Sean Hannity Show - Heroes Among Us - March 28th, Hour 1

March 29, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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Heroes Among Us - March 28th, Hour 1

Sean reviews the heroic efforts of the Nashville police department and reminds us all how critically important it is that we support our heroes in blue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	And we had a great interview with President Trump.
	We're going to play part of that interview from last night in the last hour of the program today.
	Ram Paul checks in with us today.
	We have part two of my interview with President Trump tonight.
	This gets very, very interesting.
	I asked him specifically about the new Axis of Evil, and that would be China and Russia now brokering deals with Iran and Saudi Arabia, which broke up what the Trump coalition was, which is very, very dangerous to the entire world.
	And I asked him about Joe's cognitive decline and whether or not somebody over 75, say, like Nikki Haley suggested, should take a cognitive test.
	And then Kamala Harris, should she, will she, be on the ticket with Biden in 2024?
	But anyway, so we get into real substance tonight, and I think you're going to like it.
	We have part two.
	We also have Lawrence Jones is on the ground in Tennessee in the aftermath of this terrible shooting.
	The race to politicize it.
	We'll get comments from Dan Bongino.
	Jim Jordan is on tonight.
	Ram Paul is on tonight.
	So we got a lot going on.
	You know, there's one interesting thing that I want to put out here.
	Well, first of all, you know, in another stunning example of how checked out Joe Biden is and frankly incapable of doing his job.
	I mean, he started out his statement about this terrible shooting where six innocent people died.
	The shooter also died in this thing, in which he's joking, you know, three nine-year-old kids died, you know, and he starts regaling reporters with ice cream jokes.
	It was so beyond inappropriate, but that's your vice president.
	You know, that, you know, let me play it for you.
	This is Joe.
	My name is Joe Biden.
	I'm Dr. Joe Biden's husband.
	And I hate Jenny's ice cream chocolate chip.
	I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream.
	By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs.
	I think I'm kidding.
	I'm not.
	Ben, how are you, pal?
	I mean, I said vice president.
	That's President Joe Biden, your former vice president.
	I mean, this is insanity.
	You know, that was on his mind as Nashville, the entire community and parents that lost their children, their nine-year-old children, are trying to figure out, you know, whether their kid is, you know, all the other parents, you know, what child died here?
	Every parent of that school trying to figure out was it my kid laying in a pool of blood on some classroom floor and Biden joking that he only showed up at the White House event because he heard there's going to be ice cream there.
	Is that supposed to be funny?
	That's not funny to me.
	And then before he addresses the horrific mass shooting, and by the way, politicizes it.
	Yeah, my name is Joe Biden.
	I'm Dr. Joe Biden's husband.
	That's what your 80-plus-year-old president said beginning his remarks in the East Room at a gathering of women-owned businesses.
	And then he talks about he eats designer ice cream.
	I never heard of Jenny's ice cream.
	You ever heard of Jenny's ice cream?
	I've heard of Breyers.
	I've heard of Haagen-Dah's.
	I don't eat anything Ben and Jerry's, but I haven't heard of it.
	Yeah, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs, he said.
	You think I'm kidding?
	No, I'm not kidding.
	Then the president, you know, how do you make the pivot and then turn serious to address three, you know, dead children in Tennessee and a dead pastor and a dead teacher and all the six dead people in total, seven of you include the shooter.
	Now, one of the things that we have found out about this that is interesting to me is there was another school that appeared to be targeted first, but that school had really significant security all around it.
	We're trying to get the full report here, but anyway, the initial reports are, and we're going to bear down on this.
	I should know by 9 o'clock tonight when we get on TV.
	Covenant School, Christian School, where the attacker killed these innocent students and others yesterday.
	They didn't have an armed resource officer on campus when the attack occurred.
	Now, the great news is the police, they were phenomenal.
	They got there in record time.
	They released a video today.
	They went in.
	They did their job.
	They took out the shooter and they did it as quickly as possible.
	What was it?
	Was it yesterday I said it or last week, Linda?
	That every school, if you want school safety, every school should have a metal detector.
	I think I said it on the program yesterday.
	You did?
	Every school should have armed officers, former military, retired police, retired military, people that know the gun safety and security.
	And I'm not saying to scare the kids.
	They don't have to be in uniform, plain clothes, and put every kid through a metal detector, and you'll keep your school safe and protect the perimeter of the school.
	It's that simple.
	An incident like this is not going to happen.
	Now, a lot of people have made the fact, a big point of the fact that the New York Post, for example, said transgender killer targets Christian school and had a manifesto.
	And the individual's name is Audrey Hale, who quote identified as a man, writing a manifesto why she attacked the convent Christian Elementary in Nashville, a school that she once attended.
	Cops had to fatally shoot her to protect the lives of everyone in the school as she went on the shooting rampage.
	Some people have raised the question: there's been now four shootings to date about recent non-binary shooters.
	This one in Nashville, one in Colorado Springs, 2022, one in Denver in 2019, one in Maryland in 2018.
	I am not a doctor.
	I'm not going to begin to discuss perhaps what impact transitioning and hormone treatments, et cetera, could have on the human body and alter people's minds.
	I just don't know enough about it.
	You know, I work out and I will never, ever in my life take human growth hormone or testosterone.
	I'm just not going to do it.
	And I know plenty of people that work out and take it.
	And I've read too much.
	And to me, it's too risky and it's not worth it.
	You know, at my age, I just want to stay fit.
	I don't really care how I look or what people think about how I look for that matter.
	But, you know, it almost immediately became politicized, which is par for the course whenever you're dealing with a tragedy like this.
	You know, the Nashville shooter told the best friend something bad is about to happen and I'm planning to die.
	We know that came out.
	Audrey Hill sent a chilling suicide note just minutes before slaughtering these innocent people.
	I'm planning to die today was part of the message.
	And anyway, she messaged a former middle school basketball teammate on Instagram at 957.
	And so basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note.
	I'm planning to die today.
	My family doesn't know what I'm about to do.
	One day this will make more sense.
	I left more than enough evidence behind, but something bad is about to happen.
	This is not a joke, wrote Hale, who identified as transgender.
	You'll probably hear about me on the news after I die, adding that this is my last goodbye.
	I love you.
	See you again in another life and said, you know, whatever, that's it.
	Unbelievable.
	So, you know, it's just sad.
	And then, of course, the race to politicize, which is pretty common.
	I mean, that is fairly predictable as well.
	And unfortunately, there's no need to politicize something like this.
	There are other answers than the knee-jerk typical reaction that the left has.
	And the answer is if every school in this country would hire security people and have them on location and send these kids through metal detectors, there's not going to be any guns in any school.
	And if anything does happen and somebody tries to get into a school that should have secured doors with the ability to get out in the event of an emergency, then they'd be able to do that.
	But there's the White House.
	Biden wants Congress to pass more gun control.
	Well, since when do criminals obey the laws in this country?
	It's so convoluted in their thinking as if it's not the heart of somebody that kills somebody, that it's somehow the mind of somebody that kills somebody, or the idea that a gun is there.
	Oh, I'll use this gun.
	I think now I'll go on a rampage.
	That's not what happens.
	We have a lot of other news that we're going to get to today.
	Well, by the way, in New York, you might want to know this.
	This is a woke agenda alert.
	New York City Teachers Union has canceled a workshop on the harmful effects of whiteness.
	Officials at New York City's Teachers Union decided yesterday that maybe it wasn't such a great idea to go forward with the planned workshop.
	And anyway, it was supposed to be about white privilege.
	It had been planned by city teachers and their union.
	When are teachers ever going to focus on their failure?
	Their failure.
	If your students fail, then you're responsible.
	It's really simple.
	Kids go to school.
	They're supposed to learn reading, writing, math, science, real history, computers, and we're paying all this money, in the case of New York City, over $40 some odd thousand dollars per student to get an education.
	And we have more kids failing just basic competency tests.
	We are literally ripping the rungs of the ladder for these kids' future out from underneath them.
	I mean, that's how bad this is.
	Anyway, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	But this is your government.
	You know, Senate Republicans now are trying to overturn Biden's $300 billion student loan giveaway.
	I have a letter that Kevin McCarthy sent to Joe Biden.
	You know, they have yet to negotiate.
	Remember, Biden said he wouldn't negotiate.
	Republicans should not get in the business of negotiating against themselves.
	They should come forward with a plan.
	They're willing to sit down with Biden.
	And as they said, we're not looking to do this.
	It's not about brinksmanship, only what's in the best interest of the American people.
	And McCarthy acknowledged we can't solve the nation's fiscal problems overnight.
	And House Republicans are not demanding we do so, but we can't continue to kick the can down the road and ignore America's ballooning national debt, all while we continue to spend trillions of dollars more, including through unaccountable executive fiat.
	As House Republicans are united in our view, that the best way to reduce the national debt is to limit spending, save taxpayer money, grow the economy.
	But I don't think that Joe Biden and company are going to go that way.
	No, I think they're more interested in their woke agenda.
	I mean, you just can't believe where the Democrats are on all of these things.
	The Biden administration now, you know, now they're trying to tie wokeness to foreign countries and aid to foreign countries.
	I'll get to that a little bit later in the show, but it is what it is.
	Now, this is one of the more interesting coincidences.
	Let's call it a coincidence.
	Linda, this is a coincidence, right?
	That when Matt Taibbi was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and that's Jim Jordan's committee, demanding on Monday that the Department of Treasury and the IRS account for an incident that they consider to be witness intimidation, because apparently, while he was going before this committee, Matt Taibbi, apparently, IRS agents visited the home of Matt Taibbi.
	Now, Jordan said that in light of this hostile reaction to Taibbi's reporting among left-wing activists and the IRS's history as a tool of government abuse, the IRS's actions could be interpreted as an attempt to intimidate a witness before Congress.
	And Taibbi testified before the select committee on the weaponization of the federal government on March the 9th, during which he addressed evidence that the federal government actively pressured big tech companies to censor user content.
	Well, that's a pretty important bit of information that we need to know.
	Anyway, we got a lot to talk about.
	800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Rand Paul coming up today and part of my interview with Donald Trump and part two tonight on Hannity on the Fox News channel, SetU DVR 9 Eastern, where he talks about this new access of evil, President Xi, Vladimir Putin, how would he have responded to the balloon incident, the taking down of our drone, and also about whether Kamala should stay or go?
	And is Joe in a cognitive decline?
	Way to hear his answer on that.
	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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	difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
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	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.
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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 Nafok 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.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	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.
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	All right, as we roll along, this poll I told you about yesterday about American values and the decline in the importance of traditional values, patriotism, religion, community.
	For example, the number of Americans that say patriotism is very important to them in 1998 was 70%.
	We're now down to 20, you know, 38% rather.
	The people that the number of people in 1998 that thought religion is important was 62%.
	Now it's 39.
	The number of people that thought in 1998 having children was very important to them is 59.
	Now that's down to 30.
	I mean, that's half.
	Community involvement, for example.
	Well, people thought in 2019, 62% thought it was very important.
	Now it's 27%.
	You know, on the issue of money in 1998, in terms of being very important, it was only 31%.
	Now it's 43%.
	And if you look at patriotism, well, Republicans are at very important, 59%.
	Democrats, 23%.
	Religion, 53%.
	For Republicans, 27% for the Democrats.
	You know, but when you look at social issues, you know, it's have we gone too far on transgender?
	Republicans, 75%.
	Democrats 15%.
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	By the way, did you see this?
	I mean, so Chris Christie has, according to Donald Trump in this interview I did last night, we have part two tonight, he was the one that recommended Director Ray.
	I never knew that until last night.
	Anyway, so he's out there berating Trump in New Hampshire.
	And, you know, he's trying to portray himself as uniquely well-positioned to take on Donald Trump in the primary.
	Okay, so he's going to be the anti-Trump.
	Got it.
	He's going to be the guy beating up on Trump.
	Got it.
	Here's the problem.
	When he left office after being governor of New Jersey, what was his approval rating in this single digits?
	Remember Bridgegate?
	Remember Beachgate?
	And all the other controversies he was involved in?
	Did he forget that he wasn't well-liked by the people of New Jersey by the time he got the hell out of there?
	I don't think anybody could forget the hug felt around the world.
	The hug felt around the world.
	I could not believe it.
	Couldn't believe it.
	Well, it wasn't a hug, he said to me in an interview later.
	Well, it really wasn't a hug.
	And I said, Oh, yeah?
	Yeah, it was a hug.
	How do you define hug?
	So only 25% of Democrats want Biden to seek re-election.
	Monmouth University poll released yesterday said that Biden should step aside, allow someone else to run as the Democratic Party standard-bearer in 2024.
	25% of respondents said Biden should seek re-election next year.
	30% saying they had no preference, but the rest saying, no, get the hell out of the way.
	We don't really want it.
	Then there's this other interesting report.
	I found it interesting anyway.
	And that's about even in liberal New York, believe it or not, they're fed up with Biden too.
	A Sienna College poll.
	Pretty bad news for Joey.
	They don't think he should run again.
	Over half the Democrats in ultra-blue state New York think that their party should nominate somebody other than Biden in 2024.
	Only 43% of registered New York Democrats.
	Now, remember, there's never been a president as far radical left as this guy.
	Just hasn't been one.
	Anyway, 43% saying they believe Biden should not be nominated to run for a second term.
	51% want a different candidate.
	Oh, I'm sorry, only 43% want him to run for a second term.
	51% said they wanted a different candidate.
	63% of those who wanted another Democrat said they didn't know or had no opinion about who should be the party's standard-bearer.
	What, Pete Budajudge got 5%, beating out Kamala Harris at 3%?
	I mean, I think Kamala Harris truly thinks she's going to be president one day.
	What have I been saying?
	The person that wants it the most is going to end up being Gavin Newsom.
	That'll be interesting because he has an atrocious track record.
	I mean, it is the worst of anybody out there.
	And there was one report out, too, that Democrats plan to use abortion as their big wedge issue in the next election, which, by the way, that Republicans need to pay attention to, just like they need to pay attention to early voting, voting by mail, matching Democratic efforts of legal ballot harvesting.
	I'm not going to stop talking about it because nobody seems to be in charge of fixing it for the Republican Party.
	And unless they do, I'm just going to keep reminding them what they need to do.
	The Republicans, for their part, I told you about the letter Kevin McCarthy wrote to Joe Biden saying, you know, we're here.
	We'd like to do a deal.
	He said you won't negotiate with us.
	The debt ceiling date is coming up soon, and we're not going to give in.
	This is now going to be the big test of the Republicans in the House.
	Now, they're saying, we know we can't fix it all in one shot, but we've got to take dramatic steps now in terms of getting a hold of this reckless spending, this irresponsible debt that they keep taking on.
	So for the Republicans, my advice is they got to rally around one plan and stand united.
	Democrats have calculated that they won't stay united if they unite behind a plan and say they will not under any circumstances increase the debt ceiling unless they get this, this, and this, then they'll win because eventually it'll all boomerang back on the Democrats.
	We're willing to do a deal right now, but we're demanding fiscal responsibility.
	That's a pretty strong, powerful argument to take to the American people.
	And if their argument is it's our way or the highway, and Joe Biden, by the way, is on tape saying, you know, advocating for parties to get together and you can't have a my way or the highway attitude, which is what he presently has, then I think Americans will come to realize Democrats are being arrogant and obstinate and they have no desire to do their job.
	The full faith and credit of the United States government is hanging in the balance.
	You're going to hear that over and over and over again.
	You know, for example, I noticed in the Hill today that Senate Republicans are moving to overturn Biden's $300 billion student loan forgiveness program.
	Just like House Republicans, they are moving to defund 87,000 new IRS agents who Janet Yellen said 90% of the people that they're going to be looking at are going to be people making under $400,000, directly contradicting what Joe Biden has promised.
	Just like Biden promised he wouldn't raise taxes on anybody making under $400,000.
	Well, he turns around and raises the taxes on oil, gas, coal, pensions, and corporations.
	Well, corporations don't pay taxes.
	Hannity, you say that all the time, but they really do.
	Look at their returns.
	Yes, technically, they pay the tax, but they charge you the extra money to make up for the tax that they just got charged with.
	So inevitably, it gets back to you one way or the other.
	That's just a simple fact.
	In other news here, you know, we're going to talk to Trump tonight.
	And I asked him some very interesting questions, and he had some really amazing answers when it comes to China, Russia, and what I'm calling a new axis of evil.
	You see, the Communist Chinese have now brokered a deal with Saudi Arabia and Iran.
	They're in the process of negotiating a deal with Saudi Arabia and Syria.
	So the Saudis have left the coalition that I never thought could happen in my lifetime, but did happen under President Trump's administration.
	And it's really simple.
	And that is, he brought a coalition of the U.S., Israel, Jordan, Egypt, the Saudis, the Emirates together to stand against Iranian hegemony in the region and stand against the possibility of Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
	Now, if you read and believe what you're reading every day about Iran's potential to soon have nuclear capability, it could be any day according to reports.
	Now, is that true?
	I have no idea of knowing.
	I'm not in the intelligence community.
	I don't have access to such information.
	But that story has to be coming from somewhere.
	And there's no doubt that the Iranians want nuclear weapons.
	That part we know.
	Now, the better part of the story would be this.
	Now that Prime Minister Netanyahu is back as prime minister in Israel, if you had a strong U.S. president like Donald Trump, the U.S. and Israel could preemptively take out all of Iran's nuclear sites, most of which are buried deep, deep underground.
	It'd be a very sophisticated, complicated, dangerous military mission because you'd have to dump a couple of cluster bunker-busting bombs to get to the point where you can take out the nukes.
	So it would be a very, very tough military effort, but it could be done with the coalition of the U.S. and Israel and hopefully other partners as well.
	But that's not going to happen.
	That means, what is Israel going to have to now go it alone?
	And what are the ramifications of that going to be, especially with the new relationship China has with Iran and that China has with Putin and that China and Putin have with Iran and now Syria and Saudi Arabia?
	It's getting scary.
	Report out today, Washington Examiner.
	And by the way, what happened and what Tony Blinken said last week should anger all of you because Tony Blinken acknowledged after Joe Biden made that promise, he's not going to leave a single American behind in Afghanistan.
	Well, Blinken acknowledged and admitted last week that we abandoned 175 Americans, and then he added this little tidbit that we'd never been told before, that some of the 175 are hostages to the Taliban.
	Now, I can play it for you, but why didn't we know this sooner?
	That's the question.
	Mr. Secretary, how many American citizens and licensed permanent residents are in Afghanistan today, and are any of them currently being held hostage by the Taliban?
	Congressman, there are several Americans who are being detained by the Taliban.
	We are working to secure their freedom.
	The families have asked that we protect their identities and don't speak publicly to their cases.
	Now, those who are being detained, how many other Americans?
	How many other Americans?
	There are approximately, let me put it this way, since August 31st of last year, we have helped about 975 American citizens who wished to leave Afghanistan do so.
	As we speak, Americans who identify themselves to us, American citizens who identify themselves to us who are in Afghanistan, some of whom have been there since the withdrawal, some of whom went back to Afghanistan.
	There are about, that we're in contact with, about 175.
	44 of them are ready to leave, and we are working to effectuate their departure.
	And then acknowledge that some are being held hostage.
	How did they get away with that?
	Now, I say this.
	I go back to the Washington Examiner.
	U.S. officials on the ground in Afghanistan cabled the Biden administration in July of 2021, warning them that carrying out Joe Biden's plan for an abrupt pullout of U.S. troops would result in a foreign policy disaster of historic proportions.
	Now, remember, in light of what you just heard from Blinken, and I'll go deeper into this report in a second, here's Joe Biden making a promise to the American people.
	He's not going to leave a single American behind.
	Listen.
	Are you committed to making sure that the troops stay until every American who wants to be out is out?
	Yes.
	So Americans should understand the troops might have to be there beyond August 31st.
	No, Americans should understand that we're going to try to get it done before August 30th.
	But if we don't, the troops will stop.
	If they don't, we'll determine at the time who's left.
	And if there's American citizens left, we're going to stay till we get them all out.
	We're going to stay till we get them all out.
	Well, they didn't get them all out.
	They abandoned them.
	And now some of them are hostages.
	Anyway, the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCall subpoenaed yesterday the State Department to furnish the Kabul dissent cable, his office announced.
	Now, McCall had issued numerous subpoena warnings to the Secretary of State, Blinken, demanding a July 13th, 2021 cable signed by over two dozen U.S. Embassy members in Kabul criticizing the preparations of the withdrawal from Afghanistan that soon devolved into chaos.
	McCall said, quote, we have made multiple good faith attempts to find common ground so we could see this critical piece of information.
	Unfortunately, Secretary Blinken has refused to provide the cable, forcing me to issue my first subpoena as chairman of this committee, he said.
	The American people deserve answers as to how this tragedy unfolded and why 13 U.S. service members lost their lives.
	And then now politically, radioactive cable was authored by the State Department's Director of Policy Planning, Salman Ahmed, who sounded the alarm about potential for the Taliban to roar back into power.
	It urged the department to ramp up their evacuation planning and special immigrant visa applications to safeguard Afghans who aided the U.S.
	And by the way, we have no idea how many Afghanis that put their lives on the line and helped us during those years of conflict are now dead because they got apparently a computer list of the names of many of them, according to reports.
	Unbelievable.
	No accountability.
	Can you imagine Donald Trump president and we find out Americans abandoned and then Americans held hostage and it was because of their sloppy, disastrous bailout plan?
	Remember, Donald Trump had said in an interview with me, he said very, very clear.
	He said, excuse me, I told them if you move an inch before this plan is accomplished and finished, I will devastate you.
	And guess what?
	For the last 18 months of his presidency, not one single American was killed in Afghanistan.
	Interesting contrast, isn't it?
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