Sean Hannity Show - We Cannot Forget - 9.11

Sept. 11, 2018 - Sean Hannity Show

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We Cannot Forget - 9.11

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	The plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
	When the night...
	That was...
	Another plane...
	Apparently that was another plane.
	Seems to stay...
	An airplane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
	Oh, it's lost.
	There appears to be a gaping hole.
	Oh, there it goes.
	There it goes.
	But I know full side has collapsed.
	Now it's no by the line.
	She stands.
	Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center.
	We're not gonna be coward by it that we're not afraid.
	Faithful friend.
	The freedom loving nations of the world stand by our side.
	Proud to have the red, white, and blue.
	This country will not relent.
	So away.
	Proud to be a part of this country.
	I think about the families, the children.
	Freedom itself was attacked and freedom will be defended.
	She still hears you.
	Just when you think it might be over.
	Just when you think the fine is gone.
	Someone will read this life to me.
	The resolve of our great nation is being tested.
	Then she stands.
	I played a week in front of the water United States and we were for Richard's hand.
	Then she fled.
	We will not forget the 2800 people.
	Police and fire not only were heroes at the beginning, but they're still heroes.
	We're gonna come out of this emotionally stronger.
	And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.
	I don't think anybody should forget the visuals.
	Those guys did more than anyone ever expected of them.
	In this tree.
	They messed with the wrong city.
	They messed with the wrong state.
	She stands.
	And I just don't want people to forget.
	When it will cause itself a money.
	They all had a sense of duty to protect us all.
	When all your homes can crashing down.
	We'll be steadfast in our determination.
	Someone will fall from the rest of the country.
	Now understand who the true defenders are.
	May the Irish hills caress you.
	May her lakes and rivers bless you.
	We see the flying soil.
	May the luck of the Irish enforce you.
	We see the stamina time.
	May the blessings of St. Patrick behold you.
	God bless Ireland and God bless the United States of America.
	She stands.
	Now America's embracing a new ethic and a new creed.
	Let's roll.
	The phrase New York's finest and New York's bravest means something now, doesn't it?
	This is a time to reflect and be thankful for where we are today.
	We will rebuild New York City.
	Yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves.
	That was 17 years ago.
	I can't even believe how long it has been.
	Michael W. Smith, the story behind that song, and obviously we added a lot of the audio to it.
	And we have other songs we'll be playing throughout the day today.
	Is that at some point after The attack that happened here in New York City, George W. Bush said to Michael W. You got it, you gotta write a song.
	The video to it, we'll put it up on our website, Hannity.com.
	I mean, if if you watch this video and hear this song and you don't cry, you don't have a heart.
	You don't have a soul.
	Um, anyway, 800-941 Sean, toll-free number, you want to be a part of the program.
	Later on, Bernie Kerrick will we'll go back, we'll remember 17 years ago.
	Then we'll go back and remember six years ago.
	It was also 9-11, 2012, when uh, of course, there was the attack in Benghazi and the stand down orders and the people it's how fascinating that Barack Obama this past Friday called it a conspiracy theory about Benghazi.
	Can I add something?
	Do you mind?
	You know I never interrupt your monologue, so it's worthy.
	Go ahead, Linda.
	It's the Linda McLaughlin show.
	No, I just wanted to.
	I I was talking to someone the other day.
	I had never heard this as someone who lived here on 9-11, was trapped in a building on 9-11 myself.
	And I was talking to this guy who went down and volunteered on 9-11.
	Yeah.
	And he was there.
	He was about three feet from the president when he came and gave that iconic stream.
	When he stood on the rubble with the bullhorn.
	100%.
	And was like, you know, giving the soon the rest of the world will hear from us.
	And the interesting thing that he said to me, which I was like in shock.
	He's like, no one could hear him.
	Because even though he was on the bullhorn, we were kind of behind him.
	Right.
	And everyone on the job site, as they were calling it, was whispering in case they heard signs of life.
	Right.
	So there was this weirdness when everyone, like the president comes on the, you know, the scene of this horrible terror attack.
	And you would think there'd be applause or cheering, or and it was silence.
	The fireman, the the uh uh elderly gentleman next to then President Bush, I've run into many times.
	He's a wonderful man.
	And you know, I it's um it's an amazing thing to go back and think that we lived through this.
	And one of the things that always comes to mind, it's like you just can't believe it.
	One tower's hit, another tower's hit, the Pentagon's hit.
	I mean, think of it this way.
	My daughter just turned 17 years old.
	She was born August 29th, 2001.
	And I ask her at some time, so you do you know what happened, you know, just a couple of weeks after you were born.
	She knows, she knows what happened, but she didn't live it.
	And it's amazing.
	But how scared were you?
	It's like you're bringing your baby girl into this world, and this happens like what, 10 days later.
	I was I those thoughts, I wasn't afraid.
	I knew America had strength.
	It was chilling to watch.
	It's something that I've always known that evil exists.
	Uh, my dad had fought in World War II after Pearl Harbor.
	I knew about his life experience, four years in the Pacific.
	And we all know I've learned enough history about fascism, Nazism, communism.
	We know what happened.
	Imperial Japan and and that unprovoked attack, uh, you know, day that we'll live in infamy in 9-11 with the worst attack in history.
	We're living here.
	And you know, my son is in college now.
	Um, he I literally dropped him off at nursery school.
	Just dropped him off.
	Then I got a call, Gomez calls me.
	Uh Hannity, Gomez, are you watching this?
	Like, what?
	That's run home, race to the TV.
	And, you know, at that point, he just stuns.
	Just stunning.
	One thing after another.
	Now, this is often the methodology of these terrorists.
	And our world's changed a lot from that.
	We forget, you know, I know we go through airports and we get patted down and we get wanded, especially if you travel with Sweet Baby James, you get wanded more than usual because he has a big sign on his back that says, Wand me and everybody with me.
	He's the only one that gets wanded every single time.
	Now that he has a artificial.
	Well, now he has a fake hip.
	He could be a good thing.
	Oh gosh, yeah, that's this last rush of sun.
	Disaster.
	Yeah.
	Um, and but that never used to be the case.
	I remember how that day we were able to get on the air on radio.
	I mean, we couldn't get into the city.
	Nobody could enter New York City.
	And so uh Phil Boyce was my program director at the time over at the ex-wife, uh, our other station once that was once good good station.
	And anyway, so we're over there.
	I'm just teasing our friends there.
	But uh honestly, We got up, we went I went to WLIR in Garden City, Long Island.
	It's since changed call letters a number of times.
	And but it was a big station over at the time when I was growing up as a kid.
	It was an alternative rock station.
	And we went there, and I'm sitting in one studio.
	I think WLTW, which is Light Music in New York, they're in that studio.
	Opie and Anthony are in that studio.
	They were on NAW at the time.
	And then that station was doing their own broadcasting, and you got wires literally all up and down the hall.
	And somehow, magically, they were able to get everybody up on the air.
	And we were able to broadcast that day.
	Because I couldn't get into the city.
	I lived down on a long island.
	And it and by the way, this is a very competitive business.
	But not that day.
	Everyone was all hands on deck.
	And the thing that stands out in my mind and what I remember the most, it was one shock after another.
	Then the field in Pennsylvania, then the Pentagon.
	I remember when I was broadcasting, it was during the broadcast.
	I'd gotten a call from somebody.
	I don't think we were taking commercials that day.
	And I remember somebody said Barbara Olson was on the flight that hit the Pentagon.
	And that's Ted Olson's wife, former solicitor general, great guy.
	Barbara Olson had been a regular.
	She wrote about Hillary Clinton, held to pay, I think was the name of her book.
	I still have it.
	She had Hillary's thesis from college, I remember.
	And but more importantly is all of these families to this.
	This is a hard day for a lot of people.
	You know, there are kids that have grown up having never seen their mothers and fathers because they died that day.
	And a lot of the people that died were firemen.
	And a lot of them were policemen.
	And a lot of them were transit police people.
	And and other paramedics and first responders.
	And the most amazing thing that happens is while everybody is trying to get out of what is a horrific situation, those guys are going up in the other direction.
	And even for a city like New York, which can be pretty cold, I mean, it's it's kind of a true image.
	I mean, Linda's walking through the street.
	Come on, can you walk faster?
	Let's go.
	Hurry up.
	Can we talk about my finer points today?
	And not that, thank you.
	Okay, but the point is New York came together.
	Because New York is a very impatient place at times, with impatient walkers on the streets.
	I am not alone.
	Okay.
	And but out of nowhere, all these, you know, people started popping up tents and feeding all the first responders.
	Everywhere.
	All around, all around where the rubble was.
	Campbell's soup, I never forget Campbell Soup.
	But they weren't charging anybody.
	Restaurants open.
	They didn't charge anybody.
	And, you know, volunteers going down to the extent that they could allow people in.
	And I think we have a lot of lessons to learn from this.
	We had let our guard down.
	They were at war with us.
	We had forgotten the Cobar Towers, the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
	We forgot the USS Cold, the first trade center bombing, all that had happened.
	And we didn't do anything about it.
	And I don't those enemies still exist out there.
	And that's a danger to every good man, woman, and child on this earth.
	There is evil that wants to destroy us.
	You only need to read the history of Stalin and Russia and fascism and Hitler and Germany.
	That that is pure unadulterated evil.
	You open any newspaper on any given day.
	You read about murder and rape and horrific things that are done.
	Man's inhumanity to man.
	Then on the other side of that, in the midst of such evil, you get the other side of the human experience.
	Just pure generosity, goodness, courage, on a level that you'd never see before.
	And that's what I remember.
	All those people that went up in the other direction and never went home that night.
	Pretty unbelievable.
	We better never forget.
	Because it could happen again.
	We better keep our guard up.
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	You know, it is um I do love human, true human courage, and I know like when we go to movies, we like to see heroic figures.
	We really do.
	I know for whatever reason, and I'm not particularly somebody that likes Hollywood a whole lot, but you know, all these action figure hero movies.
	I know a lot of them do very well in the box office, and people like them, but they're actually more real heroes that day.
	Seventeen years ago.
	You know, you you you think about this.
	Two planes hitting two towers, another plane hitting the Pentagon, field go a plane goes down on a field in Pennsylvania because a bunch of brave people said, Let's roll.
	Those were all heroes.
	Every one of them.
	And we forget, but they're remember, we remember them all today.
	They're courage.
	Um I don't even know what to say about this idiot Joe Scarborough, Liberal Joe, and Mika.
	You know, he really outdoes himself this morning.
	He actually writes a Washington Post column.
	It's not like he misspoke.
	Now I'm on the era.
	I fly without a net four hours a day.
	Live radio, live television, every single day.
	Uh, but when you take the time to really write something, you have time to sculpt it, go over it, think about it.
	He just made a total ass out of himself, and he's trying to walk it back now.
	Mediaite has the uh story up that um after receiving heady heavy criticism, he was asking whether President Trump had a more detrimental impact on America than 9-11.
	I mean, this is how sick and twisted and ugly and deranged that conspiracy network has become.
	I mean, it's 24-7 hating Trump.
	You can't put it aside for five seconds.
	Not even on 9-1101.
	And it just anyway, he has a title of a title piece in the Washington Post.
	Trump is harming the dream of America more than any foreign adversary ever could.
	Is it even worth talking about this guy?
	No, it really isn't.
	Just pretty disgusting.
	It's really twisted, it's sick.
	You know, all the success that we're having.
	Maybe you don't like the style of the president, the tweets of the president, things he says sometimes, the fights that he picks.
	But you can't deny it's working.
	That's one thing.
	By the way, Joey Scarborough meek they they used to love the president.
	Yes, they don't like him now, so now they've gone all in.
	That's a Republican on uh conspiracy TV MSNBC.
	Joe Bastardi joins us in a minute.
	The president now uh is at his desk at the at the White House in the Oval Office and talking about Hurricane Florence, a Cat Four headed right for the Carolina coast and the eastern coast of the United States.
	Here's what he says.
	Okay, thank you very much.
	I've received a briefing from Secretary Nielsen, Administrator Long, and my senior staff regarding Hurricane Florence and other tropical systems that will soon impact the United States and its territories.
	The safety of American people is my absolute highest priority.
	We are sparing no expense.
	Uh we are totally prepared, we're ready.
	We're as ready as anybody's ever been.
	And uh it looks to me and it looks to all of a lot of very talented people that do this for a living, like this is going to be a storm that's going to be a very large one, far larger than we've seen in perhaps decades.
	Uh things can change, but we doubt they will at this stage.
	It's pretty late stage.
	We doubt they're going to be very, very far off course.
	The places that are uh in The way and in the most jeopardy would be Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, that area.
	And again, they haven't seen anything like what's coming at us in 25, 30 years.
	Maybe ever.
	It's tremendously big and tremendously wet.
	Tremendous amounts of water.
	So I've spoken with the governors of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
	They're prepared.
	We're prepared.
	We're working very well in conjunction with the governors.
	I'd like to ask Brock Long, our administrator has done so well for us in Texas and Florida.
	We have something, it could very well be very similar to Texas in the sense that it's tremendous amounts of water.
	Texas was the one that had, I would say, to this point, Brock, probably more water than we've ever seen in a storm or a hurricane.
	And it went out for seconds and thirds.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	But FEMA, as you know, did a fantastic job, and a fantastic job also in Florida.
	And I'd like to ask Brock if you would just say a few words to the media as to uh where it is now, what's going to be happening, and how well prepared we are.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	Um, unfortunately, uh Hurricane Florence is setting up to be a devastating event to the Carolinas and potentially Virginia as well.
	So as you can see, their forecast, they're forecasting a major landfalling storm, category three or four storm at landfall.
	Uh the biggest hazard that we're worried about is is storm surge.
	That's the primary driver of the evacuations that are underway by the states of North Carolina, uh, South Carolina, Virginia right now.
	But as this system comes in and makes landfall uh during the weekend, it's forecast to stall out, lose its steering con its steering currents, and drop copious amounts of rainfall.
	Unfortunately, um the remnants of Gordon passed through uh the mid-Atlantic over the weekend and dropped dropped uh a lot of rain saturating rivers.
	So Hurricane Florence, as it comes in and puts uh anywhere between 20 and 30 inches more in isolated areas, uh, could create uh a lot of inland flooding.
	So right now, sir, we're supporting the governors with achieving uh their life safety uh evacuation movements.
	Uh where we're focused on mass care and sheltering, and then we'll be focused on helping them to execute their response and recovery goals.
	What are the chances that it veers off cost, and you know, the the uh the hit won't be so direct.
	What are the chances of this?
	Uh uh unfortunately, I believe there's quite a bit of certainty in the track forecast because the the forward speed is picking up, it's getting faster, and when systems do that, the track forecast becomes a lot more accurate.
	Uh, and uh I think the expectation needs to be set with the citizens in this area that if you've been asked to leave, get out of the areas that are going to flood and get into a facility that can withstand the winds.
	Um let's set the expectations as well.
	This has an opportunity of being a very devastating storm.
	The power's gonna be off for weeks, you're gonna be displaced uh from your home in the coastal areas, and there will be flooding in in the inland areas as well.
	So these are going to be statewide events.
	The hazards will be statewide.
	Okay, you wanted to show us this one then.
	Yeah, this is a uh this is a uh seven-day rainfall graphic.
	Uh as you can see uh the pink areas and and the purple areas indicate 20 inches.
	That's a mean area rainfall, that's an average rainfall amount, but you may see isolated amounts greater uh into the 30-inch range uh over Virginia, uh the the central portions of Virginia and West Virginia, and these impacts are they're going to be through the mid-Atlantic, so we're coordinating not only uh with South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, but other mid Atlantic states all the way to Delaware.
	Good.
	Yes, sir.
	Uh and it has been great coordination.
	I have to tell you the states have been terrific.
	Everybody's working together.
	Uh the governors and all of their representatives have been absolutely fantastic.
	And FEMA is nobody like your people.
	I mean, they they what they're doing is incredible.
	Do you have any questions for Secretary Nielsen or for Brock Long, please?
	Uh think from what happened in Puerto Rico.
	How do we apply the lessons you would do from Puerto Rico?
	Well, I think Puerto Rico was uh incredibly successful.
	Uh Puerto Rico was actually our toughest one of all because it's an island, so you just you can't truck things onto it, everything's by boat.
	Uh, we moved a hospital into Puerto Rico, A tremendous uh military hospital in the form of a ship, you know that.
	Uh and I actually think, and the governor's been very nice, and if you ask the governor, he'll tell you what a great job.
	Uh I think probably the hardest one we had by far was Puerto Rico because of the island nature.
	And I actually think uh it was one of the best jobs that's ever been done with respect to what this is all about.
	Puerto Rico got hit not with one hurricane, but with two.
	And the problem with Puerto Rico is their electric grid and their electric uh generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit.
	It was in very bad shape, it was in bankruptcy, uh, had no money, it was largely you know, it was largely closed.
	And when the storm hit, they had no electricity essentially before the storm, and when the storm hit, that took it out entirely.
	Uh the job that FEMA and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor uh in Puerto Rico, I think was tremendous.
	I think that Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success.
	Uh Texas, we have been given A-pluses for.
	Uh, Florida, we've been given A-pluses for.
	I think in a certain way, the best job we did was Puerto Rico, but nobody would understand that.
	I mean, that's it's harder to understand.
	It was a very hard, very hard thing to do.
	Uh because of the fact they had no electric before the storms hit, it was dead, as you probably know.
	So uh we've gotten a lot of uh receptivity, a lot of thanks for the job we've done in Puerto Rico.
	Puerto Rico is very important, and by the way, speaking of Puerto Rico, uh, and they're gonna be affected pretty much pretty soon by something else that's on its way, is that right?
	Potentially Hurricane Isaac uh right now is tracking south of the island, but we are um we have several thousand people inside Puerto Rico right now working on long-term recovery that have shifted to the response mode to monitor as Isaac passes to the city.
	We do not want to see Hurricane Isaac hit Puerto Rico.
	That's all we need.
	But we have a big hurricane out there, and it's sort of skirting along Puerto Rico and the edge of Puerto Rico.
	That would not be good.
	Mr. President, how much money do you think you'll be able to do?
	How much money do you think you'll need for recovery efforts in this next hurricane?
	And do you have that?
	Well, we have it currently.
	Uh, we're gonna obviously these are all unanticipated, so we'll go to Congress.
	Congress will be very generous because we have no choice.
	Uh this is the United States, and it's uh whether it's uh Texas or Florida, or frankly, if it's uh Virginia, because Virginia looks like it's very much in the path.
	Maryland, by the way, could be affected, very seriously affected, just to add, uh it's a little bit outside of the path.
	Uh and then, of course, South Carolina and North Carolina.
	I think that uh any amounts of money, whatever it takes, we're gonna do.
	But we're already set up.
	We have tremendous trucking systems, we have food systems, we have a lot of uh a lot of contractors waiting, but for the most part it's been handled by FEMA, and also we've coordinated locally.
	Uh we have uh food for days, we have emergency equipment and generators for many days.
	We should be in great shape.
	Now, I've also heard it could be 21 and 22 inches.
	If you can imagine what that is, 22 inches of rain.
	Uh it it is not something that we've had.
	Certainly we've never had this on the east coast.
	So, but I think we're very well prepared, very well set up, wouldn't you say?
	Yeah, I I think this storm right here is very similar to Hurricane Hugo and almost like a combination of Hurricane Hugo in 89 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
	Uh but look, successful disaster response and recovery is one that's locally executed, state managed, and federally supported.
	So what FEMA is doing is pre-positioning the federal government's assets to support each one of those governors that are about to be impacted with achieving their response and recovery goals.
	And that's the way emergency management and disaster response works best.
	I also think I'd like I'd like to point out that what we learned last year is that we have got to build a true culture of preparedness within our citizens here in America.
	This is a partnership, and it takes anything from neighbor helping neighbor all the way to the federal government when it comes to uh correctly responding and recovery.
	Minister, can we ask about preparation for power island?
	What do you think right now?
	Sure, great.
	That's a great question.
	So FEMA doesn't own the power, uh, the power grids in any one of these states.
	A lot of them are owned by the private industry.
	So what we have are business emergency operations center calls.
	We're uh we're we're concentrating with The private vendors to make sure that they have strong mutual aid uh programs in place, and we set up incident support bases to help stage uh power crews coming in from other states, and largely it's FEMA's job to get out of the way to make sure that the private power companies can get into these areas uh to set up their grid.
	We don't own it.
	We don't own it.
	But unlike Puerto Rico, you have very strong power companies, they're very powerful, very well managed in the sense that uh they have they have tremendous overcapacity.
	Uh they are going to do a great job.
	They also have made uh contracts with other power companies that won't be affected, and they're gonna be coming in just to answer your question.
	They'll be coming in to the various states that will be affected.
	They're gonna be coming in very strongly, and they're already lining up.
	They'll be here probably for the most part tomorrow uh or shortly before the storm hits.
	So they're gonna be in great shape.
	These are uh really states that have very, very strong power authorities.
	What's your management presenting people who might not have that we're risky?
	I mean, uh again, we've never seen anything quite like this on the east coast at least, and uh if it turns out to be as bad, you know, we we go out there.
	You have you have people that actually go fly through these storms.
	Uh these are very brave people, but they fly through.
	And from what I'm hearing, the sights that they're seeing have not been seen on the east coast before.
	So I would say everybody should get out.
	I mean, you have to listen to your local authorities, and whether you're upland or downland, but depending on where you are, you have to listen and you have to get out.
	If they want you to get out, because it's going to be impossible to have people get in there, whether it's law enforcement or FEMA or anybody else, once this thing hits, it's going to be really, really bad along the coast.
	Okay.
	Anything else?
	You believe Rob Host Porter and Gary Hones and I have today.
	Uh well, you shouldn't be talking about that right now because it doesn't matter, but I really appreciate their statement.
	Their statement was excellent.
	Uh and they both said out you know, the president wrapping up now is we go to Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com.
	Uh Joe, you've been saying one thing that you said to me uh in a text message, this is the real thing, this is the real deal.
	It's gonna the pattern uh which was confirmed by the president's guy, the pattern is not gonna shift.
	It's going right to the Carolinas and Virginia.
	Well, yeah, I I think that there's a uh shots on that the the uh the track, well, you know, we've been further south.
	Uh we've been uh di uh in at Wilmington or Cape Fear and then taking it uh sort of toward Asheville, not quite as much up toward Virginia.
	And I think that that uh still has validity, and I could uh given the strength of this uh big upper ridge of high pressure that's going to be uh developing this weekend, I can see this track uh going almost straight westward through South Carolina into North Georgia.
	I'm actually a little bit more concerned uh about uh North Georgia and South Carolina uh than uh Virginia now, uh, where where landfall is at Cape Fear, uh I I don't think we're going to we're going to vary that at all.
	And the question uh becomes how fast does it come ashore?
	And uh if you see it uh the the best thing that can happen in is it's the best of the worst worlds is that this comes and stops just offshore, the water up wells, and even though those beaches will be getting battered, it would weaken a bit just before it came inland.
	And if it just keeps coming and coming and coming, and if it's inland late Thursday night, Friday morning, uh you're gonna see 140, 150 mile an hour winds where it makes landfall around Cape Fear.
	We do think that this is going to at some time crawl to an almost halt.
	And the question is when and where is that halt going to be?
	Is it going to be on the South Carolina?
	You said this yesterday that it's a slower moving storm than Hugo, which went in and out and and created massive damage.
	And in that sense, it makes it more deadly to you.
	It makes it it makes it if it comes in and then stalls, that's the worst case scenario because it won't have time.
	A lot of times when these storms stall in these uh coastal waters, what'll happen is they'll be upwelling the water will cool and they'll start to get a little bit weaker.
	Uh the the storm that hit in 1964 in Dora, for instance, stopped off St. Augustine for a while before it came in.
	So instead of going in at 140, it went in at 120.
	What we want to emphasize, and what we would say to Weather Bell is we believe this is going to be uh a storm that very, very close and on top of Cape Fear late Thursday night and on into Friday morning.
	And then the track is more west into into the uh southern part of the Carolina, Southern North Carolina, South Carolina, rather than up.
	I'm not really impressed with the uh I'm not saying the uh I'm not saying stop in Virginia.
	I'm certainly not telling you to, you know, oh, don't worry about it.
	What I'm saying is that when that storm gets to the coast, there is a rearrangement of the upper pattern, sort of a handoff from the Atlantic Ridge to the big ridge that's going to be over the Great Lakes, the blocking ha up high, and that maybe when is it gonna hit?
	We gotta we gotta run here.
	When when do you think those makes landfall?
	I think it hits midnight to 6 a.m.
	Friday morning at Cape Bear, North Carolina.
	That's when I think the center comes ashore.
	All right, when does it really start hitting though?
	Well, that big hurricane force winds reach the North Carolina coast by noon, uh, maybe nine a.m. in the morning on Thursday.
	I think those areas are getting battered.
	So by the time I come on the air Thursday night at nine, it's gonna be in full swing.
	By oh, oh yeah, it's gonna be rocket and rolling.
	I mean, that's just that storm is going to be Joe Bustard Pictures.
	Weatherbell.com, uh, for the very latest.
	Americans do not yet have the distance of history, but our responsibility to history is already clear to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.
	I hear people say we don't need this war.
	We protest this war, and it's not a war actually slaughter.
	But I say there's some things worth fighting for.
	We are very grateful and thankful that we live in a country where there's freedom of speech that people who are either for or against a war can speak out.
	What about our freedom everything has went black and this piece of ground?
	Everything came down.
	We didn't get to keep them by backing down.
	Glass are popping, and people got hurt.
	They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in.
	Oh, there it goes.
	There it goes.
	There it goes.
	Let me ask you this, my friend.
	Have you forgotten?
	Oh my god, the next building is just blew up.
	Oh my god!
	Another plane just flew in.
	The explosion is incredible.
	Have you forgotten?
	I saw this plane come out of nowhere and just green right into the side of the twin tower, exploding through the other side.
	There's been an act of war declared upon America by terrorists.
	You forgot.
	I can hear you.
	The rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
	Have you forgotten?
	I'm going to die right now.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	I'm going to die right now.
	Man, man, man, say your prayers.
	I'm going to die.
	It's so hot now.
	I'm pretty hard.
	Come out!
	Have you forgotten?
	Dozens of residents that are sitting on the hills behind the Pentagon, almost like they're waiting for the Fourth of July fireworks, but instead they're staring dumbfounded at what like what looks like a war zone.
	I mean, you can see bodies flying out of the sky, and you can't do nothing about it.
	You tell me.
	There's no words to describe what's going on out there.
	Have you forgotten America's a nation full of good fortune with so much to be grateful for, but we are not spared from suffering.
	And every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom.
	They have attacked America.
	Because we are freedom's home and defender.
	Have you forgotten and the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.
	At this memorial on this sacred earth, in the field beyond this wall, and in the skies above our heads.
	We remember the moment when America fought back.
	We're also joined by members of the National Park Service.
	along with firefighters, first responders, and incredible people from law enforcement.
	These are truly great people.
	Some of you here today answered the call and raced to this field 17 years ago.
	You fill our hearts with pride, and I want to thank you on behalf of our country.
	Thank you very much.
	All right, joining us now.
	He was the police commissioner on 9-11 2001 in New York City, showed incredible heroism and bravery.
	By the way, as a brand new book out, it's a novel, and it's called The Grave Above the Grave, and uh actually comes from really real life experiences as I've been reading it.
	Some of them.
	Uh uh Bernard Kerrick is with us.
	Uh what's up, Commission?
	How are you?
	I'm good, Sean.
	How are you?
	It's really good to see you.
	Um, I think back 17 years ago, and I just it's unimaginable that all of that happened.
	You know, we played the song by Darrell Warley.
	Have you forgotten?
	I think a lot of people sadly have forgotten.
	I think we get further away.
	You see this guy here, 17 years later.
	Yeah.
	Nothing has happened to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is the mastermind of no.
	Yeah, still waiting for trial, 17 years later.
	Why is he alive?
	Yeah, who knows?
	Who knows?
	Yeah.
	Um, just walk us through that day because you experienced something, the worst attack on American soil in our history.
	You know, it can add Pearl Harbor, the second worst, just as bad.
	Horrible death and destruction.
	And you nearly died in the process.
	I did uh a couple of times, actually.
	Uh that morning, I was in my office when the first plane hit Tower One.
	My chief of staff, John Picciano came in and told me that a plane hit the tower.
	I got to see the damage on TV and through one of my conference room windows.
	I called the mayor.
	I told him I meet him downtown at seven World Trade, directly across the street from Tower One.
	That's where our command was.
	That's where your command center was.
	Yeah.
	So I was gonna I was gonna meet him there.
	And uh jumped in the car, got down to West Broadway and Vesey, and we were stopped by the cops.
	A sergeant came up to my car and he said, Commissioner, you you can't pull onto the block, they're jumping.
	And I had I didn't know what he I didn't know what he was talking about.
	And I got out of the vehicle.
	That was one of the hardest things to watch.
	I looked up at one in that first few minutes.
	I watched probably two dozen people jump to their death.
	And then they were landing on Vesi, they were landing in the courtyard between the two buildings and pretty much disintegrating.
	And uh Well, for those that don't know, the reason they had to jump is that they had jet fuel and they would and the fire, obviously, and they were burning, they were bring being burnt alive.
	Well, they were done.
	You know what, Sean?
	It was it was probably fifteen hundred to two thousand degrees in in that area where they were.
	So they they took what they thought was the best route uh that to end it, really, because there was no living through it.
	Um we waited there on that corner.
	We backed up the vehicles.
	Uh I told uh the mayor's detail to meet us on Barkley and West Broadway, and as I was waiting for him, the second aircraft slammed through the north side of the tower.
	So when you see that big orange fireball blow out the north side of Tower Two, me and my staff, Joe Loder, the deputy mayor, we were standing under it.
	You had no doubt after the first plane, though, that this was terror.
	After you know what?
	If the first plane Yeah, it could be an accident.
	Uh the damage looked too big.
	You know, they kept saying plane.
	I was thinking, how big what kind of plane?
	What was it?
	Yeah, nobody knew at the time.
	Was it a small, you know, right?
	You know, plane that people fly around.
	The damage was enormous.
	Um, but when the second plane hit, I didn't actually see the plane.
	It came from the southern end of Manhattan.
	Yeah.
	And it blew out the north side of the building over top of us.
	But I could hear the aviation pilots, the helicopter pilots from the NYPD yelling that a second aircraft had just hit Tower Two.
	And at that minute, that moment, I knew we were under attack.
	When you think back to that day, and and your job at that moment is to lead your guys, and and that includes FDNY.
	I mean the fire department, they lost a ton of people.
	Right.
	Um, a lot of first responders lost their life.
	And I think the most amazing thing to me in that day is everybody else in that's in the World Trade Center.
	That rightly they're racing down to get out of the building.
	But in the other direction, there's a group of other people.
	You know what, Sean, and and this is I think this is what people just can't grasp because of the Magnitude of the attack.
	New York City first responders, the fire department, the police department, and Port Authority Police effected the greatest rescue mission in the history of this country.
	They took twenty to twenty-five thousand people out of those buildings in the immediate area, and they evacuated more than a million people into the four boroughs and into New Jersey under Rudy Giuliani's leadership.
	It was a little over an hour before the towers came down, right?
	Right.
	So you didn't have a lot of time.
	But we remember the videos, people walking over bridges and hey, Sean.
	You know what?
	When the first tower imploded, uh, the mayor and I, as you know, we were actually trapped inside 75 Barkley.
	One block away.
	Well, a block away, block north.
	He was on the phone with the White House trying to get the president.
	And somebody came on the line, and I remember he ha he hung up the phone, he looked at me, he said, This isn't good.
	I said, What is it?
	He said, somebody just told me that they think the Pentagon got hit, they're evacuating the White House, and they hung up on me.
	And I and I was and before I could get my head around what he just said, the first tower came down.
	The first tower came down, and it felt like, you know, uh a freight train was coming through the side of the building we were in.
	And then within seconds, you can't see a thing.
	You couldn't see nothing.
	You know, I you know, I can look back and laugh now, but at the time I actually thought I said, you know, all the stuff I've been through in my life, gun battles, shootouts, partners shot, part and friends killed in in the line of duty and all this stuff, all that stuff, but I'm gonna suffocate in this office because there was no way out.
	I couldn't breathe.
	And um we were actually trapped in there for about 20, 25 minutes, and then we got these maintenance guys to open up some doors under uh, you know, in the basement of the building, and went out onto church street.
	And I remember getting into uh the 100 church, walking through a vestibule door, and there was no sound.
	It's unbelievable.
	There was no sound.
	There was it was deathly silent.
	Let's talk about those guys.
	How many first responders, police, firemen, uh Port Authority cops, you know, I lost other guys.
	Uh I I lost 23 that worked for me.
	Um the Port Authority police lost 37, but the New York City Fire Department was 343.
	You know, and and the mayor and I, when we got trapped, we actually walked up Church Street to uh Houston to the firehouse.
	That house was locked down.
	It was compl there wasn't no one in it.
	They all left.
	That to me is uh the story.
	I gotta take a break.
	We'll come back.
	Bernie Kerrick uh remains with us, uh former NYPD commissioner.
	Uh he was there.
	He put his life on the line on 9-11, nearly lost it.
	He also has his new book out, The Grave Above the Grave, 800 941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
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	As we continue with Bernie Carrick, former New York City police commissioner on 9-11, as we remember all that happened that day, 2001, as a book out.
	It's called The Grave Above the Grade, chilling reminder of what we're up against.
	You know, you have in the midst of evil.
	Because there's only one way to describe this as evil.
	And then you have your guys, what you train for, and everybody's going one way to get the hell out of there, and you guys are going in the opposite direction.
	I have to believe that those firemen and policemen knew that there was a good chance they were going to their death that day.
	They had to listen.
	They're smart people.
	They ran from the scene when the stuff fell.
	Right.
	And after everything settled, after building two imploded, they went back to Tower One.
	They went back into the building.
	They went back to the surrounding area to start re-evacuating.
	Courage like that is not easy to come by.
	And they knew the perils inherent with what they were doing.
	It's amazing.
	I give uh I have a lot of friends of mine in law enforcement and in on the fire department.
	I I give them such hell.
	I'm a horrible friend.
	I'm like, well, wait a minute.
	You get 24 hours on.
	In the 24 hours you get to cook these great meals, you get rack time.
	They get to sleep sometimes.
	Not a lot.
	You know what?
	Uh but uh when they're needed.
	The one day.
	It was one day.
	One day.
	And and then then one fire, one day, and their life could be over.
	And it happens.
	It happens more often than it should.
	That's exactly right.
	Um it is.
	And then, you know, there was a pretty amazing moment, too, because um all these stores started opening up and just feeding all the first responders.
	We had no cash, uh, you know, changing hands.
	People just stepped up.
	If there's one thing that bothers me about what we're going through today, you know, the political attacks, the persecution of the president, um, this polarization in Washington.
	On September 11th, this was one country, completely one country.
	And we had cops that drove and firemen that drove from California down to ground zero.
	Amazing over a three or four day period to help.
	And I remember going down there at night and stopping these guys from Oakland, California, and I said, What are you doing here?
	Like, how'd you get here?
	There's no flights.
	Yeah.
	They said, Well, my man here's got a pickup, and this guy had a car, and we jumped in.
	We just got on Route 80, headed east until we saw the smoke.
	One thing I remembered is Campbell's soup.
	I mean, it may not sound like a big deal.
	I eat Campbell soup all the time, chicken noodle.
	They set up a soup tent for everybody.
	That's right.
	And they fed them for weeks and weeks and weeks.
	And the food came from everywhere.
	Everywhere.
	Everywhere.
	Um, you know, it just is a reminder that evil does exist, and the United States to me must remain the strong force for good.
	I always say, Bernie, that there's never been a country in the history of man that has accumulated more power, not only abused it less, but advanced the human condition for good.
	Not that we're perfect.
	And we saw the worst day that we could imagine.
	And then we saw the best in humanity by people like yourself and the mayor and and all of those uh firemen and policemen, port authority cops and paramedics that all went there.
	Uh, it blows me away, and those families never got to see their families again.
	It's sad.
	It is.
	It is.
	And all those people killed.
	Uh I I think there's a turn, you know, this term never forget.
	Yeah.
	Never forget.
	Ever.
	And never forgive.
	You cannot forgive the people that did this.
	You can't forget what their what their mindset is, what their ideology is, um, what they want.
	Uh they want the demise of Israel.
	They want the demise of this country.
	They strongly believe that if you don't worship the same God they do the same way they do, they have a right to kill you.
	And personally, me, I just I'd rather be on the opposite end.
	I think we should kill them first before they kill us.
	It's interesting.
	Your new book is out, The Grave Above the Grave, and it is about another attack on American soil from a network of radical Islamic terrorism.
	So it's really ripped from the headlines.
	Uh, you were a hero then and you are today.
	And um, I know the course of what you've done, you save lives.
	You're also a dear friend of mine.
	Uh thank you for what you did that day.
	We'll never forget.
	And everybody else and to all the families that lost loved ones, uh, we're thinking about them today, and they're in our prayers.
	It's unimaginable.
	These kids grew up without parents after this, and um, Sean?
	Just on a personal note, thank you for what you do, because without your support, without people like you supporting the first responders, you know, this is why I hate taking on the FBI every day.
	I don't want to like doing it.
	We live in a time right now where there's so much anti-government anti-comp sentiment, anti-military sentiment by the left.
	Uh they need all the support they can get.
	Uh, you were a hero that day.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, sir.
	Bernie Kerrick.
	The book is called The Grave Above the Grave.
	We'll put it up on Hannity.com.
	We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll continue.
	Over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.
	This Congress has championed the unwinding of campaign finance laws to give billionaires outside influence over our politics.
	Embraced wild conspiracy theories by those surrounding Benghazi.
	One more thing, if I may.
	This year, a representative of the House referred to our laws as just another incident.
	This year a network commentator said the president's performance in Helsinki was a traitorous act, as was 9-11.
	And last week, a senator attacked the Supreme Court nominee and called him a racist for alleged comments after 9-11.
	Stop.
	Stop.
	Please stop using the bones and ashes of our loved ones as props in your political theater.
	Their lives, sacrifices, and death.
	Oh word so much more.
	Let's not trivialize them or us.
	It hurts.
	To my mom and to all of you and your loved ones, never forget.
	You know, here it is 9-11, 2000 what, eighteen.
	We had 9-11 2001.
	We had Bernie Kerrick on the program earlier.
	Then of course, we know what happened on 9-11, 2012.
	And if you go back and you think about it, well, that's when Benghazi happened.
	And there you have Barack uh Obama claiming, oh, this is a conspiracy theory.
	Well, we know it wasn't a conspiracy theory because the people that were there on the ground that others asked to sign uh non-disclosure agreements.
	Uh they've told a very, very different story.
	By the way, we have two heroes that we're talking to today.
	Sean Parnell is with us, by the way, a Purple Heart recipient.
	He's got a novel out, by the way.
	It's amazing, man of war and uh New York Times bestselling author, and also Chris Tanto Peranto, who I don't really like in real life.
	He's not a nice person.
	He's a horrible human being.
	Thanks, brother.
	I appreciate that.
	I'm gonna I'm gonna hang up now.
	By the way, uh no, we've actually become good friends, and we can do that.
	By the way, is that story true that your Twitter account was suspended?
	What's up with that?
	Uh twice in in about 48 hours.
	What did you do?
	I I uh oh, there was a there was uh there's a left uh liberal group that that was uh well Rob O'Neill tweeted something, and and I don't know, actually people send these things to make.
	Well, Rob O'Neill is the guy that shot bin Laden.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So well, they they said, well, Rob O'Neill during during Obama's speech, he couldn't, you know, he he said uh he could say Nazism, neo-Naziism over and over, and Rob said, Well, yeah, but neo-Nazi, but you still can't say uh radical Islam, and then this leftist group chimed in.
	Well, he did kill Osama bin Laden to Rob.
	And obviously this group did not know who Rob was.
	And when I read it, I was like, oh my god, and I just busted up laughing.
	So I mocked him.
	I said, Did you just tell the guy to shot in Osama bin Laden that that you guys had Derek Hussein Obama killed bin Laden?
	And I just laughed and and I did say my unnormal Tono Ranger Cell.
	President said on Friday the politics of division and paranoia has found a home in the Republican Party, and they've embraced wild conspiracy theories like those surrounding Benghazi.
	Um well, you were there on September eleventh, 2012, and we lost lives that day, and you were given a stand down order, because I've interviewed you enough that you told me, and um all of this happened, and then you end up in Germany and and for the first time you're you turn on the TV and you hear people lying about what had happened there.
	Yeah, you know, and and it it w at that point in time uh I I it was sickening, but I I turned it off.
	Yeah, I don't think people realize they they say, Well, you just wanted to make a book.
	You just wanted to re No, actually I went back and served in Yemen for eight more months.
	I I I went in 1960, you know, to my two-month break and I went and served again because I figured you know I figured at that time and I wasn't into politics.
	Hey, the the powers that be will get this figured out.
	I trust them, they're my leaders, uh how wrong I could be, and how how I started to see that there was a deep state definitely involved.
	And and over this last six years, they still are trying to rewrite history of Benghazi.
	And that is a slap in the face not to just the family members, but I'll even say to myself, the guys that fought, and I I watched Tyrone and Glenn die.
	I was shooting over their heads.
	They didn't die, and I and uh just by being on the ground with me.
	I was shooting over their heads when they were hit with mortars.
	I saw those mortars hit.
	And to so do you just call it a conspiracy theory and try to rewrite history when I watched them die, and then I helped get their bodies to the airfield.
	And uh and I also ID'd the ambassador's body who was dying who died that night as well.
	Um it it it it really offends me.
	And of course I'm gonna get angry.
	Well, is the ambassador Stevens that who had requested numerous times additional security and it was never forthcoming.
	That was Hillary Clinton State Department.
	And here you are at an annex about a mile away, you know what's going on.
	You know this is a terror attack, and that's why this whole story you want to talk about a conspiracy theory and Susan Rice going on five Sunday shows and telling the American people an outright lie.
	But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what it began spontaneously in Benghazi uh as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo, where of course, as you know, uh there was a violent protest outside of our embassy, uh sparked by this uh hateful video.
	Um but soon after that uh spontaneous protest uh began outside of our consulate in Benghazi.
	We believe that it looks like extremist elements, uh individuals joined in that uh in that effort with heavy weapons uh of the sort that are unfortunately readily now available uh in Libya post revolution, and that it spun from there into something much, much more violent.
	Uh that this was a spontaneous demonstration.
	Uh it wasn't spontaneous.
	People don't show up at demonstrations with grenade launchers in their back pocket like they did in this particular case.
	Exactly.
	I mean let me bring Sean Parnell in.
	Hey, Chris, it's great to finally get a chance to meet you on the great Sean Hannity's radio show.
	It's pretty amazing.
	And you you you too, right?
	You know, I thanks for your service.
	I I admire you.
	You're you're a hero, my friend.
	And likewise, man.
	Well, by the way, for those that don't know, and I think it's important, I was gonna bring this up.
	Uh uh Sean Parnell's uh army unit served in Afghanistan was the subject of the book, the national bestseller called Outlaw uh Platoon.
	And uh it was 9-11, 2001 that inspired you to join the army to defend this country.
	And you had what, 485-day deployment, 2006 and seven.
	Yep.
	You're the only a single member of your platoon was killed.
	And since returning home, three members of the platoon have taken their own lives, and there's some two hundred and fifty plus thousand men because we we overdeployed them all.
	Right, correct.
	And PTSD is real, and these guys are struggling to this day.
	Well, I mean, that is why I I part of the reason why I made the jump into fiction with Man of War, because by the way, I have to say it's surreal to see Man of War on the Shelves and the fiction shelves right next to Bob Woodward's book.
	Um but but I I will say that's that's the reason why I wrote that book, a mainstream fiction story, uh, who Eric Steele is my hero, but uh he embodies the greatness of the warrior ethos that that Chris you and I uh you know aspired to to hold true to when we were in the military.
	He em he embodies everything that is great about the American character.
	And you know, after September 11th, the most horrific terrorist attack in our nation's history.
	I mean, I what really stuck with me that day was how the first responders responded to it.
	Police officers, firefighters, just ordinary American citizens who on that day in my eyes became extraordinary because instead of running away from the flames that day, they ran headlong into them.
	And many of the people that went into the flames that day never escaped again with their lives, and I just feel like you know that inspired me to serve my country, serve something greater than myself and take the fight to the enemy for a year and a half, but but it also inspired me to write a great To me, a a fiction book with a mainstream fiction book with a character that actually loves this country because I don't feel like there's enough of that in our culture today.
	Well, I agree with that.
	And you know, look, I th I don't in retrospect, I'm not willing to send guys to war anymore if we're not gonna fight to win the war.
	Look, we have you're exactly right.
	I'm not gonna I'm not willing.
	Look, we have a moral responsibility in this country that when we send soldiers to war, win it, win it.
	We could win the war.
	Otherwise, you have guys coming home and question what it was for in the first place for decades.
	How many are back here with no legs, no arms, with their faces disfigured for the rest of their lives?
	Thousands.
	Uh thousands of thousands.
	And then others never came home, or they came home in pieces in a box with an American flag draped over it.
	We ask people to step up and fight for their country, uh, and then we don't back them and we politicize our wars, and then we pull out and we don't we don't finish the job.
	It's maddening because here here we are in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history, 17 plus years.
	We win every battle on the ground.
	But somehow, somehow, in my eyes, we're losing the war because we have the wrong strategy because we've we've we've let our politicians take over the war as opposed to letting Jimmy.
	What do you think happened?
	58,000 kids died in Vietnam.
	58,000.
	Then a war becomes politicized, and what do we do?
	We pulled out.
	Yeah, and honestly, that the same thing that h it's the same tragedy that happened with Chris, right?
	You know, you have politicians involved where they shouldn't be.
	In the case of President Obama, he violated a sacred trust.
	If you're if your boys are under attack and they're being shot at and they are being overwhelmed, you send in the cavalry.
	And not only did President Obama, by the way, the commander in chief, the first the first, yeah, yeah, title.
	He's a commander, a duty and obligation and responsibility to the men and women in uniform to be there for them when they need it most.
	And in your most dire moment, Chris, he was not there.
	And not only that, he lied about it.
	How did the personnel react to being told to stand down?
	They were furious.
	So the military is told to stand down, not engage with the fight.
	These are the kind of people willing to engage.
	What did uh where'd that message come down?
	Where'd the stand down order come from?
	I believe it came from either AFRICOM or South Africa.
	So so how many times did you guys attempt to go help out Ambassador Stevens and this compound that was under uh the under under attack enemy attack?
	Officially there was three.
	There was actually two weights and a and a stand down.
	So uh if you want to say officially, but for 30 minutes we were we were trying to get out the gate.
	But if you want to say an actual, hey, we need to go to our to our leadership, our chief and our team leader.
	No, you're not going wait.
	All right, we'll wait.
	There was actually three different specific times.
	Two are the weights to meet Tick got to stand down, and then we finally just said, you know, to hell with it.
	We're going, guys.
	This is when when you hear your buddy, and I and I know I know Sean's heard this before as well, that radio call, and it doesn't even be even any expertise.
	It's just the voice that just put that chills up your spine.
	And said, and and when Alec, the State Department officer who had barricaded himself in the tackle operation, the tactile operation center at the consulate said GRS, which was us.
	You know what we are, global response.
	He said, GRS, if you don't get here, we're all gonna F and die.
	The whole team's like to hell with this.
	We're going.
	Now and we knew we knew that if any of us died over there because we're contractors, we would get no insurance.
	We know how no life insurance.
	If we got it, it's unbelievable.
	Because we just we would be disappointed.
	But you still but here you hear you but you knew your fellow Americans were under fire.
	Yeah.
	You knew that they needed help.
	You had the ability to help them.
	It's a mile, you're a mile away.
	You're the first you're it.
	You're the only line of defense they have.
	Ultimately, you ended up saving dozens of lives in the process.
	Yeah, we did.
	People that otherwise would have died.
	You lost people very close to you in that fire fight that that took the same risk that you did, and then you get to Germany after you're flown out of there, and the next thing you hear is your government lying to you about the whole incident.
	They made it up.
	And and still, still all of us had had the test of fortitude to put that aside, at least initially.
	We can only call SEALs and Rangers and Marines liars for so long before we finally just tap at it, uh, which is about eight months.
	I'll give you that time.
	That's that's how long it is.
	It's eight months.
	And uh, but we still have the test of fortune to put that aside and still trust our leadership, even though deep down inside, because I I've been deploying at that point, I've been deploying for ten years.
	Ten years I've been deploying Afghanistan, Iraq, uh, Libya, and then also uh Yemen.
	Uh but we still have the at the uh the intensive fortitude to put that aside.
	So you know what?
	They're gonna get this right.
	This is America.
	They're still our leaders, no matter who's in office, they still have our backs and they're gonna get this figure.
	Well, that's the problem.
	They don't they're not showing that we have their backs.
	I will take a break.
	We'll have more in just a second here as we continue the Sean Hannity show.
	All right, as we continue with Chris Tonto Peranto and Sean Parnell.
	Now look, I actually have another idea, and I want to run it by both of you, and I kid Chris Tonto Peranto a lot because he's like the little brother that I never had.
	You didn't win.
	You got me, dude.
	No, I did.
	I mean, I'll choke your ass out, and you know it.
	Well, you know that I train like a maniac, but I mean I'm glad that you're on the other side of the desk.
	Oh, you're full of crap.
	You could kick my ass.
	Uh but the point is here's the thing.
	We got to start building the technology so we don't have to send men and women door to door anymore.
	We gotta stop.
	It's a tough fight.
	Yeah, door to door fighting military operations on Urban Terrain is.
	We now have to fight with the best technology.
	We should never send boots on the ground in the situation like we did in Iraq ever again.
	Or Afghanistan.
	Well, I mean, it's true.
	I know you need some, but you don't need to No, look.
	I mean, we we we drove around in Afghanistan in regular Humvees, pick up truck pickup truck Humvees, and we're getting ambushed by Were they up armored?
	No.
	And we were you're getting ambushed by enemy elements that were three times our size riding around in the back of the trucks like we're the Beverly Hillbillies.
	And it wasn't until six or seven months into the deployment where we finally got the equipment that we needed.
	But how many men and women were wounded equipment?
	I couldn't believe how long it took these uh Humvees to get up armored.
	I couldn't believe it.
	All right.
	Here's the other thing.
	So if it's me and I'll ask Sean those questions.
	Me in Toronto, uh Tonto Peranto in a fight, who's gonna win me, right?
	Uh yes, Sean.
	Is it a war of words?
	Because it's a war if it's a war of words, maybe.
	No, I'm now but if it's a war of fisticuffs, I think you're done.
	I don't think so.
	I I've been training for six years.
	I'm now you better hope he doesn't have the ability to reach through that microphone and choke you.
	I'll I will I'll grab his carotid and I'll rip it out of his neck.
	I'm just gonna be quiet here and be that that humble, humble professional.
	You know what the best thing is, I'll just fill him I've seen him professional.
	Listen, I've seen him out drinking.
	As much as I enjoy all of this, I need you to say goodbye.
	So if we could do that, that'd be great.
	Sean, it's great to see you, but I'm not too I'm not gonna mess with right there.
	That's right, Sonto.
	All right.
	I kind of like I like I kind of like Tonto, but I really like Sean.
	I'm just saying.
	It's the same name because you have to be a good thing.
	You have the same name and we spell it the same way.
	Right, the right way.
	All right.
	Love you both.
	Thank you.
	And uh thanks for what you did uh back uh what was it now?
	Six years ago.
	Unbelievable.
	Uh 800 941 Sean Tollfree telephone number.
	We'll take a quick break.
	We'll come back, we'll continue.
	Glad you're with us.
	Uh joining us now is Tom Fenton of Judicial Watch.
	He is the president of Judicial Watch.
	Uh welcome back to the program, sir.
	How are you?
	I'm doing well, Sean.
	How are you today?
	I'm good.
	So now we know in the latest struck page messages uh back and forth that there was coordination, the coordination between the DOJ and the FBI to actually have a media leak strategy with an ongoing investigation with evidence that was never proven, on top of, of course, using the phony steel dossier to get the Pfizer warrants and everything in between.
	This is about as corrupt as anything I've ever seen, and the biggest abuse of power in our history.
	And the question is where do we go from here?
	You know, I I in a just world, the Mueller investigation would end or at least pause.
	I mean, just think if this is a regular criminal investigation at the state level and you had the cops, you know, Strunk and Company engaged in such outrageous misconduct, abusing their authority, going after someone because of political bias.
	The prosecution would stop.
	The courts would step in and stop it.
	And I'm I think frankly, our friends in Congress, Sean, you need to spend less time talking about Strck, Page, Comey, and the rest, and more time talking about what Mr. Mueller is doing based on all of the crooked activities by that gang.
	Well, we now know, but wait a minute, but it's all tied together.
	But for their corruption.
	Listen, it's all true, but we've got to build out the story, and each each piece puts the puzzle together.
	We we have now framed in that puzzle.
	And now we're just filling in the final pieces of the puzzle, but what we know is is breathtaking.
	And that is you had a group of people, and we have an insurance policy group.
	You had Strck, you had Page, you had Comey, you had McCabe, uh, and other people, then Bruce Or and and Sally Yates and Christopher Steele.
	But two of the people who were involved in exonerating Hillary when we know she committed felonies to keep their favored candidate in the race.
	Hillary Clinton funds the money, funnels money, which I would argue is a campaign finance violation.
	Through a law firm to Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson.
	And then he hires Christopher Steele.
	What a what is the one thing all of these people have in common?
	Strck and Paige and Orr, Nelly Or works for Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele.
	They all hate Donald Trump.
	They never wanted him to be president.
	Now then you get this dossier put together, which eventually we discover that Christopher Steele doesn't even believe himself.
	That becomes the basis for a Pfizer warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate.
	And then of course they never verify, they never corroborate.
	All of these things happen.
	And they're telling us it's true.
	Now we might get that information sooner rather than later, and I hope we do.
	And then we find out that Orr stays in touch with Christopher Steele, who's fired for lying and leaking, and that they're talking about firewalls so they don't get caught.
	They're afraid they're going to get exposed.
	And I think the single most dangerous piece of information we now have is that Steele was funneling his lies through the FBI into the hands of Mueller's team vis-a-vis Andrew Weissman.
	And he's asking or about, well, you know, did you get my information to the SC, the special counsel?
	Well, you may not have noticed, but last week Judicial Watch obtained new documents uh from the FBI.
	They were trying, it looks like to rehabilitate Steele, but they found that they couldn't really believe in the dossier.
	And this is prior uh this is subsequent to other documents we found.
	And this is a quote from the documents.
	The FBI said Steele was deemed not suitable as a confidential human source, and he was not to collect intelligence on behalf or for the FBI.
	So this is the FBI's own documents showing uh that Steele was to be kept away from, and they as you point out, corruptly continued to use him anyway.
	One intermediate step that can be done is the Office of Special Counsel, which is charged with making sure that put federal officials don't abuse their offices to advance a political agenda, like under the Hatch Act, for instance, which prohibits political activities by federal employees in most circumstances, can conduct a criminal or serious investigation into what Strck was up to.
	He clearly had anti-Trump bias.
	He clearly was using FBI resources to advance that bias to stop Trump, as he says, and have an insurance policy.
	The Office of Special Counsel, which is not in the Justice Department, can conduct an independent criminal investigation.
	So that I think that's one area that we can draw our attention to or draw attention to as an opportunity for more accountability for Strzok because he has zero credibility.
	His lawyers are telling us don't believe what you read in his emails and text messages, and obviously that's not persuasive.
	Even the FBI had to let him go because it didn't become credible anymore.
	So we've we've just got to keep the pressure on Sean here.
	And if I were you know, and if they don't want to focus on Mueller, bring him in and ask him some questions.
	Why did you keep Strzok on?
	Why'd you fire him?
	Why is he keeping Andrew Weissman on?
	What Weissman who's caught up in this in terms of potentially leaking information in the middle of the campaign to friendly media.
	Well, I think that's the worst part.
	Let me go through because you put out a release yesterday on the letter that uh we know was sent to Rod Rosenstein by Congressman Mark Meadows.
	I mean, I think this is very revealing that the FBI agent Peter Strzok is contacting Lisa Page's girlfriend, they're discussing their words, a media leak strategy.
	The text says specifically, I had literally just gone uh to find this phone to tell you that I want to talk about the media leak strategy with the DOJ before you go.
	The next day the leak comes out in the Washington Post.
	Then the day after that, Strzok congratulates Page on a good job while referencing and referring to the two derogatory articles about Carter Page in the text.
	Strzok is warning page that two articles are coming out, one is worse than the other about Lisa's namesake, and added, well done page.
	So you have people in the FBI coordinating with the DOJ, and now we know that they that Christopher Steele and the Department of Justice are coordinating with the special counsel.
	How can they investigate?
	How do you have Rod Rosenstein in there when Rod signed the fourth Pfizer warrant and appointed Muller and is a witness as relates to the firing of Comey?
	Right.
	And and Strzok is no he's not just your regular FBI agent.
	He was running the Russia investigation at an operational level for uh for the FBI.
	He was traveling overseas.
	He was running the Clinton investigation concurrently.
	We just had documents come out showing that Strzok drafted the initial letter that Comey sent to Congress reopening the Clinton email issue with the Wiener laptop uh fight.
	Uh and and uh now we just sued for all the Wiener stuff because it looks like Strz didn't want to look at all of that.
	According to the IG, that investigation against Clinton was curtailed per t perhaps because the IG admits, I think it's more direct of the bias that Strzok had against President Trump.
	He didn't want the Wiener laptop find that all the Clinton emails were on Wiener's laptop, which is outrageous now that we know the eighteen classified emails were on that system to get in away with this get Trump Russia operation.
	Let me bring Sarah Carter in Sarah pointed that out, not us, the IG did.
	Sarah Carter, and I'm told that there I just read the two text messages that you broke yesterday, but now we've got more text messages that you have that are going to be coming out tonight, and these two go even deeper.
	Can you give us a preview of what you're going to tell us?
	Well, I can give you a few hints.
	I mean, it does go deeper.
	I think we're going to see a lot more um with regard to higher level officials, Sean, at the FBI, uh involved with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and coordinating with the DOJ.
	I think this is very significant because once again, once again, everything that they have been attempting to say to Congress or keeping from Congress, uh, now they're getting caught.
	So they're basically getting caught with their foot in their own mouth.
	Um, this is something that Peter Strzok's attorney uh tried to mitigate.
	This was about how to prevent leaks, not about leaks.
	Uh, but there's just too much information here.
	There's not even circumstantial uh uh uh evidence, it's very solid evidence.
	Well, not only that, in the in the in the text messages that I understand are coming out today, they actually talk about the name of the reporters involved in this.
	Absolutely.
	And Strzok's boss is mentioned in all of this, and meaning that he knew about it.
	Absolutely, and you know, so we know now that McCabe was well aware of what was going on.
	We understand now that Lisa Page and Peter Strzok were actively speaking with Bruce Orr, who was a back channel for Christopher Steele, and Tom Fitton put it so perfectly when he was saying that you know it's look, we have documents that show documents from the FBI themselves.
	This is not conspiracy theory.
	This is the truth.
	Documents that say Christopher Steele should no longer be used as a source.
	He's not trustworthy.
	I can tell you this.
	Months ago, I spoke to intelligence officials who worked with Christopher Steele directly while he was still a part of MI6.
	And they didn't have great things to say about Christopher Steele.
	They didn't use the spin.
	They thought he was a blowhard.
	They didn't believe half of what he was saying half the time.
	And and let me tell you this, Christopher Steele got most of his information from Russians.
	So this is what I'm having a really difficult time understanding.
	We have the left and a lot of people that are uh anti-Trumpers or never Trumpers saying, Oh, we shouldn't believe this.
	They colluded with the Russians, and even though there's no evidence there whatsoever that they colluded with Russians, but they're willing to believe Russian lies.
	Basically Russian lies delivered by a foreign intelligence.
	And now we have people within the FBI at the senior level and the DOJ in text messages.
	This isn't stuff that we're making up.
	This isn't a dossier that was put together by some uh right wing Trump supporter.
	This is their own words actually exposing these people for who they are and for what they were doing and how they were subverting the United States Constitution, the laws that uh garner this land, they were actually subverting it.
	Malfeasance within these departments that we trust that we give all our trust to.
	I mean, this is September 11th.
	Let me go back to the day that we remember all those people.
	And and here we have people at the highest levels in these agencies that are playing these games, not the foot soldiers, not the people that are down on the ground fighting, but the people at the top.
	All right, as we uh take a break here, we'll come back with Sarah Carter and with Tom Fitton.
	All right, as we continue, Tom Fitton, Sarah Carter, uh remain 800 nine four one Sean.
	Your call's at the bottom of this half hour.
	Let me go to your discovery, Freedom of Information Act and Judicial Watch.
	If Anthony Wiener's laptop contained hundreds of thousands of emails, do we know if any of them had any Hillary emails in there?
	Uh Uma Abedin in emails in there.
	Uh and when do we get a hold of those emails?
	Well, they've given us all the state the State Department received from the FBI the emails that were State Department documents, supposedly, potentially responsive, and they gave us um uh many hundreds of records, including at least eighteen classified documents that were from the Clinton email server present on Anthony Wiener's laptop.
	The classified material included the identity of a CIA operative, so pretty sensitive classified material.
	And if frankly, if anyone else had classified material or set up a system that allowed classified material not only to be accessible to the public event essentially on your own server because it was so insecure, but then was placed on other systems like Anthony Wiener's laptop, you would have been arrested.
	Uh Hillary Clinton would have been arrested, Yuma Abedin would have been arrested if the rule is.
	Did we ever find did we ever find the 33,000 emails that she deleted and acid washed off with bleach bit and had busted up in you know on devices?
	Did we ever get all of those?
	What how what percentage of any did we get?
	Well, we're still unclear as to what percentages there, but we've been getting them in dribs and drabs from the government.
	We should be getting the last bash soon.
	And these are the emails that were either deleted or Mrs. Clinton did not want to be able to do that.
	Do they have all thirty-three thousand emails that were deleted?
	We don't know, but we do know there was classified information on the emails that she deleted or hidden from the American.
	Well, even James Comey admitted that.
	And on July 5th.
	So I guess the the book Where Where's this Justice Department, Sean?
	Well I don't know.
	I don't have an answer.
	Ray and Sessions, unbelievable.
	Sarah, you want to take a stab at that?
	Because I don't know the answer to it.
	I I don't think anyone knows the answer to it.
	What we do know, what we do know, Sean, is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is missing in action.
	We don't know what John Huber is doing because obviously we found out now that he's never interviewed Bruce Orr, who is a significant player in all of this.
	Uh we have Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who's somehow in charge of this special counsel investigation, even though he is directly involved in this, he signed the fourth FISA warrant uh on Carter Page and should have known what was uh the the problems and the compromises made there in the malfeasance.
	So basically we have no one checking on the investigators.
	And sorry, you're there with or we'd lose you.
	All right, we'll go back to Tom Fitt and we'll give you the last word, Tom.
	Well, uh the the immediate steps that can be taken now, Sean, declassification.
	Declassify the rest of the Pfizer warrant.
	We have these or documents that be declassified because right now the FBI and Justice Department are stonewalling the release of information, and the president can uh uh I think insert himself, require more timely release, and declassify material that's not being classified for national security reasons.
	Well, we know what we need.
	We need the 302s between Bruce Orr and Christopher Steele.
	We need the unredacted Pfizer memos specific pages, I'm told, ten through twelve, seventeen through thirty-four.
	Uh if we're going to be thorough, we would get all of the gang of eight material as I understand, which would be available to everybody.
	Um a specific classified email chain from October 14th between the FBI and the DOJ, and every other request and you know, everybody else that's involved in this.
	And, you know, and there uh there are other things that haven't been turned over to the public through FOIA as well.
	They Justice Department and the FBI have said that text messages generated by Andrew McCabe aren't covered by FOIA.
	They won't even look at them.
	Uh so there's a lot of stuff here.
	Uh I I would have point a transparency R maybe to run the just uh the oversee Justice Department and FBI responses because i i you know it's like the Fox guarding the hen house.
	They can't be trusted to pro provide documents in a timely way or at all on issues that uh the as an agency or individually they have worries about because it would evidence corruption.
	Uh we gotta let you go.
	Tom Fitton, thank you for being with us, Sarah Carter.
	Thank you for being with us 800 nine point one Sean, toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	We'll get to your calls when we come back straight ahead.
	All right, let's go back.
	And yes, it was uh how long ago?
	It was what, six years ago, Benghazi?
	And seventeen years ago today, Michael W. Smith, there she stands.
	He was actually asked to write that song By then President George W. Bush.
	And we've inserted our sound, and then we'll play President Trump from earlier today.
	We'll get to your calls.
	Listen to the song.
	Everyone's asking to play together.
	This just into our newsroom.
	A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
	That was another plane.
	Apparently, that was another plane.
	An airplane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
	Oh.
	There appears to be a gaping hole.
	Oh, there it goes.
	There it goes.
	But I know.
	The whole side has collapsed.
	No.
	By the life.
	She stands.
	Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center.
	We're not gonna be coward by it if we're not afraid.
	Faithful friend.
	The freedom-loving nations of the world stand by our side.
	Proud to have the red, white, and blue.
	This country will not relent.
	So away.
	Jerry me.
	I think about the families, the children.
	Freedom itself was attacked and freedom will be defended.
	She still hear you.
	Just when you think it might be over.
	Just when you think the fine is gone.
	Someone will raise the life to race.
	The resolve of our great nation is being tested.
	Then she stands.
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of North, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God and the world of more, forever the end of the fall.
	Then she fly.
	We will not forget the 2800 people.
	Police and fire not only were heroes at the beginning, but they're still heroes.
	We're gonna come out of this emotionally stronger.
	And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.
	I don't think anybody should forget the visuals of every brave.
	Those guys did more than anyone ever expected in this tree.
	They messed with the wrong city.
	and they messed with the wrong state.
	She stands.
	And I just don't want people to forget.
	When he will call to self money.
	They all had a sense of duty to protect us all.
	When all your homes come crashing down, we'll be steadfast in our determination.
	Someone will fall from the road.
	The rest of the country now understand who the true defenders are.
	May the Irish hills caress you.
	May her lakes and rivers bless you.
	We see the flying sword and setting.
	May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
	We seem to stand.
	May the blessings of St. Patrick behold you.
	God bless Ireland.
	And God bless the United States of America.
	She stands.
	Now America's embracing a new ethic and a new creed.
	Let's roll.
	The phrase New York's finest and New York's bravest means something now, doesn't it?
	This is a time to reflect and be thankful for where we are today.
	through the fight.
	We will rebuild New York City.
	She stands.
	Yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves.
	At this memorial on this sacred earth, in the field beyond this wall.
	And in the skies above our heads, we remember the moment when America fought back.
	We're also joined by members of the National Park Service along with firefighters, first responders, and incredible people from law enforcement.
	These are truly great people.
	Some of you here today answered the call and raced to this field 17 years ago.
	You fill our hearts with pride, and I want to thank you on behalf of our country.
	Thank you very much.
	Most importantly to the family members of Flight 93.
	Today, all of America wraps up and joins together.
	We close our arms to help you shoulder your pain and to carry your great great sorrow.
	Your tears are not shed alone.
	For they are shared grief with an entire nation.
	We grieve together for every mother and father, sister and brother, son and daughter who was stolen from us at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon.
	And here in this Pennsylvania field.
	We honor their sacrifice by pledging to never flinch in the face of evil and to do whatever it takes to keep America safe.
	Seventeen years ago, your loved ones were among the 40 of Flight 93.
	40 passengers and crew members on board the 8 a.m.
	United Airlines flight from Newark to San Francisco.
	They were men and women from every background.
	They were young people returning from visiting family.
	Moms and dads on business trips and friends going and coming from birthdays and weddings.
	And they entered eternity linked forever as true heroes.
	That was Michael W. Smith.
	There she stands, and the president from his remarks earlier today.
	We have Fran is in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	Fran, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thanks, Sean.
	It's great to be here today.
	And thanks so much for keeping this memory alive.
	All these 9-11 fans both wrote one and those that uh did what they did in Benghazi.
	It's it's really great that you're doing what you're doing today.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for the opportunity to do it.
	We appreciate it.
	Well, my um my story is one with uh my first cousin Joe Angelini Sr.
	Uh, he was with Rescue One, uh, and his son was Joe Ancelini Jr.
	And they're they're still to this day the only father and son team that uh ever gave their lives up on the same fire in New York City.
	So they're well remembered and respected, and their uh names are one over the other on the South Tower wall, right in front of the uh survivors ring.
	So yeah, you know, I gotta tell you something.
	So you're the cousin of a father and a son, and you're and they were killed on 9-11.
	Do you know what happened exactly?
	Yeah, uh well, Joe Sr.
	Who was always rasped because they always said, you know, he missed the big ones.
	He always missed the big he missed the the first nine or the first uh twin towers attack in tw in '92.
	And uh he was wrong he was on the street in front of the North Tower.
	And uh, in fact, they they rescued him and his uh funeral was on 921 in Lindenhurst.
	So he had the first funeral in Long Island.
	So that was quite a thing to be in that limousine and seeing all the people on both sides of the street.
	Yeah, that was their first opportunity, you know, to grieve.
	Listen, I I remember all of it.
	I remember that, you know, Rudy Giuliani tried to get to every single solitary funeral, and uh you know you did, and I saw him at the convention, and I thanked him for being at both funerals, and he said, you know, I remember that church.
	And it it dawned on me that he was at so many churches, and and he said, I remember that church.
	And you know he spent the whole funeral there three hours in school.
	Listen, I'm gonna tell you something.
	It was devastating for these families.
	I know these families still today, and they haven't gotten over it.
	And that's why, you know, on days like today a day like today, you know, it it's very hard on them because they know what happened.
	And it was such a shock to our system and our soul, we weren't prepared.
	They were at war, we weren't at war with with them.
	And you know what?
	We can never get back on that footing.
	We've got to understand that evil exists, the enemy exists, and that they want to destroy who we are, and they hate who we are.
	And it's a hard thing for good people to wrap their arms around sometimes, but it's absolutely true.
	Yeah, we lost our innocence in a lot of ways that day.
	You're right.
	A lot of ways, you're right.
	All right, my friend, thank you.
	We appreciate you being with us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to them and so many others.
	Cheryl is in North Carolina.
	I hope you're hunkered down there.
	Are you near the coast, uh, Cheryl?
	Um, no, I'm actually about four hours from the coast.
	I'm kinda in the middle of North Carolina, right in the Piedmont.
	Okay.
	Well, you're still probably gonna have some high winds, a lot of rain, and it's not gonna be that fun.
	It looks like it's gonna hit Thursday right around Hannity time on TV.
	That's what I've heard.
	Yeah, they said during the night Thursday or Friday is when we're gonna get it.
	Of course, there's no water on the chefs to be had.
	Yeah, well, I gotta tell you something.
	It is I'm I'm all I'm hearing from everybody that knows, including my buddy Joe Bastardi, the official meteorologist of the Sean Hannity show, uh, this is the real deal.
	This is not a this is not a test.
	This is a real emergency for a lot of people.
	Uh from everything I hear, people are heeding the warning, they're getting out.
	You know, take whatever you need to take with you.
	Take your animals, take your important papers, take your valuables, those that you can, take memories with your pictures, pack up your truck, pack up your your van, pack up your SUV, whatever you got, your car, doesn't matter, and just be careful, get out of harm's way.
	And everybody understands and and we'll be here as a country, you know, to come in behind you and help and donate like all Americans always do.
	Yes, I do.
	Um, I appreciate everything you do and for telling the truth, but uh my comment is I was listening to a clip of Obama's speech, and if the country is in such bad shape and Trump is doing such a terrible job, why is Obama trying to take credit for it?
	Because he's jealous, and I think Obama's incapable of recognizing that he himself and the rigid ideology that he bought into his whole life failed.
	I think Obama's a true leftist believer.
	Everything in his background shows that he believed everything I think he said.
	You know, community organizer, acorn, Reverend Wright, everything, the black liberation theology, airs and doorne.
	I think there is a radical side of this guy.
	Well, he he and he's just um contradicting the Democratic Party.
	They're talking about how bad it is, but he's really admitting how good it is and wanting the glory for it.
	Well, of course he wants the glory, and I think he resents the hell out of it that the economy came back after he left office.
	Resents he he wants to he's literally saying, No, I did that.
	He tells all of us that you didn't build that, but he built the good economy after he left.
	Right, right.
	It's disgusting.
	Uh it is pretty bad.
	All right, listen, stay safe.
	Everybody in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, we're uh praying for y'all.
	All right, hang in there.
	And we'll be we'll be there.
	I know the American people.
	They'll be there.
	And uh whatever you need, food, water, medicine, supplies, baby formula, cots, blankets, you know, we'll do whatever we can do to help.
	It doesn't make it fun, it doesn't make it easy.
	I've met many, many people over the years that have had their entire homes destroyed.
	It is really, really you know, it's a hard thing to go through.
	But you come out of it with your life first, and then we'll worry about replacing the material things after.
	Mike in Detroit.
	Mike, hi, how are you?
	Hello, Sean.
	It's good to speak with you.
	A long time listener.
	I love your Fox show.
	I'm gonna try to be real quick because I got a couple of quick questions.
	All right.
	Trump has got so many people in his corner ready to fight.
	Anything he can turn over or declassify, I can't understand why he wouldn't do it.
	What's he waiting for?
	One of his kids to get indicted or something.
	And if they do get a special counsel to look into the investigators, can it be stopped by the Democrats if they take the House handle or Senate?
	And something else I thought about.
	If they're for the investigation, the special counsel to begin with, there was supposed to be a crime uh designated.
	If there's no crime designated, then can't Trump put an end to it.
	Yeah, I think thirty thirty days.
	Name the crime or I'm putting an end to it.
	Put them on their heels.
	Listen, I think all of that's gonna happen.
	I think it's gonna happen sooner than later.
	I don't think it's gonna happen on a week where 9-11 happened.
	Uh it's to me, there's other things that we are more important to talk about.
	And I don't think with a big massive hurricane about to hit the east coast of the United States, that looks like the real deal that that anybody's gonna be focused on that.
	We've got to worry about our neighbors right now.
	We've got to roll up our sleeves and be prepared to help out the people of South Carolina, North Carolina, and uh uh elsewhere.
	That's where our focus is.
	But afterwards, I would I would expect that he will do that.
	That's gonna wrap things up for today.
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