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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 Scalise, 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 gunman 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 Scalise 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.
	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 we know he's been operated on number of transfusions.
	He's in critical condition now as 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 an annual baseball game every year.
	And it was, you know, just a practice session.
	I guess it's the Republicans versus the Democrats.
	And the person is identified as a 66-year-old man from Illinois.
	And witnesses at the scene described a firefight 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 congressmen and senators that were out there playing baseball.
	Federal law enforcement officials now have identified this guy as James Hotkinson of Belleville, Illinois.
	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.
	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 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, it's just hard to believe it's all out there.
	I just, it's hard to believe.
	How many more times are we going to 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-Scalise cartoon.
	This was a targeted assassination.
	Don't let anybody in the media tell you anything different than this.
	Apparently, he was accused of pulling out 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.
	There'll be some stupid, ridiculous, nuanced explanation as to why he was violent towards his own daughter.
	Any guy that punches a woman in the face, why don't you get 20 years minimum in jail?
	First thing my father taught me, it didn't matter.
	I had three older sisters.
	Did not matter how wrong they were.
	They were the ones that would poke the caged animal and I'd fight back, and I was the one that always got caught.
	Or if a kid, 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 literally punching a woman in the face and shooting at a guy.
	Anyway, he didn't renew his business license.
	He moved to 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 50 shots.
	Anyway, it's 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 Steve and the congressman.
	Our thoughts and prayers.
	I know his wife was in transport to D.C., where I am today.
	And police officers, because he was there, were already present and engaged the gunman for several minutes.
	This had to go on before they were able to take this guy out.
	Now, the suspect was, again, is the person we said.
	Now, I'm going to tell you, one thing that has come out here, we now know that this guy was a Bernie Sanders supporter.
	Now, I'm not going to 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 anti-GOP massacre here.
	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 that motivate this idiot?
	Anyway, this was a high-powered rifle.
	I happened 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 it's time to destroy Trump and company.
	Was a mad owl super fan over there at Conspiracy Theory TV and tinfoil hat black helicopter television over at NBC.
	You know, you got left-wingers on Twitter.
	I won't even repeat 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 received a threatening call.
	Quote, one down, 216 to go.
	Wow.
	Does it get any sicker than that?
	I don't think so.
	Now, an old friend of mine, Mo Brooks, who's running for Senate, who endorsed for the Senate down in Alabama, I've known him for 25 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 he applied a tourniquet.
	He'll be joining us later in the program today and 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 10 to 15 yards from where he was shot.
	Listen.
	But I was on deck 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 in the third base dugout, which is cinder block, I see a rifle.
	And I see a little bit of a body.
	And then I hear another blam, and I realize that there's an active shooter.
	At the same time, I hear Steve Scalise over near second base scream.
	He was shot.
	He's our majority whip.
	The gun was a semi-automatic.
	It continues to fire at different people.
	You can imagine all the people in the field scatter.
	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.
	Heard a break in the gunfire and decided to take a chance, ran from home plate to the first base dugout, which is also a cinder block in town about two or three feet, so you can have better cover.
	There were a number of congressmen and congressional staffers who help us lying on the ground.
	One of them was wounded in the leg, took off my belt, and myself and another congressman, I don't remember who, applied a tourniquet to try to slow down the bleeding.
	In the meantime, I'm towards the Rice Field side of the dugout, and there's gunfire within about five or six, seven feet of my head.
	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, Congressman Scalise, left.
	Was he able to move under his own power?
	Do you know where he was hit?
	Do you know the extent of his hit?
	He was unable to move under his own power.
	He was dragging his body from the second base infield, 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 until the situation is under control.
	That was, of course, emotionally 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 a physician.
	I don't know how deep into the hip area the bullet went.
	There was no exit wound that I could see.
	And again, when I got off to Steve, as Brad Winstrup was helping to cut off the pants, I was applying pressure with a cloth to the wound 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 D.C. today.
	That was Moe Brooks.
	He was an eyewitness.
	He was there.
	And to his credit, he might have saved somebody's life because he applied a tourniquet.
	Mo Brooks, who was at this tragedy today, the shooting today, this assassination attempt today, will join us later in the program.
	Also, Congressman Dave Bratt's going to stop by of Freedom Caucus.
	And Congressman Ron DeSantis, Jay Seculo from the American Center for Law and Justice, is going to 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.
	We'll take a quick break.
	We'll come back.
	And to what extent are holding up decapitated heads of President Trump look-alikes or killing the president or a Trump look-alike and 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.
	All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity Show, we're in Washington, D.C. today.
	Toll-free, our telephone numbers 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	You know, I'm not going to 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.
	You got Kathy Griffin.
	You got what she did.
	You got Shakespeare in the park killing a Donald Trump lookalike.
	Kathy Griffin, we've got all the insanity that has been expressed.
	You know, everybody from Madonna on down, Ashley Judd, do you think that's a factor?
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
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	Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we've got a busy program today from Washington, D.C. Of course, the shooting of not only Steve Scalise, but four other people at this practice for a 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'll 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 Seculo 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 with us.
	Sarah, first of all, I hear that Steve has taken a little bit of a turn for the worse.
	He's 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.
	You're down there.
	What's happening?
	It's been a terrible morning, and I can only imagine what his family is going through right now.
	You know, I know this neighborhood well.
	It's my area.
	It is a family area where the park is where you see children playing all the time.
	You know, people walking their dogs.
	There's a dog park right there near Simpson Park.
	You know, this morning, we all thought it was construction at first because there was this sound that was bouncing around in the air.
	And there's a lot of construction sometimes in the area, people coming by.
	And that's what everybody imagined at first until the sirens started blaring and the police started scouring the scene.
	Neighbors in the area, I was interviewing people that were just right around the shooting.
	They heard 50 to 100 rounds of shooting in this quiet neighborhood.
	People were ducking behind the coffee shop.
	Bullets riddled through the glass at the YMCA that was right there next to the park.
	You can imagine the kind of terror that ensued for the people in the community.
	And I got to tell you, it's gut-wrenching.
	You never think it's going to happen so close to you, and then it does.
	And I can tell you from the people that I interviewed, they were actually kind of in a state of shock.
	In fact, one man, one gentleman who I interviewed, Shaw, Mr. Shaw, Alex Shaw, who just moved into that neighborhood 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, 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 I'm going to get into this in a second.
	Anything else you wanted to add, Sarah?
	But, 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 do a lot better as a country when we get along, but it seems that there's such a large vocal vitriol and hatred towards this man that so many people just cannot get over.
	I think that 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 before we see more of these incidences.
	And, you know, this hatred, I mean, Hodgkinson 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 going to 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 just stop this kind of hatred and this divisiveness that we've seen permeated throughout even in the media.
	Something has to change.
	Yeah, well said.
	All right.
	Our good friend Sarah Carter from circanews.com was on the scene where five people now transported to the hospital, including the House majority whip, which is Steve Scalise, who is now struggling in the hospital.
	And as Sarah points out, our thoughts and prayers go out to this man's family.
	I know his wife was making it into town, and we wish her and everybody else.
	I think he's got young children, all the best in all of this as he now fights for his life as we speak.
	We're learning a little bit more about the person involved in all of this.
	And it's really not pleasant.
	Everything that we seem to be learning.
	One thing we just found out is that this Trump-hating Bernie Sanders supporting guy that shot 50-plus shots with his rifle and tried to mow down and murder dozens of Republican congressmen.
	We found out he belongs to 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.
	Why in God's name is such a group able to exist?
	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've got to tell you one other thing that happened here.
	There was a threat that had taken place as Congressman Claudia Tenney of New York.
	Her office received a threatening email with the subject line, one down, 216 to go.
	Shortly after this shooter made this assassination attempt against Steve Scalise and opened fire on all these GOP lawmakers.
	Mo Brooks was an eyewitness.
	He'll join us later from Alabama.
	And we're at the congressional baseball practice, according to her office.
	And the person who sent the email then wrote in the body of 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 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, this has become almost a weekly occurrence for me in my office.
	We've gotten all kinds of threats almost every single week.
	It just seems to be the normalization of a violent dialogue that's been perpetuated where we are.
	You know, a lot of this is.
	Congresswoman, I don't talk about it either, but I got to tell you something.
	Even yesterday, I've had threats against my life.
	This is something that goes on.
	I don't talk about it a lot.
	It's the world we live in.
	It's being in the public eye.
	It sucks.
	Yeah, well, it does happen.
	And the thing is, it's been tough for me.
	I put out a really nice Memorial Day message, and I got a response.
	My son, who is a Naval Academy grad, he's a 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.
	So this is the kind of dialogue that we're getting from people on the resist movement and that side.
	And it's just unacceptable.
	Congresswoman, let me ask you a very important question here.
	And by the way, 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 have the right to support Bernie and his views.
	And they're not violent people.
	But what frustrates me is, and even after these radical Islamic terrorist attacks, we find out that these people have telegraphed their anger, their hatred, their desire for violence.
	And for example, two days ago, according to the Belleville News Democrat, this guy Hotchkinson posted an angry tweet about President Trump on Facebook.
	I want to say, Mr. President, for being 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, you know, Illinois Burners united to resist Trump, boycott the Republican Party, expose Republican fraud, terminate the Republican Party.
	I mean, there is, 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 public posts more seriously?
	I agree.
	I think we should.
	And you have to remember something that from my district, a couple of weeks ago in my congressional district in nice little upstate rural New York, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Doran were brought in as guest speakers to a group of Democrats.
	And they have a lot of friends in our area.
	We have Susan Rosenberg, the famous Weather Underground woman who was charged and sentenced to 40 years in prison for being part of that.
	We're Bill Clinton community sentence.
	She was invited in to be a visiting professor at one of the colleges in my region.
	Ward Churchill was invited in by these same group.
	And these are the people that are out in front of my office resisting and the challenging.
	And it's really just all about being against Trump.
	And yesterday it was interesting because the Democrats put forth their impeachment resolution in the House.
	And they actually had the gall to come out and say that if the Republicans didn't join them, we were part of a crime.
	And this is a dialogue.
	And I'm not trying to say that the Democrats are the only ones that have people that have this dialogue on their side.
	But I think that I've been around long enough that I've never seen anything like it.
	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 reemerging, I think the Democrats have to take a long, hard look at the people that are doing this because they certainly shouldn't be cleaving to them.
	Well, Congresswoman, we thank you for being with us.
	Our thoughts and prayers, number one, are with your son who's serving abroad.
	And 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 going to be very, very blunt and very, very honest here, you know, you've got to admit that there is, I am not saying you always hold the person responsible.
	I'm going to be very clear here.
	But you cannot deny this inescapable truth that what happened in this assassination attempt on this field this morning does not take place in a vacuum.
	You know, it just does not.
	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 I feel sorry for everybody.
	The former Speaker of the House, New Gingrich, he responded to the shooting and rightly saying it's part of a pattern of behavior.
	And it's a very ugly, despicable pattern.
	You know, even before this shooting, this assassination attempt of these lawmakers today, you know, Republicans 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 saying, what do they say every election year?
	They're racist, they're sexist, they're homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic.
	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 going to kill your wife, read one message.
	I don't want to die anytime soon.
	I got stuff to do.
	I hope.
	But when you 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 toned 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 this congressman from Alexandria, you know, this guy out there, Mark Walker, saying to NBC News, it appears he was there firing 50 shots, wanting to kill as many Republican members as possible.
	And then on top of them, Rand Paul 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.
	You know, all right, so we find out he's a Bernie Sanders supporter.
	You know, I always wonder when events like this happen, who's going to be the first person to race out there and blame guns.
	In this case, it was Governor Terry McCullough, who has dreams like Joe Scarborough that he's going to be president one day.
	And, you know, the president's 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 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 tofrey telephone number.
	Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama was there.
	He'll be joining us later in the program.
	My buddy Jay Seculo is checking in with us.
	And then we have Freedom Caucus 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 Seculo joins us next, and we'll get to your calls.
	All coming up.
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	Let me say this: I think we need to do more to protect all of our citizens.
	I have long advocated this is not what today is about, but there are too many guns on the street.
	We lose 93 million Americans a day to gun violence.
	I mean, I've long talked about this.
	Background check, shutting down gun show loopholes.
	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 are you bringing it up?
	People are going to criticize that you're bringing up guns at this time.
	Well, I talk 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.
	So we've got to look at this, but I'm not going to get anywhere near the investigation.
	The FBI is leading this.
	But this, obviously, with 93 million people a day, it's just something 93 million is a big number.
	Did you mean to say 93 million?
	That's a big number.
	Are you sure about it?
	93 million, 93 individuals a day.
	And we as a nation and all of us need to come together in a bipartisan way to stop the horrible gun violence we have.
	93 individuals a day are killed in America.
	I just unfortunately had to give a eulogy for a great Virginia state trooper who lost his life on the streets of Richmond.
	No, governor.
	We've got to get serious about this issue.
	I do want to ask you, though, we can hold the conversation about the gun control debate for just another moment.
	All right, glad you're with us.
	Hour two, Terry McCullough, 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 make this into a gun issue.
	Oh, it's not the issue of today, but, but it just is out of control.
	Anyway, we have five people shot today, including the House majority whip, Steve Scalise, who is in, according to some reports now, taking a turn 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 helping one of the staffers in terms of putting a tourniquet on them, is going to join us.
	He was there for 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 the man who described, 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, Hotchkinson, who was later killed.
	Why?
	Because there were two armed Capitol Police officers that engaged in a firefight 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.
	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 think probably other lives could have been lost and other people injured.
	Tell us about this encounter you had with this guy, Congressman DeSantis.
	Well, I'll tell you, Sean, it was kind of a thing that you don't think it really makes sense at the time.
	You're like, it's a little weird that this guy be asking us about this.
	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.
	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.
	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 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 glad it happened and hoped Trump is next.
	So there's some really disgusting stuff that's going floating around.
	You know, and by the way, it's a lot of people in the public.
	I don't talk a lot about this, but I've been in the public arena now for 30 years as a talk radio host and 22 years on Fox.
	And, you know, you guys, I'm sure, would not be surprised at the type of things that come my way even yesterday.
	But Congressman Dave Bratt, you know, we all know Steve Scalise is a great guy.
	I mean, he works really hard.
	And from what I understand, he's taken a little bit of a turn for the worse.
	He was in stable condition, now is in critical condition.
	And apparently he's having some problems as it relates to they can't actually stop the bleeding in this case.
	And so, you know, he's got a tough, tough row to 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.
	And we're just sitting there riding the bike, something next to a Democrat guy.
	And he taps me on the shoulder and says, look up, look up there, right?
	And the good news is it never gets reported.
	Our Democrat friends, 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 connected guy.
	He just breaks the ice.
	He's always got a smile on his face.
	You know, he was making lighthearted comments even when he's going to the hospital.
	And so our prayers are with him.
	And it's going to make us all reflect now on going out to public spaces and dumpers.
	Some guys are biking, you know, several miles off of these things.
	And so there's some evil minds out there.
	And it's spreading.
	And no one's talking about ethics or what the standards are.
	And we've got to 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.
	There seems to be no consequences.
	We're just people.
	For any words spoken.
	I mean, you've got Madonna.
	You know, I dream about, I really do, dream about blowing up the White House.
	You have an NYU professor demanding an assault against conservative speakers.
	You know, yeah, Black Lives Matter.
	What do we want dead cops?
	When do we want them now?
	Pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon.
	And then you've got 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 Maddow saying that at the same time, you know, we oddly are 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 if 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 and 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 just, they don't look back.
	Like, we have a First Amendment.
	We don't, you can't change.
	They're looking at changing that stuff.
	And they put out their first campaign ad for 2020, which denounces the fake news.
	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 and who's more responsive to the news that he supposedly thinks is so worthless.
	So 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, f you.
	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.
	He 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 asks 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 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!
	Bradley Baker!
	Pigs in a blanket!
	Right, like baker!
	Pigs in a blanket!
	I think 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 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?
	I've taken up golf anyway.
	Kill a white baby.
	The less white babies on this planet, the less of you we got, boo.
	Blood is our best.
	I hope they kill all the white babies.
	Kill them all right now.
	Kill them.
	Kill your grandkids.
	Kill yourself.
	Coughing, b.
	Go lay in a coffin.
	I'm not afraid of anybody.
	This is a tough game.
	You can be intimidated.
	You can 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 f ⁇ ing time either.
	You know what I mean?
	We have f ⁇ ing time.
	We don't work time.
	Some of us are working 40 f ⁇ ing hours.
	You know?
	40 f ⁇ ing hours and juggling different classes under white supremacy.
	We're all operating under white supremacy, just so you know.
	And we need to start killing people.
	First off, we need to start killing the White House.
	The White House must die.
	The White House, your finger White House, your fingers president.
	They must go.
	F ⁇ the White House.
	F ⁇ the White House and f ⁇ your voting.
	I'm with her.
	Donald Trump.
	I don't give a f ⁇ .
	Because you know what?
	Obama deported so many f ⁇ ing people, but y'all still are fixated on voting for a f ⁇ ing president.
	Capitalism.
	Capitalism is what we is f ⁇ ing 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.
	So McCollus out there today.
	And Tim Kaine, I heard, say, taking the fight to the streets in that clip.
	Former governor, senator of Virginia.
	And they're both Catholic.
	Where's the golden rule, right?
	So the rule is hit hard on policy.
	That's fine.
	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 these far lefties want to form a new party with that new ethical, isn't it a terroristic threat if Madonna 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, I don't think he could have necessarily acted alone because he's from Illinois.
	How would he even know that there were congressmen practicing in Alexandria?
	I mean, well, he recently moved there and 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 that oh, these congressmen are out there?
	I mean, I just think that it's gotten to the point where a lot of the folks have viewed the election so personally and have reacted so viceroyally.
	Well, he was one of them.
	I mean, that they're letting politics create make them into really monsters.
	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 roll along, Sean Hannity Show in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., Congressman Dave Bratt, Congressman Ron DeSantis are with us now.
	Mo Brooks, who was 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.
	What is the answer, Dave Bratt?
	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 perhaps murdered today and assassinated today.
	Yeah, no, I go back to the ethics thing.
	We're not teaching the kids epics anymore in K-12.
	You come out after 13 years of education.
	No one is familiar with the Judeo-Christian tradition.
	Show 24-7.
	Download it to your iPod.
	Mia Hannity Insider at Hannity.com.
	Congressman, does this change your views on the gun situation in America?
	Not with respect to the Second Amendment.
	The Second Amendment right to bear arms is to help ensure we always have a republic.
	And as with any constitutional provision in the Bill of Rights, there are adverse aspects to each of those 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.
	We're not going to get rid of this Fourth Amendment search and seizure rights because it allows some criminals to go free who should be behind bars.
	These rights are there to protect Americans, and while each of them has a negative aspect to them, 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 enjoy as Americans.
	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 Mo Brooks, longtime friend of mine from Huntsville, Alabama, Madison, Alabama.
	I think when I was there, he was the Madison County, Alabama district attorney and now a member of Congress.
	He was at the baseball field when the shooting took place earlier today.
	I recently endorsed the congressman.
	He's running to replace Senator Jeff Sessions in the United States Senate.
	We've been a longtime friend.
	Believe it or not, he used to fill in for me back in 1990 on my radio show and 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-heading.
	I didn't have the ability that you had.
	You could coin a phrase much better than me, and certainly you could talk with a microphone in front of you for a much longer period than I could and keep people.
	This is really a sickness, Congressman.
	I could talk and talk to myself for hours, and it's not a normal, it's just, trust me, it's not normal.
	Look, I honestly wish we had you on to talk about the agenda that needs to be advanced in the House and the Senate.
	And I really wish we had you on to talk about maybe a Senate race, and we'll do that at a future date.
	I am sure you are traumatized by everything that went on today.
	Can you bring us to the scene and what actually happened?
	I can tell you as I experienced it, just finished fielding practice.
	I came in to bat.
	Normally, I stay out in the outfield, left field, during fielding practice for some reason.
	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 this particular field is about 10 feet high, so there was no escape.
	I did come in and I took some bats.
	I put on a helmet.
	I was on deck.
	I took the third base side of home plate where we had a batting cage, which means I was pretty close to the shooter because he was just past the third base dugout, probably about 60, 70, maybe 80 feet away.
	I heard the first blam, and at first I thought it was a car backfire.
	And I looked around and I saw what appeared to be a stick-like object poking pretty close to the chain link fence, shooting at what turned out to be a gun, shooting at a 90-degree angle towards the shortstop, second-base, right-field positions.
	It took me a fraction of a second and about three more gunshots 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 can see the shooter.
	I could see the rifle.
	And if he had turned 30 degrees to his right, I'd have been the closest target for him to shoot at.
	How far away was he from you?
	Well, I was between home plate and third base, probably 15 feet up the third base line, and he was probably even with third base just past the third base dugout, within five or ten feet of the third base dugout.
	So whatever the math is on that, 60, 70, 80 feet.
	I'm not looking for gruesome details on anybody's.
	The reports are he fired as many as 50 shots.
	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.
	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 is 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, getting as low as we could as the shots just kept going and going and going.
	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 who are lying there prone on the ground where he can't see us, suddenly we're in clear view 10 or 15 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 base dugout.
	Perhaps he'd have a harder time shooting a moving target.
	And I think the other two or three people that were there 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 as the shots were ongoing.
	I crawled to the end of the dugout towards right field to that set of steps.
	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 10-foot-high, 12-foot-high chain-link fence.
	And of course, with your back exposed like that, you'd be a very easy target to a man with a rifle.
	As I'm, 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.
	I noticed that a gentleman next to me, one of Congressman Roger Williams staff members, Zach Barth, he's bleeding pretty profusely from his calf.
	And I said, hey, dude, 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 effect, oh, it's no big deal.
	I'm going.
	You've been shot.
	It's a big deal.
	Yeah, I know.
	So I took off my belt.
	There was someone next to me.
	I don't even remember who it was.
	Things are happening so quick.
	And again, bullets are flying over our heads during this process.
	I took off my belt, and the guy next to me and I, together, somehow or another, we put the belt on his leg as a tourniquet.
	I think he held it there while the gunfire ensued, and then we kept our heads back down.
	And the next thing I remember, aside from how long it seemed to, I mean, we weren't hearing sirens or anything as all this shooting was going on for some period of time, because you think there are going to be reinforcements on the way.
	But it seemed to take a while to get there.
	And then I started hearing loud gunfire to my right, and I'm going, oh my gosh, there's a second shooter.
	I look up.
	It's David Bailey, one of our Capitol Police officers, who is now standing at the center block edge of the dugout, 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 he was engaging 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.
	But notwithstanding that, Capitol Police Officer, excuse me, a little bit emotional.
	We understand, Congressman.
	We really do.
	I agree.
	What you went through?
	David Bailey and Crystal Griner.
	They risked their lives.
	They both took bullets.
	And if they had not been successful, there would be a lot of dead people at that ball field right now.
	The shooter eventually made it around the third base dugout towards home plate in between the stands and the fencing.
	And so the three or four of us that were on the ground behind the 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 10 to 15 feet from him and like sitting ducks.
	But the Capitol Police engaged.
	They were successful.
	They took him down somewhere behind home plate.
	I don't know the exact location.
	While all this is going on, we know that there are other wounded, particularly Steve Scalise, who I, you know, immediately after the first shots glanced over in that direction.
	He was on the ground.
	There was a lot of shouting.
	An active shooter out there.
	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 him being hit, and I was running around to try to get behind the batting cage.
	I could see him on the ground on the dirt in the second base infield part of the infield where a second baseman would play.
	And you could see him trying to drag himself with his arms 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 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.
	Often there are multiple attackers.
	You don't know if it's a lone wolf.
	One or two, maybe three people, I remember Jeff Flake being one of them.
	I don't remember who the other one or two were.
	They ran out to where Steve Scalise was.
	A second or two later, I ran out of the dugout towards Steve Scalise.
	So I was about the third or fourth person to Steve Scalise.
	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 15 yards long.
	They were talking to him, trying to let him know that we were going to 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.
	He seemed to be going into shock, as I perceive shock to be.
	I'm not a doctor.
	But he was conscious the whole time.
	I was at his waist on the center field side of his body.
	His body was facing center field where the blood was coming out of his hip wound.
	We have, oh my goodness, I'm having a name blank.
	Sorry, the stress of it.
	You know, let me help you out here.
	You're describing such a traumatic emotional event.
	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.
	Apparently, the bleeding has become very difficult for them to stop.
	And I know doctors are doing everything they can.
	There's been numerous transfusions.
	Well, I first want to say to you that, you know, your heroism in this and you helping the staffer out.
	I mean, there were five people shot.
	I just want to ask this.
	Why were the Capitol Police there?
	Was it for Scalese?
	Was it for the fact that so many elected officials were there?
	Well, we kid Steve Scalise about having the protection and needing it because of how many errors he makes in the infield.
	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 with that.
	I don't know if they were there strictly for Steve Scalise because he was third in command in the House of Representatives or if it was for all of our protection.
	But I'll tell you, if those Capitol Police officers had not been there, David Bailey and Crystal Greiner, it would have been a massacre because we had absolutely no way to defend ourselves.
	None of us were armed at the time.
	And one of the more memorable moments, Sean, if you've got a second, is David Bailey was the one shooting directly above my head 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 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, he's wounded, he's limping, and he goes to Steve's Calise to check on him.
	That's a hero.
	His duty was to take care of Steve's Calise, who had been shot.
	And, you know, we had to shoot him away because he was shot himself.
	As Brad Winstrup, who's the doctor at this point, was trying to tend to Steve's Colise with the hip wound.
	I was applying pressure as Brad Winstrup, pressure to the wound with the cloth as Brad Winstrup was trying to cut 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 anytime people, I mean, 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've come under political attack, it should anger every American.
	Because these law enforcement officers, whether they're deputies, state troopers, FBI, investigative officers, regular police officers, they do this on a regular basis and they subject themselves to this risk on a regular basis.
	And I could not be more proud of these two Capitol Police officers.
	Congressman, I've known you for 27 years now, believe it or not.
	And by the way, an embarrassment to you, but an honor for me.
	And I'm so sorry for everybody that was involved there.
	But I'm also very thankful, as painful as today has been for you, that you took the time to tell people about how amazing these, our 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 damage that was prevented there is, you know, we'll never know.
	And I'm so sorry that this all went down for you today.
	I think we're going to see you on TV tonight.
	I'm going to be down at the ball field, actually.
	And 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 Congressman, we'll have you back on, I hope, under better circumstances with good news on Steve's Colise and the others.
	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 25 deaths or more today.
	I think we had 25 team players and about 15 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.
	You just also heard an emotional Mo Brooks, who's a guy that I've known 27 years and been friends with for 27 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 radical leftist agenda and was part of a group, Terminate the Republican Party.
	Numerous threats now have been called into different and varying congressional offices.
	We heard that earlier today from Congressman Dave Brad and Congressman Ron DeSantis.
	And one has to now ask the question, and we played some of 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 misogynistic and homophobic, Islamophobic, and zemenophobic, and all these other things that are false.
	And they want dirty air and they want dirty water.
	And Granny's going to get thrown over the cliff.
	And then everything that has been said, you know, there's an article out now, 15 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 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.
	I wish I could see 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 we're praying hard for his family.
	I know a lot of people in America are for the families, the individuals that have been shot.
	Steve Scalise is in.
	No, Terry McAuliffe is praying hard for gun control.
	Yeah, well, let me tell you something.
	You had today in Washington, D.C., a targeted assassination attempt on the, in addition to the other people that were attempted to be killed, the third ranking member, the highest ranking member in the United States Congress, number three.
	So it's Ryan McCarthy and Ross Scaleese.
	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 Senate to condemn it because he was a Sanders supporter, supposedly.
	You know what?
	But you know what that 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, Rush Limbaugh on the radio and Oklahoma City bombing.
	And, you know, these guys have been out there working him up in a frenzy.
	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.
	That's what they say.
	Well, he was in stable.
	He was in stable condition that was upgraded.
	Yeah, upgraded to critical, right?
	But I got to tell you something.
	Look, I always blame the people that do these things.
	Of course.
	You have to.
	I mean, and you're right.
	They would do it to us.
	They would say talk radio and Fox News caused us.
	All right, well, the Unit Bomber had Al Gore's book.
	Well, do they have Hannity's book, Levin's book, 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 standard, it's not just a double standard, and we're witnessing a double standard of proportions that it's not even fair to double standards.
	What you have right now is a targeted campaign to discredit and destroy.
	And we saw destruction today.
	This wasn't just discredit.
	I don't like Sean Hannity.
	You're not a nice guy.
	I don't like Jay Seculo.
	You're a lawyer that's a big shot lawyer.
	What are they doing?
	Look at the 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 sanctimonious left to now say, did you hear the comments today?
	We needed the debate needs to be quieted down, too much discord.
	Here's the fact.
	You know why the 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 bullet aimed at a congressman.
	You combat it with more speech.
	You combat it with a boycott.
	But the left is intolerant, Jay.
	Because they don't believe in the First Amendment.
	The truth is we protect the First Amendment.
	You protect the First Amendment.
	They're calling for boycotts.
	You know, it's even 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.
	And they can throw them off the buildings.
	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, he can't have it both ways.
	The left can't even let Milo Yiannopoulos 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 liberal ideas and democracy and free speech and free discourse is nonsense.
	It's whether it's in 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 region also.
	I get it.
	There's a handful of schools, right?
	Region.
	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 it's pathetic.
	I don't go either.
	You know why?
	Because you know what you're going to face?
	You're going to face the screaming, the yelling, the shouting.
	They're not going to even listen to it.
	They're not going to hear it.
	And then the protests.
	Right.
	And then I've got to deal with negative press about, oh, Hannity's a horrible person.
	And 30 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 concerted.
	I mean, it's a very much centered movement.
	They're in sync with each other.
	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 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, again, praying for Steve Sclee's family and for Steve.
	But here's what you have: they are going to 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 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, you know, a bottle of wine and two Dixie cups, and 3 a.m., 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.
	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.
	You read the comments on Twitter today?
	Yeah, unfortunately.
	I mean, so this is, you know, as a friend of mine told me today, don't read those comments on Twitter because if you read them, you're going to, it's, to quote James Comey, more than mildly nauseous.
	But here's the fact: 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 action time.
	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'm a big believer in intelligence.
	I know you are.
	And I mean, you believe that they are such a necessary tool in defending in a world of evil and ISIS and al-Qaeda 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 unmask and then they selectively leak against the president of the United States only that which will hurt him.
	Right.
	Then what you basically have is the weaponizing of intelligence gathering against the American people.
	If they're gathering information on every American, every American then is compromised by their own government.
	Well, and that's exactly the world we're doing.
	The government 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 Seculo, Chief Counsel, 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.
	Tonight, we will be at the site of the shooting with many of the congressmen that were actually there today, and they'll be joining us down there.
	The game is scheduled to go on tomorrow.
	We'll also update you on what is happening with Steve Scalise and those others that are injured.
	All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show, Jay Seculo, had a run out now.
	I know a lot of you have been hanging tight.
	This terrible shooting that took place today.
	And I got to tell you something.
	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 the next leak is?
	It's unbelievable.
	And then the media racing and running, and conspiracy theories now up and running.
	It's outrageous.
	All right, Eric is in, let's see, Denton, Maryland.
	Eric, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
	We have about a minute this half hour.
	It's all yours.
	Hey, Sean.
	I wanted to call today because actually I got aggravated.
	I tried to call Chris Van Holland, and they're not even answering the phone today.
	Goes 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've got to tell you something.
	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.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
	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 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 and 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.
	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 www.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.
	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 East Monroe Street, therefore asking you to report any interactions that you 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.fbi.gov.
	So again, FBI's 24-hour tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI and select option 1 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.
	Law enforcement update today's shooting an assassination attempt.
	B-R-O-W-N, Chief of 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.
	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 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 for these kinds of situations available to our community over the next couple of days.
	We care very much about 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.
	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 with the FBI as they move forward on their investigation.
	Thank you very much.
	Special Agent Slater, did he have a vendetta against Republicans?
	I have no comment on that.
	Do you know whose shots brought him down?
	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 shot him?
	I'm not going to comment on exactly who it was.
	It was multiple local agencies.
	We talked about the weapons.
	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, 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 going to comment on the specifics of that.
	When the Capitol Police officer shot the original crown of gunfire or when he explained the gunfire?
	I'm not exactly sure on that, ma'am.
	Don't have a comment on that.
	Is there anything about his location?
	For people who maybe have seen him, is there anything that you can say about what he's been doing in these couple months that may help jog people's recollection of where they may have been and what he's been doing?
	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 fire?
	I'm not going to comment on that.
	It's a part of the active investigation.
	Was he on the radar of Lord Morrison School?
	No, just him in Illinois?
	So I'm not going to comment on that either.
	So really, we're exploring all angles and we're not going to 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.
	Does he stop anywhere between Illinois and here that you know of?
	That I'm not aware of.
	No, ma'am.
	Do we know if he was working in the area?
	It appears that he was not working.
	Can you tell us the conditions of the people?
	I'm not going to comment on the victims.
	What I have about the victims is what I've already provided.
	Did you tell us the national member of the public?
	Do we know?
	I believe.
	Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
	I'll get back with you on that.
	We'll put it in the city.
	Is it from Illinois to an Illinois plate that you can get saving on?
	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 their heroic and appropriate response to protecting members of Congress today.
	He's grateful for Special Agent Groiner, 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.
	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 Sean, 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 say Kimberly is in Scottsdale, Arizona.
	Kimberly, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	I can't help but reflect back to 2011, living here in Arizona, when Daddy Gifford was 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 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 is a common practice 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 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, I mean, it's so interesting you say all this because it's all the double standard, again, is just ridiculously transparent.
	And, you know, I just can tell you right now, and one day there'll be an incident of somebody that is involved in some act of violence that isn't a Bernie Sanders or an Al Gore supporter or radical Islamist, but, you know, say they watch Fox News and listen to talk radio.
	It'll be instantaneous that we are to blame for whatever happens.
	Now, with that said, you know, 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 can't 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.
	But now the shoe's on the other foot, as we've seen with, you know, MediaEqualizer.com, and it's only beginning.
	By the way, they are only beginning.
	You know, some of the stuff that they've shared with me that is coming just in the next couple of weeks is going to blow people away.
	And, you know, I don't support boycotts.
	And there's an article in the L.A. Times today about it.
	But I've got to tell you, if this is going to be their M.O. to end talk radio and silence speech, and they think they can get away, like with Bill Maher, 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 2018, 2020 elections.
	And as it relates to if they would, an incident like this that they could politicize and say, oh, these right-wing extremists, there's nobody that has used more incendiary lying rhetoric than the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and ABC, CBS, and every other network and most of the media.
	So, yeah, the double standard exists.
	It exists at a level we've never seen before.
	All right, wrapping things up from Washington, D.C. today, and what's going to happen is we're going to be at the site of the shooting tonight, Hannity, 10 Eastern.
	Many of the congressmen that were practicing for the baseball game will be joining us on the program.
	Also, we 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 NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and black helicopter theories.
	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 D.C. Thanks for being with us back here tomorrow.

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