Sean Hannity Show - State of the Union - February 7th, Hour 1

Feb. 8, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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State of the Union - February 7th, Hour 1

Sean looks to President Biden's State of the Union address. With approval ratings hovering around 30%, President Biden will be speaking to a fairly hostile audience...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	If you want to be a part of the program, By more than three to one Americans now telling CBS posters that the state of our union is weak.
	You think?
	You think maybe the balloon incident, balloon gate, whatever you want to call it, shows Joe's weakness and how out of touch he is, and then our giggling vice president.
	And and it took off.
	The rocket ship took off.
	We have a uh CBS News U Gov poll, a disaster for Biden, uh by more than three to one Americans saying the state of the the union, the nation is weak as opposed to strong.
	Uh 49% say America under Biden is a nation in decline.
	Only 11% describe America as prosperous.
	57% say Biden has made inflation worse.
	I've got the numbers to back it up.
	Uh only 22% say he's made it better.
	55% say he's driven gas prices higher.
	And I told you that you'd have an artificial reduction in gas prices once he depleted half of our strategic petroleum reserves, uh, the rest of which he's now trying to sell to China, which makes absolutely positively zero sense at all.
	Um, but uh, you know, we're we're now paying a dollar more than what we paid under Donald Trump, and it's going higher.
	And you see it in your your heating bills in the winter and your cooling bills this summer.
	It's not gonna go up anytime soon because they have abandoned energy independence, which they inherited.
	They abandoned America being a net exporter of energy.
	Uh, a full 49% of Americans say their family finances are worse off now than they were before Biden became president.
	Only 18% are saying it's better.
	Uh 47% say the world is has less respect for America because of Biden's policies.
	Uh that is uh an understatement.
	Uh why everybody's not getting it.
	I don't really know.
	Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate the State of the Union as not strong.
	This is a Maris poll.
	A full 62% of Americans think uh the State of the Union is not very strong or not strong at all.
	Seventy-two percent of respondents are independents, sixty-nine percent of Republicans uh say that Biden's leadership has left America weak at America weaker.
	Uh Biden, I'm sure will bla brag about accomplishments tonight.
	Even though voters say that he hasn't had any.
	You have sixty-two percent of Americans now saying that he's not achieved much much in his first two years in office.
	Washington Post, ABC News poll.
	I mean, he'll declare tonight the state of the economy is strong, the state of the union is strong.
	Okay.
	This is the easiest speech that any president ever gives.
	And apparently I read today that Joe has been practicing in big font with cookies and milk.
	Remember that Michael Jackson tape we used to play?
	Polo cookies, milk, and tuck them in and and play music.
	It's it's it's beautiful.
	How the whole world should be.
	He's talking about getting in bed with children uh Of strangers.
	Very bizarre interview.
	If you haven't seen it, I suggest you not traumatize yourself.
	One good news for tonight is Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the youngest governor in the country, and I think the first uh female governor in Arkansas, she will be giving the GOP response tonight.
	My prediction is she's going to do a great job, and I think she'll deliver pointed commentary at the decline of Biden since he has been in office.
	It is obvious.
	There's nothing that he can refer to as something that would be, quote, successful.
	Biden intends to unveil tonight his plan to reassert U.S. global leadership just days after, you know, we want went through eight days of the spy balloon as Joe Biden.
	Oh, we were aware of where it was going.
	That's what Jean Pierre said.
	No, they had no idea where it was going.
	I know the recovery efforts, they've apparently are finding some parts of it.
	Why do I imagine they're not going to find the part uh that deals with the technology involved in the sophisticating spyware that was likely on that balloon?
	I don't know.
	I'm guessing, just a guess that they're not going to find that part.
	Uh, but if you want to talk about bad timing, can anyone explain once a Chinese spy balloon flies into Alaska airspace?
	Alaska is not exactly the most populated state in the country.
	You know, before it gets to Canada, you could have found a place that you could have safely taken that balloon out of the air.
	But no, they let it go all the way down the west coast of Canada, all the way into Idaho, all the way across the country into Montana, then Missouri, then Kansas, making its way across the entire country to North and South Carolina, passing through Kentucky and other states.
	And I'm thinking, why how do you let that happen?
	Because you know that was a test number one of the communist Chinese.
	Then the big lie.
	Well, this Donald Trump, he had three incidents, three.
	We discovered three incidents.
	You know, we've been able to piece it together long after the fact.
	Now they were minor incursions and they weren't, you know, they did they weren't didn't last very long, but three of them we've been able to discover.
	Show me the satellite imaging that backs up that claim, because I don't believe a word of it.
	There's not a single person that worked for Donald Trump, not one that worked in intelligence or defense ever heard about it.
	I mean, you you just every single person from John Ratcliffe to Mike Pompeo to Mark Esper to John Bolton, and it goes on and on and on.
	Chris Miller, former defense secretary, will join us later today.
	They all said the same thing.
	Even Steve Daines in Montana said Biden should have shot the Chinese balloon down in Montana.
	Never mind Alaska.
	I mean, we're not dealing with, you know, New York City where you have the highest concentration of people in the smallest geographical area.
	So it's it's not looking good when you look at the polls and what America thinks.
	Now, Joe's not going to do a terrible job tonight.
	The weird thing was, I don't I forgot where I read this.
	Apparently they have a picture of milk and cookies, big font.
	Joe Biden has been reading over his speech for days and days and days and days and days.
	And then they're kind of implying that he might have a stutter or stuttering problem.
	Um, not something I'd ever heard specifically about Joe Biden in the past.
	Uh maybe that is their way of acknowledging that he is a complete cognitive mess.
	But this I'm telling you, this is the easiest speech a president will ever give.
	You know, you read a couple of lines, you get interrupted, you take a drink of water, everybody stands and claps on your side.
	Usually the other side sits on their hands and and doesn't clap.
	There'll be, you know, a number of times during the evening where everybody will stand up.
	America needs a strong national defense.
	Okay, who's gonna disagree with that?
	Well, maybe the squad members will.
	I have no idea.
	Uh so Biden will unveil his plan to reassert global leadership after what, eight days of the Chinese spy balloon flying all over the United States, coast to coast.
	Uh, but apparently that's part of his theme to reassert America's leadership around the world as his administration grapples with the fallout from this disastrous Chinese surveillance uh balloon.
	The Pentagon is warning Congress that China now has more ICBM launchers than we do.
	I wonder if that'll be in the speech tonight.
	I tend to think not.
	China has now surpassed the U.S. in the number of land based intercontinental missile launchers, and the U.S. military reportedly informed Congress amid the already heightened tensions between the two nations.
	You think maybe it's time for us to play a little catch up.
	You think maybe China and Russia firing their hypersonic missiles, maybe it's time for us to show off a little of our military technology to let them know that we have the capability, even more sophisticated technology than they do.
	I think that would be a pretty good thing to do.
	I mean, it's, you know, all of this is unbelievable.
	It's going to be a look, what let me tell you one thing that the mob won't tell you.
	There's going to be a lot of lying tonight.
	Steve Moore had a great column as it relates to the economy.
	Uh Biden will say that he reduced the budget deficit by one point four trillion.
	Uh no president in modern times comes close to Biden when you look at the reality and the truth in terms of fiscal recklessness in his first two years, the national debt went up four point two trillion.
	That's more than in any two period of American history.
	Last year, our debt uh as a share of GDP, which by the way, even surpasses many third world nations, and it's at a point where you cannot have economic growth.
	It hit an all-time high of 129%.
	I think right now it's it's probably close to a hundred.
	I mean, you know, online with third many third world countries.
	Historically, it's only been forty six percent debt to GDP ratio.
	Uh Biden will blame Donald Trump and say he inherited an economy in free fall.
	He will claim inflation was high when he entered office.
	That will be another lie.
	He will say he has brought down gas prices.
	No, you're still paying over a dollar a gallon than when Donald Trump was president, and it's only going higher.
	Uh so all of this he's gonna say, none of this will be true or accurate.
	Let me give you the numbers because I did some research today with my crackerjack uh team here.
	If you look at all items, CPI consumer price index, January twenty-one, when Biden took office was only one point four percent.
	This is the inflation measure.
	Now it's six point five percent for twenty twenty-two.
	If you want to look at slowing GDP growth, gross domestic product, when he came into office, it was a strong and healthy three point nine percent.
	It's down a full point.
	If you look at what a thirty year fixed rate mortgage was uh in January of twenty twenty one, it was two point seven percent.
	As of last week, it was seven percent.
	I mean, that that you're talking about thousands of dollars a month, it's impacting people's ability to buy homes.
	If you look at non farm job openings increasing, uh you went from 7.2 million in January of twenty one now over eleven million.
	If you look at the trade deficit in twenty twenty, it was six hundred and eighty-two billion.
	Now it's you know up by a full third, nine hundred and forty-eight billion, the largest it's ever been.
	If you look at wage gain acts, two-thirds of the country right now is living paycheck to paycheck, and it gets worse from there.
	If you look at national security, uh no troops died in combat in Afghanistan between February 2020 and you know, until 13 got blown up during Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	There was no war in Ukraine until a year into Biden's term.
	North Korea has now conducted 33 missile tests under Trump's entire four years and zero tests between April of 2020 and March of 2021.
	So far, 44 uh missile tests by North Korea.
	Chinese incursions of Taiwan's naval territory and airspace in preparation of what what the communist Chinese are calling reunification, meaning taking over the country.
	They've been regular occurrences under Biden, including a 20 aircraft intrusion in March of 2021.
	More recently, the balloon incident.
	Over five million illegal immigrants have entered this country last year alone, and just up to this point, you know, the first week of February of this year, we're at nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants have come in just this year alone.
	We're on track now to break last year's record high.
	When you include Gotta Way's, well over five point two million illegal immigrants under Donald Trump.
	If you want to look at fentanyl seizures in January 2021, nine hundred and forty-five pounds of fentanyl seized at the border.
	December of twenty twenty two, four million four hundred and seventy one uh pounds, a three hundred and seventy three percent increase.
	It's unbelievable.
	Um you look at the terror watch list in fiscal year twenty twenty, they caught three people trying to enter the country on the terror watch list.
	Last year, a hundred.
	And Biden's first two years, one point two million gotta ways.
	You know, we're now up a full dollar a gallon, and this is after depleting our petroleum reserves under Biden.
	I mean, everything you pay for, eating bills, by the way, are now the highest they've been in 25 years.
	Under Biden, we're even selling, and he's still fighting to sell the remaining depleted strategic petroleum uh reserves to China.
	How does that make sense in light of what's happened in the last week?
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	I doubt Joe's going to talk about not only the rising gas prices, he'll probably lie about that, U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves.
	They're down, there were 638,000.
	Down to 388,000.
	And Joe Biden is fighting to sell, which is, you know, a little ironic to me in light of what we've been through, is fighting Congress over the ability that he should, he thinks he should have to sell our strategic petroleum reserves to China.
	Now, why would he do that?
	You know, and and that that brings us back to this whole China thing to begin with.
	You know, when is he going to hold China responsible for COVID?
	When is he going to challenge them on their territorial ambitions and flying fighter jets over our ally Taiwan and then lecturing us that we shouldn't even be visiting our ally?
	When is Joe Biden going to stop China from purchasing or national Chinese nationals from purchasing thousands and thousands of acres of farmland, ranch land, and land around Our military installations.
	When is he going to stop this idiocy of selling our depleted strategic petroleum reserves?
	When is he going to stop China's intellectual property theft and untr unfair trade practices?
	When is he going to, you know, say something about the persecution of Chinese citizens and slave labor and the outright oppression of the minority Uyghurs community?
	When is he going to, you know, look into the possibility that that balloon could have been involved in an EMP incident or a biowarfare incident?
	When are we going to get a full accounting of every single deal every Biden has ever done with China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and every other country?
	Hopefully, James Comer will get to the bottom of that.
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	We'll continue our uh well preview of tonight's State of the Union address programming note.
	Hannity will be on immediately following the uh president and then the uh Republican response that will be given by Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
	Um I'm actually looking forward to that.
	I think she's gonna do a good job.
	That's my prediction.
	Very smart, very sharp, great communicator, known her for years, and uh I think she'll do a great job.
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	Oh, I mean, you have like perfect skin.
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	So Kevin McCarthy uh will be sitting next to uh Vice President Kamala Harris, your giggling vice president.
	And anyway, he did say earlier today that he does not plan on tearing up Joe Biden's State of the Union speech on live television tonight the way Nancy Pelosi did to Donald Trump.
	Um I don't know, personally, maybe we can see Sarah Huckabee Sanders feeding Biden's speech into a shredder.
	I mean, because it's look, th there's not going to be anything in here.
	Most of tonight, we're gonna try and fact check when we get on the air after the speech, after the Republican response, we're gonna try and fact-check in real time every single lie that Joe Biden tells.
	And by the way, I've already am able to plan it.
	And you're saying, well, Hannity, you haven't seen the speech.
	How can you fact-check a speech that hasn't been given?
	Because me and my Cracker Jack staff are anticipating that Joe is gonna repeat the lies that he's already told.
	So we're getting ahead of the game by already having fact-checking on what he's claiming and what he will claim tonight.
	And if he does claim it again, and it is a lie, we'll call him out on it.
	I will tell you this, man, and we'll get to this later.
	I'll play you some tape of Kamala Harris.
	Democrats have had it with her.
	After the New York Times front page piece yesterday, I mean, they are out for Joe and Kamala.
	Who is they?
	I don't know.
	The only thing I can tell you is they are not the Republican Party.
	This is all a Democratic hit job.
	Can I tell you something funny?
	Not to interrupt you, but to interrupt you, because it's really worth your time.
	Okay.
	We had a caller call in who couldn't stay on the line.
	And they said every Republican.
	I'll say that again.
	We had a we had a caller call in.
	Oh gosh, how do you say it?
	Collar.
	Yeah, a collar.
	We had a caller call in.
	Anywho, the caller called in and he said, um, he said every GOP congresswoman, men and woman, should walk in holding the white balloon and just sit there in front of him while he gives a soda.
	Honest to God, it would be amazing.
	And actually it would be funny.
	Uh people were telling me that yesterday, too.
	Um, this is where, you know, Sweet Baby James gives me, you know, some occasional printouts of memes and stuff uh when he goes online, because I don't have access to any of my accounts.
	But anyway, uh the memes uh, I mean, it's hilarious.
	Did you see the one of the big balloon?
	Uh remember when Joe tripped three times going up the stairs of Air Force One?
	No, I didn't see it.
	Uh yeah, they have a balloon knocking him down three times.
	That was a knockoff of Donald Trump hitting a golf.
	Oh, the golf ball was hysterical.
	Oh my god.
	That was that was pretty funny.
	Uh, but they're going after Kamala Harris, and you know, New York Times, they've lost hope in Kamala Harris.
	She hasn't risen to the occasion.
	Uh even some of her own advisors, and she's lost a lot of people that don't want to work for her anymore, uh, are you know are now speaking to the Times.
	There's a lot of on background and anonymity in this.
	Uh, but they're reporting that Democratic sources hold prominent positions in Capitol Hill and even around the country, and even those that helped get Harris elected and get her on the ticket in 2020, they're telling the New York Times that they are now doubting Harris's ability to be any potential leader of the Democratic Party.
	And I would say that's probably true.
	Sources close to Hillary Clinton saying she doesn't have what it takes to even win the primary, which might explain why I don't think she made it to Iowa if my memory serves me right when she was running the last time.
	Um so we'll see.
	Look, there's gonna be a lot of things that probably frustrate you tonight.
	But remember, talk is cheap.
	I say this to my kids all the time.
	And I remember when I was young, I would say this to them.
	If you make a promise to your kids, if you make a promise to anybody, it should be the same thing.
	But if you make a promise to your kids, if you get straight A's on your report card, I will take you to Disney.
	And they get straight A's on their report card.
	You have to follow through on your promise.
	You have to.
	You get straight A's, I will buy you a puppy dog.
	Okay.
	They get straight A's, you gotta buy them a puppy dog.
	If you don't want the puppy dog, don't make the promise unless you're pretty certain there's no chance in hell your kids are getting straight A's.
	Um it doesn't matter what Biden's gonna promise tonight.
	It won't matter.
	Because in 2021, Biden vowed to get rid of to vowed to get millions of people back to work, yet then imposed vaccine and mask mandates that only made reopening that much harder and hurt the economy that much more, which goes into what I talked about earlier, the lies that he's gonna tell tonight, and one of them is he's gonna claim that he reduced the budget deficit by 1.4 trillion when in reality the national debt has risen 4.2 trillion.
	You know, he's gonna say he inherited an economy in free fall when just the opposite is true.
	He's gonna blame Trump for high gas prices.
	There's gonna be a lot of blaming Trump in here or MAGA Republicans, whatever he calls us.
	Um and he'll blame Omicron and he'll blame Delta and blame.
	I don't know what he's gonna blame.
	You know, it'll talk about his great American rescue plan hasn't rescued anybody when two-thirds of the country are living paycheck to paycheck.
	And only fully 50% of people that even make a hundred grand a year are living paycheck to paycheck.
	They can't make ends meet.
	I mean, this is, you know, all a result of Biden's economic and energy policies that have now cost the average American household ten thousand dollars.
	This is real money.
	Nobody factors in an additional ten thousand dollar tax out of nowhere, out of thin air.
	And that's what Biden, by adhering to the climate alarmist religious cultists in his party is now put on the country.
	You know, there's nothing that he said that would get better.
	And so he's in a position, the only thing he can do is lie.
	Democrats asked, do you want to see Joe Biden seek a second term?
	In October, it was 52%.
	Now it's 37.
	Nobody wants to see this guy re-elected.
	No, nobody thinks he's up to the job.
	Nobody thinks Kamala's up to the job.
	I've been saying if I had to bet today, and I'm I'm look, it's a long shot.
	I think Gavin Newsom would be the guy that Democrats stupidly would run to if they got an opportunity.
	And I think behind the scenes he's probably plotting, planning, and scheming and picking out the drapes of the White House and the Oval Office.
	You know, but what we'll see what they do here.
	Um Trump lie is not going over well, especially since they said that, well, there's those three incidences under Donald Trump when he was president, but we didn't know about it at the time.
	What do you mean you didn't know about it at the time?
	Well, it's a very, very short duration when the balloon actually entered American airspace, but it just was here for a few minutes and then it left American airspace.
	Okay.
	Nobody knew, left American Airspace.
	And how is that comparable to from a the Chinese spy balloon in Alaska going to Idaho, going across the country, flying over our ICBM silo missile sites into Missouri, into Kansas, into Kentucky, into North and South Carolina?
	Explain me, how is that at all comparable?
	But you don't have to worry because the media mob will have Joe's back.
	It doesn't matter.
	If Joe went up there and said five words and stumbled over all of them, the mob in the media would say, What a great speech.
	What a phenomenal speech.
	AIDS describe a process in which the president spends weeks reading drafts aloud, eating cookies and milk and rejecting anything that's Macs of Washington speak.
	Okay.
	But the reality is 62% of Americans are saying Biden, this was in the Hill and the Washington Post, ABC poll, that Biden has not achieved much during the first two years in office.
	And just bring it home to yourself.
	Be selfish for a minute.
	It's not really being selfish.
	What is your situation like?
	Are you better off financially than you were two years ago?
	Is the country more safe and secure than it was two years ago?
	Ask yourself those questions.
	And the answers speak for themselves.
	If his policies are working for you, well, you happen to be an anomaly because it's not working for most people.
	Oh, he's going to propose a billionaire tax, which will really end up being a millionaire tax, which is probably going to end up being like his promise never to raise taxes on people making 400 under 400,000 a year.
	Well, he just raised taxes on oil, gas, coal on retirement accounts, and 250 billion on corporations that don't pay taxes, which means he's taxed all of us.
	So just because he says billionaire tax, it'll end up being millionaire and it'll end up filtering down or trickling down to use a phrase to you the American people.
	You know, it's you know, it's an interesting question that came out about America.
	Wait a minute I see that was on Fox News, I think.com.
	Is America dying before our eyes?
	America's unrecognizable to the ever alarming decline of modern day America.
	Is that true?
	Fox Nation's America Requiem is a series of what the country used to be and a warning of what it could and may and is becoming.
	America of the 1980s has pretty much vanished, according to Chris Rufo, Manhattan Institute.
	We're now entering a period of unprecedented economic, social, and cultural change.
	Well, let me put it this way.
	Did you ever think you'd be discussing in a congressional hearing whether or not biological men...
	men can bear children?
	Did you ever think coast to coast, you'd have story after story after story of young kids in elementary school having drag queens perform in their school?
	When we're not, you know, we spend more per capita education, and we have the worst results.
	So, you know, Biden will talk about his strategy to reasset, reassert America's leadership on the world stage.
	You know, Biden will tout a policy on the economy.
	Propose a billionaire minimum tax.
	By the way, you'll see Bono, Paul Pelosi, along with the mother of Tyree Nichols, uh, the man that was killed in Memphis and that confrontation with the police officers.
	You know, what is Joe going to do to reassert?
	Do you think is there anything Joe can say that is somehow going to reassert America's leadership in the world?
	There's nothing.
	Every world leader's already made their determination.
	Oh my, they're like, they can't believe what they see.
	They see a guy that is weak, that is a cognitive wreck, feckless.
	I mean, I'm telling you, the world looks at him in shock.
	They can't believe that America has elected this guy president.
	I'm telling you.
	And for all the mean tweets that everybody hated about Donald Trump.
	Which policies would you prefer for the country?
	It's really that simple.
	Uh, White House press secretary gets scorched for a fumbled explanation on the Chinese flights, the balloon flights.
	Uh, and how is it possible this administration discovered three previous balloons that flew over the U.S. under the previous administration, but there's not a single Trump official that knew what happened.
	She says, uh, yeah, so I yeah, we I think that um, and we've talked about this before about how uh she says PRC, uh, not exactly the language I would use, but anyway, surveillance balloons trans uh transited the continental U.S. briefly, at least three times, as you mentioned, the prior administration and once that we know of beginning in this administration, but never for uh this duration of time that we know.
	Nobody knew about it.
	I think they're just lying.
	Where's the satellite imaging that would prove it's true?
	By the way, Hunter Biden wanted an office at the think tank where the former vice president stashes classified documents.
	One other report is Hunter is weighing launching a legal defense fund because it's costing him a hundred thousand dollars a month in legal fees.
	Wow.
	A lot of money in legal fees.
	He does have one good attorney.
	Abby Lowell's a very good attorney, I think, in my view.
	Um, I don't know about the rest of these guys.
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	Remember all those uh January 6 letters that went out and subpoenas and you know where are your emails, where are your text messages, phone records?
	Yeah, well, Jim Jordan now is demanding answers from the 51 intelligence officials that lied about zero experience Hunter Biden laptop.
	Oh, the shoe is now on the other foot.
	Jim Jordan has also issued subpoenas to Merrick Garland, Christopher Ray, Miguel Cardona over the school board scandal.
	That is parents speaking out whether or not they're gonna be uh investigated as potential domestic terrorists.
	All right, when we come back, Elise Stefanik will weigh in on the State of the Union from her perspective, and then later on, former Defense Secretary under Donald Trump, Christopher Miller, straight ahead.
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