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Feb. 14, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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UFOs - February 13th, Hour 2
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If you want to be a part of the program, I mean, the fact that we're getting little to zero information about what is happening with these balloons and why the inaction in the beginning and the lack of communication, even with elected officials, is sort of breathtaking.
Having the head of NORAD suggesting, well, this might be this might have something to do with extraterrestrials.
I'm like, really?
We now have had U.S. jets down four objects in eight days.
This is after, by the way, we we had the initial incursion into U.S. airspace.
That started in Alaska, went down the coast of Canada into Idaho, all the way across to our missile silo sites in the great state of Montana, and down, you know, to the Midwestern states and and the plain states and Kansas and Missouri, then Kentucky, then the Carolinas where they shoot the first one down, and after criticism, uh they finally got the message that whatever these objects are, they better take them out sooner rather than later.
Here's the problem.
Remember the fur we are not recognizing that these objects are even entering our airspace.
How could we have such a gaping hole in our defense systems?
And why the silence and why the lack of communication now, Senator Steve Daines of Montana, along with, you know, frankly, every state senator uh or U.S. Senator, you know, who's been having to deal with these balloons flying over their states, they're pissed off and can't blame them.
Steve Daines tweeted out the lack of communication from the Biden administration regarding closing Montana airspace last night and the recent shoot downs that took place over Alaska and Canada is unacceptable.
He said the top priority administration should be the safety and security, the people of the United States.
Keeping the people informed is a key part of fulfilling that duty.
President Biden owes the people of Montana and the country an immediate and full explanation.
Without information, the public, the media are left to rely on leaks, speculation, and worst of all, disinformation from foreign governments.
I'm in direct contact with the Pentagon regarding the object in Montana's airspace, and we'll receive frequent updates, and the people of Montana still have questions about the Chinese spy balloon that flew over our state last week.
And he's going to continue to request answers to all of this.
And then I I don't know, you know, Biden is now out there saying that this is not a major breach.
How can anyone make that assessment that the communist Chinese were able to fly into and all around the continental United States after starting in in Alaska, and it took a some uh some citizen noticing you know what is the size of three buses?
I mean uh to recognize that this was even over our airspace.
And lawmakers rightly want accountability because none of this makes any sense at all.
And then, of course, my favorite is Norad's commander doesn't rule out the the possibility that extraterrestrials or aliens might be the unidentified objects.
So that really that really helps the American people out with intelligence.
Anyway, Senator Steve Danes of uh the great state of Montana back with us.
Senator, how are you?
Hey, I'm doing well, Sean.
Thanks.
You know, I I think it's very clear, um, considering the first balloon was from China, I think the odds have to be fairly high that the next three um whatever they are, balloons or we don't we haven't even gotten confirmation that they're balloons, but the next three objects probably similarly came from China.
Is that a good bet?
Well it it's probably a good bet, but I I think stepping back for a moment, the historical significance here, Sean, you know, NORA has a uh it's been a great mission there in Caral Springs underneath Cheyenne Mountain.
That mission was founded sixty-five years ago, nineteen fifty eight under the Eisenhower administration.
And over the course of sixty-five years, NORAD, of course, which has jurisdiction over Alaska, Canada, and the lower 48, this is the first time the United States has ever shot down not one, but four aerial objects.
So they basically for sixty-five years had never taken down an aerial object until eight days ago, and now they subsequently shot down three more.
What concerns me and so many Montanans is these objects have been floating right over Montana.
As you rightly pointed out, Sean, we house about a hundred and fifty intercontinental ballistic missiles in Montana.
These are weapons of mass destruction.
In fact they're uh controlled by the Malesum Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana.
My favorite commander challenge coin that I have in my entire collection I have some great coins from all over the world great military leaders came from the commander at the 341st Missile Wing Great Falls, Montana and it says this scaring the hell out of America's enemies since 1962.
This is how we prevent world wars is because it's incredible force sitting underground in Montana.
That's where these objects are flying over and you and you also pointed out something that needs to be reemphasized had it not been for Larry Mayer, he's a photographer with the Billings Gazette in Billings, Montana, he got the picture of that spy balloon on a telephoto camera and posted on their digital website the Billings Gazette,
the AP stringer picked it up and suddenly NORAD realized that we, civilian Montanans, had picked up the spy balloon after it gone across the Aleutian Islands, across Canada, across Idaho, over our missile fields, and then over Billings, Montana.
It was a civilian that busted this story on that first Chinese spy balloon.
I I can't for the life of me understand how we would have such a vulnerability that our own government never even picked up that the balloon was flying all over the U.S. How is that possible?
Well I you know Sean, as when we get to the bottom of this, and this is why we're insisting on information, uh I think we're gonna find out the incredible weakness of this administration.
There is no doubt in my mind uh there was a chance to take a shot when it came into U.S. airspace over the Aleutian Islands.
They violated our sovereign airspace.
This is a big deal and the the administration wouldn't take the shot.
It reminds me, Sean, of back when Barack Obama was in the White House, when you talk to the commanders over fighting against ISIS on the war on terror, if they want to take a shot at a terrorist, one of these jackpot targets, you know, some well known uh leader in ISIS, they had to run it through all these chains of command all the way back to Washington DC and by the time they got clearance from the White House to take the shot, the target moved.
They've got to have trust in the military, empower them to do what's right.
That's what Trump did by the way he delegated decision making down to lower levels so they can move quickly.
That's what you got to do.
You got to trust the military but this White House, I think they're probably they were under fetal position under their desks wondering what to do about this Chinese spy balloon.
And they said they didn't want it to you know to just strike any uh have any collateral damage on the ground Sean they they got to see what's over the state of Montana the biggest risk he would have had was hitting a cow, a prairie dog or an antelope.
I mean there's a perfect time to take that shot in Montana perfect time to take it over the elections and now you've seen the inconsistency of their argument because now these other options are starting to fly in that that was their excuse the first time w where it allowed the balloon to travel all the way off the coast of the Carolinas now because they got such negative pushback now they'll just shoot it out of the sky anywhere it is.
Right Well, and and I I I had to chuckle too.
I mean, we shouldn't be laughing, Sean.
This is a matter of national security, and the United States is looking very, very weak on the world stage.
But look at Prime Minister Trudeau.
He's not exactly the Winston Churchill of the world.
He spoke to the press today.
Trudeau got out, and I think the score right now is, you know, U.S. territory three, Canada won.
That Lake Huron uh object may have been on the border, but regardless, call it two to two.
Prime Minister Trudeau has had objects taken out.
He's in front of the people of Canada.
And even if you don't know exactly what's going on, the commander in chief role is to get in front of your people, tell them exactly what you know, what you don't know, and let them know you're doing something about it.
For Biden to avoid the press, he throws the Senate spokespeople out on Sunday talk shows.
That's who's defending the White House right now.
It is time for the commander in chief to get in front of the American people and give us an update of what's going on.
Sean, the people in Montana, we have a lot of people who are very afraid.
They're calling on Saturday night when they closed the airspace over Haver, Montana.
That's North Central Montana.
It's in the vicinity of where some of those missile silos are.
People were calling me, county commissioners calling me saying, Steve, what do you know?
We're very concerned.
This is the second time we've shut down airspace in Montana.
And you know, we just don't have answers.
We need to get the commander in chief in front of us.
What do you make of this New York Times article on Sunday?
It contained the following paragraph.
The incursions seem to become so common that the Biden administration officials have found themselves issuing private assurances that there's no evidence that they involve extraterrestrial activity.
But officials also acknowledge privately that the longer they are unable to provide a public explanation and a province of the objects, the more speculation grows.
Um then asked at a news conference, the the head of NORAD, um General uh Glend D. Van Herck, the commander of the uh Air Force's Northern Command, said I I haven't ruled out anything on this point and discounted any thoughts that the Air Force should, you know, shot out of the sky, any sort of alien visitors.
I mean, is that the answer they really want to give the American people?
Yeah, now who feels better with an answer like that?
I mean, I don't know whether to laugh or cry, you're right.
I mean, it's like I didn't take my kids to go watch E.T. I'm trying to get the answer to what's going on right now with these objects that are flying over our country over missile fields and sensitive military installations.
Here's the other problem, Sean, is that when there's a vacuum of information, is that there's there's two ways vacuums get filled.
And one of those ways is our adversaries then fill in that vacuum.
That's why the Chinese jump out in front and they said, Oh, this is a weather balloon.
Because you know, because we didn't make not did not make a decisive.
Yeah, okay.
Is the does anybody believe that?
Because I don't believe that.
I'm sure you don't believe it either.
That that is as a 100% that is a 100% lie coming from a communist regime.
It was not a weather balloon.
That was a spy balloon.
And so it l what happens, you've got a loss of credibility of the United States of America, and it's showing more weakness by Biden.
And Sean, you know what happens when you have communist dictators, power hungry leaders, when they sense weakness, they act.
And that's exactly what I think is going on right now.
That first Chinese spy balloon, I think was a trial balloon.
And by the way, the Pentagon confirmed last Thursday, it did and is was able to conduct and pick up sensitive information.
So this notion is somehow kind of a benign balloon up there.
Uh make no mistake, that balloon has sophistication to it.
We'll find out more as we get the briefs on it.
But the White House is trying to poo-poo it like you know, nothing to see here.
Literally there was nothing to see had it not been for the billions because that taking that picture in Billings Monsieur.
That's crazy.
Let me ask you this.
Chinese military planes, New York Post now reporting uh late this afternoon, two dozen Chinese military planes and warships now detected in the Taiwan Strait.
Uh is is this the moment?
Is this the time?
Um they've talked about reunification with Taiwan.
You and I both know that means an invasion and takeover of Taiwan.
Um I don't think the U.S. under Joe Biden would lift a finger.
What are your thoughts?
Yeah, I I don't know.
And and and boy, you know, we hope and pray this is not the time.
It should never be the time.
But weakness invites uh our adversaries to act.
That is the point.
I go back to Ronald Reagan, you do too, Sean.
That was the first president I got to vote for when I was in college.
It was peace through strength.
Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
A strong America ensures we have a more secure world.
Look what happened in the debacle in Afghanistan when the president showed his weakness with that failed Bosch evacuation in August of 2021.
This is one more failure on the world stage.
It's just a replay of Jimmy Carter's years of in 79 where the world sense weakness.
And thank God the American people rose up in 1980 and swept him out of power.
But it's a dangerous moment in history when you have a weak commander in chief.
Well said.
Senator, we appreciate you always being with us.
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Steve Danes, Senator of the Great State of Montana.
Thank you for being with us.
Thanks, Sean.
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By the way, if you are anywhere near the town of East Palestine out in uh Ohio, where this these chemicals have been released into the air as a result of this this uh train derailment.
Um, and you have any information, any pictures of of dead wildlife, fish, other animals, all these reports that are out there.
I mean, it's scary.
Animals falling sick, dying near this hellish Ohio train derailment site.
Uh I saw J.D. Vance's uh office put out a press release they're asking for pictures and information.
Um obviously something has gone awry here.
And whenever the government says, Oh, I think it's mostly fine.
Early tests and indications are well, well, why are the fish dying?
Why is other wildlife dying?
You know, at this point, you've got to assume that could be a canary in the coal mine, and if it's impacting animals and killing them, uh, it probably is not a good place to be.
By the way, we need to find out where the 26 million more barrels of oil that Congress is mandating Joe Biden sell.
Why are we selling them when we're at a 50 year low?
Because Joe squandered it because he viewed it as a national emergency, the high price of gasoline And the impact it would have on the midterm elections.
By the way, Lawrence Summers, that's Obama's former Treasury Secretary, put out pretty dire warnings about the economy, uh, saying that, you know, consumers are running out of cash.
Businesses are cutting costs, geopolitical uncertainty on the rise.
He said combined these are very large risk, and it could spark an economic crash, his words, not mine.
So far he's been right.
I think the economy is vulnerable to a moment where these things all come together, and it's like a walking off the ledge sometime in the middle or latter part of this year.
He said this to uh Boston's MPR news station um last week.
We didn't pick it up.
I think the risks are significantly elevated.
We've all had the experience of taking a course of drugs, giving up, stopping the drugs before the course was exhausted simply because we felt better than whenever infection, whatever we infection had came back, and it was harder to fight the second time.
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We have other breaking news today beyond what the hell is going on with the these beautiful balloons and you know w and what's going on with Russia.
Nobody seems to be paying attention to Russia.
Americans now told to leave Russia immediately or uh face false arrests.
The U.S. is now warning anybody in Russia to get out.
Not sure what that's all about.
All right, let's get to our busy phones this half hour.
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Let's see.
Bob is in New York.
Bob, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm doing well, Sean.
Uh Sean, I wanted to mention something that I hope the Republican Party does in the coming months rather than waiting for the next election, and that's to conduct a media blitz.
And by that I mean showing Republicans fighting Biden on Social Security, because his spending is a greater threat than what anything the Republicans might do.
Show Biden's face next to almost nine percent uh inflation and Trump at 1.4, gasoline prices with Biden's face at almost six dollars and Trump at 239, violence against Supreme Court justices.
I I think you get the picture, but it's got to be done on a consistent basis because Americans have the attention span of a flea.
And if you don't do this constantly, we forget.
I don't know if the flea is the perfect analogy.
When you think of a flea, they're unrelenting when they want to annoy the hell out of you, aren't they?
They they leave, they come back, they leave, they come back.
So but I'm just kidding.
With you know, it was interesting this weekend because I have been saying that Republicans better approach future elections a lot differently than we have been.
Uh and I I give three very specific examples.
Biden hid in his basement for most of the twenty uh twenty presidential campaign, then John Fetterman and Katie Hobbs, and what happens is is Republicans they're running, you know, elections victory plan uh one point oh and Democrats are running, you know, a totally different style of campaigning.
They're in the ballot business.
There's only one state that insists that an individual hand in their own ballot, that's Alabama.
Twenty-five states allow for widespread ballot harvesting where other people can hand in your ballot for you.
Uh and I was surprised this weekend, and I've been saying to the Republicans, you better get your act together and you better understand Democrats they're not running on better ideas.
They're not they're not shaking hands, they're not doing press of L's, they're not kissing babies, they're not taking selfies, they're not doing town halls, they're not doing rallies.
They are running negative ads with hundreds of millions of dollars from God knows where, and then they're in the business of of having people pick up ballots and bring them down and and hand them in for other people.
And that's legal in every state to some extent, except for Alabama.
And by the way, and President Trump this weekend said our presidential campaign will launch our ballot harvesting fund in the states where the left has been cheating the system.
You know, and in that sense, they don't run on we have better ideas than you do.
We're more successful than you are, because everything you just laid out, your list is perfect.
You're right.
They've failed on every front, and Republicans are losing elections because of the way they're running them.
This resistance people have to early voting and voting by mail has to stop.
It has to we have to put an end to it.
People have got to understand this is the system we have.
Hopefully, one day we'll elect enough people that have enough sense that would bring us to election day, same day balloting, paper ballots, partisan observers.
Um certainly have integrity checks like signature verification and voter ID.
You know, it's all it's pretty simple if you want it to be simple.
Yep.
Hope that answers your question, Bob.
It it it does, Sean and one one other thing, if I may.
Uh if Republicans prove that the president benefited from Hunter's illegal activities, do you think they would have the moral courage to draft articles in the future?
I think they probably would, but I don't think it's gonna go anywhere with the Democratic Senate.
Okay.
You know, and at that point, I think the best option would be to beat him in the next election, assuming he makes it that far, he doesn't look too healthy to me.
Um but I only wish him the best.
Uh Joy in Oklahoma.
Hey Joy, how are you?
Glad you called.
John, I'm doing well.
How are you on this beautiful Monday?
I've got helicopters going across the sky all of a sudden.
You do.
Well, it's interesting you bring this up because we have the uh NORAD commander, he doesn't rule out quote aliens.
Uh you got a Democrat from Connecticut saying the same thing about unidentified objects.
How do they not know what this is?
This is for General Van Herc.
Uh, because you still haven't been able to tell us what these things are that we are shooting out of the sky, uh, that raises the question.
Um, have you ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials?
And if so, why?
Because that is what everyone is asking us right now.
Thanks for the question, Helena.
I'll let the intel community and the uh counterintelligence community figure that out.
I haven't ruled out anything uh at this point.
We continue to assess uh every threat or potential threat, unknown that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.
Since then, of course, there's been the shoot down over Alaska and the shoot down over the Yukon.
Um Congress has been out of session, um, and so we have not been directly briefed on that.
Our staff have been kept informed.
But the reality is, Chuck, here I think part of the reason, and by the way, I I I have real concerns about why the uh administration is not being more forthcoming with everything that it knows.
But part of the problem here is that the both of the the second and the third uh objects were shot down in very remote areas.
So my my my guess is that that there's just not a lot of information out there yet to share.
Oh, you sure it's not a UFO?
Do they not know?
I don't know.
I think we're just it looks like military though.
Who knows?
I'm in Oklahoma and farmland, and I don't know what that was about.
Anyway, um thank you for taking my call.
My husband and I have been married for 40 years, and we raised three hard working, good citizens that love the Lord, and we've got six grandkids.
And I was a pe I was a teacher for thirty years and he worked at his job for thirty seven years.
And we've always told our kids we were very fortunate to be in America.
If you work hard, you can make your dreams come true.
And we did that.
Our dream was always to purchase a small cattle ranch.
And so we retired five years ago, and when the economy was wonderful under trap, we made that dream come true.
And uh we have a very small cattle ranch and everything was going good until Biden ruined the economy.
And we've had to cut our herd, our neighbors have had to cut their herds.
Um can I ask you how so you you're raising cattle, you have a ranch.
Yes, yes.
Okay, how many uh at your peak, how many how many cattle are you raising?
Well, you know, w we've just started.
So we only have about a dozen, and um because we're just building up our farm, built our house, our neighbor had a hundred, he had to cut his herd by seventy.
We've actually given some of our neighbors our extra um hay and because the feed is so high, even on our even on our dozen um cattle, uh the feed's costing us over five thousand a year now, and it was nowhere near that when we first started.
And you know, we've told our kids if you have if you work hard, these things will happen.
And if you want to um come out here and have this life with us, you can sell your home, build a house out here, and simplify it.
Unfortunately, with this economy living thirty miles away from the closest store, gas prices are so high.
Uh they're not gonna take you up on them.
When I'm having a bad day, I think I'll move down there and and you can move up here and do the show uh and take the fire that I'm taking most of the time.
But look, I I would say to you, it's t what you're saying and describing, we've heard from farmers and we've heard from ranchers.
And we've heard it this story again and again and again.
And what's so sad is that it it ought not be this way, and you know, we as consumers, you know, we've just gotten into the habit of walking into our local grocery chain and and going to the meat department and getting all the meat we want and all the produce that we want and all the boxes of cereal that we want, all the cleaning supplies that we want and all the eggs that we want.
And now we're seeing the impact of all of this in uh uh on every part of the the supply chain from you know the cost of diesel now is costing more to ship everything to every store.
Uh then of course you have you know, feed has gone up uh you know, fertilizer's gone up three times what it used to be.
Uh then you've got seed costs have du more than doubled in some cases tripled.
Uh then repairing your tractors are difficult, and you know, now feeding your cows and and getting them ready, you know, for for sale and to bring to market uh is now cost prohibitive.
Right.
And our goal with our ranch was just to be able to feed our family good grass-fed quality beef, you know, and just to raise the food we need.
And we're not even able to do that with this economy.
And two of our daughters took us up on that, we're able to sell their houses under the Trump administration.
And then because of uh Biden, um it's absolutely ridiculous to build now.
So in our little retirement home, we have nine people living, and every night's like Thanksgiving.
I'm cooking and spending about eight hundred dollars a week on groceries, and that's with making our own bread and with canning stuff too.
It's i you know what we told them about working hard, being good citizens, love the Lord.
It it's almost not that way in America anymore.
It's not now, but America has a way of bouncing back.
If Republicans do follow what my admonition as it relates to the ballot harvesting part of the election equation, if they do that, I believe they can be more competitive.
In the short term, it's going to be really hard for for a lot of people.
You're not I want you to know something.
You're not alone, uh Joy, at all.
Because two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
And now we have a ten thousand dollar Biden inflation tax.
And so things have got To turn around at some point and hopefully we'll get a Republican Senate and Republican White House.
And if we can do that and put conservative principles back in play, you know, happy days will be here again.
Conservatism simply works.
Every time it's tried, every time it's implemented, it is successful.
And it's really that simple.
But uh I wish you and your family the best.
Hang in there as long as you can.
I know it's it's hard, and it's sad to hear because you you know, you ought to there ought to be a payday when you put in the type of labor that you're putting in every day.
Um appreciate it.
Thanks for the call.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
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Carol is in the free state of Florida.
Hey, Carol, how are you?
I'm doing great, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
Glad you called.
Yes, I wanted to uh hopefully now that Swawell is off, and of course Nancy doesn't hold the gavel.
I want more into the whole honeypot scandal.
I want to know you want to know about Fang Fang.
You want all the fang fang details.
Yes, yes, I do.
And how far down the line?
I mean, how many people that we need don't know of that are still in bed with China?
Like, do how much do we owe?
Like, are we are we paying back a debt for how much they owe, how much they know about us?
Because we don't know exactly what she obtained.
And then we you know the other intern that was placed there so inconspicuously or in front of everybody's face.
I want to know why America's allowing Chinese nationals to buy our farmland, ranch land, and land near our military installations.
I want to know why.
Right.
Because that that that would they ever allow Americans to invest and buy property, their their farmland, their ranch land.
I assume they have it.
Never.
Yes, never.
Never.
You know what that means?
That means they're smarter than we are.
They they are more engaged in the idea that they are to look out for their interests first than we are.
And that's why America First was such a popular proposal by President Trump and and remains so.
I mean, Joe Biden tried to steal it in the State of the Union address.
Right.
And you know, I we live here in Florida and we love Trump.
And I love DeSantis, but I'm I have to say this on your show.
We want him to remain governor because we need Trump to come back and finish what he started because we saw what he did work, and for all of us here, and especially a lot of women that live in the state, we love a strong man.
We don't really care for the language.
We we he can say what he wants.
We just want to see the productivity that he brought and the security they that he brought to this country.
And I'm proud to live in Florida, and like I said, I love DeSantis, but I want Trump back.
And there's a lot of people like me that feel that way.
Stay at home moms and moms that work just as well here.
Listen, honestly, I I look at our our Republican conservative party as one as having a very, very deep bench.
Not that and I think a lot of the the Republicanism has been weeded away from the party, all the garbage uh by the strength that Trump brought to the table.
Um I think America First is now the Republican Party.
I think looking out for the American worker is is now the new Republican Party.
I think energy independence and border security and a strong national defense and a and a tough military, that's that's all American first policies.
Make America great again policies.
So and I believe both.
I look, do I do I like when mommy and daddy fight?
Two people that you like are fighting?
No, I don't.
Is it the nature of the business?
If in fact it becomes a primary, every primary at some point is going to turn ugly.
But um, you know, let's it's a little early to see.
Uh, we're not sure exactly who's gonna get in the race.
We'll watch, we'll wait, we'll see, and we'll decide.
You know, people will decide.
Uh, I think it's certainly it's it's Trump has an added advantage because you're right, he did the job.
Um, other people say, well, it's time to move on because he was too controversial.
Okay, if the choice is Trump or Biden, who are you gonna vote for?
I'll take the guy with the mean tweets personally that gets the job done.
And I think people want that more than anything.
Anyway, uh, good call, appreciate it.
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