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Oct. 18, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Election Day Is Critical - October 17th, Hour 1

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I've got to say, as we get the show started today, we have been witnessing history and what we have been able to watch and witness in spite of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden even threatening this week to withdraw aid from Israel unless they fight the war the way Kamala and Joe want it fought.
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable as they give $200 billion to Ukraine to fight Russia and barely $20 billion to help Israel.
And it's pretty unbelievable.
But we have been witnessing military intelligence and military might and military strength that I think will be studied for the next century.
It has been so superior.
Think about this.
When the Iranians, you know, it's a little over a year ago, October 7th, 2023, the worst terror attack in Israel's history.
Worst ever.
The equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day.
You have people murdered, raped, kidnapped, tortured, beheaded, at 40,000.
And the message from the Harris Biden administration has been, oh, no, no, show restraint.
No, no, no.
Be happy that none of the rockets landed after the first attack in April, a direct attack by Iran itself instead of using their proxies, Hamas Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the Houthi rebels.
And no, Israel wasn't going to listen.
Don't go to Rafa.
No, no, no, no.
You can't go to Rafah.
Can't go to Rafah.
We're not going to support you if you go to Rafah.
If you fight back against Iran firing directly into your country, we will only help you defensively.
We won't help you offensively.
That has been the consistent, insane message after the worst terrorist attack in their history.
The Israelis, to their very good credit, have not listened to what Harris and Biden have been saying.
On top of that, one of the reasons these proxy wars are at the level that they are at is because thanks to Harris and to Biden, Iran has gotten wealthy, filthy, rich, because they have turned a blind eye to the sanctions that Donald Trump put in place that prevented them from selling their oil on the world markets.
And they have taken in now a report early this week, $200 plus billion dollars.
And what do you think that money is being used for?
Where do you think the weaponry is coming from when it goes to Hezbollah and Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the Houthi rebels or the ballistic missiles?
There's some 200 of them that they fired into Israel directly.
And it looks like Israel is going to respond to that too.
Look at what the Israelis have been able to do fighting a forefront war now.
They have taken out the number five leader of Hamas, number four, number three, number two, number one.
And they've now taken out this guy, Sinoar, who is the architect behind the October 7th attack.
This is on the heels of taking out the 32-year leader of the terrorist group, Hezbollah, and that was Nasrallah just recently.
Look at what they did by identifying all the soldiers of Hezbollah and getting their pagers.
And simultaneously, you know, they become little mini explosive devices sending a message.
We know who you are and where you are.
And now to the reports that the Iranian supreme leader is scared to death.
Could you imagine being next in line to be the leader or one of the leaders of Hamasa, Hezbollah, or the supreme leader of Iran?
Do you think you're looking the rest of your life over your shoulders knowing that the Israelis are going to come for you?
I mean, taking out this October 7th mastermind, Sinoa, found dead along with his bodyguard, who turned out to be a UN employee.
That was one report today.
I haven't confirmed it myself, so I should not go early with that report.
But anyway, it was according to his Israeli news website.
But anyway, IDF forces discovered large amounts of Israeli cash, identifying documents, terrorist bodies.
I mean, this is incredible intelligence.
This is unprecedented, superior war strategies that we'd never seen before.
It's pretty unbelievable.
And good for the Israelis not listening to Kamala and Joe and their lectures to show restraint, show restraint, threatening even this week to cut off aid yet again.
It's pretty unbelievable that this is where we now find ourselves as a country.
I will say this.
I just thoroughly enjoyed the interview with Brett Baer that took place with Kamala Harris last night on the Fox News channel.
Now, there's a lot of nuance to this that you need to know behind the scenes.
I mean, he pressed and he pressed and he pressed.
And what was amazing just from the very beginning about this is you got to understand the context is Brett Baer's show was on at 6 o'clock.
Kamala Harris's people knew that the show had to be turned around.
They didn't want one second more than the 30 minutes they said that they would allow for the interview.
And they show up at 5.15.
They're not in the chair until 5.17.
From a TV perspective, turning that around and getting it on the air, you know, is a monumental task.
That's all I can tell you.
It is monumental.
And it is not easy to do.
So they're up against the clock.
And then do it.
And then Kamala Harris, there was a lot.
There wasn't a lot of joy last night.
She didn't like being pressed in any way, shape, matter, or form.
She didn't like it one bit.
And it was the first time I'd ever seen her pressed.
And she was pressed and she was pressed hard.
The Federalists had an interesting article.
Fox News interview may have finally exposed Kamala Harris and that this interview may have done to Kamala what the debate did to Biden, town hall, saying Kamala's campaign is over after the Fox News interview.
I am not going along with that thinking, but it's an interesting analysis because I am telling all of you, especially if you're in Georgia, North Carolina, if you're in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan and Arizona and Nevada, to please assume that your vote is the deciding vote in this election because you don't know.
I mean, I know we thought in 2022 it was going to be a red wave.
So to take nothing for granted if you see this, as I do, as an urgent inflection point for our country.
And it was right, by the way, for Brett Baer to call her out and say, well, you know, why were they late?
You know, and he used the analogy that they were trying to ice the kicker here.
And that's exactly what they were trying to do.
You know, and the idea that it's only a half-hour debate, a half-hour interview, it might seem like a long time, but to really have a real interview, you need, like, when I do town halls with Trump, they never go an hour.
Because when you have an hour of television, 45 minutes of it is talk time, and then the rest is ad time.
It's just the way, you know, clocks are run, and you got to pay the bills to be able to pay for the, you know, pay for the town hall, et cetera, et cetera.
Anyway, so they started, and she doesn't want to answer.
How many illegals do you believe came into the country?
He doesn't want to answer the question.
She didn't want to answer any question.
Donald Trump putting out a truth, I'm sorry, an ex-post.
Great job by Brett Baer.
He has a massive and irredeemable case of Trump derangement syndrome, and that was her answer to everything.
You know, Donald, I hate Donald Trump.
I hate Donald Trump.
And we did get some insight into what the Harris campaign's closing arguments are going to be here.
Anyway, Trump goes on so bad.
In fact, she's barely able to talk about any other subject than the man who had the very best economy ever, the strongest border in history, who just got the unanimous endorsement of the U.S. Border Patrol, me.
He said the endorsement was a tremendous honor.
They said that Comrade Kamala did a terrible job, the absolute worst in memory, can't be allowed to do it again.
And she is also the worst vice president in history, but hopefully will soon be gone.
Congratulations to Brett Baer on a tough but very fair interview, one that clearly showed how totally incompetent Kamala is.
For the good of our nation, her inferior cognitive ability must be tested at once.
And, you know, I mean, there were so many different moments.
And for her to say, like, on the issue of giving sex change operations to felons and illegal immigrants, I will follow the law.
I will follow the law.
That wasn't the question.
What is your position?
What do you think the law should be?
And what will you advocate for as president?
That is the question here, the one that she didn't want to answer.
And for the record, you know, we now have not one, not two, but we have a third case that has emerged of Kamala Harris forcing taxpayers to pay for sex change operations, in this case for a convicted murderer.
We told you about the Washington Free Beacon.
We have a convicted double murderer in California.
Guy's name's John Jacobson Jr.
got his free sex change operation.
Kamala Harris on tape advocating for it and supporting it.
And yesterday, Fox News reported the Indiana Attorney General is appealing a federal judge's decision to allow an inmate incarcerated for murdering an 11-month-old stepchild to obtain sex reassignment surgery following the inmates' lawsuit.
And today it looks like the Trump campaign have uncovered another type of sex change operation that taxpayers would be forced to pay for.
This one in California for a person convicted of murdering a father of three young children.
And contrary to what Kamala claimed last night, Trump actually banned taxpayer-funded sex change operations for federal prison inmates.
So Brett Baer was right pointing out that no transgender surgeries were performed on federal prison inmates during Trump's four years in office, which is true.
They didn't start happening until Harris and Biden took over.
And it's worse than that because it turns out Kamala's claim that the Trump administration would have permitted those surgeries if any inmate wanted one was 1,000% false.
In fact, taxpayer-funded sex change operations for federal prisoners were actually banned by the Trump administration.
Not that you want, you know, details or facts to get in the way of a good media mob story here.
You know, if we look at some polling numbers, we're going to go through this today.
You know, when you have 70, when you have 70 plus percent, 79 percent of Americans thinking the country is on the wrong track, why would anybody vote for that?
Why is it?
We went through crime statistics yesterday, you know, that the FBI quietly updated, the DOJ quietly updated, and for 2022, 80,000 more violent crimes, 1,700 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, 37,091 more aggravated assaults.
And so, in other words, they had this information as a talking point.
Sounds like the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020.
And then look at the issues that matter to people.
Because Kamala Harris's closing argument is going to be, what we played for you yesterday, that Donald Trump is a fascist and Donald Trump, James Carville will call him a Nazi.
And then he's going to round up people and use the military and arrest them.
And then you have these idiot liberal leftist conspiracy theorists, talk show host, Rachel Maddow.
I'm worried that I might get put in jail.
No, nobody's being put in jail.
Not going to happen.
And I would defend you anyway.
I would stand up.
But the questions they don't want to ask, are you better off than you were four years ago?
Because if you look at the annual inflation rate is food prices are up nearly 30% since Kamala and Joe got into market.
If you like eggs, it's up 54%.
Dairy products up 36%.
You know, cereals and whatnot, 28% increase.
If you like the cost of meat, poultry, fish, eggs, 23.5%.
I mean, these are prices people cannot afford.
Shelter for people is 72% of their annual income, up dramatically.
Inflation just last month, 3.3% higher than a year ago for crying out loud.
You know, food counts for 13% of inflation.
Shelter is about, you know, 72% of what the annual rate is.
Transportation, motor vehicle insurance.
You look at the border.
Under Trump, do you know in fiscal years 17, 18, you know, it was under 700,000 illegal immigrants in this country?
And we implemented building the wall, stay in Mexico.
And for example, by fiscal year 2020, yeah, 400,000 tried to cross.
200,000 were immediately expelled via Title 42.
And all of those provisions they bragged about getting rid of once they got into office.
I played this on TV last night.
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Ask yourself this question.
Are the borders better off?
Is the economy better off?
Are energy prices better off?
Are you safer and more secure?
How are your schools doing?
And why do you think a whopping 79% of this country thinks we are on the wrong track?
Kamala Harris may run on Donald Trump's a fascist and have Carville say he's a Nazi.
And Donald Trump is a racist and wants to round up African Americans and play the race card.
70, but they can't run on.
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
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The Kamala files, the Walls files, again, a public service, all the radicalism, extremism, in their own words, that the state-run media mob will never tell you about.
But we're doing our job.
And I just urge you to just assume that this, in spite of the betting markets, in spite of polls that might give you a lot of hope, in spite of the fact that Donald Trump is far outperforming where he was in 2016 and 2020, in spite of all of that, 2022 never became a red wave.
Just assume for this election that your vote in Georgia, your vote in North Carolina, your vote in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada will decide this election.
That's the only way to look at it.
And yeah, the Democrats are in a panic, especially after last night.
But putting all of that aside, you just have to assume that your vote matters.
And while we talk about polls and while we talk about betting markets, and I saw like a 25-point lead in one betting market, 18 in another, it's like crazy.
But it doesn't mean anything.
There's only one poll that's going to matter, and that's going to be on election day.
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You know, look, I mean, I can go through all the cliches about last night, and I will because they're worth it.
The only reason Kamala would rather not do any interview.
And I think the way they kind of sandbagged Brett Baer was by design, that's my guess.
But they're doing these friendly interviews, and this is not working out well.
I mean, I think it set a record for special report early rating numbers with like 8 million people, which is insane.
Good for Brett.
And he pressed her, and he continued to press her.
And she tried to filibuster, and she would flip her answer constantly to Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump.
Well, that's the law.
I'll enforce the law, but that's not the point.
You stated you wanted to change the law and you stated it repeatedly.
And Brett challenged and challenged, but it's a fine line, too.
And Bill O'Reilly discussed this yesterday.
When you're interviewing a president, a vice president, and you have a very, very small window, you know, and I thought Brett made the right call in the moment because I'm certain that he was on TV that he had 50 questions he wants to ask her.
He does his homework.
But rather than allow things to go unchallenged, he just kept going in and pressing her.
He knew more about immigration than she did.
It was pretty amazing.
And then she started, all the joy disappeared.
She was getting annoyed, aggravated, agitated, irritated, and upset.
And she just would avoid answering simple, basic questions.
How many illegal immigrants came in under your administration?
She doesn't want to give an answer.
She refused to take any responsibility for what happened the last three and a half years, or she just flat out lied and filibustered.
And Brett had to jump in and say, okay, that's great.
That's not the question I asked you, but let's move on.
And it's a balancing act.
And I thought, you know, he did just the right amount of it and the right amount of pressing.
And it was very revealing.
But the truth is the truth.
And I played this on TV last night.
I won't play it here because I'm going to play this interview with Brett and Kamala in the next hour because I think it's worth playing and then talking about in the final hour of the program today.
But with a stroke of a pen, Harrison Biden undid all of the Trump policies that had the lowest level of illegal immigration in the modern era by a long shot.
And he did it with the state of Mexico policy, et cetera, et cetera, and Building the Wall and Title 42.
And they undid that on all of that.
And then they bragged about undoing it.
So many, like, we can't even, you know, keep count of all of it.
The net result we have seen with our own eyes over 12 and a half unvetted Harris Biden illegal immigrants in our country, the result, not of Congress, a stroke of a pen.
She said, well, we introduced this bill.
That bill was not a border security bill.
It was an amnesty bill that would allow 1.8 million people a year into the country illegally.
I mean, they just want as many illegals as they can.
And they're offering, you know, she said she wanted to decriminalize it.
Well, now I'll follow the law.
Do you want to change the law?
That's the whole point of this.
I'll follow the law.
That's not an answer.
That is a duck.
That is a dodge.
That is an obfuscation.
But then, of course, if we'd only treat the people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia and Florida that were hammered by two hurricanes in Florida, but by Hurricane Helene, maybe if they just claimed they were unvetted Harris Biden illegals, they get free food, housing, health care, education, legal driver's licenses, free college.
And on top of that, if they wanted a sex change surgery, which she supports and even indicated she'd still support and a path to citizenship, you know, when I was stunned that she just outright lied about what they did, because that's what she did.
And when asked about three, now there have been dozens of Americans murdered by Harris Biden, unvetted illegal immigrants that are now the suspects in this case, you know, and but there's been dozens, a list I've scrolled many times on TV.
And there have been dozens of Americans raped, including children.
There have been hundreds of Americans victims of violent crime.
But when Brett brought up Rachel Nungari, the little 12-year-old girl out of Houston, who was brutalized for two hours, she tried to fight back valiantly.
I've interviewed her mother a couple of times and her grandfather and Rachel Morin.
I've interviewed her mother.
I've talked to the family of Lake and Riley.
And Brett said, do you apologize to them?
Because even Bill Clinton acknowledged in the Lake and Riley case that had they vetted people coming into the country, this wouldn't have happened.
And of course, don't expect an apology from Kamala Harris.
Jocelyn Nungari, Rachel Morin, Lake and Riley, they are young women who were brutally assaulted and killed by some of the men who were released at the beginning of the administration, well before a negotiated bipartisan bill.
This is a specific policy decision by your administration to release these men into the country.
So what I'm saying to you, do you know those families an apology?
Let me just say, first of all, those are tragic cases.
There's no question about that.
There's no question about that.
And I can't imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced for a loss that should not have occurred.
It occurred because of her policies.
That's the point.
And Bill Clinton even made the point.
Now, unfortunately, the border czar takes no responsibility.
She doesn't seem to remember calling, you know, for three years, the border's secure, the border's secure, the border's secure, border's closed, border secure, border secure.
That's what they said.
They lied to us for three years, you know, or her calling for illegal immigration to be decriminalized, which she said repeatedly.
And then saying that she supports sex change operations taxpayer-funded for illegal immigrants.
This is insane.
And it's happened in the case of convicts.
When Brett Baer asked about that bizarre position, you know what she did?
She blamed Donald Trump, the guy that built the wall, implemented the stay in Mexico policy, never supported taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegals.
He blamed Donald Trump, just like they're blaming Trump for Project 2025, just like everything that we went through yesterday.
Everything that they're now saying, oh, yeah, well, she goes on with Charlemagne the God.
And yes, we can say that Trump will bring in fascism and that Trump will put non-white people in camps.
And that she, by the way, she now had to back off her forgivable loan plan for black entrepreneurs.
That would be something called unconstitutional, just like she backed off her plan for price controls, just like she backed off her plan on fracking and drilling and suing oil companies, just like she backed off her own bills she sponsored, the Green New Deal, $93 trillion.
She co-sponsored it with Bernie Sanders, but no, I don't support that anymore.
Or does she just want to get elected?
You know, she co-sponsors with Bernie government health care for all and no private health insurance.
Oh, no, no, no.
She doesn't support that anymore.
He wants to get elected.
But you can see what I am saying here.
They want to get elected.
We now know the argument that they are making.
We now know what their closing argument is going to be.
And that is, you know, that they don't want to talk about the border, the economy, about energy, about the disaster that they caused at the border, the disaster with law and order, the disastrous school system we have.
And if I'm Donald Trump, my closing argument is, are your borders more safe and secure?
My closing argument is, how's Harris Biden inflation working for you and your family?
My closing argument is, how do you like paying a $1.50, whatever it is, more a gallon for gasoline and more for electricity and other energy?
Are you happy with that?
Do you think your town or city is more safe or more secure?
Do you want more law and order or defund and dismantle?
All questions that they ought to be answering.
You know, how do you feel about America's role in the world?
Kamala Harris said today, justice was served when they took out the mastermind of the October 7th attack.
I'm like, no help from you because all they've been doing is lecturing Israel.
When you compare the records, especially on the issues of the border and the economy, which is why she couldn't answer any of these questions during this interview, you compare, there is no comparison at all whatsoever.
And, you know, these pandering moves that she's making or sending Barack Obama out to lecture African-American men.
It's not working.
Promising sex change operation.
It just explains how extreme she is.
What American would ever want to pay for a sex change operation for somebody that didn't respect our laws, our borders, and our sovereignty?
You know, if you look at, for example, real median income for the three years before the pandemic grew to $68,703, a 6.8% increase when Donald Trump became president, just up 6.8% over 2018.
A largest one-year increase of median income on record going back to 1967.
45% of growth in a single year.
You know, more growth than any other administration, including Obama and Biden, and what they did in eight years in office, real median income grew by a greater amount, 7.9% for African Americans, 7.1% for Hispanic Americans, 10.6% for Asian Americans.
Minorities did better under Donald Trump as they now are out there trying to play the race card and suggesting that Donald Trump will put non-white people in camps or Raphael Warnock because Trump is dangerous to women and to black men or Joyless Behar.
Trump is a fascist, you know, or Stuart Stevens, MSDNC.
Trump supporters could burn down voting centers to discount black votes.
That's their closing argument because they can't talk about the economy.
They can't talk about borders.
They can't talk about law and order.
They can't talk about energy prices.
They can't talk about America's role in the world.
As incomes grew in 2019, the poverty rate went down to the lowest point in 60 years.
The largest reduction in poverty under the first three years of Donald Trump in over 50 years.
4.1 million people lifted out of poverty.
The largest yearly decrease since 1966.
Over the Obama-Biden era, the number of people living in poverty increased by nearly a million.
African-American poverty fell dramatically.
Hispanic American poverty fell dramatically.
Asian American poverty fell dramatically.
The people economically that did the best under Donald Trump and his economic policies were minorities in America.
Just check the facts.
Something the mob doesn't do.
The media is like criticizing Brett.
He interrupted her too much.
She won't answer a question.
She was combative.
She was filibustering.
She came in late.
She wanted to leave early.
What do you expect the guy to do?
He's got a job to do, and he did it well.
All right, when we come back, we're going to play Brett Baer's showdown, beat down interview with Kamala Harris.
Watch how she ducks, dodges, and weaves, and gets angry, and doesn't answer a single question because she can't.
We'll get your reaction to that on the other side: 800-941-Sean and the U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers now in a very, very close and real race in Michigan.
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