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Jan. 29, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Senator Daines: Trump Hits The Ground - January 28th, Hour 3
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People that were sending out the criminals that the illegal aliens coming from their countries were taking them back.
They're going to take them back fast.
And if they don't, they'll pay a very high economic price.
An arrest of quote 50 illegal aliens right there.
Alex.
Yep.
We call them undocumented immigrants.
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If you want to be a part of the program, Caroline Levitt, I mentioned, did an amazing job her first day behind the podium in the White House briefing room.
Unbelievable.
She'll be on Hannity tonight.
And one of the big issues, obviously, that came up a lot during the press conference was who's getting deported.
And at one point she said, No, you see, unlike the other for the last administration, if you enter the country illegally, by definition, you broke the law.
Why don't I play Caroline saying this and combating, you know, a pretty hostile media?
She did a phenomenal, had a phenomenal first day on the job.
Of the 3500 arrests ICE has made so far since President Trump came back into office.
Can you just tell us the numbers?
How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?
All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes.
I know the last administration didn't see it that way, so it's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that's exactly what they are.
Now here's Donald Trump talking about the deportations and the price countries are gonna pay if they don't take back their criminal illegal immigrants.
You saw yesterday we've made it clear to every country that they will be taking back our people that were sending out the criminals that the illegal aliens coming from their countries were taking them back, and they're gonna take them back fast, and if they don't, they'll pay a very high economic price, and we're gonna immediately install massive tariffs and it'll be placed on them and other sanctions.
Alright, joining us now, the great senator from Montana, Senator uh Steve Daines is with us.
Senator, how are you?
Hey, I'm doing great, Sean.
Good to join you.
All right, it's gonna be a busy week in terms of the confirmation uh process, and um uh look.
We know where the Democrats are coming from.
We just know.
We know that they don't like Cash Patel, they don't like RFK Jr., they don't like Tulsi Gabbard, and uh and we know they didn't like uh Pete Hagseth, for example.
They don't want Donald Trump to have the cabinet that he wants.
They didn't like that he fired, you know, people that were responsible for you know, I think abusing the Department of Justice by weaponizing it against him, and they got fired, and people are having a fit over that.
Uh, but the reality is is you can't have people in an administration after you got duly elected by the people that potentially could sabotage you.
Am I wrong?
No, you're Sean, you're exactly right.
I mean, it's been breathtaking what's happened in the last seven days.
You think about it.
We're just uh a week and a day into Trump's administration, and he's tipping this thing upside down as he should.
Uh, it's gotta continue.
The the good news looking back, last week was a very good week for the president for the U.S. Senate.
We moved all of his nominees through.
Yeah, we had a little fight there with Heg Seth, but we got him through.
Uh a win's a win.
But going forward, we should expect this from the Democrats.
They're doing everything they can to resist.
Remember what happened back when Trump was elected in in 16.
The resistance movement in 17 was everywhere.
They continued all the way through his administration.
The problem we have now is that resistance is within federal employees within the Justice Department, and that's why bold leaders like Caspatel, like RFK Jr., like Tulsi Gabbard, like these nominees we've moved through are exactly what's needed because the president is picking a cabinet that is going in not to continue to manage the federal government, but to completely change it and rid it of really the deep state, the swamp that we see here every day in Washington.
So what what do you imagine, you know, uh like it was close last week.
I mean, I I worry right out of the box for any nominee um uh uh about Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell.
I'm not sure what's happened to Mitch McConnell.
I mean, you would think if there's one guy that knows how hard John Thune's job is, it would be him.
You think he'd be a little bit more supportive of of the guy that took his job and took his place.
He still has a a lot of weight and a lot of power, but I mean, it's frustrating to me that he's almost an instant no vote for pretty much everybody, it seems.
Have you had any discussions with him?
Yeah, well, I'll tell you, um, it's really important that uh we we keep this momentum that we have in the U.S. Senate work with President Trump.
And I want to give a shout out.
John Thune is off to a really good start.
I think a great start.
We we are joining arms, force the Democrats to stay here over the weekend if needed to move these nominees to you, these archaic rules in the Senate require burning 30 hours after you make the initially the following for cloture.
The Democrats just want to run the clock out.
The most important currency that we have right now is time on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and we looked the Democrats square in the eye this last weekend.
They finally blinked as we move these nominations through.
Uh but it's it's very important.
You can count to three, Sean.
Uh, and then you know, J. DeVance comes down and breaks the tie.
God bless what he did there at Pete Hegsteath.
But this is where we've got to stick together because the alternative right now is is to leave these positions open to not allow the president to move forward with his agenda.
So it's gonna be a day-by-day battle.
Uh it's it's one thing to be battling uh Democrats, it's hard when you're battling Republicans.
No, I totally agree.
Do you see any difficulties for the three that I mentioned?
We'll see.
I I think tomorrow is gonna be uh RFK Juniors hearing.
I'm on the finance committee, Sean, so I will be one of the senators asking questions there for RFK Jr.
Let me some say something about RFK Jr.
There's so much misinformation out there in the in the the main street media.
Uh I had the most thoughtful discussion with RFK Jr.
He's a very bright guy.
Uh Sean, I'm a chemical engineer by degree.
I like to get sometimes into the data that technically issues.
That's exactly the kind of protective RFK Jr. will bring.
And let's keep in mind when President Trump was elected by the people, they saw this coalition that he was building.
You know, Republicans have talked about expanding the tent for years.
This wasn't a bunch of consultants in cigar smoked rooms thinking about some plan to expand President Trump's appeal.
This is just President Trump, it's who he is in bringing change agents to Washington.
Who would ever think that there'd be a Kennedy serving Inter Trump administration?
Well, here we are, and I think he's gonna do a great job, and he's asking the hard questions, question the American people want to ask right now on HHS policy.
Well, I gotta tell you, I think it's it's gonna be critical that the president gets who he wants.
I have spent a lot of time talking to RFK Jr. behind the scenes, and and I've asked him all the hard questions, and and as soon as he's hopefully is confirmed, he'll come on and he's willing to talk about all of it.
And I I I did confront him over past physicians that he's had, and he's been very, very clear.
And I think people will hear a lot of this during your hearing this week, and is that he said, Sean, I I ran for president, and I didn't win.
Donald Trump won.
I I'm there to help him implement his agenda.
And let me tell you what I think one of the most important roles I will take on as Health and Human Services Secretary, and that is to get information to people about various issues involving health.
Now he does have a boss that likes McDonald's, Coca-Cola, pizza, Kentucky fried chicken.
That I can sp everyone knows that as a fact.
Um he's not gonna take away fast food.
He's not taking away anybody's polio vaccine or any vaccine, but he wants to provide the American people information, non farmer paid for and related so that they can make important health decisions, which I actually like more information, not less information.
And I'm not above learning, you know, more about how to be, you know, more fit and better health.
I work out harder now in my life than I ever did before.
I eat better than I've ever eaten before.
You know, a couple of years ago I lost like 25 pounds, and I've kept the weight off by eating better.
Um, so I do take health seriously.
Most Americans, I think, want to be healthy.
And I I think that these are the types of changes, but if you listen to the you know Democrats and the media, he's gonna take your polio vaccine, he's gonna stop all energy production.
He's no, he's not.
Because the president will make those final determinations, not him.
Sean, he made that point very clear to me when I asked him probably a lot of the same probing questions you asked him.
I mean, that's my role in advising consent when these nominees come to my office.
Literally, I'm sitting here at my desk, Sean, and I had my interview with RFK Jr.
He was in my office when you know, 24 and sitting right now.
These are thoughtful discussions behind closed doors, asking the hard questions, and he came across to me as a very thoughtful, a thoughtful leader, and he also said, I serve at the pleasure of the president.
Just as he said to you, he ran for president.
He lost.
He is serving the commander-in-chief, and he's gonna surround himself.
He'll have seven direct reports, including the FDA.
He is gonna continue to build out thoughtful leaders who look at the data.
And what you just described there, Sean, is freedom.
The American people can choose what they want to eat, but they want they ought to have the most informed decision possible with the data.
And I know that's what RFK Junior is committed to do.
Yeah.
What other issues now I'd like to see government really really double down on cutting the sizes and scope of government.
Let me play for you, Trump uh Chucky Schumer and Donald Trump suspended federal finance aid programs.
And Caroline Levitt, you know, parried away every question on this today.
We're not cutting Medicare, we're not taking away basic services.
Anybody that's making that claim is a lie, but they there was a mandate to cut back on the size and scope of influence of government, and they are following through on that program, and that means, you know, federal aid temporarily is now being suspended.
Uh especially, you know, I mean, she talked about building condos and some other some cun in Gaza.
I'm like, what?
Well, why is American tax dollars with 40 trillion in debt being used there?
But here's Schumer.
Last night, President Trump plunged the country into chaos without a shred of warning.
The Trump administration announced a halt to virtually all federal funds across the country.
In an instant, Donald Trump has shut off billions, perhaps trillions of dollars that directly support states, cities, towns, schools, hospitals, small businesses, and most of all American families.
This is a dagger at the heart of the average American family in red states, in blue states, in cities, in suburbs, in rural areas.
It is just outrageous.
Why?
They need tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, and these cuts, they think will fund them.
And just like the January 6th pardons, this decision is lawless, dangerous, destructive, cruel.
It's illegal, it's unconstitutional.
This, plain and simple, this is Project 2025.
Project 2025 by another name.
They knew how unpopular Project 2025 was.
Your reaction, Senator.
What Chuck Schumer just said was a lie.
I can't say it any more clearly.
I listened to that.
Sean, what he just said is not true.
Here is what the president's team did today.
It's a pause.
It's a temporary pause to the extent permitted by law That are implicated by president's executive orders.
In other words, there's clear scope in terms of what is paused and what's not.
But I I've got the I've got the memo from the White House sitting on my desk.
I'm looking at it, Sean.
Here's what the truth is.
The reason they did this pause, and I'm going to quote the White House memo I received.
It says this to act as faithful stewards of taxpayer money.
New administrations must review federal programs to ensure that they are being executed in accordance with the law and the new president's policies.
The president has had a whirlwind of executive orders.
They want to make sure they're squaring this circle that everything is aligning.
And so it's fear-mongering.
Of course they bring up the 2025.
That's what the Democrats were talking about in the last election.
That's not what this is about.
This is about a temporary pause to make sure we're faithful stewards of taxpayer money.
I mean, you can't say it any better better.
Caroline Levitt, who had I think a great uh first press uh uh briefing today, uh literally dealt with how doge found 50 million in taxpayer dollars funding condoms in Gaza.
Listen.
Uh Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be fifty million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.
That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.
I can't even make it up.
We'll give you a quick answer, Senator, then we got a roll.
Well, thanks for exposing this, Sean.
But look, look, the president said in this memo that we just received, any program that provides direct benefits, you know, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, they are they are excluded from what's being dis was being uh managed here with this temporary pause.
Uh so there's gonna continue to be a lot of misinformation from the left because they want to stir things up to try to take away what President Trump is doing, but thank God President Trump is our commander in chief.
He is every day right now moving America in a much, much better direction.
I think I'm thankful for his decisive bold action.
That's what the people voted for.
He's delivering.
We appreciate it.
Senator Danes, the great state of Montana.
Thank you, sir.
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Well, the people over at MSDNC have learned nothing.
I mean, nothing from what happened uh in November.
Listen to Nicole Wallace comparing ICE raids to the Holocaust.
Families that are in hiding on this harrowing um anniversary of uh Holocaust anniversary does have a really eerie echo to something that um I think people thought, how could that happen?
And that can never happen again.
We are now on live TV talking about administration and live interviews with their faces showing that says proudly that schools are not off my mess.
Right.
I mean, Tom Holman is is engaged in cosplay.
He wants to be bull Connor for our current days.
Is that right?
Joy Reed over at MSDNC comparing Trump to Hitler.
Gee, we haven't heard this before.
It works so well for them during the campaign.
Listen.
Eighty years ago today, Stalin's Red Army walked through the gates of Auschwitz and uncovered the true inhumanity and evil of the Nazi regime.
Millions of men, women, and children murdered, thousands more starved, beaten, humiliated, and robbed of their dignity.
The extermination of Jewish people, Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, gay people, and others, was no secret.
It happened in broad daylight.
But how did Hitler do it?
Well, with the support of millions of ordinary Germans who just wanted Germany to be great again, and business leaders who initially thought they could control him.
Plus a cadre of devout political allies willing to do whatever he said for the sake of power.
If that sounds vaguely familiar, that's because it is.
Similar similarities to what happened in Germany and what's happening now in America are just undeniable.
History may not repeat verbatim, but it sure does rhyme.
Wow.
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and just back to the same old we hate Donald Trump.
I think what they really hate is themselves because they lost.
How well did this work for them?
That was their closing argument.
A network that spent nine long years peddling lies, conspiracy theories, and and and called Donald Trump every name in the book.
And now I kind of got a kick out of the their number one chief conspiracy theorist, Rachel Maddow.
All of a sudden she's upset over the high cost of deporting illegal immigrants.
What about the cost of housing, feeding, you know, health care, education, and of course, you know, her chosen candidate wanted taxpayer funded sex change operations.
This is almost laughable if it wasn't so insane.
Listen.
Also have news today that while the Trump administration is insisting on using military aircraft to fly immigrants out of the country.
That appears to be purely for the drama of it, purely for aesthetics, purely for the sh the photo op value that they think they're getting out of it.
Uh of putting these people, again, about half of whom have not committed any crime, putting them onto military planes, as if this is some sort of war operation.
A military aircraft moving one plane full of people that way costs us the taxpayers about $800,000.
If they instead shipped the same number of people home the way the government used to do it before last week, that would cost about 100,000.
So per flight, they're wasting about $700,000 per flight.
$700,000 of taxpayer money.
Just to show off how cool it is that they're using the military, right?
Great use of tax dollars.
Efficiency, real respect for the military.
You know what's sad about all of this is not one of these people, nor Selena Gomez.
Not once have I ever heard any of these people speak out loudly against all of the Americans that were murdered.
The list that I would scroll on TV, the names I'd mention on radio, and it wasn't just Rachel Moore and Mother of Five.
It wasn't just Lake and Riley.
It wasn't just not Jocelyn Nungary.
I mean, you had hundreds and hundreds of Americans, thousands in total, if you had violent victims of violent crime, murdered, raped, victims of violent crime.
We have known terrorists, we have rapists, we have murderers, we have cartel members, we have gang members, and then they're in small towns and they're in big cities.
You know, they got the leader of Trend Aragua, one of the ringleaders today in New York City, and Christy Gnome was on that raid with ICE officials.
What a difference a day makes.
You know, I didn't hear Selena Gomez crying over the deaths of any of our fellow Americans at the hands of Harris Biden unvetted illegals.
I didn't hear them complaining about the high cost of housing and food and education and health care for these unvetted illegals.
I never heard them once talk about the rule of law, except when it came to throwing the book at Donald Trump.
They they they were perfectly fine with the novel legal theory that allowed Alvin Bragg to take something that statute of limitations have run out on a legal NDA labeled as an NDA, something I'm sure his office has had plenty of.
Or did they care about evaluation of Mar-a-Lago?
Or did they care about any of the other lawfare or the double standard in raiding Mar-a-Lago, but not the four locations where Joe Biden had top secret classified information, or Hillary Clinton having top secret classified information on her servers that she wiped clean with bleach pit or destroy uh devices with hammers and removed SIM cards and deleted 33,000 subpoenaed emails?
They only care about the rule of law and they only care about money if it suits their political argument of the day.
But you know, I don't, you know, ask yourself that Selena Gomez, I mean, is Nicole Wallace is comparing ice raids to the Holocaust, and Joy Reid is comparing Trump to Hitler and Nazi Germany, and now all of a sudden Rachel Maddow is a is a fiscal conservative.
I mean, and and Selena Gomez is crying our eyes out on social media.
Where were the tears and the talk about money uh when Americans were getting murdered and slaughtered innocent fellow Americans because of Joe and Kamala that have blood all over their hands and and all over the rest of them?
And there's probably a lot more that will happen in the future.
I pray to God I'm wrong.
I don't think I am.
Here's Selena.
I'm just gonna say that I'm so sorry.
Only people are getting attacked.
The children understand.
I'm so sorry.
I wish I could do something.
I don't know what to do.
Try everything I've now after a backlash, he did delete it.
But where was the video about any of the victims that were murdered and raped?
What about all the kids dead from fentanyl because of their open borders and and opioids?
Just asking.
Vinny is in the socialist utopia known as California next on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey John, how are you doing?
Vinny from Powway, California, land of fruits, nuts, and wildfires.
Well, I don't know.
That's uh the way you govern out there is way beyond my comprehension.
I thought New York was bad.
I think you're worse.
I think you're right.
What's going on?
Listen, I listen to you all the time, and you're talking about uh Central and South America and uh sending you know their their trash people up.
And I just wanted to remind your listeners that years ago, um Castro did the same thing with Cuba.
He emptied out the prisons, the nut houses and send them in Florida.
Yeah, the Mario boat lift, they called it at the time.
Yeah.
And that's what Venezuela's been doing.
Trump's been the only one that I know that's been pointing out that Venezuelan crime has gone down 75%.
They sent all the trend Aragua uh criminals and other criminals from Venezuela uh to our southern border, and they all got in.
Yeah, that was nice of us, wasn't it?
I was so thoughtful of him.
So thoughtful.
Yeah.
Uh but you know what?
We're sending them home whether they like it or not.
That's the that's it.
They're going home.
Anyway, Vinny, your best option, I think is to leave California.
I'd I'd think about Texas.
You like it in Texas.
God bless Texas.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
Back to our phones.
Um January, I hope I said that right, uh, in Wisconsin.
How are you?
Hi, Josh.
I'm an over-the-road truck driver, and our issue out here that we wish the FMCSA, Federal Motor Carriers Association, would stick by their rules and their laws, stating that in order to get obtain a CDL, um, you must speak, read and write English.
We have said the Biden administration allowed all these immigrants that we've been overended with illegals out here in the trucking industry that can't read the road sign, can't follow a GPS, don't know how to speak English.
You try and explain something to them, and they're they're looking at you like here's and looking at a headlight, and they cause more traffic accidents out here on our interstates and our highways because they don't know the rules of the road.
And you they don't speak English.
And well, that's a problem.
I mean, listen, uh I I really don't have problems with people that come from other countries, and if they speak another language, that's fine, but we have to understand we don't have the resources if they have children uh to teach English as a second language.
And this is you know, we have hurt our own students by by having a massive overflow of illegal immigrant children in our schools, and they're not hiring more kids more teachers, so the now the teachers and limited resources to begin with are being taken away from American students to help these kids, you know, begin the process of learning English.
Uh I I think it's got to be a requirement.
You know, if you do come from another country that you have to learn English.
I think look, we we have the ability, and Australia and New Zealand, these are countries that that take immigration far more seriously than we have up until now.
Now now that's going to change.
And you don't get into those countries unless you go through an arduous process.
And if you really want to get in and you want a passport from either of those countries, you have to spend years living there and pay millions of dollars for the for the for the honor of becoming one of their citizens.
And then they had the former prime minister, I forget which one, maybe it was Howard, I forget, that said, if you want to move to Australia, you become an Australian.
That's it.
And you adopt our ways of life.
And, you know, those no-go zones in Europe were real.
Jaria courts, yeah, they were real too, even in Great Britain.
And we've got a, you know, we have our own culture.
And, you know, we we can't we have to vet people.
They can't have radical associations, they can't have health problems.
They can't be a financial burden on the American people.
They can't strain our health care system.
They can't strain our criminal justice system, they can't strain our educational system.
You know, we there's certain things, you know, we only have room for so many people.
I know everybody, if we opened up the floodgate, open up the doors to our southern border.
Look what happened the last four years.
A lot of people want to come here.
And I'm sure most of them also concede this point.
They want a better life for themselves and their families.
But unfortunately, without vetting them, we also allowed in really bad people, known terrorists, cartel members, gang members, murderers, and rapists and drug dealers, and and look at the results.
Americans have been murdered, they have been raped, victims of violent crime, more fentanyl than ever before.
And and it's I'm sorry, if you want to come to America, respect our laws, our borders, our sovereignty, and do it legally.
That's all we're asking.
And let us run, we'll run you through the system and make sure you won't be a financial burden, you don't have health issues, and you don't have radical associations.
Then I don't really care where you come from.
Welcome to the country and good luck.
And I hope the American stream becomes your reality for you and your and future generations.
I do.
I have no problems.
Anyway, I do appreciate the call.
January, thank you for a uh a great call.
Thank you for what you do.
You're a trucker, and our stores would be empty without you.
And for that, we really appreciate you.
All right.
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Who went on an early morning, late night early morning raid with ICE agents.
They got one of the ringleaders of Trend Day Aragua.
Uh also will check in with President Zelensky of Ukraine.
Uh he will sit down with us, Megan McCain, uh, Clay Travis, Ari Fleischer, and Alina Haba.
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