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Uh I the left in this country is now unhinged.
I said so many times, journalism is dead.
They're ideologically agenda-driven.
They don't care about telling you the truth.
No wonder they want shows like this off the air.
They can't tolerate that we expose them for who they are.
What they have been doing as it relates to this tragic shooting in Vegas and how their natural impulse and instinct is to politicize a tragedy before any information is available is so quintessentially typical now.
They do the same thing in Puerto Rico.
The president's in Puerto Rico today.
He'll be where we are in Vegas tomorrow, and there's nothing in their minds this president can do right.
I've got a lot to say about this.
When I when I give you this information, your jaws are gonna just drop open because it's so it's like a bunch of group think.
It's like an instinct now.
They all think the same.
They all tweet each other, they all think that they're smarter.
They all live in New York and and DC and Los Angeles and San Francisco, and they have no idea how real Americans think.
They still don't understand the outcome of the election.
It's so bad.
Now, before I do that, I had John Rich and Kaya Jones on Hannity last night, and we if you didn't see it, I'm gonna show it again tonight.
It was a little over an hour before this terrible event took place.
And what big and rich, Kenny, you know, they're friends of mine.
We've had them on the show just fairly recently, as a matter of fact, uh, about their new single California.
And every show they invite military people up.
They hand them the microphone, they let them tell their stories.
By the way, kind of doves dovetails a little bit into this whole NFL issue, which we haven't been spending a whole lot of time talking about.
And oh, it was so nice of ESPN to change course, and they decided to air the national anthem on Monday Night Football only because of the Vegas shooting.
Oh, so nice of them to change course.
Anyway, uh so what they do, they invite the military up.
The crowd was almost 30,000 people that this guy was firing at.
Frankly, with 59 dead and 20 uh 529 injured, and he's firing an automatic weapon, which is illegal.
Yeah, it's illegal already.
Then you just gotta sit and and wonder.
I mean, everybody in that huge crowd, it's almost like they're all sitting ducks.
It's unbelievable.
And what the cops did to stop this guy is even more courageous and unbelievable.
But Just before, now a little over an hour before that crowd was singing God bless America.
And the entire crowd.
And we put it up on my website, Hannity.com.
The entire crowd picked up their cell phones in unison.
And you can hear them singing this.
I've now probably watched this 50 times.
I've tweeted it out at Sean Hannity on Twitter.
I put it up on Annity.com.
I'm gonna show it again on TV tonight, nine Eastern.
I just want to play the audio version and show you this.
You know what?
There's not one person there that was being asked if they're a Republican or Democrat, a liberal or a conservative.
They're our fellow Americans, and they came under fire because evil exists in this world.
I want you to listen to this.
Sing God bless America.
Land in that pillow.
Steady shining and gather.
Through the night with the light.
From above.
From the mountain.
To the prairie.
To the old songs.
White with gold.
Sing it now.
Sing.
I bless America.
My home sweet home.
Come on, baby.
Sing.
I bless America.
My home sweet home.
I bless America.
If that doesn't move you, nobody that got shot that night was...
This wasn't political.
Whatever the agenda this shooter might have had, I don't know.
And this gets to my biggest complaint in all of this.
And that is the natural first instinct of those on the left is to politicize a tragedy and try and score cheap political points.
That's not where my mind naturally goes when something horrible happens.
I don't think it's where the minds of normal people go.
Thank you.
But that's where the left is.
It's for them.
They they wake up in the morning as Newt Gingrich who will join us in the next hour, said, Oh, how can we hate Trump today?
How can we hate conservatives today?
How can we try and bring him down today?
And it's just gotten worse and worse and worse.
You know, let me give you an example.
Hillary Clinton does a podcast on Monday.
Uh Republicans in the NRA are complicit in gun violence.
What is she really saying here?
They're responsible for what happened in Vegas.
Listen.
Do you feel like they're complicit, the GOP, the NRA, and the gun epidemic we're seeing in America?
Of course they are.
Of course they are.
You know, the Brady Bill actually kept two million guns out of the hands of people who weren't supposed to have them.
If we had gone forward with the uh background check capacity that we should have had, uh, and that it was up to date, my gosh, we computerize everything, and we can't computerize that.
Dylan Roof was never supposed to get that gun that he used to kill people at Mother Emmanuel uh church in Charleston because he had a pre-existing uh arrest that should have disqualified him.
But the system, you know, is deliberately kept all creaky and slow.
We don't even allow people to get federal funds to look into uh gun deaths, and what makes uh you know some people more inclined to reach for a gun and how we keep guns out of the hands of you know criminals and uh the mentally ill.
One of the first things Trump did when he became president was to undo the regulation from the Obama era, so you know mental health records no longer prevent you from buying a gun.
In fact, Being blind does not not any longer prevent you from buying buying a gun.
I mean, this is beyond absurd.
This is evil.
This is nothing but pure unadulterated greed motivated by people who want to sell as many guns as they can to engage in a falsity of fear and rhetoric about uh why everybody has to have guns.
And you know, there's just the evidence is just so clear that more guns do not keep you safer.
Uh, and more guns in the wrong hands lead to uh terrible incidents.
But you know, we've had two hundred and what, seventy-three events in this past year of mass shootings, which means four or more killed.
So, yes, we see the horrors of Las Vegas.
It happens every day.
It's part of the 91 people who get killed every single day by guns.
It just is a lie.
It is a fabrication.
It is for a political cause that she says that.
And it is universally echoed.
The Democratic Party has their own, their own press office, and it's called the mainstream media, because all they do is echo whatever their talking points are on any given day.
And that's the New York Times.
That's the Washington Post, that's ABC, MBC, CBS.
It's certainly CNN.
I don't even know why CNN is actually running.
Donald Trump is in Puerto Rico.
He's handing out aid supplies.
The reception he has gotten was over the top positive.
And people were literally clapping and hooraying that he was there.
The whole story that was told this weekend, the whole narrative by the left, especially on that channel, CNN and NBC, they were lying to the American people the whole weekend long.
And all last week, and I'll get to that later.
You know, but it is now it's picked up to the point where it is basically all the people here.
You've got Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator, in action on gun control, is sending an unintentional endorsement.
He basically is saying, well, if you support the second amendment, you're pretty much responsible too.
Basically, what Hillary's saying.
Notice they all echo the same talking points.
Uh another story.
After Made in America mass murder, Tom Brokaw urges viewers to organize against the NRA.
I thought the media was supposed to be fair and balanced.
When are they ever going to put John Lott on?
He wrote the book More Guns, Less Crime.
You know, I said last night on TV, and I got criticized for it.
I I said if I was in San Bernardino, not at the Bandalay Bay incident.
I said to Laura Ingram, I said, if I was there, when they dropped their clips and had to reload, and I've been trained in the use of a firearm my entire life.
Do you want me in the room with a firearm?
If you're somebody that's in that room, I do.
Because during the reloading process is when you can save lives.
You have at least a shot instead of being there for the slaughter.
See, Jimmy Kimmel now, I guess he got good ratings the last time he brought up politics.
Let's might as well double down on politics.
The GOP should pray for God to forgive them.
They helped cause the shooting.
Jimmy, they did not cause somebody to be evil and deranged.
That'd be like some, well, they caused 9-11.
Well, maybe if we're going to use that logic when Kim Jong-un uses nuclear weapons, and as I CBMs, can you are you gonna blame Bill Clinton who told the American people it was a great deal because of bribery efforts didn't work?
Will you blame Obama when the Iranian deal blows up as well?
We've got to have some level of consistency here.
Keith Oberman, the NRA is a terrorist organization that enables massacres.
On the view, they said the killing of fellow Republicans won't spur GOP to action on guns.
You know, of course, everybody that likes country music has to be a Republican.
Brian Williams pushing gun control during an interview.
Trevor Noir, I've never been to a country where people are so afraid to speak about guns.
What do you mean we speak about it as nauseum?
But there is a time and a place.
Bodies weren't Even cold in the morgue, for God's sakes, and parents are standing outside praying on their knees that their children that were shot clinging to life may survive.
These people are so twisted and sick.
Seth Myers to Congress, I'd be more honest.
It'd be more honest for you to admit he wouldn't take any action.
You know something?
Bill Clinton was president, the Murrah building, fertilizer.
And uh what else do they use with the fertilizer?
Um ammonia used to blow up the building.
Is fertilizer still for sale?
It's unbelievable.
They don't understand that evil comes from somebody's heart, and if they're not going to use a gun, then they're gonna use a truck or a car or a bomb that they make, or a suicide weapon, or a pressure cooker like they did in Boston with the marathon there.
Because evil is in their heart.
It's so despicable.
And then, of course, tweeting out well, pray only Trump Tards died, or the CBS lawyer.
No sympathy for Vegas victims.
They're all probably Republicans.
Hey, white supremacist, Trump's supporters of being killed in the Vegas massacre.
Well, these people nauseate me.
They lied about this case.
I'll give you the truth about Puerto Rico too.
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All right, as we roll along from Vegas, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941 Sean Tollfree telephone number, worst mass shooting in American history.
We do have a history that we're going to break down.
Um, and we have many guests, New Gingrichway's in today.
We'll also have Kaya Jones, maybe John Rich together.
They sang, God bless America about an hour before all this went down, and a fascinating story about what they had to do.
We'll get to the president on Puerto Rico also today.
Uh, and we have a debate on that and much, much more.
Some new information.
We you know, I'm a little bit stunned that it's taking so long to get information here.
And a part of me is always suspicious when it's slow like this.
Um, what do the authorities know at this point?
One thing that the New York Post has pointed out is this madman shooter, Stephen Paddock set up a camera inside his hotel room to capture the deadly shooting rampage.
He also set up other surveillance in the hallway to alert him as cops closed in on him, according to reports.
And the shooter had at least one lens set up to tape himself as he's unleashing evil and hell on thousands of unsuspecting concert goers at just several hundred yards below his ritzy casino suite.
And apparently, knowing the cops would eventually want to be catching up with him, he wired cameras in the hallway on the outside of his room so he could see when they were getting close.
And he killed 59 people, 530 or so injured, many hanging for their lives, hanging on for their lives as we speak.
All right, we'll get to all of this.
We're gonna give you the story behind God Bless America, and I'm gonna get into the reception of the president in Puerto Rico and the lie that is being told there as well.
We have other stories about how this is all being politicized and the rush and the race.
So, you know, let's forget about the families and the victims.
Let's turn this into a gun control debate.
It's only five seconds after it happened.
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All right, 25 till the top of the hour from Vegas, our affiliate news talk 720 KDWNity tonight on the Fox News channel, and we're literally gonna be within distance of the where the crime scene took place.
And uh we'll show you you know what we're gonna do?
We're gonna do what the mainstream media is not gonna do.
And we're just gonna point out their hypocrisy, how they politicize these things, which is beyond breathtakingly disgusting and shameful on their part.
Uh And our thoughts and prayers go out to the people in Vegas and the families and the mothers and fathers that are praying their kids will be able to survive this evil that happened the other night.
And the families that lost loved ones.
Unbelievable.
You know, there was an incredible moment, though.
About a little over an hour, well, a little over an hour before this mass shooting took place.
Incredible moment.
And Big and Rich have a what they've done now over a thousand shows is they bring up military people.
People that have served this country that give us the liberties and freedoms we all enjoy to pursue our dreams and live in safe communities and and pursue the the lives we want because they're sacrifice.
Anyway, they tell their stories, and then they lead the entire crowd, this nearly 30,000 people, and singing God Bless America.
If you didn't see it last night, we're going to show it in its entirety.
And it just when I first saw it, it's er I watched it 50 times, and it gives me chills every time I see it.
And the whole crowd has their phones up, and it's dark.
And you see everybody's cell phone.
Nobody's a Republican or a Democrat or a liberal or a conservative.
They're Americans singing God bless this country.
Let me play it for you.com.
We'll show it on Hannity tonight, the TV show, nine Eastern, six o'clock uh here in Vegas.
Kaya Jones was uh is a friend of both mine and John Rich and and Kenny, Big and Rich.
And anyway, she was on stage when all that happened.
Her best friend actually took this video and and graciously made it available to us so we can show everybody what was an incredible moment just an hour before all this happened, and she joins us now.
She is a Vegas resident, and uh I I can't stop watching it, Kai.
I just have to see it again and again.
Yeah, well, you know what?
The reason for that is because they're blessing our country.
All of us are blessing the country in that moment.
You know, that's that's why incredibly beautiful moment of God bless America.
We're all singing for us to bless our nation.
And you know, it it was moved and it still is moving.
To think that moments later, innocent people, part of that group would be gunned down, literally, moments later.
So it's a really intense thing to know that because watching it, it just feels like a perfect unifying moment.
It's a it's a it's a blessing.
So after all that happened, both you and my buddy John Rich, you had left the the concert area.
You hear the shooting, you hear what's going on, and you guys got in a lockdown situation yourself.
Tell us what happened.
Well, we had you know, we were barricaded into um, you know, basically John's bar because we were told that there were three active shooters on the strip.
We didn't know different, so as far as we were concerned, we had to lock up.
We had one gun for all of us in there, fifty to seventy-five people in this bar barricaded in, hoping like this is not true.
There's not active shooters that are coming down the Las Vegas trip.
It was really scary because in real time we were also seeing SWAT.
You know, Big Kenny was on the bus.
He couldn't get off of the bus.
They wouldn't allow it.
Yeah.
What what's the name?
I didn't even know John owned a bar in Vegas.
What's the name?
Is it a country bar?
Oh, um, what's John's a country bar's name?
Why am I blanking right now?
Redneck Riviera.
That's uh that's neck.
That's where that's where the Florida Bama is uh on the on the Florida uh Alabama line down south.
But um all right, so here it was here is um I guess what I'm asking is so then you got barricaded in and tell us what happened when I guess it was uh an FBI off-duty FBI guy came up to you guys, right?
Yeah, he came up to John and said, Um, yeah, hi Mr. Rich, you know, I'm on my honeymoon.
I'm not carrying, I'm you know, an active officer and showed his credentials.
You know, are you carrying?
That's what he asked John.
And John was the only one in the entire place carrying, which isn't crazy to think that he was the only one, and then he, after checking his credentials, handed his firearm over to the officer to protect us, and he did, you know, because he's a better person with the gun.
So he probably got a better shot and you know, can handle the situation.
So he had trust in him to hand it over, which is amazing to do because that's scary.
I remember looking at John and he goes, I feel a little nervous, but you know what?
He's the right one to have it right now.
And um, you know, we were getting calls, literally calls from friends, texts.
They were, you know, at the Belagia, or they were over at Mandalay Bay, or they were, you know, barricaded behind the stage.
Um, people were, you know, shot and dead around them, or around the stage area where they're barricaded behind the stage.
DJ Silver's wife and baby is on the 32nd floor beside the shooter, the next room over.
So hearing those kinds of things and realizing that oh my god, like is his kid and his wife okay?
Is he gonna be okay?
Um people that we had met and uh down at at the festival, um, you know, had been killed.
So it's just very intense to know that you're getting.
I mean, I had my old assistant.
She reached out and said, Oh my god, are you okay?
I I'm bruised up.
I you know, she got trampled by trying to run.
You know, and then my first boyfriend ever hearing that he was helping people and he was covered in blood.
Well, Kaya, we'll see uh you on TV tonight.
We're gonna play that entire song again, and I know people want to see it.
I can't see enough of it.
And um, they were blessing our nation.
I think it it was that's what we need to take away.
It shows you how precarious life is.
If you're there an hour later, you're in the middle of all that.
It's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
None of us thought that, and none of those people, the 59 that are confirmed dead, thought that was the last time they would sing that song.
So it's an honor that they blessed our nation with their voice that night.
All right, Kaya Jones, thanks for being with us.
Uh Newt Gingrich weighs in on this at the top of the hour.
You know, I just think things have just gotten so bad.
You know, I've mentioned all of those in the political world.
Then you've got, of course, Hollywood and the entertainment world.
You know, Lady Gaga, like we really need lectures from Lady Gaga.
Does she have armed bodyguards when she's on the road?
I bet she does.
Anyone gonna do an investigation, Lady Gaga?
Prayers are important, but Speaker Ryan and Donald Trump's blood is on the hands of those who have the power to legislate.
Gun control act quickly.
Wonder if she ever hired a bodyguard that's armed.
Let's see, Gigi Hadid or whatever her name is.
Haddad Hadid, I don't know.
I feel like every day more shocking and sad, etc.
And it sickens me the ease with which a terrorist can be sold a gun.
You know, is the ease really worth these lives?
This needs to well stop.
Do you have as you ever had an armed bodyguard?
Alyssa Milano, sensible gun control.
Do you have armed bodyguards?
You know, Cheryl Crow making the same, you know, type of thing.
Sophia Bush, dear Donald, F you for this.
Truly sincerely.
Wow.
These Hollywood people are so nice.
They're so loving and accepting of other people's views.
Uh hold them accountable.
You know, the GOP.
And I could just keep going.
You know, the problem is I don't even know half of these these idiots that call themselves celebrities.
Because I'm really not interested.
Anyone care that that Saturday Night Live is sunk to a new low, calling the president a cheap cracker and a bitch.
That's Saturday Night Live.
So nice of them.
Cheap cracker and a bitch.
MBC.
You proud of that?
People proud of the fact that Melania's books are rejected by a librarian.
You know.
No wonder why these people are trying so hard every day to get me fired.
It's, you know, I guess I'm a threat to them because their views are insane.
And they only want one view.
I'll give you an example of what's happening in in Puerto Rico.
You know, this whole issue in Puerto Rico.
The president went there today and he got standing ovations handing out food and supplies that was there from the beginning because they had pre-positioned it.
The media's been lying there too.
One of the worst hurricanes, 200 mile an hour winds.
You look at it, and all the vital infrastructure, the power grid gone, water supplies gone, cell phone service gone, airports and roads damaged.
They had pre-positioned food, water, medicine supplies, and it was immediately getting out there.
There's 15,000 federal workers, military FEMA workers on the ground and have been on the ground, distributing the supplies that our our friends and family in Puerto Rico need.
And there's one, you know, but again, you have the mayor of San Juan was more interested in doing television interviews.
I what I love the most is her sitting in front of pallets of supplies.
She's not distributing them.
She's complaining.
Oh, they're not doing give out the supplies that are right behind you.
Turns out she wants to run for governor.
Well, the neighboring mayor, the governor of Puerto Rico, and every other politician has been thanking the president for all that he did.
She just wants to run, so she tried to run against Donald Trump.
That didn't work out well.
In the middle of last week, I think it was Wednesday.
There was a report in Stars and Stripe about Lieutenant General Jeffrey Buchanan, U.S. Army North Commander, and Colonel Jim Marin, a 165th airlift wing commander, and how they were taking over command of the military portion of the rescue relief operations in Puerto Rico.
This was the middle of last week.
Now remember the islands devastated, and the Pentagon had deployed literally 5,000 troops in the middle of all this.
That doesn't include FEMA people.
And Lieutenant General Buchanan took command, the military portion of the command and rescue relief operations.
This was a category five storm.
The Navy lieutenant commander, Jim Noraki, a spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command, Buchanan's a 35-year infantry officer who led troop through troops through four tours of Iraq and served as a senior commander in Afghanistan.
He's now been down the ground helping the people of Puerto Rico.
We've got our the best people possible helping.
His deployment came after the Army had sent Brigadier General Rich Kim to Puerto Rico to head up the and lead the land-based forces in operation, you know, which had shifted primarily from the Navy ship-based response to the disaster.
But all the food, water, medicines, and supplies were there.
And yet everybody started he's not in Puerto Rico.
He was so in Puerto Rico.
And what about San Juan's Trump fashing mayor wouldn't show up for any meetings, including with FEMA or help in any way.
My favorite picture, her standing in front of pallets and pallets of supplies that the federal government had sent and trying to politicize this.
It's unbelievable.
Now Puerto Rico's on the road to recovery.
Forty-seven percent of residents now have running water.
It's going to be 60 or 70% by the end of the week, according to the governor.
50% of people in Puerto Rico now have their cell service.
The electric grid is going to need to be rebuilt.
You know, that's going to take a little while, but they're doing everything they can do.
The president got a standing ovation.
Everybody wanted a selfie with him today, and people were applauding him.
And the president, on top of everything else, is adding 10 to 15 billion dollars and more disaster aid.
Yeah, that sounds like a really racist president to me.
And everybody in the media, they ran with the same lying narrative.
Jumped to politicize everything.
Apparently they did have some trouble with trucks, and apparently a lot of the truckers weren't available, and that became a problem.
So the military started airlifting the food to areas that needed it.
So disgusting.
This is the world we live in.
New Gingrich is going to join us when we come back.
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Also be checking in with some of our police experts, what the police were able to pull off getting to that 30-second floor, breach into the the room of the shooter is pretty miraculous to save lives.
Maybe we'll wait the next time, not rush to judgment if there's an incident about police and give them the assumption of innocence before we just scream guilty.
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We've been going over with great specificity and detail this impulse, immediate impulse.
We have 59 people dead.
We have 530 people in a hospital, many clinging to life, and within seconds and hours, the rush, the race to politicize the event and immediately turn this into a gun control debate is beyond nauseating.
I just spent the last half hour giving out facts about the truth about 15,000 federal workers, including military leaders, some of our best commanders on the ground leading the efforts.
And but for one mayor, everybody thanked the president, gave him a standing ovation today, wanted selfies with him as the president was handing out supplies, and the mayor of San Juan standing in front of pallets and pallets of food and water and medicine and supplies that she should have been distributing, criticizing the president.
But she didn't have time to go to the FEMA meetings on how to best get this assistance that had been prepositioned by the federal government to the people of Puerto Rico.
Anyway, joining us now, former speaker of the House, New Gingrich is with us.
Mr. Speaker, how are you?
Glad you could uh join us from Vegas today.
Well, listen, I'm I'm uh delighted to join you, and I think this this whole story in Puerto Rico is a perfect example of what's wrong with the system.
Here's a mayor who is elected by local folks who's supposed to be in charge of solving a local problem.
And she is instead, as you point out, not going to the meetings, not involved in the help, uh, and and grandstanding, I think because she wants to run for governor.
She does want to run for governor, Geraldo told me.
Yeah.
So I I think it's a situation which ended up uh frankly making her look bad.
And as a often happens when you're dealing, you know, with Trump, it turns out in the long run, he was right and she was wrong.
You know, all the supplies were there.
I I can't believe she's standing in front of pallets of supplies that we sent and and yelling at the president instead of giving the food, the water, the medicine, the supplies to the people.
It's pretty it's pretty spectacular.
Of course, part of the well, part of the problem, of course, is the people are hurting and people are scared.
And I saw the president talk to one guy today who still has no electricity, and that's in a pretty urban area.
I mean, it's much worse in rural Puerto Rico.
And so being a local politician, she could say, Oh, I could take the blame, or I could blame somebody else.
And so instead of trying to help solve the problem, she tried to dump the blame on the president.
One of the things about by the way, this is this is this the third, you know, you had Texas, Louisiana, then you had Florida, now you have Puerto Rico, and I think overall that um the system has worked surprisingly well considering how much strain is under.
Yeah.
There's an enormously difficult problem.
Well, what's amazing is you know, because they had uh everything pre-positioned, which the same tactics, the same strategies that they use for Texas and Florida, they used for Puerto Rico, what they did is they had Navy ships literally that were positioned, uh, with food, water, medicine supplies, everything they knew that they were gonna need in an in a safe area, and as soon as the hurricane passes, remember this was a Cat 5, this was a disastrous hurricane.
Then those supplies were instantaneously brought in.
You've got Lieutenant General Jeffrey Buchanan, U.S. Army North Commander, and Colonel Jim Marin, 165th Airlift Wing Commander, as of Wednesday of last week, they had 5,000 troops on the ground, and when they weren't able to get get through the some of the roads were unpassable, they started airlifting to the areas that most needed the help.
Yeah, and I think this will continue.
I have a paper which I've been sharing at the White House and which I'm going to post tomorrow on Fox News.com and it'll be my newsletter at Ginners Productions.
And it basically talks about how do we once we get past this first phase of recovery, how do we start setting the stage for really helping create a 21st century Puerto Rico that can be truly prosperous and uh not just going back and fixing old obsolete infrastructure which was frankly crumbling before the hurricane, but instead taking this as an opportunity to really bring a dramatically better future to the people of Puerto Rico.
And I think uh I think we have the potential to do that, and we have the potential to leave them with a both a dramatically improved economy and a dramatically improved infrastructure.
You know, one of the things that I was actually very impressed with, considering you're right.
I mean, all the infrastructure was knocked out, the electrical grid was was knocked out, everything that people needed, the island, the the vital infrastructure, uh the power grid, the water, the cell phone.
Already they've been able to get more than half the residents now have running water.
Uh that's gonna be about 60, 70 percent by the end of this week.
Uh the governor said that nearly 50 percent of people now have the cell so cell phone servers back.
It's gonna obviously take a while for the electric grid to get back on track, but you know, I watched the reception the president got today, and it was unbelievable.
Everywhere he went, people were so thankful for what he had done, and clearly they recognized that there was a disparity between the words of a politician and what the president had actually accomplished.
Well, I think if if you have your entire island totally devastated and you see help coming in, uh you are so grateful because you know that the alternative was you know, potentially your family having no water, having no food.
Uh I mean the people really were right at the edge of desperation.
And I might point out, by the way, as we watch the impact of having no electricity, uh, my good friend who you know, Bill Fortune wrote a book a few years back called One Second After, which really uh describes life in a North Carolina town after an electromagnetic pulse attack takes out the electricity system.
And we we tend to forget how really dependent we are on electricity and how much that is part of what defines civilization in the modern world.
And I think there's a warning here for the whole country that we should be hardening our electricity capabilities because we both have the danger of a man-made electromagnetic pulse attack like North Korea, and we have the danger of a natural solar attack such as happened in 1859.
Let me uh before I get to everything that has happened.
I agree totally with you, and I think that is part of your defense course that I I highly urge people to go to the link and and and listen to you as you go into your professor mode.
I want to play for you, Jennifer Gonzalez Cologne.
Now she and every other mayor and the governor were praising the president.
I just want to play her comments and some of the applause for the president as well.
Listen to this.
The third thing is that uh before we were hit by Maria, we were hit by uh Irma.
And during that time, before the hurricane, he was FEMA acting together with a lot of employees.
More than 4,000 people were here in the island from the different uh uh branches of the military, HHS, Navy, Army, uh, FEMA, and all the staff working together before the hurricane hit.
They were here before, during, after the first hurricane, and they continue to stay in the island, boots on the ground during Maria.
Same thing.
I think we never got them the the level of communication within the federal government and the local government, like never before.
And we are in the path of the hurricane.
So we are used to receiving hurricanes, but never before a category five.
The mind of devastation, it's unheard of.
But during all this time, we got the federal government by our side doing the job with the people here, like you in the military doing all that is been asked all the questions, and and we asked that the governor did the president and his cabinet, uh, accomplish it and send more people, and it's continued to send in more people, trucks, drivers, and resources.
thank you mr president for all you've been doing for the island That's pretty amazing.
All right, I wanna uh I'm in Vegas today, uh, Mr. Speaker, and look, we've seen a lot of tragedy shootings under many presidents, and there is evil in our time, and we all go through it.
You know, I could give out the history of all of this, but I can tell you everybody in Hollywood and everybody in the news media and everybody in democratic politics.
What do you make of this initial impulse?
They're not thinking about, oh my gosh, we have to help our fellow Americans.
The impulse is to politicize the tragedy.
The impulse is to attack the president.
The impulse is to blame conservatives that believe in the second amendment for what happened here.
Well, I mean, look, um, first of all, part of that's just standard.
Uh, there is a part of the reason I developed the course uh in Defending America, which people can see at Defending America Course dot com is because you have this unending assault on the second amendment by people who don't understand why it's there and don't understand its purpose.
Uh, but it was written there by the founding fathers to literally preserve our political freedom.
These are these are people who have seen that uh with the farmers at Lexington and Concord had not had the right to bear arms, uh, we would have still been a colony of Great Britain.
And so they you know, they didn't just write that in uh for hunting or for uh you know ski shooting.
They they wrote that in as a political statement that the the f that a free people have to have the right to defend themselves.
Now, I have to tell you, uh Sean, I think this this event is so horrendous.
Uh I mean it resembles the although one man was that was responsible, uh, but it resembles the attack in Paris on the nightclub and uh where all the people were shot.
I mean, I I can't I can't quite get my head around this many dead and and this many wounded.
Um, and and the viciousness and the deliberation of somebody who clearly had premeditated renting those rooms, uh looking for apparently a country in Western events.
Um I mean you you the whole thing is so bizarre that I I've been bite biting my tongue because I know that I don't understand it yet, and I know that there's something here uh as the president said that was total evil, but but there's something here that just doesn't fit.
You know, you you when you live in a rational world, you know, you know I agree with that.
And then I I want to know I want to know more about I want to know more about this guy and why he did what he did.
All right, Mr. Speaker, we always love having you and uh your defense course is up on my website, Hannity.com.
Uh we expect a little bit of a presser coming up here.
We'll be dipping in and out perhaps.
Uh, and uh Newt Gingrich has been uh amazing in his analysis pretty much on everything we've been talking about lately.
We need to get this information out.
We'll take a quick break, early break.
Uh we'll come back, we'll see what's uh said in the latest in this briefing and much more as we continue from Vegas.
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The very latest Sheriff Joseph Lombardo is with the Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, an update on the shooting from uh Here's what he has to say.
Okay, so as matters uh formality, our department has worked through the night to identify all the victims of Sunday evening's mass shooting en route at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
We have identified all but three victims.
We still have an active scene at the grounds near Mandalay Bay, so we ask anyone to stay away from that area until further notice.
The FBI is working diligently to clear that scene.
So the question is the FBI versus us.
Um we have uh partnered with the FBI, as I said from the very beginning of this in the investigative phase.
The FBI has brought uh a large amount of resources out of Washington, DC to assist us with that.
Um so we the reason why the Harvest Festival is still in continuation of investigation, is not only solely uh related to the removal of the victims, but it's also documentation of the scene.
Uh so we're using um the best practice technology to ensure that we have complete documentation.
That's why it is taking a longer period of time associated with this.
So we we ask for everybody's patience as far as Las Vegas Boulevard, uh north and south, uh, we anticipate to be open in shortly in the next few hours to benefit with commerce and what we do as a community.
All right, the the key component here is resources and victim identification.
So uh bear with me.
Um I'm gonna try to get them through this the best I can.
But the important piece is if you missed a number, um, we are putting up on LBMPD.com in the next hour the listing of all numbers I shall provide you today, and for people out in the public uh to contact us if they are lacking this or they don't see this broadcast.
Okay, we're asking for anyone who might have information about the shooting in a criminal capacity or is a victim of the shooting to contact us via 311.
If you are out of state, if you have left since um the shooting, and you have discovered you are you you feel that you have become a victim or you have you realize you have an injury associated to it, um we're still asking you to contact us, but the out-of-state number will be 702-828-311.
Additionally if you are local and you have the ability to respond to a local substation, a working police substation, um locals are familiar with, you have the ability to file a report at that location.
Now the family reunification.
All that is occurring at the family resource center at the convention center located at 3150 Paradise Road.
You can go there to file a missing person report, you can go there to have contact with the coroner's office, and you go there to get answers to your questions as far as family reunification.
The phone number, if you have left the area, is 1-866-535-5654.
Now we went through a little short process here recently where that number was down.
We provided a separate number, uh, but we will go back to that original number because we have the technical aspects of that fixed.
So I want to be very clear on the difference.
If you are reporting a crime or you feel you are a victim of a crime, 311 is your outlet or a local police substation.
If you are looking for victim information, or if that's the very latest, any more information comes out there, we'll make sure it's available for you.
800 9.1 Sean, our number.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaker to House Paul Ryan, a number of other lawmakers who won't do anything about this because the NRA has their balls in a money clip, also sent their thoughts and their prayers today, which uh is is good.
They should be praying.
They should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby lobby run this country.
Why don't we act?
What uh what is the problem?
What was it about first graders losing their lives that wasn't sad enough to result in changes?
Because when you say, which you always say, now is not the time to talk about it.
What you really mean is there is never a time to talk about it.
And it would be so much more honest if you would just admit that your plan is to never talk about it and never take any action.
The NRA has just incredible grip on the Republican Party, and our job is going to be to turn NRA and into not relevant anymore in American politics.
Some say it's too early to talk about gun control.
For those victims last night, it's far too late.
Guns.
I've never been to a country where people are as afraid to speak about guns.
Every time there's a shooting, you gotta look at something else.
Is it Muslims?
Is it their religion?
Is that what it is?
Is it blacks?
It's the blacks.
It's the black on black crime.
Do you feel like they're complicit, the GOP, the NRA, and the gun epidemic we're seeing in America?
Of course they are.
Of course they are.
We have to act.
This is not just one time.
We have enough data and enough evidence to know what we have to do.
We have a moral responsibility to do something.
Otherwise, we are failing.
We are failing the people of this country whose lives are at stake.
There's no reason Americans should have military-styled weapons in their position.
No reason whatsoever.
Why do we have a group of laws?
A guy can have 20 weapons, 25 weapons like this, and literally kill kill, just go hunting for human beings like he did a couple of nights ago.
Reinstate the assault weapons ban, or come up with a better answer.
Anything but nothing.
Doing nothing is cowardice.
Thoughts and prayers are good, but they're simply not enough.
Thoughts and prayers are not enough when more moms and dads will bury their children this week, and thoughts and prayers are not enough.
When sons and daughters will be forced to grow up without their parents.
Attacks like we have seen today have happened all too often in America.
This is going to reopen the debate over guns in this country.
Well, it is, but I think it's really important to make sure we do it accurately.
I think this is time for a national dialogue that we can have in a calm and reasonable way in which the country can figure out how come we have so many mass shootings in this country.
We can't have that conversation because it immediately becomes so emotional between the gun owners of America who are protected by the NRA and other people who are saying there ought to be a more reasonable middle ground.
What Congress must do is pass laws to keep our citizens safe.
And that starts with laws that help prevent guns, especially the most dangerous guns from falling into the wrong hands.
We saw this evil in Newtown just a few years ago.
Nothing has changed since Newtown.
Congress has been complicit.
We also ought to be angry.
In fact, I'm furious that Congress has been complicit.
Now is the time for action.
You want to make America great again?
Do something the last two presidents haven't been able to do.
Pass any kind of common sense gun control legislation.
So the people of Las Vegas, I can't give you thoughts and prayers.
I can only say that I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that we live in a world where there are people who will put a gun before your lives.
All right, toll-free telephone number remains the same.
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Uh Cadon Radio, where Vegas comes to talk, and uh they have been so hospitable here, but it's this impulse.
People's bodies aren't even cold yet.
Families waiting in hospital waiting rooms, their kids hanging and clinging to life to politicize tragedy.
And as I said earlier, I'm gonna stand by this.
You know, I I remember when I went on my book tour, deliver us from evil and defeating terrorism and despotism and liberalism.
Because there's a mindset that thinks that you can capitulate to evil.
You know, the whole thing, the whole deal, Bill Clinton said, There's a gun deal for the American people.
I described Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un's father, and I gave him a lot of billions of dollars and gave him energy and all this stuff, and and now we have peace.
Well, that's like peace in our time, Neville Chamberlain, and it does it.
You cannot appease evil.
You can't negotiate with it, you can't appease it, you must identify it.
And ultimately, when you identify evil, you've got to defeat it.
And the same thing is is with the Iranian deal.
And the same thing is on a level like this.
If you have in your heart you wanna slaughter and murder innocent people, there are all sorts of ways that you can figure out.
It's it's astonishing how evil minds can work.
If they ever put their minds towards more productive endeavors in their life, it's amazing what they might be able to accomplish.
You know, maybe making the world a better place.
So they're just trying to make it a place that they themselves they benefit.
And whatever sick twisted reason.
Oh, look, you have evil.
Somebody that could offend a little child or sexually abuse a child that is evil in our time.
Any man that would ever rape a woman that's evil in our time.
Is it not evil when somebody murders an innocent person?
Or you see video tapes capturing young kids beating up old people because they need $20 to go buy their next fix and their next heroin fix or crack fix or whatever it happens to be.
All of those instances are evil.
The last hundred years of human history, when you figure all the evil that the United States was involved in fighting back on fascism, Nazism, former Soviet Union, communism, Imperial Japan, the killing fields in Cambodia.
Well, that's about when you add up all the numbers, about a hundred million human souls.
So you can't tell me there's not evil.
So somebody, all right, in this instance, decided to use firearms to kill innocent people.
Well, similarly, what if what if he drove a truck through that crowd?
What if somebody built a bomb of some kind and got into the crowd?
I mean, there's there's all sorts of ways that you they'll figure it out.
And we see it all over the world.
We see it all across Europe.
We see it in the Middle East.
We see it in the United States.
My complaint is when you don't identify it for what it is.
But even with all that said, why is there this compulsion, this reflex, this it's sort of instantaneous.
Oh, people shot.
Let's blame let's blame guns.
Let's blame conservatives because they support guns.
And then let's even take it a step further.
Let's hope that um let's hope that some conservatives that it's only Trump supporters that die in this mess.
Let's go there.
Let's talk about that.
You know, after all, we they're the ones that wanted guns, but we might as well kill them in this process.
And that's the way that's so that's where some minds go in all of this.
That's how evil their minds are.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh joining us now, we have Dan Linski is with us.
He's the former chief of the Boston Police Department.
He's an incident commander during the Boston Marathon bombing attack and now managing director of Knoll, also with us is Rockingham County, North Carolina Sheriff Sam Page.
Thank you both for being with us.
Uh, Dan, I want to play this tape again of when the police scanner, when these cops actually made it to the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay, and and they have now had to go for a full breach.
I want you to listen to the bravery of these cops.
They knew this guy had an automatic weapon.
They knew that they were up against tremendous firepower, but they did it anyway, which is why we say policemen are are so courageous, because they are.
Just listen to this.
Listen to that, Jimmy.
It's coming from upstairs.
And be upstairs, Granley Bay, halfway up.
I see the shot coming from Gangulane Bay.
We have multiple casualties, GSW to the multiple casualties.
Just be advised, it is automatic fire.
Fully automatic fire from the elevator position.
Take cover.
Multiple GSW.
4-A.
Uncle Guy will sell Altrino.
I can get back.
We need to pop it and see what we can have a response from this guy.
Yeah, you didn't hear about that in the wild.
All right, Dan, you heard the they're outside this guy's door on a scale of one and a thousand.
I'd say in terms of danger, that's over a thousand.
Yeah, they're here in the back of my neck we're standing up.
You can tell the the the emotion, those officers' voices, the tension they're feeling.
And uh, you know, none of them ran away from that challenge.
They put themselves again between the bad guy and and this innocence that they were protecting.
Uh I wanted to go through the radio and stack up with them.
Um a lot of brave individuals did some great work there.
They they really did, and I don't know sometimes if we really give these guys the appreciation that they deserve.
Uh you heard that too, Sheriff Sam Page.
What do you think?
Absolutely.
Well, when I heard heard that, you know, I think back in the minute we've been on, but when you hear automatic fire and it um and you've got to make the breach, you've got to go because your you know, your first responsibility is stop that active shooter, and they went drove toward a threat and they stopped him.
You know, I want to ask you, Dan, because I lived on the Massachusetts Rhode Island border when uh, you know, back in the eighties, and every time I drive into Massachusetts, mandatory one year prison sentence.
If I happen to bring my legal gun, I had a license to carry in Rhode Island across the state line.
And uh I that you were in charge during the Boston Marathon bombing.
You were the incident commander at the time.
And isn't it true that if somebody has an evil intention in their heart, they're gonna configure some way, like they did the Sarnov brothers to injure innocent men, women, and children.
That's true.
Evil knows no bounds, Sean.
And um, you know, they went on the internet and and were able to buy uh items from um you know Costco's essentially, and then able to make a device that injured hundreds.
Uh so there there is uh other ways that people can can infect injury other than firearms.
I do think um, you know, there has to be responsible regulations.
I'm a little concerned about mental health, uh, where we you know, maybe people go to the hospital if you have a seizure and you get your driver's license taken away, but if you're paranoid schizophrenic and you know your doctor's aware of that, there's no notification process.
I'm all for uh making sure we support the rights of firearms, but I think there's some some uh leeway in the middle, but I don't know that the the time is now to be talking about it.
Uh I think the time is to be honoring the families and the victims, uh, figuring out what, why, and how, and then uh have that conversation down the road to see if we can come to middle ground on something.
Sheriff, what do you think?
Well, I I think that on this situation, and I agree, I agree with the former chief, is that right now the we've got nearly fifty what fifty-nine persons that were killed and over five hundred persons injured, their families.
That's what we need to be thinking about right now.
I thought some prayer to go out to them and support to them.
Yeah, that's you know, you would think that's where everybody's first thought and priority went.
You know, I hope the next time there's an incident and people are so quick to rush to judgment when it involves police officers, uh, they deserve the right and the assumption of innocence before proven guilty.
And I hope politicians won't rush to judgment like they did in Cambridge, like they did in in the in the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman case and the Ferguson case and the Baltimore case, like former President Obama did.
You know what?
It seems like we never give these guys a break and we forget what they do on 9-11.
We forget what they do did here at Mandalay Bay in Vegas.
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And we check in with Patty, she's in Vegas.
Patty, how are you?
Glad you called.
It's uh it says on my screen, your son was almost at that concert.
Yes, he was supposed to, but I something inside inside of me, not go.
My daughter goes every year, and she usually sits right up front.
And a friend of hers got her free tickets to Portland, so she didn't end up going to the concert.
I drove her to the airport that morning, and she's like, No, I think I'm gonna stay.
I go, No, just go.
Go to Portland and don't you there'll be a concert next year.
But she was there last year and the year before that, and the year before that, so it was like God gave us a little blessing that moment.
But it it breaks my heart to see that everybody's turning this into a uh a political anti-gun situation and how disrespectful people were the day of talking about it.
I was uh it was heartbreaking because here as a community we came together, we talked with uh a lot of our friends that are on Metro.
My husband's retired from the police department after 25 years on Metro.
So a lot of our friends ran toward to help, and it was just really upsetting to hear um a lot of stance that the liberals are taking on this and and the celebrities.
Stay out of it.
You if you don't have anything positive.
You gotta understand something.
This is their first impulse.
They're their first impulse is to politicize.
And You know, I our first instinct is, oh my God, is anybody hurt?
Oh my god, is there anything we can do to help?
Oh my god, you know, oh, now we're dealing with another madman.
That's not their first impulse.
You know, and the same thing politicizing Puerto Rico the way the left had.
They just lie.
And I know a lot of people have wanted this radio show to fail and want my television show to fail at its new time.
And one of the reasons is because they want a monopoly, control of the media, control of thought.
And, you know, and if we don't have alternative voices of truth and common sense, we're we're all screwed.
Because they just lie to us with regularity.
It's pretty despicable.
Pretty despicable, pretty low down.
All right, we'll take a quick break.
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You know, politicizing the shooting out here is only one issue.
And in the lead up to what has happened in Puerto Rico, there's a lot of politicizing there too.
And it's not surprising because, you know, in spite of what had been the most difficult circumstances, the government did, the federal government did exactly what they did with Hurricane Harvey, exactly what worked there, with exactly what worked with Irma, and they pre-positioned food and water and medicine and supplies and everything in between.
The island was pounded, a direct hit, category five, 200 mile per hour winds.
It was their second hit in a row, vital infrastructure, the power grid, water, cell phone service, all knocked out, airports and roads damaged.
And instead of focusing on the fact that so many efforts had been made to prepare for all of this, well, you get the media lying almost from the second it all happened.
None of what they had been saying, including, you know, say, well, this is about racism again, was ever true.
They just could just outright lied to the American people again.
And we showed a lot of the images last night, and the the government was on the ground.
There's over when you add up all the military people there, and you add up all the FEMA people there, there's over 16,000 federal workers that have been on the ground since last week.
And anyway, Sarah Sanders addressed that finally and gave the truth out yesterday.
The Trump administration, they sent a three-star general.
I I actually tweeted this out, I think over the weekend, but it came out, I think Wednesday on Stars and Stripes.
How Lieutenant General, Jeffrey Buchanan, U.S. North Army North Commander who listens to Colonel Jim Marin, 165th Air Force Wing Commander in uh Georgia, and Buchanan took control of the military portion of the rescue and relief operations in Puerto Rico, and the Pentagon ended up deploying a battle-tested general.
And as of early last week, they had over 5,000 troops on the ground.
Now there's over 15,000 people there working.
You have uh the Lieutenant General Buchanan.
He's take the military portion of rescue and relief operations over.
You got images of all these sir uh service men and women, they're out there handing out food, water, medicine, and supplies.
They're airlifting to every area that they can't possibly get to.
The three-star general's deployment came after the Army sent the brigadier general Richard Kim to Puerto Rico to lead the land-based forces as the operation shifted from a primarily Navy ship-based response to the disaster.
And then, you know, you've got all this food, all this medicine, all these supplies.
You've got pallets and pallets and pallets of it, and then you've got this radicalized mayor in in the wake of all of this trying to jump in and politicize what had happened here.
And I'm thinking, you know, putting all this aside, I mean, what is it instinctively in people that this is what they want to race to when they were in the middle of a crisis where, you know, monumental proportions.
I mean, everything was wiped out here.
So they ignore all the facts on the ground, all the people on the ground.
The media c continues the bash Trump narrative because they had an opportunity to, not based on truth or facts.
And let's say that the response wasn't as strong as Florida and Texas because oh, the president that just shows his racist instincts.
Meanwhile, the supplies were there on the ground, had been going out to people, and it seems the only problem that they had was getting trucks and drivers available to get the food to the outlying areas where people most needed them.
But even with that said, before the weekend even came and and the heavy criticism out of nowhere, people had already every single county in Puerto Rico had been given food, water, and supplies.
And they were working nonstop.
Anyway, so all of that now has to be dealt with.
And then of course, you got the president is out there today, and you know, but again, it's about politicizing a tragedy.
You know, you've got a neighboring, you got the San Juan mayor who's more interested in doing television interviews than helping people on the ground.
My favorite picture is the San Juan mayor standing in front of pallets, pallets of food and water and supplies whining about the response.
Yeah, the neighboring mayor and the governor praising the president, saying that the San Juan mayor is just playing politics because she's a radical left winger that wants to run for governor.
And they've told the truth about the president and the relief efforts.
And the governor of Puerto Rico couldn't have been nicer to the president.
Neighboring mayors, they couldn't have been nicer to the president.
So the question is, why does the liberal mainstream media in this country, why do people on television in this country, you know, run with phony and false narratives the way they always do, because they don't seem too interested in the truth in all of this.
Anyway, joining us now, we have with us Elvira uh Salazar, Cuban American journalist and broadcast uh professional and Francisco Hernandez is with us and uh immigration attorney.
I talked to Geraldo, I said, Haraldo, where is this woman coming from with these criticisms?
And he said, Well, no, she she's just running for governor.
That was his answer.
Every other elected official was praising the president, but the only one quoted by the main mainstream media was the one mayor that was politicizing all of this as she stood in front of pallets of supplies.
What's your reaction, Elvira?
Well, my reaction is just like you said, I think that the liberal media has been very unfair with the president.
Uh I lived in Puerto Rico for many years.
Uh the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has received billions and billions of dollars from the United States government for more than a hundred and twenty years, right after the Hispanic American war.
So Puerto Ricans are a protectorate of Commonwealth, and they have been very close to the United States, and they have uh enjoyed the fruits of being close to this nation.
I believe that right now what's happening is that it has been politicized, just exactly like you said, uh uh Sean.
And I think that the fact that the President did not cancel his trip to Puerto Rico after what happened 48 hours in Las Vegas shows very clearly that he is committed to that commonwealth and to that territory.
That is not a United States state, uh, but it's a very close dear friend to this country.
So right there it shows that he is committed.
Not only that, it's exactly what you said, it's billions and billions of dollars that they have received.
It's just the I I don't believe, and we don't like, and I don't know what Francisco thinks, that Hispanic uh may I I don't want them to be using us and say that President Trump could be anti-Hispanic or racist due to the fact that he is criticizing the United the the government the the Puerto Rican administration.
Calling people to responsibility is not a racist remark.
Asking for people to help themselves is not a racist remark.
It is a call to responsibility.
And I think that's the way we should interpret President Trump's words.
He is there, the money is flowing, and uh and we are helping.
So uh and Puerto Ricans, you know, let me just say one more thing.
You know, you have millions, thousands of thousands of Puerto Rico leaving the island as we speak.
Sixty-five thousand Puerto Rico.
Wait a minute, I I do have some listen, even though their power grid is out, we now have uh numbers coming in that at least thirty percent of people now have gotten their power back.
Sixty percent of people now have running water, and that should climb even higher by the end of the week.
About half of the people in Puerto Rico have had their cell phone service restored, and I know for a fact, because I've been texting with Geraldo who's been on the ground there.
So at the end of the day, in and uh on top of that, the president is seeking an additional ten to fifteen billion on top of everything that's already been sent.
And the only story the only story that seemed to bother me was that, and this was on a website today, and I had heard this from some of my sources in the White House that there's some of the truck drivers didn't show up for work to distribute relief supplies.
In large part, some of them had their own homes and their own issues at home to deal with.
But the biggest problem was getting the truck drivers in the trucks and getting the food to the outer areas.
Okay, but Mr. Annity, the problem here is that President Trump is falling into defending something that he ought not to even be defending.
He's the one that politicized it in the first place.
We're polite politicizing in it right now on your show.
Just talking about the politics, how unfair it is to the president.
We don't care if it's we shouldn't even care whether it's fair or unfair to the president.
The president just stands regally above the fray and say, you know what, this is not a political matter.
We're gonna do the work.
Well, maybe if it was you, if it was you, Francisco, and it was being suggested that you were somehow not doing your job when you know you are, and that there's some racial implication in this.
You know, I'll give you one example.
You know, it reminds me of Ray Nagan, met with the guy in in New Orleans.
This city will be a chocolate city.
Well, the San Juan Trump bashing mayor.
How come she didn't show up at any of the meetings?
How come she didn't meet with FEMA?
And we just raise her profile to an international level by paying attention to it.
The president engaged the mayor of the city.
What in the world?
Why is he even dealing with it?
Stand up.
But you know what your job in Francisco is that they, the liberal press or whatever press is using this topic to use us, the Hispanics and the United States, and to portray the president as racist.
We may not agree with some of the uh policies that President Trump has put forth when it comes to immigration.
And we can discuss those.
But we should not be falling into the trap of liberal media of letting them use this event with Puerto Rico, that is Hispanic America, in order to then say, you see, Mr. Trump once again, he is a racist because it's not convenient for us.
I agree, but you know what?
Just uh I agree with you one hundred percent, except for the fact that we keep uh Well then Francisco, why don't you say it?
You're in the media, you're on five hundred and sixty stations right now around the country.
Why don't you they you're a leading spokesperson on the issue of immigration?
Why don't you say that the president did an amazing job in Puerto Rico, just like he did in Texas and Florida, and then we'll move on.
I I I don't know what he's done.
I assume they from everything I can tell FEMA's done a wonderful job.
But I why is the president wanting credit?
With stay stay up and do your job and let race issue off to the side.
The more we talk about it, we don't even we shouldn't even be talking about Hispanics.
Francisco ignore it.
I've known you for years, and I know you well enough to know that if somebody attacked you and somebody called you racist, which by the way is one of the worst things you can say about somebody, because it's it basically saying you're evil and ignorant and not a and a horrible person and uh and and just stupid on top of it.
If somebody called you that, why wouldn't you wouldn't defend yourself?
I would.
No, because he why is he defending himself against the mayor of a city in Puerto Rico?
Uh he done need he needs to do his job and be done with it and stop tweeting about it.
He has built this this this mayor that wants to run for governor into an international figure just from by his tweets.
What is in the world?
Just leave a six to your job and get out.
Francisco, forty-six percent of Puerto Ricans are on some type of welfare.
Puerto Rico has a twelve percent unemployment rate.
Puerto Ricans have the blue passport, and they can come to the United States whenever they want to.
They're they're leaving in masses.
Sixty-five per sixty-five thousand Puerto Ricans left last year to come either to Florida where I'm at, or to Orlando.
So the United States government, whether it's Trump or Bush or Clinton or Ford or Nixon and O'Cover has been extremely generous with the island of Puerto Rico.
We Cuban Americans, I know I was I my parents will fled Cuba and went to Puerto Rico because it was a United States protectorate.
So I think Puerto Ricans should be very grateful to what the United States government has done.
It's true that the Puerto Ricans have given a lot of men to go to war, Vietnam and Korea being one example, and they have contributed with the United States economy tremendously.
But it's you know it's a give and take.
well, and we did the right you just do the right thing.
I mean, that's it.
And and obviously the amount of money and supplies that I've seen on the ground and the number of troops and federal officials and federal government workers that are there, I think shows a massive commitment for support.
All right, I want to thank you both for being with us.
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Uh of course our new time, which was our old time, which is the new time.
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It's like we're the only ones that will are willing to call these people out on a regular basis.
All right, let's get to our uh busy phones here.
And let's say hi to John.
He's in Alberta.
He's in Canada.
John, welcome to Vegas.
Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi, Sean.
Uh, thanks for having me on.
And first off, uh, like others, thoughts and prayers to all these people involved in this.
Um, one of the comments that there are a number of things that people can do sort of immediately for themselves.
Um, whether they had a the direct experience uh to this event, uh were witness of it somehow or even learning of it third hand, i is be attentive to your own self-care.
Um it'll go a long way to avoid being impacted by a trauma or a PTSD if people um sort of are obtaining good sleep, good appetite patterns.
Uh definitely use your supports, talk to people.
Um if things are bothering you as you go through your day, so friends or family uh or your churches can be a great support for that.
Um those things in and of themselves.
How do you how do you deal with you're a psychologist, I imagine?
I am.
Listen, I've talked to people that can't sleep here.
There are there are people that work at our radio group here in Vegas that couldn't come to work.
They were at the concert and they just you know, as as the general manager told me, they had been so jacked up on adrenaline and it's now hitting him.
It's like post traumatic stress for the people that, you know, survived all of this.
Yes, sleep disturbances at the front end of this are very normal, albeit that they're obviously distressing and disturbing.
They're they're not unusual.
The key is is do everything you can to get good sleep hygiene, which is uh be in a cold dark room.
Don't be doing anything else in your bedroom other than sleeping, um and and keeping that as a uh sort of sanctuary for that purpose, um and and or use different relaxation techniques to relax.
Well, we appreciate your insight and uh we want to help people out as much as possible.
And by if people need to talk to somebody, you know, talk to your pastor, talk to a professional.
There's n I don't know why some people s associate shame with that.
You just watched your fellow citizens, you know, in an and slaughtered in front of your eyes.
Not exactly the normal average day, and if you have a response to it, it would be a very normal thing.
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We'll show it in its entirety tonight on Hannity on the Fox News Channel as we broadcast from Vegas and the strip.
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Like they're complicit, the GOP, the NRA and the gun epidemic we're seeing in America.
Of course they are.
Of course they are.
You know, the Brady Bill actually kept two million guns out of the hands of people who weren't supposed to have them.
If we had gone forward with the uh background check capacity that we should have had, uh, and that it was up to date.
My gosh, we computerize everything and we can't computerize that.
Dylan Roof was never supposed to get that gun that he used to kill people at Mother Emmanuel uh church in Charleston because he had a pre existing uh arrest that should have disqualified him.
But the system, you know, is deliberately kept all creaky and slow.
We don't even allow people to get federal funds to look into uh gun deaths, and what makes uh you know some people more inclined to reach for a gun and how we keep guns out of the hands of you know, criminals And uh the mentally ill.
One of the first things Trump did when he became president was to undo the regulation from the Obama era.
So, you know, mental health records no longer prevent you from buying a gun.
In fact, being blind does not not any longer prevent you from buying you know buying a gun.
I mean, this is beyond absurd.
This is evil.
This is nothing but pure unadulterated greed motivated by people who want to sell as many guns as they can to gauge in a falsity of fear and rhetoric about uh why everybody has to have guns.
And you know, there's just the evidence is just so clear that more guns do not keep you safer.
Uh, and more guns in the wrong hands lead to uh terrible incidents.
But you know, we've had two hundred and what, seventy-three events in this past year of mass shootings, which means four or more killed.
So, yes, we see the horrors of Las Vegas, it happens every day.
It's part of the ninety-one people who get killed every single day by guns.
It's fascinating to hear Hillary Clinton who has had armed guards around her entire adult life, when she was the wife of a governor, when she was a senator, when she was the first lady, and probably now also for the rest of her life she has somebody defending her that is harmed.
For the rest of us, I guess, you know, is she's too bad for you people.
And then she says that, well, if we're gonna be on Republicans in the NRA, we are complicit.
I guess Donald Trump was right.
If she won, we'd lose our second amendment rights.
And this is the this impulse to just race to politicize a tragedy without any information.
You know, when her husband was president, the Murrah building, the Federal M Murrah building was blown up.
They didn't use a gun, they used fertilizer and ammonium to blow the thing up.
Did we ban that since then?
I don't know.
There's all sorts of ways you can kill people if evil and the desire to kill and and create a mass destruction is in your heart.
We see so many suicide bombers, knife wielding attacks, we see people using bats and guns and tire irons.
You can use anything you want to kill somebody if that evil exists inside your heart.
But it's one big narrative.
You know, before the bodies were even cold in the morgue, before parents knew the fate of their children, the five hundred and twenty-nine people injured in the hospital, whether or not their kids are clinging to life as she was politicizing this event.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, an action on gun control, sending an unintentional endorsement of this, you know, made in America mass murder, Brokaw says, and they're he's urging viewers to organize against the NRA.
Well, let me ask anybody, what what do you do if somebody breaks into your house?
It happens all the time.
You know, we hear about home invasions, break-ins.
Where was during the Obama years, where was Hillary doing anything to help the people in Chicago that were victims of gun violence?
Wait, how many weekends did we have 50 plus shootings?
And I've listed the names of people.
It's like it doesn't exist if it's a a a liberal president.
Jimmy Kimmel, the GOP should pray for God to forgive them, help cause the shooting.
Wow, unbelievable.
Keith Oberman, the NRA is a terrorist organization that enables massacres on the view, host even the killing of fellow Republicans in Vegas won't stop the GOP action on guns.
Brian Williams pushing gun control during an interview with Senator Blumenthal.
Trevor Nour, I have never been to a country where people are so afraid to speak about guns and the race to politicize a tragedy continues.
Unbelievable.
Governor Mike Huckabee is with us, Fox News contributor.
Uh welcome uh back to the program.
We're in Vegas today, Governor.
How are you?
Well, Sean, I'm doing well.
I just uh have listened and what I don't understand when people on the left keep saying we got to do something.
Well, tell us what that something is, because if you can fix mass murder with a new law, even though the person who committed it has violated multitudes of laws in order to do that crime.
If you can come up with a law that will prevent this from ever happening, just tell us what it is.
And then Sean, let's apply it to domestic violence so that no spouse is ever battered by their partner.
Let's apply that to sexual predators.
Let's apply that law, whatever it is.
Tell us how we can legislate the behavior Of people to such a degree that we can eliminate burglary, armed robbery, road rage, everything that makes us a less than civil society.
Because I'm I'm all ears for that.
But here's what they do.
They come to the microphones and they plead to do something, and it's almost as if they say, it doesn't matter if the something works.
Let's just do something.
Well, let's do something.
Let's arm everybody.
Or let's don't.
But let's quit playing this ridiculous game that is made for people with IQ barely above broccoli who somehow think that we can pass a law and that everybody will follow it and behave because of it, because that's not true.
The irony of all of this, I don't care if it was Fort Hood or San Bernardino or or Orlando and the Pulse Night Club or Chattanooga or the Sarnor brothers, or you know, any of these incidents that happened that were radical Islamic terror related or sympathizers.
You know, I remember when San Bernardino came up, and I remember having Bo Deedle on the program, and I remember saying, All right, no, I've been trained in the use of a pistol firearm since some eleven years old.
And I I grew up in a home that had pistols because of my parents' jobs.
So they trained me at a young age.
I became a marksman at a pretty young age.
And so in San Bernardino, remember when the clips dropped and they had to reload.
Now, if I was in the room, we'd ha uh and I'm trained in the use of a fire, I'd at least have a shot at saving some of the lives after the reload.
Now, do you want me in that room or not want me in that room?
I want me in that room to help people.
Well, and the fact is a person is less likely in America to be the victim of a mass murder shooting than they would be in France, who has a fifth of the population of us.
In 2015, in France, there were 532 casualties from mass shootings, which is five times more than the U.S. experienced during Obama's entire presidency.
The liberals never want to talk about that.
And one of the things that happens in a place like France is that people like you or me will never be able to be able to protect ourselves.
We'll just have to hope that we can all the uh authorities and that maybe they will come and rescue us.
How many times do these incidents and John Lott is has put out, you know, multiple versions of his book, More Guns Less Crime, and how many times do some of these incidents happen in so-called no-go zones for guns or gun-free zones?
Well, John, one of the problems is that the Democrats who politicize this issue, and they always do it, as you pointed out, before the bodies are even cold.
I find this just incredibly inhumane that they would bring a political issue up at a time when people haven't even had the chance to grieve.
But what I'm still waiting for one of them to do is to tell me exactly what the legislation would say that would prevent this or any other type of crime that they say that they can prevent.
And the fact is there isn't one.
And most of them, uh I saw uh there was a young lady on Fox this morning.
Uh, she said, I'm from Arkansas, and my family owns guns and they hunt, but nobody needs a semi-automatic to hunt with.
And I was just screaming at the television and said, Sweetheart, maybe you are from Arkansas, but you don't know much about firearms because most of us who duck hunt duck hunt with a semi-automatic shotgun, and a lot of people hunt with semi-automatic rifles.
And and to say that uh no one does is just to show a blatant ignorance.
But it's bigger than that.
It's this mindset that they have decided that this is a political issue that they want to win.
Here's another question.
When they had the White House, the House, and the Senate, why didn't they pass this wonderful legislation eight years ago when they could have done it?
Why didn't they do it then?
Oh, I mean, that's a great point because they didn't want to do it politically, and they didn't have the courage because they knew it would be a big backlash.
Um Governor, by the way, I'm proud of you.
Um you have been a really strong articulate voice for the president's agenda.
And I noticed that when a lot of people run for president and they lose, I'll mention some names, Al Gore unhinged, Hillary Clinton unhinged.
I'd even argue John McCain is lost it in in so many ways and is angry that he lost.
After all, he wants me to go straight to hell.
That wasn't very nice of him.
Um but you you you're just good natured.
I mean, it seems like you have an ability, you've you've obviously won big positions and big races in your life.
You didn't win the presidency, but you're gracious in loss, and I watch all of these other people change.
What's the difference between you and them?
Well, I have a perspective, and that is that the ultimate evaluation of my life is not whether I get elected to a position here on this earth.
It's whether or not at the end of life I hear my creator say, well done, good and faithful servant.
And and so for me, I I'm not sure what I'm saying.
you're gonna hair that and he's gonna go, Hannity, you know what, you're a total loser.
Get out of my sight.
Well, I think it's important for all of us to understand that when you run for political office, there's no guarantee you're gonna win.
It's a risk you take.
And if you lose, then you respect that the voters decided that they'd rather have someone else.
It's painful.
You hate it, you don't enjoy it.
It's it's very devastating to you financially in every other way, but that's the risk you take.
It's not unlike when a person opens a business.
There's no guarantee they're gonna be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
You know, they may be the person who loses their life savings trying to open a small business.
Uh but you might make it, you may not.
You can't be better about it.
And in this case, I love my country more than I love the notion that I was the only person who could be president.
Yeah.
And and you know what?
We're trying to make the country better.
I mean, that's at the end of the day.
I mean, we've got a lot of problems in this country, and I'd like to solve them.
Um now you've teamed up with a a group of people on the Trinity Broadcast Network, and now you have a new weekly uh news talk show that's premiering Saturday on TBM called Huckabee, but you also continue your work with us on Fox, correct?
That's correct.
I'll continue to be a contributor.
Uh but you know when I left uh to run for president, obviously they don't leave the shelf space open.
And so when I came back to Fox, uh, you know, the the show did not come back, but Trinity Broadcasting wanted to bring the show back.
I'm very excited about it.
And in particular, because I've always felt like that my audience for that show was the Heartland.
So we're gonna do the show in Nashville, Tennessee, right in the middle of the Heartland at a wonderful location.
Got a great theater that's been built out just for this.
Uh one of our mutual friends, Kevin Sorbo, is gonna be with me on the show on the twentieth of October talking about uh a film that I had a chance to see over the weekend, Let There Be Light.
It's gonna be fun to talk about.
I think you had a hand in that, didn't you, Sean?
Am I throwing something at you now?
Governor, I'm the executive producer of the movie for crying.
Did you did you really watch it?
So I I every I want to ask you this.
Did you cry?
I I was very moved.
Uh I'll tell you.
Uh and what I'm saying.
Everybody that watches it cries.
Everybody.
Yeah, I think so.
And and here's what I I appreciated about it.
A lot of faith films uh at the end everything turns out hunky dory and everybody's you know, wonderful.
I'm not gonna give away the ending, but uh the real life we live as believers is one of struggle and one in which some things don't always work out on this planet in this life.
And I thought that the show was refreshingly honest about that.
And I loved it.
And so after I screened it and watched it, uh I got in touch with Kevin and I said, I need you in Nashville.
I want you to be on my show.
And he has agreed to do it.
He's gonna be in studio and we're gonna talk about the film and the week before it opens on the twenty-seventh.
I hope it would.
It's a great success.
We need more like it.
In the next week or so, and you know something, in light of all of the evil that we've been talking about in the world, um, it's pretty amazing.
It's it is an uplifting message.
And I'm very proud of it.
And we're gonna be listening.
It comes out October 27th.
I'll probably start promoting it next week, and I'm very proud to have been associated with it.
I'm I was out of my mind.
I had no idea why I I got into this.
It's a very different thing than I do now, but I'm very proud of the outcome.
And it's a movie that families can see and you can bring your kids of all ages, and it takes you on a roller coaster ride emotionally, and it's uh and it's got a great message at the end of the day.
And it's not like what people think.
I think they're gonna be very pleasantly surprised.
But Governor, I gotta run.
We're proud of you.
Yeah, I'm I'm proud of you, and uh we always love having you on the show.
Good luck on the on the new show that you're starting this Saturday, okay?
Thank you, Sean.
Good to talk to you.
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Thank God bless America.
Land that high and low.
Standing shining and under.
Through the night with the light from above.
From the mountain to the prairie.
To the old slum.
Why live love?
it now, say you say we're gonna air that in full with,
of course, what, nearly thirty thousand people, their their lights up, their phones up, and um it's an amazing moment.
And I I'm just it'll touch you, I promise you.
And that was about an hour before the shooting began.
We're broadcasting live tonight in Vegas.
We will cover what the mainstream media never covers, and that's the truth.
Those racing, rushing, impulsively, making this political.
Also, the president's interview with Geraldo and how the media lied about what was going on there.
We'll set the record straight.
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