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March 28, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Biden Attacks Corporations - March 27th, Hour 1
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A couple of humorous things to get going today.
Not sure if you heard White House press secretary Corinne Jean-Pierre telling a Charlotte, North Carolina radio host at WBT.
Guy's name is Mark Garrison.
Apparently got really, got Jean-Pierre pissed off by daring to ask.
When I told a number of people I was talking to you today, it was interesting.
They all said, would you please ask her, does the president have dementia?
Listen.
I cut the national debt by $1,700,000,000.
We literally cut the federal debt in half by $1.4 trillion.
$1,700,000,000.
$1 trillion billion dollars cut.
We cut the debt by $1.7 billion.
All right, that's the wrong cut.
That's not the one that I was looking for.
Anyway, so, well, when we get it, I'll play it for you because there's a good ending to it that I don't want to give away.
We got it?
That's a yes or no, Ethan.
You got to answer.
That is a yes.
We are working our butts off for you, boss, and we got it.
When I told a number of people that I was talking to you today, it was interesting, though.
They all said, would you please just ask her, does the president have dementia?
So before I move on from that, does he?
Mark, Mark, I can't even believe you're asking me this question.
That is a credibly offensive question to ask.
But you know people ask us.
Wait, oh, let me.
No, no, no, no, no.
Mark, you're taking us down this rabbit hole.
So I'm not even going to truly, truly really, you know, take the premise of your question.
I think it is incredibly insulting.
And so we can, you know, we can move on to the next question.
All the important groceries, those costs have gone down because of what this president has been able to do.
And with that, thank you so much, Mark.
Have an amazing, amazing day.
Wow.
The political coverage.
Look some of the political players and some of the let me ask a rhetorical question.
No, anyways.
Okay.
What is offensive about that?
What is insulting about that?
I mean, you have a glorious day.
You have a great day.
Click.
Well, Americans are asking the question.
And every poll now, they're speaking out loudly that they think he does not have the mental strength and stamina to be the president of our country.
They just don't.
It was a fair question on every measure.
It's pretty unbelievable.
I don't even know where to begin.
One other funny note is somebody on X, you know, the people that post, even if you're making fun of me, and when Sweet Baby James brings it over to me and he says, oh, did you see this person saying this about you?
I'm like, no, let me see.
When it's funny, I'm like, that's pretty funny.
And when it's not, I'm like, okay, these people need to get a life.
You got these keyboard warriors in their underwear.
Some of them paid.
I mean, you have people that are paid to monitor every word I say, every sentence, every, it's just ridiculous.
Why?
In the hopes that I might say one word, one sentence, one little phrase that they can, you know, take out of context and try and get me boycotted, canceled, fired, etc.
I mean, after all, they are so open-minded, those Democrats.
They really are.
Just like at NBC, they're so open-minded that, you know, are you or have you ever been a Republican or a Donald Trump supporter?
Because if you have, the inmates running the asylum will get you canceled and get you fired and probably also end up getting you sued big time.
We'll see where that goes because there's a report today.
Rhonda McDaniel is planning to sue.
We'll see how that ends up.
Anyway, so Carine Jean-Pierre was offended about this issue.
But here's what's interesting.
We found tape of Kristen Welker, who now I guess hosts Meet the Press and AOC.
Listen to them talk about Mar-a-Lago's value.
Donald Trump's home here in Palm Beach is quickly earning the title Winter White House.
It's a storied estate steeped in history.
Mr. Trump has spent the past 20 Thanksgivings here.
But now as president-elect, everything is different.
The 20-acre estate was originally built by serial heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
She actually envisioned it as a winter retreat for U.S. presidents.
Now, some say it's the most valuable parcel of land anywhere in Florida.
Much of the 126-room estate is used by the members-only Mar-a-Lago Club.
And it further stated from Mr. Trump, quote, he also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents' real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing his tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.
Mr. Cohen, do you know whether that specific report is accurate?
I don't.
I wasn't there in 1990s.
Who would know the answer to those questions?
Alan Weisselberg.
And would it help for the committee to obtain federal and state tax returns from the president and his company to address that discrepancy?
I believe so.
Unbelievable.
But these are the times that we're living in.
You do know that we are just a mere 222 days away from this inflection moment for our country.
You know, it's just, does anyone, can anyone give a rational explanation as to why Joe Biden claimed that he traveled many times over the vehicle-only Francis Scott Key Bridge community by train or by car?
Why does he always have to insert himself into everything?
Talking about the fires in Maui, we had a fire at my house once so bad.
It was a minor, minor house fire that was handled within like 15 minutes.
It got close to my little Corvette, gas-guzzling Corvette, my stingray.
I don't want you to have a stingray, but I want you to have an electric vehicle.
The Justice Department dismissed fraud charges against the defendant after a defendant made a six-figure donation to Biden's presidential campaign.
Weaponization issues.
I'm sure this will go straight to the Judiciary and Oversight Committees, but they took a rare step earlier this month.
We're only learning now from the New York Post of moving to dismiss a $3.3 billion civil suit, a lawsuit against Dish Network months after the founder and his wife donated $113,000 to Biden's reelection campaign late last year.
How convenient.
Do I think anything untoward happened?
I have no idea, but timing is a little bit odd.
You know, a lot of people have been asking Hannity, what's the point?
Why do you have these committees investigating the impeachment?
Why is there an impeachment inquiry?
Well, the impeachment inquiry, and they said this from the very beginning, it's not like it's news.
The impeachment inquiry will give the committees access to things that they otherwise would not have access to and stronger subpoena power.
And yeah, I can do the math as well, and there's not going to be enough Republicans to impeach Donald Trump.
And he's certainly, I'm sorry, Joe Biden, and he's certainly not going to be convicted in the U.S. Senate.
It's not going to happen.
But James Comer has been saying, and few have been listening to what the plan really is.
You know, in a Democratic-controlled Senate, they'd never convict Joe in an impeachment trial.
It didn't matter what the evidence was.
The Biden Justice Department will deep six any criminal referral in the same locked closet they used to hide their copy of Hunter's hard drive.
That's why Comer is now talking about issuing criminal referrals on the Biden crime family based on their investigations to a brand new Trump Justice Department if that happens next January.
In a fundraising email sent to supporters, Comer is saying that the criminal referrals in his long-running impeachment inquiry may soon come.
I'm preparing criminal referrals as the culmination of my investigation.
They want to interview Joe Biden now.
Comer said that this is the best way to hold the Bidens accountable for, quote, their crimes, as it is now clear the Democrats will do anything to hold on to power.
And he said that Democrats in Congress are protecting the president and his family.
It is clear the Democrats will choose their party over their country and the truth at every turn.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
When President Trump returns to the White House, it is critical the new leadership of the DOJ have everything they need to prosecute the Biden crime family and deliver swift justice, quote unquote, James Comer said.
We'll have to wait and see what happens.
Attorneys for Hunter, by the way, are back in court trying to get his tax case tossed.
And we'll see what happens on that front.
Two of Jim Biden's business deals are linked to two criminal investigations that the president's brother worked with this collapsed hospital chain and he got his money under the microscope as the family's finances face even more scrutiny today.
And of course, all the contradictions, all the whistleblowers get ignored by the very people that loved whistleblowers, even hearsay whistleblowers.
These are just unbelievable times.
I listened in what Corinne Jean-Pierre was just saying there.
The grocery prices are down.
No, anything that they're saying about the border, about grocery prices, about the economy, they just flat out lie.
The border's secure, the border is closed.
No, it's not.
It's never been.
It's more dangerous than ever before.
And grocery prices are not coming down.
And this after Joe Biden has pivoted after trying to push Bidenomics onto everybody, and it didn't work.
Now he's blaming greedy corporations for higher prices and shrinkflation.
No, it's Bidenflation.
Unemployment, by the way, has been rising in 47 out of 50 states.
Unemployment rate went up in all but three states over the past year as Biden continues to boast about his great handling of the economy and Bidenomics.
The states with the biggest jump in individual unemployment rates as of February were Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut.
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wyoming were the only states that saw statistically significant declines.
Probably in the state of Pennsylvania, that's due to fracking.
California with the highest unemployment rate of any state in the country.
That shouldn't shock anybody.
North Dakota had the lowest rate at, what was it at?
I think 2%, followed by Vermont and South Dakota.
South Dakota, 2.1%.
Overall unemployment rate at 4% in February, but it is 0.3 percentage points higher than it was last year, just like the cost of everything keeps going up.
You know, it's interesting.
I don't remember where I read this, but I read it in my research today.
But Clay Baron has everything in his pawn shop from gold rings and pearl necklaces and vintage cowboy boots, you know, everything you'd ever want.
He said, right now we have a glut of inventory.
And he said, that tells me our clientele don't necessarily have money.
Accumulating pawn shop inventory means that fewer buyers than there are sellers.
And a sign for the lowest-income Americans that times remain tough.
These are indicators that probably are not going to be showing up that much in the polls, although most Americans get it.
Do you know now that there are eight states planning a complete ban on the sale of gas-powered cars entirely after Biden unveiled his plans to phase them out by 2032?
That's eight years from now.
Only zero mission vehicles.
Well, now we're going to ignore the science that showed that electric vehicles, because of the heavy weight of the batteries, never mind the pillaging of the mother earth of their cobalt and manganese and other minerals.
I mean, and the fact that most of the electric grid is powered by fossil fuels.
So, in other words, fossil fuels still charging your vehicle.
And, of course, the heavy weight, you know, puts tire particles, greater numbers of it, into the atmosphere.
Anyway, but if you look at all these, why would these states be buying into this?
They want to now tell you what car to drive, what stove to own, what refrigerator you can and cannot have, what air conditioners you might be able to have.
I mean, that's how much they want to impact everybody's life.
By the way, Biden Democrats are ditching Bidenomics because it's not working.
Trader Joe's hikes banana price for the first time in decades.
I mean, it is really unbelievable.
Renting is now cheaper than owning in all of America's 50 biggest metro areas.
That tells you a lot, too.
The dream of owning your home is disappearing right before our eyes.
I had a lot of updates coming up.
222 days till you get to decide the next president of the United States.
We'll update you with that.
We have a lot to get to with MSDNC.
And of course, Ronna McDaniel now apparently is threatening to sue.
That, I promise you, is inevitable.
I could absolutely see libel behind a suit over the contract.
And I don't think, you know, after everything that was said, Capon or a mob member and so on and so forth, how they would let the inmates run the asylum in my 28 years at Fox, I promise you, they don't care what my opinion is on who they hired.
They don't consult me, nor would I want to be consulted.
It's not my job.
I don't own the network.
I don't manage the network.
I wouldn't mind owning the network, but I don't.
So wherever I go, I'm being asked about this insanity over at what it used to be called NBC News.
Now, as a matter of being fair, and then we're going to get a report from Griff Jenkins on what happened with the bridge, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, that Joe Biden took a train over, even though they don't have train tracks.
We'll get to that.
I'm just going to say this.
Are you or have you ever been?
I have had a great relationship.
Tim Russert, if you recall, he wrote two great books years ago.
When he passed away, it was heartbreaking for me.
It was maybe two or three months prior to his death that he had moderated a debate between me and James Carville.
And the three of us, I mean, we had a great time.
He would call me, like Peter Jennings often had called me, asking my opinion as a conservative voice, how do you feel about this issue?
What are conservatives thinking about that issue?
So different to where we are today.
Are you or have you ever been a Republican or a Donald Trump supporter?
What are they going to think?
You can't hear an alternative point of view?
Anyway, two bits of news we'll get to in a minute.
One, Rhonda McDaniel is now considering suing NBC for defamation.
I would imagine a lot of these hosts that threw their tempa tantrums will be mentioned and sued by name.
That would not shock me at all.
And as we now, you have learned more about news in this country in this one case than I think you're ever going to want to learn.
We'll go into great detail, and they don't want another point of view.
And when you had one of these triggered MSDNC hosts out there saying, well, no, we do want Republicans on.
We'd love to interview people like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinziger.
There's not a single Republican that likes either one of them anymore.
They're not considered Republicans.
Anyway, we'll get back to this in a minute, but the tragedy that is the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Joe Biden, of course, claiming that he traveled it many times by car and by rail.
One problem about the rail aspect of it is it didn't have train tracks.
You know, once again, it's just like Joe Biden, he goes, you know, talks about Maui and the devastating fires that took place there.
I had a kitchen fire once.
It was near my Corvette.
Now that it extinguished it in about 15 minutes, but he wants to, of course, insert himself into everything.
But this has been very, very serious.
Our very own friend and colleague, Griff Jenkins from Fox is with us.
He's been on the ground reporting now for the last couple of days.
First, our thoughts and prayers are with the families that lost loved ones.
But Griff, what the hell went on here?
How did this happen?
I'm beginning to hear rumblings that there were indications something like this could happen, and they didn't jump fast enough.
Well, and Sean, I'm not even on the ground.
I'm also on the water.
I am calling you floating in the middle of the Patapsco River.
We've been doing live shots showing people the magnitude of this damage.
By the way, when you say you're floating on the river, you're not in an inner tube.
I assume you're on a boat.
I'm on a great 42-foot fishing vessel, a captain here, the Simonizer fishing charter.
If you ever hear a suggestion of my buddy Lenny, he's taking us out of the call and book him up.
We got a great, we're about, I don't know, 500 yards from the actual ship wreckage.
But let me just take two seconds because before you came to me and you were talking about NBC, and I know we're not going to talk entirely about that, you did remind me, my first job in television, Sean, was a producer at MSNBC with our good friend Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North.
And that is when MSNBC had a hit show called Equal Time with Ollie North and Paul Bagala.
Paul Bagala being Carville's pal and right-hand man in the Clinton administration during those years.
And that was certainly a time in the late 90s when MSNBC valued Republican views, alternative conservative views.
And Colonel North, who you know quite well, certainly doesn't pull any punches or hold back.
And that's what we did, a counterpoint show every night on MSNBC.
So I just throw that out there because it certainly has changed.
Well, they've come a long way from that time.
They won't run a Trump speech.
You got the Republican candidate for president.
They don't even want to hear his voice.
They are fixated.
You know, God forbid, if anything happened to Donald Trump, I literally think they'd have nothing to ever talk about because that's all they do 24-7.
But we digress here.
Let's talk about the tragedy.
As a matter of fact, before I actually ask you about it, let me play reporters on one of the networks that raised a lot of questions in my mind.
And I want to see if you're hearing anything about this as well.
Listen.
It was just having power failures left and right.
So whenever it left port, some of us feel like it should have left when it was daylight so they could take care of and see what issues they were having too.
But we can't stop the ships from leaving port.
The issues that it was having and the shipping line knowing probably the issues it had, they shouldn't have let the ship leave port until they got it under control, honestly.
It was here for two days because it was a two-day working ship.
And those two days, they were having serious power outages.
By the way, that was a harbor worker being interviewed by the media.
And I'm like, okay, did this really happen that way?
Well, we certainly hopefully should find out.
And, you know, this is like the first real day of the NTSB being on the ground.
And early this morning, I was able to grab a quick interview with the chairwoman of the NTSB, Jennifer Hamendi, and I asked her about, you know, the ship's maintenance records.
And she said, you know, we want to know an awful lot about that.
And the timeline of this ship is really something I've been spending all day, Sean, trying to piece together because we know at 1.04 a.m., the Dolly, the Singapore flagship, sets out of Baltimore's harbor, headed to Sri Lanka.
And 20 minutes later, 1.24, that's when you first in that video start to see the lights flickering.
And that's the power going out.
That's the ship losing its power.
And then you see it go dark, and then you see the lights come back on, and that's when we start to see that smoke.
And sources that are familiar with this NTSB investigation told me a few hours ago that what you're witnessing there, Sean, is the emergency power trying to kick in, but propulsion and ultimately control of the ship is not regained.
And then, of course, within minutes at 1.27 a.m., the ship collides with one of the main bridges pillars, the structure that's holding it up.
And then, of course, you know, we all saw what happened.
The historic landmark bridge collapses into the water.
And we've been out here on this water.
It's cold out here.
It's been raining all day.
And my hat's off to these divers.
We've been watching divers going in and out of this frigid water, which is about 47, 48 degrees, all day long, trying to bring stuff up.
You've got the Army Corps of Engineers boat.
I'm looking at it right now.
You got Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Looks like they've been trying to bring things up.
You know, we can't really tell what they're bringing up.
But when you've been out on the water, and I know you spend time out there, you know, when they bring things up, they kind of float it up and they move it around.
We can't get some ships have blocked it.
You know, their emergency Coast Guard stuff blocking some of our view.
But they're clearly trying to get a handle on this and bring the bodies of these presumed six dead workers up to bring closure to these families.
And it is the task at hand.
It's just a daunting challenge given the complexities of these elements.
And, of course, the just magnitude of the structure that's collapsed into the river.
And when you sit out here and look at it, you think about how long it's really going to take to not only rebuild a bridge, let alone to get this debris out of here and get this ship out of here, which we now know from the White House briefing.
There are some containers on there.
I think 56, you said, the Vice Admiral of the Coast Guard, at the White House briefing, 56 containers on there that have hazardous material.
Now, we're told it's not dangerous to anybody.
It's opposed to danger right now because those containers are not towards the bow of the ship where the structure collapsed on it.
But still, if there's hazardous material on the boat I'm looking at 500 yards in front of me, you know, that's got to be one of the top priorities.
Wow, very, very dangerous.
If there's any, I guess, how do you say there's any blessing in all of this?
Is I guess the total death toll is six.
Last night I heard that it could be rising.
Where are we with that?
I know all search efforts have ceased because of the chilling waters and nobody would be able to survive.
I mean, in a case like this, if it was maybe at a different point in the day, it could have been a lot worse, right?
Yeah, for sure.
And, you know, if there's a silver lining here, it is that there was during that entire crisis period, Sean, between like 1.24 a.m. and 1.27 when the collision happens, the Maryland harbor pilots coordinate with Maryland's Transportation Authority to run the roads and the bridge, and we're warning them that the ship is in danger.
The bridge is in danger.
The ship has lost control, and that resulted in the bridge being shut down.
We've heard the dispatch call.
That really probably saves countless lives because anybody that would have driven on the bridge in the darkened night at 1:30 in the morning would have driven right into the river.
So while it looks like you're looking at a death toll with probably six, it could have been way, way worse had there not been that coordination between the harbor pilots and the Maryland Transportation Authorities.
The quick action to shut that bridge down.
Well, thank God, and please thank them for us.
And our prayers go out to the families impacted by all this.
Griff, you've been doing a great job for Fox.
We appreciate always your time on this show as well.
Thank you, my friend.
Hey, Sean, great to be with you.
Talk to you soon, and we'll keep you posted on what we learned because there's a lot of answers.
And as the governor told me in an interview this morning, somebody needs to be held accountable for it.
100%.
That's for sure.
Griff Jenkins, Fox News, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
You know, it's really interesting.
And we'll get into this, Phil, O'Reilly, Old Things Simple, man, coming up at the top of the hour.
But as you watch, you know, maybe we'll call it Rana Gate and the scandal at NBC News unfolding.
America is really getting a real-time lesson in the mob and the media.
You know, you may forget, but I declared and I said, and I had no idea how right I really was, that journalism is dead in America.
The great irony in all of this is all these people that work at fake news, CNN, and MSDNC and the New York Times and even the big networks, with few exceptions, they all consider themselves journalists.
They're not.
They're talk show hosts.
And I've explained my job as a member of the press, which I am.
You know, I'm a talk show host, but that includes straight news, journalism, if you will.
We do investigative journalism.
We give opinion.
We talk about other topics, sports, culture.
Well, like the entire newspaper, including the editorial page.
And they just claim they choose one narrow lane, and they're not.
They're pretending to be journalists, but they're talk show hosts.
And I will say, for all the criticism Fox gets, and we also get far better ratings than these other networks, but for all the criticism, you can't say that we don't let opposing views on the network.
There are tons of them.
Marie Harf is on the network.
Juan Williams, Harold Ford Jr., Jessica Tarlove.
I can't even name them all.
And not every host has an opinion that does a show on Fox News either.
There are straight news shows, and then there is, you know, then there are talk show hosts like me.
But why do they just, why can't they own who they are?
But it's getting very, very interesting.
As this unfolds here, I think the obvious thing that's going to happen, Politico reporting today that Ronna McDaniel and her allies are furious about how all of this has gone down, believing she's been misled about how she'd be welcomed into the fold by executives that aggressively apparently recruited her.
They blame NBC Brass for botching the whole situation, not having her meet with top network talent ahead of the rollout, and then caving to internal pressure from their temper tantrum throwing hosts.
But, you know, we're going to see over time how this plays out.
I would imagine there's going to be a lot of legal action as they point out here.
And there's no doubt that this was all a setup on Sunday, that Kristen Welker knew that Chucky Todd was going to go scorched earth.
And Maddow had revealed on Saturday they were told, oh, she's never going to appear on MSDNC.
Okay.
That's not what they had said initially, and that's not what they said afterwards.
They said she would be appearing on all these.
So a lot of inconsistencies here.
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