Sean Hannity Show - Witch Hunt

Oct. 23, 2019 - Sean Hannity Show

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Witch Hunt

Mark Simone fills in for Sean on today's show. The big news of the day is the "fake impeachment" that's going on in the House. Plus, Gregg Jarrett stops by to talk about his book, "Witch Hunt" which highlights all of the failures of the FBI and the Hillary Clinton campaign.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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	Hey, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
	Mark Simone here.
	To my great surprise, I don't know.
	I don't sound lost and confused.
	I'm not Joe Biden.
	Don't worry.
	I don't have a Joe Biden problem.
	I'm not supposed to be here.
	It was like 15 minutes ago.
	I made the terrible mistake of living within a few blocks of the studio.
	So, and I was running around all day.
	I did my own show this morning, WOR in New York.
	And then I had all kinds of appointments, and I was doing this and doing that.
	Finally, I got home, sat down, and I went to the best takeout place in Manhattan.
	And I just opened this up.
	You could just smell the, and just then the phone rings, and it's Linda.
	You got to fill in for Sean.
	So here I am.
	And you know what it means to fill in for Sean Hannity?
	It means they couldn't find Greg Jarrett.
	It means Dan Buncino was busy.
	It means, but no, actually.
	First of all.
	Uh-oh.
	No, it's a great honor to always fill in for Sean.
	We got lots to talk about.
	We'll get to President Trump.
	We'll get to impeachment, this fake pretend impeachment.
	We'll get to Hillary and the Ukraine and Quid Pro, whatever, and all that stuff coming up.
	So just to get you up to date, you know, they're pretending to do this impeachment.
	It's not an actual impeachment because you'd have to actually vote that in.
	This is an inquiry to do an inquiry.
	It's half a fake pretend impeachment.
	So, and I didn't realize this.
	We know that they're doing these witnesses in secret.
	The testimony is secret.
	The testimony is not released.
	Why is that?
	That's because it's not damaging.
	So believe me, if it was damaging, they would be leaking it out immediately to the Washington Post or the New York Times.
	So that's been the complaint.
	The word lynching was used, as it's always used in impeachments.
	It was used in 1998 by Biden, by Nadler, by all the Democrats.
	What lynching means is, it's not a racial thing because if you check the actual 1800s and all the lynching statistics, it's pretty much white, black, evenly divided.
	What a lynching means is there's no trial, no jury, no charges.
	It's done in secret.
	It's done in the middle of the night.
	It's not open, the proceedings.
	No one knows what the actual charge is.
	So that's what they mean by that.
	So we all knew this was a secret testimony, Soviet-style secret witnesses, but we didn't know they were actually doing the testimony in what's called a SCIF.
	S-C-I-F, I can't remember, secret compartmentalized information facility.
	Now, you might say, well, you just call it the secret room, but it's government.
	So you have to have a name with all these initials.
	So a skiff is where the most top secret documents are placed.
	In other words, if the most classified secret document on earth needs to be read by Congress, they'll take it to, they have a couple of these rooms in the Capitol building, this SCIF.
	It is the most secure room imaginable.
	It takes forever to get into this room.
	You've got to get frisked, searched.
	There's all this technology in the room that'll knock out your cell phone.
	You can't get any reception, any signal.
	You can't take a phone in there.
	You can't photograph anything.
	It's the most secure.
	This is where you go in to read these documents.
	They'll put it in the document in the SCIF, and then each congressman can come in and look at it and leave.
	So apparently they've been using these SCIFs for the testimony, which is absolutely, first of all, preposterous, second of all, unheard of.
	Never in history have they had witnesses go into the SCIF to testify.
	Now, what's the reason to keep these witnesses and their testimony so top secret?
	Because it might not be damaging.
	It might actually exonerate the president.
	So you have to keep it totally secret.
	If it was really damaging, again, they would leak it to the New York Times and the Washington Post five minutes after it was over.
	So a number of congressmen stormed the SCIF.
	Do we know who exactly?
	It was a group of 30 of them, actually.
	30 congressmen.
	Led by Matt Gates.
	Matt Gaetz, who's always heroic in these matters, led this group in there.
	And Adam Schiff did what Adam Schiff does, which when you catch him, he turned and ran with the witnesses.
	He took all the witnesses and they ran away and hid, and that's the end of that.
	So I don't know what this is going to all come to.
	They'll claim, because all these guys, these congressmen, showed up to disrupt this or stop this, and they'll claim that they had their phones with them.
	And you got to be frisked and searched and your phone before you can go in a skiff.
	So they'll claim that was the reason they all had to run because guys with phones came into the skiff.
	But speaking of phones, excuse me, that's me.
	The studio is not a skiff, obviously.
	Yeah, that's me.
	So I'm trying to think, did I have anything I had to do this afternoon?
	No, you guys are lucky.
	I had nothing to do and was sitting a couple blocks away.
	So this is perfect.
	So we'll see what happens.
	We're going to have all kinds of guests throughout the afternoon.
	We'll bring you the latest on this skiff.
	So I'll tell you the truth, a lot of inner circle Trump types are a little worried.
	They're not worried about Donald Trump.
	He's done nothing wrong, absolutely nothing wrong.
	We can go over this in detail.
	All the things that they're accusing him of and investigating are absolutely harmless.
	He's totally innocent.
	But they're starting to worry that, you know, first you got one problem.
	Democrats are so far into this process that even if they wanted to, they can't back down.
	It won't look good.
	You get this far, you got to finish it.
	So they may try to actually do an impeachment.
	There's no charge of any kind that would be valid, but you know Adam Schiff.
	You've seen this character.
	You've seen these slimy swamp snakes, this Nadler and Schiff and Pelosi and Schumer.
	Normally not so bad, but now they're just horrible.
	They've gone off the deep end the last couple of years.
	So they'll take anything and just charge him with something.
	Quid pro quo.
	You could start there, but there's no quid pro quo.
	You can prove, first of all, there was no quo.
	You got to quit and a pro, but the quo never happened.
	The money was obviously transferred.
	The money was given.
	You have another problem.
	The whole idea of foreign aid is quid pro quo.
	That's what foreign aid is.
	Why do you think, I mean, just thinking, why would we send billions of dollars to all kinds of countries all over the world?
	You know, like we're a radio network.
	There's other radio networks that don't do as well.
	This radio network is number one, and the number two is like a million miles back.
	And then there's like a number three and a number four.
	There's networks that nobody don't have any list.
	We don't send them money.
	We don't say, oh, they're not doing as well.
	We'll have to give them aid.
	No, who gives aid to other countries you're competing with?
	You do it in exchange for something, for cooperation, for help when you need it.
	We do it all the time.
	You know, I could see if it was a brand new country, they're just trying to form Israel.
	They can't get started.
	Or after the Iraq war, they're trying to get you give them some aid.
	But Mexico is a major country.
	Why would we be sending them aid?
	Why do we send Ukraine aid?
	It's in exchange for things.
	And it's perfectly normal for a country to help us with an investigation.
	It happens all the time.
	You know, when Mueller was investigating during his two-year investigation, 13 times he went to a foreign country to get help with an investigation or to get evidence from them.
	1998, Bill Clinton signed an agreement with the Ukraine.
	You can read the agreement.
	Go online and read it.
	He signed an agreement with them that they would always help us with investigations when we needed it.
	So it's perfectly normal.
	There's no possible charge there.
	But again, people starting to worry.
	The Democrats will just charge him anyway.
	What about the idea of Rudy Giuliani, a private citizen over there working on behalf of the State Department or negotiating on behalf of the president or investigating on behalf of the president?
	Doesn't that sound a little strange, private citizen Rudy Giuliani over there?
	No, every president has done this constantly.
	It's standard procedure.
	Remember when Bill Clinton was president, he sent Jimmy Carter over to negotiate for him.
	Carter, at the time, a private citizen.
	He used him on a number of the most critical negotiations.
	Remember, Bosni sent Carter over as his negotiator, a private citizen.
	A lot of people used Kissinger when he was a private citizen.
	Hey, I hate to bring up the Clintons, but they had some of the shadiest characters negotiating and running foreign policy for him, private citizens.
	Remember Sidney Blumenthal?
	And then she becomes Secretary of State.
	She brought this guy back, this Sidney Blumenthal.
	So a private citizen over there investigating, negotiating for it's done all the time.
	So there's no charge there.
	But that may not stop them.
	They may actually try to just charge him and see what happens.
	So, and as far as these two guys that got arrested, these two Ukraine, whatever they are, they were arrested, U.S. attorney, but it has nothing to do with Rudy Giuliani.
	Nothing.
	They made a lot of massive campaign contributions, and they apparently are being accused of lying on the form about where they got the money.
	This has nothing to do with anybody.
	And every candidate in history has had situations like this.
	Somebody donated money.
	Turns out it came from out of the country or something.
	It looks like that's what they were disguising, was coming from out of the country.
	But that has nothing to do with Rudy Giuliani.
	Now, people will say, well, wait a minute.
	They hired him as a lawyer and they had business before the government.
	Well, that's when you hire somebody.
	If you had no business before the government, why would you be hiring somebody?
	You wouldn't need anybody if you didn't have any business.
	And this is done all the time.
	Again, the Clintons, every administration has these guys out there, these consultants, lawyers, whatever they're.
	You hire them and they have a good relationship with the government.
	The Clintons had a whole mess of these guys.
	Remember Vernon Jordan and all these guys?
	Nobody, Vernon Jordan is a lovely guy.
	Nobody knew what the hell this guy did for a living.
	In fact, on his taxes, I don't know how he even answered that first question.
	Occupation.
	Nobody knew what he did, but you paid him a fortune, and he took you into the White House and you got whatever you needed.
	So this is perfectly common.
	There's nothing here, nothing to charge.
	But people are starting to worry.
	They'll just start.
	Sometimes prosecutors do this.
	You just make up a bunch of charges.
	It won't work.
	But who knows?
	Mueller did that.
	He just charged people with 50 things.
	Maybe you hope two of them will stick.
	Anyway, we'll take some calls too.
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	Hey, welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
	Mark Simone here.
	Sean is actually in California.
	He'll be on tomorrow.
	He'll be back.
	Lots to talk about today.
	I said to check out my Instagram.
	Did you see those Mitt Romney pictures up there that I have?
	I'm just telling you, something is coming with Mitt Romney.
	You know, I can understand you have a secret account.
	A lot of people do that.
	A lot of famous people have a secret account with a phony name.
	That way they can follow people they want to follow or keep an eye on things.
	But the name Pierre DeLecto, something is up there.
	Something is up there.
	You know, if you, let's say you were going to have an anonymous Twitter account, what would you, John Fredericks, Fred Johnson?
	I mean, there's a million names.
	Carlos Danger.
	Now, what did that tell us?
	Told us what kind of person we're dealing with.
	That was Anthony Weiner, who picks a porn star sort of name.
	Now, this Mitt Romney looks like the most buttoned-down, straight-laced guy.
	Pierre DeLecto.
	I'm just telling you, keep an eye on this.
	Something's coming.
	We have not heard the last of Pierre DeLecto.
	And his excuse, well, I just wanted to keep an eye on what was being said and follow the conversation on social media.
	But you notice there's a woman or two, one named Jennifer, where he's writing back and forth with that Jennifer.
	What was that all about?
	You can follow the conversation.
	You don't have to write back and forth with Jennifer.
	I'm just telling you, Pierre DeLecto, keep an eye on this.
	There's more to come.
	I'm just predicting this.
	Bear in mind, I'm the guy that announced the Matt Lauer situation months before it happened.
	Ethan, you remember that, right?
	That's another thing.
	I love these NBC people.
	We had no idea.
	What a shock.
	Remember Savannah Guthrie went on the air that morning after they fired Matt Lauer.
	Her exact words.
	I'm still trying to process this.
	Again, I posted it long before it happened.
	I knew all about it, and I don't even work there.
	They are two feet away from the guy.
	They all knew about it over there at NBC.
	And there's more to come over there.
	It would be great if it all tied together.
	Turns out Pierre Delecto knew them.
	Anyway, let's take a call or two.
	Let's go to, let's see, let's go to Ohio, the middle of America, the most important state electorally.
	And so Geraldine, how are you doing, Geraldine?
	Welcome to Sean Hannity.
	Doing great, Mark.
	How are you?
	Let me check.
	Not bad, not bad.
	So what do you think?
	Hey, I am so tickled, tickled, tickled, pink, that some of our congressmen finally got off their duffs and went in there and stirred up the pot.
	I know that the Freedom Caucus guys work tirelessly trying to get things done, and I know that there's been people shutting on their butts in Washington, some of our own, which I'm not very stinking happy about.
	And I am glad that it has finally maybe hit the fan and somebody's going to stand up and do something to help Trump.
	All right, Geraldine, good point.
	Thanks for calling.
	Hopefully this is just round one.
	Hopefully this keeps up.
	You know, a lot of times you go, where the hell are these Republicans on all of this?
	Why aren't they doing something?
	Now, the Democrats have responded about the Republicans breaking into the hearing, the secret hearing, and disrupting it.
	And they're describing it as a stunt.
	Nothing but a stunt.
	Now they go back to their stunt, which is this fake pretend impeachment hearing.
	So I don't know.
	The problem is, normally you got the media to jump all over this.
	You don't have that right now.
	You got these Chuck Todd fake news people who, I mean, look at this Adam Schiff.
	For two years, he's on Meet the Press.
	And over and over and over again, they're saying to him, do you actually have actual hard evidence about Russian clothes?
	Yes, I do.
	Outside of Mueller, but you have hard evidence.
	Yes, I do.
	Soon as it's all over, have you, this has been how many, since Mueller said nothing, six months?
	Adam Schiff is on every week with Chuck Todd.
	Never once does he say to him, hey, whatever happened to that evidence you had.
	What's the deal with that evidence you claimed you had?
	Nobody ever asks him.
	Look at this Hunter Biden situation.
	If this were anybody else, the New York Times have 10 reporters outside on his lawn.
	We want to know how you got the job.
	Tell us exactly what you did.
	Hey, we found out exactly what he did do for that company.
	It took a foreign news service to get it, but we'll get to that in a moment.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity, 1-800-941.
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	Hey, welcome back.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
	We have every network up on all the different TV screens here.
	Look at this CNN.
	Trump claims credit for Syria peace.
	Yeah.
	Well, who else would get credit for it?
	He's the one negotiating.
	When it comes to the Kurds and Syria, you know, all of the swamp people, suddenly, the Kurds are our allies.
	We can't abandon the Kurds.
	They're our allies.
	If you asked them about three weeks ago about the Kurds, they wouldn't know who.
	Suddenly, the Kurds are our allies.
	They are our allies, and that's why we've been fighting for them every second for the last few weeks, fighting diplomatically for them, trying to guarantee their safety, trying to protect them.
	The vice president flying over there, the Secretary of State flying to Turkey, negotiating a peaceful area for Syria.
	It looks like we've had a permanent ceasefire, but the president himself explaining, you know, nothing's really permanent.
	Let's take a listen.
	Cut one.
	My fellow Americans, I greet you this morning from the White House to announce a major breakthrough toward achieving a better future for Syria and for the Middle East.
	It's been a long time.
	Over the last five days, you have seen that a ceasefire that we established along Syria's border has held and has held very well beyond most expectations.
	Early this morning, the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the ceasefire permanent, and it will indeed be permanent.
	However, you would also define the word permanent in that part of the world as somewhat questionable.
	We all understand that.
	But I do believe it will be permanent.
	I've therefore instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to lift all sanctions imposed on October 14th in response to Turkey's original offensive moves against the Kurds in Syria's northeast border region.
	So the sanctions will be lifted unless something happens that we're not happy with.
	Okay, that's the most thoughtful way to handle this.
	You couldn't handle this in a better manner.
	If this were Barack Obama, the Nobel Committee would have just unanimously voted him a new peace prize.
	They would have rushed it over here and presented it to him this afternoon.
	He would be lauded as the greatest hero ever.
	It's President Trump doing this.
	So, I mean, it's just comical.
	It's like you're dealing with five-year-olds.
	Whatever you do, they want the opposite.
	He banded our allies.
	This is terrible.
	How could he pull out?
	If he had done the opposite, three weeks ago, he said, I think I'll send an additional five troops.
	They'd be screaming.
	He's a warmonger.
	Why are we getting into this foreign conflict?
	So he knows he can't win, but he's doing the right thing.
	You know, for all of this childish, this two and a half, three-year temper tantrum, the country is doing very well.
	I mean, if you just stop listening to all the noise, it's actually one of the most successful presidencies ever in history.
	There's two things you want out of a president, peace and prosperity.
	You got both.
	I mean, the world is far more peaceful than it was during Obama, during Clinton.
	You don't have a war in Bosnia.
	You don't have all of this fight.
	It's more peaceful than usual.
	And the economy is greater than ever.
	It is just booming.
	You couldn't have a more successful presidency on both fronts.
	And despite all the tweeting and the tone or whatever you don't like, it's a pretty traditional presidency.
	In many ways, it's very traditional.
	It's a return to sort of an Eisenhower kind of presidency.
	Everything's doing well.
	But you've got this insanity that broke out.
	Again, the world's biggest, longest temper tantrum.
	All this fake news.
	Now, why the impeachment?
	Well, they talked about that from one minute after election night.
	So it was always coming at some point.
	Why now?
	I think because of the Democratic debates.
	You've had how many of these debates now?
	Four of them, three or four of them?
	And they've looked at their candidates, and it's a real ship of fools.
	I mean, I think they've come to realize none of these people probably could get elected.
	None of these people could out-debate Donald Trump.
	You look at Joe Biden.
	I mean, you can get it maybe two sentences before it turns into gibberish and you don't know what he's saying, looks lost.
	I mean, a deer in the headlights would think he looks like a deer in the headlights.
	I mean, just ridiculous, this doddering guy trying to remember the end of the sentence.
	And then you got Elizabeth Warren, who looks like the worst nightmare teacher you ever had in high school, who just annoys and frightens everybody.
	Remember the cartoon?
	She looks like the woman that had Tweety Bird, you know, with the granny glasses and all of that.
	So she's not going to get elected.
	Who else is up there?
	Bernie Sanders, lovable guy, but a yelling, screaming, crazy old man.
	No shot.
	Nobody takes that seriously.
	Who else is there?
	Mayor Pete?
	Yeah, you know what?
	He's got talent as a candidate.
	He'll be a good candidate in 2024, 2028.
	But the problem with Mayor Pete, too gimmicky.
	You know, he's got this fake military experience, which isn't real.
	You know, I don't know how long he's going to get away with that.
	He was the mayor of South Bend.
	He had a lot of clout with the local Army Reserve, and he had them arrange for him to take a desk job on a base in Afghanistan.
	So for a few months, he sat at a desk on a base.
	That's all he did.
	No military combat, anything.
	Anything.
	That's why he cannot produce a picture of himself in uniform in Afghanistan.
	There's one, but never with a helmet on.
	You know, military guys will tell you, you don't have a helmet on.
	You're not in any danger wherever you're standing.
	There's one picture of him in full military garb, but I checked into it.
	It's taken at the airport in South Bend.
	So it's fake military experience.
	You notice he's very careful on the stage around Tulsi Gabbard because she really did serve a couple tours of duty.
	Very careful not to bring that up around her.
	She's pretty good, but again, I mean, she's crazy with her left-wing views.
	But I'm talking about as a candidate, she's got a pretty good.
	But she got a chance in 2024, 28.
	Who else is out there?
	Corey Booker, very nice guy.
	He's got an IQ of like 80, maybe, 85, maybe.
	He's not going anywhere.
	Who else is there?
	I forget.
	Oh, Kamala Harris.
	This woman, you think she looks good from a distance.
	Then you get up close and you look at her.
	She is the most dreary woman.
	Look at her face.
	Look at pictures of her.
	She's got the most depressing look on her face.
	She just looks like she came out of a doctor's office and got some bad news.
	Just looks like the most depressing woman in the world.
	So you can't be like that.
	You've got to be uplifting.
	Tom Sneiser, this guy is fascinating.
	And nobody, none of the debate moderators asked him the question.
	Everybody's wondering about.
	You look at this guy.
	He looks deranged.
	He can't talk.
	You want to ask him, how the hell did you make a billion dollars?
	He really is inspiring to people because he seems to have nothing going for him.
	And he became a billionaire.
	I mean, if you were holding job interviews and that guy walked in with that personality, you wouldn't hire him for anything.
	But Andrew Yang is the best of the bunch.
	Andrew Yang, he's, you know, don't, you know, laugh at him because this guy made a lot of money in the tech industry, venture capitalist.
	He's actually done things in real life.
	He's, you know, he's crazy liberal things, but he put together a program to help the homeless.
	Yeah, things that actually did stuff.
	But, you know, he's so new at this.
	He's gimmicky.
	And, you know, so, you know, he's got a future.
	Maybe he can't get himself together now, but in the future.
	Now, this Julian Castro, nice guy.
	Nobody takes him seriously.
	Just needed a Hispanic guy.
	Anybody just stand there.
	One podium has to be a Hispanic guy.
	I thought Beto was.
	No, Beto is for amusement.
	Beto is like the San Diego chicken.
	Like in between innings, you need a mascot to jump up and down on the dugout.
	And so then they realize they need somebody.
	None of these people are going to make it.
	Now, this Michael Bloomberg is always hovering around.
	He would love to do it.
	But in real life, he has spent, I would say, literally 20 million bucks, focus groups, polling, the most advanced polling in the world.
	And it's all showing always that he has no shot at all with most of the American public.
	He can do well in New York.
	New Yorkers can understand a guy like that, Washington, but in the middle of the country, they've never seen a guy like that.
	He sounds like Thurston Howell III.
	He's like this totally out of touch elitist.
	You remember he tried running earlier in the year.
	He did all the Sunday shows one week.
	Now, let me just, he was so ridiculous on these Sunday shows.
	I'm not exaggerating.
	These are actual numbers.
	This guy has three planes, four helicopters, six boats.
	He has 42 cars and 11 houses.
	He was on Meet the Press saying that you should take the bus because you've got to conserve.
	And it's just preposterous, ridiculous.
	So everybody just laughed him out of the race.
	He tried for about two weeks and gave up.
	I don't know how he comes back.
	He'd be, you know, he looks like he's the guy who has the cachet, the gravitas, to stand on the debate stage and tell off Donald Trump.
	Not really.
	He's the guy who did a good job in New York as mayor, but it was mostly managing what Rudy Giuliani accomplished.
	It was Rudy that cleaned up the streets, got everything in order.
	All Bloomberg did was manage all of that.
	He also had the greatest police commissioner, Ray Kelly, who kept the streets safe.
	Had you taken Ray Kelly out of the mix, I don't know how popular Bloomberg would have been.
	But Bloomberg, on the debate stage, he did crazy things in New York.
	He passed a law on how much soda you're allowed to drink.
	You think I'm kidding?
	See, this is what I mean.
	Everybody thinks I'm making this up.
	He passed a law on how much so what size soda you were allowed to order in a restaurant.
	So that's all Donald Trump has to do.
	What about the salt?
	The salt.
	Yeah, he ruled on whether you could have salt or not.
	So that's all Donald Trump has to do on a debate stage: just say, this guy passed a law on how much soda are you allowed to drink?
	They'll tell you if you can put salt on.
	He'll let you know if you're allowed to put pepper on.
	It's just too much.
	It's absolutely ridiculous.
	Okay, I forgot about this.
	He's also a guy.
	He looks like a very serious guy.
	He can be a clown at times.
	You remember he flew a giant block of ice to London?
	He wanted to do something on climate change with a giant block of ice.
	So he flew it there on a private plane.
	It cost hundreds of thousands, half a million dollars to get this block of ice there and put more carbon into the air than anything.
	Hey, by the way, these climate change idiots are pulling a bit of a scam on you.
	If you're really worried about climate change, there's a couple of things you need to focus on.
	They have pretty much perfected carbon capture technology.
	It's amazing stuff.
	It can pull the carbon out of the air.
	It's just been perfected.
	It's going to be some time before they can put it to mass use, but it'll solve the problem.
	Technology that can solve the problem.
	You ever hear any Democrat mention that?
	Seven-hour climate change debate?
	Nobody brought that up.
	Because if it solved the problem with that stuff, what happens to the funding, the money?
	They'd rather use the climate change as an excuse to ban stuff, regulate stuff, tax you.
	What about that plastic in the ocean?
	This hasn't been perfected yet, but it's pretty close.
	They've got this technology can take the plastic out of the ocean.
	They've done some test runs.
	All of them have been successful.
	This kind of stuff will solve the problem.
	But Democrats do not want you to focus on that.
	Nope.
	The only way to solve it is taxes, banning, and regulation.
	That's where you need a guy like Bloomberg.
	He'll tell you how much soda.
	You want to put pepper on that?
	Let me check the law on that.
	You want to get arrested for putting salt on something?
	He's got no shot at all.
	So that's why the impeachment.
	That's why you got to do it this way.
	They can see that if they had a really great candidate and an unbelievable issue, you wouldn't need this impeachment stuff.
	But they don't.
	And that's why the fake impeachment.
	So, hey, Greg Jarrett will be with us coming up.
	Lots of good guests.
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	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	He'll be back tomorrow, if not sooner.
	You know, sometimes they hire somebody you don't like, and you say, I don't know about that guy.
	And then he does great, and you say, well, he's doing great.
	This never happened with President Trump.
	I could understand why you didn't want him if you're a crazy Democrat or you just didn't like his manner.
	But it's a couple of years now.
	Things are going great.
	Economy, the world situation is more peaceful than ever.
	Things are going fine.
	You'd think you'd calm down.
	Everybody going nuts.
	Look at this columnist here.
	Scandal in the Trump administration.
	He's only hiring people that seem to agree with him.
	What administration didn't do that?
	What did the Obama administration do?
	Hired people that agreed with him.
	That's what you're supposed to do.
	This just goes on and on.
	Look at this.
	NYC Bar Association.
	These are New York City lawyers, all liberals.
	You know, it's middle of New York City, all these lawyers, mostly crazy liberals.
	New York City Bar Association, Attorney General Barr must recuse himself from the Ukraine matter.
	Now, I could click on this story and see what the reason is they think he should recuse himself, but should I?
	Do I care?
	What possible reason?
	Is he Ukrainian?
	Did he used to work in the Ukraine?
	Why would he recuse himself?
	Now, I'm not even going to click and read.
	All right, here's Judge Judy, who I know in real life.
	She's a very nice woman, Judge Judy.
	Very fine woman.
	She has just endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president.
	But this is more of this stuff.
	They all, and I understand where she's coming from.
	It's like the big money donors.
	They want to go back to the way it was.
	Everything quiet.
	The president just does what he's told.
	The donors run everything.
	Or in the case of Judge Judy, she's not a donor, but they just want it to go back to the way it was, where the president doesn't tweet.
	You know, and remember, a presidential tweet used to be Obama tweeting, wishing all veterans a happy Veterans Day.
	That was a tweet, and that was it.
	So that's why the donors are always pushing somebody.
	Donors are mostly out of touch.
	Nobody misreads the public more than donors.
	That's why they were pushing Jeb Bush.
	That's why they're pushing Joe Biden.
	And now they want Bloomberg.
	It's safe.
	It's quiet.
	It's somewhere in the middle.
	They just want it to go back to the way it was.
	Hey, Greg Jarrett will be with us in the next hour.
	Don't go away.
	Oh.
	How do you like that?
	I read it.
	Have you not been here before?
	I've been here a million times.
	This doesn't say, oh, I'm looking at the wrong place.
	I saw 5612.
	It's 5652.
	That means, I got to talk for another 30 seconds.
	Oh, my God.
	So when we, hey, Greg Jarrett can clear up a lot of things.
	Now, this emoluments stuff.
	I'm going to ask him about this.
	Emoluments clause.
	You know it doesn't apply to a pre-existing business.
	We've had five presidents with pre-existing businesses, including George Washington.
	I'll ask him about that.
	It's really interesting.
	He'll explain that coming up.
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	Well, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Now, Greg Jarrett, of course, you know well, and he's written a couple of great blockbuster books.
	The Russia hoax was an amazing book.
	It got to the bottom of that whole Russia collusion nonsense.
	And his new book is out.
	It's called Witch Hunt, already a big bestseller.
	The president has tweeted about it, but you've got to get this book, Witch Hunt.
	I think he's secretly behind all this stuff.
	He's creating all new books for himself.
	But I think he created the Ukraine situation just so he can have another blockbuster next year.
	But get the book, Witch Hunt.
	It's phenomenal.
	It'll explain a lot of stuff to you.
	Greg Jarrett, how you doing?
	Hey, I'm great, Mark.
	Good to be with you.
	Thanks for having me.
	Well, Witch Hunt is a phenomenal book.
	Congratulations on all the success.
	Explain this.
	You mentioned this the other night, and it's something that's getting absolutely no coverage for obvious reasons.
	But the emoluments clause really cannot apply to a preexisting business, can it?
	No, it can't.
	And the federal courts have consistently ruled that way.
	Look, emoluments is essentially a bribe.
	But what about people who go into public service, presidents, for example, who have well-established preexisting businesses?
	And the courts have said that's fundamentally unfair to penalize them to accuse them of breaching a duty or the Constitution simply because they were successful at doing other things.
	As long as while they're in office, they are not operating those benefits in any way by leveraging their office, then it's not an emolument violation.
	So you're right, preexisting businesses are not an emoluments violation.
	If it were otherwise, the first five presidents of the United States would have been kicked out of office for violating what they helped to write, the emoluments clause.
	Because, for example, George Washington, while president, he was, you know, cash poor, land rich.
	He rented out to the British huge parts of his Virginia estate, you know, Mount Vernon.
	So, you know, that's just another example.
	John Adams was a farmer.
	He continued to do business with the British and the French while he served as president of the United States because it was a pre-existing business.
	So this is utter nonsense when people say, oh, abuse of power, violation of the Constitutional emoluments.
	That's just not true under the law.
	Now, you know, and President Obama wrote a book.
	That was his business, actually.
	He made more money on that than anything at the time.
	And once he got into office, you'd see his taxes, $400,000 from being president, $1.2 million from his book.
	So he was profiting off that business while in office.
	Yeah, and, you know, Jimmy Carter, you know, owned a peanut farm that continued to operate.
	Yes, he put the holdings in a blind trust and didn't operate the business.
	This is a president who has handed over his business to his sons.
	They're operating it.
	They've agreed to stop new business overseas.
	So, you know, this just isn't what the framers intended.
	Well, you should get Greg Jarrett's book.
	It's an excellent book, Witch Hunt.
	Have you started work on the new book, The Ukraine hoax, yet?
	You know, as long as Trump is in office, there will be hoax after witch hunt after hoax.
	And, yeah, I mean, you could continue to pound out books about it.
	But, you know, the whole witch hunt was based on a pernicious lie that was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign for Russian disinformation.
	And the FBI, as I discovered in my book, and I poured through, you know, more than 10,000 documents and heretofore secret testimony.
	And it turns out that the FBI never had any credible evidence.
	So they shouldn't have launched the investigation to begin with.
	And James Comey himself admitted nine months later when the special counsel was appointed, there was still no evidence of collusion.
	And shortly after Mueller became special counsel, he admitted in a meeting with Trump's lawyers that they had no collusion evidence and they weren't pursuing it anymore.
	But he refused to tell the American public.
	He refused to file an interim report.
	And for another year, the witch hunt continued.
	So if we had legitimate news media in this country, if the New York Times and Chuck Todd, everybody were legitimate, wouldn't they, when they have Adam Schiff on, say, you know, you said why is a private citizen like Rudy Giuliani working on foreign policy?
	Every president did that, from Sidney Blumenthal to Vernon Jordan.
	All these guys were doing but is it the fact that the media keeps quiet about all that, what enables Schiff and these people?
	Of course.
	You know, the media is driven by not only their bias, but their hatred of Trump.
	And, you know, they wear it on their sleeve.
	They're spiteful.
	They're vindictive.
	And their stories are sort of a retaliation for all the criticism that Trump levels at them for being unfair.
	And he's right.
	And they also hated that he goes over their heads to the American people in tweets and holding rallies.
	So the media in my book, I devote an entire chapter called The Media Witch Hunt.
	And I name names of journalists and the stories they got wrong.
	And, you know, their enmity toward bias blinded them to the truth and allowed them to become part of the witch hunt.
	And, you know, again, it was all based on a hoax, on a lie.
	So if Donald Trump Jr., and he said this, if he were getting paid $1,000 from a company overseas, obviously the New York Times and Washington Post would send a dozen reporters to camp out on his lawn.
	Teams would be investigating this company.
	How did they get away with no investigation of Hunter Biden?
	Nobody's ever said to him, how'd you get the job?
	Tell us exactly what you did.
	How do they get away with this?
	Well, you know, they've gotten away with it for so long because they all live in an echo chamber and they repeat each other.
	And, you know, whether it's an express or implied, you know, conspiracy to not tell the truth, people can draw their own conclusion.
	But, you know, their bias and hatred infects not only the stories that they choose to report, but the way they tell those stories.
	And all you have to do is open any day the New York Times, and, you know, it's story after story after story that's all anti-Trump.
	And, you know, and it probably, you know, will never end.
	And it began before, you know, the president even, you know, rode over in the motorcade to the White House the day of his inauguration when the Washington Post printed a big story.
	The impeachment of Donald Trump is underway.
	This is a president who has been under siege like no other president before.
	And it continues to this day with Adam Schiff and a unilateral decision by Nancy Pelosi to launch an impeachment inquiry without even bothering to look at the evidence.
	She announced it before she read the transcript of the conversation, which shows no quid pro quo, no demand, no pressure, no condition, nothing.
	The Department of Justice Criminal Division looked at the official record of the conversation and said, no crime here.
	This isn't even intelligence matters.
	This is diplomatic activity.
	So, Watergate, any impeachment attempt is about blocking an investigation, Iran-Contra, Whitewater.
	It's about trying to stop an investigation.
	In all your legal career years, have you ever seen anybody get in trouble for calling for an investigation?
	No, you know, and the president had every right to do so.
	You know, we have this treaty, mutual legal assistance in criminal matters treated with Ukraine.
	They're obligated to do what the president was asking them to do.
	And, you know, and it was Bill Barr, the Attorney General, who said to the president, please make introductions with foreign leaders in the following countries because this is part of my official Department of Justice investigation into meddling in the 2016 election.
	So this is perfectly normal.
	As I've argued, it would actually be a dereliction of duty on the part of the president if he didn't do this.
	Under the take care clause of the Constitution, he's duty-bound to make sure that the laws are enforced.
	And this is a law enforcement investigation.
	Now, what about Joe Biden?
	Look, if the president has reason to believe that an elected public official may have committed a corrupt act, again, he's duty-bound to say to that foreign government, if you have evidence, please turn it over.
	So, you know, did Joe Biden commit a corrupt act?
	We don't know.
	We don't know his intent, but I can tell you that the prosecutor in Ukraine that he made sure was fired is on record saying, among others, to the Washington Post, he was fired because he was investigating Hunter Biden.
	We only got like a minute left.
	The idea that Schiff holds these witnesses and they have secret testimony, they hold it in a skiff.
	Has that ever been done before with testimony?
	Never.
	And the Supreme Court has said that due process rights apply to congressional investigations that would include an impeachment investigation.
	But all of this is in violation of the protections of the due process clause, secret hearings, witness intimidation, no right to call witnesses.
	You know, cross-examination is pretty limited.
	I mean, these are fundamental rights we cherish in the due process clause, part of our Bill of Rights, and it is being ignored with impunity.
	And Americans are smart.
	They know that this is wrong and unfair.
	Well, everybody get the new book, Witch Hunt.
	Highly recommended.
	It's Greg Jarrett's latest bestseller, Witch Hunt.
	You got to read this book.
	And you can watch Greg Jarrett, of course, Fox News channel.
	And thanks for being with us.
	Mark, always great talking to you.
	Thanks.
	All right.
	Take care.
	And by the way, Sean will be on tonight, 9 o'clock Eastern, Fox News Channel, Hannity tonight.
	Don't miss it.
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	Hey, welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
	I'm as surprised as you are.
	I didn't expect to be here today, but it's a long story.
	But Sean will be on TV tonight, Hannity, on as usual tonight at 9 o'clock.
	So the big development of today is they're having this fake impeachment, this pretend half an attempt at almost an impeachment inquiry.
	And they haven't voted it in as an actual inquiry, as an actual formal proceeding.
	The reason for that is once you vote it in, all sorts of rules and protections kick in.
	People are allowed to bring lawyers, and the Republicans on the committee are allowed to also call witnesses.
	So then it becomes very fair and balanced.
	They don't want that, so they haven't voted it in.
	So it's Adam Schiff.
	When you say the president is battling, he's only battling half a committee, just the Democrats on this one committee.
	And it's not an official proceeding in any way.
	So Adam Schiff is doing secret testimony, secret witnesses, and now it's taken it a step further.
	He's doing it in what they call a skiff in the Capitol building.
	There's a couple of these rooms.
	It's where you usually go to view the most top secret documents.
	A skiff is the most secure room in the Capitol.
	Now, you would just call this the most secure room in the Capitol.
	You would call this the top secret room, but it's called the SCIF, which actually stands for sensitive, that's how bad these words are.
	I can't even remember what the heck it stands for.
	Sensitive information.
	No, what is C?
	The C stands for something.
	Oh, it's sensitive compartmentalized information facility.
	They just can't call it the top secret room.
	So this is unheard of to do it in that room.
	The reason is they don't want anything to leak out.
	Why the secrecy?
	Because none of the testimony is too damaging, and it doesn't, there's no testimony that's going to hurt Donald Trump in the end.
	So that's why they keep it secret.
	If there was anything that would hurt President Trump, they would release it immediately to the New York Times.
	They'd leak it to the Washington Post.
	So Republicans stormed the SCIF, led by Matt Gates.
	30 Republicans went down there, demanded to be let in, see what's going on.
	Now, the argument against it is, well, you can't bring a phone or any electronic device into a skiff.
	They had their phones.
	They had everything on them.
	But on the other hand, nothing is going on in the SCIF.
	There's not any top secret documents in there.
	There's just a witness testimony.
	And it's these phony baloney witnesses that Adam Schiff has called in.
	At that moment, testifying was Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Laura Cooper.
	I guarantee you this is some deep state bureaucrat been there through one administration after the other.
	She sat down to testify.
	Republicans rushed through the rooms, three doors.
	There was a lot of yelling and screaming.
	A Democrat said, the closest thing I've seen around here to mass civil unrest.
	This is a Republican showed up.
	That's civil unrest in the SCIF.
	So I don't know what will come of this at some point.
	If we had actual working news media, none of this would be allowed to go on.
	They'd be all over Schiff demanding to know why he's doing this in secret.
	Why doesn't he vote it in so that people can have attorneys, so that the Republicans can keep an eye on things, all of this stuff.
	Oh, I forgot to mention Hunter Biden.
	If this were anybody else, every news organization would be demanding to know how did you get the job, exactly, what did you do?
	They deliberately don't investigate.
	That's why they can say without ever, there's no evidence of wrongdoing because there's no investigation.
	Reuters, which is a foreign news service, finally looked into it.
	What did Hunter Biden exactly do for the Ukrainian company?
	Reuters found out that during the entire time he worked there, he never once set foot in the Ukraine.
	He was never there, never went to a meeting, never did anything, and collected a total of $8 million on a no-show job.
	Sounds like something you need to investigate?
	I think so.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
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	Back in a moment on the Sean Hannity Show.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show.
	Surprise guest host, Mark Simone.
	It was a surprise to me.
	I got to move.
	I live too close to the studio.
	Move far away so I don't get these last-minute calls.
	But normally I'd be listening.
	I'd be home listening.
	So I figured I listened to the show anyway.
	I can come here and listen to the show.
	But then I found out I got to talk, too.
	But we got some great guests.
	Steve Moore is the three best economists on earth.
	Larry Kudlow, Art Laffer, Steve Moore.
	They've been advising President Trump from the beginning.
	And they've all worked together on a great book that you should get called Trump Enomics.
	It is an excellent book.
	Trump Enomics.
	And with us right now, the author, Steve Moore.
	He's also a senior fellow Heritage Foundation, great columnist.
	Steve Moore, how you doing?
	Hi, Mark.
	Great to be with you.
	I'm doing wonderful.
	And the economy, the best ever, phenomenal economy.
	What do you think?
	I mean, there are plenty of people.
	You watch that crazy CNBC.
	You know, they keep saying an economy like this, a recession is due at any moment.
	Even Jamie Dimon, I was shocked, a very highly respected J.P. Morgan Chase champion said a recession is coming at some point.
	What do we think?
	Well, no, I mean, look, there's always a chance at any time point in time, there's always a chance of a recession.
	But, you know, I look at the economy today.
	I see the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, Mark.
	Think about that.
	The lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, the lowest inflation rate in 50 years, the lowest interest rates in 50 years, the biggest wage gains in 30 years.
	I mean, what's not to like about this picture?
	It's an incredible economy that we're looking at right now.
	And, you know, we have 7 million surplus jobs.
	So, and by the way, you know, you and I talked on your show in New York last week about how the fact that we've got now, you know, average middle-income workers have gained $5,000 in take-home pay since Trump came into office.
	That's a gigantic increase.
	And it compares with about $1,500 under Trump.
	You know, under Obama.
	Yeah, that's an important point because the Democratic philosophy always is, you know, people aren't getting paid enough.
	We've got to raise minimum wage.
	We've got to raise.
	But when people like you do this stuff, you create so many jobs.
	That brings up a shortage of workers, and that makes companies pay more money.
	Why don't Democrats see that?
	Yeah.
	The biggest problem with the economy right now is there's not enough workers to fill all the jobs.
	I mean, that's what I hear from employers.
	You know, we have job openings.
	We can't find skilled and competent people to fill the jobs.
	And that's an indictment also of our education system that we're graduating kids from high school and college who don't know how to, you know, how to do anything of any use.
	You know, they have psychology degrees and sociology degrees.
	But, you know, if you're a worker looking for a job and you have a skill, this is the best economy in 50 years.
	And so, no, I don't see a recession.
	I think a lot of the people are talking about a recession.
	Other people are hoping for a recession.
	They want a recession to happen because they believe that that will mean that Donald Trump doesn't go re-elected.
	So they're willing to have millions of people lose their jobs so they can retake political power.
	Yeah, and you guys deserve extra credit because in the last two years, I would imagine a lot of the jobs were lost due to automation, due to digital, due to all of that stuff.
	So to increase jobs in that type of technology, it's a miracle that you did this.
	You know, it's a great point.
	Everybody said, oh, my gosh, we're not going to have any jobs left.
	You know, the robots and the automation and these driverless cars and so on are going to, you know, cause everybody to lose their jobs.
	And yet here we are today in 2019 with 7 million surplus jobs.
	So we're not running out of jobs.
	We just need to make sure that the people we have have the skills and talents to fill the jobs.
	We've got to make sure that when we give welfare benefits to people that they have to work in exchange for those benefits.
	We don't want people to go hungry or homeless or without income, but you have to earn the income.
	And so I like the direction of the economy.
	The thing that worries me, Mark, quite frankly, is when I listen to Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders talk about socializing our economy.
	We're going to soak the rich and sockets to the rich and we're going to redistribute income and we're going to give everything everything they want for free.
	That's not an economic growth agenda, Mark.
	That's an agenda based on greed and envy.
	Yeah.
	You know, when you hear these crazy liberals on the air saying income inequality and the idea that one guy could have $50 billion or Bezos could have $100 billion or a hedge fund guy could make $10 billion a year.
	You know, these jobs are open to anybody.
	It's not like it's a close.
	You can do that too if you want.
	Just go out and start a business.
	Well, you know, we have 27 million small businesses in this country that they're the men and women who run the businesses that are the spinal cord of our economy.
	We gave them a tax cut, you know, Mark.
	They were a big part of our tax plan.
	And, you know, look, the fact that I'm proud of the fact that we have Google and we have Amazon and we have Netflix and we have Apple that they're American companies.
	I mean, do these liberals, did we lose you?
	And you're up?
	No.
	We want these to be American companies.
	I love the fact that they're successful.
	By the way, I'm an investor at two startup companies, and we hope one day that Amazon or Google buys us out.
	You know, that's why people start businesses.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's not like these guys were born into some special royal family, and that's why they're just regular people who started businesses in their garage.
	That's how Apple started.
	That's how Amazon started in a garage, literally.
	You know what we call that, Mark?
	They call that the American dream.
	And somehow now, if you've achieved the American dream, you're somehow a villain.
	Look, I don't like Jeff Zuckerberg's politics.
	I'm a conservative, and he's pretty liberal.
	But, you know, the fact is he built Facebook.
	Nobody puts a gun to your head, Mark, and says you have to have a Facebook account, right?
	You know, I mean, you know, I don't have one because I don't agree with Facebook, but I would never deny people the right to have a Facebook account.
	And, you know, people say, oh, Google's, you know, a monopoly.
	Come on.
	Google, when my first job in Washington was working in the Library of Congress, finding all this data, it would take me days and days to find this stuff.
	Now I can find this on Google in about seven seconds, and they don't charge me a thing.
	I'm not a monopoly.
	You mentioned Elizabeth Warren.
	How do you explain this phenomenon?
	There were always some crazy socialist candidate in 19th place, but Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, at the top of the pack in the Democratic world, how did we ever get to a place like that?
	Gosh, that's a good question.
	I mean, and it pains me.
	I think it's really troubling that we have one of the two major parties in the United States of America that has turned so radical, radically liberal.
	So I'm not pleased about that.
	I think that Partly, you know, young people believe that prosperity is just the natural course of events, and we can raise taxes to 70 and 80 and 90 percent, and we can have regulations, and we can break up companies, and we can give everybody everything for free.
	And then, of course, that's a recipe for social chaos and economic disaster.
	But, you know, I think, Mark, you and I, and because we allowed the left to take over our schools some, you know, 40 years ago, and now we're paying a high price for our kids being indoctrinated with economically lunatic ideas.
	I mean, you know, you look at somebody like Alexandria Corsa-Cortez, you know, she's not a stupid person, she's just regurgitating what the government schools have taught her since she was in the kindergarten.
	Take back our schools, folks.
	We got to get kids understanding that America is the greatest country in the world.
	That it's a result of free enterprise system and hard work.
	Yeah, you know, that's a really important point that nobody pays much attention to.
	When the schools went totally liberal, crazy, far-left college professors, we just raised a couple of generations of nutty socialists and far-left kids, and you're right, we're paying the price for that for years.
	It's like Henry.
	Yeah, so you got generations that are all just a bunch of nutty Chuck Todds.
	Unfortunately, that's not the phone there, your connection.
	But everybody gets Steve Moore's as soon as they actually get it, you know, they get into the real economy.
	I think that they will realize the errors of their way.
	So, you know, I have nothing but confidence in the future of this country.
	I think the American people understand that it is the free enterprise system and freedom that gave us this amazing economy.
	And every time I give a talk, by the way, and I talk to people who are from foreign countries, from East Germany and places like Czechoslovakia and places like Cuba, and they say, hey, I came to this country for freedom, free enterprise, and now these young kids are trying to take it away from me here in the United States.
	Yeah.
	So, well, Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.
	It's a great book.
	It's called Trump Anomics.
	You should read that.
	Also, go to the Heritage Foundation.
	You can see Steve Moore's columns.
	Keep up the great work.
	Thanks for the great economy and the part you played in it.
	And Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.
	All right, Mark, all we have to do now is get Trump re-elected.
	All right.
	We'll do it.
	I don't think it's going to be that tough, but thanks for being with us.
	Nobody can answer this question.
	It's fascinating.
	You know, I got my new iPhone 11 Pro Max.
	The picture quality on this is unbelievable.
	A billion million pixels.
	I can watch video.
	This video is so clear.
	How come you can't get a clear phone call?
	You'd think they could invent everything.
	This phone can do a billion things except have a clear phone call.
	You'd think, I mean, look at this radio series.
	We're going to have the clearest signal you've ever heard.
	You'd think they could invent a cell tower with a perfect clear signal.
	It is 2019, isn't it?
	Welcome back.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
	Normally I'm on in New York on our big flagship station, WOR, from 10 to noon every day.
	But I got done with my show, had a lot of stuff to do, appointments, and all that.
	And then I finally got home.
	I said, let me just rest for a second.
	The phone rings, and I look at the caller ID and it says, Linda.
	And I said, this is not going to be just a friendly little chit-chat.
	Sean.
	Stopping me.
	That's the first thing I heard.
	Where are you?
	Well, I'm not far away.
	Get over here.
	But Sean will be on TV tonight.
	Hannity will be on as usual at 9 o'clock on the Fox News channel.
	This impeachment.
	Now, it looks like they're making this up as they go along.
	But there's some people that think that this is an incredible plot that they have laid out.
	You know, when is this going to wrap up?
	They're talking about, remember they were talking about Thanksgiving.
	Thanksgiving will wrap up.
	Now it looks like Thanksgiving or Christmas.
	When's Thanksgiving?
	That's like a month from now, right?
	That's at least a month.
	What the hell are they going to do for four weeks?
	Talk to these secret witnesses for four weeks?
	So Christmas, it's like two months.
	Now, every expert, sometimes they're wrong, but every expert is convinced there will be an impeachment, that they've gone too far to stop or to back down or to not do it, that they would look too silly if they don't do it.
	So every experts think definitely impeachment.
	Now, what that means is it goes to trial in the Senate.
	Now, if it goes to trial in the Senate, every single senator becomes the jurors.
	There'll be a trial.
	And here's, I didn't realize this.
	Now, you're sure about this, right?
	If there's a trial in the Senate, all the senators are the jurors.
	They have to conduct the trial.
	During this period, they are not allowed to campaign.
	They cannot go on the campaign trail, and they can't even make speeches.
	Yeah, they're not, so they're very limited.
	They're not allowed to speak.
	They have to sit there six days a week and listen to the witnesses and listen to everything, and they're not supposed to speak.
	They can't go on television.
	I mean, they're known to break rules, but according to articles, they are not allowed to speak.
	You're telling me that a senator has to say to Chuck Todd, I can't come on on Sunday.
	That when Anderson Cooper calls, they have to say, I can't do it.
	Now, impeachments take Clinton's took five weeks.
	This is Trump.
	This will be four months.
	Chuck Schumer can't do his fake Sunday press conference.
	I think Sundays are open, so maybe they can speak on Sundays, but technically as a juror, you're not supposed to comment on the case at all.
	You're telling me Nancy Pelosi can't do her little morning press conference where she says with that spraying.
	You need a windshield when you talk to her.
	So, I don't know.
	Now, here's the problem.
	You got Bernie.
	Look how many candidates are senators.
	Bernie Sanders is a senator.
	Klobuchar.
	Elizabeth Warren is a senator.
	Booker's a senator.
	Kamala Harris is a senator.
	That means by law would have to come off the campaign trail for at least a month, maybe a few months.
	Did they think about that?
	Maybe they did.
	Maybe it's some kind of plot.
	Maybe it's to get them off the campaign trail, leave the primary season open to just Biden alone.
	Or a governor could step in at that point.
	You never know with these maniacs what they're plotting or who's behind all of this.
	You know, you look at Schiff and Pelosi.
	They look like a couple of bird brains who don't really know anything, but you never know.
	There could be a George Soros pulling the strings on all of this, figuring out this master plan.
	You know, the donors love Biden.
	And you're saying, hey, he looks confused.
	He looks dumb.
	He looks crooked.
	And no one of the donors love Biden.
	So maybe it's a plot to get all these senators off the trail.
	We'll see.
	We got another hour to go.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
	Hey, follow me on Instagram, Mark SimoneNYC, Instagram, Mark SimoneNY, Twitter.
	Another hour to go.
	Mark here for Sean Hannity.
	Oh, I did it again.
	That's the second time.
	This is so confusing.
	You've been dipping into the peppermint schnapps again.
	You see, when I'm on WOR, you break when you break.
	That's it.
	This is a network show.
	There's 650 stations.
	So you can't just go to the commercial.
	It has to be at 56-12, 29-52, all of that.
	But I hear music playing.
	That's usually a good sign.
	Yes, it is.
	Whenever you hear that music, it means I'm reasonably close.
	Not just in your head.
	Somewhere close.
	You notice I'm stalling a little here.
	Oh, Facebook.
	This lunatic, Mark Zuckerberg, testified today.
	What is he really up to?
	What's really going to happen?
	We'll talk to an expert coming up right after the break.
	Mark Simone here for Sean.
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	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Sean will be back tomorrow.
	He'll be on TV tonight.
	Hannity will be on as usual on the Fox News channel.
	Normally, I'm on here in New York on our big flagship station, WOR.
	I'm on from 10 to noon.
	That means two hours.
	This is three hours.
	This is the first three-hour show I've done in a long time.
	But we got a great guest, Derek Hunter.
	He's the author of Outrage Incorporated, How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood.
	And they're just getting started.
	And you can follow him on Twitter, too.
	It's Derek A. Hunter at Twitter.
	Derek Hunter, how you doing?
	I'm doing great, Mark.
	How are you?
	Very good.
	So this Mark Zuckerberg testimony today, what do you think?
	He didn't seem to impress anybody in that testimony.
	He didn't seem to know what was going on.
	Half the time the questions were, he was asked a series of questions about his support for the Patriot Act, which, you know, I don't know about, I don't think it's been in the news for about a decade, but he sat there because he hired a lawyer who worked on the Patriot Act back in 2002.
	He was now being questioned by Ayanna Presley, a member of the Gang of Four, the squad, out there about whether or not he really truly had a commitment to freedom.
	It was bizarre.
	It was, I mean, I'm used to posturing when you've got members of Congress and a highly watched public hearing, but this one took it to a new level.
	It was fun.
	And what is the deal with him?
	Does he just play dumb sometimes?
	Or is he just a technical coding guy who can't really be articulate?
	He's just better with coding than talking.
	Is that what it is?
	Well, I think he's clearly better with machines than he is with people.
	But when you have more money than probably 80% of the countries on the planet, there aren't a whole lot of people who challenge you in your daily life.
	So when he comes up against it, he's only 35 years old.
	It's got to be a little bit of a shock.
	If you had gone, take any professional athlete who's making tens of millions of dollars a year, they don't hear the word no very often.
	Actors the same way.
	And they're confused by it.
	They react differently.
	When Mark Zuckerberg walks around Facebook, they think that he can't take a bath because he doesn't sink in water.
	When he goes up on Congress and is being berated by people who know that they're hoping to get B-roll for their local newscast and putting on a show standing up to the big evil Facebook, I think that's a completely new world that he experiences once every year when he testifies before Congress.
	So I think that's a huge part of it.
	You know, all this stuff that started up from Google to Facebook to Twitter to all these things, and they grew into such multi-zillion dollar companies.
	You know, people stop and realize, unlike every other company, they were operating without unions, without any real regulations, without any problem with government.
	So is it that just they're just naive?
	They've never had to deal with this kind of stuff in their life.
	Well, that's true for most of the internet.
	And thank God the government wasn't involved in regulating the internet.
	Could you imagine how it would be like?
	You'd somehow find a way to make your internet like the DMV and just ruin the whole thing.
	No, if you remember back in the 90s, Microsoft existed.
	They said, we're in Washington State.
	We don't have anything to do with Washington, D.C.
	The Democrats noticed that they weren't really ponying up for the cause in political contributions.
	And the next thing you know, the Justice Department came sniffing around with an antitrust case.
	Then Microsoft opened a pretty, which has grown into a pretty substantial operation in Washington, D.C., and suddenly their problems went away.
	It's great, and I think most people who work in computers in the tech industry, while they're very liberal socially, they mostly have a libertarian attitude towards government regulation because they started their companies in their garage or their dorm room or whatever, and they grew it into these multi-million or billion-dollar enterprises.
	But they don't seem to realize that sooner or later that big government blob that they're in support of absorbing everything else will come after them.
	Frankenstein's monster always returns to the castle and burns it down.
	And now they're getting a dose of their own medicine.
	Whether it's Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey from Twitter, when they're called up there, I think they're shocked because they're saying, wait a second, we're on the same team.
	And loyalty in Washington, D.C., particularly among Democrats, is situational.
	It's whether or not you can be used.
	And while Mark Zuckerberg is a liberal and the people who work at Facebook donate to Democrats and they're down with the cause, they're also rich.
	And Democrats right now need to demonize the rich, even though they're mostly rich.
	And so that's how they're treated.
	They feel as though they should be treated with high-fives.
	Yeah, we're all on the same team.
	Let's do this thing.
	But suddenly they realize that thanks to intersectional politics and the victimhood food pyramid that the left constructs and rebuilds depending on what's going on at any given moment, that just because you're on the team doesn't mean you can't also be the enemy.
	Hey, so just like the TV networks, all of this Facebook, Twitter, social media, incredibly biased, very liberal bias.
	And if you talk to the people who run these companies, they claim it's not them, that when you hire 30,000 people and they're all 30,000 liberal millennials, that's what's going to happen.
	And even Dorsey sometimes at Twitter claims there's nothing he can do.
	He can't control it.
	Is that reasonable?
	It's somewhat reasonable, Mark.
	But one of the things that you've got to realize, particularly about Twitter, is a lot of the left-wing organizations have this army of flying monkeys that they can dispatch at a moment's notice.
	So while I don't think it is that, because I've been temporarily suspended on Twitter because of my charming tweets, it's not that the employees sitting out in Silicon Valley are monitoring conservatives.
	It is, well, there's part of that if you become prominent enough, but it's that the organizations that create outrage, the fascists like at Media Matters or something like that, if they stick their flying monkey army on somebody, then all of these bots and all of these left-wing drones go out and report tweets, report users.
	And then suddenly there's this, see, conservatives don't act like a hive mind.
	We're individuals.
	The left is a hive mind.
	So when the call goes out, report this, report Mark Simone's tweet right here, suddenly thousands of people who don't follow you are now reporting that tweet saying it's horrible and you must be banned from Twitter.
	And I suspect the automatic sort of whoa pumping the brakes setup that they have at Twitter kicks in.
	Yeah.
	And then you get the notification, you've got to explain yourself or delete this tweet.
	And I don't think it is somebody in Twitter sitting in their basement monitoring Mark Simone as much as it is the army of flying monkeys being sicked on Mark Simone and then that just kicking down the first domino that leads to everything else.
	Well, I'm very well behaved on Twitter, but I do get shadow banned.
	You know, I check my analytics really carefully all the time.
	I see how many people are seeing each tweet.
	And then this week, I started picking on Biden a lot.
	I noticed all of a sudden, all of a sudden, only one-tenth as many impressions.
	Obviously, somebody hit the brakes on my Twitter account.
	Oh, I have no doubt that that is happening.
	And it's happening to me for the last two months.
	I have been stuck at 51,700 followers.
	I haven't even lost anybody, which the way I tweet, it does offend people.
	So I know it's impossible that I haven't lost people, but somehow I've been frozen in time, and my engagements are well down.
	That's well documented.
	I love how when someone like Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, goes up to Capitol Hill or gives an interview and says, we're working on the problem.
	How hard is it to just go, you're kinking the hose, all right?
	Unkink the hose and the water will flow.
	The beautiful thing about Twitter is if you don't want to give somebody the satisfaction of blocking them, they have a mute feature, which allows them to still get enraged that you exist, but you don't have to hear about it.
	That would be enough for 99% of adults.
	We used to have this philosophy in the country of live and let live.
	Now that's dead.
	We used to also believe that sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
	Now names are violence, and you must celebrate how I live, no matter how you feel about it, no matter what you think about it.
	Just leaving me alone isn't good enough.
	And that is creeping into the digital world.
	And I fear that it's going to metastasize throughout the rest of society before too long.
	Yeah.
	You know, you mentioned sometimes they don't block you, but what they do is they make sure you can never have any more followers.
	I've been frozen at a number for a year.
	You know, Don Jr., Donald Trump Jr., posted his analytics.
	He had something like 65 million people look at his Twitter account in the last month, but he didn't get a single new follower, which of course is impossible.
	So obviously they're deliberately doing.
	But even people just accidentally hitting the follow button while trying to go, ooh, close this.
	It's going to change that number, but my number hasn't changed in two months.
	All right.
	So just to annoy the hell out of Twitter, everybody follow me.
	Mark Simone, NY at Twitter, and Derek A. Hunter at Twitter.
	Just follow us just to annoy the hell out of Jack Dorsey and Twitter.
	Annoy a billionaire today.
	Follow me and Mark on Twitter.
	It's a small victory, but every victory counts.
	All right.
	Well, Derek Hunter, it's a great book.
	Everybody should get the book, Outrage Inc., How the Liberal Media Ruined Science Journalism in Hollywood.
	Derek Hunter, thanks for being with us.
	Thank you, Mark.
	Have a great one.
	All right.
	Take care.
	It's Mark Simone, NY at Twitter.
	I don't know how you're going to ever solve this problem.
	You know, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, they're all too big now.
	You can never develop a competitor.
	Well, it's the Sean Hannity Show.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	1-800-941-Sean is the number.
	Let's take some calls.
	Let's go to Chuck in Ohio.
	Chuck, how are you doing?
	Welcome to Sean Hannity Show.
	Hi, Mark.
	How are you today?
	Good.
	My question, I'd like to bring forth a little bit of something that's not been spoken of.
	It's called tax dollars being recycled to Joe Biden's family via Amtrak.
	Amtrak receives subsidies of over a billion dollars a year.
	I'd like to know via Amtrak's emails, was it politically motivated slash also known as funding motivated to hire Hunter Biden and put him on the board of Amtrak, which he admitted to during that interview.
	And what did he know as far as transportation and or locomotives and or trains?
	Well, in his defense, there was a good reason to hire him at the time.
	There were a couple of bills that needed Amtrak needed passed.
	And his father was, you know, this is an amazing kid, this Hunter Biden.
	When he first got out of college, he gets a job on the board of directors of MasterCard.
	You know, MasterCharge?
	They're located in Delaware.
	And guess who the senator from Delaware was?
	Joe Biden.
	And there was a bankruptcy bill.
	I forget what exactly was in that bankruptcy bill, but it had gone the wrong way.
	It would have screwed up MasterCharge.
	So they put Hunter Biden on the board of directors.
	And guess what?
	They got the bill passed the way they wanted.
	Here's the thing, though, Mark.
	I can understand that, but what I take offense to is my federal tax dollars going to Amtrak for a pit stop and then into Hunter Biden's pocket, Joe Biden's family member, as a subsidy or a payoff.
	Those are my tax dollars.
	How did they end up in the Biden's family account?
	No, you're absolutely right.
	It's a good point.
	A great point.
	Let's take a look at Hunter Biden, his background, his qualifications.
	He's thrown out of the military for drugs.
	He's pulled over by the police.
	They found a crack pipe.
	They found multiple driver's licenses.
	They found a badge.
	He's sleeping with his brother's widow.
	He's got that love child down in Louisiana or someplace.
	He's got an ex-wife who said he was a nightmare and he cheated her out of her money.
	I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
	So if you're looking at this, thinking about hiring, do you say, huh?
	This guy should go right to the board of directors.
	Forgot a job.
	Board of directors for this guy.
	Now, think about this.
	He gets out of, I think he went to law school.
	He gets out of law school.
	His first job, he's on the board of directors of Master Charge.
	Danny's on the board of directors of Amtrak.
	Danny's on the board of directors of a Ukraine oil company.
	You know, most people get, where do you start?
	You start as an intern.
	Look at everybody in the room here in the control room.
	Everybody started as an intern, then they were an associate producer, then they're a producer.
	See, you guys don't know what you're doing.
	You should have come right in here and said, I want to be on the board of directors.
	No, intern now.
	Joe Biden's my uncle.
	Yeah, just Joe Biden's drunk.
	Like I started here at iHeart doing 10 to noon, WOR in New York.
	I should have walked in there and said, I want to be on the board of directors of iHeart.
	Here's a kid who never had a job.
	He's on the board of directors of five major corporations.
	Think about this Ukrainian oil company.
	You might say, well, he doesn't, what does he know about oil or energy?
	He doesn't even speak Ukrainian.
	He can't even talk to anybody.
	What if he actually went to the board meeting?
	He wouldn't know one thing they're saying.
	Reuters finally did it.
	No American news organization would do it.
	Reuters looked into what he actually did for the Ukrainian energy company.
	They have documented that in the entire time, the number of years he worked there, he never once set foot in the Ukraine.
	Never went there, never did anything.
	He got $83,000 a month, not $50,000.
	$83,000 a month, plus some $3 million payments, some other payments.
	The total was $8 million for a job where you don't even show up.
	Forget Bezos or Warren Buffett.
	This is an American success story.
	Board of directors of every major company, millions of dollars without ever having a job ever.
	We'll be back.
	We'll take some calls.
	800-941-Sean.
	Don't forget Hannity tonight on the Fox News channel.
	Back in a moment.
	Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
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	Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	I know it came as a surprise to me too, but Sean will be on TV tonight.
	Hannity, as usual, 9 o'clock, Fox News Channel.
	He'll be back here tomorrow.
	You know, when they say the deep state, some people, you'll see some crazy Chuck Todd types make fun of you.
	They'll say, well, deep state, there's no, you know, they act like it's some crazy conspiracy theory that there's a deep state.
	The deep state is a real thing.
	It's an actual thing that exists.
	You can actually go visit the deep state.
	What it means is the permanent government.
	In other words, a president is elected and he appoints his cabinet.
	And each cabinet member appoints all the top people in their department.
	That might be 25 or 30 or 50 people.
	If you're the Secretary of State, you appoint all your deputy secretaries, undersecretaries, top staff people, chief of staff, secretaries.
	But then underneath that are thousands of people in the department.
	In other words, deep down the totem pole.
	Well, those people are permanent.
	They've been there through administration after administration.
	They don't call themselves deep state.
	They call themselves, they actually call themselves the permanent government.
	And I remember when Donald Trump got elected, some of them said to me, I hope he doesn't think he's just going to come in here and do what he wants.
	I said, what do you mean?
	Oh, there's a permanent government here.
	This permanent government runs things.
	And if you look at the numbers in these departments, you know, like this department has 14,000 employees.
	This department has 25,000.
	Department of Defense, I think it's 500,000 employees.
	So this is a big thing, this deep state.
	So Stephen Miller, who, you know, works for the president, today is speaking out about this.
	It's a real threat.
	You know, they always talk about President Trump, a threat to our democracy.
	But he points out this permanent government might be something we have to look at and change.
	It's these deep staters, these permanent government people that are the whistleblowers.
	Normally you'd say, well, whistleblower is a good thing.
	Not when it's trying to just launch a coup and overthrow a president.
	You remember, I don't know if, you know, nobody talks about this.
	President Obama had eight whistleblowers during his eight years.
	And what did he do with the eight whistleblowers?
	He arrested each one of them and prosecuted them for spying.
	I don't hear Chuck Todd mentioning that ever.
	But this permanent government, who was it the other day?
	Oh, Stenny Hoyer.
	You remember they had that meeting with Pelosi and Schumer and Stenny Hoyer, and they thought the president was rude or so they claimed and they walked out of the meeting.
	Steny Hoyer said to the reporters, I've served under six presidents and I've never been treated like that.
	He didn't realize what he was saying.
	You're not supposed to serve under six presidents.
	Serve a few years and leave.
	Go home.
	You know, that was the idea.
	The founding fathers thought you'd be citizen legislators.
	You'd come from the heartland of the country and serve for a few years and go home, not be some old bureaucratic Stenny Hoyer.
	I've served under six presidents.
	Hey, two presidents, maybe.
	Then leave.
	Look at this Chuck Schumer, this useless bureaucrat with his Ben Franklin glasses and his gloomy manner.
	And this Nancy Pelosi, how old is she now?
	She's in her 80s.
	Still there going, go home already.
	Hey, on my Twitter account, I have a clip.
	This is how bad it is.
	Do you remember Johnny Carson?
	He was the greatest late night host ever.
	This is 30 years ago.
	You can go on my Twitter and see this clip.
	It's 30 years ago.
	This Johnny Carson always did a monologue making fun of politicians.
	30 years ago, he's making jokes about how corrupt Joe Biden is.
	This is 1989.
	He's making jokes about how Joe Biden got caught lying.
	30 years later, the guy's running for president.
	You can't get rid of these people.
	It's awful.
	You can never get rid of them.
	So something's got to be done about this.
	Term limits, except they're the ones that would have to pass it.
	Not going to happen.
	Constitutional amendment.
	I don't know if you could ever get it done.
	Hopefully, well, the president will get reelected.
	He'll win 42, 43 states in November of 2020.
	Hopefully that's on the agenda for term two.
	Put in term limits for Congress.
	So we'll see.
	Hillary Clinton.
	I don't know what's going on with this crazy woman.
	Again, talk about can't get rid of.
	It's like herpes that keeps coming back.
	It never goes away.
	Democrats agree with me on this.
	Democrats are up nights trying to figure out how to get rid of this woman.
	She is not okay.
	Oh, God.
	She makes Elizabeth Warren look like fun.
	This Hillary Clinton supposedly, she and her daughter were writing a book.
	In the beginning, it looked like, she's trying to help her daughter with this book.
	So they go on a little book tour.
	It's pretty clear now.
	She's lurking around waiting for Biden to get out of the way.
	I'm just chilling in Cedar Rapids.
	Yeah, so you thought you were done with her.
	She's coming back.
	You're not going to get rid of her.
	So this is, talk about permanent government.
	Talk.
	Oh, you have the Johnny Carson clip?
	Oh, okay.
	This is 30 years ago.
	Listen to this.
	Now, on a political scene, one of the Democratic candidates is Senator Joseph Biden.
	Have you seen the problem he's been having?
	He went around and made a speech, and apparently he quoted a, I think it was a British politician, took his speech and kind of paraphrased it as his own.
	And then the press got on him, and then he was charged also with taking part of Bobby.
	And Biden says, not to worry, he reassured his staff.
	He said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
	Hey, I don't know if you remember this, but he was running for president, got caught plagiarizing a speech.
	He at one point wrote a very touching apology, which got printed, I think in the New York Times.
	Then they found out he plagiarized the apology.
	I don't know if you remember this.
	When he first was in politics, he first termed, he talked about how he went to, he was so proud he went to wherever he went to school on a full scholarship and he graduated top in his class.
	Well, they found out he was like in 95th place in his class.
	He was at the bottom and he never got a full scholarship.
	He's just lying.
	This is 30 years ago.
	Oh, actually, this is 35, 40 years ago.
	He's still lying.
	Here's the New York Times.
	This is how even the New York Times, this is an op-ed piece.
	It's a New York Times op-ed piece about we've got to get rid of them.
	But it says, oh, it says they are not the resistance.
	They are not a cabal.
	They are patriotic public servants.
	Okay, for the first four years, then go home.
	Look at this Chuck Schumer.
	This is, you're not supposed to be there 40 years later.
	You can't get rid of the guy.
	You know, they just, they're going to stay there till they're dead.
	Look at these 85-year-olds in office.
	You're going to have to just take them out on stretchers.
	It's awful.
	Anyway, let's take a call or two.
	Let's go to, who should we take?
	Let's go to Michigan and say hello to Chris.
	Chris, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
	Thanks for taking my call, Mark.
	Hey, you know, it's so good to see Mitt Romney being called by his real name of Pierre DeLecto.
	But I think it's time that we call Adam Schiff by his middle name, Full of Adam Full of Schiff.
	Hey, hey, hey, this is a family show here.
	Be careful.
	No, I said Schiff.
	Okay.
	And his dirty band of nose growers instead of whistleblowers because all they do is lie, lie, lie.
	And I'll tell you what, us people here in Michigan, or I'm speaking for the majority in the last presidential election, we're all in on Trump and we're going to be out and sound the drums once.
	Where are you in Michigan?
	Grand Rafeteria.
	Oh, okay.
	Now, that's a good idea of which way Michigan's going to go.
	That's like a nice cross-section.
	So what do you think?
	What do you hear from people in Grand Rapids?
	Well, I think you've got a lot of conservative people out there that are quiet about it, and they come out.
	We went to a couple of the Trump rallies here when he had them, and there's tons of enthusiasm for our president, but it can never be enough.
	You know, we've got to keep sounding it with the competition we have with the universities that constantly are trying to neutralize that voice and build up the left-wing agenda.
	All right.
	Well, thanks for calling.
	Good call, Chris.
	You know, you see these Trump rallies.
	He's hysterical.
	It's like going to a comedy concert.
	He's the funniest guy in the world.
	He watches these rallies.
	He does an hour and a half, two hours without blinking.
	You ever see these Biden rallies?
	It's 80 people.
	He does five minutes, and even that's a struggle.
	And then you don't see him.
	It's like Hillary.
	He does a little speech.
	Then you don't see him for two weeks.
	He's got to rest up.
	I mean, I don't know what the Democrats are thinking with Biden.
	And if I were them, I'd cancel these debates.
	These debates, it looks like just one wacky character after another.
	It looks like the Adams family when you're watching these debates.
	And I don't know, three or four of these debates.
	I don't know if this is helping the Democratic cause.
	I just wouldn't do them if I were you.
	Just take them off the air.
	Just start them in January or something.
	So you've got all the big primaries, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, early in the year.
	Once again, if the impeachment is on, if they vote impeachment, it goes to the Senate, senators are not allowed to campaign.
	So if you have to, you know, one thing about Iowa, New Hampshire, these kind of primaries, you got to be there.
	You got to be there doing events, town halls, shaking hands.
	If you can't be there, you can't win.
	Six of the candidates are senators.
	This would pull them off the campaign trail.
	Nobody's really taking a look at this and the effect this will have on the election.
	So again, this could be a part of the strategy.
	Maybe Biden's behind this.
	Maybe Hillary's behind this.
	Biden doesn't look like he actually knows where he is right now.
	But maybe these big donors are behind this, pushing this because they want Biden or they want Hillary.
	Donors love these two, as they'll tell you.
	You can wake them up in the middle of the night.
	They'll do anything you want.
	Just keep writing the checks.
	So anyway, we'll take some calls.
	800-941-Sean is the number.
	800-941-Sean.
	Mark Simone here for Sean.
	He'll be on TV tonight, Hannity, as usual, tonight at 9 o'clock on the Fox News channel.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show.
	Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	So you ever go to a drive-through window like at Starbucks, McDonald's?
	I hate that.
	To me, that's awful.
	You should never go to the drive-through window.
	Park your car, get out, and walk in like a normal person.
	Drive-through window.
	So it's just laziness.
	Just lazy.
	I don't want to get out of the car.
	I don't want to walk two feet.
	I'll go through the drive-through window.
	McDonald's is now working on technology where you don't even have to order.
	It knows what you want.
	So when you pull up, it recognizes your car.
	It recognizes you.
	It knows, it's like reading your phone.
	It knows it's you and it analyzes all your orders, everything you've ever ordered, and it can guess what you want.
	So you won't have to order.
	This is the world we're heading into, by the way.
	People are getting lazier and lazier.
	I don't want to walk in.
	I'll go to the drive-through window.
	I don't have to push a button and talk.
	I just want them to hand me my food.
	So they're working on this technology.
	It'll recognize your car as you drive in.
	And then when you get to the window, they'll hand you your food.
	This technology apparently is so sophisticated, it'll take into account the temperature.
	They know you like different things on a hot day, different things on a cold day.
	Depends what time of day what you order.
	If it's morning, they'll know what you like for breakfast.
	This is ridiculous.
	But this is what's happening.
	Look how everybody started shopping online.
	Online shopping comes in because I don't want to go to the store.
	I just want to order it online.
	Next thing you know, you're buying everything online, but I don't want to get my credit card and type the whole number in.
	So they have to invent PayPal.
	So you can just click.
	Oh, my credit card's across the room.
	I don't want to go get it.
	I can't imagine if you come back in 30 years, what's going to be going on?
	There's going to be no phone or anything.
	It'll just be, you think it, it happens.
	Or I mean, how could you get any lazier?
	Do we have time to take a call?
	Yeah, let's take, let's go to Allie in New Jersey.
	Hey, Allie.
	Oh, hi, Mark.
	I'm so thrilled to be talking to you, Mr. New York.
	Really?
	Well, you listen to us.
	You listen to us here in New York on WOR.
	When I can, yes.
	What do you mean when you can?
	Well, sometimes I'm really busy.
	What could be more important?
	What do you mean?
	What are you so busy with?
	Listening to the news and what's happening towards me.
	Oh, okay.
	You can't say what it is.
	All right, go ahead.
	Okay, so my question is this.
	So when Joe Biden was extorting the Ukrainians, threatening to cancel their billion-dollar loan guarantees if they did not fire the prosecutor investigating his son, and the Ukrainians said, oh, you can't do that.
	You don't have the authority to do that.
	Only President Obama can do that.
	And Biden said, well, go call him.
	You got six hours if you don't fire the prosecutor, then you don't get the money.
	My question is: Has anyone checked to see if the Ukrainians actually called away?
	No, you know, that's a very good question.
	Biden is so dumb.
	Why would you confess on video what you did?
	And I told them you're not getting that billion dollars.
	They said, You can't do that.
	You're not the president.
	Oh, yeah.
	Call him.
	Why would you confess to this?
	I don't think they call.
	I think they took them seriously.
	But, oh, I hate to say it.
	Are we out of time?
	One minute?
	This again?
	Yeah, I don't know what it is at the end of the hour.
	I get confused.
	You know, it's at the bottom of the hour.
	Perfect.
	Time it out exactly.
	End of the hour.
	Oh, I'm like Joe Biden at the end of the hour.
	I don't know where I am.
	Go to Mark30330.
	It's like Joe Biden.
	You know, he starts off with the answer.
	Brilliant.
	One sentence, another sentence.
	Brilliant by the third sentence.
	I'm out of time.
	Jobs.
	J-O-B-S.
	Jobs.
	So I think we stalled long enough.
	Now we're out of time.
	That's good.
	See, there's the music.
	There you go.
	Oh, I love when I hear that music.
	Anyway, Sean will be back tomorrow, and he'll be on tonight on TV.
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