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Nov. 2, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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America on High Alert - November 1st, Hour 1
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Linda, you like the idea back at our nation's capital doing this town hall with the Republican caucus tonight?
Because as we get there, there's going to be a ton of news breaking because it looks like starting, you know, a couple hours before my show, that there is going to be action related to whether or not to censure Congresswoman Talib over her support for this anti-Israel rally on Capitol Hill and past anti-Semitic comments.
Another one to censure Congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, over some remarks she made.
And then the resolution to expel George Santos, which, you know, he's now facing a litany of criminal charges, et cetera, et cetera, and lying about his background in an effort to win a seat in Congress.
Even though they're slated to come up on the House floor, it is possible that the House may only vote on motions to table or kill each resolution.
And that's certainly one parliamentary step away from considering the actual measure, which I kind of hope happens because I think there's more important things in the world to do, don't you think?
I mean, I'll be honest with you, I really felt for Jackie Onrik of the network the other day.
She's trying to have a question with Ilhan Omar, who says, ignore this crazy lady because she's asking her to justify her comments.
Like, are she Talib Ilhan Omar?
I mean, I don't think there's a bad time for you to be down there covering these people.
They're cowards.
They say this crap when the cameras aren't rolling.
You should go down there and get in their face and ask them why they're saying what they're saying.
What do you want me to do?
Why are you calling for the death of Jewish people?
Why?
What is that about?
Look, I can bring up a lot of their extreme comments.
You and I both know we've seen enough video of Congresswoman Tlaib being questioned over and over and over again and her not being willing to do it.
Look, the main thing is we've got a lot of serious issues here today.
And I will tell you, it's really a chilling time for this country.
And this is all a result of electing a guy that is incapable of doing the job of being president.
That would be Joe Biden.
For example, he's now planning to veto a package put forward by House Republicans simply to provide aid to Israel.
And they want to pay as they go because Joe gave us another $2 trillion in debt last year.
And that would be by cutting funding for the IRS as if they don't harass American citizens enough.
And, you know, so, but none of that matters to me.
As long as the House fulfills their job and they stay focused on the things that they pledge, which is to secure our borders, to bring law and order and safety and security to our towns and cities, as long as they move forward with an energy bill that recognizes that we can be energy independent and energy dominant, which would also help us get out of the debt that they've accumulated over these many years.
I think it's, what, $33.7 trillion.
How do you ever pay that money back except due to the great resources we have available to us, we can make a fortune.
We can be an oil-rich nation like other people.
But Joe's too stupid to do that, and he's too married to his climate alarmist religious cult members to ever do it.
So we're going to have to wait and see what happens.
The Biden administration holding secret talks on stationing American troops in Gaza after Hamas is defeated.
You got to be kidding me.
That's a bad idea.
So we just have a lot happening here.
But I'll tell you, the most shocking thing, and we're going to get into great detail with this.
We have the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security is going to join us later in the program.
Mark Green is going to be with us.
But I will tell you, if you go back to the words of Christopher Wray this week warning us about Hamas and how dangerous things are here in America, and then you juxtapose that with all of the numbers that I have been given out, and that means all the people now showing up at our border, 659 from Iran.
By the way, why are Iranians making that trek to our southern border?
538 from Syria?
What about thousands of others, quotes, what they call special interest illegal immigrants from the Middle East?
What about the 20 plus thousand appointments made by Russian nationals that are entering our country?
You know, what about the thousands of Chinese nationals that are entering our southern border?
Does anybody wonder when we look at our top geopolitical foes, if I'm right, that Iran and Russia and China represent this new axis of evil?
Why are they at our southern border?
Why are they being allowed into this country?
Am I like the only person with eyes wide open enough to see this as a clear and present danger to our national security?
And this is where it gets extremely frustrating.
Now, I have a message, I had a long message last night in my opening monologue for Christopher Wray is, you know, with all that is going on in this country, well, first of all, let's go back to yesterday.
This is what he was telling Congress when he was on the Hill.
The ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole nother level.
Iranians, for instance, have directly, or by hiring criminals, mounted assassination attempts against dissidents and high-ranking current and former U.S. government officials, including right here on American soil.
But 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 sites on Hamas and have multiple ongoing investigations into individuals affiliated with that foreign terrorist organization.
Well, maybe, and I said this yesterday on this program and last night on TV, maybe Director Wray and the DOJ should stop investigating tiger moms like Linda that show up at school board meetings, parents, and investigating them as domestic terrorists.
Maybe they should stop policing speech on social media about COVID and masking and vaccines.
Maybe they should stop, you know, stop going after peaceful pro-life advocates.
Maybe they should get to the bottom of why they wasted so much time and were involved actively in lying to the country with conspiracy theories about Trump-Russia collusion that never happened and these never-ending investigations into Trump.
Maybe FBI Director Wray can say it's time for the FBI and the DOJ to stop protecting the Biden family enterprise.
Maybe they can stop their agents that were actively involved and meeting with big tech companies in the lead up to the 2020 election that ended up in censoring what was truthful information about the Hunter Biden laptop.
And maybe if they wanted to keep the homeland safe, maybe they could get to the bottom.
We have tons of evidence and video, and maybe they can find out who was responsible and make arrests for the 574 riots in the summer of 2020.
I know they only care about the one riot, January 6th, but they don't care about this one.
And maybe they can stop, you know, maybe they can now return the FBI to its once former state of greatness, being the greatest law enforcement agency in the world, and focus on real threats to America, like he was just outlining, and that would mean terrorism.
You know, maybe we can all agree that Alejandro Mayorkis is not the guy for the job.
You know, this is him trying to avoid answering a very simple question by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson on how many illegal immigrants did he allow into this country.
Secretary Mayorkis, I've asked you this in the past.
What numbers are represented here?
How many people has this administration let in by encountering, processing, dispersing, or that have come in as a known or unknown gotaway?
Approximately, I don't need an exact number.
So what do we got?
Senator, let me say.
I need numbers.
Again, don't filibuster me.
How many people has this administration led into the country?
Let me say at the outset that our job would be a lot easier if the broken immigration system was.
Mr. Secretary, I want a number.
How many people have you let into this country?
I should also comment.
Okay, I'll give you the number.
It's about 6 million.
About 1.7 million as known gotaways.
Now, again, we don't know who these people are.
We just know that they've come to this country and they're residing somewhere.
Where are all these people residing?
Where did the 6 million people go?
Senator, you speak of encounters, and let me.
No, would you answer my questions?
Where did these 6 million people go?
Are you keeping track of them?
To what extent do we have a handle on where these 6 million people are in America?
Senator, as you well know, when an individual is indeed released, they are released into immigration enforcement proceedings and are subject to removal if they do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States.
Unbelievable.
How many people are here?
It's not that hard.
And then we have the exchange with Josh Hawley, who was on TV with us last night.
And Josh Hawley is asking why a radical is working within the Department of Homeland Security and why this radical has not been fired.
Watch him duck, dodge, and weave here.
Mr. Secretary, what's going on here?
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 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 ask the question.
Has she been fired?
Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Secretary, after the consumption of Senator Hawley's time, I'd like to speak.
Has she been fired?
Because I would.
I'd like an answer.
Because I will not be given the opportunity.
Has she been fired?
So that individual has been placed on administrative leave.
So she's not been fired.
Number two, why has she not been fired?
Number two, the individual was hired in 2019.
Why has she not been fired?
Number three, I cannot speak to an ongoing personnel matter.
Why has this person not been fired?
Your answer is you can't speak to it?
This isn't sufficient to fire her?
I am not in a position to speak to an ongoing personnel matter.
This isn't sufficient to fire her.
That's what you're telling me?
That is not what I'm saying.
But she's still on your payroll as we sit here today.
That is not what I'm saying.
Do you understand that this man is in charge of our Department of Homeland Security?
There's never been a time in the history of this country that we have opened up our borders without vetting a single person where according to a congressional report, 99% of the people stay and now have become a massive financial burden on the American clear and present danger to the national security of our country.
And this guy won't answer how many illegal immigrants are here.
Well, we got the answer from Ron Johnson.
He thinks it's 8 million now or 7.7 million to be exact.
We got the answer, have you fired this woman celebrating genocide?
And he doesn't want to answer.
You know, does not want to tell the truth.
And these are the people that we're supposed to count on to protect our homeland.
You've got to be kidding me.
This is now, this is the worst that it has ever been in our lifetime.
All right, we're going to get to this.
We'll tell you what's happening with these censure efforts and this potential of Santos and this motion to remove him tonight.
Obviously, with our town hall with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and all the other Republicans that we've invited.
We've invited all of them.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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Later, we got James Comer on tape.
He'll be on Hannity tonight, part of our Republican caucus town hall.
I mean, they will succeed together or they're going to fail together.
It's that simple.
So I'm getting as many of them.
We've invited them all into a room with Speaker Mike Johnson, and we're going to find out where they agree and where they disagree.
I hope they agree on securing the border.
I hope they agree on law and order.
I hope they agree on energy.
I hope they agree that the Ukrainian money, aid money, has been squandered and Europe has not paid their fair share as per usual.
I hope they agree that maybe they can finally recognize these globalist organizations like the UN and the WHO and the WEF and the rest of them have been an absolute colossal waste of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
By the way, we'll find out $40,000 in payments apparently went straight to Joe Biden from, they believe, from China.
I'll play the whole tape of James Comer later in the program.
And the Daily Mail is reporting that they've obtained telephone records from one of the phones that Hunter Biden bought his father to use, showing that Joe Biden made hundreds of dollars in mysterious overseas phone calls to a person that they have not been able to identify.
So, this now is getting more interesting by the day.
And now, we've got Biden now threatening to veto the Israeli aid bill in large part because Mike Johnson, the new speaker, would defer part of the $80 billion budget increase that Biden gave the IRS last year and redirect that money.
In other words, a sort of pay-go system, which is fiscal responsibility, considering Joe raised the debt by $2 trillion last year.
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So our show with the House Republican Caucus tonight and Speaker Mike Johnson should be pretty interesting because the only way for Republicans to succeed at anything is if they stand together.
But there's other drama that will take place in the lead up to our show, which is 9 Eastern.
It'll be live.
And that is the House is tangling with what are resolutions to censure Congresswoman Tlaib, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and one resolution to expel George Santos.
Now, it's possible through a parliamentary maneuver that the House may only vote on motions to table or kill each resolution.
Anyway, here to explain it all is All Thing Hitchhiker's Guide to Capitol Hill, and that's Fox News.
My colleague Chad Pergram is with us.
So we should have some drama leading into my show tonight.
Yeah, you know, rarely do they ever consider anything like this, these types of discipline in the House, but to have three forums coming up tonight in the House, censure is the second highest form of discipline in the House.
They've only censured 25 members.
So Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican from Georgia, she put together this resolution to censure Rashida Tlaib for some of her comments that she viewed as being anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic.
Frankly, there are some Democrats, many Democrats, especially Jewish Democrats, who are upset with some of the remarks by Rashida Tlaib and also her support for a big anti-Israeli demonstration here on Capitol Hill a couple of weeks ago.
And when you talk about this motion to table, this is how they could wind up voting one step removed from actually censoring Tlaib or not.
That just needs a simple majority.
Not to be outdone, Democrats want to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene.
And then finally, and they will start debate on this on the House floor pretty soon, is whether or not to expel George Santos, the Republican congressman from Long Island.
Now, they've only expelled five members in House history.
The bar there is higher.
It takes a simple majority to censure a member.
But to expel someone, that takes two-thirds.
And I have been told so far, they don't think that there is going to be a motion to table the Santos expulsion.
So the question becomes, can they get to the House has 433 members right now.
Can they get to 289 members?
That would be two-thirds if everyone is there voting tonight and actually expel George Santos.
You might have a simple majority vote to expel George Santos.
There are some Republicans who are reluctant to do so because it would then take the House majority down to three seats.
And that's something that Speaker Johnson has talked about, saying that it's a razor-thin margin already.
So these are big doings tonight in the House of Representatives, Sean.
Now, what's interesting, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think this is very common.
The House Ethics Committee, didn't they publish a statement indicating that they're going to take action on Santos before November 17th?
Explain that.
Yeah, earlier this year, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, he made it known that he wanted the Ethics Committee to work on the Santos matter and thought they could take care of it pretty quickly.
Well, here it is November, and they have not taken care of it.
So kind of preemptively, the Ethics Committee put out this statement saying, we're going to put out our report by middle of November here.
And people thought that that was kind of an effort by the Ethics Committee to say, don't go ahead and try to expel George Santos because to be clear, and this is something that Speaker Johnson has said, he hasn't been convicted of anything.
You know, he wants due process, Johnson does, for George Santos, even though a lot of people see a lot of problems with George Santos.
And they said that can't be the bar for kicking people out.
That said, if you look at the track record of others who they have kicked out, and it's only five, you have to go back to 2002 when they expelled Jim Traffikant, who was corrupt and had criminal charges there, a Democrat from Ohio.
You had Ozzie Myers back in the 1980s.
And then you have to go back to the Civil War.
They expelled three members because they associated with the Confederacy.
So you see what the bar is here to expel somebody from the House of Representatives.
Now, if he's convicted, that might be another story, but they're far away from even getting to trial with George Santos.
We have another issue that is coming up, and that is Joe Biden is planning to veto the Israeli aid bill from the House.
In that bill, Speaker Johnson would defer part of the $80 billion budget increase that Biden gave to the IRS last year and redirect that money to pay for the aid for Israel.
And Biden's saying that, in fact, he would veto that.
Well, that bill in that form is never going to make it to the president's desk.
And it's unclear right now if the House can even pass that bill.
Again, because of this margin, they're going to vote on this tomorrow.
They might be down one member already if George Santos is expelled.
There's a couple of Republicans who have expressed some reservations about this.
Now, Mike Johnson, he was critical when the Congressional Budget Office said that stripping the IRS of this money will actually diminish revenues by nearly $27 billion and add almost $13 billion to the deficit.
The idea was what they're doing here is they're taking that money that was designed to go to the IRS.
And ironically enough, Sean, that was the pay for in the president's IRA bill last year, which was one of the hallmarks of his legislative agenda here.
So that's why the deficit actually goes up.
So I asked Speaker Johnson this morning, I said, you know, what about that?
And he said, well, only in Washington when you cut spending do they call it an increase in the deficit.
And I asked Johnson if he puts credence in the CBO, and he replied, quote, I don't.
Now, I can guarantee you, if they got a good number from the CBO, everybody would have embraced it.
They started to have this criticism of the Congressional Budget Office back in the Paul Ryan days when they were trying to undercut Obamacare and things like that.
And when they would get bad numbers from the CBO, they would say, oh, that's bad accounting that's going on right there.
But again, had they gotten a number that said absolutely this reduces the deficit, every Republican would have fully embraced it.
Otherwise, they work the rest and criticize the CBO.
There's other issues that have come up, too.
I'm sure you heard James Comer, who'll be on the show with us tonight, unveiled bank records showing that Joe Biden collected $40,000 in what he's describing as laundered Chinese money.
And secondly, Joe Biden has this phone, apparently, that the Daily Mail discovered, a phone line that was paid for by Hunter Biden.
Do we know anything more about that since that story broke today?
You know, that's the thing that's going to be interesting to watch and see if there's bandwidth for that, because we haven't really heard much about impeachment and these investigations since about the middle of September.
We had the fight over funding the government, trying to keep the government funded late September, and then we got right into the speaker's race.
And this is exactly what Kevin McCarthy said.
He said, if we have a government shutdown or if they throw out the speaker, which is what they did, that's going to sidetrack all these investigations.
Now, they've been working a little bit behind the scenes, but it has not gotten the news oxygen that they had hoped.
And this is where you have Republicans being divided.
A lot of them said, okay, we want to get through impeachment and we want to wrap it up quickly.
Well, because they lost three weeks plus trying to figure out who was going to be the speaker in the House, that set that back.
And Sean, the other problem, for Republicans who are pushing impeachment or are following those inquiries closely, we have to fund the government again here in just a couple of weeks.
And then the next big thing is whether or not they can put together this package for Israel or Israel and Ukraine or whatever form that takes.
That probably gets you to Christmas.
Now, granted, they can walk and chew gum at the same time, but seeing how any sort of news on an impeachment inquiry, unless they have a really big smoking gun or some hearing that really blows the doors off the place, which when they had the hearing a few weeks ago, that far from did that, and Republicans said that.
They didn't think there was much to that hearing they did a couple of weeks ago.
It's going to be hard to get that story to break back through because of the international crises right now and also a new speaker and trying to deal with funding the government again.
Unbelievable.
What's the reaction been to Christopher Wray's testimony that Hamas may conduct attacks here on our soil and the fiery exchanges with Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Ron Johnson, and Josh Hawley?
Yeah, that was a big one.
I mean, just the fact that you had Christopher Wray saying that, you know, the threat of attacks were up in 2023 anyway.
And, you know, you augment this now maybe to a 9-11 style threat.
He said this takes it, to his words, a whole nother level.
And that's a big deal.
And, you know, I talked about the things that we know right now that could command the news oxygen.
Obviously, a terrorist attack would completely change the landscape.
And again, focus, depending on if it was somebody who came through the border or groups of people who came across the border.
And that's what they were getting into in that Senate hearing yesterday.
That's something that they would probably turn around and say, okay, that is an impeachable offense.
If they find that that went through the border and there's questions about how porous the border is.
But again, that hasn't happened yet.
God forbid it does.
But that's where we are.
Just the reality of that, when you couple that with the Middle East, that is a major headache for security officials.
It's a major headache for the Biden administration.
And it's one of these consequences that comes out.
That's why it was such a game changer to wake up on the morning of the 7th of October and have this crisis in the Middle East.
And as I said at that point, it was even a bigger deal because there wasn't a functioning legislative branch of government.
There was no Speaker of the House.
And now they have that taken care of at least, but it doesn't diminish the threat.
It seems like the administration is tied up in knots because on the one hand, you've got American Muslim groups now giving Biden a ceasefire ultimatum.
And then you've got, you know, even people like our own Peter Ducey, our colleague, can't get an answer to whether or not they will call Hamas and others extremists.
So they seem between a rock and a hard place about what they want to be able to say politically.
And Joe's poll numbers are not exactly at the highest point ever.
I think he's close to a 60% disapproval rating now.
Right.
I talked about some of the divides on the Republican side of the aisle here, but there are big chasms on the Democratic side.
And it goes to this coalition, this left-wing coalition that they put together of having progressives.
And suddenly now, some of them obviously were Jewish.
And now there's this infighting over people, some on college campuses.
As we speak right now, Sean, the House of Representatives, is debating a measure to condemn anti-Semitism on college campuses.
And that left-wing coalition has these fractures in it.
That's a problem.
It's going to be a fracture over whatever form the Israel money takes.
It's going to be a fracture on dealing with possible humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
That is a problem.
And how they put that together again on the Democratic side is unclear.
Maybe if Hamas didn't take that money and build 300 miles a network of terror tunnels instead of hospitals and schools and infrastructure, maybe people would have confidence the money would go to the people that need it.
I would argue, in all likelihood, that Hamas would get that money.
And then we have the added burden for the Biden administration is that our U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 27 times in just the last two weeks.
And that's exactly what Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State, testified to yesterday before the Senate committee.
He said he could not guarantee.
He said that there wouldn't be seepage of some of this aid that would eventually make its way to Hamas.
It's a war zone.
Those things happen.
And this is where Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, she said, well, she said they elected Hamas in that group.
She said they have resources.
They have water.
They have food.
They should be taking care of their people.
And she was adamantly against, and many Republicans in the Senate who we spoke with yesterday are absolutely against sending any humanitarian aid.
Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, another one, because they say this is just going to be money that goes to Hamas.
And that's going to be a question.
And so that's where you look at that aid package.
I don't know what combination ever gets that across the finish line because you have folks who want everything all cobbled together.
You're going to have divides in the Democratic and Republican Party about sending humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
I don't quite know how that all works out yet.
And nobody else is.
I don't think if you did, you'd be a very rich man.
Let me play Congresswoman Omar.
How did she avoid this censure, I guess, feast that's going to take place tonight, considering these remarks.
During the 2012 military offensive in Gaza, you tweeted, Israel has hypnotized the world.
May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.
How do you put that into context now?
And what do you say to American Jews?
So I remember when that was happening, watching TV and really feeling as if no other life was being impacted in this war.
And that really, those unfortunate words were the only words I could think about expressing at that moment.
Most of the things that have always been aggravating to me is that we have had a policy that makes one superior to the other.
And we mask it with a conversation that's about justice and a two-state solution when you have policies that clearly prioritize one over the other.
Such as.
I mean, just our relationship really with the Israeli government and the Israeli state.
And so when I see Israel Institute law that recognizes it.
All right, I could keep going, but we're running out of time.
She seems to have been able to duck.
Yeah, I mean, it's up to an individual member to bring that resolution.
As I said, Marjorie Taylor Greene brought the resolution regarding Rashida Tlaib.
And, you know, the tit-for-tat they got into is Becca Ballant, who's a Democrat from Vermont.
She turned around and filed the resolution against Marjorie Taylor Greene.
So somebody could do that, but that is not how.
Well, I hope I get to see you at your place of work.
It's not where I work, but the Capitol, our town hall tonight with these members of Congress, the Republican Caucus.
Thank you, Chad Pergram.
We appreciate it.
I will be there and we'll probably have some news tonight.
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