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All right, news round of information overload hours, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program, with the exception of Fox News Sunday.
All the other Sunday shows, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fake News, CNN, Um, all they wanted to talk about ad nauseum was January 6th, January 6th, January 6th.
Of course, never talk about the riots in the summer of 2020, 574 of them, in case you lost count.
Uh dozens of dead Americans, thousands of injured cops, billions in property damage.
But what really struck me the most is the lack of total coverage.
It was like a blackout of coverage of the assassination attempt against a Supreme Court justice.
In this case, Brett Kavanaugh.
It was ignored by every Sunday show, but for Fox News Sunday.
You can't even make this up.
Now, Brett Bear was hosting and he confronted Senator Chris Koons on it and so on.
I give him a lot of credit for at least bringing it up.
Why didn't these other networks bring it up?
Now, if it was a liberal justice and a MAGA supporter, what do you think they would do?
That wall-to-wall coverage.
We need a committee.
Did Donald Trump motivate this person?
And they would have lost their mind.
Um just like, for example, I can't imagine a Republican or a conservative or a Trump supporter going on the steps of the Supreme Court and making threats like Chuck Schumer did.
And I don't think we can play this enough.
Listen.
I want to tell you, Gore Zach.
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.
You won't know what hit you.
Uh don't find it particularly funny.
I've been doing this for I I'm not giving out the addresses of Supreme Court justices or anybody that sits on the bench.
Number one, it's illegal, and as we have cited on this program, and number two, uh it's it's reckless, it's irresponsible, it's dangerous, and you're literally, you know, you're you're giving tacit approval to a bunch of nutcases.
No wonder something like this happened.
Now, the guy that wanted to assassinate Kavanaugh, they finally released on Friday the 911 tape.
Here it is.
Brett Kavanaugh.
Well, we uh come out there just to hurt yourself and him, or what was gonna happen?
Correct.
It's pretty unbelievable.
Anyway, uh joining us now is Senator uh Mike Lee's got a brand new book out, and it's the about the left's effort um to pack the U.S. Supreme Court.
Uh, and uh we appreciate you being with us, uh Senator.
We're gonna put the book on Hannity.com.
It's on Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Thank you very much.
So we know that there's a lot of efforts out there by the left.
Like, for example, we'll get to this in a second.
They want to pack the courts.
They want to end the filibuster.
They want DC and Puerto Rico statehood.
Uh, we know that the left now is saying That they want to abolish certain people on the left, Bill Press among them, Michael Moore among them.
They want to eliminate the second amendment.
Jamie Raskin wants to get rid of that outdated relic uh called the Electoral College, which would mean New York and New Jersey and California and Illinois will pick all our presidents and all that flyover country, all those red states uh wouldn't have a say for the most part in a presidential election.
So you see all of these efforts, but the biggest effort seems to be on the court.
Yes.
Those efforts are all about the court, and all of these things have at their core something common, which is a desire to erode our constitutional structure to erode the objectivity and the independence of the federal courts, because Sean, they know that that's what they have to do.
If they want to eliminate provisions of the Constitution they don't like or they find inconvenient, they have to politicize the courts.
And to do that, they have to delegitimize the courts and isolate those members of the courts with whom they disagree.
This is a tried and true standard that they've followed.
They've been following it at least since the nineteen thirties.
And I explained in chapters four and five of Saving Nine exactly how that unfolded last time and why we're still paying the price for it today.
All right.
So the book is called Saving Nine.
Do you think if Roe v.
Wade is overturned?
Now Joe Biden announced that he may take executive action.
I would argue I don't think he has the authority constitutionally to do so, but let's put that aside for a second.
Do you believe that this now reignites the left's effort to pack the courts with judicial activists with the intention of legislating from the bench?
Absolutely, Sean.
I I I believe that because it's already here, it's already happening.
Uh when I decided to write this book over a year ago, it was already starting to unfold then.
But um as soon as the Alito draft opinion, which I would highly recommend to all of your listeners uh to read, it's very informative about all the reasons why Roe vs.
Wade was wrong, regardless of how you someone feels about abortion.
It's a it it's uh it's not grounded in the Constitution.
But um all of those things uh uh could reignite and I believe will give substantial momentum to the increasing calls to pack the court.
In fact, in the wake of the leak opinion, uh you've seen Elizabeth War Warren using extensively the uh the moniker hashtag expand the court.
See, this is how the left refers to it now.
Court packing has kind of a taint to it, inappropriately so, and so they've come up with a euphemism to it.
Expand the court.
All these things, Sean, as they explaining saving nine, they're just an excuse for the liberals to control the judiciary so it's no longer independent, so that the judiciary can't follow the constitution and make sure that we are following it as well.
So you write this book saving nine, the fight against the left's audacious plan and pack the court.
Okay.
So they're trying to pack the court.
Um, but for Kristen Cinema and Joe Manchin, they wanted to end the filibuster completely.
Uh you got people like Jamie Raskin now talking about this this outdated relic called the Constitution and wanting to eliminate the Electoral College.
Uh then, of course, if they see a state uh an area like DC or Puerto Rico where they think they'll get, oh, additional Democratic senators in perpetuity, at least in their minds, uh let's go forward with that power grab as well.
So far, Republicans have been able to fend it off, but if in fact they were if the Republicans don't have this wave election that everyone seems to be anticipating, including myself, I think especially the House looks very favorable for the Republicans to gain control.
Uh I think it's a little tougher in the Senate.
I know you're up, we've endorsed your candidacy out in Utah.
Uh I can't believe that Mitt Romney went when is he up?
Because he needs to go.
Uh has not enthusiastically supported you.
You've been nothing but nice to him.
Uh, but I know the people of Utah support you, and this is a key race uh for Republicans, like every other race that's going on.
Um, but you know, we have every bellwether state pretty much up for grabs.
Do you think the Republicans grab the Senate?
I think we have a very good chance of doing that.
There are a couple of things that we've got to make sure that we don't move.
Basically, unless we blow it, I think we're going to take the majority of both houses.
There are a few things we could do to blow it.
Number one, we could do things to sort of um disappoint our own face, or our own face doesn't show up.
We should avoid doing those things.
We should stick true to our conservative principles rather than giving in to whatever the mainstream news media is trying to tell us to do.
We also have to make sure that we get our people out to vote and to elect Republicans.
In my state, as you allude, I I am facing a uh a challenge from an independent named Evan McMowan, one who is uh now endorsed by the Utah Democratic Party, which didn't win its own candidate.
My statewide paper, the Des Ret News recently ran a poll showing him within four points of me.
There's no way that poll is accurate.
Yeah, my my polling shows a uh a healthier lead than that, but still the fact that they could get to a poll like that in the first place is concerning.
And by the way, you if your listeners want to, they they can support support my campaign at least for senate.com.
But we do have to make sure that we mind the farm, so to speak, that we stay on task.
Those of us who are serving in the Senate, we've got to make sure that we're still doing conservative things.
And one of the things that we have to do is guard heavily against attacks on the nuclear option.
If they bring about a nuclear option, they could bring about years, if not decades, of unbroken democratic rule in this country.
And that that should worry everyone.
That that really is the end result of so much of what they want to do.
And it's one of the reasons why I felt so compelled to write saving nine.
See, I think you're right on them wanting to pack the courts, and I think that that's probably the area they they most want to focus on.
Um but then you got all these other issues that we're talking about power grabs, uh, ending the filibuster, uh packing the courts, getting rid of or eliminating the Electoral College.
Um, you don't need a gun, Michael Moore says he promotes a full repeal of the second amendment, tells people to get dogs for protection.
Oh, okay.
Uh, is that predicated on a belief that criminals are going to go and abide by the new laws that that that take our second amendment rights away?
Um or Bill Press saying, you know, let's just get rid of the second amendment completely.
Are we just is that how the things work?
Because I thought we had a process that's called a constitutional amendment, and we all know that that would never fly with the American people.
No, that's exactly right.
And and this is one of the points I make repeatedly in saving nine in chapter three, chapter four, chapter five.
I talk about instances in which the left doesn't like key features of the Constitution.
And so when the court predictably does what courts do, and it typically interprets the language of the Constitution to mean something that uh uh it actually means, and the left doesn't like that, then they threaten to pack the Supreme Court.
This is how they in effect amend the Constitution without going through the amendment process.
I tell a specific story about how the Constitution was effectively amended on April 12th, 1937, uh in response to one of these threats, in response to one of these court packing efforts and why the same could happen here.
We can't allow that to happen.
As far as this point about need, it it galls me to hear lefties, it's always lefties or or is sometimes it's it's uh uh left-leaning Republicans who will spout off about oh, you don't need a gun or you don't need uh this particular type of firearm.
Since when we're right about need, imagine, for example, the outcry, appropriately so.
If someone said, you don't need a newspaper, people can get their news and information from the internet or from the television.
You don't need a newspaper, so we're going to outlaw them.
There would, of course, be a widespread outcry, because that's not a right.
Rights are not predicated on a specific need.
They are right because we exist and rights exist and we exist in the same universe, and the Constitution acknowledges that.
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As we continue with Senator Mike Lee of Utah, he's just came out with his new book, saving nine, the fight against the left's audacious plan to pack the Supreme court, destroy American Liberty.
And by the way, it's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere.
You know, to me, that's just basic and it's simple and it's fundamental and it's work for us.
And yet you have all these efforts to alter, shift, change.
But we have a process for that.
That would be a constitutional amendment.
And I don't think they're going to be able to pull any of that off that way.
Um let's say, for example, that Joe Biden tries to do alter constitutional rights by executive order.
How does that how does that play out?
Okay, so he he doesn't have the power to do that.
And if I assume you're talking here uh about his ability to somehow reimpose by executive order some version of Roe versus Wade.
Well, that's what is specifically he was talking about, yes.
Yes, yes.
That is um that is science fiction fantasy.
The idea that a president could uh exert that kind of power is laughable.
So if he were to do it, number one, he would not hold up in court because there's there's nothing.
There's nothing in the constitution, there's no federal statute anywhere that gives the president that type of sweeping power.
Uh number two, if you were to claim to have that, the the courts are going to point out it's not there, and so they will stop him.
But it will do violence to the constitutional system in the meantime, because every time you see one of these frontiers push like that, you incrementally weaken the system.
And I think for the Democrats, that's a feature, not a bug.
And as I explained in saving nine, the feature, not a bug for them, that when they push court packing, whether it succeeds or fails, it still does lasting harm.
It's a great book.
It's a great read.
Uh if you want a senator that actually knows the Constitution, you're one of the few that really know it as well as you do.
Uh the book is called Saving Nine, the fight against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pact the Supreme Court and destroy American Liberty.
Uh, it's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
Uh Senator Mike Lee of Utah, your race is very important.
We enthusiastically endorse your re-election and uh wish you the best.
Thanks for being with us.
Thanks so much, Sean.
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I don't know what we're gonna do about this guy's president.
I mean, it's obvious now to everybody.
They're just not saying it, they're not vocal about it, they don't have the courage or their convictions to say it.
Um, but this this these cognitive issues with Biden are just so bad.
It's so humiliating, it's so embarrassing.
I mean, and you know, he's on Kimmel last week, and then we got the the my favorite though is is the gaff montage of all time, and I could probably pay play an hour's worth of it.
It's that much material that's out there.
Listen.
And a pound of Ukrainian people.
First lady's husband uh attracting COVID, but uh we're emerging for this pandemic, we want to expand pre-K for three and four-year-olds, millions of pre-carriages.
Forty percent of all products coming into the United States of America on the West Coast, go through uh Los Angeles and uh and uh um uh um how am I going here?
We choose truth over facts, play the radio, make sure the television excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night.
The phone make sure the kids hear words.
Make sure kids hear words.
Dean in California, what's up, Dean?
How are you?
All right, Sean, how are you?
I'm good, sir.
What's on your mom?
Um, when I was young, I I always believed that our our leaders, our politicians, mayors, president, the whole shooting match.
I always thought that they picked from a poll of the smartest and most intelligent people among us.
And as I got older, I began to realize that's just not the case.
And I wondered why isn't it the case?
Why aren't they vetted for intelligence, a working knowledge of the Constitution, the meaning of the words in the Constitution and why they were going to be able to do that?
Let me ask you a question.
The economy.
You see what happened, for example, to Donald Trump.
Three years of never-ending Trump Russia conspiracy theory lies, right?
You know, you you don't have to like Donald Trump's speech on January 6th, but he did he did say for people that that they're gonna march peacefully and patriotically so their voices can be heard.
And now we know because the people in the room have told us that he authorized up to 20,000 troops uh days before.
But the committee will say, well, he didn't call up the troops that day.
No, he authorized it two days earlier, and the jurisdiction to call up the troops were Nancy Pelosi, Muriel Bowser, and the Sergeant of Arms House Senate, but they're not going to talk to those people.
So you see the way the political arena works.
Let me ask you, why would any smart person want to subject themselves and their family to that hell?
I'm and I'm asking honestly.
You mean like to January 6th?
Like what happened?
I'm saying if you look at the scrutiny, if you look at how toxic politics has become, and some people accuse me of being a big part of that.
Okay, I'm looking for solutions to save the country, and my solutions are conservative solutions, and what they're doing is screwing up the country so bad and causing pain and miser misery for so many Americans.
I'm a conservative.
Conservatism works.
It's a not about party, it's about what works.
So, but I look at, you know, half the country is nuts.
Half the country is bought into this climate alarm and alarmism crap.
And if you ask me, I mean, who in how many people want to go through that hell that it would take to become president, for example?
I don't think many Americans.
People who are eye for what they believe in, and they and they need to get forward, the smartest.
We need those people.
We need the best, the brightest, like our military.
You're right.
You you raised a good that's the perfect answer.
You you have to do it from a sense of service, not a sense of ego or self-gratification or uh fulfillment or or whatever, narcissism.
None of those things are gonna pay off in the end.
But I will tell you willing to put their life on the line to make what they believe in, and I'm I don't mean like the woke thing.
I mean to believe in the Constitution, to believe in the way that America was set up, and it was set up that way for a reason.
I mean, each one of us should be able to open carry a weapon.
They took that away from us, and now you have all these mass shootings.
If the crowd was packing a pistol on each and every one, that would never happen.
But they don't see it that way.
They want to take away the well that happened the weekend after that school shooting.
I told you about a case about uh I forget exactly where it was.
Uh there was a sh active shooter and a woman was armed and she stood up and she took the shooter out and saved probably dozens of lives.
And it should be.
Yeah, but you know, it's to me it's about common sense.
It's simple, basic, fundamental common sense.
And then you ask these people like Bill Press or Michael Moore and that are now saying openly they want to abolish the second amendment.
And and Michael Moore's answer is to get a dog.
Okay, so the criminal that doesn't obey laws that has the gun, first thing he's gonna do is shoot your dog, and then he's gonna shoot you.
So good luck with that policy.
It's not gonna work.
Um anyway, Dean, you raise a good point, man.
Appreciate it.
Uh the thing is to get the best people that stand on the right principles that will fight the hardest and understand that they're gonna try and lie and bludgeon them to death and and not be fearful when that happens because that's almost inevitable for anybody in the public eye now.
Uh Chuck is in Michigan.
Hey Chuck, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm doing great.
Hey, I'm an owner operator, truck driver.
I pay upwards of what we're doing.
Thank you for what you do.
Oh, yes.
And I pay over $500 more to fill up my truck every other day.
And it's a given worse every time I go in.
And now with the recession coming up on the horizon, they're lowering our rate.
And I just want to know why when Joe Biden says that he's pumping more oil than Donald Trump did in his first year.
Why doesn't anybody press him and say, you know, so then on the second, third and fourth year you're gonna pump more oil?
Nobody seems to ever want to ask the hard questions of anybody.
I mean, look, the media's giving Biden a pass.
I I mean, don't you find it embarrassing that he's going all over the world to two bit dictators begging them to produce more energy, oil, you know, talking to Iran, Venezuela, OPEC nations and and Saudi Arabia when we have enough energy resources here under our own feet, we don't need it.
We don't need their energy.
And they're getting rich as hell off it.
And you know, people are asking, well, why are these golfers going with LIV golf?
Um, and in large part, these countries are so filthy rich because we have government elected officials that are so dumb and stupid adhering to this this sick climate alarmist cult.
It's a religious cult for them, and it doesn't matter how much we're paying for gasoline or or what the inflation rate is, because that agenda s absolutely supersedes what what's best for the American people.
And it's not based in reality.
You know, where's the money for solar and winds?
What's that?
I said it's worshipping a false religion is what liberalism is.
Yeah, well, it is it's to them it's a religion because they're they're clinging to their failed policies and they'll pay the price for it, but whether they make the adjustments, um, I think they'd probably only be surface anyway.
Now let me ask you, are you p put it putting the cost, the extra additional fuel cost, diesel costs onto the consumer, or are you eating that?
How do I do it?
I I I drive what's called the spot rate, and the uh that's uh the um they they determine what the rate is.
And now the rate's dropping because we have a recession on on the horizon.
So there's an ebb and flow to that, according to my friends.
I guess there's a that like a national bulletin board, and you get to pick different runs.
They offer a run from this city to that city at this rate, and you can take it or leave it or negotiate.
Is that correct?
Correct.
And now they're offering less because when a recession comes around, the the brokers want to take a bigger piece of the pie because they see they're not gonna make as much money down the road.
Well, do don't you as an owner operator have the ability to pick and choose your own routing?
Yes, I do.
But you know what?
I mean, the other alternative is for me to sit home and not make any money.
No, that's not an alternative.
No, it's not.
By the way, truck truck the day truckers start doing that is the day we all starve.
Thanks.
Please don't do that.
Um I don't know.
Listen, I I really do sympathize with you because you know, here you are, you're you're hustling your ass off.
You've invested all this money.
God forbid your your truck goes down now.
Uh I have friends of mine.
They they actually took one truck off their fleet.
It's a small fleet.
I think they have like 15 trucks, something like that.
And they use one truck just for spare parts so they don't have to wait for all the spare parts because uh one of the trucks goes down, they they can't get the parts immediately.
It takes time to get them now.
I've been down for two months because I had to do an engine rebuild on my truck that just cost $20,000.
Oh, good creeps.
Now I'm coming back to a lower rate.
Yeah, and and uh I'm hopeful that they go back up higher.
I'm hoping demand, I mean uh I guess it was like six months ago.
I read that we had a shortage of about 80,000 drivers.
So hang in there, Chuck.
I really do sympathize for you.
I mean, you're doing everything right in life.
You're working hard, playing by the rules, and and now in the middle of a you know, basically a recession, these inflationary times, uh, you know, you're screwed and you end up paying more making less.
Uh that just sucks.
And all of it, again, is unnecessary.
Um let's say hi to Stacy is in Pennsylvania.
Hey Stacy, how are you?
Uh, thanks for checking in.
Hi, Sean, how are you?
Thank you very much for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I'm a small farmer in from Pennsylvania, and I'm also the 2022 Pennsylvania Elite in the United States Agricultural.
And I am calling to encourage everyone, if they haven't done so, especially the younger generations, to learn how to grow your own food.
Now you're scaring me.
Why I now I do know how to grow food.
People might laugh at this.
Uh but one time in my life I had this huge garden.
I did it for a couple of years.
I just did it because I wanted to learn how to do it.
Corn, cucumbers, you name it, peppers, all I did everything.
And but I'll tell you what happened.
Then I began to realize farming is hard work.
And it was only small it was, you know, it was I don't know.
It was not that big a plot of land.
But I, you know, you'd have to weed it and water it, and it just was a lot of it was a heavy lift, and I love corn the most.
Then I realized I could walk down the block and pay, you know, like five dollars for uh, you know, a dozen corn.
And I'm like, I'd rather go I think that's the better way to go.
How many acres do you have?
I have six acres, and um about a hundred and fifty chickens and ducks and turkey.
And um, do you kill your own chickens and turkeys?
I do not know.
I uh I'm an egg farm and I also sell uh different types of fruit plants.
And can you make you making a profit?
I know people are having trouble with fertilizer and seeds are more expensive and equipment is more expensive and harder to repair.
How you c how are you coping with all those challenges?
Right now I'm doing okay because I'm using resources that I have, like for the um for all the plants, I use all the manure and all the mulch from the barn, and then I put it right on the plants, so the amount of nitrogen is actually helping the soil so I can rotate crops every season.
And um for deliveries too, because like I'll have customers stop by the location and pick up eggs, and then what I've also done too to save on gas is to limit my deliveries.
Like if I'm going to a certain place, I'll take care of the other customers in that area just to save on you going back and forth, back and forth.
Because then that'll save a delivery fee for the customers as well.
You know what I love?
I love the fact that I hear in you you're finding ways, big and small, to streamline your entire business.
I love that.
Because you're being creative, you're using your brain, and and hopefully you're still making about the same amount of money as you did before all these bad economic policies.
You know, but a bigger farmer is they need fertilizer.
There's not going to be enough manure for them.
And I don't care how many cattle they're raising.
Um, they need to buy the seeds, they need to buy the fertilizer.
And without it, they got a problem.
Then they have tractors, and then trying to get spare parts for them.
That now is problematic.
And these and and what's happening, what they're telling me, what I'm reading even, is that a year from now, we're gonna have a food shortage, the likes of which we haven't seen in our lifetime, if this continues.
I hope that's not true.
But same here in a second.
That's why like the younger generations, they have to learn now because you know, you can't rely on anybody but yourself.
And like, especially with the parents getting involved with like teaching their children, because you know, we may not have that choice to go to the grocery store and get food because there may not be that delivery.
Or if it's gonna be so expensive that no one's gonna be able to afford it.
And another thing too that you don't have to have a lot of land to grow food.
Like even people in cities, like they can have like strawberry plants, tomato plants, use you know their buildings, like the rooftop as a garden.
Like there's possibilities no matter how.
We just have to teach everybody how to use the resources and things.
It's amazing that our we have so perfected farming that we not only feed the entire country farmers, but we feed, you know, a significant portion of the world.
And they've been able to streamline, you know, the this the science of agriculture is so sophisticated today.
And you know, the thought that they're having struggles of, you know, we don't have enough fertilizer, we don't have enough seeds, it's it's costing so much, I can't even make a profit.
Why am I even doing all this back breaking work?
Um, is is pretty mind numbing to me.
But it is fascinating.
It it's gonna be fascinating to watch if in fact all of this develops the way I'm reading and I'm being told by people that are farmers like yourself, small farmers like yourself, large farmers.
Uh we're gonna have a food shortage.
What are we gonna do then?
We're gonna go to Russia and get our wheat from them.
Uh scary times.
Anyway, God bless you, Stacey.
I think it's good advice.
I think everybody at some point in their life, you should get your hands dirty and definitely, you know, have a garden.
You know, grow whatever you like to eat.
If You like bell peppers, you like cucumbers, you like tomatoes, you like corn.
Um, I found it rewarding, but I found it too hard.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Load it up tonight.
Yep.
Tough, tough economic times.
Uh, we will give you the news the mob chooses to ignore.
They're too fixated on the 400th hour of coverage of January 6th with no new information.
Anyway, we'll load it up.
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