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You know, I'm done with professional football.
I really I've I'm uh look, I'm just had it.
I mean, you would think they would have learned from last year, and the American ratings were down, revenue were down, everything was down, and uh, you know, the kneeling went on and on and on and on and on.
It's just I don't think the NFL understands the magnitude of the players taking a knee during our anthem and what impact it has had on people's mindset about football.
And you know, when the Jets new owner, you know, I guess Woody Johnson's what, nephew, grandson, whoever it happens to be, says, who was it?
Put it up.
His what?
His his brother Chris says, oh no, if my players take a deer, I'm gonna pay their fine.
All right, okay, you know what?
Fine.
I'm not gonna go watch the Jets play football.
Thank you very much.
And I'll watch a team that doesn't, that literally look, there's room, plenty of room for freedom of speech, but not in the NFL.
You can't do certain dances in the end zone.
You can't celebrate in the end, you can't taunt other players in any way.
You can't do a lot of things that they would otherwise want you to do.
So all right, so Roger Goodell tries to fix it and says, okay, if you don't want to, if you don't, if you're gonna take a knee, you gotta stay in the locker room, everybody's gotta stand.
Now, you got the Eagles.
I've never liked them much anyway.
The Eagles win the championship last year.
They're invited to the White House, which is a massive honor for anybody.
Maybe, like, for example, if I was, I had said this all during the Obama years.
If I ever had an interview with Obama, it would have disappointed most of you.
Because I would have asked every question that I can.
They would have limited my time from the beginning.
And then, you know, in ten minutes he can filibuster in his sleep.
And when you interrupt the sitting president of the United States, it just, you're never gonna win.
You come off rightly as rude.
And there's a a way to ask and interview a president out of respect for the office.
And similarly, you know, if you get an invite to the Oval Office, and I everybody's entitled to their political views.
I would have gone if I got one in the Obama years.
I didn't get a single one.
And MSNBC conspiracy hosts were hanging out at the White House.
And CNM people hanging out at the White House.
They were having a grand old time.
And they thought they'd be doing the same thing for the next eight years of Hillary Clinton became the president.
Didn't work out the way they planned.
And so what?
All but ten play, only ten players on the Eagles were willing to go to the White House.
Now, I gotta give the president credit.
President said, fine, don't come.
You're uninvited.
And right now, the president has replaced what was going to be a, you know, congratulations.
Job well done to the Philadelphia Eagles.
He's now doing with our military and a celebration of America.
And here's a little bit of what's actually going on right now.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Appreciate it.
I want to thank the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Chorus for that incredible performance.
Their voices, oh, I'd love to have a voice like that.
What a voice.
We love our country.
We respect our flag, and we always proudly stand for the national anthem.
We always will stand for the national anthem.
It is my great pleasure to welcome everyone to the White House for this patriotic celebration.
Beautiful, beautiful day and a beautiful celebration.
I also want to thank our great vice president, Mike Pence.
Thank you, Mike, for joining us, along with Secretary Stephen Manuchin, Secretary Ryan Zinke, Representative Lou Barletter, who hopefully Lou Barletta will be your next senator from the great state of Pennsylvania.
It is a great state.
Representative Mike Kelly, thank you, Mike.
Great to see you.
I want to take this opportunity to explain why young Americans stand for our national anthem.
Maybe it's about time that we understood.
We stand to honor our military and to honor our country, and to remember the fallen heroes who never made it back home.
We stand to show our love for our fellow citizens and our magnificent Constitution.
We stand to pay tribute to the incredible Americans who came before us and the heroic sacrifices they made.
America is a great nation, a community, a family, and America is our home, and we love our home.
And our country has never done better than it's doing right now.
Never.
Record numbers at every outposts.
You take a look at what's going on.
Lowest unemployment numbers we've had, lowest African American unemployment in the history of our country, lowest Hispanic numbers in the history of our country.
Lowest numbers for women in 21 years.
We've created seven trillion dollars of value in our country since the election.
With the largest economy in the world and getting a lot larger and fast.
It's happened very quickly.
Actually, quicker than I even thought.
We're doing great.
And all of those people that we honor.
Many of them are looking down right now.
Some of them are right here.
But many of them are looking down right now at our country, and they are proud.
They are very, very proud.
So we stand together for freedom.
We stand together for patriotism.
And we proudly stand for our glorious nation under God.
I want to thank you all for being here.
This is a beautiful, big celebration.
Actually, to be honest, it's even bigger than we had anticipated.
So I want to thank you very much, and God bless America.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
Obviously, the president making some great points.
You know, I will tell you as we we're gonna begin our coverage today, actually, of getting into what the 2018 midterm elections are are gonna be all about.
I'm gonna tell you it's very simple.
And this is probably likely going to be the most important midterm election in your lifetime.
Because so much is in play here.
And what is at stake matters.
What you have is the Democrats want this to be a do-over of the 2016 election.
And by that I mean, although they're having private meetings and they're pulling every Democrat aside, and they are begging them, please stop.
Please, Maxime Waters, stop saying impeach 45 women.
We know you mean it, and we're with you.
But we're not gonna tell the American people that that's what our real goal happens to be.
That's what we're we're just not gonna state it.
Now, if you just stop for a minute, Think of where we are economically and where we were economically.
Think of where we are in foreign policy where we were.
This is day 501 of the Trump administration.
And as the president point out, yeah, we we've got record low unemployment not seen in 50 years in this country.
We've got record low unemployment in 14 states in this country.
Record low unemployment for women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans in this country.
We've got literally millions of people that are no longer receiving food stamps.
Similarly, millions more out of poverty.
Just compare that to what it was 501 days ago.
And that is what?
13 million more Americans after eight years of Obama on food stamps.
8 million more in poverty.
The lowest labor participation rate since the 70s.
The worst recovery since the 40s.
Literally, we had the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
And he doubled our national debt in the process, meaning we got nothing for the money that they spent.
Nothing.
No improvement.
People's lives weren't better.
Then you got this, you know, 150 billion dollars.
Oh, we'll give it to the Iranian mullahs.
That's a brilliant genius idea.
The Iranians today announcing, yeah, we're going to continue to spin our centrifuges just as Obama allowed us, and we're gonna literally create more potential nuclear weapons.
That's where we are.
What did he do with North Korea?
Nothing.
What did he do to make the world a safer place?
Nothing.
The president's this president's decimated ISIS.
You know, look at what he's done with regulations in the economy.
Look at what look at the tax cuts that you have been given.
Look at the money, the extra money you're saving every year.
You can calculate it.
We'll give you the website later in the program today.
You know, tax cuts, you know, now.com.
Go to the calculate your savings.
You can do it.
They have a calculator.
You know, look at what's happened.
America is now on the verge of potentially really moving towards energy independence, which is gonna not only be good for national security, but create high-paying career jobs for millions of Americans.
You know, the president is openly advocating for all these companies to spend their dollars in the U.S., build their factories here to oh, tax cuts works.com to build their manufacturing centers here.
Wall Street Journal has a piece today.
I don't think a single fake news outlet, you know, has said that the president, and I've always said this, I don't think he wants a trade war with anybody.
Anyway, the Wall Street Journal, surprise, surprise, China is now offered to massively expand their purchases of American-made goods if U.S. negotiators agree to abandon this tariff plan.
They've also agreed and made concessions on intellectual property rights.
They've also agreed to lower tariffs on American cars so they can be sold in China.
And China offered to purchase nearly $70 billion of U.S. farm manufacturing energy products if the Trump administration abandons their threatened tariffs.
In other words, everything the president wants.
Free or fairer trade.
Just by taking a stand and negotiating, it's amazing what the benefits that we'll get because nobody's ever done it before.
You know, so you have these weekend talks in Beijing, negotiators with the Chinese president, and uh they presented the U.S. team and the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross a package that includes Chinese companies buying more U.S. soybeans, corn, natural gas, crude oil, coal, and manufactured goods.
And Chinese and U.S. officials estimated the value of the package at nearly $70 billion in the first year.
Now the president has pressed China to commit to reduce $375 billion in U.S. merchandise and trade deficits with China by 200 billion.
Chinese officials are arguing that would go a long way of meeting that target.
Oh, that's a good thing.
You know, look at the Rasmussen poll.
Most Americans now see the economies changing because of the president's policies.
Rasmuseman, majority now believe Obama and Comey spied on the Trump campaign.
I'll get into this more.
Something very Nefarious, I suspect, and my sources are telling me is going on as it relates to the IG report.
We're going to get into that as we unfold the program today as the program unfolds, and we have a lot to get to.
We'll look at our polsters.
2018 is about this.
Stopping Democrats from impeachment, uh, stopping Democrats and open borders.
Democrats want to keep Obamacare, and they want more money back in the tax cuts that you received.
They want you to pay more.
That's it.
So if you don't get out in 2018 and vote, you will get the America that they want that you voted against in 2016.
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When you think about it, let's say for a minute that I'm right here, that's what the midterms are about.
It's about the left and not say it.
They're not going to tell you.
They'll wink, they'll nod, but they're really telling and communicating we're going to impeach Trump.
We're going to find a reason.
We're going to undo this election.
Just give us, please, please give us power.
Please.
What do they stand for?
All right, taking back the biggest tax cut in American history.
Let me translate that for you.
They're running on a platform that wants to take more of your hard-earned money.
They want to pick your pocket even further so they can spend it on their priorities.
They're also pro-open borders.
They don't want the fence, the wall built, and they're doing everything they possibly can do to stop it.
But by the way, the entry point for how many drugs that come into this country, how many crimes have been committed because we have open borders.
Not everybody.
We always talk about it, but there are some people that cross these borders that don't have the love of America that we want from people that are coming.
I don't mind having a door on the wall.
Let's let's have everybody come to America that wants to be part of our family.
But we got to vet you, we've got to make sure you don't want to bring us any harm, and we got to make sure that we're going to contribute to the country.
It's not hard.
We don't care where you come from.
And they want to repeat they don't want Obamacare repealed.
There are two things Republicans need to do.
Added things, because Trump has pretty much single-handedly been carrying a very weak Republican Party on his back.
And it's simple.
Fund the wall, repeal and replace Obamacare.
If you don't do those two things, I don't see how they lose.
What do the Democrats offer except a rewind into eight horrible years of Obama?
You know, it was so important during the 2016 election year that every single day I reminded you of the Obama agenda.
Well, that's what they want to go back to.
Here we've had unprecedented economic growth, enormous success on foreign policy, a president that gives promises and keeps his word.
How refreshing that also is.
And a country that's better off.
The forgotten men and women are getting out of poverty and off of food stamps and back in the labor force.
And America's getting stronger again.
And America's creating opportunity again.
And America's safer again.
And hopefully the world's, you know, we're beginning a process as of next week.
Maybe we'll even make the world safer.
Nobody predicted predicted or anticipated that.
All right, we're going to deal with the IG report next.
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Sean, you want to join us?
You know, it's um it's pretty sad that I believe we're now going on two weeks that the inspector general, Michael Horowitz had finished his report.
Now going on two weeks.
You see, but the Inspector General, I guess out of the courtesy has given the Department of Justice, which means, you know, the very people that have been obstructing, Ignoring subpoenas, the very people that won't hand over requested documents, the very people that have redacted in the name of national security, only to be proven later that it had nothing to do with national security.
Those very same people have now had in their hands Michael Horowitz's Inspector General report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation, the server investigation, where we know the espionage act was violated, 18 USC 793.
You know, there's nobody with a straight face that can argue what Hillary did to subpoena emails by deleting them and acid washing the hard drive with bleach pit.
How many of you knew about Bleach Pit beforehand?
Nobody.
Nobody.
Nobody, I'd never heard of it.
Did you ever hear of it?
Nobody here heard of it.
Everybody now knows about it because I'm I'm I will make them eat bleach bit in sense of their words.
That now, you know, if everyone is allowed to acid wash their hard drives when subpoenaed, I guess that what's good for the Clintons is good for everybody else.
Equal justice under the law.
You know, equal application of the laws.
It's good for the Clintons, ought to be good for everybody else.
And if she can violate the Espionage Act, I guess everybody else can too.
Did you wipe this earth?
What, like with a cloth or something?
Cloth?
What do you mean, Ed?
As if she didn't know what he was talking about.
So here's what's happening.
And I've been talking to a number of my sources.
I know Sarah Carter's been working on this today, also, is you've got the Inspector General report that is now in the hands of the obstructing DOJ that has ignored congressional subpoena that have ignored subpoenaz that has ignored the fact that we have coequal branches of government that has ignored the fact that we have separation of powers that has ignored the fact that they have constitutional authority and
an obligation constitutionally at oversight.
And what's happened is is the IG report that has taken 18 long months.
Oh, we're gonna get it in March.
No.
We're gonna get it in April.
No.
We're gonna get it in May.
No.
Well, now it's done.
500 people, 18 months have put this sucker together.
Apparently been working overtime.
And now the inspector general has handed it over to Rod Rosenstein and company and Jeff Sessions, who sadly is just paralyzed, and I don't know what Jeff Sushens is doing.
Because if Jeff Sean Hannity knows all these crimes that were committed, Pfizer abuse, crimes Hillary committed, you know, the fact that they they put the fix in.
I mean, all of this.
Now we have the last week struck page emails that were revealed that show that struck as telling Paige that, oh, the this is all being run from the White House.
The whole Russia thing.
That means the Obama White House.
And here's the problem.
They actually, in the Inspector General report, you may not know that they have an option now to write their own defense.
They have an option now to go back and plead with the Inspector General.
No, no, no, this needs to be redacted.
No, no, no, no, no.
You need to change this.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You need to fix this.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's not true.
You're wrong.
And so here's what is happening.
It was supposed to be released in March, April, May, and now it's June.
And now the rumors have been running all week.
Well, they're probably going to release it on Friday.
Well, to be honest, it's called the Summer Friday.
And it's called the Summer Friday document dump.
And why does that mean something?
Why is that different, Mr. Hannity?
It's different because on Fridays in the summertime, people want to go watch the sunset at the beach.
They're not home on their regular schedule.
Or maybe if with the tax cuts, they have a little extra money in their pocket on Fridays in the summer, they want to take their family, you know, maybe they'll go to a local place and get a you know, a bucket of clams and corn on the cob and maybe even a lobster tail or two or whatever they like to eat, and then that's what they're gonna do.
They're gonna go out to dinner.
Or maybe they'll go see a movie.
Or maybe they'll walk on the beach.
Or maybe, I don't know what people, maybe they'll watch a go to a baseball game.
I don't know what people do.
What the hell do I know?
I never go anywhere.
I'm a total loser.
But you get my point.
Summer Fridays are slow.
And if you want to bury bad information, you dump it on a Friday.
And now my sources have been telling me that they want to dump it on not only a Friday in the summer, but on the Friday leading up to the Tuesday summit with President Trump and little Rocket Man, Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
Singapore flight is 21 and a half straight hours.
And then that's that is a built-in news cycle.
What does that mean?
That means everybody's gonna cover the summit.
So if you dump the IG report on a Thursday, Friday in the summer leading into a summit of the president, that is called a document, or in this case, an 18-month investigation dump.
And what they're hoping is is it won't get the attention it otherwise would get.
It won't get the scrutiny that it otherwise would get.
And that's what's going on.
Now the president tweeted, and I've been on this all week.
What's taken so long with the inspector general report on Cricket Crooked Hillary, slippery James Comey, numerous delays.
I hope the report is not being changed and made weaker.
That is exactly what's going on, in my opinion.
There are so many horrible things to tell.
The public has a right to know.
Transparency.
Now, the IG report started in January of 2017.
It's now June of 2018.
Now he doesn't have the power, the inspector general.
Um sorry, the deputy FBI director McCabe report.
Okay, how long ago was that?
Where's the report on Comey?
Where's the report on Hillary's crimes?
Where's the report on the cover-up?
Where's the report on the rigged investigation?
Where's the report on Loretta Lynch and the tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton?
Where's the report about Comey and Strck and what they were involved in in this and writing an exoneration in early May of 2016 before they ever interviewed Hillary or 17 other key witnesses?
They interviewed Hillary in the summer of 2016 over the 4th of July weekend, and right after that weekend, there's James Comey exonerating her.
I never heard of an exoneration before an investigation.
Any of you think you're gonna get away with acid driving uh acid uh washing your your hard drive after emails are subpoenaed?
Any of you think you'll get away with deleting subpoenaed emails?
Any of them I don't even use bleach in my clothes anymore.
I don't even bring him home.
I don't bring it anywhere near my house.
It's a it's a dangerous thing.
Okay, that's a different type of bleach.
That's a different thing.
I'm serious.
Okay, you're trying to get it.
You're very intense today.
And by the way, I'm very angry today.
I don't know about you all, but I mean I don't know how you didn't clams.
Who the hell's eating clams on the beach?
On in the summertime, it's a great.
I like to go to like these hole-in-the-wall places that have the clams?
Oh, yeah, I love baked clams.
But I only like the little baby ones.
I don't like the big ones.
Raw two or no.
Uh I don't eat no.
That ain't happening.
The man who doesn't eat sushi is gonna eat raw clay.
Okay, really?
Okay.
No, no, I can't oyster guy.
I can force a California roll down my throat if I put enough of that salty stuff on it.
The soy sauce.
Yeah, we'll leave you with a package of soy sauce and we'll take the sushi.
I gotta drain it in that, and then this way, okay, I can suck down the what is it, made up fake crab?
Is that what they call it?
I mean, yeah, it's imitation crab meat.
It's gross.
Okay, and I don't want to eat, I don't want to eat avocados either.
That's not exactly my number one second.
It's a good fat that flattened your belly.
It's monosaturated flat.
So you're saying I have a fat belly.
I would never say that.
Why did you call me fat on National TV?
And but you still owe me an apology for saying I was lying to you last week.
And I still keep you here.
It's unbelievable.
Sarah Carter is actually highlighting this point too, is that you know the IG report is expected to reveal that James Comey's handling of the Bureau's investigation and the Clinton's use of a private email server.
Uh We know Andrew McCabe is also expected to come under fire in this report.
Now it's over 400 pages.
It was completed weeks ago.
It addresses Clinton's use of a private server for government business, which is illegal.
And James Comey's original draft included the fact that six foreign intelligence services hacked into that mom and pop shop bathroom closet.
That means they've got all the Clinton emails, even the one she acid washed and deleted.
And we're hearing that it's long and it's thorough, and it's going to criticize the handling of the investigation of Mr. Comey and others, but this has gone on long enough.
You know, 18 months is enough.
Now we're going to get 18 months at a document dump on a summer Friday by the IG because people in the Department of Justice have had this for two weeks, and they're on their hands and knees begging and pleading Michael Horowitz to change the report that he and 500 other people put together over an 18-month period.
And probably my guess is because I don't have any faith in the deep state, is probably happening to one degree or another.
I mean, are we ever going to clean up this absolute sewer, which is your federal government?
And have the new date.
What?
July 5th.
For what?
For the release.
They'll do it on July 5th.
Okay, the day after the 4th of July, 4th of July is on a Wednesday.
Just like somebody else.
You didn't.
Yeah, just like James Comey on the anniversary two-year-old on the two-year anniversary.
It has been 18 months, Ron DeSantis is saying.
This has gone on long enough.
We've been patient long enough.
Sarah cites another congressional official who's been fighting to obtain documents from the DOJ and FBI, saying no surprise they are putting all the pressure on Horowitz.
They continue to slow roll documents, fail to adhere to congressional oversight, and concern is growing that they will wait until summer and then turn over the documents that are heavily redacted.
Now, what's gonna come behind the IG report is there are at least 30 now FBI agents that watched the Comey corruption, McCabe corruption unfold.
And I've always said, you know, this isn't about rank and file FBI.
They are gonna be the heroes of this story in the end if they ever get to tell it.
The 30 people are lined up to talk about the practices and procedures that were used by Comey and how faulty they were, and how literally the fix was in.
The investigation was rigged.
And they'll want to tell the truth, but they can't tell the truth unless they are subpoenaed.
And if you're not, if you don't understand, if we now are rigging investigations, this is why I kept saying, you know, Jeff Session, well, we'll have another inspector general investigation into the FISA abuses.
Oh, great.
18 months later, no grand jury.
People's memories are short, and you know, we're gonna be told by the fake news media that's old news.
That's what they're gonna do.
But I'm telling you that if Hillary Clinton gets away with her crimes, and top officials, not rank and file FBI guys and DOJ guys, top officials, if they're able to rig an investigation that allows her to violate, commit felonies with the Espionage Act, have foreign intel services steal all of her classified top secret special access programming information.
Oh, and by the way, she lied to everybody.
Michael Flynn's charged with flying, another double standard.
And if she's allowed to do it, we don't have a system of justice.
We don't have equal justice.
We don't have equal application under the law in this country anymore.
We don't have a constitution which is the foundation of all of our laws in this country.
It's done.
And yet that's what they want to do.
I know they're gonna they'll they'll they'll I guess critique Comey's handling, but are they gonna say he committed a crime that he aided and abetted in a cover-up and a rigging of an investigation?
Let's see how it goes.
But I'm telling you right now, watch.
Because what's happening behind the scenes, I am telling you, stinks to high heaven.
And all these same people like Rod Rosenstein begging Paul Ryan, please, please, please.
Paul Ryan, don't release what became the FISA abuse information and the bulk of the Nunes memo and the Grassley Graham memo.
This is not shocking news, but it's good news, maybe for all the wrong reasons, but it doesn't matter.
If the Republicans, in fact, fund the entire border wall, and they go back to repealing and replacing Obamacare, it'll be a slam dunk for 2018, in my opinion.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced today he's canceling the Senate's planned four-week recess in August due to historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the President's nominees.
The goal of passing appropriations bills at the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled.
Maybe they can fund the border wall while they're there.
I think like a day, two, maybe.
I can tell you uh the president has been receiving daily briefings on North Korea from his national security team.
And I can also tell you uh the schedule for uh tentatively for that first meeting uh will be uh on June twelfth at 9 a.m.
Singapore time and take place at June 11th, 9 p.m.
East Coast time.
You people are gonna have to travel because you'll be in Singapore on June 12th.
Uh and I think it'll be a process.
It's not I don't I never said it goes in one meeting.
I think it's gonna be a process, but the relationships are building, and that's a very positive.
We're talking about years of hostility, years of problems, years of really hatred between so many different nations.
But I think uh you're gonna have a very positive results in the end.
Not from one meeting.
We're not gonna sign a we're not gonna go in and sign something on June 12th, and we never were.
We're gonna start a process.
And I told them today take your time.
You can go fast, we can go slowly.
But uh, I think they'd like to see something happen.
And if we can work that out, that'll be good.
All right, that was the president and uh Sarah Sanders.
All right, it's all on June the 12th in Singapore.
That is the North Korean summit.
Where things stand now, you just heard the president.
There's not going to be a deal signed, likely on that day.
The the president will go at the speed of whatever Kim Jong-un, little rocket man wants to go at.
So far, we've had many, many concessions.
And you look at the nuclear missile test site that has now been dismantled.
You look at Kim Jong-un, he stopped firing missiles over Japan, he stopped threatening Guam.
He's not threatening the entire region at the moment.
He's willing to talk about denuclearization.
We got three American hostages back, and I'd say all in all, not having paid a dime, it's a pretty good deal.
And the purge that kind of went unnoticed of three, well, of uh three old school hard liners just out.
That usually means they disappear, never to be seen or heard from again.
Uh so we're watching very closely, and I think the president managing everybody's expectations because it's realistic to say, all right, what we're getting to know each other, we'll meet with you, and uh, yeah, this is gonna be about denuclearization, or we're not gonna have a deal.
And in the interim, that means that the sanctions continue, and obviously, if need be, the president will continue to show military force in the region.
Danielle Hoffman is with us.
He is a Fox News contributor, former CIA operative, and uh Shaq Hill joins us, former U.S. Air Force combat plot pilot, Republican candidate for Virginia's 10th Congressional District.
That primary, by the way, is on the day of the summit on June 12th.
Fox News contributor, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, and uh thank you all for being with us.
Shaq Hill, I want to ask you a question.
If uh you got elected, would you join the Freedom Caucus?
Good afternoon, Sean.
I I absolutely would join the Freedom Caucus without question.
That is the group that is really working to help push America's first agenda, and it would be my pleasure to be reinforcements for them.
Uh interesting.
All right, let's start with Daniel Hoffman.
Daniel, you uh both you and Dr. Gorka have been really adamant about number one, pointing out the success.
America's lost nothing to this point.
We have lost absolutely nothing.
And the great news is we only have a safer world to gain here.
And the fact that all of these concessions have been made in the lead up to this, it should give people hope, but you don't want to get the cart in front of the horse, do you?
Right.
That's absolutely true.
And I think the president has done an excellent job of managing uh the expectations for our citizenry.
And and you know, he's had to deal with a lot of failed policy in the past.
Remember the 2000 summit between North Korea and South Korea.
The South Koreans had to buy business licenses at the two to the tune of five hundred million dollars.
They paid North Korea for the privilege of having that summit.
North Korea had it in them this sort of muscle memory to expect a lot just for showing up.
And again, they practiced this diplomatic brinkmanship, and the president called their bluff, rightly so, and and was ready to walk away from the summit.
I think that really set the tone for going forward and uh putting us a position where we can achieve whatever is possible to achieve on the 12th of June and going forward.
But I do believe this is going to be a long process.
And and just to comment real quickly, Sean, on the on the three guys who are removed.
This is when the CIA steps up and produces leadership profiles on the three individuals who replaced the old three hardliners.
I think there's no question it reflects Kim Jong-un's effort to consolidate his power.
You know, authoritarian regimes are inherently unstable, they silence people's fears.
I think it reflects, frankly, Kim Jong-un's concern about potential instability in his own hermit kingdom.
Oh, I think that's really well said, and by the way, that would not be unprecedented.
I mean, any leader that tries to take a step towards reform uh is certainly at risk.
I mean, one good example, I think Sebastian Gorka, Dr. Gorka, would be, you know, General El Sisi in uh Egypt.
I mean, I think he put himself in great peril uh when he took over from Morsi, uh, and literally it's played such a pivotal role in in a new emerging alliance between Israel, the Egyptians, Jordanians, the Saudis, the Emirates, and others.
You're absolutely right.
So when I met General Sisi before he became president when he was the uh commander in chief of uh Egyptian forces, and he saved Egypt from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Um he said when I asked him why did you do what you do, he said, uh I may be a Muslim, but I'm an Egyptian first, and these people were trying to take our country away from us.
And since that day he's had a target on our back, and he's exactly the kind of leader that we need to support, and that's why that was one of the first meetings the president took.
So, you know, everything has changed geopolitically in just the space of five hundred days, the world has been changed because American leadership is back, whether it's drain draining the swamp in DC with candidates like Shack Hill, whether it's uh revitalizing NATO, whether it's telling try telling China you're not going to intimidate our friends, or potentially uh ending the Korean war.
This could you imagine this?
This would be a kind of record you'd be proud of after eight years in office, and it's only been a year and a half.
I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but I mean I think all it's certainly lining up to be an opportunity that nobody saw existed before.
And I would argue Shaq Hill that also that an emerging opportunity is in the Middle East.
I mean, there is now a moment in time, as I said, where the Egyptians, the Jordanians and the Israelis and the United States and the Saudis and the Emirates now are all aligned and sharing intelligence and standing up against the potential of Iranian hegemony in the region and a nuclear armed Iran.
Well, you're exactly correct, Sean.
I mean, when the president pulled us out of the Iranian agreement, he made America instantly safer.
And he in doing so, he also made our soldiers and sailors across the world safer, and each one of us that wants to live the American dream safer.
I mean, the bottom line is the people are frustrated with politics and the establishment and career politicians, and we don't want to go back to any type of appeasement.
And the only thing that the world often wants to see is do we have strength and do we have fortitude to move forward with what we believe is correct?
And the president is showing that leadership, he's actually doing things differently than what has been done in the past.
And I'm thrilled.
My two youngest sons are in the United States Army.
One of my children just rotated back From South Korea.
He's now in the United States.
But another one of my sons is going to be going to Germany.
So we need to have the strong leadership, and not only in the Middle East, but also in the Far East and other places.
And I champion what President Trump is doing.
Yeah, and what do you feel about North Korea?
Do you think this is a moment in time?
I mean, I'll be honest, I mean, as a you know, deep in my solar plexus, I'm thinking, all right, you know, Kim Jong-un is a little unpredictable.
Who knows?
Maybe he shows up that day and says, No meeting.
You know, and I frankly think Donald Trump will say, Okay, see you later.
He's gonna fire up Air Force One and fly home.
He doesn't care.
Well, he certainly would do that, but don't forget this, Sean, and and I know you don't, but what President Trump wants is he wants people to enjoy their individual liberties.
He wants the people to enjoy the freedoms that we enjoy here, whether it's in Korea, whether it's in the Middle East, and the people right now of North Korea, they're starving, they're hungry to just live and be free.
And I think when you have the leadership that President Trump is bringing to the table, and surrounded by those like Secretary Pompeo and others, I think we've got an A team now leading us, and it's gonna be very exciting what happens in the future.
If you uh Daniel Hoffman, I know that um you have traveled the globe a lot.
What can you tell us about Singapore and the reception the president's likely to get there?
You know, I gotta be honest with you.
I spent my time uh at the CIA in places uh like Pakistan and Baghdad and Yemen and Libya and Moscow, and I actually have never made it to Singapore.
Uh but what I can tell you is it's a it's a you know, it's a first world country with outstanding services.
I think it's a it was the right choice, you know.
Um time maybe to meet in a demilitarized zone is down the road in the future.
Um, but this was this was the right kind of neutral territory for us to hold this meeting.
And and what I would what I would want to highlight as well, you know, North Korea is like the most isolated country on the planet, and their economy is an absolute free fall.
Their life expectancy is decreasing, it's under seventy years.
Um I think Kim Jong-un recognizes that he's a young guy, he he's he's you know in his early 30s.
His country is simply not going to survive his lifetime unless he takes some measures.
And if we hold it, I know you believe that, and I've thought often that's the case too.
But I look at countries like Iran and North Korea, Daniel, and I'm thinking you don't win revolutions with slingshots.
You just don't.
I mean, unless there is the an ability to arm opposition, freedom fighters, you just can't win because they'll mow you down and they will slaughter as many innocent people as they have to.
Yeah, and I I think one of the concerns from Kim Jong-un, frankly, was that there might be the Boris Yeltsin to his, you know, Mikhail Gorbachev, if I use a Soviet reference.
In other words, somebody from his inner circle who could say, you know, we're not real happy the with the way things are going.
We maybe we want to take it for a harder line, or maybe somebody wants to go in a softer line.
I mean, I think that's why he consolidated power with three guys who are absolutely beholden to him.
Uh, but I agree with you.
I think this is an extraordinarily difficult challenge for us.
At the end of the day, the eye, you know, the eye on the prize for us is eliminating nuclear weapons in the Korean peninsula.
And if there was ever a chance for the art of the deal, it's right here before our eyes.
And it it's the you know, penultimate art of the deal, I think, and and nobody better than than this administration to take their shot at it.
Yeah.
Dr. Corker, what would you add to that?
Uh I just think that uh we we have to be cautious.
I think the president always has the right signal.
He he wrote it in the the book, The Art of the Deal.
Never be so vested in a deal that you're not prepared to walk away at any time.
You signaled that before, he did it with his letter.
That's why Pyongyang, you know, beat feet back to the West Wing to deliver their response and say, Pretty pleased, can we have our summit again?
So, you know, uh this is a dictatorial regime.
Let's not forget it.
Uh Daniel's absolutely right.
But the irony of these regimes is that they are incredibly fragile at the same time that they are powerful.
Look at what happened to Shaushescu in 1989.
Uh good point.
He had everything.
He had the tanks, he had the helicopters, he came out for his, you know, Christmas Day address, and the people just started booing at him.
And then he ran for his life.
And then there was a court martial, and he was executed by the Romanian army.
So anything is possible, let's not get carried away.
But at the end of the day, this is the hermit kingdom.
They lie for a way of life.
Um, But they know that this is a very, very different kind of president, and they are desperate to keep uh their own positions.
So we we'll see what happens.
We got to take a break.
We'll come back and we'll continue with our friends Daniel Hoffman, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, and uh Shaq Hill, by the way, U.S. uh Air Force Combat Pilot and Republican candidate if you're in Virginia's 10th Congressional District.
And as we continue with Daniel Hoffman, Fox News contributor, former CIA uh operations officer, Shaq Hill, uh former U.S. Air Force Combat Pilot and Republican candidate for Virginia's 10th Congressional District, uh primary June twelfth, by the way, when we are in sing when the Singapore summit is actually happening, and Dr. Sebastian Gorka is with us.
Uh all right, let me uh let me ask you, Shaq Hill.
I mean, I look at these Republicans and I look at your background, and I'm always impressed with the military.
I mean, I love military guys.
I don't like the position that I'm in, but I have to because there's been such corruption and abuse of power, you know, within the intelligence community, the DOJ, the FBI, but it's only the upper echelon, it's not rank and file people, thank God.
And I and one of the reasons we'll get to the truth is because of rank and file.
But I look at, you know, like the Republican Party.
They're so many people run for office, make these great promises, and then when the moment comes and they can make change, they don't do it.
Why?
You know, I think what ends up happening is people start thinking more about individual power and the opportunity to be somebody, but you have to look at somebody's life to see who they have been their entire life.
And when I raised my hand and I promised to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, I did that for you and my children, and for Dr. Gorka and others.
I mean, I didn't do it for myself.
And what you have to see, you have to see that somebody has a service-oriented heart.
My wife is a very healthy cancer survivor, Sean.
But 25 years ago, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer while she was pregnant with our second child.
And the doctor said you have to terminate the pregnancy.
Well, we're pro life, and all of a sudden this has landed in our lap.
Well, how do you handle that?
And the answer is you stick to your principles, you do not move from what you believe.
And Robin looked over at me and she said, Shaq, will you raise the children?
And I said, Yes.
Well, 25 years later, our son is in the United States Army.
He represents the fourth generation of our family to our nation's uniform.
Robin and I became foster parents.
Wow, good for you.
We fostered 46 children, and we adopted four of them.
So when somebody says to me, What are you going to do when Paul Ryan or or when you know McCarthy or others say, you know, Shaq, we're going to put this pressure on you.
Hey, the answer is I've had pressure and I've been tested, and I passed the test, and I am there not to make friends with other congressmen.
I'm there to represent the people of the 10th Congressional District, and that's what I'm going to do.
All right, we wish you the best.
That's happening the day of the summer, June 12th.
Uh, Shaq Hill, thank you.
Danielle Hoffman and Dr. Gorka, and I'll be seeing a lot of both of you uh in the coming days and weeks.
Uh, you guys have been all over this and been amazing.
Thank you for being with us.
When we come back, former Speaker of the House, New Kingrich, he's gonna weigh in on the election.
We got our pollsters.
We're gonna begin our look at 2018 and what this election midterm is really now coming down to, and much more as we continue the Sean Hannity show.
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We uh welcome back to the program today, Newt Gingrich.
Uh, he is gonna be in bookends tonight in New Jersey.
He's giving a speech and doing a book signing.
And it's one of the great, great bookstores that when I was writing books, which I'll never do again, uh, that uh I had the opportunity to go and meet so many wonderful people there.
It's such a great place.
And uh anyway, the book is called Trump's America, and uh the great success, the untold story of the president's uh, you know, 500 days in office now, 501 as of today.
Uh well, congratulations.
I know the book's doing really well on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble, and uh it's up on our website, Hannity.com, and now it is officially in bookstores everywhere.
Uh you're on a big uh tour, I guess now, and uh I wanted to ask you about comments you made about the 2018 election, and we were just talking to two pollsters about it.
And I honestly think that this election's gonna be about Democrats want to impeach Donald Trump.
They don't want to build the wall.
They want to keep Obamacare and they want to take back the tax cuts that President Trump gave every American.
I don't think that's exactly a platform that is lending itself to maximize success.
No, look, I I think first of all, thank you for all the help you've been uh with my new book, Trump's America, and and our effort to explain how much he is accomplishing and how much most Americans are accomplishing.
But the Democrats have gone crazy.
I I I mentioned to you uh yesterday, this Minnesota State Convention where the left wing of the Democratic Party just took over the whole party, uh ran over all of the traditional establishment people, uh have nominated folks so far to the left that they have no possibility of winning, virtually guarantee that uh Governor Tim Plenty's gonna win the governorship again.
We may well in the process pick up three House seats.
I mean uh Minnesota's a good example of what's going on.
John Cox out in uh California today, I think is gonna get into the runoff against the lieutenant governor, and John Cox is going to make a huge difference as the Republican nominee because the California Democrats have raised the gasoline tax.
It's almost five dollars a gallon in parts of California now, and they have uh and and uh Gavin Newsom, the Democrat is campaigning on a promise to raise your income tax, raise property taxes, uh, and and dramatically increase the cost of government in a state which already has the highest cost of living in the country.
So I think uh John Cox, by the way, if he does make his, I think he will, that probably increases Republican turnout this fall in California by maybe as much as twenty-three percent that virtually guarantees the Democrats can't pick up seats in California, and we may actually pick pick up uh two or three house seats out there.
So everywhere I look, uh, I think what you're gonna get is a red wave, not a blue wave, and I think things are continuing to build.
There's an article today, one last thing.
But for the first time I can remember, there are more job vacancies than there are people looking for work.
Uh that is astonishing.
Can I just say, I mean, th this five hundred days has been maybe the the most fascinating five hundred days of any presidency, and and of course the cloud that the Democrats and the media, they're now in a position, this to me is the most damning position for them to be in, and that is that with the economy now turned around, record low unemployment in 14 states, record low unemployment for women, uh Hispanic Americans, African Americans.
Uh you see, regulation is literally has now been totally eliminated, and we're now incentivizing businesses to come back, and people have more money back in their pocket.
Now, the only way that I see the Democrats can win is if they somehow convince the American people that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians and he did not, or that somehow uh he's bad for the country, and now the polls out today show seventy percent of Americans think the economy's good because of him.
Yeah, look, I I think that their problem gets bigger and bigger, and uh I would say that the as somebody who's been active in the Republican Party uh for a very, very long time, I worry as much about the Republicans as about the Democrats, because Republicans are historically just bad politicians.
Uh and and they they don't get it.
If Republicans have the guts to go out and appeal to every American of every background, I mean, when when you're in a situation where you have the lowest black unemployment in American history, every Republican candidate should be in the black community saying, look, uh, isn't this better to have people with jobs rather than on food stamps?
Isn't it better to have a chance to rise because you get that first job, then you get promoted, then you get another job, then one day you open up your own small business.
Um, you know, that's what America is all about.
And we have a chance.
Trump is giving us a chance to have a head-on argument between socialism, you know, the the people on the left uh who can't explain Venezuela, can't explain the Soviet Union, can't explain Cuba, but have these fantasy ideas that if only we had big enough government, and this is what uh Gavin Newsom's gonna be a great experiment on.
He's he's running on a government takeover of health care in California, which would bankrupt the state.
Uh but we ought to be doing this across the whole country.
So you would say to Donald Trump, one of the States you really ought to be campaigning in is California this midterm election season.
Absolutely.
I I I believe, and I know people will say I'm crazy, but you and I have been down this road together over the years as good friends.
I believe that the Democrats reached tilt that they in in California.
They passed a state sanctuary law which keeps which which in effect would allow MS 13 to continue to rape and kill and murder and torture people in California.
They passed a gasoline tax increase that was massive when they already have the most expensive gasoline in the country.
They uh have a candidate for governor who spent the last eight years in Sacramento, and he wants to uh raise their says openly he's campaigning on a promise of raising their taxes.
Uh and I think John Cox with enough resources, enough help, has a chance uh to to do to California what Trump has done to the country and to do it exactly the same way to go out to all of California to get every single person who's fed up with it.
Sixty-five percent of Californians in a poll last week said California was now too expensive.
Uh and if you know Cox can become the guy who wants to lower the cost of living in California while Newsom's the guy who wants to raise your taxes, I think you could see a Republican governorship uh and with it uh we virtually guarantee enough House members get elected that Kevin McCarthy probably becomes a.
You know, for those that might doubt that this could happen in California, I would just only point out states like New Jersey and Christy Todd Whitman, and then later Chris Christie and New York Governor Pataki, and and there are examples after example where really deeply blue states have had it.
They just get fed up.
Uh and I think the very issues you're describing here could create a condition in California where, you know, look, Arnold Schwarzenegger won and and Pete Wilson had won.
I mean, it's going back a ways, but um and I think that and look at what's happening around the country.
The most popular governor in America today is Charlie Baker, who's a Republican in Massachusetts.
Uh Governor Hogan's almost certainly going to get re-elected in Maryland.
You you if if if people believe you're trying to improve their lives, and people believe you're honest.
I mean, just the act of not being corrupt is such a big advantage over Democrats in some states uh that that you really have some breakthrough opportunities.
And by the way, you mentioned New Jersey.
One of the reasons I think there's going to be a red wave, not a blue wave, uh, is I think we're going to beat Menendez in New Jersey after all of his ethics problems.
Uh you you can't be losing New Jersey and have any hope of Schumer picking up a majority in the Senate.
So we're going to gain seats of the Senate.
I keep saying to people, you're going to have a red wave in the Senate.
You're probably going to have a red wave for governor, and I think we have a fair chance that we're going to keep the House and maybe even at the margins do better than people expect.
Uh so show me where the blue wave is going to come.
Well, I mean, that's such a good point.
Now, with that said, the House to me is very, very key and crucial, and I think the message is simple.
I think you take the Trump success story and you take the economic success story.
I would add two things between now and November, though.
I would fund the border wall, and the second thing that I would do is I'd take another crack at repeal and replacing.
And I think Republicans, you know, they've been hesitant to do to follow up on that one big promise, although we did get rid of the individual mandate as part of the tax package, but I think, you know, basically this has been the force of Trump, not the force of Republicans, especially in the Senate.
Oh, I think I think that's right, but I I guess I'm a little more cheerful than you are about all this.
I do think he has to keep pushing on the wall, and he will, and he's gonna keep, you know, they began opening the first news section in San Diego this last week, you know, and then I and I know as you do, how really determined he can be, and he's gradually going to win that fight.
I think we are uh Secretary Azar is doing a great job at Health and Human Services, and we're gradually going to keep taking apart Obamacare and replacing it with a much more uh market oriented and choice-oriented system that'll be better for people, and I think that these are important steps in the right direction.
Uh, but I also think this the central question is really simple.
Would you like to have more jobs, or would you like to have an impeachment?
Would you like to have a Congress that works to have an even better economy, or would you like to have a Congress that does nothing all the time except fight Trump?
Do you really agree with with Nancy Pelosi that we need to raise taxes?
Uh I mean, I think you know, we have a chance here to win a decisive election in ways that would have been unthinkable six months ago.
Well, it was a seventeen point deficit.
In one poll even went to uh a six point plus advantage in the in terms of the generic ballot polling.
Uh I I know that you know this better than anybody.
There's very few people.
You Maybe Mike Barone understands the whole history of every county in every single part of uh the United States from Cuyahoga County to Hamilton County and everything in between, and certainly knows all the counties in Florida, North Carolina, and all these swing states.
But I I do remember distinctly sitting in a meeting with you and and Joe Gaylord years ago before you became speaker.
And you guys went through district by district by district.
So the fact that you think that California should take on such uh incredible importance needs to be paid attention to.
No, I I think so, and I and I think they will pay attention to it because you know it's it's look, I wouldn't be saying this uh if it was just a typical environment.
But but uh when I saw them pass the gas tax increase and I saw the survey that said two out of every three Californians now think the state's too expensive.
Uh I could feel much as I did back in 1978 with Prop 13, uh you the moments when you can feel this stuff coming together, and I just think that John Cox has a great chance in California to run a much more successful race.
Mark my word, tomorrow morning the elite media will all be writing them off, saying you doesn't have a chance.
And just remember, these are the same people who wrote off uh Donald Trump.
Well, I know, and that's what makes this such an amazing election.
Uh New Kingrich is with us, and he's on his official book tour.
It's in stores as of today.
He'll be at uh bookends in Bridgewood, New Jersey, if you're in the New York, New Jersey area, giving a speech in our book signing tonight, and uh one of the great bookstores in the entire country and independently owned the great people, Trump's America, and uh how we m are making America great again and how it's successful, and uh by the way, that's an untold story.
The media is avoiding at all costs.
All right, as we continue, former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is with us.
Why won't the media talk about the 500 days of success?
Well, because I mean let's let's be fair.
Most of the elite media is so traumatized by Hillary's defeat and Donald J. Trump's presidency that and and he further you know every morning he gets up and he tweets, and as they wake up that morning, they're reminded, oh my God, he's still president.
Uh so you're asking people who are tormented by the failure of the perfect liberal to become president.
Uh people who were were confident these these are these are reporters and commentators who are gonna break out the champagne at eight o'clock on election night, and now here they are faced day after day with the fact that that Donald J. Trump is president, and it just drives him crazy.
Uh and then they get together at their cocktail parties and they reinforce each other's craziness.
Well, I mean, yeah, and I think so.
And I just think, but on top of all of that, then you got this cloud that, you know, hovers over the president, he's annoyed by it, I'm annoyed by it, you're annoyed by it.
There's been no evidence of collusion, but there is great evidence of corruption at the highest levels of the DOJ and the FBI.
And, you know, for example, um, we're expecting an IG report, and it's not coming, but we know the DOJ's had a copy now for two weeks, and that's problematic.
Well, that's right.
And and you and I have talked about this before.
Well, you have five different parallel scandals underway, uh, and I believe that that the sickness of the system, when it when it's fully laid out, people shocked how truly corrupt and how truly fundamentally dishonest the system was, uh, and how many of these players are really bad people.
And uh it's really, really unfortunate.
And and uh I I shocked, I I did the view today, which was quite an experience, and I shocked him because one said to me, Well, are you saying that the Justice Department is corrupt?
And I said, Yes, I'm saying the Justice Department is corrupt.
And they you could just see that it was kind of like, oh my God, how can we have this conversation?
Uh but it's true, and I think if people uh would would look at Sidney Powell's book on license to lie about two of the major cases and realize that the well the the key person who did wrong in the Enron case is on the staff of Muller, a person who was repudiated nine to zero by the Supreme Court for falsifying evidence.
Uh I think people need to look at this stuff.
I I did, by the way, I watched last night uh Molly Bloom, Which is a very interesting movie about about a woman who was running a a uh poker game and and her relationship with the FBI and the way the FBI set her up.
And it's worth watching because it it it tells you a lot about the pressures and the and the maneuvering and the way in which they try to to blackmail people and gives you a sense of what Muller's doing to some people to try to force them into uh testify.
We're gonna have to enter there.
Book a book ends tonight, uh Newt Ingrid speech, and of course his brand new book that is out uh on top of his last best out.
It's called Trump's America and the the definitive guide on how we are making America great again and the media doesn't want to tell the story.
Uh Mr. Speaker, good to see you.
Thank you for being with us.
I'm gonna see you tonight on TV.
That's correct.
We'll see you on Hannity tonight at nine after your book sign.
I can't wait to see you.
Uh we gotta take a quick break.
We'll come back.
Our polls, John McLaughlin and Doug Schoen join us next.
Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
Donald Trump just last week he confirmed the National Review that he is again considering a run in twenty sixteen.
Do it.
I will possibly wrote you a counterplaying check now on behalf of this country, which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.
Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
Is that people think that Donald Trump is a clown?
Yeah, Donald Donald Trump is a clown.
I mean, does anybody seriously think that Donald Trump is serious about running for president?
Donald Trump.
You know, he's a clown.
President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States.
Exclamation point at real Donald Trump.
At real Donald Trump.
At least I will go down as a president.
So basically this is the beginning of the end for Trump.
Beginning of the end?
This is probably starting of the beginning of the end for for Donald Trump.
Donald, uh, you're not gonna be able to insult your way to the presidency.
The strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.
So right now we have Hillary's about a seventy-five or an eighty percent favorite.
We have a different person look at the whole has Hillary Clinton up by double digits nationally, twelve points, fifty to thirty-eight four-way race.
Clinton leading in Florida, Clinton leading in North Carolina, Clinton leading in Ohio, Clinton leading in Nevada.
I could go on and on and on.
Uh I continue to believe Mr. Trump Trump will not be present.
And so, right now, Mr. Trump, to answer your call for political honesty, I just want to say you're not gonna be president, all right?
It's been fun.
It's been great.
I love you.
What?
Come on, come on, buddy.
We have a major projection right now.
Donald Trump will take Ohio and CN projects.
Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida.
Huge win for Donald Trump.
Donald Trump while we project will be in Kentucky in Indiana with its eleven electoral votes, West Virginia, well, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota, uh with its three electoral votes, and South Dakota,
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, of North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas, with its six electoral votes, Nebraska with its five electoral votes, and Wyoming with its three electoral votes.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Complicated business.
A lot of people have laughed at me over the years.
Now they're not laughing so much, I'll tell you.
In fact, when we needed somebody over at the RNC, I said, get that woman that ran Michigan.
We need to elect more Republicans so we can protect our cities, defend our borders, grow our economy, and continue to make America great again.
And that's what we're doing.
We're doing.
We're doing some job.
We're all doing it together.
But you see what's happening with regulations with massive tax cuts with judges.
We're pointing, we're appointing judges like I guess never before has anything happened like what we're Doing on great conservative Republican judges.
We're setting records, and by the time we finish, I think we will have the all-time record.
You have no idea how important that is.
You know, I could play that montage over and over and over again of what was election night.
And I think Newt has it down pretty well that, you know, at 10 o'clock, November the 8th, 2016, there was a a collective psychotic meltdown, an episode that lingers even until this day.
And anyway, it's just such it's a mass psychosis.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean Tollfree telephone number.
You know how to be a uh you want to be a part of the program.
We have uh two pollsters with us and a lot to cover here because a lot of primaries going on.
We'll go over those and what we expect.
But really, 2018 is becoming a referendum election.
And that is the Democrats, they want to impeach Trump, but they're not willing to say it.
Number two, they want to raise your taxes and take back the biggest tax cut in history.
Number three, they want to keep Obamacare.
Number four, they don't want to build a border wall uh because they believe in free and open borders.
Anyway, Doug Schoen and John McLaughlin are with us.
Uh we also have some polling that now shows, yeah, the American people are just fed up, completely fed up with this witch hunt investigation by Robert Mueller, and a record 70% of Americans now think, yeah, the economy's really good.
And it's Donald Trump that's fixed the economy.
Uh, thank you both for being with us.
You know, when you look at it, Doug Schoen, I mean, right now Democrats are in this position.
Here, everything is turned around.
Fourteen states have record low unemployment numbers, uh, record low unemployment numbers for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and women in the workplace.
Uh, you see what has happened and the president's keeping his promises.
So Democrats have to hope what?
That we go back to the Obama era and millions more on food stamps, millions more in poverty, millions more out of the labor force, and then they'll be happy?
No, Democrats have to hope that Donald Trump and the Republicans do not deliver the message that you just delivered, that they focus on social issues rather than on the uh economic progress that all Americans have benefited from.
American people want progress.
They don't want partisanship.
And if Donald Trump and the Republicans figure that out and speak inclusively and optimistically about a better country and a better future, they can and will maximize their position.
You know, I I just gotta say, I mean, I just never I think nobody thought through all of this.
I I think the American people are also fed up because they now see Robert Mueller, the media, they're all aligned, negative Trump, negative Trump, negative Trump all day long.
And on top of it, the American people have discovered some massive abuse of power, corruption, as it relates to the election, as it relates to Hillary Clinton, literally getting exonerated before being investigated, having committed many crimes and having obstructed justice.
They see the Pfizer abuse, and I think most Americans instinctively know lying to judges to get warrants to spy on opposition party candidates and using op research that Hillary pays for is not a good thing for the country, and putting spies in one campaign and not the other is good.
That's not good either, John McLaughlin.
That's true.
And and um the majority of Americans, we have polls that show the majority of Americans are tired of the Mueller investigation.
They want to move on.
They want the let the they want to let the president do his job and succeed.
And as you were saying, we've had uh I the we have the president has brought the country into the right direction.
It's broken 40 percent, it's 41%, the highest we've had in four years.
The president this month on our in our national poll, McLaughlin Online.com, you have the president going up nine points in his job approval since last November, where he's at 4949.
He's grinding up there, and he's bringing the Republicans with him in terms of the generic ballot for Congress, so that they're in a virtual dead heat with the Democrats.
Now, the key thing is what you just mentioned up front is that the de what this is not a referendum election, as much as a contrast election.
As much as a president with an agenda that's getting things done, making America great again, et cetera.
It's a wonderful slogan, but it's the truth.
The economy, the majority of people in that poll said the economy is getting better rather than worse.
Uh 53 to 36.
So they see good things ahead, and they see A stronger America.
And the Democrats, fortunately for us, they haven't taken Doug's advice and they don't have an agenda.
All they're doing is trying to obstruct and slow down and deter the president.
And that's why the Mueller investigation hasn't gone anywhere.
There's no facts to it.
It was just Democratic destruction.
And they're the elites of this country are trying to remove the president that the heartland of this country elected.
You know, I mean, I think that's it at the end of the day.
But this do you agree with with me that this is now a referendum?
That really it's a the Democrats got what they wanted, and that's a 2016 do-over in the sense.
And while they're not going to say it, they want to impeach the president.
They want to impeach him, they'll make up a reason to impeach the president.
Now, does that motivate the president's base enough to get out there and say, no, we're not going to let you undo the election of 2016 by undermining, as you have been, our duly elected president who is succeeding on every level.
That's true.
I I think it is becoming a referendum.
Uh the numbers still are about 50-50, as uh John's uh recent data suggests.
The problem with my party is it lacks a message, it lacks a strategy, and to the extent it has one, it is redistribute, guaranteed jobs, guarantee health care.
There's no opportunity, there's no inclusiveness, and there's no aspirational uh set of policies of the type that we uh supported and implemented in the 90s with Bill Clinton.
Well, I you know, and that is the irony, although Bill Clinton, you got to admit, look like an just a total meltdown that he had yesterday.
I I can't understand why Sean, he just didn't say, I owe her an apology, I'm gonna do it.
Why is that so hard for people to say?
I don't understand it.
I mean, I've made mistakes, and I just say, oh gosh.
You know, people say, Hannity, back in 1987, you said this.
And I say, Oh, I know, I'm such an idiot.
I'm so embarrassed.
It's horrible.
Why did I ever say that?
Sean, I can't speak for him, but the best advice I could give him would be apologize, own up to the fact that you made a mistake with Lewinsky, a bad mistake, and probably almost certainly a mistake with others.
But you know what?
He can't do it, and I think it's best for him to get off the stage, both for himself and for the Democratic Party.
I'm sad to say it, because on a philosophical and policy basis, I agree with him, but I don't think that he serves the broader good of the party or of the nation by continuing to engage in the kind of thing.
There's another thing, too.
You know, everybody now, in light of me too, look, all of these issues were brought front and center by people like me in the 2016 election.
Uh, but the only reason that they are throwing the Clintons overboard now is because the they're done, they're finished.
But up until November 9th, 2016, John McLaughlin, they would they were protecting Hillary and Bill and his shenanigans and his, you know, he's the grandfather of the Me Too movement in so many ways.
Absolutely.
Remember, you started that montage on your program where I love it because back to when Doug and I were saying, I thought I thought Donald Trump was going to win.
And and that and the the fact of the matter is Donald Trump did win, brought 63 million voters out to the polls in a record turnout.
And now what's going on is they're motivating those Trump voters to come back out with all the the attacks on our president.
They're getting the heartland of the country upset because this whole thing with the Me Too movement, what are they doing?
Donald Trump has proposed, you know, paid parental leave.
His his daughter of Anka was the one pushing it.
And guess what?
The Democrats in Congress won't take it up.
They have no agenda.
Uh they have no agenda at all.
And this the referendum is really a choice between, you know, a party that's moving the country forward and a president that's moving the country forward versus just a blank fleet where we know their only goal is to impeach the president.
And and it's and it's it's making most Americans very upset and disappointed.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show.
All right, looking to 2018, and you know, Newt Gingrich said uh yesterday that in fact he thinks that it's now looking more like a possibility of a red wave than the so-called blue wave.
I'm the believer you just don't count the your votes uh before the election takes place.
But there was a 17-point generic ballot lead by Democrats, it is now a six-point and one poll, Republican advantage.
Uh certainly a uh a C change in terms of polls, but you know, we have to see what happens in November.
Do you think uh who do you think is more energized, Doug Shone going into the election?
Well, um about a month or so ago, I would have said the Democrats, but given the uptick in the president's numbers that John spoke of, the absence of a democratic message and what we may see in California tonight, which is in a number of districts, Democrats not maximizing their potential in the so-called jungle primary.
I would say at this point it's it's hard to say who's more energized, but certainly the momentum to the extent there is any is with the Republicans.
What do you think, John McLaughlin?
You've been through a lot of tough election races over the years, you know, not the least of which was Obama trying to influence the Israeli election last time, but but you were there polling for Trump and and you believed as I did he had a really good shot of winning, which he did.
Right.
And and uh it's it's backfiring now.
You're seeing what I call the Chuck Schuber backfire, because Suck Schumer has led the opposition, and that's why the Democrats have a total void is their agenda.
And guess what?
We're gonna pick up U.S. Senate seats because of the lay of that land.
Ten of the states where they're I'm not really worried.
I want to get those Senate seats because you're talking about North Dakota.
Um we're watching very closely.
Claire McCaskill C we're watching Florida, Rick Scott down there.
I mean, there are a lot of important seats that uh I don't know what's gonna happen in Arizona, but I mean we're watching a lot of important races here.
Tennessee is another one to come back out.
And guess what?
In a lot of these states, you have you may have open Republican seats, but we have that 26 house major house six twenty-six seat house majority.
And guess what?
They're motivating Trump voters to come back out and vote for Congress.
So I agree with Doug that I would have said a month ago, yeah, the Democrats seem to have more energy.
Well, the Democrats have gone too far and they've gone they've carried on too long against this president who's succeeding.
And they're and and uh he's basically they're motivating the Trump base to come back out.
And that bodes well for us in November.
We just have to keep that, we have to keep that momentum going towards November.
Yeah, and by the way, I I Doug, you can't tell me what Democrats stand for except what I told you earlier.
Impeachment, Obamacare, keeping it in place, not building the wall, and and literally raising taxes on every American.
I don't think that's the best agenda.
Uh oh.
What?
Socialism.
Yeah, pretty much.
That's your party, not mine.
I mean, the Democrat, I I'm a capitalist.
I believe in the social safety.
You're a bigger capitalist than I am.
I mean, yeah.
But but this is not the Democratic Party that I joined when I was a young person.
It's a very different party that believes in a level of redistribution that to me is antithetical to the values that I believe in, and that I believe America was based on.
Um, anyway, I uh thank you both for being with us.
We appreciate it.
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A stunning statement here, Pobby, from the president openly declaring that he believes he is above the law.
Try to picture uh an ordinary criminal who committed a crime saying that.
Uh I can do whatever I want.
And by the way, I'll pardon myself.
You sound like you're guilty when you say that.
Think about what we're talking about.
The president all morning is basically again saying the president of the United States is above the law and is not required to comply with the Constitution or the laws of the United States.
I mean, that is staggering.
They are uh kidding themselves and will be let down horribly if they ever decide to try this on, to take this and puts on this and take it out for a spin to the United States Supreme Court.
If you don't believe me, go to the Supreme Court.
You may get one, you may get two votes.
That's it.
You will be run over.
The President of the United States is talking about pardoning himself, about not being indicted.
You have to look at what the political environment would be, what what political environment would be created by that.
We're we're really talking about the end of his presidency.
If you're talking about the president of the United States saying I'm going to pardon myself, even if Republicans try to protect him, you're talking about the collapse in many ways of the institutions of this republic.
I have an aversion to the use of the word spy, but let's just uh for the sake of discussion, use that term, which conventionally means the use of trade craft, using a a formally trained case officer who would mask identity, who would attempt to recruit.
So none of the classical attributes of of a spy craft, if I can use that term, were present here.
This is the most benign form of information gathering.
So to characterize it as a spy or spy gate is, of course, part of the narrative.
And it's directly antiqual to what I actually said.
At various times Trump has seemed detracted as that's a conspiracy theories.
Um there's the obviously much more marked upon uh looseness with the truth and and and the lies, et cetera, et cetera.
But these extent the obsession with conspiracy theories and tall tales, as you say, Joe, dates back for a long time.
I think the the point right now, though, is that he's using them to a particular kind of political effect.
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 the 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 about characterizing the report, which you you all have read.
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 had 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.
The big questions, of course, is there any evidence of collusion you have seen yet?
Is there?
There is a lot of smoke.
We hadn't smoking gun at this point, but there is a lot of smoke.
Diane Feinstein has said there's no evidence of collusion.
So collusion between whom?
Can you tell us that?
I'm not prepared to say that there's proof you could take to a jury, but I can't say that there is enough that we ought to be investigating.
At the time you separated from service in January of 2017, had you seen any evidence that uh Donald Trump or any member of his campaign colluded, conspired, or coordinated with the Russians or anyone else uh to infiltrate or impact our uh voter infrastructure.
Um not beyond uh what has been out there open source, and not beyond anything that I'm sure this committee has already seen and heard before directly from the intelligence community.
All right, as we uh roll along, glad you're with us, 24 now till the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Yeah, the media hysteria over an issue that's not an issue.
A hypothetical that Rudy Giuliani laughed at and said, No, though that wouldn't take away potential political consequences if the president pardoned himself.
It's a non-issue.
What is an issue is spying on a campaign.
What is an issue are spies within a campaign, and people like Clapper saying, Oh, that's a good thing.
Okay, well, put it in Hillary's campaign then.
Why wasn't it there?
What is a big deal is fixing investigations because you want one candidate to continue the run for the presidency.
What is a big deal is lying with propaganda put together through funneled money to a foreign national with Russian lies that even the guy that put it together said, Well, it's not hot I don't know if any of it's true at all.
I don't have no idea.
But you present it to a court in an application for a Pfizer warrant, the toughest to get for the very purpose of what?
To spy on another campaign.
Paid for, bought, and paid for by the candidate of your choosing.
And they lied repeatedly to Pfizer court judges, subsequent applications.
Unbelievable times we are living in.
We got Shelly is in North Carolina.
Shelly, hi.
How are you?
We're glad you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
So...
Hey, Sean.
Pleasure to talk with you.
Um I had two things I wanted to talk about.
One of them was the media, and the other thing was the spying.
And with the media, what I wanted to say is, you know, you've been so adept at realizing that they've said nothing about what's happening until they've been forced to.
Well, this is why I think they're forced to, because they are accomplices.
Because they see that the writing is on the wall, and as the examination comes closer and closer to them, I think they're wanting to be on try to be on the other side of it.
Because for the last three years, it's hard to tell what's wagging whether the tail is wagging the dog or the dog is wagging the tail, because the it's either the media that is coming up with the narrative and then the politicians jump on it, or it's these liberal politicians that are coming up with the narrative and they're feeding it to the media and making them be the ones that that propagate it.
So I see just like I I think once you start taking the kingpins down, you're gonna see people scattering from Washington.
I think it's the same thing with the media.
They're no dummies.
They know that as soon as this investigation comes closer and closer to them, that they're gonna be taken down with it because they have been in, they've been in bet with all these deep state operatives that want to destroy our country.
Well, I mean, uh well, they listen, I'm gonna tell you something.
It is everything we've said it is, and we now know it.
I mean, it's not a matter, and this goes back to my opening monologue today.
I mean, I am just absolutely livid.
You know, we have the IG report.
Oh, but we'll turn it over to the corrupt department of justice that's been obstructing and not handing over and ignoring subpoenas of Congress so they can put in their reductions and suggested redactions and suggested changes and softening the blow and timing the release of you know,
i it the whole thing is just uh an abuse of power, and it it is literally it is the deep state that is a a clear and present danger to this, you know, republic, this constitutional republic that we live under, and dual, you know, a dual justice system and lying to judges and covering I mean the whole thing is just atrocious to me.
And I think the American people seeing it is a good thing.
That's the first step towards hopefully in the end fixing it.
But we're gonna have to dig the root out of this.
Because if you leave these people in power and you allow this to continue, and we don't fix the core of the problem, we're gonna have some really big problems down the road and and ultimately our survival is even in jeopardy.
Jeff is in uh good call, Shelley.
Jeff is in Fort Edwards, Wisconsin.
Jeff, how are you?
Glad you called.
Good evening afternoon, Sean.
It's great to talk to you.
Say, I was telling your screener, um, Trump should come out, uh Twitter or whatever, and say, you know what, I'm I agree with James Clapper and John Brennan.
Having a spy in a presidential candidate in a campaign is a good thing.
We are going to put a FBI informant in every Democrat campaign for president in 2020 and watch the liberals' heads explode.
Well, I honestly, if you ever did, and this was the point of Victor Davis Hansen's piece, just reverse this.
In you know, in 2024, Donald Trump finishes his eight years as president, and a Democratic candidate gets the same treatment by the Trump administration that the Obama administration and all these people in the deep state gave the Trump incoming Trump administration.
Tell me would that ever be tolerated?
The answer is no.
Absolutely not.
But I'm just saying he should actually offer it, publish it, offer it, and watch them backtrack on and on that uh, you know, they'll have to turn around and and defend it, the fact that no, it's not a good thing.
It's that well, good point.
Really good point.
It's not a good thing.
It's not a good thing to use the powerful tools of intelligence against the American people.
It's not a good thing to put spies, you know, all they had to do as it relates to Carter Page was go to Donald Trump and say, uh, we're watching this guy, he's going to Russia to give a commencement speech and he's associated with your campaign.
Donald Trump would have fully cooperated.
End of the entire issue.
And but then throwing spies in the campaign.
what did you know about the emails?
Nobody knew anything about the emails.
That's the point.
We do know now that Hillary's server in the mom and pop shop bathroom closet was hacked by what?
As many as six intelligence agencies.
Who knows where, where, what who hacked what, when, and where at this point.
And not only that, we've got 250,000 full-time IT people that work for our government.
And yet we can't protect United States government secrets.
We can't protect our defense department.
We can't protect NASA.
We can't protect State Department officials from being hacked.
At some point, it's not shame on them.
It's shame on us.
You know, in this day and age, if they don't protect our secrets, that's their job.
They know these people are after us.
You know, Devin Nunez wrote about it in 2014.
Everyone's saying they're shocked that the Russians want to create chaos in our electoral process.
Okay, well, then what did we do to stop it?
We didn't do anything.
And at some point it becomes our problem.
At some point we should have learned.
At some point, you know, look at Julian Assange.
I mean, I interviewed him.
He had hacked into NASA and the DOD at what, 16 years of age.
He's in his forties.
At what point did we say, uh-oh, we're vulnerable.
We better fix it.
I mean, at some point you got to look and say, what did we do?
What did Obama do on cybersecurity in the eight years he was president?
Nothing.
Except now we could just share the intelligence, raw intelligence with more people.
And that covers who actually ends up leaking it.
And American citizens are spied on.
And American campaigns are given Pfizer warrants based on op research, unverified, uncorroborated information with funneled money and foreign agents and Russian sources, dubious lying Russian sources.
You can't make this up in a book.
You really can't.
And that's what happened.
Tobias is a new joyzy.
Uh, you can go see Newt Gingrich tonight over at Bookends if you're uh not doing anything.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Uh I have a different take on Rosenstein or Rosenstein or whatever anybody wants to call him today.
Um but I I have I have a look at it like this.
Um Sessions recused himself.
If you look at back at the tapes, he asked his team what should he do as to recusing himself.
Is it Rosenstein like his number two guy on his team?
Uh he's well, actually, in many ways, he's the number one guy, and he's conflicted.
Remember, he wrote the letter suggesting that Comey had to go.
And he's the guy that signed the last Pfizer warrant using Hillary Clinton's bought and paid-for phony Russian dossier.
Yes.
And Rosenstein met with Comey and McCabe, okay, right before Comey was fired.
Okay, to set up this whole entire conspiracy, okay, so that he can basically run this whole entire, you know, mess that's let's get uh uh Trump.
Okay, Rosenstein told Trump to fire Comey, okay, to set the wheels in motion.
The next day after he fired uh uh Comey, all of a sudden, boom, we've got the special council.
It's it's set, it's done within a day.
But yet now for the second special counsel, uh uh uh sessions can't do anything.
Uh oh, well, we'll we'll look into it.
We'll get the wheels uh, you know, in motion if it calls for one.
But yeah, uh Rosenstein, oh yeah, I think we need one, and next day it's done, it's it's already uh uh uh underway.
So I think Sassage is just a big wuss.
Everybody says they like him.
I don't know him, but everybody says he's good, but I think he's just the witch that can't.
I think he's he's almost in a state of paralysis, it seems.
It is it is I I can't, it's not the person that I've known over all these years.
And then there, you know, there are so many different crimes, so many different horrible things that have happened, and why he hasn't done anything is beyond anybody's imagination.
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Why the delay with the inspector general report?
We'll check in with Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrick, Kellyanne Conway, Newt Gingrich tonight, Sean Spicer, Jason Chaffetz.
All of that, the latest breaking news on the deep state, and how corrupt, yes, the deep state is as it relates to your government.
