Sean Hannity Show - Where Do We Go From Here?

Jan. 20, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Sean sits down with Bill O'Reilly to discuss the transition to President Biden and Sean's plan to keep the conservative movement alive.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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	If you want to be a part of the program, you know, I know a lot of you.
	You're not having the best day.
	I'm not exactly having the best day either.
	I want to just give a little perspective on...
	And I know it's not going to make you feel better.
	And I'm not Pollyanish.
	And I, you know, there's a lot.
	You just see the 17 agenda items of Biden on day one.
	And it's like, okay, this is what we warned America about.
	We as conservatives.
	And I, you know, my heart is troubled, of course.
	I'm not you can go back in the uh four years ago.
	I mean, the the left was absolutely apoplectic, losing it as they had throughout the entire campaign in the in a state of shock and horror at Donald Trump's election.
	Um, a couple of things to not forget is and feel whatever you're feeling.
	You know, you feel what you feel.
	You I wouldn't want you to feel I'm not trying to talk to you.
	Uh I'm not trying to make you feel something that's not genuine and not sincere and not real.
	There is a little perspective I can give that maybe some of you don't have today that I I want to share with you.
	And not exactly the the best the best.
	This is the most radical agenda ever laid out before the American people.
	It's it's bad.
	There's nothing, I'm not gonna lie.
	It's it's bad.
	But I I will tell you, having done this now, when I started in radio, Ronald Reagan was president, lived through his presidency, Bush 41's presidency, Clinton's eight years of the presidency, I live through Bush's eight years, Bush 43's eight years, we live through Obama's eight years, and we had four amazing years.
	If you're Donald Trump supporter, and I obviously am.
	And now you've got the antithesis in terms of philosophy that is now leading the entire country.
	They have all three branches of government.
	Not exactly the best scenario if you're a conservative.
	But I'll tell you, there's there always is.
	Notice it was I started out one of the greatest presidents in our lifetime.
	And by the way, the three the three biggest moments of conservatism in the modern era are definitely Reagan, Newt Gingrich's contract with America 1994.
	I was a big part of that.
	I actually MC'd Newt's event that night.
	Great night of my life, and a lot of positive changes to America, and they kept their promises.
	One of one of the key signatures of the Trump administrations was promises made, promises kept.
	And you know, you've got to remember that there is an ebb and flow to political cycles.
	If I had to say what this reminds me the most of my career is 2009 and Obama.
	And if you recall, you know, remember they took all the way the promise keep your doctor, keep your plan, and save milli save money.
	Save on average $2,500 per family per year, you know, month, whatever it was.
	I don't even remember.
	Well, we lost millions, lost their doctors and plans, and everybody's paying over 200% more.
	So it didn't work out well.
	And but that led to the rise of the Tea Party movement, which led to Republican take back at the Congress in 2010.
	And it feels a lot like that to me.
	You can see the overreach now.
	You can see it with the media.
	You can see it with big tech companies.
	You got these major institutions that are just trying to make every conservative to censor, shut down, silence, cancel is real.
	And it's like, how did how do we get here?
	Well, the cause of conservatism, conservatism in the modern era, those three times when practice worked.
	And I'm not going to go through chapter and verse on it, but it works.
	The cause of conservatism, what we believe in, the constitution, liberty, our constitutional amendments, God, faith, family, country, limited government, and not over.
	And it's it's it's just a matter of uh they will, I'm telling you, they're overreaching already.
	You know, it's just I'm watching today.
	The theme of Biden's speech is unity, unity, unity, unity, unity.
	At the same time, Biden calling for unity and the mob in the media, oh, gushing over Biden all day.
	It's like they don't even believe it.
	They're just making it up.
	They're just glad Trump is gone.
	I don't think there's many people in this country today that that think, oh my gosh, this I I'm like, I'm watching the speech today.
	I'm gonna be very blunt, honest, and objective here.
	I it sounded like a student council president acceptance speech.
	You know, zero substance.
	I no soaring rhetoric whatsoever.
	And and it's like he half mumbles, I I can't even explain it, and he looks tired.
	Joe, I mean, I can just see him about now.
	He's saying, Oh man, I need a nap.
	This is rough.
	This is tired.
	That's the impression I get.
	And but as he's doing all this is going on today, the mob, the media, you know, really, okay.
	They they're taking this unity message and believing it all because the big media hoax revolves around this claim that Biden, in like in his speech and his team, really want unity, really want to bring the country together.
	It's all about healing, it's all about unity.
	Let's try to let bygones be bygones.
	But like a couple hours earlier, maybe you didn't hear Nancy Pelosi accusing President Trump of being an accessory to murder.
	I guess that doesn't count.
	Says the president could be an accessory to murder after this, after the the Capitol Hill riots.
	I I mean, and invading the Capitol, which by the way, I'm glad they have DC on lockdown.
	To me, it might be a little more than usually would be necessary, but considering what had happened, and they were ill-prepared and ignored all of the warnings that something might very well happen on the sixth, and the many calls that uh they had they even had tips that this was happening.
	They were aware that things were being planned and they did nothing to prepare for it.
	We need a nice something similar to a 9-11 commission.
	Can't ever happen in this country.
	Anyway, you have uh Joy Reed over at MSDNC propaganda network, you know, Pelosi re repeatedly decrying Trump's role in January 6th.
	Well, that's the that's where he said many of you will peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol, let your voices be heard.
	And anyway, the the crime in some cases was murder, Pelosi said.
	This president is an accessory to that crime.
	Is Joe Biden, Mr. Unity gonna speak out and say, oh, when Chucky Schumer, and I guess Mitch McConnell, if he's still leader of the Senate, um by the way, Mitch McConnell continues down this road.
	I I think Rand Paul's right.
	He there won't be a Republican Party.
	It's just not gonna happen.
	And if he's that out of touch with his base, more fixated on whatever axe to grind that Mitch McConnell has, that's that's you know, uh I I don't think any of that's gonna end well.
	But it is time for new leadership.
	I will say that in the U.S. Senate.
	Um, so that that's the environment that we have today.
	And that's where we are.
	And then, but if you turn into your Media and you compare it to four years ago this very day.
	Um, you know, the the good news for the media, their four-year vacation started today.
	You can't make it up.
	You had one MSDNC contributor comparing Biden to God, suggesting that Trump voters should be blamed for COVID deaths.
	This is where they are.
	Now it's interesting.
	Um I'm just gonna make a prediction.
	I don't think you're gonna hear as much about problems with COVID and and death tolls, except they'll try and take a victory lap over Donald Trump's vaccine.
	That happened on Trump's watch.
	CNN, they they they couldn't contain their excitement today.
	We have one commentator commenting on the COVID memorial lights along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
	It's almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms.
	And the contrast embracing America very different from go ahead, play it.
	And the contrast on display tonight was so stark.
	I mean, those lights that are that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial uh along the reflecting pool.
	I look, it's like almost uh extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America.
	It was a moment where the new president came to town and sort of convened the country in this moment of remembrance.
	Except I guess 75 million of us, uh yeah, we I don't exactly feel the embrace as they begin their their latest hoax uh post well unconstitutional post-presidential impeachment trial that they're planning.
	You know, New York Times editor has chills as Biden's plane landed at joints uh base Andrews and and the New York Timeditor mocking the mock for this fanfare.
	I have chills.
	I mean, what?
	We're now back to thrills up and down my leg with Chris Matthews and Obamagasms.
	You know, you have Don Lemon over there at fake news uh DNC News CNN, the end of the American carnage will be over.
	Okay, really?
	Uh they've been you know only comparing Trump supporters to uh uh KKK sympathizers and Nazis and everything else that have been said over there.
	And bash they're still bashing Trump.
	They they've not given up that addiction yet, calling Trump a small man as he leaves the White House for the final time.
	Politico, Biden's about to give the most important inaugural speech since Lincoln.
	Oh, good grief.
	If that was it, we're in deep trouble.
	Gettysburg address, it was not.
	And they actually wrote about it.
	Writing a speech for Biden can be hell, and that was before the inaugural.
	There's now a heightened urgency to Biden's inaugural speech as he confronts multiple crises and seeks to bridge a deep political vibe.
	It took 300 years to develop journalism as an institution that provide facts to the public for political deliberation.
	Well, they've destroyed that now since you know, a long time ago, to be honest.
	I'm gonna be straightforward here.
	And it ultimately give take just over a decade to raise it to the ground, salt the earth where it had been and collide an asteroid with uh what remained.
	This is what they're saying.
	You know, you got a far-left activist saying we toppled a dictator.
	Well, you got fake news acostas out there reporting uh he's almost leaving town like an autocrat, ousted from power, headed and off in exile.
	Okay, President Trump in exile.
	That's fine.
	We'll listen to Jim Acosta.
	Whatever he says.
	Uh fake news MBC, DNC News.
	You got uh Chucky Todd calling the 1776 project garbage.
	Whatever.
	Uh triggered by both sides.
	They need to dial back the rhetoric.
	He said he says he says gets he gets triggered by after the Republican representative Tom Reid said both sides need to dial back the rhetoric.
	Well, there was only one side that tried to overthrow the Capitol, and that got out of hand, right?
	I still am looking for Mitch McConnell to show us exactly what he claimed yesterday was in the speech, because I want to I want to look at it.
	And by the way, now there is this divide that is growing here, and it's not gonna get any better.
	Look, it is what it is.
	And, you know, I will tell you that each and every one of you out there, and there are seventy our agenda's simple.
	God, faith, family, country.
	We love it.
	We love our constitution.
	We love the First Amendment, Second Amendment, all our amendments to the Constitution.
	This can't be a post-constitutional America.
	We have a right of we really have a responsibility for our kids and grandkids.
	The cause of conservatism doesn't go away unless we let it.
	And we don't have to let it.
	We want to advance it.
	Look at it as a setback.
	But the principles of which what do we stand for?
	Limited government, lower taxes, less government bureaucracy.
	We want constitutionalists on the bench, secure borders, energy independence.
	We want manufacturing at home.
	We want free trade but fair trade.
	We want peace through strength, and we don't want foreign conflicts, especially in light of new military technologies that have been developed that can keep us all safe in the cause of freedom safe.
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	All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean, our number.
	Um why do why is important for the cause of conservatism to recognize it's never over?
	Never is, unless, unless you, we give up.
	I'm not giving up.
	The things matter these things that we believe in as conservatives matter too much.
	Principle is it's pretty simple.
	It's not really hard, complicated to understand a conservative.
	Getting getting these, getting these getting elections won and getting items passed.
	What do we want?
	Well, now we want our election systems, you know, fixed so we can have faith and in and confidence and integrity in them.
	Nancy Pelosi, first order of business.
	Yeah, let's lock in all the COVID changes on mail in balloting with without fixing it.
	This is gonna be up to state legislators.
	That's why, and by the way, you need to do it now, not two years from now, when the next election is.
	Um, and God faith, family, country.
	Well, I mean, what is conservatism?
	It's not that complicated.
	It's a belief in our constitution.
	Yes, even the first and second amendment.
	I didn't think I'd ever have to reinforce that, but I do apparently.
	You know, what do we we believe in that rights come from God, their natural rights, not from government, which separates us from so many other autocratic, authoritarian, you know, regimes around the world and those that had emerged throughout history.
	And that is that, you know, the belief that we're endowed by a creator, the thing, you know, the thing, the creator, God who created everything.
	And well, that means that those rights come from God, a creator.
	That means that, and I believe every human being was created by God, every human being.
	And that are inside all of us, God given talents, and only in a free environment, one that's safe and Secure, meaning you need to have safe neighborhoods, safe cities, uh, which we don't have in cities that have been run by liberal democrats for decades, and and then nurture that through a good education.
	We don't have that either in in big cities and states that have been run by liberal democrats for decades, and the consequences are that severe.
	And but anyway, the point is that endowed by our creator, not endowed by government.
	So that then hence comes the belief in limited government.
	And what's lived, you don't believe in government.
	I didn't say I didn't believe in government.
	I'm saying limited.
	The great pamphleter, Thomas Paine saying once that the were the guides and dictates of human conscience irresistibly obeyed, there'd be no need for any other lawgiver.
	That not being the case.
	Governments are instituted by men, and government in its best state, a necessary evil, but it's in its worst state an intolerable one.
	Hence, you know, the last hundred years of human history, last century, rather.
	You have how many people killed in the name of some ism, communism, Nazism, fascism.
	You know, China, Mao, red book, you got it.
	Now we're dealing with radical Islamism.
	And these these are these are ideologies and in some cases governments and regimes, authoritarian, statist.
	And what a liberal socialist democrats, the ones that can't keep your your cities safe and secure and guarantee peace for your prosperity, the ones that can't give your kids a quality education, the same socialist democrats that said that you're going to keep your doctor plan and save a whole lot of money, and we lost millions, millions lost their doctor's plans, and we're all paying a fortune more, 200 plus percent more.
	That now somehow they're going to come up with this utopian America and they're just going to redistribute wealth because they have determined that that is what is fair.
	And we're going to all do it in the name of unity.
	As they planned for their impeachment trial post-presidency, unconstitutional as it is against Donald Trump.
	You know, this is what Trump always said.
	It's words.
	They're meaningless words.
	You know, the one thing I did like what Trump said today, he left it all on the bat.
	He left it all as athletes say on the field.
	He's not leaving thinking, oh, I could have worked harder.
	And you know, at the end of the day, we don't all live forever.
	At the end of the day, did you leave it all on the field?
	And now the blessings of liberty is we we give lip service to.
	Now we're beginning to see even simple things like the second amendment and even freedom of speech in this sick, ugly, cancerous cancel culture atmosphere we all live in.
	I just I never saw this accelerating this quickly to this horrible state of affairs.
	Never thought I would see that you know the big tech companies align as they did against parlor.
	I never thought that I that I'd see a president or a president supporters silenced.
	You know, I never thought we'd see a snap impeachment in pretty much in five seconds.
	And it was only after the snap impeachment that we find out, whoa, hang on a second.
	Now there definitely were people, a small percentage, the one percent that were at the rally at the monument that yeah, they participated in what would now knowing that there were people that they knew had pre-planned this quote insurrection, liberals' favorite new word, uh, that took place.
	And, you know, going into the Capitol the way they did, which can't happen in America.
	They didn't have enough security then.
	Now they I don't know if we need as much security as we have today, but I want to make sure I do want enough security to make sure every every elected official in our capital and our white house is safe.
	This can't happen.
	We need the equivalent of a 9-11 commission report on what happened at the Capitol.
	But you can't, even Bill Marr said, uh, okay, the 5,000 or the 1% of people that were at the rally that illegally went into the Capitol.
	You can't say, you know, blame on the 75 million of us that voted for Trump because all of us condemn it.
	Nobody supported that.
	And the rush to judgment is just predictable.
	But you know, we believe as conservatives, limited government, lower taxes, getting government bureaucracy the hell out of the way so that businesses can do what they do best and compete.
	And all the things that Trump promised and Trump delivered on.
	We want our borders secure.
	We want energy independence.
	We want merit-based immigration.
	We don't want to reward law breaking by offering legalized status to those people that didn't respect our laws, our borders, or our sovereignty.
	Not that complicated.
	We believe in free trade because it's good for America, but it's got to be fair trade.
	We believe in peace through strength because it's a there's a lot of evil and ugliness all throughout the world, and America has, as we know, a lot of enemies.
	And you know, it doesn't get that complicated.
	We want constitutionalist judges.
	We don't want judicial activists that bypass a whole branch of government through executive fiat.
	This isn't complicated.
	So item number one in the Biden agenda, not saying this to make it depressed.
	I'm saying so you are aware of where this is headed.
	It was the most radical agenda ever by any major political party.
	Then we have a whole other issue here, and that is the mob, the media, and big tech allowed a presidential that didn't do their job and vet Biden at all.
	And by the way, we're gonna continue vetting him.
	We're not even finished.
	We haven't just the tip of the iceberg.
	He appearing a lot on Hunter Biden's laptop.
	We'll have more on that tomorrow.
	I'll tell you about that tomorrow.
	And a lot of other issues.
	Never got to the bottom of the deep state, spying on a presidential candidate and a president.
	That's sad.
	John Durham, where are you?
	Especially in light of the documents we got late yesterday.
	We're gonna have more on that report tonight on Hannity with John Solomon.
	All right, so 17 executive actions today.
	And one, stop border wall construction.
	Do we want to that's an open borders agenda?
	Then, of course, Biden will also set to preserve and fortify DACA, allowing people that came to the U.S. as kids to get deferred immigration enforcement and work authorization, and then also expedite a path to legalization.
	Then you also put illegal immigrants, wants to put illegal immigrants back in the census.
	He'll sign an executive order to revoke the Trump administration's plan to exclude non-citizens from the census.
	We'll count them as American citizens.
	Doesn't make sense to me.
	Do laws mean anything?
	Then the deferred enforcement departure designation.
	That's all part of that.
	He's going to end the president, President Trump, I guess as Jim Acosta says, the president in exile.
	Donald Trump.
	That's what he wants to refer to Donald Trump as.
	Why would we, why would we stop him?
	Biden set to sign an executive order that will put an end to the travel ban.
	It was not as they're characterizing it, a Muslim ban.
	And uh no more extreme vetting.
	I think after 9-11 and after COVID, I don't care where you come from.
	I think everybody should be vetted thoroughly, not unfairly, thoroughly.
	Make sure we don't find any radical associations or ties.
	Should we in a post-COVID world as we now vaccinate more and more Americans every day, maybe learn that health issues might be an issue for immigration?
	I would think that's reasonable.
	Joe will re-engage the World Health Organization.
	Great.
	Anthony Fauci pretty much got most everything wrong on COVID.
	No offense, a lot.
	He got a lot wrong.
	And I don't think he was done on purpose.
	He's dedicated his life to saving lives.
	I don't think let it happen.
	He's going to now uh rejoin the Paris Climate Accords.
	Great.
	That means that China is viewed as a developing nation and we pay the price.
	Pretty dumb.
	Uh, revoking the Keystone XL pipeline.
	Feel sorry today for everybody that works on that pipeline.
	He's also extending affordable housing.
	And by the way, the uh the extension, the bears, uh, the bear's ears and and grand staircase and national monuments in New Utah, North uh Northeast Canyon, and otherwise in New England, I guess.
	Anyway, and then it's uh Affordable Housing Extending Eviction Foreclosure Moratoriums for those affected by the housing affordability crisis.
	He's not talking about COVID.
	He's gonna put a pause on student loans, extending the pause on interest and principal payments, at least until September 30th.
	I guess moving towards loan forgiveness.
	He has a whole racial justice and equality uh agenda that he'll be signing on today.
	He'll be eliminating the president's 1776 commission, rescinding that.
	The ethics pledge.
	Biden will sign an executive order to restore and maintain public trust in government, and every appointee, every branch will ensure that employees act in the interest of the American people and not for personal gain.
	Does that mean he's gonna go back to his previous administration and talk about Hunter?
	Um they're even downplaying, by the way, COVID expectations.
	Uh, we have the hundred-day nationwide mask challenge.
	That is a nationwide face mask social distance mandate on federal buildings, lands by employees and contractors.
	Uh let's see.
	Oh, change Trump's arrest policies for ice.
	Huh.
	Don't arrest anybody.
	Don't do your job.
	Key protections for a group of Liberians in the country.
	Not exactly sure of all of that and what that's all about.
	Uh restructure, but then minimizing, I noticed.
	Uh, on getting COVID under control.
	It's going to take a lot of time, a lot of time.
	Our team is eager.
	I thought he was going to do this on day one.
	We're eager, though, to get the agencies and into the White House to gain a better assessment about where things really stand on managing the pandemic.
	Trump left you multiple vaccines.
	You're in much better shape.
	Um transgender bathrooms, uh, a rule protecting them.
	Biden's pick for DHS.
	Apparently has a simple question from Mitt Romney, had a hard time answering.
	Uh, will migrants be allowed in at the southern border?
	And uh, Senator, we're a nation of immigrants, also a nation of laws.
	That's the answer.
	Okay.
	Um, restructure, let's see, advance.
	Uh, told you about that.
	Strengthen workplace discrimination, freezing last-minute Trump regulatory actions, formulating executive branch ethics doctrines.
	Okay.
	That's the agenda today, day one.
	The cause of conservatism, I promise you, is not over.
	That I can promise you.
	Unless you let it happen.
	Unless we give up, you, the American people, we the people give up.
	Too many people sacrifice for our liberties and freedom for us not to stand up and fight in the arena of ideas for such peacefully, of course.
	It's like everything with taken out of context on purpose by people.
	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.
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	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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	All right, simple man, Leonard Skinner, it could only mean one thing, and that means all things business.
	Bill O'Reilly.com on this inauguration day.
	Let's see, uh, Bill, let's play the I think there was one overriding theme.
	Would you agree, yes or no?
	No long answer, that the theme of the Biden inaugural speech was quote unity.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Let's I want to ask simple man observation if this is real unity in your mind.
	Let's play it.
	To restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words.
	Requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy.
	Unity.
	You can take Trump supporters and put them in two big baskets.
	There are what I call the deplorables, you know, the racist and the you know, the haters.
	If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported.
	You voted for the person who Nazis support.
	You voted for the person who the alt-right supports.
	With unity, we can do great things, important things.
	I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable.
	Um, and the things that they say are deplorable.
	The question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?
	I know speaking of unity, can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days.
	I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real.
	There are millions of Americans, uh almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed.
	Hitler led a political movement of anti-education, anti-science racists.
	Sound familiar?
	Trump relied on a coalition, and a core part of that coalition were racists, yeah, building a coalition with all sorts of other people that could be susceptible to racist views because we do not talk about or educate people on recognizing racism.
	History, faith, and reason show the way, the way of unity.
	We can see each other not as adversaries, but as neighbors.
	It isn't just a pejorative to say that it's a cult.
	There's a lot of evidence that it is a racial and religious cult of personality.
	74 million people are going to believe that because they've been brainwashed.
	We can treat each other with dignity and respect.
	We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature.
	And you are actively trying to diminish your Second Amendment right and take away our gun.
	All right, run over to the Fox News section and start assaulting people.
	Like I would be, I would go in and be like, yes, a racist, and then I'd run out.
	Uh, we're playing this throughout the day today.
	Mr. O'Reilly does uh sounds to me like those are words, because starting Monday, we expect the uh unconstitutional post-impeachment trial of Donald Trump to begin in the Senate, and Joe is uh not weighed in and said, Let's not do this.
	Right, and that was the major mistake of his speech.
	So if you really wanted unity, which as a historian now, not as a pundit, but as a historian.
	I think Biden would like the country to be unified and to work together to solve big problems, but he doesn't have the courage to lead in that Direction.
	So what I tweeted right after he finished was that Joe Biden called for unity a number of times, did not mention leftist anarchy or cancel culture.
	Did mention white supremacy and ugly racism.
	So, yeah, white supremacy and ugly racism are topics that should be condemned.
	I think everybody, you know, sane people would say, yeah.
	Well, what about leftist anarchy and cancel culture?
	Why is that not even mentioned by the incoming president?
	So that's a simple question from a simple man, me.
	And you have to know that the Biden speech writer said we're not going to do anything to alienate our base or to tee off the far left progressives.
	We're just going to say stuff, but it's meaningless because I don't believe Joe Biden is going to be the president of everyone.
	I think he's going to try to consolidate progressive power.
	Not as an activist, but as a guy who's like punches pilot, just washes his hands and stays quiet.
	Think that's what he's going to do.
	I think that's a pretty good prediction and observation.
	Now, Bill O'Reilly, I this is a dangerous question.
	Um I'm on real, you know, slippery uh real slippery slope here.
	Do you think that Sean Hannity and 75 million other Americans need to be deprogrammed and go to re-education camps?
	By the way, I'm sure there's some people that believe I should.
	Well, I think you should be deported.
	Okay, first of all.
	Create more room for all the illegal immigrants that are racing in.
	Yeah, we'll send you back to Killarney, Ireland, get rid of you, and that'll that'll solve a whole bunch of problems.
	Look, what has to happen in America, and what will eventually happen, I do believe that.
	I'm an optimistic guy based on history, is that the haters have to be isolated.
	And that's on both sides of the spectrum.
	So the cancel culture has to be defeated.
	And tonight on BillO'Reilly.com, I'm laying out a new political party that could do that called the freedom of speech party.
	I'm laying out how it could do it.
	It's along the lines of the Tea Party.
	But the cancel culture has to be defeated, and the haters on the left have to be identified and scorned.
	I don't know about you, Hannity.
	I think you're the same well as I am.
	When I talk to somebody who doesn't agree with me politically, and I know a lot of liberals, obviously, I've been around for a long time, and they start the racist business, the conversation ends with me.
	I don't debate it.
	I just say, hey, you know, have a nice day, stay strong, and I'm vapor.
	I'm out of there.
	I'm just not going to do that anymore.
	The people who are pointing the finger of racism at other Americans are usually racist themselves, haters themselves.
	And I don't want to have anything to do with them.
	As far as party goes, I'm not a registered Republican, as you know, I'm a registered conservative.
	And, you know, I I think I speak for a lot of people.
	I I think it's a pretty simple philosophy.
	You're a simple man.
	I'll I'll run the litmus test by you.
	Uh I'm I believe in our constitution, including our first and second amendment and all of our amendments.
	Uh I want I want lower taxes.
	I want less bureaucracy.
	Uh I want secure borders.
	I want energy independence.
	I want constitutionalists on the court.
	Uh I want uh the country to pursue free and fair trade deals.
	I want free trade and I want fair trade.
	I believe in peace through strength and the strongest military on the on the face of this earth.
	And and that's pretty much if I was to sum up what my agenda is, what I want, what I know works for this country, that's it.
	We do the simple basic things, we would be better off as a country.
	Biden's executive actions undo a lot of what Donald Trump has done on day one, 17 of them.
	You know, people ask me about you, Hannity.
	Not many, but I say, look, it's obvious that Sean Hannity believes in conservative traditional values.
	That's what he does on TV and radio.
	I've known a man for 25 years.
	I've never seen him do or say one racist thing.
	And that's what I'm saying.
	Why would people even say that?
	I'm just the opposite.
	No, I'm not sure.
	You know, I'm a Christian too, Bill, and I believe that God created every man, woman, and child on this planet.
	And I've said so for 25 years.
	Longer, actually, 33.
	My problem with that is that I don't know how he did it with you, because it's a whole different thing.
	But anyway, nobody ever says you're racist, but they say you represent racists.
	And they say that about me too.
	So I want nothing to do with those people, and nor do you.
	I know, and that's what I tell them.
	I said, look, if you're going to make these kinds of accusations or or even bring it up in conversation, you've got to something back it up, and they never do.
	Never do, ever.
	Um so what Joe Biden doesn't understand, doesn't want to understand, is that most of the Trump voters want nothing to do with extremism.
	They would applaud things that advance minority welfare.
	Donald Trump himself, as you pointed out many times, so have I, his economy help minorities.
	There's no doubt about that.
	So why what is this demonization deprogramming?
	What is this all about?
	And the answer to that question is power.
	Now, Biden is not going to stand up to the extremist elements of his party.
	If he were to do that, he would have said today, in the interest of unification, I am gonna call for Schumer and Pelosi to stand down on impeachment.
	It is not necessary.
	It is a hateful act for the president, and we're not gonna do it.
	That's what I would have said.
	It would have taken gut, but you didn't hear a word about that.
	And when it unfolds, the impeachment trial, Biden's not gonna say a blanking word, and you can take that to the bank.
	What it now the question is you heard Mitch McConnell's comments.
	And I'll be honest, I think Mitch is I think we need new leadership in the Senate.
	I said it on TV last night, said it today, said it yesterday on radio.
	And I I think that Mitch McConnell um was very good at getting judges through and not great at anything else.
	And Mitch McConnell, I do believe that you have this intramural battle between the establishment wing of the Republican Party, uh, you know, the Romneys, the McCain's, the Cheneys, et cetera, et cetera.
	That that they have their view of things, which I think is a timid weak agenda in the end, and it is they've lost touch with the base of the party.
	And then I think that you've got the more MAGA conservative America First agenda that I think which is where I am in terms of governing philosophy, the conservative philosophy I outlined for you.
	Um if Mitch goes forward with this and he gets Republicans to join him, what happens to the Republican Party?
	Rand Paul says it's splinters and it it fractures.
	Well, Paul is correct.
	Uh I'm actually using your soundbite on the no spin news on Bill O'Reilly.com tonight.
	So you made my show, Hannity.
	Um but it's more than that for a Mitch McConnell.
	Mitch McConnell wants to be accepted in the Washington hierarchy.
	So he realized that Trump is done.
	Trump is gone, not part of the mosaic anymore.
	So I'm Mitch McConnell.
	I'm gonna get on the right side of this issue so that I can walk hand in hand with Joe Biden anywhere I want to.
	And that's O McConnell's profile always has been.
	So he is he damaging the Republican Party?
	Absolutely.
	Everyone knows it, including Mitch McConnell.
	But he's putting his own social status above what's right for the country.
	Now, I don't believe that Republican senators are gonna follow him.
	I think there's six that will.
	I could be wrong.
	But I don't have any respect for McConnell because he killed Kate's law single-handedly.
	And that's the law I drew up to protect Americans from violent.
	No, I I thought you you were dead on on that issue and right, and I supported it.
	All right, Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly of Bill O'Reilly.com.
	We ought to we ought to get the domain simple man.com.
	I think that might go in great tandem with with your website.
	Anyway, um now there had been a lot of speculation the president would pardon himself.
	He did not pardon his family, he did not.
	He he did pardon Steve Bannon.
	That is uh the charges brought up on him.
	Um I'm actually not that familiar with the whole case, but um I know that happened, and then other people, drug offenses, there's a whole list of people.
	Any thoughts on it?
	Uh I'm not really the president's prerogative.
	Um, you know, I don't have a pond to really delve into what these people allegedly did or what they should be pardoned or not.
	I don't think the nation cares much about that.
	Um, but I wanted to go back to our discussion about why Mitch McConnell does what he does.
	That translates into a lot of politicians and media people.
	When I was looking at reaction to Biden's speech, which by all accounts, as a historian, was a mediocre speech.
	It was it didn't soar to any height, it didn't break any new ground.
	There wasn't any specificity in the speech.
	It was okay.
	But it was standard issue.
	Well, all of a sudden, certain journalists, and I'm not going to name them because it's just I don't want to get into that.
	But this is the greatest speech I've ever seen.
	They said that publicly.
	Greatest or speech in of my lifetime.
	And each one who said that has an agenda.
	They want an interview with Joe Biden.
	Hey, Bill, one of the things we'll have a lot of fun doing in the next four years is comparing how they treat Biden versus Trump.
	It's a layup segment every day on radio and TV.
	Bill O'Reilly, thanks as always.
	Uh, all things O'Reilly, BillO'Reilly.com.
	His killing series about to expand.
	We'll make announcements in the weeks to come.
	Quick break, right back.
	Your calls uh on the other side, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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	All right, 25 till the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of this extravagance.
	I know listen, a lot of you.
	Um, I I look, I uh I don't it's not what many of us wanted.
	We're not gonna go crazy like the lunatic left did in 2016.
	Uh, but we are going to the things that the values that matter to us, the issues that we know work for this country, the issues involving liberty and freedom.
	Um we will we will continue to pursue all of them.
	And my guess, my gut is what we're seeing is a massive major.
	They they have misinterpreted the results of this election in more ways than one, putting that aside.
	And they they think they've got a mandate.
	They do not.
	I I don't think there are very many in people that are saying oh, that speech, I I was blown away.
	Um, and and I'm being objective.
	I'm not trying to be mean spirited here.
	I mean, there was nothing in there on my unity.
	Yeah, okay.
	What time when does the impeachment trial witch hunt start?
	Oh, Monday.
	Okay.
	Uh, I don't believe Joe Biden has the ability or the gumption to ever stand up to the radical base and that they will control his entire presidency.
	And it's it's going to take engagement by we those of us that that have never wavered in our conservative values.
	Yes, America first.
	Yes, we want lower taxes.
	We want the government out of our lives as much as possible, less bureaucracy.
	Yes, we want secure borders.
	Yes, we want energy independence.
	Yes, we want uh constitutionalists on the court.
	Yes, we want peace through strength.
	Yes, we all of these things.
	It's not that complicated if you're a conservative, and we saw the actions of Biden today, and the the their process is now begun.
	And it's our job to hold everybody accountable.
	Anyway, let's go to uh Alexander, Nebraska on the Sean Hannity show.
	What's going on, Alexander?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, Sean, how are you doing?
	I'm good, sir.
	What's happening?
	Oh, it's great to hear your voice.
	Uh I haven't talked to you since I was 12 years old, living back in Texas.
	Uh Wow, how old are you now?
	Um 20.
	I'm 25.
	And uh that's kind of I kind of 12 years old is kind of like a lot of people.
	I'm really honored on the one hand.
	On the other hand, you're really making me feel old, but go ahead.
	No, I mean, you look you look better than I do, so I mean, get out of here, John.
	Uh, but uh no, it was great.
	Uh it was a great seeing you.
	I was able to see my first very first concert and rest in peace.
	I saw Charlie Daniels uh after meeting you uh when my dad dragged me to a conference somewhere in Texas.
	And since then I've really gotten into really been into politics and a lot more than that.
	You know, it's funny.
	With Charlie who passed away this past year, his son Charlie Daniels Jr. actually did a soapbox, which was like this venting column that Charlie did uh in his life, and he was very bold and outspoken in his column, and he actually wrote a column, uh, what would Charlie say?
	What would my dad say?
	And yeah, just you know, I I I don't I can imagine him calling me off air and just going off right about now.
	So what's going on?
	My dad, my my well, my dad always told me, uh always asked for he I was a very impulsive child.
	He's cracked my head open five times.
	Uh, but he always told me, Alex, ask yourself the question, what could happen?
	And I do that throughout my whole life, and I still do it to this day, but I don't think America is really asking that question.
	What could happen?
	Look, I wouldn't make a decision.
	There are consequences, right?
	Elections have consequences.
	And now it is it it this is uh to me, this is the most radical extreme socialist agenda in history.
	It is, you know, I'm I'm staying engaged, I'm not giving up, I never give up.
	I've lived through the we live through the Obama years, we live through the Clinton years.
	You have ups, you have downs.
	And I think that there are certain guiding principles of liberty and freedom that if we follow those and we follow the principles of conservatism, and and we only elect people to be honest, that are going to that have the gumption to stand up and fight hard for those things that we all believe in.
	And if they're not willing to, then we'll move on.
	There look, there you can see this intramural squabble emerging within the Republican ranks.
	I I think what you're asking me is what's the future of the Republican Party?
	Is it my am I hearing you right?
	Um my issue is I mean, you know, I'm 25 and I'm realizing where my tax dollars are going.
	I don't I I don't have faith in like I don't have faith, faith in anybody that's coming up to be elected uh for the party that I am uh registered for.
	Um I just see my tax dollars going to waste and all these uh you know governors and senators and people in legislative uh legislative uh legislative branch just going on their knees and groveling.
	I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	I want to keep my job, but your job is to use my tax dollars for what I elected you to do to do with them.
	Listen, I'm gonna give you simple advice, okay?
	You gotta right Now is the time to get state legislatures to now first fix uh any voting issues they have in their state.
	And that that would include simple things like voter ID.
	That would include you can't have elections in perpetuity that go on for weeks and months at a time.
	Uh you need a system that people will have faith, trust, confidence in with the results.
	And all of that is doable, and it's gonna be us, and there might be a tendency of some people to say, ah, it's over, throw up their hands and then re-engage just before the the twenty twenty-two uh midterms.
	It's too late by then.
	You gotta change it before them.
	You got now is the time to engage.
	Now is the time because we we have an opportunity here to fix a lot of things.
	But look, Alexander, stay in touch with us.
	We'll talk to you in 13 more years.
	I hope I hope sooner than that.
	Um, but I appreciate you listening.
	God uh God bless you, Dad too.
	Chuck in Kansas.
	Hey Chuck, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, Sean, how are you?
	Uh in the two thousand two thousand one inauguration, I was the military liaison to Secret Service and Capitol Police.
	Uh we vetted eighteen hundred guardsmen, reservists, and military academy cadets and midshipmen for uh the balls for the cordons, for uh security.
	And we went to the NCIC National Uh Criminal Uh data base uh for the reviews and vetting of these people.
	And now the military has changed that by virtue of possessing what they call a CAC card, common access card, which is the military ID, every time you enter base, the technology now is able to check the NCIC every time.
	So these people are vetted and they're vetted again and again and again.
	Now they're checking the fialty, your allegiance to possibly a party.
	I'm uh it's wrong.
	I know that there were look, I'm glad that they were able to secure the inauguration.
	We've got to keep our elected officials safe.
	We've got to keep our institutions of government safe.
	We can't allow what happened at the Capitol ever happen again.
	And there needs to be the equivalent of a nine eleven commission report uh to get to the bottom of how that happened, considering they had advanced knowledge that people were planning this and they did nothing, and and the requests for the National Guard were denied before any of this ever happened.
	Why?
	Who made that decision?
	What's McConnell's involvement?
	What's Pelosi's involvement with the sergeant of arms, because they're in control.
	And and the chief of police for the Capitol, and this poor guy resigned, and he was the one begging for the help.
	And then they had uh uh information and and intelligence that that people actually had arrived beforehand.
	And so, in other words, agitators that went in there and plotted and planned.
	We can't be vulnerable as a country in a post-9-11 world.
	We just can't.
	And now I know they went in there.
	Now we're vetting the National Guard members.
	Well, maybe I I would have thought that would have been done on a regular basis already.
	Um to be honest, I was like, okay, if you can't allow people in our military to have extremist views, and I don't know how they define it, to be honest.
	That's another problem.
	I mean, is it you def are you labeled an extremist like uh because you like Donald Trump?
	I could see cancel culture.
	I can see are you and have you ever been a Donald Trump supporter culture that would say, well, you like Donald Trump, you're off the guard.
	That's that doesn't seem as like a stretch in this day and age, does it?
	Uh no, it doesn't.
	And uh speaking of that, our voter registration records at the county and state level are wide open.
	Your name, your address, your party affiliation, and your voting history are available to anybody tall enough to put the money on the counter.
	And the next time next month, when you don't get that call back for that interview, you might wonder why.
	Uh voter registration records scare me.
	My wife and I, in fact, have uh went in two weeks ago and changed our voter registration to unaffiliated just for that very reason.
	It's uh it's a spooky thing to do, but come the next primary, we'll revert back to where we need to be.
	I like these blowing candles in the wind that we are now and uh move on from there.
	But the guard I would just say this.
	You we gotta understand, and I know I appreciate the call, Andrew.
	Thank you.
	And I'm just gonna tell you something.
	We just need to understand this is real.
	This this entire cancel culture.
	What's frightening about all of it is it is so widely accepted.
	And it's while it's been a reality for conservative talk radio pretty much my entire career.
	You know, I'm now 33 years in this, and I've known for some time you don't really fully have complete freedom of speech when you have groups that literally monitor every word you say, and people paid to monitor.
	They sit in their underwear, I guess, in their basement, you know, hoping that they'll get a conservative to say one thing that they deem politically incorrect, and then they'll go out there and lead a boycott to silence you and attack your advertisers or demand that your company fire you.
	This is a very real scenario.
	You know, I and that's why I've never supported firing of people for speech.
	That's why I've never supported boycotts.
	Because I've always known it's really conservatives that in the end are gonna be the ones that are targeted.
	And it's only now getting worse.
	Parler, you know, shut down because big tech companies defended their ally at Twitter.
	Um now, the answer, the antidote is gonna be we have brilliant conservative minds out there too in the tech world.
	People a lot smarter than me that are going to be able to manufacture uh an independent server process where we get to bypass Apple and get to bypass Amazon and get to bypass Facebook and YouTube and all these other companies.
	They're they're emerging, they're developing, it'll take a little time, but I think it's you know, the foot is down, you know, on the gas pedal, and I I think they're moving full force ahead, and I think it's gonna be accomplished.
	And then we will have successfully bypassed the those that believe in just they want to censor people.
	They don't really believe in freedom of speech.
	They don't support this idea of liberty.
	And at the end of the day, it's really liberty and freedom that we're talking about here.
	Statism, authoritarianism, even socialism.
	That is that is empowering the state, believing and trusting in them that they will handle every aspect of your life, but for everything they promise you, you are giving up your freedom, your money in the process.
	And then you find out that they're not good at fulfilling any promise.
	They're they're incapable and as incompetent as anybody out there, that real capitalism is the answer.
	And we're gonna learn this again as a country the hard way.
	I wish we didn't have to learn this lesson again.
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	In the meantime, we have time for one more call here.
	Don in Lake Ronkonkoma.
	Don's been around the show and a friend of the show almost since the beginning.
	And Don, we've experienced the highs and lows.
	Not exactly our best day today.
	No, today was certainly a low day.
	I did, however, watch President Trump uh thank America and the Patriots who supported his make America first agenda, both at Andrews and uh his farewell speech.
	It's not the death of conservatism if we don't let it be.
	That's right.
	Yeah, I I would say that his only fault, Trump's only fault, was that he and millions of Americans like us did not know the size and the depth of the Washington DC swamp.
	It was grossly underestimated.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, so Biden's calling for unity today.
	Pelosi claims Trump is an accessory to murder.
	I'm like, oh, that's there's a lot of peace in all of that.
	That's the trouble.
	You can't take these people seriously.
	But what I did like was and and again, Trump's uh farewell speech.
	Thank you, America.
	That's why he's so loved.
	That's why these rallies were all so uh so we're so proud to watch him.
	I was part of one of those rallies, and uh those people are just incredible, uh especially the law enforcement people and the military that were there.
	You know.
	Uh Trump talked about the medical miracle, which is the uh the vaccine, the COVID vaccine, how we rebuilt the uh American manufacturing base, how is uh how America unlocked our energy became the world's number one producer of oil.
	This is all great stuff, and uh you know, I'm I'm just very proud of the man, and I know the Trump agenda isn't really over Sean, it's just postponed.
	That's probably a good way to put it.
	Look, um the cause of conservatism, it just never it it's I wish that I c I I now have a perspective I didn't have early in my career.
	Uh and we will the you will see conservatism needed called on again to help save the country and the world.
	It's just a fact.
	Quick break, right back, news roundup information overload next.
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	What you intend to do in the full retro, as I said in my note, is going to take some time.
	Um and then the other thing, just to just close out a little bit.
	We you know, we we are focused on one account right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account and it's going to go on so much longer than just this day this week the next few weeks and on beyond inauguration.
	We have to expect that.
	We have to be ready for that.
	So the focus is certainly on this account and uh priorities to real world violence, but also we need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play up over time.
	Um I don't believe this is going away anytime soon.
	And the moves that we're making uh around uh, for instance, one such example of a much broader approach um that we should be looking at uh and sometimes front.
	So uh the team has a lot of work and a lot of focus on this particular issue.
	Um we also need to know the space in the support to focus on uh the much bigger picture uh because it's not going to lie.
	Um our role is to protect the company conversation uh do what we can to make sure that no one is harmed and not as far as um uh decorative.
	Beyond the amplification, we are going to conspiracy here, we are going to be permanently spending those camps, whether we believe Trump streets are inside violence and having real world harm.
	I think we've seen that in fact they are coming back from the timeout to um de escalate the situation in in other places around the world where we've seen um violence involved as a result of um either misleading information or um coded rhetoric.
	So a lot of our learnings here have come from other markets.
	So in that sense, you know, we do feel like it is, this is our global approach.
	We need to be very focused on being able to enforce any of these policies or enforcement decisions we make at scale.
	I think long term we want to be in terms of building trust and enforcing policies consistently and providing adequate notice before we take a very aggressive step like a permanent suspension.
	There's also been a lot of questions about retros and of course we're going to do a retro.
	We're in the midst of a retro around the election generally.
	This will be most definitely folded into it.
	What we saw Wednesday morning was really concerning to us, obviously.
	So a small team gathered from Trust and Safety.
	We were discussing the potential for violence to happen.
	And we decided to escalate our enforcement of the civic integrity policy and use a label that disabled engagements to stop the spread of potentially inflammatory content, which is the content around election interference, selection fraud, stealing the election.
	That's everything we are going to conspiracy theories.
	We are going to be permanently suspending those accounts.
	We are doing everything that we can to ensure that Twitter is being used in a positive way, that positively affects society.
	All right.
	That's at Jack meaning Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, president.
	pretty chilling and of course then we watched other big tech companies join an alliance with the you know the cancel culture and silencing of voices.
	You know, I said at the beginning of the show today the cause of conservatism is not over unless and until we let it be over in t unless you give up and I'm not giving up and I don't think most of you are either uh but this this recent battle of silencing and wow you never thought in America right but it's happening and there are antidotes.
	There are going to be solutions, they're gonna be creative, they're gonna be alternative platforms that are gonna have to be created and will emerge to allow every American voice to be heard whether you like it or not.
	Uh by the way we have uh news roundup information overload 800 nine four one Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
	Real clear investigations national correspondent uh Eric Felton is here and he's basically chronicled all these this myriad of ways firms like Google, Microsoft have just refused to contract with our Pentagon,
	even denying our national defense's ability to engage and enlist in the best and brightest in the tech center or once they have contracted and had internal turmoil and ideologically driven uh resistance employees, their own deep state actually refusing to do the work.
	I I'd never heard anything like this uh Eric and until I I started reading what you're talking about and I'm like are you kidding me?
	Tell me this is this is not true.
	This is just a made up story.
	This is just f fiction, right?
	Well what we see is you know before the censorship issue came up, I think most people wouldn't have realized that um these sort of magical high-tech services that we all enjoy could be sort of just taken away at moment's notice.
	And that same issue applies to uh the military, to the police, to the intelligence community which are becoming more and more dependent on the communications and high tech tools that big tech provides.
	And we've seen a number of cases already where big tech has said they would work with the government on something and then have sort of like Lucy with the football pulled the football out at the last second.
	In other words we're talking about national security national defense what I would assume that they want to be safe and secure in their homes and neighborhoods and want to protect the sovereignty of the United States I would assume that they have some fundamental uh even rudimentary Or basic understanding that this is an evil world that unfortunately has to be governed by the use of military force.
	Are they missing that part?
	You know, no.
	In fact, uh a lot of um the high-tech companies want to do business uh with the government, with uh the military and the police because it's it's very uh remunerative, but they've had uh their own employees reject uh becoming um uh defense contractors, even divisions within Google.
	Um Google employees um responded to the involvement of Google in Project Maven, which was an artificial intelligence effort to um improve the targeting of drones.
	And having begun that project and having aggressively pursued it, the employees wrote a letter to uh Sundar Pachai, the head of Google and Alphabet, which is the parent of Google, saying we believe that Google should not be in the business of war.
	And basically Google backed out of the uh the contract that it had on Maven.
	Um a similar thing happened two years ago.
	Um uh Amazon Web Services, which is part of Amazon, uh they do all the cloud computing business.
	Um the the head of government sales for AWS, Teresa Carlson, um, gave a speech to um police department uh head saying that that AWS would be unwavering in its support for police.
	Um and then we're selling police departments a program called recognition with recognition with a K instead of a C that was a ability to in crowds um do facial recognition.
	And um after uh uh George Floyd's death in the summer of 2020, uh when things were getting out of control, was AWS unwavering in its support for police.
	No, they got on the bandwagon and um pulled the plug on the police department's ability to use facial recognition software.
	So it's one of these things where you we can have a debate about whether it's a good idea for police to have facial recognition software, whether that has um privacy concerns, etc.
	But what we don't want is the military, the intelligence community, local police departments becoming dependent on these high-tech tools only to find that when there's a crisis, an emergency, perhaps a war, that the um crowd in San Francisco disapproves of, that all of a sudden the technologies are uh you know pulled back or put on suspension or taken away one way or another.
	I mean, what you're describing is just a sill a chilling scenario, and I I guess even our defense department needs to seek alternative sources of information.
	Is that going to be available soon?
	Last question.
	Yeah, there are a lot of people in the defense world who are worried about what is called the security of supply.
	And what they're having to deal with is once upon a time, if say you got a copy of Microsoft Office, you'd get it on a disk, you'd load it on your computer, you had control of using it on your computer.
	In the cloud world, that computing power is on the servers belonging to Microsoft.
	And so if they want to pull the plug on you, they can do that.
	And that's a new world that um is applies to all of this cloud computing environment.
	And it's something that uh military police and the intelligence world are gonna have to uh figure out before there's a crisis.
	Well, I hope you'll continue to update us, and we really need to get to the bottom of it.
	And we're not getting the help, the support, our own military from people that just refuse to participate.
	It's pretty it's pretty unbelievable to me on many, many levels.
	Anyway, we appreciate what you're doing, keep us up to speed.
	Eric.
	Well, just when you think it can't get any worse with big tech, right?
	We continue back to our busy phones, 800 941 Sean.
	Uh all right, let's say hi to Tom in Texas.
	Hey, Tom, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	I just wanted to uh tell you that as I was listening to you speak of the reindoctrination of children's from families of Trump supporters, it occurred to me that this has been going on for 50 years and it's our public school system.
	And it's shameful.
	And I think that's a good thing.
	That's that's all true.
	And by the way, it's now now it's it's getting into the the mainstream blood of society, isn't it?
	More and more every day.
	Well, of course it is.
	The people that we see coming up that are gonna lead our country when I'm gone, dead and gone.
	These people are the ones that have gone through that system.
	These are these become their beliefs.
	This is what they're taught from a very young age.
	And I thought this as shameful as it is.
	A couple of my kids are prime examples of it.
	When I was in the eighth grade, 1960, I'm on learning civics or government, whatever they called it at that point in time, had a fundamental concept of what the Constitution was the separation of powers, the branches of government, the Bill of Rights, and what they did.
	I don't think kids or I don't think some young adults today have that.
	They just simply don't have it.
	They don't understand.
	They want to change the Constitution.
	I tell them take a magic marker, mark everything in the Constitution that you think ought to be changed.
	Tell me why it ought to be changed and what the change should be.
	They've never read the thing.
	They have no idea.
	I don't even think they know how to find it unless they Google it.
	It's amazing to me.
	Listen, it just puts the responsibility, and you know, you can't outsource to any school or any group of people the values you try to instill in your kids.
	And and even I know I know great parents, even doing your best work, you may not get where you need to be.
	We're all imperfect people.
	But the reality is this now permeates every single aspect of our society.
	Harvard, we're gonna rescind the degree that we gave you that you earned.
	You met the standards because we don't like your politics.
	You know, who was the one that made the comic?
	Kaylee Maganini.
	I I hope you enjoy being a cocktail waitress in your future, you know, endeavors, just vicious, vile attacks, you know, attacking the children of of the president, President Trump, now in exile in Florida.
	I mean, it's it's honestly it's it's beyond attacking the first lady, attacking our institutions, you know, looking to tear away our history and and just rip it away when we should teach kids the truth about our history.
	And that would include the good, the bad, and the ugly at times.
	Tell them the truth.
	They can handle it.
	What made this country great?
	What are the guiding principles of this country?
	What is the difference between a government formed by we the people and one that believes that that rights, natural rights come from God and not from government, and how how that greatly will influence your your political philosophy and ideology that if if God given rights are what they are, then it it certainly reinforces the idea of liberty and freedom, so God-given talents can evolve in a safe environment.
	Uh, but we don't even have safe cities, so I guess that's tough.
	Run by liberal democrats for decades.
	So we've we've got a lot of catch up to do.
	And it look, the the conservatism works.
	Trump proved it, Reagan proved it, Newt proved it, and there have been other moments in history.
	We can do it again.
	And the only way that you know, the the cause of of freedom, liberty, conservatism isn't over unless you let it be over.
	Unless everybody listening to my voice lets it be over, unless we don't do our part.
	You know, unfortunately, we've been a little too busy doing all the hard work, paying all the taxes, and you know, raising our kids, obeying the laws, and and you know, everybody that I know every day gulps water.
	Everybody I know gulps water.
	Not one well, I have retired friends now.
	They're not gulping water, they're mocking me on a regular basis, saying, Yeah, I'm playing golf today.
	How are you doing?
	I'm out fishing.
	Look at this fish I caught.
	I literally have friends of mine sending this every day.
	And I'm like, either I'm really dumb or I'm just totally dedicated and committed.
	But I wouldn't want it any other way.
	I feel honored to be here.
	All right.
	Uh 800, 941 Sean, our number, you want to be a part of the program.
	All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
	All right, so Biden says unity, unity, unity, unity, unity, unity, and then uh says nothing about oh, let's uh let's move on as a country.
	No, they're moving ahead Monday with a post-presidential Impeachment trial, witch hunt trial, the one, the latest one.
	Where's been the unity among Democrats over the years?
	Let's see if it matches.
	To restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words.
	It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy.
	Unity.
	You can take Trump supporters and put them in two big baskets.
	There are what I call the deplorables, you know, the racists and the you know, the haters.
	If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported.
	You voted for the person who Nazis support.
	You voted for the person who the alt right supports.
	With unity.
	We can do great things, important things.
	I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable.
	Um, and the things that they say are deplorable.
	The question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?
	I know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days.
	I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real.
	There are millions of Americans.
	Um almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed.
	And unity is the path forward.
	remove Donald Trump and consign him and those who supported him in the Senate to the trash heap of history.
	There are a small percentage of the American people, virulent people.
	Oh.
	Some of them the dregs of society.
	You're a lime dog face pony soldiers.
	All right, so if it's about unity, then okay, if you have different points of view, even controversial points of view.
	You know, why is cancel culture as big as we now see it?
	Because I think Americans would like to know.
	I mean, there's things happening.
	You we've been watching, monitoring everything that's been happening with Twitter and Facebook, canceling, silencing the president, people that think like the president, people that like the president.
	And I don't hear any any liberals say no, we shouldn't censor.
	No, they're actually doing just just the opposite.
	Anyway, Mike Lindell, my pillow, okay, president supporter has one of the best products on the market.
	By the way, right now you can get his premium my pillow for the lowest price he's ever offered.
	I've told you it helps me fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer.
	It's now impacting his business.
	Why?
	Because he likes Donald Trump, and he had questions about the election results.
	May not agree with him, but I thought in America we could all disagree.
	Anyway, Mike, what's going on with you?
	Well, they have four more jumped on the bandwagon today.
	We got Bed Bath, Coles, HCB, Colburns, Kruger, Fred Meyer, BJs, they've all uh succumbed to uh this cancer culture, and they they don't want my pillow products in their stores anymore, and I'm getting attacked from every way you can imagine.
	Um even my vendors, hey, get this, Sean.
	Even my two guys have been with me 15 years over in Australia and New Zealand, selling my pillow, they've been attacked on social media over there by these bots and trolls.
	It's just it's just sickening that they what they're trying to do to suppress our uh well.
	I mean, we saw what happened to Parlour.
	You know, look at Dan Bongino's a part of it, a lot of other good people are a part of it, and okay, that was an alternative to Twitter.
	But then other big tech companies, you know, that don't believe in freedom of speech, free thought, the the free expression of ideas and ideals and opinions, and and and really just that even an honest back and forth.
	No, they they want to silence everybody.
	And and we saw this with Parler.
	We see this now with you.
	And what I'm saying with Parler, and what I'm saying with YouTube and what I'm saying about Facebook and what I'm saying about other big tech companies, Twitter, uh among them, that we just need to have alternatives and bypass these other companies.
	Now, I think retail, as you know, probably much better than me over time is becoming a bit of a dinosaur, and you have successfully, you know, created a venue where people can buy direct from you.
	Now it certainly I'm sure is a big part of your business.
	If people see my pillow in the store, they buy it.
	Is there a way that you think that you'll be able to bypass and make up for you know those that want to take your politics and turn it into a uh we can't, you know, associate with Mike Lundell thing?
	Well, you know, you're right, Sean.
	You know, and I have I have prepared for that.
	I made my website stronger.
	I have my own servers, so they can't take them down.
	Um I had uh you know, I've been attacked before last summer for the my onlyander.com.
	I was attacked last spring when I said let's all get in our Bibles from the Rose Garden.
	So we've been by the way, you're not exactly a wallflower, and uh not exactly hiding your your opinions, and you know, but you know, I thought this was America.
	Yeah, and you know, but we've but we're prepared, and and I think you know, the online business, there are direct sales, you know, with radio TV and everything else.
	Um that's good that's gonna flourish.
	And and it's the box stores.
	They made a bad business decision by doing that.
	And and but it's there, they they live in fear.
	That's what they want to do.
	They want the left is uh this communism, whatever's here attacking us is uh people are living in fear, and these box stores made a terrible decision to do that.
	I was able to talk some of them into not doing it.
	I said, You guys, they said these aren't real people, these are groups that are hired to just attack and put it on social media and all these things.
	It's funny on Twitter, Sean, when Twitter can allow these bots and trolls to attack, and then and then yet you censor everyone else.
	My Twitter account has been shut down, and they wouldn't let me before it was shut down.
	I tried to take a tweet down, and I got a letter from Germany from Twitter in Germany.
	It said, you cannot take this tweet down.
	It is against Section 605, whatever.
	And I'm going, and now some they're running my Twitter, and that's not even me running it.
	They're running it on the back end because it's in such the public eye right now.
	That that is just unbelievable.
	You know, um, in all the years I've been smeared, slandered, besmirched, you know, lied about, uh, and then uh all over social media, by the way, and and horrible things said not one time that it ever even crossed my mind to you know, tell people that's you can't say that, you've got to stop, but never.
	And I'd never ever called for a the canceling of any show.
	I'd never supported these boycotts of people.
	And if people have controversial views, fine.
	Um I think socialism is controversial.
	Let's be honest about it.
	I think Biden's agenda is radical and and dangerous for the country.
	You know, I I uh that's why I I keep saying the cause of conservatism is isn't over unless we we give up, and I'm not willing to give up.
	There's too much I love this country too much.
	And you know what?
	There's a lot of ebb and flow and political cycles, but in the interim, you've got to find an immediate solution.
	Sounds like you're you're working on it with your website, mypillow.com.
	By the way, don't forget the Sean Hannity Square.
	I do love all your products.
	That's not a lie.
	Well, I've got a hundred and ten of them, Sean.
	You gotta try every one of them.
	Now that's a lot of products.
	I haven't tried all 110.
	And you know, I mean, Mike's story is is quintessentially American.
	You wrote about this in your book.
	I mean, I don't forgot exactly how many years ago, but over a decade ago, you you were addicted to crack cocaine and had been for many years, and you you actually found a way through through your conversion out of addiction and to build a better life for you and your family.
	I mean, uh I'm I mean, how could we not learn from that and say, hey, great job?
	Right.
	You know, it's the American dream, and that's what we can't let that be taken from us.
	And, you know, I'm never giving up.
	I'm not giving up.
	I'm gonna keep going and keep going, and uh, you know, I'm not ever gonna succumb to any kind of a cancer culture.
	And I just want, you know, I have 2500 employees now.
	They're all have the American dream.
	These are careers, and and you know, they're they're all worried, you know.
	They're worried.
	Uh people out there are worried right now because we can't let this uh the American dream be canceled out and churches out there that have been attacked now, they they're reaching out to me, going, they're they're not gonna people are afraid to go to their churches because the guy might have been a Trump supporter, the pastor.
	And I'm hearing this all across the country.
	They're reaching out to me, Mike, they're and they're scared.
	And they uh just gonna tell everybody got God's got his hand in all this.
	When we can get through this darkness, imagine being in a big movie, we're inside of a movie, and this is the dark part of the bad part of the movie, the sad part.
	But now we're gonna come out, it's gonna be glorious.
	Um I have no doubt.
	All right, Michael, wish you the best.
	My pillow.com, and and by the way, I just put you on, you know, you've been a great supporter of the show, and it your life story is an inspiration for anybody.
	Your journey to faith is it gives hope to many, and I think we can all learn um from your experience is and as difficult as it's been, and it's you're a miracle that you're even alive today, and we appreciate you coming on.
	Well, thanks.
	And nobody give up out there.
	Keep the faith with God, all things are possible.
	Thanks for having me on, Sean.
	Amen.
	800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Uh Christy, Colorado, next Sean Hannity show.
	Hey Christy, how are you?
	I'm good.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Thank you.
	This is an this is an amazing time.
	I've never in my wildest dreams, like you've said many times that we're you know, going through this in America.
	It's very, very sad to us.
	And what I'm hoping that you can bring to light for us is giving us avenues.
	We are 74 million strong, and we're kind of lost right now.
	It's like, what can I do when this whole thing with Mike Lindell, I have all his products, a lot of his products so good, aren't they?
	They really are.
	They are amazing.
	And um, I have back problems.
	There was pillowtop on my mattress, it saved my life.
	I mean, I don't have to have surgery anymore.
	But we need avenues, and when these big corporations are canceling out, canceling in, I want a list of those for one thing that I if I have to go back to a home line, I will.
	I will get rid of my phone.
	I will, but we need platforms to be able to go and pull together and support each other and as Americans, and we just feel kind of lost right now, and I've never felt fear like I do today.
	And I am a strong Christian, and I believe in God, and I know he will prevail, and the truth will come out.
	Listen, this country has been through I want to try and give perspective because I hear in your voice something I'm hearing from a lot of people, and I think you're speaking for a lot of people, Christy, and how they feel today.
	And I'm maybe this perspective can help you.
	And the perspective is when I started in radio, Ronald Reagan was president in 19 what, 87.
	So this is not my first rodeo.
	And I lived through Reagan, Bush 41, uh, then of course the Clinton eight years, uh, followed up by George W. Bush eight years, then followed up by Obama eight years, and now we've had the disruptor in chief Donald Trump for four years, and and today the inauguration of the ever weak, frail, uh cognitively struggling Joe.
	And the one thing that I that I have learned is that they I think this reminds me the most this moment of 2010.
	And that was the Tea Party movement.
	Remember Rick Santelli on the floor of the stock exchange.
	I mean, he went nuts one day, and it became a movement, and that movement grew.
	And the the perk percolating angst, anger, frustration with all things radical leftist socialist and and Obamacare at the time that had just been passed at the you know, through the reconciliation process.
	Never mind that Scott Brown was the vote against, elected in Massachusetts of all places to go against Obamacare.
	The country didn't want it.
	And yet they they bestowed it upon us anyway, and every promise they made is broken, just like every promise of socialism will be broken.
	And I am just telling you, stay true and and fast and engage, because the first thing you can do is engage on the local level with your local legislators, and they can you know work on perfecting the election process so we have confidence and integrity in the process.
	Uh, the next thing would be that the cause of liberal the cause of liberty, freedom, and conservatism when that it's not over unless we give up, you can't give up.
	Too much has happened in this country.
	Too many, too many people have fought so hard so that we have the greatest country God gave man.
	And yeah, now it's a little scary.
	All of the things Biden already did today.
	It's it's chilling to hear the phony promises of unity amongst the calls.
	You know, as Nancy Pelosi was saying earlier today, Trump is an accessory to murder.
	I mean, it's madness.
	And anyway, we will be here chronicling it every day with your help, Christy.
	Thank you.
	Hang in there.
	Hang in there.
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