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April 18, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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When Will The US Get Involved In Ukraine? - April 18th, Hour 1

Sean reviews the latest calls for the United States to put boots on the ground in Ukraine and covers all of the reasons why that's simply a bad idea... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, day 260, since Joey said he wouldn't do it.
Anyway, glad you're with us.
Happy Monday.
Is there any such thing as a happy Monday?
Anyone really like Mondays?
Yeah.
I mean, they're not bad, but it's like, all right, back to the grind, back to the, you know, nose to the grindstone.
Uh, hope you had a great Passover Easter to uh all of you and your your families.
800-941 Shauna's our number.
Uh Mike Pompeo's gonna weigh in.
Zelensky challenging Biden in a pretty pretty thoughtful hard way.
Uh, and the world.
I mean, it's getting what's happening now is, and people aren't understanding this.
There's not going to be a country left to recover from.
When when with all the indiscriminate bombing by Vladimir Putin and leveling to rubble a city like Mariupol, uh Steve Dain's Senator Montana went there and said, you know, saw the mass graves.
We'll have updates later in the program, and just said it was just unbelievable.
And Zelensky's saying, why doesn't Biden come to Ukraine?
He should go.
He was right there.
He could have made the trip.
Boris Johnson made it, other world leaders have made it, President of Poland made it.
A bunch of people have made it.
Why isn't Joe going?
Anyway, and it was something else that he said, and we'll play it for you later in the program, accusing the world leaders of empty rhetoric and saying never again to genocide.
Well, if you look at what's going on there today, uh, we see mass graves of 900 people in there.
And now the CIA is warning that Putin could go nuclear, according to the New York Times.
Well, that's always a possibility.
I've never understood it.
Yes, he might go nuclear.
So we're supposed to cower?
How about if he gets reminded he goes nuclear?
Well, the world's gonna go nuclear back on him.
And there won't be a Russia by the end of that conflict.
It's called mutually assured destruction.
And just by the sheer mass of the United States, it wouldn't be good.
You know, God only knows how many millions of people potentially would die in this.
We don't ever want that to happen.
But of course, you know, you get these people that if you don't care about innocent men, women, and children, it's this is what you're dealing with when you deal with evil.
Now, I can't believe that we have a Democrat Chris Koons now is on record actually saying we need to discuss sending troops to Ukraine.
No, we don't no, we don't.
And this was this weekend, uh Senator Chris Koons of Delaware was confronted by Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation about comments that he made earlier in the week, arguing that the U.S. needs to figure out when it would be willing to send armed forces into Ukraine.
We are not sending armed forces into Ukraine.
The American people have got to say no to this.
Because these same politicians that are all gung-ho, they want to start a war.
They won't fight the war to win the war.
They'll fight the war afraid of angering Putin.
And just like they wouldn't support a don't fly zone for the very same reasons.
Now we're involved in a shooting war with Vladimir Putin.
And does that then, you know, become the impetus for World War III?
No, Zelensky's been very clear is that if you provide him the weaponry, he the Ukrainian people will fight this battle themselves, and they've shown that they can win.
If we're gonna provide him anything, we can provide them training, we can provide them intelligence, certainly missile defense systems and and air defense systems, offensive weaponry and defensive weaponry like javelin stingers, tanks, uh, etc.
I would give them the aircraft that they need, like Poland was offering, and I think that's the way the world needs to go.
Zelensky says the world needs to prepare for Putin to unleash a nuclear attack.
Zelensky says Biden should come.
We have, you know, now we have people talking about sending U.S. No, I'm not I will not support these politicians, gung ho not willing to fight to win a war, and then when they when it gets politicized, and body bags start coming home, and the American people uh are not interested in seeing our national treasure die again for what?
Uh then these guys say, oh, never mind.
How many more times are we gonna make that same mistake?
We've made it enough.
You know, one official said Mariupol doesn't exist anymore.
An entire city has been bombed out.
You know, listening to Steve Dames, who saw the mass graves and bucha, I mean, it's it's unbelievable.
And the former foreign minister revealed precisely when Putin would pull the trigger on nuclear weapons.
It's exactly what you would think it would be.
And that is that it would be considered if he thought his regime was, you know, on the ropes in all of this.
And I don't disagree with that analysis.
I think that's always a possibility.
He obviously doesn't care about killing indiscriminately.
Russia broadcast video of captured Brits urging Boris Johnson to negotiate the release.
You know, that now becomes a tricky question.
You know, we do have uh a WNBA basketball player, I forget her name, that is being held as a prisoner for having a like a jewel pod that had, I guess, THC in it, marijuana in it, weed in it, whatever you want to call it.
Okay, five months in jail.
Sounds like Putin is playing politics with this.
What is Joe doing to get our fellow American home?
We need to get her home.
And I rarely hear anybody talk about it.
Um but Zelensky's right on every front.
You know, we always say never again.
If well, never again means provide the weaponry early so that we can stop Putin there right now.
Russia warning of unpredictable consequences for the U.S. I'm not worried about his unpredictable consequences.
We'll give him consequences.
The only problem is we don't have a president that knows that it's Monday.
That's a big problem.
And the world has figured that out.
Shocking news out of Ukraine.
This came out late uh Friday night, uh, revealing further atrocities.
And apparently, just outside of Kyiv, they found more than 900 civilian bodies discovered in the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital, and this is in and around the Boucher area.
Uh 900 civilians in a mass grave.
I mean, that uh it's it's the we're we're chronicling all of this in real time.
Anyway, we'll get into it.
Mike Pompeii will be with us uh later in the program today.
Uh Peter Ducey will also join us responding to Gen Saki.
Now, wasn't it Joe Biden?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyone that works for me that does that treats a colleague disrespectfully, you're gonna be fired on the spot.
No ifs, no ends, no buts.
Didn't he say that?
I think I remember let's got I think I have the tape.
Let's play it.
But I'm not joking when I say this.
Not joking.
If you're ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot.
On the spot.
No ifs ands or buts.
Everybody, everybody is in try to be t with decency and dignity.
Decency and dignity.
Anyone works for me treats a colleague with disrespect and talks down to them, you're gonna be fired on the spot.
Well, it didn't apply to Joe when he had a hot mic and he called Peter Ducey.
Peter Duce was asking a smart question.
Okay, with inflation not being transitory, uh, as you had claimed originally, is it gonna have an impact on the 2022 midterm election?
This is Joe Biden's response, and he had no idea his mic was hot.
We can't play what's a great asset.
More inflation.
Stupid son of a bitch.
Gensaki now in front of a crowd doing a podcast over the weekend, says the same thing.
Listen.
So we have to talk about Peter Ducey for one second.
Sure.
Okay.
Okay.
Is he a stupid son of a bitch?
Or does he play a stupid son of a bitch on TV?
Okay.
Um, um he works for a network.
Okay.
That um provides people with questions That nothing personal to any individual, including Peter Ducey, but might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a bitch.
Make anybody sound like so basically she's calling him a stupid son of a bitch.
Um remember when the the press was all worked up, you know, fake news, and uh the president's putting our our lives in in jeopardy, etc.
I mean, it was all I what did I say at the time?
It's feigned outrage.
Now, am I outraged?
Do I really care that Gensaki said this about Peter Ducey?
No, I think it's great for Peter's career if you want to know the truth.
And do I care that Joe Biden said it?
Not really.
Am I offended by it?
Nope.
Uh, I do know this that if I were on this program, what do you think would happen, Linda, if I started calling people in the White House sons of bitches?
You think uh you think there'd be a uh reaction to that?
I don't care if you're not gonna be able to do that.
I gave uh we'd get the Nobel Peace Prize.
I get something.
Anyway, Peter will join us later in the show today, too.
Um and we're gonna have a lot tonight.
I'm gonna do more of this on TV tonight.
All the lies of Gensaki.
Gensaki's told some whoppers, and she's gonna fit right in at MSDNC.
You know, uh Ari Fleischer will join us later.
I he just announced this his new book is gonna be coming out.
It's called Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias, and why the press gets so much wrong and just doesn't care.
And he's so right.
I mean, it's just the perfect title for the time that we're living in here.
Uh and these are crazy times.
They're really are.
They're insane.
Uh we had a I don't even know how I I have like nothing left to really say, and I'll I'll get to it more later in the program about Joe Biden's attempt to read a children's book with Joe Biden saying, uh yeah, that's enough.
He's he's done.
You know, the Easter bunny had to recheat retrieve Joe Biden.
He wanders off to talk to some kids.
Joe Biden they're not gonna let me read it all.
You know, Jill to Joe Biden, wave Joey, wave, you gotta wave now.
Uh told by Joe Biden to sit down.
And this is on the heels of last week at the end of last week.
He's given a speech, and he turns to his right with his hands out to shake somebody's hand, and he just leaves his hand out there, and there's nobody within 10 feet of the guy.
15 feet of the guy.
Uh it is it's it's frightening and it's chilling.
And at what point do the people around him, is there not anybody in his life that loves this guy that says enough is enough?
He's not up to the job.
That's never gonna happen.
It's never gonna happen.
Miranda Devine had an interesting piece today.
When is an insurrection not an insurrection?
When rioters supported the dip by Democrats in your cops.
We talking we're talking about the summer of 2020.
And the Biden Justice Department, you know, has actually rewarded the people.
Remember, we we dozens of people died, thousands of cops injured, billions of property damage.
Um anyway, forcing the Secret Service to rush President Trump to safety.
Remember all that?
Now we're reminded of uh with sicking sickening regularity of a double standard applied to you know the BLM Antifa insurrectionists, if you want to call them, who tore up cities, attacked cops and federal property and and ruined private businesses.
You know, in fact, they're more likely to be rewarded last week.
The DOJ settled a lawsuit by a civil rights activist over the violent riots outside the White House on from May 29th to June 3rd of twenty twenty, and these mostly quote peaceful protesters, as the Washington Post described, were so violent that then President Trump and his family had to be rushed to an underground bunker,
and dozens of federal officers were injured, pelted with bricks, rocks, caustic liquids, frozen water bottles, Molotov cocktails, and last week's partial settlement of of four civil cases brought by the ACLU on behalf of BLM and and uh and other groups, you know, is gonna cost taxpayers millions.
What what happened to the insurrections and rioting being wrong?
We were the ones that said all rioting is wrong.
There's no committee looking into that.
Um you ever played the game, would you rather?
Like in the political sense, you rather be an elephant or a donkey?
Not a hard question.
Um looks like the next uh huge massive surge at the border has begun.
Biden's secret midnight flights are now uh literally transporting illegal immigrants all around the country faster than ever before, and that's just the tip of the the Biden open border deluge that we're gonna experience, probably worse than last year, and last year was like a 30-year record.
Uh according to JustHnews.com, that's John Solomon's website.
The U.S. Customs Border Protection Service encountered more than 221,000 migrants at the southern border in March alone.
The highest number seen so far under Joe Biden, with more than 80,000 reported released into the U.S. last month.
And beginning in March of 2021, shortly after Biden took office, these encounters have consistently stayed above 150,000 a month.
And filings obtained by Fox News show that in March there were 123,000 removals.
109,000 of them were expelled under Title 42, which they're about to lift, while 80,000 127 others were released into the U.S., including 36,777 migrants who were granted humanitarian parole, meaning they're eligible for work permits.
The border patrol nabbed 23 suspected terrorists attempting to enter America, according to Border Patrol uh agents between January 20th and December 27, 2021, 23 specific encounters with individuals whose names match the terrorist screening database.
Now Governor Greg Abbott of Texas is forks forcing Mexico to crack down on illegal immigration.
He's going to be on Hannity tonight.
He now has sent his fourth busload of illegal immigrants to the nation's capital.
Anyway, he struck a deal with local Mexican officials last week to erase trade into Laredo, Texas, after an outcry from the Biden administration officials and Representative Henry Cuyer about the state's increased border inspections in his hometown.
Under the agreement unveiled, the governor of the of Mexico agreed to implement enhanced border security measures on the Mexican side of the border to reduce the number of migrants crossing in exchange.
Abbott and Garcia will work cooperatively to restore border crossing inspections.
Okay, deal is done.
We'll continue.
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If you want to be a part of the program, Daryl Issa, Congressman, has said that GOP lawmakers are not waiting for the appointment of a special prosecutor.
And uh they was boasting they have the Hunter Biden laptop and treasure trove.
And what's come what's really coming out, there may be some truth to what uh Steve Bannon had predicted, which is that Biden will be impeached when Republicans take the house, and the laptop will prove that he's compromised by China, which is the point that I've been trying to make through Peter Schweitzer's great investigative work since Secret Empires came out.
Uh just the news.com is a great piece.
We could put it up on Hannity.com, how Joe Biden referred business uh and mingled finances with the son Hunter, according to all these messages.
Look, it's like I've never talked to my son about foreign business dealings, his foreign business dealings.
And then there's pictures with Joe and Hunter and the foreign business partners of zero experience hunter.
I mean, the massive amounts of money that go to this kid, he's not a kid, he's 50 years old.
Former crack addict, you know, that had a you know a thing for prostitutes.
All of these countries know his background.
You don't think that they have compromising materials on Hunter Biden?
Of course they do.
And probably on Joe Biden, too.
And that's the question here.
Because more and more, all this evidence coming out, you know.
Here's a text message or an email to uh one of uh uh Hunter Biden's partners in Mexico, you know, I've given you all these trips to the White House, all these trips to meet the vice president, go to the vice president's residence, blah, blah, blah, and I haven't gotten anything for this.
Whoa, pretty much says everything you need to know.
And you could tell that they've they've they mingled the finances with uh Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, and all I know is it's so simple that if it was the last name or Trump, this would be the smoking gun found on the laptop.
And if these messages are this bad, you know, Joe Biden would be done for, except we don't have equal justice or application of our laws in this country anymore, which is sad and but unfortunately true.
But we'll see what happens.
I hate getting people's hopes up, especially because we proved decisively, overwhelmingly with incontrovertible evidence that Trump-Russia collusion never happened, and that that this was all a phony setup uh by people with political motivations, and John Durham is saying it.
He's not hiding it anymore.
And every new court filing of John Durham, we're learning more and more that in fact all of that we had talked about turned out to be true that they knew from the beginning.
The latest of in the Durham uh case is that Durham says the CIA found the data alleging the Trump Russia connection was not even technically plausible and was user created.
That's what they're actually saying.
You know, in other words, that in his court filing on Friday, the CIA concluded data from the Clinton campaign lawyer, Michael Sussman, allegedly showing coordination between Donald Trump and Russia was not technically possible possible and user created.
And Dorum responded to objections from Sussman's defense regarding what evidence could be admissible at his trial, which is scheduled to begin next month, and Sussman is accused of lying to the FBI saying he was not attending a meeting on behalf of a particular client when he was actually presenting the information on behalf of Hillary's campaign and a tech uh executive with whom he was working.
So it's, you know, more and more were confirming, Durham confirming that Trump Russia story was embedded by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Bought and paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
And so, you know, we'll see what happens.
Do we have equal justice in application of our laws?
Because if it was a conservative, there would have been a pre-dawn raid, 40 agents, guns drawn, CNN fake news cameras, and an arrest and conviction by this time.
It's unbelievable.
You know what's sad, you know, with all the failure of the Biden administration that we have talked about, there's nothing that you can point to that say, wow, he did a really good job on COVID.
He ran out of tests and he ran out of therapeutics, monoclonal antibodies after Christmas.
How do you run out of tests, you know, going into the third year of a pandemic at this point?
They did.
They managed to pull that one off.
That's unforgivable.
That's unconscionable.
And with all the excuses, you know, inflation is transitory.
Um it's it's Vladimir Putin's fault that uh we have high gas prices.
Vladimir Putin's responsible for a 40-year high of inflation.
Well, we've shown over and over again inflation was spiking, gas prices were spiking for months and months and months leading up to Ukraine's being invaded by Vladimir Putin and Russia.
Anyway, so things got really bad, and polling numbers have been this bad.
Yeah, you even have liberals on fake news CNN, you know, saying how really, really, really bad the polling numbers are for Joe Biden.
As a matter of fact, quote, the worst ever for anyone at this stage in their presidency.
But the liberal mob in the media, you know, is still there's a great point.
Somebody made this.
I forgot where I got this piece, is still an acid bath for for people, you know, to push the Democratic narrative to do what they can to help Joe Biden.
So now the latest narrative is there's just not much President Biden can do about it.
There's not much he can do to curb inflation.
Well, first thing you can do is make America energy independent again.
That'll lower the price of every item we buy at every store we go to.
That'll lower the price of gas.
That'll lower the price of heating and cooling our homes, and that'll that'll go a long way to lowering the inflation problem he created And the record high gas prices that he created.
Now, there's not much that he can do to stop migrants from reaching America's southern border or reduce crime to make uh or to make the vaccine resistors get shots.
At this point, you have people fully vaccinated and boosted and having previous infections getting COVID.
Go live your life at this point.
There's risk everywhere.
Doesn't matter.
And at this point, you can still somebody vaccinated, boostered, previous infection.
If they can get COVID maybe for the first or second time, well, that means they can transmit COVID.
So that means everybody can transmit COVID.
So that argument is long over about vax or not vax.
Anyway, so then and what's the Democrats answering?
Now they want to take another shot at build back broke and bring that back into the national narrative.
But I mean, Joe can't do anything about it.
Now that's that's the latest answer that you have to America's problems.
It's not out of his hands.
He can't afford to do it.
By the way, when it comes to charity, President Biden, Vice President Harris came up short compared to their fellow Americans as a review of their tax return show.
The president First Lady Joe Biden made what $610,702 in income for 2021, paid $183,925 in federal and state income taxes.
They gave $17,394 to charity, about 2.8%, about 0.3% less than the average charitable deduction.
Americans making between $500 and $2 million a year, according to 2016 data.
And a lot of the money went to, I guess, to the Bo Biden Foundation.
Anyway, how weird was that moment over that we got we got this in on Thursday night show.
Joe Biden finishes a speech, North Carolina University on Thursday.
He turns around to his right, offers like to shake lays out his hand to shake somebody else's hand.
There's nobody near him.
There's nobody there.
And it's not like he quickly pulled his hand back.
He just kept it there.
And like was frozen.
And then he eventually makes the turn and pivot, goes back to the other side, and it's clear he doesn't know he didn't have a clue what he's doing.
Maybe they need to add to his speeches at the speech's conclusion, immediately say, thank you, God bless you, God bless America, and exit left.
Maybe they need to put that in there.
I don't think they will.
Anyway, what are you going to do?
And by the way, Biden got caught again falsely claiming he was a full professor at an Ivy League University.
That's all none of that is true.
It's like he was never a truck driver.
I love Joe Biden, you know, shaking hands with the air, walking around confused.
He's being told by his wife to wave.
You've got to wave, Joe.
Joe wave to everybody.
The Easter bunny had to come save him this weekend.
He attempts to read a book that he's told by his wife to just sit there and then to wave.
Oh man.
If it wasn't so serious, it's funny.
Here's the serious part of it.
Biden's inflation now pushes up monthly mortgage costs by more than 400 a month.
I've been telling all of my friends.
So on Friday, I had two friends of mine.
They closed on a new house.
They live in Chicago, but they're moving to Indiana.
And they got a great deal on a house.
And they used American Financing.net.
They got a 30-year fixed mortgage.
I think it was, you know, a little over 3.5%.
And now that same mortgage today would be over 5%.
I mean, and look, well, to give you CNBC had an article about it, for example, 30-year fixed rate, 5%.
Let's say your home is worth the medium home price in the U.S. is now 408,100.
And let's say you put 20% down, 30-year fixed mortgage, 5% interest rate.
Monthly mortgage would come to $1,752.
But for the same home purchase last year, when interest rates were 3%, 3.04%, monthly mortgage payments would only come to $1,383.
I mean, that's like $400 more per month.
That's why I'm saying to you, if Goldman Sachs is now telling us we're going to get 11 rate hikes, you might as well lock in now.
5% may seem really low if we get 11 rate hikes in two years, as Goldman Sachs is predicting.
No, that'll slow down the economy.
You know, that that'll take the overheated economy in terms of everything, especially home sales.
Oh, it's going to stop it dead in its tracks.
Because people are not going to be able to afford to get into the market anymore.
I mean, what they're talking about, I mean, we're looking at 8, 9%, maybe 10% interest rates.
That's not going to be good.
Fast food prices up 7.2% year over year.
A report put out by the National Restaurant Association.
That's the biggest jump since 1981.
Anyway, high prices are here to stay.
If you look at where things stand now, gas, food, consumer prices soaring, no end in sight.
Energy surge won't last forever.
Added cost for everything.
Amazon, that newly unveiled surcharge for online sellers.
I mean, where does this end?
You know, Biden makes his inflation bet.
Well, his inflation bet is that somehow this is magically going to go away.
That this will go, and maybe it will naturally start lowering itself.
It can't have inflation like this go on forever, but then right behind it is two uh quarters of negative growth, which is called and is defined as a recession.
That'll be the Biden inflation leading to the Biden recession.
That is the next logical thing that's going to happen.
And that's going to impact all everybody.
And it's most many people have not lived through a recession.
It's not a real recession.
It's not good.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean.
I was kind of surprised to see New York City's mayor saying liberal policies are playing a role in the increase in crime.
That's just stating the obvious.
If you have, you know, if you defund the police, that's a liberal policy.
If you dismantle the police, as some liberals want it, that's a disaster.
If you have no bail laws like they have in New York, and you let these criminals right back out on the street, well, that makes the streets less safe and less secure.
That makes the city less safe and secure.
What does that mean for a city like New York?
It means people are less inclined to want to live in that city.
Just insane.
Crazy times we're living in.
Really are crazy.
And I don't see them getting better anytime any soon, to be honest.
So a parent dressed as an Easter bunny, handing out condoms at a Texas elementary school.
Apparently, students in Austin, you know, got a rather strange item with the Easter bunny.
Unopened condoms.
Letter to parents.
The principal says that the parent had visited the campus and during dismissal, dressed as the Easter bunny, handing out plastic eggs.
Says that the eggs contained candy, or some of them did, but some students were also given unopened condoms by the parent.
Anyway, the he said the parents were shortened the letter.
This was not planned or sanctioned by the school.
It wouldn't have surprised me if it was.
Florida rejects 41% of math textbooks for including CRT, mostly aimed at K through five students.
It's impermissible.
I'm telling you, we you know we need the one thing that they don't want to give.
They don't want parental involvement in education.
It's nuts.
By the way, the fighting among Democrats is getting interesting.
And what a diss of, you know, the 10 Democratic presidential candidates for 2024 Washington Post, they did Republicans too, but it's interesting.
AOC is number 10, Gavin Newsom is nine, Corey Booker is eight, Sherrod Brown is seven, Ray Cooper is eight uh six, and most people don't even know who it is.
Uh North Carolinian checks a lot of boxes, supposedly.
Amy Klobuchar's five, Elizabeth Warren four, Kamala Harris is three, and Pete Buda judge is two.
And Joe Biden is one.
Interesting.
For the Republicans, it's Pompeo, Greg Abbott, Chris Christie, Donald Trump Jr.
Uh, then you have Ted Cruz, Mike Pence, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and number one if he runs, an overwhelming favorite, Donald Trump.
So we'll see what happens.
We got to get past the midterms.
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