If you want to be a part of the program, I keep mentioning the states that we're paying the most attention to in these pending midterms.
Obviously, Florida, I've I feel good about Marco Rubio's chances.
Uh, in spite of the hor horrific press and and the millions of of dollars of ad money uh from outside of Georgia, I still feel pretty good about Herschel Walker's chances.
Um I've gotten to know Senator Tim Scott really, really well.
Um he's an amazing man with an amazing life story.
And a story that Americans don't get to hear that often.
It is beyond insulting things that have been said about him over the years.
None of it is true.
And when you get to really know the person and know the man, as I have gotten to know, um, you come to a very different conclusion about who this man is and and the good work that he does for this country.
He has a new book that is now out.
It's on Amazon.com.
We have a link on Hannity.com.
It's called America, a redemption story, choosing hope, creating unity.
Uh Senator, welcome back to the program.
How are you?
Sean, thank you for having me back, and thank you for uh having that link so that people can buy my book America, a story of redemption.
God bless you, and thank you for your friendship.
You have been an amazing speaker of truth.
I'm a big believer in John 832, you shall know the truth that will set you free, and you are one of the folks that helps us understand truth.
You you distill it down and you make it digestible.
Thank you.
I want you to go into you know, you dedicate the book to both your mom and your nephew, and I want you to tell a little bit about your life story.
Thank you, Sean.
I l let me say this.
Um one of the reasons why I call it America a redemption story is because I was the kind of kid who didn't do very well in life, Sean.
Uh as a kid growing up in a single parent household, I thought all bets were off.
There was no way By the way, I don't want to give out your report card yet, but wait till you hear what he got on his report card.
It's it's interesting.
And so uh yeah, I thought all bets were off for me.
I was b growing up in South Carolina, uh, I was drifting in the wrong direction.
I failed four subjects my freshman year, including Spanish and English.
And as you know, Sean, any time you fail Spanish and English, they don't call you bilingual.
They call you by ignit, because you can't speak in any language.
And I also failed civics, the study of politics.
And that tells me God has a sense of humor.
But you thought but you were a really good athlete, correct?
You were playing football.
I was playing football, and I thank God for football because literally it kept me focused enough to get my act together.
And in this country, if you will work hard, if you will dream big, the most amazing things can happen.
And my mother never gave up on me.
She told me I was blessed with the greatest citizenship in the world, being an American, and she told me that with God as my foundation, if I would not quit on myself, if I would do the work, she was not gonna do it for me.
If I would do the work, all things are possible, and one of the things that you read in my book is how if you do the work, this country will afford you the best future you could dream of, and we should be proud of America.
We should stand up and shout from the mountaintop that we are blessed beyond recognition because we are American, and we do get a second chance at life.
We do have a story of redemption.
Our country is at it, and I've been blessed to live it.
Let's talk about that early life, your life in sports, where what you thought your future was gonna be, how you started out, you you failed what, four out of five classes in in college.
Yes.
Uh you suffered a debilitating injury.
Yeah.
Yeah, I I'll tell you, Sean, when I was a senior in high school, I fell asleep driving my car down the interstate, and if you would imagine, 16-year-old sleeping at the wheel who slams on the brakes and jerks the steering wheel, flipped into traffic.
I slipped through all the eastbound lanes, as well as the westbound lanes, went through the windshield, held on to the steering wheel, and one of the reasons why I became a Christian and I believe in supernatural forces from the good Lord, is because that car accident where I probably should have died, I survived.
And it taught me to put football in its right place.
I I love football.
I didn't like my homework, as you can tell, but I love football.
And my thought was the only way for a poor kid to get out of poverty was through football.
But I had a mentor, John Deshaun, I got him John Moniz, a Chick-fil-A operator.
I I love Chick-fil-A.
And John Monise you love it too, John?
Uh yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
And every conservative should love a a place that's open six days to close one.
Well, John Monese literally teaches me that just because you're poor, no matter the color of your skin, if you look in the mirror and take responsibility for yourself, if you learn how to be a business owner, even if you work for somebody else, the most amazing future is yours.
And that combination, after the car accident, it became real.
And I had a small football scholarship to Presbyterian College, became a Christian, and then a few years later I went into business for myself.
And what John taught me when I was 15 years old until I was 19 became my reality.
That I didn't need to play football to be successful.
I didn't need to worry about the neighborhood my mother was living in because those were temporary things.
Work really hard, and you can buy your mother a house because in America, all things are possible.
In my book, I I I go through the account in America a redemption story about how it happened in my life and how it can happen in your life.
Mentors are such an important part of it.
And he was a conservative.
One of the things you'll learn about book is why I became a conservative and why everyone in this country, black, white, red, or brown, should be a conservative too.
It is the most remarkable, blessed story that you can read in the book.
The book starts out with a very troubling story about you being young.
And I think seven years old.
If I my mind uh I read it a while back, uh, if I were refreshed my mind, but you were young, and I think um and you talk about it in the book.
And there is what I guess was pretty much a typical day in your your household when your mom and your dad were together.
Your dad apparently was a heavy drinker, violent, abusive.
And that incident that you describe in the book, tell that story.
Yeah, there's no doubt.
My dad had some issues without question.
And one of the things that happened when I was seven years old, we were on Air Force Base, and uh I woke up one morning, my mother had had all that she could take of the challenges in that household, and she decided it was time for us to move back.
And my dad was uh outmencing words was not kind about what he thought my future looked like, and he was very clear that by leaving him we had no future, and it was hard to digest, and it stuck like blue to me and to my brother to some extent.
And I will say that my mother's the courage to move back to South Carolina in with her parents into a very small home of 700 square feet where she ultimately had to share a bedroom with her two sons and a bed so that we could just make ends meet.
But the pain and the misery, and frankly, the scar tissue in my life is one of the reasons why I fight so hard for kids today stuck in poverty and single parent households, because as I grew older, I I understood that free market, capitalism, a quality education, these are the tools that set the person free.
And I needed that lesson, and I'm so thankful that I learned it at a very vulnerable age.
I had the right mentor, the right mom, and the right country, and that's why I believe so dearly that the best is yet to come for this country, in spite of the current challenges that we have through this administration and the horror that comes from bad policy and bad direction.
And then you you moved in with your grandparents, and and at some point months later, your your dad came to claim you and your brother, and your grandfather stood in the way and said, That's not gonna happen.
Well, Sean, you read the book.
Thank you for doing so.
Absolutely.
My my father came back and decided that it was time to reclaim his kid.
Nothing had changed uh in his life, and my grandfather opened the door and said, Not on my watch.
Uh It was a very clear and short conversation.
We stayed in Charleston.
And I learned and I I tell the story in America, a story of redemption.
I tell the story of how that unfolded and why my grandfather was so strong and what that means for kids growing up like me, why we should be hopeful and optimistic, even in the hardest of times.
You grow your metal under pressure.
That's a very important ingredient to the success that I've had and the success that everyone that I know has had.
People like yourself who work hard, who are dedicated, who do your homework, you get lucky because preparation plus opportunity equals good luck.
Quick break more with Senator Tim Scott, his new book out, uh America, a redemption story.
This is probably one of the best books on a person, their autobiography that I've ever read in my life.
It's that good.
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We continue with Senator Tim Scott's new book, America, a redemption story.
Let's talk about the turning point.
You have the accident, you'd been an athlete, you thought you had a very different future, and then things turned for you dramatically.
You're a horrible student, you aren't getting you're failing out.
And then you let's go into the the moment of real change for you and and what made the difference.
For me, Sean, uh, one of the things I talk about in America, a story of redemption is how that concept of redemption, second chances was born in two major experiences.
One was that freshman year in high school when I failed out, the second was in college when I gave football up and went in the direction of my faith, wanting to become a pastor.
I learned very quickly that it is better to give than receive.
There's a scripture, Luke 638, that says, Give it shall be given unto you.
I learned that lesson.
You'll learn the lesson.
But it's also a journey of faith.
And you know, I watch and and maybe maybe your past experience impacts how you feel about things today.
Uh, I've watched you viciously uh attacked the most vile thing said about you.
I mean, I live that life myself, so I'm I'm kind of immune to it because I've been doing this 35 years.
I I got the impression that it probably bothers you a little bit more than me.
Um, maybe because I grew up in New York and uh that was an average day in my life, but um I watch it it particularly if you're African American and you're a conservative, it's like they can call you any vile, horrific name, and that's still acceptable even in this woke environment, this woke world we now live in.
Why is that?
Well, you know, Sean, you you hit the nail on the head.
There's no doubt that being attacked on a daily basis is something that I am growing used to.
You've gotten used to it.
But the one things that I find to be most disgusting is when racism is condoned as long as it comes off of the lips of a liberal media pundit.
God forbid a conservative bring up the issue of race.
We are branded a racist, even though we both know race.
America is not a racist country.
But when the left and even the black leaders on TV call me an uncle Tom or talk about Negroes when referring to Herschel Walker, there is not a sound from the national media.
Let that be reversed for a millisecond, and you would have a kind of disdain from this media.
But today, racism is okay if you're a liberal elite media pundit talking about a black conservative.
That is disgusting and something that you do have to grow thicker skin.
And one of the reasons why every single listener today should support Herschel Walker in Georgia because we need more conservatives who are standing up, and the greatest threat to the liberal doctrine and the liberal progress are conservatives from diverse communities who stand up and are counted because they have the courage and the backbone and the support of people like you, Sean.
You've been on Herschel's campaign, and one of the things I gotta tell every single listener is listening to this show makes a huge difference.
Lots of the positive are better than people than me, because when I interviewed him about this recent attack, um, he said, Well, I'm just gonna pray for the person on the mic.
I want to just, you know, take my fist and run it through their face when people say it about me.
But I I will say this.
This book is an inspiration, and you're going to relate to so much of this book and learn from it that it is worth reading for yourself.
Get your kids to read it.
Uh Senator Tim Scott, America, a redemption story, choosing hope, creating unity.
Um, it's a great book, Senator.
We're really proud of you.
I'm honored to call you a friend, and uh I wish you the best with the book.
It's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com.
Soon Tuesday it'll be in bookstores all around the country.
And uh we really look forward to uh having you on more often and talk about this and and obviously the upcoming midterm elections.
Look forward to it.
Sean, thank you so much for your help and your friendship, and thank you for your moral guidance to our country.
It is so important to have truth as our priority.
I think you being the in the better position of leadership is better for the country, but I appreciate your kind words.
Thank you, Senator.
You're the best.
And my my best to your family too as well.
Quick break right back.
Your calls on the other side, straight ahead.
When we come back, more of the best of the Sean Hannity show.
Stay tuned.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean on number.
Let's hit our phones.
Lex is in Mississippi.
Lex, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
I'm amazed at the people in the federal government that cannot avoid COVID.
Uh now many Thompson has COVID, and uh, and I wish him health and safety always.
But uh for the third hearing by the way, I I second that.
I don't want anybody to die from this thing.
It's awful.
I've seen the worst of it, and I wish him a speedy recovery.
Yeah.
For the uh for the thirsty hearings, the January 6th investigation, or as I call it, the soap opera as the world burns.
Uh I wonder if they're gonna be using this as an opportunity for Leah's Cheney to campaign and just create sound bites.
Because if she's able to somehow beat Harriet Hageman, then the Democrats win either way.
Either way, they they win the election.
Well, I don't think I mean she's not gonna, I don't think she's going to to win that election, that's my opinion.
Uh Hagerman has a significant lead.
Uh for Liz Cheney to be reaching out and and asking Democrats to change their party affiliation to vote for her, is is laughable.
Um I would assume she'll take the lead, considering I guess she's the co-chair of the committee.
And I they say they have scheduled one more hearing, but they have not been effective.
There was a great column by Jonathan Turley, who's a Democrat, and said everything that they have promised, all the evidence that Donald Trump planned, plotted, schemed, orchestrated all of this, none of which has been proven by the committee.
And what they don't like is Donald Trump.
And this is to bloody bludgeon and prevent Donald Trump from ever running again.
Now, if you get to the standard that would need that you would need to meet legally, uh, even in the DC district circuit court, uh I they they haven't met the standard.
And they're not going to meet the standard.
They have been selective in terms of the cuts that they have played.
For example, I know that there's testimony of the Secretary of Defense at the time, Chris Miller and and others that have said that they were in the room when Donald Trump authorized up to 20,000 guard troops uh to be available, uh, and he did it two days before the sixth.
Uh I talked to General Milley's people, and he recalls conversations about protecting the Capitol prior to January 6th.
They didn't Nancy Pelosi was off limit.
She's in charge of of security at the Capitol.
Nobody's subpoenaed her emails or testimony, or text messages, or phone calls.
They haven't done it with the sergeant at arms.
Uh nobody's asked Muriel Bowser why she rejected the troops in writing.
Nobody's talked to the Capitol Police Chief and asked him why he was requesting troops and why they were denied.
So they don't really want to get to the bottom of it.
Of all the clips they've shown of J of January 6th, they don't want to show the clip of Donald Trump saying many of you will peacefully patriotically march to the Capitol so your voices will be heard.
So and their star witness is a hearsay witness, and and then you could easily check the veracity of her statement.
I don't know if she told the truth, Cassidy Hutchinson, uh when she said that she heard from a third party that Donald Trump tried to commandeer the the beast when he was driving.
They could easily bring those Secret Service agents in or have them sign sworn affidavits under the threat of perjury.
They haven't done it.
Uh and find out who's telling the truth.
Uh she testified under oath that this was her handwriting, a particular document that was was written on that day.
Uh, but yet the president's attorney says no, that's my handwriting.
I'll bring in handwriting experts and let's determine who's telling the truth here.
But again, they don't want to get to the bottom of it.
You know, it's it's been a one-sided committee.
They've had a predetermined outcome from the beginning.
And so I just haven't taken much of it very seriously, to be honest.
I they they're doing what they said they were gonna do.
Bloodgun Trump.
That's all this is.
All right, thank you for your taking my time.
Appreciate you being with us.
David is in California.
Hey David, how are you?
Doing great.
How are you doing?
Good, my friend.
What's going on?
Yeah, I'm I'm here in Santa Barbara, and I I know you said multiple times that you used to work here in Santa Barbara.
You did, I worked in construction out there.
Well, I that's where I first got my start in radio in 1987.
Oh, so you were there.
Remember Channel City Lumber?
I don't off the top of my head, I'll be honest.
No.
Well, what I'm calling about is the this town used to be beautiful.
Uh I mean, it's not anything like what you think i it was back then.
It's changed.
Really?
What's changed?
I I've I've not heard that from anybody.
Oh God, they've built hundreds and hundreds of um low-income housing units and condos all through Galita up into Santa Barbara, and the jobs are all be taken by people that are, you know, that are coming in to the border, and I'm not being racist.
It's it would just illegal.
You say there's a lot of illegal immigrants that need to be taken care of.
But by the way, homelessness was a huge problem when I was there.
Under the you know the big fig trees that still exist.
Yeah, it's still good it's still great.
Uh no, but homelessness uh we have it was all over the beach.
Um I remember I used to ride my bicycle down there all the time, and I'd hang out at the beach and believe it.
I just I I'd hang out with a lot of the homeless people and just chatted up with them.
Yeah.
I got to know a lot of them.
They're nice.
But it this is a different generation of homeless, and they, you know, I I it scares me because it it seems like the people that are homeless right now, there are a lot of bad eggs that are just following the lead of every uh uh all the other murder and stuff that's been going on.
Home the homeless problem in Santa Barbara has been I I can only imagine that it's exponentially worse because it's worse around the country.
And then you ask sanctuary state sa status of California, that makes things with illegal immigrants far worse as well.
And and this is why the world does not need Gavin Newsom as president.
Uh he can he can measure the drapes all he wants, but God help us if he ever became president.
He's a disaster.
All right, my my producer's mocking me in my ears.
I've been I've been reduced to producer.
I don't have a name now.
My God.
Linda from from New York and Philly.
Listen, I'm just curious, you know, because I'm listening to you talk to this uh this gentleman, and um I heard you say you used to hang out on the beach, which is problem number one, because you're a pasty Irishman.
And second of all, you say you're talking to the homeless people and chatting it up.
What was going on?
No, I used to ri I I actually at one point had like this little moped that I bought for like nothing.
And I'd ride that thing, and then I had a bicycle out of ri where I lived in Santa Barbara is a uh, you know nice bike ride all the way down to the beach and I'd pass that big fig tree and see all the homeless people, but there were a lot of homeless people in and around the beach area.
And I just would, you know, stop.
There's a big doc that would go out, and I would I would hang out there and buy some food and you know, if I'd sit down with people, there were a lot of homeless people there.
Just, you know, we I talked to them every day.
I got to know them.
And what'd you guys talk about?
Whatever whatever was happening that day.
I talk you know me.
Listen, people in my life hate to go grocery shopping with me.
Hate to go because you're on a paleo diet.
No, because I never shut up.
I mean, that's my problem.
I'll talk to anybody.
Listen, I have it on good authority, having shopped with you a few times, including the awkward target shop with you and Gomez.
No, I'm in and out of the store pretty quick.
Oh, that's total crap.
You were in that store.
You talked to everybody.
You first of all, you came because you said I was taking too long.
Meanwhile, you're walking up Gale and take too long because you're you're your agonized.
Because our price checking.
If we're gonna tell the story, tell the story.
First of all, you told the story a million times.
Now I'm telling it my way because I actually want to give them what actually baloney.
No, it's not.
We had been on a trip somewhere.
I don't remember.
We're coming back, and Gomez and Sweet Baby James are there, and I'm there, and we all go into Target to get Liam a choo-choo train, your son, and then here you are, turning over every choo-choo train, and there's like a hundred of them.
Well, yeah, because you know I've had enough waiting for you with the choo-choo trains, and I get I I grab a you know, a basket of co you know, a cart, and I start throwing them in one by one in the basket.
I'm like, good, we'll buy these.
You know what it felt like?
We'll get out of here.
It felt like that.
What's that game where like you win like a shopping spree and you you have to shop, you get like a minute or s or two minutes or whatever it is.
You get a lot of people.
I never saw any shopping carbonized over the city.
First of all, I was in the middle of the store.
My mouth is like still moving.
So literally with the cart, filling it up, like you know, you get as much as you can in a minute.
That was you and Gomez and James, just like throwing everything in.
And I'm like, okay, well, that's excessive.
But I will tell you, as we walk through the store, wasn't it excessive to Liam loved his Uncle Sean?
Very happy.
And and mommy on the M track did not.
But moving on from that, all the people in the store, every hour we would go in, you would say, Oh, what are you buying today?
Hi, how are you?
And then people would look at me and say, Is that Sean Hannity?
Yes, yes, it is.
He's doing a Target survey.
He'd like to know what you're buying today and find out.
You know what you're saying.
My favorite is when I'm not recognized.
I've never been with you when you're not recognized.
No.
No, there are there are times people have no idea who I am, and when that happens, it's like paradise for me.
Because I'm just like I I just want to be, you know, anonymous.
Look, I I I picked the wrong profession because I do love my anonymity.
I wish I had anonymity.
But when I talk, I'd like I'd like to talk to people about their lives.
And you know, like, for example, I go grocery shopping, and even if people recognize me, I'm like, can you believe the price of this crap?
And then I'm literally and then.
Yeah, you're literally building your monologue in aisle eleven.
You're getting all your intel from your neighbors.
You're like, you know what I'm gonna talk about.
So tell so I'm in the meat department and don't ever go shopping with my sister.
Oh my gosh.
Is she like me?
Is she price compared to it?
She she is turning things over and looking.
So she's normal.
Got it.
If you're buying a rack of ribs, you gotta look at every rack to see which one's the best one, the best perfect price.
Absolutely too much.
She buys a little little chicken to grill or to broil, right?
Whatever.
Just uh just a whole little chicken.
It's not a big chicken.
Okay.
It was 20 bucks.
Which is excessive.
Same store a year and a half ago, you can get a fully cooked chicken, probably a little bigger, for like six bucks.
Right, take the work out of it, and here you go for less than half.
Right.
It's ridiculous.
I hear it's ridiculous.
And and so, okay, we m people say, well, Hannity, you can afford it.
I can, but I still have That's not the point.
Etched in my brain, I still think like the way I thought when I live paycheck to paycheck.
I don't think that way when it comes to giving money away or giving away.
No, but you live or bonuses to people.
I don't think.
You're pragmatic.
You're a pragmatic for sure, 100%.
But it pisses me off.
What's inappropriate?
I paid six bucks and the chicken was cooked, and it usually was pretty decent.
Agreed.
And now my sister puts all these seaweed on it or whatever the hell she puts out of the spices.
I don't.
It's just it looks like, you know, pine sprinkles.
Are they known as herbs?
Herbs.
Herbs and spices that I've never known known or heard from.
Probably rosemary and stuff like that.
Pine cones.
I know.
There's a song written about it by Simon and Garfunkel.
Got it.
What is it?
Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Pine.
Parsley Sage Rosemary in Time.
Or we could rename the song Pine Cone Sprinkles.
And Seaweed.
That's Scarborough Fair.
But she makes so she cooks this chicken.
Um, and she's been living with me because uh you know, she's in the middle, she sold her house, and their new house isn't ready.
So you're back to your Franklin Square day, served by cooking, and I don't really love her cooking.
I'm not trying to offend her.
I hope she's not listening.
Oh man, this is gonna be a good night for you.
You're gonna get extra pine cone sprinkles.
So I look at breaking news now.
She police reports.
I'm like, they sold chickens cooked, the same exact chicken for six bucks, cooked, fully cooked, in a rotisserie chicken thing where it goes around and around in a circle.
I bet you're the guy who when you go into a store and they have those little tables set up with the free food samples.
You actually're that guy.
You're gonna stand there, you're gonna talk about the machine, you want to know how they made it, you want to try all the different seasons.
You're that guy, right?
You could say it.
We know.
It's okay.
We know COVID, pre-COVID, Costco always had samples.
I love Costco's having samples.
What was your favorite sample?
I could tell you right now.
Not pine cone sprinkles.
They had this Philly cheesesteak.
I forget what it's called, I forget the brand.
Forgive me for not remembering, but I remember I'm like, this is the greatest.
Because usually if you buy like steak em or any of those things, no offense.
No, Landis is good.
I like Landis.
Okay, so they have one that you can make a real Philly cheesesteak, and I would make it because you know I love onions.
I know.
And you put cheese.
I know you don't have cheese whiz at home, but you put cheese on top.
I mean, it's so good.
It's very without bread, as you know, I don't need bread.
Mm-hmm.
There was a time when you did.
Every once in a while, there's a good cheat day.
You know, if you're gonna have a cheat day, that's a good meal.
Yeah, I have one cheat day a week.
One cheat day a week.
And what do you have?
What do you have on your cheat day?
Uh the bread and pasta are my week.
All in one day, right?
Get it all in for the week on the show.
Sometimes, you know, I could I could be good.
I'm good all week, and I have one day.
It's usually one meal.
I might even I'll starve myself a whole day just to have a whole cheat meal.
I think that's a good idea.
I've done that many times.
Yeah.
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