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Our toll-free telephone numbers 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, uh in a second, we're going to check in with Professor Alan Dershowitz.
Uh, by the way, he's just authored a brand new book.
This guy has an ability to write books and he writes them himself.
And in no time.
I mean, I guess when you're a professor at Harvard, you're that smart.
You can do it that quickly, because for me, it is, you know, hate to admit it publicly, but it takes like a year.
Uh also we'll check in with former prosecutor, federal prosecutor, uh, Brett Tolman.
Um, we're gonna talk about the war, what's going on in Israel.
We're gonna talk about what's going on in the Trump family.
You know, I I keep harping on the fact that Joe Biden has not upheld his oath of duty to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
He's he has now been picking and choosing which laws he cares to enforce.
And he's even taken it further.
Joe Biden and his administration, they've been lying to us repeatedly that the border's safe, the border's secure, the borders closed, none of which is true.
We have nearly eight million illegal immigrants since Joe Biden has become president that have come into our country.
We have thousands that have come in from the Middle East, including Iran and Syria, uh, China and Russia, tens of thousands, and nobody is being vetted at the border.
Now I contend, I pray to God I'm wrong, but I can tend it's a hundred percent certainty that among that eight million people that he has allowed in people with nefarious intentions that want to commit acts of terror and likely will down the line.
And they are plotting, they are planning, they are scheming, uh, either another 9-11 or worse, or another October 7th, or worse, and they will have blood on their hands.
If in fact we find out later, oh, they will let in because of Joe Biden's open border policies, and of course, Joe aiding, abetting, and assisting.
Uh, but anyway, here's Christopher Ray.
It took him a long time, but even he's now concerned about the people pouring across the southern border.
I think any time you have a group of people in the United States that we don't know nearly enough about, uh, that is a source of of concern for us from uh perspective on our in our lane of protecting Americans here.
Wording it maybe another way if it were lower, if that number were lower and the border wasn't as open as it is, and we'd be safer.
I think greater fidelity about who's coming in this country and how they're getting in uh is essential to making sure we protect Americans from from all sorts of threats, including a potential terrorist attack.
Yeah, I do too.
All right, and then I want to play this for you.
And I've heard enough of this to last a lifetime.
There has been more virulent hatred, anti-Semitism worldwide than I ever thought we'd ever hear in our lifetimes, or maybe even historically ever again, especially after Nazi Germany.
In all my career, I have avoided using Nazi analogies.
I felt other people overuse them and use them inappropriately, and they have.
They absolutely have.
And but what we what I have been able to see that the IDF has shown me the atrocities of what and by the way, Hamas was filming themselves with GoPro cameras, is akin to what happened in Nazi Germany.
And to hear, you know, in Australia gas the Jews and F the Jews, and to see hundreds of thousands of people in major cities all across Europe, and to hear from the river to the sea in the halls of Congress, which means to destroy Israel,
uh, to hear calls for antifata, uh, to hear about students having to lock themselves in rooms in prestigious universities, and there are virtually no consequences for the students uh that have this bigotry, this hatred against the Jewish people.
I never thought I'd see it.
I I thought I couldn't I thought I was unshockable after doing radio.
I started in what, 1987?
I thought I I thought I heard it all.
No, I didn't.
And every day I see this, uh, the angrier I get, and the more resolved I get that those that are supporting radical Islamic terrorism, those that support them and aid and abet them, are just as guilty as the terrorists themselves.
And this should be widely condemned by anybody that has a heart, a conscience, and a soul.
And I'm sorry, this is one of those moments where you either have moral clarity, a clear understanding of right and wrong, or you don't.
And there are way too many people on college campuses, way too many people showing up in places like Times Square and other big cities and even small towns that have been supporting the terrorist group, Hamas, whose own charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
Here's one pro quote Palestine protester protesting yesterday at DNC headquarters, saying the police are shoving them.
We are outside the DMC, we're outside the Democratic Party headquarters because this party claims to be on the side of life and peace and equality, and we're saying that we want them to live up to their values and oppose this horrific war and call for a ceasefire now, and they're being responded to by the police shoving anti-war actionists down the stairs, shoving peaceful protesters back with their rights.
And because our party, our party at 80% of us want us to be fired, would rather beat up protesters.
Anyway, that's what's going on every day around the country and around the world.
Anyway, joining us now, former federal prosecutor Brett Tolman is with us, uh, Professor Alan Dershowitz, who just came out with his brand new book, author of the book, it's called The War Against the Jews.
Uh, welcome both of you back to the program.
Professor, you and I, you know, in the I don't in the early days of our relationship, I think it was during Clinton impeachment, you know, we battled pretty hard, you know, politically politically, we had some disagreements.
But I always had respect for you.
I I knew you were a brilliant professor.
I don't see how you any longer can associate with a party that tolerates a big portion of which tolerates the likes of Congresswoman Talib and others.
I don't and and I really have a hard time.
How can you ever support your old you you taught at Harvard for decades?
How do you explain 30 some odd groups there blaming Israel for being victims of terror and supporting a terrorist group like Hamas?
I've got to imagine that you're probably really conflicted right now over some of this.
Well, I hate the people who do that, and yesterday, a group of a hundred Harvard professors wrote a letter to the administration saying, you know, you're much too pro-Israel.
Basically, they were on the side of Hamas.
And nobody should be fooled into thinking this is anything to do with a ceasefire.
This all started on October 8th, the day after the slaughter, before Israel fired a single shot.
National Lawyers Guild, this despicable hard left lawyers organization, which is in every law school in the country, praised Hamas for raping and beheading, saying that it was a justified military activity.
Call for the release of every murderer in prison in Israel that didn't say a word about the hostages.
This is the National Lawyers Guild.
These are Harvard students.
These are Harvard professors.
I have offered anybody who runs against Talib, anyone who runs against the squad, I don't care if you're a Republican, I will support you financially.
I will come and campaign for you.
I am not just uh right or wrong Democrat under any circumstances.
I think the Republicans are doing a much better job right now in defending American values, Israel values, Judeo Christian values than the Democrats are doing.
So I can be supportive of doing the right thing because moral clarity is absolutely essential, and moral clarity is nonpartisan.
Uh I would agree, but uh there's a lot of uh moral clarity missing in the world.
Uh lem let me ask you from this standpoint.
We saw the events of of last night, and you know, I I guess uh we've got to go to the legal side of this.
You're a former federal prosecutor, Brett, and as I was watching, you know, the protesters terrorizing uh congressional Democrats uh inside the DNC headquarters.
You know, you know why they're angry at some of them for actually supporting Israel.
The vic now you correct me if I'm wrong.
Uh can anybody make an any intelligent case that Israel caused October seventh?
Because I don't think they can because the facts bear out that Israel was a victim of a surprise terrorist attack that would be the equivalent of losing nearly 40,000 Americans in a single day if you look at the population differences.
Yeah, Sean, you're you're exactly right.
I joined the professor uh and you in calling for uh, you know, this is a time we need moral clarity.
We also need factual and legal clarity.
There's no question in my mind that right now Joe Biden trying to play both sides is actually adding fuel to the fire of the uh of this reprehensible um, you know, movement that we see, whether it's in you know, higher education, whether it's those that are protesting, they are emboldened because they they do not fear those that are in charge.
Those that are in charge of the government that would enforce our laws, they're not afraid of them.
Let's let's face it.
I I served in the national security area and worked in that area arena for over a decade, and what we're seeing right now coming across the border, I have no doubt in my mind that Hamas um sympathizers and terrorists, you know, American hating terrorism groups are being filled with individuals that are coming across this border.
They will join these protests, and Tifa will join them.
All those that hate America are being emboldened because of a refusal to identify um the facts as they really are, and to utilize our laws to prosecute them and to deter others from doing the same.
Do you have any doubt, uh, Brett, that that among the eight million illegal immigrants that Joe is allowed into this country without vetting them?
Do you have any doubt?
Because I don't have any doubt that among them are terrorists that'll plot plan and scheme the next attack on this country.
By the way, I do pray that I'm wrong.
I don't think I'm wrong.
I pray that we're wrong, but uh, you know, John Ratclaft Ratcliffe and I, former director of national intelligence, very close friend of mine, we have spoken about this.
We are well aware of those, you know, individuals.
We you know, multiple individuals that are associated with terrorist organizations, have come across the border.
We've caught a few of them.
That's how we know they're coming across.
But what we we have to be more concerned about is who we haven't been able to catch.
And you can't catch people you don't try to catch.
Why are we letting anybody in the country unvetted?
It's it's a form of insanity.
Professor Derschwitz, do you agree with me that I'm um pretty much likely right that among the illegals that have come into this country that Joe has let in and aided and abetted, that there are going to be people that want to commit acts of terror against Americans and America.
And uh as a lawyer, I ask you, how did Joe Biden get away with not enforcing the laws of the land?
We have a process for changing laws.
He chose not to go that route.
Well, I wish he had uh been vetting people because uh not only are the people coming across the border, but they'll be joined when we get terrorism in the United States by my students, by students at Harvard and NYU.
Just uh yesterday, uh a great law firm in New York filed an 82-page lawsuit against NYU and documented page after page of vicious anti-Semitic, anti-American, anti-Judeo-Christian, not only statements, but acts, and there'll be lawsuits about that.
And the next time there's a terrorist attack in the United States, and there will be, because everybody always emulates a terrorist attacks that are successful.
And how much aren't the odds uh significantly higher?
Uh especially, and do you agree with me?
The odds are pretty darn high, if not a hundred percent certain that among the eight million Joe is allowed in this country, unvetted, that terrorists are among them.
Isn't it?
I mean, it's gonna happen, Professor.
I have no doubt about that.
But these kids, these Hitler youth who now don't wear swastikers but wear green, you know, headbands, they're gonna join.
Do you remember you're a little too young to remember this?
But in the early 1970s, these radical kids, college students.
I appreciate the compliment, Professor, but I do remember the 1970s.
Go ahead.
They were blowing up Fort Dicks, how they were trying to blow up the University of Wisconsin.
That's gonna happen here.
These Harvard kids, these Oh, you mean like friends of a Barack Obama like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn of the Weather Underground?
You mean groups like that at the time?
Absolutely.
And I immediately called that to the attention of the American public when that happened.
Because and the people who killed the policemen in Westchester, New York and went to jail for the rest of their lives, but then they got paroled.
But we're gonna get that in the United States.
We're gonna see a spate of terrorism with a combination of people coming in through the borders and people who are already here, because this is like what happened in Nazi Germany in Mussolini's Hitler, and in Mussolini's Italy, in uh the Ayatollah Khomeini, and in Stalin's the Soviet Union.
Most of those started with young kids in colleges.
People say, oh, college kids, oh, it's like a panty raid.
No, it's not.
These are vicious, vicious kids.
Professor, we appreciate you as always.
Thank you for joining us.
Federal uh prosecutor, former Fed Federal prosecutor Brett Tolman, thank you.
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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?
Yeah, that's right.
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All right, 800 941 Sean, as we continue from Nashville.
Um Lisa?
Alisa, Long Island, New York.
What's up, Belisa?
How are you?
Hi.
Okay, Sean, how are you?
I'm good.
Glad you called.
Okay.
First I want to preface this with I am a huge fan of yours.
I listen to your radio show every day, and my husband and I, we watch you every single night.
But I'm a little upset with you, Sean.
I'm upset that you are hosting a Ron DeSantis Gavin Newsom debate.
Why would you be upset about that?
Because why even give Gavin Newsom a platform?
He's a smooth talker, a smooth looker, and I'm just afraid you give him that platform that this could be.
I know you're trying to give it this to him so Ron DeSantis will come out looking good, but which I I have no doubt.
Well, I'm hoping that he would, but I'm just afraid.
What if it backfires and we sway somebody?
Well, I don't know what you're talking about, backfiring.
Let me just explain what the debate is, and then maybe because I think too many people think this is rated uh related to the presidential election.
It's not.
This happened organically when I was interviewing Gavin Newsom.
One of the reasons that uh I did reach out to Governor Newsom the first time is uh I want everybody to be very well aware that there are other people that may become a part of this 2024 presidential election race.
Now, other people may think it's a good strategy.
Oh, let's ignore it.
Let's put our head in the sand, but that's not gonna stop the Democrats from doing what they are planning to do.
And I don't think anybody can say with any certainty that Joe Biden is going to be the candidate in November of 2024.
So I'd like people to be aware of exactly what the possibilities are.
I actually think it was smart on my part to do that.
And so you know, I'll explain it that way.
And in the course of me interviewing him, I went in very prepared.
You're right.
He he's a great politician.
He gave very slick answers, and you know what?
But I also got out facts about his record.
You know, and by the way, and it's it's just out there.
It's true.
For example, he's the only governor in the history of California to lose population.
Is it related to the high taxes they have?
Is it related to regulation?
I mean, why is why is he the governor of a sanctuary state?
So I I put a lot of faith in people that they're going to decide who they you know, maybe people will judge the debate on style, but maybe other people will judge it on substance.
But I'm also let me give you one last comment, then I want to hear what else you have to say.
Okay.
I believe that whenever conservative ideas are put against liberal leftist ideas, conservatism will win that debate on substance every time.
Now, if people are looking for I don't know, um style over substance, maybe you're right.
But we'll you know, time will tell.
Um but t tell me what you're afraid of.
I mean, don't you think it's a healthy thing that America knows that this guy's lurking in the background?
Oh, no, without a doubt.
And they all know it.
Listen, when he first showed up there he was in the White House walking around, you know, what was that last year?
I mean that's Oh, you mean when he flipped his jacket over his shoulder and acted like he owned the place?
Yeah.
Like he owned the place, exactly.
So I'm just you know, yeah, I don't have to you know how he is, and I'm just afraid that he might, you know, maybe there's some Republicans out there might say, oh, maybe he's not so bad.
Now it's good all of a sudden now with this happening with the uh with uh Chi over there, you know, and uh he's cleaning up everything and all the he's cleaning up all the homeless and all the uh illegal immigrants over there cleaning the streets, so um everybody's got his number, that's for sure, you know.
Well, I don't know if that's done on the local level.
I don't know if he, you know, what role he may or may not have played in it.
That's neither here nor there.
This is a debate between two of the biggest governors in the country, and they could not have more different governing philosophies on the on issues that matter, on economics, on how they dealt with COVID, on how they deal with illegal immigration, on their energy beliefs.
Um, I I it uh to me there's just so much to talk about, and just hearing these these divergent views, I think is a healthy process.
And I I'm gonna be honest, I think it's gonna be a very interesting debate, especially on substance.
You know, if they stare on substance, I can't be a hall monitor and step in and say, you know, please be nicer.
I'm not gonna be Chris Wallace.
Right.
And I well, uh listen, but I I I understand what you're saying.
I was just a little concerned because I didn't want to give him on Fox News, and I know you're being fair, believe me, this uh and I understand where you're coming from.
I just didn't want to give him that platform.
If he happens to be the Democratic candidate, then he will be debating with our Republican candidate at the time.
So I didn't want to give him anything.
Well, let me ask you a question.
If the let's say that happened, let's say your scenario comes to uh uh it gets borne out.
Do you think it's better or worse that this debate had taken place because whoever the Republican nominee is and Donald Trump has a significant lead, they have an opportunity to see him in action debating.
Is that a plus or a m minus for a Republican candidate?
Yeah, no, I see what you I understand what you're saying.
I understand what you're saying.
But I I'm still not sure.
I don't trust the guy.
I don't trust him.
And I just don't want to get it.
That's fair.
You know, a lot of people hate me.
Listen, I will tell you in real life, he's a nice guy.
If you meet him, he I promise you he would shake your hand, Alisa, and look you in the eye and say, all right, even though we disagree, it's very nice to meet you.
Okay.
All right.
By the way, and if if I go to a restaurant, I've been to I won't mention names.
I've been to places where there are prominent left wingers, liberals, and I've either sent over drinks, a bottle of wine, or walked over if I'm passing by them and said, Hey, how are you?
Sean Hannity, very nice to meet you.
And I always treat everybody regardless of their political views with respect.
Oh, of course you do.
No, I don't doubt that at all.
I don't doubt that at all.
But I just wanted to give you my opinion.
That was it.
But I will be watching.
You gotta admit, I think this is gonna be a pretty highly watched debate.
Yes, I'm sure it will be.
I'm sure it will be.
Well, that but I th I think it's healthy for the country.
Look, I'm not the one debating.
I'm gonna be bringing up the issues on the table.
I'm gonna be bringing in the information that is available for everybody, and then you know, un uh try and understand.
Maybe people on both sides of the aisle will have an understanding, considering we're so divided, a better understanding of why people think and do the things that they do.
Uh let's go to uh Trisha is in Oregon.
Hey Trisha, how are you?
Welcome to Nashville.
What's going on?
Good.
How are you?
I'm good, thank you.
I wanted to thank you.
Thank you for letting me um come on your show.
Um I absolutely love Linda.
Blah blah.
Why are you sucking up to Linda?
But and I I called for something totally different, but your last few callers have me all fired up.
Yeah.
About the new thing.
I really think that um it's a good thing.
People can finally see what an in that ding dong he is about policies.
Um of course he would shake your hand and you know, try to convince you he's a nice guy, the devil would do the same thing.
Well, the the question is do you think the American people and people that want a conservative president, is it better off burying their head in the sand or knowing what every possibility could be?
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
And I agree with your other caller.
A lot of the issues we're having in this country with the violence and all that, more people need Jesus.
That is for sure.
Um, Earth to God, coming God.
You know?
Yeah.
You know, the actually it's a great song by John Rich.
The lyrics go like this, in case you're interested.
It goes Earth to God, come in, God.
I know you're there, hearing our prayers wherever you are.
We need you now to send your love down, take away the pain in your holy name, and we ask this now.
We need your light, we need your love to heal the world that you made and save us now in our darkest hour with your amazing grace.
Earth to God.
Pretty powerful, right?
John Rich wrote that.
Go go Google the video.
It's amazing.
I'll put it up on Hannity.com.
Okay.
I won't put it up.
I don't know how to put it up.
I don't even know how to get it to uh to my website.
My staff won't let me have access to anything.
Can you believe that?
My own staff said, nope, we're not giving you access to your own website.
That's my website.
I own it.
I own my Twitter handle.
I do, right, Blair?
I think I do.
You own it?
Well, you better fix it and send it, put it in my name.
Uh if you try and steal it, I'll sue you.
And you don't want my attorneys on you.
You know my attorneys.
Uh anyway, I appreciate the call.
Uh thank you very much, Tricia.
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Uh we got time for one more call.
Let's say hi to Ron in Wisconsin.
Hey Ron, how are you?
Hi, Sean.
I just wanted to say quick about Alyssa.
You know, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, truth is great and will prevail if not uh dishonored for natural weapons being uh op free and open debate.
So go ahead with that debate.
I'm fully in favor of that.
Um but the reason I called was um with Mark Wayne Mullins, you were talking about him yesterday.
Yeah.
Um, I'm 67.
I grew up in a Brooklyn housing project in the 60s.
Then we moved to Valley Stream in 68.
By the way, Valley Stream, very close to where I grew up in Franklin Square.
Right, that's why I mentioned it.
By the way, do you remember Carl Hoppels in Valley Stream?
Sure.
Yes.
Yeah, my dad worked at Carl Hoppel's in Baldwin and in Bally Stream, I believe.
I know Paul Baldwin for sure.
Right.
But um so my nephews, I wrote an essay for them called Thirteen Lessons I Learned in Brooklyn, your kids don't want in preschool.
And lesson number twelve is it hurts to be punched in the nose.
Because when we were little kids, we used to have fights.
You get punched in your nose.
You're like, oh, that hurts.
I'm going to avoid doing that when I grow up.
Or not during college.
When my kids were in college, I broke up a couple of fights, and there were like these freshmen or sophomores with probably a broken nose, really blood coming out of their nose, and they had a shock look on their face.
Like, ow, that hurts.
They think fighting's like on a video game or in the movies.
And they don't realize bad things happen when you're an adult and you fight.
Listen, one of the reasons that my sensei is insistent.
There are two days that I kind of dread the most because I'm going to get beat up pretty bad.
One is called keeping it real day.
And that means for an hour and a half, my sensei will confront me at a moment's notice with no notice on any situational thing or moment that could happen in my life.
And I mean when he puts me in a chokehold, he is trying to choke me out.
I've been choked out.
I passed out.
I've had that happen to me in training.
Uh, then the other day is called Pain Day.
You know, you can't win a fight if you can't take pain.
All right.
So I stand there as a good student, and you know, I tighten up my my abs and he fires away.
Usually by the fourth or fifth shot, I'm I I'm down on my knees.
He he knocks me right down on my ass.
Uh the other thing is I imagine stretching out your arm and one really strong guy taking his fist and hammer punching every part of your arm.
That's part of my training.
And so, and the the thinking behind it is if you can't take a punch, you can't win a fight.
You gotta expect that they're gonna get something you're gonna get hit somehow.
You try not to, but if you get hit, you gotta be able to continue if you want to win.
Anyway, I would talk about this all day.
I wish I had more time.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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Yeah, no charges for Biden on the document scandal.
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