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Jan. 30, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Big Pharma Funds - January 29th, Hour 3
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, back to the RFK hearings from earlier today, he made the pledge in spite of all these allegations running wild that he will block the polio or measle vaccines.
It's not true.
And he went into great specificity and great detail that he wants the American people to be able to make informed health decisions that come from the best scientists without the influence of people that have an ability to gain money from pharmaceuticals.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Now, I'm grateful for the pharmaceutical industry.
I'm not one of these I hate big pharma people.
I'm not.
I think they create drugs that help people, that lower blood pressure, that can, you know, solve people's cancer problems, that can, you know, if you have cholesterol issues, et cetera, et cetera, whatever it is, maybe you believe in it, maybe you don't.
It doesn't matter.
You have the choice.
You have a doctor.
You make your own decisions.
I believe in the freedom.
And these companies, nobody really, really knows or seems to understand the amount of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars that it takes to bring a drug to market.
And then they only have a 10-year period where they can sell it exclusively before it's being sold generically.
And a lot of the drugs that they manufactured never passed FDA and never get to the market.
It's very, very difficult.
But they've been pushing this narrative about RFK that is just fake and phony and fraudulent.
Now, there is one thing that we don't pay a lot of attention to, and that is pharmaceutical companies.
They have a machine and they have a lobbying machine, and they donate massive amounts of money to elected officials.
For example, the top 20 member recipients, I'll go to the top three from pharmaceuticals and health products in 2019 and 20.
Bernie Sanders, $1.4 million.
Elizabeth Warren, $821,941.
Mark Kelly, $631,629.
Now, if they're going to give you that kind of money, I would imagine that that is going to impact decisions that some of these people will make because for a lot of elected officials, the most important thing in their life is power.
And it's frustrating.
And, you know, I was watching today Elizabeth Warren, for example.
I mean, I wish she would talk about herself.
You know, with Robert Kennedy, you know, he was telling Elizabeth Warren he's not going to agree not to sue drug companies, you know, if they get things wrong.
Why should he agree to that?
Here's what he said.
I'm asking about fees from suing drug companies.
Will you agree not to do that?
You're asking me to not sue drug companies.
No, I'm not going to agree to drug companies as much as you want.
I'm not going to agree to not sue drug companies or anybody.
Well, because he doesn't know what the circumstances are.
I mean, why should he just broadly agree to something like that?
And then Elizabeth Warren had a meltdown towards RFK over taking a financial stake in a lawsuit against the Farmham Pharmaceutical Company.
And this has been his passion for his entire life, which to me actually makes him more qualified to get this position.
That's my take.
Listen, I'll comply with all the ethical guidelines.
That's not the question.
You and I, you have said that.
You're asking, Senator, you're asking me not to vaccine.
No, I'm not.
Yeah, you are.
That's exactly what you're doing.
Look, no one should be fooled here.
As secretary of HHS, Robert Kennedy will have the power to undercut vaccines and vaccine manufacturing across our country.
And for all of his talk about follow the science and his promise that he won't interfere with those of us who want to vaccinate his kids, the bottom line is the same.
Kennedy can kill off access to vaccines and make millions of dollars while he does it.
Kids might die, but Robert Kennedy can keep cashing in.
I mean, it's such a specious argument on so many different levels, and it's so ridiculous.
I mean, she makes these wild allegations, and she's just factually wrong.
And he kept repeating it again and again and again.
And I thought one of the better lines that RFK used was, well, if Donald Trump is my boss, he likes fast food and cheeseburgers.
And I might recommend to eat something else, but we're going to give people information.
You know, we experienced a lot of this during COVID.
And I can't really even begin to explain the amount of pressure that was being brought to bear on this show, on me personally.
Linda can vouch for this.
And on my TV show, that I tell all of you that you should take the jab.
And I was being hammered.
The New York Times, I threatened to sue them at the time, you know, literally saying if my mother listened to Sean Hannity, who said, talk to your doctor, educate yourself, take into account your present health condition, pre-existing conditions, comorbidities, et cetera, and then make your own decision.
That's all I said.
And do your own research.
I was consistent the entire time.
And I was being pressured to tell people what to do.
I don't know anything about people's medical condition.
I'm not a medical doctor.
I've put on people with different varying viewpoints, some which I agreed with, some I didn't agree with.
But I put them on to help make this audience to give them an opportunity to make an informed decision because there are a lot of different vantage points and viewpoints.
But if anybody, I think, should be held culpable or accountable, the government just flat out lied to us when they said that if you got the shot, that you're not going to get COVID or that you're not going to infect others.
You know, they flat out lied when they were mocking hydroxychloroquine.
There's been numerous studies now.
It first started with the Henry Ford Hospital study.
It showed if taken early, it would help mitigate symptoms.
I never saw a study on ivermectin.
I don't know why.
I've actually looked for it.
I haven't found one.
I did tell people the one thing that I saw anecdotally was that monoclonal antibodies, first one was regeneron, were very effective if you got COVID.
And I know people whose lives, I would argue, were saved because of it.
And they didn't tell you to take it if you got COVID and you test it positive.
I just said, ask your doctor about monoclonal antibodies.
And Linda had a fit that I kept mentioning it again and again and again.
And I said, I have to repeat it because people aren't going to remember it.
And then we did our little test and it became a big deal.
But I never gave in on the pressure.
Linda, how harsh was that pressure on me to do what, you know, to tell people what to do?
It was pretty intense.
Yeah, I mean, it's every day, all day.
The big pharma mob is a very powerful one.
All right.
They were trying to get me.
There was a lot of pressure.
Other people in the media, you know, criticizing me because I'm not going to tell people what to do because I'm not a doctor and I don't know anything about their health condition.
I don't know anything about their past health.
I don't know anything about their current condition.
Anyway, Dr. Brian Tyson is with us, co-author of Overcoming COVID-19 Darkness: How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7,000 Patients.
He wrote it with our friend Dr. George Farid.
And he's here to talk about these hearings from earlier today.
And also, and I think this is so important to get into all of this, is Dr. Lynn Finn, former infectious disease specialist who now focuses on clinical research to bring back integrity to scientific research.
Welcome back both of you.
And Dr. Finn, I'll ask you first, what did you think of the hearings today?
Because it seems like they just, you know, people that have a vested interest in pharmaceuticals like Elizabeth Warren have a clear conflict of interest to me, if that's all true.
Yeah, Sean, thanks for having us.
You know, she benefited financially, second highest benefit during COVID, Elizabeth Warren, as well as the top 20 supported by pharma dollars into her coffers.
So she is clearly conflicted.
But throughout the hearing, it's just constant grandstanding.
No one lets him actually answer the questions they ask.
They just want to throw negativity on record.
And, you know, the shrill, the screaming, the constant yelling, disrespect from really both sides, but mainly from what we would expect.
It's just, it's almost like a circus act.
The man did not get a chance to explain that he will not remove vaccines.
And all he wants is the solid science.
And if you look historically at the science of vaccines, they've never been actually randomized control trial against a placebo.
So that's all he wants is transparency in the science and reproducible science.
And I can tell you with IMA Action, which is a former FLCCC, we have over 17,000 signatures of medical professionals that want that very same thing.
It's overwhelming, and we're demanding it.
Yeah, and I remember at the time, Dr. Tyson, that you and Dr. Farid, you know, you were offering a protocol to help people when they got COVID taken early to save their lives, and you did so successfully, and nobody wanted to hear from you.
Correct, Sean.
I mean, I think, you know, what we've learned over the last four years is that there is this disdain and distrust for the government health care system.
And when you look at the opportunities right in front of us right now with Bobby Kennedy, he can bridge that gap.
He can bring back some of the trust because he comes from and plays to both sides of the aisle.
I love his quote today where he said, you know, our kids are not Democrat or Republican.
They're our kids.
And we really need to look and focus at the chronic disease issues that are facing our nation.
And that should be a joining force in both sides to get him confirmed so we can really focus on that.
And I think if we take that and we really do focus on that, the chronic diseases in kids, why obesity is going through the roof, why diabetes is going through the roof, you know, why are we having these explosions in autism rates?
Why are we having these explosions in autoimmune diseases?
I think that that's the bigger question instead of the grandstanding and the arguing and the yelling and screaming and the unprofessional behavior, that our government has just basically lost its mind when it comes to these hearings.
I think that people want to see safety.
I think that people want to see the science.
I think that people want to see the transparency.
And we should be able to ask the questions.
We've been asking questions about COVID when it first came out and nobody gave us answers.
We have to have hearings and nobody wanted to give us answers.
Oh, just the opposite.
You were brutally attacked and people like you and Dr. Farid and Robert Malone, who actually, without which, we wouldn't have had an mRNA vaccine available because he created the technology, but was very clear on this program that it was not perfected.
And if you remember, this was emergency authorization the entire time and it made me suspect and I wasn't going to give into the pressure.
But the biggest thing, you know, even one of the senators said, well, my dad was a pediatrician all the way through 1983.
Well, in 1986, that's when things changed.
You know, when we started giving the drug companies liability protection against all liability when it comes to vaccination, the vaccine schedule went from six vaccines to now, you know, over 72.
And in some cases, you know, now we're looking at almost 200 vaccines by the time they're 18 years old.
It's insane.
If you want to do something, if the senators want to really look at money and grandstanding, then why don't they just take away the liabilities from the big pharma and then let's see really what happens when it comes to the safety of these drugs.
We'll give you the last word, Dr. Finn.
I think Americans saw what was on display today.
Yeah, I think they did.
They're not foolish.
They know.
And I concur with Dr. Tyson.
If these liabilities were placed on them and they had that protection removed, then they would have to rest on solid science and long-term safety data, which they've never had to actually produce.
And that in lies the problem when you go from a certain number of single-digit vaccines in the childhood schedule to 72 to over 100.
With all of these very, very inflammatory adjuvants, you're going to find these problems.
And we need the real science and transparent science as to the risk-reward of...
I really got to give both of you credit, Dr. Finn.
Thank you.
Dr. Tyson and Dr. Farid, who's not with us today, but you're willing to speak out.
You all have taken heed for it.
And I think we need to have the conversation.
I appreciate, and we'll continue it in the weeks and months ahead, I'm sure.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones as we say hi to Rick is in Rhode Island.
Rick, how are you?
Where in Rhode Island are you?
I live in East Providence.
You've talked to me before.
This is Rick, the redneck from Rhode Island.
You know that it's because I support Donald Trump, and now America does too.
And I always vote Republican, though my state is blue.
I'm a redneck from Rhode Island, but I am red, white, and blue.
How you doing, Sean?
I'm good, man.
You might not know this, that your senator, White House, was the best man at RFK's wedding.
Did you know that?
To Cheryl Hines.
I didn't know he was the best man, but I just saw him acting like the normal idiot that he is on the confirmation hearing.
He didn't act like a best man friend at the hearings for sure.
I mean, it was kind of weird, but do you expect anything different from Democrats?
Because I don't.
Especially that weasel.
Good point.
What's on your mind?
I want to talk about Carolyn, the press secretary.
Man, what a rock star, Trump found.
I watched some of that hearing, man.
It's so nice to have the shoe on the other foot.
It used to be Peter Doocy trying to pry some omodicum iota of truth out of Karine, as you call her, Corrine Jean-Pierre, and getting crap and lies in return.
Now we've got her up there telling the truth.
She even told him, she said, look, I'm going to tell the truth.
I want you all to swear to tell the truth, too.
Fat chance of the legacy media ever doing that.
But he found such a rock star in her.
It is absolutely unreal.
A star was born.
It was shocking off of them yesterday.
And I've had Caroline on the program enough that I know I knew how capable she was.
She's only 27 years old.
He's actually on Hannity tonight on the Vox News channel.
She was going to be on last night, but we had to move it to tonight.
And my interview with JD Vance tonight.
So we're looking forward to having her.
But I don't think they know how to deal with her.
She is super hyper-informed, and she's not going to take their crap.
And, you know, with Donald Trump as her boss, she's going to have his full, complete support, you know, fighting back against these people and making them look silly on a daily basis.
No doubt.
By the way, my wife and I are going this weekend to the Black Pearl in Newport.
I'm going to have a cup of chowder in your name.
Yeah, Rick, don't take this the wrong way.
I hate you.
It's not personal, though.
It just happens to be my favorite New England clam chowder in the world.
I would go off my diet and be willing to gain 10 pounds to drink a gallon of that New England clam chowder.
It's so good.
Anyway, appreciate it, Rick.
Thank you.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Robin in Colorado.
Robin, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
I just want to kind of respond to some of the stuff with immigrant flights.
I'm a flight attendant, current flight attendant.
And I just wanted to respond to Rachel Malduck and just the way that she is making fun of Trump saying, you know, $300,000 for a military flight versus $100,000 for these chartered flights.
Well, us FAs, us flight attendants, we're the ones that are doing those flights.
And so we have noticed an uptake in like these immigrants who are getting on our flights that do not speak English.
They don't understand English.
And we're having to get these people on these flights.
And half of the time, the government buys their flights, but not their tickets.
So they're separated.
They don't understand what we're trying to tell them.
And we're trying to move them around and everything.
And so that causes delays.
And the flight attendants are the ones that get those delays.
And we get in trouble for those delays.
So it's not safe for us.
It causes our jobs to be at risk.
And then we have people getting on.
We have like the federal air marshals or FBIs.
We have any two to four of them on these flights.
And we don't know who they're there for.
You know, we don't know if they're there for a all-American loving woman who worked her butt off for the country who just happened to make Dems mad or if they're actual gang members or drug dealers that they're watching out for.
And we have no idea who these people are.
It's just not safe.
I mean, the idea that you're going to take people that you have not vetted and put them on a plane and send them back to their home country and many of them are angry.
And we don't know if they're gang members, cartel members.
We don't know if they're murderers, rapists.
We have no idea if they have terror ties and we're just going to put them on a plane and not restrain them is the most insane thing I've ever heard.
It is.
And we are the ones that have the FAA, we have to have flight attendants on those planes.
Those chartered planes, FAA, you have to have flight attendants anywhere between four to five.
So we're having to put these flight attendants on these charters if that's the way he was doing it.
And you're putting these flight attendants in risk.
30,000 feet in the air in a tin can with people who don't speak English.
You're putting the entire plane at risk.
Everybody's at risk.
Yeah.
And there's cultures, Sean, I have personally had them tell me, don't speak to me.
Don't speak because I'm a female.
So how am I safe on that plane if they refuse to even listen to my commands?
And if we're trying to get people off in 90 seconds, we have 90 seconds to de-plane an entire plane of 186 to 240, however it is.
We have 90 seconds to get these people off the plane in case of an emergency.
And if you can't understand what we're saying to you, if you can't understand the commands and where to go, like that's putting every life in danger.
Every one of ours, the pilots, officers, the flight attendants.
So no race.
Everybody.
I thank Trump.
I am so appreciative that he is saying this isn't safe for our American citizens who didn't vote for those people to be over here.
And I'm telling you, we have flown them everywhere, everywhere in the last year, especially in the last six months.
It's been almost some of these flights are completely full of immigrants.
How do I know?
The Manila envelopes, the sweatsuits, still having their wristbands from the places they're coming from on their wrists.
Like we, it's just been such an exhausting, stressful, feeling unsafe, all of these things.
And so I just thank Trump so much for being willing to say, no, enough is enough.
They're going back.
I mean, these are criminals.
Why aren't we giving them seats to get a soda and a snack?
No, go back on the military planes.
It's good enough for our military when they go off to keep us safe.
So these criminals can sit there and they can go back to their countries and keep us.
And if they want to come to our country in the future, they've got to obey our laws, respect our borders, and respect our sovereignty.
Anyway, it shows how hard your job is.
And we do appreciate it.
And I do urge people to show respect for flight attendants because their job is hard.
And if God forbid there's an emergency, they're going to be the ones risking their life for you on that plane.
Robin, we appreciate it.
Gary in Oklahoma.
Gary, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you, Sean.
What a blessing to talk to you.
I can't believe I get to talk to you right now.
But I want to, I got three quick points.
I want to just sit there.
And first of all, I'd like to thank you for not being ashamed of Jesus.
You always, I think you're a blessed man.
God has his favor on you because of that.
You're not ashamed to say Jesus.
I'm living an undeserved life only because of that.
We all are.
We all are.
Second point I'd like to say is, Linda, I just love Atlinda.
She's a blessing to hear.
I just love your points and everything, but I'd like to make a proposal.
You got to admit, though, Linda does talk funny.
Don't you think she talks funny?
I love her talk.
I love her talk.
I mean, being from New York and Met Talk and, you know, this is what I'm going to propose.
It's going to be perfect.
So let's, what I'm going to propose, let's put together a pay-per-view for the view for Linda to go on to.
We could make $50 million and let her school those heifers on the view.
That's funny, but be nice.
It's the caller of the day.
The caller of the day.
Of course, because he's talking about you.
No, because he just called the view a nasty word, and I'm all in on that.
But go ahead.
Of course you are.
We'd have a little bit of a problem.
I'm not sure Linda could get through that show without dropping 15 F-bombs.
I'm just guessing.
But putting that aside, it would be must-see TV.
There's no doubt about it.
Did you hear what they said about a Caroline Levitt, a joyless Behar?
I want you to say short.
Let me play this for you.
I think Clara, she's probably been put in there because, according to Donald Trump, she's a 10.
You know, that's what it is.
I want to be clear, though.
It's not her first job.
I mean, they're so repulsive.
I mean, it's so demeaning to this young woman who's so bright and articulate, and she just schooled the media mob, and they just don't like it.
They want her to fail.
They want Trump to fail.
And in the end, if they fail, the country fails.
It's unbelievable.
Yeah, Linda would be good in that role.
I'd like to see that.
Thank you, boss.
I appreciate it.
I promise you, no swear words.
It'll be a Mary Poppins party.
Don't make a promise you can't keep.
That is the one.
Hey, I don't curse in front of my kids.
I don't ever curse in front of the kids.
I'm very good.
I don't know if I fully believe that.
I got to test the kids.
Because the last time I tested your son, Liam, and I said, what do you like better?
Mom's air-fried french fries or McDonald french fries after I finally got a McDonald french fries.
Oh, McDonald's.
And you think that I pressured him into saying it.
I did not pressure him.
But did you notice I didn't curse at you when that happened?
No, you just curse at me every other second.
So what difference does it make?
You missed the opportunity.
I'll take that debate, Gary.
Anyway, good call, my friend.
Josh in California, the United Socialist Utopia.
What's going on, Josh?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
How's it going, man?
I'm good, man.
What's going on?
Yeah, so I got a couple points.
First point is, whatever Selena's crocodile tears for Link and Riley.
I mean, it's just disgusting behavior.
It's not just Lake and Riley.
We have, you know, thousands of Americans.
They will murdered, raped victims of violent crime.
How many Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses and other overdoses from opioids?
It's just disgusting.
I mean, and the fact that they don't care about known terrorists, rapists, murderers in the country, cartels and gang members, whose side are they on here?
What's wrong with these people?
They're deranged.
Yeah, and then my second point, it's good to have some levity in the middle of all this serious news.
So I'm just going to say one word: homage.
Oh, man.
Please don't open that Pandora's box again.
Whatever you do, Prudy, please.
I can't take it.
Katie, good job today on these calls, man.
Thanks for bringing up a good memory.
Homage.
Not homage.
Homage.
It's homage.
You pay you offer homage to somebody, not homage.
Homage.
Homage.
Let me ask.
How does the caller say it?
How do you say it, sir?
Homage.
How do you say that word?
Homage.
Oh, schnapp.
One for Linda.
Have a good day.
These callers are being stacked against me today.
Back to our phones.
Mary in Virginia.
Hey, Mary, how are you?
Hey, Sean.
How are you today?
I'm good.
Don't forget, we have JD Vance on TV tonight.
He was really good.
I taped it this morning.
Excellent.
Excellent.
I will be watching.
I wanted to talk to you about resource officers and my experience with my children when they were in school.
Every year, a resource officer was assigned to the graduating class and went with the students from sixth grade to 12th grade.
It gave an opportunity for the students to know the officer, the officer, to know the students, and created wonderful community in this.
I love that.
It was.
It was fantastic.
I mean, my kids are old now.
They've given me lots of grandbabies.
But I just wanted to share how it used to be.
And maybe.
Oh, it used to be better.
So I'll tell you a quick story that relates to this.
My sister, my oldest sister, who had her master's degree in nursing and a doctorate of law, she decided she wanted to be a school counselor.
And she would, you know, get these kids when they were in lower grades and guide them all the way up through their college acceptance and stays in touch with a lot of them.
And she loved it.
I mean, so it's kind of similar to what you're saying.
You get the last word.
Fantastic.
It's a great little shoreline town.
And I wish they could bring some of that community back into the school and provide them with resource officers that can not only protect them this day and age, but also help them grow as children.
Yeah, well said.
They're adults.
Because then they're invested in, and you develop a relationship with these kids.
And you know what?
Then they have a mentor oftentimes for life.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean is our number.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We will have Vice President JD Vance on Hannity tonight, Nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Also, new White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt will join us and will analyze RFK's hearings with Health and Fitness Extraordinaire Guru Jillian Michaels.
All coming up, Nine Eastern.
Site you DBR Hannity tonight.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow.
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