Dan Bongino, Fox News Contributor, Former NYPD Officer, Secret Service Agent and author of the novel, "Spygate", is here with us in Vietnam. He joins to discuss the upcoming summit with North Korea, the ongoing battle for security at the border and the left’s unwavering desire to find anything and everything wrong with Trump. Joining him is Daniel Hoffman, FNC Contributor and a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. 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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We are live.
We are at the home of summit number two.
President Trump and Little Rocket Man, Kim Jong-un.
We're in Vietnam.
It's crazy.
I mean, I've I've actually finally been able to adapt to the time.
I just stay on New York time.
But it's 3 a.m. here, 3 o'clock on the East Coast, PM, 3 a.m. here, and of course 12 uh uh p.m. on the West Coast.
Um, a lot happening here, but we're also going to do a lot of the other news.
Most of the president, as reported, is in the air as we speak, making his way over.
And the meeting will take place actually Thursday, Vietnam time with Little Rocket Man, and on Wednesday Eastern time or United States time.
I know, which we're with 12 hours ahead here to make it very simple without making it complicated.
Um, we have insane updates on Hannity Watch on socialism in America.
Ocasio Cortez is now taking it a step further.
Now remember, the world is gonna end in 12 years, but in 10 years, we got to eliminate planes, redo every house, say goodbye to cows because of flatulence increasing the CO2 gases in the environment.
Um, then everything's gonna be free.
I mean, it's such a great country we are that we're providing every single solitary thing that you've ever wanted in life free.
Americans shouldn't be eating hamburgers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, okay.
Now she says it's time to stop having children because the world is about to end.
And so many are agreeing with her.
I mean, Kamala Harris, we're gonna feature us tonight.
Kamala Harris actually said it doesn't matter how we're gonna have to pay for it.
Anyway, Casio Cortez says, our planet is going to hit a disaster if we don't turn the ship around.
And so it's basically like there's scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult.
He says, Our planet is going to make disaster if we don't turn the ship around.
And so it's basically like there's scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult.
And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question.
You know, should is it okay to still have children?
And I mean, not just financially, because people are graduating with 20, 30, 100,000 worth of student loan cat, and so they can't even afford to have kids in a house.
But also just this basic moral question like what do we do?
And and even if you don't have kids, there are still children here in the world, and we have a moral obligation to them uh to leave a better world for them.
And this idea that if we just, you know, I've been working on this for X amount of years.
Um, it's like not good enough.
Like we need a universal sense of urgency, and people are trying to like introduce watered down proposals that are frankly going to kill us.
A lack of urgency is going to kill us.
It doesn't matter if you agree that climate change is an important issue.
It at this point it doesn't matter.
This is insanity.
This will destroy the greatest wealth-producing system ever created by man that has created more ingenuity, more innovation, advanced the human condition, then the United States of America, and produced wealth and prosperity for, you know, even compare America's poor to the world's poor.
I could tell you, having driven through now the streets of Hanoi, there is poverty on a level that is widespread and frightening and chilling.
Welcome to your socialist communist utopia.
And look at what's happening in Venezuela.
Look at what happened in Cuba and all the lofty promises of everybody, oh, everything's going to be free.
So on top of having to redo your home, stop eating meat, stop having children, eliminating airplanes.
Now they're talking about getting off all fossil fuels completely in 10 years.
That means get rid of no more cars with a combustion engine.
No oil, no natural gas.
At the same time, for the first time in 70 years, we're now energy independent because of Donald Trump.
And we still have two pipelines on track to be built.
And we also have Anwar, which and where we are the world's capital of energy with gas and oil and coal.
And that means we can be the mass exporter.
We don't have to rely on countries that hate our guts any longer for the lifeblood of our economy.
And to promise, you know, these high family sustaining wages and that guaranteed economic security for all.
And we're going to have family and medical leave and free government vacations and retirement security and education security.
And then you add Elizabeth Warren.
Now we're going to use the wealth tax.
Why?
So we can pay for child care.
We'll just take the money from the people already taxed, and we'll take another bite of the apple.
We'll legalize government stealing after you already paid all your taxes.
And don't forget when you die, they'll take another 50% if you live in New York, 40% nationally.
And don't worry, we haven't screwed up K through 12 enough.
Now it's going to be K through college.
Wow, government schools.
We pay most per capita than any other nation on the face of the earth for education for our students.
And we have, you know, we rank what, 37th?
It is it is unbelievable.
And what would give you, you know, when they offer healthy, you know, free, high quality health care, but you can't, according to Kamala and others, you can't stay on a private health system.
177 million Americans lose their private health care.
This is what they're saying now publicly, that they're going to do what they want to do, which is literally a 180 on the greatest economy that has created more wealth, more human advancement in the history of mankind.
This is what they want.
Guaranteed, um wages guaranteed, college guaranteed, daycare guaranteed, health care, government health care, uh, guaranteed housing, uh an environment free of monopolies.
That means we're going to take over all industry.
It's over.
America, as we know it and love it, will be over.
This is a prescription towards disaster.
Now, the problem is you got a hundred Democrats supporting this.
You got Spartacus, you got Kamala, you got all these candidates and Bernie and Elizabeth Warren all supporting this madness.
Now we even, if you ever doubted that the extension of the all things liberal leftist socialist Democratic Party is runs through their corrupt, abusively biased media.
The Times editorial board applauding the Green New Deal on Saturday, insisting that the ambitious and costly environmental bill is quote better than our climate nightmare.
What?
Now the media is jumping on board this insanity.
Anyway, the board addressed the contentious points surrounding the deal, including the apparent issues with its rollout and ambition of the project, but said, New York Times, so-called paper record, that the more important thing is that the bill changed the national conversation around climate change and global warming.
The same people that told us in the 70s an ice age was coming.
Then that evolved into the earth was going to melt away from global heating.
And then they just went to a generic climate change because if it gets hot or cold, they have an excuse and they get to advance The political agenda behind all of this.
I mean, it is it is madness that is unfolding.
And this is what now the Democratic Party, this is what they're gonna run on.
Wow.
And Ocasio Cortez uh supporting Congresswoman Taleb and Omar supporting, let's see, impeached the MFR, the leader of the Democratic Party, you know, farting cows in Green New Deal, maybe we shouldn't be eating burgers.
Uh how about we get to decide what happened to pro-choice leftism liberalism?
These are the quintessential lies of socialists that have been made throughout history.
It's all a promise, it's all a guarantee, it's all a platitude.
It's a bumper sticker.
Lofty promises deliver nothing but poverty and misery, unless you're part of the ruling class.
Just like they pass bills before you read what's in them.
By the way, how did Obamacare work out?
Did you keep your doctor?
Did you keep your plan?
Did you save money?
No, no, and no.
And now when you eliminate all private health care, how do we recover from that?
You don't.
If you if you get off foster, how do you transition back?
You don't.
It is it is a guaranteed prescription for misery and failure for all people.
I mean, this is insanity.
But this is what the new Democratic Socialist Party represents.
This is what they're now saying.
You know, Elizabeth Warren, we're gonna have a wealth tax.
After you've been taxed, we're gonna take more of your money, and we're gonna redistribute it.
This is quintessential statism, communism, redistributionism, socialism, all the lofty promises that can never ever be fulfilled.
Now we're talking about well, parents, kids need to stop having children.
Sounds a lot like uh, well, one child policy.
What are we gonna do?
Nobody it's irresponsible.
We're gonna tell people it's irresponsible to have kids.
And the Democratic Party is embracing this, you know, generally.
You know, Kamala Harris, not only did she torch complaints about the use of identity policy, uh, that's designed to shut people up.
No, it's not.
How about we're all Americans?
You know, Harris, of course, we can afford trillions and trillions of dollars of spending in the new Green Deal, but you know, she said it's not about the cost.
You'll hear things like the Green New Deal.
You hear things like uh Medicare for all.
Oh, you hear things like whether it's taxes, you'll hear things uh at what point do you say that's our North Star, but we have to be realists.
We there's no question we have to be practical.
But being practical also recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to us as human beings.
Being practical recognizes that greenhouse gas emissions are threatening our our our air and it's threatening the planet, and that it is well within our capacity as human beings to change our behaviors in a way that we can reduce its effects.
That's practical.
Can we afford it?
Of course we can afford it.
Two and a half, three trillion dollars a year for Medicare for All by some studies.
I don't do depending on which portion of the United States.
Three trillion, you picked up the point three.
That's money.
Uh that you know what the Republicans are gonna say, tax and spend liberals, pie in the sky.
One of the things that I admire and respect is the measurement that is captured in three letters, ROI.
What's the return on the investment?
People are in the past.
We gotta stop this.
You just you hear what she's saying.
Doesn't matter the cost.
You know, remember, they always pass bills and burdens on you, but they don't want that health care system.
They have their own health care system.
You know, Pelosi wants Trump's tax returns, but uh her chief of staff, well, we'll release our tax returns if she only runs for president.
They're a bunch of phonies, all of them.
Then the witch hunt, the media that goes along with all of this insanity and madness, because it's now bordering on madness.
By the way, Senator Feinstein making headlines this uh weekend, meeting with a you know, appeared to lecturing children and reminding one teen activist, you're not old enough to vote.
You know, to declare to the kid activists a seasoned politician, she's knows what's going on, you don't.
Actually, I'll take the common sense of a two-year-old over some of these idiotic policies.
You know, uh then you got what more Democrats are just getting more extreme.
One Nebraska lawmaker calling the American flag a rag, comparing it to a swastika sticker.
And, you know, when Bernie Sanders becomes a moderate, you know you've got major problems here.
And It's you know, Cortez telling us what to eat, telling us whether to have kids, telling lashing out and saying, I'm the boss.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
Maxine Waters warning foes that she has the gavel, and we'll the we'll hear the sound all over the world.
All right, we'll get to all this.
Now uh we're in Vietnam.
Where are we time-wise here?
Okay, we got to take a break.
We'll come back.
Um, there's so much happening in terms of the president, why this is so important, and why actually, in spite of all the president's economic success, it may end up being his foreign policy that defines his presidency.
And I'm gonna explain all of that.
And everybody that didn't think little Rocket Man would ever stop firing his missiles over Japan and threatening Guam and the continental U.S. and China and everybody in the region.
Well, it happened.
Hasn't fired a single one in what, 15, 16 months.
Uh is he ever get credit?
No.
All right, from Vietnam.
Oh, by the way, 3 uh 20 a.m. here.
Good morning, Vietnam.
Uh, we'll come back.
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Linda leaves a day early, gets in an hour later than me.
Twenty-eight hours ahead of me, she leaves, and her and Blair didn't get here till way later.
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All right, as we roll along, we're in Vietnam for the historic summit coming up uh later this week.
Also, Linda's story from hell, apparently 64 hours from wheels up uh to wheels down in Vietnam and we leave, you know, 28.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Can I can I talk about something positive?
Talk.
Go ahead.
You want to talk.
I just want to say something nice.
You know, this is a crazy setup.
We're here in Vietnam.
I want to give a shout out to our engineer Blair.
You know, he suffered with me through those four days.
And four days.
And, you know, I I was merely just a little bit.
No, I feel terrible for you.
I mean wait, wait, wait, I'm not done.
And I just want to say he's done a very good job of setting this all up, Pam.
Still have four days to go.
Listen, I have friends back in the States, you know, writing me now saying it sounds amazing.
So, you know, I thank you and applaud both of you.
And, you know, my TV team was here, and I I don't have a lot of time to get out because I like to really stay focused when I'm on the road like this because I want to be fresh for all that's coming up.
We have an interview with the president this week.
You've got the summit.
We have a lot of travel to do.
And my staff actually they like to go out sightseeing.
I take that as downtime, reading time and relaxing time, and vodka time, uh, but putting that aside, and they went to the Hannoy Hilton, my TV crew.
Oh my, and you went Tom as well, right?
Um and uh unbel they said it was unbelievably eerie, and like this they try to rewrite history there.
That, oh, it's um this is where they played soccer.
This is where they play basketball.
I'm like, yeah, where did you talk?
Where did you nearly kill people and bust their legs like John McCain?
Where's that place?
You know, five years.
Um but look, it's you can see look, this country has advanced, but you see real poverty surrounding a city.
I mean, driving in is such an experience.
It's like we we are so blessed, and we don't even know the magnitude of blessing until you get out and see other countries like this.
All right, I'm gonna we'll give you a preview why we're here.
We're in Vietnam.
We'll get to your calls, Linda's you know, trip from hell and much more straight ahead.
All right, 25 now till the uh top of the hour.
We're in Vietnam, 3:35 a.m. local.
Kennedy live Tonight, 9 a.m. local.
A lot of my friends are asking, well, how do you you sound like yourself?
You sound fine because there's one thing I do.
I stay on, I go get into my hotel room, I close every shade, every single thing.
And I'm not it sounds weird, right?
I just lock myself in my room like a lunatic.
And but what I do is I try I stay on New York time.
So I'll do this for me.
It's three in the afternoon, Eastern time.
But it's 3 35 a.m.
Uh here in Vietnam for the historic summit, which we're going to talk about here in a second.
We also have that kid that was was beat up on tape in Berkeley, now says three eyewitnesses have come forward, was there from the beginning.
Um interesting, you know, a guy's getting punched in the face uh numerous times, and it's on video, and nobody in the media seems to care at all.
Why?
It doesn't advance the story like the Covington kid, or it doesn't advance the story like the the smallet story.
And as soon as those think, man, we'll just rush to judgment.
We'll smear, we'll slander, we'll besmirch character assassination is the word of the day.
Uh, you wanted to say one thing.
Linda is with us, Blair, and everybody, the whole team is here, and sweet baby and our buddy Tom is here.
Uh all right.
So what it what did you want to say?
Oh, I just was gonna talk about the uh motorcycles that are here.
Oh, it's crazy.
I've never seen anything like it.
No, you know what's amazing, and I give the people that ride these motorcycles a lot of credit, although it's it's hard to cross the street in the busy part of the street.
Okay, but I haven't crossed the street yet.
Well, there's a Starbucks nearby where we are, and everybody I know is crop finding ways to cross the street, but you do risk your life.
You know what the most amazing part of it is now there's not the wealth that we have in the United States, but you watch all these the people of Vietnam and they ride these these and many motorcycles like scooters.
Like a scooters, yeah.
They're like scooters.
School dudes we'll put it online.
Yeah, we'll put it on.
But but what's so amazing about oh, you go you'll put it up on Hannity.com.
I watch, they got like couches that they somehow it's like an art form.
They have couches and the box and boxes and boxes.
I think we should talk about the more precious cargo that I saw on these scooters, which were children.
Infants.
Uh infants, but strapped, not strapped.
I mean sandwiched between a mother and a father.
Or in or in front of the one parent that's driving.
No, so there's they got the older kid in the front.
Right.
Because you know, he's four now.
He can he can drive the scooter.
Then we got the father.
Say scooter again.
Scooter.
Scooter.
Then they got the infants.
Scooter.
Then they got the second parent.
I'm like, what is going on?
No, but I I will honestly say the ability to stack boxes, furniture, children.
Well, that I'm not exactly the fan of the kids part.
I mean, but the ability to stack those boxes as high as they do.
I was in the gym this morning, and I so where where I'm at is right across from the Vietnam.
We're in the big there's a big uh establishment, which a lot of people were going to.
And there was an in and out uh uh underground parking garage.
And I'm just talking like there's absolutely complete disregard for the lanes.
The lanes are a mere suggestion.
They're just there to let you know.
There are no traffic laws here.
It's not believable.
The way people drive, it's not.
And I'm on the I'm on the elliptical, and I'm going, oh, I'm just watching from the window.
You know what the coolest is.
I'm so scared.
So it's you know, 3 40 a.m. here.
On the way over, we're like driving over or you know, and all of a sudden we're looking and like, oh, these guys are playing cards with lights, you know, that they've it's crazy.
And there's a lot of poverty here.
Oh, yeah.
It does infrastructure is not like even the it's not even well, maybe New York's worse.
I don't know.
I mean, New York's a pit in terms of the state.
AOC has their way.
Yeah, of course, no jobs.
But it really is amazing to me, and we'll talk more about this later in the week.
I don't want to waste a lot of time on it now, but I will tell you, it's amazing what people, what that what they are able to do to thrive and survive in conditions that are nothing like the opportunities that we have in the U.S.,
which you know brings us to this idiotic Green New Deal, which is gonna, we're gonna remodel every home and no cows and no airplanes and no combustion engine and no oil and gas, and you know, but everything else is free, and we're gonna pay for it all, but don't worry about the cost, even though Medicare for all Alone is 70 to 80% of our budget.
And that does that doesn't include all the other promises, lofty promises they're making.
And they will destroy the lifeblood not only of our economy, but it'll tank the world's economy into a depression unlike anything I've seen, but all under the guise of free, free, free, and this is going to be great utopia.
Never going to work.
Anyway, we are here.
We're in Vietnam, and we'll be here uh all week.
Uh the summit is taking place.
Well, locally here, it's going to be on Thursday, but in let's say Eastern time in New York, DC time, it is going to be on Wednesday night.
Actually, I think the timing is just around when Hannity gets on the air, we'll know uh what time they're meeting.
I have an interview with the president coming up this week following the historic meeting that he has with Kim Jong-un.
Expectations by the media, well, they're non-existent.
They would rather talk about a Mueller report that we're told is not coming out this week at all.
And it's funny to watch every news outlet.
They've gone all in for two years.
Trump Russia collusion.
Well, it might not be what you thought.
Well, this is just going to be now for Adam, the biggest liar in Congress shift to it's going to be for him to now begin the process of really really, really describing the Trump Russia collusion.
Because Mueller, two years, that wasn't enough.
And as they as they now squirm to manage expectations that they have built up with their breathless hysterical reporting every day is mind-numbing.
But the idea that here we are after the first summit, the president, what did the president get for the United States?
He got, let's see.
He got a promise from Kim Jong-un that he's going to release the hostages.
Done.
The remains of U.S. servicemen from the Korean War, the 1950s, have been sent back to the United States.
The president got a promise of, you know, the process of beginning to denuclearize the entire Korean peninsula.
We haven't had a rocket fired over Japan or anywhere else in what, 15, 16 months now.
And then the president, what did he give?
He's given nothing.
And leading up to the first summit, what had happened?
Rockets like every other week threatening the continental United States, promises of destroying the United States of America.
You know, little rocket man, fire and fury, and my buttons bigger than your button.
I mean, really serious tensions.
Um everybody afraid because the president's language was too rough.
The president was being too tough.
He's going to start World War III.
And we end up getting all these concessions, and in exchange, nothing was given by the U.S., nothing, except the hope, the opportunity that North Korea can literally denuclearize the whole peninsula.
And that means Guam is protected, Japan is protected, China is even more safe.
Big announcement by the president over China this weekend.
He's delaying those sanctions because the talks with China have gone so well.
And he we may even have an announcement some point this week.
And so part of these talks, I am told from my sources, will literally include and focus on the dismantling of major North Korean nuclear reactors.
That would be huge for the world.
I was watching Nat Geo, two hours on World War II.
You think of how close the world came to the precipice of disaster.
All the countries, France and you know, every country that was conquered by Hitler and Nazis and fascists and Tojo Japan and the attack on Pearl Harbor and uh Russia and Stalin and communism rigidly aligning with the Hitler and his forces and then eventually getting, you know, attacked and then reversing course.
But we we have now you think about this.
So all the economic records, you know them.
Consumer confidence, everything that we talk about on a regular basis.
The president's success never gets any focus.
You know, president tweeted out this weekend, since my election, the Dow Jones is up 43%.
Okay.
NASDAQ composite almost 50%.
Great news for your 401k.
We're bringing America back faster than anyone thought possible.
We now have U.S. energy production breaking every single record in the book in terms of we're now energy independent for the first time in in 70 years in the United States, and we are now a net exporter of energy, which I've always said is the lifeblood of our economy and also the path to prosperity because you're talking about hundreds of thousands of high-paying career jobs for Americans in the energy sector.
But of course, AOC wants to get rid of all of this.
You know, now the president, you know, look what he's saying about China.
I will be delaying U.S. increase in tariffs now scheduled for March 1, assuming both sides make additional progress.
We will be planning a summit for the president of China and myself at Mar-a-Lago to conclude an agreement, a very good weekend for the U.S. and China.
Wow, that would be historic.
Now add to this one other part of the equation.
That the president decided to get out of this horrific Iranian deal.
Now we have, I believe, for the first time since the UN partition plan in 1947 and 8.
I think for the first time, you have the possibility of a real shift in terms of real potential for peace in the Mideast.
Hannity, that's a lofty prediction.
Why?
Well, number one, we're not dependent on the Saudis or anybody in the Middle East for our lifeblood of our economy.
That's huge.
That means we can be a next uh net exporter of energy.
But number two, you now have, we know intelligence sharing is at an all-time high.
That relations have never been better with the president, the U.S., Israel, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Emirates, all recognizing Iran as the world's biggest danger.
The president leading the way with sanctions, bringing that country financially as quickly as possible to its knees.
I know it's maybe some of you liberals are not used to dropping 150 billion dollars on the tarmac of Mullers that chant death to Israel, death to America, and burn both our country's flags.
But that could happen.
On top of, let's see, record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, and the employment of our vets.
Wow.
President says about the talks with China, substantial progress on important structural issues, including intellectual property protection, which is a big deal.
I know because my best friend was the inventor of the year, one of my best friends.
Oh, they steal everything.
Uh, issues of technology transfer, agriculture, meaning good for our farmers, good for American, you know, growers, uh, agricultural services, currency, and many other issues.
Why?
Because China is now suffering.
Why?
Because the president put, you know, put the squeeze on them.
And all the Democrats care about is phony Trump Russia collusion and advancing a new Green Deal that will blow up this country as we know it.
President also tweeting out this weekend the only collusion with the Russians was the crooked Hillary and the DNC.
But of course, we've chronicled all of that, and the media ignores the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in history.
And the president tweets where's the server that the DNC refused to give to the FBI?
It's another great question.
The FBI asked for their server.
You say, no, no, no, thank you.
We'll hire our own company.
And the FBI comes banging on my door in a pre-dawn raid.
I'm gonna say, no, I'm gonna keep all my computers myself.
I'm gonna hire my own company.
That's gonna work.
Just like, oh, I deleted 33,000 subpoenaed emails, and oh, James Baker, the chief counsel for the FBI under Comey actually agrees with Sean Hannity that Hillary should have been indicted for the violation of the Espionage Act.
And he tweets out where the new text between Lisa Page and her agent lover Peter Strzok.
We want them now.
Look at where the president is in the polls.
I told you about this last week.
93% approval rating in the Republican Party, except for never Trumpers, which will never grow up.
And doesn't matter.
Supreme Court originalists doesn't matter.
The largest tax cuts doesn't matter.
You know, better trade deals with every country so far that the president has been dealing with.
Then he puts out 52% approval rating overall.
Then the president writes, not bad considering I get the most unfair bad press in the history of presidential politics, and don't forget the witch hunt.
Oh, one other thing the president's doing.
Did you see he meets with our friend Alvita King?
We love Alvita King.
She's awesome.
Anyway, and she's happy.
President is restricting funding to Planned Parenthood.
The only thing we have to worry about this week is weak Republicans in the Senate that might not go along with the emergency order of the president, even though every other president has used that power.
Really unbelievable.
So we got all these uh all these things happening.
Oh, when the they make a big deal.
Oh, the president said, Well, that's where me and Kim little Kim Jong-un fell in love.
No, that's where we started to connect.
Let me interpret Trump speak for you.
That's where we started to connect, and we began to build a relationship that brought us to the point.
He stopped firing missiles over Japan and threatening Guam and the continental United States and the entire region.
Well, he said he fell in love.
That's where we fell in love.
No, that's where they began a relationship which leads to better deals and a safer world, hopefully.
But I know it's not what liberals are used to.
They're used to bribing dictators like Kim Jong un's father, Kim Jong-ul, ill, got bribed by the Clinton administration.
That didn't do any good.
Just like the Iranians got bribed by Obama and his weak, horrific foreign policy.
Uh 800, I don't even know what you did with this thing that you gave me.
Oh, here I got it.
800 941 Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
All right, we have all the other news of the day.
Dan Bongino and Dan Hoffman are coming up.
They're with us right here in Vietnam.
Then uh Linda's trip from hell, we have to get to that.
You're gonna meet the kid who was beaten up at Berkeley, and he says he is now has three eyewitnesses.
The media is ignoring it.
Not exactly the same treatment as the Smullet case.
All right, from Vietnam.
Tonight we have amazing Hannity, by the way.
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All right, glad you're with us, Hour two, yeah, from uh Vietnam, where it is now 4 a.m., believe it or not, in the morning, 4 p.m. on the East Coast.
Glad you are on board here for the hopefully what is a historic summit with the President, Kim Jong-un.
Couple of weird stories as we get here.
One is little Rocket Man decided to take the train.
I don't think he has a presidential plane because last time in Singapore, we had apparently borrowed it from the Chinese.
Um, but who knows?
Um the president says uh also on another note on China that China's president has been helpful with the North Korean summit.
President, of course, also made a big deal over the fact that he is not imposing greater sanctions on China as the negotiations have gone very well, and a possible announcement is coming, uh, which is good for everybody, which I was talking about in the last hour.
Um, and it appears, you know, I don't this is the amazing thing.
Media would rather talk about Robert Mueller today.
Media, and there's no Robert Mueller report.
It's not coming this week at all.
Rather than the idea, if you think back, and I met these great Marines from that are stationed in Okinawa that we had some breakfast with, and we're talking long about how many missiles were fired over Japan.
You know, when did we ever think we'd get our hostages back?
When did we think the remains from the Korean war would start coming back?
So is it perfect?
Is it do we have an answer that we thread the needle?
Is it well, not yet, but we're making a lot of progress that no other president has made.
Similarly with China.
Similarly, another promise kept with Canada and with Mexico.
UK Guardian, at least, they'll acknowledge the president's strategy with North Korea has already been a tremendous success.
And what is the president up to this point given North Korea?
Nothing.
The only hope for them is that they join the world community and their people are not as impoverished, and we have trade uh with North Korea and a better relations, which by the way is going to keep millions of South Koreans safe from whatever nuclear potential Kim Jong-un would ever get.
You know, he's bringing his foremost trusted advisors with him, which is a sign that they're taking all of this pretty seriously.
Uh, and they added a dinner to the schedule just recently.
They're gonna have dinner on on Wednesday night.
We have a diplomatic source saying the pre-summit talks are focusing on total dismantlement of the North Korean nuclear reactor.
Okay, that's denuclearizing the entire Korean peninsula.
And we have so much more.
Anyway, joining us are experts, they're so kind to come the 26 hours, which is about what it takes.
Unless, of course, if you're Linda, who goes a day early and arrives an hour later than I did.
We had a little bit of we'll find out more about that in our news roundup hour.
Uh Dan Bongino is with us, former uh now Fox News contributor, former NYPD officer, Secret Service agent, author of the number the number one bestseller, Spygate, he's here with us in Vietnam.
Daniel Hoffman, also a Fox News contributor and a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, scaring the crap out of every one of us about how we're being spied on, even in the shower, which is insane.
Uh anyway, guys, thank you for coming making the long trek.
Yeah, man.
I know the media, Dan Bungino, they're not making as big a deal uh about this.
You know, I was watching that geo for two straight hours.
Summary of the entire World War II and and how far Hitler got, you know, and and the moment when Hitler was partnered with Tojo, Japan and Mussolini.
So it was fascism, Nazism, and in the beginning, the former Soviet Union and communism, until he makes the trek into Russia, then Stalin switched sides and joins forces with us.
But you think how far he got and how dangerous it was.
Thinking ahead about denuclearizing the entire peninsula, wow.
You know, I thought liberals wanted to imagine a world of peace.
Well, they're not.
And you saw Chuck Todd, I think it was this weekend, who said that, well, this is just going to be like a press kind of photo op for Trump, which is the you know, height of being disingenuous.
I mean, Sean, if the North Koreans now, uh uh I said this this morning on Fox and Friends, if they're about a say a nine on the danger scale out of ten, um, and Trump can cut that down to a seven by getting a full accounting of how many weapons they have, um, you know, by getting our remains back, which is a nice gesture to start, and we can get an idea of even where their technology is, because we don't even have an idea about their capacity for re-entry vehicles.
It's still an open question now, obviously, which wouldn't affect like EMPs or any kind of atmospheric uh detonation or anything like that.
But uh the fact that he could take it down from say a nine to a seven would be a success.
And the media pretending like this stuff happens overnight is just a misreading of history.
But Dan Hoffman, we're not talking about a seven here.
We're talking about if if the president is fully successful, number one, he has a ton of success.
Nobody in the media wants to give him any credit.
But if we get a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, okay, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Guam, even China, the world is a much safer place.
And if you ever got rockets that could reach the continental U.S., we're really all in much more serious danger.
Yeah, Sean, no question about it.
That's a laudable goal.
And we have achieved a lot so far.
Let's remember that there have been no nuclear tests in September 2017, no missile tests since November 2017.
As Dan mentioned, we got three hostages back, the remains of our fallen soldiers.
Let's also remember, too, that that Kim Jong-un has started dismantling uh the rocket engine site at So Hei, as well as the nuclear test site in Pungari.
Those are places where we need to get inspectors.
I would highlight, look, let's have realistic expectations.
Kim Jong-un is a ruthless dictator, but I think you have to applaud the administration for having taken us as far as we have.
We're on the path to arms control before we get to denuclearization.
You know, it it may be, in spite of all the economic success, Dan Bongino.
Yeah.
You know, here we have something in the Middle East that's unprecedented.
You have the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Israelis, the U.S., the Emirates, and other countries aligning against Iranian hegemony in a partnership, putting Khashoggi aside, which is, you know, unforgivable to me.
Um, and I've been the most outspoken person, I think, in on public television and radio about the Saudis and the money.
I mean, we're talking about deep, profound historic changes, and add to that, we don't need their oil anymore.
We're the number one producer of oil and gas in the world because of Trump.
You know what I think it's been trying to read this and put the lead out first.
I think it's his strategic unpredictability.
You know, Sean, we have tried things from the establishment intelligentsia on the foreign policy front, the same way for what, five decades now?
And candidly outside of Reagan, yeah, there have been successes.
I don't want to be hyperbolic, but we're at the same stalemates in places like North Korea and in the Middle East.
I think the fact that Trump has said, you know what, we've tried that, it doesn't work.
We're gonna do it my way from an all-business I need deliverables approach, has changed everything because they don't know what he's gonna do next.
But you know, I was just thinking about it, I didn't want to undersell his success before.
I hope you didn't Take it that way.
Trump's success with North Korea.
Sean, the country is dying.
They have no hard currency.
Remember, Kim doesn't care if he feeds his people.
If they die, that's just a negative externality of his tyranny.
But he does care if he can pay off his military.
He has no hard currency.
Trump was bankrupt, and these sanctions are killing them.
So again, a success that will be completely ignored by these people who are not going to be able to do that.
Just like it's killing Iran.
Iran too.
Yeah.
Dan Hoppman, I look, you have traveled the world, you've worked in intelligence all your life.
You have this uncanny ability to scare the living daylights out of everybody that works for me.
Thanks, John.
Because you know the capabilities of intelligence, and you're basically saying the minute we all land in a place like Vietnam, everything we have on is hacked.
Everything.
And that I'm probably being spied on when I take a shower, which is really frightening to me.
Yeah, that's frightening to all of us, Sean, frankly.
Thanks.
Thanks, Dan.
Welcome to the show.
Well of Vietnam.
I learned that skill.
Never turn the lights on in the shower.
Now listen, you know, uh, some of us need to see in there, Dan.
There's the summit is of is of great interest, obviously, to us and to North Korea, but it's also of great interest to Russia and China, and they have extraordinarily uh just extensive and sophisticated espionage capability.
They are here in full force with cyber capabilities and they've got human assets on the ground uh seeking to obtain as much intelligence as they possibly can.
Um, you know, it's a chance to get at the North Korean hermit kingdom, as is you all mentioned, uh Kim Jong-un is bringing advisors with him, and uh I'm sure the Russians are interested in targeting them and the Chinese as well for intelligence.
But on the other hand, you said something that caught my interest.
You said they're not interested in it for Laurid details.
They're more interested in this for like, for example, they would be more likely to hold on to all of this, and they're more interested in the president.
They they don't care even if they were, say, videoing Dan Bangino and you in the shower, they don't care about that.
They care about not at the same time.
That came out.
Yeah, the way that came out is kind of interesting.
Maybe we should just skip the whole shower reference.
I don't think that's helpful.
No, but I'm right now.
You know the the Russians have uh have plenty of video of me over the five years I spent in Moscow.
Uh but how do you know they have that video?
You're I mean, you say it with such I wouldn't just total confidence.
That is uh course they have video of me naked.
Well, I mean, it's I would hope it's not that important to them, but uh But if it was it would have been leaked long time like all this stuff you're saying they're accumulating with such ease, just is happening.
Well, look, the Russians have uh have a saying.
Chem Televiac dish it, which in English means what makes a person breathe.
And what they do essentially is they mount a full court press to collect as much intelligence information as they can on people, uh their private lives, whom they engage with, and they put it all together to try to understand the person as well as they can.
They're doing that with every single one of the president's team who's out here.
They're probably focused on you too, Sean.
Um I don't know about me and Bon Gino.
We're probably lesser targets for them, frankly.
That that'd be information.
But uh but that's kind of that's what they do, and and there's also an intense interest on their part in tracking how the president and his team and Kim Jong-un and his team react to that dinner you talked about and all the other engagement that they have over these coming days.
Do you think, especially in light of the president apparently developing Dan Bangino, uh a pretty solid relationship with the president of China?
Yeah, do you think that it is maybe reassuring to them that the president keeps his word?
They I'm sure that they respect that he negotiates hard because that's what they do.
Well, the Chinese are in a delicate balance here.
They don't want a democracy to be.
Yeah, but and but they don't want a democracy aligned with the United States right across their border.
Uh but also they don't want an unstable North Korean regime either.
Remember, the Koreans, 90% the North Koreans, 90% of their economy is China-based.
I mean, they export minerals and coal to China.
Without China, they're nothing.
So there's kind of this delicate balance where you don't want instability, so those launches over Japan certainly weren't helping, but they don't want a U.S. ally, unified denuclearized peninsula there either.
So it's kind of an interesting dilemma there in.
But can I just say one thing?
Dan's right, by the way, Sean.
You asked him how does he know that?
When I was overseas with the Secret Service, we would rely on Dan's agency to give us all.
These guys were phenomenal.
I can't applaud what they do enough, and they do it quietly.
Obviously, they can't do it.
But isn't that the d danger of weaponizing, you know, our intelligence like we've been talking about for now for two years?
Of course, why do you think this whole spy gate thing interests me so much?
I understand that.
But we would get an RSO briefing from the DSS guys who ran the embassy, uh, or sometimes from his agency, depending on where we were, and they would bring actual pictures out.
They faces blanked out and say this is a CEO of a company in with a honeypot, and basically this is what we and this happens, and it's real.
I mean, I Dan's not making this up.
This stuff is legit.
All right, take a quick break.
We're in uh Vietnam uh in light of the summit that is uh forthcoming.
Uh 800 941 Sean, toll-free telephone number, all the other issues, Linda's flight from hell.
Uh, we'll have some fun with that in our final hour today coming up.
And uh 800 941 Sean, we'll get to your calls.
All right, as we continue Sean Hannity show, we're in uh Vietnam, 800-941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
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Uh, as we continue with Dan Hoffman and Dan Bongino.
All right, so we got a lot happening here as the week unfolds.
Predictions.
Um, usually some at Stan Bongino are not predetermined, but you kind of have at least a baseline agreement going in, and then hopefully things get even better.
Well, supposedly, from what I'm hearing, these listed demands, give us your whatever, 20 top priorities from the North Koreans and and vice versa, have already been exchanged.
Um, I I've seen everything from you know, putting uh North Koreans I CBMs under control of the more uh, you know, stable Chinese regime to they're just gonna get a statement out on what denuclearization actually means going forward.
Um so you know, you never know, but but Trump uh you can't count Trump out, Sean.
I mean, he has managed to do some incredible foreign policy breakthroughs, and uh I would even hate to render a guess.
This could this could go really, really well, or you know, it could be uh could be just okay.
I mean, uh that that's the best you can say with him.
Damn Hoffman.
Yeah, a couple things that that I would think are are are in the realm of the possible here.
Uh establishing liaison offices where we would have an official presence in Pyongyang and the North Koreans won in Washington, that would certainly enable negotiations going forward, an agreement for inspectors to visit those sites I talked about.
Maybe North Korea uh at least open to getting back into the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which from which they withdrew in 03.
But I think the big bold move we might see is an official end of the Korean war.
I think that might suit Kim Jong-un, and and I think it might suit President Trump's policy as well, would dial down the level of uh of of intensity in this relationship a little bit in a positive direction.
And uh I wouldn't be surprised if if that issue comes to the fore.
All right.
Uh last question.
Will it be a full agreement?
And what about the thing with China?
What does that mean in the president's tweet today that he's withholding more sanctions?
Announcement forthcoming.
Well, it's huge news for our economy.
Uh I think it's uh it's a great idea.
I think we have to do a lot with the Chinese on the agricultural front and get them to back down on intellectual property theft, uh also government procurement over there, but that's a huge breakthrough with the Chinese.
I mean, you saw the stock market respond already, and you know, can only positively impact uh this summit as well.
We need you know, we need the Chinese to negotiate with the North Koreans.
Last word, Dan Hoffman.
Yeah, if there's just one among many things I learned at the CIA is just the extent to which this world is so interconnected, and and there's a real confluence there between our economic negotiations with China and our strategic negotiations with North Korea, and I think the president is playing that extremely well right now.
All right, guys, thanks so much.
Uh both will join us on Hannity tonight, right here from Vietnam and throughout the week.
Uh, we'll be checking in with them as things develop.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, when we come back, uh the absolute sick duplicitous corruption in your news media now more revealed than ever before.
And by the way, the antics of Mike Lee at last night's Oscars and well, Linda's trip to hell to Vietnam.
Glad I wasn't a part of it.
Straight ahead.
Good evening, and welcome to the one millionth Academy Awards.
We are not your hosts, but we're gonna stand here a little too long so that the people who get USA today tomorrow will think that we host it.
That's great.
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So just a quick update for everybody in case you're confused.
There is no host tonight.
There won't be a popular movie category, and Mexico is not paying for the wall.
Well, tonight I give praise our ancestors who built this country and was today, along with the genocide of his native people.
We all connect with our ancestors.
We will have love, wisdom, and we will regain our humanity.
It will be a powerful moment.
The 2020 presidential election is around the corner.
Thank you.
Let's all mobilize.
Let's all be on the right side of history.
Make the role mate the moral choice between love versus hate.
Let's do the right thing.
You know I had to get that in there.
There are a lot of evidence of violent incidents that happen at these MAGA rallies, and I just don't want to get, you know, have Jesse Smallette distract from that.
Obviously, we're not gonna put what happened on Trump, but what we can put on Trump clearly is the heightened um panic and angst.
Today, you know, folks that believe Jesse as a default position, we feel sadness today.
We don't feel stupid today.
I feel bad for the people who did not default to that empathy, who think that this is a game, who are gloating today.
Those people have something fundamentally wrong with them.
This is a Jackie Robinson against homophobia in the black community.
An icon, a beloved icon, and now you have the fall of an icon.
There is an atmosphere, as I said last week, and it remains true today.
An atmosphere of menace and fear.
MAGA supporters have painted themselves as bad.
I mean, when you look at play-age, when you hear things they say, these are this is the honest goodness truth, and we have to be bold enough to call it.
But in the court of public opinion, it matters.
It matters, and he's lost that because of how and not his fault.
Maybe people were I don't know what they were saying to him how uh maybe because of his representatives.
I who uh who knows.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour as we continue our broadcast from uh Vietnam.
It's well, 4:35 a.m. here.
Amazing 12-hour difference.
Uh we'll get to Linda's flight from hell.
She left a whole day before me and arrived an hour later.
Um, and was not too pleased or happy about it, but she made up for it because she got the presidential palace at some extraordinary hotel.
And meanwhile, I'm welcome.
And meanwhile, I'm in a uh a hotel room that is so an odor that is indescribable is in there.
But anyway, uh I am sorry you went through all of that.
Joe Conscious joins us.
Um so there was also this drama uh of Spike Lee walking up and down, I guess the aisle during the naming of the uh I guess best picture of the year, which turns out to be Green Book, which I know nothing about, but Joe Conscious, what was going on?
I I'm here.
They didn't actually have ABC 7 uh on in Vietnam.
Wow.
So despite the rancid smell in the in the hotel room and the long flight, something did work out for you by not having to watch this train wreck.
I look at it that way, Sean.
Uh look, Spike Lee was mad that his pitcher didn't win best pitcher, and and reportedly he was yelling things and it was all angry.
So it's it's kind of funny that this guy's up on stage giving uh a speech going off on Trump with the with the usual things we've heard so many times that the American public is numb by them, right?
They have no impact when you call somebody this name, that name, this name for two years straight, and it's the boy who cried Wolfer in this case, it's the director that cried Wolf, and no one pays attention anymore.
So, yeah, Spike Lee apparently was angry that his film didn't win, and instead of just being uh, you know, uh the type of guy who knows how to accept defeat graciously, he instead just goes off on a childish ramp, but that's that's nothing new because it's Spike Lee.
Well, I mean, uh look, it I guess they got a better bump in ratings not having Jimmy Kimmel, because I guess the early ratings showed that it was what they were up about nine percent, but you know what I don't like about all of this is what are you wearing?
Oh, well, is that uh Vasotchy?
Is that I don't even know any of these designers.
I mean, I wear Levi's, and I'm right now in a FD uh NY t-shirt, um, hanging out, usually wearing my uh NYPD cap 24-7.
And I, you know, I don't care what some spoiled brat self-important narcissist from Hollywood is wearing just because they think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread, or that we even care about their uninformed political opinions.
And Sean, a lot of people feel the way you do.
And I look at the numbers.
You could say, oh, they're up nine percent from last year.
When you hit the basement, when you hit the floor, how would you like to be Jimmy Kimmel, by the way, that the hostless Oscars beat your Oscars by nearly 10%, but the ratings got so low they only could go up at this point.
And look, back in 19, what was it, 98, right?
So we're talking 20 years ago.
57 million people watched the Oscars.
57 million.
Last night, they may get 27 million, 30 million people gone.
Where did they go?
They're the type of people who think like you do.
I don't need to see this sort of platform.
We're gonna obviously we're gonna get a political view, and it happened.
You played the clip with Maya Rudolph before talking about Trump and who's gonna pay for the wall.
Thirty seconds in, and already I'm not getting the escapism I want, which I get when I go to movies.
Instead, it's gonna be a political thing.
They didn't go as political last night because there was no host, but still that's gonna make a people predisposed not to watch, Sean.
I am going to make a bold prediction like I did in 2007 and eight.
Hollywood is dead.
They just don't know it yet.
There is now a network of independent filmmakers.
I'll give you an example.
Uh and I'm not gonna talk about my film, that'll seem self-serving, but it was a faith-based film, very proud of the product.
Let there be light.
Um, if you've ever heard the song by Mercy Me, I can only imagine an unbelievable movie that was made about that song.
By the way, pull up the song, Jason, so people know what it is.
And and it was over a hundred million dollars last time I checked.
Now, let me tell you what that means.
We don't need Hollywood anymore.
We don't it it is not necessary, and with all of the platforms emerging from Amazon to Netflix and straight on down the line and all the demand viewing, people have more choices, more options, and they're less inclined to go with the formulaic, oh Jennifer Anniston falls in love with actor A B C D E F G H I J K L M N L P. I mean, that's one formula.
The other is, oh, let's do another carto let's let's do um uh another cartoon or comic book hero movie.
I I can't stand those movies anymore.
It's uh it was maybe novel in the beginning, but who cares?
You're saying the 10th the 10th Star Wars isn't working for you anymore or something.
No, I actually like this remake of Spider-Man.
Yeah, they're out of ideas, it seems.
I like Star Wars.
I think it's fine, but it's you know what?
It's not we don't have to go to the movies to watch it anymore, and you can watch it at home.
Well, that's the thing, right?
I mean, it all the prequels and everything else like that.
To your point, it seems like all we're doing is recycling things, and you're gonna see now a lot of uh bio pics on rock stars because of Bohemian Rhapsody and Queen, and now there's gonna be one Elton John, and then just pick a guy like Mick Jagger or uh Robert Palmer, anybody, you know, and it's it's gonna be the same thing.
So that that's one way we're gonna go down uh one road.
But yeah, Netflix is changing the ball game and Hulu, all these big time actresses and actors are now doing movies for them because they have the money to pay them.
And a lot of people are saying, you know what?
I don't want to go to a movie theater.
I'm paying if I want to just take a girl there for 14 bucks and then I got gum on my shoe and I'm in an uncomfortable chair and all that stuff.
Well, I could just watch it at home on a TV that's almost like a movie screen because they're so big at this point, and you could get them relatively cheap.
That yeah, no one wants to leave their homes anymore because you're getting good quality stuff on the Netflix and Hulu's of the world when you don't have to go to a movie theater.
So I I think that's certainly playing a role here with with Hollywood as well.
Yeah, I think so too.
And look let me just play this song.
Now, who would think look at the biggest box office movie of all time?
Mel Gibson, The Passion of the Christ.
I I mean I to this day, uh you know, and I'm not the greatest Christian, I just try to be better.
You're an eager and Christmas kind of guy when you go to church just to decide.
Enough.
You really you can't give it a geez, thanks a lot, Conscious.
I'm just saying brief.
Just saying, I'm no better, trust me.
I agree.
All right, so but look, so here is what is known as a Christian anthem song.
Uh let me just play a little bit of I Can Only Imagine My Mercy Me.
Let's play a little bit of this.
I can only imagine it will be like when I walk by your side.
I can only imagine what my eyes will see when your face is before me.
i can only imagine Surrounded by your glory, one will my heart feel.
Will I dance for you, Jesus?
Oh, Reno be still.
Last stand in your presence.
What's your money's will laugh for lasting hallelujah?
Will I be able to speak it all like an only imagine?
I can only imagine.
That becomes a massive blockbuster.
Now I love the song.
I love Mercy Me.
I think they're great.
And the movie was unbelievable.
And people and people, word of mouth got people out.
Not Hollywood.
Yeah.
Now those are movies they'd reject for years.
Yeah, it's like that in political campaigns also, right?
And look at what Donald Trump did with social media and Twitter, right?
You don't need to buy all these advertisements in all these markets now.
You could be your best messenger and for free get your message out.
It's the same thing with music.
That that's that's the way things are going now.
No one buys albums or CDs, obviously anymore.
It's an antiquated technology.
But yeah, things can go viral quickly like songs like that because they can be shared so easily from the other.
I don't think these people know how to touch there.
I mean, I I there is a whole America there and red state America.
I don't like going red and blue, but there's a whole America and Hollywood, DC, San Francisco, New York, have nothing but contempt for so many American look let me give you examples.
Irredeemable deplorables.
Oh, smelly Walmart people.
I love Walmart.
Uh I'm a proud uh people that cling to their God guns, Bibles, and religions.
Oh, there's so many worse things in life than to believe in God when this nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
Oh, how horrible.
You know, learn not to lie about your neighbor, bear false witness, learn not to kill, not learn not to, you know, honor thy father and mother.
Oh, gee, wow, that's horrible.
So, what was Charles Crowdhammer had he had a great line about uh Roger Ales and Fox News?
And he said, you know, the reason why Fox News is so successful is because Roger Ells found his niche audience, in other words, you know, the very precise audience, half the country.
That's the niche audience.
In other words, they had been neglected for so long from what they had seen from media, and there are a whole bunch of people out there that were just sick and tired of all the things that you described in terms of the Excel media, I call it New York and Washington, the two major hubs for national media, deciding what the narrative is.
And Fox News steps in, and uh, you know, this isn't because you're on there, and I'm saying this because I'm a media reporter and I follow this stuff.
They filled a void that hadn't been filled before and hasn't been challenged since.
So, yeah, I think Fox News is a perfect example of what you're describing in terms of people being tired of what uh of being basically degraded and uh diminished and demeaned.
Uh and now there's there's an alternative, and now several.
Whether you're talking about Drudge or a lot of other conservative outlets, that people now have options, and that's why the media doesn't have the impact at Us 2, Sean, because so many folks know where to get other sources of news, other places to get their information, other than the big three networks we're growing up, two, four, and seven, where I lived in New York, and that was it.
All right, we'll take a break.
We're in Vietnam.
Uh we'll be here all week for the historic summit.
We'll be interviewing the president after that summit coming up later in the week.
Uh 800-941 Sean, toll-free telephone number.
Uh we'll give you a preview more of what's coming up.
Also, apparently Linda's trip from hell to get here.
All right, last uh final thoughts with Joe Concha.
He is, of course, the media writer over at the Hill Media Editor.
And uh Joe.
All right, so now you got this push to the hard left.
Now you got the media exposed again in the smullet case in the Kentucky case, uh the the kids from Covington, Kentucky, and time after time after time they're wrong.
What is the what is the fallout in the end of all this?
Uh well, until there's accountability, nothing, right?
I mean, how many people were fired or suspended over the BuzzFeed story that said the president had directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress?
Zero.
How many people were fired over Covington Catholic?
And all the people that got that wrong because they couldn't just wait for other videos to come out besides the heavily edited one.
Zero.
How many people have been fired over Smelette?
In fact, some people are even doubling down, still trying to defend that somehow.
Zero.
So until you actually hold people accountable, I'm not saying fired, but at least suspensions or a good spanking in a corner office somewhere, it's gonna keep happening.
And that's the way that's the same.
No, but they'll but I'll tell you what they are losing is all credibility with the American people.
That you cannot even monetize what that's gonna mean for them down the road, especially in the day and age where people have more options, choices than they ever had.
Let me put it this way.
When President Trump leaves the national stage, whenever that may happen, the Bye bye.
Yeah, the the yeah, it's gonna be like the 2008 financial crash, because he is the oxygen that's keeping all this going, whether it be by people who are interested in what the president's doing or hate the president, it doesn't matter.
When he goes away, everything goes down into the gutter in terms of not forget credibility, uh, profits, ratings, clicks, all that stuff will will go away, and you're gonna see a crash like we haven't seen since the 2008 financial crash, quite frankly, except it will be in mostly media.
All right, Joe Concha with the hill, you can catch his articles.
Uh we often post them on Hannity.com as well.
Eight hundred nine four one Sean, toll free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program when we come back, uh, as we continue from Vietnam as we begin our five AM hour here.
That's what time it is.
Anyway, we'll give you a preview of more what's coming up this week from Vietnam, Linda's trip from hell, the other news of the day, and much more as we continue straight ahead.
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
You have to go back to where we entered this in the Trump administration to think about the path forward.
We we've always known this would take time and and it would be a step forward and uh slower than the the world has demanded, right?
This is a UN Security Council resolution that we're attempting to achieve by getting North Korea fully denuclearized.
Uh we started when the Obama administration had a policy which was essentially uh test prey and coward.
Right.
Let them test missiles, let them test nuclear weapons, pray they stop and cower when the North Koreans made a threat.
They did sanction also.
What this administration has done.
Uh and they didn't build out a coalition.
An enormous global coalition we built out through the United Nations to put that pressure in place to allow us to begin to have what have been real negotiations over the past now six or seven months.
I'm hopeful that when President Trump and Chairman Kim get together, they'll make a big step towards realizing what Chairman Kim promised.
He promised he denuclearized.
We hope he'll make a big step towards that in the week ahead.
We've got work to do on the denuclearization pillar.
We've got remains back.
We've had testing stop.
Those are all good things.
Tension along the border is reduced.
If you ask the military leaders, frankly, on both sides from uh South Korea and North Korea, tensions are reduced.
Uh there are many things he could do to demonstrate his commitment to denuclearization.
Our negotiating team was on the ground the last three days, and they'll be on the ground again today.
I'll be there tomorrow to continue these discussions.
There are I don't want to get into the details of what's being proposed, what the offers and counteroffers may be.
Um, but a real step, a demonstrable, verifiable step is something that I know President Trump is very focused on achieving.
All right, news roundup information overload.
Uh yeah, it is uh well six past the hour.
We're in Vietnam uh here for the second now historic summit.
Um I have no expectations except that I'm pretty sure that we're gonna make more progress and the denuclearization and the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear capabilities uh absolutely has a shot that we never thought of before.
Um we're gonna get to that.
Also, we're following all the other news of the day, including the insanity of Casio Cortez, no more meat, and she's even taken it a step further.
Further than I even thought it was possible for somebody to take.
You know, because of course the world uh is gonna end.
We should now stop having children.
Our planet is going to fake disaster if we don't turn the ship around.
And so it's basically like there's scientific consensus that the lives of children are gonna be very difficult.
And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question.
You know, should is it okay to still have children?
And I mean, not just financially, because people are graduating with 20, 30, 100,000 worth of student loan debt.
And so they can't even afford to have kids in a house.
But also just this basic moral question like what do we do?
And and even if you don't have kids, there are still children here in the world, and we have a moral obligation to them uh to leave a better world for them.
And this idea that if we just, you know, I've been working on this for X amount of years.
Um, it's like not good enough.
Like we need uh a universal sense of urgency.
On top of the new Green Deal and everything, rebuilding every house and getting rid of airplanes and cows because of flatulence and and free, free, free, free job, free guaranteed wage, family medical leave, vacations, free health care, but you can't have your own uh free college, free daycare.
Now, if you believe Elizabeth Warren, but that's gonna be the wealth tax.
Um, and free retirement, everything's free.
Amazing.
Ask Kamala Harris or A O C how you pay for it.
What do you hear?
It doesn't matter how we pay for it.
Yeah, because it's an impossibility to pay for it.
Um, but that trumps everything when we get to what the heck happened on this flight from hell.
So Linda And uh sweet baby James and and Blair and everybody from radio and TV are here.
You guys left a day before me on Thursday at 8 p.m.
And you arrived an hour later than I did.
And I thought it was bad because it was 25 and a half.
You know what the problem is about this?
You know what the problem is?
I am never gonna live this down.
Well, no.
Well, so my trip was this.
It was twenty-five or twenty-six hours from the moment I went up after Hannity on the Fox News channel Friday night, wheels up at around eleven Eastern PM, and the first leg, you know, is long, and then the second leg is you know still long.
Um, but it was twenty-five hours from wheels up to wheels down when I landed in Hanoi.
How did you arrive after me when you left more than twenty-eight hours ahead of me?
So I Blair is here with us.
My my partner in crime.
You know that, right?
Yeah, you're on radio, Sunshine.
Speak up.
Yeah.
So the problem here, there's so many problems.
Where do we begin?
By the way, you're gonna say Singapore, Vietnam.
How do you say Vietnam?
Vietnam.
What did I just drink uh a cup of?
Coffee.
Uh-huh.
And where do you live again?
What state?
New York.
Right.
Actually, I just left that crap state.
No, you went to a better one, but I went.
I left Cuomo.
Cuomo and his crap.
And what do we do?
What's this called?
Radio.
What kind of radio?
Talk.
Talk.
Okay.
Talk radio.
Talk radio.
First of all.
Do I amuse you?
Do I amuse you?
Just like the gladiator.
Twenty-eight hours.
No, first of all, you left twenty-eight hours ahead of me.
Let's okay, just slow your roll here.
You know, I love that you can tell this experience better than me, and you weren't there.
Okay.
I haven't even shared all the details with you because I knew that Monday was gonna be my day of reckonings.
So, anyways, we we get on the uh we get on the plane.
You well, you know my car broke down too on the way to the airport.
Because you can't make this You can't make this up.
Her driver almost gets hit.
My driver almost gets hit because he gets out on a van wick.
And the van wick in New York City is very dangerous because people drive like Baniacs because everybody's in a big hurry to get to the next red light.
And uh, you know, the guy almost gets hit, Moody, very nice guy, Mahmood, and we called him Moody, and he's like, I said, Moody, do me a favor, try not to get killed because I don't think I can handle it.
You don't want to happen to Terrence Williams, the Twitter guy that we put on TV a number of times.
What happened?
Oh my gosh.
He was in one of those services.
It wasn't Uber, another one popular.
I wasn't an Uber either.
Okay.
The guy had a horrible accident.
He broke his neck.
What?
Yes.
Literally.
The driver?
No, Terrence.
Oh my god, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Um, and I've talked to him.
He's gonna be fine.
Oh my god.
I got one of my Did this just happen?
Yeah, I got one of my doctor friends right on it to help him.
And uh thank God I did.
In New York uh somewhere else.
Well, in the state that he was visiting.
Oh, geez.
He was actually on his way to the White House or somewhere something near there.
I don't know, something in Washington, and broke his neck, hurt his spine, and uh now he's flying home, thank God to he lives in Texas.
But I couldn't believe it.
Yeah, it's pretty horrible.
Then I well, the good news is I was you know, you think about a broken neck, you're thinking about paralyzed from the neck down.
Yeah, for sure.
Thank God he's safe.
Well, that kind of killed my joking around vibe, so we can move on to something else now.
It's not funny anymore.
All right, so you nearly had a crazy accident on the city.
All right, so anyway, so yeah, so finally the the backup driver comes.
Poor Blair is at the airport without his passport because I have it because I handled all the visas.
So he's got to sit outside.
He can't even go in in or check in or anything without me.
So I'm like, listen, I'm gonna be a little late because my car broke down and they gotta send me another one, and I'm stuck on the van wick, and he's like, Are you serious?
I'm like, yeah, I'm totally serious.
So we finally get to the airport.
Yeah.
Get on the plane.
How long did it take extra?
Uh like another half an hour, 40 minutes.
It was very relaxing.
I was totally unstressed by the time I got to the airport.
And then we get to the airport and all our bags are too heavy.
So we had to repack six bags of gear because each bag was over by six to eight pounds.
So we're sitting in the middle of of the airport and you buy new bags?
No, forget about it.
We just reorganized and shifted it around, and the woman was very kind, and we just kept putting the bags on the scale until we got it to the right weight.
It was the disaster.
I still paid an additional five hundred dollars to take it because there was an extra bag and they were all heavy.
So, okay, so now you know I'm I'm I'm broken down, I got a pickup car, I'm 40 minutes late.
All my all my bags are too heavy.
We have to repack them all in the middle of JFK.
We have six bags of gear.
It's just me and Blair.
I'm getting a headache.
And we haven't even gotten on the plane yet.
I'm getting ahead of it.
So I'm like, this is fantastic.
This is so we finally get to the airport lounge.
We got about a half hour before we take off because of course it's taken us forever to get up.
What do you do?
You too, you take off.
Take off.
Okay.
So we're we get in the plane.
We're like, all right, fantastic.
Honestly, that first five hours was no problem.
Forget about it.
Get to Germany.
That's where the layover was.
Go up to the lounge.
Oh, it's a short layover of 50 minutes, hour, right?
Until they discovered engine mum was leaking oil.
All across all across Europe, all across New York, on the runway, engine is down.
So every half hour they would come up and say, it's gonna be another 40 minutes.
Go to be another 40 minutes.
So finally I get this chick, right?
I take her to the side.
I go, listen, I got a question for you.
I just need to know the truth.
How long are we gonna be here for real?
She goes, Oh, girl, it's a mess.
And I said, What are we talking?
We talk in like three hours.
She goes, Oh, you're gonna be here at least six o'clock.
I'm like, fantastic.
So we were supposed to leave at 11 in the morning.
We ended up being in Germany for 12 and a half hours.
Yeah.
All these people that are on the same flight with us together.
And you're staying in one spot, like in the hallway.
Yeah, you're in one spot.
You're on one spot.
At the where the boarding area is for that particular plane.
It's a disaster.
Okay, fine.
Did you sleep?
No.
Well, I think Blair and I each took maybe like a 10-minute power nap.
Yeah.
And then we got back to work.
I did a lot of work there in the lounge where I got some stuff done.
So finally we get back on the plane.
Now we're on well, I should let me let me back up.
Well, you should be thankful for one thing, and I'm not looking for praise, but I did upgrade everybody to first class myself.
My God, is this really the time?
Really?
This is the moment.
At least you had the first class lounge.
Oh my God.
It's so inappropriate.
Well, it's 25-hour trip, but for you, 50, but go ahead.
Okay, it was 36 hours for us.
And then we ended up traveling for 64 hours.
But that's at the end of the story.
So we finally get the word at 7 o'clock that the plane is ready for its people.
We're like, yes.
They've changed the gate 16 times.
We get down to the gate.
It's on the lower level.
And Blair and I are like, this is so weird.
It's not a terminal.
What's going on?
They're busing everybody to the cargo area where the plane was fixed.
So we don't have to wait in a queue to take off.
So we'll be first regardless.
So 400 people have to get on buses that hold 50.
So now we're waiting for bus after bus.
And I just look at Blair.
I go, man, this cannot be real.
Like this cannot be real.
We finally get bussed over to where the freaking plane is.
They got outside steps.
They got us climbing up the steps.
I said to Blair, no one's going to believe us.
So we took a video.
Because you can't make it up, right?
As we get on the bus, you know what they hand you?
I'm not kidding.
I'm not making this a bag of chocolate.
And I look at the woman and I say to her, What is this?
You think you're funny?
You handed me Ritters?
This is a joke.
Holy crap.
So we get on the bus and we get to the plane.
Now we're on the plane.
It's mayhem on the plane because the flight attendant tells me, he goes, Listen, I just want you to know we're just trying to hustle everybody in.
You know, we're really sorry.
We can't give you the best service right now.
But had we waited 10 more minutes, you would have been grounded in Germany because we were past our point of service time.
I'm like, oh, okay.
So finally we take off.
Okay, fine.
We're up in the air.
I get an email because I have Wi-Fi.
Because of the delay of your flight, you will now miss the connection to Hanoi.
And I literally just think to myself, oh my God, am I gonna cry now?
Should I cry?
Okay.
So I say to our team back in New York, guys, please, I beg of you, find me a way to get to Hanoi.
This cannot be this can't be true.
No planes to Hanoi, nobody will take the gear, can't move the gear.
You gotta stay over in Singapore.
I said, Oh my God.
I look at Blair, I'm like, this is a joke, right?
Okay, fine.
It wasn't.
So this the flight attendant comes over.
I said, do me a favor, come here for a minute.
Do me a favor.
Call your people on the ground.
I'm not making this up.
Call your people on the ground in Singapore.
Ask them if they'll hold the plane.
Our plane lands at 3.15 in the afternoon.
That plane leaves at 3.10.
I waited 12 hours for you people.
They can wait five minutes.
I'm not kidding.
She goes, I'm so sorry, but we even if we get you on the plane, we can't get your bags.
Well, of course I'm not gonna leave the gear, right?
So Blair and I make the decision, all right.
If we can get on the plane, we'll get on the plane.
Otherwise, we're screwed.
Forget about it.
So long story short, which is very long.
They gave us a bag and chocolate.
A wallet.
That's it.
So we have 90 chocolates and a free wallet.
And you didn't get on that plane.
And she hands me a voucher.
I swear to God, she hands me a voucher.
For a hotel?
For the hotel, the airport hotel, which is adjacent to the terminal, and she says to me, I swear to God, she goes, uh the one good thing I can offer you.
It's amazing.
What?
Is the hotel is attached to this terminal.
You don't have far to walk.
And I look at her.
I'm just like, oh my God.
So how many total hours?
64.
So did now I was a little off on my time.
Did I get in an hour after you or an hour before you?
You got in an hour after Linda almost got into a fight in the city.
Oh, yeah.
Then I got to Vietnam.
So we so we sleep over, we get the first plane out to Hanoi.
Everything's going great.
We land in Hanoi.
Blair and I high-five on the plane.
I turn my back for one second.
I think that can only be Linda.
Who else would speak like that in public?
And I look over.
And Linda's flipping the bird to some guy by the way.
By the way, Linda grew up in like the poorest area of Philly.
So just say, you know, this is like you know, she's come along.
Is that your Maya culpa from me?
Yeah, pretty much.
I don't need no Magulpa.
No, I'm giving it anyway.
Uh, but so what happened?
Some guy pushed, literally pushed you.
Literally physically slap me so hard.
Wow.
I'm standing in line.
I'm waiting for the agent.
Mind you, this is a this is a nation where the military runs everything.
So the military runs immigration.
I'm waiting in line.
And the guy slaps me in the back so hard and screams at me.
And I turned around to him and I said to him in language that is not appropriate or allowable on this radio show.
Or really anywhere.
Excuse me.
Uh or anywhere.
Exactly.
Which is a typical lit.
Excuse me, sir.
I did not like that.
Quick quick note.
You didn't say, excuse me, sir, sir.
I'm from New York.
But the guy's lucky I wasn't there.
Back up.
I wouldn't have gone over very well.
Get away from me.
Well, we are in, you know, you took up the whole time, but we are in Vietnam.
I'm very sorry you had to do that, but with all doing it.
You want to talk to me about time?
I'm not gonna tell I am not really I am not gonna tell everybody the real reason you could have been on my plane.
First of all, no, and you're so stubborn.
The real reason is that.
By the way, Blair, is she stubborn or what?
That's a bit of an understatement.
Did you get here an hour before or after?
Oh my God.
Are you done?
You're a problem.
Quick break from Vietnam.
Yeah, we are here.
We will be uh interviewing the president and following the summit.
Um I'm hopeful that this could be really historic.
You know what?
Think of a bunch of better worlds.
Oh, but he won't get any credit from anybody in the media, trust me.
All right, live from Vietnam.
It is well, pretty close to 25 after 5 a.m. here, 12 hour difference from Eastern Standard Time.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue from Vietnam.
Hannity tonight at nine.
When we come back to the kid that got cold cocked and punched in the face, he does have three eyewitnesses at Berkeley.
And we'll have more about that straight ahead.
We'll be right back.
You want to hit me?
I'll shoot your and then that's not the one that's like you.
All right, 25 now till the uh top of the hour, 800-941 Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
That was uh some audio, the video we played last week on Hannity on the Fox News channel.
Um, literally at Berkeley.
UC Berkeley, you know, the ever so tolerant left-wing campuses of America, Berkeley, the home of free speech, supposedly.
Um anyway, after that, what you see is you know, literally this guy beating the crap, trying to beat the crap out of uh young man by the name of Hayden Williams.
He's a leadership institute field representative, you know, conservative groups calling on the University of California now to take action against a campus employee who you know praised the alleged assault on this activist.
Now, here's the thing.
There are three eyewitnesses.
In a minute, we'll go to Hayden Williams who got cold cocked in this battle.
Um, why would you see Berkeley, an employee that works for them, be elated by the violence against an innocent person in this particular case?
What is it about the MAGA hat that is now triggering people?
Make America Great Again is now a trigger.
How does it how does a hat that says make America Great again become a trigger?
I mean, I can see it now used in the the court of law at some point as well, let's let's say uh not guilty by reason of insanity because the MAGA hat triggered him.
Anyway, but that is now happening all over the place.
You know, uh look at Alyssa Milano, radical left-wing extremist Hollywood nut job calling the a MAGA hat the new white hood.
You know, look at what all of these people, by the way.
Lynn Wood is is coming your way.
All of you that accused him of being a racist, et cetera, et cetera, and told a false story about this 16-year-old kid.
Good luck to all of you.
Because it's not gonna work out very well.
And, you know, Matt, a professor of the classics and ancient history at the University of New Brunswick, you know, said had the hat is uh equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan hood or a rope in the Washington Post saying that a wearing a MAGA hat constitutes a deliberate political act and a deliberate provocation.
Imagine if anyone said the same, well, I I got angry because somebody had an Obama hoping chain shirt or hat on.
What would the reaction be?
You know, the same newspaper, Washington Post as a fashion critic to wear a MAGA hat is to wrap oneself in the Confederate flag.
The look may be more modern and fit more precise, and it goes on from there.
You know, look how wrong the media was in the case of Nicholas Sandman or in the case, you know, more recently of what happened with Jesse Smollett.
You know, can you come to any restaurant wearing a MAGA hat, you're not getting served, according to you know, the co-owner in a tweet sent out by the owner of this uh, you know, restaurant.
Think of what's happened to Ted Cruz and uh Kirsten Nielsen and Pam Bondy and everybody else that has been assaulted and attacked just for wearing a MAGA hat and and Sarah Sanders for crying out loud.
It's a disgrace.
Anyway, joining us now to tell his side of the story is the person you heard in the video that we showed on TV, Hayden Williams.
Um you weren't wearing a MAGA hat from what I understand, correct?
Correct.
I was not wearing a MAGA hat on this day.
However, we did have a sign that that said this is MAGA country uh to show that you know we're condemning hate crime hoaxes and and hate crimes in general, and that this this is what you know, supporters of the president or conservatives, this is this is what we believe.
Well, I I would think that you see Berkeley is the home of free speech, but not if you're a conservative, which we've seen with conservative speakers now for many, many years, shouted down, can't speak, attacked, you know.
It's pretty unbelievable, but they've allowed this to go on.
So let me go right to the beginning.
And in light of what happened with Jesse Smollett, you know, a lot of people are saying, well, you know, how do we believe this story?
And I think you would probably understand that in light of everything that's happened, right?
Oh, definitely.
And and I'll just like to say it's not this this isn't just uh, you know, to to protest speakers coming to campus or or just me.
This is this is a a problem that except affects conservative students uh all over Berkeley and and all over California, but also across the country.
But the point is is that you you see what's happening to Smollett, and this guy's likely to spend years in jail if the evidence, as the police superintendent is pointing out, is so overwhelming and incontrovertible.
Um you you wouldn't tell a phony story, which is what I'm saying.
And if you did, you'd know the consequences, correct?
Oh, absolutely, Sean.
I I would never uh make up uh uh some sort of story to to portray myself as a victim.
In fact, I don't even really want to be uh, you know, the victim of of such a public yeah, you know, this isn't this isn't my let me ask you this.
You said you have three eyewitnesses that were there from the get-go from the beginning, correct?
Yes.
And they've all come out publicly and back you up.
Right.
And in fact, one of them is the president of uh the turning point group that I was helping uh on campus.
Now, you immediately tried to get your phone video on, which I think was really smart on your part, and videotaped this guy, right?
Right, yeah.
There was there was only uh, you know, he he he approached our table and immediately started yelling and cussing, and and right then I I realized this was probably not a safe situation for myself or the students I was helping.
So so right then is when I started recording.
How long into the confrontation did you get that tape?
Uh I I think it was about six or seven seconds, i if that, Sean.
Wow, wow.
Now, you know we've added on TV, and I watched somebody, you know, you were trying to that obviously you were the one being assaulted based on all the tapes that I've seen, and there are different tapes and angles out there.
Um, and it looked to me like you were just trying to back up, and in the end, he colcocks you, you know, after he gets really close in your grill, and um have they found this person yet?
So uh the the person I I believe he's been identified, but it it's still under investigation and and uh they they haven't released any names for for the suspect, but it it's my hope that he's he's arrested soon, whoever it is.
Yeah, I hope so.
But you think you've got uh the identification of this.
And what are your plans and what was your reaction to Berkeley when they have an employee cheering on this assault against you and do you expect and want the university to fire that person?
I I think it's absolutely disgusting that that anybody, let alone a a member of the faculty, would would uh you know, hail this person as a hero and and and encourage this sort of behavior.
You know, it's it's totally unacceptable.
And it speaks to the sort of culture that that some universities, uh, you know, not just Berkeley, but uh across the country that they're harboring this sort of hostile culture uh and violent culture toward conservatives, and it's it's only gotten worse in recent years.
Yeah, we've chronicled this this problem on college campuses for years.
Now the Berkeley employee actually tweeted out, oh my god, the MAGA people on UC Berkeley campus yesterday got punched in the face by someone.
This makes me feel emotionally so much better.
Um if this were the opposite and it was a liberal that was hit on UC Berkeley campus, that person would not be working for UC Berkeley anymore.
Um now they did say Friday night that police identified the suspect based on current information available, and the suspect is not a student at or affiliate of the university, but the person that supported it does work for the university, right?
Right.
Yeah, it's it's like I said, man, it's just so tragic that that some of these people would would condone that kind of behavior.
You know, I on on Friday, I I went to the hospital because I was still having ringing in my ears and and a lot of symptoms, and you know, I got a CAT scan, and you know, I'm still recovering and everything, but this was a really serious injury, and it it's a shame that some people at the university or you know, members of the campus community don't take it so serious.
Well, I listen, I saw your black eye on TV, but on the other hand, look, I train mixed martial arts five days a week, an hour and a half a day, and I have for six and a half years.
So this is all I trained for.
And but I'll be honest, from I would do the same thing you did.
I would just do everything I could possibly do to back off, get away, avoid the assault.
You seem to try everything pop within your power to prevent this from escalating.
Yeah, and uh honestly I I hoped that by recording the situation that that they wouldn't do anything too stupid or crazy, but obviously that wasn't the same.
How many different videos are there of the attack?
Uh uh to be honest, Sean, I don't know how many there are, but there was you know, there was well.
No, no, we had a couple of different angles.
Oh, I know we had a couple of different angles.
There were well over what?
There were there was well over three witnesses.
Like they there was the the entire plaza stopped and stared at that what was going on.
Yeah.
Now, when you look at the attention from the media with Justy Smullett, and you compare it to your case where there's violent video, what is your reaction?
I wanted to believe him instantaneously, and they did.
They went in all the way.
Yeah, I think it speaks to their uh credibility or or lack thereof, really, because you know, even in the article where they uh they they state that I was allegedly assaulted, uh they they clearly have a picture of me getting punched in the face.
Uh and you know, similarly with Jesse uh he they they didn't uh say it was alleged when in fact uh it it didn't even happen.
Now what are your plans going forward?
What do you plan to do with the police, the university, et cetera?
So I mean, as I said, everything's still under investigation, and I I'm reviewing the options uh and just kind of taking it step by step.
First, first we've got to arrest this individual, whoever it was, um, but uh mainly I'm just focused on recovering and getting back in good health so I can continue, you know, promoting conservative principles on campuses.
This really only emboldened me.
And how old are you at Hayden?
And and how did you become a conservative at such a young age?
Well, I I'm 26, uh just turned 26.
I've been involved with with uh youth politics all my life, you know, throughout middle school and high school, I did mock uh mock legislature and mock the United Nations and that sort of thing.
And I I carried that into college with me.
And after I left, I wanted to continue that sort of uh that sort of activism.
So um I started working with the leadership institute, and and I just think what they do is is so amazing and really necessary now more than ever.
Well, I just want to tell you, I know maybe publicly it's hard to get cold cock like that, but you know what?
Yeah, you ever I'm a big fan of Rocky movies.
You ever watch Rocky movies?
Oh, of course.
It's not about how hard you get hit, it's about how hard you get hit and you keep moving forward.
Let me play a little bit of this.
Let me tell you something you already know.
The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows.
It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.
You, me, or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life.
But it ain't about how hard you hit.
It's about How hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
How much you can take and keep moving forward.
That's how winning is done.
Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth.
But you gotta be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you want to be because of him or her or anybody.
Cowards do that, and that ain't you.
You're better than that.
You know what?
You think about that line and and you think about how powerful, one of the most powerful scenes in all of the Rocky movies.
You know, nobody's gonna hit as hard as life, Hayden.
Nobody.
But it is about how hard you can get hit and get up, and I admire you getting up and moving forward.
I really mean that.
Thank you so much, Sean.
All right, keep us in the loop.
We want to be updated, okay?
Absolutely.
All right, 800 941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program.
You're a huge fan of Rockies, too, Linda.
And oh, I mean, you know, this kid didn't, he could have he could have just said, screw this, dropped his gloves, and you know, gone gone.
No, of course.
And that's and that when I grew up, that's what we did every day.
I think what I'm more offended by is just the lack of publicity around it.
I think it's absolutely disgusting.
I think it just shows that this media just doesn't care about people.
They care about a narrative, they care about a story, and whoever plugs into that, that's all that matters.
Linda, they didn't care about the furlough employees.
They didn't care about DACA, they didn't care about dreamers.
They don't care about uh sexual assault.
Look at the lieutenant governor issue in uh Virginia.
Yeah, Lieutenant Governor Fairfax.
Yeah, well what allegations of sexual assault and a rape.
A rape where the woman told people the next day or that day.
And yet we don't hear anything about it, but if his name was Kavanaugh, we'd hear a lot about it from 49 years ago.
I honest to God, I mean, with the amount of people and witnesses they had in the Kavanaugh case, and every witness was like, I don't remember.
I wasn't there.
That didn't happen.
And even Sweatnik afterwards, you know, it's like one of those things where you literally get to a place and and you got nothing.
You it's just ridiculous.
It's unbelievable.
All right, we're in Vietnam.
We haven't been taking a lot of calls.
Uh Don is in Iowa.
Don, welcome to uh Vietnam.
Welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
Glad you're with us, sir.
Well, good morning, Vietnam.
Hi, Sean.
How you doing?
Well, it's kind of close to uh 6 a.m.
Vietnam time and 6 p.m. Eastern and 3 p.m. on the West Coast.
A little weird being upside down like this, but you know what?
I'm glad to be here, and uh, we want to give you the best coverage we always can.
Yes, sir, and you always do.
Um, I've traveled quite a bit out there myself in my Marine Corps days, and uh so I I I sympathize you with you, but I called to uh remark uh about Cortez and even Diane Feinstein.
They they're gonna repair our environment.
Uh and I love that.
That's that's fantastic.
I I love that they're gonna save the environment.
But the funny thing is they can't even fix our budget or our immigration.
No, that listen, you're gonna get free everything.
You gotta get free housing, free retirement, free, you know, job at a free at a guaranteed wage and family and medical leave and vacations and how health care, but you can't have your own anymore.
And and college and daycare and free everything.
And don't worry how much it costs.
That's even Kamala Harris now saying the same thing.
It's unbelievable.
Uh by the way, thank you for your service, uh, Semper Fi Marine.
Appreciate it.
I got a great lunch.
I don't even remember how many days when we landed.
We had a great lunch with a bunch of uh Marines that were stationed in Okinawa.
What a b right, Tom?
Great guys.
We had a good time.
And um anyway, do I have time for one more call?
I do not.
All right.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up a little bit here from Vietnam.
Uh Hannity tonight, we are loaded up.
We're gonna have Ocasio Cortez.
Yeah, she's literally now talking about well, maybe we need to stop having children because the world's about to end and it's not good for for the planet.
I'm not making it up.
And Kamala Harris, all on board.
We do a deep dive into the 2020 candidates starting with Kamala tonight.
Uh, we'll have a preview of the summit.
Dan Bongino and Dan Hoffman here with us, Monica Crowley.
