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What a show.
What a lineup we've got.
We've got Newt Kingrich is going to weigh in.
All of this Mueller and Rosenstein and others need to be fired.
And the president and his tweet, it's a witch hunt.
And, you know, how is it this person appoints this person?
And the incestuous nature, you know, between Comey and Mueller and everybody involved here.
I'd add McNabe to that.
I'd add a bunch of people.
You know, I had a very high-ranking inside source saying that when people like Comey, McNabe, and a few people around their rank and close to them within the FBI actually told me, confirmed by another source, I don't know to be 100%, that they're so happy they got General, what's his name?
General Flynn.
They were visibly doing things to show their ecstasy over.
And by the way, that was the case of illegal intelligence leaking, a violation of the Espionage Act, but obviously that doesn't matter.
So we'll get to that.
All right.
So last night I go on Hannity, and, you know, I know they had the baseball game.
I went down to National Stadium, and oh my God, they have the best food.
I'm sorry.
Yankee Stadium does not have the best food.
City Field does not have the best food.
They had the best food in the world.
I wanted to stop at every single solitary concession stand because it's like all my favorites: sour dough, grilled cheese with bacon and tomato.
It was off the hook good.
It was so great.
Anyway, I got down on the field.
I got to meet so many different people.
Roger Williams, the coach of the Republican team, and this young staffer, Zach, that worked for him.
They were the two that probably inspired me the most.
Zach was hit in the back of the calf during this assassination attempt against Republicans in Alexandria.
And Mo Brooks was the one that wrapped the tourniquet around it.
He's a really brave kid.
And I really enjoyed meeting him and the coach and everybody else.
And Roger Williams has to go down to Texas.
He's there today and getting some surgeries.
His thoughts and prayers go up.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to him today.
You have there's going to be an update at the Washington, D.C. hospital where the majority whip Steve Scalese was taken after being shot.
And now they say, and we hope and pray it's all true, that he is making a lot of progress, which I'm really, really happy about.
And we'll get an update here in a second.
We'll just dip into it as that happens if you're along the Sean Hannity Show Network.
But last night I go on the air on TV.
After seven months of investigations, my collusion with Russians, nobody has been able to come up with a thing.
Trump tweets out today.
So after 11 months of conspiracy theories, 11 months of lying, black helicopter conspiracy theories, and advancing tinfoil hack conspiracy theories, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Rachel Maddow, the biggest conspiracy theorist in the world.
I mean, I never knew until the media group, MediaEqualizer.com, had come out and put up all these crazy crap she says.
And one of the reasons I didn't know is because I don't watch these shows at all.
And so I'm literally, you know, reading the stuff that she's had, I'm like blown away by this.
But anyway, now she says, I absolutely believe it's possible Trump did not collude with Russia.
How do you justify working?
NBC News, John Chancellor.
I mean, Tom Brokaw.
How do you justify that Brian Williams?
And I looked up my hotel room and I saw bodies floating by.
And oh, that's right.
Sorry, he wasn't underwater.
There was no water outside my hotel room.
It couldn't have been a body after all.
Whoopsie, Daisy.
Whoopsie, whoopsie, Daisy.
And I got to tell you, it's just so amazing.
So amazing.
Now, so I go on the air last night and I start a very different tone because I'm watching all the kumbaya going on at the baseball game.
All right, that's fine.
They want to have a little kumbaya moment.
I'm saying, you know what, with all due respect, I'm not buying this crap.
I'm just not buying it.
What you watched last night was not true.
It was not real.
It's an illusion.
And, you know, Nancy Pelosi, mad that Republicans are calling out the rhetoric that they and their side have been using every day because they're so freaking unhinged that Donald Trump became an emotional mass psychotic moment for Democrats at 11 o'clock on November the 8th, 2016, when it seemed like what was a sure thing for them fell through.
And that is Hillary Clinton not winning.
And psychologically, they've had a very, very hard time dealing with this.
So now we've got, and I'm not blaming Bernie Sanders.
I'm not going down the road where Democrats, you know, there's some idiot that has a conservative book or listens to a conservative show does something stupid that somehow Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Mark Levin, or Fox News is to blame.
I don't play that game that they do, but I will say this in my lifetime, as we have played all week long, the absolute hatred, the vile vitriol that has existed out there is unprecedented in this country.
And you cannot deny that there is, for those people that are unhinged and day in and day out, there's got to be something that connects or motivates in some way, some capacity.
It does have an impact.
After all, liberals tell us that every time there is some kind of event.
So anyway, so you got majority whip, Steve Scalise.
It was far worse, I can tell you now than I think people ever knew.
And that he had dozens of dozens, I understand, transfusions, and that they couldn't even close him up for a significantly long period of time because they couldn't cauterize the bleeding.
And then so you watch all the nicety in the game and the group hug and the kumbaya.
I just, I couldn't fall for it.
I wouldn't fall for it.
I wasn't deceived.
I wasn't going to pretend as if all of the hate and vitriol and the viciousness and divisive rhetoric from the left, it's not going to end, I said last night.
And sure enough, right during the game, and I had written my monologue, I didn't even see it until this morning.
Democratic staffers actually booed when Donald Trump, our president, went up and gave a video at the so-called unity baseball game.
As the Washington Times pointed out, so you have this game going on, the Kumbayo moment that I said was not real.
I think I was the only one that had the courage to say me and Laura Ingram last night.
Laura Ingram agreed with me.
Anyway, they appeared to be Democratic staffers doing the booing there last night, which underscores, again, what I've been saying, this toxic political atmosphere that the media now for 24 hours pretends had no impact on the mindset of this lunatic.
And I blame the person.
I'm not blaming them.
But this hatred, this vile viciousness, you know, has got to stop at some point.
You know, we're at Washington, D.C.
I was at Alexandria, Virginia.
I went to the field.
I saw what happened, a left-wing radical ideologue, a political assassination attempt.
And as we know, because we interviewed two congressmen, you know, the shooter goes up to them before he does this, this guy Hotchkinson, and says, by the way, are they Republicans and Democrats?
Republicans.
Good.
All right.
Let me go just behind the third baseline, behind the fence, and use a high-powered rifle and start picking these guys off one by one.
And that's what he tried to do.
And were it not for two D.C. Capitol police officers, I mean, the amount of bravery they show walking into an open field up against a high-powered rifle with a pistol, and I'm a pistol marksman, and successfully winning after being injured is such a testament to them.
What incredible people we have.
That was a suicide mission they were on.
I'm telling you, if you know anything about weapons, this was not a fair fight.
They were at a 99-1 decided disadvantage, and they pulled this off.
And more importantly, they showed amazing courage and grace and strength that is beyond inspiring in this moment, and they saved lives.
You know, so you got a guy that expresses his extremist views, referring to the president as a traitor, writing, quote, it's time to destroy Trump and company, belongs to a face group group called Terminate the Republican Party.
You know, beyond disgusting, despicable, horrific.
It's just part of a much larger pattern of what we're hearing from the Democratic Party, from the left, and this, you know, what I think they consider themselves the, you know, the next branch of government, the destroy Trump media.
And I've called it before a vortex of hatred that's aimed at bringing down the president.
A worst case scenario for them is they get collateral damage, people around the president.
And we saw the Washington Post with another one of their unnamed sources hit pieces last night against Jared Kushner.
No evidence, all rehash nonsense.
And, you know, you can't take this and look at this all in a vacuum or in a bubble.
You can't, for example, forget that last week we're debating Shakespeare in the park.
I'd rather put a bullet in my head than watch that.
I'd rather just never go see Shakespeare in the park.
I'd never want to see that.
Who wants to go see Shakespeare in the park with a Trump lookalike?
And the Trump lookalike, you know, being shot and killed every night and a rendition of Julius Caesar.
Or you got the ISIS pose with Kathy Griffin with a bloodied, severed head of President Trump.
And then you got Madonna and her hate-filled ranch rant at the women's march.
I think often I fantasize about blowing up the White House.
And then Jim Kerry dreaming of taking a golf club and beating the president.
And then you've got on top of that the destroy Trump media.
Sorry, Rachel, you've been advancing a lie for months and it's only now dawned on you.
Even your colleague thrill up his leg, ObamaGasm man himself, Chris Matthews, figured out that, oh, I guess the collusion thing's over.
Rachel's only gotten to the, I believe it's possible, point that Trump did not collude with Russia.
Even though every Democrat, including Maxine Waters and Dianne Feinstein and Mark Warner and Joe Manchin and Clapper and Comey and Brennan and all of these people have said there's no evidence of collusion.
Admiral Rogers has said it.
But they keep reporting it and they keep advancing it.
And the media, they've been doing the same thing for months.
And then the whitelash and every other incendiary thing that has been said.
You know, and Democrats, you know, we can't find a comment of even Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton or prominent Democrats condemning this vile ISIS pose of a severed Trump head with Kathy Griffin.
What does that say about them?
If it was a Republican, if it was a conservative, they would have spoken out in seconds.
It's like the Clinton Soros group.
Oh, they got Imus fired.
Imus is fired.
He still meets with the women at Rutgers Basketball wants to make it right.
He apologized just like Bill Maher did.
Bill Maher uses the N-word.
There's not a peep written about it.
Nothing about Kathy Griffin holding up a severed head of the president.
Imagine if a conservative did that to Obama.
What the Clinton Soros group would demand at that point, firings and boycotts and everything else that they do to silence conservatives.
We've been telling you night after night that they will say and do anything to delegitimize this man, to literally advance lies to delegitimize and stop his agenda.
And the people that will suffer in all of this are the American people, those in poverty on food stamps, out of the labor force that can't buy a house.
They're the ones that get screwed ultimately here as 90% of the president's time and his staff's time is spent dealing with crap.
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All right, the doctors over at the hospital where they have been taking care of the House Majority Whip Steve Scalise are weighing in on his health.
They're encouraged by improvements in his condition, multiple blood transfusions.
Let's step in and hear what they have to say.
Good afternoon.
I'm Dr. Jack Sava, the Director of Trauma at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
I'm here to give you an update on the two patients that we cared for after the shooting in Alexander, Virginia on June 14th.
Special Agent Crystal Greiner of the United States Capitol Police sustained an ankle gunshot wound.
She remains in the hospital.
She's in good condition, and she's in good spirits.
Congressman Scalise sustained a single rifle wound that entered in the area of the left hip.
It traveled directly across towards the other hip in what we call a trans pelvic gunshot wound.
The round fragmented and did substantial damage to bones, internal organs, and blood vessels.
I understand he was awake on scene, but by the time he was transported by helicopter to the MedStar Trauma Center, he was in shock.
My partners, Dr. Tony Schifflett and Dr. Christine Trankium, saw him in the trauma center with the other doctors and nurses there.
They treated him there and quickly brought him to the operating room where we performed surgery.
In the operating room, he was in critical condition and received many units of transfused blood for ongoing hemorrhage from multiple locations.
He received amazing anesthesia care from Dr. Eric Skolnick and Dr. Scott Frank.
Due to their great work, we were able to get him through that procedure, and we then took him to the radiology suite where he underwent an additional procedure by Dr. Arshad Khan to further control bleeding.
From there, we went to the intensive care unit where he got additional care under the direction of Dr. Chadi Abuasili, and he remains in the ICU today.
Yesterday, Dr. Trankium and I did an additional operation, and Dr. Robert Golden, our director of orthopedic trauma, did an operation to repair a broken bone in his leg.
The congressman's status remains critical.
We are encouraged by improvement in his condition over the last 30 seconds.
Is the congressman's condition critical?
We'll continue.
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When Steve Scalise, I just was watching the rest of this press conference at the hospital, MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
When he arrived at the hospital, he was in danger of imminent death.
Now, I had a source that had told me all of that the day of the shooting.
And I was asked to keep it quiet.
And I was told that day that it was extremely touch-and-go.
And I really, it just sunk my heart at the time.
His risk of death, they said today, is substantially lower.
Now, look, he's not out of the woods yet, but he had dozens and dozens now of blood transfusions.
And they had a very, very hard time.
And I guess, you know, I just have a great respect for those in the medical profession.
There's a part of me, this is not the way my brain is wired, so it wouldn't have worked out for me.
Everyone's got whatever gifts God gives you.
I mean, and that's not mine to be extremely scientific.
And I just don't have a natural surgeon's skill or the ability to sit there and memorize, you know, chemistry pages and bio paper.
I'd rather just jump off a bridge.
It just is just not where my area of interest is.
Meanwhile, I'll stay up till 4 in the morning, 5 in the morning every night, reading and reading and reading and reading and reading about politics and the state of the world and countries and history.
It's just, you got to follow where your natural aptitude and wherever your gifts are in life.
And I try to do that.
And then I know other people that are friends of mine that are surgeons, and they have this incredible gift that is just, I sit in amazement as they talk about it.
For example, I have two friends of mine.
One and both are brain surgeons.
And I'm not talking about fake brain surgeons.
You know, you always say this isn't brain surgery, radio, and TV.
And it's not.
And one of them in particular gives me far more credit than I ever deserve.
And it makes me laugh.
And I'm like, yeah, I didn't have to go into the operating room and operate on a seven or eight-year-old kid this morning.
And their life is in my hands based on my skill and the knowledge and experience I've accumulated over decades of doing this.
And you're telling me that my job is hard.
I just, I can't allow myself to go there because I just don't think it applies.
And, well, what you're doing is important for the country.
I'm like, all right, maybe I'm a little spoken a wheel, but I'm not saving an individual's life.
And to me, it's just an amazing skill.
And I love, I don't know why, but I'm fascinated.
I always watch like the operation channels.
You know, I have another brain surgeon friend, and he does the same thing, operating on spines and brains.
And then the other brain surgeon friend, he actually developed, he got mad at me once.
I said it, an epoxy.
It's not an epoxy.
It's actually a cement that he uses to create skull formations that perfectly fit that which was damaged.
For example, he spent a lot of time in the military helping those that were victims of IED attacks.
Anyway, back to Steve Scalise.
I mean, I knew that they had to, when they first operated on him, and that first night, that first 24, 48 hours was so critical for him.
And then you're running the risk of all types of infections because the operating area within him is still open.
And then you have the blood transfusions on top of it.
And as they just said, you know, he's been through many of them.
And he was at imminent death when he came into the hospital.
And his death now chances are substantially lower.
And we just pray for a full recovery of all of this.
My buddy, Mike Myers, is on our newsmaker line.
I asked him to call in because, you know, he sends me the most encouraging notes every day.
Now, Mike swears he's a liberal.
Mike is not a liberal.
Mike Myers with the New York Civil Rights Coalition, I've known him for years, and he's just a good friend of mine.
He's a terrific writer and an incredibly supportive friend of mine.
And when other people are out there attacking me, sending me notes telling me to keep my head up and don't take their crap and to fight back harder, I always love the friends that tell me, no, don't stop.
Just hit them back harder.
And you're one of them.
How are you doing?
And you were listening just now, me attacking the incendiary rhetoric of the left.
And this is something you have said about what you think is your side.
I argue you're not the liberal you think you are.
I am a liberal.
These people on the left, these crazy lunatics, these anti-Trumpsters, they are not liberal.
They are anti-liberal.
People who believe in civil rights, who believe in due process, who believe in government are not the people who you think are on my side.
I think you are absolutely necessary.
But the mistake that Donald Trump has made is he has not immediately drained that swamp.
I agree with you.
Jeff Sessions was absolutely right when he responded in his hearing.
He said, this is like Alice in Wonderland looking through the glass.
By the way, I have some breaking news.
Mike Myers is with us, New York Civil Rights Coalition.
It's been rumored all day the Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein sees no reason to recuse himself from the Russian probe Justice Department now says, so that's not going to happen today.
Also, rumors running out there that the president probably played everybody on the issue of, well, he better not lie.
There might be tapes out there.
And I know Trump and I've known him for years.
I never believed it for a second.
But apparently there's a very, very justifiable reason for his comments, and we'll find out later today.
But anyway, go ahead.
Yeah, my point is that this investigation, whatever you call it, I just find it to be unbelievable.
This is worse than Warner K. First of all, I don't know any crimes that have been committed.
Where are the crimes?
Why is the special counsel hiring Clinton people?
I don't understand it.
He is the best friend.
You're Greg Jarrett from Fox News Channel.
I wrote the best article column.
How can you have Mulich, the best friend of Comey, who is Trump's accuser, be the special counsel?
How come he hasn't recused himself?
How can Jeff Sessions recuse himself on little to nothing?
And then this guy named the Deputy Attorney General allow this stuff to go on in his name, allow the leaks.
Nobody's being fired.
The Deputy Attorney General has to be fired because he has to take charge of this investigation.
This investigation has gone too far now.
Now they even bring in the taxes that they couldn't get because President Trump will not give out his taxes.
Now the special counsel wants the taxes?
What the heck is going on here?
Are you surprised at the extent that we both agree on the deep state?
I mean, listen, remember this girl.
I am not surprised because you and I, I think you're a liberal.
A real liberal.
But wait a minute, but we believe in civil rights.
You know, I believe that we need intelligence desperately because this is an evil world we live in.
I mean, the world of ISIS, the world of radical Islamic terrorism.
Absolutely.
You know, where the Iranians want nukes and the North Koreans are insane.
And we both believe in borders.
Of course.
We both believe in national security.
Absolutely.
And we don't understand these courts that keep interfering with the president and the congressional power.
You do understand immigration.
Because there is, look, we have these activist courts and they go judge shopping.
You get it.
I get it.
Right.
They're crazies.
But what about the weaponizing of the intelligence community, which so upsets me?
Right.
Because I know it's not this minnow woman contractor down on Augusta, Georgia.
Listen, she shouldn't have had that security clearance based on her public comments.
What disturbs me even more, Sean, is where is the American Civil Liberties Union?
They're always concerned about government surveillance, but they don't seem to be concerned about the surveillance that is going on now.
Are you following, and do you strongly agree with me that what happened to General Flynn?
It's incontrovertible, was a violation of the Espionage Act of felony.
But more importantly, when we're now going to stampede on the Fourth Amendment and the Constitution, and we're going to spy on Americans, or, by the way, if they're just doing their job in the intelligence community, which we desperately need, and the 99% that abide by and respect the tools and weaponry of intelligence and would never consider leaking or unmasking intelligence, but it has to be to me at the top.
It has to be my biggest suspicion is Brennan.
My next biggest suspicion is Clapper.
My next biggest suspicion is Valerie Jarrett and Ben Rhodes.
I agree with you on the spend.
I don't understand how they can have these investigations of so-called Trump assurance, and there's no investigation of Comey and Lynch and Hillary Clinton.
I don't get it.
How about Lynch?
I do get it.
You know what this is.
This is the continuation.
You know, I was the last time I was on your TV show.
I couldn't wait for the Electoral College to meet.
Because remember, the first was to change the Electoral College vote to make sure that Trump was not elected president.
But they got nowhere there.
So now they are full, full-blown attempt to impeach and remove.
And you do not have the Republicans with any backbone.
You have the mealy-mouthed Republicans.
They're in the Republican Senate, and they're all anti-Trump.
Did you look at the case of Lynch and the meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac?
Then it's not an investigation.
We'll just call it a matter.
And then it's Sarah Carter and John Solomon's piece that she had already decided, no matter what the evidence showed, she's going to put the kibosh on any type of indictment against Hillary Clinton.
No investigation, no obstruction there.
Does anybody with a brain have any doubt that Hillary committed multiple felonies?
I don't think so, but again, she's off the hook.
Well, Sean, that's why you are so absolutely necessary and the only one on TV that I can find in terms of relevance.
And your monologues every night have been excellent.
Your radio show is absolutely relevant and urgent.
And the mass media, I must tell you, I watch them just to listen to what they're saying.
And they are so biased.
It's just intolerable.
What do you think?
This is an important question.
I call it the destroy Trump media.
And I've been watching in particular CNN.
Oh, my gosh, the level of bias is insane.
Or the Washington Post.
Can you imagine being as wrong as often with unnamed sources as they have been?
And even this week, you know, it looks like now we have Mueller's own, you know, own investigation leaking from the get-go.
Right.
The special counsel.
And then you got Rachel Maddow.
I mean, I don't have anything against Maddow.
I never watched her show, to be honest, except for the big tax return night, which turned out to be a Capone's Volt moment.
But, you know, now only in a Rolling Stone interview, I absolutely believe it's possible Trump did not collude with Russia.
How many months of coverage of saying that and implying that have gone on?
Yeah, but there's no conclusion, but the investigation goes on.
Why?
What is Jeff Sessions waiting for?
He recused himself, which I think was a good idea.
He doesn't have to recuse himself as he has admitted.
He hasn't accused himself with managing the department and managing the agency.
Now, if no one else fires the Deputy Attorney General, who seems to have fallen over, Sessions has got to fire the Deputy Attorney General.
Okay, that happens, and you know how it's going to be reported.
This is going to be a Saturday Night Massacre.
It's not going to happen.
If the Republicans are going to impeach Trump, they're going to impeach him sooner or later.
But you cannot have an impeachment unless the Republicans vote for impeachment.
Even Alan Dershowitz, years ago, during the Clinton.
Alan Dershowitz is right.
Alan Dershowitz is right.
By the way, not only is he.
Listen, Alan Dershowitz and I had a knockdown, drag-out, mean-spirited fight that went on for like six months over Clinton impeachment.
And I actually regret parts of it at this point in my career.
I'm a little older and a little more mature.
And I'm reading his stuff and reading his Twitter and reading his.
He's been putting out these articles.
I'm saying, man.
He is so right on every point, but there's like three liberals, him, you, and Jonathan Turley, that speak out, and every other one takes the incendiary rhetoric.
Do you think this rhetoric contributed to this birdie guy going on this assassination attempt against these Republicans, or is that a stretch?
I have no idea except that what happens happens.
And I think the level of turmoil in this country, the rhetoric, the anger, the viciousness, the politics of personal destruction, it's a climate, it's a culture.
And you're right, by the way.
So that kumbaya attitude and mood.
That's all phony.
I was the only one last night that didn't fall.
I did not fall for it.
Yeah, I know you didn't.
You were right.
Yeah, and by the way, I got the crap kicked out of me as usual, Michael.
By whom?
By everybody.
I mean, I got the crap kicked out of me now more at this point in my career than ever.
It was that kumbaya, so phony.
It was so phony.
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of these phony liberals.
I love Aaron Zerchi, he's a principled liberal.
Michael Myers, New York Civil Rights Coalition.
And, you know, you've been such a good friend to me.
I want to pause.
No, no, no.
I want to publicly say thank you.
Keep it going.
All right, my friend.
I will.
I'm not stopping.
Listen, they have to drag the microphone on camera right out of my face.
And then I'll just get two Dixie cups and a bottle of wine.
And 3 a.m. I'll be on the air talking to myself.
I loaded up today.
When we come back, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, he weighs in on the hate, the vitriol, the assassination attempt against Republicans, about recusal about the deep state.
We'll get to all of that.
Katie Hopkins, the gaubby one, shall join us.
And then we've got all the other news of the day, our news roundup information overload, and our Florida, Georgia Line Friday concert series continues.
Put a little smile on your face later in the program because God knows we need it.
All right, we'll take a quick break.
We'll come back.
Yeah, I'm working tonight on Hannity.
about that coming up, too.
It is a weird tension.
I think we're at 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.
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.
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?
That was pretty good.
I might have to put Mr. Burgess on Fox News.
I'll put Mr. Burgess up against Sean Hannity.
He'll tear him up.
I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors.
I want you to talk to them whether they're independent or whether they are Republican.
I want you to argue with them and get in their face.
Press always ask 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.
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.
This is a death panel bill because people will die.
This is deadly.
This is deadly.
You can't stand it.
I am the most honest man I've ever seen.
Your president is a dishonorable lying man.
Ordinary people who simply saw what needed to be done and came together and supported those ideals who have made the difference.
They've marched.
They've bled.
Yes, some of them have died.
This is hard.
Every good thing is.
We have done this before.
We can do this again.
I don't respect this president.
I don't trust this president.
He's not working in the best interests of the American people.
His motives and his actions are contemptible.
And I will fight every day until he is impeached.
Impeached 45.
Impeached 45.
As far as I'm concerned, the Tea Potter can go straight to hell.
In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's holster.
Oh, Ivanka's going to be our saving grace, you know, when he's about to nuke Finland or something.
She's going to walk into the bedroom and, you know, yeah, Daddy.
Daddy.
Don't do it, Daddy.
I mean, he's so blatantly stupid.
He's a punk.
He's a dog.
He's a pig.
He's a con, a bull artist, a mutt who doesn't know what he's talking about, doesn't do his homework, doesn't care, thinks he's gaming society, doesn't pay his taxes.
He's an idiot, Colin Powell said at best.
He's a national disaster.
He's an embarrassment to this country.
It makes me so angry that this country has gotten to this point, that this fool, this bozo, has wound up where he has.
He talks how he wants to punch people in the face.
Well, I'd like to punch him in the face.
And I might just kill ISIS with the same ice pig that I murdered Donald Trump in the same night with.
Which enemy are you most proud of?
Probably the Republicans.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity's show, 800 941 Sean.
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And of course, he writes fiction and nonfiction.
This is the real story about the man that was able to beat 16 other Republicans, governors, and senators and people with greater name recognition and the most unconventional politician in our lifetime and why he remained successful and was able to win the presidency.
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Oh, that's awesome.
I've never, is this the biggest book so far launch you've ever had?
The biggest except for True Renew America, which came right after I was speaker.
But this one may rival that.
It's really on a roll right now.
Yeah, no, I understand.
Let me ask you this.
I just played all the vitriol, all the hate.
And by the way, I can spend a whole week, three hours a day, all day, playing the left's hatred and vitriol, and culminating, of course, with the assassination attempt against all of these Republican congressmen and senators.
And do you think the rhetoric, the hatred, the vitriol, the conspiracy theory advancement, the undermining of President Trump, which all of it, has it contributed to an atmosphere that sets off crazy people, or do you just have to blame them?
Oh, absolutely.
I just talked to the College Republican National Convention, and about a third of the students reported about the tension on their campus.
One young lady was actually suspended from her sorority for being a Trump supporter.
I mean, just a level of hostility across the whole system, and it has consequences.
I mean, we have to be aware of that.
Again, I don't blame them for what happened this week because I think when you have a guy who picks up a gun and goes out, he is responsible.
He's the one we should punish.
And he's the guy who's crazy.
But I certainly think the underlying pattern of tension and of potential violence is very deep and it's very real.
And it's something I experience when I go out and I speak on campuses.
And then I ask students to tell me about their experiences.
It's a real challenge.
Well, it's deeper than that.
I mean, because then you got the conspiracy theories.
I mean, I watched, I saw this today, and it was, I guess, when maybe it was after Comey in the middle of the hearings.
And then I read an article today.
Rachel Maddow concludes that there's a possibility there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
And I'm like, oh, here we go.
Black helicopter conspiracy theorist, the leading tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist in the country without any evidence at all whatsoever has been advancing this crap.
And now all of a sudden, well, there's just a slight possibility there is no Trump-Russia collusion.
Now, I thought the most amazing example of that was immediately after Columbia was done, Chris Matthews, to his credit, said no reasonable person can believe in collusion after this testimony.
Now, for Matthews to say that, I thought was pretty historic.
Well, he played it the second after he said it, and I didn't know if it was a moment of just sanity that crept into his life for a second, but he's right.
There is no evidence.
And I sense now that the left is ever so slowly trying to backfire.
You know, once, you know, look at the Washington Post this week.
Once they found out there's, okay, no Trump investigation, there's no evidence of collusion, there's no evidence of obstruction because the president, clearly, even according to Comey, encouraged the investigation to move forward.
And he also encouraged to go, you know, that he would investigate even the satellites around him.
So there's no evidence there.
So what does the Washington Post do?
The same people proven wrong multiple times in just the last couple of weeks when they said, oh, just before Comey's fired, he wanted more money.
And Rosenstein, oh, by the way, in his case, he never said what they said he said, which is that he threatened to quit.
He went on an interview and said just the opposite.
So now they come out with two articles, two nights in a row, one against Jared, quote, collateral damage, and one against, you know, the president himself, that the special counsel is investigating both of them, but they have no sources at all.
Right.
And Rosenstein comes out and says, nobody should believe these on-source stories.
By the way, I did my newsletter today at Gingrich Productions, which is available for free, on Attorney General Sessions as a study in courage.
If you look at his testimony, it is a case study in what Republicans ought to be like.
He is direct.
He is tough.
He's emotional when appropriate.
He doesn't take anything off the Democrats.
It's a remarkable testimony and is really what if every Republican were as determined and as tough as Jeff Sessions was in his appearance, we'd be in dramatically better shape right now.
Totally agree with you.
Let me, in the context of you writing understanding Trump, can you explain the most hostile, vitriolic, negative reaction?
I mean, it is almost a pack mentality against the president, and include in that your analysis of the deep state, and that is our intelligence community leaking against him.
Can I just insert one quick thing because it's a personal thing?
Yeah.
The president today in Miami took a personal friend of Clista and me, Luis Haza, and his wife Dana, had Luis up on the stage.
Luis was a child prodigy who refused to play for Fidel when Fidel physically went into their home and said, you will play for me.
Play something.
He played the Star Spangled Banner.
He was eight years old.
At eight years of age, he had the guts to stand there in front of the dictator.
His father was killed by Raoul.
He can't go back to Cuba because they'd never let him go again.
And then the president brought him up on stage, told this amazing story of courage, and then asked him to play the Star-Spangled Banner on his violin.
He was first violin at the National Orchestra.
He's a very close friend of ours.
I married somebody who worked for me for years at Dana Hazel.
I just had to get that in.
No.
It's such an emotional and such a powerful story.
Now, let's talk about the deep state, which is obvious.
I mean, 97% of the money given by employees at the Justice Department go to Hillary.
99% at the State Department go to Hillary.
The first four people hired by Mueller are all Democratic donors, one of whom actually defended the Clinton Foundation Against Freedom of Information Act requests.
I mean, give me a break.
You know, people want us to be so stupid that if a herd of elephants runs through our living room, crushes everything, we're supposed to go, gee, I wonder if we had a party.
No, these people are our opponents.
And I'll tell you what I believe is the real cause of this.
At 8 o'clock on election night, everyone on the left was prepared to win.
And they were then going to finish imposing left-wing radical values through the courts and through the bureaucracies.
They were salivating.
They were happy.
Three hours later, they were in the worst of all worlds.
They hadn't lost to a moderate establishment Republican.
They'd lost to Donald J. Trump.
And I think the trauma of those three hours was so decisive that they've never recovered.
And at the level of hatred that they feel, and it's hatred.
The level of hatred they feel, which is virtually deranged.
I want to pick it up there at how this plays out, this level of hatred.
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And I know a lot of people are showing up at your book signings, which is terrific for you.
One of your best-selling books of all time.
And I want to ask this question.
This is important.
So you talk about the madness of the left, and at 11 o'clock on November 8th, Election Day, they don't get over it.
And now you've got a deep state conspiracy, and now you've got a special counsel leaking information with conflicts of interest, hiring Hillary Clinton lawyers and Clinton and Obama donors to investigate the president and his family.
I can't think of anything more inherently corrupt or conflicting than this.
And in the case of Rosenstein, he sees it.
In the case of Mueller, he's still there.
Well, look, I think that's exactly right.
When you recognize that this is a pattern, Comey, under Bush, appointed the godfather to his children, Patrick Fitzgerald, to be an independent counselor, a special counsel, at a time when they knew that there was no crime committed in the Valerie Klain case because she was not a protected agent at that time.
And they knew who had leaked her name, Richard Armitage's state.
Even though they knew those two things, he appointed the godfather of his children, who ran amok because his goal was to get Dick Cheney.
And in the end, he did tremendous damage, cost people a lot of money, and put basically totally innocent guy in jail.
It's a horrendous story.
So when I watch Mueller, and I really turn totally, I thought Mueller was fine when they first named him.
But the minute that Comey testified with enormous arrogance that he had deliberately leaked through a college professor in order, this is his words, not mine, in order to get a special counsel appointed, and the special counsel is his good friend, who, by the way, under professional rules of justice, would have to recuse himself in investigating Comey.
I mean, this is crazy.
And that's the point on which I said.
But everybody in the media is like hyper-ventilating, okay, if Trump fires him, this is Watergate and a Saturday night massacre.
Right.
And that's because everybody in the media has totally sold out to the left.
Not everybody, but 80% of the media is sold out to the left.
And you have to assume automatically that this is the attack media.
It's not the news media.
I've said over and over again: if I were Trump, I would kick CNN out of the White House.
The idea that they got a 93% negative story rating from Harvard, why would you let somebody into your house who is 93% of the time attacking you?
You know, and I think we ought to understand this.
The amazing thing about Trump's favorables, he right now is about 41, 42% favorable.
The amazing thing is that's after everything they've tried to do to him.
I mean, the unending negative coverage, and over four every 10 Americans just shrug it off, and they're getting madder about it.
People walk up to me everywhere and thank me for speaking out.
I'm really amazed.
I get the same thing.
I really do.
And then, man, we also, they want to silence you and me too, by the way.
Just a little side note.
They'd like to shut you up and me up at the same time.
Maybe we'll go start a, you know, we'll get a bottle of wine and two Dixie cups if we get fired.
Well, no, look, look, if they shut me up, I'm just going to go and become a monk and sit on a mountaintop and come back.
Oh, yeah.
Same with me.
That's my future.
They wouldn't even accept me.
They'd throw me out.
They're not going to shut us up.
This is a free society still.
I'm prepared to stand and fight for this country as long as it takes.
Me too.
God bless you.
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We'll take a quick break.
The gobby one, Katie Hopkins, is next.
And we're going to look at the vitriol of the left in our news roundup information overload hour with the MediaEqualizer.com group, Melanie Morgan, and Brian Maloney.
Straight ahead.
Hi, 25 till the top of the hour, toll-free telephone number is 800-941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
She's become one of our favorite guests.
We have a regular segment now.
She's with the UK Daily Mail.
Now, we have an agreement whenever the gobby one, Katie Hopkins, is on the lawn that we shall have, there's no such thing as political correctness.
She can call me darling and sweetie pie and cutie pie.
And this is like a no PC zone because you're like the most politically incorrect person, but not in a vile, mean, vicious way.
I mean, you've never held up a, held an ISIS-style pose with a severed head of an elected leader, right?
I mean, you're not, political incorrectness is not vile hatred in your part.
No, not for me.
It's all about just saying exactly what I think, sort of articulating exactly how I feel.
And then if there's consequences for that, the things I say, then I absolutely accept those consequences.
But I do think some things these days just need to be said.
You know, between you, Nigel Farage, and people are going to be stunned because I competed against this guy for years, although I never disliked him.
And that's Piers Morgan of become my three favorite Brits.
Did you see when Piers went out there and tore up Anderson Cooper for not being loyal to his friend?
I mean, look, if you do something politically incorrect, I'm probably going to say, Katie, come on, be smarter than that.
But I'm not going to go out publicly and trash you.
I just, that's not how I roll.
Unless it's something.
I just think.
Yeah, no, Piers is doing such a great job at the moment.
I really feel here in the UK, Piers' popularity, I would say, has never been greater, which is a fantastic thing.
And also, Sean, one of the products you were talking about last time we chatted, which was like the tighty whitey pants, I told Piers, you told me to tell him you would send him some pants, and I told him that I'd ordered him a size small.
He was quite impacted by the – oh, man, he's going to hate me.
And the funny thing is, you know, it's sort of like if I went over to your country and I started talking about, you know, the monarchy, which I've got to be honest, maybe I'm one of the few Americans that are not as fascinated with the queen and, of course, the princes and who they're dating and who they're marrying and who they might have spent the night with, which is an obsession of the British population.
But if I did go on radio or television there and night after night, you know, started hammering away at it as an American, I got to imagine the people of Great Britain would tell me to go back home.
That's right.
And they would.
And last night for my sins at a work leaving party, I was in the nightclub that Prince Harry goes to with his horrible fiancée, Megan Markle.
And I can tell you.
Why is she horrible?
Well, I mean, really, it's just all too much.
There's too many boobs and bums going on for my liking in one individual.
She's just not regal enough for my liking.
But anywho, I can tell you in that club, I have never seen such a bunch of useless individuals in my entire life.
And if that's the people he's mixing with, I've got a few.
I had a few things to say to them last night.
But certainly with Piers, at least you can say, look, he doesn't, you know, support the use of guns or the ownership of guns.
I'm personally a massive gun supporter, but at least Piers has, he's authentic.
He has integrity, and that's something we're sorely lacking in politicians these days.
Yeah, well, listen, I got to tell you, it's good for you.
All right, now, because you have a regular segment on the program, we've got three options for you that we want you to choose from in terms of our special gobby one, Katie Hopkins' introduction to the Sean Hannity.
Does anybody in Great Britain ever listen to my show that has come up to you and said, by the way, I heard you're on Hannity's radio show?
No, that's never happened.
No, of course.
I get a lot of stuff on Twitter saying that they're glad that I'm on your show because I'm a good voice of reason against you because you're clearly an utter lunatic.
And people say, look, it's nice to have a bit of a female balance with Hannity on the show.
And people are really kind about me, actually.
Thank you very much, sir.
I think you're more loved in America than you are Great Britain, to be perfectly frank, after all the garbage I read about you.
That suits me mighty fine because America has Donald Trump and all we have is a mayor and Theresa May.
So I think you are much better off being American and I celebrate all you great American people.
Here are three options for your spot of tea in the meantime.
Go ahead.
Option one.
Well, that's a no for sure.
That makes me sound like I wear talcum powder on my lady part with not having that.
Oh my gosh.
Here's option two.
Go ahead.
What did you think of that one?
I say fantastic.
I just had a little march around my kitchen island.
You will remember I went to Sandhurst and that is one of the pieces of music they play on the Drill Square.
So I'm loving that.
All right, option number.
Well, I'm going to add a fourth one.
Option number three.
This is going to...
Dreadful. Dreadful.
That sounds like my children doing their recorder practice.
No.
By the way, so my kids had to practice instruments.
My son, for years, I don't know what the stupid thing that he was playing is.
This is how it sounded.
And the teacher says, bring it home and practice.
And I'm like, I'll pay you not to practice in my house.
Get out of here with that.
And it drove my son nuts that I would.
That's not that bad.
I don't.
I don't allow it.
So my son really, really wants to play the trumpet.
And he's 18.
That's what I was saying.
And I lied to him that the trumpet teacher was too poorly that she wasn't doing lessons anymore.
I don't have a trumpet in my house.
I don't want drums.
I don't want a violin.
I don't want a piano.
I want pieces.
I've got a violinist, but I used to play the violin too, Sean, actually.
But I don't.
Yeah, so I just want to play it.
We actually call that where I come from, the fiddle.
All right, let me play it.
Now, this is more Hannity music style music.
And we'll play a little, it's Friday, and we do this little Florida Georgia Line Friday concert series.
I'll do it in the next hour, but this is what I might recommend for you.
Let's hit it.
Mix tapes, got a little hang, little drake, a little something, thumping, thumb, thumping on the wheel.
Right, the mix and I drink a little stronger than you think.
Stronger than you think.
Hang on, jack it up.
Where the party's at.
This is how we do.
We're marching down the mouth, shooting bullets at the people.
All right, I do.
All right, which one do you choose?
One or two, three, or four?
Well, we're certainly not choosing four because that is not British at all.
We are trying to be a little bit British.
So we're going with option two because then I can march around as I'm preparing to talk to you and you can have that.
Why don't you like number four?
Number four is the best one by far.
Yes, but this is the gobby one segment, not me.
He's sitting along on his own segment.
How did you ever come up with the gobby?
How did we come up with the gobby one?
Linda, do you remember?
I don't remember.
No, she said it in a segment and then she was like, I'm very gobby.
And you were like, what's gobby?
I said, what's gobby?
That's exactly.
And now when I'm on Twitter, I go, I'll be joining Sean Hammery.
The gobby one will be joining on like a weird thing.
Well, just so you know, Kevin, that's how he talks about you all week.
So there's a good reason for that.
It's spreading.
No, it's spreading.
I agree.
By the way, if you haven't gotten into trouble lately at home, have you?
Because every time I check in at any British newspaper, I'm like, oh, gosh, what'd you do now?
What'd you do now?
I know.
You would think that.
But literally, I'm just this kind of woman with kids that's just a regular woman.
But the bloats can't handle it because I have a voice and because people kind of like the stuff I say and they don't know how to shut me up and they can't shut me up and it makes them really cross.
Well, they do.
I mean, are you watching everything that's been going on?
And I have one serious question.
Can you believe this is the world we live in and all the rhetoric and hate and vitriol and just vile nature of attacks against the president of the United States from within his own country?
I can't even bear it.
I've been, you know, I've been doing my little, trying to be doing my bit, so I've been lobbying against these idiots that are putting up money to sponsor the, you know, the theater where Trump is kind of, you know, Julius Caesar is Trump and he's kind of assaulted on stage.
I mean, for goodness sake, it's just nonsense.
And then you have that poor lovely Republican gun down.
It breaks my heart.
It really does.
Also, I should probably tell you as well, Sean, while we're talking in the UK, some of you will have seen, I suspect, the large tower block fire.
Did you see the fire in a towering?
While it was happening, I was doing my show live on Hannity.
And here's what disturbed me about that.
How did they possibly have blazing flames on every floor?
Every single floor.
Now, fire maybe starts on floor nine or twenty-two or eighteen or three.
It doesn't spread like that.
There's something not right here.
Yeah, so as we speak now, because of the anger, because the death toll, the official number is currently 17.
But having been there, spoken to the locals, and having looked at the numbers in that building, they think the number of dead may rise as high as 200.
And they now have a problem with riots.
So there is a mass protest going on.
And I predict later this evening that will turn nasty, that will turn violent, and people will start rioting because they don't have answers.
And there is a big difference, as you'll appreciate, between 200.
Do you share my suspicion about every floor blazing flames like that?
Well, I mean, what it is, is this cladding.
They put this stuff on the outside of the building to make it look prettier so that when the posh people were looking, it didn't offend their eyes so much.
It turns out they used the cheap cladding.
And so after the fire started, it whipped up this cladding up the outside and turned the whole building into a kind of massive Chinese light.
Seriously, in the year 2017, they don't have enough sense not to do something that's stupid.
Right, and they only had one stairwell, Sean.
So 27 floors, over 600 people, one stairwell, no sprinklers, no alarm.
God help us.
The stupidity.
All right, stay right there.
The Gobby One, Katie Hopkins, is with us.
We've got music that can only mean one thing.
The gobby one, Katie Hawkins, our friend from Great Britain, has chosen horrible music as her introductory music here.
Do you like any other music like American music, pop music?
You don't like Madonna.
God, you know, Madonna goes to, lives in Great Britain a few years, and she gets that pretentious British accent that is phony.
There's such a difference between a real one and a phony one.
Did people in Great Britain pick up on that?
Yeah, I mean, it's terrible.
And then she also thought she would be like, she bought into this idea of being kind of the landed gentry, you know, the shooting set that we're part of in the countryside.
So she went and bought all the stuff, all the tweeds, all the silly little knickerbocker trousers that we wear when we go shooting, and she thought she would be part of that as well.
Whereas actually, in reality, she still just looked like a bit of an American hooker that didn't really belong in the countryside.
So that's the truth.
But listen, I got to tell you something.
You know, Madonna, and she's now, how do you even say this?
She still thinks that she is doing, you know, like a virgin again.
I mean, and you see her, and she's so grotesque.
Did you see that written speech, her reading?
And I dream an awful lot about blowing up the lighthouse.
I mean, why didn't they arrest her?
She was so ridiculous.
I was there.
You know, I was there for those marches because I went to go and laugh at them.
And, you know, the speeches they gave, this one woman, this idiotic woman with that stupid hat, she took to the stage and she went, you are we and we are you.
And the crowd went mad.
And I just looked at these women and thought, you are actually psychopathic.
If that's the sort of speech that sends you delirious, because they're saying absolutely nothing.
But no, I'm not a fan of Madonna at all, but I do love my new music there.
And you can hear, if you listen carefully, the drill sergeant shouting.
And the drill sergeant I used to have, my teeth stick out a little bit, and he used to yell across the parade square, Hopkins, you could eat an apple through a tennis racket.
Your teeth away.
That's so funny.
How old are your children?
How old are your kids?
My poor kids are 12 and 11 and 8 years old.
So the 12-year-old is really sensible, and she'll be fine and she'll do fine.
The 11-year-old is just like me.
She'll be in trouble.
I will pick her up from the police station by the time she's 15 and she'll be pregnant.
Well, I first got taken home by the police in first grade.
You're a lovely bright of sunshine in a very dark world, and your irreverence and how politically correct you are is an inspiration.
We love the fact that you get in trouble almost daily.
It cracks us up.
And you have a home here in America if you need one.
And maybe I ought to let you.
You know, this is the most dangerous thing I'm about to say.
Maybe you could fill in one day, but we'd have to tape the show.
Because I'm just assuming the 40 delays we have won't be enough for you.
No, we would need like a team of 18 crack people on the dump button.
We would need like eight-hour delay, and we would also probably need someone with a taser gun stood near my head.
That's what, by the way, Linda's the taser gun.
You know, every time I'm starting to go off track or do something wrong, or say, in my ears, my ears are the most sensitive part of my body.
30 years in radio, I'm deaf.
And she'll scream and stop.
I'm like, like now, when you're over, stop.
God help me.
All right.
Katie Hopkins, the globby one from Great Britain, the biggest troublemaker in the country.
Thanks for being with us.
It is a weird tension.
I think we're at 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 a guy who wants to kill us.
And to our detractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything.
You.
You.
Yes.
I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
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?
I'll put Mr. Burgess up against Sean Hannity.
He'll tear him up.
I want you to argue with him and get in their faces.
Press always ask 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.
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.
You can't stand it.
I am going to see my life.
The president is a dishonorable, lying man.
Ordinary people who simply saw what needed to be done and came together and supported those ideals who have made the difference.
They've marched.
They've bled.
Yes, some of them have died.
We have done this before.
We can do this again.
I don't respect this president.
I don't trust this president.
He's not working in the best interests of the American people.
His motives and his actions are contemporary.
And I will fight every day until he is impeached.
Impeached 45.
Impeached 45.
As far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's holster.
I'd like to punch him in the face.
Which enemy are you most proud of?
Probably the Republicans.
Steve Scalise took a bullet for all of us.
And because of him and the tremendous pain and suffering he's now enduring, and he's having a hard time.
Far worse than anybody thought, our country will perhaps become closer, more unified.
All right, news roundup, information overload here on a Friday.
And yeah, well, I'm not buying the kumbaya.
Let's get along.
Let's hold hands.
Everything's fine.
Nothing's happened.
The vitriol, vile hatred, rhetoric, the ISIS poses with severed bloody heads of President Trump and all the other instances, Shakespeare in the park, tax dollars, killing Trump lookalikes.
And, oh, let's talk about incest with the president and the first daughter.
And let's call the first lady of the United States, say she was once a hooker.
And let's forget that he has an 11-year-old son.
And then we'll have real experts like Rosie O'Donnell, you know, diagnosing him on TV because he's tired at 3 o'clock in the freaking morning.
And like every 10-year-old kid at the time would be.
And let's just say anything we can.
And then, by the way, let the media lie.
Let the media call them racist regularly.
Let the media go out there with black helicopter theories and conspiracy theories and tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.
And then let's say, oh, none of this at all in any way is creating an atmosphere like lunatics that went on a rampage trying to assassinate Republicans at a ball field two days ago.
You know, let's act like that didn't happen.
Let's just have the baseball game and we'll hug and we'll sing patriotic songs and we'll all feel better and it'll all go away.
And we'll just forget everything that happened.
I'm not going there.
And joining us now, we've told you about this new group and it's amazing the impact that they are having in a very short period of time.
And it is the MediaEqualizer.com project, the Media Equality Project.
And it was founded by two people I've known for many years, Melanie Morgan, a former television and radio host, and Brian Maloney, former writer and radio host in his own right.
And they have a new Twitter sign.
It's called Stop the Scalpings.
And they're fighting fire with fire.
And really, it was designed.
You know, I didn't know this group was designed until how many weeks later did I call you guys and say, wow, I didn't know you were out there defending me.
Thank you.
It was a number of people.
Well, thank you, first of all, Sean, for what you're doing every day.
But we started rolling on this.
It was April 26th, and it was several weeks after that.
And I know it caught you by surprise, and you're going, wait, wait, what's happening here?
First of all, let me just say, I have this opportunity on your fantastic show to offer my prayers for Congressman Scalees and the four other victims of that horrible, horrible shooting in Alexandria.
He's been in trouble.
He's been fighting for his life, Melanie.
This guy.
I know.
It was a mass assassination attempt because of their political beliefs.
Sean, we on the right have been targeted because of our political beliefs.
And we're asking with our new organization, Stop the Scalpings, to fight back with our words rather than fearing for our lives.
And unfortunately, all too often, you know, we are busy.
Conservatives are working hard.
We have jobs.
We're too polite.
We don't want to get involved.
But there is a tipping point in this country because the left, like Media Matters for America, they're going after on-air hosts like you, Sean, who I've known for almost 20 years.
They're going after people like me.
I was targeted by the same advertiser boycotts.
But it's time for us to fight fire with fire and flip it on them.
Well, it's also they've been successful.
I mean, they've gone after Rush.
They've gone after O'Reilly.
They've gone after Beck.
They've gone after Dr. Laura.
They went after Imus.
Interestingly, Imus apologized for his instance, right?
Then he goes, even when he's fired, sincerely goes and met for a number of hours, if I recall correctly, with the women over at the Rutgers basketball team.
And he talked at length at how it changed his life.
By the way, how different is that?
Or is it different in any way, except this group didn't go after Bill Maher and didn't go after HBO and didn't demand a fire?
They never, ever, they never said a word about CNN and Kathy Griffith and the ISIS pose.
You know, they're not out there saying, oh, my God, stop the Shakespeare in the Park nightly assassinations of the president.
They've never talked about this Clinton Soros 501c3 group that's supposed to be non-political, Brian.
Well, that's exactly right, Sean, and thanks so much today.
And that's exactly the reason why we began the media equality project, Stop the Scalpings and MediaEqualizer.com, was simply that there has been this gotcha game going on for quite some time.
And I love the way you framed this at the beginning of the segment a few minutes ago because you really tied together everything in a way that others are not.
What happened in Alexandria is the culmination of everything they've been out there doing.
Their rhetoric, their actions, that resulted in what happened.
And I think that the media is going out of their way to not tie it together.
And Republicans have been too timid to make the connections themselves.
Like you said, the Kumbaya thing, we all need to hug.
And that is exactly the wrong approach.
What we need to do instead is say, enough is enough.
We as conservatives are now fighting back.
And we're doing so in a simple manner.
And we're doing it in a respectful tone.
And we're being successful.
And that's what's new.
Well, what they have done is they have isolated, marginalized, and they go after people one at a time.
And I'll be honest, I don't think but for you guys having been there, and I really don't believe that without my audience having responded, immediately I saw it, and I know it for what it is, knowing what these people are about for all these years.
And I went to my radio and television audience and said, all right, here's what's happening.
This is the truth.
This is real.
And they, it had a very humbling impact on me.
This has had an impact on me in terms of, I feel the microphone I have here every day, the camera I have each night is a gift.
I've always known it, but now I know it and have even a deeper appreciation for it.
And what's amazing is I loved how you guys did this.
You said, okay, we're not boycotting you.
We're only doing the same thing you're doing, all these other people, to silence their voices.
Because you've heard me over the years.
You know I don't support boycotts.
I don't want people fired.
Even that idiot Reza, I said, I don't think you should have been fired.
I'm not calling for Colbert's head.
I ran into Colbert's executive producer at a dinner I was at the other night, and he knew all about me standing for him.
And I thought, when are you ever going to take a stand for a conservative?
That's a good question.
But you know what?
It's time.
It's way past time.
For those of us on the right to fight fire with fire and that, it's exactly what we've done.
We are copying the same technique that organizations, 501c3s, that aren't supposed to be engaged in political activities like Media Matters for America aren't engaging in.
So what we're doing is we're educating the public about how they are supporting people who support hate speech.
And you know what is really frightening?
It's working, and the left hates that.
And we know that because they're attacking us right and left, spreading lies about you, about me, about Brian, about everybody.
They're throwing the kitchen sink at us.
That's how we know we're winning.
You guys stay right there.
But I've been warning my audience for years.
Every minute, every second, every day, every conservative radio TV is being taped.
Paid.
This is their job.
They are paid well to tape and monitor and find the sentence, the word, the phrase that is deemed politically incorrect that they can then silence voices by attacking advertisers.
All right, more with Melanie Morgan and Brian Maloney.
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As we continue, there is a new organization to combat the concerted, well-funded, well-organized efforts to silence conservative voices.
Sad that this is now what the modern left has become.
You know, I've noticed that the amount of dedication, research, information you've put out, now you've decided to expose this Clinton-Soros group itself, but you've decided to do a very slow roll on information.
And Linda shared some of it with me.
I am beyond shocked that these people that have been attacking conservatives for words are far more guilty than any prominent conservative they attack in terms of what I would view as anti-Semitism, virulent anti-transvestite attacks and gay attacks and so-called jokes that aren't funny and racist comments.
I mean, it took my breath away.
It really does, Sean.
And the thing about this is that the left has a nasty habit of looking the other way when one of their own steps out of line.
And we've seen this for many years.
I mean, I remember Rosie O'Donnell when she made a comment about the people in China that about, and this has happened dozens, if not hundreds of times, these things get swept under the rug.
You're absolutely right about the slow rollout that we've been doing at MediaEquilexer.com.
Essentially what we're doing here, we don't want to overload people.
And I think that this is a good approach.
People, you know, it gives people time to absorb what we're doing, and we're enjoying this.
But what we're finding, the more we investigate Media Matters and what they're up to, we're finding that they're not only doing all kinds of terrible things here in this country, but they're meddling in foreign countries all around the world in their elections, in their governments, in the strangest places you could ever imagine.
Let me ask this.
And at the end of this, which I guess is going to take a very long time to get to the bottom of it, when you guys said that if they stop, you'll stop.
What does that mean, Melanie?
I mean, in other words, I don't understand.
I think I understand what you're saying, but what does it mean, actually?
Well, it means that we're perfectly willing to ask people to stop their education effort of advertisers who have been supporting hate speech and conspiracy nonsense on other programs.
But I have to tell you, I don't, you know, we are making some progress, but there's a way to go.
I mean, we have, even as you and I are speaking right now, Sean, the president of Media Matters, who should be above this sort of thing, is tweeting sexualized comments about our efforts to educate the public and about you.
It's really just disgusting what is happening in this country.
It's a warning.
I know you guys have to do this for a living, but I don't look at it.
I honestly don't look at this stuff anymore.
I gave up.
If you want to feel horrible about yourself, I guess you can do it.
Do you think at the end of this, you know, groups that stand up for, stand out against racism and anti-Semitism.
And I noticed, for example, Katie Tur's mother attacked her for some transvestite comments she made.
Do you think these groups now are going to take notice of what a group that supports high-profile Democrats and high-profile, you know, even Hillary Clinton helped organize and George Soros is helping to fund and Democrat support?
Is this going to have any impact, do you think, in the end?
Well, that's a great question, Sean.
When have they really ever been honest in terms of ideology?
It really is a click on there.
And we'd like to think that we can cause them to pause and reflect on their own people and their own behavior.
But we'll see.
But the interesting thing is that you mentioned is just how incredibly well paid these people are in the top ranks on the left.
I mean, it's not very progressive when you look at their salaries and the benefits and what they're doing.
Have you posted that?
Well, that's going to be part of our series.
That's coming up.
We're going to get into the numbers on that.
All right.
So basically, what you're telling people is go to StopTheScalpings on Twitter, S Scalpings, at S Scalpings, and then MediaEqualizer.com, and people can, I guess, support your group and participate in it and be a part of it.
And I'm very glad that somebody's fighting back.
You've done it on my behalf in the beginning, and I frankly hate being the center of attention, but I applaud you, and I can't thank you both enough for all you've done.
Thank you both.
I've always said it's not about me.
It really isn't.
And you know what?
For too long, they've been able to isolate everybody, and that should never have happened.
This should have started a long time ago, but you guys are on it now, and I feel really good about it.
Thank you both for being with us, Brian Maloney, and my good friend Melanie Morgan, 800-941-Sean, toll free telephone number this Friday.
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All right, on this Friday, I promise we're going to get to the phones for the rest of the day here today.
And, of course, Hannity tonight, 10 Eastern.
But before we do, I forgot when we were talking about, we all on this program knew, right, that Donald Trump did not tape James Comey.
Linda, you knew, right?
Of course.
All right, and Lauren, you got it, right?
Or you were in the middle a little bit, if I remember.
I was in the middle for fun.
Oh, so if you're not right, you're going to say that was just for fun.
Exactly.
Ethan, you were with us, right?
Yeah, but I said I hope he had tape.
Okay, and Jason.
I never thought he had tape.
Never thought he had tape.
I never thought he had.
And by the way, we never would have gotten half the truth on any of this if he didn't say, well, you know, better not lie.
You know, there might be tapes out there.
How incredibly hilarious.
There aren't, you know, there's always an opportunity that you can be surveilled.
This is the great irony.
You know, the increase in surveillance, the increase in unmasking, the increase in raw intelligence being leaked, you know, as we now are calling it the deep state, the fourth branch of government, all the leaking.
Now it's the special counsel leaking.
Never ends.
I just think it was a stroke of pure genius and brilliance on the president's part.
All right, let's get to our phones.
Let's say, hi, Karen, California, next on the Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Karen?
How are you?
Well, glad you called.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Listen, you guys have been talking about all the smoke, or the leftists have been talking about all the smoke.
There's so much stuff going around, but they haven't found the source of the smoke, and that is because it's in their own camp.
The fire is there, so that's where they need to look for the smoke.
Yeah, well, look, I'm going to tell you something.
I really, truly, honestly believe.
Remember, this girl in Augusta, Georgia got picked up, and a lot of people saying, oh, okay, well, why did a 25-year-old that is on social media?
Again, we're on social media, just like the guy that went on the shooting rampage, the assassination attempt this week, you know, radical leftists part of a group Terminate Republicans.
You know, why do we not pay attention?
Law enforcement now.
We need a social media division, a Homeland Security social media division, and those people that are making threats or those people that work within government that have access to classified and intelligence information that have radical political agendas, they ought not have the clearances that they're having.
Or if somebody's threatening to kill other people because of radical jihad, we need to go to their house and knock on their door.
Or the 12,000 tweets of people saying they want to assassinate President Trump, we need to go to their door.
Many of them probably need to be picked up, locked up, and charged.
You can't make terroristic threats against the president of the United States.
But in almost every case now, we find out people telegraph their actions long before they do them.
You know, just like we had all this information on these guys in Great Britain that were responsible, the ones that go on the London Bridge wielding their knives and plowing over pedestrians.
You know, we had information on all three of them.
And one participates in a reality show, the Jihadi Next Door.
And why we don't act when we know radicals or people with extremist views are expressing them on social media ahead of time to prevent tragedies beyond me, especially in light of the trillions of dollars spent on the deep state, on intelligence gathering, all of this monitoring, surveillance, and compromising of personal liberties and freedoms of Americans.
And then we let the people that are out there in the wide open making threats do things.
We've got to get smarter.
We just have to get so much smarter.
Anyway, good call.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for being with us.
Back to our busy phones.
Greg in Freehold, New Jersey on the all-new AM710, The Voice of New York, New Jersey, Long Island, W-O-R.
What's going on, Greg?
How are you, sir?
Hi, James.
James, excuse me.
Hi, Sean.
You got me getting a little nervous here for a second.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Happy Friday.
Okay.
Thank you, and happy Friday to you, too.
The thing, Sean, is like you hear these calls for violence and who's perpetrating it, and you see who's perpetrating it.
And it's not coming from the right.
And I mean, if you want to look at a local angle here in Jersey, we have this Democrat strategist, this guy, James Devine, who has running the hashtag Hunt Republican Congressman.
Okay, seriously, this is an example of just what I was saying.
Has he been reported to local law enforcement?
All I know is he's been carried in the local papers.
He's like a Democratic strategist and is known for being outspoken, but this is over the top.
I mean, and this is the point I'm trying to figure out.
When you have local, state, and national leaders on TV calling for these things, at what point does this stop being, you know, quote, political discussion and it then turns into sedition?
Well, I mean, if you're making any type of threat like that, it's got to be taken seriously.
If you're threatening to make an assassination or you threaten to blow up the White House, or if you're having bizarre, you know, go back, Howard, what's his name?
Howell Heflin, a former senator, Alabama.
Are you subject to Fantasyan?
It became a very famous line years ago.
And I think it was the Clarence Thomas Anita Hill debacle.
And anyway, it's like these people telegraph how they feel, what they're thinking, what they want to do.
And in many cases, it's what?
Radical jihad.
Or in this case, this guy in Alexandria, he's threatening, okay, you know, to take out Republicans, part of a group that says take out Republicans.
And we don't pay attention to these people.
And then we scratch our wooden heads later.
Why didn't we know this?
Why didn't we do this?
I don't know.
I think back just when you were a teenager, Sean, I mean, you only heard about things on the news by the 6 p.m. mark or something like that for the big three networks, or you read about it in the newspaper, and it was carried then.
Now that we have all these different access to all these different medias and these different groups are subscribing to these different forms of media, it amplifies not only the good stuff, I can also amplify the crazy stuff.
And that's the part that concerns me the most is the amplification of the calls for violence.
And this has just got to stop.
Well, I'll tell you this, and I see what you're referencing here.
Lauren very quickly picked it up.
Yeah, hunt the Republican, hunt Republican congressmen.
Okay, self-described, masterful Democratic Party campaign strategist.
Linda, Lauren, will you make sure the local police, the FBI, and the Secret Service are made aware of this guy?
Because that sounds like a threat.
Hunt?
Seriously?
Hunt Republicans?
Hunt Republican congressmen?
Yeah, I think that we ought to put this guy at least on notice with local law enforcement because that sounds like a guy that's capable of, if you're capable of writing something that ignorant and stupid, you're probably capable of acting on it.
Especially after the shooting.
You know, I didn't even think of that.
Yeah, exactly.
All right, Hannity, tonight, 10 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Hope you'll join us.
Listen, we'll have everything on the deep state and their revenge and left-wing hate and the situation and the rhetoric leading up to this week's assassination attempt on Republicans.
Newt Gingrich joins us tonight.
Also, black helicopter conspiracy liberals like Rachel Maddow.
Oh, she's finally realized it's possible Trump didn't collude with Russia.
