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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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	One of the things that really angers me is the stupidity of the Biden administration, the left, the radical climate alarmists in general, their policies, they fail on every front.
	Never mind, our borders are wide open.
	Never mind, you know, we rely on countries that hate us for the lifeblood of our economy.
	Never mind that, you know, their defund dismantle no bail laws has created chaos all over the country.
	You know, never mind that I can't name a single successful thing that they have done since Joe Biden's been president.
	And now we're looking at the world basically on fire.
	And we have a guy that can't utter three sentences when he's on Air Force One.
	I played it again last night.
	Let me remind you, this is Joe Biden on Air Force One.
	This is right after he left Israel.
	He'd only been on the ground, what, a little over six hours, if my memory serves me.
	Listen to how incoherent he is.
	Can you talk about the impact of meeting the survivors and the first responders?
	And that's all, look, I've spent an hour and a half about 17 or 18 before.
	I don't know how to say this, virtually every mass shooting, every unlikely that it was Israelis would have had a different footprint, and they've intercepted something.
	Anyway.
	And so that's why, if you notice, I didn't say it at first.
	I wanted to make sure that I knew.
	And look.
	And I'm not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it either.
	That's that old thing, gotta know how to shoestrate.
	And it's not the first time Hamas has won something that didn't function very well.
	That is the president of the United States of America.
	How frightening is that?
	It's scary.
	It's unbelievable.
	$100 million?
	And he's that stupid.
	And what are you getting in exchange for that?
	If you're going to give them the $100 million, can we at least have all the hostages released?
	I'm not a big believer in paying ransom for hostage, but apparently Joe is.
	But he's getting nothing in exchange for $100 million.
	He's giving the money to Hamas.
	Anybody that believes anything other than that is beyond naive.
	Here's Biden saying the first shipment of humanitarian aid for Gaza is on its way.
	President Mednau and I discussed again yesterday the critical need for Israel to operate by the laws of war.
	That means protecting civilians in combat as best as they can.
	The people of Gaza urgently need food, water, and medicine.
	Yesterday, in discussions with the leaders of Israel and Egypt, I secured an agreement for the first shipment of humanitarian assistance from the United Nations to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
	If Hamas does not divert or steal this shipment, these shipments, we're going to provide an opening for sustained delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance for the Palestinians.
	And as soon as you stop looking, guess what they're going to do?
	They're going to take that assistance and use that money for themselves because they rule in Gaza with an iron fist.
	Anybody, anyway, somebody that really completely understands the nature of these situations, you probably remember him.
	He's a guest on a number of times.
	He is the founder of the Shadow Warriors Project.
	He's one of the survivors of Benghazi.
	You might remember.
	Remember the CIA annex that was not far from where the attacks on our embassy were taking place?
	Remember, they were told to stand down multiple times, and then finally they said the hell with it, and they went anyway, risking their entire careers to do so.
	And as a result, they saved innocent lives.
	Mark Oz Geist is with us, and he's pretty familiar with Hamas and terrorist groups like Hezbollah.
	And he's very familiar with hostile regions in the Middle East and has a lot to say on all of this.
	Mr. Mark Oz Geist, great to have you back, my friend.
	I know you missed me.
	I do, I do.
	It's been a long time, but thank you, Sean, for having me.
	All right, let's go over.
	Remind people, first of all, of what you went through, that you were given one standdown order after a standdown order after a standdown order, and you know that our embassy is under fire.
	You have the ability to help rescue Americans, and they keep telling you not to do it.
	Yeah, that's exactly it.
	I mean, you know, we know what's going on over there, and we know that we are the only ones that can help.
	And despite what it would cost us, we chose to go over and do that.
	And thank goodness we did, because if it wouldn't have been for that, there would have been a lot more people that were killed and injured that night.
	I'm not sure anybody would have survived if it hadn't been for the courage and bravery of you and others.
	And you did pay a heavy price at the time.
	And it's so sad to me, but I'm so grateful that there are warriors like you out there.
	All right, so you know a lot about Hamas.
	You know a lot about Hezbollah.
	You know that their aim is the destruction of Israel.
	It looks like this incursion is quite imminent, and it looks like it's going to be a two-front war.
	And then we have a big question mark on what the Iranians may or may not do.
	I'm not sure how to interpret their comment.
	Well, your time is up.
	What does that mean?
	They're threatening direct involvement themselves if they get involved.
	To me, all bets are off at that point.
	Yeah, I agree.
	I think what we're going to see is if they get involved, I think where we'll see that first is in their own, almost in their own backyard, their neighbor in Iraq, where we still have quite a few troops that are working there.
	I mean, we saw that, I believe it was yesterday, we've seen, and it's been reported, that there were some drone attacks on our military bases, and there were some injuries, both in Iraq and in Syria.
	And that's what we're facing.
	That's what it's going to be.
	And with this government and this administration, I mean, they can't do anything right, and they haven't yet.
	Am I wrong in my analysis that any aid money, the $100 million Biden is sending to Palestinian so-called, you know, the Palestinian people for humanitarian relief?
	Am I wrong in my analysis?
	There's no way in hell that money's getting to them.
	That money's going to end up in the hands of Hamas.
	Am I wrong?
	Oh, 100%.
	I mean, if you want a great example of it, go back and I think, what is it, the 30 or 40-year anniversary of Black Hawk down?
	The same thing happened under another Democratic president, Bill Clinton, where we tried to give aid through the UN to monitor it, and the warlords took it and did what they wanted with it.
	And we're going to see the same thing right here.
	So you know firsthand you were involved in a military engagement to help evacuate church, a church group from Bethlehem who were trapped after Hamas and terrorists in Hamas erupted by using intel from contacts in the region as tourists were slamming the State Department.
	What can you tell us about that operation?
	Yeah, I mean, I got to give the grace to Christ.
	I mean, he put the elements in place that we could use.
	And I got called by a friend whose sister was a part of that group.
	And they were told by the State Department that on Saturday evening or Sunday morning that they should just stay in place.
	There's no emergency.
	Wait until we call you.
	And it sounded eerily familiar to me.
	So I had told him I will do what I can.
	And I contacted some contacts that I have that are in Israel, got some on-ground intel, gave the group information on how to get out.
	We checked on the, finding out which border crossing into Jordan would be best because they were getting information that, and we verified it, that the airport in Tel Aviv was closing down or limiting the flights in and out.
	And even if they would have got there, there was no guarantee they could have flown out and it would be untargeted.
	So I made this suggestion to him, you know, we've got a place that you can get across.
	Why don't you go do that?
	And they were able to get to the border.
	I think they were stuck there for probably five or six hours because of the number of other people crossing.
	And they were able to get across and into Amman, Jordan on Tuesday morning.
	All right, quick break more with Mark Oz Geist, the founder of the Shadow Warriors Project, one of the survivors and heroes that helped save lives on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, just a great guy.
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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.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	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 Podcast, or wherever you listen.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	And I'm Ted Cruz.
	Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
	Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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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 Nayfak 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.
	All right, we continue.
	Mark Oz Geist is with us.
	He is the founder of the Shadow Warriors Project, also one of the survivors of Benghazi, one of the people that was at the annex that was adjacent to where the embassy was.
	And he ended up being a hero, saving many lives that day.
	That goes back to September 11, 2012.
	You know, I thought it was bad when we abandoned Americans behind enemy lines in Afghanistan because Joe Biden foolishly allowed the Taliban, you know, to march all the way up from the south to the north and then surround Karzai International Airport.
	I thought that was a disaster.
	That's when we lost 13 American lives there.
	And then Americans in the end were abandoned before they got them out because it was such poor planning and execution by Joe and the people around him.
	Although he claims it was such a great success, it was anything but a success.
	I thought that was bad enough.
	And we also abandoned our allies that had been supporting our efforts in Afghanistan for two decades.
	And many of those people have ended up dead because Joe abandoned them on top of the billions and billions of military equipment that he left behind, some of which we think might be being used by terror groups around the world.
	And anyway, and, you know, a lot of those people were killed, another broken promise.
	Now you have governors like Ron DeSantis have had to step up because the Biden administration was telling people, Americans on the ground in Israel, those that weren't killed or taken hostage, that wanted to get the hell out of there, you know, to get a commercial flight when there were no commercial flights leaving.
	And then when they finally decided, the administration finally decided that, okay, well, they would charter planes and try and get some Americans out.
	Then they're charging people for their flight home.
	You know, Ron DeSantis set planes for Floridians and he didn't charge them a penny.
	He did it because it was the right thing to do.
	You know, I'm sure there were empty seats on Air Force One this week that remained empty and he could have put Americans on that plane on the way home also.
	He didn't do that either.
	No, he didn't.
	And that would have been, that could have been one of the better things that he did do.
	But, you know, and Corey Mills is in-country.
	He had the flight coming out Monday.
	There was a chartered flight that he was able to get out, as well as Operation Dynamo, Tim Kennedy, and his organization, SOA, which is Save Our Allies, is working in and around Israel to get Americans out.
	And it's unfortunate that it's come to this point in our history that nonprofit organizations are doing a better job under this current administration than they can do themselves.
	Corey's been kicking ass.
	We had him on the program yesterday, and he's got nearly 100 people out already.
	I mean, he's crushing it.
	You know, it's amazing what smart, brave people like Corey and yourself are able to do.
	We really appreciate you being with us.
	Mark, I always enjoyed our time together.
	I mean, for a period there, I thought you were going to be my co-host.
	But I think the work you're doing is a lot more important than what I'm doing here.
	But we appreciate you always.
	I hope you know that.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think that it's all of us that are doing everything that we can.
	You know, the Lord gives us the opportunity to do what we need to do in the space that we're designed to work in.
	And it's all important to take care of this country.
	Look, I'm getting fired upon every day, but it's not with bullets, the stuff you're getting fired upon with.
	I'm just getting verbal attacks and lies and propaganda, misinformation.
	I think it's a lot safer doing what I'm doing, but I admire you guys, all of you guys, so much.
	And I'm very appreciative that we have such courageous people that are our fellow Americans.
	So thank you, my friend.
	My best to everybody as well.
	You too.
	Thank you, and God bless.
	And do I have a second?
	Shadow Warriors Project is raising money to help all these other organizations.
	So if people are out there that want to help donate, if they can, that would be great.
	If not, their prayers for all the Americans that are around the world and in the Middle East, because if this goes as bad as it could, we're going to be needing a lot more people doing what we're doing to help Americans across this.
	What's the website?
	ShadowWarriorsProject.org.
	All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
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	You know, there are some people that have blown me away in life by their faith.
	And obviously, I'm a believer.
	I don't hide it.
	I'm a Christian.
	I'm the Christian that needs saving.
	I'm not the Christian that, you know, no Christian.
	But that's a fallacy that the mob and the media tries to present that, oh, Christians think they're perfect.
	No, actually, the first thing as a Christian is you have to admit that you're a sinner and that you're not living the way you should be living.
	And you ask God to help you become a better person.
	And you ask forgiveness.
	And that's the real heart of Christianity.
	But I've met so many really, you know, really wonderful people that have amazing, deep, and abiding faith.
	And, you know, at certain times in my life, there have been people that I've looked to that I think are just the real deal in terms of their faith and their Christianity.
	And out of nowhere, they give me phone calls.
	You know, one was Jerry Falwell Sr.
	I couldn't believe it, Liberty University, Jerry Sr.
	and Thomas Rhodes Baptist Church.
	And, you know, for example, there was a moment when a Catholic priest I was debating, by the way, who was later arrested years later, ironically, I said, well, for people that are not believers, I'd rather they use birth control than have an abortion.
	That's all I said.
	I wasn't talking about members of the church.
	I was talking about members that weren't a member of the church.
	And he comes on the air with his great sanctimony and tells me, well, if you ever come to my church, I wouldn't give you communion.
	I got a call from my pastor the next day, and I got a call from Jerry Falwell, who said, you're welcome to my church anytime.
	Other times, he'd call me usually kind of at the right moment and just say, I just woke up this morning, was thinking about you, and I'm praying for you.
	I'm like, huh?
	Growing up Catholic, it didn't happen so much.
	And I'm more of a non-denominational Christian today.
	Michael W. Smith has done the same thing.
	And I'll tell you, another person that did it is then Vice President Mike Pence.
	You know, it's all over the news for something and having a crappy day.
	And he calls me, just says, you know, Karen and I are praying for you.
	And I'm like, you know, that kind of, to take time as a vice president and a, you know, second lady of our country to make that call to, you know, a talk show host, it was very impactful to me.
	So their faith is real, and they live it out every day.
	And I've always known that about both Mike Pence and Karen Pence.
	And Karen is joining us now.
	She wrote a new book.
	It's called When It's Your Turn to Serve, Experiencing God's Grace in His Calling for Your Life.
	And I mean, it's one of those books that really, you know, gives you strength as we all, all of us, are challenged in life.
	All of us face difficulties in life.
	All of us, there's nobody that goes through this life, I say it all the time, unscathed.
	And I think that's the way God designed it.
	That's my own personal belief.
	And anyway, Karen Pence joins us now.
	I hope this becomes a bestseller.
	It's When It's Your Turn to Serve, Experiencing God's Grace in His Calling for Your Life.
	It's on Amazon.com.
	We're putting it up on Hannity.com now and bookstores around the country.
	How are you?
	Great to have you on.
	It's great to be on, Sean.
	Thanks for talking about the book because, you know, as you were leading into this interview, I wanted the book to be an encouragement to the reader.
	I mean, that's, I feel like my gift is an encourager.
	And I wanted the reader to hear some of the behind-the-scenes stories, some of the great things that I got to do as First Lady of Indiana and Second Lady of the United States, but to see it as maybe something to encourage them in their own walk, in their own opportunities to serve, to go ahead and step out.
	And if God is calling you to something, he's going to give you that grace to carry you through.
	And one of the verses I talk about is in Jonah.
	You know, those that cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.
	And he showed me grace all the way through our political career.
	Even now, I feel like he's calling us to step up to serve one more time.
	And there's a joy and there's a peace in answering his call.
	You know, it's never easy being in the public eye.
	It just isn't.
	But you rightly point out in the book that life is full of these unexpected obstacles.
	I mean, I feel like every day I am dodging left, I'm dodging right, you know, whatever the challenge of the day is.
	And I would say this, if two things I believe have kept me halfway grounded, I don't want to say I'm grounded, but it's really been really good for me in my life.
	One was the fact that I worked 20 years in either the restaurant business or the construction business.
	And the second thing is, or maybe it really should be the first one, is my belief in God and the fact that I have a conscience that convicts me.
	I know darn well what I'm doing wrong, Karen.
	Well, and one thing I just, I wanted the reader to feel like, you know, it doesn't have to be serving as Second Lady of the United States.
	God might just be calling you to reach out to a neighbor.
	He might be calling you to, you know, serve on the PTA at school or maybe a neighborhood organizational opportunity to set up a block party or something.
	I mean, I try and say in the book, you know, God sometimes has used me in mighty ways and sometimes in not so mighty ways.
	But each time he calls us to serve him, that if we step up, he gives us that grace.
	And so many things I would have missed if I hadn't been willing to take that risk and to step out and to answer his call.
	And in the book, I just, the book, I got to tell you, Sean, the book is very uplifting.
	It's very encouraging.
	It's meant to be a book that you, it's a light read.
	It's got interesting behind-the-scenes stories, tells about art therapy and military spouses.
	I do weave honeybees all the way through the book because I had the privilege of starting a beehive at the governor's residence and at the vice president's residence.
	And so I love to kind of weave in little facts about the bees and stories about visiting bees all over the world just throughout the book.
	So it's very uplifting and just inspiring kind of book.
	You know, it's amazing.
	Did you get stung a lot?
	Never, never.
	It's amazing.
	But, you know, there actually, especially if you have allergies like I do, let me tell you, when you take local honey, it really is helpful.
	But, you know, like I just think of the moment that I mentioned, you know, here you are, you know, your husband's the vice president of the United States, you know, former first lady of Indiana, second lady of the United States.
	You guys are busy.
	You know, you really had no business taking the time to call a talk show host because you thought he was having a really bad day.
	And I was, by the way, but, you know, I just, that kind of kindness just means a lot to me.
	And I try to do it to others.
	If I know somebody, what if they got a cancer diagnosis or they lost a loved one?
	I always will find time that day to try and reach out to those people.
	And it's those little nudgings that I kind of talk about, you know, when the Holy Spirit kind of nudges you to, okay, yes, you're a very busy person.
	You maybe need to be going over here and doing this right now.
	But take five minutes, give Sean Hannity a call.
	You know, just encourage him today.
	And it's those kind of things that I just encourage the reader to listen and take a moment and hear his calling.
	The funny thing is you mentioned the bees.
	If your publisher put out a piece of paper on your new book that I read, and it does crack me up.
	Yeah, Karen Pence would much rather talk about beekeeping than politics.
	And by the way, I don't blame you because politics is one ugly, dark business.
	Well, we're having a lot of fun on the campaign trail, I have to tell you.
	I mean, people are wonderful, especially right now.
	The people in Iowa and New Hampshire have just been.
	By the way, some of them are not so wonderful.
	You're being way too kind.
	Oh, that's okay, though.
	I mean, people who protest or say things, that's what freedom looks like, Sean.
	I mean, that's what we're trying to preserve in our country.
	You know, we're trying to preserve those freedoms that our country was founded on.
	So we actually are having, Mike and I are having so much fun.
	Well, I know, and let me tell you, it's not easy to be in the political arena.
	It's a hard life.
	It really is.
	And you guys have both, you know, I love your personal story.
	You guys have set up, you know, I know Governor Pence never has meetings alone, for example, with women, correct?
	Right.
	Yes.
	Because he doesn't want the appearance of impropriety.
	That's something Billy Graham did his whole life.
	To protect the women as well.
	So many, you know, he, people hear that story and they think, oh, oh, my goodness.
	But they didn't understand that Mike has so many women always on his staff.
	He had a woman as his lieutenant governor when he was governor.
	And it's also a protection for the women.
	So it's kind of a two-pronged thing for him.
	But, you know, honestly, though, it's just what I'm saying in the book.
	When you are answering that call, as hard as politics is, there is a piece, Sean, that you have when you feel like, okay, this is where I'm supposed to be for right now.
	And right now, you're supposed to be on the campaign trail.
	So, can I put a little plug in, miketense2024.com?
	Of course, no problem.
	Well, I urge people to get the book.
	Put a link on Hannity.com.
	And obviously, it's on Amazon.com, now in bookstores around the country.
	And, you know, people do need hope.
	This is a really hard time for a lot of families, and it breaks my heart because I've been there.
	I've lived paycheck to paycheck for far many years in my early adult life.
	I didn't love it.
	When it's your turn to serve, experiencing God's grace in his calling for your life, I wish you the best with that.
	Think the world of you both.
	I think you're both crazy to stay in politics.
	However, I admire everybody stepping up and being willing to serve, and that's what it is.
	It's service.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And yeah, by the way, you have a son in the military.
	Pray for him, too.
	We do, a son and a son-in-law, both pilots, one in the Navy, one in the Marine Corps.
	Yep.
	Amazing people.
	And we owe so much to them, and we don't give enough thought to what they do to protect us every day.
	Karen, great to talk to you.
	Karen Pence, thank you.
	Thanks, Sean.
	We'll see you soon.
	See you soon on the campaign trail, I'm sure.
	Great to see you the other night.
	800-941-Sean, our number.
	You want to be a part of the program?
	Jeff in Arizona.
	What's up, Jeff?
	I know it's a dry heat, you say, in the summertime.
	It's insufferable heat in the summertime.
	I can't breathe when I'm out there in the summertime.
	130 degrees.
	It's starting to pass, Sean, so I'm grateful for that.
	Man, that's rough.
	I remember doing an event with J.D. Hayward.
	Oh, it's the dry heat.
	I'm like, I can't breathe a dry heat.
	You have an oxygen tank or what?
	No, I don't have any of that.
	What's on your mind?
	If I may comment, your own expression of faith is extremely powerful.
	And I hope you do that a little more frequently than you do.
	Your interview with Mrs. Pence was terrific.
	And I just love that.
	So my main reason for calling was about the program the other night regarding the interviews with the various people who are campaigning for president.
	Let me make the first comment is, I think that the behavior that was exhibited by several of them was substantially less than presidential and certainly almost not adult.
	So I was very disappointed in that.
	My main reason for calling was about your interview with Gavin Pence.
	Gavin Newsom, yeah.
	You mean the one in the debate or what?
	No, the one that happened after the debate.
	Okay, yeah.
	What about it?
	Comment is this.
	You have extraordinary patience for letting people, whatever their ilk, express their own views, and you are very careful to give them wide berths.
	My only comment is, is it appropriate for some of these interviews that you do when they should be getting six or seven Pinocchios because of the extraordinary length that people, Jimmy, the facts that they're trying, that you may be able to find the numbers that will support what they're trying to say, but they are such an extreme sort of exaggeration of the facts or perversion of the facts, shall I say.
	Yeah, I hear what you say.
	I'm just looking at the clock.
	My only quick response is, remember, people watching are smart.
	And I kept challenging him on the things he was saying, too, but at the end of the day, they get it.
	They do.
	All right, ammo's in short supply.
	You may not know this.
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	Just go to mantisx.com, M-A-N-T-I-S-X.com.
	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
	We got a great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel that you are not going to want to miss.
	Yes, it's that good a show.
	Well, we'll go over the big news, obviously, as it relates to RFK Jr.
	Now planning to run as an independent.
	Jonathan Turley's first interview since going before the house impeachment.
	Dr. Sapphire, Joe Concha, set your DVR, Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox News.
	You'll never get from the mob.
	We'll see you tonight.
	Set your DVR back here on Monday.
	Have a great week and thank you for making this show possible.
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	Do you have a security plan?
	What if somebody breaks into your house, your business, whatever, and they want to bring harm to you and your family?
	Now, you know, I'm a big Second Amendment proponent.
	Well, I've also found a non-lethal self-defense weapon that I happen to love.
	It's called Burner.
	B-Y-R-N-A, burner.com/slash Hannity.
	And for example, Burner, you can buy their pistols.
	It's legal in all 50 states.
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	By the way, the 12-gauge, less lethal shotgun round by Bernie, you put it in your own shotgun, your own 12-gauge.
	It cannot be shipped, by the way, in this case, to a handful of states.
	So you got to check with their laws.
	Linda, how good did I look on the video?
	First of all, I loved how you cleared the house.
	I love the Mission 4.
	And the video is up on Hannity.com.
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	By the way, actually, I think the video up now is me with my own shotgun.
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