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Senator Tom Cotton - September 19th, Hour 3
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47 days until Election Day.
Now early voting beginning in Pennsylvania.
We have mail-in ballots going out in Wisconsin, and it will now roll out around the country.
You know, during the debate, there was a moment, and it really has gone viral.
There hasn't been a lot of media attention to it, of we have American troops abroad that are in combat zones, and they listen to Kamala Harris just flat-out lie about being in combat zones, and their reaction is like, oh, where the hell are we?
Listen.
And we witnessed a poignant moment today on Capitol Hill honoring the soldiers who died in the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
I do want to ask the vice president: do you believe you bear any responsibility in the way that withdrawal played out?
Well, I will tell you, I agreed with President Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan.
Four presidents said they would, and Joe Biden did.
And as a result, America's taxpayers are not paying the $300 million a day we were paying for that endless war.
And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.
And then the military is like, where the hell are we?
Because they're all in combat zones.
I mean, they went absolutely bonkers.
As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world.
The first time this century, but let's understand.
So where the are we right on?
And then we have, by the way, Martha Rattiz with Massachusetts Governor Healy.
Listen to this.
There are currently 900 U.S. military personnel in Syria, 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq, all have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months.
We also have action in the Red Sea.
We also, every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces, special operators can be part of any sort of deadly raid.
So why would she make that claim?
There are currently 900 U.S. military personnel in Syria, 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq.
All have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months.
We also have action in the Red Sea.
We also, every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces, special operators can be part of any sort of deadly raid.
So why would she make that claim?
Well, I think what's important here, Martha, is that Kamala Harris, in contrast to Donald Trump, demonstrated herself to be commander-in-chief.
We are in a world where there are all sorts of conflicts, and it's all the more reason we need somebody who's serious and who supports the military.
And just remember, excuse me, but she said there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone.
That is not true.
You say she demonstrated her ability to be commander-in-chief, but did she not know about these people in Syria and Iraq?
Why would she say that?
Look, that was a comment.
That was a comment in a debate.
I think the point that she was trying to make was a broader point.
Joining us now is Senator Tom Cotton and these comments regarding our military overseas.
You know, that was a pretty big lie.
And of course, ABC only fact-checked Donald Trump and didn't once fact-check Kamala Harris when she told the Charlottesville hoax lie and a number of other lies about Donald Trump.
And she just flat out wouldn't answer any questions.
But this is, I guess, the state of the corrupt state-run media mob, isn't it?
Hey, Sean, it's good to be on with you.
Yeah, I mean, I was there with you at the debate, and we watched how those two moderators sort of made it three-on-one on every question, supposedly fact-checking what Donald Trump said, which is almost always incorrect.
It never once pushing back on any of Kamala Harris's obvious falsehoods, maybe the most important of which is the one you just highlighted.
Even Martha Raditz acknowledges that she said we don't have troops in combat.
What is she talking about?
Or more to the point, what are the thousands of soldiers that we have in Iraq or Syria think she's talking about?
Or the sailors who are sitting ducks in the Red Sea as Iranian-backed terrorists are shooting missiles at them?
Or for that matter, Sean, the 30,000-plus forces that we have on the Korean Peninsula whose motto is ready to fight tonight.
It's a simple fact that Americans around the world are defending our freedoms and protecting us and might be thrust into live firefights at any given moment.
And for Kamala Harris to go and spike the football on a question about the Afghanistan humiliation and say that we don't have troops facing combat around the world, just it's one of those clarifying moments that demonstrates how unfit she is to be the commander-in-chief.
Can you imagine here we are a mere 47 days until election day.
Voting has started in the country, and we don't have the following answers as it relates to Kamala Harris and her stated positions.
She will not answer the question whether she supports abortion or any restrictions on late-term abortions, meaning months seven, eight, and nine.
We have no answer on her call for a mandatory gun buyback.
No answer on her position on the border where she said she would never use a border wall, that she wants to decriminalize illegal immigration.
Nobody's gotten answers as to how, you know, she says she's going to fight inflation and immigration on day one.
And, you know, why didn't she fight it since January 20th, 2021?
And what would unrealized capital gains actually look like?
And raising the corporate tax, corporations don't pay taxes, or what a wealth tax or an estate tax increase would look like, or doubling of the capital gains tax would look like.
He's never taken responsibility.
You know, she mentioned Afghanistan there, and in Afghanistan, they abandon these Americans.
We had 13 dead Americans, but more importantly, hundreds of Americans were abandoned behind enemy lines.
And the Biden administration said they'd never do that.
They said they'd never abandon our allies.
They abandoned all of them.
Many of them have never come back, never been seen or heard from again.
No, she's not had to answer for her position to defund, dismantle, reimagine ICE and the police.
And I just, I have a hard time understanding how she's gotten away with not answering any of those questions.
And we've only got 46 days left, 47 days left.
Yeah, I mean, Sean, I think you just laid out the case for why she is skipping all these interviews, why the news has just said she's going to be the presidential candidate who's least exposed to interviews or press conferences or even just a few questions on the tarmac next to her plane in modern times because she can't give those answers.
Those are positions that she has taken, not as, say, like an impressionable young college student, as a grown woman.
When I served with her in the United States Senate, she was in her 50s, and she sponsored all those bills for the Green New Deal or to ban gas-powered cars or to give away reparations.
And if she tries to say anything differently now, she's not flip-flopping.
She's not moderating.
She's lying.
She is a San Francisco liberal.
She always has been at every stage of her life until about six weeks ago when the Democratic Party defenestrated Joe Biden and gifted her the nomination.
But the American people are totally justified to believe that she will do exactly what you just laid out if she wins the White House.
And that's why they are not going to elect her, Sean.
Let me go to Washington if I can for a minute.
And, you know, the Republicans in the House voted to pass the SAVE Act, which would safeguard our elections.
And you'd have to show proof of citizenship, preventing illegal aliens from entering the presidential, interfering in the presidential race.
She's offering free housing, health care, education, sex change surgery, and a path to citizenship, which is amnesty.
And every Democrat would be against those election integrity efforts.
Why would you ever be against that?
Why would you be against voter ID or signature verification?
I don't know if you went to the DNC.
You certainly were at the RNC.
But I needed ID at both conventions.
I needed to show my picture ID four times before I can get to my broadcast studio at the Democratic National Convention.
But they don't want that for voting.
I find that peculiar unless you have nefarious intentions.
And now, Mike Johnson, the vote failed yesterday.
I'm not sure exactly what he's going to do, but I know that every conservative is tired of these continuing resolutions.
And then you get the fear-mongering about a government shutdown.
I'll be honest, I'm not one of those people that fears a government shutdown because essential services always continue, don't they?
They do always continue, Sean, that it's the Democrats that have risked a government shutdown by voting at the block yesterday against a very straightforward bill that would not just fund the government in the short term, but also pass the SAVE Act, which would increase penalties for illegal aliens voting in our elections.
And you ask, why would anyone oppose that?
And the answer is they want illegal aliens to vote in our elections.
And they claim that it's already illegal, in which case it should be an even easier vote.
Okay.
In that case, it's a redundant law that simply restates what you say is already established in the law.
Well, why would you vote against it then?
It's the easiest vote Democrats could possibly cast.
The only explanation is they want illegal aliens to vote in our elections because they want to take power in the House and the Senate and the White House.
They want to break the rules of the Senate, and they want to do things like pass a mass amnesty bill for the 10 million plus illegal aliens who are in this country.
And they want to make Washington, D.C. a state, and they want to pack the Supreme Court, and they want to impose California's voting laws on the entire country.
That's why they blocked that bill yesterday.
All right, quick break.
More with Senator Tom Cotton on the other side.
All right, we continue with Senator Tom Cotton.
Then at the bottom of the half hour, we'll get to your calls, 800-941.
Sean is on number.
What do you think of the state of the campaign right now?
I mean, we really don't have a lot of time.
I don't think most Americans, because the media is so institutionally corrupt and nothing but an extension of the Harris Walls campaign office, and they refuse to do any vetting of Kamala Harris.
She's gotten away with no press conferences.
You know, an interview on CNN, and she spoke for 16 minutes and 29 seconds.
And then, of course, one debate, but not one serious question about any of the substantive issues that I've brought up.
And it's just frustrating at this point to me that people are now voting around the country as early voting is starting, and they don't know anything about any of this.
And that to me, in and of itself, is just such a dereliction of duty and such a disservice to the American people.
Yeah, I mean, it reflects extremely poorly on the media, Sean.
But what would you expect from them?
Look, I think here we are, you know, six and a half weeks out.
The race is still close, and it's going to be close probably until election day.
But we know this, it was close in 2016, and Donald Trump pulled it out.
The polls showed that Joe Biden was up by eight points, and he sure didn't win by eight points in 2020.
So Donald Trump is well ahead now where he was in 2020 and 2016.
I know he and J.D. Vant and their campaign team are dedicated to working as hard as they can to earn every single vote for these final six and a half weeks.
And the American people see that Kamala Harris is a radical San Francisco liberal who refuses to answer the most basic questions about her position.
They can infer from that that she hasn't changed those positions.
She still holds them.
And in the end, the American people do not want a San Francisco liberal as their commander in chief making life and death decisions for our troops and for our nation or trying to be a steward for our economy the way Donald Trump was a fantastic steward for economic growth and opportunity in this country.
What did you make it now?
The second assassination attempt in two months, and the acting Secret Service director says that the plan for Trump worked.
And meanwhile, they did nothing to secure the known vulnerability on that golf course and sweep the area where there's trees.
And this guy had been in the trees for over 12 hours.
And then they're claiming success.
Is that success to you to allow somebody with a AK-47 through the scope within 300 yards of the president?
Because I view that as a failure.
Yeah, Sean, you're right.
It's a total abject failure.
I want to stress it's the institutional failure of the Secret Service and the Biden administration.
Like President Trump, I have great admiration and respect for the men and women on his detail who once again helped thwart an assassination attempt.
But they can only do so much with what they're given.
And clearly, President Trump doesn't have a detail that's large enough and has enough resources to protect him given the threat he faces.
It's unimaginable that after he was nearly shot in the head two months ago, the Secret Service didn't augment his detail to bring it up to the level of Joe Biden's detail.
We understand, we get it.
Joe Biden is the sitting president.
He has to be protected to the utmost at every moment.
You would think after the first assassination attempt that Secret Service leadership would do the same thing with President Trump.
They have to do it now.
They have to do it now.
And look, they say that they don't have enough money or resources.
I mean, I frankly don't believe that.
But if that's the case, you know what Joe Biden could do?
He's the president after all.
The Secret Service answers to him.
He could say, make it happen.
And you know what?
For six weekends, all we have is six weekends left.
I'm not going to go to my beach house.
I'm not going to go to Wilmington, Delaware.
I'm perfectly happy to stay in this giant mansion that the taxpayers provide me for six weekends and watch college football and NFL football and play off baseball or maybe go to Camp David, my mountain retreat, both of which are secure enclaves, and you can substantially reduce my details, size, and resources and give them to Donald Trump, who has to be on the campaign trail every day.
It's Joe Biden's responsibility to ensure that the Secret Service provides Donald Trump's detail with what it needs to keep him safe.
Yeah, well said.
Senator Tom Cotton, we appreciate you being with us, my friend.
Thank you, sir.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones here.
Michelle in New York.
Michelle, how are you?
Glad you called.
I see the Nassau Coliseum came to life last night.
What's going on?
Hi, Sean.
I'm calling primarily about the polling numbers.
They're of real concern to me.
They just seem to be very askew.
My big question to you, I guess it's a rhetorical question, but are they polling illegal aliens?
Because there's so much enthusiasm for President Trump as seen at his rallies, as seen at the outpouring of concern for his everyday safety.
The fact that she could be nosing in on him in the polling, I won't mention the outfits, the polling companies, but I don't know who they're polling, but I believe in my heart that they're polling illegal aliens, and I think that's wrong.
I also am concerned, Speaker Johnson.
Let me help you out.
There's a Washington Post poll of all places, and in Pennsylvania, it's a one-point race in Pennsylvania.
I know Insider Advantage, that's Matt Towery.
Well, he has Donald Trump up by two in Pennsylvania.
We had an Atlanta Journal Constitution poll that has Trump up by three in Georgia.
Latest poll I saw to North Carolina had Donald Trump up, and he was up in Michigan by a point.
Now, if you look at the Quinnet Piak polls, which had Kamala Harris way ahead, well, I did a little background and search into their methodology.
And just to give you some of their history, in 2018, they had Andrew Gillam beating DeSantis by seven points, and they did it by overpolling Democrats, and they're doing the same thing today.
I took a deeper dive into the methodology.
For example, in Pennsylvania, their polls only have 33% Republicans.
And the CNN 2020 exit polls were 41% Republicans.
That's minus eight.
And they have Trump down by three in this poll.
And if they had the right amount of Republicans, Trump would be ahead.
And in Wisconsin, well, the same poll only has 28% Republicans.
Well, CNN had 37 in 2020 and had Trump behind by only one point, 48.49.
And if it was right, Trump would lead decisively.
In Michigan, again, they poll only 28% of Republicans.
2020, CNN had Republicans at 38%.
Again, Trump is losing the ballot 51.46.
If it was the right mix of people, it would be Trump ahead in those states.
They're doing this on purpose, I think, in part to suppress votes and fundraising and hype.
And Democrats will vote early and absentee.
If they discourage our working class, maybe low-propensity voters, we could lose.
So I would just say to everybody, you know, pay attention to the pollsters that we use because we use the best people.
Definitely.
And the other thing I wanted to bring up, and then I have to go back into office, but the other thing I wanted to bring up is Speaker Johnson is concerned because he's finding thousands of non-citizens on voting rolls.
I'm sure you already knew that.
That's a grave concern.
I think we really got to be on top and hyper-vigilant of every move that whoever is in charge here, it's not good to put, I mean, to put illegal aliens on our voting rolls is unconstitutional.
And I'm going to leave it with that because I have to get back to my office.
But I love your show.
I love your support of Trump.
And may God bless his safety.
And thank you for your show.
I really enjoy it.
I appreciate you being out there.
We can't do this without you.
Have a good day at work, Michelle.
We really appreciate you being with us.
John in Michigan.
Boy, we need the state of Michigan.
John, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
I'm well.
Nice talking to you.
I own a very small fabrication weld shop in the middle of Michigan, north of Grand Rapids a little ways.
When they got elected, the EV cars were the big push.
And we build a lot of sub-assemblies, blah, blah, blah, for automation and everything.
That said, after they realized that nobody wants these, we did millions of dollars worth of work for many companies.
And people don't understand that they don't know what they're doing with these things.
All these automated lines that we had helped fabricate.
I actually watched one of them in process, robots moving.
They're going to throw that away.
And that just one line was $10 million.
They're going to throw it away.
It's going to go to a scrapyard.
They will save, you know, obviously the usable stuff.
Well, maybe, maybe you can go to these companies and say if they're going to get rid of it, let them give it back to you.
Well, I didn't.
The good thing is I didn't have to pay for that.
And the bad thing is, because it's subsidized, because it's EV, the big push, everybody got paid, but all of this stuff's going to a scrapyard.
And it's sad.
I'm not an electric car fan.
I will never own one.
Don't care.
I'm with you.
And this is the problem.
Ford lost $4.5 billion.
Let me tell you what that does to Ford.
That reduces the odds that they can create more high-paying career jobs in the auto industry for people if they're forced by their government to build cars that their customers don't want.
Now, there are people that want electric vehicles, and there are companies like Tesla that cater to that market, and they do a darn good job at it, according to everything I've read.
And I have a friend that has a Tesla, loves it.
But if you don't want it, don't force Ford and GM and American car companies and foreign car companies to produce a car that their customers don't want.
If anyone wants an electric vehicle, odds are pretty high.
They're getting a Tesla or I guess there's other companies.
I don't really know their names, but Tesla is very popular.
No, and then the guy's amazing in what he does.
I mean, we actually, in my little tiny shop, we have Tesla projects going through there, which blows my mind, you know, because we always say, you know, it's next level.
I always say Elon Musk stuff, which means, you know, genius type work.
And here we are, a little tiny place in the middle of Michigan doing this type of work.
And like I said, it's sad because my whole family are in the tooling industry.
My kids both, all of my cousins, everybody was, you know, I don't want to say big three because of, you know, I don't want to give all of my information out, but it's just like, this is sad.
You know, in the middle of Michigan, I was telling the lady that I'm going to say 20 to 1 ads currently right now in Michigan are in favor of Camilla.
And they are so pieced together with soundbites.
And I've listened to all of Trump's interviews and like the bloodbath thing.
Everything is pieced together so blatant, misbehavior.
No, I mean, it's like the dictator for a day.
That comment was made to me.
I'm going to be a dictator for one day because everyone was calling saying, oh, he's going to be a dictator.
And he goes, yeah, I'm just going to build the border wall and I'm going to bring back energy independence.
And that was it.
I mean, it just is so corrupt and just like Project 2025.
He doesn't even know what it is.
Let us go to Kramer is in Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth.
What's up, Kramer?
How are you?
Glad you called.
How are you doing?
Great Hannah.
I'm doing good here.
Hey.
I want to ask you, when or how, oh my God, cannot there be accountability for the original remarks and the slander that they're throwing at President Trump?
Look, the left's rhetoric is going to be the left's rhetoric.
I mean, they are who they are.
And, you know, they took the unprecedented step after in the immediate hours after the assassination attempt on Sunday, trying to blame Donald Trump for the fact that he's a victim of an assassination attempt.
I mean, it is as sick as it gets.
But do you really expect anything differently?
I don't.
No.
But nobody could be held accountable for this because they're spewing lies.
It's actually slander and everything else.
Yeah, it's all that bad.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
Anyway, we don't have the best line, Kramer.
I'm going to let you go.
Trey, Texas, next Sean Hannity show.
God bless Texas.
And we need Senator Ted Cruz.
By the way, Ted Cruz, if you want to check out his positions, TedCruze.com, they're throwing probably about $200 million in negative ads at this guy.
And he has been, along with Governor Abbott, the two leading voices against the illegal immigration disaster that has been created by Harris and Biden.
And it's unbelievable that he has an opponent that's 100% Pelosi, Biden, and Kamala Harris supporter.
And we can't have, you know, we can't lose people like Ted Cruz in the Senate.
But anyway, what's on your mind, Trey?
Sean, it is a pleasure to speak with you.
It's an honor.
Just to touch on the last gentleman, I agree with him 100%.
I do want to ask you, in regards to that, with KJP standing on the podium, and is she not campaigning on the podium every time she says something about President Trump says he's a threat to democracy and kind of emulates what Harris and everyone else is saying.
Is she allowed to actually make campaign statements like that on the podium at the White House?
She is a dishonest, paid propagandist.
That's it.
That's what she does for a living.
Just like Jen Circleback, Jensaki before her.
No different.
They just lie and they don't tell the truth.
Is it legal for them to say he's a threat to democracy?
We do our freedom of speech.
Do I like the answer she gave Peter Doocy and she was all a feigning outrage and being offended yesterday?
No, I think it's ridiculous.
But, you know, that's what she gets paid to do.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Gary, Free State of Florida, next Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean.
Hey, man, what's going on?
Oh, not much.
It's down here in Florida.
live right there off of Summit Boulevard, so I was pretty close to this last assassination attempt, and I agree with you.
I don't know how the Secret Service can get up there and say this was a success.
I mean, there was some successful parts.
You know, the agent saw basically a needle in a haystack with a barrel sticking out of the fence line and he engaged them.
But, you know, the major failure, as we all know, was not sweeping an area where Paparazzi usually sets to take photos.
So we know that's a clear line of sight to the president on the golf course.
Let me ask you, if you live there, have you seen the proper Azi do this?
I have not seen them do this.
I've only heard what has been reported, but I know the area well.
Yeah.
And I'm familiar with the area now because I Google earthed it and took a really, really close look at all of it.
The fact that it wasn't swept is mind-numbing to me.
The fact that the acting director of the Secret Service said that the plan worked is even more shocking to me.
It is an obvious vulnerability.
Not only do they need to sweep the area and go through those bushes and make sure nobody's in it beforehand, but then they have to have agents monitoring probably on Congress Avenue and on, I guess, the street that you live on, those streets with the treed areas.
They need people on those streets making sure nobody goes near those trees and tries to get in there, be it with a camera or with a AK-47 and a scope.
Well, I agree with you potentially.
You know, a simple canine sweep of that area from even their sister, you know, the law enforcement there in Palm Beach County would have been great, you know, prior to Trump getting to the golf course.
That probably would have, you know, they would have got this guy, but the canines are pretty good at that.
And as far as posting somebody there, I mean, these tree lines that we're talking about, you can post two or three vehicles or not even that.
And you have a clear line of sight, you know, east and west on Summit.
So it doesn't take too many officers to be able to see somebody, you know, walking over to that area and confront them on the front end.
So it's just, it's unbelievable.
I just don't understand.
It would have been an easy, easy, smart, basic common sense decision.
Anyway, Gary, thank you.
Mel, we have about 35 seconds.
It's all yours, Mel and St. Louis.
Let's get to it.
First one's for Linda.
I keep hearing a rumor that you and Gavin Newsome are sharing Dippity-Doo hair jail.
All right.
Will you stop?
Why would you say something like that about Linda?
Oh, my God.
He's talking to me about you.
He's saying you're saying Diffidity-Doo.
You know, that's great.
So the governor's having a gaggle at the debate, and I'm seeing everybody surrounding him.
And I sneak in behind him.
His staff sees me.
They let me in.
And I'm like, hi.
And I have a smile on my face.
See, Hannity's aligned with Newsome.
I'm like, go watch my interview with him and go watch the debate.
Trust me, Gavin Newsom doesn't love Sean Hannity.
I promise you.
He's a nice guy in real life, but his views are absolutely as insane as they get.
He's a California Marxist leftist.
I can't help that.
And just like Kamala Harris, Dippity-Dew.
I haven't heard that term in forever.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for tonight.
We are loaded up.
The Border Patrol guy that testified yesterday, this Aaron Heike will join us.
What a story he's telling about how the Harris Biden administration wanted everyone to lie.
There's happenings in Nebraska we're going to tell you about.
And also we'll check in with Leo 2.0 Terrell, Mark Penn, and Victor Davis Hansen.
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See you tonight, back here tomorrow.
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