March 10, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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| Uh I want to go back to these hearings that took place on censorship as it relates to the 2020 election. | |
| Uh, we've gone over great detail of what we now know, and thanks to the Twitter files. | |
| It's amazing now. | |
| Democrats, you know, and the federal government now want to go after Elon Musk. | |
| They want to go after his private emails and and communications. | |
| Uh, Democrats on the committee yesterday, it was like a beatdown of my Matt Taibi. | |
| By the way, Matt Taibi is not a fan of Sean Hannity or Donald Trump. | |
| He actually wrote a book with my face on it saying that you know I spew hatred. | |
| Uh so uh but he's right on this particular issue. | |
| And Elon Musk deserves a lot of credit for exposing what was going on in Twitter uh in the lead up to the 2020 election. | |
| I think the people of this country have a right to know. | |
| How is it possible that the FBI had a laptop of Hunter Biden's in December of 2019? | |
| Why didn't they authenticate it or did they authenticate that laptop? | |
| I'd say the odds are pretty high they probably did. | |
| In other words, they knew it was the real thing. | |
| Uh so they they create this this group of FBI agents led by a guy that wrote a thesis uh on how Donald Trump colluded with Russia Uh to win the 2016 election, which we all know is bogus and completely false. | |
| I mean, it's that in and of itself is pretty amazing. | |
| And uh anyway, they were meeting with big tech companies, and they were telling big tech companies you gotta be on the lookout, you know, for foreign interference in our elections, and there's probably gonna be, you know, some type of hack and leak operation uh that's gonna be misinformation, and they're gonna want you to, you know, perpetuate a big lie in the lead up to an election. | |
| We don't want you to be a victim of this. | |
| And you might hear stories about uh Joe Biden. | |
| You might hear stories about Hunter Biden. | |
| You've got to be on the lookout. | |
| They were priming these companies and preparing them for what they knew was coming out because the FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop for 11 months. | |
| They were priming them because they knew it was going to be leaked by Rudy Giuliani. | |
| They knew he had a copy of it. | |
| He offered it to them. | |
| Uh, they didn't take it at the time. | |
| Uh so they knew it was likely coming out before the election, so they tell every big tech company be on the lookout of foreign interference and a misinformation campaign and a potential hack and leak operation that you may be targeted on. | |
| Anyway, here's Jim Jordan, the head of the Judiciary Committee, uh calling out the FBI uh for doing exactly this. | |
| In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, FBI special agent Elvis Chan, in his deposition in Missouri versus Biden, said that he repeatedly, repeatedly informed Twitter and other social media platforms of the likelihood of a hack and leak operation in the run-up to that presidential election. | |
| He did it even though there was no evidence. | |
| In fact, he said in his deposition that we hadn't seen anything, no intrusions, no hack. | |
| Government had no evidence of any intrusions, no evidence of a hack and leak, yet for a year they tell Twitter that a hack and leak is coming. | |
| It's coming in October, and it will involve Hunter Biden. | |
| No evidence, but the FBI knows what's going to happen, when it's going to happen, and who it's gonna involve. | |
| I mean, it's couldn't be any more clear than all of that. | |
| Uh now Matt Taibi, who was hired by Elon Musk, along with uh what was that? | |
| Barry Weiss, the former New York Times reporter who called out the New York Times for their bias. | |
| Anyway, Matt Taibe is trying to explain all of this to a bunch of dumb Democrats, and how Twitter files literally were found in a in a sweeping uh effort to reverse a free internet. | |
| In other words, what they did here is they they schemed and they planned and found a way to censor really important information that would impact uh presidential election. | |
| Well, that what they shouldn't be putting their thumbs or or cinder blocks on the scales uh in favor of one candidate, one party over another. | |
| That's not their job, but that's exactly what the end result was. | |
| You know, and then Matt Taibi is just getting the crap beat out of them by Democrats. | |
| Listen to some of that exchange, some of these exchanges. | |
| The original promise of the internet was that it might democratize the exchange of information globally. | |
| Uh a free internet would overwhelm all attempts to control information flow. | |
| Its very existence, a threat to anti-democratic forms of government everywhere. | |
| What we found in the files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise. | |
| Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at state, even the CAA. | |
| For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps 20 quasi-private entities doing the same thing. | |
| When was the first time that Mr. Musk approach you about writing uh uh the Twitter files? | |
| Uh again, Congresswoman, that would uh I just need a date, sir. | |
| But I can't give it to you, unfortunately, because this this is a question of sourcing, and I don't give them a journalist that don't reveal much. | |
| It's a question of chronology. | |
| No, that's a question. | |
| Because you earlier said that that someone had sent you through the internet some message about whether or not you would be interested in some information. | |
| Yes, and I refer to that person as a source. | |
| So you're not gonna tell us when Musk first approached you. | |
| Again, Congressman, you're asking me to review it. | |
| You're asking your journalist to reveal a sort of thing. | |
| So then you consider Mr. Must to be the direct source of all this. | |
| No, no, you're you're trying to get me to say that he is the source. | |
| I I just If you're telling me you can't answer because it's your source, well, then that the only logical conclusion is that he is in fact your source. | |
| Well, you're free to conclude that. | |
| These are the dumbest people on earth. | |
| Listen to this exchange. | |
| Uh Sylvia uh Garcia, Democrat from Texas. | |
| You want to talk about a dumb question? | |
| Somebody that's absolutely clueless on the issue? | |
| Listen. | |
| In your answer, you also said that you were invited by a friend, Barry Weiss. | |
| My friend Barry Weiss. | |
| So this friend works for Twitter, or what is what is her um She's a journalist. | |
| Sir, I didn't ask you a question. | |
| I'm I'm now asking Mr. Schellenberger a question. | |
| Yes, ma'am, Barry Weiss is a journalist. | |
| I'm sorry, sir. | |
| She's a journalist. | |
| She's a journalist. | |
| So you work in concert with her? | |
| Um, yeah. | |
| Do you know when she first um was contacted by Mr. Musk? | |
| I I don't know. | |
| You don't know. | |
| So you're in this as uh threesome? | |
| Um there was many more people involved than that. | |
| Matt Taibi, when board gets back that we've been, you know, talking about the good job that you've done. | |
| Uh maybe you want to send me an apology for that stupid book you wrote about me, but that's just a side note. | |
| Anyway, joining us now is Kara Frederick and uh Taylor Barkley, and this issue is so important. | |
| Now, Kara is the director of tech policy at the Heritage Foundation and former Facebook intelligence analyst, uh Taylor Barkley is a technology and innovation director at the Center for Growth and Opportunity. | |
| Uh, welcome both of you to the program. | |
| Kara, what is so unbelievable to me is how it's breathtaking in terms of how ignorant the Democrats are on this issue. | |
| I mean, completely out of their league on a simple issue involving freedom of speech. | |
| Yeah, not just ignorant though, but they have very strong opinions to boot, which is uh really funny to me. | |
| And what struck me most, I think was the fact that, you know, I know we live in two different realities, but when the Democrats are questioning, or not just questioning Matt Thaybi, but really targeting him and going after him. | |
| They're living in a reality in which the Russia collusion hoax was actually the truth. | |
| And they're living in a reality, as you talked about before, where the FBI is actually fighting malign foreign disinformation, which you know, which they were originally uh chartered to do, but now they're just trying to police the speech of Americans and those who don't necessarily agree with uh the Biden narrative or you know, with with Hunter Biden and you know what he's um put out uh on on his laptop. | |
| So I think it it's very important uh for us to understand that they are going against the like Matt Taivi said, the the democratization of information. | |
| They want their narrative push. | |
| They want to think that uh what you know Russia is influencing the mind of of frankly every conservative and influence election results and whatnot. | |
| But that is not actually what happened. | |
| So that to me was the biggest thing that struck me is they they aren't uh partners with the truth at all. | |
| Taylor, what's your take on this? | |
| Thanks for having me on the show, Sean. | |
| Good to be here. | |
| Good to be here with you too, Kara. | |
| I think you know the the focus here should be on the facts of uh the case. | |
| You know, when and where and how did the government interact with with Twitter on uh the Biden laptop story, uh to get more insight into the communications that took place between government officials and Twitter staff, uh, because that's the real important issue here that uh members of Congress of either party should remain focused on. | |
| But it sounds like uh politics can take over quite easily and really distract from the key and core issue in this case. | |
| All right, quick break more with Kara Frederick and Taylor Barkley on the other side. | |
| We'll get to your calls later. | |
| Uh when 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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| When 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 Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. | |
| This is Fiasco Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Locker up! | |
| Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm. | |
| 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. | |
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| All right. | |
| We continue our discussion about the FBI. | |
| And in fact, warning big tech about a potential hack and leak misinformation campaign of big tech companies and the FBI warning them. | |
| It may be about Hunter Biden. | |
| We continue with Kara Frederick and Taylor Barkley. | |
| You know, let's get to the issue that bothers me the most. | |
| And in, in 2016, we know what happened. | |
| Uh, We know we have a timeline. | |
| We know that in July of 2016, uh James Comey made the decision uh no reasonable prosecutor would ever prosecute relating to top secret classified information on Hillary's servers, uh, not really addressing the 33,000 deleted emails With bleach bit or the devices that were destroyed with hammers and the SIM cards that were removed. | |
| But we do know that Hillary bought and paid for what was a dirty Russian disinformation dossier put together by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele after she funneled money to a law firm that hired a not research firm that hired Christopher Steele. | |
| We do know that the FBI was warned in August of 2016 by Bruce Orde that it's a political document. | |
| It's not verified. | |
| And you got to be very careful in terms of using it. | |
| We do know the FBI in very early October of 2016 sent a group of agents over to meet with Christopher Steele. | |
| Offered him a one million dollar reward if he could corroborate his dirty dossier. | |
| He never collected his money because he was never able to corroborate a single thing. | |
| And in spite of all of that, by the end of that month and just before the election, uh we know that the bulk of information in the FISA application, a Pfizer Warren has at the top verified. | |
| They used the dirty dossier that not only was not verified, but unverifiable because it was all full of bunk and junk and none of it was true. | |
| Uh there's been no consequences for the people that signed it. | |
| Jim Comey signed three of the four, uh, for example. | |
| That would be one name. | |
| Uh and you know, so they put that that is that the FBI, Cara, putting their thumb on the scale of a presidential election, because that was a backdoor to spy into the Trump campaign and Trump presidency of eventually. | |
| Yeah, I I think the the FBI's conduct in this instance can't be excused whatsoever. | |
| Uh I think um originally uh when we were analyzing the these situations, you know, having known that uh even later the FBI went to Mark Zuckerberg, as we talked about in Joe Rogan's program and warned of uh the Facebook generally of Russian propaganda drop in as that was in imminent, and uh and we know that that influenced their decision to censor the laptop. | |
| And you know, having been inside these companies, when one company does something, uh typically they'll look to the other big companies and say, Oh, okay, maybe you know, if they green with it, then then that's fine. | |
| So I think that the FBI is um has not been afraid to, as you say, put their thumb or cinder blocks um on on the scale uh when it comes to uh potentially trying to influence um major decisions and how elections are uh conducted and and frankly uh decided uh by by the people in America. | |
| I think instead of a, hey, you know, we know what's best for you roofs kind of noblesse oblige, there uh it something looks a little more sinister here, and I think it is our duty to expose it and uh and as Taylor said, you know, get to the facts in this case because their conduct is has been um uh very, very interesting. | |
| And Taylor, then we go to 2020 and what happened? | |
| Uh they had the Hunter Biden laptop in December of 2019. | |
| You have a group of FBI agents meeting weekly with big tech companies, uh, warning these big tech companies over and over about a hack and leak operation, and it it might be about misinformation and lies uh about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. | |
| They mentioned Hunter Biden by name. | |
| Uh they knew that this information was likely going to be public because they knew that Rudy Giuliani had a copy of the laptop. | |
| Uh were they putting their cinder blocks on the scale of an election there? | |
| Oh, I mean we should always be uh, you know, uh critical and play close attention to, and you know, our heckle should go up a little bit when government's talking to any private speaker or company. | |
| And wait a minute. | |
| They they're telling them they have the laptop. | |
| Didn't they have an obligation to verify that the laptop was real or not? | |
| And when they mentioned be on the lookout for Hunter Biden, that came out in the Missouri case cited by Jim Jordan, uh, and they're telling these companies, be on the lookout, this might be a misinformation campaign, and we don't want you disseminating misinformation. | |
| Uh, that doesn't seem uh does that seem ethical to you? | |
| It seems to me like they were priming these companies not to run that story. | |
| Yeah, that certainly seems to be the case. | |
| And we need to bring appropriate scrutiny to the situation. | |
| I uh the difficult thing though is, you know, I think I don't I don't really want a world where there's zero connection between law enforcement intelligence communities and say social media companies. | |
| I don't think that's the optimum, but the other extreme where they're you know, maybe best pal talking every single day all the time is also not the good outcome. | |
| So there's somewhere in the middle, and maybe Kara can talk to this from her experience of like they're sharing inappropriate information because you know these these social media companies are large platforms for sharing information, and I think intelligence communities were effective because guess what? | |
| That that story was never shared on these big tech uh platforms. | |
| Uh anyway, Taylor, thank you. | |
| Kara, thank you. | |
| We appreciate both of you being on the program. | |
| Quick break right back. | |
| Your calls on the other side, straight ahead. | |
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| You won't hear the mainstream press talking about this stuff. | |
| Sean Hannity is on the radio. | |
| All right, 25 knots at the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the uh program. | |
| We'll get to your calls here in a second. | |
| All right, here's my favorite Joe Biden cut of the week, which is often hard to determine. | |
| It really is. | |
| Then I'll play my Kamala Harris favorite cut of the week. | |
| Here's Joey. | |
| But guess what? | |
| You may remember I was running for office at the time, but you all may remember it. | |
| That the I had a big fight with uh the former president. | |
| Uh and maybe future president. | |
| Bless me, Father. | |
| Anyway, no, I'll call all kidding aside. | |
| Uh Trump may be a future president. | |
| Oh no, I got caught. | |
| No, all kidding aside. | |
| Uh he doesn't know what's coming out of his mouth at any given moment. | |
| Anyway, and then you got Kamala Harris. | |
| She had another great week, too. | |
| Concerned about I've no I don't know what this condition is. | |
| I've never heard of this condition before. | |
| It's called climate mental health. | |
| But listen. | |
| I mean, one of the young leaders was talking to me about climate mental health. | |
| I said, tell me what's going on with your peers. | |
| Climate mental health. | |
| And she talked, I said, I think I understand that, but unpack it for me. | |
| And she talked about how her peers are thinking about it. | |
| One example is, you know, whether when they're ready, could they start a family? | |
| Worried about what that would mean. | |
| And the stress of it. | |
| They were talking about it in terms of their peers trying to figure out, you know, they're gonna have to get a job and they're gonna have to make a living, but what can they do and how can they adapt the education that they're having now to their activism? | |
| Oh, God help us. | |
| I I just can't tell you. | |
| The only thing missing there was her giggling. | |
| Uh I that was worthy of a giggle, man. | |
| Yeah, I think that's dude. | |
| She should do stand-up conversation. | |
| By the way, it's she is hilarious. | |
| And that follows Mayorcus from earlier in the week. | |
| We played him. | |
| You know, remember, they've been telling us the border safe, the borders safe, the border secure, the border secure. | |
| Uh and he blamed climate change as the reason that there's so many people uh coming into the country illegally. | |
| I mean, what is the thing? | |
| I'm telling you right now, it's the we're there's something happening here. | |
| Just follow me. | |
| Okay, let's unpack it, Sean. | |
| What's unpacked? | |
| Are we gonna unpack is everyone drinking the water in East Palestine, Ohio? | |
| Is that what's happening? | |
| We should be shipping cases of it to the White House. | |
| I'm telling you right now, we are in the Truman Show. | |
| Somebody is playing a joke on us. | |
| These people cannot no there are no collection of dumber people that I have ever met in my life. | |
| Nope. | |
| Ever. | |
| Nope. | |
| And I'm telling you right- You can't make this up. | |
| I have never, I mean, you talk to people this cannot be real. | |
| And it is no. | |
| Somebody's filming us and they are laughing our ass off every single day. | |
| I'm just saying. | |
| It's it's pretty unbelievable. | |
| All right, let's get to our phones here. | |
| Doug in Ohio, speaking of Ohio, and I'm not being flippant here. | |
| I think, you know, maybe Joe instead of going to Ukraine, could have spent some time in East Palestine. | |
| And I don't trust the federal government if they're gonna tell people in East Palestine, oh, the air is fine. | |
| Politicians take it out of glass. | |
| I'm gonna drink the water myself. | |
| I don't care if you drink it, I don't want to drink it until we have an independent, you know, corroboration and confirmation that everything's been cleaned up and everything's safe and secure. | |
| I don't believe them. | |
| Anyway, uh Doug, welcome to the show. | |
| Thank you so much for having me on. | |
| I've never done anything like this. | |
| And what you guys just said would be funny, except for our Country is in such dire need of some help. | |
| So I just wish that you would run a counter on what Biden's cost our country with the open border, what that costs us every day to have people shipped and food and everything else with that. | |
| What we paid in Ukraine billions of dollars that we wouldn't have spent if Trump would have been in office because they would have never went in there. | |
| What we did when we took the pipeline down and caused our economy to be so torn up and destroyed, what that number would look like on a daily basis now. | |
| Well, we'd be having tw it's 2500 uh high paying career jobs uh that would still be in existence. | |
| One, number two, we'd be importing 900,000 uh barrels of Canadian oil every single day through that pipeline. | |
| Uh and maybe Joe would stop importing oil from countries that hate us, like Venezuela, which he recently opened up again. | |
| Uh uh look, we've done the cost analysis on all of this, and I mean, look at look at two years of open borders, five and a half million people. | |
| Yep, and we the American taxpayer, you know, we're paying for food and and housing and health care and education, you name it, we're paying for it. | |
| Uh New York City Mayor Adams now wants to give free college to illegal immigrants and let the New York taxpayers pay for it. | |
| And thank God for people like you, Sean. | |
| I can't believe that you can do this every day. | |
| I mean, I've never done this called in to a show, but I'm so frustrated as an American, a taxpayer that I've worked my whole life, I've never been on any benefits or anything. | |
| And and to think of people like Hunter Biden and the Clintons who've not went to jail for things they've done and the the things that have happened. | |
| If you're saying that you're worried about the country and you got you're so concerned you you felt a uh uh a need inside of you to express this, it's exactly how I feel every day. | |
| You know, I I immerse myself in all of this every day, and if I let it, I think I you know, I'd want to jump. | |
| I my my only hope is is that we get our act together in terms of conservatives, Republicans with these elections, and I've been I've been screaming this from the rooftops. | |
| We've got to accept and get over the reluctance and resistance of voting by mail and early voting. | |
| And all these states have laws for legal ballot harvesting, and that's what the Democrats are doing. | |
| We're not doing that when we start out election day down, you know, 200, 400, a million votes. | |
| Uh you can't win races that way. | |
| We've got to match their efforts, and we've got to actually get better at what they're doing on top of the better ideas that you and I both know we have. | |
| But why doesn't the Republicans do things like the Democrats and play a little dirty? | |
| We've never even tried to impeach Biden, and he's done three thousand million things wrong with that. | |
| You know, Trump is an American hero. | |
| He really is. | |
| I don't care what anybody says. | |
| All they want to do is never ending nonstop bash Trump and destroy him, and they won't be happy until they do. | |
| And by the way, I'm gonna tell you something else. | |
| You know, because I know you know we're gonna be in the middle of a primary pretty soon. | |
| Any Republican is gonna be smeared, slandered, besmirched, attack, character, assassinated. | |
| Um it doesn't matter who wins, it's gonna be the same thing. | |
| That's who they are. | |
| That's what they do. | |
| And they're good at it. | |
| What's the end game, Sean? | |
| Even if you're a Democrat or whatever, this if this is a company, this uh our government, the spending that he's doing, this company would go out of business and no time flat. | |
| But the unlimited printing of money, it's it's a joke. | |
| Trump was a uh a hero because he did what he did and got every hour of every day attacked and tried to be sued and whatever, and he's doing wrong. | |
| He did what he did. | |
| Can you imagine where our country would be if he got re-elected and they would have left him alone? | |
| We would be so strong and so stable right now, it'd be unbelievable. | |
| I th his policies worked for the country. | |
| Oh, but he sent out mean tweets and he and he said uh that the media in this country, the the media mob is a uh enemies of the people, and he said all that, and it's terrible. | |
| Uh I'll take the guy with the mean tweets. | |
| I can handle it. | |
| And you know Trump probably wouldn't go to lunch with me, and I'm okay with that, but I know that he had the American people in his mind. | |
| He wanted to do what's right for the country. | |
| You know, he invited me to do things, and I usually ninety-nine percent of the time said no. | |
| And I'm gonna tell you why. | |
| I said to him all the time, I don't want a thing from you except for you to save the country. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| And he said I said that to him when we first discussed the possibility that he wanted to get in the race. | |
| I said, Well, you're gonna have to convince me you're a conservative. | |
| And hours and hours of discussions about issues took place, and uh I knew he would govern this way. | |
| And by the way, I don't know if you remember, but I was getting the crap kicked out of me, you know, all throughout the primary because I've I vouched for his conservatism because I knew it to be true. | |
| Thank God for people like you, and I I'm serious, you know, everybody was scared to death through this pandemic, and then to find out that everything that you've been saying for on your show and on the radio show. | |
| All this is coming true, and I don't understand the deception and what the end game is for our country, except that they didn't want to destroy it and make us all dependent on the country. | |
| Where I want a country where the people who have had service people that die, I can't imagine what they feel today watching Joe Biden as our president. | |
| It's just gonna be so humiliating and scary that our family member went to die for this. | |
| It's uh it is a frightening, chilling times. | |
| You know, pray for our country, because we're we're better than this, and we know how to fix it. | |
| We just gotta elect the right people. | |
| Doug, great first call. | |
| Don't wait this long to call back. | |
| We'd love we'd uh love to hear from you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Sean. | |
| Steve is in Alabama, where in Alabama are you, sir? | |
| Well, hello, Sean. | |
| Good afternoon, Mobile Alabama, brother. | |
| Where are you from uh Alabama? | |
| Where are you? | |
| Uh we're at well, right here in Mobile Alabama. | |
| Oh, Mobile, okay. | |
| What's going on, my friend? | |
| What's on your mind today? | |
| Oh, not much, brother. | |
| I just uh want to call. | |
| I mean, like I say, I was telling you uh screen when she's terrific. | |
| I was telling her I've been listening to you guys since uh you know the late 90s, and uh you just touched the nerve yesterday when I was uh you know going down the road, I was taking my child up from uh school, and uh you were talking about mercy me, you know, the phone, and we could only imagine, and what we got going on right now, you know, I can only imagine, and I think he's the only one that's gonna pull us out of all this myself. | |
| I gotta tell you, you know, I I interviewed um my my friend and and colleague Benjamin Hall yesterday for an hour. | |
| We're gonna run it tonight. | |
| And he told his story uh when he was hit with this bomb in uh uh Ukraine and he lost his leg and he lost his foot and his hand was severely damaged. | |
| Uh he had shrapnel all in his neck, uh he went blind in one eye, and he told the story, and we ran a little bit of it last night. | |
| I hope you'll watch tonight. | |
| It's gonna run for the full hour on Hannity. | |
| We're doing a special, and then he told the story that it, you know, he was unconscious, and everything went black. | |
| And then he felt the presence of his daughter, and that he could literally felt not only the presence, like he believes she was there, saying, Daddy, wake up, you've got to get out of the car. | |
| And that woke him up, and he got out of the car. | |
| And seconds later, the car was hit and destroyed by a bomb. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I mean, I uh I I'm a Christian, I believe in Jesus, I believe in God that he created the heavens and the earth and universes within universes were not designed to know the the depth of his majesty, but I know it's real, and I think this country does need a little more God right now. | |
| And by the way, it is a great song, Mercy Me. | |
| I can only imagine. | |
| But it will be like when I walk by your side. | |
| I can only imagine what my eyes will see when your face is before me. | |
| I can only imagine Surrounded by young lawyers, one real heart feel. | |
| Will I dance for you, Jesus? | |
| or in all of you be still will i stand in your presence or to my knees will i fall will i sing hallelujah will i be able to speak at all i can only imagine i can only imagine I can only imagine. | |
| When that day counts. | |
| In my find myself. | |
| I could listen to the song over and over and over again. | |
| Quick break. | |
| Right back. | |
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| The End Alright, so we gotta wrap things up. | |
| We were supposed to have on for maybe one or two segments last night on TV. | |
| Uh my colleague Benjamin Hall. | |
| Benjamin Hall, you might remember one year ago, almost to the day, uh, he was injured very badly when he got hit by a missile in Ukraine. | |
| The progress that this man has made is incredible. | |
| I sat there thinking I was doing a 10-15 minute interview, Max, and we went on for over an hour. | |
| The attitude that he has had this entire year, I've stayed in touch with him, is beyond inspirational. | |
| If you think you have problems, you watch the show tonight. | |
| You're gonna learn what a real problem is, and then you're gonna meet somebody that met the biggest challenge, just like so many of our brave men and women that fought in wars and lost limbs. | |
| And it's just an incredible story. | |
| He's an incredible human being. | |
| So he's for the full hour tonight on Hannity 9 Eastern. | |
| I hope you'll set your DVR. | |
| Uh, watch that, and we will be back here on Monday. | |
| And thank you for making this show possible, and I hope you have a great weekend. | |
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