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Trump/Vance And The Future - July 16th, Hour 1
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We are in Wisconsin.
We are at the Republican National Convention.
We are only 111 days in.
Yesterday it was 113.
How do we go?
No, you were wrong on that.
Friday it was 116.
Sure.
Friday was 116 days.
There was an error yesterday, and I will take responsibility for that.
And today is 11.
That means that that's right.
That means there was an error on Friday.
Because Friday was 116, which is why I said No, it means that somebody didn't change the right date in the open yesterday.
The sheet was correct.
It's not a big deal.
All right.
So 111 days till election day, 62 days though, until early voting starts in PA, your state.
Yeah.
Uh, and then it rolls out state after state after state.
I did have Laura Trump on yesterday, and we went over Republicans have got overcome, and now Donald Trump is saying it.
Their reluctance, their resistance to voting early, voting by mail, uh, and and getting out to vote, because this is an inflection point for the country.
There's no doubt about it.
And I keep telling everybody, Linda doesn't get the analogy.
I don't care how confident you may be in this election, I will say it from now until election day, and you can c say Sean Hannity repeats himself, and I don't care because it bears repeating, and that is you have got to in your minds just wrap yourself around the fact that your vote might be the the winning vote and and take it with that much responsibility.
Why don't I get this?
What is wrong?
I'm getting to that part.
So if you if you have the mindset, regardless of what the Democrats are doing, whether it's Joe Biden, the cognitive mess.
By the way, we saw a pretty angry Joey last night on with uh Lester Holt uh lashing out.
You know, Joe Biden that said put Trump in the bullseye only five days before he was put in the bull's eye.
Uh and we're gonna get to a lot of that.
There's something that I have to share with you that infuriates me.
It makes me angry.
Words can't even describe it.
Uh but however you gotta act like your vote is gonna be the final determining vote in the direction of this country, and that means you act as though we're behind.
I don't care what the polls say, whether they're up or down, it means nothing to me right now.
Although we will always check in with our polsters, kind of get a snapshot of where we are at any given moment.
We'll have some on tomorrow.
Uh Matt Towery, Robert Haley will be on tomorrow.
But my point to you is this is if you act like you're six points behind and you're on your own 20, and there's two minutes to left two minutes left in the game, you have no timeouts, you gotta march down the field 80 yards, cross the plane.
This is where I lost Linda, cross the plane, kick the extra point if you want to win.
And that's gotta be everybody's mindset.
And some of you saying, There you go, Hannity.
You're pushing us to vote for a system that that we don't like.
I don't like the system either.
I've said it a million times.
I would prefer election day to be a national holiday.
I would prefer that we have paper ballots.
I would prefer no early voting.
I mean, imagine this in 62 days.
That's 49 days before the election.
We're gonna have early voting, and a lot can happen in 49 days that would otherwise change people's minds and hearts.
Uh one thing that might happen is another debate with Joe Biden and and Donald Trump, and that could change the trajectory of the election.
Who knows?
Um, so that that's gotta be our mindset.
I'd rather same day.
I'd rather paper ballots.
Uh, white Democrats, we had the SAVE Act last week.
We told you all about it.
We kept you up to speed.
You know, kudos to our friend Ship Roy in Texas that got the bill passed.
It's not going to pass in the Senate.
Why are they against uh showing that you're an American citizen so that you're able to vote in a federal election?
I don't know.
In Arizona, you have to, if you want us to vote in a state election, you have to prove citizenship.
You don't have to prove it in a federal election in Arizona.
How does that make any sense at all whatsoever?
It doesn't.
We need to fix that.
Democrats, why don't they want why don't they want proof of citizenship?
Why don't they want voter ID?
Why don't they want signature verification?
Why do they fight against updated voter roles or chain of custody controls?
For example, any mail and ballot that arrives at any precinct around the country should be under camera from the minute it enters the building until it is counted and while it's being counted.
That would add integrity to the process.
And then, of course, my belief that partisan observers should be in every precinct in the country watching the voting all day, the vote counting all night, and then we come up with a winner, and people will have confidence in the results, and they will believe they'll have confidence in the integrity of the system.
That's why countries like France, Canada, others, you know, they experimented with different forms of voting.
They went back to paper ballots.
They work.
Now the part that is going to make so many of you angry and mad, and that is what we now know about Saturday.
The head of the U.S. Secret Service, woman by the name of Cheetle, Kimberly Cheadle, has now spoken out on what happened on Saturday.
Now, the first thing she says is she takes responsibility.
The buck stops with her, but I plan to keep my job.
Okay, we came within a millimeter of a former president, the leading presidential candidate of being assassinated.
Now, I don't know what all of you thought of last night.
Uh I was in the building at the RNC convention.
I just finished my interview.
By the way, my interview with JD Vance, we're going to play.
I was blown away by him last night.
His whole life story.
You know, I I it was unreal.
And I was there, and just as we were ending Hannity, you know, the image of Donald Trump, and you saw the bandage on his ear.
And it was we're talking about if he doesn't turn his head, this is a very different show today.
We would not be in all likelihood in Milwaukee, and we would be talking about a state funeral for a former president of our country.
And I would have also lost a friend.
And so many of you would have lost a person you love, admire, and want to be the next president, the 47th president of the United States.
So now that we know that this assassin was on a rooftop a hundred and thirty yards.
That's it.
Now, I know something about shooting.
I've been a pistol marksman since I'm about 11 years old, 10 or 11.
My mom had a loaded revolver in the house, accessible to me, even if she tried to hide it, I would be able to find it if she was asleep.
And they just knew at a very young age, I was too rambunctious, precocious, uh, frankly, the the kind of kid that no parent wants to ever have to raise.
And um, so my parents, I think very wisely decided we're gonna train him in the safety and use of a firearm.
And it has stuck with me my entire life.
I have great respect for firearms.
I uh any people ask me all the time, Hannity, I was thinking about getting a firearm.
What do you think?
An AR an AR, what do you think about it?
You know, I'm like, well, have you ever had any safety classes?
I said, how about any weapon that you get, the safe use of?
By the way, that includes burner.
You know, burner is it's a non-lethal form of defense, but you have to practice safety procedures with burner, and that's with everything.
And I always say to people, take classes.
The great thing about the gun community that they never get credit for, if you go to a range and let's say maybe your gun jams and you're a little nervous and you don't shoot as often as some people there, you can literally point your your gun downrange, walk over to any person that's there and say, I'm having a little bit of a problem.
I'm I'm not as experienced as you are.
I see you're very experienced.
Would you mind helping me?
They will go, they'll drop everything that they're doing and go over and help you.
And then they'll say, you know, can I show you a couple of things?
And they want you to be a safe firearm owner.
It's in everybody that believes in the second amendment's best interest that everyone be a safe firearm owner owner.
Anyway, I digress.
This is Kim Cheadle, head of the U.S. Secret Service, saying, Oh, the buck stops with me, but I'm not leaving.
Listen.
What was your reaction when you saw the events unfold on Saturday?
Shock.
Uh, and then concern, obviously, uh, for the former president.
This is an event that should have never happened.
Who is most responsible for this happening?
What I would say is that the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former president.
So the buck stops with you?
The buck stops with me.
I am the director of the Secret Service.
It was unacceptable, and it's something that shouldn't happen again.
The president and Homeland Security Secretary said today they had 100% confidence in you.
But there are some members of Congress calling on you to resign.
I appreciate the Secretary's comments, and we're going to continue to be transparent and communicate with people.
I do plan to stay on.
I do plan to stay on.
It's the most colossal screw up ever.
A hundred and thirty yards is nothing.
And you don't even have to be a marksman at especially the way firearms are.
I don't know if there was a scope on the rifle or not.
It's it's not a tough shot with any any long-range rifle like we had in this particular case.
Now, this ought to make everybody's blood boil because what we now know is that in fact they knew, and the Secret Service consciously made a decision not to put agents on the rooftop.
Now they were saying in the big, well, it's outside the perimeter.
Well, how do you define perimeter?
It's not just the area that's cordoned off where Donald Trump is speaking.
The perimeter would be any location where anybody with any firearm could ever be able to shoot a bullet and hit a presidential candidate, a president, a former president, or any elected official.
That's called the perimeter.
And that perimeter needs to be secured.
Never mind 130 yards out.
Remember, all the people in the crowd, look at this guy, he's on the roof up there.
Well, now what they're saying is, and Kimberly Cheadle said this well, it was a slope roof where um this assassin was positioned on Saturday, but we didn't put anybody on the roof because it could have posed a risk to agents.
Now, the agents around Donald Trump were amazing.
All the agents I've ever met in my life are amazing.
They put they're willing to put their lives on the line to save the lives of others.
Uh if you weren't going to put agents on the roof, you could have put sights on the roof.
In other words, snipers looking exactly at the roof, and you could have secured the perimeter of the building to make sure that nobody could get on the roof.
And so this this oh, the building uh had a slope roof, so uh we knew there was a safety factor that would be considered there, and here's what she said.
Should that roof have been secure, period?
That building in particular has a sloped roof uh at its highest point.
Um, and so you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.
Uh, and so you know, the decision was made to secure the building uh from inside.
Well, securing the building from the inside does not prevent an assassin from using the outside to get on the roof.
The question was should the building have been secured?
If the building was secured, you didn't have to put agents' lives at risk on the on the roof of that slope building.
Apparently it wasn't that big a risk for the assassin.
You could have had, you know, sniper eyes on the roof.
You could have secured the perimeter of the building, sir, encircled it so that nobody would have access for a hundred and thirty yards and and have a gun and be able to get up there and do this.
And and I'm very sympathetic to the idea, okay, if it's not a safe roof, you don't put agents on it, but you don't allow anyone any damn other person to get on there either.
And this is just unbelievable to me that these comments were even made.
She needs to be fired today.
Joe Biden, sure.
Great gesture.
I know Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thanked the president finally for offering Secret Service protection.
That should have been given on day one.
It's not insignificant that Robert Kennedy Jr.'s father was assassinated, and that his uncle, that would be Jack Kennedy, the former president of the United States, was assassinated, and that the entire family, that name is associated with assassination, especially when it comes to American politics in the modern era.
I don't agree with Robert Kennedy.
However, he deserves Secret Service protection.
What did I say when Obama was protect the president at all costs?
Protect every elected official.
It's unbelievable.
This this is infuriating.
Oh, and I have another piece to add on the other side of this.
We now know that this site in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S. authorities had obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks about a plot by the country of Iran.
You know, that's the country who that's run by Mullers and the number one state sponsor of terror.
That's the country that uh Joe Biden kisses the ass of.
And yeah, that apparently they discovered a plot to try and assassinate Donald Trump.
And then this happens, and you knew this going in.
The guy's dead.
Did he have any accomplices?
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So let's add to the insanity of what happened on Saturday.
And, you know, the head of the Secret Service saying, yeah, it was dangerous to agents.
I can extend.
So we secured the inside of the building.
Why not the outside.
Now to add insult to injury.
U.S. authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks about a plot by Iran to assassinate Donald Trump that led the Secret Service to increasing security around the former president in recent weeks.
Now there's no indication that the assassin or would be assassin who attempted to kill the former president was connected to the plot.
We don't know.
Uh there's no evidence at this point.
The existence of the intelligence threat from, you know, one of our top geopolitical foes, number one state sponsor of terrorism, uh, you know, that enhanced the security for President Trump, it does raise questions.
What part of 130 yards away on a roof did they not get?
Just put snipers on that building from every angle.
So if anyone dares to try and get on that roof, you're gonna stop them.
Right there in their tracks, and agents around the perimeter of the building, that would have stopped them.
What good they were inside the building, I have no idea.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
We continue from Milwaukee.
We continue from Milwaukee.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800-941.
If you want to be a part of the program, only 111 days till election day, 62 days until early voting, starting in the great Commonwealth state of Pennsylvania, and uh from there on it rolls out around the country.
We are in Milwaukee, we're in Wisconsin for the RNC convention.
Uh later on, we're gonna play my interview with now vice presidential candidate, senator from the great state of Ohio, that of course being J.D. Vance.
It is an incredible life story.
To grow up that poor, to have a father that was that dysfunctional, a mother that was addicted to drugs and alcohol, a grandma that basically not particularly educated, that had a heart of gold, you know, love of God, and a strong will to raise this guy, and and the hopes that he'd he'd have a better life, and he did.
Goes into the Marine Corps, serves in Iraq, comes out.
A lot of people, it's hard for for former soldiers to get back to school.
He went back to school, went to Ohio State, did well, did well enough that he got into Yale Law School.
Not exactly an easy task, and then got to the top of his class, and then went into the business world.
And in the business world succeeded in on two different fronts.
I read yesterday somebody said, you know, he's a millionaire.
I'm like, really?
The poor guy that grew up pay with the most dysfunctional family in the world, and he he found his way, clawed his way out of what was just utter poverty and an impossible situation with all the odds stacked against him.
And and he ends up going to Yale Law School, serves our country, comes back and is successful in business, and what you want to hate him for his success.
Or do we not celebrate that?
Isn't that what we used to call the American dream?
I think that dream, that's what it is, a dream that could be achieved only in America.
And that's why maybe there's why we don't put up a wall to stop people from leaving America, although they're chasing a lot of people away, especially out of certain blue states, one of us one of which I used to be a part of, and I stay the hell away from as much as possible.
I didn't particularly like this weekend, although I love my sister and went up to her uh she had a big birthday, and I went to her birthday party, and then came right to Milwaukee.
And but you know, when I got there, you know what I just said?
This place is disgusting.
I said the city and it just is horrible.
There are a couple of nice little pockets, but you know, short of those bubbles, it's really bad.
It's gotten worse and worse and worse, and it's just it's sad.
New York, you know, I used to say the greatest city in the world.
Used to say it, and we love our affiliate New York.
AM 710 WOR, it's still our flagship station.
And uh, you know, Mark Simone swears I'm gonna come back.
I'm like, Mark, I'm not coming back.
Does he really believe it?
No, you got talk on airprinting.
Oh, I mean, you were on a roll.
I mean, I didn't, you know, I don't want to bash uh But does he what did he say to you?
He said privately, he said he's coming back.
Oh, how's he's coming back.
How can you leave New York?
It's the greatest city in the world.
And I was like, there are two people that will never live New York leave New York and I can tell you about one would be Mark Simone, two would be Curtis Lewa.
Oh, yeah, no.
They're not leaving.
No.
Under any circumstances.
Mark has a number one morning show in all of New York.
Oh, he's crushing it.
He's crushing it.
He is Mr. New York.
Oh my gosh.
He knows you know, every event that I ever showed up in in New York, he if not both of them, one of them was there.
And I didn't do too many events in New York.
I knew I wasn't particularly loved in New York.
I don't know why, but I wasn't.
Um, you know, uh I have somebody close to me that was very close to Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, he wasn't loved in New York either, except for the main restaurants that he went to, and you know, certain people that he hung out with, and uh, it was sad.
And he finally got out of there.
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I used to hate doing that job.
Of course, my father used to make me, that was one of my chores.
I I didn't have to do my laundry.
Um I didn't need to cook my I used to buy my own food, so I didn't really cook as much that time of my life, although I was a good cook at 13, but I hated that job, and I have to mow the lawn.
I don't have to, you know, my mother would scream, you better get out and clean, get the snow gun.
You fa he's putting his totes on, he's your father's gonna have a heart attack.
You know how many times my mother's your father's gonna have a heart attack.
Okay, you've I hope you're happy with that.
I'm like, all right, I'll I'll shovel the snow.
And I used to have to shovel what am I making too big a deal about?
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Um, by the way, a we just found out a Columbus police officer uh is believed to have now had to shoot and kill someone while working in Milwaukee.
I've met cops from Florida, I've met cops from Indiana, I have met cops from Ohio.
I've met where else Georgia?
New Jersey, yeah, New Jersey guy.
I mean, and we stop and talk to all these guys.
We saw the guys on the bikes last night when we were coming back after the show, took a big picture with those guys.
I'm like, I messed, I'm totally messing with them because my whole family was in law enforcement.
I'm like, let me get this straight.
You guys get paid to exercise, and they look at me like, all right, jackass.
And I'm like, I'm only kidding, only kidding.
Um, as like my friends that are firemen, I would always say to them, wait a minute.
You get you work one shift, and then you get you work 24 hours and you get three days off.
And then while you're on shift, if there's nothing going on in your firehouse that night, you get to cook the Greatest meal on earth.
And then if you get a lot of time where it's slow, you get rack time.
And I'm like, I pricked the I picked the wrong profession.
And then they look at me and they do this they crush me.
And I debate for a living.
I like to think I'm good at this.
Well, forget it.
They just go, yeah, where were you on 9-11?
You know, and I'm like, ouch.
You win, checkmate, I lose because they're the bravest people on earth.
America's finest, America's bravest, they're just amazing people.
Anyway, I thought some prayers are with this cop, and we don't know all the details surrounding this, but it it happened according to the journal Sentinel, and the person that the police had to shoot in this case uh died, and no officers were hurt in the incident.
And so, but it's dangerous.
I mean, I gotta be honest in Sensei, we'll we'll interview him during our top one of our top of the hour or bottom of the hour breaks in the five o'clock hour.
Um, you know, what is Chicago going to be like?
I mean, we already there are protesters here.
There are psychos here.
We've seen them.
And it's just it I they've not been out in mass, but anything can happen in Chicago, and that should scare everybody too.
Now let me go back to the Secret Service story.
Now, first let me go back to last night.
And I'm interviewing JD Vance, and we have some reaction.
We have Laura Trump on him.
We we had a good show.
And I want you to all remember something.
Nine House Democrats tried to yank Donald Trump's Secret Service protection.
In case you didn't remember, 22 days after the very nearly successful attempt to kill Donald Trump, uh, you know, i it was well, it was I'm sorry, two days after that.
It took a while for Joe Biden to finally give RFK Jr.
Secret Service protection.
I've been advocating for this for almost from day one.
And on Saturday night, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is kind of mad at me because I've been attacking his record and basically telling the truth about it.
I'm not attacking him, I'm just saying he's a liberal.
And I don't agree with liberals.
He knows that.
But I did do a town hall with him.
Personally, I like him.
Nothing it's not personality.
It's we can agree and you know, not hate each other.
And but I've been fighting hard, and he's very aware of that.
And so he came on, and I just he was actually way more gracious than I would have been.
But just the news.com pointed out nine Democrats in the House sought to strip Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail only months prior to this assassination attempt.
Remember, it was started by Benny Thompson, who chaired the select committee on January 6th, the one where they lost all of the interviews and documents, where instead of putting on the limo driver that said Donald Trump did not try to commandeer the car he was driving, they put on a hearsay witness that said he did, and so on and so forth.
The same 911 the same January 6th committee that also didn't interview the Capitol Police Chief that was begging for National Guard troops to be called up.
It was denied every time.
The same January 6th committee that also refused to interview the five people that would attest to the fact that days before January 6th, in spite of claiming Donald Trump wanted insurrection, uh was wanted to call up 10,000 National Guards.
They didn't bring in Muriel Bowser, mayor of DC, who in writing, you know, turned down National Guard protection, the same people that never investigated the 574 riots in the summer of 2020, but that's what they tried to do, you know, to Donald Trump, and they introduced that bill in April to strip Donald Trump of all Secret Service protection.
It was obvious he was going to be the Republican presidential nominee.
And we've also learned that this woman, this is CBS from 2023, uh that Joe Biden appointed to the Secret Service, this Cheetle lady has yet, you know, you know, that failed to secure the rooftop 130 yards away because it was slopes.
Useless.
You could have put some agents in there, but you could have surrounded the perimeter.
But anyway, a report from last year looked like the Secret Service head Kimberly Cheadle was a big DEI advocate who once hired a YouTube influencer to train agents.
I mean, it was unbelievable.
She appointed was appointed director.
A lot of controversy that the agency faced over deleting most of its messages from January 6th, and Cheadle defended the agency saying our integrity is everything, and there was nothing nefarious attached to that.
Really?
Why did you do that?
That would be something the country needs to see.
Its integrity, however, has now been questioned.
There are now questions over how this intruder, you know, made it into the home of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
Look what they did.
Remember Chuck Schumer?
Are you listening to me, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh?
You know.
And he threatened him on the steps of the Supreme Court.
We got the case.
I want to tell you, Gore Zuch.
I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind.
And you will pay the price.
You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
Wow.
You won't know what hit you.
Now, James Comer House Oversight Committee will grill Biden's embattled Secret Service director uh next Monday.
We will follow that closely.
A Democratic staffer had to be fired after hoping Trump's shooter doesn't miss the next time.
This was in the New York Post, a Democratic Congressman from Mississippi.
Uh a staffer for that congressman fired her inflammatory comments, hoping that the shooter that targeted Donald Trump wouldn't miss the next time.
I don't condone violence, but please get uh get you some shooting lessons so you don't miss the next time.
Oops, that wasn't me talking.
She writes on Facebook Saturday evening, right after Donald Trump barely survived the assassination attempt.
Bill Barr is right.
He was interviewed, and he's outraged and said, You gotta fire this Secret Service director.
Joe Biden, of course, doesn't fire anybody, which why I don't know.
But all of this now has been happening and not in a bubble, and so we're watching this.
Yeah.
What?
I you know, there's one happy moment that happened last night.
We haven't talked about it at all, and that's cut two.
Did you see this?
I did see it, and I have it right here.
I was gonna get to this, and this is the Reverend James um what's his name?
Romeke.
He gave the benediction last night.
It's a great pleasure to be here.
Great pleasure to see President Donald Trump safe.
And if I may, before the benediction, give you this promise.
You're gonna be so blessed.
You're gonna be tired of being blessed.
I guarantee it.
Believe me.
Believe me.
Let us bring.
That was awesome.
That was a great moment.
And then Donald Trump walking out, and you know, Lee Greenwood.
Oh, I saw Lee Greenwood after he not only gave a speech, but he sang, God bless the USA.
That song is 40 years old.
I have not seen Lee in a long time.
That guy hasn't aged a day.
His his pipes are as good as they've ever been.
The place rocked last night.
I mean, some people complain, yeah, I can't hear JD because of the noise.
I'm like, I'm not responsible for the noise.
I'm trying to talk over the noise.
And you know, we're doing our best, but um, we're gonna play the interview I have with uh JD Vance.
That's coming up straight ahead.
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