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May 18, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Debt Ceiling and Failing Borders - May 17th, Hour 1

Sean has the latest on the debt ceiling battle as well as updates on Title 42 and the recent records set for illegal immigrants crossing the border.  2024 can't come fast enough!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Imagine if we could be so quiet.
It's so quiet today.
My day's been very slow.
Maybe we want to get a cup of coffee?
Yeah.
Take a load off.
So I have Simple Man Bill O'Reilly on later, and I'm thinking of uh what I want to ask him today.
And I figured out what I want to do.
I'm thinking about I'm looking at this country right now.
Well, 500 and I think 38 days away from decision day, which is that's when the 2024 presidential election will take place.
Um it may seem like a long ways away.
I remember being in Atlanta and they were counting down.
I was a local radio host.
They'd count down on I don't know, I 7585, one of those.
How many days to the Olympics?
And it was a thousand days, five hundred days, three hundred, one hundred, fifty, ten.
Anyway, the Olympics came.
The year-end edition, by the way, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution that year had a year-end uh tribute to yours truly.
1996 was a great year.
The Olympics came and Sean Hannity left.
That was not very nice.
I've that hurt my feelings.
That's why I have it framed.
Uh, and I kept an original copy.
I figure I'm never going to be treated that way again when I left Huntsville, Alabama, goodbye to the talk show host from Hell was the editorial of the paper there.
I man, I could get a complex reading this stuff.
It's like these psycho warriors, you know, cyber warriors in their underwear in their basement with all their anonymity, you know, taking shots and barbs and you know, just slinging their arrows uh with you know, with you know, and you can say anything you want.
No, but you don't even have to be who you really are.
And these people, a lot of them are not, apparently.
Um, and I'm just thinking, I'm looking at my, you know, Rush used to call it a stack of stuff, and you know, I've got in front of me, you know, we're headed for a possible default.
Joe Biden missing in action 97 days.
Republicans, they did their responsibility.
Now Joe has to cut short uh an Asian trip over the last minute debt ceiling negotiations.
By the way, if there is a default, and it is still a possibility, uh, if there's a default, it'll be Joe Biden's uh it will all be caused by him.
He failed to meet McCarthy was begging him daily.
We gotta get together.
We gotta negotiate.
Nope, no negotiation.
Joe Biden made a bet.
The bet was that Republicans would never be able to settle on a bill to raise the debt ceiling.
Well, they did.
And it actually turned out to be very, very fiscally responsible, smart.
I like it in a lot of ways.
And it goes back to 2022 spending levels.
By the way, that's still COVID money increases involved in that.
It also reduces and puts a limit or a cap on baseline budgeting, so you can only increase uh budget one percent a year moving forward.
Uh it was scored out by the CBO as saving what, 4.8 trillion dollars in 10 years.
We have 30, what, 132 trillion dollars in debt?
It just made good sense.
And it also opens up some more drilling opportunities so we can be more energy independent.
It is the lifeblood of the world's economy, it creates high-paying jobs, it's good for national security, all the things we always talk about.
But, you know, we have so many of our fellow Americans, for whatever reason, they put their faith, their hope, their trust, their belief, their confidence that the federal government is gonna take care of their every need.
New Green Deal ism is not about the environment.
It's about a a new economic structure in this country.
They spell it out.
It's you know, guaranteed pre-K, guaranteed government uh college, guaranteed government jobs, guaranteed government wages, guaranteed government healthy food, guaranteed government health care, uh guaranteed government retirement, guaranteed, guaranteed, guaranteed.
Well, where's the money gonna come from?
Well, those millionaires and billionaires, you mean the ones that Joe Biden bailed out at the Silicon Valley Bank?
I mean, they have 250,000 in insurance per the FDIC, and yet you had millionaires and billionaires, and they're gonna get every penny back.
And then I love the question that James Langford threw out at Janet Yellen.
Well, if any of my constituents, any of the people of the great state of Oklahoma, if if they have more than $250,000 in the bank, are you going to shore insure their money above and beyond $250,000?
No.
You know, why is it that people put their trust in government?
Do you really want the government telling you you can't have a gas stove?
Do you really think that should be the role of the government?
Do you really want the government, you know, tampering with your powerful dishwasher and washing machines?
Uh do you really want the monitoring any further, your air conditioning for crying out loud?
It's pretty hot out there.
I like it a little cold in the in my house over the hot summer months.
You know, don't feel like sweating inside my own house.
Um do you like the fact, you know, what what is government done?
Ask yourself.
What I'm talking about here, it's it it transcends party.
It's not about red, blue, liberal conservative, Republican, Democrat.
It is not.
It is about common sense and a lack of common sense.
Common sense, because it's not that common with some people today.
I mean, why do you put your faith in government?
Why do so many people in this country believe that their government is going to give their children a good education when all of the empirical data shows just the opposite?
We are failing our children in these government-run schools at the highest level.
We pay more per capita per child than any industrialized country with the worst results.
So how's government doing and how would you grade them in terms of a lot of public school systems in this country?
To me, they get a big fat F. You know, what about health care?
Whatever happened to keep your doctor, your plan, and the average family saves over $2,500 per year.
How did that work out?
Well, millions of Americans lost their doctors, millions lost their plans, and the average cost increase has been about 250% thanks to Obamacare.
There's 40% of the country moving towards 50% that on that have only one Obamacare exchange option.
You know, how are we treating our vets or how were we treating our vets prior to Donald Trump getting in office?
I think one of the best things he did that he never got any credit for was he said that if your VA hospital is not able to take care of you, uh, you don't go on a list.
You ought to be able to go to a local hospital, get the care, and your government will take care of it for you because we promised you that.
That's how they should have handled it, but it's not how they'd handled it prior to that.
You know, look at Medicare, Social Security.
Remember they talked about the lock boxes?
What happened in the lock boxes?
They raided the lock boxes and they squandered the money.
You know, how are they managing your kids' futures right now?
They're not managing it well right now.
Because, you know, in so many different ways, you know, they're robbing from future generations.
Uh announced what in my ear.
You can say it very...
I don't think that's true.
Anyway, uh, I'll talk to you in the break.
Anyway, so I'm and I'm thinking it's common sense.
If you love this country, you cannot conclude.
Tell me what Joe Biden is doing well.
Tell me where he's successful.
Tell me where he instills confidence in you.
You know, to me, a balanced budget is common sense.
The worst thing I could ever think of in my life is dying and leaving my kids with all my debt and ruining their lives, and they have to be responsible for my debt.
Now, legally that doesn't happen, but you you get my point.
As a government, that's what they're doing.
It's common sense to secure your borders and do background checks on the people that would like entry into this country to make sure they don't have radical associations.
By the end of Biden's first term, there's gonna be seven and a half million illegal immigrants or more that he's allowed into this country without any background checks.
Look at all the people on the terror watch list that we are catching.
What about the gotta ways that we didn't catch?
You know, we're already now over six and a half million people that we know of, you know, that have entered this country illegally.
It's going to be seven and a half, if not higher by the end of the year.
You know, look at how how many more, you know, bundles of fentanyl that can kill every single American ten times over.
Are we going to get catch at the border?
Never mind heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine.
Stopping drugs from entering our country is a good idea.
Stopping human trafficking and the abuse of young women at our border, that's common sense.
It's not brain surgery.
You know, eliminating domestic energy production is probably one of the dumbest things that Joe Biden has done.
Now we are dependent again on hostile regimes that are now manipulating the markets as soon as China aligned with Saudi Arabia and made a deal with them to align with Iran and now doing the same thing with Syria, and now that Biden opened up, you know, a business relationship with Venezuela and the thug dictator there, you know, we don't need to import one ounce of energy.
We were energy independent.
The next step to that is energy dominance.
This isn't about conservatism, liberalism, Republican Democrat.
That is common sense.
It is good for national security.
It creates high-paying career jobs in the energy sector.
I mean, I'd love to think that we're gonna have all this green, clean, free energy, but unless and until we actually have it, the lifeblood of the world's economy will remain fossil fuels.
So stop, you know, living in a fantasy world.
You know, simple law and order that people that we refund our police, that if people are arrested, that we put them in jail.
Get rid of these idiotic no bail laws.
You know, if you don't have law and order, safety security, you don't have real freedom to pursue happiness.
Common sense.
You know, it's uh, you know, look at all the corruption we have now discovered in 2016.
This Durham report is devastating.
But you have, you know, people, you know, we we've ruined and destroyed the greatest, the greatest law enforcement entity in the world, the FBI, because they've involved themselves in not one but now two straight presidential elections.
Same with the CIA, the dirty 51 and whoever was working in the CIA recruiting some of these people.
That's common sense.
You know, the FBI ought not be working against the will of the people and putting cinder blocks on this on the scales of balance as it relates to elections in this country.
I mean, it's unbelievable corruption.
And we need to restore the FBI and the CIA to their former greatness.
In the meantime, if that means that we've got to defund them, then defund them.
Because we can't allow this level of corruption which goes unpunished every time to continue.
And and Congress has the power, the purse, and we need to probably reorganize both three letter agencies.
You know, what about these people?
Isn't it common sense when you see the threats that represent China, Russia, Iran, and these alliances that they've created?
Do you not see this as a uh uh an opportunity for America to look at the sober reality of evil in our time and prepare for the worst?
But what do we have?
We have a woke military with transgender recruitment.
And now talking about electric vehicles on the battlefield.
Well, they're gonna let us put the charging stations in so we can charge up our electric electric vehicle.
Never mind that the charging stations are, you know, in large part fueled by fossil fuels, just like they have to pillage Mother Earth to get the minerals, the cobalt, the nickel, the manganese to build the, you know, everything to build the batteries that are needed for these these vehicles.
What about the EMP attacks?
What EMP attacks, those vehicles are done.
Oh, let me tell you something.
That scares the hell out of me.
And it's it's a real clear present danger.
And I I just don't have any confidence at all in our government at this time to get anything right.
The discussions that we're having.
Uh can you please define a woman?
I mean, these discussions are being taken place in Congress.
And meanwhile, you know, we have what, six and a half million people entering this country illegally.
How many of these people will operate terror cells plotting, planning, scheming to get this country?
Common sense.
It's not it's not even about party.
What's in the best interest of our country?
Our future, our kids, our our present day America.
What has happened to common sense?
Not that common.
You won't hear the mainstream press talking about this stuff.
Sean Hannity is on the radio.
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So, you know, I guess the word of the day is common sense.
Is it is it really smart that Joe Biden as president is risking a default of this country for the first time in its history because he made a decision that he, quote, wouldn't negotiate, the same guy in 2011 that said, uh, I can't be my way or the highway when it comes to negotiations regarding the debt ceiling.
You know, now if he now he has to cut short a trip to Asia because of last minute debt ceiling negotiations.
You know, if you look at the clock, um, okay, you've got what, 13, 14 days left, and according to Janet Yellen, that debt ceiling comes due.
That means the full faith and credit of the U.S. government will be in default.
And the ramifications will be even worse for the already awful Biden economy.
Uh anyway, the White House McCarthy's team, they have agreed to meet directly on these negotiations.
Uh the issue of tougher work requirements for federal aid uh programs pose an obstacle.
Apparently, there's a big disagreement between McCarthy and Hakeem Jeffries and the left.
Uh liberals are furious at the idea that Joe may negotiate any deal.
Well, then if if Joe Biden was missing in action by his own choice for 97 days, if if now he can't get a deal done, there's only one person here to blame.
And that's him.
Because he made a bad bet.
He was thinking that the small majority of Republicans in the House could not unite together and come up with a debt ceiling increase bill.
They did.
And it's basically it's responsible.
You go back to fiscal year 2022 levels, spending levels.
You reduce the baseline budgeting limit to only one percent increases.
Uh third, you have more energy production in the country, which is critical from from my perspective.
And Biden won't agree on a debt ceiling that forces able-bodied welfare recipients to work.
It's called work fare.
Okay, you You know, one of the worst things I could imagine in life is you wake up and you have nothing to do.
Although maybe there are days I think that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have nothing to do for a particular day of a week.
But there's been a hundred days he did nothing.
I don't even think he knows what the debt ceiling even means at this point anymore.
And Speaker McCarthy put out 104 days ago I sat down with Biden and said, let's sit down and negotiate a deal.
He said he would not negotiate.
So the House, by the way, their bill scored out that they'll save 4.8 trillion, according to the CBO over a 10-year period.
That's a lot of savings.
How much money we're going to continue to rob from our children or our grandchildren?
At some point it's got to stop.
But again, go back to what the word of the day.
Common sense.
You don't wait till the last minute to get a deal done, especially when you know that the Republicans.
Now, he's going to have to get McCarthy to go back to the House if there are any changes to the Republican bill and convince a majority of Republicans to go along with them, or anger part of his coalition in the House, their governing coalition.
If he gets a majority of them, then what, make a deal and get some of the Democrats to go along with McCarthy?
I don't know if that can happen.
So if there is a I'm not as confident as everybody.
Oh, we can't let we we can't default on our debt.
Okay, it sounds great in principle, then why didn't you take it more seriously?
By the way, an IRS whistleblower who accused the feds of giving Hunter Biden preferential treatment now has mysteriously been removed from Hunter's case along with his entire team of investigators.
Wow, what a shock.
Now this guy sought and was granted whistleblower protection.
Whistleblower protection laws are on the books.
Now, I thought Democrats love whistleblowers.
Remember in the Trump Ukraine impeachment case?
We had a hearsay whistleblower, not a real whistleblower, a hearsay whistleblower that initiated what resulted in impeachment hoax number two against Donald Trump.
Unbelievable.
Or is that one?
Was it one or no?
That was that was impeachment hoax won.
Yes.
I think I don't think there were whistleblowers in both of them.
So, you know, what happened?
I thought we were encouraging people to come forward and talk about malfeasance when they see it in their government.
I guess not anymore.
Uh fall out from the Durham report.
Matt Gates is calling for FBI officials to be indicted.
He's demanding the DOJ indict top officials based on the conclusion of that report.
And here's what's going to probably happen.
Matt is not wrong.
They should all be held accountable.
What they did to the country.
By the way, if any of you ever think it's a good idea to go before a sitting judge and purposefully knowledge and knowingly lie to that judge and think that you're going to get off scot-free?
Well, you're probably smoking some of the methamphetamine crossing that border every day, laced with fentanyl because you're out of your mind.
And that's exactly what these people did.
And because they were not held accountable, does it surprise you the same FBI that had Hunter's laptop in 2019 in December that verified its authenticity in the spring of 2020?
Uh, that knew it was Hunter Biden's laptop, allowed FBI agents to pre-bunk the story with big tech companies in the months leading up to the 2020 election saying, oh, my you might be a victim of a disinformation campaign.
It might be about Joe or Hunter Biden.
Anyway, uh Marjorie Taylor Green has introduced articles of impeachment against FBI Director Ray.
You know, Director Ray had the opportunity of a lifetime.
He could have cleaned up the world's premier law enforcement agency.
He did not.
Linda, your friends are FaceTiming me in real time here.
No, she was taking a video of you because you're so amazing.
How would anyone ever not remember this moment forever?
But the left downplays all of it.
Liberal commentators that bought all of this for three years, they perpetrated every lie, every conspiracy theory, every hoax, and they've gotten away with it.
There are no ramifications at all, whatsoever.
And now 2020 happens.
What's going to happen this time?
And if not if nobody's ever going to be held accountable, what happens to the country in the end?
How does that work out for all of us?
You know, you got the radical left now advancing their mission to expand our courts and pack the courts.
You know, groups like Planned Parenthood, NARAL, ProChoice America, two of the leading uh abortion rights groups appearing in front of the Supreme Court.
Bans off our bodies.
Let me tell you how Republicans need to handle the abortion issue.
Now, especially in swing states, and I'm not giving you my moral position.
I'm pro-life, I believe in the sanctity of life.
Politically, you saw what happened in Pennsylvania with Doug Mastriano.
No exceptions, rape incest mother's life.
He lost by a record number percentage of votes to a non-incumbent.
As a matter of fact, I've read somewhere it was uh the largest margin of victory for a non-incumbent governor uh since the 1940s.
Republicans, they they have to understand the states that they're competing in, and you cannot go take on one of the most controversial issues and not take into account the people in that state and what their views are on this.
At the end of the day, I've always said abortion is a hard issue anyway, which is why I'm proud to partner with preborne.com slash Sean, by the way.
I just bought them two ultrasound machines because they're saving lives.
It's a heart issue.
You know, abortion is going to be legal in states like you know, pretty much every state.
So if one state doesn't allow it, people will go to the other state to get the abortion.
But if you change their heart and tell them and show them through science that, oh my gosh, you can see fingers and toes and facial features and a nose and a mouth and eyes and hear a heartbeat, that's pretty powerful.
But it's simple common sense, isn't it?
State Supreme Court judge is now ordered New York City Mayor Eric Adams to stop sending Biden's illegal immigrants to upstate New York.
You gotta love this.
So you have governors like Abbott and DeSantis and others.
Illegal immigrants are put on buses and they're transported to sanctuary cities and states.
And then all of a sudden they arrive.
Like when they arrived on Motha's Vineyard, beautiful Martha's Vineyard.
You know, the liberal conclave that that is.
Anyway, so they they didn't even last 24 hours on Martha's Vineyard before they were thrown out.
Same thing with New York City.
New York City is now trying to dump as many uh illegal immigrants that are being sent to New York.
Same thing in D.C., same thing in Chicago, Laurie Lightweight.
She couldn't get him out of her city fast enough.
And it's such hypocrisy here.
Six illegal immigrants who are on a terrorist watch list captured in just the last two days.
How many people on that watch list got through?
I'm gonna keep asking it because one day I'm gonna have really bad news to deliver and report on this show and on TV.
And when that day comes and we find out, oh, they they came during the Biden open borders invasion.
Are we gonna blame Biden for it?
We should.
It's not that complicated.
You know, think of think of it this way.
If you look at any issue, you tell me where this democratic socialist radical new Green Deal climate alarmist religious cult agenda is working for you.
By the way, China now, according to Business Insider, they're planning to dominate America's EV market with their much more affordable cars.
Well, they don't allow American cars to be sold without massive, massive tariffs in China, just like they don't allow Americans to buy up Chinese farmland and ranch land and land near our military installations.
Why would we ever import a single uh communist Chinese electric vehicle uh at a lower price because of course they've got slave labor going on in China?
The minority Uyghurs is just the start of it.
Views of the U.S. housing market has now reached a new low.
Uh Elon Musk warning of economic headwinds Says the Fed will now be slow to lower rates.
I agree with them.
The trucking industry is facing a showdown with Democrats over the push to eliminate diesel trucks and go electric.
They don't want to go electric.
They can't afford the higher cost.
On average, a car is fifteen to twenty thousand grand more.
How are trucking companies going to afford that?
On top of every other thing that they've been dealing with, including the high price of diesel, which by the way, we told you, energy prices are now soaring again.
We have, you know, if you want to look at the state of America today, you gotta just look at what is working and what is not working, and it's really simple.
There's nothing that I see the Democrats that are doing that is working.
Not a single thing.
If it was, I would give them all the credit in the world for their success.
Their economy is a mess.
Energy dependence has created a mess.
You know, the corruption is beyond any any comprehension I could ever think would happen with the FBI and the CIA.
We have a woke military.
We have wide open borders, and people put their trust in the same government officials that ruin their schools that lied about Obamacare, that uh aren't even willing to step up and help our veterans that were promised health care, the same ones that raided the lockbox for Social Security and Medicare.
The same people that believe in defund dismantling our police departments and no bail laws.
This this this is the United States today.
By the way, there was a second amendment advocate win uh major challenge to New York's, I'm sorry, New Jersey's strict uh concealed carry law.
Anyway, the state immediately filed an appeal, but regardless, uh, it was decided by the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, parts of the law which were backed by leftist liberal governor Phil Murphy, already blocked by various courts.
Uh but anyway, chapter 131 made it easier to obtain a carry permit, but tightly limited where a gun could be actually carried, which makes sense.
You can't carry it into an arena, for example.
And a lot of states have similar laws like that.
Um, but it's interesting that you know, this is where we are.
And by the way, uh everyone's gonna get mad about to say this, and I'm not gonna give Linda much time to respond.
I don't like Prince Harry or Meghan Markle.
You know I don't like them.
I can't stand the drama around them.
I'm sick of it.
But people that want privacy, uh, living in Montecito is private enough, and they don't have to do interviews with Oprah, they don't have to write books, and they don't have to do a Netflix series.
But apparently, Prince Harry and Megan were involved in a terrifying car chase with paparazzi.
Anyway, uh what did we not learn anything from what happened to Princess Diana?
I just want to give out a few simple things.
No collisions, no injuries, no crashes, no drama.
Right.
How about the paparazzi respect their space a little bit?
But just for a hot second.
So you're telling me in the land of misfit drivers where people come from all over the world to drive together.
These people were in two different vehicles, no collisions, no problems, no crashes, no injuries.
This wasn't strategic?
Okay.
They weren't getting enough attention.
So you think this was done on purpose?
Forget about it.
100%.
You always go where nobody else will ever go.
You know, it's like the Twilight Zone working.
Prove me wrong.
Oh, prove you wrong.
I'm just saying, America.
Prove your conspiracy theory wrong.
Oh, it's a conspiracy.
Prove your prove your guess wrong.
All right.
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You probably didn't, but think about this.
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What if it's in some criminal's name?
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Bill O'Reilly will check in.
Also, we'll go down to the border and we'll check in with Brandon Judd.
Senator James Langford, I love this question.
When the Silicon Valley Bank billionaires and millionaires were bailed out, he asked Janet Yellen, he says, um, now, what if the people of my home state of Oklahoma uh have more than $250,000 in a bank account?
Will they get the same treatment?
No.
Does that sound right?
Straight ahead.
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