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A lot of media news today.
My phone's been blowing up for the better part of the day.
And at the news this morning that Tucker Carlson and my lead in a Fox and Fox News have parted waves.
I don't know and I don't have an answer.
I mean, that's my, I know a lot of people saying, what happened?
What happened?
What happened?
I don't have an answer.
Followed by the news that Don Lemon was let go at CNN.
There, I think you can give a pretty good rationale and reason as to why.
Let me give you some of Don Lemon's finest moments on fake news CNN.
If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported.
You voted for the person who Nazis support.
You voted for the person who the alt-right supports.
I'm not, listen again, I'm not a political person.
I'm a person who lives in reality.
I'm a journalist.
I can see and I can hear and I can think.
And there is no reason to believe that the Republicans are going to start playing fairly and are going to start operating as a party of sanity.
If you don't, if you are selfish, quite frankly, and you don't get the vaccine, then you are putting a strain on the resources at the hospital.
The people who have to work there, some of those people have been there nine days.
And then you go into the hospital and you take resources from people who are actually doing the right thing, who are getting the vaccine, and who are not inundating the hospitals.
What is it about President Obama that really gets under your skin?
Is it because he's smarter than you?
Better educated?
Made it on his own.
Didn't need daddy's help.
Wife is more accomplished.
Better looking.
I don't know.
What is it?
Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.
He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world.
And so that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience.
You know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump that wants to think that Donald Trump's the smart one in there.
Oh, y'all, y'all elitist for them.
This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable.
I think that I think it's the wrong road to go down.
She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime.
Nikki Haley isn't in her prime.
Sorry.
A woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.
What do you talk about?
That's not according to me.
Prime for what?
It depends.
It's just like prime.
If you look it up, if you Google when is a woman in her prime, it'll say 20s, 30s, and 40s.
I don't know.
I'm not saying I agree with that.
So I think she has to be careful about saying that politicians aren't in their prime.
We need to qualify.
Are you talking about prime for like childbearing?
Or are you talking about the fact that you're not saying that?
I'm talking about the message I'm just saying.
The facts are Google and everybody at home.
When is a woman in her prime?
It says 20s, 30s, and 40s.
And I'm just saying, Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't be in her prime according to Google.
Google or whatever it is.
All right, joining us now to discuss Carol Roth, entrepreneur, author of The War on Small Business.
Joe Concha, author of Come On Man.
Anyway, and a bestseller, Fox News contributor.
And guys, maybe you know Joe Concha more than I do.
I don't know or understand what happened with Tucker.
I have no idea.
And I just can't comment on something that I know nothing about.
I've been in this business.
I started in radio in 1987.
I've been on Fox since the beginning in 27 years.
When I tell you that I don't know a thing, I mean, I don't know a single thing about what happened with Fox and Tucker and why they parted ways today.
It was a shock to me.
And Sean, you're not alone.
None of us saw this coming.
I was in the building at the time, and it was just an earthquake.
It was one of those you'll remember where you were type of moments when, just like your phone, my phone blew up.
I had must have been 30 or 40 messages within three minutes of this happening.
So I'm like you.
I can't comment on something that I don't know, and I don't want to speculate in this regard either because I'll just be guessing.
And we do too much of that, I think, sometimes in cable news and on radio.
So I'm going to leave the fifth here until I can talk to more people and gather more information.
But this was definitely an earthquake while Don Lemon was more of a tremor.
I wouldn't even say a tremor.
I think it was basically waiting for the right moment.
I may be wrong.
My guess is they saw the Tucker, they saw the Tucker news and said, you know what, this is our opportunity to do it right now.
I think it's something they probably have wanted to do for a long time.
Do you agree?
Yeah.
The news cycle is solely focused on Tucker.
Tucker's ratings warrant that, obviously.
Don Lemon was the lowest rated host on CNN, both in prime time and in morning, which is a very impressive thing to do in the same year.
By the way, I mean, he should get an award for that.
That sounds like the New York Times getting a Pulitzer, you know.
Precisely.
But yeah, I mean, the only thing we missed in that beautiful montage that you guys put together was back in 20, I want to say it was 14, and CNN for months, I'm not exaggerating this, months.
It's in my book, covered the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
That's the plane that crashed and no one knew exactly where it was or what happened to it.
And he asked the question of an air expert, and he said this.
I know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous if this plane was swallowed by a black hole?
I mean, the entire earth.
By the way, I actually have that cut.
Let me play it because it's worth playing.
What if it was hijacking or terrorism or mechanical failure or pilot error?
But what if it was something fully that we don't really understand?
A lot of people have been asking about black holes and on and on and on and all of these conspiracy theories.
Let's look at this.
Noah says, what else can you think about Black Hole Bermuda Triangle?
And then Deji says, huh, just like the movie Lost.
And of course, it's also referencing the Twilight Zone, which has a very similar plot.
That's what people are saying.
I know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous?
I mean, you can't make fun of it.
You just can't make this stuff up that these people over at these news networks say and get away with things that conservatives would never get away with.
I actually said last week, I said, you know, it looks like Don Lemon has passed his prime.
Little did I know that all this would occur.
Carol, let's get your take.
I know people have been blowing up my phone all day, and I don't have an answer for anybody.
I don't know.
I do know that this business of media is very complicated, way more complicated than people know.
Navigating through tough times and troubled waters are very hard.
And I've done it a long time, and I don't often have answers or reasons or why's or wherefores on a lot of these things.
And people look to me for the answer.
I'm like, if I had it, I'd share it with you.
I don't know.
Yeah, it's always challenging when there's breaking news and you know that there's more, potentially more to the story.
You just kind of want to wait for all the facts and the information to come out.
And I certainly think that's the right thing to do.
In terms of Don Lemon's situation, it was actually the opposite.
He put out a statement on Twitter.
He actually said that he was not given any indication by management or that he thought that management would have the decency to tell him directly and he was not given any indication that he would be able to continue.
Funny enough, Sean, it was the first time that CNN has actually fact-checked Don Lemon.
Their communications Twitter handle said that Don Lemon's statement about this morning's events is inaccurate.
He was offered an opportunity to meet with management, but instead released a statement on Twitter.
So I guess that if you dropped your lemon, that at that point you can then go ahead and fact check that.
You know, it's and Joe, you know this because you've watched media with me and I think you should have your own media show on Fox.
And I hope that day comes because you are by far the most honest media analyst out there.
And I don't say that because we're friends.
We became friends because of it, to be honest.
That's true.
And this is just a business where longevity is kind of hard to get.
I promise everybody, and I say this before I do my audience shows, and we have one tonight.
I often will tell people, you know, we're now the longest running primetime cable news host in the history of cable news.
But I promise everybody can go Google some of my early shows in 96.
You would never have bet that I'd survived this long.
I was horrible at it.
And I remember asking Roger Ells at the time, who was ahead of Fox, why didn't you fire me?
He goes, well, nobody was watching.
And number one, number two, I knew you'd eventually get it because you were a broadcaster.
Oh, that's amazing.
And he saw your potential, right?
And he stuck with you.
It's kind of like when somebody goes to the big leagues for the first time and they strike out the first couple of bats.
You don't send them off back down to the minors.
You stick with them and hopefully give them some good pointers and they move along the way.
But yeah, talk about longevity.
I mean, think about where Fox was just five, six years ago, right, in terms of prime time, the people around you.
Bill O'Reilly at eight.
You had Megan at nine.
You were at 10.
Greta was at seven.
It's only you now, right?
And now it's changing again.
So that's the thing in this business.
My father always tells me when you talk about that own having having my own show, and that's always the goal.
It's the goal of any contributor.
It's the goal of anybody who just appears as a guest.
Oh, maybe I could, you know, quarterback, you know, this hour, one time, or full-time for that matter.
He keeps telling me the same advice over and over again.
He goes, the only constant in life is change.
Things change constantly.
You will get your opportunity eventually.
Now, I'm not saying I'm taking the eight o'clock at Fox.
That's not how it works exactly.
But that's the thing.
There is so much, particularly in media lately, so many changes.
If you look at all the networks and all the newspapers out there and all the editor changes and so on, it's obviously something that's in transition right now, and some unpredictable things are going to happen.
And again, I'll let Carol fill in the rest of the blanks, but it's a tough, tough business, that I can tell you.
You know, it really, really is.
Quick break more with Carol Roth and Joe Concha on the other side.
Then your call is 800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, we continue our media analysis with Joe Concha and Carol Roth.
You know, one of the things that everyone has to understand, too, I mean, the media landscape has changed a lot over the years.
Now, let's go back, for example, to music radio days.
And people would listen to music on AM.
And then they switched over to FM.
And then AM Radio for a long time struggled.
And then along came this guy called Rush Limbaugh and almost single-handedly saved the AM band.
That's why I am apoplectic and furious at the notion that there are car companies contemplating not putting AM radios in cars, even though we're on 725 stations, many AMs, many FMs.
That's not the point.
AM radio is where the emergency alert system, that's where people would go to.
If there was any type of outage elsewhere, then guess what?
People would go to AM radio in a heartbeat.
I don't think it's good for the safety of the country in the end, to be honest.
If God forbid it's a bad day like 9-11 or something worse, which could happen, especially with this new axis of evil.
But back to my point, then music radio changed, and then people had the ability to pick their own songs, plug in their phone, and play whatever they want.
And that then created, you know, another opportunity for people in the car to listen to something else.
You know, now people have at their homes, they have their general cable package, but then they also have Netflix and Amazon Prime Video or they have Hulu or all of these options or Discovery.
Plus, I've been watching the Chosen, which is a series on Jesus Christ.
I can't stop watching it.
And I had to fight hard to find season three, and now I'm in the middle of season three, and I love this series.
It's amazing about the life of Jesus.
It's incredible.
Carol, I mean, so we have more choices than we've ever had before.
Yeah, and it's not only more choices, Sean, it's the pace of change, which is accelerating.
You know, you've talked about the shift and back when AM and FM kind of came about and all the shifts that happened there.
But with technology, the pace of change is just happening so rapidly.
All the things that you mentioned, plus, you know, the Spotifies of the world and the social media and the different access points for people to get their news.
And when something new pops up, how quickly they're able to amass millions and millions of eyeballs.
And so that makes it really challenging for everybody who's involved in media, whether you are legacy or an upstart, to shift and to change and to try to keep up with things.
And I think that that pace is just going to continue and continue to get more hectic.
The only thing I would say about any talent, Joe Rogan, maybe Joe Concha is a good example.
Any really talented person out there, there are more opportunities than I think I've ever seen in my lifetime.
There's more chances of people, you know, I think the media landscape is being transformed before our eyes.
Oh, completely.
And I've lived through all of it.
That's right.
I've been 27 years on Fox Lone.
Obviously, you were in radio before that.
But here's the thing.
I'm in my home studio right now.
I'm the original Joe in his basement, all right?
I'm in my basement.
I have my camera in front of me, background.
Whenever I join your show, if we don't do the in-studio show, I do it from my home.
And that's the thing.
You could start up your own channel, more or less, from the comfort of your own home.
You don't have to buy studios.
You don't have to buy huge amounts of employees and staff and resources and technology.
It's become so cheap to broadcast yourself to the world.
And if you are popular enough and you go viral, it pays for itself and then some.
So, yeah, that's where it's changed now.
Just like people don't have to go to the office anymore to use a conference room or a fax machine because those are the things that you have to survive in in terms of doing well within a company.
Now, people can work from home.
It's why so many people are leaving New York and California for places like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina.
You could work from almost anywhere now, and your employer won't even know the difference, and you'll be happier for it.
So that's why we're seeing such a migration out of those big tax states to those other states I just mentioned, because the flexibility is there from a work perspective, Sean.
Yeah, just crazy times.
I know we'll get the answer at some point.
Tucker's too talented not to land on his feet.
I think the biggest opportunities, and I'm saying this as somebody that has lived through a lot of change in media, both on radio and TV, is probably in the entrepreneurial realm.
And people have a little more freedom there as well.
Anyway, I appreciate it.
Thank you both, Carol Roth, Joe Concha, 800-941, Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
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I'm going to get to your calls here in a second.
I just want to remind you of why Majorca should be impeached, along with a lot of other people.
But the person that's really making the call to not enforce the laws at our border and keep our nation safe, that's coming straight from the top.
That's coming from Joe Biden.
But Mayorkas grilled over the death of the seven-year-old and his grandmother near the border and, you know, gives the same dumb answers every single time he's up on Capitol Hill at the Border Secure, and it's Donald Trump's fault, which is stupid.
And then, by the way, Josh Hawley grills him about how he should be removed from office.
Let me play those both for you.
They're sitting right behind you.
They came here today because they want answers.
They came here today because of the failures of you and your leadership.
They came here because they want closure.
They deserve answers.
Mr. Mayorkas, will you turn around and offer them your condolences and an apology for the failure of your administration that led to the death of their loved ones?
They're right there.
They're standing right there.
Congressman.
Mr. Secretary, they're standing there, and I think they deserve an apology from you.
Mr. Mayorkis, do you disagree with the head Border Patrol agent when he said that our border is non-secure?
Congressman, I have testified to that issue.
So you do disagree with him.
You disagree with your chief of Border Patrol.
I respectfully do in that regard.
Why have you permitted 345,000 children to come into this country unaccompanied?
Why have you permitted thousands of them to be abused and exploited?
Senator, what we do is we enforce the law.
But let me just say this.
You're not.
It is stunning to me, stunning to hear you say that the prior administration reunited children with their parents.
Oh, I see.
So this is their fault?
So you're not going to take any responsibility for the indentured servitude and exploitation of children that is happening on your watch.
A moment ago, you were crowing about the fact that you treated children so well, and yet we find tens of thousands of children who are forced to work as slaves because of your policies, and you turn around and blame a prior administration.
Mr. Secretary, this is par for the course for you.
You do it every time you appear before this committee.
You do it every time you appear before Congress.
I, for one, am sick and tired of it, and thousands of children are in physical danger.
Danger, because of what you are doing.
You should have resigned long ago.
And if you cannot change course, you should be removed from office.
He should be removed from office.
It's that simple.
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Let us say hi to Bob in Minnesota.
Bob, hi, how are you?
What's going on, sir?
Hi, Sean.
How you doing?
I'm good.
What's going on?
I'm going back to last week.
You were talking about the Biden syndication, which it is.
And I had a thought thinking that they drilled Nixon for just spying on his competition and forced him to resign.
So I hope the Republicans really put the hammer down, but I don't think they have the, you know, what, to do it.
Well, listen, I'm going to tell you right now, if they don't do it, then we might as well take that document known as our Constitution.
That Constitution is foundationally the foundation for every law that we have in this country.
And if you're only going to enforce laws you like or only enforce laws on some people and not other people, then you really don't have a constitutional republic anymore, do you?
No, I agree.
And that is the problem.
And that is the danger that we are now experiencing.
You have one set of rules for one group of people and another set of rules for another group of people.
Now, with all that said, this IRS whistleblower has an awful lot to say, and it might implicate the Attorney General Merrick Arlen.
We'll have the latest on all of this tonight on Hannity.
And I'm telling you right now, it's a big deal.
Tony Blinken, did he get rewarded with the prestigious position of Secretary of State because he got in contact with 51 former Intel people to get them to sign on to a letter saying this was likely a misinformation campaign, Hunter Biden's laptop, when none of them knew a single thing about it, none of them whatsoever.
And then he uses it in a debate against Donald Trump to exonerate him.
And meanwhile, the FBI should have verified it within days and authenticated it within days.
They didn't.
And they had it almost the full year before that election, 11 full months.
So it's very troubling to me.
These are troubling times.
And then now we're up to a dozen, according to James Comer, up to a dozen Biden family members making money from this syndicate.
And the question that we need answered, the main questions we need answered is, okay, how much money did they do in business with the communist Chinese?
How much money did they do in business with Russia?
Anyway, I got to run, man, but you're right.
It's a big danger.
And let it play out.
Well, I think it is playing out.
I mean, I'm hearing reports left and right that the possible indictment of Hunter Biden is here and that there's meetings going on about that very specific issue.
My fear is they're going to try and go easy on him and they're going to hope that it placates the public.
They'll go after him on tax issues.
They'll go after him on lying on a gun application.
They'll probably give him a slap on the wrist and hope it goes away.
This goes so much deeper than that.
The issue is, was the family involved in an effort?
In other words, with all that happened, was this an influence peddling scheme?
How deeply involved was Joe?
How much money are we talking about?
What did we learn from the suspicious activity reports?
What did we learn about these new LLCs that seem to be show companies, according to James Comer?
And listen until we get that information.
Once we know that Joe Biden was involved in it up to his ears, that is an impeachable offense.
He should be impeached.
If we had any sense of fairness in this country, he would be impeached.
That would reach the bar, the very high bar of high crimes and misdemeanors, in my view.
Anyway, appreciate it.
800-941-Sean, our number, big time, AJ, Houston, Texas.
What's going on, baby?
Are you?
Big time Sean Hannity.
Hey, my boy Tucker, I ain't worried about him.
He's going to be just fine.
I already know he's going to be fine.
But, Sean.
By the way, I don't know anything about it, as I said, but I totally completely agree with you.
I mean, he's too talented.
The media landscape has changed.
I don't know if he'll go the entrepreneurial route or maybe the more traditional route.
I'm not sure.
But I think that he has a strong enough following that whatever he decides to do next, he'll be successful at.
You know, I will tell you this.
Everyone thinks that on-air people all hate each other.
We actually all got along great.
We, you know, and there were times, you know, Bill O'Reilly and I, you know, we were at each other's throats for a number of years, and then we settled our differences.
And you hear Bill O'Reilly on this show.
Yeah.
And I'm going to say one other thing, big time.
I'm going to tell you that life's too short.
I don't want to go through this life angry.
I don't want to go through this life mad at people.
I don't feel that somebody else's failure is a predicate to any success that I have.
I believe a rising tide lifts all boats.
I don't know the details at all.
Nobody consulted me.
I don't own the channel.
And I know everybody would think that I must know something.
And I'm like, no, I actually don't know a thing.
But, Sean, I want you to stay angry after the 2024 election because we're going to be angry.
Because when that Joe Biden deal come down, I want you to hit me like a bad habit because Doggon, they would do us that way, Sean.
And we know this crooked CNN and all them, they know what they did wrong.
They know it all.
So we got to hold them accountable and be on them like a bad habit.
I would call that righteous indignation.
And there's a difference, right?
When Jesus threw the money traders out of the temple, people would say, well, Jesus was angry.
I don't think so.
I think it was righteous indignation.
Exactly.
And we're going to throw him out just as well in 2024.
And I hope the Sanders join him instead of fighting with him.
We got the habit.
Yeah, I don't like the fighting either.
I'll be honest with you.
I don't.
Yeah, exactly.
We don't want them fighting, Sean.
So we got a country to save, man.
So Dog Gona, let's get ready.
Hey, Sean, as we say, let's pull our bootstraps up and let's get ready for this fight.
And real quick, I want everybody when this thing come down to the everybody, we're going to sit over and count the polls with them.
We won't let them kick us out of there no more.
We got to be ready, big daddy.
I love you, man, and keep up the good work.
Appreciate it.
Big time, AJ.
Houston, Texas.
Can't live without AJ.
John in Florida, the free state of Florida.
What's up, John?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, how are you, my friend?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Good.
The free state of Florida.
Got my chickens, raising them.
Just had the first dozen eggs laid in my yard.
Well, slow down a second.
You just bought a bunch of chickens for the first time?
Sean, I'm originally from New York.
Moved down here quite a few years ago.
Got about an acre over here.
Okay.
Florida bought some little chickens in December, raised them in my bathtub.
Got seven of them.
They're old enough to go outside.
They're outside now.
They just started laying eggs last week.
Okay, let me ask you a question.
How good are the, do the eggs taste better in your view?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I'm calling them my freedom chicks.
Meg.
Let me ask you the next question.
Are the yolks more orange than yellow?
Yes, sir.
They're so fresh.
I literally hear them in the yard.
They just laid another one.
And then I go out.
And I'm a Marine Corps veteran.
Semperfire.
Absolutely.
Raising them.
Freedom eggs.
That's what I'm calling them.
And they're fresh.
So I either have like four, five, six egg whites a day or three scrambled eggs a day.
So I eat a very high-protein diet because I work out a lot.
And that's awesome.
I'm very happy for you.
I mean, that sounds actually fun, too.
I don't know why.
I like the idea of Sean Hannity raising chickens in my backyard.
I wonder if I probably in New York, there's an ordinance preventing it.
Well, God bless you, Sean, for everything that you do.
Thank you.
Thank you, my friend.
Good luck with your chickens, all right?
Thank you.
Yep, yep, buddy.
I appreciate the call.
Doug, California, what's up, Doug?
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
Appreciate you taking my call.
What I am calling about is I've been paying close attention to commentators and so forth all through this Joe Biden fiasco.
And it comes to me that I've got a copy of all of the amendments to the Constitution, and I've talked to a number of people on it.
There's nowhere in the Constitution or the amendments that addresses getting rid of an administration that is so corrupt and so dishonest.
And now the 25th Amendment deals with an old guy up there who can't function anymore, and that's one thing.
But there's nothing specifically that deals with this kind of corruption.
Well, high crimes and misdemeanors is very broad, and the way they used it to apply it to Trump was very different.
The only thing that I unfortunately can tell you is, let's say they impeach him, which would be the right thing to do if you follow the law.
And you have, you know, assume if we find out that Joe Biden was involved and knew everything about Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings and benefited from it himself financially, which Hunter himself implicates his own father in his own laptop from hell.
If we find that out, that would be an impeachable offense in my mind.
Now, you might impeach him in the House, but in the Senate, I doubt they'd ever find him guilty.
Then you have to ask a tough question.
Is it worth putting the country through it?
We know what the Democrats would do, but we don't know what Republicans would do.
Well, look what Joe Biden's putting our country through right now.
You know, it seems to me we're at a position right now that we ought to be able to deal with just about anything that comes down the pike.
I only have to run for the constraints of time, so forgive me for running, but Doug, we appreciate you being with us, my friend.
Thank you.
All right, Hannity tonight, audience show.
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We are loaded up.
We have Joe Manchin, who's livid and apoplectic about the Democratic Party.
Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, also wants a deal that saves the country money and wants Kevin McCarthy to be able to negotiate with Joe Biden.
And Joe Biden keeps saying no.
We'll get his take on it.
Governor DeSantis will join us tonight.
He is in Tokyo, believe it or not.
We've got Tulsi Gabbard on tonight, Jimmy Phela, Kayleigh McInani, Kellyanne Conway.