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Best of Hannity: Senator Rand Paul - December 24th, Hour 1

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky made comments over the weekend about the incoming administration under President Trump and what we should expect from him, and his team as liberals continue to break the law, putting migrants ahead of citizens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I want to bring up to speed on the Denver mayor and And an exchange also with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House.
Because the Denver Mayor has vowed to oppose federal policy, federal law, and Donald Trump's planned mass deportation of illegal immigrants, over twelve and a half million from over a hundred and eighty countries, including Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Venezuela.
We know the the Trend Day Aragua gang is in now in sixteen states.
We have cartel members here.
We have known terrorists in the country.
We have drug dealers in the country, gang members in the country, but also you can add to that, you know, tens and tens of thousands of people from China and Russia.
I mean, it's it is the biggest national security threat we have.
So there's two issues going on simultaneously.
Who has jurisdiction?
Well, that would be the federal government in this case to remove people that did not obey our laws, respect our laws, our borders, our sovereignty.
And then the second way is the best way to do it, and we're going to talk to Senator Rampall in a second about this.
But let me play for you the Denver mayor and what he had to say and then walk back the comments where he you know said Tiananmen Square comments where he suggested sending Denver police to the county border to stop federal officers from actually doing their lawful job.
Let's start there.
These comments that you made earlier this week invoking Tiananmen Square, saying that Denver police officers will be at the county line to stop.
They're out there.
So I want to make sure that we nail down exactly what you perceive as a potential future for how to handle this situation in Denver.
I want to just ask you very specifically, are you open to sending Denver police officers to the county line to stop federal forces or National Guardsmen from other states from coming into Denver?
We have no plan to do that.
And we really hope that we don't ever have to do that.
Uh I have no plan.
We have you open to it.
Uh well we're gonna do right now is you know it's hard to keep an eye on what the future president actually plans to do and what the proposal actually is.
Some people think it's just focusing on violent criminals.
If it were just a strategy to focus on deporting violent criminals, we would be ready partners to work on that.
We do that currently with the previous administration, we do it with a future one.
Um if the plan really is to round up women and children out of workplaces and school buildings and public hospitals and grocery stores.
I think that there are a lot of residents in Denver and around the state and around the country who would say that's not my America.
And I won't I won't I wouldn't tolerate that.
So do I expect people would um civilly disobey?
I think they probably would.
Uh the same people that came to provide services to folks who were struggling, I think would also not stand by to watch them uh their their rights be violated.
So uh we have no plan to do that, no desire to do that.
But I think we're trying to prepare every possible scenario based on what could happen.
And then went on to say that they will will do everything to resist Donald Trump's mass deportation.
Uh anyway, Senator Rand Paul argued that the mayor of Denver could be removed from office and face potential prosecution.
Now there's one other thing about this.
I would argue that, and if I was a Democrat and I believed in lawfare and the weaponization of justice, I would argue that Alejandro Mayorcus and that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have institutionalized law breaking, aided and abetted, and were involved in in the trafficking of illegal immigrants.
I think that case can be made.
I think, however, I don't support that, but I do believe that this is the biggest national security threat our country is facing.
Now the question of his is what is the best way to do it.
Rampall uh agrees that these criminal aliens and illegal immigrants need to go, but he might have a difference of opinion as as it relates to using the military, and we'll talk about all of this.
Uh Senator, welcome back.
How are you?
Thanks for having me, Sean.
Yeah, I think the mayor's quite confused on this.
He doesn't really have the prerogative of choosing which federal laws he gets to obey.
So if the FBI comes into Denver and they have somebody who's wanted for murder, he says maybe he'll let that go.
If they're wanted for coming across the border illegally, and we're now going to say, well, guess what?
We're we're Instituting your hearing today and we're taking you back to the border to have a hearing on whether you're staying or not.
Even if the person hasn't committed a crime, it's the federal law.
This is the law.
Biden forgave all these people and said we'll parole them and we'll do nothing else.
I suspect when President Trump comes in, he's going to enforce the law.
There'll be immediate hearings on lots of people, not just ten people, not just twenty people, but thousands, if not tens of thousands, that Biden released into the into the heartland.
But the mayor of Denver, if he chooses to resist or if he sends his police out, they will be arrested.
They will go to jail.
They will be removed from office, and the Supreme Court will defend this.
There's something called the supremacy clause of the Constitution, and without question, the federal law is such that these people can be removed, and we've not had anybody stand up to uh to to left wing people like this, but for all the you know braying and uh noise that comes from people like CNN about insurrections, yeah, this is closer to an insurrection than any riot ever was on January 6th.
So you talk about the supremacy clause, the legal jurisdiction to do this lies with the federal government, not with states or local authorities.
There's no ambiguity here at all, is there?
No, and there's also plenty of people to do it, you know, that's the other debate is how we do it.
I do think that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of FBI agents that are doing things they shouldn't be doing.
So, for example, every FBI agent that's sitting around reading my posts on the internet about whether you wear a mask or not, or whether your uh child needs to take a COVID vaccine and is trying to censor my speech, those people could be reassigned to actually kidding uh you know picking up criminals and and deporting them.
So there's a lot of people in the federal government that aren't doing anything.
About eighty percent of the federal government doesn't show up in their office.
So there's a lot of people that could be actually commissioned to do this work, and I think that's the better way of doing it because it has to be done individualized.
This isn't like a war where the military can come in and do it.
I think it's best done actually by the people who know how to target people individually, have their paperwork, have the data, who is it that we want, who are we going after?
And uh I think it'll also be accepted better if we go um initially after the the criminally violent.
And I you know, I I would make it uh like an emergency to go after the fifteen thousand murders and the thirteen thousand suspected uh or and or convicted rapist and sexual assault people.
I would make that an all points bulletin.
I would make that an emergency, and I would have that at the top of the list of what the FBI is supposed to be doing now.
Yeah, well, you talk about the 15,000 murderers, the 13,000 sexual assault predators, but none of these f none of these 12 and a half million, which is around the estimate.
We have no idea about gotta ways, but you have so many people from our top geopolitical foes, uh, countries would terror ties, entered this country.
We have no we have known terrorists in this country, cartels, gang members.
You know, we have hundreds of Lake and Rileys and Rachel Morans and Jocelyn Nungarries.
Uh we have literally hundreds of Americans, including children that have been raped.
We have thousands of Americans that have been victims of violent crimes by these alleged Harris Biden illegals.
We saw the the case of Lake and Riley in the conviction there.
I don't know.
I mean, twelve and a half million unvetted Harris Biden illegals to me is the biggest national security threat in our lifetime.
Because I would imagine the known terrorists that are in our country, we don't know where they are, that if we don't find them, I can assume that they're plotting and planning and scheming.
Another 9-11.
Am I wrong?
Well, you you have to go after them, and I'm all for it.
The only way practically to find them though is to go after them individually.
It's not like you can sort of say, hey, everybody, show up.
These people are now on the lamb, so you're gonna have to have their names, their last known addresses, any information you got when you screen them the first time.
And really the law enforcement agency that's able to do this kind of investigation to find people is essentially going to be uh the FBI also assistance, and I think you have to try to do it according to the law.
The law says you can't use the military domestically.
If you talk to most of our soldiers, they'll tell you they don't want to do domestic missions, they don't want to be policemen, they don't want to be floating about walking, you know.
10,000 troops walking down the streets of New York City is not an image that we've ever contemplated or want to have.
But there is a way to do this and to do this in A robust way.
But we've never tried before.
Let's start by at least trying.
Like I would say is you gotta prioritize your list because it's a lot of people.
But the fifteen thousand murders and thirteen thousand sexual assault uh perpetrators top of the list.
Then you're right.
There are people from terrorist watch lists.
There's also people from cartel lists, there's people who had known Todd.
And it's like we need to also remember they all got in because Biden didn't screen him.
He just sort of sent them, paid for tickets.
And the worst insult, I mean, we watching the trial of Lincoln uh Riley's murder.
Did you realize that they flew him to Atlanta?
They flew him to New York City, yes, sir.
Yeah, so a lot of Americans looking for jobs, nobody flying any of us around, and yet they flew him to New York first, put him up in a hotel, gave him three meals a day, and then flew him down to Georgia where he committed murder.
So we've got to stop that.
In fact, I think the law, my first hearing do you do you believe that that Harris, Biden, Mayorcus all aided and abetted at law breaking?
Because I do.
Yeah, they did, and I don't know how you actually punish them.
We're lucky to be rid of them.
But uh, you know, my first hearing in Homeland Security when I chair the committee is going to be on remain in Mexico, and I frankly think that we should not hear asylum complaints from anybody who comes in illegally.
So ninety-nine percent of them are coming in illegally.
I think it's a not a valid complaint to complain about you wanting asylum when you come in illegally.
I also would turn people back at the river at the border.
If you're halfway across the river, your boat gets turned around, you get deposited on the other side.
Instead of cutting the concertina wire that the the Texans have put out, they should not be assisted.
They should be assisted only in returning to the dry land on the other side.
I don't think we have to process these people.
I think you process people who come in uh through normal channels, people who come in illegal illegally, I think should be deposited immediately back on the other side.
All right, we continue now with Senator Rampall, the great state of Kentucky is with us.
So I've thrown out this idea.
I've I've heard nobody else talk about it.
What about giving people a small grace period, thirty, sixty days, self-report, self-deport, and you know, we'll we will fly you back to the country if you self-report and we will deport you.
We'll do it humanitaire with humanitarian considerations at the at the top of the list, maybe put money in their pocket, a little bit of money so they can rebuild their lives and give them the opportunity because they uh were honest that they came here illegally, give them the opportunity in a year or two if they want to try or attempt to come in legally that they'd have the right to do so.
Anybody that doesn't self-report deport, those people would never have the opportunity to come back.
You know what I would do is I'd go even one step further.
I would exchange work permits for those who haven't committed crimes, but the exchange would be you never vote.
No pathway to citizenship.
But if you want to stay in our country and work legally and you want to register as a foreign worker, you can.
And then we'd get away from the people who've been housekeepers for 30 years, and I think that's what does bother people is thinking, well, gosh, I don't want him here, I don't want to be illegal.
Then again, I do know this woman, and she's you know, she's a nice woman, is working for thirty years.
We really want to uproot her and and take her back across the border.
And that's why you prioritize it.
Let's see about that case after we've deported the 30,000 th murderers, thugs, and rapists.
Let's see what about after we get rid of the two million young uh young males that came across in the last year or two that we need to have sent back immediately.
So I think there are ways of prioritizing it, but it's also if you want uh the American people to accept it, um I think doing it with the military is a wrong way to go, but you'd have to have to change the law because the law currently forbids it.
Have you spoken to President Trump about this?
And I would prioritize not only the murderers, the rapists, the gang members, the cartel members, the known terrorists, but the last the people that have come in the last four uh four years, uh, because they're the ones that came in unvetted.
Have you talked to uh President Trump about it?
I've talked to the the nominee for uh Homeland Security, Christine Ohm about it, and we'll continue to talk to her about it as we interview her.
My goal is to have her And by the way, what what did she say, if you don't mind?
Well, I don't want to characterize her speech, it's just not fair for me to do.
But I will say that um I think she's a reasonable, rational person, and I I think I can work well with her.
I'm gonna Try to get her nomination done even before the inauguration and then her vote immediately after the inauguration.
Sometimes we can get these done in the first day or two after the inauguration, some of these appointments.
I think uh I'm gonna work hard to do that.
And um I think it's a it's a healthy discussion to have on military or otherwise, and uh I think that we can we can do this, and we've had a long-standing tradition of not wanting our military operating in our uh domestically because they die they they operate differently.
They're they're they're trained to kill the enemy.
I'm all for them having that kind of standard, but it's just different.
I mean, this is why we have to appreciate our police so much is that police have a really difficult job, you know, figuring out who individually um has committed crimes, getting warrants, getting arrest warrants, going to the door of that specific person.
I think I I your your argument's persuasive as long as we have the manpower and factor in the urgency of the situation that they have created.
Uh Senator Rampall, you and your family have a great Thanksgiving.
Always appreciate you being on.
Thank you.
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Uh I wanted to play Bill Maher.
I play all these lunatic lefties.
I don't know what's going on with with Bill Maher.
But he's making too much sense.
And on his program this weekend, and I guess it was his last for the season, and I'm still not a big fan of his, and I think it can be a bit of a jackass.
However, he's telling people on the left what they don't want to hear, why they lost and what's wrong with them.
And then he even went as far as to say, I'm not going to pre-hate Trump's uh nominees.
You know, let's see what the disruptors can do.
Which, by the way, is you know, after I've lost elections that I really was invested in and wanted to win.
Kind of how I approach things.
He had a debate with our old friend Donna Brazil, and you know, pointed out that if you want to keep losing, then and you just keep denying that woke politics in part cost you the election.
And then he sparred with some other guy, this guy, Neil Tyson, over vaccines, and it's like why doesn't the rest of their party understand this?
I'm trying to understand why they are so checked out and wrong.
Anyway, let me play a few portions of this for you.
The country does need disrupting.
I mean, the country needs a colonic and a slap in the face so bad.
This is not who I would choose to administer the colonic.
But it's not like the bureaucracy isn't bloated.
It's not like the debt isn't 36 trillion dollars.
It's not like there aren't uh thousands of regulations that do stop people from living lives that they could live better and and don't do anything.
Um there is woke in the military.
Whatever they're going after, I'm not saying there isn't a and I'm not going to pre-hate anything.
Do I have really good optimistic feelings about it?
No, I don't.
But I'm just not going to pre-hate.
I can't I can't get into that wine ground.
Let's see what the disruptors can do.
Because quite frankly, the experts have just sort of like let something go for so long that it's just flerotic now and constipated.
So while I do believe that they made significant gains, there's no question immigration became an issue.
But I'm not going to get into this.
Oh, the people are too damn woke.
That wasn't a issue.
What happened?
Yeah, it was.
I disagree with you.
I know, and that's why you're going to keep losing.
Oh, no, no.
I mean, it's just goes to vaccines, okay?
I don't want to like poke the bear here, but what I'm saying is the bear believes in vaccines, just being skeptical of all medical interventions, as everyone should.
Well, except wait, wait, wait, perfect.
Except except 99 out of 100 medical interventions, you're not saying I need a second opinion.
If you have tuberculosis, you don't need a second opinion.
If you have 99, it's not close to 99%.
No, no, this is not.
I agree.
But that's not most uh things that happen to people.
Lots of things that happen to people.
And I I'm thrilled that you don't have to have had this happen in your life.
But most and I hope you never do.
But trust me, most people at a certain point in their life will need a second opinion.
Yes, but that's after you've been through 99 other.
I'm I'm trying to put credit back to doctors where our life expectancy is three times what it was 150 years ago.
And everyone before 150 years ago, but lower than the rest of the organic.
And they're half of them died before they were 35.
Yeah, but science matters.
Of course it does.
But it doesn't sometimes you don't sound that way.
That's what worries me.
Well, you uh see, you're the guy you're the guy who doesn't understand why the NBA team can't beat the Lakers.
So I don't know.
You know, you're supposed to be you're supposed to be the you're supposed to be the scientist, and you couldn't even admit that.
I mean, those are all Linda, don't you think those are all interesting exchanges?
I think everything Bell Maher is saying right now is pretty interesting, honestly.
He's not acting like a big baby.
He even said before the election, well, I think that Comelo is gonna win, but if Donald Trump wins, I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna stay right here, do my show, make jokes about Donald Trump, and do my show.
We know what's funny about him, and this is I don't know.
I mean, he's not a very religious or political person while being great.
I think he's an atheist.
I don't think he did that movie Religious years ago, which was like super offensive on many levels, but whatever, that's a conversation for another day.
But the thing I like about him and what I find interesting about him is that he hates everybody, right?
Like nobody's off the shopping block.
Everybody's up for discussion.
And I kind of like to do it.
That's a great way to put it, because that's like you.
Exactly.
Equal opportunity hater all day every day.
I think what's interesting about him is that you know, he had a lot to say here, and you know, if we look back at Trump, those four years of Trump, they were so successful.
And so whether you wanted to hate Trump or not, your pocketbook loved him.
You know, your safety for your family loved him.
And then you look at the last four years of Biden Kamala, and your pocketbook is empty and kids are getting killed and borders are being brazened every day.
I mean, we saw the story this morning with the two-year-old who walked across by herself.
Well, I mean, when do we start fighting for them?
I just don't get it.
But Bill Morris, he's just like, listen, man, I'm gonna keep doing me and the rest of you can cry a good cry, but I'm here to do a job, and he's doing it.
It's all gonna happen.
Leland is in Michigan, uh, thanks to our friends in Michigan, that was a big win for President Trump.
Leland, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Oh, I'm doing well.
I'm a blue-collar, illiterate, deplorable piece of garbage, but I'm doing fine, thank you.
Oh, so we're brothers in in you know, from another mother.
I got it.
Well, I'm right there with you.
What's going on?
I wanted to tell you I want to tell you about my friend Betty.
She uh passed away at ninety-seven years old, and she lived by herself.
And uh I called her a week before the election, and uh she was telling me that uh she had all her uh family lined up to vote for Trump and to talk to her, you think that she was on the re reelection committee.
And then she uh I when I hung up and I found out uh uh just last week that she passed away on uh Sunday before last.
And uh her family said that she was this delayed that Trump got elected.
And uh Betty uh didn't have a filter at all.
But anyway, uh she was always the last couple of years she was telling me, you know, I'm ready to go and uh beam me up, Scotty.
So anyway, I'm happy that uh she was a lot.
Well, she got to she got to see real uh hope and opportunity.
I've been saying this, it's these are not words.
This is this is an opportunity that maybe comes along every hundred years.
I think that this presidency can be so dramatically transformational and benefit every American.
You know, w when if Donald Trump is able to secure the borders, remove at a minimum these criminal elements, terrorist cartels, murderers, rapists, you know, all of these uh gangs, everybody involved in this.
Yeah, that is gonna be a huge, huge benefit to the country.
If he restores law and order and safety and security in every town and every city, that will be a huge service to our country.
If he gets the economy moving again, lowers interest rates, lowers the cost of goods and services, that is gonna benefit everybody.
If he drops the price of gasoline a buck, buck and a half a gallon, let me tell you, that's gonna be great for us.
If he makes us energy dominant, we'll start paying down the debt.
We'll prevent Medicare Social Security from heading towards insolvency and and we'll be able to help out veterans more and and other Americans more.
If he if he re-establishes America's role in the world, that's gonna benefit everybody.
You said you were a blue-collar worker in Michigan.
Did you work in the auto industry?
I'm just guessing.
I did, yes.
I worked 37 years for the same company.
And uh I uh my retired friends, I have a lot of them, and uh 90% of them voted for Trump.
Well, here's the thing.
Think about this.
You know, this E. V. mandate cost Ford a year ago four point five trillion dollars in losses.
Now, if that would have continued, how long do you think it would be before those high paying career jobs with good benefits that you had in your life?
How long do you think it would be that they'd have to start laying off a lot of people?
If you if you're gonna if the government's gonna with their long reach force car companies to produce cars that obviously Ford's customers didn't want.
If anyone wants an electric vehicle, they're probably gonna go to Tesla.
They want to produce those cars, they're good at producing those cars.
Don't force every other company into an industry.
You know, the same with, you know, we're gonna have to retrofit our homes and put in new refrigerators, washes, and dryers, and air conditioners.
I mean, this madness has to stop.
No drilling, no fracking.
You know, we we we can be the most energy dominant country on earth and and be the wealthiest.
We will we will be an energy rich country, I predict in four years.
So there was so much at stake here, but you know, I care about the guys that on the line.
I care about UAW workers because if Ford makes more money, they can pay their workers more money.
And if the same with you know, GM and Chrysler and any other car company.
I mean, what they were doing is they were they they were destroying these drought jobs, these career high paying jobs.
And I'm like, it's unbelievable.
They don't understand working men and women.
They've become the party of George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Hollywood, San Francisco, New York, and DC.
And they're out of touch with the people that actually, you know, are the great Americans like you and and your friend Betty.
Yeah.
Uh I really miss Betty.
She was uh she was a good person.
And uh sorry about your loss.
I really mean that.
I mean the uh us auto workers, like you say, we're all retired.
We can see the writing on the wall, you know.
Uh I'm sure a lot of the people that are working can too.
You know.
Well, God bless you, Leland.
You uh you deserve your vacation your retirement.
I hope you enjoy it in good health.
I'm sorry about your loss.
I'm glad you called.
I hope you'll check back in uh soon, okay.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you, my friend.
800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the uh program.
Uh let us say hi to Brian in Oklahoma.
Brian, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
My pleasure.
Appreciate appreciate all you do for our country and and for educating our all your listeners.
Um I'm a school teacher here in uh El Reno, Oklahoma, and I'm also the district's historian.
And I I was hoping to get to challenge your listeners to consider doing something similar to what we do here in El Reno and their communities that really uh help to highlight our veterans and and support our veterans.
Um like I said, there's two programs.
The first is a project um that is we've been doing for 79 years here on El Reno, ever since the end of World War II, and even before then we were doing something similar to it called Gifts for the Yanks Who Gave.
Uh and in it we have our students uh raise money, we raise usually thousands of dollars, um, and they uh go out and purchase gifts, uh wrap them, and then they deliver them in person to the uh patients at the VA hospital in Oklahoma City.
Um it's a program that started right after during World War II, actually, and the American Legion does it.
Um the Ohio and Illinois uh American Legions, I know are really active with it, but we're the only high school in the country that still does it and has done it ever since 1945.
Uh what's a website if people want to go there?
What is it?
Uh Lrenopf.org is our website.
And uh I can uh I'll be happy to help out uh giving people ideas.
It's a really emotional experience for our students to get to deliver these gifts because they get you know the hand deliver them and the veterans tell their stories and um you know many times people people cry yeah absolutely and we always get thank you letters um from from the patients you know saying how much they appreciated our let me tell you there's something that happens every Thanksgiving around this country and uh and uh we fully support what you're doing and your work and uh I hope people in Oklahoma will help you out.
But I'm gonna tell you something.
There are people that on this Thanksgiving, and I've done it a few years myself.
I haven't done it recently, and I'm really should.
And that is that they get really involved in their community, and they buy a bunch of turkeys, they they feed the homeless, they help the indigent, the elderly, people in nursing homes.
I don't know.
There's there's so much goodness and greatness in America.
The unsung heroes, which by the way, we try to give recognition to them.
And that's what the Patriot Awards are all about.
And I'm gonna make my triumphant appearance to New York, where it's being held this year uh at Long Island University.
And by the way, if people want to come, you can go to FoxNation.com.
But instead of Hollywood, you know, slapping themselves on the back and musical artists slapping themselves on the back, you know, we we dedicate a night to the unsung heroes like you and the great work that they do day in and day out that never get any recognition.
And I'm honored to be the MC this year.
And I hope people in New York, New Jersey or maybe flying from around the country and uh Long Island will get there.
You just go to FoxNation.com, it's on December the fifth.
Looking forward to it.
One week from this Thanksgiving.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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