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	All right, glad you're with us on a Tuesday.
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	If you want to be a part of this extravaganza, the vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, will be joining us and updating us on the situation in and around the eastern coast of Texas and the flooding.
	And there's still ongoing rains in and around, especially the Galveston area.
	And we expect about another 24 hours of that to happen.
	I've known Joe Bistardi all these years, and he's been accurate a whole lot of times.
	He's never been this accurate.
	And I remember asking Friday night, you mean it's going to go on all day Saturday and all day Sunday and all day Monday and Tuesday and into Wednesday.
	And, you know, here we are now at the end of this.
	We'll also meet some of the real heroes of this story.
	I mean, they don't get a lot of press, but you have groups of military people, ex-military people, and you have groups of former law enforcement people like the Cajun Navy.
	They have the Waco Navy.
	And all these guys have hundreds of them have now gone in and they've been saving life after life after life after life and putting themselves in harm's way.
	There was even one incident where apparently there are a few looters on the ground there.
	And, you know, you hear about that, it breaks your heart.
	You're always going to have a few of those, but people trying to take advantage of what is a tragedy for everybody else and financially benefit.
	But these guys have been amazing.
	We'll meet some of those heroes today.
	I want to just say there's a controversy.
	I saw this on Drudge last night that televangelist Joel Olstein said that his 16,000-seat mega church in the Houston area is available to shelter flood victims.
	Originally, I guess there had been some fear that it might be part of the flood and they didn't want to bring people in if, in fact, it was going to flood and then if it was going to flood, then you're going to have to move people out again.
	But anyway, Osteen faced criticism for not using Lakewood Church as a storm shelter.
	And then in a statement yesterday, Osteen said the church never closed its doors, was serving as a relief supply distribution center.
	And he said it would house people, you know, as soon as the other shelters reached capacity.
	And there were images online that they were putting down mattresses and getting ready for what is probably going to be an influx of many thousands of people.
	And on Tuesday morning, this morning, the church announced that it was receiving the people who need the shelter.
	So that's the update on that.
	Remember, this is the longtime home of the NBA's Houston Rockets, and it's a huge, massive church, and it's an arena.
	And you're going to be able to put a lot of people in there.
	And I think just people are ready to rush the gun and think the worst of people.
	I don't know all of the details of it, and I don't really care to know.
	And if there was a little delay on their part and they fixed it, good for them because it's going to be, it's obviously an all-hands-on-deck situation here.
	You do have another problem facing Houston today.
	You got a critical reservoir designed to protect the city is now beginning to overflow.
	That's a big problem.
	You got the swollen reservoir west of downtown Houston.
	It overtopped its spillway Tuesday, sending an uncontrolled release of Harvey's floodwaters into those nearby neighborhoods and putting the city into now what is new uncharted territory, according to officials.
	So those floodwaters of the Attics Reservoir, located about 19 miles west of downtown, went over the top of the 108-foot spillway for the first time in its history, which then threatens the immediate surrounding subdivisions, which hadn't been impacted up to this point.
	So yesterday, the Houston Chronicle reported that Attics and Barker were built to protect the heart of the city by controlling the flow of water along the Buffalo Bayou.
	And what's at stake is the safety of the nation's fourth largest city.
	I mean, this is Houston is the country's fourth largest city.
	If the dams failed, half of Houston would be underwater in minutes.
	And under the worst scenario, Addicts property damages could be itself, you know, billions and billions of dollars, and you really risk loss of life here.
	So we got to certainly keep an eye on all of this.
	Jeff Linders, a meteorologist with Harris County in Texas and their flood control district, he said it's something we've never seen before.
	And he said, this is not going to happen fast.
	This is a slow rise, adding that the flow of water going over the reservoir into the neighborhoods will increase as the levels of the reservoir continue to rise.
	And officials in Brazoria County, located south of Houston, they warned on Twitter that a levee at Columbia Lakes had been breached by floodwaters and urged any residents who had not already evacuated the area to get out writing, get out now.
	So the level of water in the Attics Reservoir and neighboring Barker Reservoir is so high that the floodgates have themselves flooded, according to Linder, who added the flood control agency is working quickly to repair them and has law enforcement on the scene to provide the readings and obviously rescue efforts also ongoing.
	Linder said he doesn't know, he said it doesn't mean downtown Houston will necessarily be greatly impacted, but officials don't fully know what will happen because they've never faced a situation like that before.
	And that's another point that Joe Bastardi was making.
	In the middle of all of this, go back to New Orleans here for a second.
	And the Obama administration, they spent billions in the wake of Katrina to make New Orleans floodproof.
	And they upgraded a series of pumps to handle an inch per hour downpour.
	But the hurricane bearing down on the city, not only is the water coming down at a faster rate, but the city's pump system is failing.
	And the New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrew, told reporters that one of the city's pumps broke just one week after being repaired, sparking worries about the rest of the city's pumping system as you see this storm now headed north.
	And officials aren't sure if they can fix the pump in time for Harvey.
	That's something that they've been worried about and we're following down there too.
	One Cajun Navy was shot at by Houston looters.
	We've got the tape.
	We'll get to that later in the program today.
	Houston police officer drowned while trapped in the flood zone.
	This is sad and it just reminds you how difficult this rescue and recovery work can be for anybody.
	But anyway, he drowned when his patrol car got trapped in a tropical storm and floodwaters that he was running into.
	And the officer was driving to work downtown Sunday morning.
	He got trapped on a high watermark at I-45.
	And search and rescue crews are in the process of recovering the body of this policeman with more than 30 years experience.
	And our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family.
	He was out there trying to save other people's lives.
	Houston mayor vows to protect the illegals during Hurricane Harvey.
	So, if there's one Ray Nagan in this, I guess it's the Houston mayor.
	You know, remember what happened in New Orleans?
	All hell broke loose.
	Nagan was nowhere to be found hanging out in a hotel, you know, eating, probably hanging out with Brian Williams, watching dead bodies float by when there's no dead bodies because there's no flood zone where they're talking about.
	And then the police, who are so underpaid in New Orleans, ended up saying, forget this and walking off the job because they didn't have the ability to fight back.
	So it's going to be an ongoing long-term rebuild effort, but we've got to get out of the phase.
	We think we have about 24 hours of rain before it ends there.
	And then, of course, you're going to have these other areas that are hit.
	So we'll have to keep our eyes on all of this.
	I want to go back to the weekend.
	There was, it looked like the group Antifa, or if some calling Antifa, shocking troops, they're ratcheting up their intimidation attacks.
	Now, we got this late last week when the Daily Caller reported that an armed Antifa group was launching a new cell in Philadelphia where they were featuring an anti-police workshop called Our Enemies in Blue.
	Well, if Obama was in office, that might get them an invite to the White House because that's what happened with Black Lives Matter.
	What do we want?
	Dead cops, when do we want them now?
	But anyway, Antifa's websites like it's going down, and some of these other sites and insurrection news have been promoting the group, which calls themselves the revolutionary abolitionist movement and taking pride in the legacy of Philadelphia's rich revolutionary tradition.
	Ram for short cites Mumia Abu Damal, the convicted cop killer of Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
	And it also cites Russell Schultz, who shot a police officer in the back five times in the 1970 organization, political foundation.
	Their page notes the inclusion of several alarming points, including the abolition of gender.
	Really?
	What does that mean?
	A cooperative economy, which calls on members to take away goods, lands, and tools to begin the revolutionary process.
	Sounds like, you know, Fidel Castro coming to power when he stole lands from the people and murdered them.
	That sounds like a similar plan.
	A white Antifa demonstrator physically attacked a black Trump supporter at the California protest last weekend, has finally been tracked down by police and arrested just last night.
	Well, that's interesting because we saw everything that happened over the weekend.
	A pro-Antifa lawyer in Berkeley says Trump supporters wanted to get beat up.
	Really?
	That's what a lawyer says?
	It was getting tense across the barricades.
	It almost seems like the Trump supporters wanted to get beat up.
	Oh, they're protesting peacefully, even though Washington Post had to admit it, although they call them right-wingers.
	Now, the Berkeley mayor, I guess, seeing all the violence over the weekend, now he's saying Antifa should be treated as a criminal gang.
	This is a newsweek of all places.
	So, after tolerating one violent Antifa protest after another, Sunday's riot was apparently the last straw for the Berkeley mayor, who now says law enforcement should treat Antifa the same way they treat the bloods, the Crips, and MS-13.
	This is from the liberal city of Berkeley.
	It's in Newsweek.
	I think we should classify them as a gang, he said.
	They come dressed in uniforms.
	They have weapons almost like a militia.
	And I think we need to think about that in terms of law enforcement approach.
	Under California law, a gang is defined as an organization of at least three persons with a common name or identifying mark or symbol which engages in criminal activity.
	Criminals who commit offenses for gangs can face tougher sentences in the state.
	And the mayor argued and said that although he doesn't support the far right, tougher measures are required to counter left-wing violence.
	And he called for nonviolent protesters to take a stand.
	I think we're going to have to think big picture about what the strategy is for how we're going to deal with these violent elements on the left as well.
	Pretty interesting now, the things we've been saying, the president's been saying, is there are people on both sides.
	And the media went insane when it was even suggested and Antifa was in Charlottesville.
	Well, now maybe we'll pay attention.
	And then Berkeley police stood down.
	Does anyone ask?
	You know, the cities where the police do their job, and I pointed out on Twitter and elsewhere and on the air that, you know, when those people were protesting in Boston, the 99% that were peaceful, they also monitored their own protest.
	And when people started to get violent or tried to get violent or were picking on a guy that had a make America great again, Hat, they said no violence, leave him alone.
	And they kind of policed their own protesting.
	And then the few that did get into a scuffle with police, they just went there for the very purpose of making trouble.
	Well, now you've got the mayor of Berkeley suggesting that this should be treated like we treat criminal gangs after the violence in his city over the weekend and using the definition of what it means to be a gang.
	Pretty surprised to see that in Newsweek, to be honest.
	All right, we've got a lot to get to.
	We haven't hit yet North Korea firing this missile over this island in Japan in the worst case of saber rattling to date.
	He did it at a point where obviously people are distracted with other stories, but we cannot be distracted and we better pay attention to what's going on here because that is a clear danger to everybody.
	And we'll continue.
	The vice president comes up at the top of the next hour.
	We'll get to some of your calls coming up straight ahead here on the Sean Hannity show.
	All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show 800 9.1.
	Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
	You know, I was watching very closely from Friday night on.
	Everybody knew that the hurricane would be big, major news coverage watching and et cetera, et cetera.
	It just is one of those stories that people pay very close attention to.
	And there was this narrative that immediately begins by the corrupt establishment, Destroy Trump media, that, oh, the president's burying this in the hurricane.
	They didn't bury Joe Arpaio's pardon in the hurricane because if he was going to do that, he would have done it earlier in the day, or he would have done it not that day, because they know that TV watching in a hurricane is going to be, or you can anticipate, would usually be extraordinarily high or higher.
	You know, go back, Bill Clinton pardoned Mark Rich.
	He's one of the biggest tax cheats in American history.
	In the 1980s, he was convicted of 51 counts of conspiracy, tax evasion, racketeering, trading with the enemy, Iran, at the time.
	He fled to Switzerland.
	The government refused to extradite him back to the U.S.
	He was on the FBI's most wanted list.
	Bill Clinton still gave him a free pass.
	But of course, that came after Rich's wife, Denise, I think is her name, donated $450,000 to the Clinton Library and over a million dollars to Democratic campaigns.
	Now, no quid pro quo with the Clintons.
	Really?
	So what is he doing to Iran?
	Seriously?
	He's trading with the enemy and not listening to an embargo.
	Bill Clinton, we have on tape, on video, FALN terrorists making bombs.
	And I've shown it many times on the air.
	I showed it again last night.
	Well, Bill Clinton gave them clemency, 16 members of the group of people making bombs of the FALN.
	I mean, really?
	They killed five people.
	And Joe Arpaio spent how many years doing law enforcement?
	Well, but Hannity's racist because he's enforcing the law of the land and all he wants is legal immigration.
	And he was ordered to not enforce the laws of the land.
	Yeah, and he was held in contempt of court.
	The whole thing was a sham.
	And you have Obama commuting the sentences of notorious FALN member Oscar Lopez Rivera, who turned down Clinton's clemency deal.
	Did we forget that this guy was sentenced to 55 years in prison for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government?
	And do we forget that Obama set a record for commutations, including by shortening the sentences of many drug dealers?
	I don't really want to get lectured by Democrats on the issue of pardons when a guy that served the country all these years and they're doing this to Mark Rich and the FALN members and drug dealers that want to bring these drugs into your communities.
	All right, we'll take a break.
	The vice president joins us at the top of the next hour.
	You'll meet some of the heroes out of the flood zone in Texas, people that have been taking amazing risks to save others.
	And we'll update you on all the other news and information you need to know.
	Straight ahead.
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	I think that he made being a pariah more profitable than we ever imagined.
	He was a guy that was universally hated for a multitude of reasons.
	I'll touch on it to some degree in my final take today.
	But I think that it's important to recognize this.
	This is a guy that stopped knocking people out pretty much once he elevated himself from fly, you know, you know, the featherweight and then the lightweight division.
	And he got up to the welterweight division.
	He wasn't knocking people out in abundance the way that he did in the early stages of his career.
	He had brittle hands, obviously.
	That inhibited his ability to do so as much.
	So what did he do?
	He ultimately changed his name from pretty, his nickname from Pretty Boy to Money.
	Okay, so now it was Floyd Money Mayweather.
	And he marketed himself as somebody who so disgusted you with his flossing and beyond that you didn't pay necessarily to see him.
	He convinced you to pay to watch somebody else try to beat him up, knowing that they would be unsuccessful in doing so.
	He ended up undefeated in 49 fights.
	Still not willing to give him the 50 for Saturday night exhibition.
	That's how I feel.
	I'm just not changing my mind about that.
	It was an exhibition as opposed to a boxing match to me.
	But in the end, I look at him and I say he's unblemished.
	He's undefeated.
	And he did so while making more money than any boxer in history because he convinced you to hate him so much that you paid to see somebody else beat him.
	All right, 24 till the top of the hour.
	That can only mean one thing, that my buddy Stephen A. is back on the program.
	You know, I thought I had one of the greatest jobs in the whole wide world, but I don't.
	It's Stephen A. Smith does because he was at the McGregor-Mayweather fight on Saturday night.
	They were all sitting home watching, paying $100 to watch.
	Well, you would have been there if you were allowed to talk sports, but you're not allowed usually, so that's the way it goes.
	Hey, my buddy Tim Tebow's packing those houses for the Mets and their Under League, buddy.
	I'm telling you, he's doing well.
	Oh, you know what?
	Here we go.
	It's so special.
	Further than you got, so give the guy credit for, you know, trying.
	You know, I actually.
	He's doing a good job.
	It was an exhibition.
	I mean, I don't really care like you do if they count it as Mayweather's 50th win.
	You know, Mayweather was so gracious after the fight, though.
	I was very impressed.
	Number one, number two, I love my buddy Scott McGregor going out there and he's going, let the man knock me down for crying out loud.
	Let the folks get their money's worth.
	I mean, he could have knocked me down at least.
	No need to stop it.
	And I could have gone down.
	It was pretty fun.
	I thought it was a premature stoppage.
	I thought it was a premature stoppage.
	I think if it was a boxer that was in there, usually that would be different because they know the rules.
	They know what comes with it.
	And he was hurt, so you would stop that.
	But a UFC fighter, considering the fact that under normal circumstances, they're fending off kicks, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, all of this other stuff.
	And, you know, and they're fighting with four-ounce gloves, and the punishment that they absorb usually could be more significant than a boxer is subjected to.
	I thought he was right in feeling like it was stopped a little prematurely.
	He was going to get stopped.
	There was no way he was going to recover because he was gassed, plus he was hurt.
	Yeah, he was gassed.
	I mean, the real issue was, and this is amazing to me because, you know, when he grapples and he's in the octagon, I mean, he's a force to reckon with.
	But the reason I was so fascinated with it, I don't think anybody thought that Mayweather was going to lose, but I wanted to see how well McGregor did.
	And the thing that was interesting to me because he did win the first three rounds, in my estimation, maybe the first four.
	But after that, you're right, he got gassed.
	He had nothing going on.
	He didn't really have the power of his punch.
	And I think it was because he just knew he had a different game to play here.
	And all, you know, 90% of his weapons he left in the locker room.
	He wasn't allowed to bring them out there.
	Well, that's sort of fair, but I think you got to give Mayweather credit in this regard.
	Mayweather is a guy that's incredibly cautious and reserved, and he's a counterpuncher.
	But Saturday night, he walked right to Conor McGregor and basically took his head and put it in his chest.
	Well, more in the later rounds.
	He didn't do it in the beginning.
	He was backing up a lot in the earlier rounds, I thought.
	Well, he was backing up a lot in the first round.
	Second round, he started stalking him.
	McGregor was standing there with him, but ultimately he was forcing him to circle around the ring and use his legs far more than he ever does in the octagon because Mayweather is forced to go in 12 rounds and McGregor is not.
	And that's the thing that was the difference why he didn't go all 12.
	But look, you know this and I know this.
	If you put Mayweather in the octagon, it's over in 30 seconds.
	It's over.
	It's over in 30 seconds to a minute, without question.
	Yeah, and you know, it's just a different question.
	Look, I've just evolved into more of an MMA guy than I am the boxing.
	But I think that Mayweather's one of the smartest.
	You want to know why he gets paid the money he does and he wins as much as he does because he's one of the smartest fighters out there.
	But he's not one of the more interesting boxers to watch.
	I've seen him fight so many boring fights.
	I mean, I can't tell you how many times I swore off ever watching another Mayweather fight because I'm bored to tears.
	Well, that's legitimate, especially when he fought against Pacquiao because he was in Holden, and that was boring.
	But when he fought against this monster that fights September 16th, Canelo Alvarez, who is just big time, I think he might lose to Triple G, by the way, but he's a big-time fighter.
	But when Mayweather fought him, he gave that man a boxing lesson.
	He took him to school.
	And if that fight was boring, it was because of Mayweather's brilliance, not because he fought a boring fight.
	He made him a lot of people.
	No, he'll lay back.
	You got to admit, laying back, and he did this perfectly.
	He had studied McGregor, understood that what happens in the octagon is very different.
	The timing is very different.
	The length of time inside is very different.
	And he just knew.
	You also got to understand if you're in the middle of grappling, even if you're on the ground, there are times you can, there are rest periods you can build within that, although they go fiercely.
	Right there, you're just trying to act like you know something when, in fact, what you were doing was listening to me, because that's exactly what I said yesterday on the AI.
	Why are you acting so angry?
	Why are you being that way?
	I'm not angry.
	Why are you acting like Stephen A?
	Why are you being yourself?
	Why wouldn't I expect anything else?
	Sean Hannity has to admit when Stephen A provides an education.
	Oh my God.
	That's all I'm trying to say.
	Oh, my God.
	That's exactly what you got from me.
	Stop acting like you know what I'm saying.
	So, Stephen A. You're watching what's going on.
	You're watching what's going down in Texas.
	You got to admit that the, first of all, it's a devastating impact.
	I feel so bad for all these people.
	I know you do.
	And I know everybody's stepping up and donating money.
	Red Cross.
	I donated yesterday to the Samaritan's Purse, which does a great job.
	I've worked with them in the past.
	And this is going to be a huge rebuild.
	But I got to tell you, the neighbor helping neighbor has been amazing.
	The governor, lieutenant governor has been amazing.
	The coordination with the federal government's been amazing.
	And they've been able to minimize the casualties here.
	And I think everybody did their job except the Houston mayor.
	Well, I got to tell you, I mean, one of the things that I feel from, and I mentioned it today on First Take, was that, you know, with the country coming across as divisive over the last few weeks or so with Charlottesville and beyond, here we are right now with this catastrophe that's taken place with Hurricane Harvey.
	And you're seeing the American people just come together, everybody being incredibly charitable.
	Their hearts are in the right place.
	And we're just stepping up as Americans and recognizing that we're all one nation, that we're all one people, and we've got to come together and do what we can to help those who are less fortunate than ourselves that are decimated by this tragedy.
	And so when you look at it from that standpoint, the better side of America is seen during moments like this.
	Isn't it true?
	I mean, we went through this on 9-11.
	Yeah, we went through this on 9-11.
	And it's interesting.
	You know, I guess we're a family that bickers and fights like hell, but then when tragedy strikes, we come together, which is the way it should be.
	And I do think things politically have gone off the rails in this country.
	And I think there is a concerted effort to take the president down.
	And it's frustrating to me because the people that lose in that equation are the people that voted for him and the forgotten men and women that are in poverty on food stamps and out of work.
	And those are the people we should be focusing on the most.
	And I can tell you this: by the time this water ever recedes out of these neighborhoods, it's going to be a long time.
	And when that time finally comes, these people are going to need our help and assistance because rebuilding this thing, I think the financial costs are incalculable.
	Well, bottom line is that it's got to be a sustained and collective effort on the part of all of us because they can't lift themselves up alone.
	We all got to come together and we've ought to be willing to do whatever we can do to help uplift them because that's what we're supposed to.
	That's what we pride ourselves on being about as Americans.
	And as long as we're focused on that and we remind ourselves of that at every turn, we're going to be just fine and they're going to be just fine because we're going to lift them up.
	That's what we've historically done.
	And I think that's what we'll continue to do as a nation.
	Yeah.
	So what's going on with you?
	You wrote me this long note about how I need to be careful and that you were mad at the president at different times.
	Do you feel he's done a good job on the hurricane?
	I don't know yet.
	I imagine that he has.
	I haven't been studying what his specific effort has been to elude.
	Well, they got 8,500.
	They got 85 federal employees on the ground.
	They've done complete coordination with the governor, lieutenant governor, state, and local municipalities.
	And you can see the impact.
	Well, that sounds like a good job.
	And I'm certainly not going to take anything away from him.
	And more importantly, I don't think a time like this is a time to be critical of the president or anybody else as long as they're putting forth an effort and their heart is in the right place.
	That's really all that matters.
	But to get back to the note that I wrote to you, I don't get involved.
	I'm not the aficionado.
	I don't sit up there and get involved and try to critique the job he is or is not doing.
	The only thing that I said to you in my note to you about being careful is that when you have somebody that is off the rails in terms of their behavior, conducting themselves like an adult, that is when you have to step up.
	And it's not about partisanship.
	It's not about politics.
	If you represent us as a nation, you have to be a statesman as often as you possibly can.
	It's important because Sean Hannity hosts a show on radio where he's talking a million, a television show.
	The same thing.
	If you were out there acting like a child and a juvenile, if I was acting like a child or a juvenile in the position that I'm in, I would like to believe we would call each other on the carpet for it.
	So if somebody's in that position, we need to do the same thing, not to criticize them or insult them, but to remind them they don't just represent themselves.
	Well, if I be calling your show every I watch your show, and every day you're on, you irritate me with some of your opinions.
	And when you get that's irritating you with my opinions.
	That's not me acting like a tight.
	There's a difference.
	There's a difference.
	It's the same thing every day.
	Hey, listen, I know you.
	One of the most charming things about you is the fact that, like me, you have this childlike quality to you, and you have this ability to say anything that comes into your mind at any second.
	And this is like the pot call to kettle black.
	Yeah, but I'm far more charming than you that day.
	I have less space.
	You're better looking.
	You're charming.
	And you have.
	I have less gray hair.
	And by the way, last but not least, I'm not cheap.
	You still owe me dinner.
	You haven't paid for it yet.
	When do I owe you dinner?
	You promised me dinner for about three years.
	Well, let's go to dinner.
	You haven't done it.
	You haven't come through?
	Well, I'm going to come through.
	Just tell me when you're available.
	I'll invite you out to my house.
	You can come hang out upstairs.
	With your schedule, I'll believe that.
	Well, that's one of the main reasons.
	And I'm a total.
	Hey, by the way, I will do this for you.
	I got tickets to the U.S. Open.
	You want any tickets?
	I don't need them, but I appreciate them.
	What do you mean you don't need them?
	What do you mean you don't need them?
	Meaning I have access to the U.S. Open whenever I want to go.
	Oh, excuse me, Mr. Sportsman.
	I'm not a sports guy.
	So you get something.
	Okay, so you have access to go, but you're not going to be working.
	Basically, you're taking advantage of your job.
	Excuse me.
	I'm always working.
	You're not always working.
	If you're watching a tennis match, I've never heard you talk about a tennis match.
	That's not true.
	I've talked about Serena.
	I've talked about Venus.
	I'm a Federal fan.
	I love it whenever he goes against Nadal, even though they haven't faced each other in the U.S. Open.
	Well, we're not going to face each other.
	Well, not in the finals anyway.
	They may face each other.
	They're on the same side of the draw.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	See, you're really learning.
	I'm so proud of you.
	You're getting better.
	Oh, I'm getting better.
	All right, so who's going to win the Super Bowl this year?
	Let's go out on a limb.
	Who's got the best team that we're not paying attention to?
	Patriots are the favorites.
	They've got too many weapons.
	But losing Julian Edelman has really hurt them.
	But I think Pittsburgh and Kansas City and Oakland are the major threats.
	But I don't like any of them to beat New England.
	If New England's going to lose, it'll probably be in the Super Bowl, either to Atlanta or Seattle.
	How are the Giants and Jets going to do?
	The Giants are going to be just fine.
	They'll win the division.
	They'll make the playoffs before losing to one of those two teams and adaptes that I mentioned.
	In the case of the Jets, they're god-awful.
	They're so bad, people are going to accuse them of actually throwing the seeds.
	That's how bad they're going to look.
	Oh, man.
	Throw the season to get better draft picks, you mean?
	Yes.
	All right, Stephen A. Smith.
	By the way, Linda, will you please record that so I can play it back when he's wrong as usual and make some money back from him?
	Apparently, I lost a bet.
	Stephen A. Thank you, my friend.
	800-941 Sean Tolfrey telephone number.
	You know, could imagine this.
	So the warm-up back for the Vice President of the United States is my buddy Stephen A. Smith, of course, with ESPN.
	And when we come back, the Vice President will join us.
	So the President's in Texas today.
	Looks like he and the First Lady are getting huge, enthusiastic crowds and a warm welcome in Texas.
	And a large crowd of supporters lined the streets of Corpus Christi during the president's visit there.
	And now they're in Austin.
	And the crowd's cheering on the president and first lady.
	And as they boarded an armored SUV that took them to the meeting, chanting, We Love Trump and Texas Strong and are pretty amazing so far.
	All things apparently going well in spite of just a disaster.
	After my meeting with local officials, I had a telephone conference with the president and let him know specifically what the challenges were by the local officials here, the need to address challenges.
	As one example, after listening to the needs for power down here, I made a phone call and we got a thousand more people who can be involved in getting power going.
	That's right.
	They'll be involved today.
	He's a champion of Texans and a champion of helping us rebuild, and I think we will hear that commitment.
	And it's really my honor.
	This is a very special place at a special state.
	I want to thank my staff, my cabinet.
	We have quite a few of our cabinet here.
	You know, Ben Carson, obviously, from HUD, and Tom Price, and Linda McMahon, small business, which is now big business, because you're going to be, when you add them all up, you're going to be helping a lot of the people in Texas and doing a fantastic job.
	Thank you very much, Linda.
	But we have had a tremendous group of folks.
	Our acting director, Elaine, thank you very much for the job you've done.
	And a man who's really become very famous on television over the last couple of days, Mr. Long.
	We appreciate it very much.
	You have been just outstanding.
	And I can tell you that my folks just telling me how great your representatives have been in working together.
	It's a real team.
	Nobody's ever seen anything like this.
	And I just want to say that working with the governor and his entire team has been an honor for us.
	So, Governor, again, thank you very much.
	And we won't say congratulations.
	We don't want to do that.
	We don't want to congratulate.
	We'll congratulate each other when it's all finished.
	But you have been terrific.
	All right, our two Sean Hannity show.
	That was the president earlier today.
	Corpus Christi is en route.
	He's headed to Austin.
	And now the president has committed every resource available.
	As I've been saying, you really need, considering the unprecedented nature of the flooding and the storm that we're talking about here, if it's not for neighbor helping neighbor, if it's not for local politicians, the governor, the lieutenant governor, local municipalities, they're doing their job.
	The governor coordinating with the federal government and the president and 8,500 federal workers on the ground.
	Now we are moving, obviously, from rescue, rescue, recovery, and the rebuilding is going to take an awful long time.
	I can't even calculate the amount of damage that has been done in the wake of all of this.
	Joining us now is the Vice President of the United States, Vice President Pence.
	Mr. Vice President, thank you for being with us.
	By all accounts, the people of Texas, the governor, and the federal government's response have been spot on.
	I guess we've learned some lessons from past failures.
	Well, as you could tell today, the President, the First Lady, We're very anxious to get to Texas to express their gratitude and support and support of our entire administration for the efforts of Governor Abbott and state and local officials.
	You know that in crises like this, and this is literally an unprecedented event that has struck Texas and is striking Texas and Louisiana, the state takes the lead.
	But we're proud of the job they've done in Texas.
	And as the President said today, we're also very proud up to this point with the job that our team has done.
	8,600 federal officials through FEMA on the ground in Texas and Louisiana.
	We've shipped more than 2.5 million meals, 2 million liters of water with more on the way.
	Coast Guard has been in the air since as soon as was possible, even while the storm was still raging.
	Rescue efforts have saved thousands of people.
	It's been an extraordinary effort.
	It's ongoing.
	And I would just say to all of your listeners who have family in the region or who are in the region themselves that now is the time to put safety first.
	Listen to local emergency managers.
	Stay safe.
	This is still a very dangerous storm.
	We believe life-threatening flooding will continue to occur.
	And so people need to heed the guidance of local officials, but know that every level of government, from the President's leadership on the national level to state and local leadership, we're bringing all resources to bear to engage in the rescue of people in harm's way and, of course, then begin the process of a bigger and better recovery in the aftermath.
	Mr. Vice President, we know the needs are going to be many here because you've got tens and tens of thousands of people now that are out of their homes and will be for some time.
	Do you know where we stand as we now shift out of the recovery part of this and the rescue part of this into taking care of all of these people in shelters?
	I had Franklin Graham on Hannity last night.
	I've worked for years, most recently with the Louisiana flood, the one in Baton Rouge and the things that went on there.
	But I've worked with Samaritans Purse.
	They've done a great job.
	Obviously, the Red Cross does a great job and the needs are going to be many.
	Are you confident that the food and the water and the blankets and the supplies and the baby formula medicines are all going to be flown in expeditiously?
	Well, we're confident at this point, but we're going to continue to lean into this effort to make sure that that is the case.
	But make no mistake about it, Sean.
	We are still very much in the rescue phase.
	We have helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft with the Coast Guard now fully activated Texas National Guard.
	This storm, as it comes back to shore in Texas and Louisiana, we're continuing to lean into the life-saving mission.
	But to your point, the recovery effort is also well underway.
	As of yesterday, we had 22,000 people already go to disasterassistance.gov and begin to sign up for the support and the services and the resources that are eligible for Americans who find themselves in these circumstances.
	And if people can't get to the internet, disasterassistance.gov, they can go to 1-800-621-FEMA and start that.
	We think there might be 500,000 people in the coastal area that would be eligible for support.
	We have the resources to do FEMA's mission.
	Make no mistake about it.
	We've got the reserves.
	But this will likely take congressional action as well as we move into the full recovery.
	And as you heard the President say today, to rebuilding and building Texas and the coastal region back stronger and better than ever before.
	Would this be an opportunity, perhaps, that maybe sort of like the President seems to always be a guy that thinks out of the box in terms of the rebuilding effort that maybe we can get carpenters and laborers and people that need work that are in other states and maybe let them use that temporary shelters that are going to be set up there and help do this faster.
	And what do you do for the people?
	This was not a lot of people didn't have flood insurance because these are areas that never flooded before.
	What are you going to do in those cases?
	They don't have insurance.
	They don't have the money to rebuild.
	These people, I'm sure, are scared to death that they're never going to get their home back.
	Well, that's right.
	I mean, literally, we have thousands of manufactured homes that already were pre-positioned in the area, more to come.
	We want to get people back into their own homes, into their own home area as quickly as possible.
	But I would tell you, whether it's direct disaster assistance, whether it's small business assistance for the countless businesses across Houston, across southeast Texas and Louisiana that are impacted by Hurricane Harvey, there are significant resources available and people can find out where those are and what they are.
	But let me also emphasize one point.
	You mentioned our friend Franklin Graham.
	I spoke to the head of Red Cross over the weekend as the President convened the Cabinet not once but twice this past weekend.
	The volunteer effort that we see underway is the only thing that's more inspiring than the first responders on the ground.
	We're incredibly proud of our fire and safety personnel, the rescue efforts that are underway, the Coast Guards efforts that are underway, the National Guard.
	But I have to tell you, I know I can speak for the President in this regard when I say that seeing people come out in boats, large and small, making their way to find citizens and neighbors and most oftentimes strangers that are in harm's way and helping them out.
	This is a very, very challenging moment in the life of the people of Texas and soon Louisiana.
	But this may well be their finest moment as we see the outpouring of generosity and character and compassion that's on display for the whole world to see.
	Mr. Vice President, if I can move on to a couple other topics, some people were angry at Joe Arpaio and the pardon that was given by the President.
	And I went back last night and I looked at the pardons of Mark Rich and FALN terrorists, and I looked at the pardons of convicted drug dealers by Barack Obama.
	And I see a man that served 50 some odd years as a sheriff and an elected official who served the community honorably.
	And I was a little aghast at some of the media reaction.
	What are your thoughts?
	Well, I fully support the President's decision.
	With regard to Sheriff Joe, I thought the President made it very clear yesterday at the press conference.
	Sheriff Joe is a patriot.
	He's worn the uniform of the United States, the uniform of law enforcement, and the president was right to pardon the misdemeanor conviction that he had received, and also to put it in the historical context.
	But that being said, I can tell you, as much as I'd love to talk to you about other issues, the President has us all completely focused on those suffering and struggling in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
	And it's important for your listeners to know that we're not out of the woods.
	This is still a very dangerous storm.
	And they should just know that at the President's direction, all federal resources from Friday night forward have been brought to bear on this storm to save lives, to assist in the recovery.
	That'll continue to be the case.
	But voices like yours on the national stage, Sean, are absolutely invaluable as we continue to sustain public support for volunteer efforts, people going online.
	They can go online to find out volunteer organizations that are on the ground in the midst of this flood and this storm at nvoad.org.
	You can get details on how to support Red Cross, Samaritan's Purse, Salvation Army.
	These groups literally have been on the ground since early last weekend providing meals and a blanket and support and clothing.
	And they deserve all the support that your listeners can give them.
	And I would also say, you know, my little family and I have been on our knees for the families in this region.
	We had some experiences with flooding when I was governor of the state of Indiana.
	This is a long, long road back.
	And we all would do well to keep all of those that are suffering under the weight of Hurricane Harvey now and in the future in our prayers.
	All right, please stay right there, Mr. Vice President.
	We've got a lot more to get to.
	As we continue with the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence.
	Mr. Vice President, is there a checklist that you all put together?
	I mean, I know that there are probably pages and pages and documents and books written about how to prepare for disasters such as this.
	But I got to imagine, and this goes back to an earlier question I was asking you.
	You just think off the top of your head, you need food, you need water, you need medicine, medical supplies.
	You certainly need cots and blankets and baby formula and warm clothing for people.
	Is all of that ready and at hand?
	Because I think very shortly, because we have our meteorologist of the program, Joe Bastardi, saying the raining is going to stop and the rescue effort will come to an end.
	But we have these tens of thousands of people in these shelters.
	Will those needs be met in an expeditious fashion, in your opinion?
	Are we ready for that part of it?
	I believe they will for exactly the reason that you just suggested, Sean, and that is that at the President's direction, remember President Trump signed an emergency declaration before Hurricane Harvey came ashore.
	And that permitted FEMA to pre-position resources, water supplies, food supplies, even manufactured housing pre-positioned into the region.
	The reason we were able to get so many thousands of federal officials into the area was frankly because of the swift action that President Trump took.
	But all of this, I will tell you, I was at FEMA yesterday thanking people that are putting in long hours at the headquarters here supporting first responders on the ground in Texas and Louisiana.
	And I encourage them.
	I thank them for their efforts to date.
	But it's that kind of pre-planning and applying all the lessons of the past that have made it possible for us to be providing the rescue operation that's in effect today and also continue to support the recovery and ultimately the rebuilding of this area, the fourth largest city in the United States of America underwater.
	It's just shocking.
	But I know the American people, the Congress with this President's leadership, are going to be there, and the strong and resilient people of Texas and Louisiana will be restored better and stronger than ever before.
	It's amazing in the midst of tragedy.
	You see such good come out of people and to watch neighbor helping neighbor, story after story about that, and the Cajun Navy and the Waco Navy and all of these people using their expertise and their training to go out there and save those people's lives has been pretty inspiring.
	Last question, sir, because there's a lot of people listening, and we're watching in horror our fellow Americans suffering here, and they're asking me all the time.
	I donated to Samaritan's Purse because I've worked with them in the past.
	Your suggestions for those and how people can help listening to you.
	Well, just know that Samaritan's Purse is on the ground.
	Red Cross is on the ground.
	There's a whole range of volunteer organizations, faith-based organizations, and churches that are already there providing support.
	And while you can be confident, and your millions of listeners can be confident, that every resource of the federal government is being brought to bear in the rescue and recovery effort, every resource of state and local officials are being brought to bear on that mission.
	That helping these families through this crisis is going to require all of us.
	And so, going to redcross.org, going to Samaritan Purse website, going to the Salvation Army, or just go to nvoad.org, which is a list of the national voluntary organizations active in this disaster, nvoad.org.
	Get out your checkbook and make a contribution, say a prayer, and we'll all get through this together.
	All right, Vice President Mike Pence, thank you for your time.
	And thoughts and prayers go out to the people that have been impacted by this terrible hurricane.
	And we'll continue to monitor and offer as much assistance as we can as you are.
	Sir, thank you for being with us.
	We appreciate your time.
	Thank you, Sean.
	Quick break, right back.
	And you meet some of these hero volunteers that are down in Texas.
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	You know, one of the things that has come out of this tragedy down in Texas is that you see the goodness and the greatness of humanity.
	And you can actually see the government can, at times, get things done and mobilize and prepare and be ready in their rescue efforts.
	But as I said yesterday, you really need three components when something is as devastating as this happens.
	You need man helping man.
	You need human help where human help and human, humanity in its best form coming up, neighbor helping neighbor and going out there, rolling up your sleeves.
	And when young people can help the old people and when healthy and strong people can help the disabled people, and all hands on deck attitude, which is just totally quintessentially Texan, we saw that on display all through the weekend and through today.
	It's been beyond inspiring.
	Then you had a state and local response, well, with the exception of the Houston mayor, that were hands-on and prepared for every case scenario, and they took it all seriously.
	Then you had the federal government communicating with the governors and local municipalities, and they were prepared.
	And they had the 8,500 people on the ground, and they have their food and supplies apparently all standing by to be flown in to the varying shelter areas so that everyone will have their food and their medicine and new clothes and a pillow.
	My friend at my pillow, Mike Lindell.
	He's literally sending 10,000 pillows down there for people to help people out.
	I mean, everybody puts all hands on deck.
	Samaritans Purse, they're doing their thing.
	The Red Cross is doing their thing.
	And people are opening up their churches, and people are opening up their homes, and people are opening up, you know, schools and what other areas just to give people the temporary shelter that they need.
	Not ideal, but it's a start.
	And then we're going to begin the long, difficult process of undoing the damage and rebuilding, which is going to be hard.
	But there is a group of people that, whenever something like this happens, and we got to meet them down in Louisiana when we were down there with Samaritans Purst, and that's the Cajun Navy.
	And there is a Waco Navy.
	It's sort of like the Texas version of the Cajun Navy that helped last year with the Louisiana floods.
	And they were all out and about.
	The Cajun Navy was there.
	The Waco Navy was there.
	And these are a lot of big ex-military people and law enforcement people that use their incredible skills and training to help at a high, high level.
	And joining us now is Austin Shirley.
	He's part of the Waco Navy.
	And Austin, thanks for what you do.
	Welcome to the program.
	And tell us what you've been doing down there.
	Thanks for having us, Sean.
	It's a pleasure to talk with you.
	So two days ago, my good buddies, Jeremy Eccles, Grant Turnbow, and Jason Carlow, we all kind of got together and spoke about what was going on down here.
	And we were kind of seeing what we could do.
	And we had a few buddies of ours rent us some flat-bottom boats.
	We loaded them up into a couple trailers, got as much gas, water, and food as we could, and we hit the road arriving two nights ago in the middle of the night.
	The next morning, we really didn't know what we were walking into, and it was pretty chaotic.
	And, you know, fortunately, the Texas Navy had a station on an app called Zello where live dispatches were coming through with people in distress.
	And we just found our first closest address.
	We put our boats in the water and we got to work.
	And it's just been incredible to see so many people from all over Houston, all over Texas, come together, get their boats in the water, and start pulling people out.
	I mean, I can't tell you our first drop in the water yesterday, both of our boats were in, and probably about 50 yards from us, the Transformer blew right over the water.
	So it's been very unpredictable.
	The water levels keep rising.
	We're dealing with constant rivers and streams that are increasing the currents, making, you know, very low horsepowered boats a challenge to get through certain areas.
	But, you know, we're all working together.
	We're continuous to push hard and we're getting as many people out as we can.
	And it's very unpredictable.
	We just did a drop and we're actually pulling our boat out of the water right now.
	And we just faced a neighborhood where nobody wanted to leave.
	And, you know, you can't blame them for that.
	But, you know, it's just, it's been quite an experience.
	Was this in Houston, sir?
	Yes, this is in a city called Cyprus.
	Yeah.
	This is the only area of I felt stupidity, and that was on the part of the Democratic mayor down there that told people, oh, just go back to your homes.
	Meanwhile, he wouldn't even take the governor's call.
	And the governor was trying to warn him.
	And the governor tried to go over his head and say, don't, you know, even if your local officials say don't leave, it's probably best if you're in these areas to leave.
	So that was a mistake.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, but with that said, I mean, you can't let these people die.
	We've got to go in there and help them out.
	And you're now, this is what you're doing.
	This is what, how many people would you say are part of this big effort of the Navy, be it the Waco Navy or the Cajun Navy that are involved in this?
	Hundreds.
	You know, I honestly can't put a number on it.
	We just had seven boats from the Waco Navy from a local church group called ANIOC join up.
	And, you know, we're all just banding together and the numbers keep growing.
	We have people calling continuously trying to come down.
	And the scary thing is, is, you know, we're going to stay out here as long and do as much as we possibly can.
	But, you know, these waters are continuing to rise and they're going to continue to creep up on these houses.
	And it's going to be, it's going to continue to get more and more dangerous for these folks if they don't decide to get out.
	But we're going to stick around and we're going to stay.
	And if they do call, we don't care what time it is.
	We're going to come get them.
	Yeah.
	And do you have a pretty good idea how many people that you think you still need to get in and rescue?
	You know, that's such a hard number to put on because the distress calls are coming in from all over the city and they're coming in by the hundreds and the thousands.
	It's definitely in the thousands.
	Nope, not enough people have been pulled out yet.
	One of the things that some of the people that need rescuing have been having trouble is with communications.
	How can people, if they're listening to the radio, how can they get a hold of you if they need help?
	So if you can hear this right now and you have cell phone reception, you need to download an app called Zello, that's Z-E-L-L-O, and you need to look up the Texas Navy channel or the Cajun Navy channel, and you can dispatch your distress call.
	You need to give as much information as possible, address, phone number, location, how many people are there, and what kind of medical needs you have.
	And if you can get that dispatch out, we're going to continuously listen to it and we're going to get to you as fast as possible.
	Now, basically, you're running 24-7 around the clock to get people, right?
	I want to play one of the Cajun Navy members was met with gunfire by one of the apparent looters.
	Now, you always have a few people that always try to take advantage in a situation like this.
	Let me play this Cajun Navy member and what he has to say here as he was trying to, you know, risking his life to save others.
	Just wanted to come on here and clear up the CNN short interview they did with us over there when we told them that shots had been fired at one of our boats.
	Not exactly sure which boat it was or who it was or what group it was.
	It came over Zello and it was looters.
	They're out there.
	They're not wanting our boats around them because, of course, they're looting.
	So no one got injured.
	No one actually got shot.
	They shot at the boats.
	I'm not sure if they actually shot at it up in the air, but shots were fired.
	So everyone's just being very careful going around any of the areas where there's actually stores or whatever, watching for looters.
	We went back in.
	They went back in there with a couple marshals on airboats and went and checked out the situation.
	A couple of our guys' boats had broken down.
	They were trying to take the boats from them.
	Of course, they're just trying to get out.
	I'm not sure if those guys, there's people out there pretending like they need to be rescued and then they're robbing the boats.
	There's also people that were out there in the boats and they were out there pretending to be rescuers.
	They're robbing the people.
	This is just what's happening.
	This is just reporting what's actually factual, what we've had reports of happening.
	So no one in our, so far in any of our efforts has gotten hurt.
	There are some things going on out there right now with the weather the way it is.
	And there's things I'm not going to talk about right now.
	But of course, as you can suspect, there's going to be some fatalities in this.
	And some of our guys are obsessing some of that right now.
	Wow, pretty dangerous.
	You know, in light of the situation, you'd think people could, you know, you always have that small group of people.
	And I guess you've seen this over the years, Austin.
	They always want to take advantage of people's tragedy.
	And it's so disgusting.
	They're like vultures that come racing in.
	And now you have all these guys that you're working with saving people's lives and property.
	And now you've got to worry about these people that have guns that are out there potentially taking shots at you.
	You do.
	And, you know, thank God we live in Texas because everywhere we go, you know, we're always going to take the means to protect ourselves.
	And we're never going to let somebody like that stop us from doing our mission.
	Continuously on the Zello app yesterday, we had people coming on blocking up communications, trying to turn it into a joke.
	And regardless of those guys, we're going to keep moving forward and never let them slow our path.
	And that's the obtembo that we're going to carry throughout this endeavor.
	Yeah, well, I can't thank you enough.
	And I speak for all the people in the country.
	You know, there are some people that are just amazing givers in life.
	And you just go out there and risk your life and take all this time away from your friends and your family and the things you'd otherwise want to do in life.
	And you step up and you help your fellow man.
	You're amazing people.
	And those are all the law enforcement people I've known in my life and all of the warriors that I've known that served in our military.
	So it's so indicative of the character you guys have and to share your expertise and your skill and your training to help people is it just awe-inspiring for us watching you and you're in our thoughts and prayers.
	And if you need anything from us, please let us know.
	And we'll put up on my website, Hannity.com, if people need to get a hold of you, people need some rescue, people need help and assistance.
	You're the guys that'll be there for them.
	We appreciate it.
	Absolutely.
	And if there's time, I'd like to say one more thing.
	The law enforcement in this community has done such an outstanding job at working tirelessly around the clock to continue to pull people out given the circumstances.
	So I want to get my hats off to them and all the first responders.
	Hey, listen, they don't have to.
	We saw what happened in New Orleans when they ran away.
	They quit.
	Remember?
	A lot of them just said, I don't need this.
	I'm getting out of here.
	Absolutely.
	I don't think there was a worse case of political incompetence with Ray Nagan.
	I mean, and look at the consequences when you don't have law and order.
	Anyway, thank you so much, Austin, for what you're doing.
	We appreciate it.
	800-941 Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
	If you want to be a part of the program, right, as we continue, 800-941, Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
	Let's get to Rich.
	He's in Florida.
	Rich, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Don, how are you doing?
	Pleasure.
	I'm good, sir.
	What's happening?
	Well, I'm a truck driver, and I'm listening to a lot of people say President Trump hasn't done anything.
	He's not doing enough.
	There are thousands and thousands of trucks staging right now as we speak.
	Alabama and Florida, all up and down the eastern coast and the western coast.
	We're just waiting for the go.
	Loaded and ready, ice.
	As soon as the roads get ready, we're going to be in there.
	And, you know, we can't, obviously, can't go in there now.
	And God bless the Cajun Navy, the Waco Navy.
	Without them, there'd be a lot of people sitting on roofs right now.
	Yeah, I know.
	They've been amazing.
	It's been, you know, it's such a paradox.
	I mean, you're in the middle of the worst times for people in their lives, and the worst times can then bring out the absolute best, the better side of humanity.
	And you just see it.
	And we've been watching it all weekend.
	And neighbor helping neighbor is a massive, huge component to all of this.
	And without that factored in, there's no real government that could get in there that knows the needs of every crevice of every town and every small community and every street.
	But the people that live there, well, they know that so-and-so lives down the block, Mrs. Smith, and she's in a wheelchair and there's no way in hell she's getting out and she doesn't have a lot of family and her family lives far away.
	And that's the type of thing that only a neighbor could know.
	And you see these great neighbors getting together and saying, okay, well, we're going to get you out this way and we're going to help you with this and we're going to evacuate you.
	And it's just, it's pretty inspiring.
	I mean, we see a lot of the dark side of the human soul a lot on TV and we're always battling drug addiction and opioid addiction and alcoholism.
	And you're battling, what else?
	You're battling evil in North Korea, Iran, and saber rattling.
	And politics is just off the hook with this, you know, Trump derangement syndrome.
	It's kind of nice to see that people sort of gaining their humanity back because when push comes to shove and when the moment matters, yeah, we realize we're all Americans.
	It's pretty inspiring.
	It is.
	Truck drivers go to every nook and cranny of this country.
	And during the elections, we saw things trending.
	And this is a very amazing country.
	Well, it's what I've always known.
	And that's why I sort of get so annoyed with the elites that live in D.C. and New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco.
	They're so out of touch with that red part of America, the people that get up every day, take care of their own kids, shovel coffee down their throat, get them to school, put in their 16-hour days, come home, throw some dinner on the table, and pass out after they had two beers.
	They pay their taxes.
	They obey the laws.
	They make the country great.
	They provide goods and services that we all need, want, and desire.
	And in many ways, they're the forgotten men and women, and we take them for granted too long.
	And those people deserve their shot at the American dream.
	Anyway, my friend, thank you.
	800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, news roundup information overload is next.
	Troy Warden is going to join us with Campus Reform.
	We'll talk about Antifa, the violence that took place out in Berkeley over the weekend not being reported, interestingly, by the media as they went after peaceful conservatives protesting.
	Wonder why the double standard will continue.
	My job is to make sure that you have the right to express your views and lose your job on Monday.
	Who's Lord Farpart?
	All right, those are some of the sounds from what happened in Berkeley.
	Even the Washington Post, of all places, getting and understanding just how bad things were over the weekend and saying, yeah, you've got Antifa going after peaceful, they called it right-wing protesters.
	That's the way they refer to anybody that is a conservative and not a left-winger like them.
	But certainly now calling out and identifying Antifa for who they are and what they are and what they do and how violent they can be.
	Now, campusreform.org, correspondent and senior at Berkeley, Troy Warden, joins us right now to talk about what life is on the campus when the rioting and violence clearly was tolerated by the university in this particular case.
	Troy, welcome to the program.
	What happened?
	Thank you for having me on again, Sean.
	Well, what essentially happened is there were two rallies planned: one in San Francisco on Saturday and one in Berkeley on Sunday.
	The organizers of the rally have gone on the news, the national news media, including Fox News.
	There was only one white speaker.
	All the rest were a diverse array of persons.
	The organizer himself was Hispanic.
	And what you saw happen in Berkeley, especially, was absolute chaos.
	These people, these Antifa, actually recruited, we have reason to believe they recruited gangs from Oakland to hunt Republicans in the streets.
	And that's exactly what they did.
	The organizer was hospitalized.
	I have friends who were hospitalized.
	My girlfriend was chased by thugs with lead pipes.
	They beat on the car as she was attempting to escape.
	And the police just stood by for the most part and let everything happen.
	They allowed hundreds, if not thousands, of black-clad, masked criminals and thugs to basically run free in the city.
	How do you know they recruited these gangs?
	How do you know that happened?
	Well, we have some people who have infiltrated Antifa, and we have received that information.
	And also, if you just look at the kind of people who were coming into town, these aren't students.
	These also aren't basement-dwelling, upper-middle-class angsty teens.
	These are hardened criminals who obviously come from the streets.
	They're not from Berkeley.
	They're from Oakland.
	And I think it's pretty obvious that these people are jumping on the backs of this political movement and attempting to really hurt some people.
	So what's the problem?
	Let's just talk about, maybe you don't know everything specifically yourself, though.
	I think it's important that we identify just what's factual and accurate and truthful here.
	Tell us what you saw rather than just your opinion about who they are.
	Exactly.
	I mean, what I saw, what my girlfriend saw, what we've seen on numerous occasions are people who are not students.
	They're certainly not from the nicer parts of Berkeley.
	They're definitely from Oakland.
	And they're coming into the city.
	They're yelling threats.
	Most of these are death threats, mind you.
	They change.
	But I'm asking you, how have you confirmed they're from Oakland?
	How have you confirmed they're not from the area?
	Now, I know a lot of times these people have black masks on and helmets on and they carry sticks and they're even prepared for battle and they have pads on them at certain times.
	But I mean, has it been written in any news source that that's definitely where they're from?
	No, but I'm a native of Berkeley and I've lived in the city for a few years, but also in the Bay Area.
	And I can tell when someone's masked and I can tell when someone isn't masked.
	And I can also tell when these people are clearly associated with street gangs.
	I mean, it's quite obvious to me when someone is a younger person who comes from, say, a less rough of a scene, and they're putting on black masks and clothes and attempting to hurt me.
	Let me ask this.
	You mentioned that you knew people that had infiltrated Antifa?
	Yes, absolutely.
	I am in contact with people who have footage and video.
	Again, I can't confirm anything, especially at risk of outing certain people and putting them in very dangerous situations.
	But these are things I have heard.
	And based on what we saw on Sunday and video of the kind of people who were approaching us on Sunday, I can say that with some certainty that these reports have at least have some weight behind them.
	Okay.
	So let's go back to the weekend and the violence we did see.
	And even the Washington Post and other news outlets finally recognizing that this group is full of violence and that the conservatives that were protesting were peaceful.
	You know, and I was one to praise what had happened in Boston, people protesting, but they did it peacefully.
	They have the right to peacefully protest anybody, any point, any side.
	Sure, absolutely.
	But the problem is, and I really think it's a growing problem, is that the media, ever since Charlottesville, has been attempting to portray the alt-left or Antifa as a largely peaceful group who are just attempting to attack people who are violent, right-wing Nazi sympathizers.
	But this is completely incorrect with what was going on at Berkeley.
	The rallies were actually canceled.
	Only a few conservatives showed up.
	And they were ruthlessly attacked by these gangs of black-clad individuals.
	So in any case, I really don't think that the media narrative can hold up anymore.
	There's only a few, I think, media outlets that are really aggressively covering this issue, such as campus reform.
	But I'm glad to see Fox News is also devoting time to this, even during Hurricane Harvey, for instance.
	So I think the narrative is going to finally turn and reveal what's actually going on, which is you cannot be a Republican in the Bay Area or other major cities on the coasts without fearing for your life.
	I fear for my own life.
	I fear for the life of my family members solely because of our political beliefs and for nothing more.
	It's extremely unfortunate that this has to happen in what is supposed to be the land of opportunity and freedom.
	All right, let's go back to Boston earlier this month and take a listen to some of the things that happened there.
	These are the same guys I just interviewed, like, five minutes ago, and now...
	They need a police escort to get out of here.
	This place is absolutely chaotic.
	They have been now followed for I'd say several hundred feet being led out of the Boston Common.
	I mean, this is unbelievable.
	Everyone kicking over each other.
	This is not what we were expecting here.
	Two Trump supporters now being escorted out of the Boston Common.
	I just spoke to them a few moments ago.
	They thought everything would be fine, but suddenly...
	This is about to be a fire site.
	How similar in your mind did that sound to what you saw there in Berkeley this weekend?
	Well, I actually think it was a lot worse what happened at Berkeley because at least at the Boston rally, you had a few hundred, I believe, conservative protesters who were just standing up for free speech.
	At Berkeley, the rally was actually canceled the day or so before, and only a few people showed up.
	A lot of these people were journalists who were covering for conservative outlets or nonpartisan outlets.
	And what happened was these people were severely outnumbered, 10 to 1 probably, by Antifa or the alt-left, and they were subsequently mobbed and beaten to a pulp.
	I mean, I was at the Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, which is where I was born, and it was a sad day when I saw multiple people having to go to the emergency room to be operated on because they suffered such critical injuries from being just at the area where the black bloc was present.
	The worst thing about it is that most of these people were just filming.
	There was no provocation for the attacks they suffered.
	If you have a camera and you attempt to film these criminals, they will make you pay for it.
	They will try and destroy your camera.
	They'll pepper spray you, or even worse, they'll mob you and beat you and stomp you while you're on the ground.
	It's absolutely horrendous what happened at Berkeley.
	And if the police and the mayor and the chancellor of the university continue to let police stand down and not let them do their job, then we're just going to see conservatives and Republicans run out of town or even killed.
	All right, Troy Warden is with campusreform.org.
	Troy, stay safe out there.
	Thank you so much for being with us.
	We really appreciate it.
	Thank you for having me out.
	All right, let's head to our busy telephones here as we say hi to Johnny.
	He's in Houston, Texas.
	Our thoughts and prayers continue as the final remnants of this rain coming down even as we speak.
	John, so sorry.
	Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
	I see the American people now rallying.
	I've heard donations are up significantly to help people.
	This is going to be a long-term rebuild.
	And I know the rescue and recovery effort is still underway.
	And I just want you to know we're thinking about all of you down there.
	Are you there, John?
	All right, Ron is in Pennsylvania.
	Ron, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, honor to talk to you, Sean.
	Yeah, I just wanted to say, you know, the left-wing media in the end is still in a state of denial about President Trump's election.
	Yet they continue to promote, yet deny, the hate and the violence and such as call what it is, childlike temper tantrums by leftist groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
	They never speak out against them.
	I think all in all, they see Trump as, you know, which he is a political outsider and a man of action and someone who the left fears dismantling some of the items they have patiently been able to implement over the last 50 years with which, of course, Obamacare is their pot of gold to date.
	And I see them really being afraid, and that's where their hatred comes from.
	Well, I think it's just deeper than that.
	And the forces against the president are manyfold.
	You know, we've never had a president talk to a president or a prime minister and the conversations leaked.
	We've never had false narratives and conspiracy theories, you know, spread like wildfire for as many months as Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia did.
	You know, we've never seen people say, well, you know, so wanting to overturn the will of the people like they have in this particular instance.
	And you've got to remember, they're back and they're trying to, it's all part of an effort to get this president out of office.
	All right, John in Houston is back with us.
	Johnny, you're there.
	We missed you.
	We started breaking up on us.
	How are you doing down there?
	Can you hear me?
	I got you, sir.
	All right, thanks.
	I'm doing okay.
	There's a lot of things going on here.
	Yeah, I basically wanted to call just because I've been a longtime fan and I'm off today because of the flood, unfortunately.
	But I just want to say, hey, I'm your biggest fan in Houston.
	That said, yeah, I'm glad that President Trump is in charge and not Hillary Clinton because she would for sure have politicized this thing just like the mayor Sylvester Turner did.
	He tried to snub Greg Abbott and I just felt sick at my stomach.
	He should have called them.
	They should have worked together, but he had a chip on his shoulder because he's a Democrat.
	And if Hillary was in charge, she would have for sure sit there and snubbed Greg and said, you know what, we can get around him and go straight for, you know, Sylvester Turner.
	He was a supporter of mine.
	Yeah, listen, I understand.
	We got to understand and put into context.
	This has never happened before.
	This has never, ever happened before, the types of rain.
	I mean, what's going to be so devastating on the other side when we get out of rescue and recovery, and we haven't even finished the rain part of it yet.
	What's going to be so difficult are all those people that now need to rebuild their entire lives.
	What's going to be so difficult are those people that have no money and no insurance and everything they own and everything they work for their whole lives is gone.
	And it's going to be all hands on deck to help these people.
	And we're going to rebuild.
	And I think it could be done.
	I think it can be done in a way that will really be helpful to everybody.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
	800941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we're going to take a quick break.
	We'll come back.
	We'll get to our phones here on this Tuesday.
	800-941-SHAWN is our number.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take a second to hear the immortal Bob Grant's thoughts about the world today.
	Hey, ladies and gentlemen, it's sick, and it's getting sicker.
	Now, back to the Sean Hannity Show.
	We were in the water, probably the first boat in the water in the area.
	We turned right into a street that had a large amount of current flowing through it.
	And our boat could barely make progress.
	So we advanced maybe 100 yards.
	And as we advanced, we saw some debris and some stuff floating in the water.
	You know, and we were just watching the current which way it was going.
	And I think I heard it's a body, and it just kind of sounded jokingly to me.
	And then I said, no, it's a trash bag.
	Seriously, I thought it was a trash bag.
	As we got closer and the current pulled it closer to our boat, we realized it was a body.
	And instantly, Donnie jumped from the vessel, brought her up out of the water.
	Ricky was manning the boat.
	He jumped in immediately, also.
	I was at the front of the boat, leaving us in a serious current with nobody manning the motor in the back.
	So they quickly grabbed her, started to resuscitate her, and were able to get her to breathing slowly.
	And then we were able to control the boat.
	So we got her back to safety, and that's that.
	You regret it all, maybe not ordering evacuations and investigating in advance of this?
	No, absolutely not.
	You know, County Judge Ed Emin and I've talked, and we both wholeheartedly agreed that the best course of action for the people in the city of Houston and for Harris County was for people to stay in place.
	All right, that was Sylvester Turner, the Houston mayor, saying he has no regrets about evacuating, and one of the Cajun Navy rescuers telling the story about Harvey.
	We talked to one of the Waco Navy guys earlier, and these guys have been amazing.
	Joe Bastardi with Weatherbell.com joins us right now, the chief meteorologist of the Sean Hannity Show.
	Well, I give you full kudos and credit.
	I mean, you dotted every I and you crossed every T, and I don't think you've ever been more accurate and more ahead of the game than anybody else in weather.
	And I know deep in your heart you wish you were wrong.
	Well, that's exactly right.
	I mean, but you've got to face the fight when the fight comes to you.
	And, you know, that's not just cornball stuff.
	That's the way I am.
	I've always been that way.
	And so you deal with the information that you have at hand.
	Now, there is a bright spot here.
	We were talking on the show last night, and we were talking yesterday afternoon about what would happen if this thing could consolidate and pull itself back in.
	And that's what you see going on.
	It's trying to intensify again.
	You say, well, that's bad, but it's pulling the rain in toward the center.
	And you can see it on the radar.
	So the rain has let up already in Houston compared to what it was.
	And I don't think Houston's in for much more rain here.
	My biggest worry over the next 12 to 18 hours is this comes ashore.
	It comes ashore tomorrow morning near Beaumont Port Arthur, which is what there's the golden triangle in there.
	My biggest worry is Galveston.
	Galveston has been getting wind gust over 50 miles an hour from the north now for the last several hours.
	And I'm trying to figure out whether Galveston Bay, something we outlined last week, is going to try to dump into the city from behind because of all the water that has to be in Galveston Bay.
	And you're blowing, you know, Galveston Bay is 40, 50 miles long.
	You blow a 50-mile an hour wind over that.
	You push water back into the city of Galveston from behind.
	It's not the seawall situation.
	But this continues northeastward.
	It's near Vicksburg, Mississippi in the morning on Thursday, and then up into the Tennessee Valley Friday.
	And for folks in the northeast, the rain we get over the weekend will be the remnants of Harvey.
	So it's going to start moving now and coming out of Texas.
	How bad does Louisiana get it?
	I know we called some of those counties going to be disaster areas.
	Who's going to get hit in Louisiana?
	Well, the interesting thing, Sean, is that the heaviest of the precipitation, you see this a lot with dying tropical cyclones, the heaviest of the precipitation can be to the east of the track, but it looks to me like a swath extending from that area known as the Golden Triangle Lake Charles northeastward to Vicksburg and a little bit north of Vicksburg and up along the Mississippi River all the way to Memphis.
	A lot of that area is in for 6 to 12 inches of rain.
	That Memphis area could have a real problem.
	Late Thursday night and Friday, the area of real heavy rain, and we're not talking the kind of rain that you've got in Houston where there's four feet of rain over a period of four days.
	We're talking a 6 to 12 inch rainstorm, which is still a big problem.
	That area of heavy rain is only about 100 miles wide in the swath, let's say going forward from tomorrow morning.
	So if we took it from Beaumont Port Arthur up to Vicksburg, a little bit north of Vicksburg, I think it dodges Little Rock to the east and may thread the needle between Memphis and Nashville and then up towards Cincinnati may be the last area that really sees the real excessive rainfall.
	We also have to worry about it enhancing in the mountains of West Virginia.
	That's a notorious rain.
	Storms like to rain themselves out in those areas, but that wouldn't be until Friday night or Saturday.
	We're getting, just want to add, we're getting a significant storm.
	It's not named on the mid-Atlantic coast right now.
	Again, wind goes 50 miles an hour over Chesapeake Bay and into the Tidewater area of Virginia.
	We don't want to ignore those people there, but that's going to move out very rapidly.
	It didn't get named.
	It's a summer nor'easter.
	It is heading out to sea.
	But folks, I got to tell you, some of the tropics are very active, and you wouldn't be surprised if Western Gulf lights up in the 6 to 10, and we're watching a wave off Africa.
	I wouldn't be a bit surprised if in 10 days that's trying to take aim in the southeast United States.
	It is the type of season we expected.
	I don't want people to think that this is magic or there's someone cursing the United States or anything.
	It's just the way the weather pattern is.
	And it's been a while since we've had a high-impact season on the United States coast.
	Isn't that one of the ways you've been able to figure out how this was all going to go down is because of your knowledge of, I mean, we kind of make fun of you a little bit because you tell us, well, this is similar to 1918.
	But if you remember back in 1962, and then over in Cuba when the storm hovered over Cuba and Castro thought it was the United States keeping the storm there and so on and so forth.
	But there is a predictable pattern.
	It's difficult.
	It's an art and a science in a way.
	And this is what you have spent your life studying.
	This is where your passion is.
	Well, it's no different than if you or I are competing in something.
	You have hours and hours and hours of foundational preparation so that you have a chance to compete at something.
	It's the same thing in the weather.
	You have to spend a lot of time looking at what happened before because that's where you stand today to reach for tomorrow.
	My big beef with a lot of the weather community, and I'm probably just a guy trying to stand athwart history and stop it, and that's pretty stupid.
	But I think we rely too much on computer models.
	I think that we just advocate our authority.
	And maybe it's because we're not preparing enough by looking at what happened before.
	We just say, well, look at the model.
	And what's the use of even getting involved if you think that the model is going to be winning?
	They're great tools, folks, unbelievably great tools that science has developed.
	But you could put the best hammer in the world in my hand.
	If I don't know how to hammer it, guess what?
	You're not going to get a house built.
	The fact of the matter is you need to look at what happened before, have that foundational knowledge.
	And when you combine it with these wonderful tools that we have today, you have a chance.
	I'm not going to say you're going to be right.
	You have a chance to add value to the whole forecast situation.
	That's what we try to do at Weatherbell.
	And that's one of the reasons that that's what drives me.
	It really is what I was making.
	So what do we have next?
	Anything else?
	Is it now going to, this will now pass away in terms of the area that's getting its final rains?
	When does it end?
	And when can they really begin the process of finishing rescue recovery?
	And this water going to recede so that they can begin the next process of rebuilding.
	Well, the rainfall rates have already gone down.
	So that means that, you know, if you're not adding continuous amounts, when the flood gets real high like this, you need even more rain to get it higher.
	So things are going to start dropping now.
	And I don't anticipate much rain around Houston at all after tomorrow at noon.
	I think Houston doesn't see at the airport doesn't see more than an inch or two of rain now for the rest of the storm.
	That's what I believe.
	I believe the bulk of it is occurring now and into this evening, and then it's going off.
	So they should be able to get much more underway tomorrow.
	And certainly Thursday, Friday, Saturday look pretty good.
	I want to caution you, though.
	I'm already, I'm not trying to pile on, but I'm really worried that given this pattern, there's going to be something trying to sneak into the western Gulf of Mexico in four or five days that could start enhancing in there again.
	But, you know, I'm not going to say it's going to come right at Houston.
	It may just go into Mexico.
	But the fact is that beginning tomorrow, especially Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we should be in real good shape.
	And we should see a retreat of all the water.
	And not, you know, it's not going to quit flooding completely, but we should see a rapid retreat of a lot of the water over the next several days.
	All right.
	I got to thank you so much.
	Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com.
	You've been amazing leading up to the storm.
	Pinpoint accuracy.
	It's extremely helpful that we now have the tools that are indicative and predict hurricanes and obviously tornadoes and things like that, because it means that we save lives every time.
	And they had time to prepare for this.
	And the preparation certainly helped enormously.
	I think the one mistake was the Houston mayor who didn't allow the evacuation.
	And even with that said, they were able to, in the end, cover for that.
	So anyway, I appreciate it, Joey.
	I know you've been working on no sleep now for the last three days and longer.
	Thank you for being with us.
	Appreciate it.
	Actually, Sean, since last week, because I see these things coming, and it's just, you know, it's a blessing and a curse.
	But you see it coming from, you know, when the first email hit you, I quit sleeping then.
	But I'll get some sleep over the next few days as soon as this is out.
	Well, it shows the passion for your work, and it's extraordinarily important and helpful to save lives and help people understand what's coming their way.
	All right, my friend, we'll talk soon.
	God bless you.
	Go work out.
	You'll feel better.
	New Orleans, Brandon, next, Sean Hannity Show.
	How are you, Brandon?
	Welcome to the program.
	And you know all about all well about hurricanes in New Orleans.
	Man, it's good to talk to you, Sean.
	What's happening?
	Woo!
	A lot's happening a lot quicker than New Orleans.
	That's what I have to say about that.
	In other words, that you're happier with the response.
	It's tremendously better.
	The rescue recovery, all of that.
	Happier.
	I'm ecstatic about it.
	I know.
	Well, we learned from, listen, if you don't learn from the mistakes of the past, you're doomed to repeat it.
	And I got to tell you something.
	I mean, do you remember how bad Ray Nagan was?
	Do you remember him?
	I mean, do you remember?
	I mean, he was like hiding during most of this and making incendiary comments.
	And then he comes out with this city's going to be a chocolate city when all is done.
	He's losing his mind.
	Didn't he go to jail?
	Yeah, he went to, yeah, he's due for tax evasion.
	Yes, sir.
	Yeah.
	And then remember the police, you know, they didn't have the support of the mayor.
	They didn't have any leadership.
	And they didn't get paid much.
	I remember learning how much they got paid.
	And a lot of the police said, this isn't worth it.
	Forget it.
	I quit.
	And they took off.
	And then you had media people in typical fake news style.
	They were reporting dead bodies floating in areas where there wasn't any flooding.
	Absolutely right.
	I mean, pretty crazy wild stuff.
	How is the city doing now that you've had this time to rebuild?
	It's been a while since I've been down there, but I did see a lot of improvement the last time I was down there.
	Agriculture-wise, everything's fine.
	The only thing that we're really having problems with, honestly, 100% is just the engineering with the pumps and everything.
	I don't know if you've seen anything about that, but we had some pumps go down and then New Orleans for a good three days off of 14 inches of rain, Sean.
	Well, that's not funny.
	But I mean, since Katrina, how would you say give a grade in terms of the rebuilding effort of the city and the people rebuilding their homes and businesses?
	Oh, B plus, automatically.
	We're going to rebuild no matter what.
	No matter what.
	No matter what.
	You know what was weird about one of the strangest things about Katrina that I found is that they had six days notice this thing was coming.
	And the Times Piki Un35 years earlier had predicted everything that was going to happen.
	Everything that would happen if a Cat 345 hurricane hit.
	The big one hits, levees go down, everything's flooded.
	Then you got the superdome packed with people.
	Then you had no preparations at all with all the time leading up to this.
	And then, of course, you had an incompetent mayor, incompetent governor.
	You know, that's why I say if you want to successfully deal with something as dramatic as Katrina or Harvey in the Houston area, in the Texas area, you got to have a neighbor helping neighbor.
	It's imperative.
	And Texans did what Texans do, and they did a great job.
	Then you had the governor and lieutenant governor.
	They were doing their job, with the exception of the mayor who wouldn't pick up the phone in Houston, and then coordinating every step of the way with the federal government.
	And the federal government said, everything you need is on its way, and even more.
	And we're going to come down and we're here for everything you need.
	And that's the only reason this was not Katrina.
	How many people died in Katrina?
	1,000, 1,200?
	Unbelievable.
	I think it was 1,200, yes, sir.
	All right.
	Our thoughts and prayers are still with you guys.
	We love New Orleans.
	God bless you, my friend.
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	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
	We're following closely some of the breaches that are taking place in these reservoirs in Texas in case it becomes an even bigger problem.
	We're also following the double standard in the media as it relates to issues involving pardons.
	And we'll talk about Antifa and why is the media mostly quiet?
	Is there a double standard?
	All right.
	So that's all coming up.
	Set you DVR Hannity tonight, 10 Eastern, Fox News Channel, and we'll have the latest on all these issues tomorrow.
	Thank you for being with us.
	See you tonight at 10 back here tomorrow.

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