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Jan. 19, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
01:45:56
Farewell Address from Trump

Sean looks ahead to the future of the Conservative movement and includes some remarks from President Trump as he leaves office.The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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When you thought it couldn't get any crazier, any nuttier, any more insane, Buckle up because it's getting worse by the day we're on a pardon watch today.
Reports the president may issue between 50 to 100 commutations, pardons before his term ends.
Tons of wide speculation.
From what I heard from my sources, I don't think any final decisions have been made.
Speculation that he will pardon himself or his family or both, or uh I guess Lil Wayne is on the list, and uh Julian Assange is on the list.
Why don't we bring Christopher Steele over from Great Britain instead of somebody that exposes secrets you don't want?
Why don't we do that?
Christopher Steele actively worked and admitted to the FBI working uh on sabotaging our election and manufacturing a lie to help Hillary distract from her email problem.
Unbelievable.
Priorities are messed up.
Steve Bannon on the list.
I you know, I don't know who's uh I have no idea, but I just heard they haven't even fully completely decided.
We'll get to that.
Uh we have a lot of Hunter laptop news.
Uh the guy, the repairman, uh, has now been posting a few videos online, and by the way, he'll join us on Hannity tonight on the Fox News channel.
We'll get to that.
Um, but I will tell you, these are beyond troubling times.
And I just I never thought we'd be ever debating some of the things that we are debating with such a breathtaking level of pure hypocrisy, such double standards, such inconsistencies.
I never thought that that would happen.
Never thought we'd be in a country where they now will silence and shut down any postings of the president of the United States for crying out, well, that happened with with Twitter.
And you look at the two tweets they cited, I'm like, uh sorry, there's there's nothing that would you could even say is in an incendiary here, but that's what they claimed.
Now, of course, writers and book agents and publishers signing, literally signing these petitions to prevent any publisher from ever giving Donald Trump a book deal.
They did that to Josh Hawley successfully.
Well, now he's got a new publisher.
And when his book comes out, it'll probably be bigger than it would have otherwise been.
By the way, on this very issue, just so happens.
And then you got Joe Manchin.
Well, we gotta consider removing Senator Hawley and Cruz from Congress using the 14th Amendment.
Because they called for a 10-day audit.
Well, I actually have gone back and I have a history of every Democrat that ever challenged election results, including 2016-17, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, just in mod in the modern political era.
Why pay attention to that?
Andrew Yang demanding the federal government regulate which guests can appear on any given program.
Well, who's going to decide that?
Who's going to be the decider of, well, that's not enough conservative viewpoint.
That's not enough.
Well, that would never happen.
That's 99% of the media that is co-opted by the hard radical socialist left, and it's basically all but an extension of all things Democratic Party, socialist, extreme, radical, new Green Deal agenda.
Then you've got, you know, you got a musician.
I never heard of the guy.
anyway, dropped from his record label because he went to the president's rally on January 6th.
And by the way, he never went to the Capitol.
He went back to his hotel room.
Probably opened up his mini bar and ordered room service.
I mean, it is, you know, you look at the double standard.
I mean, we'll keep playing it of every single liberal Democrat from Schumer to Pelosi to Joe and Kamala, and straight on down the line.
People that have challenged election results and people that have used incendiary language and nobody seemed to ever have a problem with it.
And now it's now it's taken on this whole other level.
I thought it was like, okay, one crazy lawyer at PBS caught on tape.
What supporting the government taking your children and sending them the re-education camps for the children of Trump supporters where they could watch PBS all day.
He's on tape saying it.
Who even thinks like that?
Never mind.
Say it.
He got fired.
MSDNC, Washington Post columnists wondering how many millions of mostly white, mostly Republican voters could be deprogrammed.
This is now the new task, the new modern liberalism.
Are you, have you ever been a Donald Trump supporter?
So-called journalists, she's not.
Katie Couric, similar question this weekend.
We played it yesterday.
According to the press wing of the Democratic Party, we the people, we all need to be deprogrammed and put in re-education camp or just outright canceled because we don't share the same political views as they do.
Broad sweeping generalizations.
I never did that to the FBI or the Intelligence Committee.
We've been over backwards to distinguish between those that we believed abused power and were corrupt and exposed to be such in great detail and the 99% of good people in those organizations.
We talked about the police officer in the George Floyd case, but we distinguished between that officer and other officers and the 99% that risked their lives to protect and serve their cities and communities.
Well, the same would go for the rioters over the summer.
That did not represent the 99% of people that were protesting peacefully, or those that that, you know, invaded the Capitol on January 6th.
That was not the vast majority of people.
Never mind Donald Trump's Trump said that day.
So many of you will peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol and let your voices be heard.
That's pretty clear.
Now over a fake news CNN, this is now rhetoric that comes up all the time.
They actually brought on a cult expert.
Now, what's fascinating about it, the guy's name is Steve Hassan.
And Mr. Hassan is a former member of quote, I'm reading from one of the articles about it on Fox News.com.
Uh unification church cult, they call it, who wrote a book on how he believes Trump uses mind control to sway his most devoted fans.
And he expressed fear of possible violence from Trump supporters after his election loss.
Well, why didn't any prominent Democrats speak out about the rioting, the looting, the arson, the assault on police officers, the burning of police precincts, the taking over of police precincts, the attempts to burn down court buildings, and everything else we saw last summer.
Same people were shockingly quiet.
So this is a guy who's admitting he was in a cult at the time himself.
So he claims.
Then you have now even it got worse.
This now narrative advances.
And over at the View, what's her name?
Sonny Hostin?
I don't know how to pronounce her name.
How do you pronounce her last name?
anybody know?
Hostin, okay.
Well, anyway, she's out there saying, you know, it was defense is going to be this is a witch hunt.
This is a witch hunt against me.
So of course I could try to pardon myself because everyone's out to get me.
And guess what?
74 million people believe that because they have been brainwashed, Joy, I believe they've been brainwashed by this misinformation campaign over fake news CNN.
Don Lemon, every Trump voter is a Nazi and a Klansman, and then doubled down on it the next night.
Unbelievable.
Um, You know, this deprogramming rhetoric.
What happened to the Unity calls from Mr. Biden?
You know, Casio Cortez, I have demanded the resignations of Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and Kevin McCarthy.
Well, Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, what is their crime?
That they wanted a 10-day election audit, something that prominent Democrats have done numerous times in our lifetime.
In her lifetime.
Washington Post publishing a column calling on cable companies to shut down Fox News, Newsmax, OAN incited, because they incited sedition.
Now, do they refer to any specific words?
Of course not, because they can't.
Yep.
I mean, there's the headline.
Washington Post.
Trump couldn't have incited sedition without the help of Fox News.
Well, I'm going to play all their rhetoric and remind everybody, especially Mitch McConnell.
I think Mitch McConnell has, you know, we'll talk about that in a second.
Josh Hall.
You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to.
We'll play this all in good time.
I'm going to get to this all, I promise.
You know, the media, the slant people, the mob in the media Democrats slamming Republicans because they rightly praise Martin Luther King Jr.
Op-ed, Daily Beast.
Republicans keep Dr. King's name out of your mouths.
Andrew Sullivan, he wrote a piece ripping the New York Times for calling Black Lives Matter riots, isolated instances of property destruction.
Not quite.
Stevie Wonders yesterday urging the Biden to establish a truth commission.
Well, who will be the arbiter of their truth?
And then still parlor is shut down.
I mean, this these are just the headlines.
You got far left actress, Deborah Messing, threatening news networks if they even hire or interview Kaylee McEnaney.
Well, I guess we'll have to bring Kaylee McEnaney back on.
And let's see what happens then.
Then it's going to be shut down talk radio.
I told you this has been going on for pretty much all of my career.
And now we see an acceleration to silence, shut down and push out of the way any and all opposition voices in the country.
Now, if you look at the radical rhetoric, I'll spend time during the course of the program and we'll go over.
I'm gonna go and take Trump out tonight, Maxim Water said.
And that's on top of everything.
Let's show up wherever they are.
If you see anybody in a cabinet in a restaurant, department store, gas station, you get out there.
You have members of your cabinet.
You push back, you get a you create a crowd.
You tell them they're not welcome anymore anywhere.
We're gonna play it all today.
I'm like, really?
By the way, speaking of conceding elections, what about Stacey Abrams?
Well, she said she refused to concede her election.
She's a star of the Democratic Party.
Concession in the political space is an acknowledgement that the process was fair, and I don't believe that to be so.
She's a hero in the Democratic Party.
Want more rhetoric or threats?
I'll tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, this is Chucky Schumer.
You know, you have released a whirlwind and you're gonna pay the price.
You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
Well, they agreed that there have been a lack of reporting about protests.
Kamala Harris.
They're not gonna stop.
This is after the Minneapolis police station burned down and the rioting in the city.
Right after that.
Not gonna stop.
This is a movement.
She goes on.
They're not gonna stop.
And everyone take note.
Beware.
On both levels, they're not gonna let up and they should not, and we should not.
Or Joe Biden, I'm gonna take you behind the gym and beat the living hell out of you.
You know, or Eric Holder.
We go low, we kick them.
They go low, we kick them.
You know, you got uh Congressman Ted Lou.
Yeah, uh, there'll be widespread civil unrest if Trump ever fired Mueller.
And it goes on, James Clapper saying Trump firing Mueller resulted in a fire storm in the streets.
Corey Booker, get up in the face of Congress people.
Hillary Clinton, you can't be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.
Now keep all of this in mind when we talk about Mitch McConnell.
Because I don't remember Mitch McConnell ever being critical.
But today he's critical of Donald Trump.
And it's to me, just signaling that he's gonna go along with this latest shift show in the U.S. Senate.
Republicans should not, first of all, this unconstitutional action would be to have a post-presidency impeachment trial.
Mitch McConnell is signaling here that that's what he wants to do.
Sounds like it.
Republicans need new leadership.
These guys have been there forever.
And frankly, you know, the Republican Party, what Trump did is give them, you may not like the guy's style, but he made promises and fought like hell to keep the promises he made, and he kept most of them.
That's so rare in politics.
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So I'm reading Mitch McConnell and his comments from earlier today, blaming Trump for having provoked the mob on Capitol.
No, what the president said that day, and words matter, Mitch, I mean, it's uh he said, people, many of you will peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol to allow your voices to be heard.
Now, when Maxine Waters said, I'm gonna go out and take Trump out tonight, I don't remember Mitch McConnell speaking up.
When Maxime Waters, we're gonna show up and and if you see anybody from the cabinet of Trump in a restaurant, department store, gas station, you get out and create a crowd, push back, you tell them they're not welcome anymore anywhere.
Where was Mitch McConnell?
Where's Mitch McConnell when Schumer threatened Gorsuch and Kavanaugh?
You released the whirlwind and you're gonna pay the price.
You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
And then the senator agreed there's a bit of lack of reporting about the protest and not gonna stop.
This is Senator Kamala Harris.
This is a movement, not gonna stop.
And by the way, after the burning of the police precinct in Minneapolis and the rioting there, take note, beware.
Both levels, they're not gonna let there they shouldn't let up.
Where was Mitch McConnell?
Where's Joe?
Where was he criticizing Biden when I tell I'm gonna take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him?
Where is Mitch McConnell when just in the last week Biden compared two of his Republican senators that all they wanted was an audit of uh, you know, being Nazis.
Or when Nancy Pelosi, where was he then when she accused uh our FBI ICE agents, etc.
of being stormtrooper under the guise of law and order.
Well, where was he then?
Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean.
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So, you know, let me tell you, the Democrats have their intramural politics going on.
And so do the Republicans.
And it's it's as clear as can be with Mitch McConnell.
And if we're just gonna be honest here, there is a divide between the Republican establishment and the 75 million people, which was by far a record of any Republican presidential candidate that voted for and support Donald Trump.
Is just now on principle, in terms of words and things that we've been told over the many, many years that the Republican Party stands for, you know, what we learned is a lot.
I I think the the worst lesson we all learned is after all those years of promising to repeal and to replace Obamacare when it really mattered in 2017, we learned that House Republicans, Senate Republicans didn't mean it.
And even a straight repeal bill that had been supported by what, six, seven Senate Republicans uh back in 2015.
The the same exact wording, the same exact bill, except this time the president Donald Trump at the time at uh just becoming in office, just coming in office would have signed it.
A straight repeal bill.
Then why did the Republicans why did they not sign on to it?
Because it's everything that this one, it's the main reason I'm not a Republican.
Because it's just all talk.
And it's all there's no action behind it.
And you know, when they I it was I'm like, wow, how do you do that?
I mean, there were 65 or so show votes in the House.
We're gonna repeal, we're gonna replace.
When the time came in 2017, they didn't repeal and they didn't replace, and they weren't even ready with the with the plan that I would have I could have easily given it to them.
We've been discussing patient power or Cato Institute book for what Goodman and Musgrave, I forget what his name is, and then Dr. Josh down in Wichita, Kansas, and healthcare cooperatives, concierge care for very little money, 50 bucks a month in his facility in Wichita.
I mean, it's such a great system.
There are ways to thread this needle.
Better care, more access, um more lower, lower pharmaceutical costs on top pre-existing conditions covered, catastrophic plans associated with it, just so many different ways to do it, they weren't ready.
And it's because the Republican Party became static, weak, and and visionless, and their words meant meant nothing.
And in part, I've said it many times.
That is why Donald Trump beat 16 other Republicans that were well known to get the nomination for 2016.
Because Republicans didn't have a backbone, the knees buckled, they were weak, visionless, spineless.
You know, it's it's they they became pathetic, and many of those same people still are.
And there are people within this establishment, and Mitch McConnell's the king of the Washington establishment.
And many of these same establishment figures, they they think with Donald Trump out that they're gonna re-establish their stronghold on the Republican Party.
I don't see that happening.
And it's because of their lack of action, their broken promises, their lack of vision of what conservatism is.
Say what you will about Donald Trump.
Say what you will.
History, I think this presidency for so many different reasons will probably be written about and studied for hundreds of years because it is a phenomenon.
And nobody expected.
Everyone's laughing at the idea that he would even run, never mind wind, didn't think it was possible, but please get in.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
You know, from everybody from late night comics to Obama himself.
I think the only one that said Donald Trump was Ann Coulter.
I know now as you know, a lot of disagreements with Trump for whatever reason she has, that's up to her.
But Republicans, the establishment never fulfilled promises.
They never did.
The closest we got, well, we got close twice.
Reagan in 80 and Newt Gingrich in 94.
Those were the two times of the advancement of real conservatism.
New was hated by the establishment, and the term amiable dunce was given to Ronald Reagan.
There's a new showtime series.
It's worth watching if you feel like it about Reagan.
And but Republicans labeled him an amicable amicable dunce, whatever it was.
And that's what they said, because they didn't like it.
McConnell, if I remember correctly, supported Gerald Ford over Reagan.
And Republicans were warning, oh, the California cowboy, oh, he's too conservative.
Now he gets quoted by every Republican, but those are words, actions matter.
The words of the president on January 6th matter.
Now, if there had been some intellectual honesty and consistency over the years for Mitch McConnell, well, then I say, well, he's being consistent because he said the same thing about Maxine Waters when Maxine said, I'm gonna go and take Trump out tonight, and talked about, you know, wherever they are, show up.
You don't want it anymore anywhere.
Or Chuck Schumer.
I'm telling you, Kavanaugh Gorsuch, you've released a whirlwind, you're gonna pay the price.
Woo.
Or Kamala Harris's comments after the Minneapolis riots, or Joe Biden's, I'd like to take them behind the gym and beat the hell out of them.
Imagine if any Republican ever said this.
When they go low, we kick them, Eric Holder says.
Or Ted Luther, there's gonna be widespread civil unrest.
I don't remember McConnell a single time, not one ever, saying, oh, that what was happening was provoked by Kamala or Joe or Schumer or Pelosi calling our FBI and calling our ICE agents and border patrol agents, you know, Nazi stormtroopers.
I just don't remember.
And it wasn't the only time that it happened.
You know, all these, all these Democrats get up in the face.
I don't remember him going after Corey Booker or Hillary Clinton or any of these people.
You know, if uh Congresswoman Presley, you know, she said, make the phone call, send the email, show up, you know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.
Trump said many of you are going to peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol, and that you're going to let your voices be heard.
So I mean, I'm just but this is now the Republican Party.
Now, I'm gonna break it down as simply as I can.
And Reagan, in his Time for Choosing speech, his famous speech, he raised the rhetorical question.
He said, Is it a third party we need, meaning the Republican Party?
Is there time come and gone?
And his answer was was the following.
He said, No.
He said it's a revitalized second party, meaning the Republican Party, with no pale pastels but bold colored differences.
That's what Reagan said at the time.
And Reagan lost to Ford in 76.
Ford lost the race.
Carter, you know, pushed the economy and the country down the sewer.
And Reagan, you know, won in 1980 and became president and governed conservatively, lowered taxes, eliminated, you know, we had the longest period of peacetime growth and in uh in history.
Economic growth, 21 million new jobs created, double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, all shattered by Reagan.
The only one to beat that record was pre-Corona Trump.
What is, you know, what did Trump, what was the Trump agenda?
We're going to say what is the Trump agenda?
And did he keep his promises?
And did he fight to keep his promises?
He had to fight every step of the way, in part dragging kicking and screaming Republicans behind him.
When we were exposing the Russia collusion fraud day in and day out, I can tell you between my radio team and TV team and our ensemble cast and those members in Congress, I've counted them.
Maybe 25, 30 people tops going up against the biggest lie hoax conspiracy theory in history.
I don't recall ever hearing Mitch McConnell ever talk on behalf of the president.
Let's be frank.
I can tell you honestly, McConnell hates Donald Trump.
And so for McConnell to go along with this unconstitutional, which is what he's signaling here, saying that Trump provoked the violent mob that stormed the Capitol, he's basically signaling that he's going to go along with this unconstitutional post presidency impeachment shift show, the latest in what has been a never ending series of attacks to just destroy Donald Trump.
But what did Donald Trump stand for in terms of what were his policies?
What is it that got 75 million Americans to go vote for this guy and no other Republican in history ever had a movement like it?
It's simple.
I can tell you his agenda.
It's America first, an American first agenda.
Start there.
He believes in cutting taxes because taxes are too high and government spends too much.
Did he make the promise?
Yes.
Did he fulfill it?
He did.
Did he end the bureaucracy, ending burdensome bureaucracy, so the stranglehold on businesses in this country goes away so they can do what they do best because they're spending millions and millions of dollars a year and they can't compete in an international marketplace.
He kept that promise.
The president, 450 miles, new wall, if you want to go check it out yourself.
He recently was down in Texas showing off and saying, I kept my promise.
Energy independence, Keystone XL pipeline, ANWAR, Dakota pipelines, all by Trump, increased fracking.
Another promise made, another promise kept.
There's a reason that Reagan and Trump had one big effect on the economy.
And that is more job creation than ever before.
21 million new jobs created during the Reagan eight years.
In the Trump years, the lowest the lowest unemployment rate for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, African American youth unemployment.
There's a reason.
Part of its immigration, part of it's getting rid of the burdensome bureaucracy, part of it's freeing up money for businesses, part of its lower taxes, stimulating the economy.
All of which, you know, Reagan doubled revenues in the time he was president by cutting taxes.
Anyway, so what else does he believe?
What is the Reagan uh, what is the Trump doctrine, for example?
Well, I think it's simple.
It's peace through strength like Reagan, coupled with, I'm not getting involved in foreign entanglements, and I'll talk to anybody, there's no harm in talking.
Meaning Kim Jong-un, for example.
But when he talks, you know he has strength.
You see the saber rattling out of Iran now as they re-up their nuclear and their uranium enrichment programs, you see what North Korea is saber-rattling.
You see what China and Putin, hostile regimes, hostile actors, what they're doing now, and you know, trying to capitalize on America's stupidity, which Biden has signaled, we're not gonna we're gonna cut back on energy production in the country, and he's gonna go along with this Green New Deal madness.
That's pretty much peace through strength, get out of foreign entanglements.
Okay, now, if Republicans would just fight for that agenda, lower taxes, less bureaucracy, constitutional justices on the court, free and secure borders, you know, in other words, protecting our borders,
energy independence, better trade deals that Trump negotiated, peace through strength, building up our nation's military, and that's all conservatives want from any Republican.
But when they have power, they never do it.
And that's been the problem of the establishment wing of the Republican Party.
And the oddest thing in this is now that Trump gave them a backbone on a spine.
You don't have to like everything about Trump.
You don't have to.
I understand people hate his style.
I get it.
I'm not from New York.
I have, you know, I don't I don't have this this, I don't feign moral outrage when people say stuff.
I think half of it is phony and fake, and nobody's really outraged at all.
You know, I've never supported these efforts to silence people or voices ever.
That's amazing how liberals do.
But I'll tell you right now, if if this is the McCon, if this is the Republican Party of Mitch McConnell, I'm not interested in that party.
I am already a registered conservative.
And frankly, you know, considering he's the king of the Washington establishment, now that he wants to, because he's a personal vendetta for whatever reason that he has against Donald Trump, because he never applied the same standards to Maxime Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris.
If he did, I'd say, you know, like Mitt Romney, for example.
He never cared about zero experience hunters millions of dollars from Barisma or the real quid pro quo with Joe.
If he had, okay, then I'd say at least he's consistent.
He wasn't.
Or any of the other people that we've been playing.
Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ted Lou, Corey Booker.
I mean, so many, I can't even name everybody.
That said, you know, you know, these these calls for for violence or defined as the media mob, the new favorite word insurrection.
So it's just time for a new majority leader.
It's that simple.
If that's what he, if that's where he wants to take the party.
I look, there's a battle of ideas.
And if the Republican establishment thinks going back to the day and age of weakness and not keeping promises and just speaking words that they think conservatives want to hear, I don't think it's gonna work.
Didn't work for Romney, didn't work for McCain.
I think that people are looking for real conservative leadership.
It's a simple vision.
It's not complicated.
Get the government, lower taxes, less bureaucracy, secure borders, energy independence, uh, constitutionalists on the court, better trade deals, and peace through strength.
Not hard.
Hey there.
I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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President is uh given and will be released soon The his farewell address.
Um there is a huge now anger that has emerged.
Now we've gone through all of the things that have been said recently, recent years by the likes of Maxim Waters.
I'll take Trump out tonight.
And then I've got get in there.
We don't want them anywhere, anywhere, get in their faces, create a crowd, show up.
Anybody in a cabinet you see, or Chuck Schumer threatening Kavanaugh, threatening Gorsuch.
You have released the world when you're gonna pay the price you won't know what hit you.
Well, Kamala Harris, which she said after Minneapolis, that they're not gonna stop.
Take note of that.
And they shouldn't stop.
This is a movement.
And beware.
They're not gonna stop.
It shouldn't stop, and we shouldn't stop.
Or Biden, I'm gonna take them behind the gym and beat the hell out of them.
Where was Mitch?
Eric Holder.
When they go low, we kick them.
Well, that was very loving and kind, et cetera.
Ted Lew's saying that it, you know, people should take to the streets.
And there should be if Trump fired Mueller, there'll be widespread civil unrest.
Where was Mitch?
Corey Booker, activists, get up in the face of these Congress people.
What about when uh when the calls came to call Nancy Pelosi calling our FBI, ICE agents, border patrol agents, stormtroopers.
Gotta be kidding me.
Ken Cuccinelli rightly said they could probably sue.
You know, unbelievable.
When you're in the arena, you gotta be ready to take a punch and be ready to throw a punch.
Nancy Pelosi.
Congresswoman Presley, squad.
This is much about public outcry, organizing, mobilizing, applying pressure, make the phone calls.
You know, I I just Linda just said it was we were going to break.
You know, Ditch Mitch as minority leader, whatever he is now.
I mean, because if he there's no intellectual honesty or consistency.
What this is is establishment hatred for all things Donald Trump.
Or else, why wouldn't he have applied the same standards to these Democrats that he's now applying to Trump?
Where was he this summer?
I don't remember him.
I don't coming out loudly denouncing the violence and calling out the Democrats in the Senate and House for being so silent.
I think it's time they should have new leadership.
Mitch is the king of the Washington establishment.
Washington establishment will now try and reassert their control over the over the Republican Party.
And I don't think in the end this is good for the party because what we learned with Obamacare, for example, is they're all talk no action.
Sixty-five show votes to repeal Obamacare, a straight repeal bill in the Senate.
Two years later, when it mattered, seven Senators, Republican senators wouldn't do it.
When Trump was ready to repeal, they wouldn't do it in a in the House.
They had the majority.
Didn't get it done.
Joel Pollock, editor at large, and in-house counsel, Breitbart News, John Solomon, editor-in-chief of JustHenews.com.
Thank you both for being with us.
Joel, um, I I, you know, I see the look, the Democrats have their factions, although they seem to have pretty much aligned behind the radical left pretty completely and co-opted that agenda.
And then you have this, the establishment Republicans, they I don't know what they don't like.
They said that they were for limited government, lower taxes, less bureaucracy, secure borders, energy independence, conservative justices.
I don't know why they'd be against better trade deals, and they always said peace through strength.
That's the Trump agenda.
Why would they be against it?
Well, there are many people in the Republican establishment who disliked the Trump agenda because it cut at the foundations of so many powerful interests in Washington that are necessary for the fundraising, necessary for the power and influence of the politicians, the parties, the lobbyists.
Basically, Trump went after Their industry and their industry is government and influence.
I was just reflecting today on the fact that so many government agencies that have so much access to the private sector were against Trump, the CIA, for example.
I, you know, more than fifty former intelligence officials claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russia disinformation.
And just think about that.
That was just a few months ago.
We're in this age where everyone's talking about conspiracy theories and how damaging they are.
Nothing happened to those former intelligence officials.
They weren't deplatformed or canceled or censored.
But that shows you how deeply ingrained the opposition to Trump was and remains in Washington.
Trump went after that.
Trump went against the old consensus.
And I think that many establishment Republicans are rushing to re-establish that consensus, rebuild their ties with K Street, with Foggy Bottom, and uh with Langley.
And so there are some forces that are consolidating behind the Biden administration.
You might expect to have been more loyal to the Republican electorate, but there are going to be some establishment Republicans who side with Biden.
John Solomon, uh again, I want to get your take on that, but more importantly, we've been awaiting this document dump.
Now the president uh we're taking in and taking his uh farewell address.
We'll play it, I guess, at the bottom of the hour to make sure people can hear it if you want to uh stay with us, of course, and I hope you do.
Um but we've been waiting for this document dump and you have a bunch of other news.
Uh we have booked, I'm gonna be taping an exclusive interview with the Hunter Biden laptop repairman.
I um I think we're gonna air it Thursday night.
Um this guy's pretty amazing, and his story is pretty profound, and the attacks on this guy were unprecedented.
There were.
And listen, he tells a story of two justice systems.
How many times have we heard that over the last four years?
The FBI was willing to let Christopher Steele walk in with all the red flags already in Christopher Steele's file that he he might have been compromised by Russia.
Uh give a dirty dossier pill paid for by Hillary Clinton and sustain a two and a half year investigation.
When John Paul McIsaac's father first went to the FBI in July of 2019 and said, I have this hard drive, I think there's some criminality on it.
The FBI in uh in uh New Mexico turned him down, said we don't want it.
And then they came back only when impeachment raised the temperature on the Biden family.
What a remarkable example of the FBI acting two different ways when involving two different political figures.
It's the story of this last four years.
There are two justice systems, and every time we look at it, I think John Paul McIsaac will be on your show, we'll be able to tell you the story of how his dad tried to raise this and the FBI turned it away.
Do you see in the release of these documents any urgency?
I mean, are we ever gonna get a Durham report, Durham indictments based on what we know now?
I think if I was him, I could indict many people.
Yeah, listen, I've confirmed with the FBI, uh senior law enforcement officials inside the FBI and the Justice Department and the White House that the declassification is completed.
I don't know what the holdup is in the documents.
I think there's some markings and deletions going on and just sensitive stuff.
But we should get the documents tonight.
I'm hopeful they're uh they should have been released months ago, but we should get them tonight.
On the Durham investigation, there's been an enormous amount of court activity, grand jury activity, negotiations going on, but again, only one indictment in 18 months.
We uh uh by the way, it's been longer than it's been four years, John.
I mean, but three years we've investigated this to death.
The inspector generals reported many referrals that nobody followed up on.
Yep.
Yeah, listen, it's it's extraordinary that uh a first-year law school student could make some of the cases that have not yet been made.
And uh, you know, it again it goes back to the idea that there's a dual justice system in America.
We are aggressive on one party and have been uh anti-aggressive and slow and either holding the bureaucracy or the other party with the same accountability.
And until the American people speak, uh I fear this system goes on, it persists.
I mean, that that is that is just a sad tragedy for the country because it's just gonna get worse and embolden people to do more of this uh these deep state actions.
You know, and I want to get back to the the issue of the Republican Party uh and Mitch McConnell.
Why why was he silent when all these Democrats said all these outrageous incendiary things?
Um I don't remember, and I don't recall Mitch McConnell ever saying a word, and it Seems to me that this is Mitch McConnell's attempt at trying to uh get the establishment back, quote, in charge of the old Republican Party and bring that back to fruition, but I think that's been widely rejected by almost by seventy-five million Republicans, Joel.
And uh, I do think this time for new leadership in the Senate, and he didn't do a particularly good job in my opinion in Georgia.
Yeah, you bring up a great point.
I am not taking a position on this one way or the other, just observing that in most countries when you lead your party into an election and you lose seats, you resign and you let another leader take over.
Nancy Pelosi didn't do it in the House, even though she led her party to a historic defeat in the 2020, uh, excuse me, 2010 Tea Party wave.
And as a result, she's had an iron grip on power.
I think the country has suffered for that, even though she came back into the speaker's office in 2018.
I don't know if it serves the Republican Party well to just assume that whoever is in charge of the Senate or the House for that matter, just stays in charge, whether they win or lose.
The losses weren't just in Georgia.
There were states like Arizona where Mitch McConnell handpicked the candidate, and the candidate still lost.
I mean, nothing against Martha McSally, who's an outstanding public servant and veteran and so forth.
But McConnell chose candidates who lost in many places, and as a result, he will no longer be the majority leader in the Senate.
And that's usually a situation in most democracies where the party leader steps aside so that someone new can take over.
I I'd like to think that that's something Republicans are talking about, but it doesn't seem to have come up.
John, is it uh you have on the Democratic side?
It looks like the new Green Deal socialist extremists have co-opted all their leadership, and that there's great fear among their leadership.
Republicans now uh for example, do you think most rank and file Republicans uh voted for Trump or voted for quote Republican Party?
Yeah, that's a very interesting thing.
Uh, we asked the poll this week, and more people uh uh uh who identified conservatives said they identify more as Republicans than as MAGA nation people.
Uh so you know that's an interesting finding in the poll.
Uh that said, you know, there's no doubt that the Republican Party of 2021 has been vastly reshaped by Donald Trump, his policies, his successes, and the coalition that he built.
No Republican Party managed to get 75 million uh votes prior to this election.
And there is a massive new influx of voters.
And the opportunity now is for someone else to step up to the mantle, continue to keep that coalition together and to grow it, because the policies that Donald Trump set in motion in the last four years have attracted newcomers to the Republican Party.
And as Joel said, may have sent a couple of the traditional Republicans over to the Biden side, the the the uh the warhawks maybe fly going over there and other people.
But the um, you know, Donald Trump has given the Republican Party an an enormous new opportunity.
And the question is who will groom it, who will lead it, who will nurture it uh uh beyond Donald Trump himself.
All right, we're gonna take a break more with Joel Pollockmore with uh uh just the news dot com uh editor in chief, uh John Solomon.
We're awaiting the redacted uh documents uh that we've been expecting and looking for for some period of time.
At some point today, we're also on a on a Trump pardon watch.
The president uh they just the White House just releasing the President's farewell address, and we're gonna run that in the next half hour, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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And uh right, so here we are.
Now the President actually came out.
I don't know if you guys saw this, and we're gonna play in his next hour his um he just released his address, his farewell address, and uh we'll play that for you.
Some interesting lines I'm reading about now.
Now, as I prepare to hand power over to a new administration at noon on Wednesday, I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.
How do you interpret that, John Solomon?
Well, I I interpreted that he intends to stay on the political scene and be an extraordinary force and and maybe triangulate Washington, right?
You could have the establishment Republicans, the Trump Republicans, and the Democrats in a triangulated situation.
That's a scenario that a lot of the political experts I've been talking to the last couple of weeks can imagine.
And uh, I think Donald Trump with that much loyalty among seventy, eighty million voters, has a lot of options.
And I uh the first thing I would look for is to see if he starts a political action committee.
That will give us a sign that he's gonna stay in the game.
How do you interpret a Joel Pollack?
It's interesting.
I think he wants to stand with his supporters.
He wants to advocate for his policies, and it's also an outcome of the reality that he may face an impeachment trial in the Senate.
We don't know if they're actually going to hold that trial, but the White House is certainly preparing for it.
And I think one of his defense strategies will be to argue that the article of impeachment, which by the way, is deeply flawed.
It suggests a cause and effect relationship between the speech and the riot.
When the riot started before the speech, and there's a new article out in the Washington Post that the people who launched the riot had been planning to do so for days.
So it wasn't Trump's speech that incited them to do what they did.
Well, Mitch McConnell apparently is siding with the Democrats on this.
What did you make of that?
Which is why you know what?
I think Mitch's time as a leader's come and gone.
Yeah, and uh look, he's gonna play the spotlight for a while.
Mitch McConnell may be trying to use his quickly dwindling leverage to extract some concessions out of Democrats or maybe even out of the White House as Trump departs.
But I think Trump knows he's gonna be in the spotlight for quite some time, and he's gonna portray this entire impeachment as a political exercise.
You heard Chuck Schumer just today saying Trump can never be allowed to hold political office ever again.
That's why the Democrats are doing this.
There's no reason to impeach a president who's out of office, especially on such a flimsy basis.
Nobody likes the fact that the Capitol riot happened, and there are people on the conservative side, even Trump supporters who disagreed with the challenge to the electoral college results.
But the charge itself in the impeachment article is so flimsy.
Chuck Schumer let the cat out of the bag.
This is about taking Trump out politically.
Joel Pollock, thank you.
Just the news.com, editor-in-chief John Solomon.
When we come back to President's farewell address, and we are on Pardon Watch.
More on Hannity tonight at nine.
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And the President just released his farewell address.
We will air it in its entirety.
Americans, four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens.
In short, we embarked on a mission to make America great again for all Americans.
As I conclude my term as the 45th President of the United States, I stand before you truly proud of what we have achieved together.
We did what we came here to do and so much more.
This week we inaugurate a new administration and pray for its success in keeping America safe and prosperous.
We extend our best wishes, and we also want them to have luck, a very important word.
I'd like to begin by thanking just a few of the amazing people who made our remarkable journey possible.
First, let me express my overwhelming gratitude for the love and support of our spectacular First Lady, Melania.
Let me also share my deepest appreciation to my daughter Ivanka, my son-in-law Jarrett, and to Baron Don, Eric, Tiffany, and Lara.
You fill my world with light and with joy.
I also want to thank Vice President Mike Pence, his wonderful wife Karen, and the entire Pence family.
Thank you as well to my Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, the dedicated members of the White House staff, and the Cabinet and all of the incredible people across our administration who poured out their heart and soul to fight for America.
I also want to take a moment to thank a truly exceptional group of people, the United States Secret Service.
My family and I will forever be in your debt.
My profound gratitude as well to everyone in the White House military office, the teams of Marine One and Air Force One, every member of the armed forces, and state and local law enforcement all across our country.
Most of all, I want to thank the American people.
To serve as your president has been an honor beyond description.
Thank you for this extraordinary privilege, and that's what it is: a great privilege and a great honor.
We must never forget that while Americans will always have our disagreements, we are a nation of incredible, decent, faithful, and peace-loving citizens who all want our country to thrive and flourish and be very, very successful and good.
We are a truly magnificent nation.
All Americans were horrified by the assault on our Capitol.
Political violence is an attack on everything we cherish as Americans.
It can never be tolerated.
Now more than ever, we must unify around our shared values and rise above the partisan rancor and forge our common destiny.
Four years ago, I came to Washington as the only true outsider ever to win the presidency.
I had not spent my career as a politician, but as a builder looking at open skylines and imagining infinite possibilities.
I ran for president because I knew there were towering new summits for America, just waiting to be scaled.
I knew the potential for our nation was boundless as long as we put America first.
So I left behind my former life and stepped into a very difficult arena, but an arena nevertheless with all sorts of potential, if properly done.
America had given me so much, and I wanted to give something back.
Together with millions of hard-working patriots across this land, we built the greatest political movement in the history of our country.
We also built the greatest economy in the history of the world.
It was about America first because we all wanted to make America great again.
We restored the principle that a nation exists to serve its citizens.
Our agenda was not about right or left.
It wasn't about Republican or Democrat, but about the good of a nation, and that means the whole nation.
With the support and prayers of the American people, we achieved more than anyone thought possible.
Nobody thought we could even come close.
We passed the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.
We slashed more job killing regulations than any administration had ever done before.
We fixed our broken trade deals, withdrew from the horrible Trans Pacific Partnership and the impossible Paris Climate Accord, renegotiated the one-sided South Korea deal, and we replaced NAFTA with the groundbreaking U.S. MCA, that's Mexico and Canada, a deal that's worked out very, very well.
Also, and very importantly, we imposed historic and monumental tariffs on China, made a great new deal with China, but before the ink was even dry, we and the whole world got hit with the China virus.
Our trade relationship was rapidly changing.
Billions and billions of dollars were pouring into the U.S., but the virus forced us to go in a different direction.
The whole world suffered, but America outperformed other countries economically because of our incredible economy and the economy that we built.
Without the foundations and footings, it wouldn't have worked out this way.
We wouldn't have some of the best numbers we've ever had.
We also unlocked our energy resources and became the world's number one producer of oil and natural gas by far.
Powered by these policies, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world.
We reignited America's job creation and achieved record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women, almost everyone.
Income soared, wages boomed, the American dream was restored, and millions were lifted from poverty in just a few short years.
It was a miracle.
Stock market set one record after another with 148 stock market highs during this short period of time and boosted the retirements and pensions of hardworking citizens all across our nation.
401ks are at a level they've never been at before.
We've never seen numbers like we've seen, and that's before the pandemic and after the pandemic.
We rebuilt the American manufacturing base, opened up thousands of new factories, and brought back the beautiful phrase made in the USA.
To make life better for working families, we doubled the child tax credit and signed the largest ever expansion of funding for child care and development.
We joined with the private sector to secure commitments to train more than 16 million American workers for the jobs of tomorrow.
When our nation was hit with the terrible pandemic, we produced not one but two vaccines with record-breaking speed, and more will quickly follow.
They said it couldn't be done, but we did it.
They called it a medical miracle, and that's what they're calling it right now a medical miracle.
Another administration would have taken three, four, five, maybe even up to ten years to develop a vaccine.
We did it in nine months.
We grieve for every life lost, and we pledge in their memory to wipe out this horrible pandemic once and for all.
When the virus took its brutal toll on the world's economy, we launched the fastest economic recovery our country has ever seen.
We passed nearly $4 trillion in economic relief, saved or supported over 50 million jobs, and slashed the unemployment rate in half.
These are numbers that our country has never seen before.
We created choice and transparency in health care, stood up to big pharma in so many ways, but especially in our effort to get favored nations clauses added, which will give us the lowest prescription drug prices anywhere in the world.
We passed VA choice, VA accountability, right to try, and landmark criminal justice reform.
We confirmed three new justices of the United States Supreme Court.
We appointed nearly 300 Federal judges to interpret our Constitution as written.
For years, the American people pleaded with Washington to finally secure the nation's borders.
I am pleased to say we answered that plea and achieved the most secure border in U.S. history.
We have given our brave border agents and heroic ICE officers the tools they need to do their jobs better than they have ever done before and to enforce our laws and keep America safe.
We proudly leave the next administration with the strongest and most robust border security measures ever put into place.
This includes historic agreements with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, along with more than 450 miles of powerful new wall.
We restored American strength at home and American leadership abroad.
The world respects us again.
Please don't lose that respect.
We reclaimed our sovereignty by standing up for America at the United Nations and withdrawing from the one-sided global deals that never served our interest.
And NATO countries are now paying hundreds of billions of dollars more than when I arrived just a few years ago.
It was very unfair.
We were paying the cost for the world.
Now the world is helping us.
And perhaps most importantly of all, with nearly three trillion dollars, we fully rebuilt the American military, all made in the USA.
We launched the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces in 75 years, the Space Force.
And last spring, I stood at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and watched as American astronauts returned to space on American rockets for the first time in many, many years.
We revitalized our alliances and rallied the nations of the world to stand up to China like never before.
We obliterated the ISIS Caliphate and ended the wretched life of its founder and leader, Al-Baghdadi.
We stood up to the oppressive Iranian regime and killed the world's top terrorist, Iranian butcher Qasem Solemeni.
We recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
As a result of our bold diplomacy and principled realism, we achieved a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East.
Nobody believed it could happen.
The Abraham Accords opened the doors to a future of peace and harmony, not violence and bloodshed.
It is the dawn of a new Middle East, and we are bringing our soldiers home.
I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.
Above all, we have reasserted the sacred idea that in America the government answers to the people.
Our guiding light, our North Star, our unwavering conviction has been that we are here to serve the noble, everyday citizens of America.
Our allegiance is not to the special interests, corporations, or global entities.
It's to our children, our citizens, and to our nation itself.
As President, my top priority, my constant concern has always been the best interests of American workers and American families.
I did not seek the easiest course.
By far, it was actually the most difficult.
I did not seek the path that would get the least criticism.
I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices, because that's what you elected me to do.
Your needs were my first and last unyielding focus.
This I hope will be our greatest legacy.
Together, we put the American people back in charge of our Country.
We restored self-government.
We restored the idea that in America no one is forgotten because everyone matters and everyone has a voice.
We fought for the principle that every citizen is entitled to equal dignity, equal treatment, and equal rights, because we are all made equal by God.
everyone is entitled to be treated with stations along the sean hannity show network will continue our live coverage of our coverage of the president's farewell address just released their voice heard and to have their government listen You are loyal to your country, and my administration was always loyal to you.
We worked to build a country in which every citizen could find a great job and support their wonderful families.
We fought for the communities where every American could be safe and schools where every child could learn.
We promoted a culture where our laws would be upheld, our heroes honored, our history preserved, and law-abiding citizens are never taken for granted.
Americans should take tremendous satisfaction in all that we have achieved together.
It's incredible.
Now, as I leave the White House, I have been reflecting on the dangers that threaten the priceless inheritance we all share.
As the world's most powerful nation, America faces constant threats and challenges from abroad.
But the greatest danger we face is a loss of confidence in ourselves, a loss of confidence in our national greatness.
A nation is only as strong as its spirit.
We are only as dynamic as our pride.
We are only as vibrant as the faith that beats in the hearts of our people.
No nation can long thrive that loses faith in its own values, history, and heroes, for these are the very sources of our unity and our vitality.
What has always allowed America to prevail in triumph over the great challenges of the past has been an unyielding and unashamed conviction in the nobility of our country and its unique purpose in history.
We must never lose this conviction.
We must never forsake our belief in America.
The key to national greatness lies in sustaining and instilling our shared national identity.
That means focusing on what we have in common, the heritage that we all share.
At the center of this heritage is also a robust belief in free expression, free speech, and open debate.
Only if we forget who we are and how we got here, could we ever allow political censorship and blacklisting to take place in America?
It's not even thinkable.
Shutting down free and open debate violates our core values and most enduring traditions.
In America, we don't insist on absolute conformity or enforce rigid orthodoxies and punitive speech codes.
We just don't do that.
America is not a timid nation of tame souls who need to be sheltered and protected from those with whom we disagree.
That's not who we are.
It will never be who we are.
For nearly 250 years, in the face of every challenge, Americans have always summoned our unmatched courage, confidence, and fierce independence.
These are the miraculous traits that once led millions of everyday citizens to set out across a wild continent and carve out a new life in the Great West.
It was the same profound love of our God-given freedom that willed our soldiers into battle and our astronauts into space.
As I think back on the past four years, one image rises in my mind above all others.
Whenever I traveled all along the motorcade route, there were thousands and thousands of people.
They came out with their families so that they could stand as we passed and proudly wave our great American flag.
It never failed to deeply move me.
I knew that they did not just come out to show their support of me.
They came out to show me their support and love for our country.
This is a republic of proud citizens who are united By our common conviction that America is the greatest nation in all of history.
We are and must always be a land of hope, of light, and of glory to all the world.
This is the precious inheritance that we must safeguard at every single turn.
For the past four years, I have worked to do just that.
From a great hall of Muslim leaders in Riyadh to a great square of Polish people in Warsaw, from the floor of the Korean Assembly to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly, and from the forbidden city in Beijing to the shadow of Mount Rushmore.
I fought for you.
I fought for your family.
I fought for our country.
Above all, I fought for America and all it stands for.
And that is safe, strong, proud, and free.
Now, as I prepare to hand power over to a new administration at noon on Wednesday, I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.
There's never been anything like it.
The belief that a nation must serve its citizens will not dwindle, but instead only grow stronger by the day.
As long as the American people hold in their hearts deep and devoted love of country, then there is nothing that this nation cannot achieve.
Our communities will flourish, our people will be prosperous, our traditions will be cherished, our faith will be strong, and our future will be brighter than ever before.
I go from this majestic place with a loyal and joyful heart, an optimistic spirit, and a supreme confidence that for our country and for our children, the best is yet to come.
Thank you and farewell.
God bless you.
God bless the United States of America.
The president in total his uh farewell address just released by the White House.
Um, and you know, it's just a fascinating time for the country, and yet, you know, still uh what a Democrats, where are their focus?
How are you going to impeach him?
Let's have a post-presidency impeachment.
And as I've said, Mitch McConnell ought not go along with his unconstitutional post-presidency impeachment shift show.
And it's not that hard.
Republicans don't partake of it.
Well, I guess Mitt Romney will, and probably Lisa Murkowski and maybe even Ben Sass.
Um, but short of that, no Republicans should be there.
The president shouldn't even send lawyers in.
And when it comes time to acquit, you can all go in and say, can we get back to the business of the people?
Just unbelievable.
And Mitch, you know, this is, you know, now that he's taken his position.
Okay, then he's been around too long.
Time for new leadership.
It's really simple.
All right, news roundup information overload our Sean Hannity Show, 800 941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, if you're just getting your day started uh with us.
Well, this is now the new mantra.
This is now the new talking point.
This is this is a serious moment.
We have to silence conservatives.
We have to, on social media, including the president, he can't write a book.
Publishers and writers, they don't believe.
And but I we I actually had our my team check today.
You can get Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto on Amazon.com.
You know, you still have the radical Ayatollahs threatening to destroy Israel on Twitter.
It's pretty amazing.
Uh and on top of all of that, we we may have to remove Senator Hawley and Senator Cruz will use the 14th Amendment because they wanted a 10-day audit.
Which many Democrats wanted in 2016, 17, 2001, 2000, and 2004, just more recently.
Uh, one Democrat, Andrew Yang demanding that the government have regulators that if one point of view is given, they will have a monitor to put the other point of view on.
Musicians being dropped from labels, uh even though they didn't even go to the Capitol.
Not one time.
You know, it's the beginning of a purging.
And now, of course, it all started with the PBS lawyer caught on tape that we've got to empower the Department of Homeland Security to take Children away from their parents.
And then when we take them away, we'll send them to re-education camps where they'll watch PBS all day.
Played that many times.
MSDNC, Washington Post columnists wondering how many millions of mostly white Republicans voters could be deprogrammed.
Katie Currick says the same thing.
And uh yes, we need to be repro deprogrammed, put in re-education camps, all because we have a different political opinion.
You have this headline, cult expert, fake news CNN, uh was on this morning.
Uh, that all of America needs deprogramming after Trump.
By the way, the guy apparently was locked into a cult for years.
I guess he would know.
Uh then you've got the view, then you got uh MSDNC, uh Eugene Robertson.
Let's play them all.
There are millions of Americans.
Uh almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed.
They're it it's it's as if they don't they they're members of a cult, the Trumpist cult.
Uh and and we have to be deprogrammed.
For those people that we just showed in the U.S. Capitol, how do you begin to deprogram them?
So that's what I do for a living, and family members contact me, and I've written books, I've done video tapes, I've done courses to educate the family because it's the family friends and former members that once we educate them, we coach them on how to interact.
It's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how awall so many of these members of Congress have gotten.
But I also think some of them are believing the garbage that they are being fed 24-7 on the internet by their constituents, and they bought into this big lie.
And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?
But his defense, I think, is going to be well, this is a witch hunt.
This is a witch hunt against me.
So of course I have to try to uh you know pardon myself because everyone's out against against me.
And guess what?
74 million people are going to believe that because they've been brainwashed, Joy.
I really believe that they have been brainwashed by this misinformation campaign over the past four years.
Our friend Austin Goolsby, professor at Chicago's Booth School of Economics, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors for the Obama administration.
You're not going to help Biden out, are you?
You're gonna work for him.
God help us.
Here we go again.
Disaster economy two point oh.
What's going on?
Hey, how are you, Sean?
I thought you were calling me to take responsibility for the money you owe me, the dinner you owe me.
I already bought you and your wife dinner with expensive wine.
What are you talking about?
Yeah, that was in 2012.
Now, in 2020, we bet on the election.
I think you're right.
You owe me again.
You can't get enough.
Man, oh man.
Well, I made good on my last bet.
I'll make good.
Yeah, you did.
Yeah.
I will make good.
All right.
Now, do you do you think I need a re-education camp or to be deprogrammed?
What do you think?
You might.
I don't know.
I've known you a long time.
You I've I've been wondering where where your head was.
But uh head's right here where it always is.
I'm I'm I am volunteer.
I volunteer.
I'll I'll lead you through.
I'll lead you back to the promised land, Sean.
Okay.
Now be honest.
This this whole re-education.
Look at the cult of Obama.
Can we be honest here?
I get a thrill up and down my leg every time he speaks.
I actually coined the term at the time an Obamagasm, uh, because of the media fawning all over them.
Now they're fawning over, and you got to admit Joe looks weak, frail, and uh cognitively struggling.
Wouldn't you admit that, Austin goes?
No, I think he looks pretty good.
He's always you know, spoken his mind and sometimes puts his foot in it.
I don't think anything different.
Almost every time you mean I hope we all these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.
Uh endowed by their you the thing.
You owe you know the thing.
That that sounds good.
I would like to say, closely with them in the White House, and he heard his mind at every moment.
And sometimes, you know, he's he's up and make slugs.
Well, but you were you were there back twelve years ago.
You were at the beginning of the Obama administration.
You didn't stay in that swamp, that sewer very long.
Yeah, I was there almost three years.
Okay, so you really didn't see him much in the last in the last ten years, did you?
You go and you come back.
What in the last?
You've only seen him much in the last ten years.
No, I haven't seen I see him every once in a while.
Yeah.
Every once in a while.
I know somebody that talked to him, and you know what they told me?
No, no.
Look.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You've been living high on the hog.
You've been going to state dinners, the whole thing.
It's back to meatloaf with the rest of the house.
I hate to tell you, I never went to any state dinner.
I've never been on Air Force One with the.
Wait a minute.
I've never been on Air Force One with President Trump once.
I don't think you're going to get invited with President Biden.
Listen, I had the last interview with Bush when he left.
I I'm in the Oval Office with Bush 43, and I'm like, I don't think I'm going to be invited back here for a while.
And that was an understatement.
Well, you remember what I told you, you you said you were afraid that the Obama administration was going to try to go after your taxes or throw you in jail.
And you said, would I save you?
And you remember what I said?
I said, No, I wouldn't.
But I would come visit you in jail.
I made a lot of money.
Will you bring a file in the case?
All right.
Now you gotta be let's be real here for a second.
We're friends, and I don't really care that you're a liberal.
I actually like you, and I can't believe your wife stays with you.
I really can't.
Um but the point is, because she's a lovely woman, and I mean that sincerely.
She's a nice person.
And you are too.
But the point is here, they want to deprogram people because you're conservative and you support Donald Trump.
What's Donald Trump's real agenda?
Let's go through this quickly.
Donald Trump believes in America first, lower taxes, less bureaucracy, secure borders.
He wants originalists on the court.
All they've told us all before he got elected.
He wants energy independence.
He wants free and fair trade deals.
He got them all.
He wants peace through strength.
Um, and he doesn't want to be bogged down in these, you know, protracted wars around the world.
Now that's the same thing.
I don't know.
You're you're putting you're trying to put it in the middle of the phone.
No, no, no.
Tell me where I'm wrong.
Tell me, tell me what he what part of that.
Okay, here's where I here's where I think that's that's partly wrong.
I think I've never met Donald Trump.
My observation is that he doesn't want America first.
He wants Donald Trump first.
And I think that's a good thing.
Okay, but that but that belies his accomplishments.
Austin, hang on a second.
Now listen, the guy cut taxes, the guy did more to cut the bureaucracy.
He built 450 miles a wall, he put the people on his list on the court, he got trade deals that nobody thought we'd ever be able to get.
He kept us out of any foreign conflict.
And he built up our military.
And he mismanaged the coronavirus, and 400,000 people are dead.
Oh, you want to blame Trump for coronavirus?
He lost.
He never I don't blame him for the coronavirus.
I blame him for his reaction to the coronavirus.
And what were the Democrats doing when he put the travel ban that was racist and xenophobic in place?
What were they doing?
Do you remember?
I do.
Some of them were saying, oh, you shouldn't have this.
And they were impeaching him.
I said, and I and you and I had that conversation.
I said that first step.
President Trump deserved credit for moving sooner than many other countries did.
But he had one good step, and then his next five steps were right in the dog do.
I mean, it was a good thing.
Excuse me, I was here in March and April in New York of last year.
I was right in the middle of this this shift shop.
And I'm telling you right now that if it wasn't for Donald Trump, uh there would have been no PPE, there would have been no ventilators, there wouldn't have been any support whatsoever.
He built more hospital beds for New York, and meanwhile, instead of using the the 3,000 beds at the Javit Center, they left 75% of them empty instead of using the Navy hospital ship that he converted to corro for corona patients.
Instead of they they sent people back to nursing homes.
And they died.
I didn't understand that.
Look, for sure, there it's not like Donald Trump is the only person who made mistakes.
I think that's clear de Blasio or or if it was the governor or what.
I don't know how they made some of the decisions.
Okay, I'm I'm not even saying they did it purposely.
When Trump was saying no it's going to magically go away.
We're it's gonna it's nothing.
We have eight cases it'll soon be zero.
Listen, but wait but in fairness here did Fauci number eight Michigan.
Did anybody did any of our so-called experts or scientists, didn't they all screw up?
And I'm not faulting them.
I like Fauci.
I don't think Fauci, you know he goes to work every day.
He's not his intention, but he was back and forth on mask.
He was back and forth on everything.
And I'm yeah and at no point did they ever did any of the medical experts, any of the predictions ever pan out, Austin and with all due respect, uh the Democrats uh they weren't engaged in any of this and Trump was the one that built the hospital, secured the VP uh PPE, got the ventilators, got the vaccine.
I mean it was it was Trump.
The reason why I think Trump lost the election is precisely because it ended up being a roll call vote.
Do you think that Donald Trump has managed this crisis well?
And I think the reason he's never gotten majority support in the polls or at the ballot is because they don't think he did.
He he messed up and and it's it's one thing to mess up and then say we've learned new information and I'm sorry I messed up and I'm going to do better.
But he's got a kind of a congenital thing that he can never admit anything was a mistake everything was perfect even if he obviously screwed it up and I think that cost him that's what I think he does look at that it's listening the economy was something along we can do but I want to go back to this initial question.
Do I need deprogramming?
Do you think I need to go do I need to go to an Austin Austin Goolsby reeducation camp.
I was just trying to think what would our curriculum be where would we even begin I we we could start with football.
I mean aren't you what you aren't you a Jets fan of Giants who do you like don't even listen don't embed why are you humiliating me?
Go ahead I know the bears are in trouble too do you want to live in an America where we silence opposition voices because I don't you know if you read any social media and you read about Sean Hannity your friend um I've been you know when I want to punish myself and and just you know feel bad about myself I could go on there and read all the crap all day.
But but I don't I don't waste my time but the point is I not one time Austin in my life would I ever want to silence anybody from from ripping me to shreds I don't care.
We live in America.
That's the way it should be.
And it should be open.
Look, I do think how we balance the line, there's always a balance.
If the president of the United States is going to literally get up and say flatly contradicted non-facts and gin people up, what do we do about that?
Excuse me.
All right.
Let me go back to that day because you're talking about January 6th.
The president said, now many of you will peacefully and peacefully.
patriotically march to the Capitol to let your voices be heard and can you cite me anything in the president's speech that called for an insurrection I don't think so I wasn't paying close attention to his speech in the run up to that day the president said a lot of very inflammatory things.
I didn't ask you slow down slow down no no words matter here because I could play you Maxime Waters Joe Biden as a matter of fact I'm going to play them for you and Kamala Harris and then you tell me if they're inciting any kind of quote insurrection.
You know what I'm gonna do I'm going to help educate the fine professor at Chicago's Booth School of Economics.
And with all this talk about oh the incendiary and and insurrection rhetoric of the of the president let's Take a little trip down memory lane and let's see how intellectually honest Austin Goolsby is, because on the other side, I'm gonna ask him a very obvious question.
Are you ready for our little game, Austin?
All right, here we go.
Okay, here we we're gonna play we're gonna play the ever weak frail and cognitively struggling Joe.
We'll play Kamala, we'll play Chucky Schumer, and we'll we'll play Maxime Waters and Pelosi just for fun, just to get started.
I want to tell you, Barsach, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you're paying the price.
You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
The press always asked me, don't I wish I were debating him?
No, I wish you were in high school.
I could take him behind the gym.
That's what I wish.
I I made a mistake.
I didn't make a mistake, but they asked me, would I like to debate this gentleman?
I said, No.
I said, if we're in high school, I'd take you behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
You see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant in a department store at a gasoline station.
You get out and you go to them.
And you tell them that welcome.
I am sitting here, listening, watching, absorbing, thinking about Ali, even though I never met him.
And with this kind of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight.
But they're not gonna stop.
They're not gonna stop.
And that's they're not this is a movement.
I'm telling you, they're not gonna stop.
And and everyone beware, because they're not gonna stop.
It is gonna, they're not gonna stop before election day in November, and they're not gonna stop after election day.
And that should be everyone should take note of that on both levels.
That this isn't they're not gonna let up, and they should not.
And we should not.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Words matter.
Now, let me ask you a question, Austin Goolsby.
I would never do this, but let's just play a little game here.
If I said about Joe or any liberal justice on the Supreme Court that they're gonna pay a price and they're not gonna know what hit them, is that insurrection?
If I talked about beating the hell out of Joe Biden, is that insurrection?
Uh, if I said, I'm gonna take Trump out tonight, if I said that about any Democrat, or right after the riots in Minneapolis, they're not gonna stop.
They shouldn't stop.
We shouldn't stop.
Beware, you better take note.
Would that be viewed as inciting insurrection?
Intellectual honesty moment.
It would definitely be viewed as inflammatory.
And I'd say those statements were inflammatory.
If you said that, the reality is if you said that, and then the group who you said it to turned around and went and smashed the windows and threatened to kill major leaders, then they would come after you and say you incited the crowd.
If you said those inflammatory things, but there was no immediate reaction of the people you were saying it to, then it would probably just be forgotten, which it sounds like a lot of those ones are just forgotten.
I could take you back and I can quote you chapter and verse, and you know I do my research, of every Democrat in 2000, 2001, uh, 2004 and five, 2016 and 17, that actually challenge the election results.
They'd all be names that you know, starting with Barbara Boxer, Joe Biden, uh, Sheila Jackson Lee, Al C. Hastings, Reverend Jackson, and on and on and on.
You want me to would you like me to play them for the biggest?
I mean, you can do recall that they were in every case totally overruled by their own party.
In the case of John Cameron, but they challenged electors.
They tried to challenge the thing, and the Democrats overruled their own party to shut that down.
So I do kind of think the argument that the Republican Party has to be convinced to shut down its own radical fringe who's espousing kind of crazy electoral views is a bit of a very focused on the law and const and our constitution and state constitutions.
I talked about Wisconsin.
I bet you don't even know this, Austin.
I'll help educate you again.
I bet you don't know that Wisconsin law does not allow for early voting.
Same with Michigan.
Did you know that?
I I don't follow their constitution.
So now did you know that Pennsylvania Constitution does not allow the Pennsylvania state constitution does not allow for early voting, except in rare circumstances, and that was literally circumvented by another branch of their government, their legislature.
I mean, this is a pretty rare circumstance.
Well, it just I'm just telling you what happened.
I think it's a legitimate constitutional issue.
In the state of Georgia, the Secretary of State, uh, without consulting Republican secretary of state.
That's correct.
Well, if you yeah, okay, he'll be supporting Stacey Abrams any day now.
Uh but anyways, but but in fairness, he signed a consent decree after being sued by the Democratic Party of Georgia, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Congressional Committees, and he created what is a two-tier system of signature verification.
Now, I would argue if you look at Bush v.
Gore, that that would be unconstitutional.
Um, in my humble opinion, is that a fair analysis on my part, or am I a looney tune that needs to be deprogrammed?
Well, that's that's closer to loony tune than uh constitutional expertise, but I don't know if you need a deprogramming.
But look, the thing is Joe Biden won the election by more than seven million votes.
He's gonna be inaugurated tomorrow.
I mean, we don't have multiple layers of conspiracy and the number of votes don't matter.
Not just Arizona, not the other.
We have an electoral college.
We have an electoral college system.
You know that.
Let's not go to the electoral college, he won more than 300 electoral votes.
And even if you discovered hundreds of thousands of additional votes for Trump in Georgia, uh that wouldn't make Donald Trump.
I just mentioned four states to you.
I didn't mention just George.
You need all of those states.
That's my point.
There's no evidence.
Okay, and and by the way, uh as Democrats have done in the past.
Hang on.
As Democrats have done in the past, so did Republicans challenged on the on a variety of issues.
And guess what?
They didn't win.
And now Joe Biden's gonna be president.
Now, we do have a problem in the country in as much as eight.
I told you I pay back I'll pay on the debt.
I thought I you know, I make good on my debts.
Um Hennedy always pays his debts.
It's a bet.
It wasn't a debt.
I didn't borrow money.
God forbid if I need to borrow money from I I know that the usury rate would be what of 40 percent?
Um by the way, guess what?
I bet you're happy that uh Joe's gonna be raising taxes and open borders and well now we're not gonna.
I'm taxes are the price of civilization.
Oh, yeah.
We shouldn't have cut taxes by two trillion dollars on we've had that argument.
My next question is do you support the Green New Deal, a government that squandered Social Security savings, a government that squandered uh uh Medicare, a government that can't keep uh law in order in your home city of Chicago, uh safety and security, one that promised everyone would keep their plan, keep their doctors, and save less uh money, none of those promises were fulfilled as I predicted.
I know you're upset that your guy lost.
So I'm asking, do you think this do you think the Green New Deal is good for America?
But I I can I can give you good foods at our dinner, I will take you for some good food, and it will make you feel better.
Um my question though is simple.
Do you really think government can provide a guaranteed job, guaranteed wage, government guaranteed healthy food?
Uh we're gonna have government education, Pre-K education, free college education, student loan forgiveness, uh Medicare for all, guaranteed retirement.
Do you think we'll ever be able to they mean the one socialist country that where that worked?
Yeah, I look, I don't think we can do all of those things and all simultaneously and that the government can do the do them all well.
But it's individual components of that, I think not only can they, it's really quite important that the government try to increase the educational attainment of people and uh all the other rich countries are doing it,
and that we try to expand to universal health care so that when we have crises like this COVID crisis and millions of people lose their jobs, that doesn't mean they also lose their health insurance right in the middle of a pandemic.
I mean, that's that system is listening these were extraordinary times and circumstances.
I don't support that at all.
I mean, and and by the way, I can tell you that a lot of accommodations were made for a lot of people, and I even supported more government spending than I normally would to help out workers that were displaced and and put out of the the job market.
Listen, we we save every other country in the world, Austin.
I mean, when our when our family, American family, is hurting, we got to take care of them.
I'm not disagreeing.
That's fair.
See, and it was Trump that wanted two thousand dollars.
Uh well in in, you know, it was Republicans like McConnell that opposed it.
I is that is kind of funny.
Uh uh ironic, but that is true.
Um, so why don't you say that really am going to miss Trump?
I bet you're gonna miss him.
I'm not I'm not gonna miss him at all.
You gotta be kidding.
You're the you're gonna have to start having me on more frequently, though, because now you you're gonna be mad at the same time.
I gotta find somebody that'll defend this non-free from the Biden administration's gonna come on and talk to you.
It's gonna be a good thing.
Why is that?
I mean, can you make a couple of calls and you know, speak out on my behalf and tell them you know, he's really a good guy, this Hannity, and see if they're stupid enough to come on and put up with us?
I'll tell you.
All right.
Listen, you're a good man.
I will pay off my bet, but it's still not officially over till tomorrow.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Well, I think that's an appropriate ending.
The Democrats are coming for us.
Hold on to your wallet.
Socialism, uh listen, this is chilling times, man.
Oh, God help us.
All right, sir.
God bless you and your family.
You're a good man.
Uh Patty in Mississippi.
What's up, Patty?
How are you?
I'm good.
I said I haven't called you in a while, because uh to be perfectly honest, I was tired of talking to a wall.
But these comments by Mitch McConnell have put me over the edge today.
And I'm hoping that maybe after all this time and after all these years, that maybe you will understand what I've been trying to tell you.
That's no, I think you're uh I never really disagreed.
If you think I didn't understand that we're dealing with an establishment wing of the Republican Party, I I don't I think you know me better than that.
And they didn't like the Tea Party.
If you're if you want to go back in history, the Tea Party, then no one ever went again.
No one ever took uh Lois Lerner got away with it, you know, with IRS, you know, targeting people, and and who didn't help us?
The Republicans.
I was with you there too.
By the way, he was for Ford versus Reagan for crying out loud.
Well, I mean, and that's the thing.
Why are we why are we putting up with that?
Why you know, why are we doing it?
Why do we keep doing the same thing over and over again when it's getting us nowhere?
Where's the where's the uh Durham report?
Where's you know, where is anyone getting you know held accountable for anything?
Matty, I don't think there's anyone that has pushed on a serious level any harder than I could than I have on these issues.
I've been I it's blood, sweat, and tears every day.
You know, and and have a little chat, figure out who you can talk to.
Listen, I'm gonna tell you right now, and Rand Paul, who lives in the state of Kentucky said it well.
I don't think the Republican Party survives if Mitch McConnell, that's the direction he's gonna take.
And that's it, plain and simple.
You know, Reagan once said that it is, you know, is it a is it a third party we need, or is it a revitalized second party?
And he said it's a second party uh revitalized with no pale pastels, but bold color differences.
Now the Republican Party's at a crossroads.
Either they're gonna if the establishment thinks that America first is going away, that the the Trump agenda of lower taxes and fighting and winning on issues they say they're gonna fight and win on, again in the political arena, then there's nobody that's going to support them.
And Mitch McConnell is a very good thing.
Go ahead.
I think it's time for him to go.
That's my answer.
We need to come out just as heavily against these establishment people as we are the Democrats.
Because they are no, they are not helping us.
And they're actually, you want to talk about the that's the only bipartisan thing in Washington, is this collusion in the establishment of both sides.
They are not helping us.
They're not only helping us, they sabotage us.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity, 9 Eastern tonight.
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The issue of whether or not Mitch McConnell should remain as majority leader.
We're on pardon watch.
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