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Hannity and Trump - September 5th, Hour 2
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The only responsibility I will take for Donald Trump is to make sure he is not re-elected.
But you are right.
Prices, in particular for groceries, are still too high.
The American people know it.
I know it.
They talk about small government, small enough to be in your bedroom, small enough to be in your exam room, small enough to be in your library, telling you the things that you should make decisions about.
Mind your own business.
The clock is sticking.
T minus 61 days until the presidential election.
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From coast to coast.
From border to border.
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Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-Sean.
Our number, if you want to be a part of the program, well, mail-in ballots going out now in just a couple of days in states like North Carolina and elsewhere.
We're only 12 days away from early voting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 61 days until Election Day.
And this is an inflection point, I believe, for the country.
I hope people are paying attention.
We're going to get to my town hall with President Trump from last night in just a second.
And, you know, what I think is important about this is he's willing to talk to the media.
I mean, you think about this, you know, that's 36 interviews and then multiple press conferences from Trump and JD Vance just in the time since Kamala became the presumptive nominee.
And it's like, you know, 16 minutes and 29 seconds.
That's it.
Anyway, here's President Trump from last night.
I've been doing town halls and interviews in public with you for all these years since you got into the political arena.
And I told this audience: never before have restrictions been so tight, obviously after the assassination attempt as well.
And Director Ray said the threat level has never been this bad.
He said it five consecutive times before Congress.
What is going on?
Well, it's a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons.
And we're going to make it better.
We're going to heal our world.
We're going to get rid of all these wars that are starting all over the place because of incompetent American leadership.
And we're going to make it better.
You know, Victor Orban made a statement.
They said, bring Trump back and we won't have any problems.
He was very strong about that.
So we're going to hopefully do very well.
We have an election coming up.
And actually, you know, they keep saying 60, but it starts in Delaware and North Carolina and other places a lot sooner than that.
So we're going to be, I think we're going to be very well set up to do a great job.
And do we love Pennsylvania?
Do we love it?
You know, one thing I'll say is that we did great in 2016.
We did much better in 2020.
We've got millions of more votes.
But there has never been enthusiasm like we have now.
I mean, I see it all over.
There's never been this.
And I hear the polls are very close, and we have a little lead.
I just find it hard to believe because, first of all, they've been so bad.
They've done such a bad job.
But that's why the enthusiasm is so good.
Because they never had anything to compare it by.
You know, I ran and we did, I didn't have anything at all.
I just was a successful businessman and we did a good campaign.
But the next time we had something, we had something special.
We could talk about what we did.
But we never could imagine we'd have borders where 20 million people have poured into our country.
Many criminals from all over the world are coming into our country.
They're coming from jails, from not just South America, from all over the world.
They're coming in at levels that nobody's ever seen.
They're coming from prisons.
They're allowing prisoners to come out of all countries that almost 180 countries represented over the last number of months.
180.
Most people don't know that we have that many countries.
They're emptying out their prisons and jails.
They're emptying out their mental institutions and insane asylums.
They're emptying out the sickest people and they're emptying all into the United States.
And you said it better than anybody.
More terrorists have come into the United States in the last three years than I think probably 50 years.
There's never been anything like it.
These people are so bad.
They're so dangerous.
What they've done to our country is they're destroying our country and we can't let this happen.
If they won, you'd have not 20 million.
You have 100 million people.
You won't have Social Security.
You won't have Medicare.
You won't have anything.
Already, if you take a look at the numbers, they're filling up and loading up Social Security, Medicare with illegal immigrants that have come into our country, many of them from jails and many of them from very bad places.
And we're not going to destroy our country, Sean.
Well, let me, I'm going to play Kamala Harris and the comments that she has made about the border.
Because I think this is important.
I want to play her in her own words about this.
You're right.
We have people, almost 11 million plus.
We don't know how many gotaways there are.
We have hundreds of known terrorists that have entered the country.
We don't know what countries they've come from.
We're allowing people in.
They've come in from Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, China, tens and tens of thousands, Russia, Venezuela.
I don't think they're coming here because they want a better life, as maybe some other people are.
And we know nothing about them.
We haven't vetted them.
I scroll the names often on this show of people that have been murdered, people that have been raped, people victims of violent crime.
And this is all happening by unvetted Harris Biden illegal immigrants.
What is your, well, I can play or take, I'll play that maybe after your answer, but what is your reaction to the?
You've spoken to some of the families.
I said at the beginning, I said when they heard they were going to have open borders, they want open borders.
She wants open borders.
Now she's all of a sudden started, oh, I think we'll close the borders.
She was the border zone, whether you like it or not.
But even if you don't want to use that term, she was in charge of the border.
It's the worst border in the history of the world, not just here.
There's never been a country that allowed 21 million people to come in over a three-year period.
There's never been.
And 21 million people, many of whom are from prisons, many of whom are murderers and drug dealers and child traffickers.
And by the way, women traffickers.
You know, women trafficking is the biggest.
And they're traffickers in women.
And they're coming in now and they're putting them in our social security accounts and they're putting them in our Medicare.
And just one thing.
If you take a look, take a look.
Over the last week, I said this was going to happen and it's happening because these people are tougher than our criminals.
Our criminals are nice people by comparison.
That's the only good thing.
We're showing how nice our criminals are.
They came from 22 people recently came from the Congo in Africa.
Where do you come from?
Prison, what did you do?
We refuse to say.
We're letting everybody in.
We're letting everybody in.
Take a look at Aurora in Colorado, where Venezuelans are taking over the whole town.
They're taking over buildings, the whole town.
And the sheriff, who can blame them?
I mean, they have AK-47s.
You saw it the other day.
They're knocking down doors and occupying apartments.
The people are petrified.
And it's getting worse and worse.
You look at New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.
And now you look at all over the place.
You take a look at Iowa, Idaho, places that never had the problem.
They're pouring in.
21 million people that's bigger than New York.
And we have to stop it.
And we have to do the largest deportation in the history.
And this is really a problem for the campaign.
In my view, is early voting's about to start.
And I don't know how many Americans are truly familiar with her positions of decriminalizing illegal immigration and free housing, healthcare, education.
Tim Walz wants free college education, legal driver's licenses.
I was so honored.
And she wants a path to see.
His brother endorsed me.
And his whole family.
I saw the picture.
And honestly, it was a very nice looking family.
But his brother endorsed me and the whole family endorsed me.
I said, we were all people.
Let me explain.
There's something weird with that guy.
He's a weird guy.
JD is not weird.
He's a solid rock.
I happen to be a very solid rock.
We're not weird.
We're other things, perhaps, but we're not weird.
But he is a weird guy.
He walks on the stage.
There's something wrong with that guy.
And he called me weird.
And then the fake news media picks it up.
That was the word of the day.
Weird, weird, weird.
They're all going.
But we're not weird guys.
We're very solid people.
We want our country to be great again.
I mean, it's very simple.
Let's play common law in her own words on the issue of immigration.
This whole thing about the border, we've been to the border.
We've been to the border.
You haven't been to the border.
And I haven't been to Europe.
And I don't understand the point that you're making.
You support giving universal health care, Medicare for all to people who are in this country illegally?
Let me just be very clear about this.
I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health.
Period.
We have to have a secure border.
But I am in favor of saying that we're not going to treat people who are undocumented and cross-the-border as criminals.
That's correct.
The border is secure.
Listen, I think there's no question that we've got to critically re-examine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing.
And we need to probably think about starting from scratch.
So.
And now she wants to offer a path to citizenship, which by any definition would be amnesty.
Your reaction.
But, well, before you even start with that, of course it's ridiculous.
You can't do it.
No country could sustain this.
But she wants no fracking in Pennsylvania.
She wants no fracking.
And she said it a hundred times.
There will be no fracking.
Then just recently she said, yes, I could prove fracking.
Look, this is a woman who is dangerous.
I don't think too smart, but let's see.
But she loses her train of thought a lot.
She goes, that's why she doesn't want to do interviews.
Can you imagine her doing an interview like this or like any of them?
I mean, she did an interview.
She did an interview with Dana Bash on CNN.
And, you know, I have to tell you, Dana Bash did the debate with Joe Biden, with Jake.
I used to call him fake tapper, but I don't do that anymore.
You know why?
Because he was very honorable and so was she.
And I thought that she would give a fair interview based on the debate because she was fair.
I was surprised, to be honest with you.
I didn't expect that.
But she was fair.
I thought, I did well.
I don't think he did too well.
Although a friend of mine said, you shouldn't have done the interview.
He's not going to make it.
And you know what?
He didn't make it.
You know, think of this.
It's very unfair in a lot of ways.
I complain about it, but she ran against him in the primary.
She got no votes, no votes.
And she was the first to leave.
I think 22 people or something like that.
And she dropped.
She was down to nothing, never even made Iowa.
And he got 14 million votes, and they threw him out.
They said, we want you out.
And he wasn't going to win, I don't think.
I mean, I don't think he was going to win, but we did a good debate.
We had a good debate, and it was a fair debate.
And he was down like 18 or 19 points after the debate.
I hate mosquitoes.
I'm surprised.
I didn't think we had.
We don't like those mosquitoes running around.
We want nothing to do with them.
And we want nothing to do with bad politicians that hate our country, too.
You want to know the truth.
But he had, they went to him and they said, we want you out.
You're not going to win.
And it was really a coup when you think about it.
And the woman who came in, the person that came in last, I mean, she came in last.
She was the first one out out of all those people.
You had many people that did pretty well.
It was actually close at the end.
And then in South Carolina, and by the way, New Hampshire was so badly treated by the Democrat Party and by Joe Biden and her.
Do you know for 16 minutes, she spoke for 16 minutes and 29 seconds in that whole interview, the only interview you and JD Vance have done.
This is your 36th interview or press conference between the two of you.
And we don't know if she supports the Green New Deal she co-sponsored with Bernie Sanders that would cost $93 trillion.
We don't know if she stands by that.
We don't know if she supports Medicare for all that would eliminate all private health insurance.
We don't know if she would really ban fracking.
Now, in the CNN interview, she said, well, I said in 2020 that, oh, I would not ban fracking.
CNN had to fact-check her and say, no, she never said it.
This is what she really said.
Will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking your first day in office?
Adding the United States to the list of countries who have banned this devastating practice.
There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
So would you ban offshore drilling?
Yes.
And I've, again, worked on that.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, you're a better businessman than I am.
Isn't energy, fracking, oil the lifeblood of the world's economy?
So the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania cannot even take a chance because that's the real opinion from her.
Now, the whole country would go down the tubes if you didn't do the fossil fuel thing.
It just would go, Pennsylvania can't take a chance that that answer is true.
But she's been there for 20 years.
That's what she's been saying for a long time.
And she will do that.
There's no chance that she's going to allow it.
The election will take place.
If she won, you're not going to have any fracking in Pennsylvania.
You have 500,000 jobs.
Think of that.
It's your biggest business.
And you get a big majority of your income from fracking.
And you have somebody that's not going to allow fracking.
She's not going to allow it.
You can't take the chance.
You have no choice.
You've got to vote for me.
You've got to vote for me.
Quick break.
Born with President Trump from our town hall in Harrisburg, PA from last night.
And later on, your calls are coming up 800-941-Sean, if you want to join us.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
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Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hammond 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 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So download Verdict with Ted Cruz Now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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The courage to object when they use that term, radical Islamic terrorism.
Victims of terror.
I have seen some of the worst of criminal behavior.
I have seen the worst of crime.
An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.
Now, you just heard Kamala Harris, our country's failed borders are talking about her commitment.
You need the courage to never say the word radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien.
President Trump is back with us.
What is your reaction to that?
Because who attacked us on 9-11 and who's crossing our border?
So she wants to be politically correct, and we can't be politically correct anymore.
Look, look, we have October 7th.
People saw it.
We have things going on in the world right now with Israel and with the Middle East is blowing up.
It's blowing up.
We have Ukraine and Russia.
That would never happen.
That would have never happened.
October 7th would have never happened.
If I were the president, it would have never happened.
And everybody knew it.
Iran was broke.
They didn't have the money for Hamas and for Hezbollah.
They didn't have the money for anybody they wanted to get by.
And we would have made a fair deal with them.
I was only looking to make a fair deal with them.
You know, I wanted to say it so much during my term.
We went four years without any blow-ups.
We had no World Trade Center blow-up.
We had no radical Islamic terror.
We had no radical Islamic terror.
Because we were very tough at the borders, and we were very tough with our statements.
And we had no, the whole world was a safe place.
That was the question they asked Viktor Orban, who's really considered a very strong.
They said he's a strong man.
Sometimes you need a strong man.
He's a strong man.
He's the prime minister of Hungary.
And he said, you bring back Trump.
Everybody.
Now, I'm not saying it, but he said it because I'd rather say respect.
But he said, everybody was afraid of Trump.
You bring him back.
You're not going to have any problems.
It's all going to go away.
The world is blowing up.
This brings...
And Sean, one thing?
Yeah.
The world is blowing up.
And when you look at Ukraine and you look at Russia, you look at all the things that are happening, we are potentially getting ready.
I'm telling you, and I've made a lot of predictions, and this is not a prediction because it's so bad.
I don't want it to be a prediction.
We're heading into World War III territory.
And because of the power of weapons, nuclear weapons in particular, but other weapons also, and I know the weapons better than anybody because I'm the one that bought them and, you know, we rebuilt our entire military.
We upgraded our entire program.
And, you know, the one program I hated to upgrade, hated it, was the nuclear program.
And I understand it maybe better than anybody.
My uncle was at MIT, a professor, the longest serving professor in the history of MIT, very smart guy.
We have a smart family.
States have a smart family.
But I knew, I understood nuclear for a long time, the power of nuclear weapons.
You need a president that's not going to be taking you into war.
We won't have World War III when I'm elected.
But with these clowns that you have in there now, you're going to end up having World War III.
And it's going to be a war like no other.
Let me ask you a more personal question.
Because you paid a very big price for getting into the political arena.
Never mind opportunity costs that you would have had.
You had a successful business.
Obviously, you've been a victim of lawfare, if you will, or a weaponized Department of Justice.
Although the Supreme Court ruling on immunity, I think, was very clear, although certain judges may not abide by it.
And I listened to you talk about the borders.
I listened to you talk about how dangerous the world situation is.
I listened to you talk about the economy and fracking and the need for energy, and I hear you.
And then I asked myself, okay, why is this different?
If 2016 was about the forgotten man and forgotten woman, what is 2024 about?
So it's not that different.
It's still about the forgotten man and the forgotten woman.
The people are being treated horribly in this country.
We're a country that's being laughed at all over the world.
And I'll be honest, if Joe Biden would be a great president, I would be happier than being the worst president in the history of our country because I want to see what's good for the country.
And I would have been very happy.
I have very nice places I could be.
This is not easy.
I got shot at.
You know, I mean, I got hit.
I got hit.
I could have been all over that place.
But you know what?
It's very simple.
And it starts with make America great again.
That's what we have to do.
It makes me think that if you look at everything that we have discussed tonight and you look at your platform, thank you.
Thank you.
What really infuriates me, and I'm straightforward, I'm a member of the press, but I'm a talk show host, I'm a conservative, and people know where I stand.
I think the press, they're all liberal talk show hosts, but they're dishonest about who they are.
And they have an agenda.
They've never played Kamala in her own words.
So radical statements or extreme statements, I think, dangerous statements.
And I just think that if we're talking about the border, all of these $11 million was all preventable.
I think on the economy, if you had sound economic policy, you handed off 1.4% inflation.
We'd be doing better in the economy.
We'd be energy dominant by now because we were on a path towards energy dominance.
We wouldn't have to.
Iran was in check.
You had them on the verge of bankruptcy.
Russia, you had a relationship with them and North Korea and the Moas and everybody.
But nobody was tougher with Russia than me.
I shut down the biggest pipeline in the world that Russia was building.
It was called Nord Stream.
Nobody ever heard of it.
And I said, no way.
I said to Germany, there's no way we're going to protect you with NATO and spend billions of dollars protecting Europe.
And you guys are going to be buying oil from the person and the group that we're protecting you from.
And I shut it down.
It was 100% shut down.
And then this pathetic person comes in and he immediately approves it, but he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, our pipeline.
And the head of that union, by the way, the Pipe Fitters Union, the Pipeline Union, the head of that union nominated and was a big deal in the Biden campaign, and he endorsed him.
And those people, 48,000 people lost their jobs.
It was all approved.
I got it approved.
Obama rejected it.
I approved it.
It was starting.
They spent billions of dollars.
It was also, and they rejected it.
It would have been fantastic for us, including the 48,000 jobs.
And what he did is he let Russia build the pipeline that I had stopped.
It was totally stopped.
Going to Germany and other countries, think of it.
We protect them from Russia, and yet they pay Russia billions of dollars.
Does it make sense?
So I was the toughest on Russia.
Putin would even say, you know, if you're not the toughest guy, you are.
You're killing us.
I'd hate to see you if you were really tough.
This was the biggest job they've ever had.
And I stopped it.
And you know what?
Russia would have been fine.
China would have been fine.
China was fine.
China paid us hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes and tariffs under me.
Under no other president, and I mean right from the beginning, did they pay 10 cents?
We're going to get to audience questions.
I do have a question as we go to break.
And I think this should be a question asked in every presidential election.
And I'll ask the people here in Harrisburg: are you better off than you were four years ago?
Inflation is one of our administration's top economic priorities.
Was it wrong to consider inflation transitory?
I mean, these price spikes seem like they're going to be with us for a while.
We have to address the fact that we've got to deal with the fact that folks are paying for gas, paying for groceries, and need solutions to it.
Will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking your first day in office?
Adding the United States to the list of countries who have banned this devastating practice.
There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
And it's rough.
Groceries, the cost of groceries has gone up, the cost of gas has gone up, and as this is all happening in the context of two years of a pandemic, that's one of the highest priorities actually for the president and for me.
That is called Bidenomics.
That is called Bidenomics, and we are very proud of Bidenomics.
All right, we can tell you she's very proud of Bidenomics.
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that was Kamala Harris touting her pretty radical beliefs on the economy in her own words.
According to Kamala, her values have not changed.
We don't know where she stands because she's only done an interview for 16 minutes and 29 seconds or spoken.
So on the issue of the economy, just how many of you in this room, and you can all close your eyes so you're not looking at your neighbor, have struggled economically in the last number of years?
Wow.
Wow.
And when I started my adult life, I struggled to pay my rent.
You know my jobs.
I've listed them a hundred times, working in the service industry and bartending and cooking and washing dishes and construction.
Not McDonald's.
That was a lie.
And I believe she didn't work at McDonald's.
She did not.
Well, there's no evidence of it.
Did she work at McDonald's?
Because so far, no evidence.
Here's Intel based on what I said.
Here's my point.
She wants to raise corporate taxes.
She wants to raise small business taxes, capital gain taxes, estate taxes, the international corporate minimum tax to the point where America won't be competitive anymore.
And your tax cuts are about to expire in 2025.
What does this mean to the economy?
What does it mean for everybody here struggling?
So I gave you the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country.
If you let them tax cuts expire, which he wants to do, she wants to terminate them.
If you do that, you will suffer the biggest tax increase in history.
There's never been a tax increase like it.
On top of which, she wants to add a lot of tax.
This country will end up, and I've said this a lot, and I mean it.
This country will end up in a depression if she becomes president, like 1929.
This will be a 1929 depression.
She has no idea what the hell she's doing.
What if unrealized capital gains taxes were implemented?
When she wants to do that, this is where you have something, you don't even know what the value is.
I tell you what, if that's going to happen, go out and open an appraisal company because you're going to make a fortune.
That's about the only group that's going to make it and accountants.
It is the craziest idea.
And remember this, very rich people and big international corporations, they don't have to stay in the United States.
And they will be forced to leave for other countries.
They can't afford to do a thing like that.
They may have great wealth and no cash, and they're going to have to pay cash.
Where are they going to get the cash?
If they do that, the unrealized capital gain, you know, it's been talked about for a few years by ultra-left Marxists only, like her father is a Marxist.
Her father's a Marxist teacher of economics.
Can you believe this?
But if that happened, this country, and I think forgetting about that, that particular, she's got a lot of things that are just as bad.
If she gets in, I think we will have a depression, 1929-style depression.
That's what I think will happen to our country.
Already they've set us on a path.
Quick break, right back.
When we come back, we'll get to your calls and also we'll examine the all-important state of Pennsylvania.
Jeff Vartos and Zelina Zito will join us.
That's all coming up and your calls straight ahead as we continue.
All right, when we come back, we'll check in in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania two people that know the state better than anybody, Zelena Zito and Jeff Vartos as we continue.
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