be a very easy target to a man with a rifle.
	Um as I'm uh again keeping my head down, but at least I know he can't shoot me right now.
	He might do a ricochet, there was that risk.
	Um I noticed that a gentleman next to me, one of uh uh Congressman Roger Williams uh staff members, Zach Barth, uh he's bleeding um pretty profusely from his uh calf.
	And I said, Hey, uh dude, you're or words to that effect, you're bleeding.
	You've been shot.
	And you know how it is when we're young, Sean, we young males, we think we're immortal.
	He said something to the fact that oh, it's no big deal.
	I'm going, you've been shot.
	It's a big deal.
	It's a big deal.
	Yeah, I know.
	So I I took off my belt.
	Um there was someone next to me.
	I don't even remember who it was.
	Things were happening so quick, and again, bullets are flying over our heads during this process.
	Um I took off my belt, and um the guy next to me and I uh together, somehow or another, uh, we put the belt on his leg as a tourniquet.
	Uh I think he held it there while uh the gunfire ensued, and then we uh kept our heads back down, and the next thing I remember, aside from how long it seemed to, I mean, we weren't hearing sirenes or anything, as all this shooting was going on for some uh period of time,
	because you you think they're gonna be reinforcements on the way, but it seemed to take a while to get there, and then I start hearing loud gunfire uh to my right, and I'm going, oh my gosh, there's a second shooter.
	I look up.
	It's uh David Bailey, one of our Capitol Police officers, who is now standing at the um center block edge of the uh dugout uh firing back, and he was about the gun was being discharged about five or six feet from my head above me, and he was telling us to stay down, stay down, and uh he was engaging uh the shooter.
	Now keep in mind you're shooting all the way across a baseball diamond, the infield, and it's pistols against a rifle, which is not really a very fair fight.
	Uh but notwithstanding that Capitol Police Officer, excuse me, a little bit emotional.
	We understand Congressman, we really do.
	I think what you went through as a David Bailey and Crystal Griner, they risked their lives.
	They both took bullets, and if they had not been successful, they would be a lot of dead people at that ball field right now.
	The shooter eventually made it around the third base dugout, uh, towards home plate, uh, in between the stands and the fencing.
	And so the three or four of us that were on the ground behind the uh batting cage made a sound decision to take our chance at getting shot while we were running as opposed to lying there because if we'd lied there, he'd have been when he got to that point, we'd have been ten to fifteen feet from him and like sitting ducks.
	Uh but the Capitol police engaged.
	Uh they were uh successful.
	They took him down uh somewhere behind home plate, I don't know the exact location.
	Well, this is going on, we know that there are other wounded, uh particularly Steve Scalise, who I, you know, immediately after the first shots glanced over in that direction, and he was on the ground.
	Uh there's a lot of shouting, an active shooter out of the back.
	Is that the first time you noticed he was shot?
	I noticed he was shot as I was I think I heard his voice scream, I've been shot, or I'm hit, or something to that effect, or someone else might have said Steve Scalise has been hit, but within the first three or four or five shots, I was cognizant of been him being hit, and I was running around to try to get behind the batting cage.
	I could see him uh on the ground uh on the uh dirt in the second base infield part of the uh the infield where a second baseman would play, and you could see him uh trying to drag himself with his arms uh towards right field.
	He could not walk, he could not get up, he couldn't even call, but he was slowly dragging himself about a foot at a time uh towards the right field grass.
	So at some point, again it seemed like forever, we're in the dugout.
	Someone shouts, shoot her down, shoot her down.
	Of course, you don't know if there's one shooter or more at this point.
	Uh often there are multiple attackers.
	You don't know if it's a lone wolf.
	Uh one or two, maybe three people.
	Um I remember Jeff Flake being one of them.
	I don't remember who the other one or two were.
	Uh they uh ran out to where Steve Scalise was uh second or two later, I ran out of the dugout uh towards Steve Scalise.
	Uh so I was about the third or fourth person uh to uh Steve Scalise.
	Uh the first two came to where Steve's head was, and he was lying on the ground now in the outfield, there was a blood trail about fifteen yards long.
	They were talking to him, trying to let him know that we were gonna do what we could.
	As you can imagine, with blood loss, he was asking for fluid, so someone went and got him water or Gatorade or something.
	Um he seemed to be going into shock, as I perceive shock to be.
	I'm not a doctor.
	Um, but he was conscious the whole time.
	Uh I was at his waist on the center field side of his body, his body was facing uh center field where the blood was coming out of his hip wound.
	Um we have uh oh my goodness, I'm having a name blank, sorry, the the stress of it.
	You know, Tyrison, let me let me help you out here.
	I uh it's you're describing such a traumatic emotional event.
	Um he does need our prayers.
	He has taken a little bit of a turn for the worse.
	And our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.
	Um apparently the bleeding has become very difficult for them to stop.
	And uh I know doctors are doing everything they can.
	There's been numerous trans transfusions.
	Um I first want to say to you that um you know, your heroism in this and you helping the staff around.
	I mean, there were five people shot.
	I I I I just want to ask this.
	Why were the Capitol police there?
	Was it for Scalise?
	Was it for the fact that so many elected officials were there?
	Well, we kid Steve Scalise about having the protection uh and needing it because of how many errors he makes in the infield.
	Uh of course, you know, we're all kind of old and we're not as sharp as we used to be, and so we rib each other quite a lot, and if you've ever been in a locker room or on a sports field, you know there's a lot of kidding that goes along uh with that.
	Um I don't know if they were there strictly for Steve Scalise because he was third in command um in the House of Representatives, or if it was for all of our protection.
	Uh but I'll tell you, if those Capitol police officers had not been there, uh David Bailey and Crystal Griner, it would have been a massacre because we had absolutely no way to defend ourselves.
	None of us were armed at the time.
	You know, um and one of the more memorable moments, Sean, if you've got a second.
	Yeah, is you know, David Bailey was the one shooting directly above my head uh at the assailant across the infield as we're down low and he's exposing himself a little bit so he can get all shots uh using the dugout.
	Now he gets hit, as does Crystal Griner.
	But after the shooter is down, and before we have all the other law enforcement coming to help protect us, David Bailey, who he's wounded.
	He's limping.
	And he goes to Steve Scalise to check on him.
	That's a hero.
	His duty was to take care of Steve Scalise, who had been shot.
	And um, we had to shoe him away because he was shot himself.
	Um Brad Winstrip, who's the doctor at this point, was uh trying to tend to Steve Scalise uh with the hip wound.
	Uh I was applying uh pressure as uh Brad Winstra pressure to the wound with a cloth as Brad Winstrip was trying to cut the uh the pants.
	But to see David Bailey come out there limping because he too had been shot to check on Steve.
	I'll never forget that.
	And the heroism of those two people risking their own lives to protect those that they were sworn to protect.
	And any time people and it's not just Capitol Police, but when you think of law enforcement throughout the country, and the risks they take to protect our lives.
	And then you see some of the things we've seen over the last few years where before the evidence is known, they'd come under political attack.
	It should anger every American.
	Yeah.
	Because these law enforcement officers, whether deputy, state troopers, uh FBI, investigative officers, uh, regular police officers.
	They do this on a regular basis, and they subjected themselves to this risk on a regular basis.
	And I could not be more proud of these two uh Capitol Police officers.
	Congressman, I've known you for twenty-seven years now, believe it or not.
	And by the way, I'm an embarrassment to you, but you know, an honor for me.
	And um, I'm so sorry for everybody that was involved there, but I'm um also very thankful, as painful as today has been for you, that you took the time to tell people about how amazing these are fellow human beings can be, and how lives were saved because of them.
	But I've got to add you to the list.
	I mean, in the middle of this, you know, you rip off your belt, you're putting a tourniquet on, and you know what?
	The the damage that was prevented is um, you know, we'll never know.
	And um, I'm so sorry that this all went down for you today.
	I think we're gonna see you on TV tonight.
	I'm gonna be down at the ballfield, actually.
	And uh we're praying for Steve and his family and all the other victims and their families and all of you that had to live through this, and uh Congressman uh we'll have you back on, I hope, under better circumstances with good news on Steve Scalise and the others.
	Uh Congressman Mo Brooks, thank you for being with us.
	There will be those who will talk about what's wrong with America, but in this case, officers griner and Bailey, we saw what's right with America.
	We saw two people risk their lives to save the lives of others.
	We saw courage in the face of death, and we saw examples of why all Americans should be grateful every day for law enforcement officers around this country.
	There could have easily been twenty-five deaths or more today.
	I think we had twenty-five team players and about fifteen staff.
	But officers griner and Bailey prevented that, and my family and I will be forever grateful.
	The thin blue line held today, and law enforcement officers everywhere should be proud.
	And Americans everywhere should be thankful that this is still the kind of country that still produces these kinds of heroes.
	So ask everybody to join me in praying for the victims and for their full recoveries before you go to bed tonight.
	All right, that was Congressman Roger Williams.
	He was a witness at this baseball practice earlier today, where Congressional Republicans, House and Senate Republicans, were just you know practicing for their big game tomorrow night, which apparently is going to still take place.
	We're in Washington, D.C. today.
	Uh you just also heard an emotional Mo Brooks, who's a guy that I've known twenty-seven years and been friends with for twenty-seven years, great guy.
	And he was there.
	He actually helped save one of the congressional staffers' lives today, Steve Scalise is fighting for his life after being shot by this guy that had a a radical leftist agenda and was part of a a group terminate the Republican Party.
	Numerous threats now have been called into different and varying congressional offices.
	We heard that, you know, earlier today from Congressman Dave Brad and Congressman Ron DeSantis.
	And one has to now ask the question, and we played some of the the radical insane rhetoric earlier in the program today.
	I mean, every election season, it's the same lies.
	Oh, Republicans are racist and sexist and and misogynistic and homophobic, Islamophobic, and Xemanophobic and all these other things that are false and they want dirty air and they want dirty water and and granny's gonna get thrown over the cliff.
	And then and then everything that has been said.
	You know, there's uh an article out now fifteen times celebrities have envisioned violence against Donald Trump.
	What about the conspiracy theories?
	Russia collusion.
	We now know there is no Trump campaign Russian collusion.
	James Comey said so.
	And then you got all these enemies of the president.
	How often have I talked about the big five?
	The deep state.
	What about the deep state?
	They're leaking selectively leaking to hurt the president.
	Then Congressional Democrats, they never got over from day one they've been talking about impeachment.
	Then you've got the destroyed Trump Black Helicopter tinfoil hat conspiracy theory TV and and then the lies and the misreporting of the Washington Post.
	They're like the worst.
	Washington Post is proven wrong more often than anybody.
	Sure, they'll have headlines out, you know, tomorrow.
	They'll make up a new thing, as they always do, and ratchet up everybody's intensity.
	And then the New York Times is no better.
	And just lies and propaganda and misinformation and distortion.
	You know, it's worse than the former Soviet Union.
	It's the worst thing I've seen in my life.
	Outright lying to the American people.
	Jay Sekulo's with us from the American Center for Law and Justice.
	Yeah, I I wish I could see on a on a better day with better news.
	I mean, you know, you hear Roger Williams, you hear Mo Brooks who was just on the last half hour.
	It's horrible what these guys have been through today.
	And then you've got Steve Scalise and these other people fighting for their lives now.
	Well, this is a horrible situation.
	I mean, it's an assassination attempt, and and we're praying hard for his family.
	I know a lot of people in America are for the families, uh, the individuals that have been shot.
	Steve Scalise is in um Terry McCulliff is praying hard for gun control.
	Yeah, well, let me tell you let me let me tell you something.
	You had today in Washington, DC, a targeted assassination attempt on the in addition to the other people that were were tempted to be killed, the third ranking member, uh the highest ranking member in the in the United States Congress, number three.
	So he's so it's Ryan McCarthy and Scalis.
	Right.
	And this individual, this assailant that we're now getting the information on that you just shared, by his own and Bernie Sanders took to the floor of the uh Senate to condemn it because he was a Sanders supporter, supposedly.
	But you know what?
	But you know what they do to I don't blame Bernie Sanders.
	Of course not.
	They would blame us.
	They would blame us.
	Yes, of course.
	That's Bill Clinton.
	I want to say, you know, Rosh Limba on the radio and and and said bombing, and you know, these guys have been out there working up in a frenzy and what happened.
	Well, this is because these guys are convinced, the left, that by ratcheting up their rhetoric, that they can get away with it and they get a free pass.
	Nobody it doesn't matter if they do it.
	So here's what you have today, right here in Washington, D.C. An attempted assassination.
	I hope it's not, and I'm praying that you know, he's in as we know, Sean, he is in very serious, very very critical.
	It was reported earlier that he was upgraded to critical condition.
	Yeah.
	Upgraded from critical to good, but he's in critical, is what they said.
	Well, he was in stable.
	He was in stable condition that was upgraded.
	And yeah, upgraded to critical, right?
	But the I I gotta tell you something.
	I look, I always blame the people that do these things.
	Of course.
	You have to, right?
	I mean, and and you're right, they would do it to us.
	They would say talk radio and Fox News caused us.
	All right, well, the unibomber had Al Gore's book.
	Right.
	Well, do they have Hannity's book, Levin's book, or or Laura Ingram's book or Rush Limbaugh's book?
	They listen to talk radio, they watch Fox News.
	Right.
	We don't do that.
	Nope.
	They do.
	Because the standards not just a double standard, and we're we're witnessing a double standard of proportions that are it's not even fair to double standards.
	What you have right now is a targeted campaign to discredit and destroy.
	And we're we saw destruction today.
	This wasn't just discredit.
	I don't like Sean Hannity.
	You you're, you know, you're not a nice guy.
	I don't like Jay Seculo.
	You're you know, you know, you're a lawyer that's you know a big shot lawyer.
	What are they doing?
	Look at the r ratchet up on this to the level that this would happen.
	Now, again, I'm with you, I blame the individual.
	They're responsible.
	But for the sack sanctimonious left to now say, did you hear the comments today we need to the debate needs to be quieted down, too much discord.
	Here's the fact.
	You know why the founders founding fathers put the First Amendment of the United States Constitution in place?
	Because the idea was when you have robust free speech, the free exchange of ideas, even speech you fundamentally disagree with, the way you combat that is not with a a bullet aimed at a congressman.
	You combat it with more speech.
	Or combat it with a boycott, or the left is intolerant, Jay.
	Because they don't believe in the First Amendment.
	That the truth is we protect the First Amendment.
	You protect the First Amendment, they're calling for boycotts.
	You know, it's Steven deeper than that because they claim a monopoly on compassion for women.
	I mean, look at Hillary.
	You would never take money from the Saudis.
	I would never take a penny from a country that oppresses women that kills gays and lesbians.
	Right.
	And that persecutes Christians and Jews.
	Right.
	Hillary Clinton, not only did she take millions for a foundation, but they bought her silence with that.
	Now, you can't be you can't have it both ways.
	The left can't even let, you know, Milo Yanopoulos and Ann Coulter speak at Berkeley, the home of free speech, the free speech movement.
	Well, that's because they take the view that if you don't agree with their version of speech, not only do you not get to say it, but they need to be protected from it, which is the complete opposite of the way the Constitution is set up.
	So this nonsense that the left is for you know liberal ideas and and and democracy and free speech and free discourse is nonsense.
	It's whether it's in it Berkeley or in Arlington, Virginia, or wherever you see this, where you're afraid if you get invited to speak at a graduation ceremony now.
	By the way, Jay, conservatives don't, except for Liberty, they don't get invited at the region also.
	I get it.
	Yeah, there's a handful of schools, right?
	And and Liberty and one other college in Florida.
	Right.
	So if I get asked to speak at a university now as a speaker, I usually don't go.
	And that it's pathetic.
	I don't go either.
	You know why?
	Because you know what you're gonna face?
	You're gonna face the the screaming, the yelling, the shouting.
	They're not gonna even listen to it.
	And then the protests.
	Right.
	And then I gotta deal with negative press uh about uh Hannity's a horrible person, and thirty years ago, whatever.
	Let me ask you this.
	I've never seen anything like this effort.
	These five groups I talk about destroying the president, am I wrong?
	No, this is look.
	I mean, this is historic in its proportion because it's it's concerted.
	I mean, it's a it's a very much centered movement.
	They're in sync with each other.
	They are they're signed together.
	So much better than our team.
	I mean, I hate to say it.
	Not even close.
	I mean, it's right.
	I mean, they, you know, they will march down the path, and it could be right off the cliff, Sean, and they'll march right off the cliff.
	And the fact is, what we have to understand this is this is institutional.
	Well, first of all, you had a real assassination attempt, so I want to be careful how to say this because we're praying again, praying from the Steve Skelee's family and for Steve.
	But here's what you have.
	They are gonna take anything against you or me or anyone or any of the names you just mentioned, and try to destroy credibility.
	But you know what?
	I said to you when we walked in here just now, what are we in?
	This is a war.
	If you don't think it is, that's because your eyes are shut and your ears are.
	Talking about it's listen, all those groups ultimately, and the groups that want to silence talk radio and and demolish the Fox News channel and wipe it off the face of the earth.
	You know, look, if I have to, I'll get, you know, two Dixie cups, uh, you know, a bottle of wine and two Dixie cups and three AM, I'll fall in love with whatever audience I have to quote Kenny Chesney.
	But in all seriousness, I mean, you're right.
	They want to destroy conservatism.
	They there is an effort to destroy this president, overturn a duly elected president of the United States.
	In their worst, the worst case scenario they see is the president doesn't succeed in advancing his agenda.
	That's still a win for them.
	Right.
	Because then that helps them in their minds get re-elected.
	But ultimately, they want him out.
	They want him impeached.
	They want his character assassinated and destroyed.
	And not just him, by the way.
	Anybody that's meeting on Twitter.
	You read the comments on Twitter today?
	Uh yeah, unfortunately.
	I mean, so this is, you know, uh, as a friend of mine told me today, don't read those comments on Twitter.
	Because if you read them, you're gonna it it's to quote James Comey, more than mildly nauseous.
	But here's the fact we don't we don't have the luxury of getting nauseous, Sean.
	We don't have the luxury of saying, well, this is you know, I was queasy when I heard this.
	It's it's action time, and it's and understand what's at stake.
	It's not even President Donald Trump that's at stake.
	It is the Constitution at its core that is being attacked here.
	This is a constitutional showdown of proportions we have not seen in our lifetime.
	The thing that scares me the most, and the reason I keep putting Sarah Carter and John Solomon on, is this whole deep state apparatus.
	Now, I I'm a big believer in intelligence.
	I know you are, and I mean you believe that they're such a necessary tool in defending in a world of evil and ISIS and Al Qaeda and and radical Islamists all around the world and other enemies of this country.
	But when you weaponize a few, a few people within the intelligence community, you know, take raw data and intelligence and they surveil and they mas unmask and then they selectively leak um against the president of the United States, only that which will hurt him.
	Right.
	Then what you basically have is the weaponizing of of sick of intelligence gathering against the American people.
	You you know if they're gathering information on every American, every American then's compromised by their own government.
	Well, and that's exactly the world we're seeing is demolished.
	Well, that's exactly where that's the world we're living in right now.
	That's where we are.
	All right, Jay Seculow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice with us, 800-941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, we'll get to your calls in the final half hour of the program today.
	Uh tonight we will be at the site of the shooting with many of the congressmen that were actually there today, and they'll be uh joining us down there.
	Uh the game is scheduled to go on tomorrow.
	Uh we'll uh also update you on what is happening with the uh with Steve Scalise and those others that are injured.
	All right, as we roll along Sean Hannity show, Jay Secular had to run out now.
	Um I know a lot of you have been hanging tight.
	Uh, this terrible shooting that took place today.
	And I gotta tell you something.
	There is uh we've got to remember something here.
	This effort, as Jay and I were discussing, to take down this president is real.
	You've got every active media outlet in the country, in spite of being proven wrong again and again and again.
	They just keep breaking one story after another.
	Unnamed sources say, you know, now you've got you know, those deep state people within the FBI and the intelligence community furious with the president.
	Who knows what what the next leak is.
	It's unbelievable.
	And then the media racing and running in conspiracy theories now up and and running.
	It's outrageous.
	All right, Eric is in uh, let's see, Denton, Maryland.
	Eric, uh, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
	We have about a minute this half hour, it's all yours.
	Hey, Sean.
	Um I wanted to call today because actually I got aggravated.
	I tried to call uh Chris Van Holland, and they're not even answering the phone today.
	Go straight to voicemail.
	The reason I wanted to call him was because like what you just said.
	I used to advertise for my business with a local radio station here on two stations.
	I actually canceled that subscription for advertising because back in February on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, they started saying stuff derogatory about Donald Trump.
	I asked them to Stop and apologize.
	They didn't even want to address it, so I canceled my subscription.
	It actually had a big to-do with the manager at the station about it months later because they never wanted to respond.
	I predicted to him in that phone call back in February that this kind of stuff is going to happen.
	We had, I believe it was January or February.
	There was a shooting from a man somewhere, I can't remember where, but he had said that.
	I've got to run I have been predicting this for a long time privately to almost all of my friends praying I was wrong.
	We'll continue your call.
	Alright, 25 now to the top of the hour.
	Uh we have a press conference now.
	Police are giving an update on today's shooting in Alexandria, Virginia.
	It's going on as we speak.
	Let's uh dip in and hear what they have to say.
	An investigative update on the shooting that occurred this morning.
	I would like to thank the Alexandria Police Department, U.S. Capitol Police, and medical response teams who responded to the scene this morning for their quick and decisive actions, actually saving lives.
	I remind you that this is an active investigation and details continue to unfold.
	I stressed this earlier, and I'm going to underscore it now.
	That the FBI is not going to talk about the character or nature in which we are investigating this case, other than to say we continue to work this as an active investigation in an ongoing matter.
	There has been some confusion about the injuries involved.
	Our statement sent out earlier today, this afternoon, actually, identified the number of victims and their injuries.
	Let me just review that quickly for you.
	Five individuals were shot.
	A congressman, a United States Capitol Police Officer, a congressional staffer, a lobbyist, and the subject.
	An additional two individuals, a congressman and a Capitol Police Officer, attained secondary injuries at the scene and were transported to local hospitals and treated.
	Tonkai
	As for the subject, and this is the only time that I'll be referring to him by his name.
	This afternoon we released a statement noting that the subject name was James Hodgkinson, 66 years of age of Belleville, Illinois.
	He succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, and the DC medical examiner has issued the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.
	The FBI has issued a seeking information poster identifying the shooter, and it can be found at WW.fbi.gov.
	While the subject is deceased, we continue to actively investigate the shooter's motives, acquaintances, and whereabouts that led to today's incident.
	We will continue to have presence as we process a scene here in Alexandria, and FBI agents are searching the shooter's home.
	His residence is Belleville, Illinois.
	The subject vehicle was located on scene and has been swept by Alexandria PD and the ATF, and we will be processing with our FBI evidence recovery team as well.
	Obviously, we are looking to glean what we can from the contents regarding his electrical devices that he owned.
	Law enforcement has reason to believe that the shooter has been in Alexandria, Virginia area since March of this year.
	The FBI has issued again seeking information poster that is located on our website asking the public to come forward with information on the shooter.
	To the local Alexandria community.
	We believe that the shooter has been leaving out of his vehicle in the vicinity of Eastman Road Street, therefore asking you to report any interactions that you've may have had with him.
	Likewise, the subject traveled from his residence in Illinois, and we are asking and speaking with individuals who know him personally or who have may have encountered him on his travels.
	If you have information, please call the FBI 24-hour tip line at 1-800 call FBI and select option one or visit tips.gov.
	So again, FBI's 24-hour tip line at 1-800 call FBI and select option one or visit tips.fbi.gov.
	All tips will remain confidential.
	No amount of information is too small to report.
	Law enforcement will remain on scene until processing of the scene has been completed.
	We ask that the local community for your patience and your cooperation as we complete this task.
	Further updates will be shared via written statements, unless law enforcement collectively stand behind me advises otherwise.
	I'll open it up for a few questions in just a second, but I want to turn it over to Chief Brown from Alexandria PD for a couple comments.
	An assassination attempt.
	BROWN chief of the uh of uh the Alexandria Police Department.
	I just wanted to get back and give a status as to what we're doing in this community to try and reassure the community in terms of the safety and the security of our residents.
	Uh right now we are canvassing the immediate area out here doing door-to-door with our friend our colleagues from the Sheriff's Department and the fire department, so that we can reassure people in the community that uh we believe this incident today is over, although the investigation will continue in this area for a while.
	We are also working with some of our other departments in the city, for example, with the Department of Community and Health Services to make services that are generally available uh for these kinds of situations available to our communities over the next couple of days.
	We care very much about uh our residents and the people that come to visit us in this city, and we're doing everything we can to reassure them that this is a safe community and that your government and your public safety personnel care deeply about it.
	Uh that said, you'll see a lot of law enforcement and fire personnel working this area trying to reassure them of such.
	So I thank you for that, and as a part of the department, we will continue to work and with the FBI and as they can move forward on their investigation.
	Thank you very much.
	Special agent sweater, did he have a vendetta against Republicans?
	I have no comment on that.
	Do you know whose shots brought him down?
	Uh it was a multiple local law enforcement response, so I do not know at this time.
	Was it both the Capitol Police and the Alexandria who responded and and shot shot him?
	I'm not gonna comment on exactly who it was, it was multiple local agencies.
	Can you give us a little idea of what you're trying to run down on the weapons?
	Only comment I'll make about weapons is one handgun and one rifle.
	And what are you trying to learn about those?
	Where they came from, who bought them, the um how he acquired them, all the logical investigative.
	St. Clair County officers interacted with him in March in Illinois.
	Was it shortly after that that he came here?
	Because you say he's been here since March.
	We believe he has been here since March, so I'm not gonna comment on the specifics of that.
	When the Capitol Police Officer shot the original round of gunfire, or when he came the gunfire.
	I'm not exactly sure on that now.
	Don't have a comment on that.
	Is there any right about his vocab for people who may have seen him?
	Is there anything that you can say about what he's doing in these couple months that may help jog people's recollection of where they may be what he needs?
	No, that's what we're really asking the public to help us with because we're just not sure at this time.
	Have you spoken to the client?
	I'm not gonna comment on that as a part of the active investigation.
	Well, and you're gonna be on the radar or enforcement school.
	No, just came in Illinois.
	So I'm not gonna comment on that either.
	So really, we're exploring all angles, and we're not gonna be limited by we'll let the facts take us where it goes.
	Witnesses say he was handcuffed.
	Was he still speaking and conscious when he was taken away?
	I can't comment on it.
	I'm not sure.
	Ma'am stop anywhere between Illinois and here.
	That I'm not aware of, no ma'am.
	Why do we know if he's working in the area?
	It appears that he was not working.
	Can you tell us the conditions of the people?
	Uh I'm not gonna comment on the victims.
	What I have about the victims is what I've already provided.
	Do we know?
	I believe.
	Yeah, not sure about that.
	I'll get back with you on that.
	We'll put it in the quick.
	We've been staying in these vehicles and you respond to vehicles and from Illinois to Illinois plates to get saving.
	So the only comment I'll make is a white cargo van.
	Can the Capitol Police talk to us about their officers and particularly those who were injured and returned fire?
	Hello, Deputy Chief Fred Rogers for U.S. Capitol Police representing Chief Matt Federosa.
	We did put a statement out today, and the chief wants to commend special agent Crystal Greiner, David Bailey, and Henry Cabrera for the heroic and appropriate response to protecting members of Congress today.
	He's grateful for Special Agent Grainer, who is in good condition at the hospital, having been shot in the ankle.
	and Special Agent Bailey was treated and released having sustained a minor injury during the incident.
	The United States Capitol Police is dedicated to the mission of protecting the United States Capitol, members of Congress and staff and the visiting public.
	And today we saw how our officers' extensive training was put into action.
	We also like to thank our partner agencies, the FBI, ATF, U.S. Park Police, Virginia State Police, and especially the Alexandria Police for their work in helping us to respond and mitigate this incident.
	We continue to provide a robust and visible presence at the Capitol complex and to monitor national and world events to provide a level of security that's appropriate.
	Now, as law enforcement updating on the shooting and the targeting and assassination attempt against GOP lawmakers, 800-941-SHAWN, if you want to be a part of the program.
	All right, let's get to our busy telephones here as we check in.
	Let's see, Kimberly is in Scottsdale, Arizona.
	Kimberly, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	Um, I can't help but reflect back to 2011, living here in Arizona when Daddy Gifford was um wounded so severely, and several people, including a little girl, lost their lives.
	And Obama took the national stage to do a memorial service for that incident and barely eulogized the people before launching into a tirade on Sarah Palin and and usage of harsh words, and she came under fire, no pun intended, about her political action committee map that featured stylized crosshairs, and she was basically blamed for the shooting.
	And look at this.
	Yeah, and by the way, targeting districts.
	You know who came up with that originally?
	That would be Bob Beckle.
	I mean, it's it is a common practice uh in in the political world.
	Oh, we're targeting this district.
	You know, it's just and hardly on the same playing field as Madonna, fantasizing about blowing out a blowing up the White House, Kathy Griffin with a bloody head.
	I mean, I'm all for the First Amendment, but it goes both ways.
	You know, and I mean it's so interesting you say all this because it's all the double standard again is just ridiculously transparent.
	And I you know, I I I just can tell you right now, and one day there'll be an incident of somebody that that is involved in in some act of violence that isn't a Bernie Sanders or an Al Gore supporter or radical Islamist, but well, you know, say they they list they watch Fox News and listen to talk radio, they're not it'll be instantaneous.
	You know, that we are to blame for whatever happens.
	Now, with that said, you know, maybe it's a when maybe it's one of the good things that you know, knowing that we are monitored every second, every minute of every day.
	And the sad part is is that the more irreverent fun, you know, politically incorrect, you you can't ha show that side of yourself in this day and age.
	Only liberals can do that.
	You know, conservatives can't.
	If they do, then they put their entire business model in jeopardy.
	Um, but now the shoes on the other foot, as we've seen with you know, MediaEqualizer.com, and it's only begin.
	By the way, they are only beginning.
	This you know, some of the stuff that they've shared with me that is coming just in the next couple of weeks is gonna blow people away.
	And, you know, I don't support boycotts.
	And there's an article in the LA Times today about it.
	But I got to tell you, if if this is going to be their MO to end talk radio and silence speech, and they think they can get away like with Bill Main, no ramifications for using the N-word.
	And Imus gets fired, and then Dr. Laura's show gets destroyed, and then you know they go after Rush and they go after Beck and they get O'Reilly and they're after Hannity, and it's just they don't want Fox on the scene.
	They don't want talk radio to exist in the in the 2018-2020 elections.
	And as it relates to if they would an incident like this that they could politicize and say, oh, the these right wing extremists, there's nobody's that has used more incendiary lying rhetoric than the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MBC, MSNBC, and ABC, CBS, and every other network and most of the media.
	So yeah, the double standard exists.
	It ext it exists at a level we've never seen before.
	Wrapping things up from Washington, D.C. today, and uh what's gonna happen is we're gonna be at the site of the shooting tonight, Hannity, Ten Easter.
	Many of the congressmen that were practicing for the baseball game will be joining us on the program.
	We're also gonna have the latest on the media attempts to take down the president, also the deep state attempts to take down the president, all the lies of the Washington Post and the New York Times and MBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and black helicopter theories.
	Yeah, we'll get into all of that, but the assassination attempt on the third highest ranking Republican today and other Republicans, and well, what bearing does all of this have on the left and their lies and their rhetoric?
	Any?
	We'll debate it tonight at 10 from DC.
	Thanks for being with us back here tomorrow.

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