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| Do you want to outside your home to protest or protest for fascism and racism? | |
| You promote me. | |
| That's why. | |
| and ideology that has led to thousands of people dying by the hands of the police to trans women being murdered in the streets. | |
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| Hey everyone. | |
| Uh this is Brian Kilmead. | |
| He says lots of weird uh kind of racist stuff on the news a lot. | |
| This is the the closest personal advisor to Donald Trump, the Fox and Friends host, Brian Kilmead. | |
| If you have anything you want Donald Trump to say, uh or do, tell this guy, because he's the only person in America that Donald Trump listens to. | |
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| Brian, did you get that? | |
| Career career criminal traitor, go to hell. | |
| Stop grabbing Okay, there we go. | |
| That goes for Trump and you. | |
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| All right, news Roundup Information Overload Hour, Sean Hannity Show, 800941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number. | |
| Uh there was the mob outside of Tucker Carlson's house two days ago. | |
| Sadly, his wife was in there hiding in a pantry. | |
| Uh they used vandalism on his car in front of his house. | |
| They tried to bust the front door open. | |
| They damaged that. | |
| And they're we we will fight. | |
| We know where you sleep at night chanting. | |
| They also chanted mailbomb, all of whom should be arrested. | |
| Now the amazing thing about this is we've been discussing and chronicling and watching this the rise of the mob, if you will, uh on a frequent basis. | |
| And let's see, we see Secretary Nielsen run out of a restaurant. | |
| Sarah Sanders with her kids run out of a restaurant, then they run out of another restaurant. | |
| Uh Pam Bondy, a uh literally run out of a movie theater. | |
| Uh you've got Ted Cruz, his wife Heidi, they're run out of a restaurant. | |
| Poor Mitch McConnell, four times it's happened to him. | |
| It's happened in airports, what, two weekends ago, it happened in a restaurant. | |
| He's sitting there with his wife, Elaine Chow. | |
| Some guy comes up, boom, banging on their table, taking the food on their table, throwing it out the door, screaming at the top of his lungs, and I keep saying something horrible's gonna happen here. | |
| Now the amazing thing, it it only took the male bomber to liberals to wake people up, and they say, Well, this this has got to be because it's a Trump supporter. | |
| Now all of a sudden they were paying attention to it. | |
| Meanwhile, we have Maxine Waters on tape saying, Go, we want you to create a crowd and and follow them. | |
| Cabinet members into department stores and gas stations and grocery stores, and you tell them they're not wanted anywhere anymore. | |
| Then of course, Eric Holder, kick them. | |
| And Hillary Clinton says, we can't be civil with them. | |
| And all the other comments. | |
| Corey Booker, get in their face. | |
| That's a comment that he got from Obama who used about me back in the day. | |
| Um now the other tape that you heard was uh another colleague of mine, uh co-host of Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmead. | |
| And I think for a good 40 minutes, these two guys were stalking him, following him onto the subway, calling him out, and just making your life miserable. | |
| Did they ever put their hands on you at all? | |
| No, I mean they weren't within my reach, uh, Sean. | |
| And there is a I'm so as I'm listening to all these tapes in the and the and the common denominator between them. | |
| Everybody involved knows you. | |
| Maybe you're the problem. | |
| You're gonna blame me. | |
| Oh, is that it? | |
| Well, you know everybody as well too, but um the thing is they never touched me, they were they were out of reach, and my main focus, and you were the first to call, by the way, uh, just so your listeners know, with all you have going on, that just is something else just shows who you are, you're a friend first. | |
| But I never thought. | |
| I really am I watched it, but first of all, you handled it with a lot of dignity, and I told you when I called you. | |
| I said, Um, you did it the right way. | |
| You never you never took debate, you didn't get into an argument with them. | |
| You didn't it you just handled it the way you should. | |
| The only mistake I think you made was you decided to go into the subway. | |
| When you go into the subway, you're trapped. | |
| You know, if God forbid that car stopped and you're there for three hours with those guys in your face. | |
| I don't know if that would have ended well. | |
| And then you get out of the subway, and then you go buy like a latte or something at a coffee store. | |
| I'm like, what are you doing? | |
| Exactly what I bought a smoothie. | |
| Please be factual, Sean. | |
| Okay. | |
| Oh, I'm sorry. | |
| God, I don't want to be fake news like CNN. | |
| Yeah, I mean, basically I just said after a while, there are two cameras. | |
| If you grab one guy, the other guy's rolling on it. | |
| And I just said, after a while, and I got two calls during the time. | |
| Like, I'll I can't miss my daughter's game. | |
| She plays at 415, I gotta get on three o'clock train. | |
| And I'm not not gonna take a call because two lunatics uh don't like the fact that Donald Trump uh calls our show and likes our network. | |
| You know, I think that look, to me, I think the most important thing is is how we handle it, but there's a bigger issue here is this is now the new tactic of the left. | |
| And while there were people, in fairness, I don't know if anybody came to your defense uh on the left and said they shouldn't do this to you. | |
| What did anyone speak out on your behalf that you know of? | |
| Uh you know, uh terms of the left, there's a lot of people that go on social media and did stuff. | |
| I don't think anything really stood out. | |
| Anybody in the media stick up for you that you know of besides yours truly? | |
| It's a fellow Fox people. | |
| Um, you know, Megan uh came out, uh Tucker came out right away. | |
| You know, the people I know. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Uh I didn't see anybody that agreed. | |
| In fact, it got so bad for them within two days they were forced to pull it down. | |
| I don't know that and it was hard last night when I was hosting Tucker, they said, Brian, do you have any video when you're harassed? | |
| Can we show it? | |
| I go, Yeah. | |
| I had a hard time pulling it up. | |
| Uh because it got taken down everywhere because it got blowback because there's nothing good about it. | |
| You know what's something else that was common? | |
| Not one person in that video changed anything they're doing. | |
| You think Pam Bondy stopped or Mitch McConnell stopped, or Tucker Carlson's gonna stop having the open he has, or or the show that he does. | |
| You think I'm doing it? | |
| I'm still taking the training subway. | |
| So nothing's altering in my life. | |
| The the problem is at some point this is gonna blow. | |
| And now we've got a situation. | |
| I don't know if you've been paying attention. | |
| This is a break the glass moment that we all knew was coming. | |
| And now you have NBC's Rachel Matow organizing these protesters because they didn't like the Jeff Sessions resigned. | |
| And the problem is that wasn't organic, Sean. | |
| There's Jeff Sessions doesn't have eight thousand fans in New York City organic. | |
| No, they were tweeting it out. | |
| The resistance is tweeting it out. | |
| Now, the only time before the election, they didn't care about Secretary Nielsen, Sarah Sanders, Pam Bondy, nobody you you couldn't even call it a mob on fake news CNN. | |
| And then we had the mail bombing issue, and I immediately spoke out about it. | |
| I know you spoke out about it immediately. | |
| Uh if you want to be a conservative or you're a fan of this program, leave everybody alone. | |
| We we we have a constitutional republic. | |
| You win some elections, you lose some. | |
| I know they're bitter at Tuesday's results. | |
| That's not our fault. | |
| Uh then they hate Donald Trump and all things Trump, and anybody that even likes Donald Trump, and anybody that's even a conservative. | |
| But the point here is then they decided to get in. | |
| Then they tried to link the synagogue shooting to Donald Trump when the shooter actually hated Trump because Trump was so pro-Israel. | |
| So they're only they they're very selective in their outrage, although a few did mention about Tucker Carlson. | |
| Look, uh a CNN guy was getting harassed. | |
| It was on Media I yesterday, and I gave him a call. | |
| I said, I hope you're all right. | |
| I've been through this myself. | |
| It's not fun. | |
| It's uh it's difficult, it can be hard on your family. | |
| Hang in there. | |
| Make sure you always report it to the police. | |
| Well, I got a couple of things. | |
| The the synagogue thing for Donald Trump, and it's so unjust. | |
| That stuck. | |
| For some reason, people think that Donald Trump was tangentially responsible for it, which is insane. | |
| Number two is uh I fear for what's gonna happen next in Florida, because this is so contentious. | |
| You saw Rick Scott. | |
| I've never seen him as angry as he was on your show last night and in that press conference prior. | |
| And I think he knows he's being screwed. | |
| He went from 30,000 up to 15,000 up, and Broward County is up to no good. | |
| People aren't going to be calm about this. | |
| They don't want to admit they lost uh Stacey Abrams doesn't want to admit she lost in Georgia. | |
| And you see what Bernie Sanders is saying that white people have trouble fi're voting for black people. | |
| I mean, what the hell is going on? | |
| You're not going to be able to do that. | |
| Well, you're talking about since election day. | |
| Now they're supposed to by law in Florida. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Report within 30 minutes after the polls close. | |
| I mean, it's that's a Florida law requires that you report early voting votes by mail within 30 minutes. | |
| Now, since Tuesday, they have found seventy-eight thousand votes in Broward County and 15,000 votes in Palm Beach. | |
| Every other county in Florida got it right. | |
| Every other county in Florida obeyed the law. | |
| The woman involved in this is has a history of playing these games and shunning the law, the state law or national voting laws. | |
| And why the police have not gone in there and shut that operation down immediately, because whatever's going on, they're not letting the people that are legally allowed on each political side of the aisle. | |
| They're only letting Mark Elliott apparently in there, who's Hillary Clinton's attorney. | |
| That's the guy that funnel the money to Perkins Couie. | |
| Yeah, it's unbelievable the way everything comes full circle. | |
| It's like a Seinfeld episode, only there's no comedy and no laugh track. | |
| Uh there's only consequences. | |
| I hate to tell you, you're saying that things should crack in. | |
| You're talking about the governor of the state. | |
| If this guy can't get justice for his own election in his own state, what prayer do we have? | |
| When you saw Marco Rubio so teed off, you know there's something underhanded going on. | |
| And I'm going to be doing Tucker again tonight, and that's probably going to be the lead story again tonight about what's going on in Florida. | |
| Listen, I was going to be off tonight, but this is too important. | |
| This election could be gone by the weekend, so I'll be in tonight too, right after you do Tucker, so I'll see you then. | |
| Um last question. | |
| What you saw Jim Acosta at the press conference, the pre the White House took back his credentials. | |
| I think the right decision. | |
| Uh he wasn't asking a question. | |
| He wanted a debate, he wanted a fight, he wanted his moment. | |
| And I if you or I were ever that rude to Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, we'd be excoriated. | |
| By our own people, by my own company. | |
| Fox News, if I was ever in there, or Ed Henry was in there during Barack Obama's time most of the time, if he treated President Obama like that, he would have got ripped by his own company. | |
| So that's the difference. | |
| And also the word is other reporters are matter at Jim Acosta than the president because he asked four or five questions. | |
| Don't they have a beat? | |
| Don't they have to cut a story? | |
| Don't their questions matter? | |
| You're supposed to care about your colleagues. | |
| Instead, you see a bunch of grandstanding. | |
| I can't, I couldn't believe what he tried to pull off. | |
| However, I don't know about the tactic of pulling his credentials. | |
| That story was buried after Jeff Sessions got fired. | |
| It now lives another day and another day, and he gets to do more shows and Colt and John Oliver, and he looks like a martyr. | |
| Uh I don't know if any messages sent. | |
| When he goes back, he's gonna be just as flamboyant and just as self-important. | |
| So, you know, I don't know about the strategy right off. | |
| And you know, I know President President Trump thrives on this stuff. | |
| He doesn't care about it. | |
| Um, but and I think you know, with the way he was talked to, I wouldn't talk to an adult like that, let alone the president of the United States like that. | |
| So listen, Brian Kilmeat, every Brian Kilmeat hosts everything. | |
| Brian Killme does Brian Kilmead Fox and Friends with uh Deucey and and Ainsley, and then you go to do radio for three hours, and then you usually do outnumbered, and then you usually do the five, and then you usually do Tucker, and then you complain you're tired when you have to get up six hours later. | |
| I think you're whining. | |
| I think you whine a little too much. | |
| But his uh his book is out in paperback, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans. | |
| Uh congrats on the book. | |
| I know it did really well. | |
| And uh we appreciate you taking the time. | |
| Brian Kilmead. | |
| Uh you sean hannity, it's now number three on the best seller list, so I'm not sure. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| All right, Brian, appreciate it. | |
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| All right, we got a minute here. | |
| Uh we're gonna take a call. | |
| We'll go to Florida where all the shenanigans are going on. | |
| Dana in Florida. | |
| Dana High, how are you? | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Thank you, Sean Hannity. | |
| Thank you so much for letting us have a voice out there. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| We can't do it without the case. | |
| And the lady that takes care of the phone call, she is. | |
| Oh, please give her a hug. | |
| She's so sweet. | |
| But anyway, my comment is the main one is on Jim Acask. | |
| He he needs I'm glad they did take his credentials away, but they need to do it permanent. | |
| This man has issues. | |
| And I'm not saying it to be mean to if I seen it on your show, I would call it out. | |
| But he has issues. | |
| And he's after the president, and it's not safe for him to be one-on-one like that with the president. | |
| I'm really surprised that they didn't have security in there to write. | |
| Well, there's security all over the room. | |
| I mean, uh the worst part is is how many times does the president have to tell somebody to please sit down? | |
| Please sit down. | |
| Please can you stop? | |
| We're done. | |
| We're not doing. | |
| And the fact that th there's a a level of arrogance and just, you know, this this narcissistic we're right, you're wrong. | |
| Not only are you wrong, you see, their hatred of him is actually a hatred of we, the people, and our choices. | |
| The reason the media hasn't talked about the election this week after the election is because they they didn't get what they wanted. | |
| Okay, yet Democrats won the House by like the slimmest margin. | |
| They will have the slimmest majority since nineteen forty-five. | |
| Um, the president who did campaign for all these Senate candidates in all of these states, he got spectacular wins and they know it. | |
| So they're mad at him, but really they're mad at us for not agreeing with them. | |
| And it's a contempt towards us that we don't see him the way they do. | |
| And they they have a uh superiority. | |
| And they don't seem to care that what they support in terms of legislation is a proven failure. | |
| So they're not really caring about we the people either. | |
| And that should be more troublesome than anything. | |
| But I gotta run data. | |
| Thank you. | |
| All right, we'll come back. | |
| Wide open phones uh final half hour of the program. | |
| I was also gonna check in with my buddy from Black Rifle Coffee, Veterans Day coming up, and uh much much more straight ahead. | |
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| Hannity tonight at nine, full coverage of the absolute law breaking going on down in Florida. | |
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| All right, 25 now till the top of the hour. | |
| All right, we're gonna meet some great vets and that are doing amazing things since they have uh gotten back from serving their country in so many different ways and are helping vets. | |
| Uh, but it's been a long week, and it's gonna be a rough night, too. | |
| We're doing Hannity tonight at nine, a lot on this you know, all the shenanigans. | |
| They're not obeying the law in Florida. | |
| The two most liberal democratic counties refuse to abide by the laws that every other county abides by. | |
| We'll go through this in all detail tonight at nine. | |
| And we better be careful Because they're up to no good. | |
| That we know. | |
| All right, but first, well, it didn't turn out to be the blue wave the left wanted. | |
| The media wanted. | |
| They're angry. | |
| They're frustrated. | |
| They're lashing out as they always do. | |
| It's only gonna get worse. | |
| And another victory for Trump and for the American people. | |
| The blue wave became a little trickle. | |
| A little tiny it'sy bitsy trickle. | |
| And I'm happy about it. | |
| Anyway, put your party light on. | |
| It's time for our Friday Zach Brown concert series. | |
| Let's hit it. | |
| How come all the pretty girls like you are taking baby? | |
| I've been looking for someone like you to save. | |
| That's too easy to be so damn complicated. | |
| Take your time and now we'll wait. | |
| Keep me in life. | |
| Somewhere down the road might get a lonely. | |
| I got a piece of land out in the countryside. | |
| Warm of the Georgia pie. | |
| Taking it easy. | |
| I got some good that live down the street. | |
| Got a good looking woman with her arms around Here in a small town Thank God for my life Thank you. | |
| Four stars and stripes. | |
| May freedom forever fly. | |
| Let it rain. | |
| Salute the ones who die. | |
| The ones that give their lives. | |
| So we don't have to sacrifice all the things we love. | |
| Lock out your guitar. | |
| Because we are on Friday night. | |
| A pair of pieces. | |
| And radio. | |
| Doesn't that put you in a great mood on a Friday? | |
| We need that. | |
| All right, by the way, Vets Day is Sunday. | |
| It's the 11th, and we celebrated. | |
| A lot of you'll be off on Monday. | |
| You have a long weekend. | |
| I don't think I will be off. | |
| I'm working tonight on Hannity. | |
| I will be there at 9 p.m. | |
| Obviously, with all of the shenanigans, laws being broken all over the place and Broward and Palm Beach and in Florida. | |
| And how do you go from 60,000 votes to 15,000? | |
| Is there is it not one Republican vote that they're finding? | |
| They only find Democratic votes. | |
| Um first I want to introduce you. | |
| They're not only an advertiser on this program, I'm uh I'm friends with these guys. | |
| Uh Evan Haper's with us. | |
| He's the CEO of Black Rifle Coffee.com slash Hannity. | |
| Not only is it the best coffee company, as I tell you in these ads, it really is. | |
| You have every single level of strength and flavor that you would ever want. | |
| The story behind how they built this company is amazing. | |
| They hire vets, they hire first responders, they donate to vets, they donate to first responders. | |
| And on this uh Veterans Day weekend, I wanted to just say, A, thank you. | |
| Evan, welcome back to the program. | |
| And um B, you know what? | |
| Why support these liberal companies that don't share our values? | |
| It's nuts. | |
| Your company's growing by leaps and bounds. | |
| Yeah, well, first and foremost, thank you, Sean, for having us back. | |
| Definitely I I can't thank you enough. | |
| And it's it's wonderful to hear your voice and be on the show again. | |
| So uh Black Rifle Coffee, we're we're we're growing least and bounds. | |
| We opened up a new roasting facility just outside of Nashville in Coffee County. | |
| Uh, one of the big reasons was because it's Coffee County and because we had a high number of uh veteran and civil service members out there that we could employ. | |
| Uh we've got a new facility in San Antonio, Texas, so we expanded to Military Town USA. | |
| Yeah, we still got a roaster out in Utah. | |
| So we're Utah, Tennessee, and San Antonio, and soon we're gonna have black rifle coffees for people to walk in and drink a cup of coffee in both uh Tennessee and Texas. | |
| So we're expanding and moving fast. | |
| Well, that's pretty amazing. | |
| I mean, is this something that's gonna maybe build into black rifle coffee uh everywhere we used to see a Starbucks? | |
| I would love that. | |
| Oh, I I tell you what, that's the plan, Sean. | |
| That's that's exactly what we want to do is we want to what I tell people is we want to give them the opportunity to vote with their dollar and vote for the companies that that support what they believe in. | |
| And it's in our mission statement. | |
| You know, we like to we we love to serve coffee and content to people that love America. | |
| We're unashamed in our service and our our pride and country, and I think that that there are a lot of businesses out there that that really they get out there and they they don't like America at the end of the day. | |
| Uh you know, and that's the difference between Black Rifle Coffee and them is we're miles apart typically uh on the political spectrum, and two, we we really do put our money where our mouth is. | |
| It's what I say is it's not PR, it's who we are. | |
| So we get out, we've got above a 50% higher rate for veterans. | |
| We just launched a new initiative with the Pentagon Federal Credit Union to help fund veteran uh entrepreneurs, so the veteran entrepreneur investment program where we earmarked uh 200,000 to be uh divvied out for veterans in about two to or 20,000 to $50,000 investment opportunities for them. | |
| So we're we're trying to put our money where our mouth is every day, protect the community, create opportunities for those that have served, and promote America. | |
| The thing is, I love how this company was started too, because you had guys overseas and they couldn't get a good cup of coffee. | |
| And didn't they didn't you all start ordering different blends, c coffee beans. | |
| I sound like Linda for a second, coffee. | |
| Uh coffee beans. | |
| And then you made you you came up with your own blend. | |
| You did it yourselves. | |
| I mean, that's the amazing and you did it out of a the need and a desire for the best cup of coffee, which I love every day, and I can't live without. | |
| You're exactly right. | |
| We I started roasting coffee because I couldn't get a great cup of coffee, and I was deploying back and forth to Iraq at the time, and I was roasting coffee at home to take big duffel bags of coffee overseas with me to not only drink but then give to the guys that I was working with. | |
| And it it caught on to the point where I was giving away a lot of coffee to my friends and family, and a lot of people asking, well, where did you come up with the name uh Black Rifle Coffee? | |
| I had a little one-pound uh roaster on the back tailgate of my pickup while I was working for the CIA at the time, and I had my service rifle next to it, which was a black a black rifle and a little one-pound roaster. | |
| And I was roasting coffee for everybody in the course that I was teaching. | |
| One of the guys came up and was like, Man, you should have a coffee company. | |
| And I said, Yeah, I could call it, you know, Black Rifle Coffee Company, but it's it's quite literally a uh in respect to our service rifle. | |
| It's a uh piece of life-saving equipment that protected me and the other founders of the company for over a decade where we served, and we should be proud of that. | |
| Yeah, well, I think the fact that you hire vets, first responders, you created the best product on the market, that always helps. | |
| That you can give back so much to vets and first responders and those causes is amazing. | |
| Uh thanks for being a part of the show. | |
| Look, it's black rifle coffee.com slash Hannity. | |
| You get a first 15% discount. | |
| You guys do have the coolest videos of anybody on the web, but I I've got to warn you, they're rated R. Maybe some of them, yeah. | |
| Yeah, so some of them. | |
| Show me one that's not. | |
| All right, my friend, say hi to everybody for me. | |
| Uh 800 nine four one Sean is our number. | |
| Paul Lovella's with us too. | |
| He's the chief master sergeant, is the founder executive director of Operation Restored Warrior. | |
| And uh he's here to talk about our need for awareness of our vets that are coming home. | |
| There are over 250,000 facing PTSD. | |
| And the suicide rate among vets coming back has been astronomical, off the hook. | |
| I can't tell you how many times that I I would hear from anybody or somebody, even a an acquaintance of somebody, and they say that somebody's struggling, they're they're about to kill themselves. | |
| And I I usually call my friend Oliver North, and Ollie gets on the phone, we'll spend hours and hours with people. | |
| We work to find the a program that works for them. | |
| And uh anyway, uh Master Sergeant, Chief Master Sergeant, Paul Lavelle, thank you, sir, for being with us. | |
| Hi, Sean. | |
| Uh, thanks for having me. | |
| Well, tell me exactly what the what you guys are doing and how you're helping these guys out. | |
| I mean, I uh the bottom line, the answer is we've overdeployed them. | |
| It's just a fact. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah, our organization, Operation Restored Warrior. | |
| We've been uh we've been around now for 10 years. | |
| Uh and we've helped uh hundreds and hundreds of veterans coming back uh from combat to uh to address the issues of uh combat stress, uh post-traumatic stress. | |
| Uh and uh and we do it in five days. | |
| Uh we deal with some of the the most uh stressed out guys that have uh suicide ideation. | |
| And um we we address this in a five-day program that I developed, and uh we've got literally we every single warrior who comes through our program doesn't matter whether you're an E1 or you're a three-star general, uh, which we've had uh all of those guys come through, um, they get restoration in the five-day program. | |
| Um that's a pretty amazing thing. | |
| Now, do you have enough space? | |
| Do you have enough people involved in this to for the demand that is out there, which is greater than we ever thought it could be, because the I know we I know the VA is changing, and I know there have been changes, and I know there are a lot of private organizations, you know, Rivers for Recovery, Building Homes for Heroes, uh the the Freedom Alliance, there's a ton of great great groups out there, but is everybody getting the help they need? | |
| Uh no, no, they're they're not. | |
| I mean, the uh the number is overwhelming. | |
| Um we have been doing this for ten years, and we don't even have our own home. | |
| We through the blessing of dear friends and allies, uh, we use uh various properties around the country, and we've got a waiting list of guys getting in. | |
| In fact, what we did, Sean, is we took the five-day program and literally had been praying about this. | |
| Like, how do we scale what we're doing so that we can bring this 22 plus a day of suicides down to zero? | |
| And and I think we found the answer. | |
| And and uh earlier this year, uh I started working with my team on taking our five day and condensing it to a two-day and engaging our alumni, and we have over a thousand alumni now around the country from all the various services that have been deployed in multiple uh operations, and to scale this out there so that we can start to address in their communities, because we have we have these groups all over the United States now, uh, to be able to address uh this problem of 22 plus a day. | |
| And uh I mean this is this is not going away. | |
| Uh it's been it's it just keeps ramping because of the overdeployment. | |
| Do we do we have enough is there is the information to get the help out there to all these guys? | |
| I mean, really the armed services needs to be sending every single guy that's served, especially these multiple deployments, they've got to be communicating with them and tell them, hey, if you ever need help, this is what you do. | |
| If you ever need help, they've got to get know that the help is out there because if they reach out, they're gonna get the help. | |
| I've met people that have gone through programs and they come back on the other side, different people. | |
| And they're able to, you know, it's hard to ask people to go to war, go in a war zone, and it triggers, you know, a a defense mechanism and an and an adrenaline rush and an energy that you're not going to experience back in real life. | |
| You come home and it's like the that just doesn't shut off automatically. | |
| You know, it's the you don't have an on-off switch. | |
| Some people maybe have better coping mechanisms than others. | |
| This isn't about weakness, it's about their warriors, and now you're asking them to, you know, to just shut that side of them off. | |
| It's a hard thing to do. | |
| It absolutely absolutely is. | |
| And we've had some of the most remarkable warriors that this nation has ever produced come through our program, Sean. | |
| And uh a lot of the guys they don't want to ask for help, you know, because so much of what they've been asked to do, they are the help, right? | |
| They don't they don't they don't go in, you know, they're the guys that have to do these operations, so they don't ask for help, and you know, we still have a stigma out there that they think that that's a weakness. | |
| And and the the focus of our program, our program, and the one of the reasons it's so successful is that there's a component component not only in the emotional physiologic side, but there's a there's a spiritual component. | |
| We're both spiritual and physically and physical. | |
| And if you don't address one without the other, then you're gonna have an incomplete healing. | |
| And so we address the spiritual component because you know, just look look historically, look biblically, right? | |
| The the progenitor of all warfare is spiritual, and it gets manifested into the kinetic. | |
| If you don't address the spiritual issues that's assaulting our men and women, then you're not gonna get a complete healing. | |
| You're just gonna get anesthetizing, you're gonna get partial healing, but it's not gonna be complete. | |
| And we have found that by addressing those issues, uh, these folks are getting restored. | |
| Operation Restored Warrior dot org is your website, operation restored warrior dot org. | |
| Uh Paul, thank you for being with us. | |
| I hope people can help the your organization out. | |
| We'll put it up on Hannity.com. | |
| Uh, all right, Hannity Tonight, Nine Eastern Fox. | |
| Yeah, it's happening again in Florida, and laws broken left and right, and still nobody has shut down this corrupt operation. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Anyway, we'll have all the details tonight. | |
| Hannity is on. | |
| Sean Hannity. | |
| Always honoring our service men and service women and standing up for liberty every day. | |
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| If you want to be a part of the program, you know, I remember on this Veterans Day, my My father, he didn't really want to talk about it much. | |
| It was it was always strange. | |
| He spent four years fighting World War II in the Pacific. | |
| He just didn't want to talk about it a whole lot. | |
| So I'd have to like drag. | |
| Tell me about this, Dad. | |
| And he had his Navy knife. | |
| He was he served in the U.S. Navy, and I was always asking, always grabbing it. | |
| He was like grabbing it out of my hands, of course, because you know you gotta be careful. | |
| Um, and there were days I'd I'd kind of open them up a little bit and he'd start talking about it, and four years of your life in the Pacific with like very little downtime. | |
| And that's the story of so many vets on this Veterans Day. | |
| And you think of those vets that gave the ultimate sacrifice. | |
| You think of all of those people that died slamming the beaches in Normandy. | |
| You know, in every war this country has had, and the bravery, the valor, the the love of country, sacrifice, patriotism. | |
| It is all the freedoms we have because they paid the ultimate price. | |
| Some come home disfigured, losing arms, legs, both. | |
| I've met many of these people over the years. | |
| They are just remarkable. | |
| Um, the president spoke um earlier about this about Veterans Day, and here's some of his remarks. | |
| On this day in the year 1918, church bells rang, families embraced, and so celebrations, as you know, fill the streets like never before in towns throughout Europe and the United States. | |
| But victory had come at a terrible cost among the Allied forces. | |
| More than one million French soldiers and 116,000 American service members had been killed by the war's end. | |
| Millions more were wounded. | |
| Countless would come home bearing the lasting scars of trench warfare and the grisly horrors of chemical weapons. | |
| During the final battle of the war, over 26,000 Americans lost their lives, and more than 95,000 were wounded. | |
| It was the single deadliest battle in United States history. | |
| Think of that. | |
| 26,000 Americans lost their lives in a battle. | |
| Here on the revered grounds of Sureen American Cemetery, lie more than 1,500 U.S. service members who made the ultimate sacrifice in the First World War. | |
| Among those buried here are legendary Marines who fought in the battle of Bellow Wood. | |
| In that treacherous forest and the surrounding fields, American Marine soldiers and Allied forces fought. | |
| And they fought through hell to turn the tide of the war. | |
| And that's what they did. | |
| They turned the tide of the war. | |
| It was in that battle that our Marines earned the nickname devil dogs, arising from the German description of their ferocious fighting spirit. | |
| President McCrone presented an oak sapling from Bellowwood as a gift to our nation, an enduring reminder of our friendship sealed in battle. | |
| We fought well together. | |
| You could not fight better than we fought together. | |
| Sergeant Eugene Ware from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was one of the Marines at Bellowwood. | |
| Eugene raced straight into a barrage of enemy fire like no one has ever seen before to bandage his friend's wounds and carry him back to safety. | |
| Months later, Eugene was mortally wounded. | |
| He passed away one day after Christmas. | |
| His mother would come right here to mourn by the grave of her precious son. | |
| She loved him so much. | |
| She was one of the thousands of American moms and dads whose beloved children found their final resting place on the hillside of Sureen. | |
| Each of these Marble Crosses and stars of David marks the life of an American warrior. | |
| Great, great warriors they are, who gave everything for family, country, God, and freedom. | |
| The American and French patriots of World War I embody the timeless virtues of our two republics: honor and courage, strength and valor, love and loyalty, grace and glory. | |
| It is our duty to preserve the civilization they defended and to protect the peace they so nobly gave their lives to secure one century ago. | |
| It is now my great honor to present Major General William Matz with an American flag as a symbol of our nation's gratitude to the American battle monuments. | |
| The commission has done such an incredible job. | |
| And General, we very much appreciate it. | |
| Today we renew our sacred obligation to memorialize our fallen heroes on the soil where they rest for all of eternity. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| And General, this is a great honor. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| Each and every one of them a hero, each and every one deserving of our thanks and our appreciation. | |
| And I know the vast majority, some 99% of Americans will never ever serve in the military. | |
| They just, we have an all-volunteer army. | |
| But I will tell you, unless there's a draft, obviously. | |
| And all these people, like during World War II, my father signed up. | |
| Just like everybody wanted to sign up. | |
| Everybody was ready to fight at that point, especially after Pearl Harbor. | |
| And it is it is a sacrifice. | |
| I want to get into this, what's going on. | |
| There's a huge Axios article out today. | |
| And we better start paying attention to this because on so many different levels, this is going to be the future. | |
| A headline on Fox News.com. | |
| House Democrats preparing a subpoena cannon for Trump-related probes. | |
| What is the one thing I've been telling you that the Democrats during the election they didn't want to do? | |
| Democrats never wanted to tell you what their real agenda was all about. | |
| And I kept saying, what did they tell Maxine Waters? | |
| Maxine says they keep telling me not to say it, but I'm going to say it anyway. | |
| Impeach 45. | |
| No, just don't say anything. | |
| And then, of course, they just said, we're going to help with health care. | |
| That became the final two-week talking point. | |
| Look, Democrats are at each other's throats, just so you know, because they are apoplectic about the election results and the fact that Trump didn't just win. | |
| He defied all of the odds and went out and campaigned, and assuming Florida's in the mix, picked up these Senate seats. | |
| Remember, Obama lost six Senate seats and 63 House seats in 2010. | |
| In 94, Bill Clinton lost eight Senate seats and 52 House seats. | |
| That was his first midterm election. | |
| You know, comparatively to think that Trump picked up all these Senate seats, which we now know is important because as the Democrats, part of what their plan is, they they want to mobilize their hit list. | |
| They didn't want to talk about immigration. | |
| They didn't want to talk about specifics. | |
| They didn't want to remind you this health care, pre-existing conditions. | |
| That was pretty much the only point that they were willing to make and stop Trump. | |
| And the resistance didn't go out in the numbers they want. | |
| And it is infuriating to some of these Democrats that it all went down this way. | |
| By the way, it's hilarious watching Hillary flirting with the idea of running again, which I think is amazing. | |
| But when you look at what they're what they're doing here, what they want to do and what they're planning on doing. | |
| You know, it's one thing after another. | |
| They avoided this subject during the campaign. | |
| Here are the headlines that I just picked up today. | |
| Democrats to probe Trump's treatment of CNN. | |
| Fake news. | |
| Amazon, Washington Post, and a triple-threaded abuse of power inquiries. | |
| Uh, top Democrat, this will be Nadler, I assume, says that he will investigate whether the White House interfered in the FBI's Kavanaugh probe. | |
| Democrats, Nancy Pelosi saying, we don't need Mueller indictment to impeach Trump. | |
| We can do it anyway. | |
| They weren't saying any of this before the election. | |
| You know, Byron York has a piece out. | |
| As Dems consider impeaching Trump, GOP leaders regret pursuing Clinton. | |
| Well, maybe they did because it ended up backfiring on them. | |
| But Adam Schiff saying Democrats plan to probe if Trump used power to punish Cienna and Washington Post. | |
| Nancy Pelosi, yeah. | |
| Well, as it relates to Mueller and this new acting AG, Whitaker's appointment does does violence to the Constitution. | |
| Do you notice all of this? | |
| Not one thing, not one agenda item that is going to help the continue to continue the progress that we've made. | |
| Now, some of you did, you know, it hear my warnings and the warnings of others. | |
| Some of you, well, you you should feel guilty if you didn't get out and vote. | |
| Um we're lucky it came out as good as it did. | |
| We really are. | |
| You know, you got the House Democrats that'll be running the show. | |
| Look at, you know, it's like a who's who. | |
| Nita Lowy, 81 years old. | |
| She's going to be at the appropriations committee. | |
| Adam Schiff, great. | |
| He's taken over for Devin Nunes as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. | |
| Elijah Cummings, Oversight and Government Reform Committee. | |
| And, you know, they're going to be subpoenaing Trump every second, every minute of every day. | |
| Gerald Nadler, 71. | |
| I mean, this is like a who's who of people that have been around forever. | |
| And Maxine Waters, by the way, I didn't know she was 80 years old, but anyway, she's expected to chair the committee of oversight. | |
| She's already said, we're going to do to you what you did to us. | |
| Whatever that means, because she's obviously looking over Wall Street, et cetera. | |
| Um, and all of the most liberal, the single most liberal Democrats will be running these committees. | |
| Frankly, there are no moderates left in the Democratic Party. | |
| They just aren't there. | |
| You have a top house Democrat on the Amtrak, a seller train. | |
| Gerald Nadler overheard discussing Kavanaugh's impeachment and all the investigations into Trump. | |
| I mean, just crazy. | |
| So this is what the future is going to be as the days, weeks, months go forward. | |
| This is what they are going to do. | |
| Now I'm going to predict something here. | |
| They're going to overreach. | |
| They're going to misinterpret the election results, although they are kind of battling big time amongst themselves about where they are as a as a party. | |
| You know, it's their blue wave became a ripple, and they didn't expect the the red wave for the Senate. | |
| And, you know, all right, so they picked up a couple of governorships, and maybe their state gains mean what? | |
| They're going to go for more gun control. | |
| That means they'll lose the next election, and marijuana's going to be legal in most states. | |
| That's probably what happens. | |
| The Hill had a great article about how Democrats face a tough 2020 battle after blowing the chance at the blue wave. | |
| And I don't know how the Democrats are reacting to this, but the Wall Street Journal piece on Hillary Clinton is just hilarious to me. | |
| It says Hillary will run again. | |
| That's the headline. | |
| Reinventing herself as a liberal fire brand, Clinton will easily capture the 2020 nomination. | |
| I'm not so sure that's the case, but if you know, if that's what they think they need to do, that's the person they want. | |
| I guess more power to them. | |
| You are listening to the best of the Sean Hannity show. | |
| When news breaks, you get the inside story that no one else has. | |
| And the behind the scenes chatter that the mainstream media doesn't even know about. | |
| This is the Sean Hannity show. | |
| At this point, the gunman's reloading. | |
| There's probably been 50 or 60 shots. | |
| It it we can't really see him that well, but my gut feeling was I've got to stay, I've got to decide to stay or run. | |
| And at this point, I think he's advancing towards us. | |
| People are moving behind different buildings. | |
| There are most everybody's closer to the gunman than than I am. | |
| I'm at a distant point, but the staffer that made it over the fence, we're trying to decide to stay or go. | |
| And at this point, you know, the the Capitol Police began returning fire. | |
| I do believe that without the Capitol Hill Police, uh it would have been a massacre. | |
| All right. | |
| That was the day you may remember the terrible shooting in the ball field, uh, where Congressman Steve Scalise nearly lost his life that day. | |
| And and Ram Paul and and so many others, Mo Brooks and many others calling in, telling us what had happened. | |
| And I knew behind the scenes that day from friends of mine that it was far worse than was originally reported, as Steve Scalise was going through multiple transfusions, literally his life hanging in the balance. | |
| We saw courage under fire that is so inspiring when you watch these two Capitol Police officers walk, literally making themselves an open target, going up against a sniper who's hidden, camouflaged and uh behind a fence, etc. | |
| And they've got pistols, and they're going up against the long rifle. | |
| It is it there's no competition. | |
| They they almost if it could have ended in a catastrophe, but you see such incredible courage and heroism among our brave men and women in law enforcement. | |
| Sometimes it just is so inspiring. | |
| Anyway, Steve Scalise is with us. | |
| He's actually written a new book about it. | |
| It's back in the game, and the majority whips uh remarkable fight for his life is uh out tomorrow. | |
| And I wanted to talk to him a little bit about this, ask him about his thoughts on what's going on in Florida and with the endless investigation now. | |
| Now it's all being revealed what the Democrats are going to do. | |
| Uh Congressman, how are you doing? | |
| Last time I saw you, you're still struggling. | |
| You are walking around you with support, obviously. | |
| Um, and you said you had a hard time with one of your legs and your foot that you didn't feel it, is if I remember correctly when I saw you. | |
| Yeah, Sean, uh first great to be back with you. | |
| Happy Veterans Day to you and uh Amen. | |
| You know, I I yeah I my God thanks for those men and women who sacrificed, and you talked about the brave Capitol Police officers, David Bailey and Crystal Griner who risked their lives to save us. | |
| Uh, I wouldn't be here today without all of those, uh, those heroes and and the miracles, true miracles from God that uh that helped me get through the worst times. | |
| And you know, I'm still doing two days a week of physical therapy, but uh definitely through the worst of it by far. | |
| And uh feeling great and back to work and just uh, you know, my my left leg has the most out of it from where the bullet went in, and my left foot still uh don't have any feeling in that, but uh I was able to get down from two crutches now down to one crutch, and ultimately my next goals to be able to walk without crutches again. | |
| How do you how do you walk when you can't how do you walk when you can't feel your foot? | |
| I mean, I I have a brace on my left foot. | |
| So uh, you know, I may have to live with that, but that's okay. | |
| I can uh, you know, I'll I'll uh I'll uh I won't be able to run around as much, but I can do all the other things that matter. | |
| It was amazing one year later. | |
| It was the first play of the game, and it was one of the best plays ever when you were playing second base and you got the guy out. | |
| I mean, that was that was that was really special to watch. | |
| Um I just you know, the amazing Thing is all of our vets, you know, we're talking about what today is, and you know what observation we're observing Veterans Day, and I'm thinking about all these guys that come back from war wounded, like you, or worse. | |
| I know I've I've been to Walter Reed, I've been to Bethesda, I've I've met many, many, many of these people over the years building homes for heroes. | |
| They're all good friends of mine, and they come and watch the TV show, and these guys for the rest of their lives, they're either disfigured, they're blind, they've lost arms, they've lost legs, sometimes multiple arms and legs, and you just have to go on the rest of their lives. | |
| We're not thinking about that. | |
| Yeah, you've got to just pick it up, and you know, and I I get to serve with some heroes like that too. | |
| And you know, Brian Mass, who's a double amputee from uh Florida who I served with, who uh, you know, he just every day wakes up and he's just a happy guy because he's lucky to be alive and uh never complains. | |
| He just keeps uh going about his his business, and I feel the same way. | |
| I'm lucky to be alive too. | |
| You know, I've got some limitations, but you know, who doesn't? | |
| And uh, you know, you just you just learn, and frankly, a lot of the advances science has made, medicine has made because of what we've learned from our men and women in uniform, the heroes that come back home and have had some different kinds of uh uh injuries. | |
| And you think about it, you know, during Vietnam, uh, a lot of the people who died during Vietnam, because of the advances that have been able to be uh be made in science and medicine may have made it today, and a lot of them do make it to come back home, but they you know they have serious injuries, and we need to do a better job of taking care of them through whether it's the VA or uh, you know, other you know, other hospitals to make sure that they have the care they need. | |
| But uh, but that advancement in medicine helped people like me to uh to live. | |
| Brad Wenstrump, medical doctor from Ohio is a congressman I served with, he was on the ball field that day. | |
| Uh he was a combat surgeon in Iraq and saw a very similar injury in combat to what I went through, and he immediately came to to put a tourniquet on me. | |
| And uh and my trauma surgeon told me if I wouldn't have arrived at the hospital with that tourniquet applied just correctly, like it was by by Dr. Wenstrom, I would have never made it. | |
| And uh I remember calling over to somebody I knew I I don't remember who, and I remember them telling me privately that it was far worse and that that first 24 hour period or maybe 48 hours, I don't remember completely, uh, that you had had what how many transfusions you were in bad shape. | |
| Yeah, you know, I I showed up with with a zero blood pressure, and my trauma surgeon walked me through all of this after, a few weeks after. | |
| And literally, you know, very few people that show up with with that low of a blood pressure make it. | |
| And I lost uh all of my blood almost. | |
| They had to put 20 pints at uh 20 units of blood in me. | |
| The the normal human body takes about nine. | |
| So they were as they were putting blood in, it was just coming out because I had so many uh, you know, so many wounds that were, you know, the bullet the bullet broke into probably over a hundred pieces inside of me, and we're just ripping through different uh different organs and different uh blood vessels. | |
| And so I had lots of bleeding that they had to go and find, and they put blood and they see it uh just you know kind of squirting through, and there's another hole they've got to go and so shut. | |
| So uh it took unbelievable work by a team of uh surgeons. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Luckily they they they were successful. | |
| Yeah, thank God for that. | |
| Um Steve Scalise is with us, by the way, he's got a brand new book out called Back in the Game, um, and his remarkable fight for his life uh out tomorrow. | |
| It's up on Hannity.com, Amazon.com if you want to get a copy. | |
| I just went through the as of now. | |
| Remember, the Democrats really didn't run on anything except they hate Trump. | |
| They kept telling Maxine Waters, don't say we're going to impeach him. | |
| They wouldn't talk about illegal immigration in any way, shape, manner, or form. | |
| That was the advice of the Center for American Progress and John Podesta. | |
| And to date, we have eighty-five specific, what what they're calling House Democrats preparing a subpoena cannon for all Trump-related probes. | |
| And everybody from Pelosi to Adam Schiff to uh Gerald Nadler to Maxime Waters. | |
| I mean, there's endless, not uh eight, we're up to eighty-five examples now. | |
| What is your reaction to that? | |
| And and how to how do Republicans get anything done? | |
| How does the Country move when that's their only focus is to destroy Trump. | |
| Well, look, Sean, we knew this during the campaign that you know they they hated the fact that Donald Trump got elected president. | |
| Uh, you know, with the things that we love about working with President Trump so much are the things that they despise that he's actually carrying out the things he promised during a campaign. | |
| You should be war rewarded for that. | |
| But yet, you know, they wouldn't talk about this in those races where they were spending millions of dollars per race going and flip seats from Republican and Democrat. | |
| The the candidates would always say, Oh, I'm pro-life and pro-gun, and I'm against Nancy Pelosi. | |
| Well, guess what? | |
| Their very first vote as a member of Congress, Sean, is going to be for speaker. | |
| And if they vote for Nancy Pelosi, literally they would be breaking their promise to their voters on the very first vote they cast. | |
| A lot of people are going to be watching those kind of votes, that vote and subsequent votes. | |
| What did you think of Donald Trump saying that if Nancy needs a couple of votes, she deserves that position, we might get a couple of Republican votes for her. | |
| Well, look, I mean, she's she's the one that they they knew was going to be speaker. | |
| They would they didn't want her in a lot of the swing districts. | |
| You notice a lot of Democrats who were in these 50-50 districts that were running didn't want Nancy Pelosi campaign for them. | |
| They they wanted her money, uh, and Act Blue money and Michael Bloomberg money, but they didn't want to talk about gun control. | |
| They didn't want to talk about the the pro-abortion agenda of taxpayer money for planned parenthood. | |
| They didn't want to talk about any of that. | |
| And yet that's going to be on full display. | |
| And that like you said, the obstruct, resist, harass the president agenda with subpoenas, and maybe even impeachment. | |
| Uh that's where I think they're going to ultimately go because that's how far left they've moved as a party, but that's not where the country is. | |
| And uh, and I think uh overtly that's going to be something that uh they they'll have problems if that's the direction. | |
| Well, the good news is that we kept the Senate. | |
| What are your thoughts on Florida? | |
| I'm watching all of the shenanigans, all these laws that would not adhere to, a history of all of this going on, and the same people in in that position, it's mind-numbing to me that that could have happened. | |
| And uh, what are your thoughts on where we are down there? | |
| It's it's corruption and and and voter theft going on before your very eyes. | |
| And I I talked to Matt Gates yesterday, and you know, I know you've been talking to Matt Gates throughout this entire thing. | |
| And uh, you know, there are laws that are in the books for a reason. | |
| It's it's to protect every vote from being from for being counted. | |
| You want every vote to be counted, uh, but it's also to protect and make sure that if you cast a vote and somebody wants to walk in with a stack of a box of a thousand votes that nobody cast, uh, that those thousand votes don't offset your vote and your other nine hundred and ninety-nine friends who voted uh legally. | |
| And so that's what's at stake here, too, is the sanctity of the vote. | |
| One man, one vote is the law. | |
| And if somebody's trying to bring in votes, fabricate votes that never happened because they see that they're 15,000 votes short. | |
| So, you know, go find sixteen thousand boxes under a bed that were never cast on election day. | |
| Uh that's not the law. | |
| It's illegal, and it might happen in banana republics, uh, but it shouldn't happen in the United States of America. | |
| Well, congratulations on the book, Congressman Steve Scalese back in the game. | |
| We're glad you're back in the game. | |
| And uh, I know you're gonna be out and about and doing a book tour, and uh thanks so much for stopping by. | |
| We're glad you're healthy. | |
| Uh, it's gonna be very interesting. | |
| Um, everything that I warn people about will happen in the House, but the good news is they don't have the Senate. | |
| They won't be able to accomplish those things. | |
| The sad part is uh getting things done that will be good for people. | |
| That that's gonna be put to the side, and hatred of the president will be at the forefront. | |
| And it's gonna be so they'll overreach. | |
| It's gonna be fun following them, and every day we will be all over it. | |
| So uh Steve Scalise, thanks for being with us. | |
| Great being with you, Sean. | |
| Thanks. | |
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