President Trump has been under fire by the liberal media for reports that he was less-than-empathetic on a Presidential condolence call to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson who was killed in action several weeks ago. Today White House Chief-of-Staff General John Kelly, who lost his son in 2010 to a combat fatality, rebuked the criticism with a heartfelt endorsement of President Trump. Sean reacted to this story including the full remarks by General Kelly. The Sean Hannity Show is live weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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All right, as we continue, we're in Las Vegas today.
General Kelly just beat the living crap out of the left, the media in this country.
And when we come back, rather, I don't want to do a disservice here.
I want to play it for you.
And then we're going to get back into this Uranium One story.
And then we're going to get back.
Finally, we now have the president's attention.
Finally, we have Congress's attention.
Finally, we have finally the Senate Judiciary's attention.
Finally, we've got people that are fully and completely engaged in understanding how bad this has been, how deeply disgusting this has been.
And as far as the people that would politicize the death of a soldier the way the media has been, in spite of the fact that there were all the witnesses that were listening to the conversation, just like, and follow a woman that is a known, you know, how do you even say it?
I mean, she wakes up in the morning hating Donald Trump that has no love for Donald Trump, has been saying the most incendiary things.
And she is the main source for the media's hatred and the media narrative and the media lie that Donald Trump actually woke up one morning and called to personally insult a woman who lost her husband who was fighting for her country.
And that's what they would have you believe because that's what they believed.
Because they only want to believe the worst.
And the same people that have been for over a year warning about the dangers of Russia and Russia trying to influence this country.
And now that the evidence is right in front of their big fat noses, they refuse to even cover how Russia infiltrated, how Russia bribed, how Russia extorted, how Russia kicked back, how it was the highest levels from Moscow from Vladimir Putin on down so they could get a hold of America's uranium.
And they did it successfully.
And the FBI knew about it.
And we have witnesses on it.
And yet they won't even let the witness talk to Congress or the American people because they so desperately wanted to hand over 20% of America's uranium to the person they've been telling us the last year is our worst enemy.
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And because everybody had a common goal that we wanted to do this for the benefit of those that were victims of the shooting, it was all hands on deck.
And I can't tell you, it was amazing that we were able to pull it together.
I've got a lot more to say, and we're going to lay out in more detail.
We have three issues we're covering on TV tonight, and three issues we're covering here today.
One is this whole Uranium One scandal.
Our country was sold out.
There's no other way to put it.
Vladimir Putin successfully infiltrated this country with the goal of grabbing our uranium.
We knew about bribery, kickbacks, extortion, all these things, money laundering, and we did nothing.
And then we gave them 20% of our uranium.
And we had witnesses and the FBI willing to talk about it.
Nobody would listen to them.
They were muzzled, all of them.
It's about to come to an end.
A real Russia conspiracy theory.
The Clintons had $145 million kickback to them.
The timing's impeccable in spite of what Hillary says.
They doubled Bill Clinton's speaking fees in Russia.
That's one story.
Also tonight, and I know many of you in Vegas are scratching your heads and you demanding answers.
What in God's name is going on here that we don't know more at this point?
Something does not smell right at all.
Tonight we're going to try and get answers.
General Kelly just took to the podium and I want to play it in full.
This will be our third topic today and tonight.
I want you to listen to what he had to say about those that dare politicize the death of a soldier.
And that means all of you fake news people on CNN, NBC, mainstream media, you disgust me, all of you.
Listen.
Most Americans don't know what happens when we lose one of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, or Coast Guardsmen in combat.
So let me tell you what happens.
Their buddies wrap them up in whatever passes as a shroud, puts them on a helicopter as a routine, and sends them home.
Their first stop along the way is when they're packed in ice, typically at the airhead, and then they're flown to user Europe, where they're then packed in ice again and flown to Dover Air Force Base, where Dover takes care of the remains, embalms them, meticulously dresses them in their uniform with the medals that they've earned,
the emblems of their service, and then puts them on another airplane linked up with a casualty officer escort that takes them home.
A very, very good movie to watch if you haven't ever seen it is Taking Chance, where this is done in a movie HBO setting.
Chance Phelps was killed under my command right next to me.
And it's worth seeing that if you've never seen it.
So that's the process.
While that's happening, a casualty officer typically goes to the home very early in the morning and waits for the first lights to come on.
And then he knocks on the door.
Typically the mom and dad will answer, wife.
And if there is a wife, this is happening in two different places.
If the parents are divorced, three different places.
And the casualty officer proceeds to break the heart of a family member and stays with that family until, well, for a long, long time, even after the internment.
So that's what happens.
Who are these young men and women?
They are the best 1% this country produces.
Most of you, as Americans, don't know them.
Many of you don't know anyone who knows any one of them.
But they are the very best this country produces.
And they volunteer to protect our country when there's nothing in our country anymore that seems to suggest that self-service to the nation is not only appropriate but required.
But that's all right.
Who writes letters to the families?
Typically, the company commander, in my case, is a Marine, the company commander, battalion commander, regimental commander, division commander, secretary of defense, typically the service chief, commander of the Marine Corps, and the president typically writes a letter.
Typically, the only phone calls a family receives are the most important phone calls they can imagine, and that is from their buddies.
In my case, hours after my son was killed, his friends were calling us from Afghanistan, telling us what a great guy he was.
Those are the only phone calls that really matter.
And yeah, the letters count to a degree, but there's not much that really can take the edge off what a family member is going through.
So some presidents have elected to call.
All presidents, I believe, have elected to send letters.
If you elect to call a family like this, it is about the most difficult thing you could imagine.
There's no perfect way to make that phone call.
When I took this job and talked to President Trump about how to do it, my first recommendation was he not do it because it's not the phone call that parents, family members are looking forward to.
It's nice to do, in my opinion, in any event.
He asked me about previous presidents, and I said, I can tell you that President Obama, who was my commander-in-chief when I was on active duty, did not call my family.
That was not a criticism.
That was just to simply say, I don't believe President Obama called.
That's not a negative thing.
I don't believe President Bush called in all cases.
I don't believe any president, particularly when the casualty rates are very, very high, that presidents call.
But I believe they're all right.
So when I gave that explanation to our president three days ago, he elected to make phone calls in the case of the four young men who we lost in Niger at the earlier part of this month.
But then he said, you know, how do you make these calls?
If you're not in the family, if you've never worn the uniform, if you've never been in combat, you can't even imagine how to make that call.
But I think he very bravely does make those calls.
The call in question that he made yesterday, or day before yesterday now, were to four family members, the four fallen.
And remember, there's a next-of-kin designated by the individual.
If he's married, that's typically the spouse.
If he's not married, that's typically the parents, unless the parents are divorced.
And then he selects one of them.
If he didn't get along with his parents, he'll select a sibling.
But the point is, the phone call is made to the next to kin only if the next to kin agrees to take the phone call.
Sometimes they don't.
So a pre-call is made.
President of the United States or the Commandant of the Marine Corps or someone would like to call.
Will you accept the call?
And typically they all accept the call.
So he called four people the other day and expressed his condolences in the best way that he could.
And he said to me, what do I say?
I said to him, sir, there's nothing you can do to lighten the burden on these families.
But let me tell you what I tell him.
And let me tell you what my best friend, Joe Dunford, told me, because he was my casualty officer.
He said, Kel, he was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed.
He knew what he was getting into by joining that 1%.
He knew what the possibilities were because we're at war.
And when he died, in the four cases we're talking about, Niger, my son's case in Afghanistan, when he died, he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends.
That's what the president tried to say to four families the other day.
I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing.
A member of Congress who listened in on a phone call from the President of the United States to a young wife and in his way tried to express that opinion.
He's a brave man, a fallen hero.
He knew what he was getting himself into because he enlisted.
There's no reason to enlist.
He enlisted.
And he was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken.
That was the message.
That was the message that was transmitted.
It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation.
Absolutely stuns me.
And I thought at least that was sacred.
You know, when I was a kid growing up, a lot of things were sacred in our country.
Women were sacred and looked upon with great honor.
That's obviously not the case anymore, as we see from recent cases.
Life, the dignity of life, was sacred.
That's gone.
Religion, that seems to be gone as well.
Gold Star families, I think that left in the convention over the summer.
But I just thought the selfless devotion that brings a man or woman to die on the battlefield, I just thought that that might be sacred.
And when I listened to this woman and what she was saying and what she was doing on TV, the only thing I could do to collect my thoughts was to go and walk among the finest men and women on this earth.
And you can always find them because they're in Arlington National Cemetery.
Went over there for an hour and a half, walked among the stones, some of whom I put there because they were doing what I told them to do when they were killed.
I'll end with this.
In October, April rather, of 2015, I was still on active duty.
I went to the dedication of the new FBI field office in Miami.
And it was dedicated to two men who were killed in a firefight in Miami against drug traffickers in 1986, Guy named McGrogan and Duke.
Grogan almost retired, 53 years old, Duke, I think less than a year on the job.
Anyways, they got in a gunfight and they were killed.
Three other FBI agents were there, were wounded, now retired.
So we go down, Jim Comey, get an absolutely brilliant memorial speech to those fallen men to all of the men and women of the FBI who serve our country so well and law enforcement so well.
There were family members there.
Some of the children that were there were only three or four years old when their dads were killed on that street in Miami-Dade.
Three of the men that survived the fight were there and gave a rendition of how brave those men were and how they gave their lives.
And a congresswoman stood up and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there and all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money and she just called up President Obama and on that phone call he gave the money, the $20 million to build the building.
She sat down and we were stunned.
Stunned that she'd done it.
Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned.
But you know, none of us went to the press and criticized.
None of us stood up and were appalled.
We just said, okay, fine.
So I still hope as you write your stories and I appeal to America that let's not let this maybe lost thing that's held sacred in our in our society, a young man, young woman going out and giving his or her life for our country.
Let's try to somehow keep that sacred.
But it eroded a great deal yesterday by the selfish behavior. of a member of Congress.
So I'm willing to take a question or two on this topic.
Let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this.
Is anyone here a Gold Star parent or sibling?
Does anyone here know a Gold Star parent or sibling?
Okay, you get the question.
Well, thank you, General Kelly.
First of all, you have great deal of respect, Sen for 5, for everything that you've ever done.
But if we could take this a bit further, why were they in Niger?
What was unbelievable moment by General Kelly?
We'll take a break from Vegas.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show in Vegas today, AM 720.
We're actually doing a number of cool things here.
One is tonight is a concert, big and rich headlining along with Rascal Flats, Vegas Strong.
It's a benefit concert.
We're a part of it.
Amazing how we've been able to pull that together.
Also, tomorrow night, we're doing radio and TV, regular show tonight, and we're going to focus heavily on Kelly's remarks and all the new developments on Uranium One, which we'll have with Peter Schweitzer coming up next.
And tomorrow night, there's going to be pastors from 127 churches.
And my movie, which is coming out on the 27th, it's called Let There Be Light.
I've actually given them an early copy so that they can see it.
And we'll do that.
I'll tell you more about that coming up.
Uranium is a big subject.
If the mainstream media would cover the uranium scandal and that Russia has 20% of her uranium for whatever reason, and a lot of people understand what those reasons may be, I think that's your Russia story.
That's your real Russia story.
Not a story where they talk about collusion and there was none.
It was a hoax.
Your real Russia story is uranium and how they got all of that uranium, a vast percentage of what we have.
That is, to me, one of the big stories of the decade, not just now, of the decade.
The problem is that the mainstream media does not want to cover that story because that affects people that they protect.
So they don't like covering that story.
But the big story is uranium and how Russia got 20% of our uranium.
And frankly, it's a disgrace.
It's a disgrace.
And it's a disgrace that the fake news won't cover it.
It's so sad.
The Russia story is a total fabrication.
It's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of American politics.
That's all it is.
It just makes them feel better when they have nothing else to talk about.
What the prosecutors should be looking at are Hillary Clinton's 33,000 deleted emails.
And they should be looking at the paid Russian speeches and the owned Russian companies.
Or let them look at the uranium she sold that is now in the hands of very angry Russians.
Would you agree, though, that there's an appearance of a conflict, though?
Example being Uranium One, the Canadian company, you know, sold to Russia, something that required your approval as well.
And then later, some of the players involved in that deal wound up paying former president Bill Clinton, your husband, obviously, a half million dollar speaking fee.
There's no basis for any of that.
The timing doesn't work.
It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was Secretary of State.
There were nine government agencies who had to sign off on that deal.
I was not personally involved because that wasn't something the Secretary of State did.
All right, hour two of the Sean Hannity show as we come to you from Vegas and the studios of our affiliate AM720, KDWN, the 50,000-watt powerhouse of freedom of speech.
All right, if you listen to Hillary, oh, nothing.
There's nothing in the media.
There's not one thing worth talking about here.
20% of America's uranium went to Vladimir Putin.
And we know the Clintons benefited dramatically financially.
And now what we have learned is even more disturbing, and what we're learning by the day is even more disturbing if the people in the media actually cared about Russian interference in our country.
What we have discovered is that from 2009, the FBI had evidence in the form of documents and emails and financial records and eyewitnesses that they wouldn't allow to talk.
And it proved that what was going on in America was widespread.
Russian bribery, kickbacks, extortion, money laundering, and they all knew it.
And they still gave 20% of America's uranium, the foundational material for nuclear weapons.
They still gave it to Vladimir.
And then the Clintons benefited.
At the time, it's all being considered.
Bill doubles his speaking fee and speaks favorably in the speech about a deal in Moscow.
All of this evidence is out there.
All of it is available if anybody cared to want to know the truth in the mainstream media.
Now, they've been telling you for a year how dangerous it is about the Russians are coming.
The Russians are trying to influence our elections.
Now, we've had testimony that said not one vote was changed, not one vote was influenced.
There was no manipulating of the electoral voting system.
We've had testimony that they've tried in the past.
We've had evidence that they tried this election, Facebook, and all these other ways that I would argue it seemed like they supported Hillary Clinton and they'll do it in the future.
But here we have at the highest levels from the top of Moscow on down a planned scheme that they successfully pulled off in terms of bribery, kickbacks, extortion, money laundering, and they got everybody to be quiet and everybody to hide it and everybody to shut up.
And they even have a Department of Justice witness who was blocked from telling Congress about all of this, which could have prevented America's uranium from getting into the hands of Vladimir.
I want to play for you the media when it came to their conspiracy theories on Trump and Russia.
They couldn't get enough of it.
The media has not even mentioned this new evidence that has now been discovered.
Nobody's banging on the door of the eyewitness that the FBI had hired.
The FBI, literally giving this guy money, infiltrated the entire system from Russia within the uranium community in America, and all the information and all the tapes he has and all the evidence he has.
And nobody wants to hear it.
But if it comes to Trump, anything Trump, well, of course, Trump hate Trump's hall.
No pun intended.
Listen to this.
But first, we want to start with this week in Russia game.
It is as if there are no shoes on the Trump human centipede that are not about Russia.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
This cloud about collusion with Russia will hang over him no matter where he stands.
It certainly feels like we're in the opening stages of a devastating political chapter in American history.
Evidence is mounting for the president's meddling in the Russia probe.
Tom Friedman said the election hacking is at the caliber of a Pearl Harbor or a 9-11.
Do you agree with that?
I completely agree with that.
Donald Trump now sits at the threshold of impeachment.
I personally think it's over.
I don't think there's anything that can be done that can stop this at this point.
Cacophony, this gushing of lies, problems, questions, chaos that will stop this presidency in its tracks.
You told the Washington Post last week that, quote, there's a smell of treason in the air when it comes to this investigation.
A lot of people are afraid to use the T-word treason, but in the end, that's what people are investigating.
It does look like collusion.
It does look like he's listening to Putin more than he is American intelligence.
And frankly, I've never seen that before.
I'll say it again.
This Russian connection just keeps building.
And every time it builds and expands, you have to wonder if Trump himself isn't worried about what's swirling around under the covers.
You then learn new details of the FBI investigation into potential links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Specifically, Willie, I think what it means is that a federal judge found that people in Trump's organization were colluding with the Russians.
Was there somebody inside the Trump campaign who was working with them?
And did the president know about that?
And were they successful?
So now we have new developments, in large part because of the great work of John Solomon and Sarah Carter and others, and us highlighting it as much as we have.
Well, now we finally have the Senate Judiciary Committee under the leadership of Charles Grassliek publicly confirming and getting the Attorney General to publicly confirm that he is in fact investigating what is the Clinton-Russia bribery scandal, which is what we've needed to happen for a long, long time.
I played the other night on TV.
I told people a year ago this is going to be the biggest story.
I've known that this evidence has existed.
I've known that there have been witnesses that have been silenced.
I've known that they have emails and tapes and every other bit of corroborating evidence that you would ever want and need in all of this to prove that there was corruption, collusion, kickbacks, paybacks, and extortion all involved in this.
I knew that our national security was compromised.
The person that did get the ball rolling was Peter Schweitzer.
He wrote the best-selling book, Clinton Cash.
What have you learned now that you laid out this case?
Now we see the flow of money, and now we see this is even deeper than we thought.
Well, I think it's very shocking, Sean, and I didn't think we would see this mounting evidence without a federal investigation, meaning a grand jury getting the details.
So it's, you know, great credit needs to go to these reporters and to you to sort of keeping this story alive.
But, you know, we have to step back and take the big picture view here, Sean.
Look at the sort of Trump-Russia narrative.
And I said at the beginning, I said, hey, you know, we need to investigate any time serious charges are made, so let's investigate.
But there's been no evidence that has come forward, and it's all been a theory with no facts backing it.
What we've had in the Clinton case with the new evidence is we have mutually beneficial transactions that took place.
The Clintons benefited to the tune of $145 million to the Clinton Foundation and millions in speaking fees.
And the Russians benefited to the tune of getting this 20% of the uranium.
And the timing works.
When you look at the donations, when they flowed, when he gave that lucrative speech, it all takes place in the shadow of this approval of this deal.
So it's a remarkable testament, but it's also enormously frustrating, Sean, that really our law enforcement agencies and Congress have been asleep at the switch when it comes to this story.
And it's just shocking to me that there's actually no money, really.
Let me beg to differ only slightly because when this story first broke this week, what did we learn?
We learned the FBI had back in 2009 collected substantial evidence.
We learned they had eyewitnesses, and their eyewitnesses had documents that backed up what they were saying.
They had a money flow and money laundering flow through Latvia and other countries.
We learned that blackmail and bribery by Russian nuclear officials were all aimed with the goal of Vladimir Putin's atomic energy business growing inside the United States, which is all a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
And then on top of it, we learned that the one witness, the DOJ, blocked this witness.
Eric Holder had to know from telling Congress, who has oversight over the Department of Justice, about any of the information, the crimes that were committed.
Frankly, we were infiltrated.
We were infiltrated by the Russians.
And they wouldn't let it be reported.
No, you're right, Sean.
The shocking part is not the problem with the sort of rank and file people at the FBI who do great work to protect this country every day.
The people that are the field offices, the special agents, the people involved in this case.
It's the leadership at the top.
The fact that this case was kept secret for so long, the evidence concerning these charges and these activities by the Russians were not brought forward in 2010.
The whole reason we have a Scythius process, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, that's required to approve these kinds of deals is because they are trying to vet and determine do these foreign companies have other agendas?
Are they corrupt?
Are they engaged in spying?
Are they engaged in illicit activity?
That's the reason we have this review process.
And to have this uranium sale go forward with apparently this evidence never even being brought to bear to those people making the decision is there's only two possible explanations.
Either massive incompetence by the leadership at DOJ and at the FBI at the time, or something deeper and darker that they, for some reason, didn't want this to be considered in the decision-making process.
Those are the only two possible explanations.
All right, stay right there.
Bora Peter Schweitzer, author of the best-selling book, Clinton Cash.
He was more right than he ever knew.
New York Times bestseller.
This stunning cover-up of Tim Obama knowing about Vladimir's influence and crimes in America.
Unbelievable.
We're going to have the very latest tonight.
We'll do the media's job.
They are so abusively biased, corrupt, inept, and frankly lazy.
And of course, ideological.
All right, as we continue, the author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Clinton Cash, Peter Schweitzer, is with us.
Now that this is broken open, and now that we know that all of this took place, and now that we know that Charles Grassley is asking Victoria Tunsing, who I think is a great lawyer, and seeking permission to lift the nondisclosure agreement of this witness that knows everything, I've got to believe this guy's going to testify and bring all this evidence with him.
And what I predicted over a year ago that this is going to boomerang back is going to actually happen.
I think you're right, Sean.
I think that, you know, look, Senator Grassley, chair of the Judiciary Committee, they basically passed the budget for the FBI and the Justice Department.
So he's got enormous influence and power.
And look, if Congress wants you to testify, you know, they can't take away your First Amendment rights to testify before Congress.
So I think it's going to happen.
And I think the important thing to keep in mind, Sean, is, you know, to sort of put this into perspective.
This is not just about corruption.
I mean, corruption is bad enough.
It's not just about corruption.
This has huge national security implications.
Because remember, we're talking about uranium.
And one of the things, if you go back and look at that 2010 approval of this deal, one of the things that was touted consistently is, yes, it's going to be a Russian company, a Russian government-owned company, managing this uranium, 20% of U.S. uranium, but they're not allowed to export it out of the United States.
That's part of our agreement.
Well, we now know that it is actually leaving the United States, that Yellow Cake has left the country from this company.
We know based on the case that you mentioned, that The Hill has reported on, John Solomon and others, we know that in that case that there were concerns about a company that was trucking uranium waste and corruption involving that.
So we don't even necessarily have full integrity when it comes to the transporting of this nuclear material.
So this goes to the core of our national security concerns.
And the issue and the problem of Russia seeking to divert nuclear material goes back 25 years.
It's been a constant concern.
So this goes to the very heart of what we need to be worried about in this day and age of terrorism and nuclear proliferation around the world.
All right.
Thanks, Peter Schweitzer.
We appreciate it.
800-9.1 Sean.
Our toll-free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program.
By the way, we're going to check in with Kirk Cameron.
You know, I want to talk about corruption and evil and darkness in Hollywood.
Well, he's one of the few out that actually came out as a child actor, normal and happy and prosperous and successful.
And he does some fascinating work.
We'll talk to him about the things he's involved in.
At the top of the next hour, we'll get back into all of this.
Tonight, we blow wide open.
Wide open.
This entire Uranium 1 scandal.
What the media won't tell you.
Nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
All right, as we continue, Sean Hannity Show.
We're in Vegas today.
Vegas strong concert tonight.
Rascal Flats, big and rich.
Money's going to be raised for those victims of the horrible shooting.
By the way, how is it possible we don't even know any more than when we left here?
There's something radically wrong here.
And we'll have a segment on that.
Now, we're going to blow wide open tonight now that the president has weighed in, now that Congress is getting involved, now that the Attorney General is getting involved, finally, action on the bribery, the extortion, the kickbacks, and the fact that everybody in the Obama administration knew Vladimir Putin was influencing our entire national security apparatus vis-a-vis uranium, and he obtained it in spite of all the corruption they knew about.
We will do what the mainstream media does not do.
And then immediately following TV tonight, we're going to head on over to the Orleans Theater where Rascal Flats, big and rich, a lot of the local officials, many of the victims of this horrible shooting.
And we're going to record it all, and we're going to run it Friday night on the Fox News channel.
Putting this together was like, wow.
And I got to give everybody from New Orleans, everybody from Beasley Radio, everybody from our affiliate K-Dawn Radio, Big and Rich, Rascal Flats, all these guys.
I mean, you know, it's just legally threading the needle on this and getting it done in a week.
I can't even tell you how many meetings I'm on with lawyers like scratching my head and pulling every hair out of my head.
I'm surprised I have any left.
So that's going to be a pretty amazing night here.
All right, let's go.
I want to hit Frederica Wilson.
I want to go back to some of the hatred.
While we discuss our very real concern, let us all remember who the real enemy is.
And the real enemy is the T Park.
The T-Party of Congress are fired.
There is no compromising with them.
They have one goal in mind, and that's to make the president of Mr. Speaker, this is Trayvon Martin.
Trayvon Martin's murderer is still at large.
It's been one month, 30 days with no arrest.
I want America to see this sweet young boy who was hunted down like a dog, shot in the street, and his killer is still at large.
Not one person has been arrested in Trayvon's murder.
I want to make sure that America knows that in Sanford, Florida, there was a young boy murdered.
He is buried in Miami, Florida, and not one person has been arrested, even though we all know who the murderer is.
This was a standard case of racial profiling.
No more, no more.
We will stand for justice for Trayvon Martin.
Mr. Speaker, I preserve the balance of my time.
He doesn't realize that he is on the brink of impeachment, and people will begin to call for him to be impeached, and the Republicans will have to join in because they need to be on the right side of history.
Let me go to George W. Bush.
George W. Bush, I've always liked George Bush.
I like the Bush family.
I think they're nice, honorable, decent people that want to serve their country.
And I interviewed President Bush many, many times.
I've interviewed him in the White House.
I interviewed him in Air Force One.
I think he did a good job as president.
I think he did the best with the knowledge that he had under very difficult circumstances.
We got hit with 9-11.
He was a wartime president, and I supported it completely.
There's one thing that I can say about the Bush family, which is good, and then, you know, they're a very, very tight, close family.
So I'm not surprised that, well, I guess I kind of am, because I gave George W. Bush more times, opportunities to talk about Obama shredding the Constitution, his horrific foreign policy, his inability to identify terror.
He trashed Bush constantly, and he also literally ruined the economy, the first president never to reach 3% GDP, $13 million more on food stamps, $8 million more in poverty, worst recovery since the 40s, lowest labor participation.
All this is now turning around under Trump.
And what is being construed is taken as a shot against the president without mentioning him by name, this is what he said.
They are further complicated by a trend in Western countries away from global engagement and democratic confidence.
Parts of Europe have developed an identity crisis.
We have seen insolvency, economic stagnation, youth unemployment, anger about immigration, resurgent ethno-nationalism, and deep questions about the meaning and durability of the European Union.
America is not immune from these trends.
In recent decades, public confidence in our institutions has declined.
Our governing class has often been paralyzed in the face of obvious and pressing needs.
The American dream of upward mobility seems out of reach for some who feel left behind in a changing economy.
Discontent deepened and sharpened partisan conflicts.
Bigotry seems emboldened.
Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.
Our identity as a nation, unlike many other nations, is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood.
Being an American involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility.
We become the heirs of Thomas Jefferson by accepting the ideal of human dignity found in the Declaration of Independence.
We become the heirs of James Madison by understanding the genius and values of the U.S. Constitution.
We become the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. by recognizing one another not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American.
It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.
Argument turns too easily into animosity.
Disagreement escalates into dehumanization.
Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions, forgetting the image of God we should see in each other.
We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism.
We've forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America.
We see a fading confidence in the value of free markets and international trade, forgetting that conflict, instability, and poverty follow in the wake of protectionism.
We've seen the return of isolationist sentiments, forgetting that American security is directly threatened by the chaos and despair of distant places where threats such as terrorism, infectious disease, criminal gangs, and drug trafficking tend to emerge.
In all these ways, we need to recall and recover our own identity.
Americans have great advantage.
To renew our country, we only need to remember our values.
Simple message, but it's also about Europe.
It's also about the Obama years.
And he probably doesn't agree with President Trump because they had a huge disagreement on, for example, Iraq and the Iraq war and about the conflict they're in.
And yeah, there is spin under the Obama years coursening.
So I hear him talking about general trends in Europe, the United States, the Obama years.
And yes, he doesn't like Trump's immigration policy.
It's about that simple, what I'm hearing.
Which he's entitled to do.
I just wonder why he didn't talk out more during the Obama years.
It's when it all started.
And just steadfastly refused.
All right, 8009.1 Sean told for a telephone number.
Let's say hi to Derek is in Arizona.
Derek, hi, how are you?
Welcome to Vegas.
We're near your neck of the woods.
What's happening, sir?
You're close.
You're close.
Hey, listen, I just wanted to kind of comment on a couple of things.
I'm really happy that George W. Bush came out and spoke.
I mean, it's really good that he decided eight years later during a Republican's presidency to express how he feels when he stayed silent the entire time.
The Obama administration completely thrashed our economy.
And I just, you know, it disgusts me.
I feel like I need to pull the knife out of my back.
But the good thing is, is we know who he is.
We know his colors.
And he's an establishment guy.
And they're scared to death if he's actually out there speaking now.
They're scared.
So he's got to get up for the establishment.
And I just want to hear what your comments were.
I know I've heard some of them, but what are your thoughts?
I think there's an old way of doing these things, and he's used to the old way.
Trump is a straight-talking, iconoclastic.
You know, he's not a fit-the-mold politician.
His policies are decidedly conservative.
His views on the economy are Reagan-esque.
His views on government intervention and healthcare are Reagan-esque.
He's a traditional conservative.
I don't think any of us actually saw it because it evolved ever so slowly, but we began to hear politicians say the right things, invoke Reagan regularly, but their heart was far from Reagan.
And they never wanted to actually do those things that they were talking about.
Healthcare is just but one example.
That's why it shouldn't be hard to advance an agenda like the president's trying to advance on the economy.
I mean, that should be an easy do.
And unfortunately, the Republican Party lacks identity.
They lack vision.
They lack courage.
They lack principles.
And as far as immigration, it's just, you know, I've been down to the border 12 times.
I'm sorry.
I just have a different viewpoint.
When you see warehouses full of drugs that are aimed for our children and our families and our communities, and when you see that people don't respect our laws, our sovereignty, you know, it's a little frustrating.
All right, 800-941-Sean, told for a telephone number, you want to be a part of the program.
Once we get it started, it ain't gonna stop.
Just put this into a long list of strange, bizarre interactions that the president has on a daily basis.
I mean, we could find 10 or 11 or 12 yesterday of public record.
We're talking about how he's incompetent, but how about insensitive?
I don't think he has any compassion in him.
He isn't really known.
He has no empathy.
President Trump is now embroiled in a new controversy about what he said to the widow of Sergeant LaDavid Johnson, one of four soldiers killed in the ambush in Nigeria.
Hi, everyone.
It's 4 o'clock in New York, and today I am sorry.
I'm sorry that Donald Trump accused previous American presidents of not calling the families of men and women in our military who lost loved ones fighting for this country.
I'm sorry that Donald Trump yesterday suggested John Kelly hadn't received a call from President Obama invoking an unthinkable tragedy for the Kelly family, one that they have sought to keep far, far away from politics.
And I'm sorry that today, Mrs. Kawanda Jones Johnson, a mother who lost her son, Sergeant La David T. Johnson, in an ambush near Niger two weeks ago, feels that President Trump disrespected her family during a call with her son's widow by saying that the young soldier knew what he signed up for.
Donald Trump disputes that account.
And nobody wants to live in a country where people can credibly call the leader of the country a damn liar.
But when that credible, in this case, well-founded complaint can be waged by somebody whose son just died in uniform fighting for the United States of America, we just like, we don't have very many circuits as Americans to process this kind of moral disgrace in our leadership.
The president dragged their son into the limelight for a cheap political shot in the talk radio show.
So used his son's dead body to attack Barack Obama and by extension, other predecessors.
If there's going to be a discussion, I think that's the discussion to be had.
Exactly what is John Kelly's response to the president of the United States doing something that no one, no president with any shred of humanity would ever consider doing.
It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation.
Absolutely stuns me.
And I thought at least that was sacred.
You know, when I was a kid growing up, a lot of things were sacred in our country.
Women were sacred and looked upon with great honor.
That's obviously not the case anymore, as we see from recent cases.
Life, the dignity of life, was sacred.
That's gone.
Religion, that seems to be gone as well.
Gold Star families, I think that left in the convention over the summer.
If I just thought the selfless devotion that brings a man or woman to die on the battlefield, I just thought that that might be sacred.
And when I listened to this woman and what she was saying and what she was doing on TV, the only thing I could do to collect my thoughts was to go and walk among the finest men and women on this earth.
You can always find them because they're in Arlington National Cemetery.
Went over there for an hour and a half, walked among the stones, some of whom I put there because they were doing what I told them to do when they were killed.
All right, when we come back, we've got our news roundup information overload hour.
You know, you listen to the media attacking Trump for comments that have made here.
All of this got started by this Congresswoman, Frederica Wilson, whatever her name is.
She's the biggest Trump hater in the country.
And when it comes to ever giving Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt in any way, shape, matter, or form, he's never going to get it from anybody on the left in the media ever.
The same people ignoring this entire bribery, kickback, extortion scandal with Uranium One, because the media is nothing but an ideological information center for the left in this country.
Uranium is a big subject.
If the mainstream media would cover the uranium scandal and that Russia has 20% of her uranium for whatever reason, and a lot of people understand what those reasons may be, I think that's your Russia story.
That's your real Russia story.
Not a story where they talk about collusion and there was none.
It was a hoax.
Your real Russia story is uranium and how they got all of that uranium.
A vast percentage of what we have.
That is, to me, one of the big stories of the decade, not just now, of the decade.
The problem is that the mainstream media does not want to cover that story because that affects people that they protect.
So they don't like covering that story.
But the big story is uranium and how Russia got 20% of our uranium.
And frankly, it's a disgrace.
It's a disgrace.
And it's a disgrace that the fake news won't cover it.
Would you agree, though, that there's an appearance of a conflict, though?
One example being Uranium One, the Canadian company, sold to Russia, something that required your approval as well.
And then later, some of the players involved in that deal wound up paying former president Bill Clinton, your husband, obviously, a half million dollar speaking fee.
Well, you know, I don't know if we have enough time in this interview to debunk all of the allegations.
There's no basis for any of that.
The timing doesn't work.
It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was Secretary of State.
There were nine government agencies who had to sign off on that deal.
I was not personally involved because that wasn't something the Secretary of State did.
It's now blowing wide open as I predicted it would.
You know, the media had said, Hillary, it said, we've got to stop Russian interference into America.
And now we've got every bit of proof, every bit of evidence that all these people say that they have wanted.
And now everybody doesn't want to talk about Russia.
I want to talk about Russia because this gets to the heart.
Now the president has ratcheted it up.
It's all now at a, it's at DEF COM 5 panic within Democratic Party ranks.
Listen, part of the distraction, oh, Donald Trump didn't console the wife of a slain American hero good enough.
Now it's all about distraction to never talk about Russia and find as many ways as you can lie using the number one Trump hater in Congress as your vehicle to slander and smear.
But the facts are the facts at this particular point in time.
And now, in spite of all of their efforts, we now have evidence in the form of documents and emails and financial records and eyewitnesses.
If ever we can get rid of an NDA, I thought, thought the left believed in freedom of speech.
We now know that at the very top of the food chain was Moscow, was Vladimir Putin.
And in the course of what was going on from 2009 forward, that there were Russians on the ground in America involved in bribery, in kickbacks, extortion, in money laundering, all because they wanted 20% of America's uranium.
Uranium is the foundational material for nuclear weapons.
It is beyond a simple pay-to-play here.
And the new evidence that we have is that Hillary Clinton used her office as Secretary of State to confer benefits on Russia.
And would it ever make sense that anyone would sign off a deal that allowed 20% of American uranium in the hands of the Russians?
No, it wouldn't.
It's beyond common sense from anybody's perspective.
It's been covered up by years.
And now we take it a step further.
And that is that the witness that we have was not allowed to speak, not allowed to talk.
He was put under a non-disclosure.
He was threatened to be sued.
And he has audio tapes and examples and was working for the FBI.
And the FBI knew.
That means the Justice Department knew.
That means Eric Holder knew.
That means that probably everyone that signed off on Uranium One knew at the time.
And why would you compromise America's national security?
Well, then you follow the flow of money.
And the flow of money goes right into the Clinton Foundation, right into Bill and Hillary's pocket.
It goes to double their normal speaking fees.
It goes for them publicly, in the case of Bill Clinton in Russia, supporting the Uranium One deal.
It goes to Hillary being one of nine people signing off on it.
And the question I want to have answered is: where did the money, I know all the Canadians involved in the deal were doing it on behalf of Vladimir Putin.
Where did the money really come from?
The $145 million that went into the Clinton Foundation.
Anyway, you want to talk about a cover-up?
You want to talk about scandal?
You want to talk about Russian interference?
You want to talk about bribery, kickback, extortion, money laundering.
We've got the whole thing.
MSNBC, the conspiracy network, is not interested.
CNN fake news is not interested.
ABC, NBC, CBS, New York Times, they're not interested.
But yet they've been squealing for how many months now about, oh, we can't let Russia have any influence in America.
You know, well, it's sort of like, you know, Medvedev, you got to tell Vladimir I'll have more flexibility as to why I want my face please.
Yeah, that's in my budget.
I have more flexibility.
I trust it is punishment.
So now that the president is involved, now that Senate investigators are going to interview the key witness that is under a nondisclosure, and now that the flow of money and all of the documents, emails, financial records, and eyewitnesses have been preserved because the FBI had them, where does it go from here?
Because it appears that in the Clinton, in the Obama years, that America's national security was sold out to Vladimir.
And the evidence seems incontrovertible and overwhelming.
Joining us, Jonathan Gillum, and he, of course, one of the hosts of the experts, author of the book Sheep No More, as well as Danielle McLaughlin, attorney, constitutional expert, wrote for the Federalist Society, How Conservatives Took the Law Back from the Liberals.
Welcome both of you to the program.
Danielle, I'm sure you're going to find a way to say, oh, this isn't important, that 20% of America's uranium is now in the hands of Vladimir.
And guess what?
Vladimir had an entire ring that the FBI knew about, but they silenced the people from telling Congress and the rest of the American people before they made the deal on uranium one.
Hey, Sean, good afternoon.
You know, as a preliminary point, I will say that it concerns me that 20% of American uranium is in the hands of the Russians.
That cannot be exported, but it is just as a regular person on the street, that doesn't sit that well with me in any way, shape, or form.
But I will say the facts that we have indicate that this was a joint decision by nine agencies, not only state, but Treasury Defense and others.
And it was looked at very closely.
The decision was made to approve the sale.
This is also an administration, and the second piece of this is, of course, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation that we now know layers over this deal.
The Obama administration did more FCPA prosecutions, as they're called, than any president prior to him.
And actually, Donald Trump has been very much an opponent of this.
He thinks this is a way of, it gets in the way of doing business.
Of course, this is a law that stops bribery from happening, not only in the United States, but around the world, if there is a connection back to here.
Jonathan Gillam.
I'm glad to hear that uranium in the wrong hands, 20% of our uranium in the hands of Russians is something we should be concerned with.
I think liberals and conservatives should all come together and realize that.
What I keep hearing, though, repeated over and over again is that it's the same thing that they said about the Intel community when it came to President Trump: that nine or 15 agencies all agreed to this or that.
Here's the reality about that.
Having worked in the government for many, many years, when they say nine agencies, they're talking about nine political appointees that were appointed by Obama, that they came together and they said, okay, we approve it, because that's what they wanted.
And this is the danger of these political appointees in our government: the public doesn't realize when they say 15 intelligence agencies agreed with this, they're actually saying 15 political appointees that were appointed by the current president agreed with this.
And that to me is something that we need to look much closer at: the people that were involved with this from the political appointee, or in the case of McCabe and the FBI, people who were brought up over a period of time when a president is in office.
Those people are also quite dangerous in the way that they make these decisions.
But if you talk to the subject matter experts that work in these agencies, they don't agree with this stuff at all.
Danielle?
You know, I think he makes a good point, Jonathan.
And I think that we can have a rational decision, a discussion about political appointees and the extent of their power.
I mean, we do have safeguards within the government.
You think about the FBI, the CIA, where you have folks who are career officials, appointments that are long-term.
For example, the FBI director, you know, a term of 10 years with the idea that these things will not be politicized.
You know, I want to get back to sort of the motivation question here because a lot of this looks bad, and I think that there should be an investigation, obviously.
But my question is: what was the motivation for the Obama administration or even for Hillary Clinton to allow this to happen for any other reason than they felt that it wasn't a national security problem?
I know there are questions about donations and other things, but you've got to remember that the Clinton Foundation doesn't lie in the pockets of these people.
89% of the money that goes in goes out out into the world for things like HIV counseling and medication, for planting trees for, you know, to Danielle.
I don't want to hear about how great the Clinton Foundation is.
I want to hear about.
I know you're not a big fan.
I want to know why anybody would ever give away 20% of America's uranium.
I want to know why we have a lapdog media that was telling us for the last year and a half how dangerous Russia is.
And here it is.
Now we find out Russia was up to their eyeballs bribing, kicking back money, extorting money, money laundering, and they manipulated the entire U.S. government into handing over 20% of our uranium and those people that helped them make that decision and ended up benefiting financially.
Why is that so hard to comprehend?
Because what they did here is unconscionable from a national security standpoint.
And the fact that they benefited and the fact that they stopped eyewitnesses from talking and the fact that we had all this information and that just reeks of a cover-up to me.
I think there are a couple of questions that we have to answer, give the answers to your question.
Why don't you answer my questions?
I like my questions.
Sure.
We need to know who knows and when.
And I think the timeline speaks a lot to your question.
The investigation began in 2009.
This is the kickback investigation.
An American trucking company was paid about $2 million, as I'm sure you and your listeners know, improperly, completely improperly.
Problem number one.
The deal was done in 2010, but the prosecution, and often these prosecutions are quiet and nobody knows about them, was done in 2014.
So we need to know, all of us need to know for certain who knew about this investigation into the trucking company and when.
And if it turns out, and we don't know this yet, this is the key question.
Heads should roll.
If there was knowledge of people on that committee and they still approved this transaction, we've got a huge problem on our hands.
The question is still unanswered, though.
Okay, and by the way, and all the information they got from Fusion GPS?
Oh, they got that because of Russian sources that they paid for.
You know what?
This double standard is nauseating.
Listen, if you travel for business, you know what?
It's always a game of wins and losses.
You know what?
You pop an overhead bin, and wow, it's empty.
That's a big win.
You know what?
If your person that was supposed to sit next to you doesn't show up, that's an even bigger win.
Or if the person's really skinny and not 4,000 pounds, that's a massive, massive win.
Listen, we've all traveled with people that, you know what, maybe they even brush their teeth.
I mean, it's an amazing win.
These little wins when you travel are unbelievable.
Oh, come on.
You've had the people that sit next to you.
They haven't brushed their teeth in 40 years.
And as we continue with Danielle McLaughlin and Jonathan Gillum, I think this needs more than just a congressional investigation.
I think we need a special counsel at this point.
And considering it's 20% of America's uranium, considering that there's all of this evidence that frankly is beyond breathtaking to me, that shows kickbacks, racketeering, extortion, bribery.
I think it's now time that we get a special counsel.
And probably because Rosenstein and others, and perhaps Comey and even Mueller himself, knew about all of this, I think they have to go in terms of any investigation involving Russia whatsoever.
There seems to be a massive conflict of interest.
You know, Sean, with this special, I agree with that 100%.
This special interest, though, can, or excuse me, this special counsel cannot have somebody who was a part of the group that was actually potentially involved in the uranium deal.
And I can't understand how we, when we put a special counsel in place, that we use a retread that was a government appointee from another administration.
It doesn't make any sense except for the fact that Rosenstein, Mueller, Comey, and I fear the current FBI director were all a part of different things in the DOJ that were nefarious in nature.
And when we look at the people that were involved in this, in approving this uranium deal or setting on this evidence, those are the same people surrounding President Trump now, quote unquote, investigating collusion from somebody who wasn't even a politician or was running for president, and we have no evidence of anything at all.
It's just absolutely, from an FBI investigator standpoint, it's the craziest thing I've ever seen.
Never saw any type of hold on investigation like this ever when I was in the FBI.
Danielle?
You know, I'm just not clear to me that there's been any allegation that there was any misconduct or improper conduct by the folks at the FBI in the course of this entire investigation.
So I think there's some crossing of wires here, and I think that, Sean, I know that you're not a fan of this Russia investigation into the president, but I don't see that there was a problem here that people at the FBI then are now charged with looking at the connections with Russia.
Where's the evidence after?
I've just given you a whole A truckload full of evidence that we have on this Uranium One deal.
Give me the evidence you have on Trump-Russia collusion.
What is it after a year and a half?
Well, I'm not working for MALA, so all I know is what I'm talking about.
Give me a record.
We know that it's indelibly involved in Facebook and bots and Twitter.
You know, give me evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.
You can't do it because it doesn't exist.
It's a confidential investigation.
Nobody has it, whether it exists or not.
The only people who have it are the circle of people who work for Mullah.
Okay, we have the evidence here.
We have emails.
We have recordings.
We have an eyewitness that was paid to work for the FBI that now has a muzzle on him.
Right.
And this is the false, this is the FCPA investigation.
This is the bribery investigation.
There's no question.
I'm not questioning the notion that you have evidence there, but we don't know what's linked to this committee.
That's the evidence we need.
I wish I had more time.
All right, Kirk Cameron, when we get back and much more as we continue.
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I'm told there's a great charity that is involved in all of this.
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Now, many of you may remember Kirk Cameron, and he was one of the few, he's now basically become one of the few childhood actors that actually came out on the other side of it, normal, healthy, prosperous, enjoying his life, not damaged.
So many of these kids go into the modeling business, the acting business, and they're just destroyed as we've been hearing story after story all week long about these young people.
Anyway, Revive Us 2 is a national, what they're calling a national family meeting.
Revive Us 2 is going to be the first ever national live broadcast that was done from the Museum of the Bible.
And what Kirk Cameron does, he brings together a great group of people that are part of a discussion, offering people hope and courage and unity and some peace in their lives in these very troubled times.
I've now gotten to know Kirk Cameron, and I've really come to like him and respect him an awful lot.
And he's somebody that is, you know, everything you'd really want out of somebody that's famous.
He's humble.
He's down to earth.
He is a Christian.
He's conservative.
He believes in the things he believes in.
He's got a smile on his face.
He's not angry like me sometimes.
And well, it's kind of true.
I mean, I'm fighting the political wars and it pisses me off at times.
How are you?
Hey, man.
It's so great to be talking with you again, Sean.
I actually think when I first heard about these events, I said, that is like the coolest idea.
And one time, a number of years ago, people came to me and said, oh, Hannity, you can do this fathom event and you'll do it in one stage and it'll be in theaters everywhere.
And I'm like, yeah, but nobody's going to go.
I mean, who's going to want to watch me on stage for an hour and pay $10 a ticket?
And you end up doing it and it's gotten bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
Well, I think what people love is, thank you.
I think what people love, and you know what?
I'd come to one of your events because you fire people up and you give such great information.
You get us engaged in what matters.
And I think what's cool about it is people feel that they're connected to a much larger group than just the people in their living room or in their car.
And it's live, it's interactive.
You can ask questions from your phone with Facebook or Twitter.
And you feel like you're connected with this technology all over the nation.
And people have been loving them.
And it actually has motivated people to take what they learn inside the movie theater on a big screen out into the lobby and then into their neighborhoods and start sharing it with people because it's an event.
It's something exciting and flashy.
Let me ask you, and this is a real serious question.
I mean, we all remember you starring in Growing Pains and you played this role and it was one of the biggest hit shows growing up.
I can't tell, you were on my television show last night.
I can't tell you how many women were privately whispering in my ear, oh, he was my childhood crush.
Oh, I loved him.
Oh, my God, I had a crush on him.
But now that I've gotten to know you, I mean, you're one of the few, and I mean this sincerely, that has been able to navigate through childhood stardom and sort of come out the other side, a normal person, and thrive.
And so many of your peers at that time were destroyed.
Their lives were destroyed.
And they're forever chasing what they once had and they never get it.
How did you survive?
I'm kind of a Hollywood freak.
I'm not an example of how the story usually goes.
I'm the Hollywood prodigal.
I didn't follow in my Hollywood parents' footsteps.
I don't mean my mom and dad, but I mean the industry, the business.
You'd think I'd be caught with a gun in my hand or some horrible scandal.
But something crazier than all of that happened to me.
Somebody took me to church.
I was captivated by a message that said that there's something bigger than me and bigger than Hollywood and bigger than politics and everything.
And that is there's a powerful and loving God who actually wants to show us how to make the world a better place.
And it starts with me changing me.
And that just sent me on a different path.
You know, like it or hate it.
Here I am.
I'm talking to Sean Hannity all over the world.
I'm married to my on-screen sweetheart.
I got six kids and I'm doing projects that I'm passionate about.
So I'm thankful.
You're married 26 years and you said something last night.
I can't steal your line.
That's like 260 Hollywood years.
Yeah, it's like tons out there.
Yeah, which is funny, but it's not funny when you look at the wreckage of broken marriages out there and kids that get screwed up as a result of it all.
Well, it is.
And, you know, that's what I mean: I think all of us are looking for the same thing.
Not to get deep and philosophical here because I want to talk about what's going on in the culture today, but I think so many are looking for a sense of real identity and purpose and belonging.
And you can find that in a gang.
You can find it in a whatever, or you can find it in God.
And for me, that's produced some pretty sweet fruit.
And I'm looking to share the love and spread it around.
All right.
So Tuesday, it's a one-night-only event, right?
That's right.
It's one night, Tuesday night, just right around the corner.
And it's going to be in theaters all over the country.
But there will be a replaying on Encore in case you miss it Tuesday.
It will play again on November 1st, but it won't be live.
Live is Tuesday night.
All right.
And so people can like, is there a place that they can look up where the theater is that they can go see it?
And I want you to explain what they're going to experience at this event.
So in other words, you're doing a live event, and it's going to be beamed up, satellite beamed up into theaters live, what you're doing.
So it's sort of like a live play movie, if you will.
Am I characterizing that right?
Yeah, it's, you know, people are familiar with going to the movie theater to see a heavyweight boxing championship match or an MMA fight or the Metropolitan Opera.
Well, it's the same thing.
We're live from Washington, D.C., and I've brought together some of my most brilliant friends, Dr. Ben Carson, Alex and Stephen Kendrick, who made Fireproof in War Room.
We're going to be singing together.
Zach Williams is leading with all of the music.
Robbie Zacharias and Johnny Erickson Tata, for those who know who they are, they're phenomenal human beings.
And we're going to be talking about how to bring hope and healing to a divided nation.
And we're going to be all connected.
So we're going to be standing up, honoring the military.
We're going to be standing up, giving honor to our country.
And we're going to pray together, 150,000 strong, simultaneously across the nation.
And we're going to roll up our sleeves and hear practical solutions on what we can do to lean into our faith and to begin loving people different than us and leading the way for courage and hope and unity.
So if you go to this event, it's nationwide.
And if you go to this event, it's going to be, you're a part of it.
And if you go, like, I would assume that there's going to be at different points, it's a concert part of it.
There's a speaking part of it.
There's some of the best and brightest people that offer inspirational messages to people.
Is it very religious or is it for people of all faiths?
It's for people of all faiths or no faith.
You know, I say, if you come to my house, there's no faith that you need to have to come in my door.
I want to bless you.
And I want people to come from every different racial background, political background, religious background.
And I'm going to show you the people that have inspired me and keep me from getting depressed and discouraged in a culture of negativity, but actually lift me up out of it and give me hope and courage and vision.
Regardless of your background, come be part of a movement of people who really do believe that unity is possible.
And we're going to link arms and talk about a very practical way that we can achieve that.
Let me talk about how this has grown as big as it has and what you do beyond this.
You and your wife have been married 26 years, which is 260 Hollywood years.
As a family, you have a very interesting background.
You know, I understand you have a bunch of kids, right?
How many kids do you have?
You have six kids, several adopted.
We have six kids.
Yep, four of them are adopted.
We can't remember which ones are adopted, but we got six.
We love them.
They're awesome.
And now they're 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, and 14.
And then you do this Thing Camp Firefly, where you offer all expense paid trips to kids that have terminal illnesses in their families, which is pretty awesome.
So this transformation, how bad were you that you needed this course alignment in your life?
Were you being a horrible person, drinking too much, or was it just less severe than that?
You know, I just, I did the math and I realized I was part of the ultimate statistic.
You and me both, Sean, 10 out of 10 people die.
But it was me just thinking about the fact that I had to die.
And if the air I'm breathing is a gift from the one who made me and made the world, I ought to say thank you.
And I never had.
I was an atheist.
growing up.
I tell people today I'm a recovering atheist is all I am.
And now I feel thankful for my heart beating at night while I'm asleep and all that I've been given.
It's a gift and I want to live my life a different way than just acting like I'm the most important thing in my life.
I actually think that's the best advice you could ever give people and to serve other people and not just yourself.
And life isn't just about you.
And you serve your family, you serve your kids, you serve other people in your life.
You try to make people's lives better.
On the fascinating side of it, though, it's just, it's sad that you are such an anomaly out there.
What is the reaction among some of your peers in Hollywood that you have this conversion?
But not only that, that you're happy.
You have a successful marriage.
You have a bunch of kids.
You have all these events.
I understand you do marriage counseling seminars with your wife on how to have better marriages, right?
Yeah, I did a movie a little while ago called Fireproof, and that struck a chord with a lot of people.
It was, you know, people kind of felt like they were watching their own story up on the screen.
And this guy did some amazing things to win back the heart of his wife.
And it started by realizing that he was the selfish jerk that was wrecking his own marriage.
You know, some of us, so many of us can relate to those kind of things that I just wanted to do more and more of them.
And I'm sure it's cost me a gig here and there in Hollywood.
But at the end of the day, what Hollywood actors' lifestyle do I really want to replace mine with?
I'm married to my, you know, my on-screen sweetheart.
Again, I'm talking with you.
People are still inviting me and coming to these events like Revive Us 2 25 years after growing things.
I can't help but think there's somebody watching out for me, and I just want to keep going down this road while the door is open.
I just think your story is awesome.
And, you know, we do a lot of negative news, and there's a lot of darkness in this world and a lot of evil in this world.
And, you know, I think by virtue of the fact that you're out there saying, hey, life, we can inspire you.
You can have a better life.
You can make better decisions.
You don't have to be dependent on drugs or alcohol.
You can turn your family around if you're in a bad spot.
I just love the message, and I think it's very positive, and people can get a lot out of it.
I want to remind everybody, it's one night only.
It's Tuesday, October 24th, which is next Tuesday.
So if you're not doing anything, I want you to head to your local theater.
You can go to the website that Kirk has put up.
ReviveUs.com.
Revive Us2.com is where you go to get the tickets.
That's right.
Hey, Sean, let me say that, you know, I love listening to you on the radio.
I love watching you on TV.
My kids watch.
My son James is a huge fan.
And I want to thank you for the great work that you're doing to inform and educate and to engage all of us with stuff that really matters.
And we can watch you every day.
And I'm hoping that some people on Tuesday night, if they don't have plans that they can't move, would come join us.
And I can kind of build on what you're doing every day with this big event.
And we can work together to really make a difference.
Listen, if you can help people get on a path that their lives are going to be happier and their dreams are going to be fulfilled and they're going to find peace and contentment, I'm all for it.
And so if you want to get your tickets, it's one night only next Tuesday in theaters all around the country.
It's called reviveus2.com, www.reviveus, one word.com.
Reviveus.com.
Kirk Cameron, I hope to spend more time with you.
You're very inspirational.
You're a great guy.
I wish you all the best and the most success in this.
And I hope we can talk to you again soon.
Pleasure is all mine.
And I look forward to talking to you next time.
I just watched a movie that you're in.
Way till people get a load of this.
That's three days after your event.
By the way, next time I'm thinking about a movie, tell me don't do it.
It's too much work.
I had no idea.
But my movie's called Let There Be Light, and I'm very proud of it and like what you're doing.
I try to, it has nothing really to do with politics, although it is contemporary.
And the idea is it takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride and to and make you look inside yourself and ask yourself the questions you're asking.
What kind of people do we want to be?
So I'm glad you liked it.
I did.
It had me crying at the end of the movie, and you did a fantastic job.
I wasn't expecting to see you in it.
And I thought, hey, there's Sean.
That's awesome.
Yeah, it was really hard to.
All right.
Thanks, Kurt.
We'll talk soon.
Thank you, my friend.
God bless you.
800-941 Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program.
Quick break from Vegas.
Very excited to be a part of this event tonight.
We're just a small part of it.
We're filming it.
It is Vegas Strong, and it's designed to raise money for all of those victims of this shooting that took place at the Mandalay Bay.
And where are the answers?
We'll ask questions tonight at 9.
We'll continue.
I can't get over it.
I just can't put up this place.
I just sing in these place and pray that you'll come back.
Close my eyes tightly.
We're in Vegas, a benefit concert after Hannity tonight.
We are going to play the most powerful Democratic liberal beatdown ever given by General Kelly today.
Also, we've got huge new breaking developments on the Uranium One story.
We'll get to that.
We got Laura Ingram.
We got Sarah Carter.
We got so much more.
And that's Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern from Vegas, and then off to the Benefit concert for those that were victims of this horrible shooting.
All right, we'll see you back from Vegas tomorrow.
Thanks for being with us.
Have a great night.
We'll see you at 9 Eastern.
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