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Aug. 3, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
01:29:46
The End For Cuomo?

Sean tackles the news that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is under fire for sexual harassment of employees. Is there a double standard among liberals? Among the media?The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We'll get into this in more detail as the program unfolds today about Governor Cuomo of New York.
It's now a real problem, but I'm going to explain very specifically why.
And I want to remind you, too, an hour or two.
Look, we keep reading about these breakthrough COVID-19 cases.
It is a tiny percentage, but something I'd like to know what happened, for example.
I think we have a right to know, and I think it needs to be investigated.
Around 500 people, Provincetown, 74% of which had been fully vaccinated.
A very dear, close personal friend of mine, fully vaccinated, tested positive on Saturday.
In less than 24 hours, he had Regeneron in his system.
And I talked to Lindsey Graham last night.
I think he's going to be following the same protocol.
He didn't say, I don't know, but I know of my friend's case.
He knows that I'm talking about him and just not mentioning his name.
And anyway, so we're going to focus on something very, very different.
And that is if it's a breakthrough case or you didn't get vaccinated, okay, what are the therapeutics?
In other words, rather than reactive medicine, what can you do to be proactive?
Because I know too many examples of too many people that I know that got COVID and they go and they test positive and they're told go home and you take your temperature regularly.
If your temperature goes up, take two extra strength Tylenol, get your temperature down, you know, put a cool washcloth over your head and get an oxygen meter.
And if your oxygen levels drop below 90, yeah, you better get your backside to an emergency room.
The problem is when that point happens, again, there are special cases everywhere.
I'm not playing doctor here, but everything I've read shows that usually happens around day seven through 10, maybe six through 10, whatever.
But that's when the lungs get hit.
And by the time that oxygen now starts sinking into the 80s or lower, now you're in deep trouble because now the damage has been done.
And the overreaction that some people have had with their immune system in their lungs, now you've got a life and death situation.
And, you know, in the beginning of this mess, the ventilators were not the greatest option.
If you got one, we never ran out of them.
But if you got on one, your odds were quite low of surviving.
They've gotten a lot better at it.
They've learned more about it, but it's still under 50% survival rates if you get on a ventilator.
That's why I'm very interested.
You know, one of the most underutilized, in my non-medical opinion, layman's opinion, because I've seen it with my own eyes anecdotally, is that Regeneron is probably the most underutilized therapeutic out there.
And, you know, with the practices of Harvard medical school trained, Dr. George Farid, Dr. Brian Tyson, they've been doing this proactive frontline treatment of COVID for a long time, and they've developed their therapeutics from day one.
First thing they're going to tell you now, based on the availability of Regeneron, is go get Regeneron, go get the infusion immediately.
And then they use a combination of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D3, vitamin C, zinc, and a couple other things that escape me right now.
Anyway, they're going to take your calls just really more on the therapeutic side of this.
This is meant to be informational.
We're not telling you what to do, but what do I keep saying?
Take it seriously.
Get as much, study this, get informed about it, even opinions you might disagree with.
Take into account your unique medical history and your current unique medical condition.
See your doctor, your doctors, consult with them, other medical professionals you trust, and then you're going to have to make your own decision on all these things.
I really find it kind of shocking that everybody wants to play doctor in Washington and doctor on TV and radio.
I just, I don't feel comfortable doing that.
I don't think it's responsible.
I'm not a doctor.
Now, I've seen the worst of this.
That's why I say take it seriously.
You know, it was, I remember Jimmy Kimmel when I said, I don't mind wearing the stupid mask if it's going to protect older people.
I know it's going to be short-lived.
And I know that, you know, I would never want to know that if I was asymptomatic and had this thing, that I could have impacted somebody that would have a hard time with it or even worse.
So, you know, and I wanted arenas opened up.
I want concerts again.
I want games again.
Although I'm less interested in sports now.
I mean, it's gotten so bad at the Olympics.
I mean, it was so sad to see when the woman's soccer team lost.
I think they lost to Canada.
You know, I mean, James showed me like things that were being said online.
And I just was like, it's sad that because politics is brought into sports, now people, you know, they cheer when America loses.
I don't want to ever have to cheer for America losing.
They take the most unifying moment, a shared passion for a sport and a home team, and they're adding politics to it.
It's so dumb.
You know, everybody's trying to escape some of that, which is why people love and have a passion for their home team and whatever sport it happens to be.
All backgrounds, all races, high-fiving, sharing popcorn, buying beers, and the hot dogs together, right?
Let me go to the Cuomo thing, and let me explain.
So he has his press conference today.
The New York State Attorney General Letitia James has confirmed in her report, he gave 11 hours, apparently, of testimony that Andrew Cuomo is a serial sexual harasser.
Bipartisan pressure.
This is where I'm now watching because I didn't think it would happen, to be blunt.
It's just if you are a Republican, if you're a conservative, you know, you better not jaywalk or spit on the sidewalk because if you do, they'll want to put you away for life.
And I mean that, especially you have no idea how the meticulous detail.
I just assume my taxes are pulled every year.
So I have my first accounting team come in, and then based on the recommendation of my lawyer, I use his accounting firm to come in behind them, and I pay twice to do it again.
And the instructions are very clear from me and my lawyers: pay it.
Don't take it, you know, if it's questionable in any way, meaning the deduction.
And it's because I just understand how this game is played.
I mean, really?
We still haven't gotten the Durham report.
You have the exact same referrals made against top FBI officials, referral by the Inspector General Horowitz.
You know, in the case of Roger Stone, Manafort, etc., but in Roger Stone's case, what do you get?
You get a pre-dawn raid, guns drawn, 30 guys in tactical gear, frogmen and CNN cameras for the incredible crime of lying to Congress, which is exactly what the Inspector General said top people at the FBI have done.
Well, what happened to those guys?
They didn't have a pre-dawn raid.
They didn't have CNN cameras.
They're making a ton of money and getting hired by liberal news networks and writing books that hate Donald Trump.
So I just, you know, I just, I run my life accordingly.
Anyway, so the New York Post has the latest update on this, as now lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on Governor Cuomo to resign following this 165-page report released by the state attorney general James on Tuesday, confirming that the governor sexually harassed 11 women and retaliated against a former employee for speaking out.
Now, the demands come after months of months-long investigation.
We're still waiting on the final report as it relates to the nursing home scandal, which I would argue would be a much bigger vulnerability for the governor, in my humble opinion, too.
But both together, you know, again, if you're a Republican, imagine if your last name's Trump.
Last name's Biden.
You can lie on a gun application, dump the gun in a dumpster, and nobody cares.
If you're Hunter Biden and you have no experience in oil, gas, and energy, you can make millions of dollars with no experience consulting Burisma.
And then when you start getting in trouble and getting investigated by a prosecutor, daddy will leverage a billion taxpayer dollars in what is a real quid pro quo and say you're not getting it unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my zero experience son making a fortune or the money for a sports car from a Kazakhstan oligarch or the $3.5 million to his company from a Russian oligarch and former first lady of Moscow.
Is that why Putin got his waiver?
Is that why Putin got the waiver on the pipeline?
Is that why he got the summit as a reward?
One has to wonder.
Never mind the $1.5 billion deal with the Bank of China.
China is now threatening to destroy our military bases in the China Sea and basically take over our ally, Taiwan.
And they're also threatening our ally, Japan.
And Joe Biden hasn't said a word.
And the mullahs in Iran, Joe Biden just pressured them, the South Koreans, to give $7 billion to the Mullahs in Iran.
As we now have reports they attacked Israel recently, and in fact, that they are enriching more uranium than ever.
And let me tell you what that means.
That'll be simple math.
A squared, B squared equals C squared.
You know, radical convert or die mullahs in Iran, coupled with nuclear weapons, represents a clear and present danger for the entire world in terms of mass death that could happen.
Because that fanaticism is capable of anything.
We saw it on 9-11, in case you've forgotten.
I haven't.
And never mind that China and Russia are providing arms to the number one state sponsor of terror Iran, too.
All right, but I digress.
Anyway, so the demands now are out there.
Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have called for the governor's resignation, stating that he has lost the confidence of the people of New York.
You know, the report can't say anything different, Cuomo told reporters in April because I didn't do anything wrong, but confronting, overcoming the COVID crisis requires sure and steady leadership.
The nursing home?
Anyway, we commend the brave actions, et cetera, et cetera.
Due to the multiple credible sexual harassment misconduct allegations, it is clear the governor has lost the confidence of the governing partners and the people of New York and Governor Cuomo should resign.
Joint statement, Schumer and Gillibrand.
That's a big deal.
That takes it to another level.
And I have my own theory, my own thesis.
I think Chuck Schumer fears a primary.
Now, let's say if Letitia James got challenged by Kirsten Gillibrand, hmm.
Well, maybe she would appoint Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to the Senate so Chuck doesn't have competition when he wants to run again.
I don't know.
That would be very conspiratorial.
I don't believe that, but who knows?
But anyway, who knows what people's political ambitions are?
And it's not just the two senators, House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries, New York Democratic Representatives Tom Swazi, Gregory Meeks, they issued a statement echoing Schumer and Gillibrand.
Elise Stefanik went as far as calling for Cuomo to be arrested for his conduct, adding that his accusers deserve swift and definitive justice.
He must resign, resign immediately.
President Joe Biden must immediately call for Cuomo's resignation.
In December, I was the first federal official to publicly call for an independent investigation.
Anyway, she said in a statement, by the way, I'll get into this later.
Cuomo's caught on tape serenading one of the sexual harassment victims with, Do you love me?
Apparently, that tape is there.
All right, so to update you, the congressional delegation growing, House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries, New York Congressman Tom Swazi, Congressman Greg Meeks issued a statement echoing both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calling for Governor Cuomo's resignation, stating that he lost the confidence of the people of New York, confronting and overcoming the, you know, it goes on and on and on.
Due to multiple credible sexual harassment misconduct allegations, it is clear Governor Cuomo has lost confidence of the governing partners of the people of New York.
Governor Cuomo should resign.
Listen, I'm not assigning any motives to anybody.
I just know how Democratic politics work in New York, especially.
It's a very tight-knit group, and you have a lot of personal ambitions that sometimes go into all of this, but I'm surprised they did it this swiftly.
And that's a problem for Governor Cuomo.
Never mind, on top of the Attorney General, you know, very aggressively looking into the nursing home scandal.
Apparently, there is a short, apparently a recording of the governor, you know, singing lines to then-aide Charlotte Bennett calling him a, you know, one-minute, nine-second audio clip of him singing, you know, Do You Love Me to this aide?
She said, no, I'd never heard it before.
And then he continued singing.
So I don't know what that means or how it goes.
I'm just looking at it, but it seems that, you know, the New York AG says that he violated state and federal law, but is there going to be any prosecution?
He said the allegations have been fully substantiated describing Cuomo's misconduct using the words criminal and illegal.
And the AGE said Cuomo had violated both state and federal law.
The word indictment, however, has not been used by anybody.
That's something to watch as time goes on.
Biden said in April that he should resign if it's true.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
Breaking news.
We have other breaking news before we get back to the Cuomo issue.
Law enforcement officials say one officer has died after a shooting took place earlier today outside of Pentagon Transit Station.
It's so sad.
James hit me with this article.
I couldn't believe it.
You have a police officer now shot and killed outside the Pentagon this morning, and then all the officers lining up and saluting the fallen law enforcement member.
I mean, it is, it's just so sad and so tragic.
I think we're over 150 now law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty this year.
And I really, you know, over the years, I spent so much time down in Washington.
I can't tell you how many of these guys I've gotten to meet and know personally.
They're awesome guys.
I've got a really cool picture.
Once they let me sit on their motorcycle, the motorcycle police that are there, they all risk their lives every day.
And now what are they living through?
You know, three times as many people dying from violence in D.C. than coronavirus last month.
I mean, you know, did you hear about that?
Have you heard the names?
Anyway, it's just sad.
Our thoughts, our prayers for every police officer, every law enforcement officer, the 99% that serve and protect their communities that, frankly, have been treated so horribly in the last year and a half.
I mean, it's despicable.
It's so unfair.
You get a bad officer, one bad apple does not represent an entire group of people.
Just a fact.
So anyway, this is, Governor Cuomo harassed women, tried to retaliate against his accuser, the Attorney General fines.
What's interesting here, there's a couple of things, because I did not expect New York lawmakers like the congressman that I mentioned, Swazi and Greg Meeks and Hakeem Jeffries and Senators Gillibrand and Schumer to quickly call for the governor's resignation.
I didn't expect it, but now the governor, I think, has a real problem.
We still have the nursing home situation.
That investigation is ongoing.
One question I think is, you know, if you look at this report, the New York State Attorney General, you know, with this news conference this morning announcing the results of her months-long investigation into these, well, I guess it's 11 women total charges against Andrew Cuomo.
And she said the allegation had been fully substantiated.
She described the misconduct as criminal and illegal.
Those words have meaning.
And the attorney general said Cuomo violated both state and federal law, but the word indictment never crossed the Attorney General's lips.
I don't know whether you should read into that or not read into that.
Anyway, if in doing so, the actual words were, it concluded that Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law.
She said at a press conference, her office noted, however, that there was no specific penalties tied to the report.
Apparently, they had 179 witnesses.
When Cuomo gave his statement today, you know, the one photo that I think became most notable in this case was at, I guess, a Christmas party of him holding the face of a young staffer and kissing her.
I don't remember if it was on the lips or the cheek.
I just don't remember.
So then he did a montage of him doing that to men and women, you know, over the years and saying that he didn't mean anything by it at all.
You may, I'll flash back here.
President Biden had said in an April interview with ABC that Cuomo should resign if sexual misconduct allegations are confirmed to be true.
And remember, the person that was leading the strongest case against Justice Kavanaugh.
And remember, every one of those charges, you know, they just fell by the wayside.
They would, you know, just fell apart.
And, you know, especially some of the more outrageous claims.
Oh, when he was in high school, they would, you know, spike the drinks and the young men would line up every other weekend in the hall and take turns, you know, raping these young women.
That was said at the time.
Anyway, so here's what Biden said in April.
If the investigation confirms the claims of the women, should he resign?
Yes, I think he probably ended up being prosecuted, too.
A woman should be presumed to telling the truth and should not be scapegoated and become victimized by her coming forward, number one.
But there should be an investigation to determine whether what she says is true.
That's what's going on now.
So now there is a piece out in the UK Independent and MPR that Biden is expected to announce this afternoon whether he thinks Cuomo should resign.
But that's what he said in April.
By the way, I want to correct one statement that I made.
There was a shooting that took place today in D.C., but this officer died of, as I understand it, from a knife attack.
Is that correct, Linda?
Yeah, the police officer was stabbed to death outside the Pentagon.
Okay, because if you looked at Breaking 911, that he had died after a shooting outside.
There was apparently also a shooting.
That's correct, too?
That is correct.
Okay, so I apologize for making the error.
We try to be as accurate as we can.
We really do.
I think the problem is that the suspect was shot.
The police officer was stabbed.
And it all happened this morning before 11 o'clock.
It was at the bus platform outside the metro, and there were several people that were hit.
You know, it's going to be interesting to watch Biden.
And I know he's in the presidential protection program, like it was in the candidate protection program, but most of this audience knows about Tara Reed's allegations.
You know, remember all the creepy, touchy, feely, you know, fingers through the hair stuff with Creepy Joe?
I mean, to me, it was creepy, my personal opinion.
I'm not even allowed to run it because the families of these young girls, they don't want it run.
And I don't blame them.
And they deserve privacy.
And we're respecting that, of course.
Jen Saki during the White House press briefing refused to, quote, get ahead of Biden's comments and said that the president will give his own response later today.
And NPR, if Biden sticks by his call for Cuomo to resign, remember NPR even reported that Tara Reed, former junior staffer, Biden Senate office, accused the presumptive presidential nominee at the time of sexually assaulting her in 1993 when she was working as a staff assistant.
Kind of like Cuomo, the Biden campaign denied the accusation.
Is that going to be taken seriously or is it only, you know, I just don't know.
I mean, I don't even know how to really explain this.
And I hope things one day would change in New York.
But I can't, you just look at New York politics.
I can't tell you how many leaders in the Assembly, leaders in the Senate, they all get convicted.
You know, I won't even talk to any New York politicians anymore.
I want nothing to do with them.
I don't trust any of them at this point.
It's so bad in New York.
It just stinks to high heaven.
Sadly, we told you about these breakthrough cases.
Well, you have one top Democrat, chief strategist for the Rhode Island Democratic Party, hoping that Lindsey Graham dies from COVID.
And I'm not making that up.
Is it wrong to hope he dies from COVID, right?
Asking for a friend.
Hashtag COVID is not over.
Hashtag Lindsey Graham, she posted.
Well, okay.
Anyway, even though the Democratic Party, you know, I keep saying Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the real speaker of the House, Pelosi, speaker and name only.
I see, I've been making this case that the squad, the new Green Deal, the human infrastructure, new Green Deal socialism, the Bernie Biden Manifesto, the radicals run the party.
Biden's checked out, so I'm not sure who's in charge there.
Even 57% of Americans now say that.
But I see real fear in Pelosi because she knows if the squad turns on her, she's out.
Gives tremendous power to AOC and the squad.
And I think Chuck Schumer's afraid of her because she would primary him, I think, in a heartbeat and would have a good shot at unseating him, in my humble opinion.
But, you know, New York politics is what it is.
It's kind of like the socialist utopia of California at this point.
By the way, you can't have, you know, Democrats don't want voter ID, but New York will require proof of vaccination if you want to dine indoors or go to a gym, Comrade de Blasio says.
By the way, I went into this in great detail with Congressman McCall last night, how the lab leak looks likelier.
Yeah, the database was removed in the middle of the night, September 12th, without explanation.
Well, we knew they studied coronaviruses and they were involved in gain of function research.
And we know that Anthony Fauci now knew on January 31st that likely a genome had been manipulated by a human in COVID-19.
And we knew a flurry of emails the next day, February 1st, 2020, about, yeah, did we fund this?
Do you think we funded this?
Seemed panic to me, my read of it.
But Americans' optimism now are just, it's down 40% when people were saying just not that long ago things are getting better.
How can you think it's better, even though the percentage is very low?
And I know Provincetown is definitely an anomaly as of right now.
But will that remain an anomaly?
I don't know the answers, but I think we need to investigate it.
And now, Lindsey Graham, fully vaccinated, gets COVID.
One of my best friends, fully vaccinated, got COVID.
These breakthrough cases are scaring people.
Now, it seems that hospitalization death rates are still much lower.
We're going to get into this.
You know, we're just doing a whole thing on therapeutics with medical professionals at the top of the hour.
Just informational for you.
You still got to make up your own mind and do your own research.
The White House COVID response coordinator: it's time to impose vaccine requirements.
Here we go.
Told you that was coming as soon as they gave the nod to businesses and schools and universities.
It was only a matter of time.
An appeals court upheld Indiana University's vaccine mandate.
You know, I hope they'll give these kids medical exemptions if they need it.
There are rare conditions.
I hope maybe they'll give them a study-at-home option if they just feel strongly about something.
Even whether I agree or disagree, I do believe in freedom.
I also believe in medical privacy and doctor-patient confidentiality, which I don't think anybody seems to be thinking about.
Mask mandate reinstated in San Francisco.
Comrade de Blasio at this moment strongly recommends vaccinated New Yorkers wear face masks indoors, but you're going to need what sounds like a passport.
Joe Manchin apparently had a houseboat gathering that included Lindsey Graham over the weekend.
Uh-oh, that sounds dangerous to me.
There was one thing in the UK.
I don't even want to bring it up because it just is too out there to me.
We just don't know the long-term impact.
There are what they call long-haulers that really struggle for a long period of time, either to get their taste and smell back or other, you know, lagging symptoms that they've had to struggle with.
Governor threatening to suspend school board for refusing mask mandates in New Mexico.
The CDC director says vaccinated children and adults should be wearing masks inside K through 12.
You know, here we go again: more, you know, vacillating, ever-changing standards that they're giving out.
Senate Republicans demand that the CDC be investigated.
I think they need to, they need to get to the bottom of how they can't get their story straight.
And they're ever-changing, you know, guidelines.
It just is frustrating as all hell.
I mean, it's incredible.
Biden vaccine rules set the stage for an onslaught of lawsuits.
That's one thing I can tell you.
That was in the Hill today.
Oh, DeSantis just torched Biden and the Biden administration for their handling of the pandemic, for their false statement about his handling of the pandemic in Florida.
And they're wrong.
There's been hot spots everywhere.
Florida's done great.
Their schools were open an entire year now.
And in-person learning.
Anyway, 800-941, Sean.
We're just going to do a special hour.
All right.
With breakthrough cases, nobody talks about the most underutilized therapeutic we got.
That's Regeneron.
You know, how do you be proactive if you're a breakthrough case?
How do you be proactive if you get the virus?
What have we learned therapeutically, which nobody seems to ever want to discuss?
Regeneron is, I know too many great success stories with it for it to be ignored.
But again, it's informational.
You have to make your own decision.
All right, a lot of ground to get to.
All right.
So your breakthrough COVID positive case or unvaccinated COVID positive case.
Too little talk, in my opinion, about Regeneron, other therapeutics.
Dr. George Farid, Dr. Tyson, taking your calls straight ahead.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity Show.
Special hour we're doing here on the program, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
I understand that these breakthrough cases, fully vaccinated people, the percentage is very small.
I can't explain the Provincetown, Massachusetts anomaly, nearly 500 people testing positive, 74% had been fully vaccinated.
I can't explain that.
It's now hit me personally in my life.
One of my best friends who fully vaccinated on Saturday, in fact, tested positive and he had COVID.
And then, of course, Senator Lindsey Graham.
I called twice yesterday, checked in on him.
He says, he's doing okay.
I talked to him about what options are available that I have learned from the many, many doctors that I have spoken to and interviewed over the last, you know, what, year and a half, I guess at this point.
It's insane.
And every, like, for example, I had two people that I referred to our friend, Dr. George Farid, because I'm not a doctor, and I keep telling everybody, take it seriously, do your research, take into account your unique medical history, your current medical condition.
Talk to your doctor, your doctors, and then you're going to have to make that decision on your own.
I refuse to play doctor on radio or TV.
And I think all those people in Washington and all the people on TV that are telling me, it's now mandated the vaccine, et cetera, et cetera.
You don't know anything about anybody's condition.
Whatever happened to medical privacy, whatever happened to doctor-patient confidentiality.
I mean, all these people racing to tell the world, I got COVID, I got COVID.
All right.
So this hour is specifically focused on, now, in the case of my friend down in Georgia, and within 24 hours of his diagnosis, Dr. Farid had arranged Regenerond, an infusion.
That's the monocolonial antibody cocktails that they have, and also had prescribed what he and Dr. Tyson, again, they've been on the front lines of this from day one.
They've treated thousands of people successfully with their therapeutics, including hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, et cetera, et cetera.
So now that you have breakthrough cases, because we were told if you're fully vaccinated, you don't have to worry.
And it seems at this point, Provincetown is definitely an anomaly, but I think we need to study it.
How did that happen?
74% of people, 500 people, were fully vaccinated, contracting COVID.
That's alarming.
Should be alarming.
Scientifically, we need to try and get an answer, right?
Makes sense.
The percentage of those people that in fact are being hospitalized or dying is extraordinarily minuscule.
They've only announced 125,000 breakthrough cases.
I don't believe that number.
I think it's quickly going higher because my friend, for example, in New York that tested positive, fully vaccinated, he went to one of the dock-in-the-box places for his official test.
And the guy said, that's all I'm seeing now.
And then his own personal doctor said, that's all I'm seeing now are fully vaccinated people or some unvaccinated people.
Okay.
So now the question is, what if you get a break?
What if you're fully vaccinated and you still contract COVID?
What if you're not vaccinated, like my friend down in Georgia, not only he was not vaccinated, 74 years old and got regeneron within 24 hours, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, he's fine.
And then his wife got it.
And now, thankfully, she took the same protocol.
She's fine.
Then his son got it.
And guess what?
He's so, according to all reports I recently got, he's fine.
And his daughter got it.
They're in, I believe, in their 30s.
And it's an older friend of mine, somebody I'm very fond of.
And anyway, I'm very appreciative of Dr. Farid and other friends in the medical community that I've called upon to voluntarily, I mean, I'm not paying them.
I just say, can you do me a favor?
And every time I've called Dr. Farid, and I know he works in conjunction with Dr. Brian Tyson, these guys are, they move heaven and earth to help people.
If they start charging me, I promise you, I'll be bankrupt because I'm an annoying pain in the ass when it comes to this.
It's just if somebody in my life is, it's shocking to me how many people do not know about therapeutics.
All right.
Hence, where we're going this whole hour, we're going to take your calls.
What if either you're unvaccinated or you're a breakthrough case?
What is the best therapeutics?
Now, these are guys on the front line.
This is not, we're telling you what to do.
This is informational for you.
You ultimately have to make up your own mind, but they're going to give you their experience, put it in your knowledge bank on COVID-19, and ultimately it's up to you and your doctor what you're going to decide to do.
They're giving you their expert medical opinion, being on the front lines of this from day one, unlike, say, flip-flop Fauci.
Anyway, we welcome back Dr. Brian Tyson, board certified, family medicine, 14 years experience in the ER.
His hospital medical experience at Valley Urgent Care in El Centro, California, very busy place.
He's treated, I think, about 6,000 cases of COVID with therapeutics.
In other words, they were more active and involved in proactive medicine versus, for example, many, many places in New York, you go into the emergency room, you test positive for COVID, and they say, if your temperature goes up, take two extra strength Tylenol, monitor your oxygen, and if it goes to 90 or below, usually in day six, seven, eight, or nine, yeah, then go to the emergency room.
But by that time, the damage to your lungs is done.
I can't believe it, actually.
Knowing what we now know, we're way beyond that.
And Dr. George Farid, by the way, medical doctor, Harvard Medical School.
And anyway, they're also good friends, and they've treated thousands of COVID patients between them both.
Thank you both for doing this hour with us.
Dr. Tyson, Dr. Farid.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sean, for having us.
Thank you.
Thank you, Brian.
We're happy to.
So I've been telling my audience to call.
They are on the lines.
I'm going to let you guys, I'll ask people, just ask your question.
They'll give you quick answers.
We'll try and get as many people in as we can for the hour.
Kelly in Oklahoma, you're on with Dr. Tyson and Dr. Farid.
Hi, Sean.
Hi.
Thanks for calling.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call.
I actually have a couple of questions.
The first question is, is I had COVID back right after Thanksgiving of 2020.
And since Thanksgiving and into December, I have had what I've had two doctors tell me is a COVID summit where I have had some long-term effects with it.
And my question on that is, what studies are being done to try to treat patients, people that have had COVID?
And are there any studies out there about this?
Or what can I do?
What treatments can I do to try to get some help with my stomach?
I've had every test that they can do on my stomach, and I've had the endoscope and a colonoscopy, and all they can tell me is I have a COVID stomach, and it has not gotten any better.
Could I make one quick recommendation to George Farid here?
It's a very good question, Kelly.
I know Brian will have something to add, but one of our colleagues in battle on the front lines is an amazing gastroenterologist, Sabine Hazen.
And she's becoming the world expert on what's called the microbiome.
And that's the flora that you have in your intestinal system.
And there is a COVID gastro gastritis or intestinal infection that disrupts the intestinal immunity.
Many don't really think of that because it's so much a respiratory illness.
But one of the tests that they should do at some point, and you may have to go to her in Malibu Ventura Clinic, it's a famous clinic that she has.
And they do what's called the microbiome, and they find the change in the flora that may have occurred because of the COVID if it was untreated.
Our early treatment prevents this from happening, but that can be corrected by readjusting the flora in your intestinal system.
Dr. Tyson?
Absolutely.
I was actually going to make the same recommendation.
Sabine's doing some amazing work right now on the GIA intestinal biome.
I hope that take care of your question, Kelly.
Does that help you?
Yes.
Well, I had one more question.
I have had two different doctors recommend to me not to get the vaccine because they're thinking I still have some natural immunity to COVID.
And one of my doctors actually had two patients.
He said not to get the vaccine, and they did, and they died.
So, you know, my question is, what do I do?
Well, believe me, can I just add one thing myself?
The Cleveland Clinic said if you have natural immunity, you don't need any vaccine.
Am I wrong, Dr. Farid?
No, no, you're absolutely right.
And I know Brian will comment on that.
We see many adverse reactions in the patients that have the natural immunity.
The natural immunity is much more elaborate and beneficial and will be lifelong probably now, but it certainly is durable for a year and definitely, we think now, potentially lifelong for COVID-19.
So I specifically tell my patients not to get vaccinated if they've recovered from the natural infection.
Dr. Tyson.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
All right.
Well, we appreciate it.
Thank you.
Quick break.
We'll come back.
More of your calls as we discuss, okay, breakthrough cases or therapeutics.
If you get the new Delta variant or COVID-19, whatever variant you might get, more with Dr. Brian Tyson, more with Dr. George Farid.
They've been on the front lines from day one.
And as we continue with Dr. Brian Tyson, Dr. George Farid, specifically, we're talking about breakthrough cases, therapeutics for people contracting either the Delta variant or any version of COVID.
Informational so you can discuss with your own doctor and make the most informed decision possible for you.
Mike is in California.
Mike, welcome.
You're on with Dr. Farid and Dr. Brian Tyson.
Thanks for joining us.
How are you doing, Sean?
I'm doing good.
My question is, these reinfections that are happening of people that are already vaccinated.
Mike, your phone sounds like a sports illustrated football phone.
Hang on, we'll call you back.
Barb is in Florida.
Barb, you're on with Dr. Brian Tyson and Dr. George Farid.
Hi, Sean.
Thanks for having me on.
I have a special needs son with a neurological disorder.
Both of us have had adverse reactions to the flu shots.
He's had adverse reactions to most of his childhood vaccines, which his seizures started after his 18-month shot.
Our primary care, it's like it's up to us.
But with all the adverse reactions, I am concerned with his seizures with this mRNA vaccine.
And also the shaming that's going along with this, it has been very hard.
I'm his legal guardian, and I don't know what to do.
So no one can answer.
Yeah, let me take this one.
I also have a special needs child, so I hear what you're saying.
And we will not be vaccinating my kid either.
But I will say prophylaxis will be the best bet for you at this point.
And prophylaxis, how old is he or she?
He's 23.
Yeah, so 23, I would use ivermectin for prophylaxis according to the Math Plus protocol from the FLCC guidelines.
Okay, can I write that down?
The FLCC guidelines.
Uh-huh.
That's Dr. Corey's group.
It's the Math Plus protocol for ivermectin.
Prophylaxis.
And we're not so sure he didn't have it last year in February, very end of February, beginning of March, he ended up in the hospital.
He's had aspiration pneumonia several times.
We do have a CP vest for him that we are now giving to him every day.
Yeah, so you could check a T cell test.
There's an online test you order and you take it to LabCorp.
It's called t detectect.com.
You order that test, uh-huh, tdetect, t-detect.com.
You order that test from them.
They'll send it to you.
And that test for T cells.
That's your long-term immunity.
It's not like the antibody test that goes away in, you know, two to three months after exposure.
The T cell test is lifelong.
And that's what Dr. Farid was alluding to with lifelong immunity after being infected with COVID.
So that goes along with the Israeli study as well that's showing those who've had COVID are not getting reinfected.
Well, I appreciate because that's even though I live in Florida in their 2021 bill that says no passports, there is a section that says they can mandate vaccines, and it's scaring the heck out of me.
Yeah, so anyone with adverse reactions to vaccines should automatically be taken out of that anyway, no matter what.
There's a medical precedence that says if you have a reaction to vaccines to begin with, and you should not be then mandated to get any vaccines at that point, other than that, whatever your doctor determines safe for your child.
I hope that helps, Barb.
All right, so we're going to continue.
Specifically, now everyone's heard everything they want to hear probably about the vaccines over and over again.
Now with breakthrough cases and those that decided for whatever reason in consultation with their doctors to go unvaccinated, what if you get COVID now?
What if you get the Delta variant?
What are the therapeutics?
More with Dr. Brian Tyson, Dr. George Farid.
We'll do it for the full hour.
So it's informational for you so you can make your own decisions in consultation with your own doctors.
But information, I'm shocked how many people don't even know what Regeneron is.
I'm shocked or haven't heard of vibrometin.
That shocks me.
But, you know, that's why I spend a lot of time helping people when I hear about cases.
Quick break right back.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941.
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We're taking your calls for the hour.
Two doctors that have been on the front line of COVID-19 from day one.
Successfully treated thousands of patients, collaborate daily almost, and they are big believers in proactive medicine, meaning therapeutics taken immediately, not waiting like others.
You know, there are states I can tell you, like in New York, I knew so many people that were told, oh, you tested positive, go home.
And if your temperature goes up, take 2-Tylenol.
If your oxygen level goes 90 or below, you might want to run to the emergency room.
But my experience has been, and my reading has shown me, that usually the lungs get attacked by usually day seven through 10.
That's on average.
There are anomalies to that.
And I'm not a doctor, not playing one on radio or TV.
But this is informational so you can make the right decision in consultation with your doctor, taking into account your unique medical condition and medical history.
And Dr. Farid, George Farid, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Brian Tyson, board-certified family medicine.
Both these guys have been on the front line since day one and big believers in therapeutics, regeneron, ivermectin.
And yeah, Donald Trump was not wrong.
We have enough studies now that showed, yeah, taken early, hydroxychloroquine.
Yeah, it does help mitigate effects 84% of the time in one study.
Then you have the Henry Ford study.
There's a number of them.
And then the two studies that were negative towards HCQ, yeah, they had to rescind them from prestigious medical journals.
Go figure, right?
Anyway, we're taking your calls.
Questions?
Now that we have breakthrough cases, the Delta variant, unvaccinated or you were vaccinated, and it's a breakthrough case, informationally, what can you learn from them?
They have a lot to tell.
Rich is in Pennsylvania.
Next, you're on with Dr. Brian Tyson and Dr. George Farid.
Thanks for calling.
Yes, sir.
How are you doing, Sean?
I'm good, sir.
Glad you called.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Sean, I did have some side effects from the vaccine.
I had it May 19th, and May 24th was when everything started.
I started with inflammation, joint soreness from head to toe.
And I got, you know, I had blood work done, which showed negative of everything, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and my said rate was very high.
And anyway, how long do these effects go on for?
Is there any answer to that?
Or is there any solution to it?
My doctor gave me pregnisone, which has helped, but pregnanzone to me, and I've taken it many times when I'm on the road to reduce inflammation on my vocal cord so I can stay on the road and speak.
It's a horrible medicine.
I hate it.
You get bloated, you get hungry, you just can't sleep.
I didn't like it at all, but I'm not telling you what to do.
Dr. Tyson, let's start with you.
So, yeah, so what we're seeing is hydroxychloroquine actually will work in these cases because it's an anti-inflammatory that we use with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus a lot.
So I would recommend trying to get on a 200-milligram twice-a-day tablet regimen until the symptoms resolve and that ESR starts to come down.
What it sounds like is it's an autoimmune or an antibody reaction to the vaccine.
And we've been using that also with singular, 10 milligrams at night, and even three days of ivermectin initially to get things going.
And that seems to be reducing the inflammatory response in these cases.
Dr. Farid.
I want people to experience this.
I'm sorry.
What did you ask, Rich?
Is this common in people to be experiencing these troubles?
Yes, we are seeing it more often.
We are seeing it more often.
I would agree with him.
The situation is that the vaccine produces the spike protein that may move around in the body, may move into the joints, or do what Brian said cause an autoimmune reaction.
But it could actually be a direct toxic effect of this spike protein, which is very unfortunate that that can happen.
And that creates toxicity and microvascular issues.
But I would agree with what Brian recommended.
I think the other agent that could be used is colchicine, and that's what we're using.
It's almost like you're having COVID-19, unfortunately.
And so Brian is mentioning basically the heart of our treatment for COVID-19, which is hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
And in patients where we intensify in COVID-19, we treat with colchicine, a classic medicine that's used for gout, actually.
But it has a special type of anti-inflammatory action that in a randomized controlled trial was shown to be very efficacious in COVID-19.
So that's why it's part of our protocol for the latter part of the protocol if it's necessary to intensify.
And then with regard to the matter of, well, I guess you didn't ask a question about, did you have COVID-19 at one point?
I believe I did in the early months of the virus starting.
Okay.
Well, in any case, the adverse effects can be a little more accentuated if you've recovered from COVID-19.
That's one reason why I specifically recommend against getting immunized if you definitely recovered from the natural infection.
Thanks for the call, Rich.
Dr. Freed, let me ask you one thing, because the family that you were helping down in Georgia, and I'm very grateful for your help that I know, they were unvaccinated and they were older.
I was very concerned.
You said something at one point that, and I want to emphasize this as it relates to the monocolonial cocktail known as Regeneron, although in fairness, Eli Lilly has a brand name as well.
As I'm told, as I've read, it seems to be as effective.
But you said that people have a right to it.
And if you go into a hospital, you have a right to ask for that therapeutic.
Did I hear you right?
Yeah, absolutely.
If you're going to be treated as an outpatient, in other words, if you're not qualifying for admission to the hospital because of other findings, but it's the approval and the indications are, if Brian may comment on this, but I believe it's individuals older than 21 now, or younger people at least, that are symptomatic and that have a positive test.
And that's what they should follow.
So in that very nice family in Georgia, this Delta variant spreads like wildfire and very contagious.
The older members of husband and wife have received the Regeneron infusion, antibody infusion, and they're doing very well.
The younger ones, I may have received it.
I don't know for sure yet, but they're doing very well.
They did not because it doesn't meet the age requirement, as I understand.
And I think the hospital is a very fine hospital, so I don't want to say anything derogatory.
Absolutely.
It should be available for younger people too.
But regardless, the oral protocol that's one that we use for 10 months without monoclonals is very effective.
So that's good.
And they're doing very well.
I also thank you for including me last night on your TV show.
It's a great honor.
You're doing such a great job to get word out and overcome fear.
And I just want to say one thing that Nicole brought up, which she's a great doctor to be consulting on Fox.
She brought up this issue of vaccinations and all.
And vaccinations have produced, my position is, and I think Brian shares, is that they've produced the variants because they mutate to avoid the antibodies that are created.
We're seeing breakthrough infections and new infections both pretty much equally in vaccinated and unvaccinated.
And I'm not so sure that the vaccinated patients do so much better than the unvaccinated with this variant.
I think the variants may be a little weaker in their ability to create all the havoc in the lungs.
So that remains to be determined.
And because of that, we need to use early treatment in both categories of people.
But I'm not so sure yet that, and maybe Brian would comment on this, that the unvaccinated are the ones that are going to end up in the ICU at this time with the Delta variant.
Brian, do you have any comment on that?
Well, what we're seeing here is honestly the more severe cases we're seeing with the vaccinated.
I've got a 67-year-old gentleman right now that we've been treating for a few days now.
Got both his Pfizer vaccines in February and March, coming in with the Pulse Ox 84% on room air, which is extremely horrible.
Chest X-ray is horrible.
We had to put him on home oxygen.
We put him on treatment with hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin.
We used doxycycline with him because of his age and his hypertension.
The nutraceuticals which we use are zinc, vitamin C, D3, N-acetylcysteine, or NAC, which is becoming harder and harder to get because the FDA seems to be playing a game with that nutraceutical.
We got him on steroids.
We gave him some decadon in office.
We've given him inhaled butconide at home.
And he's still struggling.
We're doing aspirin 325 singular at night.
And he's still struggling.
Yeah, he's still struggling a little bit.
He may have to be hospitalized.
Oh, geez.
Yeah.
We've got him off oxygen at this point, and we're going to be following him up today.
But by no means is the vaccinated versus unvaccinated discussion, it should not be even an issue at this point.
16.5% of our hospitalizations between June and July out here in the Imperial County were We're in the vaccinated group, and that's going higher.
We're seeing about 50%, 50-50 in the clinic, positives, both vaccinated and unvaccinated.
If you look at Israel, they're seeing 80% of their cases are in the vaccinated group.
UK is now up to 60% of their new cases are in the vaccinated group.
So clearly, the vaccine has lost its efficiency as far as protection.
Severity of illness across the board, I think in both cases, vaccinated and unvaccinated still seems to be a lot less than what we were seeing definitely in December and January.
Although there are some severe cases still breaking through, but those in my view seem to be more in the vaccinated group, not the unvaccinated group.
To clarify that a little bit further, majority of these infections are also in the younger.
We're seeing more kids, more adolescents.
And I think that has to do with being locked down in school and not being able to go back to school.
So now the young kids are getting infected, which should have been the opposite of what we should have done from the very beginning.
We should let the kids go back to school, let them get the alpha variant, let them bring on the herd immunity, and then we wouldn't be in the position we are right now with the Delta variant.
Man, this gets so complicated on so many different levels.
And it's, you know, but what works is what matters.
And this is why I keep saying take it seriously.
Research, research, research.
Look at your own condition.
I'm trying to give the best advice I can.
Quick break.
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A few more questions that we have for Dr. Brian Tyson, Dr. George Farid about breakthrough cases of COVID-19, even in fully vaccinated people and those that still contract COVID, maybe not vaccinated.
You know, what are the therapeutics?
I think there's been far too little discussion on all of this as we continue with them.
Can I ask you both that question?
I'm not a doctor.
I didn't go to Harvard, Dr. Farid.
I didn't go to medical school, do a residency or internship, Dr. Tyson.
I'm trying to, I love my audience and I want to give them the best information I can, which is why I invite experts like you on and even people, doctors that I don't agree with.
But I've been pressured again and again to tell people what to do, and I refuse to do that.
Am I right or am I wrong?
You're right, Sean.
And let me give you, the American Academy of Physicians and Surgeons published a home care COVID kit that your audience can go to, aaps.org, download that home COVID treatment kit, and it tells them everything that they're going to need to talk to their doctor about.
I think it's one of the biggest things that our group with George and Peter McCullough and Harvey and everybody in our COVID-19 task force has put together that is a huge benefit to the public.
If we can get that out and then they can bring that to their doctors and they can talk to them about early treatment.
Early treatment is not just hydroxychloroquine.
Early treatment is not just ivermectin.
It's a combination of drugs that we've been using for years and years and years to treat inflammation, respiratory problems, blood clot problems, viral illnesses, pneumonias, pneumonia prevention, everything that if you were to get sick before COVID, a lot of these same treatments we would be using.
We did find the additional benefit from using hydroxychloroquine, but that study came out in 2005, and that was through the NIH.
They did the study that showed chloroquine was a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus for both infection and spread.
Got politicized, doctor.
That's what happened.
Yeah.
And by the way, add to that now.
Now, I think one of the most underutilized therapeutics has been Regeneron.
Am I wrong?
No, you're not.
And it's funny because I tell patients, and Farid tells patients all the time, the minute you get positive, I tell them, go to the ER and get Regeneron right away.
Go right now.
And a lot of the times they go and the ERs won't give it to them or they say they don't have it.
It's not available, which I find amazing because we've been touting all of these emergency use authorization, this and everything.
But the one that's being underutilized and losing its shelf life is Regeneron.
I asked the state of California, Sean, to give me Regeneron for my urgent care because we do IV therapeutics here.
And I could not, for two months, I still cannot get that medication to even give out my urgent care.
I can't even begin to describe this.
And on top of that, by the way, all the hundreds of thousands of people not being tested across the border.
And the Blaze had an article today that, oh, illegal immigrants now overwhelming the border.
They're just processed and then pretty much given bus tickets to, quote, wherever they want to go.
Not being tested.
No vaccine mandate for the hundreds of thousands.
Guys, first, thank you for all you do every day.
You're putting your own lives at risk every day.
Secondly, for the help you've given me and so many people that I know that don't know about these things.
And it's extremely educational.
Again, I urge people to do a lot of research, take it seriously, and talk to their own doctors.
And the fact that you're so invested in this is, you know, I just take a bow because you're putting yourself on the front lines and really are true heroes in all of this.
And I appreciate you taking the time to spend with our audience today.
Thank you both.
You're welcome, Sean.
Remember that we're 20 miles from the border here in Mexicali, so we're seeing what you're seeing in Texas and all throughout the border.
So we're getting a lot of our cases also because they're not being screened and getting early treatment if they need it of the immigration.
Unbelievable.
That's unforgivable.
We'll have you back, both of you.
Thank you, Dr. Tyson.
Thank you, Dr. Farid.
We appreciate it.
800-941-Sean is on number if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's say hi to Brett is in Alabama.
What's up, Brett?
How are you?
Glad you called.
I'm good.
How about you, Sean?
War Eagle or Roll Tide?
Just which one?
War Eagle.
Wow.
How do you go against Nick Saban?
I mean, since Bear Bryant, has there ever been a better college football coach ever?
You know what?
He's pretty good, and I have a lot of respect for his program.
No, he's more than pretty good.
And as an Auburn fan, you're probably pissed off.
Don't lie.
No, that's all right.
We got a new coach.
We'll see how he treats us.
All right.
Let's see what happens.
What's on your mind today?
I've been taking a summer class at a community college this summer, and our professor has been shaming and pressuring and basically harassing us to get the vaccine.
And I'm thinking, you know, if this is just community college, I can only imagine these, you know, a bigger four-year school with much more aggressively liberal professors.
And I'm kind of wondering, you know, how do you think we respond to that?
How do we to as someone, you know, I flipped up and told her, hey, I don't, I don't, I haven't taken the vaccine.
And she's been, you know, having fun with that ever since.
You know, look, there's two choices that people have, especially kids.
What year of college are you in?
My fourth year.
Okay.
You know what you need?
Need to get the hell out of there and get into the real world.
I mean, you need a degree.
I agree.
So you have two choices.
Now, you can argue with your professor and you can battle with your professor.
I did this once at NYU.
Guy said he was a communist.
I love Ronald Reagan.
And almost every class, it was a battle.
It was like, you know, it was a big lecture hall.
It almost always became a battle between me and him.
I ended up getting an A on the midterm and ended up with a C C plus as my final grade.
I was the lowest grade I ever got in college.
I was a Deanslow student often.
So anyway, the long and short of it is you can decide with honor.
I'm just not, I'll give them back and regurgitate whatever I need to give back because I want to maybe go to get in a master's program or get into medical school or law school down the line.
I need the best GPI I can get.
Or you can roll the dice, risk arguing with the guy because you don't really give a rip.
You're ready to get into the real world and you're not looking to further your education.
That's entirely up to you.
But if you just decide to go along and get along, as long as you know the truth and you know it's indoctrination and you know it's a bunch of bull, I wouldn't even bother with it.
You don't have to be indoctrinated by anybody.
You always want to remain true to who you are.
But sometimes it's just, you play the game so you can get to the next stage in life.
And if you have a goal or an ambition in another profession, you know, that's not worth losing your chance of getting in.
It's so competitive to get into law school or into a master's program or medical school.
It's just too hard.
So you can't risk it at that point.
As long as you know you're not, as long as you know what you're doing, there's not really any shame in it.
In my view, it's to me, the shame and the sadness of it is they really don't want freedom of expression, do they?
They can't tolerate alternate viewpoints.
That's the hard part.
That's correct, Sean.
So you know, and I've given this advice for years to kids.
I get asked the question often: what do I do?
And I'm like, here's your choices.
You know, what are your career goals?
Because if you want to get into a tough law school, medical school, master's program, you know, you got to play the game sometimes.
But then when you get into real life, get into an environment where you can always be yourself, honest and truthful.
Okay?
Yes, sir.
All right, 800-941-Sean, Russ, Virginia, next Sean Hannity Show.
Russ, how are you?
Hey, Sean.
Yes, sir.
Glad you called.
Yeah, thanks.
We had the docs on.
I wanted them to address the fact that there's probably 20, 10 to 20% of the population do not like getting shots.
They're not anti-vaxxers.
They just don't go even go to the doctor because they're afraid they may get one.
And I have type 1 diabetes.
I've taken years and years of shots with a very small fine-point needle.
But when I see on TV every day, several times a day, they're sticking people in the arm with looks like a one and a half to two inch needle.
They must be freaking those people out.
You know, there's a condition.
It actually impacts because I have a friend that has this, Vasil Vagel.
If you go to take their blood or give them a shot, if they're not lying down horizontal, they pass out.
I mean, it just, their blood pressure just drops to zero.
It's a very real fear, agreed.
I understand it.
It's, you know, just one of those things.
But you're raising a good point.
And there might be some of that.
The only thing I would say is: look, there's some things in life, sometimes you just got to suck it up.
And if you really believe that's the right course for you, after you do your research, take into account your unique medical history and current condition and talk to your doctors.
If that's what you decide, you know, you're just going to have to go through a day of just, you know, probably emotional hell because I know that is hard for people.
You know, there's this, did you find this story about this Olympian?
And then there was a tennis player.
Was the tennis player she withdrew?
She didn't want to do press conferences.
I can't.
Do you remember the name, JC Owen?
I know you know.
Osaka, right.
And I watched this.
She's a young woman, and I really felt badly for her because I think the fear of this is real.
I don't think she's faking it.
She's a champion.
She beat, you know, Serena Williams.
No easy task.
I think who's won 20 some odd big championships.
And a lot of people have been commenting on Simone Biles, the Olympian, champion Olympian.
And, you know, I'm just really believing her that she's struggling emotionally and that she doesn't feel on top of her game and ready to compete.
I don't know why people are so harsh and so judgmental myself.
Does that make sense to you?
I mean, you don't know what people are going through sometimes.
You don't know what their life experience has been.
You don't know why they feel this.
Yeah, especially for a phobia like claustrophobia or fear of fights.
The fear of needles is real.
And as you say, talk to their doctors because at their doctor or the clinics, if they let them know ahead of time, they may give them a private room or a screen, give them some privacy.
They may let them lay down.
There's medications they can take before the injection.
There's anti-anxiety medicines or Linda's CBD pills that she swears about, which she takes too late in the day.
But no, I don't know.
Maybe, you know, there are mental illnesses that are very real for people.
And I'm kind of shocked, you know, and some are saying it very nicely, but others are being just jackasses as usual.
And I don't know.
My kids are both athletes.
I've seen the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
And let me tell you something.
You're putting yourself out there, and it's not easy.
The amount of pressure on a tennis court, the amount of pressure on one of those balance beams, I can't imagine how hard that is for people.
And a lot of these individual sports in particular, there is a mental component, mental toughness, a mental focus.
And maybe you're not at your best at any given time.
And that impacts your performance.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
I'm curious, Linda, what do you think about that?
Do you agree with me on this or no?
Yeah, I always agree with you.
You know that, boss.
No, you don't always agree with me.
Jason, I'm seeing you shaking your head.
I'm not sure.
I sense some skepticism here.
No, I don't understand the harsh criticism against both.
I mean, mental illness is more and more athletes in all sports.
It's not just tennis or the gymnastics.
It's football players, hockey players.
All of them are going through it.
And it's coming to light because people are coming forward.
They're not afraid to come forward now.
And I think it's commendable.
And you know something?
Maybe 23.
I mean, she's such a gifted, talented atmosphere.
Well, both these young women are talented athletes.
I mean, could you just imagine the pressure at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the Australian Open, the French Open?
You know, I mean, the world is watching the finals or the pressure of being on that balance beam and the gymnastics part of it, the mad part of it.
It's precision and skill and professionalism and decades of building up your skill.
Even if you have the most natural talent, you still have to develop that talent to get to this level.
And consider also, if you're playing a sport like football or hockey, if your mind's not in it, it's dangerous.
Well, that too.
But, you know, also in that case, you know, your team can carry a little bit too.
They can help you some, but you still got to do your job.
I mean, for any team to be successful, every part has to, you know, work together.
I just, I don't like the harshness of it myself.
I find it, I don't, and I know some people that have made some of these comments.
I'm like, really?
I'm like, you don't have any sympathy towards the fact that this might be a real problem, anxiety, difficulty, challenge.
I could tell you right now, but my advice, for example, to this great young tennis player, Osaka, would be go do a Bill Belichick press conference.
You ask Bill Belichick, what do you think of the game?
I see we can improve.
Next question.
Where do you stand on the quarterback situation?
We'll figure that out in the days to come.
Just doesn't answer any questions and walks away.
Frustrates the hell out of the media.
Quick break right back.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
Now, I've gone over, gone in great specificity and great detail what's going on in Washington with this infrastructure bill, $1.2 trillion, whatever it is.
You know, it's just insane amounts of money.
And the idea that Republicans are going along with this sham is really infuriating to me because if you look at it, and Schumer's saying it publicly, that this is a two-part process.
And once they get Republicans to go along with infrastructure, more traditional, but still not everything that you would consider infrastructure, you know, roads, bridges, and tunnels.
That is historically the definition of infrastructure.
Then he's going to come in right behind it with when you add the $600 billion, it's $4.1 trillion.
And that is what they're calling human infrastructure.
Child care is not infrastructure.
The new Green Deal, repackaged as human infrastructure, doesn't fly with me.
By the way, my understanding is, and I read today that they have buried deep inside this very long-written, nearly 3,000-page bill.
Yeah, they're going to have a mileage usage tax.
Yeah, okay.
Well, what does that mean?
They don't want any cars on the road.
Who's that going to impact the most?
Hardworking Americans.
You listen to Congresswoman Omar and Congresswoman, the real Speaker of the House, Pelosi, Speaker and Name Only, Alexandria Casio-Cortez.
Listen to what they are saying and the pressure they are putting on both the Senate and the House.
They want it all now.
Listen.
Your take on this bipartisan deal.
Yeah, I mean, it's really important for us to remember that we've laid out as members of the progressive caucus, as you know, I serve as the whip.
We've whipped on this.
There is no path forward for a bipartisan bill that doesn't move simultaneously with the reconciliation bill.
And I know that, you know, our colleagues on the other side on the Senate fully understand that and lobbying, you know, these two senators to essentially, as AOC was saying, to sink these bills that are a priority for Democrats.
Now, I know the infrastructure deal that they're talking about, and Manchin said they're going to introduce it today.
They're going to bring out the language is obviously a lot smaller than you wanted, a lot smaller than a lot of your fellow progressives wanted.
It still does include things that you like, including funding for electric vehicle charging stations, public transit, clean water systems, broadband, more.
When it comes before the House, as it looks like will happen, will you vote for it?
We have to hold on to that bargain.
There is not a reconciliation bill in the House.
And if the Senate does not pass the reconciliation bill, we will uphold our end of the bargain and not pass the bipartisan bill until we get all of these investments in.
All right.
So just to repeat that Republicans, in my opinion, very naively, stupidly, very weak, they're going to go along with the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.
But remember, Chuck Schumer still has one shot at the reconciliation process, which means you don't need cloture.
You don't need 60 votes.
You don't need a single Republican.
And guess what?
They will ram it down America's throat.
Kind of like what they did with Obamacare.
Senator Mike Lee is here to weigh in on all this.
Am I describing this accurately, Senator?
If I get it wrong, please correct me.
Yeah, look, I wish we were in a different place than we are.
But the fact is, we're negotiating against ourselves, as it were.
Look, we've had this group of people in the Senate that's been negotiating and ironing out this legislative proposal over the last four months.
It's taken them four months.
They've been talking about it.
They've been telling us for months.
Any day now, we'll have a proposal for you.
We finally saw it for the first time Sunday night.
I mean, pretty late in the day, like 9 or 10 o'clock at night.
I was on the Senate floor when I first got it.
Turns out it's 2,702 pages long.
Now, Sean, a 2,700-page bill does not read like a fast-paced novel.
It takes some time to digest this.
What I find most insulting about this, aside from the fact that it spends money we don't have and will tend to inflate the dollar even more, robbing from the poor to pay for the wealthy and well-connected interests who will become even wealthier off of this, I find it doubly insulting when they do that and then expect us to read, amend, negotiate, and pass a bill in four days that it took them four months to develop.
That's wrong.
And every American should be concerned about any legislative process that spends their money and that of their yet unborn children in that way that quickly without any review.
Well, you've got to understand, Senator, you've got to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill.
Isn't that the old way of doing things once again and why Republicans are going along with it?
Actually, I found the exact page.
You're right.
The one I got was 2,702 pages.
But they have a pilot program for national motor vehicle per mile user fee.
Does that not sound like a long-term plan to make it too expensive for some people in America to drive a car?
Because that's how I interpret it.
Yeah, look, Sean, if you develop a pilot program, you're calling it a pilot program for a reason.
You're sending a pilot in to experiment to test it out, to see if it works with the hope and the expectation that you'll eventually turn into a full-scale operating model.
It's not something the American people want.
If there's one thing they don't like, it's mixing two things they already hate, taxes and excessive government intrusion into things that are none of the government's darn business.
That makes this particularly unsettling.
You know, I'm looking at this.
Now, it's interesting because the way Schumer's been speaking, he's acting like this is a done deal.
We're going to pass the bipartisan bill.
Then we're going to move directly on to the reconciliation process.
My question to you is, are both of these really done deals?
Because I know how things get in August as you head into your August recess.
Frankly, I wouldn't mind if you took off all 365 or 66 days a year because I think it would cost us a lot less money, except for funding the military, of course, and other important programs.
But putting that aside, is it a done deal?
Yeah, so as for the $3.5 trillion inflation bomb that the Democrats have ready for us, the Green New Deal masquerading as infrastructure or whatever it is that they're calling it from one day to the next.
Yeah, that one is one that they expect to be able to pass with every Democrat voting for it, every Republican voting against it, and Vice President Harris coming to the rescue to break the tie.
So that one is expected to pass on a party-line vote.
Even Mansion, even cinema, no hope there at all?
Even Mansion and Cinema.
And, you know, I wish that that were not the case.
I wish that they were not planning to vote for it.
But it seems to me that if we weren't passing this, it might be harder for them to vote for that.
It might be harder for them to vote for their reconciliation bill if they weren't doing that, which is one of the many reasons why I wish we weren't doing this bipartisan deal.
Nonetheless, we examine the bipartisan deal on its own merits.
And the bipartisan deal spends $1.2 trillion.
It spends about $700 billion that we were already planning to spend, or based on past practice, you would expect Congress to spend on federal infrastructure, and then adds another $550 billion on top of it.
Now, that's real money, Sean.
And we don't have that money.
They claim that it's paid for, but when you look at the pay-force, at least half of them don't add up.
At least half of them are not really paid for.
So we're adding a considerable amount of money to the national debt at a time when the American people can least afford it, at a time when this really ends up impacting the prices people pay for everything from groceries to gasoline to rent and mortgage and everything else.
And this, too, is going to make infrastructure more costly and less efficient because we're making so much of it federal when a lot of it should be done at the state and local level.
All right.
Let me move on and ask you about other important issues.
One of the things that has been most concerning to me and certainly this audience is the attempts at the biggest power grab by any political party in history.
That would include HR1, SR1, that would eliminate voter ID, no signature verification, no integrity in future elections, widespread mail-in balloting, et cetera, et cetera.
Then eliminating the legislative filibuster.
Now, both Mansion and Cinema said they would not go along with that.
I'm not so sure.
Over time, Chuck Schumer, the caucus pressuring them, who knows?
Then, of course, we've got the plan to stack the courts.
Then there's talk of D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood.
Do you see any of those things coming to life and getting done?
Yeah, the short answer to your question is the list of horribles that you've mentioned there would probably all come to pass if they nuke the legislative filibuster.
And if they don't nuke the legislative filibuster, it's going to be very difficult to do any of those things.
It's one of the reasons why it's so important that we keep it and why we shouldn't abandon it.
It may be the only thing standing between us and a complete federalization of election law, contrary to the plain command of the Constitution, to an act of Congress that would tell the American people that they may not, through their duly elected state governments, decide things like that felons can't vote in elections or that dead people have to have their names removed from election rosters once they've died.
These are all things that would come about in one way or another with S1, HR1.
And with S1, it would also add the unholy task of federal financing of campaigns.
Many of my colleagues have commented that in their race, based on the formula built into this legislation, their own campaign would have received $40, $50 million from the federal government to run their campaign.
Nobody wants that.
The American people don't want that.
And worst of all, Sean, we've all seen what it looks like in countries where the government decides who's on the ballot, where the government decides who's a legitimate candidate and who isn't.
That only ends in tears and worse.
Explain to me this passion, this drive.
I think I'm one of the few that have pointed out that I believe now the Department of Justice under Joe Biden has been weaponized, as evidenced by them attacking the Georgia law, the new voting law that allows 17 days of in-person early voting.
It provides for a drop box in every voting precinct and district.
It allows, you know, you don't need an excuse to get a mail-in ballot.
You know, Delaware, there's no early in-person voting.
There's no drop boxes anywhere.
You need an excuse to vote by mail or absentee.
Some of the most restrictive laws in the country, Joe Biden never lifted a finger to change those laws for the 5,000 years he served Delaware.
And yet his Department of Justice now is going after Georgia, but not Joe's state of Delaware, where it's far more restrictive.
That is troubling to me.
Can you answer that and also answer?
Can you think of any real legitimate reason, especially now like in New York, you're going to need an ID to get into a restaurant, a vaccine passport, so to speak, or to get into an arena.
You needed to get into the White House, the Capitol.
You needed it to buy a six-pack of beer.
I don't know if you drink, but I do.
I like beer.
Or even a jewel pod or the Democratic National Convention.
Why are they so focused on getting rid of checks and balances and integrity like simple things like voter ID and signature verification, which both Georgia and Delaware call for?
First of all, I do drink, but it's Dycoke and root beer mostly.
So I don't get carded for that.
You've got to hang out with me more often.
I'll take you to Crown Burger and we'll have a six-pack with it.
Nothing better than Crown Burger, right?
Nothing.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
So look, yeah, you're exactly right.
This prosecution, this lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice against the state of Georgia is an abomination.
It's legally indefensible.
It is without merit as a matter of law, especially when you look at recent Supreme Court rulings.
They make that pretty clear.
I can't imagine that this lawsuit will not end up being dismissed for failing on the merits.
There just is no there.
And like you say, if they were, then that would beg all sorts of questions.
Like, why on earth haven't they gone after the state of Delaware a long time ago or Colorado or any of these states that have had more restrictive laws on their books for a long time than Georgia did either recently or now or in the future?
It's completely indefensible and it's very, very concerning.
When you get law enforcement, when you get the Department of Justice of the United States going after a state simply to make sure that the people who show up to vote are who they say they are and are entitled to vote, something is going dangerously wrong.
Yeah, I can only think of nefarious reasons myself.
I'm trying.
I'm looking for any innocent motive, but I don't find it.
Senator Mike Lee, thank you for joining us.
And yes, Crown Burger is the best burger on earth.
Love it.
All right, Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern, we will have the latest on the draconian Democratic COVID shutdown madness and new restrictions and mandated vaccines.
Also, Governor Cuomo, well, now all these politicians, Democratic Party, New York, around the country saying he's got to go.
Will that pressure mount and get stronger and will he do it?
Nine Eastern tonight on Hannity.
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