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Dec. 15, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Biden Playing Games with Vaccine Mandate- December 14th, Hour 3
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Glad you're with us, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
So since 1954, there have been five separate occasions where the House of Representatives has changed in terms of the election and changed power.
You will see this in January when Nancy Pelosi gives up the gavel and Republicans now will be in charge of the House.
That's important for all the reasons we've discussed, the power of the purse, the power to subpoena committee assignments.
I mean, it's a big win for Republicans, a necessary win, and it's a great check and balance on Democrats.
Now, in all five of these occasions or leading up to this one in January, there's never been a moment where the opposition in the Senate would go along with the party in power and pass an omnibus spending bill for the entire next year.
That's never happened before.
And right now, we have Republicans, obviously led by Mitch McConnell, but other people like Richard Shelby, who's retiring at the end of the year, and some other people, pushing this omnibus spending bill, which is the entire year spending bill, before the new Republican Congress takes power in the House of Representatives in January.
And it makes no sense at all whatsoever.
Historically, what these lame duck sessions would do, they would pass a continuing resolution to fund the government in the interim.
And then the incoming, in this case, incoming Republican majority would then have a say in the budget process for next year.
And for whatever reason, Republican leadership in the Senate has decided that they want to work with Schumer and with Biden and go along with a year's worth of spending, taking away what is really a powerful tool for the new Republican majority in the House and stop some of the insane spending that we have with what, a deficit now and a debt of, what, $31 trillion?
It's insane.
I cannot get a reasonable explanation as to why they're doing it.
Many Republicans are speaking out against it.
Senator Mike Lee's been keeping me in the loop.
He's apoplectic about it, as are many other Republican senators.
Senator Marcia Blackburn from Tennessee is with us to give us her take on all of this.
Senator, how are you?
I am doing well, and you're so correct on this, Sean.
We should give the new House majority, and it will be Speaker Kevin McCarthy, give them the ability to come back at some point next spring and reset the spending numbers and begin to move us to where we can break this log jam on spending.
It's so important to note that the Democrats under Joe Biden have continued to push the annual spending north of $6 trillion because they have deemed all of this extra spending for COVID as mandatory spending.
And what we need to do is have the ability to just freeze this and then begin to work it down so that we do not make all of this additional spending part of the permanent spending process.
And we continue to say, let's do a CR.
Let's get ourselves out for the year.
Let's make certain that we come back and we do a bill that is going to be more responsible and is going to focus on getting our fiscal house in order.
What is the rationale, the reason, the why, the wherefore that Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are pushing this?
Why?
There are some Republicans, and you mentioned that Senator Shelby from Alabama, Senator Leahy, who's a Democrat from Vermont, they're retiring, and they want to do one last omnibus spending bill.
But they're between $25 and $45 billion over the president's request.
And last night we started hearing from Democrats that they had been able to find a way forward.
But Sean, when you look at spending over the last four years and you look that in 2019, we were at $4.4 trillion in spending, which is too much for me.
But then you look at where we are in 22, which is $6.3 trillion.
And then you're looking north of $6 trillion again for 23.
That is the out-of-control spending that is taking place.
And honestly, I think it's immoral to spend this kind of money, run up this kind of debt, and look at our children and grandchildren and say, okay, it's your problem now.
You've got to figure out a way to pay for this when you start earning a paycheck.
You know, it's just unbelievable to me, Senator.
I really can't believe it because I know we'd save a lot of money if the new Republican Congress had a say in what this budget was ultimately going to turn out to be.
And, you know, we're looking at record debt that I don't even see a path in the long term where we will even be able to pay down that debt, especially with interest rates now going up at a very fast clip.
Well, and as I said earlier, there are some things that are going to have to be done, freezing federal spending, federal hiring, federal employee salaries, freezing all of that, and then beginning to work that down.
Looking for ways that we can use efficiencies in government to deliver salaries.
Look at some of these components that have become mandatory spending through COVID and saying we have to think long-term about what we're doing.
You know, it was in 2010 that you had Admiral Mullen.
He was asked what kept him up at night.
And he said the greatest threat to our nation's security is our nation's debt.
We need to remember that and we need to focus on what we're going to do to get this spending under control.
These omnibus spending bills have got to stop and we have to find a way to reduce what we spend.
For years, I had the 1% across the board cut amendment, which cut a penny out of a dollar.
And if you did that, for every dollar we spent over a period of about five years, you would bring that federal budget back in to balance.
Those are the kind of steps and the type ideas we need to bring forward.
We need to change some budget process.
And instead of doing baseline budgeting where you take last year's budget and add to it for this year, we should be doing zero-based budgeting where you go back to zero and you build out what your needs are.
You look for ways to save money instead of ways to spend the taxpayers' money.
And people are looking for this.
Inflation is high.
The cost of living is high.
Price at the pump in the grocery store is high.
And people don't want to be sending more money to Washington, D.C. for politicians to waste those hard-earned dollars.
You know, years ago, Florida Congressman Connie Mack proposed what he called the penny plan.
We're probably now up to the nickel plan.
That is that if you cut five cents out of every dollar government spends, you'd balance the budget in a short period of time.
At that point, it was seven years.
You'd balance the budget.
Nobody had any real interest in any of that.
Let me ask you this part of this.
We know that the House is willing to go along with the defense appropriations, but they did so by eliminating the vaccine mandate as it relates to the military.
Is that going to hold, especially considering Joe Biden told us that the pandemic is over?
Oh, it's going to hold.
This is an amendment that I had offered back during the summer when we at Senate Armed Services were working on the Defense Authorization Act.
And at that point, Sean, every Democrat on the committee voted against it.
But I told them then, I said, I'm going to ask for a vote on this amendment when we go to the floor.
Well, in the meantime, you have seen our recruiting numbers and our retention numbers drop.
For example, our Army is 15,000 short this way, this year.
They're going to be 21,000 short next year.
And so I was successful in negotiating this amendment into the House version.
We're going to keep it in the Senate version.
That is step number one in dealing with this, getting that mandate rescinded.
And I'm so pleased to have been able to work with our troops and bring this to a successful conclusion for them.
Do you believe the number of, what was it, $830 billion or $840 billion for the military, do you believe that is sufficient to combat threats from countries that are hostile like China?
We are going to have to pay close attention to our great power competition.
We have to be focused on what China is doing with their aggressiveness, what they're doing to Taiwan, what their aggressiveness in the South China Sea, and with the Pacific Island nations.
I was just recently over there doing some work and in Taiwan.
And we have to make certain that Taiwan is positioned for an asymmetrical battle posture so that they have what they need to defend themselves.
Do you really believe that if the communist Chinese, and they have been stating it openly, that they believe Taiwan is theirs, they call it reunification, do you really believe that Joe Biden would involve himself in any way militarily to prevent that from happening?
And do you think that even if we supplied them the weaponry to fight back themselves, that they'd have the capacity to go up against this massive military buildup that has been taking place for decades as it relates to China?
Yes.
And the Taiwanese are very focused.
They consider themselves to be independent.
You know, they have a president and a constitution.
They have a military they consider.
But you think they could take on the mighty military of China, the might, the monies that have been spent, the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been spent, the hypersonic missiles, everything in between.
And you know what?
No one thought that Ukraine could take on Russia.
And we know that the Taiwanese are preparing themselves to defend themselves.
Would you support any American troops in terms of support for Taiwan if they're invaded?
That is a question that Biden has answered repeatedly, and then they've had to walk it back repeatedly.
And the United States has always said that they would be positioned to help defend Taiwan.
That is why it is so important that we conduct military sales to Taiwan right now so that they have what they need to defend themselves.
And before Putin went into Ukraine, I sent a letter over to the White House.
Now's the time for sales to Ukraine because you could see that Putin was amassing troops and equipment on the border.
It is imperative that our allies know that they're our allies and that our enemies know that they are our enemies.
All right, Senator Marcia Blackburn, the great state of Tennessee.
Senator, great to have you as always.
Merry Christmas and look forward to next year.
Absolutely.
Merry Christmas to you.
Thanks, Sean.
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All right, let's hit our busy phones.
Let's say hi to Jason.
He is in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Jason, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Hey, thanks for having me on.
It's a real thank you to be able to, it's a privilege to be able to talk to you.
I wanted to talk about everything happening with Sam Bankman-Freed and FTX because, you know, this is really just, in my opinion, it's the tip of the iceberg.
I'm dealing with some things from another company that has run the exact same scam, stealing money from investors, funneling them to their other businesses, promising everything with cryptocurrency is secured.
And then you find out that none of it is even happening.
Look, when we've discussed crypto, I've explained that I have friends that are really deep into it.
And right now, anybody that purchased anything crypto is underwater, at least everybody that I know is underwater.
And I always knew it was going to be a big risk.
They had these incredible highs, you know, these really low lows.
They talk about when it's when the algorithm hits the halving point, that's when the money, that's when the value goes up the most.
I've never understood it.
All I've been told is it's a math problem.
It's an algorithm that continues in perpetuity without a final answer.
and I never fully grasped it.
You know, I dabbled in it, but I always said to, you know, you, my audience, that unless it's money you're willing to lose, don't invest in crypto.
I think there are far safer investments.
You know, while I do have a little bit in it, I don't have a lot in it, and I didn't bet the milk money on it.
So it doesn't really surprise me.
The thing that is interesting in this case is I want to see if this guy that they arrested in the Bahamas, I want to see, you know, gave all this money to the Democrats, so I want to see Democrats give that money back so the people that lost, you know, all that money can get at least some of it back.
And certainly he needs to be held accountable based on everything I read.
We'll see what happens as that case unfolds.
Hope that answers your question.
Quick break, right back.
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Linda, did you see that the AP is now advising journalists to use pro-abortion language?
Did you notice that?
I did not.
They put out an abortion topical guide for journalists.
Guidance, in other words, which many pro-life people are saying, demonstrates even further the extent of the media's bias in favor of abortion.
But they notably, you know, are the most used style book for journalists and political operations, etc.
And anyway, and they kind of give guidance as to how people in the field of journalism should choose words on various issues.
And they updated their abortion guidelines to include advising journalists to use the term abortion rights and anti-abortion while foregoing terms like pro-life, pro-choice, pro-abortion.
So now that they put out their guidelines, I'm going to use all the ones they don't suggest.
Is that a good idea?
You know what really bothers me?
I don't understand.
This is the same people that will say there's no room in the operating table, in the doctor's office, for the government.
Well, maybe the press should take a step out, too.
They're saying there's not enough room in a delivery room.
Delivery room.
Thank you, sir.
For anybody other than a doctor and a patient.
Right, a doctor and a patient.
Then why are they bringing every American into that room, that birthing room, by forcing them to pay for abortions in many cases?
Well said.
Or fund Planned Parenthood.
Thank you, sir.
Absolutely.
I'll tell you what.
I had this conversation the other day with a young lady.
She was about 16 years old.
We were sitting there and we started talking.
Her parents are very conservative.
And I didn't know her sway one way or the other.
She proceeded to tell me that she was a feminist.
And I said, Oh, that's interesting.
Why are you a feminist?
And she said, Well, you know, the whole like, you know, like abortion rights.
And I said, Oh, okay.
Well, what about abortion rights do you feel strongly about, right?
And she's 16.
And she says, Well, I just feel that women should have the right to choose.
I said, Okay, well, what if the baby inside your belly is a girl?
Does she have a choice?
I'm just asking.
And she just kind of looked at me.
I was like, I'm just asking the question if women have the choice.
The thing that really is amazing to me.
You know, my niece, um, who now has had her second baby.
And, you know, my kids are older.
They're in their 20s.
So I remember when you'd get a sonogram and you'd see, you know, you could see a bare outline basically of a child growing inside a mother's womb, right?
Okay.
Yes, it's amazing.
Now, with what is it, 4D imaging?
Is it 5D imaging?
I'm not sure what level it was.
4D was what I was my last sonogram with Liam.
Okay.
And you see the face of the child.
You see every individual finger.
You see the belly button and the umbilical cord.
You see their toes, and you can count them and make sure that they look healthy.
And then there are interesting developments, people that have taken that even further that show that inside a mother's womb, that what appears to be, and I'm not an expert on this, but what appears to be at different times a child in a woman's womb showing emotions or a smile.
Now, some people might dispute that.
I'm not an expert, so I'm just telling you what I've read and what I've seen.
And that to me is fascinating.
Now, the question is: if we're going to follow the science, and let's say science brings us to the point where, I don't know, a baby inside a mother's womb, if a terrible accident took place, that that baby could still live, even if it was only three months into a pregnancy, what do we do under those circumstances?
Well, that's apply every means necessary medical tool available to save the child or exactly.
So, this is where we get into a very sticky situation, right?
When we start trying to play God in our everyday lives, and you know, I was thinking about this in church on Sunday.
You know, Pastor Tim was giving his sermon, and one of the things that he talks about a lot is maybe we should all get out of God's way because he has a plan, and it's nice that you think you're in control, and it's nice that you think you have a say, but you don't.
Your only job in life is to do your absolute best at all times, try to be a good person, and you know, in his service, right?
You're trying to live by the word, but that doesn't mean that you have the right ever to determine when someone else's life ends or begins, right?
We're just there to help them when they're alive.
And for some reason, in this newfound age, because we're just doing dandy right now, the world's just really spectacular.
We've done a really fabulous job, and I'm sure God is thrilled right now with how great we're doing.
And I'm like, And now you want to be in charge of when somebody gets to end their life or begin their life.
I mean, we're seeing all this assisted suicide, and I'm not saying I'm for it or against it, but I'm just saying there's a lot less effort put on helping people when they're alive.
I mean, look at the veterans that are homeless on the street.
Look at this young girl.
Wait, can I just say one more thing?
Let me say one more thing.
Please, let me say this one thing.
There's a young girl right now.
She thinks she's like nine or ten, and they won't give her a transplant because she won't get vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccination.
That's so stupid.
But not as it is, it's not just stupid, it's inhumane, it's cruel.
I don't understand.
If the children are the least susceptible, we know that the vaccine does not stop or prevent transmission, it does not cure.
It is a virus.
Why on God's great earth does the 10-year-old not able to get a life-saving transplant because of a COVID-19 vaccination?
You should be ashamed.
Whoever you are that is stopping that transplant for a child, you should be ashamed.
I don't think that's that.
And you should have your medical license taken away.
I don't think there is any shame.
And I guarantee you, we're not going to hold people like Fauci eventually accountable.
I think he'll be supported by Democrats.
I'm not sure there'll be any consequences.
Well, I think the only thing that will happen is Americans are going to learn an awful lot about how wrong he was.
We're doing a segment on this tonight on TV.
But, you know, it's interesting.
It's follow the science, follow the science until the science doesn't fit the narrative or the political agenda.
Then you don't follow the science.
Well, you made a great point the other day.
And I think it was just yesterday.
You always make great points.
What do you mean, I'm just one the other day?
But this was really good.
And you said, so you're outside by yourself in the sunshine.
You're in your car alone, by yourself, driving, and you're in a mask.
What science is telling you to do this?
Are you putting it?
And not only that, you're wearing the mask that's been hanging from your rearview mirror, collecting every single particle of that.
That disgusting, filthy mask that you've been using for two years.
What the hell?
Anyways.
So I was actually out recently and I'm shocked.
I mean, outside people are wearing masks still.
And I'm like, wow, really, they bought all of this hook line and sinker.
Dude, it is out of bounds, out of bounds.
And listen, you know what?
It's funny.
I was watching Sebastian Manascalco.
Anthony and I watched it this weekend.
If you have not seen the latest stand up by Sebastian Manascalco, I highly recommend it.
I need something funny this week.
Oh, my God.
You guys got to watch it.
Honestly, I had to pause it.
I was laughing so hard.
I missed the next line.
But he is irreverent.
And he's talking about everything that if you're a parent right now and you're taking your kids to school or daycare or play dates or whatever and all of the masking.
And he's like, so you're upset that my kid doesn't have a mask on.
He said, but this kid over here is dressed up like a lion with furry paws and a tail.
And you got him in the back of the class and you're calling him Simba.
And you think that we got to worry about a mask on the kid.
I was dying because it's true.
Like it's so true.
You know, like that's so much true.
That's where we're at.
That's a reality of today's society.
And it's scary as hell.
Let's get to our phones.
Ben in Alabama.
What's going on, Ben?
How are you, sir?
Hello, Sean.
You have a wonderful staff, man.
And thanks for taking my call.
I listened to you.
Thank you for checking in.
Hope you have a great Christmas.
What's going on?
And I just wanted to say with all that President Trump has gone through his family and his administration and what is being said now with Elon Musk, you know, if the Republican Party had some gumption about him, I think it would clear the field.
This man has definitely been in his family and administration, has gone through a lot.
Clear the field, and he should be the Republican standard bearer.
I know what they talked about in the midterm.
I don't think it was his fault.
There are a lot of other nefarious things that went on, I think.
But I just think this should clear the field and stand up and rally behind President Trump.
America needs a patent.
A lot of people don't think so.
And President Trump, I think, is the standard bearer that can go in there like Benjamin Netanyahu.
And Benjamin Netanyahu came back.
I think President Trump would be good for America and America.
We're talking about moving forward.
We should move back to border security, back to energy independence, back to a whole lot of things that President Trump had his country going forward in the right direction.
You know, look, I understand why you're saying that, especially now having learned from Elon Musk The extent to which election interference took place, suppressing of information took place, that Twitter was the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, that the media mob were complicit the whole time withholding information.
You know, we now are learning that the FBI put their thumb on the scales and we're meeting weekly with big tech companies, warning them that, in fact, there might be a hack and a dump, some foreign nation be on the lookout for it.
It may even involve Hunter Biden, et cetera.
That's them putting the thumb on the scales of an election.
And we've had studies that show that if the American people knew about Hunter Biden's laptop and the implication of Joe in all of this, that it very likely would have changed the outcome of the election.
But this is two presidential elections in a row that the FBI has done this.
So I understand what you're saying.
Here's your problem, though, and that is that there are a lot of Republicans that don't want him to run.
There are a lot of Republicans that have their own personal political ambitions.
And the process is going to unfold whichever way it unfolds.
Do I think that there are going to be a lot of Republicans that get in and run for president in 2024?
I think probably the number is going to be higher than you think.
That's my best guess.
But don't ever underestimate Donald Trump would also be my admonition.
We'll see.
It's certainly the one thing that is going to be most interesting more than anything else.
Forget about the outcome for a second.
Whoever does get the Republican nomination, be it Donald Trump or somebody else, they're all going to run on the Trump agenda.
That's the fascinating impact, the long-term impact of Donald Trump.
And that is, you know, securing the border, energy independence, all the things that we've discussed at length ad nauseum on this program that he accomplished.
So are you going to talk people out of running for president that have presidential ambitions and aspirations?
I don't think you will.
I'll give you the last word.
Well, Sean, thank you a lot.
But I don't think Jesus said, can you drink of the cup that I drank of?
And I don't think that people can drink of the cup that President Trump and his administration have drank it from for all these years and told lies all the way.
But I thank you so very, very much for taking my call.
And I listened to Mark, you, Mark, Dan, and Rush when he was alive.
And you played something last night on your television show with Rush.
It just brought back a lot of memories.
But thank you so very, very much.
And God bless you and the having continued to be able to.
God bless you.
And I hope you and your family have a great Christmas, my friend.
God bless you.
Likewise.
Thank you.
All right, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Frank in Connecticut.
Frank, you're next.
How are you?
Sean, thank you for taking my call.
Appreciate it.
Thank you, sir.
By the way, roast beef sump, lettuce, tomato, mayo, great sandwich.
I've had many in my life, not as many as I want now because I got to watch my weight all the time.
You and I both, you and I both.
I wanted to talk about the border.
My archis said it.
He went right to it.
He said, our border is secure.
And, you know, he must be talking about the northern border.
It's definitely not the southern border.
And what Sarah Carter described yesterday times that by 10.
I have friends in federal law enforcement, and the horror stories they tell are just amazing.
But, you know, at the end of Sarah Carter's conversation, she was saying, why, why, why?
Why are they doing this?
Why is this happening?
Why do they want this?
And I've been asking myself that question as well.
And, you know, it kind of sparked when Nancy Pelosi said, made that comment about Florida sending Immigrants north.
She said, Well, why do they want to send them north?
Don't they need them to pick fruit?
You know, and it just shows their attitude towards people.
And Harris says it when she talks about windmills and all this stuff.
You know, they want these folks here.
They want them as a cheap workforce.
They want them for their Green New Deal stuff.
They want them here so that they can tap into them when they're.
Well, they also, I think they view this as if you give somebody something of great value.
I mean, there are countries that charge millions of dollars and you can buy citizenship in that country.
But they're going to offer something of incredible value, American citizenship.
What do you think they expect in return?
Probably political loyalty.
That would be my guess.
Anyway, you raise a good point.
I just, I wish I had more time on this.
I do appreciate you calling.
Have a great Christmas, my friend.
All right, folks.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for us today.
Hannity, tonight, Nine Eastern Fox News.
We have Senators Rand Paul.
He's dealing with Dr. Fauci and his lying and his misdirection or purposeful lying.
We'll get to that.
Also, we'll check in with Reince Prievis and also Jason Chavitz will join us tonight.
We'll also check in with Nancy Mace.
Wow, she pulled off a moment in Congress that really should be envied.
We'll explain that.
And Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana.
Nine Eastern, Hannity, Fox News.
We'll see you then.
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