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	There is so much happening.
	Let me just be blunt and honest with you.
	I know information I can't share with you today.
	As of this hour.
	And there is stuff breaking literally as we speak.
	Maybe it'll happen by the end of the program.
	Maybe it won't.
	I thought we were friends and we bond like we're a family on this radio show.
	We are.
	But there are times when somebody says to you that, you know, you gotta keep your mouth shut.
	You know, what am I uh Hannity says he's not a journalist.
	Well, not a traditional journalist, but I do journalism, advocacy journalism, opinion journalism.
	Uh this, you know, being a talk show host, it's a multifaceted job.
	I mean, some days we're we're doing straight-on interviews, straight up, like a journalist with a capital jury.
	Um, and other times we're doing combat radio, and other times we're doing debate radio, and other times we're just goofing around and having fun.
	And it's all under the heading of being a talk show host.
	And the only thing I can tell you as it relates to a whole variety of issues, especially this fusion GPS dossier, and especially this uranium one deal, and especially the information that we have now that as it relates to the FBI informant and the push now to get not only a special counsel, we got three three congressional groups now looking at two c two house groups, oversight reform committee, and then you got Grassley's group.
	And now Grassley today is calling for a probe into Hillary's Uranium One scandal.
	Why?
	Because now we've got the evidence.
	Now we have the information.
	Now we have the emails, now we have the documents.
	Now we have the FBI informant if we just take the muzzle off this poor guy and allow this guy to tell the truth.
	And one of the people responsible is Robert Mueller.
	Robert Mueller was in charge of the FBI at the time.
	He had to know all of this was happening.
	And the same with Rod Rosenstein was in charge of this investigation.
	How did they ever get in a position that they're investigating anything Russia?
	How did that ever happen?
	Now, Charles Grassley today says, and we he's the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee's calling for the appointment of a special Prosecutor, Rod Rosenstein can't be the person that decides.
	And the Attorney General now has got a lot of work in front of him.
	And he's got to get moving.
	I have not seen enough movement out of the Attorney General's office.
	But anyway, I'm just hoping that happens.
	And one of the first things, look, there's two specific things they need to do right now.
	We need to get the gag order lifted off of this FBI informant.
	And then the second thing we've got to do, if you're looking into Trump and Russia collusion, all right, somebody go to Great Britain and the Ecuadorian Embassy and ask the one person we know on earth where the emails dossier, in that case, where the DNC emails, the pedestrians, where did they come from?
	The only person that we know knows for sure is a guy by the name of Julian Assange.
	And he wants to make a deal with the federal government.
	He doesn't want to be arrested the minute he walks outside that embassy.
	So if the American people get the truth, get the facts, get the information, and he has incontrovertible, overwhelming evidence that shows where it came from.
	I think we have a right to know the truth after all these accusations have been made here.
	Now, the Democrats, all this has been as a witch hunt.
	And as I predicted, and is now unfolding before their eyes is a nightmare scenario for them.
	Because it is now boomeranging back right on to them.
	And what we're discovering here is that it was collusion, but it was collusion between the Russians and Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
	What we're learning is they sacrificed American national security, sacrificed at the altar of money being kicked back to the Clinton Foundation and to the Clintons personally.
	What we're discovering is that everybody in this was up to their eyeballs in it, and it never made sense, did it?
	When did it ever make sense to give 20% of America's uranium to Vladimir Putin, the hostile regime Russia, Moscow?
	Why would anybody ever do that knowing, and now we know that they knew in 2009 that Vladimir Putin had set out with the very purpose of getting a hold of American uranium so that he could be the nuclear power player in the world.
	And he used bribes and kickbacks and money laundering and extortion to do it, and the FBI knew about it.
	They knew about it in 2009.
	That means Robert Muller knew, that means Eric Holder knew, that means Rod Rosenstein knew, that means everybody knew.
	And Hillary Clinton certainly knew when she signed off.
	And so did Eric Holder and all these lies that were being told.
	It's just like, for example, on the dossier.
	Clinton paid for the Kremlin dirt on the dossier.
	And James Comey, he wanted to pay Christopher Steele 50,000 plus dollars to work for the FBI.
	I've never seen more corruption in my life.
	And it's like I've been sitting here like a lone voice in the wilderness trying to tell everybody this is really, really, really bad.
	And I'm not alone.
	I mean, got to give full credit.
	Peter Schweitzer's coming up today.
	He broke the uranium one story in his best-selling book, Clinton Cash.
	I remember when I first read the book and interviewed him.
	I had the first TV and radio interview with the guy like we always do.
	And I was shocked.
	And I we've stayed on it.
	Then you've got to give credit to Sarah Carter and John Solomon and their investigative reporting on all of these issues.
	And then, to be honest, I don't think if we if we didn't push these stories as hard as we've been pushing, I'm not sure we'd be at the point where we are today.
	The FBI literally watched in 2009 Russian spies attempting to get and achieving getting close to Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
	And getting uranium-1, 20% of America's uranium.
	By the way, now they're even now they've decided to do it all.
	Now finally they're looking into the crime she committed with the server in the mom and pop shop and the deleted emails, which was obstruction of justice and the broken blackberries and the bleach bit and the acid washing and the 33,000, oh, about a wedding, a funeral, and my husband's emails, which was all a big lie in yoga.
	We've been lied to so much.
	And I'll tell you who comes out.
	The Democrats come out on the worst side of this now, as they should, and the media.
	I can't even explain how how corrupt these people are.
	Once your eyes open to the level of corruption in the media, you can't close them.
	You know, and this is not there is a reason.
	And I'm going to tell you what it is.
	On this program, we'll never get credit, and I'm not looking for credit, but this this is my job.
	This is what I'm supposed to do every day.
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	I am so of a storm in here.
	Um, thank you.
	Uh we were right about Obama.
	Newt Gingrich called me when I'm betting Obama, 2007 and eight as the radical Acorn, Frank Marshall Davis, a Linsky I disciple, and and Church of GD America and Reverend Wright and and Ayers and Dorne, and he said, You're probably blowing up your career.
	Literally said that to me.
	And I said, Well, I gotta, that's the right thing to do.
	Nobody else is doing it.
	You know, we had the only interview it was in 2007 in March of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
	You know, I learned that lesson when I was in Atlanta, and and the Atlanta Journal Constitution comes out with, well, Richard Jewell fits the profile of the lone bomber.
	He lives with his mother.
	And I was on the air at the time, didn't know that Richard Jewell was listening to me, and it taught me a big lesson.
	And I said, Well, so what he lives with his mother.
	It's none of our business that he lives with his mother.
	And it turned out that I was like the only person, and he gave me one of the first interviews he ever did after it was proven innocent and proved to be a hero.
	You know, just like you know, Obama rushed to judgment.
	The Cambridge police acted stupidly wrong, just like Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman.
	You know, we actually took our time with that case, and we waited for facts and evidence.
	Same with the Michael Brown case, same with hands up, don't shoot, which never happened.
	The media's wrong on all of these cases.
	I said from the get-go, there's no way any cop in Baltimore is gonna end up being convicted of a crime.
	We said, because we look at the evidence and the facts.
	The media, it's like one big massive group think, and they only see through the prism of their rigid ideology, and they're all liberal, radically liberal.
	How can we be right so often and they be so wrong?
	And the same with Donald Trump.
	Well, go back and watch election night coverage.
	It was like a funeral on every channel.
	It was like a funeral.
	I'll never forget my friend, my buddy Bill Schein.
	He asked me, I'm good.
	He asked me the day before election day.
	I never I never have worked in my 23 years.
	Now I'm in my 23 year third year at Fox, election nights.
	And by the way, some people think, Hannity, don't you want to be on that?
	I don't want to be on that night because I have like a million computers, a million televisions.
	If you're in my house, you don't want to interrupt me on election nights, because I am like focused, I am in the zone.
	Like that my whole staff had a party right here in the studio.
	Somebody got a little punchy, I heard, rumors, and I'm home, and I literally am on my computers, and I'm looking in Florida, typing in, typing in, all right, what's Palm Beach County, what's uh Broward County, uh, what about Southwest Florida, Naples, Fort Myers, let's go up here to the panhandle, let's check out Cuyahoga County and in Ohio, uh, Hamilton County down in Ohio, you know, what were the numbers in 2008, 2000 and 2000, 2004, 2012?
	Okay, let's compare it.
	What do we need to get the win to get the state?
	That's what I do all night.
	Because there's a part of me that is a little bit crazy.
	Um, but I live and breathe this.
	And Bill Schein called, you gotta call in.
	You you said this was gonna happen.
	You saw it, nobody else call in.
	And I didn't want to call in.
	I said, I'm b- I actually said to him, I had three beers, I can't call in.
	I can't call in, which by the way was a lie.
	I was not drinking.
	I said, I had three beers.
	I can't call in now.
	I said, well, first he told me, go to your studio down the block and get in the studio right now.
	And I said, I am not putting makeup on and a jacket.
	I am busy working.
	And he goes, So I called in, and I was the only part of the coverage.
	It wasn't a funeral, except no, we have some great reporters there.
	They're doing their job reporting in terms of, but there were people on the air that were like in a funeral mode.
	Because nobody saw it coming.
	Why are we getting it right and the media is getting it wrong?
	Why are they wrong on Russia?
	Why did they lie on Russia?
	Why did they not see the 20% of America's uranium was a bigger deal than They said.
	Why did they focus on what is I am I am so tempted to reveal this information because this things are happening right now that I am telling you are massive as it relates to both of these stories.
	The dossier, fusion, GPS story.
	Things are happening right now as it relates to the uranium one story.
	And let me tell you something.
	All these people that I have been calling out on radio and TV all of these months, they are all blanking in their pants right now, shaking in their boots, if you will, because they've known for a long time that they've been lying.
	They know what they did.
	They know that the media has been working on their behalf, lying for them because they've been feeding their willing accomplices in the meeting these lies.
	I've got so much more to say.
	He actually broke the uranium one story, and it's going to blow.
	It could happen any minute.
	There's there's things happening that I know are happening that I can't share with you.
	And I know you hate me for saying that, but I'm just telling you, just sit tight.
	As a matter of fact, tweet out uh TikTok, TikTok uh on my what on my Twitter account.
	Because there's a say multiple TikToks.
	Stay tuned.
	TikTok, TikTok.
	Every time I do it, everyone on the media.
	But this is real.
	By the way, I didn't I pick this TikTok perfectly.
	Oh, maybe Hannity's not so dumb after all.
	Maybe we should pay attention to him.
	No, they hate me.
	You know what they want to do?
	They want me dead and buried and off the air tomorrow.
	Somebody wrote me last night, Hannity better watch it.
	The Russians are gonna be following you.
	I'm like, I'm sure they do.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
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	All this needs to be investigated.
	Um, I think it's interesting.
	Uh I I listened to part of the previous segment on the on the fusion GPS.
	Never forget Brian Pagliano was the guy who set up the now famous Clinton private server.
	He took the fifth in front of the Benghazi committee when we brought him in for a deposition.
	And now we have Fusion GPS taking the fifths.
	Christopher Steele, the people it looks like who were paid by the Clinton team in the DNC to gather information on President Trump.
	I think maybe President Trump is right.
	The real scandal seems to be all these things that we're now going to appropriately look into.
	So it's it's interesting to me.
	So many people around Secretary Clinton seem to take the fifth after she pays them to do something, either setting up a private server or investigating President Trump.
	Uh this was the Democrats coming up with an excuse for losing an election.
	It's an election that's very hard for a Democrat to lose because the Electoral College is set in such a way that it's very hard to lose that election for a Democrat.
	They lost it, they lost it very badly and very easily.
	I mean, you look at the votes, it was 306 to what?
	223 or something.
	They lost it by a lot.
	They didn't know what to say, so they made up the whole Russia hoax.
	Now it's turning out that the hoax is turned around, and you look at what's happened with Russia, and you look at the uranium deal, and you look at the fake dossier, so that's all turned around.
	It's all turned around.
	And it's all it's I'm telling you, we're only touching the surface.
	Now think about this for a minute.
	Watch the DNC officials now.
	They can't run fast enough away from Hillary Clinton.
	DNC.
	Now I'm telling you, Tom Proud, I didn't do it.
	I had nothing to do.
	I didn't know, no, I knew nothing.
	I know everybody's, I knew nothing.
	Clinton's spokesman won't deny Hillary authorized the funding for fusion GPS.
	That came out today.
	Hillary's Trump dossier law firm also represented, by the way, just a side note, Bin Laden's bodyguard.
	Clinton campaign paid for the research.
	Now just think through this for a second.
	If they paid for the research, what was that research?
	Was that was remember Sarah Carter broke the story about the warrants against the Trump campaign?
	Jim's comey, James Comey wanted to pay Christopher Steele, who was paying Russians for the phony information in the dossier.
	Is that where they got the warrant from so that they can unmask and surveil and then release intelligence?
	Muller is in deep trouble right now today because he knew the whole time about what had happened as it relates to this uranium one deal.
	I'm telling you, it's all going to come together.
	Just be patient.
	It's a puzzle.
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	All right, so there's big issue, big things happening as we speak, both on the Uranium One front and on the phony dossier front.
	And there's things happening that I can't tell you.
	I'm just telling you, it's moving in the right direction.
	It's moving in the direction of getting truth.
	It's moving in a direction that there's going to be a massive, massive moment, moments coming where many of my colleagues in the esteemed media, fake news people.
	I I just I honestly think that they're not capable of admitting how wrong they've been.
	I just don't think they will.
	They're just going to gloss right over it.
	They don't they don't care about truth anymore.
	They care more about whether they're right, they're wrong, and they're advancing their ideology.
	There's something really wrong with that mindset.
	But if you think about how did we get to a point, well, Russia's a hostile actor.
	Then you think of all the things that happened just in the dossier case, and you got an MI6 guy, and there was a Republican that maybe for a short period of time wanted some dirt on Donald Trump.
	And anyway, so what do you got?
	You got this guy, Christopher Steele, and Christopher Steele is paying Russians to get dirt on Donald Trump.
	Comes up with this explosive dossier.
	Uh, we're told John McCain, you know, gave it to the FBI.
	The media went insane believing, wanting to believe everything in the dossier.
	Now, if you put the common sense smell test to all these things that have gone on, it never added up.
	Donald Trump is a germ phobe.
	He just is.
	Now, honestly, he doesn't care anymore.
	But over the years, he's been like, oh, shaking people's hands, that's how you get sick.
	And by the way, it's how you get sick.
	It's just a fact.
	And everybody in politics, he has a little dirty secret they'll never tell you, is if they're on the campaign trail, it is somebody's job on their staff.
	As soon as they get behind closed doors and you are out of view of you, it's and they've been doing shaking hands and all that.
	Somebody's job is to literally walk up to them and squirt their hands with Pure L. Oh.
	Really?
	Yes.
	I even say to the president, that's that don't bother.
	Don't shake my hand.
	Because he's shaking everybody's hand.
	He doesn't care though anymore.
	He just doesn't care.
	But that's a that's a fact in politics.
	And there is so you you had to believe that this dossier, and we're putting a montage together for Hannity tonight, and the montage is going to be very simple.
	All of those people with breathless enthusiasm reporting the truth of the dossier.
	They all lied.
	It was all Russian paid misinformation, propaganda, and lies that they ran with because they so hate Trump and they wanted to advance their ideology.
	Now we see the DNC, now that we know that Hillary Clinton paid for the Kremlin dirt on Trump, and they denied it.
	And they denied it again and again and again.
	Shocking.
	The Clintons lied to us again and again and again.
	It puts everything into question.
	Was this dossier used as a means to get information about the Trump campaign?
	Was the dossier used as a means to go to court?
	Was it used as it connect to the surveillance, unmasking, releasing intelligence aspect of things?
	You know, what was it used for?
	Who used it?
	Why did James Comey want to pay Christopher Steele 50 grand?
	Why did the Democrats quote this almost every time they were on TV?
	Two hookers urinating on Donald Trump's bed at the Ritz in Moscow.
	As Donald Trump has said, he's never met the Russians except that he did one pageant there.
	And it probably wasn't even there very much.
	So the Clinton spokespeople now won't deny the authorization.
	Brian Fallon, who's now a CNN contributor, shocking.
	He said that he didn't know that they were funding the dossier prior to the report last night by the Washington Post.
	Hey, Brian, if you watch Fox News and listen to this radio program, you can learn an awful lot about how corrupt your former boss was.
	You don't believe Hillary Clinton knew about this either, is that right?
	Oh, I don't know.
	I'm high up in the campaign be informed of this?
	Well, I mean, she may have known, but uh the degree of exactly what she knew is is is beyond my knowledge.
	For instance, out of my pay grade, a decision was made to authorize Perkins Couie to do some kind of commission, some kind of research, but then decisions about uh, you know, going out and finding fusion GPS, finding Christopher Steele.
	I mean, she may or may not have been aware of that level of detail.
	I don't know.
	No, they just they just paid for the Kremlin.
	By the way, this is taken right out of Sid Vicious Blumenpol's book.
	This is who the Clintons are.
	They're never changing.
	Now the DNC, their current chairman, Tom Perez, and the new leadership of the DNC, oh, we weren't involved in any.
	We had nothing to do with this, and they're now claiming their new leadership.
	They had nothing to do with the funding of the Trump dossier.
	Because to do that, you would have to have been advancing propaganda, misinformation, and lies.
	That's the whole point.
	You would have had that's what you would have had to be doing.
	Wait a minute.
	Isn't that collusion with the Russians?
	Paying for phony information to hurt your political opponent?
	Oh, to impact the American people's thought process during an election?
	Oh, where have you heard all this before?
	Who have we heard all this from?
	But the Clinton campaign, the DNC did pay for this.
	Now is this in any way connected to Debbie Wasseman Schultz's firing?
	You gotta you gotta look and put all these pieces together.
	We don't have all the answers yet, but it's begin.
	Trust me, there's so much at this minute, I can tell you there are things going on that are gonna impact these stories.
	Right now, this second, this minute, people are discussing it at very high levels.
	Now, the DNC, they paid for the Did Debbie Wasaminch was that on her computer, maybe?
	Just the thought.
	She worked so hard to get that computer back yelling at that comp.
	And then, of course, the broken hard drives from uh Imran Owan in in his in his uh whatchamacallit garage.
	And then does is it impact anyway why they deleted 33,000 emails?
	Is that maybe part of was it really not about yoga, a wedding, a funeral, and talking to her husband Bill who does an email?
	Those are all questions we've got to ask and have answered.
	But we do know that Hillary Clinton now and the DNC and the Washington Post has finally caught up to us.
	I'd like to welcome the Washington Post to the dance.
	Where have you been?
	The Washington Post that put me on the front cover of by the way, you know what they did?
	They they went back for nine weeks recently, the Washington Post, and I didn't talk about it at the time on purpose.
	They went back nine weeks and called everybody they could find in my life to try and hurt me and take me down.
	Nine weeks.
	Why would you put Sean Hannity on the front cover of the Washington Post?
	That makes no sense to me.
	Nine weeks calling, and they and then they said, Would you like to comment?
	I said, I think I'll pass.
	You know, because they'd already written the story.
	The story was done.
	Well, when you were 20 some odd years old in your first radio show, you said controversial, stupid things.
	I'm like, the Daily Mail called me about it, and I said, Yeah, I was pretty dumb, stupid.
	I was horrible at it.
	I'm embarrassed by it.
	I'm like, okay, yeah.
	What do I know at 20 some odd years old how to do radio?
	I didn't know what I was doing.
	Nobody does when the let's see Matt Lauer's first TV tape.
	I'm sure it's a brilliant work of artistry.
	So Hillary paid for the steel report.
	The swamp.
	Was it used by anybody in the Obama administration?
	What was he used for?
	Did it lead to unmasking?
	Did it lead to surveillance?
	Did it lead to intelligence leaking?
	Did it lead to Debbie Wasserman Schultz's firing?
	When is it when is Mueller going to get off his ass?
	Well, he should actually recuse him himself.
	Because he knew about the evidence as it relates to Uranium One.
	He knew about all of it.
	Because he was the FBI director at the time.
	He knew about all of it.
	As did Rod Rosenstein.
	They knew about 20% of America's uranium.
	Now, again, the common sense smell test.
	Does did it make sense that anyone would ever give 20% of America's uranium, the foundational material?
	Uranium and plutonium.
	Two things you're not going to give Vladimir Putin.
	Why didn't the media ever care about that?
	Why did we stayed on the story?
	I've stayed on it now for two years.
	We did the first interview, Peter Schweitzer broke the story in his book Clinton Cash.
	And more recently it's all been Sarah Carter and John Solomon, and they're getting the crap beat out of them like I do every day.
	And then I'm like, welcome to the club by the liberal, lazy, overpaid media that doesn't do their job.
	So now what do we know that, you know, this all happened.
	We know that money was kicked back to the Clinton Foundation.
	We're learning now that the Obama administration, many in the Obama administration, still have to testify as it relates to the issue of what did they know and when did they know it?
	Now I know that we have two House committees looking into Uranium One, that's good.
	And we've got a Senate committee looking into Uranium One, but I kind of agree with Charles Grassley.
	We need the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate this because Bill Clinton, he actually went to Russia and he went and he supported and spoke out in favor of the Uranium One deal.
	And he asked his own wife State Department for permission to meet with Russian nuclear officials.
	And then he also, when it when they there was a back and forth, they didn't get the answers.
	Well, he just went straight to Vladimir himself.
	And he got paid twice his normal speaking fee.
	Doesn't any of this seem odd to you?
	Why would Hillary Clinton as one of nine people, Eric Holder who knew Eric Holder knew, and this is the way the corruption is, that we had FBI informants that it infiltrated this network that was set up by Vladimir Putin to corner the market on uranium for Russia.
	They knew it in 2009.
	And they had evidence in 2009, and they had emails in 2009, and they had documents in 2009, and they had recordings in 2009, and they had an informant inside of all this in 2009.
	And this guy has a gag order on him right now.
	Lift the gag order.
	Let this man talk.
	The problem is the minute he talks, there are gonna be people that go to jail.
	It's frustrating, but it's I'm I'm very much at peace today.
	Let me put it that way.
	I'm feeling good today.
	Because finally, we have been going on about this forever.
	How did 145 million dollars from these players get kicked back to the Clinton Foundation.
	We knew in 2009 of bribery.
	We knew in 2009 about extortion.
	We knew in 2009 about money laundering.
	We knew all of these crimes.
	A criminal racket was set up to get to the Clintons.
	And people fighting and and and spies working hard and and ingratiating themselves to big Clinton donors to get to Hillary at the State Department.
	Eric Holder, they never told the American people, the Obama administration.
	I am betting this was all in Obama's presidential daily briefing.
	I'd bet any amount of money that that's true.
	Obama knew.
	I am almost certain.
	Holder knew, Hillary knew.
	Where did that money, the 145 million?
	I know that they say it came from the Canadians that were involved in the deal, but was it really their money?
	Or did the money get wandered in Latvia?
	Or in America somewhere.
	If you pay very close attention to me, I'm giving you all very big clues.
	Take very close attention.
	So now we've got to get to the bottom of this.
	Now here's an interesting flashback.
	The former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facilitated the transfer of this enriched uranium previously confiscated by the Department of Energy during a 2006 nuclear smuggling uh sting uh operation.
	Anyway, do you know that all of this information, if you look at all of the players, Rod Rosenstein can't look at anything involving Russia because he knew a bribery, racketeering, extortion, money laundering was happening with Russia.
	How did he appoint Mueller?
	And Mueller was the FBI director, and they had the FBI informant.
	How are these people?
	How can they investigate anything Russia?
	You know, I have some of my closest friends saying, Hannity.
	You're pushing it to the edge here.
	They're gonna come after you.
	All right, well, let them come after me.
	Because at the end of last year, when I was supporting the president and fighting hard that he'd win this election as hard as I could, there were people that were writing my obituary in terms of my career.
	Newt Gingrich told me in 2007 and eight, you gotta stop.
	You're pushing too hard on Obama's radical associates.
	He goes, I'm just as a friend, I love you.
	I don't want you to go down.
	We need your voice, he said to me.
	And I didn't stop.
	I'm not stopping.
	That's not what we do.
	And I'm just I always say I'm a spoke in the wheel.
	Linda's a spoke, Ethan's Jason, and Sunshine over there is getting meaner by the day.
	He's got a McLaughlin blood in her.
	I can feel it.
	You know, this is what Fox does differently.
	This is why they want a lot of us silenced and off the air.
	Because we're reporting news and information you're not going to get anywhere else.
	You know, this is hilarious.
	There's a report out.
	Iran is now considering pulling out of the nuclear deal.
	That's like, okay, Donald Trump says he's gonna pull out.
	That's that's like Donald Trump supporting Kelly Ward, and then Snowflake saying, I'm getting out because of Donald Trump when he's down 26 points.
	Well, the same thing with Bob Corker.
	All right, when we come back, the man who broke the Uranium One story, Peter Schweitzer, Congressman Dana Rohrbacher actually took the time to meet with Julian Assange, and Ted Cruz tells Corker and Flake, shut up and do your job.
	This fake dossier.
	It was made up, and I understand they paid a tremendous amount of money, and Hillary Clinton always denied it.
	The Democrats always denied it, and now only because it's gonna come out in a court case, they said yes, they did it, they admitted it, and they're embarrassed by it.
	But I think it's a disgrace.
	It's just really uh very it's a very sad, it's a very sad commentary on politics in this country.
	As you know, Sean Hannity on his program has been very critical of the uranium one deal, the president saying with regard to Russia, that's the real story in all of this.
	What would you say to those critics?
	I would say it's the same baloney they've been peddling for years, and there's been no no credible evidence by anyone.
	In fact, it's been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked.
	But here's what they're doing, and really I have to give them credit.
	You know, Trump and his allies, including Fox News, are really experts at distraction and diversion.
	So the closer The investigation about real Russian ties between Trump associates and real Russians, as we heard Jeff Sessions finally admit to uh in his testimony the other day.
	The more they want to just throw mud on the wall, and I'm their favorite target, me and you know, President Obama.
	We're the ones that they always like to put into the crosshairs.
	Uh so yes, I I'm I'm not surprised, but I think the real story is how nervous they are about these continuing investigations.
	Uh Al Sorth is not the Russian government.
	So in other words, let me be clear.
	Russia did not give you the pedesta documents or anything from the DNC.
	That's correct.
	What bothers me the most, though, Sean, is that the government could have disclosed evidence by now.
	Showing us that our thinking is wrong.
	And it hasn't.
	Do you know in 80 1983?
	Well, I want you to hold that thought.
	Don't don't go anywhere, because that's an important you're you're saying that the government already knows this part, trush Trump Russia Trump collusion.
	You're saying that they already know?
	Yeah, I think they know.
	And they wouldn't tell the American people?
	Well, I think they can't tell the American people.
	And what I want to contrast is President Reagan disclosed the intercept of the KAL shoot down in 1983 on the floor of the United Nations to prove what the Russians did.
	All right, so hour two of the Sean Hannity show, glad you're with us, Hillary Clinton, Uranium One stories are baloney.
	They've been debunked.
	No, they haven't.
	Julian Assange, Russia is not our source.
	It's not a state entity.
	And then, of course, Kirk Weebe government already knows that Trump-Russia collusion is false, but they won't go public.
	Anyway, joining us now, Peter Schweitzer.
	As far as all this Uranium One issue goes, he's the b one that got the ball started on this, author of the New York Times bestselling book, Clinton Cash, the untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses helped make Bill and Hillary very rich.
	He's also the president of the Government Accountability Institute.
	And by the way, he's here to talk about all of these new findings and fusion GPS and Congressman Dana Rohrbacher, the only Congressman that had the wherewithal and the intelligence to go talk to Julian Assange is the one guy that would know the answer to where the DNC Podesta emails originated from.
	Welcome both of you back to the program.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm uh I'm not I'm having to do this interview in the cloakroom right off the floor of the house here.
	Yeah, well, tell all the uh the jerks that you work with that I say hi, okay?
	You know, there are some good people there, but you know, for the for the life of me, the the well, the House is doing better than the Senate, in fairness.
	All right, look, let me start with you, Peter.
	Um, let me start with this uranium one issue, because now we realize we had an FBI informant that had evidence, emails, documents, tapes, and so much more, and that he wanted to give it all to Congress.
	But he's held under this non-disclosure agreement.
	And from what we are now learning is bribery, kickbacks, extortion, money laundering, all took place in this deal.
	And then, of course, we noticed that, you know, all the newer developments today about the Clintons and and how bad this is.
	I mean, Clinton paid for the dirt and the dossier issue.
	Well, let's stay on Uranium One first.
	Yeah, you're right, Sean.
	I mean, all those things that that this informant had uh information access to that he shared with the FBI was all relevant.
	It was ground zero for the question of whether this uranium should be sold to this uh Russian uh government uh owned company.
	Um and it apparently never came up.
	So it's a huge question of why that happened.
	The other thing that we know, and or I should say are reminded of, uh, is the simple fact that when Hillary Clinton says she was not involved in the Uranium One decision, we're supposed to take her word for it.
	And the problem is, as it relates to the dossier, as it relates to so many other things, she has a long history of just flat out lying about stuff.
	So, you know, I I'm I'm sorry for the people that that that might say, hey, we need to take a word at it, but we shouldn't.
	Uh and this is precisely the reason that we need to investigate to find out how this decision was made, what role the Clintons played in it.
	I think it was central, um, and what the other money flow was.
	And the only way you're going to get that is with an independent investigation.
	It can't be done by the FBI, it cannot be done by the Department of Justice, because we've been down this road before.
	We were down this road in 2009 and 2010, involving the sale of this Russian company, and they failed when they had the opposite.
	But it can't be done by m by Mueller either, because he was the FBI director at the time, and it can't be done by Rosenstein because he was involved in the case in the lead FBI agent.
	My question is how could they possibly be investigating anything Russia when they knew all of this went on?
	Now, at the bottom line of all of this, you have to ask why anybody would ever give twenty percent.
	We've heard in the last year Russia, Russia, Russia, Putin, bad, bad, bad, hostile actor, hostile towards the United States, etc.
	Why would anybody ever consider giving twenty percent of America's uranium to Vladimir and Moscow and Russia in the first place?
	Yeah, it's it's mystifying.
	And look, the argument that this was not a controversial decision is ridiculous.
	There were at least half a dozen congressmen ranking Republicans on armed services, on homeland security, on foreign relations committees in the House that were opposed to this deal.
	Senator Barrasso of Wyoming, because that's where some of these uranium assets were being held, wrote a letter saying that there were problems with this deal, he didn't like the deal.
	It was a controversial deal.
	They rammed it through.
	It it was not reviewed sufficiently, and you know, they were just hoping that it would be ignored and go away.
	Unfortunately, that's not the case, and I think it's fantastic that we've got this movement on Capitol Hill to get to the bottom of it.
	It seems it seems like you have been talking about it forever.
	I I think I had the first interviews, both radio and TV, when you came out with your book.
	You did.
	You're exactly right, Sean, and and and I've said this before, and I will say it again.
	You know, a lot of people kind of do a drive-by, they do some story on it, they move on.
	You've been on this story for two years.
	You helped with this new stuff that John Solomon and its circa have come out with.
	Um you've been consistent on this story, and so you know, huge debt of gratitude to you.
	Without you being the person, frankly, that broke the scandal, and then the investigative work of Sarah and John, and then putting it on on Fox News prominently, I mean, and and taking a lot of heap for it, to be honest, I don't think this would have happened.
	And let me bring in Congressman Dana Rohrbacher.
	Congressman, look, you understand the danger of Vladimir Putin.
	You know he's a hostile actor.
	There's been testimony that he's tried to impact past elections, this election, then he'll do it in future elections.
	Yeah, I see I I see the Russians as uh the way we've saw uh very many flawed governments that helped us defeat the Nazis in in World War Two, and also flawed governments that helped us defeat the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
	And yeah, he's a flawed government, we we have to understand that, but we have to find ways that we can rather than uh this incredible barrage of hostility, which I believe now in retrospect, was not only trying trying to steal the election from the Republicans, because what they did is they invalidated, they said, Oh, well, Trump was colluding with the Russians in order to seal the election.
	They were not only trying to steal actually they were trying to steal the election, they were also trying to divert our attention away from this cauldron of corruption that you were discussing right now, where America ends up giving our twenty percent of our uh of our uranium reserves to the same country.
	Let's let's say that there are two parts.
	If we really want to get to the truth on Russia, I think there are two things that need to be done immediately.
	One, I believe that this FBI informant that has all of this evidence that is under an NDA that NDA needs to be lifted.
	That's one.
	Number two, I also believe that Julian Assange needs to be talked to, and he says he has definitive evidence that would prove that in fact it wasn't Russia.
	Well, let me Sean uh let me just point out what you just said is absolutely correct, and it's and it's doable.
	And the only trouble we're having is not with the Liberal left in this, we can lift this gag order, uh Jeff Jeff Sessions, our attorney general, can lift that gag order and the president of the United States, if we can get him to sit down and and not be uh isolated by his own staff to s to talk about Assange and get the real information from Assange, uh that's it's doable, but it's just we've got these roadblocks.
	Well, then the Republican uh establishment.
	All right.
	So if those two things, if the NDA is lifted, if if that happens, if Sessions does it, is Sessions the only one that can lift it, can Congress lift it?
	Can the executive branch lift it?
	Who else can lift it?
	Well, I'm sure if the president decides uh that that that whoever in the executive branch has a vote, I'm almost certain it's Jeff uh Sessions, uh our attorney general.
	Right.
	Uh that that we can do that.
	Lifting that gag order is not something that is uh That's a P that's take that takes two seconds.
	Now, as it relates to Julian Assange, now he told you in a private meeting that he has the evidence that's that will is proof positive, incontrovertible.
	And I think that would prove he could prove that the Russians did not do that job into the Democratic National Committee.
	Well, then if he can prove that, and the American people that have been lied to now for a year, if they can get the truth, I assume he probably wants out of that the ability to to move to Ecuador without the U.S. you know, looking to extradite him.
	That would be my guess.
	Well, you know, w I I didn't carry the the negotiations.
	I looked at myself as a tool for having a a uh for setting up as um uh a a process that would end up with the American people getting the truth about this and Julian the sun feeling comfortable that he's not gonna just be arrested uh when he steps out into the street.
	And again, it would be contingent on him having that proof, that evidence.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And I by the way, I think that's a fair deal, and I think the American people deserve the truth, and it's amazing to me that Mueller and all of these people that are so-called investigating it, they haven't done what you took the time to do that I took the time to do to go see Julian Assange and ask him.
	He knows.
	He knows more than anybody.
	All right, we got to take a quick break here.
	We'll have more with Peter Schweitzer.
	Uh Peter broke the Uranium One scandal in his book Clinton Cash.
	Congressman Dana Rohrbacher met with Julian Assange.
	We'll get back to both of these issues and the Clinton now, the revelation that yes, Clinton paid for the Kremlin dirt on Trump, the phony dossier that everybody in the media cited again and again and again, and every Democrat cited again and again and again.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	And as we continue, Peter Schweitzer, author of the New York Times bestseller Clinton Cash.
	He was the one that originally broke this Uranium One scandal.
	That was in his book.
	We have Congressman Dana Rohrbacher, and he's from California.
	He met with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and obtained uh a lot of this information that Julian Assange is willing to prove it was not Russia uh in terms of the DNC hack emails, etc.
	But nobody that's investigating Trump Russia uh even wants to talk to the guy.
	It's ridiculous to me.
	It's ups it's actually obscene.
	You know what it is?
	It's a dereliction of duty, and it shows no desire to get factual information and the truth.
	Uh Peter, let me ask you about this other big story we're following today, and that is that Clinton paid for all this Kremlin dirt, this phony dossier on Trump, and it's even worse than that because the FBI director wanted to hire Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who paid Russians for the phony information.
	This is the one about you know Hookers urin on urinating on the bed at the Ritz with Donald Trump and Democrats repeating it, and the media repeating it, and it was false.
	And Hillary denied or campaign denied over and over again that they paid for it, now they're caught.
	You're right, Sean.
	I mean, this is uh this is something straight out of the Cold War.
	The Russians had a term for it, which was disinformation.
	Uh, and that was you split spread information that was false and sort of wrapped it around the mantle of being accurate news information, and that's precisely what this dossier uh uh did.
	Uh it it was uh fake news stories uh uh based on what uh tr Donald Trump allegedly did that was cycled through the news system.
	What's troubling about it is you had Team Clinton involved in this disinformation uh process, and then you had people on Capitol Hill that sort of breathlessly got access to this thing, were given access to it, and then uh you know walked around as if this was an actuate representation, not knowing who had paid for it, not knowing really how it had been produced.
	You know, it was it was an example of a complete rush to judgment uh uh about the president.
	Now is who actually initiated this?
	Uh I I I really doubt whether and I'm sorry, but I really doubt that the Russians initiated it.
	My guess is Hillary and her gang initiated this.
	Well, what about what about the original reports that fusion GPS that A Republican started it, but then it was the Clinton campaign that picked up on it.
	Right, precisely.
	And uh let me ask this question of both of you, because I I think this is very, very so the evidence is they colluded with Russians.
	They colluded for lies, propaganda, disinformation, is as Peter rightly rightly calls all of this.
	Correct?
	Correct.
	Yeah, no question about it.
	Deep, deep financial ties that that go back almost a decade, huge amounts of money, all kinds of entanglements.
	That's where the collusion has been.
	Unbelievable.
	Well, listen, I and by the way, the more they talked about it in the election, I believe it was also to divert attention away from their wrong and doing.
	Not just creating a false impression about Trump and stealing the election from him, but creating a a block so the American people wouldn't be able to see their own cauldron of corruption.
	Unbelievable.
	I think this is gonna now turn into one of the biggest scandals in the history of the country.
	And people are going I think people are going to jail over this period end of sentence, and this is corruption beyond anything that I think anybody imagined.
	And uh we're gonna stay on it.
	Thank you both.
	You both have been very, very powerful in terms of forcing these stories into the public arena.
	Hey, uh ladies and gentlemen, it's sick, and it's getting sicker.
	Now, back to the Sean Hannity show.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
	Am I allowed to announce we're gonna have big breaking news tonight that nobody's heard about on Hannity on the Fox News channel?
	Our time slot nine o'clock.
	Am I allowed to announce that something big is gonna happen tonight?
	And all these uh hacks in the liberal media need to turn in, tune in so that they can learn something that they don't know as of this hour.
	Am I allowed to do that?
	I mean, unless this is in three and a half hours or three hours and twenty-five minutes.
	Is this your big secret that you're telling to seventeen million listeners right now?
	Well, I'm just saying that there's going Okay, everybody just shh keep it a secret.
	It's just for you, 17 million people to know.
	No, but the secret's not coming out till nine Eastern tonight.
	That's correct.
	Your show is the only place to get breaking news coverage.
	You won't get any.
	Should I should I tell people where the breaking news is coming from, or should I just wait till tonight?
	No.
	No.
	Intrigue is the best when not divulged.
	All right, don't miss tonight's show.
	Or tomorrow's.
	That too.
	It's a major development.
	Pretty much never ever miss Sean's show, or you won't know what is happening.
	What's actually happening?
	You know, I see that somebody's recovered.
	Somebody for the last two days has been the walking dead from our trip.
	First of all, I was not the walking dead.
	First of all, you've been the walking dead for two days, and now all of a sudden somebody's back to our old chip herself.
	I'm always chipped.
	Oh, yeah, but but you did abandon us, I noticed, on half the trip when we were in Philly, and then you didn't go to Bucks County, and then you didn't go back to New York.
	You know, you just you just literally got a ride straight to your front door.
	Listen, it just so happens to be that your interview was ten minutes from my house.
	It just uh so happens to be from your new house that has an air mattress because you never bought any furniture.
	Does she just be nice?
	Did she buy Sunshine?
	Did she buy a bed yet?
	You were there last weekend.
	Everything looks great, it's fully furnished, it's not going to have to talk about it ever again.
	There are so many pillows, it's like you basically are just walking on air.
	So the bottom line is you're lying for her, and she's lying for you.
	I feel like when I go into her house and walking through a Raymore and Flanagan.
	Everything's rest in the restoration hardware has got nothing on me.
	You don't have a single bed, do you?
	You don't have a single bed in your new home, do you?
	Well, I mean, this is the I offered to buy you a man six.
	You know, there's I offered to buy you and your family a bed.
	Physical mattresses I have.
	Do you have a bed?
	The frames.
	What do you sleep on?
	At this moment.
	Yes.
	This is a direct question.
	Direct.
	I plead the fifth.
	Do you pl do you still sleep on an air mattress two months after buying your home?
	I I I was having a hard time hearing that question.
	Do you have some distortion?
	Do you sleep on an air mattress two months after purchasing your home?
	That's a yes or no question.
	Well, you have to answer in the form of a question.
	So I'm not sure if I know the jeopardy.
	No, you do know the answer.
	You're still on an air mattress.
	You're putting your your two-year-old son on an air mattress.
	I do.
	Oh my god, that's so pathetic.
	Alex, I'll take a thousand for furniture.
	Thank you.
	All right, let's get to our busy phone.
	So many of you have been so patient here.
	Bob is in New Joycey.
	What's up, Bob?
	How are you?
	Glad you called, and welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
	Hey, Sean, it's a real honor to speak with you.
	You know, uh uh just hearing uh listening to you talk about the uranium one.
	All the lies, the corruption, everything that's been going on and the lies against this president.
	you know, my my question to you is, and that you probably partially answered it.
	Um, do you think this ever get is is gonna get prosecuted?
	Are we gonna see Hillary do the perp walk?
	I please, it'll make my day.
	I'm just telling you there are major, major, major.
	This is now moving at an accelerated rate.
	And let me tell you, everybody's world in Washington, D.C. has now changed.
	The focus is now changed, and I you know, uh look, it's frustrating in this sense because we have been talking about this forever.
	It never made any sense.
	I've known that this informant has existed for a long time.
	I've known that this evidence existed, and I keep saying it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, and people think, yeah, right, sure, Hannity.
	You know, I was actually telling somebody this today.
	You know, we get the crap beaten out of us on this program all the time.
	But the answer to your question, Bob, I'm gonna answer it directly.
	I think that there's a whole heap of trouble.
	People are gonna be going to jail.
	I do believe that, yes.
	Does that make you feel better?
	You know, anyway, thank you for your call.
	How many times have do we have to be right and the media wrong to ever get any credit?
	And by the way, I'm not looking for credit.
	And and there's a reason the media is so abusively biased and rigidly ideological.
	They always jump to the the whatever the political narrative answer they want rather than dig for simple, basic fundamental truth.
	One of my big criticisms about Obama.
	He was wrong on the Cambridge police, wrong on Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, rush the judgment, rush to judgment, hands up, don't shoot, never happen, Michael Brown.
	Same thing with Freddie Gray.
	Nobody in the media vetted Obama as hard as we vetted him, and we were proven correct.
	He governed as the rigid, radical Alinsky, acorn, uh Reverend Wright, you know, indoctrinated person that he's always been.
	And the results were horrific, as we predicted.
	You know, nobody in the media saw that it was possible that Donald Trump could win.
	We saw it.
	We were there.
	And ever they get it wrong so often.
	They got this whole Russia thing wrong.
	And they've been wrong, and it's been innuendo, and then it's not even in.
	They've been talking about impeachment.
	They've been talking about betrayal of the country.
	Now that it's them, they don't want to talk about it anymore.
	There's no coverage of it.
	You know, I what what's her name over at Conspiracy TV?
	Mattow had on Eric Holder the other night.
	How many questions did Eric Holder get about uranium one, which he personally signed off on?
	And it's been all over the news.
	None.
	Zero.
	Because it doesn't fit her left wing radical ideology, period.
	And the only reason, you know, you got a cult of Trump haters that tune in to be lied to every night there.
	And they get and they're fed those lies, and they're fed those conspiracies.
	Um, it's unbelievable.
	Alan in Mississippi.
	Alan, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Having a great day.
	Just want to tell you here in the home of the Golden Eagles, we love you down here.
	Oh, thank you, my friend.
	What's going on?
	Well, you know, as I listened to all this last night, watching your show, listening overnight, reading a few articles.
	When you see what's happened here, with the they finally have, I guess, some proof about Hillary and the DNC creating this dossier.
	Now that we know they paid for it.
	Literally know it's fake.
	Now that we know that it's fake, shouldn't all these liberal democratic appointed attorneys who've been involved in all these investigations?
	Shouldn't they have to return all this money to the taxpayers?
	Yeah, they should have I I think she should, and I've been calling on her to return uh a whole bunch of money.
	In this case, it's 145 million dollars, but frankly, that ought to be you gotta understand something.
	She she sold out this country's security in this deal.
	You understand how deep she sold out our national security to the hostile actor that she refers to as Vladimir Putin.
	And her and her husband gave 20% of our uranium control to this guy.
	She sold us out.
	She was able to reward all of these attorneys by having them put on Mueller's investigation.
	Shouldn't those attorneys have to re return all this money as well for the last time.
	This is the great irony.
	Muller's up to his eyeballs in this.
	He was the FBI director, and it was his informant that had the evidence that had been undisclosed because of this NDA, this non-disclosure.
	And the same thing with Rosenstein.
	He was the lead, he was the lead in this case.
	And they put a muzzle on this poor guy, and he's trying to get the truth out, and he's got all the evidence.
	And you know, by dribs and drabs, we're now getting it.
	We have big news tonight on Hannity 9 Eastern.
	Just tune in tonight.
	That's all I can say.
	We'll be breaking big news tonight on Hannity.
	All right, let's go.
	Sonny is in Alexandria, Virginia.
	Sonny, hi.
	How are you?
	Glad you called.
	Oh, hi, Sean.
	So good to talk to you.
	Um, the reason I called was because at first I was looking to find your movie in Alexandria, Virginia, and I found it in the southern part of the state, but it was nowhere up my way.
	Oh.
	But praise the Lord.
	Um, the movie is going to be shown in Fairfax and in Woodbridge.
	So thrill to pieces.
	Oh, I'm so honored you're going.
	I'm so excited to go.
	Somebody who's very close to me.
	I gave a copy to last night, and they watched the movie last night.
	And this is somebody whose opinion I respect a whole lot.
	And this individual said, I have never I haven't cried this hard in 15 years, and have nor have I been moved this much by a movie in in 15 years.
	And um I I am proud of it.
	I really am.
	And it is, I think, a movie that will stimulate your mind, your heart, and it's good for your soul.
	And you know what?
	That's something Hollywood will basically never give you.
	So uh that's why I did it.
	I hope you like it.
	It debuts this Friday.
	Uh theaters, I think we're gonna open about four, five hundred.
	It's not a studio movie.
	We're independent.
	This is a small start, and then we're gonna be adding in the weeks to come.
	And uh, if you want to find the theater near you, it's on Hannity.com.
	I hope you like it.
	Call me back on Monday.
	Let me know what you think.
	I'm gonna call you back on Monday.
	And Sean, before we part company, I want to say I met you seven years ago.
	You signed conservative victory for me at Tyson's Corner, and I treasure that.
	And uh, you are a national treasurer.
	You expose fake news, and I am in the entertainment industry myself.
	Wow, what do you do?
	And I work well, I am the right hand uh to the actor, producer, and director who's a conservative from Hollywood, and also a true life oil field roughneck.
	And um he's an amazing person.
	He's done a uh montage of work.
	I'd love you to see it.
	But no, I can't wait to go to your movie and uh thank you.
	I look forward to it.
	I will call you on Monday and tell you what I think, okay?
	Listen, if I didn't feel this, sir, I am certain that I think everybody's gonna get something profound out of it.
	And uh I'm actually I'm very happy with the reaction we've gotten so far.
	We've actually done focus groups where people are totally honest, and it the r uh the reaction's 99%.
	So we you know we feel very confident.
	And you know what, Christians conservatives, our values have been ignored and diminished and dismissed from Hollywood.
	And that's why, by the way, I we didn't even want in any way, we didn't want a big studio to take this film.
	We wanted total control of the message, and you know, so we start slower.
	Uh you know, we don't have the 3,000 theaters that that other movies have, but we're not we'll we're gonna slowly roll it out, and you know, we're very happy with uh where we are so far, and so far the feedback's been pretty amazing.
	And the timing is actually good because all the movies out right now apparently are tanking.
	So now theaters are throwing those crappy hundred million dollar movies out, and they're asking us, can we get it by Friday?
	Can we get it by Friday?
	I'm like, oh, now you get on board.
	But yeah, we're trying to accommodate them because we want as many people to see it as we can.
	It's called Let There Be Light, opens Friday, Hannity.com for where you can get tickets where you can see it near you.
	We'll come back, we'll continue.
	This is the Sean Hannity Show.
	All right, as we continue wide open telephones, 800 nine four one Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, we have our news roundup information overload.
	Dr. Kelly Ward is gonna check in.
	Uh big day for her yesterday with Snowflake bowing out of that race in the Senate race out in Arizona.
	He says because he's a martyr and he's not a good enough Republican, nobody can be a Republican today.
	No, you got out of the race because you were gonna lose.
	And you're trying to save face and you can't acknowledge a simple basic fundamental truth.
	All right, let's get to our phones as we say hi to well, let's go to Phoenix, Arizona, KFYI, fifty five five fifty.
	What's up, Mike?
	How are you?
	Hey Sean, you're a great American.
	You're a great American, sir.
	What's going on?
	Hey, there's no love off here with conservatives and Jeff Flake.
	We are tickle peak.
	Actually we're all partying last night.
	That's how I felt.
	Other people are like, oh, this is a he's these people are do nothing people.
	Yeah, it's it's it's just been too long overdue, and you know, whether McKee or Flake when it comes down to election time, they are the most conservative voting Republicans you'll ever see for about six months.
	And then for the rest of their term, we pretty much elected Democrat.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	You know what?
	They they make all these big promises.
	I send me an hour appealer by my crap.
	Well, they're full of crap.
	You know what?
	I you know, they don't like Donald Trump's style.
	And let me just inform everybody in the swamp and the sewer in DC, because I know President Trump.
	He's not gonna change.
	He's not gonna change because you want him to be the image of a president that you want.
	And the fact that he is a fighter is not is not a negative.
	I want people to fight for us.
	I want people that go and keep the fight to keep their promises.
	That's what we need at this point in uh time in our history here.
	You know, by the way, here's Trump.
	Uh understand why Flake is leaving.
	Uh thought he was a Democrat.
	This is what he says.
	That he couldn't win.
	And I don't blame him for leaving.
	I think he did the right thing for himself.
	But if you know, long before he ever knew me during the campaign, even before the campaign, I mean he came out with his horrible book, and I said, Who is this guy?
	In fact, I remembered the first time I saw him on television.
	I had not really been nobody knew me in terms of politics, but the first time I saw him in television, I said, I assume he's a Democrat.
	Is he a Democrat?
	They said he's a Republican.
	I said, that's impossible.
	Yeah, well, it was possible.
	Um anyway, eight hundred nine four one Sean Tolfrey telephone number.
	Speaking of Arizona, we'll check in with Dr. Kelly Ward, state senator out there, and she was running against Jeff uh Snowflake, and uh now that Snowflake out is out, we'll talk about her plans.
	And also the great Charlie Daniels stops by in studio.
	That's coming up.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show straight ahead.
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	couldn't win.
	And I don't blame him for leaving.
	I think he did the right thing for himself.
	But if you know, long before he ever knew me, during the campaign, even before the campaign, He came out with his horrible book, and I said, Who is this guy?
	In fact, I remembered the first time I saw him on television.
	I had not really been nobody knew me in terms of politics, but the first time I saw him in television, I said, I assume he's a Democrat.
	Is he a Democrat?
	They said, Is a Republican?
	I said, That's impossible.
	Well, Senator Flake did vote with me.
	I understand it was about ninety-one or even more than that.
	So from that standpoint, good.
	No, I think I'll be boosted in Arizona because he's very unpopular.
	I think the fact that he did it the way he did it, probably I mean, I'm very high in Arizona.
	I love the people.
	They like me, they like security at the border, you know, all of the things.
	But I think I'm probably helped greatly in Arizona by what happened with Senator Flair.
	Senator, let me test your newfound freedom for a second.
	I know you disagree with her on just about every major policy issue facing this country.
	But in terms of protecting our democracy, protecting respect for the office of the presidency, and protecting our image abroad.
	Is it possible in your mind to consider that it would have been better if Hillary Clinton had won this election?
	I talked in the book that I wrote, uh conscience of a conservative borrowing from uh Barry Goldwater's title uh earlier this year that uh we're kind of made a Faustian bargain uh with this president, uh that we could excuse the behavior and uh and everything simply because we could get uh some uh conservative judges.
	Wouldn't it have been better if she won the election?
	And so uh well, I I g I can tell you no president uh Democrat or Republican in recent memory uh has exhibited the kind of behavior that this president has.
	And so I I you know I am uh a Republican, I'm a conservative.
	Uh I would love to have a Republican president, but it not at any cost.
	I didn't vote for this president uh last November.
	Um I didn't vote for President Clinton either, or uh Secretary Clinton either.
	But uh second thoughts on that.
	I I I I I can tell you I've uh I'm not uh not happy with the direction we're going.
	Even among the many people who applauded your speech yesterday, there are those who said, Well, why is he leaving then if he feels this way?
	We need him in the fight.
	Talk a little bit if you could about the consideration not to seek re-election, because there are many people who wish you'd stay there and push back against President Trump from Washington and not from the outside.
	Well, the bottom line is if I were to run a campaign that I could be proud of, and where I didn't uh have to cozy up uh to the president and his positions uh or his behavior, uh I could not win in a Republican primary.
	That's the bottom line.
	Um it's it's uh it's not that uh you have to just be with the president on policy.
	Uh you can't uh question his behavior and still be a Republican in good standing, apparently uh in in a Republican primary.
	All right, all right, news roundup information overload hour.
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	Uh toll free telephone number.
	We'll get to your calls.
	The great Charlie Daniels is gonna make a rare in studio appearance.
	He's always fun and smart and a great patriot and uh has unbelievable wisdom.
	But that was uh Snowflake, Jeff Flake over from Arizona.
	Oh, it's Donald Trump's fault that I'm leaving the Senate and trying to martyr himself.
	When in fact the real reason is a new poll out shows that Kelly Ward in a primary, Dr. Ward, I think we first got to know her, what, five years ago?
	Is up by 26 points, and he didn't have a chance in hell of winning that primary race.
	So now he's going out as a crybaby.
	And uh my my advice to him is why don't you leave now?
	Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
	Anyway, Dr. Ward is with us, and uh uh I think you scared him out of the race, Dr. Kelly Ward.
	Hey, Sean, it's great to be with you, and I appreciate you pointing that out.
	I think that we did scare him out of the race.
	And gee, uh that question he got would Hillary Clinton be a better president?
	That is such a softball.
	Why didn't he just stand up and say, no?
	No way.
	We could not bear to have a Hillary Clinton presidency.
	Um but he was of course too weak to even say that.
	It's really disappointing, and and I'm calling this the do nothing Senate.
	Now there are some good people in in the Senate.
	I want to be clear about that.
	And there are some people that I know Senator Ted Cruz um is in there, and I think Ted Cruz is trying his best on his own, and he actually told Corker and and Snowflake, Jeff Flake, actually says, shut up and do your job.
	These guys aren't doing their job.
	And and people like Cruz and and Rand Paul and a few others are trying to get some get the ball across the finish line, and these guys are taking vacation and whining about Donald Trump who's out there fighting every day at least.
	Yes, and and what does Jeff Flake not like about the direction the country has been going?
	Uh the Dow is up, the economy is thriving, we're growing.
	Unemployment is down, food stamp use is down.
	Uh America is strong on the world stage.
	What what is he complaining about?
	Yeah.
	Well, it's sort of like, you know, j you got fake flake in the fake news media.
	You know, he's now their new hero out there.
	And I I that was my question yesterday.
	What is it about the president's stated agenda, either during the campaign or now, that he doesn't like?
	And and what does he point to as his great success in the years he's been in the Senate?
	Because I don't think he can point to a whole lot.
	No, no, not at all.
	But uh President Trump was exactly right whenever he tweeted out that Jeff Lake is weak on borders, that he's weak on crime, and that he's a non-entity in the United States Senate.
	And in that same tweet, he said he was glad that I, Kelly Ward, was running against Blake Jeff Flake.
	See, that see everybody's reporting that he went after the president, but the president, by saying that you're great and he's awful, was basically saying get out of the race.
	And that was a deal killer.
	He but the president beat him, and he doesn't want to admit.
	So now he's got to be like a little crybaby, and he's taking his toys and he's going home and he's taking his cheap shots.
	And To be perfectly frank, I don't think that Bob Corker would have won in Tennessee in a primary.
	I don't either.
	I mean, his his um role in advancing the Iran deal by taking away the Senate treaty powers uh was atrocious, and it's something that that is not forgivable because that deal put the United States, put Israel and put the world in danger.
	All right, I've got a very important question I've gotta ask you.
	Because I've actually made some mistakes over the years.
	Like, for example, we really liked Ben Sass.
	When was that?
	2014 when he was elected out of Nebraska.
	And he has become a massive disappointment, and I can't wait in four years when we when he gets primary.
	Although I can see he has delusions of grandeur.
	I look at him and I he thinks he's gonna he's like he's like Liberal Joe Scarborough.
	Liberal Joe Scarborough thinks he's gonna be president one day, and he's not.
	And well, and didn't Jeff Jeff Flake said he wasn't ruling out a presidential run in 2020.
	I just uh had to laugh.
	Uh Jeff Flake is never gonna be the candidate for the Republican Party.
	It's not gonna happen.
	He can try all he wants.
	And I don't think they're understanding that the people in this country have given these guys an opportunity to have a great vision and change the country for the better, and they're not doing it.
	That's their problem.
	It is.
	That's exactly right.
	And I'll tell you this, Sean.
	I will never let you down.
	What you see is what you get with me.
	You get a strong conservative woman with a backbone of steel, who believes in small government, low taxes, personal responsibility, and following the Constitution.
	I will never stray from those principles.
	And that's why I will be an effective legislator once I get to Washington, DC, and while why I will be able to keep the promises that I make on the campaign trail.
	So Chuck Schumer had a smirk on his face yesterday thinking, Oh, it's gonna be much easier to win.
	How would it be easier to win when you're beating Jeff Flake, the incumbent by twenty-six points?
	I mean, I'm trying to understand that mentality.
	Well, you know, Democrat li liberal logic the uh defies reality.
	No, I think there's some truth to that too.
	Um now uh you might not have support from people like Mitch McConnell and the money that they raise for the you know senatorial campaign committee.
	Uh you're gonna be able to transcend that difficulty if if McConnell acts the way he does.
	By the way, there's a poll out today.
	Fifty-six percent of Republicans want Mitch McConnell to resign.
	Well, you know, mi Mitch McConnell and his, you know, his attack pack, the Senate leadership fund.
	Um they they may have made a lot of mistakes.
	Look what happened in Alabama.
	They backed Luther Strange, and the people back Judge Roy Moore.
	So they were wrong in Alabama and they are gonna be wrong again in Arizona.
	I think they should actually get with the program, get with the people so that we can get good uh strong conservatives into Washington DC to do the job that needs to be done.
	Quit trying to put protect your own political future and whatever it is that you're trying to hold on to and get the job done that the American people are demanding.
	All right, we really appreciate you being with us, and I think you deserve a lot of credit.
	I think the polls are the reason that Snowflake got out of the race, and I think he's lying when he says it's Donald Trump and Donald Trump supporting you over him.
	Uh the handwriting was on the wall he was gonna lose, so he threw a temper tantrum on the way out the door.
	Yep, he did, and I I appreciate your support, Laura Ingram's support, Mark Levin's support.
	Thank me.
	Thank me.
	God bless us.
	All right, tell me which radio host I am.
	Ready?
	Now thank me.
	God bless us.
	Get off my phone, you creep.
	Uh, who's that?
	The great one.
	All right, who's this?
	Sean Hannity, once filled in on this program.
	Must be Rush.
	Yeah.
	I want to say one thing to Dr. Kelly Ward.
	I think we need more women in politics.
	That's what I'm saying.
	And who's that?
	Oh, that's the terrible Bill Clinton.
	Yeah.
	You're doing pretty good today.
	All right, Dr. Ward, thank you for being with us.
	Go kick some butt.
	When go out there and fight every day.
	That's show the people of Arizona you're gonna fight, fight, fight hard, okay?
	One hundred percent.
	Thanks, Sean.
	God bless you.
	800 nine four one Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	Uh all right, we'll take a quick break.
	We'll come back straight ahead.
	Your phone calls on the Sean Hannity Show.
	We're gonna get a few calls here.
	Charlie Daniels will be joining us uh in studio, rare in studio appearance.
	That's all coming up straight ahead.
	We got Steve is in Carlsbad out in uh California, thirteen and a half percent state income tax.
	I know I don't know how you barely survive out there.
	What's up, Steve?
	How are you?
	Sean, what a great honor to speak with you.
	I really appreciate you taking my call.
	Thank you.
	You know, uh we live in a part of California that's surrounded by military bases and we have military folks around us all the time.
	It's a full time job thanking them for their service and sacrifice.
	You know, we want to say thank you to you, your family and your staff, because you have done exactly what our service members do, and that's put themselves in a direct line of fire for freedom and truth.
	And uh, we just wanted to extend a thank you to you, your family, and your friends.
	Listen, I I don't deserve even a smidgen of thanks compared to people like yourself and others that serve in the military.
	I mean, the the great honor we all, and this is my complaint with the NFL right now.
	The only reason we get to do what we do, or they get to play the sport they love and get paid a lot of money for it, is because our freedom is defended every day.
	The sacrifice is made by others.
	And it's just a special, you know, only one percent of people will ever serve in the military.
	But that one percent, I mean, and that's why I I got so angry over the the left trying to politicize the death of this guy in Niger, because uh, I don't think the president was calling to you know put salt in the wound of a wife that just lost her husband.
	And and there's never the right words to say in those circumstances, in my opinion.
	That's right.
	You know, it it's it's an uncomfortable paradigm shift that the country's going through right now, and half of America is waking up, and you know, it comes down to us literally changing the way that we were raised when when you were a child.
	How many times did you ask why, and you were told, Well, because I said so, or because that's just the way it is.
	Well, half of America is starting to ask why again, and we're starting to realize that what we were told wasn't true, who was telling us wasn't right, and it's time to for all of us to wake up and stand together.
	It really is amazing, isn't it?
	That once you begin to see how bad the media lies to you.
	Once you recognize it, you can't like put your head in the sand anymore.
	You just you just recognize it for what it is.
	I'm like, wow, they just they lie with abandon.
	They lie with regularity.
	They just they don't cover the truth, they don't want the truth, which is why I have deemed that you know journalism in America is dead, and we have an information crisis in the country.
	So anyway, glad you called.
	Steve, God bless you, and thank you so much for being with us.
	We appreciate it.
	Uh all right, let's say hi to John is out in Uba City, California.
	What's up, John?
	Another 13 and a half state income taxpayer.
	How are you?
	Uh yes, Sean, I am out in Northern California.
	We can't wait for the gas tax to start next week.
	And uh, I gotta thank you for uh opening the eyes of America, both on television and radio every day.
	You're uh you're a saint.
	This country owes you a great deal of gratitude.
	Whoa, thank you.
	This country doesn't owe me a thing.
	I owe it.
	I owe the country.
	What's going on?
	So my angle on the NFL and the and the anthem protests and all that is different than anybody else has talked about, and you're the guy to really really get this out there in the in the public domain.
	The when Steph Curry and Steve Kerr, the coach of the Warriors came out and they were they didn't want to go to the White House and they made that known, and then you had uh Marshawn Lynch sit on his knees at a raider game and then the Kaepernick thing in San Francisco and all the Raider players, 49er players, all coming out and screaming for social justice, whatever that means to people.
	The real question that needs to be asked is why they didn't stand up because Oakland, the Raiders and the Warriors are both bolting in the next three years.
	The Raiders are going to Vegas, the Warriors are going back to San Francisco, they're following the money.
	None of those players got up and challenged their owners to stay in Oakland, the third most violent city in America with economic and social challenges as tough as any city in America.
	They're not challenging their owners to stay there.
	No one's gone to Goodell who said we want to serve communities first and said we're gonna stay in Oakland and fix the problems, be part of the solutions.
	They're all bolting.
	Nobody's challenging them on that.
	Kaepernick did the same thing, never said a word when the 49ers moved from Candlestick Park, which was in Hunter's Point, down to Santa Clara three years ago.
	They all had the chance to stand up when it mattered, and none of them have, and challenge the players or owners on that on that context.
	There's one owner that I know, and I know he's a little frustrated with the president right now, but I assume they'll resume their friendship at some point.
	But it and I and I know he he's with the most hated team in many ways in America, but the only reason people hate the Patriots is because they're so good.
	And you have to admire you have to admire them.
	And that's Robert Kraft, and Robert Kraft told his players, okay.
	There's not this was last year now.
	He's I think he's changed since then, but said there's not going to be kneeling, but I'll match you dollar for dollar if you want to go in any community project.
	And he went out with with different people and and honestly, he he went out into some of the tougher neighborhoods and in and around Boston and and they're trying to help people.
	That's the answer, just like in Chicago.
	That's the answer.
	Let's stop the shooting and the violence in Chicago.
	Anyway, good call.
	I gotta roll John.
	Thank you.
	800 941 Sean, the toll-free telephone number.
	Sean Hannity is on.
	I 25 till the top of the hour.
	It's always what?
	What?
	Well, I just thought before we get into the business of of Mr. Daniels, the legend here.
	Well, I was gonna I was gonna introduce my buddy, my friend, my pal, the great patriot, the great football fan, the the one of the greatest country artists.
	You only have a half an hour.
	It's only a half an hour.
	Charlie Daniels is here, and you're annoying you already interrupted the interview and you're wasting time.
	But I think if to a real proper welcome to Mr. Daniels would be if you sang him his greatest song, Devil Went Down.
	It's not complete unless you're singing, right?
	Well, I'll you mean a version that I've already signed.
	Go ahead.
	Ready?
	Ready?
	All right, the devil went down to Georgia and he was looking for a soul to steal.
	He was in a buying because he was way behind, so he's willing to make a deal.
	When he came across this young man's song on a fiddle and playing it hot, well, the devil he jumped up on a hickory spot and he said, Boy, let me tell you what.
	Yes, you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too, and if you care to take it there, I'll make a bet with you.
	Now you play pretty good fiddle, boy, but give the devil his due.
	I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul because I think I'm better than you.
	And it may be a sin.
	But I'll take your bet and you're gonna regret because I'm the best as ever been.
	Johnny up your poet.
	Play your fiddle hard.
	Cause hailsproclusive, Georgia and the devil deals the cards.
	And if you and you get this, I can't ruin the whole song.
	I'm butchering it to the Who's the devil gets your soul.
	All right, so Charlie Daniels is with us.
	You know, you came out with this never look at the empty seats.
	Right.
	And I have spent so much time with you.
	Uh huh.
	And we've done so many events together.
	And I've watched you perform so many times.
	And the thing is, you I don't even know how old you're you are doing a hundred some odd dates a year.
	I'll be eighty t eighty-one in four days.
	You look amazing.
	Thank you.
	And the energy you bring to the people that come to your shows is phenomenal.
	I feel the same way about my profession.
	You feel about yours.
	We both love it.
	Love it.
	And you you put your best into it every every day.
	I do every night, and it's just it's a it's a joy.
	It's a joy to do it.
	You know, I've actually been to events and and maybe the crowd size wasn't what we thought it was.
	That's happened to anybody, I guess in performing, right?
	Yes, to me.
	You know, sometimes you don't have enough notice, sometimes uh the word didn't get out, they didn't promote it right or whatever.
	And it used that used to bother me.
	I'm like, why didn't you fill the seats?
	Why is it and and then I learned it doesn't matter.
	If there's 10 people there, you give your all for 10 people.
	You give your all for whoever's there.
	And you're not concerned with the empty seats.
	You're concerned with the ones that have people in them.
	If you please them, then that's the way you build a following.
	They'll come back and bring somebody else with them and kind of snowballs and you don't ever hardly have empty seats.
	I saw you occasionally.
	We have some empty seats, yeah.
	Especially when we first started.
	This is about really it's kind of an accentuate depositive type thing.
	If you can't get what you won't take what you can get and make what you want out of it, you know.
	You have uh a lot of things that guide you in life.
	One is your faith, yes, your love of music, your love of football.
	Mm-hmm.
	And you have a love of politics.
	You're I I watch you, you write your blog, and and you go out and you're tweeting up a storm and you're passionate about this country, you're passionate about everything you do.
	What are you most passionate about?
	Your music?
	I'm most my my priorities are God, family, and country music and country, yeah.
	God family, country, and work.
	That's me, yeah.
	I'm curious because uh I know what a great patriot you are, and I know how much you love our troops.
	How many times you go see the the men and women when they were out fighting?
	Uh we've been to uh we've been to Iraq three times.
	Right.
	When we've been to Afghanistan, and we go, of course you go to Rat, you go to Kuwait, because that's a Japanese place.
	Sure.
	Co uh we've been to Kosovo, um Syrievo, been to Guantanamo, just all over the but wherever we can get to him.
	you know, we can never do enough for our troops.
	Anybody put their life between us and our enemies.
	How do you reconcile uh the big great patriot, lover of our military, because they they give you the freedom to play, me the freedom to to rant on the radio and on television, um, and they put their lives on the line for us.
	Right.
	How do you reconcile that with your passion for football?
	I know you like college football probably better anyway, but what's going on in the NFL?
	You know, I've got I'm still kind of wondering if I'm gonna redo my my season tickets next year.
	I I found myself in this.
	Love the Titans tickets.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	This just happened that I I'm not as it used to be football was on.
	I had TV on.
	Right.
	I've kind of it's kind of lost a little bit of its glow to me.
	And you know what gets me about it uh is I I you want to protest something, you feel something's wrong, please do.
	It's free country, you can do that.
	But the guy holding it or the gal holding that flag out there in that color garden may well be a veteran or maybe not even a veteran, maybe still an active duty person who has put their life on the line in Afghanistan, Iraq, or someplace we don't even know about, and you can't take 30 seconds to honor them, the flag that they served under and the song that signifies the whole thing in our country.
	You know, that's that's my point.
	And listen, I'm I made my living, you know, giving my opinions and strong opinions.
	A lot of people don't like us, Charlie, trust me.
	And I respect people that have different views.
	I really do.
	I'm fine, I'm cool with the even people that don't like me and want to write horrible things and lies about me, which happens pretty much every day.
	But how many we can't unite on this issue.
	Yes.
	How many fought?
	How many bled?
	How many died?
	How many sacrificed for you to have the right to get paid millions to play the sport you love?
	Absolutely.
	And and be loved by the crowds.
	You're right, but you used you took the words out of my mouth.
	It took a I'm not watching NFL football.
	I'm watching college football.
	It's pretty good too.
	It's oh my god.
	You know, isn't it fun to like t ascertain the only the the minuscule differences in terms of talent level?
	And then you think there's only a few of those college kids that are ever getting the pros, and I'm like that.
	I think they're all good.
	Yeah.
	You know what's amazing is is you you get it, you can there's a whole mindset to college football that you don't have when you watch pro is like these kids out here doing it.
	They're they're they're giving it their best to be wanting to make it to the roads.
	And to watch you know, Alabama should have to play in a pro league after what they did about Tennessee Titan Tennessee Balls the other day.
	Yeah.
	But it's it's great.
	It's college football is a great thing.
	I'm every Saturday I got TV.
	I don't know how Nick Saban does it every year.
	Every year this guy puts a championship team on the field.
	But I wish I did.
	I'd teach it somebody else.
	So you're a volunteer fan.
	I'm a volunteer fan.
	Well, listen, I admire that.
	What is it?
	How many years now is it total music for you?
	And were you musical when you were born when you were young?
	I cut the apron strings in 19 uh June of 1958 and I left home.
	That's all I've done since then.
	Something to do with music.
	How old were you then?
	I was uh well, nineteen fifty eight would have been coming to be twenty-two years old.
	I was twenty-one.
	That was it.
	You went out on your own, never looked back.
	Went bowed on my own, never looked back, and I've done it on all different levels, of course, but it's all been music related.
	Except for five weeks, I worked in a junkyard in Denver, Colorado.
	How was that?
	I couldn't get well.
	Well, it was it brought me very much down to earth.
	It made me realize appreciate my you know, I came from uh uh labor type background, blue-collar people.
	Same here tobacco and uh timber, you know, that sort of thing.
	So I was not I was no stranger sweating.
	I mean, I've done it, you know, and I I got have empathy for everybody.
	I ride down the street and see the truck drivers unloading the trucks.
	I got empathy for that person.
	It's hard.
	Yeah.
	Those giants I did all the construction work and restaurant work.
	I but I'll tell you this.
	It was looking back, I think it's it saved my life in a lot of ways.
	Because it gave me the empathy, the perspective, real life experience.
	And and you know, look, I mean, if if I get tired and I'm I'm grinding it out on the road like you are sometimes, and I'm flying from I was in five cities in three days recently, you know, this past weekend.
	I have no reason to complain, Charlie.
	You're grounded.
	You're grounded.
	I mean, and a faith in God does that too.
	Oh, yeah, definitely.
	Um you perform, is that the time that you feel the best in your life?
	It's one of the few times I ever feel like in my life that I know exactly what I'm doing.
	I have devoted my life.
	I know when you sit down in front of a microphone, you take on a whole persona.
	I mean, you're showing Hannity on the air, right?
	And it's very obvious that you're at home back there.
	Right.
	I'm at home when I walk on stage.
	Just the way you co-relate the way you feel when you sit down behind that microphone, the and that's the way I feel when I walk on stage.
	Oh, it's funny because my kids, Charlie, they uh I have a studio near my house, and sometimes uh they'd come in when I'm doing the radio show from home.
	I'm in New York today, and they'd come in and they're like, Daddy, you just you st your veins are popping out of your neck and you're screaming and you and I'm like, uh well, let me do the radio show this way.
	Hi.
	Welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
	And our number's 1800-941 Sean.
	I said, Nobody's gonna listen to that.
	But here's the interesting thing to me, and I want to know if you can relate to this.
	The first time I got behind a microphone, I did that.
	I just I started talking like I have no idea why.
	I have no idea where that came from.
	Because you're doing exactly what you want to do.
	That's what you put that's when you put your whole heart and soul into it.
	When you're doing exactly I would not change places, and I know you wouldn't either.
	Right.
	I'm I'm looking you straight in the eyes.
	I want to be Garth Brooks or Kenny Chesney in my next life.
	There's already Charlie Dennis.
	There's already one of them.
	You can't be that but you're doing exactly what you want to do, and you put your heart and soul into it.
	And I'm the same way.
	The proof I when I learned three chords and I could play a whole song, I was ruined.
	That's all I wanted to do.
	You know, one day I was with Billy Graham.
	It was his last crusade, and it was in New York.
	It was in Flushing.
	And look, he's he's very was old at the time, isn't it?
	It's like headed towards a hundred now.
	Yeah.
	And he's in a wheelchair.
	And then all of a sudden it was rally time.
	Right.
	And I watched him.
	He l it's like a force drove him up the stairs behind that podium.
	Absolutely.
	And I watched you too.
	And you it's the same thing I watched with you.
	All of a sudden you're just Charlie, you're taking pictures, you're doing selfies, and then it's game time, and you're just like, let's go.
	And you start twirling that bow and boom, we're time to roll.
	Time to do it.
	What um what it what what did you're giving advice in this book.
	What do you tell people?
	The first thing I tell people, you know, young people ask me, you got what about a music career and about how long you longevity and sort of thing.
	First thing I tell them, make sure you love it enough to put up with the sacrifices, to put up with the rejection, to put up with all the things your failures, which you're gonna do, and to put up with people just being mean to you that you can put up with all of that, because if you have any success, people are gonna be jealous of you, they're gonna try to bring you back down.
	If you can't do that, if you can't put up with those people, those situations and those circumstances, stay home.
	Not the business for you.
	Stay home.
	Play the lounges on the weekend.
	You know, don't come out on don't come out on the road and break your heart because that's gonna happen to you.
	Um I think I've learned more from my failures than my success.
	Well, you do learn from your failures.
	It's like burning your fingers on a stove, you know.
	Seriously, it's true.
	I ain't gonna do that no more.
	No, not doing that again.
	Zach I heard him singing the devil the other day.
	Well, seriously.
	A lot of people sing.
	In fact, Garth Brooks opened the uh Mercedes Dome in Atlanta.
	Yeah.
	And of all things he did that went down to Georgia first.
	Did he?
	I was very honored, yeah, definitely.
	Uh but you're but the thing is is I know a lot of these countries uh everybody loves you.
	You're like the father of country music now.
	I mean, I don't know if you ever if if you set out to have that happen.
	Why are you able to survive the temptations on the road?
	I mean, I've been out with these bands, Charlie.
	A lot of girls with a lot of well, not so many clothes on, throwing themselves at these guys, a lot of booze, some are doing drugs.
	You never got into any of that.
	Well, uh my career is is the thing to me.
	Um you don't go on a road to party.
	That's some common misconception.
	Anybody has another thing you have to understand.
	If you're gonna go on a road to party to pick up girls and that sort of thing, stay home.
	Yeah.
	Because you that's not you're not gonna either you can do that at home.
	Yeah.
	You know don't go on a road and ruin your career.
	Maybe they don't like the girls in town, Charlie.
	I don't know.
	I've seen so many careers ruined from Because of that.
	Drugs and yeah, but just it all it all kind of works together after a while.
	Yeah.
	People get alcohol habit or drug habit or they they're they just fall apart.
	It th they take their focus off of what they love, and all of a sudden they're doing stuff that they're gonna be.
	But everybody thinks they're that you want to party with them in the city that you're in.
	I don't even want to party with me anymore.
	So how many dates are you gonna do this year?
	We'll do 102, 10 grand reappearances and a couple of charity things.
	Wow.
	It but you know it sounds like a lot, and but actually I can handle that.
	That's no problem.
	102 is a piece of cake for you.
	Basically, it's not a piece of cake, but it's about we're getting up to about the limit right there, but yeah, accounting at Grandville.
	You know, when you're a member of the granddad library, they want you to do 10 shows a year, so I have so much respect for the for the the thing I do at the end.
	You know, I got to MC that once.
	Yes, sir.
	That was an honor.
	When you come back and do it again.
	I had to come out and say, they didn't ask me going to Grand O'Hepper.
	No, Charlie, every time listen, it was such a great honor.
	I would sing the devil with you.
	Yes.
	And I butchered the song.
	It don't matter.
	It d it don't matter.
	Did you notice to me?
	Did you notice I was leading the band?
	We were playing with you instead of you having to sing with us.
	I think you're probably right.
	There was one day I missed an entire um what's lyrics verse, an entire verse of the song, and I'm like, and you look at me, you look at your band members, and you're laughing.
	And there's nothing I could do at that point.
	But Sean, do you realize what an incredible charge our crowds go?
	That was the last song we do, remember?
	It's always the same.
	And we go build up to that, and all of a sudden Sean Hannity comes out and gets, and you were like, you look like Garth Brooks.
	You're jumping on the mic, jumping on the drum stand, running all over the stage.
	You know that but they got the crowd got so how many people got to hear that?
	Now, how many people?
	Only the people we played for.
	Which by the way, I'll tell everybody, it's on YouTube.
	It's all over the place.
	That's good.
	And I have looked at it myself.
	You know, over these many years, um, it's been my honor.
	It really has to get to know you.
	And and every time I called, you said, Charlie, I need you for we can raise the money.
	We need you here, we need you here, we need you.
	You're always there.
	Um, you have been a mentor, a life mentor, an example for all of us.
	I love your music.
	I love who you are more as a person than anything else.
	I love this book, by the way.
	Never look at the empty seats, just out today.
	It's on Hannity.com.
	Right.
	It's on Amazon.com, it's in bookstores everywhere.
	And it's always a pleasure to see you, my friend.
	God bless you always.
	Thank you.
	God bless you.
	Uh never look at the empty seats, our friend Charlie Daniels, Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere.
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