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	This is an iHeart podcast.
	All right, hour number three of the Sean Hannity Show, Joe Concha, Fox News contributor in for Sean 800-941, Sean S-E-A-N, if you want to be a part of the program.
	I've been promising to get you your calls all show.
	We've had so many great guests, it's been hard to make the pivot.
	Well, now we've opened up a nice 14-15 minutes right here to take your calls from all across the country.
	Obviously, we're on something like what, 700 radio stations.
	So filling the call board ain't hard.
	So let's go with, you know, I've never been, I'm going to go with states I've never been to before first, and that would be South Dakota.
	I've never been to, which is a crime because I heard it's gorgeous.
	So let's go to Dale in South Dakota.
	How are you, Dale?
	How's the weather there?
	It's cold, Joe.
	It's only 26 degrees, but it's going to be hitting below zero real quick.
	And it is beautiful here.
	I've heard, yeah.
	But why stay?
	I'm just curious.
	It is beautiful, yes, but those winners are brutal.
	Like, don't you want to just be like, all right, Florida and be done with it?
	When I get old enough, I'll be going to Arizona for the winter and up here in the summertime.
	That's the plan.
	That's a good plan.
	So what do you want to talk about?
	Well, so this is Jon Thune country.
	And just quickly, your subject you were talking about earlier.
	I thought it was the conservatives that carried the water in this last election.
	So I don't want the Republicans that are in the Uniparty to think that it was the Republicans that won the election because it was the conservatives that carried the election for the Republicans.
	Okay, just my opinion on that.
	But I think I'm really worried.
	Trump, really?
	Right.
	In other words, Sean McCormick, I think, wins in Pennsylvania, like that's Senator C. For example, without Trump.
	There were several races that he tipped the other way as a result of his coattails.
	But yeah, I don't think I don't, is there even like a base for established Republicans anymore?
	Because I don't think it really exists.
	Like, ooh, the Mitch McConnell wing of the party, there is no wing.
	It's a MAGA party now, let's face it.
	Well, I hope Jon Thune is listening to this because he's one of the guys that needs to realize that.
	Is he establishment, you think?
	Oh, yeah, he's a mini Mitch.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay.
	Election time.
	Unless it's election time.
	But I hope John pulls through.
	Okay, because I wonder, like politically, what's the upside if he wants to be another McConnell, right, and resist Trump on some things, given the mandate that he has.
	I just think you want political survival and even popularity.
	I would go along with the Trump agenda because that's what the American people voted for.
	Well, I still got faith in him, so I hope he does.
	One thing I'm concerned about, Joe, is I still think that the swamp, you know, they, whoever, who's they, those, whoever's been running the government for the last four years, I still think the only way that they can still win and they never quit is to take Trump out still.
	So I'm concerned for his safety.
	I still think, you know, they tried twice.
	I still think, you know, I'm just worried about them trying to take him out somehow.
	And I hope, you know, that the powers that be are really, really watching out for him because I wouldn't put it past them.
	You know, the, you know, and I know I'm using them and they, but we all know who they are.
	You know, I hope that Trump's being really careful and that they're looking out for him.
	I think, Dale, in your concerns, you know, warranted, obviously, there were two assassinations attempts on him in the span of less than two months.
	I mean, and the second one was particularly scary.
	I mean, the first one, obviously, because a bullet hit his ear, but the second one, I mean, for a sniper's nest for this guy, Ryan Ruth, to be sitting in it for 12 hours and the Secret Service doesn't do a simple perimeter check on a golf course that he's playing, that just floored me.
	All that said, Trump doesn't have to campaign anymore, so I'm not sure he'll be doing the kind of outdoor events that he did in Butler, Pennsylvania, middle of a field somewhere where a 20-year-old can outflank the Secret Service and local law enforcement and leave a rifle behind an air conditioner and somehow it doesn't get discovered.
	And then he's on top of a roof where actually there's law enforcement inside the building.
	Why they're in there while Trump's out there speaking, I have no idea or why they even sent Trump out there in the first place when they knew there was a threat.
	So yeah, your concerns are warranted.
	But now that he's president and he doesn't have to campaign as much, I would think that probably any events that he does will be extremely well protected.
	They'll probably be inside.
	And I was at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.
	I'm writing a book on the president and his campaign, and they were kind enough to invite me to the New Year's Eve party.
	And I could tell you that there were layers upon layers upon layers of security there where no one was going to get near Donald Trump.
	So I think, you know, now that he's president, certainly that gives him more protection, one would think.
	And now that he isn't campaigning, he won't be as exposed as often.
	So that said, I understand your concern, but I have a feeling that Donald Trump's going to be just fine.
	Well, I love the guy, and the next four years are just going to be incredible.
	And the effects that he'll have will follow way into, you know, maybe for the next 16 to 20 years, just like Ronald Reagan's did.
	And I witnessed that, and I just can't wait.
	All of a sudden, my grandkids and my kids, all of a sudden, the future looks much brighter for them.
	So thanks, Joe.
	Great, great show.
	Thank you.
	You got it, Dale.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, there's a lot of optimism going into this administration, and rightly so, right?
	Because I remember I was at the Trump Rally in Wildwood, and they were kind enough to actually fly me down there in the Trump plane, which was kind of cool because you're like, okay, what kind of food are we going to have here?
	Like lobster tails, going to have some steak, and it was Wendy's.
	It was cheeseburger and Tater Tots, fries, Coke.
	But it was quite good.
	Plus, Trump loves fast food.
	So, well, why was I expecting that other stuff?
	The point is that when I got down to Wildwood, then from there, he had this one line.
	So I'm taking notes throughout the speech.
	And they put me like right up front.
	I'm next to Lawrence Taylor and Otis Anderson, which I thought was beyond cool because one's a Super Bowl MVP and the other one's the greatest, you know, probably pass rusher, at least the greatest linebacker of all time.
	So you go to these things and you're next to people that you never thought you'd be next to.
	Anyway, the point is that I would be taking notes throughout the speech to see if he says something that I haven't heard before.
	And the one thing that really got me where I put a couple asterisks around it is he said, you know, this movement is more popular than ever.
	Not me so much, but this movement.
	He said, because in 2016, you had to imagine what a Hillary Clinton presidency would be like.
	And in 2020, you'd have to imagine what a Biden presidency would be like.
	He goes, now you've seen the alternative.
	You've lived the alternative.
	You've experienced it.
	You've witnessed it.
	It impacted you probably directly.
	And most people don't like the alternative.
	So that's why we're more powerful and popular than ever.
	I'm like, that's exactly right.
	Now that people have experienced what a Biden administration, what a Democratic administration, the modern-day Democratic Party, the party of coastal elites, the party of war, the party of censorship, now that we've seen them in power and what they're willing to do to keep power, they're not your daddy's donkeys, that's certainly for sure.
	And they're not the party of the working man and woman.
	So that's where we're at at this point.
	A lot of optimism going into this Trump administration because they lived his presidency.
	They're nostalgic for it.
	And this time around, it could be even better because Trump knows Washington.
	He knows the players that are around him, and he probably has a much better, I know he has a much better team around him this time around as far as his cabinet selections and a House speaker that is in line with him.
	And, you know, to our last caller's point, Dale's point, John Thune, is he another McConnell or will he be somebody who exceeds expectations and doesn't do the establishment thing?
	Because there is no more establishment base for the Republican Party.
	It's Donald Trump's party.
	It's a MAGA party.
	And you'd be wise to go along with it because that's what voters overwhelmingly wanted as far as this election was concerned.
	On November 5th, Donald Trump wins the popular vote, wins every swing state, Republican Senate back.
	I'm sorry, the Senate back in Republican hands, and obviously the House Republicans held, albeit by a very slim majority.
	Let's go to our next caller.
	It is another state that I have not been to, Mississippi.
	Armin, I got to get down there too.
	I see an old misgame.
	I think that's what I would do if I went down there, Armin.
	Hey, Joe.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	You got it.
	What does the Speaker of the House have to do with making the presidential election complete?
	Well, Mike Johnson has to survive for starters, right?
	He can't be voted out because if that happens, then if you don't have a House Speaker, then you can't certify.
	You can't put in the next Congress, basically.
	So everything will be on hold.
	Therefore, Trump's agenda will be on hold.
	So these folks out there that think that Mike Johnson's the problem, and I get it with this whole continuing resolution that just went through and he had to compromise with Democrats a little bit.
	Okay, get Trump into office, get the new Congress into office, and then you could start taking these completely and totally principled stands.
	But until you get Trump in, it's going to screw everything up if we go into the inauguration and we don't have a House speaker and we end up going through like we did with Kevin McCarthy, where they ousted McCarthy, but there was no plan after you got rid of him.
	And then remember all those different House Speaker candidates that we went through and they failed this vote and this vote and Democrats and the media are laughing about it and they finally settle on Johnson.
	Look, Johnson, this is the reality.
	He has the slimmest majority you could almost possibly have.
	And it's hard to hurt all those cats from all these different fractions.
	So factions, excuse me.
	So that's the thing.
	You replace Johnson.
	I don't think there's some magical speaker out there that suddenly can get the job done the way every Republican would like to have it done.
	So yeah, Armin, thanks for the call.
	I really appreciate it.
	But yeah, for starters, don't get rid of Mike Johnson because then you're going to have chaos going into election day.
	And oh, by the way, you know, not a Congress that could start working on the agenda for Donald Trump that he was mandated to work with on day one.
	Let's go to Georgia.
	I've definitely been to because I was in Atlanta for the debate on June 27th between Biden and Donald Trump, which basically ended Joe Biden's career.
	I was so impressed, Dan, with Atlanta.
	I think it's a clean city.
	There's not a lot of traffic.
	People are really nice.
	I love Atlanta.
	Well, I'm in southern Georgia.
	Okay.
	Oh, I love Savannah, too.
	I was there a couple of years ago.
	A lot of dive bars there, but that's kind of my thing.
	So, yeah, big, big fan of Savannah.
	Gotcha.
	Well, 25 years in law enforcement.
	And personally, though, I truly believe and think that the reason the Democrats didn't want President Trump back in there is one simple reason.
	He tried to run our government during the four years he was in there like a business, just like it should be run.
	Balance the books.
	And they didn't like it.
	And when people didn't do their job, he fired them.
	And the Democrats just like to rotate their constituents over to another job, give them more money because they screwed up and just keep it quiet.
	And I don't think that they were happy about that.
	That's my personal opinion.
	But the other situation is these two idiots with the situation in New Orleans and the situation in Las Vegas.
	Yeah, my biggest concern was the fact that, and the biggest problem you've got in our country today, I heard an FBI agent speak earlier on radio, on talk radio.
	And my biggest concern was the fact she was talking about that the FBI is more like 50-50 right now.
	It's not number one.
	It's you got the woke situation going on.
	You got people that don't want to do their job and they want to pass the buck and they want to, you know, they've been promoted because of, dude, they were, you know, kissing and not doing their job.
	Yeah.
	And the thing that I found during my years in law enforcement, local law enforcement, is that everybody wants the collar.
	So nobody wants to talk.
	Nobody wants to share information.
	We need to get an information sharing system that's secure in this nation so that law enforcement throughout the nation can properly talk and properly transmit and share information.
	Because if they had, if they had information on these guys, which I think is going to come out, these guys were on somebody's radar.
	Somebody knew kind of what was going on, kind of like with the 93 situation when the ISIS parked their vans underneath the World Trade Center and tried to the information that was in the net before the 19 ISIS took over the planes and flew them into the towers.
	America needs to wake up because we're acting like a bunch of sheep.
	If you look at Israel, Israel's fighting for their lives each and every day.
	And from what I understand, if you get on a plane overseas going into Israel, et al., you wind up with Israeli special forces on board with a machine gun.
	I got no problem with that.
	Nor do I.
	They keep that country safe.
	October 7th aside, of course, but for the most part, yeah, I'm with you, Dan.
	I'm sorry, we're up against the break, so I did have to let you go.
	But all great points, and you're exactly right about that.
	We're going to get some more calls on the other side of the break.
	Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity.
	Back with more in just a moment.
	Welcome back, everybody.
	Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity.
	I want to get to Allie in Louisiana real quick, Allie, because you've been on hold for some time.
	They have a running clock here that tells me how long you've been on hold.
	So I appreciate that.
	You got 30 seconds, Allie.
	Happy New Year, by the way.
	Floor's yours.
	Hey, happy new year.
	You kind of discussed it, but I'm very concerned about the Mike Johnson vote.
	I think he's great.
	He represents my area.
	If anyone's listening, if you'll email, call your congressperson and tell them this isn't the time.
	As Joe said, this isn't the time we need to certify this election and we need to ensure that Hakeem Jeffries doesn't come near being the speaker.
	Allie, perfectly said.
	And you're exactly right about that because, again, you replace Mike Johnson and the next speaker that comes in, guess what?
	With this majority, is going to have the same exact problems.
	Mike Johnson should be speaking to Jon Thune.
	Thune should be speaking with Trump and JD Vance and figure out a plan in terms of what you can get past and heard those cats where you could bring forth the agenda that the American people voted for.
	It's that simple, Allie.
	I really appreciate your call.
	Have a great 2025.
	And we're going to be getting to a break real soon, everybody.
	But coming up, when we come back, another great guest.
	I mean, there's been some great guests here.
	I mean, for a holiday, basically, because it seems like a lot of people are off.
	You know, hard to get the good guests, but we have one coming up.
	And in fact, I'm going to tease this and not tell you who it is.
	Just stick around.
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	Joe Concha in for the Hen Man.
	I hadn't heard that particular nickname before.
	Of course, I'm a Fox News contributor, and, well, there was no vacation for me during Christmas.
	We'll put it that way.
	And obviously, that's a labor of love.
	So we're happy to be here on this important day, quite frankly, on a day where we're met once again.
	It's New Year's Day, early morning hours, and you see these reports of a terror attack on U.S. soil, New Orleans, and then later in Las Vegas.
	The year is already off to a chaotic start.
	And who better to bring in to break all this down?
	But Brianna Lyman.
	She is of the Federalists.
	And Brianna, great to talk to you.
	I don't think we've ever met before.
	So good to meet you, albeit by distance.
	And thanks for joining us.
	Thanks so much for having me.
	Of course.
	So let's start with New Orleans first.
	As far as what we know, these sort of terror attacks are very difficult to prevent, right?
	Because we saw it in Nice, I want to say it was in 2016, where a truck, I've been to Nice before, and it's a very pedestrian-friendly type of place.
	You don't want to be in a car.
	It's just a beautiful city to walk around.
	And there we saw somebody, a member of ISIS, drive a truck through a crowd, killing dozens.
	Now we saw it here with New Orleans with 15 dead, many people injured.
	How do we prevent these sort of things from happening?
	Because it seems if somebody wants to take their own life and just mow down some people, it's a soft target type of situation where it could be carried out and they're very difficult to prevent.
	Well, I would say that this particular instance wasn't that difficult to prevent because the suspect, I'm probably mispronouncing this, but Shamsa Din Jabbar, he has been posting on social media for quite a while about his affiliations with radical Islamist terrorists.
	And unfortunately, our FBI was too busy going after grandmothers and parents at school board meetings and Catholics to pick up on legitimate terrorist threats that were being posted for all to see.
	It just turns out the FBI didn't see it.
	So one of the ways that you could fix the system we have now and prevent it going forward is first and foremost, quickly confirming Cash Catel to take over the FBI.
	And second, reconfiguring the priorities of the FBI so that instead of targeting the people I just mentioned and the other hordes of innocent Americans being unfairly targeted, you actually refocus to target legitimate potential terrorist threats.
	Because had they done their job, they may have caught this suspected terrorist.
	That's a great point, Brianna.
	We're talking to Brianna Lyman of the Federalist, that yes, there were many red flags here as far as social media posts, but there's so many social media posts out there, millions upon millions.
	I wonder that, yes, the FBI should be doing their job, but should these social media companies also, when they see this sort of rhetoric and their algorithms can probably alert people to that internally pretty quickly, is it incumbent upon them to, if you see something, say something?
	Yeah, it's incumbent upon any user.
	You know, if I, God forbid, saw some kind of post like that, you know, I would definitely alert someone to it.
	But I think that there is a social acceptability to allow this type of speech and discourse to just kind of permeate freely on the airwave.
	And people may not see it.
	They may tend to think twice, oh, well, this is just somebody.
	Nobody would actually post this on their social media if they planned on doing it.
	And last but not least, again, it's incumbent upon our elected officials to hold these agencies like the FBI, DHS accountable.
	If their job is to protect the homeland, they have to actually do things to protect the homeland.
	They love scouring people's social media to find right-wing people and conservatives and even moderates.
	But they, for some reason, have a problem.
	They stop short when it comes to people posting about radical Islamic terrorism.
	And it certainly has been weaponized at this point.
	There's no question about it.
	And we're talking to Breonna Lyman of the Federalist.
	Let's move to Las Vegas.
	We saw a Tesla blow up in front of a Trump property.
	One person, the person inside of it, was killed, but many people were injured outside of it, several.
	So in this case, I'm seeing posts online, for example, from those on the left that are almost celebrating this on some level.
	Iran Filipowski, I don't know if you saw that particular social media post as far as when he was basically said, well, this is like a metaphor for the year 2024.
	And it shows a burning Tesla in front of a Trump property with the Trump sign out front.
	I'm just thinking to myself, wow, is this like a Luigi Mangione situation all over again where, you know, again, people are hurt.
	People are scared.
	They're seeing cars blow up in the middle of cities.
	And we're celebrating this.
	I just don't know if you saw that post, but it's just sickening some of the reaction you see these days.
	Yeah, I saw that too.
	It's really indicative of the moral rot of the left because it's not just this incident we saw yesterday, I should say this attack we saw yesterday, or the Luigi Mangione.
	You go back to Donald Trump nearly being assassinated twice.
	The left has gotten to a point where they have been successful in either delegitimizing, downplaying, or desensitizing Americans to any type of violence, including political-based violence, which are what those three examples all are.
	And by doing that, it allows people like Ron to feel comfortable enough to make that social media post and not expect much backlash publicly.
	And that's a shame that, one, that's where the left has moved.
	And two, that as a culture as a whole, people just say, ah, he's an idiot.
	I'm going to keep ignoring this post.
	Just amazing.
	After what we saw with the United Healthcare CEO just a couple of blocks from where we are at the Sean Hannity show in New York, as far as iHeartMedia, this is two blocks south of where we were.
	And the fact that a man gets shot in the back cowardly by this Luigi Mangione, then afterwards, obviously kills him.
	The fact that people responded the way they did in terms of looking at the shooter and then deciding that, boy, he's a good-looking guy.
	And here light night comedy, SNL, Jimmy Kimmel, like doing jokes on this stuff.
	I just can't believe where we are as a society where a father of two and a husband gets gunned down in the middle of the street.
	And again, we're having a debate over whether the shooter should be on a magazine cover, Brianna.
	Yeah, and that's part of the left's efforts to try and justify certain types of political violence.
	So after the second-year assassination attempt of Donald Trump, you had people like Nora O'Donnell and other left-wing agitators saying, yes, Donald Trump was almost the victim of a second assassination attempt, but his rhetoric.
	And it's the same thing for Luigi Mangion.
	Yes, he killed a father of two in cold blood, but he was upset.
	There's always some level of justification.
	And in the Luigi Mangion case in particular, this is part of the left's effort to kind of instigate that class war, right?
	Even though Luigi Mangioni comes from a very wealthy family, a lot of people who are cheering him on are younger folks who see big corporations and people who make a lot of money as the evil that they have to go after.
	And so he became almost like a symbol for that movement.
	And that's a symbol of the class war that the left constantly tries to shove down our throats the same way they did it with the race war.
	Now it's a class war.
	And we're talking to Brianna Lyman.
	She is of the Federalists.
	So as far as 2025 is concerned, a lot of optimism going into this year, Brianna, that the Trump administration that's coming in.
	You mentioned Kash Patel, who was obviously Donald Trump's nominee for running the FBI and joining his cabinet, Pete Hegsgeth over at Department of Defense.
	And we just could go down the line as far as a coalition that you would not expect if I told you four years ago would be part of Donald Trump's cabinet, like Tulsi Gabbard, who ran for the Democratic nomination in 2020 and actually received more delegates than Kamala Harris.
	I mean, that's quite the trivia question than Bobby Kennedy Jr., obviously, as far as running health care in this country, in essence, helping us get more healthy from a nutritional perspective, especially when it comes to children.
	And I could go down the line as far as some of the nominees that Trump has put forward is bold because it seems to be an overwhelming kind of premise, which is that he wants to remake government in a way where we basically purge the deep state once and for all.
	In 2016, he didn't know the players that were involved, nor some of the people on his own team because he never worked in Washington before in terms of who to trust.
	This seems to be a cabinet that's built on loyalty, trust, and rooting out the causes of government waste and government corruption.
	Yeah, he's remaking the administration and other bureaucratic agencies in the image of the American people, right?
	You know, Pete Hegseth is someone who served our military.
	He's not a career, you know, military-industrial conflicts kind of guy.
	Same for so many of the others.
	And I think what people forget is when this country was founded, I mean, we were pulling lawyers.
	You know, we were pulling just writers, thinkers.
	You know, these people didn't have lengthy experience in government.
	Some of them were literally just your local farmers who were engaged at certain levels.
	So that's how every administration should go forward.
	And I'm happy you brought Pete Hegseth up.
	We have heard for weeks now that he is a threat to our Department of Defense because he's a Christian.
	How dare he?
	If it goes to show you that Pete Hegseth probably would have a better grip on rooting out potential radicalization going on in our military because two of the suspects in the terrorist attacks we saw were allegedly going at, what was that, Fort Hood or Fort Bragg, I'm sorry.
	And they were, you know, both serving.
	What's going on in our military, right?
	Lloyd Austin was too concerned about white nationalism that they found doesn't exist and missed key markers for clear other radicalization happening within our ranks.
	So I'm hoping Pete Hegseth also has a quick confirmation to root out what's going on in our military.
	And I worked with Pete Hegseth for many years, appeared on his show, Fox and Friends Weekend, on a regular basis.
	These allegations, as far as, and they're based on anonymous sources.
	Gee, aren't they all suddenly coming out of the woodwork?
	There isn't one person that is on the record that has not supported Pete as far as the way he has conducted himself over the years on that show.
	And for actual people who call themselves reporters to say that, well, they have anonymous sources telling them that Pete would come in before shows, a four-hour morning show, mind you, which is really hard to do with alcohol on his breath.
	I'm sorry, no one ever called me.
	No one ever called Will Kane.
	No one ever called Rachel Campos Duffy, who are his two co-hosts for many years.
	And he's had co-hosts that have since left the network that I'm sure would be happy to talk.
	And yet they can't find one person to go on the record to confirm any of this stuff.
	They're just going after him from a personal perspective.
	My question, Brianna, will he get confirmed despite all this noise?
	And is that all it is, noise?
	Absolutely.
	I think, in fact, given what's happened over the past 48 hours, he has more of a chance of being confirmed because Americans are desperate for relief right now.
	No one feels safe in this country.
	We have a president who was MIA yesterday for hours.
	No one knows who's taking charge.
	And so quickly confirming Donald Trump's cabinet members and other nominees is going to help settle America.
	It's going to help reinforce that we are a safe country.
	Our government-elected officials will take care of us.
	And I can't see how you would fight Pete Hegsteth when clearly people like Lloyd Austin have done such a terrible job that we have people being radicalized in our military and committing terrorist attacks under their leadership.
	Brianna, I believe it was two years ago where we didn't know where Lloyd Austin, the current Secretary of Defense, was.
	He went in for, I guess, to get some sort of scope on a colon.
	And before you know it, he didn't react to that particular procedure well.
	And then for one week, no one, including the President of the United States, knew where Lloyd Austin was, nor did Austin bother to tell anybody before he went under this procedure where something could happen like this that this would be happening.
	So for basically a week, because Austin's backup was on vacation in Puerto Rico, we didn't have a Secretary of Defense or anybody minding the store.
	So yeah, for people to go off on Pete Hegsteth as far as, well, you know, is he qualified?
	Well, I'm pretty sure after watching Lloyd Austin that he is immensely qualified.
	And by the way, 20 years military experience, two bronze stars.
	As far as Pete, you think he's going to get confirmed.
	Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy Jr., are they at risk?
	And Kash Patel for that matter, of those three, who is the most at risk?
	Or do you think all three get in?
	I think all three get in.
	I do think that there will be a very heavily waged media smear campaign against them.
	We're going to see that ramp up, obviously, in the next few weeks.
	But people have to remember that the American people tuned out of mainstream media.
	Actually, I shouldn't say mainstream media.
	I should say the propaganda press because Fox News, Newsmax, those aren't mainstream media like the way the left is.
	People tuned out.
	They didn't want to hear their opinions and the agendas.
	And the only people waging these wars against Tulsi and Pete and the whole nine are the same people that Americans said, shut up and sit down.
	We don't care what you have to say.
	And so it's up for members of Congress to act appropriately, to ignore the noise, and to go forward.
	I think John Fetterman is someone who's actually been pretty clear that he's going to ignore the noise from the left and vote on credentials and what have you, and at least listen to the nominees.
	And we're talking to Breonna Lyman of the Federalist.
	Donald Trump will be the 47th president in a matter of, let's see, 18 days, and it couldn't come quickly enough.
	As far as if you were Donald Trump first day, what would be your first three top priorities?
	I mean, there's so much to get to, I'm sure.
	But if you had to choose three, if you had to sign executive orders around them, what would they be, Brianna?
	I would think it's going to be immigration focused entirely.
	Obviously, working to close the southern border.
	Second of all, I would probably go to places like New York City, Eric Adams, and say, we need to sit down by the end of this week and figure out what's going on, especially in these migrant hotels where we see plenty of young migrants coming out and stealing from people, attacking them, what have you.
	And the last thing I would do is maybe this isn't immigration related, but just crime nationwide.
	There needs to be a new tone set.
	We see people being burned on the subways alive.
	That is unacceptable.
	And if you would have told someone 20 years ago this would happen, they would have looked at you like you had two heads on it, right?
	Because most Americans understood at a point in time this was abnormal behavior to have normalized.
	So it's about Donald Trump setting the tone and normalizing normal behavior and rejecting abnormal behavior.
	Isn't that ironic, Brianna, that Donald Trump, JD Vance were called the weird candidates by people like Goofy Tim Walz.
	And it turns out that Normalcy actually won the day on November 5th.
	But unfortunately, we have to go right now, Brianna, but I, again, wish you a happy new year, a great 2025, and we'll talk to you again soon.
	Thanks so much, Joe.
	Happy New Year.
	Happy New Year, Brianna Lehman of the Federalists.
	This is Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, back with more in just a moment.
	Well, that'll do it.
	That was a fast three hours.
	Thank you so much for tuning in to the Sean Hannity Show.
	Thanks so much to our guests as well: Breonna Lyman of the Federalists, Jeff Flord of the American Spectator, Jimmy Fala of Fox Across America, Fox News, my old friend, and of course, John McLaughlin, who is the best pollster in the business.
	Tune in tomorrow, Friday.
	We'll be back once again.

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