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March 27, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Robert Kennedy's Big Announcement - March 26th, Hour 1

Robert Kennedy made a surprising announcement today as he introduced his running mate, Philanthropist Nicole Shanahan.  Sean reacts to this announcement and the impact on November.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, Nicole Shanahan is going to be RFK Jr.'s vice presidential pick.
I can tell you a lot about her, but has the event started?
I'm looking here.
It has not started.
Anyway, she's from the Bay Area, and I know a lot about her.
I could tell you 55 things you might want to and need to know about her.
Raised on welfare, single-parent household, Oakland, California, daughter of a Chinese immigrant.
She went on for a successful career, patent lawyer, entrepreneur, marrying into Uber wealth after meeting the Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, at a yoga festival.
What the hell is a yoga?
Do you know what a yoga festival is?
It's where very flexible people go and celebrate each other's flexibility.
Okay, it's a celebration of the world.
You are welcome, America.
No, actually, there's a mixed martial artist I know that is amazing at it.
Listen, I'm going to tell you right now.
Yoga is phenomenal.
I do it three, four times a week.
I love it.
It's awesome.
But what people do when they go to yoga festivals with their body is beyond.
That's not regular yoga like what I'm doing for a half an hour.
These people can stretch beyond the limits.
It's ridiculous.
Listen, I've had Sensei has made me plank, and I'm like, oh, man, this is.
You must be great at that.
I'm actually not bad at it, but I don't like it.
It's like doing burpees.
Who the hell wants to do that?
I don't do burpees.
That's no.
I'm too.
Anyway, so she ends up a very, very wealthy woman.
She's been married, divorced twice.
I'm not getting into the specifics of it, but amassed a fortune in the tech sector.
I'm not against people being successful.
Has become philanthropic and a political player, leading donor behind RFK Jr.'s unexpected Super Bowl ad in February, emerged as a top contender for VP after a few days of speculation that maybe it's going to be Aaron Rodgers or what's his name from Deadliest Catch, Mike Rowe.
I'm like, no, it's not.
Or, you know, Jesse the body ventura.
I really wanted Jesse.
I was pulling for Jesse.
I wanted Jesse just for the sheer entertainment value he would bring to it because he's not the same guy he was when he was governor.
I'll tell you that.
He's kind of crazy these days.
Anyway, long story short, here's my take on it.
I think that probably she was chosen because she can finance the campaign.
Is that terrible to say?
Yes.
You think it is terrible?
Yes.
Why?
Because I'm not the only one that's been saying it.
I've read it enumerable.
You're not talking about everybody else.
You just said, is it a terrible thing to say?
I said, yes.
Why is that a terrible thing to say?
Do you think it's true?
I don't know if it's true or not, but I would say, well, perhaps she has some technical prowess.
Perhaps she can help with promotion.
Technical prowess.
Social media, you know, she might have an issue.
Social media.
Okay.
What background and experience does she have?
I'm going to tell you right now.
I don't know.
She's going to be a big VP.
I don't know anything about this woman.
I would not vote for her for vice president.
I would vote for, you know, my dog Winston over her.
I don't know her.
You know, Winston, I know him.
He's a good dog, you know.
But at the end of the day, RFK at least is trying something.
Well, let me serve her a compliment.
I mean, she grew up in a single-family parent household.
Mother raised her and her brother, low income, on welfare.
She said she remembers her mother being ashamed to use food stamps, asking her brother to leave the store so that they wouldn't watch her using them.
She grew up.
She said she only had two t-shirts that fit her.
I love this story about her.
I do too.
I think it's also an honest story.
It's the American dream.
Where are we coming from?
Right?
The community.
Exactly.
When the community is in the community.
Yeah, okay.
You know, that's a low bar.
This is the benchmark.
It's very important.
That's a very low bar.
So many incredible leaders.
For us at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist in our present and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past, but the future.
We invested an additional time.
All right, I can't take it.
And I have too much to go through.
She did say that school was the one reliable thing I had in my life.
There's nothing here except an impressive resume and life story, which I think is compelling, that tells me she has any clue about being the vice president.
Nobody's ever heard her name in the political world before.
I do like her life story, her personal story, but I will tell you the fact that she funded that football ad at the Super Bowl and everything in between, you know, makes me suspicious that maybe money had something to do with this.
I don't know.
I mean, because apparently she's extraordinarily wealthy, which is great.
But short of that, you know, tell me what she has done since she, you know, that would qualify her to be vice president.
I don't know.
I don't see anything.
Here's what the most interesting part of RFK's run now has now become: Biden's team is so freaked out about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
and his impact on the election.
They have now built an entire operation, according to Axios, dedicated to attacking Kennedy.
And those contrasting approaches are now coming into focus because he's polling better than any independent candidate since Ross Perot did in 92.
And now he is facing real scrutiny, which he deserves to face.
I know that some conservatives have been intrigued by him, but the last interview I had with him did not go particularly well on his behalf because I challenged him.
I said, beyond these three issues about what he says about immigration and what he says about men playing in women's sports, and obviously everybody knows him best for his position on immunization, and probably more conservatives than liberals were more skeptical, and studies have shown this than the left on the issue of COVID and the vaccines.
Okay, those positions of Robert F. Kennedy, there's the three issues that might appeal to conservatives.
Might.
Maybe they do.
But this is a guy that is the most radical environmentalist I've ever seen in my life.
When you read the background and the narrative that he has been pushing his entire life, then you look at his political history.
He has supported every radical left-wing Democratic presidential candidate in history.
That's his life's history.
Not saying he's bad.
I'm just saying that's where he stands.
So naturally, Biden's campaign, the DNC, have now had to dedicate a team of staffers and consultants to diminish Kennedy.
The DNC is arguing that RFK Jr.
is a stalking horse for Trump.
He's not doing anything for Donald Trump, that I can tell you.
Who shares mega donor Tim Mellon with the former president?
But anyway, the White House also notes the Kennedy family isn't.
I do feel bad for him.
His entire family has turned against them and is now campaigning against them.
I don't like that.
Or maybe is that a red flag that we should pay attention to?
What do they know about him that we don't know about him?
Well, anyway, he's now in talks to run on the Libertarian Party presidential ticket.
That could translate, you know, whatever popularity he has into becoming a near-guaranteed choice on ballots in all 50 states.
And, you know, although they're saying that the Libertarian Party chair spoke with Kennedy in recent weeks, and anyway, the two have been in contact.
Kennedy's not a Libertarian, but his presidential campaign was a demon.
He wanted to be a Democratic presidential nominee.
And the Libertarian Party has consistently made it on the ballot in all 50 states in D.C.
And the Libertarian ticket has performed better on the presidential level when it has a candidate with high name recognition.
But he's a Democrat.
He's a liberal, left-wing, climate alarmist, religious, cultist Democrat.
And I'm sure this person probably say anyway, this is Kennedy's wife.
Okay, Kennedy's wife.
Carol Hines.
Curb your enthusiasm.
It's a very exciting day, and you will not be disappointed.
One of the things that I love about Bobby, there are a lot.
I won't spend the day naming them, but one of the things that I truly respect about him, I have watched him and continued to watch him inspire people of all different parties to come together for the greater good of this country.
Yeah.
So when you look around you, you're probably going to see Republicans, Democrats, Independents all gathered together to see what we have in common and how we can work together.
And that's what Bobby's all about.
And that's who he is.
And that's what he's doing.
And America is listening and is inspired.
All right.
I think we should just do it.
Are you ready to hear from Bobby?
Are you at all interested to hear from the new VP pick?
Okay, okay.
Well, let's make a lot of noise.
I want to really hear how enthusiastic you are about this.
Please, ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for my love for the next president of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you, thank you and I want to start out first of all for thanking all of you and thank you Oakland and thank all of you for being here today.
I also want to thank the tribal chieftains, the Muickleone tribe, and the chairwoman of the tribal council for endorsing me today, for putting their faith in me and they know it's the Muwekma Ohlone tribe.
Oh, and they know very much that this struggle for Indigenous rights has consumed a lot of my life, my personal and my professional life, and that this work is going to continue when we are in the White House.
The Mokma Lawnies are one of the many tribes that were decertified during the 1950s, 1960s, and these tribes need to be re-legitimized, and that's something that I will do as soon as I get in the White House.
All right, we're just going to take a break here.
And we already know who the pick is, Nicole Shanahan.
And we'll get back and so we'll get your reaction throughout the program as well.
But he's a Democrat.
Trust me.
I know his record.
All right.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
has given a speech.
We know who the choice is.
Great family, great background, great life story, but I don't really see any experience that would say that Nicole Shanahan has the leadership to become the president of the United States and have but one heartbeat away from being the president because that's the job.
It is fascinating to watch that the people attacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the most Democrats.
Let me tell you where that's coming from.
That is a clear indication that polling is showing that most people rightly see Kennedy as a liberal Democrat.
Okay, he has a couple of positions that maybe are unique being a liberal Democrat in this environment, but he's part of the climate alarmist religious cult.
He's got far-left positions on pretty much everything.
He's voted for every left-wing radical for president in the modern era.
I mean, what else do you need to know?
I mean, his own family is mad because they think it's going to hurt Joe Biden.
Anyway, so we'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens with the Libertarian Party.
I don't really see any need to take this any further until he actually finally makes the announcement.
We get to hear a little bit from Shanahan.
We'll do that probably in the next half hour.
And we'll get to the other news of the day.
Looks like Ronna McDaniel is out at MSDNC.
The inmates running the asylum over there have successfully had a coup.
God forbid they have a dissenting voice at NBC News.
The lunatics went insane last night.
We'll play it for you straight ahead.
Come on, man.
It's taken me 47 years to perfect doing nothing.
I had to become president to show you I could do that better than anybody.
Joe Biden, the most dangerous man in America.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Well, good thing I didn't stay with the Robert F. Kennedy thing because it's just he's going on and on and on and on.
Now, I've just gone through her bio in way more detail.
Nicole Shanahan is going to be his VP.
All right.
She received her certificate in the World Trade Organization studies.
Okay.
Ding, ding, ding, red flag.
She was in law school.
She studied intellectual property and Chinese law at the National University of Singapore.
She, according to Wall Street Journal, was married to the billionaire from Google, one of their co-founders, Sergey Brin, sought apparently a billion dollars in the settlement.
They had an out-of-court settlement and in confidential arbitration.
There were plenty of allegations.
I'm not getting into the salaciousness of anything.
She claims that it was nearly impossible to have mega wealth and be deeply grounded.
She said, when I was living the wife of a billionaire, I was not the best version of myself.
I felt conflicted every day, like I couldn't access the thing that made me what I am.
She described herself, pay very close attention, as a progressive through and through.
Got it?
That is a radical leftist, progressive, radical liberal.
You know, she was involved in other things.
She actually claimed, and this goes to the issue of defund, dismantle, and reimagining police.
She said that having a mental health professional at the scene of George Floyd's death would have possibly de-escalated the situation and saved his life.
I mean, remember, there's this whole group of people thinking that, well, maybe we need to send social workers when there are issues involving people that have some type of mental disorder.
What happens when they get violent?
How is the social worker going to handle that?
She's the president of the Bia Echo Foundation that invests in reproductive longevity and equality and et cetera, et cetera.
And a livable planet.
You getting the point?
Livable planet.
A lot of code words in here.
And anyway, she told a panel on population pressures at COP26, and that's in Glasgow in Scotland, that we have around 60 years of science that is missing around reproductive issues and that soil health and gut biome, which she says are interrelated or critical to increasing reproductive longevity.
Sounds like alternative health, I know Linda would love.
She's also interested in regenerative agriculture, carbon sequestration.
In other words, yeah, she's probably well in line with Robert F. Kennedy's views on the environment, which are radical and extreme.
Let's see, her past donations, she has donated to Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Pete Buddha Judge, local congressman Democrat Ro Kahana, Rochana, I believe is how you say it.
She hosted a big fundraiser for Buddha Judge, supported Mary Ann Williamson's long shot 2020 bid, donated to Biden's Victory Fund 2020, and then started getting interested in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s run.
I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but I do wonder about vaccine injuries, she once said.
In February, she contributed $4 million to the American Values 2024 PAC, a super PAC, to help Kennedy fund a retro Super Bowl ad that linked Kennedy with his uncle JFK, the former president.
The ad sparked blowback from the Kennedy family.
She was apparently involved in the creative process of creating that ad.
And anyway, I mean, I could just keep going on and on.
And it sounds like maybe, ideologically, the perfect pick for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
And maybe this is why the Biden campaign is just freaking out and flipping out.
I have so much other news I haven't gotten to yet today.
I've got to get to it.
Well, the inmates are running the asylum.
Hang on.
He is with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Visited East Palestine nearly three weeks, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He's with the governor.
I'm not sure what this means.
What does that mean?
Pete Buttigieg is right now with the NTSB and the governor of Maryland hours after what happened last night at the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
It took him three weeks to go to East Palestine.
Okay.
Maybe they're learning from their mistakes.
Maybe it'll be only six months until Joe shows up.
Anyway, I just don't.
It just somebody, no background, no experience.
I mean, at least Admiral Stockman, remember Ross Perot's pick, maybe one of the greatest lines ever used in a vice presidential debate.
You know, when he started out, who am I and why am I here?
It was pretty funny.
Looks like the inmates at the asylum known as NBC and MSDNC.
Well, according to the Daily Mail, NBC has dropped former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor less than a week after her role was announced.
She did a whopping one-day appearance.
And then the wheels came off.
All started by Chucky Todd.
This is hurting our credibility as journalists.
They all claim to be journalists at MSDNC.
None of them are journalists.
None of them.
They're all talk show hosts.
Now, I'm a talk show host.
I'm honest about who I am.
I don't claim that I am a journalist.
But as part of my role as being a talk show host, we do journalism.
And I can produce thousands of hours on TV and radio.
Me doing straight news.
We do investigative reporting, looking at the Biden family syndicate that the mob ignores, looking into Obama's radical associations, getting right the Russia hoax that the mob and the media all got wrong because of their liberal talk show host views.
They all claim to be journalists.
Nope, they're liberal talk show hosts.
And anyway, we've got a new montage of how insane it just, it went on and on from there.
It went from Chucky Todd to Liberal Joe to Mika, and then all the way through the day, you know, into prime time and circle back Jen Saki and conspiracy theorist extraordinaire.
Apparently they gave her uninterrupted airtime last night to give this long emotional speech how Ronna McDaniel will not be on MSDNC, really.
And I say that and give you that level of detail because there has been an effort since by other parts of the company to muddy that up in the press and make it seem like that's not what happened at MSDNC.
Okay.
Thank you for straightening that out.
Joy Reed, Nicole Wallace, I mean, Lawrence O'Donnell.
I mean, the whole place.
Okay.
Well, who runs the asylum here?
Anyway, apparently it's them.
Listen.
There's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination.
We weren't asked about our opinion on the hiring, but if we were, we would have strongly objected for several reasons, including, but not limited to, Ms. McDaniel's role in Donald Trump's fake elector scheme and her pressuring of election officials to not certify election results.
But we've also said to election deniers is not just they can do that on our airwaves, but that they can do that as one of us, as badge-carrying employees of NBC News, as paid contributors to our sacred airwaves.
Our democracy is in danger because of the lies that people like Rona McDaniel have pushed on this country.
And look, and this is not about not having Republicans on.
We welcome Republican voices.
I wish more Republicans.
I want Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney to get right here and come talk to me.
The reality is, this isn't a difference of opinion.
She literally backed an illegal scheme to steal an election in the state of Michigan.
We were told this weekend in clear terms: Rhonda McDaniel will not be on our air.
Ronda McDaniel will not be on MSNBC.
And I say that and give you that level of detail because there has been an effort since by other parts of the company to muddy that up in the press and make it seem like that's not what happened at MSNBC.
I can assure you, that is what happened at MSNBC.
Okay, so this is what they're all saying.
And then it got worse from there.
From Ronna McDaniel, I am hiring the best libel attorney in the country, and I am going hard big time after NBC.
Big time.
And it's not just whatever the contract payout is.
No, I'd go way deeper than that.
But, you know, we'll see what happens.
That's what I'd be doing.
We'll see.
You know, we're talking here about Shanahan being the choice of RFK Jr.
Well, you know, Ford lost $4.5 billion because of electric vehicles.
I mean, he has been on this kick for the environment for pretty much all of his adult life.
And Chrysler owns Stellantis.
They're cutting 400 jobs to focus on electric vehicles.
Ford lost $4.5 billion.
Anyway, it's the company of several auto brands, Dodge Jeep, Chrysler, confirming that they're laying off hundreds of U.S. workers to trim their workforce amid their transition to the electric vehicle production.
Wow.
I mean, they want to force electric vehicles down your throat, whether you like them or don't like them.
They literally want you to get rid of your gas stove, your refrigerator, your air conditioner, stop eating meat.
There's no end to this.
It's unbelievable.
Look at the economy.
Americans' dream is shrinking.
New home sales slipping again last month.
Builders are now ramping up production and going smaller because people can't afford it, especially interest rates high in the inflation that Joe Biden created.
Never mind, America's debt is now a death spiral.
This was on FoxNews.com.
The U.S., our country is now on track for the Treasury to pay $1 trillion only on interest on the debt.
And legal experts are raising the alarm on Biden's Plan B student loan handout.
He was told by the Supreme Court he couldn't do it.
And what is he doing?
Billions of more dollars of student loan forgiveness.
Costco's going to crack down on non-members eating at food courts.
I mean, everybody knows they have their $1.50 hot dog and soda combination, their chicken bakes, and their pizza.
I love Costco.
I love Target.
I love Walmart.
I love all those stores.
They have everything you want.
They're great.
You save money in the process.
But anyway, back to this issue about MSDNC.
Why would MS the idea?
Lyndon, I'm in my 28th year at Fox.
I've been hired to do a show.
My show runs from 9 to 10 Eastern.
My job is not to do the hiring and firing at the Fox News channel.
I don't own the Fox News channel.
I don't run the Fox News channel.
I'm an employee of Fox News, a contractual employee.
That's what I do.
And my job is to do the best job I can do.
And I take my responsibility now in my 28th year more seriously now than I ever have.
And we take great pride in getting it right when the mob and the media gets it wrong, like on the Russia hoax, like explaining that Joe Biden leveraging a billion dollars of taxpayer money so his son can be paid millions, even though he admits he has no experience and admits at the time he was addicted to drugs.
That's a big story.
Unless, of course, you're a liberal talk show host at Fake News CNN like Fake Jake or over at MSDNC like Liberal Joe and the party over there and Chucky Todd and conspiracy theorist Mattow and circle back Jen Saki.
And we have Joyless Behard, Joyless Reed, and then we got Lawrence O'Donnell.
I haven't really come up with a nickname for him yet.
I will, just for kicks and giggles.
But they claim, now, we do do journalism, as I said earlier.
We do investigative reporting that they don't do.
They lied about the Russia hoax for three plus years.
No apologies, no corrections, none of that.
And we do other things as well.
We give opinion.
They give opinion.
They just don't, they just call their opinion journalism, and it's not.
They have an opinion.
They hate Donald Trump.
MSDNC doesn't even want a conservative voice.
Oh, we want more Republicans on.
We'd love to have Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger on.
They're not Republicans.
They're not conservative.
They'll claim they are, but what they did on that January 6th committee is a disgrace, how they allowed a phony narrative about Donald Trump trying to commandeer the car that was being driven by the Secret Service, except the Secret Service agents said it never happened and they never told us.
You know, all the missing documents and files that we're now learning about.
The fact that Donald Trump had a meeting and that now Chris Steve, what was his name?
The former acting defense secretary, Chris, who's Miller, Kash Patel, Mark Meadows, Donald Trump, Mark Milley all admit, yeah, Trump talked about bringing up the guard, but in writing, Muriel Bowser said no.
She had to legally say yes.
Well, if he wanted an insurrection, why would he be authorizing the guard to be called up?
Can't make this up.
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All right, when we come back, we got a lot of other news we're going to get to today.
We'll look into the meltdown of the left about the Trump reduction in terms of bail in New York.
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