Sean Hannity Show - Meet Senator Herschel Walker?

July 28, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show

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Meet Senator Herschel Walker?

Herschel Walker, former NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, and New York Giants (as well as former bobsledder, sprinter, and mixed martial artist), is now considering a run for Senate. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays fro m3 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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	Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
	I know many of you are frustrated.
	And at this point, to be very blunt, you have every right to be frustrated.
	You know, you start with Fauci.
	You know, Dr. Fauci on 60 Minutes.
	Dr. Fauci on 60 Minutes, March of 2020.
	He makes this comment as it relates to the use of masks.
	This is what he was telling us.
	Now, in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.
	You're sure of it because people are listening really closely to this.
	Right now, people should not be, there's no reason to be walking around with a mask.
	When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.
	And often, there are unintended consequences.
	Then it's one mask, then it's two masks, then it's, well, there might be masks in perpetuity.
	Then it's, oh, if you get vaccinated, life goes back to normal and you won't need any mask.
	But now there's masks again.
	And, you know, just let me just play a small, it's a little longer montage.
	Let me play this montage because there's a reason for me playing this so you understand that if you're frustrated and for those people that have doubt and concerns, you know, because they've been trying to blame conservatives.
	I think we've been the most responsible and we have the timeline.
	You have no idea what we have prepared for the mob and the media in terms of our coverage.
	And I took a lot of heat when I said early on that, you know what, I don't mind wearing the mask.
	Remember Jimmy Kimmel?
	He even tweeted out, I can't believe it.
	I agree with Hannity.
	I'm like, okay, I just ruined my career.
	What did I say?
	What did I say?
	I just ruined my career.
	Anyway, but I believed it and I was saying, all right, I knew it would be short term.
	I was saying in January 2020, American medical researchers, scientists, doctors are going to save the world with this, meaning therapeutics, meaning the, you know, in six weeks they broke down the sequence of a virus.
	It would normally take six years.
	So I had great confidence that they would get to a vaccine.
	And again, I'm urging you, yeah, take it seriously.
	All these people dying, I don't want any one of you hearing my voice right now to be one of them or anybody you love and care about to be one of them.
	I've seen the worst of this thing.
	I've been up to my eyeballs trying to help people because most people don't do what I do every day, and that is immerse myself in all of the research and interviewing all of the doctors, some that I'd even disagree with, to get as much information in your head and hands as possible.
	And I find that even friends of mine, you know, I have to walk them through the basics, the ABs and C ABCDs of this.
	And I had a friend recently.
	As a matter of fact, we had George Farid on yesterday, and he's 74 years old.
	He's a great guy, and he tested positive.
	He hadn't gotten vaccinated.
	He tested positive.
	And I got him on the phone with Dr. Farid, who's been one of our regulars.
	We have a lot of regular doctors on this program.
	You know, we've had Dr. Oz, we've had Dr. Nicole Sapphire.
	We've had Ryan Tyson on the program.
	And, you know, all these great people.
	And trying to give you as many varying viewpoints as possible to inform you to make good decisions for yourself and for your family.
	It gets frustrating.
	You know, just listen to the constant shifting.
	You know, they've been wrong on pretty much everything.
	Their models were wrong.
	Their projections were wrong.
	You know, everybody, you know, Andrew Cuomo, oh, we're New Yorkers.
	We're not like these other countries.
	We're New Yorkers.
	We have the best health care system in the entire world.
	Well, yeah, that was right before the shift show that became New York.
	And that led to the executive order that put people with COVID in nursing homes and all those deaths took place.
	Meanwhile, Donald Trump's built hospitals for COVID patients, fully manned, fully providing all the PPE imaginable.
	Every ventilator that they were screaming that they needed, even though your chances we now know were about 12% of surviving if you got on a ventilator early.
	It's a little better now.
	It's in the 30 to 42% range.
	It's not 100%.
	If you're at that point, it's and by the way, that's why I bring on all these doctors that believe in the therapeutics.
	You know, if you don't know about Regeneron and the Eli Lilly version of Regeneron, please research it because I know more people that have had it that have gotten the infusion.
	It saved their life, literally, you know, and or even all the studies.
	Oh, hydroxychloroquine, 84% effective if taken early at mitigating symptoms.
	What?
	The media didn't like it because Donald Trump said, hey, we already knew that the foremost expert, Dr. Daniel Wallace, in April of, what, 2020, said the risk is nil.
	Number one practitioner of rheumatoid arthritis, biggest practice in the country, and lupus.
	Yeah, he's been dispensing hydroxychloroquine for 42 to 45 years.
	And the risk, he said, is nil.
	That means none, zero.
	He's had 250 peer-reviewed articles.
	This guy is the real deal.
	Also dealing with malaria cases.
	Oh, but if Trump says it, we can't.
	This is insanity.
	Anyone talking about it?
	How dare you talk about it?
	Or ivermectin, which has emerged as a therapeutic that has shown success.
	And again, we're trying to interview the doctors that are on the front line that are really proactive.
	You know, rather than so many doctors, states, hospitals, they basically been saying, oh, yeah, you tested positive for COVID.
	Go home.
	Okay, check your oxygen levels, check your temperature.
	If your temperature goes up, take two extra Tylenol, get your temperature down.
	If your oxygen drops in seven, you know, usually that happens in day six, seven, eight, or nine.
	If that oxygen level drops to 90 or below, you probably need to go to an emergency room.
	The only problem is by the time you get to the emergency room, your lungs are an absolute atom shift show.
	And if they get x-rayed, it is a disaster.
	How do I know?
	Because I have literally walked, I can't even tell you, and I haven't talked about it, I'm not patting myself on the back here.
	Dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of people through this process, not making the decision for them, but putting them in touch with people that give them information so they can make informed decisions, information they didn't know about, because I care about people and I'm pro-life.
	I want people to live.
	And I was able to do it yesterday.
	I get a report now every night.
	My 74-year-old friend, yesterday's temperature was 98.2.
	His oxygen saturation level was 98, which is a great number.
	And within 24 hours, thanks to our friend, by the way, if I ever had to pay these doctors for all the times I've called on them, I'd be poor at this point.
	And they've done it because they're dedicated to saving lives.
	They all deserve credit.
	You may disagree with one doctor or another.
	I'm not telling you what doctor to follow.
	I'm telling you to learn as much as you can.
	And a lot of the media never talk about this.
	Regeneron, to me, is the best.
	I've hermectin, hydroxychloroquine.
	Read the studies that show that it mitigates, especially taken early, it mitigates some of the symptoms of COVID.
	And then make your own decision.
	I'm not your doctor.
	I don't know your medical history.
	I don't know your medical condition.
	I can't decide for you.
	Just telling you things that maybe you won't hear in the mainstream media mob.
	But, you know, for all the people that are trying to say, well, conservatives are causing vaccine hesitancy.
	How many times do I have to say, I believe in science?
	I believe in the science of vaccination.
	But I'm not your doctor.
	I don't know your medical history.
	There are some people, you know, we interviewed the girl that wanted to go to BYU in Hawaii, couldn't go because a vaccine had paralyzed her for a month, and she tried to get a medical exemption.
	They wouldn't give it to her.
	You know, we've interviewed, for example, the nurse in Houston, Texas, who got COVID.
	How did she get COVID?
	She got COVID because every day at the height of the pandemic, she went in to save other people's lives.
	She got fired.
	She has natural antibodies, natural immunities.
	Well, if we follow the science, the Cleveland Clinic study says if you, oh, if you have, even if your antibody levels go down, you still have T-cell antibodies, which would be activated if, in fact, you came in contact with coronavirus for a second time.
	And that would probably, as Rand Paul has said on this show, a medical doctor, that would probably reactivate the body's instantaneous, natural immune response to the virus that it already is aware of exists because it beat it once, and that would include variants to it.
	All right.
	So, but listen to the confusion.
	Stop blaming conservatives when all I'm trying to tell people is to educate themselves, take it seriously, talk to their own doctored doctors, medical professionals they trust, factor in your medical history and your current medical condition and decide in a free society.
	Listen.
	People should not be walking around with masks.
	Let me just state for the record that masks are not theater.
	Wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better.
	Masks are protective.
	But it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.
	There has not been any indication that putting a mask on and wearing a mask for a considerable period of time has any deleterious effects.
	There are unintended consequences.
	People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.
	And can you get some schmutz sort of sting inside there?
	Of course.
	You do not need to wear a mask indoors if, in fact, you've been vaccinated.
	Good that you're vaccinated, but in a situation where you have people indoors, particularly crowded, you should wear a mask.
	So even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a mask.
	If, in fact, you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, you are protected, and you do not need to wear a mask, outdoors or indoors.
	When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks.
	You know, if you look at children outside, particularly when they're with the family, walking down the street, playing a game or what have you, don't have to wear a mask.
	The pediatric, the Academy of Pediatric, actually makes that recommendation that children should be wearing masks from two years old onward.
	And you're asking now, if your child is a member of your household, can you walk outdoors with your child without a mask?
	According to that chart, the answer is yes.
	But the child can't, not to beat it to death.
	Yes, yes.
	Because now the CDC says, I mean, I think I've got this right.
	One mask is better than zero masks.
	Two masks is better than one mask, but you don't have to have double masks.
	Is that right?
	I mean, you know, it became clear that cloth coverings that you didn't have to buy in a store, that you could make yourself, were adequate.
	And they wanted to fit Bennett.
	So one of the ways you could do it, if you would like to, is put a cloth mask over, which actually here and here and here where you could get leakage in is much better contained.
	Are you a double masker, Dr. Fauci?
	You look like you are.
	I mean, everybody, you know, now that they're going back to, which is where I was leading this, even the Department of Justice is declaring that vax mandates are legal.
	Now we're also, the CDC is once again reversed itself on their indoor masking policy.
	Yeah, even if you're fully vaccinated, you got to now go back to wearing the mask, which is not what they told us if you got the vaccine.
	And people have a right to be angry and feel betrayed and feel like this is the gang that can't shoot straight.
	They've got so many things wrong so often for the entire time.
	800-941 Sean is on number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	You know, I've been telling you that, and I had taken this once before, and I don't know why I stopped.
	It was so stupid, but now I'm back to using Balance of Nature.
	I feel a discernible difference every day of my life.
	Look, I don't have the ability to have 10 servings of fruits and vegetables every day.
	And that's what Balance of Nature does is literally they put it in a capsule form.
	Linda's mom, what, she's five years, four years into taking it.
	She loves it, and she never gets colds.
	She's very high energy that runs in the family.
	And she's been taking them for a long time.
	She has.
	She's feeling really good.
	All right.
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	So the CDC is now, again, changed their mind.
	Now they have decided that fully vaccinated people will begin wearing masks indoors again in places with high COVID-19 transmission rate.
	What does that even mean?
	I mean, anywhere there's other people?
	Because I would assume anybody can have it.
	What are we going to play the odds?
	Oh, there's 10 people you don't have to wear their masks, but there's 30 people you have to wear the mask.
	I mean, what does that even mean?
	And now people, by the way, and I'll play this later in the program.
	A lot of, you go back before we actually had the vaccines.
	Guess where all the vaccine hesitancy came from?
	The mob and the media, MSTNC, fake news, CNN, and the new Green Deal Democratic Socialists.
	Why were they showing vaccine?
	Oh, I'm not going to believe it if it's the Trump vaccine.
	Oh, okay.
	So we'll play politics with that too.
	So they now reversed their indoor.
	I know you were told something different.
	They told you that if you got vaccinated, you don't have to worry about other people.
	Remember, I kept asking, it seems an awful, it seems awfully strange to me that fully vaccinated, fully socially distant, Joe and Joe Biden hiding hands, walking outside into former President Carter's house.
	I keep saying this as an example.
	Did they know something that we didn't know then?
	Because it made no sense.
	They weren't following the science.
	And then they get inside the house.
	They take off their masks.
	They're right on top of the old people, 96 and 93, respectively, you know, spitting and breathing all over them so they can get a picture.
	That's the opposite of what they were saying to do.
	Uncle Sam accountable to you every day.
	Hannity is on.
	All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean.
	You want to be a part of the program?
	I'll play it later.
	The mob, the media, the Democrats, and all the vaccine hesitancy and doubt that they cast when, in fact, it was Donald Trump saying, well, it looks like we're going to get a vaccine in record time.
	And we're in stage three trials now, and the results look promising, et cetera, et cetera.
	You know, but the Biden White House, they can't really give a good explanation after all that they've told us why the CDC is announcing the new masking policies around the country.
	I know this is a slightly awkward timing, Jensaki, Circleback, said, acknowledging at the press conference, and throughout the briefing, repeating that they were battling coronavirus despite weeks of sunny rhetoric celebrating Joe Biden's success and handling the pandemic.
	We still are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.
	Oh, okay.
	And they won't tell us how many people are infected at the White House?
	Really?
	You know, now you have CDC guidance fallout the House, the White House, bring back mask mandates even for vaccinated people.
	And the Department of Justice declared that, yeah, vaccine mandates are legal.
	All right.
	Is that for everybody?
	Does that mean if you happen to be somebody that had COVID and have natural antibodies and the very prestigious Cleveland Clinic follow the science put out last week that or two weeks ago that if you had COVID, you don't need any vaccine?
	Are we following the science or are we not following the science?
	You know, and the CDC director then still pushing vaccination is the way out of this pandemic.
	Well, then if that vaccination worked and we were supposed to live our lives normally again, why now are you telling everybody that's vaccinated to mask up again?
	You know, now Biden, and I told you this was going to happen last week.
	It started out the administration, Joe Biden, Gensaki, they put their seal of approval on companies and schools and universities having the right to mandate vaccination.
	What do you do in the case of, like, for example, the nurse that got fired down in a hospital in Houston?
	And this is happening to frontline workers all over the place.
	Not only did this woman put her life on the line like so many others in the middle of this pandemic, every day going to work was a risk for every healthcare worker, but she contracted COVID.
	She has natural immunity.
	She doesn't want the vaccine.
	She's following the Cleveland clinic science, and they fired her anyway.
	Or the girl that wanted to go to Brigham Young University in Hawaii, that particular university, and it was her dream, and she got accepted.
	But she went two years earlier, apparently had gotten a vaccine.
	I didn't ask her which one.
	And she ended up being paralyzed for a full month.
	And it took a while to be able to walk again.
	And her doctor is looking, and she was seeking a medical exemption, and they didn't give it to him.
	I mean, how hard and fast is this?
	And what about people, you know, whatever happened to medical privacy?
	I'm a big believer in medical privacy.
	I don't think if people ask you, you know, what is your status that you have any obligation to answer, especially if you're willing to put on a mask and socially distance and follow those rules?
	It's really nobody's business now, is it?
	But apparently, I guess we're going to have a database.
	And now the push towards vaccine passports.
	Watch how that's going to grow.
	I promise you, it's going to grow.
	You know, it's either you're going to prove that you're vaccinated.
	Well, what if you proved you had COVID?
	Would that serve as adequate following the science of the Cleveland clinic?
	And then, you know, again, children have not been as vulnerable in any way, shape, matter, or form to this virus.
	You know, I can't tell you how many my kids, well, one of them now out of college, one's still in college, but how many kids that I know of, their friends, people they know, that all got COVID, and it's like two days and it's over.
	Not a big deal, thankfully.
	It was the opposite.
	If you go back to the swine flu, it tended to impact younger people, but not older people.
	You know, we have a Texas police learned COVID-positive illegal immigrants that were sent to local hotels after a Whataburger encounter.
	Now, if we care so much about Americans and them being vaccinated, why did Joe build those cages?
	Nobody in the mob and the media, no Democrats seem to care one whit about the cages that Joe built that were way overcrowded, people on top of each other, not tested, high rate of COVID positivity in the middle of a pandemic.
	You know, where was the outrage then?
	Again, it's always selective moral outrage with Democrats.
	Always is.
	Ted Cruz said this decision was driven by politics, not by science.
	Let me be clear.
	There should be no more COVID mandates, no mask mandates, no vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports, no lockdowns, and no school closures.
	Enough is enough.
	The CDC has lost all credibility when it comes to what decisions the American people should make about COVID-19.
	And it's long past time that we got back to trusting the American people, not unelected federal bureaucrats.
	And I echo those comments.
	Ron DeSantis is saying no, should not be mandated responding to the CDC changes of mask guidelines for children.
	Now, I know a lot of people are worried about the Delta variant.
	Now, take this for what it is, and it's just information that you might want and might want to have, is that Britain for a number of weeks was struggling with the Delta variant.
	Okay.
	Now, the good news that I can pass on, you know, there's an article in the Daily Mail that said is the end in sight.
	COVID cases fall for the seventh day in a row.
	Experts hope vaccines, the vaccine rollout taking effect, and they say they see the light at the end of the tunnel.
	And in the UK, COVID-19 cases are decisively rolling over.
	If the U.S. follows the template of the U.K., they may be peaking in just the next 12 days.
	In other words, there was a point where they began to panic in Great Britain, and the Delta spike down there, even the New York Times noticed, seemed to be flattening without a substantial corresponding spikes in death.
	Again, if you want to look at it.
	Now, Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner under Donald Trump, predicted Wednesday that the U.S. will get through the worst of the Delta variant surge in the next few weeks.
	I think he's modeling this after what we saw in Great Britain.
	That's my guess.
	I don't know, but that's my best guess here.
	He said the bottom line is the vaccine does not make you impervious to infection.
	Well, we already know that.
	We call them breakthrough cases.
	People fully vaccinated that still contract the COVID-19.
	Now, what we're learning is the rate of hospitalization is dramatically lower and the rate of death is dramatically lower.
	You know, but it's still happening.
	And, you know, we knew from the beginning the efficacy was never 100%.
	So just to be fair, for any of the vaccines that were available.
	Anyway, again, the Daily Mail is the end in sight.
	COVID cases now have fallen for the seventh day in a row.
	Now, two weeks ago, they were scared to death.
	They thought, oh, no, this isn't working.
	So we'll have to see how this all bears out there.
	But certainly in the UK, cases are decisively turned around and it seems to be flattening.
	If you're interested in what's happening over there, is maybe a preview of what will likely happen here.
	And in light of those people that want answers, it's hard to predict any of this.
	That's why I gave a lot of latitude to people.
	Boy, did Fauci turn out to be wrong again and again and again.
	I just don't trust a word he says anymore.
	It's gotten to the point.
	You know, I'm trusting more and more.
	The people, I'll tell you that I want to listen to more and more are the people that have been on the front lines, that have been in the middle of it, that have built COVID practices.
	They're dealing with it every single day.
	Those also that believe in proactive medicine, not reactive medicine.
	So anyway, then we have this whole issue.
	I'm not going to spend much more time on this Pelosi-stacked, you know, predetermined conclusion, January 6th Commission, because that has one mission and one mission only.
	It's to smear Donald Trump.
	We've been consistent.
	I don't care if it's the 574 riots that took place last summer or what happened on January 6th at the Capitol.
	It's not acceptable.
	It can happen.
	And people that break the law and are responsible need to be held accountable.
	You know, what really is amazing to me is these are the same Democrats.
	They only focus on one riot.
	Not all the other riots that took place.
	And by the way, these were the officially declared riots by the cities themselves, rocking almost every major American city.
	Even the White House was besieged at one point.
	So bad the Secret Service had to evacuate the president.
	Remember what happened at St. John's Church in Washington?
	That was lit ablaze.
	Hundreds of other buildings throughout the country targeted.
	The federal courthouse in Portland vandalized, lit on fire on numerous occasions.
	A police precinct in Indianapolis burned to the ground.
	They tried to do it in New York.
	You know, hundreds of police cars were torched.
	You know, thousands of police officers injured, you know, rocks and bricks and frozen water bottles and Molotov cocktails.
	25 Americans were killed in the course of all of this rioting last summer.
	You know, remember, Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr.
	lost his namesake Jr.
	in the Chas Chop Summer of Love Zone.
	You know, the mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkin, never bothered to reach out to the family.
	We got to them first.
	Donald Trump was the first politician to ever call Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr.
	about the loss of his son.
	Kamala Harris was too busy promoting the bail fund to get the rioters that were arrested out of jail quicker so they could rejoin their comrades in the activities that they're involved in.
	Democrats barely mentioned it, downplayed it, denied it outright.
	And, you know, there's no commission on last summer's 574 riots.
	Okay, why not?
	Because that can't happen either.
	25 people dead, thousands injured, you know, billions of dollars in property damage.
	And we're not going to take that seriously?
	I don't get it.
	Why?
	Because it's not politically expedient for them.
	It's a simple answer, not complicated.
	You know, we have how many Americans shot, shot, and killed every weekend in major cities.
	You know, many African Americans, for example, we're told Black Lives Matter.
	Do those lives matter?
	They matter to me, which is why I scroll the names when others, you know, never discuss those names.
	If you can politicize it, then politicize it.
	Then you'll hear the name over and over again.
	But what about all the other people?
	Hundreds and thousands of them that are killed every year.
	You know, if you can't get a political advantage about it, why bother?
	The same things with Russia, Trump-Russia collusion.
	What about Hillary Clinton's dirty Russian dossier used to spy on a candidate and a president?
	What about Hunter Biden's money from a Russian oligarch, the former first lady of Moscow?
	That doesn't matter.
	Never mind on Trump-Russia collusion.
	That was debunked.
	Or the real quid pro quo with Joe in Ukraine.
	That doesn't matter either.
	You know, now China pretty much can threaten the United States, our military bases, Japan, their military bases.
	And, you know what?
	Not a word is said.
	Why?
	Is Hunter has he compromised the Biden family?
	Russia compromised the Biden family?
	Because if it was Trump, those allegations would be made daily.
	It's just unbelievable.
	The level of hypocrisy is just, it's breathtaking.
	It's beyond anything I ever, it's beyond any point I ever thought we'd get to.
	And how's it working out with these no-bail laws?
	Well, in San Francisco, women caught on video bolting from a CVS.
	You know, people go with garbage bags into expensive stores, inexpensive stores, and as long as they don't steal more than a thousand bucks, they get away with it.
	Barbara Boxer, by the way, got attacked and robbed in California.
	And CNN fake news and MSDNC, they didn't even cover it.
	You know, Seattle mayor proposing rebuilding the depleted police force.
	Then we have all of these defund people now using taxpayer dollars, but only to protect themselves.
	Nobody else.
	All right, 800-941-SHAWN is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
	Simple man, Leonard Skinner, and that can only mean one thing, all things Bill O'Reilly.
	All things O'Reilly at billo'reilly.com, including his number one New York Times bestseller, Killing the Mob.
	Then there's going to be one other killing book series coming out that is going to be maybe his biggest ever, and then it's Killing Hannity, which I expect any day now.
	Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you in the hazy, hot, humid Hannity days of summer?
	You hanging in there?
	I'm always hanging in.
	I have a list of ways that I'm going to kill you.
	And I want to, you know, not today, but in, you know, pre-shows down the road, we can discuss how you want to go out.
	Okay.
	You know what's funny?
	In this woke world in which we live in cancel culture world, if you kidded around with anybody else, it would probably be a headline, O'Reilly threatens to kill somebody, you know, because we've become that humorless.
	All right, I do have a serious topic.
	You're watching, like we're all watching, the CDC flip-flop flail, you know, shift and turn, and it's getting confusing, conflicting.
	People are upset.
	You know, now the DOJ has declared vaccine mandates legal.
	The CDC reverses their indoor mask policy, saying fully vaccinated people and kids should be wearing their masks once again.
	And I said last week, once Biden gave the nod to business and schools and universities to mandate masking, I said it's only a matter of time now.
	This is the push.
	So my question to you is I want to first play you flip-flop Fauci and ask you how they could be so wrong so often and then how the folks, to use your term, should interpret all of these changes.
	Let's play Fauci.
	People should not be walking around with masks.
	Let me just state for the record that masks are not theater.
	Wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better.
	Masks are protective.
	But it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.
	There has not been any indication that putting a mask on and wearing a mask for a considerable period of time has any deleterious effects.
	There are unintended consequences.
	People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.
	And can you get some schmutz sort of sting inside there?
	Of course.
	You do not need to wear a mask indoors if, in fact, you've been vaccinated.
	Good that you're vaccinated, but in a situation where you have people indoors, particularly crowded, you should wear a mask.
	So even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a mask if, in fact, you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, you are protected, and you do not need to wear a mask.
	Bill O'Reilly, Simple Man, this is the guy that in his first interview on 60 Minutes in March of 2020 said, masks don't work.
	You know, maybe you can stop one little droplet, but that's about it.
	Your take on a complicated issue for the simple man.
	All right, I'm going to break it down.
	Number one, if I were President Biden, I would wrap Anthony Fauci up like a mummy.
	Remember the movie The Mummy?
	Wrap it all over the mouth.
	You've got to be careful.
	You leave the nose.
	He can get air through the nose, but you have all of the tape all over his mouth and the rest of his body.
	And so we wouldn't have to listen to Anthony Fauci again.
	That's number one.
	He should be the mummy.
	Number two, this is what I'm doing.
	And that's all I can really say because you couldn't possibly understand the montage that you just played.
	Remember Abbott and Costello, the comedy duo Abbott and Costello?
	Remember them?
	Who's on first?
	Who's on first?
	That's what that was.
	That's exactly what.
	Who's on first?
	No, no.
	Who's on second?
	No.
	Okay.
	So I don't know.
	Third base.
	Yeah, I know.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Third base.
	So that's what that was.
	That was Abbott and Costello.
	I am back.
	I am not going to wear a mask unless for some reason, and I don't even know what that reason might be-maybe a plane trip, commercial airline.
	I'm around strangers and then I'm in close quarters with them.
	I probably would put on a mask, but I'm not going to wear it on a daily basis, running errands, going to the beach, going to the movies.
	I might take the mask.
	By the way, slow down a second.
	I'm trying to get over the image of you in your Speedo on the beach.
	No Speedo.
	Hannity, I have Macho Swim Trunks.
	All right.
	No, Speedo.
	Oh, macho.
	Yeah.
	And I'm going to market those.
	O'Reilly's macho speed trunks, and you're going to get some.
	I'm going to get.
	I never bought your doormat either.
	You think I'm going to get the macho swimsuit?
	I'm not a patriot.
	I didn't buy the country doormat.
	You're not a patriot.
	But anyway, and you'll have to get your leg amputated if you wear speedo.
	But anyway, let's get back to my mastheal.
	And my kids, they're going both are one's going to law school and one's going to regular college.
	Now, that's a little bit different.
	So they're going to take their masks and they're going to obey what the school wants because the kids are on top of one another in the dorms.
	And, you know, you are going to get people who harbor the virus.
	They are around.
	Everyone knows that.
	If you're vaxxed and you catch the virus, it's very mild.
	All right.
	So you might get a cold or a couple of days, but it's not.
	Now you're specifically talking about.
	Wait, I want to be clear here.
	You're specifically talking about younger people.
	Yes, younger people.
	My kids are surprised by the people.
	One graduated college, one's in college.
	That age has not been, it's not been the great danger that it has been for older people and those with underlying conditions.
	But I tell my urchins to cooperate with what the school wants, okay?
	For the greater good.
	Just suck it up and cooperate.
	But if you're an American that has a debilitating disease, if you're over the age of 70, you're not in good shape, it's worth it for you to wear a mask inside.
	It's worth it, even if you are vaxxed because you just don't want to go through it.
	This is such a horrible, horrible disease, and it just turns on a dime, and then there's another variant, and this thing.
	But I believe that I am protected by the vax as much as I can be protected.
	So I'm not going to virtue signal like Kamala Harris is.
	I'm not going to confuse everybody.
	I'm going to live my life and do it responsibly.
	And I think if every American took that point of view, we'd be a stronger country in this area.
	You know, it's such an individualized thing, too.
	And I don't like to give broad sweeping generalizations.
	But, Bill, I've seen the worst of this thing.
	I know people that have barely survived being on a ventilator.
	I know other people that have loved ones they lost.
	And I'm urging everybody to do their own research.
	Talk to your doctor, doctors, medical professionals you trust, learn about these different vaccines.
	Pfizer, Moderna, are very different science than the J and J shot.
	Absolutely.
	With that said, I think what people are most upset about now is we were told that if you got the vaccination, every American was told, then you're good.
	It doesn't matter what other people do.
	Life goes back to normal, they said to us, Bill.
	And now we're finding out life isn't going back to normal.
	Well, I think it's been...
	And their messages have been so conflicting.
	Go ahead.
	Yes.
	And COVID has been politicized.
	So the far left wants everybody to obey the central government.
	And this is a good way to start that.
	Americans have a history of being very feisty, dissenting, not allowing Washington, D.C. to intrude on their personal freedoms.
	That is our history.
	But you can't impose socialism and progressive values if you have that history embraced by most of the population.
	So here's my serious question.
	This is my non-cupcake part of the interview.
	Now that they're mandating if you want to go back to work in the federal government, go back to work at a corporation or a university or a school, they're mandating that you get the vaccination.
	And if not, I interviewed a nurse on the TV show, and she had COVID, so she has natural antibodies.
	The Cleveland Clinic, if we're following the science, says if you had COVID, you don't need any vaccine.
	Pretty respected medical institution.
	And now the question is, what do people do for whatever reason they make the other decision?
	Maybe it's a rare medical condition.
	Maybe it's just their own gut feeling they don't want to do it.
	I mean, I believe in freedom too.
	What about the mandate part of this?
	Okay.
	So the federal government at this juncture has the law on its side if it wants to force employees, people who at work get a paycheck from the federal government, to take the vaccine.
	It was litigated in the early 20th century.
	So if you work for the federal government, you're going to have to get the vaccine or take a leave of absence.
	Now, you could fight it.
	You get a doctor's note.
	I had COVID.
	You can do all that.
	But it's going to cost you money and it's probably not going to be victorious.
	So if you are working for a government or a private business, the private business, no question, they can tell you, if you want to come into this building, you have to be vaxxed.
	And they're on the right side of the law.
	So people are just going to have to accept the fact that if you are an employee, you don't have as much power as if you are just a regular person, not dependent on a paycheck or working for an individual.
	And that's always been the way it is.
	I mean, there are rules, and you and I, when we worked at Fox, they had rules.
	You had to do X, Y, and Z.
	And if we didn't want to do it, there was a problem.
	And I understand that.
	I do.
	Because public safety, maybe it's too extreme.
	I mean, Kamala Harris just drove me nuts when she said, well, it took her like 10 seconds after the CEC came out and confused everybody yesterday for her to have the mask on and demand that any reporter covering her wear the mask when she's vaccinated.
	All the reporters are vaccinated.
	And all that was was virtue signaling, politicizing the fact that we're the federal government.
	We can tell you what to do.
	We can push you around.
	And that's why so many people resent it.
	And that's why we have such a controversy because they know that the imposition from Washington isn't going to stop with COVID.
	This is just the beginning of what the progressive socialists want.
	A government telling you how to live, what you can do and not do.
	You've got to have that if you're going to impose a socialistic progressive system.
	All right, quick break more with Bill O'Reilly.
	AllthingsO'Reilly, BillO'Reilly.com.
	We'll get to your calls on the other side.
	800-941-Sean is our number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	All right, we continue.
	Bill O'Reilly is with us.
	All things simple man, billo'reilly.com.
	It's very frustrating.
	Everybody I talk to now is at a point of, you know, they've had it.
	They feel like that people haven't been straightforward.
	They haven't been honest.
	They say follow the science.
	They don't follow the science.
	Right.
	And it gets very frustrating.
	You know, not every, you know, this is not a cookie-cutter situation.
	People have rare medical conditions where their doctors say, no, you really, you really can't get the vaccine.
	I interviewed a young woman.
	But there are legal exemptions for that.
	So if you're a vaccine.
	Okay, but what about people that had COVID that are being told that they've got to get vaccinated in light of the science of the Cleveland Clinic?
	They're being told to get vaccinated.
	That is a problem.
	They don't know how long the antibodies stay in the system.
	But here's another aspect of this that no one will talk about.
	That there are two primary groups of people who don't want to be vaccinated in the United States.
	I'm speaking generally now.
	The first is the people who don't trust medical people or the government.
	And most of those people are on the right, far right.
	The second group are African Americans.
	So African Americans are not.
	Well, actually, there's a much higher percentage of African Americans that have declined the vaccine than others.
	We've got about 30 seconds.
	I'll let you finish your thought.
	Okay.
	So the corporate media will never report on the low vax rate among African Americans, ever.
	They'll lay it all on the conservatives who don't want to be vaccinated.
	And that's another example of the corrupt media culture that we have in America.
	Yeah.
	Well, listen, I appreciate your thoughts.
	This is not cookie-cutter.
	My advice stays the same.
	I really believe that you've got to make your own decisions.
	I believe in liberty and freedom.
	And I also believe in medical privacy.
	And I believe in doctor-patient confidentiality.
	That doesn't come up.
	I believe you've got to take it seriously, research it, talk to your doctor, your doctors, take into account your unique medical history, your current medical condition.
	And then it's not for people like us, Bill, to tell people what to do, in my opinion.
	You agree with that?
	I do indeed.
	I'm very humble in this regard.
	All I do is give the people.
	Yeah, give the folks the information, and then ultimately, you know, try and be as even information you might disagree with.
	Let them hear all signs.
	All right, Bill O'Reilly.
	AllthingsO'Reilly at billo'reilly.com.
	We'll be checking in with you next week, sir.
	Thank you.
	We'll continue driving liberals crazy.
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	Mike is in the, well, yes, our lousy state of New York.
	Mike, we're very stupid.
	We've not made an intelligent decision in our life.
	We need to get the hell out of here and save more money and live in better weather.
	But for the moment, if anyone said, Hannity, you're an idiot for staying in New York.
	I'd say you're right.
	I am.
	I shouldn't be here.
	Nor should you, Mike.
	Luckily for me, I'm upstate.
	You know, we're awfully red up here, as you may know.
	And you still pay the same taxes up there.
	Good luck.
	Don't remind me.
	Don't remind me.
	I blame my parents.
	I blame my parents.
	Wow.
	Anyway, what's on your mind today?
	Yeah, so I've been hearing a lot of people on our side that are, you know, boycotting the Olympics and, you know, all this cancel-esque talk.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm a male man.
	I'm getting barked at.
	All right, as long as you don't get bit.
	No, I'm pretty quick.
	I'm pretty quick.
	Basically, you know, I think it's a slippery slope that we're treading on here of kind of playing into their way of thinking.
	And, you know, I read this article.
	It was on NBC Sports.
	And between the regular games and the Paralympic Games, USA has about 613 competitors.
	And, you know, I'm trying to retrace here which ones have protested and, you know, done things that we aren't happy with and that we consider un-American.
	And, you know, it's really just a handful.
	And I think to throw the rest of the 600 probably or so of people who work so hard and, you know, especially Olympic sports, they don't get the same recognition as the mainstream sports here in America.
	You know, they work so hard for this.
	And for us to just cut them in the same cloth as a few people who spoke out and did what they did, you know, I think that's a little unfair.
	You know, as a kid, I was raised in New York.
	You know, I had Mets fans in the house, Knicks fans in the house.
	You know, my friends were Yankees, Red Sox, you know.
	And the one thing we could always sit down and, you know, agree on and root together with was the Olympics.
	You know, we, you know, that time would come around, we'd all be together, and we were rooting for the same team, you know.
	And that's rare to have because, you know, especially in the Northeast, there's so many different teams, you know, so you're always on the different page, you know.
	I don't think there's a greater moment in sports history than Al Michaels making the call.
	Do you believe in miracles?
	And maybe Jason will pull it up.
	You believe it not yet.
	And then, of course, the movie.
	And just an incredible moment of patriotism.
	I remember the goalie, you know, wrapping himself in the American flag, looking for his dad in the crowd.
	It was amazing.
	But to answer your question, Mike, I don't support boycotts.
	I don't support cancel culture.
	My interest is less.
	And it's for all of these sports that, like, the NFL now has adopted the black national anthem and saying that they're going to be actively pushing social justice causes.
	You know, to me, when you mix politics and sports, you're taking the most unifying event with the most diverse group of people, people of all backgrounds, all, you know, all races, creeds, colors, socioeconomic backgrounds.
	And they have a shared passion for a sport and a shared passion for a team.
	And now you insert politics.
	And people just get turned off by it.
	They're going to sports to get away from all of that.
	And if athletes or teams feel really strongly about particular causes that matter to them, I think there's another way to ask, voluntarily, invite the fans to join them in their cause.
	We're raising money for kids for this.
	We're raising money for schools for kids.
	We're raising money to keep kids out of trouble.
	We're raising awareness about the dangers of gangs and guns or whatever and drugs.
	I think there's a better way.
	I'll give you the last thought.
	I'm saying, are they really?
	Is that really what they're doing?
	Is it just a horse and pony show here?
	Well, the numbers speak for itself.
	They're losing the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, lowest number ever in history.
	I mean, dramatically lower.
	Watching the NBA finals down dramatically.
	NFL ratings have been down ever since Kaepernick.
	And they came back towards the end.
	I got a little interested in the narrative about Tom Brady versus Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers and whether he could win a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay, which he won.
	But short of that, I'm just not as interested.
	And I'm more interested in college sports.
	They seem to be keeping it a little bit away, the politics away from there.
	But, you know, who knows what's going to happen over time at this point, right?
	That's my, you know, because people, you high five strangers when you have a shared passion of a team, of a sport.
	You know, I can't tell you how many times I'm talking to some guy.
	I'm going to order a beer.
	Hey, get me one extra beer for the guy sitting next to me and buy him a beer.
	Or, you know, I have a big bucket of popcorn because I can't eat the whole thing myself.
	So you share it with the people next to you.
	Oh, I bought hot dogs.
	Let me, you know, I'm talking to some people.
	They got three young kids and telling them how cute their kids are.
	Hey, guys, you want Cracker Jacks?
	You want a hot dog?
	Boom, hot dog.
	You know, it's unifying.
	I'm not asking if they're a Republican, Democrat.
	I don't care what race anybody is.
	We're all children of God.
	But that's up to them.
	And in the end, I'll tell you who's going to suffer the most, the athletes.
	Revenue, TV, rights revenue is going to go down dramatically because they're not going to be able to make money.
	Then attendance is going to decline.
	They're not going to make money.
	Athletes are going to have to start accepting less money if they want to play.
	And maybe at some point they'll realize, you know what?
	I think people are trying to get away from stress and politics.
	And things are divided in the country.
	And it's a moment where we can put all of that aside and come together.
	And they're destroying that too.
	But that's up to them.
	My personal choice is I've lost natural interest.
	I'm not telling people to boycott.
	I won't tell people to boycott.
	But I'm saying my personal interest has declined.
	It's waned.
	I'm not as interested.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
	800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Phil is in Colorado.
	Hey, Phil, how are you?
	Hey, howdy there, Sean.
	I was giving you a ring because as I see Joe Biden on the TV, I listen to him on the radio.
	I'm deeply disturbed with what he sees.
	And, you know, I'm not a doctor.
	I know you're not a doctor, but I used to manage a pizzeria, and I got to tell you, I wouldn't trust this guy to deliver a pizza.
	I think you send him out the door with a large pepperoni.
	He doesn't come back.
	It doesn't matter if he has a GPS or not.
	And God help him if there's stairs on the way up to the apartment.
	I just don't think he's up to the job.
	Well, especially if it's windy out, you know, and we remember what happened.
	He got blown over three separate times, according to his own staff when he was climbing up the stairs to Air Force One.
	I got to imagine with Google Maps and ways that he and GPS that he's probably capable of delivering a pizza.
	I hope.
	You know, it's not hard.
	It's not the hardest job in the world, but you need a little something.
	And I don't think he has it.
	With his team of handlers, he could do it.
	If you get every, you know, his handlers behind him, they'd walk him through it.
	But an eight-hour shift, a four-hour shift, oh, no, he would be broken off, lost out in the city somewhere, never make his way back.
	He might get tired and have to pull over, take a little nappy, maybe have some warm milkie and a sippy cup.
	I don't know.
	All right.
	But, you know, I can't really even joke about it anymore because it's so real and so serious.
	Anyway, you used to own a pizza place.
	You don't own it anymore?
	No, I was a general manager, not lucky enough to own it.
	But I did all the hiring.
	I know what it takes.
	It doesn't take a lot.
	But I really don't think Joe has it.
	At least not in his current state.
	10 years ago, sure.
	Now, I wouldn't hire him to deliver a pizza.
	I swear to you.
	All right, Phil.
	Thank you.
	All right, quick break, right back, and we'll get your phone calls, 800-941-SHAWN, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Pizza, guys.
	Mario's pizza is so good.
	The food is so delicious.
	And the drivers like to come to my house because I take good care of the drivers.
	And I go in and I see them.
	And I'm friends with the owner-manager guy for a long time.
	He always wants to give me free food.
	I'm like, no, I'm paying for the food.
	No, I'm not.
	You work too hard.
	I can afford what I'm ordering.
	And, you know, this is a busy place.
	They got like 30 people working in this place.
	I mean, they're rocking and rolling, and they make everything.
	The menu is delicious.
	Everything they make is perfect.
	You might be happy, Linda.
	You know, you'd be happy to know that I now get cauliflower crust pizza.
	You got to get it with double cheese, though.
	Oh, yeah.
	You got to get extra pizza.
	That really brings out that vegetable taste.
	No, no, no.
	It just enhances all the nutrients.
	No, it makes it.
	Listen, the whole point is not to have the bread, right?
	And it's also gluten.
	I think there are several points.
	I mean, I'm not a nutritionist.
	I don't want to play one on radio.
	But cheese is not that bad for you.
	Sauce can be a little upsetting to one's stomach.
	Not to me.
	Cheese.
	I mean, listen, I love cheese, but you know.
	And you know what I like as my topping?
	I like onions.
	Yeah, onions are great.
	They're good for you.
	I don't care about it.
	I don't buy pizza because it's good for me.
	First of all, pizza is delicious.
	And if you're eating cauliflower pizza, you are trying to be a little bit healthy.
	So I give you props for that.
	I'm trying not to put on the poundage that I can easily put on.
	They're right.
	That's what I'm trying to do.
	That's the problem when you're Irish, you know.
	It just rolls right on you.
	I like cauliflower crust pizza.
	I'm shocked because if you get the extra cheese, it tastes like real pizza from Mario.
	I have a news flash for you.
	I just want you to know, Ethan, could you play the breaking news sounder for me?
	This is going to be a big one.
	Get ready.
	Here we go.
	Breaking news now.
	Here's Sean Hannity.
	In today's news, it was discovered that if you put a lot of cheese on anything, it tastes delicious.
	It tastes awesome.
	It tastes like real pizza to me.
	This is a news angel.
	And it's a lot less bread.
	So I can't even say it because I'll get in trouble.
	I call it, well, let's just say slightly overweight people's pizza.
	Like me.
	No, I will call it people that are health conscious.
	If you're health conscious, people like me that have a tendency to get overweight.
	You don't have a tendency to get overweight.
	First of all, you're on TV.
	TV add tens pounds.
	So no matter how thin you look.
	No, it's like 50 pounds.
	Whatever it is, it's a lot.
	And so you always have to be thinner than you already are.
	And you're in great shape.
	You work out every single day.
	I mean, how old are you now?
	Like 100?
	You know, 95.
	Okay, wise ass.
	You know, I can't win here.
	You look good for your age.
	Look good for your age.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	That's why you can eat double cheese.
	Well, I'm just telling you.
	Why did I even?
	Listen, you know what?
	If I sat you down at a table with a bottle of salt.
	Salt.
	And like a block of cheese.
	Block of cheese.
	I wouldn't hear from you for hours.
	You would be content.
	You would be a happy man.
	Listen, I'm a very, in that sense, I'll steal O'Reilly's line.
	I'm a simple guy.
	Simple man.
	I don't like very complicated dishes.
	I'm trying to eat more fish than normal.
	Oh, fish is great for you, man.
	Okay.
	I eat a ton of fish.
	I can tolerate like linguine and clam sauce.
	Does that count?
	I can tolerate shrimp scampi.
	I can tolerate, I like broiled scallops.
	I prefer the smaller ones rather than the big ones.
	Why?
	It's even better when you wrap it in bacon if you haven't tried that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Wrap anything in bacon.
	That's healthy.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Next to the cheese block with aesthetic bottle of salt.
	And then the next thing is I will eat, what's it, halibit if it's fresh.
	But why the small scallop?
	You know my buddy Keyson, Keith.
	Are you hearing the question I'm asking you?
	Are you just not hearing it?
	Well, he catches striped bass almost every day.
	When it's fresh like that, I like it.
	Go ahead.
	What's your question?
	My question was, what's the difference between the small and the, I love scallops.
	I'm just curious.
	What's the difference between the small and the big scallop?
	I like the, but one is bay and one is sea scallops.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Yeah, there you go.
	The bigger ones are less fishy and sweeter, typically.
	Well, this is, Ethan does know a lot about fishing, not for nothing.
	No, that's true.
	I actually like them both.
	I mean, I'm not going to not get it.
	And I like lobster tail because I don't feel like sitting there, you know, getting that crap all over my hands, beating the crap out of it, fighting a dead lobster to get the food out of it.
	You know, they're not allowed to boil them anymore.
	Yeah, but it's okay.
	I'm just saying.
	I'm sure I'm going to follow that law to the letter.
	I know you will.
	You're a good citizen.
	By the way, it's not how I cook lobster anyway.
	Oh, really?
	Cook lobster very differently.
	You cook it in butter and cheese?
	Oh, my God.
	Well, a little slow.
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	Are you sticking by your decision to hold any vote on that deal until after the Senate passes a much larger infrastructure package through reconciliation?
	Yes.
	It's time for mandates because it's the only way to protect our people.
	We cannot now go back to where we were.
	And I am telling you, as I sit here, I have told you the facts on COVID from day one.
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	A lot of people have commented to me.
	We discussed it with a caller in the last half hour about politics and sports and in particular the Olympics and the announcement that the NFL is going to be partnering again and advocating for social justice causes and singing the black national anthem.
	It's impacted the Olympics.
	I'm going to play two different opinions.
	One is from Gwen Berry explaining why she did not recognize the national anthem at the Olympic trials.
	The other is from Olympian Lolo Jones talking about how athlete activism is contributing to low Olympic ratings.
	But it's not just the Olympics.
	And now people have said they're just disgusted and fed up and they're not watching and they're not attending in the numbers they did.
	First Gwen Berry, then Lolo Jones.
	If you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem.
	The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America, our blood being slang and piltered all over the floor.
	It's disrespectful and it does not speak for black Americans.
	It's obvious.
	There's no question.
	All right.
	And Lolo Jones, her take on it.
	I don't know the percentage of people that would be tuning out because of those protests, but I will say that there has to be a percentage of people that are doing that.
	I had so many people coming up to me after the Gwen Berry protest and saying, I'm sorry, I cannot watch the Olympics after that.
	And I've heard a lot of people call those program.
	And the ratings bear out with the Olympics, with Major League Baseball, with the NBA, with the NFL, that this is having a negative impact on viewership.
	You know, and we explained earlier the net result of this is going to be, okay, less money for these athletic organizations, the NBA, MLB, NFL, and now the Olympics, as people just, they don't want to get lectured at an event.
	And you're destroying a unifying moment.
	Doesn't make any sense to me.
	Joining us now is Herschel Walker, former Olympian himself, on top of being one of the most gifted and talented running backs in the history of professional football.
	Sir, welcome back to the program.
	Great to have you.
	Hello, Sean.
	How you doing?
	I have important political questions for you.
	You know it's coming today.
	Trust me that one.
	It's coming.
	But let me first ask you about this.
	You were on the other night.
	George Foreman was on the other night.
	You're both Olympians.
	What are your thoughts about?
	What do you think about Gwen Berry?
	What do you think about what Lolo Jones said?
	Well, you know, it's sad.
	It's sad because, you know, I think it's the wrong place, wrong time.
	And the reason I say that is, you know, this is the United States Olympics.
	And, you know, if you're going to compete in it, you know, that's what you're supposed to be representing.
	And if you don't want to represent that, you don't have to go, but say you're going to protest without having any kind of outcome.
	You know, you can talk about the national anthem and you can say all those things about it.
	But, you know, it's bigger than that.
	You know, if you want to do something about it, you've got to hold people accountable.
	And what I mean by that is you need to get out and people need to vote.
	You know, that's one of the problems we have.
	People are not voting.
	You know, people are not getting out, putting the right people in office that can go and change things.
	You know, things are staying the same.
	And what I mean by that is, you know, if you want to change anything, you got to get people in office that's going to change it, not just to make people emotional, because that seems what they're doing right now.
	You want to make people very emotional.
	And people don't want sports to be something where you got politics involved.
	These are athletes, white, black, all different race that are over there competing in the Olympics, and yet you have someone complaining about the United States of America.
	When yet you're in a whole nother country doing that, I think it's shameful.
	I think it's very shameful because this is a great country.
	And I want America to win.
	I'm sorry, but I'm passionate about the U.S. winning the Olympics.
	Well, son, this is what's so funny.
	I was blessed to have an opportunity to compete for my country in Bob Sled.
	I was very honored.
	And to be honest with you, for the first time in my life, and this never happens to me, to see the whole United States team coming to that Coliseum there in France almost brought a tear to my eye because I was representing the United States of America.
	And what I see here is people seem like these athletes from other countries, this is the honest truth.
	They are jealous of the American athletes because they think we have so much.
	But yet, the athletes that we're here, we're like, oh, we're ashamed of America.
	I'm not going to stand for the flag.
	I'm not going to stand for this because of this or because of that.
	You know, I mean, the people that have died for that flag or died for that national anthem, and yet you're going to complain like you're going to change something.
	Well, if you're going to change something, why don't you change it by holding people accountable?
	And what I'm meaning by going to vote, putting the right people in office that's going to change things.
	That's how it changed.
	It doesn't change by you not standing for the flag, not for the national anthem, by you want to change the flag, by you want to play a black national anthem.
	It's not going to change that way.
	The way it changes is by you getting the right people in office that got the guts to hold people accountable.
	When you played professional football, when you played in college for Georgia and played football there, when you've gotten in the octagon, when you're an Olympian, as a top performing athlete, I mean, there's nobody better, Heisman Trophy winner, than you.
	I don't think, I mean, you're right up there.
	You know, what is a goat, the greatest of all time?
	I mean, your record speaks for itself.
	And in the course of you, you know, garnering all of this success and fame, what did you learn about the fans?
	In other words, I would assume it was people of all backgrounds and races.
	I've been around you.
	And anytime anybody sees you, you have rock star status.
	Well, you know, what's strange about it is I didn't get here by myself.
	I got here by African-American black or white or Asian.
	I got here by all different races helping me to get here.
	I didn't do it alone.
	So when I get the recognition, the recognition is just not Herschel alone.
	It's by a lot of different races helping me to get here.
	And, you know, for me to say that there's no problems, there are problems.
	You know, there are problems, but we can solve those problems together.
	We can solve them together if we have people that want to address those problems.
	I think the goal to put down this country.
	And, you know, and I've said it a lot of times, and people can disagree with me, but I don't know how you can because what other country do you like?
	You tell me what other country that you like that you'll like to go to that has better things than the United States of America.
	You tell me that country, and if you like that country, maybe you can go there.
	I'm saying, and I'm not being mean.
	I'm just saying, what other country have what the United States of America have?
	And I'm saying we can even make it better.
	But to sit in another country to put down this country when all the athletes there, I'll bet 90% of the foreign athletes there look at American athletes as being spoiled, as being given everything, as being got it made.
	That's what they look at the United States of America as.
	We're very spoiled that we got it made.
	We have everything that we want.
	My friend Barry Farber was right when he said there's never been a country that's accumulated more power, abused it less.
	And I add, and America's using its power to advance the human condition.
	No other country in history has done that.
	And the beauty of our framers and founders is they built a system that we had mechanisms and a path to right wrongs and correct injustices.
	And I don't care if you want to go back to the Civil War or if you want to go to the historic 64 Civil Rights Act, the 65 Voting Rights Act.
	America has made major strides in becoming a more perfect union.
	Do we still have far to go?
	Absolutely.
	Are there ignorant people in this country?
	Absolutely.
	But they are the minority and they're frowned upon.
	And I could tell you, as a conservative, any of these people that hold these white nationalist or racist views, I want nothing to do with those people ever.
	And they're not a Sean Hannity conservative, I'll tell you that.
	Well, you just said it.
	The majority of the people want nothing to do with anyone like that because that's not America.
	America is us getting together.
	The youth have made it pretty cool now to go out and say something bad about the United States of America to stand up to go out and beat someone who disagrees with you.
	You know, that's not cool.
	And that's not America.
	That's breaking the law.
	And I said, what we have to do is we have to get people that's going to say, you know what, no, we're not going to do that.
	We're not going to do that.
	We're going to do this the right way.
	And like you said, we have our problems like anyone else have problems, but we can solve them.
	Those problems can be solved.
	But you got to, you know, you can't do what we're doing right now.
	You know, when the NFL decided they're going to play the black national anthem, it's like, you're opening up a can of worms because let's be honest here.
	If the NFL really want to be just, why do they not go out and try to recruit and try to get more black owners?
	Let's go get more black owners.
	Let's go get more black coaches.
	Let's go get more of this.
	You know, let's not just try to keep people emotional because that's what they seem to be doing.
	Oh, I'm just going to pat you on the head, but I'm not going to change anything.
	You know, that's what people are looking for.
	You know, that's what you're looking for.
	You got a lot of African-American players.
	You remember years, years ago, there was not any African-American players going to these major league colleges.
	Well, now they are.
	Now they're in the NFL.
	Now things have changed.
	And historical black colleges has gone down because most of the African-American players were not going there.
	So the historical black colleges went down, and now African-American athletes are going to these big schools now.
	So now they got an opportunity to go play in the NFL.
	They got an opportunity to go play NBA basketball, Major League Baseball.
	So I said, things are changing.
	But right now, we're setting it back again because we're saying, oh, something is not right.
	Well, that's just a few.
	There's a few people who believe that.
	What's happening is those few voices are so loud because everyone else is afraid to touch that word racism.
	You know, when you mention racism, everybody like that is scared to death and they don't want to touch that.
	Well, let's be honest.
	This country has come a long, long ways.
	Do we have some ways to go?
	Yes, we do.
	But the way we get it done is by having a fair election.
	The way we get it done is by holding people that we elect into office to do the right thing.
	All right, quick break more with Herschel Walker on the other side.
	800-941-Shauna.
	I'll number your calls straight ahead.
	Ready to get out of the media spin room?
	What?
	Well, you come to the right place.
	This is the Sean Hannity Show on 710 W.O.R.
	All right, as we continue with our friend Herschel Walker, let's talk about Herschel Walker, a potential United States senator.
	You have told me that you're giving it serious consideration.
	Where are you in this process, and what do you think will be the determining factor for you to get into this crazy?
	I know you've been in the octagon, so you know what a battle is, and you're a warrior your whole career.
	What would it take for Herschel Walker to jump in that race?
	Well, you know, it just takes that.
	My family, you know, they're putting their heads together as well because it's not just about me.
	And that's why I keep telling people.
	People want me to decide like tomorrow, decide right here.
	And I said, guys, I got to decide at my own time because I said, this is bigger than just playing football.
	This is bigger than getting into the oxygen.
	This is a United States Senate seat that can change the world.
	You know, it can change Georgia.
	It can change a lot of things.
	So it's not something I need to take lightly.
	I need to take it very, very seriously.
	And that's what I've been doing.
	And people may not understand that, but they don't understand Herschel Walker.
	So I said, guys, if you don't understand Herschel Walker, there's nothing you can do to me that's going to deter me from my mission.
	And my mission is to make the right decision for the state of Georgia, make the right decision for this United States of America because I love this country.
	I love the state of Georgia.
	I love what this country stands for.
	We're a country of law and order.
	We're a country that have borders.
	And I'm like, guys, that's what I know.
	And then, you know, I love our military.
	You know, I'm at a base every three weeks.
	I love our United States military.
	And right now, I think what we're doing to this country is not right to them.
	Let me ask you this, and I think this is determinative in so many different ways.
	You've heard what Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock and Jim, I'm sorry, Joe Biden has said, you know, Jim Crow 2.0.
	Meanwhile, the state of Delaware has the most restrictive voting laws in the country compared to Georgia, which has some of the most accessible.
	How have they hurt that state with that narrative?
	Well, they just continue to use that word Jim Crow.
	You know, like I said, remember I said earlier, when you mention Jim Crow, it mentioned racism or you're racist.
	Nobody can say anything.
	Let's get away from that.
	But I think people have to be honest.
	As I said, I love the Lord Jesus.
	I love my God.
	But you got to speak the truth.
	The truth is, we have a problem going on with something that's going on in this country.
	Our leaders don't seem to want to respect what the Constitution of the United States stands for.
	And one of the things I was looking at, I said the oath of office is you're supposed to defend the Constitution foreign and domestic.
	That's the oath you take.
	Well, I hear that they want to change the Constitution.
	But the Constitution is bigger than that.
	No part of whether you're Republican or Democrat, should have the right to change the Constitution.
	I want to explore this further with you.
	I like the idea that you're doing it your way.
	And I know you that if you get in, I know you well enough and long enough that if you're in, you're in to win.
	That I do know.
	Herschel Walker, we love having you back.
	You're a dear friend.
	Think the world of you.
	Would love to see you run.
	Would support your candidacy in a heartbeat.
	Thank you for being with us.
	Hey, thank you.
	Thank you, Sean.
	Appreciate it.
	Quick break.
	Right back.
	We'll continue.
	This is the Sean Hannity Show.
	All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
	We'll get to your calls in a second.
	800-941 Sean, let me play, you know, with all the ever-changing, you know, rules and mixed messaging, the experts wrong.
	They're here, they're there, they're everywhere.
	You know, everybody forgets, oh, conservatives are going to make people die.
	I supported Operation Warp Speed from day one.
	In January 2020, I was saying scientists, medical researchers in America are probably going to save the world with therapeutics and ultimately a vaccine.
	And lo and behold, we got it done.
	And Donald Trump did it by creating a system with Warp Speed where these pharmaceutical companies were not going to risk losing a fortune if they didn't get the therapeutics, the vaccine in record time, which they ended up doing because they had the financial strength and support of the government to do that.
	At the time, all the vaccine hesitancy, let's, for example, let's just listen to MSDNC.
	Listen to their hesitancy and what they were saying, in large part because they just hate Donald Trump.
	Since the pandemic began, we've heard a lot of promises about vaccines.
	The race to approve an effective vaccine has taken a toll on public trust, especially in the middle of a heated presidential election.
	Only 27% of Americans say they would definitely get an approved coronavirus vaccine.
	Trust in a vaccine among the American public is at an all-time low.
	And as there's continuing to be mixed messages from the administration and from their own agencies.
	Strange announcement from the Trump administration that they want states to have vaccine distribution centers ready to go by November 1st, two days before the election, even though no vaccines are yet available.
	Laurie Garrett says, quote, I have no confidence that a safe, effective vaccine will be ready for use by Halloween.
	Worse, I can no longer recommend that anyone retain faith in any public health pronouncements issued by government agencies.
	Officials insist no corners are being cut, but the timetable is simply too short for full safety analysis of any vaccine.
	And it seems like it's sort of cause for alarm that there's no standard promulgated by the FDA or by anybody for comparing the relative effectiveness and safety of the various vaccines that are all being explored.
	Operation Warp Speed is about delivering a vaccine faster than we have ever done it before.
	But can it be done quickly and safely?
	Well, the administration may want a vaccine for political reasons.
	Yesterday, and frankly, all of us would love a vaccine as soon as possible, scientists are sounding the alarm that we must resist the urge to rush out a product we aren't sure about.
	Is the vaccine safe or is it not safe?
	Is it coming?
	When is it coming?
	Donald Trump has politicized the treatment and vaccine process from the very beginning.
	I mean, it's pretty unbelievable.
	Now listen to Democrats.
	They were as skeptical about taking the Coronas vaccine.
	I don't trust Trump.
	It's the Trump vaccine.
	They don't call it the Trump vaccine anymore.
	As you know, President Trump has promised a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year or maybe sooner.
	Would you trust that vaccine?
	No, I would not trust his word.
	I would trust the word of public health experts and scientists, but not Donald Trump.
	First of all, I don't trust the president on vaccines.
	I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and it should be.
	He will push anything to get reelected.
	Don't fall for it.
	And by the way, I will take the vaccine after Ivanka takes it.
	would be hesitant to receive the vaccine if it were approved by the end of the year.
	I'm going to, yes, I would be hesitant.
	I mean, if doctors and scientists like Dr. Fauci are taking that vaccine, of course, I will take the vaccine.
	But we also know that we can't trust the president and take his word.
	I trust vaccines.
	I trust scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump.
	At this moment, the American people can't either.
	I believe all across the country, you're going to need someone other than this FDA and this CDC saying it's safe.
	So predictable.
	800-941-Sean is our number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	Cindy is in Iowa.
	Cindy, glad you called.
	Thanks for being with us.
	Hi there.
	I just have a couple of comments.
	Yeah.
	First of all, just about every day I get a chance to hear part of what you're talking about.
	And you keep talking about Delaware and they have stricter, stricter, stricter rules and laws.
	And you know why that is because they always go Democrat.
	If they didn't go Democrat, they would be the left of Georgia and Texas.
	So that's just something that I know you know that.
	I just wanted to point it out.
	And the second thing I've been wondering about is where's Kamala Harris?
	Her little visit to the hospital on Sunday.
	And nothing has been said.
	There's no routine, no routine, physical, her checkup on a Sunday at a government hospital.
	So I'm curious.
	I think that if she were COVID positive and she's supposedly vaccinated, that would be a huge PR problem for the left.
	And I'd really like to know where she is and how she's doing.
	I'd never believe for a second that this was a scheduled medical checkup on a Sunday at Walter Reed.
	This was right after she had met with the Texas lawmakers that flew up in their private jet while they themselves were filibustering to ask Democrats to end the filibuster.
	So I haven't really followed her schedule.
	Let me go and look into that and see if I can't get the answer for sure, but I don't recall seeing her after that.
	And, you know, this very week, I mean, when Jen Saki and the Biden administration have been asked how many people at the White House have contracted COVID after everybody there has been vaccinated, they don't want to mention it.
	Now, again, you have 150-some-odd million Americans fully vaccinated, and then you have 150,000 breakthrough cases that we at least know about.
	There's probably a lot more where people fully vaccinated still contract coronavirus.
	Those are the CDC numbers.
	And, you know, we knew the efficacy was never 100% to begin with.
	Now we're seeing that maybe with the variants that these vaccines are less effective than the original coronavirus, which wouldn't scientifically shock me or be surprising to me.
	But it's the mixed messaging that they keep giving us.
	No masks at first, then one mask, then two masks.
	Then it's if you're vaccinated, no masks.
	But then maybe you'll have masks indefinitely.
	Then if you get vaccinated, you're never going to have to worry about wearing a mask.
	Now you're back to being vaccinated and wearing a mask.
	And the confusion and the lack of trust is coming right out of the Biden administration, starting with Joe and Joe Biden themselves.
	Anyway, I appreciate the call.
	Thank you, Cindy.
	800-941-Shawn is on number if you want to be a part of the program.
	You know, I wanted to play these comments by Chip Roy.
	He was very passionate on the House floor today.
	We have a crisis at our border.
	We're playing FTSE with mask mandates in the people's house.
	This sham of an institution is doing nothing for the American people.
	Here's what he said.
	Declaration tonight at city council that no illegal immigrants can be released in the city of Uvalde per the CDC guidelines of countries on their list without a negative COVID test.
	And we have had our health authority write orders that give us the authority to have them government, border patrol, and immigrants quarantined for 10 to 14 days.
	We have a crisis at our border, and we're playing FTSE with mask mandates in the people's house.
	I mean, it's absolutely absurd what this body is doing, the people's house.
	It's an embarrassment.
	It's a mockery.
	And the American people are fed up.
	They want to go back to life.
	They want to go back to business.
	They want to go back to school without their children being forced to wear masks to be put in the corner and have mental health issues.
	And we're running around here, and the speaker comes down here at 10 o'clock in the morning saying we got to wear masks in the people's house while we've got thousands of people pouring across our border and Democrats don't do a darn thing about it.
	Heavily infected with COVID.
	Wow.
	He was on fire.
	All right.
	Let's get to our phones.
	Steve is in Ohio.
	Steve, you're next on the Sean Hannity Show.
	Glad you called.
	Oh, John, how are you?
	I'm good, sir.
	Hey, I recently just had to have a COVID test done due to a procedure I was supposed to have at a hospital.
	It came back positive.
	I was asymptomatic.
	And I asked the public health department when they called me to notify me, so which variant do I have?
	Do I have the regular COVID or I have the Delta variant?
	I was informed that they're not testing for the Delta variant unless you've already had the vaccine.
	So hearing this and seeing what the White House said, that all these new COVID cases are coming from unvaccinated people under the Delta variant.
	How could that be if my county says that they're not testing for the Delta variant unless you've already been vaccinated?
	I don't have an answer.
	It doesn't make any sense to me.
	I think you have a right to know what particular strain variant that you've contracted.
	How many days now since you've tested positive?
	I tested Friday.
	So I'm asymptomatic.
	All right.
	So you're about, what?
	Well, five days in, six days in.
	Yeah, about five days in.
	So I have to quarantine for, what, 10 days, I believe?
	Yeah, look, be care.
	I would urge you this, because I know a lot of people that have had it.
	A lot of times, you know, people are either asymptomatic or maybe just a little tired or maybe they have a slight cough in the beginning.
	But be careful.
	I don't know how old are you?
	Do you mind if I ask?
	I'm about your age.
	Okay.
	And next question.
	Do you have any pre-existing conditions?
	No.
	Any comorbidities?
	No.
	Do you have any immune compromise issues?
	I'm pretty healthy.
	Okay.
	The one thing I would urge you to research and then bring up with your doctor would be Regeneron.
	I think Regeneron is the best therapeutic by far than any other one out there.
	Ivermectin, you know, read the studies about ivermectin and HCQ and ask your doctor about it and see if he thinks it might be a good idea for you.
	You know, we had George Farid on yesterday.
	I'm sure he'd take your call if you wanted to talk to him about it because in his practice, he's been on the front lines dealing with thousands of patients.
	And that's their protocol.
	They believe more in proactive medicine than reactive medicine.
	You know, too often, I don't like the fact that they're telling people, oh, you test positive.
	Yeah, if your temperature goes up, take two extra strength Tylenol.
	And if your oxygen goes below 90, then you can come into the hospital.
	The problem is at that point, and that can happen often at day six, seven, eight, nine, and 10, is that the damage is done at that point, or a lot of the damage is done.
	So that's why I personally have put on people that are bigger believers in the therapeutics, especially the monocolonial cocktails.
	Regeneron, Eli Lilly has their version of it.
	And I know many people that have had the infusion, it's something you have to get at a hospital, but it's very quick.
	Has had great results.
	That's my humble opinion.
	Vitamin D3, vitamin C, zinc, quasertin, you know, those are all the things that their standard protocol for most of the doctors that I know.
	But I'm not your doctor.
	I want to be very clear here.
	I'll pray for you, but I would seriously look at therapeutics that mitigate the conditions of the virus or that would act earlier at preventing it from potentially going south on you, which, again, it's rare, but we lost hundreds of thousands of people.
	I would take it seriously, okay?
	And we'll pray.
	Okay, but here's my question, though, then how can the White House say that all these Delta variants are coming from people that are unvaccinated when they're not even testing for those?
	They're just testing for the normal COVID here in this county.
	You're asking a million-dollar question, and the fact that you don't have an answer makes no sense to me whatsoever.
	And I think it's wrong.
	There's my answer.
	You know?
	One other thing I'll say, you know, look, everybody I know that's gotten COVID, I mean, because we've heard so much about it, there is a mental component to this, and that is that, you know, you're worried about the worst.
	Make sure you're checking your oxygen levels and your temperature regularly, okay?
	And then I hope you'll talk about these potential options if they suit you and your medical condition and history and current condition.
	At least you're digging deeper.
	That's what I'm urging you to do, okay?
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	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
	Great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern.
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	The conflicted COVID messaging of your government.
	Ted Cruz is apoplectic about it.
	He will join us.
	Also, vaccine mandates.
	Is it legal?
	Greg Jarrett will weigh in on the legal aspect of it.
	We'll get commentary.
	Mike Huckabee, Steve Miller will join us.
	Well, now the border crisis has worsened and illegal immigrants with COVID symptoms are pouring across our southern border.
	We'll have a live report.
	an investigative Hannity report, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott will join us.
	And we'll have the very latest on this stacked commission with a predetermined outcome on January 6th while they ignore all the rioting that went on in the country.
	Reines Priebus, Congressman Jim Banks kicked off the committee.
	And also Senator John Kennedy will join us.
	Nine Eastern tonight, Hannity on Fox.
	We'll see you then.
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