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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	Our number's 800 nine four one 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 are military shot down.
	We have no idea what they are.
	We have no idea where they came from.
	We have no idea what they what they even shot down.
	And Joe Biden said this this is not a major breach.
	How do you 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 oh something as large as three school buses or the you know Goodyear blimp flying at 65,000 feet, and it's let's say it's not reconnaissance capable, but but maybe they have uh some type of bioweapon drop that they want on the country.
	Is that is that far fetched from reality?
	Is it far fetched that if it can go undetected and America has this vulnerability where we these these objects go undetected and have been going undetected, that you know 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 that they purposely are triggering them.
	Uh 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?
	Well, learning that the U.S. military's 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 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.
	Uh 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.
	Uh the first sidewinder heat-seeking missile missed the target, according to uh unnamed U.S. officials.
	Defense Department said that just before 2 42 p.m. on Sunday, President Biden directed the F-16 to fire.
	Uh and a the Sidewinder missile to shoot down this airborne object flying at nearly 20,000 feet over Lake Huron.
	Now, according to aviation experts, the A9X Sidewinder missile is is the most advanced infrared tracking short-range air-to-air surfaced air missile in the world.
	Raytheon is ad adapted the heat-seeking aim to strike moving targets on the ground or in water.
	That 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, added one of our jets managed to miss the first shot on this object with you know a highly advanced missile.
	And by the way, the the second missile took down the target, each of those missiles cost more than four hundred thousand dollars.
	Just saying, if you're gonna shoot it, you might as well make sure it goes down.
	Mitch McConnell demanding that Biden answers questions on the spina uh China spy crisis.
	Uh, 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 explain why, you know, four objects have shot 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 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 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's been all over this as well.
	Yet the president owes the 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 it's in its sixty-five year history, Norrad never shot down an aircraft over U.S. airspace over ten 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, it 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.
	Um I forget who said this.
	I mentioned it yesterday, but I can't recall who.
	You know, the the most dangerous thing that has happened in in since this first incident occurred is that our defense secretary reached out to his counterpart in China who refused to take his call.
	That is that that's gotta be concerning, and America's gotta be paying attention.
	Now, simultaneously, the U.S. government is now telling Americans and Russia to leave immediately because of the rising escalation in the conflict with Ukraine and the possibility that Americans would be taken hostage and and brought up on phony charges like in the case of Brittany Greiner.
	I mean, I guess anything is is possible.
	Anyway, former Army uh 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 one percent of the country that's serving, and you only have twenty-six percent 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 I don't think they're prepared.
	But think about this.
	We have we have not gotten a single bit of news about these other three other three shoot downs 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 you know what this object was, where it came from.
	Was it the communist Chinese again?
	Why, you know, why the vulnerability?
	Why is it happening now?
	You know, why is it, you know, 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, you know, some time of some type of extraterrestrial or you know, unidentified flying object.
	I don't get it.
	Doesn't make sense.
	Uh got to give kudos to Virginia Governor Glenn Youncke.
	He rejected an offer from the Ford Mort Motor Company to locate an electric vehicle battery plant that has ties to China in Virginia.
	Ford was investing three and a half point five billion dollars 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 Yockin 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 and 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 I'm trying to get somebody, maybe I wish I wish Elon Musk had a spokesperson.
	Because to build the batteries, you need the these very special, you know, 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 and nickel and and other varying, you know, 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?
	Um we are getting some pushback today.
	I want to go over this issue involving uh Clapper and the Intel chief.
	Um and I'll tell you what's so outrageous about this.
	You know, James Clapper uh was out there along with you know these 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 uh oh, but 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 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 political 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 any time thereafter.
	You know, he's only talking now because, as Greg Jarrett points out in his column, um, he's only talking now because the House Committee is demanding his documents and his testimony.
	And Clapper's blame game is demonstrated 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 trade craft.
	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 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.
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	We're gonna play the Ohio governor is giving a live update on the situation in that has been ongoing after this uh train derailment in East Palestine in uh in Ohio.
	Uh we'll run some of that when we get back at the bottom of the half hour.
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	As I as we roll along, so Carleen 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 uh NORARD.
	There is uh the NORAD is part of like a part of uh it's a it's uh what you call a coalition, a course of exactly.
	And so that's why we were able to do that.
	Again, we didn't do it on our own.
	We did it in in uh in uh clearly in in in step with uh Canadia.
	Uh 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 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 uh 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, uh, 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 you know, 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 uh is there gonna 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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	We just got some other news on what the latest excuses of the Biden administration on the three objects that Biden uh shot down.
	Uh more than likely they were benign.
	I'll give you more details in a minute, according to John uh 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 uh 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.
	Uh 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 uh throughout this to continue uh 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 uh out any outstanding questions that may still uh be out there.
	Uh 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 are all in the room with me today.
	Let me go back to February 3rd, 855 p.m. when the train wreck occurred while traveling uh through East Palestine on Friday night, uh 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 is 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 uh given to me.
	Uh based on the conversations that I was hearing and information it was clear that more assistance was needed in that East Palestine and so I activated the Ohio National Guard uh to go there which 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.
	I 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, an 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, she 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 experience.
	explosion uh of the of the car uh which would result in shrapnel uh going out up to close to close to a mile uh we also looked at uh um what the danger was from a controlled release, which is what the railroad felt should be done.
	Again, uh Governor Shapiro and I uh spent uh considerable time uh up to about two hours, I recall, uh asking a lot of questions about how that would take place.
	Uh we had the benefit of the Ohio National Guard uh that had done a modeling exercise.
	Uh they did that in conjunction with the U.S. Defense Department uh who gave them some additional information and help uh in regard to the modeling.
	Uh the modeling was then produced into a map, uh map I believe that we showed uh everyone that day when we had our press conference.
	There was a red area uh that they described uh as the likelihood of death within that red area would be very high.
	Uh 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 within the red area.
	Um we then made the decision uh to go ahead with the the second option, which was the controlled release.
	Um as that was being prepared to be done, uh we sent back law enforcement uh into those zones, the red zone and the yellow zone, uh, for the third time uh to knock on literally knock on doors.
	Uh and they described how they did it to me.
	They did it in in very loud, did everything they could do to get if there's anyone left in that house to get their attention uh to come out.
	That was the third time uh that those uh houses I believe had been had been contacted, the individuals in those houses had been contacted.
	Um the controlled release uh did it in fact uh occur.
	It was it was my understanding delayed a little bit.
	Uh there was actually when we uh at three o'clock uh release was supposed to be at 3 30.
	We wanted to get everybody out of there.
	Uh we had uh members uh the guard and the patrol uh and others who were had the area cordon off.
	Uh we told them to leave there at three o'clock.
	Uh uh unfortunately there's a couple of cars that came in and we had to go they had to go get them out of that in of that impacted area or what would be an impacted area.
	Uh so the the release uh occurred, as I recall, about four fifteen, four twenty.
	Um and uh we uh you know mo were monitoring the air uh outside that area, uh and the air continued to be continued to be good.
	Uh fast forward to the time when we opened it back up a couple of days later, uh we had sent in members of the Ohio National Guard and and had their had their protective suits on uh to measure the air.
	Uh 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.
	Uh in fact the monitoring showed that the air was basically what it was prior to the actual train crash, or what we would have expected it to be uh at at that time.
	Uh people were then uh let back in.
	Uh our environmental teams remain in East Palestine uh where they're working directly uh with the railroad and others to ensure that the site is thoroughly cleaned up uh with no shortcuts.
	Uh so that was the the governor uh I mean, look how engaged and involved he is in all of this.
	And you know, you've got P. Buddha judge AWAL once again.
	Um cracking jokes yesterday about uh too many construction workers being white and and talking about balloons.
	And yet this is you know a transportation disaster, and he's nowhere to be found.
	And he's not involved in any of this in East Palestine.
	It's pretty unbelievable.
	Didn't speak about the issue uh yesterday at the National Association of Counties Conference.
	Uh 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 a in, you know, pothole Pete is what they refer to him in uh South Bend.
	He was a horrible mayor.
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	Um, 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.
	Uh 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 that 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 uh that that tumor uh on your neck is most likely benign.
	Maybe it is most likely benign, but until you can say with certainty uh certainty, why are you even bothering making a guess?
	Doesn't make any sense at all.
	Well, that's your that's your federal government.
	Um by the way, we got some, and we'll get into this uh at the top of the next hour.
	Not at the top of the top of our news roundup hour.
	Uh latest deficit figures show that Biden is spending like a drunken sailor.
	Federal government now ran a four hundred and sixty billion dollar budget deficit in only the first four months of fiscal year 2023, 40 billion dollars added to the deficit in January alone, according to the Treasury Department.
	Government raised 1.57 trillion in tax revenues between October and January, three percent 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 this is now becoming a real clear present danger for the entire country.
	Uh very, very dangerous.
	Inflation took an unexpected jump in January.
	Uh consumer price index measuring broad basket of uh common goods and services up five tenths of one percent 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 six point two percent anyway.
	Uh you look at, you know, the cost of pretty much everything, and it's again costing you even even more money for the bare necessities in life.
	But you know, this is all good news.
	Just listen to them.
	Congress, uh, if it's not bad enough that China's army and navy are now larger than ours, and some of the weapons systems are believed to be superior than ours.
	Uh we're still America's now depending on China for a whole range of medical needs.
	Uh this was in the Congressional Quarterly.
	The green energy industry is pretty much wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing.
	Uh 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 like 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.
	Uh he's a pissed off about Secretary Buddigudge making jokes about Chinese spy balloons uh while ignoring the Ohio train derailment.
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	How would they know that?
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