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If you want to be a part of the program, More violence over the weekend as the quote Tesla takedown movement is expanding out in larger and larger numbers.
Police arrested uh Tesla firebombing suspect who had ties to far left groups, according to the Epic Times.
This was out in Vegas.
Uh a lot of questions now being raised as to who might be funding some of the people, some of the groups uh behind all of this.
From Seattle to Miami, anti-Musk protesters gathered at hundreds of Tesla locations.
I mean, that this is all born out of madness and insanity.
What is what has Elon Musk done to garner such hatred?
Uh, but their global day of action uh took place this weekend.
There's a number of articles, though, that are now coming out and pointing out that a lot of the protests uh that are unfolding uh at these Tesla showrooms around the country, uh, that all because of what?
He's rescuing astronauts, he's trying to help the blind see.
He is involved in helping the those that have spinal cord injuries maybe one day walk again.
Oh, and he's cutting waste fraud and abuse and he likes Donald Trump.
Anyway, uh, who is funding all these organizations and these paid protests?
Musk posted that on X early on Sunday morning with a video clip of Joe Rogan discussing all the Tesla takedown protests and the movement and and all that has gone on here.
Uh an Arizona elderly woman was boxed in and beaten up by a callous guy all because she drives a Tesla and Albuquerque, GOP headquarters, uh targeted an alleged arson.
Uh that that's happening.
There's other instance instances of violence against any conservative.
But um, you know, the hypocrisy is Democrats continue investing in Elon Musk's company because of the technology so superior, but there are over 200 Tesla takedown protests this weekend, and more vandalism and more violence by the by the radical left.
Uh, you don't hear the likes of Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries or any prominent Democrats speaking out and saying this has gotta stop.
Uh this is now a party that would never dare take on their radical base, which represents the party.
Um, let me play some of the highlights from this these protests from over the weekend.
Play it.
Boycott!
Tesla!
Boycott!
Tesla!
Boycott!
Tesla!
Boycott!
Tesla!
We need clean air!
Not another billionaire!
We need clean air!
Not another billionaire!
There should be an S and G on every street corner.
We're New Yorkers.
Let's protest like New Yorkers.
This Megan Mutter hates us.
He hates us.
Oh my god!
We'll be back.
We'll be back.
There's only so much of this that I can take, so uh we will move on, but you get the point.
It's like a 60s redux.
Um and I thought liberals liked Teslas.
I thought they liked electric vehicles.
After all, they weren't planning on forcing one into everybody's driveway.
Uh National Lawyers Guild Group calls for fire bombings and advises domestic terrorists to shut the F up.
Listen.
We've been fighting fascism for over five years.
So much has changed over those fifty years.
Such as the ingredients for firebombs.
And the glass, the bank windows are made of but there's one thing that hasn't changed over fifty years.
Something that is so important to tell you kids who are new to this movement.
Shut the f you're sitting in the police transport van after a protest.
Shut the f up.
In a holding cell with your comrades.
Shut the fot knocks on your door?
Shut the f up.
Texting on an unsecured device.
Shut the f up.
Pulled over by the cops after a protest.
Shut the f up.
Cop just asking about your day.
Shut the f up.
Feds call your mom?
Tell your mother to shut the f up.
Now, repeat after me.
When the cops come calling, what do you do?
Shut the f*** up!
What lovely advice it is for domestic terrorism around the country.
You have one TikToker calling for the shooting of ice agents on site.
Listen.
Shoot at ICE agents on site.
That's right.
If ICE agents are trying to take you or a loved one, shoot them on site.
The way they're pulling up with masks on, with unmarked vehicles, no badge, no nothing.
It could be anybody.
Okay, joining us now.
Uh we have James Odmeyer.
He is the Attorney General for my Great Free State of Florida, as well as Brett Tolman, former federal prosecutor who served as the U.S. Attorney for Utah.
Uh welcome both of you to the program.
Uh Attorney General Uthmeyer, what are you uh what do you think when you hear that kind of you know, call those calls for domestic terrorism?
Well, this this call to violence really tells you something about the left movement and you know what's left of the Democrat Party in Florida has publicly been aligning itself with a lot of these violent protests, which tells you something something very important about the the party and what they stand for.
Uh but here in Florida, the the you know, big day of protest by this crazies was very uneventful.
Uh our state law enforcement, our troopers, uh they were patrolling, they were all Tesla dealerships, and then we dared people.
If if you want to come in and hurt our businesses, we're gonna throw the book at you, every tool we've got from trespass arson to organized crime and RICO, um, and then what you said, Sean, about you know, tracking the money, we're looking at that too.
If there's an organized financial effort uh to fund violence and destruction, then people need to be held accountable.
And you know in Florida we're a rule of law state, we're gonna do that.
But they'll be a little clever about it.
They'll say, No, no, no, organizing protest.
They're not gonna say that they support violence or put it that in writing, so they'll try to create some distance between what they really want and what they're really funding and what what they actually say they're funding.
Yeah, you're right.
No, they're they're definitely gonna try to sidestep and and play games, but you know, the the activity is what it is, and and if there's any connection we can make, uh, we will certainly do that.
Obviously, the individuals themselves, if if they do engage in destruction, and and like I said, we have not seen that yet here in Florida because we do have everything patrolled heavily.
Uh, but i if we see it, we'll certainly make sure those individuals do the time.
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Um it's frustrating to me that that they are trying hard to br not not just hurt they're not gonna hurt Elon Musk here, Brett.
Uh, in as much this is gonna be an accounting, you know, issue for him.
This is not going to change his life in any way, but it will change the lives if it continues of the people that work in dealerships, the people that build these cars, and the people that repair these cars, those jobs will then therefore be in jeopardy.
And for what reason?
That he's cutting waste, fraud and abuse out of government, something Democrats historically have said that they wanted to do?
Sean, I'm struck by the doubling down by the left, the willingness.
They're a ship without an a uh uh without a rudder they're just spinning with whatever you know whatever breeze blows them around they're taking on water they've been almost completely destroyed by Trump and and many others across the country who've pointed out their hypocrisy and pointed out you know the the idiocy of of so many of their arguments.
But the the it's it's appalling and shocking to watch them continue to to double down on these these bad, you know uh thoughtless policy agendas and then the way that they execute the American people are sitting back um watching this and in droves I'm seeing people in the center that are pushing more and more to the right because they are watching in real time.
An organ you know a uh a political id ideology that said we want everybody to have electric vehicles is now trying to destroy the the largest producer of electric vehicles all in the interest of taking down billionaires and it's the billionaires that are actually providing such industry to this country that we have all of the benefits and all of the lifestyle that we can achieve in this country.
I'm I'm shocked by it but I I guess I'm not entirely surprised because they don't have a leader they don't have an agenda that that resonates and they don't have thoughtful individuals in the in their in their organizations that are identifying ways in which they can connect to the American people and be a productive source of good policy down the road.
Well, I don't think they have one.
I think the radical left has become the Democratic Party.
James?
Yeah, they're pretty much one and the same.
You see it here with the Tesla situation.
They've tied themselves to this anti-Semitic protest front that we see.
You know, we're combating this at all of our state universities.
Again, in Florida, we haven't had the same kind of problems we've got elsewhere because we're a rule of law state.
We've told our law enforcement somebody doesn't have to actually get touched and hurt for there to be a crime.
If there's a sentiment of fear tactics, if they're trying to put people in a position where they don't feel safe to study or go out and buy a car, then we're going to go after them with every force.
of the law that that we've got and just the irony here that you know this is a guy Elon that's trying to save people hundreds of millions, billions even of of taxpayer dollars, putting it back in their pocket.
This is somebody that should be championed, you know he could be off doing all these other things to make money and innovate and be an entrepreneur.
He's clearly good at it and instead he wants to come in and clean up the federal government in a way that perhaps only he is equipped to do so and yet people want to engage in violence and destruction and the Democrats are silent on it which tells you everything you need to know.
Well it reminds me a lot Brett of the summer of 2020 when the media was saying that the five hundred and seventy four riots that killed a couple of dead uh uh dozen Americans and injured thousands of cops and cause billions in property damage it reminds me a lot of both the media and Democrats claiming that these were most be mostly peaceful and some of my favorite video footage is of fake news CNN or MSDNC with you know fires raging behind reporters and and they're out there saying this is mostly been peaceful tonight.
I'm like turn your you know just turn around and take a look is that really mostly peaceful or Kamala Harris them running for vice president saying that the them the rioters aren't going to stop.
They shouldn't stop and we're not gonna stop supporting them.
Uh sounds like she's supporting an insurrection to me.
Yeah it's exactly right I the big difference here and and James is right you have states that are not going to tolerate it anymore because they don't have they they they have the mandate that that our citizens across the country want to feel safe.
But the other thing that's different is you have a DOJ that has and an FBI that has clearly said their priority now is is violent crime.
Their priority is not what it was under Kamala Harris what it was under Merrick Garland and and and even uh under under Barr who who had difficulty with the the FBI cooperating on this.
So now you have them together you're gonna see some terrific task forces between attorneys general and the states and their law enforcement partners and the feds and it we're going to get back to working together and combating the most pressing need in this country and that's violent crime.
Think about this across the country murder resolution of murder cases has been below fifty percent and resolution of rape cases in this country is at twenty to thirty percent.
We need law enforcement back to doing what we need them to in order to make us safe in this country.
Oh, I couldn't agree more.
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Uh great moment over the weekend.
Kristen Welker just gets beaten down by Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on uh Meet the Press.
Those are specific times and weapons, and later there's a discussion uh about target details.
Senator, if that's not classified information, what is there?
Tell me where the location was at.
What part of the region was it at?
What part of the world was this at?
We have a lot of conflicts, a lot of issues going on around the world, from Africa to anywhere in the Middle East to even in Asia or possibly through Europe.
This could have been going on any place in the world.
There was no specific information except that a target was going to be hit.
We have terrorist organizations coming out to the United States everywhere because the Biden administration has done nothing for four years.
Instead of having peace through strength, like President Trump is leading, they try to do an appeasement.
And what happened is these rogue regimes and terrorist organizations have taken advantage of it.
What happened here is President Trump took the fight to our enemies, which should have happened a long time before.
What is wrong with the conversation that is going place?
In fact, why are we focused so much on this?
Why didn't we focus on the 13 uh service members that was killed in Afghanistan?
There was no outcry or anybody resigning from there.
What about the idea that when Secretary Austin went MIA for surgery and went completely offline?
No one was talking about him resigning, but the left has completely lost their mind over a good conversation, and that was an absolute successful mission, and they can't let it go because President Trump is leading the world again.
They hate it.
They can't stand it.
And they have absolutely zero.
zero desire to see this country succeed at this point.
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable.
They can't cut waste fraud and abuse.
They support every radical group, even the pro Hamas radicals on college campuses.
They're supporting this takedown Tesla movement.
Uh, they don't speak out against it.
They are championing the rights of men to play women's sports.
They put the rights of illegal immigrants, including trend Aragua members, over your safety and security, and they think we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis if we cut waste fraud and abuse out of government to save this country for our children and grandchildren.
It is madness.
Absolute madness, but they are falling apart.
Umile is in Ohio.
Hey Eileen, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
I just wanted to briefly comment on this American oversight lawsuit against Heg Seth Rubio, others where this group alleges that the Department of Defense has violated federal records laws.
And I would like to know where was this group when Hillary Clinton put her Secretary of State email on her mom and pop server.
It infuriates me.
They are so blatantly just targeting their political opponents.
It's hypocrisy to a level I've never seen.
And if you would, I'd like your opinion on how can we get the Democratic Party voters to see this hypocrisy?
Because we know that the alphabet media will not expose it.
And I'm really Well, I think Americans are seeing it.
I mean, you know, uh look what America has witnessed, you know, uh uh as of recently.
Look at the they're they're watching the the organized efforts of the left to show up at Tesla dealerships.
They're watching the violence, they don't hear Democrats speaking out against it.
They don't speak out against these pro Hamas radicals on college campuses.
Uh they they are petulant children at a joint session speech with President Trump.
What do they stand for that that is in sync with American values?
We we don't even know where they stand.
They're their most outspoken members now are AOC, Bernie Sanders, and and Jasmine Crockett.
By the way, over the weekend, an old clip of Jasmine Crockett showed up when she this is what she said about Byron Donalds, the congressman from Florida.
And if we continue to put people into office, and that even means some of our skin folk who definitely are not our kinfolk, such as Byron Donald's, who are going to continue to say that like, I mean, the fact that you sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow.
Like, is this because you don't understand history?
Or literally, it's because you married a white woman, and so you think that that whitewash you I'm not really sure like what it is.
Correct.
Correct.
And it's a joy to call him out.
So I'm like, bruh, like what are you talking about?
Like, what are you saying?
Like he he just out here, you know.
I feel like they give him his socking points, and he's like, Yes, Massa, I got it.
Wow.
Yeah.
I mean, that's uh that that that is the Democratic Party today.
I I I hope that the Democratic voters are uh I hope they're paying attention.
We we uh they have they have no leadership, and they're getting more radicalized, and the leadership is afraid to take on this loud voice of radicalism.
They're afraid to.
I mean, Chuck Schumer, you know, tr tried to go along with the CR and look what's happened.
But now they're turning on each other.
I mean, you have Senator Bennett of Colorado saying his party's lost touch with the American people.
And why are that?
Why are they so angry?
And who is their leader at this point?
Even Governor Newsom said the democratic brand is toxic.
Well, he helped make it toxic.
I mean, and now we he wants to make this shift to the center, seemingly.
You know, he's I I never use the term Latinx, and then we have multiple times of him using the term Latinx.
Uh I he says, I I support, I don't support men and women sports, but we have them on record saying it numerous times.
And he thinks he's gonna be the next president.
Okay, good luck with that.
Let's see what happens.
Uh just before before you close, well, thank you for all you do.
Thank you for all you tell the American people.
Very grateful for you.
And I'm very grateful for you.
And you know what?
Together, this is this is how radicals act.
It is a collective temper tantrum by them, and I don't think it's going to serve them well in the long run.
I really don't.
Um, and that's why they have to cling to a non-story like this signal story for ten days the way they have it.
Uh let's get back to our phones.
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What's going on, baby?
How are you doing?
Big time, Sean Hannity.
Happy New Year, and the new year is kicking like a bad habit like we thought it would.
Hey the way, did you see what happened to our dear friend?
Uh uh Joe Paggs.
I know.
I talked to him.
And boy, he I like Motown.
Stay hang in there, baby, because they did Sean.
They they they hitting everybody that's on the right side, Sean.
They think they slick.
See, the dirty rats, who paid these people, Sean?
That's what I like to know.
Who paid these people to do this dirty doll crap that they do?
What too bad.
We're we're getting to the bottom of it, and they're getting to the bottom of it.
But but I do need to to give people I I need to manage people's expectations.
There's so many big balls in the air because it's so transformational and consequential.
I just urge conservatives to stand back, give people a little bit of breathing room, um, and give them time to get their bearings and and to get dialed in and get the right people in place because a lot of these departments have to clean out a lot of the deep state that is within them that are sabotaging them.
Exactly.
And she read quick, Sean.
All the time that Biden was in there, he did it nothing.
And now he made the mess.
Trump, like you said, is taking time, but the Democrats are putting a yeah, he said it.
I had uh uh he'll come across my phone.
Yeah, he's getting ready to take social security, and I had this this lady sent my cousin something, she sent it to the family.
I say, stop sending that crap out like that.
You if you want to know something, call me and I tell you the truth about something.
They're gonna take it, and you gotta go down there and feel get copies and show your copy of how it looks on your search care.
I'm like, it's a bunch of BS.
Don't even go for none of that.
You something, you know, it's just like some Democrats won't uh where they say, not fall for the banana in the jailpipe, and some of them are getting paid just the bull crap, Sean.
Most of them don't care about nothing in this country and the people in this country or anything.
They only care about the dumb filter ass up.
And I'm being nice.
Um you notice I'm trying to speak nice.
I'm catching myself every time I talk.
But Sean, these no good dirty rat Democrats, they they will be coming.
And the doggone thing of it is well, we got the elections tomorrow.
We got to get these elections so we can make some of this stuff into law.
So the next, if a Democrat happens to win the next one, he can't come in there and change it back.
Well, we have three big elections tomorrow.
And if you're in the state of Wisconsin, we we need your vote because this is gonna be the swing vote in the state of Wisconsin for the U.S. Supreme Court.
And I strongly, strongly urge people to get to the polls.
Early voting shows that the liberal justice probably has an early lead with early voting.
So there's gonna we're gonna need a big MAGA turnout tomorrow, but it's between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimmel.
We had Brad Schimmel on the program.
He'll be on Hannity tonight.
But this is an important race.
The the race is is to replace Mike Waltz and the race to replace Matt Gates uh is taking place as well.
We have two big elections coming up tomorrow.
And it's not at a time when most people are used to voting.
So I urge the people in Florida, my home state, the free state of Florida, the people of Wisconsin.
If you're conservative, you want to help the president's agenda, especially in Wisconsin.
This is gonna this could give Democrats two more congressional seats.
If in fact this woman gets on the state Supreme Court.
Brad Schimmel for the Supreme Court in Wisconsin.
And here in Florida, we have two important congressional races.
Man, and we dang on sure can't give that up, Sean.
Well, hey, keep work big daddy and shake him and bake them and belt on it tomorrow.
I hope we have something good to talk about after the election.
But you know what?
It's it's it's always tricky.
This is gonna be a turnout election.
If you hear my voice right now in Wisconsin, please get out and vote tomorrow.
It is critical.
That Supreme Court race is very important.
If you're in Mike Walsh's district, if you're in Matt Gates' district in the panhandle, please get out and vote tomorrow.
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