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If you want to be a part of the program, looks like former Clinton Bimbo eruptions squad leader George Stephanopoulos, little Georgie, just cost his current employer $60 million.
We learned this over the weekend.
ABC News agreed to contribute $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential foundation or museum to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by the president-elect against the network and its quote star, George Stephanopoulos.
And along with the contribution, ABC will pay $1 million in legal fees to Trump's lawyers, according to the court filing made public on Saturday.
In addition, the Disney-owned ABC News posted a note on its website saying that ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump during an interview that aired March 10th on this week.
These are the comments he made in a question to Nancy Mace.
Benny, you've endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape.
How do you score your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?
Well, I will tell you, I was raped at the age of 16.
And any rape victim will tell you, I've lived for 30 years with an incredible amount of shame over being raped.
I didn't come forward because of that judgment and shame that I felt.
And it's a shame that you will never feel, George.
And I'm not going to sit here on your show and be asked a question meant to shame me about another potential rape victim.
I'm not going to do that.
See, it's actually not about shaming you.
It's a question about definition.
No, you are shaming me.
You've endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Donald Trump has been found liable for rape by a jury.
Donald Trump has been found liable for defaming the victim of that rape by a jury.
It's been affirmed by a judge.
It's not a criminal court case, number one.
Number two, I live with shame.
And you're asking me a question about my political choices trying to shame me as a rape victim.
And I find it disgusting.
Now, the problem is that was not the judgment.
Anybody with any, you know, remedial knowledge of news knows that was not the judgment in that case.
Anyway, here to weigh in on this whole thing is our friend Joe Concha.
And by the way, he's got a new upcoming book called The Greatest Comeback Ever.
And that would be inside Donald Trump's big, beautiful campaign, unburdened by what has been.
You do write long book titles.
I will say that, but they are catchy.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well.
Yeah, it's no longer like, you know, Moby Dick or War and Peace.
Like every book now, it feels like half the book is the title.
But hey, it kind of tells the whole story, right?
Not really, because there's a lot of detail.
I do think it was the greatest political comeback, one of the greatest in American history by far.
And this has put shock and awe into the media.
What do you make of this settlement?
I think that ABC had no choice.
I think they were afraid it was going to come out and discovery for starters.
And the fact is, it's right there on video.
George Stephanopoulos wasn't giving an opinion.
He sits there allegedly as a news anchor, and he said the word rape 10 times during that interview with Nancy Mace in an attempt to shame her.
And this is something now that it's delicious in the sense where $15 million ABC now has to donate to Trump's future library.
So if I'm Trump, I name like a urinal in the library after Disney or ABC News or even George himself.
And that would be something that would really leave a mark, no question.
What are the consequences of the legacy media?
And I declared that the legacy media, state-run media mob, as I call it, I call them a mob because of their mob mindset.
And I spent a half hour in the last half hour just discussing what I learned in the Richard Jewell case when I was a local radio talk show host in Atlanta and how when the AJC story broke, I was there and I'm like, okay, the guy lives with his mother.
That doesn't mean he fits the profile of a terrorist.
And anyway, and it just upset me at the time.
I didn't know Richard Jewell was listening to that program.
I later found out he was, but it taught me a lesson.
And it's not an accident that over the course of my career, I was ahead of the curve on Ferguson, Missouri.
We got it right.
Freddie Gray, Baltimore, we got it right.
UVA, we got it right.
Duke LaCrosse, we got it right.
And then we look at Donald Trump, and then we look at, for example, the vetting of Obama and his radical associations.
Not something the rest of the media paid attention to.
We had in this past election, the Kamala files, the Walls files, their radicalism in their own words, ignored by the state-run legacy media mob.
And then I went through, and without reiterating every point, you know, the Russia hoax that was three long years of me and an ensemble cast.
You were a part of it many times, you know, unpeeling every layer of the onion.
And we got to the truth.
We got to the truth on FISA abuse and the dirty Russian disinformation dossier bought and paid for by Hillary.
We got to the truth about the double standard and a weaponized justice system.
We got to the standard on impeachment one, impeachment two.
We told more truth about January 6th than the rest of the state-run legacy media combined.
And I think going forward, when I say that they're dead, is their influence is dead.
What we learned in this election is that they don't have influence, and I don't think they have trust, and I don't think they have any way to get it back after nine years of doing this.
You know how we know this, Sean?
I'll give you one perfect microcosm of what happened leading up to this election that shows you they have no influence.
So the same ABC News, after Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, the Media Research Center looks at 100 stories, the first 100 stories they did on Kamala Harris, that train wreck of a campaign.
And they found that all 100 were positive.
Overall, Kamala Harris got 78% positive coverage.
Again, the worst campaign we've ever seen.
You had about eight in 10 stories are positive.
Donald Trump only got 15% positive coverage.
Who won the popular vote?
Who won every swing state?
What party took back the Senate?
What party held the House?
Yeah, that's Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Republican, and Republican.
Those four answers in that order.
So yeah, the influence is not there at all.
And it wasn't even, it was starting to go, you know, you declare media was dead back in 2007-08 with Barack Obama, our friend Bernie Goldberg wrote that great book, A Slobbering Love Affair, when they talked about the media coverage then.
It didn't even pale in comparison to what we just saw with this election.
And yet, Kamala Harris suffered an historic defeat because you're right.
No one trusts the messenger anymore.
And you're right.
Some will come back, but I think most realize there's a lot of other options out there, whether it be great radio shows like yours, whether it be podcasts like Theo Vaughan and Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, or maybe they'll just not come back at all and just do their own homework on X. Either way, I think MSNBC will be sold off.
I think CNN's going to see massive layoffs and a lot of other consolidation between media companies because if the ad revenue isn't coming in, that's how you get these guys' attention.
But I think long term, I think what's very important to realize here, who are the people that are going to survive?
Who are the people that are going to thrive?
And to me, it's going to be people that you can trust that tell the truth.
Look, I'll go back in the old days.
I mean, I had a good relationship, a great relationship, actually, with Tim Russer.
I mean, he would call me out of the blue and ask what I thought about a particular issue because he wanted a conservative perspective.
He was curious.
Peter Jennings would come into my radio studio and he brought my book, Deliver Us from Evil at the time in 2004 in with him.
And every page of the book was highlighted because he read it and he was curious and he wanted to know how conservatives thought.
And it was never like it never was this bad.
I mean, Tim Russert was an equal opportunity interviewer.
He didn't care.
He was going to call you out Republican, Democrat, didn't matter.
And I think he probably leaned a little more Democrat, but big, you know, working class Democrat.
His books were phenomenal, Big Russ and his follow-up to that.
And he's somebody that there will never be another one as great as him.
No.
And he did a very simple thing, Sean, and that was Russer would have you on meet the pressure.
You'd be a Republican.
You'd be a Democrat.
And if you flip-flopped on an issue, he'd simply play back the clip to you and say, this is what you said then.
Why have you changed that position now?
And to watch these politicians squirm was a thing of glory.
And he didn't raise his voice and he didn't try to be provocative.
He just did good journalism.
And he asked me, okay, who's going to survive?
I think investigative journalists that have gone to places like Substack, I'll name a few for you.
And I'm not going to name some conservatives here either, I don't think.
Matt Taevi, Michael Schellenberger, Barry Weiss, Catherine Herridge, they now will do their own independent thing.
And you don't need a huge studio anymore or a big staff in order to really make an impact.
I don't even know if Joe Rogan has much of a staff.
And look what the number of people that he's reaching.
I mean, more than 200 million people.
I was speaking to President Trump earlier today for the book.
He shared with me that, yeah, when you combine all the platforms, whether it's YouTube, whether it's Spotify, more than 200 million people watch that interview worldwide.
I mean, that's incredible.
And Rogan can do it right from his little studio in Austin.
So, yeah, I think places like Fox will survive because we actually have balance.
We have a real news division, right?
And then we have the opinion side, of course.
So when we provide all these different perspectives and we do good journalism that people trust, we're going to continue to see our audience grow.
These other places, I think they'll either die off or they'll become so irrelevant that, again, when they speak, it's not E.F. Hutton.
Nobody's listening.
All right.
Quick break more with media analyst Joe Concha and your calls on the other side coming up 800-941-Sean, our number.
Joe Concha is with us.
He's got a new book coming out, by the way, soon, The Greatest Comeback Ever inside Trump's big, beautiful campaign, unburdened by what has been.
Anyway, we continue with Joe Concha.
How is it possible?
And I knew this would happen and I predicted it would happen.
How is it possible we get through an entire campaign and Kamala Harris has never asked fundamental questions?
You know, why did you support taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants and criminals and want to decriminalize it?
Why do you support amnesty?
She never had to face those tough questions.
And it's not even that tough.
It is basic.
It is simple.
It is fundamental.
Or any of the other extreme positions that she has had.
And she never faced any of it.
Everybody knew that she had said these things.
Nobody wanted to ask it because they wanted her to win.
But they weren't honest about her wanting to win.
They weren't saying that they wanted her to win.
I was saying that I want Donald Trump to win.
And so it's frustrating to me that they still, maybe it's not frustrating.
I guess they just live in their world of delusion and pat themselves on the back.
And they have this, you know, blue check mark cult on X where, you know, they talk only to each other and the rest of the country pretty much ignored him on November 4th.
Yeah, they're all trying to impress themselves, right?
And retweets and, oh, boy, if Maggie Haberman could only like my tweet, oh, that wouldn't make my year.
Or they want to get on Colbert, right?
Like, that's the goal now these days.
Kamala Harris did face time.
The way Cobear, Kimmel, and Fallon are on cancellation watch.
It's only a matter of time.
Because they all echo each other.
And it's not even comedy.
I mean, I used to watch, you know, a young letterman or Leno or Carson.
I like Tonan O'Brien.
These guys are just insufferable, especially Kimmel.
You called him an ass-clown on your show once, and that was entirely accurate.
He literally cried on the air the night after the election.
I mean, who wants to watch this?
I want to escapeism.
I want to laugh.
I don't want this crap.
But to your point before about did Kamala Harris face any tough questions?
She did on two occasions.
At once, it wasn't so tough.
They were just basic questions, but that was on 60 minutes.
And what do they do?
They don't release the transcript, and we can't see 26 minutes of video that apparently happened during that interview.
We don't know what was said or what was asked.
And that's why Donald Trump is now suing CBS in 60 minutes, as he should.
They should release that transcript.
And they released every transcript of every Donald Trump interview that was on CBS News.
So why not Kamala Harris?
Oh, right.
Because they wanted her to win.
And then the other time that she actually faced tough questions was with R. Brett Baer, who was ready and asked great questions around immigration when he asked about this.
It was the only halfway decent interview, but they only gave him, you know, 20 minutes.
Yeah, they purposely came late because they knew he was up against having to do a live show because they pre-taped it at like 5, like 15.
And then they're waving it off.
Like at the end, they're like waving the bread, like, throw the towel like in Rocky IV.
Like, it's over.
Please get her out of there.
And that's when, after I watched that interview, I went on your show that night and I said, yeah, Donald Trump's going to win every swing state.
He's winning this election.
I cannot see how she survives this.
And so at least one interview was done that was decent.
All the other opportunities, I guess, call her daddy just couldn't quite ask the tough questions that we were looking for.
Howard Stern, for that matter.
Who could even recognize that guy anymore?
It's not the guy that I grew up listening to, I'll tell you that.
And it's interesting because, like, in the case of Howard, Howard was Donald Trump.
Howard would have the old Howard would have loved Donald Trump.
I have no idea what's happened to him.
And I would assume now that this election basically, you know, put a fork in it.
It's over for him.
Okay, but yeah, I think it's been over for a while now.
He is everything he used to rail against, which, you know, he's elitist.
He sucks up to Hollywood.
He wouldn't leave his house for three years because of COVID.
I mean, this is insane stuff.
And if he had Kamala Harris in front of him, the old Howard would have bought up Willie Brown.
Like in a second, he would have gone to that.
Like, oh, what was it like, you know, being with a guy 30 years older and you would have been married?
And boy, how did he help your career?
He completely would have busted your shops.
He didn't do that this time.
Didn't ask about Doug M. Hoff and Doug M. Hoff slapping a woman.
He even put on a suit and tie.
I was like, good gosh, what's going on?
What's happened to this guy?
It's like invasion of the body snatchers.
That was tough to watch.
But he and Trump actually used to be good friends.
Trump would go on there.
Go back and listen to those interviews.
They're absolutely hilarious.
And that's the thing that a lot of people don't know about Trump.
He's very funny.
All right.
So your new book is coming out soon.
It's the greatest comeback ever inside Trump's big, beautiful campaign, unburdened by what has been.
Joe Concha.
Can't wait to see it.
When's it coming out?
It's coming out.
We're aiming for late winter.
You know, there's a little bit of a process to it.
But I interviewed the president for the book today.
I got a good 40 minutes out of him.
You're going to hear stuff that you've never heard before, exclusive.
So, and we just reviewed the campaign from Wildwood on, and boy, did it write itself, Sean.
A lot happened.
It's the craziest campaign ever.
Joe Contra, appreciate you more than you know.
800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Linda, did you hear Van Jones's comments about Donald Trump?
Pretty interesting.
Listen.
Donald Trump is not an idiot.
Donald Trump, let me just be very clear.
Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all critics.
You know how we know?
Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House.
Totally agree.
The popular vote.
He has a massive media ecosystem bigger than the mainstream built around him and for him and a religiously religious fervor in a political movement around him.
And he is best, buddy, is the richest person in the history of the world.
And the most relevant Kennedy is with him.
This dude is a phenomenon.
He is the most powerful human on earth and in our lifetime.
And we're still saying, well, how is this going?
We look like idiots.
He's totally right.
You're totally right.
Why can't the rest of these people in the media recognize some truth and do a little bit of self-reflection, introspection?
I don't know.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones here.
Mark in Texas.
Mark, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean, how are you?
It's an honor to talk to you today, sir.
The honor is all mine.
I'm glad you checked in.
What's on your mind today?
I wanted to talk about these preemptive pardons that everybody's talking about.
My question on that is, how can you pardon if someone is not convicted of a crime and they haven't even been charged?
How can you do that?
And if this is done, Sean, this is a true get out of jail free card.
This will be devastating to our country.
I actually don't have as big a problem as some people do with this.
I really don't.
The power of the pardon is absolute.
And if you want to do it preemptively, what you're doing, basically saying is we're pardoning you from any and all crimes you may or may not have committed.
And if this is what Joe wants to do out the door and he wants this to be his legacy, I'm fine with it.
He can pardon himself too.
Because frankly, there is real reason, warranted reason for him.
He lied through his teeth about Burisma.
He said he never talked to his son, his brother, or anybody for that matter.
His own son implicates him.
His son would not have the right to plead the fifth, by the way, considering he's already been pardoned.
And if honestly, if this is what they want to do, let them do it.
I just respect the power of the pardon.
And frankly, I'd like to see Donald Trump use that power of the presidential pardon in new ways that he started a little bit in his first term.
I'd like to see him expand on it and get somebody like Alice Marie Johnson, make her the pardon czar.
And Alice Marie Johnson can find people that have changed in jail, that have served a significant portion of their term and deserve a second chance.
You can also find people that were wrongly convicted or people that were victims of a weaponized justice system and give them their freedom back.
I can't think of anything worse than losing your freedom.
So I don't really have a problem with it.
Okay.
I just wanted to get your opinion on that.
I'm just kind of worried about it.
Well, Donald Trump, I mean, all these people that, for example, the January 6th, there were people that did really bad things that day.
But the vast majority of people just entered the building illegally and didn't deserve a five, six, seven, eight-year prison term for that.
And meanwhile, meanwhile, we're ignoring known terrorists and gang members and murderers and rapists that are entering our country.
We're not even enforcing that law.
Turn a blind eye towards that.
Turn a blind eye towards the Biden family syndicate.
It's unreal.
Let's say hi to Tom in South Carolina.
Thank you, Mark.
What's up, Tom?
How are you?
Well, it's a great pleasure to talk to you.
I've been listening to you for years.
Thank you.
It's like to say, I was listening on the radio just now, and the reason everybody loves you so much is that your truth comes through.
And the reason Donald Trump was put in office, because of his faith and his truth, it comes through.
And that's why I just wanted to say that.
And don't worry about the Pulitzer Prize because you're going to get the Rush Wimbull Award when you're done.
I'll tell you.
I don't know what the Rush Limbaugh Award is, but you're very kind.
By the way, I am not at all, you know, I don't care about prizes.
You know what the best prize I have is, is the fact that you still listen to me, you trust me, you watch me on TV.
That is prize enough, and I'm very grateful for it.
How's that?
Great American, Sean.
And as are you, sir.
I'd just like to say about the drone thing real quick.
I was listening to Buck and Travis Friday, and they were saying that they had an expert on.
I believe Buck did.
And he said that the only way they could put these things up in the air is they have to have transponders and permits.
And that made a lot of sense.
And so they do know who it is.
So obviously, I was listening to that.
Well, I mean, there could be people that are operating them without transponders and without a permit.
I mean, that's all possible.
I am convinced by the lack of urgency that we're being lied to.
The only other option, if you really think through this, and I've been obsessed with this issue, but the only other option is that they don't know where they originated from.
They don't know who's operating them.
They don't know what their capabilities are.
And they don't care, and they're not doing anything.
It's a far better option that they know everything and are lying to us.
And I think that's the more likely scenario.
Comes through.
Your nervousness comes through, and all the people picked up on that.
And that was great.
You really get your point across.
Thank you so much, sir.
Well, thank you, Tom.
I appreciate it.
God bless you.
Glad you're out there.
California Rex, Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
My colleague, I appreciate your hard work as well as that of your staff.
Michael.
Oh, thank you.
We have good peeps on our team.
Yes, you certainly do.
Except for Linda occasionally.
She could be, you know.
Yeah, give her a break.
I love Linda.
Thank you, Rex.
Why are you sucking up to Linda?
That's not a suck up.
These are just facts.
You know, sometimes facts are very uncomfortable things.
They're removable.
Oh, man.
Well, everybody loves Linda.
We get it.
Everyone thinks I pick on her.
I'm not picking on her.
She talks funny, and I make fun of how she talks.
Yeah, I'm staying out of the middle of that one.
And the worst part is, in reality, the person that gives the other person the hardest time is her giving me a hard time.
It's true, Rex.
Again.
That is true.
You know, nothing's truer.
It's like true, like a drone going dark in the night.
Why did they do it?
Why do I drive Sean crazy?
These are questions we want answers to.
It's funny you talk.
It's a mystery.
Yeah.
Anyway, what's on your mind, Rex?
My call is also in regards to the drones and drones going dark in the night, as Linda just well said.
Specifically about the lights, I'm very curious that these, you know, they seem to show red and green lights, which are, you know, FAA compliant.
And I believe it was Governor Murphy initially who said you think they're sophisticated and can go dark when eyes are on.
Why wouldn't they just say dark all the time?
And is it possible that the lights are also part of a psychological ploy, nefarious or not?
I'm not sure.
I think there's something going on that has to be related to national security.
This is an educated guess.
So let me draw a clear line in the sand here where I'm going with this.
I don't know, but my guess is that there is something that is going on severe enough that it is warranting our government's use of them and probably to surveil something or to find something.
That's my best guess.
But yeah, it was Murphy that said they're sophisticated, that they go dark.
There was another New Jersey elected official that said that he viewed with his own eyes that they would fly in clusters and then separate.
They had the ability to stop and go backwards.
Not something an aircraft would have the ability to do.
Again, If they don't know where they originate from, they don't know who's operating and they don't know their capabilities, that would scare me more.
And it's bad enough that they're lying to us, but they have a history aligned to us.
I've gone through the list a hundred times.
They lied repeatedly to us.
Yes, and hopefully it's not, as you stated, them looking for something being us.
And God forbid that be something like some sort of horrific weapons cache or something like that.
Well, that's you.
Great minds think alike because I'm thinking either that or materials that might be that might be that people might be able to turn into weapons of mass destruction.
If you really want me to go there, I just refuse to lie to you.
That's where my mind goes.
No, yes, sir.
That's where mine is, too.
And it scares the tech out of me.
That part scares the hell out of me.
And I just like, it may all be much ado about nothing in the end.
And I've said that many times.
But in the meantime, their lack of transparency makes no sense.
There's something they know that they're not telling us.
Yeah.
Anyway, Rex, God bless you.
I have no idea why you live in California, but God bless you anyway.
Let's say hi to Joseph.
He's in Long Island, New York.
What's up, Joseph?
How are you, sir?
Oh, I'm doing wonderful, Sean.
Long-term listener, first-time caller.
Really, the Tilla Center last week.
Oh, the Night of Comedy with Fox Nation.
Yeah, good.
Yeah, it was wonderful.
It was wonderful.
Wonderful evening, wonderful time.
Thank you very much for the tickets.
Yeah, I was able to, my buddy Jimmy Phela was nice enough to give us some tickets to give away, and we're very happy.
I heard it was a great night.
That was wonderful.
Yeah, I wanted to discuss something that really has been bothering me and many people that I know.
It's about the wall.
They've been selling off these sections of the wall down by the border, and they've been doing some types of auctions and moving a lot of this metal around.
I'm concerned who's buying this metal.
I'd like to follow the money to see where is this metal being stockpiled because if it's being sold for pennies on the dollar, what keeps them from reselling it back to the government at full price when Trump comes back into office?
That just sounds like a scam to me.
The whole thing is designed to screw and sabotage Trump.
And all they're really doing is he's going to buy the materials again.
And so they're just on the way out the door, and I went through a whole long laundry list of what Joe is doing.
They're really screwing us.
They're really hurting us because that money is going to be spent again because Joe just wants to stick it to Trump.
But, you know, there's all of these things that Biden is doing, you know, selling off parts of the wall, weaponizing the DOJ, trying to Trump-proof it, you know, the deep state, escalating wars in Europe and the Middle East, you know, go forward with student loan forgiveness as much as he possibly can, you know, solidify their radical extreme green energy agenda.
You know, they're doing all of this is being done on purpose, pardons, commutations.
It's all being done, all designed to hurt Trump.
And in the process, if it hurts we, the people, they don't care.
And that should, that should actually anger everybody.
Yeah, anyway.
What bothers me is to worry about, you know, if there's money involved, could somebody literally be buying all of these pieces of the wall and then reselling them back to the government just for pure profit?
100%.
Probably a friend of Joe's, maybe a friend of Hunter's.
I don't know.
I just don't know.
I mean, All this is vengeful, you know, spiteful, sore, sore loser-ism.
He knows that Donald Trump wants peaceful negotiated settlements in Europe and the Middle East, and yet he's escalating both conflicts.
He knows that Donald Trump's going to finish building the wall.
So let's sell off the materials that were left over from when he was president now for pennies on the dollar, and then he'll have to buy new stuff.
Well, that hurts us.
Him escalating the war in Europe hurts us and other countries.
The, you know, bombing Syria, why?
Why are we involving ourselves there when we don't know who's going to take over?
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Tonight, the latest on Hannity, 9 Eastern, Sety DBR, Fox News channel, the latest on drones, the left and their obsession to target CEOs, Donald Trump's impromptu, nearly hour and a half presser from earlier today, Joe and the push for preemptive pardons.
We are loaded up with Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Chad Wolf, Caroline Levitt, Clay Travis, Charlie Hurt.
Set you DBR, Hannity tonight at 9.
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