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April 8, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Latest on Russia - April 8th, Hour 3
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All right, news roundup, information overload hour, Sean Hannity show.
Toll Freyar number 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we spent a lot of time talking about what's going on in Ukraine and what Vladimir Putin has done.
And it is now almost incomprehensible.
I wrote this in my book, Deliver Us from Evil.
It's very hard for good people to wrap their minds around the concept that people could be so evil that something like an Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany and death camps.
It's all historically true.
And I talked about it in that book in the last century, over 100 million human souls.
If you look at Mao and China and Stalin and Russia and communism and fascism and Nazism and Imperial Japan and how many people, innocent human beings, are dead.
You know, we live in an era now where we can see these atrocities in real time and we're watching them all play out right before our eyes.
I mean, every single day, what we're putting on TV and what we're showing you, it should shock the conscience and soul of good people.
And you're like, well, why is this happening?
How did this happen?
So anyway, the latest, you know, we've talked about Bucha and the human massacres.
The Russians were leaving.
They just indiscriminately slaughtered everybody, men, women, and children.
They did not care.
You know, stories of rapes and horror, just horrible evil in our time.
What must the world understand?
We are defending the ability of a person to live in the modern world.
They say we're defending Western values.
And I always say, what are Western values?
Someone who lives in the United States or Europe, do they not like children?
Do they not want their children to go to university?
Do they not want their grandfather to live for 100 years?
We have the same values.
We are defending the right to live.
I never thought this right was so costly.
These are human values, so that Russia doesn't choose what we should do and how I'm using my rights.
That right was given to me by God and my parents.
What did you see in Bucha?
Smert.
Death.
Just death.
Now we have the latest.
We have Russians writing on missiles for our children.
They wrote it on a missile that was used in an attack on a Ukrainian railway station that refugees were at and killed 39 civilians.
There was no military there at all.
There was no reason to kill those people, including kids, fleeing, trying to get out of their country with whatever they can carry with them and whatever suitcase they might have.
Anyway, it was Ukraine State Railway Company.
This attack happens at this station.
It's in the east side of the country.
The governor of the regions later said the death toll is as high as 39 people, probably more.
Pictures from outside the station, you look at these pictures.
It speaks for itself.
Bodies all over the ground, body bags, other pictures showing the wreckage of the missile.
And then the Russian text written on the side that was, I guess, you know, that part of the missile they retrieved reading for our children.
And President Zelensky went to Instagram to obviously to decry the attack, confirming the casualties.
Russia's defense ministry denied the attack, but they've been lying the whole time.
And you look at a city like Mariupol, and that's destroyed.
There's a great article, and I hardly ever agree with General Wesley Clark.
I'm not even a fan of General Wesley Clark's, but he's making the case that the time to arm Ukraine is right now, which is the case I've been making now for two weeks.
And he rightly points out in this article that Ukraine, if we give them the heavy weaponry and air support that they need, the tanks that they need, in other words, the drones, the javelins, the Stinger missiles, also the MiGs that Poland was offering to them that Joe vetoed, the anti-missile defense system, anti-aircraft defense system.
Give them all of these things.
And we do it now.
It's not sufficient at this time.
But there's a window of opportunity in which Ukraine can really start a counterattack from the North and the South and the East to expel Russian forces.
But that would require mobile armored forces and air power.
Now, that's all got to be Ukraine.
I am standing firm on the Reagan doctrine, which is peace through strength.
And the Reagan, you know, Reagan proved that it could work, that if you supply individual countries that are being attacked, like when the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and you provided them with the Stinger missiles, they can defend themselves.
And you don't put a single American boot on the ground.
And they're like with the freedom fighting Contras in Nicaragua against the Sandinistas and Daniel Ortega.
They were backed by the former Soviet Union, by the way, in case you're interested.
So there are ways to do it, but they have to have the weaponry.
And what has really shocked me in all of this, and it's funny because the Biden administration wants to take credit for Ukraine's success.
Most of the javelins they had that were able to, that they were able to use so effectively against Russia and Vladimir Putin came from the Trump era.
Now, they are getting them weapons.
They are getting them humanitarian assistance, but only a small portion of the dollars that are now being allocated are actually going towards the weapons of war that they need to not only fight this insurgency, but win this war.
And it would be great for the world if we were able to stop Putin here.
And all the West and all that NATO needs to do and Western European countries need to do and all the U.S. needs to do is give them the weaponry because they have proven their valor, their courage, and their willingness to fight and risk their lives and die for their country.
Today, the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine.
We are fighting for the values of Europe and the world, sacrificing our lives in the name of the future.
That's why today the American people are helping not just Ukraine, but Europe and the world to keep the planet alive.
I am addressing the President Biden.
You are the leader of the niche of your nation.
I wish you to be the leader of the world.
Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.
Thank you.
Is this genocide?
Indeed, this is genocide.
The elimination of the whole nation and the people, We are the citizens of Ukraine.
We have more than 100 nationalities.
This is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities.
We are the citizens of Ukraine and we don't want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation.
This is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated.
And this is happening in the Europe of the 21st century.
So this is the torture of the whole nation.
All right.
Rebecca Koffler, a former defense intelligence officer and strategist, also wrote the book, author of Putin's playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America.
In the sense that I never agree with a guy like Wesley Clark, I do think this window is open wide right now for the Ukrainian people.
If they got the arms from the West, they would be able to win this war.
Rebecca, am I right or wrong?
You're right in the sense that as long as we provide critical weaponry to the Ukrainians, Vladimir Putin cannot win.
And any day that Vladimir Putin cannot win is a victory for Zelensky and the Ukrainian people.
That means that Putin will not be able to commit atrocities that he has been committing.
So yes, we have a very short window of opportunity right now to make a major push in providing support to Ukrainians.
Well, I mean, this is all they really need.
There's two things, Rebecca, that I've been saying from the beginning.
The Ukrainians just need the arms so they can fight back and not just defensive weapons.
I'd argue they need offensive weapons.
And secondly, I don't care how they do it.
They don't need a task force to figure this out.
They need to immediately find alternative sources of energy, natural gas and oil, for countries in Western Europe like Germany that stupidly allowed themselves to become so dependent on Russia for the lifeblood of their economy.
Absolutely.
The differentiation between offensive and defensive weapons is pure semantics.
It all depends on the mission.
Are you using the same weapon system defensively or offensively?
So we need to provide everything that we can regarding Germany.
It is not by chance that Germany has gotten itself addicted to the Russian needle, the Russian energy.
What do you think Vladimir Putin, when he was the KGB operative, was doing in Dresden when he was stationed there, collecting dossiers?
So Germany needs to realize that they're part of NATO and they need to support the NATO mission.
And that is to reduce the vulnerability to Vladimir Putin, whether it's energy or any other kind of influence that might be there.
Quick break, right back more with Rebecca Koffler on the other side.
Then your calls, 800-941 Sean, our number as we continue this Friday.
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At 9 p.m., do you know where your president is?
I don't know.
Yep, he's sound asleep in his bed.
With lot of care in the world.
Must be nice, Joe.
The rest of us will keep working.
On the Sean E.D. Show.
All right, now we continue.
Rebecca Kopler is with us.
There is a report that the U.S. is offering intelligence, but I don't think the intelligence is enough.
I think with even Google imaging for crying out loud, you can see the extent of where the Russian forces are assembling at any given moment.
But in the sense that Zelensky and this insurgency has been able to not only fight back, but really push back and make the Russian army put them on defense the whole time has been a bit of a miracle to me, and it's not something that I expected.
Neither did I, Sean.
It's definitely a miracle.
You're completely right.
What Zelensky has done has not been achieved in any other conflict that Russia has fought.
Remember Chechnya?
Remember Georgia, where he still has peacekeepers, Transystria, which is a disputed territory in Moldova.
So Zelensky has changed the battlefield by not only defending his country, but also going on a fence against Putin.
Not many people have the courage to do that, and he does.
And so we need to do everything that is possible right now to assist the guy to stop this madness where Putin is annihilating women, children, maternity wards.
This is our opportunity, and this is our chance before May 9th, which is a major holiday for Putin, and he needs to claim some sort of victory, and that is why he's escalating.
Well, Zelensky has to push back right now.
But he can't push back with slingshots.
He's got to have weaponry.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I mean, this is what you've been saying for weeks.
I mean, ever since this operation started on February 24th, you have been advocating more support for Ukraine, and you have been advocating that the Europeans finally, you know, step up and start pitching in for collective defense and wean themselves off of their addiction to Russian energy.
It's very simple.
No.
What do you read into Vladimir Putin going to this funeral of this politician, I guess an ally of his?
He goes to the funeral, but all the other mourners were cleared away when the president got there, meaning Putin got there to pay his respects.
Is that evidence of more paranoia on his part that he's afraid he's going to get assassinated?
Now, meanwhile, we have reports of Putin sending in mercenaries to kill Zelensky and his family.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, Putin has been sending assassins to eliminate Zelensky for several weeks now.
Both the Wagner group and the Kadyrovsky have been hunting for the guy.
So he needs to be super, super careful.
His security has been tremendous, and he needs to keep it that way.
With regard to the funeral of Ziriyanovsky, Zhirinovsky is the Russian ultra-nationalist and a clown.
And this demonstrates to us that Putin actually is not the worst, believe it or not, that we could get when it comes to Russia.
The person who was always the runner-up when Putin was elected four times by the Russians was a communist.
And so what I make of it that they helped, Putin ordered the clearing out of the funeral.
Yes, of course.
If you have somebody who is a war criminal, of course he's paranoid.
Is he paranoid to the point where he's mentally incapacitated?
No, he's still able to commit atrocities, and he has been.
We really appreciate you being with us, Rebecca Koffler.
Thank you so much for your time, your insight.
Nobody knows Putin better than you do, and we appreciate your service to this country as well.
We appreciate you always coming on.
Thanks.
Thank you, Sean.
Delighted to be here with you and your amazing audience.
And have a great weekend.
Quick break, right back.
All right, 25 now until the top of the hour, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Let's say, hi to Judith is in Alabama.
Where in Alabama are you, Judith?
How are you?
Hi, I'm fine.
Outside of Dothan, Alabama, in the southeast corner.
I know it very, very well.
Thanks for calling, and happy Friday.
What's going on?
Elections integrity.
Here's the thing.
Votes are currency.
Think about banks, and banks hold currency.
A ballot box is the same as a bank.
Votes are the currency.
A bad vote is a counterfeit currency.
And in banks, currency, when currency is moved, it's moved in dual custody.
Two people.
And two people have to sign for it in, out, sideways, whatever it is that they do.
Why can't that be the same situation?
And I'm shocked that it's not.
When you're moving ballots around, whether they're picked up from drop-offs or process, whatever.
Why is that not pro quo?
Well, it means how many hundreds of thousands of counterfeit votes were cast in 2020?
I don't know about counterfeit votes, but I do know laws weren't obeyed.
And I do know the constitutions were ignored.
And I do know, for example, almost every state has a law that says partisan observers get to watch the vote count up close from start to finish.
That did not happen in 2020 in any state.
So look, for example, we have Omicron 2.0 or PA2, as they call it.
There's another variant that has emerged in Great Britain.
We'll see if it sticks or it doesn't, but there's likely to be a variant behind this variant.
And you have to wonder if Democrats would try to use COVID once again to take integrity measures out of the process.
And what I've been saying since early 2021 is every state needs to adopt integrity measures.
Voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls from start to finish.
The mail arrives.
It should be on camera the entire time, put in a room on camera so people know that it can't be tampered with.
We need updated voter rolls.
And if we have, if we're in the middle of a surge of COVID, we need to make accommodations so that the partisan observers, as required by law, are allowed to view the ballot up close.
Those are considerations that need to be dealt with now, not later.
And I'd also add illegal immigrants shouldn't be allowed to vote as now states like New York City are allowing it to happen in local elections, etc.
So, you know, not every state has adopted the measures that make me feel comfortable.
You know, integrity is so important because if you have integrity measures in place and you follow the integrity measures, then everybody's confident with the outcome of the results.
It's really that simple.
It's not really any more complicated than that.
And you would think Democrats want that.
They don't want that.
How is it you need a voter ID to get into the Capitol to view your, to meet with your congressman or senator, or to get into the White House or the DNC convention, or you need a COVID vaccination card in many states to get into a frigging restaurant or a sporting event or a concert, but you don't want to have voter ID for elections.
Now, there's something that tells me that the real reason for that is far more nefarious than what they're letting on.
Now, they like to say by requiring that, that's requiring voter suppression.
Well, are they suppressing turnout at the DNC convention?
Are they suppressing turnout at the U.S. Capitol?
Are they suppressing, you know, for example, should we not have photo ID requirements to buy alcohol as they want, as required by law?
So this is just a game that they're playing because they think it's going to give them an advantage.
That's the only reason they don't want the integrity measures.
So, you know, I think it's worth fighting for, but that has to happen.
Remember, on the state level, now, Congress tried to do it a number of ways.
In every version of Build Back Better, they kept throwing in, you know, federalizing of elections and taking the constitutional authority away from states.
We can't let that happen.
I'll give you the last word.
So if you remember back to 2020 and the pickup of the drop-off ballots, the video that was shown was one person, one person was there and picking up the ballots.
There was no dual custody.
That person could have been anybody with a key.
It's the same thing with the guy that came out and was a whistleblower and he said, look, I made $43,000 in 2020 by dumping ballots and you had to have photos of you dumping the ballots in the box and yada yada.
But the dual custody should extend from any place that has drop-off ballots.
Well, you know, I think the drop-off ballot issue is one that even when you go back to after 2000, the Baker Commission, I think it was Baker-Carter Commission, Linda, if I'm not mistaken.
One of the things they said, even the New York Times recognized this, that mail-in balloting allows for more corruption than any other form of balloting.
And there are ways to do it and do it successfully.
The state of Florida has integrity measures.
You need signature verification.
You need updated voter rolls.
These are common sense checks and balances to ensure that the integrity measures are real.
So there's ways to do it, but you have to want to do it.
And apparently Democrats are not interested in doing it.
Anyway, have a great weekend, Judith.
Appreciate it.
Kathy, Arizona, next Sean Hannity Show.
Kathy, how are you?
I'm fine.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, you have always said if you know anyone who gets COVID, to get them on monoclonal antibodies ASAP.
My daughter.
Well, what's the first thing I say?
I said, call your doctor.
I'm not a doctor.
Call your doctor.
You test it positive.
And there's a new monoclonal antibody, by the way, for Omicron 2.
And we put all that information on Hannity.com.
Oh, thank you very much.
But it's hard to get a hold of.
It's harder than any other time to get a hold of it, which is unconscionable to me.
That's what I'm going to share with you.
My daughter was diagnosed with COVID last Saturday.
She's five months pregnant.
She lives in Minnesota, who really prides itself in its wonderful health care system, having the Mayo Clinic, et cetera.
So I right away said to her, Call your doctor, tell them you want a monoclonal antibodies because you know there's a five-day limitation on getting it.
Well, she never got a call back from the doctor on call on Saturday.
On Sunday, she called again, and at the end of the day, a nurse called and she said, Well, I can't do anything.
I'm a nurse.
So then she said, Call back Monday morning and talk to a doctor in your group.
Yeah, now you're on day four.
There you go.
A lot of help that.
So we're starting day three, actually, on Monday.
So Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
So she called the doctor's office, waited, waited, waited, waited, told them why she was calling.
The person who took her call said, Yes, you are a good candidate for these.
That is, you know, five months pregnant.
You're a good candidate.
I will have someone get back to you.
Well, again, no one called back until the very end of the day.
And it was, again, a nurse who said, you know, there's nothing I can do, but I will check with your health provider to see what the protocol is.
Because, now this is Monday, because the protocols have just changed today, and no one knows how to administer them.
So she said, I'll see if I can find out and I will call you back yet today or tomorrow, which would be day four.
So this is still a nurse, called her back and said, you know, the state of Minnesota Health Department has completely changed the protocols.
Those were her words directly.
And we just can't figure out how to handle the changes.
Call your health provider, which is called health partners.
So my daughter called Health Partners and they said, Oh, we don't administer therapeutics.
We never have.
We don't know.
And we don't plan on it.
This is a huge health provider, like Humana or something like that.
So then they said, referred her to Alina, which is another health provider.
And they said, well, we'll get back to you.
So they got back to her, of course, on day five and said, you have to be referred by a provider.
And your provider does not participate in this program.
So you may be out of luck, but we'll check.
This is the end of day five.
Let me stop you here because I get the whole picture.
And she didn't end up getting them.
How is she doing now?
Well, she's the same.
She's no worse, but she's no better.
And now how many days now has she had it?
Well, she was diagnosed Saturday.
So tomorrow it will be, what, eight?
Tomorrow will be day seven.
It'll be a full limit.
So what are her symptoms?
Her symptoms are it moved from her head cold to her chest, which scared me to death.
It should.
And I've told her, you know, if she feels any shortness of breath, et cetera, to call urgent care.
Of course, no one wants to.
Do you have an oxygen meter that she can measure her oxygen saturation level?
She doesn't, but I'm going to encourage her to get that.
Look, the window's probably passed.
It has.
Not for her husband, because he just was diagnosed yesterday.
Look, the only good news, and I'm guessing here, that I can give you is that most cases now are Omicron BA2 or Omicron 2.0, as I call it.
And it is far more contagious than even Omicron, but it is less lethal.
That doesn't mean people aren't dying from Omicron.
I want to be very clear.
Right.
But if her oxygen levels are good, by the time you get to Tuesday of next week, she'll be past the window where I think you have to worry.
Because what I have seen is day seven, eight, nine.
You know, if it gets into that lungs, and it then becomes an issue of your immune system overreacting and it creates this storm.
And that causes COVID, lung, COVID, pneumonia.
And I'm giving you a very layman's explanation of all that happens.
And that's when you run into real trouble.
And I don't want that to happen to her.
And I don't know the issue about monoclonals and women that are pregnant.
That's something you really have to deal with your doctor.
I'm just going to give you, I'm speaking through you to everybody else in this audience, is that first have a plan because we're now going to have in the next six weeks, it's going to be back.
And the numbers are up in 50 of half of the states right now.
And I just have a plan.
Now, if it's the antivirals, if that's all you can get a hold of, just talk to your doctor.
If I get it, these are my comorbidities.
This is my medical history.
This is my current condition.
I have high blood pressure.
I'm morbidly obese.
This, this, this, whatever it happens to be.
And get a plan of action ahead of time.
The problem for most people is that they're stuck in an Obamacare exchange and 40% of the country.
That means you have one healthcare provider option.
And it's one size fits all medicine.
And they don't have the manpower to give the attention and care to every patient that every patient deserves.
And I'll tell you what is emerging as a result of this.
And it's called concierge medicine.
Now, it's done in some states, like down in, where is it?
Wichita.
Our friend, Dr. Josh Umber, has a cooperative that you pay 50 bucks a month as an adult, and you get 24-hour access to a doctor, and you buy his prescriptions right.
You get your prescriptions right there at 90% discount, and you get as many doctor appointments as you need.
And if you buy catastrophic care with that, which is relatively inexpensive, you know, you're fully covered for everything.
But what's happening is most people I know are getting concierge service with their doctors because these plans suck.
And if I didn't have so many friends of mine that are doctors that I know I can call at 3 a.m. in the morning, I'd be in the same boat as everybody else.
I just happen to be fortunate that so many of my friends are doctors.
But it's terrible because you're describing the vast majority of the public and it's wrong.
I know.
It should be readily available for everybody.
I'm going to guarantee you something.
We're probably not going to get the truth from Joe Biden or the administration about Nancy Pelosi.
I guarantee you, Nancy Pelosi got monoclonal antibodies infused.
She said the same thing.
I guarantee it.
But is she going to tell us?
Now, somebody will ask Jen Saki or they'll ask Pelosi's press secretary, did she get monoclonal antibodies?
How did she treat it?
They're not going to answer them.
Well, what about medical?
Well, that's a medical privacy issue.
We'll let the congresswoman decide if she wants to talk about it.
They're not going to talk about it because they have care that's better than yours.
And because of, quote, their position, they'll get what they want.
And the reality is there's no reason.
Ron DeSantis was giving it out for free, infusing it for free all over Florida until Joe Biden got involved and started rationing it.
Anyway, I wish you and your daughter the best.
Do us a favor.
Will you please call us back next week and update us on your daughter?
We want to know how she's doing.
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Hannity Tonight, Nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Peter Doocey, another showdown with Circleback Jensaki.
Also, the condition of Nancy Pelosi in the position on COVID.
Jensaki says, oh, kissing is not really contact.
I'm like, okay.
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