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Feb. 17, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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US vs. China - February 16th, Hour 1
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There is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.
You just called it a balloon.
You misspoke there.
I'm sorry.
It's not a yes.
I'm sorry.
You guys have, you can't say it's a balloon.
You guys haven't even ballooned on the brain right now.
We've faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations.
Now we got balloons.
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If you want to be a part of the program, I have just witnessed and will play parts of it for you, probably one of the most bizarre, strange, likely untrue press conferences I've ever heard or witnessed or seen in the President of the United States.
And it ought to frustrate everybody because, you know, Joe Biden, we still don't know what the three objects are, but you shot him down with a $400,000 Sidewinder missile and you didn't know what you were shooting at.
We're really supposed to buy that, you know, and you're worried that it was a potential hazard to air traffic.
And we don't see, I mean, this thing gets more bizarre by the minute.
So he starts talking about the military, NORAD, scrutinize our airspace, blah, blah, blah, enhancing our radar, slow-moving objects above our country around the world.
They tracked three unidentified objects, one in Alaska, one in Canada, and one over Lake Huron in the Midwest.
They acted in accordance for unidentified objects in U.S. airspace.
I gave the order to take down the objects due to civilian air traffic and could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities.
And then he says we acted in consultation with the Canadian government.
I spoke to Trudeau, blah, blah, blah.
Our military, we are seeking to recover debris so we can learn more.
They didn't know what they were shooting at.
I'll get into that in a second.
Now, our intelligence community is still assessing all three shootdowns.
They are reporting to me daily and will continue the urgent effort to do so.
And I will communicate that to Congress.
We don't yet know exactly what the three objects were, but nothing right now suggests that they were related to China's spy balloon program or surveillance vehicles from any other country.
Well, then why?
All of a sudden, Joe Biden allows this first Chinese spy balloon, which they weren't telling us they saw take off until yesterday.
So that part of the story changed.
And then yesterday they said they saw it from the moment that it took off and then made its way all the way over to Alaska.
Now, if they were watching it the whole time, I would assume the military was brought in and they saw it was headed towards Alaska airspace.
The minute it either entered Alaska airspace or was about to enter Alaskan airspace, that would have been the appropriate time, if they're telling the truth, to have taken that down.
So I'm not believing what he's saying here.
None of this is adding up because then they let that balloon, that spy balloon, hover over Alaska, go all the way down the west coast of Canada, get into the continental United States over Idaho, makes its way eastward over Montana and over our ICBM missile sites.
If it wasn't for one Billings Montana print reporter, photographer with a telephoto lens, we wouldn't have even probably known about it.
They probably would have kept it quiet.
But our intelligence community is still assessing.
So anyway, then they finally let this thing go, what, to Missouri and Kansas and Kentucky, and then to the Carolinas, six miles offshore.
Then they shoot it out of the air.
After mission accomplished by the communist Chinese, they probably were just jaw-dropping, laughing at how absolutely incompetent and idiotic this president was behaving with all of this.
So then, anyway, so then these other three objects show up.
They don't know what these objects are, but they go send fighter jets up in the sky and they take them out of the air using a $400,000 Missile.
I mean, that's an awful lot of money.
Even here, the pilots in one exchange, I can't tell what it is.
Can you tell what it is?
It doesn't look like a balloon to me.
Anyway, and our own intelligence community doesn't know what it is.
You know, just like I believed it was a lie when they said, well, no, this may have happened in the Trump years, but they didn't know it at the time.
We've only been able to piece it together years later.
Show us the evidence of that because I don't believe you.
Show us something.
But it was for a very short duration.
A balloon might have during the Trump years entered American airspace, but we don't know where and we don't know how long and we don't know what it was.
And you didn't know at the time.
And nobody in the Trump administration ever heard of it.
But you've been able to piece it together as an excuse for the fact that you let this one travel for days on end gathering all the intelligence it ever wanted.
So now let's get back to the other three objects they shot down.
They are reporting to me daily and will continue urgent efforts to do so.
And I will communicate that to Congress.
We don't yet know exactly what the three objects were.
Then why'd you shoot them down?
He said, but nothing right now suggests that they were related to China's spy balloon program or surveillance vehicles from any other country.
If you don't know what it is, why are you trying so hard to rule out it could be another Chinese spy vehicle of some kind?
That sounds like a guess to me.
Intelligence community's current assessment is the three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institution to study weather or conducting other scientific research.
Stop there.
That's another lie.
Because if any research, private company, institution had a weather balloon or any other thing in the sky and the government shot it out of the sky, they would have spoken out by now and said that was ours that you just shot out of the sky.
That was a weather balloon.
That was a this balloon.
So the intelligence community's current assessment, that doesn't make sense on top of everything else that you're saying.
And research organizations operate at altitudes, not nefarious, including research.
And I want to be clear, we don't have any evidence there is a sudden increase in objects in the sky.
We're seeing more of them partially because of the steps we have taken to increase our radar, narrow our radar, and adapting the approach.
If you had the radar and you're telling us that you knew about the Chinese spy balloon, then that doesn't make any sense that you didn't take that sucker out before it got over Alaskan airspace in the first place.
And the way I'm interpreting it is this: they got humiliated by the communist Chinese, and then they panicked.
And then anything that was in the sky, without even identifying what it is, they just decided we're just going to shoot this sucker right out of the sky, and this way we can't be criticized again.
And then, by the way, that negates their big argument that the military told Joe Biden not to shoot it down over potentially civilian areas because they did that with two out of the three other ones with the other one being shot down over Lake Huron.
So anyway, so that's what he's claiming.
Moving forward, distinguishing between those that are likely to pose safety and security risks that necessitate action and those that do not.
Make no mistake, if an object presents a threat to the safety and security of America, I will take it down.
You shot down three things, Joe, objects, and you don't have a clue what you shot down.
And that's because you didn't shoot down the one that you're saying now that you knew was coming into our airspace that you knew was from China.
And you look like, you know, you look weak and foolish on the world stage.
So now you're trying to, I'll shoot it down.
Okay, he says it 10 times during today's speech.
I'll shoot it down.
If any object presents a threat to the safety of American people, I'll take it down.
I'll be sharing information with Congress going forward.
These parameters will guide the actions that we will take while responding to unmanned, unidentified aerial objects.
Keep adapting them as challenges evolves, blah, blah, blah.
I've directed my national security advisor to lead a government-wide effort to make sure we deal safely and effectively with the objects in the airspace, a better inventory of unmanned airborne objects in space above the United States airspace, make sure inventory, blah, blah, blah.
Second, we'll implement further measures to improve our capacity for unmanned objects in our airspace.
We'll update rules and regulations for launching and maintaining, et cetera, et cetera.
You know, as the events of the previous.
I gave the order to shoot it down when it was safe to do so.
Oh, really?
You gave the order?
Since I've come into office, I've developed the ability to identify, tracks, study high-altitude surveillance balloons connected with the Chinese military.
When one of these high-altitude surveillance balloons entered our airspace, I gave the order to shoot it down.
It was the size of multiple school buses and a risk to people on the ground.
Instead, we tracked it closely.
We analyzed its capabilities.
Then he goes into the first balloon.
And then he gives us every cliche that you could ever think of.
We see competition, not conflict with China.
We're not looking for a new Cold War war.
I make no apologies.
We will compete.
You know, our communications, our diplomats, I remain.
This is the same guy that was out there saying that this is not a major breach in terms of the communist Chinese flying their spy balloons over our country.
Joe, by definition, that is a major breach.
Or Kamala Harris saying, I don't think the Chinese spy balloon should hurt U.S. ties.
Yes, it should.
There need to be consequences for people that brazenly are sending balloons over our airspace and our military installations.
And while we're at it, can we stop selling or allowing Chinese nationals to buy up thousands of acres of farmland and ranch land and land near our military installations?
Can we stop that too?
And while we're at it, can we insist that China now compensate the world for what they unleashed with COVID-19?
Is anybody ever going to take that case to China?
You ever going to take the case of intellectual property theft to China or the fact that the unfair trade practices of China or the saber rattling with Taiwan with China?
Is Joe ever and then at the end of this whole thing?
I don't know who it was that asked the question, sir, there's been criticism that this issue compromised by your family's business relationships.
He couldn't even get any more words out.
Give me a break, man.
That's what he said.
Is everybody in Australia China compromised by your family's business relationships?
Mr. President, Mr. President, there is a lot of people who are going to be able to.
Give me a break, man.
Did you overactively, Mr. President?
that's a question we have more polite people and And he runs away.
I mean, I cannot believe that this is talking about the king is the king of polite.
He's very being polite, it's very important.
Dogface pony soldier.
You're a dogface, lying dogface pony soldier.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, come on, man.
You do cocaine, you're junkie.
Come on, man.
Take him out back.
Yeah.
Very polite.
You vote for Joe.
You ain't black.
You know, the stuff that comes flying out of this idiot's mouth.
By the way, calls an African-American man yesterday.
Use the term known.
You know what?
You know where I saw that?
No.
Nowhere.
Yeah, well, we'll get into it later with Carol Roth and Joe Concha.
I can't help feel what I feel.
And it's a deep sense of I'm just embarrassed.
This is an embarrassing moment for our country.
This is a humiliating moment for the United States.
This is not the greatest best that this country has to offer.
We are capable of so much more.
If we had a commander-in-chief that actually knew that today was Thursday, that would be a good start.
You know, there's nothing in what Biden said to me today that rings true.
And if anything, it has just confirmed everything that we believe is true.
They don't know what the three other objects that our military shot out of the sky were.
We have that acknowledged today.
They've acknowledged yesterday that they knew this was a Chinese spy balloon making its way to the U.S.
They let it happen and they let it continue and they didn't stop.
And they came up with a half-assed excuse.
Well, the military said not to do it over land.
Well, then why did you shoot the other unidentified objects out of the sky over land?
Because that's not a consistent policy then, is it?
But I guess maybe he thinks the American people are too stupid to actually pay attention to this.
But if you don't know what the three objects are, don't you think it might be wise or smart to find out what they are before you shoot them out of the sky?
The pilots can't identify what they are before they fire a $400,000 taxpayer-funded missile.
And then you make the case that, but we don't, we're pretty certain it's not China.
I'm like, what would help you draw that conclusion?
We think it was probably some American research or outside group.
If it was a private company, balloon or object and it was shot out of the sky, they would have come forward by now.
I'm pretty confident.
That's sophisticated.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hammond.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
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And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
At 9 p.m., do you know where your president is?
I don't know.
Yep, he's sound asleep in his bed with not a care in the world.
Must be nice, Joe.
The rest of us will keep working.
You're on the Sean Hannity Show.
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We got a lot of other news today that we're following.
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Not messing with you.
Oh, heck no.
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All right.
By the way, this broke on Fox News.
I don't wish illness on anybody.
I just don't because it's so painful.
And I know too many people have been sick.
All right.
So the people of Pennsylvania, they didn't listen as it relates to John Fetterman.
He's been under observation for a number of days.
And now he has checked himself into a Washington, D.C. hospital to receive treatment for clinical depression.
You know, I just wish the guy the best.
That's all.
You know what?
You got to be a human being first.
And the sad part is to me is that everybody knew he was sick and not up for this job.
And they didn't do the right thing, you know, before the primary, et cetera, et cetera.
And they just didn't, they didn't let people know what the severity of what was going on, and they hit him.
They didn't care.
They just wanted the W and they wanted the seat.
And I think in that sense, Democrats were unfair to him, but that's just my observation.
I hope he gets well soon.
This is not good news for the economy.
And I'm going to give it to you anyway because you need to know.
U.S. equity indexes dropped off the map today after the Federal Reserve officials, two of them, said that they're considering a 50 basis point interest rate hike again to battle inflation.
I mean, this keeps going up and it keeps, you know, we are just spinning our wheels here.
And things get dramatically worse every single time and every single report because they're not doing the right thing by the economy either.
One of the best things they can do is get fiscal spending in line.
When I go over some of these other numbers, they're going to shock you.
Anyway, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland president said she had a compelling economic case for rolling out another 50 basis point hike.
And, you know, they're not going to rule out supporting a half percentage point increase.
Remember, they had multiple, you know, 75 basis point increases in it.
And, you know what?
It's hurting.
This inflation is still killing the poor and the middle class.
Never mind the new tax increases Biden put in place on January 1, taxing oil, gas, coal, pension plans, retirement plans, and corporations.
Corporations pass those taxes on to you.
Yes, they pay them.
Hannah, you keep saying corporations don't pay taxes.
Sure, they pay them, but they charge you more for their products and services, and they take the money that they pay the government out of your money.
They get the money from you.
I don't know why I have to be that specific for some people.
They don't seem to keep up like Biden doesn't keep up.
You know, Biden's touting his economic policies, you know, only briefly mentions inflation, you know, claiming his GOP proposals would add to the debt.
That's a joke.
I mean, the U.S., according to the CBO, is at risk of default, by the way, meaning the debt ceiling issue is as soon as July.
Republicans have got to get united behind a plan that includes fiscal responsibility, and it could even include the border.
It could include energy, could include a lot of things.
But they all 222 need to agree.
And then once the Democrats believe Republicans are united, then it's going to mean something.
Then it'll mean that, oh, the Republicans are serious here.
Anyway, the U.S. is on track to add another $19 trillion in debt over the next 10 years.
That's $50 trillion in debt on our children and on our grandchildren.
You got to be kidding me.
It shows just how deep the fiscal hole Democrats have dug.
I mean, you know, Biden is, you know, I watched this, you know, this explanation, this expansion of government under Biden and this rapid spending.
It is, it's destroying the economy.
It's really, and the people that are hurting the most are the poor, the middle class.
There's a funny article.
Remember Clark Howard on WSP?
He actually bought his wife's engagement ring at Costco.
No, it's a beautiful ring.
I've seen the ring.
Anyway, now people, I'm a Costco bride.
That was an article that came out.
Tying the knot has never been more expensive or popular.
And because of the staggering rate of inflation impacting everything from floral arrangements to the cake, if he can even find somebody to make them.
Anyway, you see people now, the average people getting married or looking at a $28,000 big day.
That's a lot of money for most people.
Getting married in 2023 means getting creative for at least some of the 61% of people saying I do this year who said the economy has impacted their wedding plans.
And anyway, some people are turning to trips to Costco to get a lot of the items for their wedding party.
And I don't blame them.
I love Costco's.
Love their hot dogs and their pizza.
Look at the free food.
I love the food there.
And it's just the same price, by the way, since 1985.
It's a lost-loser for them.
So you should just go in there, get the pizza and the hot dog and the Coke.
Oh, so good.
Producer Price Index came in much hotter than expected, accelerating from last month.
This comes from the higher-than-expected consumer price index, also accelerating from last month.
And Joe Biden's out there trying to convince everybody everything's going to be fine.
It's not.
Telling you, elections have consequences.
The FBI has seized secret Biden documents from two locations, finally at the University of Delaware.
My question is, why'd they wait so long?
And I'm surprised they didn't give Joe a vacation week at the University of Delaware so he could go through it all himself first, like they did at his Rehoboth Beach house.
Anyway, they've done two searches now at the University of Delaware.
Of course, no fanfare because they only saved that for Donald Trump.
Anyway, the presidency is just not doing well.
Winkin Tony Blinken is apparently going to use a potential meeting with China's top diplomat this week to de-escalate tensions.
You know what that means?
They're going to kiss the ass of the communist Chinese.
Communist Chinese are now threatening our safety and security.
They're threatening retaliation against us as if we're the ones flying spy balloons over their country.
And they're apologizing for it.
They want to get along.
Please, can we get along?
We just, we want to be competitors.
We don't want a new Cold War or anything.
I'm not that mad.
This wasn't a major breach.
Joe Biden says, yes, it was a major breach.
You got to be kidding me.
What are you smoking?
What drugs are you using?
Got to be high if you believe this is not a major breach.
Anyway, Joey is getting his physical today.
Let me tell you what that means.
Nothing.
Because they're not going to do anything worthwhile.
My guess is the reason they don't want to give out their guest, you know, the list of people that go to visit him in Delaware is because I bet a lot of doctors go visit Joey.
And he's not going to have his cognitive health checked at all.
So what's the point?
I think you need to be in pretty good shape to fall up the steps like that.
I mean, he got right back up.
You know, he fell down.
The three times when he fell down.
No, the three times.
I mean, think about how much energy it took him.
He fell down.
Not once, not twice, but three times.
He wanted to get it right.
And then he got back up.
It's impressive.
I'm so impressed.
I can't even tell you how impressed I am.
Marsha Blackburn put the administration on notice about funding Soros Bad Global Disinformation Index.
That is State Department money going to silence conservatives that we talked about yesterday.
Marco Rubio and Senator Ron Johnson demand an investigation into this government-backing group leading the conservative media, canceling, silencing, blackballing movement.
I mean, it's unbelievable that that's what our own government is doing.
Kevin McCarthy, by the way, is at the border today.
Good for him.
Somebody's got to call attention to what's going on down there.
That's all the fentanyl.
That's where all the heroin is coming from that's killing our kids.
We had another huge bust, 93 pounds of fentanyl that were caught in the Yuma sector by Yuma sector agents, many of which we've had on the program, enough to kill 100 million people.
That was just yesterday.
This is happening every day.
They're putting now in weed fentanyl.
They're putting it in everything.
You know, what's going to happen when it starts showing up in salt shakers around the country?
You don't think there are people sick enough to do that kind of stuff?
There are.
There's a lot of evil in this world.
Jim Jordan subpoenaed the CEOs of the top five big tech companies.
He was on Hannity last night.
Did a great job explaining why.
Yeah, because they are offering the biggest in-kind donation to the Democratic Party.
In the 2020 election, it was through their censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop with the assist from the FBI that was meeting weekly with these big tech companies.
And he wants all of their emails, all their communications, all their text messages.
By the way, more tolerance from liberal Democrats.
You have a Georgia state senator smearing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, calling him an Uncle Tom.
I don't get how liberal Democrats get away with the most vile and vicious comments.
I would urge everybody, you want to know about Clarence Thomas?
He wrote a book.
I had the chance to interview him for this book.
It was years ago.
Never interviewed him before and never interviewed him since.
Love Clarence Thomas.
And it's called My Grandfather's Son.
You want to learn about Clarence Thomas and who he is and how he became the man he became?
Go read that book.
And then tell me you want to call him a name after reading that book.
Unbelievable.
It was really a nothing burger in terms of what they released out of Georgia today with the super special grand jury in Fulton County.
I just think that you can indict a ham sandwich.
And between New York and the Stormy Daniels investigation, now reignited, you know, this Fulton County investigation that has been ongoing for God knows how long.
The only thing that they released that was of any significance is that the super grand jury felt that people had lied and they might want to consider perjury charges for those people that lied.
Notice, if you look at the venues, now, if it was a venue for Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., there's not a chance in hell he's not found guilty.
If you want a jury, you get a jury in Fulton County and you're a Republican, a conservative, your odds of ever being found not guilty are next to zero.
Same thing with New York City.
You know, you look at any of these three venues that they would look to bring charges against Donald Trump, and there's not one that I can think of that they would be fair to.
It just, I mean, you got hardcore leftist counties.
And then if you ask for a change of venue, I doubt that's going to happen.
By the way, it turns out New York is the winner.
Last two years, they have lost 524,079 New Yorkers that have migrated out of the state.
California lost 508,903 people from their total population.
I wonder why they're leaving these liberal enclaves in droves.
Could it be high taxes?
What is it?
By the way, now for the second day in a row, U.S. F-35 jets had to intercept four Russian fighter aircraft near Alaska.
So we got more saber rattling, not only from China, but now we got it from Russia too.
Two days in a row, and the Russians also were flying over Polish airspace, and they had to scramble their fighter jets to push him back.
Getting very, very, very tense in the world out there, I'll tell you.
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All right, Don Lemon is under fire over at Fake News CNN.
Women are no longer in their prime if they're over 20, 30, or 40, according to Don Lemon.
But Google made me say it.
That's what he said.
Just look it up.
It's in Google.
I'm like, okay, he's getting hammered.
I mean, he's getting the crap beaten out of him.
I'm like, who would make that statement?
Isn't that one of the more basic things?
You don't ask a woman her age.
Not only do you know what?
By the way, what does that mean?
She's not in her prime.
Yeah, what does that mean?
I don't know that Don Lemon ever had a prime.
So perhaps he's not familiar with what it looks like, and maybe he should just keep his mouth.
Now, by the way, if a conservative said that, oh, he calls for firings, boycotts, cancelings, misogynistic, misogynistic, chauvinistic.
Toxic masculinity.
Oh, that's it.
That's my favorite.
Oh, yeah.
Toxic.
This is a toxic masculinity show.
That's what we call that.
Don Lemon, things I never thought I'd say about him.
I know.
All right.
Anyway, we'll check in with Joe Concha Carol Roth later on.
The latest on the bizarre balloon presser with Joe today.
Former Secretary of Defense Chris Miller will give us his take as we continue.
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