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Can Harris Lead? - August 29th, Hour 1

Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers fill in for Sean and talk about Vice President Harris' readiness to be the leader of the free world.  Spoiler alert: She's not!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is Eric Eggers, and I'm joined by Peter Schweitzer.
And we're so excited to be guest hosting and filling in for Sean again here on the Sean Hannity Show.
We co-host a program called the Drill Down, where we regularly expose cronyism and corruption with best-selling Peter Schweitzer, who has been leading the charge in exposing the corruption in the Biden family, and now in the Kamala Harris presidency, potentially.
Peter Schweitzer, how are you doing?
Hey, I'm doing great.
It's good to be here with you, Eric.
And yeah, we're gonna talk today about Kamala Harris, Tim Walls, things that people may not have heard about them.
We're also gonna try to figure out why all this hype exists around Kamala Harrison, what can be done to sort of expose the truth.
Make sure that people understand exactly um what these individuals have in their background.
Yeah, I love the intro because we just heard from RFK Jr. saying that the DNC basically has fabricated like a magic show, the enthusiasm around the Kamala Harris candidacy.
And you also heard Bernie Sanders say, uh, don't ask me about what her policies are.
Ask her.
And that's why today is such a big day and why it's so fun to be filling in for Sean on this day, because it's almost like Christmas morning.
Because tonight, for the first time in a long time, for the first time, actually in 63 days, Peter Schweitzer, we're going to hear from Kamala Harris.
You know, it there's that phrase in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Uh, in the land of political kind of we're all in the bag for Kamala Harris.
Softball pre-recorded questions from CNN's Dana Bash passes for real journalism.
Yeah, here's the headline, by the way, on CNN.
Harris's CNN interview is the latest highly anticipated moment in a wild presidential race.
In other words, this is kind of like a presidential summit.
This is like staring down Putin.
This is like meeting G. The hype behind this is ridiculous.
She's sitting down with Dana Bash.
Um, she's going to be asked softball questions, right?
We can assume that.
And she actually brought her wingman, Tim Walls along.
I mean, he's kind of the chaperone to this event.
And yet they're treating it like this is some massive interview that's going to be a real test of her ability to be president.
Yeah.
Rather than a summit with G, I'd actually more accurately compare it to like, let's imagine you left town and you didn't feed your cat and you've come back after like four days, and that cat is starving and it's thirsty, and they're so excited.
That's essentially what Kamala Harris and her handlers have done.
They've starved the media beast.
So now people will lap up anything they have to offer them.
And it's been reported that whatever the conditions are of this interview with CNN's Dana Bash, and we've got stuff to suggest that she may be something less than a neutral arbiter of truth in this interview.
Uh, whatever the conditions were, they weren't CNNs, they were the campaigns.
Correct.
I'm sure what the campaign did is they went around to all the media outlets, the friendly media outlets, and said, Look, here are our terms.
We're gonna give it to you.
If you don't agree to them, we'll just go to someone else.
So we know that Tim Wals is included, it's not one-on-one.
We know that it's pre-taped.
So it means if there's a flub, uh, the campaign can press CNN to edit it out or allow there to be some kind of a modification.
Uh, and again, this is stuff that is is really junior league.
I mean, if you're gonna be president of the United States, she's been vice president of the United States.
She's presumably been overseas and met with foreign leaders, but this fear and this anxiety and this anticipation for it's a friendly interview.
It's like it's like Donald Trump going on Fox.
I mean, you know, he's gonna ask questions, but it's not gonna be hostile.
Um, and and you know, it should be something she she should be doing regularly, but she's not.
You know what it almost sounds like.
It almost sounds like you're suggesting that we consider the context of this interview.
Listen to one of my favorite philosophers and thought leaders, encourage us to consider the context of all things.
My mother used to, she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, I don't know what's wrong with you young people.
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree.
You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
The audio doesn't do it justice because when you watch her say that, she does this pause with her face as if like I am crushing it right now.
And you guys should be just you are welcome for this.
So we do we should consider the context in which this interview is occurring.
The context is this.
The last time we heard from Kamala Harris was 63 days ago on the heels of the presidential debate.
When she said this.
Yes, there was a slow start, but it was a strong finish.
And what became very clear through the course of the night is that Joe Biden is fighting on behalf of the American people on substance, on policy, on performance.
Joe Biden is extraordinarily strong.
Yeah, that's that's pretty amazing, right?
Um, that's what that was her assessment of what Joe Biden did, and of course, that's what led that same performance that she was praising and saying is so great, is what led Joe Biden ultimately to drop out of the race.
So maybe not the strong finish she suggested that it had been uh, in fact, fact check.
Now, what we do at the Government Accountability Institute, of which Peter Schweitzer is the president, what we do on our drill down podcast, and what Peter has done successfully in his many number one New York Times bestselling books is expose truth and expose the things that the government tries to lie to us about.
What we just heard Kamala Harris do was lie to us about Joe Biden's fitness for office.
That lie has since been exposed.
Um, but we're now being sold another lie, Peter Sweitch.
And that's kind of one of the things we're gonna talk to you about today.
We have a lot of really other cool stuff to talk about.
We're gonna hear from John Void about the film Reagan.
We're gonna hear from Susan Crabtree, real core politics about another lie the government's telling us as it relates to Secret Service.
Uh, and we'll hear from people that lived through Tim Waltz's tyranny in Minnesota.
But the lie we're currently being sold is that Kamala Harris is not just competent as a presidential candidate, but maybe the most accomplished and most experienced and most ready to be president.
Yeah, that's what we're being told.
And and I gotta tell you, um I might do something that I've never done before, which is Call a personal injury attorney.
Because I have whiplash.
When you look at what the media has done, what they were saying just a couple of months ago to what they're doing now, it's it's it's really remarkable.
And I tell you, there's i i I would encourage people to go and check out this book called The Truce that was published in January of this year by two left wing journalists.
January of this year.
January this year, yeah.
Not that long ago.
Yeah, exactly.
And and this is by two left wing journalists, and it is sort of the inside look of the Democratic Party, published by a major pub publisher, Brian Steltzer of previously of CNN says everything you need to know about the state of the Democratic Party is in this book.
And it's got, you know, great quotes from other people saying what an incredible, deeply reported look this is.
And if you go through this book, you find all these amazing statements about Kamala Harris, about um the toxic culture uh that existed in her staff.
Um they interviewed hundreds of people and they say that they are all remarkably consistent uh about her mismanagement, the toxic culture.
They quote one aide of saying she's not ready for time prime time.
She ain't made for this.
And the quotes go on and on and on.
And yet now what we're told is this is the person that's gonna give us a new amazing administration, that she's energetic, she's you know, full of new ideas, she's creative.
In other words, the same consensus that existed in the national media before this was that she is not ready for prime time.
And in fact, the book even says the consensus among White House aides was that Joe Biden was gonna have to run for re-election because she was not ready for it.
They which by the way is a very important point because you can wonder how did we get to the point where the debate in late June happened where Joe Biden, someone who universally a deceit, it seems, was recognized to not be up for the gig, not be up for the task.
I mean, the debate was held after four PM is bedtime, by the way.
So how dare they do that?
In some states, that's elder abuse.
But what how is it possible that they were trying to prop up a guy that they were so quickly ready to discard, if not for what you just said, which is that the replacement was even worse, which by the way, is what we were told after the fact, right?
There was those three weeks that Joe Biden hung on uh for Dear Life was we were told that Kamala Harris is actually even less popular than he is.
Yeah, that's right.
And you know, as we've talked about uh before when we guest hosted for Sean before, the real driving force behind Joe Biden leaving office was Barack Obama.
And and I think that is what pushed him out of office.
Barack Obama's close to Kamala Harris.
Uh and I think what they have decided because they know of the weaknesses, they talk about her weaknesses in this book.
The solution is to simply adopt the baseman strategy of 2020.
She's not going to do interviews.
And by the way, I'm old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan was president and he was walking in the White House lawn, Sam Donaldson would be screaming at him.
I remember when uh the CNN correspondent would be screaming at Trump to take questions, to take his question.
We don't get any of that with Kamala Harris.
Nobody is screaming and trying to beat down the doors and say, why are you not prepared to even sit down and talk to somebody uh in the mainstream media about what your views are?
So Kamala Harris has received some criticism for the fact that she's doing this interview not alone.
She's not just doing an interview as for the first time as the Democratic nominee for president.
She's bringing her running mate, Governor Tim Waltz with her.
You think that's significant.
I think it is significant.
I mean, look, the official line that they're giving is, well, after a convention, that's what always happens.
Both of them sit down together.
But that's when the interview takes place, like, right at the convention or after the convention.
It's been a couple of weeks.
Or maybe even before the convention, after the person's been named as the running.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I mean, th this to me, clearly, he is the chaperone.
He's the one that if we get one of her word salads, if she kind of goes off and talks about coconut trees again, uh, he's somebody that can kind of bring it back in kind of a strange way.
I mean, the the this guy is not what you would call sort of a calming, settling influence, but that's clear to me that that that's the reason that he's going to be doing this interview.
And then the question is going to become after this, because I imagine the interview is going to go pretty well.
Dana Bash is going to ask, you know, easy questions.
Let's remember that her uh former husband was one of the 51 intelligence people that uh signed that document, you know, helping the Biden campaign, saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
Uh, you know, so it's going to be a pretty easy interview.
Then the question becomes when is she actually going to do one on her own with somebody that's even slightly possibly going to ask her aggressive questions?
No, it's a great question.
I I like to compare what's happening now to if you ever bought a house, and the way we buy houses in this country is super weird, because you look online, you get excited about what you see, and then you like go and tour the house, and then you agree to buy the house, and then you do the inspection.
Yeah, and then you find out what's wrong, and then you question all your life choices, you try to renegotiate the price.
So we've been sold in Chicago, and for the last 40 plus days, we see the glossy Zillow pictures of the Kamala Harris house online.
And tonight, for the first time, we get maybe a sneak peek at the inspection report.
We find out, you know, are there cobwebs in the attic?
Are there migrants hiding in the basement?
Are there structural problems as lots of the reporting before this time has suggested that there are?
Yeah.
So we hope that there's at least something resembling a decent inspection of the presidential campaign, but we don't think that that's gonna happen.
No, I don't think that's gonna happen.
Because look, I mean, CNN, in addition to having the biases that they have, and you know, look, we used to work with CNN all the time.
Uh, not anymore.
But they have their biases, but on top of that, this is the way that the media game is played by the Democrats.
If they press her with aggressive questions, guess what?
CNN's not going to get any more interviews, they're not going to get any access.
They play this game very well.
And this is where you have to give Donald Trump a lot of credit.
Trump goes on CNN.
He's agreed to do a debate uh on ABC News, knowing sort of the hostility of uh some of the journalists there.
So he's willing to go uh off and and have tough questions hurled at him.
She's not demonstrated an ability to even sit down with friendly journalists, not you know, to mention hostile ones.
And of course, the question is if if you can't stand up to a hostile media question, how are you gonna stand up to G?
How are you gonna stand up to Putin?
No, it's a great question.
It's one that won't be asked by CNN's Dana Bash tonight, but that's okay.
That's what we're here for.
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When we come back, Peter Schweitzer and me, Eric Eggers, we'll tell you some of the things you won't hear tonight on CNN.
We'll tell you some of the problems that have already been exposed in the foundation of this Kamala Harris campaign.
We've got a bit of a lying problem in both Kamala Harris and Tim Moss.
We'll tell you about that next.
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We are talking about Kamala Harris, the anticipation that she's actually going to face down Dana Bash with Tom Tim Waltz there, of course.
Uh, the interview coming out tonight, everybody's a buzz.
Uh, but you were talking earlier before the break about the fact that there is a history here with both Walls and Kamel Harris with frankly lying about their past in small things, but also in some big things as well.
Yeah, it seems kind of inconsequential, but when you consider the larger context, if you like, whether or not you consider the coconut tree as part of that, uh then I think it maybe adds up to wait, why should we believe you?
So uh Kamala Harris started claiming in 2019 in Breitbart's reporting that some reporting really well done by the Washington Free Beacon.
She started claiming that she had a job at McDonald's, uh, you know, when she was younger, but she first mentions it in 2019.
There's no mention of it in either of her memoirs, which came out obviously as she was launching and building her political career.
Uh, and then the Washington Free Beacon has gone and gotten a form of a 1987 job application in which she has been required to list every previous employment experience.
Guess what's not on there?
McDonald's.
McDonald's is not on there.
Yeah.
And so it's like if they're lying about that, like if Tim Waltz is lying about winning the young Nebraskan award, and you know, lying about much larger things, like did you carry a weapon in war?
What was your rank?
Yeah, yeah.
That's a good media should hold them accountable for.
They should.
And in fact, things of really high consequence.
We're going to talk about this in the four o'clock hour.
Kamala Harris has toute the fact that she has been an aggressive prosecutor of sexual crimes against minors.
Um, that is perhaps I think the biggest lie that he has shown.
In fact, we're going to show in the four o'clock hour how she actually covered up massive numbers of crimes in San Francisco when she was the prosecutor, that she did so because the people that were backing her campaign financially were desiring that this problem just sort of go away.
And it's it's a massive scandal that has been hinted at by a couple news outlets.
The Associated Press covered it in a slight way in 2019, but we are gonna dissect it in its entirety.
Coming up after this break, we're gonna be talking to the great John Voigt about the new film Reagan.
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It is the Sean Hannity Show, Eric Eggers and Peter Schwarzer fill in for Sean.
And we are so excited, not just about our next guest, but about the film that he's in, which debuts in theaters nationwide tomorrow.
It's Reagan, which doesn't take a genius to figure out Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan, Peter Schweitzer, you actually wrote a book and have been involved in a film about Ronald Reagan as well.
Yeah, absolutely.
A great, wonderful, heroic figure.
And I'm thrilled to have John Voigt with us because not only is one of my favorite actors, but he's actually in this film, and he plays, I think, a very important role because I've always believed that the people that understood Reagan the best were the Soviets, and that's why they hated him so much because they knew what he was about.
Uh John, are you there?
Yes, I'm I'm with you guys.
I'm you two are my you know heroes.
So I'm just listening to my heroes, uh doing what they do.
Oh, you you are you are wonderful.
Uh I have enjoyed so many of your films, and I'm looking forward to seeing Reagan.
I have not seen it yet.
Tell me, John, what was it like when they came to you about this film?
And they were they told you we don't actually want you to play Reagan or one of Reagan's people.
We want you to play this KGB agent who's trying to dissect who Reagan is and counter what Reagan does.
Yeah, well I thought that they should show me the script, and I and it was a big sprawling script at the time, and uh Dennis was attached to it, and uh they uh and I looked at it and I thought it was a very good idea that they had uh to show uh this fellow who actually car he he he he's assigned to follow the people who might be of
danger in the into the future.
So they have having pro profiles of various people across the world, and they found this guy who's talking against communism and was a successful actor in Hollywood and and then had a political bent too.
So they they watched him from the beginning, and they put this guy uh in the film, they put this guy on to him.
Now, this is not a uh a real character of that name, but it represented several people that were doing this work for the Soviets.
And so I thought it was uh appropriate.
And I thought anybody who followed Reagan uh, you know, would be affected by him.
And I and I thought that the film charted that kind of course and and it was a good idea.
And I I I was right.
I think when you see the film you'll you'll see that it's it works quite well, and uh it it would have been uh lesser had uh had somebody else been the um the narrator of his his uh rise and his challenges and his uh uh and uh interpreting his work, you know.
Yeah, I think Peter and I both believe this is an important film that occurs in an important moment in time in this nation, and so we're we're very excited about the fact that so many people will get the chance to see this film.
Uh John, I I did a little bit of research into you and your process, and you've spoken repeatedly about the importance of preparation in uh how you become such an accomplished actor.
And I'm just wondering in your efforts and your preparation to play someone who works in communist Russia, which Democrat did you watch the most?
That's it.
Well, you know, the joke is very uh telling.
Uh obviously there is behavior that is in our own country and in one of our political parties that is very similar to the Soviet behavior.
Uh and unfortunately.
But uh I uh there was a fellow by the name of Yuri Bezmanov.
Do you know anything about those?
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Well well, he's he he was an amazing fellow who was a dissident from the Soviet Union, became uh was a spy, was an effective spy, I think, and uh, and then found found that he could he couldn't continue.
He was sickened by what he saw and what he was asked to do and he became a dissident and then he found himself in this country in in the United States.
And then at one point he felt probably that he had a responsibility, had a moment of conscience.
He said, I know what's going on and I should tell them, you know, I should warn them.
And so he went on a uh on a um made an effort to get people the information about what was happening to our country, how we were being uh eroded from within and the t the techniques involved in that.
And so I went to school on him.
I thought he was a terrific guy and very smart and laid out the plan very clearly.
And it followed what the script was saying about this character and, you know, the unions, getting involved with the unions.
And had the focus on Hollywood and the press and stuff.
So anyway, it was a good connection, I kind of based my character a little bit on on the things that I found out from Yuri Bezmanov.
Yeah it seems to me I again I haven't seen the film but I'm familiar with the book that the film was based on a great book done by my dear friend Paul Kengore.
So this is really a film I think ultimately about character and leadership.
So you know when people think of oh it's a film about Reagan that was forty years ago it it's really not this is kind of timeless principles of leadership.
When you think of Reagan and and what he accomplished and and your work in this film, what are those character traits that really stand out to you with Reagan and and how are they important and relevant today?
Because we don't face the Soviet Union but we face China.
We face all these other threats.
We face domestic threats that I would argue are as relevant and as dangerous as the Soviet Union ever was during the Cold War.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I think we are seeing a great similarity to what Reagan was warning about.
The thing that he wasn't able to erase was the work that was done since the 40s and 50s.
Finding ways into our country and into our various spots like the universities.
And taking God out of the schools was one of their plans.
So focusing on these young people coming up, getting into the universities in key positions, getting into the teachers'unions, getting into the press.
And they have very specific ideas about what to get into, get into the editorial position, newspapers, getting into this and that.
And they had a menu of many.
There was a book out called The Naked Communist by a former FBI agent in 1958 that came out.
And much of that went into our own files.
And we knew all about it.
You know, what was happening to us.
And yet we didn't raise the alarm at all over those years.
And it happened.
Over my lifetime, I saw it happen, how they took over the universities.
We see the result of it with all of these demonstrations and, you know, when the presidents of these universities expressed themselves and realized that these people are incompetent and they're not.
they're wrong headed and they're dangerous and that's who are who's running these these universities now so they accomplished uh all that over the years it once it started it just took off and had its own energy and that we're facing the full bloom of it right now.
So when you say it's like the Soviet Union here's a lot of uh there's a lot of uh aspects to that we are really um uh taken over from within.
We're speaking with legendary actor and Hollywood uh legend, John Voigt, John stars in the film Reagan, uh, which debuts in theaters tomorrow nationwide.
Um I was curious because you've had this amazing career and you've managed to star in blockbusters and mainstream films.
This film hopefully is a blockbuster, hopefully it does incredibly well, but it's clearly a film with a conservative message and ethos or in it in terms of traditional American values.
Films like that seem to attract the same smaller group of actors.
Uh is that a coincidence or is it challenging for people that might believe in these types of things to work in a film like this and get regular mainstream work because you seem like you've been able to do that throughout your career.
Yeah, well, it there's been a division in Hollywood, there's no doubt about it.
It's very difficult for for conservative actors to to uh or to be openly conservative.
So uh it's it's been a tough time, but uh hopefully that's turning around because of the economics involved, you know.
Uh people are yearning for for films that have a moral base and celebrate uh country too.
So uh so we'll see we'll see a change perhaps, but um we're right in the middle of the war of it now, don't you think?
This is it.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah, yep, exactly.
Which makes people showing up to see the film this weekend uh all the more relevant, right?
If you want to support projects like this, if you want to see more films like this, then films like this have to do well.
Yeah, well, I think it uh yes, I'm uh I'm I'm hoping that it will do very well.
It's a great film, by the way, for the people who are listening.
It's a wonderful film.
And uh the acting is terrific and the script is terrific.
It's it's just a great film.
It leaves you with a terrific feeling.
Uh um and it's also very moving.
And it's also a portrait of a love story.
It's uh uh it shows you the story between Nancy and Ronnie had a had a beautiful uh uh a beautiful life together.
They relied on each other, they were a partnership, and they uh it was a great love story.
And uh the performances of uh Dennis and Penelope and Miller are just wonderful.
So I uh I know you know you can and you can bring the family to it, of course.
So it's uh it's it's a terrific film.
Go go see it.
You'll want to more than once, probably.
It's great.
Yeah, well, we we are definitely going to see it.
Um I haven't seen a movie in the theater in a while just because there's so much out there that I don't like, but I am looking forward to seeing this, and we appreciate you, John, very much making the time.
Uh I've loved your work over the years.
We appreciate your outspokenness and and just the great body of work that you've done uh over the course of the decades, and and we look forward to hearing about what's next.
That's wonderful.
That's it's great to talk to you both.
Much love.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We were talking with the great John Voigt, uh, the film coming up is Reagan.
Uh definitely when was the last time you went to the theater, Eric?
Well, I have small children, so uh I'm regularly looking to kind of farm out my parenting responsibility, and I'm happy to let the godless heathens in Hollywood tales handle that for a little while.
And I'm even willing to overpay for popcorn to do it.
So I'm there.
But he is Peter Schweitzer, I'm Eric Eggers, and you can judge my parenting later.
This is the Sean Handy show.
We'll be right back after this.
Welcome back.
It's Eric Eggers and Peter Schweitzer filling in for Sean Handy on the Thursday afternoon.
Now, Peter, we were just speaking during the break.
We just talked to the legendary John Void who's starring in this film about Ronald Reagan, which debuts again in theaters this weekend.
Now you have another California politician who's running for president.
And one difference between the two of them is when Ronald Reagan ran for president, he lived his career very much in the public spot, like he'd been an actor, he'd been governor.
We knew a lot about his past and even policy reversals he'd experienced and explained.
But Kamala Harris is maybe less so that way.
Yeah, that's right.
And I think one of the things we try to do at the Government Accountability Institute, we try to do on our podcast, the drill down, is expose stories that the media is not covering.
When they're zigging, we're zagging because ultimately that's how you get information out.
And the problem is you ask most people, even informed people what they actually know about what Kamala Harris did as a prosecutor or what she didn't do as a prosecutor.
When you look at some of the other scandalous questions about conflicts of interest, about covering up potential crimes for family members or for major campaign donors, nobody knows about it.
Nobody knows about it.
So we're gonna talk about that here in the four o'clock hour and do the job that the media is not doing because this is information that everybody should know.
And here we are, she might be president in a couple of months.
And people know very little about her record when she was uh in California.
Now, that's despite your best efforts because you actually did a whole chapter on Kamala Harris in your book Profiles and Corruption, which came out in 2020.
Yeah.
So this is four years ago, and we kind of did an analysis of the political vulnerabilities and scandals and corruption examples that were true for a number of potential Democratic front runners.
Kamala Harris, I think we had some of the better material there, but that's not stuff you've seen anywhere else.
It hasn't been referenced on a regular basis.
And that's because Kamala Harris herself, as a presidential candidate, performed so poorly.
She didn't do well enough to even get asked the tough questions.
And what's crazy is that she's now managed to become the actual presidential nominee without winning any primaries, without facing again any challenging questions that allegedly changed tonight.
I don't think it will, but the point is that's why this information matters so much.
This has been out there for four years, but you probably haven't heard about it.
Major scandals related to Kamala Harris.
Yeah, we've got new updates on Kamala Harris, uh, and I think it's important to understand where and how she uses power.
Because when she was a prosecutor in California, she engaged in massive abuses of power.
And I think when you look at the sort of things that are happening in the Department of Justice under Joe Biden, I will tell you, if she becomes president of the United States, you probably have not seen anything remotely resembling what she's about to do because her ability to use and abuse the power of the courts for her political benefit is unmatched in my mind.
Yeah, and by the way, we'll hear in the five o'clock hour from somebody who lived under Tim Waltz's Minnesota COVID tyranny who will say you do not want this lack of liberty at the federal level.
So coming up, we will hear about Kamala Harris and the lies she's telling you and how it covers up the real scandal in her track record.
That's next on the Sean Hannity Show.
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