Sean Hannity Show - A Democracy If You Can Keep It - July 1st, Hour 1

July 2, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show

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A Democracy If You Can Keep It - July 1st, Hour 1

Rose Tennent fills in for the vacationing Hannity and looks toward July 4th and how important it is to protect our freedom and our Democracy. This great experiment, America, is still strong because of our Constitution and our people. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	Thank you for joining me today as I guest host for Sean Hannity, who has taken the week off to celebrate the nation's birthday.
	That's my kind of guy.
	I believe in celebrating birthdays at least for a week.
	At least for a week.
	My name is Rose.
	And as you know, I love spending time with Sean's audience.
	You guys are the cream of the crop.
	I'm so glad to be here with you today.
	You know, of course, of course, everything happens at one time for me.
	My printer broke this morning.
	My garage door stopped working.
	And I do want to say thanks to Hellbender Printing because they helped me out at the last minute.
	They put me to the front of the line so I could get my printing done.
	And they didn't help me with my garage door, but hey, what, you know, they're a printing company.
	So thanks, Hellbender.
	You guys are awesome.
	I appreciate that.
	I love being here.
	The phone number, because I'm sure you're going to weigh in or at least want to on a lot of different subjects today.
	The phone number here is 1-800-941-Sean, 800-941-Sean.
	And, you know, there's a lot of just a lot going on.
	And I have some great guests to really talk about it.
	But I have a really special guest I'm excited about today.
	Kelsey Grammer is joining me.
	And we're going to talk about a very special memorial.
	And then we're going to talk too about his new show that he's doing on Fox Nation.
	So we'll talk to him.
	Then also my buddy Pastor Jack Hibbs is joining us.
	Sabin Howard is the master sculptor for that National World War I memorial.
	We'll talk to him.
	I've seen the memorial.
	I was in England last week to take a look at it.
	Fabulous, unbelievable.
	We'll talk more about that coming up.
	And of course, Greg Jarrett, because he's got to explain to all of us everything that's going on today.
	So before we get started with the show, though, I do my monologue.
	Now, there's some portions of it we've talked about before on here I've talked about, but I just want to bring it all together because this is the nation's birthday, right?
	And this 4th of July should serve as a reminder that we have been given a very special gift, a gift of freedom by way of a republic.
	But that freedom, that republic is holding on by a thread and you know it.
	Our nation is in great need of healing and every one of us are the solution to its healing.
	No one else, nothing else.
	Every effort must be made to preserve our Constitution and our liberties and it must be made by us.
	And I know that as you consider the state of affairs in America, and let's be honest, throughout the globe, you're dismayed and you're discouraged.
	And I share that dismay with you and that discouragement.
	I really do.
	Because those who have been charged to protect our Constitution and our liberties have failed us.
	Let's think about this.
	The year was 1787.
	The place was the state house in Philadelphia, the same location the Declaration of Independence was signed 11 years earlier.
	It was over four months, four months, people, that 55 delegates met and deliberated over the process.
	They sacrificed that time, that part of their lives, so that they could frame a constitution for a federal republic.
	God bless them.
	When Benjamin Franklin, and you know this story, left Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention had come to an end on that final day of deliberation in 1787, a woman stopped him to ask, well, doctor, what have we got?
	A republic or a monarchy?
	And Franklin said, and you know the answer to this, a republic if you can keep it.
	I truly believe that is the challenge that we face today.
	We have been given a republic.
	Can we keep it?
	We must keep it.
	And you know, by the way, it was Franklin who reminded us that freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but rather a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
	And that is an important point when one considers that God, not man, is the author of our freedom.
	Then, if you believe that, and if everyone believed that, then no man can take that freedom away.
	It is a gift from God and God alone.
	When we enter this week of our nation's birthday, we owe it to our founding fathers, this life of ours, a life that's dedicated to preserving our Constitution, a Constitution that provides for freedom for all.
	And we've got to be willing to put in whatever time and energy is necessary to ensure a free and prosperous future for other generations, for generations of people that you know what?
	You're never going to know.
	Not just your kids, your grandkids, and their grandkids, but then their grandkids and so forth.
	Generations of people you will never see, faces you will never see, names you will never call out.
	Guess what?
	It was done for us.
	They didn't know us, but they knew that future generations would benefit from what they did for us.
	Can't we now do the same?
	Honestly, we're in this amazing time in the history of our nation.
	Do you realize that we're living in a time in history with an opportunity that seldom presents itself?
	It's an opportunity to do something great, something almost as great as what our founding fathers had done for us.
	They established our freedoms as they saw them handed down by God.
	Now we are being called upon to uphold and protect those freedoms as they have never been so severely threatened since they were first proclaimed those 248 years ago this week.
	What a calling we have.
	What an opportunity.
	We must share that knowledge that we have, the history of this great nation with others, inform them, educate them.
	But this opportunity that we have right now, it is a fleeting opportunity.
	I truly believe that.
	Just as it was in the early days of July in 1776, exactly 248 years ago, and I've talked about this before on this show, in fact, Continental Congress was to embark on the most radical event of all time.
	13 colonies were going to become a new nation.
	They declared that the name of that newly formed nation that was fighting for its independence from Great Britain would be the United States.
	And at that time, in 1776 in July, everyone in the room agreed, Continental Congress, they all believed that it needed to be done, that they had to declare independence from this tyrannical rule that was suffocating them.
	It was the timing that caused them to hesitate.
	And I've asked you this, who can blame them?
	Who could blame them?
	Because once they made that declaration of independence from that king, they were putting everything at risk.
	Their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
	And that required great courage.
	It was their hesitation, though, that threatened to delay the process.
	We can't afford to hesitate.
	Were they ready for the ramifications?
	Not really.
	And being able to read the room, John Witherspoon stood up.
	He made a long speech.
	I'm only going to give you part of it.
	He said, there is a tide in the affairs of men.
	We perceive it now before us.
	To hesitate is to consent to our own slavery.
	Don't you have that same sense of a fleeting opportunity?
	I do.
	You know, when Witherspoon was done, the delegates then all approved the Declaration.
	And historians tell us, if anybody reads history books anymore, historians tell us that many of those men, having immediately recognized the magnitude of what they had just done, wept openly.
	They wept while others bowed their heads in prayer.
	So you've got these very smart men who gave us our freedom, these very articulate men who knew how to spell out the case for that freedom, these very brave men who knew that this was dangerous business, this independence.
	They wept.
	These spiritual men who knew that God and God alone was the author of their faith and freedom, they bowed before him.
	Because they were once slaves to an oppressive government, they wept because now there might be freedom.
	And somehow I can't get over the idea that if they could see us right now, they would weep once more.
	Because who wants it to be said of us that we were once free, but now, again, slaves to an oppressive government?
	God forbid.
	But we find ourselves in every bit of a crisis that our founding fathers found themselves.
	And just as Paine's time, as in his time, we find ourselves in a struggle.
	We know, just like he did, that what we obtain too cheap, he said, we esteem too lightly.
	Wow, think about that.
	It's what we care for most lovingly that has the greatest value.
	If I asked you what it was that you value most that you want to leave as an inheritance to your children, what would that be?
	I just went through all of that when our father passed away.
	Would it be an antique, a sports car, a beautiful home, precious metals, stocks?
	Or, or should it be something more precious, like liberty?
	Shouldn't we desire to secure that inheritance for them, for their children, and then theirs?
	I'm going to read, I always love ending with something from Ronald Reagan.
	And these are his words from the third State of the Union speech.
	And I hope that you can take solace in them and that you will take courage in them and be incentivized by them, for they are as true today as they were when he first spoke them.
	He said, how can we not believe in the greatness of America?
	How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on earth?
	After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for the future, after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every single citizen, we cannot, must not, and will not turn back.
	We will finish our job.
	How could we do less?
	We are Americans.
	Please, today, this week, remember her greatness, America's greatness this week.
	How can we do less?
	Because we are Americans.
	How can we not do what is right and what is needed?
	We'll be back with lots more on the Hannity Show.
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	We've been in political media for a long time.
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	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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	You know, I didn't get to finish to, there were some other things I, one of the other things that Ronald Reagan said in that speech is he quoted Carl Sandberg.
	And Carl Sandberg said, I see America not in the setting sun of a black night of despair.
	I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun, fresh from the burning creative hand of God.
	I see great days ahead for men and women of will and vision.
	And ladies and gentlemen, I know because I get like that too.
	I get discouraged by what I see.
	I mean, we are like so far away from where we once were.
	And we don't teach our children.
	The schools don't.
	Even we are negligent in many ways in terms of teaching them about the greatness of America.
	It's okay.
	It's okay because she was great because in that same speech, he said, we will carry on the tradition of a good and worthy people who have brought light where there was darkness.
	We did that.
	Warmth where there was cold, that.
	Medicine where there was a disease, that.
	And food where there was hunger.
	And peace where there was only bloodshed.
	We can be great.
	We can think about those words that Ronald Reagan spoke.
	And I know so many times we say, ah, we're so far past that.
	Girl, we are gone.
	There's no coming back.
	Well, you know what?
	You don't know what God wants to do.
	No one knew what he was going to do with this nation in the first place.
	And one of the things that we'll talk about later with Pastor Jack Hibbs is just to encourage you, encourage you about how this country was founded on such godly principles by godly men and women who wanted everyone to just live a free and prosperous life.
	That was their hope for themselves and for future generations.
	So I say there is, you know, and there's this really great thing that's going on.
	And it was started by the Tennessee governor 31 days starting today of prayer and fasting.
	Whenever you can fast, do it.
	I love fasting.
	It's awesome.
	But the prayer part, we can all commit to one another to be involved in that.
	Pray for our nation.
	Pray for each other individually.
	Those things are tough sometimes.
	There's a lot of people that tell me that, you know, they run out of paycheck way before they run out of month.
	And that is a story I hear over and over and over again.
	So anyway, I hope this show encourages you today.
	That is my intent.
	I want you to be encouraged because you never know.
	You never know, but we have collectively got to come together, have that positive attitude, and remember the greatness of America.
	All right.
	So check us out.
	And feel free to call in.
	Coming up next, Kelsey Grammer.
	Lots to talk about with him.
	Fun new show that he has.
	All right.
	Welcome back to the Hannity Show.
	And my name is Rose.
	So glad to be here with all of you.
	And I look forward to your input.
	And Kelsey Grammer is due to be on soon.
	Apparently, he's on stage at the moment.
	So we'll just stand by for him if that's okay with everybody.
	It's certainly okay with me.
	He has a brand new docuseries.
	It starts this week.
	It's four parts.
	And I can't wait to talk to him about it because it's about George Washington.
	It's called Rise of a Revolutionary.
	And I got to tell you, George Washington, I mean, here we've been talking about great leadership in this country and those who encourage us and incite us to do the right thing.
	And George Washington was has got to be one of the best, right?
	You know, one of the other things that I recall is learning that he was so beloved by those who served under him in the army, but also he was beloved by the country itself.
	The entire country really loved him so much so that they wanted him to become king.
	And then I thought, just how easily we forget.
	Am I right?
	You just got yourself one, you're winning yourself freedom from tyrannical rule.
	And we don't want a monarchy, we want a republic.
	And then they're like, hey, why don't you be our president, our king?
	But that's so typical.
	That is truly human nature, isn't it?
	So, one of the things I want to talk to him about is the World War I Memorial.
	Now, this is really neat too, because we have a national World War I memorial.
	Now, we haven't had it before, but we do have it right now.
	And I'm really excited about it.
	And we're going to be talking about that, in fact, right now.
	But it is the first time that we've had one.
	It will be installed in Washington, D.C., in Pershing Park in September, September 13th, to be exact.
	Joining me today is award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer.
	And he's got this fabulous docusery that's coming out this week.
	It's called George, Rise of a Revolutionary, four-part combination of commentary, dramatic recreation.
	And he is not only acting in it or narrating it, but he's executive producer.
	So that's pretty exciting.
	And he shares with me the love of this beautiful monument that's going to be installed in September.
	So welcome to the show, Kelsey Grammer.
	How are you?
	Hi, I'm very well.
	How are you?
	I'm doing well too.
	Listen, I'm sorry I missed you in England, but I was in Stroud last week and I got to see, isn't it?
	It's really breathtaking.
	It's really something I'm going to, when I first saw it, I saw them sort of halfway through about a year and a half ago.
	And it just grabbed at my heart and made me proud.
	Might sing the praises of Saban Howard, of course.
	But I mean, it is such an ambitious project and it's such a fitting monument to the sacrifices of our family members, you know, from years before, of course.
	But, you know, that's our heritage there, standing there in that picture.
	And it is the responsibility of freedom.
	It's a beautiful, beautiful piece.
	It was so many people.
	Kelsey wept right in front of that monument when we looked at it when it was unveiled in England.
	And why did it touch you so much?
	Because I know that you've been a great supporter of his all the way through the project.
	Why?
	Yeah, I just, you know, and it's one of my favorite bits of statuary is a very similar one, and I believe it's about World War I as well.
	That's along that Fifth Avenue walkway off of Central Park of the soldiers that they're kind of going over the top, I think is what you know what they used to call it when they'd go into battle.
	But when Sabin and his group of friends sort of approached me about it, it made me think of that.
	And then they showed me a sort of a maquette of a smaller version of what the wall was going to be.
	And it just took my breath away.
	I also have a young man, I was a young boy, actually, when I was about maybe 11 or 12, but I met a man who actually served in World War I.
	And he told me stories of when they would get the order to go over the top.
	And days before, like, for instance, on Christmas Day, they'd exchanged gifts with the soldiers.
	And then we're ordered to go over and try to kill them.
	Oh my God.
	It's an extraordinarily strange, exotic way of conducting a war.
	And, of course, you know, a lot of people died.
	And then thankfully, you know, I mean, the Spanish flu probably helped put an end to it as well as the fact that finally men were finally saying, we're not going to do this anymore.
	I agree with you.
	I agree.
	And, you know, and Sabin is joining me later today on the show, so I'm excited about that.
	And thank you for your support of him and his great work.
	We're going to talk about it in great detail.
	But I was reading today that you've got this docuseries.
	So we're talking about World War I Memorial, which, of course, wasn't meant, according to Sabin, to glorify war, not at all, but rather the humanity and the suffering and the sacrifice that's attached to that horrific war, as you just said.
	But one of the things that he spoke of was that sacrifice.
	And then you talk about George Washington in this new docuseries.
	I have to tell you, he is one of my favorites.
	I've always been fascinated with him.
	What did you find most fascinating?
	Well, George has been a constant source of fascination for me since I first heard about him, you know, chopping down the cherry tree.
	Everybody knows that may be some sort of an apocryphal thing.
	I mean, I don't really know.
	It's just a story that's told.
	But it does point to a guy who was willing to stand up for what he knew was right.
	And that is what I believe George Washington taught us in many, many ways and in extraordinary ways.
	This show focuses a bit more on his impetuosity and his youthfulness and his ego and pride and the hurdles he had to kind of suffer through when he was a young man in the employ of the British military.
	But his hopes and aspirations, of course, were dashed by what was, you know, a presumption of well, it's a mediocrity, I think, is what happened.
	I think the Brits actually at the time really looked down on anybody from America, which maybe hasn't changed that much.
	You know, he was so, you talk about his pride.
	He was so widely liked and loved that they wanted him to become king.
	But he did, I mean, he did put his pride aside because he did understand that, hey, wait a minute, we just got away from a monarchy trying to establish a republic, and I'll pass on the kingship.
	Thank you very much.
	Kings thanked.
	I mean, there may be one king, that would be Jesus.
	That was sort of the only thing they ever really sort of still saluted was the idea that there was a Christ and that God gave us rights, not governments.
	And that's what he fought and died for.
	I mean, he didn't die, of course, in that context, but he fell on his sword in many ways because he actually said, I'm giving up my generalship.
	A man who's in the army should not be the leader of the nation.
	He set examples about conduct that honestly, it's hard to find any that would match him anywhere in our history.
	And what may have been read as arrogance, and what now they try to tell us is arrogance.
	His insistence that American policy be based upon what's good for America and not what's good for the rest of the world is still being argued over.
	But he was a rabid American leader, and he was not going to take advice or instruction from anybody but the people of the United States.
	And that's what I still admire to this day.
	Same here.
	And I love that you brought up his faith because it's been said of him that he sustained an army, but that God sustained him.
	And he truly led a very faithful life.
	And do you cover any of that in the docuseries?
	It's not front and center on it.
	But I always try to give a kind of an advisory notion whenever I speak about George.
	He has always, throughout his history, reminded people that if you thought we won this war without the help of God or providence or divine intervention, then you're just crazy.
	Because it was impossible.
	Oh, it was.
	The hardships that they went through.
	And I remember one of the quotes he had for his army.
	He said, I feel super abundantly for them.
	And from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.
	I mean, he was brokenhearted over what they had to experience at Valley Forge, especially.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	He's a remarkable guy.
	Empathetic, but also with a real vision that, you know.
	could not measure anything but the goal, you know, in times of suffering.
	You just still have to keep your eye on the goal.
	Amen.
	Yeah.
	Well, you, so this docuseries goes, it goes out this week, Fox Nation.
	Am I right?
	Yes, yes, Fox Nation.
	Congratulations on that.
	I have to just say real quick, favorite episode with you on cheers, Frederick's first word, Norm.
	That was the cutest thing.
	Anyway, you are a very talented man, and you're very gracious with your time, and we appreciate that.
	Bless you.
	Nice talking with you.
	Thank you.
	Same here.
	Take care.
	All right, Kelsey Grammar.
	Don't forget, he's got his docuseries.
	It's starting this week on Fox Nation, and it's all about George, rise of a revolutionary.
	And they say that they kind of take a look at some of the things in a new way where George Washington is concerned.
	And they expose some of the lesser known facts about the father of our country.
	And George Washington, you know, and it's just so appropriate that we had Kelsey on right now to talk about that briefly.
	And that we are talking about the things that we are today.
	Because these are all, we talk about sacrifices that were made for the good, things that people have gone through.
	I mean, like when Kelsey brought up, you know, I remember reading those stories about people on the front line and, you know, they would stop.
	The war would stop for a while on Christmas Day.
	And as he said, some of them were exchanging gifts.
	Then they had to turn around and fight each other.
	Such craziness.
	But, you know, when it comes down to all of it, and this is one of the things that Saban Howard, the sculptor that's going to be on later today, that Kelsey and I were talking about.
	But one of the things, you know, that he said, it's not, it's just about good leadership.
	People, with good leadership, you know, hopefully we can avoid some of those things again in the future.
	That's what we need is strong leadership.
	We're going to come back.
	We'll talk about some of the things that people have been weighing in on the debate.
	So we'll definitely talk about that.
	Also, I wanted to just share with you some of the things I learned too about the border because that seemed to be a hot topic at the time of the debate.
	And I just want to go over some facts.
	And we'll do all of that.
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	Anyway, Gary is calling from Michigan.
	Hey, Gary, what's going on?
	Hi, Rose.
	I just wanted to tell you that I totally agree with your introduction to the show today in regards to the founding fathers.
	My sixth great-grandfather was Benjamin Franklin.
	Oh, get out.
	No, it's a fact.
	I am so so convinced that him and all of the founding fathers would be so disgusted.
	what is going on today in America.
	For everything they gave us, but I just, I'm amazed, you know, that all the laws that have been passed, unconstitutional laws, all this stuff.
	But here we are today with a person sitting in the Oval Office that is Well, Gary, and let me, I'm going to just say, because I don't have a lot of time here, but since you're a relative of Ben Franklin's, I think it's interesting that when that woman asked him what we have, is it a monarchy or a republic?
	And he answered so wisely, Gary, and I'm going to let you go because I'm going to take the other Gary.
	But and God bless you.
	So wisely, he answered, a republic, if you can keep it.
	He knew.
	I believe they knew that this was something quite unique.
	It was something quite remarkable.
	And it did last 248 years, by the way.
	But he understood, you know, it was something that we had to keep.
	If you can keep it, you can keep it.
	Not fate or anything else.
	Gary from New Hampshire.
	Oh, it's an honor to be on the show, Rose.
	And George Washington, our greatest president and an unbelievable man.
	One of the men who's responsible for Western civilization is a couple other guys, Charles Martell and Christopher Columbus.
	Yes.
	With inflation, right?
	A lot of people aren't infected by it because they have what's called debit food stamp cards and they just buy.
	Or credit cards.
	People are using their credit cards, Gary, like crazy.
	Right?
	Right.
	Those are the people who are working.
	They really are hurting right now.
	They are.
	Flip side of that.
	The flip side of it is people who get free food from the government.
	The food stamps they get, they pay with the debit card in the supermarkets and all the different stores.
	Yes.
	But Gary, hold on one second.
	I would say, because we're running out of time, but I would suggest that you make a point here, but I would suggest that they are running even out of that.
	And I noticed that you said you want to say how much will impact the election.
	Interestingly enough, as much as people are hurting and running out of paycheck before they due month, interestingly enough, Gary, they're saying that the border is their biggest concern.
	I thought that was interesting.
	I'm guessing, and I'm sorry, Gary, I have to go.
	They're talking in my ear.
	But you're a doll.
	Thank you.
	Happy 4th of July week.
	I am guessing that people feel like, hey, I'll try to make it through this.
	I'll make some cutbacks.
	But the thing that I cannot control, I cannot control what's happening in the border.
	I cannot control the crime as a result and everything else that we're seeing as a result.
	I think that has a lot to do with it.
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