Sean Hannity Show - Debate Preview - November 30th, Hour 1

Dec. 1, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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Debate Preview - November 30th, Hour 1

Sean previews the big debate between Florida Governor Ron Desantis and California Governor Gavin Newsom. It will be a huge battle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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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	Listen, and thanks to this great audience, you know, we're now on 735 stations and on the biggest cable news network by far in the country and remain one of its top shows, which I'm so blessed about.
	Anyway, we are here.
	This is going to be an interesting night for sure.
	There has been a lot written about it.
	I will tell you that I am not debating tonight.
	I'm basically laying out the questions, and I'm going to let Governor DeSantis and Governor Newsome go at it, give their answers.
	I will try to hold them to answering the question.
	But beyond that, I'm going to let the, I will let as much as possible.
	I've told both sides this, the debate breathe.
	90 minutes is a lot longer.
	You're not competing with seven other people on the stage.
	So in that period of time, I think it lends itself to a little bit more breathing room as long as they don't talk over each other, which might be a challenge, but I'm expecting maybe not.
	I don't know.
	They've been sniping at each other.
	Man, it's been going on for like a year and a half, maybe longer, about the varying policies.
	At one point, it got so intense.
	They both run ads in the other's respective states.
	That's how personal this has gotten.
	But it got to the point when Ron DeSantis flew up illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard and also flew them out to California.
	Well, it is a sanctuary state where Gavin Newsom pulled up the statute of what kidnapping is and basically was suggesting that Ron DeSantis could be guilty of kidnapping.
	Now, it turned out, my next interview with Governor DeSantis, I said, okay, how do you respond to this?
	He goes, no, they all signed a waiver.
	They all volunteered to do it.
	I didn't force them on the plane.
	They wanted to go.
	And then they got there and they didn't stay 24 hours at Martha's Vineyard, even though we went and checked.
	There was enough room in Martha's Vineyard available for every single one of the people that Governor DeSantis had sent up.
	So obviously all these issues will come up.
	Look, I'm not hiding this from anybody.
	I've told both camps this.
	I've been as transparent with both camps.
	I've known both governors now for a long time.
	Personally, I will tell you, and some of you will hate me for saying this, they're both really personable people.
	They're very, very smart.
	Their backgrounds are tremendous.
	Gavin, you have to say, is right out of central casting for a politician.
	Ron DeSantis' background, what, Yale, Harvard, the Naval Academy, I think.
	I mean, he served his country, and they have young families.
	That's not what's at stake here, though.
	And, you know, there've been some of you that have been a little bit critical saying, well, Hannity, why are you giving time to Gavin Newsom?
	I'm like, well, I watch our president Joe Biden every day, and he doesn't seem to be particularly strong or healthy to me.
	Cognitively, he is getting worse.
	If you have a cognitive decline, as Dr. Ronnie Jackson told us on television this week, it is degenerative.
	It means it's never going to all of a sudden just get better.
	It's going to get worse.
	And that is where I see Joe Biden.
	I can't think of a speech or moment he has had where it's not obvious he's having cognitive issues.
	It used to be less frequent.
	That is part of what is known as a degenerative process.
	If you've ever known anybody in your life, and it's a sad thing to watch people that suffer from some type of cognitive decline or full-on Alzheimer's, whatever it happens to be, it's not fun to watch this.
	I know people, older people, people that I love and have been fond of, and you're talking to them.
	They ask you a question.
	You answer the question.
	Two minutes later, they'll ask you the same question because they don't remember they asked it.
	Or they'll tell you a story and then they'll repeat the story five minutes after that and then repeat it later and again and again.
	They're not doing it on purpose.
	It's an illness.
	It's a sickness.
	The question is, can somebody that has the most important job in the entire world, in my view, being president of the United States, be in a cognitive decline?
	I am not diagnosing Joe Biden.
	So what have I been saying to conservatives?
	What have I been saying to Republicans?
	You better pay attention to the bench of the Democratic Party because they might go looking at some point between now and November of next year.
	That's a full year away.
	Well, a little less than a full year.
	Today's November 30th.
	It's the end of the month.
	But, you know, a good 11 months from now, we're going to be electing maybe a guy that's not fit for office.
	I didn't think he was fit for office in 2020.
	I was out there, kind of like a sole voice of sanity, stating what I thought was quite obvious to everybody.
	But nobody wanted to hear it.
	People were critical of me.
	And actually, I think I made a mistake.
	I think early on I made fun of it.
	But as this has now continued, I find nothing funny about it.
	Remember, I was doing the whole sippy cup and, you know, night night and warm milky and bedtime stories and all this I was saying about Joe.
	You know, at the time I thought I was just trying to add a little humor to it.
	I'm not laughing about it now.
	Although those sippy cups that I had produced and gave away, they're now a collector's item because we didn't make any more.
	One side note, interesting backstory.
	The person you would least expect that told me maybe it's not a good idea to make fun of somebody if they're struggling like this.
	Who would you think it is, Sweet Baby James?
	Who do you think?
	Off the top of your head, you got to speak.
	It's radio.
	I'm like filling airtime waiting.
	Someone else would you expect to have empathy?
	Sluggo, who would you think it might be that told me you got to, I don't think it comes off well.
	Newt probably told you that.
	Good guess, not Newt.
	Newt will join us later in the program today.
	Rush, did Rush tell you that?
	Not Rush.
	No.
	Certainly wasn't Levin.
	Levin, he wouldn't tell me that.
	He's a big dope.
	He doesn't know what day of the week it is.
	No, it was actually Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump once said to me, I don't like it when you do that.
	I said, why?
	He goes, if it's true and he's not well, you're making fun of a sick person.
	And I didn't really think of it that way.
	But now I'm stopping because every time I hear him speak, I'm just, I'm humiliated.
	I'm embarrassed.
	All right, we got a lot of stuff going on.
	We got a lot of stuff in the economy, a lot of stuff with the Biden crime family.
	The post office is blaming, by the way, their $2.6 billion loss on Biden's historic inflation.
	You can't make this up.
	U.S. Postal Service now blaming unexpectedly high historic inflation for the major portion of their $6.5 billion loss in fiscal year 2023.
	Maybe it's time to just give it up and let UPS, FedEx, and Amazon deliver all our stuff.
	Why don't we do it that way?
	Although I would like to insist, because I always care about workers, that if in fact they make that transition, that everybody that works for the Postal Service has to get hired as part of the deal.
	That's what I was, what, you know, I love my, I love my delivery people.
	They're the best.
	These are federal employees.
	It's never going to happen.
	Okay, if they can't perform up to UPS standards or can't perform up to FedEx standards.
	Listen, a lot of days I'm outside working out with my sensei and up comes the UPS truck or.
	Yeah, but those guys hold this.
	They're being watched every second.
	They're being watched.
	They're being monitored.
	They've got so much they got to do, you know?
	But they know they get a little extra time.
	When they get to my house, they know that I'm a talker, so they give them a little extra time when they head to Hannity's house.
	And here's the biggest, funniest story to me of the whole day.
	The Biden White House has been pushing this Bidenomics narrative, right?
	Okay, they're mystified.
	They don't know why you, the American people, are so angry.
	Prices are now officially up 20% on average in less than three years.
	61% of you, the American people, are now living paycheck to paycheck.
	Many of you can't make ends meet.
	Many of you have been cashing in pensions early with huge penalties.
	Many of you have been using credit cards with interest rates as high as 30% just for your bare necessities.
	But from Bloomberg, hardly conservative, they said it now requires $119.27 to buy the same goods and services a family could afford with $100 before the pandemic.
	Now, what does that mean?
	Let's say you want natural gas, that's up 29%.
	Great policies, Joe.
	You want car insurance?
	That's up 33%.
	Major appliances, up 12%.
	If you want to buy a used car, that's up 35%.
	If you want to buy, let's see, curtains, they're up 20%.
	By the way, I'd go to our friends.
	What's that?
	Blinds.com, of course, yeah.
	Rent for most people is up 20%.
	Water, sewage, 16%.
	Electricity, 25%.
	Restaurant food is up 24%.
	If you want the products for your pets for crying out loud, even that's up 17%.
	Now, when Linda had the obese, morbidly obese cat, I mean, in that case, it probably would have been up 117%.
	Your obsession with that cat is an issue.
	Did you or did you not have to send your cat away to a cat?
	She was a feline of abundance.
	Like, you know, I'm just.
	I'm not fat-shaming your cat.
	You really?
	You know, but you fed that cat so much.
	I want you to FaceTime me tonight when you're at Waffle House so I can talk to you.
	Oh, I'm definitely going to Wahoo.
	All right, but that cat was so obese, morbidly obese, because you fed it too much.
	No, that's not, that's not true.
	First of all, first of all, did the cat break into the cabinet and take it out?
	Let's really go to the cat goes out, as my favorite comedian Nate Bargati says, and he eats a bird.
	He doesn't come home and tell me, hey, I had lunch already.
	Excuse me.
	That cat was the size of four cats in one.
	That cat was not capable of catching up.
	Maybe he ate a lot of birds.
	That cat was not capable of catching a bird.
	I'm just saying.
	It couldn't move for crazy.
	She could still jump nine stories and get to the top of something, you know?
	That's fairly athletic.
	Not a few ways.
	Let me see how high you can jump.
	I can jump higher than that.
	You can jump higher than the cat.
	The 100 pounds.
	The feline of abundance.
	The one that looked like a tiger.
	You know, that one?
	Good greeting.
	The feline of abundance.
	Anyway, so they're mystified as to, oh, why is that happening?
	800-941-Sean.
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	The big blue versus red state debate tonight.
	Looking forward to it.
	I hope you'll tune in.
	It's an hour and a half.
	It starts at 9 p.m. sharp Eastern.
	It is live.
	We will do it in Alpharetta.
	Then we'll do a half-hour wrap-up show, get your analysis on how the candidates do.
	Well, not really candidates, how the politicians do.
	And it's going to be interesting.
	I mean, you can't have more diametrically opposed views or different governing philosophies.
	Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
	By the way, there's a lot of posturing going back between the two sides in the moments leading up to this debate.
	The drama is ridiculous.
	But anyway, hello, pay attention.
	Yeah, I know.
	There you go.
	You're in charge of all the papers.
	Don't worry.
	I'll wait and fill time.
	I apologize.
	I apologize.
	I can't believe some of you are writing me.
	You don't believe that the cat story is true.
	Will you put up a picture?
	Oh, my God.
	No, I'm not.
	No, no, no.
	You're not telling the truth.
	Put up a picture.
	Oh.
	Put up a picture of the cat on Hannity.com.
	No.
	Why?
	Because you're going to be embarrassed.
	The woman's prerogative is never questioned.
	The cat was the size of five cats.
	First of all.
	Because you overfed the cat.
	The FOA in question should not be questioned.
	The FOA?
	Feline of abundance.
	The feline of abundance.
	You know, what woke school?
	Listen.
	What woke school did you go to?
	That acronym is going to catch, and I'm sticking with it.
	I'm just letting you know.
	No, I don't want to quote shame.
	You can't use the word.
	Let's say cheat you.
	You can definitely use the word fat.
	Only weird people don't use that word.
	Okay.
	Can I say chubby?
	Is that acceptable?
	Or a feline of abundance.
	It has a nice little ring to it.
	Obese, rotund.
	That was also obese.
	Oh, obese.
	See, obese is incredibly insulting and rude.
	And if anybody called her that, I would lose it.
	The cat was obese.
	Yeah.
	We're going into commercial karate kid.
	I'm going to see how your chops come up now.
	I've learned from a cat.
	Oh, yeah.
	Maybe you need a little practice.
	I've learned from great parents.
	You feeling scrappy?
	Never raise a hand.
	Never raise a hand.
	I'll walk away from a fight.
	I'd let you hit me and not even.
	When I kick you away, it counts.
	You're going to fall away from the fight.
	You will not be able to.
	I am too fast.
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	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
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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.
	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 Podcasts, 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.
	And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So download Verdict with Ted Cruz Now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	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.
	John Kerry, making America Green, one Learjet liberal flight at a time.
	You just can't make this stuff up.
	Sean Hannity is on right now.
	Hi, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941-Shauna's on number.
	We are in beautiful Alpharetta, Georgia.
	It's kind of like a homecoming for me because before I moved to the Fox News channel in October of 96, I lived in an adjacent town called Roswell, Georgia.
	Our affiliate here, News Talk 750WSP, also on FM as well.
	And a great station, great people, great friends there.
	It's kind of cool to be back.
	But we're here for the blue versus red state great debate.
	Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, Governor Gavin Newsom of California.
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	So the House GOP are now considering holding what is a formal vote next month to authorize the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden or what we call the Joe Biden bribery and money laundering scandal allegations.
	Now GOP leaders are floating the possibility of this vote during this closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers and the possible reversal from House Republicans.
	This comes amid a growing standoff with the White House over requests for information related to Biden and his family.
	And Republican leaders have said that a vote on the impeachment investigation was unnecessary.
	But if they continue to stonewall, it will make that process easier to achieve.
	So the reason that they're even having to consider this is because they're not being cooperative.
	Now, this is on top of the news that we got yesterday.
	And by the way, Biden won't commit to debating Trump or any other Republican in 2024.
	Now, why would that be?
	Because I don't think he's capable of debating.
	Whatever you're going to think about tonight's debate with Governor DeSantis and Governor Newsom, you're not going to walk away thinking these guys have any cognitive decline.
	The debate you will watch tonight is not a debate your current president has the ability to participate in.
	By the way, MediaIte, they've been very favorable in their coverage.
	Sean Hannity's DeSantis-Newsome debate might be the most interesting cable news event of the year.
	No pressure, Hannity.
	You better don't suck.
	But anyway, so, you know, hopefully it's 90 minutes.
	I've organized it.
	I've hosted it.
	I'm not going to be a part of the debate.
	One thing I will say at the top, I don't want to give away too much, is, first of all, I admire both of them for doing it.
	They don't have to.
	There's great risk.
	If you get in a boxing, you know, if you get in a boxing ring, you get into the octagon.
	Everyone knows I love MMA.
	I have respect for people that do that.
	There is a potential upside and a potential downside for both people.
	If they don't come off well during a debate, that's going to probably stick with them.
	The only time historically that we have been able to find that something like this has happened where you have two non-candidates debating was, I believe, 1960, was it seven?
	And it was Ronald Reagan versus Robert Kennedy Sr., who was assassinated when he was running for president in California.
	And that was a national tragedy.
	Of course, after his brother, then JFK had been assassinated.
	And then, you know, and at another point, Martin Luther King Jr.
	was assassinated.
	One of the great things when I lived in Atlanta, I got to know a lot of the people that worked with and partnered with MLK.
	I mean, I really got to know people and learn about the civil rights movement in a way that I never had before.
	And even though maybe I had different political views, I have a deep respect for those people that would join hands and do marches and have fire hoses and dogs sicked on them.
	I mean, if you watch those videos, you can't imagine an America like that.
	It's sort of like we're listening to anti-Semitism.
	I'm like, my God, this is the 1930s all over again.
	But I got to know those people.
	I got to know Andy Young.
	I got to know Joe Lowry of the FCLC.
	I got to know Hosea Williams, who's probably the greatest interview I've ever had in my life.
	And every year around Thanksgiving, he'd call my radio show on Monday.
	We're not going to make it, Sean.
	That's what he always had this kind of gravelly voice, meaning that he wanted to feed the homeless.
	He knew he was going to make it because he'd always wait till the Monday before Thanksgiving.
	And he even made me once, maybe twice, I don't remember, go down and feed people.
	But he would feed anybody that needed a Thanksgiving dinner.
	He'd get it done every year.
	People would donate in droves.
	And he's just a cool guy.
	Probably the best call I ever had with him was, and he was a reverend.
	And I had him on the air once.
	And I asked him if he was dating.
	He said, yeah.
	I said, oh, okay.
	Tell me about your girlfriend.
	And I asked him how old she is.
	Oh, 30.
	You know, a little older than 30.
	And I go, Reverend, I mean, you're behaving, right?
	You're following the good book.
	And his answer was, Sean, a man's got to do what a man's got to do.
	I'm like, oh, what am I going to do with this guy?
	He was always getting in trouble with the law.
	You know, had a few instances of maybe having a drink or two.
	But he was a man that had a great heart.
	But they all had something that I would call great courage.
	And my first day on the air in Atlanta, I got a call from then Mayor Maynard Jackson welcoming me to his city, which shocked me.
	You know, I just got run out of town when I left Huntsville, Alabama.
	It was a headline, goodbye to the talk show host from hell.
	And I thought that was an interesting welcome, but I got to know him.
	And then later Bill Campbell, who ended up getting in some trouble, which was unfortunate for him.
	Just a lot of very interesting people, people that really played a part and really, really risked their lives for what they believed in and put their lives at risk.
	Anyway, Biden won't commit to debating anybody.
	You know, former President Trump seems more than eager to debate President Joe Biden.
	My strategy, if I'm Trump, this time around, shut up.
	Let Joe talk.
	Let him talk, talk, talk, talk, and talk some more.
	And then maybe throw in a couple of questions and then say, well, can you please explain what you just mumbled and bumbled and fumbled through?
	We might need an interpreter for what Joe Biden actually says if that debate were ever to take place.
	Anyway, we're looking forward to the debate.
	I will say that every question is going to be how policy impacts people.
	Almost every question.
	There are some political questions in there, but that's not the gist of this debate is you've got very different policies in two different states, two of our largest states, two of our most dynamic governors in the country.
	I think this is going to be interesting.
	For me, it's going to be interesting.
	And after I ask the question, I'm out.
	They've got to answer the questions on their own.
	They've got to, you know, and as I said, I try to give this room to breathe.
	One thing Governor DeSantis has been doing ahead of the debate tonight is Florida Attorney General, a friend of this show, Ashley Moody, is holding a press conference to hear from California refugees who fled the golden state for Florida.
	I guarantee you this is going to be just like any other debate.
	I bet they're going to have their war rooms and their fact checkers and they're this and they're that.
	And I probably between now and Sunday, 8 p.m. Eastern for Sunday night football, I would say probably two on one will be mentioned maybe a million times.
	And all I'm going to do is ask the question.
	You know, fact-based questions.
	That's all I'm asking.
	So we'll see.
	I'm actually excited about it.
	I'm actually glad to be doing it, glad to be a part of it.
	I think it's courageous of both of them to be a part of it.
	Anyway, so we're watching all of this news here today, but we do have this new news on the Biden Family Syndicate.
	It is not good for them.
	A bank investigator, this is a great story, that was responsible for actually detecting and combating money laundering, warned in 2018 of what this person saw as unusual and, quote, erratic activity related to more than a dozen wire transfers of large sums of money to accounts belonging to Hunter Biden.
	In an email released by the House Oversight Committee as of yesterday, a bank secrecy act manager raised concerns that the payments did not appear to correspond to, quote, any services rendered, as well as Chinese efforts to target children of politicians.
	The investigator suggested that the bank reevaluate their relationship with the client.
	Now, the payments from China ultimately funded a $40,000 check to Joe Biden from his brother that had been labeled a loan repayment.
	A lot of loan repayments.
	I would imagine they can easily go back and find out when the loan was given because I doubt they had $40,000 in cash sitting around.
	There's got to be some record of the transaction.
	And I know those are questions that the House Ways and Means Committee is asking, the Oversight Committee is asking.
	But anyway, the payments from China ultimately for the $40,000, supposedly a loan repayment.
	Now, James Comer of Oversight is now co-leading the impeachment inquiry against President Biden.
	Now, the email from this Bank Secrecy Act manager to an assistant vice president and Brant's manager of a financial institution.
	Now, the names of the investigator, the vice president and the bank have been redacted.
	Quote, we have been monitoring the subject customer due to PEP designation and observations on the account activity, as well as recent negative news that indicate this entity to be high risk.
	Now, a PEP designation is politically exposed person, meaning the individual through their prominent position or relationships could be more susceptible to being involved in bribery or corruption, which means a lot.
	Now, I'm watching all this and I'm saying, you know what?
	This is not going to go particularly well.
	Now, Democrats are suggesting that Hunter Biden's hard drives could have been manipulated by Rudy Giuliani or Russia.
	And Jamie Raskin is saying Republicans are not interested in public Hunter Biden hearings because it would expose them to great humiliation.
	No, James Comer has said that he's fine with the public hearing.
	But remember, he got a subpoena to be deposed.
	So that compels him to be deposed behind closed doors first.
	And then after he complies with the law, then they can have the public hearing because there are things you can ask behind closed doors that you're not going to be able to ask in the public hearing.
	Nice try, but remember, Steve Bannon tried that, and they ended up holding him in contempt.
	Peter Navarro tried that.
	They ended up holding him unfairly in contempt.
	There have been all these people that defy these subpoenas, and they never get charged.
	The only two in recent years charged happen to be Trump supporters, Bannon and Navarro.
	Any accident?
	I don't think so.
	That's where Jim Jordan's investigation into the weaponization of the DOJ comes in.
	Not sure how many of you watched the Christmas tree lighting in Rock Center in New York yesterday, but a bunch of pro-Palestinian protesters clashing with the police.
	You literally had swastika waving Hamas supporters at this event.
	Now, this event is usually for families, young people.
	They have artists.
	No, that's not what happened in New York last night.
	Chanting river to the sea.
	That means the destruction of Israel.
	You know, waving Palestinian flags, signs calling for the end of the genocide.
	Ralliers gathering along 6th Avenue.
	That's where the Fox News channel is, alongside hordes of tourists waiting in line to see the tree lighting.
	They want to see the different performers perform.
	Unable to get to the Christmas tree, an enormous crowd instead swarmed around the tree outside the Fox News Corp building.
	That's where Fox is.
	And how says the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal anyway, it says free Palestine, free Palestine.
	One seen climbing on the top of a pillar bearing the building's address.
	Another seen carrying a massive sign bearing a swastika, comparing the IDF to Nazis.
	What part of this, you know, rape, kidnap, murder, torture, hostage-taking are they not understanding?
	Because it would be the equivalent of losing 40,000 Americans in a single day if you look at extrapolate off a population.
	Iran has sent one of their drones to harass and intimidate one of America's most powerful aircraft carriers.
	I would say if I'm Joe Biden, that might be a good opportunity to shoot that sucker down.
	I don't know.
	Considering, what, there's been 75 attacks against American soldiers in Iraq and Syria.
	Gallup finding for the first time in decades, more Democrats side with Palestinians than with Israel.
	All you need to know about the modern leftist radicalized Democratic Party.
	UK Telegraph, the 10-month-old Israeli baby hostage, has now died after Hamas handed him over to a rival terror group.
	You just take a 10-month-old and let's kill the baby.
	That happens.
	People deny this.
	Did you see what happened in Oakland?
	We played that last night.
	Wow.
	Unbelievable.
	Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program, we have Newt Kingrich coming up.
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	People seem to forget that.
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