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June 22, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Stomping on Freedom - June 22nd, Hour 3
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So I get a text...
Actually, it was in during my TV show last night from a U.S. Senator.
The Senator writes, Sean, you're not gonna believe this.
We're about to vote on a gun bill that nobody has read, not a single person has read.
And I'm like, well, all these Republicans that vote for this, it's insanity.
And they should be standing up against this.
The answer, if you want to keep our schools safe, is the same answer and the same tactics that we give to protect our elected officials.
That means undercover, armed guards, uh in every school, one way in, one way out.
You make contingency plans, God forbid there's a fire.
You have every kid go through a metal detector, and guess what?
You'll be able to protect every child in every school in every town.
If this bill in any way, which is another band-aid, it's symbolism over substance, and they're all patting themselves on the back, the people that went along with this crap, you know, as if that they just save the day.
It's not everything we want, but it's a good start.
A good start means uh they won't be happy, especially on the left until they take away our second amendment rights.
And you know, this is Joe Biden on gun control, repeats the lines he says, you know, he was instructed to repeat.
Actually says it.
listen and you're seeing everything on the guns legislation the senators say that they've gotten to a legislative text point very Very brief briefly before I walk to the room to make sure I say let them announce it, and then I'll speak to it.
Are you satisfied?
Let them announce it, and I'll speak to Oh, I just will read my lines just like, you know, Mr. President, what do you think about this?
I'm not allowed to answer because my staff is gonna get mad at me and everything, and they know that I'm not capable of handling it.
That's what our president, that's our modern day president.
Uh anyway, Joe's saying the Biden administration will come for your guns if you have an assault weapon.
To gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they're gonna come for my guns.
Bingo, you're right if you have an assault weapon.
The fact of the matter is they should be illegal, period.
Look, the second amendment doesn't say you can't restrict the kinds of weapons people can own.
You can't buy a bazooka.
You can't have a flamethrower.
The guys who make these arguments are the people who say the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots.
We need the protection against the government.
We need an F-15 for that.
You need something well beyond whether or not you're gonna have an assault weapon.
All right, joining us now, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
Senator, if I thought for a second that any of their arguments held true, I would I would consider it.
But they're not taking the steps that are necessary to prevent uh uh anything like what happened in Ubaldi, Texas, from happening again.
If if they were, I would admit it.
I'd say, you know what, that makes sense.
I don't see any sense here.
Did you get a chance to read that bill before you voted on it?
Hey, Sean, it's good to be on with you and all your listeners again.
No, unfortunately, uh Chuck Schimmer brought that bill to the floor just minutes after it was released yesterday.
I voted uh just on that grounds alone against proceeding to the debate on it.
Uh I've now had a chance to review all 80 pages of it.
I'll be voting against it as well.
I think that it puts too many rights of law-abiding Americans at peril, especially with vague and general terms that we're going to delegate to Merrick Garland at the Department of Justice, who sicced the feds on parents going to school boards, or delegate to unelected federal judges when you're talking about a core right.
Now, that clip you just played, Sean, about Joe Biden talking about banning assault weapons, I think goes to show why there's so much much skepticism about these liberals when it comes to regulating guns.
They don't even know what they're talking about.
Joe Biden is talking about banning assault weapons.
Sean as you and so many of your listeners know there is no such thing as an assault weapon.
It is a fiction of liberals and lawyers in Washington.
There are rifles there are shotguns there are pistols those are specific types of firearms but an assault weapon is something that is defined by liberals and lawyers in Washington that would encompass some of the most popular rifles in America.
So there is a deep reservoir of distrust among gun owning law abiding Americans about letting Joe Biden or Merrick Garland or Benita Gupta at the Department of Justice with Merrick Garland pass any kind of regulations or have any kind of discretion when it comes to the firearms we can own.
You may not know this Senator I I've said it publicly many times that my mom was a prison guard and she had a revolver uh Smith and Wesson if I bel remember correctly and at a very young age I think it was ten, maybe eleven, uh my mother knowing that they didn't have you know fingerprint safes like we have today next to my bed I have a fingerprint safe and in seconds I can open it and there is my my handguns are right there.
Okay, if I ever God forbid need it.
I keep my shotgun in a place right nearby God forbid I ever need that.
I always ask liberals well what are you going to do if somebody breaks into your house and wants to harm you and harms your family they ne they never have a good answer.
Nor can they define what an assault weapon is anyway.
Um but really ultimately and now they're starting to say it some on the left they ultimately don't believe in the second amendment they don't want an armed citizenry.
They don't care that it says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
They they ignore all of that.
Why because they want the government to have more control over your lives they don't want individual citizens empowered um to make decisions for themselves.
That's been the progressive mindset going back a hundred and fifty years to Woodrow Wilson chime and your ability to protect yourself and protect your home and protect your family is central to your independence to your freedom.
The second amendment was not about hunting it was not about sports shooting.
It certainly protects those activities but at bottom the second amendment was about your right to protect your own life and the lives of those you love and Sean I know you support the police as much as I do but when seconds count the police are minutes away.
Well that's the point no matter how great the response time is it doesn't matter.
And by the way and this is important too everyone points to Uvalde, Texas and what happened there.
That is not the norm.
Cops usually that I know and everybody that I know that has bec gone into law enforcement, they're all the same.
They're the guys that see the problem, see people at risk and run right towards it.
We saw it that day on that ball field when Steve Scalise was was shot and nearly killed that day, you know, in an open field with a pistol up against a rifle sniper that was hidden these officers ran across the field.
They were sitting duck, Senator anybody that had any any skill whatsoever with a rifle could have taken those two officers out but they didn't anyway.
Uvaldi is the exception it is not the norm what happened there.
Yeah it's very true Sean those Capitol police officers at that ballpark five years ago probably saved multiple lives of senators and congressmen and probably innocent bystanders as well and I I do believe they reflect the norm among our brave law enforcement officers around the country and even in that school in Uvaldi from the preliminary reports I've read there were officers who wanted to storm the classroom to try to kill that shooter to try to get aid to those who had been wounded but had not yet perished,
but perhaps the uh chief who is in command on the scene or or others restrained them.
So even in the Uvaldi school, there were still officers who were acting in the finest and bravest traditions of law enforcement in this country.
Yeah, let's talk about a few other things if you don't mind.
Senator, I think in my lifetime, uh we have not had an economy this bad since Jimmy Carter was president, and maybe it's even worse than Jimmy Carter.
Uh I don't know about you, but everybody that I know that's paying over five dollars a gallon for gasoline is struggling.
Everybody that I know is watching.
We now have a report today, trillions of dollars in uh retirees, uh stock market investments, their 401ks, etc.
Their retirement plans, that they're now missing.
The problem I have more than any other problem is, and and I'm hoping for a wave election in 2022 in November, and the Republicans will take the House and the Senate, but we actually have to win two elections to reverse this.
We have to win 2022 and 2024.
Uh, unless the Democrats somehow, you know, would be deprogrammed from their climate alarmist religious cultism that you know doesn't even that won't even recognize that we could go back to energy independence ourselves instead of begging Iran and and Venezuela and the Saudis and OPEC.
Yeah, Sean, Arkansans um are suffering badly trying to make ends meet at the end of the week and the end of the month with gas at $4 and 50 gallons in our uh state.
In other states, it's six or even seven dollars a gallon.
Um you see the same thing at the grocery store.
Uh I was speaking uh with a Walmart official recently, and they said that they've seen a decline in hot dog and hamburger buns and an increase in white bread, uh, looking ahead to the Fourth of July because people are trying to cut corners and save a few pennies everywhere they can, so they'll use white bread on their hot dogs and their hamburgers and they grill out in a week because it'll save uh a few pennies for them.
That's how dire it is for so many families.
And you're right that it starts this fall with winning back the House and the Senate and putting the brakes uh on the Democratic agenda, uh, but it doesn't finish this fall.
We have to win in 2024 as well.
That's not just the White House, Sean, but it's also winning in what is a very good cycle for us in the Senate.
You have a lot of Democratic senators coming up in 2024, like John Tester and Sherrod Brown and Tammy Baldwin and Bob Casey who have never run for office in a bad environment for Democrats.
Uh and with Joe Biden as president, I'm pretty confident, unfortunately, that it's going to continue to be a bad environment for the Democrats.
I mean, a year ago, Democrats were talking about Joe Biden being the second coming of FDR LBJ.
I think at this point, most of them would just be satisfied if he could claw his way back to being the second coming of Jimmy Carter.
All right, quick break more with Senator Tom Cotton, the great state of Arkansas as we continue.
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So we have a couple of tough hold states.
For example, Pennsylvania's always been a purple state.
I think Dr. Oz will win that race.
I think it's going to be a tough race.
We have a pickup opportunity with Herschel Walker in Georgia.
We can pick up potentially New Hampshire.
We've got to help out our friend Ron Johnson because they're spending tens and tens of millions of dollars to take him down.
Pick up possibilities in both Arizona and Nevada.
I think we can get a more conservative senator from the great state of Alaska.
You're right about the state of Washington.
We got to hold Ohio.
I don't expect a problem there, or Florida or South Carolina.
I think uh uh North Carolina is a little bit more difficult, but I think Bud's a great candidate.
Where do you see other pickup opportunities?
Uh I think you kind of nailed all of them, Sean.
I do just want to single out one state you mentioned, which is Washington State.
Now I know a lot of your listeners are probably thinking, Washington State, it's deep blue, we have no chance.
Um is actually not that democratic.
After those top four, New Hampshire, Georgia, uh, Arizona, and Nevada, for our pickup opportunities.
Washington is arguably the very next one.
We have a great candidate there named Tiffany Smiley.
Tiffany has a wonderful story.
Her husband Scotty was blown up in Iraq the year before I was in Iraq.
He was permanently blinded.
She quit her job as a nurse in Washington State.
She moved to Walter Reed.
She cared for him and she fought for him because the Army wanted to medically retire him.
They didn't.
He became the first active duty officer who was blind for 10 years.
She uh and Scotty have become great advocates for veterans, and now she wants to be the advocate for Washington uh in the United States Senate.
Um I can tell you there's one person whose opinion matters most who knows that this is a competitive race, and that is Patty Murray.
Patty Murray started running negative ads against Tiffany Smiley two weeks ago, which tells you all you need to know about what she thinks about the race.
She can't be able to do that.
I've seen some polling out there, some internal polling, and you're absolutely right.
It's definitely should be on the list.
I know in the House they've identified seventy-five separate districts that they're going to be competitive in.
If I look, look, I actually believe the New York governor's race, if they pay attention to it, there's a it's definitely an outside chance.
It's a long shot because so many New Yorkers have gotten the hell out of there, gotten out of here, and they moved to Arkansas and Florida and the Carolinas and Tennessee and Texas.
But, you know, I think people are that fed up.
Um my biggest problem is with all this these economic problems that are so self-induced and uh giving up energy independence.
I I I don't see any course reversal anytime soon.
I don't think we're gonna have under Joe Biden or the Democratic Socialist New Green Deal Party.
I don't I don't think we're ever gonna have a oh um a the end of big government is over and the end of welfare as we know it.
I don't think that's those words will ever come out of their mouths.
I don't think they're ever gonna say, you know what, gas prices are really high.
We need to go back to Trump's policies on energy.
They're not gonna do it.
Yeah, I'm afraid not, Sean, because high gas prices, remember, is not an unintended consequence.
It's the intended consequence.
Barack Obama's Secretary of Energy once said that we have to find a way.
We have to find a way to get gas up to the price that it is in Europe, where it's seven, eight, even nine dollars a gallon.
Joe Biden's done a pretty good job of almost getting us there in this country.
Joe Biden said on the campaign trail.
I promise you, I guarantee you, we will end fossil fuel, which is madness.
Sean, fewer than one percent of the colour.
Well, and it will eliminate electric.
Yes.
And that's what that's exactly what they're trying to do.
Let me ask you a question.
Your name gets panthered about quite a bit for for the office of the presidency.
Any chance you'll consider running in 2024?
Well, thank you for the question, Sean.
And uh I appreciate you're about to tell me the drop dead that you're not gonna answer.
Go ahead, you can say it in a nice way.
I appreciate the interest and the expressions of support I get from around the country.
But right now I I am really focused on stopping the worst of this democratic agenda in Washington and making sure that we do win back, not just the House and the Senate.
We've got election right in front of us in four months.
Senator, thank you.
Happy uh hope you had a happy Father's Day.
Appreciate you being with us.
Likewise, Sean, thank you.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Uh uh, Linda, I'm not sure if you saw the Joy Reed.
She's kind of like I call her joyless, like Joyless Behar, but um she seems to think that the criticisms that have come Kamala Harris's way are undeserved and unfair and and tied it to white men and and they're not giving her a fair shot, something to that effect.
I'm paraphrasing.
And I'm like, well, first of all, nobody really pays a hell of a lot of attention to her.
But the problem is her.
She, you know, we have a giggling vice president, this awkward, strange, bizarre giggling at the most inappropriate moments, and you get one word salad after another from her, and I I'll just play a small sample.
I'm like, what is going on with this vice president?
Uh I wish she was competent, because we might need her in coming weeks, months, years.
Uh you know, Jonah's not the epitome of health.
As they say, it's one heartbeat away from the presidency, but she does not instill confidence in anybody.
And trust me, we we spend way more time on Joe Biden.
Listen.
Do you plans to visit the border?
Uh um, not today.
More parents are seeing the value of educators when they had to pregnant kids and saying we're not paying them nearly enough.
What's your actual question?
Hold on, hold on.
Hold on, everybody.
Because there's an interesting fact, in case you didn't know, hard hats are actually unisex.
Everybody's laughing.
You're considered the most liberal United States Senator.
I I somebody said that and it actually was Mike Pence on the debate stage.
But yeah.
I don't get it.
Do you get that?
Where's that coming from?
To me, it's like a nervous, awkward, you know, I don't know what to say, you know, default mechanism she has.
I think what is the best question whenever I hear things like this, and this is this is a serious question.
It's not me being snarky.
Well, maybe it is a little bit, but it's definitely is a serious question.
What what has um Senator Harris or Vice President Harris done?
Nothing.
What has she done?
Do you know what I've put like do you know what if you have a if you have a conversation with Joyless Behar, Joyless Reed, and you ask them, and they start to blame, you know, the race card or the gender card or the liberal card or whatever they're gonna use as the excuse of the day.
Say, okay, fine.
Putting that aside, could you tell me what she has done while in office, whether as a senator or as a vice president, that makes you think that she's doing such a great job.
Because from what I can see, aside from being ridiculously annoying, which she is, she does nothing.
And when she is asked about the nothing that she is doing, she is laughing.
It it is an embarrassment to watch her.
I can't remember.
Remember she kept repeating that same phrase over and over again.
The thing that sticks out to me the most is What was it again?
Community effort.
Oh, I have to look it up.
No, it wasn't community.
It didn't have the word community in it.
She's and like one sentence she repeats the same line.
And working together, and you know, together we can accomplish everything, and together we can, you know, something like that.
Yeah.
I mean, she says a lot of things.
Listen, she's not up to the job.
I mean, this is what I was saying to Tom Cotton, and that is that we have a bench.
You know, you obviously Donald Trump will make up his mind if he's gonna run.
Uh if say he doesn't run or or maybe even if he does, there'll probably be people, but look at the people that we have.
We have a Tom Codden.
We have to do that.
It is work together.
You're right.
And we have we can't.
Do you want to hear the money?
When it comes to the climate crisis.
Which is why we will work together and continue to work together.
To address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements that we will convene to work together on to galvanize global action.
With that, I thank you all.
This is a matter of urgent priority for all of us.
And I know we will work on this together.
Anyway, let's get to our busy phones.
We got Steve in Georgia.
What's up, Steve?
How are you?
Glad you called.
How are you doing, Sean?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
So uh we touched on something.
I was listening to the show yesterday and uh and uh you touched on something about the electric uh vehicles and uh doing away with fossil fuels, and I think what a lot of people don't realize is the control that comes with electricity.
And I realized this is the first time in my life uh probably about eight or nine years ago I was uh down in South America fishing in Patagonia.
And there was uh an uprising in Southern Patagonia to the point it was, you know, it was everything I saw on TV as a kid of burning cars and tires in the streets and throwing rocks and all that.
We we were safe from it.
But uh this went on for several days, and the government just turned the power off until everybody started to play nice again, and they turned the power back on.
And I don't people would think people realize the control that that comes with electricity, as it is now with vehicles.
Yeah, you can get in your car, you can carry as much fuel as you want, you can drive wherever you want to go.
But with electricity, you're gonna have to charge that vehicle.
Uh you're going to be able to do that.
But I went through this earlier in the show and I went through this last night.
What does the electricity come from?
Only 12% is from renewables.
So it's coming from petroleum, gas and and uh oil.
I mean, or coal.
But more of what I'm talking about is control that comes with it.
Their ability to control, you know, first off, okay, you go charge your vehicle.
Now you're gonna have a charging card and you're only a large charge between these hours.
If you want to plan a trip, you're gonna have to plan a trip between charging stations versus hey, if I want to drive somewhere where there's no fuel, I can load fuel in my vehicle and go there and come back.
Here's the re here's the problem.
And by the way, it's 20 grand more on average than a regular car.
Okay.
Okay.
So that up front you need 20 more grand.
People, you know, when two thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, that's a pipe dream.
And what they have now done is they've totally removed the option of becoming energy independent for the very purpose of forcing a transition that we're not ready for technologically, and it it is it is impossible to do what they want to do and force us into their new Green Deal cult without destroying the economy.
Because we we were talking about decades before you could ever consider making this transition, and we'd certainly would need better advancements in terms of quote renewables, wind, solar, whatever whatever they consider renewables because they never define renewables.
And in the meantime, the rest of the world is kicking our ass because they're not giving up their gas and their coal and their and and their oil.
They're not giving it up at all.
They're making a fortune off of us because we're begging them to produce more and they're charging record rates.
I mean, we it makes such a dumb country.
Uh well, not the people.
We have dumb leaders.
They're just ridiculously stupid, and you can't deprogram this indoctrination that they've bought into.
You can't even reason with them.
It is completely off the table that we'll do the Keystone XL pipeline, get 900,000 barrels of Canadian oil.
It is out of out of the realm of possibility that we'll go to Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and drill for more oil.
It's off the table to increase fracking opportunities in Pennsylvania and and Ohio and other states.
So that means that they're now we're gonna pay record prices because they've decided that this is in our best interest that we import oil, even though it has the same impact on Mother Earth as if we we got our own oil and gas.
This is madness.
This is insanity.
This this lacks all common sense and all logic.
And I'll tell you, we're all suffering because of their adherence to their sick religious cult.
It's really insane.
Well, you know, I think uh a lot of uh I think a lot of the problem is let's let's let's dive back a few decades uh to the fact that there was no internet just you know, twenty, thirty, thirty five, forty years ago, and uh information did not travel around the world the way it does today.
And people see America and say they go to their leaders and they say, Hey, why can't we have it like America has it?
Is it easier to make America like the rest of the world?
Or is it easier to make the rest of the world like America and the other leaders pressuring our leaders to make things worse on us?
I it's just a thought, you know.
You know, I I I'll tell you the most depressing part of this, and I don't get depressed.
Um I get very worried and concerned, which is very different than being depressed.
What concerns me the most, what keeps me up late at night is the impact this is having on our position in the world and on our fellow Americans, because you know what?
There are many people that cannot right now make ends meet because they're shoving their indoctrination down our throats against all common sense.
And and we we're we're powerless unless we win the next two elections.
That's scary to me.
Uh they will transform this this country into a socialist utopia, come hell or high water, no matter how much pain they inflict on the rest of the country.
Anyway, Steve, good call, man.
Appreciate it.
Carl in North Carolina, what's going on?
How are you doing today?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Where in North Carolina are you?
Um in Little North area.
Wait, what I'm so sorry, what area?
Like the blowing rock area, Lanor, victory.
I know it well, what's going on?
Well, you know, uh we in our industry, I'm the hardwood lumber industry.
We see a recession before anybody else does.
And we're moving that way right now.
I mean, and I don't think there's anything stopping it.
I mean, the bigger one.
Well, we have well last quarter we had negative growth.
The Atlanta Fed projected this week uh that growth for the second quarter is gonna be zero point zero percent.
Now, if it's zero point one percent by definition, we're in a recession.
Well, you know, fuel has been the big thing for everybody out there.
I mean, our break costs have gone where I used to ship to somebody for fifteen hundred, now it's three thousand dollars going to the same customer.
Yep.
And you know, as you know, you're talking about it affects food, it affects everything that we do.
And you know, it's just driving me crazy like it is everybody else out there.
I mean, it's a contractor and prices, it's like, oh Lord, it just blows my mind.
So a buddy of mine's a contractor, and I said, you know, I want to do a couple of you know, repairs, a couple of you know, you know, minor additions to my house, whatever.
He goes, Okay, when you're when you think you're gonna be ready, give me six months' notice.
I'm like six months' notice.
He goes, Yeah, it'll take me that long just to get everything I need to finish the job.
That's what he's telling me.
And then I I ended up ordering it.
It's like my car dealer guy called me nine months before my lease was up.
Nine months, and he's I'm not trying to say anything.
You know, he's a friend of mine.
He's not she's not ripping me off.
He's to give me a heads up as a friend.
He goes, if you want the same car, I gotta order it now.
And your daughter's lease is coming due in six months.
If you want her car, you gotta order it now.
My daughter's car ended up coming in.
Uh they stopped making the car that I have for this year model.
They don't they're not even making it.
So I had to buy the car outright.
I didn't have a lot, I put sixteen thousand miles on it.
I don't drive a whole lot.
And he said, I I tried everything I can possibly do.
There's no cars available.
And here's an even more interesting point.
What I bought it out at, I could sell it for fifty thousand dollars more than what I just paid for it.
Buying out the lease.
Can you believe that?
Oh, yeah, I know.
We waited too much for my wife's car.
Right.
And they said, hey, it's gonna be two months before you get it, you know.
I mean, it's a great idea on paper.
Sell your car, make make extra money, but I'm like, what the hell am I gonna walk?
My ri Ride my bicycle?
No, thank you.
Uh anyway, Carl, hang in there, buddy.
Uh, you're right.
You see it, the farmers see it, the truckers see it, the hardworking people that really make the country great see it.
The only people that don't say see it are these idiots that we sent to Washington.
Alabama, JD, what's going on?
How are you, JD?
Hey, Sean, you are a great American.
I've been listening to you since the early 90s.
When I used to live in Atlanta, used to come on uh right before Kim Peterson, the Kimmer.
Yeah.
And uh HerPoin.
Yeah.
You're so right on, but you were to the point.
Uh you didn't beat around the bush, and you're still that way today, and we love it.
I appreciate it.
You know, people accuse me, Hannity, you've changed.
I have not changed.
I'm the same person I was then.
I'm maybe a little more mature.
Um, I've learned a lot of life's lessons.
I try to incorporate them.
I believe in God more than I ever have as I get older in life and realize that I need uh God in my life and appreciate God's gifts to me.
But beyond that, my politics is say stayed the same and consistent.
Amen.
Um going to be uh, I guess, sworn in, I think in in I guess they do that in January of 23.
Sean, if you were going to be the speaker of the House, what would be the first thing you would investigate?
You know, there's a lot.
I personally would get to the bottom of Hillary Clinton's lies about the 2016 election, and I'd start right there.
Because she was able to, in conjunction with her media mob outlets, drag this country through hell.
And also the 33,000 emails she deleted and bleach pit and hammers and SIM cards, etc.
And then I would hold accountable those people that signed uh FISA applications when it says on the top of an application verified and used unverifiable information to ruin Carter Page's life and spy on a presidential candidate and a president.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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