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Trouble in NYC - April 11th, Hour 3
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You know, these deep blue cities and states, they're never going to learn.
They're just not.
I don't see any hope for a state like California where you have more people that have been criminal illegal immigrants in their sanctuary city and state that have been let go by the government of California.
It's insane.
You not only have a sanctuary state, you got the sanctuary city status, San Francisco, L.A., for example.
And I don't think New York is ever going to change.
If I thought it might change at some point, would I have stayed?
Probably not, because there's just so much I dislike about it.
The list is so long.
I mean, it got very little reporting, but 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 City passengers, you know, there'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 7th, 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 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 because of the riots of these Palestinian protesters.
People need to get home.
They're all stuck.
People can't get into the building.
Grand Central, 6 o'clock.
It's shut down.
People can't get out.
People can't get home.
It's locked.
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.
They can't get in.
Mayor needs to do something.
Kathy Hocho needs to do something.
This is unacceptable.
6 o'clock in the evening, 6.30.
People need to get home.
They can't get into Grand Central.
Look at the crowd of people who can't get in.
They can't get out.
Then over the weekend, you had, you know, all these hundreds of, you know, 60s, Redux, wannabes, lunatics, you know, out there as part of the resistance, part of a nationwide effort of protest.
And when you listen to them, they're not exactly going to 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 so-called protests outside the Treasury building and it was very lackluster, very anemic.
Everybody there really looked to be, I mean, the average age was about 60 or 70.
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 were black clad with their faces masked and wearing bike helmets and things, and they meant business.
And that was a very frightening situation.
And it's extraordinary that 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 video, people, witnesses have told us that they could not get out and they could not get in because the protesters were outside.
And presumably the NYPD was doing crowd control, trying to keep the two sides separate so that 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.
Seemed like most of the doors were shut.
Maybe they eventually managed to find a way out.
But it's a 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 1st of 2023, after a lot of preparation and 65 items that lawyers and accountants had me check off to make the move to be a full-time, permanent, domiciled, homesteaded resident in Florida.
One of the major reasons that I had to get out is I honestly, if I'd walk into an unknown restaurant, now there are plenty of restaurants that I had patronized over the years that 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 when I'd walk in, 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 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 you would have that feeling of apprehension.
I think, look, for myself, I stick in places and venues like Beach Cafe in Manhattan, which is very conducive and full of conservatives.
There are a lot of conservative New Yorkers, and so I guess that's where I'm recognized most.
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, there are certain areas that you really have to have purple hair and rainbow-colored glasses to really get by.
I'd 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.
I think they've now...
Oh, come on.
You've got to be kidding me.
No, they're recommended masks.
I mean, there are 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 like to feel and touch a newspaper as opposed to looking online.
And I never want to miss your column, for example.
But I can tell you that in New York, things have just changed so dramatically that I don't know.
I mean, I'm not sure that any politician in New York has a clue how to change it.
And it looks like Governor Cuomo is going to get elected mayor.
That's what it looks like to me.
Well, I hope not.
And certainly not if we have anything to do with it.
I don't think you can really forgive the man for what he did.
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 been awful for everybody, but I would say particularly for minority New Yorkers that terrible, you know, his social justice, criminal reform.
He still defends it.
He created a lot of problems for this place.
By the way, 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, he came to the New York Post editorial board the other day and he brought along PowerPoint presentations which were really mendacious.
You know, 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 beforehand.
And the reason that there was no big focus on it when it started is because it was January 1, 2020.
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 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 of Donald Trump, because all the 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 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, investigator reporter, Miranda Devine, also a Fox News contributor.
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All right, we continue now with Fox News contributor, New York Post author, investigative reporter, columnist, Miranda Devine.
What do you make of the promotion?
And I know you wrote about this in your column about Stephen Jensen, the architect of the FBI's kind of overzealous January 6th investigation, not the summer of 2020 rioting that took place.
They didn't have that.
Where was Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger when you needed them?
But anyway, to head the Washington field office, as it's kind of confounded Trump supporters and crushed their hopes about returning the FBI to its former greatness and bringing integrity back.
I still have a ton of confidence in people like Cash Fatelle 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 Kash Patel's and have known him for some time and was thrilled that he was heading the FBI.
But, you know, it's not just me saying this.
There's a lot of very good people, XFBI and others, significant people in law enforcement and in, you know, federal circles who are very concerned that 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, et cetera.
But I guess the fact the whistleblowers have been left to dangle, whereas three weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson took care of the IRS whistleblowers.
There are FBI whistleblowers who are still on indefinite suspension without pay, who have not been made whole or given any kind of indication that the injustice will be put right.
But it's not just that.
I mean, there's a lot of personnel decisions and sort of transparency that hasn't come about.
And particularly the elevation of this guy, Steve Jensen, who was the architect of the January 6th FBI very overzealous investigation.
And, you know, he's basically regarded, he was very strong about rounding up these January 6th defendants, even if they only had committed misdemeanor trespass.
And, you know, there are times when in the various field offices, like I'm told in Philadelphia or in Boston, officers, agents were pushing back and saying, look, we haven't got enough evidence for these people.
They're not domestic terrorists.
They're not, 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 was white supremacy, the worst attack on democracy since Pearl Harbor.
And, you know, Jensen basically testified to the Oversight Committee's weaponization committee that, yes, he 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 bought, he drank the Kool-Aid and he was really as responsible as anyone else.
Maybe the other guy would be Stephen Dantuno, 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 investigation.
I mean, people had just walked through and were even being waived in that did nothing, you know, beyond maybe take videos.
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 Miranda, I wish we always had more time with you.
We appreciate you and keep up the good work and be safe in that Adam Schiffall of a city that you live in.
Thanks, Sean.
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And some of the other news of the day, Tim Walz, we should demonize people like Elon Musk.
This is now the second time after he apologized for the first time.
And then why not just double down on doing it again?
Listen.
It's okay in America to be successful.
We should celebrate that when people are successful.
What my beef is, 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 assassination threats left and right and people firing bullets into his dealerships and blowing up and firebombing his cars and his charging stations.
Oh, yeah, let's do that.
What an idiot.
Unbelievable.
It's unforgivable to me.
Now we did have a little bit of a showdown that took place.
And this got pretty interesting between Alex, what is it, Padilla?
Is that how you say it?
A senator in California saying, Republicans requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
By the way, this is all a lie.
It's just all 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 IDs, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls, 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.
What Republicans are doing is once again demonizing immigrants for the sake of making it harder for eligible citizens to register to vote and to cast their ballots in elections.
It's voter suppression in disguise, not so much of a disguise.
Now, here's the truth.
It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in our election.
Our current laws and protections are working.
What would the CFAC do?
It would make it harder for members of the military, for example, when they're deployed to a different base and maybe have to re-register and it's not so easy from not maybe being able to vote in the next election.
Or a woman who's married and changed her last name and all of a sudden her ID doesn't match her birth certificates.
You know, this is voter suppression and it's unnecessary.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, let's not have any integrity in the system so that in 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 it is a breath of fresh air to see Carolyn Livet.
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, 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.
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 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 got to tip my hat to her.
She's phenomenal.
She's going to be on Hannity tonight.
She's amazing.
Stephen Miller's on tonight.
He's amazing, too.
Can I say one quick thing?
Rush Pippa must be looking down from heaven when he sees those press releases and just smiling from ear to ear.
I will tell you this.
Rush 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 or forever miss him.
And 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.
Anyway, have a great weekend, Larry.
We appreciate you calling 800-941-Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, Vegas, K-Dawn Radio, Tom next on the Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Tom?
How are you?
Sir, thank you for being here.
What's up?
Oh, thank you for letting me be me.
No, you've grown into quite the person you have become.
But my point is, Hakeem Jeffries and Elon Musk need to come on your show and let Hakeem Jeffries try to discuss some of these Democrats' 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 going to 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 it is.
All right.
Let me give you, without mentioning names, because I promised I would keep the conversations off the record.
There are two very, very, 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 them what you're doing.
Well, I mean, if I ask for a private conversation, I mean, I am a member of the press, and it's kind of sacrosanct if you tell somebody it's off the record.
You got to keep it off the record.
You just do.
I'm going to twist what you say, though.
They're not going to tell the truth about the hour meeting.
But they're not going to 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 had their whole office sitting around listening to it.
But I try.
What I'm saying is I do try to put people on.
Then you have another problem when you put, like, for example, I tried to put Crazy Carville 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 mean, he just was telling lie after lie after lie.
Now I'm in a box 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 going to be a never-ending interruption.
So I let him talk, try and fact-check him.
And it just is, 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 sort of like on this issue on the SAVE Act and all the Democrats out there, 70 million women that got married and changed their name are not going to be able to vote.
They're absolutely lying and full of it.
But, you know, if I had a Democrat on tonight, we were debating that.
They would peddle 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, I can't, Linda, is that an honest assessment of the dilemma that I'm put in if I put these idiots on?
Yeah, they're never going to come once.
They don't want to have a real conversation.
No, they don't.
Who comes on?
Well, Carville, for example.
He came on, and he's crazy Carville.
But I'm talking about the people who are going to be able to do that.
I'm beginning to worry that his brain has been damaged.
Who comes on?
Pelosi going to come on?
Hakeem Jeffries to his point.
Schumer.
They're not going to come on.
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, trust me, it's an open invitation if they're willing to have a real conversation.
But if they're going to come on and spew lying talking points, 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 the Vegas.
Don Lake Ron Concomo.
What's up, Big Don?
Welcome aboard, sir.
Happy Friday.
Hey, Captain Hannity.
Thanks for letting me come aboard.
You're very welcome.
Thank you.
I'd like to thank you for running the audio from President Trump's cabinet meeting yesterday on radio and TV.
Yes, sir.
It was uplifting to hear the cabinet leaders speak both of the president and each other, but more importantly to the public.
With the microphones and the cameras running, it was full transparency on display.
You know, especially.
I'm glad you like it.
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 make a decision.
Okay, I just assume most people didn't hear it.
I'm going to give up an hour of radio time to do it.
What's the best programming call?
And 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 really brought people inside what goes on.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Department of Defense, Pete Hagseth, back from Panama to secure the canal for the United States.
Lyndon McDowell speaking and holding back millions from Columbia and Cornell for their violence, their campus violence and anti-Semitism.
And then you had RFK speaking, and he's going full steam ahead to find a corpus and cure for autism.
This is all uplifting stuff, Sean.
It was great.
That's why I keep saying for those people that are impatient and that are, well, why didn't we get this done?
Well, 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 going to 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.
October 1 will be here very quickly.
We can return to constitutional order and hopefully get on a path to a balanced budget, rein in spending, but also prioritize where spending needs to go.
And that means the borders and that means energy.
That means no tax on tips, social security, or overtime.
That also means making the tax cuts permanent so we don't have a $5 trillion 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 air-conditioned offices, not on the battlefield.
And we're going to have to invest a lot of money.
Don, I got a roll.
As you know, it's Friday.
Man, time flies by.
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