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Uh Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
Um chilly.
It's snowing again up here.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
I really am.
Considering you you may you made the choice to stay in that Adam Schifle.
That's your problem.
I've I've tried to convince you repeatedly, and to no avail.
And you know, you want to pay the high taxes in New York, and when you die in New York one day, you're gonna pay a death tax.
You'll they'll double tax you.
That's money you've paid taxes on already, and you know, but that's that's your choice.
You made that decision.
I made a decision that's very different.
I got one word for you down there in Florida.
Yeah, by the way, it's about it's beautiful.
Nice ocean breeze today, about eighty degrees.
Uh I may have to be a snowbird.
I might have to think about that.
Anyway, I'm okay.
What's going on with you?
Uh, nothing.
I'm enjoying the flip out, the freak out of the left over, you know, all things Donald Trump and Doge.
I mean, they were reduced yesterday.
You know, uh Congress men and women saying F Donald Trump.
I mean, if and the media is just as bad uh over at fake news CNN, Anderson Cooper, you know, said to Governor Sanunu of of New Hampshire, don't be a uh a penis, a more street vernacular of the word.
And it just gets worse and worse, but let me play a little bit of it for you.
And I'll tell you, I'm from Jersey, so I look a little differently.
I say f Trump.
I don't swear in public very well, but we have to f*** Trump.
*Cheering*
Please don't tell my children that I just did that.
Hey, she said f Trump.
I said for F O R K. Let me hear you say it.
LK We are going to beat.
I I was gonna say, but no, we're not.
No, I'm not gonna say that.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Some of the details that have come out, like the, you know, 59 million dollars spent on luxury hotels, it's actually not the thing about the FEMA money that was abused for migrants that was FEMA money for migrants, that's okay now?
No, I'm not saying it's okay.
I'm not saying it's okay.
Don't put words in the city.
So would you stop that?
Would you stop that process?
Don't be a the portrayal I'm what I'm saying is the portrayal by him is just not factually accurate.
You want to explain this unhinged rhetoric and behavior?
Sure.
Uh it's like a spoiled kid who doesn't get what he wants.
Trump gets elected, they're seething.
They believe that uh criticizing Musk and doge is a good strategy.
But that's the insanity of it, Hannity.
That rhymes Hannity insanity.
You had a I think on your TV program, you had a segment long time ago, Hannity's insanity, as I remember.
I did.
Yeah.
You should bring it back.
But here's the uh here's the insanity of this.
Most Americans are not party people or ideologues.
They're just trying to get through life in an honest, hardworking way.
Everyone that I know, and I know thousands of people, doesn't want the government to waste tax money.
I don't know anybody who wants that.
And 90% of the people that I know want the government to shrink to get smaller, which is going to uh mean you're gonna have to lay off federal workers.
They want to bring the spending down because they're worried about a $37 trillion debt that at any time could go in and destroy this economy in America.
That is the rational, reasonable position.
And I don't think there's any argument about that.
So the Democratic Party now is taking out territory saying, no, we don't want that.
We don't want oversight on crazy spending.
We don't want to let anybody go in the federal government.
That is now eroding the party's credibility even more than Joe Biden did, I believe.
You see my point here?
So the Democratic Party, and and we've gone through the tens of billions of dollars discovered so far, and I think it's only the tip of the iceberg.
When all said and done, it's going to be hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in waste fraud abuse and corruption, and and there's a another side of it, which is there were senators and and house people whose job in part is government oversight,
and they were requesting how the money was spent and details about it, and they were given broad, you know, obscure, obtuse, you know, explanations when they know they knew damn well that it was being s spent on transgenderism and DEI and wokeism and new Green Deal ism and climate alarmism around the globe, because that's where the vast majority of monies has been spent.
And I'm I won't I won't bore you with my list, but my list is you know now up to 15 pages long that that adds up to tens of billions of dollars, Bill, and now they they want to hyperventilate and hate Elon Musk, and I think Elon Musk is doing the country of a favor.
Uh let me let me put it into a historical perspective.
So one of the greatest democratic icons of all time is President Franklin Roosevelt, four-term president, revered by the Democratic Party.
Roosevelt did exactly what Donald Trump is doing.
He brought in powerful people led by a man named Harry Hopkins, and they became the so-called kitchen cabinet.
You've heard that, right?
Kitchen Cabinet?
Of course.
But they had more power, FDR's crew, than any senator or any representative, because they had his ear.
He trusted them.
That went on for 14 years, and there wasn't any criticism at the time or in the history books of Franklin Roosevelt doing that.
Trump does exactly the same thing, brings in Musk and a few other advisors, and you get uh hysterics on the part of the Democratic Party.
So there you go, history-wise.
This isn't unprecedented.
It's not an attack on the Constitution.
It's perfectly legal, and I don't even mind the lawsuits challenging Donald Trump's EOs because I want Americans to see how the system works.
From what I can see, all his executive orders are legal, and he will win in the federal courts.
What do you make, and I'll give you some examples.
Donald Trump should be impeached over at MSDNC.
Uh Trump is a racist, you know, again, MSDNC, and I'm I'm gonna go through some of the other media as well.
Uh Trump is a scumbag uh racist piece of garbage, MSDNC.
Uh Trump is a disaster for humanity, MSDNC.
ABC, CBS, you know, Doge is causing a frightening constitutional crisis.
On the other hand, you have P PBS caving to Trump closing their DEI offices, and then the AP refuses to refer to the Gulf of America as the Gulf of America, and they were barred from the White House, which I think is the right thing to do.
And then you got Joy Less Behar, your old friend over at the View, you know, Lecturing Democrats to get off their butts and ambush the airwaves to counter Trump, and all I see is Donald Trump just keeps moving at the speed of light, not carry one iota about what they think and what they say.
Well, I wrote a column on Sunday called Blitzkrieg, uh, and it's on BillO'Reilly.com.
You don't have to join up, you don't have to do anything, you just read it.
And um the strategy is to throw so much stuff at the opposition that they uh blow themselves up.
And that's exactly what's happening.
Here's a very interesting story.
I don't know whether you've touched upon it, but it's a fascinating story.
So the FCC has announced an investigation into NBC News, the parent company of MSNBC.
And the investigation centers around the failure of NBC to close its DEI office because President Trump wrote an executive order saying all federal employees, all federal agencies have to close the DEI.
Now, at first glance, you would say, well, NBC Comcast, a private company, Trump can't tell them what to do, which is true.
But they do defense department work.
Comcast does defense department work.
So the FCC's going in with a hammer to bludgeon them.
Isn't that interesting?
I think it's very interesting.
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Here's where the Democratic Party is, and and they've obviously learned nothing.
There's no course correction, as Joe Rogan said by the Democrats or the state-run legacy media mob as I affectionately refer to them.
So they're not adjusting, and this is the position that they've staked out.
That they're going to defend tens and hundreds of billions of dollars in in expanding their radicalism worldwide while Americans are are suffering here at home.
Our schools are suffering.
Uh the economy still is not in better shape.
Uh we have to deport all the Biden Harris illegals.
We have to secure the border.
Uh we've got to extract the energy that eventually will make this country the the wealthiest energy c country on earth.
They staked out that position.
They're they're fighting for men to stay in women's sports, and they're they're fighting against the deportation of, you know, we have known terrorists, rapists, murderers, cartel members, and gang members.
So that's their stated that that is the position they've staked out and led by Chucky Schumer.
We will win.
We will win.
F. Donald Trump, blah, blah, blah.
Here's the option of this.
Okay, the Cook Report, which chronicles the races in the House and in the Senate issued a report this morning.
And it said that already in the midterms, the Republicans are projected to pick up even more seats than they have now.
Very unusual because usually when you have an uh a president of either party elected, the midterms are not good for that person.
But because Democratic Party has no leader, isn't that amazing?
There is no leader in the in the party at all.
And because they have stick staked out these radical positions, a writer in the Wall Street Journal today called the USAID operation a slush fund for radical left progressive causes, which is exactly what it is.
An enormous slush fund to promote progressive causes.
That's a government agency.
They're using my money and your money, Hannity, to do that.
That is so wrong on so many levels.
So But but uh but I'm trying to understand the logic behind it.
It was sort of like during the the Biden Harris years.
I nobody could ever give me a good explanation except that they were I assume one day plan to give amnesty to their unvetted illegals and that out of gratitude they these these illegals would one day vote for Democrats in perpetuity as a means of thanking them.
But there was no reason to allow unvetted, you know, 14 million, whatever the number uh was, we don't know with all the gotta ways.
And and to stake out a position when the average America makes sixty six thousand dollars a year, Bill, that's that that that's not a modest amount of money, and that's what the average American is making.
And they're struggling with inflation, and they're struggling with gas prices, and they're struggling to make ends meet.
And and then they're gonna find out that you know, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent abroad for this radicalism.
I think the I I think ninety it's a ninety ten issue to me.
Yeah, because the Democrats all operate on emotion and virtue signaling, and you have to uh be compassionate to the poor and let everybody in.
Um that's what they believe.
But it you can't run a country like that, and everybody knows it.
Um so that's why the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging membership and has no leader at all and continues look, Trump and and uh let me put this in a way that uh is going to be vivid.
I don't know whether Donald Trump realizes how much damage he himself is doing to that democratic party.
If he does, he's a genius.
Because this campaign of throwing out so many things so quickly that Trump has to know is driving his opposition crazy and it's causing his opposition to self-destruct.
If that was a premeditated campaign, Donald Trump is a genius.
Well, I think the very sight of them, if the dog bites, if the beast things, if you're feeling sad, they've already blamed Donald Trump.
This was a very predictable reaction.
I think they went through phases of grief.
First it was just complete denial, then it was you know, sadness and depression, and now they're in the rage stage.
But the rage stage was the most predictable stage.
And I think this is where they stay for four years.
And uh if they want to if th this is the hill they're gonna die on, and they're not gonna listen to David Axelrod, James Carville, and a few others, then they will die on that hill because they're out of sync with the American people.
But anyway, Bill O'Reilly, all things uh O'Reilly at what's the next next book, by the way?
Who are you gonna kill this time?
Well, it's uh confronting evil, Hannity.
And it'll be out September.
Um Great Cover, go to Bill O'Reilly.com, you see the cover.
Our pal bad lad is on it.
He's one of the evildoers.
And um it's gonna be quite something.
Now you're you're not copying my book from two thousand and four, deliver us from evil, are you?
No, I didn't uh plagiarize your book.
I was tempted.
I know you didn't.
I'm just teasing.
Uh anyway, Bill O'Reilly, we always love having you.
Thank you, sir.
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Uh didn't spend a lot of time on it, but you know, one of the things that Donald Trump is showing is a different way to view everything.
And and this is uh, you know, thinking out of the box, coming up with creative solutions.
Nobody in the media really wanted to pay attention to what he actually said about America taking control of Gaza.
He said they're gonna demilitarize it.
They're gonna remove all of the bombs and and all the dangerous materials that are there.
They're gonna clean up the rubble, and then they're gonna work with Arab countries and they're gonna begin the process of rebuilding Gaza into, you know, a resort that will provide untold numbers of thousands and thousands of of jobs and opportunities and take what has been a terrorist,
you know, stronghold hellhole that has been pretty much decimated and blown to smithereens by Israel since October the seventh, and they're gonna turn it into, you know, something that would improve the quality of life of of anybody that would live there, but they've got to demilitarize it.
And now the president has drawn a line in the sand Saturday at noon that Hamas has to release the hostages or all hell's going to break loose.
And I would imagine that that would impact not only Hamas uh but probably its proxy, Iran, which has been funding from the beginning.
They helped orchestrate what happened on October the 7th.
They helped plot plot it and plan it and scheme it.
They provided the weaponry for it, and they have been providing weapon weaponry ever since, as you know, rocket after rocket after rocket is fired into Israel by Hamas in the north out of Lebanon, uh Hezbollah, as well as Islamic Jihad, the Houthi rebels out of Yemen and Iran itself.
And anyway, you would think, you know, it's it's been a mystery over the years.
Why haven't people countries like the Saudis and the Egyptians and the Jordanians?
These countries have been very, very unwilling to absorb that population as a means of ending the conflict in the region.
Anyway, so King Abdullah's in the Oval Office yesterday of Jordan, and he showed a willingness to rethink the situation in this dynamic new creative way that Donald Trump brought up, which is kind of similar to what he ran on, which is success will be our best revenge.
And success here, you know, is gonna be opportunity and financial gain for people in Gaza as long as it is forever demilitarized and can't be a launching pad against Israel for the the rockets that they continue to fire into the state of Israel.
Listen.
Mr. President, I I truly believe that with all the challenges that we have in the Middle East that I finally see somebody that could take us across the finish line to bring stability, peace um, and prosperity to all of us in the region.
And it is, I think, our collective responsibility in the Middle East to continue to work with you to support you to achieve those lofty goals.
You know, stability, prosperity, I mean, peace in the Middle East, unthinkable.
Is this really that far out of the box?
You know, people are given an opportunity between a chance for a life and and happiness and success for themselves and their kids that they want to choose that over, you know, the alternative.
Anyway, let's get to our busy phones.
Uh let us say hi to Mikey's in Long Island, New York.
What's up, Mikey?
How are you doing in New York?
What's going on?
Hey, hey, good afternoon, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
Hey, sure, we call you New York City Flyfight.
I want to thank you for your support and respect you showed all first responders around the country.
I want to thank you guys.
I mean, you know, uh what you guys do on a daily basis and you know, what you had to endure uh during 9-11 and and after 9-11 is unthinkable.
Yeah, no, let's let country never forget, Sean, right?
Well, we hope well, I hope not.
I mean, we have uh Joe Biden is allowing no known terrorists in the country, so I'm not sure if he if he if if he remembers.
Yeah, uh Sean, perhaps you could do the country a favor.
And like the budget committee chair, Senator Graham on your show, as well as the other senators that are on the fence.
Perhaps you can ask them why stone only speaker Johnson on having one big bill that President Trump is on board with.
I just don't get it.
And just don't it's interesting because Newt Gingrich uh wanted me to invite Lindsay Graham on to ask him that very question because he is the budget chair.
One big beautiful bill.
A lot of senators, including conservative senators, think that the two bill strategy is better.
Now, there are technicalities here that are very, very real when you're passing a reconciliation bill.
There are very strident, stringent requirements to pass reconciliation.
And the Senate has to navigate its way through that.
The House will send a bill, and if it's one big beautiful bill, the Senate will take it up.
I have no doubt about that.
And then they've got to they they've got to create a bill that will pass the reconciliation process, which I don't think will be that heavy a lift.
They'll be able to do it.
And the question is, do they try to bifurcate it into two areas?
But I think Newt's argument is the the most logical that I heard is we've got a midterm.
Reagan waited until he got his tax cuts in place, and as a result, he ended up losing 26 seats in his first midterm election.
You know, Donald Trump in his first midterm lost over 40 seats.
And the best way to prevent that from happening, we saw the CPI numbers, you know, go through the roof again.
Inflation is the last month of the Biden presidency and inflation disaster.
And you know, this this is the starting point for Donald Trump.
And I know everybody's all freaked out about trade and trade wars.
Donald Trump doesn't want a trade war.
Nobody seems to have picked up on his truth post that he will practice reciprocal tariffs.
Meaning if you put a tariff on an American product, we're gonna put the same tariff on your products.
That's it.
And I don't think any American can argue against that.
Well, it's gonna raise taxes.
We're not looking to raise taxes.
Donald Trump does not want tariffs and a trade war.
What he wants are good neighbors and partners that are gonna do their part.
He wants NATO members to pay their fair share.
He wants Mexico and Canada to control their borders and to stop allowing this this influx of illegal immigrants and drugs into our country.
And the same thing goes for China, where they produce most of this fentanyl.
He wants it to end.
He wants their unfair trade practices to end.
He wants their intellectual property theft to end, and I think he's gonna probably accomplish all of these things.
Well, a lot of the intellectuals keep saying that these tariffs are gonna raise taxes, this, that, and the other thing.
But I'll tell you what, Sean, quite frankly, I think they're about to work in, don't you?
Uh I think they work in the sense that I think these countries realize they've gotten away with murder and that the gravy trains over, and when they're not getting a free ride from America anymore, and America's gonna be a lot smarter country, and we're not gonna be stupid and give away our our children's future.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Mike, New York, Long Island.
We appreciate you.
I don't know if Long Island misses me, but uh I I miss my friends, some of them, not all of them, but some of them.
And uh, but I don't miss being there.
Uh, especially on days like today.
Linda, how much snow did you get up there?
Wow.
Pretty interesting.
Actually, we got close to ten inches.
It's it's pretty crazy.
Did I mention that it's sunny and eighty here today?
Did I mention that?
You know what?
I'm a pale Irish gal.
I am enjoying the snow.
This is my weather.
I love it.
So you you're you're full of Adam Schiff.
You're not, I mean you know what?
You don't love the snow.
You hate the snow in the side.
I walked Liam with us because we had a delayed opening because of all the schools.
You walk the the 500-pound cat that you owned, or that's right.
Actually, the cat does walk with us typically, but she did not today.
She opted out, which is fine.
Is the cat back of the fat cat?
Well, that's a different cat.
She's in great job.
They got a different cat.
Fat cat's still at the fat far.
Uh back to our busy phones.
Uh, let's say hi to Joel in my free state of Florida.
What's up, Joel?
How are you?
Too funny, Sean.
That's that's too funny.
Uh my question is, Sean, and thank you for talking about it I want to know why it's funny because Linda, quote, loves her animal so much, she overfed the cat.
It was the size one cat was the size of five cats.
So they had to send the cat away to lose weight.
And the cat never came back.
I think that that's a little um egregious in that exaggeration.
You know, she was that's a good one.
Okay, let's take a picture of let's put the picture of the cat on online.
Nobody's ever seen a cat that big.
She's very camera shy.
So I don't know.
It's gonna be possible.
No, you have pictures on your phone because we used to have them.
Oh, man.
Uh-huh.
Cats anyways, anyways, back to the caller.
What do you want to say, caller?
My my question is my question is all these great executive orders that are coming through.
We know that uh that they don't last unless uh they become codified.
Do you think any of those are gonna go to any of these two single bill or or or a uh double bill that's gonna be codified.
And what which ones do you think will be?
I think they all need to be.
I don't know if it's going to be part of the reconciliation bill.
I think reconciliation is going to deal more with borders, energy, and the budget.
And again, yeah, you have you know very stringent protocols you gotta follow in the Senate in terms of Senate rules to get reconciliation to pass.
And so they're not gonna I don't think that's gonna be part of it, but you're correct in saying that it does need to be codified into law or with the stroke of a pen, you know, a future president would be able to undo it.
You know, but what you we ought to be hoping for is we don't let them back in power now.
We're not gonna we're not gonna go back to the what to the mess that they've left us.
Right now, realistically, historically, are there ebbs and flow flows to political cycles?
There are.
And however, if Donald Trump does the job I think he's gonna do, I think that can Republicans uh will be in power for a long time, and I think they'll do a lot of good.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
As long as they stay true to what they're doing.
Anyway, Joel, appreciate the call.
All right, quick break right back to our phones.
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800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Don Lake Ronconcuma, what's up, Don?
Welcome aboard, sir.
How are you?
Hey, Sean, thanks so much for taking my call.
Before I before I get to my question, I have to uh praise you for you how well you manage all the news from the Trump White House every day.
I mean, any other host would need four or five hours a day on radio and two hours at night.
You do it well.
You're very kind, but I'm telling you, it is a heavier lift than I've ever had in terms of getting out the just sheer volume of information that we have.
I'm just a casual observer, and I I can't keep up with it.
It's just amazing.
But Sean, I tell you, I have to laugh out loud at the incredible hypocrisy once again when you see completely unhinged Democrats screaming and shouting out against Trump and Elon Musk's investigation into the uh voluminous government fraud and uh corruption.
Uh recently, CNN's Jeffrey Tubin and Anderson Cooper are claiming Musk has no evidence to his claims.
No evidence.
What's he have Okay?
And you know, all we've done is show the evidence that they discovered and that they tried to hide from the American people for years.
So, you know, he can s they can say whatever they want.
It's sort of like fake Jake was out there yesterday.
Well, Elon Musk is not elected.
I'm like, no, neither was any cabinet member that was appointed by the president.
The president's elected and he hires these people to do the job to fulfill the promises and the agenda that he that he made to the American people, and that's what we're living through.
And you know why why they keep bringing that up is is beyond me.
It's a dumb argument, but they're dumb people.
Yeah.
These are the same nitwitch, Sean, that overlooked the evidence of Joe Biden's mental decline and and dismissed the reality of the chaotic out of control border, and they uh they ignored the physical evidence of uh Hunter's laptop and so on and so on and so on.
And FISA and Russia and and the double standard and a weaponized justice system, they they they've been wrong on all of it.
And we've been right.
And you know what?
We're proud of the fact that we we take pride in getting it right.
That's our job.
I mean, if I give you false information, I'm not doing my job.
Um, we love you.
Thanks, man.
Appreciate the call.
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