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July 17, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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All right, let's get it simple, man.
And I can only mean one thing on this radio program, all things simple, man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly.
All things Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly off a big appearance with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.
Very, very interesting discussion, very entertaining.
As a matter of fact, let's play a little segment from the exchange.
Do you believe then that the political rhetoric?
I mean, John Wilkes Booth was clearly a political actor, no, but he was also mentally ill.
Well, John Wilkes Booth was a fanatical conservative and racist who hated Lincoln.
Good thing that's gone out of the country.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
No, I know.
I was saying it too.
I'm saying that's right.
We were both saying it simultaneously.
No, we're obviously sharing that opinion.
We're simpatico.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
Don't throw Latin.
I'm sorry.
If you Google Stuart and I. Ships passing in a night.
It's real.
We are able to disagree without hating each other.
Now, I truly hate him, but I don't show it.
You hold it very well.
I don't open it.
No, absolutely.
So Biden made a good point last night in the Lester Holt interview when he said, what am I supposed to do?
Not criticize Trump?
Because I feel like I'm not sure.
I feel he's the third Reich.
You know, okay.
You know, he didn't say that.
But no.
But he was thinking it, Stewart.
He was thinking, and I could read it.
Stop monetizing your anger.
So anyway, stop.
I don't like it.
I don't like it one day.
Criticism is good.
Robust debate is good.
I like coming on here in front of all of your friends out here.
And the audience should know I have no friends here.
Okay?
My friends.
Well, not just here.
Well, I'm giving him that one.
All right.
Okay.
You're saying, why didn't Biden do it?
I'm not going to hear it.
That was a very poor impression of how I could say it.
I don't want to do it.
That's not too bad.
Okay.
All right.
So my job as a journalist is to say, oh, when did you get that job?
You really make it too easy.
I thought they both gave back and forth.
It was very interesting.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
You know, I'm not as busy as you, but close, close.
Well, you should be here in, well, if you're listening to Linda Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Why are you not here?
You should be here.
Well, number one, don't make fun of Linda.
I mean, she can disconnect you anytime.
Thank you, Bill.
Smart man.
Number two, I've covered, what, 10 of these things, and they make me nervous.
What do you mean they've been for you?
It's too much for me, Hannity.
There's yelling, screaming, there's hats, there's funny battles.
There's hats, there's balloons, those things scare you?
What is wrong with you?
You know, you're socially awkward.
I think you need to hang out with me more.
I think I can bring the good side of Bill O'Reilly out in front of a crowd.
I think that would be a good thing if we hung out together and I walked you through the RNC convention.
Now, there used to be a day where I would walk with Bob Becko through the Republican and Democratic National Convention on the floor.
I don't think that can happen anymore, Bill.
I think if I go on the Democrat, if I'm in Chicago and I'm on the floor of the DNC, I don't know if that's going to end very well.
What do you think?
No, I agree with you, and that's why I did the Stewart thing last night.
And to his credit, to Jon Stewart's credit.
And by the way, I'll hang out with you anytime, Hannity.
I would lose what little social standing I have by doing it.
I'll do that because you usually pick up the lunch tab, number one.
Not usually, always, Bill.
And I'm always, it's an honor to do it.
We've had some great lunches together, and I don't mind doing that at all.
Yeah, and I keep the, I don't know what a dessert or an appetizer, so I'm keeping it under control.
So I got to give Stewart a lot of credit because there is a blackball, not only against me, but it's against you.
It's about anybody who's ever said a kind word about Donald Trump.
So Colbert, for example, the worst defender at all, he just should be paid by the Democratic National Committee.
He's got Elizabeth Warren on.
Now, this is the Republican Convention Week.
There isn't one Republican or traditionalist or conservative, not one in the country that Colbert can talk to.
I don't mind Elizabeth Warren being on any show, but he will not bring in anyone.
And that is across the board.
That is Kimmel.
That is Fallon.
That is Good Morning America.
Well, look, the exposition that we had on the Daily Show last night is now, I don't know, worldwide.
But I just take the podcast, an hour podcast with Stewart.
Had it go.
You need to watch this.
This is one of the best political debates you will ever see because I came in locked and loaded because I know where Stewart's coming from.
I know where he's going.
And we had the time, uninterrupted, no commercials, none of that.
Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And I'm going to drop it on billoreilly.com tomorrow.
And it'll be all over the place.
Everybody will be watching it.
Oh, Bill, if you're on it, the whole world will watch, Bill.
Right.
But in the end.
Go ahead.
In the end, we're making fun of each other, just as you said.
There's no bitterness.
We're not trying to destroy each other or hurt each other.
We are just putting forth our points of view.
And if everybody would do that, but here's something else interesting.
The run-up for me going on Stewart, okay, Washington Post, savage attack.
All right?
Daniel is hugging opposed all of that.
You would expect it.
These haters are not going to stop, even though President Trump was shot.
They're not going to stop.
And this is what I'm trying to mobilize every American against.
The Washington Post is disgraceful.
It lost $77 million last year.
That is Jeff Bezos' fault.
He owns that paper.
Now, the New York Times and NBC News actually wrote a fair assessment of the O'Reilly-Steward exposition.
They were actually fair, but not the other gutter snipes.
No way.
What is that?
Is this the word of the day?
Gutter snipes.
You bet.
Gutter Snipe Alley.
Gutter Snipe Alley.
Good grief.
Look, I actually tell you the two people that stand out in my mind that are solidly on the left, Stewart being one of them, and the other one probably being, well, Bill Maher is a traditional liberal.
And they're the two people that have been willing to acknowledge the very obvious and that Joe is in a steep cognitive decline.
The media has covered it up.
It was only, what, a month ago they were, you know, claiming people like me were running cheap fake videos of Joe Biden, which is.
Dr. Post headed that.
Washington Post headed that cheap fake video thing, just so you know.
Well, but it's a lie, and I never did it.
I've been right about this cognitive decline since before the 2020 election.
What do you make of this?
Because I think it was in the New York Times today.
Headline: Biden says he'd consider dropping out if a medical condition emerged.
And he said, none of his doctors have told him he has a serious medical condition.
And he said in an interview, he'd re-evaluate whether to stay in the race if a doctor told him directly he had a medical condition that made it necessary.
So I think that's just his way of pushing off the heat, or is he opening the door?
It's over, Hannity.
We're way ahead of that now.
There's a new poll out today: 66% of Democrats want him to drop out.
Adams.
But it's been that way since the debate, Bill, and it hasn't happened.
And he has steadfastly been saying, I'm not going anywhere.
You know, him saying if a doctor told me, but he's telling us on the other hand, no doctor's telling me any of that.
Well, they'll get Dr. Kildare in there next week, and he'll tell them that he's done, Hannity.
He's finished.
Last week, you were 80-20.
Now you're 100%.
After today's poll, 66% of Democrats want him out.
It's over.
But, Bill, we've had five of those polls.
This is not the first one.
What are you talking about?
Not in the wake of a shooting of Donald Trump.
Okay, that has changed the political equation now.
And this brings me to my last point.
I'm very pleased to be on your program today, by the way, because we're in a historical week.
If Donald Trump goes on for his speech Thursday night, and I know you speak to him, and I speak to him occasionally, but I don't speak to him unless he calls me.
Okay, if Donald Trump says to the American people, look, thereby the grace of God, I'm in a coffin.
I know that.
My family has been deeply affected by this because it has.
And now I'm going to take a different tact in the way I present my arguments.
I'm going to try to step back from any of the personal stuff.
And I'm going to concentrate on the policies that I have implemented that I will implement that will help the American people.
So I'm going to moderate it a little bit, and I hope everybody follows my lead.
If Donald Trump says that he will win the election.
Well, let me ask you this: Insider Advantage had a poll.
It's Matt Towery who's going to join us later in the program today.
And this is out of Georgia, and it shows that, in fact, Donald Trump is up by three over Joe Biden in Georgia.
But if it's Kamala Harris, he's up by 10.
So is Kamala Harris the likely heir apparent?
Yes, of course.
She has to get it because of the money factor.
There's nobody else involved.
So when Biden drops out, which he will, it will be Kamala Harris.
But I don't.
See, I think there's another possibility.
And look, you may end up being right about this.
I've been saying 55, 45, 50, 50.
It can go either way.
It could definitely go the way you're predicting, but he might end up still being the nominee.
And for a lot of reasons, I believe this.
Joe Biden also knows the clock is ticking on one big issue.
And this was the point that I think Nancy Pelosi was making.
Time is short.
Those are the words she used.
And what Nancy Pelosi was saying is he's about to get nominated virtually either by the end of the month or very early within the first week of next month.
And that means all those delegates are locked up.
It is locked down unless there was, I guess, you have to consider if there's a major fall, a real major cognitive mess up.
They seem to have gotten a little bit of a handle on his cognitive state and stabilized it.
Well, whether he's drinking Red Bull or monster energy drinks or taking whatever he's taking, they certainly have a better handle on him than they had during the debate.
But it's still obvious.
I mean, it's bad.
I mean, it's like train wreck television.
That's why people watch the interview.
Anything with Biden, they're watching.
It's insane because it's like it's so unpredictable.
You have no idea which Joe you're going to get.
I mean, look at, for example, when he did the one-hour press conference.
I'm like, come on, Joey.
All right.
He starts out really, really hot, a lot of energy.
Then he starts to begin to peter out.
You got angry Joe screaming at one point.
Then you've got Joe whispering, whispering.
And he gets very strange.
And then by the end, it's like, okay, get him off the stage.
He's run out of gas.
He's got nothing left in the tank.
That's 59 minutes, Bill.
If Donald Trump does a 59-minute interview with me, he gets mad.
It's too short.
I don't believe there's going to be any virtual anything.
I believe that the Obama wing of the Democratic Party is the most powerful wing.
I know for 100% certainty, Barack Obama does not want Biden to run.
For kicks and giggles, even though I say it's 50-50, I'll take that bet, and you're going to regret.
What's the bet?
I bet it's going to be Biden.
I bet it.
And by the way, and I'm admitting that I think it's 50-50.
Let's make a mistake.
If you win, okay, you get a private tutorial with me for an hour, and I'll fill you in on all the presidents.
If I win, I get a free haircut from your hairdresser.
I will lose on purpose just not to have that happen.
That's not a good bet, Mr. O'Reilly.
How about this?
I'll give you a cupcake interview on the release of your book about the presidents instead of giving you the tough interview I was really planning.
Tough interview.
No, you don't want the tough interview.
How about you set up a meeting with me and Jon Stewart?
And we all have a private, off-the-record dinner one day.
How's that?
We can work that out, I think.
All right, then what do you want from me?
How about I'll cook you dinner again because I gave you the best steak you ever had in your life.
You know what I'd like to do?
What?
We did a few years ago.
You, me, and Donald Trump have a little lunch.
Well, there are other people there like Geraldo.
All right, we'll make it happen.
And Mark Levin was there too.
It was fun.
Trump, with a little lunch, that would be, that's what I would do.
All right.
You got it.
Phil O'Reilly, all things simple, man.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
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And I'm Ted Cruz.
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
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In Milwaukee, only 110 days until Election Day, 61 days until early voting begins in the Commonwealth, the great state of Pennsylvania, and voting early, voting by mail, embracing it even though it's not the system that we want.
Legal ballot harvesting.
Republican Party efforts are huge on this.
But anyway, pay attention.
I don't think this election's in the bag.
Who knows what Democrats are capable of?
Who knows what former Intel officials are capable of?
Who knows what former FBI directors might be capable of?
Who knows what FISA warrants may be in the works?
Who knows what secret server Hillary may have with top secret classified information that, of course, no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
Yeah, I don't really care what Adam Schiff ever says and the fact that he wants Biden to drop out is just fascinating to see Democrats for who they are.
They've known the whole time.
They're all liars.
And the mob, the media, state-run media, they've been lying too.
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All right, let's go.
We are in the great state of Wisconsin.
Let's check in with Bill.
Bill, where are you in Wisconsin?
The people here could not be any nicer except one guy that didn't like me.
But I didn't like him either.
I'm in Waukesha.
Waukesha.
Yep, 15 miles.
Sounds like a commercial Waukesha.
It does.
I mean, well, every town in Wisconsin is an Indian name.
So we got McGuanago, Conamo, blah, blah, blah.
I could go on.
But welcome to our great state.
First of all, I still.
You know what I love about Midwestern states like yours?
I would love the people.
I love the values.
I wish there weren't so many Democrats here.
I wish it wasn't a swing state.
To me, this should be a red state.
So many working, hardworking-class people that are here that are the heart and soul that makes our country great.
And I will tell you, everybody I've met, with the exception of one jackass, who I showed a lot of patience with.
I really did.
Right, Sensei?
I did.
But anyway, the people are so nice.
They're so accommodating.
I go to restaurants.
Can I tell you another thing?
Everything here is cheap compared to New York, Linda's beloved town.
And Florida is even a little more expensive, but a lot better than New York.
But man, I just took people out.
We came back from the TV show one night.
I took everybody out for drinks, met a bunch of people that loved the show, bought them drinks.
I looked at the bill and I said, you must have made a mistake.
And it was, you know, but the people are really wonderful here.
Anyway, glad you called.
What's on your mind today?
Well, I'm actually an IT person, but I'm also an RC enthusiast.
And if we go back to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, one of the last-minute things the FBI brought in was drone footage.
You can program a drone to hover over an area and film.
Why in the heck does the Secret Service not employ something as basic as that?
You are asking a million-dollar question.
You are 1,000% correct.
And I'd like to know Why did they cede the protection of a former president as they're claiming, and they're trying to blame local law enforcement?
Why did they say it was their responsibility when that is what the Secret Service exists for?
Now, if they don't have enough money, well, maybe we can take some of the hundreds of billions we give Ukraine, and maybe we can beef up security for our elected officials.
And let me be clear: I'm talking about Democrat and Republicans, every elected official that needs protection, and that would include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as I had been calling for for the longest time.
And only after this incident did he finally get Secret Service protection.
So to answer your question, is yeah, that would have been effective.
But instead of having the agents inside a building where they can't see a damn thing because it's a warehouse, and if they're worried about agents being on a sloped roof, although they were on another sloped roof that had a more that was much steeper, maybe they could have had eyes on it through the form of,
let's see, snipers, and maybe they should have surrounded the perimeter of the building so no lunatic assassin could get up on the roof with a gun using a ladder undetected by anybody except the people that were in the crowd that were pointing it out to police that nobody paid attention to.
Now, I'm sorry that Kim Cheadle needs to be fired immediately, although Joe Biden thinks Kim Cheadle is a guy.
It's not.
CBS says that Kim, well, we saw the interview.
She's a woman.
She's an acceptable person.
It's still not heard, at least publicly, from the Secret Service director.
Oh, I've heard from him.
I have you heard from her publicly.
Publicly, I've sat down in a situation room downstairs.
Secret Service, the FBI, the National Security Agencies.
I've heard from him.
What's not of him, Joe?
He hasn't met with his cabinet in over 10 months.
This is how checked out this guy is.
So I guess that lends credence to, you know, maybe that's why I think probably the odds are in maybe O'Reilly's favor now that they'll replace him.
They've been trying.
But I also think that if Joe gets the nomination and locks down his delegates, I think he's going to dig in and say it's my nomination.
You ain't getting it.
Period.
End of sentence.
And he hates Obama.
Everybody knows it.
Obama hates him.
Everybody knows it.
So we'll see what happens.
But you bring up a good point, my friend.
Sean, I appreciate you having me on the phone.
And actually, I still wear my Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled shirt problem.
Man, you were part of the Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled Twitter Brigade, a bunch of wonderful people that taught me how to use Twitter, which has now been taken away from me for years.
I don't have access to my own account.
I'm at the mercy of both Linda and Blair that are here in studio with me.
God bless you.
God bless.
I stopped sucking up to Linda.
It's nauseating.
What did he say?
I missed it because you were talking over him.
What did you say, sir?
I apologize.
I said, God bless Linda.
Oh, that's nice.
That's a very Christian thing to say, isn't it, Sean?
Sweetheart.
We just talked.
We're about to talk about this.
Go ahead.
What did you want to say?
I want you to say it uninterrupted.
Go ahead.
I said, Linda, I've called before.
Your staff is amazing.
You are an amazing woman.
Stop for a second.
What do you mean, her staff?
Come on.
They all know.
It's the Sean Hannity staff.
That is.
And you are the talent.
And you're very talented.
Oh, no.
I am the boss.
I call you boss.
Your name on my phone is boss.
Okay.
So it's my staff, not your staff.
You just spend more time protecting the staff when they screw up.
And I'm like, who did it?
Well, that's what a good manager does.
You're a manager.
I wouldn't say I was a manager.
I would say I was the manager.
So you're the senior executive producer of the show.
Also known as Boss.
Consigulari.
She's the consigulari who keeps everything in line.
Oh, yeah.
Boss Baby.
You like the movie.
Sarah Carter's knowing it.
We need a third microphone for Sarah.
I need help today.
Anyway, my friend, God bless you.
And the food has been phenomenal.
I've got to say that.
I'm very happy with the food, which is a big part of our travel routine.
Yeah, nobody had a clue about that since you talked about it before.
Probably not.
Amazing restaurants.
I will refrain from naming them, but they have amazing restaurants.
Enjoy the food while you're there and make sure you at least have a decent bratwurst.
It's not a brat.
It's a brat.
No, I didn't have a bratwurst.
I know you had a shank.
I had a pork shank.
It was the best meal I've had since I've been here.
So good.
It was so good.
Make sure you get a bratwurst while you're there.
Make sure.
I'm willing to try.
I like Bratwurst.
Sensei, is Bratwurst on our menu?
Is that good?
Anyway, back to he's the sensei's like, I'm out.
Let's go chop up some people.
Thank you, Bill.
All right, quick break right back to our phones: 800-941-Sean is our number.
As we continue, we are at the RNC convention.
It is day three in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Mark in Pennsylvania.
Mark, how are you?
Yeah, hi, Sean.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
What's going on, sir?
Thank you for checking in.
Welcome to Milwaukee.
Yeah, I'm sure we've been having really hot weather here.
I'm about an hour from the Butler site, so South.
Hey, I'm retired military of almost 42 years, and I've had a chance to see the threat assessment teams for presidents, vice presidents, and first ladies and stuff come in and what they do with the buildings and the dump, you know, if there's dumpsters or any kind of threat at all, and then that final sweep they do before it all happens.
And, you know, my first question was about the ladders in my mind, but I actually sat up the other night and I'm like, no one's asking this question.
So with all that we know right now and everything that's happened, and they talk about they decided to pull someone to not go on this rooftop because of the slope.
How in God's name does this young man, 20 years old, know that there's not going to be anyone on that roof?
How does he?
No, I don't know.
Was it an opportunity that he saw available and he came with the intention?
Was he tipped off?
Is there a conspiracy of some kind where he worked with other people?
They've not given us any information that would be relevant.
Now, I wouldn't even expect a lot of it right now because it's an ongoing investigation and assassination attempt.
However, I hope they're transparent.
I'd like to know every detail.
I'd like to know if there were other people involved, other people's involvement.
You know, look, it's probably has nothing to do with the threat that they received from a human source in terms of intelligence, but we now have learned that the Iranians had been that there had been a plot by them to assassinate Donald Trump just going back a few weeks ago that had been uncovered.
And at least they were aware of it, so you would think they would have ratcheted up all of this.
And their excuse is the book stops with me, but I'm not going anywhere.
And it was a slope roof, so we put agents inside the building.
Why not around the perimeter?
Why not the drone, as Bill just pointed out in the last call?
Why didn't they have snipers with eyes on that roof the entire time?
It's only 130 yards from where the president's speaking.
There's no excuse for any of this.
Why are they blaming local law enforcement?
No, that's their job.
That's what the Secret Service does.
And if they didn't have enough resources, I don't want to hear about that either because they should have screamed bloody murder to Congress and gotten the proper appropriations.
Yeah, I don't believe in coincidences at all, Sean.
I just, and I said to my wife when they were talking about this threat from Iranians about Trump, I said they're setting it up so they can blame somebody else.
That was my first thing.
You know, I just don't believe, I don't believe we'll ever see any transparency from this administration at all.
But that's a sad commentary.
It is.
Appreciate the call, buddy.
Thank you, Mark.
800-941, Sean.
Sarah, you wanted to add something I could tell.
Yeah, I do, actually.
You know, I was talking to my husband.
He's a retired operator, special operator, Delta Forest.
His primary objective of his work many times was rescue mission, sniper, also, you know, protection details, right?
And he had a lot of protection details.
He said there was no way, there's no way on God's green earth that anyone trained to protect a primary, especially President Donald Trump, a former president, the candidate for the presidency, that they would have left an elevated position, an elevated position unguarded.
It doesn't matter that people were put inside.
The fact is, is that that elevated position is important because it gave them full view of the people in attendance at the rally, as well as the president.
Now we have video that the sniper, you know, was walking around, that he was walking around that building.
No one stopped him.
No one questioned him an hour before.
This has to have an outside investigation.
Look, I talked to a lot of congressional members here at the RNC.
Oh, it starts Monday.
Yes, but it has to go beyond a congressional investigation.
This is my opinion.
Just like the FBI was formed a long time ago because they had to get outside investigators.
With a situation like this, you need outside trained investigators, former SEALs, former Delta, people that are snipers, former Secret Service, and somebody on the outside looking in that will be able to collect the information and analyze this so that we have a solid answer to what happened there.
Because even if the sniper was operating alone, somebody allowed him to operate because they left it unguarded.
A ladder and a gun and 130 yards away from the target, the primary, unroomed.
Absolutely, absolutely.
There's no excuse.
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