Sean Hannity Show - Trump's Cuban Missile Crisis - 8.10

Aug. 11, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show

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Trump's Cuban Missile Crisis - 8.10

Sean sits down with his military A-team to discuss options with North Korea. All of the years of Obama appeasement has left the world surprised by President Trump's strong rhetoric toward North Korea. This is Trump's Cuban Missile Crisis. The Sean Hannity Show is live weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	All right, just moments.
	Moments ago, the president spoke to the press.
	I believe he's in Bedminster in New Jersey.
	As everyone's reporting on vacation.
	On vacation.
	Maybe my fury threat wasn't tough enough, Trump says.
	And he just said this moments ago.
	Let me air the whole thing because he also talks about Mitch McConnell.
	And I think there's a lot of news value here for our stations across the Sean Hannity Show Network.
	In about seven minutes, this is the president.
	He also is expected to speak at four.
	If there's redundancy, we likely won't take it.
	But let me just air this now.
	We're having some meetings.
	I know you're going to be watching a couple of them.
	We have a lot of people here today.
	A lot of subjects under discussion, including Venezuela, including, of course, North Korea and other things.
	And I think we're making tremendous headway.
	We'll be spending quite a bit of time here.
	And then we, during the weekend, as you know, toward the end, we go into Manhattan, where I have a lot of meetings scheduled in Manhattan.
	Any questions?
	Mr. President, the North Koreans said yesterday that your statement on Tuesday was nonsense.
	That's the word that they used.
	Do you have any response to that?
	Well, I don't think they mean that.
	And I think they, it's the first time they've heard it like they heard it.
	And frankly, the people that were questioning that statement, was it too tough?
	Maybe it wasn't tough enough.
	They've been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years.
	And it's about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries.
	So if anything, maybe that statement wasn't tough enough.
	And we're backed by 100% by our military.
	We're backed by everybody.
	And we're backed by many other leaders.
	And I noticed that many senators and others today came out very much in favor of what I said.
	But if anything, that statement may not be tough enough.
	What would be tougher than hire and fury?
	Well, you'll see.
	You'll see.
	Mr. President, is one of the options being considered a reactive strike or strike?
	We don't talk about that.
	I never do.
	I'm not like the other administration that would say we're going into Mosul in four months.
	I don't talk about it.
	We'll see what happens.
	But I can tell you that what they've been doing and what they've been getting away with is a tragedy and it can't be allowed.
	Mr. President, everything's through negotiations.
	Sure, we'll always consider negotiations, but they've been negotiating now for 25 years.
	Look at Clinton.
	He folded on the negotiations.
	He was weak and ineffective.
	You look what happened with Bush.
	You look what happened with Obama.
	Obama, he didn't even want to talk about it.
	But I talk.
	It's about time.
	Somebody has to do it.
	Somebody has to do it.
	Let's talk about the relationship with Senator Carnell.
	I just want him to get repeal and replace done.
	I've been hearing repeal and replace now for seven years, but I've only been doing this for two years.
	And I've really only been doing this for six months, but I've been running.
	So now it's almost two years.
	And all I hear is repeal and replace.
	And then I get there and I said, where's the bill?
	I want to sign it first day.
	And they don't have it.
	And they passed repeal and replace, but they never had a president, frankly, or a senate that was going to do it.
	But they never had a president, so it didn't matter.
	So I say very simply, where is repeal and replace?
	Now I want tax reform and tax cuts.
	We're going to reduce taxes for the people.
	We pay more tax than anybody in the world, and we're going to reduce taxes.
	So I say tax cuts, tax reform, and I want a very big infrastructure bill where we're working on that very hard already, and we can do that.
	And we may even get bipartisan on infrastructure, but we want to have it.
	But I said, Mitch, get to work and let's get it done.
	They should have had this last one done.
	They lost by one vote.
	For a thing like that to happen is a disgrace.
	And frankly, it shouldn't have happened.
	That I can tell you.
	It shouldn't have.
	Does Senator McConnell consider stepping down as a majority leader if there's some conservative analyst, including Sean Hannity, to save time for him to retire?
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	If he doesn't get repeal and replace done, and if he doesn't get taxes done, meaning cuts and reform, and if he doesn't get easy ones to get done infrastructure, if he doesn't get them done, then you can ask me that question.
	You can ask me the question.
	That means ask me that question.
	Let's hope he gets it.
	It's an emergency, so why don't you pray?
	The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency.
	It's a national emergency.
	We're going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of money on the opioid crisis.
	We're going to draw it up, and we're going to make it a national emergency.
	It is a serious problem, the likes of which we have never had.
	You know, when I was growing up, they had the LSD and they had certain generations of drugs.
	There's never been anything like what's happened to this country over the last four or five years.
	And I have to say this, in all fairness, this is a worldwide problem, not just a United States problem.
	This is happening worldwide.
	But this is a national emergency, and we are drawing documents now to so attest.
	Mr. Russell, do you think there's some mixed messages coming out of your administration on North Korea?
	Secretary Tillerson seemed to advocate for diplomacy.
	Secretary Mattis seems to advocate for diplomacy.
	There are no mixed messages.
	There are no mixed messages.
	I heard, I mean, to be honest, General Mattis may have taken it a step beyond what I said.
	There are no mixed messages.
	And Rex was just, you know, stating the view.
	Look, here's the view.
	I said it yesterday.
	I don't have to say it again.
	And I'll tell you this.
	It may be tougher than I said it, not less.
	It may very well be tougher than I said.
	Okay?
	How about one more?
	Can you offer any assurance to the American people who are understandably anxious about the situation here in North Korea?
	They see images of these mental coming up in the air, the threats are farm, they see your family about fire and fury.
	Should they be comfortable that you have this under the bank?
	The people of this country should be very comfortable.
	And I will tell you this.
	If North Korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attack of anybody that we love or we represent or our allies or us, they can be very, very nervous.
	I'll tell you what.
	And they should be very nervous because things will happen to them like they never thought possible.
	Okay?
	He's been pushing the world around for a long time.
	And I have great respect for what China and what Russia did.
	And those 15, we got a 15 to nothing vote.
	I have great respect for China and Russia, what they did on sanctions.
	I believe that will have an effect.
	I don't think it will have the kind of effect, even though I was the one, we were the ones that got it.
	And Nikki Haley did a great job.
	We all did a great job.
	But I have great respect for what they did.
	I have great respect for the 15 to nothing, but probably it will not be as effective as a lot of people think it can be, unfortunately.
	China do more.
	I think China can do a lot more, yes.
	China can.
	And I think China will do a lot more.
	Look, we have trade with China.
	We lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade with China.
	They know how I feel.
	It's not going to continue like that.
	But if China helps us, I feel a lot differently portrayed.
	A lot differently portrayed.
	So we will do, I think, the people of our country are safe.
	Our allies are safe.
	And I will tell you this.
	North Korea better get their act together or they're going to be in trouble like few nations ever have been in trouble in this world.
	Okay?
	Thank you very much.
	We're going down to the other side and we're going to take a few more questions, okay?
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	All right, that's expected to take place at 4 o'clock.
	I'm so glad I played it.
	I was preparing and watching on the periphery.
	I didn't hear my name mentioned until later.
	Who asked that question?
	Do we know?
	Nobody knows in there?
	All right, you guys, we'll figure it out a little later.
	It's not about me, but it was a question about a lot of very forceful talk about North Korea.
	You know, people ask me all the time, well, Hannity, you're a big Trump supporter.
	Well, there's a reason in that seven-minute clip we just played why I support the president.
	Because number one, he's right about North Korea.
	And Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un and the grandfather.
	They've all pushed around the United States of America and the world and blackmailed everybody into giving them billions and billions of dollars.
	And now there are people in Washington, well, we've got to see what he wants.
	We don't want to agitate this man and annoy him and frustrate him.
	These bombastic comments of the president will only further isolate him.
	And then you got hypocrites.
	You know, we now have tape, and I'll get to it later in the program today.
	We actually have tape of people like John McCain and Maxine Ward who all say we got to take out North Korea, except when Donald Trump's the president.
	Well, what do I like about what are the qualities there that he's showing that I like?
	It's strength, it's determination, its urgency, it's, hey, Senator McConnell, get your act together.
	I mean, it is so pathetic, and he's willing to call out his own party.
	He's standing up for the American people.
	He has an identity.
	He has an agenda.
	He has principles.
	They're no different than the things he was saying on the campaign trail.
	And, well, Hannity, why do you, you know, the Never Trumpers attacking me all during the campaign?
	They're just hoping that Donald Trump falls on his face so that he can wag their fingers in the faces of American people and say, see, we're so far superior in our intellectual acumen that we can eat caviar in little biscuits and champagne dream you to death.
	We're so much so superior.
	Like, look, go to Mitch McConnell's comments yesterday.
	Can you bring me in a verbatim that?
	Mitch McConnell yesterday.
	Mitch McConnell was all over the place.
	I'm asking for a show of hands, but I know everybody's saying we've been there, haven't done anything, which I found extremely irritating.
	And I'm going to tell you why.
	Well, stop right there.
	You haven't done anything.
	I will give credit where credit's due.
	On Neil Gorsuch, Mitch McConnell was great, but the health care issue and the rest of the agenda is a disgrace.
	And there's no sense of urgency.
	And in the meantime, the American people are being failed.
	Let me just finish one thought, then we'll get back to McConnell.
	The thought is, well, Hannity, why do you like the president?
	Because I agree with him on being tough against North Korea and stop letting these rogue dictatorships pushing us around.
	I don't want any military action against North Korea unless it's 1,000% necessary.
	And that means that the potential that he's going to launch weapons at New York City or Boston or Hawaii or a friend of mine in Hawaii writes to me today and literally says to me, yeah, CNN's acting like the sirens are going off randomly because of North Korea.
	They're not, that happens once a month.
	These cable channels are awful.
	And then the second thing is, I agree with the president on tax cuts.
	I agree with the 15% corporate rate repatriation of trillions for multinationals.
	I agree with the middle-class tax cut.
	I agree with repeal and replace.
	I agree with energy independence.
	I agree with ending burdensome regulations of Obama, which he has done and done extraordinarily well.
	I love the fact that we have the lowest number of people on food stamps in seven years and a million jobs have already been created and we still don't even have the Congress doing their part yet.
	I love all of that.
	That's all good for America.
	I want the energy career jobs that pay 70, 80, 90, 100, and much more a year, and they become careers for people.
	I want the border secure.
	I want to identify America's enemies and the world's enemies and those that would strap bombs on their own kids.
	I don't want to be dependent on countries that practice Sharia and hate our guts for the life source and lifeblood of our economy.
	It's not even, it's not about the personality, but then, you know, you hear the president in a moment like that.
	I'm like, finally, somebody has some courage.
	And they're not tiptoeing like they're walking on broken glass and saying, oh, please, Mr. Kim Jong-in, please, please, can I bribe you?
	Can I offer you millions?
	What if we gave you a trillion?
	Will you plead pretty, pretty, please be nice to us?
	Because that's what everybody else has tried, and that's what got us to this position.
	You know, Bill Clinton promising, oh, this is a great deal for the American people.
	Anyway, 800-941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
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	All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show, president very forcefully coming out and laying down the gauntlet as it relates to North Korea and how they have bullied the world and how he's not going to be bullied.
	And perhaps even the language about Fury wasn't even strong enough.
	He's also coming out as it relates to Mitch McConnell.
	Now, there's so much about North Korea that really grabs my attention today.
	Do you know there's a report out today, FoxNews.com, that in fact the Obama administration knew about North Korea's miniaturized nukes.
	And during a 2013 Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado revealed several unclassified sentences from a DAI report that said they had determined with moderate confidence that North Korea had the capability to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be launched with a ballistic missile.
	Well, now we know the missiles are bigger.
	And now we're being told they can reach New York City.
	And now we're being told they can reach Boston and Guam and Hawaii and the west coast of the United States, the continental United States.
	And, you know, God bless Susan Rice.
	I guess she's done unmasking for a while and she seems that she wants to weigh in and she's urging Donald Trump to tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea.
	Really?
	Tolerate it?
	Should we just tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran, which her and her boss helped navigate?
	The very same things, challenges we're facing today, and I'm saying there's no good solutions, are going to be the exact same challenges we face down the road with Mullahs and Iran.
	Why?
	Because of the plane loads of cash and other currency and the billions and billions and billions of dollars that Obama sent from you, the American taxpayer, to the Mullahs.
	You know, if you look at the questions, there's only so far appeasement can get you.
	And when Bill Clinton said that there's a good deal for the American people and they're not going to get nuclear weapons, blah, blah, blah.
	Well, that was wrong.
	Oopsie-daisy.
	Yeah, now we got a madman with nuclear weapons, no good options.
	Actually, tonight we're doing an examination.
	Are there good options?
	I'm going to explain that tonight.
	We'll take a quick break.
	We'll come back.
	Got a lot more in the news of the day.
	The president is expected to speak in an hour when he does, if he does, and it's newsworthy.
	We'll take it.
	And much more right here on the Sean Hannity show.
	I just want him to get repeal and replace done.
	I've been hearing repeal and replace now for seven years, but I've only been doing this for two years.
	And I've really only been doing this for six months, but I've been running.
	So now it's almost two years.
	And all I hear is repeal and replace.
	And then I get there and I said, where's the bill?
	I want to sign it first day.
	And they don't have it.
	And they passed repeal and replace, but they never had a president, frankly, or a senate that was going to do it.
	But they never had a president, so it didn't matter.
	So I say very simply, where is repeal and replace?
	Now I want tax reform and tax cuts.
	We're going to reduce taxes for the people.
	We pay more tax than anybody in the world, and we're going to reduce taxes.
	So I say tax cuts, tax reform, and I want a very big infrastructure bill where we're working on that very hard already, and we can do that.
	And we may even get bipartisan on infrastructure, but we want to have it.
	But I said, Mitch, get to work and let's get it done.
	They should have had this last one done.
	They lost by one vote.
	For a thing like that to happen is a disgrace.
	And frankly, it shouldn't have happened.
	That I can tell you.
	Senator McConnell and they're stepping down here.
	They're not conservative.
	And let's please Tom Hannigan.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	If he doesn't get repeal and replace done, and if he doesn't get taxes done, meaning cuts and reform, and if he doesn't get a very easy one to get done infrastructure, if he doesn't get them done, then you can ask me that question.
	All right.
	That was in a response to a question about, I guess, me saying McConnell is just needs to, it's pathetic.
	You know, let's just listen to tone and cadence there for just a second beyond the principle.
	Because you have Mitch McConnell.
	And of course, you know, I know we've been hearing, this is my Mitch McConnell.
	No, we've been hearing I have not been, we haven't done anything.
	I find this irritating.
	I find this extremely irritating to me.
	As a respected senator, a Congress goes for two years.
	Two, not one, two.
	And I think the storyline is that we haven't done much.
	And that's the president's fault.
	They've set these early timelines.
	And things need to be done by a certain point.
	Now, our president, he has not been in my line of work before.
	I have been in the swamp my whole life.
	Be nice.
	Stop being mean.
	Does that mean?
	Because you know what?
	I make him sound like a bond villain.
	I don't know what I'm doing.
	So this liberal journalist calls me today, and I start doing my imitations.
	And the person starts laughing.
	I forget who I was doing.
	I did all my talk show hosts.
	I'm John McClure.
	I'm Jeremy McCain.
	I just, I'm so angry.
	Angry, angry, angry, but I'm not angry.
	He is so angry.
	Visiting him is just ridiculous.
	I'll play a tape of him saying, Bom, bom, bomeran.
	Bomb, bomb.
	Seriously.
	All right, we'll play it.
	We'll play it later.
	So now our president, he's not been in my line of work before.
	I find this so extraordinarily irritating.
	Should I do that voice?
	Do you like that one better?
	Congress goes on for two years, Mr. President.
	Two years.
	Don't you know how things work around here?
	And you're saying we haven't done much.
	The president in these rabble hours is on radio that John McCain says can go straight to hell.
	You know, they're putting these artificial timeline.
	We're busy.
	I'm getting the vapors.
	And I'm just, oh, it is so frustrating after nine months.
	The expectations are just so high.
	The president is unrealistic expectations.
	After seven long years, I need a little bit of time.
	I've got to get out of bed, put my pants on one leg at a time.
	These shirts, as I get older, are just so burdensome.
	Oh, and the tie.
	I've got to pick the perfect tie.
	I've got to.
	It takes time every day to pick the perfect tie.
	Then it's time for a Montini.
	Then it's time for lunch.
	Although today, perhaps we'll have caviar because we actually had a vote that went nowhere.
	But at least it's a vote.
	We're making progress.
	And he goes, our president, he's not been in this line of work.
	He's a frankly, he sounds rather blue-collar, borish to me, a little bit crude.
	He talks like, he's even mentioned locker room talk.
	We save that for the Senate cloakroom.
	What might that be talking about?
	And we say it with a little more sophistication, shall we say.
	Anyway, so part of the reason that we feel like we're unperforming artificial deadlines, ladies and gentlemen, artificial, unrelated to the reality of the complexity of the legislative process.
	It's not fully understood by those dumb masses that voted for Donald Trump and read National Review online and they think their heads are just and the noses just rise so high above mere mortals.
	Oh, excuse me.
	So I'm asking you, judge us in two years.
	I'll come back.
	I will talk after Christmas.
	Why ruin the fall?
	Fall is a good month.
	You can watch football, drinking, parties, little polo, foliage.
	Oh, geez.
	You know, how much we've done to make America competitive again.
	All right, I'm done.
	You get my point.
	I just can't take it.
	Now, what I heard in the president, which is a characteristic I like and I think is realistic, he's had it.
	And you know what?
	You know who's more in touch with the real people in this country?
	That would be the president.
	Yeah, the billionaire guy that could have kept his big private jet and made more money and, you know, benefited from the better economy we have, et cetera, et cetera.
	That's him.
	And he's like, oh, get this done.
	Let's go.
	Seven and a half years.
	It's eight months in.
	What the hell's wrong with you people?
	You're fired.
	You're fired.
	That's how real people live.
	Now, some of you listening to me right now, you're construction workers.
	There's some guy right now on a construction site saying, Hannity, he's talking to me.
	And I'm on a ladder.
	Well, that's how I found a love for talk radio myself.
	So I get it.
	And I'd actually be on a 40-foot ladder calling in to talk show hosts, to talk show hosts.
	I swear to God, when the first cell phones first came out, yeah.
	Those big bulky things, you know, that were like that.
	Crazy.
	Or I'd go inside the person's house that I was working on, and I'd use their phone when they weren't home.
	And I'd call into a talk radio show.
	All right, Jerry Williams show.
	Stay on home, please.
	I'm like, oh, you got to hurry.
	I've got to go to the bathroom.
	I got to run.
	Mom and dad might come home.
	I might get caught.
	Oh, I was just using your bathroom, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
	Sorry, I know I should be working right now.
	Good thing I don't charge by the hour.
	But it's true.
	Anyway, I'm just saying that at the end of the day, if they can't get this done, the president's right.
	It's pathetic.
	You're fired.
	It's just pathetic.
	And he's calling them out.
	Just like he's not backing down.
	You know, if you're a construction worker, you have to get your job done.
	Jason is preparing all these audio cuts all day.
	He's got to get his job done.
	He can't say to me, oh, boss, the process of taking the tape, cracking it out of the shows off the internet.
	Oh, boss, I'll get it done after eight months.
	We don't live in that world.
	I keep saying nobody here goes to lunch any day.
	All these people in Washington, they go out to lunch.
	You know, when Washington's busy, it's not at night.
	I guess they're all hooking up at night.
	I don't know what they're doing at night.
	I have no idea.
	They're drinking.
	They're doing, they're going out to their expensive dinners with their lobbyist friends, Democrats and Republicans.
	They're martini lunches.
	Who has a martini lunch?
	Sometimes I will confess I'll play golf early in the morning, about 7, and we might have a bloody married by 8.
	But I did not say that.
	And then I go home and nap it off like 10.30 because I'm tired.
	And I worked the night before, so I'm already exhausted because I only went to sleep at 3.
	But you get my point.
	It's just ridiculous.
	And you know who suffers?
	The American people suffer.
	We always get back to that, don't we?
	That the American people suffer.
	We need more time and off the legislative complications of the legislative process.
	That's so frustrating.
	Ed Klein, who used to work with Time magazine, is reporting that, in fact, his best-selling author says the Trump Justice Department may have reopened the investigation in the Hillary emails.
	That's getting interesting.
	We have some information on the judge, apparently knows Loretta Lynch.
	And this is the judge that, remember, Robert Mueller put all of the grand jury in a place where the president got a little over 4% of the vote in Washington, D.C. Great.
	Got 24 people impaneled there, two dozen people.
	And anyway, they'll be the ones grilling witnesses and demanding Trump associate documents.
	And the judge in this case behind the scenes is Beryl Howell.
	And by the way, we find out, not only knows Loretta Lynch, she worked for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
	Some say she's a straight arrow, but let's see.
	We've got eight Mueller lawyers, one that has conflict and eight of them that donated to the Democrats and Hillary and Obama, and one that actually worked for the Clinton Foundation.
	And then the rest of them, none of them donated to a Republican.
	Now we've got a Democratic judge that worked on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
	Oh, that's great.
	Anyway, we'll find out what happens there.
	She worked for Pat Leahy.
	Oh, okay.
	She's like Mueller.
	Well, that gives me confidence.
	He wouldn't ask for it unless he had more than enough evidence to justify it, and she wouldn't grant it unless he did.
	Yeah, I'm so, so happy.
	Anyway, the grand jury put together, who knows what they're going to end up doing.
	Andy McCarthy, he's warning this is really bad.
	And Andy's a pretty smart guy, one of the few people actually like a national review now.
	I've had it with all those people.
	They're just hoping and praying that they can stick their fingers in the face of Americans.
	And you're so stupid.
	You voted for Trump.
	I like the Trump agenda.
	I like his plan on taxes.
	Middle-class cuts, corporate cuts, repatriation cuts.
	I like the idea of energy independence.
	I like repeal and replace with free market solutions, as the president talked about.
	I like building a wall.
	I like identifying our enemies.
	I like peace through strength.
	Sounds an awful lot like Reagan.
	Education back to the states, but I guess he doesn't.
	Well, they actually, it was conservative.
	You know, when the term amiable dunce came up about Reagan, that was from arrogant elitist establishment Republicans against Reagan.
	Now, if Republicans would actually help, they'd benefit themselves politically.
	And if they don't get it done, they'll hurt themselves politically.
	And on top of that, the American people will suffer and they will have squandered the opportunity of a generation to have significant positive change for the country.
	Now, in spite of all of that, there's actually some good news today.
	You know, we told you about a seven-year low in terms of those people on food stamps in the country.
	Job openings have now hit an all-time high, according to CNBC.
	And by the way, I know all you hear about is Russia-Russia, but there were more job openings in America in the last month than in any other time they started keeping records.
	Oh, Donald Trump energizing business, getting rid of needless waste, fraud, abuse, and regulation, Obama error regulation.
	Also, Trump, 9,000 federal employees have been slashed in his first six months.
	Rasmussen has him at 44% approval rating.
	Not bad.
	You don't hear about that.
	His immigration bill has significant support.
	61%.
	I'm sorry, 62%.
	Oh, sorry.
	Another bad bit of news.
	Good news for Trump.
	Bad news for Republicans.
	I hope they're getting an earful from you when they go home, when they're home now.
	A judge has ordered the State Department to keep searching for Hillary's emails.
	The feds sought cooperation from Manafort's son-in-law.
	Good grief.
	Wow, this is getting so ugly.
	All right.
	Are they going to try and flip Manafort?
	You know what these prosecutors do all the time?
	Well, we're just going to put your wife in jail.
	We're going to put your kids in jail.
	Well, do you want to go to jail?
	Who wants to go to jail?
	Well, if you give us information on person A, B, or C, we'll take your jail time away.
	Some unethical people might do that.
	Scooter Libby wouldn't do it.
	They wanted him to lie about the vice president.
	He wouldn't do it.
	Japan has now vowed to shoot down Korean missiles.
	Obama administration knew about Korea's miniaturized nukes.
	Susan Rice is urging tolerance on nuclear weapons.
	And we got Democrats now saying, oh, don't piss them off.
	Maybe we can offer them money.
	Maybe we can bribe them.
	That's how we got in this position.
	How stupid are you people?
	You're dumb.
	You're very dumb.
	You're not intelligent at all.
	It's a little scary how dumb some of these people are, but they're out there.
	Fusion GPS, by the way, continues to stonewall the Senate Judiciary Committee.
	Where did the little hooker urinating on the bed dossier come from in Russia?
	Who paid for that crap?
	By the way, sources, Russians.
	Democrats pay for it.
	Let's find out who paid for it.
	All right, as we rock and roll and move along, president again, expected to speak, spoke about a little over an hour, about an hour ago, actually.
	And we played that for you at the top of the last hour.
	He's going to speak again.
	And if it's worthwhile, newsworthy, we're going to cover it for you live.
	Why?
	Because that's what we do.
	News, information, opinion.
	You don't get anywhere else.
	Then we're going to have the latest on North Korea.
	We'll have an update on whether or not what's happening with this general counsel is fair.
	Is there equal justice under the law?
	Joe DeGenova, Greg Jarrett, Buzz Patterson, Lieutenant Colonel McInerie, Jonathan Gillum, Rick Unger, and Mo Brooks.
	North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States.
	They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.
	He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement.
	And as I said, they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.
	Thank you.
	Mr. President, the North Koreans are 800 Tuesday with non-fast.
	That's the word that they use.
	Do you have any response to that?
	Well, I don't think they mean that.
	And I think they, it's the first time they've heard it like they heard it.
	And frankly, the people that were questioning that statement, was it too tough?
	Maybe it wasn't tough enough.
	They've been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years.
	And it's about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries.
	So if anything, maybe that statement wasn't tough enough.
	And we're backed by 100% by our military.
	We're backed by everybody.
	And we're backed by many other leaders.
	And I noticed that many senators and others today came out very much in favor of what I said.
	But if anything, that statement may not be tough enough.
	That statement, fire and fury, may not be tough enough.
	And you hear an urgency and a resolve in the president's voice.
	This is why I like the president.
	This is why I hate all the swamp people because they're not strong.
	They're afraid.
	And we don't want to make a man.
	He might get mad at us.
	I don't, you know.
	Oh, gee, oh, I'm afraid.
	Well, that's what got us into this mess.
	Meanwhile, you got people like Mad Dog Mattis, you know, literally telling North Korea that, okay, we'll incinerate your ass and you better stop messing with us in the world and blackmailing us in the world and threatening everybody's lives.
	I mean, this is not that hard to deal with.
	All the appeasement that led up to this hasn't worked.
	Just like the appeasement of Iran is going to be proven not to work.
	North Korea deploying anti-ship cruise missiles.
	Now we're told that they have weaponry that can actually reach the continental United States.
	One of the things that struck me, Dr. Gorka was on last night on Hannity and Dr. Gorka.
	I got to add one other piece.
	Trump lasted Mueller's pre-dawn raid as a gross abuse of Manafort's home.
	Only one, I think, besides me that realized, hey, Paul Manafort made a mistake not deleting everything like Hillary, that's subpoenaed, and not bleach-bit acid-washing everything like Hillary, and not smashing devices with hammers like Hillary, and not sending the FBI devices without SIM cards.
	Anyway, well, it wasn't Trump, it was actually Trump's lawyer blasting and saying, literally, and this is right, this guy's name is John Dowd, and he said it's an abuse of the judicial process for the shake of the sake of shock value.
	It's like, if I ever get arrested, there's going to be cameras.
	I'm going to be perp walked, handcuffed, mugshotted, mugshot released immediately to the press.
	And that's why I pay my taxes.
	That's why I do everything right because I just know how this works.
	If you're a conservative, you get screwed.
	If you're a liberal, you get a free pass, like Hillary and Wasserman Schultz and the IT guy and Comey and the FBI's general counsel and let's see, Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Samantha Power, Clapper, Brennan, and all the unmasking people and all the leaking people and Uranium One Deal people.
	They all get away with everything.
	The Ukrainian embassy people, everyone gets away with everything.
	Not so fast.
	Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
	Joining us now, are there other alternatives to what is going on with North Korea?
	I've been saying there's no good options.
	General McInerney is with us, and General McInerney, former pilot, commander, and strategic planner in the U.S. Air Force.
	Also joining us, Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson.
	Remember, he carried the nuclear football for President Clinton, author of the bestseller, Dereliction of Duty, an eyewitness account of how Bill Clinton compromised America's national security.
	Buzz, I guess that's, well, I really should say, Colonel, forgive my familiarity.
	But Colonel, I'm really thinking, Colonel Patterson, I'm really beginning to think here that, wow, everything, Bill Clinton said this when he announced his great deal with North Korea.
	Before I take your questions, I'd like to say just a word about the framework with North Korea that Ambassador Galushi signed this morning.
	This is a good deal for the United States.
	North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program.
	South Korea and our other allies will be better protected.
	The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.
	South Korea, with support from Japan and other nations, will bear most of the cost of providing North Korea with fuel to make up for the nuclear energy it is losing.
	And they will pay for an alternative power system for North Korea that will allow them to produce electricity while making it much harder for them to produce nuclear weapons.
	The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments.
	Only as it does so will North Korea fully join the community of nations.
	Yeah, a lot of good that is.
	Colonel Buzz Patterson, your reaction.
	Well, Sean, I've been talking about this for 25 years, and I think you just laid it out perfectly.
	In addition to signing that agreement with North Korea, we actually gave North Korea $4 billion and provided them with two additional reactors, which they've been using, obviously, to crank out these weapons over the last 10, 20 years.
	So we've shown time and time again in this country that appeasement does not work.
	We're paying for it in North Korea today.
	We're paying for it in Iran.
	And it's time for someone like Donald Trump to step up, call a state of spade, and let's get to work.
	Again, I would not want to be on the receiving end of the arsenal that we have should this guy decide to punch our buttons.
	I like the strength, General McInerney, that the president showed today and the resolve he showed today, although everybody else is scared to death.
	All these years of appeasement have not borne any fruit, has it?
	No, it hasn't, Sean.
	And this is President Trump's Cuban missile crisis because it's a balance of power that the Chinese have been breeding and growing North Korea to do this, just as the Russians have been working with Iran.
	Now, let me explain this.
	Iran and North Korea are nuclear proxies for both Russia and China.
	And what does that mean?
	Let's say we've heard they have 50 nuclear or 60 nuclear warheads, and they get 50 missiles in the ground, which the Obama administration would have said they could do, and we just use the strategy of mutual assured destruction.
	You've heard of that.
	Of course.
	So say they fire off 50 of them.
	We knock out 40, and 10 of them hit U.S. cities, and we destroy North Korea.
	Well, what do you think the Russians and Chinese are going to do?
	Our economy is in shambles.
	We're a mess after 10 nukes hit us.
	And the Russians and Chinese are sitting there and smiling because we paid to arm both Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons.
	This is insane.
	And we finally got a president, I think, that is coming to grips with it.
	It's the American public or media does not want to admit that it is a balance of power shift.
	It is his Cuban missile crisis.
	And he's going to have to stand up.
	And we're going to have to do a number of things to make this change.
	And one of them can be successful.
	One of them is to recall the Congress today, get them back in and make them pass the FY18 defense bill because we cannot continue our buildup on continuing resolutions.
	And we've got to form a Pacific Area Treaty Organization, just like NATO, but to contain not only North Korea, but contain China.
	China is the problem.
	And they are breeding this animal that we have in North Korea.
	And so those two fundamental high-level things is what we've got to do.
	Is there any good option, General?
	Yes.
	What is it?
	Go back on nuclear alert at Guam with B-2s and B-52s, negotiate with South Korea and put our theater nuclear forces back on alert in South Korea as they had when I was a DCS operations intelligence for Pacific Air Forces.
	Increase our THAD force structure in South Korea.
	Build up our Air Force and Naval and Marine Corps forces in the region.
	And declare, and get this one, Sean, declare any missile launches from North Korea have to be, we say are hostile because of what Kim Jong-un said about attacking Guam, and we will hit them as a target before they get airborne.
	He must make sure that we will no longer tolerate that he launch any more missiles because of his declaration to hit Guam, and we don't know where they're going to go until they've been in the air for a while.
	So we have no choice.
	And by the way, if one artillery round comes out of North Korea on to Seoul, he gets our full nuclear retaliatory capability.
	Make sure he understands that.
	That artillery is no longer valid because when we retaliate, we're going to retaliate with nuclear weapons.
	But when I say no good option, and I want to get to General Patterson in a second, when I say no good option, if we have to strike, even if we have a coalition of the willing, if we have to strike, we're going to incinerate that place.
	The nuclear fallout, correct me if I'm wrong, even if we'd use bunker bombs and other technologies, is the fallout potential is dramatic.
	I mean, potentially, am I right or overstating the fact that millions could potentially die here?
	Yeah, but they'll be mostly North Koreans.
	What about South Koreans?
	What about the Japanese?
	What about nuclear fallout making its way to China?
	You can contain that.
	How do you contain nuclear fallout, though?
	How do you do that?
	Well, you contain it with airbursts and the size of the weapons.
	Look how many weapons we dropped on Japan.
	And we were in there weeks later.
	Okay.
	I'm not saying it's not going to be a problem, but it's a problem that we can handle compared to the nuclear weapons hitting U.S. cities.
	This president has been left with zero options, in my opinion.
	And the fact is, unless he starts taking these actions, and the things I said I would do, except for the two of recalling the Congress and PATO, Cyprus Area Treaty Organization, I would do in secret.
	The Russians and Chinese will pick it up with their satellites.
	General Patterson, let me bring him back.
	I'm sorry, Colonel Patterson.
	I'm sorry.
	That's twice.
	You ought to throw me in the break.
	I'll take the promotion.
	What's up, Colonel?
	Yeah, I agree with General McInerney almost to a T.
	I would also like to throw up an option there where we actually did a preemptive tactical strike prior to getting that farther down the spectrum in terms of actual nuclear weapons.
	I think we could take care of his capability, knock him off the grid, take care of things along those lines.
	But I will tell you, I warned the audience, too, having been to your football carrier and seen how quickly we have to make those decisions if we are in fact fired upon, it's going to be a matter of a handful of minutes.
	It's not going to be hours or days or weeks.
	It's going to be minutes.
	And the process has to work exceptionally well.
	And it has to work very, very quickly.
	So if it does happen in the middle of the night, it's going to be a no kidding.
	This is real.
	Make a decision.
	Go time.
	Yeah, it's so scary.
	You know, if you care about human life, this is so scary.
	This is chilling, actually.
	All right, guys, stay right there.
	We really appreciate it.
	I won't make another mistake.
	We have Colonel Buzz Patterson, Colonel Thomas McInerney, also coming up.
	We've got the legal aspects of everything with Greg Jarrett, Joe DeGenova, the president speaking today.
	Mo Brooks, we've got so much going on today.
	All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity, shall we continue?
	You know, no good options, as I've been saying.
	We continue with Colonel Buzz, Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney.
	And, you know, General McInerney, I just, I guess my greatest fear is, do you see any scenario to get out of this short of a lot of people dying?
	Well, yes, if we do what I described, I think the Chinese are going to realize that we are serious and we will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea.
	It will be up to them to make that decision.
	They created the monster and they can defang the monster.
	But that will be up to them.
	Otherwise.
	But you don't see that happening.
	I mean, especially with all the saber-rattling by Kim Jong-un, do you?
	I think that they do not want us to destroy and unify South Korea, excuse me, South and North Korea.
	And that's what this is going to lead to.
	So I think that President Xi is going to come to his senses, figure out he finally got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and we will not accept that or tolerate it.
	And we will go to the brink, and we may have to go.
	Now, let me just say without getting too sensitive, because President, the ability to respond to that North Korea artillery with nuclear weapons can be pre-given to the theater commander at the National Military Command Authorities to see the situation, and they do it.
	And that's all I want to say, that it can be a very quick response.
	I don't understand what you're saying.
	Can you say that a little bit?
	In other words, that the decision could be made ahead of time.
	Is that what you're saying?
	Yes.
	Okay, understood.
	And delegated to the theater commander.
	Well, I mean, aren't they the ones that would know best?
	I mean, but in other words, especially with a quick emerging situation on the ground, Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, your thoughts on that?
	Well, General McEnery is correct.
	We could delegate that President Bush, President Trump could delegate that.
	The way the process is designed currently, that would work tactically.
	In terms of going, again, down the spectrum to full-blown Armageddon, that's where the president would have to play a role, and that's where the nuclear codes come in, which, by the way, Bill Clinton lost during my time there, but President Trump has, and the military aid right there with the football.
	It's a very complex process.
	It goes through the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon, and it goes out to the unified commanders and sinks.
	And again, it has to happen very, very quickly.
	But you could authorize, he could authorize a tactical pre-decision in terms of a response.
	All right.
	When we come back, thank you both.
	We'll check in with Greg Jarrett, Joe DiGenova, Rick Unger, Jonathan Gillum.
	But you can get Sean Hannity at Hannity.com.
	War of words.
	North Korea threatens to attack the U.S. territory of Guam after President Trump warns the regime with his harshest language yet.
	Meanwhile, the president's strong language is being criticized by leading lawmakers of both parties.
	Democrat Dianne Feinstein calling his rhetoric bombastic and saying diplomacy is the only path.
	Republican John McCain cautioning Trump against making empty threats.
	Is this the president giving Kim Jong-un a taste of his own medicine, maybe his own vocabulary?
	Or is it going to make a bad situation worse?
	Is it dangerous?
	I mean, do the words matter in this context?
	Let's not dismiss the words so quickly.
	We all remember shock and awe in Iraq.
	Fire and fury as a military guy, Jack.
	What do you read into Fire and Fury?
	Is this conventional weaponry or is he threatening something else?
	He has now drawn a far more stark, a far more inflammatory, a far more dangerous red line.
	It contradicts all of the traditions of American military history.
	You know, that blistering rhetoric is a real break from past presidents, and it is being met with concern from Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
	As a new poll shows, it's six out of ten Americans are uneasy about President Trump's ability to handle North Korea.
	This morning, some political leaders, even from the president's own party, concerned that the commander-in-chief's fiery warnings could further incite the already volatile North Korean leader.
	Having the president of the United States throw more fuel on this fire may make China think twice about how far down the road it wants to go in supporting U.S. actions on North Korea.
	Some Republicans and Democrats say the president's strong words are not helping the situation.
	Some Democrats took pause.
	Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland said Trump's comments once again show that he lacks the temperament.
	And Senator Dianne Feinstein said Trump was bombastic and is not helping the situation.
	What is going to happen?
	And does the language of the president help or hinder?
	It just doesn't help when our allies in the countries in the region can't tell whether it's Donald Trump or Kim Jong-un who's the crazier one.
	I don't know how you find common ground with someone you absolutely do not trust.
	I don't think I can work with him.
	As a matter of fact, I'm so worried about what his connections are with Putin and the Kremlin and those oligarchs in Russia.
	I'm so worried about Tillerson and whether or not Tillerson is there mainly to help get these sanctions lifted so that Trump and all of his allies and friends who are all around him involved in oil and gas and wanting these sanctions lifted.
	I'm so concerned that that's their main goal.
	And this is what they want to do to continue to enrich themselves.
	And so I don't trust him.
	I'm not going to be able to work with him.
	I believe that North Korea is interesting threats to the United States.
	But I think there's some things that they want from us.
	And we have to find out whether or not we can work with them on the things that they're asking for.
	And so this is something that we should be very concerned about.
	But this is not the time to go bluffy and threatening.
	This is a time for diplomacy.
	Oh, just like John McCain, who wanted to bomb Iran and Syria and let's see.
	Oh, North Korea and all these other places.
	I'm not fine if they get a nuclear weapon.
	When do we send him an airmail message to Tyron?
	That old Beach Boys song, Bomber Ram.
	Bom, bom, bom, bomb.
	All right, so what you have is a great example of hypocrisy from both the right and the left on this issue.
	Joining us now, Rick Unger, Jonathan Gillum.
	A lot of hypocrisy there, Mr. Unger.
	And I think the biggest hypocrite there is Maxine Waters and John McCain.
	Yeah, I think everybody needs to calm down here a little bit.
	I mean, I don't know that I would have handled it the way the president is, but then I'm more of a Teddy Roosevelt fan and like, you know, speak softly, carry a big stick.
	But I think everybody's getting a little hyperbolic on all sides of this.
	They need to chill out.
	Well, it's not necessarily hyperbolic.
	I'm sorry, North Korea is now a nuclear-armed country, and you've got a— Well, actually, not yet.
	Well, actually, if you look at the mission.
	They're getting there more quickly than we thought they would.
	Yeah, but like in the next six weeks, that's pretty quick.
	So basically, we have to act as though they are armed, ready to go, and dangerous.
	I don't agree with your assessment at all.
	And all the military people I'm talking to, Jonathan Gillum, say it's go time or forget it.
	Yeah, I mean, I think we're getting, Sean, we're getting to that point now where diplomacy may have to take a back seat to a first strike because what do we wait?
	Do we wait until they hit Guam?
	Do we wait until they come up with a missile that they can now hit the United States?
	I mean, this individual, Kim Jong-un, comes from a long line of warmongers that just love to threaten and hate anything that has to do with anything but North Korea.
	What strikes me, though, about all those soundbites that you played, besides John McCain, not one of those individuals have ever been trained in the art of warfare.
	They've never served in the military.
	They have no clue.
	And thank goodness that some of them aren't in saying that diplomacy is the only way to fight a war like Diane Feinstein.
	We would be devastated.
	This country would have no borders, and we would be overran by terrorists and people that want to just take over this country if all we did was just diplomacy.
	You know, I've got to believe.
	I have to question, I've got to question the interpretation of history there.
	I mean, I'm no fan of North Korean.
	I think they're all crazy, the generations that have run the country.
	But warmongers, the last war they were in was in the Korean War in the 50s.
	So I'm not wanting to apply that.
	And I think, too, that if you really look at what the little guy's strategy is over there, he's just trying to have a way to defend himself.
	We first strike.
	I hope you're at least allowing time to get the 100,000 Americans out of Seoul and the 35,000 United States troops off of the border.
	Well, I mean, I think that you could very quickly create a no-living zone from the border of Seoul inland to where we destroy every single piece of armament that they have for 100 miles in North Korea.
	And that wouldn't take you white.
	From my understanding of the situation, that is, I've talked to military people about this too.
	That's not going to happen.
	We don't know where they all are, and they are going to have more than enough time to launch, if not against us, against South Korea and Japan.
	So I think we need to be a little more cautious than that.
	All right.
	Guys, hang right there.
	Hang on.
	We got some breaking news.
	The president is, well, let's get to the president's press conference.
	We got it from the beginning.
	Jason, let's hit that.
	We appreciate it.
	We are having a meeting today.
	We actually had a much larger group than this.
	This is the finals.
	But we discussed many things.
	One of them, obviously, was North Korea.
	We discussed Venezuela.
	We discussed Afghanistan and the Middle East generally.
	We had some very good meetings, some very good ideas, very good thoughts.
	And a lot of decisions were made.
	This was a very important day, actually.
	Made a lot of decisions.
	With that, if you have any questions, yes.
	Did you make any decision on Afghanistan better to add an issue?
	No, we're getting close.
	We're getting very close.
	It's a very big decision for me.
	I took over a mess, and we're going to make it a lot less messy.
	But that has been a place, 17 years, our longest war, as I read in one of your columns.
	And frankly, it's going to be a decision that's going to be made very soon.
	And do you have full confidence in international security in my opinion?
	Yes, I do.
	General McMaster?
	Absolutely.
	He's our friend.
	He's my friend, and he's a very talented man.
	I like him, and I respect him.
	Sir, why did you decide to announce the transgender ban reversal a couple of weeks ago?
	And are you betraying a community that you pledged to support?
	No, no.
	Look, I have great respect for the community.
	I think I have great support, or I've had great support from that community.
	I got a lot of votes.
	But the transgender and the military is working on it now.
	They're doing the work.
	It's been a very difficult situation.
	And I think I'm doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying that, as you know, it's been a very complicated issue for the military.
	It's been a very confusing issue for the military.
	And I think I'm doing the military a great favor.
	Mr. President, do you have any response to the Russian president expelling 755 workers from our entity?
	No, I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down on payroll.
	And as far as I'm concerned, I'm very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll.
	There's no real reason for them to go back.
	So I greatly appreciate the fact that they've been able to cut our payroll for the United States.
	We'll save a lot of money.
	Mr. President, was it appropriate for the FBI to raise the home of Paul Manafort Creedon in the United States?
	I thought it was a very, very strong signal or whatever.
	I know Mr. Manafort.
	Haven't spoken to him in a long time, but I know him.
	He was with the campaign, as you know, for a very short period of time, relatively short period of time, but I've always known him to be a good man.
	I thought it was a very, you know, they do that very seldom.
	So I was surprised to see it.
	I was very, very surprised to see it.
	We haven't really been involved.
	Excuse me.
	Have you spoken to the FBI director about it or about the?
	No, I have not.
	I have not.
	But to do that early in the morning, whether or not it was appropriate, you'd have to ask them.
	I've always found Paul Manafort to be a very decent man.
	And he's like a lot of other people, probably makes consultant fees from all over the place.
	Who knows?
	I don't know.
	But I thought that was a very, that was pretty tough stuff.
	Mr. President, to wake him up, perhaps his family was there.
	I think that's pretty tough stuff.
	Mr. President, speaking of the Attorney General, have you how would you categorize your relationship currently with Attorney General Sessions?
	Have you guys spoken about some of the differences you've had in the past?
	It's fine.
	It is what it is.
	It's fine.
	He's working hard on the border.
	I'm very proud of what we've done on the border.
	I'm very proud of General Kelly, what he's done on the border.
	One of the reasons he's my chief of staff right now is because he did such an outstanding job at the border.
	We're down 78%.
	Nobody thought that would be.
	I mean, in the old days with other administrations, if you were down 1%, it was considered a big thing.
	We're down 78% at the border.
	And nobody thought that was possible.
	So I'm very proud of General Kelly.
	He's now chief of staff.
	At the same time, I'm very proud of what we've done over the last six months between Supreme Court, between tremendous amounts of legislation that's been passed.
	You know, we had 42 to 48 bills passed.
	I'm not talking about just executive orders.
	I'm talking about bills passed.
	We had massive executive orders.
	We got rid of record-setting amounts of regulations.
	And a lot of it is statutory where it's a 90-day period, then you have to wait, then it's another 90-day period, you have to wait 30 days.
	Much more is coming out.
	And I believe in regulation.
	You have to have some regulation, but we're going to have a small percentage of regulation compared to what we have.
	And I think that's why you see business enthusiasm is the highest it's been in 18 years, why unemployment is the lowest it's been in 18 years, and then the unemployment rate just came out.
	It's the lowest it's been in 18 years.
	And with that being said, we have companies moving into the United States, whether it's Foxconn, you saw the two large auto companies moving back.
	Probably they'll go to Michigan, but they're negotiating with various states.
	We have done a lot in a short period of time, so I'm very proud of it.
	I think that General Kelly is going to be a fantastic chief of staff, however.
	Mr. President, are you going to increase the U.S. military presidency?
	We are going to look at what's happening in Asia.
	We're looking at it right now.
	We're constantly looking at it.
	I don't like to signal what I'm going to be doing, but we are certainly looking at it.
	And obviously, we're spending a lot of time looking at, in particular, North Korea.
	And we are preparing for many different alternative events at North Korea.
	He has disrespected our country greatly.
	He has said things that are horrific.
	And with me, he's not getting away with it.
	He got away with it for a long time between him and his family.
	He's not getting away with it.
	It's a whole new ball game.
	And he's not going to be saying those things.
	And he's certainly not going to be doing those things.
	I read about we're in Guam by August 15th.
	Let's see what he does with Guam.
	He does something in Guam.
	It will be an event the likes of which nobody's seen before, what will happen in North Korea.
	And when you say that, what do you mean?
	You'll see.
	You'll see.
	And he'll see.
	Get better.
	He will see.
	It's not a dare.
	It's a statement.
	It has nothing to do with dare.
	That's a statement.
	He's not going to go around threatening Guam, and he's not going to threaten the United States, and he's not going to threaten Japan, and he's not going to threaten South Korea.
	No, that's not a dare, as you say.
	That is a statement of fact.
	Mr. President, can you talk about the nuclear posture and what your priorities are there?
	Yeah, nuclear to me, number one, I would like to denuke the world.
	I know that President Obama said global warming is the biggest threat.
	I totally disagree.
	I say that it's a simple one.
	Nuclear is our greatest threat worldwide.
	Not even a question, not even gross.
	So I'd like to denuke the world.
	I would like Russia and the United States.
	All right, for our stations across the Sean Hannity Show network, we're going to stay with this through the break until the top of the hour.
	Stay right there as we continue the Sean Hannity show.
	The first order I gave to my generals, as you know, you know Mike, my first order was, I want this, our nuclear arsenal, to be the biggest and the finest in the world.
	And we've spent a lot of money, a lot of time, and a lot of effort.
	And it's in tip-top shape and getting better and getting stronger.
	And until such time as this scourge disappears, we will be so much better and so much stronger than anybody else.
	And nobody, including North Korea, is going to be threatening us with anything.
	Sir, what specifically have you changed in the nuclear arsenal?
	And the reason I asked is that a lot of experts yesterday, in response to your tweet, said that modernizing the arsenal takes many years.
	It can't be done in six months.
	It's a long process that's only just begun.
	We've done a lot of modernization, but we've done a lot of renovation.
	And we have it now in very, very good shape.
	And it will be in much better shape over the next six months to a year.
	Mr. President.
	It's a very important thing.
	Actually, it was the first.
	Military is very important to me.
	As you know, I did extremely well with the military vote, Mike and I.
	But we are, my first order was, we have to do the military, but before we do the military per se, we're going to do the nuclear.
	And we are in very strong shape.
	We are going to be increasing our budget by many billions of dollars because of North Korea and other reasons having to do with the anti-missile.
	So we are going to be increasing our budget by many billions of dollars.
	We'll probably be able to report that over the next week.
	As you know, we reduced it by 5%, but I've decided I don't want that.
	We're going to be increasing the anti-missiles by a substantial amount of billions of dollars.
	Mr. President, can you share this your latest thoughts on Iran, speaking of nuclear business, and whether you feel like they are in compliance or will be in compliance?
	I don't think Iran is in compliance.
	We wrote them a very tough letter to the, as you know, to the Congress.
	I personally don't think they're in compliance, but we have time, and we're going to see.
	We also put down a lot of defaults or potential default situations.
	I don't think they're living up to the spirit of the agreement.
	President Obama, in his wisdom, gave them $150 billion.
	He gave them $1.8 billion in cash, which is, that's a hard one to figure.
	But that was his decision.
	I think it's a horrible agreement.
	But they are not in compliance with the agreement, and they are certainly not in the spirit of the agreement in compliance.
	And I think you'll see some very strong things taking place if they don't get themselves in compliance.
	But I do not believe they are in compliance right now.
	Mr. President, what's the latest on the leak investigation that the Attorney General announced late last week?
	And is there any separate investigations that you're talking about?
	Yeah, sure.
	We're always looking.
	You have two leaks.
	You have the leaks coming out of intelligence and various departments, having to do with Syria, having to do with all sorts of different places, having to do, frankly, with North Korea.
	And those are very serious.
	And then you have the leaks where people want to love me, and they're all fighting for love.
	Those are not very important, but certainly we don't like them.
	Those are little inner White House leaks.
	They're not very important, but actually I'm somewhat honored by them.
	But the important leaks to me, and the leaks that the Attorney General is looking at very strongly, are the leaks coming out of intelligence.
	And we have to stop them for the security and the national security of our country.
	Mr. President, you're passing notes to the special counsel of Bob Mueller.
	Can you talk a little bit about what those are?
	No, notes.
	We're working with them.
	I mean, we have a situation which is very unusual.
	Everybody said there's no collusion.
	You look at the councils that come in.
	We have a Senate hearing.
	We have judiciary.
	We have intelligence.
	So we have a House hearing.
	And everybody walks out.
	Even the enemies, they said, no, well, there's no collusion.
	There's no collusion.
	So they're investigating something that never happened.
	There was no collusion between us and Russia.
	In fact, the opposite.
	Russia spent a lot of money on fighting me.
	And if you think about it, I want a strong military.
	You see, our budget is up by, it will be hundreds of billions of dollars soon.
	Our military budget.
	Russia doesn't like that.
	Hillary was going to cut the budget substantially, the military budget.
	Russia is very important for Russia, oil.
	Oil and gas.
	We are now an exporter because of an incredible six months that I had, an exporter of oil and gas.
	That's bad for Russia.
	I always said, I don't think Russia wants me because I want a strong military and I want low energy prices.
	Energy is a disaster.
	Low energy prices is a disaster for Russia.
	Additionally, it seems that Russia spent a lot of money on that false report, and that was Russian money.
	And I think it was Democrat money, too.
	You could say that was collusion.
	Plus, the Democrats colluded on the Ukraine, so they colluded.
	And then when you get down to it, why isn't the FBI looking at the DNC server?
	You have a server that they refused, the Democrats refused to give to the FBI.
	Now, I don't know how the FBI can investigate something if the DNC, the Democrats, refuse to give the server.
	So we have an investigation of something that never took place.
	And all I say is work with them because this is an event that never took place.
	Now, as far as somebody else where, did they file the right papers or did they forget to file a paper?
	You know, I guarantee if you went around and looked at everybody that made a speech or whatever these people did, that's up to them.
	Did they do something wrong because they didn't file the right document or whatever?
	Perhaps you'll have to look at them.
	But I guarantee you this, probably a lot of people in Washington did the same thing.
	Mr. President, given your harsh criticism of Democrats just now, how are you going to bring them in on things like infrastructure or well we'll have to see.
	I'm not sure that we will bring them in.
	I mean, maybe we'll bring them in, maybe not.
	I think the infrastructure bill will be bipartisan.
	In fact, frankly, I may have more support from the Democrats.
	I want a very strong infrastructure, Bill.
	We've, as of this moment, spent over $6 trillion in the Middle East.
	As far as I'm concerned, when I say spent, we've wasted $6 trillion.
	All right, a very informative support for McMaster, 9,000 people out of the federal government.
	He talked at length about the raid of Paul Manafort's home and how, wow, that was pretty tough stuff and probably not the norm.
	Early morning raid.
	Jeff Sessions, more moderate voice of support, and he talked a lot about the success of the border and General Kelly.
	Also, a lot about North Korea.
	And, yeah, if he does something to Guam, the likes of which the world has never seen, not a dare statement of fact.
	And he's going to spend more money to update our nuclear facilities, anti-missile ballistics, and much, much more.
	And, well, the Democrats want to work with him.
	Fine.
	Not fine.
	All right.
	That and much more coming up here on the Sean Hannity show.
	And he says Iran, by the way, is not living up to their nuclear deal.
	All coming up.
	We'll get to that.
	We have to get into the investigative things that the president mentioned as well.
	Straight ahead.
	All right.
	News roundup, information overload.
	Now, the president just talked about North Korea, McMaster, Sessions, how he's going to deal.
	It's a statement of fact if they go after Guam, North Korea.
	Also, Iran not living up to their stuff.
	We're going to get to that in just a minute.
	But first, let me remind you of what Rod Rosenstein said over the weekend.
	You had to sign an order authorizing the appointment of a special counsel, and you said that he was authorized to investigate any coordination with Russia and, I want to put these words on the screen, any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.
	My question is: does that mean that there are no red lines that Mueller or any special counsel can investigate under the terms of your order anything he finds?
	Well, Chris, the special counsel is subject to the rules and regulations of the Department of Justice, and we don't engage in phishing expeditions.
	Now, that order that you read, that doesn't detail specifically who may be the subject in investigation because we don't reveal that publicly.
	But Bob Mueller understands, and I understand, the specific scope of the investigation, and so no, it's not a phishing expedition.
	I understand it's not a phishing expedition, but you say any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.
	In the course of his investigation of the issues that he is looking at, if he finds evidence of a crime, can he look at that?
	Well, Chris, if he finds evidence of a crime that's within the scope of what Director Mueller and I have agreed is the appropriate scope of his investigation, then he can.
	If it's something outside that scope, he needs to come to the acting attorney general, at this time me, for permission to expand his investigation.
	But we don't talk about that publicly, and so the speculation you've seen in the news media, that's not anything that I've said.
	It's not anything Director Mueller said.
	We don't know who's saying it or how credible those sources are.
	People ask about this, of course, because you have Ken Starr and Whitewater, and it began with a failed real estate deal in Arkansas and ended up with Monica Lewinsky to expand.
	He would need to get approval from you to expand the nature of the investigation.
	That's correct, just as did Ken Starr.
	You know, Ken Starr received an expansion, which believed it was initiated by the Department of Justice by Janet Reno that resulted in that investigation.
	All right, news roundup and information overload.
	One of my biggest complaints is it seems that this is a phishing expedition.
	And of course, the many, many conflicts of Robert Mueller that I keep talking about, not the least of which is hiring Hillary's attorney and eight attorneys that have donated to Obama, Democrats, or Hillary Clinton.
	Makes no sense.
	Not one has donated to any Republican.
	I said last night on TV, and I'll reiterate today, Paul Manafort has made a huge error.
	Instead of doing the things that Hillary Clinton did, and I'm sorry, that means, oh, he should have deleted subpoenaed emails.
	He should have acid-washed and bleach-bit his computers, his hard drives, and his servers.
	He should have taken a hammer to his varying devices like BlackBerries and iPhones or have somebody do it for him.
	And if he did send anything to the FBI before their pre-dawn raid, in terms of devices, it certainly should not have had any SIM cards in them, which render them useless.
	Could have followed the example of Hillary Clinton or the example of Debbie Wassum and Schultz.
	Government hard drives smashed into itty-bitty pieces in the garage of the IT guy who had double billed and had people hired that apparently had no IT experience.
	Or he could have taken the example of Eric Holder and just refused to hand over anything, and they all disappeared.
	That's what Eric Holder did.
	Or he could have had meetings on the tarmac on a plane and talk about grandkids like Loretta Lynch did with Bill Clinton just before a decision's made.
	You get my point.
	Joining us now.
	Joe DeGenova.
	He is the with the Washington firm, law firm, DeGeneva Tunsing.
	And also with us, Greg Jarrett, Fox News, legal analyst.
	Thank you both for being with us.
	Joe DeGenova, I mean, look, I know everything that I'm saying here sarcastically is I'm saying that Paul Manafort, before his pre-dawn raid, should have committed crimes.
	But apparently, there's no consequences if you commit crimes like that, so he should have done it, right?
	Yeah, well, no, no, and you don't mean it either.
	No, I don't.
	The truth is, if you're a Democrat, you can get away with a lot.
	And James Comey and Hillary Clinton and Loretta Lynch proved that there's a double standard of justice in America.
	There should have been a grand jury in the Hillary Clinton email matter.
	There wasn't one.
	Comey did that purposely.
	Loretta Lynch did that purposely.
	Why were there no subpoenas?
	Why were there no search warrants in those cases where there was a clear violation of the Espionage Act?
	The truth is that this is this.
	There exists, and it is playing out today, a double standard.
	I don't know if Paul Manafort did anything.
	And obviously, if he violated the law, then obviously he's a man enough to take the consequences.
	This is not about that.
	This is about process.
	This is about two standards of justice in America.
	One, if you're a liberal, a progressive, and a Democrat.
	The other, if you're a Republican and a conservative.
	The consequences of this over the long haul for the lack of public confidence in the judicial process and the Department of Justice investigative process are serious.
	They're very serious.
	And I'm just, I'm so furious about the fact that nothing was done, nothing was done to truly investigate Hillary Clinton, and there's nothing that anybody can do about it at this point unless they want to reopen those cases.
	I favor that.
	I favor that.
	I favor investigating that through the Clinton Foundation, finally establishing a grand jury to investigate that and the bribery that went on at the State Department when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
	You have a right to be mad.
	I'm mad, and there's a reason to be mad.
	If we're going to have equal justice under the law, and I think Joe is pointing out the long-term impact of all of this, Greg Jarrett, I mean, if you really think this through, and Hillary can get away with the leading subpoenaed emails in the tens of thousands and the bleach bit and the acid wash and the smashing and the no SIM card game of hers and then Uranium One, as Joe rightly mentions, if all of that can happen, and I'm being sarcastic because I really would never encourage Paul Manafort or anybody to break the law.
	I think you've got to obey the law.
	But if she gets away with it, we don't have equal justice under the law, and the damage, long-term damage to the justice system is what?
	Well, we now know that, and Joe's right, the James Comey investigation, together with Loretta Lynch, of Hillary Clinton was never a real investigation.
	It looks increasingly like the fix was in.
	How do we know that?
	Well, they never convened a grand jury over the course of a year-long investigation, even though they gave five different witnesses immunity.
	Others took the fifth.
	Hillary Clinton wasn't sworn under oath when she interviewed briefly with the FBI and could only remember her name and date of birth and nothing else.
	And then James Comey lays out a...
	By the way, you're more sarcastic than I am.
	I thought I was pretty bad.
	Comey lays out a perfect compelling case of how she violated the Espionage Act and then jumps to the erroneous conclusion that no reasonable prosecutor would bring the case when I think just about every prosecutor in America would have been licking their chops.
	There was so much evidence.
	They'd love to bring a case like that.
	Comey twisted and tortured the law.
	It's not intent to break the law.
	It's intentional acts that break the law.
	And, you know, this wasn't a real and serious investigation.
	So now the House Judiciary Committee has called for a second special counsel to do a real investigation of Hillary Clinton, and that should be done.
	All right.
	So, well, we know Ed Klein used to work for Time magazine.
	I think he was one of the major editors over there.
	And we now know that he's reporting today.
	A longtime Clinton attorney was told late last month that the former FBI director's decision last July not to prosecute Hillary, that the Justice Department has reexamined the email case and believes there are ample grounds for prosecuting Hillary on a number of counts.
	Is that all possible?
	It's happening and it hasn't been leaked and we don't know.
	Joe DeGenova.
	It may be.
	I was shocked to hear because we hadn't heard anything about the investigation of the criminal leaks of classified information.
	The other day, when Dan Coates, the director of national intelligence, and Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, held a press conference about the leaks of classified information, they indicated that there were, in fact, criminal investigations underway.
	Now, they did not say they were about the various leaks, such as the president's telephone transcripts with foreign leaders or things like that.
	But I cannot believe that those things are not under investigation.
	They must be under investigation.
	Otherwise, the notion that people who take an oath, get a green check every two weeks, can just with impunity reveal classified information to the press is absurd.
	And that's why, as much as I hate to say it, if you're going to issue subpoenas and search warrants, you better start issuing them to news organizations because it's the only way you're going to find it.
	And that doesn't mean you're going to prosecute the news organizations.
	you mean by that because you know what I have sources that nobody else has Joe and I don't really want I mean what would well if you were my attorney for example and I'd fight like hell for you not to turn it over But the problem is, if you're going to find out who the leakers are, first of all, I would subpoena all the telephone records and emails of everybody that has access to all these information.
	You can do that.
	It's perfectly legal.
	Once you have a grand jury and you're trying to find out who a leaker is, you can get the phone and email records of anybody who works for the federal government or doesn't work for the federal government.
	I mean, you can do the journalists last because you don't need to get to them.
	But ultimately, if you have to, you've got to do it.
	Well, Greg?
	Going after journalists is a bit of a morass.
	Although, actually, if you look at the statute on publishing classified information, it makes a crime to not only disseminate but publish.
	But, of course, under the Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court set some limited First Amendment standards to protect journalists.
	So, I mean, you would get into a legal quagmire there.
	But, of course, we have seen judges holding contempt of courts, not criminally prosecuted, but contempt of court.
	Journalists like Judith Miller in the Valerie Plain case to try to force her to cough up a source.
	Don't you think in the Manafort case that really there's going to at some point, especially with the people we know that Mueller appointed, that they're going to say, Paul, Paul, just give us a name.
	Just, you know, you'll go free.
	Don't worry about it.
	Otherwise, you're facing 30 years in jail.
	You'll die in jail.
	Is that conversation going to take place, likely?
	Well, it took place in the Valerie Plain manor because Scooter Libby was told by Patrick Fitzgerald, we'll drop the whole case.
	This was before he was indicted.
	We'll drop everything if you'll give us what you have on Cheney.
	Well, of course, he didn't have anything on Cheney because Dick Cheney didn't break the law.
	But that is exactly what happened there.
	And, you know, Muller.
	Is that a common tactic, Joe as well?
	Absolutely.
	It happens all the time when you try to choose.
	In other words, I might do that with Manafort, although I can't imagine Manafort has anything on Trump.
	He wasn't the head of the campaign for more than a couple of months.
	Yeah, I agree with Joe completely.
	I mean, he wasn't there long enough to know anything.
	And after a year's investigation, there's still no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia.
	And even if they did, it's not a crime.
	Right.
	So, you know, I find it hard to believe that they'll try to flip Manafort, but I don't think they can get anything from him.
	I mean, Manafort may be in trouble for things like failing to properly register as a foreign agent.
	Right.
	Maybe his financial dealings weren't completely on the up and up.
	That has nothing to do with President Trump.
	Quick break.
	We'll come back.
	Joe DeGenova and Greg Jarrett are with us.
	All right, as we continue, Joe DeGenova, DeGenova and Tunsing is with us.
	Greg Jarrett, my friend and colleague from the Fox News Channel, is with us.
	You know, there is this grand jury that we now know has been convened, Joe, and we learned something a little bit today about who the judge is in this particular case.
	Are you aware of Beryl Howell?
	I know who it is, but I have never appeared before this person or know much about them.
	Yeah, well, these.
	I can tell you a little about her.
	Okay.
	She is the one who's presiding, we believe, over the D.C. grand jury.
	That's correct.
	Which means she is making the decisions on subpoenas and witness testimony, any potential executive privilege and Fifth Amendment assertions.
	And guess what, Sean?
	In the past, she worked very closely with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and one of Robert Mueller's top staff attorneys in this case, the special counsel case, Andrew Weissman.
	In fact, Judge Howell and Weissman co-authored a scholarly law article that explored, guess what, obstruction of justice.
	And that, of course, just happens to be part of what Mueller is reportedly investigating.
	I just can't believe, Joe.
	I'm reading this, and even though she worked for Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, oh, but she's a very straight arrow.
	Why am I not buying that?
	Well, you know, I've given up trying to find all the contacts and the cross-references here because they're everywhere in this case.
	I, for one, cannot understand why Bob Mueller did not from the very beginning try to understand the optics of hiring all these Democrats and people who had given to Hillary Clinton.
	I mean, it is such an awful appearance.
	And I don't care how brave and how bold and how honest Bob Mueller is.
	Appearances do matter for something.
	We've been told this for years by the Democrats.
	Even the whiff of a minor hint of a smell is supposed to destroy someone's career.
	And yet when it happens in a situation like this, they just don't care about it.
	You know, I'm apoplectic about how Bob Mueller has forgotten that appearances matter.
	I've heard people say he's naive and he's not political.
	For heaven's sakes, you don't have to be naive or political to worry about the appearances of something like this, but apparently he doesn't think there's anything wrong.
	I can only say this.
	If there are charges that come out of this and they involve anybody other than Manafort, the amount of evidence that exists better be damn good for him to have any credibility when the process is over.
	I really think we have this investigative creep that is scaring me.
	Do you both see that, Greg?
	Do you see we start?
	Go ahead.
	Well, I mean, I totally do.
	And it was such a farce and a charade for Rosenstein on Fox News Sunday to say, oh, well, you know, it'll be within the scope of the investigation, and otherwise Mueller would have to get permission to go beyond the scope.
	There is no scope.
	I'm looking to Rosenstein's directive the day he appointed Robert Mueller.
	And the third line is any other matters, which is carte blanche.
	I mean, you know, you can go after Greg Jarrett for a traffic violation here.
	Any other matter.
	Yeah, there are no real limits on this investigation, no matter what Rod said.
	And God bless him.
	I'm sure he's being honest and forthright.
	But the truth is, I can't imagine Rod saying no to him.
	Under what circumstances would he said no if you made a request to expand it?
	What if he gets involved in it?
	He could be a potential witness in the whole thing.
	He is.
	He is.
	That's a good point.
	A prosecutor, investigator, and a witness all rolled into one.
	Rosenstein is.
	All right, guys, I got a roll.
	Thank you, Greg Jarrett.
	Thank you, Joe DeGenova.
	Appreciate all your hard work.
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	There's been a bit of a battle over the president's endorsement this week.
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	I proudly support him.
	And, you know, let me first get into the issue of, I guess, the endorsement issue.
	And you had a great relationship.
	I know you've had a developing, let me put it this way.
	I think a developing relationship with President Trump that's gotten better and better and better.
	But do you think the endorsement issue was more about, you were pretty hard against him during the campaign?
	Well, I think the endorsement issue was really about Mitch McConnell in the swamp being able to put a decades-long Washington lobbyist into the United States Senate in hopes of keeping him there.
	That's Luther Strange, decades-long Washington lobbyist.
	He fits right in.
	It's not about me because there are eight other candidates in the Republican primary who are opposing Luther Strange, the decades-long Washington lobbyist.
	So I'm baffled by it, particularly in light of the criticism that President Trump has leveled against Mitch McConnell.
	It doesn't make any sense if you're dissatisfied with Mitch McConnell to then go and endorse Mitch McConnell's guy.
	So Mitch McConnell must have met with President Trump and really offered something in exchange for this endorsement.
	Now, what it may be, I have no idea.
	And I'm not sure.
	You know, the president's pretty busy, and he's got a lot of people pulling at him.
	And I don't know if he's had a chance to look at what's been going on here in the state of Alabama or to look at the record of Luther Strange.
	But one of the biggest issues is this 60% rule, the filibuster rule, that blocks President Trump's entire agenda.
	And President Trump has figured it out.
	He wants to go to majority rule in the United States Senate.
	He wants to get rid of that 60% rule that empowers Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to block every single constructive thing we conservatives want to do.
	And I'm with President Trump on that issue.
	Luther Strange on April the 7th signed a letter urging Chuck Schumer, the Democrat leader, and Mitch McConnell to keep the 60% rule that kills the entire agenda for conservatives.
	That is the double agenda for Republicans and for President Trump.
	So it's just baffling to me.
	That is so dumb.
	That is so dangerous.
	Because look, the Democrats don't play fair by the rules.
	You know, look at how the Republicans gave Obama all of his appointments in an up or down vote.
	They did it very quickly.
	And same with Supreme Court nominees.
	Expeditiously, you'd get a vote.
	And, you know, the Democrats don't play by those rules.
	They play by very different rules.
	I don't know what the relationship is with Mitch, but it doesn't seem good between him and the president.
	The president tweeted out, Mitch, get back to work and put repeal and replace and tax reform and cuts and great infrastructure bills on my desk for signing.
	You can do it.
	And can you believe Mitch McConnell, who has screamed repeal and replace for seven years, couldn't get it done?
	We must repeal and replace Obamacare.
	Senator McConnell said, I had excessive expectations.
	I don't think so after seven years of hearing repeal and replace.
	Why isn't it done?
	And they couldn't even get the skinny bill done, Congressman.
	And that angers me.
	Well, it ought to anger you, and it ought to be angering the American people.
	Donald Trump, he promised us that he was going to drain the swamp.
	And in this instance, what is the swamp?
	The swamp are the K-Street lobbyists.
	The swamp are the special interest groups that put their interests above America's interests, and with their money, they seduce congressmen into senators into voting the wrong way.
	Well, in this particular race, the decades-long lobbyist Luther Strange is the swamp's candidate.
	And so I hope that the president will reconsider the position he has taken, particularly in light of what I hope will be information that is coming to him about the nominee of the Republican Party that he wants to put in place for this Senate race against the Democrats in December.
	We'll see how it all plays out.
	But on our end, we're fighting hard.
	We're in a tough three-person race right now.
	Out of nine candidates, it's pretty much coalesced around Mo Brooks, myself, Luther Strange, and Judge Roy Moore.
	Two of us will make the runoff.
	And if there are people out there, Sean, that want to help, please they can go to MoBrooksforsenate.com.
	MoBrooksforsenate.com.
	Help me ditch the Mitch.
	Yeah.
	Well, look, I'm not sure if endorsements really play that big a role.
	I guess we'll see whether it does or not.
	I know how popular you are in northern Alabama, and that's the Huntsville, Decatur, and Athens area.
	I know people are very supportive of you, and they've known you for many, many years.
	And I know that the people of Birmingham are pretty supportive of you as well.
	And how are you doing down in southern Alabama in Montgomery and those areas?
	Well, we're competitive in most parts of the state.
	Of course, I'm strongest in North Alabama where people know me the best.
	And this Luther Strange negative attack ad, basically a carpet bombing of my reputation, it gets people mad in North Alabama because they know it's not true.
	They know I'm not a Nancy Pelosi ally.
	They know I don't support the Islamic State.
	Oh, good.
	Well, I'm a personal defense because that's what Luther Strange is saying about me in his attack ads.
	And they're just crazy.
	But in South Alabama and Middle Alabama, they don't know me as well as, say, Sean Hennedy does.
	And Sean, you can attest I'm nothing like those attack ads.
	Listen, Congressman, I've known you for 27 years.
	I mean, you're one of the hardest working, more principled guys that I know.
	And the more important thing is, unlike a lot of these guys, you keep your promises.
	You know, I got to tell you, one of the saddest things that I think I've ever seen in my life is how many Republicans just do not have any desire to keep simple, basic, fundamental promises, and they're willing to break them.
	And I didn't like the whole deal as it went down with the appointment of Luther Strange.
	And I don't know the guy, but everything that I read about him is, yeah, he seems like a pretty establishment guy, and that bothers me.
	And the people of Alabama, I know they're very supportive of President Trump.
	And I would tend to agree with you that maybe I would imagine the president doesn't know you as well as I do.
	And maybe this guy made an appeal to him behind the scenes that he promised that he'd be supportive of the president's agenda.
	I don't know, but it doesn't sound like it based on his previous actions where yours does.
	Well, if you've got a senator who is supporting the 60% rule, you can say all you want that you're going to vote for the president's bills, but they only get a vote if you first get past that 60% threshold.
	Well, agreed.
	We got to go.
	We've got lined up.
	They can't get to the 60% threshold, so they don't come up for a four-vote.
	So it doesn't make any difference.
	We've got to change the 60% rule in the Senate that Chuck Schumer is using to kill our entire legislative agenda.
	All right.
	Let me ask you one last question.
	What can people do?
	This takes place on Tuesday.
	This is a big primary.
	And what can people do to help Mo Brooks down in Alabama?
	Well, first, if they want to help, go to mobrooksforsenate.com, mobrooksforsenate.com.
	Help us change Mitch McConnell out as the majority leader and get a bold, new conservative, somebody who's got the energy, someone who's got the commitment to actually fight for the values that we have, not just go through the motions.
	Second thing you can do is, again, I'm getting carpet bombed by all sorts of negative ads.
	Don't take Luther Strange's word for it.
	Don't take my word for it on who I am.
	Listen to Sean Hannity.
	Listen to Laura Ingram.
	Listen to Mark Levin.
	Listen to the Tea Party Patriots.
	Listen to the Senate Conservatives Fund.
	Look at my record with Heritage Action.
	Look at my record with Numbers USA on border security.
	Go to third-party sources and decide for yourself who's telling the truth.
	And I think you'll discern relatively quickly that if you want someone who's got a spotless ethics record in the United States Senate, who puts his country first, and if you want a principled conservative, then you'll vote for Mo Brooks.
	All right, Mo Brooks, that takes place Tuesday in the great state of Alabama.
	I lived there for a number of years, and I got to know Mo personally around, I guess, 1990 thereabouts.
	And I wish you the best, Congressman.
	You've been a real champion with the Freedom Caucus, frankly, the only group of people I honestly trust anymore.
	And I know you're working hard.
	We wish you all the best on Tuesday.
	We'll be watching very closely Mo Brooks on the Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, let's go to Lynette.
	She's in Claremont in Florida.
	Lynette, hi, how are you?
	And welcome to the program.
	Thank you for having me.
	What's going on?
	Well, I have Obamacare.
	I was forced to get this last year because I don't get insurance through my employer.
	And I got married in October.
	Congratulations.
	They want to pay me back.
	Thank you.
	They want me to pay back the $2,400 that they gave me when they forced me to get Obamacare.
	I mean, we've got to do something.
	We've got to repeal, replace, or do something.
	And if Mitch O'Connell can't get it done, we need to put someone in there that can.
	Absolutely.
	It's getting ridiculous.
	You know, look.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	They want me to come up with $2,400 now to pay back my insurance that they forced me to get.
	$2,400, you just got married.
	They want the money back.
	That's a lot of money.
	That's a lot of money.
	Just like an $8,000 premium increase for a lot of people is a lot of money.
	116% increase in premiums in Arizona, Senator McCain.
	That's a lot of money.
	People are suffering.
	I didn't get it anywhere else.
	I mean, they forced me to go through the marketplace, and I didn't get married in January.
	Well, when I filed my taxes, they take it as if I got married in January.
	So even though I got married in October, I couldn't go on my husband's insurance until October.
	So now they want their money back.
	I'm like, really?
	I'm going to have to go do a GoFundMe plan or something to get this money.
	I'm so sorry.
	And I got to imagine, you know, you're trying to start life and get your family going, et cetera, et cetera.
	All right, Lynette, thank you for the call.
	You're in my prayers.
	Thank you so much.
	800-941-SHAWN I just want him to get repeal and replace done.
	I've been hearing repeal and replace now for seven years, but I've only been doing this for two years.
	And I've really only been doing this for six months, but I've been running.
	So now it's almost two years.
	And all I hear is repeal and replace.
	And then I get there and I said, where's the bill?
	I want to sign it first day.
	And they don't have it.
	And they passed repeal and replace, but they never had a president, frankly, or a senate that was going to do it.
	But they never had a president, so it didn't matter.
	So I say very simply, where is repeal and replace?
	But I said, Mitch, get to work and let's get it done.
	They should have had this last one done.
	They lost by one vote.
	For a thing like that to happen is a disgrace.
	And frankly, it shouldn't have happened.
	That I can tell you.
	Senator McConnell considered stepping down as majority here.
	There's some conservative analysts, including Tom Hannity.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	If he doesn't get repeal and replace done, and if he doesn't get taxes done, meaning cuts and reform, and if he doesn't get a very easy one to get done infrastructure, if he doesn't get them done, then you can ask me that question.
	All right, we'll have all of this tonight, 10 Eastern on Fox News, the president ratcheting up against Senator McConnell and the North Korean nuclear threat.
	That's all coming up tonight at 10.
	What options are there?
	We've got Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer, General Jack Keene.
	We're going to check in with Mike Waltz, John Bolton tonight.
	Also, the President versus Senator McConnell, Lou Dobbs tonight.
	How did my name come up at this presser?
	Lanny Davis on how to deal with controversy and problems and also more left-wing hate that we will deal with.
	10 Eastern, Hannity Fox.
	See you back here tomorrow.
	See you tonight at 10.

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