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But I cannot stress this enough.
Get prepared now.
Know your evacuation zone.
Listen to your local officials.
This storm has the potential to catastrophically devastate our state.
And you have to, you have to take this seriously.
This is a catastrophic storm that our state has never seen.
Remember, it's already killed many people in the Caribbean.
People do not think do not believe you can ride this storm out.
If you're told to evacuate, you've got to evacuate.
You can rebuild your home.
You can get your possessions again.
You cannot rebuild your life or your family.
Protecting life is our is our absolute top priority.
No resource or expense will be spared to protect families.
But we cannot protect you in the middle of the storm.
This needs you this means you need to plan now on where you need to go.
Do not wait.
Figure out where you need to go.
All right, that's Governor Rick Scott of uh Florida.
You know, I'm looking at the Drudge Report.
You have been warned.
Where will she turn?
And I literally just moments ago got an update from Joe Bastardi who's telling me that it's it's tracked that he's had now for a couple of days, seems to be on par, and that is that the hurricane literally is gonna hit a direct hit to South Florida.
Direct boom.
And it's probably gonna come in at a cat four or five.
And this is the real deal.
And I know many of you have been urged to get out of the way.
Now, the good the look, it's very, very tough because a lot of you to get out of the way of this storm.
All right, now you're facing gas shortages.
One of the best things I saw the governor of Florida do, I give him a lot of credit.
I've known Rick Scott a long time.
Smart, smart, great, efficient governor of the state of Florida.
I've gotten to know him so well because he keeps coming up to New York trying to steal New York businesses and incentivize them to go down to Florida.
And he's often pretty successful at it, which is why he's one of the top job creating governors in the country.
You know, just to let you know, and and so he's been able to work with surrounding governors in nearby states in the Carolinas and Georgia and Alabama and elsewhere, and he's been able to allow these states to lift their the burdens of what it is uh at the hours that these truck drivers can drive,
etc., so that they can get this gas because they they have a bit of a gas shortage along gas lines as people now you know begin to gas up and make their move out of you know dangerous areas.
The sad part is for Florida is and I'm not trying to be Mr. Negative here, is it's taking it's not only gonna hit Miami directly, it's it's it's gonna be hitting as as closely as uh uh on the west side of Florida, like Naples, and even as far as Fort Myers.
And but it it makes an eastwardly turn up the coast, headed towards Georgia and the Carolina.
Savannah is now under an evacuation order in Georgia, and I have no doubt the same thing is coming in in South Carolina.
The only thing that you do have at this particular time is a little bit of time.
And it's not really you won't really see the beginnings of this until early morning on Saturday, and we'll get to professional opinion from Joe Bustardi, but We've been studying it all day.
And every warning is now out there.
I don't know why people feel compelled on either social media or the people that I know.
I have a lot of friends in South Florida.
I have a lot of friends in Miami.
I have a lot of friends in Naples and Fort Myers and Sarasota, and they're all saying, ah well, where are you going to ride this sucker out?
We've ridden out all these other ones, and I'm like, well, are they telling you to evacuate?
If they tell you to evacuate, you can replace your condo, replace your house.
You can't replace yourself.
And I don't know, maybe I just err on the side of caution.
I think I'd get the hell out of here.
And then as Drudge says today, you've been warned which way is she going to turn.
Um let me give you the latest news on this.
The Miami Beach mayor has now said residents must leave.
And I'll quote him this is a nuclear hurricane.
Now official warnings have been issued for up to 10 foot storm surges in Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.
This is all of Florida is going to get whacked here.
Every bit of Florida is going to get hit.
Um I have friends that have chartered planes.
I have friends waiting for commercial flights.
You're going to wait a long time for your commercial flight.
I even heard from a friend of mine that was able to charter, I guess, some airplane to go up east, and and apparently he's like plane number 80 in line to take off.
So it's going to be a long time before they ever take off.
You know, with some of the other warnings that are being issued, no buildings we can guarantee to keep people safe.
None.
The Storm Titans aim, it just seems to, if you look at the cone and the model of this, it seems that it's going to impact every major city in Florida.
That's how severe this is going to be.
The FEMA chief has said this is going to be devastating.
Um I called over to uh some of the people I know in the White House that said, okay, how you know what is the federal government doing on their end?
They they have food, medicine, water, uh, guard troops.
Everyone's deployed, ready to go in and help now to the extent they can, and they will literally be funneling it all in the second.
They positioned all of the things that they're gonna need to be to literally be brought in the second after they can start getting through.
You've got thousands and thousands of troops deployed.
Um I know in uh for those of you maybe made a late run to the grocery store, supplies have been cleaned out, gas stations are running dry.
Military and state police are escorting these fuel trucks in so people can get gassed up and get moving.
Uh, I got to give a lot of credit to to Governor Scott and his quick resourcefulness in and making sure that he was bringing in more gasoline for people that want to make the trek and get out of town and get out of Dodge and get to safer ground.
Um you have the the sheriff, uh, a friend of mine down in Naples, this guy Carmine is with the local sheriff, he just sent me a picture.
They're literally going out and picking up every homeless person that they know in the Naples area and and then bringing them to safety, and they're doing it now.
And again, it's not gonna happen till Saturday, which is great planning on their part.
Um you have, and I'll get to this in more detail in a second.
You have nuclear power plants that are in this path of this flight.
Um, look, let me just say this because I know we have a we're in every major city in Florida.
Let me let me let me say to friends of the show the let me give you the following advice.
And uh this is coming for somebody that is not, and Linda will testify to this, the most patient human being on earth.
Well, maybe sunshine would would do that because if I say, let's go, hurry up, hurry up, she gets upset and gives me an 80 for when Linda's out.
Um, it's one of those moments.
Look, it's just it is what it is.
Just accept it.
If you're flying out, you're gonna have to go bring, you know, bring a computer, bring something that you can distract yourself with, do emails, text your friends, call your family, you know, play chess.
I don't know if any of you play chess on your on your phone.
Find something that'll occupy your time because you're gonna probably be waiting a lot.
If you're in line waiting for gas, understand it's on its way.
And so we definitely yeah, is Governor Scott there?
Yeah, I definitely want to go to Governor Scott.
Please only take what you need.
Be considerate of others.
The given my advice is a great resource to find open stations with fuel that go by the app.
Yesterday I asked the governors, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, North North Carolina to rescind weight and driver regulations so out of state resources can move expeditionally into Florida.
All of these states worked quickly to respond to our request.
The EPA has approved an emergency fuel waiver request from the Florida Department of Environment Protection, which will allow more fuel to quickly enter the state.
All ports still remain open and operating to bring fuel and supplies in.
We are laser focused on how we get as much fuel as possible to ports while they are open.
The Florida Keys.
I've offered school buses for transportation needs in Monroe, Miami Dade, and Broward Counties.
At this time, Miami Dade is using these services to help evacuate those with special needs, and Broward has buses on standby.
Monroe has said they do not need these buses right now because they're using city buses, but my offer still stands.
Right now there are mandatory evacuation orders in effect for the Florida Keys.
This means all residents and visitors.
Leave the keys.
We estimate that about 31,000 people had already evacuated from the Keys as of 6 p.m. last night.
If you're in the Keys and still home, leave and get out.
We can't save you once the storm hits.
The entire Lower Keys Hospital has already been evacuated.
All other hospitals and keys will be evacuated today.
I've been very clear with Monroe County that the state will provide whatever resources are necessary to get the hospitals back open quickly following the storm.
We also have a task force devoted entirely to help them prepare and respond to the keys.
Their issues are somewhat different because they have all those bridges down there.
For the remainder of the state, waiting on evacuation orders, listen to your local officials.
They will tell you if and when your area needs to be evacuated.
If you are told to evacuate, get out quickly.
The roads will fill up quickly as you need to go.
We can expect additional evacuations as the storm continues north through our state.
In Broward County, there are voluntary evacuations ordered for mobile homes and low-line areas, and mandatory evacuations ordered for east of Federal Highway, including Barrier Islands.
In Miami Dade County, there are mandatory evacuations ordered for Barry Islands, Bowl Harbor, Bay Harbor, Islands, Golden Beach, Indian Creek Village, Miami Beach, North Bay Village, Sunny Isles Beach, and Surfside.
In Monroe County, there are mandatory evacuations for all residents and visitors.
If you live in any of these evacuation zones and you're still at home, leave.
In Collier County, there are voluntary evacuations ordered from Marco Island.
In Hendrick County, there are voluntary evacuations ordered for low-lying areas, non-slab-built homes, mobile homes, and RVs.
I can not stress this enough.
Do not ignore evacuation orders.
Remember, we can rebuild your home, you can buy your possessions again.
We can't rebuild your life, and we can't recreate your family.
Regardless of which which coast you live on, be prepared to evacuate.
The storm can move and change on a moment's notice.
Florence on the West Coast cannot be complacent.
And those in coastal areas should be prepared to leave.
Traffic.
Many of you I know are already stuck in traffic.
I know it has to be frustrating.
But please be patient.
Evacuations are not meant to be convenient.
They're meant to keep you safe.
We're trying to do these evacuations as safely as possible.
We have increased the number of troopers on Florida highways to help move traffic and keep people going down the road.
Real-time traffic information and evacuation routes is available at FL511.com.
We have traffic cameras on every major highway in Florida, and we're clearing traffic issues in real time so we can keep people moving.
FDOT and law enforcement are working diligently.
We are seeing already seeing bottlenecks at major highway junctions, which brings up an important point.
You do not need to evacuate out of the state or hundreds of miles away to be safe.
Find shelters in your county.
We are coordinated with Google, Google's emergency response team to prepare to close roads in Google Maps in real time in the event that Hurricane Irma forces the closure of any roads in the aftermath of the storm.
In my direction, all tolls have been waived across Florida roadways.
This should help families evacuate quickly and safely.
Again, if you are concerned you do not have a way to evacuate due to traffic, call the Florida Emergency Hotline 1800-342-3557.
It's a dedicated hotline.
National Guard.
Today I'm activating another 3,000 National Guard members to help which with shelter operations and evacuations.
Today we'll have more than 4,000 Florida National Guard members activated to immediately begin assisting with ongoing Herman Hurricane Irma preparation.
Tomorrow, every available member of the National Guard, 7,000 will be deployed around the state.
13 helicopters and more than 1,000 technical high water vehicles are on standby ready to be deployed.
By using resources from other states, we also have 30,000 troops, 4,000 trucks, 100 helicopters, and air evacuation crews ready to support our state.
We've got Joe Bastardi coming up.
That's the governor of Florida, Rick Scott.
He's pretty much saying everything I was going to say to you, be very extra patient.
Hang in there.
Gas is on its way.
It's gonna be slow.
It's gonna be be it's gonna drive you nuts.
It's gonna be a little difficult, but we want everyone coming out with their life here.
My suggestion is for all my my hurricane warriors out there writing me, I'm gonna hunker down.
I don't care what they say.
I guess it's your choice, but we'd rather you we'd rather you stay in one piece.
Quick break, right back.
Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com is next.
My advice get out of Dodge if you can.
All right, watching Hurricane Irma, the governor just pretty much said everything I want to say.
If you're in an airport, be patient.
If you're if you're in a long line and traffic is moving slow, be patient.
And uh hang in there.
And um, you know, I the other thing, I don't know why there's so many weather warriors out there.
Linda, have you gotten emails from people?
Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna stuff this one out.
They say it's gonna be the one every time.
Yeah, I mean, I think people just all think that they're you know superhuman and they're they're able to survive these hurricanes.
I mean, if we've learned anything, it's just how dangerous they are.
Listen, I just want people to come out with their lives, and you know, then look, listen, the country's gonna be there like we were with Texas, and we're gonna raise the money and and Texas, you know, is gonna rebuild and they're gonna do it expeditiously.
And I know it's not fun.
It's a natural natural disaster, and we can't prevent it.
We can just, you know, get on board and we love our friends in Florida, and we're gonna help them out.
Federal government is as prepared as I've ever seen them for any storm, and we just got to be careful.
You know, they're saying here's a story in the Daily Beast today.
This hurricane Irma is stronger than all of 2017's other eight Atlantic storms combined.
This is not a game here.
We're talking about your life.
You saw the devastation of this island.
Barb Barbuda, which I'd never heard of, 2,000 residents.
It totally demolished the whole island.
The whole thing.
95% of all dwellings are gone.
I mean, you've got it wiping out two Caribbean islands, battering Puerto Rico with 185 mile an hour recorded winds, and destroying 95% of Barbuda and St. Martin, killing at least 10 people.
And you know, there's one other article out today.
It could be, you know, the the biggest natural disaster of our time.
And as the the has been reported, it looks like the largest ever recorded hurricane in the Atlantic.
And we have two South Florida nuclear power plants.
I hope to God they're ready for what's coming.
I assume they were built with this in mind.
I've got to believe that.
Um, it may topple all construction cranes in South Florida, especially Miami, you got to be very careful.
It's the strongest ever Atlantic storm, and and look at the Caribbean as a great example.
And it's a size of about Michigan when you look at the size of this hurricane and radar images showing a final flight escape from Puerto Rico.
That was pretty scary too.
But anyway, the military is preparing.
Mattis has approved a number of Navy ships, four of them for potential disaster relief.
When we come back, Joe Bastardi, weatherbell.com, we'll get a full reading on all of this.
When news breaks, you get the inside story that no one else has.
And the behind-the-scenes chatter that the mainstream media doesn't even know about.
This is The Sean Hannity Show.
You know, Florida very well.
How concerned are you about Hurricane Irma?
We're very concerned.
We are working very hard.
We have tremendous groups of talented People there.
Uh the people of Florida are like the people of Texas, Louisiana.
You've seen how the people of our country have reacted under this tremendous pressure and and these horrible things that we call hurricanes.
This is something that is probably bigger, not as much water, but much more power than Harvey.
The governor has so far done a terrific job.
I mean, they're prepared.
We don't know exactly where it's going to be landing, where landfall will be, but we think we're as well prepared as you can possibly be.
Uh many of the folks have left Texas, obviously on an emergency basis and come down to Florida.
Uh Puerto Rico escaped.
It could have been far worse.
They really escaped the brunt, but it's heading right now, right directly into Florida.
So hopefully it'll take a turn, go east and do it quickly.
Right now it's not doing that.
We are with the people of Florida, and as you know, the Virgin Islands got hit very hard, very, very hard.
And we're finding out the kind of damage.
We're just it's actually communication is actually difficult.
We have people right now on the Virgin Islands, and we'll see how that is, but it's been hit very, very hard.
Uh I can say this.
Uh, Florida is as well prepared as you can be for something like this.
Now it's just a question of what happens.
It's the largest hurricane they've ever seen coming out of the Atlantic, and the winds are the strongest, most importantly.
This is the real problem.
The winds are the strongest that they've ever seen in a hurricane coming from that region.
So we're with everybody in Florida.
We're working very hard.
We have tremendous talent and really tremendously brave people to be there, and hopefully it's going to work out all right.
We'll see over the next few hours.
I'll see if you have a high.
Yeah, we actually have the president that FEMA maybe spread too thin right now.
Well, FEMA is doing uh an incredible job, as you all know.
I mean, you've been re you've been reporting it.
You've seen how incredible they are.
And there's a great bravery to what they're doing.
Uh, but certainly we're being hit with a lot of hurricanes.
We've never had a thing like this where you get hit with Harvey, which was about as bad as it gets, certainly from the standpoint of a water dump, uh, and then you get hit with Irma.
And there's one right behind Irma, I guess you probably know, a smaller one, but nevertheless, right behind.
I don't think anybody has done anything like they've done at FEMA, and they have done a really good job.
Uh, you see what happened in Texas, and you see already in terms of what's going on in Florida.
I have to also give a special shout out to the Coast Guard.
Uh the United States Coast Guard say 14,000 lives in Texas.
Fourteen thousand lives.
And now I think the number is even higher than that.
These people, and they go right into the eye of the storm.
You know what's been happening.
Most of you have been reporting.
The number is astronomical.
I mean, what could have been a total catastrophe in terms of life has been obviously uh much less.
So I I just want to say that the Coast Guard of our country has uh really performed incredibly.
I've never seen anything like it.
I've gotten to meet them.
I've gotten to meet a lot of the folks when I was in Texas, and these are tremendous people.
They are now shifting a lot of their effort to Florida, right in the middle of it.
The difference again being these winds are tremendous.
They have never seen winds like this coming off the ocean.
So hopefully it's going to not hit Florida very directly, but it looks like it's going to be hitting it.
All right, that was the president from earlier today.
Uh I didn't know that figure of 14,000.
That would be really incredibly amazing.
800 nine four one Sean is a number.
We're going to get to our the chief meteorologist here, the Sean Hannity show in just a second.
I want to point out some other things and give you some headlines first.
One bit of news.
I mentioned in the last segment in anticipation of this category five storm, Florida Power and Light.
They have two nuclear plants were finalizing their staffing plans and cleaning up the grounds late yesterday, but neither Turkey Point nor uh St. Lucy plant, which is up further on the coast, had made the call yet to shut down the power plants.
Anyway, Florida Power and Light has long defended the safety of their nuclear power plants, which both sit along the coast, where they are exposed, obviously, to the strongest winds and storm surge of these hurricanes.
So when the eye of Hurricane Andrew passed over Turkey Point in 1992, some facilities around the reactor buildings took a beating, and ultimately the state's oldest nuclear power plant suffered 90 million dollars in damage, including to systems that were supposed to be, quote, hurricane proof.
Well, this is a stronger hurricane.
And one of their 400-foot smokestacks for the old oil burning power plant was cracked in half, even though it was rated to survive 235 mile per hour winds.
Andrew blew down all but six of the 41 warning sirens within 10 miles of the plan, and the storm left the plant running on backup generators for more than a week to cool the shutdown reactor.
so we're going to be watching that very closely.
Hopefully they had put new new provisions in place.
Um the New York Post today had a headline, Hurricane Irma, Caribbean Island wiped off the map.
Now, yesterday, our friend Joe Bastardi was talking about that, the island of Barbuda, practically uninhabitable now after it was steamrolled by Hurricane Irma.
And anyway, uh Barbuda and Antigua Prime Minister reported that 90% of the structures there were destroyed by the hurricane, which was packing at that particular point sustained winds of 185 miles an hour.
And as it stands, quote, it's practically uninhabitable.
Uh the Prime Minister said, telling Antigua Barbuda broadcasting service is adding the destruction on the island home to nearly 1700 people is heart wrenching.
Uh St. Bart's has a senator that sounded equally stunned, saying that I'm shocked by the monster that covers us.
The island is devastated.
It's apocalyptic, a lot of damage and many roofs destroyed.
So obviously this is uh a big warning for the people of Florida.
And again, just to give you some of the headlines, we've got Miami now is saying the Miami Beach mayor residents must leave.
This is a nuclear hurricane.
He got official warnings now issued up to ten foot storms and a surge in Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale.
Quote the the statement was put out no buildings we can guarantee to keep people safe.
This is going to impact every major city in Florida.
The FEMA chief is saying it will be devastating.
You got thousands of troops now have already been deployed.
You got suppl supplies now are literally being pre-positioned in anticipation of the needs that are going to come immediately in the aftermath of this.
You got military and state police still escorting fuel from neighboring states.
As uh the governor has said, the the weight and distribution regulations are now being lifted, and the EPA is allowing these other states to allow their fuel waivers to go in place.
That means more gasoline getting more quickly to the people that are trying to make their exit.
Uh the U.S. military now has readied four Navy ships for the potential disaster in Florida, because this will engulf the entire state, it looks like moving aircraft and U.S. troops in advance of their arrival, readying four specific Navy ships.
General Defense Secretary Mattis did that personally.
I urge you to pay attention to this headline.
Hurricane Irma is stronger than all of 2017's other eight Atlantic storms combined.
that As I said, Barbuda, 95% devastated all of their dwellings.
We have recorded 185 mile per hour sustained winds.
And on top of all of that, it looks like the largest ever recorded in the Atlantic.
Joe Bastardi is the official weather guy of the Sean Hannity show with Weatherbell.com.
How are you, my friend?
This you know, you I hate to say it, you're two for two here in terms of you you nailed this from the beginning, and I I know it's good for our listeners to get a you know as much advanced notice as possible.
This is is this gonna be as bad as we saw in the Caribbean?
Uh, yes, where it makes landfall, and uh if it uh comes up the east coast of Florida, has the potential to be one of the top uh two or three storms in Florida, and then perhaps uh for Georgia or South Carolina, and that's something that uh we haven't uh really seen.
It takes a unique track to do that.
Uh you take Hugo, for instance, uh which devastated Puerto Rico and then went on to hit South Carolina.
Uh the track of this one, of course, we missed Puerto Rico.
We were saying that that it would be the Virgin Islands, not Puerto Rico, but it's coming right at Florida.
Now it's amazing.
The end game of this is going to be very, very tricky, folks.
And by that I mean the extra 50 or 60 miles.
If this moves a little bit further west than what I have, then uh the danger increases for the southwest coast of the direct strike and the Florida Keys being cut off.
Remember what happened in 1935, and I've referenced that storm.
I know people say, don't be bringing up these past storms.
Well, listen, the Florida Keys got cut off completely.
trains were blown off their tracks.
And so that's the kind of power this storm may have when it reaches the Florida coast.
Right now, the track uh the hurricane center and myself, we have the same track up the east coast of Florida.
But you've got to understand that when you're talking about a storm three days away in terms of the entire atmosphere, that that fifty, sixty mile difference is very, very tough to predict.
If it comes a little bit further west then the north turn comes in more toward the keys in Naples, and then we're dealing with that side.
In any case, it looks like a uh uh it's a bad storm on the west coast, a devastating storm on the east coast, is what we've got right now.
And that eastern track, that eastern track over Miami, West Palm Beach, offshore again and around Cape Canaveral, back in at Savannah or Charleston, means the storm would maintain more intensity further north.
So it's uh it's a it's a let me let me ask you this in terms of uh you have not changed your your trajectory of this storm yet.
And and you predicted on day one that it probably would move a little bit eastward if I recall, and and that appears what it's doing.
But if you look at the cone and the coverage National Weather Service and even the one that you sent me just before the show today, it appears the whole as you pointed out, the west coast of Florida is gonna be hit too.
It's gonna be severe, but it's the east coast that's gonna get hit.
But isn't for example from Miami, say up until Fort Myers on the West Coast, they're gonna get hit particularly hard, and then especially in Miami and then Broward County and into Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, they're gonna get whacked really hard.
Is that is that where you see this hitting?
Uh yeah, uh but w what what I'm trying to also make sure people understand is that uh there's a possibility that it tries to come in a little bit further west.
I'm more worried about it being a little bit further west than further east.
In other words, uh I I'm not that worried uh as far as a forecasting option goes when I look at it, that it's going to miss Florida to the east.
I'm more worried that the center is going to be a little bit further west, which would be a devastating storm in Miami.
And you say when when you say west, it's identify the the city.
Well, across the across the Florida Keys and maybe coming in uh uh coming in in a way where it's uh pretty close to Naples and Fort Myers.
Uh you can't.
Well basically you're telling me it's going right over my house.
Is that what you're telling me about starting?
No, no, no, no, no.
No, you don't that's what you're telling me.
You're you're telling me it's going right over my house.
No, what I'm saying, uh what I'm saying is your house uh listen, the west side.
Listen, I don't care about my house.
I'm just I'm messing with you.
But here's the important question.
All right.
For those people that are on the coast, now let's just deal with the bottom tip, if you will, from the Keys, uh Marco Island, Naples, Port Myers, and then let's go to Miami, Broward County, let's go to Palm Beach, West Palm Beach Counties.
Let's start there, because that's where it's gonna basically make land, right?
In that area.
Yeah, the area from the area from the uh the track is right from the northern Florida Keys up to West Palm Beach is ground zero for this, and the entire area gets hit by as strong a hurricane as they've seen uh if the tr if the current track is right.
So that area is the area that uh uh most uh concerned about initially that people have to take this violence to a point.
Well, all right, when so if they're told to evacuate your your it what if you're fifteen miles inland?
Is that safe enough?
Well, I don't know what your house is like.
I don't know the exposure.
It's a tough question a lot of factors.
I get it.
Are you live living next to, you know, uh a tidal marsh or or whatever?
Well let me ask you about this.
What what about Tampa?
What about Orlando, which is, you know, Central Florida, I-4 corridor.
I I I think Tampa, Tampa's gonna be on the west side of the storm, and this is not the kind of storm that devastates Tampa because the ta uh the the benchmark storm from Tampa has to come from the southwest and hit 'em just to the north.
And that's the one.
And Orlando is Central Florida.
What's Orlando?
Well, or uh Orlando, if this if this storm comes up just inland, uh, let's say it makes landfall uh just to the west of Miami and comes straight north, it's gonna be a bad storm in Orlando.
They're gonna have winds over a hundred miles an hour, at least in gusts.
And so our Orlando's gonna be bad.
The inland areas, there is gonna be a heck of a lot of wind.
The problem you have on the coast, of course, is you have a uh a major storm surge.
You have all those high rise buildings in Miami, the wind funnels through there, they were four hundred, five hundred feet high.
This thing is a wind of hundred and eighty, hundred and ninety miles an hour.
You funnel it through the building and you'll shatter glass.
I don't know.
I don't know how strong they are.
Remember Alicia, what Alicia did in Houston just blew all the glass out.
I did too.
So the same kind of things may occur with these high rises.
I don't know what they're tested for, but this will be the ultimate test to them if this storm passes directly over them.
And then it does.
When do you expect this to make landfall?
Because a lot of people are worried about timing and you know there's a shortage of gas and people need to get to safer locations.
When do you expect this hits?
I know that personally.
I'm up in St. Augustine, and uh I mean there were lines last night and a lot of stations out of gas, but I think it comes in late Saturday night, uh probably by around midnight Saturday night.
Okay.
Uh that's when the landfall is going to be taking place between I think between dry torture uh excuse me, between the uh uh Key Largo and up toward um up toward Miami, right in that general area is where I think the center is going to pass right now, but we're keeping you updated every day.
All right, we really appreciate it.
Joe uh Bastardi, Weatherbell.com.
We'll get back into the hurricane later.
You're gonna join me on TV tonight and and bring some pictures and uh explain it in more detail and and it being visual, I think is going to be better for people.
Thanks, Joe.
We'll see you tonight.
All right, when we come back, New Gingrich joins us.
We got a lot of news that uh Washington will get to and much more.
Sarah Carter as well.
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So it's not only business taxes, it's middle income families, it's families at every level.
Every level, tax cuts.
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He also has out a brand new executive online class that he himself is hosting.
I've often told you that he is a great historian and professor, probably more of a professor at heart, historian at heart, than he ever was a politician on how to defend America.
And the speaker joins us now.
How are you?
I'm doing great, and and you're right.
The course is a defending America course dot com.
Uh, and uh we did it.
You remember years ago, uh, when we first knew each other, I did uh renewing American Civilization as a course, and people for years have said to me, why don't I go back and modernize it and update it given how the left has evolved.
And it struck me that there's probably real interest around the country and how to defend America and how to defeat the left when you're just happening with them.
I want to put emphasis on this.
So years I think you did this in either it was in the late eighties or early nineties.
I think the early nineties, right?
Yeah, I did it in ninety-three, and after I became speaker, I did it one more time in ninety five.
Renewing American civilization.
I actually went back once and I had lost whatever copy I had at the time, and I actually went back and and revisited it.
And it's such a powerful, it became such a powerful tool that actually was used by candidates around the country to bring Republicans to power in ninety four when you became speaker for the first time in forty years.
And a lot of what you said back then holds true today, and I think the idea of updating this is a great idea.
I hope, you know, I I look at the Republican Party now as a party without identity.
Uh, can you please send a free copy to every one of these people in Congress?
Well, I think uh I'm hoping that they will in fact get it and and take a look at it.
It's it's it's six sessions, and uh it's at uh defending America course dot com.
And I think it's in a very important idea because the left is just going crazy.
I mean, you you listen to some of their stuff, it is so nutty and so deranged that we need to be a lot better at defending our country and explaining why the left is so terribly wrong.
Well, look at the terrible deal Bill Clinton said there's a good deal for America and and we're gonna give Kim Young on billions of dollars and he's promised he's not gonna build nuclear weapons.
Well, he has nuclear weapons, his son has them.
And I think the same thing is being said and the same mistake being made with Iran and the mulls of Iran with with nuclear weapons.
I think that's right.
And and I uh I went back, my my newsletter at Gingrich Productions, which will come out tomorrow, it comes out for free, is gonna be on over the years how often I've said we need a very different strategy going all the way back to Bill Clinton in 1994.
You could just tell it was gonna fail.
Uh and it has.
And it's it's very dangerous for us as a country to have policies like this because they they put they put American cities at very genuine risk.
It's all true.
And you know, look, as uh this is not a game anymore, and you we've discussed, I won't ask you here uh how to deal with North Korea.
I still stand by me saying that there is absolutely no good answer here, and it's we probably may have in the middle of this hurricane hitting the southern Florida um coming up this early this weekend.
I mean, we could definitely be finding ourselves in a situation where North Korea is gonna launch another ICBM potentially over Japan again or Guam, and that will precipitate a major military crisis, especially if it's directed at Guam.
Um and we'll be watching closely.
Um, you know, I've likened the Democratic Party.
Tell me if you think this is too extreme on my part, and you're a pretty good barometer.
I I look at the media now and their breathless hysteria.
I mean, it's so out of control.
I've never seen anything like it, and we've always known there's a biased media.
The Democrats pretty much the same thing.
And I do c it is Trump derangement syndrome, and it's like the very name of Trump causes them to bubble and fizz like Alka Seltzer and melt in water.
But it's like they're now they wake up and you use this analogy once in the morning, and they can't help themselves anymore.
They're like drug addicts.
And they've got to find a reason for that day to hate this man because they have already predetermined that they know better than the American people that he's the wrong person.
We made a mistake.
If only we had listened to them.
And they need their drug every day.
Good analogy, bad analogy.
Well, it's not a bad analogy.
I I think they they the New York Times, for example, wakes up in the morning and all the writers, I know Donald Trump did some something horrible.
I wonder what it was.
Uh but that's how they started.
But I think on the hard left, you'll notice, by the way, and this is gonna be very interesting to watch with Schumer and Pelosi.
When Feinstein said, you know, Trump was right about DACA that that the that provision by tr by Obama was very legally doubtful.
She's now being threatened with a primary opponent in California because on the left it's unacceptable to suggest that it's unconstitutional.
Well, I wonder the same thing.
You know, yesterday they had this deal with that Schumer and and Pelosi were part of.
The President actually referred to them as as Chuck and Nancy.
I'm curious how the left is going to react to that because they are so hostile to the president that it'll be very interesting to see a kind of backlash these two take for for even having thought about being positive in dealing with the president.
Well, that's what I that's the analogy.
I mean it's almost Pavlovian at this point.
They wake up, they crave their drug.
Their drug is hatred towards this president.
And if the only thing they can get is Melania wearing high heels, that's what they'll use that day, and that justifies the the predetermined outcome on everything he does.
Um I don't think the government I look, I've always believed government is the problem, not the answer, as you have.
But I gotta be honest.
I mean, government working in Texas, local government, state government, and the federal government was about as flawless as you can get.
And and now the government's gonna be tested again in Florida.
What are your thoughts on?
That's right.
Look, look, I mean the the the Federalists, George Washington, Jefferson, all the guys who wrote the Constitution.
They wanted a lean but effective government.
They didn't want a weak government that was incompetent.
They wanted a limited government, but in the areas the government's responsible for, they wanted it to be very, very effective.
Uh and I think it it's remarkable to see the impact of Trump and Pence, who are very practical people.
I mean, Pence's governor was a very can-do kind of guy.
Uh the President Trump, of course, is a builder and a guy who understands construction and understands all these things.
Uh, They've really had a very powerful, very positive effect on what's going on.
I th I think the Federal Emergency Managers Agency's done a remarkably good job.
And I think there's a lot of positives to be said about how this is developed.
So I think we can all be grateful that you had effectiveness at the federal level, the state level, and the local level.
You have to look to Florida, where, as you know, my daughter Kathy lives in Key Biscayne.
It's a little scary the size of the hurricane that's coming their way right now.
And people are trying to evacuate, although I got a note from a good friend who said that uh it is virtually impossible now to drive out of the state.
That the the combination of the traffic jams and the fact that literally gas stations are running out of uh gasoline to sell.
Uh that the Well, you know what?
There was even uh Governor Rick Scott, I always felt he was sort of, you know, unassuming type of guy, but he's a really efficient governor, and I I've gotten to know him well because he's always up in New York trying to persuade companies to move to Florida because there's less burdensome regulation and lower taxes, and he's very successful at it.
He steals one company out of New York and New Jersey a day.
It's hilarious.
Um but what I love about him is he saw the gasoline problem.
He talked to surrounding states.
They were able to lift some of the usual regulations to assist Florida in getting the gasoline into Florida for the people that need to make their escape.
And I d that that to me was one of the most brilliant moves I'd ever seen anybody make so early before a crisis is coming.
Well, and it's frankly the kind of leadership the people want.
Of course, Rick Scott uh was a businessman, ran a big company, understands being practical.
I mean, all the things that liberalism uh despises and and undervalues, Rick Scott personifies.
Yeah.
Um look, I I think that there is a way, and and this rate this now dovetails into the next fourteen weeks, and the Republican Party, I think, is facing not only an identity crisis, but uh a crisis of confidence.
Mitch McConnell at eighteen percent.
Congress has been in the low teens in terms of their approval overall.
Uh the the media is at one of their lowest approval rates ever, and I think the Republicans have 14 weeks to fulfill their promises.
Um this is make or break time in my opinion.
T next year will be too late.
Your thoughts.
I I couldn't agree more.
And I think in particular, I would focus in on the tax cuts where the president was very good this week, and Secretary of the Treasury Manuchin has been very good in describing what they want to get done.
And I think that uh starting with the Ways and Means Committee, which I hope will begin markup within a week or ten days, uh, we we really have an opportunity here to dramatically improve the economy.
I'm I'm came up uh in New York, uh, in fact I'll be on the set with you tonight uh for the TV show.
And um I talked to an investment group at lunch today, and one of them came over to me afterwards and said, you know, we could have a six or seven year uh bull market of constantly rising stock prices if Trump continues to succeed.
He said the the stage is being set here for people to really believe in America again, and that could have just an enormous effect across the whole economy.
And that's what we have to work on.
And I think getting the tax cuts done by Thanksgiving.
I mean, all this worry about the end of the year is baloney.
They need to get the tax cuts done by Thanksgiving to have the effect on the economy next year, to have the kind of boom and jobs and take home pay we need.
Are you confident it gets done?
Because I'm not uh even money.
I think I'm I'm sad.
That's that's really sad.
Well, no, look, I think even money this is a hard business.
And uh, it's not that hard.
Now you sound like Mitch McConnell, God forbid.
Well, you know, geez.
Uh the expectations were too high.
I I've only been here nine months and I've only promised it eight years.
What'd you guys expect?
I've got to go to the Senate dining room.
All right, I'm very sarcastic.
Forgive me for taking.
Yes, you are.
I I've got to go get a haircut in the Senate haircut place.
I gotta, you know, up my lunch and we have to have a cigars and and some brandy.
Um I'm on a roll.
That's right.
Okay, quick break.
More with Newt Gingrich on the other side.
We'll be right back.
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Understanding Trump, the 12-week now bestseller, number one best seller, one point of understanding Trump, Duke Gingrich is with us.
He's got a brand new online course class that he himself is teaching, and it's called Defending America, and you can get it at I think it's Defending America Course dot com, if I'm not mistaken.
That's right.
And uh and you actually have a a class start date of Thursday, September the 14th, so it's coming up soon.
Well, we're very excited by it, and and uh I think when you look at what the left is saying and how crazy they are, having some kind of program that gives everyday Americans the ability to argue and win the argument, I think is a very important part of where we are right now as a country.
And that's why I I wrote it and put it together.
That's my course, and I think people will find it both interesting and useful.
Yeah.
Let me ask, uh let me go back to Congress and what they need to do.
And we've gone over the specifics of this.
I like the president's plan.
I think it's very Reagan-esque.
Seven brackets to three.
Middle class tax cuts, corporate tax cuts, repatriation for multinationals at a low rate, you know, so we invest in factories and manufacturing centers.
Energy independence, you know, should be a huge goal because we got millions of career jobs there.
I'd also like to see some adjustments, like the end of the death tax and double taxation.
What else would you like to see as part of this?
Well, I think I mean, I think you've got exactly the the key things.
If we get a big enough uh small business tax cut so that small businesses are really incentivized to grow and to add jobs, if we can uh repatriate a good bit of the uh two to four trillion dollars that are locked up overseas so that money comes back home and gets invested in the country.
Uh some kind of uh the lowest possible business rate.
I'm with President Trump.
Fifteen percent sounds good.
Uh even twenty percent would be dramatically better than where we are now, but I'd love to see him get to fifteen.
And I have to say, uh the folks I talk with tell me with great sincerity that they believe they're gonna produce uh a middle class tax code so simple that most Americans will be able to fill it out on a on a large postcard.
Now, I'll believe it when I see it, but boy, that sure is an exciting goal, and one that could really change uh our whole relationship with the tax code and dramatically limit the Internal Revenue Service's ability to do bad things.
By the way, they've been after me now three times in a year over the same issue.
And I'm like, I didn't get audited one time when Obama was there.
What what is going on here?
Well, it could be that the IRS bureaucrats regard you as the reason they have a problem.
You know, the you know what the sad reality is?
You know you and I both know this is true.
There is a deep state, and stuff like this, because we saw this happen, conservative groups being targeted after 2010 with the name Tea Party in it, or conservative in it.
And the sad reality is is that there's not an honest system, and people are singled out for for types of audits.
I just happen to overpay, so I have zero worry in my heart, no worries at all.
And it's just frustrating that that you know that that they can use the the IRS as a weapon sometimes.
Well, you know, the the uh the Clinton system when I was speaker decided to go after me.
I ended up uh getting a reversal of the IRS and a reversal of the Federal Election Commission in federal court.
And in the case of the IRS, the judge demanded that they apologize to us because it was such a bad case.
But they they literally I found myself the target all of a sudden and having uh bureaucrats come at me from every direction.
And as you the point you're making, which is you know, you'd like to think we have the rule of law, but every once in a while you're reminded uh that there's all too much uh rule of of uh men and and and uh bureaucrats and politicians in a way that undermines the whole American system.
You know, it's interesting, like Russia, Russia, Russia.
We don't hear about that anymore.
And my guess is there's gonna be a lot of egg on on the faces of a lot of people in the media.
All right, Mr. Speaker, thank you for being with us, and we appreciate you, of course, always joining us.
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Holding them accountable.
Sean gets the answers no one else does.
America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
What are the penalties for Donald Trump Jr. not telling the truth?
What are the rules that you all have set around his testimony?
A any individual who lies to uh congressional committee is subject to the penalties of 18 United States Code, a thousand and one, which uh punishes an individual who fails to tell the truth to uh government official in this kind of circumstance, and that could be punishable by several years in prison and fines.
And so in inside this meeting that the Donald Trump Jr. accepted with as you call them uh foreign agents, attended also by Jared Kushner, attended also by Paul Manafort, based on what you know publicly and privately, what are your worst fears about what may have taken place?
My worst fears uh among them are that this meeting may have been prelude or an overture to more coordinated activities involving collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians in their interference in our election, and that afterward there was obstruction of justice, which is very much front and center and involves also following the money.
And that's the other area that I think is important in the meeting this morning, following the money that may have involved transactions between the Russians and the Trump organizations in Moscow, the letter of intent to build a major residential complex at Trump Tower or whatever else may have been contemplated because the Russian playbook is to entangle and compromise foreign officials.
And in this instance, may have been a reason that the White House wanted to conceal or deny evidence and may have fired Jim Comey when the FBI was investigating.
Do you see what home phony hypocrites?
That was Richard Blumenthal, uh, the worst view.
There's never been any evidence.
There's smoke, there's smoke, but there's no fire as it relates to Trump Russia collusion.
And the Richard Blumenthal talking about the penalty if you lie to a Senate committee is several years in prison.
Well, what's the penalty if you have subpoenaed documents and you don't turn them over, but you delete them.
And then just to make extra, extra, extra sure you're deleting them, you acid wash and bleach bit your hard drives and servers.
And just to make triple sure, you take a hammer and you smash any device the emails also might be on.
Just is smithereens.
And when you do hand over something, a device to the FBI, make sure it has no SIM card.
It's unbeliev the the phony sanctimonious selective moral outrage, feigning of phony outrage.
It's it's really breathtaking.
It just takes my breath away.
Anyway, 24 now till the top of the hour, 800 nine-four one Sean is our toll-free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program.
Joining us now is Sarah Carter, who is with uh circa.com.
She's got another explosive story, another explosive story exposing the corruption and bias inside the FBI.
Now, when former FBI agent Robin Gritz first joined the FBI in 1980 uh ninety-seven, she said she would never have fathomed that her career as a top counter-terrorism agent would end due to sexual discrimination, and even worse, leave her working for two years selling blush and lipstick at a Macy's makeup counter.
But that of course, she said is exactly what happened here with more on the story about how it includes the deputy director, Andrew McGabe is Sarah Carter.
So what do you got here?
This is huge.
Uh it is huge.
I mean, Sean, there's she's one of the few that has come out publicly.
There are hundreds more.
Let me tell you, agents that are out there ready to talk.
I know dozens more that have filed EEOT complaints, those are employment, um, equal opportunity employment complaints against the FBI, and particularly against Andrew McCabe, who is the deputy director.
And you know, Robin's story is so fascinating because Robin became embroiled in this major battle against McCabe and the higher ups, some other higher ups that were working with her.
She was actually detailed to the CIA.
She is considered one of the top counterterrorism uh agents in the country, was considered worked on the Daniel Pearl case.
Uh She worked on Robert Levinson case, who uh the Iranians had held and are still holding, um, and family is looking for answers.
Uh, she worked on the anthrax case.
So this is a woman that wasn't just working at the FBI, you know, um, in a lower-rung job, she was actually working her way to the top and was detailed to the CIA for a reason, and then ended up in this major battle against McCabe.
And lo and behold, who came to her defense was Michael Flynn.
So Michael Flynn at the time, uh Lieutenant General Michael Flynn uh was the uh head of the defense intelligence agency at the time and had worked with Robin on a number of cases.
Not only did Michael Flynn come to her defense, uh, but you know, Admiral Losey, uh, head of Naval Warfare Command, Special Warfare Command, uh, others who had written letters on her behalf in her fight against McCabe.
Now, remember McCabe, according to Robin and a lot of other people, he kept himself surrounded pretty much with his most closest allies.
And McCabe is also a very close ally of Hillary Clinton.
And so there were a lot of questions.
Um, Chairman Grassley uh is investigating this as well, as to his uh, you know, his investigation and his involvement in the investigation of Michael Flynn, because Flynn had actually written a letter on Robin's behalf.
This was two years before uh, you know, McCabe was in charge of this Russia investigation into Flynn and all the leaks came out on Robin's behalf defending her and and really holding the FBI accountable.
And uh, you know, Robin and others have said there is a cancer inside the FBI.
And uh they're very concerned that beyond the EEOC complaint, sexual discrimination complaints, and other work-related complaints, that there was this club of guys that protected each other, that were very political, and that chose to run the FBI in a manner that was completely opposite of the foundation that they stood on.
And that was a very politically biased FBI, they said, people that were willing to cover up.
Let's talk about the latest, because I mean, you've broken a lot of stories now about the FBI.
And now we also have the issue of James Comey having a predetermined outcome on the Hillary Clinton email server issue long before he ever even came close to completing the investigation.
He was writing her exoneration.
And you have to interview the the main witnesses that would be involved in this.
And I have not confirmed that there were reports all over the place.
Did he ever well, we know in the case of the Christopher Steele dossier that Steele was paying Russian operatives to give him the phony information about hookers at the rich urinating on a bed.
Where did that investigation ever end up?
This is what's so insane, Sean.
I mean, this is people have to think about this, and and really just if you lay it all out on the table, I mean, it paints a picture that is completely opposite.
You had talked about where there's you know, smoke, there's fire, and there's very little smoke.
You're right, there's very little, if if none, uh very small amounts of smoke when it comes to Don Jr.
When it comes to fusion GPS, there is so much smoke.
When it comes to what happened with Comey's decision, there is so much smoke.
When you think about the Loretta Lynch Bill Clinton meeting on the tarmac, there's a ton of smoke that needs to be investigated.
And unfortunately, we're not seeing those investigations.
I mean, as far as the special counsel is concerned, we're seeing them behind the scenes on the Hill.
And I can tell you this that when that information came out at the time, you got to think about the FBI agents on the ground that were investigating this.
They were furious.
When Comey decided to end that investigation, and now finding out that he was already planning it as far back as April, at the same time President Obama was making the same statement, you know, that oh, she didn't have any intent of, you know, misusing or mishandling disclassified information.
It was, you know, it was gross negligence and under the law, that's breaking the law.
So there are a lot of FBI agents out there, people that were involved in investigating this that were furious, furious, to the point where, and I think I've said this before um on your show, uh, that some of the agents actually threw sandwiches, their sandwiches, at the television while Comey uh was making that announcement Uh last July.
They were so infuriated by it.
They had worked so hard on this case and they knew it was over.
And I think at that point, and there were you know there are a lot of people talking about what happened inside the Bureau, but there was a lot of talk that, oh, well, we don't need to worry about Russia anymore because they had already assumed that Hillary Clinton was going to win the presidency.
And I think everybody at that point uh that was close to either McCabe or people that were higher ups in the bureau, they had assumed that she was going to win and that they wouldn't have to deal with this anymore.
And unfortunately for them, that didn't happen.
And so then they had to backtrack.
Let's talk about about the attorney general Jeff Sessions, because it seems to me now all of these issues are fair game in terms of reopening the case.
And if we're going to have equal justice under the law and we don't have a two-tier justice system, one for the Clintons and one for the rest of us, then it would seem perfectly reasonable that Jeff Sessions now do a an open, fair investigation of all of this because now we uh we pretty much have been tipped off that the fix was in, and does this put Comey himself in more legal jeopardy?
We know he had some legal jeopardy as it relates to government material and the records act and and some other issues that he may have some problems with.
Is he now in any legal trouble himself over this, potentially?
Potentially, yes.
I I I would I would say so.
And you know, right now, I mean, this is the big reason why um, you know, uh especially now with the subpoenas, they want, you know, Ray, the current FBI director, uh, Christopher Ray, they're also asking for Jeff Sessions to come talk to Congress, explain to us why haven't we gotten the answers uh that we've been asking from the FBI?
I mean, their failure to put these documents forward or to explain themselves when it comes to the dossier, the Christopher Steele dossier, uh it for them is contemptuous against Congress.
So now Congress is asking for that same thing.
They're asking why why did Comey did Comey actually pay money to to Christopher Steele?
That is what they are trying to find out, Sean.
That is the that is a main question.
I was just talking to sources late last night about this.
People are trying to find out how much, if they did pay, did they verify anything in this document?
Well, but didn't cry.
Yeah, but didn't Christopher Steele pay Russians for that information?
Yeah, and you know what?
There's yes, and there's also questions about who paid Christopher Steele as well, and how much the Russians were involved in that dossier, because it was a perfect setup, right?
The Russians who had already been in connection with Fusion GPS, remember Fusion GPS, um Senator Rasley believed, was lobbying on behalf of the Russians against the Magnitsky Act, Sergei Magnitsky who died, and basically we have the Magnetsky Act that keeps those Russians out of the United States from doing business here, and it's been the ire of Vladimir Putin.
I mean, this is something that he wants removed.
And so now you have Fusion GPS, right, who sets up this Trump dossier.
Uh you know, and and and it spreads around and and eventually leaves the hands of never Trumpers to the Democrats, and it's out there who's connected to the Russians, and now you've got Christopher Steele, who we believe is be is paying Russians for some of this information.
It's all right, stay right there.
Sarah Carter with uh circa.com.
Sarah, when we come back, I want to ask you about Dana Rohrbacher's meeting with Julian Assange and and an interview I had with him uh yesterday.
Uh so stay right there.
We'll come back.
Investigator reporter Sarah Carter, just breaking down one story after another.
All right, as we continue with investigative reporter Sarah Carter from Circa.com.
All right, I so I had Dana Roebacher on, and we're not hearing an awful lot about Russia, Russia, Russia anymore.
And it appears when when you couple with what he says, Julian Assange, the one guy that would know where he got the information for the for the DNC and the emails from, and he says it's not Russia, he told me five times, told Dana Rohrbacher he's got proof, and then you have all these former intelligence agents that looked at the routing of this and they said there's no way it came from Russia.
Why what do you think the odds are that it was never Russia and that the American people have been lied to for all of these months?
I mean, I think based on what we're hearing, and we we don't have the evidence that it was Russia.
I think I'm based on what we're hearing alone, this needs to be investigated because Julian Assange is the first person, right?
He's He would know directly where that information came from.
And he's saying publicly, I can show you, I can prove that it didn't come from Russia.
But I need to talk to someone, and no one's talking to him.
The people that count aren't reaching out to him and talking to him.
They aren't making it possible to get to the truth.
And when you talk to other people who are involved, and if you just look at the reports coming out of the FBI, even from the intelligence community, nowhere in any of those reports, Sean Mark my words on this.
Nowhere in any of those reports is a definitive that Russia was the one that went into DNC server and only Russia.
What we do know is that Russia was fishing.
They did fish and they did get into people's emails, and they were able to do certain things.
But nowhere in those reports do they say definitively that it was Russia.
They allude, they assess, they surmise, but they never say definitively.
So these questions have to be answered.
As an investigative reporter, I could interview people and say they surmise, but they have no proof.
Remember, they kept saying there's a lot of smoke, a lot of smoke, but nobody ever gave us the definitive evidence.
All right, Sarah, we'll stay with the story.
I promise.
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It's so obvious.
Flat out discrimination that they're touting coming from this White House.
Increasingly, there's a sign out there that's been hung up in the White House or outside the White House saying, if you're not white, you're not especially welcome.
And that just that is so sad.
Is this a stability issue?
Because I'm I feel like some might argue when you see him off prompt, or he doesn't really seem to be there.
What do you mean?
Doesn't really connect with the reality of the situation.
I don't think he really understood his decision, and I'm not being facetious.
There are people inside the White House that were saying that he really didn't understand the impact of his decision.
For years, he has been an outspoken, unabashed admirer of the eugenics-based race-specific immigration bans of the 1920s clan era in US politics.
I mean, Jeff Sessions has always stood for this stuff.
But so has Donald Trump as a public political figure.
All right, so the phony false narrative, immigration, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, because Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia's gone.
Okay, if that is the standard that the left wants to take.
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Sean.
Okay, then let's listen.
Let's take a trip down memory lane and apply the same standards to the following people.
Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.
Pay close attention.
This is them.
Listen.
People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.
The president's decision to end DACA was heartless and it was brainless.
When we use phrases like undocumented workers, we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration.
Hundreds, hundreds of thousands of families will be ripped apart.
If you don't think it's illegal, you're not going to say it.
I think it is illegal and wrong.
Tens of thousands of American businesses will lose hardworking employees.
A biometric-based employer verification system with tough enforcement and auditing is necessary to significantly diminish the job magnet that attracts illegal aliens to the United States.
They may have known no other country but ours and have voluntarily registered themselves.
All illegal aliens present in the United States on the date of enactment of our bill must quickly register their presence with the United States government or face imminent deportation.
And the argument there, Mr. President, is Americans don't want to do the work.
We just can't find American workers to do the work.
Mr. President, that is a croc in many instances.
It's just not true.
In my view, Trump's decision to end the DACA program for some eight hundred thousand young people is the cruelest and most ugly presidential act in the modern history of this country.
I cannot think of one single act which is uglier and more cruel.
We have all been educated that economics is about supply and demand.
If you don't get the workers you want, you raise wages and you raise benefits.
You don't simply open the door and bring in other workers at low wage.
So I believe absolutely that we have to move aggressively toward comprehensive immigration reform.
I will end the deportations.
Poverty is increasing, and if wages are going down, I don't know why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than American workers and drive wages down even lower than they are right now.
But we have to send a clear message.
So we don't want to send a message that is contrary to uh our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey.
So I will fight for comprehensive immigration reform and a path to citizenship.
I will fight to stop partisan attacks on the executive actions that would put dreamers, including those with us today, at risk of deportation.
And if Congress can just refuse to act as president, I would do everything possible under the law to go even further.
We've got to do several things, and I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.
People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
Come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau Counties, stand in the street corners on in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
You're gonna see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work.
You know, it this is not a problem that the people who are coming into the country are solely responsible for.
They wouldn't be coming if we didn't put them to work.
My proposal will keep families together and it will include a path to citizenship.
Music The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century.
If this huge influx of mostly low-skilled workers provide some benefits to the economy as a whole, it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and puts strains on an already overburdened safety net.
Immigrants aren't the principal reason wages haven't gone up.
There are those in the immigrants' rights community who have argued passionately that we should simply provide those who are illegally with legal status, or at least ignore the laws on the books and put an end to deportation until we have better laws.
But I believe such an indiscriminate approach would be both unwise and unfair.
It would suggest to those thinking about coming here illegally that there will be no repercussions for such a decision.
And this could lead to a surge in more illegal immigration.
These are students, their teachers, their doctors, their lawyers.
They're Americans in every way but on paper.
Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law.
Uh and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully uh to become immigrants.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earn citizenship.
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Well, sounds an awful like like Donald Trump there.
Anyway, joining us to discuss and debate.
We have Maria Elvira, Cuban American journalist, broadcast TV presenter, worked uh apparently for fake news CNN for a period of time, then Univision, Telemundo, and Francisco Hernandez, an immigration attorney, both here to discuss the uproar.
And uh, by the way, Maria, I I hear you're in the path of this hurricane that is coming, and I just want you to know you're in our thoughts and prayers.
This is uh beyond scary Hurricane Irma.
Uh didn't it sound like the Democrats sound like Donald Trump and sound like conservatives back in the day?
Oh, absolutely.
And thank you for having me, uh, Mr. Hannity.
Um 1996 Immigration Reform Act signed by Clinton is the one that has given the legal hammer to the Trump administration to hit an illegal.
It is the that law uh that has allowed for the local cops to get deputized and become an immigration agent.
and is the law that has given the uh privilege to the local cops or I mean to the local jails to detain over 48 hours.
So it's true.
The Democrats uh have given the Trump administration the pathway to do what they're doing right now with the immigration.
And it's very important for us to remember that uh Barack Obama had the opportunity to legalize or to follow the Constitution and to give a legal standing to the DACA kids uh over eight years, and he didn't, and he threw a bone to the my community, the Hispanic community at the end of his presidency by signing an executive order called a DACA.
And now it's in the hands of the Republicans, but I'm sure that we can discuss that late.
And it was temporary, as you know, it was never designed, even in its uh the name of it is temporary, delayed.
And so, Francisco, the the one thing that bothered me is I can play for you.
I don't want to take up precious airtime, but I've been playing on this program montages of then President Obama saying over and over again, I uh we have a constitution.
I I can't throw the stroke of a pen undo laws, even laws that I don't like that I believe may do damage.
You know, I don't have the power to do that.
People wish that I did, but I don't.
Then he did it anyway.
So what the president has done here, not only did he give Congress eight months to get their act together, now they've give been given an additional six months, and he, unlike Obama's not going to he's gonna respect coequal branches of government, he won't usurp the enumerated powers of the Congress, and now they have six months to do their job.
Let's see what they come up with.
Well, well, Mr. Hannity, you and I for 17 years have been arguing that it is Congress's job to do it.
The problem uh with it now is that President Trump wrote the big check and he can't cash it without Congress doing it.
So Congress just gonna sit back and sit and and watch President Trump the big chunk, the big check for what?
The big check on immigration reform.
Everybody agrees we gotta do something.
We don't agree on the on the House, but we agree on the what uh President Obama did it simply because he didn't even have support in his own party to pass immigration reform after the Affordable Care Act.
But he did what he could.
We can talk about expanded powers or not, but George Bush took us to war against Iraq on an executive order.
I mean, come on.
Well, you know, it's not a Democrat-Republican issue.
If you might even remember in the early two thousands, uh immigration reform failed with a Democratic Congress and President Bush on temporary worker visas because Democrats think they're going to you uh join the unions.
Uh uh, you know me well enough.
I take shots at both sides.
But listen, I take that listen, I'll tell you Republicans want cheap labor and the Democratic Party they want votes, and they think they'll they'll have a greater chance at a higher.
But you know what?
They're both wrong.
Maria would be able to say that.
Yeah, let me just just Francisco.
Um I I think that what you're saying could be true, but at the same time, we have to be uh very transparent and we have to be honest here.
President Obama had eight wonderful years, or at specifically at the beginning of his presidency, to have put some political capital and to have fulfilled his promises to take care of Hispanics.
All right.
Stay right there, Marie.
I gotta I don't want to interrupt you.
I gotta take a quick break here.
Stay right there.
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Maria Elvira is with us and uh also Francisco Hernandez is with us talking about DACA.
You know, so at the end of the day, you've got six months.
You uh I'm sure you've had many meetings over the years, Francisco, with members of Congress.
Uh they have this is their legislative duty, the law of the land is people get deported right now.
And the president is graciously given Congress time to come up with whatever solution they want to come up with, but he's insisting on no sanctuary cities.
He's insisting on some type of wall that we build, and I don't think he's gonna back down one bit, nor do I think he should.
Well, I mean, he's you know, he's got to set his priorities, but he can't do it without without Congress doing it.
We know we're not gonna build a wall.
I mean, come on.
We talked about that before, Mr. Hannity.
We're gonna have to legalize a hundred thousand Mexicans to build it if we want it done right.
But regardless, if you want to do the under the pretense that we're going to, that's fine.
We don't care what we do, just do something.
Uh we've been at this for 17 years.
We tried to build a wall in 2002 and we didn't get anywhere.
I mean, let's just get down to uh the temporary worker visas.
Let's let's come up with a way of earned citizenship, no amnesty.
You and I have not disagreed on that.
It's just the house.
Yeah.
Yeah, but when you say sanctuary cities, Francisco, I think that you and I agree that every time that that a group of Hispanics come out and says that they are in favor of sanctuary cities, we're looking like idiots.
Oh, yeah.
Because the message that we're sending to our fellow Americans is that we want to protect uh criminals.
We want to protect the crazy lady.
And but I've but I've said for years that there's no such thing as a sanctuary city.
That's really there are no legal definitions.
But but perception is reality.
And when we say we are in favor of sanctuary cities, we're sending the wrong message.
We've got to say we want immigration reform law.
We want to know what are we going to do with 11 million people that are here already.
And 50% of them have been here for more than 13 years.
And they have homes and kids and cars and friends and churches.
So we need to do that.
But century city is a bad word that we should not be pronouncing.
It is, but it doesn't matter.
It's a political phantom.
It doesn't exist.
A city cannot oppose the federal government.
What they're really talking about, these immigration holds, and quite frankly, we're going to find out if those are constitutional or not here pretty shortly.
Uh the uh, as you know, the uh Texas federal judges and joined the uh SB4, uh, which quite frankly I called it a hollow law.
It's a law that requires police officers to do what they were already supposed to be doing anyway.
So you and I don't disagree on that, except we keep coming up with these little patches everywhere by state by state.
They're all get getting held unconstitutional, and Congress just sitting there.
I thought, you know, I gotta give President Trump credit, give him six months to do it.
It's the line in the sand.
Let's let's get sit down and talk about it.
Yeah, no, it's not only Trump, it's the is the Congress.
It's Congress.
We we the Republican Party controls the House and the Senate.
And these kids are the best of the best.
So I think that the Republican Party, through our U.S. Congress, should then step up to the plate and give some type of legality, which is another thing.
You know, amnesty is a bad word.
Uh citizenship may be a bad word.
Maybe we should review the 1965 immigration reform law.
Maybe we should not have a chain family chain immigration.
Maybe, but these are the best of the best.
Because these kids are Americans.
So you agreed that if the Trump administration would have allowed DACA to fall into the DAPA lawsuit that was established by Texas, we would have a temporary injunction, and those kids would be the portable now.
Do you agree with me?
So they did the best they could under the circumstances.
That Obama city left us.
Let them earn their residency.
Sure.
We can talk about citizenship.
I don't mean to cut you short.
We're gonna have to end it there.
Uh Maria, stay safe with uh hurricane uh the hurricane that's headed your way.
Hurricane Irma, if I can remember the name.
We have too many hurricanes these days.
And Francisco, we appreciate you being on when we come back.
I'm looking at the phones.
People, I don't know why they're compelled to call me and tell me I'm not going.
They're evacuating me.
I'm not leaving.
I would suggest you leave.
That's my advice.
Especially if it's an evacuation order.
This is serious bad stuff here.
We'll take a break.
More on Hurricane Irma when we come back.
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We got Lordis in Miami's gonna be riding out Irma.
Uh-oh.
How close are you to the shore?
I'm in the middle of the whole thing.
And waiting.
Yeah.
I even signed in on Facebook.
There's uh are you going to the Irma party?
And I find in, I'm there.
I'm smacking the middle.
I'm loving it.
Did they they're not what county are you in?
Because I know Broward County.
I I thought Miami was being evacuated as well.
No, only the beaches, remember.
All right.
So you're how far how many miles inland are you?
Oh, I think I'm like um I think my husband just said it like ten.
Ten.
No, you know, I'm glad with that, okay?
And at the gables.
You know what I'm saying?
All right.
Let me let me ask you a question.
So you feel comfortable making this decision.
They're not telling you to evacuate where you are, right?
No.
Yeah.
And I wrote out Andrew, so you know, hello.
You know, it's so funny because I got two groups of friends.
I got the right amount friends, and they're like rolling their eyes every time something happens.
Look, I if I if you were asking me what you should do, I would say probably get further away, look at as we get closer, look at a place that might be a little bit safer.
But you know, I'm I'm fairly libertarian at this point in my life, and and you're old enough, mature enough, smart enough to make your own decisions.
I just urge you to have a a backup plan.
What's a backup plan?
If God forbid my backup plan is I don't drink, so my backup plan is open the bottles.
And I don't even drink.
That's my backup.
And so my presents it away.
So you're really signed up, you're signed up for an Irma hurricane party.
Is that what you're telling me?
Yeah, I want to go to Facebook.
I could have stopped asking, and I'm like, uh you know, but by the way, don't let this change your mind about moving down to Florida.
Don't think I forgot about it.
I have a place down that's right in harm's way like everybody else.
I have a condo, and I listen, I never worry about property.
I just want you to be safe.
At the end of the day, my advice to you would be just make sure you're safe, whatever that means.
I'm not in your shoes.
I don't know what they're telling you.
For anybody that is being told to evacuate, don't make the mistake of the Houston mayor, evacuate.
My advice is because you know, then you then you end up putting other people in harm's way when they have to fly in and save you at a low altitude and drop a basket to try and get you out of there and and they're gonna be having to save everybody at this party.
If they say to evacu evacuate, they they look, we have science now.
We know when tornadoes are forming, we can see you have so much advanced notice that this is a really, really powerful big massive hurricane that's headed in your direction.
So my advice to you is take it, take it seriously.
You know, and and I would but if that I'm just telling other people if they say get out, get out.
That's what my that's what my advice is.
And if you think you'd be in a clear water, you've got to get out.
Look at but at the end of the thing.
Yeah, I mean, you'd be pretty stupid to stay.
I just don't want any I don't want people dying over a hurricane.
Does that make sense?
It's not worth it.
Your life's not worth it.
No, of course not.
No, and besides, Sean, I've got to meet you.
I'm your sister.
You've never met.
That's right, I gotta meet Lordis.
All right, Lordis.
Listen, you do me a favor, check in with me next week.
Let me know you turned out okay.
All right.
Send us a note.
Oh my god, I will.
We're my favorite conservative.
Yeah, I will.
Well, uh, Miami Beaches, just so you know, the Miami Beach mayor said that residents must leave.
So you're you're pretty close there.
Um, there's official warnings listed of up to 10 feet storm surging in Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.
No buildings we can guarantee to keep people safe.
So that I'm just giving you the headlines here.
It could impact every major city now in Florida.
The FEMA chief is saying this is gonna be devastating.
Thousands of troops are already deployed.
They already have stations to bring in supplies immediately.
I talked to, you know, I I call people in at the White House today to get a statement from them.
Um the military and the state police are escorting fuel trucks in so all these cars can get out.
You know, you got people killing each other over plywood at home depot.
You have um, you know, anybody nuclear plants are in the path of this thing, and evacu evacuation orders have been given for Savannah, Georgia.
So I'm just saying this is the real deal to me.
And you you you just better you've been warned.
There's you know, the headline on Drudge today, you have been warned.
And the question is, which way is Irma gonna turn?
So I'm just I I would take this at the highest level of seriousness in terms of don't play with this, don't play with Mother Nature here.
You've seen the devastation in Houston and it can get worse elsewhere, okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, but everybody's in my prayers.
Look, like just like with Houston, the country's gonna be there for you.
The government, look, I gotta say, Rick Scott's been doing amazing.
Everybody else seems to be doing an amazing.
Um hang in there, Lordis.
We love you, and I want to talk to you next week, make sure you're okay.
But listen to what they tell you to do.
That's my advice.
All right, back to our phones.
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Uh, let's say hi to Amy.
She's in Colorado.
Amy, hi, how are you?
Welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
Hi, Sean.
I hope you're having a great day today.
I am what's going on?
Well, uh, I did have a comment about Congress and and the whole docket thing um with Trump.
I really appreciate what he's doing, sticking to the law, sticking to what should be done.
Um, and I mean I have a ten-year-old that we adopted from Guatemala, and we bought her back here, you know, legally, um, the right way, and she's a dreamer too.
She has her own dreams.
Um, but I don't have any faith in Congress that they're gonna do anything about this, um, other than make them all legal.
Um, so you know, so far they've they've tried to um, you know, stop Trump at every level.
So I don't doubt that it's gonna be any different.
Listen, it's you know, you you heard the tape yesterday, right?
You know, you have this teacher in school, and this kid is wearing, you know, a Trump t shirt and he's told to turn it inside out and compare it to Nazis.
You know, I explained this to somebody yesterday.
I want to be very clear what I say here.
I watch the media now and I don't watch them often because I think they're so terrible and so bad at what they do.
I don't even think that they recognize that they're all suffering with this myopic Trump derangement syndrome.
This this is a broader answer for you.
And it's so bad.
I mean, I think you can liken the media now to a bunch of drug addicts, and the drug they're addicted to is hating Donald Trump.
And their hatred, you know, they need their fix every minute of every day.
And they can't give up this hatred.
And at the end of the day, I've always been a believer that hate is never a good thing because I think hatred ends up boomeranging back on the person that's hating.
So I think the same thing's gonna happen in the media.
They don't even recognize how they're all part of this group think robotic, mindless obsession that they have.
They've convinced themselves that they're so much smarter than everybody else in the country.
They've convinced themselves that he is the embodiment of evil.
They have believed their own rhetoric about him, and they just keep doubling down and tripling down and tripling down and tripling down.
You know, you don't hear anything about Russia anymore.
And when we find out that they've lied the entire time, which I believe is very likely as Dana Rohrbacher said yesterday, how do they ever get any credibility back?
Now we already know that many of these organizations colluded with Hillary Clinton.
It was proven in WikiLeaks.
And what I think they're gonna do is they're just gonna move on to the next thing and act like they never reported on Russia.
And I promise you, I'm gonna make it my business that they're gonna eat every word that they've ever said.
So the answer is, you know, i it this is the same thing that you're dealing with, right?
What's the difference?
Yeah, there there is no difference, I don't think.
Um, you know, they're making Trump out to be the bad guy here when it was really Obama in the first place circumventing the law and circumventing the constitution.
Well, and and you know, that was the amazing thing about DACA.
I mean, the president wanted to go by the rule of law.
The president could have easily just usurped congressional power and changed it and and taken it back and just said, you know, obey the laws of the land.
But okay, we're gonna give Congress an opportunity to do their job and we'll hand them back the enumerated powers that Barack Obama took for them.
You you would think they'd be happy.
But Congress is like, oh man, now we have to do our job.
Well, he why did he do this to us?
I'm like, because that's your job.
They don't want to make tough decisions.
They want to sit and they want to go to the Senate and House dining rooms and smoke cigars and and talk about the stupid people that are living in this country that make the America great.
They they they're so out of touch.
You know, there does become a a cultural atmosphere.
I've seen it in New York, I've seen it in Los Angeles, I see it here in DC too.
Where they they they just get out of touch a lot of these people with the people that work hard, make this country great, play by the rules, provide the goods and services that we all want, need and desire.
They build the country.
They built this country, and they they they seem so out of touch with what the lives of most people are really like.
And and that's why I've never been a big supporter my entire career in in government.
Government is not the answer to our problems.
Government is the problem.
It's always been the problem.
Now, government can do some good things.
I mean, we saw I think a little bit of government working at its best down in Texas.
I I see the government, the government preparations going into Florida and how seriously they're taking it, and I think that's good too.
And there's a we certainly need the government to deal with North Korea and radical Islam and ISIS and Iran and you know, all of these hot spots around the world.
So, You know, government has its role.
But to get into every aspect of the human existence and tell us how big a soda we can buy and how much salt we can eat.
And if we're dying, we can't even try an experimental drug without them on and drag us off to jail, which I was talking with Dana Rohrbacher yesterday, talking about the movie Dallas Bias Buyers Club.
We don't need the nanny state.
You know, we're pretty much, you know, and it would even go to this issue to what to some extent.
There are going to be people that decide they're not going to leave their homes.
If you're able-bodied and you want to make that decision, you know, what do you want?
A government that's going to come in and drag you out of your home?
I'm i i'm I have a very tough time making people do something they don't want to do like that.
You know, I don't agree with their decision.
I uh I would strongly to in the strongest possible terms say, you know what, don't be silly.
Don't risk your life.
But at the end of the day, what are you gonna do?
Put chains on them, arrest them and cuff them and take them off to jail and move them out of their house.
These are tough decisions.
We've, you know, I'm a believer first in freedom.
The great thing about America is you have freedom.
You have choices.
Everyone, liberals love choices.
You have the choice to get up and go to work and work two jobs or three jobs, and then you have the choice to watch TV all day.
But whatever choices you make, you're gonna you're gonna suffer the consequences of those choices.
Anyway, I'm I'm dragged off here.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for being with us.
800 941 Sean.
Danny is in Miami.
Danny, how are you?
You're you're riding this thing out too, huh?
I sure am.
I basically uh everything is boarded up, and um you know, hoping for the best.
How far are you to the coast?
We're a good uh I would say about 30 to 35 miles away.
There's there's evacuation zones down here.
Uh, right now they're recommending zones uh A and B, and I'm in zone B. Now, what if they recommend what if they recommend you get the hell out of there?
What are you gonna do?
And uh if well, here's the thing.
If I see things are gonna be really bad, I'm not gonna wait for the recommendation.
I don't wait for the right.
Look, I mean, it here at the end of the day, here's the question you gotta ask yourself.
And I listen, I get it.
I mean, and I talked about this last week.
The saddest thing when you see something like what happened in Texas happen is, you know, I know what it takes to get a home.
And people, it is their life in that home, their life's blood and energy and time.
I mean, it's their life's work in that home and everything they own in that home, and it it matters to people.
And to know that all that you work for is now gone is devastating.
That's why it's such devastation.
But at the end of the day, if you have a choice that you're gonna lose your home and the contents of your home or most of it, and you come out with your life, you know, to me, there's no there's no option.
There's no thinking, there's no thought to that decision.
You you save your life.
And so for those people that are being told to evacuate, my my strongest advice to you is I love you all.
I want you to survive first.
You know, material things can always be replaced.
You can't replace an individual.
And and before I I go, uh Sean, I would like to also mention uh uh about DACA.
Uh I'm a I came to this to our country when I was four and a half years old.
I believe wholeheartedly in what the president is doing.
And uh and I'm gonna explain to you real quick why.
My we uh we came from Cuba.
Uh my my father had the option to come here illegally.
He did not.
He waited from 1965 to 1968, working in fields uh at half rations to get here legally to come to this country and live the American dream legally, not illegally.
Listen, I gotta run.
I gotta tell you about life lock here, but I can say I think most of us relate to that story.
Yes, I agree legally.
My grandparents all came from Ireland, no money, no real chance of a of a much better life.
They worked their fingers to the bone.
They and we their hope and dreams were for their kids and grandkids, and we all stand on their shoulders.
And that's why I always say they were far better people than I am.
And uh they gave me every opportunity I have in my life, and and you know, I'm very grateful to their sacrifice.
That's what love is.
That's what families do.
Uh anyway, good call.
Appreciate it.
I hope people pay very close attention.
We'll obviously have more on the program as we get closer to this Hurricane Irma.
We're gonna stay on it.
We'll have more tonight on Hannity.
All right, Hannity, tonight, 10 Eastern Fox News Channel.
We'll have obviously the very, very latest with uh all the reporters on the ground with Hurricane Irma, Joe Bostardi, Adam Housley is gonna be in the Florida Keys tonight.
They're in great danger.
They have an evacuation order in place.
Uh Rick Reichmouth is gonna join us.
We also have uh Newt Gringrich will weigh in on the DACA hypocrisy, and then we'll check in with Laura Ingram.
We'll have more on Hurricane Irma and Luke Rosiak and Sarah Carter.
