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America's Tiered Society - June 8th, Hour 2
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Because the president has said and made very clear that there's not much left that he can do.
The reality is that there isn't very much more to be done.
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Democrats, forget what we talked about the last hour, which is how bad everything in the economy is and how bad it's going to get and how real this all is.
Forget about all that.
Democrats, they're going to run on Roe v.
Wayne.
They're going to run on abortion.
They're going to lie and say abortion is going to be illegal.
Americans will figure out by election day that's not true.
They're going to run on repealing your Second Amendment rights.
That's not going to work either.
Then they're always going to use their typical playbook every two and four years, which now has become every day, every hour, every week, which is Republicans are racist and sexist and homophobic and xenophobic and Islamophobic and transphobic, whatever.
But this is supposed to be January 6th, and that's the fourth issue they think that they can use to mitigate the disastrous policy impact that their climate alarmism is having on all of us.
Anyway, so the sham January 6th Committee with their predetermined outcome is holding their big prime time extravaganza show hearing with a full-on Hollywood multimedia extravaganza and with creative license to embellish and omit anything that they desire.
Now, if the goal you would think a January 6th committee would be to have bipartisan Jim Jordan, Jim Banks thrown off the committee for Liz Cheney and for, what's his name, Adam Kinzinger.
It's the two biggest Trump haters.
So everyone on the committee hates Trump.
You know, you have the congenital liar.
You got Jamie Raskin, who considers our Constitution an old relic, wants to abolish the Electoral College.
So only big states like New York, New Joise, California, Illinois will decide elections and the hell with the rest of us.
But anyway, so they now have hired this ABC producer, used to do, I guess, Nightline and GMA.
Turns out he was the same executive that spiked that ABC news report that would have exposed Jeffrey Epstein many years ago.
Oh, so they hire a Me Too guy.
Interesting side note.
But there's one thing that you're not going to hear in this extravaganza, and I'm predicting it right now.
You're not going to hear about the January 4th meeting that took place in the Oval Office with Donald Trump, with the acting Secretary of Defense, Christopher Miller, with Kash Patel, his chief of staff, with Mark Meadows, the president's chief of staff, and with General Milley.
I have four of them on tape saying something that would be very vital to this committee.
Listen.
Did you authorize calling up the guard?
And then it became the chain of command went to Nancy Pelosi and to the mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser.
Did you, as required by law, authorize that?
100% and attested to by many people, and they turned it down.
Nancy Pelosi turned it down.
Mayor Bowser's written refusal.
The communications between the leader of the Capitol Police and their chain of command to the DOD refusing our request to allow National Guard's men and women to stage on January 4 and 5 before January 6th.
Did you both ask for the National Guard to be called up?
Without a doubt, Sean, we've made that very clear, not just once, but on numerous occasions.
We wanted to make sure that there was plenty of National Guard on the ready in case there was some kind of violence.
I had a meeting with President Trump on the 3rd of January concerning some international threats.
And at the very end, he asked if there were any requests for National Guard support.
What was the president's response to you with regard to the request made by Mayor Bowser?
Fill it and do whatever was necessary to protect the demonstrators.
Now, that was in keeping with what the president was offering cities like Portland and Seattle and, what, 574 riots in the summer of 2020 and dozens of dead Americans and thousands of injured cops and billions in property damage.
Why don't we have a committee investigating that?
I've yet to get an answer on all of that.
Anyway, joining us to discuss this, and we have some breaking news as well.
Kash Patel, he was in the Oval Office that day when that discussion took place, former Pentagon chief of staff, and by the way, author of the number one children's book in the country right now.
It's called The Plot Against the King.
John Solomon is the editor-in-chief of Just the News and host of Just News Not Noise.
And he joins us.
He has an investigative report he's going to tell us about.
Cash, we'll start with you.
You testified about all of this that, in fact, there were five of you in the Oval Office, and Donald Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops on January 4th in anticipation of big crowds coming on the 6th.
True or false?
100% true, Sean.
Great to be with you.
I'm glad you're pounding the facts because very few people are on this week when they're trying to Hollywoodize, politicize the National Security of America.
And President Trump unequivocally authorized the Guard.
And you did this, and you testified to the committee under the threat of perjury.
Yeah, they cost me a fortune.
And it was funny, this committee on January 6th didn't want to pay too much attention to those facts authorizing the National Guard.
They didn't want to pay too much attention to Mayor Bowser refusing that request or the Capitol Police refusing that request.
And we asked the committee, my team, went in there and said there are documents in the Department of Defense, memorandum signed by the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of the Army who controls the National Guard that speak directly to these authorizations, and they would not give them to us.
They didn't even tell us if they went and procured them.
And we asked them for our emails that spoke to the same authorization, and they refused to produce those to us.
I'm asking them to produce them to America.
I doubt they will.
So they would show that General Milley also knows that the President authorized these troops.
Would that not show that?
It would definitely show that.
But here's the thing I tell people now, Sean.
I think I broke it on your show last night.
Forget all the documents, forget all the emails, forget all the memoranda.
If what the Democrats are saying is true, that there was no authorization for National Guard's men and women, then the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the entire Department of Defense would have broken the law and the Constitution by employing and deploying National Guard's men and women to the tune of 15,000 on January 6, 7, and 8.
That's such a good question.
They know that's not what happened.
So they have all this information.
I doubt it's going to be part of their Hollywood presentation that they're going to make.
And I want to be clear: once the president makes that authorization, just like he was offering it in the summer of 2020 to Portland and Seattle, it then becomes the local jurisdiction.
The local authorities then, as per usual, will make the call whether to take the offer of a president who's required by law to make the authorization.
Once he makes it, it usually becomes their decision.
Is that true or false?
It's true.
It's 100% true.
Two-part requirement.
The president authorizes the National Guard, but the local authority must make that request to the Secretary of Defense of the White House.
And those requests were not made.
They were actually declined in writing, as you showed, with Mayor Bowser, and the Capitol Police outright refused.
So Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C., in writing, refused the troops that Donald Trump authorized.
Now, why isn't the committee brought in Muriel Bowser or Nancy Pelosio, the sergeant of arms?
We also know the D.C. Capitol Police Chief requested troops.
Was he brought in?
Not that I know of.
I don't think so, but they don't want to hear those narratives, and they don't want to put those people through the political witch hunt and make them pay six figures in attorney's fees.
That's why this is a one-sided investigation, as you pointed out.
It's not a bilateral, bicameral investigation, and that's not something that's going to lead to a fact-finding mission.
But I'm glad you're covering it.
Is it a logical conclusion to believe that if 10,000 to 20,000 National Guard troops were deployed to the Capitol as authorized by President Trump, by the Speaker of the House, Sergeant-in-Arms, by Muriel Bowser, that we wouldn't be talking about January 6th today?
Yeah, 100%.
The men and women in uniform of our armed services would not have allowed any unrest to occur.
And that is known by the Democrats and Republicans and all Americans.
But what they want to do, the Democrats, is politicize this event and say, they were terrified.
Remember the Las Viet Square incident by one man carrying a pistol alongside the President of the United States.
So could you imagine their response if we put 10,000 troops on in Washington?
They would have gone berserk.
They wanted the political narrative, so they got it.
I doubt they'll bring up John Solomon, too, that the president said that day.
Many of you will now peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol so your voices will be heard.
You have some breaking news that I think you're going to be breaking on Hannity tonight if it's done.
I don't want to jump the gun here.
I only have a headline.
What can you tell us?
Yeah, absolutely.
So for the last three weeks, I've spent a lot of time with frontline Capitol Police officers and their commanders, getting their stories, not the stories of the leaders, not the stories of the politicians, of the senators, of the House members that have tried to orchestrate a narrative here.
I got it from the frontlines.
And with that, I've gotten thousands of pages of documents from law enforcement showing what really happened on January 6th.
The most important document, Sean, and this is going to be a narrative we've heard before, whether it was the FBI in 9-11.
The Capitol Police did its own secret after-action review.
It reviewed itself, its commanders, its officers, put together what really happened, not what Adam Schiff says happened, but what the police saw happen.
It found damning failures by the Capitol Police Department itself, starting with the fact that the leadership of the Capitol Police Department dismantled its social media intelligence unit a few weeks before the January 6th riots.
Basically, taking away the one form of open source intelligence Capitol Police had routinely used to make threat assessments about what could happen in its capital.
Had they been allowed to look at social media, they would have found significant evidence, according to the report, of people talking openly about the possibility of committing violence or targeting members of Congress.
The report states very clearly that this likely contributed to the tragedy.
This closure of the intelligence unit likely contributed to the tragedy that occurred on January 6th.
It goes on to cite over 53 failures by the Capitol Police.
We're talking significant things like the civil disturbance units, the guys who are trained and women who are trained specifically to stop violence and riots.
They couldn't get their equipment and they couldn't deploy it because they were locked in the bus where nobody had a key for it.
And so they sat there without equipment waiting to deploy.
Significant failure in de-escalating the violence before it got there.
You go through other extraordinary things.
There was no plan.
Some of the leaders got that famous FBI bulletin saying on January 5th, there was going to be major violence.
There were people talking about specific things.
Those leaders did not put into the operational plan that are given to the commanders and the officers the fact that the leadership of the Capitol Police knew that there was a potential for violence that day.
Stark, sharp, detailed failures in this report, very different from the story that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have given the American people so far.
So if I have this correctly, the Capitol Police did a full-on investigation, or we'll call it an after-action report.
And in fact, they have identified their own failures, and you have access to this information?
I'm going to publish it tonight.
When we're on Hannity, we'll show people a copy of it.
We have validated.
We've interviewed almost all, many of the people that were involved in it.
It is such a different storyline.
Remember, Nancy Pelosi has been applauding the police department, calling them heroes.
And certainly, frontline officers endured a lot that day.
They deserve the credit of all they went through.
But the department and its leaders had a preventable situation that they allowed to scale out of control because of poor planning, poor equipment.
There's amazing things in this report, like the riot officers couldn't communicate on the radios unless they took their gas mask off.
How bad is that?
We know there was agents that were being sprayed around.
They had to take their masks off to communicate with each other.
Just massive, massive blunders, years in the making.
Tomorrow, we're going to also put reports showing that going as far back as 2018, Nancy Pelosi and the leadership of the Hill were being told that the Capitol Police were not prepared for a major episode like the riot.
This is a very serious story.
It's a story that Nancy Posse does not want out.
Well, why didn't she get called before the committee?
Why weren't her text messages leaked?
I love leaking my text messages.
I mean, you know, to add nausea, it's like every day.
Anyway, both of you will be on TV tonight.
We'll get into this deeper.
And this is stuff that this would have prevented January 6th.
And they're not investigating this.
If you want to prevent it from happening again, you need to do it the right way.
Kash Patel, John Solomon.
Thank you both.
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All right, as we roll along, 800-941-Sean, we got time for a call here.
Let's say hi to Jordan in Ohio.
Jordan, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Oh, I'm doing great, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Oh, I just wanted to talk about the high gas prices and the fact that we have a president who keeps pushing the supply and demand issue when he, in fact, took away the supply.
He stopped drilling on our homeland.
He stopped fracking.
And I mean, I'm just here to say I'm just sick and tired of hearing about, you know, how he had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Well, I think it's not only that he had nothing to do with it, he caused it.
And the cause of it, I mean, it's kind of hard for most people to understand because if you're a normal person, you're not buying into the planet is going to be gone in 12-year mentality of the Green New Deal, you know, leader, squad leader, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.
And that's what they're saying.
That's what they believe.
Joe Biden promised on the campaign trail that, you know, we're going to get rid of it.
We're going to get off it.
I promise you, we're going to get off fossil fuels.
They made the promise.
Maybe people didn't believe them.
I did.
And I think once you buy into a notion that you're saving the planet and you cling to that belief and you ignore the reality, which is that the lifeblood of the world's economy is oil, gas, and coal, and you artificially reduce it, all these economic consequences are a direct result of this religious cultism that they buy into.
And to convince them that they're wrong, you know, we probably have to hire millions of deep programmers because they believe their own Adam Schiff.
They believe this crap.
And the only way I see to get out of it is elect Republicans right now.
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Patrick in the great state of Arizona, where we are now await, where they're now awaiting the largest migrant caravan to date.
I mean, if you look at, for example, think of the mall in Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.
and his I Have a Dream speech.
And you look out at the crowd and it goes out far beyond where the eye can see.
I'm seeing those pictures of this incoming migrant caravan.
It's kind of crazy.
Anyway, Patrick, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Sean, great to talk to you.
And you are absolutely right.
That is coming.
And I mean, I don't know what we do.
Like, do we just build like a million little houses, energy-efficient houses to put all them up in?
And what do we do with all that?
The answer is you uphold the law of the land.
And to enter this country, you've got to come in legally.
And I've been making the case over and over again.
We ought to have certain conditions.
Condition number one, you need a background check so you don't have extreme relationships or an extreme background.
Number two, in the middle of a pandemic, you need a health check.
And three, you need to provide information that shows that you're going to be able to take care of yourself and won't be a financial burden on the American people that cannot afford to take care of you.
Sean Hannity for president.
You must really hate me.
Why would anybody want that job?
I mean, I know you get a really cool plane and a helicopter, but you get the living crap beat out of you every day.
Who needs it?
Look at what they did to Donald Trump.
Who needs that?
Yeah, no kidding.
But thank God for men like that.
Well, it's look, these, I keep telling everybody, these are very tough times.
And I think everybody that listens to this show, what I'm urging everybody to do is take stock of where you are financially.
There was an article, where was it?
It was in you, believe it or not, USA Today.
I don't often look at USA Today.
People are borrowing money just for the purpose of paying down, just for the purpose of balancing their budget every month.
Now, that's not going to work long for people, especially if this is as long and protracted as people are suggesting it will be.
But I'm urging people to cut where you can cut.
That's why I talk about Pure Talk.
That's why I talk about American financing.
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Look for ways that maybe you can enhance your income.
I know that may not be what some people want to hear.
I know that's what I did when I struggled month to month to pay my rent.
I was always looking for other ways to bring in income.
And really, really, you know, maybe you could keep the old car for another year or two.
Maybe keep it for another three years.
But, you know, everybody's going to have to tighten their belt a little bit.
Look hard for ways you can save money.
And look, I've been there.
It sucks.
It sucks living paycheck to paycheck.
You know, when you get to the point where the average American household is paying six grand more a year, that's a lot of money.
When it's costing you two grand more if you drive a car on average a year, that's a lot of money.
People cannot afford it.
Two-thirds of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck.
The saddest part is it's all preventable.
The good news is we can fix it.
It won't be fixed overnight.
It probably, if all the plans that I would implement were implemented today, it would take less than two years, but we can get things back in shape.
So that goes right to my question here, which is, so I understand in the last election, you know, there was this, we hate the icky orange meanie face guy, so we're going to vote for Joe Biden, feckless Joe Biden.
So a vote in this midterm election, if you are going to vote Democrat, and I ask this from the standpoint of like family and friends that I have that are going to vote Democrats, what does that stand for?
And you put the way that you say things and put things together is beautiful.
So it's like, what does that stand for?
You're voting for $6 or $7 gas.
You're voting for no baby formula on the shelves.
You're voting for destroying the oil and gas industry, sending billions of dollars to Ukraine.
I mean, what, like, if you're going to vote Democrat, what are you voting for?
You know what you're voting for.
You're voting for everything that they're doing and every decision that they're making is filtered through the prism of radical New Deal-ism socialism or the climate alarmist religious cultism.
And when I say it's a cult, I mean it's a cult.
So if you're asking what they stand for, they do not want America using fossil fuels.
It is the lifeblood of the economy.
So when those two issues collide and they choose to artificially reduce the world supply of energy, and then we become reliant on foreign energy at record prices because we reduce the supply, it's brought us to the brink financially, and it's weakened us on the world stage in terms of, and it's compromised our national security.
And we are taking ourselves out of the competitive marketplace.
We are compromising national security.
We are hurting the economy in ways that I didn't think could happen in 18 months.
And there's no way out of it except to reverse course.
The only way I see them reversing course is for us to fire them.
The only way to fire them is to vote in November and then vote again in November of 2024.
So in your opinion, then, these liberals that voted for Biden just because they didn't want Trump, like, do you think there's a large percentage of them that understand this?
Or do you think the majority is in the cult?
They're reminded of it every day when they fill up their gas tank.
They're reminded of it every time they walk into a store.
Whatever we buy, whatever we pay for costs more.
There are hourly reminders, depending on how you live in your life.
I mean, I ordered lunch today, and I buy it from my team, my radio team.
What are we paying?
You know, 50% more than we used to pay?
And now, I can afford it.
I want to do it.
It's my pleasure to do it.
I'm not complaining.
But the reality is there are a lot of people now bringing their own lunches to work and like the good old days.
We went to Phoenix last weekend and driving back up in North Phoenix, we paid $5.89 a gallon for unleaded.
It's the average.
Not traveling anymore.
The average price of gasoline is now $4.92.
That's the national average today.
We're now up 10 cents in the last two days per gallon, and it's going to get worse.
Patrick, buckle up, man.
It's going to be, as Jamie Diamond of JP Morgan said, this is going to be a hurricane, an economic hurricane.
I believe he's right.
All right, let's go to our busy phones as we say hi to Mitch of Missouri.
Mitch, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm good.
How are you today?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Well, I'm going to propose the same question to you that I've tried to get my senator to answer, and that is, why is the federal government killing U.S. agriculture?
Because when we can't feed this country, what are we going to do?
So let me guess.
You work in the food industry.
Maybe you're a farmer.
What do you do for a living?
I'm a rancher and a farmer, and I also have a service business as well to try and support everything.
The answer is you will either raise prices to the point where you can continue to make a living or you will stop producing.
You will have to give up your business.
You can't be in business and lose money every year.
And that's exactly right.
But that goes right back to the question of how are they going to feed this country when they've done this to us.
The answer is they won't be able to feed the country.
And the answer is that all this is happening.
Look, wait till the brownouts that everyone's predicting now happen this summer.
We're going to learn a lot this summer.
If you go shopping on a regular basis, I go grocery shopping every week.
Everybody questions whether I really do it.
Maybe I should take videos of myself and post them because nobody thinks I really go grocery shopping.
I go grocery shopping every week.
I see the sticker shock.
I know what I was paying last year.
I know what I'm paying today.
I know what I was paying for a gallon of gasoline the first day of Joe Biden's presidency.
It was $2.39, the national average.
Now it's $4.92 and going higher.
So, you know, it's simple mathematics.
If farmers don't have fertilizer, if you're paying three times as much for hay for your cattle than you were paying before, when I go to the grocery store and I get my steak and when I get my vegetables and I'm going to be paying more money or else you're out of business.
And so the problem?
And they'll call you greedy in the process and you're just trying to make a living.
Well, the problem is that I'm not greedy.
Of course you're not.
The problem is that we have no Packers left in the United States and there's a lot of collusion going on there.
And we have a supply chain crisis and a baby formula crisis and a COVID testing crisis.
This has been going on for quite a while for several years.
And they're slowly pinching the cattle guy completely out of business.
That's why we do other things.
But I am still trying to figure out what they're going to do when they can't feed the country.
The answer is we're going to have to wait and see because there's no good answer to your question.
Because the only real answer is only those people that can afford it will buy it.
Then what are we going to do with the 98% of Americans that maybe can't afford it?
Because that's what's going to happen.
And by the way, you're reminding me of something.
So I live in, I wouldn't say my town is, part of it's affluent.
Part of it is just middle class.
And I donate occasionally to the local food bank.
I really am way overdue to donate to them.
And they were able to get a bigger building because of a donation I made, which made me feel really good.
And I know people go there usually on a Saturday.
And my friends work there, and they devote their time.
They dedicate their time.
They volunteered their time.
And you see people pulling up in BMWs.
And you see people pulling up in Range Rovers.
Now, maybe at first glance, you would think, oh, they're probably just taking advantage of the free food.
Uh-uh.
No, they're barely keeping their head above water.
And my guess is those Range Rovers and BMWs are probably going to go by the wayside sooner than later.
That's how bad it's getting.
That's why I'm urging you, my audience that I love, that is giving me my dream to please take stock of your financial situation and make cuts wherever you can, save money any way you can, and prepare for a worst case scenario.
In your case, you know, you have to make money or you cannot be in business.
That means you're going to have to sell it at market rates, which obviously have to go up.
And then you add to that, it's costing you more to produce, let's say, produce and raise your herd, right?
The cattle.
Okay, then you get it packed in a truck.
Well, that truck is now paying twice of what they were paying for diesel fuel.
So they're going to charge twice as much to deliver the food.
Yes.
So now we got to pro that now the price goes up yet again.
So if I get a ribeye steak, I like a good ribeye, it's going to be that much more expensive.
But everybody has to survive.
Price doesn't go up.
I have no say in my price.
I don't eat it at McDonald's.
A buddy of mine told me he went to McDonald's, and what used to cost like six bucks is now costing like $850.
I mean, that tells you everything you need to know.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Hang in there, Mitch.
You're speaking for a lot of people out there, and thank you for what you do.
Quick break.
We'll come back.
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Okay.
Bo is in Montana.
What's up, Bo?
You know what I should do?
I should sell out, get a little baby ranch in Montana, and just turn the world off and hang out with you.
What's going on?
I hear you, man.
I just, I went to the grocery store the other day, and it was, I live, it's isolated, and it's a small town, but it was depressing.
Like, even the basic stuff was way more expensive.
And a lot of us blue-collar people, the workers can't afford it anymore.
And if it's on the shelf, we're lucky.
Everybody's feeling it.
Yeah.
It's terrible.
I mean, even like the basic stuff, what did I get the other day?
And I was blown away at the price.
I was buying produce.
Like I was getting onions and stuff like that.
And I'm like, I paid half this amount last year, especially meat because I'm a paleo guy.
And I'm looking at the cost of what I paid last year versus this year.
It's crazy.
And now people are making decisions.
You know, that's why I gave the speech yesterday.
Democrats think they're going to run on abortion, guns, January 6th, and then call Republicans racist and sexist and homophobic like they always do.
None of those things are going to matter because every day we're all reminded they did this to the economy all in the name of their cult religion, climate alarmism.
And it's killing the American people needlessly.
All of this is preventable.
Bo, I really feel for you.
I really do.
You're right.
You're speaking for millions, tens of millions of Americans that deserve better.
We need better governance.
It's really that simple.
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