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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, here we are, just a mere 96 days until this inflection point election in our country.
Only 46 days until her early voting starts in Linda's home state of Pennsylvania and then rolls out around the country.
And things can't be more insane than they are.
When you think they can't get any more insane, they get more insane.
Before we get to the issue of Kamala Harris actually trying to say that she will put her record on immigration up against Trump's, which is beyond laughable and beyond the flip-flopping and the flailing.
And she's backing off other positions, including guaranteed government jobs, which was part of the new Green Deal that she co-sponsored.
Like she co-sponsored Medicare for All that would eliminate private health insurance.
Like she, you know, I mean, on almost the mandatory gun buyback program that she now is distancing herself from, fracking that she's now was so against on multiple occasions.
Oh, no, no, she's not against fracking.
Notice that her campaign staff is saying most of it because they don't want the comparison tapes out there, but they are scared to death, clearly, of her record.
Before we get to that, though, I mean, I think a really shameful moment happened at the Olympics, and this should not happen ever, but it did happen.
An Olympic boxer that is deemed to have male chromosomes wins a fight in 46 seconds.
Now, if you listen to Clarissa Shields, she's the former Olympic boxing champion, a great athlete, says it was unfair for the female Italian boxer to fight a biological male.
And, you know, what is going on with the Olympics?
I mean, we've got mocking of the Last Supper.
We've got this happening and everything else in between that we've discussed.
Anyway, listen to Clarissa Shields.
You know, I watched this video earlier today, Clarissa.
Have you seen it?
The Italian boxer saying, I'm out.
Have you seen the video yet?
I've seen it.
I mean, she really looks scared to me.
What did you think?
You know, I grew up in a gym sparring against a lot of guys and stuff, but every fighter, woman fighter does not do that.
So the power to her did seem like it was much bigger and much stronger.
And it did scare her, you know.
And I don't know how old she is, but it's still like when you're born, and man, you're already born with the bigger muscles and a bigger neck.
And you've grown up to be a man.
You know, you didn't change genders when you was a kid.
So it's to me, it's just unfair.
And I just can't believe that it's being done.
And I just couldn't imagine it happening to me.
It is unfair.
Senator Mike Lee of Utah tweeted out, this is not something to celebrate when she had to quit after 45, 46 seconds into the match.
She was devastated in a post-fight interview.
I mean, to get to be an Olympic champion, I mean, you literally have to devote a decade or more of your life, usually, usually longer, to achieve that level of greatness.
And, you know, as we've had interviews with Caitlin Jenner on this program and on TV over the years, she says all the time, Sean, I don't care what somebody's, you know, hormone levels are when they're an adult.
I care about what they were at puberty.
And, for example, Caitlin's a great golfer and can pound the ball nearly 300 yards, which is insane.
And she could win a lot of golf championships if she played as a woman.
And she said it wouldn't be fair.
And so she doesn't do it and respects it.
Anyway, Mike Lee is with us, Senator from Utah.
I saw your ex-post on this, and I'm like, you know, this is ridiculous.
What has happened to the Olympics?
You know, what we've seen today is Olympic misogyny.
Angela Carlini is a champion boxer.
She should have won a gold medal and would have, but for the International Olympic Committee stealing it from her.
Look, Sean, the whole point of women's sports is to exclude men.
The whole point.
So why have women's sports at all if they're going to let men compete in them?
The whole point of them is to exclude the guys because guys have certain physical advantages by virtue of center of gravity, bone density, muscle composition, and so forth.
Why even have these at all if you're just going to let men in?
Anyway, Sean, this is just, there's a word for this, and it's misogyny.
Misogyny carried out by the International Olympic Committee.
And it's wrong.
Look at what Riley Gaines had gone through.
She actually tied Leah Thompson, if you remember, who was trans, and she's swimming against the males.
She actually, it was a tie.
And then they ended up giving the gold medal to Leah Thompson.
I'm like, why?
I mean, which makes no sense.
You either give two gold medals, one to each of them, or you don't select one over the other, or give them two silver medals.
I don't know what the protocol is, but you don't just say, okay, you're tied, but we're going to give it to this person.
But the fact that she had to compete and she's been very outspoken and I think, frankly, an articulate spokesperson on the issue, it's just fundamentally unfair.
Is not, there's nothing, nobody's saying that men are better than women when you recognize a biological fact and truth that physically speaking, men generally are physically stronger than women.
There are exceptions.
You know, there are women I'm sure that could kick my ass.
And I train mixed martial arts when I train against people that are much better than me in the dojo that I belong to.
And they're not out to kill me.
They're going to press me.
They're going to push me to my limit.
But when push comes to show, they know I got to go to work that night.
And they don't like the rule that they can't punch me in the face, which is a rule in the dojo because I work in TV.
They're like, that's so unfair.
And when they make fun of me all the time.
Absolutely.
Now, look, there are a lot of women who could take on a lot of men in boxing or any other sport and win.
But what we're talking about are the higher echelon athletes, men and women in various fields.
In most of these sports, almost all of them, it is not fair to allow men to compete with women in those sports just because of immutable biological differences that are unmistakable.
And Sean, these things have been clear to human beings for thousands of years.
I don't know why we in 2024 all of a sudden are thinking we can rewrite not only human history, but human biology and have it worked out well.
Things don't go well for any society.
That society doesn't respect women, doesn't respect differences between men and women.
And this is a perfect example of the fact that you can't respect women if you don't respect differences between the two sexes.
Let me move to this campaign.
We're 97 days out of an election in this country.
I mean, we saw the big switcheroo that took place last minute.
In my view, I think Democrats, we've never had a presidential debate as early as this one took place between Trump and Biden.
I think it was a test and pretty much a setup for everybody involved.
And Joe was set up to fail.
And when he did, you know, the powers that be didn't really care about disenfranchising Democratic primary voters.
And they just quickly just moved Kamala Harris in there.
But I'm now watching her flail all over the place.
I think the most effective arguments will be what we have been doing, and that is playing Kamala in her own words and comparing and contrasting her stated opinions.
Now she's trying to back off many of them.
You know, of course she supports a ban on fracking.
Of course she supports a ban on drilling.
Of course she supports mandatory gun buyback programs.
Of course she supports Medicare for all, even for illegal immigrants and free education and housing for illegal immigrants and decriminalizing illegal immigration.
Well now she's actually backing off on the issue of immigration and trying to boldly claim that she'll put her record on immigration against Donald Trump's any day.
What do you make of this cut?
So in this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week.
Any day of the week.
Including, for example, on the issue of immigration.
So I was the attorney general of a border state.
In that job, I walked underground tunnels between the United States and Mexico on that border with law enforcement officers.
I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels, and human traffickers that came into our country illegally.
I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, on the other hand, has been talking a big game about securing our border, but he does not walk the wonk.
What about Jocelyn Nungari, the little 12-year-old girl that was brutalized for two hours, killed by a Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, unvetted illegal immigrant?
What about Rachel Morin, the mother of five?
What about Lake and Riley?
I have four pages of names of people that were murdered by unvetted Biden-Harris illegal immigrants coming from 180 countries.
And as I've said many times, many people we've caught at the border with terror ties.
And all these people coming in from countries that have terror ties and our top geopolitical foes, including Iran and Syria and Egypt and Afghanistan and Venezuela and tens and tens of thousands from China and Russia.
Explain to me how she compares that record.
And when is she going to mention the name of the victims that would be alive today had they not had this open border policy and the big lie that she told that the border was secure for three years?
She's not going to because border czar Kamala Harris helped facilitate this pattern.
Well, now they're trying to say, well, she was never the border czar.
That's another lie.
Yeah, that's absolute nonsense.
I mean, everyone knew that she had been assigned this task.
They couldn't have been clearer about that.
Well, you know, on April 14th, 2021, it was Axios that reported Harris appointed by Biden as border czar said she would be looking into the root causes, the drive immigration.
These things were reported over and over and over again.
And everyone understood that President Biden had assigned these tasks to her, regardless.
Sean, first of all, she ignores the fact that she let all these people in, including the four pages that you've described of lists of names of people who have been murdered by people who the Biden-Harris administration let in.
Also, everything about her quote that you just played for your listeners, including the words but, and, and the, every single word is wrong.
Every point she makes is a non-secular.
For example, she claims that as Attorney General of the state of California, she was somehow really standing strong to control the border.
There are a few things wrong with that.
Number one, states, or state attorneys general and state law enforcement, they are not in charge of border security.
So she may have prosecuted people affiliated with transnational crime rings who happen to come across illegally.
But hers was not a job of border security.
But look at what she did when her job was about border security as Vice President of the United States.
All right, quick break right back.
We'll continue more with Utah Senator Mike Lee.
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All right, we continue with Utah Senator Mike Lee, who's with us.
By the way, last time I checked, isn't the state that she's bragging about a sanctuary state?
Isn't the state that she's bragging about, don't they give free health care to illegal immigrants, which she now advocates?
I'm sure she'll back off that too and flip and flop.
Isn't she from the city of San Francisco a sanctuary city?
And she's really going to make the argument that she was tougher on the border than Donald Trump when we had the lowest level of immigration ever and they bragged about undoing all of his policies that worked?
Yes.
All of those things.
Those are nothing to brag about.
In the meantime, look at not just Kamala Harris's own words.
Look at what the words of her fellow Democrats and her former colleagues in the Senate continue to say about this.
Look at this statement.
I pointed this out on X the other day from my base Mike Lee account.
Elizabeth Warren recently told Sienna, and quote, I believe we need to create a pathway to citizenship, referring here to the 10 million plus illegal aliens let in by the Biden administration in the last three and a half years alone, setting aside the additional 10 to 15 million who are already here.
And then she continued to quote, Kamala Harris will work with Congress to get that done.
In other words, work with Congress to legalize, to eventually grant citizenship to all the people they've just let in.
And insofar as she's claiming to have combated international crime organizations as state attorney general, to whatever extent there's any scintilla of truth to that showing, that's now offset dramatically by the fact that she's been part of an enterprise that has colluded with international drug cartels, enriching them to the tune of tens of billions of dollars a year so that they could engage in this elaborate human trafficking scam.
A human trafficking scam, which, by the way, has also brought in enough sentinel to kill 100,000 plus Americans every single year.
This is shameful.
Shameful that she did it.
And it's even more shameful that she claims somehow she's got a credible record on border security.
Absolutely, she does not.
Well, we appreciate you as always being with us, Senator Mike Lee.
We'll check in with you throughout this campaign.
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You know, I know that I guess you call it the sugar high, the honeymoon phase, the media.
You know, we used to talk about Obama gasm and, you know, the anointed one, et cetera.
O'Reilly said something yesterday that really stuck with me.
And he said that, you know, one of the differences, you know, in other words, I was asking, could Kamala take on a momentum, kind of the likes of which Obama got, where it just grows and grows and grows.
And he said, there's a big difference.
And I think he was right in his analysis here when he said that the biggest difference is that Barack Obama had kind of like a blank slate.
I mean, we did our digging.
We did our due diligence.
We did our vetting of Obama.
Yeah, we went into Jeremiah Wright.
We went into Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dorn.
We went into Alinsky and Community Organizing and the Choom gang and Frank Marshall Davis.
We talked about all that stuff.
And the difference is, we have Kamala in her own words, which I'm going to continue to play because if I only play it one day, then people are just going to, you know, only the people that day listening will know.
Now, we're going to put up on the website a list of Kamala Harris and her extreme positions.
And this way you will be able to download it and print it out and make copies for your friends and your family.
We'll give you a list of all the people that have been killed because of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris's open borders.
We'll put up a list of her flip-flops and we'll make it very prominent.
It's free to download so you can educate friends and family and co-workers.
And I want to basically deputize everybody so that in the next 46 days before early voting starts in Pennsylvania, every American is going to know who she is.
Now, when she did run in 2019, when she said all of these crazy things, again, Obama voted president.
He wasn't there.
He didn't really take tough positions.
He was hard to vet.
And we did do the job the media wouldn't do.
They were too busy, you know, repeating hope and change, change and hope, hope and change.
And for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country and other things that, in that case, Michelle Obama said.
The Sean Hannity show already in progress.
I think she's kind of a dynamic.
It really represents the future of the party.
Oh, so they loved her then, and she didn't even make it to the first primary.
Pretty amazing, isn't it?
All right, let's get to our busy phones and let us say hi to Susan in Kansas.
Susan, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
What's on your mind today?
Hey, Sharon.
Thanks for taking my call.
I wanted to say that I think you're right that Sharon Camilla's words on all these issues is a great idea because as you list them all out, everyone can go and check and see where Venezuela already implemented those things.
And since it's a socialist country, you can see that all of her policies, just about all of them, match this socialist Maduro.
So I've nicknamed her the Maduro candidate.
And I've been sharing that online.
And I hope that all the social media warriors out there fighting a good fight will start making this comparison because it's right on the money.
Her policies like free education, which we already have, by the way, it's called a job benefit under tuition reimbursement.
Everyone should know that.
It's like we've forgotten about that.
But that and, you know, confiscating guns, Venezuela did that.
But all of these policies cause the Venezuelans or the people there.
They're basically starving to death at this point.
And, you know, if Venezuelan policies, which are the same as Kamala Hare's policies, are so great, why are they fleeing that country and coming here?
You know, you raised so many good points.
I don't even know where to begin.
What we have to do and what, you know, I think the mission of everybody, and we do have the Kamala files, as we call them.
Linda, what's on the full list in the Kamala files on Hennedy.com?
And it's prominently displayed when you go there.
So I'll be honest with you, we have over 50 cuts on there.
So it's everything from her flip-flopping on immigration, on big green deals, on fracking.
There's literally, and obviously we have all of her word salads.
There's no shortage of that.
So there's a lot.
And what you can do is you can take that link and send it to your liberal friends and say, here, here's the link.
Here's the article.
Here's the date.
Here's the source.
Everything is there.
Well, I'm also going to put up a written version of her extreme radical position so you could just hand it to people.
That's up there.
And you can make copies.
That's up there, too.
Yeah, we did.
I didn't know you got it up so fast.
You're a very good person.
Yeah, you know, my boss is real pushy.
So I just, you know, we have a great team.
We get it together.
Seriously?
You're going to attack your boss?
Unbelievable.
I'm calling Anthony right now.
Anyway, Susan, I think, you know, this is what it's going to take to win.
They want to distract.
They don't want to talk about her record.
She hasn't had a single interview.
She hasn't had any vetting at all by the mob of state-run media.
She's probably not going to.
And, you know, as of now, you would think that none of these things happen.
And she has to give answers to these questions.
And at some point, I'm hoping that somebody has the courage.
I mean, Donald Trump went right into the National Association of Black Journalists yesterday, and he faced hard questions.
And he fought back and he did it his way.
And the media just wants to talk about identity politics and gender, et cetera, et cetera.
But that's out of, you know, that's the Playbook 101 I always talk about is every election season, Democrats are going to say that Republicans and conservatives are racist and sexist and homophobic and xenophobic and Islamophobic and transphobic and they want dirty air and water and they want to kill your grandma and grandpa and steal their Medicare and their Social Security.
They just lie.
I think this big argument about whether she's black or whether she's Indian is just a big distraction.
I mean, it doesn't matter what she identifies as at this point.
We have very little time to let people know that her policies are socialist.
That's what the media wants to focus on and that question.
And frankly, I'm a Christian.
I believe we're all created in the image of God, period.
So I don't like identity politics or race politics, but the Democrats, they use it every election season.
And meanwhile, look at the things that she said.
She compared ICE to the KKK.
She said that the immigrants when they were dealing with Border Patrol on horseback, that there was a whipping and it literally reminded people of images of slavery.
So I don't really, I expect that from the Democrats.
Republicans have to be ready for it.
But I think their main job is to educate the American public who she is and using her own words is the most effective way to do it.
And the next part of the equation is to focus in on, okay, what are you going to do on the economy versus what Trump's going to do?
What are you going to do on immigration versus what Trump's going to do?
What are you going to do on law and order and safety and security in small towns and big cities?
Compare their record.
What are you going to do on energy?
What are you going to do on education?
What are you going to do on foreign policy?
I mean, we're literally on pins and needles now because Iran is about to fire more missiles into Israel.
And what's Kamala and Joe going to do now?
The last time, okay, they were helpful defending Israel, but then they said, you're not allowed to retaliate.
They said, if you do, you're on your own.
And they surrendered in the war on radical Islamic terrorism, words that Kamala Harris says we need the courage never to use.
I mean, there's never been a choice like this ever.
Anyway, Susan, I got a roll.
Appreciate the call.
Let's get back to our busy phones.
800-941-Sean is our number.
North Carolina Dolly is next.
Sean Hannity show.
Dolly, how are you?
Hi, Sean.
I'm doing well.
And yourself?
I'm hanging in there.
We got a long way to go.
Buckle up.
Yeah, we sure do.
That's the reason I wanted to put out there.
You've answered some of it in today's program so far about what can we do as the average everyday American citizen that is like, how do we even get here?
Other than corruption, how did we get here?
And so my question is, I work in an office environment in North Carolina, and the attempt on President Trump's life the next day or that Monday, nobody, when I say nobody, nobody was talking about my husband and I had a conversation.
Nobody was talking at his work.
How is that even possible in America today?
So my question is, what can we do?
Because the silence was deafening.
Deafening.
I am deputizing every single person listening to this show.
That's why we're putting all this information and making it available on Hannity.com.
I don't push my website a lot, but at this point, I am because the information is so valuable.
And if you can share it with your friends, your coworkers, your family, and people you run into, because honestly, I think this is going to be a very high turnout election at this point.
I think that you can help save the country.
I'm only one person, one voice.
Now, I do have a big platform.
I have two big platforms.
And I'm very grateful to all of you for giving me these platforms.
However, I can't do it on my own.
When I get to vote, I have one vote.
And not everybody listens to talk radio.
Not everybody watches Fox.
And they're not getting the information that you're getting on this show and on Fox.
They're not getting it.
Right.
So, like, I'm very happy to have the list.
So thank you for sharing that today.
And the website link, I'll be happy to share that.
But I know a lot of liberal people in North Carolina.
And I'm like, I don't know where to start.
Like, I don't even know.
Just send it to them and say, you know, listen to this and let's have a conversation.
I'll take you out for a cup of coffee, a glass of wine, a beer, whatever.
Right?
You know, and say, though, and in the spirit of your liberalness, I'll pay for it.
That's nice, yeah.
Liberals want everything else for free.
They want us to pay for their education, their loans that they took out and signed for.
Why wouldn't they want us to pay for a beer, a glass of wine, or a cup of coffee, right?
Anyway, I got a roll, Dolly.
Appreciate you out there.
Thank you.
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Let's say hi to Steve is out in Long Island in New York.
Steve, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Very good, Sean.
Big fan of yours.
First time I ever called you.
Thanks for taking the call.
Anybody, I think my friends miss me in Long Island.
I just got a very nice note from a friend today.
I have a lot of friends that they're all telling me the same thing.
Can we come visit in the winter when it's cold up here?
I'm like, sure, come on visit.
Absolutely.
My house is a revolving door.
Anybody could come.
That's true.
Anyway, the thing that I'd like to say about this is anybody that's 27 years of age or older, was old enough to vote, vote in 2016, as well as obviously 2020.
They witnessed what they had in 2016 to 2020.
And then they witnessed what they had between 2020 and 2024.
How they could possibly think the Democratic way was a better way in the sense that most people's 401k was cut in half under Biden and his administration.
Gasoline bullied between $3.50 and $5 a gallon.
And especially in a state like California, where it's $6 and $7 a gallon, and they're all for them for some strange reason.
And by the way, you got to take a loan to go fill up your refrigerator to fill up a family of four.
And I'm saying, why would you want to go back to that when Trump stabilized gas is about $229, $239 a gallon?
Your 401k was doing better one month after the other.
And by the way, let me sum it up for you, Steve.
Are you better off than you were four years ago on every one of the issues and others that you're mentioning?
That's it.
That's the question.
And if you think you're better off under Biden-Harris policies, I'm not going to be able to talk you out of it, but you're nuts because there's nothing I can point to that I think is better.
Anyway, make your quick final statement.
No, no, between 2016 and 2020, the blue-collar middle-class worker was so much better.
And I can't understand why they even consider this.
But then the other point that I'd like to say is I grew up in the Bronx, and my mom, she stayed there her whole life.
She passed away the last three years of life.
She died in 2020 in the nursing home.
But I used to go virtually every day, and there was a bodega right there.
And I'd pick up goodies for her, whatever she liked.
And one day I'm in there.
The guy who wanted was a Hispanic guy, and in front of me one day was a black guy, and they're talking Spanish back and forth.
I didn't understand it.
But then the black guy broke into English and he said, yo, let me tell you something.
He said, me and all my people are doing so much better under Trump than we did under any other president, including Obama.
This is the kind of stuff Trump always said.
He said, my tide will lift all boats.
Everyone will benefit from me.
But they talk as if he's a racist and he puts down lower class people and he doesn't want them to succeed at all.
In reality, that was not the case, but there doesn't seem to be much promotion of it.
Talk about that.
I'm just up on the clock, but you're right.
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
You can sum it up on any issue.
Ask yourself.
If Americans ask themselves that question and don't get caught up in the distractions of state-run media and the distractions of the Democrats, and if people get to know her record, Donald Trump will win.
It's that simple.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
God bless you and all my friends out in Long Island.
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