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	Mr. O'Reilly, sir.
	Now I happen to see Mr. O'Reilly in the free state of Florida, and I did take him out for breakfast.
	I couldn't believe what he ordered, though.
	He had three pancakes, French toast, a blueberry muffin, eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes, four eggs.
	I've never seen anybody eat like that in my life because you knew I was going to pay.
	Now, Annity, do you think anybody believes that?
	No.
	Nobody does.
	But I thought I'd have fun with it and make but I I did get to see you while you were down here, and I did buy you a blueberry muffin.
	That's all you wanted for breakfast.
	That's it.
	One muffin.
	And it wasn't even big muffin.
	It wasn't even a big muffin.
	Uh no, you uh it was it was good to see you.
	I haven't seen you in a long time, and uh it's good to see you in the free state of Florida.
	And um very different environment down here than where you live in that socialist utopia of New York that you're married to, which for whatever reason I don't know, you stay there, but you do.
	Um let me ask you about this whole signal issue and national security.
	To me, obviously, this was a mistake and it was an inadvertent error.
	Uh it can happen and should well, I don't think we'll happen again.
	I don't think it was done purposely.
	There's no indication of such.
	It's obvious the president didn't know.
	He was shocked by the initial question that he was given.
	And here's my argument back to people, and what's frustrating to me is you see the state-run legacy media mob, you know, breathless hysteria, typical Trump reaction.
	It's it's all predictable.
	And the same with the Democrats.
	And here's my argument back.
	If they really cared about national security, if they really cared, they sat by they sat by quietly, and they said nothing.
	When we when we witnessed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris create the largest preventable national security crisis in history with their open borders policy, which allowed known terrorists, murderers, rapists, cartel members, gang members, and then they all lied about it to the American people for four years.
	Now it's a clear and present danger to our country, and Trump is trying to clean up the mess.
	I don't know if you can ever fully clean it up.
	Uh, just as they lied about Joe's cognitive decline.
	Uh, what did Joe Scarborough say just before the election?
	This is the best Joe Biden I've ever seen until you know he was deposed.
	Well, maybe not the best Joe Biden I've ever seen.
	So we're supposed to believe, and they lied about that to the American people, clear and present danger.
	Now we're supposed to believe, Bill, that these people in the media and that these democrats actually give a damn about national security.
	They don't, Bill.
	This would this what they embrace systemic institutional fraud and lying.
	And what happened here was a one-off, seemingly innocent, albeit, you know, unacceptable mistake that probably will never happen again.
	And that to me is a dramatic difference.
	What say you, Mr. O'Reilly?
	Well, I come at it always from uh how it affects the folks, not the political parties.
	So it was a blunder.
	Um I actually have gained more respect for Mike Walls, the national security guy, for admitting it.
	You don't see that much.
	Uh and he said, yeah, uh, was on my phone, and I improperly uh loaded the phone into whatever gizmo they have, and the guy got on the line.
	I when I heard Walls do that, I said, okay.
	Uh and I think President Trump uh is correct in not overreacting.
	If it happens again, everybody has to go.
	But what concerns me and should concern every American listening to us is that if this could happen at this kind of a high level meeting, you know the Russians and the Chinese are all over this kind of encryption on the internet.
	And and we are too, when we monitor their uh uh their uh communications.
	Can I tell you something that I haven't told anybody else, Hannity?
	Yeah.
	So um I've got a trip scheduled to Beijing, and uh I booked the Four Seasons Hotel next to the American embassy.
	Within twelve hours, I get a call from a very high ranking Intel person who says to me, they know you're coming.
	I go, who who what?
	He said you can't ask you why of all the places you can go in the world, why are you going to China?
	Uh I have a reason to go.
	I can't make it public now, but it's an important reason.
	Now there's nothing corrupt, there's no FARA violations involved.
	No, no, no.
	You know, this is all this just a uh uh I would assume vacation educational trip.
	Yeah, and journalism.
	Okay, fair enough.
	All right.
	So anyway, then the instructions are given.
	I can't bring a laptop.
	I can't bring my phone, I have to bring burner phones.
	And all of this is because the Chinese and the Russians monitor every single thing that any high pri high profile American does on the internet.
	I was taken aback by it.
	But that's the crux of this story.
	That the American give you an update on that because Steve Whitkoff, there's an article in the Wall Street Journal today claiming that when this whole text exchange was happening, he was in Russia.
	He was with Vladimir Putin.
	He had a four or five hour conversation with him as the special envoy for the president, and the article suggested that the phone was compromised while he was in Russia.
	And the truth of the matter is not only did he not bring his phone, his phone was off, and his phone was put in a special protective area so he would not not only not have access to it, um, but it would be protected from any chance of espionage.
	Now I've been on three trips like you.
	I've been to Vietnam and Singapore and Helsinki, and on each of those trips, I was told not to bring my phone, or if I did bring it to keep it off the whole time, don't even turn it on for a second.
	And I had my room swept every day for bugs.
	And guess what, Bill?
	One day they found a little bug, and it's not the type of bug that you're thinking of.
	Look, that's the crux of the story.
	So Americans have to understand how intense this is, and I think President Trump has gotten the message.
	So here's what bothers me then about our government, okay.
	Now, this started under Biden.
	It was what this isn't this conversation is very, very important.
	And, you know, um, and the president addressed this when he spoke earlier.
	And I think what's very, very important is we know during the campaign that we had Iranian hit squads in this country.
	We know that the communist Chinese and the Iranians were able to hack into Donald Trump's phone, JD Vance's phone, and everybody on the campaign's phone.
	We know that took place.
	I know many other People in Trump world that had the same thing happened to them.
	So that that's been going on now for a long time.
	And the idea that we are have allowed this up to this point.
	Now maybe there's going to be some good that comes out of this, and that is we've got to get serious about cybersecurity in this country.
	Fool me one, shame on me.
	Fool me twice, shame on you.
	And how many more times are we going to be hacked or before we realize, you know, for example, the CIA gave Ratcliffe the signal app when they gave him his government phone.
	Well, the signal app is meaningless to these hackers.
	They can break through that, you know, uh uh easily.
	Yep.
	That's the story.
	And so I hope and I believe that no permanent damage was done.
	Nobody was killed, nobody was compromised.
	So this is a warning.
	And um, I assume that the Trump administration, they have to, because if it happens again, then as I said, people will be fired and all hell break loose.
	Now segue over to the Democratic Party just briefly.
	Whatever Trump does, uh, they're gonna oppose.
	I mean, I think it's uh horrible that Chuck Schumer went out trying to save his own butt.
	He can't even promote his own book because he's afraid of his own people attacking him at the events.
	How how frightening is that?
	He cannot even go and hold an event in Atlanta, Georgia, promoting his book because he is afraid that radical leftists will come in and disrupt the event.
	I mean, just think about that.
	So instead of being angry about the radical left, he's not.
	He goes on television and says we're gonna make uh Donald Trump the quickest lame duck president in history.
	That means we'll oppose everything he does.
	We don't care if it's good for the country, we're gonna oppose it.
	That's really a big story.
	But you don't get that big story.
	You get the small ball, anything to hurt Trump.
	That's a serious situation Americans should understand.
	But you're not getting the big picture of what's going on in the country.
	This is not a scandal what happened here.
	It's a screw up.
	A big one.
	But it's not a scandal.
	People make mistakes.
	Waltz made a mistake.
	He owned up to it.
	And I assume it'll never happen again.
	I assume that you're correct as well.
	And my my guess is that I think that there's going to be security measures now put in place.
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	It is unfair when the press writes that, for example, Steve Whitcoff had his phone with him when he was with Vladimir Putin, and that just is simply not true.
	And I know because I spoke to him this morning myself.
	Um, but you're right, the the left is what the left is.
	I think they are a party in disarray.
	Now, I had this this discussion with Patrick Bad David, he's a uh very well known podcaster, and he was on TV the other night, and he believes that the radicalism in the Democratic Party is the minority part of the party.
	Let me play it for you because I believe it it it represents the Democratic Party, and my evidence is how they all acted in unison at the at the joint session.
	Nobody would stand even for mothers that lost children or a young man that'd be cancer or uh a woman, a young wife that lost her hero husband and law enforcement or a young man that got into West Point who had lost his father.
	But let me play what he said.
	First of all, it's great to be on with you, Sean, and I love what Caroline Levitt was saying.
	Here's what it's coming down to.
	They're all competing right now to see what the market's going to do.
	I actually don't mind the fact that AOC's out there with Bernie doing what they're doing.
	Their biggest enemy is the Democratic establishment party is not gonna let them have any kind of attention.
	They fear them, they don't want them to have any attention.
	If that was the case, they would have let Bernie win many years ago when he was going up against Hillary.
	They don't stand a chance.
	They can do what they're doing, and according to Zero Hairs, they cleaned out 34,000 attendees at their event in Denver.
	So he makes this argument, and I believe that most of the Democratic Party is in unison and radicalized.
	Who do you think is right?
	There's a difference between the party apparatus and the folks.
	A registered Democrat who's working in uh a union uh making cars is not buying into the Bernie Sanders communist approach, in my opinion.
	However, the structure in DC is certainly radical left because that's where their money comes from.
	Has it ever been this radical left in your lifetime?
	Because it's not in my lifetime, and you're much older than me.
	That's true, but I'm still better looking.
	Um Definitely.
	I agree with that.
	In the in the middle of the Vietnam War, the radical left control the Democratic Party.
	However, when they put their candidates up, McGovern McCarthy, they got waxed.
	They got murdered because the Democrats uh voters would not support them.
	However, the party structure were the people that were applauding Jane Fonda sitting on the North Vietnamese anti-aircraft weapon.
	So that was close to what's happening now.
	But it only lasted about a year to two years.
	68 to 70.
	So you're right.
	I was around, I was in the middle of it.
	I was in college, I saw it firsthand.
	Um, but that would be the only reference to radicalism uh of today, the Vietnam right in the middle of the Vietnam War.
	I think this party is far to the left of what they were.
	I mean, they're the party now championing the rights of men to play women's sports.
	They put the rights of uh even trendy Aragua illegal immigrants over the safety of Americans.
	And this is a party that thinks we have a constitutional crisis if we cut out, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars in waste fraud and abuse on the Green New Deal abroad or DEI or wokeism or transgenderism.
	So I think they've gone hard left.
	Uh, Bill O'Reilly, we always appreciate you.
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	Uh, thank you, sir, for being with us.
	And thanks for the muffin, Hannity.
	I enjoyed it.
	It was very expensive.
	The most expensive muffin I've ever paid for in my life.
	By the way, you need to change your diet.
	Stop putting so much sugar in you.
	You gotta change.
	I got you gotta work with me.
	You gotta train with me.
	Next time you're down here, we'll bring Sensei in and you you work with us in a session, and then we'll teach you about how to eat better.
	Okay.
	Can't wait.
	That is the biggest no I've ever heard in my life.
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	All right, just moments ago in the break, the president um began a press conference on tariffs.
	Also, I expect he'll be asked questions about the signal issue.
	We'll have full coverage of all of this tonight, nine Eastern on Hannity.
	Let's go to the president in the Oval Office.
	I'm going to be with you today.
	We just celebrated Women's Day at the White House.
	It was fantastic, attended by a lot of great women.
	A lot of great women.
	All women are great.
	So this is the beginning of Liberation Day in America.
	We're going to take back just some of the money that has been taken from us by people sitting behind this desk or another desk that's not quite as nice, but they have their choice of seven, as you know.
	Uh and uh we're going to uh charge countries for doing business in our country and taking our jobs, taking our wealth, taking a lot of things that they've been taking over the years.
	They've taken so much out of our country.
	Friend and foe, and frankly, friend has been oftentimes much worse than foe.
	Uh, and this is very modest.
	And what we're going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States.
	If they're made in the United States, there's absolutely no tariff.
	We start off with a two and a half percent base, which is what we were at.
	And we go to 25 percent.
	And basically, as you know, and as you've been seeing, not reporting as accurately as it should be reported, because it's a massive story.
	Uh business is coming back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs.
	And I think also because of November 5th, the election, they're very happy.
	Uh AI is coming back to levels that nobody's ever seen before.
	It's uh new, sort of a new business, I guess, when you think about it.
	But it's uh plants are going up all over the United States, and many of them have already been started.
	We're getting early electricity uh taken care of.
	We're getting permits very quickly for them, and we're gonna make their life very happy.
	They're coming in with tens of billions of dollars.
	Uh individual plants will cost 10, 15, even 20 billion dollars.
	We're gonna let them build electricity generating plants along with their plant.
	And uh they can't even believe it, but and we're gonna get them very quick permits, as I've done always.
	I did that in Louisiana with two LNG plants.
	I got them one permit in one day after waiting 14 years, and the other one in one week after waiting for 12 years.
	But this is very exciting to me.
	This is the automobile industry, and this will continue to spur growth like uh you haven't seen before I was elected.
	We were losing all of our plants that were being built in Mexico and Canada and other places.
	Now those plants largely have stopped and they're moving them to our country and uh Indiana, the great state of Indiana.
	I love Indiana.
	Honda is building one of the biggest plants uh anywhere, and uh they've just started.
	They wouldn't have done it without this.
	In all cases, they wouldn't have done it without what we're doing.
	So we'll effectively be charging a 25% tariff.
	But if you build your car in the United States, there is no tariff, and what that means is a lot of foreign car companies, a lot of companies are going to be in great shape because they've already built their plant, but their plants are underutilized, so they'll be able to expand them inexpensively and quickly.
	But others will come into our country and build, and they're already looking for sites.
	Uh they're looking for mostly sites.
	Uh they don't want to take the old buildings that are empty and falling down.
	They want to build new.
	And there's tremendous action.
	Uh there is likewise for other companies and uh countries like the chipmaking process.
	Your chip bill is a disaster done by Biden.
	All he does is give tremendous amounts of billions of dollars to chip companies that will do nothing with the money.
	They're not gonna use the money here.
	They're gonna just keep it.
	They have plenty of money.
	The one thing they have is they have a lot of money.
	In our case, all we're doing is saying you can't come in unless you build here.
	And the largest chip company by far is manufacture from Taiwan is building here, and it'll give us almost 40% of the chip market just with that.
	They're spending almost 200 billion dollars in the United States to build a plant, and they've almost started.
	They'll be doing much of the work in Arizona.
	So we have a lot of exciting things.
	But to me, this is one of the most exciting.
	Now, outside of one specific day, and that's Liberation Day.
	That's the real liberation day of America, and that's gonna be in uh April 2nd.
	And I look forward to it.
	We'll have a little news conference.
	We'll talk about it.
	But this is very exciting.
	So we're signing a uh executive order today that's gonna lead to tremendous growth in the automobile industry.
	As you know, the uh electric mandate that we did allows you to buy a car now of electric or gasoline powered or hybrid.
	You can buy any car you want.
	We had it so that within a short period of time you had to buy all electric, and the country could never get they could never provide the the money necessary to build.
	Right, only because of the uh constraints of times.
	Let me let me fast forward to this.
	The president stays on the issue of tariffs for for quite a bit, but he basically just summarizes what he just said.
	The 25% tariff on cars not built in America.
	Uh let's go to the QA part with the uh legacy media mob.
	What's the response to Republican lawmakers who have said today that your administration should take more accountability and not downplay what's happened with the signal that we've seen in these messages today?
	Well, I don't know about downplaying.
	The press uplays it.
	I think it's all a witch hunt, that's all.
	I think it's a witch hunt.
	Uh I wasn't involved with it.
	I don't I wasn't there, but I can tell you the result is unbelievable because the Houthis are looking to do something.
	They want to know how do we stop, how do we stop how do we have peace?
	The Houthis want peace because they're getting the hell knocked out of them.
	It's been very, very strong.
	The Houthis are dying for peace.
	They don't want this.
	And they're bad.
	Look, they they were knocking ships out of the ocean.
	You know, we had in the Suez Canal, they they only have about 20 percent of the ships going through.
	They have to go through a different way, which takes weeks of travel, and that really affects commerce.
	But uh the Hooties have been hit hard and they want to negotiate peace.
	But I don't think they're quite classified and shared.
	Say it.
	Do you still believe nothing classified or shared?
	Well, that's what I've heard.
	I don't know.
	I'm not sure.
	You have to ask uh the various people involved.
	I really don't know.
	I I can only tell you this.
	You know, you don't want to talk about it.
	The Houthis have been horrible to the world, uh what they've done, killed a lot of people, and knocked down a lot of ships and planes and anything else.
	You know, it's not just the ships.
	And they have been hit to they have been hit harder than they've ever been hit, and they want us to stop so badly, and uh they've got to stop.
	They've got to say no mass.
	But uh I can only say that the attacks, it's you know, it's attacks every day, every night.
	It's not just the one you're talking about, one.
	Uh the attacks have been very successful, uh, even beyond our wildest expectations.
	We've uh we've hit them very hard very successfully, and we're gonna do it for a long time.
	We're gonna keep it going for a long time.
	Uh Republicans have asked for Senate Republicans have asked, um, said that they were formally asked the administration for an inspector of general report on the signal issue.
	Will you agree to that?
	Uh it doesn't bother me.
	I don't know.
	You know, I want to find if there's any uh mistake or if uh signal doesn't work.
	It could be that signal is not very good, you know.
	It's a company, uh maybe it's not very good.
	I think we'd rather know about it now.
	There was no harm done because the attack was uh unbelievably successful that night, and it has been unbelievably successful every single night uh for the last four or five nights.
	So, and that's the thing that you should be talking about.
	This is something that should have been done by sleepy Joe Biden, but he was asleep at the wheel, other than when it came to stealing money, of course.
	Uh Joe Biden should have done this attack on Yemen, which is basically a certain group within Yemen, the Houthis, and this should have been done by Joe Biden, and it wasn't, and that's causes this world a lot of damage and a lot of progress.
	I guess responsible.
	But he's also overseeing the investigation to find out what went wrong.
	Maybe Mike Waltz says that he's responsible.
	Well, yeah, Mike Wals, I guess he said he claimed responsibility, I would imagine.
	Had nothing to do with anyone else.
	It was Mike, I guess.
	I don't know.
	I was told it was Mike.
	But uh again, the attacks were unbelievably successful, and that's ultimately what you should be talking about.
	I think Mike did he took responsibility for it.
	Say it.
	Should Secretary Heggseth consider his position over the signal.
	Hag Seth is doing a great job.
	He had nothing to do with this.
	Exit.
	How do you bring Heggseth into it?
	He had nothing to do.
	Look, look, it's all a witch hunt.
	Uh here we are talking about some of the greatest business deals ever made.
	The greatest companies in the world are moving into the United States, and you want to ask about whether or not signal works.
	I don't know that signal works.
	I think Signal could be defective, to be honest with you.
	And I think that's what we have to because you use signal or we use signal, and everybody uses signal, but it could be a defective platform.
	And we're gonna have to find that out.
	Have you been briefed about the soldiers in Lithuania who are missing?
	No, I haven't.
	Um, sir, with the big three automakers about these tariffs.
	What was their reaction?
	I have both there actually.
	It depends on whether or not they have factories here.
	I can tell you, if if they have factories here, they're thrilled.
	If you don't have factories here, they're gonna have to get going and build them because otherwise they have to pay tariffs.
	Very simple.
	And most of those have pretty big factories here, like General Motors has big factories here.
	They're gonna move their parts divisions back to the United States, because some of them were made in Canada and some of them were made in Mexico and other places.
	And they'll be moving their parts division back to the United States in factories where they may be at 60% capacity, so they don't even really have to build too much of a factory.
	But you know, generally speaking, if they have factories here, plants here, where they make their cars and equipment, but they make their cars here, they are thrilled.
	Same thing with the steel industry.
	Steel industry is now paying a 25% tariff, as you know, I put it on last week, and uh the business is roaring in the United States, and we can't, because of military, we can't lose the steel industry.
	If I didn't put the initial tariffs on steel in my first term, you wouldn't be able to have a military because we wouldn't have every steel company, every steel company would be bankrupt in the United States, and every plant would be closed, but now they're booming, and putting this tariff on this additional tariff for steel and aluminum, it it's it's making them thrive.
	And it's already happened.
	I know that deadline for the TikTok sale, will you extend that deadline if you don't have a deal?
	Do you support or- Well, we we will have a form of a deal.
	TikTok is very popular, very successful, very good.
	Uh we're gonna have a form of a deal, but if it's not finished, it's not a big deal.
	We'll just extend it.
	I have the right to uh have the deal and to extend it if I want.
	So uh we'll see whether or not we have a deal.
	We have a lot of interest in TikTok.
	Is there a way for a U.S. company to operate it and Biden's to still have a share of the algorithm?
	Well, it'll be there are numerous ways you can buy TikTok, and we will find the one that's best best for the country, for our country.
	I'm worried about our country more than anything else with respect to TikTok.
	And uh China's gonna have to play a role in that, possibly, uh in the form of an approval, maybe.
	And I think they'll do that.
	Maybe I'll give them a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done.
	You know, because every point in tariff is worth more money than TikTok, if you think.
	Every point tariff is a much bigger world, and TikTok is big, but every point in tariffs is worth more than Tic Tac.
	So uh, in order to get China to do, maybe I'd give them a reduction in uh tariffs as an example.
	Sounds like sounds like something I do.
	Good for who?
	Tesla, which makes us good.
	Uh well, he makes he is a fantastic Tesla.
	Will tariffs be good?
	Uh I think they may I uh it could be a net neutral or they may be good.
	He has a big plant in Texas.
	He has a big plant in California.
	And anybody that has plants in the United States is going to be good for, in my opinion.
	And you want to return education control to the states.
	How would you handle it if a state like California were to put in place education policy?
	You know, I haven't seen a mask in so long.
	You're wearing a mask.
	So nice of you.
	I haven't seen anybody wearing a mask in a long time.
	It's good.
	You feel more comfortable, right?
	Yes.
	Good.
	That's good.
	So go ahead.
	Um, you said you want to return education control to the state.
	How would you handle it if a state like California were to put in place education policies we disagree with?
	Well, I think that uh California is going to be uh tougher because they are they're doing badly on everything they do.
	You know, they everything they touch turns bad.
	Uh so a place like California would be tougher for education.
	But what I would see with California is you'd have a Los Angeles uh department, and you'd have Riverside, you'd have, you know, you'd go to various places, and I think you'd have some great areas in California, and then you'd have some like everything else.
	It doesn't work so well.
	But ultimately, I think it would be very successful.
	I think in New York is an example, you'd go to Long Island, Westchester, you may have Nassau County, Queens County, you'd have you break it up in certain ways, so they'd have maybe five departments.
	You know, it's because of the size that have five departments instead of one.
	A state like Iowa, you'd have one, and I mean they're just chopping at the bit to get going.
	So many states are chopping at the bit to get education, and it's gonna happen fast to get the education.
	All right, that's uh President Trump at the White House taking questions from the media and uh wide variety of topics.
	The president starting out with the issue of tariffs.
	Any company that does not build their cars in America, they'll have a 25% tariff, uh, which by the way, the European Union, other countries put on us, just in case you're interested in fundamental fairness.
	Uh a lot of our allied countries don't want free and fair trade, uh dealing with the issue of the the signal situation, which by the way was obviously a mistake, not the systemic institutionalized lying and corruption and lack of national security on our borders or Joe's cognitive state.
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