Sean Hannity Show - Lessons for Romney

Jan. 2, 2019 - Sean Hannity Show

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Lessons for Romney

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich joins Sean as 'Hannity' kicks off the New Year with the latest on the government shutdown, efforts to secure our border and the latest controversy from Senator Mitt Romney. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	Here's why I take my two week vacation every year.
	This is that this is my big vacation of the year.
	Even my own family says, What's wrong with you?
	You work too much.
	Just take more time.
	Take more time.
	I'm like, ah, I gotta there's something happening.
	I gotta go in.
	Um what happens though is, and I did not watch a lot of TV.
	I did a lot of reading.
	I've been reading Taylor Calwell novels and a bunch of other stuff that's important in my life.
	And you just after like a week, this whole adrenaline life that I live on radio and TV, I start becoming like a self that I remember from last Christmas.
	Because that's that's about the only time the adrenaline is not racing totally and completely and utterly through my entire body system.
	You mean you become a human?
	I basically become human being again.
	Yeah, and I you know, I get a little more thoughtful, a little more soulful.
	I used to go ski every year, but I don't do skiing much anymore.
	Uh, not that I don't want to.
	My son broke his leg when he was eight, and that was it for me.
	I just I couldn't go back.
	I know what a wimp, right?
	No, but I skied my whole life.
	But there's something like I'd find God on the mountain.
	There's just that moment where you're looking out and you've just it's just majestic.
	Um anyway, so I did watch some TV.
	Not a lot, not a lot of news.
	I kept up with the news, but mostly online.
	And I started just thinking and thinking and thinking about what this year is gonna be like.
	Um it's culminated in what I'm going to describe to you as a mission statement for both this show on radio and the TV show Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
	And it's like things have gotten to a place that it's so bad.
	The the the forces of hatred against this president are so aligned, they're so out of their minds.
	They are so fixated on destroying the president that there's in my mind, it just started coalescing in my mind that I there's got to be another focus in this country on far more important things than well, what did President Trump and Melania say to seven year olds calling in about Santa?
	That became a big controversy.
	I turned on the news and there, well, he said is seven about the age where maybe you know kids believe in San and Less, or oh, you know, you'd think it's the biggest sin of the century.
	And they turn it into the biggest deal or the stock market fluctuations.
	They turn that into the biggest deal.
	You know, this is what they'll never tell you tonight to make my point.
	That Wall Street Journal pointed out total U.S. retail sales rose 5.1% for the holiday season.
	So I mean, serious, $850 billion was spent this holiday season.
	Real middle class wages, just in the last year, this is the president's accomplishments.
	Middle class wages went up.
	Their hourly earnings eclipsing the 3% growth mark for the first time in 12 years.
	That means the working men and women in this country, they benefited from the Trump economy.
	They benefited from the Trump policies economically.
	We already knew about, you know, 4.2% GDP growth, 3.4% GDP growth.
	I mean, these are things we hadn't been seeing.
	Now I know that there are a lot of you.
	Look, I'm not a big stock market person, but uh my buddy who does the stock market, my financial guy, sometimes writes a column for us.
	You know, he always says if you're not willing, if you need the money you're putting in the stock market in within 10 years, don't put it in the stock market.
	Put it in something, you know, like a treasury or a muni, I don't know.
	I don't even know what these things are.
	Honestly, I pay so little attention to this crap, I just don't care.
	It's not my area of interest.
	I always I've always felt in my heart, Wall Street's rigged.
	I've always felt it's a betting game.
	And yeah, it goes up, and people I just made so much on this stock and so much on this stock.
	Okay, well, what about when the stock goes down?
	I don't want to go through the emotional ebb and flow.
	I'm kind of about wealth per not protect you want your money to grow, and there are far safer investments.
	You just have to do your due diligence, that sort of thing.
	Anyway, so we have record holiday sales this Christmas season.
	The president, here are his top ten accomplishments in one year.
	Remember Brett Kavanaugh mentioned him as a candidate.
	Well, he's now on the Supreme Court.
	He kept that promise.
	The president confronted China.
	Now China's capitulating on tariffs for automobiles, soybeans, vegetables, and and other products that they will be importing from the United States.
	That is a big win for the country.
	Middle class wages rising again, eclipsing 3% for the first time since the Great Recession.
	The president got the U.S. Mexico-Canada trade deal.
	All those people saying, well, Mexico's never going to pay for the wall.
	That was another controversy.
	I'll play it later.
	I asked the president, you don't think Mexico's gonna write you a check and pay for the wall, do you?
	And he said, no, I'm gonna negotiate a better trade deal so it'll pay for itself.
	Well, that's exactly what he did with the Mexico-Canada trade deal.
	He ended that horrific Iranian nuclear deal.
	That was another success last year.
	He moved the embassy to Jerusalem.
	That was another promise made and a promise kept.
	We see that he's been able to smash the ISIS caliphate in Syria to the point now the JV team is under control.
	Of course, the JV team was what Barack Hussein Obama called them.
	Yeah, just the JV.
	We see record low unemployment for Hispanic Americans, African Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, our vets are getting back to work in numbers that we haven't seen in decades.
	The president held the line on migrant caravans.
	And one of the things I am most excited about that I don't think people understand how huge this is, but because he opened up drilling in Alaska, and we haven't even started yet in Anwar, and the president ending burdensome regulation.
	Well, we now had in 2018 record American oil production, And the U.S. has now surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia, and we are now the world's largest producer of crude oil.
	And I'm not even talking about natural gas and clean coal.
	You add those jobs to the American economy when they'll be coming online as the expansion capabilities rise.
	What's going to happen is you're going to have millions of Americans get high-paying career jobs.
	Well, that's going to mean new homes for them and new cars and trucks for them.
	That's going to mean an increase in their lifestyle, a dramatic improvement in their lifestyles, better lives for themselves, more opportunities for their kids.
	And then we're not dependent on foreign oil as the lifeblood of our economy.
	So I'm on vacation, and I'm realizing you're never ever, ever gonna get that news except from a few locations.
	Some talk radio hosts, some are phonies, some a few cable TV shows, mostly on Fox, and that's about it.
	You got all of these forces.
	First, you got the crazy Democrats, the hate Democrats.
	They hate Trump.
	Maxine Waters hates Donald Trump.
	Nancy Pelosi hates Donald Trump.
	Adam Schiff hates Donald Trump.
	Chuck Schumer, the flip-flopper himself on immigration.
	They all hate Trump.
	The news media in this country.
	Again, I'm watching the president in Iraq, and they're criticizing him because he's visiting the troops.
	I'm like, wow, we've gotten this low.
	And then he's talking to kids on Christmas.
	He didn't go to Mar-a-Lago.
	He says, I'm here.
	I'm willing to do a deal.
	It's Christmas Eve.
	Hello.
	I'm trying to be funny.
	Then you add to this, you know, we've got these five forces of hate against the president.
	I just said the five forces, but now I would say the five forces of hate.
	You got the Democratic Party.
	If Donald Trump cured cancer and gave every American a million dollars today, they'd still hate him.
	Then you got their willing accomplices, an extension of the Democratic Party.
	That's the hate Trump media.
	And probably the most obvious haters.
	And it's every second, every minute, every hour, every day.
	A nonstop loop of hating Trump.
	And most of the American newspapers are a part of it.
	The networks are a part of it.
	You got two cable channels just dedicated to hating Trump every minute of every day.
	And then you got the deep state.
	By the way, watch that boomerang come back this year.
	Oh, it's coming back.
	What we've reported to you is all going to happen.
	I won't get into that now.
	But they hate Trump.
	Remember, you are a we are smelly Walmart people, according to Peter Strzok.
	We are irredeemable deplorables, according to Hillary.
	We are bitter, angry Americans that cling to God, guns, Bibles, and religion, as Barack Obama once described us.
	But here's the problem.
	Is any of what they're going to do or say they're going to do this year going to help the men and women in this country.
	The forgotten men and women.
	They're going to be fixating all of their hatred on one man.
	Well, we're not going to do that.
	This show and on Hannity on the TV show, we're going to go in a different direction.
	And we're going to, we are going to watch out for the things that matter to you, protecting your security, making sure the economy grows to help you and the decisions we need to make as a country so that we are strong and prosperous, not only for this generation, but for future generations, which means we have a lot of people to watch.
	So we're going to add this, you know, new segment of the program.
	We're going to have, we'll call it Hannity Watch.
	Statistics, you're never going to get anywhere else.
	What deal is being offered?
	Why won't they take the deal?
	Right now there's a deal on the table.
	You give the money for the wall for the president, which is good for our security to stop drug trafficking, human trafficking, criminals from crossing over the border, and they would get protection for some of the Docker kids.
	Sounds like a reasonable deal.
	We're going to have Hannity Watch on the hate Trump media.
	Hannity watch on the hate Trump deep state.
	We're going to have Hannity Watch on the hate Trump Hollywood gang.
	Hannity watch on the socialism push in the country.
	And at the end of the day, we're going to cover the things that no other show that no other no members of the media seem to want to cover and we'll cover the lies and the double standard and we're going to stand up for equal justice under the law and we're going to stand up for equal application under the law.
	And moving forward what I have concluded is there's got to be one show in America that's that wants to help protect and look out for you, the American people.
	And we're going to watch these forces of hate.
	We're going to chronicle it and we're going to offer solutions that they're not capable of.
	We got to protect the country against forces that would shred our constitution.
	This is about protecting core values due process equal justice, equal application.
	We're going to be your watchdog.
	We're going to expose corruption and lies and double standards.
	We're going to expose bias and we're going to expose who the real haters in this country are.
	They're not people that care about you.
	They're not people that care about your kids, your future, your generations, jobs, protecting the economy, protecting.
	You know, look what happened with this cop that was killed by an illegal immigrant.
	it.
	Well hello maybe any do we have a do we have an obligation to protect the people of this country so we're kind of going to be an island and I'm going to tell you more about it tonight.
	We've got Hannity Watch on the border battle the shutdown battle and Hannity watch on the deep state all coming up Newt Gingrich joins us today.
	Also well the latest um we've watched missed a lot of deep state news John Solomon will check in.
	We'll get to your calls today but we're going to do this differently they're going in one direction and I'm going in the direction of we will look out and watch all of this hatred and expose it and offer the solutions that will hopefully make the country a better safer stronger and more secure place.
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	And we have a lot of deep state news we know that Mayor Juliani accused Muller of some pretty serious stuff during the holiday and I think that he's probably right accusing him of destroying the evidence as it relates to Struck and Paige's phone.
	So we'll get to that very simply I see a media landscape with just one message hating Trump.
	I mean they it's this is not dislike they hate him.
	They think they're going to impeach him they're not you're never going to get two thirds of the Senate.
	They may impeach him in the House because you got to in 90 days America's going to know what a bunch of lunatics Nancy Pelosi and her team is.
	I'm telling you it's going to be fun covering them and we have plans that we can't reveal because there are people that don't think in this business and they copy everything I do.
	But we have good plans but I'm going to tell you what this show's going to be about going forward.
	We're going to be your watchdog.
	They can hate the president all they want.
	They can create false hysteria impeachment impeachment all they want.
	It's not going to happen.
	And we're going to evaluate the important issues of the day as a show that is a separate island dedicated to protecting our deeply held American values and fighting what's good for you and the American family in general.
	Simple.
	So that's basically it.
	We're calling it Hannity Watch.
	And we're going to be different.
	And we're going to literally now cover the news and information that you can't get from the hate Trump media, the hate Trump Democratic Party, the hate Trump deep state, the hate Trump never Republicans.
	Like I I honestly could care less what Mitt Romney has to say about Donald Trump.
	You know what I care about?
	I care about record low unemployment for women in the workplace, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and the fact that you don't like Donald Trump's style doesn't matter to me.
	We're now the biggest producer of oil and energy on the planet.
	I like that because that means high-paying career jobs for my fellow Americans.
	I like the fact that the president's fighting to build the wall to protect our southern border from human trafficking, drug trafficking, and those that would want to bring harm to our American family.
	I think we have a right to vet people.
	Democrats sounded that way four years ago.
	Now they changed their tune.
	Why just because Donald Trump wants it?
	I don't care that they think Robert Muller's stupid report is going to be the most interesting thing of the year.
	It's not.
	There is no evidence of Trump Russia collusion that never has been.
	And all these process crimes that they get, you know, all worked up about don't mean a thing.
	So we'll have things like look, the bottom line is both here and on television, this show's going to be an island unto itself.
	We're going to be very different than anything else you can get anywhere else on TV and on radio, except for my fellow conservative radio hosts that do a great job every day.
	And there are many of them, and I I you know what?
	Thank God they're doing what they're doing.
	But we're gonna we're literally dedicated.
	We want to protect and preserve American values, American principles.
	We're not gonna be governed by this what is now a pathological hatred and irrational hatred of fixation, a folk focus that's never ending on one person.
	Not even about the person as much as it is about the policies.
	He just happened to have a personality that fights for the things that he ran on.
	And he steps on toes and he breaks dishes and he makes people uncomfortable.
	Okay.
	Well, too bad.
	He's an iconoclastic person.
	And I think, you know, a lot's writing on him getting this wall built and holding out, I think is an important thing to do.
	You know, I want, but we there's so much more to it.
	This is what I realized over vacation.
	You know, we've got American values and principles.
	And we there's got to be some people out here that are dedicated to bringing you the truth and a different point of view.
	That's what Hannity Watch is all about.
	Hannity Watch on the economy.
	How are things going to impact your family and your pocketbook?
	Hannity watch on health care.
	Okay, how do we get the best care at the lowest cost for you and your family?
	That's where Dr. Josh Umber comes in, Atlas MD.
	Healthcare cooperatives, health savings accounts, Hannity Watch on Media Bias.
	By the way, that's like that's like fishing in a barrel.
	Honestly.
	You just you can't miss.
	I if I wanted to do a Hannity Watch on the media bias segment every second of every day, I could fill the hour.
	We saw the president signing a campaign hat, uh, a red hat, uh, his Make America Great Again hat.
	Troops are not supposed to be involved in political activities.
	The U.S. military is not a political force.
	And there's no question, uh, the same Trump 2020 and make America Great Again, those are political slogans of a Trump campaign.
	They are not governmental uh sayings, to put to say the least.
	The president seems to have confused in some way.
	This troop deploy this troop visit with a campaign rally.
	You told me I'm getting a 10% raise and I'm only getting a 2.6% raise.
	I'd be pretty pissed off, especially if I was in a war zone, risking my life every day.
	Ambassador Rice is right.
	The man does not believe in what America stands for.
	What did you make of that address that Donald Trump gave in front of U.S. troops in Iraq?
	I I thought it was upset.
	When we turned on CNN and we saw the president politicizing a Christmas message, was very it's like we kept saying he's like the Grinch.
	Every time he's around military audiences, he tends to politicize it.
	Mr. Trump once again used a captive audience of American heroes to push his unpopular domestic agenda, this time the wall.
	Or after two years in presidency visiting soldiers uh in in Iraq.
	Uh this was kind of over the edge.
	Did the president, from what we know, get a good sense of what the situation actually is there on the ground.
	Well, I don't know how you can after three hours, but that's just me.
	Yes.
	It's just another flash over substance type of thing of everything with this president is staged events.
	It seems very disingenuous.
	It seems so contrived and so disingenuous.
	He should have made it earlier.
	He only made it because Mattis quit and he had a lot of pressure saying he hadn't gone anywhere.
	Doom and gloom and hatred and it's a it's a it's now really a mental condition.
	They can't help it.
	Pathological.
	I don't think they can help themselves.
	They wake up every day and work themselves up into a frenzy.
	By the way, the president intervened to make sure the Coast Guard gets paid during the government shutdown.
	I personally advocate, I hope that they're able to, and they always do it, so I don't think it's going to be a problem.
	I want those people that have been furloughed to get their money back.
	I know that that is, you know, this is important.
	It's around Christmas time, people have bills to pay, it's hard.
	And um, I think he will.
	Hang on.
	I got to say one quick note.
	Yes, yes, and yes.
	All right, I'm back to the show.
	Um, and I will tell you that you know, it's 75 million dollar payroll.
	You know, the president will do that.
	But the president's got to hold out for his wall.
	If they want to wait three months, I'm fine with that.
	Essential services will continue.
	People will get their social security checks, the military is standing by, Department of Homeland Security standing by.
	The Democrats wanted this wall themselves just a couple of short years ago, but now because Trump wants it, the and their derangement syndrome kicked in, now they don't want the wall.
	I mean, we've got a lot, we've got a Hannity Watch on national security.
	This is about protecting our homeland and literally keeping Americans safe, both home and abroad.
	Hannity watch on border security.
	The country needs to stop the flow of illegal drugs on our southern border, human trafficking on our southern border.
	I've at least taken the time to go down there.
	Half these people that talk about it, they've never been down there their whole life.
	Been down there 13 times from the Rio Grande to San Diego.
	So we've got news that really needs to be covered, and more importantly, policies need to be put in place that are good for the you, we, the people, and for the country, America.
	And that's what a that's that's the minor adjustment that we're making in light of what is now the biggest information crisis in American history.
	So we're calling it Hannity Watch.
	If you think they're gonna report that the president, you know, intervene to make sure the Coast Guard gets paid?
	No, I don't think they're gonna do that.
	You think they're gonna give you the top achievements from last year?
	Promises made, promises.
	I doubt it.
	Or that we had a record uh Christmas season, holiday season, or that the president's approval rating, what, 47%?
	Happy with the job he's doing.
	After all he's been through and all the horror that's been spewed his way, you would think it's a lot worse.
	Now remember, the Constitution, um, Article 2, Section 4 about impeachable offenses, Treason, bribery, high crimes, misdemeanors.
	Let me make a prediction.
	All the Russia stuff is gonna go away.
	And they're gonna have to move the bar because they can't get them on Russia.
	But they'll figure out something that they think they can get them on.
	And if the Democrats, here's another prediction.
	If they want to go down this road, and the deep state aligns with them, and the media aligns with them, and Democratic lunatics, you'll you will know how crazy the Democrats are.
	I promise you, listen to this show for the next hundred days.
	Watch Hannity for the next hundred days.
	You will know how insane they are.
	And it's not gonna it's it's honestly the easiest job in the world to all you got to do is show them in their own words.
	And they will expose themselves.
	Anyway, for that to happen, the House of Representatives, if they do it, it's gonna be a purely pure, it's purely going to be a political act.
	That's it.
	They'll find some, you know, he spit on the sidewalk.
	That's what it's going to probably be like.
	And if that happens, anybody can bring charges of impeachment in the House.
	Did you know that?
	Anybody can do it.
	Any member of the House can propose charges.
	And then they just need a simple majority.
	But then it gets kicked to the Senate.
	And then you need two-thirds of the Senate to vote to convict on the impeachment order.
	And uh at that particular point, I think the bar is way too high.
	And here's my prediction.
	The president's approval rating will go even higher.
	It'll go higher by the day.
	That's how interesting that's going to get.
	You know, there is a lot that took place.
	So, you know, we're having a battle over the borders, right?
	So you can go back and look at, you know, I have some statistics from a number of years ago, the government accountability office.
	There had been 25,064 homicide arrests of criminal aliens since 1955.
	There were 52,929 criminal aliens incarcerated in federal prisons.
	Those numbers have gone up.
	We now know that the average cost is $70,000 for every illegal immigrant in the country as it relates to use of the criminal justice system, the health care system, our educational system.
	But putting all that aside, what do you say?
	Those that don't want some border protection, what do you say to families that lose loved ones?
	We all know about Kate Steinley.
	That's only one person.
	They've been, look at what happened this weekend.
	We had this murder out in California, this police officer, and I'm thinking, okay, if you're part of that family, what are you thinking?
	Because I know what I'd be thinking.
	Now the local police are blaming California's sanctuary city and state laws for allowing a violent illegal immigrant to evade capture until gunned down, until he gunned down a cop, a hero cop last weekend.
	Anyway, Perez Aragia, who was uh in the country illegally, had previous arrest, taken into custody Friday on suspicion of killing Newman police corporal Ronel Singh, who is 33 years old, husband and father of a five-month-old baby boy, killed by an illegal immigrant.
	The sheriff Adam Christensen, who led the investigation, rightly, I think, is blaming California sanctuary laws for preventing local authorities from reporting this illegal immigrant to U.S. immigration officials for deportation after two previous drunken driving or drunken driving arrests.
	The sheriff also said this guy had gang affiliations.
	Spokesman for Governor Brown said that police could have informed federal authorities if the suspect was a known gang member.
	Oh, okay.
	That's your excuse.
	Now you have people that not only break the law, but then they kill other Americans.
	Now, what do I want in terms of immigration?
	Well, we saw what happened on New Year's Eve when the border got rushed again.
	Remember we saw before vacation bottles and rocks being pelted at our guys?
	Our ICE officers, in this particular case, this five-month-old boy will never see his father because we don't enforce the laws of the land.
	Thank you.
	You know, we have another case.
	Looks like California police officer Ronald Singh isn't the only American who might be alive today if we had a border wall.
	We know in Knoxville, Tennessee, police have charged the man accused in a deadly crash on Chapman Highway Saturday night with criminally negligent homicide.
	Knoxville police department said that Franco Cabrani Francisco Eduardo, 44, now faces homicide charges in addition to charges of not having a driver's license and having no proof of financial responsibility, which means he didn't have insurance.
	Arrest records also show that he was uh that there was a hold placed on him by ICE.
	But when you have sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, that doesn't mean a thing.
	Well, what about these families?
	So if we have a wall, well, okay, that means that people can come into the country.
	We don't, I don't think most Americans care where you come from.
	We want to check out your background.
	We want to know that you come here with the best of intentions.
	I I say 99% probably want a better life for themselves and their kids.
	We want to make sure you're not associated with criminal activity or with gang activity, that you have the means of taking care of yourself when you get here, so you're not a burden on the American taxpayer.
	And if you want to come in, we'll allow certain number of people to come in every year based on our needs.
	Maybe we need temporary workers more years than others.
	And then they could apply for green cards and go through the process, but do it legally.
	Why is that such a hard concept?
	And the idea if you don't have a wall that people could just walk across with drugs and be involved in human trafficking is a form of insanity to me.
	Where do you think those where do you think those drugs are are headed towards?
	Every small town and little city in America and big city.
	All right, don't forget our mission statement tonight on Hannity.
	Desperate times call for desperate adjustments.
	And that is we are gonna be the news outlet that you need that they will never provide.
	All right, also when we get back, Hannity Watch on the Borders will have the latest.
	Hannity watch the deep state.
	A lot of news you did not hear about over the holiday.
	All right, our two happy new year, Sean Hannity Show, 800 941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	So I'm gonna lay out this mission statement tonight.
	We're not gonna give away all our secrets, but one thing is certain in the year of 2019.
	You know, these times deserve a different approach.
	And there's so much that is going on that is not being covered by well, you have this alliance basically of, you know, deep state bureaucrats, the Democratic Party, you know, the hate Democratic Party, the hate Trump media, the deep state that hates Trump, weak Republicans that hate Trump, Mitt Romney hates Trump.
	And meanwhile, I just gave you in the last hour a list of ten of the most massive successes we had in the last year that nobody pays attention to.
	Holiday sales, biggest in six years.
	We had Brett Kavanaugh, promise made, promise kept on the Supreme Court.
	The president confronting China, they've now capitulated on tariffs as it relates to automobiles and soybeans and a bunch of other American products.
	You have middle class wages.
	I know you're thinking about the stock market, but for the middle class, they're not.
	They're thinking about wages.
	Well, that went up over 3% for the first time since the Great Recession.
	We got the U.S. uh Mexico-Canada trade deal, and yeah, we're benefiting so much some of that money's gonna go to pay for the wall.
	We ended the Iranian nuclear deal.
	We moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
	We've smashed the ISIS caliphate.
	Uh, and the president now has put an end to the JV team that Obama once referred to them as.
	We got record low unemployment for Hispanic Americans, African Americans, women in the workplace, Asian Americans, youth unemployment.
	You know, the president held the line with migrants.
	We now are energy independent.
	America had record American oil production Because the president got rid of the bureaucracy.
	And finally, last year we surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest producer of crude oil, add natural gas to that, and we're going to create millions of high paying career jobs for Americans.
	President ends with a 52% approval rating.
	I'm sorry, 47% approval rating as it relates to Rasmussen, about the same level that Obama had.
	But yet all you're going to hear this year is non stop, never-ending Trump derangement hatred.
	Not syndrome.
	Powerful forces, the media, the Democratic Party, weak Republicans, never Trumpers, and the deep state, all in unison, just trying to destroy the president and make no progress for the American people.
	So that's why we're creating Hannity Watch on the economy, Hannity Watch on the hypocrisy, Hannity Watch on the media, Hannity Watch on border security, Hannity Watch on the deep state.
	And we're going to cover the news and give you the information.
	You can't get anywhere else because they have one agenda.
	Hate Trump every second, every minute, every hour of every day.
	Newt Gingrich is here with his preview of 2019.
	How are you?
	How are you?
	I'm doing great.
	That's actually pretty exciting.
	Uh and quite a program you've outlined.
	You know, I spent the two weeks, so I'm watching TV over the holiday, right?
	Every time I turn on any news program, it was all it was is I hate Donald Trump.
	That's all it is.
	And then I began to realize this is an environment we've never lived in before.
	So I think it is so bad that there's gotta be a counter program to this.
	And the counter program, who's gonna look out for the forgotten men and women and keep the economy rolling and keep energy jobs uh from the so they can be created and fight to keep the country safe and secure and secure the borders.
	And I I just think it's an opening because nobody else is gonna do it.
	Well, no, I think I look, I think it's great.
	In fact, my one suggestion for you to think about uh I lay it out and it's already changing it.
	Go ahead.
	Mm-hmm.
	No, I've well, there's a look.
	I thought it was brilliant, but it but it sparked my creative juices.
	Okay.
	What can I tell you?
	I think you ought to take the the essence of every day, put it into a a um newsletter or an email format and offer to anybody who wants it the talking points from that day of all the key news items you just outlined, so that they have it to go to work the next day or to go to the local bar or to go to coffee Saturday morning, and they've got your talking points in their hand, and I think you'd be surprised how many people sign up for it.
	And uh you know what?
	I'm gonna do that, and we'll do it for free, and we'll put it up on my website, and we'll put it up on social media, and then everybody can have it.
	Because here's what's missing.
	As I watched them criticize the president and Melania from going to Iraq, that was like the last straw for me.
	And then they criticized the president because he was he and the first lady were talking to kids about Santa and he didn't do it the right way, according to the media.
	And then I just realized the only words we're gonna hear this year are impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
	The president is not getting impeached this year.
	I can I can I'm 99.9% sure there's no Russia collusion.
	There was Hillary collusion with Russia, but not Trump.
	Um, and I think they're gonna be very disappointed, move the goalposts, but they're not gonna be talking about or thinking up policies that are gonna help the American people, that I can assure you.
	No, that's right.
	I I thought it was interesting by the way that Giuliani said, you know, put up or shut up.
	I mean, Mueller's had all this time, but what she got.
	Show your hand.
	And I don't think they have a hand.
	Well, I think they have to either have nothing there.
	What about all these other issues, though?
	Because this is part this is part of what my coverage is gonna be about, too.
	What about the abuse of the powerful tools of intelligence?
	What about the fact that they exonerated Hillary when she was guilty of crimes?
	What about the fact that they committed fraud against Pfizer court judges?
	What's gonna happen there?
	Well, look, I think there's a whole range of those things, and I think the depth of corruption, when you look at the FBI, for example, it's it's it's astonishing how many different people are now involved.
	And I think again and again you see this happening across the system.
	And and that to me was a surprise.
	But I knew that there was a bias, but I didn't know that it gotten so bad that people were willing to break the law and cover for each other.
	And you're exactly right.
	Uh there is a uh pattern out there that that we'll we're gonna have to continue to put pressure on.
	And of course the other story here which is going to be fascinating is I noticed uh this afternoon that the left wingers are already mad at Nancy Pelosi because the rules package that she's proposing doesn't give them everything they want.
	And I think that the Democrats may find that they have a lot more problems uh among themselves than they expected, and that life is not gonna be nearly as easy and clear sailing as the New York Times or the Washington Post would like.
	You see, I think something's gonna happen this year, and it's gonna be fascinating for me to watch and you to watch, is they're gonna ov they've already started overplaying their hand.
	And if they think that they're gonna issue a million subpoenas on a million different topics and not have pushback and not do what Obama did and that slow walk at all, um I think they're delusional.
	You know, the idea that they're gonna try and turn the next two years into destroying one man and not think about the American people is a mistake.
	For example, you know, we're now in the middle of a so-called government shutdown.
	Government shutdowns don't bother me.
	I I do want the people that are furloughed to get full back pay, I don't want them to suffer.
	But essential services always keep going.
	But the idea that they're not going to fund the border wall, I don't see the president caving on that.
	The president's gonna get the money for his wall one way or another.
	And I think stopping drug trafficking and human trafficking and having the ability to vet people that come into this country uh is a good thing for our safety and security, and I think the American people it's a winning issue for the president in the end.
	Look, every time you see, for example, as we saw in California the other days, uh an illegal alien killing a policeman, it just reminds everybody that that that those who are opposed to protecting America uh just are totally out of touch with reality.
	I think in the long run, being against national security and being against public safety is a losing hand.
	All right, quick break more with Newt Gingrich on the other side as we continue our new year edition of the Sean Hannity Show.
	One thing I think we can agree on is we shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute.
	And you want to shut it down.
	You're not talking about it.
	The last time, Chuck, you shut it down.
	No, no, no.
	And then you all know.
	I don't want to do what you did.
	Twenty times you have called for I will shut down the government if I don't get my will.
	None of us, if you want to know something, you've said it.
	Okay, you want to put that in.
	You said it.
	I'll take it.
	Okay, good.
	You know what I'll say?
	Yes.
	If we don't get what we want, one way or the other, whether it's through you, through a military, through anything you want to call, I will shut down the government.
	Okay, fair enough.
	And I am proud, and I'll disagree.
	I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country.
	So I will take the mantle.
	I will be the one to shut it down.
	I'm not gonna blame you for it.
	The last time you shut it down, it didn't work.
	I will take the mantle of shutting down.
	And I'm gonna shut it down for border.
	But we believe you shouldn't shut it down.
	All right, as we continue with New Gingrich uh on our newsmaker line.
	What do you think is gonna happen as it relates to the shutdown?
	Because my position for the president would be, and I know the administration invited over the Democratic leaders, they didn't really want to spend time with the president.
	They want to do it their way.
	They're gonna offer offer a package tomorrow with zero wall funding.
	Okay.
	That's an unacceptable deal.
	So the president's gonna keep the government shut down.
	Right.
	I assume there'll be continuing resolutions to fund the essential aspects of government and until they come to a deal.
	How do you see this playing out?
	I think it depends on on uh how much nerve the president has.
	I think in the end, first of all, and and I as you know I wrote an op-ed about this about two weeks ago, I think that there's a deal for uh the dreamers, which over eighty percent of the country agrees with, if you came here as a young child, we ought to find a way to to make make you legally comfortable, not necessarily have citizenship, but legally comfortable.
	Um and there's a deal to combine that with funding for the southern border, and I think the Democrats every day they turn that down are saying To the Hispanic community that they dislike Trump more than they care about helping people uh who overwhelmingly Americans think ought to be helped.
	I d I don't see why the president should give in.
	And I think that uh if he's continuously willing to talk and he's continuously looking for some reasonable compromise.
	Uh they could pass, for example, two and a half billion this year and committed two and a half billion in appropriations next year.
	You get five billion.
	And the Democrats will say, No, I'm not even gonna do that.
	I think currently they backed off even from the original billion six state offer.
	There's a point where it becomes silly.
	And I think one of his jobs, and and he intuitively you can watch him, he intuitively knows that the more the country gets to see of Nancy Pelosi, the better off it's gonna be for Republicans.
	Well, I think he wants her out there in public.
	He wants her being herself.
	You know, if you look at the the sheriff out in California, um you have a local sheriff blaming you know, California is not only San Francisco is not only a sanctuary city, but California is a sanctuary state, and the local sheriff, uh Perez uh Aragaya, um, you know, literally is saying now that that those laws blaming those laws for the illegal alien murder of a hero cop.
	I mean, that just happens this weekend.
	And how do you justify one American dying?
	Well, and I think what it does is it it makes the Democrats look like they're totally out of touch with reality.
	And of course, the left wing of the Democratic Party is totally out of touch with reality.
	And that's that's a key thing to understand about this.
	You're not having a debate between two sides about the same world.
	You have a debate where one side lives in a fantasy in which everybody's nice, we don't really need borders, MS thirteen isn't a threat, uh, etc.
	Uh and I think as the country comes to understand that, uh the uh the the future of the Democrats will diminish accordingly.
	You know, I look at what the president is doing here on this, I just think that closing the government down and not making any deal but being open to the president's state home as Nancy Pelosi was in Hawaii and Maxim Waters I read was in the Bahamas or or somewhere and everybody else is on vacation and he's saying I'm here,
	I'm willing to make a deal uh for going that vacation, I think was a smart thing to do, but more importantly, I don't know how any reasonable person with the numbers of Americans that have been murdered, and I've been from the Rio Grande to San Diego thirteen times, helicopters, boat, all terrain vehicle, horseback, you name it, I've been on it.
	I've been there when gang members were arrested.
	I have the video tape, I've seen the you know, drug warehouses, floor to ceiling drugs, but drugs, human trafficking, the dangerous element that want to cross our borders, to me, it seems like something worth fighting for.
	And one of the things I don't like about a lot of politicians and it is right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but uh but also it goes deeper than that.
	Right now you're engaged in the contest of will.
	Uh Pelosi feels her oath.
	She got to be speaker again, and she thinks that she's tougher than the president.
	And I think there's a certain importance to Trump in and frankly forcing a victory here.
	Uh I don't care how long it takes.
	Uh, and and again, those uh our audience ought to know I'm uh I I helped close the government twice in ninety five, early ninety-six for a total of twenty-seven days.
	And as a result of that confrontation, we ended up getting a welfare reform, the largest capital gains tax cut in history, and we balance the federal budget for four straight years.
	So I'm I'm not I'm not afraid to get involved in a collision, and I think it's really important that the president not back down because this is the first test of two solid years of the Democrats trying to come at him.
	And if he gives in on this, who knows what their next demand will be.
	Yeah, I think you're gonna see a lot of bars being moved.
	Uh, Mr. Speaker, happy new year.
	And uh we'll be seeing you hopefully a lot throughout the year and hearing from you on the show regularly.
	We always love having you, and uh all the best to you and Callista, and I hope you're enjoying Italy, the fine wine and dining while I'm working hard every day, you know, trying to save America.
	I just hope you're enjoying it.
	McLean, Virginia.
	I'm talking to you from McLean, Virginia, and I'll tell you, I am really I am really looking forward to your new program.
	I think it's a brilliant insight, and I think it's gonna be historic and very important.
	All right, thank you.
	Speaker of the House New Kingridge, eight hundred nine four one Sean is our toe-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	We'll have more on this immigration debate coming up uh at the top of the hour.
	Our border watch segment comes up later in the program.
	We're gonna have our mission statement on Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
	We'll have our deep state watch also coming up in the next hour as well.
	Have you seen conduct by the Mueller team, or are you aware of actions that they've taken that you think should be independently investigated by the DNI?
	Absolutely.
	Destroying the set the 19,000 texts of Struck and Page.
	I told you at the beginning, this thing began illegitimately.
	It began with with Struck and the and the uh steel dossier, which is totally false, paid for by Hillary Clinton.
	Imagine the search warrant is based on a bought and paid for piece of awful research, paid for by a political candidate, a piece of garbage, and they don't promptly alert the court to that.
	A lot of uh deep state news, Hannity Deep State Watch continues as Giuliani accusing the Mueller team, Mueller himself of destroying key evidence.
	And he made this over the Christmas break.
	The media, of course, pretends not to notice.
	But if you think how the magnify how what that would do to this case, if true, why were those 19,000 texts?
	Why were the phones of Page and Strzok cleaned, wipe cleaned?
	How is it that the left always gets away with wiping stuff away?
	But you know, then look at the case of General Flynn.
	General Flynn, uh, you don't need a lawyer, says the deputy FBI director McCabe.
	No, just this you're just gonna come over and a couple of guys going to talk to you.
	No big deal.
	James Comey, ha, bragging about the fact that he on day four, the Trump administration sent in his FBI agents something he'd never would do if Obama was president or if Bush was president, but he wanted to take advantage of Trump being president.
	He all they all had an agenda.
	He knew about the dossier being unverified and and salacious and phony, but he still signed off on it.
	And one of these people going to be held responsible.
	And so Giuliani said that Mueller should be investigated for destruction of evidence for allowing those text messages from Strzok to be erased, messages that would show the state of mind and the tactics that of of the lead anti-Trump FBI agent at the beginning of this entire probe.
	By the way, Ken Starr said that Mueller's team may be guilty of obstruction of justice.
	You have now a poll that came out just two days ago.
	The majority of Americans want Trump to declassify documents from the Russia investigations.
	That would be the things we've been telling you about.
	That would be the FISA warrant applications themselves.
	Again, unverified, uncorroborated, a lot of it debunked, and yet all these people put their signature on it.
	Frauds committed against four Pfizer court judges.
	Look at the oddity of how they handled the Flynn interview.
	Told him he doesn't need a lawyer doing things they'd never do in any other administration.
	On top of that, we have a you know, we have fusion GPS spy Christopher Steeles admitting he was hired by Democrats to sabotage Trump uh and his campaign and and post victory.
	That also happened.
	So, you know, at the end, where does this end?
	Well, we know we've got a group of people that are gonna be screaming impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, every single day, but yet there's no evidence of any Trump Russia collusion.
	But we have plenty of evidence of Hillary Clinton and her crimes that have yet, and she's yet to be brought to justice.
	Anyway, he's been working real hard over the uh holiday while I was off uh trying to recharge my battery.
	John Solomon of the Hill is back with us.
	How are you?
	Happy New Year, Sean.
	Good to be with you.
	I think Juliani is right.
	He did a the wide ranging interview is with you.
	Tell us about.
	Yeah, it was an amazing interview in and uh, you know, I there are so many things now when we look back.
	You know, part of the problem with the Russia case is it's complicated.
	And two, some of the revelations that are exculpatory or helpful to the president are so scattered that no one's pulled them all together.
	And I think the mayor did a great job of looking at 30,000 feet.
	All the problems with his investigation.
	You've got these 19,000 text messages the FBI destroyed.
	Only the IG went to the effort and got him re re uh reinstated when he found him.
	Do we know if we got all of them?
	Because without the IG, which is important ones.
	Yeah, the most important ones that were not recovered were the ones that Paige and Strzok exchanged while they were working for Robert Mueller's investigation.
	So those first three months from May to June before they they left or were fired from the tr uh from the Mueller investigation, those text messages remarkably are wiped and gone and never to be retrieved.
	And we'll never know what they were talking about and how they were trying to steer that investigation in the first three months of Robert Mueller's.
	Muller had to know at that point because Strzok and Page were working for him.
	And he had discovered that they were so virulently anti-Trump.
	So he had an obligation, didn't he, to preserve these text messages, preserve these phones?
	It's it's funny, it's the same obligation Hillary Clinton had to uh retain those uh work-related emails on her uh server and didn't comply with.
	There's a there's a law called the Federal Records Act, and it says anything that you create in your government work that's uh substantive or relative to government work needs to be preserved.
	One of the things the IG pointed out in his December report was the FBI didn't really and the Justice Department and Muller's office didn't have a policy for complying consistently with that with that law.
	And so right off the bat, you got the investigators not complying with laws and yet they're investigating other people for for potentially breaking the law.
	And I think that's the sort of hypocrisy that drives everyday Americans crazy.
	All right, as we continue our Hannity Deep State Watch, because this is going to be an ongoing story throughout the year.
	Uh the question is, remember when I said facetiously, and I said it's not going to work out well for you, and I don't recommend it, but if you were to do the things that Hillary did and you were to erase subpoenaed emails and then acid wash or hard drive with bleach bit and bust up your devices with hammers, knowing they also had information that had been subpoenaed, uh I wouldn't recommend it.
	And everybody said Hannity's advising people to obstruct justice.
	Hannity was doing no such thing.
	I was saying if you did what she did, it would be pretty dumb.
	Now how do they get away with it?
	People ask all the time, when is there I mean, do we expect the next attorney general?
	Do we expect the inspector general?
	Do we expect the president?
	Is he gonna you know the the Hill had an article saying most people want this information, the 302s, they want the original applications, they want the gang of aid information, they want this so-called fourth bucket of information.
	You could tell us about that.
	Are we ever gonna get to see this stuff?
	I do.
	I have a high degree of confidence that the president uh when the time is right, when the opportunity is no longer there for Democrats to say you release that information to obstruct Bob Mueller's investigation.
	When that time is right, I believe the president will release all that information, and when we see it in its entirety, everything we've been talking about uh up to this point will not only be confirmed, uh it there will be new revelations.
	I am certain that the FBI had evidence that uh was exculpatory to Carter Page that they kept out of the FISA warrant.
	I'm certain of something because I'm gonna report it tonight, and I'm gonna reveal it on your show tonight on Fox.
	But tonight I'm gonna be able to report that for the last two years, the United States intelligence community had exculpatory information about Mike Flynn's trip to the uh Moscow, December 2015.
	Remember when he sat alongside uh Vladimir Putin at the RT dinner, the the television network dinner.
	It turns out that Mike Flynn notified the government advance, got a uh uh protective defensive briefing, how to avoid being compromised when he was in Russia, and then he came back and reported everything to the United States government that went on there and who he talked to and what he observed.
	That's not the act of uh of of a treatment.
	By the way, and every time I've interviewed Carter Page, he said he was often debriefed.
	He willingly was be was debriefed and shared all the information with our intelligence community.
	So they got.
	Chuck Rassy tried to get this information released, Sean, and the United States government, Donald Trump's own administration, the bureaucrats in his own administration wouldn't allow that information out.
	And you have to ask the question, why?
	Why can't we know the truth about these things?
	General Flynn, that act was that meeting was portrayed as like the beginning of this conspiracy, which by the way never happened, right?
	But if you knew in the beginning of this that Mike Flynn did the right thing, he got a defensive briefing, he cleared it, he told people in advance he came back and got debriefed.
	It changes the whole context of the meeting, and we were deprived of that for more than two years.
	It's really remarkable.
	I was shocked at what was supposed to be the Flynn sentencing hearing, and the judge ended up calling a three-star a traitor.
	And and they made the case, they were letting The court know that certain things had happened.
	One that the deputy FBI director said that he doesn't need a lawyer.
	Meanwhile, this was an investigation.
	They weren't telling him that it was an investigation.
	Uh that in and of itself to me would be a violation of Miranda.
	And and certainly if you use that information after you told them not to have a lawyer, it would be not s admissible to me.
	Then of course, James Comey bragging about how he bypassed normal process and procedure, not go through the White House counsel, but walk right into General Flynn's office or send his agents in, knowing that he wouldn't do it in any other administration.
	Um how did we get to the point where he was supposed to get no jail time and now the judge wants to throw the book at this guy?
	Well, it's an important thing to remember because a lot of the media didn't cover this with the same fervor that they recovered the judge's first remarks.
	But there was a recess in the middle of that hearing.
	When the recess ended and the judge came back, he recanted his remarks, saying, I did not mean to suggest that uh General Flynn was uh traitor, and in fact he i he uh acknowledged he misunderstood the timeline that they were talking about this Turkish representation where he was representing a client tied to Turkey, and that the judge had conflated that as having occurred when he was the national security advisor, that representation ended long before Mike Flynn became president.
	Yeah, but then he also went on to say, Don't expect you're gonna get a better sentence the next time you're in my courtroom.
	I I I think that the judge made clear that he'd like to send Mike Flynn to prison.
	But let me tell you something else important that occurred during that hearing that I don't think anyone covered.
	The prosecutors in the in on Mueller's team were asked, Do you think uh uh Mike Flynn committed treason or would you consider of charging him with treason?
	And they said no, there's no evidence to support that.
	That's very, very important admission.
	You never hear that stuff.
	You only hear the other things in the media.
	But that was a very important moment in in that court hearing.
	And when you go back and you look at the media coverage, we've now debunked the media coverage.
	The prosecutor who knows everything about Mike Flynn says there was no treason.
	That's an important part that we we need to focus on.
	A lot of the expectations and allegations and made up narratives at the beginning of the case.
	Well, wait a minute.
	But the whole predicate for the the lying to the FBI charge against General Flynn was based on the fact that those agents that Comey bragged about bypassed normal procedure and got in and did an interview after they said you don't need a lawyer, they already had the transcript because they had illegally surveilled, they never minimized, then they unmasked, and then they leaked the raw intelligence about General Flynn.
	Now, maybe he lied, or maybe he didn't remember it perfectly because they had a transcript in front of them.
	Yeah, they they would they were they had already by the time they went to interview him, they knew what the Mike Flynn had said, and I think they were checking his uh uh his reliability, his willingness to be honest about it.
	Uh remember, the agent who first interviewed him concluded that he wasn't deceptive, that when he gave the question, he didn't feel like Flynn was intentionally trying to mislead the FBI.
	Nonetheless, seven months later they wrote a report that said he was lying and they rang him up.
	Quick break more with John Solomon on the other side.
	All right, as we continue with our deep state watch investigation, John Solomon is with us from the Hill.
	All right, so how is all this?
	So we're gonna get a Mueller report for sure this year.
	Right.
	How do you see this?
	And the media is I uh if we count, I get I think we'll reach at least a million times this year, and it's not going to happen.
	They're not gonna convict the president and impeach him, they're not gonna ever get two-thirds of the Senate, in my opinion.
	Um the question is, how is this gonna end, especially since there's no Trump Russia collusion?
	And what happens on the other side of the equation?
	The abuse of power uh by Strzok and Page and McCabe and Comey and and others, and Bruce Orr and others.
	There were two amazing moments over the holidays that really struck my um my nerves when I when I saw them.
	One was when Mike Isakoff, one of the lead reporters who first broke the stories about the DASE and peddled the dossier story at the beginning.
	In fact, it was his story that was used to support the affidavit uh or uh support the uh vice warrant.
	When he came out and said, I think the steel dossier is going to turn out to be unverified, when the reporter who peddled it starts to talk that way, I think you know one thing right away, right?
	The the origins of this case are are eroding so much so that even the Pfizer court, uh PISA court fraud was committed and perpetrated on a Pfizer court multiple times.
	What happens to the people that lied to the judge that was supposed to verify and corroborate?
	Well, let's talk about one of those people, because the second thing that caught my nerve uh in the middle of the holidays was James Comey's second interview, where he said he uh was asked twice.
	Do you think the FBI has an obligation to give exculpatory information to the FISA court when you're applying for a FISA in both times, Comey said, I don't know.
	How could the man who signs the FIFA who's in charge of the Pfizer program for the FBI not know his obligations to the court?
	Those two things are setting up, I think uh uh what's going to happen in 2019.
	You're gonna see the acknowledgement that the dossier was the main evidence and that it was flawed, and everybody knew it was new as flawed from the beginning, and two that the FISA court was misled.
	Now, what happens from that?
	The IG will lay out some facts, and the president, the new attorney general, are gonna have to decide accountability.
	I think the second political thing that's beginning to happen already, Sean, Democrats are changing the goalposts in the football field, right?
	It was about collusion.
	I guarantee you by the middle of nineteen they'll be talking about something entirely different, has nothing to do with Russia collusion because they got to keep the narrative going, but they have to change the facts because all those factors are.
	So, what is it gonna be a campaign finance violation?
	I think you're gonna see uh pay to play.
	I think they're gonna move, I think HR one, their first bill that you're introducing in the House tomorrow is designed to set up a new argument that early in the Trump administration there was a pay-to-play mentality of people working for him.
	We're just gonna move the field and the goal post to an entirely different stadium and play around.
	Okay, then does Hillary get in that game because we know the pay-to-play that took place at the Clinton Foundation.
	Yeah.
	Great question.
	I think that you know the Justice Department has not been able to answer that question.
	The best thing I've heard was Mark Meadows talking on our show recently, saying, I believe there's good reason to think there's an FBI investigation looking at criminality of the Clinton Foundation.
	That's the first time I've seen somebody in the know theoretically, someone who's been briefed, uh, saying that aloud.
	The John is mom on that.
	That's the place to look.
	I think it's Little Rock, Arkansas.
	If there's any justice for the Clintons, it's gonna come out of Little Rock, Arkansas.
	All right, uh, John Solomon will continue to follow we call it Hannity Deep State Watch, uh, as we're gonna be following all the corruption that the rest of the media will be ignoring on a daily basis.
	Uh somebody's gotta be on uh do some honest reporting.
	And we're taking it upon ourselves.
	Anyway, eight hundred-nine four one Sean is our number.
	Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload in the final hour of the Sean Hannity show.
	Now they're saying they're not gonna pay for it.
	They will pay for the wall.
	We're gonna build the wall, we're gonna pay for the wall.
	We're going to stop businesses from leaving our country.
	And we are they are being drained out of our country, our jobs, our money, our base, and our factories.
	We are we're gonna stop it.
	You don't expect he's gonna write a check.
	But what you're saying is that they will have to make concessions.
	Well, there's many different ways.
	So, in other words, is that you don't expect Mexico to say, yes, Mr. Trump, here's a check for 10 million million dollars.
	It wouldn't look good.
	So you think the deals that you make with it will more than compensate for the wall.
	Even if we tax him, we may tax him.
	Okay, it doesn't make any difference.
	People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.
	The president's decision to end DACA was heartless and it was brainless.
	When we use phrases like undocumented workers, we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration.
	Hundreds, hundreds of thousands of families will be ripped apart.
	If you don't think it's illegal, you're not gonna say it.
	I think it is illegal and wrong.
	Tens of thousands of American businesses will lose hardworking employees.
	And the argument there, Mr. President, is Americans don't want to do the work.
	We just can't find American workers to do the work.
	Mr. President, that is a crock in many instances.
	It's just not true.
	In my view, Trump's decision to end the DACA program for some eight hundred thousand young people is the cruelest and most ugly presidential act in the modern history of this country.
	I cannot think of one single act which is uglier and more cruel.
	We've got to do several things, and I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.
	People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
	Come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau County, stand in the street corners on In Brooklyn or the Bronx, you're gonna see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work.
	You know, it this is not a problem that the people who are coming into the country are solely responsible for coming if we didn't put them to work.
	My proposal will keep families together, and it will include a path to citizenship.
	You notice with all these Democrats, by the way, glad you're with us.
	Happy New Year, 800-941 Sean is our Topri uh telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program as we now begin our Hannity Border Watch segment, our top story of the day, the government shutdown disaster, which it is not.
	And are there things in life, if this isn't it, worth fighting for?
	I give you all the numbers.
	You know, go look at the government accountability office.
	This goes back numbers of years now.
	We got almost 30,000 homicide arrests of criminal aliens, you know, if you go back a few decades.
	How did look at the drugs that pour over into America from our southern border?
	I've been there, been to the drug warehouses.
	I've seen the confiscated drugs, I've seen them all.
	They're all aimed at making it to your small town or your big city right into the hands of your vulnerable kids.
	And the same thing with human trafficking and the people that are abused and die.
	You put the wall up, you put a border wall up, it protects people on both sides.
	Is it really too much to ask that we have the ability as a country to vet those people that would like the honor of coming into our country to join our family?
	I don't care where you come from.
	I just want to know that you're safe.
	We saw the caravan.
	We knew that over 600 criminals had infiltrated the caravan, including gang members, including MS-13 members, including others that had committed violent crimes.
	So you have the shutdown, and um well, it's we never have a government shutdown.
	Essential services always continue.
	Now, Democrats, for whatever reason, think they're on the winning side of this.
	Now, for the president, to me, this is a moment where he is saying, I'm gonna stand on a principle.
	And the principle is for national security purposes, we've got to secure the southern border.
	That means there's a little pain in the interim, then so be it.
	House Democrats announcing their plan plans to end the shutdown without funding the border wall.
	Soon as they're sworn in tomorrow.
	Okay, well, that's not a plan.
	That's dead on arrival.
	President graciously inviting congressional leaders to the White House for a security briefing today.
	Democrats don't want to go.
	White House calling their plan uh the uh White House said that if they're not gonna give and look at what the president's offering.
	Well, look what Lindsey Graham is offering.
	He's saying, okay, well, you've cared about DACA kids all these years.
	You care about the children, as you always say.
	Well, here's a great deal to allow them to stay for three years and then have a renewal for three years.
	That's what the that's what they're offering.
	And this whole issue I played at the beginning of this in interview during the time that President Trump was then candidate Trump.
	And I said, Well, do you expect them to give you a check, meaning Mexico to pay for the wall?
	No, but we're gonna have new trade deals with Mexico, which we now have, and it will be so beneficial that it'll ultimately pay for itself.
	And that's exactly what much of the trade deal is about.
	Better trade deal for obviously the better deal for the American people.
	Anyway, joining us uh with more, we have Maria Elvira, she's a Cuban American journalist broadcaster uh in her own right.
	She ran for Congress.
	She's worked for CNN Univision and Telemundo.
	Jessica Vaughn is with us, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies.
	Let me start with uh Jessica Vaughn.
	Jessica, all right.
	So we're watching all of this.
	We saw last night a violent im migrant mob launching a New Year's Eve border attack.
	So my question to you is let's go over the numbers.
	What is this costing the American people in terms of the criminal justice system, the educational system, the healthcare system?
	Uh what does it mean in terms of the importation of drugs, human trafficking, and then of course, those criminal elements, and not 98% of them, 98% want a better life.
	We get that.
	But how many people have died in the last couple of decades that tells us we need security for the American people first?
	Well, You're right.
	Illegal immigration is enormously costly to our country.
	Um, first are the fiscal impacts.
	According to the National Academy of Science, which is the premier research academy in our country, um, the net fiscal cost of the average illegal alien is 74,000 dollars over their lifetime, and that's not including the costs of of kids that they have.
	So that's each one over their lifetime costs seven more than seventy-four thousand dollars.
	So, you know, if you do the math, that means every five billion we spend on a border wall would only have to stop uh not even seventy thousand illegal aliens before it starts to act to pay off.
	This is an investment.
	We would the it's not the effect on reducing illegal immigration would have the wall pay for itself very, very quickly.
	And that's why it's such a good investment, besides the fact that it works.
	But there is a huge public safety impact of illegal immigration.
	Also, uh, we don't know the number of Americans or legal immigrants who are killed by illegal aliens because no one keeps track.
	They don't want to know.
	Law enforcement agencies don't inquire about immigration status, they don't keep track of it, even though they they track all kinds of other details about people who get arrested, but they don't want to know uh about the number who are here illegally because it's too politically uncomfortable and they'd have to do something about it.
	And then we have you know, other problems, terrorists and gang members exploiting our catch and release policies at the border.
	That is undermining all the progress that our state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies have made over the years in fighting terrorism, fighting transnational gangs, and fighting other kinds of violence and drug trafficking in our communities.
	And you know, this we we cannot keep undermining their very good work in this way.
	We need border security, and it needs to happen now.
	The only reason it isn't is political on the part of the Democrats.
	Maria Ovira, I mean, this is part and parcel.
	Um you even see, for example, that large percentages of the Hispanic American community, they want border security.
	They don't mind the process being legal.
	Oh, no, no, and it's true, and I was listening to uh all the different sound bites that you were presenting at the beginning of the segment, and I didn't hear anybody from the Hispanic community talking.
	So I thank you very much for giving me the opportunity and explain to you what we think.
	Remember that we are the largest minority in the country.
	We're almost at 18% of the population, almost 60 million people.
	And those people basically, and I can assure you, uh, Mr. Hannity, that many millions of Hispanics believe that we need to take care of those who do not have a criminal record at are in the country, not necessarily to give them citizenship, but to give them some type of legality.
	We don't have any problems with a border because we want people to come in with visas.
	The border needs to have very big gates for those who come in.
	Because at the same time, and just to comment to what the lady was saying, is that you have a lot of illegals that are paying Social Security benefits and will never claim them because they're they are paying under a dead person's name.
	And that stays in our Social Security or in the Treasury of the United States.
	That needs to be taken account of.
	Also, we have to uh uh come to uh realize that many of the business owners of America are paying those people less wages an hour, and then the products the jalapena peppers or the tomatoes here in Homstead where I am, very close to Miami, or the berries in Ohio, those berries cost to less because those people are picking them up.
	So there are no there are everybody's responsible for this party.
	Well, I think you've got a couple of things going on.
	I think politically you got one party that's looking at a generational political shift in the country.
	I think you have another party that wants cheap labor, which is unfair to those that would come here.
	I think we would have a need in this country uh for migrant labor at different points.
	Uh as long as we have a chance to vet everybody, and maybe if you do that for a certain number of years and you want to apply for a green card or citizenship, I don't have a problem with any of that.
	All I want is this.
	Let's make the process legal.
	I think we deser we have a right to protect the American people first.
	Let's vet those people that want to be our visitors and make sure that they're coming here with the right intentions.
	And then secondly, let's make sure that when they get here, they can take care of themselves.
	I don't I think that is standard criteria for most countries have that, and they even have it like in Australia, New Zealand.
	You better be willing to contribute a significant amount of money or skill that they need in their economy, or you're never getting in.
	And they agree with you.
	I'm surrounded by illegals.
	I talk to them all the time because I want to come to your show well informed.
	Do you really think they want to be Americans?
	Oh no, they're proud to be either Guatemalans or Hondurians, and good for them.
	They just want to come here.
	They want to work.
	They want to they don't want to get into trouble because I'm talking about those illegals that do not have a criminal record.
	If you have a criminal record, you're out.
	That's that and and we all think the same way in the Hispanic community.
	But Maria, ever since I was 12 years old and working in restaurants, I can tell you that many of the places that I worked had illegal immigrants.
	Yeah.
	You know, Sal Eisenhower Park had a place called Salisbury on the green.
	It was like a wedding factory.
	It did five weddings every weekend as a bartender.
	And I can tell you that they they these guys come in, they work, they're 14, 16, 18 hour shifts, and they work really hard.
	And and they live in fear that they're gonna be sent back.
	I've I'm you know, and they think I my Spanish is awful.
	Um I used to always say to them.
	But I mean, I became friends.
	All I all I saw were people working their asses off.
	Now, if we need uh workers in the country, there's gotta be a way.
	If we don't have a wall, what's gonna happen is the drugs continues, the human trafficking continues, the high costs associated with illegal immigration continues, the impact on our educational, criminal justice, health care system, all continues.
	You know, and the Democrats sounded like Donald Trump four years ago.
	Now all of a sudden he wants the wall, so they don't want it just because he wants it.
	But don't you see that it's all politics and that the Democratic Party, and I can say this loud and clear, they have played political football with Hispanics for 30 years.
	They're woolling us, and now they are the saviors.
	They're the ones who want to be moral.
	Really, but you know when they had the opportunity to save the Hispanics in 2009 when President Obama told Spanish television that he was going to do an immigration reform law the first year of his presidency.
	And what did he do?
	He put all that political capital into Obamacare, which was okay, but he lied to us.
	Let me get the last word from Jessica.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, I mean, this is we all should be able to agree that we can't have a legal immigration system with any integrity at all unless we have border security and unless we're enforcing the rules on legal immigration.
	I mean, Sean, you and I did these jobs.
	Uh I worked for carnivals and in restaurants and retail.
	These jobs simply aren't available in many cases to American teenagers anymore because employers have had the option of a steady stream of illegal workers.
	And and that hurts legal immigrants, it hurts young Americans and others as well.
	And so, you know, it's a good thing.
	I don't think most Americans are against immigration.
	Most Americans just want it to be legal.
	Exactly.
	And we have legal immigrants.
	The only way we're going to stop it and haven't been, I've been down there more than anybody else I know in the media.
	From the Rio Grande to San Diego, I've seen it all from every every vantage point.
	And especially how do how many more families and again it's it's a half of one percent.
	But if one if the 99 point nine percent are good people, but you got one you one group of people that come here and commit murders.
	Well, what if it's your family?
	You're gonna feel differently if it's your family.
	As we should feel as an American family.
	Anyway, thank you both.
	Maria, thank you.
	Jessica, thank you.
	When we get back, your calls 800-941 Shawn is our number.
	All right, 25 now until the top of the hour.
	So we're gonna start a mission statement tonight, as we did earlier in the program today.
	And I didn't spend a lot of time watching TV uh over the Christmas holiday.
	This is my long break every year, but I did spend some time.
	And as I watched the insanity that is now called news.
	There is no real news that exists on television or in newspapers anymore.
	They don't exist.
	I mean, I was kind of even a little shocked to hear a former executive editor of the New York Times saying that their papers' news pages, you know, their home of the the part about straight news coverage supposedly is unmistakably anti Trump.
	And I'm like, yeah.
	What do you think fake news CNN is?
	It's literally every second, every minute, every hour, every day.
	And this MSNBC is even worse.
	And you can't get honest, truthful coverage.
	They've all got an agenda.
	Everybody's got an agenda.
	And their agenda is in Ziponaco.
	It's in it's it's it's an extension of all things liberal socialist democratic.
	And, you know, the president of the United States and the first lady can't even go visit our troops in Iraq without being criticized.
	They can't talk to kids about Santa without character assassination and hate or and all the hate that's against them.
	I mean, this has really moved on to something that I've never thought I'd see in my lifetime.
	You know, we've talked about five powerful forces that are out there to destroy the president.
	Well, what they are, it's it's it is a sewer of hatred in basically everywhere we go.
	President, 52% job approval rate to end the year by Rasmussen.
	Many Americans that voted for the president, they're happy with the job that he's doing.
	No president's ever going to be perfect.
	I think the president's doing the right thing, standing up for border security.
	We've given out the numbers and the statistics often enough.
	The cost to our criminal justice system, our health care system, our educational system, Americans that are losing their lives because people enter this country illegally.
	The drug importation, the human trafficking, the toll is massive.
	But again, we're nothing but smelly Walmart people, as Peter Strzok called us, or irredeemable deplorable people, as Hillary called us, or bitter Americans that cling to our God, guns, bibles, and religion, as Obama described us.
	So you have what is now these forces of hatred of Donald Trump.
	It is it's beyond, it's it's it it's really sick at this point.
	They wake up every day.
	What can we hate Trump about today?
	How can I sound more outrageous than my competitor on radio or TV today?
	What can I do to I he's really, really, really a big, big, big, big, big super liar.
	No, no, no.
	He's a big, big, big, big, big super, super, super duper liar.
	And that's how they try to outdo themselves.
	Now, I have a lot of information about the Trump agenda that I guarantee you you haven't heard anywhere else.
	And that's what we're gonna do every day on this program and every day on television.
	We're gonna have Hannity watch on the economy.
	News you won't get anywhere else.
	We're gonna have Hannity Watch on hypocrisy.
	Look at the Democrats.
	They sounded just like Donald Trump a few short years ago.
	They're not gonna point that out on any of these other news, so-called news channels.
	We're gonna have Hannity Watch on we're gonna call out their bias.
	We're gonna have Hannity Watch on campus indoctrination and insanity.
	We're gonna have Hannity Watch on the culture, Hannity Watch on the Deep State, Hannity Watch on Border Security, Hannity Watch on the Advancement of Socialism.
	You name it, we've got it.
	Look at the holiday sales report.
	We now have Wall Street Journal, shoppers deliver the strongest holiday sales increase for U.S. retailers in six years, according to early data.
	Now, total U.S. retail sales, excluding automobiles, rose 5.1% during the Christmas season from a year earlier, according to MasterCard Spending Pulse, which tracks both online and in-store spending with all forms of payment.
	Overall, U.S. consumers spent over $850 billion this holiday season, according to MasterCard.
	Now the figure suggest the stock market swoon, the partial government shutdown didn't curb consumers' confidence in spending.
	That's good.
	Here's something you won't hear.
	What about the president's accomplishments in the last year alone?
	Let's see, he kept a promise.
	Brett Kavanaugh's name was on his list when he was a candidate to be on the Supreme Court, a conservative or originalist constitutionalist, he kept that promise.
	President kept his promise with China.
	China now has agreed to get rid of a lot of our automobile imports, take in our soybeans and other crops that they need to feed what, a billion people.
	We had middle class wages rising.
	I know a lot of you probably lost money in the stock market.
	I've told you, I'm not I'm not a stock market guy.
	Stock market to me is gambling.
	I don't trust it, never have, never will.
	I think the people that benefit from the stock market are the people that work on Wall Street and have all the insider knowledge that they need to make good decisions.
	I'm not one of them.
	I don't want to be one of them.
	I think there are other investments that are safer, more secure, maybe not as big a return, but it's certainly I don't want to lose the money that I earned.
	And to me, if you're willing to put it in the stock market, well, stocks go up and down.
	Now, my stock market friends will tell me well, if you have money you want to invest, you shouldn't want that money for at least 10 years because of the ebb and flow of the stock market.
	I'm not interested in the ebb and flow of the stock market.
	But real wages for the middle class, well, that went up 3%.
	That sounds pretty good if you're a middle class American, the people that are the forgotten men and women in this country that make the country great.
	You're not going to hear about that on any newscast or the U.S. Mexico-Canada trade deal that the president promised that benefits us and became a better deal for the United States.
	It's good for our cars, it's good for our farmers, it's good for Wisconsin, it's good for Michigan, it's good for the industrial Midwest.
	We know the president kept a promise and ended the Iranian nuclear deal.
	President kept a promise and moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
	We know that the president is pretty much pretty much smashed the ISIS Caliphate and uh is now pulling out of Syria, again, in time, very different than uh the Obama belief that it's the JV team.
	We see major increases in records in minority jobs in America.
	We have the lowest unemployment record ever for Hispanic Americans, African Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment.
	Our vets are getting hired in bigger numbers than they've ever been hired.
	The president's been holding the line to keep his promise on securing the borders, held his line on the migrant caravans.
	America also, for the first time last year, record American oil production, surpassing Russia, Saudi Arabia.
	We are now the world's largest producer of crude oil.
	Never mind all the natural gas and coal that we have.
	We're now exporters of energy, which means high-paying jobs for a lot of people.
	You're not going to hear this from anybody in the media because they're fixated on hating the president.
	So we'll have Hannity Watch on the economy.
	We're going to have Hannity watch on the abusively biased media.
	We'll we'll hold them accountable.
	We're going to have Hannity watch on hypocrisy.
	They sounded like Trump on the border.
	Now they have a very different tune.
	We'll have Hannity watch on every and any issue that impacts your life.
	Because they're not going to do it.
	They're incapable now of anything that represents real news.
	And we'll watch the deep state, Hannity Watch of the Deep State.
	We're going to have Hannity watch for equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws.
	We'll watch the Democratic Party.
	In 90 days, all of America will know how crazy all the Democrats are.
	It's going to be, they're going to lose their minds collectively.
	And the media will champion all of it.
	So we'll watch it all very closely.
	And moving forward, this show's going to be about the people that mattered in the 2016.
	Because why they're busy hating Trump every second minute, hour of every day and every week.
	Well, this show's going to protect the forgotten men and women in this country that they ought to be focused on and fighting for the policies that will make your life better, that will make your homes more secure, that will grow the economy so it impacts you and your family and your kids.
	In other words, we'll be your watchdog.
	We're going to expose corruption and lies and double standards when we see it.
	We'll expose those that are the real haters in this country.
	It's not hard to do.
	I was probably Obama's biggest critic.
	I never hated the guy like...
	these people hate this man.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	I mean, if Donald Trump cured cancer today, he'd still be hated.
	If Donald Trump gave every American $10 million, they'd still hate him.
	And uh manufacture some reason or another.
	So we're gonna watch out for your family, your pocketbook.
	We're gonna watch out for what's in the best interest of your family.
	We're gonna watch and call out this media bias that exists.
	We're gonna show you all these Hollywood phonies and their agenda.
	We're gonna look at all the political correctness that exists in the world and the indoctrination of our kids and how the deep state are literally abusing the tools of intelligence that we've given them.
	We're gonna stand up for free markets and liberty and freedom and the constitution.
	We'll watch out for socialism and the push to destroy free markets.
	We got a lot of work to do this year.
	But we're gonna be very, very different.
	We're redesigning the shows for this purpose and this purpose only.
	These are, you know, difficult times demand a different approach.
	And it's like I can't, if I focus on one topic, there's no way I can get it all in.
	Uh you want to know how crazy they are?
	Let's listen to some of the Democrats.
	Just listen.
	This is just a small sampling of what's coming.
	I'm trying really hard to find something positive.
	Donald Trump is a job loser.
	Republicans wrote a bill that abandons farmers uh uh farming families.
	It weakens weakens the farmers.
	President's fitness for office is something that is being called into question.
	I'm very worried about his fitness.
	In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on, is so pathetic.
	They're gonna say if you give them bump stock, it's gonna be the slippery slope.
	I certainly hope so.
	I mean, I wanted a uh I don't love a single pair, but we're not uh first he tries to charm you.
	President Bush tries to charm you.
	That's it, President Bush.
	I'm sorry, I meant to say the priority is the American people, and they are not with President Bush.
	Excuse me.
	I'm so sorry, President Bush.
	We have to pass the bill so that you can uh find out what it is.
	We are a nation that will not stop until every child is born with the opportunity to go to college or trade school free of cost.
	Wouldn't you push for a Trump impeachment?
	I would uh I would I would support impeachment.
	You use the term the occupation of Palestine.
	What did you mean by that?
	Oh, um I think it what I meant is like the the settlement.
	I am not the expert on geopolitics.
	We need to occupy every airport, we need to occupy every border, we need to occupy every ICE office.
	Medicare for all is actually much more, is actually much cheaper than the current system that we pay right now.
	Just last year, we gave the military a 700 billion dollar uh tax uh budget increase, which they didn't even ask for.
	Should leader policy become the next speaker of the house, we need to tell her that we've got her back in showing and pursuing the most progressive energy agenda that this country has ever seen.
	With this kind of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight.
	This is a bunch of scumbags.
	I will fight every day until he is impeached.
	Impaced 45.
	With the House Intel Committee, with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
	Okay.
	Matter of fact.
	Mr. Secretary, they...
	They say Maxine, please don't say impeachment anymore.
	And when they say that, I say impeachment, impeachment, the fact that uh he is wrapping his arms around Putin uh while uh Putin is continuing uh to advance uh into Korea.
	Anyway, we'll have a lot more on that tonight, nine Eastern on Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
	We're calling it like our mission statement.
	Hannity Watch.
	We're watching out for the forgotten men and women of the country.
	Because they're obviously not gonna do it.
	They're watching out for themselves.
	They're watching out for their agenda.
	They're singularly focused on hatred of the president.
	I mean, it's it's it's it's it's almost pathological at this point.
	It's beyond derangement syndrome.
	It's psychotic derangement syndrome.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
	Hannity Watch, what does it mean?
	We have a mission statement as the rest of the biased, abusively biased media, the Democrats, the deep state, weak Republicans, never Trumpers.
	Well, we've got a plan for them in the next hundred days.
	We'll outline it tonight.
	Hannity, 9Eastern on Fox at your DVR.
	We'll see you then, and we will be back here tomorrow.
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