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Aug. 13, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
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Speaker Gingrich: America Is Faltering
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I never thought America in seven months would go from energy independence to begging OPEC.
Begging countries, a lot of whom hate our guts, to please, please, pretty please produce more oil.
Never thought that would happen.
I've never seen a sloppier exit out of out of any country.
I mean, this is like Saigon 1975 in our lifetime, where now Joe Biden, if you remember Joe Biden, it wasn't that long ago, just a couple of months ago, saying, Oh, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is not inevitable.
Well, yeah, it's inevitable to the point where now Joe is begging the Taliban.
Begging the Taliban, please don't destroy our embassy in in Kabul.
And now sending in Marines to rescue Americans that are still there because the Taliban has taken over nearly 70% of the country already.
It's over.
The country's fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
And now we're trying to get our people out safely, so they're racing in 3,000 Marines to save their lives before something horrible happens.
But here's Joe, what he was predicting.
He said, No, no, it's not inevitable, they're going to take it over.
Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
No, it is not.
Because you have the Afghan troops have 300,000.
Well equipped, as well as equipped as any army in the world and an Air Force against something like seventy-five thousand Taliban.
It is not inevitable.
There's gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the of the United States from Afghanistan.
Under no circumstances, that's pretty much what is now happening here.
Biden administration pleading, begging with Taliban terrorists to spare the embassy in Kabul.
This take over now of all these major cities in Afghanistan.
And of course, Joe left uh behind a cache of weapons and motor vehicles to arm the Taliban as as best he possibly can.
You know, they're overrunning now uh literally almost 70% of the entire country.
Now we're racing to get people out of the embassy in Kabul.
You know, they're close to capturing that U.S. Embassy.
Now the Marines have been brought in to save people's lives.
You know, this was July, by the way.
It was only last month that he said uh the idea that they'd overrun anything is highly unlikely.
Okay, failing to execute the you know, Trump warned about this.
Mike Pompeo was on last night.
They had a plan to do this and still keep troops on the ground, enough uh at least enough intelligence to prevent all of this from happening with the military might for pinpoint strikes to push back the Taliban, which Joe could have followed through on, which he did not.
That didn't happen.
And already there are reports of the Taliban abducting women and young girls and turning them into sex slaves.
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is with us.
I mean, I I the only thing I can compare this to is Saigon 1975.
Well, we're very similar in that when a country which is sort of the client of a major power, when a major power pulls out, psychologically, no matter how strong the army looks on paper, it begins to just collapse.
Because it knows that the game's over and that the other team's gonna win.
And what the president I think did not understand in what he said is if in fact it finishes collapsing, which I think is now inevitable.
Um that means there's three hundred thousand pieces of American equipment that are now gonna be owned by the Taliban.
They already got them, Mr. Speaker.
They have most of them anyway, not all of it, but most of them, and if we're racing in Marines just to get people out of the embassy, I doubt we're gonna have time to pick up our military cash and and then pull that out with us.
I mean, the number of vehicles left behind it look like a it looked like the biggest, you know, used car selling market in the country.
Well, it's I mean it's classically American, and that we we tend to be very heavy in equipment and we tend to put huge amounts in.
Uh but I think here what you've got the people need to confront, you know, this is not going to end.
And the Taliban's not going to say, oh, gee, I'm glad we beat the Americans.
Now let's be nice.
Every radical anti-American group in the Muslim world now has a sanctuary in Afghanistan.
All true.
And it was all unnecessary.
You know, when Donald Trump beat back ISIS in Syria and Iraq, he did it with pinpoint accuracy and literally, you know, the the way they did it was brilliant militarily, because what they did is they worked their way backwards.
Every city that ISIS took control of in Syria, for example, they would just bomb them out of that city, and then they'd bomb them out of the next city.
And then they defeated ISIS uh and the caliphate and they took it out.
We have military technology, Mr. Speaker, if we just keep enough intelligence on the ground that we could take out all of this with pinpoint accuracy, and 70% of the country would not be in the hands of the Taliban.
There were a lot of different ways to help the Afghan government survive.
But they required a clear say signal from the U.S. that we were determined that they were going to survive.
And uh the reason I recommend Black Hawk Down and 13 Hours as movies is they remind you that when you get into these kind of third world fights, you're up against people who are very have a very different scale of values.
They are very willing to lose a lot of lives.
They're committed.
They're committed, they think it's a great honor to die.
Well, and the Taliban has been fighting for control since the since the Russians in 7980.
So they've had a very long career.
They're in their third and fourth generation of warriors.
Um unless we were prepared to go into Northwest Pakistan and take out all their sanctuaries, it's very hard to see how you're ever going to beat them.
Uh you can you can keep them a little neutralized.
And we probably could have kept the country be, but it would have taken real effort.
But but what hit me that I'm now talking about they're they're gonna fly aircraft in from Gutter and all that sort of thing.
If we couldn't beat them flying out of Bagram in the middle of uh of Afghanistan, where it's a very short flight to drop the bombs and go back and reload, why would you think we're gonna have a decisive effect flying hundreds and hundreds of miles on a convoluted trip?
Because remember, we're not gonna go through Iranian airspace and we we can't do this anymore.
We cannot do this to our national treasure.
You know, what what are the what are the mothers and fathers and family members thinking about their sons and daughters that were either died or severely injured for this cause?
I mean, and and let me tell you where it gets worse too.
I mean, we were energy independent for the first time in 75 years.
It was right here on this program years ago, you launched drill here, drill now, pay less.
Very, very simple slogan.
We finally got there after seventy-five years.
Now we're back to begging OPEC to produce more oil because Joe shut down all exploration, all all pipeline building, all gas uh uh exploration and and all our refineries and literally artificially reduced the supply of oil on the world market, which has resulted in Americans paying about a buck thirty more a gallon, and that's just in six months.
Well, and remember, that's at the stage for the Russians who are now dramatically raising the price of natural gas in Western Europe, which is then gonna fund even more investment in the Russian military.
I mean, well, and not only that, I mean, now Vladimir Putin is doing multi, multi-billion dollar deals with our allies in Western Europe, which means that he has more influence and control over them than we do, because he could just turn off the spigot and and he controls the entire region.
I I say this a little tongue in cheek, but I almost wonder if in the National Security Advisor's Office there's now a special office of undermining America.
And there are five or six guys who sit around and go, I wonder what we could do this week to screw up the United States.
Well it really kind of makes you wonder now what level of compromise the Biden family has as it relates to Russia because Vladimir Putin's cyber attacks gets awarded a waiver to build his pipeline while we simultaneously shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.
He gets a summit even in in light of the cyber attacks.
Russia and China are both arming Iran so they can fight their proxy wars and then we got China on top of it.
Yeah.
But then we just learned that Hunter Biden may have had a laptop stolen by the Russians.
That's his third lost laptop.
Correct.
There is enough on that first laptop that the FBI has possession of to arrest Hunter Biden.
And yet the FBI has had it all this time and they haven't.
Can you explain to me why that's likely?
Sure.
I can tell you exactly why it's likely it's called having somebody take a hammer to destroy a hard drive and deleting 23,000 emails and sitting there smiling because you're Hillary Clinton and the problem is is they can in this case because other people have copies of it.
We have copies there are copies out there.
Well it may all come out but the truth is the Justice Department has been so thoroughly corrupted by the left.
It was corrupt it was corrupt during the the the Trump years which is why they continually at the FBI and a justice went after President Trump and went after his administration.
I mean, people underestimate the depth of corruption that now defines American government.
It's a very serious problem.
Well I you know Mark Levin's book American Marxism is number one now and it's a runaway bestseller.
I guess we understand why.
Quick break we'll come back more with Speaker Newt Gingrich on the other side 800 nine four one Sean you want to be a part of the program on this Friday.
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Let me ask you about China because they probably scare me the most they're now threatening our military bases uh Japan's military bases they're giving us human rights lectures in Anchorage they're also yelling at us that we need their permission when we land one of our planes in Taiwan uh and they're saying that they're going to uh soon reun have reunification with Taiwan.
Um the only problem is they've never been a part of China that would be the annexation of or the takeover of Taiwan.
Well which the Taiwanese people clearly would vote against and be opposed to look I I think that China's an enormous challenge to us but but to give you a strategic example of the U.S. disarming itself because of the left Oregon just passed a law that you have no requirement to graduate from high school to be able to do reading writing or mathematics.
Now how are the students of Oregon going to compete with the Chinese in being able to do technologically advanced things if they're going to adopt rules for their state that literally do not require you in order to get out of high school to be able to do math to read or to write I mean that's a new law they just passed which struck me as just suicidal and you have a Pentagon which let me be very clear.
I helped found the Military Reform Caucus in 1981 and I believe that the Pentagon it's not about how much money they have it's about how badly they're run, how bureaucratic they are and how much they're in bed with these giant corporations.
And unless we can fix the Pentagon and fix the intelligence community, the fact is we're going to lose to the Chinese.
And I'm I'm working on an article right now that lays out three star and four star admirals and generals who've said every time we play a war game we lose.
Now you would think that would be an argument for a really dramatic bold reform of the Pentagon but the answer at the Pentagon is ho hum.
Listen, it's it's that bad.
And I'll tell you the other thing that nobody talks about, it seems, but me.
It's very obvious because we know that our enemy, these hostile regimes, all that we've mentioned, we'll add the Iranians to them, and thanks to Joe, he forced South Korea to give them seven billion dollars, the mullets in Iran.
But they see Joe Biden as a cognitive mess.
They're not blind, they're not influenced by the media mob or the big tech mob.
They do their own, they make their own determinations.
And I believe all of them have dis determined that Joe Biden is out of it.
You think I'm wrong?
Well, here's what's really frightening.
They may think Biden is a cognitive problem.
His most likely successor is Kamala Harris, who clearly is totally out of touch with the planet.
I mean, so since you may not have a cognitive problem.
Which scenario do you do you pick, Mr. Speaker?
Which one are you choosing?
Well, I mean, I think we're stuck with Biden, and that's better than Harris.
But but I I think it's frightening to realize that Biden almost certainly is not capable of leading the United States in an increasingly dangerous world.
It really, these are really frightening times.
That's all I can say.
Um we need your voice more than ever, Mr. Speaker.
We always appreciate you being with us.
Um 800-941 Sean is our number.
We'll get to your calls on this Friday.
There's got to be a light topic somewhere we can we could focus on.
Maybe we'll go back to happy meals for for Linda's six-year-old little boy.
That'll make all of us happy.
We maybe we all need the toy and the real French fries, not the air fried French fries.
Anyway, that's what makes you happy, giving my son disgusting food.
We really need to rethink this.
Okay, your problem is you've never had it, so you don't can't label something you haven't had as disgusting when it's delicious.
I had it when I was a kid.
I I think I still got a French few of those French fries sitting in my stomach right now.
Oh, good.
I wish I had some in there right by my stomach right now.
I'll take them.
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A little surprised at the well, aggressive nature and casual dismissal of a of a very primitive fundamental basic concept in America known as freedom and Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California actor, to anti-maskers, screw your freedom.
Really?
Listen, there is a virus here.
It kills people.
And the only way we prevent it is to get vaccinated, to wear masks, to do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.
No.
No.
Screw your freedom.
Because with freedom comes obligations and uh and responsibilities.
Screw your freedom.
Now, what I don't really understand is most people were told if they got the vaccination, life goes back to normal.
Now it's it was either vax or mask.
Now it's vax and mask.
And then you go from vax and mask, and and now we're gonna put masks on your kids.
But where's follow the science?
I love how everybody now is bought into this one size fits all uh new scientific method that we have in the country.
It doesn't matter if you have a rare medical condition of some sort that prevents you from getting a vaccination, and your doctor, based on your unique medical history, your unique medical condition, your doctor says it's probably not a good idea for you to get the vaccine for whatever reason.
I think people on their own, uh every American understands the concept of masks, understands the concepts of social distancing, understands that there are not one, not two, but three uh vaccines available.
If there's if there's any lack of knowledge, what what I have found, it's on, okay, well, therapeutics.
Now that now that the CDC last week finally said, yeah, vaccinations will no longer prevent people from getting COVID-19, that's a game changer.
And I noticed that Ron DeSantis, very rightly so, is putting together these regeneron monocolonial uh antibody cocktail uh centers all across Florida.
Why?
Because he already mobilized every state agency in Florida to protect the elderly population.
Now he's saying, okay, well, now even if you're vaccinated, you could still get COVID.
Okay, well, the best solution for you in that moment is to then get regeneraton.
I I think the most underutilized weapon, my humble opinion, check with your own doctor, uh, most underutilized therapeutic uh in the country.
And I know for a fact, because I know people that have gotten the infusion.
In the last week, I know over a dozen people that have gotten the infusion.
The last week alone.
And a majority of them were fully vaccinated.
I know an older gentleman, 74, well, not that old, 74 years old, not in perfect health, but he wasn't vaccinated, had regenerat infused with less than 24 hours after diagnosis, and now he's negative.
Now he's perfectly fine.
Wife, same things, kids, same thing.
The whole family got it, because the Delta variants, you know, is is just what it is.
It's the variant.
And you know, I don't want to breathe a bearer of bad news here on a Friday, but we don't have particularly good news to offer you as it relates to what's coming after this, because there's going to be other variances that you're gonna have to be paying attention to.
I wish I didn't have to tell everybody, but it's true.
You know, the latest one that we're paying attention to is the Lambda variants, and that's now making its way, and all indications in Chile and and Peru and other places is that vaccinations are not preventing breakthrough cases with that variant either.
Anyway, 800-941 Shauna's our number.
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Uh let's say hi to Michelle is in Alabama.
What's happening, Michelle?
How are you?
Glad you called.
I'm doing great.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Uh well, earlier this week I saw on the nightly news um they were doing a special that um Canada was allowing Americans to now come into their country, um, you know, with several different documents.
And then they followed it up that the United States is still not letting Canadians come into our border, and yet nothing was said about all the people coming into the southern border, and I just thought that was kind of crazy that you know what's wrong with Canadians coming in, as opposed to all the people that are coming in, you know, from the South.
So it just nothing else was said about it, so I thought it was a bit hypocritical.
So welcome to politics in the United States of America circa 2021.
Yeah, hypocrisy is rampant.
I mean, it's ridiculous it's insanity.
You've got over a million people.
We're not testing any of them.
We got the highest rate of COVID positivity of people crossing the border.
I mean, I'll give you the latest numbers.
The DHS admits coronavirus positive border crossers are increasingly arriving at the U.S. We have leaked video that just came out today.
It was in the Daily Caller, hundreds of people at a camp for COVID-positive illegal immigrants in South Texas.
Former uh border patrol chief, potentially 40,000 COVID-positive illegal immigrants released into the U.S. They're dispersed all throughout the country by Biden's DHS, and then we're getting lectured about vaccine mandates.
Uh, we're getting lectures from Arnold Schwarzenegger, we're getting lectured about mask mandates.
We're getting lectured about vaccine passports, and you don't even give the people at the border a test.
And July, we had a record 212,672 illegal immigrants allowed into this country uh without testing a single person.
Now tell me how that may why are Americans getting these draconian orders and yet none of this is happening anywhere else?
It's unbelievable.
I know exactly.
I don't feel like that our government should mandate anything unless you're mandating everyone that comes across our border to not be able to come into our country without getting vaccinated or even being processed properly.
I'm not against anyone coming into our country, but at least be processed to where they can be tracked like all of the citizens of the United States are being tracked.
So it may it makes no sense at all.
No.
Anyway, we appreciate it.
Thanks for the call, uh, Michelle in Alabama.
So there was a July 28th report on bio RXIV.
The study awaits peer review, but before getting published, and researchers in Japan are sounding the alarm on what's called C dot 37, and that's the variant, the Peruvian variant dubbed Lambda, like you now know hear a lot about the Delta variants.
When you hear about Lambda, remember you heard it here uh way ahead of everyone else.
Anyway, the strain now is somewhat contained in at least 26 countries, substantial outbreaks in Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Ecuador, and notably the vaccination rate in Chile is is relatively high, uh, with people having received at least one dose of the vaccines, around 60 percent.
But what they're seeing is is that a big COVID-19 surge in Chile this spring, suggesting the lambda variant is proficient in escaping the vaccination.
Well, that's now going to be coming here next.
It's just a matter of time.
And the proportion of lambda variant as COVID 19 cases in the U.S. is just one-tenth of one percent of the share compared to that of Delta, uh the Delta variants, we're gonna see a lot more of this.
And I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's another variant behind this, and there probably will be five more variants behind them.
I mean, you know, when does this ever end?
Because that's not what they told us.
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Uh Courtney is in Los Angeles.
Courtney, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
K E I B. What Hey, Sean.
What's going on?
I just wanted to say, um, and you've been talking about it, that uh socialism, communism, this does not work, and it never has.
And do these democratic proponents of these uh socialism and the and and communism really think that they're smarter than Marx or Stalin or Castro or Chavez?
I mean that as that's evolved over the last hundred, hundred and twenty years that these guys have the secret sauce to make something you know, something work that's just horrible for for those societies.
I mean, look at look at Argentina before Peron came in and then after.
Look at Cuba after Castro.
And um, if if it's so good in all these countries, and those those hot spots are all over the world.
Why are those people of those countries so miserable that they will do anything to get here to the United States?
It makes no sense.
Well, it speaks volumes about the United States, so we are perfect country.
No, do we make all the effort we can to to take a system of government and strive and move towards a more perfect union?
Yeah, do we make strides?
We have.
Do we have further to go?
Yeah.
I'm worried now that things have become so politicized that the justice system now, you know, we're criminalizing political differences.
There's a dual justice system, one for liberal Democrats and the Biden family and the and the Clinton family, and another for all families that are conservative, or if your last name is Trump, forget it.
About all of that.
It's it's just sad to me.
And if this keeps happening, I mean, I I read today in the Wall Street Journal, oh, Durham is apparently before the grand jury, low level people are gonna probably get prosecuted.
I'm like, well, first of all, I I felt it had the FBI's fingerprints in terms of a leak all over it.
That was my own gut feeling.
But more importantly, it's like really a little late, John.
Where are you been?
You know, what are we gonna find out at the end of Biden's term?
You know, the the FBI has Hunter Biden's laptop.
Everybody knows that that has any contacts in the media, how bad it is what's on there.
And yet nothing happens.
Just like nothing happens with Joe's quid pro quo with Ukraine.
Just like, you know, here we've got Hunter Biden on tape this week admitting that the Russians have one of his laptops.
It makes one wonder why Vladimir Putin got his waiver for his pipeline where we're firing Americans and stopping production of our pipelines.
It makes you wonder why he gets a summit after major hackings in the U.S. by Russians.
Uh, you know, the level of compromise with the Biden family with China and Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Uh, if it was the Trump family, it'd be a very different story.
So am I very optimistic?
No, I'm not.
I'm frankly extremely worried.
You know, we gotta we we're now weaponizing the Department of Justice.
We're gonna go after George's accessibility accessible voting laws, way more accessible than Delaware and ignore Delaware.
That tells you everything you need to know about what's happening at the DOJ.
Um not feeling too good about it, to be very honest.
Courtney, I'll give you the last word.
Well, here's some some quasi good news.
And uh in four uh I hope people wake up today and then in 14 months they go and vote.
And they vote these um ideologues uh out of office.
And um, you know, get some get some symbol semblance of of normalcy back.
And um anyway, thank you for what you do and um have a good one.
Well, thank you.
There's one thing that has to happen in the interim, though, and that is something called election integrity laws.
The things that we've discussed, voter IDs, I uh signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls, you know, partisan observers can observe.
All of these things need to happen in every state.
There's nothing draconian, there's nothing unusual about any of them.
And this way, hopefully that'll instill confidence and integrity in the system and confidence in the results.
Um Anita, New Jersey, what's up, Benita?
Glad you called.
Hi, good afternoon, Shaw.
Thank you so much for taking my phone call.
I love hearing the show.
Thank you.
Um my uh my pleasure.
I want to know where are all those people who say my body, my choice.
Why are we being mandated?
I am pro-vaccine.
However, I am against mandates.
And why uh get it, get the vaccine and get hundred dollars.
Why?
Why hasn't all the employees of Pfizer have been vaccinated?
Why they don't let their employees vaccinate at Moderna employees.
They're not vaccinated.
They haven't been vaccinated.
The founders, they say it out loud that they were not to get the vaccine.
So why is the big push?
I had not read that.
There was a report that I saw that I think it was the president of one of those, I think it was Pfizer, uh, had not been fully vaccinated, and then he corrected the record and actually put out a a picture of him getting vaccinated.
Um so I'm I don't know about the employees.
That's new to me.
I did not hear that.
Um but I tend to agree with you.
I think there's look, that there's too many factors here for individuals.
One size fits all medicine doesn't work.
There are rare conditions you can't get a vaccine.
They exist.
I've interviewed the people.
There are other people that are following the science of the Cleveland Clinic.
They had COVID, they have natural immunity, T cell immunity, and they don't want to get vaccinated.
The Cleveland Clinic says they don't need a vaccination.
Why are we forcing them to get it?
Um, you know, so these are just very, very strange times we're living in.
And the idea that everybody thinks they can play doctor, one size fit all fits all medicine, uh, is a little chilling to me.
And I refuse to be a part of that game.
I'm not gonna do it.
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