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Aug. 12, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Weapon That Could Destroy The US - 8.11

Toronto Sun columnist Anthony Furey discusses the impact of an electromagnetic pulse attack that could result from a nuclear attack. North Korea could cause a lot of damage but just how likely are they to attack? 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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Well, the president apparently is going to go live soon.
And I thought this was supposed to be the big vacation when we've always known it wasn't a vacation because they're redoing the White House and it's going to take 17 days.
Everyone kept saying, well, the president is going on a 17-day vacation and he's been working every single day this week.
And obviously, North Korea is taking up a lot of his attention and rightly so, and I'm feeling more and more confident that we're actually making some progress showing the world that America is no longer gonna, you know, sit around and allow these people to go out there and and threaten the United States and threaten uh the free world with uh well, just bribe us with more money because that certainly hasn't worked in any way, shape, matter, or form.
All right, 800 nine-four one Sean.
By the way, um, you know what's amazing?
I know Jeff Lord now has been fired from CNN, and I tweeted this out yesterday, and I've known Jeff for many, many years.
You know who the real defenders of freedom of speech in this country are today?
It's not the left anymore.
The left has been co-opted by people that are obsessed with silencing every single solitary conservative voice in the country.
That's it.
You notice the left, whenever there is any effort, you know, when you really look at it, you know, I'm sure that there's silent agreement, they just can't come out and say it, but you never see a liberal defend conservatives and defend their ability to fight back against those that want to attack their advertiser base, these phony boycotts.
It's sort of like the sunrises, the sunsets, and there's a group of people that want to get me off radio and TV and boycott me and get me fired.
I I've just come to accept it.
It is the reality, and as long as I have the loyal support of this audience, I'll be able to stay on the air.
Thank God.
But do you notice that it's the left in America?
They're silent.
I can go back and play tapes for you that the people when Bill Maher was under fire.
I don't know, I don't even like Bill Maher.
I hate Bill Maher.
Um, I don't like his opinions.
I don't like a show.
I don't watch a show.
I don't ever want to watch a show.
And the same thing goes with Stephen Colbert.
Remember, there was an effort, people wanted to boycott him and get him off the air.
And and there's all these other attempts to get others off the air.
I don't want to silence anybody's voice because I believe in freedom of speech.
And I don't b you know, any effort, you know, you'll say, well, we'll just tell the advertisers, then they start these fake robot campaigns on their on their differing websites, and it makes advertisers, by the way, advertisers are now hip to everything that they're doing, who they are, what they've said themselves, what they're doing, and it's it's sort of like the boy who cried Wolf.
They go at it so many different times, it just doesn't really truly work anymore.
Except depending on where you might Work and and what the political agenda of the place you might work for.
Like I'll give you one example.
CNN, for example, you know, Jeff Zucker has a personal gripe with the president, and it's obvious that it's it's flowing over into its programming.
And the few people that they did have on the air that were conservative, it was always, you know, eight to one during those campaign season debates, and and everybody would turn to you know the one conservative, and it would be like six-on-one, five on one, three-on-one, whatever it happened to be on that particular day, moment, or time.
And it's like it doesn't matter how bizarre, how awful what the left says is always tolerable.
There's no standard of decency that they're applying to each size equally.
They just want to silence conservative voices.
And every prominent conservative voice that you know is now come under fire and been under attack, and it's going to continue to be that way because this isn't the environment we live in.
But when Bill Maher was under attack, it was people like me and Rush Lumba that said, don't fire him.
When Colbert was under attack, I tweeted, don't fire Colbert.
I'm not going to be a part of this.
And people were mad at me on Twitter, conservative, other conservatives, and this is our chance to get him back.
What are you doing?
I'm like, I don't, I'm not threatened by any of these people.
I'm not threatened by MSNBC's opinions.
I don't even really think we're competing against MSNBC in the sense that I don't know how many people share audience between Fox and MSNBC, but they've they've got their audience that loves conspiracy theories and conspiracy TV, and they like to get literally hyped up every night with press breathless reporting that the president's on the verge of getting impeached, and he's not.
And they go out there and and the audience thinks this is the night, it's gonna happen tonight.
We got them.
I mean, it just doesn't happen.
Um, I don't think I'm competing for the same audience.
And time after time after time, we've been right and they've been wrong.
But do you notice how is it that people, conservatives defend guys like Mar and guys, you know, and defend the right of NBC to program whatever garbage they want to program and Colbert to do whatever he wants to do and say whatever he wants to say.
And if people make mistakes and they apologize, unless it's a consistent horrible pattern of of virulently racist and anti-Semitic, you know, material, um, then I think that you're not give somebody a right like Congress to revise and extend their remarks and give a an honest apology and follow it up by a change in their behavior.
That's that doesn't exist today.
It's an immediate, immediate opportunity that they want to silence people.
We as conservatives and media, we have now lived with for years, years.
There are people right now that are paid that will transcribe every word I say.
It's happened every day for years and years and years and years and years and years.
They're being funded by very wealthy left-wingers, and we now know who they are, how much they've donated, who they've donated to, and what they're all about.
But in a way, it's it's that's the environment if you're a conservative, you work in.
And the liberals that are on air, you know, the funny part to me is is they don't realize these things all work and can all work in reverse.
I'll be the one out here championing freedom of speech.
But you know, when when different things, when conservatives start saying, okay, if that that's how it's gonna be, we're gonna play by the same rules, and they start fighting back, like Melanie Morgan and Brian Maloney did, then I I mean in that sense, it becomes one big no freedom of speech, stifling of freedom of speech, thought, expression.
You know, same things happening on college campuses.
I don't know.
I would I would just prefer to be in a class.
I'll never forget when I went to NYU.
There was a guy that started a political science class, and one of the, and I actually ended up, I'm pretty sure with Alan Combs, I had him on Hannity.
And I remember he started the class, I'm a Marxist, I'm a communist, hated Reagan, and I was I was a student during the Reagan years.
And I started defending Reagan after I got a great midterm grade.
I ended up with the lowest grade I ever had in college, I think it was C because the guy hated my politics.
And the guy was so fixated and focused on that skinny guy in the back at the time, which was me, that that's all we all he did.
He came in and we we fought all day, and everybody in the class was rolling their eyes, because that's all I cared about was politics.
Even then it was a love and it was a passion.
Um very trying times.
It is um if it's sort of like what how I feel about we don't have equal justice under the law.
Why have I spent so much time pointing out that what Hillary Clinton did with her emails was a crime?
What Hillary Clinton by mishandling classified information, putting it in a mom and pop shop bathroom.
That's a crime.
That's a that's illegal.
Ended up being hacked, we're told 99.9% certainty by foreign intel organizations, foreign agencies.
And when I talk about subpoenaed emails, 33,000 deleted, and the excuse of flimsy excuses, it's about a wedding funeral, yoga and emailing her husband who doesn't do email.
Okay, I don't believe it.
I think if a conservative did it, it's obstruction.
And if the conservative acid washed, bleach bit it clean, so you can't recover them, well, that would seem like obstruction.
Or if you send the FBI devices that don't have SIM cards, that seems like just you know, obstruction.
And if somebody breaks up devices with hammers, be it Blackberries or iPhones, or the IT guy in the Wasserman Schultz case has reported he might he had government property in his garage, including hard drives smashed.
Well, that would seem to me to be a good strong case to look into for obstruction.
It was like Russian collusion with uranium one, just like election interference with Ukraine and the paid DNC operative, who the political reports reports back to the Hillary campaign and the DNC, just like the unmasking of General Flynn and Samantha Powers unmasking what?
Hundreds of people during an election year?
Why would a UN ambassador ever do that?
We've had hundreds of well, actually a 350% increase according to circa.com and Sarah Carter and John Solomon in unmasking during election season?
Okay, why?
How many of those happen to deal with the Trump administration?
A very high number.
So it's it's almost like we're politic we're criminalizing in many ways political differences.
The left doesn't have a tolerance for free expression of ideas.
Doesn't matter if it's on college campus or cable TV, or they've always hated conservative dominance of talk radio, and and that's why everybody in talk radio at some point in their career is going to be targeted if they haven't been already, and even now they're going after local hosts on a regular basis.
And people are losing their jobs.
And there are some people that get very, very, very skittish.
Um it's and I just gotta tell you, it's not good for the country.
And people think that this is a real good thing for the it's not good for the country.
Because we are stifling thought expression.
One of the things I'm most worried about now with I'm I'm thinking we don't even have equal justice under the law.
I'm worried about where are the liberals and libertarians on unmasking surveillance unmasking and leaking raw intelligence on American citizenry.
Well, that is you know, politicizing the tools of that we literally have entrusted to those brave men and women that are out there every day on the front lines that are gathering intelligence on American enemies.
Now, the the 99.9% are great.
But when you hear that unmasking increases and then, you know, intel leaks perhaps by the general counsel of the FBI, which there's reports of an investigation, and Susan Rice in investigation, and Ben Rhodes in investigation, and a UN ambassador in investigation.
Wow, that's kind of scary.
You know, there are certain things that you would you would wish you would hope that there can be consensus on.
You know, my criticism of Hillary taking money from Sharia countries.
How many times did I say this during the campaign?
The millions and millions I put it up on the screen on TV regularly.
She's taking money from countries that abuse women, mistreat them.
Women can't drive, they're told how to dress, they can't leave the house or the country without a male permission, that you have gays and lesbians being killed as a matter of law in these countries.
You would think these are fundamental things that human beings with a conscience and soul agree on.
But you can't even find agreement on that.
No liberal criticized Hillary for taking that money.
Very few did.
Or the persecution of Christians and Jews.
And all things I talked about during the campaign.
There's certain you would think is an area of agreement.
Even on North Korea, which is a clear and present danger to every man, woman, and child.
You know, at some point it really doesn't matter that Bill Clinton made a horrible deal.
At some point we got to deal with the reality, and that is somebody unhinged that keeps saber rattling, firing missiles, has nuclear weapons that can now reach New York City and Boston.
It's a little more serious than petty political differences, to be honest.
It puts everything in perspective.
You know, radical Islamist Kim Jong-un doesn't care if he kills a liberal, a conservative, a Republican, a Democrat.
He just hates America and he hates, you know, keeps saber rattling and pushing the world to the brink here.
All right, 800-941 Sean, Tollfrey telephone number.
All right, as we roll along on a Friday, two of our big stories today, North Korea and the battle, Mitch McConnell and the president Donald Trump.
I also think the president might be speaking at some point today.
I thought he was on vacation.
I thought he was resting.
I thought he wasn't, you know, wasn't supposed to be out playing golf and having fun.
Apparently he's been working all day, every day this week.
One last uh thought on this.
You know who talked about the forgotten men and women in this country this year?
You know who's talking about the forgotten men and women now?
It's not the left.
You know, they've always said they have a monopoly of compassion on the poor and the elderly and the disabled.
Every four years, it's the same old playbook.
Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, uh, Islamophobic, xenophobia.
I can't even remember all the phobias, but it's the same thing every every four years, actually every two years.
And I've gone back and I've given the history and the examples of this many, many times.
You know, if the left really cared about the poor in this country, they would look at Obama's economic failure and they'd say, This didn't work.
If with all their resistance, not one Democrat will ever consider helping Donald Trump on health care, in spite of the the biggest lie ever told, keep your or lies, keep your doctor plan and save on average per family $2,500 a year.
It was reported yesterday, six and a half million Americans are paying the fine.
And and how many, you know, on average, six, eight thousand dollars a year premium increases, you know, depending on what state you're living in.
Some states this average this year was up 30%.
Projected average increase next year, 30%.
Oh, a lot of good resisting fixing Obamacare is doing for the American people.
Now, 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, real people, real lives, real suffering.
Just like real sexism, real prejudice against Christians, Jews, gays, and lesbians, Sharia countries that give Hillary money.
Such hypocrisy of the left, and they don't support the free speech movement either.
Breaking news now.
Here's Sean Hannity.
All right, the president who we were told all week is on vacation, shockingly working another day.
Um he doesn't like to take off.
I even asked him about that in my my first interview that I had with him when he became president.
Um, let's go to him.
He's in New Jersey.
We're playing this from the top.
He just uh came out about a minute and a half ago.
For joining us today.
And thank you all, because we are we've been working very hard on being sure that Americans have the training they need for the jobs in the future.
I also want to thank Yvanka, my daughter, for her leadership on workforce training and her efforts.
She's been working very, very hard to create new economic opportunities for women across America and actually for women across the world.
She's been working with the Chancellor of Germany on helping women all over the world.
In the past seven months, we've made enormous gains in getting Americans back to work.
The stock market is at record highs.
Unemployment is at a 16-year low, and manufacturers have never expressed more optimism about the future.
The optimism has been truly incredible.
Recently, Foxconn announced that it's going to invest 10 billion dollars to build a new factory in Wisconsin.
We want to make sure that every job that comes back to our shores is filled with American workers.
We have a lot of companies moving back to our country.
You're probably seeing that two major automobile companies just announced they're moving back to the United States and they're going to build major plants.
They're looking for the site.
They're putting it out to seven or eight different states, and uh they're going to be very happy building in the United States.
It's going to work out very well for them.
That's why in June we began a historic initiative to expand apprenticeship and workforce training programs in all industries.
We're expanding pathways to success, so important.
And apprenticeships are one of the many avenues that lead to the great jobs completely debt-free.
And who knows more about the word apprentice than Donald Trump.
In fact, under the apprenticeship, you earn while you learn.
So important and so great.
And you love getting up in the morning and going to work and a lot of great things involved here.
We're also here today to discuss additional steps we will be taking to expand apprenticeship programs, especially for women and minorities in STEM fields where women have been truly underrepresentative, really, I guess you could say underrepresented for many, many decades.
Technology has become a part of nearly every industry from manufacturing to retail.
And we want all of our citizens, every single citizen, including women and minorities, to have access to high-paying tech jobs and other STEM-related jobs.
American workers are the best there is anywhere in the world, and we're finding work for them.
They built the skyscrapers of our cities, the roads and bridges across our land, and we'll be building plenty of new roads and bridges, by the way.
The technology that has revolutionized the glow, and so much more, as you're well aware.
Their skills, talent, and grid have always put America on top.
And we're going to remain on top at a much higher level than we are right now.
And speaking of now, it is our job to make sure that they have the training immediately to lead us into the future.
We have great, great hope.
We have a great, great future in this country.
There's never been more optimism.
And again, unemployment at a 16-year low.
So we're uh honored to have all of you, Mr. Secretary.
Thank you very much, Dr. Sorry.
We really do appreciate it.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President, what do you mean by military solutions or locked and loaded as it relates to North Korea?
Well, I think it's pretty obvious.
We are looking at that very carefully.
And uh I hope that they are going to fully understand the gravity of what I said and what I said is what I mean.
So hopefully they'll understand, Peter, exactly what I said and the meaning of those words.
Those words are very, very easy to understand.
Any progress on the diplomatic back channel?
Well, we don't want to talk about progress, we don't want to talk about back channels.
Uh we want to talk about a country that has misbehaved for many, many years, decades actually, through numerous administrations, and they didn't want to take on the issue, and I have no choice but to take it on, and I'm taking it on, and uh we'll either be very, very successful quickly or we're gonna be very, very successful in a different way, quickly.
Ankala Merkel says she says she Angela Merkel says she sees no military solution to fight with North Korea.
Why is she wrong?
Well, I think maybe she's speaking for Germany.
Let her speak for Germany.
She's a friend of mine, she's a very good person, very good woman.
She's a friend of Ivanka.
Uh, perhaps she's referring to Germany.
She's certainly not referring to the United States, that I can tell you.
Mr. President, you've said you wanted to send a strong message to North Korea.
What do you say your critics who say that your rhetoric is actually raising attention?
Well, you know, my critics are only saying that because it's me.
If somebody else uttered the exact same words that I uttered, they'd say, what a great statement.
What a wonderful statement.
They're only doing it, but I will tell you, we have tens of millions of people in this country that are so happy with what I'm saying, because they're saying finally we have a president that's sticking up for our nation and frankly sticking up for our friends and our allies.
And this man will not get away with what he's doing, believe me.
And if he utters one threat in the format of an overt threat, which by the way, he has been uttering for years, and his family has been uttering for years.
Or if he does anything with respect to Guam or any place else that's an American territory or an American ally, he will truly regret it.
And he will regret it fast.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
All right, that's the president.
And again, if he does anything in respect to Guam or any of our allies or the United States, he will regret it and regret it immediately, and he didn't want any ambiguity.
And he wouldn't speak about any potential diplomatic solution or back channeling or and just dismissed whatever Angela Merkel had said.
I hadn't seen those comments earlier today.
Well, maybe she's speaking for Germany.
Let her speak for Germany.
Uh, which she sh that's exactly right.
She can speak for Germany.
She's not elected here.
Um, but this is just the truth.
I mean, Kim Jong Un, his father, grandfather before him.
I mean, they this is now they have been not part of the world community.
Their people live in utter poverty and misery, but yet they have enough money for all this nuclear technology, all the weaponry that they're launching and saber rattling that they're doing.
And the president went on to say, either way, we are going to be successful.
Either we'll know very quickly whether it's going to work, whether it's not going to work.
And this uh, you know, a lot of people, oh, Mr. President, you're being strong with them.
Well, certainly being weak and and trying to bribe them and appeasing them.
That didn't work.
And the president did say on Friday, in a reference to American weapons, is being locked and loaded.
And he's been very, very clear that military solutions, as he said, are fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely.
Which, by the way, is there any American that doesn't want their country defended if God forbid something happens?
Is it not a good thing to let a madman know that there are going to be consequences, severe consequences for his actions?
And Trump wrote on Twitter that, you know, a day after his defense secretary said the U.S. was ready to counter any threat from Pyongyang.
Mad Dog Mattis.
So locked and loaded, ready to defend this country, ready to defend the United States.
You know, you have I don't know what his position is in whether I guess the Guam Homeland Security team and secretary issued a fact sheet on, you know, don't look at a flash or a fireball.
Well, that's not reminiscent of the Cold War and kids in school practicing getting underneath their desk.
I don't know what is.
But you know, even the New York Times had a piece out today, not that I'm particularly fond of the New York Times at all.
Wrestling with North Korea, Trump finds perilous options.
The options are not great.
Actually, in the next hour, this has always been a topic of interest.
It's the stuff of spy novels and you know, over the years, you've heard about electric magnetic pole, like uh electric magnetic pulse and and issues like this.
Um, and the fascinating thing about it is it really is a possibility, and it's something if you look at the history of it, it's pretty fascinating.
It's more for me a topic of interest, but it's also you know a a real threat.
We're gonna have somebody who studied and written books on it, join us later in the program.
New Kingrich is also going to join us.
He actually said something today I really disagree with new, but he he said something about the president and his comments about Mitch McConnell, which I found genuine and sincere, expressing a frustration about Mitch McConnell and how they can't get a seven and a half year promise done and the expectations are too high.
I mean, it just sounded so swampy to me.
I don't uh pretty amazing.
Um, so on the other front, as it relates to North Korea, uh, we've got so thousands of North Korea's top military officials marching in support of Kim Jong-un as if they had any choice with Pyongyang warning it could reduce the U.S. mainland to ashes at any moment.
Well, now we know they're full of crap, but Mad Dog Mattis, the Secretary of Defense, he's saying that um the solution is in place to address it.
And they're on the same page.
And you got the U.S. and Japanese troops now beginning joint military exercises amid this threat.
Chinese newspaper has weighed in and says China should stay neutral if North Korea attacks first.
That was pretty interesting, basically signaling to North Korea, you're on it, you're on your own, warning both, you know, asking the United States not to do this, and telling North Korea, we don't have your back here.
We're not getting involved in your stupid war.
You know, we've got two, you know, look, who wants nuclear war?
Who wants incineration?
Who wants thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands more to die?
What no, no rational person, as insane as some of the former Soviet Union leaders were.
They they understood mutually assured destruction.
I'm not sure that that this guy understands this.
I really am not.
I think the president has been so on his game lately as it relates to both McConnell.
And here's my take.
This is where I we'll get into this with Newt at the top of the next hour, but I watched the president, guys, seven and a half years.
And then you say when you can't pass it, oh, I'm giving up and I'm moving on.
That's not how that's not how the real world works for most people.
You don't get to say to your boss, okay, I'm gonna get this done in seven and a half hours, and then say, uh, oh, I'm sorry, I'm going home now.
That doesn't work.
Oh, I meant to bring up one other point on Guam.
Those North Korean missiles can reach Guam in 14 minutes.
It's pretty scary.
We better beep beef up our missile defense system.
And now, you know, now you're talking about an escalation and arms race that's probably going to emerge in the region as a result of all of this, and that's not good for anybody that cares about human life.
Uh that then becomes an unmitigated disaster.
And I just because I can see that, I just don't see that anything is going to end well here.
You just the options are so bad unless Kim Jong-un backs down.
We have some other news today.
One thing is the president's approval rating, as he's been working his whole vacation, has now taken another big jump.
Uh last Friday, Rasmussen showed Trump at 39%.
Now he's a 45%.
That's matching the Zogby poll that came in this week.
Everyone in the media, oh, he's down.
They won't report, I guess, when he's up.
Now, we also have the remember this author of this anti-Trump dossier.
You know, the uh the infamous discredited anti-Trump dossier, the guy that James Comey wanted to hire that was used apparently were being told as a blueprint for Robert Muller's Russia Gate investigation is now being sued for libel.
Lawyers for the British author of the intelligence dossier at the center of this controversy are fighting an effort to force him into a deposition in connection with a libel suit stemming from BuzzFeed's publication of the salacious document.
Now, the attorneys for this British MI6 intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, asked the federal judge in Miami not to grant the request.
Steele's lawyers uh filed the motion a couple of hours after a district court judge issued a formal request for Steele's testimony.
Anyway, the request was signed by the judge, sealed by the court clerk.
It's unclear if it was formally delivered, but obviously it's a possibility.
That would be a good thing.
Just like fusion GPS, they need to start talking too.
Well, what else do we got here today?
GOP House member wants to grill Muller in an open hearing.
That's pretty interesting development.
Anyway, Texas Republican.
Brian Babbin wants to do that.
You got a former Mueller deputy predicting Trump is going down.
Well, I mean, it's eight to zero Democratic donors and Hillary's attorney to no Republicans.
Anyway, the guy's name is Phil Mud.
served as deputy director of the FBI under Mueller.
Let me give you one bottom line as a former government official.
Government is going to kill this guy, he said.
He said it on the fake news network CNN.
The judge who authorized Muller's grand jury helped the Hillary aide hide Hell Hill actually helped Hillary hide her emails.
We got another conflict of interest with this Beryl Howell.
So you have eight Democratic donors, no Republican donors, and now the judge worked for the Senate Judiciary and helped Hillary.
Let's see, what else do we got?
Um I guess that's about it for now.
All right, we'll have Newt Gingrich when we get back.
Our two top stories today that we're really following, and then we'll get into the electronic magnetic pulse issue.
And uh and Newt Gingrich is gonna join us and much more.
Uh 800 nine for one show.
And also a uh author that has taken some shots at me.
People saying you're not having an up enough opposition on Hannity, we'll get to that.
All right, as we roll along on a Friday, bomb shelter sales, Washington Examiner booming in California.
Well, Jonathan uh Turley blasting Muller for his pre-dawn raid.
Very troubling, very gratuitous, very excessive.
Yeah, you think.
And the Paul Manafort case.
Newt Gingrich, when we get back, and electromagnetic pulse, what is it?
We'll explain.
I'm gonna ask for show of hands, but I know everybody's saying we've been there, haven't done anything.
Which uh I find extremely irritating.
And I'm gonna tell you what.
Uh Congress goes on for two years.
And part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven't done much, is because in part the president and others have said these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point.
Now, our new president, of course, not been in this line of work before.
And I think uh excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process.
And so part of the reason I think people feel like we're under underperforming, is because too many kind of artificial deadlines on uh unrelated to the reality of the complexity of legislating, may not have been fully understood.
And of course, our political adversaries would love to say that anytime.
So what I'm asking of you is to judge.
This Congress when it finishes.
How much have we done to make America competitive again and to grow again?
And that's part of America.
Making America great again, which is what uh the president talks about so much.
Relationship with Senator McConnell.
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 gonna reduce taxes for the people.
We pay more tax than anybody in the world.
And we're gonna reduce taxes.
So I say tax cuts, tax reform, and I want a very big infrastructure bill where we're working on that very hard already, and we can do that.
And we may even get bipartisan on infrastructure, but we want to have it.
But I said, Mitch, get to work and let's get it done.
They should have had this last one done.
They lost by one vote.
For a thing like that to happen is a disgrace.
And frankly, it shouldn't have happened.
That I can tell you.
It shouldn't have been.
Senator McConnell considered stepping down as majority leader.
There's some conservative analysts, including Sean Hannity, to save time for him to retire.
Well, I'll tell you what, if he doesn't get repeal and replace done, and if he doesn't get taxes done, meaning cuts and reform, and if he doesn't get a very easy one to get done infrastructure, if he doesn't get them done, then you can ask me that question.
All right, hour two Sean Hannity show as we continue our top two stories today, the battle between the president, the Senate majority leader, and the ongoing hostilities and threats going back and forth with North Korea, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is with us.
Mr. Speaker, uh there you have excessive expectations versus get the job done and Mitch McConnell saying, Well, now we're gonna move on to other things.
He just basically threw up his hands after that last vote on on health care.
Um I I guess I I was surprised to read you read that you said on our friend Maria's show this morning, you disagree with all of the strategy.
What does that mean?
Well, first of all, there were sixteen Democrats voting no for every Republican.
So if people want to get mad, the first place to look is the forty-eight Democrats, and in particular the ten Democrats who are from states Trump carried, including somebody who's from a state that is sixty-eight percent pro Trump.
So I st I start with the idea, I mean Ronald Reagan would have figured out the real opponent were the Democrats.
But they didn't promise to repeal and replace.
The Republicans did.
And and you got 49 out of 52, and and people then attack, quote, the Republicans.
Well, if I'm one of the 49, I'm standing there going, wait a second.
I did everything I could, including trying to carry these three guys who wouldn't go with me.
But the deeper thing here is presidents have to focus on being effective as a team.
I I'm I'm one of the reasons I spoke out today is the president's gotten this cycle now of what uh Mitch has to do.
He has to do.
The president's not an owner sitting up in a box somewhere.
The the president's the biggest player on the field.
We need to we need to get back to using the words we.
What is it that we have to get done?
How is it that we failed?
Because we all failed.
It wasn't just Mitch McConnell.
Every single one of us who wanted to repeal it failed.
So what do we learn from that and how do we move on as a team?
And and I'm I'm I'm saying this stuff as strongly as I do because I live through the Reagan years.
I lived through the contract years.
I know and I live through years when Republicans failed.
And Republicans fail when they decide to commit civil war against themselves, and they forget that the Democrats are the opponents, and they forget what the real source of the problem is.
The real source of the problem is not Mitch McConnell.
The real source of the problem is Chuck Schumer and 48 Democrats who spent all spring and summer trying to screw up this administration every single way they could.
And they were successful, but you know, I rarely rarely disagree with you.
I mean, and I'm I'm listening very closely for clues because I I because I know you so well, and with all due respect, I don't think we can compare this Republican Party to the New Gingrich Party in ninety-five and ninety-four that had a vision that actually made promises and kept promises of president like Reagan, you know, it was very successful at legislating.
But this is from let me give you my perspective, and I really want to dig into this and get your answer, and I want to listen and I want an answer because I want these things solved because the country needs it.
You know, I watched Donald Trump yesterday.
This is what I sensed.
I sensed a uh a real sincerity in him.
He he I I saw the guy that was the real person being totally blunt and honest, not understanding how people can promise something for seven and a half years and they have the majority, and then seemingly have zero really big ideas.
I mean, what they what they failed on was the skinny repeal, which was nothing like repeal and replace as they promised.
They don't have urgency.
They they seem uh McConnell seemed to accept failure by saying, Let's move on.
And then McConnell lecturing the president first, in fairness to President Trump, about well, he's not from here.
Uh he's not, you know.
I'm a bit irritated over this.
He doesn't understand the complexities of legislating, and I'm like, really?
This is nine months into the guy's presidency, and you you guys are eight years into this promise.
This is ridiculous.
Well, look, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna defend what McC um what Mitch said the other day.
I think it was unwise, and I think looking back, he probably agrees it was unwise.
But but I just want to point out, okay, you're at a point in time when the objective fact is you're three votes short.
Okay.
Now, one way to react is decide, let's, you know, let's find some way to attack ourselves.
So we're we're now gonna have a huge fight, for example, taking on Flake in Arizona, because boy, we'll sure teach him.
Well, we could also end up losing the seat.
We're gonna really have a big fight with Heller and Nevada.
We'll teach him.
By the way, both these guys voted for repeal.
But we're gonna teach him.
I I see these conservative groups already out raising money.
Good chance to then lose the seat.
We're gonna be back where we were for the last few years, except now it'll be Schumer instead of Harry Reid as the majority leader.
I don't think that helps Trump.
I don't think that helps the country.
Listen, I'm not disagreeing that we gotta come to a an answer here.
I'll concede a point to you.
I agree.
Of course, we can always go back and blame the Democrats.
But give us the House, give us the Senate, give us the presidency, we'll do this.
There's not one Democrat, not even those from states that Donald Trump won that ever made that promise.
Right.
And nor do I think any of them are or it's a hopeless party at this point.
I mean, Joe Manchin, I know has been reached out to time and time again, and and he is absolutely impossible to deal with.
At the end of the day, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats control him.
But but the fact is, to the degree that that's true, then there is a long game, and the long game is called the 2018 election.
And you go to the country and you say, you know, we have a couple of people who are weak.
Yeah.
So our fifty-two votes really isn't reliable.
We need to be at fifty-six or fifty-eight.
Who are we going to beat so we can get to fifty-six or fifty-eight?
Is this though for the for the average person out there that's heard since twenty ten.
Give us the house, we'll repeal and replace.
No, no, no, no.
Give us the House and Senate, we'll repeal and replace.
Give us the House, Senate, the White House, we'll repeal and replace.
Give us the House, Senate, the Presidency, but now we need fifty-eight votes, and then we'll repeal and replace.
And I'll tell you why I don't I don't believe that's true.
Is you know, there were sixty votes in the House to repeal and replace Obamacare, show votes.
They never used the power of the purse.
That was an early indication they didn't mean it.
There were a hundred House Republicans that never we learned didn't have any intention of doing that.
And then we also learned that even the senators that voted to for a straight repeal bill in 2015.
Three of them have voted for well, actually more.
There's like uh like six of them that voted for the straight repeal bill in twenty fifteen.
They didn't mean it either, because when they had their shot to get it passed, they didn't mean it either.
And they voted against the straight repeal.
So the I'm irritating today, I know.
I'm just gonna go to the right.
No, no, you're not irritating me.
I mean, you this is actually a very important, I think very healthy conversation, not just between you and me, but for the entire conservative movement.
Okay.
We're faced with the reality that people who had a good press release when it came down to being real legislation, suddenly discovered, oh, this is really a lot harder than we thought it was.
And that's really what happened.
But you were always politically courageous, and let's be honest.
I mean, you got the House for the first time in forty years with a vision, a strong, active, uh participating, you know, contract, bold and aggressive.
You did your job.
You you kept your word.
Well, what why don't the Republicans just do that now?
And the neck from now until January first.
They should, but my point is when you say that, Sean, it has to include the president.
This word.
Okay, then Mitch McConnell made the first mistake by going with.
The word we is really, really important here.
I went out, and you're right.
We put together, it took us twenty-four years because you were there and you saw it.
And it took us sixteen years after I got elected.
And I loved it.
It was a great time.
But remember, I went to every moderate and I said we.
I went to every conservative and I said we.
And I worked very hard to make sure that we were on the same team.
So I should say, Mitch, can we work together pretty pretty pretty pleased with trigger on the is that what you're telling me?
Yes.
It's not as much fun as being angry.
I'm not angry.
What I want is effectiveness.
I want effectiveness, not emotion.
You know what's fascinating about this?
We so rarely disagree.
And I know you're deep down as as as pissed off as I am, except I'm just more blunt about it, and I wear my emotions on my side.
I know you.
I know you too well.
But my in no the the biggest difference isn't how and I I agree.
I'm probably at least as frustrated as you are because I'm older than you.
I've been doing this longer than you have, and it drives me crazy.
Thank you.
When I watch the Republican Party forget every single lesson that we learned from Reagan and every lesson we learn from the contract, and I'm very worried they're gonna do the same thing on the tax bill.
Right.
So uh trust me, I mean my fuse is very short.
But here's what here's what tempers my my voice.
The key is to be effective.
Okay, let's talk about the thing.
I want to know what's gonna get the job done, not what's gonna make me feel good.
Do you have extra time today?
You're busy, because I I gotta keep you for one quick segment.
Do you want to stay another half hour or no?
No, I can't say nothing.
I'll say for a quick segment.
I just have to agree.
Quick break, we'll come back.
Final thoughts with New Kingrich.
Don't forget his book uh on Amazon.com.
It's been now what, ten or eleven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
It's called Understanding Trump.
Uh we'll get his take on North Korea when we get back.
As we continue, a former speaker of the House, author of the New York Times bestselling book, almost three months now on the bestseller list, understanding Trump, uh, New Kingrich is with us.
All right, I I know we don't have more time, but this is a discussion that I think we're gonna have to have moving forward, and I'll just say I'll concede this to you.
Blessed are the peacemakers, you shall inherit, I believe, the earth, because that's you, that's not me right now.
Look, let's plan Monday to get back on this topic, and I'll come back on the show if you want me to.
I do.
I do, but I I I'd be negligent if I didn't ask you about North Korea, and I do like the president's strength.
I like his resolve.
It is such a refreshing difference from the appeasement policies that got us here, and that means Bill Clinton.
He is he has done exactly the right thing.
It's a perfect example.
There's a teamwork underway.
You you see the you see General Mattis, Joe General Kelly, you see uh General McMaster, you see Tillerson, the whole you see and and you see the UN ambassador Nikki Haley, the whole team is moving in the right direction.
I think what the president's been saying needs to be as vivid and as clear as he has been.
I think this is a critical period for us.
I did write my newsletter today, which people can get for free at Gingrich Productions.com on what is the value of an American city.
I think we have to take very seriously what's at stake with nuclear weapons, and I'm gonna be writing several newsletters the next week on what we need to do to have a much deeper and more effective defense system against nuclear weapons, but I think the president's moving in exactly the right direction, and he's doing it as a team, and they're mutually reinforcing when the president says something strong in rhetoric.
Mattis comes along and says, by the way, we can back it up militarily and make it happen.
All right, based on our earlier discussion and based on what you're saying here.
I mean, have you spoken with the president?
Have you spoken with Mitch McConnell?
I mean, have you have you, for example, I think you would be the perfect person to bring bring the teams together.
I wouldn't be that person.
Well, look, I I don't I don't think I am in a position to try to broker between two people who are extraordinarily powerful personalities.
These guys are adults, so they'll they'll figure this out and get around to it.
Um you think so?
Do you think we'll get do you think that by set by December, by by January, do you think we'll get uh a bill to fund the border wall?
Do you think we'll we'll get the president's economic plan passed?
Do you think we'll get some version of their promise repeal and replace?
And do you think we'll get everything we need to get energy jobs up and moving, which I think will be the single greatest asset.
That's what I think is the biggest focus of the near future.
I've been talking with the White House, with the House and the Senate.
Uh, I am very concerned because as I said earlier, I I can watch these, I can imagine these guys sliding back and making the same mistakes with the with the tax bill that they made with the health bill.
You cannot do something that is too complicated and get it done.
We don't have the right size majority, we don't have the right communications capability.
They need to have a simple, clean, clear tax.
But they weren't.
And the same thing's true here.
They need a simple, clean tax cut by Thanksgiving, if they're gonna get the economy growing enough next year to win the election.
All right, we'll have you back next week.
Mr. Speaker, congrats on the book.
Have a great weekend.
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And I will tell you this.
If North Korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attacks 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 at 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 gonna continue like that.
But if China helps us, I feel a lot differently for trade.
A lot differently portrayed.
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.
All right, 24 now till the top of the hour.
The president's speaking out about North Korea, and so he's incendiary.
His words may start something horrible.
And I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, really, guys, is you know, we tried to bribe the guy.
Bill Clinton assured us this is a good deal for the American people.
They're never ever gonna get nuclear weapons, and lo and behold, we're here today, just like I'm telling you we're gonna be here tomorrow, somewhere down the line with Iran and that horrible Obama deal, 150 billion dollars to mullahs, but of course they get 25 days uh inspections notice,
not by Americans either, and they get to continue to sp spin their centrifuges, just like North Korea uh was able to keep their the the nuclear rods that are needed and necessary to make nuclear weapons.
And by the way, Hillary gave 20% of our plutonium to uh Putin and Russia, but that's not a conspiracy in any way.
You know, uh as we've been talking about in the last few days, I've been telling everybody and asking generals and and people in the know, is there any good answer here?
And many people that I know, love, and respect, and people that have been in warfare and studied warfare their entire lives, all say there really isn't any good answer.
I mean, even under a best case scenario, if if Kim Jong-un is dedicating himself to creating mass destruction and continues to saber rattle and continues to build his ICBMs and the world can't face such a threat, and if the world has to act, then we find ourselves in the difficult precarious position of having to act, even if China joins us.
China has said, North Korea, you are on your own if you strike first.
They've also saying to the United States, urging us not to do it either.
But if in fact something happens, or we we feel that this guy is too unbalanced to have missile technology, ICBM capability married to nuclear weapons, especially weapons with a range that could reach New York City or Boston, and we feel that we have to act, and China joins us, and Israel joins us, and even Russia joins us, and Western European allies join us.
Okay, then okay, what are we gonna do?
Okay, you're gonna incinerate North Korea.
Does he launch weapons at Guam, South Korea, Seoul, uh China, and Japan before our weapons actually even get there?
Does he have any any pre-strike plan in place if he senses he's under attack?
And what is the nuclear fallout?
Now there's another scenario as well.
The former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich was talking on TV the other night that okay, you know, if three nuclear weapons, if in fact they they ever exploded just above the United States, in the atmosphere of the United States, well, the US, Canada would be vulnerable to a catastrophic attack.
In other words, there is there is the possibility an electro electromagnetic pulse.
And I just out of sheer interest over the years, and they've been the subject of sp of spy novels and and doomsday novels, etc.
but just launched from the atmosphere, an electromagnetic pulse would literally shut down the electric grid in this country, dismantle every appliance, water systems, food distribution, and much more, but not just for hours, not just for days, but for weeks, months, and the possibility even longer.
Anyway, a person that has caught my interest, he works with the Toronto Sun is a calm this Anthony Furies is with us and he actually wrote the bull book about pulse attack, the real story behind the secret weapon that can destroy North America.
How are you?
Hey Sean, I'm great.
Great to be back on the program.
Do you get on do you come under fire for for writing and talking about these things or do people find it as interesting as I do?
Well I get under a little bit of fire because you you're right to when you tee it up saying people have written spy novels and it's in a couple movies like a James Bond and an Ocean's eleven.
So people think it's science fiction.
They think it's entirely relegated to the tinfoil hat brigade.
And I gotta be honest I sort of kind of did when I first started researching this Sean and then I found out why I thought that way why so did I I I thought it was nut talk totally completely off the rails when I first heard about it.
Well and the reason that's the case is because it's been classified information.
So all the serious people haven't been able to talk about it.
What happened is back in the 60s both the US and Russia were doing their atmospheric tests and they were doing them atmospherically not because they wanted to do them in the atmosphere because you can't detonate them on the ground you're going to create a big crater.
But when they did this they launched them up in the sky and then they realized 500 kilometers away various sort of street lamps and so forth went out and short circuited and they thought hang on a second and they sent technicians to have a look and they thought uh oh there's a connection here and they realized do you detonate one of these up in the atmosphere sends a big high energy waveform around that can fry pretty much all electronics.
JFK brings in the partial test ban treaty in the early sixties which I think we can agree is pretty much a good thing.
The downside is it halted you being able to do that.
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So that's what shut it all down Sean and that's why when it gets classified and when you can't do more tests it's not really you know a sexy thing to do your PhD and you can't get any funding to you know pay your mortgage on and so forth.
So kind of a cone of silence something that the former Soviet Union and the United States were testing and maybe still kind of behind the scenes are working on that we just don't know about Pulse Attack I talk about how Kazakhstan actually had one detonate litonated against that.
When they were part of the USSR Russia thought oh we'll do a test over Kazakhstan see what happens they got rid of all the electronics there.
They fried so many of them they even took out part of the power grid.
So when there are these rogue state actors around North Korea they're looking around they're going wow this is kind of great asymmetrical warfare here the basic idea that we could maybe just us little North Korea Kim Jong un we could take out all of the eastern seaboard in the US and Canada and so forth that's an amazing power to have well I think so all right so describe the threat that might exist for the U.S. In other words of and is it a possibility in other words Newt Gingrich is talking about he wants an a strategic defense initiative that has the redundancy of let's
say the North Koreans God forbid they launch an ICBM with nuclear weapons it's headed towards the United States, the Continental United States he wants a redundancy factor that we have 10, 20, 30, even 40 shots from from space at this weapon to take it out.
In other words, you have the THAAD anti-missile defense system.
Now you've got the Israeli system that's on the ground.
It's done a really good job for them in keeping the Israelis safe, but it's probably got to be a lot more advanced.
If you go to a space-based defense system and, let's say, a laser type of system that could explode it in the atmosphere, depending at what point in its trip that it got shot down, what would happen or what could happen?
Well, if they succeed in the detonation, you can shoot it down at various levels and it won't actually happen.
And I should add that they could detonate this from a satellite.
North Korea has a KSM satellite that flies over the middle of the US pretty much every 12 hours.
We don't know what's in that thing I'm sure there's not a nuclear weapon you know right now but uh there are many things, you know Sean six months ago people would have told you and me there's no way North Korea will get ICBM.
Now they have them.
If they do successfully do this detonation, it very well could take out all of the electricity grid.
And that doesn't just mean our iPhones and our fancy gadgets.
It means my son born premature a couple of years ago on a life support machine.
Uh-oh, that's going off.
Grandma's dialysis machine.
Wait a second.
Go past a few days there.
We're talking weeks.
The water filtration systems aren't working.
Well, we all need water.
We can't clean stuff up.
Even the sump pumps in the country, you can't get those going.
the regional food terminals, how much food do we actually have stored to feed our cities?
all those things start to spoil and you start to realize why this can end up looking like you know the walking dead minus the zombies.
All right but you've got to admit it's fairly remote right I mean you have for example do you ever read any of these these magazine pieces or stories about quote preppers.
I mean, they're always they're always being portrayed as the nuttiest people around, and you know, I have extra water at my house.
I have some extra food at my house, the prepared food like the like the astronauts eat.
Um, I have uh a big generator at my house.
I've I've I've taken some preparations, but not for the long term like this.
Well, first of all, to the people who say the odds of it are happening are pretty low.
NASA says the odds of a naturally occurring EMP attack happening, a solar flare, is around about 10% per decade, 10% per decade.
Okay, well those are very high odds.
Well, hold on a second.
There are folks buying tickets for the power ball.
They have this.
I never heard that.
Yeah, they they have way less of a of a choice of winning the lottery, chance of winning the lottery.
We take out insurance in our home, even though we know a fire most likely isn't gonna happen.
But but the odd thing about all of this, Sean, is the mitigation strategy for it is really quite simple.
There's been a number of statewide initiatives and even a couple federal initiatives that want to bring in legislation and regulation on this.
And it's really a two-step thing.
One, let's learn a bit more, because right now, of course, the worst case scenario is popular because nobody's done any uh recent research or investigation to really exactly authoritatively tell how bad this thing will be if it will hit.
And two, as you're redoing these parts in your various electrical grid systems, put in a regulation that just says as you're replacing those costs over the years over their life cycle, replace them with EMP compliant parts.
And this is not a tinfall hat thing, Sean.
There are major engineering firms out there which have patents for these types of products.
So mitigation is i is available and surprisingly quite simple.
All right, when we come back, I just want to ask you, based on your knowledge or experience or study of what an EMP attack is, and and people I bet you some people are hearing this probably for the first time, and they're probably thinking, is this guy real?
Can this really happen and and what they should do or what you'd recommend they do?
I mean, uh I want you to send me that NASA report.
I really like to read that.
Um this is just one of those topics that I read like at three in the morning when I can't sleep because I didn't have my pillow, but um it's something that I just find a real interest in because it's kind of scary and it's like a novel, but yet it's got some some truth and it's rooted in in a reality in many, many ways, especially as we become so electronically dependent, and especially power grid issues, which is a very scary scenario, and of course, water filtration issues and stuff like that.
Uh stay right there.
We'll take a break, we'll come back, and we will continue with Anthony Furies wrote the book, Pulse Attack, the real story behind the secret weapon that can destroy North America.
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All right, as we continue with Anthony Furies with a Toronto Sun columnist, wrote the book Pulse Attack, the real story behind the secret weapon that can destroy North America.
And uh a lot of people haven't even heard about electromagnetic pulse and what it could do.
And you mentioned that Russia performed an attack in in the past.
Uh, where did they do it?
They did it over Kazakhstan when they were then part of the USSR.
So Sean, they were looking at uh basically testing this out.
They weren't really being nefarious about it, you know, trying to blow Kazakhstan to smithereens or anything, but they thought, oh, we'll do a test, we'll do it over this area, and they did it, and they took down a lot of the grid in Kazakhstan.
We're talking millions of people who lost power.
Part of their power plants actually went down because of it.
That was back in the 60s when they hardly knew anything about this technology.
So you think if a country like North Korea also wants to just sort of lightly poke around in the same way Russia was doing it, they may have some success.
Yeah, well, I mean, it's a pretty scary thing.
You say North Korea may already have this capability to perform this type of attack.
Why?
Well well, basically it's about how high up you can get the missile.
It's a really low kiloton yield that's needed.
When you look at the actual arsenal North Korea has right now, the size of their nukes are are nothing compared to some of the bigger ones that Russia and the U.S. have in their stockpile.
But you you really only need the smallest of nuclear detonations to trigger this sort of gamma ray reaction in the atmosphere that sends out this electromagnetic waveform.
So the simple fact that they have the nuclear capability, the question is just whether or not they want to detonate it atmospherically or not, or whether they're planning for some sort of ground launch.
You talk about the North uh North America, you talk about Canada, the US, et cetera, being vulnerable to this.
Um Is there any work being done to protect the grid, to protect the water, to protect America if such a an incident ever occurred?
You know, there are a handful, just a handful of politicians in the U.S. advocating for that.
As you said earlier, Newt Gingrich is talking about this this issue.
Yes and no.
Sadly, in Canada, there's even much less going on.
I've been talking in our parliament buildings to the legislators about it, giving speeches there.
And as you know, we're not east-west, you know, Canada and the US when it comes to electricity.
We're north-south.
There's practically no borders when it comes to the energy industry in North America.
So you're looking at the Eastern Seaboard going out, the Western seaboard.
There is not much of a mitigation strategy.
The only good news I have to tell you, Sean, is that a few years ago, money was released by the White House to harden Cheyenne Mountain, the NORAC facilities where Canada and the U.S. work together to monitor disguise.
So they want to protect the military assets.
And and the military talks about it.
I mean, it's no conspiracy theory to the military.
They take it quite seriously.
The only problem is great.
So we get an EMP attack.
Military assets are still there, which I guess means they can stop us from being nuked on the ground.
But civil society still goes out.
People are still without water for weeks or months.
So we still got to get civil society on board.
And and Sean, you know just as much as anyone politics is downstream from culture, and people just aren't talking about this right now.
So they got to get a cultural movement to this.
Yeah, well said.
Um look, I really appreciate all you're doing.
And if people want to get the book, I guess it's on Amazon and in bookstores.
And uh Amazon, it's at PulseAtta Book.com as well.
Yeah, you're not scaring the crap out of people, are you?
You're not scaring the living crap out of people.
You just you're just yeah, just a nice that's the where the secret behind the weapon they can totally destroy North America.
Don't worry, everybody.
It's fine.
Everything's fine.
All right, we really appreciate it.
Anthony, thank you.
Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
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Many of you of you have been saying, Hannity, not putting enough opposition on the program.
Well, we're trying to get out news and information every day that that we argue that you don't get elsewhere.
Anyway, um this is a person that frankly has been at times a little rough on me in their columns and whatever else she's tweeting out there.
Olivia Newtze is with us.
She what do you who are you with?
You're with the uh Washington correspondent for New York magazine, right?
Correct.
Why are you laughing about that?
Because you like taking shots at me because you just figure I'm gonna bubble and fizz like Alka Seltzer and fight back.
I think it's fun when you fight back.
I don't know why you have to be so sensitive about it.
Um anything but sensitive, and I honestly don't care at all.
You know what most people don't understand about me and Twitter and like when I start these little fights with like Humpty Dumpty and all those other people, but although I I he's not really worth my time.
But it's just for me, I'm laughing.
For me, it's fun.
Like you just did a big profile on Liberal Joe and Mika.
I mean, I think I would argue two of the most unhinged people I've ever met in my life.
I thought listen, this is their music, the monkey house.
Do you ever hear that?
I did hear it.
I actually watched him perform it uh it from the green room at on the Colbert show when he was there.
Oh, so uh what did you think of them behind the scenes?
Are you willing to share that?
Yeah, you know, I thought they were they're very unusual people.
Um I spent a couple of things.
Well, you know, they're they're they're just unusual.
I don't know.
They kind of they fit together in this weird way.
It's very difficult for me to imagine them apart and talking to them separately.
You know, if the other one wasn't right next to them, they almost are thinking like different people.
Um they're very different apart than they are together.
What is that?
That's interesting.
It almost sounds like, oh, they get relief, and now I can be myself when the other one's not around.
That's what it sounds like.
And I do know couples like that.
It's a radio talk show host, and you know, he's one way when he's around his wife, and uh out when his wife's not around, he's the most irreverent politically incorrect person in the world and around her.
Man, he's buttoned up tight.
Are you talking about yourself?
Uh you're so no, I'm not talking about myself.
This is not a biography here.
Thank you very much, though.
Or an autobiography.
Go ahead.
Um, they you know, they were they were nice, and I'll give them credit.
They were sports, they answered, you know, pretty much everything that I asked.
Um, but they're they have a very, very tightly controlled image, and and I almost was never around them if they were not surrounded by PR people uh and other people from MSNBC.
And you know, in contrast, I I interviewed Rachel Nato for Glamour magazine recently.
By the way, you know who tells me she's the nicest person in the world.
Now I think she's the biggest conspiracy theorist in the country, but uh you know, you're allowed to have different opinions than Sean Hannity.
I think conservatives are bigger on freedom of speech issues now than liberals are.
But um, Greta Van Sestran swears she's the nicest person on earth.
Yeah, they're I mean she was very nice, and you know, in contrast to Joe and Mika, she we did our interview with nobody around.
Uh there was very little dealing with any PR people uh to to talk to her.
Um and it required basically no, you know, no gymnastics on my part at all to get her to you know agree.
Any sense that she cares about fighting other cable hosts?
Um nobody cares, you said.
Yeah, I get the sense she doesn't care.
Oh, I don't know.
I mean, I think you know, she's been doing pretty much her argument is that she's been doing pretty much the same thing on that show for years.
Right.
And it just now in the political climate, it just so happens that it's a popular tactic to sort of explain things the way that she does, whether or not you agree with how she explains them or the conclusion she comes to.
Do you agree with me that you know, for example, over the years m I remember when Bill Marr was back on his politically incorrect days and he ended up getting fired, and it was people like me and Rush Lumbaugh and other conservatives that said don't fire him.
And I have been a a steady uh uh a steadfast, if you will, uh supporter of freedom of speech.
And I have spoken out repeatedly against, you know, people asked me, you gonna join a boycott against this and a boycott against that?
And I said, No, because ultimately it's like a weapon to try and silence opposition voices, and I'm confident enough as a conservative that if I make a good case, a strong case, that that people will be brought over to my side because of the appeals of the argument.
Right.
Well, I mean, I I agree that it's absurd to, you know, in most cases to fire people for their opinions or for things that they say.
Um and I I think it's you know, the way that speech is being sort of weaponized right now by the lesson on college campuses, things like that.
I completely disagree with.
There was a great um Vice episode about this recently about one college campus where it's just gotten completely out of control.
Um but I don't know if it's like exactly falls along these political lines where everybody on the right is, you know, pro-free speech and everybody on the left is against it.
I think that people who understand the First Amendment uh and understand its importance and and are intelligent in that way are are in favor of freedom of speech, and people who don't have a very sophisticated understanding of it aren't.
I don't think it's as simple as saying the left is one way and the right is the other.
So where would you put yourself on the political spectrum?
Uh you know, I just think everyone is an idiot for the most part, and I hate everybody almost equally.
I mean, we've talked about it.
So like you're calling me an idiot, is that what you're saying?
No, but I mean I think you know, I I don't agree with any party completely.
Uh I I don't vote in presidential.
Well, you watch my show at times and you say that guy makes a lot of sense.
And sometimes I say he's making no sense at all, which is you know why we've gotten into debates before on Twitter and and Well, you get into a one-sided debate, but that's okay.
Oh, please.
You went on a whole rant against me when I was at a different publication.
I don't even remember.
No.
All right.
But you have a now, tell us about the background.
I remember reading a New York Daily news piece about you and Anthony Wiener, and I guess you were on his campaign and what happened.
Well, so I was a uh political columnist when I was in high school in New Jersey where I grew up uh for an all weekly.
And I think you sound like you're from New Jersey.
I'm from long Long Island, New York.
How are you doing?
I don't you know.
I think I have like a nineties accent more than I have a geographical accent.
Okay.
Um but I I thought perhaps I wanted to be a speechwriter.
And, you know, I I was writing this column and I ran out of ideas because I ran out of opinions because I was, you know, eighteen, and I thought I should get some political experience.
And I thought it would be very funny to be a communications intern on the Anthony Wiener campaign, because you know, where could you learn more about communications and on something like that, right?
It was gonna be insane and probably a disaster no matter what.
And I was shocked when they agreed to let me intern for them because I I said in my application that I wanted to be a journalist and I wrote for different publications, and I thought that they might be too smart to agree to that.
Uh, but it turned out that they were not smart at all, and they they let me come onto the campaign and I was there for about a month.
Um and I you know it was a terrible intern.
I like hardly ever showed up.
Um and I you know, I never did what I was supposed to do.
And then when it started to fall apart, I wrote about it for a magazine I was working for called Not Safe for Work Corp, and then the Daily News asked me to write a follow up.
Um and they ended up putting me on the cover of the paper without uh without my knowledge.
And it turned into the bigger thing.
That's baptism by fire.
That's gotta be pretty rewarding, all right.
Well, I I mean initially I was very upset to be on the cover because it looked like I had sold my story.
It looked like I didn't write the story myself.
Uh and it looked like, you know, I just thought it looked bad.
It looked like they had photographed me and I was trying to be this this tabloid personality, which is not what I was trying to do.
Uh but you have to understand when I was growing up, my dad would always bring home the New York Post and the Daily News every day, and comparatively the Daily News seems like a very uh serious sort of calm public.
No, it's a very liberal newspaper and it's gotten more liberal over the year.
You know, I used to deliver the New York Daily News in the morning before I went to school.
Really?
I delivered Newsday when I was eight years old.
I delivered the Long Island Press when I was like ten and I delivered a lot of papers before I uh I I got a promotion to a dishwasher by hand in a restaurant at at twelve years old.
Nowadays you could never do that.
You'd have to have a chaperone trailing you on your bike.
You know the cool part though is I was twelve years old and I'd worked till two or three in the morning and at thirteen I became a cook, four fourteen fifteen, a bus boy, waiter, bartender, then I went into construction for ten years, but when I was twelve years old and I'd finished working at two or three in the morning, I mean, imagine riding home on your bike at two or three in the morning in these days, but you know, I I'd literally have one or two St. Paulie girls and I'd be flying home literally.
I mean, yeah, you know, I've and meanwhile my kids have never been out of somebody's sight at at at any point in their lives.
Are you a helicopter parent?
Well, I can't be because I work too much, but I I try and and I try in helicopter, yeah, I actually do to a certain extent.
I'm not gonna lie.
Um, what?
You're part of the problem then.
Well, how am I the pr listen, you can't these this is such a different day and age.
Um and you're in a different generation than I am anyway, yeah.
Yeah, I I don't have kids.
I can't talk about this at all.
I'm just gonna be able to do that.
That's ridiculous.
I used people used to say that to me because I used to always say, I'm never gonna hit my kids.
And by the way, you don't have to hit your kids.
I don't hit my kids, I never hit 'em either.
You just take away their iPhone or their iPad or their PlayStation or their Xbox and and you get full compliance within seconds.
It it totally works.
Well, just what?
We're gonna take away Kim Jong-un's what?
Uh oh his his ability to kill his cousins and brothers and and stepsisters or whatever.
I know, take away his choice, take away his ability to play basketball or something.
With Dennis Rodman?
Yeah.
What do you think?
I mean, I been saying I don't think there's any good options here, and I I can play you the tape of Bill Clinton when he made this deal and he tried to blo bribe Kim Jong-il, his father, and you know, he told the American people this is a good deal for the American people, some hell of a good deal trying to blackmail a rogue d dictatorship out of of building nuclear weapons.
I think Obama just made the same mistake with Iran and we'll be dealing with that in a few years.
I mean, I would never, you know, purport to have any special insight into what we should do militarily with North Korea, but I do think Why are you ducking the question?
What do you see any good options?
I don't know what the option would be.
I'm you know, I'm a twenty-four-year-old writer.
No one's coming to me for advice about what to do with anyone.
I never got on the front page of the Daily News to knock on wood.
All right, stay right there, we'll continue.
Olivia Newtzi is with us and uh she has taken horrible, mean awful shots at me on Twitter, and she's a Washington correspondent for New York magazine.
We'll give her the final word when we get back.
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Toll-free eight hundred nine four one Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
Olivia Newtsi is with us and she is with the Washington correspondent for New York magazine.
You want to take back any of the awful things you said about me on Twitter or No, thank you.
So you stand by them all, is that what you're saying?
Is that I want to stem you know here I am.
I'm trying to offer like alternative voices on the program, and then you just and I'm being nice, and that's the thanks I get.
Great.
I don't remember what I said, but I stand by whatever it was.
Oh, have you ever gone back on your opinion?
Have you ever thought one thing and then said I was dead wrong?
Because I have.
Of course, yeah.
All the time.
You know what the biggest case was.
Like when the facts change, you change your mind, right?
They're just that old saying.
So all the time I'm I'm you know, evolving on on what I think about things.
You know, everyone says that if you have opinions, you never or have an open mind.
It's so not true.
The one of the bigger cases, remember the Ellian Gonzalez case?
And and they went into this young kid and they dragged him back to Fidel.
You know, part of me was thinking, all right, well, he's got a father.
The father has rights too, and and probably the father misses his son, etc.
And then I interviewed this woman who wrote a book, The Kids from Pedro Pond.
And when I read it and I talked to her, she convinced me that, well, okay, yeah, he's gonna be with his father, but he's gonna be an indoctrinated robot by the end of the process, and he's gonna be basically a a propaganda tool for Fidel, which he became.
And so I switched my opinion.
Don't you think that people should have more open minds?
Don't you think it's more bitter than it's ever been?
Do you like it or not like it?
Do I like the current state of things?
Like the final thing, like the environment.
Well, I mean, it obviously it's very interesting time to be a journalist, but it's impossible to say anything, basically, without people ripping your head off.
I mean, when it comes to, you know, it's like last week I was a liberal shell, according to my critics because of my the cover story about Joe and Mika.
This week I interviewed somebody who was formerly with the alt-right, and now I'm, you know, a Nazi propagandist.
I don't even know what alt-right means.
Can you tell me?
Because I keep it's a new term, relatively.
What is it?
Well, the alt-right, I mean, initially the term was defined on Breitbart, actually, you know, as being just an alternative to conservative to the conservative establishment.
Just, you know, an alternative right, basically.
Exactly what the title says.
Uh but over the last year or over the last year and a half, um, it sort of became synonymous with white nationalism, as people like Richard Spencer latched on to it.
And then you see people uh distancing themselves from it.
So Milo distanced himself from it.
Mike Cernovich, who I interviewed this week and tell that about as a conservative, every election year, every four years where racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic.
I I resent it because I am a a I'm a Reagan conservative.
I still am, and I think Trump is far more than people ever give him credit for, and I can go over policy details in another time.
And every election year, that's the playbook of the Democrats.
Every four years, I'm sick of it.
Well, uh I just I don't remember, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't remember there being Mitt Romney rallies where skinheads showed up in drove.
But that but wait a minute, but that's not his thing that's a reflection.
Well, wait a minute.
Mid Romney was accused because he had women's resumes in a binder being a sexist.
I'm like, he wants to hire people.
To think about that today, that he got in trouble for saying that he wanted to hire women, basically.
It's completely ridiculous, especially given what you know, politicians can get away with in 2017.
Um completely ridiculous.
But I mean, to that point though, it's you can't say anything now, basically, without people screaming at you from one side or the other.
And oftentimes, you know, I I don't think that it's just rules, but oftentimes it is from the lab.
So true.
If the sun rises and the sun sets, there's gonna be a boycott fire Hannity campaign.
I get it.
All right, Olivia, thank you.
God bless you.
Have a great weekend.
And uh thanks for being on the program.
I hope you'll come back.
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We'll say hi to Tracy, Liberal, North Korea wants to talk about that from Katie, Texas.
What's up there, Tracy?
How are you doing down in Texas?
What is a liberal doing down in Texas?
You know, your vote is canceling out the vote of all those good people that are keeping Texas, you know, free and a constitutional republic.
Wait, wait, Sean, if you can hear me clearly, I'm not a liberal.
I'm more of an independent.
So that I gotta keep you're casting me for people to be negative, but says that on my screen, so my call screener, who's rarely wrong, says that.
Let's give you a little list.
Well, no, you you've always cast me as that, and I understand it, but I'm you voted for Obama how many times?
How many times did you vote for Obama?
How many times did you vote for Obama?
Well, listen, yeah, I did vote for Obama, but that doesn't make me a liberal.
Did you vote for Hillary or Trump?
Uh Hillary.
Because Trump's what he is a disaster right now, so I I I would have bet it, I would have done it.
But say, when it comes to North Korea, I have to admit this.
I am somewhat on board with Trump's position because, as far as I'm concerned, North Korea is doing like a high school kid.
You know, you don't want to be picked on, so you go up to the biggest guy or the biggest bully and you try to fight him.
North Korea knows it couldn't stand a chance against us to get popularity by talking against America, but I do take Donald Trump's position because America needs respect.
You don't just talk about destroying America.
We're too big for that.
Russia don't do it.
They have respect, and they're much bigger than in North Korea.
China don't do it.
Pakistan don't do it.
So you do have to give United States its respect, and that's the reason why we'll go with Trump.
I don't you don't threaten because of issues involving respect.
I mean, it's sort of like there's a bar fight with two guys, and somebody says, Well, that person disrespected him.
You don't go threatening people because as soon as you threaten somebody, you might get something you can't handle.
You you a person who's smart don't threat.
You do, but there's nobody uh I'm I'm one of a I'm a person that is trained in in very, very violent street martial arts for six years.
Um I've had a concealed carry permit my entire life.
Do you know what the last thing I'm ever gonna do is I'm never I'm gonna walk away anytime I can, and I'll take any name.
Sean, I I want to say this about you, and I gotta address you.
You're gonna let me address you on some issues.
Okay, so you want to slam me and you want me to be quiet as you do it.
Go ahead.
Well, no, here's the thing that that worries me, Sean.
For me, when I'm looking at our politics lately, I've been noticing what's right is not wrong, and what's wrong is not right.
But you is my my wonder.
I know that you're close to Trump.
Yeah, you love this disability to get the presidential interview, and you got you know, you're there, but my thing is this.
I'm wondering when are you gonna call him out?
I saw you as a part of his propaganda arm when you did this Mark Rich story, and then y'all got burned on that.
And then you don't talk about the Trump son son-in-law being a backchatter.
You don't talk about Trump Jr. trying to set up something.
You classify it as fake news, but you and I both know a lot of those things did transpire.
Manifold on the investigation, Michael Flint on the investigation, everybody talks to the Russians, but you act as if nothing's there.
Like it is a nothing burger.
When in fact, if you really slow down, even in the back of your mind, you have to question Trump, but you don't question Trump.
And I feel you let your listeners down because every single day it's something Trump is being wrong.
Just like when it was Obama, every single thing he did was wrong.
Everything Trump does can't be right.
And when are you gonna really be a chance?
All right, now you're repeating yourself.
I've taken I've taken your criticism and to heart, and I've given you a fair shot.
Let me let me answer your question.
I support the agenda.
I support he is not wavered.
He's not changed.
He's not a different person.
He said the same thing in West Virginia that he was saying out on the campaign trail.
I was out on the campaign trail with him.
And nobody's perfect, and everybody makes mistakes.
And I would argue that that at times politically the president, you know, has had to learn on the job, but he's not as Mitch McConnell's right in the sense he's not a professional politician.
I actually view that as a plus.
What I like about Donald Trump is it's not about what you suggest.
It's not about access.
It's not about knowing the person or the personality at all.
Although I've known him for for two a couple of decades, and I do like him.
I I happen to be fond of him, and I love the fact that he's courageous and strong, and I thought we saw that yesterday.
I love the resolve that he showed yesterday by calling out the Republican Party to keep their promises.
But when he talks about the forgotten men and women, which he related to, I will I identify with the forgotten man and woman.
But all those people out of work in poverty on food stamps they can't buy a house, all of those Americans left behind, and I see him uh ending Obama era regulation so we can be energy independent, good for national security, and it'll create millions of high paying career jobs.
I support it.
When he talks about middle class tax cuts, I support it.
When he talks about corporate tax cuts, so we we get jobs and manufacturing centers and factories built, I support it.
When he talks about repatriation of trillions from multinationals, I support it.
When he talks about building the wall for our safety and security so people don't steal our jobs, I support it.
When he talks about free and fair trade, I support it.
When he talks about identifying evil ISIS in our time and and not being so politically incorrect, I support it.
And the evidence that I believed all of these things long before Donald Trump ever got into politics, and I'll put it back up on my website if you'd like.
But go look at my I put it up in 2013, talked about it in 2013, and I've talked about it frankly my entire career.
Everything I just mentioned to you is what a Reagan Republican would do.
Everything I just mentioned to you is what I've always believed in.
And my agenda leading up to the conservative solution caucus in 2014 is the same one.
And I'm gonna be honest, I really don't care.
I've been to the White House during the Bush years.
I've interviewed presidents, secretaries of state, defense, and and the likes and candidates my whole life.
That's not what motivates me.
What motivates me is I see 50 million of our fellow Americans on food stamps, 50 million in poverty.
Obama put 13 more million on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty.
He doubled the national debt, he gave us the lowest job participation rate since the 70s, and the worst recovery since the 40s and the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
So if you're asking what motivates me, it's not access, it's not Sean Hannity, it's not money, because when I started in radio, I didn't make any money.
I worked for free, and then I work for little and no money, and I took a huge pay cut, and I never thought I'd be successful to be blunt.
So, you know, if you you can make these accusations, and it's it's I guess maybe from your side, that's how you see it.
But if you really know me, if you've listened to me over these many, many years I've been on radio, it's like my 30th year, then you know it's total baloney because I've been saying these things for my entire career, just with different news and different sources and different information every day as I get smarter, hopefully, wiser, hopefully, and as I I see things a little bit better and brighter as I get older and more a little bit more insightful with a little bit more life experience.
So, you know, I I can't convince you that this is true, but there's evidence, empirical evidence that proves what I'm saying is true.
I'll give you the last word to to refute that.
Go ahead.
Well, no, it's not that, Sean.
The main thing is this.
Trump is a front.
I call him Trump Shady.
He fronts, and I agree.
Like the Trump university.
Trump will Trump has promised everything bigly bigly and he's been fronting.
He'll tell you, like you said, he's he's made the statement.
He I don't have a lot of time.
Listen, there is so much evidence of success.
We now have a million jobs.
We now have fewer people on food stamps than in the last seven years.
We have more economic growth than anybody ever imagined.
Uh Obama never got to 3% GDP in all the years he was president.
I uh if he ever gets his agenda done, which I put on the on the Republican Party's shoulder in Congress.
If he ever gets that done, I predict, like in the Reagan years, we're gonna have an economic boom and jobs created.
And I like that he's tough on national security.
Short of that, personalities don't matter a whole lot to me in politics.
Truth, fidelity to promises, uh, a vision, principles that guide you.
Well, I've seen a president that hasn't wavered since the campaign, and I was out there with it.
Um, but I can't convince you.
Look, you're you're gonna believe what you're gonna believe.
It is what it is, and I accept that there's a lot of people that that think this is very different than what reality is, but I'm never gonna be able to convince you otherwise.
So I'm not gonna try.
I'm just gonna explain it to those people that do have an open mind to hear it.
All right, have a great weekend.
Appreciate it.
Thank you, Tracy.
800-941 Sean, our number.
Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today for this week.
And let not your heart be trouble.
We'll be back on Monday.
You know, I I I don't think this news cycle is ever gonna slow down.
It just is insane.
Uh, we'll be watching very closely, monitoring very closely all of the events coming out of North Korea.
We'll be monitoring very closely whether or not Republicans can get their act together.
We'll have a lot more on all of these issues on Monday.
I assume the president will make news this weekend, considering he's not on vacation.
Have a great weekend, and we'll see you back here Monday and hope you get some rest.
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