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March 21, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Education and Waste - March 20th, Hour 2

President Trump's press conference on the future of the Department of Education plus reactions from Sean and team.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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If you want to be a part of the program, we are awaiting Donald Trump has signed his order to dismantle the Department of Education.
He will be addressing the nation at some point in this hour.
We expect it any minute to be very frank.
And when that happens, we will bring that to you live.
I did spend an awful lot of time talking about why this needs to occur, how we spend so much money on education with spectacular failure.
Um I'll move on to some other news in the interim.
Elon Musk is saying that he believes that organized democratic groups are financing these these Tesla takedown protests and some of the most prominent fundraising groups.
And anyway, he said an investigation that they have found the people responsible, and he is acting accordingly.
Um it's not clear what investigation musk is referring to.
Uh, a March 10th CBS news report on one of the donors mentioned in Musk's post tonight.
Any involvement in this.
Uh, but we'll find out in time.
Eight Republican representatives have written a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondy and FBI Director Cash Patel requesting an investigation into any relationship with any of these radical leftist groups and the anti-Musk protests.
Uh and in a major comeback, by the way, Elon Musk's X has now regained its 44 billion dollar uh value.
You know, Musk reportedly uh regained 44 billion dollar valuation, the same price the world's richest person paid to buy the social media site, uh, which is pretty interesting.
Uh it's amazing how people want him to fail.
It is amazing the silence of the left is deafening.
Senator Marsha Blackburn is ripping Democrats for their silence, appearing on Fox Business earlier yesterday.
He slammed the Democratic Party, their lack of response.
I find it so interesting.
Democrats here in the Washington, D.C. area of absolutely nothing to say about the people that are showing up, burning these dealerships, burning these cars, smashing their windows, firing bullets into it, I'll add, lighting cars on fire.
They're also lighting charging stations on fire.
All of this to cause violence, disruption, destruction of property.
If it was parents at a school board meeting or people praying outside of an abortion clinic, the Biden DOJ would classify them as domestic terrorists.
What we are witnessing is domestic terrorism.
She goes on.
What you're seeing from the Democrats is complete silence.
It's like crickets.
It's really sad.
Because this is full on domestic terrorism.
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What I worry the most about are the people that work for Tesla.
Because if this continues, and it be and they're successful in terrorizing this company after the doxing that took place, and you know, you got this website with a Molotov cocktail cursor that is uh trying to identify where every Tesla owner lives, and it means it as a means of intimidating them.
But so domestic terrorism is now hitting Tesla drivers and dealers and charging stations.
As, you know, and what has he done for this?
Nothing.
Pam Bondy says we have charged multiple people.
He said to get ready.
More are coming.
And one in Oregon facing five to twenty years in prison.
We have filed in Colorado.
We have filed in South Carolina.
The funding is one thing that we're looking at.
I'm personally in a meeting about it this morning, and we're coming after you.
We believe these are organized.
These are not individuals out there throughout the country doing this on their own.
They are targeting Tesla owners.
They are targeting Tesla dealerships.
They're targeting Elon Musk, who's out there trying to save our country.
It will not be tolerated.
We are coming after you.
We will find you.
And if you are an organized group who's funding this, we're going to find you too.
You better look out or you better stop it.
And uh this domestic terrorism is hitting all these people.
But I I I worry now about people's lives.
You work at a Tesla dealership.
How many of these dealerships now have been firebombed?
How many of these dealerships now have had bullets fired through their windows?
And the Democratic Party, for the most part, they just remain silent.
How do you remain silent in a moment like this?
How is it possible?
How is that possible?
Uh police arrest a suspect in a viral video of Tesla vandalism.
San Jose Police arrested a man suspected of keying a white Tesla vehicle in a Costco parking lot.
An incident that was captured on video, went viral on the internet.
The alleged vandal was charged with felony over the incident.
Good.
I mean, because you're you're all part of this effort.
By the way, a top Senate Democrat is hinting that it is time for Chuck Schumer to retire.
Let me just say it's important for people to know when it's time to go.
Senator Michael Bennett, Colorado, went further than any of his Democratic colleagues as it relates to Chuck Schumer.
What did I say?
I said Chuck's days seem to be numbered.
Pretty unbelievable.
By the way, untold story, the Taliban is released an American, George Glesman is his name, ending his two-year detainment, giving President Trump another diplomatic victory.
The Taliban agreed to send him back to the U.S. in exchange for improved relations with DC or owing its previous demand that America hand over imprisoned Taliban members.
In a statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said George's release is a positive constructive step.
It's a reminder that Americans will that are still detained in Afghanistan.
He said the president said he will continue his tireless work to free all Americans unjustly detained around the world.
A lawyer for the Glesman family praised President Trump and his efforts to bring George home after 836 days.
He directly credited the president, Marco Rubio.
Adam Bowler, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
Georgia's release was achieved based on the unique skill dedication of these people.
I mean, it's, it's amazing.
The number of people around the world that are being held hostage that we know nothing about.
Bernie Sanders is urging progressives to abandon the Democratic Party.
Anyway, he said, why don't you just shed the Democratic label and run as an independent the way he does?
Okay, so you're still going to be a Democrat.
You'll caucus as a Democrat like Bernie does, but you'll vote Democratic.
That's a nice little trick to say you're an independent and then vote for Chuck Schumer as your leader.
You know, this kind of fits in with the attacks on Tesla.
And I hope the radical left Uh watch what just happened to Green's peace after their supporters were caught damaging a pipeline in North Dakota because a jury on Wednesday ordered environmental campaign that group Greenspeace to pay more than six hundred and sixty million dollars in damages to a Texas-based oil company, Energy Transfer, the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Nine-person jury reached the verdict after roughly two days of deliberations.
The outcome found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars over actions taken to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago.
It marks an extraordinarily an extraordinary legal blow for Greenspee, which had previously warned that it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case.
The environmental advocacy group said they intend to appeal the verdict.
I don't think they're going to win this.
They either did it or they didn't do it.
As of now, they're found liable for doing it.
We'll get into this later in the program with the AG from South Carolina, but I think of it, we We've been watching now, and Miranda Devine summed it up well.
Trump is fighting a cartel of vile, corrupt far-left judges trying to kill his campaign promises.
And it just is these partisan judges understand what Democrats can't get done electorally, but they can't get done legislatively.
What they can't get done by convincing you voters how to, you know, uh of what their ideas are superior.
They do the little judge shopping game, and they go to these local, you know, activist uh judges, and we're finding out more and more of them are democratic donors or democratic activists.
And at the local level, where they should have no say in terms of what a president of the United States does or his constitutional authority, they are stopping the president's agenda in its tracks, and then you know, now we have to spend a fortune and go to court and and have endless court battles.
Uh now there have been a number of us, Governor Ron DeSantis, I think summed it up best when he wrote on X yesterday that Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place.
In other words, the sabotaging of President Trump's agenda by resistance judges was predictable.
Why are there no jurisdiction stripping bills teed up at the onset of this Congress?
And he's right.
That is probably the best, quickest, most effective solution.
You got the judge that blocked the key Trump executive order, has a history of left-wing activism.
This is the judge that that is trying to stop President Trump implementing an executive order banning transgender troops.
You have a Biden appointed judge blocking blocking this in this particular case.
Trump's attorney general claims the judge has no right to question the DOJ's deportation flights.
Well, we have a Supreme Court decision on that very issue that was handed down in 1948.
And that decision went even further by saying that not only does the president have the authority and four presidents prior to Trump have done this, but there is once the president makes that determination, there is no judicial review for foreign nationals.
None at all, whatsoever.
Another federal judge temporarily blocking the Trump administration from reclaiming billion dollar climate grants.
I mean, if you look at it, you have a list of Obama Biden judges working to sabotage Trump's agenda.
Biden appointed judge, you know, blocking the Pentagon.
That's just the latest example.
On the issue of immigration, New York State's highest court has ruled against New York City's plan to allow non citizens to vote.
Can you even believe we're debating that in America?
But we are.
A 6-1 ruling.
New York court Court of Appeals sided with Republicans that challenged the law, arguing that a clause in the Constitution says that every citizen shall be entitled to vote.
It refers only to U.S. citizens.
Out in California, after spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on health care for illegals with Medical.
Well, now the governor still doesn't have enough money.
I think what was the number, $95 billion, an insane amount of money.
Now the governor is asking state lawmakers to provide a $2.8 billion loan to cover expenses for Medicaid.
Uh and the request was in addition to the $3.4 billion loan that Newsom borrowed from the state earlier in March in order to make payments for Medicaid through the end of the month, totaling $6.2 billion.
Maybe.
And he says he won't end taxpayer-backed health care for illegal immigrants.
And they remain a sanctuary state.
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All right, for stations along the Sean Hannity Show Network, President Trump has just stepped out, and he is announcing the abolishment of the Department of Education.
We will carry this in full, and we will continue through the break at the bottom of the hour so you can make your preparations.
Here's President Trump from the beginning.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, everyone.
And I'd like to start by saying that our country is doing very well.
Things are, as you can see, doing quite well.
Please sit down.
Before we begin, I uh just want to announce that I signed a proclamation a few moments ago honoring the 250th anniversary of Patrick Hendry's famous speech to the second Virginia Convention in which he declared very well known, very famous words give me liberty or give me death.
Has anyone heard the phrase?
I think most of you have.
Thank you.
And moments ago, I also signed an executive order to dramatically increase production of critical minerals and rare earths.
It's a big thing in this country.
And as you know, we're also signing agreements in various locations to unlock uh rare earths and minerals and lots of other things all over the world.
But uh in particular, Ukraine.
We're doing very well with regard to Ukraine and Russia.
And one of the things we are doing is signing a deal very shortly with uh respect to rare earths with Ukraine, which they have uh tremendous value in rare earth, and we appreciate that.
And we uh spoke yesterday with, as you know, President Putin and President Zelensky, and we would love to see that come to an end.
And I think we're doing pretty well in that regard, so hopefully we could save thousands of people a week from dying.
That's what it's all about.
They're dying uh so unnecessarily.
And uh I believe we'll get it done.
We'll see what happens, but I believe we'll get it done.
Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making.
In a few moments I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and for all.
And it sounds strange, doesn't it?
Department of Education, we're gonna eliminate it, and everybody knows it's right.
And the Democrats know it's right, and I hope they're gonna be voting for it because ultimately it may come before them, but uh everybody knows it's right, and we have to get our children educated.
We're not doing well with the world of education in this country, and we haven't for a long time.
And we're pleased to be joined today by the woman who I chose because she's an extraordinary person, and hopefully she will be our last Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon.
Linda.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
That's another interesting statement.
That's an interesting opening, right?
But it's true, and people, it's been amazing how popular this has been.
I tell people that this is what I'm doing today, and they say, oh, it's about time.
Everybody says it.
Republicans and Democrats have said it.
They're all saying it.
Also with us are some terrific people, Governors Greg Abbott.
Greg, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Governor Ron DeSantis.
Thank you very much, Ron.
Mike Braun.
Congratulations on your victory, Mike.
That was a big one.
Mike DeWine.
Thank you very much, Mike.
Jeff Landry.
Jeff, thank you very much, Jeff.
Bill Lee.
Thank you.
Governors, all governors.
Brad Little.
Brad, thank you very much.
Where are you?
Brad.
Hi, Brad.
Jim Pilon.
Thank you very much, Jim.
And Kim Reynolds.
These are all people very interested in education.
And I even see Dan Patrick over there, my friend Dan Patrick.
We're joined also by Representatives Tim Wahlberg and Virginia Fox, Rick Allen, Michael Rulli.
And again, Dan Patrick.
Thank you very much, Dan.
You've been a great friend of ours.
Thank you.
and State Attorneys General Ken Paxton I see you there Andrew Bailey Andrew what a job you've done Andrew you have some good cases going.
You've done a great job thank you very much and co-founder of Moms for Liberty Tiffany Justice she's been a hard worker thank you thank you for thank you Tiffany when President Carter created the Federal Education Department in 1979 it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers,
the New York Times editorial board, and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
History has proven them right, absolutely right.
After 45 years, the United States spends more money on education by far than any other country, and spends likewise by far more money per pupil than any country, and it's not even close.
But yet, we rank near the bottom of the list in terms of success.
amazing stat.
Those are two stats you don't want.
The most money spent per pupil, and you're at the bottom of the list.
And that's where we are, like it or not.
And we've been there for a long time.
Seventy percent of eighth graders are not proficient in either reading or in math.
Seventy percent.
Forty percent of fourth graders lack even basic reading skills, can't read.
Students in our public elementary and middle schools score worse in reading today than when the department opened by a lot.
In Baltimore, 40 percent of the high schools have zero students who can do basic mathematics, not even the very simplest of mathematics.
I said, give me your definition of basic, and they're talking about like adding a few numbers together.
Despite these breathtaking failures, the department's discretionary budget has exploded by 600 percent in a very short period of time and employs bureaucrats in buildings all over Washington, D.C., and and as a former real estate person I will tell you I ride through the streets of Washington and it says Department of Education Department of Education I said how do you fill those buildings it's crazy what's happened over the years.
I'm pleased to report that after offering these federal employees two generous buyout options and they were very generous and they're good people but they were very generous.
My administration has initiated a reduction in force, and we're already uh cutting numbers that were really surprising to a lot that we were able to do it so successfully.
And we've cut the number of bureaucrats in half.
Fifty percent have taken office, which is great.
Thank you.
Under the action I'm taking today, a small handful of Democrats and uh others that uh we have employed for a long time, and there are some Republicans, but not too many, I have to be honest with you.
But the department's useful functions and uh such as and they're in charge of them.
Pell grants, Title I funding, resources for children with disabilities and special needs will be preserved, fully preserved.
They're all gonna be so.
If you look at the Pell Grants, supposed to be a very good program, Title I funding and resources for children with special disabilities and special needs, they are going to be preserved in full and uh redistributed to various other uh agencies and departments that will take very good care of them, and that's very important to Linda, I know, and it's very important to all of us.
But beyond these core necessities, my administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department.
We're gonna shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible.
It's doing us no good.
We want to return our students to the States where just some of the governors here are so happy about this.
They want education to come back to them, to come back to the States, and they're gonna do a phenomenal job.
You know, if you um look Denmark, Norway, Sweden, I have to tell you, I give them a lot of credit.
China's uh top ten, and so we can't now say that bigness is uh making it impossible to educate because China is very big.
But you have uh countries that do a very good job in education, and I really believe, like some of the governors here today from states that run very, very well, including a big state like Texas, but states that run very well are gonna have uh education that uh will be as good as Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and those top Finland, those top countries that do so well with education.
I think they'll have they'll do every bit as well.
And what do you think about that, Governor?
Do you agree?
Huh?
I think so.
Ron, do you agree?
I think so.
Florida, Iowa.
That's right.
I I really believe that.
They'll be as good as any of them.
And then you'll have some laggards, and we'll work with them.
And we can all tell you who the laggards will be right now, probably, but let's not get into that.
But we'll work with them, and we're gonna make them uh they'll do a job.
I think they'll do a job, and they'll go to sections of the state, for instance, uh New York.
You'll have a Manhattan, and you'll have a uh Suffolk County, and you'll have Nassau County, and you'll have Westchester County, you'll do four or five or six of them.
You have upstate New York and those counties, I think are gonna do very well.
And I think ultimately Manhattan should do very well.
But we'll break it down into sections, and I think it'll be really, really good, and uh, they're gonna be probably the tougher ones, but I think they have a chance to do really well.
But we're going to be returning education very simply back to the states where it belongs, and this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it's a common sense thing to do, and it's gonna work.
Absolutely it's gonna work.
And I can tell you from dealing with the governors and others in the state, they want it so badly.
They want to take their children back and really teach their children uh individually.
Uh probably the costs will be half, and the education will be maybe many, many times better.
So we look forward to this.
Uh I want to just make one little personal statement.
Teachers to me are among the most important people in this country, and we're gonna take care of our teachers.
And I don't care if they're in the union or not in the union, that doesn't matter.
But we're gonna take care of our teachers, and I believe I believe the states will take actually better care of them than they're than they are taken care of right now.
They'll work all sorts of systems and even merit systems, those great teachers are gonna be maybe a little bit better rewarded, or maybe that's the way it should be.
But the states are gonna make that Decision, but we're gonna love and cherish our teachers along with our children, and they're gonna work with the parents and they're gonna work with everybody else, and it's gonna be an amazing thing to watch, and it's really gonna be something special.
And Linda, you're presiding over something that's just so important, and uh you're gonna do a fantastic job, just like you have your whole life.
I know your whole life I've been watching you, I've been watching you for a long time.
She's had nothing but success.
So it's uh tremendous to have you, and hopefully you won't be there too long, but we're gonna find something else for you, Linda.
Okay.
So uh this will conclude what we are uh talking about with respect to our most uh cherished group of people, and that's our children.
We want to have our children well educated.
We want them to love going to school.
We have examples of it.
Look at those beautiful bright-eyed faces, those they are so smart.
They're so smart.
And with that, I'm gonna come down and we're going to sign a very important document, and we're gonna be on our way.
People have wanted to do this for many, many years for many, many decades.
And I don't know, no president ever got around to doing it, but I'm getting around to doing it, so thank you very much.
Thank you.
Is walking over, there's a group of students, and he is about to sign what is the dismantling of the Department of Education, which uh is pretty amazing.
He does speak, but he doesn't really have a microphone in front of him.
Um see if we can listen in.
Anyway, we'll get your uh calls in here.
Um I know a lot of you want the Department of Education dismantled.
Anyway, uh, if you want to give us a call, we'll we'll take calls now, 800-941 Sean.
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Um I really do want everybody to get a chance to win our our Tesla.
I really do.
I don't know why.
I love giving away free stuff.
We should probably Linda, why don't we do it more often?
We should do this more often.
I would love, love, love to give away.
Do you want to start with me and just use me as an example?
I am willing to, you know, I'm willing to do that for our own.
I don't know tech I don't know technically if you're allowed to sign up, are you?
I have no idea what the lawyers say.
I have I think that I have to talk to somebody who probably is in control of the Sean Hannity show to break Sean Hannity rules about not working at places that are giving away free stuff and then getting the free stuff.
So if you know anybody that could, you know, massage that rule for me.
Oh, massage that rule.
So you're basically telling me, oh, sorry, Sean.
Uh I'm not really eligible.
But I um I have no idea what you're saying.
That sounds crazy.
I I am just the reason I'm doing this is very simple.
Elon Musk has done nothing wrong.
Nothing to deserve what people are doing to him, threatening his life.
And now they are doing everything they could possibly do to destroy his business.
He has only served our country.
We watched and witnessed this week him save astronauts.
By the way, he created, he was the chief engineer of SpaceX.
He remains the chief engineer of SpaceX.
He created I'm I'm speaking now from experience, which I didn't have, the single most innovative car company in the entire world.
Not everybody that works for Elon Musk at Tesla.
We have no idea what their politics are, but now people, because of these acts of domestic terrorism threatening and doxing intimidation, they're now threatening the jobs of people that work at the dealerships, people that manufacture these cars, and threatening, you know, people that own and drive them.
I mean, and this is a guy.
That I'm sorry, what did you say in my ear?
I want to give you an analogy, a really good one.
I've been thinking about it all day.
Okay.
And I was thinking about when Biden and Harris were in office, and conservatives were really outraged by all of the things that were happening.
Any pick any one thing, and there's just so many.
But we didn't express ourselves the way that these people are.
I mean, they're literally I mean, they're taking away People's private property.
It's it's just beyond the pale.
And then they have actors and elected officials going out and doing the Tesla takedown, and it's disgusting.
So I was thinking to myself, what has he done?
Exactly.
And saved the astronauts.
Yeah, go ahead.
But but my point is is like think about like Bezos, right?
Like when Bezos was running Amazon and or you know, Bill Gates or any of these people who have private companies and decide that their philanthropic efforts is that they want to support a certain candidate.
And we went out and we were like, we're gonna smash all of these, you know, w windows PCs.
We're gonna rob Amazon trucks, we're gonna destroy people's boxes, we're gonna take you know the porch thief thing all the way to another level and we're gonna destroy it and mash it up and smash your door because you have an Amazon delivery.
Like that's equivalent.
Like I can't even like the left wing media would have gone crazy over us.
And it's dead silent.
They say nothing.
Only Rokana, and he has a Tesla Manufacturing Center in his district, the most innovative car company in the world, self-driving, over a thousand horsepower, zero to sixty in two point zero seconds.
And and it it you get your pre precious electric field.
I've always been pro choice for what car you want to drive.
I'm now choosing to drive this Tesla and choosing to give one away.
I'm choosing.
He helped Americans in need of communication when they'd had no communication with the outside world after Hurricane Helene.
He helped people after the the Pacific Palisades wildfires.
And and what did he do?
He aligned with Trump.
That's his political personal political view, not the view of everyone at Tesla.
Now those jobs are in jeopardy.
I've paying career jobs for people, and he identified over a hundred billion dollars in waste fraud abuse in our government.
And he's working to cure blindness and enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again.
It is disgusting and it is repulsive.
He's done nothing wrong.
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Do that.
Um let's go to our busy phones.
Uh Robin is in Alabama.
Hey Robin, how are you?
I'm fine.
Thank you for having me.
Um I'm a former Alabama State Teacher of the Year, former principal teacher, and I am and I actually ran for Congress against Harry Sewell primarily on this platform to get rid of the department of ed so that our kids primarily the ones in the lower income areas can't get the money going directly to the schools and
systems so that they can be serviced the way that they need to be.
Well, I've got to tell you something.
I will tell you, this has been systemic failure.
Oh, yeah.
And now we have an opportunity to fix it.
And now we're gonna block rent the money.
And I I still guarantee you this you know, cities like New York and Chicago and and you know, these these you know, LA areas of LA and areas of San Francisco will still screw it up.
But the states, you know what, they're gonna have a lot more money in states that have been very efficient, like Florida, Utah, Idaho, and others.
Anyway, Robin, appreciate it.
Dennis Long Island next, Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Uh Sean, thank you for taking my call.
Um I am a New York City special needs teacher.
I've been doing 15 years.
And I gotta tell you, I am so happy that this is happening.
But like you just said, New York is gonna be lally gagging.
Um and I think New York City DOE actually need the doge itself, but um, you know, a lot of things like we're you know, in the city, it's like, you know, I still don't get enough money.
I gotta use my own money in New York City, which there's been billions of dollars um, you know, pumped in here.
So, you know, that I find, you know, I I really do like, and then the other thing is I'm from Long Island, Nassau County, where my my taxes are through the roof.
You know, I I think it's gonna be great if we could just separate the counties and have their own little, you know, their own um, you know, their their own department of education, so they'll be less likely of corruption and bureaucrats that are funneling money just to themselves.
Um so I just wanted to chime in on that.
Thank you for taking the call.
We appreciate it, and thanks for good being a good teacher.
Uh Susan in Florida, my free state.
Susan, we have about a minute, it's all yours.
You know, a lot of things like we're you know, in your city, it's like you know, I Susan is on delay.
Uh Susan.
Uh I know, but that's why we're on we're on a delay because you're on the show occasionally, and if you didn't say all those bad words, we wouldn't need 400 delay out minutes.
First of all, that's utter nonsense.
Second of all, I was just telling you in your ear that she had a radio up here.
I could hear the radio caller to turn it down.
I've been doing this.
Turn it down for a long time.
Turn your daddy radio down.
Patent New York, you have about 40 seconds.
Go.
Sean, I am in the real New York.
That's upstate New York, uh, Trump country.
I want to still pay New York taxes, too bad.
But anyway, glad you called.
No.
There's two things that we need.
We need to cut New York off at about White Plains South, and we need the electoral college for counties, county by county.
There'll never be a Democrat to win again in New York.
But on the Tesla thing, as I was telling the the call screener, I believe the reason this is all occurring by the left, not so much the Democrats, it's the left, is because they're jealous of accomplishments.
They're jealous of success.
They're going after Trump, they're going after Elon.
They go after people that do it the right way because they don't know how to.
Well, I'm gonna tell you something.
It's sad.
You know, you when we we're never gonna have good people ever want to serve if this is how we treat people that offer so much to us and have done nothing wrong.
It it's a car company, as he said.
This is not a political statement.
I mean, liberals loved it when it was, you know, their favorite car because it was electric and they wanted to force electric vehicles into our driveways.
I just believe in freedom of choice.
And now that I've come to learn about it, I'm like, I'm I'm all I'm all in.
I love the technology of it.
It's fine.
I'm gonna love that I'll never have to, you know, gas up and and pay three bucks, four bucks a gallon, whatever I pay.
Um anyway, um just go to Hannity.com, word of the day is freedom and sign up for your your today's chance to win.
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And if you're just joining us, President Donald Trump just signing an executive order which is dismantling the Department of Education.
I've gone through as much I'm gonna show you on TV tonight.
We're gonna lay it out on how much money has been wasted, spent, all the corruption that exists, all of the failure that has been institutionalized, and why this is such a great idea, and all the different ways that states and and local districts can use better use this money and focus in on reading,
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