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All right, news roundup, information overload hour on this Friday, 800-941-Sean.
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So we've been following the issues of illegal immigration at our southern border.
You know, under Joe Biden, the first two years of his presidency, he's not enforced the laws and he's given preferential treatment to illegal immigrants.
No COVID vaccine mandates, no COVID tests, kids in overcrowded cages, free Biden cell phones, transportation to one of the 48 states in the continental United States, and then taxpayers on the hook for, let's see, food, water, housing, education, health care, and over 5 plus million people when you include all the gotaways, and we can't even estimate.
On top of that, they've caught over 160 people on the terrorist watch list.
I wonder how many people on the terrorist watch list they didn't catch that are in this country, creating terror cells, meaning putting us at risk, God forbid, of another 9-11.
It's insanity.
Well, it's not just our southern border.
I don't know what's going on with Canada.
I don't know what's going on with upstate New York, but there is an 846%, 846% increase in illegal immigrant crossings at our northern border.
Now, local congresswoman up there, Claudia Tenney, who's been on this program before, has been highlighting this.
New York Post had an article, Border Patrol now begs for help to stop 800% surge of migrants sneaking in from Canada.
U.S. border with Canada on pace to quadruple the numbers of illegal encounters.
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney is with us now.
Congresswoman, what the heck is going on up there?
Well, great to be on, Sean.
And this is an urgent matter.
I've been to the southern border, but now they've asked us to come to the northern border.
I represent this, almost this whole swath of upstate New York, which borders Canada.
And it's the Buffalo sector.
I started there.
We're spending the entire day a lot more than our so-called borders are.
Kamala Harris spent an hour and a half at one of the more less busy sectors.
But we have a huge problem because of the crisis at the southern border created by Joe Biden, his policies, the attempts to sabotage Title 42, as you indicated.
Now we've got a huge issue at the northern border.
The cartels are onto this.
They have figured out ways to circumvent our laws.
They're shipping people using our system, which has a lot of holes in it, getting them into Canada, down into the United States.
And today, talking to border agents, one of the border agents said, you know, you've heard the expression, every state's a border state.
Nothing is more true as people coming here, come through the northern border, and they can virtually get anywhere they want at the expense of New York taxpayers and our federal taxpayers.
But I'll tell you another thing that you mentioned, and you gave me PTSD playing glass.
When you play anything with Governor Cuomo, I get that definition too, Sean.
I'm one of those people that have no place in New York, according to Governor Cuomo.
But Kathy Hochul has put a billion dollars in her budget.
She's going to increase taxes on the already beleaguered New York taxpayers to add a billion dollars in incentive for more people to come to New York State to get the benefits they could receive for illegal immigrants.
This money is set aside for illegal immigrants to find safe haven in our new sanctuary state up in upstate New York.
It is why we're seeing this huge crunch.
It's really just disgraceful.
And our border agents are crying for help.
I've met with them all day.
Amazing guys.
Most of these people have already served in our military.
They're now serving these very difficult jobs.
It's incredible, Sean.
I mean, I'm just amazed that it's blowing me away what I'm hearing today from these amazing heroes.
Where are they coming from?
Well, actually, they're coming from all across the world.
They've identified 160 countries that these people are coming from.
They're getting to Mexico.
They're getting on a plane.
They're flying to Canada.
They're getting a temporary visa.
They're coming across the land border up there, even across some of the areas where we have narrower water crossings.
And they're getting into the country and they're going wherever they need to go and they're getting paid for.
And I want to tell you an interesting fact, which is why President Trump's position and being so strong and saying our border's closed.
We're not going to do this anymore.
The lowest border crossings we've had in a few decades was in February of 2017 when President Trump was newly in office and he discouraged people and said, you're not coming across our border illegally.
We're going to build a wall.
We're going to make our borders secure.
We're going to respect our sovereignty.
And now, since Joe Biden's been in, as you cited, probably over 5 million illegal crossings and massive numbers taking advantage of Canada and coming through the border on the northern end.
That's why we started the Northern Border Security Caucus to deal with this problem.
And we've got a number of Congress members that are going to be joining us, Elise DeFonix, Ryan Zinke, and others who represent states on the northern border.
And it's really a crisis.
The cartels have outmaneuvered Joe Biden.
Not that that's a hard thing to do because pretty much everybody's outmaneuvered Joe Biden.
And Joe Biden saying earlier in this week, oh, no, the fentanyl overdose, that was the previous administration.
Well, maybe in that case, but we've had more fentanyl secured at the southern border than at any other point in history, enough to kill every American a thousand times over.
It's unbelievable.
Congresswoman, please keep us on the loop on this.
We really appreciate the update, and this is very important we pay attention to it.
Thanks so much, and keep on this issue.
You're going to hear a lot about it in the next several weeks and months.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
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All right, let's go to, let's see here, Joe in Wisconsin.
What's up in beautiful Wisconsin?
How are you?
Happy Friday, sir.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for having me on the call.
You're a great American.
You're a great American, my friend.
What's on your mind today?
I just wanted to bring up a point, and I think it's probably already been made, but I wanted to make sure it's clear to everybody.
You know, Lori Lightfoot got elected.
No, no, no.
I need to correct you.
Lori Lightweight.
Okay.
Fair enough.
The soon-to-be former mayor, Lori Lightweight.
Yes, thank goodness.
But she got elected four years ago in Chicago with about, what, 75% of the vote.
And now she got essentially thrown out of office with only about 17% of the vote four years later.
The first thing she does is she says that it's because she's a female African-American.
She did say that, yes, to a reporter.
Yeah, and I'm just wondering because the last I checked in the last four years, that fact hasn't changed.
She was a female African-American four years ago, and she is now again today.
But it does show that there might be a glimmer of sanity in the city of Chicago and that performance does matter.
Listen, you're making a great point.
She won by a massive margin the first time she ran for the first time in 40 years, a sitting mayor in the city of Chicago, which I used to like when Harry Carey called the games for the Cubs.
It was a great place, and he drank a lot of Budweiser from what I read.
And, you know, take us out to the ballgame was just a classic.
But since he sadly passed away, it has not been the same city.
The only great thing I love about Chicago are your hot dogs, and you have to go to the right place to get them.
I would say you're absolutely right.
All right, my friend.
You have a great weekend, and we appreciate you being with us.
We need Wisconsin in November of 2024 desperately.
All right, let's get to our phones.
Jim in Florida.
Jim, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, moved to Florida.
You'll love it.
You'll love it.
I'm a transplanted Yankee myself, born in Nyack, New York.
Hey, I'm calling you because I heard something the other day, and the first thing I thought of is I got to call Sean.
Never called you.
My wife and I are huge fans.
Love you.
Oh, thank you, my friend.
And my best to your wife as well.
How long have you been married?
30 years this April 24th, sir.
Oh, that's awesome.
30 years.
You're going to do anything special for your anniversary?
We're thinking about, yeah, we're going to do a staycation.
We're going to go from Jacksonville up to Jekyll Island or something like that.
I love that.
Good for you.
I hope you have a great time.
30 years.
God bless you and her.
That's awesome.
Thank you, sir.
Well, here's my concern.
I heard something the other day, and I just was blown away by it.
I wanted to share it with you.
And it's a question.
And we just got to scratch our heads.
Out of the three major money-making illegal operations in the world, illegal drugs, illegal weapons, and human trafficking were the way they were stacked.
Well, in the last two years since the plague hit, human trafficking lost its second position, and sex trafficking, or I'm sorry, illegal weapons lost its second position, and human trafficking moved into second place.
And I said, well, this is crazy.
It went to $150 billion a year industry out of the human trafficking.
I know it's a tough crime.
It's horrendous what happens.
But here's what got me.
If it's a $150 billion industry and it just surrendered its position from illegal weapons trading, illegal drugs is still number one between $420 and $620 billion.
It ain't a mom-and-pop operation.
This is serious, serious business.
And I thought to myself, we got a little sheriff down in Polk County that just busted 200 people in human trafficking.
And I'm a prior service member.
I served my country for four years, honorable discharge.
I love my country.
And I thought to myself, how could this be?
I hear crickets from the FBI about illegal drugs, human trafficking, and weapons and so forth.
But I'm thinking, how could there be nothing?
Nothing.
And it can't be.
Could they be involved?
$150 billion industry, and yet quietly the borders are open, fentanyl, people murdered on the streets, drugs overcoming things.
Is this a plan?
I mean, I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but goodness gracious.
You're either a horrible example of law enforcement, and I used to revere people in FBI.
I know there's still great people there, but something is dangerously wrong.
Well, number one, their resources are stretched thin.
Number two, those that are working are doing their very, very best.
As they've had to deal with Joe Biden not enforcing the laws, it has taken away all the manpower and has made other parts of our borders even more vulnerable than ever before.
And that makes it easier for the cartels to do their human trafficking and their drug trafficking, and they're taking full advantage of it.
They're getting rich off the death of our children and our citizens, and they're ruining the lives of people, you know, forcing some into prostitution, et cetera, et cetera.
It's horrific.
And the saddest part of it is it is an issue we can fix, and we're not fixing it.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
God bless you.
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All right, we go back this Friday to our busy telephones, 800-941-Sean, our number.
Mark in Arizona.
Mark, how are you?
Sean, thank you, girls, so, so much for having me on the program today.
God bless you.
Your show is amazing.
Thank you, my friend.
Happy Friday.
Marine 26 years.
I'm a rancher here in Yuma, Arizona, right on the border, Sean.
We have a border crisis, and that's the premise of my call today, sir.
We have illegals coming through our properties, knocking on our doors, breaking into our livestock.
So you're a rancher in Arizona near the border.
Yes, sir.
And how many head of cattle do you have?
Well, I don't have any cattle anymore.
I've lost those.
I have goats.
I have sheep.
I have chickens and so forth.
But I'm just, you know, this is the American dream.
I wanted to be a rancher.
So you're in a tough spot because you have all these illegal immigrants walking on people's private property and the owners of that property, they don't have any idea what the intentions are of people walking on their property.
You had that case, you know, with that one rancher or a homeowner that defended himself and they arrested him.
And, you know, who knows what actually happened?
But I do know this, that if somebody is on your property illegally, I think it is reasonable for anybody to think that they're there to do you harm.
I don't want, if somebody starts walking on my property, my phone's going off in a heartbeat and I'm going to be on call 911 and I'm going to be prepared to defend my family and my house.
Well, I live alone, but that's a different story.
There's a holding facility two miles from our ranch.
It looks like a circus.
It's got tents, three tents that can hold up to 6,000 immigrants.
Buses fly in and out of here 24-7.
Illegals are there.
Who knows if they're there?
They're 1,500 meters away from the Marincorrow air station.
1,500 meters, Sean.
People don't know this.
There's people migrating through.
The buses are running.
People are turning their heads.
My wife and I are arming ourselves with military weapons that I had to carry overseas and multiple times.
Listen, you're describing a situation that is now out of control.
You know, and we have other problems.
We have, you know, the communist Chinese, they're buying up ranchland, farmland, and land near our military installations, thousands and thousands of acres.
Then you have the single largest by a long mile of illegal immigrants entering this country because our president is aiding and abetting the law breaking and facilitating it.
He's even rewarding it on many levels and not enforcing the law.
By the way, which in and of itself, you know, our Constitution, you uphold an oath and swear on the Constitution that you'll uphold the oath of the Constitution.
Well, the Constitution is the foundation of every law in this country.
And Joe Biden just, you know, thumbs his nose at it.
And Joe Biden wants no part of enforcing the laws.
Now, if he doesn't like the law, he has the ability to change the law, but he doesn't seem to want to do that.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Mark.
I get it.
I understand.
We'll take more of your calls in the next half hour this Friday.
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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?
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That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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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.
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And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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I25 to the top of the hour on this Friday.
We'll get to your calls in just a second.
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It's like, you know, how many times have I talked about Baltimore?
You know, Dr. Carson said it was 22.
I remember it was 13 public high schools.
They don't have a single kid proficient in reading or math.
Not one.
Now, we spend more per capita per student on education than any country in the industrialized world.
Baltimore is second in terms of money spent per student, and that's the results.
Then you get this lunatic, Randy Weingarten, the teachers' union president.
Of course, she's basically wanting to empower the government to take everybody else's money and let's have student loan forgiveness.
Well, I didn't take out the loan.
You took out the loan willingly.
You signed your name.
You took on debt.
Now pay it back.
Don't empower your government to take everybody else's money to pay back your loan that you signed on to voluntarily.
Here's her going nuts earlier in the week.
All of a sudden, what is about our students?
They challenge it.
The corporations challenge it.
The student loan lenders challenge it.
That is not right.
That is not fair.
And that is what we are fighting as well when we say cancel student debt.
Wow.
Wow.
You know, that reminded me of, remember, we used to play Hillary until the point I couldn't take it anymore.
It reminded me that one of the moments that Hillary was screaming.
Listen.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic.
And we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
I know many of you are in your car.
You're saying, Hannity, why are you doing this to us?
Why?
We tune in.
It's Friday.
I'm about to go home.
I'm just chilling in Cedar Rapids.
I'm going home.
I'm going to watch a little TV and relax and maybe have a beer.
We're going to cook a nice dinner tonight.
We're going to have a family night.
We're going to play board games.
Maybe we're going to a restaurant tonight.
Maybe it's date night between you and your wife or you and your girlfriend, whatever.
You know, if you have a wife, you can't have a girlfriend.
We believe in traditional values.
Anyway, and you say, why are you playing that?
I just couldn't help myself.
There's the answer.
All right.
We should compare that laugh.
Play it again.
And then we'll play Kamala Harris's laugh montage that we have.
Our giggling vice president is actually now officially scaring me how incapable she would ever be in handling the job of president.
Anyway, here's Hillary first.
And talking about the significance of the passage of time.
Right?
The significance of the passage of time.
So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.
Do you plans to visit the border?
Not today.
More parents are seeing the value of educators when they had to bring their kids and said, we're not paying them nearly enough.
What's your best for a birth of Americans?
They strapped in to their seats and waited as the tanks beneath them filled with tens of thousands of gallons of fuel.
And then they launched.
Yeah, they did.
I have no words.
I have no words except that with the passage of time, time passes.
And that's why we call it the passage of time.
Because time is passing us by.
And the passage of time is the passage of time.
And if you don't get all of that, I don't blame you.
All right.
Let's get to our busy telephones here on this Friday, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Mark in Arizona.
What's up, Mark?
How are you?
Happy Friday.
I'm good.
Hang on.
I'm hanging.
Don't worry.
We'll wait.
It's not like we have 715 stations waiting for you.
Just let us know whenever you're ready.
You know, I'll fill the time in the meantime.
Maybe I should just start laughing like Kamala Harris.
I don't know.
Maybe that would entertain people.
Are you there, Mark?
Hello, Mark.
Anyway, Mark, I have to say goodbye to you.
I tried.
So when I first got to New York and I'd been doing radio in Atlanta, I was a local host.
And CNN used to put me on all the time.
People don't remember that.
And I'd come up to New York.
I did shows like Sally Jesse Raphael and Phil Donnie You and Geraldo's daytime show, although he has no memory of it.
I told him, go pull the tape.
You know, when I was on, I want to see how we interacted together.
Anyway, so I come up to New York and I'm hired at Fox.
This is 1996.
And then I got the 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. show on the ex-wife radio station in New York.
And it's a 50,000-watt blowtorch station like our current station, AM710WOR.
And the cool thing was, you know, they were regular callers.
We had this guy, Marty.
He had slammed the beaches of Normandy.
He called us for years.
And sadly, he's passed on since.
I loved him.
And there was this woman who was blind.
And we talked often about her blindness and how she, you know, got through life.
And one day she calls in.
Her name was Candy.
And she'd call Sean.
I go, Candy, Sean, Candy, Sean.
And, you know, we just, it was like a, we just like a bunch of late night people that were just friends.
It was cool.
Then, you know, very little commercial breaks, which I love.
You know, you have to, you know, take a lot more commercials in the daytime.
Anyway, one day I go to her and she's snoring so loudly.
She had fallen asleep while being on hold.
Candy.
Candy.
Hello.
Candy fell asleep.
Hello?
This isn't the first time this has happened.
Candy?
And I'm going to say, we'll put it on hold.
Maybe we'll come back.
I swear to God, this actually happened once at night.
Candy fell asleep on the air while she was on hold.
She's been holding for over an hour.
Let's try again.
No, this is real.
Hello?
Candy?
Is that colal?
Candy?
Hello?
Hello?
I think we ended up doing this for like the rest of the whole show.
We kept going back to candy.
Oh, man.
I remember, so my studio, when I was in that studio, was right next to where it was in the EIB building.
By the way, for those of you that never figured it out, there's no building in New York that's called the EIB building.
People used to come to New York.
You know where the EIB building is?
I mean, Rush was all theater of the mind.
He was so brilliant.
And boy, do we miss Rush?
I'll tell you.
We miss him so much.
But anyway, there was one night his phones would ring 24-7.
And my phone bank and his phone bank were on the same phone bank.
And so one night, I just decided for an hour I was going to act like I was, you're on the EIB network.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh show.
And I would do it.
And then Kit Carson, who passed away too, I love Kit too.
He was awesome.
And he got so mad at me, though.
And I remember I said to him, I said, and Rush didn't get mad.
Rush actually said to me, I wish I thought of that.
You know, he would, in other words, he always had a great sense of humor, but we did it for like an hour.
And I'd be like, you're on the EIB network.
I am Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
And, you know, Rush ended up giving me the opportunity of a lifetime when I filled in for him.
And I'm doing my first monologue.
He was on 600 stations.
I was scared to death.
That part I remember.
I mean, I was generally sweating.
And I'd done radio all these years.
I don't know why I was sweating.
It's easy for me now to do a radio show.
It's like second nature.
And anyway, I was sweating.
And in the middle of the opening monologue, just as I'm beginning to feel comfortable, like maybe 10 minutes into the show, I'm really beginning.
All right.
Now I'm back.
I'm being myself.
It was a golden EIB microphone.
It was gold.
Or at least gold-plated.
It was gold.
And the microphone fell off the handle.
And I'm literally, it was laying on the desk.
And I literally put my head down on the desk and finished the monologue doing it that way.
Anyway, Rush, with his great sense of humor, comes back.
Sean Hannity, well, dented the golden EIB microphone.
He thought it was hilarious.
I mean, that's the kind of guy he was.
Just an awesome man.
I remember when he passed away, it's been two years now.
I can't believe it.
I said it at the time, and I think I was more right than I knew.
Nobody will ever replace him.
And even if we all up our game, we can't fill that void.
He was so gifted and talented.
Amazing.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Enough reminiscing, I guess, for a while.
But let's say, hide, you don't like my Rush Limbaugh Meteor.
You want me to do Mark Levin instead?
Well, I could do Bill Clinton.
Hey, Hannity, it's your buddy Bill Clinton here.
Listen, I know my little pumpkin Hillary's out of town.
I see a lot of those hot chicks over there at Fox.
If you want to send them on over to Chappaquaw, give them a free, you know, tour of Chappaqua.
No, which one do you like better?
You can say it.
I love your Clinton.
You like the Clinton better?
Yeah.
I could do Levin.
Go ahead.
I'll say it.
Nobody else will say it.
There, I said it.
I'm done.
Which one do you like better?
I still like Clinton better.
All right.
John in Arkansas.
What's up, John?
Which imitation did you like best?
Hey, Sean.
Hey, how you doing, man?
What's up, man?
How are you doing?
Doing good, man.
Hey, I was calling for the being a being a personal chef and a private chef.
The way that the government's thinking about doing the going from gas, you know, like cook tops to electrical.
I don't think they need to talk to Gavin Newsom for he likes to go to the French, the French, what is that, out there in California.
You're not going to get the exact same cook when you go from gas to electric.
Let me tell you something.
When I was 13, I was a cook in a restaurant.
And think about this as a kid.
It was such a great experience for me.
You know, the chef would leave after the dinner rush, and I'd be cooking steaks, and I'd be cooking live lobsters, stuffed lobster.
I'd be cooking fettuccine alfredo.
I'd be cooking shrimp scampi.
I mean, I learned this at 13 years old.
And I love doing it.
And you're right.
There is no substitute for a gas-powered stove.
None at all whatsoever.
I might buy two extra gas stoves just to have them on hand in case my stove breaks because I'm not using an electric stove, period.
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