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The House Judiciary Committee led by the chairman, Jim Jordan, were in town going after, you know, defund, dismantle, no bail laws, out-of-control crime in New York City.
But New York City is just a microcosm of what's going on around the country.
And these liberal DAs, obviously in the case of Bragg, that only cares about one man named Donald Trump.
He can't even identify a crime.
One organization, the Trump organization, one family, the Trump family.
And so anyway, for once we got to hear from victims, people that are, their lives are forever changed.
The reaction of Democrats on the committee was appalling.
It was grotesque, as a matter of fact.
One woman, she'll actually be joining us on Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
I mean, she laid into them, and I was like so blown away, you know, how Alvin Bragg's office treated her like garbage after the brutal slaughter of her veteran son, another son permanently disabled and injured.
Just listen to her, listen to this.
This is the type of criminal element that we have walking the streets of New York City on a daily basis.
All types of criminal elements.
Free to do what they want, when they want, however they want, to whomever they want, with no consequences, no deterrence.
We have these anti-gang violence, these credible messenger.
Millions and billions of our hard-earned tax dollars are going to fund these organizations that are doing absolutely nothing to deter this crime.
They're doing absolutely nothing.
And I propose not another dime of our federal tax dollars be pumped into these organizations until they can produce some measurable outcomes of effectiveness of what they're doing with our tax dollars to protect the public.
And as far as the Manhattan District Attorney's office, if he's receiving one penny of federal dollars, you need to pull that funding until he starts doing his damn job and prosecuting crime.
I was totally disrespected.
Me, my family, my grandchildren, we were treated like garbage.
Like garbage.
Wow.
And by the way, that's only the beginning of it.
We'll have more at the top of the next hour, and we'll get into this in more detail.
But it's not just New York City.
It's all over the country.
I don't know if you were paying attention this weekend.
Teenagers literally taking over and terrorizing a pretty significant portion of Chicago.
Hundreds of teenagers destroying property, attacking tourists.
This announced days after the Democratic National Convention is going to be in Chicago.
By the way, after people like Madeline Braeme get up and tell their story, then they have to listen to Democrats like Hank Johnson say that the witnesses and the victims of these crimes are props, you know, in a MAGA Broadway production.
Then that idiot Schiff, you know, on the committee starts talking about Trump.
This guy, he's nuts.
Anyway, he got interrupted and heckled during the hearings.
We got that.
I mean, we'll have it all tonight at 9.
You know, Chicago, you know, their far-left mayor says, after all the violence all weekend, after all the chaos all weekend, it's not constructive to demonize the youth.
No, you demonize, you're not demonizing youth, you're demonizing criminals.
What part of this, you know, no bail, defund, dismantle aren't they getting?
Aren't they understanding?
A White Sox game, and another brawl breaks out there in Chicago.
Out in Los Angeles at a gas station, you got a wild video of a mob ransacking the place.
I mean, it's just nothing but mayhem.
New Jersey now, for kids that go to malls, you know, they used to always hang out at malls.
Well, now they can't go unless they have a chaperone.
They're not getting in because they can't afford it.
You know, crime soaring by, you know, is costing big box stores $96 billion.
Want to know why Walmart, Target, Starbucks, and all these companies are getting out of big cities and high crime areas because they can't make money when you're ripped off by $96 billion in losses.
And they're trying to create jobs in a community, but they're not enforcing the laws.
As long as you walk out with less than $1,000 in material, they're not going to stop you.
Well, that is a license to steal.
That's what that is.
You know, the experts of testimony at the hearings today, you know, Madeline Brain was phenomenal.
She's the chairwoman of the Victims' Rights Reform Council, mother of a homicide victim, another child that was injured, violently assaulted, and me and my family and my grandchildren treated like garbage by Mr. Bragg.
And I'm not the only one.
There are hundreds.
There are thousands of us.
Don't worry, he's too busy going after Donald Trump.
For what crime we don't even know?
34 counts of nothing.
That's what it pretty much comes down to.
You know, it's at some point, you've got to ask yourself, you know, when do you just give up?
Did you see the brawl at the White Sox game?
Security, nowhere to be found at that game.
Unbelievable.
In New York, there was a story about there's only a tiny number.
You know, nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City only involve 327 people.
They committed combined.
They're arrested out on Nobail and rearrested more than 6,000 times.
I mean, this is madness, what's going on?
And they've allowed this to happen.
And then you look at the demographic shift and you wonder, gee, I wonder why are so many people leaving states like New York and California and San Francisco and New York City because they can't stand it.
It's too much bureaucracy.
They're overtaxed.
They're over-regulated.
They are underserved with their policing.
Defund, dismantle, no-bail.
Stupidity.
It was an MSN Article about how a $300,000 salary feels like $100,000 in the priciest U.S. cities.
It goes on.
Bloomberg put this out.
It's tax season in the U.S., and nowhere is that felt more acutely than in three cities, New York, San Francisco, and Honolulu.
I can understand Honolulu a little bit because it's cost so much more to get every item that you need over to the island and it's all necessary to import so much.
I can understand it a little bit more than New York and California for sure, but you're wondering how is it that states like New York and California are losing nearly 300,000 residents a year and states like Texas and Florida picking up 300,000 a year because people are voting with their feet.
You know, I told you about this article that was in the New York Post last week.
It went into great specificity in great detail.
New Yorkers so worried about crime, the cost of living, struggling schools, work, and politicians that don't have a clue.
27% of those surveyed say they want to move out of the state within the next five years.
Why are they leaving?
Because they're pushing them out.
They're shoving them out.
And, you know, only the stupid are staying, yours included.
I mean, it's unreal.
2 million Americans have fled from U.S. cities in the last two years.
They voted with their feet, Ronald Reagan used to famously say.
You look at the data, 2 million individuals fleeing big cities from 20 to 2022.
1.2 million of those fled these areas from July of 2020 to July of 2021 alone.
861,000 fleeing urban counties the following year.
It's a mass exodus.
Give you another example.
Now, I don't know how many of you like to eat sandwiches for lunch.
I'm not a big sandwich guy.
I like it sometimes.
I had a half a sandwich today.
Okay.
You want to buy a ham and cheese sandwich?
What do you think it costs in New York?
Linda, you don't eat ham and cheese.
You eat those disgusting, putrid green and orange puke drinks that you have.
But they've gone up in price as well.
What do they cost?
They used to be like $10.
Now they're about $20.
Okay, what do you think a ham and cheese sandwich costs?
In New York City?
In New York City.
I'll forget about it.
$14.
$29.
Oh, well, what kind of ham is it?
It doesn't matter what kind of ham it is.
It actually does.
It's an imported domestic Virginia sweet baked off the bone.
A ham and cheese sandwich.
That's what it costs.
Oh, man.
I mean, one sandwich was $31.57.
I'm like, forget it.
I'm not that hungry.
I think I'll go on a diet.
You know, shoppers now running out of gas.
There was a Yahoo Finance story, you know, because they can't afford it.
You have 25% now of Americans that are literally, they can't put the food on the table that they need.
I ran into the guy that runs my local, he knew that I had donated to the local, what do you call it?
Food bank, the pantry.
And I said, have you ever, you know, I'd never met him before, but a buddy of mine works there, and he said that we're really in dire need.
I said, fine, I'll write a check, not a problem.
Not that I write a check, but I, you know, I wired over some money.
And I said, if you need help anytime, just call me.
Maybe I should give it to him now, but I'm just saying, when you're really in trouble, let me know.
I don't want you to go.
I don't want people to go unfed.
I mean, it's insane.
And these are people that otherwise would make ends meet if we had a decent economic policy in the country.
Even the Fed now is using the word recession.
By the way, the The stupidity of the government is the Biden administration is now proposing actions that are going to reduce water supplies significantly in western states amid severe drought conditions.
Anyway, the Department of the Interior now released a draft proposal highlighting actions they're going to take as it relates to the Colorado River basins water levels.
And the two proposals would each consist of federally mandated supply reductions for states that are dependent on the river system, which provides water for more than 40 million Americans.
You guys better get in there with a better plan than that because I went out to the San Joaquin Valley.
I was amongst the farmers.
I did the show from farmland and they didn't have enough water to harvest crops.
So farmers, they basically had to shut down their farms.
And you know what the real reason was?
They had plenty of water.
It was to save a little minnow called the Delta Smelt.
It's not even an endangered species for crying out loud.
You just can't make up this kind of level of stupidity from government.
You can't make it up.
It's that bad.
But don't worry, Joey's on the case.
He's back from Ireland.
How lucky are we?
And what did he say over in Ireland?
His last, my favorite gaffe.
He said, licking.
This guy is what he is weird.
He is just, he is now getting to the point.
Now, a lot of Democrats are acknowledging that Diane Feinstein.
I've known about this forever.
I've known about this for a couple of years.
Had I talked much about it?
No.
Do I feel a little sorry for her?
Yeah, I do.
Anybody that's sick, I feel sorry for her.
But she's not qualified to be a senator from California and hasn't been for a long time.
But I hate to tell you, he's not qualified to be president either.
And now we're not only, you know, he's a rubber stamp for the climate alarmist religious cult, but now he's endangering our national security and world security in the process because every rogue nation with every hostile regime, they're now taking full advantage, led by China.
We're losing our allies.
We lost Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE in just the last week and a half.
And they're consolidating their axis of evil with this now partnership with Iran and Russia and China and soon to be, I'm sure, North Korea.
And these other countries that are leaving our coalition are leaving because they're betting that China is going to win.
That's not good.
But don't worry, Pete Buttajudge is out there, you know, telling Al Sharpton that America's roads and highways are racist.
That's where their priorities are.
And demanding by 2032 that you spend $15,000 to $20,000 more dollars on an electric vehicle that you probably don't want.
That, by the way, to get powered, you have to use an electric grid that is 90% powered by fossil fuels.
And of course, you have to pillage Mother Earth by using big, heavy equipment that uses diesel fuel to take out the manganese, the nickel, and cobalt.
Anyway, during Joey's closing remarks in Dublin after a disastrous week, there's nothing that our nations can't achieve if we do it together.
I mean it.
So thank you all, and let's go lick the world.
Oh, my God.
You just can't make it up.
It's not only embarrassing, it's killing our economy.
Americans are suffering.
They're suffering needlessly because of open borders, energy dependence.
Now Venezuela is getting rich.
Now the Saudis join the Chinese.
So what are the first thing they do is let's limit the production of oil and make America pay even more.
So we'll bankrupt America.
Instead of being in an energy-rich country, we're going to be an energy-poor country, even though we have more resources than the entire Middle East combined.
But we'll make Venezuela, Iran, and OPEC and Saudi Arabia rich.
Now that most of them now have aligned with China because they're betting that China is going to be the world's lone superpower, and the U.S. dollar is not going to be the world's currency any longer.
Great job, Joey.
And keep going with Pete Budajudge.
America's roads and highways are racist.
I mean, this is what they are focused on.
They're built the reason for the disparity in roads.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
A road is a road.
Listen to this show one time and you're hanitized.
Sean Hannity is back on the radio.
I'm 25 to the top of the hour.
Thank you for being with us.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, by the way, I have some good news for you taxpayers out there.
Joe Biden, not only aiding, abetting the law breaking down at our border and, of course, giving preferential treatment during a pandemic, no COVID tests, no vaccine mandates, free Biden phones, free transportation to any one of the 48 states in the continental United States.
Anyway, now foreign nationals in the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, better known as DACA, will now be able to access Medicaid or to purchase insurance on the Obamacare Exchange thanks to this new program announced by the White House, which, by the way, Obama, remember he promised, keep your doctor, keep your plan save, on average, family, $25,000 a year.
Yeah, they never kept that promise at all.
Well, now you're going to pay for illegal immigrants.
Not only will you pay for food and housing and health care, education.
I mean, how much can the American people afford?
How much?
It's unbelievable.
I want to remind you, banks are failing, banks being bailed out, even billionaires and millionaires being bailed out by the Silicon Valley bank bailout.
But Biden's telling you inflation is transitory.
Everything's okay.
Do you believe a thing he says?
Because I don't.
And that's why it's critical.
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And I'm so glad I did.
And I even have ounces of gold.
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So I said.
No, I said Gold Co.
You just didn't hear me.
By the way, fentanyl is now killing more than COVID in some cities, according to like Seattle.
Seattle is averaging 25 drug overdose deaths every week in 2023 compared to about one COVID death every two weeks.
Wow.
Drugs are killing a lot more people in Portland than COVID, and yet they're doing nothing to stop this.
You know what the single best thing they can do to stop it is close the borders.
By the way, so many people in China now, they see what's happening, Taiwan, they see what's happening.
They are now going thousands and thousands of miles to our southern border and northern border because they want to get the hell out of China, which, by the way, I don't blame them, but we can't afford to possibly take everybody in from every country that wants to come here.
By the way, we've now discovered Mayorkas, who I think should be impeached, Department of Homeland Security Secretary, apparently held calls with the ACLU nearly two dozen times in a five-month period.
Oh, so the ACLU is running border programs and Homeland Security for the U.S. Unreal.
But that's where we are with that.
Don't worry, let's lick the world.
You know, what did Joe say in his final remarks?
I mean it.
I really mean it.
God bless you all.
Let's go lick the world.
Let's get it done.
Lick the world.
Eating ice cream.
That's all he thinks about is ice cream.
War raging in Ukraine, tensions flaring with China and Iran.
And Biden returns from a trip visiting castles in Ireland.
And Buddha Judge, he's literally out there.
We have a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in the U.S.
We lose about 40,000 people every year.
It's a level that is comparable to gun violence, and we see a lot of racial disparities.
Black and brown Americans, tribal citizens, and rural residents are much more likely to lose their lives, whether it's in a car or a pedestrian being hit by a car.
A lot of reasons related to discrimination.
Tell me where I want to give me details.
Just don't make the allegation.
Where's the evidence and the details of this?
And Al Sharpton, of course, is sitting down with Buddha Judge.
A lot of people don't understand.
Even down-the-road fatalities, it's not equal, Sharpton said.
You know, somebody that's going to hit somebody on the road, are they determining the race of the individual they're going to hit?
You know, I'd like to see the statistics to back that up.
I don't want to see anybody die on the road, ever.
Anyway, Jim Jordan is now pointing out that there's new evidence that ties the Biden campaign to the fraudulent laptop letter.
Remember those 51 former intelligence agents?
Justthenews.com breaking this news.
Jim Jordan now telling justthenews.com that he expects to release a report later this month laying out the evidence connecting the Biden campaign to the laptop letter.
And apparently, my sources are telling me it may be tied to Winkin Tony Blinken.
I want to see if he's involved in this.
Congressional probe has uncovered ties between Biden campaign and the security dismissing Hunter's laptop.
Wow.
So it wasn't an accident, the 51 former Intel people that were dead wrong.
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin sounding the alarm on what he calls the jaw-dropping Biden family bank records.
He went on to say that when Senator Grassley and I pretty much laid out the case against grifting, the grifting Biden family back in September of 2020 before the election, our report was completely ignored by the media, just as they ignored Hunter Biden's laptop because they're advocates from the far left for the left themselves.
And so what we're finding now is just new pieces of evidence of the grifting that the Biden family has been involved in, bank records that basically confirm what Treasury records showed from Senator Grassley in my report.
When are we going to find out?
How much money did Biden do with China, the Biden family?
How much money did they do with Russia?
How much money did they do with Ukraine?
How much money did they do with all these other countries?
And is it impacting and influencing the Biden family's or Joe Biden's presidency?
Because maybe all the money and the potential for compromise when you're dealing with a country like Russia or China, I promise you, they're spying on you.
I want certain countries I want nothing to do with ever.
And I never will have anything to do with.
One is Russia.
Two is China.
And three, I would never deal with the Saudis or a lot of these foreign dictatorships.
I want nothing to do with them because I find them to be hostile regimes against our country, America.
In California now, pay close attention.
Power companies are now proposing to bill electricity based on your income.
Southern California, Edison, Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas and Electric submitted a joint proposal to the state's Public Utilities Commission last week that outlines a new rate structure.
It follows last year's passage of Assembly Bill 205 that requires a fixed rate and generally simpler power bills.
Under the proposal, households will see a fixed rate covering basic electricity services and the utility companies' operating costs on a scale based on their household income.
And it will impact SCE says approximately 1.2 million of their lower income residents will see their bills drop by 16 to 21 percent, but overall rates will decrease by about 33 percent per kilowatt hour, and different customers will be seeing different base rates.
Isn't that discrimination?
Are we discriminating against people?
You know, I'll say, oh, okay, well, you make more money, so you're going to pay for somebody else's.
We'll just take your money and give it to somebody else.
Redistribution.
I like that plan.
I don't have to pay for my own electricity.
I pay a lot less.
And then if you have an income of anywhere between $28,000 and $69,000, you pay, for example, $20 a month in Edison territory.
If you make between $69,000 and $180,000, you pay $51 a month.
That's 2.5 times what you would pay if you had a lower income range.
And if you have above $180,000, you're going to pay over 4.5 times.
Doing the math in my head, in case you're trying to figure out what me mumbling to myself meant.
But that's what their plan is.
Interesting development in the civil case.
Remember, I told you about Donald Trump with this E. Gene Carroll, this defamation lawsuit.
Apparently, she didn't remember the year that it happened, but claiming it happened in a Bergdolf Goodman is a busy, busy department store in New York, an upscale department store.
And not a place I've ever been to because I don't like shopping.
You want to go shopping?
Go right ahead.
Want to go to a museum?
Go right ahead.
I'll go to a zoo, but I'm not going to a museum and I'm not going shopping.
I wear the same clothes every day anyway.
Right now, I'm in a long-sleeved t-shirt with a college logo on it.
I'm wearing my Tunnel to Towers Foundation hat.
I'm wearing my hoodie when it gets cold.
And anyway, now we're finding out that she's being bankrolled the whole lawsuit by a billionaire Hillary Clinton donor.
Gee, what a surprise.
What a coincidence.
I wonder if there are any Republican billionaires out there that would like to finance the same kind of lawsuit against Joe Biden.
Remember Tara Reed, Case and Boynt.
It's okay as long as it's Democrats doing it to Republicans.
Biden got angry with reporters in a midnight gaggle.
I told you my plan is to run again.
But he hasn't said it yet.
When he's going to say it officially.
You know, so that's where we are with the 2024.
We'll see.
I'm going to stand by what I've been telling you, and that is that we do not know what is going to be the big issues when it comes to 2024 yet.
I can tell you generally, broadly, it's going to deal with the economy, and it's going to deal with the new axis of evil, China, Russia, Iran.
It's going to deal with our allies abandoning us and they don't trust us anymore.
Democrats intend to make the Chinese spy app TikTok a key part of their 2024 campaign.
So even though everyone seems convinced that it's a spying mechanism of the communist Chinese, Democrats have so successfully cultivated TikTok clout that they are going to, you know, that it provides young voters and party operatives and now drawing up a detailed plan to use it.
How about we protect our country first?
North Korea's ICBM test caused evacuations in Japan.
Notice all of a sudden, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, they're all getting aggressive.
Why?
Because there's an abdication of America's role on the world stage.
Then you have allies that are useless like Macron in France.
Forming Navy officer implicated in the Biden Pentagon league scandal.
We've been talking about that all last week.
Pentagon warning that Biden's green new energy plans will jeopardize our defense security.
They're sounding the alarms over the plans to advance offshore wind projects along the central Atlantic U.S. coast, warning that almost all of the new terrain I for development will conflict with military operations.
Why would that stop them?
Not going to stop them.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mike McCall blasting Biden for stiffing Taiwan on weapons that we promised them.
I'm telling you, Joe's not going to lift a finger when China goes in.
Won't lift a finger.
Meanwhile, China threatens us, warns that if anyone dares to step in and stop them, they will be obliterated.
He's targeting the U.S.
It's a direct shot against us.
I can't believe that this issue involving Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch keeps getting stronger and stronger.
California House Democrats, they are rallying around Bud Light, and they're drinking Bud Light.
Great.
Adam Schiff drinking a beer.
There's a guy I'd love to sit down and have a beer with.
I'm sure he's a barrel of laughs.
We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth said.
Too little too late.
Get woke, go broke.
Down $5 billion plus in net worth.
A conservative activist, I don't know who this guy is.
Anyway, they have come up with a new beer.
Sam Weathers' name, the CEO of Freedom Speaks Up, said that companies like Anheuser-Busch are spitting on conservative values.
I have kids.
I don't care what their response is.
Bud Light is hired.
And then he went after this Dylan Mulvaney person.
But anyway, apparently came up with ultra-right beer.
I like beer, so maybe I'll try it.
And then people are furious that Budweiser released a new pro-America ad with their Clydesdale horses passing by some of America's most famous landmarks.
I don't know if that's going to make the difference.
But anyway, Bud Light blasted on Twitter for putting that, for even putting that out there.
We'll see, but going woke is not working out for most people.
I saw Kid Rock's tape at cases of Bud Light, pulled out his gun in his backyard and just tore it up.
This is outrageous what he did.
I'm like, not really.
Elon Musk telling Tucker Carlson that the U.S. had full access to your private Twitter direct messages.
Didn't we have on this very program the former Jack Dorsey, the former head of Twitter, deny all the shadow banning, deny all these things that were happening?
You think he was lying to us at the time or he didn't know?
What do you think?
You're a friend of mine?
I think they honestly changed the rules when the Biden administration and the Obamas got in there.
And I think that the algo was changed.
I don't even know if they told him.
You don't even know if they told the CEO?
Because Jack Dorsey stepped out.
He started square.
And when he came back in, they had changed a ton of the algos.
I don't even know if he was fully aware.
And I'm not saying he's innocent.
You're talking to the wrong person about algos.
I don't know.
Algorithms, algorithms.
Okay, I know what it meant, but I'm like, no, this is like a foreign language to me.
I just think there's a lot going on, and I don't think there's a lot of people who think they need to be held accountable to anybody on any spectrum.
All right.
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I'm going to play some of the extended remarks.
It's going to blow you away of the people testifying before the House Judiciary Committee today in New York.