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All right, news roundup information overload hour, 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, uh we're following all of these different races around the country.
Look, this is going to be in November, and I know people now maybe are looking forward to the summer and Fourth of July week is coming and people taking vacations.
You know, but November's gonna be here in short order.
So we're doing quick check-ins today in the different campaigns around the country, the candidates we're supporting and liking and wanting to win.
And anyway, uh one person that I believe one state is a big pickup state opportunity, and that's in the state of Nevada.
And Adam Laxalt is a phenomenal candidate.
He's been leading in the polls there.
Uh, here's his latest ad, because if Republicans win that Senate seat, that's gonna be huge.
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All right, Adam Laxalt is with us.
He's the Republican Nevada Senate candidate here to talk about the primary this Tuesday.
Um he has our endorsement, and that's why we wanted to remind people that this is an important race.
We need this seat desperately if the Republicans are gonna have any chance of taking over the Senate come next January.
Anyway, uh Adam, welcome back to the program.
We're just checking in.
What's the state of the race right now?
Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
And uh look, it's it's been an honor to have President Trump with us from the very first week of this campaign.
It's great to close with him.
And uh in fact, we're heading to a Don Jr. rally here shortly, and so uh, you know, we're we're just closing out pedal the metal, and uh the race feels great.
We've had uh consistent double-digit leads, and uh everything we're doing is preparing for the most important general election Senate race we've had in Nevada in a generation.
That's a chance to put somebody in that's an actual fighting conservative for six years, and a chance like you keep mentioning to the national audience a chance to flip the Senate.
We don't have many opportunities, and uh, you know, people are gonna start as you said, maybe June, July, people are gonna kind of enjoy the summer a little bit, but people need to engage.
We all know the deep trouble we're in in our country right now, and we have to flip this seat to stop the Biden administration in its tracks.
40-year high of inflation, yet again the highest ever, another record set, not one you should be proud of, and another record gas price day today, four dollars and ninety-eight cents nationwide.
I'm not sure what it's out what it's costing out by you.
We are at a record high.
We're number two in America.
We're averaging over 550.
We put out a tweet the other day with seven gas stations in all corners of the state that were seven dollars.
And by the way, we are not California.
And if people think we're, you know, we're next to it, we may be a neighbor.
Gas is two dollars in the Trump era in the state of Nevada.
This is all the Biden policies that have driven up our prices, And Senator Masto supporting every step of the way.
We all know that they could change our change course and bring these prices down, but they are so beholden to the far left Green New Deal.
They refuse.
And as a result, Nevadans are getting absolutely crushed.
I haven't even gone into diesel and our trucking, you know, which we rely on heavily in this state.
We are in big, big trouble.
And then Sean, I don't see any end in sight.
Listen, all I wanted to do is check in, check on the status of the race.
I want to remind our big audience all over the great state of Nevada that please Tuesday is primary day.
Your candidacy is crucial.
I believe it's one of the biggest pickup opportunities we have in the country.
Uh you've been running a phenomenal campaign.
Uh we're proud to support you, and uh we'll be watching the results on Tuesday, but more importantly, the results in November.
We need your state to turn red.
We absolutely need and it can happen.
And if I can, today is the last day of early vote for all Nevadans listening.
Get out, and if you're election day voter like I am, make sure you turn out on Tuesday.
Thank you, John.
Adam Laxalt, thank you for being with us.
That's a that's a that's a pickup state, big time.
Arizona is big time, Georgia, big time.
Uh New Hampshire, big time.
We have an opportunity to pick up a number of states here and really take control and and stop the bleeding and damage that's being done every single day.
Uh let's say hi to Frank in California.
Frank, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm doing fine, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call and all your hard work.
I was wondering, you know, in the light of the Kavanoff and the protests and everything on the Supreme Court justices.
I mean, I've been in law enforcement for like 42 years, and I cannot in my wildest dreams understand why either the U.S. Marshal or the Supreme Court police aren't at least arresting people and letting the attorney general decide if he wants to prosecute.
I mean, I mean, we're supposed to arrest or the violations of the law and let the attorneys decide if they want to prosecute.
I mean, I'm gonna tell you something.
There's two issues that we gotta pay very close attention to, and one of them is what you're talking about here, and that is law and order and safety and security.
Because I am telling you, when San Francisco, which has what, six and a half percent uh Republican registration, removes uh one of the most liberal DAs ever in the history of that city, that speaks volumes.
Secondly, when we look at Glenn Yuncan and his victory in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a lot of that was about CRT education, uh par parental role in in our school system, and these issues are not small issues.
You add that to a 42-year high of inflation, you add that to five dollar an hour uh gallon gasoline, you add that to to the disaster that is a border, you add that to the disaster that was Afghanistan and every other policy, and and this is now we we're now seeing government at its ultimate worst.
I can't think of a worse time in my adult lifetime that that governance has been this incompetent and this bad.
And now we have tacit approval of doxing Supreme Court justices even after uh a guy wanted to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh people uh are uh are still marching in front of this man's home and trying to harass and intimidate him.
We've we put out the laws that prevent people, should be preventing people from doing this.
But you know, we got Chuck Schumer saying he's fine with it.
We got Jensaki saying she's fine with it.
The administration's fine with it.
I'm not fine with it.
I would never do that to any elected official, nor would I do it to any Supreme Court justice ever.
It is intimidation, it is harassment, and it is reckless and it is irresponsible.
And I I can't believe there's not more outrage on it, to be honest.
You you get the last word.
I I totally agree with you.
I mean, I just cannot understand why, even if the chief justice isn't even asking his law enforcement or the U.S. Um Marshals to enforce the law and let everybody else decide.
I mean, I mean, as an officer myself, they expect us to go out and arrest these people for violating laws.
Why don't we require that of our own law enforcement on the federal side and let the parties that need to do it do what they're gonna do.
I mean, we know where they'll go with it politically, but I I don't disagree with you, uh, Mr. Hannity, and I appreciate what you've done.
The bottom line is we need to enforce to protect the rule of law and our constitution.
It's not that hard.
I mean, being a conservative, I save it over and over again.
I won't repeat it now.
But anyway, Frank California, thank you.
Appreciate you being with us.
Uh Dave is in Maryland.
Dave, how are you?
Glad you called.
How are you doing, Sean?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Happy Friday to you.
Happy Friday to you.
I was gonna I was just calling in to to talk about the electric vehicles that they're pushing on everybody.
And I I just don't understand the whole plan behind the process because way back when Joe Biden was a little kid and Henry Ford invented the first car, after he sold it, he didn't go out back and kill all the horses.
I mean, we still need horses, just like we still need the combustion engine.
Listen, I I'm all for technology, but you can't my understanding is all the people I talk to, you can't build an electric car without fossil fuels.
How interesting is that?
Um I I once had an escalate hybrid.
Um now it wasn't an electric car, but it was a hybrid.
And it I it was okay.
I didn't love it as much as I like the regular escalate, but you know, I gave it a shot.
I'm willing to give a Tesla a shot one day.
Uh at least test drive it, see if I like it.
I think Elon Musk is a pretty interesting innovator in our time, and he fascinates me a little bit.
So, you know, I'd give it a shot.
One friend of mine swears by it.
I'm not against new technology.
You've heard me say many times.
I'm an all the above person.
Whatever's gonna work, but right now we don't have the alternative to fossil fuels.
It doesn't exist.
And now we're expecting brownouts.
Now we're expecting shortages, feminine products.
Now we're expecting shortages in meat.
Now we're expecting, you know, grocery prices are gonna even skyright uh skyrocket further this summer.
I mean, it's it all of this is so preventable.
That's what infuriates me.
And I think the American people are reminded of it every day, and people are right back to talking about the bad state of the economy uh after the big January 6th hearing last night, which was a total complete failure and a dud.
And another problem they're having, I'm in the auto business, and they're losing technicians and droves because big time got that have been in the fifth field for 30 years, they don't want to work on electric cars because they're gonna come with extended warranties and all the work, the repairs are gonna be under warranty, and warranty doesn't pay the bills.
You know what?
A good mechanic gets paid a really good, it's a it's a very good salary.
I know because when I pay mechanics, I pay a lot of money.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Thanks, Dave.
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All right, let's get back to our phones.
Uh Bob is in Wisconsin.
Hey Bob, how are you?
Thanks for checking in.
Happy Friday.
Yeah, happy Friday to you.
Yeah, um, I've been listening to you over the past few weeks about you talking about these fuel prices, you know, at the truckers and how we're passing it on to the consumer.
Well, I can't speak for everybody out there, but I can't speak for um for the position that that uh that I'm in because I do uh I'm leased onto a carrier and I own my own truck and I basically pay them eight percent of whatever my load pays or what what whatever they pay me.
Right.
So if fuel goes up to six bucks, I eat it.
Goes up to seven bucks, I eat it.
I I can't pass on anything to the consumer.
Now, you got like your concrete companies who provide a service to an individual.
Yeah, you know, they can do their rates to whatever they want, and if that person wants that service, well, guess what?
They're gonna have to pay for that uh for that service, whatever it it may be.
Well, I I'm uh uh that's not what I'm hearing from my other trucking friends, okay?
Now I know owner operators like yourself.
Uh I know people that own small trucking companies.
Uh I don't know people that own large trucking companies, but I do know this is that drivers are not gonna they're not gonna get paid less.
They're gonna find a company because we're short, like 80,000 drivers in the country.
Drivers are in big demand right now.
We've been true for years.
So they're gonna go to the company that compensates them the same amount of money, regardless of what the price of a gallon of diesel is.
Uh, that I know for sure.
Um I know that for the companies and the people, owner operators I know, and and small business owners I know, they they won't take a load if it doesn't give them a certain price point that compensates for that increase in gas.
And I know there's this like big national bulletin board you all refer to, and I hey look, it it there's an ebb and flow to it with the supply chain shortage.
Sometimes that impacts the number of loads that might be available, and it might be a little slower time that would drive the rates down.
I I kind of have a pretty good understanding of it.
But for the most part, everybody I know is able to pass the cost on to the ultimate consumer that gets delivered the goods.
Yeah, I really wish you would um who had these good paying loads, because I'd definitely take them because a few weeks ago, I mean the loads weren't paying crap.
Uh they they were just right in the tanker.
So I just sat home for two weeks because it was worth the i it was better for the truck.
It became if it becomes becomes to a point it's not worth it.
By the way, all those people are experiencing the same thing.
Look, you know this from your years of experience that you know certain times of the year are busier than other times of the year.
And when it's busier and there's more demand, then the price you charge goes higher.
Right now, demand is in a little bit of a low, but we expect that's going to change, I think, pretty shortly, right?
I hope so.
Because the because the runs that I do, because the runs that I do, I primarily stick to the Midwest because the fuel is outrageous on on either coast.
And uh and I make about seven grand a week, and you know, the fuel comes out of that, and it's it it it's getting harder.
I'm I'm basically one bad um maintenance headache away from just shutting everything down because I'm a one-man show.
Yeah, and it's you know, it's it's really hard.
Maybe you might have to limit you you might have to expand, not put a self-limitation on your business, and and maybe you're gonna have to drive in areas maybe you don't want to or don't prefer to, but um certainly you you gotta be able to make money or else there's no point of you owning that rig.
It's expensive to maintain, the diesel is expensive, the insurance is expensive, the work is long hours and it's hard, and you're away from your family.
It's not an easy gig.
And and I uh really appreciate and applaud you for the work you do and your fellow truckers.
Uh we have no all our store shelves would be empty without you, let's put it that way.
So we really appreciate your hard work.
I hope you can work it out.
Uh we'll continue to monitor this though.
Um let us know.
Check in with us in a month or so.
Let us know how it's going.
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Glad you're with us.
800-941-SHAWN is our number to talk to us on this program of We'll get to your calls in a second.
We're just doing quick check-ins, different races, just to raise awareness of certain candidates that we like.
One such candidate is the mayor of a Chicago suburb call called Orland Park, and he's now running for Congress in Illinois' sixth congressional district.
Now I don't know what the actual number is of competitive seats.
I know Republicans are going to try to compete in 60 or 70 races around the country that they that they would consider pickups.
So I know they're going all in.
And at this point in time, I mean, especially after Glenn Youncan, especially after the very, very close gubernatorial race in New Jersey, especially after this DA got recalled in San Francisco.
You gotta just act as though all bets are off this election year.
And that anybody can win, because we don't have any idea what's going to happen.
Democrats are going to run on abortion guns January 6th, which was a dud last night.
Then they're going to run on Republicans or racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, so not only is he the mayor of the Chicago suburb, um, he's a decorated vet, combat vet.
He spent 1,500 hours flying in the Air Force.
He went on to start a small business in 2003, 2009.
He co-founded uh Fahrenheit Consulting, specializing in helping businesses develop market growth strategies.
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Yeah, well, Hannity, I want to work 40 hours a week.
I don't know anybody that works.
Linda, do you know anybody who works 40 hours a week?
I don't know a single person for 40 hours a week.
I think Joe Biden works about 28.
That's the way I don't know if you'd call it working.
I don't know.
He's his eyes might be open, but I'm gonna be focused on working feeling.
Oh man.
That's how bad it is.
Anyway, we welcome uh Mayor Keith uh Pecos with us, uh, who's running for the six six uh congressional district seat in Illinois.
Sir, how are you?
I'm doing great.
Thanks for having me, Sean.
So since 2009, I know you are the mayor of a suburb of Chicago, so I'm not putting this on you, but I look at Chicago and since 2009 on my television show.
This was Barack Obama's hometown.
He and Joe Biden barely mentioned the weekly violence, the murder rate, the number of people shot in Chicago on any given weekend.
And you know, with all this talk about what happened in Uvalde, which was a tragedy.
I w I want the same security for kids in school as all our politicians and Hollywood stars have.
But it's it's such a shame.
And they never lifted a finger.
This is Obama's hometown.
Joe Biden now, for God's sakes, we need to do something.
Where was the for God's sakes in 2009 when they when he was vice president in his first year or second year or third year or fourth year or all throughout his vice presidency?
Wasn't there?
Um what do you see happening?
Why is Chicago?
Why can I come predict on any given weekend uh with certainty that X number of people are going to be shot and X number of people are going to be shot and killed?
It's it's really simple.
Kim Fox, the state's attorney, the Cook County State's attorney, has run a catch and release program since she's been in office.
The Cook County jails can hold about 14,000 people.
They've emptied the jails to about 5,000.
There's 3,000 violent offenders that use weapons that are on ankle monitoring.
It's not a shock that we continue to see that pressure in the suburbs.
But a lot of the suburbs, including ours, are doing something about it and having good results.
So you're running for this this congressional district.
I think this is going to be a wave of election year.
What are the i top issues in your head?
Obviously, we got this bad economic news today.
Inflation again, another new record high on top of four dollars and ninety-eight cents the national average for a gallon of gasoline, and I've been predicting it's headed here, and I'm turned out to be right.
I wish I was wrong.
Uh, but then you have issues of law and order and safety and security.
Then you have issue of issues of how our schools are failing our kids.
Uh, then you have issues of open borders, energy dependence when we had energy independence.
Uh national security is something I'm sure you're very concerned about, having served uh so valiantly and courageously in our military.
Uh so all of those are important issues.
You talked about the ones the Democrats are gonna try and use nobody cares about them.
I've been talking to thousands of uh voters, and the issues here, crime and inflation, and when you're suddenly paying six dollars a gallon for gas, uh you know, inflation over and over again, it will also be economy and jobs, but I can't see it moving off of inflation and crime.
And the inflation is driven largely by pe by gas prices and the fact that we're not energy independent anymore.
So those are I mean, those are the issues.
That's what people really care about.
You know, so let's talk about this district.
I mean, I think as my understanding is it's a newly drawn district.
What is it in terms of the percentage of Republicans versus Democrats registered?
It's about a plus so here they put we have open primaries, so the only way you can tell Democrat or Republican is the ballots they pulled.
And it's about a plus two Democrat district, and the two districts that they merged, they merged the sixth and the third were between plus six and plus ten Democratic districts.
So when they uh gerrymandered everything else in uh Illinois about six months ago or eight months ago, this district they sliced it too thin, and they made actually a very competitive district, a very neutral district, ninety-five percent suburb.
And uh the whole country would be better off if more districts looked like this that were plus one or plus two, one side or the other.
Well, that means to me that especially if this does b materialize and becomes a wave election year, that means you have a winnable race.
Uh we're gonna keep our eyes on it.
Uh, we did we just wanted you to be introduced to this audience.
Uh we're gonna follow it closely like all the other congressional races and Senate races around the country.
Uh Mayor uh P. Call, we really appreciate you being with us and uh keep us in the loop as to what's going on on the ground there.
Thank you very much for having me, Sean.
I look forward to talking to you more as uh as we move closer to the uh general election in November.
It's an election we gotta win.
We gotta stop the bleeding.
We cannot continue like this.
Americans are suffering needlessly.
Anyway, eight hundred nine four-one Sean, our number back to the uh important state of Ohio.
Mark is next, the Buckeye State.
What's going on, Mark?
How are you?
Happy Friday.
Sean, thank you very much for taking my call.
Also calling from the land of your good friend Bill Cunningham, but I can't.
Sean Hannity, you're a great American.
God bless you.
God bless America.
I want a full report.
How I how that's him.
Unfortunately, how close do you think?
How close is that to being pretty accurate?
It's accurate.
In fact, it's spot on.
And but the problem is I can't find him on the search warner SWAT team on the radio record.
All right, let me I gotta try my all right.
I'll say it.
Nobody else will say it.
There.
I said it.
That's it.
Uh pretty spot on the Yeah.
You don't want to hear the rest of them.
I got it.
Go ahead.
Tell you nicely telling me to shut up.
All right, I'll shut up.
Go.
When when he does come to work, but that's when he sounds just like that.
The reason for the reason for my call, Sean, is I live in a district here in Warren County, Ohio.
It's right between Steve Shabbat, Warren uh Brad Winstrip, and Warren Davidson.
The problem I have, Sean, is they're not doing a damn thing to help fix this.
The fuel cost.
I run my own private business like some of your callers earlier, Sean.
I'm self-employed, but I've worked in supply chain management in the aviation and airline industry for 28 years.
And when corona hit, we got shut down for that.
Our our so-called conservative governor shut down small business.
Now he raised he his first action in office was to raise tax on the working class, 18 cents a gallon.
Where is that a conservative principle?
That's such a good point.
They're complaining.
I I contacted my local rep, Scott Lips and said, get rid of this.
It's killing us.
Small business are dying in Ohio.
You gotta help us because the governor isn't.
I wish you'd come here in this section of Ohio and do a show, John, and force these Republicans to take questions from the voters.
I'm aware of the.
I don't know why every Republican doesn't do that.
I have advice to Republicans.
They they better adopt a conservative agenda.
They better put it down on paper like they did in 1994, and they better keep every promise they make.
And I don't mean just keep it in in name only.
Look, when Republicans, let's say we get the House and Senate.
We'll we'll stop the Biden agenda dead in its tracks.
Now he'll probably try to use executive borders as a way around uh the Republicans in in the House and Senate and having control.
If he does, we need to take him to court.
Some groups are out there.
The ACLJ is out there, Landmark Legal is out there, Mark Meadows and Steve Miller's group is out there.
Uh we have our friends over at Judicial Watch.
They're out there.
There are great groups out there, and and too many to list.
I've I forgot you, it's not on purpose.
So you're right.
Republicans need to fight.
The agenda is simple.
I keep telling everybody.
Conservatism is not complicated.
And that is liberty and freedom.
We believe in capitalism and our constitution.
Less government, limited government, less bureaucracy, lower taxes.
We want secure borders.
We want energy independence.
We want law and order, safety security so we can pursue happiness.
We want choice in schools.
We want people that interpret the Constitution on the bench.
We want the meanest, toughest, baddest kick ass military on the face of this earth, so we have peace through strength, and we want free and fair trade.
We believe in the first amendment, the second amendment, and the entire constitution.
It's not complicated.
I'm giving them the playbook.
If you take those words and give it to every Republican candidate, and not only do they utter them, but they really passionately believe them.
It took Reagan two years to undo the damage of Jimmy Carter.
That's that's about how long at least it's gonna take to undo this damage.
It's that real.
But we can't do it until we win in 2022 and hold it in 2024 and win the presidency back in 2024.
Those are the principles that work for the American people.
That's what we all need to be fighting for.
I'm not gonna give up fighting.
I am uh more motivated than ever.
I am so disgusted at the state of this country and so appalled at the incompetence and so shocked by the radicalism that they're now openly supporting, you know, this this this climate alarmist cult, this religious cult that they buy into a new Green Deal socialism.
I'm so sick and tired of it.
I'm sick and tired of Americans, my fellow Americans suffering needlessly.
I'm sick and tired of reading about you know uh murders in school where we can provide the security to every kid in every classroom if we wanted to do it.
You know, that there are answers to these problems.
We gotta use our brains.
Conservatism is really just simple, basic, down home common sense.
It's not complicated.
You don't need to go to Harvard to understand it.
Uh Mark, we're we're on it.
I promise you.
Eight hundred, nine four one Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Barry is in California.
Barry, what the hell are you doing out there?
I The weather's nice.
I'll give you credit there.
Well, it is getting a little warm, but I'm I'm welcoming the warm weather, Sean.
Well, happy Friday to you.
What's on your mind?
Well, you know, Sean, I listen to you.
I watch the show every day.
I mean, it's great.
Do the best.
But I have been noticing throughout the show that no one is really talking about Dr. Jill.
Everyone's giving her a pass.
You know, they make a comment about every good man or every great man has a great woman.
But what kind of woman is behind our president?
She doesn't go to the border.
She doesn't care about the women athletes.
She doesn't care about the Afghani women.
She's a teacher union, so what is she doing?
Who is she teaching?
Listen, I I honestly, you may you may disagree with me on this.
I I only wish her the best.
And and here's why.
Her it's not her presidency.
She's the first lady.
Um I thought Melania was treated horribly as first lady.
You know, some things are off limits to me.
I'm not going after anybody's kids.
Now, you could say, well, Hannity, you attack Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden is 50 some odd years old.
He's an adult.
He's not a kid, and what he's involved in is just so corrupt.
Uh, I I can't see anybody with the last name Trump ever getting away with it.
There's a difference between a 50-year-old son or daughter of a president versus a, you know, 18-year-old or 25-year-old, even.
You know, leave the kids alone.
Um, and as far as, you know, the first lady, she can do whatever she wants.
Uh, yeah, I was watching a video of her and Joe coming off of Air Force One, and it was like she was holding the guy up.
That's what it looked like to me.
And I'm just like, does she not see the obvious?
Is she in full denial that this guy is in a significant cognitive decline?
Is she not watching how he walks?
I know he tripped again going up the scare stairs to Air Force One.
Well, did the wind blow him over again?
I don't know what's worse.
The tripping or the wind blowing him over excuse.
Anyway, so I I just want to focus on the policies that are hurting our country and keep it keep the personal out of it.
Hey, our friends at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, they now broke ground on their do good village.
It's in Lando Lakes, Florida.
Now, it's the first of uh kind.
It's a community of 110 homes for the foundation's program recipients.
So, in other words, families can heal together.
A very special place where families know that their neighbors understand and care, and it's a community where the children of our nation's fallen or catastrophically injured heroes can grow and experience life together.
I mean, it's such a great idea.
Anyway, the foundations do good village, they're gonna help these families beyond measure, and it's all thanks to the extraordinary donations of many acres of land and your generosity to build these homes.
Uh, you can help America's greatest heroes and their families heal together, and you can make the do good village the first of many communities, hopefully around the country.
And take it from me, Sean Hannity, our friends at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, they're doing a phenomenal job living up to their promise to do good and never forget the sacrifices that our heroes made for our country and our communities.
Anyway, they're asking all of us to donate 11 bucks a month.
They set up a special uh uh website for this.
It's the letter T, the number two, the letter T.org.
It's the letter T, the number two, the letter T.org, 11 bucks a month.
It's our way of saying thank you for all of those people that sacrifice for us.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
We are loaded up tonight.
The horrific uh economic news for today.
What does it mean for the poor, the middle class?
What does it mean for people on fixed incomes?
We'll talk to Larry Cudlow tonight.
We'll have more fallout from these hearings.
Tulsi Gabbard will join us.
The threats against Amy Coney Barrett and her family, and the tacit approval of Democrats.
Uh, we have Joe Concha, Tammy Bruce, and also uh one of our friends and fellow colleagues of Fox News, Benjamin Hall was severely injured.
The guy that helped save his life will tell that story tonight at nine.
Hannity, Fox News.
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