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	So what the Senate can't get done, the president's just gonna get done on his own.
	And it's I think it's gonna work, and we've been way ahead of the curve here.
	It's everything that we had been talking to Senator Rand Paul about, and I'll give you the details of that coming up in a minute in the course of the show today.
	I don't care about Bob Corker and what he thinks of the president.
	I just don't care.
	All I know is that the Senate hasn't accomplished their fulfilled their promises.
	They're not getting the job done.
	Now, say what you will about the House.
	They're not perfect either, but they've passed 280 bills, some of them really good, a Sanctuary City Bill, uh Kate's Law, a bunch of things.
	And you can't even get the Senate to take it up because the Senate sucks so bad.
	And it's like, well, uh, Bob Corker works for he speaks for the majority of the people in the Senate, and they don't like Donald Trump.
	Oh, okay.
	So that gives you every justification and rationale you ever needed to stab the forgotten men and women that desperately need some changes in Washington, the help that they need.
	It is it is re it is just pathetic.
	I'm gonna tell you the real reason Corker's leaving in my view.
	Corker was going to get primaried, and there was going to be a massive push to get him out of the Senate.
	He is the problem.
	People like him are the problem.
	And if they don't get the message, then we're just gonna have this in action.
	It does does it suck that we first had to elect Republicans given the House in 2010, yeah, with the hope that if we got the House and Senate, then they do something, yeah.
	Then if we get the House, the Senate, and a Republican president that has a pen in hand and was ready ready to sign bills.
	Well, now we have to replace some of those senators because they suck so bad and they're have no sense of urgency, and they're as bad as the establishment democrats, and it's all part of a good old boy system, and nothing gets done.
	And it's so frustrating.
	And Corker thinks that he's he's such a tough guy going up against the president on Twitter.
	I I mean, one of the reasons I stopped fighting on Twitter, you got all these people, these keyboard warriors in their underwear that think they're so tough, and they're not, and it becomes repetitive.
	Uh listen, I can make people with one TikTok tweet, you know, bubble and fizz, and and by the way, it's coming.
	Oh, it's coming.
	And it's big.
	And it's happening, and it's gonna happen.
	Tick tock, TikTok.
	Uh, did you see my TikTok last night?
	It's got like 50,000 people viewing that.
	No, no, no, not 50.
	It's literally like a million plus people now.
	They want me to tell them.
	Everyone wants comes to me, wants to meet wants to know what the TikTok is.
	So I write T minus 7 and counting.
	And this is hilarious.
	You got CNN people writing me.
	Is it seven minutes?
	Seven hours?
	Is it seven days?
	Is it seven months?
	And I'm like, I'm not giving you my story.
	I'm I'm reading It laughing.
	You're so stupid.
	But there is something coming.
	I don't I don't TikTok unless I have something to fulfill.
	So there's something coming.
	More on that.
	And uh just stay tuned to this program.
	We're doing our job.
	I promise you.
	And we're working hard every day.
	Um you got this Harvey Weinstein story, and it's pretty disgusting, and it's pretty ugly.
	And Kevin Sorbo, you know, we've got a I got a movie that I am the executive producer of.
	And don't ask me why and how I got it.
	I do know how I got into it.
	I do exactly why I did it.
	And I'm sick of Hollywood.
	And I'm s Hollywood to me insults our intelligence.
	Now I think there's a time and a place for Batman and Spider-Man and Superman and Catwoman and Captain America, and I like Indiana Jones movies, and I like Rocky movies, and I like I like all you know, I like some movies.
	I find have found myself, I don't think I've been in a movie theater except last Christmas because I took my kids only and they have comfortable seats and they sell beer and food in the theater.
	That's the only thing that got me in to go with them.
	I'm being honest.
	I have no desire to see the average movie today because Hollywood is so liberal, so formulaic, and there's just no room, it's seemingly for any real creativity.
	So I, in about 10 minutes after a meeting, I was pitched a story.
	The name of the movie is Let There Be Light.
	And it stars Kevin Sorbo, Hercules fame and his wife Sam.
	And by the way, it opens October 27th.
	What's today's date?
	So it opens in whatever, how many, how many days?
	28 days.
	And well, why don't you add properly instead of making me look like an idiot?
	Because I'm, you know, if you're going to tell me definitively, I'm not thinking about the days because you told were going to tell me.
	I'm sorry.
	All right, you're forgiven.
	So anyway, so he sent me something today, and he goes, a 2015 survey, Kevin Sorbo writes me, of nearly 1,400 Oscar acceptance speeches by this website found that Weinstein was thanked more frequently than God.
	Here's one thing I can promise you.
	This show, this movie's never getting an Oscar.
	This movie, I'm never going to the Oscars.
	I'm never going to a Washington correspondence dinner.
	That's not why I made the movie.
	Because there are those of us that have values that are contradicted all the time.
	We're seeing it now happen in the NFL.
	The NFL, if they keep Jerry Jones' right, the owner of the Miami Dolphins is right.
	They keep going down this path, they're going to lose everybody.
	Because when Mike Pence walked out the other day, yesterday from the Indianapolis 49ers game and said, I'm not going to watch the Mark troops get treated this way.
	I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna do it.
	You've got an ESPN guy, the same host that called President Trump a white supremacist.
	He's now saying he's gonna boycott the NFL unless team owners permit the players to protest on the anthem.
	I'm like, okay, but the average person that goes to the stands, it's an average cost per tickets about a hundred bucks in the NFL.
	You take a family of four, two kids, two adults, you buy two jerseys, now you're up to 600.
	Then you buy a couple of beers at like $50,000 of beer, and a couple of hot dogs and and a coke and water is $10, whatever you buy, and you're leaving there six, seven, eight hundred bucks in the home.
	And for the average family that makes 50 bucks a year, that's a lot of money.
	And everybody in the stands likes to stand for the anthem.
	And most people in the stands respect the men that fought bled and die, and they understand that they did it under that flag.
	And that's how we honor that flag, this country with that anthem of unity.
	And right now, there was one poll that came out, the Winston poll, Washington-based Winston group.
	They now found that uh football is no longer America's most popular sport.
	And Colin Kaepernick donating money to charity honoring a convicted cop killer.
	And then we have the the cop killer socks of Colin Kaepernick.
	Anyway, so Mike Pence walked Out, and you know, people are upset.
	I'm like, why'd they be upset?
	And I think that he was dead.
	Oh, it's a public no, it's not a publicity stunt.
	The pres the vice president said, I'm not going to dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers on our flag.
	And that's his choice.
	I don't support boycotts.
	I'm not going to tell any advertiser to pull out of the NFL.
	I'm not putting the advertisers of the NFL up on websites.
	That's what liberals do to conservatives because they don't like to have an alternative point of view.
	The NFL's free not to follow their own policies.
	You know, because they didn't allow people to put never again 9 1101 on the 15th anniversary of 9-11.
	So that's not allowed.
	You aren't allowed to honor the cops in Dallas.
	They wanted to put an emblem of the police officers that were slain in the in the line of duty in Dallas after they were killed last year.
	That wasn't allowed either.
	You can't shoot a fake bow and arrow in the end zone for crying out loud.
	Certain things you can't twerk in the NFL.
	You can't use abusive language.
	You can't tell the ref to go blank himself or other players to do the same.
	So there are rules on freedom of speech all over the place.
	They want to continue down this road.
	It's going to result in people saying they've had enough with the NFL.
	And I can tell you, we're now done with week five, and I don't give a flying rip about the NFL right now.
	Not even a little bit.
	Honestly, I'm more interested in baseball at this time.
	And baseball's boring to watch.
	I much prefer hockey.
	At least it's fast paced.
	I mean, I just, as the windup, there's the pitch outside wide.
	All right.
	Dust off his camp.
	A little rosin on his hand.
	It's up to the plate.
	Player calls time.
	Okay, back to the plate.
	Here's the windup.
	Here's the pitch.
	Strike one.
	You know, I mean, it's it's rough.
	It's really rough.
	But I do like it because I used to play, but it's crazy.
	Anyway, so it's the same thing in Hollywood.
	Now, so many of us, we actually have values.
	We believe in our families, God, faith, family, and country.
	It doesn't mean any of us are perfect.
	It means we have a desire to be better people.
	That's why people go to church, not to because you are perfect, because you want to be forgiven and become better.
	That's why people that's why, you know, the media, you know, I was watching.
	You know, in the Harvey Weinstein case, do you not know that Saturday Night Live, Lauren Michaels actually said, well, it's more of a New York story.
	And I'm like, yeah, okay, so's Donald Trump.
	He's from Queens, New York, a New York builder.
	And they've gone after him with a vengeance.
	But then Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fountain, Seth Myers.
	They don't even talk about it.
	Let's see, he's donated tens of thousands to Hillary, Hillary Pack, the Obama Victory Fund, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Corey Booker, Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillerbrand, Al Franken, John Kerry, Pat Leahy, Ted Kennedy when he was around, Robert Torricelli, Bob Kerry.
	I mean, every big name Democrat, Richard Blumenthal, Harry Reid, Howard Dean.
	He's been doing it for years.
	Years.
	And then everybody's known he's been horrible.
	And here's the thing.
	You know, I when I listen to these Hollywood liberals, they hate the president we voted and the change he wants.
	They have contempt for middle America.
	I can't stand another self-congratulatory, you know, red carpet event.
	I'm going to pull my hair out, you know, attacking, you know, people in the middle of the country.
	So I made a movie that I think would resonate.
	And it's a it does have faith in it.
	It does have family in it.
	It does have its contemporary.
	It starts out with a Christian debating a guy that wrote a book, aborting God, and it has, I think, what would be real life scenario, and then it has an ebb and flow into this guy's life.
	It's unpredictable.
	You're never going to finish the outcome.
	And I have shown it to many focus groups on my own, and almost everybody cries.
	And I'm really proud of it.
	And that's why I did the movie, because I like the message, and I know Hollywood would never make this movie.
	Now, by the way, it's out October 27th.
	We'll be promoting it in the weeks ahead.
	And Um it's called Let There Be Light.
	We have a list of theaters that we're now building, and it'll be it's on my website, Hannity.com.
	And I think that I'm sick of Hollywood.
	I'd like to see a new Hollywood.
	Fox News became a new media.
	You know, talk radio became a new media.
	And so I it's not that this I like it because the message, that's why I did it.
	And I think it's a message.
	Wow, you can actually take your kids and mom and dad and your grandparents all to one movie.
	And you're gonna be riveted.
	It's action-packed.
	And it doesn't hit you over the head with religion.
	It's it's there, and it's not impugned in one sense.
	It's uplifting.
	And I think you're gonna leave there thinking, okay, that I got a really solid message out of that, and I was entertaining the process.
	And that was the goal.
	Anyway, October 27th, it's up on my website, Let There Be Light, the great music accompaniment, and I'll talk more about it in the days ahead.
	So what does it mean that you don't get the usual suspects attacking attacking Harvey Weinstein?
	And the things I'm reading are just atrocious.
	And I actually know one of the people involved.
	And it's so bad.
	There's somebody that you know, Rebecca, a woman out who writes in New York magazine today.
	Um in my mid-20s, I was a reporter at The Observer.
	Part of my beat was covering film, anyway.
	She was called the C word by Harvey Weinstein, and this and that, and you know, just dressing this poor girl down in the most inappropriate way, and then one of her colleagues intervened, he got thrown down the stairs, there's a million photographers, nobody did anything.
	Saturday Night Live does nothing on it.
	Nor does any of the late nights Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, Myers, they didn't just ignore it.
	Now do I really care about Harvey Weinstein?
	No, I care about the women, but you know, liberals would have you think that they have a monopoly of compassion on women.
	But I talked a lot about this during the campaign.
	How is it if Hillary really cared, does she take millions from countries that abuse them?
	Like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and marital rape isn't even a crime in some of these countries.
	And women are told how to dress, they can't drive cars, they can't vote in some of these countries under Sharia.
	And women can't travel abroad without permission or go to school or work without permission or leave the house without permission of their their husbands.
	Can't be seen without a male relative in public.
	They're told how to dress head to toe.
	I mean, it's it's just insane abuse of women.
	And then insane abuse of gays and lesbians, and insane abuse of Christians and Jews.
	You know, if there's a preacher, a man of faith or the cloth that falls from grace, it's everywhere.
	The liberal media loves that.
	Not that everybody that goes to a church is perfect.
	They're not.
	They want to be better.
	Okay, so they get punished and beaten up because they want to be better people.
	You know, if you're a conservative or Republican and there's a sex scandal, forget it.
	It's everywhere.
	24-7, 365.
	Unbelievable.
	Um, and all this money, what are the liberals, the left, what are they gonna do with Harvey Weinstein money?
	What are they gonna do with it?
	They're gonna return it?
	Anyone gonna cover it?
	It's gonna get interesting.
	I doubt it.
	There's such hypocrisy.
	All right, we'll take a quick break.
	We'll come back.
	We got all the other news of the day, and we'll be talking about Corker versus Trump next Sean Hannity show.
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	You know, I love how the DNC.
	All right, so if all of a sudden they're against what Harvey Weinstein stands for, you would think they'd give all the money back.
	No, no, no.
	They're taking heed the DNC from, you know, and for accepting this money, you know, from Harvey Weinstein.
	So what they did, they got $300,000 from this guy, and now they're just gonna give it to other causes that will support them.
	You know, there's a real stand-in principle here.
	We can't give the money back.
	See, it took us too long to get the money, and we're not giving it back.
	And um, you know, he had a lot of wide net of people that he gave money to.
	And he hung out with all these, and this was widely known.
	You only have to watch this guy for like five minutes and you figure out he's out of it off his rocker.
	And it wasn't that hard to figure out.
	Um, you know, I'm watching this this tweet battle go on between Bob Corker and the president.
	And the president was out there this weekend, and he also praised, by the way, praise Mike Pence for doing what he did.
	I thought Mike Pence did the right thing, and that's kind of how I feel.
	And my attitude is as long as the NFL is not going to honor the anthem, and these guys want to take a knee, and it's their right.
	My personal decision, and I'm not trying to influence anybody in their decision, is I'm just not interested.
	You know, week five is now come and gone.
	And let's see, the Cowboys are one and four.
	The Giants are oh and five.
	Who would have thunk it?
	The Jets are three and two tied with the Patriots at three and two.
	It makes it a little bit of an interesting year.
	I think there's two teams that are four and one, the Packers and I forget who else.
	I know it's not San Francisco.
	I think they're 0-5-2.
	But I just don't care.
	And what's happening is the more political they become, the more they just stick to this, the more that it's making me say, forget it.
	Now, Jerry Jones is saying players, he's gonna he's gonna bench these players if they continue what they're doing.
	And I think he's doing the right thing.
	It happens to be part of the rules of the NFL.
	And my question is well, where is you know, where's Roger Goodell?
	Why isn't Roger Goodell?
	He's he wouldn't let you wear, you know, 9 11, 9 11 01, never forget, put it on your cleats.
	Who's gonna see your cleats?
	It was the thought that counts.
	Can't honor policemen that are slaughtered.
	What's so bad?
	And all right, so this let them keep going here, and they're gonna see what's gonna happen.
	And it's gonna end up not working out very well for the NFL.
	Has it happened in college at all that you've seen, Jason?
	I have what?
	I I haven't noticed it, but I think I think very quietly it's it's it's starting to firm uh foment in the in the college game.
	Yeah, so it's beginning to show up a little bit in college.
	Yeah, I think he's an NHL player, I heard.
	Yeah, there was one that held the stick up.
	I don't think it's gonna go much further.
	Because at the end of the day, people are going to be entertained, and they're spending really big money to be entertained.
	And I think Jerry Jones is smart enough, we're gonna respect the flag on his team.
	And then you got the owner of the well, it's now the one of the least liked sports.
	And we're seeing it, they're seeing it in revenue and they're seeing it ratings.
	That must mean the American people are racist.
	No, the American people honor the flag.
	It's very it's very simple.
	They honor the flag, they honor their anthem, they honor their country, and they honor the sacrifice of the military that gives us the freedom to drink beer, eat hot dogs, pizza, have a great time, nibble on popcorn, and then go home after paying 800 bucks for a family of four.
	That's that's basically it.
	Pretty simple.
	So the president's been out there with that.
	Anyway, he um he praised Vice President Pence for doing this.
	Now, also he rightly has gone after Bob Corker.
	Bob Corker now is firing back.
	Bob Corker thinks he's tough.
	There is now, after Roy Moore, and Steve Bannon is on Hannity tonight at nine.
	There's not there are going to be challenges to the do nothing Senate and the do nothing House members.
	Those that don't keep their promises are gonna be primaried.
	And I'm telling you because I'm talking to grassroots people around the country, and they see what happened in Alabama, you can remember what happened.
	Laura Ingram will join us in studio at the top of the next hour.
	You remember what happened to uh when Dave Bratt won his seat in Virginia, and he was up against leadership, Eric Cantor, and it's gonna happen in other places as well.
	And Bob Corker is not understanding.
	The House handed the Senate 280 bills.
	Bob Corker's not screaming for his colleagues to get their agenda completed to get their to get their promises completed.
	He did give us this ridiculous Iranian deal, which was insane, but he didn't give us health care.
	And he's now what is he gonna be petulant and fight back because the president dares to call him out and say that, all right, and Trump said Bob Corker gave us the Iranian deal.
	That's about it.
	We need health care.
	We need tax cuts.
	We need people that can get the job done.
	And he goes on to say I would fully expect Quarker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda.
	He didn't have the guts to run.
	I'd Corker would have lost a primary, in my view, in Tennessee.
	Corker's not particularly popular.
	Now, the president also made a number of agenda moves today.
	Remember, we were having the big DACA debate after he met with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, and the president decided to play hardball with Democrats on the immigration issue, which was what my hope was at the time.
	And the deal is very simple, and Democrats will be told to either take it or leave it, fund the border wall, or say goodbye to the dreamers.
	And that's what negotiation's about.
	Now, do they care more about the dreamers or they care more about stopping the wall?
	Because that's the bottom line choice for the Democrats.
	They care a lot about the dreamers, they'll be willing to fund the wall.
	Anyway, so the president sent Congress a list of sweeping immigration changes on Saturday, and he says that must be included as part of any legislation that addresses the status of deferred action for children.
	DACA.
	Anyway, Trump wants the border wall that he campaigned for to be built.
	He wants a crackdown on illegal immigration, and he wants to switch the U.S. legal immigration system from one that prioritizes family connections to one based on merit, all of which I would support.
	And Trump has promoted these policies before, both during the campaign and as president, and now he's demanding that they be included in any legislative fix for DACA.
	Now, they're going to say he doesn't care about the children.
	And maybe they think that they're going to play hardball with the president.
	Well, here's the choice of the Democrats.
	Do they care more about build not building the wall over the DACA kids?
	So they've got to give themselves in that sense.
	Anyway, the president wants to fund and complete construction of the southern border wall where we're we're going to build it to ensure the safe and expeditious return of unaccompanied alien children and family units, uh, and the abuse of the asylum system by tightening standards,
	imposing penalties for fraud, ensuring detention while claims are verified, remove illegal border crossers quickly by hiring an additional 370 immigration judges and thousand ICE attorneys, stop all sanctuary cities, strengthen a law by hiring 10,000
	more ICE officers and 300 federal prosecutors, and visa overstay by establishing reforms to ensure their swift removal, protect U.S. workers by requiring e-verify and strengthening laws to stop employment discrimination against U.S. workers and extended family chain migration by limiting family-based green cards to include spouses and minor children and establish a points-based system for green cards to protect U.S. workers and taxpayers.
	In other words, you're going to take in people that actually, you know, can come here, take care of themselves whose jobs and services are in demand that are going to help the country.
	And that's what the president is shooting.
	By the way, the president did take on television and said that Republicans deserve equal time on television news shows.
	You know, there's a study that came out.
	This president has had 90% negative coverage more than any other president in history.
	And it doesn't get worse than that.
	Now, I want people like Bob Corker to pay very close attention.
	Everything the president could do, for example, on his own, getting rid of Obama era regulations, et cetera, he's been able to do.
	He's not been able to get Congress to get off their ass and fix health care.
	But the president is about to sign an executive order this week.
	He's worked with Rand Paul.
	Rand Paul has been on this program numerous times talking about this.
	He was on when they were debating the last health care version before the September 30th deadline, he was on talking about it.
	And I knew the president was considering this.
	So what it is, it will expand association health plans as a means by which to circumvent Obamacare regulations.
	Now, do you got to stay with me here because this is important.
	This is actually deep and pretty profound, and it's a very significant step in the right direction as it relates to health care, because if we really do do nothing, it's collapsing.
	If we do nothing, there are going to be people that can't get insurance.
	They're not going to be able to afford it anymore.
	$8,000 increase over the Obama years is enough.
	And there are projected increases in some states over 100% more this coming year, 2018.
	So anyway, the bottom line of this, you know, Obamacare regulations have driven costs through the roof.
	And that has forced insurance carriers to drop their participation in the program.
	That's why all these counties only have one option that people can decide from.
	Take it or leave it.
	It's not like you have other choices.
	So what Rand Paul described on this program, it's related to a 1974 law.
	And it really fits in with the model that we have been discussing with Dr. Josh Umber.
	And large, large consumer larger consumers inevitably can get better deals.
	And the idea is you buy in bulk.
	And the idea is you can find a cooperative.
	And the idea is that the Paul Plan would use the employment retirement income security act, ERISA for short, to evade Obamacare regulatory requirements, and it would be legal.
	Now, if the president does this, it would literally bury Obamacare with greater choice, more competition in the health insurance markets, and the Trump administration can get this done.
	Now, this bill, the employer employee retirement income security act was first passed in 1974.
	It enabled large corporations or entities to establish a single health plan or a set of health plans for all employees rather than having to comply with the rules and regulations of every state in which they operate.
	In other words, if you have factories in 20 states, you can't go by 20 states' rules.
	You can just create one big cooperative, and it allows corporations to do that, which is a pretty smart thing to do.
	And it minimizes the you know the impact that these corporations that want to give insurance to their employees and all the hoops and loops that they have to jump through to actually get it done.
	Anyway, to this pre-exemption of state law, Congress added exemptions to many Obamacare regulations.
	In other words, these plans that thus benefit from the absence of these onerous state and federal mandates.
	What that would then do is we can now expand health cooperatives for any large group of people.
	And the health care provisions that were first passed in 74, you know, in in states like New York or California or Illinois, every conceivable interest group, you know, what it that is even somewhat tangentially, you know, involved in health care, lobbied their state legislators to require their inclusion.
	So example, if you're not interested in chiropractic included or mental health included, or prenatal care, you're not gonna have kids.
	Um, too bad you're always stuck paying for it.
	And if you're young and healthy and you wanted what is uh illegal under Obamacare, catastrophic coverage.
	We've talked a lot about catastrophic coverage.
	That's if you have a heart attack, a bad accident, or get cancer.
	So if you can create a cooperative like Dr. Umbers, it's 50 bucks a month, you get a 95% reduction in prescriptions, you're paying next to nothing for x-rays, and all of your care is handled, and you have access to your doctor 24-7, 365.
	Then you couple that with catastrophic insurance, bingo, you got a great coverage, great plan for literally, you know, a third of the price of what you're paying now.
	And you have free market competition that also kicks in.
	You know, the the biggest mandate of Obamacare, the guaranteed issue, where one can forego insurance until getting sick, and the insurance company then must accept you.
	You know, all of this, this death spiral is gonna end.
	And young people who were forced to buy plans they never needed or wanted, so they would fund sort of transfer of wealth from that young people would pay for the sick and the elderly and the uninsured.
	That's all gonna come to an end if the president would just do this.
	May end up working out better because you can't count on people like Bob Corker to get any of these things done because they seem incapable of it.
	All right, uh, we got to take a break.
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	I want to focus on North Korea.
	I want to focus on Iran.
	I want to focus on other things.
	I don't want to focus on fixing somebody's back or their knee or something.
	Let the states do that.
	The states should do that.
	So the block grant concept is a very good concept.
	And if you have good management, good governors, good politicians in the state, it'll be phenomenal.
	If you don't, it's like everything else.
	So we are I could almost say we are just about there in terms of the vote.
	So I expect to be getting healthcare approved.
	But I'm disappointed.
	I thought that when I ran you and I've been here like you for seven years, repeal and replace repeal.
	For seven years, I was a civilian.
	I wasn't even thinking about doing this.
	I was doing my nice buildings all over and uh I was leading a very nice life, believe me.
	And then I decided to do the and so for two years I've been saying we're going to repeal and replace.
	That's what's going to happen.
	We will repeal and replace.
	But I thought that when I got to the Oval Office, I would have a bill sitting on my desk.
	Repeal and replace a beautiful health care bill.
	And it didn't happen.
	But remember, it didn't happen because of a lot of Republicans.
	It didn't ha it it, you know, that happened.
	That horrible thing happened because of a few people.
	Really a few people.
	And the problem we have is we have 52 senators, and they have to get rid of the just absolutely crazy voting where you need 60.
	It's called the filibuster rule.
	It's a disaster.
	Okay.
	It's a disaster for the Republicans.
	They have to get rid of it.
	If they don't get rid of it, it's just a death sentence.
	And we should go back to a majority, and we'll get the votes one after another.
	Quick final question.
	In the tax package, is it possible rather than wrap it all into one great big bill that gives everyone an excuse to not vote for it, saying, Oh, I'm for 99 of the hundred things.
	Right.
	Will it possibly be done a la carte where each piece of it and force these guys to say yes or no to each element of the tax plan?
	We could do that.
	For instance, it would be easier, believe it or not.
	You know, the Democrats want to raise taxes because they want programs that many people don't want.
	They want a big increase in taxes, and we want a big cut in taxes.
	So for business, we could do it much easier if we were separate.
	But I don't like that because I think it looks unfair to people in the country.
	You know, the business now, even though it's going to create jobs, they're not looking at it that way.
	So I want to do it this way.
	Could we do it that way?
	Absolutely.
	Some people prefer doing it that way.
	I think you would agree.
	If we can get it, doing it the way we're doing it is better because I want to give the middle income people in this country.
	And this is not a tax for the rich.
	Now, everybody's going to benefit, but this is what we're focused on more than anything, and even more so, we're actually adding things in as we speak, because you know the plans being adjusted, etc.
	But this is for the middle class.
	So the answer is yes.
	It would be easier if I cut it down into the middle income people or the working people, as I call them, because they are they're working people.
	If I do that, and business would be easier, but I'd like to do it as one.
	All right, so maybe we'll actually get some progress.
	Hour two, Sean Hannity show, toll free our telephone numbers 800 941.
	Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
	So it is a rare in studio appearance.
	Um my Fox News colleague of 10 years now will debut the Ingram angle uh immediately following Hannity on Fox, debuting October the 30th, because she needed a few weeks to get her acting.
	Oh, you know something?
	I am doing it.
	She needed a few weeks to go on the street.
	You have such a fancy studio.
	I have a very down-home studio.
	Like you have a you got like 15 screens.
	What is this?
	NORAD?
	Look at this.
	One, two, three, four, five, six.
	You got fifteen in the other room.
	You got um again, you got the ode to Hannity all over the place.
	This is amazing.
	What is the yeah, conservative solutions caucus?
	I guess I got to do it.
	You have your head, you have your head on George Washington's body closed.
	What is that?
	You are.
	Why are you lying?
	You are you were at Valley Forge.
	That's a good movie.
	Why are you lying?
	Anyway, so that's the forgotten man sitting on the bench.
	And there's Donald Trump helping the forgotten man.
	And uh I try and remember what this election was about because for a big part of my life, I was the forgotten man at $200 in my bank account.
	It came from the forgotten man and woman.
	That's what we came from.
	That's why we're hungry.
	You know, I'm glad you wrote this book.
	It's called Billionaire at the Barricades, the Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump.
	I was re who was it that wrote this.
	Oh, like we go from William F. Buckley to the likes of Hannity and Ingram and talk radio.
	Is that what this is?
	Is this the movement?
	I'm thinking I happen to revere Buckley.
	I mean, he's a brilliant, brilliant man.
	Oh, yeah.
	And God and man, you know.
	But, you know, are they going to talk about his irreverence?
	I remember a few debates with Gore Vidal, if he ever said the things he said then.
	That was the Buckley we really liked, taking on Vidal.
	Yeah, well, the the party has been in this family feud mode uh for well since about 2007 when they tried to push the Bush amnesty down everyone's throats.
	They tried to put Harriet Myers, the ultimate act of cronyism on the Supreme Court.
	And that was talk radio that basically stopped both things.
	They the immigration amnesty that was being pushed back then by John McCain and a lot of Democrats and George W. Bush and the Myers nomination.
	Thank goodness we defeated both, because now we have Sam Alito on the Supreme Court and uh we have Donald Trump.
	So I think the the Reagan Revolution brought everyone together because Reagan came in, Sean, at a time when we had to defeat the Soviet Union, when Jimmy Carter had taken our country uh down a ravine.
	Uh we had the Iranian hostage crisis, and Reagan came along after almost winning the nomination 76, and with a conservative populist zeal, he revolutionized politics in the country.
	You and I wouldn't be doing what we're doing without Reagan.
	So he he is the reason we're we have a meeting.
	He's without Reagan, there would have been no Fox News, it would have been no limbs.
	Here's my question, though.
	I look at Trump's agenda, and I don't care if it's his economic plan, seven brackets of three, repatriation, energy independence, uh corporate taxes, lowering the rates across the board for the most part.
	We can get it to the details later.
	Uh immigration, secure the borders, be identifying evil in our time, something Obama wouldn't do.
	What part of his agenda is not conservative?
	Because uh I mean we throw around these terms populist nationalist.
	Yep.
	But I look at Trump's agenda as conservative.
	I've always been a Reagan conservative.
	I've not changed.
	Yeah, well, Reagan used the Make America Great Again.
	That was his that was one of his first commercials, as everyone remembers.
	And his point from 76 on, really from 64 on was without a strong, vibrant American economy, what we're no good to the rest of the world.
	Because if America sees that the system at home is rigged against them and is not really working for the every man, it's just working for a very small veneer of elites, then they're not gonna they're not gonna have any desire to do anything in any other countries, any foreign country.
	So Reagan understood that.
	He he when he went to blue-collar America and said, You don't have to vote Democrat anymore.
	There's a new way forward.
	Trump actually did a similar thing.
	There were different people.
	Obviously, Trump's not a politician, he doesn't speak with the uh the the same, you know, poetic uh you know the with the same poetry of Reagan.
	But remember, the same Democrats who despise Reagan in the same old-style Republican party that hated Reagan in 76, called him uh a force of disruption.
	Well, they actually called him Republicans were the one that called him an amiable dunce.
	Yeah, and he was uh Ronnie Reagan, he was gonna blow us all up, he was going to get us into World War III.
	What are they saying about Trump?
	Corker yesterday.
	He was gonna get us into World War III.
	It's exactly what they said about Reagan, because Reagan didn't want to do the detente anymore.
	He wanted peace through strength.
	Right.
	He thought we could bring the Soviet Union down by a stronger U.S. economy and a bigger military, and he was laughed at for that.
	You know what's amazing?
	I watched this corker thing go back and forth, and I don't think I Corker doesn't get it.
	No.
	The Senate doesn't get it.
	Do you realize they've been there?
	They're now in their tenth month since Trump has been president.
	What have they accomplished?
	They didn't need they've maybe approved a third of the president's.
	All right, the VA thing was a big deal, and and no doubt Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, give credit where credit is due.
	Um, if it wasn't for the president stepping out today with Rand Paul and using his statutory authority on the issues involving health care, we wouldn't get anything done.
	Every prom everything the president could do himself, he's done.
	Exactly.
	And yeah, we hear we heard yesterday and today on some of the other cable channels, we heard, well, the president just doesn't want to pass legislation.
	The president just wants to to bully people into to appeal to his 30 per 30 percent talk radio audience.
	And I said to that, how many pieces of legislation has have arrived at his door on his desk that he hasn't signed?
	He even signed the Russian sanctions bill, which frankly was a stupid bill.
	He signed it reluctantly, but he wanted to play along and play nice with the establishment there, and he did that.
	But I'm telling you, the the establishment Republicans, the McConnells, the Corkers, the McCain's, the Lindsey Graham's of the world.
	We can work with them on certain issues, but on some issues, there's just a break in the family.
	And that's not coming back.
	That's not coming back.
	So they're not rigging conservatives.
	So another one.
	I would argue no.
	I would argue no.
	The one that is the bigger Reagan conservative would be Trump.
	I think Tr Donald Trump, and it's so it's so odd to think about it.
	But a guy who comes from Manhattan who grew up as a son of privilege, has a closer connection to the heartbeat of the American working class than any of these Republicans on Capitol.
	And I mean any of them.
	If he was stunning.
	That's a stunning thing.
	If his plan was implemented, those people in those pictures, and I'm not in them, thank you very much.
	But John McNaughton is a great person.
	That's a that's a copy.
	I bought the original.
	That guy's sitting on the bench, and you've got one side liberals, the other side conservative presidents, and Obama stomping on the Constitution.
	But if we would implement those economic plans, Reagan created 20 million new jobs, absolutely doubled revenues to the government.
	It was up to that time, the longest period of peacetime economic growth in history.
	It can be duplicated.
	It can be, but why would they resist the fight?
	Because if Trump is successful, think of what that does to their brand of Republicanism, which has been really uh riding on the coattails of Reagan without a lot of accomplishments.
	They they are at their heart, at their very heart, they're not working class conservatives.
	They're not most of them aren't from the people that we're from.
	I'm sorry, they're not.
	They're most of them are they're a different which is okay because you can be privileged and actually get it.
	But they are when push comes to shove, keeping wages low for corporate America by streaming people into the country, and they're for these global trade deals that have deindustrialized the Middle West.
	That's why all these states turned out for Trump.
	They've they've seen their livelihood uh destroyed, their families oftentimes broken up.
	They got all these people addicted to opioids.
	We have we had a hopelessness in America, Sean, that was so uh it was so transparent, and I felt it the night of October, I mean, excuse me, November 6th in Leesburg, Virginia, two days before the election.
	It was a Sunday night and it was cold.
	It was maybe I don't know, 45 degrees.
	At midnight, there were 12,000 people waiting for Donald Trape to make it Donald Trump to make his final trip on the campaign.
	I was there.
	All right, stay right there.
	I want to know you were sort of in the forefront of leading the effort against Eric Cantor, and you were successful, and Dave Pratt took his place.
	And then we saw Roy Moore in Alabama, and just this weekend, Steve Bannon says, Oh, this is just a good one.
	We're just starting.
	We're just starting going.
	All right, we'll take a break.
	Laura Ingram is with us, her brand new book out.
	We put it up on Hannity.com.
	It's called Billionaire at the Barricades, the Populous Revolution from Reagan and Trump.
	By the way, I'm gonna be in Philadelphia area on Thursday night, and then we're gonna put that up on all the all the tour stops are uh on Laura Ingram uh dot com.
	But Philly, I want to see a big Philly turnout on Thursday night.
	And as we continue, Laura Ingram is in studio with us today, 800 nine four one Sean is on number.
	We've got an investigation coming up into the very latest and the Debbie Wasseman Schultz scandal.
	Um so you wrote billionaire at the barricades.
	We saw what happened to Roy Moore in Alabama.
	You were in the forefront of going up against Eric Canner, and as as a result, I think we got a far better congressman and David Bratt.
	And Steve Bannon is basically saying this is just the beginning because if the Senate's not going to do their job and they're not going to get things accomplished and they're gonna stop the agenda, then let's replace them.
	I agree with them.
	I think he's totally right.
	And I'm gonna be with Bannon uh with Kelly Ward in Phoenix next week.
	And I'm supporting Kelly Ward.
	Yeah, so we're doing a huge event for her.
	So as Bannon and I and some other friends, I guess you're by the way, she's gonna beat Jeff Flake.
	Oh, Jeff Flake is one of the most unpopular, untethered to reality senators.
	He's a globalist, open borders, complete open markets, doesn't matter if China's getting stronger, and he is a constant thorn in the side of this administration.
	He did not understand what the election was all about, And the people have had enough.
	I mean, just like uh just like on your show, Sean, my listeners in Phoenix go crazy.
	They're like, how did we get this guy?
	They always campaign as one thing, and then they governor something totally different.
	Same with McCain.
	The absolute I think Corker would have lost in Tennessee.
	Absolutely.
	That's why he was getting out.
	Corker was on his way out.
	He, you know, barely won by the skin of his teeth last time around.
	He was scared last time around and he managed to to win, but this time, forget about it.
	The populist winds are blowing.
	Who do you like so far early in Tennessee?
	Well, Marcia Blackburn's running.
	I like Marcia, but I want to see what the real field is.
	Because I'm not sure she's nationalists enough for me, frankly.
	I mean, she's she's been there for a while.
	I like her a lot.
	Uh, but we'll see.
	I'm waiting to see.
	She's actually come up with her own version of the penny plan that actually goes further than the version I've advocated all these years.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, I'm happy to look at that.
	No, I'm not making a de I'm not making decisions until the time.
	No, no, no.
	We have plenty of time on that.
	Um, and I guess they're even going after Orin Hatch now in Utah.
	It's uh Orin Hatch, God bless him.
	He's a nice man.
	He could not be a nicer person.
	Lamar Alexander, Thad Corcoran.
	Cochrane.
	I mean, these people are like uh they should be on the set of cocoon.
	I mean, this is his we've got to go.
	I mean, this is not is that pool real?
	I want to find that pool.
	This is I mean, we do not go with the pods.
	Oh my god, we just it's time to say goodbye.
	They're in their late 70s to have do they have no interests other than shuffling over to the Capitol every now and then to go to these black tie dinners raising money.
	I mean, uh seventy-seven years old, seventy-nine years old, eighty-two years old.
	I mean, they've just got a uh it's not a lifetime job security act running for the Senate.
	I'm tired of all of them.
	All right, so I'm looking at your book.
	I've been reading it this weekend.
	Thanks for getting me an early copy.
	It's just out today in bookstores everywhere.
	It's on Hannity.com.
	Also, you're gonna be doing a bunch of book events speeches, I guess, along with the book signings in Philly and Myrtle Beach and DC.
	You're headed to Oklahoma City, Scottsdale, Arizona, West Oh, yeah.
	Oh, you had to put West Palm Beach.
	Well, I had to go down there for just hang out at the breakers.
	I had to go check out your property down there.
	I don't have any property down in West Palm Beach.
	You're the landed gentry.
	You went from the construction site to being a landed gentleman.
	I don't have to believe me.
	I I don't have property in West Palm Beach.
	Okay, sorry, it's the one county in Palm Beach County where you don't have private.
	No, I'm on the other coast.
	I don't have any property in the panhandle.
	Keep guessing.
	Naples.
	That's why I do have a condo in Naples.
	All right, 800 nine-four one shot.
	We'll see you on Hannity tonight.
	It's up on Hannity.com.
	Quick break.
	We'll come back.
	Luke Rosiak will advance our investigation into Debbie Watson and Schultz.
	We also have Steve Bannon and Laura Ingram on tonight and Steve Scalise in his first cake cable interview tonight, nine Eastern Hannity on Fox.
	Under my understanding, the Capitol Police is not able to confiscate members' equipment when the member is not under investigation.
	It is their equipment and it's supposed to be returned.
	Well, I think there's extenuating circumstances in this case.
	I think you're violating the rules when you conduct your business that way.
	And should expect that there would be consequences.
	Okay.
	Not only I believe that I did the right thing, and I will do it again.
	Because as I said in the beginning of this conversation, there are times when you can't be afraid to stand alone and you have to stand up for what's right.
	And you know, even in the face, you have to there are times you have to spend political capital to do what's right.
	Like I said, the easier thing to do for me would have been to just fire him.
	Obviously, I was the person who's had the most political challenges in the last year, so it would have been much easier for me to just cut him loose and say, you know, I'm gonna look out for my best interests and rather than stand up for what I believe in.
	Uh but I have to be able to look at myself in the mirror every day.
	And uh if there's one thing I'm going to make sure that I uh that I maintain my integrity.
	Well, he's not my staffer.
	I uh he no longer works for me, and when he was arrested, I terminated him.
	I kept him on the payroll during the time that he was not arrested and not charged with anything.
	And that was because, as I said, that I was concerned about the violation of his due process rights, and also that there were racial and ethnic profiling concerns as well.
	I have maintained uh that it was important and will continue to maintain that when someone's due process rights are in are uh be potentially being violated, that I'm going to stand up and make sure that uh that that people's rights are protected in this country.
	That's the oath that I swore to uphold when I swore to uphold the Constitution.
	All right, we have some updates now for you.
	That was Debbie Wasserman Schultz as it relates to this IT a uh aid.
	Uh Imran, one is the lawyer for this individual, a won literally is now saying that Democratic congressmen are to blame for the falsified spending records.
	Remember, numerous Democratic congressmen ended up letting this guy go because he had double billed.
	Also, there were questionable people that were on the IT payroll.
	One guy that worked at McDonald's and was fired, another guy that worked at a car dealership.
	And so I would assume if you had IT qualifications and you're being paid more than the average chief of staff, or about the same as a chief of staff, which is like the highest pay level in Washington, DC, uh, why would you be working at McDonald's?
	It didn't make any sense.
	Anyway, House Democrats ordered the systematic falsification of records showing how they spend their taxpayer provided office budgets, according to lawyers for two former House Information aides, and it is an accusation that now Pitts sitting lawmakers against the former aides Imran Awan, his brothers, and his wife.
	He was arrested back in July while trying aboard that flight to Pakistan after he'd sent money out in advance and then indicted on four counts of bank fraud involving moving money to that country, and he and his wife also indicted face a a court date on Friday.
	Uh and uh that's just one of the updates.
	And very strongly wants to block a review of the hard drives.
	Remember the hard drives that were found busted up in his garage.
	I know it sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton.
	Democrats like to bust up hard drives or acid wash them and bleach bit them.
	Anyway, the lawyers for Awan who did work for Debbie Wasserman Schultz feels strongly that the data recovered from the hard drive on Capitol Hill.
	This is the one that he left in the phone booth that they shouldn't be able to get a hold of the information in there because he's left a note that said attorney client privilege.
	But I thought he called the police to come pick it up.
	Anyway, that was before leaving it near that phone booth, according to uh things that they said in court on Friday.
	A police report shows that the backpack contained a laptop with the username Rep DWS and a copy of Imran Awan's ID in the notebook.
	And prosecutors revealed that when they arrested him at the airport in July, as he tried to board the flight to Pakistan, he was carrying a resume with an alias in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, and Imran may have planned to relocate there, seemingly under a different identity, according to prosecutor suggestions.
	And there's one other update, all these by the way, from the Daily Caller, that he also was sending money and gifts to government officials in Pakistan and in return received protection from Pakistani police.
	Well, that raises questions about what sensitive information he may have had access to, or top secret information he may have a had access to.
	Luke Rosiek is with the Daily Caller with the very latest on this.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm good.
	Thanks for having me.
	Can you give us more detail?
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	A lot going on here.
	I mean, these guys uh made unauthorized access to house computers five thousand times in a seven month period, and we're funneling uh what the Washington Post called massive amounts of data off of it.
	Uh meanwhile, they've got these connections to foreign governments, like you described.
	Their lawyer acknowledged that they're sending money to this guy named Azar Awan, who's a member of the police department uh over in Pakistan.
	Uh they're traveling with this motorcade there.
	They also had this car dealership that received a hundred thousand dollars from an Iranian fugitive, all in all, uh pretty concerning stuff.
	And it's right in line with what Democrats are always talking about about cybersecurity and foreign meddling and how that's the worst thing ever, and you can't tolerate it.
	And it happens right inside their own house.
	But you don't hear them talking about it.
	You don't hear them expressing concern.
	And that's been the big question here is on the surface, Democrats were the apparent victims of this guy.
	So why aren't they up in arms about it?
	Instead, you have them defending him, like those quotes from Debbie Wasserman Schultz uh that you played.
	So when so there's two parts here there's the cyber breach, and then there's the procurement thing, which is basically um they were buying all this expensive equipment and they were falsifying uh the the price that was lifted.
	So it basically went into a slush fund where it wasn't tracked and people were saying this equipment was disappearing.
	Uh so uh the lawyers basically said for these guys, one of these quotes is this is just how things have been done forever.
	This is why what experienced members of Congress expect to expedite things, they adjust the pricing.
	So just the pricing is another way of saying uh yeah, you could say fraud really is what it looks like.
	Uh Another one of their lawyers said in a fluid situation you do what you're ordered to do.
	So these guys are basically throwing members of Congress under the bus and saying the procurement thing was part of a systemic long running thing that House Democrats were doing.
	Uh, you know, using this taxpayer funded money in ways that they're not supposed to, and it almost harkens back to like the house banking scandal back in the nineteen nineties.
	Do we know if they're able to put those hard drives back together and glean the information that was on there off them?
	I don't know what was on those hard drives that were found in his house that were damaged, but w basically they were in court in Fri on Friday, and prosecutors revealed some additional information, like you mentioned, and including the alias in Queens.
	Uh and the lawyer basically stood up and said, you know, we quote very strongly want to block you from reviewing the hard drive that was found in the laptop.
	So that or in the backpack in that phone booth.
	So that appears to be referring to the case.
	But why would that why would the lawyer for a wan be fighting if it was Debbie Wasserman Schultz's laptop appropriately?
	In other words, wouldn't she have to fight for that?
	And he's invoking attorney client privilege, which is like, first of all, he hadn't even been arrested.
	This was months prior to him getting arrested, and he had put this note by the laptop that said attorney client privilege.
	And now they're saying as long as his lawyers choose to invoke this privilege, uh they don't want prosecutors to look at that laptop.
	And that laptop did it does appear to be the same one that Wasserman Schultz was talking about in the clip you played.
	Uh it does appear to be government property with her username on it.
	So there's a number of questions about why they would feel that they couldn't somehow block this, and uh especially with it being government property, and also why.
	But um these guys have not yet been charged with the invoicing scheme or the cyber breach.
	So um, you know, you have to assume that the lawyers are aware that right what they're charged with right now is just the tip of the iceberg, and they're trying to block uh prosecutors from getting the evidence they would need to bring additional charges related to uh stuff going on in the House.
	So where's Debbie Wasserman Schultz in all of this?
	I mean, we heard the passionate plea and the attack against the police officer who had this initial laptop.
	He leaves it at a phone booth.
	Uh uh, you know, the fact that he he called law enforcement to tell him it was there that would seem like he wanted them to go through it, and then he's now claiming attorney client privilege for something that apparently isn't even his.
	It's very strange.
	I mean, he was la late at night in the House office building, actually a different office building than the one he works in, and he left this laptop in there and had a copy of his ID, this laptop with username rep DWS, and then a letter to the prosecutors and a note that said attorney client privilege.
	And he didn't call the police, but he left it there in a way that i it seems like pretty unlikely that he would to collect all this important evidence and then just walk away and leave it in a phone booth.
	It seems like something that he's smart enough not to forget.
	So there were people were kind of uh wondering did he leave it there intentionally.
	Wow.
	I mean the whole thing is very, very odd.
	Um isn't it so does do you think that this in any way and do you have any indication through your through your digging into this case and your research into this case and you're investigating into this case?
	Do you think any of this could be connected to the idea that the DNC, remember that she was fired on the eve of the DNC convention, that there's information that could implicate her in the sense that that she was involved in being partnered with Hillary Clinton and her campaign as chairman of the DNC, chairwin woman of the DNC, and that Bernie basically was axed out and had no mathematical chance to win.
	In other words, the fix was in from the get-go.
	Well, what we know is that she didn't let the FBI analyze the DNC servers, and just two months later, the Capitol Police told her that her house aide was a suspect in these cybersecurity violations, and then she tried to block them from seeing the equipment associated with that case as well.
	Uh so whatever's on that laptop, it uh and you have to take Wasaman Schultz at her word, she claimed it was her laptop, a member's laptop.
	Uh she really doesn't want that scene, even though on the same laptop.
	Is this the same laptop that the police had had?
	Yes.
	Do we know if she wiped it clean in any way?
	Well, the police have that laptop, but what they're trying to so I guess they know what's on it, but what they're trying to do is block uh it from being used as evidence.
	So the two things that are going on here is why are members not to be able to do that.
	Why would they block it if they th they didn't think there was something on there that would implicate a won?
	Right.
	Both Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Imran Wan have tried to block prosecutors from looking at this laptop.
	This is getting more odd by the day, isn't it?
	I mean.
	Absolutely.
	And this is, you know, if this was a rogue staffer, you would expect these members to be condemning him and assisting with the prosecution.
	Uh, and especially now that he's basically throwing them under the bus, you still don't hear a peep out of these guys.
	So it really raises the question about are they really concerned about cybersecurity?
	Because this had all the markings of something that should be taken as a s a serious uh potential cybersecurity breach, but you're just hearing crickets from them.
	Isn't this a an interesting case?
	I mean, wouldn't you think that on Debbie Wassom and Schultz there had to be top secret information as well?
	Well, a lot of people say, oh, there's no need to be concerned here because members of Congress don't have classified information, which is generally true.
	But you have the potential for blackmail embarrassment, things like what came out in the DNC emails.
	So that could be one reason why members don't want this investigated, even though they're accused of harming members, of breaching their own servers.
	Uh, and then the other thing is the potential exposure of Democrats' involvement in a kickback scheme.
	So if these if this equipment was disappearing, then you know, maybe members or a chief of staff was splitting the proceeds with these guys.
	And maybe that's why they had a McDonald's guy and other apparently no-show employees on the payroll, is that the members are paying out taxpayer money and receiving a portion back in cash.
	We've seen that with members in the past, like uh Corrine Brown, a former member was convicted of very similar crimes just a couple months ago.
	So you when the lawyers blame Congress uh for uh supposedly ordering these guys to do procurement uh falsification, you gotta take it with a grain of salt because it's coming from a defense attorney who has a he's trying to get his guy off, but at the same time, you look at members of Congress, why would they not be concerned that their own staffer was wrongfully accessing their stuff?
	They should be mad, and it's not a partisan thing.
	The Democrats were the victims here on the surface.
	But where it gets weird is that they're not acting like victims.
	All right, thanks, Luke Rosiak from the Daily Caller.
	You've been doing great work, and I know you're digging hard.
	Uh, I think this is gonna blow probably sometime sooner than later, and uh you will be one of the few in the media that actually saw this for what it was early on.
	We give you a lot of credit for stepping out on this.
	First of all, does anybody know the last time he's been to a football game?
	Okay, with that being said, he tweeted out a three-year-old photo coming out of close games.
	So with the information that I have, last time he's been to a cold game's three years ago.
	So this looks like a PR stunt to me.
	He knew um our team has had the most players' protests.
	He knew that we were probably gonna do it again.
	And so this is what systemic oppression looks like.
	A man with power comes to the game, tweets a couple things out and leaves the game with an attempt to support our efforts.
	Again, based on the information I have, that's that's the assumption I made.
	We didn't have um a plan just sir like we did last week.
	This these were guys that felt compelled to continue the protests.
	I think it is gaining ground.
	Uh uh, I've spoken to y'all previously about controlling the narrative.
	And and that's what we'll do.
	And if I keep if I need to say it every time, y'all ask me, this is not about the military.
	This is not about the flag, this is not about that.
	My mother served in the armed forces.
	Three months served in the armed forces.
	In fact, my mom would have went to the Persian Gulf War if she'd not been pregnant with me.
	Have the utmost respect for the military than the flag.
	So I'll say that every time I got interviewed.
	This is about systemic oppression that has been rampant in this country for decades on top of decades.
	And I will continue to say and encourage people to educate themselves of how we got to where we are today.
	Because it didn't happen overnight.
	It's not a stunt if you're saying that you think it's appropriate that everybody honor the flag, the anthem, and respect those who served under that flag that fought, bled, and died.
	Why is that so complicated?
	All right, we got to take a break.
	We'll come back.
	800 941 Sean Hannity tonight.
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	The investigation into the tragedy in Las Vegas this week has sparked a larger debate in America between people who want common sense gun control and people who are wrong.
	This shouldn't be a partisan issue.
	The guy had 47 guns.
	No one should own 47 of anything.
	If you own 47 cats, you are not a responsible pet owner.
	You're a crazy cat lady.
	And unlike with guns, the government will actually come and take your cats away because everyone agrees that's insane.
	Also, this guy bought 33 of his guns in the past year, and that didn't set off any kind of alert.
	If I buy a hundred dollars worth of Chick-fil-A, I get a text message from my bank that says, Did you just purchase a hundred dollars worth of Chick-fil-A?
	Please, Colin, tell us this is fraud.
	How is no one keeping track of how many guns people own?
	There is a real law in Texas that says it's illegal to own more than six.
	And I get why.
	No one needs that many.
	If you have more than six, it's a clear sign you are training for something awful.
	I mean.
	Why is it so hard to get gun control in this country?
	I mean, who are these delicate snowflakes that we can't just tell, no?
	You're not allowed to have 40 guns anymore, Earl.
	From now on, you can have one gun, max, and six bullets.
	If you can't hit what you're shooting with six bullets, then you don't need to be shooting at it.
	Learn karate or use your words.
	I'm sick of this narrative that Americans just love guns so much.
	It's not true.
	78% of Americans don't even own a gun.
	And 3% of Americans own 50% of all the guns in the country.
	That's the problem.
	That whiny 3% that needs to feel secure all the time.
	Mr. Michaels.
	Great show today.
	I was watching a show.
	I was surprised you didn't do Harvey Weinstein.
	It's a New York nigga.
	Have a good one.
	All right, Mr. Michael.
	I think everybody, probably in this room.
	Um we suffered a nightmare as a country.
	And um, you know, I've seen I've seen the crimes, the hate crimes, and you know, the prejudice against women, and the progress that people made on climate control, all of that starting to be peeled away.
	The LGBT community, civil rights, schools, second amendment, assault rifles.
	It's all just going away.
	But as long as my friend is here with me and with the American people, then I don't think we're gonna have to worry.
	Gonna have to fight.
	But at least we've got somebody who's an inspiration.
	Ladies and gentlemen, William Jefferson Clinton, president of the 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program that was the lion premiere, I guess Weinstein attacks Trump and introduces Bill Clinton.
	Unbelievable.
	Lauren Michaels, well, it's a New York issue.
	Weinstein's from New York, and therefore we didn't do it on Saturday Night Live.
	Well, that's pretty interesting, because I guess that's this that is the same thinking behind Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers that all avoided the topic.
	And we all know how conservatives are treated, Republicans are treated when they quote, fall from grace and whatever the scandal happens to be.
	You remember back during the campaign, I went through all of the countries that practice sharia that donated to Hillary Clinton.
	And it was to the tune of millions of millions of millions of dollars.
	And then I also did a lot of research to find out well, did she uh go after and attack the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and all these other countries, UAE that donated the Clinton Foundation?
	No.
	In many countries, women can't drive, they can't vote.
	Marital rape is not a crime.
	Women are told how to dress, they can't travel without their a man's permission.
	Then you got the treatment of gays and lesbians in some of these countries are slaughtered and thrown literally off the top of pie buildings, or they're hung and they're murdered.
	Now Hillary claimed to be the champion of women's rights and gay rights, and then of course, religious freedom.
	Well, Christians and Jews are persecuted in many of these countries.
	You can't even build a temple or a church in any of them.
	Now you've got the case of Harvey Weinstein, 30 plus years.
	I mean, I happen to know one of the people involved in this, and I I I sent this person a note this weekend, but you know and I know if it was a conservative, a religious figure, a Republican, that the treatment would have been very different.
	So why the difference?
	Why is it why is it that Lisa Bloom was working for Harvey Weinstein up until this weekend?
	That made no sense To me at all.
	And then you look at, you know, what is what's the double standard?
	Why is there a double standard?
	Now Hillary Clinton once said every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard and believed and supported.
	Well, I have the list of donations to Hillary.
	You know, it's over $60,000 from Harvey Weinstein between the PACs and every other donation he gave.
	Let's see.
	It's like a who's who the Democratic National Committee, tens of thousands of dollars.
	Den Democratic Senatorial Committee, tens of thousands of dollars.
	Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, thousands of dollars.
	Corey Booker, tens of thousands.
	Chuck Schumer, tens of thousands.
	Andrew Cuomo, tens of thousands.
	Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Al Franken, John Kerry, Pat Leahy, former Congressman Pat Kennedy, and it goes on and on and on.
	It's like a who's who of Democrats.
	Oh, I wonder if it was a Republican or if he donated to Republicans what the media narrative would be today.
	Anyway, joining us now from the Hill is Joe Concha to discuss this and much more.
	How are you?
	I don't think you have to wonder what the media narrative would be.
	We saw that movie, Sean, right?
	With Roger Ayles and with Dole O'Reilly.
	That's exactly what it would be.
	Did you know that uh we looked this up before?
	CNN did over fifty stories, more than fifty stories uh in April alone on O'Reilly.
	And how many uh advertisers do you think they're contacting now of Weinstein movies and products?
	Probably none.
	So that's how it works.
	It's all selective outrage.
	So whenever you see people up in their moral soapboxes, Sean, you know it's all BS because it all depends on the the party of the person that's being accused.
	Now you asked before, Lisa Bloom.
	Uh, why was she advising Weinstein?
	Well, follow the money.
	She wrote a book, and that book was being turned into a mini-series, and you'll never guess which production company is producing that movie.
	Yeah.
	So I mean that's the she's the biggest phony in this.
	I mean, I've never seen somebody who just completely did a 180 when she represented women against Ayles and O'Reilly, and then was advising Weinstein on how to handle sexual harassment allegations against him.
	It's amazing.
	But the stupid award, Sean, I mean the stupidest excuse I've ever heard.
	You've you played it before, you said it before.
	Lauren Michaels.
	Because Weinstein's from New York, you're not doing any skits or jokes on him, like Donald Trump is from New York?
	Exactly.
	That's a perfect example.
	Oh, but he's running for president.
	Was he I mean, seriously, I'm asking this question, your natural.
	How would I know?
	I don't know Lauren Michaels.
	What's that?
	I I have I don't know Lauren Michaels for a hole in the wall, do you?
	Uh I I know he is a great, great uh discoverer of talent, whether you're talking Belushi or Murray or Chevy Chase or Will Farrell or anybody, but uh uh he needs to find a better PR person if that was his excuse, because I I swear I've never heard a stupider excuse in my life, and that's saying something.
	Yeah.
	Uh well, I think if and that's the point that there is this massive double standard.
	What did you think?
	Did you see this video this weekend of a coffee shop owner out in Seattle kicked out a bunch of Christian pro-life people and talked about wanting to blank Jesus in the Well, let me play it for you so you have it.
	I mean, I'm gay, you have to leave.
	So are you?
	Are you denying us service?
	I am, yeah.
	So why why aren't we allowed to stay?
	Because this is offensive to me.
	I own the place.
	Was it like was it?
	I have a right to be offended.
	Yeah.
	So I have a right to say can anyone buy anything in the store?
	I didn't know.
	I don't love anything.
	So where's the men from?
	That came from outside the store.
	Right.
	Okay, well, there's a lot of us in the city.
	I didn't need anything in your store.
	So something you found on public property.
	I saw it there.
	You're not sure.
	Shut shut up.
	You just admitted that it being you.
	Right.
	So shut up.
	What about a defensive?
	Okay.
	There's nothing else you can say.
	So we're not welcome here.
	So you're not willing to tolerate our presence.
	Extremely offensive.
	Right, we're actually in your coffee shop.
	Really?
	If I go get my boyfriend right now and f in the right here, you're gonna tolerate that?
	That would be your choice.
	Are you going to tolerate it?
	Answer my f question.
	No, you're gonna sit right here and watch it.
	Well, I mean, we don't want to.
	I don't have to fing tolerate this.
	Well, that's true.
	I mean, you don't have to.
	All of that tell all your f friends don't come here.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I like I'm not gonna be saved by anything.
	I Christ in the Okay.
	Okay, great.
	Good.
	I'm glad.
	Well, Seattle is a chance.
	Shut up.
	All right, keep on.
	Let's go.
	I haven't seen this covered that much.
	And this is the only thing.
	This is one person, and it's his shop, and I understand the whole argument.
	He does not represent any group of people.
	For anyone to suggest that would be totally completely inaccurate and unfair.
	But and this is where the butt is.
	If it was somebody doing that on the other side, it would be everywhere is my argument.
	Do you agree?
	24-7 wall to wall.
	They need 25 hours in the 24K news cycle just to cover that.
	Two things on this.
	One, I always thought the coffee shops were kind of tranquil and like nice places to sit down.
	This guy's way too angry to be.
	I'm not a big coffee shop guy.
	I never understood the appeal of let's let me go and sit down for a few hours and drink coffee and and play on my computer for a couple hours.
	I I don't h I don't live that kind of life, do you?
	I go to Duncan, man.
	They get you get three nice bags of coffee for twenty bucks in, and I just make it at home my own way.
	I can't yeah, it seems kind of like a waste of time.
	I just make my own coffee at home.
	You got a Courick machine, boom, pop.
	It's it's there in 25 seconds, it's fresh and it's hot and it's delicious.
	It's tremendous.
	And then by the way, doesn't his owner know, or I guess he knew that it was being recorded, but you know, yeah, he can run his coffee shop however he wants, but i if there was some media coverage on this, and there's very little uh outside of conservative publications.
	I don't know why this just uh has to have a label on it.
	I mean, this is a a story.
	It's it's it's very compelling audio, if you want to call it that, of a of a guy denying service to people that came in peacefully, they weren't acting out in any capacity, and uh he allowed it to be recorded.
	So what you hope is that people in Seattle, and I know it's a liberal town, would say, I'm not gonna go uh reward somebody like that who treats people that way based on the religion.
	You hope that that would happen, but uh who knows, man.
	But you're right.
	Not not a lot of coverage on this at all, Sean.
	Let me go to the NFL for this weekend.
	Jameel Hill, the ESPN host who called President Trump a white supremacist, is now calling for a boycott of the NFL unless team owners permit players to protest during the national anthem.
	Then you've got a poll showing that football is no longer America's most popular sport, and and maybe it's accurate, maybe it's inaccurate, but I would argue that people's patients now are running very thin on this and all of this stop, and then you've got Mike Pence walked out of out of the game uh in Indianapolis this weekend between the 49ers when the 49ers players took a knee again, and he said, I'm not I'm not doing it.
	I will not dignify any event that disrespect our so disrespects our soldiers and our flag.
	And I think that's the feeling among the average American that's going into these games.
	Jerry Jones is weighed in, the owner of the Cowboys says he's had it.
	We're gonna respect our flag.
	And the same thing has happened with the owner of the Miami Dolphins.
	He said the same thing, and the coach of the Miami Dolphins, the owner of Steve Ross now wants players to stand for the anthem, and the and the coach is now making it a rule.
	It already was a rule from what I read in the NFL handbook.
	Yeah, I mean that that poll you mentioned, it was by the Winston group.
	That's not, you know, a poll that kind of uh comes off the top of your head as like one of the top polling firms.
	But you know, let's say they're even off by a couple of points.
	It it shows a 31-point drop in popularity for the NFL from August until now.
	And it was the most popular sport, now it's third, and you gotta think that these these anthem protests uh certainly have something to do with that.
	And you know, the whole thing with with Pence and leaving and and the media coverage around that was well, yeah, you know, that's a stunt on Pence's part, even though the White House says it was that trip was on the books for a while.
	It wasn't just any game Peyton Manning was being honored and are giving him a statue outside, and obviously Peyton's huge in Indiana, and obviously Pence was governor of Indiana.
	So the way I'm trying to unpack this, Sean, is that wait a minute.
	You're saying that Vice President Pence leaving a game because players were kneeling during the national anthem is a stunt, but not standing during the national anthem isn't a stunt.
	In other words, he was exercising his first amendment right.
	He was protesting the protest.
	And instead it's called systemic oppression is what Eric Reid called.
	He's a safety for the Niners.
	What?
	Oppression.
	He's expressing himself just like you are, Eric.
	That's all.
	Well, I think the I think the American people are now saying they've had enough, and it's pretty expensive to go to a ball game, and I think they keep this up for the rest of the season.
	Nobody's gonna be paying attention anymore.
	Anyway, stay right there.
	Joe Concha, he writes for the Hill, 800 941 Sean.
	We got a great Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox uh news channel.
	Steve Scalise will be interviewed by us.
	He wants to talk about the Vegas shooting in light of him being shot in that baseball field.
	And as we continue, Joe Concha is with the Hill.
	So you know I've got this movie coming out, and I know that Harvey Weinstein's been one of the the big big Hollywood mega moguls over the years, etc.
	And it's interesting that I've talked to a lot of people.
	Everybody's known this is going on.
	And nobody's wanted to take on Harvey Weinstein because Harvey Weinstein can ruin your career.
	And even Ashley Judd, who I I'm not a fan of, had made a similar comment.
	You know, one of the reasons, Joe, that I decided to become the executive producer.
	Number one, I love the story of Let There Be Light.
	It's uplifting.
	It doesn't impugn my values.
	You can take your home family to the movie.
	It's got a meaningful message in the movie.
	It's got an emotional ebb and flow that I'm really proud of.
	And it's like I'm just tired of what Hollywood makes.
	And it's so formulaic and so predictable that I'm just sick of it.
	So and I found out there was a 2015 survey, 1,400 Oscar acceptance speeches by a website.
	They found Weinstein was thanked more frequently than God.
	I think Meryl Streep actually said, I'd like to thank my agent MI God, Harvey Weinstein.
	You could go on and on about this guy, Sean, but look, you talk about the media coverage of Harvey Weinstein.
	You know, the New York Times had this story in 2004.
	Yeah, they killed it.
	Yeah.
	The reporter who wrote the story, he's she's now in another publication show.
	She doesn't give my mind talking about this.
	But she said she went to Europe and went to two countries and talked to a lot of people, and she wanted to go ahead with the story, and they completely guttered it, put it in the culture section somewhere, and that was the end of it.
	So uh ironic that the New York Times actually wrote a story today.
	Jim Rutenberg is a media reporter like me, said that yeah, the New York Times had media enablers, including the New York Times, apparently.
	That's amazing.
	All right, Joe Concha, appreciate you always being with us.
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	So the president media loves when the president goes on a tweet storm.
	And it's always an epic tweet storm, meltdown on Twitter.
	It's not a meltdown.
	And the president talked about the vice president, and he said the trip was long planned.
	He's receiving praise after leaving the game because the players continue to show disrespect.
	How many 49ers took a knee against Indianapolis the other day, Jason?
	It was more than most other teams.
	There were a lot.
	It looked like there were some.
	It was almost the whole team, right?
	It was a lot of people.
	There were a lot of them.
	It wasn't just two or three.
	I just have no interest if if I see that, I have no interest in watching the game at that point.
	That's my own personal prerogative.
	I'm not getting involved in any any boycott.
	I'm not telling any advertiser to step out.
	Everybody gets to choose what they want to do, but I find it so offensive, I'm just tired of it.
	The whole thing.
	And I think for other people like me, they just would rather not watch the game at that point.
	And um I you know it's it's frustrating.
	I mean, in light you watch John Rich singing Big and Rich singing God Bless America an hour before the shooting in Vegas, and it's so inspiring.
	Anyway, and everyone's like, oh, why would the president can't lose more than three senators?
	Why does he have to kiss Bob Corker's ass?
	Why?
	He doesn't.
	What has Bob Corker done except give us that idiotic Iranian deal?
	So I'm sorry.
	I just, it's not important.
	Yeah, I want the agenda done, but at what point do you sell your soul to a bunch of people?
	What where's Corker's responsibility to do the things that he promised to do, except, oh, the president hurt my feelings, so therefore, oh, I can't go along with the president's plan.
	Oh, I'm gonna be the deal breaker.
	Which by the way, seems a lot like what John McCain is doing and has been doing.
	And if that's what John McCain, first thing he does is, you know, these guys can go straight to hell and talk about listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the internet to hell with them.
	Hell with us.
	They don't want anything done for the public good.
	Yes, we do.
	Our incapacity is their livelihood.
	Your incapacity is your failure.
	It's not our livelihood.
	I want things done.
	That's why long before the 2014 election, and in December of 2013, I put out the conservative solution caucus.
	You know, it's so pathetic that Republicans don't have any well thought out ideas and agenda items that I'm saying, wow, that's really inspiring.
	You know, we're spending the time putting on the Josh Umbers of the world and talking about health savings accounts and trying to come up with ideas that'll make things better.
	And to the president's credit, the president just decided, all right, well, I can't do health care on your own.
	What could I do on my own?
	And so the president work with Paul with Rand Paul.
	Rand Paul's been on this program, you know, pushing this now for a long time.
	Stymied by Republicans that can't keep a promise.
	He's gonna do what he always seems to do.
	He's finding a way to thread the needle on his own.
	And he is now poised to issue this order that will ease the federal rules governing health insurance and make it easier for we, the people, to band together and buy coverage on our own.
	Well, that's very similar to what I've been advocating with Dr. Josh Umber.
	You know, you get health care cooperatives are what they call fifty bucks a month, unlimited care, and then you get a catastrophic plan that'll no longer be illegal.
	You've got all the insurance you need.
	We don't need it now, yeah.
	Obamacare is the law of the land when we get a new health and human services secretary.
	Okay.
	Now the e the reason that the president is allowed to do this is, and Rand Paul's been urging this here on this program, and I told him I agreed with it, love the idea, think it's a good idea.
	Anyway, they're using the retirement or employee retirement income security act to evade Obamacare regulatory requirements.
	Now, if widely authorized, this would bury Obamacare with greater choice in competition in health insurance markets, and the Trump administration will need to, you know, it the health care this was first passed in 1974.
	It enables large corporations or entities to establish a single health plan or set of plans for all employees rather than having to comply with the rules and regulations of every state in which they operate.
	Now to get this preemption of state law for these compliant plans, Congress added exemptions to many Obamacare regulations, and the plans thus benefit from the absence of many of the onerous state and federal mandates.
	You know, for example, in a blue state like New York or California or Illinois, every conceivable interest group is, you know, tangential to the health care issue, lobby their legislature to require their inclusion on the list of minimum coverage.
	And if you're not interested in chiropractic or mental or prenatal care, too bad, you're stuck paying for it.
	So that means if you're young and healthy and you only want catastrophic coverage, which is illegal under Obamacare, well now you'd be able to buy it.
	So anyway, the mother of all mandates in Obamacare, the guaranteed issue, where one can forego insurance until getting sick, and the insurance company must accept you, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
	That'll be gone too.
	This may end up being better in the end.
	You know, but people like Bob Corker couldn't get their job done.
	And John McCain couldn't get it done.
	All right, let's go to uh Chris is in Irvine out in California.
	What's up, Chris?
	How are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Hey, Sean, how you doing?
	I'm good.
	What's happening?
	Nothing too much, man.
	Uh, first of all, uh, love your show, love all the work you're doing with um Kaya Jones and uh enjoy it's great.
	Um out here in California, it's been a very uh interesting weekend.
	Um we had uh three sets of legislation signed into uh into law, one of them making us obviously a sanctuary state, the other one um basically minimizing some sex offenders from having to register uh for lifetime, and the last one to take the cake was uh reducing it from being a felony to a misdemeanor to knowingly transmit HIV to someone.
	So it's been a great uh great weekend for us Californians.
	Um how much do you pay in state income tax?
	Uh 13 and a half percent and going higher.
	Exactly.
	And uh all all we're doing is being disarmed and um making it more dangerous to live here.
	So yeah, it's been uh it's been um but you know I I I I've been watching the um the news over the weekend with uh the Harvey Weinstein, the Mike Pence thing, and it's just the implicit double standard going on.
	What do you feel about that?
	Listen, I I to me it's obvious.
	I mean, Mike Pence just took a stand.
	There's only so much I I think there's only so much the American people are gonna take from the NFL at this point.
	Because the feeling I would agree because there's too many people that's that fought bled and died fighting under that flag.
	And there's certainly plenty of room in this country for political dissent, and they're certainly free to do it in the NFL, I guess, as long as Roger Goodell allows them to do it.
	But I think Jerry Jones has the right take on this, as does the Miami owner.
	I forget his name, but the Miami coach has now made it mandatory that they stand Stephen Ross, the owner of of the of the Dolphins.
	And I think they're all I think they're seeing the handwritings on the wall.
	You keep this up and people are gonna flock away.
	You're gonna allow the players to do well, the same players that can't shoot a an a fake bow and arrow in the end zone or taunt other players.
	Or they can't put never forget on their cleats on 911 2001 on the 15th anniversary of 911.
	I think, you know, either they're gonna enforce the rules or they're gonna let this continue to spiral down out of control, and it'll be the cape nicking of the NFL, and people are just not gonna watch.
	I'm telling you, I'm not calling for a boycott, wouldn't call for a boycott.
	I don't do boycotts personally, I'm not as interested right now.
	I don't care.
	And I'm not i you want to do it, do it on your own time, is my my attitude.
	I really prefer what I saw at that concert out in Vegas just before that shooting.
	That type of unity inspired me.
	Uh anyway, back to our busy phones.
	Ann is in Maryland.
	Anne, hi, how are you?
	And you are on the Sean Hannity show.
	Hi, thank you for taking my call.
	Um, I just wanted to say the NFL, it amazes me how ignorant the players are for um standing up for things they don't even know what they're standing up for.
	They act as pawns at their own peril.
	And it just astounds me that um they can go out and do this and not understand how the public at large feels about it.
	I th you know the thing is I don't think they care.
	And I don't think the owners and the coaches want to offend anybody.
	And therefore, even though it's in the rules, even though all other sorts of restriction of free speech are enforced in the NFL, they just they're just afraid if they say it, they might be accused of racism or something, and they just don't have the strength to stand up and say, you know what, these are our customers and our customers are screaming at us to stop.
	And now it's the least popular sport, according to the polls in the country.
	Now, you know, one of the things that I've done in the course of my career is I read research.
	I have I know it may sound crazy to people, but there are people that that actually research shows, television and radio.
	And sometimes when I'm reading the verbatim comments, and I will tell you this, people are very honest.
	And if I'm doing something wrong and they pick it up, it becomes obvious because there's not one person that says it, there's 15 that say it.
	And if I don't listen to that positive feedback, even though it may sting a little bit, as Ben Franklin once said, the sting in any rebuke is probably the truth, but I've listened to my audience and what they like, and I try to serve my audience with the best show possible.
	Does that make sense?
	Yes, it does.
	It certainly does.
	And and we we have to I wish they were just more self-aware.
	I think as a real problem with their self-awareness, and you know, they're not realizing they're representing an entire country when they behave badly like that.
	It look, I never expect athletes to be the role models so often.
	You know, you're putting a lot of pressure on young men that are 22 that have been idolized on college campuses and and had their handheld for the last four years and treated with kid gloves oftentimes, although they work really hard as student athletes, and then they come into all this money and you know they think this is gonna go on forever, and I think fame naturally is not a healthy thing for any young person, especially.
	And so I'm not expecting perfect role models, but this is the country that is allowing them to play the sport they love and have a blast and make a lot of money doing it.
	And I just think that there is a lack of understanding about who pays those tickets.
	You know, if the average median income in this country is 40, 50,000 a year, and a family of four, average ticket is a hundred bucks, that's four hundred bucks, you got a wife and two kids, and then you buy the kids two jerseys, now we're up to six hundred, and then you buy a couple of beers and hot dogs and some popcorn and you walk out of there, you're down eight hundred bucks.
	That's a big deal for people.
	And I think those people whose fathers and maybe themselves fought in and battle in wars, or they know family members that have and friends That have, and they know how many people died fighting under that flag.
	They they find it disrespectful.
	And they're saying it loudly, and they don't like it.
	And I think there's a place, you know, I I love what Rob Robert Kraft did of the Patriots.
	He said to his team, I'll match you dollar for dollar.
	Let's go make our community a better place.
	It was brilliant.
	Because now you're solving problems and you're doing it in a way that's constructive.
	Uh back to our phones we go as we say hi to Ken is in California.
	Ken, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thank you for taking my call, Sean.
	And I also want to thank you for your opens from Las Vegas last week.
	Oh, thank you.
	I'm a combination firefighter and police officer on a disability retirement.
	And I wanted to talk about two things that I think you've missed that are pretty important.
	One is the prodigious amount of violence that is committed against the police officers every year.
	And I'm going to tie this into Colin Kaepernick and the NFL in a second.
	If you look at the FBI statistics for the past 12 years, a police officer has been assaulted somewhere in the United States on average every nine minutes.
	They're attacked by a suspect with a gun about every four hours with a knife, an additional three times a day, and every seventy-five minutes with a dangerous weapon as defined by the FBI.
	And the rest are hands and feet.
	And people are killed by hands and feet more often than rifles and shotguns combined each and every year.
	So to put this in perspective, in less than two percent of the time that an officer is assaulted, is a suspect killed, and in less than six percent of the time that an officer is killed or injured in the line of duty is a suspect killed.
	And in slightly more than one one hundredth of one percent of a time that an African American is arrested is one killed.
	So Colin Kaepernick, and why the NFL is wrong on this, is that the NFL didn't allow any of the uh honoring of the Dallas uh officers who were killed on the line of duty.
	But Colin Kaepernick, as a 49er, an employee of the NFL, embraced numerous cop killers on all of his social media sites.
	He continues to do that, and that's the part I think you missed.
	It's not well let me say this.
	He gave he gave 25 grand to a charitable group that honored a convicted cop killer, and his foundation made the donation to a Chicago-based Asada's daughter's name after the Black Liberation Army member, uh Asada Shakor, in uh April as part of a million dollar charitable funge, and Shakur was convicted of first degree murder in the 73 shooting death of of a New Jersey state trooper.
	So I think that's what you're referring to.
	And and let me tell you something.
	It does represent he has cops depicted as pigs on his socks.
	I'm sorry, if you're gonna Kaepernick the NFL, the cat that I'm telling you, they're going down the wrong path.
	I am losing interest every week.
	We're now headed into week six.
	I don't care.
	I'm watching baseball.
	I'm watching other sports.
	I'm working harder.
	I I agree with you on that.
	Yeah, I got a roll.
	Good good information, though.
	I appreciate it.
	800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the uh program.
	All right, we'll take a quick break.
	We'll come back, we'll continue.
	It's the Sean Hannity show.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
	An awesome Hannity monologue on left-wing hypocrisy that you won't hear anywhere else because liberals don't want to admit that they're phony hypocrites and their outrage is selective moral outrage, not real outrage.
	Also, tonight, Steve Steve Scalise is gonna join us.
	His first cable interview.
	We're excited to have him.
	Also, Laura Ingram will talk to her and Spencer Tillman versus Burgess Owen on kneeling in the NFL.
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	Thanks for being with us.
	See you tonight at nine back here tomorrow.

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