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Jan. 25, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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President Trump - January 24th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, Donald Trump, his first 100 hours, forget his first 100 days, has been moving at the speed of light.
It was an honor and a privilege to be back in the Oval Office with him for his very first interview.
You can see he's on the move today.
He's been in North Carolina, headed to California, then headed to Nevada.
And the president's doing what he does.
This is an interview Joe Biden could never do.
It went across two nights on Hannity, on the Fox News channel.
So many people complimented it.
So many people watched it.
And I'm very grateful.
But I think it is worth airing here on radio in case you missed part of it or just hearing it again.
And you can hear the depth and detail of what he's talking about.
Let's talk about the moment you walked back in this office, this desk, this room, your carpet.
How do you feel?
Well, it was a lot of work.
And as you know, I felt that we shouldn't have had to necessarily be here.
Could have been done.
A lot of work.
Could have been, it would have been over.
We wouldn't have inflation.
We wouldn't have had the Afghanistan disaster.
We wouldn't have October 7th with Israel where so many people were killed.
And you wouldn't have a Ukraine war going on.
But with all that being said, I think it's bigger.
It's bigger than if it were more traditional.
Only the second time in history.
Yeah.
Somebody didn't have consecutive terms.
Yeah.
Well, they say it's historically bigger.
I don't know about that.
But I can say it showed us a couple of things.
It showed us that the radical left, their philosophies and policies are horrible.
They don't work.
You look at crime, you look at what's gone on at the border, you look at what's going to happen, the crime, I mean, the crime that's going to happen.
But I think we got there just in the nick of time.
But we still have, you covered better than anybody.
We have terrorists in our country by the thousands.
We have murderers in our country by the tens of thousands.
We have numbers that came out, 11,000 people that murdered are now free and walking around in our country.
And of them, I think 48%, they say, killed more than one person.
And they're walking around.
They came out of jails from other countries.
And, you know, people, they've emptied their jails.
I would, if I were the president or prime minister or something of another country, I'd empty my jails right into America, into the United States.
Why not?
And many of them did it.
If you look at Venezuela, their crime rate is down now 78% because they took their street gangs and they moved them into the United States.
And you're seeing that in Colorado and Los Angeles and other places.
And we're going to take care of it.
All right, before we get into there's so much substance.
You are inheriting a lot of problems.
A lot of things that actually scare me.
And I want to get to all that, but I want to, and I will get to all of that.
They're all solvable problems.
I agree.
They're all solvable.
Not easy.
With time, effort, money, unfortunately.
But they're all solvable problems.
We can get our country back.
But if we didn't win this race, I really believe our country would have been lost forever.
Were there moments, I mean, when you think of what they threw at you, and I know you signed this declaration about no more weaponization.
And we know that the preemptive pardons came up on Joe's way out, but you were facing a civil trial, a criminal trial, conviction, sentencing, Jack Smith, D.C., Florida, Fonnie Willis.
I mean, you fought through all of that to get back right here in this office.
What people don't know is over there, there's a little red button you push, you scare people.
People think it's the nuclear button, but it's really, you know.
Something else.
You use it for a different purpose.
But the question I have, at any point, did you doubt you would be back here?
So it's a great question.
It's something I don't think about.
I never really thought about it.
I don't think about, gee, will I be back?
I just do it.
I get it done.
I get things done.
I'm good at getting things done, and I set my mind to it.
As you know, we had a great election in 2016.
I had a much better election in 2020.
And if I didn't have that election, I wouldn't have run.
If I thought that I didn't get the number of votes, and it was reported that I got almost 75 million votes, and that was their numbers.
That wasn't the numbers.
That was their numbers.
That was more than anybody has gotten in history, any sitting president had ever gotten.
And you lost.
Had I gotten like 50 million or 40 million or 60 million, I would never have run.
But that was like a poll.
But I had a different attitude.
Too big to rig.
Poll came out just in the last 24 hours by Insider Advantage.
That's Matt Towery.
He nailed 2016, 2020, and 2024.
Great pollsters, you know.
And he gave you a 56% approval rating.
You also said of Congress, and I had a town hall with members of Congress last night, that 70% of respondents want Congress to unite behind your agenda.
I'm watching that show.
It was a great show, and you had some great people in the background.
I know every one of them.
And they're really patriots.
I just saw the love.
You know, as the Speaker, who is doing a terrific job, the Speaker is answering questions, and I saw the acknowledgement and the love they had.
And those are tough people behind him.
You know, these are not easy people.
There are others that are tougher.
I said, well, I don't know.
This is a tough group if they want to be.
They're not nobody much tougher.
But they're very unified.
I think they're going to do a great job.
But they have a small majority.
You're going to need to do some of these things legislatively.
You will probably play the largest role in uniting them both in the House and Senate.
Reconciliation, the Senate has very strict rules governing how they can do it.
One big, beautiful bill, two bills, do you care at this point?
I don't care as long as we get to the final answer.
I like the concept of the one bill.
I guess I said one big, beautiful, and that's what everyone faced.
Actually, it's sort of a nice sound to it.
But I do like that concept.
It could be something else.
It could be a smaller bill and a big bill.
But as long as we get to the right answer.
Now, I will say that Los Angeles has changed everything because a lot of money is going to be necessary for Los Angeles.
And a lot of people on the other side want that to happen.
North Carolina, too.
Well, they don't care about North Carolina.
The Democrats don't care about North Carolina.
What they've done with FEMA is so bad.
FEMA is a whole other discussion because all it does is complicate everything.
FEMA has not done their job for the last four years.
You know, I had FEMA working really well.
We had hurricanes in Florida.
We had Alabama, tornadoes.
But unless you have certain types of leadership, it's really, it gets in the way.
And FEMA is going to be a whole big discussion very shortly because I'd rather see the states take care of their own problems.
If they have a tornado someplace, and if they let that state, Oklahoma is very competent.
I love Oklahoma.
77 out of 77 districts.
And that's never been done before.
I did it three times.
I mean, think of it.
Three times.
Never been done.
Ronald Reagan had the record 56, 56 out of 77.
I got 77 out of 77.
So you have to love a place like that.
I love Oklahoma.
But you know what?
If they get hit with a tornado or something, let Oklahoma fix it.
You don't need.
And then the federal government can help them out with the money.
But the FEMA is getting in the way of everything.
And the Democrats actually use FEMA not to help North Carolina.
It makes no sense.
So I'm stopping on Friday.
I'm stopping in North Carolina.
First stop.
Yeah.
Because those people were treated very badly by Democrats.
And I'm stopping there.
We're going to get that thing straightened out because they're still suffering from a hurricane from months ago.
And then I'm going to, then I'm going to go to California.
I'll go to the.
What do you mean by Gavin?
I don't know.
I haven't even thought about it.
Look, Gavin's got one thing he can do.
He can release the water that comes from the north.
There is massive amounts of water, rainwater and mountain water that comes due with the snow, comes down as it melts.
There's so much water, they're releasing it into the Pacific Ocean.
And I told him for it's a political thing for the Democrats.
You played the tape.
You said it to him in front of him in 2018.
I said it to him in front of the media and everything else, and nobody talks about it.
The media never picks it up.
You put it out.
I was so happy to see that tape because some people said, is that possible?
They have water coming down from the Pacific Northwest, which is a lot of water.
So much water that they'd have to let some of it go at some point.
They don't need reservoirs.
They don't need any.
They're spending all this money on these reservoirs and they're fake reservoirs.
You know, they're not.
But the reservoirs were empty.
The hydrants didn't work.
And they're not practicing the science of forestry, which is.
The sprinklers didn't work in the homes because they had no water.
Think of it.
We have sprinklers.
Think of it with no water.
They didn't have any water.
The fire hydrants, you have to live it hard to believe.
The place has sprinklers.
It's nice.
We had a conversation, and the question you asked me: maybe in the end, it will be better if I came back in four years.
And we talked about history.
After World War II, Winston Churchill was thrown out, but they brought him back.
Moreover, Cleveland is the only other American president that did not serve consecutive terms.
And my answer to you was: I thought it would be bigger if you came back.
It's turning out to be bigger.
And I think one thing is happening is people are learning that they can't govern and that their policies are terrible.
I mean, they don't want to see a woman get pummeled by a man in a boxing ring.
No.
They don't want to see men in women's sports and otherwise.
They don't want to see, and they don't want to have transgender for everyone.
But let me go to the border.
We do have breaking news today.
I ran into Tom Holman as I was walking in today.
And so far, 308 total arrests, 296 detainees, and the first deployment of military assets to the U.S. border.
The deployment includes active duty troops and the National Guard.
And here's my biggest fear and concern beyond the Iranian assassination squads is we now know 14 million.
We don't know how many gotaways.
We don't know the total number.
But we have known terrorists in our country.
We have known murderers, rapists.
We have violent criminals, cartel members, gang members.
Now, I would imagine if you came from Iran and Syria and Egypt and Afghanistan and Russia and China and Venezuela, you didn't come here because you want a better life for your children.
I would imagine those known terrorists are planning an attack on our homeland.
At a moment's notice, you're going to be in this desk, maybe sitting at this desk or maybe up in the residence, and they're going to call you down in the situation room because our homeland is under attack.
I would like to be wrong, but when you have known terrorists, you have to believe that they are going to attack our homeland.
That would change their trajectory that moment of your entire presidency.
That has to weigh on you.
Yeah, it could be.
And I know I've watched you for a lot of years, and you actually make one statement before you say that.
You say, 100% certain.
I do.
That's a pretty big statement.
And then I say, I pray to God I'm wrong.
Yeah, I hope you're wrong too.
And I won't comment, but I tend to agree with you.
It depends.
We'll see what happens.
Look, we have a lot of great people right now, a lot of great, great people on this situation.
This was a gross miscarriage of common sense to allow people to come in.
And I believe that there's 21 million people, and a large percentage of them are criminals all over the world.
This is not just South America.
This isn't, you know, we talk Venezuela.
That's a big abuser.
But these are countries from the Congo.
Countries that you don't even think of, the Congo has emptied their prisons out into the United States.
We're not thinking about the Congo.
We're thinking about South America.
It's much more than South America.
But prisons from all over the world have been emptied out into our country by Biden, allowing it to happen.
I don't even know if he knew what the hell was going on.
But who would want this?
I always say to people, you know, you always like to understand, like in a business, you want to understand the other side.
Why do they want something, you know, et cetera, et cetera, and you figure it out.
And there's usually an answer almost always, I don't understand why does somebody want open borders where, and they say the vote, okay, but I did well with the Hispanic vote.
If you're looking at Hispanic, they say they do it because they want to think they're going to stay in power.
It's going to be better for Democrats.
I don't really believe that.
But here's the thing I ask.
Why would somebody say that open borders are good, where jails and mental institutions from other countries and gang members right off the streets of the toughest cities in the world are being brought to the United States of America and emptied out into our country?
Why would anybody that even likes, you don't have to love our country, you have to like it.
Why would anybody that likes our country, the Democrats, allow that to happen?
And even now, I watch them on television.
They're trying to justify it.
You can't justify it.
The only reason it can be is two reasons.
You're stupid, and I don't think they're stupid.
I think anybody that cheats that much and that well is not stupid.
You're either stupid or you hate the country.
Those are the only two reasons.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more on the other side, my Oval Office interview with Donald Trump, and we'll have part two of that on the other side of the news at the bottom of the half hour.
And much, much more we'll tell you about Hannity tonight.
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All right, here's more.
My Oval Office interview with President Donald Trump just on day three of his presidency second term.
Let me ask about the economy.
Okay, so will the tax cuts be permanent?
No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.
And explain when you talk about all of this money under our feet, you know, and the golden era of America, an energy, you know, drill-baby drill.
How do you get these companies to invest billions?
And how quickly are they going to extract this energy and maybe supply Western Europe?
Because I agree with you.
It's money that will save this country.
We have more oil and gas than any other country.
And we're going to have more.
And with Anwar, you know, which he ended, Anwar is the biggest.
Anwar could be, that's in Alaska, could be as big or bigger than Saudi Arabia.
We have more than any other country.
It's a great thing.
It's a great asset because China doesn't have that.
I mean, China does not have that.
They have to go out the old-fashioned way and buy it.
We have more than anybody.
We're going to become a wealthy country again.
And energy is going to lead the way.
But there'll be other things also, tariffs, because tariffs, you know, we were our wealthiest in the 1890s.
Okay.
And by the way, we're going to rename Mount McKinley into Mount McKinley because he was a great president from Ohio.
Came was a senator from Ohio.
He was a very successful businessman who believed strongly in tariffs.
He ran for the senity he won.
He ran for the presidency he won.
He was ultimately assassinated in his second term, but he made the country very rich.
And Teddy Roosevelt then came along, and I'm not knocking Teddy Roosevelt, but he spent the money that was made during the McKinley years.
And he did, you know, a lot of great things, like building the Panama Canal.
The most expensive thing, relatively speaking, the most expensive thing we've ever built is the Panama Canal.
And you're serious.
And unfortunately, Jimmy Carter gave it away for $1.
Oh, no, we're going to have to take it back.
China is running the Panama Canal right now.
That wasn't the deal.
It should have never been given.
Well, the deal was not that China is going to run the Panama Canal.
If we became energy dominant and we provided all of Western Europe with our energy, wouldn't that help bankrupt Putin, number one?
He wouldn't be able to fund his wars.
And number two, and I think that would make the world a safer place.
And the amount of money we're talking about, would America become the single most energy wealthy country in the world?
And what would that mean for paying down our debts?
We will supply the whole world with energy.
That's what we have.
For hundreds of years, we could supply the whole with, at this moment, the best energy because natural gas is clean and it's powerful.
You need power and it's consistent.
Not like wind.
The wind blows and then it doesn't blow and the things cost a fortune.
They're made in China and they kill the birds and they're horrible.
We don't want windmills in this country.
I'm going to put it, we're putting an order on.
I've already sort of done it.
We don't want windmills.
If you have a house and your envision of a windmill, your house is worth half.
It's a disaster.
And nobody wants them.
And they're the most expensive energy of any kind of energy.
You know what else people don't like?
Massive solar fields built over land that cover 10 miles by 10 miles.
I mean, they're ridiculous, the whole thing.
And by the way, you know where the panels come from?
100% of the panels are made in China.
They're made in China.
You had a call with President Xi.
We have three top geopolitical foes.
We have Russia, China, and Iran.
I want to ask you about all three.
You put out a statement on Putin today.
We'll get to that, but let's start.
You had a conversation with President Xi.
We have problems with them.
They have territorial ambitions with Taiwan, intellectual property theft, their unfair trade practices.
How'd that conversation go?
It went fine.
It was a good, friendly conversation.
I had a great relationship with him prior to COVID.
I had a very good relationship with him.
I thought it was a very good conversation.
We've had other communication before that.
They are a very ambitious country.
He's a very ambitious man.
He's a man that was, you know, I don't want to be naive and say my friend, but he was like my friend.
We had a very good relationship.
I had a very good relationship with Putin.
Also, I have, I would say, Iran is a different story, I would be honest with you.
Iran is a whole different thing.
That's a religious deal that is very dangerous.
That's a yawning.
It's very dangerous.
It's a very dangerous situation.
That could be a big problem.
You know, with Kim Jong-un, I'm going to go to the United States.
You know, you can make a deal with Xi.
Do you think that you can prevent Xi from his territorial desire to take Taiwan?
Can you make a deal with him on making more fair trade practices?
Because I know you, you're going to go when you say, no, I can do that because we have something that they want.
We have with a pot of gold.
Don't forget, we paid, you know what we lost to China last year?
$1 trillion.
$1 trillion because of their stupidity with their trade policies.
Now, I put tariffs on China.
We took in hundreds of billions of dollars, and Biden was unable to end them because it was so much money you couldn't do it in terms of the budget.
He wanted to end them.
He did everything he could to end them.
He couldn't get it done.
But we have one very big power over China, and that's tariffs.
And they don't want them, and I'd rather not have to use it.
But it's a tremendous power over China.
China gets a lot of its money from the United States.
They use that money to build the military.
Isn't it crazy?
How come they have a lot of hypersonics?
We don't.
Because during Obama's administration, they stole the design for the Russia stole the design.
They got it from us.
Some bad person gave them design.
It was our job.
Now, I authorized the building of hypersonic, and we're doing super hypersonic, actually, which is even a step better.
And we'll have them starting fairly shortly.
But Russia got them and they built them.
Whereas they stole them during the Obama administration.
Obama, not Biden, not anyone else.
They probably stole plenty from Biden.
We'll hear about that too.
But they sold the hypersonic stuff, and they made hypersonic missiles.
Well, we have the resources for the next generation of warfare.
I don't believe we're going to fight future wars on battlefields.
They're going to be fought in air-conditioned authorities.
Much different.
Well, I don't know.
I heard you say that last night.
They're going to be fought in a lot of different ways, including offices.
But very big things are becoming drones now.
Drones are becoming more important than you.
Push a button.
I said the other day to somebody with great knowledge who actually were bringing into the administration, I was saying a certain type of fighter jet that I really like.
He said, well, it's good if you don't like the pilot that flies it because the chances of him coming back are very small.
All right, let's go.
You sent out.
In other words, technology is changing.
And we have to be in the front of it.
And you said that about AI, which I believe is brilliant.
You put out a truth on Vladimir Putin today.
You seem to have had a relationship with him that, and you've talked about ending this war in Europe.
And you've got to end it quickly.
How quickly can it end?
Should end immediately.
Should have never started.
That would never have started if I were.
I used to talk to Putin about it.
Ukraine was the apple of his eye, but there was no chance that he would ever do it.
And he didn't do it.
For four years, he didn't do it.
Have you spoken to him?
I don't want to say, but I will tell you, it's got to end.
And if you look at the, I'm just talking from a human life.
I don't care.
Russia, Ukraine, U.S., these are human beings that are just being slaughtered on this battlefield by the millions.
They've already died in cities.
The cities are like demolition sites.
Many people died.
One thing with the Ukraine war, you're going to find many more people died than think.
This is a war that should have never started.
Biden did a horrible, horrible job in allowing that war to start.
It should have never started.
It would have never started.
It wasn't even tough from that standpoint.
One thing.
So he allowed energy to go up way up.
If he brought it down, the war wouldn't have started because Putin wouldn't have had the money.
Putin makes all his money on energy.
And Biden let it go to a record.
And Putin had so much money, he was able to do it.
But that's only one thing.
That wasn't even the biggest reason.
What was said at the time was so bad, I said, he's going to drive that guy into doing this.
Minor incursion?
Well, he used the word minor incursion.
But he said things worse than that.
And Putin shouldn't have done it too.
I mean, I'm not blaming only what Putin shouldn't have done it.
He shouldn't have done it.
And it has to stop.
Do you know they've lost about 850,000 Russian soldiers and 700,000 Ukrainian soldiers?
And Ukraine has been devastated.
Devastated.
Will it be a negotiated settlement?
And will you lead the negotiation?
Well, I hope so.
And I put out a truth today that's really strong, and I mean it.
And if they don't do that, I'm going to put massive if they don't settle this war soon, like almost immediately, I'm going to put massive tariffs on Russia and massive taxes and also big sanctions.
And I don't want to do that.
You know, I love the Russian people.
They're great people.
I don't want to do that, but we've got to get this war ended.
And if they don't make a settlement like fast, and Zelensky, I will say this, he wants to settle now.
He's had enough.
He shouldn't have allowed this to happen either.
You know, if he's no angel, he shouldn't have allowed this war to happen.
First of all, he's fighting a much bigger entity, okay?
Much bigger.
When he was, you know, talking so brave and so now two things happened.
They were brave, but we gave them billions of dollars.
The United States spent $200 billion more than Europe.
Why didn't we spend more?
You know why?
Because Biden never asked Europe to spend more.
They spent $200 million.
They became a U.S. Russia proxy war because of Zelensky was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful.
He shouldn't have done that because we could have made a deal.
And it would have been a deal that would have been, it would have been a nothing deal.
I could have made that deal so easily.
And Zelensky decided that I want to fight.
You know, they have 30,000 army tanks.
Russia has 30,000 army tanks.
Zelensky had none practically.
You don't fight those.
Now then we started pouring equipment, pouring, pouring, pouring.
And they had the bravery to use the equipment.
But in the end, that's a war has to be settled.
So the field is interesting because it's very flat.
It's great farmland, okay?
It's very flat.
There's no protection.
The only thing that's stopping a bullet that gets shot, they can go for miles, is a human body.
And they're being hit left and right.
And they're losing millions of people.
Young, beautiful people are dying on the battlefield.
And it's got to stop.
Zelensky did say for the first time that he would be open to a negotiator.
He says that.
You should have said that a long time ago.
You put Iran in a different category.
I keep reading and I talk to my students.
Well, they're religious zealots.
It's different.
Okay.
I'll give you an example.
Kim Jong-un.
When I came in, I met with Obama right there.
We sat and we talked.
I said, what's the biggest threat, North Korea?
You guys were yucking it up in the church.
Yeah, we were.
Someday I'll tell you what we said.
Someday you'll tell you.
No, we had a nice time.
But he said North Korea is the biggest thing.
And I solved that problem.
And I got along with him.
He's not a religious zealot.
He happens to be a smart guy.
Kim Jong-un is a smart guy.
You reach out to him again.
I will.
He liked me, and I got along.
Staff is going to kill me.
And I don't want to get staff friends.
I'm not Obama.
You're not Joe either.
I'm not Joe.
No, they had very strong rules.
Obama's staff, too.
Last question.
And Joe, they usually didn't let him start.
No, that's different.
That's the best part of the interview right there.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
During Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel, we expect the confirmation vote.
It's expected to be close.
I know JD Vance will be in the Senate chamber, and we're hoping that Pete gets across the finish line.
Anyway, we will have full coverage of all of that.
Chad Pergram will also be with us.
Reverend Franklin Graham, who is with Donald Trump in North Carolina, he will be with us tonight.
Actor Mel Gibson will join us tonight.
Dr. Drew Pinsky tonight.
Senator Markway Mullen tonight.
Scott Brown, Brian Bremberg, Victor Davis-Hansen, Seth DVR, Hannity, Fox News, for Pete Hagseth's confirmation vote.
9 East.
And then, by the way, they're moving straight to Christy No. 9 Eastern.
It's all happening.
Hannity, Fox News.
We'll see you tonight.
Have a great weekend.
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