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In a minute, we'll be joined by former Speaker of the House, Newt Kingrich.
His new best-selling book is out, March to the majority.
As a matter of fact, Newt is going to be signing copies of his book, you know, for Christmas presents if you want it.
It's at BNN Ashburn, Virginia on Saturday, December the 9th.
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They'll be there at 1 o'clock.
I want to start with the issue of the borders because I just cannot get over what's happening.
You know, we have pointed out that which nobody else in the media seems to care about.
What is the number one country, the number one state sponsor of terror?
That would be Iran.
And we know of, we know of, according to Custom and Border Patrol protection data, we know they've come into contact with 659 Iranians.
They're coming from the number one state sponsor of terror.
We know 538 Syrians also.
You know the home of the Muslim Brotherhood?
That would be Egypt, 3,153.
You know Afghanistan, the home of Al-Qaeda, 6,386.
You know that guy, Vladimir Putin?
Russia, 12,605.
And you know our number one geopolitical foe is China.
And they have come into contact with 26,113, many of which Chinese nationals come into the country and they're buying up thousands and thousands of acres of ranch and farmland and land near military installations.
How much do you want to bet?
Because I'm 100% certain of the 8 million Joe Biden illegal immigrants that terrorist cells have entered our country and they will plot, plan, and scheme and they will attack us and then they will have blood on their hands.
But if you listen to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkis, he wants all of them now to become citizens.
Listen.
It also doesn't address the other sort of elephant in the room, which is dealing with undocumented immigrants who are already here in the nation.
And I know it's been a political football as to trying to figure out the best way to address that, but I'm going to ask you, what is the best way to address that from your perspective?
The answer is quite clear and quite straightforward, and we've been waiting for it for about 30 years, and that is to fix a system that everyone agrees is fundamentally broken, and we need congressional action, both for the lawful pathways that really need to be more robust in statute and for the 12 million people who are here in the United States who have been contributing so fundamentally to our country's well-being.
You know, there are countries like Australia and New Zealand.
If you want to become a citizen, people pay a fortune for that.
Anyway, Speaker of the House, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is with us, sir.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
And you put your finger on one of the three or four biggest challenges we have, and that is that Biden's illegal immigration policy is guaranteeing that we are flooded with people we don't know, all of whom, by definition, break the law to get here, and that with Biden's illegal immigration approach, they are drowning our cities.
When you look at New York, where a 94-year-old Korean War veteran is kicked out of his assisted living so they can turn it over to one of Biden's illegal immigrants, and of course, they use the word term undocumented because they don't want to admit the truth, which is these people have broken the law by definition in order to get here.
I am passionately pro legal immigration.
Klista and I are actually doing a video series called Journey to America about people who come here legally, contribute dramatically to our country.
But this flood of Biden's illegal immigrants is just, I think, an enormous threat to the future of the country.
Do you agree with me that of the estimated 8 million, maybe by the end of the year, 10 million illegal immigrants that Joe Biden has allowed in unvetted into the country since he's become president?
I say the odds are 100%.
I pray to God that I'm wrong, that we have terror cells that he has allowed into this country.
Look at the countries they're coming from, our top geopolitical foes.
What are your thoughts?
Well, of course, you have a very high likelihood that you have terrorists going.
Look, you go to all the trouble.
Everybody who travels on an airplane goes through TSA.
We all have to be vetted.
They have to, you know, nowadays you look into a camera, they check to make sure you're who you say you are.
Meanwhile, if you just go to Mexico and walk north, you get in the United States with no problems.
And anybody thinks that places like Iran are so stupid or the Chinese communist government is so stupid, they can't figure this out.
I would be willing to bet everything I have that there are a substantial number of terrorists who are part of Biden's illegal immigration program, and that part of this administration's insanity is that they can't even come to grips with that.
They can't admit about the real world.
You know, the thing is, I don't care where you come from.
They talk about the conservatives talk about the great replacement theory.
No, it's not that.
I don't care where you come from.
I wouldn't be here but for this country allowing all four of my grandparents to legally enter the country at Ellows Island.
And I just want certain conditions for people to come in.
Number one, they have to follow the law.
Number two, they've got to be vetted, make sure they don't have radical associations.
If we're in the middle of a pandemic, I think that we need to have a health check.
And we also need to know that they'll have the ability to take care of themselves when they get here.
And that means they won't be a financial burden on the American people.
I don't think it's too much to ask.
Once that's accomplished, welcome to America.
We're glad you're here.
Right.
And, of course, historically, people who did come here legally very often were major contributors.
It's still true today.
The number of brilliant entrepreneurs, brilliant scientists, brilliant medical doctors, it's part of the great wealth of the American system.
But that's not what Biden's illegal immigration program is all about.
What he's trying to do is maximize the disruption of the American system.
And it is consistently against American citizens and in favor of people who are here illegally.
And it's just, I mean, to me, it makes no sense at all.
There was just a story yesterday that I think some 80 military families have been told that they lost their hotel reservations to go to the Army-Navy game because those particular hotel rooms have now been taken over by Biden's illegal immigrants.
Now, I mean, there's something profoundly wrong when your tax money goes to pay for a hotel for an illegal immigrant while you're blocking your own military families from going to their annual football game.
Why would we give away citizenship or create a pathway to citizenship for people that didn't respect our laws, our borders, our sovereignty, as Majorkis is trying to call for a pathway to citizenship?
Now, is that a case where, regardless of where people come from, and I understand people want better lives, and I understand that there are good people that just want a piece of what we have and often take for granted.
But however, shouldn't those limited positions be given to people that follow the law?
And I'll say one other thing.
If they give this broad sweeping amnesty and a pathway to citizenship, what?
Do they expect something in return like their political loyalty?
Because I would imagine something of great worth.
If the Democratic Party gave that to you, you'd be pretty thankful.
Well, I mean, part of what's wrong with the entire Biden approach to how life works is they want to bring people in, make them dependent, give them things.
I did a study years ago.
If you were Vietnamese fleeing communism and you came to the U.S. and you got a job, didn't matter what kind of job, but you got a job, you would rise.
If you came to the U.S. and the social workers got you and they pushed you in public housing and they started giving you food stamps and they started giving you welfare, you would not rise.
And the difference in those two experiences was part of why I originally wrote Renewing American Civilization.
I'm very much in favor of people who are willing to come here legally.
I'm very much in favor of people who are willing to learn to be American.
And that in itself is a big argument.
There are people on the left who were opposed to asking people to learn how to be an American.
And I think it just tells you how sick they are.
Let's get your take on the Republican primary.
Did you have a chance to watch any of last night's debate?
If you did, what did you think?
Pain.
That's what I thought.
That was painful.
I swear to God, it's so funny.
I thought the same thing.
This is painful.
And I'll say this.
I don't think Vivek or Christie belong on that stage, period.
They don't.
And I like Vivek and he's very smart.
But the longer he's around, the less likable he is.
And the more he's just kind of like a loudmouth kid.
I thought, frankly, that Christie, who I don't particular like at all, nonetheless had the best line of the night when he talked about the fact that Vivek in 20 minutes in every debate convinces people that they don't want him.
I thought that Nikki did a pretty good job.
She's probably notionally the winner.
I thought DeSantis, who, by the way, I thought had gotten better after you hosted him for that debate with Governor Newsom.
I actually thought that debate, he was more mature, more prepared, more positive.
And some of that came over last night.
But let's be honest.
The person who matters wasn't there.
And none of them can, except Christie's on a crusade to try to hurt Trump, I think because Trump didn't give him a job or something.
But none of them are able to take on Trump.
And therefore, none of them are going to be the nominee.
And I said several months ago, after the first two debates, just kill the rest of the debates.
They do not help the Republican Party.
It doesn't help to watch these people engage in petty personal comments.
They don't get around to the big issues we need to be debating.
You can't take them totally seriously.
I mean, they are sincere.
They have political consultants who are training them, but they're training them into kind of a political tactical talk that doesn't matter to the American people.
I mean, the American people want to worry about things like what you and I just talked about.
What are we going to do about Biden's illegal immigration policy?
What are we going to do about Biden's inflation?
I had to post this this morning on X.
I couldn't help myself.
You and I both know that Biden can't.
By the way, this is the reason that everyone in my life has taken away my passwords.
I don't have access to my own social media, Mr. Speaker.
Because there's moments like that that they don't want me to have.
I'm not going to question the sincerity of the people who try to keep you from hurting yourself.
But since I'm retired, I can get away with it.
But the notion, we know that Biden can't stand up to the Iranians.
But the notion that 40 White House interns wrote a letter to the president demanding that he abandon Israel.
Now, I would recommend to any president who got that kind of letter, you send a nice, pleasant note back.
You say, I am glad to see your opinion, which you are perfectly entitled to.
And I hope you find something new to do as of 5 o'clock today because you're losing your White House pass and you're gone.
And I'll bet you that there is no cost to those 40 people who, frankly, are young jerks.
I mean, by what standard do you organize 40 White House interns to publicly lecture the President of the United States about something they disagree on and not have them lose their internship?
I think I would have fired him like five minutes after the list came out.
That's obscene.
All right, quick break, right back.
More with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
If you want to be at his book signing in Virginia on Saturday, just go to Hannity.com.
Details are there.
We continue with former Speaker of the House, Newt Kingrich.
His new book is out March to the Majority.
He's going to be in Virginia this Saturday, 1 p.m., and details are on Hannity.com.
You know, I'm watching Joe Biden, and do you think he's going to be the nominee?
I think what surprised me the most with my town hall with Donald Trump, and I hope you had an opportunity to watch it, I'd love your thoughts on it, is I asked him straight up if he thought that Joe Biden would be the nominee.
He said he didn't think he would make it.
What do you think?
Well, listen, I very seldom disagree with Trump's intuition, which is pretty impressive.
I don't see, I mean, barring some kind of major health problem, I don't see why Biden would step down.
I mean, if he starts losing primaries, maybe, but they're doing everything they can.
You know, the Florida Democratic Party just decided nobody could run in the primary except Biden.
You know, the way they're rigging it, it's going to be virtually impossible to beat him.
And the fact is, in terms of the primary, I think you'll lose the general badly.
But if you're spending trillions of dollars, you can find enough friends to be dominant inside your own party and put yourself in Joe's place, and particularly in Dr. Jill's place.
You got the White House, Air Force One, Marine One, Camp David, or you can bicycle the rest of your life around Delaware.
That sounds like a great option.
Although Joe does have a tough time carrying that beach chair around in front of his beach house, amazing properties he owns for a guy that lived off a senator's salary for so long, right?
Well, I think when you have good friends in China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, it's amazing how your life can improve.
Do you believe this impeachment is real?
Because I think every time I interview James Comer, Jason Smith, Jim Jordan, it's getting more real by the day.
And this was a very sophisticated operation with this family.
I'll give you the last word.
No, I just, I described it in a recent newsletter at Ganglish 360 as the Delaware Sopranos.
Wow.
I think that's the easiest way to think of them.
They're crux.
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Kingrich.
Let's see what Republicans do if they'll go forward with impeachment.
I think that it would be inevitable.
They just don't have a big enough margin to get anything through at this time.
It's rough.
Thank you, sir.
And by the way, if you want us, we'll put a link online.
March to the majority is Newt's new book.
He has a book signing coming up that you're not going to want to miss.
We put all the details on Hannity.com.
And I think you'll enjoy the time with the speaker.
If you're in Virginia, you definitely want to be there.
It's happening Saturday, this Saturday at 1 o'clock.
Sir, thank you for being with us.
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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.
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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.
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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 Nayfok 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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Really, really sad.
Some guy by the name of Nahad Awad, apparently the care executive director, said the following: quote, I was happy to see the people of Gaza break the siege on October the 7th.
The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on October 7th.
And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their lands that they were not allowed to walk in.
And yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves.
And yes, Israel as an occupying power does not have that right to self-defense.
Gaza became the liberation source, the inspiration for people.
Gaza transformed many minds around the world, including people who are not Muslim.
What kind of faith these people have.
They are thankful.
They're not afraid.
And Israel did not scare them because they knew that their heaven is in Gaza.
And if they would like to die, they will go to another heaven.
That is the faith of the people of Gaza.
And that's why Gaza and the people of Gaza were able to transform everyone who's watching.
They have learned from these people.
So he makes these comments.
And this is the executive of CARE.
I'm happy to see the people of Gaza break the siege on October the 7th.
You know, the worst terrorist attack in the history of Israel.
Now, I want to take one moment here.
Survivors now, those that have, you know, either survived as hostages released or people that were there on October 7th and barely escaped with their lives.
They're now talking about what they went through.
In one case, there is a young girl.
Her name is Noah Ben Artezi.
And she talks about surviving.
She was at that music festival and the massacre that took place there.
What, 250 kids at least were killed that day.
Some of them were taken hostages.
Some of the women were raped.
And it's a long segment.
But I think if you really want to understand what happened and the horror of all of this, you need to hear this story.
Let me play it for you.
It was around 6.30 a.m.
I was in the tent.
I was resting.
We were in a festival that we were waiting for for so long.
We started hearing what we thought was fireworks that the music festival arranged.
When I opened the tent, I realized chaos was in front of me.
Hundreds of people were running towards me.
When I looked up in the sky, I saw hundreds of rockets above me.
That's when I started panicking.
All our friends, we were 10 friends there.
We all gathered up right next to our tent, and we split into cars to run out of there.
When we got to the main road, the security told us to go only to the right.
We started driving, and that's when we realized that if we continue, there's a terrorist attack.
we found a shelter which was a small cement box with no door and around 30 40 people inside i was with there were five friends inside including my best friend norell her sister roya her boyfriend amit and my other friend and their cousin gal
When we were there, we didn't even know that they were coming towards our shelter.
But my friend texted me, they're coming, get out of there.
That's when I met another girl called Michelle.
She was having a panic attack, so I helped her breathe.
And I asked her her name, she said, Michelle, and I said, let's sit down.
There's more air if we sit down.
So us for me, Noel, Roya, and her sat down.
The next thing I heard was their coming.
And that's when 30 people fell on top of me.
Everyone wanted to save their life and they wanted to get to the back of the shelter.
I don't remember much after that, but I remember waking up and losing contact with my friends, only wanting to hear their voice.
I was laying, my head was laying on top of a chest of someone and they were breathing.
That's when I asked her, what's her name?
And she said, Michelle.
I said, hi, it's me.
It's Noah.
I helped you five minutes ago.
All I hear around me is people suffocating, people on top of another.
And a lot of shots from within.
That's when I realized there's a huge body on top of me.
And his head is on my throat.
And fire is starting in the entrance.
It only came to my knowledge yesterday that the fire was actually the bodies that they burned in the entrance of the shelter.
I breathed, I inhaled that smoke.
And I fought for my life for three and a half hours.
I thought about my family.
And I had one question, and it was, why do I deserve to suffocate until I die?
The shots didn't stop.
And I lost contact with my friends and I realized I wouldn't hear from them anymore.
That's when I got rescued after three hours.
Some, some voices that I heard said that, they said, I'm going outside.
I'd rather take a bullet in my head than suffocate.
When once there was a little quiet, we heard them going out and then we heard shots.
We realized they didn't survive.
And once I got rescued, I reunited with Michelle in the hospital, realizing only after that she had a bullet in her back the entire time and she didn't even know.
Narelle, my best friend, and her sister were American Simpsons.
They lived in LA for nine years, and they loved America.
It was four days that we hadn't heard from them.
And we understood that it either meant that they were hostage or murdered.
And in what world does a mother need to pray that her kids are hostage so that they're alive and not murdered?
Now, that was Noah Ben Artezi.
She was at that music festival where over 250 kids were just slaughtered.
Many girls raped.
Many people taken hostage.
I've ever seen.
So I'm a strong Trump supporter, and I think Trump will carry George.
That was it the best you've ever seen because I was the moderator or the host of the town hall or was it better because he did a great job?
I think it's the latter.
Well, you were both great.
It was fantastic, and I think Trump's going to carry it.
George, I think you'll be in the biggest landslide in history.
And I'm telling everybody I know to vote for Trump and also to watch your television show and listen to your radio because I think your programs will help give Trump a huge landslide win.
So I want to thank you, Sean, for all you're doing for the hardworking American taxpayers.
Well, you're very kind, Joe, from LJ.
We appreciate it.
I'll tell you this.
America cannot survive four more years of Joe Biden and these policies.
The world, frankly, can't either.
It is that bad.
He's making things worse every single day.
All right, let's get to Art in Massachusetts next.
Art, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
How are you?
How are you?
What's going on?
Hey, I just got a simple question.
You know, with all these Palestinian protests and everything, who's paying for all those flags?
And who orchestrates all these demonstrations that go from Massachusetts all the way to California?
Nobody ever puts their name on anything.
There was a rich couple.
I can't recall the name right now, that apparently were found to be funding a lot of this.
And there's definitely money behind the organization efforts.
And I would assume that probably includes, you know, the props that are likely handed out to anybody that shows up, meaning the flags, et cetera.
I was passing by in a car in New York City recently, and one of these protests were going on.
And I just rolled down the window a little bit, took some video of it even.
And, you know, it was the same thing, you know, from the river to the sea, calls for antifada, et cetera, et cetera.
But there's definitely organizational roots behind a lot of this, and there's money behind a lot of this too, or else it wouldn't happen.
Yeah.
I mean, I see it, and I say, geez, why did they allow this?
Is it the freedom of speech, or is it just they let hate go on?
Well, I'm just telling you, the answer is there are people that are out there.
There are people that, you know, believe this, and the level of anti-Semitism is worse than I've ever seen in my life.
Edward Alaska, how are you?
Fine.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sean.
Hey, I just wanted to talk real quick, ask your take on all this money going everywhere.
Now, Ukraine, it goes on on Israel.
That's good money.
I'm not talking about that.
We got money going everywhere.
And it makes you think, remember when Donald Trump said, and I'm paraphrasing, every day they're draining the money from America.
And it seems that way.
Even Bud Collins was just on TV today, and he said the Republicans haven't tried to do much in the last 20 years.
I'm paraphrasing that too.
But what do you think's really going on here, Sean?
They're 33 trillion, right?
34 trillion in debt that we have.
That's a lot of money.
Yeah.
Look, what Democrats have been trying to do and Republicans as of yesterday in the Senate wouldn't let them do it is they want this big, huge bill that's all-encompassing and that only gives a small percentage of the money to Israel.
We've already given, what, over $80 billion to Ukraine.
They want another $60 to $80 billion.
Then they want money for Taiwan, but they don't want to give any money for our own border security.
And it's been the worst under Joe Biden than at any other time in the modern era.
He keeps allowing in masses of people unvetted.
And now we're discovering what countries many of them are from.
As I've been describing, Iran and Syria and Egypt and Afghanistan and China and Russia.
And you know what?
This is now a clear and present danger.
This is a national security risk, his policy.
So, you know, where does the money come from?
It comes from you.
It comes from the American people.
It comes from the taxpayer, like everything else.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate your call.
800-941-Sean, our number.
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