Sean Hannity Show - Defending Our Skies - February 14th, Hour 1

Feb. 15, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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Defending Our Skies - February 14th, Hour 1

Sean covers the latest on NORAD's defense of America's skies and what exactly is China up to?!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we still are not getting any answers as to what these unidentified flying objects that our military shot down.
	We have no idea what they are.
	We have no idea where they came from.
	We have no idea what they even shot down.
	And Joe Biden said this is not a major breach.
	How is that not a major breach?
	Now, am I the only one that maybe has read a few too many spy novels?
	I don't know.
	Is it not possible that if you have something as large as three school buses or the Goodyear blimp flying at 65,000 feet and it's, let's say it's not reconnaissance capable, but maybe they have some type of bioweapon drop that they want on the country.
	Is that far-fetched from reality?
	Is it far-fetched that if it can go undetected and America has this vulnerability where these objects go undetected and have been going undetected, that there could be some type of VMP attack against the country or some type of spy mission that picks up all of our nation's defenses because they purposely are triggering them?
	For what reason, I don't know.
	Does it not seem a little odd now that the rapid and precipitous increase of Chinese nationals being caught at our southern border is happening simultaneously while all this is going on?
	We're learning that the U.S. military, again, we don't know anything about the other three objects that were shot down.
	We don't know anything about them.
	We know that the first balloon, the size of three buses, that first showed up in Alaska airspace down the coast of Canada into Idaho, across then Kentucky, then the Carolinas, and then shot about six miles off the coast of the Carolinas.
	We know that part.
	We only learned today that the U.S. military jet that shot down that object in the Michigan skies on Sunday apparently missed on their first attempt.
	This is the attempt over Lake Huron.
	The first Sidewinder heat-seeking missile missed the target, according to unnamed U.S. officials.
	Defense Department said that just before 2:42 p.m. on Sunday, President Biden directed the F-16 to fire the Sidewinder missile to shoot down this airborne object flying at nearly 20,000 feet over Lake Euron.
	Now, according to aviation experts, the A9X Sidewinder missile is the most advanced infrared tracking, short-range, air-to-air surfaced air missile in the world.
	Raytheon has adapted the heat-seeking aim to strike moving targets on the ground or in water.
	That was initiated back in 2009.
	So, given that the Sidewinder is so advanced and so accurate, why did they miss on the first shot?
	I mean, we could send a cruise missile through an open window on the other side of the world.
	How did one of our jets manage to miss the first shot on this object with a highly advanced missile?
	And by the way, the second missile took down the target.
	Each of those missiles cost more than $400,000.
	Just saying, if you're going to shoot it, you might as well make sure it goes down.
	Mitch McConnell demanding that Biden answers questions on the China spy crisis.
	You know, the idea that the president is saying and has said it's not a major breach.
	Do you not find all of this strange?
	I'm finding all of this strange.
	You know, McConnell demanding the Biden administration explained why, you know, four objects have been shot down by our military over U.S. airspace, well, one in Canada, I stand corrected, in four days.
	In the seven decades since World War II, we never even had one penetration of our airspace that was considered serious enough in any way to require any military action.
	So, you know, why is it that they're being so secretive and so silent about all this?
	You know, what are the objects we're just now noticing for the very first time?
	How is it possible that it took a guy with a telephoto lens working in Billings, Montana, to actually get a photograph of the first balloon to begin with?
	You have top Senate Republicans now demanding that Biden address the nation on this spy balloon crisis.
	I think Senator Tom Cotton, we had Senator Ted Cruz on last night.
	Senator Marco Rubio has been all over this as well.
	Yet the president owes the people in this country an explanation, should speak directly into the cameras on what we know about these objects and what steps he will be taking to protect America's sovereign airspace.
	You know, Rubio said in its 65-year history, NORAD never shot down an aircraft over U.S. airspace.
	Over 10 days, they shot down one balloon and three objects.
	Americans need to hear directly about this from their president today.
	Biden is not committed to any public response.
	And while a press conference by the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, they offered no new information at all.
	You have the former Army Secretary under Barack Obama urging America to prepare for the worst with China.
	I forget who said this.
	I mentioned it yesterday, but I can't recall who.
	You know, the most dangerous thing that has happened since this first incident occurred is that our defense secretary reached out to his counterpart in China who refused to take his call.
	Now, that's got to be concerning, and America's got to be paying attention.
	Now, simultaneously, the U.S. government is now telling Americans in Russia to leave immediately because of the rising escalation in the conflict with Ukraine and the possibility that Americans would be taken hostage and brought up on phony charges, like in the case of Brittany Greiner.
	I mean, I guess anything is possible.
	Anyway, former Army Secretary Pat Murphy sounding the alarm on China's military aggression, which has led to this breach of U.S. sovereignty and pressing Americans to understand that we're the underdog here.
	His comments came Sunday after the Pentagon released a statement revealing that the U.S. shot down a third high-altitude airborne object over northern Canada.
	Now, Secretary Murphy said what people need to understand in our great country is that we are the underdog here.
	We're a third of their size.
	And I'm not just talking about geographical and population.
	America at our best is the reluctant warrior, but we're a warrior.
	And we need to make sure that when you have less than 1% of the country that's serving, and you only have 26% of the country that can even serve because of the obesity crisis in America and some other things, we need to wake up, understand that we have a competitor out there, China, that thinks that they are now the preeminent power in the world.
	And we don't want any unnecessary wars, but we always have to be prepared for the worst.
	I don't think they're prepared.
	But think about this.
	We have not gotten a single bit of news about these other three shootdowns that have taken place, two in the U.S. and one in Canada, three total in the U.S.
	We don't know a single thing about what this object was, where it came from.
	Was it the communist Chinese again?
	Why the vulnerability?
	Why is it happening now?
	Why is it we're having simultaneous conflicts with the number one geopolitical foe, China, now our number two geopolitical foe, Russia?
	And the only answer is we have the head of NORAD literally suggesting that this could be some type of extraterrestrial or unidentified flying object.
	I don't get it.
	It doesn't make sense.
	Got to give kudos to Virginia Governor Glenn Yunken.
	He rejected an offer from the Ford Motor Company to locate an electric vehicle battery plant that has ties to China in Virginia.
	Ford was investing $3.5 billion to build a factory in Michigan that will produce low-cost batteries for some of their electric vehicles.
	The automaker announced on Monday the factory is one of four battery plants across the three states that Ford announced.
	In January, Virginia Governor Young said that he had removed Virginia from consideration for the battery factory due to concerns about the Chinese connection.
	And meanwhile, Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, expressed zero concern about China's involvement after she accepted Ford's offer to locate the EV battery plant in her state.
	By the way, all of this investment into I'm trying to get somebody, maybe I wish Elon Musk had a spokesperson because to build the batteries, you need these very special minerals that need to be mined all over the country.
	And you use heavy equipment that uses diesel to get the cobalt and the manganese and nickel and other varying special, whatever you call these things, anyway, minerals that are needed to build these batteries out.
	And then you have 90% of the electric grid, because we're talking about electric vehicles here.
	90% of the electric grid is still based on fossil fuels.
	So you still, by definition, you're charging up your battery by using fossil fuels from the electric grid that is 90% fossil fuels.
	So how does that make any sense?
	We are getting some pushback today.
	I want to go over this issue involving Clapper and the Intel chief.
	And I'll tell you what's so outrageous about this.
	You know, James Clapper was out there along with these 50 other Intel people, you know, making a big deal just in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
	And they all sign a letter and they're all saying that, oh, this looks like it has all the earmarks of Russian disinformation, when in fact that is not true.
	It wasn't true.
	They had no information that it was true.
	And now he is outraged at the Politico because they have pointed out that Clapper and other Hunter Biden laptop skeptics suddenly speak out against the media and it's kind of laughable.
	You know, he's now blaming Politico for distorting a letter that he and 50 other people signed.
	You know, well, why did they wait two years to finally do so?
	They could have spoken up when the political article came out some time ago or when Joe Biden cited the letter in his presidential debate and called the laptop story garbage or anytime thereafter.
	You know, he's only talking now because as Greg Jarrett points out in his column, he's only talking now because the House committee is demanding his documents and his testimony.
	And Clapper's blame game is Demonstrate B false.
	He's saying, oh, we only said that the laptop could be Russian disinformation, not that it was Russian disinformation.
	That's not what he was saying on television at the time.
	Greg Jarrett went back and listened to his old shows and commentary and pointed out in his piece that, you know, he said definitively that it was Russian disinformation, quote, this is classic Soviet Russian tradecraft.
	That's a direct quote and said the laptop emails, quote, look fake, planted, and contrived.
	So now Clapper, along with the other 50 Intel people, it's obvious what they wanted.
	They wanted to give an assist to Joe Biden and help Joe Biden get elected president and help and do their part and defeat Donald Trump.
	So Clapper's now protecting himself and accusing Politico of deliberately distorting the letter on the Biden laptop being Russian disinformation.
	It was never Russian disinformation.
	Anyway, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we're going to play the Ohio governor is giving a live update on the situation that has been ongoing after this train derailment in East Palestine in Ohio.
	We'll run some of that when we get back at the bottom of the half hour.
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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.
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	As we roll along, so Corrine Jean-Pierre says the U.S. military shot an object over Canada because, well, here's what she says.
	Why is...
	Why is the American military shooting something out of the sky over Canada?
	Because it's part of NORAD.
	The NORAD is part of like a part of, it's a, what you call a coalition, a corporation execution.
	Exactly.
	And so that's why we were able to do that.
	Again, we didn't do it on our own.
	We did it clearly in step with Canadia.
	We did it clearly in step with Canadia.
	Now, why is this such a complicated issue?
	I don't think this is one of these things that's really hard to figure out here.
	So you have four items, we can't even say balloons, four objects.
	One definitely is a balloon.
	We don't know anything about the other three that they shot down, one over Canadian airspace, but it was American military that shot it down.
	And so we've got four incidents now of shootdowns in eight days, plus, you know, official, one official denial after another official denial, day after day after day.
	And they leave open for days and days the possibility that it could be space aliens.
	The only thing that the Biden administration needs to get a lot out here is how about some information?
	Where's the president, you know, going before the American public and saying, this is what has happened.
	This is what I ordered.
	This is why, rather than saying that this is not a serious breach, you know, why are these balloons?
	Why all of a sudden, you know, did they go from saying nothing and it's not a big deal and waiting till they're over water before you can shoot them down to shooting them down over land, except that they lied the first time?
	None of this makes sense.
	You know, now, is there going to be any ramifications?
	Is the Chinese now openly declaring hostilities towards the U.S.?
	And if so, how will we respond?
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	25 to the top of the hour.
	We just got some other news on what the latest excuses of the Biden administration on the three objects that Biden shot down.
	More than likely, they were benign.
	I'll give you more details in a minute, according to John Kirby and one Biden official claiming that the last three objects shot down did not belong to China.
	Okay, then who did they belong to?
	We'll get to that in a second.
	Mike DeWine, governor of Ohio, has spoken out on what's going on in East Palestine, where this train derailment resulting in the release and controlled burn of all these chemicals and the environmental out, you know, the environmental damage seems far more severe than what people were originally told.
	Here's what he just said moments ago.
	Well, good afternoon, everyone.
	We're holding this press conference today really to bring people up to date.
	I know there's still questions about what is going on in East Palestine.
	We've tried throughout this to continue to inform the public, everyone, but most particularly the people who are directly affected.
	So today, I brought many members of our team together to talk about the current monitoring that is going, that's underway and to really answer out to any outstanding questions that may still be out there.
	Today, I have experts from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, the Ohio Department of Health, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Ohio Department of Public Safety, Ohio Emergency Management Agency, the Ohio Department of Transportation, and the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
	They're all in the room with me today.
	Let me go back to February 3rd, 8:55 p.m., when the train wreck occurred.
	While traveling through East Palestine on Friday night, February 3rd, a North Southern train derailed, causing a massive fire.
	Around 50 railroad cars were impacted by the crash, including 10 that were hauling hazardous materials.
	In addition to the fire, there was also serious environmental concerns.
	U.S. EPA and the Ohio EPA worked to slow the flow of contaminated water, while firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.
	By that Sunday, two days later, concerns began to arise in regard to the temperature in one of the cars.
	I was on a conference call that night around 7:30 when that information was first given to me.
	Based on the conversations that I was hearing and information, it was clear that more assistance was needed in East Palestine.
	And so I activated the Ohio National Guard to go there, which they did very, very quickly.
	I was also informed on that call about the car, where the temperature was very described as very volatile, and at that moment was, in fact, rising.
	The fear was that this car might explode, sending deadly shrapnel in all directions.
	The next morning, I traveled to East Palestine and met with those on the ground, those who had been working, those who represented the railroad, as well as the federal government.
	It was clear at that point that we were faced with two bad options.
	One option was to do nothing and wait for the car to explode.
	I had a discussion with the representatives of the railroad, extended discussion.
	I brought Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro in that through my cell phone, and we went back and forth for a couple hours trying to just weigh the risk, one versus the other.
	The risk of the car exploding was described to me as high, high probability that it could explode.
	And when I pressed everyone to give me the information about and also give Governor Shapiro the information, because he was on the cell phone listening and asking questions, it came back that the concern was that this would be a catastrophic,
	what was described as a catastrophic explosion of the car, which would result in shrapnel going out up to close to close to a mile.
	We also looked at what the danger was from a controlled release, which is what the railroad felt should be done.
	Again, Governor Shapiro and I spent considerable time, up to about two hours, I recall, asking a lot of questions about how that would take place.
	We had the benefit of the Ohio National Guard that had done a modeling exercise.
	They did that in conjunction with the U.S. Defense Department, who gave them some additional information and help in regard to the modeling.
	The modeling was then produced into a map, a map I believe that we showed everyone that day when we had our press conference.
	There was a red area that they described as the likelihood of death within that red area would be very high.
	There was a little, there's an area outside that, the yellow area, where they also described it would be very dangerous to be there, but not quite as dangerous as it was within the red area.
	We then made the decision to go ahead with the second option, which was the controlled release.
	As that was being prepared to be done, we sent back law enforcement into those zones, the red zone and the yellow zone, for the third time to knock on, literally knock on doors.
	And they described how they did it to me.
	They did it very loud, did everything they could do to get, if there's anyone left in that house, to get their attention to come out.
	That was the third time that those houses, I believe, had been contacted, the individuals in those houses had been contacted.
	The controlled release did, in fact, occur.
	It was, to my understanding, delayed a little bit.
	There was actually when we, at 3 o'clock, release was supposed to be at 3.30.
	We wanted to get everybody out of there.
	We had members of the guard and the patrol and others who had the area cordon off.
	We told them to leave there at 3 o'clock.
	Unfortunately, there's a couple cars that came in, and they had to go get them out of that impacted area or what would be an impacted area.
	So the release occurred, as I recall, about 4:15, 420.
	And we were monitoring the air outside that area, and the air continued to be good.
	Fast forward to the time when we opened it back up a couple days later.
	We had sent in members of the Ohio National Guard and had their protective suits on to measure the air.
	And no one went back within that area or was allowed back in that area until they could come back and tell us that the monitoring was consistently good.
	In fact, the monitoring showed that the air was basically what it was prior to the actual train crash, what we would have expected it to be at that time.
	People were then let back in.
	Our environmental teams remain in East Palestine where they're working directly with the railroad and others to ensure that the site is thoroughly cleaned up with no shortcuts.
	So that was the governor.
	I mean, look how engaged and involved he is in all of this.
	And, you know, you've got P-Buddha Judge A. Wall once again cracking jokes yesterday about too many construction workers being white and talking about balloons.
	And yet this is, you know, a transportation disaster and he's nowhere to be found.
	He's not involved in any of this in East Palestine.
	It's pretty unbelievable.
	Didn't speak about the issue yesterday at the National Association of Counties Conference.
	And, you know, what has this guy done that's been successful in any way?
	You know, what qualified this guy to ever be in, you know, pothole Pete is what they refer to him in South Bend.
	He was a horrible mayor.
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	The Biden administration is now claiming that the last three objects shot down did not belong to China.
	Our initial assessment, again, this is the National Security Council spokesperson.
	Our initial assessment here, based on talking to civil authorities in the intelligence community, is we don't see anything that points right now to these being part of the People's Republic of China spying program or, in fact, intelligence collected against the United States of any kind, according to John Kirby.
	The U.S. Air Force downed airborne objects over Alaska on Friday, Northwest Canada on Saturday, Lake Huron on Sunday.
	And none of this has been tied to China or any other country.
	But Kirby said more information will be gleaned once their remnants are retrieved.
	So they don't even know.
	They're just guessing.
	They just don't want the political headache.
	And then Kirby goes on to say the last three objects that Biden shot down were most likely benign.
	So you're guessing that it's most likely benign?
	I am guessing that that tumor on your neck is most likely benign.
	Maybe it is most likely benign, but until you can say with certainty, why are you even bothering making a guess?
	Doesn't make any sense at all.
	That's your federal government.
	By the way, we got some, and we'll get into this at the top of the next hour.
	Not at the top, at the top of our news roundup hour.
	Latest deficit figures show that Biden is spending like a drunken sailor.
	The federal government now ran a $460 billion budget deficit in only the first four months of fiscal year 2023.
	$40 billion added to the deficit in January alone, according to the Treasury Department.
	Government raised $1.47 trillion in tax revenues between October and January, 3% lower than the amount of revenue raised over the same period last year.
	Spending came in at $1.9 trillion, 9% higher than the first four months of fiscal year 22.
	I mean, this is now becoming a real clear present danger for the entire country.
	Very, very dangerous.
	Inflation took an unexpected jump in January.
	Consumer price index measuring broadband of common goods and services up five-tenths of 1% in January.
	Economists surveyed by the Dow Jones have been looking for respective increases of four-tenths of a percent and an annual gain of 6.2%.
	Anyway, you look at the cost of pretty much everything, and it's again costing you even more money for the bare necessities in life.
	But this is all good news.
	Just listen to them.
	Congress, if it's not bad enough, that China's Army and Navy are now larger than ours, and some of the weapon systems are believed to be superior than ours.
	Worse still, America is now depending on China for a whole range of medical needs.
	This was in the Congressional Quarterly.
	The green energy industry is pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing.
	In other words, they're the ones making the electric vehicle batteries, the solar panels, the Democrats demand that we use.
	In other words, China has still even more control over our economy, as Joe Biden unilaterally is disarmed economically by giving up domestic production of gas, oil, and coal.
	And if they roll over Taiwan, say goodbye to those microchips because Taiwan is where 70% of the world's semiconductor industry is located, which, by the way, seems more likely to be a possibility every day.
	All right, pretty scary stuff.
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	By the way, when we come back, Jim Jordan, he's from Ohio.
	He's pissed off about Secretary Budajudge making jokes about Chinese spy balloons while ignoring the Ohio train derailment.
	We'll get the latest on his investigations into the FBI being politicized, the DOJ weaponized, how the Biden administration has not been truthful about border, about classified documents, about spy balloons, and why won't they just be honest about what it is they're shooting down?
	Although now they're saying, it's safe.
	We know whatever we shot down is not from China.
	How would they know that?
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