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John Rich - November 10th, Hour 3
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Well, one thing we haven't agreed to is a ceasefire.
A ceasefire with Hamas means surrender to Hamas, surrender to terror.
There won't be a ceasefire without the release of the Israeli hostages.
And then do we go back to bombing?
No.
Four hours.
We don't want four hours.
We don't want 16 hours.
We don't want 22.
We want a ceasefire now.
So the situation at the border, you're saying, is not a disaster.
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If you want to be a part of the program, it's always an honor, a privilege, a pleasure to have back on the program, my friend, my buddy John Rich.
He's going to be down in Nashville with us at the Fox Nation Awards next week.
I can't wait to see you, my friend.
How are you?
I'm doing great, Sean.
Looking forward to seeing you too, buddy.
All right.
So we have tomorrow, which is November 11th.
And sadly, there are probably too many Americans that don't know what that day is.
Would you like to remind them or shall I?
Well, tomorrow is Veterans Day, where we as Americans are supposed to stop and remember whose shoulders we stand upon, who we owe everything to in this country, and we honor them and show them great respect.
That's what tomorrow is all about.
So you are a multi-platinum singer-songwriter, one of the best songwriters I've ever met.
And you've written for so many other artists besides yourself and Big Kenny.
You and Big Kenny, Big and Rich, have done great.
You write, I got to tell you, I've been listening lately, Earth to God, because things are so screwed up in the world.
And I'm like, I hope people watch that video.
I'm actually going to put it up there with your new song today that you're just releasing.
But John has just put together a brand new release.
It's called The Man, and it's to honor our veterans.
And he's releasing it today.
And you can catch the riveting video featuring numerous American heroes who fought for your liberty and your freedom.
And we got to honor them and remember to honor them.
Even if you just take some time and say a prayer and give a prayer of thanks to the people that sacrificed all, risked all for our liberty and our freedom that way too many Americans take for granted and others abuse by supporting terrorist groups like Hamas.
Anyway, here's his brand new song.
It's called The Man in Honor of Veterans Day.
All right, that song just released today.
It's called The Man in Honor of Veterans.
By the way, where can people download it?
I guess anywhere that you get your music, right?
Yes, sir.
It's everywhere.
iTunes, Amazon, anywhere you go.
It's on a record called The Country Truth.
It's one of the songs on that record.
And that's a song I wrote about my grandfather and his service in World War II in the U.S. Army.
And when I say the man, yeah, I'm talking about him because he's my granddaddy, but the man is all of them.
The man is every man, every woman, everybody that has gone to the mat like that for this country.
I think it's been a long time since Americans have experienced the potential loss of sovereignty of the United States, the actual loss of freedom.
And nobody really can relate to what that must feel like.
And if you go back to the greatest generation, had they not stood up and did what they did, the world would be a completely different place.
We're the shoulders they stand on, where they're the shoulders we stand on.
And the next generation, Sean, they're standing on our shoulders.
I said this the other day to a friend, that there are people with my last name, with Sean Hannity's last name, that we will never meet.
They will be born into the future, and they're depending on what we do right this second.
So I wanted this song to be a reminder to all Americans how important our veterans are.
In doing so, you mentioned the greatest generation.
My father was a part of it.
Now, all four of my grandparents came from Ireland.
They came here with nothing.
They lived all of their lives pretty poor, worked their asses off.
Both my parents grew up very poor.
My mom in the South Bronx in New York and my dad in Bedstein, Brooklyn.
Not exactly the best neighborhoods at the time where they were living.
And then my father, you know, grew up during the Depression and had to contribute financially to his own family.
I mean, crazy stuff, even delivering papers, whatever money he got from that.
And you're right, we stand on their shoulders.
Can you imagine the trauma, the horror of the things he might have seen?
Or you think of the guys that slammed the beaches of Normandy.
You know, if you haven't watched Saving Private Ryan, take a look.
Because that was their reality.
They were sitting ducks and just being slaughtered on the beaches of Normandy.
And yet they were able to beat back the forces of evil at that time.
I mean, you just, I mean, they're just so amazing.
You can't say enough good about these people.
Yeah, I mean, there's one part in the song, The Man, where it says, I'm the grandson of a soldier, and I'd fight the whole world over if duty called and freedom's on the line.
But thanks to the greatest generation and the one still fighting for our nation, I've never had to kill from my way of life.
I don't have PTSD, Sean.
You don't have PTSD either.
We've never had to pick up a rifle and shoot somebody with it or throw a hand grenade at a bunch of guys and kill people on behalf of the United States to ensure freedom for our future generations.
Thank God we've not had to do that.
But I'm telling you, a lot of time has passed, and a lot of our young people, especially in this country, have no touchstone, no firsthand knowledge or conversation with real heroes, real veterans, real men and women that have done things like that to understand that their freedom is not inherited.
They have to earn it.
And I believe in this country, we're moving towards a place now where we're going to have to earn it again.
Why?
We're watching a victim of terrorism extrapolate out the population of Israel, compare it to the United States, and those 1,400 people slaughtered by the terrorist organization Hamas on October the 7th.
That would be the equivalent of losing 38,000 Americans in a single day.
Now, I know how this country acted after 9-11.
You refer to that in your new song as well, the man.
We lost 2,977.
Could you imagine if we lost 38,000 plus Americans in a single day?
And then we were being told by governments around the world that we have to hit the pause button while we're fighting an enemy that has sworn to wipe us off the planet off the face of the earth because that's in Hamas's charter, John Rich.
Yeah, well, this is the product of mass brainwashing for a very long time, especially on our youth in this country to be brainwashed and indoctrinated that America is the problem.
America deserves it.
And they believe that.
That's why they're out in the streets like a bunch of brainwashed anti-American zombies cheering this on.
And it's disgusting to watch, and it's very concerning.
All of us that don't feel that way, which I believe is the mass majority of a country, we're all watching it going, wow, these people live in our zip codes.
These people are right down the street from all of us.
Sean, are you watching what's happening on college campuses in the halls of Congress?
I don't think it's happening in Nashville.
At least I pray to God it's not.
It shocks the conscience and soul, at least of me.
And I didn't think I could be shocked anymore at this point in my life, John Rich.
I thought I pretty much saw it all.
Yeah, unfortunately, I don't think you have.
And I will say this, all those weak-kneed college kids outstanding out in the street cheering on Hamas, they better hope to God in heaven that if the bad guys in this country ever decide to activate, guess where they'll be running to?
They'll be running to the veterans, to the active duty, to the patriots.
They'll be running to the people who said, I told you so.
Yeah, well, I've been warning people, John Rich, and I'll say this, and your dad was a preacher, and I'll say it this way.
I pray to the good Lord above that this never happens, that I am 100% wrong, but I'm actually 100% confident I'm right.
Joe Biden, by allowing 8 million, since he's been president, 8 million illegal immigrants, allowing them into this country unvetted, and that we know of, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds coming from Iran, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds coming from Syria, thousands coming from all over the Middle East, tens of thousands from China and Russia.
I guarantee you, John Rich, that I'm 100% right, that among that 8 million are terrorists that are aiming to harm Americans.
I guarantee you they're plotting, they're planning, they're scheming what would be a brutal attack on our country.
And I shudder to think of what that attack may, what form it may manifest itself in.
And you know what, John?
I pray to God that I'm wrong.
I don't think I'm wrong.
And I bet you probably don't think I'm wrong.
Yeah, I don't think you're wrong at all.
Why would they make a trip like that?
You know, why would they?
Gee, what a common sense question.
What a great question.
Right.
Why would you go to all that trouble to get over here?
I'll tell you what they're going to run into whenever they try that nonsense.
They're going to run into close to 17 million veterans that are still alive in the United States.
They're going to run into hundreds of millions of Americans.
Americans that are armed, Americans that are ready, Americans that will die for their families.
They're going to run into that.
Look at what they did to Jason Aldean.
That don't happen in a small town.
And what he's talking, he wasn't, and they, and all this guy did was put out a video and showed the riots in the summer of 2020.
It wasn't fake footage.
It was real footage.
And he's saying, you know what?
In small towns in America, we're not going to allow this crap to happen because we stick together.
And he wasn't talking about race.
There was nothing.
There was no zero anything to do with race in that video or in the music.
But there are Americans that still have this, you know, these fundamental beliefs, God, family, faith, country.
They believe in it.
Protect our own.
Protect our community.
Protect our neighbors.
Stand up for people we love, even strangers in town.
Stand up for everybody.
You're not going to get far if you're in the wrong town and you try to pull the crap that's happening in big cities.
Why did he come under so much fire for that?
I think he came under fire because the left loves chaos.
And anybody that calls him out on it and says, you know what, why don't you try that in my town and see if you get the same result.
What's going to happen in Nashville if anyone tries that in your bar in Nashville?
Well, you know, somebody brings trouble into your bar in Nashville.
I have a pretty good idea what's going to happen to the person bringing the trouble.
Yeah, well, a lot of my security guys at Redneck Riviera, we actually hire active duty.
So when they come in off deployment, a lot of those guys come to my place and they work.
They work security.
We've got guys at even barton sometimes down there.
So, yeah, my bar would be the last place you would want to try that in, I can promise you.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with John Rich.
He just released his brand new single today.
It's called The Man in Honor of Veterans Day Today.
And by the way, you got to catch the riveting video.
We have it up on Hannity.com featuring numerous American heroes who fought for our country and our liberties and our freedoms.
So we're all watching what has happened with Israel as they now are fighting against Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south and the Houthis out of Yemen and the Syrians firing rockets into their country.
It's resulted in over 200,000 Israeli citizens.
We're talking about men, women, children, the elderly that have been displaced because of this war.
And thank God there's organizations like the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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And it's called the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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The government is very busy there right now.
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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.
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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.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
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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 Navok 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.
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Hi, 25 to the top of the hour.
Your call's coming up.
Also, this exchange with Piers Morgan and Douglas Murray, who is in Israel for the New York Post.
I mean, fascinating exchange straight ahead.
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I want to play, it was actually an amazing exchange.
And by the way, I get along great with Piers Morgan.
We're friends.
Sometimes we agree.
Sometimes we disagree, especially on the Second Amendment.
We totally disagree.
So he's interviewing the New York Post Douglas Murray, who has gone to the Middle East and gone to Israel.
And he has seen a lot of things that most of us have not seen.
Now, unfortunately for me, a lot of the images, the GoPros, the tapes, I have seen, and I honestly say this, and I'm just telling you, you don't want these images in your head.
It is a level that is inexplicable.
It's evil personified.
And Douglas Murray was explaining this in this exchange with Piers Morgan.
I think Piers was a little shocked saying, I'm on the ground and it's very different here.
Let me explain it to you.
Let me play this exchange.
It's a little long, but I think worthwhile.
And then we'll get to your calls.
What concerns me about what Israel is doing is not their efforts to get rid of Hamas, but because of the particular nature of Hamas embedding themselves amongst civilian populations with the masses amounts of civilian casualties that will inevitably come and that figure will grow and grow and grow.
Are we not, as Barack Obama warned, are we not creating here just an opportunity for far greater radicalization of all those young Palestinians who watched their loved ones get killed?
Why would we imagine that at the end of all this, they're going to want to do anything other than to become a new version of Hamas and wanting to exact revenge for what happened to their families?
Your question supposes that there is a sort of peaceful Palestinian population in the Gaza who would love a two-state solution and then a few bad apples in Hamas.
I think that's not true.
Why is it that when one of the victims of the music festival, a poor young German Jewish girl, who it seems was raped and then brutally murdered and taken into the Gaza naked, why was it that you can find, and anyone can find this online, a crowd of ordinary Gazans, it wasn't Hamaz, it wasn't a Hamaz rally, ordinary Gazans spitting on her body, hitting her body, mutilating her body further as it went down the street.
Does that strike you, Piers, as a placid population of peacenick types who are just desperately waiting for a two-state solution to be put back on the table for the millionth time in the last 70-something years?
It doesn't seem like that to me.
People quite often abuse history and they say things all the time.
I mean, about the only thing anyone from history knows is about the Nazis.
Here's something I can tell you with absolute certainty, Piers, having not just seen some of the results of what Hamaz did on the ground here in Israel a few weeks ago, but having watched the videos of the unedited footage, which I was one of the journalists sadly allowed to see the other day.
I can tell you one thing.
The comparison between Hamaz and the Nazis is insufficient.
Even the Nazis were actually ashamed of what they did.
You know, SS battalions who spent their days shooting Jews in the back of the head and pushing them into trenches had to get very, very drunk in the evening to forget what they had done.
The Nazi high command famously had to sort of get around the problem of soldier morale because the soldiers knew this wasn't exactly what their lives were meant to look like either.
I tell you one very big difference.
If you look at the footage, the raw footage, and I really hope people don't on a wider scale have to view what I viewed the other day.
If they see it, they will see something that is at least as barbaric as what the Nazis did.
But here's the difference.
They did it with glee.
They were deeply proud.
You see people trying to, you know, taking the head off a young Israeli man with a shovel and then calling their parents back in Gaza and telling them, father, father, I've killed two Jews with my ten Jews in my own hands.
Get mother on the phone.
I want to show tell her how great a job her son has done.
You know, I come back to this thing.
I'm not exaggerating this.
It's very, very interesting and people need to realize.
You had this situation with the Nazis where they also were a genocidal anti-Semitic organization, but they tried to cover their crimes up.
Hamaz are actually proud of them.
And they've said they will do them until the whole world is clear of Jews.
So I suggest we take that seriously.
And I think that Israel is taking it seriously.
I hope they continue to take it seriously.
But I think the world should take it seriously.
That was Douglas Murray in an interview with Piers Morgan.
And why?
Because he's saying the West is failing Israel in the Hamas war.
I mean, in many ways, we are.
Could you imagine losing 38,000 Americans, the equivalent of your base it on population, Israel versus the U.S., in a single day, and countries telling you to put a pause on the war for your survival?
I really can't imagine that.
It's hard for me to wrap my mind around.
All right, let's say hi.
Thomas is in Utah.
Thomas, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called.
What's going on?
Good afternoon, Sean.
Yes, I want to talk about the Republican debate.
But first of all, I want to say a happy birthday to the United States Marine Corps.
By the way, I'm saying this from my buddy, Captain Howie.
Happy birthday to the Marine Corps.
And by the way, you're a Marine, sir?
Yes, sir.
I served the United States Marine Corps down in Camp Fendelton, California.
And I remember every year on November 10th before Veterans Day is 248 years old today.
Great point.
Thank you to all our Marines, Semperfield, to all of you.
And God bless you for the sacrifices you've all made for the cause of liberty and freedom that we all benefit from.
Absolutely.
Hurrah.
So about the Republican debate.
So why is Chris Christie still being shown up at the Republican debates?
I think that his talking points aren't really as strong as, say, Ramuswami or the governor from Florida.
Oh, Governor DeSantis.
Look, I've said this from the beginning.
I don't think Christie is a serious candidate.
He's been on every show imaginable on fake news, CNN, and MSTNC.
And he's on for one reason because they use him as a Republican to spend almost every second bashing Donald Trump.
Okay, I got it.
That's your platform.
He's not a serious candidate for president.
That's why I've not wasted my time on him.
I put Vivek Ramaswamy on.
I mean, to me, it was a bit of a big baby the last time he was on because I called him out on something that he said, and I quoted him accurately.
Even during the interview, he admitted I quoted him accurately.
And then he's been crying about it ever since.
I'm like, you know, grow up.
If you want to be president, stop.
He tells everybody, lectures everybody else about growing up.
I did like that he called out the media.
I thought that was a good moment because I don't think that the I see no benefit for Republicans to go in the mainstream media and let them host debates.
I don't see any upside to it if they're not going to be fair.
That's my personal view.
Hugh Hewitt's a great guy.
I like Hugh a lot.
I thought he did a good job.
And in the end, I thought it was a fairly interesting debate.
I didn't like when his comments about Nikki Haley's daughter.
I think I keep kids out of it.
I've been that way my whole life.
You know, people would ask me all the time during the Obama Obama.
And I used to say, yeah, I think that it looks like he has a great family.
He's got two beautiful kids.
And he seems like a great, great dad.
And Michelle seems like a great mom.
That's what I said.
I don't want to attack children.
I don't want to attack families.
You know, it's an unfair burden that they already have if their parents are in the public eye.
And I think they should be left alone.
Period.
End of sentence.
There's no justification for it.
That's my personal belief.
But that's up to Vivek.
He's going to do what he wants to do.
Well, merits need to be judged.
I mean, people need to judge people on their merits of what they do politically and not about their family life or their personal life.
I mean, when it comes down to politics, it's the politics that really matter and the track history and the merits.
And that's what makes me think more of Trump because he's already been there and also DeSantis.
He's got some kind of proven track record.
America needs a tough president right now.
Let me tell you something.
America needs a president with common sense on the borders, common sense on energy, common sense on law and order, common sense and strength on the world stage and leadership on the world stage.
We need somebody tough, because we see what happens when America has a weak president.
We're living under it with Joe Biden.
I was being interviewed by a reporter.
I won't mention the person's name today.
And finally, I started asking, do you think Joe Biden is suffering a serious cognitive decline?
Now, the answer is obviously yes.
But the guy tried to circle around the question each way and sideways.
It actually became entertaining to me because I wouldn't let up on the question.
I said, yeah, but you're not answering.
He goes, well, I don't feel comfortable making a medical diagnosis.
I said, I didn't ask you if he had dementia or Alzheimer's.
I mentioned, I asked you if he's in cognitive decline.
If you pull tape from Joe Biden when he was a senator and compare it to today, if you take tape from early on in his first term as vice president or take tape at the end of his second term as vice president and you compare it to today, do you observe with your own eyes a significant cognitive decline?
And the guy just couldn't get himself to go there.
And I was entertaining myself to doing it, but it's to me, it's just so transparent and so obvious.
And I think that's why the world, especially the hostile actors, are doing the things that they're doing.
They feel this is what it looks like.
The world looks like when America abdicates its role on the world stage as the world's leader.
This is what it looks like.
This is the void of American leadership.
So we need strength in the Oval Office.
And I'm very worried about what happens a year from now.
I mean, we've got $34 trillion in debt now.
I just don't know how bad it can get.
I can't predict that.
Anyway, Thomas, appreciate your call, man.
Glad you're out there.
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Tina in California.
What's up, Tina?
How are you?
Well, I was listening to your interview with Jim Jordan yesterday.
And he went on and on and on all about the Biden family corruption.
And it got to the point that all I was hearing was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, because nothing's being done about it.
Oh, yes, there's a lot being done about it.
It has taken them.
Remember, they have not had any cooperation.
They couldn't even get these suspicious activity reports.
They had to track down all of these show corporations.
They've been having a very hard time getting witnesses.
And now they have gotten to the point where they have enough evidence to bring in everybody associated with Joe and Hunter and James Biden, his brother, and other partners in this Rosemond-Seneca deal.
And they have a lot of explaining to do.
And they have been subpoenaed.
And now we're at that phase.
This is an official impeachment inquiry.
It takes time when people don't cooperate.
It takes a lot of time.
And they have been, you know, slowly but surely building their case.
And now we're at the point where they have some questions to answer.
My guess is, is they're going to show up, plead the fifth, because they're not going to have good answers to these questions.
So I just, I tend to disagree with you.
I think that, you know, between James Comer, Jim Jordan, Jason Smith, I think they've done a good job.
I'll give you the last 20 seconds.
Well, I just wanted to say it seemed like it only took a couple of months to get Trump impeached.
That's why I'm so frustrated that it's taking so long to do anything about Biden and his family.
Let's not rush it.
Let's get it right.
And I think they're in the process of trying to get everything right because God forbid they get one thing wrong.
The media will be all over them.
You know it and I know it.
All right.
Hang in there.
I know it's hard.
You know, the wheels of justice go very, very slowly.
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