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Congressman Jeff Van Drew - September 21st, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, uh let me play from yesterday's hearings, Congressman Jeff Van Drew.
And you know, it was clear that Attorney General Garland became really visibly enraged Wednesday uh because you know, the Republican dared to ask about a January FBI memo that suggested traditionalist Catholic groups could be infiltrated by domestic extremists who oppose abortion uh or other liberal policies.
It was a simple question.
Now, Congressman Jeff uh Van Drew from New Jersey said, Do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists?
It took, you know, it was like pulling teeth to get them to answer no.
And the evidence suggests that the FBI is targeting them.
Listen.
Attorney General, through the chair, I ask you, do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists?
I have no idea what your what the traditional uh means here.
Let me just go to church.
May I answer your question?
Yes, the idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous.
So absurd attorney general, it was your FBI that did this.
It was your FBI that was sending, and we have the memos, we have the emails, we're sending undercover agents into Catholic churches.
Wow.
Anyway, Congressman Jeff Van Drew uh joins us.
He's with the second district of New Jersey.
Uh that was an interesting exchange yesterday.
Why did it take so long to get a simple no?
That's the good question, Sean.
I mean, literally, if you asked me that question, I would just say no.
Do I think Roman Catholics are domestic terrorists?
The answer is no.
But you know two things.
One, he's guilty.
Secondly, he thinks a whole lot of himself.
And he tried playing that card, like, how dare you ask me.
I'm above everything.
I am the attorney general, and I would never do that with my family history.
Look, I understand, you know, I treasure his family history and his religion as much as anybody else's, but we need the same from him.
The real truth is when Director Ray finally admitted, not because he wanted to, but because we had the evidence that this was happening, uh, he then told us it was only in the Virginia field office.
Lo and behold, when we got unredacted emails because we subpoenaed them, then we find out it was in multiple offices throughout the country.
You know, freedom of religion, freedom of speech are two of the most important tenets of our literally country, the b belief in our country and what we're doing uh to keep the United States the great country that it is, and this man wouldn't admit that his FBI, because it is his FBI, the buck stops with him.
Nobody else.
He's the man in charge of all of it, did this, and it was wrong.
If that ever happened and I was in charge, I would say, My God, a terrible thing happened.
It'll never happen again, and of course I don't believe that.
You couldn't get those words out of his mouth.
Let's go to the evidence that you've been able to accumulate in the Judiciary Committee that shows that there was uh a widespread effort by the FBI to the Department of Justice to investigate traditional Catholics.
Absolutely.
And we we have the emails, internal emails that show they were talking to each other about doing this and how they were gonna go about it.
Well, what exactly were they saying, Congressman?
They they were saying they were going through the details that this is something that we should be done, that we need to infiltrate these quote traditional Roman Catholic churches.
And by the way, I don't have proof of this, but when I asked Director Ray, and I asked him, did you have lists of churches?
He got all tongue-tied.
I don't remember if you remember that exchange we had a little bit of a fact, and he wouldn't, you know, really say, he didn't want to talk about it.
Well, but what is the reason?
What you know, what fear do they have of traditional Catholics?
I mean, are they forming little terror cells inside Catholic churches or what?
No, you of course not.
These are people that are going to church or very faithful.
Some of the churches on occasion celebrate the mass in Latin, and there's nothing wrong with that.
No, what they're afraid of, they are trying to squash and do everything that they can uh to stop people who have traditional American values, faith, family, freedom, they don't like it.
So it's at multiple levels.
It's just like the Facebook files, and I know Sean, you're familiar with that, and we we finally got information from that about that from Zuckerberg, because we found that there was actually collusion.
You want to talk about collusion between Facebook and we have emails internally again where even the people who worked for Facebook felt kind of squeamish about it.
We subpoenaed it, and then we still didn't get it.
We were gonna hold Zuckerberg, our chairman, who's a great man, said, you know what, if he's not gonna bring this, we're gonna hold him in contempt of Congress, which is a serious issue.
So finally Zuckerberg had enough and he and he produced the information.
It showed that Facebook and the White House had a m dialogue back and forth about who to censor.
But millions of Americans have been willing to give up their lives and have given up their lives for our freedom of speech.
Anybody, everybody should be able to say what they feel and what they believe, um their beliefs and their their their free speech is paramount importance in our country.
They're trying to stop it.
You get punished if you're conservative, you get punished if you don't believe that the vaccines and COVID story was absolutely true.
You get punished if you say anything that's contrary to what they put out.
And you know what does that sound like?
You know what it sounds like, communism.
Here's my question.
Does America now have equal justice and equal application of our laws?
Or has the Justice Department been politicized and weaponized?
The answer to your the beginning of your question is no.
We do not have equal justice.
I am sad.
I truly am in my heart.
I'm saddened to say that.
I love this country.
I know you do too.
We all do more than anything.
And you know, I'll tell you a story.
A lady constituent came up to me and said, you know, was really nice and complimented me and said she was praying for me and working and all that.
But then she said, you know, but I want to tell you one thing.
She looked me dead set in the eyes, a good woman, right?
And she said, I don't believe that the individuals who were in charge of so much of our government are honest.
I don't believe they're good.
I don't believe they're telling the truth.
And I looked right back at her, and I am sad to say this.
I said, You are right.
I'm not gonna pretend it's otherwise.
It's true.
We see it every level.
Look, and and I know you've talked about it a lot.
Look what happened with Hunter Biden.
He's the president's son.
He he actually commits a felony.
I mean, gun laws are very serious.
Let me tell you, I'm a gun owner.
If I did that, man, I'd be in jail for ten years.
Um, but he was basically in reality going to be exonerated, a plea deal like we've never seen before.
I believe in American jurisprudence when the they happen to get an honest broker, the judge, and look at that and just basically said, again, in plain English, I can't do this.
This is just wrong.
I mean, there's just no precedent for this.
You know, she even asked the attorneys, were there precedent?
No.
Um, there's justice for thee, but not for me.
This is the way third world countries behave.
This is the way socialist countries behave, it is the way communist countries behave.
It is not the way that the United States of America should behave.
This is very, very serious stuff.
Do you think Merrick Garland and Christopher Ray should be removed?
Do you think Garland should be impeached?
Yes.
Uh, you know what?
We've got so much going on, so we're concentrating on the one impeachment inquiry right now, but I have asked for that.
By the way, along with the bunch, honestly, if you see what they've done uh to our country, you look also at Alejandro Mayorcus and what he has done.
He is a cold stone liar.
You know, all these people.
They've actually perjured themselves in front of the judiciary committee.
If you lie under oath, they were under oath.
For example, I'll just talk about Director A. He said that there was only one field office.
He knew damn well there was more than one.
I mean, you know, once he started looking into it, even if it was going on around him, which I found hard to believe and he didn't know, certainly we found out that there was more than one field office.
He said it was only one.
We got the information, we have the proof, we have the emails.
I mean, we he is supposed to protect us, all of them, Garland included, against the bad guys.
We need protection against them.
Yeah.
Anyway, Congressman Jeff Van Drew, we appreciate your time.
Thanks for being there.
Great exchange yesterday.
I hope you keep up the good work.
I will, and I appreciate you.
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Let's go to Texas and Tom.
Tom, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
How are you, sir?
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
Glad you called.
I just wanted to uh ask a question or make a point.
I was listening to Congressman Van Drew yesterday question Merrick Garland, and I'm wondering why he just didn't put this letter that he talks about up on the screen that the letterhead time dated and uh signature block and uh and ask Barrett Garland, when did you know about this?
I'm a big believer in audiovisuals.
I don't know if you saw uh when I interviewed Gavin Newsom, but I kept handing him, you know, charts and and statistics and cited the sources, and I said, Okay, the these are the number of people leaving your state, but these are the num number of people moving to states like Florida.
And you know, and they gave him a chance to answer.
I thought it was a I think it absolutely helps in uh in the line of questioning.
I think that's a good idea.
I think they should use more audiovisual.
The problem in these hearings is each each individual member usually gets five minutes.
You can't even get answers out of these guys.
Yeah, but he could have had that letter up there and he could have said, I I agree with you, it was very effective what you did with Javan Newsom.
But what he could have done was put that letter up there, ask him when he knew about it.
If he said he knew about it after the date on the letter, he could have said, Don't you know what your people are doing?
Don't you have policies and procedures to so that matters like this against our organization Catholic organizations or any religion doesn't occur within your department?
Seems to me like that would have been a very simple thing to do.
Unless there is evidence suggesting that some faith-based organization, some radical belief system is taking over.
Uh they need to leave churches alone.
We still we do have something called freedom of religion in this country.
And it's outrageous, and we're seeing more and more.
You know, look at you know, all right, January 6th.
That was one riot.
What about the 574 riots in the summer of 2020?
Why didn't we prosecute the people responsible that killed a couple of dozen Americans, caused billions of property damage, and injured thousands of cops?
We have a lot of video of all this.
We didn't use all that video.
We didn't hold hearings in Washington.
Tell me, why is that?
You want to tell you want to take a shot at it?
Yeah, we're back to the two systems of justice, is where we are.
Well, there we are.
You get an A plus.
Appreciate the call.
Thank you.
Uh Bill Los Angeles, K E I B. How are you?
Hi, Mr. Hennedy.
What's going on?
Um, I I keep hearing these uh media people.
Uh you may recall that I'm a former reporter, Columbia J School 86, and I keep hearing these uh media people, and I'm speaking as a nonpartisan, they falsely claim that Joe Biden is in the clear because he didn't get direct payments, they say, for his uh from his son's business associates.
And uh if if you check out two weeks ago, you can uh you can Google it, your your uh screener just did.
There's a guy named Mark Ridley Thomas, a former county supervisor and city councilman here in Los Angeles, who's on his way to a four year, three and a half year prison sentence, federal pen, because he voted on a contract a few years ago that he knew would benefit his son.
He didn't even get direct payments to himself, and that's the conflict of interest, and they nailed him on it on his way to prison three and a half years.
And yet he's a black guy.
So I'm kind of wondering about the FBI.
Maybe they only go after black politicians who do have conflict of interest.
Uh I think they just ought to go after everybody and treat everybody equally.
How about we do that?
Well, apparently that that's not on their agenda because this guy, you know, it's a very clear case of uh conflict of interest.
He steered a ninety million dollar contract toward a university in exchange for getting his son a phony his loser son a phony job title, and that was enough to get him in prison for almost four years.
So, you know, you look at what Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have been up to, very similar parallel, and yet we we don't even hear about an investigation of that.
Yeah, well said.
I mean, these are really troubling times.
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Eric in the free state of Florida.
What's up, Barr?
How are you, sir?
Oh, thank you, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
Um, one thing that had me puzzled is why some American billionaires are hell bent on destroying America.
I mean, after all, it was American capitalism which allowed them to become rich in the first place.
So I was thinking, you know, maybe there might be a method to their madness.
Uh consider the following.
Let's say uh a leftist billionaire moves a large chunk of his money to an offshore account somewhere in Switzerland.
And then he exchanges those offshore dollars for Chinese yen.
And then finally, he starts massively funding leftist causes and candidates here in the United States, thereby weakening the dollar.
So the yen in his offshore bank account starts to increase in value.
Maybe when you have Charles Payne or Larry Cudlow on your show in the future, you could ask them if this type of currency manipulation is possible.
Well, it's definitely possible.
You know, you'd be shocked.
I like to, I love to read stories of successful people.
And if you read the stories uh of them, they've they've all got a unique tale to tell.
Um, I don't know if you, you know, the the people the men that built America.
It's a great series.
It talks about the the Vanderbilts and the Carnegies and the Melons and all these Henry Ford, all these incredible innovators and pioneers.
And, you know, one of the first things you're going to learn is, and the Rockefellers, you know, right now most people think of the Rockefellers.
They're thinking of, you know, some type of of you know charitable, generous, philanthropic, you know, type of people.
But if you look at their business practices, they were they were hard driving and at times ruthless.
But in the end, there are people that do good with their money, and they're generous with their money.
And then there are others that have political agendas.
Uh, yeah, the funds that don't believe in in freedom, liberty, capitalism, and and want America to be their socialist utopia, and they're willing to spend a lot of their fortune to do so.
It's a little scary.
Anyway, quick break, uh, right back.
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Uh let us say hi to David out in California.
David, how are you?
I am well.
Thank you very much.
Um I'd like to take exception with your unequivocal support of Donald Trump.
But let me be let me say this.
If he's the guy that winds up with a name on the ballot, I would vote for him.
I just think there's others out there.
He's got I don't have a problem with you having a different opinion on who you want to be president or you know, uh the fact that I just uh I've just been pointing out he did a great job as president.
And I'm also pointing out that he's being unfairly treated by a corrupt justice system.
I would I would agree with that.
I think I think I think it's it's in the realm of political persecution.
However, wait a minute.
So if he's in the realm of political persecution, and if we start that at the rush Trump Russia collusion hoax, if we start that with Hillary Clinton getting away with top secret classified information, deleting thirty-three thousand subpoenaed emails, protected by the deep state.
So there's been a lot of it, but you're gonna tell me, and I'm just guessing, and correct me if I'm wrong, that even though you think it's all unfair that he's probably less electable than these other guys.
Is that what you're gonna tell me?
Uh well yeah, perhaps, but I just think I think I'm a little more right than you want to admit.
You I don't you know just begrudgingly you could admit it.
Well, no, I I I'm look I'm trying to look at the at the total picture.
Um I he fell short with COVID.
Yeah, he he got he he brought Scott Atlas into his environment.
He was educated.
He knew his gut told him what Atlas and his cadre of experts had told him in a White House meeting that what was going on was wrong, but yet he deferred to Pence and to his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who I don't think that's what happened at all, but on the issue of COVID.
No, I don't.
Well, no, if you if you if you read the book that Atlas wrote, like upon our house, um, it kind of lays that out in that fashion.
You know, because you know, Pence, this is mantra was uh don't make waves, get go along, get along.
Uh and Trump I'm not sure if I go along with that characterization of of Mike Pence.
Mike Pence is a pretty strong principle guy.
No, when the dust settles, if Trump's name is on the on the ballot, I would vote for him.
There's no doubt about it.
But I think people like Larry Elder, um Vizek Ramaswamy are all you know what are all pretty good candidates.
Nikki Haley, no.
Mike Pence, no.
Uh some of the others, no.
But uh you know.
If any of them are on the top of the ticket, would you vote for them too?
Which one?
Any of the names you mentioned.
Anybody that's running.
If a Republican is going up against Joe or Kamala, would you vote for them?
If if the if if my choice if it's a binary choice, one of any of the others that are out there running against um giggles and Captain Dementia, I'd vote for them.
Giggles or cap and captain dementia.
Um look, it's gonna be very, very interesting to see how it plays out.
Look, not a vote's been cast yet.
There's no caucus yet in Iowa that's taking place.
There's no New Hampshire primary, South Carolina primary.
You know, we'll make our way to Super Tuesday.
Uh these will be somewhat unprecedented times if we're just looking ahead and and we now have the potential of a presidential candidate, you know, facing four criminal trials.
Um I I don't think the indictments have been fair, warranted, or justified, and I don't think the venues are fair.
Um however, it is you know, it's the reality of what we're dealing with.
And it's you know, but you know, Republicans will have a nominee.
They will be on the ticket, and uh regardless of any of the names of the Democrats are putting out, they're they're all equally disastrous, although Joe might be a cut above all of them, and giggles is not far behind him to quote your term, affectionate term for Kamala Harris.
You know, the uh the giggling vice president.
Uh anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
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Scott, Kansas next, Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Sean, this dovetails into what you're talking about a couple of days ago.
Uh your conversation with uh uh about the DOJ corrupt DOJ and your lamenting, whining about not being a fair juries in his Trump trials.
Well, I could tell you you don't you don't think like a leftist, and sometimes I can't, and they're going to fix these juries, so he will be convicted.
There's no question about it.
Each one of these jurors will be handpicked, lifetime Democrat voters with a history of slander of of Donald Trump socially the fix is it.
I don't see how uh look, it's possible.
You never know.
But if you ask me, my my strong feeling is that I don't think that Donald Trump can get a fair trial in a venue like New York.
New York City, I think, you know, twelve percent of the people in the city voted for him.
I don't think it's a jury pool, uh you know, conducive for a tr fair trial for conservatives.
I don't think they'll get a change of venue if they file such a motion.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in DC.
About five percent, a little over five percent of the population voted for Trump in D.C. Not exactly like there.
Um and I don't believe so in Fulton County, Georgia either.
I'm not even sure, frankly, anywhere.
They're gonna use these convictions as the reason to keep them off the ballots, and by the time he loses and he files lawsuits, the election will be certified and it's over.
They're not gonna look back.
Well, I mean, I I don't know what we can do.
I mean, the fact that they waited all of these years to to bring charges, if if these issues were so pressing, why did they wait, you know, three years to bring the tri charges, three years to have the trials?
You know, uh, but again, it goes to the heart of what we've spent a lot of time on the last two days, and that's that we don't have you know, blind justice in America or equal justice under the law or equal application of our laws.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
Uh Bob in Texas, the free state of Texas.
What's up, Bob?
How are you?
I'm doing great, Sean.
Thanks for having me on.
What's going on?
Well, I just wanted to make a comment that I think that the statute of limitations that were allowed to expire in Hunter Biden's case really shouldn't play a role.
Because I've seen Joe Biden on TV saying pay your fair share.
And apparently everybody under over 400,000 a year of income is not paying their fair share because that's who he wants to raise taxes on.
Well, he's well over that, apparently.
Oh, by the way, that was four hundred thousand dollars per couple and household.
So that was a big lie because the way he sold it was very different.
Uh and then if you look at Biden's inflation tax, because it's a tax and his energy tax because his energy policies have have raised the price of everything we buy at every store we go to, and the price to heat and cool our homes and the price to fill our cars with with gasoline.
Uh, you know, So he's raising taxes on everybody.
And you know what?
You ought to be held accountable for just that.
That's how bad his policies have been.
Well, that's exactly right.
Nobody should be surprised by it.
But uh but if he goes on TV and says uh pay your fair share, then it shouldn't matter that the statute of limitations has expired.
He should, once he's aware of the fifty million dollars that he failed to pay taxes on, either he or his family, maybe he'll round them all up and say, Look, we need to pay our fair share.
Well, I don't think that's gonna happen, do you?
No.
No.
Anyway, my friend, thank you.
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Uh let's say hi to Bill in Kansas.
Bill, how are you?
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Well, I I got in on a little bit of your conversation yesterday with Congressman uh Donaldson, and I'd I'd just like to say uh I don't necessarily agree with everything those guys are doing, but what he's doing, uh he's gonna I think he needs to be turned alose and let them go.
Some of these young guys are willing to go fight, and some of our old guys, not to mention Mitch McConnell and some of those guys, they need to go.
They need to be out.
See, I d I think the House, if they would stick together and stand on the principle that we've got to reign in reckless spending and and control our borders, you know, which are two of the major things they're fighting for in this.
And I think if they if they can stand together and get a bill and then get into conference with the Senate, I think then all responsibility will then shift to them.
All pressure will shift to them.
And that's where the pressure ought to be, because they're the ones, you know, more willing to go along, get along with Chuck Schumer and the radical leftists.
And the idea that Mitch McConnell just, you know, wants to capitulate and s and sign on to another, you know, reckless Schumer spending bill is insane to me.
And it's certainly not uh well, he's talking about the short-term politics of it.
I'm talking about the long-term consequences for our country.
And I agree.
And I agree with that wholeheartedly.
My point being is that uh we we need to have that fight now.
And that's I think in the letting the news media pick them apart because they because the Democrats, they rule with an R and fist, and everything they do, they all do as a team, which which is not necessarily good.
Just like all this stuff going on with uh the Biden crime family.
You tell me we ain't got one Democrat or two Democrats somewhere with uh with the wherewithal to stand up and say, if this is true and we need to look at it, then something needs to be done.
Nobody's got the integrity, none of the Democrats got the integrity to stand up and say anything.
We need to fight now.
So when it gets to the floor, in our side, our guys are already had that fight, and they're like you're saying, we're ready to go forward and fight the good fight.
Appreciate the call, Bill.
Thank you.
800 941 Sean back to South Carolina and Candace.
Hey Candace, how are you?
Holly, how are you doing today?
I'm good, ma'am.
Glad you called.
Absolutely.
So I'm a vet myself.
Um I grew up a poor kid.
Um, and I wanted to go to college, so I joined the National Guard when I was seventeen.
I had to get my parents to sign.
Um, and it was it was uh a rude awakening at that age, I will say, to um I went between my junior and senior year of high school, actually.
And um while I was there, I was with a ton of other juniors in high school.
So our drill sergeants were babysitting a hundred and eighty seventeen-year-old kids, and not one of us can keep our mouth shut all summer long.
I swear I spent the summer in the front leaning rest position.
Um, and um while I was in basic training summer of 2009, there was a government shutdown.
Michael Jackson also died.
Um, but when the shutdown happened, the our drill sergeants were just so rattled.
They were so upset, you know, like we didn't get to know what was going on in our lives or anything.
But like you have a hundred and eighty seventeen-year-olds, you're out here babysitting for a living at this point, and you're not getting paid for it.
Well, let me give you some examples.
2013-2018, you know, there were approximately 850,000 out of a 2.1 million nonpostal federal employees that were furloughed.
Uh 2013, most of the 350,000 civilian employees at the defense department were summoned back to work within a week.
Uh furloughed employees are are not allowed to work, don't get paychecks, but a guaranteed back pay due to the legislation they passed in January of 2019.
And federal contractors have historically not received back pay.
Now, at the beginning of the 2018-19 shutdown, 380,000 employees for a load, smaller number than usual since a large number of federal employees, such as Veterans Affairs Defense Programs, they're already funded.
Another 420,000 employees reported to work, but didn't get a paycheck until the shutdown ended.
So that does happen.
But yeah, I think that's got to be a part of the deal, and I'd like to see all our military taken care of during this time.
You know, they shouldn't have to be calling, you know, the people that are holding their note on their car or their house.
Hey, I need a little extra time because I've just been, you know, furloughed by the federal government.
Although I will say, and I know from experience and friends of mine, that it's often the case that they will work it with those people under those circumstances.
Anyway, I wish you the best.
I know I know it's giving a lot of people anxiety.
Uh, you know, what are we gonna do?
Not fight?
Which is gonna allow another two trillion to be added to this year's budget debt?
I mean, because that's what Joe Biden gave us this year.
Two trillion more in debt.
Uh look, I want to talk about uh what what is your personal security strategy?
What if, God forbid, um somebody breaks into your house, wants to bring harm to you or your family or your place of business, or or even just you know, driving around, whatever it happens to be.
All of us need to factor in our personal safety, all of us.
Now, maybe some of you um maybe you want another non-lethal action uh option short of a firearm.
Now, I've I've carried a firearm my entire adult life.
I still do.
And I urge all of you to take a look at this incredible technology, non-lethal self-defense.
It's called burner, B Y R N A. And burner launchers that looks like a gun, fires like a gun.
Uh, however, it's it sends out projectiles and you can hit targets from long distances that literally will incapacitate perpetrators, you know, right where they stand.
And what happens is is upon impact, the projectile, you know, opens up and the perpetrator gets hit with, you know, two types of pepper spray and tear gas.
If you don't believe me, just uh want to know how good this is.
Take a look at their videos.
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This is not any just you know, self-defense tool.
I like it as a non-lethal option.
I like to have both options.
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And by the way, it does take away legal complexities that tend to come if you use a firearm.
Anyway, safety matters.
I like choices, I like options for my personal security strategy.
I think you're gonna love the option that is a burner.
Now, look, if you end up taking somebody's life, defending yourself, it has far-reaching consequences, and this gives you a non-lethal option.
That's what I love about the burner launcher.
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All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
I mean, we've had a disastrous day.
Biden now wants to write another check to Ukraine.
Uh on top of that, uh, we now have Joe Biden.
Oh, with the illegal immigrant transportation program that you're paying for.
And 43 destinations straight from your country into a city in America.
Don't worry about the the laws of the land.
Just come right in.
You can't make it up.
And cutting the razor wire.
By the way, Texas Governor Greg Abbott will weigh in on that audience show, 9 Eastern.
Uh hope you'll join us.
If you want tickets, Hannity.com, Wednesdays and Thursday nights on Fox.
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