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America and the World on the Brink in Latin live free or America dies.
And that is exactly how I feel.
This is now, this is now going to be reduced to the single biggest choice, referendum election, tipping point election in the history, frankly, of mankind.
And now I guess we finally now know what Joe meant when he said he's going to transform America.
We now know, rewrite the economy.
We now know a lot that we didn't know before.
Anyway, happy Friday.
You get to be the ultimate jury in 116 days.
Rumors running rampant now.
It's pretty much almost sounds like a fate accompli on the uh on at least the commutation for Roger Stone.
Um asked the president last night, we'll have part of that interview coming up later today.
Uh, you know, if our system of justice, because he's scheduled to he's scheduled to go to prison.
Why do you think they put Paul Manafort?
Paul Manafort's case was dead for years.
Dead and buried, done.
Investigation complete, no reason to pursue it.
You know, then we get into uh Alexander Tupa and the DNC operative, and let's see, meetings at the Ukrainian embassy to dig up dirt.
Politico reported this in early of January 2017.
You know, why to dig up dirt from Ukrainian officials so that they can take down Trump and his associates?
Well, that's why it was dragged out of mouthballs.
Why do you think that for process crimes, for tax crimes, that you know, they're sending in, you know, the pre-dawn raid of Manafort's house?
Why do you think they dumped Paul Manafort in solitary confinement at his age for such a long time?
Well, it's not hard to figure out, is it?
They were trying to get him to sing, you know, to you know, tell us what we want to hear, and we'll give you this card.
It's like um, if you've ever heard of the American Express, they have this so-called prestigious black card, centurion card it's called, and it weighs like 100, 10,000 pounds.
And, you know, it's like a get out of jail free card.
You know, it's amazing.
It what it's so obvious what they were doing.
This is what they do.
This by the way, that process, whereby, and I know it's been used in cases involving the mob over the years, and I'm probably the most egregious example of it, is Sammy the Bull Gravano.
And, you know, to get Sammy the Bull to turn on, I guess at the time, I think it was John Gotti.
Um, I'm not as my friend Curtis Leewood loves this stuff.
I'm I don't follow it that closely.
But at the time, you know, to get him to turn what he had committed, I think I read 19 murders when they suspected him and 19 murders or admitted to such.
You know, he gets the witness protection program and a new life in Arizona.
And meanwhile, we're gonna trust the credibility of a guy that got it get out of jail free card.
It's madness.
Well, the whole idea is, you know, well, if you sign this, if you say this, then uh you get it get out of jail free card.
Now that is something of great value and worth.
It's called your liberty and your freedom.
And the whole idea that you intimidate with a pre-dawn raid, I mean, let's say that Durham eventually gets around to applying the same standards of justice to Comey and McCabe and Strzok and Paige and Brennan and Clapper, maybe.
Uh, are we gonna see pre-dawn raids?
Are they gonna tip off the Fox News channel cameras?
The case of Roger Stone, 29 guys in practice and in tactical gear, pre-dawn raid, CNN cameras just happened to be awake and present at that moment.
They weren't tipped off.
Why?
To intimidate Roger Stone.
By the way, they could have looked up that all they had to do, this was a process crime lying to Congress.
Okay, so you say to the attorney, report at 8 a.m. or we're issuing a warrant for his arrest.
And then you could monitor local airports or monitor where he's gonna be, and maybe have one cop if you're really worried outside the house, or what you can do all sorts of things.
You don't break you don't have 29 guys in tactical gear, frog men, and you don't tip off, you know, CNN cameras about a raid because it's too intimidate.
And if Roger Stone, he said it right here on this program.
If he would have said, if he would he said if I would have lied, I all of this would have gone away.
And he goes, I don't my soul won't let me lie like that.
You got to admire him.
Then we have General Flynn.
Now, what's the goal here?
That case was dead.
But then it was brought alive in the Oval Office of Barack Obama with Joe Biden mentioning the Logan Act of 1799 that has never resulted in any successful prosecution.
It's all crap.
And Obama saying, make sure our people get on this.
So maybe we shouldn't tell them anything about this.
He's up to his eyeballs.
Sally Yates testify to the House Intel Committee.
I was stunned that Obama was up to his eyeballs and knew everything about the Flynn Kisley Act call.
You know, that was the surveillance and the illegal unmasking and the releasing of Raw and Televis uh intelligence.
That case was still dead after an investigation.
And then they decided, okay, well, um, well, it looks like you know, the Kisliak call is fine, even Comey said that, but you know, then we know what happened on day four of the Trump administration.
What was that, 19 days after that White House uh oval office meeting?
Susan Rice was there, and she went back 15 days later, and on the day Trump was inaugurated, and Obama said do everything by the book.
Do everything by the book.
So Papadopoulos, they withheld exculpatory information.
They withheld exculpatory information on Flynn.
One of the greatest travesties of injustice.
It just is so corrupt at every level.
And that's why we anxiously hope and await that Barr, we've got we've got the FBI.
There was no equal justice or equal application of our laws as it relates to Hillary Clinton and and our violation of 18 U.S. uh CE 793, the espionage act with a private server with top secret and classified information on it.
You know, it's called obstruction of justice.
If you delete subpoenaed emails and use bleach pit and bust up devices with hammers, you know, all the talk about well, we care about Russia collusion, collusion collusion.
Turns out the only one colluding with the Russians was Adam Schiff on tape, sounding like a fool.
Uh, yeah, we got competent in the material than Donald Trump.
Yeah, that's did Vladimir see it.
But of course, Vladimir see the competent bombus of I uh see the compliment.
Yeah, he's on tape.
Why thinks he's talking to a Russian, the dumbass, and and you know, then we have the whole Schiff show that follows.
Think they cared about obstruction with Trump?
No, because they already didn't care about Hillary's obstruction, they only cared if it happened to Trump.
They don't care about Hillary's dirty Russian dossier.
We now know Russian disinformation, which kind of erases the phony media mob narrative that in fact uh it was Donald Trump colluding.
There was four investigations, no evidence of any collusion with Russia whatsoever.
General Flynn did nothing wrong.
Well, then why did he admit, you know, that he lied?
And the FBI didn't think he lied.
Because he lost his house.
You don't get rich when you serve in the military.
It's called service.
You're serving.
You choose that, you don't choose a job as a cop or a teacher or a fireman or uh the military for money.
It's a calling.
And he spent he put his life in harm's way, 33-year veteran.
And he was in war zones for a good part of that time.
But he basically said, Well, we're gonna offer your son something, uh, we'll have to go after your son then if you don't sign it.
All right, well, what would any good father do?
I know what I would do.
I'd like, or at least I like to think I do, I'd just say, okay, I'll impale myself.
Where do I dive?
You know, just just show me where I need to impale myself, you know, instead of threatening my children because you're abusing your power.
And now, you know, that do we believe in a system where every American should have a fair and impartial jury?
Do we believe in that or not?
Because in the Roger Stone case, there's no more flagrant abuse of power.
It's that simple.
And that is the jury for person, prior to getting on that jury, made it very clear publicly she hated Roger Stone, Donald Trump, and anybody that liked Donald Trump.
We have this process.
It's called the jury questionnaire form.
You know, nobody seems to want to investigate.
Did she lie on that form?
I haven't seen it yet.
Then when he appeals, rightly, that was not a fair and impartial jury.
You know, so now the president's like, what do I do?
You know, so I'm here.
That's getting very loud, but that, you know, commuting the sentence would be the least of it.
All these people, in my opinion, need pardons.
I'd even argue what they did to Mike Michael Cohn, who lied about me saying I was his client.
Not particularly happy with that because it was never true.
He did apologize to me.
I'll give him credit.
And, you know, but even in that case, you know, they put the screws to you in the hopes that you're gonna say what they want to say and they offer you something of great value.
That's just that that can't happen in this country.
By the way, in the British court case, it revealed that Christopher Steele knew he was working for Hillary.
Did you know that?
Red State uh CBS Catherine Herrich just killing it with her reporting.
Amazing reporting.
Information continued to come through.
The British lawsuit against Steele by two Russian bankers.
Steele has now been ordered to pay the damages to the bankers for his inaccurate, misleading material in the dossier, Catherine Heridge observes.
The court findings could play a role in the Durham investigation.
And Mr. Steele's evidence, the judge writes in this case, Mr. Steele's evidence is now that he now believes the ultimate client was the Democratic National Committee and submits that the ultimate client was the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign.
Oh, Borden paid for Russian propaganda, misinformation, dirty dossier.
That then Comey three times, and Yates did it, and Buentes did it, and Rod Rosenstein premeditated fraud on the Pfizer court.
Where are the indictments?
Where are they?
Director Ray, where are you?
It's just your silence is sickening and it's deafening at this point.
Anyway, so the appeals uh court has put the Flynn case dismissal on hold because this crazy judge Emmett Sullivan just, you know, the allows this injustice to go on in perpetuity or so he's hoping to have happen.
Uh on other notes before we get to crazy Joe Biden in a second.
I saw this in the Epic Times, and the U.S. Army is now investigating a message sent to Army personnel that claimed, quote, make America great and celebrating Columbus Day are forms of white supremacy, according to the Epic Times.
The message was sent by a member of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Center.
I believe this was Redstone Arsenal, according to a friend of mine, and my old stomping rounds in Huntsville.
Anyway, um, and it included a uh government email address according to the Epic Times and a diagram outlying various forms of quote covert white supremacy and anti-diversity offenses, including making how does he say making America great again?
We want the country great again.
How did the president define making America great?
Record low unemployment for every demographic group in the country.
Isn't that what we want?
A successful uh well, first we want a safe and secure country for every American, a good educational system for every American child.
We want an America where you know city blocks aren't taken over by anarchists, where police aren't pelted with rocks and bricks and bottles and Molotov cocktails and precincts burned to the ground or precincts taken hostage, or a Chaz Chob zone or summer love zone where innocent people like Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. get killed,
and then the police have to beg to go in and offer medical help, or what happened in Atlanta at the Wendy's that was burned to the ground, and then that whole city block surrounded by their own autonomous zone.
That resulted in the death of an eight-year-old kid.
They don't do anything.
Sad.
Anyway, so that's what it's saying.
Uh I'm you know, I don't know.
I mean, in 116 days, all of this is on the line.
We'll get to uh all of this.
We'll get to Joe Biden's big reveal week.
This is not gonna end well for him.
You know, with all the talk about the polls, what do we say?
So at some point, Joe has to speak.
And he's gonna have to have an agenda.
Now he's adopted the most radical extreme, you know, enemy of of the people, the police.
The Bolshevik Bernie Sanders socialist utopia, the AOC New Green Deal stupidity.
That's Joe's agenda.
You get to decide in 116 days.
Oh no, I'm looking at my screen here.
Uh well, you know, just we'll get back to the news in a second.
Pearl is in Brooklyn.
Uh Pearl, we've known her mom for I don't know, it goes back how many decades?
And I'm reading your mom passed away.
Yes, yes, Sean.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Hannah was your mom's name, and she was a Holocaust survivor.
Yes.
Loved your mom.
She was an amazing, she was so amazing.
Amazing woman.
We lost a wonderful, wonderful woman.
And Han, my mother was your first number one fan since the first day.
You wrote about her in your book, Deliver Us from Eve.
I did.
Yes, you did.
And I want to thank you.
And by the way, I remember she took over the microphone one night.
Yes, she did.
At the rainbow room.
Yes.
She stood up and she said, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for joining Sean Hannity here tonight.
He is the great friend to Israel.
And she got two standing ovations.
Yeah.
I remember.
Um, there are some people in life, the people that I admire most, they have been through the roughest, the most difficult, the hardest times.
Yes.
And that was your mom.
But she came through it with a harder goal, but also with a passion that we never ever allow such evil to exist again.
Thank you.
I'm so sorry about your loss.
It's a loss for the program.
Um she's in a better place.
And that I believe.
You know, I believe that too, Sean.
I believe that.
She's um, you know, there I'm not one of them.
I'm I'm like one of the people that you know needs the forgiveness type of a Christian, right?
And this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
Yes.
I write a lot about it in my new book coming out, but you're you're in our prayers, your mom's in our prayers, your whole family's in our prayers.
Well, my now my heart's troubled on a Friday.
We'll continue.
All right, 25 till the uh top of the hour, just like 25 days to live free or die, America and the world on the brink.
So uh Kenneth Vogel is uh, I guess is what is where is he with the New York Toilet Paper Times?
Anyway, he just apparently an excerpt uh from my TV show in an interview with Joe DeGenova, uh, that apparently Rod Rosenstein flagged for the Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz.
Uh Linda, you've had more time to look at this than I. I have no idea what I don't even remember the segment.
I don't remember what I said yesterday.
Um, but I can tell you the record of every president since Jimmy Carter.
Um, but in all seriousness, well, that's kind of an interesting thing because there are other instances where I know for a fact that Rod Rosenstein was less than complimentary to yours, truly.
And he was kind of known to have this pretty vicious temper, according to direct reports from people who were uh there when it happened.
Um, you know, it it's amazing.
You it it I don't even bring up that, you know, for example, things that go on in in life that that go on in this world we're living in.
I mean, I don't know, does it matter to anybody that what there were 45 pages of 302s of Muller's pit bulls out there questioning people about Sean Hannity?
Why?
Because I'm a member of the press and I do my job and I was doing the job the rest of the media ignored.
You're that interested in in what I had to say to any of the people that I might have might have or not have had.
I'll neither confirm nor deny any sources I ever have.
And I'll take those to the grave.
They'd be so interested.
Then they release what did that judge, the man of it and Roger Stone judge release what?
What was it?
1400, 1100, 1200 of my personal text messages.
All I can tell you was 57 pages.
Yeah, 57 pages.
You know, I thought we thought Democrats believed in a right to quote privacy.
See, I think this is a little bit different, Sean.
I gotta be honest with you.
I think a I think this is all about them eavesdropping to see how much you know about their own corruption.
Because all these guys are complicit and they're a part of it.
So they want to know how much you know.
Oh, listen, I know somebody who's in the room, Rod Rosenstein threw a fit at the very mention of my name.
And how is it that I could even be on television and radio?
Had a fit, a meltdown.
Well, because everything we've reported is true.
Now confirmed by the inspector general.
Now confirmed by every single bit of new evidence we've gotten.
We got the whole thing right.
We didn't get any of it wrong.
The people that were wrong was the 99.9% of media that loves, you know, the ever, well, let's say corrupt and uh confuse Joe Biden.
Um anyway, so we have Seattle City Council, they've now backed a 50% cut in the police.
You got Comrade de Blasio saying that, you know, if there's ever a question that where the mayor and his political agenda is in all of this, the biggest screw up in New York City and state and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Michigan on coronavirus.
Now it's, you know, the lawlessness cutting a billion dollars from the NYPD, but de Blasio is going to allow Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through the city streets while the city's canceling all other large events through September.
And then he said that the calls for social justice are just way too important to stop after more than a month of demonstrations.
And then Comrade de Blasio, I guess in front of Trump Tower, they I guess on the street pavement, you know, they they I guess stenciled in or painted in the words black lives matters.
And again, I make a distinction between the group, which I was on tape chanting, what do we want dead cops?
When do we want them now?
And pigs in a blanket and fry them like bacon, with you know, there were some honest protesters that use the word, but they're not part of the group.
But you know, when when you have a rise of violence such as we are having in New York City that is beyond scary, um, you have to wonder uh maybe we should cake maybe we should keep the city safe and secure first.
Just an idea.
You know, we have an election coming up, Bo in 116 days.
I would think if right now, if I'm the mayor of Chicago, if I'm the mayor of New York City, if I'm the governor of New York State, the governor of Illinois, if I'm the governor of uh Washington State, I'm governor of California, I think the most important thing right now, Atlanta, mayor of Atlanta, I'm thinking I gotta keep the citizens in my city safe and secure.
And even in New York City, he got booed.
Meaning Comrade De Blasio did.
The Utah governors now declared a state of emergency due to civil unrest there.
Seattle City Council, as I said, they're gonna defund the police by 50%.
Seattle police ice cream parlors apparently are barring police from carrying guns.
They'll make their own laws, I guess.
Maryland Governor uh Hogan is disgusted by Baltimore councilman's comments on possibly removing a police statute.
Black Lives Matter, apparently, you know.
This was in the Washington Times today, quoted our friend Larry Elder.
And he went, but Larry Elder said, quote, in this article, more people have been shot and killed in Chicago at this point in 2020 than in 2019, despite two months of stay-at-home directives.
He said, Where is Black Lives Matter when you need them?
Well, we got the answer.
I'll play it later in the show with Don Lemon saying, no, no, the group Black Lives Matter is only against, you know, what only against when police are involved in the killing of an African American.
And I'm like, why shouldn't it be all encompassing?
And this was the point that Horace Lorenzo Anderson was making to me in this this heartfelt interview I had with him last week.
And he's right.
And the father that lost a seven-year-old daughter that was making to Lawrence Jones on our program this week.
And that father's right.
And it's just simple basic common sense.
There is no pursuit of happiness.
There, there is no equal justice if you don't live in a neighborhood that is safe and secure.
If you want to talk about the ladder to Success.
Well, if you have the failed educational system and you have lack of lack of security, you know, and safety in your own town or city, there's no pursuit of happiness.
You rip away the rungs in the ladder.
And that's what's happened after decades of democratic rule in these cities and in these states.
I mean, it's getting scarier and scarier and scarier, and you know, it's you know, now we're gonna get rid of the police.
How do people think this is gonna end here?
How do you think this is gonna end?
Culminating now, this was in St. Petersburg, uh, Florida, amid calls for police reform there.
Um, they announced yesterday that nonviolent calls in Tampa and St. Pete to the police are gonna be handled by, quote, social workers rather than uniformed officers.
Okay, I don't I don't expect that that's gonna work out well either.
Anyway, the social workers will respond, you know, when people are intoxicated or overdose.
Well, some people intoxicated can be very violent.
In case I I know that from my years of bartending.
People in mental health crisis, suicide, people that are suicidal or homeless people or neighbor disputes or disorderly kids.
And okay, send in the social workers.
We'll send in the psychiatrist.
I'm not so sure that that's gonna work out well.
My gut tells me it's not.
Minneapolis businesswoman, I'm left alone.
I have nothing after the riots, destroyed her hair salon.
Now a city council member in Seattle, you know, she's she says that, well, okay, let's have CHOP USA.
You know, she's coming to overthrow the racist sexist system of capitalism.
Pretty much the Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez unity ticket, Pelosi and Schumer ticket.
Um de Blasio denied New York plan uh would place the NYP under the control of an independent panel.
Even New York lawmakers are scared to death of how dumb De Plasio is.
And, you know, he would lose the authority over the NYPD under the state attorney general's plan.
Never been a fan of the state attorney general, but certainly has a lot more sense than de Blasio.
And meanwhile, of course, Cuomo and De Blasio, they just keep fighting every other day.
But that's the state of things, and that's basically the state of where we're going to be and what's a you know, what is now front and center in terms of what's at stake in this election.
I mean, we now have the full proposal.
What transforming America, Biden means.
I guess that means, yeah, we're gonna defund the police.
You know, it was his statement, not mine.
It was Joe's statement about, you know, they now become the enemy of the people.
Uh surplus military equipment for law enforcement.
They don't need that.
The last thing you need is an up armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood.
It's like the military invading.
They don't know anybody.
They become the enemy.
They're supposed to be protecting these people.
So my generic point is that we agree that we can redirect some of the funding.
Yes.
Absolutely.
And one of the things that we also need to be doing is fundamentally changing the way, and I've been pushing it for years, changing the way we deal with our prison system.
So you got this new hundred and ten-page document, basically the entire radical extreme Bolshevik Bernie Sanders' plan for America, the Unity Task Force summary, as they call it.
And, you know, it's kind of funny because Joe Biden's known for plagiarism.
Neil Kinnock in the 1980s, he had to end his presidential campaign then when he was caught per literally plagiarizing word for word, then later plagiarizing Robert Kennedy, and then even accused of plagiarizing a paper in law school.
Now he's trying to, you know, talk about American manufacturing at home when they said that, well, those jobs ain't coming back.
Uh now he's trying to say, you know, take on, we got to increase manufacturing.
Now he's what, gonna plagiarize Donald Trump?
We already have his eight years record.
We already have the 125-year record of failure of Pelosi and Schumer and Biden.
You know, 93, okay, Ocasio-Cortez, top advisor, 93 trillion dollar new Green Deal.
Okay, how are we gonna afford that?
Then we're gonna have free paid medical leave, free housing, broad student loan forgiveness.
How stupid, Linda.
We we've been stupid all these years.
I pay it off my student loan.
Aren't you still paying off student loans?
Oh, yeah.
Plenty of that going around.
You get the you're gonna get a universal health care you always dreamed of.
How did it work out the last time Joe and Barack tried it?
Nothing.
Even if you don't, even if you don't want it, you're going to pay the penalty.
And you get amnesty for 11 plus million illegal immigrants will become the United Sanctuary states of America.
You know, prevent ICE from deporting even criminal illegal immigrants when they get out of jail.
And like Ethan said, so now we can't have guns and we can't have police.
So uh good luck protecting yourself and your family.
And Biden wants to outlaw the right to work.
Oh, what?
That's a nod to the unions.
Force you to join a union whether you want to or not.
So much for freedom of choice.
He wants to eliminate cash bail.
How done?
I mean, you you have bank robbers in New York, thanks to Governor Cuomo's another brilliant decision of his.
Yeah, you have no bail.
Bank robbers would be caught by police, brought to the booked, you know, get fingerprinted, and then they're released.
No bail.
Then they go out and commit another bank robbery and get caught again and released again.
What did that one guy he did five separate times?
They kept releasing him out there to go rob banks.
I guess they're encouraging all of this.
So now we know what it means to transform America.
And you know, for Bernie to say you'll be the most progressive candidate in history.
Everything that we believe in terms of capitalism and free markets and the greatest wealth-producing system of governance ever created that brings out every God-given talent and ability people have.
The only people stopping that from happening is those, you know, states that have been run by Democrats for decades that have allowed the educational system to be destroyed.
You know, that we should have fixed that.
We should fix that.
We know what Biden meant about transforming America now.
And that means, yeah, enemy of the people.
Great.
What did he do after Ferguson and after Baltimore?
Because we saw police, you know, taking on those that were involved in the unrest in those cities.
They didn't do anything.
As I keep saying, it was criminal justice reform.
You know, he was out there saying things like, you know, oh, integration, I don't want my kids in a racial jungle, and using the word predators and his mentor and you know, Hillary's mentor and and Bill Clinton's mentor and Schumer and Pelosi's mentor, the former Klansman that filibusted the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act 6465.
It took the vast majority of Republicans to get those bills passed.
Nothing Republicans ever get credit for.
You know, especially every two and four years when, you know, those ads come flying out that just accuse Republicans of every in, you know, everything racism, sexism, misogyny, you know, dirty air water, the whole list I give you.
You know, it's uh pretty amazing.
Pretty amazing.
Worried his own kids would grow up in a quote, racial jungle, he said.
Can you believe that?
What if Donald Trump said that?
Trashing law enforcement, referring to the police.
They're now viewed as the enemy of the people.
Wow.
And he's, yeah, I'm gonna re- I'm gonna redirect funding.
Well, what are you gonna do if that happens to you?
In St. Petersburg, now we're gonna what?
No longer respond to emergency calls.
We'll send in the social workers.
Another brilliant idea.
You know, you look at everything from this combating climate crisis, environmental justice, uh, reforming our criminal justice system, eliminating the police, defunding the police.
You know, all of the, you know, the all of the promises that everything in the world is free.
Joe Biden's bought it all and taking it on, hook, line, and sinker.
And I'm not sure he has the mental alertness, the strength and stamina to be president.
So then that is, okay, well, we got to look at the people around them.
Well, he made the deal with Bernie Sanders, the Bolshevik guy that actually honeymooned in the former Soviet Union, and the squad leader, which is Ocasio Cortez on the new Green Deal.
So I would assume they'll be advising him.
Critical laws like the pro actors, transit collective bargaining.
Um politics like prevailing and Lord.
I guess I'm I'm getting I'm I'm taking too much time, but we're gonna have a breathtaking opportunity to create good paying union jobs.
Deliver the promise of America to Americans who've been denied it for much too long to rewrite our economy.
So the prosperity flows not just the CEOs, but the workers who actually build the country.
Uh surplus military equipment for law enforcement.
They don't need that.
The last thing you need is an up armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood that's like the military invading.
They don't know anybody.
They become the enemy.
They're supposed to be protecting these people.
So my generic point is uh we agree that we can redirect some of the funding.
Yes.
Uh absolutely.
And one of the things that we also need to be doing is fundamentally changing the way, and I've been pushing it for years, changing the way we deal with our prison system.
You have reached the 911 police emergency line.
Due to your defunding of the police department, we're sorry, but no one is here to take your call.
Leave your name and number, and someone will get back to you.
Our estimated wait time is currently five days.
Goodbye.
All right, that uh ad has been resonating big time around the country.
But you think about it, and and Biden's comments this week about uh oh, the police have become the enemy, and you know, uh where was he when all of all of the the incidents that was were occurring in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and elsewhere around the country.
Where where was Joe?
You know, all of this is just, you know, Pablo at the end of the day.
Um and what transforming America, what does that mean?
Rewrite our economy, what does that all mean?
Well, now we have some insight into it all, thanks to this, you know, unity task force, and of course now AOC is advising him on the new Green Deal issues.
Uh John Kerry is in there helping, you know, climate uh uh combating the climate crisis, pursuing environmental justice, uh reforming our criminal justice system.
What?
So we'll do what they're doing down in Tampa Bay, Florida, and we're gonna send in social workers instead of police.
How's that gonna work out for everybody?
I'm I I'm I'm not a graduate of MIT or Harvard, but uh I think a little bit of common sense goes a long way here.
It's not gonna work well.
Then of course the full-blown uh acceptance of all things socialism as outlined by Bernie Sanders, pretty much the exact same thing.
And on every level, trans I guess that's what it means to transform the country.
It's it's unbelievable.
None of it's affordable.
These are false promises, as I say in 25 days from now, when I release my new book, Live Free or America Dies really, the America and the world on the brink, live free or die.
You know, I d I go through socialism and its entire disgusting, repulsive, power grabbing, false promises and failure.
A history of failure.
And then you you read that chapter after having read the chapter about the 2020 Democratic agenda, and you begin to realize, oh my God, this is exactly what they promised all uh in every instance of failure.
It can't succeed.
Anyway, joining us our polls, we have uh John McLaughlin and Matt Towery with us.
Uh welcome both of you to the uh program.
Uh Matt, let me start with you and let's start with that ad, because I'm telling you, uh, if we don't have law and order and safety and security, and we have this defunding of the police, we see this this rapid rise in murder and crime and arson and you know, Chaz and Chop zones resulting in disaster.
You don't have any opportunity to pursue your dreams and pursue happiness.
That should be the number one fun fundamental role of any government official to keep its citizenry safe.
Well, Sean, let me give you the tale of two cities and and explain why this ad really is resonating and in swing states.
I left yesterday, my home in St. Petersburg, Florida, to come to my hometown of Atlanta where you used to broadcast, and people still know you well.
And as I left St. Petersburg, my neighbors are all writing me, telling me that the uh mayor and the police department there had decided that they would uh no longer answer any nonviolent crimes.
They would send social workers and other individuals beginning October first.
Now I have good friends in that area too.
I'm not putting people down, but I can tell you my neighbors and my friends, many of whom aren't political, we're All over the phone, upset, worried.
They don't know how that's going to work, and the fact a lot of the people they're talking about can still be very violent without being classified as violent.
Then I get to Atlanta, Georgia, which is a town that's on that's absolutely on edge because of the massive number, large number of murders that have taken place in this city since all of the uh civil unrest started, and the fact that it's it's become uh something that's really out of control.
The governor has the um uh the National Guard activated.
The president's ad that he has is hitting that tone right now.
And I believe it's not for political reasons that I say this, but I'm saying that ad is touching both small cities and and areas like St. Petersburg, 200,000 people and big areas like Atlanta, where you have millions of people in the same vein, and that's an amazing thing to have happen in 45 days.
And your take on all of that, John McLaughlin.
Well, I think I uh the bottom line is that ad is very effective.
Um campaign has done a great job with that.
Uh and uh and again, I'm part of the campaign, but at the end of the end of uh June, we did a survey for uh McLaughlin Online.com poll and we put it up, and 57% to 30%, the majority of Americans oppose defunding the police.
And Biden was ducking it then.
And the reason they oppose is 68% of all voters think it's gonna increase crime in the country.
And they're not wrong.
It must be even higher now.
So Biden can no longer duck this.
This week you played the audio.
Biden said this week, crazy.
We drew him out from the basement, and he said the police have become the enemy.
And he said that uh that he support that he he said yes when he was asked if he would shift money from the police.
The president has had a really good couple weeks.
I mean, the battle over the monuments, which is more than a battle over monuments, it's changing history and changing our freedoms and values.
And and I I actually love the president's idea on a garden of heroes, which would be Americans from all backgrounds, all race colors, and and all the great contributors to our uh the the greatest country on earth and and some of our most courageous uh uh heroes over the many decades.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Yes.
And they and and you're right because those that's about freedom and about our values.
And when you look at it, he the Mount Rushmore speech was right on, the 911 is right on.
Uh and and Biden has now, we thought he was the moderate that was stopping so uh uh Sanders and socialism.
No, he just signed a 110-page manufest manifesto that he's gonna enact their socialist policies.
And the president got exactly right today when he, you know, when he was heading down to to Florida to speak at the command.
Uh he was talking about the far left and the differences that that are there.
And what's interesting, most interesting, one of those skewed liberal polls that had us down by 10 last month, was taken July 4th and uh July 3rd, July 4th over the weekend, and it was done for uh the Hill Harris X had us nationally within four points, and it's registered voters, not likely voters, it's not necessarily skewed our way.
Let me tell you, the race is closing fast, and it's because of this.
And you know, I uh look, I don't think Donald Trump polls well.
We've all agreed with all of that.
But to me, everything that has happened now is a game changer here.
Um, you know, it was interesting.
We I had an update with Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr.
He lost his son, uh Horace Lorenzo uh Anderson Jr.
You know, he was shot in the the summer of love Chaz Chop Autonomous Zone, Spaghetti Potluck Dinners Zone out in Seattle.
And the president was the first politician to call this poor man.
The mayor never called him.
He didn't get a chance to even even identify his son's body.
Uh that was the first shooting that took place.
That was the night the police and first responders, Matt Towery had to get on bullhorns.
Let me play it for you.
They had to beg the anarchists, please.
We're we're only here to offer help and medical help to people that desperately need it.
Listen.
Please move out of the way so we can get to the victim.
All we're trying to do is get to the victim and provide the need.
Please allow us to get fired in the area to provide the need.
You know, uh Matt Howry, I mean, uh I that it you're if you don't have fundamental safety, and you're allowing the anarchists to take over city blocks and streets.
The same thing happened in Atlanta.
I mean, the mayor of Atlanta, we we reported on it a week and a half prior to this, guys with their AR-15s in the parking lot of the burned down Wendy's where the Ray Shard Brooks incident took place.
And they're there with all these guys.
They let them take over a city street.
Um a mom just happened to drive in the wrong direction, and a an eight-year-old kid is murdered in the back of the car because they're allowing us to go on.
And and Sean, again, I alluded to when you were in Atlanta.
When you're in Atlanta, you knew a good number of civil rights leaders like I did, Andy Young, Jose Owayo.
I I came to love these guys.
I mean, we didn't agree politically, but Maynard Jackson welcomed the be to town the first day I was in the city.
Well, and we respected the way they did things because they did not let violence.
They were truly nonviolent disciples.
And that's critical in the in any movement.
This has now become something that none of those individuals would have anything to do with.
When you start having murders and you have uh mayhem and people taking over areas of the city, I mean they truly are scared in Atlanta.
I mean, it is a scary town right now.
So I to your point, the impact this has politically as a pulse or I have to go back to the numbers.
John's absolutely right.
I feel a shift in this race occurring.
And I think that shift is because of this very issue.
And when Joe Biden decides to take the sort of position he takes in order to appease the left, and we talked about this a long time ago, it he he in the long run is making it more difficult for him to answer these these issues as this continues.
And I I alluded earlier to the sort of the the fact that this is spreading from big cities to smaller cities, and you're seeing immediate ramifications.
And you're going to start people see people all over this country where this is taking place and where the police are standing back and or they're being asked to give up certain rights or not be involved.
And people who don't usually get involved in politics or don't care are going to start saying, what is going on in my neighborhood and my community?
And that is something that will be a game changer in this race.
So now we've got to look at the states that any Republican that ever wants to be president must win.
Florida, obviously, John McLaughlin.
Georgia, a must-win.
North Carolina, a must-win.
Uh then you've got to look Ohio, another must-win.
No Republican is ever made it to the White House without the great state of Ohio.
Then you got to look at Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, maybe m maybe Minnesota this time.
Who knows?
You got to make sure you win Arizona.
That's so that seems to be getting tighter, more tight than I would prefer.
Uh look at Nevada, New Mexico, New Hampshire, and the main second congressional district is way more important than anybody could ever know because that could tip the balance literally by the one electoral vote in the end.
Right.
And and by the way, the the states that you're listing out here, but first let me compliment you.
I saw that that in uh that interview that you did with the uh the poor father who lost his son from the shooting, and it was really powerful TV, really amazing powerful TV, because no one's doing any marches, no one's getting out the facts that they're losing these young children that are getting killed across America now because of the situation.
And uh uh and you're also your interview with the president last night was extremely extremely well done and powerful.
But those states that you go into, all those polls that you quoted, those are the same polls had us losing four years ago that we couldn't win after Hillary had an electoral lock.
And none of these polls have been coming back, you know, they haven't been done after all these things that are going on with these issues and the president's uh they don't wouldn't have a speeches, they wouldn't have the five million jobs report from last week.
And what you're gonna see is just like four years ago, these these when no one thought we could run, you know, that kind of a straight to win the election to win all these close states.
The president did that because he worked his butt off and the people agreed with him.
And that's gonna happen again right now because you're seeing it when Matt's seeing it, he's seeing it in the cities, you're seeing it, and the voters in those areas, they're gonna come around to it and they're gonna see the contrast between the radical left and the president.
There's no doubt about it.
Stay right there.
Matt Towery and John McLaughlin are pollsters 800, 941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program, your your calls in the next half hour.
All right, our final moments with our polls, John McLaughlin, Matt Towery.
All right, the states that I mentioned, I won't reiterate them, all must-wins, I think, for the president.
Where do you see this race headed in 116 days, Matt Towery?
Well, I think that uh you're going to start seeing some of these states that the Democrats think they have in the bag.
Uh, Florida, I don't think Florida is going to go Democrat.
I think it's going to go Republican.
Georgia is more iffy.
North Carolina is on the edge.
But I think some of these other states where uh the president did well last time, he could do them better this next time, partially because you're going to see again this hidden vote that won't say it's voting for Donald Trump, but will somehow surprise everyone on election day.
And your final word, uh John McLaughlin.
The voters are about to see uh have to answer the question are you better off are you and will you be safe in Joe Biden's America?
And they won't be because the radical left is running this guy for president.
So those states are coming around, and Matt feels it, and you should you feel it.
And uh we've just got to keep pushing and running like an underdog to have a simple room.
Listen, always play like you're behind.
You got uh literally it's the two-minute drill, you have no timeouts, you're on your own 20, you gotta march down the field 80 yards, you gotta cross the plane, and you gotta kick the extra point to win.
And by the way, Linda has no idea what I just said.
But that's that's how you got to view this race.
Every vote will matter.
And if these plans are implemented, America uh literally it will be the most precipitous, dramatic decline in world history.
It will it it'll make America unrecognizable.
No oil and gas.
Genius idea, no police, another genius idea.
All right, thank you both.
When we come back, we'll hit the phones on this Friday.
We'll also get into this law in order issue with Bernie Carrick and Sergeant uh Demetric uh Penny's gonna join us and much more as we continue on this Friday.
All right, wait, we have some announcements.
I don't know if it'll be as early as next week, but announcements on Live Free or Die, America and the World on the Brink, and of course, in Latin, live free or America dies.
You think we're kidding?
Just look at law and order.
No police.
Uh, yeah, that's a really genius idea.
How do you think that's gonna work out?
Bernie's socialist utopia.
Well, I have a whole chapter in the book about uh socialism and its history of failure.
Now, well, no, it succeeded in some instances.
No, it hasn't.
Every time false promises are made, expectations rise through the roof.
Just give us power, we'll give you everything for free.
It's been tried and tried and tried again.
And we lay out the whole history of failure.
The the most shocking part of it, though, is I juxtaposed that chapter in the book with the chapter on the Democrats' 2020 agenda.
And you know what it turns out to be?
The exact same phony promises that always end in failure.
And it's just not gonna it it will not end well.
No oil and gas.
How do you think that's gonna work out for America?
How do you think the redistribution model is gonna work out for America?
How do you think the promises that everything free is gonna work out for America?
How did Obamacare work out for you?
So these are all false promises.
You know, a a simple, you know, simple math in your head.
It's like, okay, you take in four, four and a half trillion a year, you're gonna spend ninety-four trillion in ten years on the new Green Deal and fifty-two trillion on the new health care system.
And okay.
Uh the it doesn't add up mathematically.
Now you're at the point of what, seventy-five, eighty-five percent, you know, of of people's incomes.
Let me tell you what smart people with money are gonna do.
They're gonna leave the country.
You see the mass exodus out of New York, New Jersey, and California and other states.
Why are they leaving burdensome bureaucracy?
They're leaving because of unfair taxation, confiscatory taxation.
They're leaving because of the high incidents and levels of violence.
They're leaving because they're not feeling safe and secure anymore, and they don't like the idea of of hearing we're not gonna have a police force.
Uh, and they're leaving because you see utter complete failure and incompetence in all of these blue states.
Look, just look at the coronavirus reaction.
Look at how dumb they were in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, and there's your answer.
That's what you get.
That you're the preview of coming attractions.
You want to know what America is gonna look like under Joe Biden and and Bernie Sanders socialism and AOC's Green New Deal under Schumer and Pelosi.
You you've got a preview of coming attractions.
Look at New York, look at New Jersey, look at Michigan.
Now, Pennsylvania's doing better in other areas, but it has you know little to do with the governor.
It all has everything to do with energy that Joe Biden wants to eliminate and will capitulate To the extremist and his party.
So you can count and kiss those those jobs goodbye.
That's what's at stake in 116 days.
That's what we lay out in our book, Live Free or America dies in a hundred and twenty-five days.
This is it.
America, those policies will render America unrecognizable.
You want to talk a pr about a precipitous, dramatic failure, fall of a of a once great country.
That will be that that will be the the ending chapter.
Because the this great country, imperfect, yes, but always striving to become a more perfect union, using something called the Constitution to right wrongs and correct injustices.
It's been working too slow.
It's working, made a lot of progress.
We have a lot more progress to make.
We were making a lot of progress before the quote, invisible enemy.
And that was as represented by record low unemployment for every single solitary demographic group in the country.
You can have all the symbolism and all the slogans and all the bumper stickers and you know, the race card played every two and four years.
How about results?
Results matter.
You know, Biden Obama failed.
13 million more Americans, food stamps, eight million more poverty, lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, the worst recovery since the 40s.
Okay.
Donald Trump shattered record after record after record, month after month, record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, and African American youth unemployment.
Okay.
Now he's keeping American cities safe and secure.
By the way, Linda, did you hear last night?
Because I had heard from I heard from a source in Seattle.
I just wasn't able to confirm it.
The only reason that dopey Seattle mayor ever moved was because Donald Trump, they sent a message.
If you don't do it, we're coming in within days.
Did you know that?
Yeah, I mean, she the problem there is that she actually said that that was why she did it, and then she said, um, yeah, I'm gonna, you know, I I'm gonna make this a permanent memorial, and we're gonna and I'm like, you were not even letting the police in to rescue lives.
What are you making a memorial of?
The the death you allowed?
I I don't even understand what she's talking about.
Listen, uh, I'm just telling you, who knows?
All I know is I've interviewed Horace Lorenzo Anderson, senior, who lost his his namesake son, junior, 19 years old.
You know, other people died in the zone.
You know, look at the little we had our own little version of a chop chad zone in Atlanta.
Look at New York now.
Everybody, nobody can go out um and and and not social distance unless you're a pro protester.
I'm like, oh, okay, that makes sense to me.
These are the times that we're living in.
It's getting nuttier and nuttier and nuttier and scare frankly scarier.
Look what the Blasio said.
The Blasio is now saying no large gatherings except for the BLM movement.
I'm like, what?
Yeah.
It's it's completely insane.
I'm like, everyone is susceptible to the same virus.
The virus is not picking and choosing BLM participants, non-BLM participants.
By the way, they're now the medical communities now fully recognizing that, you know, all the politicians that were silent during these protests and the you know, all the anarchy, you know, that they didn't say a word about COVID-19 until Donald Trump decided to hold a rally.
Then they decided to say something.
Oh, it's the most urgent ever.
Um, look, I'm not a doctor.
I've given my opinion on all of this in terms of masks and and everything else in between.
Uh by the way, and you know, it looks like finally justice now.
The president was pretty clear last night how disgusted he is, and Roger Stone and Manafort and Flynn and Papadopoulos, and he's right.
He's he's been right, he is right.
And you know what?
If you don't have a fair and impartial jury, guess what?
You didn't get justice in America.
And every American deserves that.
Whether you like a person, don't like a person, like their political views, don't that that's supposed to be applied to everybody.
And I don't care if it was a jury against Hillary Clinton, you find out the jury for person is written publicly, you know, uh out there hating her.
That person can't sit on a jury uh and be considered fair and impartial.
So obviously the president um moving in the right direction, and I think there's gonna be a lot more coming too.
All right, let's get back to our phones.
Uh all right, let's say hi to Guy and uh let's go to Carrie in Minneapolis.
Carrie in Minneapolis, how are you?
Hi, Sean, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
Good.
So I just wanted to tell my story from Minneapolis, what happened.
My twelve year old son plays for a travel football team out of North Minneapolis.
That's awesome.
Two and a half weeks ago.
Yeah, and two and a half weeks ago, um, for it was about 43 kids.
Got caught in the middle of a gang shootout out on the field.
Oh no.
Um the bullet for pinging off the posts about the kids.
Coaches were shielding kids with their bodies, throwing kids to the ground.
Um, I was down behind a car hearing the bullets, live all the time.
Tell me nobody got caught in the crossfire, please.
Please tell me that.
None of none of the kids, by the grace of God, none of the kids got hit.
I don't know how.
Um, when the shooting paused for a little bit because the car was coming back around to do another round at them, which was right next to us.
Um the coach.
And by the way, this is the same Minneapolis where the city council has a veto-proof majority to defund the police and get rid of the police department.
Is that the same city?
That is the same city, the same city council that hired that hired themselves private security.
Oh, yeah, no, no.
They spent that they're spending tons of taxpayer dollars hiring private security for themselves because they feel threatened over their vote.
Yes.
By the way, Hollywood Hollywood stars, the Nancy Pelosi's of the world, they all have private security.
Comrade de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, they all have they all have by the way.
I think politicians at a high level should have security.
I have no problem with it.
But if you're gonna have security, don't just can you at least afford the community police and at least afford Americans the right to protect their own homes?
Anyway, go ahead.
No, um we ended up having to evacuate the kids out ourselves because the shooting wouldn't stop.
There's over 50 grounds fired.
Um the coach hopped in his van.
I hopped in my truck and they moved it over to where the kids were in alcove because the way the shooting was rolling, it was rolling towards us to where the kids were gonna be in the open again.
Um, and just loaded kids and piled them into cars to evacuate them out of there.
I I mean, listen, uh this breaks my heart.
This is Chicago every weekend.
This is now New York City every weekend.
And and frankly, during the week.
It's happening during the week and on the weekends.
This is C the Seattle, this is California.
This is defund the police.
This is Sanctuary Cities, this is Amnesty, this is what's on the line in 116 days.
Sad, I'm glad all the boys are safe.
I wish your son all the best in his in his travel football league and and whatever his dreams and aspirations for a sport happen to be.
Um, but you know what?
You don't get to pursue happiness when bullets are flying over your head on a football field.
I mean, that's that's simple.
That's sad.
But as we continue, only 116 days till you're the ultimate jury.
Back to our busy phones.
Um Guy in Wisconsin.
Guy, how are you, sir?
I'm great, John.
Hey, President Trump and his tens of millions of supporters, we were all deeply affected by the brutal cold-blooded murder of George Floyd.
We've been outraged by the senseless murder of African American children and by the outrageous murders and shootings of many other African Americans, just like the prior caller.
We are deeply saddened by those who brutalize our fellow American citizens and who commit these murders and these shootings.
We know that police brutality may be the product of racism by individuals who commit this brutality.
This race and ra racism has got to be weeded out of the police forces and must be prevented from being allowed to enter our police forces in the future.
We know that these murders and these shootings are oftentimes a reflection of despair and rage that are the product of hopelessness.
Our federal, state, and local governments need to address the root causes of this rage and this despair.
Local governments in large cities, as you have said many times, have failed at this task for decades.
President Trump, on the other hand, has taken steps to provide hope.
He's provided an economy that has provided a record number of jobs for African American.
Hey guy, let me ask you a question.
I'm um I'm um I've been doing this 31 years.
Be honest.
You're reading this, aren't you?
I am.
Let me ask you, why don't you speak for your heart?
Tell me what you're sum this up for us from your heart.
I think that we all have to take a hard look at the future of our country and uh for ourselves, for our communities.
Uh, The bottom line is this.
You can't expect what has failed in the past to work in the future.
That's the definition of insanity to keep trying the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
President Trump has shown what he can do.
But not only him, but his supporters in mass.
We believe in the people, the citizens of our country.
We want to help them.
All we need is the chance to make this change happen.
There was a chance when George Floyd was killed to work on a consensus all across our country.
Well, let me let me just echo your sentiment.
Let me let me tell you what this is.
This is the greatest choice election in your lifetime.
If you if you believe as I do that this is the shining city on the hill, the greatest country God ever gave man.
Yes, we we we have a system, a beautiful system where we can right wrongs and correct injustices.
We've made progress.
We have a lot long way to go.
A long way to go.
Nobody's disputing that.
And the beauty of it is the reason that we've accumulated this power and we don't we've abused it less than any other country.
But we've also taken the freedom experiment, the liberty experiment, and we have taken all of its natural God given talents and creations to that have come to fruition.
And we've advanced the the human condition more than any other country in the history of mankind.
And we've shared it with the rest of the world.
And we'll continue to do that.
That is the beauty of America.
That is the beauty of liberty and freedom.
In the name of security, this this socialist utopia, you will give up your freedoms, you will give up your liberties.
This new Green Deal will eliminate capitalism.
It'll eliminate the lifeblood of the world's economy.
And if you can't understand that, then we'll get the hellhole socialist failures that are predictable and guaranteed.
It will be it will destroy America at its foundational successful roots in terms of the economy and freedom and liberty.
And I'm telling you, it's it's it's scary on a lot of levels.
Anyway, thank you for the call.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
Remnants of another violent crime scene serve as a reminder to neighbors in St. Albans, Queens.
Now lately, gun violence is on the rise in New York City.
No community or age group seems to be immune.
It's terrible.
Gun violence is terrible.
Authorities say a teenage boy was shot in the neck and torso around 5 p.m. on 166th Street.
He's still in serious condition at the hospital, but is expected to survive.
It's crazy.
I was home.
I heard two, three shots.
Fern Howell lives only yards away from the scene.
She grew up in this house, spending 70 years here saying crime has been getting worse.
When they disbanded their unit, the gun unit, all this stuff.
Puff.
In the past week, there were 101 victims of shootings citywide, compared to 33 this same week last year, a 206% increase.
The fact that so many people uh have nothing to do, have lost their jobs, there's no school to go to, there's tremendous frustration and pain and trauma.
There is no court system functioning.
I think those are the really big factors here.
Similar to De Blasio on Monday, NYPD chief of department, Terrence Monahan blamed a multitude of factors for the rise in crime, including the release of prisoners from Rikers Island to avoid overcrowding and the spread of coronavirus.
They say in June, 275 inmates released were rearrested 550 times.
On top of all this, the courts have been shut down, and many individuals who are indicted by a grand jury on gun charges are not in jail, but instead are free, awaiting for the courts to open up.
The top spokesman for this state court system calls the assertion absurd, claiming, quote, the courts have operated continuously throughout the pandemic, arraigning defendants, holding hundreds of hearings, and conferencing thousands of cases.
And back here in Queens, police are still working diligently to catch whoever shot this teenager.
All right, there you have it.
The uh, oh, what's happening?
Rise of gun violence all over New York.
Wonder why that's happening.
And then Comrade de Blasio, uh, by the way, news roundup information overload hour, my interview with the president at the bottom of this half hour.
Then Comrade de Blasio not only cutting a billion dollars from the NYPD, now he's canceled all large events in New York City.
And they're they're they're going to any bar where there's not exactly six feet social distancing, and they're not only shutting them down, they're taking away their liquor licenses.
Well, let me tell you what that means.
Whatever hundreds of thousands of dollars you invested, maybe more, uh, in your restaurant, your bar, whatever, that means you can't do business anymore.
You're done.
Well, that's gonna end up in a bankruptcy.
You're going to see the largest mass exodus out of states as a result of their incompetence over the coronavirus, and they're embracing this defund the police madness.
Everybody has to socially distance in New York, unless you're a psycho uh, you know, anarchist that wants to go out and protest.
That's what that's what Bill de Blasio said.
Let's play it.
What about protests that people want to march down Fifth Avenue?
Are they gonna be allowed to do so?
Look, uh, Wolf, this is always an area of real sensitivity.
If you're just talking about health, we would always say, hey, folks, you know, stay home if you can.
But we understand at this moment in history, people are talking about the need for historic changes.
I mean, today in New York City, you know, recognizing the power and the meaning of the message Black Lives Matter, which we did in front of Trump Tower today.
Uh, this is a historic moment of change.
We have to respect that, but also say to people the the kinds of gatherings we're used to, the the parades, the fairs, we just can't have that while we're focusing on health right now.
Oh, okay.
There we go.
Another genius uh it uh comment by de Blasio.
You know, unbelievable.
Uh then you got, of course, the quote of the week.
Joe Biden comes out of the basement.
What does he do?
He embraces all things Bolshevik Bernie Sanders socialism, and then he embraces all things AOC, his advisor, and then of course, his enemy of the people line, meaning the police.
Listen.
Uh surplus military equipment for law enforcement.
They don't need that.
The last thing you need is an up armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood like the military invading.
They don't know anybody.
They become the enemy.
They're supposed to be protecting these people.
So my generic point is that we agree that we can redirect some of the funding.
Yes.
Uh absolutely.
And one of the things that we also need to be doing is fundamentally changing the way, and I've been pushing it for years, changing the way we deal with our prison system.
Okay, genius.
Anyway, joining us, we have uh former NYPD police commissioner, also author of The Grave Above the Grave.
Uh, remember he was the police commissioner in New York City, showed amazing leadership and courage on 9-1101.
Uh, and by the way, was the former lieutenant commander of the NYPD counterterrorism unit.
Uh, also Sergeant Demetrick Penny is with us, 21-year veteran of the Dallas Police Force, and by the way, he's now a congressional candidate in Texas for the 30th Congressional District.
Welcome both of you back to the program.
Bernie, I've known you a long time.
Uh, one of the things I've admired so much about you over the years is what you and Rudy Giuliani accomplished, and that is that you identified areas that had the highest concentration of violence and crime.
You weren't looking at demographics.
Where's the crime?
And you you went in and you targeted those areas with a heavy police presence, and we went from about 2500 uh murders a year down to it even got as low as 300 at some point, but down to about 500 while you were still in office and and Mayor Giuliani was in office.
Yeah, we dropped it, uh Sean, honestly, uh, down about 70% uh the murder rate, sixty-five percent of violent crime rate.
And in the black communities, you know, Bedstry, Crown Heights, uh, East New York, the murder rate dropped almost eighty percent.
So when I see cities like New York today, when I see Chicago and Baltimore and Atlanta and Minneapolis, don't tell me it can't be done.
It's all about leadership, it's about resources, it's about funding, and it's about somebody that can stand up and say, This is what has to get done.
This is how we're gonna do it.
Now go do the job you're supposed to do.
And by the way, you know, I don't think anybody, Sergeant uh Penny was any more critical of the top officials in the FBI.
It pained me to do it because of my love of law enforcement, but the truth is the truth.
And the bottom line is they abuse power uh as it relates to Pfizer fraud, premeditated fraud on a Pfizer court, uh, as it relates to not uh uh having equal justice applied in the Hillary Clinton case and uh unequal justice under the law, and of course, lying under oath.
Uh but I always said that that's the one percent.
Everybody agreed this could never happen again.
What happened to George Floyd?
Everybody agreed.
And the president is the one that put in police reforms that stop chokeholds unless your life is in jeopardy.
Uh Joe didn't do it, Barack didn't do it, they didn't have criminal justice reform, they didn't have police reform.
Donald Trump did all of that.
Right.
Right.
This was the this is a complete disconnect in the in the current American politics right now.
We we see that now these politicians are all coming out, and this is what troubles me.
I gotta go back to your monologue real quick, uh uh uh Sean, because the monologue, when you point out these politicians, they get up and they start off talking about uh black lives matter, and and then they'll go into whatever else they're saying.
Guys, black lives matter is a domestic terrorist organization.
You hear it first.
I told you this in 2015.
And by the way, no, no, Sergeant, you gotta make a distinction here.
The Black Lives Matter groups, and again, you don't see them in Chicago every weekend.
Uh you don't see them in New York City now, because 97% of all people that were victims of shooting are minorities in New York City.
And this is the one that this is a group that chanted, what do we want dead cops?
When do we want them now?
The group.
You know, you know, pigs in a blanket from like Bacon.
The people that say the word black lives matter, I make a distinction.
I think you do too.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Look, I'm not sure.
It's the group you're talking about.
And I'm and I'm law enforcement, I'm black, okay?
I support black people.
I've been in I'm my community is all black.
We've been subjected to black crime to black-owned black crime for years.
That's not the issue.
This group only comes out whenever it's a shooting involving a police officer, a white police officer, and a black individual.
And they're not even talking about the black people.
We're not talking about upstanding black citizens that are just doing great things and they get killed by police.
We're talking about a lot of them are individuals that are doing things nefariously that are getting themselves killed by police.
So that's the whole thing, let's let's make sure we address that issue to begin with.
And secondly, we got to get into how these groups even organize.
We got to talk about that.
This is where the since 2015, I've been pointing out they've been using social media as this platform to recruit a radical live.
And now, in this time, what just happened, the George Ford riot, those were all based on a an international workers' world, uh uh workers' uh group that on telegram, they organized those pages specifically for to rile the black community up.
And now, guess what?
Those telegrams, those same telegram pages are now evolving to talk about workers' rights, blacks for workers' rights.
We got manipulated.
We got played, and that's what the black community needs to be paid.
This was all part of an exchange, and and again, it raises questions.
You know, I I mean, I'm I now have interviewed and Lawrence Jones interviewed the father that lost a little seven-year-old beautiful girl in Chicago.
And I interviewed Horace Lorenzo Anderson uh Sr.
Lost his namesake junior son in the Chaz Chop Summer of Love Zone, et cetera, et cetera.
But I'm let me play that exchange, and it's very revealing with uh CNN's Don Lemmon.
This is uh the black America's version of the Me Too movement.
If anything is going to change, we ourselves Need to look at our own communities and look at each other and say this thing cannot go down.
And and this is the thing too.
There are a lot of great, great people there who are held hostage, who are held hostage by people who literally are running these neighborhoods with violence and then claiming that black lives matter.
When you look at the parents of these little kids who are mentioning saying, hey man, why aren't they speaking up for me too?
And this is what I'm saying.
When I look at this whole thing about it's about who is controlling the narrative.
It's got to be all black lives matter.
And what's happened is that because I even challenged it, because I even questioned or and warned people I became like if I told you to wear a mask.
Terry, they want to kick you out.
You're you're a high profile person, you're writing things out there, you know you're gonna get backlash.
You know people are gonna respond to what you're saying on Twitter.
So I just I don't think you should be surprised by that.
I you know, I have a a skin as tough as an armadillo because of what I do, and I think maybe you should adapt that.
But here's here's what I have to say.
Um the Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality.
If you want an all black lives matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including you know, black communities, then start that movement with that name.
But that's not what black lives matter is about.
It's not an all-encompassing.
So if you're talking about um if someone started a movement that said uh cancer matters, and then someone comes in and says, Why aren't you talking about HIV?
It's not the same thing.
We're talking about cancer.
So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice in that manner, not about what's happening in black neighborhoods.
If you there are people who are working on that issue, and if you want to start that issue, why don't you start it?
I mean, that says it all, uh, Sergeant, and we'll let uh Bernie weigh in.
Hey, Sean, you know, I I have to laugh.
It's it's you know, uh Don Lemon, you know, he's he's he's positioning himself like a show game.
This isn't a game.
Black lives matter.
Um, if you go on their website, they don't even talk that much about police brutality or systemic racism.
They can't because it doesn't exist.
But what does exist is the systemic slaughter of black men and women in black communities, and they ain't doing a damn thing about it.
If they were really, if they really wanted to help save black lives, they'd be out there.
What they want to do is they want to use black lives to promote their political agenda.
And their agenda is a Marxist agenda.
Their agenda is the overthrow of this government as we know it.
We know that because their founder is is uh is uh is a uh trained Marxist.
All right, Bernie.
So I think all lives matter, but apparently if you say that, I guess that's controversial.
But to say the Black Lives Matter group is not about what's happening in Chicago and Seattle and and Atlanta to me is unconscionable because I'm interviewing the families that are losing their children.
Yeah, that's right.
And and the bottom line is they don't really care.
They could care less.
What they do is they it's just like the nature said earlier.
They take one event, they take George Floyd, and they stirred up the entire country and created these massive riots in addition to Antifa and promoted this insane Marxist agenda.
That's what they're about.
That's what they're about.
All you have to do is go on the website, listen to their founders.
Their founders are admitted, trained Marxists.
Their founders were inspired by Joanne Chesimard, who murdered a New Jersey state trooper in 1973, is in exile in Cuba now.
Lives in Cuba, one of the most horrific dimensions.
I'm gonna tell you something.
We're gonna watch Bernie.
I don't mean to cut you off.
We're just out of time, but we'll see the biggest mass exodus in history.
Uh, Commissioner Kerrick, thank you.
Sergeant, thank you, Congressional uh District 30 in Texas.
Uh, you're a candidate.
We wish all the best in that race, uh, Sergeant Penny.
Thank you.
All right, when we come back, my interview with the president on the other side, uh, and we'll continue on this Friday.
All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
Yes, live free or die.
America and the world on the brink, subtitle in Latin, live free or America dies.
We'll have some announcements, maybe as early as next week, um, about plans that we have that uh hopefully you'll you'll you'll be excited to join us In and uh anyway, but it's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com.
If you want to guarantee first week delivery of the book, and it is the definitive story of what is at stake in 116 days.
It's also what has made America great.
What what what what are the principles that have made this the greatest country God has given man?
You know, what is it that these radicals in the and the democratic 2020 agenda?
What do they want to do to the country?
Well, we now know.
Well, the police are the enemy.
Uh, we want to uh transform America, rewrite our economy, eliminate oil and gas.
Okay, that's their agenda.
Just so you know, and when you read it, it is the most comprehensive.
And then I I literally purposefully dovetail their agenda next to a chapter on socialism and its history of failure.
I also give you chapter and verse of what they have done, the damage they've done with this phony Russian conspiracy theory hoax, this ridiculous failed uh uh attempt at basically a coup and impeaching the president, and what they and with the help of the the enemy of the people, as the president says, the hate Trump media mob, what they will do to freedoms in this country, and also the other side.
What it means, what is at stake?
Well, simple lower taxes, law and order, uh, no amnesty, a border wall.
We're not going to become the United Sanctuary states of uh of America, energy independence, constitutional loving judges appointed to the courts.
Hopefully, some mistakes are made.
Um, better trade deals, so American manufacturers can do better, holding countries like China accountable, uh taking military action when needed.
That would be ending the caliphate.
Biden and Obama wouldn't do it.
They had handcuffs on on our military.
Uh taking out the likes of Baghdadi and his top uh lieutenants, taking out Solomonny, taking out the Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, and also not involving having American troops any longer due to new military technology.
We don't have to go door to door in any country ever again.
We don't have to do it.
We decide we're gonna go to war, we've got the technology, and we can you if you fight it, you fight it, you win it, you leave.
No more half-assed, oh, we're half in it, then oh, it gets politicized, then oh, never mind, after so many, you know, our national treasure goes, fights, bleeds, dies, and comes back with the most heinous injuries.
We can't fight wars like that anymore.
Anyway, it's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, live free or die 25 days from now, and we're 116 days away from the most important election, uh, in I think most pivotal tipping point election in our lifetime.
Uh all right, with that said, let's go to the uh interview I had last night with the president, and here are some of the key moments.
We need safety, we need security, we can't defund our police, and we can't abolish our police.
They want to abolish our police, and as far as the surplus equipment, I've given out hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is stuff that was sitting in storage houses all over the country.
It wasn't even old, but it was never going to be used again.
It was gathering dust, and I gave it out to all of our police forces all over the country, saved many, many police lives, and many lives, I think, period.
It was really a lot of it was protective equipment.
And I know that President Obama and Biden didn't want to give it out.
They thought it was terrible to give it out.
It made the police look too strong.
And I gave it out, and I have been thanked by every police department.
Mr. President, well, the summer of love zone turned into a shooting zone, and you see what's happening, shootings up, violent crime is up, murder is up, you know, a hundred and thirty percent shootings up in New York City.
You see the statistics in Chicago every weekend.
How do you react to that?
Well, first of all, New York City is not recognizable.
Crime is way up, shootings are way up, murder is way up.
It's just unbelievable.
Chicago, what's going on in Chicago, and we are looking at it very seriously because we're gonna have to do something we've asked them.
You know, we're really supposed to be asked to come in and help the federal government, and we have the greatest people in the world, and we can solve it.
But we're supposed to be asked, so the mayor or the governor of Illinois should be asking, but they don't want to ask.
And uh, you look every weekend and every week in Chicago, it's just numbers that are not believable.
Atlanta's starting to have some problems.
So we're ready to act, and at some point we may have to act anyway.
We may have to do it sooner rather than later.
One of the reasons that the Seattle mayor finally acted is that they were given uh notice that if they didn't act that you were going to.
Is there any truth to that?
A hundred percent.
We were going in, we were going in very soon.
We let them know that, and uh, they all of a sudden they didn't want that.
So they went in before we got there, and but we were going in very shortly, very soon, and we would have taken the uh chop, I call it CHOP.
We would have taken it back very easily.
But uh they went in, and frankly, the people just gave up.
They were tired, they had it for a long period of time.
But because of the fact that we were going to go to go in.
Now, if you look at Minneapolis, uh, after four or five days of horror, we called them, we said, You gotta get out the National Guard.
We insisted that they do it.
When the National Guard finally got out, they walked through it like a knife goes through butter.
That was the end of their problem.
That was it.
There was a great job done by the National Guard.
And uh yeah, we were all set to go into Seattle, frankly.
I looked forward to it.
Joe is just look, let's face it, he's been taken over by the radical left.
He has no clue what they're doing and what they're getting him into.
This is worse than Bernie Sanders at his at his best.
And you look at the deal they made with Bernie Sanders now in the group, it's all crazy radical left stuff.
And Joe's never gonna be able to fight it, even if he disagreed with it, which I actually don't think he does.
I think they, you know, there's an expression, old expression was used badly a long time ago in politics.
I think they brainwashed him.
They brainwashed him.
He doesn't know where he is, he doesn't know what he's doing.
And our country will suffer, our stock markets will crash, uh, bad things will happen.
They will defund the police, they will abolish the police.
It will be uh maybe a backlash, or maybe it'll just go to hell like Venezuela.
And do you think he's trying to back out of debating you?
Well, yeah, the answer is yes, absolutely.
But you know, he the he meant the COVID tests, the COVID test.
He didn't mean cognitive, he meant COVID.
No, he said cognitive.
I'm pretty obvious.
He didn't mean that because you know, you don't have those tests that often.
He said, I take them all the time.
And no, he meant COVID, but I think he was confused by the the question and the words and everything else.
He he didn't mean that because he hasn't taken any cognitive tests because he couldn't pass one.
I actually took one when I uh very recently when I uh when I was, you know, the radical left was saying, is he all there?
Is he all there?
And I proved I was all there because I I aced it.
I aced the test, and he should take the same exact test, a very standard test.
I took took it at Walter Reed uh medical center, uh, in front of doctors, and uh they were very surprised.
They said that's an unbelievable thing.
Rarely does anybody do what you just did, but he should take that same test.
What do you make of these hot spots as we call them in in Florida and Texas and and other states and Dr. Fauci's comments?
Well, first of all, the mortality rate, and Dr. Fauci's a nice man, but he's made a lot of mistakes.
Like you don't have to ban him coming in from very infected China.
I did it anyway, and we saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
I banned Europe from coming in when Italy and when France and Spain were having all the problems that we saved, hundreds of thousands of lives.
A lot of people said, Don't do it.
They've been wrong about a lot of things, including face masks.
Maybe they're wrong, maybe not, but a lot of them said don't wear a mask, don't wear a mask, and now they're saying wear a mask.
So a lot of uh a lot of mistakes were made, a lot of mistakes.
We are testing and creating it's the greatest thing that ever happened for the opposite party, but we're doing something that nobody's ever done to the extent and we're doing a great job.
But we have a mortality rate.
Think of this.
That's tenfold better than any other.
We what we're doing is incredible.
If you look, you've heard the numbers tenfold.
We have fewer people.
And uh our people have done an incredible job.
And one other thing, we're very well on the way to a vaccine, very well on the way therapeutically, therapeutics.
We're very well on the way.
We've got a lot of great things happening.
We already do.
We do have some that are that are very effective or at least effective, and a lot of very good things have happened.
A lot of really good things are doing a great job.
But the testing is just showing up all these cases.
And if you turn the news on, you'll see it's always the word cases.
They don't talk about death because deaths are way down.
Well, first of all, I'm in under tax audit.
Okay.
So I mean, they treat the IRS treats me just like they used to treat the Tea Party, except worse.
And I'm under tax audit.
I have been for a long period of time.
We made a deal a long time ago, and once I ran for politics, that deal was like uh we didn't make it.
So I'm uh under a continuing audit, and anybody that uh did that or showed that before you have it finalized, but they treat they treat me horribly, the IRS, horribly.
It's a disgrace what's happened.
We had a deal done.
In fact, it was, I guess it was signed even.
And once I ran or once I won, or somewhere back a long time ago, uh, everything was like, well, let's start all over again.
It's a disgrace.
So uh I was disappointed, and and at the same time it was uh because I think we a president should get protection from thousands of prosecutors out there, thousands all over the country.
Uh they could go after you, and you're supposed to be running the country.
I'll tell you, Justice Alito wrote a totally brilliant decision.
Uh he wrote something today that really got it.
Justice Thomas likewise was was great they were the two uh that that came.
So it it was uh look basically sends it all back and we start all over again, I guess.
That's what it means.
Bad things happened and Strook and Page, the two lovers, and uh many other people, many other people.
When you look at uh I could I could go down a list of lots of people.
They were spying on my campaign, it was totally illegal.
If that were the other way around, the people would be in jail for fifty years and it would have started two years ago.
It's a disgrace what's going on.
We caught them a hundred percent.
As far as General Flynn is a great hero, he's a great gentleman.
What they're doing to that man, they've destroyed that man, but he'll come back.
He's gonna come back.
Roger Stone was treated very unfairly, unbelievably unfairly, and I watched that and I thought it was incredible the way that man was going to jail.
Including with the jury four woman who was it was disgraceful.
And the judge, the way she treated him, I think it was a disgrace that they didn't give him a retrial, Roger Stone.
And Papadopoulos, I mean, you they have a tape of his conversation.
If anything, he's like it was a perfect, as I said about my conversation.
I turned out to be right.
It was a perfect conversation that Papadopoulos had, and they destroyed him too and put him in jail for two weeks.
So these people and Paul Manafort, what they did to that man is is a disgrace.
What is your second term agenda?
Well, first of all, I didn't know I was criticized for that answer because it's a simple question.
First of all, we're gonna defeat the the invisible enemy, and that's and we're well at our way.
And uh as again, I told you the uh mortality rate is uh tenfold down.
We're gonna rebuild the economy, we're gonna bring back jobs from all of these foreign lands that have stolen our jobs on horrible trade deals.
We're gonna continue to make great trade deals.
We're gonna finish uh rebuilding our wall.
We're gonna finish, we're gonna have that, it's gonna be almost complete by the end of this year, shortly thereafter it's finished.
It's made a tremendous difference.
You see, we're doing record numbers on the border, very few people are able to get through.
We're rebuilding with our uh military, we've rebuilt the military, two point five trillion dollars.
We're fixing up the VA for our vets.
What the job we've done there between choice and accountability, we have choice where they have with they can go out and get a doctor if they're sick, they don't have to wait for five weeks, six weeks, two weeks.
Uh so we're doing great with the vets, and the vets are loving Trump.
We're protecting our second amendment, so important.
We need more judges and more justices.
You see that now with the Supreme Court more than ever.
And the next president, I've had two, and the next president's gonna be able to pick two or three or one or whatever, but a lot of justices, and that means everything, whether it's for life or other things.
I mean, it means so much.
But protecting the second amendment, getting more judges, all of the things that we've done, nobody has done what this administration has done in the first three and a half years.
Nobody's even come close.
When you look at everything that we're done now, what we're doing is working on lowering drug prices And uh knocking out special interests because it's not easy.
We're fighting for choice.
We did it for the veterans.
Now we're doing it for school too.
We want choice in school, so a parent can take their child to a school of their choice, and that's happening very good very, very well.
And we have many things that we're doing, and many things that we've already completed, and uh you can't do more than what we've done.
I think we've set records on every we actually set a record on judges.
We're gonna be by the time of the end of this year, we'll be up to almost 300 uh federal judges, and that's uh a record.
That's incredible, including DC.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Monday, 113 days to go until you become the ultimate jury, and on Monday, only 22 days for the release of Live Free or Die, America and the World on the Brink.
We have uh we have little segments of it up up on Hannity.com.
If you want to get a preview, Amazon.com does the same.
Uh anyway, these are amazing times we're living in, and there's an awful lot at stake.
Anyway, we'll have the best election coverage.
Our countdown continues Monday, right here on the Sean Hannity Show.
