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Only 26 days to election day early voting now going on all around the country.
And you can, as a public service, go to Hannity.com, Hannity Social Media, and you can find a link, and that link will tell you how you can register to vote at a when voting uh when early voting begins in your state, when it ends in your estate, it'll give you information about precincts and and so on and so forth.
Uh a lot of people are writing and calling and and pleading with me.
What about the people of North Carolina and South Carolina and Florida and Georgia and other places impacted by the hurricane?
Are they going to be able to vote?
I do know for a fact it's going to start in Florida.
It should be duplicated in every state impacted by these hurricanes.
Uh, and there are going to be provisions that are made that will allow people, regardless of whether you're voting Democrat or Republican, to have access to this election and to vote.
And the states that I'm I'm almost certain that Governor Kemp will facilitate that in Georgia.
Uh I'm I'm certain that Governor McMaster will do that in South Carolina.
I'm not sure about Cooper in North Carolina.
I'm really not.
Uh, but he's gonna have there's gonna have to be pressure, but there's going to be efforts.
I don't want to give away sources and people that I've talked to, but uh everybody is aware that it's a problem for people that have been impacted by these hurricanes.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all of them.
A special shout out to my friends in Naples, Florida, and Fort Myers, Florida, and Sarasota and Tampa and those along the I-4 corridor and Orlando and even in the northeastern uh part of that that were hit with storms, some storm surge earlier today in uh Florida as well, and those in southern Georgia that were hit.
I mean, it's just as awful.
I was on the phone.
One of my friends it lives in Tampa, and I was on the phone with him probably like eight eight times last night, and he lives, you know, near the water, and he decided not to evacuate.
And I I went over it all with him, and I actually ended up getting our friend Meteorolog, sorry, I got the hiccups, meteorologist Joe Bastardi uh on the line with him, and I said, Okay, here's where he lives.
Here's what the storm surge was during Helene, here's what we're expecting.
What is the worst case scenario?
Let me tell you about it.
We talked about his house.
It's only three years old.
It's got, you know, hurricane windows and doors and et cetera, et cetera.
It's the latest and and greatest standards in terms of building code standards, because it's only three years old, so it's up to speed.
And it's a very safe house and had no damage at all during Hurricane Helene, except for a little bit of flooding in the garage.
And you know, he said you can definitely stay.
It just is if it's a direct hit and you get that storm surge, this is how high it may be.
And he happened to be on a little bit higher plane than most people in his neighborhood, which makes a dramatic difference.
It ends up he didn't get a drop of water anywhere in his house.
As a matter of fact, the water was drawn out, and the flooding really happened from Naples up to Fort Myers up through Sarasota.
But anyway, our prayers are with all these people.
I don't know if anyone saw the picture, the image.
I mean, we had Governor DeSantis on the program yesterday.
50,000 plus people, tens of thousands of utility trucks that he had staged.
And somebody sent me a picture of this today.
I couldn't believe it.
And and they were prepared as well as, you know, tractor trailers full of food and water and medicines and supplies and baby formula and all the things that people might be impacted by a hurricane are going to need.
And it was the exact thing they didn't do in North Carolina, the exact thing Kamala Harris and Joe Biden didn't do.
Joe Biden sat his ass on the beach and Kamala was was hobnobbing with her Hollywood elitist friends, and they didn't lift a finger for pretty much over a week because when we sent Sarah Carter to the worst hit areas of North Carolina, not a single person she interviewed, not one, had had ever heard or been contacted by anybody that had anything to do with the government, federal or local.
And it just is for except for like local sheriffs and local townspeople.
And if it weren't for neighbor helping neighbor, to be very frank, if it weren't for you know, Operation Hilo.org, and if it wasn't for Samaritans Purse dot org and just generous people that stepped up, if it wasn't for Elon Musk getting a call from Donald Trump, I mean I I don't know.
Whatever the final death toll ends up being, there was a terrible article I saw today that eleven family members, one family they just discovered all eleven had died in this hurricane, and which I it's the first I read about it.
It didn't say, but they died from the hurricane.
And you know, remember those Operation Hilo guys were going out there, and what were they doing?
They were doing 400 missions a day.
They had 90 helicopters and they were running them and filling them with fuel themselves because you know they didn't they didn't have anybody supporting them yet.
And we have a link, by the way, if you want to help these guys out.
They're still they're still trying to rescue people and bring needed supplies to people.
You know, Wall Street Journal today had a piece about Elon Musk and Starlink.
Now, Linda, believe it or not, is like a tech guru.
Her and Blair do all my tech work and a guy by the name of Bill Hickey and Sweet Baby James to some extent.
I don't want to touch a thing when it comes to equipment.
Something breaks, I I literally say, you guys fix it, I'll be right back.
Because I there's nothing I can offer.
He can barely download an app.
I was trying to download an app because I stayed in Florida.
I was not in an evacuation zone.
I was in the next level down that I had to be ready to evacuate, but I didn't have to.
And things really didn't get that bad, thank God.
Um but I didn't want to leave because I I just I've I just feel compelled to stay on the air.
Now I guess I could have flown somewhere and and done the shows from elsewhere, but I just I didn't feel it was going to be that bad, and I wasn't being forced to evacuate.
If I had to by if the law you know what the problem is, if like my friend who stayed because he wanted to protect his house, and after talking to Joe Bustardi, who uh assured him that he was going to be safe, um, based on everything that he told them about his house, his property, etc.
etc.
And even in a worst case scenario, the the worst he would have faced was flooding.
Um, you know, he I'm glad he did because he ended up having a leak in his roof at one point during the storm last night.
It was able to just get up there and fix it.
Otherwise, if he would have left by the time he got home, you know, they would have had a nice flood and a lot of damage on his hands.
So it was kind of good that he stayed, but he made an intelligent decision, an informed decision, and I kind of like the fact that people make up their own minds, but I tend to recommend that people follow whatever the recommendations are.
Linda, imagine the headline if I stayed in the in the middle of a hurricane when then I and I was in an evacuation zone, what the press would do with that, it would not be.
Anyway, so the Wall Street Journal writes about Elon Musk.
Remember, he got the call from Donald Trump.
Donald Trump got down on the ground early in North Carolina.
And now, what's interesting about this story is Starlink could have been up and running in, you know, these rural areas in North Carolina, Georgia, and some other places years ago.
The problem is the Biden FCC decided to cancel their contract with Starlink so they could award that contract instead to a Biden Harris campaign donor whose network wasn't ready for operation.
The one good news story to emerge from this is how Elon Musk and his Starlink satellite system rescued cell phone and internet service in all these rural counties as soon as Donald Trump called, they were in the mail.
They were out there, and people were setting them up, and it was desperately needed.
And private groups, you know, and now FEMA finally have deployed more than a thousand Starlink tur turn uh terminals to restore internet service to the hardest hit areas, because a lot of these people had no means at all of any communication.
And he did it even though the Biden FCC last year yanked the eight hundred and eighty-five million dollar grant to to buy them and put them there and furnish high speed internet, although Democrats talk about it all the time to you know nearly a million rural homes and businesses, including the very counties where FEMA is now deploying Starlink satellites because their donors' company couldn't get the job done.
The FCC's Democratic majority revoked Starlink's funding last year, claiming it wasn't making fast enough progress to connect rural Americans.
Never mind the fact that other FCC funding recipients weren't doing any better.
As a matter of fact, they didn't get the job done.
Now, two weeks ago, the FCC chairwoman granted Dish Network chairman a three-year extension to meet FCC guidelines and deadlines to build out this fledgling 5G network and avoid stiff penalties for squatting on valuable spectrum, and Starlink, you know, was well on their way to meeting the commitments, but you know, they didn't they just don't like Elon Musk.
Elon Musk did more than Biden and Harris and the and Mayorcus and all of them combined.
Remember, up until last week they'd only given out four million dollars.
I mean, how pathetic is that?
It is so pathetic.
Now we got a lot of news today.
Um there has been such a backlash.
I I just I can't even believe it to this disastrous interview on 60 minutes.
I'm gonna get to that in detail in a second.
Uh and the fact that you really can't make this up about about your corrupt news media.
I you you just can't make it up.
Now, what happened is CBS News has remained silent about the pressure to release the full transcript of Kamala Harris's interview on 60 minutes.
Even as a former correspondent said that there's precedent for the network doing so when it came to Donald Trump.
Catherine Harridge who I used to work with the Fox, who was laid off earlier this year by CBS, says as she investigated the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and she did a great work on that.
She did great work helping us do the Russia hoax.
Anyway, as the Trump campaign calls on 60 minutes to release the full unedited transcript, there's precedent, she said.
When I interviewed President Trump in July of 2020, CBS News, we posted the interview transcript, and this is more complete, not the same as the transcript of the edited TV report.
Now, here's the problem is that they have this 60 minutes interview.
They've got a couple of controversies going on here, and there are two separate different answers that they used, one for a promo and one in the actual broadcast itself.
And I I mean, you can't make this self up.
It looks like an effort, you know, to save Kamala Harris in this uh from a word salad that she used.
And so it was it was an edited thing.
Now, Linda, over the years, I mean, Leslie Stahl was bugging me forever to do 60 minutes.
And she even at one point asked President Trump to call me and ask me to do it.
This is a true story.
And then she called a friend of mine who used to be a top executive at Fox News and asked him to call me and ask me to do it.
And I said, Well, uh to whoever I sent the message back through, I said, sure, I'll do it live to tape.
In other words, you don't get to edit a word and put your little narrative around it the way 60 Minutes does in their abusively biased way.
So they need to release the entire transcript.
Now it's gotten so bad that even the Harris campaign is trying to distance themselves from this hatchet job, and they're calling for a release of the unedited copy of the Harris interview.
And they're saying, well, we don't control CBS's production decisions.
Well, the reality is is that it was done to help Kamala Harris.
Anyway, we'll get to that in just a minute.
Well, as a matter of fact, let me play it here.
Let's play the the promo version versus the on-air version, and you can listen to the difference and hear the cut.
But it seems that uh Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has Resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of uh many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
Do we have uh um a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?
I think with all due respect, the better question is do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people?
And the answer to that question is yes.
But it seems that uh Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
Now, that's what aired live, that last one.
The first one, the word salad, just happened to air on their Sunday show, and that's not the version that made air.
And it sounds completely different.
So obviously, you got two different answers to the same question, and CBS needs to release the transcript.
Now, the Trump people are so pissed off about it.
Donald Trump literally came out today and and and he called uh for all these networks to rebid on their broadcast light licenses to fight the abusive bias that is the media.
And I'll explain more about this on the other side as well.
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What a scandal.
Can you imagine if I did that, Linda?
Good grief.
God help me.
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We're going to get into the 60 minutes edit fiasco.
They also have more controversy we'll get to.
Then the bigger, broader picture, how abusively biased and corrupt the news media in general is.
I mean, they're that bad.
We'll check in with our polsters, good poll numbers for Donald Trump today.
New Gingrich is coming up today, and a Senate candidate you're going to want to meet from Nevada straight ahead.
Now, let me go back to the scandal.
And the scandal is beyond CBS.
Let me let me be very, very clear here.
We have now had Kamala Harris over 75 over 80 days, whatever it is, since she's the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party.
The number of of radical statements that she has made and we have discussed and we have played at length.
We've been doing it for three months.
And some people have said to me, Hannity, you're getting repetitive.
And this goes back to me and our uh during COVID mentioning that if you if you test positive, you may want to ask your doctor.
I don't know anything about your health or your or your previous, you know, pre-existing conditions or comorbidities you may have.
I'm not a doctor.
I'm not, I'm not the person that ought to be telling you to take the shot, not take the shot.
I don't know anything about your health.
I have no idea what medicines you're on.
I have no idea if it's a good idea.
It's again, it's an experimental, it's it's experimental to begin with, which raised a lot of questions in my head, but everybody was pressuring me in the media.
What's your status, Hannity?
Have you taken the shot?
And I'm like, it's none of your damn business.
Have you ever gotten COVID?
That's none of your damn business either.
I probably would have shared it with all of you in this audience, to be very frank, until everybody started insisting that I do it, and I'm like, the hell with all you people.
You're not telling me what I have to tell my audience.
And I did not feel I was very uncomfortable ever telling anybody, and I didn't do it what they should do when it came to COVID and getting the shot or not getting the shot.
I just said, take it seriously, talk to your doctor, do your own research, and make up your own mind.
And we tried to put on a lot of people with varying viewpoints, including the guy that created the mRNA technology that even allowed for the creation of those vaccines anyway.
And even he said that the technology wasn't perfected.
He said, it just isn't.
And he said it he would only use it for the elderly that were most impacted by COVID, people 65 and older, people with comorbidities, people with pre existing conditions, and then he said, That's it.
And this is the guy they wouldn't have been a Pfizer or Moderna shot without this guy.
That's what he said.
And, you know, God forbid he goes on Joe Rogan show.
Joe Rogan gets COVID, comes back.
Instead of everyone being happy that he's fine and he recovered and he's he's healthy again.
You know, people are mad at Joe Rogan because he says I threw everything at it.
I took I had monoclonal antibodies, I had uh Ivormectin, I had hydroxychloroquine.
Remember, everyone made fun of hydroxychloroquine.
You know how many studies came out afterwards that showed, yeah, taken early, it did mitigate a lot of symptoms.
But nobody wants to report that part now.
Anyway, so there's a lot of a lot of pressure, you know, and the media is corrupt, and they in regardless, they just would go after you.
I am telling you that journalism in America is dead.
This latest incident with CBS is just the latest greatest example.
And the bigger scandal is is that the entire state run media mob, and they are a mob because they've got a mob mindset, a mind mob mentality, and they're like sheep, and they all follow each other, and they echo each other.
They even use the same phrases as each other and the same phrases as the campaigns that they are advocating for.
I have no problem with advocacy journalism.
I have no problem with people being talk show hosts.
I'm a member of the press, and I I can produce thousands of hours of straight news coverage, thousands of hours of investigative reporting.
I I am straightforward.
I am honest about my opinions.
I tell you up front, I'm gonna vote for Donald Trump, for example, in this election, and I want him to win.
And I'm I'm giving you the reasons on a regular basis why.
And we talk about culture and we talk about sports as a member of the press, that's my job.
I'm like the entire newspaper.
But most of these other people claim to be journalists, and they're not.
And so with CBS, you have they air two different answers to the exact same question.
One was a word salad answer that they aired early in the morning as a tease for the interview That was coming up either the next day, and then what actually aired during 60 minutes was very different.
Now, the Harris campaign, they they are they are running from this.
Now I have no idea.
Did the Harris campaign not like the answer and ask that it be edited down?
And that did CBS do?
And what else might they be hiding?
Because I think what they need to do is release the entire transcript like they've done with Donald Trump as Catherine Herrid has pointed out and let the people decide.
Because this is the first word salad answer that she gave.
It's in reference to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Listen.
But it seems that uh Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of uh many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
Do we have uh uh a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?
I think with all due respect, the better question is do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people?
And the answer to that question is yes.
Now, this is what aired.
Again, the same question, a completely different answer.
Short and concise this time.
How convenient to make her look better?
Listen.
But it seems that uh Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
All right, so that's controversy one.
And anyway, so CBS News, they have this morning show host.
I never heard of this guy.
It's Tony DeCopel is how I pronounce it.
I don't even know how to pronounce his name.
Anyway, so he does an interview on September 30th with somebody named uh Tanesasi Coates and DeCopol presses this person on information that he left out of his new anti-Israel book, such as the fact that the Jewish state is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it, like in Hamas and Gaza in their charter wants the destruction and wants to wipe Israel off it off the map.
It's in their charter.
We know the same goal exists for Hezbollah.
We know what the Houthi rebels are involved in.
We know that the Iranians are now firing ballistic missiles into Israel.
Anyway, it was completely reasonable questioning uh the author of the book, who should be able to defend what's in the book, but then the network staff, the inmates running the silum like at MSDNC, were furious.
Remember when they when they hired Ronald McDaniel?
Oh my gosh.
Like a meltdown, and then they capitulated.
I hope Ronna got paid a ton of money.
Anyway, you're not supposed to ask, you know, left wingers about their claims, apparently, because it got the staff angry.
And anyway, they weren't angry just because, you know, is it because what anti-Israel?
I don't know.
But the New York Post writes today, you know, surely they weren't angry just because Coates was African American or anti-Israel, and the suits pill polled the poke into a meeting with CBS News's standards and practices team and their race and culture unit, and apparently chewed this guy out on a staff call for failing to meet CBS's editorial standards.
And the news CEO Wendy McMahon, apparently and her lieutenant reprimanded the guy for bringing bias to the interview, but failed to explain how.
And Coates suggested that Gail King also on the interview had told them that before the sit-down that that was what he planned to ask.
That's not a that's not a violation of good news practice.
And this is the new this is what represents news media.
CBS needs to release the full 60 minutes transcript.
But here's the problem.
Kamala's never had to answer why she supports no restrictions.
Kamala, why do you have no restrictions on abortion in months seven, eight, and nine?
Never given an answer.
Kamala, you talk about your Glock.
Why did you, in your own words, support a mandatory gun buyback program?
Kamala, why did you call Donald Trump's wall of vanity project?
Kamala, why do you want to decriminalize the illegal immigration?
Kamala.
Why would you offer free food, housing, health care, education, legal driver's licenses, free college, and sex change surgeries to illegal immigrants that didn't respect our laws, our borders and our sovereignty?
He's never given a straight answer, although I will say Bill Whittaker, who did this 60 minutes interview, did the best of anybody in trying to get an answer on the immigration issue?
Kamala, why do you want to ban plastic straws and reduce meat consumption?
Kamala, why did you co-sponsor with Bernie Sanders the ninety-three trillion dollar new green deal?
And why is your staff saying you're now against it?
Kamala, why do you support government health care for all and the elimination of private health insurance that you said in your own words?
Kamala, why did you say the high cost of energy is the cost of democracy?
By the way, somebody might want to send this list to Howard Stern.
I guess Howard Stern doesn't exist anymore because his body's been taken over by some stranger, not him.
Kamala, can you explain why you think it's courageous not to say radical Islamic terrorism?
Why it's courageous not to say illegal alien?
Kamala, you keep saying you'll fight inflation and immigration on day one.
Wasn't day one January twentieth, twenty twenty-one?
And Joe Biden, didn't he just say that that you were there to make every decision with him and didn't you claim that you were the last person always in the room?
Kamala, tell me how unrealized capital gains being taxed.
How does that work out if when you finally sell your stock that you're forced to pay tax on, you actually lose money on the stock or the property that you invested in that didn't it's only money on paper that may not exist when you sell it?
Are you going to give them a refund?
Kamala, why did you say you were comfortable with the decision in Afghanistan to withdraw when thirteen Americans died and hundreds were abandoned behind enemy lines?
Kamala, why did you support defunding, dismantling, and reimagining ICE and the police?
Kamala, why did you tweet out the Minnesota bail fund four days after a Minneapolis police precinct was burned to the ground?
Why after the summer of love, 600, nearly 600 riots where dozens of dead Americans, thousands of injured cops, billions in property damage, did you go on Stephen Colbert?
You didn't open a beer, but you said that the rioters won't stop, that the rioters shouldn't stop, and that you wouldn't stop supporting them.
Isn't that supporting insurrection?
Kamala, why did you say 18 to 24 year olds are stupid?
Kamala, why did you sign a paper in 2017 not to ever abolish the filibuster, but you would do it for the Green New Deal and you would do it on abortion?
Kamala, why did you say for three plus years the borders secure when you knew damn well it wasn't?
Kamala, why did you say inflation was transitory?
Why did you say last year in August that we call it Bidenomics and we're very proud of it, but now you're acknowledging that Americans and by the way, you know, we're we're up inflation is up 3.3% again this month from last year?
Why do you how are you proud of that?
Why did you say you'd never deport illegal immigrants?
Why did you think AOC's proposal of even a 70 or 80% tax rate was fantastic?
Why did you brag about getting sex reassignment surgery for prisoners, people, convicts in jail?
You know, and can you explain what you mean by constantly saying what can be unburdened by what has been?
And maybe you can ask, you know, her vice president why he would build out a 30-foot ladder company, a company that built 30 foot ladders to help illegals break the law if Donald Trump built a twenty five Foot wall.
Why does Tim Walls support or whatever his name is?
Why does he support legal driver's licenses for illegals and free college for illegals?
Why does he want feminine hygiene products in boys' bathrooms?
Why does he believe that parents shouldn't have rights and he would offer gender-affirming care without any parental consent?
Why did he lie so often about his rank in the military and being in a war zone?
Why didn't he send out the National Guard for days and days on end in the summer of uh 2020 when Minneapolis was burning to the ground?
And why was his family opening up the windows to smell burning rubber?
Why do you support tack?
Why do you support the decriminalizing of drug possession for personal use?
I mean, I think those are fair questions.
So it's not just CBS.
The media is corrupt, it is abusively biased, and it has failed the American people.