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Trouble in NYC - April 11th, Hour 3
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Um, you know, these these deep blue cities and states, they're never gonna learn.
They're just not.
I don't see any hope for a state like California where you have more people that are have been criminal illegal immigrants in their sanctuary city and state that have been let go by the by the government of of California.
It's insane.
You not only have a sanctuary state, you got the sanctuary city status, San Francisco, LA, for example.
And I don't think New York is ever gonna change.
If I thought it might change at some point, would I have stayed?
Probably not.
Because there's just so much I don't I dislike about it.
The list is so long.
I mean, it got very little reporting, but uh there's a place in New York.
You have, for example, I'm sure many of you or most of you have heard of Times Square.
Most of you have probably heard of Penn Station, most of you have probably heard of Grand Central Station.
And anyway, New York uh city passengers, you know, here's one reporting from Grand Central after, you know, a massive crowd of anti-Israel supporters forced a lockdown this weekend.
Didn't get the attention I think it deserves.
My understanding is nobody got arrested, nobody's being charged.
Here's a New York City passenger reporting from Grand Central after these protesters.
Now, as you listen to this, ask yourself a question.
On October 7, 2023, we had literally the equivalent of 40,000 Americans based on Israel's population size versus ours murdered.
We had how many Israelis that were kidnapped and Americans?
How many people were raped?
How many how many people were beheaded?
How many people have been tortured, and still some are being held prisoner, and then other bodies have not been returned of people that have died or been murdered.
What part of murder, rape, torture, beheading, kidnapping, don't you understand?
Anyway, listen.
Grand central is locked.
People need to get home.
Get all stubborn.
People can't get into the building.
Grand Central, 6 o'clock.
Shut down.
People can't get out.
People can't get home.
Lock.
Grand Central is locked down because of these rioting Palestinian protesters.
People need to get home and They can't get out.
They can't get out.
Can't get in.
Mayor needs to do something.
Cappy Hope will need to do something.
This is unacceptable.
Six o'clock in the evening.
Six thirty.
People need to get home.
They can't get into Grand Central.
Then over the weekend you had, you know, all these hundreds of, you know, uh sixties reducts, wannabes, lunatics, uh, you know, out there as part of the resistance, part of a a nationwide effort of protests.
And when you listen to 'em, the they're not exactly gonna bring a lot of people over to their side by chanting and singing and carrying on and screaming and yelling at anybody that dares to disagree with them.
Miranda Devine has been covering the story for the New York Post.
She joins us now.
Miranda, great to have you back.
How are you?
Thanks very much, Sean.
Good to see you.
In fact, I was in Washington yesterday and I saw one of these uh so called protests outside the Treasury building, and it was very lackluster, very anemic.
Uh everybody there really looked to be I mean the average age was about sixty or seventy.
All right, so it's not that effective, but they did shut down Grand Central Station in New York at a time when commuters needed to get home.
Yes, well, those are the real militants.
I mean, they they were black clad with their faces masked and wearing bike helmets and things, and they meant business and that was uh a very frightening situation and it's extraordinary that uh the boss of the MTA has pushed back on transportation secretary Sean Duffy and said that he was wrong when he said that Grand Central was shut down.
I mean the actual station was locked.
The NYPD locked the doors.
There's uh video people and witnesses have told us that they could not get out and they could not get in because the protesters were outside and presumably uh the NYPD was doing crowd control trying to keep the two sides separate so that they weren't there wasn't violent clashes because the protesters were saying they were coming after Jews.
And so people were frightened, they were trapped felt that they were trapped inside Grand Central at that point with um seemed like most of the doors were shut.
Maybe they uh eventually managed to find a way out.
But it's the frightening thing when you've got a big mob outside baying for blood, and all that's between you and them is a locked door that you can't get out of.
You know, I've made kind of a big deal over the fact that I left New York.
I mean, starting in January first of twenty twenty-three after a lot of preparation and sixty-five items that lawyers and accountants had me check off uh to make the move to be uh full-time permanent, domiciled, homesteaded resident in Florida.
Um one of the major reasons that I had to get out is I I honestly if I'd walk into an unknown restaurant.
Now there are plenty of restaurants that I had patronized over the years that you uh they knew me, they would take care of me.
Honestly, the entire staff would probably come to my defense if anything ever happened, but if I couldn't walk into an unknown place, especially if I was with other people, because I felt like it would when I'd walk in, you'd look the uh you could see daggers coming out of the eyes of people, and then you run the risk, especially in the city of New York, of you know, a flash mob forming, and I can't put people that I care about and love in my life and my family at risk that way, and it just became untenable.
I had to go.
Now you're on television quite a bit, Miranda.
I would assume you're pretty recognizable.
Yeah, it's a terrible thing, isn't it, Sean, that that you you would have that feeling of apprehension.
Um I think uh look uh for myself, I uh stick in it places um and venues like Beach Cafe uh in Manhattan, which is very conducive and full of conservatives.
There are a lot of conservative New Yorkers, and so um I guess that's where I'm recognized most because I think a lot might be overstating it a little bit.
There are some, and there are some little safe spaces, but not a lot.
Yeah, well, that is true, and for the most part, you uh you know, there are certain areas that you you really have to have purple hair and um and rainbow colored glasses to really get by.
I th I think you'd look good in purple hair and rainbow colored glasses.
No, thank you very much, Sean.
Don't make me do that.
So Upper West Side bookstores are the worst, actually.
They still require masks.
Or they they I think they've now Oh come on you gotta be kidding me.
No they're recommended Marks.
Yeah I mean there's still women in New York I see around the place wearing masks outside.
Well what bothers me and some states have adopted them.
I know it came up as an issue in New York.
I don't think they adopted it or maybe the city was thinking about it or debating it.
I still get the New York Post I get the print edition down here in Florida every day, believe it or not.
And I still I still like to you know feel and touch a newspaper as opposed to looking online and I never want to miss your column for example but uh I can tell you that you know in New York things have just changed so dramatically that I don't know I mean uh I I'm not sure that any politician in New York has a clue how to change it.
And it looks like Governor Cuomo's going to get elected mayor.
That's what it looks like to me.
Well I hope not and uh certainly not if we have anything to do with it.
I I don't think you can really forgive the man for what he did.
Um you know people forget it's the nursing homes but it's also bail reform.
He's still denying that he did anything wrong with the nursing homes during COVID and he's still defending his decision on bail laws as some sort of anti-racism measure.
It's it's been awful for everybody but I would say particularly for minority uh New Yorkers that that terrible that you know he hit social justice criminal reform he still defends it.
He created a lot of problems for um for this place and I by the way what wasn't he the guy that created this no bail stupidity?
That's what I mean he did.
Exactly that was him and he's still defending it.
And he pretends that oh well it you know he he came to the New York Post editorial board uh the other day and he brought along PowerPoint presentations which were really mendacious.
You know they there were it looked as if not many people died in the nursing homes.
He skewed the stats on that and then on bail reform he had all this nonsense about how it was important as an anti-racism measure and he's still defending it and it's been just disastrous for law and order in this city and the cops will tell you that and they warned about it um beforehand and the reason that there was no big focus on it when it started because it was January 1, And of course, before there was a chance for everyone to see what a disaster it was, COVID hit.
So all the law and order and all the crime stats were affected by that.
But, you know, when we came out of COVID, crime is now through the roof.
And I know Eric Adams is trying.
Things are a bit calmer in the city now, actually, Sean, because because of Donald Trump, because the all these sort of illegal migrants, a lot of them at the Roosevelt Hotel and so on, the criminals have skedaddled.
And there are fewer of them and some of them are self-deporting.
And I know he's got more plans.
plans to assist them with more of their self-deportations coming up so that has changed a bit in New York because the illegal aliens were responsible for a lot of the new crimes.
Quick break more with New York Post superstar reporter columnist uh investigator reporter Miranda Devine also a Fox News contributor uh then we're gonna get to your calls at the bottom of the half hour this Friday 800 941 Sean if you want to be a part of the program don't forget our Tesla contest go to Hannity.com it is your last day to register we'll announce hopefully a winner next week and today's word of the day is now this is it your last chance midnight tonight annity.com anyway
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All right, we continue now with Fox News Contributor, New York Post uh author, investigative reporter, columnist Miranda Devine.
What do you make of the promotion?
And I know you wrote about this in your column about Steven Jensen, the architect of the FBI's kind of overzealous January 6th investigation.
Not the summer of 2020 uh rioting that took place.
They didn't have that.
Where was Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger when you needed them?
Uh but anyway, to head the Washington field office as it it's kind of confounded Trump supporters and crushed their hopes uh about about returning the FBI to its former greatness and bringing integrity back.
I still have a a ton of confidence in people like Cash Vitel and and Dan Bongino.
I know they're serious about returning it to their former greatness.
Yes, I agree.
And you know, I'm a big fan of Cash Patels and have known him for some time and uh was thrilled that he was heading the FBI, but you know, uh uh it's not just me saying this.
There's a lot of very good people, uh ex FBI and others, um, significant people um in law enforcement and in you know federal circles who are very concerned that uh not enough is being done and fast enough.
And I know what I get from Cash's people is look, he's only just got there, etc.
But the the I guess the fact the whistleblowers have been left to dangle, whereas three weeks ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant took care of the IRS whistleblowers.
There are FBI whistleblowers who are still on you know indefinite suspension without pay who have not been uh made whole or you know, given any kind of indication that uh the injustice will be put right, but it's not just that.
I mean, it's there's a lot of personnel decisions and sort of transparency that that hasn't come about.
Um, and particularly the elevation of this guy, uh Steve Jensen, who was the architect of the January 6 um FBI, very overzealous investigation.
And um, you know, he's basically regarded he he was very strong about rounding up these January 6th defendants, even if they're only had committed misdemeanor trespass.
And he, you know, there are times when in the various field officers, like I'm told in Philadelphia or in Boston, um, officers, uh, agents were pushing back and saying we haven't got enough evidence for these people, they're not domestic terrorists, they're not um,
you know, anarchists or insurrectionists, and he didn't care because he was a true believer in that kind of Joe Biden narrative that domestic terrorism, that that attack with white supremacy, the worst attack on democracy since Pearl Harbor.
And you know, Jensen basically testified uh to the oversight committee's weaponization committee that yes, he uh believed all of that and that this was a terrible domestic terrorism attack.
And he was the boss of domestic terrorism at Washington headquarters.
So he he bought he drank the Kool-Aid, and he was uh really as responsible as anyone else.
Maybe the other guy would be Stephen Dentartuno, who was the head of the Washington field office.
But between the two of them, they were responsible for the injustices that came about in that ridiculous over the top prosecutions and I mean people that just walked through and were even being waved in that did nothing, you know, beyond maybe take videos.
Uh I mean, you know, giving them five year jail sentences was beyond excessive, especially if you believe in equal justice under the law, nothing happened to the summer of 2020 rioters.
But uh Miranda, I wish we always had more time with you.
We appreciate you and uh keep up the good work and be safe in in that Adam Schiffhall of a city that you live in.
Thanks, Sean.
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Uh Tim Walls, we should demonize people like Elon Musk.
Is it now the second time after he apologized for the first time?
And then why not just you know double down on doing it again?
Listen.
It's okay in America to be successful.
We should celebrate that when people are successful.
What might be what my beef is once you get successful, don't be a greedy bastard and not pay your taxes.
Don't do that.
Pay your tax and do that.
But I don't think we should be the party that demonizes someone because they're able to afford something or they're able to work hard and got something.
What we should demonize is people like Elon Musk and those people that do that.
And that's different.
That's different.
Yeah, let's call on demonizing a guy that has been getting a uh assassin assassination threats left and right and people firing bullets into his dealerships and blowing up and firebombing his cars and and his charging stations.
Oh, yeah, let's do that.
What an idiot.
Unbelievable.
It's unforgivable to me.
Uh now we did have uh a little bit of a uh showdown that took place.
Uh and this got pretty interesting.
Uh between a Alex P what is it, Padilla?
Is that how you say it?
Uh Senator in California saying Republicans requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
By the way, this is all a lie.
It's just all of a big fat lie from people that don't want any integrity in our system of voting.
They don't want people to have confidence in the results.
The only reason you wouldn't want voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter roles, partisan observers watching the voting all day, vote counting all night is because you think you're getting a huge advantage out of it.
Listen.
Oh, what Republicans are doing is once again demonizing immigrants for the sake of making it harder for eligible citizens to register to votes and to cast their ballots in elections.
It's voter suppression in disguise.
Not so much of a disguise.
Here's the truth.
Uh it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in our election.
Our current laws and protections are working.
What would the say about two?
It would make it harder for members of the military, for example, when they're deployed to a different base and maybe have to be registered, and it's not so easy from not maybe being able to vote in the next election.
Or a woman who's married to change her last name and all of a sudden her ID doesn't match her birth certificates.
You know, it this is voter suppression and it's unnecessary.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, let's not have any integrity in the system, so then this way people will always forever never have confidence in the results.
So stupid.
Larry, Illinois this Friday on the Sean Hannity Show.
Larry, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Hey, I don't know how you feel about it, but I it's a breath of fresh air to see Carolyn Levitt.
And the first time I saw her, I thought, oh, this poor child, they're throwing her to a den of wolves, you know, and she just I hate to say kicked butt, but that's she's doing it.
And today was another day just like that.
And she just has that cute little smile, and you know, um, she said she was scared of the mouse or something.
If it is, I think that's the only thing that girl's scared of.
Uh, listen, I think she's a rock star.
I watched her today in her White House briefing.
I mean, she's got a smile on her face.
She doesn't take crap from anybody, and she's so well informed.
She doesn't she barely has a note in front of her.
I don't see her look down at notes ever.
I mean, it's almost like she's doing her own talk show every day, and she's really doing a great, great bang up job.
I give I gotta tip my hat to her.
She's she's phenomenal.
She's doing she's gonna be on Hannity tonight.
She's amazing.
Stephen Miller's on tonight.
He's amazing too.
Um, can I say one quick thing?
Russia must be looking down from heaven when he sees those press releases and just smiling from ear to ear.
I will tell you this.
Russia's has influenced a couple of generations of conservatives that really help pave the way for where we are today.
And for that, we should all forever be grateful.
We'll forever miss him.
And uh there's not, you know, hardly a day that goes by.
I don't think about him.
I mean, he had such a profound impact on the rise of conservatism, paved a path for any of us that are in new media today, and that includes podcasters.
That includes anybody in new media.
Uh anyway, have a Great weekend, Larry.
We appreciate you calling 800-941 Sean if you want to be a part of the program.
Vegas, uh K Don Radio, Tom next on the Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Tom?
How are you?
Sir, thank you for you.
Oh, thank you for letting me be me.
No, you've grown into quite the person you have become.
But my point is Akeem Jeffries and Elon Musk need to come on your show and let them let a Keem Jeffries try to discuss some of these Democrat stupid ideas in their philosophy.
And let Elon Musk explain one on one with him what's being done.
Let me ask you a question.
What do you think the odds that Hakeem Jeffries is ever gonna come on my show?
Well, I would ask him on TV.
I would say here's an open invitation, you pick the spot.
You name you when do you want me to come up to DC?
Let's do this.
Let's see how All right.
I let me let me give you without mentioning names, because I promised I would keep the conversations off the record.
There are two very prominent names within the Democratic Party ranks in their hierarchy that I have had off the record conversations with to try and entice them to come on the show.
How do you think that's worked out?
Well, until you put it out there, then the Democrats will say to him, Hey, what are you afraid of?
Ask him what's going on.
Well, I mean, if I if I ask for a private conversation, I mean I am a member of the press, and you know, it's kind of sacrosanct if you tell somebody it's off the record, you gotta keep it off the record.
You just do.
But they're not gonna they're not gonna talk, they're not gonna tell anybody they talk to me.
I'll tell you what probably why they took the call was just sheer curiosity and the promise that it would be off the record.
And if I had to guess, they probably put me on speaker, recorded the call, and and had their whole office sitting around listening to it.
But I try what I'm saying is I I do try to put people on.
Then you have another problem when you put like, for example, I tried to put Crazy Carvel on.
I've known him for years, I've had a good relationship with him, but he's really gone off the deep end.
And when I put him on the show, I I mean he just was telling lie after lie after lie.
Now I'm now I'm in a box as a as a host.
Because my audience over the years has communicated to me many, many times.
They don't like if I end up interrupting people, but if I interrupt every wrong thing he says, it's gonna be a never-ending interruption.
So I let him talk, try and fact check them.
And it just it just is it i at some point it becomes a waste of time if you can't have a conversation.
If people are not dedicated to telling even you know, it's it's sort of like on this this issue on the Save Act and all the Democrats out there.
70 million women that got married and and and changed their name are not going to be able to vote.
They're they're absolutely lying in full of it.
But you know, if I had a Democrat on tonight, we were debating that, they would put pedal that lie and five others, and I'd spend the entire segment either interrupting them a lot to tell them that they're lying, or B, you know, letting him say it and then having people angry at me because I let them say it, even though I know it's a lie, and they know it's a lie.
You see what I mean?
I mean, it's I can't Linda.
Am I try might is that an honest assessment of the dilemma that I'm putting in if I put these idiots on?
Yeah, they're never gonna come on.
They don't want to have a real conversation.
Oh, I agree with the caller.
No, they don't.
Who comes on?
Well, I Carvel, for example.
But I'm talking about a little bit of a little world.
I'm beginning to worry that his brain has been damaged.
Okay.
Schumer.
They're not gonna.
I didn't even tell you the two.
I told you about one.
I didn't tell you about the other one.
Maybe I did, I don't remember.
Anyway, I'm uh trust me, it's an open invitation if they're willing to have a real conversation, but if they're gonna come on and spew lying talking points, it it becomes frustrating for my audience, and I'm not I'm in the business of giving news information, opinion in an entertaining way.
It's not entertaining if everybody's speaking over each other.
I'm long past that part of my career.
Anyway, and I've learned too much.
My audience is too honest with me, and they tell me very loudly what they like and what they don't like.
Anyway, appreciate your call, Tom and Vegas.
Uh Don Lake Ron Concomo.
What's up, big Don?
Welcome aboard, sir.
Happy Friday.
Hey, Captain Hannity, thanks for letting me come aboard.
Listen, I'm very welcome.
Thank you.
I'd like to thank you for running the audio uh from President Trump's cabinet meeting yesterday on radio and TV.
You know, It was uplifting to hear the cabinet leaders speak both of the president and each other, but more importantly to the uh public.
With the microphones and the cameras running, it was uh full transparency on display.
You know, especially I'm glad you like it.
Um let me bring you behind the scenes again.
I mean, I'm watching that cabinet meeting and listening to every cabinet official.
And number one, first of all, props to the president for the level of transparency.
Number one.
Number two, props to everybody that spoke because they were so dialed in and articulate, and it's so transformational.
It's refreshing.
But then I got to this I gotta make a decision.
Okay, I I just assume most people didn't hear it.
I'm gonna give up an hour of radio time to do it.
What's the best programming call?
And I I just try and make the decision, what would I want to hear?
And I'd want to hear that, because I thought that was a very special meeting yesterday that that really brought people inside what goes on.
Exactly.
Exactly, yelling.
Uh Department of Defense at Pete Heggseth back from Panama to secure the canal for the United States.
Uh Linda McNow speaking.
And uh holding back millions from Columbia and Cornell for their uh violence, uh, their campus violence and anti-semitism.
Then you had RFK speaking, and he's going full steam ahead to find a course and cure for autism.
This is all uplifting stuff, Sean.
It was great.
That's why I keep saying it would the the for those people that are impatient and that are well, why didn't we get this done?
Why we well, it's the president's done everything he can do on his own, and now we need Congress and Congress to their credit, took the first step towards reconciliation.
There are going to be limits on this that not everybody's gonna get what they want, but it's certainly better than what we have because we're now living under the Biden Harris economy.
And it will be a good first step.
Uh October one will be here very quickly.
We can return to constitutional order and hopefully get on a path to a balanced budget, reign in spending, but also prioritize where spending needs to go, and that means the borders, and that means energy.
Uh, that means no tax on tips, social security or overtime.
Uh that also means making the tax cuts permanent so we don't have a five trillion dollar tax increase.
And also the next generation of weaponry, which is critical because I'm pretty convinced future wars are going to be fought in offices, not in at an air conditioned offices, not on the battlefield.
And we're gonna have to invest a lot of money.
Uh Donna got a roll, as you know, it's Friday.
Man, time flies by.
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