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	Now, this is so outrageous, what's going on.
	Now, in terms of wokeness and political correctness, and we bring you these stories all the time, let me tell you about this story.
	Now, it takes place at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and they kicked out a dozen Catholic high school students and their chaperones for daring to wear a hat inscribed with pro-life messages.
	Anyway, this just happened.
	This is fairly recent.
	And, you know, it's unbelievable to me.
	January 20th, students and chaperones from the school Our Lady of the Rosary, based out of Greenville, South Carolina, they traveled to Washington, D.C. for the annual National March to Life.
	By the way, it was during that March for Life that that whole incident with Nicholas Sandman took place.
	Anyway, the group members were all wearing matching blue hats with the words Rosary Pro-Life.
	Is that so offensive?
	That's their deeply held religious belief and conviction.
	I thought that we had freedom of religion in this country.
	Anyway, the American Center for Law and Justice has now taken on this case, and they are representing the parents of some of the students that were involved and rightly alleging, in my view, that the museum's staff mocked the students, hurled expletives, and claimed that the museum was a neutral zone where political or religious messages were not allowed.
	On Twitter, one of the mothers of the students said the group was approached by a security guard who told them to either take off the hat or leave the premises.
	Now, her daughter allegedly told the guard that they were wearing it to identify and find one another in the crowd before they were escorted out of the museum.
	Other people in the museum were wearing all sorts of different hats as they were walking around the museum.
	Jordan Seculo, he's the executive director of the ACLJ.
	By the way, Jay Seculo's son and protege, and he's just as good as his dad in terms of a great legal mind.
	He said this is a clear and egregious abuse of the First Amendment, which protects their right to freedom of speech without government interference.
	And we are already taking action.
	A government institution cannot censor an individual's speech, much less speech from an inherently Christian pro-life position.
	Anyway, Seculo noted that the Smithsonian Institution is a federal entity that receives upwards of a billion dollars from the federal government each and every year.
	And the decision by the museum was an example of outrageous and abhorrent discrimination.
	Anyway, a spokesperson for the museum released a statement about what transpired and said the incident did not adhere to their policy or protocols.
	Asking visitors to remove hats or clothing is not in keeping with our policy or protocols.
	We provided immediate training to prevent a reoccurrence of this kind of incident, and we have determined steps to ensure it never happens again, according to Allison Wood, the museum's deputy director of communications.
	Anyway, joining us now to discuss all of this is Jordan Seculo, Executive Director of the ACLJ, the American Center for Law and Justice, and student Patrick Murphy, who was there and lived through this.
	Welcome both of you to the program.
	Thanks, Sean.
	Hey, Patrick, how are you?
	How old are you, Patrick?
	Good.
	How are you?
	I'm 18 years old.
	Okay, I like the name Patrick.
	I like it so much.
	I named my own son Patrick.
	So anyway, thank you for joining us as well.
	Let's get your side of what happened.
	You were there.
	What happened?
	Yes, sir.
	So we had just got done with the March for Life at about 3.30 p.m.
	We wanted to visit museums, and we retired, so we didn't want to go too far.
	So we walked to the Aaron Space Museum, and we got in just fine.
	We weren't really harassed much at all.
	And we quickly zoomed around the museum about 30 minutes when we ended up in the Wright Brothers exhibit.
	And at this time...
	You know, Patrick, hang on.
	I'm going to get a better line for you because we're getting a little bit of feedback and an echo.
	Let me get to the legal side of this with Jordan Seculo.
	Jordan, I mean, what we're reading, what is being described here is nothing but pure discrimination.
	Yeah, and it happens three different times.
	So what Patrick said, the first time they went through, they didn't think it was bizarre because they were going through security and the security guard said you need to take your hats off to go through security.
	So they didn't really take that one as an issue, but that even that step was not normal practice for the Smithsonian when you go through security.
	They don't mess with that.
	They don't care if it's a religious hat, if it's a hat to identify.
	That's really normal for student groups in D.C. to have something matching so that they can be identified and so that they can stay together and people can see where they are.
	But then the second time, too, as they're going through, as he said, an exhibit, two more security guards come up, say, you've got to take it off.
	And they put their hats back on after security because they noticed everybody else was wearing hats.
	It's freezing cold that day.
	And it wasn't a win.
	And by the way, it looks like a winter hat, like a ski hat.
	That's what it looks like.
	It's in a bright blue, so it's easily identifiable.
	It says Rosary Pro-Life.
	So those security guards in the second incident say, take it off or leave.
	One of the students actually said, I think I have a constitutional right to this.
	And as they kind of, again, they didn't want a conflict.
	They were not protesting.
	They were just attending the museum with their hats on.
	So they weren't causing any kind of stir.
	They get cursed at as they're walking away with pretty strong, very strong language.
	Then ultimately, they're trying to leave.
	And another security guard, so now we're on our fifth guard, makes an issue like they're kicking them out.
	This all happened to a group of about 12 students and their chaperones who decide to visit that museum.
	Why we've gone public, Sean, with this is not just to get the Smithsonian to say it's against our policies, by the way, legally with permits to do their March for Life, and then they attend museums.
	And for some reason, that day the security decided we're going to target pro-life speech.
	We're not going to target anybody else's hats, but we're going to target these pro-life students and act like that's our policy.
	This is somehow, you can't have a religious or political message on a hat at the Smithsonian.
	So we're not going to let them get away with just saying we've retraded.
	We want to know what the retrading is.
	What was the trading before that led these officers to think this was okay?
	That's such a good question.
	Patrick, let's go back to you.
	Now, these hats, as I understand, I have a picture of one in front of me.
	So it was like a ski hat and a very bright blue color, which would make it easily identifiable.
	So you can all find each other, as you mentioned previously.
	And it says Rosary Pro-Life.
	That was the main reason for wearing it, or was it also that you were cold?
	And it shouldn't matter anyway, in my view.
	Oh, it definitely shouldn't matter.
	It was rather cold, of course.
	It simply says rosary on it as our school is Our Lady of the Rosary.
	Rosary is a reference to a Catholic prayer.
	And again, everyone else in the museum, including the guards, were wearing hats.
	So we were rather confused at first.
	And just moments prior, a few people were walking past with pride gear all over themselves.
	And if that's not breaking a neutral zone infraction, I don't know what is.
	Well, that now raises the stakes quite a bit, Jordan Seculo, in as much as if they're allowing other people to wear hats that have a political point of view.
	Well, that's very different from the reason that we're giving the students for throwing them out.
	Which they should.
	I mean, you should be able to go into the Sodian off the street.
	You don't need to be in a special outfit.
	We all pay for these museums.
	They weren't protesting.
	They weren't causing an issue inside.
	So we're not saying they weren't like coming and disrupting the museum.
	They just had their hats on.
	So they should just be like, if it's a pride hat, if it's another religious, if it's a religion, if you were going there, you had your Yabaka.
	I don't think they would tell someone to take a Yabaka off or tell someone to take a burqa off, going through security.
	So even that first step, and the fact that guards are using language like neutral zoned, they did not just come up with that.
	Security guards at the DeSodia didn't come up with legalese like government neutrality zones, which sound like a constitutional law case.
	Someone trade them, and it would appear to be that they trade them on this day to look for pro-life students to say that you can't have that message.
	Don't worry about any other messages.
	So, I mean, these kids, they realized everybody had hats on.
	That wasn't obviously a policy.
	And people had hats on with political messages.
	Theirs happen to have their school name, a religious message, and a pro-life message.
	You can't go after either of those.
	There's just these neutrality zones.
	That is something, again, made up.
	But there's no way those guards just came up with that on their own.
	And it would have happened, again, three different incidents to the same student group within this period of about 30 minutes.
	Quick break.
	We'll come right back more with Jordan Seculo and Patrick Murphy on this issue of kids wearing pro-life hats being kicked out of this museum.
	All right, we continue our discussion more with Jordan Seculo with the ACLJ and student Patrick Murphy.
	You know, they were kicked out of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
	Let me ask you about the spokesperson for the museum.
	Quote, asking visitors to remove hats and clothing is not in keeping with our policy or protocols.
	We have provided immediate training to prevent a reoccurrence of this kind of event and have determined the steps to ensure this never happens again.
	Allison Wood, the museum's deputy director of communications, what's your reaction to her statement?
	It just doesn't go far enough.
	There's not an apology there.
	We don't know what the trading was, and we don't believe this is an isolated incident.
	I mean, that's why I think they brought in these Smithsonian smokespeople.
	It's not just the air and space smokespeople because we believe that this may have been something they were prepared for.
	Maybe these security guards got it the wrong way, but if they're coming up with these terms like neutral zone, using that kind of language, cursing around some of these students who are biters and using that kind of language at all to intimidate them, to silence them, and they ultimately kick them out of a museum that they pay for their taxpayer dollars that anyone else with a message or hat or some of the article of clothing on.
	They're not going there to protest.
	They weren't going there to march.
	They were just going with their hats.
	It shouldn't be an issue, but there's more to this story than just letting them get away with an apology.
	And that's why these students are starting to speak up and parents are starting to speak up, Sean, because they know there's this bigger federal attack on pro-life speech, whether it's pro-life pregnancy sitters or just a simple BD with the message that says starting at the top.
	Finally, the FBI offered a whopping $25,000 for these pro-life or emergency pregnancy centers that offer pro-life counseling that have been the victims in many cases of attacks.
	People protesting outside of Justice Kavanaugh's home, you and I both know that we have laws against protesting in front of judges' homes.
	Nothing has been done to stop that.
	Patrick, let me ask you a question.
	Were you embarrassed?
	Was it a scene when you and your group were being thrown out?
	No, sir.
	It wasn't entirely, there weren't very many people around.
	It was the middle of the day on a Saturday where there were a lot of different events going on.
	And I wouldn't say embarrassed.
	We were more so distraught, caught off guard.
	We were exhausted from the whole day.
	And when he came up to us, the man came up to us and said, you need to remove these hats.
	He said, the neutral zone.
	I said, I'm sorry, sir, this is a violation of our First Amendment rights.
	And he said, no, no, no, that doesn't apply here.
	And I was just so taken aback that it wasn't a response I was even expecting.
	I see this stuff on the news all the time, but I never think it would happen to me.
	So as we walk out, which we were leaving when he came up to us, we were just on our way out anyway.
	He still said, he was like, you don't need those hats on in order to walk out.
	And we were just like, no, we're keeping the hats on.
	Goodbye.
	And he said, have a nice day.
	So I was proud.
	I was proud to stand up for the unborn at that moment.
	You know, it's pretty amazing.
	I mean, you're a young man.
	You clearly have a lot of character and principle and standing on your principle and convictions without apologies.
	It's rare for kids your age.
	And I know I'm speaking generally and broadly, but there's a lot of pressure on kids to think a certain way, act a certain way, and standing apart and finding out where your heart and your real values are and then standing on that ground is it's often hard for a kid that's 18 years old.
	So I really give you a lot of praise and applause for that.
	Jordan, where do you think this goes next?
	So we decided we're working with the students, and obviously they've made the decision to fight back here.
	And the next step is, was there a bigger policy that day?
	Obviously, we want to know the trading.
	We want to know the trading before and the trading after that they do reference in their statement apology directly to this student group.
	But also, we think this is bigger.
	I mean, so one reason we're going public is, were you part of a group that day that may have been told to take that off or you can't wear this shirt or you can't wear that hat?
	Because it's very common in Washington for all these student groups.
	So this is not weird for Smithsonian security to see a group of young people all wearing the same color shirt or hat.
	That's normal practice every day.
	Why are they coming up with First Amendment discussions with young people, neutral zone discussions?
	Again, security guards don't come up with them.
	Identify each other as they go through a big museum like that.
	When you have a big group, you have to protect everybody.
	Patrick, I think you got a bright future.
	I don't know if law school's in your future, but I think you'd be a good lawyer.
	Thank you for standing up and coming on the program.
	And Jordan, it's always great to have you on.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
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	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	Last night we had Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker, on, talking about, well, number one, how Republicans will deal with the debt ceiling.
	Number two, I asked him about Swalwell and Schiff off the Intel Committee.
	And Congresswoman Omar today, and McCarthy had said they had the votes to do this.
	In fact, they did.
	The House voted her off the Foreign Affairs Committee.
	And, well, she's not particularly happy about it.
	And nor is her fellow squad member, Congresswoman Talib.
	And this is what she said as a result of this on the House floor.
	Desperation.
	So desperate to distract the American people from their total inability to govern.
	The GOP is now doing what it is best at.
	Weaponizing hate against a black, beautiful Muslim woman.
	Congresswoman Omar's lived experience as a refugee and a childless survivor of war should be welcomed on this committee.
	It is needed.
	When you can't pass any bills that actually improve the people's lives, they turn to Congress.
	They turn Congress into a place of fear-mongering hate.
	It is so painful to watch.
	How ironic that the so-called lovers of personal freedom are now moving to censor Congresswoman Omar in the same week.
	They introduced a bill to ban federal employees from engaging in censorship.
	Where are the free speech warriors today?
	The hypocrisy is obvious to the American people.
	You are showing who you all are, really.
	The gentlewoman's time has expired.
	The gentlewoman's time has expired.
	The Congresswoman Omar, the gentlewoman's time has expired.
	That our country is failing you today through this chamber.
	You belong to the family.
	The gentlewoman is no longer recognized, and the gentleman from Mississippi is recognized.
	Now, what's interesting about this is Congresswoman Omar, just like, for example, Swalwell has his friend, what was it, Fang Fang, and then, of course, the congenital liar.
	By the way, you can't make some of this stuff up.
	Adam Schiff, who's always full of Schiff, and Adam Schiff, the congenital liar, you know, what is the nature of the, what do you have on Donald Trump?
	Compromising materials.
	What's the nature of the compromise?
	Naked Trump, Pictit Naked Trump.
	Has Vladimir seen this?
	But of course, Vladimirsik compromised material.
	That would be like trying to coordinate and work with the Russian, or somebody he thought was a Russian, turned out to be a prankster to get negative information on Donald Trump.
	The very thing he says he was against.
	In the case of Congresswoman Omar, remember she said it's all about the Benjamins, baby, talking about officials' support of Israel, referring to 9-11, where we lost 2,977 people and more from the aftermath.
	She referred to that as just something people did.
	Some people did something.
	That was the exact quote.
	She stated at a town hall, I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it's okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.
	Then she said that Israel in 2012, she said, Israel has hypnotized the world and may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.
	Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews.
	Anyway, we have a lot of this on tape.
	Here's the best of Congresswoman Omar.
	And so when I see Israel institute law that recognizes it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it,
	and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East, I almost chuckle because I know that if we see that in any other society, we would criticize it.
	We would call it out.
	We do that to Iran.
	We do that to any other place that sort of upholds its religion.
	And I see that now happening with Saudi Arabia.
	And so I am aggravated, truly, in those contradictions.
	You know, if you ask anybody walking on the side of the street somewhere in the middle of the world, they will tell you America the Great.
	But we don't live those values here.
	And so that hypocrisy is one that I'm bothered by.
	A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead the devastation in Venezuela.
	When I talk about places like Saudi Arabia or, you know, Israel or even now with Venezuela, nobody wants to face how the actions of the other people that are involved in the world have contributed to the rise of the radicalization and the, you know, the rise of terrorist acts.
	The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said al-Qaeda, he sort of like his shoulders went up and you know, he's in command, al-Qaeda, you know, hospital.
	He's an expert.
	You don't say America with an intensity.
	You don't say England with an intensity.
	You know, you don't say the army with an intensity.
	CARE was founded after 9-11 because they recognized that some people did something.
	So I think the House did the right thing today.
	Another promise kept by Republicans and Kevin McCarthy.
	Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number.
	If you want to be a part of the program, now you might recall in the last half hour we had on Jordan Seculo with the ACLJ and Patrick Murphy, a student kicked out of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum because they were wearing basically ski hats with a pro-life message on it, pro-life rosary, and talked about their school.
	They were there for the March for Life.
	They got kicked out.
	But anyway, it's amazing how people react to this.
	To me, the extremists on the abortion issue are the ones that say, oh, it's fine to have an abortion up to the last second before birth, which, by the way, happens to be the position of many, many Democrats.
	Now, their answer during the last election was always the same.
	Well, I don't think anybody, the government doesn't belong in the room with a woman and her doctor.
	Well, if the government doesn't belong in the room, then stop making taxpayers pay for abortions that goes against their conscience.
	Because you're putting government right in the room.
	Now, and then you got groups like Planned Parenthood that get a lot of money from the government.
	That's where Pre-Born comes in, and they are a pro-life group, and they're in the business of saving the lives of babies through the science of ultrasound.
	In other words, unplanned pregnancy, maybe a woman considering abortion.
	And what they're discovering is with the science of ultrasound, which is way more sophisticated than when I had my kids.
	I mean, you could see almost everything, you know, fingers and toes and facial features, and you hear that heartbeat.
	And what they're noticing is a lot of people make the decision to go pro-life by the use of science.
	Now, they don't get any government money at Pre-Born, and it costs $28 for every ultrasound.
	And you can sponsor one if you wanted to sponsor five.
	One is $28, $5 is $140.
	And you can help rescue five babies' lives.
	Their goal is to save 100,000 babies' lives this year alone.
	They've saved many using this science.
	Anyway, you can help it happen.
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	And I think it's a great cause.
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	All right, let's get to our phones.
	Let us say hello to Robert.
	He's in North Carolina.
	Robert, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thank you very much, Sean.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you.
	We've got great respect for you and your whole news cadre at Fox News.
	Thank you, my friend.
	And we can't do it without you.
	We appreciate you.
	Well, we appreciate what you guys do.
	And I think I found a weakness in what you're doing.
	That's why I'm calling.
	I've been in the environmental health and safety field in environmental terrorism for 55 years.
	I'm a chemical nuclear engineer, and I was an adjunct at Rensselaer at Hartford for 35 years, teaching in both their School of Engineering and School of Business.
	I am addressing the wokeness of the Green New Deal and the fact that no one has looked at the environmental impact of the war in Ukraine.
	If you take a look at the environmental impact of what is going on there and just some basic facts, like for example, an average armored vehicle, tank, uses a gallon of diesel fuel to go eight-tenths of a mile.
	EPA says the cars must have 22 plus miles per gallon.
	A tank, eight-tenths, that a F-15 uses 1,150 gallons of fuel an hour, And before they land, they dump the fuel that they have in residual so it's a safe landing.
	Yet the federal EPA says to all of us: if there is enough of a discharge of oil to cause a sheen on a waterway, it must be reported to the EPA and it must be remediated.
	And I can go on and on because a lot of...
	Listen, I'm listening to everything you're saying.
	And if there are ways that won't compromise our military equipment and effectiveness in our equipment, and we can, A, save money, and B, you know, going to a war zone and finding fuel for all of all the various equipment that you're mentioning is not an easy task to deliver all of that.
	So that would help on the logistics side of the issue.
	I wouldn't be against it at all.
	I'm not against my car having the same performance, but getting more miles per gallon and still performing at the level that I expect it to perform at.
	And if somebody comes up with a cheaper, better way for energy beyond oil, gas, and coal, and it's real and we can implement it and it can simply replace the current model.
	Why would I be against saving money and helping the environment?
	You know, this big lie, which is Republicans want dirty air and dirty water.
	I mean, Barack Obama said it.
	Their plan is for dirty air and dirty water.
	That would be pretty stupid.
	I think we want our kids to have clean air, clean water, a clean environment.
	And the irony is that under Donald Trump, when we became energy independent, we had the greatest reduction of greenhouse emissions reduction in the world.
	And that all happened under Donald Trump.
	So while we were becoming energy independent, I'm not in disagreement with you.
	I mean.
	The point I'm trying to make, though, is if these people really wanted to save the planet, and if these Al Gores of the world want to do something positive, they should be immediately saying the war should stop now.
	There's got to be a better way because we are not only killing people there, we are going against the basic principles that we have been advocating.
	This is the problem.
	And for example, a lot of the projectiles they're using contain spent uranium because it's a hardener of the steel.
	I mean, there's so many things.
	Listen, I appreciate all that you're saying, but let me just add one thing.
	The world is full of evil.
	We need the biggest, baddest, meanest, toughest, kick-ass military on the face of the earth with the best and most superior technologically advanced equipment to win wars.
	And my first priority is not greenhouse emissions if I'm building weapons of war.
	But if it's a consideration that can be done and doesn't impact the effectiveness of the weapon in question, I have no problem with it.
	But I wish it weren't that way.
	I wish the world were safer.
	Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
	Appreciate your call.
	Long Island, Phil is next on the Sean Hannity Show.
	What's up, Phil?
	How are you?
	Yeah, I'm trying to, my battery is going dead.
	Unfortunately, I may get cut off.
	But I want to talk to you about digital currency.
	Okay, what about it?
	Well, if digital currency goes through, all these elections and everything else are going to be absolutely meaningless.
	And it's supposed to be, he signed an executive order, 14067.
	If that executive order goes through, everybody will be monitored.
	There will be no cash.
	It'll all be digital.
	And nobody else.
	Well, they're already moving towards that now.
	I mean, remember.
	I understand, but nobody's talking about it.
	Everybody's worried about the politics of the day.
	This is more important, I feel, than the politics of the day.
	And nobody is talking about it.
	Remember, they want to drop the suspicious activity reports at your bank to 600 bucks.
	Right now, it's 10,000.
	And by the way, when I take out cash, because I like to use cash the old-fashioned way, I usually have a, well, I occasionally carry cash.
	I don't want the world to know I carry cash.
	But anyway.
	But they've already done that.
	This is, they want full, complete control of your life.
	That's what, that is the great philosophical divide between conservatism and liberalism and socialism and new green dealism.
	That's where the great divide is.
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