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We found out yesterday that, and here's like the FoxNews.com headline, Roe v.
Wade ruling has Biden administration now bracing for a nationwide wave of violence.
May 13th memo, Department of Homeland Security detailing ongoing investigations into threats.
Well, we've already had uh Molotov cocktails, you know, thrown into two pro-life organizations, uh, that one in Oregon, one I believe in in Wisconsin.
That's already happened.
So now if people don't like a court ruling, we're gonna dock Supreme Court justices.
We're gonna protest in front of their homes.
By the way, Ron DeSantis made it illegal to do that in Florida.
He's right to do so.
Uh and it's so dangerous on so many different levels, it's so obviously dangerous.
And then, of course, you got the rhetoric led by Chucky Schumer, you know, about electing Republicans.
Now remember, Roe v.
Wade overturned, does not make abortion in the United States in any way, shape, manner, or form illegal.
It sends that decision back to the states because that right that they decided on, putting in Roe v.
Wade, was not enumerated in the Constitution.
You know, that document that matters a little bit.
So here's here's what Schumer's saying to whip up his base.
Vote, elect more pro-choice democrats if you want to see a woman have control over her own body.
Elect more pro-choice democrats if you want to protect a woman's freedom and right to choose.
Elect more MAGA Republicans if you want to see a nationwide ban on abortion, if you want to see doctors and women arrested, if you want to see no exceptions for rape or incest.
Wrong lie on every single solitary level.
Now, imagine Sean Hannity goes to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, which I would never do, or Sean Hannity tells people to to go to the homes of Supreme Court justices, which I would never do, or go to the homes of any elected official or anybody in government for that matter.
Uh I don't support violence in any way, shape, manner, or form, and I've been consistent throughout the summer of 2020, January 6th, and now they're talking about if they don't get their way, well, get ready, it's gonna be a violent summer.
Anyway, listen to uh you want to talk about a threat.
Where's the committee looking into Chuck Schumer's threat against Supreme Court justices?
I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.
You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
Can you imagine if I said that on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court?
I doubt it.
Anyway, what is a very extremely timely book?
He's a phenomenal author, always has been.
Our friend Colonel Oliver North uh joins us, and he's here to talk about the a new book that he's written.
It's called Tragic Consequences.
The price America is paying For rejecting God and how to reclaim our culture for Christ.
This when I when I got a hold of this, this first of all, the the title intrigued intrigued me so deeply.
Because this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
Amen.
And brother.
You know, back in the what was it?
I think till the early sixties, people the kids used to read Bibles and say the Lord's Prayer and pray in public schools.
And by the way, nobody got uh nobody got harmed by that.
But now you can't even mention God.
No, no.
So look, you know, the timing for this book is not an accident.
It's intentional.
Uh the 2022 election season, as you know better than most, is now underway.
Those that we nominate and elect are going to define the future of our country.
That's the most important reason for putting this book out when we did.
It's it's written by two U.S. Marines, which I know is going to somewhat as a shock to the New York Times folks, because they can't even believe Marines can read, much less write.
But what we're doing is trying to tell you.
And by the way, Colonel, with all due respect, I need to correct you.
It's I first say Semper Fi, and second say uh every Romina every Marine I've ever met, uh they're the bravest of the brave, the toughest of the tough and smart as hell.
Well, it's you're kind, brother, and you and I spent a lot of time together, and I'm grateful.
And I'm grateful to launch this book on your show.
So thank you very much for that.
Look, we wrote about this because the cultural decline that we're seeing all around us is now right in front of everybody.
It's not just the cost of filling up your gas tank.
It's not just a terrible crime that's the crime wave that's sweeping the country.
It's not just the illegal immigrants that are being allowed to cross the border, it's all of the above and more.
I mean think about you mentioned it very clearly.
For since the second of May, when the Alito draft of a decision by the Supreme Court was leaked intentionally, and I believe probably unlawfully, there have been riots in front of the Supreme Court in at the homes of several justices.
What they're trying to do is prevent the court from reversing their January twenty-two 1973 Roe versus Wade decision that you accurately described.
It would send back to the states the decisions on whether a woman had a right to in that state to have an abortion.
In other words, to kill her baby.
During the hearings on all of this, by the word, by the way, the word mother and the word baby were barely mentioned.
The words were used was a very good thing.
By the way, you do know that this past week that Chuck Schumer brought up an abortion bill to codify Roe into law.
Right.
That would have allowed abortions in every state in the country.
States would have no say that would allow people to have abortions up until the moment of birth, and that would be legal under their law.
How sick is that?
And maybe they're after.
Remember, Roe versus Wade did more than legalize infanticide.
It launched an assault on the sanctity of human life.
And of course, this past weekend we saw two examples of that.
Well, it on Saturday, May 14th, while pro-abortion protesters were threatening the safety of justices Alito, Thomas Kavanaugh, Barrett, a hate-filled 18-year-old, drove more than three hours to Buffalo, New York to kill ten and wound three, mostly black Americans.
He told investigators, all he cared about was the color of their skin.
The following day, Sunday, May 15th, Lone Gunman opens fire at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Orange, California, Orange County, California, killing one and seriously winning four others.
It's apparently a political issue, but what we do know for sure, the guy who is shooting has no regard for the sanctity of human life.
Interestingly enough, chapters three and four of this book that you've got in your hand that you're kind of introduced for us, those two chapters deal with the issue of abortion and the issue of madness with firearms.
And I'm talking to you as a former president of the National Rifle Association.
The problem isn't the gun.
It's the person carrying the gun.
It's in the heart of that person.
And what we offer in this book is not just gun control and abortion, but a whole range of issues that ought to be on the minds of every one of us as we go to the polls.
And by golly, you said it best just a few moments ago, bringing us back into this break.
Get out and vote.
Good Lord, if you Don't you're you're absenting yourself from your responsibilities as an American.
And and it's it's funny because this is very timely even for my own personal life.
And for the last number of years, I have dedicated a lot more of my life to my faith.
I don't talk a lot about it publicly.
And and I look back and the whirlwind that you have been a big part of every step of the way.
And I feel beyond blessed.
I feel it's a an undeserved life.
Um, you know, when it when you start out with your mom as a prison guard, you die as a waiter and family corporation guy.
Um I don't think my parents ever thought I'd be successful at anything, but I did work hard, and and I struggled for a long time to pay my my bills and pay my rent and pay for everything else in between.
And what I realized is when you have time to stop and be still and contemplate and pray and reflect and meditate, you begin to realize that God has his hand on all of us.
And I truly believe I I did learn a little Latin in in high school because I went to Catholic schools for twelve years.
The word education, literally, the the root derivative is at Ducare to bring forth from within.
Right.
Well, that means God put it there.
And I do believe with all my heart that God created every man, woman, and child on this earth.
Well, not perfect, but he created us.
And this journey of ours is to find him and find our purpose.
Well, that's why this book has in each chapter a can do section, which offers strategies for individuals and churches and um and groups of political people, no matter what, to turn America from the path of destruction to a path of salvation and freedom.
I was asked the other day, right as we're getting ready to do this, what's what's a what's a really salient verse for you, North?
Because I I deeply believe I'm alive today, not just because of the hand of God at the moment of conception, but multiple times over the course of my lifetime, when the last words out of my mouth might have been, dear God help me.
Because you're not going to be able to do that.
Well, I can think of two times because you got two purple hearts, and I think you were up for a third one that you you kind of didn't want because it would have mandated you get out of the service.
No, it's I know that's for sure, and I know you took this little trip known to uh to a country known as Iran, and I knew that you had in your pocket a pill that would have killed you, a suicide pill, uh, if things went down badly, and you took that risk for your country.
Well, yeah, I did.
And and to a certain extent I look back on it now and I say, look at what my family went through as a consequence of that.
Targeted for assassination by Abu Nidal, terrorists actually came to our home when we lived in Great Falls, Virginia.
I look back on those times and I say to myself, wouldn't it have been better if I didn't spend that much time?
I'm glad, blessed that I got the opportunity to serve in the Reagan administration.
By the way, lost a dear friend from that, Bud McFarland, who had been my boss.
Bud McFarlane, the reporters had called up and said, Don't you have something negative to say about Bud MacFarlane?
Here's what I have to say.
He was a friend.
He was a brave Marine who served in combat.
He had the courage to go back to to go to a place where he might never have returned, because I didn't just have pills for me.
I had pills for all of us that Bill Casey had given us.
Possibly we could have been detained and never heard from again.
Bud McFarland had the courage to do that.
He served three presidents.
And ultimately, at the end of the day, Bud McFarlane was the reason why the case against me brought by the special persecutor was dropped.
So Bud McFarlane will miss you.
And when the time comes to interview at our you are kind of the first of the victim of the witch hunting and the two-tier justice system.
And I watched every moment of those hearings at the time, fascinated by it.
And it frankly motivated me and inspired me to get on radio because I started calling radio talk shows.
And and I realized uh I think I can do it better than this guy.
And and that's honestly how my career was built.
Uh and I first got on the radio in 1987.
Well, and I'm glad that we got to be great friends because between the two of us Beyond Blessed.
Wonderful opportunities to raise money to help educate the children of American heroes.
You and I and Charlie Daniels and some great bands did everything five summers in a row, ten unbelievable.
We look at those days, and we did great things for those to express the gratitude of a grateful nation to those who served in our armed forces.
By the way, on Memorial Day weekend, I'm going to be at the Heroes Honor Festival in Daytona at the Speedway to salute our veterans, and particularly my Vietnam War comrades in arms.
And you can get tickets for that at HonorFestival.com.
And since this book is much the topic of it, I'll have it there.
But you can also get it.
Tragic consequences available anywhere.
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More with Colonel Oliver North, who's with us.
His new book, by the way, is out.
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Colonel Oliver North is with us.
A brand new book is out, Tragic Consequences.
It's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, now in bookstores everywhere, uh paying the pr the price America's paying for rejecting God and how to reclaim our culture for Christ.
You know what's amazing in this in the course of this life, and I'm running out of time here.
You know, we're all so busy.
You're, you know, you you're working hard, you're trying to pay your bills, you you're taking care of your kids, you're racing off to this event, that event, whatever you happen to be doing.
And but when you get the time and you reflect, and you look at the majesty of God's creation, you know, universes within universes within universes.
I know we're not meant to comprehend it in this lifetime, but I believe that there's paradise on the other side of this life.
And um I believe in a heaven and I believe in hell too.
And I don't want to go to the other place.
I deserve it, but I don't want to go there.
So here's the quick verse.
Somebody asked me, is there proof?
Yes.
It's Romans 10 9, Paul's letter to the church in Rome.
10 9 is the tenth chapter, ninth verse.
If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
That's not only an individual.
I confess all of that.
It's not only for you and me, it's for our nation as well.
We need to save this nation.
I can't imagine this for without the United States of America, the world is in deep trouble, and we're seeing it play out in real time because we don't have a president that knows that today's Wednesday.
Colonel North love the book, Tragic Consequences, the price America's paying for rejecting God, how to reclaim our culture for Christ.
Uh, it's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, and now in bookstores everywhere.
Colonel, appreciate you.
Safe home, my friend.
We love you.
God bless you, and my best to everybody in your family.
Semplify Marine.
God bless you.
Semplify, sir.
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Your calls on the other side, straight ahead.
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You know, my former colleague, I always like call Carl Cameron.
You know, when we were at uh presidential debates or whatever the event or conventions together.
I mean, what I liked about him is he would always seek out my opinion.
He knew I was a conservative, and he was he seemed to me at the time to always be curious.
I don't know what's happened.
Because he's like jumped the shark.
Now he actually said, Maybe it's time to start taking names and putting people in jail for misinformation.
I'm like, what?
I mean, really?
Where did that come from?
Uh, not a good idea to put people in jail uh because you don't like what they say.
Biden's disinformation board looks like it's dead uh three weeks after its announcement, and we we hammered this really hard.
Uh three weeks after picking Jankowitz, the big the biggest purveyor of disinformation in the country, uh, to run it, and Mayorka said, I had no idea she gave out all this disinformation.
None whatsoever.
But we don't talk about our hiring practices.
And she's gonna do a great job.
Great, great.
Biden's Ministry of Truth.
Uh these are troubling times, I gotta tell you.
Uh Sandy is in Alabama.
Sandy Hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey John, how are you?
Good to talk to you.
Thanks.
I wanted to um kind of bring up something that you were talking about yesterday about um, you know, how important endorsements are from President Trump and for the state elections, and um I kind of am concerned and wanted to ask you a question.
I mean, he came out and supported um Mo Brooks early, um, who's running for Doug Jones Senate seat, and that's a really important race for Alabama to get that Republican seat back with Senator Shelby retiring.
But then um after the you know, after he had his rally in Gadston and Mo Brooks came out and didn't want to really acknowledge the election integrity issues and almost got booed off the stage, and then recently um I saw the whole event.
Let me give you my history with Mo Brooks.
I happen to like Mo Brooks a lot, okay?
Yeah, me too.
When I was a local radio host in Huntsville, uh on well, the ex-wife station there.
I I'm on a different station now.
Um I'm actually on three different stations in town, which I'm very happy about.
Uh, but at the time, um he would he when I took a day off, which was rare back in those days, because I didn't have any vacation time.
I was new to that was my first paid gig in radio, 1990 to 92.
I worked for free the three years prior.
And and I just got to know him at the time he was the Madison County District Attorney and was really good at his job.
And uh what was this?
Bud Kramer, I think was the congressman at the time.
Bud Kramer hated me because uh, you know, I I just was tried to ask him questions.
He didn't want to ask by anybody.
Anyway, so um I know what happened, I know it was said.
Um I'm st I had already endorsed Mo Brooks, and I stand by my endorsement of Mo Brooks.
I just I'm concerned because now the races have gotten really tight, and um, you know, Brooks is definitely the MAGA candidate.
And uh he had such a I just don't like it because it's gotten uh personal.
I don't know all the facts, all the details behind it, and and you know, I don't want to be in the middle of you know, two people that I like and respect a ton.
Uh and I just I just not gonna engage with it.
But uh I'm a huge Trump supporter.
I mean, I've been to rallies, I've I've you know, I really like President Trump.
I just wonder who's advising him to pull or endorse candidates because if we if the goal is to make sure that MAGA candidates win, he had to know that that would have been detrimental for Mo to win.
Listen, I I I'm pretty sure.
Look, the president what I'm one thing I can tell you about President Trump, he's a man of his own mind.
You know, all people say all the time, oh Hannity, you talk to the president.
Yeah, sure I do.
Uh you support the president.
Yeah, I'm supporting him on radio and TV, saying it openly.
Yeah, I do.
Right.
I don't reveal my sour sources if I get information.
I have tons of sources.
Um as I describe, I am a member of the press.
I do straight news, I can produce thousands of hours.
Investigator reports, I can produce thousands of hours.
I give opinion, I can produce tens and hundreds of thousands of hours of radio and TV.
Uh I also do culture, we do sports, we're like the entire newspaper.
I tell you who I'm supporting in a race if there's somebody I really like and trust and believe in.
And I just try to be honest with my audience.
So I, you know, there are things that happen that are just unfortunate.
I have not asked about the nitty gritty of this, and and I hope things work out uh for both people.
And that hopefully there's there can be some reconciliation.
You know, I think it was Reagan that famously said that if we agree on eighty percent, you're not my enemy.
We agree on eighty percent.
You're eighty percent my friend.
You know, it's we we're not we're not robots like the Democrats, you know, group think.
We we're you know, we're individualists.
We believe in the individual.
We don't all think alike.
Uh You know, just like when I supported President Trump early, you know, I had many conservatives just pounding away at me every single day.
Uh same thing a little bit happened with with my support of Dr. Oz.
Uh looks like he's pulled out that race in Pennsylvania from my analysis, but we'll see.
Um I never trust anybody that's doing anything called the recount or anybody that has not opened a ballot the day after election day.
Never do.
It's never good.
And you know what?
Pennsylvania needs to get their their Adam Shift together.
This is ridiculous.
Anyway, Sandy, appreciate the call.
Uh John is in the great state of Pennsylvania.
What's up, John?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Good, Mr. Hannity.
How are you?
Pennsylvania.
Just call me Sean.
I'm not a Mr. Anything.
Okay, Sean.
Kathy Barnett, a rhino in hiding.
After her comments about our loan signs and not being able to answer a question about being a nine job professor out in Illinois.
Who can believe anything she says?
Look, when when my when our staff, when this the sudden rise comes out of nowhere, she really wasn't vetted by people, which kind of shocked me, because I think every every campaign probably bears some of the responsibility.
Um believe it or not, Jeff Bartos, I think had done the most research of anyone in the campaign.
There were a lot of good people in this in this race.
I didn't like that it got as nasty as it got, but that's a blood sport.
I can't control that.
And so when I saw all of these tweets, even some against me, very anti-Trump tweets, and then I saw all the other really, really this is not like a one and one and done deal.
It's one tweet after another tweet after another tweet, and I'm looking at it and looking at the comments that she's made and wanting an Obama statue.
I'm just looking at this and I'm saying, I don't believe she she might in a huge wave election maybe sneak through, but I don't see it.
And going up against Fetterman, that's that's a beatable, that's a winnable race.
He's beatable.
And um, I know she didn't like it.
And then she started saying that I didn't get in contact with her.
My staff was trying desperately to get in contact with her.
But she wouldn't return calls, she wouldn't return texts, and then she goes on other shows and says things that frankly were patently not true.
Um I did offer her uh she wanted a debate one-on-one the day before the election with only her and Dr. Oz.
I said, well, and the day before the election, you kind of draw a line.
At that point, it's either we include everybody or we can't have it.
And I was willing to host a radio debate.
I would have done it for two hours.
And no response from her campaign.
She she wrote me on Twitter.
I don't have a Twitter account that I have access to.
My staff pointed it out to me.
I said, All right, take write this down, tweet this out to Kathy.
And then Linda, did she ever finally respond or no?
She did not respond.
She did not respond.
So, you know, we try did we not try?
Did my TV staff not try?
We did that.
We went we went all in to try and give her a chance to talk and explain some of this.
And I found the answer she was giving other shows really flimsy.
This is a must-hold Republican seat if Republicans want to get control of the United States Senate.
And if she would have won, uh, that was in real doubt.
I would have put that in the very, very likely Democratic column.
Yeah.
Well, what I find interesting is she wouldn't even surround herself with the local people.
She's from the Huntington Valley area of Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia.
And she went to Elizabeth Town for headquarters.
And then there's all other consist inconsistencies.
You mentioned the adjunct junk professor issue.
Uh then inconsistency.
Somebody said I didn't see this, so this is hearsay.
I haven't fact checked it.
Um I'm not sure she could claim in her book, maybe that she lived in Virginia, and then she was asked, Well, when did you move back to Pennsylvania?
And then she said she never lived in Virginia.
I mean, there's so many Other just unanswered questions about her.
And you know, if Kathy's Kathy's not going to listen to me, she's probably angry that I dared to bring these issues up, but every other candidate got that treatment.
Dr. Oz, who I was supporting, got forty-five million dollars dumped on his head in negative ads.
The fact that he was still standing is a miracle in my view.
I don't like when Republicans go that harsh that hard.
But I understand politics is a blood sport.
I don't like when Republicans are are so dishonest in ads, and I'm not mentioning any names, but I've seen ads, I don't even know where they come from.
They come from the this super pack or that super pack.
So but you live with it.
That's you know, this this is the type of thing that's always going to keep good people from ever wanting to get into uh politics.
Anyway, John, uh appreciate you being with us.
We're watching the vote count very closely, and uh I'm still maintaining a pretty big lead at this point.
Uh Don in Iowa.
Hey Don, how are you?
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
Uh I'm a truck driver from Iowa.
I'm uh operations manager for a hundred truck company.
Oh, wow.
That's a big deal.
It's a pretty good side.
Thank you for what you do.
No, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Um I I'm a uh uh million year listener of Sean Hannity.
I can't even remember how far how far back we go.
So I'm very honored.
Thank you, sir.
That means I'm old, but okay, keep going.
Well, as a Marine, I actually worked uh comms for uh Colonel North, by the way.
I thought you'd find that interesting as a uh young man back in the eighties.
But uh the reason I'm calling is uh you know fuel prices have gotten absolutely ridiculous, and you know, trucking uh itself is short of many, many drivers, and uh the supply chain is just falling apart right now.
And with fuel up uh almost six dollars a gallon right now, there's no profit left for the small guy.
So you've got drivers going by the wayside left and right on a daily basis.
Companies closing left and right.
And uh this this whole uh fuel issue.
I just read a uh post on social media this morning that they're expecting fuel may double in price in the next year.
Well, there's a shortage of diesel, most people may not know is happening right now, which is also refineries now have to now switch in their operations to produce more diesel and more jet fuel so that the airline industry keeps going and the trucking industry keeps going,
and you're right, diesel fuel prices now have doubled under Joe Biden and his idiotic policies, and I would bet that all of that extra money for fuel uh causes you rightly so.
It's not your problem, it's not your fault.
You you're not in business to lose money, and that's gonna cause you to pass the cost on to your customers, and that means they're gonna raise prices, and that means we the people end up paying the freight, isn't that true?
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, uh that well, right now uh I think that the brokers themselves are getting scared because businesses are putting uh being put out of business at the will of the government, and I think they're all afraid of of something because they're not uh coming up with the extra money in the freight costs.
So my my you know single truck owners, you know, that out here driving their own trucks and and paying their own bills, they're barely.
Well, once it gets to the point that it's not worth those drivers driving, there's gonna be nothing delivered to any store.
So it's something's gonna have to give, and I'm telling you, the that companies are gonna have to pay the freight to get their products to market, and the market is gonna raise the price to make up the difference, and the consumer will be the one that pays the the that price.
If otherwise we'll have empty store shelves everywhere we go.
We can't have that.
Well, no, without a doubt.
And another problem that's going out is because of the parts shortage.
A repair that would normally take two days is taking two weeks.
I've got a truck that just went in for a uh uh detox.
I I know guys whose trucks have been down a month, a month.
This one's gonna be this one's gonna be two months now.
I I know one trucking company that they took one truck just to strip it for parts for their other trucks.
Can you believe that?
No, we've done that.
Yeah, we've had to do that.
Yeah.
All right, I'm up on the clock here, Don.
God bless you.
Thanks for what you do.
Um It's gonna turn around.
It has to, because we're not gonna live with empty store shelves.
I've just mark my words on this.
There's no way that this is sustainable.
Once that happens, the country's gonna be up in arms.
It won't happen.
Uh appreciate the call, sir.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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