Our number is 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program almost every day on this show, every night on Hannity, we have a lot of news because of Joe Biden's, you know, 10 million plus unvetted illegal immigrants and where they are coming from, and we're seeing massive numbers, tens and tens of thousands from Russia and China, and let's see.
Oh, Iran, number one state sponsor of terror, their satellite Syria, Egypt, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda now has reopened their training camps.
We had the latest example, the Biden administration program.
You know, the one that actually flies illegal immigrants that you pay for right into America directly and gives people what, 40 some od uh options where they want to s settle and stay.
Well, a Haitian uh immigrant, illegal immigrant, brought in by Biden, killed two of his roommates in New York.
He used the Biden administration signature, what they call the CB uh P One program to enter the country illegally.
But according to Biden, it is legal.
Okay.
Was there any vetting done?
No.
Maybe if there was some vetting, maybe this would have would not have happened.
Anyway, and then of course we watched in the U.S. Senate yesterday, basically the Democratic senators shredding the Constitution.
Mayorcus, who has facilitated all of this illegal immigration and lied to us for three years, the borders closed, the borders secure, the borders closed, the borders secure.
Yeah.
Well, let me tell you, every Democrat that voted against having a trial for Mayorcus, all of them, should pay a heavy price in two hundred days.
This number ought to scare everybody.
The number of Chinese nationals that have been entering our country illegally and stopped by border patrol so far this fiscal year has now exceeded the enormous number that we saw in fiscal year, all of fiscal year 2023.
And we still have you know six plus months to go, according to the customs and and border protection data in the first six months of twenty twenty-four, which began in October, Border Patrol now has caught twenty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-six Chinese nationals crossing illegally between ports of entry, far exceeding the twenty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-five caught in all of fiscal year twenty twenty-three.
Now, do you think people are making this trip from China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, because they want a better life for themselves or their families?
I don't think so.
Now, there was an incredible uh daily mail piece out there, how China is deliberately allowing the export of deadly devices that turn handguns into machine pistols as they are seeking to destabilize the U.S. Uh there was a drill down piece talking about, you know, incentivized murder and how the C C P is providing government funding tax breaks for fentanyl makers.
I can't even believe we're discussing this on this program, but you know, here we are, we're discussing it.
And our friend Peter Sweitzer has been doing the deepest dive of anybody into all of this, and he's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, host of the drilled down podcast, his latest New York Times number one bestseller, Blood Money, why the powerful turn of a blind eye while China is killing Americans,
and a new report out of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is revealing that the C CP now has been incentivizing fentanyl production being via government funding.
Other reports have shown that they have partnered with the Mexican cartels, and China is now subsidizing fentanyl uh chemicals that are being used to ultimately kill Americans, and and they're making a fortune off of it, and we're allowing it to happen because our borders are wide open.
Anyway, Peter Schweitzer joins us now.
Uh sir, welcome back.
Sean, always good to be with you.
Thanks so much for having me.
How bad is it?
Uh it's terrible.
Uh it's killing a hundred thousand Americans a year uh through fentanyl poisoning.
Uh I think the thing that people sometimes miss is, you know, they see pictures of people that are, you know, sort of shaking the uh, you know, fentanyl addicts in San Francisco elsewhere.
The vast majority of people that are dying of fentanyl poisoning don't even know they're taking fentanyl.
It's it's a kid studying for uh a college exam who a buddy says, Well, take this at all.
it'll help you concentrate.
Um, and it's actually uh, you know, a fake pill with fentanyl in it, and they die of an overdose.
Uh and this is designed by the I I have a very good friend of mine.
He's been on this show talking about it.
Uh who used to work at Fox, Eric Bowling lost his 19-year-old son, University of Boulder.
Uh he got a what was it, a Xanax, which, by the way, any any doctor would prescribe to any student that might be suffering panic or anxiety attacks, and he just got it on on the street and it had fentanyl in it, and he never woke up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is, it's not an overdose, it's an overdose medically, but it's really a poisoning because people are not intentionally taking fentanyl.
Uh and that's what makes this so so troubling.
And people will say to me, Sean, like, well, I don't understand.
Why would you know drug dealers want to kill their customers?
Well, the Chinese want to kill Americans.
That's their involvement in this.
They control every stage from the precursors to the money laundering.
But for the drug cartels, they're making 20 times the profit margin on on sending fentanyl drugs to the United States is 20 times what they make on cocaine or on heroin.
So they don't care if if if they die.
So you have this cooperation between the Mexican drug cartels and the CCP.
They both get what they want.
And unfortunately, our political leaders don't want to stand up and call China out on this.
I I can guarantee one thing, Sean.
If the United States were doing this to China, uh President G would be in President Biden's face about this every single day.
And yet this president does not raise this issue.
He says there's not going to be any finger pointing uh for China in doing this.
I think we're well past the point we need more than finger pointing uh to deal with this problem.
Joe Biden has shown no willingness at all, although he did say talk about tariffs this week for the first time, uh, probably only because it's been polled because he hasn't done anything for over three and a half years as it relates to China.
I would argue that goes back to your previous book, uh Secret Empires and the amount of money that the Biden family has has done how and how much money they've gotten from China.
Uh I haven't even gotten a total figure.
Everybody remembers the WhatsApp message.
I'm sitting here with my father.
Why didn't you keep your commitment between everybody he knows and my ability to hold the grudge, you're going to regret not doing this?
According to James Comer, five days later, what, five million dollars was wired into one of these these quote bank accounts or what Comer calls shell corporations.
Uh you confirmed that happened.
Is that true?
All true?
Yes.
Yes.
No, that's absolutely correct.
And and here's the thing.
I mean, you know, the Democrats on that committee say, well, you know, they were engaging, the Bidens were engaging in business transactions with Chinese businessmen.
Um, you know, that it's it's a pretty broad definition of businessman they're using.
Uh if you look at uh uh uh the the head of CEFC, that energy company.
Um by the way, this is in the energy sector.
This is their just like Barisma in Ukraine, this is China's uh oil and gas giant.
And and this is and they sent this five million dollars.
This is at a time.
We do have on tape, Hunter Biden admitting he had no experience in energy, oil, gas, none of it.
And we do know at the time he's admittedly was addicted to hard drugs.
I can only imagine the dossier that that the communist Chinese have on the Bidens.
Oh, absolutely.
And and think about this.
Yi Yi Ming, that the head of CEFC, this energy company, uh, had all of other massively shady connections.
So one of the bizarre and very troubling relationships is in 2017, he wires five million dollars in in the Hunter Biden laptop.
This is uh according to Yi, this is a loan, a forgivable interest-free loan to the Biden family, not just to Hunter.
He wires five million dollars.
Well, he is business partners at that time with a Chinese gang leader who goes by the name White Wolf.
They actually invested jointly and and had projects going together and had these associations with these Chinese patriotic organizations.
Uh this guy, White Wolf, is the one Who set up the Sinaloa cartel in the fentanyl trade?
So you literally have one degree of separation between the Biden family and the fentanyl trade that is killing a hundred thousand Americans every year.
So when they talk about a Chinese businessman, you are talking about guys that operate, yes, in Chinese business, but have criminal and other associations that make them far more than your typical Chinese businessman.
And that's what a lot of people I think are missing as part of the story.
And I think it's the reason that Joe Biden does not want to have a conversation about Sentinel in America, because it it brings it too close to his family's uh financial gifts, as it were from China.
Unbelie unbelievable.
And I don't see any desire with this administration to ever confront China.
Quick break more with Peter Schweitzer on the other side.
I would continue with Peter Schweitzer, his new book, a number one New York Times bestseller, Blood Money, why the powerful turn of blind eye while China is killing Americans.
I don't think they have the ability to confront China.
I've got to imagine that the communist Chinese, Russia, and all these countries that they did business with.
Am I wrong in believing in my heart and soul that they probably have dossiers on Hunter Biden that that would probably even implicate Joe Biden?
Oh, I don't think there's any question about it.
Um and they also have uh the leverage of knowing uh that that they have these dossiers, but have the ability to demonstrate the full extent of these relationships.
Um, you know, the Hunter Biden laptop is just one uh source of communication that Hunter Biden used that the Biden family used.
Um and there's no question in my mind that there are probably other communication devices that the Chinese captured.
And the bottom line, Sean, is we know one thing uh about these individuals that were stuffing the pockets of the Biden family.
They were not getting any legitimate service or business in return.
So the question is why did they continue over the course of years to send millions of dollars to the Bidens?
They were getting something in return.
What exactly it is, we don't necessarily know, but I think it absolutely had everything to do with Joe Biden's policies and Joe Biden's posture towards China.
So they are not in a position uh to you know confront China in any direct way, even though it involves the killing of Americans.
And we've talked about Fentinel.
You mentioned earlier uh the story in the Daily Mail that that came from the reporting and blood money.
China has smuggled these devices into the United States, uh the Glock switches that convert handguns to fully automatic machine guns are highly illegal.
Uh and they smuggled thousands of them into the United States.
We've got machine gun fire in urban America.
Our police are being outgunned because of this, but Joe Biden will not confront China on what they're doing.
He wants to take away the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding America.
Um, so again, this is resulting in violence and death of the American people at the hands of actions that China's taking, and Joe Biden does not want to deal with this issue or even confront China over it.
I mean, uh it's almost uh a novel that you would read and not even believe it's so insane.
Uh what do you think the communist Chinese motive is here?
Because it sounds to me like they're engaged in in a cold war against the United States and the United States basically is putting their head in the set.
Yeah, I think that's it.
Um, you know, as I lay out at the beginning of uh Blood Money, uh China has this doctrine called disintegration warfare.
Um on the cover, it was a book written by two military officers in China in 2012, and it's been embraced by the Chinese government.
On the front cover of that book, they quote the uh the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, and the quote is the best strategist is the one who defeats his enemy without actually fighting him.
And what disintegration warfare means is we're going to look for ways to undermine fragment, disintegrate the United States, uh, but we're going to do it without giving the appearance that we're actually at war or doing anything hostile to them.
Um that's working.
Uh, you know, fentanyl is part of that.
COVID was part of that.
These Glock switches that we talked about are part of it.
We know that they're aggressively involved in cyberspace.
They they have you know uh hundreds of thousands to millions of social media accounts where they where they uh position themselves, they present themselves as Americans.
These accounts are actually run by Chinese uh intelligence officers and propagandists.
And basically half of these accounts, Sean, say that America is a hopelessly racist, bigoted society, and the other half of the accounts basically say I only like white people.
They're trying to stir up dissension and racial uh fragmentation in America.
So this is a full fledged attack on the United States without actually the appearance of a war.
Peter Sweitzer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Blood Money, while the powerful turn of blind eye while China kills Americans.
Anyway, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
There's a reason it's number one.
Uh your government needs to read this.
Joe's not gonna do it in 200 days.
Uh that can all change.
Peter, thank you.
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So I had two American friends.
I have Israeli friends, but I had two American friends that were in Israel on Saturday night when the uh when the attack from Iran began.
Uh we talked to the great one Mark Levin.
He was there at the time.
I I had gotten news this attack was imminent.
Uh uh late Thursday, early Friday, and I was just desperately trying to get him on the phone.
It took a while.
I finally got him.
I did not know John Androsik was there uh from Five for Fighting.
Uh hours before this attack began, you know, he had 10 10,000, 15,000 people in Hostage Square in in Israel and literally literally was performing his new song Okay uh that he wrote in the aftermath of October the seventh and it just reflects the sadness,
the reality and the hatred that lives in in every corner of the world it seems at this point for for the Jewish people and Christians too in many cases, and this was him performing that night.
Listen this is a time for Jews.
This is a time to Is losing Forbidden lost for love I don't
understand, I don't understand How you can lock yourself in the mirror I don't understand, I don't understand How did that blood fill up your eyes
We, we are, we are now Again We, we
are, we are now Okay Hey yeah Hey yeah Yeah Yeah Okay Hey
yeah Hey yeah Hey yeah Hey yeah Hey yeah Hey yeah had behind our friend John Androsik, he joins us now.
This new song literally he was singing that just hours uh he performed that song uh before tens of thousands in Hostage Square in Israel.
Uh and I did not know you were there until you we started communicating.
I I think you wrote me, you told me that this had happened.
I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
Where are you?
Are you safe and secure and what's going on?
And and we stayed in touch and and uh I said please let me know when you land when you were leaving.
And thankfully you did and you got home safe.
I mean, this now in retrospect has to be surreal for you.
You played that song hours before this attack occurred.
You know, Sean, it was.
Um it was fascinating, right before uh the the event started.
They actually did an announcement that said in event of an imminent rocket attack, take this action.
Which I'd never heard before a show before, Sean.
And uh the crazy thing is nobody left.
Not one person left.
The hostage families were there, the hostage friends, so many supporters.
And to sing that song, um in that moment under that threat for the hostage family, for the people of Israel who feel abandoned.
Um I gotta say, it it's um it took me right back to the concert for New York, you know, singing Superman's a concert for New York.
So it was um it was inspiring, it was scary, it was um every emotion, but I was honored to do it, and I really thank you.
I know you uh once you found out I was there you were on with me for almost forty-eight hours, so I appreciate that.
And actually I was texting Mark, you know, when when the uh interception started going in Jerusalem.
By the way, be grateful you weren't with Mark because I'm sick of this thing.
No, I was getting the ranting tweets too while uh while interceptions were happening in Jerusalem.
So I mean he goes, Everybody's fine here for crying out loud.
Damn it, John Biden.
Um exactly, but you know, I was worried look, I was feverishly calling him.
I couldn't wake his ass up, and I'm finally he called me back.
I'm like well, thanks for finally picking up your phone.
Now it is six hours or whatever, I think it's six hours ahead.
Uh but you know, I w I did watch you perform that song.
Um and we'll put it uh well, I want to put both videos.
I want to put the video I I remember when you gave me an early version of this song and you wanted me to listen to it, and you we were talking about different ideas for the the music video that would accompany this song,
and you know, first of all, I gotta tip my hat to you because you're one of the few people and you did this with Ukraine as well that sees what's going on in the world and you're just so driven and motivated as an artist to speak out about it, and uh it is giving people so much comfort.
When I saw the size of the crowd that you were performing in front of at hostage square, I was blown away.
And then you're meeting all these families, they don't they don't know if their loved ones are dead or alive, or they know that their loved ones were killed.
You know, it seems that what, twelve hundred people died that day uh when this unprovoked attack happened, uh, and then we got a president of the United States to just keep lecturing Israel uh not to win their war on terror and to stop because he's more concerned about votes that he's losing in Dearborn,
Michigan and other places in the country, because you know, he would stand on the side of liberty and freedom and the right of a country to of self-defense, and what's even worse is he's telling Israel you're on your own if you fight back against Iran and and meanwhile three hundred missiles were fired into that country, and thankfully they were able to stop ninety-nine percent of them.
You know, when I wrote okay and the video came out and Israel tweeted it and shared it, um, I think I got a small sense of what Jewish people deal with every day, Sean.
We're not Jewish.
Um, but the vitriol that I received the threats, and you don't have to be Jewish to condemn Hamas.
You have to be human.
And after I that video came out, I got thousands of emails from Israelis saying exactly what we're saying.
They feel abandoned.
They feel abandoned by America, they feel abandoned by the world, they feel abandoned by music artists who have been silent um through this whole episode.
And that's why I went.
That's why I went to Israel.
I wanted them to see their, you know, they're not abandoned.
There are millions of Americans, tens of millions of Americans who support them, who want the hostages home.
And I'm glad I did.
And I'm glad I spoke to the hostage families.
I'm glad I played for the troops.
I'm glad I played at Hotsey Square, because it's been shameful to see the response of the world to Israel and the evil that is Hamas.
And it makes me mad.
Um, but being there and being with those people, Sean, they have fortitude, they have joy, they have compassion, they have smart.
They're gonna win this.
But thank God for the Iron Dome, because if not for the Iron Dome, we probably wouldn't be talking right now.
You're probably right, because uh my understanding is well, Mark was in Jerusalem, you were in Tel Aviv, which was the target of of of a lot of these these missiles that were being fired.
Um I look, I don't want to drag you too deep into my world, uh, because the world of politics is a sewer and uh you don't need the stench of it uh on you as well.
Uh but it's to me I I it might be the lowest point, I think, in in Biden's presidency by not only abandoning Israel, but putting a knife right in their back and twisting it.
You know, ha how is it that he has put his blind own blind personal political ambition above a s a simple moral principle, which would be you stand against radical Islamic terrorists, and it's just sad to me that the United States of America has a president that doesn't have the moral clarity to stand against radical terrorism.
Especially when you consider what we went through after 9-11, Israel never abandoned us.
I'm glad you used the word moral, Sean, because that's exactly what it is.
It's not political.
It was moral uh when I wrote blood in my hands about America abandoning our allies and our citizens to the Taliban.
When we saw that happen, I think we saw these dominoes starting to fall.
When we offered Zelensky plane tickets and he asked for missiles, and and and President Biden said, Well, maybe a little invasion's okay.
Um, we're seeing the exact same dynamic here.
Um, and again, it's not political with me.
If some other crazy company invaded and took hostages and massacred twelve hundred people, this song would remain the same, only the names were changed.
It is a moral message.
That's why Reagan, you know, that's why the Reagan doctrine still stands, and I'm proud of uh of our speaker who's not only standing up for Israel, but standing up for Ukraine.
Um, because these are all connected, Sean.
Putin, Hamas, Iran.
They are all connected.
I put them right next to each other in my video over the world, evil's on the march.
Hey, it's the act of evil all over again.
So I think if we don't realize that, and we don't take a global approach to this, this is not just Hamas versus Israel.
This is civilization against those who want to tear it down.
And the fact that we've been on the sidelines in a many instances, you know, undercutting Israel, it's a historical shame, as is the historical shame of the artists of America and the world who have remained silent and afraid to call out Hamas for the evil.
It's it's a historical shame.
The world has gone mad, but we have plans.
We're standing up for it.
This concert's just the first of many things, Sean.
We are uh going on offense, and um, my friend, all your tweets and your texts to me uh meant a lot because uh certainly it wasn't ideal to be there, but knowing that uh you were uh trying to pull every button to get us out of there, uh that I will not forget.
I had made calls that you don't know about.
I'd like to tell you right now.
Uh I was I was looking for plan B, plan C, and plan D. Uh, but uh you know, you know, let me ask you this.
Because you have now been more outspoken politically through your music, which is phenomenal.
I mean, uh look, everyone's gonna always gonna love uh Superman and Hundred Years and all the great hits that you play.
Has has have have things changed for you and either the concert you're giving, how people react to you, has that changed?
You know, some people are really grateful.
You know, I play okay every night.
I just played a show last night, I flew back to Washington and I talk about this moral message, and people you know what they say to me, Sean at the end, you know, certainly Jewish people say thank you, right?
Because they do feel abandoned.
But non-Jewish people come up and say, you know, thank you for singing for good.
They don't say thank you for singing for Israel.
They say thank you for singing for good.
Because people in their gut, they know right from wrong, and they know what we're doing in America um is shameful.
So there's that side, and then there's the vitriol and the death threats and the nut jobs.
But you know, after meeting with hostage families, Sean.
By the way, welcome to my world in the early years of Five for Fighting and you're coming out with hit after hit after hit.
I doubt you ever got any type of hostile comment in your life.
Rock stars are love, man.
They're not they're not hated like uh talk show hosts.
Well, but you know, is that when you meet with hostage families and you look to them in the eye and you see their pain and their suffering of what they're going through.
Terrible.
Backlash, any backlash we get, anybody that calls us a name, anyone who wants to protest my concert, you know, that is trivial.
That is trivial.
And if we don't stand up, um, I'm sorry, the bad guys are gonna win.
And with every voice, your voice, Mark's voice, um, and it's not a left-right thing.
Most of the folks I was over there um with in Israel were Democrats, um, leftist democrats.
Um, if you have a soul, you understand right and wrong.
You understand the good that is Israel, the evil that is Hamas.
So um I think this is a time for us all to come together, just like after concert for New York, just after not like after 91.
But um we can't we can't play defense, we have to go on offense, and that's uh that's what you're gonna see some new things coming forward.
But um, but yeah, it's uh yeah, some people don't want to hire me, some people don't want to buy a ticket, yeah.
Whatever.
Uh don't worry, I'll buy up I'll buy extra.
Uh John Andrasic, uh the video of him singing in Hostage Square is up on Hannity.com and the original video that he put out with the song when he when he did debut the song, we're putting that up as well.
Thank you, my friend.
Glad you're home safe.
Thanks, Sean.
God bless America.
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