All right, Hour 2, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-SEAN is on number.
If you want to be a part of the program, I don't even know where to begin.
The world's kind of on fire.
We have an election in just 175 days.
Polls looking good for Donald Trump again today.
You've got the convicted liar, Michael Cohn, the star witness.
I mean, this is becoming more comical by the hour.
You know, wall-to-wall, never-ending coverage of a case where we don't even know what the actual charges are or the crime is.
And on top of that, you have a president that has surrendered in the war on terrorism and has given, frankly, aid, comfort, and he's emboldened terrorists all around the world.
Not a small point.
And I don't know where to begin.
Anyway, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is with us.
Don't forget his podcast, which is phenomenal, and I've actually been a guest on it.
You can find it wherever you've got podcasts around you, Newt's World, or Newt 360.
Sir, how are you?
I'm doing well, and I think you sort of captured this amazing time we're in where you've got a president who has betrayed one of our strongest allies, and there's no other word for it, what Joe Biden has done to Israel is a pure, it's just a betrayal.
On the other hand, you have 85 to 100,000 people going out to Wildwood to see Donald Trump, and I think a total repudiation of everything the establishment's trying to do to President Trump.
You have, I think, growing disgust in the country with the Biden administration and its complete failure.
And of course, today's New York Times Sienna poll that shows Trump's now ahead in five out of six swing states.
And in places like Georgia, he's now up like 11 points.
So something, there's a plate tectonic shifting.
You're going to see it in Europe where the conservatives are going to do very well in the parliamentary elections for the European Parliament in June.
And I think you're going to see a continued growth of people deciding that left-wingism doesn't work and that being weak doesn't work and that the world's really dangerous and we need mature real leadership.
Well, I think that clearly that that is evident.
I really believe, Mr. Speaker, and you're the historian and the professor, that we're at an inflection point here as a country.
I don't know what America looks like, God forbid, if Joe Biden ever got elected for four more years.
Well, I think it would be a disaster of the first order because it would convince every idiot on the left that their hatred of America is legitimate and that they have majority support to hate America.
And what you're actually seeing, which is fascinating, I think, is a slow, steady shift away from the left.
I was told a few minutes ago, for example, that the University of North Carolina is ending its diversity and inclusion office and taking that money to hire more campus police.
Now, I can't imagine a better battle cry to drive the left crazy than close down your DEI office and use the money for more campus fleets.
But that's the kind of stuff, you know, that you begin to see a really fundamental shift as people realize that none of this stuff works.
And I think we're in probably the most dangerous period since the 1930s.
And in many ways, what Biden just did to Israel is very much like Chamberlain selling out the Czechoslovakian Republic in 1938.
I mean, it's now, the truth is that Barack Obama quietly cut off the transfer of missiles to Israel while he was president.
But what Biden has done is totally different.
I mean, he's drawn a line in the sand and raised the possibility that under his leadership, the U.S. would cut off all military aid to Israel and try to genuinely coerce the Israelis.
And frankly, it's not going to work.
There's, by the way, a great story that I think was in the Wall Street Journal about Menachem Begin confronting Biden when Biden was the chairman of the Center Foreign Relations Committee and just saying to him, you know, you can do anything you want to to us.
We didn't survive the Holocaust.
We didn't create Israel.
The actual quote is this, don't threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles.
I'm not a Jew with trembling knees.
I'm a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.
Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and others.
Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country.
We paid for it.
We fought for it.
We died for it.
We will stand by our principles.
We will defend them.
And when necessary, we will die for them again with or without year aid.
That's Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, to Joe Biden in a Senate foreign relations meeting in 1982.
And it's clear that Biden has not learned anything.
Well, I mean, it was Bob Gates that said that on every foreign policy issue over the last four decades, that Joe Biden has gotten them wrong.
And it was Barack Obama who said famously that never underestimates Joe's ability to mess or F things up, to be very clear.
So we now find ourselves in a situation where Israel now has been abandoned.
And I think this has emboldened all of the, well, starting with Iran, every terrorist organization around the world.
I think it sent a terrible message to our allies.
America is not going to defend the cause of liberty and freedom anymore.
They've abdicated that role on the world stage.
I believe China and Russia and Iran and all of the most hostile actors in the world have taken note as well.
And I think this is a very precarious situation.
You've got to wonder, will Iran get the nuclear weapons the IAEA now says that they're getting close to getting?
They're actually claiming they have them.
I wouldn't be surprised if Russia or China assisted and helped them.
No, I think there's an axis of evil, as George W. Bush put it in 2001.
Unfortunately, Bush didn't understand what that meant and promptly forgot it.
But he was right.
And I think we have to recognize there are people out there who want to destroy our country.
I mean, I think one of the most interesting people right now is Chuck Schumer.
He is the senator for the city which has the largest number of Jewish population in the world, bigger than Tel Aviv, bigger than Jerusalem.
New York City is the center of Jewish population.
And yet he is so intimidated by the left that he is not standing up for Israel, and he's not doing what needs to get done.
And I'm really a little surprised.
I think that Biden is so wrong in cutting off military aid to Israel that I would think in a healthier world, the Congress on a bipartisan basis would force him to back down.
I mean, after all, they spent all these months getting the aid money through only to have Biden decide that he wouldn't send it.
And everything Biden said about how vital it was, how important it was, suddenly he's now mad at Bibi Netanyahu.
He doesn't want to send the money.
The truth is, where you and I, I think, would disagree totally with Biden, if you don't finish the job with Hamas, if you do what Biden would do and turn Raqqa into a terrorist sanctuary city, you're guaranteeing future efforts to destroy Israel.
And this is the moment to encourage the Israelis to get the job done, finish Hamas off, develop a policing system for Gaza that never again allows terrorists to dominate it, which will be, frankly, dramatically better for the Palestinians.
I mean, they're the people who have been robbed by Hamas.
It's their money that went to build all of these various tunnels, a tunnel system as big as the entire London underground tunnel system, all built with money stolen from the Palestinian people by Hamas.
So the strategy, if I'm reading it, Axios correctly, of the Democrats is going to be that, well, the border problem is actually the Republicans because they didn't support our bill in the last year.
And then you go back again to America's standing in the world, and their attitude is we're just going to lie, and we're just going to say Republicans are horrible, and they're racist and sexist and homophobic and xenophobic and Islamophobic and transphobic, and they want dirty air and water, and we are going to demand you get an electric car.
I mean, how does that work for them?
Well, look, I mean, first of all, they have to lie because if they tell the truth, they might as well go home and quit.
I mean, you're seeing the results, by the way.
I think part of the reason that both Nevada and Arizona have now shifted so decisively towards Trump is the combination of immigration and crime.
And I think that there's a very real sense that, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see New Mexico start moving into play because of the combination.
What about New Jersey for crying out loud?
That crowd was insane.
Didn't you and I once do an event at Wildwood years ago?
Did I do an event?
Well, no, we used to do Freedom Concerts.
That was at Six Flags in New Jersey, and we had some of the best events ever there.
You were a part of many of them.
You were great.
And I almost feel like starting him up again, but I can't say that.
I was going to say, you and I would draw like 15,000.
He drew between 25 and 100,000 people.
Do you remember the event we did in Georgia?
I mean, we packed some stadium.
I think it was in Gwinnett.
I mean, it was crazy.
We have Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable guy, and I think Leonard Skynyrd that year.
It was a lot of fun.
You were there with us, and we just had a great time doing them.
But no, I think the only people in New Jersey that can get that style crowd would be, let's see, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, and add Donald Trump to the list.
I looked at the crowd.
I couldn't believe it.
I mean, can you imagine you're sitting there in court?
The other guys are doing everything they can to lie about you, to defame you, as he points out, to keep you literally in the cold.
And you go out and you do an event like that that is so dominant that it just washes away everything the left's trying to do.
I mean, is every paradigm off the table this year?
I mean, is it absurd to think that maybe New Jersey could be in play?
No, I think, look, I am an old-fashioned optimist.
I think by the time people really get done thinking about this, remember, Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter by the largest electoral vote that any incumbent president had ever lost by.
Because all of a sudden, people look around and go, particularly if you start thinking about a vote for Biden is probably a vote for Kamala Harris to be president.
I mean, just given Biden's capabilities, if you vote for Biden, you're almost certainly voting for Kamala Harris to be president.
The number of people in America willing to do that is, I think, surprisingly small.
It really, really is amazing.
All right, quick break.
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Now, let's take a worst case scenario, and Donald Trump gets convicted in this New York case.
Does that have any impact on this race?
Yes.
Because I don't think he can get a fair trial at all in New York or D.C. or Fulton County, Georgia, for that matter.
But I don't think those cases will be brought before the election.
But do you think a conviction in this ridiculous case in New York has any impact on the race?
Well, I only think it'll lead to an effort to get people who are capable, like Congressman Zeldon, to take on the entire corruption of New York, and it may put both New Jersey and New York in play.
I mean, there's a level of sickening corruption going on here that the average person has to think is just profoundly wrong.
And I don't think anybody who is for Trump would believe if Trump were convicted in this trial.
And frankly, the witnesses have been so pathetic.
Their arguments have been so dishonest.
The case itself, I mean, every independent lawyer who's looked at it has said that Bragg brought a case that clearly doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist.
There's no law.
There's no justification for this.
And I will tell you, weaponization, they have gone so far overboard that I believe it's boomerang back against them.
And I think they're too dumb to know it yet.
But that's what I mean when I say he defies all conventional political gravity on paper.
Nobody would be going through what Donald Trump goes through and watch their poll numbers go higher every time they do it to him.
It just doesn't happen.
If I would have told you that in the 90s, you would have laughed at me.
Sure.
But I think part of it, I'm not sure President Trump wants me to say this, but part of it's not Trump.
Part of it is the American people for whom he is a symbol that they are for because they are so pissed off at an establishment that is so corrupt, so dishonest, so left-wing that it infuriates them.
I think you're right.
So they turned to Trump.
If Trump had a reasonable opposition, he would not have this kind of strength.
But what's happening is they are driving the left and Biden are driving the American people to Donald Trump.
And he is becoming the symbol of the only alternative strong enough to break the old order.
Wow.
Powerful statement.
Anyway, Newt 360, wherever you get your podcast.
And you haven't had me on in a while.
Are you mad at me or something?
What's up with that?
I just said you're so busy.
What do you mean I'm so busy?
When would I ever say no to you?
That's never happening.
Well, it's okay.
But we'll be checking in with Linda in the next day.
Okay.
I just noticed.
I haven't been.
Although last time we did digress into like old war stories about our past together, and maybe we didn't even talk about anything substantive.
Anyway, Speaker Gingrich, love having you, my friend.
Thank you, as always.
And your insight is keen and your historical perspective second to none.
We appreciate your time, as always.
Take care.
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Well, last week it was your giggling vice president laughing while discussing women's reproductive health and fallopian tubes.
Listen, can't make it up.
It was a long day, and the press was there.
And I said, let me just tell you, you guys are going to have to be ready for this.
Ready for certain language.
And I said very loudly, ovaries.
Fallopian and fallopian tubes, right?
Uterus.
Fibroids.
Thank you.
It was the funniest thing for me, at least.
Now, over the weekend, I mentioned this earlier.
Kamala Harris speaking at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.
And anyway, legislative leadership, she got the crowd fired up.
She actually dropped the F-bomb while urging attendees to break barriers.
So here's the thing about breaking barriers.
Breaking barriers does not mean you start on one side of the barrier.
You end up on the other side of the barrier.
There's breaking involved.
And when you break things, well, you get cut and you may bleed.
And it's worth it every time, every time she begins.
Anyway, here's what she was talking about.
Breaking barriers.
We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open.
Sometimes they won't.
And then you need to kick that door down.
Excuse my language.
Yes, you're ever so smart, giggling VP.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
I know a lot of you being very, very patient here.
Tom, Texas, on the Sean Hannity Show.
Tom, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thanks, thanks.
I was just wondering why Trump won't consider Mike Pompeo for his VP.
I'm looking at it.
He's a CIA director, Harvard Law School graduate, Secretary of State, United States military.
He finished valedictorian at West Point.
He finished first in his class at West Point.
And he was four years tank commander in West Germany.
He's got class all over him.
And I'm one guy that's not really into this gender or race card picking people.
That kind of backfired in Georgia with Herschel Walker.
And I was just wondering if there's some bad blood between Mike Pompeo and Trump.
What say you?
I say that there's not bad blood.
And I'll make a prediction here and now.
If Donald Trump is elected in 175 days, Mike Pompeo is going to play a major role in his administration.
I've known, going back to his congressional days, I've known Congressman Mike Pompeo for a long time.
I've knew him as CIA director.
I've known him as Secretary of State.
I've seen him abroad in places like Singapore, Vietnam, Helsinki for crying out loud.
So I know him really, really well.
You're right, smart as a whip.
I think he probably is under consideration for VP.
And I think he brings a real sense of, you know, how do you say gravitas?
I don't love the word, but that would be appropriate for him.
And he's brilliant.
And he's, you know, maybe for people that worry about, well, Donald Trump might do it, which, by the way, is a good fear for our enemies abroad to have.
He's the guy that kind of brings, you know, steadies the ship a little bit in some people's minds.
So it might balance out Trump a little bit.
But yeah, I think he's under consideration for a major role in the next Trump administration.
And I hope it happens.
Let Kamala Harris get in charge of 3,500 nuclear weapons.
No way we can let that happen.
Well, you got 175 days to tell everybody you know.
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Anyway, Tom, appreciate the call.
Happy Monday to you.
On the same topic, the free state of Florida, John in Florida will stay in Florida.
What's going on, John?
Newt was talking about all the corruption in this administration, and I was wondering what ever happened with the tens of millions of dollars that the Biden syndicate has been raking in for children, grandchildren, relatives, friends, and why isn't he being impeached?
Well, there's still a lot of work to do.
Number one, I know there'll be a report, certainly, if not a full report, an interim report coming.
I think the evidence has been overwhelming and incontrovertible.
We know Joe Biden lied when he said he never talked to his son, brother, or anybody for that matter about their foreign business deals.
We know that he met with them, many of them.
We know he called in, you know, to a lot of the business meetings.
And then, of course, the big quid pro and quo, which took place, which is Joe going against Obama administration policy, interagency policy, and leveraging the billion dollars that had been approved for loan guarantees for Ukraine,
leveraging it, giving the Ukrainians six hours to fire a prosecutor that we now know was looking into Barisma Holdings, the oil and gas giant in Ukraine, of which was paying his son, who went on Good Morning America and admitted he had no experience at all whatsoever, but was being paid millions of dollars and at a time when he was an admitted crack addict.
Makes sense to nobody.
And why nobody in the mainstream media mob cares?
We know why, because they're political.
The evidence to me is overwhelming.
It is incontrovertible.
And let's see what happens.
They're going to be, now, Republicans have a problem.
They have a one-vote lead in the House.
They don't have a big enough majority.
And unfortunately, for Republicans in the House, there are too many rhino-weak Republicans that won't go along with the impeachment inquiry.
They think that will hurt their reelection chances.
And for them, it's all about, I guess, political power and survival.
And they're not willing to, you know, take a stand for what I believe would be the right thing to do.
So we'll talk to Corey Mills at the top of the hour about his impeachment push.
We'll see.
All right, back to our busy phones.
Rhonda, Louisiana, next, Sean Hannity Show.
Rhonda, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Mr. Hannity.
Yeah, I wanted to make a little comment about the VP and who I think he should pick.
Now, I don't know what the qualifications are for a VP, but I sure would like him to pick one of his children, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka.
I mean, any of them.
I don't think that's even on the table, and probably for good reason for their sake, but I just don't think that's going to happen.
However, I mean, you know, I mean, I'm fond of all of them, and I get along great with all of them.
So, you know, I have no problem with it.
Would the left flip over if he was to announce Don Jr.
as a VP?
I think their head would explode.
Yeah, I do.
That would be, oh, my God.
And I have a couple other things.
And with Flynn, Mike Flynn, I think he should run.
What about Laura Trump?
Yeah, her too.
You can add her to the list.
Anyway, go ahead.
We can keep going all day.
What do you want about Mike Flynn?
Rick Grinnell.
I think Mike Grinnell.
I like Rick Grinnell, too.
I think he would be a part of any Trump administration moving forward, and he'd play a very pivotal role.
I said about Flynn, I wish he could be Secretary of State.
I think he's a smart guy.
He knows where all the dirt is.
But, yeah, I think that's my opinion on far as the VP.
But I wish there would be one reporter, one conservative reporter that would stand up and not necessarily call Joe Biden a liar, but announce it.
I mean, you can say it in a nice way.
Now, sir, you know that.
I'll say it.
Joe Biden's a liar.
He lied when he said he never talked to his son, brother, or anybody for that matter about their foreign business dealings.
There you go.
He's a liar.
I said it.
I would like for even somebody to tell the cringe, the KJP, I call her cringe, one of them to ask her, how do you feel about being, you wasn't hired on intellect or merit.
You were hired in DEMA.
How do you feel about that?
What would her company?
You hired what?
You're talking about DEI.
Got it.
She wasn't hired on merit or intellect.
Look, I mean, honestly, I'm a hire the right person for the job kind of guy.
That's it.
You know, it just so happens that the executive producer of this radio show is a woman.
Now, did I choose Linda because Linda is a woman?
No.
Linda is just the best person for the job.
Period, end of sentence.
I have an executive producer on television that happens to be a woman.
Did I pick her because she's a woman?
No, she's the best person for the job.
Is that fair, Linda?
Is that a compliment?
Yes, thank you very much.
I appreciate being judged for my abilities and not my God-given gender.
I mean, it's not a thought for me.
I don't know why it is for so many other people.
Listen, I'm telling you that all HR departments, all this DEI stuff could be wiped away, and you could have an HR book with one page in it.
And it could be optional, part one, which is the golden rule.
Love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul.
Love your fellow workers as yourself.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Case closed.
And if people would respect other people that way, it'd be a better world and the work environment would be a better place.
And, you know, you get the job based on merit, based on your ability, and you keep the job based on your work ethic.
You know, what I have found in life is, and Linda, you can back me up on this.
I don't really fire people.
People end up firing themselves almost every single solitary time.
Can you think of anybody that, and there really aren't a lot of people, actually, you know, can you, I can't think of anybody that I fired for any of the reason that they fired themselves.
I give them every opportunity I can to, if something's not working right.
I mean, most people that work on the show, unless they leave because they move or they get married or whatever, you know, everybody's kind of here and does their thing.
I mean, there's only been a few people who have really, they just tried really hard to get fired and they succeeded.
You know, but as the rule, they were the exception.
It's not a question.
I bet you love Bernie Sanders' proposal to get paid the same amount of money and you only work 32 hours a week.
I bet you'd love that gig.
Who is working 32 hours a week is what I want to know.
I mean, I can't believe that we've done our jobs in 40 hours.
It's a non-stop.
Okay, so I'm on, all right, I work, I'm on the air 20 hours a week, and I put, you know, five hours in for every hour I'm on the air minimum.
It's insane.
It is insane.
How many times this weekend did text come rolling in for me about story ideas and different things I wanted to make everybody aware of?
Yeah, it's all the time.
And you're either in a story.
You never stop.
I'm not.
People are just lazy, man.
They're so lazy.
I don't get it.
I don't roll that way.
I just don't.
Bernie Sanders has never worked, so, you know, he's not planning on doing that.
Yeah, that's a good point.
We have a minute for Michelle in Alabama.
Michelle, how are you?
You got about a minute.
Make a count.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
I am.
I'm an educator for 25 years, and I have taught sixth grade through master's level in college.
And one of my biggest gripes right now on not just your show, but just news media in general, are how these protesters on college campuses are being called kids.
You know what?
I'm guilty of that.
You're right.
And I'm going to tell you, I mean, even in my own mind, I mean, my children are now becoming adults.
And in my own mind, I've not made the complete shift.
Maybe it's, I just can't, they're adults.
I mean, I hate the fact.
I mean, I don't even want to know what they do sometimes.
You know, when kids go to college, you don't want to know?
I just don't want to know.
You don't.
And I don't want to know about some of my high school students either.
But calling them kids, in my mind, reduces their culpability.