Sean Hannity Show - GOP Debates Continue - November 9th, Hour 1

Nov. 10, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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GOP Debates Continue - November 9th, Hour 1

Sean breaks down the latest GOP primary and looks to the future with President Trump leading President Biden by as much as he is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	I think they've understood that if they enter the war in a significant way, the response will be very, very powerful.
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	Thanks to that new poll for the Times.
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	If you want to be a part of the program today, you know, I watched a lot of the debate as much as I could, and then I'm on the air against the debate.
	So, you know, I'm sure a lot of my audience wanted to see both and maybe hopefully flip back and forth.
	I just wasn't that impressed.
	I don't like when you have five people up there on stage.
	And I just don't think you get the substance that you want to get out of a debate.
	And I'm not sure.
	I mean, Vivek made this point about why is this on NBC?
	I mean, I like the fact that Hugh Hewitt was there.
	I think that certainly helps.
	But why is the RNC bothering?
	The people at NBC hate Republicans.
	I mean, the bias can't be any more clear.
	It's corrupt, abusively biased.
	And then you get into these little pissing matches between the candidates over things that I don't find substantive enough.
	One of the things, this debate that we have coming up on November 30th, and I have a lot of media people that have been wanting to interview me.
	And I almost always turn down most interview requests, as you know, Linda.
	And I've been doing a bunch of them in the lead up to the debate between Governor DeSantis and Governor Newsom.
	Is one of the reasons I like the format that we've created for this debate is there's going to be room to breathe here.
	In other words, it's going to be, okay, let's talk about immigration, sanctuary cities, controlling our borders.
	Let's talk about taxes.
	Let's talk about energy.
	You know, let's talk about the economy.
	Let's talk about, you know, there's a lot of topics.
	And what I hope to accomplish is, I mean, you're looking at two heavyweight governors of two of the largest states in our country.
	They've been kind of sniping at each other for a long time now behind the scenes, and they've agreed to let me moderate it.
	Although Gavin is out there complaining, it's already two-on-one and it's on Fox.
	I literally wrote him, I said, really, Gavin?
	You know, and this is the guy that thanked me for giving him a fair interview when I interviewed him because I kept my word.
	I said I'm going to let him answer the questions.
	And I have no, my job in this is to let them answer the questions.
	And the questions are going to be what they're going to be.
	I think a lot of it will be fairly predictable questions.
	I might have a few curveballs in there that maybe they don't expect.
	But here's the good part.
	We've got 90 minutes for this debate, 90.
	And you only have two people.
	So that kind of lends itself to an environment where whether they like each other or not, I don't think they're going to be openly hostile towards each other.
	Maybe they will.
	Maybe they won't.
	I can't control any of that.
	But my hope is, is that we actually, I mean, it's kind of an amazing thing if you think about it.
	You have two of the biggest states, and they couldn't be governing any more differently than they are.
	And it's very representative, I think, of the moment we as a country are now living through.
	And it's a point that I have made often, which is how do you reconcile, defund, dismantle the police, no bail laws, with those that want law and order so people can be safe and secure and pursue happiness.
	Tell me where the middle ground is there.
	Well, we'll only defund 50%.
	We'll cut it right, you know, cut the baby in half, as they say, just as a phrase.
	And I'm like, wow, you know, pretty amazing.
	I don't see common ground here.
	You know, there used to be a time on this radio program.
	By the way, Joe Manchin announced that he's not running for re-election for the U.S. Senate.
	Did you see that, Linda?
	Manchin is not running.
	I did see that.
	It doesn't surprise me.
	I could see him running for governor if he runs for office again.
	He's not going to do anything.
	He is old.
	He needs to retire and go spend his millions that he never earned being in the Senate.
	The one thing I will say, he was one of the few Democratic senators that would even take my call.
	And we could have a discussion.
	And it was always cordial.
	And how did he vote?
	Well, he voted in ways I would have disagreed with.
	There you go.
	You know, the Inflation Reduction Act.
	He was at a 70% plus approval rating in West Virginia when he was opposing it.
	I don't know why he changed his mind and eventually gave in to that.
	And I know that the Democrats, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden promised him he wanted that the pipeline, what was it, from West Virginia to Virginia or West Virginia somewhere.
	And he was promised this if he went along with the act, which, by the way, I don't blame him.
	He's standing up for the people of West Virginia, standing up for energy, a big part of the economy.
	And then they reneged on the whole thing.
	And maybe I'm just guessing wrong here, but I interpreted that as like, he's done.
	You know, these people are not men and women of their word.
	They're not honorable people.
	And I find that with a lot of people in politics.
	But there used to be a time I could call Joe Lieberman today and he would take my call in two seconds.
	Funny story about Joe Lieberman.
	And maybe he was the canary in the coal mine.
	Maybe in the sense that, you know, here you have a guy in 2000 that ran as the vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, and then just a few years later, the Democrats throw him off the ticket.
	He has to run as an independent, wins as an independent, wins his seat back because he's very well liked.
	He's got an amazing family.
	I've met his family.
	And he and I, even when we're disagreeing, we disagree, but we're not disagreeable.
	You can't, there's nothing not to like about this guy.
	I would agree with him.
	We did tend to agree on issues involving national security.
	We definitely disagreed on everything involving social issues, but there's no more Joe Liebermans anymore.
	And if Joe Manchin was the moderate, there's no moderates anymore.
	I mean, I think somebody told me Kristen Sinema, I mean, I know she says she's an independent now, but I think she still votes with Joe Biden 97, 8, 9% of the time.
	I mean, what difference does it make if the debate that we're doing is there's enough time for the look, you're dealing with two very smart people.
	Whether you like Gavin Newsome is slick, Gavin Newsom will come in prepared.
	So will Ron DeSantis.
	He's had one of the best formal educations of any person that runs any state.
	But they disagree on everything.
	And on every issue that I'm going to bring up, I'm curious if there's going to be any middle ground, if there's going to be any area where you could say, okay, we could probably find agreement here.
	If you do this, we do that.
	Those days now seem done.
	The left in this country has gone insane.
	Now, I was happily surprised that 22 Democrats voted to censure Congresswoman Tlaib when she said from the river to the sea, which, in case you don't know, means to wipe Israel off the map.
	And I was glad that they did that.
	But, you know, so I'm not saying, for example, I like all the people on that stage last night, even Dopey Vivek, who thinks that I was so mean to him in the debate.
	And Hennedy asked me a hard question, and Tucker was much nicer to me on his show.
	I'm like, just shut up and answer the question.
	Just really, you're going to whine about everything?
	In my opinion, he came in a little too cocky, a little too prepared with his, you know, one-liners, et cetera, et cetera.
	And I think it was a big mistake.
	I just don't think it's fair to bring up people's children in a debate.
	I just think it's wrong.
	And I didn't like when he brought up Nikki Haley's daughter.
	I mean, seriously, leave the kids out of it.
	It's bad enough that they have famous parents.
	That's enough of a burden on them.
	I thought Governor DeSantis, he just took the high road on this stuff for the most part.
	He did go after Donald Trump in the beginning of the interview.
	I wish that the battle within the Republican ranks, it's going to happen in every primary.
	At some point, the top candidates are going to start killing each other.
	But usually that's at the end of the process.
	Usually when there's two people left and everything's on the line and you got to win this state or you got to win that state, that's when things can get very ugly.
	Although you want to see an ugly campaign, you can go back to John McCain and George W. Bush.
	If you go to South Carolina, I mean, it became a must-win state at that point for George W. Bush.
	I mean, it was brutal.
	I mean, that campaign at that point was brutal.
	So I just, I see this now as America now, you have a party that is weak, a party that doesn't have the strength to really advance any agenda except distinguish itself from the socialist, radical, climate alarmist cultists that represent the Democratic Party.
	And I don't even see enough agreement on their side.
	And that's frustrating to me.
	At that point, we then have like a unit party in America.
	I do want clear distinctions.
	I want bold-colored differences, as Reagan talked about.
	I want a choice election.
	I want to know how they distinguish themselves from what the Democratic Party is doing.
	You know, I'm watching Joe Biden out there, and, you know, he actually said yesterday, oh, I'm not trailing Trump in Battleground States.
	I'm like, yes, you are.
	The New York Times even says you're trailing in five of the six Battleground States.
	Did you ask for a three-day pause to Netanyahu?
	You know, I've been asking for a pause for a lot more than three decades.
	All right, that's the wrong tape.
	Let's go to the other one.
	I'll get to that one in a second.
	I'm not trailing Trump in Battleground States.
	That's cut four on today's cut sheet.
	Did you ask for a three-day pause to Netanyahu?
	All right, he'll find it.
	Anyway, now, Joe Biden admitted in the cut that we were just playing, I asked Netanyahu for even a longer pause than three days.
	Why would the president of the United States, after Israel's 9-11 on steroids and human growth hormone, if you extrapolate out populations, why would he be asking Israel to pause for anything?
	What does a pause mean?
	A pause means they rearm, they recalculate, they redeploy, and then they come back even more powerful than they were before, and you stop your momentum.
	Why would we ask Israel to stop the momentum because they're winning the war?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	And then Biden said something that I haven't heard of.
	He said he struck Iran's Revolutionary Guard because they struck us.
	Linda, we read the news all day, every day.
	Did we strike the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?
	Is he talking about the two pinprick strikes at empty warehouses?
	Is that what he's referring to?
	After 40 some-odd attacks against American soldiers?
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	Do we have that tape?
	Why did you strike Iran's revolutionary guard?
	Because they struck us.
	And President Biden.
	Why did you hit them again?
	What is he talking?
	Because they struck us.
	Yeah, well, they've been striking us forever.
	And just like China has been intimidating and challenging our fighter jets in international airspace, just like China has been flying spy balloons over our country for eight days.
	No consequences.
	Just like China has been confronting our Navy in international waterways, just like they've been confronting our ally Taiwan by constantly flying over their airspace in a hostile way.
	And Joe Biden hasn't done a thing, just like, you know, no problem if, in fact, the Houthis take out a $30 million American drone.
	You know, there's no consequences for Vladimir Putin taking out our drones.
	There's no consequences for anybody in all of this.
	It's unbelievable.
	Anyway, you got, which one do you have?
	Why do you think it is that you're trailing Trump in all these swing state polls?
	Because you don't read the polls, Officer.
	There are 10 polls.
	Eight of them.
	I'm beating him in those states.
	Eight of them.
	You guys only do two.
	CNN and New York Times.
	Check it out.
	Check it out.
	We'll get you a copy of all those other polls.
	You don't believe you're trailing in Battleground States?
	I'm not trailing in Battleground Stage.
	You know what?
	Just check it out.
	Just check it out.
	Come on, man.
	Just check it out.
	Come on, man.
	He's so cool.
	He's so cool.
	Like, when I look at him, I'm like, I want to be that cool when I grow up.
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	What did you think of the debate last night?
	Just give it a grave.
	Boring as hell.
	Really was, wasn't it?
	It's just terrible.
	And I think it's just telling that the crowd is chanting Trump.
	I know.
	That was.
	I mean, come on now.
	Enough with the nonsense.
	We all know who the candidate is.
	All right.
	We all saw what happened on October the 7th in Israel.
	More than 1,400 Israelis killed, hundreds taken hostage.
	Israel now in the middle of a ground invasion in the south in Gaza.
	So far, 320 confirmed IDF soldiers have been killed.
	As a result of all of this, we literally have thousands and thousands of Israelis now have been taken out of their homes in the north by Lebanon and in the south, some of these border cities.
	And right now, there's a need for a lot of assistance on the ground to help the people that have been displaced.
	Critical essentials like food, medicine, other emergency supplies.
	There are literally a couple of hundred thousand people that are displaced.
	Now, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, they're on the ground in Israel, and they're helping all the people of Israel that need help now.
	They need food, medicine, other supplies.
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	We have a lot of Joe Biden bribery and money laundering scandal allegation news that we're going to get to.
	Jim Jordan will join us, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
	A lot happening, too.
	Let me tell you one thing.
	So now that we have the subpoenas that have been set out for Hunter Biden and for Joe Biden, I'm sorry, for Joe Biden's brother, Joe Biden's son, and one of their business, it really gets into the other news about how the FBI has been weaponized and how the DOJ has been politicized.
	And, you know, now we're learning they had apparently had a behind-closed door interview with David Weiss, and David Weiss confirmed that everything that the IRS whistleblowers had said is absolutely, positively true.
	And that is that, in fact, David Weiss said to them, oh, I don't have the authority to go forward and charge in other jurisdictions like Washington, D.C. and California.
	Anyway, we'll get to all of that today, and we'll tie it all together for you.
	That's coming up a half hour from right now when we come back to the news of the day straight ahead.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
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	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Ham.
	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.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
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	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	Dijo.
	I25 to the top of the hour.
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	It's who he is.
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	All right, so as I mentioned, the subpoena is now going out to Joe Biden's son, Hunter, his brother James, and one other business partner.
	I am told that this is just the beginning of what is going to be a long list of people that are going to be subpoenaed and have to head to the House Oversight Committee.
	How they react to this is going to be interesting.
	We'll talk all about this with Jim Jordan.
	Now, these investigations run in tandem because, you know, in the Judiciary Committee, they just interviewed behind closed doors David Weiss.
	He's the special counsel.
	By the way, this guy has been investigating Hunter for six years.
	And David Weiss confirmed that Biden and his DOJ blocked him from indicting Hunter Biden.
	Now, if you recall, the IRS whistleblowers came out, and they're the ones that said, well, David Weiss, the guy in charge of the investigation into Hunter Biden, said to them that he had no ability to charge Hunter Biden in jurisdictions such as Washington, D.C. and California.
	Well, that's the exact opposite of what the Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
	That goes to the heart of the Judiciary Committee investigation into whether the FBI and the DOJ have been politicized and weaponized.
	I'd like to get to the bottom of that because special counsel David Weiss told members of the House Judiciary Committee that he did, in fact, seek special attorney status in the spring of 22 in order that he could charge Hunter Biden in California and Washington, D.C.
	Now, remember, this is the same David Weiss that allowed the statute of limitations to run out on very important tax years involving Hunter Biden, the burisma tax years.
	Well, I'm sure that was just convenient.
	We have an unearthed email showing the stonewalling an FBI agent had ordered for the Bureau and their officials to censor social media posts.
	Linda, did you hear Jim Jordan the other night on TV?
	I'll ask him about it in the next hour.
	That I was on the list of people, conservatives, named that the FBI and others were censoring anything that you, because I don't have access to any of my social media.
	You took it away from me.
	You don't even give me my passwords.
	I haven't been on.
	You're welcome.
	What do you mean you're welcome?
	Okay, do you want to deal with your social media?
	Because I'm telling you, you're not missing anything.
	I don't think I'm really missing anything.
	And it did get a little bit addicting in some of those late-night battles with Jimmy Kimmel.
	He's such a jackass.
	It was on actually a lot of Jimmy's, right?
	It was Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Jim Acosta.
	I think we should just ban that name from your list.
	Really?
	Fake news.
	Well, one of my all-time classics was with Alec Baldwin.
	And in the middle of that Twitter war, well, two things happened.
	One, his daughter direct messaged me to please stop fighting with her father.
	And I wrote back.
	I said, I'll honor your wish.
	You're a young girl.
	I mean, I feel terrible.
	I don't want to cause anybody any pain.
	But I'm thinking to myself, why isn't she writing her own father and telling her father to knock it off?
	But I stopped.
	And then his brother Stephen, I like Steven.
	He's crazy as hell, but I love him.
	And he's, you know, a big.
	You know who wrote me the other day?
	I forgot to tell you.
	Harriet.
	Harriet.
	The normal cousin.
	Yeah, she wrote me just to say hello.
	It's been a while since I heard her name.
	How's she doing?
	She's good.
	She listens.
	She watches.
	She's a good person.
	I don't know how you have a few good.
	Now, Stephen's crazy, but Stephen, remember when the issue came out and the tapes came out?
	You're nothing but a filthy pig, blah, blah, blah.
	His voice messages for his daughter.
	Let's clarify Alex's voice messages for his daughter, not Stephen or Billy.
	No, no, no.
	And Stephen, he just, he said, can I meet with you?
	I said, okay, I'll meet with you.
	And he goes, you're a Christian, right?
	I was like, oh, no.
	He's invoking Jesus.
	I'm in trouble.
	Because if you invoke Jesus, I'm going to like, ah.
	And he goes, I'm asking you as a Christian if you could stop fighting with my brother.
	I know he's wrong a lot of times.
	I know that, you know, he wants to engage in these fights, but it's not helpful to my family.
	And I especially care about my niece and the long-term impact it'll have on her.
	I'm like, what am I supposed to do?
	I said, okay, I'm gritting my teeth.
	Like, yeah, I'll do the right thing.
	Just leave me the hell alone.
	And to your credit, you did.
	And I kind of stopped.
	The best beatdown was Jimmy Kimmel, me making him apologize and then putting up all the videos of him when he was doing the old man show.
	Oh, I remember.
	And then I was like, I'm not stopping.
	And I kept hashtagging Disney and his boss and hashtagging Bob Iger, who I guess then was the CEO.
	And eventually I said, I'm not stopping until you apologize.
	And then eventually I got the apology.
	And then he was going to start in on me again.
	And I was that close to starting it up again.
	If he does one more thing, I am going to unleash at my command, you will unleash hell.
	Right from Black.
	I'll sell some tables in Jesus' name.
	It's no problem.
	It's in the Bible.
	No, I mean, if he wants to start up that war again, this time I'm not going to stop.
	There'll be no stopping me.
	Let's do it, man.
	I'm all in.
	Anyway, so why is you know, look, I don't, I don't bring these issues to the public airways very often because it sounds like I'm self-centered and, you know, only caring about myself here.
	It doesn't really matter that it's happened to me.
	But how is it that our government, which now is, if you want to know why I'm off social media, why I'm off, I don't have an email account, if you want to know why I don't save anything, it's because the government has printed thousands of my personal text messages and they've released them to the public.
	57 pages.
	And which one was that?
	That was your conversation with Manafort, to which Mother Jones said, oh my God, Hannity really believes this bleep.
	By the way, so, okay, that's a great case.
	It's a good example, though.
	57 pages of your personality.
	And that was the funniest commentary about it because they released all these text messages and everything that I said on the air, I was communicating to Paul Manafort.
	At that point, we were looking at the Russia hoax and what I thought about, you know, Robert Mueller and what was that other guy's name, the Pitbull, Andrew Weissman, and how unfair it was and the double standard we have in our justice system.
	All of it was there.
	But then the judge in the case releases everything.
	Well, I'm not involved in that case.
	Why'd she release my private text messages?
	Why did the January 6th committee feel that they can release my private text messages?
	I'm not involved in that case.
	You know, and it's happened to me what?
	No, I was just going to say, you know.
	I'm going to get mad.
	I can say that.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	I've got my own dumb button on myself.
	You know, I think the bottom line is, you know, with Jim Jordan, who's going to be on in a little bit, you know, with Linda Monaco and the oversight that she has, you know, the weaponization of their abilities is not what it does say, but what it doesn't say.
	So it doesn't explicitly say, do not spy on people.
	Do not read their textbooks.
	No, I am mentioned specifically as somebody that the FBI wanted to censor.
	Probably because you're smarter than the rest of the people in the house.
	And they did that.
	And I'm like, okay, do I have any legal recourse at all?
	I call my lawyer and my lawyer says, nope.
	You know, when I get smeared to this person, he goes, it's called Times v.
	Sullivan.
	Do we have to go over that for the 400 millionth time?
	And Times v.
	Sullivan, landmark case, says that if you're a public figure, the standard for libel goes much higher.
	And you have to prove malice.
	Now, to prove malice, you have to be able to ascertain what somebody was thinking, what was in their mind and their heart and their soul at the time that they libeled me.
	And I get libeled quite often.
	And I have the best libel attorney on earth at my avail, Charles Harder, the guy that won the Gawker case.
	He's amazing.
	And the answer is I can't.
	I would love to have sued the New York Times.
	I really would have loved to because of the lies they told about me.
	But then I get the speech.
	Okay, do you want to spend X number of dollars, X number of years of your life, only the likelihood is you end up losing.
	And, you know, I give credit, like people like Sarah Palin.
	She tried.
	She got further than I think anybody thought she'd get.
	But I give her all the credit in the world.
	But at some point, I've got to make a decision.
	Do I want to devote my time to my shows and do the best show I can do every day?
	Or do I want to deal with this garbage?
	But you know what the reality is?
	There's nothing that I can do.
	But now it's confirmed.
	Remember, they had all the 302s on all of us involved in the Russia hoax, our whole ensemble cast.
	You know, they had all of these notes on all of us.
	I get a call one day from, I won't say who, a source of mine telling me, just giving you a heads up, your name's all over this.
	I'm like, all over what?
	And describes what it was.
	And I'm like, well, why is my name all over that?
	And then you can't get access to it.
	So I have no idea what people are saying or not saying about me.
	And knowing in my heart that I wasn't involved in anything that they're talking about.
	Just so wrong.
	Anyway, 800-941 Sean.
	So we have Jim Jordan in the next hour.
	We're going to get into that.
	I don't have good economic news.
	I don't even know what to say to you anymore.
	It's not any good economic news.
	She said, no, you know what?
	I'm going to pass on giving you bad news for the day.
	How's that?
	And we could all live in a bubble.
	We are now as a nation paying a trillion dollars a year in interest.
	Let me repeat, a trillion dollars a year in interest.
	You know, one of the other great benefits of Bidenomics.
	They're not calling it Bidenomics anymore.
	Mayorkis finally endorses canceling visas of foreign students who support terrorists.
	Wow, what a high bar.
	What a really, really brave decision.
	That is.
	When he was asked yesterday how many illegal immigrants are in this country since they came into office, and Ron Johnson two weeks earlier had given him the number between the ones we know about and the ones that are, quote, gotaways, the estimates, it's around 8 million.
	Now, now we're discovering that thousands are coming from the Middle East, including Syria and Iran.
	Big numbers, and including China and Russia.
	Now, why would people from the Middle East, Iran and Syria, China and Russia, be going to our southern border and mixing in with the crowd and walking into our country unvetted?
	You know, I wish I was wrong in what I have been predicting.
	I am saying it is a near certainty.
	As a matter of fact, I'm going to go a step further.
	I am 100% certain that among that 8 million people that Joe's allowed into this country, that there are terrorist cells that have come into this country and they will plot, plan, and scheme, and they will attack us.
	And it may be worse than 9-11.
	And you better prepare yourself.
	And the people that have allowed these open borders, not enforced the law, a president that has not upheld his oath to office, they will all have blood on their hands.
	Now, I'll add this caveat.
	I pray to God, who I believe in, that I am wrong.
	I pray that my instincts are wrong.
	I pray that of the 8 million people, there's not one of them that has bad intentions for our country.
	But I don't believe it.
	I think I will be proven right.
	I wish I would hope that I'm proven wrong.
	I don't know why.
	I'm just not that interested in going over last night's debate.
	I'm just not for a lot of different reasons.
	I have a lot of things to say, but whatever.
	Oh, the Get Trump judge is now under fire for posting half-naked bathroom cell phones.
	They're not half-naked.
	Let's be honest.
	You're just in the car with your kids.
	It's not half.
	Well, I didn't see that.
	He's just blocking all the stuff.
	It's a full-on.
	He's got the camera where the sun doesn't shine.
	You know what I'm saying?
	What do you mean by stuff, Linda?
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	I mean, I can't get into it.
	I'll text you later and they'll release it to the media and everyone will know.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	All these people, I'm going to be very blunt here because I don't have access to social media.
	We were saying this.
	I don't get it.
	I don't get the obsession of all these, quote, celebrities and people, news people, that they want to put every single solitary detail of their glorious lives on social media.
	I don't want any pictures on social media.
	What do I say if you put up a picture of me?
	I say, stop it.
	I don't want my picture out there.
	I don't want my personal.
	Am I like the only one that wants my personal life to stay personal?
	Good grief.
	You know, I've never told anybody.
	Hannity, what did you do with COVID?
	Did you get the shot?
	Did you not get the shot?
	How about I'm never telling you?
	You know why?
	Because you want to know.
	I would otherwise probably easily share it.
	Hannity, did you ever get COVID?
	I'm not telling you.
	Unless I know you and I like you and I feel like telling you.
	It's none of your business.
	I believe in medical privacy.
	I believe in personal privacy.
	You know, that's why I said, you know, look, I understand that Kelsey, the football player, Kelsey, him and can we just leave him and Taylor Swift alone?
	I'll tell you what, if we never talk about them again, it is a minute too soon.
	Let's stop right now.
	How about we just be happy for them and hope things work out well?
	I'll tell you what I like about Taylor.
	She works her ass off.
	She doesn't care about Taylor.
	She does four-hour concerts.
	She writes her own songs.
	Yeah, she should go on tour and go play some music.
	I'm begging you to stop.
	Just stop.
	Do anything but this story.
	What is wrong with you?
	I've had enough of both of them.
	God, man.
	Just shake it off.
	Just shake it off, Jason.
	Don't stay up too late.
	I have tears on my guitar listening to you.
	All right, a lot happening as it relates to the Joe Biden bribery and money laundering scandal allegations.
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