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Fighting Domestic Terrorism - March 3rd, Hour 2
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It's always a privilege and a pleasure to welcome back to the program our friend, Leo 2.0 Terrell.
Now, I guess I have to call him sir, considering he has his new position in the Trump administration.
He is now the senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and is heading up the new Justice Department Task Force to combat anti-Semitism.
He's going to be visiting 10 college campuses that experienced a lot of these incidents of virulent anti-Semitism.
And he wants to see firsthand what is happening on the ground with these unchecked domestic terrorists.
Anyway, Leo 2.0 Terrell, congratulations, my friend, number one.
Finally, it's been very difficult to get you back on the air, but we're glad to have you back.
Well, first of all, Sean, I got a big smile on my face because when you say 2.0, that brings me back four and a half years ago on your show where I came out and supported President Trump.
It was a complete turnaround.
Joe Biden, you ain't black and defund the police.
And I'm very, very happy to be in this current position as senior counsel to the Civil Rights Division.
And I want to personally thank Donald J. Trump because, in my opinion, he's the best president in my lifetime.
And he's given me this opportunity.
And I also want to thank Pam Bondi, her leadership.
She's trusted me to combat it or create this task force.
And Sean, we're going to go after this anti-Semitism, this 10 campus tour with my idea and with the blessings of Pam Bondi.
And I can tell these universities and these blue cities, stop the anti-Semitism.
We're going to take your money.
We're going to take your funding.
We're going to start prosecuting immediately on hate crime charges.
And these DAs, do your job because these crimes are occurring in your cities and you have turned your back on the Jewish community.
It will not happen any longer.
Help is on the way.
That's great to hear.
I know nobody will do a better job.
I was very amused the other day when the president was introducing you and he said, you know, he used to be Leo 1.0, but now he's Leo 2.0 Terrell.
And he must have said it like five times, Leo 2.0 Terrell.
The only thing that was missing was the hat.
Well, Sean, you know what?
I want your viewer, your listeners to know this.
That hat is very special.
I wear that hat only when I'm on the Sean Hannity television show.
I have been requested to wear it numerous times.
But again, Sean, I want your listeners to know.
You and I go back over 25 years.
Apparently, I've been henotized and it's at the right time.
I made the right decision.
And again, I cannot thank President Trump and Pam Bondi enough.
I love my job, and it's a privilege to serve this country.
And I can tell the Jewish American students and community, we are not going to turn our backs on you like the Joe Biden, Merritt Garland administration.
Trump and Bondi are going to provide you with what you deserve, equality, freedom, and be treated like everyone else.
And this task force is just the beginning, Sean.
Well, I want to go into more detail about this federal task force to combat anti-Semitism and this visit to 10 university campuses, which I think is incredible because a lot of these campuses get money from the federal government, do they not?
You're 100% correct.
These universities, private and public, get millions of dollars from the federal government and under Title VI, Sean, we could take it away because they're required to protect all citizens, regardless of religion, protective class status, and they have failed to do so.
So these universities, these colleges are getting millions of dollars.
We're going to take it away because they're violating Title VI.
And I want these individuals who are listening to your show to know this.
We're going to sue you under Title VII.
These are employees who are Jewish Americans, Jewish citizens who are being tormented at these colleges and universities.
We're going to sue you under Title VII as well.
And then, Sean, what we saw last week at Barnard College, those are hate crimes.
And Sean, ever since October 23, the October 7th massacre, where have been the state hate crime charges filed against these individuals.
I want people to understand that's not free speech out there.
These people are tormenting Jewish American students who all they want is go to school.
And I will submit this, and everyone knows this.
If those students were black and they were being harassed like that, all hell would break loose.
Jewish American students deserve the same protection as all students.
You've identified the 10 universities that you're going to.
You'll be headed to Columbia University.
We all watch what happened there.
George Washington University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, New York University.
I went there for a year of my life.
Northwestern University, University of California in Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, University of Southern California, USC out there.
Now, what is the message you're going to bring to the university?
Will you give them a chance to rectify their policies and stop the harassment?
Or do you go straight for the lawsuit after an investigation?
We're going to show them the evidence we have against them.
That's the first thing.
I want to make sure they understand, Sean, we're going to demand the Board of Trustees appear.
You know why?
Because they have a seduciary responsibility.
They control those schools.
We're going to show them the evidence.
And then we're going to have all the lawyers go up and tell them what we're going to do if they don't change immediately.
And this is very, very important.
We're also creating an FBI crime investigation unit.
Why?
Because, again, Sean, like Columbia, they allowed these rioters to harass Jewish students.
Where are they arrested?
They get released the next day.
So to answer your question directly, we're going to show them the evidence, tell them they have 30 days or less to get their act cleaned up immediately.
We're going to monitor it.
If not, we're going to sue them.
Sean, we have lawsuits that we are preparing that we're going to launch in a couple of weeks.
I can't tell you who, where, when, when it's going to happen, but we have the evidence.
We have the information.
We're giving them a chance to clear up.
And I want to make sure this is clear, Sean.
Here's something I'll give you a little breaking news.
We're going to be talking to the mayors and the district attorneys of these blue cities and say, hey, do your job or else we'll do it for you.
And guess what?
You're going to lose funding because these prosecutors, you know about New York.
Look at Los Angeles.
I went to UCLA Law School, Sean.
That was a national embarrassment where the police didn't go out there until three hours later and Jewish students had to renounce or they're being blocked to go to class.
Hey, Leo, they were being stopped at Columbia and asked whether or not they're Zionists.
And if they were, they were not allowed to pass through.
I mean, that's how bad it got at some of these universities.
And there was just outright hatred.
Jewish students were told to stay home because it wasn't safe for them.
Why should they be told to stay home?
I thought this was the United States of America.
And you have spent your life.
I mean, for years, I've introduced you as a civil rights attorney because that has been your passion and your life's work.
And now you are applying this at the DOJ.
I would be a hypocrite if I didn't apply civil rights to every single person, regardless of their protected class status.
And what you identified, where they were telling Jewish students to stay home, Sean, where's the hate crime charges?
Where's the local prosecution?
We saw those things that happened at Barner College last week and at Columbia.
We have the evidence, and those people are going to be taken to jail.
So let me ask you: can these DAs be removed?
Can these prosecutors be removed?
Well, you know, Sean, let me tell you right now, you know, the power of, it's funny about federal funding.
You take away their money.
That's the carrot that these local prosecutors in these local cities, they love federal money.
Well, I'm going to tell you right now, I recommend this.
If these prosecutors don't do their job and start arresting these people, we're going to cut off funding.
They depend.
They need federal funding.
That's going to stop, Sean.
You have my word on that.
And the Jewish American community, help is on the way.
We are here to help you and all Americans who have been denied the rights and privileges of this great country that really, really just the Biden and Merrick Garland administration looked the other way when it came to assisting Jewish Americans.
As a civil rights attorney, I believe in free speech.
Free speech is, you can say the most vile things, but when you match it with conduct and behavior, that's when you cross the line.
That's when there is a criminal act occurring.
And what we saw at Columbia, where kids are being blocked and not, that goes beyond speech.
So let me explain it to you.
That's going to be a hate crime because of the religious belief of these Jewish students.
Those are hate crimes.
And for those faculty members involved who are denying protection for Jewish American faculty members, that's Title VII violation.
And those individuals are going to be, in my opinion, identified libly, very responsible for their misconduct.
Some are criminal, some are civil, but I will tell you right now, when you are motivated by racial animus or religious animus towards Jewish Americans, you're going to face some criminal and civil penalties.
You do raise one very interesting question.
How do you thread the needle between the rights of people to be bigoted jackasses and say things versus those people that are threatening and intimidating?
It's a fine line, isn't it?
Between saying something and that crossing over to being a terroristic threat, right?
Well, let me give you the best example.
Listen, Sean, I'm out on the campus yard and I'm screaming anti-Semitic comments all day.
I can't do anything about that.
That's the great thing about the First Amendment.
But when you go that next step with conduct, I want people to hear all the lawyers out there listening to me.
I'll defend your right to be nasty, to be ugly, to be hateful, to be racist, to be anti-Semitic.
You can talk all you want, but when you block Jewish students' right to go to class, when you attempt to force them to go home, not to attend classes, or make them disavow their religious beliefs, you have crossed the line.
First Amendment protection does not apply to you.
You're a criminal.
That's a hate crime because of your conduct.
It's harassing, intimidating.
And that shot is a no-brainer.
But if somebody wants to go out and express how ugly they are with free speech, go ahead and do it.
I'll defend your rights to do that, but not conduct.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more with Leo 2.0 Terrell, now senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, heading up the Justice Department Task Force to combat anti-Semitism.
He's headed to 10 college campuses around the country where they experienced incidents of virgulant anti-Semitism.
More with Leo on the other side than your calls, 800-941-Sean.
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All right, 25 now till the top of the hour as we broadcast we're in the Washington swamp, the sewer.
Yeah, we're back again.
JD Vance will be talking about what happened with President Zelensky on Friday with me tonight.
Pam Bondi is on tonight.
I think there's been an unfair rush to judgment on Pam Bondi.
She and Kash Patel got sandbagged.
The New York FBI Bureau did not, we're not forthcoming with the information requested, and it came as a shock and surprise to them as it relates to the Epstein files.
And she has every intention.
I had a conversation and she said it publicly of releasing everything they have.
And, you know, I just urge people, just give people a little bit of time and space here.
Are you really at all surprised that there are people in the deep state that wouldn't cooperate with Pam Bondi's DOJ and Kash Patel's FBI?
That does not surprise me.
So I tend to give the benefit of the doubt, and we'll know in time.
You know, just give it a few days and let's see when they turn this thing over.
They were supposed to do it by Friday of last week.
I don't know if that happened.
Listen, you know, if you listen to this program, I take better care of myself.
I'm into health, wellness, nutrition.
I met with Gary Brecker.
I don't know if you know him or follow him.
Man, he is a, I learned so much from this guy.
And he's the guy that saved Dana White's life.
Dana White, he has this whole series of tests that he does, and he comes up with a life expectancy.
He had Dana 10.4 years.
And after Dana followed his program, he's now a 37-year life expectancy.
He did everything.
He's a big believer in cold plunges and a big believer in breathing and breath and taking in fresh air, a big believer in 10,000 steps, a big believer in my diet, to be very honest, which is very keto-friendly.
And I basically eat meat and eggs and eggs and meat and occasional fish.
And that's it.
I really stay away from carbs.
And one thing I miss probably more than anything is cereal.
But now I found the answer because I take better care of myself.
I met Peter Harris.
Now, he and his father created grain berry cereals.
Please etch that name into your brain because the next time you go to your supermarket, you're going to want to get grainberry cereals.
It's the healthiest, most natural choice that you're going to find in the cereal aisle, if you even find it in the cereal aisle.
And if you don't find it, ask for it, or maybe it's in the health food aisle.
Anyway, I just enjoy it.
And the best part is, unlike most cereals that are high in sugar and have corn syrup and chemical additives, no.
Grainberry is focused on controlling sugar levels and being heart healthy.
And they use natural plant-based fiber.
It has tons of antioxidants.
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It tastes great, which I love.
And it's an all-round healthy food choice.
So I can have now cereal back on my diet.
Anyway, they have seven different grain berry cereals: multi-brand flakes, honey nut, original toasted oats, apple cinnamon, Linda's favorite grain berry raisin brand.
And just simple.
When you go to your local grocery store and you go shopping, make the switch, but you have to remember the name, grain berry.
Now, if they don't have it at your supermarket, you know, ask the manager on the way out, can you please get grain berry cereal?
Because it's healthy and it's great, and it's now the official cereal of the Sean Hannity show.
Let me play this for you.
I mean, I don't even know what to say.
When the likes of AOC and the likes of Congresswoman Omar and squad members are out there talking about the intelligence of Elon Musk, I mean, they're not the sharpest people, I would argue, in Congress.
Because Elon Musk, whether you like him or don't like him, it's an indisputable fact, an undeniable truth.
He is a genius.
He is brilliant.
PayPal was brilliant.
SpaceX was brilliant.
He was the chief engineer, invested his own money.
I thought liberals loved electric vehicles.
Now they don't like it because Elon Musk likes Trump.
So we don't like Tesla anymore.
Well, maybe I'll buy a Tesla my next car.
I'm thinking about it.
But think about the guy that when North Carolina, Tennessee got whacked with Hurricane Helene, it was his Starlink that gave free communications to people that had absolutely no ability to communicate with the outside world and call for help.
He did that in the Pacific Palisades after the wildfires.
He's about to go rescue this month the astronauts lost in space that have been there nearly 300 days.
He's got a robotic component to Tesla, which might end up in everybody's household probably sooner than later.
It's going to be like big screen TVs.
If you buy the first ones, you're going to pay a fortune.
You wait a year or two or three, and you're going to pay next to nothing.
And everybody will be able to, you know, most middle-class people will be able to afford a robot that does menial tasks like, you know, vacuums the carpet, stuff like that, which I love.
I don't want to do that crap.
I hate it.
I hate cleaning.
Like cooking.
Don't like cleaning.
Anyway, how cool would that be?
But the most impressive thing to me is Neuralink, which is going to use artificial intelligence.
Right now, they are confident that they are coming up with a technology that'll allow the blind to see and allow people with spinal cord injuries to be able to walk again.
But here's Congresswoman Omar saying, Elon is one of the dumbest people on earth, kind of echoing the comments of AOC.
The retirement thing for air traffic controllers is also, again, it just shows how much he doesn't know.
I know people talk about him as a genius, but to me, I think he's probably one of the dumbest, luckiest people to exist on this earth.
The retirement age for air traffic controls is 55 or 25 years of service.
So unless we raise their retirement age, if they retire, they're not coming back, right?
Like they were set to retire.
What they're also firing, it's not just air traffic controllers.
They're firing the people who support them.
So technicians, when their equipment goes down, the people who make sure that their equipment is up and running so that they can actually direct the flights and where to go.
Well, let me just say this.
Nobody involved in safety has been let go by the FAA.
That is fake news spread by the fake news media and liberal Democrats.
That's A. B, there is talk of raising the retirement age and maybe bringing back experienced air traffic controllers because it was under Biden and Harris in 2023 when the FAA came out with their study that said they had a massive shortage of air traffic controllers and the highest incidence in 17 years of near,
you know, near-air collisions in our skies over our busiest airports.
Now, they did nothing about it except apply DEI standards, which literally said that people that have intellectual abilities and, well, mental problems need to be considered for these jobs.
Now, if you're going to be an air traffic controller, then there were people with reports about people that got 100 on the test.
And because they didn't meet DEI qualifications, were not given positions or trained, even though there was availability to hire well over 1,000 people.
That's why this incident at Reagan Airport, not far from where I am today, that even happened because they should have had 30 people in that tower.
They had 19 and one person left early.
And the person that was responsible for planes landing and helicopters taken off was doing the job of two people instead of one job.
And that probably could have been prevented.
And again, you can put the blame on Donald Trump.
I think if he cured cancer, they would want to blame Donald Trump.
All right, let's go to our busy phones.
Let us say hi to Barbara in Texas.
God bless Texas, Barbara.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you, Sean?
I'm good.
Happy Monday.
Thank you.
Hey, I wanted to talk about what happened last Friday in the Oval Office and how, first of all, I'm so proud of Trump and JD Vance.
They are just the best team.
This is what our country needed.
And, you know, Zelensky coming in and trying to have his demands, and you're going to do this, and you're going to do that, and you're going to give me money.
And, you know, just trying to act like he had the last four years.
Well, we've got a new administration.
They're much smarter.
They know what they're doing.
They're wanting to bring peace to that nation.
And Zelensky, all he seems to want is continuing to fight.
You know, give me more money.
Give me your kids to come over and die.
And Trump pointed out, 2,000, we are dying, 2,000.
And Trump seems to be more interested in stopping the killing than Zelensky.
Trump had a deal on the table.
He'd already talked to Putin.
They were ready for a ceasefire.
They were ready to sign.
And Zelensky is like, it doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
I don't want, I will not do a ceasefire.
And I'm thinking, why not?
Why not save your people?
They're dying every and he doesn't seem to care.
He doesn't seem to care.
Listen, I did know that Zelensky met with 10 senators, mostly Democrats.
And I do know that he was coached ahead of time.
Michael Goodwin in the New York Post today quoted Chris Murphy.
He had finished the meeting with Zelensky and confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine.
That was not the deal.
Once America got the rare earth minerals deal, that was phase one.
Phase two was going to be a ceasefire.
Phase three was going to be the negotiation that would have entailed.
The president had said to President Macron that he's fine with European troops being on the ground there.
And they just didn't let it unfold.
And what sadly happened is, you know, after meeting with these liberal members of the Senate, Zelensky arrives at the White House.
And, you know, this was supposed to be a predetermined outcome.
And it was actually Scott Besant revealing that the Ukrainian president Zelensky turned down two earlier opportunities to sign the rare earth mineral deal.
And according to Besant, he was there.
I was told he was there himself once, waited for him, and they wouldn't wake him up.
And then Zelensky was given chances in Kyiv by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
And this was now his third chance.
And anyway, they had an opportunity to do this.
And Trump sent him there again, and the guy wouldn't be woken up.
It's kind of insane.
So, look, if this is his choice and Europe wants to go it on their own, you know, at that point, there's not much we can do.
But if they're expecting another $200 or $300 billion of U.S. taxpayer money so we fight a proxy war with Russia, it's not going to happen.
The American people, as I pointed out in the polls earlier, they don't want this to continue.
They want this over.
A double-digit majority of Ukrainians now support a negotiated settlement and a quick end to this war.
You know, the plurality of the American people, you know, support a quick end to the Ukraine war, even if Russia ends up getting some territory that they now currently occupy.
And this was the opportunity for him to stop the death and save his country from destruction.
And then he made a statement today that he expects this is going to go on for years.
There won't be a Ukraine left in years.
It won't exist.
And it will be too late at that point.
How many more people do you want to die?
Do I like Putin?
No, I think Putin's a murdering dictator thug.
There, I said the evil words.
But it's stupid for Trump to say it, in my humble opinion.
And he said this on Friday.
What am I supposed to do?
Call him Hitler and then call him up after and say, Vladimir, let's do a deal.
It doesn't work that way.
He's trying to thread a needle to get to peace, which is in the best interest of Europe, Ukraine, and Russia.
Russia's economy is not in the best position.
But, you know, people don't understand the art of the deal.
They don't know how to negotiate.
Donald Trump does.
And Donald Trump, in the end, I predict, will get Zelensky back probably sooner than later because he has no choice.
There is no option.
Europe is not going to be able to fill the gap of the massive amounts of money that Biden and Harris gave him.
Just did not.
Right.
But, you know, I feel bad for the Ukrainian people.
I think they have fought valiantly.
I think they've done the best with the little that they had.
If you want to know where I think Ukraine made their biggest mistake, I think it was Clinton that was president when he gave up his nuclear weapons.
Never should have done that.
Greatest deterrent there would have been for them.
And then we had Minsk one, and then we had Minsk II.
And everybody knew that Putin was dead set against any joining of NATO.
Everybody knows that'll be part of a final agreement, but that doesn't mean that European troops can't be on the ground there.
And a U.S. presence with the mineral deal offers a protection, an unstated protection from the U.S. because we have business interests there.
So let's see what happens.
I think Zelensky's back sooner than later.
There's my prediction.
Okay?
We need peace.
We need peace.
And now.
So I love your show.
I love it.
I hear it as much as I can.
You bring truth and clarity, and I thank you for that.
Well, that's my job, and we're working hard every day.
And we thank you for this microphone.
and we appreciate Texas.
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