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A lot of news, and it's uh all over the place.
Charlie Rose now has been dropped from CBS, PBS, and Bloomberg as a result of the uh allegations against him.
And uh Wow, I I I you see what the these women are.
Who swims naked?
Uh or takes a shower and walks around naked in front of strangers.
It's just it's so bizarre the behavior of some of these people.
I don't know, I don't it's unbelievable.
Anyway, we'll get to all of that.
Uh can my printer is broken again.
Every day it is broken.
Can we get a new printer?
I think it's time as we uh move forward.
Um, I want to get into two, the big stories of John Solomon and Sarah Carter, the FBI informant now, now that he's had his NDA taken away and his muzzle is off, if you will.
Now he I just pulled this one out.
This one was stuck in there.
As usual.
And you don't know until you actually need the papers that they weren't printing the last 20 minutes, and you spend 20 minutes of your time and then you look down.
Ah, there they are, the busted papers in the back.
Uh anyway, so they have a new report that the uh that shows a Russian effort to get the corrupt uranium one deal.
We'll hit that in the course of the uh program today.
We got now another Al Franken accuser on top of the first two accusers, and liberals are having a hard time dealing with all of that.
Charlie Rose was like the lion of liberal media.
I mean, he was it.
Charlie Rose was the guy, his PBS show.
I'd been on the show with Charlie Rose a time or two.
Left is all get out, left wing.
He was one of these guys that would show up at every event in New York City in his black tie.
What are you doing down there?
You're trying to fix the printer.
You fixed it.
No, it's not fixed.
It's fixed temporarily until it I print something else, then it's going to be broken again.
It's not operator error.
I hit print and it prints.
It's supposed to be Thanksgiving.
And why we have why are you attacking me on my first day back?
I mean, my last day before I leave.
I'm so unbelievable.
You're okay in there.
It's annoying when I can't get my prep that my thought was sitting on my going out of your mind.
I'm not going out of my mind.
This is not going out of my mind.
This is me mildly being annoyed.
And well, it's happened now all week.
Do you do you want me to tell you what it is?
What I would like to have happen is I would like somebody.
You want me to tell you what it is?
I would like somebody in this audience to take a sledgehammer or a hammer.
Or I'd give thanks to the printer.
No, I I'd like to bust this printer up and get another printer that actually works.
This is a printer works.
And I will tell you why.
If you're gonna tell me it's my fault.
It is because I do everything I always do, which is file click print.
You're you're selecting the legal size, and there's no legal size tray in there, so you're confusing the printer.
I am not confusing the printer.
It should be configured to accept what I always say.
I will be configuring it later on your computer, so you no longer have the option to select the wrong size.
I've never selected a side.
I don't usually have to select a side.
You are okay.
I didn't change.
I'm gonna come in and watch you on commercial break.
All I do is hit print.
That's it.
I hit print.
And when it when I hit print, I want the paper to come out.
It's gonna come out next.
And now four days in a row because I'm I'm working up until the last second of the show, and I'm printing out notes and I'm pricking and bringing out articles, and nobody wants to hear any of this.
All right, let me move on.
And let me get focused here.
So anyway, so we have all these incidents.
So Charlie Rose, the big lion of the uh of the lift liberal left wing.
Look, I'm not even gonna get into it because it's just it gets so creepy, but you got eight women accusing him of all this inappropriate sexual behavior, including unwanted sexual advances, and you know, even worse than that.
I mean, uh lewd phone calls.
Why would anybody ever get naked?
What are you two looking at that's making you laugh in there?
Nothing.
What are you looking at?
Nothing.
Stop lying.
Come on, what?
We were looking at something um from our friend's Diamond and Silk, which we'll show you on the commercial break.
Okay.
So eight of these who would walk around naked in front of a stranger.
Who would do that?
I don't that's something that I have a hard time understanding.
I know it's a very different world.
I understand it, and I I get it, but maybe I just I don't understand.
I I guess I I don't even walk around naked in my own house ever.
Who would ever do that?
My own bathroom, I'm quick to all right, I'm out of the shower, quick, get dressed.
You know, as fast as you possibly can.
And the too much information there.
TMI, TMI.
I did that's the thing that what most people do.
You get in the shower, you get out of the shower, you dry off, you put your clothes on.
That's what I do.
I don't walk around with a with a uh no towel either.
What is that?
I don't even walk around with a towel.
I don't even have a bathrobe.
Uh you're not on the air as you're sitting there talking to yourself.
Nothing apparently in this studio is working today.
Because you're sitting there talking, I can't hear you either.
Both of your bikes aren't on.
Then you got Glenn Thrush over at the New York Times.
He's in trouble.
And I went through this long diatribe last night that I think is dead on accurate here.
Um the next woman as it relates to Franken is when he was a senator at the state fair in Minnesota, and this woman claims that Franken grabbed her her backside while the two were posing for a picture, and the woman also posted the picture on Facebook and her and later responded to a comment about it by writing, quote, Al Franken totally molested me, creeper.
Um that's the first two years of his first term as U.S. Senator.
Uh Franken says, Well, I took pictures with a lot of different people.
Uh, thousands of pictures.
I don't remember this specific incident.
Well, we already know he's a groper because we got the picture of him groping Leanne Tweedon uh while she was asleep.
You know, Greg Jarrett actually said that that is a crime.
What Franken did to Leanne Tweedon?
That that would be a crime.
I is a liberal, of course, nothing's gonna happen.
Nothing ever happens to liberals and break the law.
Um and then, you know, the thing that nobody really paid a lot of attention to that I paid a lot of attention to is about Franken in particular.
You know, this guy's said a lot of strange and weird things over the year that nobody seems to want to pay bring up in the liberal media.
And I understand comics, I understand comics cross lines, but there's gotta be a line you don't cross.
Like I don't really have a problem with Chris Rock, you know, talking, Going hard at in a humorous way racial issues at all.
I think Chris Rock is really funny.
I like the energy he brings to the stage.
He's very funny.
I think it's fine, and I think he makes a lot of good points as he's doing his comedy.
I don't have a problem with Norton who comes on this, Jim Norton who comes on this program, and the acts that I have seen him do on HBO, which are way over the top.
You're not going to watch that unless you want to get grossed out and laugh at the most like, you know, the basic things in humankind.
But some of it is a lot as funny.
Still like Larry the Cable guy.
He's get her done.
Sent me a video recently that made me die.
Anyway, but Al Franken, when he was working for Saturday Night Live, once suggested that they do a skid about drugging and raping Leslie Stahl, who works at 60 Minutes.
And he says, here's how it'll work.
I'll give pills to Leslie Stahl.
And when Leslie Stahl's passed out, I can take her to the closet and rape her.
Or that's why you never see Leslie Stahl until February.
And when she passes out, I put her in various positions and take pictures of her.
You know it's so creepy about what he said, and then in light of the picture of Leanne Tweedon sleeping and he's posing with the pictures.
It just shows a kind of consistently sick mind.
You know, he did something for Playboy called Pornorama, and that's where you can't even talk about what it was in there.
And when he was 12 years old, he said the internet's terrific.
It's a learning tool.
My 12-year-old son, you know, he used it for a sixth grade report on bestiality.
And then he apologized, you know, to the people of Minnesota for saying all these things, but he writes in his latest book to say, I was sorry.
I wasn't sorry.
I just said it because I liked my career and I wanted to get votes.
And that's pretty revealing about him.
I wonder if the people of Minnesota will remember this at the time.
You know, some people have been saying to me, Hannity, why don't you uh why don't you go out there and why don't you uh lead the way for Franken to get kicked?
That's that's for the people of Minnesota to decide.
He is Senator Groper, if you want to elect a groper as your senator, go ahead.
I wouldn't vote for him, but I knew he was nuts before he ever got there.
And you know, the thing is is all these years now have gone by, and there's been so many credible allegations.
Problem for the Democrats in this, and it is political in this sense, is for 30 years the Democrats have defended the indefensible, and they have made the most obscene arguments about the Clintons.
And there's been a systematic effort to slander every woman, every single woman that dared tell the truth about Bill Clinton.
And even up through and including the 2016 election.
Anyway, we got some other news we're going to get here, get to here today.
This is an interesting poll out today that a landslide majority of voters want a special prosecutor for Hillary.
You know, for the longest time I feel on this show and on Hannity on Fox that I've been the only person that has been pointing out real crimes that have been committed in a variety of ways.
Real crimes on the email server scandal.
The fact that they were mishandled to begin with is a felony.
The fact that subpoenaed emails were destroyed is a felony.
That also would be obstruction of justice.
Top secret emails were also, we know because she put it on the Secret Server, we know that there were foreign intelligence agencies that got a hold of this information and put our national security at risk.
Anyway, the latest Harvard Caps Harris survey found that 61% of Americans say Clinton and the DNC, who jointly paid for the Russian dossier after for this Russian lies, which the very thing Democrats were all angry about, that it should be investigated by a special counsel for their involvement.
In addition, 65% of voters say there should be investigation into the 145 million dollars that the Clinton Foundation got from the people involved in the Uranium One deal.
That's the Canadian firm that was sold to Russian investors.
We have so much new information on that.
I've yet to mention that John Conyers, the congressman from Michigan, he now has an allegation and apparently a payment that went out in his case.
And anyway, he issued a strange denial in response to BuzzFeed's report, citing numerous sources Who claimed he had harassed women who work for him, including ordering several female employees to arrange for outside women to be delivered to him.
He's not saying he didn't do it.
What he is saying is he knows nothing about it.
According to the Associated Press, Conyers, the longest serving current member of the House, said he did not know anything about the claims against him.
Guess that's one way out of it.
It's it's interesting to watch this dance of the Democrats.
Remember Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from New York said that, yeah, Bill Clinton should have been ousted after the incident with Monica Lewinsky.
She was asked directly whether Franken should step down.
And she didn't answer, but she said she was really disturbed and very personally disappointed.
I think the appropriate thing right now is to have an ethics investigation.
That buys them time.
That's why they want the investigation.
Well, are we going to come out with a different conclusion about what he did to Leanne Tweedon?
Because the evidence there, they're going to claim that must be photoshopped because the evidence is in.
Now, then it brings up questions about he said, she said and everything else that's going on.
Some of this stuff is just downright creepy.
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All right, as we roll along Sean Hannity Show, there is a report out today, and I'll get to that in the next half hour that Robert Muller may have given up on proving Trump Russia collusion.
That's getting pretty interesting.
Although I'm sure nobody in the mainstream media that's been pushing their lies for over a year would ever even begin to cover that.
That was an investor's business daily.
On a political side, we've got Mitch McConnell now is uh, according to the Daily Caller, viewing the Alabama Senate race as a lose-lose situation for Republicans, and he has essentially ready to forfeit the election.
I think the people of Alabama will decide, not Senator Mitch McConnell.
But anyway, he is uh apparently a banded abandoned plans for a writing campaign that would give Republican voters another option besides Roy Moore, and he also no longer is working to persuade the governor to postpone the special election, and even if Moore wins, McConnell still intends to remove him.
Okay, that's interesting for the people of Alabama to hear.
Which means that unless the Senate votes on tax reform before December the twelfth, that would be a modern day miracle if they get anything done.
The bill's passage will depend on a one vote Republican Senate majority, and if the tax uh reform bill pass fails, the tax cuts failed, the GOP's control of Congress would then almost certainly vanish after the 2018 midterms, handing House Democrats.
Oh, they'd have the power then to do what they've always wanted to do from day one, impeach the president.
On what grounds there are none, but they want to do it if they can't.
What have I been saying from the beginning?
I have said there are five forces.
I've been telling you all year against this president.
The deep state is against the president.
And Democrats, obviously against the president.
There's nothing he will do that they'll support.
And the same thing with Republicans.
You got establishment Republicans hate this president.
Even if he advocates the single issues that Ronald Reagan himself supports, they're not going to support him.
And the same with Never Trumpers.
And then, of course, the media doing their job every day.
Anyway, the Daily Caller reports a writing campaign supported by McConnell in the Alabama Senate race is not viable anymore, according to a source close to the majority leaders' political operation.
And McConnell and other establishment Republicans, like the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and their chairman Corey Gardiner have called on Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore to drop out of the race.
Well, just as we were coming on the air, there was a press conference saying he's not drop not getting out of that race.
Anyway, the source talking to the Daily Caller said that there are currently only two options for McConnell in terms of seeing this transpire.
More wins in the Senate expels him, or Democrat Doug Jones wins, and recent polling out has actually put Jones ahead of Moore.
Although there was one poll that came out, I think yesterday that had more ahead by a little bit.
So I'll have to see what happens there.
All right, we'll take a break.
We'll come back.
We got a lot of new information that we're going to talk about as it relates to Uranium One and the Fusion GPS dossier.
We have uh Donna Brazil is going to stop by today and a lot more.
All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
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Later in the program, we'll have a little Dr. Hannity action.
I mean, you're gonna go home and you're gonna be there for Thanksgiving, and you're gonna be sitting across from some crazy liberal relative.
Maybe it's a brother, sister, and uncle, cousin, somebody.
And I urge all of you to bring your Make America Great hats with you and wear them at Thanksgiving dinner.
Or your gr make America Great placards.
Or I love Trump t-shirts.
Just to make them bubble and fizz like Alka Seltzer in a glass of water and freak out.
And then you can have some good discussions.
Now here's how I recommend you do this, and we'll get into this later in the show.
The main thing is have a sense of humor about it.
You gotta understand they lost, you didn't.
They never thought they would lose.
Every time Donald Trump tweets one single it'sy bitsy thing, they freak out.
They can they think this is the this is the end times Donald Trump is president.
And you could just kindly, you know, very gently point out to them things like, well, I'm very happy about the million jobs that have been created since he's president, and the lowest number of uh people on food stamps in what seven years, the best labor participation rate we've had in 17 years, best uh home ownership st uh home building starts in thirty years, and you know, just have a few little statistics that you're ready.
And then are you gonna then you can turn to them always and go on offense?
Do you really think Barack Obama was a good president?
What did he do?
And just sit there and be ready to correct their lies, because that's what they're gonna have.
Uh Barbara is in Charleston, South Carolina, 800 941 Sean is on Burr.
It's my Friday.
What's going on, Barbara?
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
I'm great.
I'm great.
Uh, my husband and Larry and I really love your show.
Uh I wanted to tell you that we saw Let There Be Light on Sunday, and we were blown away.
It was absolutely Yeah, it's still in the theaters this weekend for the holiday weekend, and uh I'm so glad that so many people liked it.
The feedback.
You know, I was told last night I got to check the number, but I think it's the one, two, I think we've had three weekends now, and it's the thirtieth most successful um faith-based movie in history.
You know, like Passion of the Christ is number one.
Now remember, we didn't have a studio, we were independent, we did this on our own, and so that's a pretty big accomplishment, thanks to all of you.
Um and well, everyone can see it.
It's wonderful.
They really should.
Yeah, I'm so glad.
And did you cry?
Did the did a lot of people in the theater cry?
Gosh, oh, of course.
And cried, it was it was really wonderful.
Well, I promised an emotional roller coaster, so I'm glad it worked out that way.
Although, you know, listen, I have a I have a question for you.
Sure.
Who has the list of all of the names of the people that we have sent up to I think now 17 million dollars covering their bots from these sexual harassments?
Yeah, that's in those are taxpayer dollars for settlements.
Yeah, that's what we've paid.
Well, who's got the list?
They haven't released it yet, but we're gonna get it.
I mean, it's gonna come out.
Well, I know if anybody can get it, you can, Sean.
And and we're waiting for it.
We truly are.
Yeah, I think we have a right to see it.
And if they want to, you know, pay out, then let them pay out of their own pockets.
That's their business, right?
Why do we have to pay?
We should all be reimbursed.
A hundred percent, every penny.
I agree.
All right, thank you.
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Let's add a Vinny is in Long Island, the all-new AM 710, W O R the Talk of New York, New Jersey, Long Island.
What's up, Vinny?
Hey, Sean, what's going on?
Hey, just a quick question.
I uh saw this article about uh Loretta Lynch uh the other day, and she wants her testimony uh locked up forever, which I thought was ridiculous.
I mean, even the Kennedy assassination wasn't uh wasn't locked up forever.
But I mean, why is it so hard to prosecute these people, Sean?
Well, remember Lois Lerner, she wants the same thing for her.
I mean, we know now that the Tea Party groups were targeted specifically and and so here we are years later.
It's 2017.
This happened in 2010, and they purposely locked up these organizations and prevented them from growing into what they wanted to be, and that all helped uh Barack Obama in his run for a second term.
And now all of a sudden we get an apology.
A lot of good that is.
I I just I I just don't understand.
You've you know, we you know, you have the House, you have the uh uh the Senate, the executive branch, uh, and and uh now uh the um the judicial branch and you can't uh and uh uh you know what's his name, Jeff Sessions, and you can't prosecute or at least investigate any of these people.
I I It doesn't make sense to me.
Listen, I think the most corrupt person who's now in the most trouble is Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton is in a whole heap of trouble.
If my sources are correct, and what I know is coming out in the days and weeks ahead, between now and the new year, Hillary Clinton is in a lot of trouble.
What this what this FBI informant is gonna tell us is is mind-numbing.
And how the you know, everything has to now come out.
There's not going to be any avoidance of this because he was inside of Putin's network.
The network that was bribing, the network involved in extortion and money laundering and kickbacks and racketeering.
And he was telling the FBI, and that means Holders Justice Department and and Mueller's FBI, everything that Putin was trying to accomplish as it relates to getting you know access to America's uranium.
And I also can pretty well assure you that the Russians were laughing the whole time at how stupid that administration was in terms of letting them do all of this.
Anyway, good call.
Appreciate it.
Uh let's say hi to George is an eerie PA.
What's up, George?
How are you, sir?
How are you doing, Sean?
I'm good, my friend.
What's happening?
Well, I'm confused.
I consider myself a relatively smart individual, but I'm not understanding the strategy of a president when you constantly have a attack votes you need.
And I'm referring to Jeff Flake, Cloaker.
I mean, you get more flies with honey.
What's the strategy?
Because he needs these guys' votes.
And if he doesn't change in my opinion, they're gonna send a little finger in the way, and we're all in trouble.
So why is he doing what he does?
Can you explain it?
Let me ask you this question, because you can reverse what you're saying here.
So basically, you're saying that that guys like Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, and I assume you're probably including McCain in this group, that they would they would rather stick it to Trump than do what's right for the American people and vote for the very things they've advocated for their entire political professional careers.
Absolutely.
We watched John McCain, an American hero, by all stretches, stand on the Senate floor and act like Caesar with a thumb.
I mean, you your common sense is you we need the votes.
Trump is just throwing gasoline on a fire.
I don't get it because these men control his fate fate whether he likes it or not.
And that's reality, and that's the part I have with Trump.
I don't know if he truly understands the consequences of his actions.
You know overseas, he's president.
He comes back here, he doesn't act like majority of us think he should.
You know, I think there's some truth.
Listen, I think one of the things that is driving people crazy about this president is everybody has their image how especially establishment Republicans.
They they want their president to act the way they want them to act.
That's not gonna happen with Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is not gonna just all of a sudden wake up in the morning and he's gonna evolve into a cookie cutter president.
That's not what the American people voted for.
The American people voted for somebody that is bold, outspoken, iconoclastic, a little brash at times, and somebody that throws fire and fights hard.
That's what they voted for.
Now, I know it's it's kind of in fashion.
You don't, they don't even notice after a while, but these guys go to Washington saying pretty much the same type of things Trump was saying.
And something happens to these guys, and they change.
And they like being called senator, and they like being called congressman, and they like being called governor.
And they change.
And then they give up the fight.
You know, every Republican had voted repeal replace Obamacare.
And then even in 2015, seven Republicans in the Senate voted just to repeal it.
But when it actually meant something, they were never going to do it.
And then about a hundred House Republicans, same thing.
They had no intention.
Those 60 show votes they gave us over the Obama years were just lies.
And, you know, they're being exposed for who they are.
Now, I look and I I go down the list of Trump's policies.
Cutting taxes across the borders, what he said he wants to do.
That's what Reagan did.
Cutting the corporate tax, that's Reaganomics.
That's supply side.
That's conservative economic policy.
Uh controlling our nation's borders.
Well, you can take it right out of Ronald Reagan.
You can't control your borders.
You don't control your destiny in your country.
Ronald Reagan said that originalists on the Supreme Court.
You know, even on issues on trade, I think there can be an argument made that in some areas there's a similarity, but trade may be being the one issue, but the president show no side of wanting to be a protectionist.
He wants free trade, but fair trade.
So I'm asking myself, well, what is it that they hate so much about this president?
He wants education to go back to the states.
He wants to repeal and replace Obamacare.
He wants educat, you know, he wants uh, you know, an economy that's that's flourishing for the forgotten men and women.
The you know, I can't I said to somebody recently in an interview, the Republican Party, you know, I didn't leave them, they left me.
I haven't changed in the 30 years I've been in radio.
I mean what Trump is representing, he is as close to fighting for Reagan conservatism, put aside these words national nationalism populism.
You know, Steve Bannon is more of a nationalist populist, which I don't have a problem with, except Steve and I will argue about the top marginal rates.
He wants them at 45%.
And I argue to him, that's not what Reagan did that created 21 million new jobs, doubled revenues to the government, and gave us the longest period of peacetime economic growth.
Republicans, their economic plan that they passed in the House is great, except for they don't have the stomach to fight against tax cuts or what the Democrats will label as tax cuts for the rich.
Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
But I, you know, look, he's gonna be who he is.
I think you vote on the policy, and I think it speaks more that I think Trump is the one that didn't sell out.
I think a lot of these guys did.
And I think a lot of these guys, you know, acting so high and pollutant and you know, they're part of an all-boys club over there, and they just think there's one way to act and only one way to act, but you know, we're also learning that they don't act so well behind the scenes either.
I think Trump is transparent about it.
You know, I've watched the media's obsession.
Well, Donald Trump and the Access Hollywood tape.
And then they bring up, well, well, Donald Trump had a divorce.
Well, Donald Trump, I'm like, and he may have cheated on his wife, and this, and I'm like, okay, everybody knew about all of this before the election.
It was litigated, and the American people decided.
I don't think anybody thought they were electing a saint.
But I think they did think they were electing a fighter.
And he continues to fight.
And the expectation that he was gonna win and then become like all of them isn't gonna happen.
And I'm glad it's not gonna happen.
I don't want I'm we have enough weak people, spineless people, cowards in Washington.
I'd like to see somebody, you know, one of the things that has impressed me the most about his presidency is his desire and his willingness to fight to keep the promises he made during the campaign.
I like the fact that his speeches now are the same as his speeches then.
All right, back to our busy uh telephones.
Uh Stephen is in Wichita, Kansas, KNSS.
By the way, you don't go to Dr. Josh Umbrus group, do you?
Atlas MD?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Did you go there because of me?
Because you heard it on the show, or did you know on your own?
I know on my own, but I heard on your show as well, and that's the way medicine should go.
So on a scale of one to a hundred, a hundred being most satisfied beyond any expectation.
Where do you put Atlas MD on that list?
One hundred.
Yeah, and we could duplicate that around the country, but of course, stupid Republicans are too dumb to think about that very, very new paradigm that would work.
All right, we got a minute.
What's on your mind?
Right.
I would just wanted to say thank you so much, Sean, because you, Rush, Sarah Carter, and John Solomon have been the only ones continuing to pound for the truth.
Trump has absolutely been the most transparent president ever.
His plan and his statements have never wavered from be when he came down the escalator.
And you're the only one telling the truth.
So I am greatly looking forward to seeing the information from the FBI informant that ties this all together in a nice little bow for Christmas.
Look, one other thing.
I mean, there's a lot of people that would it would love to shut this show down and get me fired and and have this voice go, I'm not changing either.
I know who I am, I know what I believe, and I know what I want to fight for.
And I think America is worth fighting for to save our country, to to help those people that have been left behind economically, to have a secure and safe country, to have uh to have the willingness to confront evil in our time.
You know, what I what I vouch for, what I believe is not that complicated, and it could all be accomplished.
Republicans could get a lot of this done tomorrow if they just wake up and stop going on vacation.
All right, remember Donna Brazil, her book is now a New York Times best seller, and it's called Hacks, the inside story of the break-ins, breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House.
The most interesting part of this facet of this, I think, is her allegation that Hillary Clinton literally rigged the primary election.
Although Democrats, I feel have kind of pushed her back off a little bit.
We'll ask her about it.
Dr. Hannity's in the house tonight.
What are you gonna do when you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner with your crazy liberal relatives?
I have advice to give out.
Ami Horowitz has his latest and greatest perhaps tape holding an American flag and an ISIS flag and getting people to react straight ahead.
Look, when people have heard this, it they they think that it means that the primary and the election was rigged, and that it certainly wasn't fair to Bernie Sanders.
What's your response?
Well, Alison, first of all, thanks for the opportunity to talk about all this.
And I just want to start by saying, you know, as a campaign, we were incredibly grateful to Donna Brazil for stepping up and taking the reins at the DNC during a very difficult time.
And all of us, uh, you know, who know Donna uh consider her a colleague and a friend.
Um, you know, the allegations she's making there simply isn't true.
And actually the the arrangement uh in question has been released.
It's out in the public, everybody can see it.
Uh and the same thing was offered to both campaigns.
You know, the DNC was broke.
Uh they couldn't meet payroll.
They were gonna have to stop transferring money to state parties for their grassroots organizing efforts.
It was a very bad situation, and both the Sanders campaign and the Clinton campaign signed agreements with the DNC.
Um the difference was Hillary Clinton actually raised money into that, and both campaigns were told if you raise money in, you'll have some say uh over how it's spent to prepare for the general election.
Right, but you got the DNC were really bad.
We had to put some guardrails in place.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
Let's listen to it.
Let's listen to Donna Brazil.
One one more time.
Nobody cares this week.
Nobody cares about what Donna Brazil has said in a book.
Do you don't think anybody cares about her story?
Nobody cares.
You know what they care about?
They're care about beating Donald Trump tomorrow.
They care about beating Ed Gillespie.
The DNC had a bad couple of weeks.
Uh Donna Brazil wrote a book.
I know she's a longtime colleague of yours.
And she sort of in her book made this comment that your campaign through an agreement had too much influence maybe at the detriment of the Sanders campaign.
She sort of walked back those comments now.
What was your reaction to that?
I didn't know what she was referring to because, as has now come out, that just wasn't the case.
But the current DNC leadership really invested heavily in Virginia and New Jersey and other places.
And I called the current chairman uh Tom Perez to congratulate him because he didn't get knocked off course.
He didn't get overwhelmed by other narratives and stories coming at him.
He said, Okay, our job is to knock on doors, make phone calls, and turn out voters.
And you know what?
They did.
And that's part of the reason we won.
All right, that was in part reaction to the New York Times bestselling book Hacks, the inside story of break-ins, breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House, former DNC chair, Donna Brazil is with us.
Well, you g you you pissed off a lot of people with this book.
You think it's the first time I've made people upset by telling my story.
Um, I'm excited that so many people are reading the book for themselves to learn the lessons of 2016.
I've worked in the party my entire life fighting for justice, equality, diversity, fairness, and you may not know this, but I took the party chair job for no pay.
The Democratic Party was in a mess when I took over.
And when you have an open womb, the only way to heal it is to talk about what happened and to fix it.
And that's why I wrote the book.
If you ignore wound, it will fest into something worse.
I'm trying to fix it and get us in a place where we can become a strong party again that will be prepared to win in 2018.
God help us.
I mean, that would be the worst thing that could ever happen.
But you like a little diversity.
Too much Republicans are not much fun.
Look what's going on in on Capitol.
Listen, I'm I'm more critical of Republicans, Donna, than I am of Democrats.
They're they're a bunch of spineless, gutless, visionless cowards, and they're a shadow of uh the party that was Ronald Reagan's at one point.
Let me um this whole issue, uh I want you to go through.
You made a promise to Bernie Sanders, and I did.
Donald Trump, people like him and people like myself, just looking at how the superdelegate system was all set up.
You know, Donald Trump said it was rigged in Hillary's favor.
I said it, I believed it, and you confirmed it.
And I want you to walk through the process by which you made a promise to Bernie Sanders that you were going to investigate this, and you walk us through the day that you made that phone call in in September before the election, and you said, yeah, it was Well, Sean, Mr. Trump may not know this, but when I became Al Gore's campaign manager back in 2000, I stepped down uh as the co-chair of the rules and bylaws committee.
Uh when you're in a position of leadership within the party, uh and you take a position to support one candidate over another, uh, the best thing is to step aside, which I did.
And in 2016, it is true.
Uh and Hillary Clinton is absolutely right.
The DNC was in uh debt in large part because we heavily invested in down ballot races during the midterm of 2014, plus the debt from the Obama campaign, which he did help to to pay back.
But the primary was not rigged.
What I said in the book was that in exchange for bailing out the party, which was broke, the Clinton campaign would get control over certain decisions and aspects of the DNC that made it difficult, if not impossible, for me to do my job.
It was unethical, but it was not rigged, and I stand by that.
But you said you actually used the word rigged.
Of course, because I promised Bernie that I would go department by department and do a forensic uh uh test to find out what happened.
Look, the DC primary was not set by uh the DNC.
It was set by the d the D.C. government uh working with the DC and Republican state parties.
So when you say the primary process was rigged, let's be clear, Hillary Clinton had more votes than Donald Trump.
Uh in the primary process, more votes than Bernie Sanders.
She have she won more delegates pledged as well as unpledged.
And while the Democratic Party has a superdelegate on unpledged system for elected officials and party activists, the Republicans have one or take all.
Is that rigged uh I think that what we're doing now and what Chairman Perez is going to do is to take a look at the process by which we uh ran our 2016 contest and to make changes and make recommendations and changes for 2018 um 2020 and beyond.
Can I be we've been on we've known each other many, many years.
We've never agreed on a whole lot politically.
But but but honestly, I mean we've always been cordial and friendly with each other.
I don't wish, you know, I know you're I know you believe what you believe.
I mean, and that that to me is more important than these people, these phony people that'll say anything, I can deal with the fact you're straight up, you're an honest person.
We've actually, you know, we've had a very cordial relationship.
Uh personally, I'm very fond of you.
But I think I but it sounds to me but it sounds to me, Donna, like you know, you're right very clearly, you call Bernie, you didn't want to make the call, you lit candles, you said prayers because you had to make the call because you knew it was rigged.
To me, that was and the way you described it is it's rigged, and when you say rigged, that means that you know, there was with this special arrangement with Hillary that that the fix was in.
That's I mean, that's what it is.
No, Sean, I mean you you I don't know if you worked on presidential campaigns, but delegate selection.
I've car I've followed him my whole adult life, thirty years in radio.
Well, twenty-three years at Fox.
And let me tell you, I have eleven presidential cycles, uh twenty-one in the midterms.
I've been around since uh the age of nine in American politics.
And while I am a Democrat, I'm an American first, and I love to make sure that these races are run in such a way that people have everybody have a right to vote.
What I saw in 2016 made me very uncomfortable, and that's why I fought uh to ensure that the integrity of the Democratic National Committee.
But what I also saw was the interference in the meddling by a foreign country that also made it difficult for me to do my job.
So if we don't put everything on the table, I gotta put all of that.
Let me read what you say about that.
You say we were hacked by the Russians, and I want to talk about what this means for our democracy.
Now there's you know, two issues surrounding that.
Number one, there's been no evidence of uh exact evidence, and don't tell me 17 agencies, because that's just not true.
But number two, now we find out that Hillary Clinton and her control of the DNC paid for Russian lies and Russian propaganda through Fusion GPS and the same attorney they funneled this money through, over ten million dollars, and that was to misinform the American people.
That was to lie to the American people, that was to propagandize them before an election.
What's the difference?
Well, uh two things.
There's plenty of evidence that we found uh tell me what it is notified us.
But you wouldn't have to be able to do the FBI hang on.
The FBI wouldn't the DNC wouldn't give the FBI their computers to look at it.
The DNC uh hired a firm uh with the former number who uh one of their their chief operating officers was the former number three at the end of the day.
Why wouldn't you give them to the FBI?
We brought in experts.
The reason why we could not hand them the physical computer or the system is Is because it was the brain of our entire operation.
Had we handed it over, Sean, we would have been out of business for sure.
But what we did, we gave them the exact uh everything that they requested in a letter that they sent to us in June of 20 uh 16, every possible thing.
And when I became chair in July, uh not only did I receive my briefing, but I made sure that everything we found, everything we turned over, we made sure that federal officials have it.
That's on the record, I stand by.
All right, well, they're the FBI the FBI just for the record has a different story, but you didn't answer this question.
Hillary Clinton bought and paid for Russian lies propaganda misinformation, all in an effort to influence the American people with Russian lies before the election.
Well, first of all, that research was uh uh at uh that research was conducted by a re big Republican donor, and when uh Donna, I know I know with Donna Donna opposition research.
Well, you got to go where the facts are.
No, no, no, no, Donna, the before when the Republican, you're right, they first hired Fusion GPS, but that was that was long before Steele was ever involved in that project.
Michael Steele Michael Steele is the agent that got the Russian lies that he paid for.
I never authorized uh this contract.
I learned about this contract uh just recently, and when someone said to me, Well, when did you first learn about it?
I I on November 4th, 2016, I went to the lawyer, uh Mr. Lyas, and I said, Is MI6 on our payroll?
Need to know.
He called me and said, You don't need to know.
I had no idea.
Just like last year when your former colleague Megan Kelly came after me with a two by four about uh the paid protesters, I didn't know.
I didn't control the resources, Sean.
That's what the.
No, no, no.
And I heard by the way, I heard you loud and clear, and and that was wrong because you have a job to do, and you can't do it if the if literally they're controlling all the money.
We got to take a break more with Donna Brazil, her new book, Hacks, the inside story of the break-ins, breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House.
And as we continue, Donna Brazil is our guest.
Her book is called Hacks, the inside story of break-ins and breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House.
The bottom line is this is now an irrefutable fact is that Hillary Clinton and her control of the DNC.
I I'm gonna take your word for it that you didn't have nothing to do with it.
Well, I was national committee in April of 2016.
I was an officer, and I didn't even know about the the addendum to the joint fundraising agreement.
So in other words, Hillary And that's why I wrote this book.
I wrote this book because I want to make sure that we not just clean up uh and we're doing that, and uh and I cleaned up before I left, but also that we we heal, which is underway as we speak.
But most importantly, we gotta make sure there's no other foreign interference of Mittland in our elections again.
Period.
No collusion, no conversation, no rubles, nothing.
We Sean, we gotta make sure that we have a lot of people.
So give me so I'm giving you very specific.
So fusion GPS hiring Michael Steele, that was the Democrats that fired Steele.
That was not the Republicans that had hired fusion GPS.
I don't I don't have a copy of the contract and the person you should be able to do.
No, no, no, but let me ask my question.
What we know the lies or someone from Perkins.
This is what we we uh I can't speak for them and I can't speak to what you're worried I'm not running away from it.
You just I don't I don't have any evidence.
You're really good, Donna.
Hang on, the no filibusters.
We were hacked by the Russians, and I'm saying to you that the Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton's campaign, ten million dollars through the campaign and their control of DNC finances, which I believe you had no control over.
Because I because now that we know the deal that you exposed in the book, so now you put two and two together.
But they bought and paid for Russian hang on, Russian lies and propaganda to influence the American people in an election, and what they put out was nothing but the most salacious things and misinformation.
Now that what point are you gonna say that's a good one?
What point are you gonna do?
What point are you gonna say that Hillary Clinton was wrong to use Russian lies to try and influence the American people?
Well, first of all, Sean, I don't want to get into the research, but you want to get into the research, and much of that research has been proven factual.
I don't want to get into the research.
I want to I want to correct uh a misstatement.
The DNC Wait, well, nothing has been proven.
Nothing has been proven true.
Hookers in a bed in with Donald Trump in Moscow.
Donald Trump has not even acknowledged, let alone done anything to protect our election.
I know you know Mr. Trump.
You should say you talk to Donna Brazil, and Donna wants Donna who prays for you, like I prayed for our presidents.
Clean up our election system, Mr. President.
Make sure that no foreign government uh meddles in our election, try to hack into our voting system and try to destroy one political party.
I'll do that.
When are you gonna tell Hillary Clinton that she shouldn't have paid for Russian lies about hookers at the Ritz-Carlton urinating on a bed?
See, see, you you're reading the dossier uh she paid for it.
She paid for the dossier about it, but I haven't read it.
But the DNC did not pay Perkins Coey ten million dollars for the No, but they did pay they did pay some money.
Right, but Hillary Clinton paid us.
Hillary Clinton paid for it.
Hang on a second.
Hillary Clinton paid for the Russian lies.
Hillary Clinton's campaign paid for the Russian lies.
Donna Brazil is the chair of the Democratic Party.
I was not the quote unquote.
But you told me to send a message to Trump, and I'm saying you can send a message to Hillary, stop hiring Russian liars to influence our elections.
And stop meeting with Russian officials through Facebook and Google to undermine our dis democracy and discredit the candidate, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff we need to clean up, Sean.
We shouldn't just throw stones.
We got to clean this up.
We've got to make sure that the North Koreans and others don't take this technology and use it against us next year, Sean.
That's what my book has to be all about.
All right, hold on.
We've got to take a break.
More with Donna Brazile.
Her new book, Hacks, the Inside Story of the Break-Ins, Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House.
All right, as we continue with Donna Brazil, author of the book Hacks, the inside story of the break-ins, breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House.
Give me any evidence you have of any law that was broken as it relates to the Trump campaign and Russian collusion.
Well, let me just say this.
If it was up to me, I would have sued the Trump campaign, Putin, and everybody else for the kind of hacking, what they did to steal emails, what they did to weaponize them, discredit our candidate, and try to break into our election systems.
Someone needs to go to jail for that, Sean.
And we need a lawsuit.
Look, Sean, you and I both love our country.
We love our democracy.
That's why I went to uh Mr. Prebus last year and say, help us.
Let us all do this together, because next year it could be the Republicans who are coming under attack.
And you know what I would say to the Republicans.
But you have but you but you're saying, Donna, I love you, but you're saying these things, and I am asking you a very specific question.
We've had a year's worth of investigation into Trump Russia collusion about laws that are broken.
Can you cite any example that proves any law was broken by anybody?
The hacking of people's personal information is against the law.
Okay, but you're not going to be able to do what the full I am the only one in America.
You're talking to the only person.
Donna's violation of state law.
Federal laws were also.
Donna, you're not listening.
When you think about the rubles, I mean, you're not supposed to allow foreign money to get into our elections.
Tell Hillary Clinton that.
That goes all the way back to the the Chinese and selling out the Lincoln bedroom.
But here's my most important question.
You've never interviewed Julian Assange.
I have.
I've interviewed Julian Assange and I've talked to other sources.
Julian Assange is the one guy in America, whether you like him or hated him, it doesn't matter.
Julian Assange has been consistent and clear.
And for the record, WikiLeaks has never been wrong in 11 years of all the information they have published.
And Julian Assange was crystal clear to me.
It was not the Russians.
You say it is the Russians, so I go back.
No, no, no.
Let me finish my question, Donna.
Come on.
So you say it is the Russians.
The guy that knows says it's not, and it was no state party, and it wasn't Russia.
So I ask you again, what specific evidence, because you say specifically in the book it was the Russians.
And the Russians hacked.
He says they didn't.
He's the one that put these these emails out.
And I'm asking you what evidence do you have that in fact it was Russia or that it was any Trump Russia collusion?
Because if you have evidence, I'm sure Robert Mueller would like to talk to you.
Well, first of all, Robert Marla has not called me, but if he called me, I would tell him the same thing I would say to your listeners.
There was a lot of collusion.
There was a lot of activity.
You're throwing around smoke.
That's smoke.
Where's the evidence?
Between attempts to discredit the beast, you know, social media platforms.
Just because you're saying it doesn't make it true.
Okay, give me the I'm gonna go back to my question.
Give me the evidence that Russia did this.
Where that these were active Russians.
Where?
Uh legions and bots and trolls, uh APT 28, 29, Cozy Bear, Fancy Bear.
These were all too government to discredit and and so discard within our democracy.
Okay.
But you still and this is the problem.
And I've explained this to my audience.
We don't know it's a problem.
Hang on, I'm gonna make my statement.
I'll let you make yours.
Here's the problem.
We've now had every even Diane Feinstein two weeks ago said there's no evidence of Trump Russia collusion two weeks ago.
And I know that Hillary said that was a lie when she said 17 government agents.
It wasn't true.
What we do know is the one guy that would know says it is absolutely positively.
He has said it to me numerous times on radio and on TV that it wasn't Russia.
Now we do know that one side, and that would be Hillary's side, and I'm taking you out of this, that she bought and paid for what we now know to be Russian lies, misinformation, and disinformation for the very purpose of influencing an election.
You're upset about Russia's influence in any election at all.
Donald Trump never paid anybody in Russia, ever paid anybody to get Russian information.
And therefore, when I asked for evidence and you can't provide it, it's the very thing that Democrats seem to be saying Republicans did, the Democrats did.
He said on July 27, Russia, if you're listening to me, clearly they had a bad channel through his son.
Why don't you wait for all of the evidence to come out, Sean, and then you can conclude.
I've been waiting a year in 2016.
I've been waiting a year.
Show it to me.
And I wasn't hacked by uh Casper the friendly ghost.
So look, uh, if we're finished talking about my book, Hacks, can we talk about what's on your menu for Thanksgiving?
Yeah, we can talk about that in a second.
Let me play for you all of these people, up to and including last uh two Sundays ago, Diane Feinstein that say there's smoke, there's smoke, there's smoke, there's smoke.
We've been hearing her for a year, plenty of smoke, no fire, as it relates to the topic we're talking about.
Uh but Mr. Clapper then went on to say that to his knowledge there was no evidence of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
We did not conclude any evidence in our report.
And when I say our report, that is the NSA, FBI, and CIA with my office.
The director of national intelligence had anything, any reflection of collusion between the members of Trump campaign and the Russians.
There was no evidence of that in our report.
Was Mr. Clapper wrong when he said that?
I think he's right uh about characterizing the report, which you you all have read.
We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say our that's NSA, FBI and CIA with my office, the director of national intelligence that had anything that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
There was no evidence of that included in our report.
Have you seen anything, either intelligence briefings, through intelligence briefings, anything to back up any of the accusations that you've made?
They have the documentation that they did the hacking.
The hacking on the DNC.
Right.
And on some of us, you know, that have been.
But the collusion, though.
No, we have not.
Do you have evidence that there was in fact collusion between Trump associates and Russia during the campaign?
Not at this time.
Have you seen anything that suggests any collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign?
Well, there's an awful lot of smoke there, let's put it that way.
People that might have said they were involved, to what extent they were involved, to what extent the president might have known about these people or whatever.
There's nothing there from that standpoint that we have seen directly linking uh our president to any of that.
Did evidence exist of collusion, coordination, conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian state actors at the time you learned of 2016 efforts.
I don't know whether or not such collusion that's your term, such collusion existed.
I don't know.
Feinstein, Clapper, Call Me, Brennan, Manchin, and I can go on for another hour.
Diane And I can go on for two.
If the Trump campaign isn't guilty, why do they keep lying about their communications regarding Russia?
Nobody lied about it.
The Carl Trump official who hasn't been caught lying about his or her communications are dealing with Russia during the campaign, including Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Foreign Policy Advisors Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Donald Trump Jr., and Michael Flynn.
Look, we need to get to the bottom of it, Sean.
And when the bottom, when the investigations are over, I would hope that you would bring me back on this show.
Because once they conclude their investigation, I would love to hear the the conclusion, and then you and I can have another conversation.
Okay, but my only argument back to you is we do have evidence that there was collusion with Russia.
And that is the hiring of fusion GPS, the hiring of Christopher Steele, and Russian lies that he paid for that was used by the Clinton campaign to basically influence the American people, lie to them, propagandize them in the lead up to the election.
So we do know there was collusion.
I I don't look collusion.
Well, no, is that collusion?
You got to answer that.
Is that collusion?
I didn't Sean, you know, you're asking me to to uh disprove a negative that I had not involved in.
Opposition research.
Just because you're not involved in it, doesn't mean you don't read a newspaper.
There's nothing unethical or illegal about opposition research.
Oh, so it's okay if Donald Trump.
So if Donald Trump wait, if Donald Trump hired somebody to get phon phony information from Russia on Hillary Clinton, you're talking about Donald Trump saying publicly, oh, would you if you have the emails, the 33,000 that she acid washed and bleach bit and and if you have them release them, that would be the truth, but Hillary paid for lies.
Salacious lies.
Sean That's okay though.
Jared Kush didn't turn over Russia related communication to the Senate Judiciary Committee, include emails about a backdoor Russian overture as well as emails with surging million.
So, if that's the case, he'd be in jail.
There's not so much out of the way.
It's been a year, and the only evidence we have is that is Hillary's campaign paid for Russian lies.
I don't understand why you're not upset about that.
The Republicans who there was a big Republican donor who got this dossier started.
And this opposition research, rather than gone into the trash can, it kept a a new life, it was recycled, and yes, fusion G. All right, let me ask this question Perkins Kuey to conduct it.
I don't know anything about the negotiate.
All right, quick break more with uh Donald Brazil on the other side of this, and your call's coming up.
How do you deal with your crazy let's see, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa relatives at the Thanksgiving Day table?
All right, as we continue with Donna Brazil, author of the book Hacks, the inside story of the break ins, breakdowns to put Donald Trump in the White House.
All right, your candidate, Hillary Clinton, was asked to had thir had all her emails subpoenaed.
Remember, she went to the mom and pop shop bathroom closet and she had her emails in and you know that was stored there, which was I think mishandling and a crime in and of itself.
But putting that aside, when they were subpoenaed by Congress, she decided on her own to delete 33,000 of them.
And then she used acid wash and bleach bit to clean up the servers.
And after that, she had employees break a numerous number of devices, blackberries with hammers and iPhones with hammers, et cetera.
Do you think that is unethical and obstruction?
And and shouldn't somebody, if I if Donna Brazil is asked to hand over if your emails are subpoenaed, would you delete them?
Would you acid wash them?
Would you bleach bit them?
Would you break your devices?
Smear campaign, Sean.
Sean, I came up with the case.
Hillary Clinton has been as open about her emails as any American.
We know more about Hillary Clinton life from the release of her emails.
She said it was a mistake to use a private server.
She has apologized about that.
And if you want to relitigate her emails, I would suggest that you contact her office.
Hey, Donna, you've been in democratic politics for 33 uh years, as you said.
Okay, so you've been able to do that.
So I'm just asking, was you this this is in many ways your book, you know, hacks the inside story of what you think the campaign was about, so I think it's perfectly the legitimate.
Is there anything about Donald Trump you like gift?
Is there anything you like about Donald Trump?
Uh as I said in the book, I said, you know why I give him credit for cracking the blue wall.
Yeah.
I mean, he ran an anti-establishment campaign.
Sean, I pray for my president.
You know why I pray for him?
Whether it's Barack Obama, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Herbert, Walker Bush, Ronald Reagan, let's go all the way back to John Kennedy and Lin Lyndon Johnson.
And I pray for them because I'm an American.
I want my president to succeed irregardless of his party affiliation.
I just wish today I could say Madam President instead of Mr. Trump.
Let me ask you, but do you think that his policies, do you like his policies on anything?
I think the president has to pivot.
I think he needs to be uh start talking about infrastructure.
He needs to go back to the jobs that he talked about creating, and he needs to do more to bring about healing and and the end of the kind of uh vindictiveness.
When I say I pray for my president, I mean that.
I don't just say, oh, Mr. Trump.
I I go to God, as most Christians do.
I can't speak for other religions.
I can only speak for myself, and I ask the Lord to watch over him because I want the Lord to watch over my great country.
Well, that's the Donna that I've always liked.
We'll leave it on a on a high note.
The book is interesting.
I will say that.
Uh I didn't put it down.
It's called Hacks, the inside story of the break to break-ins, breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House.
Well, I'm never gonna agree with you on a whole lot, but I appreciate you coming by and uh uh you should have done my show first, and you would have been number one on the New York Times list, but I'll forgive you for that.
I'm a Christian like you are, I'm trying to be.
I believe in you know what we do go back, we we do combat, but we always shake hands at the end of our wrestling match.
I want to say this to your listeners.
No.
Uh uh, this is uh a beautiful time of the year.
This is when we give thanks for many of our blessings.
Amen.
And I just want to give thanks to all of you.
You're my American citizens.
I love you.
God bless you all.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Why are you making us like you so much now after we just had a contentious interview?
Why do we now turn around and say I like I actually like Donna Brazil?
I don't, you know.
I said that once on the air, and people are like, she fed her killery questions.
I'm like, yeah, I know.
But our God is awesome.
I am Our God is an awesome God.
That's a great song, too.
And and even those people on the Clinton's campaign that came on Fox and went on other shows.
I love them.
I love them because I love my country.
So do I. We can't do this.
Look, in our country, let's make America great again.
We can do this.
We can argue but still like each other.
And Sean, by the way, my gumbo is the very best in the world.
I know when you taste my combo, you will want another bowl.
So uh my love to your family, yours too.
Your wife and children, happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
God bless you, you're in my prayers as well.
God bless you always, and we are very blessed beyond measure.
Amen.
All right, quick break, right back.
How do you deal with your crazy left wing relatives?
That is coming up next.
News roundup information overload hour.
Good friend Ami Horowitz, writer, producer, director, documentarian, and he's...
What did we asking people this time?
This was a social experiment where I had my uh remember the time I had the U.S. flag, sorry, the ISIS flag, Israeli flag video?
So this one was a twist on that because you know, we we've had all of these are you know, our national anthem, for example, be disrespected to the NFL.
I want to see what if people had any fidelity to other national symbols.
So I went around Berkeley with my U.S. flag to see what people's reaction would be.
Okay, so what's and what was their reaction?
We got that all on tape.
We do.
What were the specific questions you were asking?
No questions.
I was just simply walking around the flag saying, I love America, America's the greatest.
God bless America.
That's it.
Let's hit it.
I'm Ami Horowitz.
Sadly, there's been a lot of controversy around some of our American symbols, like the national anthem.
So I went to UC Berkeley to see what the student reaction would be to another national symbol, the American flag.
I love America.
This country stands for freedom.
Yay!
A little piece of freedom in my hand.
Who protects freedom?
This guy.
I am pumped.
Greatest country on planet earth that protects all freedoms, right?
No?
Greatest country in the world, right?
No.
The opposite.
No?
Why not?
Yeah, that's pretty great.
You know what I'm talking about.
It signifies military rule.
God is not powered.
America.
Wow.
Why would you say that?
Flick me off.
Because she said my flag sucked.
I wanted to see what the reaction would be with.
Well, another flag that's out there in the news.
I stand against America.
ISIS protects Islam.
I denounce the United States.
The black flag of ISIS will stand over the White House.
I denounce Western imperialism.
I denounce American imperialism.
Good for you, man.
Thank you.
I love what you're saying, man.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
ISIS is love.
We don't have hate in our hearts.
Unless you stand against us.
Then we kill.
The attack in New York was a blow.
After spending several hours waving my ISIS flag, shouting pro-ISIS anti-American rhetoric.
Sum total of one person was upset by it.
How many people passed you?
Thousand?
Five hundred?
I don't know.
Most people just ignore you or most people ignored me.
All right.
And then but then you hear these keep up the good work, man.
A couple people supported me.
I mean, it's uh it's a good idea.
I mean, I want to but there's part of me thinking that you know people don't even know who the name of the vice president is.
So are they know who ISIS is.
And it wasn't the flag.
I was saying, come fight for ISIS.
ISIS attack New York, ISIS.
Every third word is ISIS.
Every third word was ISIS.
It's so sad.
I mean, people can be are so dumb sometimes.
But the school system has created this whole thing.
There's no question about it.
This is garbage in garbage out, right?
That's what you're professors are preaching that the world's problems are because of the United States of America.
It's a double-edged sword.
They they screw America, F America, and then the ISIS flag, nothing.
I think it's a gutsy thing that you do, but it's also to me, it's sad.
I mean, what you watching all the things that are going on with the NFL, and and you saw, for example, uh, what's his name?
Lynch Marshall uh Sean Lynch.
Yeah, this weekend, and he doesn't stand for the national anthem.
He stands for the the Mexican flag and the that anthem.
What was that?
And you can't I'm sorry.
I I do not buy the argument that that's by taking a knee to our national anthem is not a screw you America.
I'm sorry, you can't make that argument to me.
It absolutely is.
If you're gonna then pick some other moment or some other thing, but if you're gonna do it to our national song, our national song, you're saying something about the hatred you have toward this country.
There's a lack of understanding that runs so deep throughout this whole thing.
And this is what the NFL isn't getting.
This is what these millionaire players aren't getting.
Is that look at the empty seats that we saw just this weekend alone?
I mean, many people just stay at home.
They'd rather if they're gonna watch, they'll watch it on TV, but I think ratings are even proven the interest is is lower than it's ever been.
People don't care.
Most people that I know have just said, forget it.
They've had it.
They don't want to they're they're gonna ruin the NFL.
I mean, I could see another sport replacing it at some point if they keep this up.
Oh, there's a ton of sports up and coming.
Uh but they're there, listen, they they have this friend of mine yesterday was trying to make the case that it's gonna be rugby.
A rugby's a good thing.
Yeah, it's I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Yeah, but listen, the NFL can turn it around.
There's no question about it.
100%.
And I noticed that they are trying to at least create images.
I noticed that uh, you know, Terry Bradshaw and his team on Fox, you know, they had battleships behind them.
And I noticed that they went out of their way.
They don't show the players kneeling now on TV, right?
But they showed Tom Brady on Veterans Day shaking the hands of, you know, obviously Tom Brady is is one of the is probably the biggest NFL star today, but they saw him shaking hands with with some vets that day, which I thought was the right thing to do, and that's how I always perceive the NFL.
Well, look how Jerry Jones handled it.
I think he handled exactly that the way he's supposed to handle it.
Nobody's gonna take any MIT.
End of story.
End of the story.
You work for me.
Why is there so much hostility with Jerry Jones now?
And I guess there's a back and forth going between him, the NFL, and Robert Kraft of the Patriots.
What's going on?
Well, that's a lot of inside football, as I say, but I think with at the end of the day, he's looking at at you know the guy who runs it runs the league, and they just cannot agree on anything.
I mean, he wants Roger Goodell, I read, wants a contract of what, $50 million a year.
And a private jet for life.
If it lives to a hundred, that's 50 years old.
Who does it think he is?
Sean Hannity?
All right.
Come on.
You're such a wise ass.
But the reality, no one gets a jet for life if you want one, buy your own.
50 million.
If they're paying you 50 million dollars, you can go out and buy your own.
I think Jerry Jones' major beef is that it seems like Goodell thinks he runs the Jerry Jones saying is the this is the this is a collective.
Who owns this this this this uh IS league?
The owners, not you.
You are you're a manager for us.
But wait a minute.
Why is the NFL that has all types of restrictions on freedom of speech?
You can't, you know, after a touchdown, you can't taunt other players.
You can't curse at a ref on the field.
You can't, you know, you can't even fake bow an arrow or shot into the crowd because the no fun league?
The no-fun league.
I mean, you can't do uh specific dances and moves uh or twerking in the end zone.
No gyrations.
No gyrations.
Yeah, but okay, first of all, it's not you're you're you're not being fair.
It's the one because every workplace, every workplace has those kind of rules.
You can't do you can't walk into a building in a bikini.
But they could obviously have just said from the beginning, no taking a knee for the answer.
Yes, no, no.
Oh, uh you're getting at us.
Why?
Of course they could.
Because there's all sorts of actually technically in the bylaws, it does say you have to start with the national.
That's correct.
And put your your helmet in your left hand, stand at attention, be out there at the start of the anthem, and don't move and shut up.
All they have to do was enforce the rule the rules.
But the problem is, Sean, is that they're they're they're held hostage.
They the last thing in the world they ever want to be accused of is racism.
They're so scared of it.
So you're saying because uh the number of black Americans that are in the league, they're afraid that if they say that, then they're gonna be viewed as racist.
That's correct.
That's what they're thinking is.
Look, look, if Donald Trump says anything negative, listen, Donald Trump loves to say negative things about a lot of people, white black women.
Well, I mean he says something negative about black person, all of a sudden it comes a race issue.
Did you see what happened?
Do you have the the the audio of this father?
I mean, you had these three things.
Yeah, LeVar Ball, his son plays for UCLA.
Uh Trump, while Trump was over in China, these kids get arrested for stealing, you know, some designer sunglasses or whatever.
Three different stores, by the way.
Okay.
And in China, you know, it's like the old commercials in the U.S., you get busted over there, you're in for the hassle of your life.
Uh they could spend years in jail.
Trump goes directly to the uh Chinese president and says, Hey, can you let these guys out?
He lets them out, and I've confirmed that story with multiple sources of the White House.
Immediately, the president of China did what the president wanted, which I thought was a gracious act on his part.
And then when the kids get back, they thank the president, and then here's the father.
All right, Mr. Ball, let's take one step back.
Because you seem to have doubts about what the president did.
You said you were talking to people who I don't have no doubts about what he did.
I got doubts of what he didn't do.
How's that?
You have doubts not about what I'm saying, but what he did.
I'm gonna tell you this.
If I'm coming to get you, if I if I'm coming to get you, let's say let's say I'm coming to get you out of trouble.
If I'm coming to get you out of trouble, you best believe I'm gonna take you with me.
So if I come over here and say, excuse me, uh, sir, whoever, can you do something for this kid or this person and uh allow me to take them with me?
That's if I'm doing something for somebody.
All right, so let's go over there.
Let's just get right to it.
So let's be a little lenient on it, but I'm out of here.
All right, is what you're saying that because the president of the United States didn't bring the boys home with him, he therefore didn't do enough?
Or do you think he really didn't do anything?
I didn't I didn't say nothing about him.
I didn't say nothing about him.
You're kind of like talking about it without saying his name.
I'm just trying to clarify.
Ain't no confusion.
There's a lot of confusion.
Is there somebody asked me a question and I gave us a lot of confusion to you?
It's a lot of confusion to me.
It is.
That's why I needed you on.
Do you think the president?
Because I don't understand what you're saying.
I am concerned.
Did you think that the president helps the boys get out?
Listen very slowly, carefully.
I'm trying.
Did he help the boys get out?
I don't know.
Why do you doubt that?
I don't know.
If I was gonna thank somebody, I would probably I'd probably thank President Z. President.
I'll thank him.
He's in China.
He's the head, he's ahead of uh uh the president in China.
True, and the president of the United States.
Somebody can make a suggestion, somebody can make a suggestion, and somebody could do something.
You got people that make suggestions, you got people to do things.
I just don't understand about it.
Like, hey, why don't you be a little lenient?
What is the skepticism about?
Why are we even talking about this with all these political matters going on in the world?
I I listen to that, and I'm thinking if it was my kid and the president intervened and got him out of a a very difficult position where he might have been facing jail time.
But here's my here's my words to the president, sir.
Thank you very much, and I promise you I'll deal with this at home.
Of course, of course, but not only did he not deal with it at home, he publicly excused the behavior of his son.
He downplayed what his son did.
This wasn't on the clip you showed, but before that, he downplayed what is what is what his son did.
But again, the point of what I want to make on this on this whole LeVar Ball issue is that when the president criticized LeVar Ball, just because he's black, everybody in CNN, MSNBC was saying this is racist.
This is racist.
Just because he's criticizing a black person.
The man is an equal opportunity insulter, right?
White, black, 100% women doesn't make a difference.
Listen, what these Kids did was stupid.
Of course.
That's it.
The president intervening was the right thing for the president to do.
All the father needed to say was thank you.
And that's it.
Move on.
And it was all over.
And they didn't get in trouble, and they could have spent time in jail.
So at the bottom of this half hour, we're going to take calls from people that have to deal with crazy relatives over Thanksgiving.
Oh, you can identify with this.
Oh, I can definitely identify with that.
Really?
What happens in your house?
Well, okay, first of all, um, I love my I want to be very calm.
Hang on.
No, I'm gonna hold it over.
Okay.
But uh those are T. Is that is it that bad?
I will let you know after the break.
How bad is it?
On a scale of one to ten.
Uh it was a high nines.
Ooh.
I love that.
That that might that might transcend turkey wings and stuffing and uh sweet potato pie.
All right.
Anyway, we'll continue with Ami Horowitz at the bottom of this half hour.
We'll take your calls.
As we continue, Ami Horowitz is with us at the bottom of this half hour.
Dr. Hannity's back.
What do you do if you have your Obama Hillary loving Trump hating relatives this Thursday at Thanksgiving?
I'll offer some insight and advice.
So what's going on at your house?
Uh you said it's really bad at Thanksgiving.
What happened?
So, okay.
Uh underst again, I want to I want to make sure I set this up by saying I love my family very, very much.
Left wing, right linked.
By the way, that is a difference.
BS.
You're just saying that.
So I have a number of stories, but I'll tell you the Thanksgiving story.
So there's one Thanksgiving a couple years back where my my wife and kids for some reason had to go somewhere and I couldn't for a business reason.
I could I was I end up being in New York by myself on Thanksgiving.
So I went to my cousin's in-laws.
Okay.
So we go to to their house and by the way, when you stay there was your first mistake.
If you get a day free alone, and you could just sit there, order pizza, and stuff your face and Thanksgiving family, you know?
That was well, so I thought.
I would have so I thought.
All right, go ahead.
Okay.
So first problem is they're they're vegetarian.
Right.
So that right off the bat, there that's just gastronomically, that's a no-go for me.
Did not know that going in.
What is vegetarian turkey?
It's like a tofu type of thing.
I don't know.
I'm sure it's delicious.
Yeah, I just stuck with these stuff.
I used to live stuffing.
Um anyway, so we're sitting down there and they're having they had their my her her my in-laws, my cousins-in-laws are very, very leftist, right?
New York leftists, and they have a lot of their leftist friends come over.
And we're before we even got to dinner, we're just kind of sitting around having a discussion.
And how long ago was this?
How many years?
Four years ago.
Okay.
This is a pre pre-Trump.
Right.
So they didn't even know that Trump wasn't even part of the discussion.
That I know that's a normal, a natural way you can get a lot of friction in the family.
That wasn't even on the table.
So we started talking about American foreign policy, and they're going on and on about how horrible America is, and I decided to defend what we did in Vietnam just to piss them off.
To be fair.
All right, so that's my advice.
Uh you gotta go in.
If you have a great make America Great Again hat, and you know you have liberal relatives that hate the president, bring wear the hat.
Wear the t-shirt.
See, but I'm special.
I think most people listening, and definitely the people the other side of this window here, I don't think they're quite as aggressive as you or I. That's not aggressive.
I'm just not gonna take your crap because I know it.
Listen, there have been many times uh not many, but a number of times I've been out with my family, right?
And somebody they'll know, oh, that's Hannity from Fox, that's Hannity on the radio.
And they just start in.
And I'll just watch and watch, and then it's gonna there's gonna come a point.
I'm gonna start firing back.
Well, how long do you wait?
Not long.
Right, exactly.
Come on, it's like 20 seconds.
It's actually my daughter sees it coming, and she this is what you'll do.
She'll like act like she breathe in and out.
And it and I'm like, no.
Or she'll if it's my daughter, she'll be kicking me.
Don't do it, Dad.
Don't do it, Dad, and boom.
You mean and I'll say for example, but you gotta have one-liners.
It'll be like something like, oh, isn't it great?
America's becoming great again.
You know, just whatever you say, it doesn't matter if they agree or disagree.
You know, a million Obama lost put 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty.
Aren't you glad Trump reversed that?
Just say I'm for the travel ban.
Just do that.
That'll do it.
That'll do it.
Oh, I'm for building the wall.
That's right.
Yeah.
And letting Mexico pay for it.
That's all you need.
All right, Ami Horowitz, good luck to you.
And of course, uh, finish your story.
Oh, okay.
So anyway, so we're sitting around defending Vietnam, and the the the the friends stand up, start they start yelling at me, screaming at me, they're red faced.
Who are you?
You're sick, you're a sick person.
And my in-laws uh my cousin laws try to call him down, which was nice, but then moved over to dinner.
Uh within 30 seconds, the table, including my cousin or calling me racist, disgusting, and told me to get out of the house.
They threw on Thanksgiving.
They threw you out of the house.
Out of the house on Thanksgiving.
What did you say that was racist?
And he deserves I I think I was talking about the at the time, the um voter ID laws.
I was for voter idea laws.
That is automatically makes you a race.
By the way, if you go to the DNC convention, you need a ID, picture ID.
Of course.
Ami Horowitz, thanks for being with us.
We appreciate it.
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All right, so here it is.
It's my final hour here.
Well, I'm on TV tonight, so it's my final radio hour today before we go on our uh annual Thanksgiving Day break.
Only a couple of days, and uh it's that time of year.
We have so much to be thankful for.
Can't forget that, not the least of which is the greatest audience in the history of radio.
And uh how wonderful all of you are.
We live in the greatest country God gave man.
Uh if we have our health, well, we have a lot to be thankful for.
You have our families, they're healthy, we have a lot to be thankful for.
You know, it's not the material things that I think make the top, oh, I am thankful that I got a Mercedes last year, or I am thankful that I got this car.
I well, yeah, you should be thankful for your house and your car and the food you put in your stomach, and there's a lot to be thankful for.
A lot of evil in this world.
For the vast majority of us, I mean, we get to pursue our dreams, we get to work hard, we get to, you know, think of the conveniences that didn't exist for past generations.
We take cell phones and computers all for granted.
We take our homes for granted.
You take, you know, what if you had to build your own home?
Everybody had to build their own.
You provide goods and services that people want, need and desire, and people you pay them for goods and services that you want, need and desire.
It's a perfect system.
Harder you work, the better you're gonna do.
Anyway, with that said, we're more divided than we've ever been before.
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
And that's been unfolding way before this election, and frankly, way before this past year and way before the last election year, and we've had eight divisive years before that, and the Bush years were pretty divisive as well.
So you're gonna find yourself in a situation, maybe Thursday, some of you, where there's crazy Aunt M, Auntie M. And Crazy Auntie M is a big socialist.
And Crazy Auntie M isn't gonna like the fact that you're wearing your make America Great Again hat or t-shirt.
Tell myself that I'm not kidding.
You better fix this right now.
And then there's gonna be I need an amazing Crazy Uncle Joe is gonna show up and crazy Uncle Joe, he's gonna have a problem as well.
How do you deal with your crazy left wing relatives that are obsessed that like they like fake news CNN?
Maybe that's one of the the 100 people in the country, or one of the 200 that like MSNBC.
How do you deal with them when the topic gets to politics?
Anyway, that's what I'm here for.
I'm gonna offer advice.
How do you deal with your crazy left wing uh Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, Hillary Burning, Bernie loving relatives that hate your views, hate Donald Trump?
It's that simple.
Robin is in Oklahoma.
How are you, Robin?
I'm fine, Mr. Hannity.
Thank you for taking my call.
All right.
What do you do?
Who are you gonna meet this year that's gonna drive you nuts?
Well, I do have my daughter and my son-in-law that's gonna be coming over.
Yeah.
They're she's more of a socialist and he's kind of flip-floppy, so I worry about him a little bit.
And last year got really, really weird here at my house during Thanksgiving to the point where it completely stressed me out.
I did not have fun.
And my question to you is should when my family comes over, should I tell them straight to their face, hey, look, no talking politics.
This is the one day that I don't want to talk about it at all.
Or should I post a note on my front door saying the exact same thing and if seeing if that works?
Um, look, here's the thing.
I like to have fun with them.
That's what I like to do.
The first thing I would do if I was you, if you have any Trump gear, like a Make America Great Again t shirt, or if you have a Make America Great Again hat, and you know it's gonna make your liberal relatives bubble and fizz like Alka Seltzer in water and and they're gonna flip out.
There's nothing more fun than like poking at them.
And the way you poke at you, how can you stand this man?
Oh, just go, I love don't you think his Twitter is the funniest thing you've ever seen?
Don't you love the and then you go, Don't you think it's great that you know we've we have the best economy that we've had in seventeen years?
Don't you think it's great that a million jobs have been created since he's been president?
Just have a few simple little facts that you know are gonna freak them out.
By the way, what do you think of the news that Hillary stole the primary from Bernie?
Oh, and what do you think?
Have you heard about uranium one and and the dossier that Clinton paid for?
Um, you know, I'm sure that's very troublesome.
Do you feel like you were lied to?
Always go on offense.
And then she said, Donald Trump hates women.
And I said, No, I I can I can I jump in.
I'm just I'm just wondering what what's happening because I I thought this was a holiday of giving thanks, and you seem to be wanting to give advice on the city.
I'm giving advice how to deal with your crazy gladiator or brave heart.
Excuse me on Thursday.
Listen, people are gonna walk into the lion's den this weekend.
You know, you get more honey with kindness.
What is it?
Oh, really?
So you want to go in and when they when that's the expression you get more trees with honey than you do.
Yeah, do that.
Do that, people.
All right, look, don't listen to Linda.
She's don't listen to Sean.
Because she doesn't have one liberal in her family.
First of all, I have several liberals in my family.
Okay, and then the first thing they're gonna say is, yo, you still work for that idiot Sean Hannity.
Exactly.
And then what are you gonna say?
He's the best boss in the whole wide world.
I'm gonna say those sweet potatoes are here, courtesy of the Sean Hannity job.
Well, that's the difference between me and you.
I'm gonna go right at my liberal relatives if they open their big fat mouths and they want to fight, I'm gonna fight.
You're gonna throw the sweet potatoes as opposed to serving.
Maybe it'd be more fun than the typical Thanksgiving dinner.
Then I don't have to eat them and get fat again.
Anyway, does that help, Robin, at all?
That helps immensely.
Thank you so much for answering that for me.
Robin, you're such a good liar.
Oh man.
I just can't wait for the Friday morning headline, Sean Hannity, police call to Sean Hannity's house over a free fight.
Sweep a sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Remember that song by Alabama?
Uh all right, Kate in Austin, Texas.
What's up, uh Kate?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Well, I have to crack up because I'm gonna agree with uh Miss Linda, my best friend here, because I if you well, I have to, because I love you and I love your advice.
I think that was really well meaning.
But so here's my situation.
We're gonna put ourselves in the way back time machine to last year to the fresh moment of like one of the most amazing elections of our modern time.
I mean, we can all I love when you play that role of all of the things that happen that night.
It gives me chills, it makes me so excited every night.
So we're on a high.
My husband and I are going into what you just termed the lion's den.
And we had to put on our gladiator gear just to protect ourselves because I have nieces and brothers.
They all live in Chicago and they live in Seattle and all the crazy places where there's a mostly my nieces are millennials, they were in physical pain, like posting on Facebook.
I don't want to mock them.
I'm not trying to mock them because I love them.
I adore my nieces.
But they were like, We're in physical pain.
So that little girl that you play all the time that feels like she's gonna fall apart.
That were m that was my nieces.
So we go into the holidays get together, and everybody's kind of not talking to Greg or to me because they know that we are conservatives, that we support Trump, that we love him, that we think that he actually can make America great again.
But it's so personal.
Well, listen, I mean, I mean listen, you can have soup superfluous and and surface level friendships where, all right, well, we're gonna talk about the weather and oh, isn't the sun shining nice today?
Oh, look at the little bird that's going in the oven.
Isn't it so cute?
Oh, look at the baby's outfit, and you can talk about nonsense all day, but at some point some serious stuff is likely to come up at that table kneeling during NFL games, maybe one of the issues, and another one might be Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
So I'm just trying to help prepare you for a worst case scenario.
Well, it did come up.
All of that did come up, and it was crazy.
And I was trying to be sweet aunt and say, we're all gonna be okay.
It's all gonna be fine.
I was trying to do what Linda had just said.
I was trying to get more bees with my honey than the V. I love you, Kate.
You're a woman after my own heart.
I know.
We're besties.
I love you.
So I'm just saying, what kind of hope?
Let's say let's let's take it to the other end.
What kind of hope can Uncle Sean give to my nieces, these sweet little millennials who are lost and sad and broken in a old are they?
They are like twenty one to twenty-eight.
Yeah, tell uh this is what I would do.
Bring them crayons, coloring books, cocoa, and uh bring them a r and give them a uh a gift to get an aroma therapy session, whatever that is, I don't even know.
And uh say, Oh, here, hopefully this will get over your little crybaby whiny little attitude and and get your ass up like the rest of us and go to work for the next 40 years and work hard and play by the rules, and you'll be successful and and be the master of your own destiny.
There you go.
Isn't that nice?
That would be awesome.
Yeah, I think that'll work.
That'll be good stuff.
Yeah, get them the cup of cocoa.
All right, Kate, thank you.
Denise is in Orlando, Florida.
Uh, what's going on, Denise on WDBO?
What's happening?
Hi, Mr. Hannity.
I am one of the people who um has been ostracized by my family because of my um political beliefs.
And um I am an African-American female.
I've got very, very liberal people in my family, and um it's been a little stressful over the last two years with Trump announcing he was going to run, but when he became a other candidate and I was behind him one hundred percent, oh, it was just absolutely crazy.
So I'm actually not spending uh Thanksgiving with family, I'm spending it with friends.
Okay, and your friends, you've been ostracized from some by some of them, by some or by all.
Um, by pretty much my whole family.
Right, so your whole family, so you mean it's so bad you're not even going to your family.
You'd rather stay with your friends.
I rather stay with friends, absolutely.
Let me let me tell you how life is.
You know, it's this is just the truth.
At some point, if your fr your friendship has to transcend politics, at some point and I know a lot of friendships that have ended over, you know, the whole battle of Hillary and Donald Trump and Obama.
I mean, and I I get that, but you know, when somebody can't handle what I have to say, you know, I'll give you an example.
John Kasich, I I remember writing him, I said, you know, hey, can I talk to you?
And we had been very good friends, and he writes back, if it's about Trump, no.
And I'm like, okay, I call we'll only talk about golf, and I'm only talking about our kids and the weather, and uh we won't talk about you know, the the working men and women that are in poverty uh on food stamps and out of the labor force and how I think this plan is good for the country.
I actually wrote him that.
Never need never wrote me back after that.
Now we've since talked, but you know, I just to me it's like people have to accept you where you are.
And at the end of the day, if people don't want to be around you that bad, then my attitude is well, good riddance, you're not my friend anyway.
And really, you know, there are people that are not my blood family that I consider family that I love dearly.
I got my team in here.
I love my Hannity radio team.
They're like family.
Ah, boss, we love you.
They would have to do a lot to really piss me off and make me fire.
So you're a reverence, just makes us love you more every day.
I'm just glad I'm not eating at your house on Thursday, that's all.
Why?
We we have the buttons.
I don't want to be covered in that stuff.
And what's I want to eat it.
Covered in what mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, string beans, asparagus, we're very clear.
We don't have any defective thinking liberals in my family.
None.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's probably true.
Although I'm beginning to w worry a little bit about my niece.
She seems to be a little more liberal than lately.
Uh-oh.
But remember, Cassie used to come at me all the time.
And of course, uh, and she just scream at me.
We d don't you just tired of talk?
I mean, for me, I'm just tired of talking about politics.
I don't want to talk about it on Thanksgiving.
Well, what are you gonna do?
Watch football players, maybe a knee.
I don't feel like watching that either.
I'm just gonna have lovely conversation about you know other things.
Okay, so you can't talk about real issues then.
So your friendships is big are basically surface friendships.
Aren't they all?
No, I think some are deeper than that.
Her brother just got engaged.
I think they'll be talking about more of that type of stuff.
I can't see sunshine getting in a big fight at the family table the first year she's having Thanksgiving at the McLaughlins.
I'm a peacemaker.
I'm a peacemaker.
I bring lots of peace.
You're telling everyone to throw food at family movies.
I never said to throw food cranberry sauce.
I'm lying through your teeth.
I didn't say to throw it.
You want the gladiator, Braveheart.
You only understand.
You only throw food if in fact they throw it first.
You gotta defend yourself.
I believe in self-defense.
It's a counter throw, counter throw of food.
Yeah, but remember, if somebody hits me, I'm my rule is hit them back ten times harder.
So if they throw one spoonful of potatoes at you, you throw ten at them.
That's the way it works.
All right, Denise.
I listen, I want you to have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Be thankful for the people that do love and respect you for who you are.
I'm sorry about your family, but your real friends will will love you for the person that you really are.
I mean, that's what real friendship is.
Uh big time AJ Houston, Texas.
What's going on, baby?
Big time.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving to you all and everybody at the studio and all that.
You know, I ain't bagging down because Trump is kicking butt and taking name.
And boy, they just mad because we won.
I agree with you.
All right, but I gotta go.
I want to wish you a very special Thanksgiving to a really important part of the program, our good friend Big Time AJ Houston, Texas.
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