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Sept. 29, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
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Losing A Nation - September 29th, Hour 2
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So if I am correct, this is what a failed presidency looks like.
This is what the economy looks like.
This is what the border looks like.
This is what begging OPEC to to produce more oil while we now have, you know, however many years high crude oil, uh making Putin rich again.
I said it at the time, that that pipeline, that waiver that Joe gave Vladimir Putin.
We now have record high prices for natural gas.
We should be providing our Western European allies and taking care of all of their needs, but no, Vladimir Putin will make that money and get rich.
Thank you, Joe Biden.
This is what a failed presidency looks like.
Um then we've got now not only the disaster which is abandoning Americans, day forty-six behind enemy lines, and their families and thousands of green card holders, people that are legally eligible to be here in this country, and our Afghan allies that we promised we'd never abandon.
Now they're all those people will all be dead.
The question is, can we ever get our fellow Americans home?
Every day that passes, I say the odds get lower.
I pray to God I'm wrong.
Um there was a powerful moment with Congressman Jim Banks, who's on the program earlier this week from Indiana.
Remember, he served in Afghanistan, asking General Milley if he is embarrassed by the Woodward book.
You told uh the Senate yesterday you hadn't read the book or any of the other political books that have come out, but I don't know how anybody could read the Bob Woodward book.
I don't know how you could read it and not be greatly embarrassed about his contents, especially in what how it's related to you.
Are you embarrassed by the book?
I haven't read the book yet.
Umbarrassed by the portrayals of the book.
No doubt you're aware of them.
Embarrassed, no.
I'm concerned that there's uh mischaracterizations of me becoming very politicized as an individual and that it's my willingness to become politicized, which is not true.
I am trying to stay apolitical, and I believe I am.
That's part of my professional ethic, and I'm trying to keep the military, the actual military out of actual domestic politics.
I think that's critical.
No, I think that it's important for me to speak to the media.
All right, so here's where we are.
He says he's apolitical, but he's giving interviews to every author telling about private conversations, even with the president.
Uh he's admitting that and he admitted yesterday that yes, he told his counterpart in China, yeah.
Even I'd even call you and give you a heads up if we're going to have a strike against uh hostile regime in an enemy country.
He admits that he's having these conversations with Nancy Pelosi.
He admits about these loyalty oaths with fellow high-ranking military officers, kind of like a loyalty oath.
Bill O'Reilly's simple man, should General Milley now be relieved of his duties just for what we know he did and admits that he did.
Of course.
There's no doubt about it.
You know, today is the anniversary of uh the commissioning of the American military, Hannity.
I know you know that, you're a historian.
George Washington in 1789 today, formulated the national American military.
Up to that point it was state militias.
So this is very ironical what's happening.
So uh here's what I believe happened.
And by the way, I have to compliment you, because last night at nine o'clock on television you came on and you said uh Millie's gotta go, and the reason is that he talked to all of these reporters, and uh in a furtive way, a sly way, wasn't on the record, it wasn't publicized.
And um military uh commanders cannot do that.
All right.
So Millie says he's a political, and he's not.
He knew that Woodward and all the other reporters cited were anti-Trump people.
He knew that.
And he talked to them uh with a cloaked veil.
He didn't come out and say, you know, I talked to Woodward last night, and this is what he was concerned about.
He tried to hide it.
And Woodward tried to protect him, but of course I got blown up.
So just for that, Millie's gotta go because as Millie said, the military has to be apolitical.
And you know, I got a lot of mail about this Lieutenant Colonel who is now in the brig and gonna be charged, who came out to criticize.
Yeah, by the way, his parents were on this show yesterday.
Right.
Well, as much as I uh sympathize with his point of view and agree with it, you cannot do that if you are an officer of any military branch in the United States.
But by the way, you know that he admitted it, number one.
He couldn't he couldn't refute it.
He posted it, but he also offered to resign.
Well, he should have resigned before he did that.
He should not be able to do that.
He would be in less legal trouble, but I don't think he should be in the brig, Bill for pointing out the obvious.
I probably wouldn't put him in the brig, but if you're going to say that a military has to be apolitical, you have to enforce it on both sides.
And the all the mail that I get to say, oh no, you're crazy, O'Reilly, for saying this guy should be cashiered.
What are they supposed to do?
If you're not going to have a military if you allow commanders to go and put political stuff on the table that has to be done on chain of command.
So anyway, getting back to military.
Millie, he's got to go, and I think he will go.
Not immediately, but he burned Biden.
And Biden knows that.
And the only thing could save him is if Millie has stuff on Biden, which he may.
But in a uh competent administration, you have to you can't have and Austin's got to go too, the Secretary of Defense.
Because his he has no grasp of what happened in Afghanistan.
He doesn't know.
By the way, you do know yesterday he said there could be as many as four thousand uh Americans.
He didn't know a thing.
It's a disaster, Bill.
This is what a failed presidency looks like.
That's my point.
Wait, but let's get specific.
I'd like to keep it precise.
All right.
I'll keep it as precise as you want.
You go.
Okay.
You got a Secretary of Defense who doesn't know what anything about Afghanistan, okay.
You've got a Secretary of Homeland Security presiding over the biggest intrusion in our history on the southern border.
Never been worse.
And lying about it.
Yeah, whatever, lying, misleading.
You know, you put whatever word you want in there.
But and then you have a um a Justice Department that's presiding over a murder rate that's up 30%.
So everything is collapsing under the presidency of Joe Biden.
And this was this was a capper in for all you people who voted for Biden still sticking out for him.
The question was lodged to Saki, the Minister of Propaganda.
Okay.
Okay, so Biden's saying he got mixed advice on leaving a residual force in Afghanistan.
So the three top commanders say we told him you gotta leave these.
But then Biden says, well, no, other people told me not to.
And then Bill, Bill, he does he actually said that I can play it for you.
As a matter of fact, let me let me play this montage because I think.
So people don't forget it.
So the question is asked, who were the people advising Biden not to leave anybody?
And Saki goes, I can't tell you.
Because there is nobody.
One, Millie can't can't I assume Millie was tape recorded, or he believes he might have been.
Yes.
So that puts him in a box.
So he had to sort of do this, you know, no spin zone if uh you used to call it version, a spin-zone version of admitting to the China conversation.
He's parsing.
Parsing words.
Word of the day, Bill.
We parse words, right?
All right.
So he's trying to do that on the one hand.
On the other hand, Biden is just outright lying.
Because he said specifically, I don't recall anybody telling me that.
Listen.
My assessment was uh back in the fall of 20, and it remained consistent throughout that uh we should keep a steady state of 2500, and it could bounce up to 3500, maybe something like that, uh, in order to move toward a negotiated gated solution.
I will also tell you, though, that it's been my consistent position throughout this hearing in the hearing yesterday that I believe the appropriate level of our forces in Afghanistan should have been 2500.
If I had said we're gonna stay, then we better be prepared to put a whole hell of a lot more troops.
No, they didn't.
It was split.
That wasn't true.
That wasn't true.
They didn't tell you that they wanted troops to stay.
No, not at not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame, all troops.
They didn't argue against that.
So no one no one told your military advisor to not tell you no, we should just keep 2500 troops.
It's been a stable situation for the last several years.
We can do that.
We can continue to do that.
No, no one said that to me that I can recall.
Nobody said that to me.
Yeah, not that I recall.
And he can't be able to do that.
Yeah.
He can't recall what said to him three hours ago.
So look, now let's advance the story.
There isn't any doubt about it.
You have a Secretary of State Blinken who doesn't know what he's doing.
A Secretary of Defense who doesn't know what he's doing.
A Secretary of Homeland Security who doesn't know what he's doing, and a president who can't remember what is said to him three hours ago.
So this is an amazing disaster for the United States.
And I'm coming at it from a historical point of view, not as a pundit.
That's my other job.
I'm a historian and then I'm a contemporary pundit.
But I'm coming at it from have we ever seen this government competence ever in the United States?
And that is that is the story now.
So now let me give you one more compliment.
And I hate to do that, Hana.
You know how it pains me to by the way, but just so everybody knows, it really does pain, Bill.
This is this is the now we're making his he's a historian.
We're making history right now.
Two in a day.
Go ahead.
Hit me with it.
Okay.
So at nine o'clock last night, because I'm the reporter that I am.
I tuned in to MSNBC CNN and Hannity on Fox simultaneously.
That's an art form in and of itself.
But I'm an amazing man, as you know.
All right.
So Matt Al, she leads yesterday with the January 6th Capitol attack.
Of course.
Did you know that?
No, I don't watch this.
I don't watch that shift.
That's what her lead story was.
It wasn't Millie.
It wasn't Biden misleading the country in the world.
It wasn't any of that.
It was going back to January.
Yeah, of course.
That's the only line of defense they got.
Yeah, that's NBC News.
That's NBC News.
Nine o'clock prime time.
That's what they lead with.
And then you led with the story that should have been number one, because it these remembered, all of this testimony from the military peoples under oath.
It's under oath, okay.
So that was the main story by far.
So one network reports it, and two networks don't.
It's very interesting, because I I'll show you how smart I am, Mr. O'Reilly.
I read your commentary today that you had watched a lot of cable news shows last night, and everybody missed the story.
Now you could have put in your newsletter except Hannity, but you didn't.
And you are a hundred percent right, but I know that without ever having to watch these shows.
I can't tolerate it, Bill.
Uh how you're able to do that.
Your point is, though.
Here's the larger point I want to make on the Sean Hannity radio program.
Six hundred trouble seventy stations now.
Go ahead.
Right.
We're in trouble in this country.
Okay.
All of us, all three hundred and fifty million, including the illegal aliens.
We're all in trouble.
Because the president of the United States cannot do his job, and the people under him are incompetent.
When you get that perfect storm of chaos, all people are going to be hurt.
And that's the point I'm trying to make.
There's no debate any longer about it.
I'm running out of time, but I want to add one final statement.
And you gave me the only non-cupcake interview when I my book came out.
The title of my book, Bill Was live free or die, America and the world on the brink.
You are a hundred thousand percent right.
But it's even bigger and and worse than that.
It's not just the United States, it's the entire world that is going to suffer with a weak United States.
Well, that's the problem.
The Chinese aren't gonna suffer.
The Chinese are gonna thrive beneficiaries.
Right.
But I gave you a compliment last week, and I said that you were Paul Revere on TV and radio last fall, telling everybody in exactly what you said is come true.
All right.
All things Bill O'Reilly, BillO'Reilly.com.
Uh we made history on the program today.
I got three compliments from Bill O'Reilly.
I I don't even know how to handle it.
It's impossible.
I my my head can't wrap my arms around this.
I'll try hard, Bill.
It's sad everything you're saying, and but it's also true.
But I'll say this we've come through world wars, civil wars, depressions.
We 9-11.
We're gonna survive this.
We need all hands on deck, Bill.
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800-941 Sean.
We'll get right to the phones.
Big time AJ, Houston, Texas, Joe Pags' best buddy.
What's going on big time?
Big time Seanity.
Hey, most Sean, I'm so right now, I can't.
Them three treasonous dirty rats on that television set that we watching.
They asked this general, well, when they took over the first town, uh, what what were you doing talking about you being woke and this and that?
You should have been trying to stop him at that point.
And he said there and look like a deer at headlights.
And I'm like, really?
And the Democrats, Sean, as usual, as we sing, and you know I'm kind of upset right now, but they sitting there asking these softball questions, and the Republicans pushing, but they're not pushing hard like I want them to push them.
So they asked that well, the black guy, uh, I can't think his name.
They say, well, um, who do you think is at fault for this debacle?
Well, you're talking about Lloyd Austin, um, the defense secretary.
Yes, sir.
Listen, you none of them know I got quiet.
That's what he did.
He looked like he went five minutes and was quiet.
I'm like, dude, he asked you a question.
Ain't you going?
Sean he said there and look like a uh uh tap pole on a stick.
I'm like, really?
Sean, why are they doing this here and if ain't nobody gonna get charged?
Somebody need to be charged for what these these I'm gonna call them treasonous.
Yes, I did, people.
What they did to get these people killed, and who is the rest of these people they let out of there?
It sure ain't the ones that helped our troops and helped our country.
Who are the rest of these people?
I mean, they leaving them be uh the song behind, and who are they?
We don't know nothing.
And then they'll tell you, oh well, no, uh, well, we can't give out this information.
And then they trying to blame Donald Trump.
Really?
I mean, Sean, it's a debacle.
Sean, hit him like a bad habit.
Do not let up on this because they don't try to, and then they bring it up January to six.
We're not talking about January 6th, which we know that y'all set that up.
We're talking about Afghanistan when you got.
Oh, he said that, oh, yeah.
Well, they only care about one riot.
They ignore the 535 riots that killed dozens of Americans and and injured thousands of cops.
Uh, they don't want to discuss that at all because that doesn't advance their narrative of hating Trump.
Uh, and then they stack it with, you know, the most partisan, you know, never Trumpers like Liz Cheney, who's, you know, all over 60 minutes uh acting like you know she's far superior to any politician that's ever walked the face of the earth, and now she's in a partnership with the very people that called her father a war criminal, a murderer, uh, and accused him of uh financial crimes at Howliburton.
So, you know, good luck with that that policy, Liz, and I hope it works out for you.
Uh all right, big time.
It's a mess.
That's all I can say.
Well, this is this is what this is what a failing presidency looks like.
This is what a weak, frail cognitive mess of a president looks like.
This is what I was warning about.
Live free or die, America and the world on the brink.
We're all going to suffer.
We're all suffering because of it.
And you know what?
We're not suffering as badly as the 13 families that needlessly lost their loved ones.
We're not suffering like those behind enemy lines today, but we're all suffering as a country.
There's nothing this guy is doing that's working.
And for whatever reason, he's gone hard, hard, radical socialist left.
And I'm not even sure who's making the decisions anymore.
Uh this is this is why it's not a joke.
I said a number of months ago.
I can't even joke about it anymore.
Joe Biden's, you know, verbal gaffs, malaprops, you know, mind, you know, brain farts of that he's constantly having.
It's not funny anymore.
It's not funny because lives are in jeopardy here.
Ian, New York next, Sean Hannity Show, the all new AM 710 W O R. What's going on?
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call, first of all.
Um I've been listening to you for years with my father.
Um I wanted to make a quick comment about the uh the hearing yesterday.
Um I unfortunately have some Democrats in my family that still support this imbecile.
Um still defend him to tooth and nail.
Um it's it really is kind of a disgrace that anybody can still defend him.
Um his own generals, they're un-American when you when it comes down to it.
Well, I mean, you you've got everybody, it's it's now CYA time.
My assessment was uh back in the fall of 20, and it remained consistent throughout that uh we should keep a steady state of 2500 and it could bounce up to 3500, maybe something like that, uh, in order to move toward a negotiated gated solution.
I will also tell you, though, that it's been my consistent position throughout this hearing in the hearing yesterday, that I believe the appropriate level of our forces in Afghanistan should have been 2500.
And there's one problem that they have here is that everybody saw it unfold in very slow motion.
I might do this tonight on TV.
I'm gonna walk through our we have this time-lapse map that we lay out with the Taliban on the march and the specific dates and the geographical areas that they're taking over and when they took them over.
And then the question actually came up today well, why didn't you act when you saw that they were on the march?
There's no good answer.
Well, you know, why did the CIA pull out seven weeks earlier?
The CIA wasn't keeping this information private to themselves.
They pulled out because they saw the inevitable happening.
They were uh according to all of my sources, and I've been critical of the 1% in the intelligence community.
I've always praised the 99% because the CIA did their job.
They were they were basically short of screaming, you need to pay attention.
They they did not pull out for no reason.
They pulled out because they saw what was coming, and they didn't keep it to themselves.
They shared it with Joe Biden.
Joe Biden was apprised of this every day.
Tony Blinken knew the defense secretary knew, Millie knew all of them knew, none of them acted.
We had no idea that this would collapse in seven days.
They didn't even ask the military until August 25th, six days before the deadline, uh, what they should do.
Kabul fell on August what, 15th, 10 days prior.
The question is, why didn't they, when they had full control of Bagram, full control of Kabul, full control of Karzai International Airport, and yes, even the perimeter.
Why, when they saw the Taliban on the march, didn't they stop them?
Number one, militarily, and number two, why didn't they expedite the withdrawal?
They could have done it safely.
Every American, all their family members, every green card holder, every ally, every bit of military equipment, we could have gotten out safely months in advance of them taking Kabul.
And if they if he would have listened to the generals and kept the 2500 people on the ground, if he would have followed the Trump plan, which was they would be obliterated if they ever went on the march, all of this was highly preventable.
Now we've created a safe haven.
So once again, Afghanistan is a safe haven for terrorists.
And that means the plotting, the planning, the scheming for the next 9 11 is going on as we speak.
And with all the people that they didn't vet that they've allowed into the country, if I'm a betting man, which I kind of am, I bet on a light basis, but I'm a betting man.
You want to bet me a hundred bucks, I'll bet you a hundred bucks.
Um I'm betting that probably they were infiltrated the the Afghanis that got on those airplanes.
I would almost guarantee radical extremists infiltrated that population and are probably now in this country, and that's called a sleeper cell.
And the sleeper cell at the right time is going to be activated, and Americans will die.
And the people we left behind, what do you think is gonna happen when ISIS or ISIS K or Al Qaeda, the new version, or whatever caliphate is in charge and they get a hold of an American?
What do you think they're gonna do?
Um I don't even want to say what I know is gonna happen.
I don't want to even say it.
Because there are people that are listening to this program that have family members there that are in that situation.
They're not stupid.
You know, when you what did I say privately to you, Linda when when I can't talk about Abby Petito came up, right?
We had you know, we had the family members on TV, the mothers and father and stepmom and stepdad, lovely people.
And I felt so bad for them.
This Brian Laundry guy.
You know, it was obvious what had happened.
And I said, Linda, I've been doing this for 33 years.
I said, Am I wrong?
And she looked at me and she said, No, you're not wrong, but I pray to God you're wrong.
And I pray to God I'm wrong.
Right?
Did that conversation not occur?
100%.
That's exactly how and you know, you know the exact examples I'm giving you here.
I pray to God I'm wrong.
I really mean it.
I would I wouldn't be happier in my life if I'm wrong.
I want to be wrong.
Please, God which make me wrong on this.
There's no greater loss than a lesson child.
And what we're dealing with now is is even more horrible.
And the fact that these guys are testifying nice and cozy in front of the Senate while people are trying to get on airplanes and get their eight-year-old children out of a war-torn terrorist-run nation.
It's it's inexplicable.
Yeah, that's right, but they can't land their plane, their chartered plane in America with American citizens on it.
It's happening right now, boss.
Right now.
Yeah, and and it will not be forthcoming if you need State Department approval to land in a third-party country to get people the hell out of out of Afghanistan, the Islamic emirates of Afghanistan, into a safe haven country where we can come and rescue you.
But they'll try to take the credit.
Don't don't don't question that.
They tried to do that with Ronnie Jackson in the case that he was involved in.
Yep.
I mean, it's only four people, but I'll take four every day.
If we can get four a day, I'd be happy.
Because that's four less people that are at risk of dying and being slaughtered and being decapitated and having their bodies dragged around like Black Hawk Down.
Remember Mogadishu?
Anybody else remember these moments?
Because I do.
That's where I'm praying I'm wrong.
Praying hard.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back, we'll continue.
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All right, back to our busy phones.
Steve in California.
Steve, how are you?
Hey, good Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
Just I just want to say this actually completes my hat trick of my three favorite patriots I've officially spoken with now between you and Mark Levin and Andrew Willcount.
I love you guys.
Oh, and Andrew's a great guy.
Mark's a great guy.
It's uh an honor to be even on the list.
Thank you.
Um, you know, I I know this Afghanistan keeps coming up, but it it, you know, it's got to be it, it can't go away either.
And listening to, you know, two-faced Joe Biden always talk about he's a proud military dad.
Speaking of his son, and I'm not referring to his loser's son Hunter.
I'm I'm referring to Bo.
And and you know, I'm not saying he was a bad guy, but but for Joe Biden to treat the military the way he has a son who did serve in the military, it's it's I I don't even understand how one can do that.
I mean, that's essentially he should he I don't even know how to say how how he could how he could do what he's done.
I mean, his son served in the military.
Imagine if his son was there in the situation that they were they were put in.
And now you take this uh this Marine who served 17 years, five tours, and and they've got him locked up for just for voicing his opinion.
Uh it's how does this happen under under this leadership?
Or I mean I don't even know we shouldn't call it leadership.
That's laughable.
But but how do we get to this point?
I I I don't I don't know.
Yeah, I mean you're raising great questions.
You know, in the case of Lieutenant Colonel Sheller, he knew what he was doing.
He he offered to resign.
Probably would have been cleaner if he resigned first and then put up the the viral videos.
But even with that said, this guy risked his life.
He had six tours of duty, one for an entire year.
And we're gonna put this guy in the brig and not let him talk to his mom and dad.
And now his poor mother on my program.
I hate doing these interviews.
I hate interviewing parents.
I have gold star families.
I I didn't like interviewing Gabby's parents, but these stories have to be told.
I find them the hardest interviews to do.
I can interview presidents, prime ministers, I'll interview anybody.
The ones I don't want to interview are people that I know are suffering and in pain, and I know I can't help them.
I hate it.
I want but I but it's important.
There's stories need to be told.
If we don't tell the story, no if the parents don't speak and I don't give them a platform like this, people aren't gonna know about it.
And meanwhile, the pr the public pressure, if it mounts and gets strong enough, they're gonna capitulate and they're gonna let this kid go.
Leave him alone.
He already lost his pension for crying out loud.
Leave the kid alone.
You know what he notice, you know what he's guilty of?
He told the truth.
Now I understand chain of command.
I understand military order.
I can I can respect them saying, okay, you broke the chain of command, you criticize your supervisors, you know what the consequences are.
He's ready to accept that.
He was ready to accept it.
But you you we're now going to ignore the 17 years of service, risking his life because he gave an opinion that was truthful and accurate.
They screwed this thing up so badly, and it was all preventable.
And he's repulsed by it, disgusted by it, and is willing to give up his pension to speak out about it.
Leave this kid alone.
Let him go and retire.
They'll probably give him a dishonorable discharge.
Good, great.
Well, we'll find a job for the kid.
You know, he's not a kid, he's absolutely in his 30s.
But to me, I guess if you're a kid if you're in your 30s.
Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
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