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Dec. 12, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Senator Eric Schmitt - December 11th, Hour 3
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, not only are we following the story, the mysterious drones that are the size of dining room sets flying all over the state of New Jersey.
Nobody has any sense of urgency.
Nobody knows where they came from.
And of course, but we are being told repeatedly, no evidence of a threat to public safety, yet they know nothing about it.
But they do know they're sophisticated.
They do know the minute that you put your eyes on them, they go dark.
49 sightings in a day on Sunday, and here it is Wednesday, and we have no answers at all.
And where's Biden and Harris and Majorkis?
And where's our military?
And this sounds like a potential threat.
It may end up being nothing.
I don't know.
But the fact that we don't know is a problem.
Anyway, joining us now to talk about this and much, much more is our friend Eric Schmidt, senator, great state of Missouri.
Sir, how are you?
I'm doing great, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
Let's talk.
We'll get to confirmation hearings.
We got a lot to talk about.
What is your take?
I'm obsessed.
I cannot believe the lack of urgency regarding this drone issue.
What are your thoughts?
I agree with you, Sean, and it's sort of a reminder also, you know, the Chinese spy balloon.
It was sort of like this paralysis.
They weren't getting any information out there.
It traversed across the continental United States, including over Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, which is home to the B-2 stealth bomber.
So that flight pattern was no accident.
And they need to get to the bottom of it.
And if it's a threat or they're trying to gain intelligence, they need to come down.
They need to be shot down.
So, you know, we're searching for answers here on Capitol Hill, too, which should tell you something.
There's a lot of incompetence.
And also, Sean, it's the reason why world leaders are going to Mar-a-Lago right now.
Joe Biden's been out to lunch for a long time.
Kamal Harris is on vacation.
This is not a good time for the United States of America's government, that's for sure.
Well, I mean, it's 40 days, and it's like 40 days without any real leadership.
And, you know, we had Congressman Jeff Van Drew.
He played it in the last half hour of the program, actually suggesting that he heard from good sources that it could be an Iranian drone.
Now, I don't have any means of sourcing that or backing it up, but that's what he's saying.
And he's a pretty credible congressman, wouldn't you say?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And look, I serve on the Armed Services Committee, so it's the highest clearance you can have for security clearance.
And there's not been any communication, which is troubling.
Very troubling, and there's been a lack of urgency, which is even more troubling.
And you're right.
We learned later that the Biden administration knew it was a Chinese spy balloon, but they were hoping we wouldn't notice.
And that spy balloon, you know, all the way down through Alaska, into the continental U.S., all across the country, zigging and zagging all over military bases.
And it was a spy balloon.
And they were just hoping that nobody would notice instead of just shooting that sucker down.
And then their answer was, oh, we didn't want to hurt anybody on the ground.
Well, there were plenty of times and opportunities to shoot it down when there was zero population beneath where the spy balloon was, and they didn't take advantage of it.
And then they said, oh, never mind.
You know, then out to the sea, but it was giving real-time feedback to the communist Chinese.
I will tell you this, whoever is responsible for it, there will be consequences in 40 days.
That I know.
On the way out, we see a lot of maneuverings by the Biden administration, seemingly designed to muddy up the waters for Donald Trump.
Why Joe Biden, who wouldn't allow Poland to give MiGs to Ukraine and Zelensky and the beginning of the conflict there, you know, is now providing ballistic missiles and permission for Zelensky and Ukraine to fire them into Russia, which has resulted in hypersonic technology being used and a change in nuclear policy, nuclear strike policy by Putin and Russia, which is if you fire a ballistic missile into Russia, they have every right to nuke you.
So tensions are escalating there.
Assad gets overthrown, and the first thing Joe Biden does there is start firing missiles into Syria, knowing that Donald Trump wants a negotiated settlement in Europe.
And Donald Trump said, stay out of what's going on in Syria.
That's their problem.
You know, why would he be doing that?
Well, I think this is the last gas, Sean, of a failed foreign policy of Joe Biden.
And it didn't start with Joe Biden, but it exists with Joe Biden that doesn't fully recognize, I think, where the American people want us to be and certainly what Donald Trump ran on.
It's going to be a much more restrained foreign policy.
We're going to have peace through strength, but it's going to be less interventionist.
But I think what's really scary is that you take the Ukraine example on their way out, the American people delivered a verdict, but on their way out, sort of begging or baiting Vladimir Putin to overreact, to extend a conflict that President Trump wants to solve and bring peace to that area.
I mean, this is, but again, I think they're trying to tie the hands of President Trump.
They're sending out, you know, $20 billion more on the way out.
They're doing this through a lot of agencies, but this is a dangerous game to play.
President Trump's been very clear.
Europe needs to step up as it relates to Europe.
We need an iron dome for America.
We need to rebuild our industrial base, and we need to focus on our chief adversary, which is China.
That's pretty simple.
People understand it.
He ran on it and he won in an overwhelming way.
So it's just, you know, it's shameful that President or that Joe Biden on his way out here is again creating a more difficult situation.
But here's the good news, Sean, and you know this.
President Trump is ready.
He is ready.
I've been meeting with these cabinet nominees coming in.
He has a reform agenda.
He is motivated.
He won the popular vote.
He is ready to institute real reform in this kind of, you know, disruptor versus permanent Washington mantra.
The American people bought into it and he's going to deliver.
Yeah, I definitely agree with that.
You know, how pathetic was Wink and Tony Blinken when finally, after all of this time, and this became an issue during the campaign because Kamala Harris would do nothing differently, she'd said, regarding the exit, which was a disaster out of Afghanistan, and now acknowledging that they screwed it up and 13 people didn't need to die, here's what he said.
Our thoughts are with all of the Gold Star families.
They're with the State Department, any of the employees who lost their lives over the course of 20 years of our military involvement in Afghanistan.
And I think today, especially, of the 13 heroes that we lost at Aby Gate.
And I deeply regret that we did not do more and could not do more to protect them.
And to those families who are here with us today, my thoughts, my prayers.
Yeah, really?
A little too, little too late for my liking.
Your take.
Yeah, I agree.
It's a shame.
I don't understand it.
I mean, we can have policy disagreements about the direction of the country, but acknowledging that mistake and trying to make it right with the families should have happened a long, long time ago.
It's probably the same reason, honestly, Sean, that they've not acknowledged Lake and Riley and a lot of the people who've been victims of violent crime because of the 15 million illegal immigrants that flooded across the border because they were trying to pad their election stats.
I mean, this is really shameful behavior.
And, you know, they wouldn't even meet with these folks.
They would not even meet with these parents and these family members.
These are Harris Biden unvetted illegals murdering, raping, committing other violent crimes against Americans.
We have known terrorists in the country, gang members, cartel members, and they allowed it all to happen.
And they can't pick up a phone when one of these unvetted illegals that they allowed in kills an American.
Never once did they pick up.
Donald Trump picked up the phone.
He called Jocelyn Nungarry's family.
He called Rachel Morin's family.
He called Lake and Riley's families.
But there's thousands of other family victims because of this.
And they kept saying, no, the border's secure.
The border's secure.
They just lied to us.
Yeah, don't believe your lying eyes.
And I do think on day one, you're going to see it.
You're going to see a flurry of executive orders because we know with those executive orders, President Trump had a 45-year low on illegal immigration.
Biden undid all of them with 90-plus executive orders.
On day one, President Trump's going to come in, and we're going to have a secure border.
No nation in the history of the world has done this, willingly opened it up to this kind of thing.
And the Democrats, I think, you know, those four years, this sort of woke ideology, this open borders crowd, they weren't just writing white papers anymore, Sean.
They were in charge, and they had these disastrous policies that have harmed Americans.
And I think President Trump's message of restoring American greatness, having a secure border, being energy dominant, it resonated because people love their country.
They want us to do well.
This whole idea of apologizing for America, America's inherently racist, and all of these things that they've been spouting and teaching school kids, the American people rejected all of that.
So a new day is coming, but there's a lot of destruction and despair that's been left in the wake of this current administration.
Yeah, I'm guessing that you're against taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegals and for convicts.
I'm just guessing.
It's about 95% of Americans.
But yes, yes.
Yeah, that was another genius idea of Kamala Harris.
And one of the reasons this is so important.
You know, I look at where we are as a country, and there's so much to do and so much to prioritize.
I may be wrong, but I think what's going to happen, and I've been saying it, and I always say it the same way.
I start with, or I end with, I pray to God that I'm wrong.
But with known terrorists that they have allowed into the country, I say it's a matter of when.
It's not a matter of if.
We will be attacked.
There will be a terrorist attack on our homeland.
I think it's 100%.
Again, I pray to God I'm wrong.
Am I wrong?
I feel the same way, but I'll point this out.
The 9-11, about 90% of the difficulty in those terrorists pulling that off was getting here, getting here.
They're already here, though, Senator.
No, no, no, that's what I'm saying.
So the Biden administration removed that degree of difficulty altogether, right?
So they just let these folks in, and we know they're here.
And then there's people we don't know are here that are here who are terrorists, right?
So we just have the known folks.
There's a lot of folks that are unknown.
And so I pray it doesn't happen either.
But, you know, even Chris Wright, even Chris Ray, who weaponized that department and lost all credibility, has said he's never seen these sort of red flags post-9-11.
And Biden willingly let him in.
You know, he resigned today.
And I'll tell you, what a wasted opportunity.
Because after James Comey, he could have restored the world's premier law enforcement agency to its former greatness.
And he allowed all of this lawbreaking to happen.
You know, he was too busy, you know, investigating and having his special agents investigate moms and dads at school board meetings and peaceful pro-life protesters for crying out loud.
And, of course, going after anything and everything, Donald Trump.
And while he did that, he allowed all of these unvetted illegal immigrants to come in.
I mean, this is beyond negligent.
Then he'd go before Congress the last six times that I can count that he was there, talk about the threat has never been this bad ever.
And I'm like, yeah, because you're not enforcing the law regarding our borders.
Yeah, they've got to get back to law enforcement.
They have to restore credibility.
They were going after parents under the auspices of the Patriot Act, literally, as homegrown terrorists.
And meanwhile, their terrorists streaming across our border.
They're going after Catholics, really weaponized that department.
I had a great visit with Pam Bondi yesterday in my office.
Pam Bondi is an excellent pick.
She'll be a great attorney general.
I know her from state AG World.
She's going to be great, return that DOJ writ large back to going after violent crime and protecting people's constitutional rights, which is what it should be doing.
Kash Patel is going to do the same thing.
These folks are going to go in there, and I think they're going to be disruptors in a good way, root out the corruption, root out the politization that's happened and get it back to where it should be.
But also, Sean, I think it's worth noting because the American people saw it and they rejected this again, too.
Not only did you have the FBI, but you also had the number three person at DOJ leave the office and go to the New York office.
You had the number two prosecutor for the Alvin Bragg prosecution.
You had the number two prosecutor in Fulton County coordinating at the White House.
All these cases were dead.
None of them had any merit.
They were all zombie cases.
Biden gives a speech in November of 22 when it's clear Trump's going to run, and he says there's no way President Trump should ever be in the Oval Office.
Guess what?
All these things happen.
These zombie cases are resurrected.
You have the worst political prosecution in American history.
And President Trump stood them all down.
He stood them all down and went into arenas, big and small, all across this country, 30,000 people at a time.
He made the case.
He almost took a bullet.
I mean, he did, but he almost died.
He faced it all down, and the American people rewarded that courage and bravery and a vision.
And I think the next four years are going to be glorious.
I think they could be the most transformational in history if he just keeps his promises.
If he restores law and order and gets rid of defund dismantled Nobel, if he secures the borders, if he deports, if we can find them, the terrorists, cartels, gang members, drug dealers, violent criminals, if he can fix the economy, bring it back to its greatness, get interest rates down, make us the most energy-dominant country on earth.
He's already restoring America's stature on the world stage.
Things have changed just because he won.
I can only imagine how much better they'll get when he gets in office.
Yep.
And he also wants to reform these agencies.
The administrative state's gotten way too big.
It needs structural reform.
He's going to come in.
He's going to change them.
No president's ever really wanted to do that, Sean, because the executive branch, generally speaking, wants to aggrandize their power, right?
And the founders knew that you would try to jealously guard your authority.
They've continued to grow it over time.
It's too big.
It's too unruly.
But President Trump has a different incentive structure.
He's not running again.
He wants his legacy to be this kind of reform and getting reformers in these key positions who are going to shake things up.
And we need that now more than ever.
We appreciate you, Senator Eric Schmidt.
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I don't know what they've got planned in there, but my staff says, oh, we want to play something for you.
What would you like to, what are you, why are you always up to something?
Why can't I just do my show?
You know, the joy of life is surprising you.
I think you are going to love.
I don't get a lot.
I don't like surprises.
I don't like it.
Oh, you're going to love this surprise.
This is true to like birthdays.
Oh, it's Trudeau.
It's a little being true to himself.
No, it shouldn't be that way.
It wasn't supposed to be that way.
We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress.
And yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president.
Everywhere, women's rights and women's progress is under attack, overtly and subtly.
But I want you to know that I am and always will be a proud feminist.
You will always have an ally in me and in my government.
Why don't you resign and appoint a woman?
I mean, he's got the hair.
Maybe he is a woman.
Who knows?
You know what I mean?
Although, if he was a true feminist, he would shave his hair.
He would be there's no bigger fan of the Iron Lady, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, the late prime minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, than me.
I am no problem electing a woman to be the president of our country.
Well, as an anti-feminist, I want to let you know.
You're an anti-feminist.
I am an anti-feminist.
I am an anti-anything based on gender or race.
I think it's utter nonsense.
You're against all identity politics.
100%.
I just feel very strongly that if you cannot, it's kind of like those shows, and I don't watch them, but my kids do, like The Voice or whatever, where they have like, they don't turn the chair around until they pick the person.
Like if you just go in blindly listening to someone, and if you can decide based on merit reading about someone or listening to someone, then great.
That's awesome.
But if I have to pick you because you check a box and that box has anything to do with, you know, anything other than the meritocracy of getting the job fairly, I want nothing to do with you.
Absolutely nothing.
Let me tell you, Kamala Harris didn't lose because she was a woman.
She lost because she is incompetent, unqualified for the job, and her radicalism and extremism.
Enough said, little Justin.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones.
Let us say hi to Gordon in the United Socialist Utopia known as California.
Our prayers do go out to the people in California.
Wildfires again, Malibu.
I know Pepperdine University was being threatened.
It's a mess out there, and I don't wish that on anybody.
I lived out there.
I went back to Santa Barbara after they had had a, and I'd lived there five years.
And I went back and I saw the devastation, I mean, of an entire neighborhood because of one of these wildfires.
And if you get Santa Ana wins included in it, God help you.
Anyway, Gordon, how are you?
Sorry about what's going on out there.
I'm doing well, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
Hello, Linda.
And I like to say I live in the state of Jefferson and not California.
That's kind of how we roll out here.
So if you don't know what the state of Jefferson is, I encourage you to look that up.
You know, one of your callers yesterday just really, man, I tell you, when you think we're reaching the lowest of the low in this country, and then somebody calls in and tries to condone what happened to Brian Thompson, and my sincerest condolences go out to Brian Thompson and his family.
I mean, it's, you know, I can't believe I have to say this, but, you know, you can't have a society where you walk up to people on the street and murder them because you don't agree with them or work in industries that you don't like.
You know, I work in adult beverage sales out here in the state of Jefferson or California.
I guarantee you, I've sold hundreds of thousands of cases over my career.
I can, unfortunately, I can guarantee you that, you know, alcohol that I sold into an account was consumed and probably somebody made a bad decision that negatively affected somebody.
And I have no control over that.
What's next?
Somebody's going to roll up to me and shoot me on the street?
I mean, what are we talking about?
It just really blew me away.
The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is I think that what happened to Brian Thompson is awful, but I think it can shed light on how broken our healthcare system is.
And there's no condoning this at all, but I really hope the incoming administration, President Trump, can really look at reforming healthcare.
I mean, I've been saying it for years.
I just don't understand why it can't be in the private sector and run more like auto insurance.
I don't know why it's attached to your employment.
There's no reason for that, right?
Competition and profit give you the very best goods and services and products.
You have to profit.
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more.
I mean, and look, there's very, very legitimate criticism of the healthcare and health insurance industry.
I think it got dramatically worse because of Obamacare, but that's me.
There is a book that turned into a movie called Rainmaker.
And anyway, it was about a John Grisham novel.
And it was, I mean, really captured how corrupt some insurance companies can be.
And I know people that have lived through insurance nightmares, people that have had, that have lived through hurricanes.
For example, if you have a hurricane and you think your house is insured, then the hurricane comes and your house gets flooded.
Then you're told, oh, no, no, no, your hurricane insurance only covers wind.
And or if in the case of health insurance, oh, no, no, no, your insurance only covers this doctor who's never available, or you're only allowed one test, not the five tests that you need.
And it frustrates the hell out of people.
Now, on one side of it, Americans have got to get more in tune with what their insurance is offering.
They've got to look for created alternatives that will provide them the care that they need if that God forbid moment comes.
You have a heart attack, a stroke, you get cancer, bad accident.
You know, I happen to be a big believer in catastrophic care with as high a deductible as you can afford that would take care that you only pay up to X number of dollars, but if that bad moment comes, you're covered.
You know, there's also now affordable, relatively affordable.
It's not cheap, but it's not off the charts expensive.
You know, for example, if you just want to get concierge care for basic things like a cold, the sniffles, a broken bone, broken finger, you know, whatever is, you need stitches, whatever it is, you know, you can get that type of plan to supplement your care so you don't have to wait in a waiting room for 4,000 hours.
There are options.
Now, for most Americans, this is their big problem.
And we've talked about this for years.
We have our friend, Dr. Josh, down in Wichita, Kansas, who's been on this program all the time.
And he has for $50 a month, unlimited visits to his practice with his partners per adult.
And I think at the time it was $10 for children.
They've duplicated this concierge service all around the country, which makes it affordable for any American in a town or a city like Wichita.
And I don't know if they could duplicate that in a big city.
I would imagine they probably could if they wanted to.
And so there are alternatives.
And then if you, let's say you have high blood pressure or you have high cholesterol levels, you'll leave his office that day with the medicines because he negotiates directly with pharmaceutical companies and you get it for penny on the dollars, pennies on the dollar.
So there are alternatives.
We have discussed them for years, medical savings accounts, things like that.
But, you know, we got locked into Obamacare and it screwed everything up.
Yeah, the dumpster fire that is Obamacare is clearly the problem here.
I just feel that when you put things in the free market, let the free market figure it out.
You get an offender bender, you file a claim, you pick your body shop.
Why can't I file a claim, pick my retail hospital, and go and go handle my situation?
I just think that the system is broken.
Like you said, I love the model that you described, and that sounds great.
I just feel like we could have such an amazing, you know, number one healthcare system in the world because the government have to get out of the way.
Yeah, reasonable regulation.
I get that.
Like it regulates everything.
The ABC regulates my industry, right?
Reasonable regulation, but let the free market, the best goods and services come from the free market.
Listen, this is a great, we can jumpstart this conversation into the failures of the insurance industry.
It's an issue that people in Florida are dealing with because of hurricanes, et cetera.
It's a big, big issue, and that's home insurance.
Then you have the high cost of car insurance.
I mean, life is expensive, and everything's gotten way more expensive under Harrison Biden.
But we do need to bifurcate this conversation off of the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO.
You don't justify assassination by saying, well, I understand why people are frustrated because then you're making excuses for assassination.
Anyway, Gordon, appreciate it, man.
Thanks for the call.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Sean in Texas works in the healthcare industry.
Sean, how are you?
I'm fairly good.
Thank you for taking my call.
One of the things I've been calling about is the misconception that everybody has with the insurance industry.
They think that somebody's sitting behind a desk saying, well, I'm going to decline Sean.
You know, he can't have that procedure today.
When it's the plan, you said it exactly right just a minute ago.
It is the plan that the employer, let's say you work for somebody, it's the plan that they pick.
Okay, it's it's the states.
The states pick a plan.
The states pick a plan, the employers pick a plan, and then what people don't do is they don't find out the details in the plan until it's too late.
Exactly.
And they don't want but yet they blame the insurance company.
You know, they're blaming the person because well, they do make it frustrating as hell.
There's no, you cannot dispute that.
Agree.
I absolutely agree.
I mean, especially for elder people, my mom's going through it.
It's ridiculous what they have to go through.
But at the same time, to celebrate a murderer, I mean, people want to marry him.
I mean, this guy murdered somebody, allegedly murdered somebody, a CEO that has children, and they want to celebrate him.
I mean, that's what our country has come to.
It is very, the problem for many Americans is there's only one Obamacare exchange option for a big part of the country.
That's a big problem.
The cost of health insurance and home insurance and car insurance has skyrocketed, especially the last four years.
So that's a problem.
And inflation has taken away a lot of disposable income.
So at some point, you know, you got to prioritize food or more health insurance.
You're probably not going to have the health insurance.
I went for years in my early adult life with no health insurance.
I didn't find out till years later that my father took out a plan for me, didn't tell me about it after I'd fallen off a roof and busted up my face and broke my arm and dislocated my arm.
I didn't.
And he told me years later, he goes, I got you a health care plan after the accident.
I said, really?
I didn't even know you'd done it.
And I thought it was really nice of him to do that.
And he couldn't afford it.
Look, there are other options, but you need to know what your plan covers.
Does it give you the level of care you want?
And then you have to factor in if you can afford it.
I couldn't afford health insurance at that point in my life.
I just couldn't.
I was barely making ends meet.
I could barely pay my rent.
I was driving a $200 van for a number of those years, my work van, which is the best $200 I ever spent in my life.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We are loaded up.
Where is the urgency over these massive dining room-sized drones flying all over New Jersey?
Where's Joe?
Where's Kamala?
Where's Majorkis?
We'll check in with Jim Jordan.
We also have experts on drones and what they're capable of.
Also, the left celebrating the murder of this United Healthcare CEO.
Why is that happening?
Dr. Drew Pinsky weighs in on that.
We'll talk about all the other news of the day.
And bye-bye, Chris Ray, Jim Jordan on that.
Charles Payne, Joe Concha, 9 Eastern.
Hannity on Fox.
See you tonight back here tomorrow.
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