Sean sits down with Jesse Lee Peterson and Daryl Scott to discuss President Trump's remarks today and to remind the audience that speech we hate is still very much protected by the 1st Amendment. What can we learn from our history and our country's heritage? It turns out, a lot. 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.
You are listening to the Sean Hannity Radio Show Podcast.
All right, so I have insomnia, but I've never slept better.
And what's changed?
Just a pillow.
It's had such a positive impact on my life.
And of course, I'm talking about my pillow.
I fall asleep faster, I stay asleep longer, and now you can too.
Just go to mypillow.com or call 800-919-6090.
Use the promo code Hannity and Mike Lindell, the inventor of MyPillow, has the special four-pack.
Now, you get 40% off two MyPillow premiums and two Go Anywhere pillows.
Now, MyPillow is made here in the USA, has a 60-day unconditional money-back guarantee and a 10-year warranty.
Go to mypillow.com right now or call 800-919-6090, promo code Hannity, to get Mike Lindell's special four-pack offer.
You get two MyPillow premium pillows and two GoAnywhere pillows for 40% off.
And that means once those pillows arrive, you start getting the kind of peaceful, restful, and comfortable, and deep healing, and recuperative sleep that you've been craving and you certainly deserve.
Mypillow.com, promo code Hannity.
You will love this pillow.
Podcast.
All right, Gladiator.
All right, I'm looking at the news.
The president may speak from Trump Tower today.
If he does, we'll go to that.
So I guess he's talking, what is he talking about today?
Do we even know infrastructure?
Yeah, the definite.
Let's see.
I wonder if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can get tax cuts through for the middle class.
That's so controversial.
That might be a very heavy lift for him.
That may be really, really hard.
Senator, I know you're going to have to work hard, and I know our expectations are so high, but you know, can you please, pretty, please give middle-class taxpayers a break and give corporations a break.
Now, why would we give corporations a break?
Oh, because those are the corporations that invest in factories and manufacturing centers, and they help the forgotten men and women in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Missouri, and everywhere in between.
That helps them get jobs.
And I hope, Senator McConnell, you're going to allow those multinational corporations, they're going to pay the government a whole bunch of money, a whole bunch of it, if you let them bring in their multi-trillions parked overseas at a very low tax rate, maybe 10%, 7%, but they're not going to park it in America's banks.
They're going to probably invest in factories and manufacturing centers, and they're going to create jobs here.
And while you're at it, can you give us a little bit of energy independence so those people that hate our guts don't control America's economy, the lifeblood of America's economy?
Oh, and while you're at it, we did promise that we'd build a wall, didn't we?
Oh, yeah, you might want to get going on that if you have any desire to win come 2018 and maintain control of the House and Senate.
I know it's a big, heavy lift.
I know our expectations are through the roof.
I know that every Republican promised this, and I know that you don't like Donald Trump, but maybe, oh, maybe, oh, maybe you might be able to do something.
And let's forget about President Trump just, oh, for a second, and maybe do it for the American people.
After all, they are the people that you're supposed to be serving.
I know service is a really interesting term these days.
All right, Glad you're with us, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right.
Here's something the media won't tell you.
Can't help but notice comments from a grieving mother.
That girl was such a beautiful girl.
Oh, my gosh.
So sad.
Father said, stop the hate.
Yeah, I agree with the father.
Anyway, the mother of this grieving, the grieving mother who lost her daughter killed in Charlottesville Sunday by this racist nut job, Nazi nutjob, white supremacist, it's not getting much attention.
Well, let's see.
It was in the New York Post that the mother of the Charlottesville crash victim, Heather Heyer, thanked the president, Donald Trump, yesterday, Monday, for condemning the violence.
Said, thank you, President Trump, for those words of comfort and for denouncing those who promote violence and hatred.
My condolences also to the grieving families of the two state troopers and quick recovery to those that are injured.
Could you imagine losing your child?
I can't think of anything worse.
Anything.
How many times have you seen that car plowing into that crowd of people?
It makes me nauseous.
U.S. retail sales, the latest economic indicator, now, oh, a seven-month high.
I'm sorry, I don't have bad news today on the economic front.
News keeps getting better and better.
And we haven't even pushed the economic plan because it's a big ass to ask Republicans to move and actually get some work done and do their job.
You know, there are people that are actually telling me they are worried whether or not the Republicans can actually get the tax cuts through.
I'm like, okay.
You know, if you guys want to commit political suicide, go right ahead.
You got a president that's got an identity.
You got a Republican Party that has no identity and feels like it's a heavy lift to do their job and keep their promises.
And they want two years to do it.
And how dare we have expectations that go beyond, you know, a few months?
I mean, does it really take long to keep promises you make to people?
What do these words mean on the campaign trail otherwise?
You know what a betrayal the American people feel right now?
It's unbelievable.
I'm going to ask for a show of hands, but I know everybody's saying we've been there, haven't done anything.
That's right.
Which I find extremely irritating.
And I'm going to tell you why.
A 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 set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point.
Now, our new president had, of course, not been in this line of work before.
He hasn't been in the swamp.
I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process.
And so part of the reason I think people feel like we're underperforming is because too many kind of artificial deadlines, artificial unrelated to the reality of the complexity.
Unrelated.
Oh, okay.
Legislative.
Legislative.
They may not have been fully understood.
And of course, our political adversaries would be loving.
Imagine if you talk about the complexity of building a home.
You know what it's like for the average home builder?
You get your butt in there and you move.
And anybody on your team that doesn't move, I'll never forget I was framing a house one time and they had a foreman.
Do you realize we didn't have the nail guns that we have today?
Now it's just boom, boom.
And it goes so much faster.
And just like the trusses that are already pre-made, we didn't have those either.
So we actually framed out, physically framed out the house.
I was not, by the way, I was not the lead guy.
I was not the best, you know, I was learning at that stage.
I had a guy standing over me counting how many times my 16-ounce hammer, you know, hit the 16-inch spike that was going in the frame it.
And he wanted three and done.
I'm like, it's impossible.
And then if I'd miss one and put a, it's not like what you're going to see, a two by four.
Oh, look at the dad, you're screaming at me, rooting, tooting tigers.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Like, shut up.
Why don't you pick up a hammer and help you wanted to go so fast?
But that's what real life is.
You don't have, oh, the complexity of building a house.
And I'll never forget one day he screwed up.
He mismeasured.
And we then had to pull out every spike into the dark of night in an entire framing around the outside of a second floor.
And we didn't get to go home until every spike was pulled out.
And we come back the next morning.
You really want to talk about damaged wood.
Then we had to redo it all because he screwed up.
I'm like, really?
But that, all right, go work.
Maybe Mitch McConnell needs to go into an emergency room one day.
You know what?
I've been in an emergency more times in my life than I ever want to be.
I don't see people talking about the complexity of modern medicine and how difficult it is.
And frankly, if I'm having a heart attack, which I hope I don't ever have, and my doctor says I won't, at least not yet.
But if I'm having one, I don't want the doctor going, well, the complexity of the heart is many, many fold here.
Let me, you know, there are those with excessive expectations that maybe want their heart working in 30 seconds to a minute because if not, I'm dead.
And I'm leaving my family and kids behind.
Sorry, my expectations are too high.
I've never legislated before.
They don't understand the complexity.
Does that not describe the swamp?
It's so, oh, maybe the, maybe McConnell needs to go serve food in a restaurant.
I know he's used to being served in the Senate dining room and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
But you know what?
Those waiters run their asses off and those dishwashers are told to move and those cooks are sweating their tails off in the back room of that restaurant, you know, to feed them their perfectly coifed, you know, little piece of salmon for the day or whatever else they're eating that no American really eats.
Or their slight bit of caviar with little milquetoast biscuits on the side and then a spot of tea.
But of course we have our three martini lunch after three martinis.
After all, who could get any legislation done?
And then, of course, meeting with the lobbyists, it's a very arduous task.
They want and demand those so much in the bills that we're trying to pass for the American people.
Just listening to them is tiresome.
I need a nap.
And then I've got to take my nap on my little couch in the office building.
Tell those annoying little reporters, been peons, to get out of my way.
What kind of life is this?
So I actually was given one of our sales guys came by today on radio.
And you know what the sales guy gets to do?
And I love the guy.
And the guy works really hard.
He's going to hate me for this.
Every time clients come into town, you know what his job is to take them out to a fancy New York restaurant.
And I'm sitting there.
I'm like, oh, and where did you go today?
And what did you have for lunch today?
Oh, I had the salmon.
I had a steak.
I had a pork chop.
And I'm like, oh, I had Campbell's chicken noodle soup like usual.
And if I'm lucky, I might get two egg whites that Lauren ordered me because she thinks I'm anorexic.
And it's ridiculous because I don't have time to eat.
You know, I buy lunch for my team, and I'm not bragging about it.
I buy it so they don't leave their room.
I'm buying it so they work harder.
It's worth the money to keep them in their chair all day.
I don't, who lives the life?
Go to a restaurant and watch every position, every job.
Go to a construction site.
Those guys don't have time to talk about the complexities of building.
Look at a plumber.
You got to move.
You're paid by the job.
Well, some are paid by the hour.
Unions, they go a little slower sometimes, but who cares?
They're good people.
They're working their butts off.
They're making our lives better.
Nurses, look what they're, go tell an emergency room nurse about the complexities of being a nurse when she's about to shoot somebody with something that either is going to make them live or die.
Where's a sense of urgency?
You know what?
It's critical care.
Getting rid of Obamacare was kind of critical, Mitch.
You know, fixing the economy.
You know, I know you're not in poverty.
I know you're not on food stamps.
I know you're not, you know, the forgotten men and women.
I know you're living in a beautiful wherever in Kentucky.
And you'll say, well, Hannity, so are you.
I don't live like these people.
I don't like the fact that they don't have urgency.
Does it sound like I don't have an urgency to me and my life and my profession and my job and what I do?
I mean, it's, you got a job.
Do it.
It drives me insane that people have no work ethic.
It really does.
Oh, what is life?
Rainbows and cotton candy and Halloween kernel corn and, you know, what is it?
Lifestyle wishes and caviar dreams?
Well, that's not the real world.
The real world is you get up, you shovel your coffee down your throat, you hustle off to work half exhausted.
The baby kept you up all night if you have a young couple.
I don't leave them.
And then you end up putting it in your 16 hours a day with all the pressure that goes along with working.
And when you work, you're producing goods and services for others.
And when you do it, you hustle on home, you shove a little more food in your mouth.
Maybe you're lucky if it's spaghetti night or pizza night.
You don't have to cook at all.
And then you get up and do it again.
And you do it again.
And it's Groundhog Day all over again for everybody.
Listen, life is difficult, as the Road Last Travel said.
That's why it's so irritating.
These people think they're kings and queens and that they deserve.
Oh, the complexities of legislating.
I'm like, shut up.
Just shut up.
You know what?
You're so out of time.
Go live the life of a person on food stamps, Senator.
Go live the life of somebody living in poverty, Senator.
Go live the life of somebody that can't find a job, Senator.
Maybe you'll get your ass in gear.
You know what?
It's pathetic.
You people are pathetic.
And then people say, well, Sean Hennedy's mad.
He thinks McConnell should go.
I'm not mad.
I'm apoplectic about it.
Hey, with optimism, once again, on the rise in America, the working people of this country are more important than ever.
On the job, from hired to retired.
Well, it's a new podcast from our friends at Express Employment Professionals that digs into the lives of men and women at work and explores their journeys as they fight to make the American dream a reality.
Now, check out the new podcast, On the Job, from Hired to Retired, on iHeartRadio, iTunes, or wherever you download your favorite podcasts.
Or just go to expresspros.com/slash podcast for more information.
I think more than half of my members have not served under a Republican president.
Over half the House Republicans have not served under a Republican president.
When you have a president of a different party, you can freelance all you want to.
You know, go have press conferences.
You guys show up with a 10-point plan to do this or that.
But now we have an actual chance to change the country.
We have somebody who will sign legislation that we pass.
We need to get into a governing mode and start thinking about actually achieving something rather than just kind of sparring and having press conferences, which you all all love, but don't necessarily lead to an outcome.
We're in the outcome business now.
The American people have elected more Republicans during the Obama years at all levels of government since the 1920s.
They wanted to go in a different direction.
And we have an obligation to do that on health care, on deregulation, which we're working consistently on, on confirming a great Supreme Court justice, and doing the first comprehensive tax reform since 1986.
We need to deliver.
Oh, we need to deliver.
And I'm going to be very fair here.
Senator McConnell was great on Neil Gorsuch, and he held the line, and he did the right thing.
I have no idea why the Senate Majority Leader has this mysterious reluctance and resistance to just go with the simple majority, which historically, as I have pointed out, is what they have done.
And the idea is the Democrats never play fair.
They threaten to filibuster everything, Republican.
They wouldn't even give Trump his government up until two weeks ago, or a vast majority of it.
I don't know why they're even playing this game.
You know, I don't understand what good governing equals great politics failing the American people.
How does that serve these politicians and their desire to stay in power?
All they're doing is angering, frustrating, pissing off the American electorate.
And they do it day in and they do it day out.
All right, we've got a lot of other issues we're going to get to on the other side of this.
We'll also be debating the latest out of Charlottesville, the bludgeoning of the president using this case and conservatives and Republicans.
It's never ending.
We've got a history of the Democratic Party and race that I bet a lot of you are not even aware of.
And much more.
800-941-Sean is our number.
We know you never want to miss the Sean Hannity show.
And now you never have to.
Just sign up for Hannity Headlines, a bite-sized version of the show that you can take with you on your laptop, your mobile phone, everywhere you go, even to your liberal-in-law's place in Vermont.
So, yeah.
And after a few hours of that, you'll be glad you brought Sean along to sign up today for Hannity Headlines.
Go to Hannity.com.
800-941-Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
You want to be a part of this program.
All right, I just got an email seconds ago, and I mean seconds ago, from Jay Seculo with the, he's the chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice.
And there was a lot of news yesterday that I didn't have time to get to in light of everything.
And it comes, well, I'll let Jay say it himself.
He's on the newsmaker line right now and some breaking news.
But anyway, I'll read it as apparently we're getting him on.
He just received the attached letter from the FBI dated August the 10th stating that they have reopened the American Center for Law and Justice Freedom of Information Act request regarding Clinton and Lynch.
Obviously, it's about the tarmac issue and much more.
So a week after the ACLJ publicly ripped the FBI for lying that, you know, because the FBI said there were no such documents.
Records didn't exist.
Then the records show up, some 450 pages.
Anyway, Jay Seculo is with us, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice.
All right, let's go back.
Well, let's start with the news today, and then we'll go from there.
Okay.
So the news today, and this is a big deal, and that is after we got the documents by a court order from the Department of Justice, which included FBI documents, this was after the FBI told us there were no documents responsive to the inquiry.
We talked about that a couple weeks ago.
So now, in an unprecedented move, the FBI has reopened this entire Clinton Lynch Poya tarmac matter as far as document requests go, which is how you find out what's going on here.
So, when I say unprecedented, Sean, they had already said no, documents existed.
We were in court against the Justice Department, not the FBI, and the FBI reopened it on their own.
So, I mean, of course, going on your broadcast last week and letting them know we had it, I think, was the big catalyst here.
Okay.
The good news is now they've got to go back and find the documents.
So, when they sent you, how many pages was I right around 450?
481.
Okay.
I minimized how many you got.
Now, among them was the talking points.
Now, this is very important because, number one, the FBI under James Comey told you that there was no correspondence about the issue of Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch on the tarmac.
So, they told you something that was false.
They lied to you.
All right.
Then we took.
And the document, remember, when we discovered the document, it was to the chief of staff of James Comey.
Okay, so they had to know, is James Comey's name on any of these 481 pages?
No, but there's redactions.
But his chief of staff and his general counsel were on these.
So it has to be impossible for him to not know, at least in my view.
Yes.
Well, remember, he gave that whole reason why he went public was because of that whole tarmac meeting.
Then the FBI denied that they had documentation, which ends up, of course, being completely false.
We find that out through the other litigation, and then the end result of that is, of course, now the FBI reopens the FOIA request investigation because basically, basically, they lied.
And now they'll reopen it.
The good thing about that is, well, not only will we get the documents, we're going back to court to get the redacted talking points because remember, her talking point was one paragraph, yet the email, Sean, was three pages.
Okay, now I want to get into this because, all right, now you request it, then they lie and say they don't exist.
Then you get 480 whatever pages.
Then we find out that they actually, now this is where it gets key to me.
The Department of Justice, which is not supposed to be political.
The FBI, which is not supposed to ever be political.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong.
Didn't they, during this period of all these exchanges, say if there are press inquiries, then they built up a set of talking points.
And as part of the redacted material that you received at the ACLJ, wasn't there a blank page, a full page, three blank pages of talking points for the Department of Justice and the FBI so they can spin this, frankly, questionable meeting, perhaps unlawful meeting.
Well, completely inappropriate meeting, that's for sure, and raised a whole host of ethical issues.
But, Sean, there's something else here.
The Department of Justice on the initial inquiry did not respond, and that's what allowed us to, when they didn't respond, we were able to go to federal court.
We got the documents out of the Department of Justice because of a court order mandating the release of the documents.
It was then that we saw the documents between the FBI and the Department of Justice, including James Comey's chief of staff, on this whole Lynch-Tarmack matter.
And when James Comey acted like so shocked about this thing, meanwhile, within an hour of it happening, the emails were already flowing into his office.
So, I mean, which raises a whole host of issues here.
So, at the end of the day, the FBI now reopening it, what that does is they're going to now have to go back through their files, produce the documentation.
But you're right, there's a three-page email that is redacted.
That is the talking points.
And we're going back to court for that.
Is there a chance that the FBI director obstructed?
I don't have the documents.
So I don't know what was in the material.
Well, why would they make ⁇ what possible reason would there be talking points?
Let me ask the question differently.
That's an unfair question.
Is it possible that these talking points somehow reveal a level beyond inappropriate?
Yes.
So, because all we got in the one paragraph statement she said, Loretta Lynch said, was the whole, we talked about grandkids and golf.
We've asked questions that are also some redacted.
We're getting to, though.
I mean, we had a lot of that.
We have the whole chain of events that took place, and it was in crisis management.
They literally have a Department of Justice lawyer that did crisis management.
It was with him.
Within a minute of the inquiry coming in from the media, it was being handled by the special team.
And then we know Loretta Lynch was aware of it because we have emails with, remember, with her alias.
But she signs it, even though she uses the alias.
She uses, she signed it A.G. Lynch.
So here's the question.
Why did they redact?
By the way, under oath, I don't mean to digress.
Hold that thought.
Didn't the Attorney General under oath say that she didn't have other email or use other email?
Something, people have been talking about that.
I haven't gone back and verified that.
Are you talking about when she was asked whether during the congressional hearing?
Under oath.
Yeah, and she said, I think the words to the effect of no or nothing like that.
But yes, that came up during the congressional oversight hearing.
However, let me say this.
She was using an alias.
The alias, we found out about the alias.
And then the next step in this was, of course, the nature of the redaction shown here is three pages.
So that's not a paragraph talking point.
That's three pages of something significant.
And what are they claiming is the basis upon which they redacted it?
Some kind of national security matter?
Really?
So then it wasn't about grandchildren?
I'm speculating here, obviously.
But why would you, one of the bases upon redaction is national security data or national security information.
That's one of the primary exemptions.
So what else could have it been?
So this is why we're going back in and pushing on that.
And of course, justice opening it up today.
I mean, FBI opening up today.
We may be able to succeed that way.
You know, there's a lot of news that is coming out.
And I know everybody.
You know, I love the fact my entire career I've been underestimated by people, and I'd like being underestimated, but I've been talking to a lot of my news sources and people that I know on the ground.
And here's what I'm hearing: The Washington Times reported this week that the FBI provided another 7,000 additional documents that were recovered from the laptop computer that was shared by Uma Abedeen and Anthony Wiener.
And a state official said we've not determined how many of these documents are State Department records as opposed to personal emails.
It also talked about classified information at some level being in these emails.
And I'm thinking, doesn't this give, not that he needs it, the Attorney General of the United States of America more than a reason to go back in and see if laws were committed here and open this investigation?
Because we know that mishandling of classified, top-secret, special-access program information happened.
We also know that...
And, Sean, on this one, we know that of the thousands of documents that were sent, we know there are some are classified.
I mean, they've acknowledged that.
And we don't know what percentage were personal, but we do know that there was classified information on there.
And the marketings are there.
So, again, this is, and this was, by the way, a release between the FBI and the State Department.
So there's been a series of releases now we're actually going through that came out in document dumps that were not getting a lot of attention.
We're going through now a number of those, and we think there's more national security information on those.
All right.
So now.
So now that brings, doesn't that bring up also the deletions of classified top secret and special access program information?
Doesn't that open that door again?
Doesn't it open the door to destruction of such items?
Doesn't it open the door to obstruction?
Doesn't it open the door to mishandling?
Doesn't it open the door to why were the BlackBerries destroyed and why Blackberry?
Doesn't it open the door to at least a grand jury being engaged here?
I mean, that's the thing that's always been so shocking to me.
And here's what I'm also hearing.
Now, we know the names, Ben Rhodes, and we know the name.
Why Samantha Power unmasked hundreds, we're told, hundreds of Trump people in an election year.
She's the U.N. ambassador.
What?
On this basis, there is no conceivable basis that Samantha Powers would have had, A, knowledge to have any reason to have that knowledge, and B, why would she have been given the authority to unmask?
Here's what I hear.
Here's the United Nations.
Here's what I'm hearing.
If, in fact, the Attorney General does his job, because I'm complaining we don't have equal justice under the law.
I'm complaining that this is a two-tier justice system.
I'm complaining that these matters would have put me in jail.
Even if I had you as the best attorney on earth, you couldn't have saved me.
I am complaining that on the Uranium One deal, I am told that there's huge breaking news coming.
You know, as a matter of fact, everybody that monitors this program, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, that on the Uranium One deal, and that there's smoking gun evidence involving that, and a lot of it has to do with the money flow.
And then I'm also told that on the unmasking, that Ben Rhodes, that Samantha Power, that Susan Rice, and maybe even Valerie Jarrett are up to their eyeballs in something that is beyond illegal.
Look, I mean, the questions that arise from that entire scenario raise the specter of why was there not a full investigation?
Why was there not a grand jury involvement there?
Why were subpoenas not issued there?
Why were witnesses not put under oath?
Remember, the Secretary of State, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was never put under oath.
Was Cheryl Mills allowed to be both her employee and her attorney for the purposes of the deposition?
I mean, these are unprecedented moves that were being made here.
Unprecedented.
And then you ask yourself, what was the rationale for this?
And at the end of the day, the rationale doesn't exist.
And now you've got full disclosure evidently coming.
So, I mean, this is, look, this is an unfolding situation that has not gone away despite the attempt of the left to make it go away.
It is not.
Yeah.
You know, I'm just thinking that in many, many ways, Jay, I feel like I've been one of a few voices that have actually looked at a lot of the evidence and material in all of this, and I'm thinking, you know, guys, there's something really, really wrong here.
I don't know.
Did you see this piece in the nation and all of these national security guys?
This was a pretty interesting article.
Isn't the nation supposed to be left-wing?
Yeah, and the nation report shows that this whole thing was basically, according to them, this DNC hacking was a put-up.
There was no DNC hacking, but it was internal.
Of course, these people with the nation are saying.
So these are guys like we've had on this program before.
Bill Benny's a 34-year-old veteran of the NSA, and they're saying that the fingerprints don't point to Russia at all, which, by the way, corresponds with what Julian Assange said, right?
Yeah, so, I mean, I think that whole narrative that they built, remember, they wouldn't let the FBI investigate.
You remember that?
I mean, they would not let the FBI investigate the hacking, purported hacking.
So I think all that's now raised the level of questions to a point where they don't have an easy answer for any of this.
And hopefully on the Lynch-Clinton matter, we are getting answers, and we will now continue to get more answers.
But again, the fact that that got broken back open is a very big deal, unprecedented, really.
And I think bodes well for getting some transparency in what's happened here.
Well, I just think the American people deserve to know the truth.
Now, we were told also that Barack Obama was warned in 2014 about potential Russian hacking.
Did you see that story?
Yeah, and that's been hitting all the media sources today.
So, right.
So, this ongoing Russia dialogue is evidently long-standing.
But again, this whole issue of the hacking of the DNC computers and systems appears to be a put-up.
And again, the FBI wasn't allowed to go in and check it, so they went no.
But you put up a number of experts and now the nation, which is certainly not a centrist group by any stretch of the imagination, and you see what you've got there.
So they're now questioning the whole scenario.
So I think what this means at the end of the day is all of this, despite the left's protests to the contrary, none of this is old.
All of this is fresh, and all of it's actually happening in real time.
Yeah, unbelievable, unprecedented times we're living in.
Now, Jay, you're going to join us tonight on Hannity, Ten Eastern on the Fox News channel, and we're going to get into all of this.
We really appreciate you sharing it with us here first, and we'll continue to do what the mainstream left-wing establishment, Destroy Trump Media, will not do.
There is a history.
I appreciate you being with us.
We'll see you tonight.
And we're going to get into a little history.
First of all, we have the whole, now I sound like Linda.
Good career.
Fist of all.
We have North Korea victory for Trump that nobody will talk about.
Nobody knows the history of the Democratic Party on these racial issues, yet they play the race court every two and four years, and it's despicable.
And that we saw a lot of it this weekend.
You know what you're not going to hear from the mainstream media?
The Democratic Party and their history on racial issues.
That frankly raises a lot of questions.
But of course, as I said on the program yesterday and today, they just wanted to use, they ignored the president's comments.
We know what he was talking about, who he was talking about.
And they want to use any incident to bludgeon him because they don't can't get over that he won and they don't like him.
So they ignore everything about him.
No matter how many times I've played over the years, he has distanced himself, condemned, repudiated white supremacy, David Duke, and racism.
We'll get to that.
All the other news of the day, it's the Sean Hannity Show.
All right, the president just talked about infrastructure creating millions of jobs.
He's at Trump Tower today, and he's now taking questions.
Let's go to the question and answer period.
Come on up.
Mick Mulvaney, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Because they're not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country.
We want jobs, manufacturing in this country.
If you look at some of those people that you're talking about, they're outside of the country.
They're having a lot of their product made outside.
If you look at Merck as an example, take a look where, excuse me, take a look at where their product is made.
It's made outside of our country.
We want products made in the country.
Now, I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave, they're leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products outside.
And I've been lecturing them, including the gentleman that you're referring to, about you have to bring it back to this country.
You can't do it necessarily in Ireland and all of these other places.
You have to bring this work back to this country.
That's what I want.
I want manufacturing to be back into the United States so that American workers can benefit.
Why did you wait so long last night now?
I didn't wait long.
Why did you go?
I didn't wait long.
I didn't wait long.
I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement.
The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement.
But you don't make statements that direct unless you know the fact.
It takes a little while to get the facts.
You still don't know the facts.
And it's a very, very important process to me.
And it's a very important statement.
So I don't want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement.
I want to know the facts.
If you go back to my terrorists, who did you bring to Breath Win?
As I said on, remember this Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence.
It has no place in America.
And then I went on from there.
Now, here's the thing.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Take it nice and easy.
Here's the thing.
When I make a statement, I like to be correct.
I want the facts.
This event just happened.
In fact, a lot of the event didn't even happen yet as we were speaking.
This event just happened.
Before I make a statement, I need the facts.
So I don't want to rush into a statement.
So making the statement when I made it was excellent.
In fact, the young woman who I hear is a fantastic young woman and was on NBC, her mother wrote me and said through, I guess, Twitter, social media, the nicest things.
And I very much appreciated that.
I hear she was a fine, really actually an incredible young woman.
But her mother on Twitter thanked me for what I said.
And honestly, if the press were not fake and if it was honest, the press would have said what I said was very nice.
But unlike you, and unlike, unlike you and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.
They don't.
They don't.
How about a couple of things?
Say it?
What?
The CEO of Walmart said you missed a critical opportunity to help bring the country together.
Did you?
Not at all.
I think the country, look, you take a look.
I've created over a million jobs since I'm president.
The country is booming.
The stock market is setting records.
We have the highest employment numbers we've ever had in the history of our country.
We're doing record business.
We have the highest levels of enthusiasm.
So the head of Walmart, who I know, who's a very nice guy, was making a political statement.
I mean, I do it the same way.
And you know why?
Because I want to make sure, when I make a statement, that the statement is correct.
And there was no way of making a correct statement that early.
I had to see the facts.
Unlike a lot of reporters.
Unlike a lot of reporters.
I didn't know David Duke was there.
I wanted to see the facts.
And the facts as they started coming out were very well stated.
In fact, everybody said his statement was beautiful.
If he would have made it sooner, that would have been good.
I couldn't have made it sooner because I didn't know all of the facts.
Frankly, people still don't know all of the facts.
It was very important to me to get the facts out and correctly.
Because if I would have made a fast statement, and the first statement was made without knowing much other than what we were seeing, the second statement was made after with knowledge, with great knowledge.
There's still things, excuse me, there's still things that people don't know.
I want to make a statement with knowledge.
I wanted to know the facts.
Was this terrorist?
Two questions.
Was this terrorism?
And can you tell us how you're feeling about your chief strategist?
Well, I think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family, and this country.
And that is, you can call it terrorism.
You can call it murder.
You can call it whatever you want.
I would just call it as the fastest one to come up with a good verdict.
That's what I'd call it.
Because there is a question.
Is it murder?
Is it terrorism?
And then you get into legal semantics.
The driver of the car is a murderer.
And what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable thing.
Can you tell us how you're feeling about your trade strategist, Mr. Bannon?
Can you talk about that?
I would echo Maggie's question.
Steve Bannon is.
I never spoke to Mr. Bannon about it.
Can you tell us broadly what your feelings are?
Do you still have confidence in the future?
Well, let's see.
Look.
I like Mr. Bannon.
He's a friend of mine.
But Mr. Bannon came on very late.
You know that.
I went through 17 senators, governors, and I won all the primaries.
Mr. Bannon came on very much later than that.
And I like him.
He's a good man.
He is not a racist.
I can tell you that.
He's a good person.
He actually gets a very unfair press in that regard.
But we'll see what happens with Mr. Bannon.
But he's a good person, and I think the press treats him, frankly, very unfairly.
Senator McCain has called on you to defend your National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, against the last time.
And he called on it again, linking the alt-right.
Senator McCain, you mean the one who voted against Obamacare?
And he said, you mean Senator McCain who voted against us getting good health care?
Senator McCain said that the alt-right is behind these attacks, and he linked that same group to those who perpetrated the attack in Charlottesville.
Well, I don't know.
I can't tell you.
I'm sure Senator McCain must know what he's talking about.
But when you say the alt-right, define alt-right to me.
You define it.
Go ahead.
Senator McCain defined them as the same group.
Excuse me.
What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right?
Do they have any semblance of guilt?
Let me ask you this.
What about the fact they came charging, that they came charging with clubs in their hand, swinging clubs?
Do they have any problem?
I think they do.
You know, as far as I'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day.
Wait a minute.
I'm not finished.
I'm not finished, fake news.
That was a horrible day.
I will tell you something.
I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it.
And you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent.
And nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now.
You had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.
Do you think that what you call the alt-left is the same as neo-Nazis?
Those people, all of those people, excuse me, I've condemned neo-Nazis.
I've condemned many different groups, but not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me.
Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch.
Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of Robert E. Lee.
So and you take a look at some of the groups and you see, and you know it if you were honest reporters, which in many cases you're not, but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.
So this week it's Robert E. Lee.
I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down.
I wonder, is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?
You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?
But they were there to protest.
Excuse me.
You take a look the night before.
They were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.
Infrastructure question.
Go ahead.
Should statues of property lease stay up?
I would say that's up to a local town, community, or the federal government, depending on where it is located.
Are you against the Confederacy?
How concerned are you about race relations in America?
And do you think things have gotten worse or better since you took office?
I think they've gotten better or the same.
Look, they've been frayed for a long time.
And you can ask President Obama about that because he'd make speeches about it.
But I believe that the fact that I brought in it will be soon, millions of jobs.
You see where companies are moving back into our country.
I think that's going to have a tremendous positive impact on race relations.
We have companies coming back into our country.
We have two car companies that just announced.
We have Foxconn in Wisconsin just announced.
We have many companies, I say pouring back into the country.
I think that's going to have a huge positive impact on race relations.
You know why?
It's jobs.
What people want now, they want jobs.
They want great jobs with good pay.
And when they have that, you watch how race relations will be.
And I'll tell you, we're spending a lot of money on the inner cities.
We're going to fix, we're fixing the inner cities.
We're doing far more than anybody's done with respect to the inner cities.
It's a priority for me.
All right, for stations along the Sean Hannity Show Network, we're going to stay with the President and his press conference.
We'll have comments as soon as he's done as well.
I'm not putting anybody on a moral plane.
What I'm saying is this.
You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch.
But there is another side.
There was a group on this side, you can call them the left, or you've just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group.
So you can say what you want, but that's the way it is.
You said there was hatred, there was violence, and both sides.
Well, I do think there's blame.
Yes, I think there's blame on both sides.
You look at both sides.
I think there's blame on both sides.
And I have no doubt about it.
And you don't have any doubt about it either.
And if you reported it accurately, you would say.
Neo-Nazi starters is a lot of people.
They showed him a startled protest.
Excuse me.
They didn't mention John Stanley's dude.
And you had some very bad people in that group.
But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.
You had people in that group.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
I saw the same pictures as you did.
You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
George Washington was a slave owner.
Was George Washington a slave owner?
So will George Washington now lose his status?
Are we going to take down?
Excuse me.
Are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to George Washington?
How about Thomas Jefferson?
What do you think of Thomas Jefferson?
You like him?
I do love him.
Okay, good.
Are we going to take down the statue?
Because he was a major slave owner.
Now we're going to take down his statue.
So you know what?
It's fine.
You're changing history.
You're changing culture.
And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.
But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?
And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats.
You had a lot of bad people in the other group too.
I didn't understand what you were saying.
You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly.
I just didn't understand what you were saying.
were people in that rally, and I looked the night before, if you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.
I'm sure in that group there were some bad ones.
The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.
But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest because I don't know if you know, they had a permit.
The other group didn't have a permit.
So I only tell you this.
There are two sides to a story.
I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country.
A horrible moment.
But there are two sides to the country.
Does anybody have a final?
You have an infrastructure.
What makes you think you can get an infrastructure bill?
You didn't get health care.
Well, you know, I'll tell you.
We came very close with health care.
Unfortunately, John McCain decided to vote against it at the last minute.
You'll have to ask John McCain why he did that.
But we came very close to health care.
We will end up getting health care, but we'll get the infrastructure.
And actually, infrastructure is something that I think we'll have bipartisan support on.
I actually think Democrats will go along with the infrastructure.
Have you spoken to the family of the victim of the car?
No, I'll be reaching out.
I'll be reaching out.
I was very, I thought that the statement put out the mother's statement I thought was a beautiful statement.
I always tell you, it was something that I really appreciated.
I thought it was terrific.
And really, under the kind of stress that she's under and the heartache that she's under, I thought putting out that statement to me was really something I won't forget.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, President Trump coming out.
Wait, is he answering more questions there?
Hang on, he's answering another question, I think.
Somebody's shouting questions at him still.
Now you heard the president there.
He did hear from the mother of this young woman killed.
He said blame is on both sides.
He was very quick to condemn neo-Nazis again.
I'm not finished fake news, he said at one particular point.
Let's listen.
One of the largest wineries in the United States.
It's in Charlottesville.
What do you think needs to be done to overcome the racial divide?
Well, I really think jobs can have a big impact.
I think if we continue to create jobs, over a million, substantially more than a million, and you see just the other day the car companies coming in with Fox, you know, Fox Cup.
I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous impact, positive impact on race relations.
And what you said today, how do you think that will impact the racial?
Because the people are going to be working, they're going to be making a lot of money, much more money than I ever thought about.
I mean, your remark, that's going to happen.
And the other thing, very important, I believe wages will start going up.
They haven't gone up for a long time.
I believe wages now, because the economy is doing so well with respect to employment and unemployment, I believe wages will start to go up.
I think that will have a tremendously positive impact on race relations.
Why haven't we been drawn to you there?
President making an economic correlation between, hey, if we create, we want to fix race relations, let's fix the economy, let's get jobs, let's create wealth and prosperity and opportunity for everybody.
I'm sure a point missed on when he goes, I'm not finished with fake news.
I nearly fell out of my chair.
And he said, excuse me, there's the alt left, too.
I mean, and the point I've been making forever.
Oh, okay.
Which is hilarious.
And take it easy.
Take it easy.
Before I make a statement, I need facts.
Well, how many times did Obama rush to judgment in cases like, oh, Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman?
Oh, let's make a rush to judgment without hearing from the eyewitness who saw the ground impound.
Or let's not hear the witnesses in Ferguson, Missouri.
Let's say the Cambridge police acted stupidly and take the side of my friend without any facts.
Let's jump on the side of what happened in Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
Let's do all of that.
And then he turns to me: define what alt is.
What is alt?
You know, what about the left?
You know, there were, and we're going to get the video evidence tonight.
And you can justify if you want to be a part of the media.
Again, everybody rightly condemns any white supremacist.
They're horrible, evil people.
Everybody condemns them.
Neo-Nazis, who in this day and age, my God, it's unconscionable and it's evil.
But he did go on to make a case here that he watched all of this closely.
And there were people, there's that group, Antifa, that was involved, and I saw them in scuffles with the police.
And you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to show you on video tonight.
Now, you don't like what happened?
Does that justify the scuffles with police?
No, it does not.
And we'll do what the rest of the media won't do.
And he raises another provocative question.
I like to know the facts, he says.
I'm not finished with fake news.
And then he said, okay, well, the core of the case were there good people that had a disagreement on the removal of the statute.
In other words, people beyond the neo-Nazis that believe in historical accuracy, heritage, et cetera, whatever argument they're making.
Can you be a good person and support a state and support, and this was his point, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson being on our money?
Is that the next debate that we're going to have?
And he's saying, at what point does it stop?
When asked, well, who gets to decide?
He said, well, that's up to local municipalities, local communities.
I'm just making a point.
Where does it end?
And he went on to blame both sides.
I think the most profound thing he said that nobody will talk about is the answer to a lot of racial issues is the poverty issue in America.
If you go back in the points I made before the election, who was disproportionately impacted by the bad Democratic Obama policies?
Now, I always mentioned 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty, and the 95 million out of the labor force.
But I've also broken it down for everybody demographically.
And demographically, you see that African Americans and you see Hispanic Americans were disproportionately impacted negatively by the bad economic decisions and the failed policies of Democrats and Barack Obama.
And yet I keep asking, how did that help the black community?
It didn't.
And if you are somebody that believes in helping people of all races, colors, and creeds, and he goes on, you know, I mean, there's so many points here to go over.
I mean, we're actually going to get to it our next hour.
Larry Elder's going to be with us.
The Reverend Darrell Scott's going to be here with the Diversity Coalition.
Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson are going to stop by.
We're going to get their take on all of this.
I mean, this is a pretty profound moment where a president of the United States is saying to the media, just like I was saying last night, that this narrative that is advanced every two years, every four years by Democrats, that every conservative, in this case, they were calling him a racist all weekend long.
CNN actually said, does he ever write to be a human being?
That's what one of their commentators said.
Same network that just fired Jeffrey Lord of CNN.
You know, the same people that are involved.
You know, it's like all these groups.
When you look at who they are, you see racism, anti-Semitism.
I mean, the most virulent hatred you've ever seen in your life.
And they're the so-called arbiters of what freedom of speech should be about.
Beyond provocative, and the media cannot stand, hates this president.
And their contempt is so obvious.
It's so evident.
It's so self-evident.
We'll get to all these issues when we get back with our panel and your calls coming up and much more.
Straight ahead, 800-941, Sean.
We know you never want to miss the Sean Hannity show.
And now you never have to.
Just sign up for Hannity Headlines.
A bite-sized version of the show that you can take with you on your laptop, your mobile phone, everywhere you go.
even to your liberal in-law's place in Vermont.
So, um, yeah.
And after a few hours of that, you'll be glad you brought Sean along.
To sign up today for Hannity Headlines, go to Hannity.com.
But when you say the alt-right, define alt-right to me.
You define it.
Go ahead.
Defined it for me.
Come on.
Let's go.
Senator McCain defined them as the same group.
Excuse me.
What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right?
Do they have any semblance of guilt?
This is not.
Let me ask you this.
What about the fact they came charging, that they came charging with clubs in their hand, swinging clubs?
Do they have any problem?
I think they do.
You know, as far as I'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day.
Wait a minute.
I'm not finished.
I'm not finished, fake news.
That was a horrible day.
Oh, God, Scott.
I will tell you something.
I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it.
And you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent.
And nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now.
You had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.
All right, that the president moments ago, 800-941 Sean, I'll told for a telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program here with reaction to the president.
He also went on to talk about a lot of other things.
It started out with his push for infrastructure and how millions of jobs will be created.
I think the most substantive point amongst many that the president made was, you know, we fix a lot of, you want to fix racial problems in this country, fix the economy, help Americans out, get them climbing the ladder of success.
And he went on to say, you also heard from the mother of this poor young woman that was murdered, this poor woman, this mother, our thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family.
He lashed out at the media, just ripped them to shreds.
I'm not finished, fake news.
Ash challenged them to go on and describe what alt-right is.
A hummada-hummed-a-humma moment there.
And, you know, are you saying you support the neo-Nazis?
No, I'm just saying that I saw, and by the way, I saw, too.
This group, Antifa.
By the way, there were some legitimate, a lot of legitimate people that wanted to protest the neo-Nazi, you know, fascist, racist, white supremacist, which I honored them to do.
I mean, that's actually a pretty noble thing to do.
And they're standing up to him.
But then you had the professional people and the ones that were engaged, hitting police officers.
Those were on the left.
And then you had them hitting the people that were protesting.
Hate them, not hate them.
You're still not allowed to punch people and create a violent circumstance.
All of it's on tape.
And we're going to show you tonight to show what the president was talking about.
Anyway, joining us, Darrell Scott is the executive director of National Diversity Coalition for Trump and the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson from the group Bond, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny.
Welcome back, both of you, to the program.
Pastor Scott, let me start with you.
What did you think?
I think a knockout.
So I'm on that wrong.
Yeah, go ahead.
The president is very capable of defending himself in those antagonistic, hostile situations.
You know, he's used to going one on 100 and one against 200.
And he handled himself very well, capably, eloquently.
And he made this point to the extent that they really didn't have a defense for the points that he brought out.
Where does it end?
When does it stop?
Who else's statue is coming up?
Well, what about that point that he's making?
Because a lot of this was, and the Robert E. Lee statue was taken down.
We saw what happened in, I guess it was Durham yesterday and other places now.
Baltimore and other cities are saying they're taking this statue down and that statue down.
And, you know, I predicted when I was in Atlanta, eventually they have a big mountain called Stone Mountain, and Jefferson Davis is on it.
I assume that's going to be sandblasted at some point.
But I mean, then he goes on to say, well, are we now going to debate whether to take off the coinage of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?
They both were slaveholders.
What's your answer to that, Reverend?
You're absolutely right.
I mean, he made some very, very valid points that they did not have an answer for.
And he was able to defend himself very, very well.
I mean, you know, he has different surrogates and others defending him, but you put him in that ring.
He was able to defend himself very, very well.
And he was absolutely right.
And as he stated, listen, there was not just one side responsible for that violence on Saturday while the other side was completely innocent.
I brought that out myself today.
You know, those people came, the quote-unquote counter-protesters showed up with the intent to deny those protesters their constitutional right to protest, and they came with the intent to incite violence.
Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson.
You know, Sean, when I hear the president speak, it really just makes my heart satisfied because the one thing that we need in America is to unite the country and not divide them.
The president is ending this double standard that we've had to deal with over the last 20 to 30 years.
Whenever liberals go out of control, they're protected.
But if the right goes out of control, they are revealed and dealt with.
He has been so unfair.
When the president said that he believed that jobs would unite the races, I absolutely agree with him.
The one thing that we've been doing at Bond for the last 27 years, because we were rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man, the men need jobs as well as women.
And we have tested so many times on street corners, put black men out there to try to help them get day labor work.
And employees have been going bypassing them and picking up the illegals.
Now that will change.
He's also right when he pointed out that there was wrong on both sides at that rally in Virginia.
And whether we agree with the right, the alt-right or not for holding the rally, they had a permission.
They had a permit, which the ACLU helped to fight and get, by the way.
They fought for them that they might get the permit.
And so they had that right to be there.
When Antifa and the Black Lives Matter showed up armed with spray with paint and wood and bricks and things, they were wrong.
And I yet want to know who told the police to back down and not to protect the alt-right from the alt-left.
Someone had them to back down and allow those people to take over in the manner that they did.
Never before, since I've been voting, have I heard a president who just has a personal commitment to unite the races, to unite the country, to bring back jobs, to put America first.
And this president is a nightmare to the left, to the liberal media, to the Democrats, and the right-of-Republicans.
They had no plans.
They had no intent to make America great.
And this president, President Trump, is the first, I mean, in a long time, first president who gave us his words that he would unite the country and not divide.
And he would make us safe.
And he's working overtime to do that in spite of having to deal with the left trying to stop him.
I just feel so blessed to be in America, an American, and to be here at a time when President Trump is here.
What is your reaction to the president arguing that, okay, you guys want to take down, and he did say it's up to local communities to make the decision.
But what do you make about the president saying, all right, where does it end?
He does raise a very provocative, interesting point about Washington and Jefferson.
We've already seen this in the school system, Pastor Scott, where they don't even want to talk about our founding fathers and our framers anymore.
Yeah, I mean, it's getting ridiculous.
They're trying to rewrite the history of this country.
And, you know, every history has both good and bad in it.
It is what it is.
It was what it was.
We learn from our mistakes and we build upon our success.
So that's where we are.
We don't need to keep revisiting and trying to snatch band-aids off of wounds to create more, you know, off of scabs.
If Hillary Clinton was president, we would not be having this conversation.
If Hillary Clinton was president, there would have not been that incident that was inflamed by outside agitation on Saturday.
You know, they had the Million Man March song a little over a year ago, and the complaint was that there was not enough media coverage because it was a peaceful event.
But the media descended upon, you had 300 protesters and 500 media trucks with satellites and everything.
They wanted agitation.
They wanted violence.
They wanted it to be an incendiary situation.
They wanted that.
And in fact, they probably were pre-warned that it was going to happen.
And so, you know, this is what the left wants.
They want to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump.
I said this earlier.
You know, but here's the point.
Everybody hates the neo-Nazi white supremacist people.
It goes without saying.
There were, and listen, I'm just assuming that, you know, separate and apart from that, there were people who were not neo-Nazis that don't think you should get rid of statutes and history and heritage.
Okay.
But there still were those people there.
All right.
They show up, and their presence, I think, brought out a good group of people that say, we don't want you here.
Okay, those are good people.
But what about, you know, does, you know, there was another group of people, and this was chronicled by others, that also go in and they start punching people unprovoked, attacking people unprovoked.
Listen, for example, you have that jerk that tries to hold the press conference.
All right, so people freely shouted him down.
But then they tackled the guy and punched the guy.
Now, I hate that guy.
I don't even know that guy.
I'd never heard of that guy before.
But that guy still in America has a right to say something without getting punched and tackled.
Right.
As evil as he is.
Now, even the ACLU, and this raises a lot of questions about freedom of speech.
You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.
But the ACLU defends the right of all even crazy groups like Black Lives Matter.
As much as we hate it, they have a right to say, we want dead cops.
As sick and twisted as that is, as sick and twisted as neo-Nazis are.
Same thing, right, Jesse?
You're absolutely right.
And if you remember when the Black Lives Matter were chanting, what do we want dead cops?
When do we want them now?
Peace in the blanket, fry them like bacon.
And then they gave out the message to other young people that the police is their enemy, white cops are against them.
And instead of the left, even President Obama repudiating them as President Trump did on both sides, Barack Obama invited the heads of the Black Lives Matter to the White House.
And more than once, I never heard President Trump or any liberal media or anyone on the left denounce Antifa.
Even during the inauguration of the president, President Trump, they burned, they tore down buildings, they set cars on fire.
And not once did I hear any Democrats or any right-of-Republican denounce them.
I can't believe that anyone in this country cannot be grateful at what this president is doing in trying to unite us.
Hatred is hatred.
Anger is anger.
It's bad for the country.
It's bad for families.
And it's bad for individuals.
And, you know, another thing that the president wants to do, and he's made a promise to do, if they don't stop the black-on-black violence in Chicago, he's going to send the feds in to do something about it.
He cares about those folks who are living in those neighborhoods and who are stuck there.
And I have to tell you, Sean, I know many of senior black mothers and grandmothers who are living in those communities.
Their livelihood is dependent on the government, and so they cannot afford to move.
They thought that if they voted for President Barack Obama by him being black, that he would curtail the crime, that he would arrest these gangbangers and the drug dealers and get them out.
And they were heartbroken and disappointed that he did not do it.
Well, President Trump has made a promise that he will do it.
Even the mayor of Chicago, instead of helping those poor people, he's now deeming Chicago as a sanctuary city.
And the Hispanic gangs, the MS-13 and others who have come into this country illegally are now flocking in those areas.
And they are ended up in the inner cities of those areas, which is going to make it and is making it even more difficult for the blacks who are stuck there.
This president will change all that.
Even Max C. Waters walking around like she is insane, talking about impeaching the president.
This woman has done nothing.
And I'm in the South Central LA area.
She has been in office for 40 years.
And South Central is out of control.
Matt C has done nothing to improve that area.
Her worst nightmare, that President Trump will, and if he dies and when he dies, she loses the vote and Max C. Waters is out of there.
Matt C is living in a $4.3 million home in a suburb.
Her husband got rich sitting on the board of a bank.
Her daughter was paid over $600,000 to work on some committee with her for her.
And she is telling black people, the Republicans want to take the projects away from you.
They want to tear them down.
But I'm not going to let that happen.
And what I'm going to do, we're going to keep the projects that are already there, and we're going to build you more so you could stay in the project.
This is what she's afraid of, Sean, that the president will have a positive impact and the Democrats will lose the votes.
Right.
Where does this all end as the president clearly is willing to say things and speak some truth that the media is not willing to hear?
Now, Reverend, I know you're a much, both of you are reverends, but much better people than I am.
But I did read in a book somewhere, a very important book, that you shall know the truth and the truths will set you free.
We now live in an America where if you speak about some truths, that's it.
Your day is done.
You know, you're absolutely right.
But it's the knowledge of the truth.
You have to know the truth.
So you're basically saying, I don't know the truth.
Reverend you're saying fake news.
They think that fake news is the truth when it's not.
And he's absolutely right, Sean.
By the president having the high profile, he is the president.
He gets the intention of the country and of the world.
I got to take a break.
I love you both.
Reverends, pray for us all.
And we'll prove what the president said with video evidence tonight to make the point.
He also talks about the alt-left, also says, I'm not finished fake news.
Also talked about the mother that lost her beautiful daughter.
Also talked about the antidote to race issues is jobs in America.
And says, yeah, there's blame on both sides.
Is there?
We'll get into that when we get back.
Information Overload Hour.
Before I make a statement, I need the facts.
So I don't want to rush into a statement.
So making the statement when I made it was excellent.
In fact, the young woman who I hear is a fantastic young woman and was on NBC, her mother wrote me and said through, I guess, Twitter, social media, the nicest things.
And I very much appreciated that.
I hear she was a fine, really actually an incredible young woman.
But her mother on Twitter thanked me for what I said.
And honestly, if the press were not fake and if it was honest, the press would have said what I said was very nice.
But unlike you and unlike, excuse me, unlike you and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.
You know, as far as I'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day.
Wait a minute.
I'm not finished.
I'm not finished fake news.
That was a horrible day.
St. Bubble said, I will tell you something.
I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it.
And you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent.
And nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now.
You had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.
And you had some very bad people in that group.
But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.
You had people in that group.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
I saw the same pictures as you did.
You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
George Washington was a slave owner.
Was George Washington a slave owner?
So will George Washington now lose his status?
Are we going to take down, excuse me, are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to George Washington?
How about Thomas Jefferson?
What do you think of Thomas Jefferson?
You like him?
I do.
Okay, good.
Are we going to take down the statue?
Because he was a major slave owner.
Now, are we going to take down his statue?
So, you know what?
It's fine.
You're changing history.
You're changing culture.
And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.
But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?
And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
Now, in the other group, also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers.
I think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family, and this country.
And that is, you can call it terrorism, you can call it murder, you can call it whatever you want.
I would just call it as the fastest one to come up with a good verdict.
That's what I'd call it.
Because there is a question: is it murder?
Is it terrorism?
And then you get into legal semantics.
The driver of the car is a murderer.
And what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable thing.
You know what the problem with the media is?
Is that they play into the false Democratic narrative, the big lie we get every two and four years.
Republicans are racist.
If you elect Republicans, black churches will burn.
Republicans have the wrong agenda for African Americans.
They don't even want to count you in the census, Al Gore said.
The radio ad was in the Missouri Democratic Party, or the James Byrd Act, or any of the things that Hillary has said, and Obama has said, and other top Democrats have said.
This is why I went through some of the issues involving the history of the Democratic Party and racism.
You know, Mona Sharon wrote this great piece, National Review, you know, back in 2015, whitewashing the Democratic Party's history.
Anyway, you know, let me let me, where is some of the outrage on some of these other incidences?
And I've made it very clear that I worked with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech.
It's a very delicate balancing act because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.
And we worked very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate.
And that's what you saw this evening.
Get pigs in a blanket!
Brown like banking!
Pigs in a blanket!
Right, like baby!
Pigs in a blanket!
Right, like baker!
Pigs in a blanket!
Bridling bankets!
Pigs in a blanket!
Bridlight bank it!
Pigs and a blanket.
Killing a white baby.
The blood of that.
The less white babies on this planet, the less of you we got, boo.
Blood is on the battlefield.
I hope they kill all the white babies.
Kill them all right now.
Kill them.
Kill your grandkids.
Kill yourself.
Cough and go lay in the coffin.
We are so excited that the American public is energized to speak out against the abuses of this administration.
The way we get outside the bubble is we take advantage of this tremendous public outcry against the administration.
What we've got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box.
And now there's the momentum to be able to do this.
I know that this is a time of great fear and uncertainty for so many people.
I know it's a time of concern for people who see our rights being assailed, being trampled on, and even being rolled back.
I know that this is difficult, but I remind you that this has never been easy.
We have always had to work to move this country forward to achieve the great ideals of our founding fathers.
And that has been people, individuals who have banded together, ordinary people who simply saw what needed to be done and came together and supported those ideals who have made the difference.
They've marched.
They've bled.
Yes, some of them have died.
This is hard.
Every good thing is.
We have done this before.
We can do this again.
So you get a very different perspective.
Seems to be selective moral outrage.
Amy Kramerk, co-founder of Women Vote Trump, Leslie Marshall, host of the Leslie Marshall Show.
And welcome both of you to the program.
Is this selective outrage, Amy Kramer?
Absolutely it is, 100%.
I mean, Alma Rosa Manigaught, who is part of the president's administration, was attacked last Friday at a convention for national black journalists.
She said that Black Lives Matter started standing up.
The moderator started to get in her face.
I saw the video of it.
Where's the outrage about that?
Because she's part of the Trump administration.
And the other thing is, I mean, President Trump has gotten Kim Jong, psychotic man from over there to finally stand down, and there's crickets.
Cricket, Sean, crickets.
No matter what the president says or does, it's not going to be enough because their objective is to take him down and get him out of office.
It doesn't matter if the man had cured cancer, they would have said he created cancer to cure it.
They're not going to be happy.
How is it that Black Lives Matters after they were chanting, what do we want dead cops?
When do we want them now?
And their controversial leader, one of them that we've had on this program, Leslie, and Pigs in a Blanket and Fry Them Like Bacon, which you've heard many times.
How do they get an invite to the White House by Barack Obama?
And then how do they possibly get an Hillary Clinton seeking their endorsement?
Don't you think that that is incredibly vicious?
First of all, they're very different situations.
Are we talking about Charlottesville?
Okay, when I ask you a question, can you just answer it?
There are people who are sides that have visited the White House and angry about their position.
Can I ask you, I asked you, was it appropriate for the president to invite people, part of a group that did those things?
That's not a hard question.
No, Sean, it's not a hard question.
So what's the answer?
I would like to answer you.
One, the original Black Lives Matter group were not violent, and I believe those are the people that were invited by the president if you look at the dates and the people's names.
The original.
There's anyone under any group that claims to be a Democrat or Republican, whether they are black or white, whether they're carrying an American flag, a Confederate flag, a Mexican flag, or no flag, that is not to be tolerated in the United States of America, period.
And that should be a problem.
So it was wrong of President Obama to invite DeRay McKesson.
That guy?
Is that the one you're talking about?
Because that was the guy at the White House, and he was the head of it.
Now, I want to just remind you that the leader, DeRay McKesson, who talked to the president, you know, literally the most prominent leader, you know, the violent action of the movement's rioters, he said, were justified, and people take to the streets as a last resort.
But he justified violence.
How does he get a seat next to Obama at the White House when Obama's president of the United States?
And anyone, again, visiting any president, including this president, and there are people that have spouted very prejudicial rhetoric that are even in his administration.
And there is no left.
Reason the president came out two days after his original tweet wasn't because he was a part of the city.
Let me go to the president's original comments.
Those in his party, I would imagine even some in his family, his daughter Ibaka.
Let me go to what you're outraged about, because I think this is important for our audience to remember.
Quote, we must remember, and this was before the car plowed into these innocent people.
And we've repeatedly said on these programs how repugnant and evil these white supremacist neo-Nazi people are.
We must remember this truth, no matter our color, our creed, political party, we're all Americans first.
We all must be united and condemn all that hatred stands for.
There is no place for this kind of violence in America.
Let us come together as one.
And the president also spoke out and said similar things.
Was there anything?
Was there an ambiguity there that I'm not getting, Amy?
Because I think the president was clear in who he was talking about.
I think he was absolutely clear.
There was violence and rage on both sides.
I think that a lot of people went there looking for a fight.
I mean, where was the outrage from the media at Berkeley when Berkeley happened?
And it was not United the Right was not there.
Whoever, it was all Antifa.
Where was outrage then?
I mean, this media and the analysts and consultants, and it even goes into the Republican Party, Sean, because they are determined to take this president down.
They never thought, this goes back to there are people in the Republican Party that would have rather had Hillary Clinton as president than Donald Trump because then the establishment stays in place and they can continue the status quo.
And those people want to take down Donald Trump.
He has turned over the apple cart, and they're doing everything and anything that they can.
Stay right there.
We got to take a break.
Hannity Headline, a bite-sized version of the show that you can take with you anywhere you go.
To sign up today for Hannity Headlines, go to Hannity.com.
All right, as we continue, as we debate the hypocrisy, you know, when you look at it, I went through earlier in the program, as we continue with Amy Kramer and Leslie Marshall, I went through a little history of the Democratic Party and the issue of race and William Jefferson Clinton praising J. William Fulbright, known segregationist, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act.
We're the Democratic Party.
The party of Lincoln is, yeah, that was, oh, okay, that was the Republican Party.
Al Gore, you know, his father, Senator Al Gore Sr., oh, okay.
He lost his Senate seat because he voted for the Civil Rights Act, except it's a false story.
He voted against the Civil Rights Act.
And you know what?
I look at the Democratic Party and they put people like, oh, let's see, Robert KKK Byrd in there and all the rest of their history and George Wallace standing at the schoolhouse door and on and on and on.
And I'm tired, Leslie, every two years, four years of your party saying that conservatives, Republicans, that the president now in this case in Charlottesville, that we're racist, that we're sexist, that we're misogynistic, that we're homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic.
And this is a playbook tactic that is not based in truth and reality.
And it's really, you know, to smear some.
I think that's one of the reasons that it's one of the big 10, meaning Ten Commandments, you know, shalt not bear false witness.
Because it's so damaging.
Thoughts.
Well, I would say, Sean, that I would disagree with some of what you said.
If you look at in the United States today in 2017, groups that have ideologies similar to the KKK, racist leanings, neo-Nazi leanings, that may put up a swath sticker or a Confederate flag, those groups largely vote Republican, and many of those groups even came out publicly endorsing this current president who is and claims to be a Republican.
However, I, as a Democrat, don't feel that somebody based on a political ideology or party isn't racist.
There are plenty of people out there that are neither Democrat or Republican that I'm sure are racist, unfortunately, in our country today.
However, in this situation, Republicans even urged the president to have a different response.
So to say that all Democrats think all Republicans racist or to have that idea, that isn't true.
And I agree with you that there's racism on both sides.
But clearly, when I, honestly, if you came up to me, Sean, and I didn't know you and you had a jacket with a Confederate flag and skinhead stuff on, and you said to me, who do you think I voted for?
I would think it was the Republican candidate, most likely.
Your reaction, Amy.
I just think that's disgraceful.
I mean, you can't tap.
But I'd be right.
I'm sorry, Leslie, what?
I'd be right statistically.
The thing is, it's just like saying, you know, with Muslims, that just because there are a number of Muslim terrorists that want to destroy us and take us down, you can't label all Muslims terrorists.
And I'm not a racist.
Most people that supported Donald Trump are not racist.
They're standing on both sides of the aisle, both sides.
So you can't go and label Donald Trump supporters.
And I have to take an issue with what you said, too, about people in his White House.
What you're referring to, I know, I'm sure, is probably Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller because now everybody's out for a scalp.
Well, I can tell you, I know both of those men, and neither one of them are racist.
They don't have a racist bone in their body.
This is just a phony narrative.
This is like the Scarlet Letter that they, oh, conservative racist.
Oh, Trump racist.
Doesn't matter what he said Saturday.
It doesn't matter what he said Sunday.
It doesn't matter the many, many tapes I've played over the years of him denouncing Duke, the KKK, and white supremacy.
And this wasn't just this weekend.
They don't care.
You know, smear, slander, besmirch, character assassination, it's what they do.
We'll continue.
We know you never want to miss the Sean Hannity show.
And now you never have to.
Just sign up for Hannity Headlines, a bite-sized version of the show that you can take with you on your laptop, your mobile phone, everywhere you go, even to your liberal-in-law's place in Vermont.
So, um, yeah.
And after a few hours of that, you'll be glad you brought Sean along.
To sign up today for Hannity Headlines, go to Hannity.com.
Hi, 25 till the top of the hour.
Toll-free telephone number 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of this extravaganza.
So, Linda's been on vacation a week.
Where'd you go?
Down to Florida or something, right?
Yeah, she's taking a load off, doing nothing, not thinking about you.
Can I ask a question while you are gone?
Did you have to leave all of these nasty messages for me and these hate messages and attack me while you were gone?
Somebody has to do it.
And why have you done this?
Hang on one second with this job.
I want Jason Ethan.
Sweet baby just moved to my office for a second, so he's not in there.
Lauren, Jason, and Ethan.
I want them to grade me on my ability as a host last week and how we did without you.
And why you were that well?
On a scare of 1 to 100.
Because of the messages I left you.
Okay, 1 to 100.
How were things last week without Linda?
You're hanging around with Democrats too much.
Jason.
You're ignoring me.
What was the grade?
1 to 100?
I'd give you about a 75.
That is, you're doing that on purpose.
You passed?
Oh, I passed.
Don't think you're going to get an ace the test.
You passed.
I passed.
Lauren?
Does Lauren get sensitive if I say, come on, hurry up, let's go.
Sean, have you ever seen the movie Bambi?
Where they kill the little baby with a kill the mother and poor Bambi's on its own?
Yeah.
Yeah, do you remember the character Thumper, the cute little bunny rabbit?
No, I don't remember the cute little bunny rabbit.
Are you serious?
It's like the best character of the movie.
Thumper's so cute.
Okay, I don't remember Bambi.
You know, all I know is that some terrible hunter, according to Bambi, killed the deer for meat and left poor little Bambi alone, and hunters were even then portrayed as.
That's a lovely Disney tale.
You have a fond memory.
No, I always tell these people that, you know, hate hunters.
I'm like, well, do you eat meat?
Most of them do.
Yes, we hire assassins so we can live in Disney.
Okay, you just stole my line.
Go ahead.
I've been saying that for years.
Listen, in Bambi, Bumper says.
Bumper quotes his mother and says, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
So I don't want to give you a failing grade, so I'm just going to, you know, keep it moving.
You must have done something real bad, boss.
It's not funny, number one.
I think it's actually very funny.
And I think you need to be honest with the audience because if that's your grade, I think I need another associate producer.
Oh, nice.
Stop being mean.
What's my grade?
Give me a grade.
I don't care.
Whatever it is.
Whatever you really think.
I don't care.
The grade is that you have to because you were able to do that.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I audio that I left for you.
I'm going to get to you after.
Not all is about.
Take your time, Dave.
Take it.
First of all.
All right.
Go ahead.
What's my grade?
Come on, you take it.
Maybe the audio helped.
I mean, the audio of Linda helped.
I think it gave you that little boost that you need.
We didn't get to the audio till day three.
First of all, it was the first day.
Second of all, everybody knows you do a better show when you're angry.
So you were listening when you were in the middle of the day.
Of course I was listening.
I have to model.
You multiple vacation.
You listen.
Of course.
You didn't miss one minute of the show.
Of course not.
I go on vacation.
I don't listen to my own show.
You're not here.
Why would you listen to you?
Well, you weren't here.
Why would you listen?
Because I was here in spirit.
As you clearly heard, I was the voice of God.
Break, break, break, break, break.
See?
What's the number, Lauren?
I don't want to say it.
Say it.
Wait, wait.
We'll go to Ethan first.
Ethan, you better be.
You're not in mid-80s.
It was a tough week.
A tough week, but I'm asking the grade I got.
I'm asking the grade I got.
I'm not asking you to get it.
I'm asking you on your best behavior.
Yes.
Am I going to get another bonus?
I want a behavior grade.
That's what I'm looking for.
Behavior.
As soon as we got the extra bonuses, I'll give you an A.
An A.
So out of 100, what do I get?
Give me a number.
Great.
He's got a mortgage to pay.
I'd say he gives you 100.
105.
All right.
Jason, on my behavior, not the work week.
That's a very different issue.
It was a busy news week, and we all had to step up, and somebody was out there, you know, sunning and funny.
I'm giving you a grade for behavior or overall?
Behavior.
Oh, let's say I gave you a 75 for the good room.
Oh, let's see.
73.
Lauren, go.
Go ahead.
80.
None of you are getting bonuses ever.
Again, that's it.
Bonuses.
105.
Ethan's the only one in there getting a bonus.
Yes.
The reason we go through all this is because Linda does not take a lot of vacation.
She took a rare vacation, which we were encouraging of.
And she was down in Florida.
And while she was down there, apparently she felt the need to, you know, have her presence felt last week and left these messages.
Listen.
Hold on.
I have him looking up the signs.
I'm not here this week, but I expect you to be very, very nice to my team and understand that Lauren is always working as fast as she can possibly work and as fast as she needs to.
And that Jason and Ethan are doing everything they're supposed to.
So leave them alone and be nice because I'll be back in a week to kick your ass if you're not.
Okay, number one is that.
See that?
That's honesty.
All right, can we, this is a good question.
This is a wonderful, wonderful asset of mine.
It's a virtue.
This is not your team.
This is the Sean Hannity show.
It's not, you know, I don't think.
I'm confused by this statement.
You say it's you.
It's my team like it's you.
It is my team.
Why it's not your team.
Listen, I don't know if you noticed.
There's a giant glass wall between you and us.
Wait, talent?
Alleged talent.
Alleged talent.
Right.
And then there's the people that make the talent go.
And as we looked up this quote that Lauren had, I'd like to play it for you because I think it's worthy.
You know, it's a very sensible quote.
It's a quote that touches the hearts of all ages in Walt Disney's great honor.
It's so easy to touch my heart.
Oh, yeah, very easy.
If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all.
Now, do you know who that was?
Who?
That's Thumpa.
That's Thumpa.
All right, whatever.
You know what?
I hate you all in there.
Right now, you're all.
You love us.
And you always do a better show when we make you manage it.
I'm mad.
So now you go all the way up.
I come in right before the show, everybody, right around, you know, 303.
Just sucker punch him right in the gut.
You know, poke a caged animal.
Go ahead.
There you go.
It works.
Riley him up for a show.
You do a great job.
So, yes, you do have us to thank.
I don't want to be.
I'm not an angry person.
I'm worried about myself.
I know that's why I have to irritate you every day.
It's a lot of work, actually, irritating you.
Jerry in Oregon City, in Oregon, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Jerry, sorry to put you through all of that nonsense.
Welcome to the program.
No problem, Sean.
I love your radio program better than your television program.
So thank you, sir.
It's an honor to be on here.
It's an honor to have you.
Well, one thing I have been very frustrated by is the Republicans who cannot understand that they don't need to ask permission from any Democrat for any say-so, any input whatsoever on the Health Care Bureau, on the health care bill.
And here's why: the Democrats pushed through a bill they never even read because they were promised.
I'm positive of this.
They were promised that they would hold power forever because the whole system would implode and everybody was cave in on doing a single-payer system.
And they thought that that would allow them to hold power forever by being able to hold fear over voters from here on out because Republicans are going to kill everybody, of course, and you know, is what they always say.
And so, because they did that and it failed on them, it blew up on them.
They don't get any say-so, they got to come to us.
They need to decide that they're going to be part of the solution because they created the problem.
And by pushing that argument out there, it takes them out of any consideration for a lot of other projects that we need to get done too, because they're in it for their own power, for their party, rather than actually doing the good for the people, which the Republicans are trying to take power away from government and give it back to the people and back to the state.
But this is the problem.
I mean, that's the Republican Party assuming that they have an identity.
And I'm arguing that they don't have their identity any longer.
I'm arguing that they're not standing on the principles that you're talking about.
You know, in the past, I would argue you would have been right, but not today.
They're not a party that is putting the forgotten men and women in this country that are all suffering, what this election was about, ahead of their own desire for power.
And as a result, as a result, I am telling you the American people continue to suffer.
Look, here's just a simple basic truth.
If I'm really generous, I'll say they have to Christmas, but you know what?
They really have until Thanksgiving.
And we'll know whether or not they're going to get things done by then for the American people.
And this is an opportunity that does not come along a lot.
This is an opportunity that has come along once in a generation.
The president has an identity.
He has a plan.
The president has a desire to fix things.
The president is an agent of change.
And the fact that the president is willing to sign health care and tax cuts, and the president's willing to build the wall, and the president's, you know, look at the success with Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-un backed down.
Nobody in the media talked about Kim Jong-un backing down.
And the reason he backed down was because finally somebody stood up to him forcefully, powerfully, and the world went to Kim Jong-un and said, this guy means it.
He's not like the other guys you're used to dealing with.
And the world is safer because of peace through strength.
That's an idea.
This is a man with principles that he's standing on.
All of Trump's speeches sound exactly like during the campaign to me.
He's not backing down on his agenda.
He's not backing down on his principles.
You may disagree on some things, but you cannot say the guy doesn't have an identity.
He's not fighting for the things that he ran on.
And that's a good thing for the American people.
Whether Republicans, you know, get on the program or not is going to be up to them.
But it's frustrating.
All right, 800-941-Sean.
Pam, Virginia, next, Sean Hannity Show.
How are you?
Thank you so much for taking my call.
I really appreciate it.
I don't know which I'm mad at.
The statue's coming down or the way the press is portraying if it's a jihadist or someone that can remotely be associated with the Democrats.
The media says it's some unnamed, some mysterious person.
They don't know what the motives are.
But now, I mean, this one person, this white supremacist who voted for Trump, so they have attached it to him, and now it is going to hang there because of media status.
And it is just so frustrating.
I mean, you know, there are millions of people that voted Democrats, and we don't know whether they're Nazis or Black Lives Matter or whatever.
But yet this one person has done this, and it's all over the media, this white supremacist that backed Trump.
And it is just so frustrating to see the way that they are trampling our president.
And the five factors.
You know, I used this yesterday, and it got picked up by the press that the press in America over this weekend used Charlottesville to bludgeon the president, to bludgeon conservatives, and to bludgeon Republicans, and to politicize a tragedy.
And they did it to advance their political cause.
Yes, at all costs.
And I'm just saying it's a pretty low way to act, in my humble opinion.
It is very divisive for the country.
There's a cost to pay for the country.
And you know what?
I've been saying this for years that this goes on.
And I keep saving my dossier, if you will, on Democrats and the issue of race, it grows and grows and grows and grows.
I did a 16-minute open on Hannity last night monologue because it's so big and I couldn't get everything in by a stretch.
I could have done the whole hour and just made the case and make the case.
And it's very frustrating because as a conservative and all the conservatives I know that deplore racism, it is deeply, deeply offensive to us.
And if you want to say something horrible about somebody, call them a racist.
Well, I happen to be, I'm not the best Christian, I'm not, but I want to be a good Christian, but I know deep in my heart it's true.
And I know deep in my heart that God made every man, woman, and child.
And I live my life that way, as does every conservative now that I know.
You know, when I look at the names of these people, the alt-right, as we keep hearing, I don't know them.
Linda, have we ever had these people on our program?
Have you ever heard of these people?
I don't hear of these people.
I heard of the guy, Robert Spencer, only because they keep bringing his name up in the news.
I'm like, reading, who's he?
What did he do?
What is he about?
Know nothing about him.
It's very frustrating to be called something that you're not.
And the whole thing to be done on purpose.
And the whole thing to be done out of malice, of viciousness.
And I'm just saying, from a personal vantage point, as somebody that lives his lives differently, look, most Americans are not racist.
Most Americans, as I said yesterday, they get up every day, they shovel coffee down their throat, they go put in their 16 hours, they take the best care of the kids they can.
They try and save a little money for a decent house in a nice, safe neighborhood, have a decent, safe car, pay for the extra programs, games, sports, whatever their ballet, you know, ice skating, whatever kids do these days, they pay for their kids' activities, they take them to their activities, pay their taxes, obey the laws, provide goods and services for other people that they want, need, and desire.
That is the average American.
And you got extremists, racist people on, you know, those that want to kill cop people.
Then you got the white supremacist people, the neo-Nazi people.
That's not America.
Thank God.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 10 Eastern, the remarkable press conference of the president today.
And yeah, there were other people on the other side that were wrong.
He also condemned again white supremacy.
And he also says the antidote for racial issues in the country and jobs and economic prosperity.
All coming up tonight, 10 Eastern on Hannity.
Newt Gingrich also be checking in with Laura Ingram tonight and Deroy Murdoch, Reverend C.L. Bryant, and Jay Seculo and Greg Jarrett breaking huge news on Hillary 10 Eastern.
