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I've had an allergy attack, and I think now I have a sinus infection, at least according to my doctor.
Hopefully be better by Monday.
I apologize for the voice.
Glad you're with us.
Happy Friday, 800-941.
Sean is our number.
You want to be a part of the program.
You know, a really cool moment happened the other night.
And I've been pointing out on this program, you know, adding politics to sports is just an awful, it's a bad idea.
And we're missing one of the biggest opportunities as a country, as a society that naturally brings people of all backgrounds, all races, all socioeconomic classes, et cetera, et cetera, upbringings together.
I mean, think about this.
You go to, it doesn't matter what your home team is, whatever it happens to be, but people are passionate, whether it's college sports or professional sports.
They love their team.
They love their home team.
You know, we have enough stress in our day-to-day life.
We love to go to a football game, a basketball game, a baseball game.
You just love it.
And with the few exceptions, look at what MLB, the dopey commissioner, who knows absolutely nothing about voting laws, strips Georgia of the All-Star game and ships it out to Colorado, which, by the way, has like, I think, a 9% minority population, based on lies told by Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams about the Georgia election law.
In Georgia, there's 17 days of in-person early voting.
And in Joe's state that he's represented 5,000 years, there's not one.
In Joe's state, there's not one lockbox.
In Georgia, every precinct has a lockbox.
Both states require voter ID.
And you must provide an excuse in Delaware, not Georgia, if you want to vote absentee.
The most restrictive in the country.
That's Joe's state.
Never once as president, never once as senator for 50 years lifted a finger to make voting more accessible for the people of Delaware.
And he's got the unmitigated gall and nerve to call Georgia's voting law, which is far more inclusive, which makes voting far more accessible, Jim Crow 2.0.
And then Major League Baseball, you know, without any knowledge of any of this, clearly it was done out of pure ignorance or it wouldn't have been done, just strips Georgia of what would represent $100 million to the Georgia economy.
Now, I say Joe Biden, Stacey Abrams, they owe the people of Georgia a huge apology because their big lie hurt an innocent state.
And we're going to get lectures from Joe on voting accessibility.
No, thank you.
Then you got the same thing with the NBA.
Now the NBA is getting political.
Okay.
Well, it's not serving them well in the ratings.
They're not even getting 9 million, 8 million people to watch finals for Crying Out Loud.
I think the last season they had 5.6 million viewers for the final NBA game, championship game.
That is a ratings disaster for sports.
You can't even justify any rights fees for those numbers, to be frank.
And then you've got, you know, all started with Kaepernick and the NFL and taking a knee.
And, you know, we're not coming out of the locker room until the anthem is already sung and so on.
And what they're missing here is this, is that you have people of all races, all backgrounds, all different sectors of society coming together with a shared passion for their team.
How many of you experience what I've experienced?
You go to a game, you know, your home team, you know, most people cheering for the home team, and you like something great.
Somebody it's a grand slam.
You like high-fiving people you never met before.
You know, you're talking to people you never met before about, you know, what you like about the team, what you don't like about the team.
You know, it's an opportunity to bring people together.
And now, by politicizing it, you're ruining that opportunity.
And I have no doubt now, if players, with the influence that they have and people look up to them, if there is a passion or a cause or a charity that they want their fans to be a part of, I guarantee, without lecturing them, say, you know, I'm donating, you know, $100,000 to this cause.
I'm donating to this.
Can you match a dollar?
I bet you people would do it in droves.
Better schools, safer neighborhoods, whatever it happens to be.
And, you know, hockey's not doing it.
UFC's not doing it.
I don't see boxing doing it.
And it's just alienating people.
And I'll tell you, there's going to be, because I don't support boycotts.
I don't call for boycotts.
But I found like I'm now so I was less interested the last two years in the NFL than I've been in a long time.
I went through a period where I wasn't interested, but then I got interested again.
Now, I will admit, when Drew Brees was facing off against Tom Brady, and then Aaron Rodgers was facing off against Tom Brady, and Tom Brady was in the Super Bowl.
I was very interested.
The storyline couldn't keep me away.
But it's, you know, we're hurting.
This is the greatest opportunity.
The guy that got this right was Robert Kraft, because Robert Kraft told his players in New England, New England Patriots, and I met Robert Kraft a couple of times.
I've had long conversations with him.
He's a smart guy.
This guy is really bright.
And he said he told his players, you know, there are a lot of people that have a lot of different opinions on a lot of issues.
He goes, I'll tell you what I'll offer to all of you that play on my team.
And he said, I'll match you dollar for dollar for the charity that you want to partake in and not politicize things on the field.
And his players agreed.
And he'd go out into various parts of New England and help the players out in their charities.
And he stood by his promise.
It was pretty cool.
Anyway, so something special happened the other night.
It was game six.
The Islanders were leading.
They're playing the Boston Bruins.
Whenever there's anything New York versus Boston, it's just like, you know, it doesn't get any better than that.
Because Boston fans hate New York.
New York fans hate Boston fans.
That's the way it is.
Do they really hate each other?
No, they just like their team more than the other team.
And it's what we call a rivalry, gridiron game, whatever.
So the Islanders now are up 3-2 in the series.
They're back at the Nassau Coliseum, which was a great homecoming for the Islanders because they hadn't been playing there.
They're building a new facility at Belmont Park of all places.
And I hear it's going to be great.
I actually was talking to Eddie Westvalls, the former captain of the Islanders.
He's such a nice guy.
I met Bobby Nystrom, such a nice guy.
And these were the great Islanders of old when I used to cheer for the Broad Street Bullies.
There's a long story behind that one.
But anyway, so there is this woman that's singing the Star Spangled Banner.
Her name is Nicole Raviva.
I think that's how you pronounce her last name.
Beautiful voice, incredible voice.
She starts singing the Star Spangled Banner.
And then the crowd takes over.
And she let the crowd take over.
I've watched Garth Brooks perform, and I've watched him in interviews.
And he says, there's nothing cooler when your fans are singing your songs back to you.
And he would let people, you know, if he's singing the dance or, you know, if Tomorrow Never Comes or some songs, you know, Friends in Low Places, Thunder Rolls, then when the crowd or the stadium sings it back to you, there's nothing better.
Anyway, just listen to this moment and tell me if you don't get goosebumps like I got.
as we sing it together.
How cool was that?
The people took it and they ran with it.
People of all backgrounds, they have a shared passion.
Their team, Islanders, by the way, probably that was it for Boston.
They're like, oh, man, this crowd is way into this game.
We're not going to win this.
And they ended up winning with two empty net goals, 6'2.
And they're now playing Tampa Bay in the next series.
But, I mean, you know, I know that there's all the wokeness and this critical race theory that divides us.
Now, more and more states are saying, no, we're not doing this.
But people are genuinely good.
I go back to, I've used this phrase.
I've overused it.
You've heard me say it before.
I apologize for saying it again, but it's worth repeating in my view.
You know, my friend Barry Farber, he was on talk radio till his 90th birthday.
90 years, one of the great pioneers of talk radio used to always say, there's never been a country in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power and abused it less.
And I add to it, and I have no right to add to it, but I do.
I learned from the best.
There's never been a country in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power, abused it less, and used its power to advance the human condition.
It doesn't mean this is a perfect country, that it's been a perfect country.
The beauty of our framers and our founders is this.
They created a system where we can right wrongs and correct injustices.
It was built that way on purpose, not by accident.
Natural law endowed by our creator, not government, not government rights.
Rights come from God and predicated on a belief they're all created by God.
And that there's never been a country greater than this one.
Socialism has been tried under every name and manifestation you can think of.
And it always overpromises and delivers nothing.
Sets people up for failure.
This idea that everything's free.
There's no track record it's going to ever work because it always fails.
Schools, law and order, Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, all failed.
Now we're going to believe they're going to give us healthy food and free child care and free child education and free college.
It's not going to work.
We're free.
And it's like the land of the free and the home of the brave, not the home of the woke and afraid.
All right, as we roll along 800-941, Sean, you know, two items came out this week after I'd been pressured and pressured and pressured and pressured and pressured and pressured and pressured.
Hannity, you've got to tell your listeners that they must get vaccinated.
Can you imagine me?
Now, we learned from the Cleveland Clinic this week.
Yeah, if you had COVID-19, if you contracted the virus, yeah, there's no need to get a vaccine.
This is not, I mean, that's the Cleveland Clinic.
They have a pretty good reputation.
We didn't know that till this week.
But people like Rand Paul were saying, yeah, there's natural immunity.
Even if your antibodies go down, you still have T-cell antibodies and you still have protection.
Now I see an article come out today, CDC to hold emergency meeting after hundreds of suffering heart inflammation following COVID vaccines.
By the way, Donald Trump said, Fauci says he's science, but he's merely science fiction.
He got so much wrong.
Actually, Greg Jarrett is even suggesting he should be.
It will never happen, criminally investigated, because he did know that this Wuhan lab, a virology lab, did in fact study coronaviruses and gain, they did gain a function research there.
And he gave the money and he was desperate to hide that fact in emails.
You can see that there was a panic that set in.
And I'm thinking, you know, with all this pressure saying, hey, you've got to tell people, Cleveland Clinic is saying if you had it, you don't need the vaccine.
I'm following the science.
The CDC is now saying that there are hundreds and hundreds of people that are suffering heart inflammation following COVID vaccines.
I'm glad I followed my own instincts here, which was I told people take it seriously, do a lot of research, look at your health conditions, talk to your doctor, your doctors, medical professionals you trust, and then make your decision.
I'm not playing doctor on radio or TV.
I don't know anything about anybody's medical conditions.
I don't even know about my own medical condition.
We'll continue.
25 to the top of the hour.
This is not good news, but I just, somebody's got to tell you the truth.
You're not going to hear it in the media mob.
You remember Joe's out there saying, well, if you don't make over $400,000 a year, you're not going to be paying any more in taxes.
Well, he kept saying it, but it's really $200,000 a year because he was talking about couples.
And then he doesn't factor in the dramatic increase in corporate tax rates and the capital gains taxes.
Yeah, a lot of middle-class Americans, they get capital gains, nor the fact that they want to do all of this now through the reconciliation process because they can't get it done legislatively the normal way because they don't want to work with any Republican and basically force it through.
Now, we were told after April's 4.2% increase year over year in prices that, oh, that's just an anomaly.
Well, it turns out it's not an anomaly.
Inflation, again, this month of May, numbers coming out this week, late this week.
Consumer prices now the fastest pace in almost 13 years as the economy is now in Joe's full control.
Labor Department, Consumer Price Index, they measure a basket of goods and services as well as energy and food costs up 5% in May from a year earlier, higher than the 4.2% increase in prices in April.
And yeah, this is an explosion.
Now, the worst, you know, and I got it wrong this week, and for that, I apologize.
I said on average, it's 65 cents more per gallon of gasoline.
No, I was wrong.
We are now paying an average of $1.09 more per gallon since Joe Biden has become president of the United States.
$1.09 a gallon.
Last year it was $1.88.
This year it's $2.97.
States like California, you're even approaching $5.
New York, it's close to $4 for certain gas.
I mean, it's really, really high.
Meat prices are through the roof.
Lumber price.
I'll give you an example for meat.
I like to make a BLT.
I like bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich on an English muffin.
It's great.
The way I make it, it's awesome.
Anyway, okay.
I seem like a lot.
You get a pound.
I like Oscar Meyer thick cut bacon.
That's the one I get.
Anyway, and I go shopping once a week.
And once a week, somebody will ask me, what are you doing here?
I'm shopping.
Why?
I'm hungry.
I like to eat.
I don't know why people ask me that question.
And I stop and I talk to this one.
I've seen this one kid the whole time during coronavirus, run into it.
We put him on the radio one day.
And not one person, and this is when I said, yeah, I support the mask because at my local grocery store, my local pharmacy, you know, they were using plexiglass and masks and shields.
Nobody got COVID.
Nobody.
So I said, okay, if it's going to protect older people, grandma, grandpa, mom, and dad.
It never bothered me.
And I kind of liked, like Chris Rock said, you know, I got my anonymity back with a mask, but that's just a separate issue.
Nobody wants to go through the hell we've all been through.
But, all right, so if you bought a pound of bacon last year, you paid $5.35.
This year, you pay $1 more.
20% increase.
Okay, gallon of milk, 10% increase.
Gasoline prices up $1.09 a gallon.
Price of a used car up 29.7%.
Have you seen the price of lumber?
Something you would have paid $2,000 for last year, you're paying $11,000 for now.
I mean, this is real money.
Now, a lot of states are now finally, they've had it because you got 9.3 million available jobs, and you have many Americans looking at the extra unemployment money and saying, I'm going to make as much staying home.
And now people are feeling it, and they're seeing it, and they're understanding it because the University of Michigan did a survey of consumer sentiment, and what they found is in their new survey, more American people are more worried about rising inflation because of Biden's policies than at any other time since 1982.
In other words, more concerned with higher prices for appliances, for houses, cars.
And any time in 39 years, 1982, the inflation rate was just over 6%, close to where we are now.
Year before it was top 10%.
It's not good.
After inflation, earnings have declined for American workers every month since Biden has been president.
New York Post has a bombshell banner headline today.
Bidenomics bombs.
Real average hourly earnings for American workers fell 0.1% in May compared to April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fifth consecutive month in which inflation-adjusted hourly earnings fell and the fourth in which weekly earnings fell.
Now, the opposite happened with Donald Trump with the biggest increase per dollar per family in recently recorded history.
And then, of course, record low unemployment and record low unemployment for every demographic group.
Anyway, in other words, after inflation earnings, the American people, you, and every month which Joe Biden's been president, your wages are falling.
Your money is worth less.
It's the longest consecutive string of monthly real earnings decline that goes back to 2007.
We're adopting the same dumb policies we've adopted.
Now, I think that everyone would agree, Deutsche Bank, not exactly lightweights.
That's why, you know, when the Bank of China did a $1.5 billion equity deal with Hunter Biden's firm, yeah, you're telling me that Deutsche Bank wouldn't do it better than the Crackhead and his business partners?
You got to be kidding.
That wasn't pay to play.
That wasn't buying influence.
Or Goldman Sachs or J.P. Morgan Chase.
You know, any of these companies aren't better to get a deal with the Bank of China than Hunter Biden.
Anyway, they now have issued their report on a new series, Inflation, the defining macro story of the decade.
And they conclude, U.S. macro policy, macroeconomics are talking about.
Indeed, the very role of government in the economy is now undergoing its biggest shift in direction in 40 years.
In turn, we are concerned that it will bring about uncomfortable levels of inflation, which we're now seeing the beginning of.
That could be deemed an understatement considering the U.S. economy is already experiencing uncomfortable inflation.
And we've gone through the numbers just a moment ago.
They say the current fiscal stimulus is more comparable with what was seen around World War II.
U.S. deficits between 15 and 30 percent for four years.
Significant differences between the pandemic of World War II.
They would note inflation 8.4%.
They go, blah, blah, blah, blah.
If the U.S. economy descends into an inflation spiral like they see is possible, we could be on the brink of there were excruciating economic pain.
The out-of-control spending by Congress, that's only part of the problem.
Monetary stimulus has been equally breathtaking, they say, in numerical terms.
The Fed's balance sheet has almost doubled during the pandemic to nearly $8 trillion.
I mean, they're basically saying this is a recipe for unmitigated long-term economic disaster.
Wall Street Journal from beans, burgers, food is more expensive.
Chipotle, Shake Shack, Piggly Wiggly, all raising prices to cover higher costs.
Who's been telling you this?
Me.
Because trucking costs more.
Truck drivers aren't going to make less per load.
As a matter of fact, their dollar's going, it's not going as far as it used to.
They want more money.
And then to put the diesel in the trucks, dollar more a gallon, plus, that means the cost is pushed onto you.
Corporate taxes will be pushed onto you, the American people.
Everything you buy now is costing more because of this.
All to pay for Joe's socialism, new Green Deal radicalism.
But he told you you're not going to pay, unless you make $400,000, you're not going to pay a penny.
Bologna.
The reason I'm bothering to do this is I keep hearing on the press Biden's going to raise your taxes.
Anybody making less than $400,000 a year will not pay a single penny in taxes.
And we will not increase the deficit either.
Unless you're a gigantic tax cut, which increased the deficit by $2 trillion.
I don't want to hear anymore.
Everything's costing more.
If you pay $1.09 more per gallon of gas and pay more to heat and cool your home, you're paying.
Bread higher, 17%.
Bananas, fruit, oranges, milk, coffee, gas, electricity, you name it, going through the roof.
Let me tell you, it's surging.
And people, and now the value of what people are making is less than ever before.
Now, politically, there's going to be a backlash.
I can feel it building now.
It's going to be Tea Party 2.0, Trump 2.0, and steroids and human growth hormone.
Because American people want to prosper.
These policies are a stranglehold.
Inflation nation, we put up on Hannity.com.
Prices rise at the fastest pace in 28 years.
Numbers not seen since 1993.
Then you add the corporate tax and the capital gains tax.
Well, everything is going to cost more, including utilities.
Those taxes will go up too.
Biden's chief of staff, maybe president in hiding, Ron Klain, says he's blaming airline tickets and used cars.
Okay.
Another one out of touch.
Imagine if Donald Trump said that.
The pipelines are the safest and best method of transporting oil.
Even John Kerry and Butta Judge said it.
But we're stopping high-paying career jobs, and we've given up national security concerns in the name of green energy.
It's ridiculous.
It's unreal.
First Lady says Biden's overprepared for her European trip.
Oh, okay, overprepared.
Sure, Joe was able to sit through his lessons and did a good job.
Give him a sippy cup, warm milky, night-night stories, all set.
Get ready for Putin to eat his lunch.
It's unbelievable.
Biden's rising price.
It's all pain.
Unbelievable.
And the world loves it, by the way.
The world doesn't want a strong America.
You think the hostile nations of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, you think even our European allies want us?
No, they want a weakened America.
They want a dumb America.
They want America to pay for global warming insanity and not them.
A Paris Accords that look at China and India's developing nations, and we pay the brunt of the monies.
It's ridiculous.
Part of this is madness.
So there's been a lot of pressure by the squad and company to stop any type of negotiation.
Now, there was a bipartisan group of senators, about 10 of them, Mark Warner, Joe Manchin, Mitt Romney, Gene Shaheen, Susan Collins, Kristen Sinema.
Anyway, they wanted to come up with an infrastructure package.
They came up with one, $1.2 trillion, eight years, $974 billion over five years, $579 billion new spending.
Okay.
The Senate finance chair, Wyden, yeah, he said it's a non-starter due to lack of tax hikes, and there's not enough climate provisions in there.
They want more for this climate madness.
The number one threat to America, as they say.
Not China, not radical Islamists, not Russia, not Iran.
They're demanding climate provisions.
The new Green Deal climate provisions are everything is free.
And that will take from this group of people and put all the money in a pot.
We'll give you free childcare, free early child education, free college, free school.
Their schools that they run now already suck enough.
Why would we send kids in for more woke cancel culture indoctrination?
Just like these cities that have been run by radical Democrats for decades, there's no law and order.
There's no safety and security, which you need to pursue happiness.
You don't get educational opportunities in most of these big city schools because of the teachers' unions' donations to the Democratic Party.
They get to even write COVID policy because they donate so much money.
So, you know, Social Security doesn't have a lockbox.
Medicare is going bankrupt.
What have they done well?
Obamacare turned out to be a disaster.
Everything they promised never fulfilled, but that's the story of socialism.
Is that is that they're going to promise you everything's free, free, free.
And these will be promises that can never, ever, mathematically ever be fulfilled, even if they confiscated every penny of every person.
They're not capable of running anything.
That's why, as a conservative, we believe in limited government.
So now we're going to trust them more?
Yeah, we want to empower you.
You go steal their money and give it to us.
By the way, finally, you know, there was a little pushback against Congresswoman Omar.
Now the squad's fighting back home their own Democrats.
Enough with the anti-blackness and Islamophobia as they tried to defend Congresswoman Omar for the comments that she made.
And then now the leaders of the squad are saying, no freedom of speech for Muslim women in Congress.
Like, what?
It's unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
But that's your mind.
By the way, everyone talks about, well, Donald Trump with this with the party.
Pelosi and Democratic leaders issued a joint statement condemning Omar's statements.
Now they're getting blasted by the squad.
Let me tell you what's going to happen.
They're going to shut up.
And Nancy Pelosi is afraid she's going to lose her job.
Joe has no courage or even awareness to know what they're doing.
And Schumer is afraid AOC will primary them.
That's where we are.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
So our old friend Humpty Dumpty went on, I guess, what, C-SPAN today.
A lot of people, it's kind of funny.
They have the conservative line.
They have the liberal line, the Republican line, the Democratic line, the Independent line.
They got a million phone lines over there.
I've met many of the people that work at C-SPAN over the years, and actually a couple of them are fairly nice.
But poor Humpty Dumpty, he got an earful.
Let's listen to this.
I'd like to ask Brian to, on national television, admit he and his network are a bunch of liars about Donald Trump.
This is Kevin in Princeton, Indiana.
Good morning.
Yeah.
Mr. Steltzer is the biggest minister of misinformation I have ever heard, and I'm a news junkie.
He made the statement just a few minutes ago that he is all the stories are always evolving.
Yeah, his stories absolutely evolve.
Brian Stelter.
Thank you for the feedback.
I appreciate it.
Savannah, Georgia.
Rick, good morning.
You're next.
Yes, I was just wondering if you still feel like Michael Avenatti is the greatest thing in the world and should run for president of the United States.
And my suggestion is whatever CNN says, do the opposite and you'll be fine.
Aurora, Indiana, this is Robert.
Good morning.
You're on with Brian Stelter.
You know, CNN, it's just something that's a joke.
It's a joke.
This guy tells more lies and Fox gives more news than CNN does.
What lie?
What lie did I tell you?
Three years.
It's not that lies.
This is CNN.
I'll tell you, we can start with the lie, calling the Wuhan lab of virology, saying that, oh, this is a right-wing conservative conspiracy theory.
Three years of lying about Donald Trump and Russia, Trump and Russia.
They also lie by omission.
They lie by omission by not covering, oh, Hillary's dirty Russian dossier, you know, premeditated fraud, FISA court, spying on a candidate for president, then spying on a president.
Oh, but they spied on us.
Yeah, okay, whatever.
How do you hide Hunter's laptop from hell?
How do you hide the candidate protection program?
They wouldn't even cover what's on that laptop.
ABC, NBC, CBS, fake news, CNN, MSDNC, New York Times, Washington Post, not a peep about the N-word.
There was no coverage of the partnership with Robert the Klansman Bird and Joe Biden to stop integration of schools because Joe didn't want schools to become racial jungles or any of the other outrageously racist things Joe said over the years.
Anyway, here to sort out the differences, we have Mark Simone, the host of our highly rated morning show on our flagship in New York, WOR.
Also, Carol Roth, entrepreneur, host of her own podcast, The Roth Effect.
Thank you both for being with us.
I mean, it's like a layup I'm handing to you.
But on the other hand, Mark Simone, it's sad because you know, I know, everybody listening to this show knows that if anybody with the last name Trump ever dared to say the N-word, it would be an explosion that would be felt forever.
Never stop, never-ending coverage.
Well, you can make jokes, you can do all kinds of things.
But this is the most dangerous situation I've ever seen in America.
The entire mainstream media shut down, no news coverage.
And can you imagine if they did this for Vietnam, the war would still be going on.
Imagine if Woodward and Bernstein and everybody looked the other way on Watergate.
This is So potentially dangerous that it just enables these crooks in office to just do more and more and more.
Why they haven't looked at Joe Biden's dinner meeting with those crazy Ukrainians and what that was all about or Biden's brothers and their contracts.
You know, if Bernie Madoff knew that nobody would investigate, nobody would cover it, he would have just kept going.
To allow Biden and the corrupt Democrats to do this is the most dangerous thing we've seen in years.
I don't disagree at all.
And it's beyond an information crisis.
Carol, what's your take?
You know, so obviously I look at things from a business and economic standpoint, and I'm reading these texts and I'm going, wow, Hunter Biden is so eloquent.
I can now understand how he's getting these board of directors positions and these corporate executive positions because he's clearly a master communicator.
I mean, basically, these texts laid out the fact that this is somebody who nobody would put anywhere near a board of directors unless he had that extra influence to peddle.
And it's unfortunate.
This is why people are so angry in this country is because there is just a blatant double standard.
And on top of that, then you're gaslit about it.
That you said, no, there is no double standard.
We're being free and fair and we're covering everything the same.
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
And we've seen it over and over again.
If you put those text messages in front of somebody and didn't attach a name, or like as you said, put a Trump name on it or any one of our names on it, people would be outraged.
They'd be calling for blood.
And the fact that there's not even a peep out of it should, as Mark said, scare everybody.
Do you think of, Mark, the three years of never-ending lies about Trump-Russia collusion while simultaneously ignoring Hillary paying for the dirty Russian disinformation dossier, then unverifiable used as premeditated fraud on a FISA court, spying on Trump the president, Trump the candidate, et cetera.
You know, it's just three years of lies, ignoring Joe's quid pro quo in Ukraine.
Oh, Trump ordered protesters to be tear gassed for a photo op.
Now we know it's true, and they won't even admit that.
If you mentioned a year ago the lab leak theory, we knew coronaviruses were studied at the Wuhan lab.
We knew that they did gain of function research at that lab.
But if you said it, boy, you were a conspiracy theorist and it was debunked.
Or Trump ignoring Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers, that debacle, or Trump telling Georgia officials to find the fraud, or that Donald Trump went to Charlottesville and said, well, that the white supremacists were fine people.
When in fact, when you actually look at the wording, it was very different.
You know, Biden launched a bunch of ads on this, and we actually have played over and over again what Trump really did say.
And it is, you know, yeah, you had some very bad people in this group.
He said, excuse me, didn't put yourself down as a neo-Nazi.
You had some very bad people in this group, but you also had some very fine people on both sides.
And you had people in that group.
I saw the pictures.
You did.
You had people in that group were there to protest the taking down of a very important statue and the renaming of a park to another name.
And he said, I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned.
He said it twice that they were there in the exact line that they purposely take out of context.
Mark, how do you defend against that?
You can't.
This is total corruption in the news media.
And you can't say this is normal or if it's ever happened before.
If you remember, Bill Clinton was president.
His brother Roger was caught on tape using the N-word.
It was covered everywhere.
It was even on 60 Minutes.
They confronted him with the tape.
This is unlike anything we've ever seen before.
Total corruption in the mainstream news media.
Then you got these Silicon Valley tech geeks who think they're suddenly journalists and news editors.
They'll decide what news can be on their sites on Twitter and Facebook.
And they've been wrong every time.
They were wrong about the Wuhan Lab.
They were wrong about the Hunter laptop.
Everything they've censored, they've been dead wrong about.
Somebody's got to stop this.
And I don't know who's going to do that.
I don't think it's going to stop, Carol.
I mean, that's the thing here.
Now, I've always said it throughout my entire career, spanning now 33 years.
I've always said that we've got to become the media.
Well, now we've got to become the media and big tech.
And by the way, when I say become the media, they have three broadcast networks, two cable outlets that are hardcore, radical, new Green Deal socialist left.
And every major newspaper, but for, say, the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, give two exceptions in that case.
There's a few of us on Fox, but a lot of varying views on Fox.
And then there's talk radio, which conservatives tend to dominate.
That's about it.
But now we've got to get into big tech and get our own Twitter, get our own Facebook, get our own Instagram, get our own YouTube.
Yeah, I mean, and the worst part about it is the pipeline starts in education.
It starts in early education with all this nonsense that's going on.
And then in terms of J school, they're teaching them to be activists, not to be journalists.
So it becomes a really challenging thing to be able to fight against.
And as you mentioned, with big tech, the fact that they somehow think that they are the arbiters of truth, as we have a situation that's unfolding real time, how would they possibly know what the situation is?
And it had real implications for people's health, for the economy.
And so I think the number one thing we can do to fight back is now we have to go and do our own due diligence.
But as you mentioned, if we keep getting thrown off the platforms, it's hard to even put that due diligence out there.
Yeah, you know, I just don't see that there's any hope.
By the way, I know you have some kind words to welcome back Jeffrey Toobin, the guy caught on a CNN Zoom call masturbating.
I mean, any comments on that, Mark?
Oh, I'm glad you went to me on a, hey, you're talking about Brian Stelter.
The only honest guy who said anything honest on CNN this week was Jeffrey Toobin.
He admitted he did it.
That's true.
Well, it's not, okay.
You're saying he admitted.
How do you not admit it?
It's on a Zoom call.
Hasn't stopped anyone before from not admitting things.
Oh, man.
What'd you say, Carol?
I missed that.
I said it hasn't stopped anyone before from not admitting things.
We've seen things in plain sight many times.
I did not have sex with that woman, not a single time.
I'm going to get back to work for the American people.
Indeed, I did have an inappropriate relationship.
Yeah, I remember very well.
Sorry, Mark.
Go ahead.
Oh, no, I'm just, that's just Toobin.
He doesn't, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
But I guess guys do that, but you can't get through a Zoom meeting at one o'clock in the afternoon.
It looks like he just does this all day without even thinking it just happens.
Look, I'm not one of the.
Am I wrong, Mark?
I've never called or demanded somebody be fired.
I just, it's not in me to do it.
I don't believe in boycotts.
I've been, you know, all throughout my career, people have put pressure on me to boycott.
Now, I can tell you, like, I watched the Islander game the other night when the crowd took over the singing of our national anthem.
I love that moment.
You know, it seems like hockey, the octagon, UFC, boxing.
There's not many sports now that aren't allowing politics to creep into it.
It's happening with the Major League Baseball.
Look at the All-Star game, the NBA.
Look at LeBron James, Kaepernick, NFL.
And I think people are missing the greatest opportunity of uniting a group of people from all different backgrounds, all different races, all different socioeconomic upbringings, and they all share a passion.
That is that team.
Now, how many times have you been to the Garden Mark or City Field or Yankee Stadium and you're high-fiving a stranger?
And it's like it's the one thing that would unite us.
Now they're dividing us in sports by bringing politics into it.
Yeah, but I think Democrats always go too far.
I think this time they're setting the world record for going too far.
The backlash is beginning with that mother telling off the school board.
You know, this defunding the police is starting to really frighten people.
We had a mayoral debate in New York last night with a question.
This is Democrats about should the police have their guns taken away from them.
People are going to start to rebel against this.
The tide is turning.
It's just going way too far.
Unbelievable.
I don't know.
I don't see if I don't know if it's going to turn back, Carol.
Maybe I don't know.
It's possible.
I do think politically the tide is changing.
I think the country's hip to the fact that Joe is clueless, probably doesn't know what day it is.
I mean, it was pretty funny when Donald Trump came out and said, yeah, Joe, good luck with Vladimir and your meeting.
Don't fall asleep.
Everybody knows, but nobody else talks about it.
I mean, Mark talks about it.
I talk about it.
A few of us in talk radio, I'm mostly like a lone voice on Fox on this issue.
But I see a guy that is so cognitively messed up.
Putin's going to eat his lunch.
Hey, even the queen, 99 years old, during their meeting, she said to him, Joe, you okay?
Joe, are you there?
Where did you keep up with her?
Yeah, I mean, this is really about the independent people coming together independently.
You know, not as a cohort, not as red or blue.
I think that what's going to happen is actually green is money is what's going to change this.
I don't know if you've been following what's been going on in this sort of digital Occupy Wall Street 2.0 with the Redditors and the AMC Army that are trying to get back at what they think are injustices in Wall Street.
And people are realizing that whether it's the crazy progressive ideas or just this move towards central planning, that this isn't good.
People don't want politics in every aspect of their life.
They don't want it in sports.
They don't want to be lectured constantly.
And that could be the one good thing to come out of this insanity that we've seen over the last 15 months is that people finally say enough's enough.
But people are tentative.
They feel individually weak that they don't know what they can do.
But if they realize we all band together, there is more of us than there are of the Joe Bidens and the crazy progressives.
We got to hope.
We have to see the opportunity to change it.
All right, Carol.
Thank you.
Mark Simone, we always love having you back on.
Thank you, sir.
Quick break right back.
Your calls on the other side.
Straight ahead.
All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
All right, let's get a lot of calls in here on this Friday.
800-941-Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
Cindy is in Illinois.
Cindy, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
I just wanted to talk about the fact that Biden takes credit for creating all these jobs and employment going up.
And I'd like to know what job he's created if one.
We now have more than half the states saying we don't want your unemployment.
You're disincentivizing people from getting back to work.
And all of the reckless spending.
You know, remember, all of this money wasn't emergency COVID relief.
It was a blue state bailout, and it was a down payment for the new Green Deal radical socialism.
And it's $6 trillion.
Well, we can't afford $6 trillion.
Everything at the border.
The inflation is his.
The fact that all these jobs are open that remain unfilled is unbelievable.
And all he wants is redistribution.
Joe's not in charge.
It's Bernie Sanders and the squad running the show.
Right.
He's like a puppet.
And, you know, what else I want to tell you is there's something called the Pledge of Agreement to American Workers that Trump and Ivanka put into place in 2018, actually July of 2018, which offers high-tech companies to over 400 in the country that are signed on to this.
Have you heard of it?
I have not.
See, this is what irritates me.
Trish Reagan had it on in 2018, and Ivanka did the interview.
And I never heard a word from the media.
And this is a life-changing opportunity.
They actually have, right now, if you want to go work for one of these 400 companies, find a 2017 or 18.
You're right.
I think you're right.
I do remember it.
There are actually right now 16,438,805 training positions available.
Okay.
No high school diploma needed, six months free training.
And this is life-changing for people.
Toyota alone is looking for 200,000 workers, 455,000 GM, and they need these positions filled.
That's why they're willing to sign on and train people.
So this is a very well-kept secret.
I saw a friend of mine in Georgia recently.
He was up in New York.
His family runs a business in the cement business down in Florida.
And he said, can you help us?
I said, what would you like me to do?
And he goes, my dad wants to make a direct appeal to police officers that are being treated horribly in other states and cities and offer to train them to drive his truck, cement trucks, and pay them better salaries than they're getting now.
Can you believe that?
And by the way, I'm going to do this.
I just got to get the follow-up.
But I'm like, of course, I'd love to do that.
And here's the thing.
Enough cops have had it.
They know they can't do their job.
They know they're in a no-win situation.
They know it's open warfare against them.
And there's just no point anymore for them.
And it's sad.
They're unsafe.
And the police officer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Anyway, good call.
Thank you, Cindy.
Appreciate it.
800-941-Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
Mike is in Chicago.
What's up, Mike?
How are you?
Hi, Sean Hannity.
I hope you're well.
I'm good.
Thank you.
And, you know, you do.
I sound like shift all week.
I'm going to really have to rest my voice this weekend.
Yeah, I was wondering, but you know what?
You do what you do extremely well.
Very, very nice.
I'm going to make a claim, and I know, and I have backing to it.
You've got to stay on this, tax the wealthy, the corporations.
People are paying zero taxes.
Make them pay their fair share.
That is garbage.
And, you know, I'm not, I have George Bailey wealth.
You know, I have money.
You know, I chaz people and I get their information.
That's my wealth.
You know, I'm not.
By the way, can you ever forget the speech of George Bailey to Potter, the guy that owns the bank?
Well, they may be channel to you, Mr. Potter, but to them, my father saw them as the people that work and make this country great in every way.
And don't they deserve?
Wait for what?
Till they can buy a home outright?
They can't have two, you know, a few decent bedrooms and a bath.
They were people to my father, not to you.
I mean, it was a great speech.
I didn't do it as well.
I didn't do it justice.
You did it just fine.
Exactly, you know, that makes people feel wealthy when they have that.
And this is why, you know, if you keep going after the rich and, you know, have the separation of peasants and rich people, you know, we've seen this in other countries and it doesn't work.
We've seen it in other governments.
The wealthy people are the reasons grassroots and foundations and food pantries and homeless shelters are funded.
And, you know, I can make that because I service machinery and I was at the Northern Illinois food bank.
And because my wealth is in jazzing other people and getting to know them, you know, that's how I accumulate my wealth.
And I'm very happy about it.
He tells me, yeah, they need food, but if it wasn't for wealthy people getting exemptions and giving up their well-earned money and, you know, God bless them that they made millions of dollars, you know?
Well, when I did these other jobs in my life, and I've said this on the air before, people don't believe me.
I don't think fame is a good thing.
I don't think it's a healthy thing.
I've seen it.
I've seen the worst side of it, and I've seen people absolutely lose touch with it.
If there are any things that keep me grounded, one is my strong belief in God our Father, my Christianity, my faith.
And the other is my strong belief in a creator.
And my second would be the fact that I spent two decades plus of my life working at hard jobs.
It kept me grounded.
And when I started in radio, I didn't expect to make any money, Mike.
But what I remember is this.
When I worked in a restaurant, poor people can't go to restaurants.
It's too expensive.
And middle-income people certainly do.
But I never got a job in my life from poor people.
As a contractor, I never painted a poor person's house because they can't afford it.
All of us in freedom, we get the opportunity to blossom if you get a good education, come from a good family, and you don't get too traumatized.
Life is tough.
Everybody will face obstacles in life.
I don't care what your financial status is.
It's just, that's life, man.
You got to suck it up and you got to work hard and you got to do things you don't want to do.
But my point is, you're not, I don't know where this resentment comes from or the idea that because somebody else has more than me, I should not like them.
I don't really, you know, do you really care what other people have?
I don't care what other people have.
You know, now that I was poor in my life and I have money now in my life, it's a lot easier when you have money.
Money is freedom.
But I still don't, I still never will buy myself a Rolex watch.
I buy them for friends, but not for me.
I don't want the trappings of money in my life.
I know people don't believe it, but it's true.
Last word.
That's right, Sean.
And, you know, the fact that the wealthy people help out all these other organizations is a true form of we the people, for the people, by the people.
You know?
One of the coolest things when you have extra money is you get to be generous to other people.
I love that.
You will be.
And you will be.
I try to be.
I do.
Isn't it better if I said, I'm going to take 33% of your money, or should I say, Sean, do you think you could give us some of your money?
I had this debate.
I have a hard time.
The Catholic Church really turned me against formal churches.
And I'm like a non-denominational Christian.
And somebody talked to me recently.
We had a discussion about tithing.
And I'm like, yeah, I believe in tithing, but it doesn't have to be through the church.
And this person was telling me how not biblical I am.
And I said, no, but I'll give at least that, usually more, to the people that I run into in my life when I see a need.
And if I see a need, I step up.
It's not that complicated.
And it's my great pleasure when I'm able to do that.
All right.
I got a roll, though.
Thanks, Mike.
Don, Lake Ron Concomo.
What's up, my brother?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, it's always great to talk to you.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
Thank you, buddy.
You know, isn't it amazing how we're learning today how half of the China COVID-19 pandemic relief has been stolen because $400 billion.
Yeah, because of unemployment fraud.
$400 billion.
And by the way, if we ever got down to, I called my accountant very early on, and I said a couple of things.
I won't tell everything I said, but one of the things I said, any company I have control over, I'm not taking a dime.
Don, you're going to laugh at this.
You know all those checks they were handing?
They actually sent them to me.
They sent me the $1,400 check and the two $600 checks.
And I'm like, don't cash it.
I got a check, and both my daughter and her husband were laid off, so it went to them.
But this unemployment and also the rise in inflation that we're seeing now.
It's bad, Don.
You know, we've watched this over the years.
We've been friends for a long time.
Oh, yeah.
And I will tell you, you know, I know this sounds nuts.
And some people are going to be saying, Hannity, you're just, you don't know what you're talking about.
Now, I do have a few friends that have retired and they've done so and transitioned perfectly.
Most people that I know, though, when they stop working, they don't know what the hell to do with themselves.
Everybody that knows me well fears that I'm going to stop working one day.
They just do.
They don't want to be around me that much.
And I've been a workaholic my entire adult life.
I'm not going to lie.
I'm a workaholic.
These costs that the Biden administration are costing us is really incredible.
And it can all go back to the cutting off of that Keystone pipeline, giving it to the Russians, this border crisis that Kamala Harris refuses to go to.
And Sean, my friend, I'm going to tell you something.
We have no idea what President Biden's going to spend in Europe this week.
Oh, good grief.
God only knows.
You know, Putin may not publicly may not.
He's going to eat Joe's lunch, Sippy Cup's lunch.
And I tell you, the first thing he's going to do, he's going to walk out of that meeting with his comrades.
They're going to look at each other and they're going to go, wow, this guy is a weak mess.
I'm going to be honest.
I find it embarrassing.
I find that this president can barely hold a thought together embarrassing.
We have President Joe Biden.
Yeah, right?
With the briefing book on Air Force One.
Yeah.
Good point.
All right, Don.
You have a good weekend, okay?
You too, my friend.
Enjoy.
Quick break right back to our phones: 800-941.
Sean is our number.
And when we come back, our friend General Tater will be with us.
How bad is the Putin meeting going to be?
And we'll talk about the border and we'll talk about the Iranians and the Chinese and the Russians and they're uniting together.
I catch our busy phones.
David in Illinois.
David, you're next.
Glad you called, sir.
Sean, it's a privilege.
My apologies that you have to talk to so many of us from Illinois today, but I appreciate you taking my call.
Thank you.
I've got an issue out here.
I'm a middle-class worker.
I'm a blue-collar worker, and I'm hemorrhaging.
And I am a die-hard, die-hard conservative.
Always have been, always will be.
But I've got to express my disappointment with the Republican Party.
They just haven't stood up for me out here.
And until they get a spine and until they man up and do the job that I need them to do for me and my family, I don't think I can support the Republican Party as it stands now.
And let me give you a brief example.
Let me say this.
I think you know I'm not a registered Republican, right?
Right.
I'm a register in New York.
I register as a conservative.
There's a conservative party.
As long, look, I have been consistent, pretty consistent throughout my career.
I've changed my views here and there.
I think I've become a lot more libertarian in the last 24 years of my life.
But when you break down conservatism, I can do it in a minute.
We believe in liberty, freedom, capitalism, and our Constitution.
Lower taxes, less bureaucracy, choice in schools, free market solutions for health care, protecting pre-existing conditions, law and order for safety and security, energy independence, border security, free and fair trade, constitutionalists on the bench, and peace through strength.
What am I missing?
Absolutely nothing.
That's who I am.
And anybody that supports that, I don't give a flying atom shift what letters next to their name, because that is America's ticket to strength and prosperity and a ladder for success for everybody.
That's my agenda.
It hasn't changed much.
I got to be honest.
It just hasn't changed a whole lot, David.
You know, the report is there's 80 million of us out here.
I believe the number is much, much higher.
Can you imagine the power that we would have if we had one voice and we united?
What would happen?
What would happen?
Well, Trump got us close, and I'll tell you what hurt Donald Trump the most, called COVID-19.
COVID-19.
But he showed us that he can do it.
He showed Republicans how to fight.
And then, you know, you're going to always have the Liz Cheneys and Barbara Comstocks of the world and the Never Trumpers and the Lincoln Project.
You know, they'll do it.
And the Mitt Romneys and Ben Sass, the jackass, and Lisa Murkowski's.
But you know what?
They're not taking the party over.
This party is now, we know what works and we'll stick with it.
I got to run though, David.
God bless you.
Quick break, right back.
Your calls on the other side.
Straight ahead.
All right, news roundup information overload hour.
We'll get to your calls, final half hour of the program today.
We have now Kamala Harris.
The verdict is in.
Even her staunchest supporters in the mob and the media recognize that this trip to Guatemala, where she was lectured by the Guatemalan president and then Mexico, was an unmitigated disaster.
A softball question from Lester Holt about whether you're going to go to the border.
That ended in an unmitigated disaster.
She was asked again about it, and this by a Univision reporter, and this is what she snapped back at.
I've said I'm going to go to the border.
And when are you going to the border, Vice President?
Administration has asked.
I'm not finished.
I said I'm going to the border.
And also, if we are going to deal with the problems at the border, we have to deal with the problems that cause people to go to the border, to flee to the border.
And that is the root causes.
So my first trip as Vice President of the United States was to go, in terms of a foreign trip, to Guatemala to be on the ground there, to address and to be informed of the root causes.
Why are the people of Guatemala leaving?
Do you have a date?
Fin una fecesa para sugaje la frontera para vir la situción con ustroqui sorjos?
We'll keep you posted.
No date.
You know, I haven't been to Europe either.
I guess she hasn't been to the moon either as well.
And it's pretty unbelievable.
I mean, as this is going on, now, in the last three weeks, Joe Biden has identified three separate, well, in the last number of weeks, three separate things as our biggest national security threat.
One is Russia, okay?
What about China?
What about Iran?
What about a nuclear-armed Iran?
What about radical Islamic terrorism?
What about North Korea?
What about the alliance between the Chinese, the Russians, and the Iranians, the Chinese and the Russians providing Iran arms, and they're fighting their proxy war throughout the rest of the Middle East with those arms?
And then Joe Biden switches, and after Russia's one answer, white supremacy gave his answer last week.
This week he says the number one problem, challenge, the military that you'll be facing threat is climate change.
This is what he said.
We must all commit to an ambitious climate action if we're going to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, limiting global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Lead the global transition to clean energy technology.
You know, when I went over in the tank in the Pentagon when I first was elected vice president with President Obama, the military sat us down to let us know what the greatest threats facing America were, the greatest physical threats.
This is not a joke.
You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest threat facing America was?
Global warming.
Global warming.
Not China, not the nuclear-armed Iran, not Russia that just hacked us twice, took 17 states, and we saw the disaster of what happened with the colonial pipeline.
Energy prices, we're now up about $1 a gallon for gasoline for every American, and that much more for the goods you buy, which I talked about in the last hour.
And I'm telling you, it is that bad.
So in a week and a half, Vladimir Putin gets a waiver to build his pipeline, but Joe canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and fired all these guys in the energy sector, high-paying career jobs there.
Then he allows TikTok, which we believe Donald Trump believed and our security apparatus believed was using to spy on America.
He just reinstates it for the communist Chinese.
And now the Biden officials have lift sanctions on Iranian officials and businesses.
Why is he so hell-bent on appeasing all these hostile regimes that despise us?
Anyway, General Tata is with us.
He's got a new book out, Chasing the Lion, and it's just out this month.
Thank you, sir, for being with us.
How are you?
Great to speak with you again, Sean.
It's been a few months, and I'm proud to be on your show.
Why would you give a waiver to build a pipeline to Vladimir and fire American workers on the Keystone XL pipeline?
Why would you lift sanctions on Iran without anything in return?
Why would you allow the Chinese to get back into the spying business with TikTok?
Can you explain these things to me?
Yeah, Sean, I think there's two things going on here.
One is that President Trump was tough on all three of those issues you just listed.
And so the left-wing progressive knee-jerk reaction is if Trump did it, they want to do the 180 opposite.
You know, U.S. national interests be damned.
And so the Nord Stream pipeline is a bad decision.
It's bad for NATO.
It's bad for Germany.
It's bad for the collective security arrangement there.
And it's bad for American energy independence, which we had under President Trump.
And energy independence is a national security matter, first and foremost.
Think of all the wars we fought in the Middle East over access to oil.
And then when you get down to Iran, that's just the left-wing Progressive Party given President Biden talking points about that.
The first thing he did, remember, was Saudi Arabia, he stopped intel sharing on the Houthis.
And when I was performing the duties as the Undersecretary for Policy and DOD, we had a lot of discussions about all of this.
And the President Trump's policies were right on the spot with regard to protecting Americans and American national security interests overseas.
Why would we stop sharing intelligence with the Saudis on Iranian shipments to the Houdis in Yemen of weapons?
And then the same thing.
Oh, by the way, and the weapons are provided by Putin and President Qi to hostile regimes.
Well, and given to a third hostile regime.
And Sean, it's better than that.
It's bought for, it's paid for with the money that President Obama gave him four years ago.
So, I mean, it's, and this is why.
And that tip of the hand is they want to get back into the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal, which is the worst possible thing for Mideast security and stability.
And President Trump was moving fast on Middle East security, all of the Abraham Accords that he and Secretary Pompeo and Jared Kushner had pulled together.
I mean, just very significant movement there in the Middle East.
And then you mentioned China, and China is outpacing us by a significant margin in their military growth and in their economic growth.
And so when you look at what President Trump was trying to do to stop the spying through these apps, we had a lot of discussions about all this.
And again, President Trump was right.
And these are things where a lot of Americans just kind of happily download TikTok or some of these other apps and give their information away.
And some of these problems don't come home to Ruth for a year, two years, three years.
But I guarantee you that President Trump and those policies that we had in place were absolutely right.
And this sort of reckless undoing of the Trump policies in the name of what Biden says America is back, give me a break.
We had great relations.
I had great conversations and signed deals right up to running through the tape in January, signing deals with several nations on defense agreements, defense cooperation, unloading the American burden and having other teams step up, other countries step up.
President Trump did a great job in this regard, and President Biden's undoing it.
You know, I think, and look, I know people on the left don't like it when I say it, but all I do is start playing the reels of Joe Biden.
And when I show video of Biden from 2012 or 2016, and I compare it to today, he seems like a shell of his former self.
He seems weak and frail.
He's definitely a cognitive mess.
And even though the media protects him, I just call it as I see it.
And I've got all the tape to back it up.
The problem is, I don't think that the leaders of these hostile regimes like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, I don't really think they give a damn what our media thinks.
They're assessing Joe Biden every day.
And I'm pretty confident they've come to the same conclusion I've come to, which is this guy is a cognitive mess.
And I think that has now emboldened all of these countries.
You know, we see China and their geopolitical ambitions playing out in the China Sea and elsewhere.
We see Russia now back on the border with Ukraine.
We see the Iranians brazenly fighting this proxy war in Yemen, as you rightly referred to, that's been going on now for a while.
So I think they look at a weak America.
Now, if B.B. Netanyahu is no longer going to be the prime minister, which it appears that's the path we'll find out on Sunday, if he can't flip one vote, then I am really concerned because he was the only other guy on the world stage that seemed to have the moral clarity that identified evil for what it was.
You're right about that, Sean.
You know, starting with Netanyahu and Israel and the importance of that strategic ally and our closest ally in the Middle East, you're absolutely right.
But Iran is evil.
Hamas is evil.
Hezbollah is evil.
The Houthis are evil.
And they are attempting to export terror.
Iran is, through all of these instruments of war to attack Western liberties and freedoms and economies.
That is 100% what's happening here.
And to the extent that President Biden either does not recognize that or is being told what to do because of all the things that you mentioned, I think the American people deserve to know who's actually calling the shots.
Because when you look at what Vice President Harris did on that disaster of a trip to Central America and her refusal to answer the question about not going to the border, she doesn't want to go to the border, Sean, because it's a mess down there.
And it will bring attention to the worsening of the situation, not the betterment of the situation as they pretended during the campaign.
The numbers, general, speak for themselves, don't they?
I mean, we're going to shatter a 25-year high of illegal immigrants coming into this country.
And on top of that, we're facing record inflation we haven't seen in 15 years, record high prices on everything, energy prices, gallon of gasoline up a dollar a gallon.
That's real money that's impacting every family in the country.
I mean, these policies are disastrous, and he's not been in power long.
Right, right.
And policies have impact on the American people from a security.
You know, if you remember, Sean, in 2016, sort of the two number one things were the economy.
And then remember, ISIS was a big, bad deal.
And, you know, it could be argued that President Trump did too good a job by giving the military the authority to go out and crush ISIS, what they did, which they did.
Now, you know, we're heading back in that direction, right?
With national security coming back to the forefront as a domestic issue, because when you minimize our energy output, all of the steps going on with respect to the oil and gas industry are catastrophic for this country.
And it puts us back into a situation where we're competing for oil with all these countries that either are contentious or want to do us harm like Iran.
And we are in a real bad spot right now with just four or five months of undoing the previous policies that were gaining traction.
We're serving the American people well.
And I'm sorry, but NATO was just fine, right?
Every collective security arrangement needs an alpha in it.
And NATO needed that alpha, particularly when we got all those betas in there with France and Canada and all of that.
Trump was the alpha.
And he said, look, this is how we're going to do it.
We'll take a quick break.
We'll come back more with General Tata on the other side.
His new book, Chasing the Lion, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, books.
As we continue with General Tata, worked in the Trump White House, author of his new book, Chasing the Lion, Hannity.com, Amazon.com.
I think there was a healthy respect and fear of Donald Trump, the fear being based in if he says it, he's going to do it.
And I don't think that fear exists today.
No, absolutely not.
Because one is that it's amorphous, right?
You see Biden backing off all of these policies that reinstituted American strength and leadership in the world.
And when Biden says America is back, what he's talking about is back to the Obama years where we subordinated our self-interest as a nation to collective security arrangements around the world.
And you just can't have that because that puts us in a weakened position from a policy standpoint where all the despots you mentioned, whether it's Putin or G or the Iran leadership, all of them are watching.
The recent hacks on all of our infrastructure and the colonial pipeline and all of that, those are probing attacks.
We always get whether you're a platoon and combat up to the United States commander-in-chief.
Everybody gets tested during changes of command.
This is a change of command.
It's happened.
And so you've got China, you've got Russia, you've got Iran all testing.
And this Hamas attack on Israel was a test of how Biden would respond.
So now they know.
And these are probing attacks.
They're not the big attack.
These are, okay, let's do this to see how they'll respond.
Now let's huddle and figure out how to move forward.
And now we're going to come in with a bigger thing, whatever that is from China, Iran, or Russia.
And they are assessing.
It is a cruel world out there.
And, you know, a lot of these progressives think that, oh, well, if we just kind of give in a little bit, it's all going to be okay.
They'll understand.
And that's just not the case.
Well, General, it's always a pleasure to have you.
By the way, the general's new book is out chasing the lion.
It's up on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere.
General, where are you when we need you?
We need people like you now more than ever.
Thank you for being with us.
Always a privilege, Sean.
Thank you so much.
All right, 800-941.
Sean, your calls, final half hour of the program today.
Quick break, right back.
Hi, 25 to the top of the hour on a Friday.
All right, let's for the final half hour, let's just get to calls.
Brian is in the great state of Georgia, which has far less restrictive voting.
There are far more accessible voting opportunities in Georgia than Delaware.
But Joe Biden, who never lifted a finger to make voting more accessible in Delaware, says Georgia's Jim Crow 2.0.
And as a result of Joe and Stacey Abrams, about $100 million in business was taken away from Georgia by the Major League Baseball idiot commissioner and brought to a state that only has 9% minority population.
That's Colorado.
Delaware doesn't have 17 days early in person voting.
Delaware doesn't have any drop boxes.
Delaware doesn't have no excuse absentee voting.
You have to provide an excuse.
And both states demand voter ID.
And then he gets away with saying that to Georgia, hurting the people of Georgia.
Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams owe the people of Georgia an apology.
Brian, sorry to go on to that rant.
Oh, yes, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
Off a little bit of topic here.
I'd love to comment on that one, but I just want to say about the border issue.
To me, it seems wrong to have the federal government kind of break the law by taking these illegals in and then, you know, making the states deal with them.
My question is, why can't the states do anything about this, considering the states can make marijuana legal, even though it's federally against the law?
You know what I mean?
You're asking a million-dollar question that I've asked Governor Abbott, who I'm very fond of and I support for reelection down in Texas, and Attorney General Bernovich in Arizona, who's now running for the Senate against Mark Kelly.
And I hope he wins that seat.
Your question is crucial.
This was challenged.
Remember, Jan Brewer was the governor of Arizona, and the courts are not recognizing that the state should have the right if the federal government fails to enforce the laws of the land to enforce it themselves.
Because you're right.
Not only is Joe not picking and choosing which laws he wants to listen to, but Joe is then also aiding and abetting lawbreaking.
You know, by housing, building cages for kids in the middle of a pandemic and putting them on top of each other and then shipping them out in the dark of night to states.
And then the states are responsible for food and shelter and health care and education.
And it's an unfunded federal mandate.
Now, I do give Greg Abbott credit.
Greg Abbott said just this week, I'm going to continue building the wall in Texas, and I'll protect my own borders.
And he has every right to do it.
And I think if A.G. Bernovich has his way, they do the same thing in Arizona.
He's a great attorney general.
I think he's an amazing guy.
Yes, sir.
Now, wouldn't that be considered seeding during a pandemic?
They're kind of seeding the virus around.
They're taking untested illegal immigrants and putting them in places where we'll maybe even restart the virus.
I mean, that should be a major concern, not only the monetary value of having to pay for all this.
Look, you're raising so many good points, Brian.
You know, look, you would think we would have learned something, you know, in light of COVID, but people don't learn.
You know, with all the talk of, you know, oh, super spreader events, the biggest super spreader situation was created by Joe and Kamala when they were building these kids' cages and putting them on top of each other with a high rate of positive testing for COVID in the middle of a pandemic and then shipping them out and not even testing.
All right.
So the answer is, if you want to come to this country, I think there's three main things.
You've got to do it legally.
And I would say we need a security check on anybody that comes into this country.
We need to know you don't have radical associations.
We need a health check, especially in light of what we've learned from COVID-19.
The third thing is you've got to be able to prove that you're going to be financially able to care for yourself and not be a burden to the American taxpayer if we, in fact, invite you into the country.
I don't care where you come from.
And I just ask that you respect our laws, our sovereignty, and our borders and pass those three tests.
Is that too much?
Oh, that's awesome.
I thought about it once or twice.
All right, Brian, all my best to my pals down in Georgia, okay?
Yes, sir.
Thank you very much.
All right, we have a lot of calls from stupid states.
We have two calls from California, and we got one call from New York.
Let's start with the New York socialist state, the socialist utopia state of New York.
And Tyler is next on the Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Tyler?
Hey, Sean, how's it going?
You know, you and I are two very dumb people.
You want to know why?
Because we're living in New York, and we're paying 15% more in taxes on our salaries.
We're paying the highest property taxes in the country.
If you die in New York, they even take 10% more or 15%, I forget the number, in their own separate death tax on top of the 40% the federal government takes.
What is wrong with us?
We're stupid to stay here.
Sean, I'm 22.
I just graduated from college.
You know, I've got plans.
Oh, so did my son, and he's not in New York.
Well, congratulations to your son for graduating and even bigger prosperity to him not living in New York.
I give him total credit for that.
You know, I'm planning on moving out of New York.
Hopefully, within the next couple of years, if everything worked out financially, I'm looking at going, and hopefully, Ron DeSantis is still governor of Florida if he's not president by then.
I'm really hoping to, and as Governor Cuomo would like to say, he's blaming it on the weather and not the horrendous tax rates that we've got, the corruption that's running Grant in Albany.
Everything is just, it just falls.
It's a domino effect in this state.
And I'm going to say that.
Let me ask you, you're 22 years old, and I say this to my own son.
What do you want to do with your life right now?
What are you planning as a profession?
So, you know, I graduated with a degree in political science from the Odeonta.
And I really, my focus was trying to at least work in the government in some fashion.
You know, I'm looking at going to grad school.
I'm still undecided if I want to, you know, go with the communications route for masters for grad school or, you know, further my education in political science.
So, you know, everything's up in the air, but I know one thing, I don't want to go to school in New York.
You know, or I'm sure you've seen.
Well, I'll tell you right now, I mean, at least in Washington, there are good people to work for and work with on the political side.
There's nothing in Albany.
New York is gone.
Albany is successful, and I don't see any hope of New York.
I see my friend Curtis Liwa.
I've been friends with him a long time.
I'd love to see Curtis beat out all of these Democratic candidates in New York City.
The problem is for both of them is that Democrats in New York City outnumber Republicans nine to one.
I would suggest to you, if that's your passion, and whatever you work out, first of all, you're 22 years old.
You can't make a mistake.
If you go back to school, you can't make a mistake.
If you go into the workplace, you can't make a mistake.
Right now is the time for you to really, really hone in on what you want to do with your life and what you have a passion for.
Because you spend a lot of your life working.
So you might as well like what you do.
I mean, granted, I've been watching you since I was a junior in high school.
And I've followed you ever since.
And I get home from work, and actually, while I'm at work, I've got your radio show in my car and my headphones, and I'm watching you every night on Fox.
And I really enjoyed the joy that you brought not only to my young and impressionable mind, but to the millions of other like-minded college kids, mid-20s kids like myself.
Behind Rush Limbaugh, honestly, for me, you and Rush are the cornerstones of modern day conservatism.
And President Trump, he echoed that as well.
But having you fight for us on a daily basis and you getting us the message every single day and just the way you present things, that's really what strikes home for me.
Well, look, I mean, it's a tragic loss for conservatism because Rush was such a positive, articulate force and spokesperson for this movement.
Look, I'm very honored that you're paying me a high compliment.
You remind me a little bit of me.
I don't know why.
I was a young teenager and I was just locked in, addicted to listening to talk radio.
And I loved it.
I love passionately.
You know, I just know this, is that, you know what, there's a lot of political cycles, Tyler.
And, you know, is it more fun to win like we did in 2016 than to go through what we went through in 2020?
Yeah.
But, you know what?
2008 happened and then the Tea Party came and then Donald Trump came.
And for whatever reason, this country forever seems to flirt with radical socialism, never to this extent.
And then we, you know, it fails drastically and we lurch back to the center-right country that we are.
I believe that'll happen again.
My advice, either go to school, don't go to school.
If you want politics, do it in Washington, not in Albany.
And I'd probably live in Virginia, not D.C. That's my two cents worth.
But follow your passion.
You know, you work a lot of hours every day.
You got to like what you do.
All right, my friend.
Yeah, and actually, can I jump to the main point of the call before we cut loose?
So my premise of the call today was to talk about, you know, Sleepy Joe and his upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.
And I'm sure you saw the magazine cover from Time magazine today, you know, presenting him as this tough guy, but we're giving the green light to the pipeline in Russia with direct access to Germany, but we're going to axe the Keystone XL pipeline in the States.
But that's okay, but we're standing up to Putin, but Trump was a puppet to Russia.
Yeah, well, it wasn't Donald Trump's kids that got paid by the Russian oligarch and the Kazakhstan oligarch or by Burisma in Ukraine and by taking on a $100,000 shopping spree with a Chinese national and the $1.5 billion deal with the Bank of China.
That was the Bidens.
You know what that sounds like to me?
Sounds like pay to play and a quit and a pro and a quo.
Tyler, good luck, my friend.
Got to get some other calls in here.
We have two people from California.
They'll join us at once.
The United Socialist Utopia under Gavin Newsome, John and David.
John, say hi to David.
David, say hi to John.
And both of you are as dumb as I am.
And Tyler is because you're living in a state where you're paying way too much money.
Hi, John.
Hey, John, what's going on?
And David, how are you?
I'm doing good.
I just have one quick point, but I'll let John go first.
All right, John.
Okay, well, thank you.
Yeah, I guess, first off, I want to say, Sean, that, you know, longtime viewer, first-time caller, really enjoyed your show, and thanks for the call.
And the reason why I called is just, you know, this whole COVID origin thing has me rather very concerned.
And if you don't mind, I kind of want to go over what my understanding of the facts are.
Maybe you can tell me what I have wrong or what I'm missing, if you don't mind.
But first off, I've been reading these articles.
Of course, there was a Vanny Fair piece.
I thought Cheryl Atkinson wrote a very good article back in April.
My understanding is that back in 2014, because of some access we had in our own labs, we put a pause on this whole gain of function research.
And then subsequent to that, Fauci, I guess, found some way to kind of work around that.
So that's beginning around 2015, he started outsourcing some of this gain of function research to the Wuhan lab.
And during that time, I guess, again, I don't really know, just kind of based on what I'm reading.
Only because we have constraints on time.
Let me just say, yeah, he's got a lot to answer for.
He really needs a criminal investigation, as Greg Jarrett said.
That's not going to happen, I bet.
But, you know, him saying if you criticize him, you're criticizing science.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
We now know he knew.
He was told on January 31st, and we knew he went into a panic state.
David, we give you your shot.
Okay, I was just thinking it would be a great idea with the immigration crisis, if you can keep a daily running tally of how many people are entering our country.
And do you remember when Cronkite and Carter, when we had the hostages in Iran, Cronka would always start his broadcast every day with, you know, this is day 157 of the hostage crisis?
I think it'd be a good media offense on our part if you could just keep a daily running total of how many illegals are coming into our country.
Well, we've been getting, we don't get daily totals.
We get monthly totals and weekly totals.
I could do a weekly update.
I don't know if I can get a daily count, but we're now averaging just shy of 200,000 a month that we're counting, and it's probably higher.
But I think it's a good idea.
It's sort of like Nightline was built off of the Iranian hostage crisis, day 442.
I mean, yeah, I mean, America held hostage.
Democrats have no opposition to this.
And Democrats, I think they believe, like, I think Republicans always wanted cheap labor.
And I think Democrats always wanted to hold out something of great value to a lot of people.
If we give you amnesty, then you're going to be Democrats, right?
But it's not good for the country when you don't enforce your laws and that people don't respect our borders and our sovereignty.
We have laws that govern this country based on a constitution.
Thank you both.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Yeah, I'm going to try and rest my voice a little bit over the weekend.
