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First state, Pennsylvania rolls out around the country, and you've got the most radicalized ticket to ever run for the office of the presidency and vice presidency with Kamala Harris and the makeover.
It is the biggest lying campaign I've ever seen in all the years I've been covering politics.
I've never seen anything like this.
Now, there's a good reason for it.
We've been playing Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, in their own words.
And they are so radical, extreme.
Their policies are extraordinarily dangerous.
They're dangerous when it comes to national security at the border.
They're dangerous when it comes to law and order and safety and security in your town or your city.
It is dangerous when it comes to the economy and inflation and high taxes and new Green Deal, $93 trillion madness.
It is dangerous with no fracking and no drilling.
But they want you to forget everything that they have said.
They want you to believe that this is a new Kamala Harris, a new vision.
Although we don't know what she really thinks because we don't ever hear from her.
She wants to sound like a conservative.
She wants to sound like Donald Trump and is ripping him off left, right, and sideways.
She wants to decriminalize illegal immigration in the country, offer free housing, health care, education.
Same with Tim Walz, her political soulmate, and he's giving driver's licenses to illegals.
Now she's talking about a pathway to citizenship.
Let me tell you what that means.
That would be amnesty.
She has called for cutting and gutting our Defense Department.
And on top of that, now she's talking about eliminating the tax on tips.
The only problem is, she was the tiebreaking vote that put the tax on tips on hardworking service workers in the first place with the Inflation Reduction Act.
They said she was against drilling, and now they're saying, no, no, no, she's for drilling.
And you can't believe a single thing that she's saying.
And then on the issue of law and order, the two of them, political soulmates, were nothing but a disaster.
You want to, where's Liz Cheney when you need Liz?
And an investigation into the 574 riots in the summer of 2020 that resulted in dozens of dead Americans, billions in property damage, and, of course, thousands of cops injured when they were pelted with bricks, rocks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails.
But Tim Walz at the time was referring to the rioters that they were in a state of trauma and rightfully angry at a system that does not serve them.
This is what he said.
What can you say to Minnesota?
Are we going to be safe?
Are we going to be okay?
Our business is going to go down.
Your thoughts?
Well, it's my responsibility.
I would tell Minnesotans that we are doing everything in our power to do that.
And I want to hold those two truths at the same time.
The folks you see out there at Brooklyn Center are in trauma, and they're rightfully angry at a system that does not serve them and puts black youth and people of color at risk.
That is all absolutely true.
We also know from experience in May there will be those that will exploit that.
Okay.
Excuse me.
Let's make sure we got this right.
You know, everything in he was in power.
He had every bit of power to stop this.
He didn't lift a finger to stop the rioting.
His family wanted, and his wife even said it.
He opened the windows to their homes so they could smell burning tires and the smell of freedom.
Listen.
I would say those first days, you know, when there were riots, I could smell the burning tires.
And that was a very real thing.
And I kept the windows open for as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.
Let me keep the windows open so I can smell burning tires as a city is burning to the ground and people are being killed and businesses and dreams are being destroyed.
That's brilliant.
On top of his friendship with the radical imam who actually had no problem with what happened on October the 7th.
Listen.
I would like to, first of all, say thank you to Imam.
I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it.
And over the time we've spent together, one of the things, one of the things I've had the privilege of is seeing the things in life through the eye of a master teacher to try and get the understanding.
Unbelievable.
Anyway, here to comment on all of this is Leo 2.0 Terrell, Fox News contributor, civil rights attorney.
Trey Penny is back with us, president of the National Fallen Officers Foundation, veteran officer for many years himself.
And anyway, we got a lot of issues on the table.
You know, Leo, what do you make of this radical transformation?
No press conferences, no gaggles, no interviews, nothing.
We just hear from her campaign.
No, she's changed her mind on pretty much everything she ever believed in.
I'll tell you right now, you've got to keep doing what you just did and do it on your program because the Democrats are lying to the American people.
They have no problem lying, looking straight in the face of a camera, CNN, MSNBC, they're lying.
We know Kamala Harris is a socialist radical.
We know her VP is a socialist radical.
I live in California.
We've talked about this before.
She's lying.
She has protected cover from 90% of the media.
So you got to keep doing what you're doing.
You got to get the truth out there.
And we've got to use every avenue on the social platform media.
America will never elect a socialist president, Sean.
You know that and I know that.
We want liberty and freedom.
And what she's trying to do with a lot of Hollywood money is to lie to the American people.
So the key here is we have to expose the truth.
Nothing out of her mouth, nothing out of Tim Wall's mouth represents the truth.
We got to keep getting the truth out and you got to keep doing it around the clock.
And to your listeners, you got to get on social media 24-7.
We have to work harder today than we did yesterday.
We got to work harder tomorrow than we did today.
Well, I've been trying to deputize everybody in this audience.
We have on Hannity.com the Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Files, all their radicalism in their own words.
And I hope people will do exactly what you said.
Get on social media, talk to their friends, talk to their neighbors, talk to their coworkers, talk to strangers, talk to your family.
Anyway, Trey, let's get your take on this.
How do you let a city burn?
And how is it possible a family that's responsible for the safety and security of a city like Minneapolis wants to open the windows and smell burning tires and take in the moment?
I mean, why don't we just, you know, after roadkill of a skunk, why don't we smell that?
Because I don't really like the smell of burning rubber.
Do you?
That's sick.
It's sick, Sean.
And I'm going to tell you something.
I think maybe her and Tim Walsh have somehow been intoxicated by the fumes from those burning tires.
I will tell you this, that in the 19 months that it took to burn down the entire city of Minneapolis and burn down a police station, Tim Walsh did absolutely nothing.
And every law enforcement officer in that state knows that this is not the vice president that you want anywhere close to the White House.
Everyone knows it because of everything dealing with COVID and not locking people up with these draconian rules and guidelines that he had in place.
Everything from letting the rioters burn and destroy the cities there in Minneapolis and attacking law enforcement, attacking citizens.
How many people died from the attacks?
How many people were arrested and got off?
Think about that.
What did he say about that?
He didn't do anything for those people.
And it's unfortunate that they think that they can manipulate the minority community because they think that we're uninformed.
They think that we didn't experience it firsthand, that we don't know enough about their lackadaisical policies or their policies that show that they don't care about anybody but themselves.
Anybody that'll talk about rolling down the window and smelling some fumes as that being a sign of freedom is ignorance.
It doesn't make sense.
And the American people know it.
How is it, Leo, that you go from being the tiebreaking vote to basically sick the IRS on hardworking men and women in the service industry to go after people's tips.
And then all of a sudden you come out.
Oh, no, no, no, I'm going to follow Donald Trump.
We're not going to tax your tips now.
How is it you can be for a mandatory gun buyback program in her campaign says we don't know because she doesn't do an interview or answer any questions?
Oh, no, no, no, she's against that now.
She's all for a fracking ban, a drilling ban, but she's against that now.
He's all for eliminating ICE and defunding, dismantling, and reimagining the police.
But no, no, no, she doesn't believe any of that anymore.
I mean, the American people are going to fall for this crock.
I mean, the worst part of this, Leo, is we've got an information crisis because the media mobs, state-run media, Pravda, I mean, they're in the tank for her.
I mean, it's like they're worshiping at the altar of Kamala and covering up every single lie she's telling.
And add to that, the lies of her running mate about his military record.
How do you claim you were in a war zone?
You never were in a war zone.
How do you claim a rank that you never achieved?
You know, and if anybody else ever did this, I mean, look what they tried to do to George W. Bush.
It didn't work because it wasn't true.
It cost Dan Rather his job.
I'll tell you, Sean, the Democrats have recruited a arsenal of liars.
You get your Joy Reed, your Rachel Maddow, your Joe Behar, your Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski.
Get all those people and they get on television and they look straight into the camera and they lie.
I mean, what I found offensive, the first thing you mentioned, no tax on tips.
I was in Nevada in June when President Trump announced that.
And I saw some coverage on CBS today pouting Kamala Harris' plagiarism of that and made no reference, no reference to Donald Trump coming out with that three, four months ago.
What I'm saying to you, Sean, is what I said a few minutes ago.
If you don't do what you're doing, if I don't do what I'm doing, and I'm telling you right now, I'm trying to come up with other ways to get the message out because we have to negate the lie.
Because all those things you said are indefensible.
If she did an interview with you, just like you did that interview with Newsome and DeSantis, all you got to do is roll tape on her and she freezes.
You know, Joe Biden may have dementia, but this woman is brain dead upstairs.
She has no independent thought unless she's given a script.
And if she goes off script, she becomes a word salad.
So I'm telling all the Sean Henry viewers and listeners, you cannot even fall.
I'll give you four hours of sleep.
The other 20 hours, you got to get the message out.
You got to expose the lies.
I agree with that completely.
You know, it's got to be a little sensitive to you, Trey, because of all that you went through in 2016.
I mean, you were a veteran Dallas police sergeant.
You know, that sniper opened fire and law enforcement in Dallas, killing five officers, injuring several more, and the ambush sent a shockwave through the entire country, especially Texas, and altering the conversation about law enforcement, prompting state lawmakers to act.
And yet these people doubled down on supporting the people that are rioting.
I mean, she pushed out after they burned down the Minneapolis police precinct.
That's when she tweeted out that bail fund that ended up taking in over $40 million.
And the head of the bail fund said they didn't even look at the charges people were being, what they would be in charge with, and some of them were being charged with crimes like murder.
I mean, what the hell are they thinking?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what?
I think that was the worst time in American history for law enforcement.
That whole period with the whole Black Lives Matter movement.
And think about it.
Kamala Harris was actually on the side of the Rioters.
She actually promoted getting individuals that have been arrested out of jail.
You got to ask yourself, Sean, what person in their right mind would do that if they're trying to protect the American people?
Now, not only from a law enforcement perspective, I'm talking about it from a citizen perspective.
No one trusts Kamala Harris.
I went to an event the other day in the inner city, Sean, and everyone that was there, I mean, look, people talk about politics all the time.
But I will tell you that the black community does not support Kamala Harris.
I don't know what in the world that the media is trying to spew, what they're trying to convince.
They have not created a good argument for people in the inner city because they saw their communities just torn up and burned down during the whole Black Lives Matter wave.
They saw it.
And guess what?
For people that get so triggered by one riot, how did they ignore the 574 others that killed dozens of Americans, injured thousands of cops, and caused billions in property damage?
I mean, how do you somehow compartmentalize in your brain that one's bad and the rest are okay?
That's the liberal media.
The liberal media is promoting that.
That's not happening in the community.
The community know better.
They've experienced it.
They've looked at all these.
You look, you got builders right now that still haven't fully recovered from the riot.
You can go to a lot of these cities and still see what's going on, Sean.
So it's not like Kamala Harris can completely hide what she is and what she has become.
The American people know, and I'm going to encourage anyone, if you're over the age of 18, go out and vote.
Get it, people.
Well, if you're between the ages of 18 and 24, Kamalo says you're stupid.
Anyway, we'll put that as a side note.
Anyway, Trey Penny and Leo 2.0 Terrell.
Thank you both.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
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, let's get to our busy phones.
Pennsylvania.
Oh, we're going to need Pennsylvania desperately.
Early voting starts in just a mere 35 days.
Francine, how are you?
Glad you called.
Oh, hey, Sean, I am great.
How are you?
I'm good.
Glad you call.
Oh, hey, I listened to your show yesterday.
You had two pollsters on, and they were talking about how Trump is flipping in the polls and that he needs to counter her ads.
And her ads are all over social media, and I concur.
I am so frustrated.
I have a Roku.
I watch Roku live, and all I see are Harris ads.
And I will tell you, they are well done.
They are slick.
And if I didn't know any better, I would vote for her.
So I am.
Well, here's the good news that came out today.
Oh, good.
I'm not sure what group it is, but there's a $100 million ad buy by this one group that is beginning in all seven swing states.
Now, you're going to see them, but there might not, there might be people in other states that are considered safe states, and you're probably not going to see a lot of Trump ads there.
So that's the beginning.
The campaign is pretty flush with cash.
My last, I guess the last article I read about money on hand was over $400 million.
I think there'll be more available to them.
And then you've got, I don't know about these super PACs, but there are a lot of them.
And my understanding is there's a lot of money being spent.
But I agree with both Matt and Robert, Matt Towery and Robert Cahaly, that they've got to start dropping their ads now.
They can't wait any longer.
Because of early voting.
Because of early voting.
You're exactly right.
What's the feeling on the ground where you are?
Where are you in Pennsylvania?
I'm in Erie County.
We are like the biggest swing county in the state.
Erie County, you're going to see a lot of ads, and you're right.
You've got to start seeing Trump ads.
The ads, the ones that I have seen that people share with Sweet Baby James and et cetera, you know, they're very effective.
I mean, tremendously effective.
And what I would love to see President Trump do is stay on two issues, the economy and energy, especially for Pennsylvania.
And we can talk border safety.
By the way, it was an article today that her call to ban fracking is not going over well in your state of Pennsylvania.
And she's not going to be able to walk that back and say, oh, no, never mind.
Now that I'm running for president, never mind.
That's not going to fly.
The people of Pennsylvania are not going to buy that.
These are high-paying career jobs that keeps taxes low in Pennsylvania.
One of the best things Pennsylvania ever did economically in your state.
Yeah.
And I am in an industry, I'm a hairdresser, I'm in an industry that relies on tips.
So when the president said no tax on tips, and I'm a senior citizen who's eligible for Social Security, so when he said no tax on Social Security, those are huge.
Those are huge.
And I would also say that she tried to steal his effort for lowering the price on insulin.
She didn't do that.
Trump did that.
But sure.
Look, if you want secure borders, Trump's your guy because he did it and he'll do it again.
You want open borders madness and the biggest national security threat in our time, vote for them.
If you want law and order, then vote for Trump because Donald Trump believes in law and order and he believes in the police and refunding them, not reimagining them and defunding them and no bail laws.
Kamala believes in all of that.
And if any institution wants to know what's going on in America, please have a town hall with hairdressers and barbers, please.
I think they're the coolest people ever.
I mean, you get more gossip from a barber than you ever get.
I don't go to a hairdressing place, but I love the gossip that goes on in a barbershop.
I'm not going to lie.
Well, we'll tell you what's going on.
Our clients will tell us what's going on in their lives.
And a lot of my clients are very, very concerned about what's coming.
And they're struggling with this economy.
They're absolutely struggling.
We just got, we were talking about our insurance bills, homeowners, car insurance, how they have skyrocketed.
We're suffering here.
Let me give you the latest today about the economy.
59% of Americans feel that America is in a recession because that's what they're living.
That's the reality that they're living.
Nearly 40% of Americans cannot pay their bills.
Auto insurance rates just went up 15% in the first half of this year on top of the price increases the last two years.
Donald Trump Jr.
had a good line.
He said the fuse has already lit on America's economic time bomb because of them.
But Kamala's out there.
I'm now proposing no tax on tips and I'm going to end inflation on day one.
What have you been doing for four years?
And I'm going to secure the border and drill baby drill.
What's next?
You know, it's she used the IRS to target tip workers like yourself.
I always carry, I'm old school.
I don't know about you.
Do you like to carry cash?
I carry cash.
Probably shouldn't say that publicly, but I like to carry cash.
What?
Yes, I think.
And, you know, because I like to tiff a lot of people because I worked in the service industry.
You know, if I go to wherever I am, I mean, if somebody does something for me, you know, here, here's a 20, here's a this, whatever it is.
You know, I don't do it that way in restaurants because I just can't.
But, you know, do I think those people report those cash tips?
I have no idea.
That's up to them.
It's not on me.
That is correct.
That is their business.
And I used to take my daughter to get a Manny and Petty, which I hated, but I'd have to take her.
Well, she got a little embarrassed because I realized if I hired two people, it would go much faster.
And then once I tried to hire three people at once to make it go even faster, and she pulled me aside when we got out and she said, Daddy, that is humiliating.
I'm like, why?
He goes, nobody does that, Dad.
Nobody.
And I'm like, well, how about two people?
He goes, Dad, no.
You're supposed to enjoy the experience.
I said, that doesn't look too enjoyable to me to put your feet in a swimming pool.
But the people that worked at the salon loved me because, you know, I gave them a big tip.
I'd say, can you please move this along?
Earlier, you said that you hire.
So, see, when we're spending our money, we are hiring.
We are paying people.
We are stimulating the economy.
Right.
But if it's going to cost me more money because of my insurance, my groceries, I cannot tell you how my clients complain about gas and groceries.
Oh, my God.
Gas, grocery, and what are they going to do if they want to get their hair colored?
That's a luxury item.
They're not going to be able to afford it.
That means your income is going to go down.
I work the same hours that I have for many years.
And the last two years, I had to take a 12% decrease in pay.
That's ridiculous.
Because the cost of my supply.
The best year I ever had in my entire career, Sean, was in 2019.
The best.
I love the years.
Everybody, it's on every issue.
Francine, God bless you.
If I was in Pennsylvania, I'd go get my hair cut by you.
Even though I'm kind of simple.
I don't do anything.
Just a straight-up haircut.
No big deal.
Hey, come back to Erie again.
You were here years ago.
We may be out on the road.
Stay tuned, okay?
I'm stuck in Chicago next week.
You want to come to Chicago to that Adam Schiff show that I have to go to?
Oh, no, thank you.
I don't want to go to Chicago.
But I'll watch it.
I got my whole martial arts dojo going with me for protection.
I don't think they're going to like me there.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm just assuming something that's not true.
I don't think so.
Thank you, Francine.
And Linda, by the way, a lot of help she is.
She goes, I'm not going to be seen with you.
I'm not going anywhere near you.
Did you not say that?
I did say that.
I said it proudly.
I own it.
It's part of my charm is my directness and my desire for survival.
So like I'll have like an army bring me into where we're doing radio at an undisclosed location.
And it will, you know, we'll have Sensei and company there.
And that's the only time you'll see me.
Yeah, I mean, that's the only time I saw you at the RNC, too.
But, you know, I was also hanging out with all the regular people, you know, and, you know, you're up on stage and all those things.
I hang out with the regular people.
You mean up on stage?
I wasn't up on stage.
I was doing a TV show.
Yeah, on stage.
On a set, wherever you want to call it.
Well, I just want you to know it was you.
I wouldn't abandon you that way.
Well, if you really want me there, I'll be there.
But you just have to do what I say when I say to do it.
So, you know, how I handle these situations may be a little different than you and Sensei.
That's all I'm saying.
The fact that the words you say may end up, well, it may end up causing a lot of people a lot of problems.
First of all, I want you to eat one hot dog.
You have to have one bite of one hot dog and at least try it.
First of all, you have to give me more credit than that.
I've been here a long time.
I don't get anybody in trouble.
however my vernacular may vary a touch from the peacekeeping people that may want things to be a little more quiet whereas i probably when i walk through there and people say if you had any good Well, yeah, but I don't respond to that.
I mean, not for nothing.
When you saw the people down there screaming and saying they hated you, you were the one who went down in the middle of it in London.
It wasn't me.
That was you.
I did.
I don't regret it.
I don't regret it either.
But I'm just saying, that wasn't friendly fire by any means.
No, it was insane, actually, when the bobbies came over and said, Will you get out of here, please?
Please, can we escort you out of here now?
You've got to leave now.
It was a lot.
Well, I didn't know I'd be as recognizable in London as I was.
And I said, Oh, they got an anti-Trump protest.
Let me go down there with a camera and we'll film it, and I'll interview some of these nitwits.
And I got spotted immediately, and let's say a little crowd formed and got bigger and bigger.
There was 100,000 plus people there, man.
They fully found it.
Well, the crowd around us got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger very quickly.
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All right, quick break, right back to our phones.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue up next, our final roundup and information overload hour.
All right, back to our busy phones, 800-941-Sean, if you'd like to join us.
Kevin in North Carolina.
Hey, Kevin, we need you and your fellow North Carolinians in just 85 days, my friend.
84, actually.
That's right, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call, man.
My thing that I've been looking at is just the effort to vetting Kamala.
And, you know, we just, I feel like we're putting too much towards that.
I mean, we've vetted Obama for 15, 16 years.
We've told everything about him.
And those people would go out today and vote for him again.
You're talking about Obama?
Yeah.
There was very little to vet on Obama.
Obama didn't.
I mean, we vetted Wright and Ayers and Dorn and Alinsky, but he didn't have a voting record.
He wasn't on record saying no fracking, no drilling, defund, dismantle, decriminalize illegal immigrants, free health care, free education.
Yeah.
Yeah, but all the people on the left, they would vote for him.
They're going to vote for Kamala.
What I feel like we need to do is get our people fired up.
They're going to vote for him.
Trying to shift.
Let me just take issue with you.
The reason that they're running from their current positions is because they know they can't win if America knows what she said and who she is.
That's why they are.
I totally agree with you on that, but I don't think we have time.
I think we have time.
We have millions of people sitting on their butt not going to vote.
And that's on them, but they need to get up and they need to vote.
But if we can get some people to fire them up to get them on their feet, I'm talking about the regular Americans that are out working every day.
You know, they're like, oh, yeah, I'll vote for Trump.
And then the day comes and they don't do it and they sit at home.
And I know you've been talking about that.
But, you know, if we could spend the next 40 days before the election starts firing them up, getting them off their butt so they will go vote.
You know, I'm not going to miss that.
I'm going out.
I'm voting.
But I know a bunch of people that are just like, you know, maybe I will, maybe I won't.
I feel like we could get those people a lot quicker and easier than we could get the people that you're trying to turn from Kamala.
I'm just trying to educate people.
There's never been a presidential candidate, vice presidential candidate that has been this extreme, radical, and dangerous.
And most people don't know what this audience knows.
So I have to keep playing it.
I have to keep repeating it.
And I have to keep reminding people so that by the time early voting starts in 35 days, people have it at the tip of their tongue.
And I don't like to repeat myself to hear myself as awesome as Trump.
That's what I want to get past.
I mean, there's never.
Don't you think most people know where Donald Trump stands at this point?
I do.
Yeah, but I think they do, but I think they're too lazy to get up and go vote for him.
They better get off their ass and vote because if they don't, they're going to get the government from hell that they deserve.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm saying.
We need to fire those people up and get them out of their couch or out of work.
I mean, if we can get employers, that's one thing that I've thought of.
If employers would tell their, hey, you get a half a day off, just bring me the I voted sticker.
Like, send people out.
Get them going.
I hear you.
I hope.
I don't think it's a bad idea.
I've been telling people now forever, vote early, vote by mail, overcome your reluctance, resistance, and do your part.
If you don't do your part and assume that your vote is the tipping point for this election, then you're letting your country down at this point.
And we'll get the government we don't deserve.
In a way, we will deserve it.
And I don't think we can come back from this.
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