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Sean is our number.
And we have a lot of good news polling-wise, although I'm not paying that much attention to polls.
I'm looking for trends.
I'm looking for anecdotal information.
It really is going to come down to the ever-weak, frail, confused, befuddled, confounded Joe Biden versus Donald Trump.
Seems like the energizer buddy.
I thought he had a great town hall.
I didn't see it till later.
I taped it.
Although not many people watch it.
I mean, I'm sure it hurt my ratings.
I haven't seen my ratings yet, but it only had like 3.8 million people.
We average more people on any given night, actually.
So a little weird to see that.
But, you know, nobody trusts Georgie Stephanopoulos.
It was a hostile crowd, hostile George.
And the president just handled it with ease and grace.
You know, the biggest untold story is just how bad a shape Joe Biden is.
So he's out on the campaign trail in Florida yesterday.
And at one point, a couple of things happened.
And I'll play a montage.
I'm going to isolate this Ricky Martin song, Despacito.
And it's now, you know, my staff is having too much fun today.
And they're like, well, you know what the song is, right?
I'm like, I don't know.
It's Ricky Martin.
I said, well, Ricky Martin seems like an incredible performer to me, living La Vida Loca.
I mean, that was like a, that was, that was the entire culture loving that for a long time.
And then I think he went on the, you know, kind of stayed out of the public eye for a while.
I have no idea why, but I thought he was a gifted, talented performer.
Anyway, so then again, at one point, he goes on this rant because if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure and hell take care running, you know, a department store thing, you know, where in the second floor of the ladies' department or whatever.
You know what I mean.
I'm like, huh?
Can you say, can you explain that for me?
Can you explain that?
What the hell is he saying?
This is just the average day, the mob, the media.
They just ignore it.
Let me play it for you.
This is just from yesterday.
It says, daily troop updates.
U.S. troops died in Iran and Afghanistan.
Harris Biden administration is going to relaunch that effort.
If you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure and hell take care running a department store thing in the second floor of the ladies' department or whatever.
You know what I mean?
The Iran parliament, the Iran parliament voted to eject all Americans and coalition forces from the country.
We made solar energy cost competitive with traditional energy and weatherized more than a million homes, which is just the beginning if we get re-elected.
I just have one thing to say.
Hang on here.
Hang on.
There you go.
Dance a little bit, Joe.
Come on.
I tell you what, if I had the talent of any one of these people, I'd be elected president by acclamation.
Okay.
Now, there's a lot to digest there.
Again, because if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure in hell take care running a you know department store thing, you know, where in the second floor of the ladies' department or whatever.
You know what I mean.
Iowa.
Now, by the way, Jason, you told me it was Ricky Martin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I get them wrong every so often.
All right, there.
Louise Fonzi apparently sings Despacito, right?
Now, here's the irony.
It doesn't matter.
They're both very talented.
So, and by the way, I know the song.
I've heard the song before.
Despacito.
Now, the word actually means, correct me, anyone here if I'm wrong.
Doesn't it mean slowly?
Yes, it does.
Right.
All right.
Now, this is the worst part.
This is where my staff is evil, and they're always pushing me to the dark side.
And anyway, so it actually means slowly.
And it's a chorus.
I'm not sure.
How's Justin Bieber connected to this song?
Do you know?
He did a remix of it about a year ago.
Him and Daddy Yankee and Louis.
Fonsee?
Yeah, he did a remix of it.
All right.
So when you read the song, two things.
Now, again, it's slowly.
That's kind of an appropriate thing for Joe.
Come on.
I mean, he's weak.
Come on, man.
You a junkie.
Come on, man.
You get to.
Come on, man.
Anyway, and then, remember, we used to show all the videos of creepy, creepy Joe.
And then the words of the song are like, slowly, I want to smell your neck slowly.
Remember, he's like smelling women's hair?
He's so creepy.
Let me whisper these in your ear so that you'll remember if you're not with me slowly.
I mean, and all I can think of is these creepy videos of him.
Oh, gross.
Back up, you creep.
Get away from it.
Fans all over the place.
I need to be more aware of this in the future.
He's a creep.
This is a more interesting political side of things today.
And so apparently AOC admitted that she and her allies intend to, quote, push, quote, push Biden in a more progressive direction once they get him installed in the White House.
Now, speaking with Just the News on Tuesday, she said, one of the reasons I was so supportive of Senator Sanders was because of how progressive his stances are.
But, you know, the primaries are over.
Right now, what is the most important is to make sure that we ensure a Democratic victory in November.
And I think overall, we can likely push Vice President Biden in a more progressive direction across policy issues, she continued.
And I think foreign policy is an enormous area where we can improve immigration, another criminal justice, another area where we can pursue a lot of the progressive agenda.
Remember, he's already pledged trillions to AOC's mad Green New Deal.
I mean, that's not good.
And he said his plan will go even further.
His exact words.
Anyway, so let me, so that's definitely the plan.
Look, I'm not putting a lot of stock in polls, but I'm giving you some anecdotal information.
The president now is leading Joe Biden 47-46.
Rasmussen reports, and it's the among likely voters, the 3% some candidate.
Anyway, the race has narrowed now significantly in the past two weeks, according to their rolling average.
And Biden had a two-point lead last week.
Survey also marks the first time the president edges above 45% over the past two and a half months.
The survey finds both Biden and Trump at 80% support among their respective parties, Republicans, 80% for Trump, 80% Democrats for Biden.
And then it goes into an analysis how Trump is showing a lot of strength among minority voters, which is now a trend.
It is not an outlier.
And many polls have had him up as high as 24% among African Americans.
Other polls from anywhere from 19 to 24%.
And the same is happening with Hispanic Americans as well.
And I think that, you know, all the rioting is not looking good, particularly good.
You know, we got some information anecdotally that the price tag for this summer's coast-to-coast anarchists and rioting and looting and cop bashing and injuring has now cost $2 billion and they're still not done.
Axios reporting that insurance companies could pay up to $2 billion to cover the damages, rendering the left-wing anti-cop riots the single largest insurance event in history.
Axios further goes on: the protests took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring, many of which devolved into looting, vandalism, arson.
That's going to result in at least a billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims, eclipsing the record set in the 1992 riots in Los Angeles after the acquittal of Rodney King.
The $2 billion mark likely does not include damage in Rochester, New York, or Lancaster, Pennsylvania, both of which played host to last weekend and demonstrations there, so it's even going to go higher.
You know, I guess the conspiracy theories galore now come out.
You got literally, you know, what's her name?
Sonny, how do you say her name on the view?
Sonny, is it Hostin?
Hostin?
How do you say it?
Hosted.
Okay.
I really don't know much about her.
I'm not exactly the biggest fan of The View.
That's Joyless Behar Show.
I do like Whippy Goldberg.
I've known her for years.
We got along fine.
She doesn't agree with my politics, but I like her.
Anyway, she began by discussing some polls that found a majority surveyed said Black Lives Matter demonstrators are riots and not protesters.
Well, again, we make the distinction between the group and people that were those that were peaceful way back when.
But it's now been taken over by the radical anarchists and Black Lives Matter, the group, the ones chanting, what do we want dead cops?
When do we want them now?
And anyway, then she goes on to insist that much of the violence has, quote, been manufactured by the Trump campaign.
Oh, that's where we're going now?
Now it's manufactured by Donald Trump.
He's encouraging the, he's responsible for the rioting, which is pretty nuts in and of itself.
So anyway, you've got Biden looking beyond lethargic at this roundtable also yesterday in Florida, you know, repeating his dubious claims that he removed 150,000 troops from Iraq, although he called it Iran, and got that confused as well yesterday.
And, you know, I want to breathe your neck slowly as he's playing despacito on state.
But that was beyond creepy and awkward.
By the way, Joe Biden in July of 2019, I'll make sure fracking is eliminated.
Now, I will not ban fracking.
I mean, this is what we get on everything.
I led on coronavirus.
I didn't lead on coronavirus.
He was calling it from day one hysterical xenophobia and fear-mongering against the travel ban, against the quarantine.
And all the way through late March, he was had that position.
At no point did he ever go out and say anything about social distancing or masks until, you know, and then when he finally gets asked a question about what he'd do, well, Donald Trump had done everything that was on his list.
It was that bad.
If he can't answer a question without a script, I don't think this guy's capable of running a busy McDonald's for crying out loud.
You know, and by the way, who is in charge?
Joe says the Harris Biden administration.
She says the same thing.
A little weird.
Hunter Biden apparently made 411 trips across 29 counties.
Ron Johnson of Wisconsin saying, oh yeah, there's a lot of information coming out next week.
Can't wait.
Making deals with foreign oligarchs.
Well, I can't wait to get to bottom of all of this.
Mr. Experience, Hunter Biden.
Biden says that the U.S. doesn't need fossil fuels.
By the way, he said it moments after arriving out in Florida in his private jet.
Oh, one set of rules for me and my guys and one set of rules for you peons.
We the people.
Biden of veterans, U.S. troops died in Iran and Afghanistan.
Excuse me.
It would be a rack, sir.
Environmental justice, we can turn a faucet, breathe clean air.
I'm about to end.
We have to live.
I mean, he's lost his mind, obviously.
Cognitive decline is real here.
I don't know the official name for it, but he's confused.
He's weak.
He's tired.
You know, let's go back to this tape.
I want you to listen to two things when this young girl asks him a question, a simple question.
Move up and then listen to the.
It's like he needs his nappy.
Listen.
And I would like to know, what will your administration do to help them give him that chance?
Thank you.
Let's move it up here.
You know, there used to be a basic bargain in this country.
Workers shared in the wealth.
What time is my nap?
He needs his nappy.
It's scary.
I could not see this guy doing an eight-hour shift at a busy restaurant.
All right, as we roll along, 800-941 Sean Despacito.
I mean, come on.
Oh, you can't make that.
I got to bring out tonight on Hannah.
I'll bring back the creepy Joe videos.
You know, I actually, I can't even show you all the creepy Joe videos because, I mean, he's creepy with young kids and smelling their hair and whispering in their ear and like touching them in ways that are so awkward and inappropriate and wrong.
It's like, oh, you just, it just like grossed out.
He just grosses you out.
And you don't believe.
I mean, let's put it this way.
Well, I won't say it.
Anyway, so the president goes on with Georgie Stephanopoulos last night.
And I thought he did a really good job in a lot of ways.
This was not a crowd that was favorable towards him.
And he went, I don't think Joe Biden can do it.
I don't think he can do it again.
And I'd like to see him do it.
One of the things Trump, you know, one of the things that come out of it, well, he said he upplayed the virus.
All right.
He contradicted what he said to Bob Woodward.
You know, if you really know Donald Trump, this is not hard to figure out.
Even the dopey mob in the media should be able to follow the bouncing ball.
Donald Trump, 10 days after the first identified case of coronavirus put in place, because he took it more seriously.
I guess you might be, he upplayed the seriousness in terms of his actions by the first travel ban that he put in effect 10 days.
The one that Joe said was hysterical, xenophobia, and fear-mongering through late March.
So, and then he gave us the first quarantine in over 50 years.
Okay.
Now, was he out there fear-mongering and scaring the hell out of the American people?
No, but his actions were more severe, taking it more seriously than even his own scientific experts thought that needed to be done at the time.
So they're totally consistent if you care to understand the president's thought process, which they don't.
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We get a COVID update.
That means vaccine therapeutics, distribution measures are in place.
I'm sure you'll have some people, well, it's Donald, well, Pfizer said they're going to have this.
They think they're going to have it mid to late October, meaning the final trials and a vaccine ready for FDA approval and then distribution, and people can take it.
Now, I'm not going to tell anybody what to do with that.
I will look at the study myself and I'm going to take a strong look at it.
And if I like the data and it looks, which, you know, Pfizer is not going to put together, AstraZeneca is not going to put together.
Moderna is not going to put together something that they want to get sued over.
And you just, but you still have to do your due diligence, consult your doctor and do the things, you know, that one would do normally.
I get a flu shot every year.
Many of you would never get a flu shot.
I mean, it's just a personal choice.
And I think that, you know, to the extent that that happens, Operation Warp Speed, that would mean from nine months, well, nine and a half months to a vaccine for a virus, it is a miracle, the one that Joe Biden said we wouldn't have.
It's game-changing.
I mean, in other words, to help ultimately save human lives.
And it's that and the economy coming back, all good news coming for the country.
And, you know, this is why, you know, all this early voting, I agreed with what the Attorney General of the United States has been saying, Bill Barr.
You know, a lot of this is very disconcerting.
Well, after all, they did spy on a presidential candidate.
They did use a dirty Russian misinformation dossier that was paid for by the other presidential candidate.
They never verified a single thing in it.
They ignored all warnings not to trust it, and they used it anyway.
And they used it even after the sub-source for the dossier said none of it's true, which was early in January of 2017.
And still, this is what, look at what they put the country through.
You want to know why the mob, the media, they're so corrupt?
You think they ever once said, sorry, I'd like to correct the record.
We were wrong.
The conspiracy theories we advanced, the lies we told, the hoax we pulled and were a part of?
No, because the ends justifies the means.
They're state-run TV.
That's it.
They're state-run print.
The New York Toilet Paper Times, the Washington Post, they're garbage.
They're just propaganda prob the newspapers.
They just lie, and they lie with a bandit.
That's what I loved about the lawsuit Alan Dershowitz against fake news CNN.
They deceptively edit his comments to make him look a certain way to make a political point.
That's just an average day over fake news CNN.
There's nothing there that I trust as truth.
And the same with all the other cable news channels out there.
It's conspiracy theory TV.
It's rage, psychotic hatred against Trump every minute, every second of every hour of every day.
Same with three broadcast networks.
I mean, it's just unbelievable.
Anyway, so one voter challenged the president.
You know, the way the media says, when the president says, Well, I hope not, and the president talking about was, you know, pressed about the country as the issues of racial justice in the country said he was asked if he believes racial injustices are occurring in the nation.
I think all of these watching are tragic events.
I do feel that we have to also take into consideration that if you look at our police, they do a phenomenal job.
He's talking about the 99% of great people.
He did add there are bad apples, but 99% are not.
That's the same with everything I've said about even those going after the president and abusing their power and that are corrupt.
And if you, you know, if you're going to stop a crime, yeah, we have to give the respect back to the police.
They deserve it's not just the respect.
Defunding them is dangerous.
You now see this, the consequences of which are unfolding before our very eyes.
And he's right.
The president was asked about, you know, the Make America Great Again slogan.
It was asked by a pastor, Carl Day, is his name, apparently from Philadelphia.
He says he voted for Jill Stein in 2016 and challenged the slogan, Make America Great.
Because you say, again, that we need to see what was that great.
I mean, that's sort of like, you know, where a lot of people didn't like Michelle for the first time in my adult life.
I'm proud of my country.
And, you know, he said it pushes us back to a time in which we cannot identify with such greatness.
Now, if Joe Biden did a town hall with Georgie Stephanopoulos, Mr. Clinton War Room himself, I wonder if they would ask him about his praise of his mentor and his friend, the former Klansman that filibustered the Civil Rights Act and fought against the Voting Rights Act, and that Joe Biden pardoned in the late 70s with to stop school integration, integration of our public schools,
and because he didn't want his kids going to schools that were racial jungles.
I wonder, I actually love to get this pastor on the show and talk to him about it.
And the president says he doesn't want a race problem.
He was very, very clear in his answer.
This country is great because of our diversity.
And I could tell you, there's no race issue.
I respect everybody of all races, he said.
This country is great because of that diversity.
And then he talked about the results that his policies have had, the impact it's had on African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, African-American youth unemployment.
Why didn't Joe and Barack do it?
A lot of talk in 50 years with Joe Biden.
Why didn't Joe do it?
Why didn't Barack do it?
Why did they sit by and barely mention anything about Barack's home city of Chicago in their eight years as president and vice president?
4,000 homicides in the city of Chicago.
Over 20,000 people shot in the city of Chicago alone.
They barely mentioned it.
They never called attention to it.
After Ferguson, after Baltimore, Cambridge, what did they do?
They could have implemented police reform.
They never did.
They both rushed to judgment and went along with a hands-up, don't shoot narrative, which one eyewitness after another debunked.
And the eyewitnesses, mostly minority, confirming Darren Wilson, the officer's story, that he was charged at the first struggle ensued when Michael Brown reached into the car and tried to grab his gun.
The gun went off while the officer was in the car.
This is after the incident where he intimidated and robbed from the guy at the convenience store just prior to the whole thing.
He charged at the officer as confirmed by numerous eyewitnesses.
But yet Obama rushed to judgment.
Eric Holder rushed to judgment.
Joe Biden rushed to judgment.
And we saw the consequences of that rush to judgment.
It was widespread belief among the media.
And again, they both rushed to judgment in Baltimore, the Freddie Gray situation.
You know, after speaking to my sources, doing our work, our due diligence, we knew there'd be no convictions there.
And I said it early.
It's not going to come out the way they're playing this.
And then it's going to raise people's expectations again for a verdict that is never going to come.
That's dangerous because people believe the media mob.
It's sad.
You know, he got an interesting question I like from Pennsylvania on the issue of, quote, unpresidential behavior.
He says, I thought his answer was perfect on this.
I'm fighting a battle.
It's a big battlefield.
I have a lot of forces against me.
Well, 99.9% of the mob in the media, that would be one of the biggest forces.
Every Democrat, they don't want him to be successful in any way.
He comes up with a historic peace deal.
They can't even say a single good word about it.
The great irony, the reason the peace deal was even possible was because of the weakness and the appeasement of Barack and Joe with the Iranian mullahs when they dumped $150 billion in cash and other currency on the tarmac of mullahs that chant death to America.
I'll play it later in the program.
The mob at the time, historic, historic, historic, historic, nothing.
We didn't get even one U.S. inspector in there.
We didn't even get a full promise that they'd never build a nuclear weapon.
We never had any place, any time inspections.
And the Iranian mullahs went right back to chanting death to America, death to Israel after they got their money.
And the president points out, I'm fighting these forces.
Sometimes you don't have time to be, as you would say, presidential when you need to get things done.
It's a perfect explanation.
What do you want for president?
Somebody that's weak and frail and obviously struggling cognitively and not remembering what day of the week it is, what state he's in, what office he's running for.
And so the president goes off, 200 judicial nominees, two Supreme Court justices, 50 circuit court judges, 150 district court judges confirmed.
And he goes, you know, I wish I had the time to be a little more presidential, but I like to get things done.
And he says, which includes moving people out of the White House that can't keep up with him.
And I could tell you, he's a tough guy to work for because he's demanding.
Now, I will tell you everybody that works on my TV and radio show, you cannot be laid back and work in this business.
You just can't.
We all work with a sense of urgency every single day.
Linda, is that a fair statement?
I mean, from the minute we all open our eyes, we're at it every day, right?
Absolutely.
Juggling 100 balls.
You know, Jason, Ethan, Katie, all working their asses off.
Stangy, everybody.
Sweet baby James, everybody.
Same with my TV staff.
There's a reason I, there's a method to my madness.
I let my staff buy anything they want for lunch every day.
I do.
My radio team, my TV team, I buy them dinner and my staff every night.
Why?
I don't want them leaving their desk.
Keep working.
I don't have time to stop and eat.
I just don't.
I don't stop and eat during the day.
You stop and eat, Linda?
I don't stop and eat.
I definitely just had some arugula.
I can't lie.
Okay, and Linda gets the orange and green, you know, puke-looking soups that are disgusting looking.
You know what I had today?
I don't even want to hear it.
I had come to the disgusting, whatever it is.
Kale list.
Kombucha.
Kombucha.
I don't even know what it is.
What is it?
It's a tea that helps with probiotics to give you good gut health.
Yeah, good gut health.
You're welcome.
That's your healthy tip of the day.
Yeah, I just, you know, for me to stay in shape, I can't even look at food.
It's the worst getting older.
That's just the worst.
That sounds like one of your martial arts programs.
What, not eating?
No, cowboy.
I mean, mostly, I'll tell you what I do.
I don't eat sweets and I eat carbs very little.
I intermittent fast a lot.
And I eat a lot of protein.
I eat, you know, beef, chicken, a lot of chopped meat with onions and American cheese on it.
It's like a Philly cheese steak that I make myself with American cheese.
Don't laugh at me in Philly.
I know the difference.
Not cheese whiz.
But I wish I could have it on a hero, on a, you know, because there's nothing better tasting in the world than bread.
I love bread.
I love pasta.
You know, I make pasta now.
I'll make my own bolognese with a watered-down version of Rayo's sensitive marinara.
And I'll literally put string beans instead of spaghetti.
Everyone likes zucchini noodles.
I don't like zucchini.
What is sensitive marinara?
I don't know, you know, tomato sauce, not good for my probiotic health.
Oh, oh, I'm just doing that.
Moving on.
No, they do.
And, you know, I strain it, and it's because I don't like thick sauces either.
I usually get two jars out of one jar because I water it down.
It's really gross, actually.
It's not gross.
And then if I'm really hungry late at night, I'll take just some of what I made and I'll just turn it into Hannity Rayo's tomato soup.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, there's nothing.
It's not a lot of extra salt in that.
Like I put the salt on everything.
I put salt on an apple.
I put salt salt.
It's so healthy.
Well, sorry.
You know, I'm just, I am who I am.
I can't help being who I am.
You're that guy who puts salt on movie popcorn.
Jeez.
100%.
You don't?
Are you kidding me?
No, no one in the rest of the world does it, Sean.
It's pretty much.
They put enough of salt on.
You're like, oh, let me get the salt on it.
I like the places that let you put your own butter on.
I like the salt.
You know, they have a special container just for you.
It's the Hannity station.
It's a tip of salt at the bottom.
Now, here's the fact.
I usually won't get it.
But if I do break down occasionally, I haven't been to a movie in ages, honestly.
With Netflix, Hulu, and Apple, you know, Prime.
Who needs it?
I mean, I wish every release would just go straight to video.
I'll buy it on the market.
A lot of them are.
Yeah.
Lately, my addiction has been blacklist on Netflix.
100%.
Fantastic.
Oh, my God.
I'm on season six, and I think I'm on episode 18.
Yeah, my favorite show in the whole world right now is Peppa Pig.
That's my world.
Yeah, Peppa Pig.
I don't even know what Peppa the Pig is.
What is Peppa?
I've heard it, but I don't even know anything about it.
It's a cartoon.
That and Paul Control, right?
Say Paul Patrol.
Yeah, Paul Patrol.
Yeah, I still don't, you know, I'm like, what is that?
Don't they have, you know, the little rascals, Abbott and Costello?
No.
Don't they have a lot of people?
Although, my son loves, my son loves the original Popeye.
I thought I taught Poodycat.
I did.
I did.
I did taught him.
No, that's not Popeye.
Popeye is all about olive cats.
No, no, I like Popeye.
I'm a little bit of a big fire, man.
Yeah, he had a little crush on olive oil.
A little.
That would be an understanding.
He had a Joe Biden crush on olive oil.
Yeah, that's true, too.
Oh, man.
Folks, it's 48 days.
Live free or die.
You know, we're getting a little giddy here.
Come on, man.
You junkie.
Play the whole thing just to make me feel better.
You got the whole thing there, JCL?
Go ahead, hit it.
Just play it quick.
I want to hear it quick.
Go ahead.
Hell, he doesn't have time to get it.
All right.
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You know, it's funny watching Joe Biden giving his coronavirus.
You know, I trust science.
I trust vaccines.
I don't trust Trump.
Well, Donald Trump, it was only Operation Warp speed that he put in place that is bringing us to the precipice, hopefully, of a vaccine that'll save lives.
You know, it's funny because we went back and we looked.
The day, remember, the 10 days after the first identified case of coronavirus in America, the first case was January 21st of this year.
10 days later, the president, against even the advice of all of his medical team, because the big debate from last night is, well, I didn't downplay.
I upplayed the virus.
What the president was saying is, well, I put the travel ban in effect 10 days after the first identified case of coronavirus.
And then he followed that up with the first quarantine in over 50 years.
Then all the way through January, February, and late into March, Joe Biden was out there, I guess, sucking up to, you know, China, wanting another $1.5 billion, perhaps, for the ever not experienced hunter to get the, what, $1.5 billion deal with the Bank of China.
I would think that would go to, you know, companies like Morgan Stanley or, you know, Goldman Sachs or, I don't know, Deutsche Bank, to name a few.
But he kept saying it's hysterical xenophobia and fear mongering.
No, the president, that one decision alone, I don't think we can ever calculate how many Americans were spared from contracting the virus.
And then, you know, mathematically building out from there, maybe it bought us valuable time that was necessary to build up, you know, our response to this thing.
Everybody had gotten it wrong.
The experts were wrong.
The models were wrong.
Everybody was wrong.
But now here we are on the precipice.
We got FISA saying that we might have final trials on humans done and a vaccine sometime in mid to late October of this year.
You never been able in history to break down the sequence of a virus like this ever, which is a tribute.
You know, from the very beginning, I did say one thing I was right about, that I believe in our medical researchers in this country, our scientists in this country, our medical community, our doctors, our nurses, they're amazing people.
Everybody I know that goes into medicine or medical research, they do it because they love saving lives.
It's a calling of theirs.
And speaking of such a person, Dr. Oz is back with us for an update on a lot of things as it relates to the virus.
Sir, how are you?
Doing very well.
And it has been a very hot several weeks, but you're right.
The vaccine program is moving much more rapidly than anyone had anticipated.
I've had countless experts on my show.
Most predicted it would be in the middle of next summer.
I just, this, you know, we started our 12th season this week.
And so to kick it off, I had to White House Task Force come home.
Thank you very much.
And the White House Task Force gave it both the testing czar, Gerard, but also Surgeon General Adams, both of us said the same thing, which is, you know, we're actually going to finish enrolling patients in one of these 30,000 patient trials this week.
So give it six weeks, let's say, and then we should, by the end of October, beginning of November, have an idea whether the vaccine worked, which means everything else has been put in place, including pre-making the products, having the vaccines ready to go, means we can start to roll it out to first responders and to the most vulnerable among us, folks in nursing homes, et cetera.
And that takes the edge off the virus when we do that.
I couldn't say it any better myself.
The amazing thing is, is the president also has in place a plan to quickly manufacture the vaccine for as many people as possible.
You're right, the most vulnerable should be first on the list.
I totally agree with you.
And the fact that we have nine separate final stage human trials going on simultaneously, I guess you have, what, Oxford and AstraZeneca, they've now continued.
There was a brief pause, but they're now continuing their final testing stage trials.
Moderna, AstraZeneca.
I mean, you have nine separate now final stage trials going on.
That's unprecedented, isn't it?
It is unprecedented, and they pretty much guaranteed these folks are not going to waste all their money in R ⁇ D. There's going to be some reward if it's effective.
They've got to do their signs and do their homework.
They've also bonded together.
Nine companies wrote and said, listen, we're not going to rush it.
We don't want to scare America.
We're going to do this thing right.
But I want to emphasize this.
Just because it's fast doesn't mean it's rushed.
In surgery, there's a difference between a slick, elegant procedure where things look effortless and they move quickly and rushing through it and everything looks like it's hands up in the air.
And these nine companies said, we're not going to even seek government approval until we're comfortable that it's safe and effective.
And then we'll just keep going until we get those results.
And today's big news, of course, is the federal government outlined this sweeping plan to allow this vaccine to be available free to all Americans.
I know not everyone listening wants the vaccine.
A third of you are not waving, nodding your heads backwards and back and forth, saying there's no way I'm getting that.
I do believe over time, despite that skepticism, as people get the vaccine and we don't see lots of complications, more and more Americans will get comfortable.
And just mathematically, we don't have to get everybody vaccinated.
We have to have enough people vaccinated, let's say two-thirds of the population, so we get herd immunity.
And then this virus becomes more of a problem that's dealt with with epidemiologists, not with frontline workers.
Listen, if I get to this data, probably, you and I have friends of mine that are doctors.
I'm going to talk to all of you.
And then I'm going to read it myself.
I'm going to read what they've discovered.
If you've got 30,000 people, let's say 29,000 of them produce antibodies with very little side effects, to me, I probably would be sold.
Am I wrong in thinking that way?
You're right to think that way.
I mean, this is the thing about vaccines.
I really do think we've mismessaged it oftentimes to America when people raise questions.
Like if a mom says, do you love my child as much as I do, Mr. CBC or whoever?
Yeah.
And that's a hard question to answer.
Well, you know, it's your child.
Of course you love them more.
So then answer my questions.
And oftentimes we treat folks who have objections like they're foolish, like they're deniers, conspiracy theorists.
And I don't want people feeling dumb.
These are very bright people raising very reasonable questions.
For example, will there be a side effect?
Darn right.
You give hundreds of millions of people anything.
You give them aspirin, right?
You give them an ibropane, give them anything.
They're going to have side effects.
The question isn't whether you have side effects.
It's are the side effects limited and not so severe that it outweighs the benefit of getting the vaccine.
If the answer to that is not clearly, yes, it's safe enough, not safe, period, but safe enough, then we shouldn't be administering it.
And then there might, but who knows?
Maybe we're going to identify people who have high risk.
Like this woman who had the complication with the AstraZeneca vaccine apparently had transverse myelitis, which is an inflammation of the spinal cord.
I've only heard that.
I don't know that for sure.
But that's a bad complication.
On the other hand, she's recovered, and maybe there's some other reason she got it.
So if you have a condition that you didn't know you had that gets exposed, revealed by the vaccine, it's not fair to blame that on the vaccine.
But if it's a legitimate problem, believe me, no one wants to push, especially the companies, a failed vaccine that's going to blow up on their face.
However, we as a public need to be open-minded enough to at least consider the option.
I mean, let's take the flu vaccine, where less than half the population gets the flu vaccine every year.
I get it every year because I'm a doctor, so we don't have a choice, right?
You don't want me carrying the flu from one patient to the next.
But there's just new data today, something about your show brings out new data every time.
New data today showing that people who got the flu vaccine seem to have less COVID, both from this country and Italy.
People who had COVID had less often been immunized, and people who got immunized less often got the COVID.
And this is an interesting phenomenon, and we have a reason why we think it's so.
We think the flu itself increases the receptors that the COVID virus uses to get into us.
So by avoiding the flu, you avoid COVID-19, but you definitely don't want the twindemic with both together.
And on my show, I'm hammering this point home.
I'm not making you feel badly about the flu, but if you look at this and you want to do yourself a favor, plus avoid the confusion of whether your sickness is the flu or COVID-19, which is nice to do, then this is a pretty good year to get the vaccine, and it's already out.
So I get the vaccine every year.
Listen, I'll be very honest, Dr. Oz.
I mean, I'm pretty much of a pro-choice guy, libertarian guy.
I wouldn't want to mandate any of this.
Like, for example, I've given you the reasons why I like the idea of people wear masks because what I saw anecdotally where I live, I don't think you can mandate it.
I mean, Biden wants a national face covering mandate as president.
He's reversed himself three separate times now on this issue and just did again.
But the idea is, you know, my reasons are personal.
I wouldn't want to get somebody else's mom and dad that might be vulnerable sick.
I wouldn't want grandma and grandpa to get sick, somebody that really could die from this.
I'm in relatively good health.
I don't think I'd be at that big a risk.
I think therapeutics have come a long way, but that's why, you know, me, I've wanted to get to sports games, although right now I've kind of just given up.
You know, the one place I'd like to see no politics, two places.
One, no more politics in medicine, no more politics in sports.
I think people, you know, look to these, you know, those are two areas where we could just have a release and just enjoy the unity of enjoying a time out in the, you know, out in the stadium having fun with each other.
Well, I think you are echoing what most Americans feel on both sides of the aisle.
We have to have some sacred spaces where, you know, as we've choked about, it's not so funny anymore, but when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics.
And I think it tends to destroy our culture when we let politics invade areas that have been sacred to date.
That's why decisions like the flu vaccine and wearing masks, you can't force people to do things that are better, that are in their best interest.
It becomes very difficult to enforce.
I mean, even, I mean, there's so many examples.
We've run out of time talking about them, but I think this is a good example where if folks actually just sort of sit back and energetically don't feel like they're being insulted, if they're respected for their questions and honored for a good answer, the vast majority of people come on board.
I got to tell you, Phil, I have never, when I operate on patients, and I'm still doing surgery at New York Presbyterian, I always tell folks who are smokers, because after an amount of the meat heart surgery, that I'm not going to operate until they stop smoking.
Because my only chance to get them to really listen is before I operate.
But I've never, never not had to operate on somebody.
People will always come along if you just give them the love and the caring and the nurturing and the respect.
And I think it's the same thing for masks.
I mean, look, mask usage is way up in America.
People got the message.
There was understandably confusion and resentment when they were told not to wear a mask.
It was stupid and then told if they don't wear a mask, they're stupid.
Well, you know, people get upset about that, understandably.
But over time, it grows.
I think this year we're going to have more people get the flu vaccine than ever because they're going to understand what I just said, even though news just came out today.
It was spreading wildfire.
Well, what about the study arguing that getting the flu vaccine will reduce the number of COVID infections?
I don't know anything about it.
Well, that was the data from Europe.
They based it in Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Spain.
And in Italy in particular, people, places that had higher rates of flu vaccination had lower rates of death from COVID-19.
And then that data just coming out.
And then the U.S. study just looked at people like COVID.
11,000 people had COVID infections.
They just asked the question, did you get the flu vaccine?
And people who had the flu vaccine were much less likely to have a COVID-19 infection than people who did have the infection.
So now we're starting to understand mechanistically why that's so.
But if it's the truth, and again, these are just associations.
We can't say that one caused the other.
But, you know, when you look at coincidences in two different continents, you begin to think, well, maybe I'm going to get the flu vaccine this year.
Independent of all of you.
I normally get it.
When's a good time to get it for me?
I mean, I'm not telling other people what to do.
Now, right now.
Go to like your local CBS or right aide.
I go to my local right aide.
The same lady gives it to me every year.
She's great.
Don't cross, go, don't pay $200.
Don't click $200.
Rather, just go out and get the vaccine.
There's no benefit from not doing it.
And it can't hurt you.
I mean, look, I've gotten it every year.
But again, I understand the people that don't.
I don't understand the people that don't want to vaccinate their kids.
I mean, now you run into real serious ethical, religious conflicts and constitutional issues.
I just, for me, I do believe in science.
I do believe in vaccine.
I have faith in medical research and great doctors like yourself that devote their whole lives to helping to save lives.
And again, sometimes we go to war with the army we have, not the one we wish we had, as you said so often throughout this pandemic.
But all right, congratulations.
You started your 12th season.
Dr. Roz, we'll be getting more news on this vaccine in the days and weeks ahead.
And we look forward to having you back and often, and we appreciate your expertise.
Thank you, sir.
Well, God bless you for all you do.
Stay well.
Take care.
So we have huge developments, by the way.
We're not giving up.
There are signs.
There's a fever pitch of speculation as it relates to John Durham and whether or not there is a grand jury convened.
There is Ron Johnson's committee has now summoned Brennan Clapper and Comey.
They're going to be coming in.
The House of Representatives and also the Senate now are investigating the 27 phones of Mueller's team wiped clean with the flimsy excuse, oh, we just put in the wrong password too many times, and then that wipes the phone completely clean.
Well, I've never heard of that.
No, I've been stupid enough.
I was out fishing once.
I dropped my phone in the water.
Yeah, I didn't find it.
You know, you can damage your phone.
I treat my phones like crap, basically throw them all over the place, not throw them out of anger, by the way, in case you're interested.
But, you know, I mean, I just drop it, you know, let it hang in my pocket, falls here, falls there.
Eventually, you just get a new one.
That's what I do.
But I don't take a hammer to my devices.
And I don't use bleach pit.
I didn't even know what bleach pit was until Hillary.
All these people that at the likes of the pit bull of Mueller, Andrew Weissman going after process crimes, lying to Congress, really, and then they're involved in cleaning their phones, all of them, with that flimsy excuse.
Anyway, we're going to get an update from John Solomon and Sidney Powell coming up.
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In our quest to hold people accountable, it is now getting extraordinarily loud that in terms of movement with the Durham investigation, speculation of a Durham interim report, speculation at, well, we already have, for example, one guilty plea, and that's the FBI guy, Klein Smith, pressure building on the Justice Department.
Democrats, oh, you can't do anything before the election.
Bill Barr addressed all of these issues when he was on NBC News.
Let's play the Attorney General from earlier the week.
Let me ask you finally about the Durham report.
Is John Durham nearing the end of his investigation?
Yeah, I'm not going to characterize exactly where he is.
I'll just leave it at that.
Okay.
Would you say it's unlikely that there'll be further criminal charges?
No, I wouldn't say that at all.
No.
So there could be.
Yeah, there could be.
Will we hear anything about the Durham report before the election?
Yeah, I'm not going to get into that either.
Well, could there, for example, be an interim report?
I'm not going to get into what there might be.
Well, how about the question this way?
If there is an interim report before the election, won't some people think that that's an attempt to influence the election?
Or would that be a fair accusation if there were an interim report?
Well, this is sort of a hypo or a hypo.
Why not?
Okay, but I'll just say, yeah, nowadays there are people who will say anything, and you can almost bank on the fact as to what they're going to say.
And I don't let that bother me.
I'm going to do what I think is right and in the public interest.
You wouldn't be concerned if there were an interim report.
It depends on what the report said.
And, you know, as I've already said, you know, I'm conscious of the election, and I don't think any of the things that are being worked on are going to have an adverse effect on that.
And I also think there's strong public interest involved as well.
What would be the utility, though, in an interim report?
Why not wait till it's done?
Well, I haven't said there is going to be one, and that's a hard question to answer in the abstract.
All right, that and other news that we have, Republican Representative from Georgia, Doug Collins, has now demanded that Apple CEO Tim Cook provide information on the iPhone's feature that wipes phone data after a certain number of failed passcode attempts.
Now, this is in direct response to the acknowledgement that 27 specific phones, including two by Mueller's pit bull, Andrew Weissman, oh, they all just happened to be erased and they all made the same silly error.
They put in the wrong passcode too many times.
I don't believe that at all.
We also know that Mueller's team had had Lisa Page's phone.
It claimed was lost according to emails.
That just broke today.
Also, the Senate Homeland Security Committee has now authorized subpoenas for testimonies from Obama officials as part of the Durham investigation and the ongoing quest for justice.
And that would include Brennan and Clapper and James Comey himself, Mr. Super Patriot, you know, Mr. Higher Honor with no honor.
And Bill Barr confirming, yeah, there could be more criminal charges here.
And on top of that, justenews.com, John Solomon reporting, the State Department reported that Burisma paid a bribe while Hunter Biden was serving on the board.
Again, ignored by the mob and the media.
Here for updates on all of this.
Sidney Powell, she wrote the book about prosecutorial abuse called License to Lie.
She's the lead counsel for General Michael Flynn, who still deserves, in his case, equal justice under the law, which he hasn't gotten.
John Solomon, editor-in-chief for justthenews.com.
John, we'll start on the news side first.
Let's talk about these new developments, the wipe phones, the Durham Report, now Braun Johnson's committee calling these people back in.
Where does all of it stand?
Because we're beginning to hear a lot of chatter now.
Yeah, listen, I think the noose is closing in on people who've been able to escape and rope a dope and obfuscate their role in the FBI investigation and the pursuit of Sidney's client, General Flynn.
We now know the body of evidence that surrounds the conduct, and now it's time to bring these witnesses back in and ask them the hard questions that they escaped in earlier hearings in the IG investigation.
We now know that General Flynn was pursued specifically after he had been cleared of wrongdoing.
There was no legal basis to interview Mike Flynn except to extend the investigation and create the possibility of a perjury trap.
That's the Justice Department's conclusion.
It's certainly what Sidney Powell has powerfully argued for a long time.
That sort of conduct.
Who ordered it?
Why did you do it?
Was Barack Obama?
Well, we already know who ordered the interview.
I sent them in.
You know, Mr. Higher Honor himself made the call, something he wouldn't do in an Obama or Bush administration.
He ambushed General Flynn, and he knew better.
There's something very important.
The weekend that this is all playing out, James Comey can own it because he's owned a lot of things, usually things that turned out badly.
But there's communications between him and McCabe that weekend.
There were communications between the FBI, people working the case, and there is clear evidence of communication with the White House.
We need to know what were McCabe and Comey and their top people talking about and what influence the White House was potentially.
But their phones were wiped clean too, John.
Apparently, everybody can wipe them clean unless you, you know, the only people that spend any time in jail or get charged are conservatives for process crimes.
There's a dual justice system.
That's where it exists now.
Sidney Powell, I think John brings up a lot of good points, especially as it relates to General Flynn.
Oh, definitely he does.
I mean, we've known all along they've been hiding evidence that showed General Flynn was innocent.
There's still more of it out there.
We still don't have the original 302 from the FBI or the next draft that we can identify existed from the Strzok page text messages.
And now I'm understanding there are additional messages or evidence of messages between the White House and Comey and McCabe, all evidencing the setup.
Well, that would be the Brady material that Judge Emmett Sullivan lectured you about in court said didn't exist.
Oh, exactly.
Yes, his 92-page decision saying there was none and nothing had to be produced to us when the government has now itself found and identified more than 100 pages of extremely disturbing evidence that shows General Flynn was set up and framed and has produced that in its motion to dismiss, which Judge Sullivan and his Amica simply ignore.
At the end of this, I would hold Judge Emmett Sullivan personally responsible.
There's some political agenda in play here.
I don't know what it is.
But, you know, he's dug his heels in on this so deep that it's almost breathtaking in terms of the injustice.
Let's talk about the phones that are wiped clean, Sidney.
I don't know.
I just believe that if I had phones and they were subpoenaed or they had evidence on them that they knew that they were going to need, in the case of Mueller's entire team, 27 phones, two by your friend Andrew Weissman, and they all claim basically the same error that, you know, oh, we put in the wrong password too often.
Had to wipe it clean.
I never heard of that as something that would force a phone to be wiped clean.
Have you?
No, that's they're obviously lying.
So now we not only have a conspiracy to destroy evidence, we have false statements to the government investigators that ask about the phones.
And all of those people should be indicted for that conduct.
They have certainly sent people to prison themselves for far less obvious destruction of evidence.
Well, it seems to me that we have a two-tier justice system, John Solomon, because, you know, Hillary Clinton got away with, let's see, deleting subpoenaed emails, bleach pit, hammers, devices, SIM cards removed.
She got away with all of it.
Why wouldn't the deep state get away with all of it?
Why wouldn't Mueller's team get away with all of it?
Well, thus far, they've had a perfect record of getting away with it.
But I want to point out something that I think we all forgot.
Remember, originally, Strzok and Page's phones were wiped, and the Inspector General was able to recoup most of those messages.
Here's a dirty little secret about these phones.
The two primary ways, or three ways you communicate, phone calls, text messages, and email are all backed up on internal servers in the FBI.
So there could still be, despite the craftiness of the Mueller crowd, there could still very well be the text message, email records, and phone records, the LUDs, the long-distance call records for each phone.
Wiping them doesn't take them off the server.
Now, if they're missing from the server, we have a Rosemary Wood Nixon cover-up, right?
But I'm hearing that there's a strong possibility that despite their craftiness, they may have left their trail behind on these servers, something they didn't count on.
Well, that'd be pretty interesting.
The NSA certainly should have them.
I mean, the NSA has everything.
They certainly ought to be able to get these messages.
Well, I mean, that's an open question, or is it?
Because we've had people like Bill Benny and others on this program that say that everything is backed up.
Now, the government has denied it in the past.
Do they have everything or do they not have everything?
Well, my sources tell me they do.
It's just a matter of getting it.
Then why didn't we get 33,000 emails that Hillary deleted?
Because she moved them on.
And plus, we know they're on Weiner's laptop, which the FBI deliberately ignored.
I mean, where is Weiner's laptop?
And if that was destroyed, then somebody needs to be prosecuted for that.
I'm sure that's somewhere in the Hudson River at this point.
John.
Yeah.
Listen, I think that these are all great questions.
I think there's another set of documents that all should start getting ready to focus on.
Mike Flynn was clearly unmasked dozens of times by dozens of Obama officials.
He wasn't the only Trump official.
I believe we are near learning that there were many other Trump officials monitored by the Obama administration, unmasked their conversations.
And if, hey, if we're going to unmask the data that we have on Trump, maybe it's time to unmask the data we have on people like Andrew Weissman and Bob Mueller.
Let's find out why they have.
The NSA has these records.
That's why all that unmasking was going on.
I am told we're going to find out soon that many more Trump-related figures had their phone conversations monitored, spied on through unmasking.
That's something that I think we're going to learn before the election.
Interesting.
Do either of you see indictments?
Do we have any evidence that grand jury's been convened as it relates to the Durham investigation?
I have seen a little bit of activity consistent with grand jury activity, but not a lot.
And I have a strong sense from the reporting I've done the last five to 10 days that this investigation is hunkering down for a longer haul.
It won't be wrapped up by Election Day.
There may be some actions before Election Day, as the Attorney General has said.
But I get a sense that there is a longer, more persistent investigation that is going to live beyond the election, which makes this election all the more important for people to do.
Well, if Joe Biden were to win the election, this whole investigation stops on January 20th.
That's right.
That's right.
And by the way.
We're going to re-elect President Trump.
We must re-elect President Trump if we want any hope for the rule of law being restored in this country.
When is General Flynn going to be set free?
He's literally lost, you know, what, four years of this man's life been put on hold as a result of all of this abuse of power.
And, you know, the guy has to sell his home.
I mean, thank God you have a legal defense so people like you can continue to work for him.
And finally, eventually, I know justice is coming.
The president spoke out forcefully about the treatment of General Flynn.
When does this man get his life back?
And when and where does he go to get his good name back?
I wish I knew the answer to that question, Sean.
Our next hearing date is the 29th in Judge Sullivan's courtroom.
But at this point, I have no confidence that he is going to do what the law requires him to do in terms of granting the motion to dismiss.
So there will probably be further litigation following that.
It was Ray Donovan that said after an investigation into him, where do I go to get my good name back?
All right, Sidney Powell, thanks for updating us.
Please send our best to your client, General Flynn.
He is an American hero.
John Solomon, thank you.
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Let's get back to our phones here.
We've got 90 seconds.
We're going to give it to Becky is in Arizona.
Becky, Arizona's very tight.
It's very important.
In 48 days, the great state of Arizona votes for the president.
And I hope you'll keep Martha McSally as your senator.
I do too.
And you'd be surprised how many Arizonans are for Trump.
I hope you're right.
We need Arizona.
We could use Nevada and New Mexico, too, just saying, while we're out there, go ahead.
Oh, I know.
Well, I just wanted to notice that we have a young Trump versus an old Biden.
Trump, I've noticed just since Thursday, has run around and been doing interviews and medals and going to states and peace medals and talked.
He's like the four corners of the United States in the four corners of the world.
Well, you've got old Biden hardly visible.
He's hidden.
He shuffles.
He mumbles.
He's kind of like hungry down in his basement.
He only knows the four corners of his basement.
And that's the difference between the two candidates.
I bet you the president never thought he'd be called young, but that's how he looks.
Well, I think, listen, he's the energizer, Bonnie.
And he's running against, you know, a weak of frail and exhausted and confused Joe Biden.
That's what's at stake.
I can't even believe this is a race, but I guess half the country is nuts.
But what are you going to do?
And the media mob as well.
All right.
We're counting on you, Becky.
You pull in Arizona for us in 48 days.
We need it.
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I tried to blame him for some of the Native American conflicts, but it was too long ago.
I couldn't find a way in.
I'm shocked, Bill, because, you know, whatever, any tawdry gossip, any anti-Trump screed seems to, you know, it has an audience.
It's a niche audience.
And it doesn't matter whatever conspiracy theory it is, they will advance it.
All things Donald Trump.
And I'm going to tell you one other thing.
The media and the publishing world are going to hate it if Donald Trump doesn't win in 48 days.
Absolutely.
So is the network TV news.
I'm not going to have anything to talk about.
But I have a call onto Bob Woodward.
I'm going to talk to him about how I can write a sequel to Killing Crazy Horse and get Trump in there somehow.
Maybe he's got some tapes of conversations.
The simple man theme I love, by the way, and I like the song.
But let me give you a real simple man analysis of the charge because it's sticking somewhat that Donald Trump misled the nation about COVID, and that's why the United States has so many cases.
So I'm researching India, the second most populated country in the world.
They have a prime minister named Modi, M-O-D-I.
Now, India is not like the United States.
It's very poor, and their mass communication system is not anything like ours is.
But Modi was pretty upfront with the Indian population saying, look, this is pretty bad, and everybody's got to wear a mask.
And the Indian population pretty much does what they're told.
They're not a defiant population like the USA.
So now we have this unbelievable resurgence of COVID in India.
So did Modi lie to the people?
Did he mislead?
And the same thing with Macron in France.
I mean, this is so bogus.
So I'd love to interview Bob Woodward myself.
He wouldn't do it.
And I said, well, you're drawing conclusions from a charge that Donald Trump, by his own words, underplayed the virus.
Well, he did it, and you know this because he didn't want to tank the markets.
Now, the president did make a mistake last night.
I want to ask you about this, when he says, well, I didn't really underplay it.
I overplayed it.
He said that in the town hall.
I thought that was a mistake because he sends a confusing message now.
I know why he, in the beginning, took an optimistic view, and I think I would have done that had I been president.
I don't want to tank the economy.
Leaders don't do that, Bill.
Can I give you your answer to your question?
Yep, absolutely.
Because what the president is really saying, and maybe, and he's not communicating it effectively, I will give, I'll concede the point to you, and that is overplaying it, meaning he put the travel ban in effect 10 days after the first identified case of Corona.
Bill, that one decision that Joe called hysterical xenophobia and fear-mongering saved literally hundreds of thousands of Americans from contracting the virus.
It bought us valuable time.
How many tens of thousands more Americans would have died?
He put the first quarantine in effect in over 50 years.
So his actions were overplaying it because nobody thought he should go that far.
Nobody.
But he did it anyway.
Now, he was saying he was instilling confidence, meaning he didn't want to scare the crap out of people.
I think he could have said, I think he could say it better, but that's what he said.
Last night, exactly what you said now.
He said, my actions showed that I didn't underplay the threat of the virus.
But he didn't say it strong enough.
So, people are confused now.
And you saw it today with the Trump-hating press.
Well, you heard him with Woodward.
He said he underplayed it on purpose, and now he said he overplayed it by it, but they didn't say by his actions.
Now, I understand it.
You understand it because we're professionals and we analyze this kind of stuff.
But the electorate does not understand it.
And that's the message I'd like to get to President Trump because I know he listens to your show and you talk with him.
You've got to be precise in your language.
In this environment, Bill, I agree with you to a point.
He could be more clear on that point.
It is very clear his actions show he was taking it more seriously than anybody else at the time.
That's true.
Now, with that said, Bill, I'm going to tell you something.
I am telling you that if he cured cancer, they would impeach him over it.
That's how sick they've gotten.
Well, listen, yesterday, CNN, in the middle of the White House ceremony, telling the world what an extraordinary achievement it is that Arab nations are now forging alliance with Israel.
What did CNN do?
Oh, they don't have masks on.
They're not wearing their masks.
Look at that.
It was absurd.
It's like the way Jared Kushner pounded Wolfie Blitzer the other day because he said, well, I watched your coverage during the, quote, peaceful protests that weren't exactly peaceful as you were characterizing them.
I mean, the infamous photo now is hilarious.
It's mostly peaceful, a reporter from fake news, CNN.
And right behind him, it looks like the whole entire freaking city is up in flames.
I mean, you can't make this crap up.
Well, CNN has ruined itself forever.
Nobody's ever going to trust that network again.
Even the people who sympathize with their liberal point of view aren't going to trust them because they know they're in the bag.
But look, you and I both know what the key day is for the election of 2020, and that is September 29th in Cleveland, Ohio.
And I am suggesting respectfully to President Trump that between now and then he practice being precise in his language during that debate because you and I both know Joe Biden is incapable of being precise in language.
Because with all due respect, and I mean that seriously, Mr. Biden does not know what he is saying.
He's weak.
He is frail.
And Bill, I'm saying this charitably.
And frankly, it's painful to watch.
I mean, yesterday it was painful to watch him when he came out, you know, playing the song on his iPhone.
It was beyond bizarre.
Every day it gets more bizarre.
He's in cognitive decline, Bill.
I don't know the exact term or diagnosis, but he's not.
If he ever had a fastball, he doesn't have a fastball anymore.
I'll give you the scientific term, the exact term, so that you have it.
Okay, are you ready for the term?
I'm ready.
He's befuddled.
That's the term.
Is that the word of the day?
Yeah, that's the word of the day.
He's befuddled.
That's it.
No, I'm sitting there with my finger on the dump button.
I'm like, all right, what's O'Reilly going to call it?
What trouble is he going to get me in today?
You're like Facebook.
You want to censor me, Anthony?
You know what?
Because you don't censor yourself, which is the problem.
I mean, for a simple guy, you would think that, you know, God only knows what's coming flying out of that mouth of yours anymore.
I just gave you a simple word befuddled.
I'm befuddled.
Okay, but you know what?
It's the other words that I thought you might say that concern me.
Well, thanks for looking after me.
But you know my point is correct.
The more precise Donald Trump can be...
Listen, it's very easy for us to sit here on the silence.
I actually thought.
Now, by the way, you know, they only got 3.8 million viewers on ABC last time.
I know.
You know, and by the way, it hurts my show when he's on, you know, another network because obviously my audience are, you know, full of Trump supporters, or a significant portion of them.
And I'm fine with that.
I think it's good for the president to do it.
I don't think Joe could handle it.
I don't think Joe Biden, even with a media-friendly, you know, all his media alliance.
Listen to this.
That's how crazy this is.
So ABC offers Biden a time.
So we'll give him 90 minutes to have a town hall.
And what did the Biden campaign say to little Georgie Stephanopoulos?
No.
We can't fit you into the schedule.
What schedule?
What schedule?
He's in the basement.
He's in the bunker.
You're taking the shower?
What are you doing?
What do you mean, it's schedule?
You're going out and watering the flowers?
I mean, look, just step back.
You want to give him 90 minutes of softball time on ABC and you can't find it in your schedule to do it?
Come on.
Because, Bill, Bill, you saw the video.
I'll play the audio version.
I mean, literally, a young woman asks a very simple question, and any candidate should be able to just off the cuff give a very simple answer, especially if you want to be president.
Look, I said yesterday, I wouldn't hire this guy to run a busy McDonald's because I don't think he's up to the job.
Listen to what he says.
Move up, please.
He needs a teleprompter for the answer.
Listen.
And I would like to know: what will your administration do to help them give them that chance?
Thank you.
Move it up here.
You know, there used to be a basic bargain in this country.
Workers shared in the wealth.
Stop right there.
The two things I observed, Bill.
One is move it up here.
Move it up here.
You know, my kids would come in my studio at times when they were growing up.
Daddy, why are you yelling into the microphone?
I'm like, well, I could say, hi.
I'm Sean Hannity.
Welcome to the show.
1-800-941-Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
I said, I don't know why, but the first time the light went on, Bill, hello, how are you?
Glad you are with us.
I don't know where it came from, Bill.
I have no idea, but it came out naturally because I know you have to be more animated to get anybody's attention on radio.
Listen, all the people listening to us on your 600-plus affiliated stations understand the difference between President Trump and Joe Biden.
They would not be listening to the radio program if they didn't understand.
They have it.
But the people who are slow learners, who are uninformed, they are going to make the difference.
And that's why I'm saying this debate on the 29th of September is going to be the most widely watched debate in the history of debates all over the world.
The more precise Donald Trump can be.
All right, stay right there.
Bill O'Reilly, stay right there.
I'm even going to play, I'm going to hold you over for a couple of minutes into the next segment.
You've earned, I want to play the difference between how the mob and the media went nuts over the Iranian nuclear deal versus how they downplayed the peace agreements yesterday.
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The question is this.
Maybe the event that'll define this election hasn't happened yet.
Maybe it will be the debates.
There's three of them.
The first one is two weeks from yesterday, so 13 days.
And I agree the president needs to be clear, but I would also say, look, I would assume, and I'm being charitable again, that they're going to, Joe Biden's going to be drinking a lot of caffeine that day.
So I would assume he's going to be somewhat competent.
But I think Joe has a hard time staying focused on answering a question.
Now, I have a little bit of that problem myself sometimes, but his is particularly acute.
And I think the president asking him questions without being rude.
How do you do it?
How do you thread that needle?
It's not hard because Chris Wallace is a moderator and you can expect him to open with a tough one on Trump, maybe use a little tape in a contradictory manner, what Wallace is going to do, in my opinion.
So, look, you said this about COVID, but then you said this.
What's the deal?
Why are you contradictory?
That's probably how he'll open to President Trump.
Then for Biden, who will go second, he'll open with a like question.
It'll be tough because, again, we discussed this last week.
Chris Wallace has to live up to the legacy of his father.
And so he's not going to be a cupcake with either of them.
But neither candidate, in my opinion, will answer any of Chris Wallace's questions.
They'll just wander off to where they want to go because the debate structure is you have a minute 20 to answer and then 30 seconds to answer a follow-up.
Wallace can't jump in like I do and you do and say, hey, Pinhead, you're not answering a question.
He can't do that.
And Trump can't.
No, they can just wander.
So if I'm Trump, you're absolutely right.
I turned to Biden on a number of times in that 90-minute forum and I say, hey, you know, Joe, this is really bothering me.
And what is Wallace going to do?
He can't do anything.
He can't throw anything at the guy.
So Trump can control the debate, just like he said.
Jeb Bush is boring.
All right.
Ted Cruz is lying, Ted.
Remember that?
He destroyed his competition on his stage.
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I'm going to play him some tape of media bias when we get back.
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All right, so I want to play two things.
Now, this is three minutes' worth of tape I'm playing, Bill.
It's an eternity.
You can probably barely have the patience to focus that long yourself, but we're going to need you to focus in here.
All right.
It's first the media mob downplaying this historic, these historic peace agreements, which, by the way, I'm arguing, Bill, was made possible courtesy of Joe and Barack in that ridiculous deal with the Iranians where they gave $150 billion to mullers that chant death to Israel, death to America.
And they got nothing in that deal.
They didn't get any place, anytime inspections.
They didn't even get a long commitment not to build nuclear weapons.
They didn't even get American inspectors included in the deal.
They got nothing.
The Iranians took them for all that money.
It was the worst deal in history, but it did create an unprecedented alliance that has emerged, which is the U.S., Israel, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Emirates, now Bahrain.
And that is that they're all standing united against Iranian hegemony.
And I do believe that we're going to see more historic deals, assuming Donald Trump's still the president.
So anyway, we'll play the media downplaying yesterday's agreements, and then we'll compare how they went nuts over the Iranian deal that was the worst deal in history.
Listen.
Of course, on a week where we've seen the president really throw caution to the wind when it comes to these COVID-19 precautions, John, we are seeing it amplified here once again on the South Fawn of the White House.
The campaign already putting ads up on Facebook to describe this as the achievement of a peace deal.
Of course, there was no actual conflict, no war between these countries.
It is a big agreement.
It cannot avert the fact that there's another major headline here, and that is a coronavirus lockdown with record-breaking numbers.
That is a headline.
You know, Peter, this deal is a bit uncomfortable for a lot of observers to watch because it seems so transactional.
It's as if pulling out of the Iran deal is what got these Gulf states on board to do this, you know, to then recognize it.
It feels like there is a lot of quid pro quos involved in this, that it isn't something larger than that.
Then again, sometimes Middle East diplomacy, the only way to make things move is through the transactional nature of the region.
The U.S. and world powers reaching a major agreement with Iran, blocking one of our biggest rivals from developing a nuclear weapon.
We are following the breaking news here of this historic understanding with Iran.
It is definitely an historic moment.
It is a historic agreement, frankly.
A historic understanding, and quote, good deal, but there is, of course, still much work to be done.
A lot of what happened today does not happen every day.
This was a historic deal on a historic day.
Indeed, an historic day.
You bet.
We've got more news on today's historic deal with Iran.
Historic potential deal.
We'll have more on this historic day.
Historic news out of Switzerland.
They had the Republican reaction to the historic nuclear agreement.
And while today's agreement is historic, probably the same thing.
I'm going to stop there, Bill O'Reilly.
I can't even take it anymore.
But I mean, there you have it.
Does it get any more clear?
I have a question for you.
Do you think the media thought the Iranian deal was historic?
Yeah, Bill.
State-run TV, the Humpty-Dumpty Mr. Potato Head Network leads the way.
Yes, I agree.
Yeah, everybody knows.
And everybody knows that the media is, in general, dishonest, corrupt, wants to impose left-wing culture on the nation, doesn't feel that we are a noble country, doesn't want our traditions to be upheld.
And that's really what we're voting for, Hannity, in November.
I don't think it's about Trump versus Biden.
I think it's about: do you like America?
Do you respect its traditions of freeing billions of people all over the world and giving opportunity to more people than any other nation that's ever existed?
Do you want to continue that?
Or do you want Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to be telling Joe Biden what he should do?
Next week, he'll explain how Talking Points, once again, talks to Talking Points, because I didn't understand the last explanation.
We're just kidding.
All right, Bill O'Reilly, thank you.
All right, let's get to the phones here.
We will say hi to Jane in New Jersey.
Hey, Jane, how are you doing?
What's going on in Jersey?
Oh, please, everything.
High taxes.
High taxes and high taxes.
That's it.
Well, why don't you get the hell out of there?
I mean, everyone's asking me, Hannity, where don't you get the hell out of New York?
I'm like, I'm trying.
Because I have my mom that I still take care of, and it's very hard to leave.
So we let me ask you this: you can bring mom with you.
You can have ambulatory service take her down for you.
A lot of cases, insurance companies even carry that.
I know they do, but it's kind of hard when you're in your early 90s and you get set in your ways.
So that's hard to do.
No, I understand.
Listen, you've got to make the right decision for mom.
I admire you for that.
You love your mom.
Good for you.
Yes.
But I don't know what I'd do without you and Mark Levin, who is a source of money.
Thank me.
God bless us.
Sorry, go ahead.
Even though you get excited, but you know, of all the things that the president has accomplished, and there has been many, I think the greatest accomplishment to date is the unmasking of the Democrat Party for who they truly are.
And when I saw Nancy Pelosi's reaction to that historic Middle East agreement, she was so angry.
She was so jealous.
She was so filled with venom.
And that's the only message that the Democrat Party has.
If you want to sacrifice your national security, your health care, your education, all the freedoms that you have, because you have such a deep-seated hatred for an individual, for the president, then you're cutting your nose to spite your face.
And all these people have come to light.
We see them for who they are.
They don't care about us.
They don't care about our future.
They don't care about our rights or about freedom.
It's all about power.
And I cannot believe that Republicans don't come out and chastise her and other Democrats for what they're saying.
And just one more quick point.
I know you have a lot of calls, but when is this Durham report coming out?
I don't know.
I mean, we're sitting here day by day waiting and waiting and waiting.
And from what I'm hearing, it may not be a report necessarily.
It might be indictments.
So stay tuned.
We'll have it first.
They've not done the country a service by holding it back this long.
That's for sure.
All right, Jane, thank you.
Good call.
Florida, George next.
George, we're counting on Florida in 48 days.
Can't win the presidency, in my view, without it.
Well, you're going to have it, Sean.
If I'm on the I-4 corridor and it's going to, it's in it, and it's in it.
Well, tell me about the I-4 corridor because I've been hearing anecdotally that Joe Biden's been inundating the I-4 corridor with ads that actually show him as the energizer bunny, which we all know is false.
And the presidents and the re-election team of the president, not as many ads.
Is that true?
Well, I watched ABC last night for once in a while at Blue Moon, and I saw some of those ads.
And someone who's knowledgeable about the issues, they're all, you know, there's so much layers in that that it's not true, not true.
But for the uneducated person, you know, he is right now doing that.
But I know Trump's going to be coming around with his own strategic ads.
So it's.
No, that's all true.
Yeah, let me guess.
It's scare grandma.
And it's, let's see, he's going to take away your Medicare and he's going to take away pre-existing conditions.
They're both lies.
Most people are up on those, you know, those lies.
But the signs around here are basically 10-to-1 Trump signs.
And there's a couple Biden signs, but they're usually, you can tell it's the car's in the driveway and all you can tell who's what.
But it's not all 10 to 1.
So interesting.
So wait a minute.
You could tell somebody's politics by what car they drive?
Well, actually, with the way they paint their house, if it has like 10 colors and they're all past Bell, it doesn't surprise me that I see a Biden sign in.
Also, like you're a hippie wearing a tie-dye Grateful Dead t-shirt.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, with a little Volkswagen bug and the surfboard on top.
Yes.
But I'm over by the beach.
But yesterday, I was eating lunch and watching the historical accord, and my son walked past.
He's 20 years old.
And I said to my son, hey, do you remember the couple days ago when you asked me where I was at 9-11?
Like, what was I doing?
And it made such an impact.
And he goes, and he said, yeah.
I said, well, this is one of those times right now.
Come sit down and watch this.
And so he sat down and we watched two churchillian president of figureheads, Trump and Netanyahu, sign this historic accord.
And I told him, I said, this is going to affect your future.
This is your grandchildren and your children.
Chances are they will not be sent overseas in the Middle East.
Now, you can't tell, but this is an historical event.
And he went, hmm.
And he watched it with me for a good 15, 20 minutes.
And that's what we need to do.
We need to get our kids out of the basement and have those.
And I never, and I said to my son, I said, you know, it's not about the man.
It's about the policy.
It's about the long term.
I love his long, I liked Trump's New York swagger because I'm originally from New Jersey and I love it.
And he neutralizes the, he basically castrates the press, and that's the time that we need right now.
But in the long term, and that's what Netanyahu told, I remember him telling you that during the Obama administration, that the problem with the American voters is that we think in four-year cycles.
And when we think in four-year cycles, we think about personalities.
And that's basically what the Democrats are trying to keep us in, their dojo, talking about personalities.
And Trump and the Republicans' convention was about the future, the 10-year plan, the 20-year plan, my children's plan.
And when you see that, where I think Trump is doing a great job, people are leaving the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party has abandoned them because they don't see their future.
They don't see their grandchildren's future in their party.
Appreciate the call.
We're counting on you, George.
You got to pull out Florida for us, okay?
All right, Sean, you got it.
All right, 800-941 Sean will stay in Florida.
Rich is there.
Rich, you're up next.
Where are you living in Florida, my friend?
Hey, hey, Sean, how you doing, pal?
I'm good, buddy.
What's going on?
I'm a New York transplant.
I'm in St. Augustine, Florida.
I was thinking I moved to the most conservative area in Florida, but now I'm having an issue with my HOA.
We've had flags up from day one since I moved here.
And then once we put up a Trump flag, now all of a sudden they're banning flags.
They're banning flags.
You've got to be kidding.
In the Jacksonville area, way around St. Augustine?
Yeah, St. Augustine.
It's like about 40 minutes from Jacksonville, St. John's County.
Wow.
Well, I mean, how does the community feel about that?
I would imagine if when you have an HOA, if the majority of people feel strongly that they want to be able to put up the flag of their country, that people would stand united and say we're not taking it down.
And if enough people unite and say you should have the right to display the American flag, look, you're not talking about building a 40-foot flagpole and putting it up that way, right?
You're talking about just displaying it like what you'd see normally on, say, the 4th of July, Memorial Day weekend, right?
Correct.
It's not the American flag, Sean.
We had the American flags up, and I had my don't tread on me flag up for a month.
And then I put up my Trump Second Amendment flag, and my neighbor put up a Trump flag.
Now all of a sudden, they're going around and telling people they need to take their flags down.
And that's exactly why I'm calling you.
I've been on Facebook, and there's a lot of people outraged.
We're looking to try to do something.
You know, I mean, the best thing you can do is organize within your.
You know, the problem with these, when you buy a condo or you buy into an HOA, you're agreeing to the rules and, you know, what color you can paint your house.
They have restrictions on all sorts of things.
And, you know, unfortunately, I don't want to generalize here, but there are people that have nothing else to do in life that they worry about, you know, the tiniest of things.
And, you know, I'm kind of the civil libertarian that's saying, leave people alone.
Let them put up whatever they want to put up.
You want to put up a Black Lives Matter flag?
Go ahead.
That's not affecting me.
That's your choice.
We live in a free country.
I believe in free speech.
If you're so offended by a flag, then don't, you know, don't put it up in your house.
Now, if somebody wants to paint a house hot pink and you have an HOA, I can kind of understand them saying, you know what, it's going to reduce property values.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
You know, the son of a cop, son of a firefighter, carry a flag onto the field in Ohio.
They got suspended.
An American flag.
Unbelievable.
They will join us exclusively tonight.
Also, Carl Rove with his analysis, Tammy Bruce, Jared Kushner tonight, Senator Lindsey Graham, Herschel Walker, Trey Gowdy.
All right, Satan DVR, 9 Eastern Hannity, Fox News.
We'll see you tonight.
We'll be back here tomorrow.
As always, thank you for being with us.
As of tomorrow, 47 days, and you are the ultimate jury.
