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Saving Americans - October 19th, Hour 2
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You know, there's been some really courageous and heroic, you know, efforts by Americans and elected officials to get Americans that are in Israel that kind of were abandoned by Joe Biden when he said, well, just get on a commercial flight.
Well, there were no commercial flights available.
He should have known that, but you know, it is Joe Biden after all.
He doesn't know that today's Thursday.
So let's be honest.
But there's been some very heroic efforts.
Um I I had on TV Congressman Corey Mills of Florida, uh, and you know, he wanted to avoid, you know, an Afghan withdrawal style catastrophe for Americans that wanted to get the hell out of a war zone and get him home.
And anyway, he he himself, he served in Iraq, 80 second airborne.
He said he didn't she keep he's not gonna give us the specifics of his mission or location or what he's been doing uh because of operational concerns and r constraints.
And I'll be hon I did not like Joe Biden flying into Israel yesterday.
I thought, why would you telegraph that, number one?
Why did Joe Biden and the White House tweet out pictures of our special forces with their faces?
Why did they do that?
That is dangerous to them.
But you know, when you tell the enemy and an enemy like uh Islamic jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, uh, when you tell them that the president of the United States is flying into, you know, Bengorian International Airport, that is dangerous for the president.
And you've got we've gotta protect our president.
Uh no, he's not my favorite guy in the world, but we've got to protect our president.
That is just one-on-one.
And I thought it was stupid for them to telegraph that.
A lot of times in the past, if presidents have made their ways into war zones, what they do is they usually fly in, nobody says a word.
The press that goes with them, or they're sworn to secrecy, and they don't announce that they even happened until they are up and and in the air and out of danger and harm's way.
I mean, they can fire these, you know, surface-to-air missile missiles and take out any airplane.
And I know a lot of planes have flares, I know they probably have defense systems, but why risk that?
To me, that's just stupid.
You know, why are we leaving Americans that want to get out of there?
We still have Americans trapped behind enemy lines.
And you know, that is uh insanity to me.
Uh we also have Erica Knight who is gonna join us as well.
Uh because we have stories of heroism h heroism here of Americans that have stepped up.
Ron DeSantis said in planes from Florida.
No, by the way, no charge.
Apparently, Joe is going to charge Americans to fly them out of there.
But anyway, Erica Knight, president of Knox Strategies, political and crisis communications expert.
Uh Silver Sprout rescued from Israel.
Uh Congressman Corey Mills of Florida, all with us today.
Uh Corey Mills ultimately got 32 American citizens out of Israel.
Not an easy task under these conditions.
Uh first of all, thanks to all of you for what you did and uh and Silver, welcome back.
Uh tell first tell us your experience.
All right, so this this terror attack happens a couple of Saturdays ago.
You're there in Israel.
Uh commercial flights end very quickly.
You can't get out.
The first comment I saw about this with Joe Biden was, well, they can just book a flight out.
Uh did you hear that at the time when you knew that there was no commercial flights available?
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me on the show.
And uh it is good to be back.
And you know, I had been on the ground in Israel for two days, and obviously this uh we got this new Saturday.
Um so what a lot of people don't realize is you know, we reached out to the US Embassy and it's a Saturday, and then it's a Sunday.
And then Monday, uh it's a US holiday in the in uh Columbus Day in the US and we again got zero response.
So finally when we did reach out to um State Department, their their response to us was incredibly frustrating.
It was, you know, we acknowledge it's a a dynamic situation on the ground, however.
So it was essentially you know, best of luck.
And I kept um you know, monitoring the the air the situation on the ground in Tel Aviv and fights were getting canceled right and left.
And when I got the news that my Turkish airline flight out that Friday, the thirteenth, had been canceled, that's when I immediately got on the phone with Erica and I said, You have gotta get me out of here.
There is zero response from the State Department, and there's really no option to get home.
How did you know about Erica?
My colleague, we work together, and you know, crisis comms, it's just it's what we do.
So I'm I'm uh I should have just reached out to her in the very beginning.
So yeah, she she got to work and did what she did best, and um, you know, we used the media and our our friends and the press to our advantage here.
And how did you pull this off, Erica?
And how many other people did you help?
Yeah, well, I mean, Silver called me, and I I mean, truthfully, Sean, I had absolutely no idea how to get somebody extracted from a war.
It's not something I've ever done before.
So I called a good friend at the New York Post who I know had written stories about you know helping some people get out of Afghanistan, and she said right away, she said, Let's get her on the phone, let's tell the story.
And truthfully, our original intention was to put pressure on the State Department.
We were hoping that Biden would see this and think, okay, well, I've got to end my barbecue and get these people out of the war zone.
And you know, to our dismay, he didn't do anything, but Cory Mills, thankfully, and thank you, Corey.
I have not actually gotten a chance to thank you yet, and I so appreciate what you did.
But thankfully Corey saw it, and he jumped on a plane and he was just over within fifteen hours.
And I mean, I think he rescued well more than thirty-two Americans.
I think it's and I think he's still going.
Yeah.
Um and let me bring Corey in there.
Corey, you've been a rock star and you know, your your service, your track record speaks for itself.
Um and when I interviewed you on TV, if I remember you were in Israel at the time, correct?
That's correct.
Yes, I was going back and forth, and we're we're very pleased to say that we've actually gotten ninety sticks out through ground evacuation.
Oh, geez, I apologize.
I w I did not have the final number, uh great job.
Um and and we had to do a very careful interview because you didn't want to disclose your location, how you're doing this.
Uh you're free to talk about it now, or are you still in the process of trying to help some Americans get the hell out of there?
Well, we're still in the process because we know that Joe Biden and the State Department still hasn't risen to the challenge to actually get all Americans out.
I'm working with a couple of rabbis who just sent me a list of over 2100 Americans that are still in Israel that were attempting to utilize both ground air and sea uh to be able to get them out.
Uh I'm unfortunately sitting up in here DC dealing with a speaker debacle, but uh getting ready to head back and uh will continue to do as much as I can to rescue as many as Americans as I can.
Like I've said multiple times, if Joe Biden and the State Department are willing to do their job, then there's still stuff in my colleagues who will step it forward.
You know, uh even after Trump was out of office and this debacle was going on in Afghanistan, and I I won't mention names, I won't name drop, but these would be recognizable names to people.
Um any time people would contact this show and inform us that a loved one was trapped behind enemy lines, is there anything we can do to help anybody we can put them in contact with?
Um I I did lean heavily on on many people that I knew in the Trump administration, and I asked them for help and and they still had contacts and they were able to help a lot of these people.
And yeah, now all we were I the only thing I I really did hear was I was a conduit.
I cared enough to pass it on, make a phone call, say, hey, is there anything you can do to help these people?
It sounds dire for them, and they're j they're trying their best to get out.
And they they can't even get into the airport at this point.
I don't know if you remember when there were all those different varying roadblocks and when the perimeter of uh Karzai International was you know surrounded, things were really, really bad.
Even during those moments, they were able to get people through.
And it was fairly mirac miraculous, but Joe broke his promise and he did abandon Americans and he did abandon our allies, many of whom have been killed since.
Uh people over the years that were told that if this day ever comes, we'll get you out of here.
Well, we broke our promise to them.
Um exactly right.
But you helped me with that, Sean.
I remember coming on to your program after I had conducted my team and I, the very first successful overland rescue of Americans in 2021.
I was not going to remind you of that, but uh yes.
But but only because I know that a lot of your work has to be covert.
A lot of your work has to be uh, you know, it's too risky for what you do.
I don't want to exp you know expose it.
No, I understand, but you know, at the end of the day, the reason that I keep trying to burn up the airwaves is that we have to shame this administration doing their job.
We're literally I I truly believe if it wasn't for rescues like that or evacuations of silver and the ninety-six plus Americans and the fact that you're willing to constantly put the pressure on this administration.
Sean, you've done an amazing job continuing every single time to bring forward and bring to light those who are willing to go and risk their lives.
If it wouldn't have been for that, I don't believe that the administration would have sent a single plane point.
Oh, I I I've if I played even uh a tiny, you know, itty bitty role, I'd be glad to hear that.
I um but you were the you were on the ground, you were doing the heavy lifting.
It wasn't me, and there were a lot of other great people that were involved too, and I I can't mention all their names.
You know, did you hear, Corey, did you hear this that Biden wanted to charge Americans for the flight home?
And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
Well, he is charging them, and he's also making them sign a promissory note, and meanwhile, every other nation who's come over there too, include Mexico, who sent a plane over a week before the Biden administration to get their staff out, they were all doing it for free.
Silver will tell you that I've never once charged a single dime to a single person I've ever eat back.
Well, you're risking your life too in the process by going over yourself and facilitating all this.
I actually pay for it a hundred percent out of my own personal funds.
Oh, good grief.
If we can help you with that, please let us know.
I'd love to help you.
Um let me ask you this, because well well, and here's the irony of all this.
That Joe's gonna charge.
Now I know the Governor DeSantis from your home your home state of Florida, he sent planes just for Floridians because the State Department's so incompetent.
And I give him all the credit in the world for doing that.
He's not charging Floridians for that flight home.
I mean, how asinine is that?
Um but but here's Joe Biden saying he was very blunt to Israel about the need to get humanitarian aid to Gaza quickly, which anybody with half a brain would know is not gonna end up in the hands of the Palestinians, but it will end up in the hands of Hamas.
I was very blunt with the Israelis on the need to give humanitarian aid to Gaza or what exactly?
On everything.
No, I was very blunt about the need to support getting humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Get it to gossip and do it quickly.
So we'll give a hundred million dollars to the Palestinians that we all know is gonna end up in the hands of Hamas, but we'll charge Americans just to get out of a war zone.
Well, exactly right, and let's not also forget that he's gonna be sending planes in there to drop off aid, and he's already started dropping off some supplies for the Israelites.
Well, what are they gonna come back empty?
It's gonna be a d a dead leg flight.
Not a single American was put onto it, not a single American was given an opportunity to jump on that flight.
I wonder how many empty seats were on Air Force One on the way back.
Oh, I guarantee there was plenty, and he didn't try and get a single American out.
Meanwhile, everyone else is having to step up and do his job for him.
Yeah, by the way, everyone says, Well, Hannity, you were so close to Trump.
Ask me, Corey, how many times I flew on Air Force One with Donald Trump?
How many times?
Zero.
Zero.
And I was invited to fly back on it on b with uh when I was in Vietnam and I said, No, it wouldn't be appropriate.
Got home thirty hours later than they did.
But it was, you know, I felt it was the right thing to do.
Um Erica, let me go back to you.
Are you gonna continue in this effort as well?
Or you know, and and Silver, what do you say to the people that are over there that are desperately trying to get out like you are?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, that's why we're here talking to you.
I mean, I think that we all need to be really diligent, and I think Corey said this too.
That's why he's on the airwave.
We need to put pressure on this complete disaster of an administration, complete disaster of the State Department that would have the audacity to leave American stuck in a war zone.
And you know, I think Corey, like he said too, he's still helping people.
You know, we've had other foundations, Cash Patel, who's also a friend of your show.
I know he he thought us, He's made, you know, some efforts to help the foundation.
I think um, you know, there's plenty of other people that can help.
And if I called Corey at three in the morning, uh, he'd pick up the phone and I said, Hey, this guy needs help.
Well, can you get can you help him out?
Corey would do everything in his power.
I could call Mike Pompeo at three in the morning, and you know, after he yells at me for waking him up, you know, he'd say, Well, all right, what's going on?
What could I do?
Let me see what I can do.
And he'd really go to work on it.
That's why you you bleed it, Corey believes it, I bleed it.
You know, they're willing to help Americans no matter what the cost, no matter what time.
And that's why, you know, people like Donald Trump, people like you and I are really, really stuck to fighting for those values, and why our administration who's stuck on America last continues to fail.
Yeah.
Uh unbelievable.
Silver, as your life perspective changed now that you found yourself in a war zone and having to be rescued from it.
You know, it really has, Sean, and I I told Erica this, you know, I'm a former Capitol Hill staffer, so my distrust in Washington and members of Congress was at an all-time high.
And you know, after spending the day with with Corey and his team and um seeing his successful efforts there, I just I have so much respect for him, and there are still some good men and women in Congress who are willing to do the right thing, and you know, I think that it just goes to show we we need to continue to put pressure on this administration and the State Department, and um they failed Americans, but where they have failed, it's people like like Congressman Mills, it's people like Erica who step up and do the right thing and get the job done at the end of the day.
Well, and thank God that they're out there doing it.
Corey, I can't say enough good things about your work here.
I really can't.
I and I'll say this on behalf of the Americans like the people in this audience that care about their fellow Americans.
I just want to say thank you.
And if you uh if we can help you, is there any website people can go to and maybe help you out, help your missions out?
Well, we're definitely working with a great organization called Neverforgotten.org.
Uh Cash Patel has been tremendous in trying to help us in that as well, uh, which I'm grateful for.
But our goal is 100% of that goes to getting Americans out and to ensuring that we can continue the fight.
Do you think you're gonna be going back to Israel in the coming days?
I can guarantee it.
All right.
God speed with you, my friend.
I mean that.
Uh 800, 941 Sean, our number.
If you want to be a part of the program, Congressman Corey Mills of Florida, Erica Knight, President of Knox Strategy, Silver Prout, who was rescued thanks to the efforts of Corey Mills and so many others.
Pretty amazing people here.
All right, gotta take a quick break.
We'll come back, we'll continue on the other side.
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I don't know.
It's it's on so many levels, so embarrassing, humiliating to our country to have a president that is such a cognitive mess.
And I knew this trip, I didn't think it was possible for Biden to actually have a trip that could be successful because he's not up to it.
I have traveled in my life extensively.
I've been on the road a lot extensively.
There's been years on this show where I'm doing radio TV, uh, speech, book signing, fly to the next city, do the whole thing all over again, and and in the course of you know, a year, over sixty-five cities we go to.
It it's it's it's a grind.
I'm not complaining, I'm just saying it's hard.
Um I'm just gonna play this in a second so you get to really understand the magnitude of how dangerous this is.
If you want to want if you want to know why Jordan, you want to know why Egypt, you want to know why the even the Palestinian authority and Abbas uh wouldn't meet with Joe Biden is because they know they're wasting their time and they don't want to get lectured by an by an idiot that is as ignorant on Middle Eastern affairs and incapable of leading than anybody else on the world stage.
Now they'll meet other foreign dignitaries and other foreign leaders.
I promise you this wouldn't have happened if Donald Trump were president and Mike Pompeo was on TV last night, and if Mike Pompeo was the Secretary of State, I know because I know of the meetings he was involved in.
And at the highest levels, and reported on them.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean will play this in a second.
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This might have been the worst, one of the worst moments.
Now, we always play this one Biden with the music behind it that the RNC had put out.
I always thought this might have been his worst moment, but no, he's had plenty of other worst moments.
Listen.
The political coverage.
Look some of the political players and some of the let me ask a rhetorical question.
No, I'm It's unreal.
This is Biden heading home from Israel after being snubbed by numerous nations, speaking to the mob in the media.
Listen.
Can you talk about the impact of meeting the survivors and first responders?
That's all first look I spent an hour and a half about 17 or 184.
And how to say this.
Virtually every mass shooting, every circumstance were a large number of people have been victimized and lost.
I spoke with our defense department.
It says it's highly unlikely.
A different footprint and intercept us.
Anyway, yeah.
And uh so that's why if you notice he didn't say the first, I didn't I want to make sure that I knew.
And look, and I'm not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it either.
That's that old thing.
Oh, yeah.
And it's not the first time Hamas has launched something that didn't function.
I'm not saying that Hamas deliberately did it, talking about the hospital, I assume.
It if that doesn't the people around him, Karleen Jean Pierre tried to stop it.
Nobody could stop it.
And you could see everybody around him was it was beyond cringeworthy.
And and beyond that, the policies are just obscene and absurd.
He says that if Israel doesn't help relieve the suffering in Gaza, they will lose credibility worldwide.
Joe, the Palestinian authority, you're gonna give the Palestinians, you say you want to give them a hundred million dollars.
The people are not getting that money.
That money will go to Hamas, I promise you.
You're the president.
Why do you not know that?
You know, listen to what he says.
And I was, you had probably told me I was very blunt with Israel.
And uh look, Israel has been badly victimized, but you know, the truth is that if they have an opportunity to relieve the suffering of people who are having nowhere to go, um they're gonna be uh that's what they should do.
And if they don't, they'll be held accountable in ways that maybe unfair, but that's what we were truth.
My point to everyone is looking.
If you have an opportunity to alleviate the pain, you should do it, period.
And if you don't, you're gonna lose credibility worldwide.
And uh understands that.
Uh, and then he goes on to say that he was blunt to Israel about the need to get this humanitarian aid to Gaza.
You know, uh why is it I'm just a little old talk show host?
And I know way more about this than he does.
Did he ever go to Israel and the border cities the way we have in the middle of flare-ups when rockets were being fired?
I don't think so.
You know, has he ever to spoken to the people of these neighboring cities like I have, the people whose children, you know, they they they play in underground playground bunkers.
Has he ever seen a kibbutz that that was hit with these rockets?
Did he ever go to the police station in one of these bordering towns the way we have and see the the number of rockets fired into these cities?
Because it as if he would have gone into the tunnels, he would see all the money that America has given and Israel has given, instead of being used for infrastructure and hospitals and schools, it has been used to build terror tunnels.
Very sophisticated ones, I'll I'll have you know.
Because that is that is their goal, their mission.
You know, and and yet he wants to give money to peep that to people, and it will end up in the hands of terrorist groups.
And saying that a report that in the North, if Hezbollah goes to war against Israel, the U.S. would join the IDF, he said that report is not true.
You know, I played this earlier.
Said he received virtually no pushback from all the partners while he was in Israel.
The partners wouldn't meet you, Joe.
I mean, do you even know that they wouldn't meet you?
And anyone tell you that they're not going to meet you, that they don't have enough respect for you to meet you.
Because they think you're stupid, and frankly, your policies are stupid.
And and beyond ignorant and frankly, they're dangerous.
You're you're the way you deal with hostile actors on the world stage, it is chilling to me.
You have no earthly idea what you are doing.
What did Defense Secretary Gates famously say that you know there's not a single foreign policy issue that Joe's not been wrong on his entire career?
It's a Democrat.
Not Hannity.
You know, Barack Obama never underestimate Joe's ability to F things up.
Never thought I'd quote Obama as being right.
He's right.
All right, to our busy phones.
Uh let us get uh to Donna, North Carolina.
Donna, hi, how are you?
Thank you for joining us.
Hi, Son.
I'm doing great.
I hope you are.
Um, you know, you mentioned the whole thing about leadership and the leadership that we have in our country, unfortunately, and the president is not gonna set any kind of records uh except for you know the worst records I can possibly think of.
Um possibly the worst president we've had.
Um but one of the things I really wanted to address, I'm I'm so tired of the discord in Congress.
You know, people are sitting around splitting hairs, arguing, refusing to come together, refusing to work together, and what frustrates me so much is they're worse than kids on a playground.
You know, they're elected to serve the people of this country.
It's time that they got together and actually started working.
I mean, I have a work ethic, I work every day, I do it, you know, I I just try to do a good job.
So does everybody hearing your voice right now.
Every American gets up and and they they grind it out.
Whatever their job is, they grind it out.
We all grind it out.
Yeah, exactly.
And you know, it was so frustrating is they're getting paid how much money?
I mean, multiple just huge salaries and all this time off to sit around, gripe, complain, gerrymander, and not get a doggone thing done.
And it frustrates me.
It's why I'm not a r registered Republican.
You know, um Jim Jordan would have been a great speaker, in my opinion, but it wasn't gonna happen.
I'll tell you why it wasn't gonna happen.
And it's not because of quote pressure campaigns and that's you know, by the way, I didn't lobby a single person.
The media keeps reporting Sean Hannity lob no, I did not.
I talked to three people last weekend, my sources, which is what I'm supposed to do, so I'm an informed host, and I got the names of the people that were not supporting Jordan.
I I had my one of my producers that ask them, is this report true?
And many people wrote back, no, that's not true.
I am supporting Jim.
Um and then I asked, okay, in this time of war breaking out in the Middle East, war in Europe, uh, borders unsecure, uh, and you know, major economic issues we have and and other challenges we have.
You know, uh you know, what are you gonna when are you gonna open the people's house?
What is your plan for it?
And then under any circumstances would you work with Democrats to um, you know, elect a speaker or or have the speaker pro tem idea?
The speaker pro tem idea is a horrible idea.
They're not doing their job.
Um, but it you know, it's very predictable to me, to be very honest.
I agree with Chip Roy.
There's no path for the GOP only empowerment of a speaker pro Tem.
Uh so it's gonna necessarily require democratic votes.
If this is the path Republicans take, well, what have I been saying to all these Republicans in the beginning?
That they will win together or they will lose together.
And right now they're losing together.
And there's no winners here.
You know, I I was strongly against this this any one member motion to vacate rule.
I thought it was stupid, because you could have one angry Republican that could for at any time can shut the house down.
Or one angry Democrat for that matter.
And you know what?
It's not fair to the people.
They're supposed to be our public servants.
Um, you know, is it the worst thing in the world?
Am I like, is am I screaming at my, you know, your hair's on fire?
No.
You know, I assume some work will get done.
But the problem with this temporary solution, the band-aid solution, is there'll be no accountability at that point.
At that point, they'll be able to say, Well, we didn't have a full-time speaker.
They can have a full-time speaker.
Somebody else now can step up.
And you know, and and hopefully open up the people's house and get the job of the people done.
It's that so it's that simple.
And it just can't stand.
So it's like, you know, get over it, get on with the job, and earn your keep.
Uh that's the way most Americans roll, man.
Uh, you know, we get up, we work hard, we play by the rules, we feed our kids, we send them off to school, we put in our 14 hours or so a day, depending.
You know, come home, help them with their homework, try and shove some food down their throat, read them a good uh good night story, turn on Hannity and go to bed.
Hopefully, turn on Hannity.
All right, quick break, right back.
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All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
Joel in the free state of Florida.
Hey, Joel, glad you called.
Hi, it's it's great to talk to you.
I I have a question, and I just wanted to say too, I'm disgusted with uh our Congress, and I'm disgusted with how people are behaving in America for the uh for Israel and the Jews.
Um, but Rashida Talib, I mean, she needs to be uh censured or somebody none uh has anybody spoken out against that anyway.
Marjorie Taylor Green has moved to on a censure uh proposal uh to censure the Hamas propaganda's Congresswoman Taleb.
Uh, even with all the evidence that was presented by the IDF and our own intelligence services, you know, she refuses to admit that she was completely wrong.
The media mob, I I've not seen one media mob organization.
I named them all yesterday.
I can name them again if you want, has you know, issued a correction that I am aware of, apologizing for the mistake of taking Hamas propaganda as gospel truth and running with it.
You know, that became very hurtful to Israelis' abil the Israelis' ability to defend themselves.
How did it become hurtful?
Because maybe the Hamas uh leaders that would they caught on on a phone call and intercepted their phone call, maybe they didn't know they were being recorded, because if they knew, they wouldn't have been saying, Oh, it looks like the Islamic Jihad did it.
We did this.
Uh and uh, you know, so now Israel's had to reveal some of their intelligence gatherings uh abilities, and that's not good either.
Anyway, I do appreciate the call.
Thank you for uh checking in.
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