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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 uh spoke to the press, I believe he's in Bedminster in New Jersey, as everyone's reporting on vacation.
I'm vacation.
Maybe my fury threat wasn't tough enough, Trump saying 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.
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 uh 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?
The North Koreans uh said yesterday that you're taking on Tuesday with nonsense.
That's the word that they use.
Do you have any response?
Well, I don't think they mean that, and I think they uh it's the first time they've heard it like they heard it.
Uh and frankly, uh 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 uh if anything, maybe that statement wasn't tough enough.
And we're backed by a hundred percent 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 hiring theory?
Well, you'll see.
You'll see.
Mr. President, is one of the options being considered a preemption 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.
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 talked.
It's about time.
Somebody has to do it.
Somebody has to do that.
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 I 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 replaced, but they never had a president, frankly, or a Senate that was going to do it, but they never have 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.
And let's include John Hannah, it's 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 a very 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 an emergency use, so why don't you critique it?
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.
Secretary Tillerson seems to advocate for the closely.
Secretary Mattis seems to advocate for more.
There are no mixed messages.
There are no mixed messages.
I heard uh, I mean, to be honest, uh General Mattis may have taken it a step beyond what I said.
Uh 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 of North Korea?
They see images that these people coming up in the air with the pressure off, they see your thing and back fire and jury.
Should they be comfortable if you have this understanding?
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 who 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.
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 for trade.
A lot differently toward trade.
So we will uh 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 gonna 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 will uh we're gonna take a few more questions, okay?
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, that's expected to take place at four o'clock.
Um, so glad I played it.
Uh I was preparing and watching on the periphery, 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, if people ask me all the time, well, Annity, 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 is he's right about North Korea.
And Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un and 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 and billions and billions and 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.
Then you got hypocrites.
You know, we 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 Maxi More.
Except when Donald Trump's the president.
What do I like about what are the qualities there that he's showing that I like its strength, its determination, it's urgency, it's hey, Senator McConnell, get your act together.
Uh 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're 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 caveat uh in little biscuits and and champagne dream you to death.
We're so much so superior.
Like, look at Mitch McConnell's comments yesterday.
Can you bring me in a verbatim of that?
Mitch McConnell yesterday.
Mitch McConnell was all over the place.
You know, for sure, man, but I know everybody's saying we've been there and done anything.
Which uh I found extremely urgent.
And I'm gonna tell you why.
Well, stop right there.
You haven't done anything.
Now 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.
Now let me just finish one thought, then we'll get back to McConnell.
The 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.
And I'm not I don't want any military action against North Korea unless it's a thousand percent necessary.
And that means that that the potential that he's gonna launch weapons at New York City or Boston or Hawaii or a friend of mine in Hawaii raised me today, and literally says to me, uh, 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 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 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 on walking on broken glass, and saying, Oh, please, Mr. Kim Jong un, please, please, can I bribe you?
Can I offer you millions?
What if we gave you a trillion?
Will you pretty 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.
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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.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 uh 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 gonna 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 if you look at the questions, the there's only so far appeaseman can get you.
And when Bill Clinton said that there's a good deal for American people and they're not gonna 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 gonna 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 I 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 replaced, 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.
I don't think they're coming down here.
They're not comparative.
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 yeah, Mitch McConnell, and of course, you know, I know we've been hearing look, this is my Mitch McConnell.
You know, 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.
Is that mean?
That's not because you know what I mean.
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 drawing.
I'm Jeremy Keane.
I just I'm so angry.
Angry, angry, angry, but I'm not angry.
He is so angry.
I'll play a tape of him saying, Bomb bomb bomb around.
When do we send them to the wheel?
Alright, we'll play it.
We'll play it later.
So anyway, now our president, he's not been in my line of book before.
I find this so extraordinarily irritating.
Should I do that voice?
Do you like that one better?
Uh with Congress goes on for two years, Mr. President.
Two years.
Don't you know things work around here?
Oh.
And you're saying we haven't done much.
The president in these these rabble hours is on radio that John McCain says can go straight to hell.
You know, they have put in this 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 caveat 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 is not been in this line of work.
He's a frankly's he sounds rather blue-collar, boorish to me.
A little bit crude.
He talks like, yeah, he's even mentioned locker room talk.
We save that for the Senate cloakroom.
Well, what that being 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 on performing 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 news is 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 jeez.
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, you know, benefited from the better economy we have, etc.
etc.
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'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 be I'd actually be 40 on a 40-foot ladder calling in to talk show hosts.
The talk show hosts.
I swear to God, I'd have I when the first cell phones first came out, yeah.
Those big bulky things, you know, that were like that.
Crazy.
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.
Uh stay on home, please.
I'm like, oh, you gotta hurry.
Gotta go to the bathroom.
I gotta run.
The mom and dad might come home.
I might be caught.
Oh, it's 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, I 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, uh I'll get it done in after eight months.
We don't live in that world.
I keep saying none.
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.
What is a martini lunch?
Sometimes I will confess I'll play golf early in the morning, about seven, and we might have a bloody merry by eight.
But that did not say that.
And then I go home and nap it off like 10 at 10:30 because I'm tired.
And I worked the night before, so I'm already exhausted because I only went to sleep at three.
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.
It's so frustrating.
Ed Klein, who used to work with uh Time magazine is reporting that, in fact, um, 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 Muller 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.
24 people impaneled there, two dozen people.
And uh anyway, they'll be the ones grilling witnesses and demanding Trump associate documents.
And the 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 hour 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 got a Democratic judge that worked on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Oh, that's great.
Anyway, we'll find out what happens there.
Uh she worked for Pat Lahey.
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 at National Review now.
Had it with all those people.
They're just hoping and praying that they can stick their fingers in the face of Americans, and then 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 like like 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 you 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, the Donald Trump, energizing business, getting rid of needless waste fraud abuse and regulation, Obama era 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.
Well, 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 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 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 gonna speak again, and uh, if it's worthwhile, newsworthy, we're gonna cover it for you live.
Why?
Because that's what we do.
News, information, opinion.
You don't get anywhere else.
Then we're gonna 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 de Geneva, Greg Jarrett, Buzz Patterson, Lieutenant Colonel McEnary, Jonathan Gillam, Rickunger, 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 state.
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 said yesterday that your statement on Tuesday was nonsense.
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 uh it's the first time they've heard it like they heard it.
Uh and frankly, uh, the people that were questioning that statement was it too tough?
Maybe it wasn't tough enough.
They've been doing this in 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 uh if anything, maybe that statement wasn't tough enough.
And we're backed by a hundred percent 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 mad.
He might get mad at us.
I don't, you know.
Oh, gee.
Oh, that I'm afraid.
Well, that's what got us into this mess.
And while you got people like Mad Dog Mattis, you know, literally telling North Korea that okay, we'll incinerate your ass, and and you better stop messing with us in the world and blackmailing us in the world and threatening everybody's lives.
I mean, it's 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 gonna 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 and and on Hannity and Dr. Gorka.
Oh, I got to add one other piece of Trump blasted 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 you know, smashing you know, 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 the and saying it 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 for sake of shock value.
It's like if I ever get arrested, there's gonna be cameras.
I'm gonna be perp walked, handcuffed, mugshotted, mugshot released immediately to the press.
And they may they that's they you know that's why I pay my taxes.
I that's why I do everything right, because I just I 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, uh 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.
TikTok, TikTok, TikTok.
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 McEnery, former pilot, commander, and strategic planner in the U.S. Air Force, also joining us, Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson.
Remember, he caught 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 uh well, I really should say Colonel.
Forgive my familiarity.
Um, but uh Colonel, I'm really thinking, uh, Colonel Patterson, I'm really beginning to think here that wow, everything Bill Clinton said this when he announced this 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 uh you just laid it out perfectly.
Uh in addition to signing that agreement with uh North Korea, we actually gave North Korea four billion dollars and provided them with two additional reactors, which they've they've uh been using obviously to crank out these weapons over the last ten, twenty years.
So we've we've shown time and time again in this country that appeasement is not work.
We're paying for it in Worth Korea today.
We're paying for it in Iran, and uh it's time for someone like Donald Trump to step up, call a status fade, and let's get to work.
You know, I again I would not want to be on the receiving end of the arsenal that we have should this guy decide to uh uh 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.
Uh all these years of appeasement have not borne any fruit, has it?
No, it hasn't, Sean, and uh this is uh 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 fifty 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.
Well, say they fire they fire off fifty of them, we knock out forty, and ten of them hit U.S. cities, and we destroy North Korea.
Well, what do you think the Russians and Chinese are gonna do?
Our economy is in shambles.
We're a mess after ten 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 gonna have to stand up and and we're going to have to do a number of things to make this change, and one of them and 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 build up on continuing resolutions.
And we've got to form a Pacific Area Treaty organization, just like NATO, but to can't 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 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 THAAD 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 uh we say our 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 gonna go until they've been in the air for a while.
So so we have no choice.
And by the way, if one if one artillery round comes out of North Korea on the 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 gonna retaliate with nuclear weapons.
But when I say no good option, and I want to get uh 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 gonna incinerate that place.
The nuclear fallout, correct me if I'm wrong, even if we we'd use you know, buster uh uh bunker bombs and other technologies is is the fallout potential is dramatic.
I mean, potentially the 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 you can can contain that.
Look how many.
How do you contain nuclear fallout though?
How do you do that?
Well, you you contain it with with air bursts 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 gonna 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 uh the fact is is unless he starts taking these actions, and the things I said I would do them, except for the two of recalling the Congress and Peito, Secretary 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, current that's twice.
You ought to you ought to throw me in the in the brick.
Yeah.
What's up, Carl Colonel?
Yeah, I agree with that, you know, uh almost to a T. I I I would also uh like to throw up an option there where we actually did a preemptive um tactical strike um prior to getting that um down that farther down the uh the the spectrum in terms of actual nuclear weapons.
I think we could take care of his capability, knock him off the grid, uh take care of things along those lines.
And by you I will tell you, I warned the audience too, you know, having been the nuclear football carrier and seen how quickly we have to make those decisions uh if we are in fact fired upon, it's gonna be a matter of a handful of minutes.
It's not gonna be hours or days or weeks, it's gonna be minutes, and the process has to work um exceptionally well, and it has to work very, very quickly.
Um so if it if it does happen in the middle of the night, it's gonna 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, uh, the president speaking today.
Mo Brooks, we 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.
Uh we continue with Colonel Buzz, uh Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, Lieutenant General Thomas McEnery, and you know, General McInerney, I just I guess my 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 gonna realize that we are serious and we will not tolerate the 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 I think that uh they do not want us to destroy and unify South Korea.
Uh excuse me, South and North Korea.
And that's what this is going to lead to.
So I think that uh President J is gonna 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 we will go may go to the brink, and we may have to go now.
Let me just say without getting too sensitive, because 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 the decision could be made ahead of time.
Is that what you're saying?
Yes.
Okay, understood.
Uh and delegated to the theater commander.
Well, I mean, aren't they the ones that would know best?
I mean, but uh in other words, especially with a quick emerging situation on the ground, Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson.
Uh your thoughts on that.
Well, uh General McIntyre is correct.
We could delegate that President Bush, President Tr Trump could delegate that.
Uh the way the process is designed currently, um, that would work tactically.
In terms of um going again down the spectrum uh to uh full-blown Armageddon, uh that's where uh 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.
Um but President Trump has in the military aid right there with the football.
There's a it's a very complex process.
It goes to the National Military Military Command Center in the Pentagon, and it goes out to the uh the uh unified commanders and sinks, and uh again, it has to happen very, very quickly.
But you could authorize, he could authorize uh a tactical predecision in terms of a response.
All right, when we come back, thank you both.
We'll check in with Greg Jarrett, Joe DeGenova, Rick Unger, Jonathan Gillum.
We'll be right back.
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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 Diane 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 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 concerns from Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
As a new poll shows that 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 Diane Feinstein said Trump was bombastic and is not helping the situation.
What is gonna happen?
And does the language of the president uh 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 gonna be able to work with him.
I believe that North Korea is interesting threats uh 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 bluffing and threatening.
This is a time for diplomacy.
Oh, just like John McCain, who wanted a bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran and Syria and let's see.
Oh, North Korea and all these other places.
If they get a nuclear weapon, when do we send them an airmail message to Tyrone?
Thank you.
that old Beach Boys song, Bomberan.
Bom, bom, bom, bom.
Anyway, I don't know.
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 Gillam.
Uh a lot of hypocrisy there, Mr. Unger, and uh 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 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 uh I think everybody's getting a little hyperbolic on all sides of this.
They need to chill out.
Well, it's not necessarily hyperbolic.
They around I'm sorry, uh North Korea is now a nuclear armed country, and you've got uh actually not yet.
Well, actually, if you look at the 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.
Uh I don't agree with your assessment at all, and all the military people I'm talking to, Jonathan Gillam say it's it's go time or forget it.
Yeah, I we I mean I think we're getting Sean, we're getting to that point now where uh diplomacy um may have to take a back seat to a first strike because what do we wait?
Would 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 warmgers that uh just love to threaten and uh hate anything that has to do with uh anything but North Korea.
What strikes me though about all those sound bites that you played, besides John McCain, not one of those individuals have ever been trained in art of warfare.
They've never served in the military, they have no clue.
And thank goodness uh 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 I've got to believe I have to question, I gotta question the interpretation of history there.
I mean, I'm no fan of North Korean, I think they're all crazy the 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 you can fly that.
And I and I think too that if you really look at what what the little guy's strategy is over there, he's just trying to have a you know a 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 uh no living zone from the border of Seoul Inland where uh we destroy every single piece of armament that they have for a hundred miles in North Korea, and that wouldn't take black and white.
From my understanding of the situation, that is I I talked to military people about this too.
That's not gonna happen.
We don't know where they all are, and they are gonna have more than enough time to launch, if not against us, against uh South Korea and Japan.
So I I think we need to be a little more cautious than that.
All right, hey, hang guys, hang right there.
Hang on, we got some breaking news.
The president is well, let's get to the uh president's press conference.
We got it from the beginning.
Jason, let's let's hit that.
We appreciate it.
Uh we are having a meeting today.
We actually had a much larger group than this.
This is uh uh the finals.
But we uh discussed many things.
Uh one of them obviously was North Korea.
We discussed uh Venezuela.
We discussed Afghanistan and the Middle East generally.
Uh 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.
Uh with that, if you have any questions, yes.
You make any decision on Afghanistan letter to uh we're getting close.
We're getting very close.
It's a very big decision for me.
I took over a mess.
And uh we're gonna make it a lot less messy.
But that has been a place 17 years, our longest war is I read in one of your columns.
And uh frankly, it's uh it's gonna be a decision that's gonna make version and you have full confidence and international security advisors.
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 pledge 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.
Uh But the uh transgender, the military is working on it now.
They're doing the work.
Uh it's been a very difficult situation.
Uh and I think I'm doing uh a lot of people a favor by coming out and just say it, 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 uh spelling 755 workers from our end of the no?
I I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down on payroll.
And uh, as far as I'm concerned, uh 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 he 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 raid the home of Paul Manoport pre-on in the U.S. I thought it was a very, very uh uh strong uh signal or whatever.
Uh 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 it to be a good man.
I thought it was a very uh uh, you know, they do that uh uh 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 that?
No, I have not.
I have not.
But uh to do that early in the morning, uh 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 uh I thought that was a very uh that's 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.
Uh, he's uh working hard on the border.
I'm very proud of what we've done on the border.
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.
Uh we're down 78%.
Nobody thought that would be.
I mean, in the old days with other administrations, if you were down one percent, that 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, uh 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.
Uh 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.
Uh much more is coming out.
And I believe in regulation.
You have to have some regulation, but we're gonna have a small percentage of regulation compared to what we have.
And I think that's why you see business enthusiasms, 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.
Uh we have had we have done a lot in a short period of time, so I'm very proud of it.
I think that uh General Kelly is going to be a fantastic chief of staff, however.
Mr. President, are you going to increase uh the U.S. military presentation?
Uh 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.
If uh 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.
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.
He will see.
It's not a dare.
It's a statement.
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 close.
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 uh through the break until the top of the hour.
Stay right there as we continue the Sean Hannity show.
The most powerful nuclear nation on earth by far.
The first order I gave to my general, as you know, you know, Mike.
Uh my first order was I want this, our nuclear arsenal to be the biggest and the finest in the world.
And we 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, 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.
It's a very important thing.
Actually, it was the first uh military is very important to me.
As you know, I did extremely well with the military vote, Mike and I. But uh 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're 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 five percent, but I've decided I don't want that.
We're gonna be increasing the anti-missiles by uh a substantial amount of billions of dollars.
Mr. President, can you share with us your latest thoughts on Iran, speaking of nuclear views and the whether you feel like they are in compliance or will be in compliance?
I don't think Iran is in compliance.
Uh we wrote them a very tough letter uh to the, as you know, to the Congress.
Uh 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.
Uh I don't think they're living up to the spirit of the agreement.
President Obama and his wisdom gave them 150 billion dollars.
He gave them 1.8 billion dollars 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 uh 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 weak investigation that the Attorney General announced late last week?
And is there any separate investigation that you're gonna say?
Yeah, sure.
We're looking, we're always looking.
You have two lakes.
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.
Uh 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 about Muir.
Can you talk a little bit about what those 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, they come in, we have a Senate hearing, we have judiciary, we have intelligence, and we have a House hearing, and everybody walks out, even the enemies.
They said, No, well, there's no collusion, there's no collision.
So they're investigating something that never happened.
Uh, 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 gonna cut the budget substantially, the military budget.
Russia is very important for Russia.
Oil.
Oil and gas.
Uh 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 refuse, the Democrats refuse 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 I guarantee if you went around and looked at everybody that made a speech or whatever these people did, that's up to them.
Uh 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 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 six trillion dollars in the Middle East.
As far as I'm concerned, when I say spent, we've wasted six trillion dollars in the United States.
All right, a very informative uh support for for McMaster, 9,000 people out of the feder 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.
Uh Jeff Sessions more moderate voice of support, and he talked a lot about the success of the border and General Kelly.
Um 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 up uh he's gonna spend more money to update our nuclear facilities, anti-missile ballistics, and much, much more.
And uh, well, the Democrats want to work with them fine.
Not fine.
All right, that and much more coming up here on the Sean Hannity show.
He says a Ram 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, uh 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 uh 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 Muller or any special counsel can investigate under the terms of your order anything he finds.
Chris, the special counsel is subject to the rules and regulations of the Department of Justice, and we don't engage in fishing expeditions.
Now that order that you read that doesn't detail specifically who may be the subject of investigation because we don't reveal that publicly but Bob Muller understands and I understand the specific scope of the investigation and so no it's not a fishing expedition.
I I understand it's not a fishing 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 Muller 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 Muller said.
We don't know who's saying it or who credit how credible those sources people ask about this of course because you have 10 star and whitewater and it ends began with a failed real estate deal in Arkansas and ended up with Monica Lewinsky to to 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 with believe 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 fishing expedition and of course the many many conflicts of Robert Muller that I keep talking about the least of which is hiring Hillary's attorney and eight attorneys that have donated to Obama Democrats or Hillary Clinton.
No, it makes no sense.
Not one has donated to any Republican.
Now, 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 uh 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 as 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 Wassman 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 de Genova he is the with the Washington firm law firm degenerate and also with us Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst thank you both for being with us Joe DeGenova I mean look I 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 you and you don't mean it either but the truth is if you're a Democrat you can get away with a lot and b uh uh 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 if Paul Manafort did anything.
And obviously, if he violated the law, then obviously he's 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 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 Garrett, I mean, if you really think this through, and Hillary can get away with the leading subpoenaed emails in the tens of thousands and and the bleach bit and the acid wash and the smashing and the and the no sim card game of hers, and then Uranium One is 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 uh and Joe's right, the James Comey investigation, um, 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.
Um and then James Comey lays out a By the way, you're 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 lift licking their chops there with so much evidence.
They'd love to bring a case like that.
Comey twisted and tortured the law.
It's it's not intent to break the law.
It's an 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 I well, we know that Ed Klein used to work for Time Magazine, I think he's one of the the major editors over there.
And uh 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.
Uh it may be.
Uh I I was shocked to hear uh because we hadn't heard anything about the investigation of the criminal leaks of classified information.
The other day, when uh Dan Coates, the director of National Intelligence, and Jeff Sessions, the in sp 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 organization.
What do 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 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, uh 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.
If 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 journalist last you don't need to get to them.
But ultimately if you have to, you gotta do it.
Well Greg?
Going after journalists is a bit of a morass although actually if you look at the statute on uh 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 uh judges holding contempt of court not criminally prosecuted but contempt of court journalists like uh Judith Miller in the Valerie Plane case to try to force her to cough up a source.
Don't you think in the Manafort case that really that there's gonna at some point, especially with the people we know that Muller appointed they're gonna say Paul, Paul.
Just give us a name just you know you'll go free.
Don't worry about it.
Otherwise you're facing thirty years in jail.
You'll die in jail.
Is that conversation going to take place?
Likely well uh it took place in the Valer Plain manner because uh 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 Is that a is that a common tactic Joe is absolutely it happens all the time when you try to try to I might do that with with Manafort although I I can't imagine Manafort has anything on Trump.
He wasn't he wasn't he wasn't uh the dire the head of the campaign for more than a couple of months.
Yeah I 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 uh of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia and even if they did it's not a crime.
Right.
Uh so you know I find it hard to believe that they he 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 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 de Genova and Greg Jarrett are with us.
All right as we continue Joe de Genova de Genova and Tunsing is with us.
Greg Jarrett, my friend and colleague from the Fox uh 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.
Um do you 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.
Uh she is the one who's presiding uh we believe over the DC grand jury.
That's correct.
Which m 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 Muller's top staff attorneys in this case the special counsel case Andrew Weissman.
In fact uh 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 Muller is reportedly investigating.
I 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 I've given up trying to find all the contacts and the cross references here because they're everywhere uh in this case I I I for one cannot understand why Bob Muller did not from the very beginning try to understand the optics of hiring all these Democrats and people who had given the Hillary Clinton.
I mean it is such an awful appearance uh and I don't care how brave and how bold and how honest Bob Muller is.
Appearances do matter for something.
We've been told this for years by the Democrats.
Even the whiff of uh, you know, 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.
Uh you know, I I'm I'm 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 the the amount of evidence that exists better be damn good for 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 we go ahead.
Well, I mean, I totally do, and it was such a farce in 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 uh Mueller would have to get permission to go beyond the scope.
There is no scope.
I'm looking, I can Rosenstein's uh directive the day he appointed Robert Mueller.
And the third line is any other matters, which which is carte blanche to go.
I mean, you 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.
What 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, but uh 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.
Thank you.
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There is a primary next Tuesday in the state of Alabama.
And Mo Brooks, I've known for 27 years, have endorsed him and his candidacy.
There's been of a bit of a battle over the president's endorsement this week.
Uh and Mo Brooks, Congressman Mo Brooks joins us now.
He's a member of the Freedom Caucus.
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 um do you think the endorsement issue was more about you were pretty hard against them 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, uh, the decades-long Washington lobbyist.
So uh I'm 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 uh endorse Mitch McConnell's guy.
So Mitch McConnell must have met with uh President Trump and really offered something uh in exchange for uh 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 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 sixty percent rule, the filibuster rule that uh blocks President Trump's entire agenda, and President Trump has figured it out.
He wants to go to a majority rule in the United States Senate, he wants to get rid of that sixty percent rule that empowers uh 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, urging Chuck Schumer, the Democrat leader, and Mitch McConnell, to keep the 60% rule that kills the entire agenda for conservatives that is the end of Republicans and for President Trump.
So it's just baffling to me.
That is so dumb.
That is so dangerous.
That is that you know, because look, the Democrats don't play fair by the rules.
You know, look at how uh the Republicans gave Obama all of his appointments and an up or down vote, and they did it very quickly, and same with Supreme Court nominees expeditiously, you'd get a vote, and you know, the re 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 uh 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 the skinny bill done, uh uh, Congressman, and that that angers me.
Well, it ought to anger you, and it ought to be angering uh the American people.
You know, 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 interest, and with their money they seduce congressmen and the 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 uh 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 is pretty much coalesced around Mo Brooks, myself, Luther Strange, and uh 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 Mo Brooks for Senate dot com.
Mo Brooks for Senate dot com.
Help me ditch the Mitch.
Yeah.
Well look, I uh I'm not sure if endorsements really pay 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 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 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 in those areas.
Well we're competitive in most parts of the state of course I'm strongest um in North Alabama where people know me the best and this Luther Strange negative attack ad, uh 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.
Well, 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 Hannity 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 him, 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 uh I would tend to agree with you that maybe maybe the I I would imagine the president doesn't know you as well as I do and and maybe this guy made an appeal to him behind the scenes that where 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 percent 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 percent threshold.
Well, agreed.
We've got it.
We've got it lined up.
They can't get to the 60 percent 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 percent 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 Mo Brooks for Senate dot com Mo Brooks for Senate dot 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 he is I'm as again I'm being carpet bombed by all sorts of negative ads.
Right.
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 rather 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 uh 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 uh, I know you're working hard.
We wish you all the best on Tuesday.
We'll be watching very closely uh Mo Brooks on the Sean Hannity Show, 800-941 Sean.
Uh, 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.
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 you Mitchell 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 that's a lot of money.
Just like an $8,000 premium increase for a lot of people is a lot of money.
A hundred and sixteen percent increase in premiums in Arizona, Senator McCain.
That's a lot of money.
People are suffering.
I mean, I they forced me to go through the marketplace, and I couldn't get 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 gonna have to go do a gofundme plan or something to get this money.
I'm so sorry.
Uh you know, I and I gotta imagine, you know, you're trying to start life and and get your family going, etc.
etc.
All right, Lynette, thank you for the call.
You're in my prayers.
Thank you so much.
800-941-SHAWN.
I just want them 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 I 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 replaced, but they never had a president, frankly, or a Senate that was going to do it, but they never have 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 and they're standing out, majority here, that's not conservative.
Uh, and let's please on anything to pay 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 a very easy one to get done infrastructure, if he doesn't get them done, then you could ask me that question.
All right, we'll have all of this tonight, 10 and 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 uh Colonel Tony Schaefer, General Jack Keene.
We're gonna check in with Mike Waltz, John Bolton tonight, also the president versus Senator McConnell, Lou Dobbs tonight.
How did my name come up with this presser?
Lanny Davis on how to deal with controversy and problems and also more left wing hate that we will deal with.
Ten Eastern Hannity Fox, see you back here tomorrow.
See you tonight at 10.
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