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	Thanks Scott Shot in Hour 2, Sean Hannity Show, 800 941.
	Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, 28 days till election day, early voting now rolling out all around the country for details on how to register and details on when early voting starts in your state, uh when it ends, uh, all the information you'd need on Kamala Harris and Tim Walls that the state-run media mob will ignore is all theirs of public service.
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	Uh let's go back to last Friday and and Joe Biden recklessly lying, saying, Oh, everybody in North Carolina and Georgia and Tennessee and South Carolina and Florida have everything they need, and everybody's happy.
	Happy, happy, happy.
	Well, what are the states in the storm zone?
	What do they need after what you saw today?
	Oh, in the storm zone.
	Yes, sir.
	What Storm is talking about.
	They've getting everything they need.
	Uh they're very happy across the board.
	So we just got to have to go back to the conscience with some more money for getting everything they need, and they're very happy.
	And Joe Biden is now angry and criticizing, you know, saying criticizing hurricane responses un-American.
	Meanwhile, they still have not helped the people of North Carolina and a lot of these states uh in ways that are unimaginable.
	People still are unaccounted for.
	And if it weren't for neighbor helping neighbor and and group showing up and rescuing people, uh probably the death toll, whatever it eventually becomes, would be much higher.
	Uh but you can't criticize the government and their response when it was the worst response in the history of any hurricane in history.
	Listen.
	Those who do it do it to try to damage the administration.
	Well, that's we can take care of ourselves.
	But it misleads people, it puts people in circumstances where they panic.
	They think now we're not being taken care of.
	And it really is it's gonna sound like these an old phrase is unAmerican.
	Well, I've talked to more people on the ground, especially in North Carolina, that feel that they were abandoned.
	We did a focus group last night.
	We'll do another one tonight on Hannity on Fox News.
	Now, there are groups out there that are doing incredible work.
	I've talked a lot about Samaritan's Purse.
	Uh they were like the first on the ground, local churches.
	I know people that have come from Florida and they've driven up to states like Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina to help out, and people from other states.
	Uh there is a group, Operation Hilo, and and they have been on the ground.
	They've actually been up in the air and out and about, and they've been they've been helping people that have otherwise been left to fend for themselves.
	Uh Matt McSwain is a volunteer helicopter pilot.
	Uh let's listen to him talk about helping people in North Carolina when FEMA didn't show up for a full week and still isn't really on the ground the way they should be.
	No military eight days after Hurricane Holeen.
	Listen.
	During this whole mission, uh, we didn't know what we didn't know, right?
	So we started calling friends, started calling buddies, social media, uh, we're pilots, we're in that world.
	People started showing up.
	How can we help?
	Uh there was no military presence, there was no military help, there was no FEMA, there was no nothing.
	Um, still no FEMA, still no military, still no nothing.
	We're begging.
	This is day eight, nine now, and we we're we're tired.
	Uh man, we're we've been uh but if we go home, Mama and Papa don't get their medicine and they die.
	So that's why we're still forging on, but going digressing, going back to the helicopter operations.
	This isn't something that we've ever seen before.
	This is uh uh um the communities that we're we're trying to get to.
	We have forged over 400 LZs into the mountains, into the remote locations.
	Um it's not that these people don't have uh uh power, they don't have windows and doors on their home.
	Uh if they even have a home.
	So we're flying over 400 missions per day.
	Uh we have over 90 helicopters registered.
	We got 40 squat codes the FAA gave us.
	Uh we're doing the best we can to keep these people alive.
	We need the military here.
	We want to go home.
	We want to turn this over to an operation.
	We we want some help.
	We need some help.
	I don't know what else to do to get it.
	how does that how do you reconcile what people on the ground are actually doing and saying with the lies that's being told by Joe and Kamala?
	Now joining us, the person you just heard, Matt McSwain as well as Eric Robinson, uh, both with Operation HELO.
	They've been doing the work of getting people out of harm's way.
	Uh thank you both, number one, for being on the program, and thank you both for what you've been doing.
	Uh Matt, I just heard what you said eight, nine, ten days later, there's no FEMA, there's no military.
	You have a group of of people, you've flown you're flying four hundred missions a day.
	You got ninety birds in operation that are being I uh my understanding is they're being donated by people.
	It's not like the government is providing those helicopters, and that you've been saving people's lives, and Joe Biden, you just heard him in his own words said everybody has been taken care of and everything is fine.
	Is that true?
	Well, Sean I appreciate you having us on today.
	Um I I want to uh quote uh Colonel Chetypuller, uncommon valor is a common virtue.
	Uh the the citizens that have uh dedicated their time and their efforts and their machines to this operation is is uncandid.
	Um it's unprecedented.
	Um and I want to clarify, and this is kind of a uh um a weird situation and and and uh and uh uh an honor to to work with these guys that the military presence that we have here uh are all volunteers that have taken off their time personally from the military.
	A lot of special forces guys basically said, Screw you, we want to take time off, we want to go help.
	So we have been working directly with a lot of uh I won't specifically name what units, but a lot of special forces got come here and say, Hey, put us on a helicopter, put us in, coach.
	We we wanna, you know, we want to help.
	So the military presence that we have is in no way, shape, or form a c official capacity, but it's just uh patriots that want to come help us.
	And let's get your take.
	Uh Eric, you're also on the ground.
	You've been there, you've been on these flights, you've been saving lives.
	Uh I let me go back and play Joe Biden again, because I think it's worth it.
	Joe Biden said Friday that everybody's getting everything they need and everybody's happy.
	And then I want your response directly to what Joe Biden said.
	What are the states in the storm zone?
	What do they need after what you saw today?
	Oh, on the storm zone.
	Yes, sir.
	What storm is talking about?
	Uh they're very happy across the board.
	So we just got to have to go back to the pants and get some more money with President They're getting everything they need, and everybody's happy across the board.
	Eric Robinson, how many days have you been in North Carolina?
	So we started this operation on uh we stood it up on Sunday of last week.
	We've been out here I think this is they all run together, probably day nine or ten at this point.
	Um but let me address the back half of that first.
	Um by him saying everybody's happy.
	I can guarantee not a single soul here is happy.
	Um there's people up in the mountains that have lost literally everything, not just cars, not just their yards messed up, they've lost entire houses.
	So no one is happy.
	Um, but I will say that on the backs of a civilian operated uh uh helicopter militia, they are getting everything they need by donations from civilians, um, carried to them by civilians, paid more paid for by civilian donations.
	So they are getting everything they need, but they're not getting it from the government.
	I I I at this point I don't even know why we pay taxes.
	If we can send three hundred and fifty-eight million dollars to Lebanon for exactly what's happening in the mountains, people are not having food, aid, clothes, uh, shelter.
	Why can that money not be redirected here?
	That that's part that not a single person is here is happy.
	So I ha how could they possibly be happy?
	Their entire lives have been upended, and you know, you're talking about the money that went to Lebanon.
	I mean, Kamala Harris posted on on X just two days ago that the people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation.
	I'm concerned about the security and well being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all the civilians there.
	And to that end, the U.S. is giving 157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon on top that brings a total to 385 million, as you rightly point out.
	That's money that I believe should be going to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, every other state that is in need of it.
	It doesn't include, for example, uh the the three the added eight billion dollars that they gave a week and a half ago to Ukraine, nearly two hundred billion dollars total, uh on top of the fact that we spend every year, you know, all of this money.
	Ethiopia gets two billion dollars, the Taliban 1.3 billion, uh another one point three billion for Yemen, uh more than a billion to Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, 18 billion on the anti-American anti-Semitic United Nations.
	Uh the 850 million for the corrupt WHO that was the propaganda wing for China during COVID, millions more for the globalist World Economic Forum.
	But FEMA we're told is out of money.
	They rated that the the coffers there to give a billion dollars to Harris Biden unvetted illegal immigrants.
	You want me to keep going on how they spend money?
	No, I mean you laid it out perfectly, and again, I just get back to um uh in all honesty, it just shows you how out of touch our leaders are with what's really going on inside the United States of America.
	Um if they if they and I think Joe Biden said it himself, show me a budget and I'll show you what you care about.
	Um and and uh the the people in the mountains of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, that they're obviously not cared about because of the budget items and where that money's going.
	So um I'm sorry, it just makes my blood boil at this point because Matt and I have been on the ground since day one uh helping orchestrate aid.
	But I'll be honest, I'm glad it probably I'm I'm glad it happened like this because we were probably more than likely able to get more aid to them than the government could ever dream about um through private citizens, private donations.
	So um this is probably a I'll be honest, I had never heard of your organization before, and and Linda brought your your organization to my attention.
	I knew that there were private groups there, and uh we have uh Corey Mills from Florida has been involved in operations like this, and I knew from day one that Samaritan's purse was on the ground and they were meeting the immediate needs of of food and water and fuel and supplies for everybody.
	I knew that Elon Musk, after he got a call from Donald Trump, was bringing Starlink and communications capability to areas uh that had no communications at all.
	And then I keep reading about all these helicopter flights that are saving lives.
	Are you uh both confident?
	Matt, I'll ask you first that everybody has been everybody in trouble has at least been contacted and helped in some way, or do you feel that there's still people out there that we don't know about?
	Uh, you know, we have geo griding on our maps.
	Uh we try to touch everybody, and everybody we touch, we try to map it out.
	Uh there's still some red areas uh in our 15-mile grid system.
	Uh the military came to us wanting to use our intel because what we had uh they didn't eat they didn't even have.
	Uh we we're sharing it with local law enforcement.
	Uh once and and I want to give a huge thank you to Donald Trump.
	He's a he made these starlings happen.
	We currently have the largest Starlink gridding system in the United States, all attributed to Donald Trump.
	Uh Yavanka brought them personally in her jet and handed them to us.
	So you won't talk about patriotism.
	That's it.
	Elon Musk, thank you so much.
	We were able to employ that.
	We partnered with Samaritan's Purse.
	We were actually putting stuff in the field with Samaritan's purse.
	So to answer your question, there still may be pockets of areas that we can't get to.
	Uh, I think yesterday we found somebody that still hadn't been touched in nine days.
	But uh, you know, I feel confident that you know 95% of the area we can go home and sleep at night and say was covered.
	It's just so remote that you can't get to them even by our helicopters in some regions.
	So I would if I had to put a number on, I'd say 95%.
	What do you say?
	Uh Eric Robinson.
	So I would say yes, I I agree a hundred percent with Matt.
	Um we we are super thankful for the Starlink that were that were uh distributed or donated by uh Elon to where we could get comms up and running to where we could get uh we could get aid in.
	Um so you know, we we also part of this, we we have a ground assault that's actually launching today, and we have L Z that are stacked that are um that are completely stocked with uh with supplies.
	That ground assault is going to happen by a team of side-by-side drivers, a huge team of side-by-side drivers that are gonna go out and try to get those last pockets.
	Um our motto is no man left behind, and it's gonna stay that.
	Um so we're not gonna sleep until we get them all.
	But yeah, like Matt said, through our network, we were we were able to get to at least probably ninety-five percent.
	The other five percent were coming.
	It's amazing, and the worst of times, I saw this after 911.
	You see the best in people and and both of you represent that and all the people that are working with you.
	All right, quick break, we'll come right back more with Eric Robinson and Matt McSwain of Operation HELO.
	Uh, we'll get to your calls on the other side as well.
	800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, 28 days till election day.
	We continue with the best election coverage available on your radio dial.
	Final moments with Eric Robinson and Matt McSwain of Operation HELO, and they have been volunteering their time, their money, their efforts doing the job that Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, FEMA have failed to do, and they have nearly a hundred helicopters and pilots that have been running about four hundred missions a day all over these remote portions of North Carolina, and they have been saving lives.
	And I wanted to give them, you know, a final word here before we let them go and and also an opportunity to help tell us how we can help them.
	They've been paying for the fuel for these helicopters, four hundred missions a day out of their own pocket.
	They just can't afford to keep doing it that way.
	Anyway, uh, we continue with Eric Robinson and Matt McSwain.
	How can people help Operation Hilo?
	Well, I tell you what, uh Eric's credit card is still on file downstairs.
	We're paying for all the fuel for all these helicopters.
	Anything anybody can do to help donate.
	That was that was our catch.
	You know, hey guys, you bring your helicopters up here, uh, we'll pay for fuel, we'll go do it.
	We thought we'd have five or ten.
	Uh we got almost a hundred.
	So our promise uh we're still keeping, we're still paying for fuel.
	Uh I don't know that we'll ever re get repaid for it, but anybody that wants to go to Operation Hilo.org and donate to to the fuel uh for all these helicopters, Robinson helicopters stepped up.
	They gave us a lot of uh support for these Robinson R 44s that have been very instrumental.
	So uh Operation Hilo.org, we got a link that if people want to help us pay for fuel, man, that would be gracious.
	I'll tell you what, we're gonna put a link on Hannity.com.
	I'll make a donation myself, and uh I can't thank you guys enough for what you're doing.
	Eric uh Robinson, Matt McSwain.
	Uh this is this is the difference.
	This is when you get real people that just get you know, roll up their sleeves, get the job done, or you can wait for the government bureaucrats and die in the process.
	That's pretty much a choice.
	It's pathetic.
	And this response has been pathetic, and this, you know, criticize how dare you criticize them for being pathetic.
	I mean, that's where we're at as a country.
	Anyway, guys, thank you.
	Stay safe and uh all our best in your your efforts.
	We really appreciate what you're doing.
	Florida, we're coming for you.
	Ron DeSantis, we're gonna help you, buddy.
	We're on our way.
	Yeah, let's not looking good for temp, I'll tell you right now.
	Uh it really is uh and they just got off.
	They they got whacked pretty hard by Helene, too.
	Uh of a lot of friends there.
	Many have now been forced to evacuate, and then I have my uh I have my warrior friends that aren't leaving their house, come hell or high water.
	And I've been in touch with them all day.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones.
	It's 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Uh Robert is in North Carolina.
	Robert, glad you called.
	Our prayers are with uh our friends in your state.
	So sorry to hear how bad it has been.
	And I'm even more sorry that your federal government has abandoned you and then lied about it on top of it by saying everything is uh every need is being met.
	And everybody's happy.
	That's what Joe Biden said on Friday.
	Well, Sean, I'd like to say first that my wife and myself and my mother in law, who's eighty-seven, watch your show every night.
	Uh thank you.
	You're our favorite, and we love the way you are, and you're a patriot.
	I'm a Vietnam vet 1971 in 72.
	And this country was gonna head in the direction it's headed now, I'd have never joined the military.
	Now they never went to Vietnam.
	Um I can't believe we got people dressing up as women and leading our military.
	Our military has to feel very shaky right now with the way things are going, and we're giving all our tax money to other countries.
	I don't understand that.
	I don't have a say-so in where my tax money's going, but I have to pay.
	I'm very bitter right now, and I understand where you're coming from, but I want to tell you how much we appreciate you representing the real people in this country.
	Can you believe, I mean, our military has gone woke.
	We don't have any room for a woke military.
	China and Russia are both, you know, they both have, for example, hypersonic missile capability.
	We do not.
	Uh and we're falling behind.
	Uh military preparedness has never been lower.
	We see Russia and Iran and China on the move.
	And if Kamala Harris, after watching this this inter these interviews on on uh sixty minutes and this interview on the view, uh, I am just saying that if she becomes president, there will be no respect on the world stage for Kamala Harris.
	None at all.
	And uh she will never build up our military, and America will continue its military decline, and America will give up its role as the leader of the free world.
	It is sad, it is tragic.
	We are gonna leave this country when we pass this earth into the next life in far worse shape than we inherited it, you know, from the greatest generation, people like my father that fought in World War II, people like you that fought in Vietnam, amazing people.
	And it's if if this you know, I I can't I can't give you a readout today on on what's gonna happen in the election.
	I can only say with the greatest amount of urgency I can muster within me that we can't let this happen.
	He I watched this interview, I watched these interviews.
	He's not qualified to be the president.
	He's not an honest human broker running for president.
	He has been able to hide with the assistance of a very abusively biased corrupt state run media.
	And and now she's on our little propaganda campaign instead of helping the people in North Carolina, Georgia, etc., she's hanging out with people that love her on the view on 60 minutes.
	And and and shows like, you know, Call Her Daddy, Call Me Daddy, whatever the hell the show's name, and Howard Stern, who's gone woke himself.
	Uh it's sad to me.
	And the one guy that can get this done would be Donald Trump.
	We could literally change the trajectory.
	We can solve our border problem, we can fix our economy, we can become energy dominant, we'll bring back law and order, and America will regain its place in the world as the leader of the free world.
	That's what's at stake in just 28 short days.
	I don't know.
	I I don't know, I don't know any other way to say it.
	But I do appreciate your service and your support because I don't have this microphone without you listening and watching the camera without you watching.
	I'm grateful, but uh I'd be less than honest if I didn't say I'm I'm concerned about the direction of the country.
	Comment anyway took the word you took the words out of my mouth.
	My dad was Navy for thirty years.
	My son pulled a tour in Iraq, and I pulled a tour in.
	I love my country, but I hate my leadership right now.
	It's not working.
	Grateful, but uh I'd be less than honest if I didn't say I'm I'm concerned about the direction of the country.
	Comment anyway.
	Took the words out of my mouth.
	My dad was Navy for thirty years.
	My son pulled a tour in Iraq, and I pulled a tour in.
	I love my country, but I hate my leadership right now.
	It's not working.
	And we are headed down the tube so fast, I don't know whether or not we're gonna survive it.
	But we're gonna try, and I haven't given up.
	I have optimism and I'm pulling for Trump.
	I don't want to play golf with a guy, but I love him to death when it comes to running our country.
	He has our people's interest.
	He is for the people.
	He's not for the politicians.
	And that's what I love about him.
	And he will get my vote immediately when we can vote.
	North Carolina hasn't opened up yet, but as soon as they do, we'll be standing at the door.
	Well, I'm praying for our country.
	I'm praying for our kids, our grandkids.
	Right now I'm praying, especially for my home state.
	But don't talk about it, because uh to me, I don't know.
	I was I I I just it's just not my my personality.
	And I'm just asking everybody does their part.
	And maybe your part is just voting, but maybe your part is sharing the Comalo files, the Walls files with others.
	It would your co-workers, your friends, your neighbors, your family, putting it on social media.
	Because I think a lot of people are not aware of how radical, extreme and dangerous these policies are and who she really is.
	But whatever you can do, I'm urging people to do it now, so you don't wake up and one morning, someday after election day, and find out that this opportunity has been squandered.
	Because I'm not sure.
	I mean, I would say uh uh with a pretty high degree of certainty that all of these 20 million illegal immigrants will all be voters in 2028.
	And if Democrats give something of such great worth for free to people in this country, don't you think they're gonna feel a certain sense of loyalty to that party?
	I don't know how how do you overcome that you know that massive influx of democratic uh or likely democratic voters.
	You give something of value like that for free.
	I don't know.
	Kind of looks like you know, paying off student loans and paying giving free money away.
	If you wanted to be a citizen in New Zealand or in Australia, you'd pay you know ten million dollars, and then have to spend you know years there.
	Quick break, right to our phones we go, 800 941 Shauna's our number if you want to be a part of the program as we continue 28 days till election day, straight ahead.
	Let's get back to our busy phones.
	800 941 Sean is our number.
	Larry, Indiana next on the Sean Hannity show.
	Hi.
	Hi, Sean, how you doing?
	Hey, I just wanted to give a shout out to all of the civilian pilots.
	I'm I'm a retired uh helicopter pilot army guy, but I've been fortunate enough.
	I've retired, I built the home built that's fast, efficient, and four place, and two other guys that have the same aircraft like me.
	We've been flying supplies down to uh Ash County, North Carolina, outside Franklin.
	And so far it's been I think we've done four thousand pounds of goodies, all donated some uh one of the other pilots is a dock, and they put out the word at the hospital in two days they had five pickup trucks of goodies.
	I mean, you know, all the usual stuff you need.
	And go to the airport land the first time, and they've set up a hangar there that's the distribution center, and you know, I'll pull in there and they have people with carts in the vest on unloading aircra aircraft and getting it into the hangar, and they you know, get a sandwich and coke and take back off.
	But and then the locals with the four-wheel drive pickups, they'll roll in one side of the hangar and they'll say, What do you need?
	And they load them up and they're driving it up in the mountains to the people that need it.
	And there's not one official government person on the airport.
	And yesterday when I was there, I talked to the lady and she said that uh since the Sunday after the storm went through, there have been 600 airplanes, and everyone's privately owned, uh, bought and paid for by the individuals using them, and then you know, just doing this on their own, just showing up.
	And it's I just think it's awesome.
	I think all of these different groups, too many for me to name, some of which I don't even know, and Samaritan's purse have done a phenomenal job.
	I mean, these guys that we interviewed from Operation uh Hilo, I mean, they're saving lives.
	And the fact that Kamala Harris, you know, prefers to go on a caller call me daddy or call her daddy, I don't know what the hell this stupid podcast is.
	Uh Howard Stern, The View, Colbert, and a b and and then just flat out lie about Ron DeSantis and and Donald Trump's uh hurricane response is just it's despicable but typical but despicable anyway appreciate the call my friend thank you uh and thanks to all those groups you're mentioning George in Florida my home state George where are you in Florida and are you bracing for the uh pending hurricane hey Sean um yes I'm on the along I-4 just
	north of Orlando so we're gonna about we're gonna be about a hundred uh knot winds around here maybe in a couple days but you're you're gonna get whacked with very heavy winds and a real storm on the I-4 corridor for sure.
	Yeah we're honkered down I got everything in the I got everything in the house that's not I can't um it's like I can't get it in the house I tied it down took the pool down about a foot so get that water I was spetting about 12 inches and uh got this I got the refrigerator stocked I got uh I took a picture of what's in the refrigerator because you know I'm I'm I'm planning to be out of power for a few days so if I can even go in and get it get it you get out I can do exactly where it is I'm not looking for it.
	Um I got the pool so I can flex my toilets um so I'm ready.
	I've been through about 12 of these but you know this is one of the bigger ones we're gonna have level two or three well you know two w winds here so we're gonna we're gonna be we're gonna be pretty um we're gonna be rocking for a little while for about 24 hours so I'm ready.
	I'm gonna give you I'm gonna give you one other suggestion and this is what I did.
	You know besides get you know getting my generator fixed and all that and getting all the you know getting all the outdoor furniture in and all that stuff um is I cooked uh like a million uh pork sparrups and I just put them in the refrigerator and this way I've got something to eat if if everything else is not working.
	I got something right uh so hang in there we uh we have contingency plans to broadcast we're gonna we're gonna be on the air one way or the other and um praying for all my friends especially Sarasota Tampa Tampa especially this this could be the worst one ever.

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