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Jan. 7, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Hannity Looks Ahead - January 6th, Hour 1
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And I couldn't imagine coming back if Kamala Harris from a long vacation and Kamala Harris had won the election.
But some things haven't changed.
I noticed that Joe Biden forgot the words while singing happy birthday to a White House guest.
And Kamala Harris botched the Pledge of Allegiance.
You can't make any of this up, but it's all true.
And Joe Biden cursing out reporters, one of the truest signs of somebody in cognitive decline, quick to anger.
I know more world leaders than you've met in your whole GD life.
I'm like, oof.
He's a threat to Democrats.
I think what he did was a genuine threat to Democrats.
My being the oldest president, I know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in your home.
Ouch.
And of course, Joe sabotaging Donald Trump.
We're going to go through this in great specificity and detail.
I love Trump's ideas as it relates to Greenland.
And we see little Justin out of Canada.
Maybe it would be a 51st state.
Maybe worth thinking about.
The Panama Canal, when you look at the history of it, Jimmy Carter, God rest his soul.
Sorry to his family, our deepest sympathies on his passing.
He was a great post-president.
He was a horrible president, but he did so much good work with Habitat for Humanity and things like that.
But the deal that was ratified then by the Senate in 1978, in terms of handing over control when it was American ingenuity and American engineers that built the Panama Canal, and we've paid millions of dollars to maintain it is insane.
We've got all this sabotage happening.
My biggest worry and concern is terrorists.
And, you know, an FBI has been focused on all the wrong things, weaponization against Trump and moms and dads at school board meetings and peaceful pro-life protesters is now America's chickens are coming home to roost and it's probably only going to get worse as time goes on.
Oh, they did finally, the National Archives did release pictures and photos of Joe Biden hobnobbing with Hunter's Chinese communist business partners a little late.
They may have wanted to release that before the election, but they released these photos showing, again, the Biden family syndicate proving the president flat out lied about not interacting with his family's photos.
These photos released long after their potential political legitimacy and relevancy days before Biden retires.
I don't know.
Let's see what these last minute preemptive pardons are about.
I know a lot of you are angry, rightly so, about these medals given out to Soros and Cheney and Hillary Clinton and others.
It's not where I want to start today.
I don't know what it is, but there's something about a long vacation.
You get out of your day-to-day grind and you begin to slow down and you begin to get objectivity and it gives you perspective.
I end up, you know, you get centered.
I get focused.
I get more prayerful.
I just believe and you re-evaluate what is important in your life, God, family, country.
And that objectivity is hard to maintain in anybody's day-to-day grind.
All of us work hard.
I don't know anybody that works an eight-hour day.
Everybody I know is working really hard.
If you have kids, you're working even twice as hard because you still got to get up early, get your kids out to school, help them study, prepare a meal, get them to bed.
I mean, it's hard.
Life is, everyone has a grind in their life.
I don't know anybody that grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth.
So everybody I know in my life works really hard.
And then I begin to get my thoughts together about the year ahead and what it means.
And by the time my vacation comes to an end, I'm chomping at the vet to get back here.
And my staff will tell you that they know that to be a fact.
They're wondering at some point if I'm going to call and say, I'm coming back sooner than I said I would, but I didn't this year.
But if we go back one year ago, my first show back on the year for the year of 2024, after vacation, I did predict exactly how 2024 would unfold.
In terms of the election, I didn't make the prediction of how it would end because that power did not lie with me.
That was in the hands of all of you and the country.
And thank God you brought this country back from an inflection point.
I'm not sure if we ever would have recovered if Kamala Harris had won this election.
Nobody knew what the ultimate outcome would be when we started one year ago.
You know, what was certain was that this election mattered.
What was certain is that Kamala Harris would have been a disaster.
They would have viewed this year and that election and that result as a mandate for open borders.
That would mean more terrorists, more murderers, more criminals, cartel, gang members entering our country unvetted.
That would be more defund dismantle, no bail laws.
That would mean higher taxes for every American.
That would mean higher energy prices in perpetuity.
That would mean government mandates on your cars, your stoves, your washers, your dryers, your air conditioners.
That would mean woke education would be the future, not the fundamentals, reading, writing, math, science, history, et cetera.
It would mean, yeah, taxpayer-funded sex change operations and free college for illegals.
And gender-affirming care without parental consent would be a big narrative in a Harris administration.
Thank God that didn't happen.
And weakness on the world stage, it is unimaginable to think about to me, especially in light of the threat where America, frankly, has a lot of work to do in terms of its military.
And I'll get into some detail about that in a second.
So it was the biggest choice election.
And legacy media, in spite of nine years of smears and slander, they died.
They did everything they could do to put cinder blocks on the scales of this election.
And I start out with a thank you because this would be a very different year had you not engaged.
With that said, I'm telling all of you right now, you're going to have to stay engaged.
This is not, oh, I voted for Trump.
I did my part.
I'm done.
Because they have a very slim majority.
We saw this unfold last week with the vote for Speaker.
And Donald Trump supported Mike Johnson.
Okay, Mike Johnson says he's going to support the president's agenda.
I'm not sure where that 1,500-page bill came from.
We discussed that before I went on vacation.
But America now has an opportunity to return to constitutional order.
We really have, and this is something that it's like no other time in our life, my lifetime that I can think about.
And I predicted last year, I said, let me tell you how this campaign is going to play out.
They are going to run on Republicans who are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic.
They want dirty air and water, and they want to throw grandma and grandpa off a cliff.
They did exactly that.
I said they would run on Donald Trump as evil.
He's the devil.
He's evil.
He's more evil.
He's horrible.
They would run on January 6th.
They're still talking about it today.
Never ends.
They lied about the economy.
They lied about borders.
They lied about Joe's cognitive state.
I told you they would do all the above, and legacy media has now paid the ultimate price.
I don't think they can recover because they're never going to face the real truth about why it is that people didn't listen to their narrative and their lies and their smears about Donald Trump.
And they never told the truth about any of the things that were being done to Donald Trump.
They never told the valuation of Mar-a-Lago.
How can you avoid that?
They never told the truth about the 51 former Intel officials.
They never told the truth about FISA abuse.
They never told the truth or explained in detail the double standard unequal justice under the law, unequal application of our laws when it came to top secret classified information.
They just cared about helping Democrats, regardless of what the issue was.
And that's why the Media Research Center had, you know, Kamala in the high 90s in terms of positive coverage and Donald Trump at 90% negative coverage.
They did everything they can do.
And what they lost in the process is their credibility.
But this is like an opportunity, and this is what I've concluded that we may only get once every 100, 150 years in this country.
This to me is the greatest opportunity to return to the original vision, purpose, constitutional order that our framers and our founders wanted to return to a republic, government by of and for the people, not just words, limited government.
We say it all the time.
Do we really want limited government?
Because you're going to get an opportunity to have limited government and greater freedom.
Donald Trump needed your help in 24.
He will need your help to achieve what is a very ambitious agenda, especially with a slim majority in Congress.
You have 435 members, 100 senators.
They all have their own agenda.
You know, MAGA has their own infighting going on.
I was paying attention to over the holidays.
You know, Reagan said, if you're 80%, if we're an 80% in an agreement, you're not my enemy.
You're my friend.
And Republicans must understand with their slim majority, Donald Trump won this election.
They didn't win.
A lot of them got carried over the finish line because of Donald Trump.
And that's the agenda that the American people en masse voted for.
That's the mandate that they wanted.
It was an 80% prediction that Democrats would retake control of Congress.
And I see these intramural battles brewing, you know, conflict over Elon Musk.
Elon Musk helped Donald Trump win.
He's not America's enemy here.
And I know there'll be differences, but at the end of the day, I would say that it's going to be the president that lays out what the agenda is that's going to be the winning agenda for the country.
You know, some people, you know, have an issue with H1B1 visas.
Some want zero legal immigration.
I'm not in that camp.
I'm in the camp that if we vet, well, first we need to prioritize.
First, you need to secure the border.
That's the first priority.
Priority two is get rid of the terrorists, the murderers, the rapists, the cartel members, the gang members.
That's priority two.
Priority three, if you're going to have a legal immigration system, you can be very selective.
And I want the best, brightest, smartest people that apply, that are fully vetted, that we'd even consider letting into the country.
In other words, the best, the brightest engineers, doctors, business people, business minds, people that will invest hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in our country.
And that will help American workers.
That will help us develop the next generation of warfare.
We're falling behind China.
We're falling behind Russia.
And it's not just hypersonic missile technology that we don't have that they have.
And we better catch up soon.
And we better prepare for the next generation of warfare, which is not going to be fought on a battlefield, but in air-conditioned offices.
You know, I've even heard some Trump supporters say they want to soak the rich.
You sound like Bernie Sanders.
You want to soak the rich.
When I didn't have any money and I was a contractor, I never got hired by a poor person.
In my 10 years in the restaurant business, I never got a tip from a poor person.
No, I want a thriving economy where Americans have high-paying career jobs.
And you got to focus on the basics.
Secure the border, remove illegal immigrant criminals first, and those that didn't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty.
Get the economy moving again.
Make the tax cuts permanent.
No tax on tips.
No tax on overtime or Social Security.
The president has said and he needs to immediately open up American energy dominance in spite of Joe Biden's sabotage today, give long-term leases to energy companies that can't be canceled so that they can quickly tap into America's greatest wealth producing potential.
We'll be an energy-rich country, restore law and order, fix America's military, which is falling behind technologically, you know, clean up the deep state, make Doge real, get rid of $2 trillion in spending, and then we've got a lot of other issues to tackle.
This is not going to be an easy lift.
And at times we will come to you with a phone number to call your congressman or woman and your senators because Donald Trump will need your help if you want to really make this a transformational presidency, which it has all the potential to be.
That's my hope for the new year.
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By the way, as it relates to the Panama Canal, it was American ingenuity that made this happen.
American engineers, American planners, they did have laborers from other countries, but America basically, it doesn't exist but for American ingenuity.
And anyway, they opened up in 1914 to traffic.
U.S. begins administering the Panama Canal zone, encompassing the entire canal, 10 miles on either side, part of the U.S., run by a governor appointed by the president.
U.S. troops were stationed there to secure the canal that wouldn't exist but for us.
And John McCain, by the way, he was born there.
Well, his father is one of them.
He was a U.S. citizen.
He could run for president, naturalized citizen, because he was born on what was then U.S. soil.
I don't know why.
And God rest Jimmy Carter's soul.
Wish the best and all our sympathies to his family.
He was a great post-president.
Did a lot of great work.
Habitat for humanity.
His policies were god-awful.
And I say that with all due respect.
I think he was a nice man, but he's just naive.
But the work that he did in his post-presidency was beyond admirable.
He's pretty amazing, actually.
Anyway, so he negotiates this treaty with the president of Panama to return the canal to Panama over the course of 20 years.
For some idiotic reason, Democratic Senate ratifies that treaty with a bare two-third majority vote, 6832.
In 1979, that treaty took effect.
Now, we did have the invasion of Panama under George Herbert Walker Bush.
This is back in, what, 8990, and Manuel Noriega was taken out.
And anyway, in January of 2000, the treaty was no longer in effect.
The canal belonged to Panama.
There's a lot of people that believe we sold it to them for a dollar.
That's not what happened.
There's not a provision that the canal can be returned to the U.S.
However, we do give Panama $74 million in foreign aid.
That's what we gave them in fiscal year 2023.
That's a lot of money.
So Donald Trump sees the communist Chinese exerting their influence over the canal.
Rightly is saying, wait a minute, we built it.
We're helping to maintain it.
You want money from us to maintain it.
And if that's the case, we should be in charge of it.
And I tend to agree with him.
Probably one of the dumbest deals ever.
It's interesting to see the prime minister of Greenland now saying that he wants the people of Greenland, the population of about 58,000 people, that's it, you know, have a vote on what their future is going to be and their independence.
Right now, it's autonomous in terms of its ruling.
They have their own parliament, but they're part of Denmark and about the size, you know, the population size is tiny.
If you look at the world fact, it says the island is dependent on Danish financial support even for whaling and sealing industries, big part of how they make their money.
The U.S. does not give any foreign aid to Denmark, but Denmark is one of the 12 founding members of NATO, so technically one of our strongest allies.
Now, on the Canada question, with little Justin now out the door, we import $53 billion more in goods and services from Canada every year than we export to them.
That's a trade deficit.
And Canada charges tariffs on imports of U.S. dairy and poultry products.
That hurts people in Wisconsin.
That hurts farmers in this country.
And anyway, Canadian regulations also prevent some U.S. seeds from being imported, which I don't think should happen.
And Canada has not secured their border with the U.S.
And we've seen a lot of illegal immigration coming across the northern border.
And anyway, if you look at the actual numbers, the Board of Patrol chief in one sector said that agents apprehended nearly 20,000 illegal immigrants from 97 different countries in fiscal year 2024.
Now, that is higher than the prior 17 years combined, unheard of for the northern border.
And we give them millions of dollars in foreign assistance.
And frankly, we're going to be honest about it.
We are a big part of their national security strategies.
Without us, they'd be in a lot of trouble.
Let me move on to some big issue that is really beginning to bother me, and that is Joe Biden sabotage.
And it's getting worse by the day.
And, you know, besides the fact that he can't sing happy birthday and Kamala can't sing, he can't say the Pledge of Allegiance, but they are now trashing, purposefully trashing the country on the way out the door.
They're going, you know, guns blazing, full fury, full anger, full resentment.
The American people be damned along the way.
And if you look at the laundry list of Biden or whoever's actually making the decisions, nobody really knows, that he has rammed through in his final days here with more bans on drilling for oil and gas in vast areas ahead of Donald Trump's team.
They know Donald Trump ran on Drill Baby Drill.
They know he ran on a platform of energy dominance.
This is just designed to sabotage Donald Trump.
Now, if it takes, you know, a court battle that is protracted to unleash America's biggest wealth potential, which is energy, which the American people voted for, then it's going to be the American people that suffer.
And they've been petty, and they've done this on a whole bunch of other issues as well.
You know, more bans on drilling for oil and gas, even move to squeeze natural gas exports.
You know, that is the administration agreed to yet another inane, insane Paris Accord climate goal to drive down U.S. emissions by close to 70% by 2035.
Remember, in those Paris Accords, China and India are classified as developing nations.
How stupid a deal is that?
They're not developing nations.
That is just for the U.S. to foot the bill for this climate alarmist insanity.
The White House loosened visa requirements for foreign workers while inking a labor deal with a federal union that's allowing 40,000 Social Security Administration employees to work from home.
I'm sorry, that's not the plan of Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk.
And don't forget the $4.28 billion in student loan debt relief that Biden okayed just before Christmas.
The president, what, for the affluent, for the people that go to Havid and Princeton and Yale and graduate school and law school and medical school.
They have another drive from the White House to throw all of the billions from the CHIPS Act and other boondoggles out the door and windows while they can, you know, or the veto of the bipartisan bill to expand the federal judiciary.
And, you know, it just goes on and on and on.
Biden is, you know, now will it be harder for Donald Trump to implement his agenda?
Yeah, of course.
Why was Biden selling off in the final hours of his administration?
Why is he selling off parts of the border wall that we paid for, that you paid for, that we know that Donald Trump would use on day one for pennies on the dollar?
Is it really hurting Donald Trump?
Is it sabotaging Donald Trump?
In a way, it is, but who is it really hurting?
It's hurting the American taxpayers because Donald Trump's going to buy new wall, and he would be able to use that material that we had already paid for as part of his promise that he will fulfill to build the wall.
Offering commutations, including multiple child murderers and mass murderers, it's insane.
Later on, we have Nancy Mace on the program.
I mean, it's hard to understand this insanity, but there are 158 Democrats that voted against deporting illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes.
This is insane.
That was introduced late last week, and Democrats voted against it.
Then we have the Biden administration did little to act on the intelligence about the Iranians receiving illicit oil cash.
The Free Beacon reported that they identified Iraq as central to the Iranian oil and fuel smuggling operation that expanded in 2022.
Iran generates a billion dollars a year from this smuggling scheme annually, and that's money that is directly funding the number one state sponsor of terror.
They were given a briefing on this just months after the terror attack backed by Iran by Hamas that they fund on October the 7th in their attack, their proxy, one of their proxy wars against Israel.
That's all going to come to an end.
Biden approving California's plan to ban the sale of gas-only vehicles.
Okay.
Why is he doing that?
Because he knows things are going to change.
I'm not against hybrid vehicles.
I'm not against electric vehicles.
I'm pro all of the above.
But these last actions that they're taking is just to try and sabotage Trump.
They've been trying to fill all these judgeships.
They've been trying to fill any vacant jobs at the DOJ to kind of Trump-proof the DOJ, their words, not mine.
They put a hot water heater ban.
What's that going to do?
Biden administration now, their move in these final days, you know, to take non-condensing natural gas-fired water heaters off the shelves by 2029, quote, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
How about all of them pledge to never get in their private jets again?
Because there's more greenhouse gas emissions from one flight than anybody's going to have in any 10-year period with their hot water heater, probably in a lifetime for crying out loud.
New rules require that new tankless gas water heaters to use about 13% less energy than today's less efficient, tankless models.
Well, who's going to pay the price for this?
Well, who's going to be impacted the most by this?
Probably the poor, the middle class, working Americans?
Going to drive up their costs.
Seniors, they're going to get hit with all this.
His onslaught of regulation that they're shoving down our throat is just one example.
Sabotaging Trump by banning all future oil gas drilling.
Okay, what?
What day is today?
Today is the sixth.
In two weeks, Donald Trump is the president.
And it's just done out of spite.
I don't have a problem.
Jimmy Carter was a former president.
Jimmy Carter deserves all the honors that every former president would get.
And he's receiving all of that, including lowering the U.S. flag, half-staff in Washington Starting on January 2nd is when it started.
But then not putting it up on Inauguration Day?
Jimmy Carter is going to be long buried by that point.
They're honoring him this week as they appropriately should.
He was duly elected U.S. president.
He died.
He was 100 years old from Plains, Georgia.
According to the U.S. flag code, the death of a sitting or former president observed by flying the American flag at half-staff for 30 days from the date of death on all public buildings, grounds, etc., etc.
I'm not sure you do that on the day of inauguration.
It seems, well, we'll see what happens.
Donald Trump can get in and fix that.
Things are so bad.
I mean, I was reading this over the holiday, and I'm thinking, coffee prices are expected to hit $12 a cup.
$12 a cup this coming year.
It was an article in the Telegraph why the American dream of owning property is dying.
Remember, I highlighted last year the Washington Post saying, well, maybe instead of getting a house with a backyard and a pool or whatever you want back there, yeah, maybe you should settle for a townhouse.
This is insane.
Biden scolding reporters.
I know more world leaders than you've known your whole GD lives.
As Nikki Haley said, the Trump inauguration can't come soon enough after watching Biden give George Soros, Liz Cheney, the Medal of Freedom.
It's a slap in the face.
It's so true.
But that's how petty, angry, bitter Democrats are.
You know, it's interesting.
Some Democrats are trying to wrap their minds around what happened.
Later on, we'll play James Carville.
And he doesn't get, after 50 years of being in politics, how he could be so wrong about Kamala Harris, and then is trying to encourage Democrats to go back to populism and go back to an entirely different message.
Whether that happens is yet to be seen.
I don't think the party's capable of it anymore.
You're going to see the real Democrats once the hearings begin, you know, for Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr.
You'll see the real Democrats.
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