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Dec. 27, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Crime Is Out of Control - December 26th, Hour 1

Mark Simone fills in for Sean and shares some ways in which President Trump CAN help control crime in our major cities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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If they don't, we'll have to just take them on again, and we don't want to do that.
Violence is never the answer.
This guy gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of United Health.
But you can only push people so far.
People interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.
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Welcome to the revolution.
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Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song.
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Hey, it's me.
It's Mark Simone.
Sean is off today.
So I'll be doing it.
We got a lot to talk about, a lot of great things to get to.
Normally, I'm on our big flagship station, WOR, here in New York, or you can hear me on the iHeart app or iHeartRadio or all of that.
25 days, 25 days.
Our national nightmare is over.
25 days.
It's going to be a big, big adjustment for Joe Biden from the fast-paced White House to just kind of resting all day.
You know, it's very tough when a guy retires.
You know, action, action, action all day long.
And then suddenly, I imagine he's having to, it'd be tough for him to decompress.
Actually, 26 days from now, I want to begin the effort to find out who the hell has been running the country for the last four years.
You know, every time a president leaves, historians go to work with these books and these examinations of the administration.
Now, you know, media is so corrupt, so corrupt.
You know how many books have come out about Donald Trump the last four years?
Like 50, I could name.
How many books do you think came out about Joe Biden the last four years?
None.
Zero.
Oh, Joe Concha.
Joe Concha wrote a book about that's the only book.
Can you imagine the guy who president of the United States?
Nobody writes a book about him.
Nobody.
Everything is a secret with this guy.
But historians, historically, when it's over, they'll go back and really analyze what happened.
Let's see if any of them are honest enough to go find out who ran the country for the last four years.
Obviously, the committee, the staff, Obama, Soros.
I mean, we know the coaches on the field, Susan Rice, Ron Clain, but we want to know who was actually running the place.
Joe Biden signed 1,500 pardons in one night.
You're supposed to read these and study them.
If you gave him one and said, here, read this.
Do you think he could read the one?
You just give him the first page.
So who read those pardons?
Who decided, listen, obviously they were all favors to donors, to whatever congressperson needed a pardon, whoever bought a Hunter painting.
I'm sure foreign interests had a lot of people they wanted pardon.
Joe Biden, let's see, last night he signed 58 new laws.
Now, here's the guy who doesn't even know his name.
You think he really read these 58 new laws?
We need to know one day who put these together, who came up with all these decisions, who came up with these 58 new laws, who made them sign it.
Actually, there are people that want to check the pardons and the laws to see if they were signed with auto signature, which would not, they would therefore not even be legal right now.
So I hope you had a great Christmas.
We're here live today.
Ethan at the controls.
Linda not here, but the big boss himself, Stanger himself, Eric Stanger, has actually come in to work the show.
It's quite a sacrifice, you know, for the big guy to come in and work.
Then you ask these people, now I want to get out of the house.
Everybody wants to get out of their house.
They've had enough of sitting around.
They can't watch anymore.
How many times can you watch a Christmas story and it's a wonderful life?
Boy, when I was a kid, that movie, It's a Wonderful Life, it meant so much.
And now, for the five millionth time, when it's on, I can't watch this anymore.
Now I watch it and I realize the whole ending makes no sense at all.
The town was much better without this Jimmy Stewart guy.
Without him, they had nightclubs.
They had casinos.
It was phenomenal.
With him, nothing.
It's like the Andy Griffith show.
So the whole ending didn't even make sense now.
Got lots to talk about.
We'll take your calls.
1-800-941.
Sean is the number.
1-800-941-Sean.
Hey, that football game, two football games on Christmas.
This has got to become a tradition.
It is very important.
We need football on Christmas.
Remember, every Thanksgiving, there was one football game.
It was always the Detroit Lions every Thanksgiving.
Next thing you know, it's two football games and then three football games.
Now it's 11 football games on Thanksgiving.
We need to do this to Christmas because most people have a house full of relatives.
You have to get away from them.
You need these football games.
Jerry Jones, Cowboys owner, says we are behind this 1,000%.
We want more games on Christmas.
Very, very important.
Hey, I'm walking here and out in the corner.
There's a big trash can with a Christmas tree in it.
Now, I don't know who the hell this guy is, but you are one very impatient guy.
It ended a few hours ago.
Boy, are you in a hurry to get on to the next thing?
So, hey, the other thing, there's a New York Times article.
It's very funny now.
The New York Times, totally corrupt, lied about everything, conned their readers.
They're the ones that kept telling you for four years.
Joe Biden's great.
He's so alert.
He's unbelievable in meetings.
They lied about everything.
What they do, it's the CYA department in the New York Times.
Every so often they have to write a CYA article, cover your, you know what.
Like they did one about two weeks ago saying Joe Biden has slowed down a lot.
His age is getting to him.
There's a bit of decline.
That's just to cover themselves.
So if you say you are lying.
No, no, no, look, we're right there.
We wrote the article.
Well, they got one today about regrets, the things Joe Biden regrets.
They were trying to help him.
But if you read this, you get even madder at the guy.
You know what his biggest regret was of the whole four years?
That when he sent the stimulus checks out for the virus during the pandemic, he didn't put his name on them.
It wasn't his signature.
He felt he should have done that.
He felt that would have helped the most.
That's the biggest regret.
Number two was the debate.
You remember the debate where he didn't know where the heck he was?
Although he says what the real issue with the debate was he had a bad cold.
It was the timing.
He should have postponed it.
Now, I've had a lot of bad colds.
I never had a cold where I'm bumping into walls and I don't know my name and I can't think straight.
That's a hell of a cold.
So people reading this list are getting furious because Afghanistan is not on it.
Getting all those people killed, getting our servicemen killed, that should have been the number one regret.
Now, if somebody is honest out there in the media, you'll start working on the book.
What really happened behind the scenes, who was really running the country.
Speaking of Afghanistan, we find out that the families of those killed are waiting on the tarmac for Biden.
The plane has landed.
He doesn't get out of the plane.
They have to wait three hours for him to get out of the plane.
What the hell took three hours?
Now we find out he was napping.
He was in such bad shape.
He had to take a nap for three hours on the plane.
Unbelievable.
So again, somebody out there, there must be an honest historian out there somewhere.
Somebody write this book.
Again, he signed 58 new laws.
They say he's on vacation.
Doing a lot of damage for a guy on vacation.
And then the last day or two, they have been rushing massive orders of weapons to Ukraine.
Huge, huge amounts of weapons, new weapons to Ukraine.
Now, they'll tell you publicly that the reason for that, they're worried when Trump comes in that he'll cut off Ukraine and they won't have the arms to defend themselves with.
That's not what this is all about.
These are defense contracts.
This is what politicians, Biden, people in Congress, this is what they do for a living.
They get money from defense contractors.
That's why he's rushing these weapons.
If Ukraine needs another 10 million bombs, they'll send it to them and hope that they use them because every time they use a bomb, it's got to be replaced.
Every bomb is another $6 million.
So that's why they're doing this.
Now, the real concern that they have is that if Trump takes office, he could quickly settle the Ukraine war.
And then there'll be an excess of weapons and it'll hurt the defense contractors.
This is the main concern.
Now, that's how politics works in Washington.
This is, we still got 25 days.
Usually the dirtiest stuff happens in the final week.
So this is nothing compared to what's coming.
But defense contractors, all this stuff.
You know, Pete Hegseth, that's one of the big arguments against Hexeth.
I know they tell you he was drinking.
He was this, he was that, he was that.
Behind the scenes, the real argument, he has no connection to the defense contractors.
This is unheard of for a defense secretary.
All these defense secretaries were working with the defense contractors.
Even this current one, Lloyd Austin, he's been in the military for years, but they took a break for 10 years to go work for all the defense contractors.
That's the problem with Hexeth.
And every, it's not about qualifications.
If you take a list of all the secretaries of defense we've had, Hexeth has more qualifications than half of them.
One of them was just an academic.
One of them was from a think tank.
One of them was, many of them were just congressmen.
That's all they were.
But they were very, very connected to the defense contractors.
So that's why they're concerned about Hegseth.
That's why they want to stop him.
They don't need a guy breaking up the business model that they currently have going.
Hey, we'll get to Mar-a-Lago.
You see, if you're on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook, you see all these people posting all the Mar-a-Lago stuff.
What really goes on there if you're there Christmas or New Year's?
Well, I'll explain it to you.
I'll tell you what really happens.
Hey, by the way, follow me on Instagram, Mark Simone NYC at Instagram.
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I hear music.
Are you just serenading me?
So the subtle hint.
Oh, okay.
I think they're trying to tell us something.
It's like the Oscars when they want you to get off.
You hear music playing.
So, hey, we'll take some calls to 800-941-Sean is the number.
Mark Simone here on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
It's the Sean Hannity Show.
You know, I gave out my Instagram before the break.
Now, one reason I like to do that, I want to give out your Instagram.
All these people start following you.
And I can then go look and see who started following me.
I can look at them.
I can see their pictures.
This is a very impressive audience.
Very nice, classy people.
If you're an advertiser, I'm just telling you, if I showed you who just started, these are Hannity listeners.
Look at these.
Sharp-looking, nice-looking.
He's a couple of executives.
He's a great NYPD, highly decorated guy.
Some very good-looking women on here, too.
So I'm just telling you, that's the kind of audience you have on talk radio.
Now, unless it's liberal talk radio, if I went on left-wing talk radio and gave out my Instagram, you should see who starts following you.
People you don't want following you anywhere in life.
But anyway, it's a great audience.
Should we take some calls?
Let's go to Jeff, who's in San Diego.
Jeff, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
Thank you, Mark.
I called up not expecting to be on because I'm a liberal.
Oh, you're a liberal?
Oh, no, no, it's okay.
I'll talk slower.
Go ahead.
I'm in my late 70s.
I'm something that.
Perfect.
Right in that target demo.
Good.
I'm a conservative liberal.
I'm an American patriot.
And I caught up just to say, why does Donald Trump have to say these stupid things about Denmark and Canada and Panama, which we should have never?
What stupid things?
But I would rather.
Wait, wait, wait.
What stupid thing did he say?
I don't know what you're referring to.
Well, about giving us back the canal.
Too late.
Denmark is not going to give up Greenland.
Well, wait, hold on.
Let's take these one by one.
Greenland, taking Greenland is a democratic liberal idea.
Truman started it.
Carter worked hard on it.
We do want to get Greenland.
It's absolutely a no-brainer.
Huge mineral resources.
The most oil supply in the world.
And it's not on populated land.
It's easy to get it out of there.
Also, extremely important for defense purposes.
Every president has wanted Greenland.
I know they say they won't sell it.
This is haggling overprice.
The price will probably be $120 billion, but the minerals and the oil on it more than pays for it.
So if you, you know, the first thing you do, if you're in Denmark, we will never sell.
That's to get the price up.
As far as Panama, they may not make a deal with us, but the whole reason for Panama is they are overcharging us like crazy.
We're just getting robbed financially with the canal.
Big mistake losing control.
Are you still there, Jeff?
Your attention things.
I feel like a guy that's already in the middle of a conversation when we come back.
Did you hear anything I said?
I would like to say some things that I agree with with Trump and the conservatives.
You see, this is the key to it.
I just gave him the whole explanation.
He's not interested.
I just want to talk.
They just like to talk.
Me too.
Yeah, that's fascinating.
So I live in San Isidro, California.
If you call that living, but okay.
Border.
No, it's actually a beautiful area.
Very beautiful.
San Diego is beautiful.
Beautiful.
It's kind of david in the 60s compared to most of the country.
Anyway, let's just stop and we don't have much time.
You're a good old-fashioned Bill Clinton Democrat, right?
A common-sense JFK Clinton Democrat.
Would you agree?
I go back, my family.
But root for this country.
It's happy hour out there already.
Started early.
About the border.
Yeah.
Four blocks from the border.
People are coming in.
They get one block past the border and gangs of Mexicans who are illegal immigrants.
Yeah, but you're a liberal.
You're supposed to say, hey, welcome, welcome.
Need some water here.
I'm not supposed to say this stuff, and it gets my liberal friends mad.
They just found.
So you agree with me on Greenland.
Is that it?
Well, let's just say it.
He's not even listening.
Anyway, you're a very nice guy, Jeff.
And enjoy the rest of your day.
Thanks for checking in with us.
It's happy hour all day long where he lives.
Jeff in San Diego having a good time.
He starts happy hour even before Kamala Harris does.
And that's saying something.
So, hey, we've got a lot to get to.
We'll get to one great thing besides fixing the economy, all that, the crime in our cities.
You'd be surprised how much Trump can affect that.
Crime is out of control in so many places, thanks to Democratic mayors and governors.
We'll talk about that in a moment.
Don't forget to check out the website, Hannity.com.
There's always great stuff up there, Hannity.com.
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And we'll take a look at crime.
We'll take a look at the economy.
Lots of great stuff coming up on the Sean Hannity Show.
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And with us right now, Paul Morrow, who's former NYPD inspector, great attorney, and he's the founder of OpsDesk.org, opsdesk.org, and lots to talk to him about.
Paul Morrow, how are you doing?
I'm good, Mark.
How are you?
Very good.
Just choking to death.
You shouldn't eat while you do the show.
That's the other thing.
Hey, crime in New York.
You know, we had Rudy Giuliani.
We had Michael Bloomberg kept all the Giuliani stuff.
We had Ray Kelly, the greatest police commissioner.
We had all this going on.
Got rid of the crime.
Everything's cleaned up.
And then what's the point of doing that if then all of a sudden Democrats are going to come in and put things right back the way they were?
Yeah, it's a very good question.
You know, one of the curses of living a while is that you see this cycle.
And we went through this in the 70s and the 80s.
It took certain iconic crimes in the 1990s for the city's crime rate to hit a point that the bottom line was really being affected.
The city was toying with going bankrupt, et cetera.
And very famously, we had almost 2,300 murders.
And so finally, you hit the nadir and Giuliani came in, as you're saying, and we had a good 20-year run there, which I was very fortunate to bookend.
I was there for all of that, pretty much, and, you know, really saw the progression.
And then to watch us now make all of the same mistakes, all of the indulgent, naive, progressive ideas where we just expect everybody to behave with nothing carceral, to use Bragg's overused word, is just so naive.
And it's really heartbreaking if you're somebody who cares about New York City and has spent most of his life here.
Yeah, if you're a Democratic leader, the mayor, the governor, even the awful district attorney you mentioned, and you try something like no jail, no bail, or whatever, and then the crime rate just soars and people are getting wiped out all over the, don't you say to yourself, huh, didn't work.
I better switch policy.
Why don't they ever do that?
You would think, right?
At this point right now, I wonder if even Alvin Bragg might actually start to smell the coffee.
One of the things I would point to is the fact that right on day one in his infamous day one memo, and he's not the only culprit, by the way.
The New York City Council and the New York State Legislature are equally culpable, if not more so.
Certainly the state legislature.
They're the ones who put through all the bail reforms.
But to your point, Bregg, on his day one, put out that infamous memo where he said that we're not going to be prosecuting the following crimes, literally, by the way, is not even legal.
Realistically, what he's done is he's just decided to assume the role of the legislature and take a whole slate of statutes off the books.
That's not prosecutorial discretion.
All right.
That's assuming the role of the only legislature can revoke laws that it's passed.
But in any case, he decides he's not prosecuting a whole series of laws, and we're seeing a direct result.
And let me just point to this recent horrific incident on the subway where a Guatemalan immigrant allegedly lit a woman on fire.
That guy, never mind not being in this country, that guy should not be on the subway because one of the things that Bregg took off the table was step to service.
And that's a fancy way of saying fair beating.
And cracking down on fair beating was one of the linchpins of the broken windows policing that worked so well, as you say, in the 90s and the 2000s.
And so by taking that off the table, you've seen now the results in the subway and why the subways now are a rolling psych ward because these are people in the past who would have had a much harder time getting onto the subway.
And this is another example of the downstream effect of this kind of wrong-headed naivete that the Alvin Braggs of the world and the New York state legislatures just seem to not want to give up on.
Yeah, so we had this hero, Daniel Penny, who tried to intervene and save people on the train, the Marine, who, you know, put his, they call it a chokehold, but it wasn't really a chokehold.
But they tried to convict this guy.
He went through hell.
He finally got acquitted.
So with this last incident where the woman is being burned alive on the subway, apparently all the bystanders not only didn't want to help, but even when the police came, didn't want to identify the criminal.
They were so afraid of being, let's use the term Daniel Pennied.
So again, these Democrats, what they've done to major cities, how much can Donald Trump do to try to have an effect here?
I know he can't run the cities, but what can he do to help that?
Yeah, it's a very good question.
So he's got a couple of levers here.
First of all, the funding.
New York City and the big blue city, all cities really, get a lot of funding from the federal government, more than people realize, and that certainly devolves the policing.
There's all kinds of programs that are funded by the federal government, including things like counterterrorism, FEMA funding, et cetera.
He can put a chokehold on that.
He can also do things like set up task forces.
And that's what's coming with Tom Holman.
I think a lot of people don't realize that if you're in the task force as a local cop, NYPD or any cop across the country, JTTF or the Joint Bank Robbery Task Force, et cetera, you're federalized.
You are essentially a federal agent.
And that was one of the roles that I operated in for a while.
And so consequently, all of the measures and the levers that you can use as a federal agent are available to you.
Well, when Tom Holman starts to set up joint immigration crime task forces, and some of these cities are going to resist it, certainly, but once he sets those up, the local cops that run those task forces can do the stuff that we need done at the local level.
And he's talked a lot about how they're going to have a task force model.
Problem is, of course, is a lot of these sanctuary cities are not going to be on board with it, but that's when you say, okay, you want counterterrorism funding?
You're on your own.
And that is settled federal law.
So you can do things like that.
And you can also do the reverse, which is you can fund.
And we saw that in the 90s, where, God help us, Bill Clinton actually recognized that we'd kind of bottomed out in our cities.
And the famous cops program that he put through in conjunction with Newt Gingrich opened up all kinds of overtime funding for the police.
And that was one of the things that really kick-started in the mid-90s and into the 2000s, the crackdown in the cities that actually got us what I would argue is a renaissance of New York City.
I don't think it had ever been so good, maybe in its history.
And so you can do those sorts of things.
You can do funding.
You can publicize stuff.
And if you really need to, you really need to, you can use federal measures like lawsuits, civil rights suits.
You can even prosecute criminally if you feel that it rises to that level.
Certainly you can sue.
But he does have some levers, and I actually expect him to do it because he's made a lot of statements about how he's going to clean up the cities and particularly his hometown of New York.
Yeah, that task force idea is great because if you're a mugger or a shoplifter or you're committing these crimes in New York or California, even if you got arrested and caught, even if you got convicted, Alvin Bragg will not put you in jail.
But if a Fed arrested you and federally went after you, the federal system took the case, you'd go to jail.
So how does that have to work?
The NYPD would have to agree to be part of a federal task force?
Yeah, they would.
And, you know, there are numerous federal task forces.
It's a fairly common model.
And we set them up after 9-11 at a much higher rate than they'd ever existed in the past.
And so you went from having, I think, something like seven or eight in the entire country to over 100 in response to 9-11.
You had these joint terrorist task forces.
Well, I would have advocated for something that I, joint jam teams, I've been calling them, joint anti-migrant crime teams.
And you do want a kind of sexy title because you want the cops to know it's there.
So when you bump into something like that on the street, you can say, okay, look, this guy looks to be illegal and he's got 15 phones on him.
He seems to be part of something organized.
Refer this to the jam team.
And so that then goes over to a task force like we're talking about.
And as I said, Donald Trump has talked about it.
So is Tom Holman.
And the thing that's so advantageous there is that all of the intelligence is then synchronized.
If you have guys getting arrested in Aurora and it's at the federal level, all of that stuff is going into common databases where you can see, okay, this guy constantly talks to somebody in New York.
In fact, he got arrested three times last year in Atlanta, et cetera, et cetera.
And you can start to make those connections.
So you can make the big, big cases where you take 12 guys, 15 guys, and you take them as part of a big case, a conspiracy case or a big narcotics case.
And that's how you break them down, you get them out.
That's what we've done in the past relative to narcotics.
That's what we did with terrorism.
I did well over a dozen years of that kind of work.
And it works.
There's a reason you set that up.
And plus, it moves much more quickly at the federal level, the prosecutions do.
And the sentences are much more draconian.
So you can flip people.
People flip when they hear they're going to federal prison.
And never mind looking at a deportation.
So, you know, you start to flip people.
You get the kind of informants you need.
You start to get the contours of the gangs that you're up against.
And that's what you need to make the real strong cases to end this nonsense.
The levers are there.
It's just that for the last four years, nobody's wanted to use them.
Wow.
Well, that sounds great.
Hey, speaking of terrorism, we've had so many people come across the border and many tens of thousands identified as actual terrorists.
And this has been going on for a couple of years.
I hate to even ask this, but when are we going to find out what that was all about?
I know, terrible.
And I can tell you, as I mentioned, I did a lot of that kind of work.
And, you know, the idea that you would have people coming in who have had no border friction and the government is actually complicit in that is absolutely mind-boggling if you're sitting where I am because at the height of the sort of anti-Al Qaeda and ISIS enforcement effort here in the country,
if you got somebody showed up on a criminal set, a terrorism set, seemed to have those sorts of associations, and they had no footprint, if they came in with no border friction whatsoever, all kinds of alarms went off.
That was a surveillance.
That was round everybody up.
We got to look at this guy.
We got to figure out what we got here.
How did he get in?
This looks nefarious, especially given the connections he has, et cetera, et cetera.
Well, we just let in during the Biden administration 12 million potential people that are in that bucket, completely unvetted, no footprint.
The idea that we vet them is preposterous.
Maorcas, just retire and go away someplace because the idea that he actually says that these people are vetted, which he does say, when you consider that Venezuela doesn't cooperate, not only does Venezuela not cooperate with us, their president is under DEA indictment himself.
Nicaragua, you know, there's a socialist nation that's hated.
Ortega hates us from God knows when Cuba, forget about it.
And Haiti is run by criminal gangs.
And those are the four countries that come in under the special program.
That's just four.
So the idea that they're vetted is preposterous.
And so that's why you hear about these stories of 15 Afghan nationals, you know, 20 Yemenis, a bunch of Iranians.
They're completely unvetted.
We have no idea what they're up to.
Well, Paul Morrow, great talking to you.
He's the founder of OpsDesk.org, opsdesk.org.
Make sure you follow him everywhere and see him on Fox News.
Thanks for being with us.
Anytime, Mark, take care now.
Take care.
It's Mark Simone, normally here on our big flagship in New York, W-O-R.
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