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800-941-Sean, a toll-free telephone number broadcasting from Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love for tonight's debate, showdown.
Donald J. Trump, Kamala Harris, in what will likely be their first and only debate.
This only her second appearance since she has become the Democratic nominee, short of her reading a teleprompter and the same friggin' speech every time she speaks.
We are 56 days until election day, seven days early voting Pennsylvania.
Mail-in ballots are going out, and we learned a few new things.
We've gone through our entire list of, you know, no restrictions on abortion, gun confiscation, mandatory gun buyback, no border wall, decriminalizing illegal immigration, free housing, healthcare, education, legal driver's licenses, and free college in Minnesota.
We've been through all of that.
Now we know on top of convicted felons, we have discovered that, in fact, Kamala Harris supports the idea of taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for illegals and convicted felons and wants federal drug possession for personal use to be legal.
In other words, let's decriminalize crack and heroin and cocaine and fentanyl.
That's a genius idea.
And she has reiterated her idiocy of this path to citizenship.
Those of us might want to call that amnesty.
I'm sure, hopefully, although I have no faith in ABC Disney, after all, the Media Research Center did give, let's see, Kamala, 100% positive score in terms of coverage by AB's ABC World News Tonight with David Muir.
Well, he's no Peter Jennings.
He's no Tim Russert.
And whether these issues come up, I don't know.
But that's Donald Trump's job in that sense.
And we'll wait and see.
Let's play Kamala and her montage, her horrible record on the border, now reiterated with the few little positions she has now put up on our website that she wants an earned path to citizenship, which means amnesty for all of the unvetted Harris Biden illegal immigrants in our country.
It's the height of irresponsibility for the commander-in-chief to suggest that we have to build a wall across our southern border because there are terrorists who are trying to invade the country.
It couldn't be farther from the truth.
On the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear.
The president's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them.
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.
Now, we've got to critically reexamine 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.
Wow, highly irresponsible to build a wall.
And he thinks terrorists are going to invade the country.
Well, hundreds of them have.
And she wants free housing, health care, education, and add to that, taxpayer-funded sex chain surgeries for illegal immigrants and convicted felons.
Of course, the path to citizenship, and to defund ICE and the police and dismantle even fake news CNN, Erin Burnett, she was shocked by what they call a K-file investigation by her support of policies that taxpayers, that all of you would fund this gender transition surgery for illegal immigrants.
Listen.
Yeah, and this was a questionnaire that she filled out for the ACLU.
And this questionnaire is really an interesting snapshot in time of that 2019 Democratic primary.
Kamala Harris was trying to get to the left of Bernie Sanders.
She was trying to get to the left of Elizabeth Warren.
And you really see that in a lot of these answers.
And I want to walk our viewers through a little bit of what she said.
Let's just take immigration and look at what she said here.
She said on immigration, she made this open-ended pledge to end immigrant detention.
She said she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants.
She also said she taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants.
For detained migrants.
She actually said she supported it.
She wrote, both wrote and answered in the affirmative when she was asked this.
And she said she also supported it for federal prisoners.
Now, she also pledged to slash immigration detention by 50%, close all family and private facilities and decrease funding for ICE, and then end ICE detainers with local law enforcement.
I mean, these are things that, you know, it would be hard to think that you would come up with taxpayer-funding gender transitions for detained migrants.
And yet, as you say, written and verbally.
Now, the sad part of all this is the state-run media mob has been a little slow catching up to us because we've only been pointing out all of these things, except for the new development today about taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for illegals.
We already knew about convicts.
That is new.
And, of course, federal drug possession for personal use.
That would be a law that would allow you to have and decriminalize crack, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.
That is a genius idea.
Give her credit.
She's thinking out of the box.
The dumbest idea I've ever heard.
Anyway, joining us now, Mark Bernovich is back with us only 56 days until Election Day.
Early ballots now have gone out in states already.
And one week from today, voting right here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Great to have you back, Mr. Attorney General.
Do you think this is a good idea to have federal drug possession for personal use, which would decriminalize even the use of hard drugs?
Because that sounds like a pretty dumb and radical idea to me.
Well, Sean, thank you as always for having me on.
And I must admit, I was chuckling because I thought you were doing a Saturday live skit.
Because it is hard to believe that any responsible adult, yet alone someone running for president of the United States, is proposing some of these wacky ideas.
I remember years ago when I was running for Attorney General, I used to talk about neo-Marxism, what's happening, how the left is trying to systematically destroy our families, eliminate private property, eliminate religion, essentially implement a progressive income tax.
All these things are from the Communist Manifesto, and they are literally part of the democratic platform right now in this country.
And so we, unfortunately, are seeing this really rapid decline in not only Western civilization, but what the American Dream is all about.
I mean, it's just absolutely insane.
Border security should never be a political question.
Instead, every elected official in this country should be asking: is what they're doing making America less safe or is it making it more safe?
And we know that the Biden administration has definitely made this country less safe, whether it's the record amount of terrorists, whether it's incentivizing people to come into this country for everything from sex changes to using the refugee caste assistance program to give people that have entered this country illegally up to $1,600 a month.
Our school systems are being overwhelmed.
We're seeing spikes in diseases that we haven't seen in the United States before.
I mean, it is just so insane.
It's hard to describe.
It really is hard to describe where you begin.
And my goodness, no one is even talking about the 100,000 Americans that have died of fentanyl because of the Biden administration every single year.
I mean, there is a war against the United States, and it's being waged by the Democratic Party.
We can add to this, beyond the drugs, the fentanyl, the opioids that are crossing our border, the high cost to the American people, but we also have known terrorists or people with terror ties in our country.
We have hundreds of them.
We don't even know how many are here that are, quote, gotaways, to use a phrase.
But she is a person that has stated affirmatively that she wants Americans to have the courage never to say radical Islamic terrorism.
She wants them to have the courage not to use the term illegal alien.
Let me play it for you.
Have the courage to object when they use that term, radical Islamic terrorism, which ignores how nations have overdiagnated.
been the greatest victims of terror.
And we have the courage to reject that term illegal alien.
I have seen some of the worst of criminal behavior.
I have seen the worst of crime.
An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.
I don't know what would you say?
Who attacked us on 9-11-01?
Who attacked Israel on October 7th last year?
Absolutely, Sean.
Let us not forget tomorrow is 9-11.
And because of the Biden administration and his borders arena, it's a question of if, but it's a question of when the next 9-11 will happen.
There are people in this world, especially radical Islamists in the Middle East, that mean harm to America.
They want death to the West.
We need to recognize that.
And the first step of anything recognizing a problem is to acknowledge that it exists.
And the fact that they will not acknowledge it should worry every single hardworking American taxpayer because we are less safe because of the policies.
And it's not just less safe in our communities like what we're seeing happening in Colorado and Ohio.
It literally is a record amount of people on the terror watch list that are coming into this country.
And as you and I have talked off the air, even on the air, you know, you talk to people in law enforcement, the intelligence community, they will tell you that there is only a record amount of terrorists coming into the country, but all the gotaways, the hundreds of thousands of people, why would someone,
you know, illegally go through the desert in Arizona when it's 120 degrees, wearing camouflage, wanting to evade detection when they oh, they can just walk across the southern board and Joe Biden's going to give them a hotel room, free airfare, and a debit card that they can use to To spend wherever they want.
So, why are people, hundreds of thousands, predominantly males between the ages of 18 and 35, trying to evade capture and sneaking into this country?
There are terror cells active right now in this country, and it's just a matter of when and not if it's going to happen.
Quick break, right back.
More with former Attorney General of Arizona, Mark Berdovich.
We'll get to your calls coming up, 800-941-Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, broadcasting from Philly.
And we, of course, are here for the big and probably only debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Full coverage on Annity Tonight.
Set you DVR.
11 Eastern for tonight, 9 Eastern every other night.
All right, we continue now with former Attorney General from Arizona, Mark Berdovich, is with us.
Your call's coming up right after that.
What do you think the president ought to be thinking about as he takes to the stage tonight?
Because I don't have any confidence in ABC News, World News Tonight, and Disney.
I have literally 50 pages of material on how biased they have been against Donald Trump.
There was an MRC study that came out that showed 100% positive coverage for Kamala since she got into the race, 93% negative coverage for Donald Trump.
So I don't expect that they're going to bring up her radicalism, but that then provides an opportunity for Trump to weave that into his answers, doesn't it?
It absolutely does.
And you know politics probably better than anyone in this country does.
And you've talked about the fact that President Trump has historically defied political gravity, but he is now facing a headwind.
There are, you know, between the court cases, between the media being in the bag for Kamala Harris.
And what I think is happening right now is I call this the Great Amnesia Tour.
What the Harris people did is they forced, they did the silent coup, they forced Biden out of the way, and now they're trying to make America forget of what's happened with the Democrats, especially the last few years.
So it is up to Donald Trump to say this election is about security.
Every chance he gets, he needs to say it's about security, border security and economic security.
You ask everyday hardworking Americans, do you feel less secure or more secure economically?
Do you like the fact that eggs and gas and milk have gone through the ceiling under the Biden administration?
Do you feel less safe in your communities and towns because the record amount of fentanyl, because of all these terrorists that have come across our southern border, and because all these criminal gangs from Central America and Venezuela are now occupying our cities?
You know, the left used to talk about occupying Wall Street or whatever it was, but literally this Biden's occupation that he has brought onto this country.
And so every chance Donald Trump gets, he needs to do the reminder tour.
Kabal Harris is doing an amnesia tour.
He needs to do the reminder tour.
Are you more safe?
Are you more secure economically now, or were you more safe and economically secure four years ago?
That's got to be the focus.
And you know, she is going to do everything she can to try to get him talking about fight issues and what's going on.
You know, it's his court case or who he may or not may not have had an affair with or slept with or whatever, all that stuff.
It's really tangential.
The focus is every chance Donald Trump needs a chance he gets, he needs to say, but wait a minute, do you think letting in a record number of people on the terror watch list is a good or bad thing?
You know, I would ask a lot of rhetorical questions.
If you were president, are you going to enforce 8 USC 1324, which says the federal government can prosecute people for illegally encouraging and facilitating illegal immigration?
That would include Democratic mayors and governors.
Will you do that?
Will you hold accountable for their policies?
You know, he just needs to constantly be reminding people and using rhetorical questions even, putting her on the spot and not getting into these side issues or these tangential issues.
You know, we all know what happened in 2020.
This cannot be about relitigating 2020.
The Americans are, you know, we want to look forward.
Want to have, you know, people want to have a better future for their kids.
And so that's why he needed to focus on a better future means more border security and more economic security.
All right, Arizona, former Attorney General Mark Bernovich, thank you, sir.
Appreciate you being with us.
As we continue, we're in Philly.
It's debate night at America.
Full coverage on the Fox News channel.
We will have full debate, post-debate coverage right after the debate.
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25 to the top of the hour.
We continue our coverage.
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Early voting starts here in seven days.
Ballots being sent out now in other states around the country.
And we're only 56 days until Election Day.
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It is debate night in America.
We'll have full coverage in the lead up to and then the Hannity post-debate reaction.
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Full coverage on the Fox News channel.
Before we do that, I would like to play Melania Trump.
Now, if there's a school shooting, just think about this for a second.
If there's a school shooting, what are the odds that we know within hours pretty much everything about the school shooter?
We learned that recently, sadly, tragically, in Georgia.
And then we saw that the father, we learned very quickly, the father had purchased the weapon.
What do we know about this would-be assassin of Donald Trump?
We don't know anywhere near as much as we should.
And what we were told in the beginning, we know is a flat-out lie about a sloped roof.
And I say that as somebody that fell off a roof, nearly three stories.
And I'm lucky to be alive, to be honest with you.
I fell on frozen ground in Rhode Island at the time and busted up my arm and my teeth and my face.
I know, it made me look better.
But putting that aside, and it did knock sense into me.
I became a conservative at that moment.
Like, oh, let me wake up.
I almost died.
But in all seriousness, because it's a serious topic, we don't want any politician ever shot.
We don't want assassination attempts.
Why do we know so little?
Well, Melania Trump brings this up and she released this on X.
The attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience.
Now, the silence around it feels heavy.
I can't help but wonder, why didn't law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech?
There is definitely more to this story, and we need to uncover the truth.
We need to uncover the truth.
So, the former first lady questioning the actions of law enforcement in connection with this assassination attempt on her husband.
And there's definitely more to the story.
We need to uncover the truth.
And she's a thousand percent right.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Well, there is one other thing at Philadelphia Area Bakery, not far from where the debate is being held tonight, is selling special Trump and Kamala cookies during the election season.
Now, these are the total sales so far: 4,228 for Trump, Kamala, 369.
Let's play the baker.
You've sold thousands already, and I know you've baked thousands in preparation for tonight.
Everyone wants to know what do the sales maybe tell us about who might win the election in November?
Talk to me about sales.
The sales, the red is leading by a lot.
By a lot.
The tally was just updated.
You're new to see it, but almost by 4,000 cookies, as you can see.
And that's tremendous.
Tremendous for us as a small business to produce this and sell this as well.
And see the faces that are coming around to buy these from all over.
Absolutely.
And just to stress this, that is not a typo.
Former President Trump with more than 4,000 cookies sold.
Current Vice President Kamala Harris with only about 400.
So the Harris voters got some work to do if they want to boost their numbers here.
Wow.
4,228 for Trump, 369 cookies for Kamala.
Can you glean anything from that?
I don't know.
She leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you know.
Ha ha.
Bump, bump.
You're really on your game.
By the way, we got to thank Geno's today.
Yes.
Yes, you did.
You had your Geno's cheesesteak.
I had my Geno's cheese steak with extra.
It was up to me.
I had to pick.
You had to pick, and you made a great choice.
One of the best I've ever had.
We've been to Geno's.
We have.
And I know they lost their owner how long ago?
A couple of years ago.
Yes.
Recent.
But what a great, iconic place.
And it was so good to have the real deal.
Authentic, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It was awesome.
You notice I come to a city and all I really started thinking about is Chicago.
You did have a cheese steak in Harrisburg.
No, it was awesome.
I know you were thrilled, but I was like, if I have to give a tip of the hat, though, it goes to Genos for sure.
For sure.
All right, Nebraska.
We have Jason standing by.
Jason, hey, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, thanks for having me on the show.
What's on your mind?
My concern is that Harris is running what I call a junior high sweetheart dance.
She's trying to be the princess of the dance.
And so she's doing junior high things.
And unfortunately, a lot of people in this country are still stuck in junior high.
She's creating this character that she's running against.
She's trying to make a Republican candidate that is going to be death to democracy, dictator on the first day, is his tariffs are going to raise taxes.
He's only helping his billionaire friends.
He incited a riot on January 6th, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
How does Trump, how does he debate all the lies?
I mean, what?
Well, let me ask you a question.
If everything they said about Donald Trump were true, wouldn't he have done it already?
And if everything they're saying about Kamala Harris is true, about all the great things she's going to do, wouldn't she have done it already?
I mean, just a thought.
And let me add one other thing.
The fact that she is twisting herself into a pretzel and has holed herself off in a hotel room in Pittsburgh, you know, trying to cram for this debate.
I'm sure she's going to have her one-liners down.
I'm sure about that.
I'm sure she's going to have her slick answers down.
And I'm sure she's going to look rehearsed.
And I think it's going to come off as phony and disingenuous.
And whether ABC does their job or not, I would assume they're not.
I think Donald Trump will step up and fill that void.
And I fully expect, I don't think anything she says that she tries to piss him off is going to work.
I think that's their strategy.
I don't think he's buying it.
He didn't do it with, you know, Joe Biden called him every name under the sun.
He just, he looks straight ahead.
Doesn't even, he doesn't care.
And he's going to get his points in.
And Kamala has, there's more op research on one person of radicalism and extremism that I've ever seen in my life.
She is radical.
She is extreme.
And her policies are dangerous.
Anyway, go ahead.
You got the last word.
Okay.
A couple things.
Number one, when she accuses him of being a convicted felon, I should think Trump should say, yeah, I have been convicted and I'm appealing those convictions.
But would you do me a favor and explain to the American people what exactly I did wrong?
I don't think she could.
Also, if I was an independent voter and I didn't know who I was voting for, that Trump came out that he wants Elon Musk to audit the government and find the waste.
That would do it for me.
Why nobody's talking more about that is crazy because I don't mind paying taxes if they're going to things that matter, but you just well as well as I do, they don't.
It comes down for me a simple thing.
Donald Trump works very hard to do a good job.
And I don't think whether you like or hate him or like or hate his policies, you cannot dispute that.
I think the man works very hard to do a good job.
There's no doubt about it.
And his policies, to me, will save America from what would be the most, it would be the end of capitalism as we know it.
Her stated policies, her own words.
It would be the most dangerous foreign policy ever.
We have the most dangerous situation, national security crisis that she's created at the border.
Anyway, I want to get some more calls in.
Jason, appreciate it, buddy.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Mike in Texas.
God bless Texas, Mike.
How are you?
Thanks, John.
I'm doing well.
Appreciate you taking my call.
I just got two points I want to make.
I know Donald Trump does not need debating advice because he's probably the best debater on the planet.
But one thing I really wish he would ask her is when she does her little laughing, when she's done, when it's his turn to talk at the end of his two minutes, is to say, by the way, what's so funny?
What's so funny, Kamala?
Because America is not laughing.
America is hurting.
You're the only one laughing.
I'd like to know what's so funny.
And just let her finish with that.
Let her.
I would guess she's not going to be.
I think she's probably been warned off laughing.
And this is the problem, I think, for her.
And this is why she spent so many days hold off in some hotel room hearing chants of let's go Trump, which had to be a little bit annoying to them.
I mean, when I read today that they had a stand-in for debate prep that was wearing a Trump-like wig, I'm like, all right, I think maybe you've lost focus here, but there is a real danger in overpreparing.
She'll have facts and figures, one-liners, stingers, all of that's going to be there.
She's not going to be Joe.
But the problem she has is her own stated words.
And the problem that she has or her policies are insane.
And if the American people know about her policies, they won't support it.
Americans, we'll look at what we know, know today.
Taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for illegal immigrants on top of free housing, health care, education, and amnesty.
That's not enough.
Federal drug possession for personal use is okay for crack, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.
That's insane.
Add to that, no drilling.
Add to that, no fracking.
You know, add to that, the Inflation Reduction Act.
Add to that, you know, 11 million unvetted Harris Biden illegals.
Add to that, the elimination of private health care.
I mean, the list goes on.
Absolutely.
But one more point I want to make.
I wish she would, when she's going to brag on her being a prosecutor in California, I so wish because she's going to call him a convicted felon, and she's going to brag on that.
I would so wish Donald Trump would say, Yeah, and on your record, Kamala, as a prosecutor, you threw people in prison you knew were innocent.
That's a terrible human being.
I don't care what shout out.
I think you should just say every legal scholar that has a pulse is saying that this will be your weaponization will be overturned, and I'd move on.
I don't think he has to defend a thing.
No, anyway, appreciate the call, Mike.
Thank you, buddy.
Sam in Maine.
Sam, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
I first want to say I love you.
I think you are wonderful.
Thank you for taking my call.
I always hear you say, Do not let your heart be troubled.
I'm a chaplain, and I read my Bible and I pray, pray, pray, but my heart is killing me.
I mean, I have more anxiety today than I've had in years.
I am not looking forward to the debate tonight.
I'm so afraid that Harris is going to trap Trump and that he's, I don't want him to lose his temper.
I don't want him to, you know, say things that you'll be able to throw back at him.
I know he's going to be good about that, and he's been prepped for that.
I just hearing your voice calms me, but I'm really concerned.
I'm really angry.
Well, I'm concerned too.
I really am concerned.
I'm concerned.
I've never been more worried about the state of the country.
I've never been more worried about the state of the world.
But you said you're a chaplain.
You know, I'll refer you to Psalm 121, 1-2, 46.1.
You know, God is our refuge, our strength, and very present help in times of trouble.
And when the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all of their troubles.
Don't fear, for I am with you.
Don't be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and I will help you.
And I hope that he helps America.
That is a prayer that I have because I really believe America, as we know it, will disintegrate if her stated policies are ever, ever implemented.
You know, the Bible talks about prayer and fasting, right?
So maybe this is your time, chaplain.
We've got to buck you up a little bit, and you've got to bring comfort to people.
But, you know, I'm not going to sit here and lie and say I'm not concerned.
I am concerned.
I'm concerned about all of it.
And unless and until I hear the words, you know, we can now project Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States, you know, I will have that concern.
And there's a difference between worry and obsessive worry and I don't know, and just genuine concern.
I try not to go into the former.
I try to be, you know, I know that we can, America's a resilient country, but I don't know how we overcome this.
I just don't.
I think they'll legalize every person and you give some people things of great value and they're going to want to vote for you.
And that's what Democrats are offering.
You know, 25 grand for a down payment for a house, student loan forgiveness.
Oh, and we'll give you citizenship, even though you didn't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty.
Kind of scary time.
I appreciate your call.
I really do.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
Debate Night in America.
I'll be on both a little before the debate and right after the debate.
Hannity, we'll have JD Vance, RFK Jr., Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, Laura Trump, Vivek, Ari, Harold Ford Jr., and so much more.
All coming up tonight.
Hannity, Fox News, not its usual time, right after the debate.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow for your reaction.
Well, we'll be back in Florida, my home state.
Thank you for being with us from Philly.
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