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Oct. 6, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Biden Border Troubles - October 5th, Hour 1

The Biden Administration is struggling to react to polls that show Americans are giving up on their ability to control illegal immigration.  Plus, there appears to be no future plans to secure our borders.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Um, I I don't know what to make of this.
I'll get to it in a second about the the border and the Biden administration, because they've lost their mind.
And there's a reason why, and I'll explain the politics behind it in a second.
Uh Jim Jordan, who I'm personally supporting to be the next speaker.
Uh, we're gonna check in with him today.
Uh heard him this morning on TV, is his voice is getting a little bit gravelly there.
You know, he's been talking to members left, right, and sideways, but uh anyway, he'll join us.
Um and and what things are important.
Uh I have some other things to share with you, people that I've talked to today, uh, and things that they're saying that that I'll share with you that I think are important regarding that issue.
I want to start with this though.
How many times over the the last almost three years?
At the end at the end of this year, calendar year, it will be three years that Joey's been your president.
Okay.
Just about three years.
There'll be about estimates are over eight million illegal immigrants that have entered this country.
They've entered this country without background checks.
They've entered this country in the middle of a pandemic, many of them, without any health checks.
Uh, we now know the fiscal costs to states and cities are astronomical because every bit of housing and food and clothing and water and education and health care is all being paid for by you, the American taxpayer.
But for time and time again, we have been lied to.
We have been told the border is secure.
That is a lie.
We have been told the borders closed.
That too is a lie.
We have been told over and over again that the wall is faulty and not effective.
It's not an effective mechanism of stopping people.
Uh actually, it is.
Uh, and you know, let's just go over what they've been telling us just as a reminder, and then it goes really off the rails in the last 24 hours.
Listen.
Sounds to most folks like a crisis.
Well, look, it's way down now.
We've now gotten control.
Precisely that.
The border is closed.
Nor could I have been clearer and continued to be.
So, which is the border is closed.
The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.
The border, um, we are working to make the border more secure.
You're confident this border is secure.
We have a secure border, in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours in our administration.
We agree that uh the border is secure.
We agree.
Now let's go to the two spokespeople that have been speaking for the White House.
We'll start with Circle Back, Gensaki, and then Corinne Jean-Pierre.
And what did well, she had a bad day today.
We'll we'll explain that in a minute, too.
Listen.
I mean, the president shares uh the concern about the lack of an uh a workable immigration system, um, and that impacts uh many of the border state um leaders uh quite a bit, of course, uh, because there isn't an effective asylum processing system, because we don't have smart security.
We spent years investing in a faulty border wall that was never going to uh be an effective mechanism.
Um he shares their concerns about and instead of providing the needed resources for more border security technology and asylum officers and judges, it would waste taxpayer dollars on an ineffective wall.
Again, an ineffective wall that can't even withstand heavy winds, let alone sophisticated criminal smuggling networks.
Uh, but we have talked about the border wall here in in general as as a way uh that uh it's been used in in a to to you know to to close the border, and we feel that it is a policy that doesn't work, and it's not just us.
Uh you know, experts have said that.
Uh the border wall is not uh is not an effective policy.
All right, they keep saying it.
It's not an effective policy, and I can keep going, but I'll bring this to present day.
Let me just play one more thing, though, and that's the Democrats, the media mob, all attacking the border wall because they've said it every day.
They've lied to us for nearly three long years.
Listen.
Do not save lives.
Wolves end lives.
We are aghast that he wants this giant 30-foot wall to be the symbol of America.
I tell President Trump, I've told him to his face.
We want this symbol of America to remain the statue of liberty, freedom, equality, not a divisive wall.
I don't support a wall.
I believe in border security.
I think a wall is not a smart way to make us safer.
And I demand that the president end his temperatrums and quest for a racist and cinephobic wall.
A wall is an immorality.
It's not who we are as a nation.
On the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear.
The president's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them.
The president also said today that um former presidents have said to him that they wish that they had built a wall.
Do you recall President Obama ever saying that?
I can't think of a single one who said that.
Come on.
So you don't buy it.
We need border security, but that's not the border security.
Come on, man.
It's the only thing that was missing from there.
All right, so what happened?
Well, now Joe Biden's about to build the wall.
Now, why is Joe Biden building a wall?
Ask yourself a question.
Well, um, because it is an unmitigated political disaster.
Just like Bidenomics, botonomics, by dynamics.
Well, guess what they're all not saying now?
They're not calling it by dynamics anymore, because no American believes it.
You know, their their own lives are being so negatively impacted by all of it, they're not buying it.
Here's where it gets interesting.
And I'm waiting to hear what Joe said today and what Corinne Jean-Pierre said today.
So they announced yesterday, Department of Homeland Security, posting an announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with details outlining the construction of border wall in Starr County, Texas, part of the border patrol sector of quite quote, high illegal entry, uh, where 245,000 illegal entries have been recorded in this region just during the current fiscal year.
There is presently an acute immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entry into the United States in the project areas.
Said DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorcus.
The Biden administration announced they waived twenty-six federal laws in South Texas.
Hang on a second.
They waived the environmental regulations and laws to make way to build the border wall.
They didn't have to do that.
Linda, did they have to do that?
Or is that something that in all likelihood they would have they didn't want to do it, they could have easily fought that in court for the next two years.
Could they not?
I am correct.
Say yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
All right.
You know I'm kidding.
Yes.
Uh anyway.
So now all of a sudden he wants to build a border wall.
Okay.
So Joe is now in a pickle.
Because they need the border wall.
It's the only answer to the disaster that the American people see before them.
Now, we do know that Joe's been sending around the world this this application and giving illegal immigrants that just claim they want um asylum, you know, uh transportation to one of forty-three locations in the United States.
So the but the reason is is because the border is looking so bad and and bouncing back on them, and they're paying a very big deep political price for it because one of the smartest things the Republican governors like Abbott and DeSantis and some others have done is they have sent these illegal immigrants in their states to those sanctuary cities and states like New York City.
Now you have the governor of New York.
No more, but we don't want you if you come here, stay away from here.
Just like what, Nantucket.
They were they were off that island in less than twenty-four hours.
Boy, the hypocrisy.
Just not in my backyard.
Put you know, let Texas deal with it.
No, thank you.
So Biden is asked about the fact that he had to sign off on these regulations.
This was their decision.
Alejandro uh Mayorcus, Alejandro Mayorcus could not have been any more clear about the reason is to keep people out.
The opposite of what they've all been saying.
And here's Biden today, even though he's going forward with it, he's blaming the Trump administration for appropriating the money.
Donald Trump did not put the environmental waivers in place.
Joe did.
Listen.
They did, they wouldn't.
And in the meantime, there's nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what was appropriate.
I can't stop that.
You can't stop it.
Actually, he could.
Because he didn't have to give the environmental waivers that's allowing for the building of the wall.
He just wants to do it so it doesn't look as bad at the border, and then he can say he's doing something about it, and yet doesn't want to even admit what he's doing is a fact.
Now, the poor Karine Jean-Pierre had to bear the brunt of this, you know, getting hammered by even the liberal mob in the White House press room today.
This gets very entertaining.
Listen.
Just to be clear about this.
The President earlier today said that he was asked, does the border law work?
He said no.
But in this statement that was posted within the last 24 hours, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary says there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct fiscal barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.
So who's right?
The statement from the DHS Secretary overnight, or the president's comments today saying they don't work.
So a couple of things.
Yes, it showed up on the register today, but the announcement this is not new.
This is from six months ago.
But it was it this is something that uh was out back that the DHS was put out back in in uh in in it six months ago.
So and now they announced the laws six months ago.
Well, what I'm saying is DHS announced this back in in June that the agency would do so.
They actually said that they would do that back in DJ.
The initial announcement was six months ago by waiving the law.
So that's what's new today.
Understood.
Yes.
So when he said there is presently, are you saying when he says there is presently, he was referring to six months ago or Referring to the date of which it was filed.
What I can tell you is DHS announced this back in June that they were going to move forward with this.
That's what I can share with you.
That's what I I know is to be true and is to be fact.
Look, I can speak for the president.
The president said he was asked directly.
He doesn't believe a border wall is effective.
Does he have a disagreement with his Department of Homeland Security?
I am I I want to tell you what the president said and what your colleague asked him.
He said no, he doesn't believe that the border wall is a very strong.
I know I hear you.
I hear you.
I'm speaking for the president.
I'm saying that he has said that he does not believe a border wall is effective.
That's what he was asked.
He has said that for some time now, and it still remains to be the case.
He asked, right?
He asked Congress multiple times.
His team has asked Congress to reappropriate the funds.
They refused to do that.
We're gonna comply by that.
Well, you asked the president on our behalf, then, in the absence of our ability to do that, whether he disagrees with the statement that there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct.
I'm happy to take that back.
I'm happy to take that back.
Acute and immediate need.
Now that's what his own Department of Homeland Security team put out.
But Joe Biden then goes out today.
Now this is again, they they put out a notice waiving 26 federal laws in order to resume the construction of the wall, uh, and insisting that it was an effective means of of preventing more illegal immigration, and then Joe Biden comes out and contradicts his own team, insisting that uh even today he said no uh uh the walls are ineffective when asked about their actions.
I mean, you can't make this up.
You talk about the gang that can't shoot straight.
They promised Joe promised over and over again another foot of wall.
Now one more foot are we gonna put out there of a border wall.
Not not one of you.
One more foot.
It's unbelievable.
But that is your president.
That is the just a corrupt lying, abuse of power that goes on in the swamp in Washington.
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Now that Joe gave the waiver to the 26th environmental regulations, and he said, I have to do this.
No, he didn't have to do that.
The money was appropriated in 2019.
There's nothing I can do.
No, you didn't have to give the approval.
And this is the same guy that promised there's not gonna be another foot of wall ever constructed in my administration.
Listen, Trump campaigned on build that wall.
Are you willing to tear that wall down?
No, there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration.
Number one.
Um I'm gonna make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it.
And at the ports of entry, that's for all the confiscations.
What about the land confiscations?
And stop, done, over.
Not gonna do it.
Withdraw this the the lawsuits.
We're out.
We're not gonna confiscate the land.
Then he said he repeats the border's secure.
The guy doesn't stop.
Listen.
Well, look, it's way down now.
We've now gotten a big thing.
I thought it was a different one.
But you get the point here.
It's it's I mean, it's it's pretty unbelievable.
All of a sudden he wants to build a border wall, but understand that the position he's at.
It's a disaster, and the American people know they're being lied to.
Every state now is a border state, every city a border city.
The American people are seeing the astronomical cost, the impact on educational systems, the impact on law and order and safety and security.
The horrible story about uh a gang of illegal immigrants raping girls in neighborhoods, uh, which was pretty horrible today.
House of Horrors, 11 illegal immigrants among men accused of gang raping girls in a small Minnesota town.
That's the headline I'm reading from today.
I didn't make it up.
You know, so they see the country's invaded, but then he's got to keep his left flank, you know, engaged because they don't want any border wall.
They want open borders.
So the way he's gonna do it is he's just gonna continue to lie.
Oh walls don't work.
I have to build the wall, therefore I'll I'll I'll peel back these regulations on the environment.
We'll build the wall because I have to, when he doesn't have to.
He's just lying.
I mean, the media mob, aren't you embarrassed defending this this guy's half a corpse?
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Speaking of coffee.
Seven Starbucks closed in San Fran.
I saw that.
Shutting them down.
They can't they can't tell you why.
Of course they can tell you why.
They can't tell you why.
That's literally what the press release says.
Because it's not the location that Leo 2.0 Torrel goes in, because Leo was in a Starbucks, sees a guy robbing the place blind and stepped in and said, Not on my watch.
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Because what do you care?
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I live here.
And the guy put it back and ran out of the store.
Leo scared him.
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What what do you care about Starbucks losing?
Did he have his burner?
I don't know if he had his burner.
Yeah, his burning could have disabled the perp.
Well, maybe I need to send him one as a gift.
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If he has to walk through the streets of San Francisco, it's pretty dangerous there for the governor.
Uh or the streets of LA or the streets of any big city.
Now I mean it's not funny.
It's it's just sad.
The whole thing is just sad.
Um anyway, so we do have uh an update.
Jim Jordan will join us at the top of the hour.
Um lot of conversations with uh a lot of different people today.
One of the main things that uh of the main consensus issue is the one member rule has got to go, and that was you know, that any one member at any moment of time can stop all work within the house and unseat the speaker, and that then becomes the the full complete priority.
Um now, should there be a mechanism that if some speaker is bad, yeah, you vote them out.
That's how that's that's how you do it, but to do it there instantaneously, just as one person that might have an agenda.
You know, look, in the I said this yesterday, I said to everybody, I'm not panicking.
I know some people are panicking.
Uh hang on a second.
Let me see if I can put now by the way, this person on the phone.
I'm on the radio live.
Can I actually put your your voice up to the microphone?
Hang on.
Yeah, that's a yes or no.
Can I?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Matt Gates, say hi hi to everybody in in Radio Land.
Oh, good to be with you.
I'm calling for my personal handity podcast, but I'm happy to share all of your thoughts and advice with millions of listeners as well.
Okay, one question.
We did have a discussion.
I was just talking about the motion to vacate.
And uh, and to your credit, I I talked to you today, and you said, no, uh, you know, it doesn't need to stay.
You you and Kevin McCarthy didn't like each other from the beginning.
Uh I'm moving forward in my head.
I think it's time.
Uh I personally am supporting Jim Jordan.
He's going to be with me at the top of the hour.
I noticed the tweet that you put out.
By the way, you should have put it on true social, you know.
I I tweet in truth, Sean.
I I spread the love to all the all the social platforms.
But my you're talking about my my nominating speech for Trump.
Yeah, no, I he I heard about that too.
By the way, there might be an issue with that.
If you're charged with a felony, there was some regulation that came up that might prevent him from doing it at this point.
Uh, but we'll we'll negotiate we'll issue that another day.
On the issue of the one member right to vacate, what you said is my GOP colleagues want to raise the threshold on the motion to vacate.
This is a question for all of them.
If we enact reforms, you know, that are laid out here, how high would you like the motion to vacate threshold to be?
Because I'm basically going to give you whatever you want on the motion to vacate for this stuff.
Yeah, and the the stuff that I'm fighting for, term limits for member of Congress, banning members of Congress from becoming lobbyists or foreign agents.
Right.
And ensuring that members of Congress are not trading individual stocks.
So, yeah, if I got term limits banning stock trading, banning lobbyists and packs from giving donations to federal political campaigns, uh they they could abolish.
Now, listen, I'm I'm I'm in agreement with you, and I want all those votes to take place, but you do know that even though it w it will not be a vote that eventually becomes law, because we only have one half of one body of Congress.
So there's no way Democrats in the Senate are going to support this, and there's no way the president's going to support it.
I do like the idea of putting them all on record, and then if Republicans get a bigger majority of this You can put you could put it in House rules.
You don't require it.
You could put in House rules that House members are not allowed to trade individual stocks.
That's that's separate from term limits.
Yeah, yeah, but you could do a lot of this stuff.
You could put the ban on lobbying in house rules that the House just by itself will not be lobbied by by its former members.
Uh so there's a lot of the stuff that wouldn't require the Senate.
It could simply be done in a rules change alongside uh a change to the motion of AK.
Listen, I'm I'm in favor of every single issue that you had mentioned, including proper order, the appropriations process, uh, and all of that.
All right.
Now, who are you supporting for speaker?
Uh well, I want to hear both of their plans on spending.
Uh, as you know, Jim Jordan is a personal hero of mine, my mentor.
Uh Steve Scalise is what got one of the most inspirational stories we've ever seen in public life.
The fact that we're choosing between Jordan and Scalise says uh a lot about the upgrade we are making at the Speaker's Rostrum.
And uh, you know, I've I just think so highly of both men, but I do I do want to have a specific conversation with both that I haven't been able to have about those individual appropriations bills as opposed to continuing resolutions.
That'll probably determine my final vote.
But gosh, we've got two great champions.
Are you leaning towards Jordan?
It sounds like you are.
You know, I mean, I'm I I am personally closer to Jim Jordan, but this is business and it's about spending, and I I want to hear Jim's plan, but uh I'm gonna have a conversation with both him and with leader Scalise.
I I I don't want to in any way diminish the incredibly uh high view that I have of Steve Scalise.
I'll tell you this, Sean.
If either of these gentlemen were to come out of the Republican conference with a majority of the majority, I'd be deeply honored to vote for either of them on the floor for speaker.
All right, we're gonna watch this process unfold.
Do you think we'll have a speaker by this time next week?
I do.
I believe we're gonna have a speaker uh next week, and uh, I think if you were to a betting man and you were betting on the number of rounds it would take, I would bet the House on under 1.5.
All right, man, gotta run.
See you soon.
All right, ma'am.
Thank you.
You never know who's gonna call in the middle of the show.
Uh 800, 94.
No, we had a couple of very productive conversations today.
It was really interesting.
And it was about the motion to vacate.
He's he's not hard line on it.
And but, you know, I I honestly at this point, you just you just can't go backwards here.
Republicans, they don't have time.
They've got too much to do.
The borders are a mess, the economy's a mess.
Crime in our cities is a mess, foreign policy is a disaster, and they they've they've got to get back to the business of governing.
My fear for all of them is the longer this whole process takes, in the end, and I think he's right, I think this is going to be resolved fairly quickly, and I think it's gonna be either Jordan or Scalise.
I would prefer Jim Jordan, that they can get back to the business of the people.
And um I know from sources around Donald Trump that he's leaning towards coming in with an endorsement for Jordan.
That's the latest I heard I can't say for sure.
Uh but uh, you know, so you just heard from Gates himself here.
You know, one interesting side note is uh of the eight people that voted to get rid of McCarthy, McCarthy spent millions supporting a lot of them.
Uh so money just doesn't do it for some people, I'll put it that way.
But anyway, uh we'll see what happens because you know, look at where we are right now.
Look at look at where we are on national security.
Uh seventy-one percent of our country don't trust the U.S. government to prevent a doomsday.
You know, all Biden wants to talk about is a hundred million more a billion more dollars to Ukraine for crying out loud.
We'll talk to Rand Paul coming up uh later in the program today about this.
Well, we have our Marine Corps running out of uniforms.
You can't even make that stuff up.
It's so insane.
You know, if I get to the issue of Bidonomics and the economy, yeah, I'll just give you the headlines.
Now we have economists warning all over the place that Biden's spending is gonna lead to a depression like crash.
You know, as the White House continues, you know, now they're being advised not to call it Bidenomics anymore because one important economic indicator that's currently flashing hasn't appeared since the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression.
And rather than return spending to pre-pandemic levels, which is what I've been saying we need to do, and others have been saying Biden and Congressional Democrats opted to keep government expenditures significantly higher than they had been prior to the pandemic.
And while the inflation rate has dropped, it's not been enough to deflate prices.
Now we're going to see with energy prices going up.
There goes inflation again.
There goes interest rates again, and we have a 30-year fixed fixed rate mortgage now around 8%.
You know, Joe Biden's Green New Deal disaster has flushed literally millions of dollars.
You know, down the toilet.
New York Post has a piece.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 237, 960 bucks on 30 solar paneled powered picnic tables.
These people out of their mind.
And I'm just giving you low-hanging fruit.
Wall Street, this is even on fake news CNN.
Why Wall Street investors are freaking out?
They're freaking out because you got, you know, we we have now have uh uh an economy where two-thirds of the American people are living bank paycheck to paycheck.
Market watch, banks are bracing for a recession as treasury yields begin to surge.
Now, when you have treasury yields at over five percent, uh that's called an inverted curve.
And you know what that means?
Nobody's gonna invest in the stock market.
They're gonna put their money in the safe place for at least a year and park and see how this falls out.
One in eight American households we learned on Bloomberg today, saw a drop in income last month.
Americans aren't making ends meet now.
Now at the price of energy up, that is a predictable result.
What's Joe Biden's answer?
You know, forget the court ruling that won't allow uh him to unilaterally just pay back student loans.
Well, he just approved another nine billion in student loan forgiveness.
Why do the American taxpayers, why do hardworking taxpayers have to pay that money?
Is a Fox News dot com article, guy that's known as the Bond King, this guy Jeffrey Gunlock says employment will be the last sector to fall, indicating a recession.
These are not stupid people.
Now the Dow is negative for the year because of rising yields now hitting stocks.
When a 10-year treasury is at 4.8% for the first time since August of 2007.
Here's the stranger part of that.
A one-year treasury is now five point four percent is what it yields in a year.
Well, you know what?
I'll take five percent interest on my money in a year.
I'll take that and as a hedge against the unpredictability of what's going on right now.
Zero hedge, eighty-four percent of CEOs expect a recession in 2024.
And mortgage rates now reach the highest since November of 2000.
Wow.
What were we voting on in 2000?
Oh, that's right.
It was Bush versus Gore.
I was about to ruin my holidays.
Till December, whatever.
You know, day two of now we got health we have health care uh workers on strike.
We still have striking auto workers.
Finally, some of them are beginning to realize that it's Biden's green agenda that is wiping them out.
That's a direct quote.
Offshore wind company wants to pay a large fine to break a contract and the latest sign of trouble for the industry because they can't produce that which they've been given billions of dollars for.
I mean, you know, everybody and and all they want to do is keep Donald Trump in court for the next year.
Maybe in the end that'll be the best place for him to be.
Instead of being out on the campaign trip, maybe it's better for him to be in court and he'll have to send out surrogates every day to vote in his behalf.
And then the American people can decide.
Do you want this guy that doesn't know what day of the week it is?
Or do you want a guy that actually got the job done that the mob and the media and everybody hates, and that Russia and China and Iran and North Korea fear.
I like that guy that instills fear.
All right, so much to get to.
Jim Jordan uh will be uh joining us at the top of the next hour.
Uh I'm supporting him to be the next speaker.
I think they got to move very Quickly and expeditiously and show the American people that they can lead, that they're ready to lead, and that that okay, they're just this is a hiccup, boom, we move forward.
They've got to show them that.
Uh, because if they don't, it's gonna look bad, and people's patience will run thin very, very quickly.
Linda's patience has already run out.
Ran out when she walked in the door today.
You know, you're backsliding.
I'm just saying, you know, for a while with you, you know, you won't go in a church and Bible study and meeting with your pastor.
What happened?
I still do.
Okay, but I'm gonna call him because you're going backwards.
You're getting no, the hate list is back.
The hate list never left.
Okay.
Well, the what did Jesus say?
Forgive us as we forgive.
You know He said you're all sinners.
Work on it.
Ugh, God help us.
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