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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?
Ah, 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 all of you and your families.
800-941 Sean is our number.
Mike Pompeo is going to weigh in.
Zelensky challenging Biden in a pretty, pretty thoughtful, hard way.
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.
With all the indiscriminate bombing by Vladimir Putin and leveling to rubble a city like Mariupol, Steve Dane'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, 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 going to 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 get these people that if you don't care about innocent men, women, and children, this is what you're dealing with when you deal with evil.
Now, I can't believe that we have a Democrat, Chris Coons, 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, Senator Chris Coons 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, the Ukrainian people will fight this battle themselves, and they've shown that they can win.
If we're going to provide them anything, we can provide them training.
We can provide them intelligence, certainly missile defense systems and air defense systems, offensive weaponry and defensive weaponry, like javelins, stingers, tanks, 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 it gets politicized and body bags start coming home, and the American people are not interested in seeing our national treasure die again, for what?
Then these guys say, oh, never mind.
How many more times are we going to make that same mistake?
We've made it enough.
You know, one official said Mario doesn't exist anymore.
An entire city has been bombed out.
You know, listening to Steve Dames, who saw the mass graves in Bucha, I mean, 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 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 broadcasts video of captured Brits urging Boris Johnson to negotiate the release.
That now becomes a tricky question.
We do have a WNBA basketball player, I forget her name, that is being held as a prisoner for having 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.
But Zelensky's right on every front.
You know, we always say never again.
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.
Now, shocking news out of Ukraine, this came out late Friday night, 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.
900 civilians in a mass grave.
I mean, we're chronicling all of this in real time.
Anyway, we'll get into it.
Mike Pompeo will be with us later in the program today.
Peter Doocy will also join us responding to Jen Saki.
Now, wasn't it Joe Biden?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Anybody that works for me, that treats a colleague disrespectfully, you're going to be fired on the spot.
No ifs, no ands, no buts.
Didn't he say that?
I think I remember.
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 if, ands, or buts.
Everybody, everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity.
Decency and dignity.
Anyone who works for me treats a colleague with disrespect and talks down to them, you're going to be fired on the spot.
Well, it didn't apply to Joe when he had a hot mic and he called Peter Doocy.
Peter Dooski was asking a smart question.
Okay, with inflation not being transitory, as you had claimed originally, is it going to have an impact on the 2022 midterm election?
This is Joe Biden's response, and he had no idea his mic was hot.
It's a great asset.
We're especially.
You're a stupid son of a bitch.
Stupid son of a bitch.
Jensaki, 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.
Well, he works for a network that provides people with questions that nothing personal to any individual, including Peter Doocy, 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.
Remember when the press was all worked up?
You know, fake news and the president's putting our lives in jeopardy, etc.
I mean, it was all, what did I say at the time?
It's feigned outrage.
Now, my outrage, do I really care that Jensaki said this about Peter Doocy?
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.
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 there'd be a reaction to that?
I don't care about that.
I think you'd get a Nobel Peace Prize for sure.
I would get the Nobel Peace Prize.
I get something.
Anyway, Peter will join us later in the show today, too.
And we're going to have a lot tonight.
I'm going to do more of this on TV tonight.
All the lies of Jensaki.
Jensaki's told some whoppers, and she's going to fit right in at MSDNC.
You know, Ari Fleischer will join us later.
He just announced his new book is going to 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.
And these are crazy times.
They really are.
They're insane.
We had an I don't even know how I have like nothing left to really say.
And 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, yeah, that's enough.
He's done.
You know, the Easter bunny had to retrieve Joe Biden.
He wanders off to talk to some kids.
Joe Biden, they're not going to let me read it all.
You know, Jill to Joe Biden, wave, Joey, wave.
You got to wave now.
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.
It is, 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 going to happen.
It's never going to happen.
Miranda Devine had an interesting piece today.
When is an insurrection not an insurrection?
When rioters supported by Democrats injure cops, we're talking about the summer of 2020.
And the Biden Justice Department, you know, has actually rewarded the people.
Remember, dozens of people died, thousands of cops injured, billions of property damaged.
Anyway, forcing the Secret Service to rush President Trump to safety.
Remember all that?
Now, we're reminded with sickening regularity of a double standard applied to the BLM Antifa insurrectionists, if you want to call them, who tore up cities, attack cops and federal property, and ruin private businesses.
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 from May 29th to June 3rd of 2020.
And these mostly, quote, peaceful protesters, as the Washington Post described them, 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 four civil cases brought by the ACLU on behalf of BLM and other groups, you know, is going to cost taxpayers millions.
What happened to insurrections and rioting being wrong?
We were the ones that said all rioting is wrong.
There's no committee looking into that.
You ever play the game, would you rather?
Like in the political sense, you rather be an elephant or a donkey?
Not a hard question.
Looks like the next huge, massive surge at the border has begun.
Biden's secret midnight flights are now literally transporting illegal immigrants all around the country faster than ever before.
And that's just the tip of the Biden open border deluge that we're going to experience.
Probably worse than last year.
And last year was like a 30-year record.
According to justthenews.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 80,127 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 agents, between January 20th and December 27, 2021, 23 specific encounters with individuals whose names matched the terrorist screening database.
Now, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas is 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 Queyar about the state's increased border inspections in his hometown.
Under the agreement unveiled, the governor 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.
News breaks.
You get the inside story that no one else has.
And the behind-the-scenes chatter that the mainstream media doesn't even know about.
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All right, 25 tills, the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, our number.
If you want to be a part of the program, Daryl Isaac, Congressman, has said that GOP lawmakers are not waiting for the appointment of a special prosecutor, and they was boasting they have the Hunter Biden laptop and treasure trove.
And what's really coming out, there may be some truth to what 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.
Justthenews.com is a great piece.
We could put it up on Hannity.com, how Joe Biden referred business 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 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 one of 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 mingled the finances with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
And all I know is it's so simple that if the last name were 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 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 this was all a phony setup 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 in the Durham 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 and user-created.
And Durham 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 executive with whom he was working.
So it's, you know, more and more we're 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 and 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.
It's Vladimir Putin's fault that 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.
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, and there's a great point.
Somebody made this.
I forgot where I got this piece.
It's still an acid bath for people, you know, to push the Democratic narrative to do what they can to help Joe Biden.
So now the latest narrative is, yeah, 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 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 or to make the vaccine resistors get shots.
At this point, you have people fully vaccinated and boostered and having previous infections getting COVID.
Go live your life at this point.
There's risk everywhere.
It doesn't matter.
And at this point, you can still somebody vaccinated, boosted, 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 and not vax.
Anyway, so, and what's the Democrats answer?
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.
That's the latest answer that you have to America's problems.
It's 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, I guess, to the Bo Biden Foundation.
Anyway, how weird was that moment over, 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 like he quickly pulled his hand back.
He just kept it there and 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 doesn'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, got caught again falsely claiming he was a full professor at an Ivy League University.
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 and 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 AmericanFinancing.net.
They got a 30-year fixed mortgage.
I think it was a little over 3.5%.
And now that same mortgage today would be over 5%.
I mean, 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 median 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.
Oh, that'll slow down the economy.
That'll take the overheated quote economy in terms of everything, especially home sales.
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 eight, nine, 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 costs for everything.
Amazon, that newly unveiled surcharge for online sellers.
I mean, where does this end?
You know, Biden makes his inflation bet.
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 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 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 defund the police, that's a liberal policy.
If you dismantle the police, as some liberals wanted, 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 and feel safe in that city.
Just insane.
Crazy times we're living in.
Really are crazy.
And I don't see them getting better anytime soon, to be honest.
So a parent dressed as an Easter bunny handing out condoms at a Texas elementary school.
Apparently, students in Austin 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, he said the parents were assured in 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-5 students.
It's impermissible.
I'm telling you, you know what 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.
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 9.
Corey Booker is 8.
Sherrod Brown is 7.
Ray Cooper is 6.
And most people don't even know who it is.
North Carolinian checks a lot of boxes, supposedly.
Amy Klobuchar is 5.
Elizabeth Warren, 4.
Kamala Harris is 3.
And Pete Buttajudge is 2.
And Joe Biden is 1.
Interesting.
For the Republicans, it's Pompeo, Greg Abbott, Chris Christie, Donald Trump Jr.
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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