Best of Hannity: Jack Brewer - January 1st, Hour 3
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, our final hour for the year.
And what better idea than to talk to our good friend Jack Brewer, former NFL player.
He was also a presidential appointee under Donald Trump.
Now heads up the Jack Brewer Foundation and this holiday season.
Jack and his team, they're doing the hard work that is in the true spirit of Christmas, and they're going above and beyond to make you know Christmas unforgettable for hundreds of families all across the free state of Florida, my home state.
And uh I couldn't be more proud of them for doing this.
And uh anyway, and they're helping hurricane victims, those in their fatherhood programs delivering Christmas to families in need.
Uh they're helping athletes in the NFL.
A lot of people are joining in with them to do this.
Mr. Brewer, how are you, sir?
I'm doing amazing, Sean, and it's such an honor to be with you again.
Well, the honor's all mine.
So tell me about what you got going on for Christmas.
I um I need to get in the Christmas spirit.
I've been hard because I've just been so jacked up about the election and appointments and everything else in between.
Yeah, you know, those things are obviously important because you know, we we're we're sick and tired of seeing policies that are destroying our families, Sean, and I think that's why it's hard for you to get over that mindset.
You know, for you know, the last four years we've watched our families be decimated, you know, broken apart.
Uh no one's advocating uh for the kids that really need it.
We have a fatherlessness crisis that no one even talks about.
I mean, we got 18 million kids in the United States of America growing up without a father.
Percentage-wise, we are the most fatherless nation on earth.
Yet we have all of these amazing resources, and so we have to do something about it.
You see it in our education system where you know we have entire schools and entire school districts where not a single kid is proficient at reading and math.
And the vast majority of those children are fatherless, living off of the system.
And that's just the reality of it.
Down here in Florida, you know, we're going into the inner city communities.
We're helping the alternative schools.
We have a school in Florida that we just delivered Christmas gifts, new shoes to every kid in the school.
But most of these kids, over 85% of those kids are fatherless.
And so you know what they need, you know what the needs are, and we need more programs, man, to help do that.
I'm actually doing uh this interview right now from South Bay Correctional Facility, a uh a supermax prison, uh run by the Geo Group in Florida, because we're outside now trying to encourage these fathers, and then uh tomorrow night, Sean, we'll be delivering uh Christmas gifts to all the children uh of these men.
These these kids that haven't seen their dads for years, you know, they're basically being punished for a crime that their father committed uh and their fatherless kids, most of them on the system, most of them, you know, a lot of them are you know twenty times more likely to end up in prison.
No, seventy-one percent of every kid that drops out of uh high school in America is fatherless, and so we see this crisis, Sean, and during the Christmas time, we have to do more for our fatherless kids in America, because that's the American way.
So that's what the Jack Brewer Foundation really is is about.
You're you're conducting what is called your fatherhood blessing tree and Broward County schools given these gift deliveries and serving your community by doing this, and a lot of people donating.
We'll put a link on Hannity.com, which I think is great.
And you're really, you know, trying to address the crisis of fatherlessness, which I think is a big deal.
I mean, it is a major problem.
Um look, I understand things happen in marriages, et cetera.
Uh, and and 50% of marriages don't make it.
It's a sad statistic.
Hopefully, you know, over time things can change.
But with that said, just but i if that happens, that doesn't mean you check out and say bye-bye to your kids.
Right.
And I know people that have done that.
And I'm like, I I I I could never do that.
That's not in me.
And uh I am active in my kids' life to this day.
I'm proud of both of them.
And uh I was naive in thinking that, well, they'd graduate college, my job was done.
How stupid was I?
I was pretty stupid.
No, I I have uh I have two older kids as well.
I just became a grandfather this year.
Uh so I'm um I'm super excited about that.
But yeah, I've been I've been rejuvenated when it comes to fatherhood because you know, after I see the crisis, and then you know, I'm a man of God.
I read the Bible and it says defend the fatherless, you know, last verse of the of the old testament is he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, uh lest I'll smite the earth with a curse.
And I think a lot of times, in a lot of ways, our nation has been hit with that curse, that the communities, you know, and unfortunately, Sean, not to make this political, but unfortunately, these are uh a lot of blue blue cities um that are run in in you know, you have you know, welfare pushed up on the people and and and this mentality that you should depend on the government and this mentality that you know single moms should be raising kids and and and not holding the fathers accountable.
We gotta stand up against that right now, man.
And and as we have this shift, this shift to to common sense, uh I'll call it after the election of President Trump.
We have to all start to get on one accord, uh, and be bold enough to talk about the real issues without being scared of someone calling us racist or sexist or gendophobic or or or biased.
Well, it it transcends race.
I mean, it happens with every race, doesn't it?
It does.
It and it's you know, it's it's it's doubled uh in in white Americans, you know.
It's it's at 46, 47 percent uh in the Hispanic community.
It's over 70 percent in the black community.
So this thing is is it's colorblind, you know.
Fatherlessness is colorblind, and we need to do something about it.
And I think um, you know, hopefully when President Trump gets in, he can continue that message.
You know, he pointed appointed me um to the Civil Rights Commission's uh commission on the social status of black men and boys.
You know, I I served there.
Uh actually my term is just coming up.
They didn't get rid of me, thank God.
Uh, and so I think I'm gonna try to continue uh in that important appointment role because I want to have a bipartisan message across the board to every single congressional member, Senate member, um, and the executive branch that we have to do something about our fatherlessness crisis, and Sean.
Interviews like this, man, you giving your platform to it.
I mean, you're the perfect example um of a of a man that's masculine, a father figure, and that's what our nation needs.
You know, it's not about just our kids, it's about the kids that don't have dads.
Guys like me, guys like you, Sean.
We gotta step up and be voices for those those young boys and show them how to tie a tie.
Show them how to treat a woman, show them how to walk with respect, tell them why they should reach for their goals and how good this nation is.
Uh, and I think we can really change uh the landscape of our country.
Yeah, I think it's a great thing that you're doing.
Uh, one other cool thing that you're doing as well is you're going into local prisons and and you're gonna have Christmas in prison.
You're gonna have, you know, a special, I guess, Christmas joy and a worship service, uh, a baseball game with inmates featuring some more than a dozen NFL players and boxers and MMA fighters are are also joining in with you.
I mean, you got to get you got together a really good group of people, and you know, I think the only way that that people that end up in prison uh are gonna get out and never go back is if they change their lives in prison.
They gotta start right there.
That's right.
And the idea that there are people that'll support them and and maybe get them realigned with their faith and their values, uh and if they don't have them, start finding them.
Uh otherwise they're gonna come out and they're gonna go right back to the dopey friends and dopey family members that they shouldn't be hanging around and and go right back into trouble and end up right back where they were.
No question, Sean.
You get it, man.
You get it.
I one day I would love to have you come speak with our guys, because that's how we should I I I spoke at Rikers once.
Let me tell you, they never asked me back.
Want me to tell you about it?
Please.
So I was invited, and it was a religious ministry, and I probably shouldn't have done what I did.
But anyway, so I said, first of all, I am not gonna speak more than five, ten minutes max.
I promise somebody keep a clock, and I'll stop.
You know, well, it's really gonna be about five or six minutes, and that's what it ended up being.
And I went hardcore, deep in the paint.
I used every excetive that you would ever think of.
I probably should not have done that, but I wanted to speak their language.
They know that language.
They identify with that language.
And I'm like, if you want a blanking, come back here, and you want to be a blanking idiot, and and you don't want to have the freedom to go to McDonald's when you want to go to McDonald's and get pizza when you want to get pizza and have a girlfriend and go on a nice date with your girlfriend and build a life for yourself.
And you want to go back to those same dopey friends that you were hanging out with, getting in trouble with that helped get you in here.
Anyone that's a bad influence in your life behind.
If you have to move out of state and start your life alone, go do it.
And I said, and if that means, you know, starting out in McDonald's or starting out washing dishes like I did, go do it.
Get a little apartment for yourself, maybe one room to start.
I don't know, whatever.
But keep your freedom.
Or you're gonna be half of you people half of you listening to me right now are a bunch of dumb beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and you're gonna be right back in this in this in this horrific jail because you're stupid.
You're blanking stupid.
The other half of you that are hearing me right now that don't want to come back here, get away from those friends, get away from any bad influence, restart your life, find God, pray to Jesus every day, and and your life will change.
That's my message to you.
You either succeed or fail based on your choices.
God bless you all.
I'm out of here.
Hey man.
Amen.
You went all the way in the paint, and you have to, and you can come speak to any of my classes, Sean.
We have over 3,000 men in uh over 20 prisons uh across the country and growing, man, and you are more than welcome, and you you gotta shoot them straight.
And that's why we use it.
Let me tell you something.
I would love to go there anytime you want, and I would definitely love to do that.
You can be real and not just dad, I can tell you you're gonna change lives, you're gonna receive letters of thanks, and you're gonna you're gonna be able to hear from the families that that that change.
I mean, it's not it hasn't been a time where I bought brought a prominent speaker that it hadn't like literally changed dozens and dozens of men's perspective because they don't believe anyone cares.
Uh and so when you we show them that we care, but then we hold them accountable.
These guys want to be held accountable.
No one talks about we talk about fatherlessness.
Most of these guys in prison didn't have a dad.
They've never had a real male influence that's positive in their lives.
A lot of them were abused as children, and so we have to treat um with the resources that we have, you know.
And I think um I I I think having you come, Sean would be able to be a great example of that, man.
And it's uh, you know, it's I'm gonna be able to tell them.
I started unable to pay my rent in my adult life, and I started from nothing, and and I'll I'll tell them my story, and I've said it doesn't matter.
The the word you know, education is root rooted in the Latin.
It means to bring forth from within.
What is that predicated on?
The belief that God put it there.
Amen.
And I believe that God created every man, woman, and child, and put talent in every man, woman, and child.
And I will tell them that.
And your job from this moment forward is to find whatever purpose God put you on this earth for and to serve him and to serve others.
And you know, if there is if they're interested, I'll talk and I'll stay there as long as they want me to.
That's amazing, Sean.
No, I uh I look forward to it, man.
I I tell you, um, I hope this conversation push you in the Christmas spirit because you've motivated me just hearing you speak, and I think that's what as Americans we need to remember is that you know the word of God tells us that Jesus didn't come here to be served, he came here to serve and to give his life as a ransom to many.
Uh who did Jesus love the most?
He picked fishermen, and I'm sure they probably use salty language.
You know, to be his apostles.
Who who did he care the most about?
The poor, the sick, the elderly, the disabled, you know, and and the sinners.
He didn't come, he didn't come for you know the people that were already righteous.
He came for the people that needed salvation, including uh yours truly.
We've all sinned and fallen short.
Yes, likewise, Sean.
Likewise.
But you probably sinned a lot more than me, though.
I'm just guessing.
No, you I probably did, Sean, because I was an absolute I'm only kidding, man.
I've been very vocal about my sins, Sean.
I was uh, you know, I lived a life for a little while and um repented and gave my life to the Lord, and that's why I that's why I come to prison so much is because I truly, you know, I can I can relate to some of them.
You know, I did some things that I ended up in jail too, but I never got caught.
Uh and so, you know, it it if if you're real with yourself, you know that God is giving you so much grace, and so we can, you know, we don't we can't earn grace through our works, but we can't earn it through our faith.
And my faith is in the word of God, and my faith is following what the Bible tells us to do, and the Bible tells us uh to visit those in prison as if we're with them in prison.
Hebrews 13 and 3.
All right.
Uh, we'll put a link on Hannity.com for the Jack Brewer Foundation.
Uh this this is the Christmas spirit, helping others in a time of need.
Uh and you know what, it's cliche, but it's true.
But giving is much better.
You're giving of yourself.
That's even uh a greater gift, and I want to help you in the next year, and you have my word, I will be there.
Okay.
Thank you, Sean.
God bless you, man.
God bless this show.
Keep uh keep being the voice of America, man.
We we need you in these times.
All right, God bless you too, my friend.
Have a merry Christmas, you and your family.
Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
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By the way, can we replay that that bumper music?
Because this is that's Linda's favorite song of all time.
The only problem You know what is even better than hearing it like this?
It would be if you sang if you sang it to me.
You're such a beautiful singing voice.
Go ahead.
I don't have a good feeling.
My Christmas wish.
Oh my god.
I don't know all the words.
But I do know the I do know the refrain.
And the refrain is Brandy, you're a fine girl.
What a good wife you would be.
But my life, my love, and my lady is the sea.
It's about a fisherman.
I've actually looked it up.
Looking glass is the name of the band.
And it was actually about a woman named Randy, but they changed it for the song for to Brandy.
And I've asked you in the past about this song, and you said, Oh, well, Brandy's not a brandy's the C. No, it's not the C, it's a real woman.
And I looked it up and I even sent it to you.
Do you now understand how wrong you are?
I do.
I do, yeah.
That's not very convincing.
I mean, I was totally wrong about this.
But I have to say, the way that you just performed it to me and that sort of like speak easy artist spoken word, you know.
I was very I mean, I think that's what really drove home the true meaning of the song to me.
So thank you, Sean Hannes.
So you like the song?
I do now.
I like it the way you do it, like in like a spoken word, let's sing the chorus over the verse.
Whatever made you think that that song with those very clear lyrics that even I can hear, and obviously I I don't have the best hearing, that if I can hear them and you hear them, whatever made you think that brandy was the C and that it wasn't a real woman.
Where did that come from?
I I think what it really was too many graduate degrees to think that way.
No, you know what?
My graduate degrees is actually the problem.
It it made me be too interpretive.
It made me think that I was allowed to have my own opinion when in fact I should have just been listening to the master of spoken word, Sean Hannity, and uh, and then it would have all been clear to me.
So, you know what?
My Christmas wish has been granted, Sean.
Okay, and then the second time around, you said, No, Brandy's really just you know the liquor brandy.
And I come from.
Well, I happen to think that if I was a sailor at sea, a woman can be very annoying, but a nice glass of brandy is always warm and friendly.
Let's be honest.
Why would you say that about your own sexuality?
Because I'm allowed.
That's why, you know, I'm not a big one.
Because you're allowed.
So you see so you just so you say it just because you're allowed.
I'm a well, I'm allowed, and it's true.
I mean, women are are annoying.
Men are annoying too, but I'm just saying, like you come home from a long time.
Thank you very much, because we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ who walked on this earth, died buried right exactly for our souls.
But my concern is the preemptive pardon.
For years and years and years and years and years, we have heard nobody is above the law.
So how is it now that selected people are being considered to be above the law?
Uh look, it is what it is.
Um, you know, we've gone into deep analysis on this, and I think that Greg Jarrett agrees with me that the power of the pardon is absolute, although it is untested the question of preemptive pardons.
I'm very convinced, he's pretty convinced also that if challenged, if it was ever brought to the Supreme Court, I think they would err on the side of no restrictions, because there are no stated restrictions in the Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, uh, regarding this issue.
And there's also a part of me that says, if that if that's how Joe wants to go out, let him go out that way.
And and that will give Donald Trump and Pam Bondy and Cash Patel time to focus on other stuff.
And and frankly, Congress, rather than you know, regurgitating and rehashing all the corrupt stuff that they did, but we do need to fix it.
Well, I and I agree with that.
It whether it happens or not, we're not gonna stop it.
I agree with that.
But why can't we as uh citizens call them out and explain it to me?
Why?
Why don't we anybody preemptive pardons?
Why can't we call them out?
They're not gonna answer, but why can't we call them out and tell them you are now above the law?
You are now above the law.
You are now above the law.
Because that's what we're doing.
Because these same people who yelled, nobody's above the law.
Now they're going to be above the law.
So let's call them out.
Kind of like the Scarlet Letter.
Let's hang in and sign a message.
You're above the law.
Let's do that.
I'll be honest.
It's just it it is now.
I don't want you to conflate me saying that it's likely constitutional with my endorsement of it.
Um, you know, and but I would like to see the power of the pardon transformed under Donald Trump.
I mean, he started this in his first term, but I I'd I'd love to find all those people like Alice Marie Johnson.
I'd love for her for I'd love for her to head up the whole, you know, pardon I don't know, maybe make a pardon czar.
And she would find people in prison that have changed their their lives dramatically and are leading exemplary lives and and maybe shorten their cr uh prison sentences and commute sentences for those people that are deserving, people that have been unfairly sentenced, uh people that are victims of disparate sentencing, you know, crack versus powder cocaine, for example.
I'd love I'd I'd love to see I'd love to see all that happen.
I think we can transform the power of the pardon.
I'd like to see the president pardon some somebody once a week, maybe more, more than one person once a week, but not your family members and not preemptive pardons of people that are afraid of Donald Trump because they did things they probably shouldn't have done, and we're gonna find out as soon as we get back in power.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate it, Harvey.
God bless you.
You have a great holiday.
Uh Zaben, the free state of Florida, sir.
How are you?
Welcome aboard.
My first full year in Florida.
Can you believe it?
That's wonderful, Sean, and thank you for taking my call.
I have a very interesting and uh I think plausible theory about Hunter Biden's pardon being up to December first, because I feel being a retired NYPD, my investigative experience, I feel that from November fifth, when Donald Trump won, Hunter Biden was in the mode of making deals for pardons for for money.
And this is only my opinion and and a theory, but if you look at all the pardons so far that Joe has done, all these people uh have made a lot of money.
And I would love Cash Patel when he gets in as the FBI director to put a microscope on this and maybe investigate, you know, the the wrongdoings of these pardons.
And uh I think it's it's extremely plausible and uh possible theory.
Listen, I i it is a very fine line in terms of you've got to follow the rule of law, but you don't want to do to them what they did to Donald Trump and others, and that is weaponize justice.
You know, I I know that Benning Thompson wants a pardon.
I know uh uh Bill Clinton mentioned that he'd like Hillary pardon.
Uh Hunter's already been pardoned.
I'm sure other Biden family members will be pardoned.
Anthony Fauci, I'm sure, is looking for a pardon.
Liz Cheney now has just been criminally referred.
I'm sure she would probably like a preemptive pardon.
It may happen with all of them.
We'll see.
Uh however, uh, I can tell you in the case of the January sixth issue, you know, the idea that laws were violated if Liz Cheney, if these communications that are being reported uh on signal with you know one of the witnesses in this case, when they and they purposely, you know, were encouraging this witness or or coaching this witness or communicating with this witness without contacting the lawyer, that is a violation of law.
And I think it should be it should be referred.
And if they have they have apparently messages that corroborate this.
And never mind the fact that they they selectively chose a lot of exculpatory information to withhold from The American people.
I mean, there are five people on record.
I have four of them on tapes, confirming in the days leading up to January 6th, the fifth, who in writing said the same thing and confirmed and corroborated it was General Milley.
And then Defense Secretary uh who was it, Miller at the time, and Cash Patel was in the room, and Mark Meadows was in the room, and Donald Trump himself, all confirmed.
He authorized the use of the guard.
Muriel Bowser in writing, refused to call up the National Guard.
Nancy Pelosi's now on tape saying and she's in charge of security at the Capitol that she didn't do enough.
But you know, the fact that the Capitol Police Chief Sund, you know, requested the guard, and nobody would pay attention to him.
And they never called in Muriel Bowser, and they never called in Pelosi, Schumer, the sergeant of arms, the Capitol Police Chief, because they had a narrative.
They showed a lot of videotap that day, but they didn't show Donald Trump saying many of you will peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol so your voices will be heard.
They lied about having operatives from the FBI, confidential sources on the ground.
They they lied repeatedly about that.
Now they've had to reveal it because they know it's likely going to be uncovered anyway.
And when Cash Patel gets in.
So it's it's, you know, what they did here, they tried to use lawfare to destroy Donald Trump so he could not be a candidate.
And thankfully, he prevailed.
And what he did for us in this, you know, he says he fights because uh I'm they're coming after me because they really want to come after you.
And in the end, this is what he was facing.
He was facing the White House or the big house.
No one's going to convince me that they wouldn't have put him in jail.
They would have put him in jail.
And I I can't even imagine the thought of it.
If you want to know why I had I I've covered a lot of presidential elections in my life.
I I've cared about all of them.
I was passionate about all of them.
But I've never cared this much or was as passionate or as as dedicated to getting this right as this one.
And I know I spent days and days on ends, you know, conveying as to the best of my ability as much urgency as I can and and getting out truth and information that the the corrupt legacy state run media mob would never give you.
I'm so proud of all of you in this audience that that stepped up and participated and voted and and volunteered and donated and did whatever you whatever you did, or if you were a poll watcher, thank you.
And, you know, as I head into my Christmas vacation, we're gonna hit the ground running really hard when I get back.
And I've got plans the first week back.
I'll give you a little hint.
I will be in Washington, D.C. Uh I have other big plans uh scheduled as well.
We'll be at the inauguration, and we have the first hundred days, and it is gonna be a world win, but it's gonna be an exciting time.
Anyway, my friend, I got a roll.
I appreciate your call.
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All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel, loaded up.
Senator Josh Hawley, Riley Gaines tonight, Stephen Miller, Ari Fleischer, Joe Concha, Steve Moore, Victor Davis Hansen, and Joe Paggs will join us.
We'll see you tonight.
I won't be back here unless there's an emergency.
I want to wish you, your families, uh the greatest holiday season, and God bless all of you, and thank you for all that you did this year and how you helped save the country.
And you're going to be needed when we get back to work in January.
Have a great, great, great, great time off.
Refresh, find God, you know, renew your spirit and all the blessings in the world to you and your family, and thank all of you for giving me this honor every day.