Bill O’Reilly, author of Killing the Witches, The Horror of Salem talks to Sean about the speed at which the world is heading towards World War 3, had this to say about Mike Pence leaving the race: With Mike Pence waving goodbye to the presidential sweepstakes, only four Republicans remain credible in challenging Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. Let's analyze one by one. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has the resume but lacks personal charisma and media awareness. He is running Florida well, as evidenced by the multitudes of people moving there. At first, DeSantis seemed viable, but that has faded. He lacks the ability to engage folks on television, a vital campaign necessity. Former South Carolina Governor and Ambassador to the UN Nicki Haley does have a whiff of momentum because she's articulate and knowledgeable. No question. But she's also a bit imperious (word of the day) and not an avid culture warrior, imperative for the Republican nominee. Ambassador Haley would make a good VP selection. Vivek Ramaswamy. Fading. Smart. Maybe someday. Chris Christie. Running on the "nobody hates Trump more than me" platform. Not his time. It will never be his time. So, Donald Trump really has no competition at this point. But Trump being Trump, anything could happen on Friday. Or Saturday. Or any date, hour, or minute. It's who he is.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Um I gotta start with a compliment.
So I had friends of mine go see you.
I was going to go, but you know that I had to work.
Um I was on two hours on Friday night.
And they went to see your show in Huntington, Long Island, and they said you crushed it.
So I'm starting out with a huge compliment, Mr. O'Reilly.
How are you doing?
Well, I appreciate that.
And um we had a great time, and the show is about right and wrong.
Uh how um in America that very simple equation is disappearing, and that is leading to all of uh our social problems and the uh Hamas Israel stuff and all of that.
Um what I try to do in a humorous way was to tell people about my upbringing and how I was subjected to right and wrong every day by my parents and the nuns and you know, all of that, and everybody could identify that was in the theater.
So we had a good time.
I appreciate your friends coming.
Um we uh may do a couple of more of those because it was so successful.
All right.
Now I need a little lead up time, and then I'm gonna give you the ball and let you run as far as you want to run, okay?
Sure.
Um, Bill O'Reilly.
Um we've been covering news the two of us, between the two of us nearly a hundred years, right?
A long time.
Yeah, you're 70 for you, 30 for me.
Um I've never been this concerned about the state of this country, the safety and security of this country and of the world.
And I and we're seeing things, Bill, I never thought we'd see both at home and abroad.
We'll start abroad.
Paris, stars of David painted on buildings and businesses.
Uh kind of echo of what happened before World War II.
Uh in David.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Star of David painted on buildings and businesses.
In Russia, you got that angry lynch mom mob storming the airport.
Because they were looking for Jewish people to attack after rumors that a flight was landing from Israel.
You have anti-Semitic comments all over social media in every country across this globe.
Right.
I got a man in Nevada arrested for threatening the life of a Jewish senator.
You have anti-Semitic messages projected on to an interstate highway on signs in Georgia.
We have 659 people we've identified that have crossed the border from Iran.
538 from Syria.
We have thousands of other quote special interest aliens from the Middle East.
We have thousands from China and thousands from Russia crossing into our country.
Bill, that is a clear and present danger to our country.
And I've and with all that's going on in the Middle East, and all the involvement now and the threats of involvement with Erdogan and Turkey and Mullahs and Iran and the Houthis declaring war now against Israel, and then Hezbollah in in the north, uh out of Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Bill, it's never been this bad that I can think of since the end of the Cold War or Pearl Harbor, where my dad fought four years in the Pacific.
Uh number one, President Biden's role in the dice on his legacy in the country by continuing the open border, which is embarrassing and dangerous.
Not too many media covered it yesterday, but there was a security hearing held in the Senate where Christopher Ray showed up as the FBI chief and Mayorc is the homeland security chief.
Both men embarrass themselves.
It's clear the federal government is not protecting Americans.
Now to take it any further than that is hard, because you don't want to speculate on possible violence, but certainly if it happens and the terrorist is identified as somebody who came across the southern border, which will happen if they if somebody attacks will know where they came from, then Biden's done, he's finished, and his whole administration is finished and the Democratic Party is finished.
I mean that's going to be the unintended consequence.
But we can't root for that.
We have to hope that the FBI, even though it is a corrupt institution now, because it will not investigate anything that goes against the Democratic Party, and that's a definition of corruption.
Um I still think that the FBI is pretty good at ferrowing out terror threats.
However, there are obviously more people here because of the open border that could do us damage.
Let's talk about the anti Semitism.
So out of Montauk, which is a very benign community on the east end of Long Island, a tourist place, a fishing village.
There's never been strife there.
Um crime is very low, people get along, and then you see this uh Swatsuka stuff.
This person who did that is mentally ill.
Doesn't give them a pass.
But we don't know if it's one person, we don't know if it's many people.
I mean, did you ever think you'd see as many college campuses with this virulent anti Semitism?
It could be uh a group, but it's one person who who painted the SWAT sticker because the swatch stickers were crude and and you could see that it was the writing was the same on all three incidents.
So that person whoever did it and anybody who enabled it is mentally ill, but the authorities have to find the person and have to charge them with hate crimes because you can't allow that stuff to exist, whether they're mentally ill or not.
But anybody who would do that is sick.
Now abroad it's a little bit different.
Well, before you go abroad, yeah.
Then then what do we say about the thousands of Americans that have been taken to the streets?
What do we say about the s the thousands on college campuses?
What do we say about how large this this lack of moral clarity and conviction is, Bill?
It's it's eerie to me.
It's uh I'll tell you it is I've never used Nazi analogies.
I think that they've been overused inappropriately used.
This is nineteen thirty stuff to me.
Do you see it the same way?
Uh I see it not quite at that level because um and I'll tell you why I wrote the book Killing the SS, so you know I know as much about this as any human being on the planet.
But the college students that you see are not the majority of the of the students.
Most students don't aren't doing this.
It's it's a very tight Still 31 I I gotta interrupt.
Thirty-one separate groups at Harvard.
You went to the Harvard's uh what schools.
But their numbers are small as far as comparing them to the overall enrollment.
And I'm not making an excuse for Harvard or Cornell or Columbia, and I'm gonna tell you why these kids are doing this, because all of those institutions are run by committed progressive leftists, and the number one tenant in that group is Israel is a fascist country that persecutes Arab minorities.
These students buy into that.
And they're so dumb that they are basically justifying terrorism by saying, oh, Israel is a terrible country.
So Hamas is a right to go in and kill women and children in ghastly ways.
Now, if you just step back, the logic of that statement is insane.
So but it isn't like Germany, where the German people pretty much said, you know what, we're buying into let's kill the Jews.
Because Hitler wrote a book and said that's what he wanted to do.
No excuse for the German people to do that.
Now there's a million different reasons why they arrived there because of the World War One treaty because of the depression, all of that stuff.
But what it comes down to is that today in America, with social media, social media can rally these things fast.
They can get these people out there fast and they cluster.
But they're not the majority of people.
However, the progressive movement, this is the key to it, hates Israel.
I'm not going to say the all progressives hate Jews, but many of them do.
And and people need to understand it.
It's not anti-Semitism, in my opinion, is not overwhelming America.
It's the progressive movement that gets these people mobilized.
Like black lives matter, like and they can get them fast.
And the media picks up on it because the media loves this.
Big clicks, big viewership.
They love it.
But it's a majority of American students don't buy into this, in my opinion.
Let me let me take issue with the fact that you don't see it's this big.
You know Times Square, you've been there, you've been there on New Year's Eve.
I'm sure at some point in our lives we unfortunately found ourselves there working or whatever.
And you saw the massive crowd of people.
You know, you don't see American flags unless they're on fire.
Uh you don't see peace signs, but there were a lot of posters calling for a global antifada, which is a holy war against non-believers.
You hear the demands for Israel to immediately call Iron Dome can do.
And now we've watched these massive rallies, Bill.
They're not small.
Times Square was packed.
It was packed.
And the vile anti-Semitic rhetoric and the swastickers and the chance for Israel to be wiped off the map and the calls for Jews to be annihilated, all taking place.
Let me quote Cornell, the message board, the university forum.
Rape and kill all the Jew women.
Jews are the excrement on the face of the planet Earth.
Uh glory to Hamas, liberation by any means necessary.
If you see a Jewish person on campus, follow them home, slit their throats, rats need to be eliminated from Cornell.
You go to, you know, uh college professors, University of Chicago.
Uh Israelis are pigs and savages, very bad people, irredeemable ex excrement.
May they rot in hell.
I know.
Go look, and then look at the media.
Opinion Post literally puts this out there claiming they moved removed it right away.
Umparing Jews to Nazis and Gaza to Auschwitz.
Bill, I can go on for another hour.
I think you are minimizing.
I'm I well, we have a gentleman disagreement about numbers.
Look, 10% of all Amer of all Americans and everybody else on the planet are evil.
Okay, but 10% of 330 million, Bill, that's a big number.
That's a big number.
Absolutely.
Sixteen and a half million in the New York City metropolitan area.
That's a huge number.
So you can mobilize five thousand people to go out and do this kind of stuff.
But here's what's worse.
You want to hear what's worse?
Mayorchis yesterday in his testimony was asked by Hawley, the senator from Missouri, what have you done to this homeland security employee who put out on the internet that the Hamas hang gliders who slaughtered more than 200 people at the concert were heroes.
You know what they've done?
They suspended with pay.
So Hawley said, Why didn't you fire them?
Why didn't you fire this person?
You know who he is, and you know, I have the name, I'm gonna report it tonight on the no-spin news.
And and uh, and he goes, you know what he said, Mayorchus said?
I can't comment on personnel matters.
He also said he had no idea how many illegals came in the country.
And I'll I I can play let me play this exchange, Bill, because we we showed it on TV last night.
It's worth playing again.
Mr. Secretary, what what's going on here?
Is this is this typical of people who work at DHS?
This is an asylum and immigration officer who is posting these frankly pro-genocidal slogans and images on the day that Israelis are being slaughtered in their beds.
What have you done about this?
Four things I'd like to say to you.
Number one, your question to suggest that it that is emblematic of the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security is despicable.
I'm sorry, what have you done?
This person works for the Department of Homeland Security.
Have you fired her?
That was one of four answers.
Have you fired her?
One, have you fired her.
Don't come to this hearing room when Israel has been invaded and Jewish students are barricaded in libraries in this country and cannot be escorted out because they are threatened for their lives.
You have employees who are celebrating genocide, and you are saying it's despicable for me to answer ask the question.
Has she been fired?
Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Secretary, after the consumption of the I think we get the point, Bill, because we're running out of time.
I'll give you the last word.
And that that's the real danger here.
No, we just don't have any guidance morally from this Biden administration.
Not only is uh Mayorcus incompetent, not only is Biden derelict in his duty as the president by letting all these people violate our immigration laws, but they don't have any outrage at all about this, Antony.
Majorca's is an outrage.
Imagine if somebody did that with the Proud Boys and said, hey, the Proud Boys are great.
You think they uh nothing would have happened to them.
So this is really a problem.
We don't have strong leadership.
You're doing a good job on this by putting these haters in a in a barrel where they can't get out.
You can't justify what they're doing.
I I I thought we disagreed on numbers, but extrapolated out for the population, and you think it's 10%.
It's a big number, Bill.
It's a scary time.
I'll say that.
I didn't think we'd see this in our lifetime.
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Wouldn't you say?
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Let's go back to Christopher Ray, FBI director uh from yesterday that Hamas may conduct attacks right here on our own soil.
By the way, he also couldn't even answer whether or not or not we were less safe today.
He didn't want Joe to get hurt.
Anyway, listen to this.
As I said a few moments ago, on top of the homegrown violent extremists and domestic violent extremist threat, we also cannot and do not discount the possibility that Hamas or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil.
We have kept our sights on Hamas and have multiple ongoing investigations into individuals affiliated with that foreign terrorist organization.
Now, juxtapose that to John Kirby telling my friend and colleague Peter Ducey that we remain vigilant about threats from the southern border, even though we have all of these people from Iran and Syria and China and Russia coming in, and juxtapose it also to his comment there's no indication Hamas has gotten their hands on any uh humanitarian aid.
Really?
How'd they build those tunnels?
That network of 300 miles of tunnels.
The FBI director said today the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level.
Has the White House considered the possibility that a terrorist could be in the country right now after crossing the southern border?
Peter, we are always concerned uh about uh the potential presence on U.S. soil uh of terrorists uh uh coming from overseas.
That's something we're always worried about.
Is it possible that somebody who wants to commit a terrorist attack during a time of elevated threat crossed the southern border into the United States already?
I I couldn't possibly answer that question, Peter.
All I can do is tell you that we are we have remain vigilant to that potential threat.
I want us to be very clear on this.
We have seen no indication.
None.
That Hamas has gotten their hands on any of the humanitarian assistance that has gone in.
None of it.
I mean, it is and and Joe's still pushing, demanding that hundreds of millions of dollars of American money go to help the people in Gaza.
It's not going to get to the Palestinian people as evidenced by the weaponry, the rockets, the network of terror tunnels.
Anyway, let's get to our busy phones here.
We'll start in uh California.
Uh Philip next, Sean Hannity show.
Philip, how are you?
Great Hannity.
Thanks for having me on.
You know, I'm I'm waking up and every day I feel like we're in the best episode ever produced of the Twilight Zone.
And I just can't believe everything that's going on and we as Americans haven't figured it out.
And you know, we place a lot of blame on Trump and Harris and their administration, but it's not them, it's us.
Because we're letting all this happen.
When are we as Americans going to stand up and put our foot down and say enough is enough?
I mean, your universities anti- you know, uh Semitism with the the Jewish kids.
It's ridiculous.
Come on.
I mean, this is not the America that I grew up in, and I uh, you know, I'm just I'm blown away.
I never thought we'd see in our lifetime, that's for sure, right?
No, I never thought I would either.
You know, I I went to school in California University and went to law school out here, and you know, yeah, you see a little bit of racism, but I've never seen anything as bad.
And I'm black, you know, and I went to a Cal State school and got indoctrinated for about a minute and figured it out, and I was and I figured out that this is not the route to go.
But these kids are just they're off the hook, they're going crazy.
And I I don't, you know, how do you as an American advocate violence against another American?
You know, if you're if you feel that passionate about it, then you need to get on a plane and you need to go over to that country that you're that passionate for, and you need to fight.
You're not to do any good here.
You're not gonna convince me to change my mind.
Go fight, go over there and fight.
And maybe that's what needs to happen.
You know, look at these kids at cook uh the college Cooper Union in New York having to barricade themselves behind a locked door because an angry mob is trying to find the Jews on campus.
It's unreal.
Uh anyway, Philip, thank you, my friend.
God bless you.
Uh Tom in Delaware next, Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean Hannity, how you doing?
Thank you for having me on.
Thank you.
Uh Sean, uh, listen, uh just a little background so people don't think I'm about to give my opinion based on not watching TV twenty-four-seven.
Uh I'm an Air Force veteran.
I have three grown sons currently serving in the Air Force.
So I I have a little bit of background.
So here's what's about to go down.
We're in the beginning of the takeover of Taiwan.
Why do you why why do first of all, thank you for serving your country.
Number two, why did how are you tying this to Taiwan?
Okay, so uh Joe Biden needs a really good excuse for letting China take Taiwan.
So what better excuse than me, Joe Biden is out saving the Jews.
Now, Israel deserves all the support we can give it.
But the Biden family has been compromised, there's no doubt.
President Biden has been compromised, and the people he's been compromised by is China, Iran, and Ukraine.
Ji Jinping is calling in his big.
He got Iran to start this crap in the Middle East.
Oh our boy Joe is gonna send two aircraft carrier groups there.
The moment the third aircraft carrier group is sent there because things are getting out of control.
China is not gonna have a war.
They're just gonna walk right in with a piece of paper to Taiwan and say, get out of the office, boys, we're in charge now.
Because there'll be no way for us to support any kind of military action in the Pacific if we have three carrier groups and a bunch of Marines and Air Force guys over in the Middle East.
And this is gonna be his n and he's gonna look in the camera and he's gonna tell us all what a brave, honorable warrior he's been over there protecting the Middle East, and that's why my gosh, Xi Jinping had to get Taiwan.
I we you know, we couldn't let go of the Middle East war.
Well, look, let's just look at the facts and put them on the table.
Dozens of attacks on Americans in Iraq and Syria.
There's been no consequences, you know, a pinprick attack against two empty warehouses.
Uh there's been no consequences for China for COVID, no consequences for the spy balloon, no consequences for their fighter jets in international airspace confronting our fighter jets, no consequences for their uh their ships confront their naval ships confronting our naval ships in international waters.
Uh there's been no consequences for any of their actions.
Uh the same goes for Russia, no consequences for them and taking our drones out of the sky.
Um and and certainly this new axis of evil of Iran, Russia, uh, and and China is very, very real.
Um, and the answer to your question is uh yeah.
The U.S. because of Joe's, you know, horrific handling of Ukraine, and it's been a disaster.
He's not demanded other countries in Europe step up and and and take on their fair share of the burden.
He put handcuffs on Zelensky from the beginning, and the moment the opportunity to actually win has come and it is gone.
And he's wasted hundreds of uh billions of dollars in the in the process.
And there's there's only so much the U.S. can do here, but this is what it looks like to have America abdicating its role on the world stage, being the leader of the world in the free world, and having a president that instills no fear, no respect from our adversaries.
And I believe a lot of this is probably rooted in the the massive amounts of tens of millions of dollars in business with some of our top geopolitical foes that the Biden family has been involved in.
And I think over time that's gonna be that's well, we're gonna continue to learn more about it.
And it is it is beyond repulsive.
And add to that, this guy I don't think has a clue that today's Wednesday.
We're in trouble.
The world is this is what the world looks like when you really don't have a strong president.
Open borders, that you know, i it is creating a national security disaster for this country down the road.
Uh reliance on the lifeblood of the world's economy, because he's a uh uh a climate alarmist religious cult member in good standing, you know, not supporting law and order and and supporting this defund the police idiocy, foreign policy.
I I mean, it's about as bad as you think it can get.
And and the only answer is 2024 and and the lead candidate for the Republicans will be on trial as many as four times next year.
He's gonna be occupied and Joe will be hiding in the the basement bunker in Delaware or the basement bunker at the White House.
But the country is deteriorating.
Uh our economies, you know, going down the tubes on top of everything else.
It's bad.
I don't know any other way to put it.
Are you want me to put it you want me to tell you it's fine?
It's not fine.
It's as bad as I've seen it.
Sean, if we get enough assets in the Middle East, there China's just gonna walk in and and again, like I said, this is the payment.
There this was a big plan, and proof of it's gonna be as soon as China's got control of Taiwan, all of a sudden it'll seem like the Middle East issue slowly is gonna dwindle away, like all of a sudden the terrorists are gonna back off.
You watch.
Oh, this this is not dwindling away.
I think they're going in for the kill right now.
And I think that this is now about the the future existence of Israel.
That's what's that's what is on the line here.
Make no mistake about that part.
Anyway, my friend, thank you for serving your country.
Appreciate you being with us.
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Uh Troy is in Utah.
Hey Troy, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Hey, yeah, I just want to kind of extrapolate on what the last guy said.
I I think um on the broad picture, he might be Somewhat right about Taiwan.
I think there's a couple things I might disagree with, but I kind of want to touch on how that's possible.
And you remember the Arab Spring back in 2013, Benghazi, Libya, Egypt.
Um of course, who could forget?
Yeah.
So uh there was a coup d'etat in Egypt in 2013, and this is why it's such an important thing to me.
People are worried about the Middle East turning into more of a broad or regional conflict.
Well, the United States has sold a ton of arms to Egypt over the past 40 years.
They've got 1300 Abrams tanks.
We have 240 F-16s.
They have seven E2 Hawkeye uh EWR aircraft that that run data link with the F-16s, and they've got Apaches and a bunch of Russian equipment.
The problem here that I'm seeing is that third battle group may actually get sent there if if the IDF is able to move all the people from Gaza into the Sinai.
I don't know if you saw what the Egyptian president said yesterday.
I did.
LCC.
Yeah, so he, you know, he's saying, well, we'll we're willing to sacrifice millions of our own people for every grain of sand.
If the Egyptians get involved militarily, or if a bunch of Al Qaeda and Africa fighters from Libya manage to cause a coup, another coup in Egypt because it's kind of unstable, and they get involved with all of that hardcore weaponry that they have bought from us.
We're going to have to send a third, maybe a fourth battle group there.
I mean, you could be looking at divisions of American troops going into the Middle East.
And if Egypt does get involved, Iran will start fighting.
And it could turn into a massive regional conflict.
The Israelis are prepared militarily pretty well.
But the Abrams tank is not a joke.
And F-16s aren't jokes.
I mean, it could turn into a really real fight.
And I think people just need to know.
Listen, I'm just looking at the players in the Middle East alone and then their connections abroad.
You've got you got Lebanon Hezbollah, you got to the north, you got Hamas and Gaza.
Uh, you've got the Houthis now, they have declared war against Israel out of Yemen.
Uh, then you've got Syria firing missiles into uh Israel as well.
Then you have Erdogan threatening to declare war against Israel, and of course the saber rattling by the Iranians.
That has all the ingredients for what would be the beginning of a likely beginning of a potential World War III, certainly a war that will engulf the entire Middle East.
My feeling about El Sisi and King Abdullah of Jordan is they probably both want nothing to do with any of this.
The same would go for the Saudis, the same would go for the Qataris, the same would go for the Emirates.
None of them want this.
They want to make money.
However, it may come to them whether they like it or not.
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