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	Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, toll free.
	Our numbers 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program by time for the Sean Hannity Show White House briefing, that means that there can only be one person up to this job, and that is White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.
	Uh Caroline, we do have a bit of a bit of a surprise for you, and we're going to give you some options.
	We have some introductions that we had from our big voice guy, Scott Shannon, one of the legends in all of radio.
	He created Morning Zoo Radio, he's a dear friend of ours, and he's the voice of the show.
	And I'm gonna let you hear the four different options, and you can choose which one you like the most.
	How does that sound?
	That sounds fun, Sean.
	Let's do it.
	All right, here's option one.
	Caroline Levitt.
	Crush and fake news, one lib reporter at a time.
	thud
	All right, that's high up on my list.
	Here's number two.
	Caroline Levin delivering the SmackDown with a smile.
	Number three number you'll love of this.
	Number three.
	Caroline Levin.
	Giving that you can handle the truth line.
	A whole new meeting.
	You can't handle the truth.
	And last but certainly not least, number four.
	Caroline is on the Sean Hannity Show.
	All right, we welcome back to White House Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt for our Sean Hannity Show, White House Briefing.
	How are you, by the way?
	I'm doing great, Sean.
	I'm doing better after hearing those introductions.
	I don't know who made them, but you need to give that guy a raise.
	Every single one of those.
	Amazing.
	Very impressed.
	Is there any one favorite or should we just alternate them when you come on the show?
	I love them all, but I do have a favorite.
	I have to be honest with you.
	You know I always tell the truth.
	Number two, smack down with a smile is gold.
	I love it.
	It made me smile.
	It made me laugh.
	I have my assistant here.
	She's smiling and laughing at that one as well.
	It's our new slogan.
	We're going with it.
	And by the way, it fits perfectly, and you do do it with a smile, and they they don't know how to answer you, and and they've never dealt with anybody like you.
	And I love you're 27 years old, the youngest White House press secretary in history.
	And you go up there at the podium and you're dealing with this hostile, you know, crowd of fake news, you know, idiots.
	I would never you need the patience of Job to get up there every day, and you do it with a smile and with grace, and it's it's quite appropriate.
	Um, all right, we got a lot of ground to cover.
	Let me ask you, the El Salvadorian president uh was with the pre with uh the photos at the White House today, and he won't return a deported MS 13 gang member to the U.S. And I know the media is trying to make a big deal over the fact that you know, apparently said, yeah, well, maybe we'll send American prisoners there as well.
	Um, and I figured I'd give you an opportunity to talk about the gaggle that they had today.
	Well, thank you so much for the opportunity, Sean, because one of the best moments I have witnessed in the Oval Office with President Trump happened today.
	He d uh delivered want to talk about a smackdown, a smackdown to fake news CNN and Caitlin Collins, who was asking questions with pre-baked biases and getting it all wrong.
	And President Trump and President Bukelli, and then President Trump's incredible cabinet cabinet, Stephen Miller, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Rubio, the Vice President, Jamie Vance, all delivered the truth and the facts directly to the media in the Oval Office.
	This is truly the most transparent and accessible president and cabinet in history.
	Um but the media has been getting this one single case all wrong.
	They describe this individual as a Maryland father.
	No, he is an illegal criminal, an MS-13 gang member, and now a designated foreign terrorist, thanks to President Trump's executive order that he signed upon taking office.
	And what do we do to foreign terrorists and illegal criminals?
	Support them, Sean.
	And I'm not sure where the media wanted this individual to go.
	We sent him back to his home country, and you heard directly from the president of that country, President Bukelli, who's doing a tremendous job uh uh implementing law and order and securing the nation, who said no, he's not going to smuggle this terrorist, this MS-13 gang member back to the United States of America.
	And how dare the American legal system, particularly this lower rogue district judge trying to dictate the foreign policy of the United States of America.
	And the Supreme Court affirmed that courts do not have the power to dictate the foreign or immigration policy.
	That comes from the President of the United States, and he is using diplomacy to make our country safety and uh safer in addition to law and order and public safety measures and enforcing our nation's immigration laws.
	This is a truly historic, all of government effort.
	You have the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State all working together alongside the White House to secure our southern border and to deport foreign terrorists from our soil, and we thank President Bukelli for his cooperation in this endeavor.
	I totally agree with you, and I thought it was a beatdown too.
	What's really amazing is as I watched Caitlin Collins, you know, go through one beatdown after another.
	I don't know if you see cable ratings.
	It's now often the case that Hannity at 9 o'clock is often the number one show at 9 o'clock, which is the toughest television hour of all hours.
	In all of television, we're either like one, two, or three, depending on what other shows might be on, except for Monday Night Football, of course.
	That always kills us.
	But putting putting that aside, I mean, she she has like three, four hundred thousand viewers a night.
	That's it.
	And if I had three or four hundred thousand viewers a night, I might as well get on my rapid radio and and start speaking over CB radio, and I'd probably have more listeners.
	It's ridiculous that she gets as much play as she does.
	Um let's go back to last week, the New York Times and followed up on it, put a spotlight on your press office refusing to respond to email questions from reporters who display their pronouns saying they deny their biological reality, you know, the they, them, this, that, whatever question that the people ask.
	Um it got a lot of play, but it really didn't create a lot of controversy with the American people at all.
	Well, first of all, let me just say, Sean, we don't just look at the cable ratings.
	We actually post them.
	In fact, in my colleague Stephen Chung, our White House Communications Director, his office here in the West Wing that the reporters have to come up and talk to us in every day.
	We have the ratings showing exactly what you just said.
	CNN is the bottom of the barrel.
	This is supposed to be their number one primetime show, and it's repeat it's it's last on the list, at least the one that I've seen.
	Um so you're right, they're not reaching uh many Americans with their lies, and it's because so many Americans have tuned out the lies, and that's why they re-elected President Trump.
	But as for uh the the story you mentioned, I'm so sick of seeing these fake news reporters in my inbox every day with the most preposterous emails, and then they are signed with their pronouns.
	It it's utterly absurd.
	And the president has has put common sense or he's making common sense common again.
	And we're implementing that in the press shop as well.
	We are not going to engage with reporters who are denying biological reality and truth and therefore obviously cannot be trusted to write an honest story.
	We deal with reporters who truly care about accuracy and factually representing the president and his policies.
	And if you feel obliged to put your pronouns in your bio, then you clearly don't care about the truth, accuracy, or the facts at all.
	And it's not even worth my time in dealing with you.
	And you're right, the American people agree.
	We've had a lot of stories out of this White House.
	I have never had the amount of responses I have had on my own personal social media than this one.
	And frankly, I didn't give it much thought.
	It was just common sense to me when I wrote back to that reporter on email and told my staff don't waste too much time trying to shape stories with reporters that have pronouns in their email signature because you'll just be wasting your breath.
	We have incredible news as it relates to the president and his uh tariff policy, which is he's offering countries the opportunity for free or fair trade, or if they want reciprocal tariffs, then he's giving them the choice to do it.
	Some breaking news, a major win, I think, for President Trump yet again.
	We have many, many issues today that we can talk about.
	But one is the UK Prime Minister Starmer suspended tariffs on 89 British products.
	He also made the comment about a week ago that you know globalism is officially over.
	Uh news today that the that reports 130 countries now are seeking immediate trade deals with with the president.
	The president has announced between countries and companies over uh seven trillion.
	Now it'll be seven and a half trillion dollars in uh money to be invested in American manufacturing.
	That's high-paying career jobs for Americans.
	Uh Apple was the first one, 500 billion, but you also have countries offering a billion billion and a half uh billion and a half dollars.
	Nvidia just announced the president discussed this today.
	Uh AI supercomputers entirely are going to be produced in the U.S. for the first time.
	500 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years.
	Uh and by the way, America's largest retailer, Walmart says it does not expect that any of these tariffs that the President Trump is threatening will negative negatively impact their growth, which is important because you would think a lot of products come from there.
	And the last thing I'll point out is the European Union needs to get their act together because in 2024 they sold 43.9 billion dollars in automobiles in the United States versus only 8.9 billion that we sold them because of their 10% tariff versus our two and a half percent tariff and the fact that they put a 20% value added tax, national sales tax on their products.
	It's exactly right, Sean, and God bless President Trump for finally giving our economy and our workers the labor of love they deserve by thinking so deeply and so thoughtfully about our unfair trade practices that have been ripping off our country for decades.
	We need to reshore, particularly our critical supply chains, our pharmaceutical supply chain, uh our techno technological supply chain.
	America for too long has not produced what we need.
	I mean, we saw this more than ever in COVID when we had China threatening not to ship critical medicines to the United States of America.
	Why are we depending on China for that at all?
	And it's because of the lackluster leadership of too many presidents on both sides of the aisle for decades that we've found ourselves in this position, and President Trump is finally willing to do something about it.
	So he has taken a look at the tr at the uh tariff barriers and the non-monetary tariff barriers, the regulations, if you will, from each and every country on this planet.
	And that's why we had liberation day to signal to the world America is no longer going to be ripped off.
	And what happened?
	The whole world acknowledged America was being ripped off, and they came to rush to the negotiating table with the United States.
	And now you have the president deeply involved in these negotiations.
	His trade team is embarking on talking to countries all over the world to cut better trade deals with putting America workers first.
	And we need to touch on our tripling trade uh trade deficits with all of these countries.
	And the president is looking for payback from these countries on behalf of American workers and on behalf of future future generations as well.
	This is about jobs, and this is about national security because America finds itself in a very vulnerable position uh if we continue to rely on China for critical uh our critical needs.
	And China has been enriched by this.
	I mean, China is a rich country today because of the consumers of the United States of America.
	We need to make ourselves rich.
	We need to produce things here.
	And that's the president's message.
	And and uh he wants to look out for not just Wall Street, but especially Main Street, um, that has lost jobs and lost wells uh over the past several decades because of these bad trade deals.
	All right, quick break uh as we continue more smack down with a smile, the Sean Hannity Show White House briefing with Caroline Levitt more on the other side, 800 941 Sean on number as we continue.
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	All right, we continue now with our White House briefing with White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, better stated as SmackDown with a smile.
	Uh anyway, we continue our discussion.
	Let's talk about the President's truth social post that he says nobody's getting off the hook.
	Now, I think that the president, by showing strength and his willingness to put these tariffs in place, got everybody's attention.
	And then when he gave a 90-day reprieve because everybody was knocking on the door saying, okay, we understand we've been ripping you off and and frankly abusing you and taking advantage of our friendship, especially it drives me crazy that allied countries do this to us.
	Uh now they've got this window, this period.
	Do you expect as I do that there'll be deal after deal after deal, which to me is is a reversal of sixty years of American policy that's been institutionalized that results in America getting, you know, absolutely ripped off.
	And and that that will be win after win after win, and it'll show that American strength on the world stage is paying off.
	Yes, that is what we expect.
	Uh Jameson Greer, our United States trade representative has confirmed more than 15 deals on paper proposals have already been submitted to the White House.
	That's in the matter of of a week.
	Uh and we expect there to be many, many more continuing.
	Uh and and again, we've had more than seventy-five countries reach out.
	Uh, we are prioritizing our allies and our main training um trading partners.
	The president has spoken to the leaders of many nations, including, of course, Israel, Prime Minister Ben Benjamin Netanyahu was here last week.
	Um, he vo he's also discussed um these matters with the pr uh leader of Vietnam, with Japan, with South Korea, um, all of whom, by the way, um, if we can get good trade deals that put American workers first with these countries in the Asia Pacific, um, that puts China in in even more vulnerable position.
	And by the way, China needs the United States of America.
	They need our markets, they need our consumer base in order to survive, and they know that.
	So this these tariffs that the president has implemented, he has leveraged, and he has said he wants to make a deal with China as well.
	Um, but he's not going to allow China to continue to rip off the American people, which they have been doing for far too long, and then therefore jeopardizing our national security as a result.
	I think it couldn't be any more well said.
	We'll exit out with one of the new liners, uh, Caroline Levitt, our White House briefing.
	Um, we will make sure you get to pick which one you like of the four selections.
	Here's one of them.
	Caroline Levitt delivering the smackdown with a smile.
	Caroline Levitt, smackdown with a smile.
	We appreciate you being with us.
	Thank you so much, Sean.
	Talk to you soon.
	Um, well, the left is going absolutely nuts, and I see that uh Bernie Sanders and AOC were back out on their you know, anti-olligarchy tour.
	I mean, they're getting so fringe and extreme.
	I I w I don't want them to stop this tour.
	I want to I'm maybe I should be a sponsor of it.
	Hannity sponsors the tour.
	Because the more they talk, the more they're alienating common sense Americans, and they're not including anybody.
	Anyway, so Bernie then went off on his own to speak at Coachella, and here's him talking about his socialist policies.
	All over this country, not in California, not in Vermont, where I'm from.
	But in Florida, where Maxwell was from many other states.
	Politicians are trying to take away a woman's right to control her own body.
	We need you to stand up and fight for women's rights.
	Woo!
	We have an economy today that is working very well for the billionaire class, but not for working families.
	We need you to help us to create an economy that works well for everybody, not just the one person.
	We have a health care system that is broken.
	We are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people.
	We need you to stand up to the insurance companies and the drug companies, and understand that health care is a human right.
	Woo!
	The left has gone crazy, as I spoke of earlier in the program.
	I mean, they have absolutely lost it.
	It was so sorry for what happened to Josh Shapiro.
	This domestic terrorism, you know, Luigi Mangioni.
	I mean, Taylor Lorenz laughing off the left's obsession with this very handsome Luigi Manion.
	He seems morally good, which is hard to find.
	The guy assassinated in cold blood, a father and a husband because he's the head of United CEO, a health care company.
	You don't like their health care plan, then go to another company.
	Nobody's forcing you to join the company.
	And the left just keeps getting more radicalized, more radicalized, more radicalized.
	This is a former Washington Post, New York Times reporter.
	Can't stop singing the praises of a stone-cold assassin.
	It's just you you just can't make this up.
	And then Pennsylvania police have to arrest a suspect after the governor's mansion was set ablaze.
	And uh, by the way, did you see the pictures of it?
	It was unbelievable.
	And uh Wisconsin teen telling, you know, k killing the parents so that he could use The money to assassinate Donald Trump, another guy, a Pennsylvania man, believe it or not, out of Butler PA, charged over threats to kill Donald Trump, according to immigration officials.
	I mean, this this Tesla domestic terrorism, the silence has been deafening.
	Hamas on college campuses, the the virulent anti Semitism in the Democratic Party, and the silence of other Democrats has been unbelievable.
	Fire bombing, domestic terrorism, firing bullets into these dealerships and putting these these cars in in the parking lot ablaze and charging stations ablaze.
	What is what has happened to this, you know, former once great party.
	The party of all we're saying is give peace a chance.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I guess you're not saying that anymore.
	That arson suspect told cops he would have beat Shapiro to death with a hammer if he found him.
	This is sick stuff.
	And Governor Shapiro cited the anti-Semitism after Passover, Arson has tried to murder his family.
	It's so sad.
	But this has been going on, and the Democrats have been quiet.
	If you wondered about the raw mor motions, uh Salina Zito tweeted out or X'd out, is that press conference, these and you should you see they they tried to destroy it.
	They they they tried to murder this guy and his family.
	And I hope I I I hope these things are dealt with.
	This is what we're dealing with from radicalized left wingers.
	And it's just sad, but it's happening more and more.
	At a Tunisian teen who died raising the Palestinian flag, celebrated as a martyr.
	The uh the Taliban leaders swears executions are part of of Islam, but it is a religion of peace, so they tell us.
	Pro Hamas students who took over Stanford and the president's office there officially charged with felonies.
	A lot of this is happening because these these universities care more about money than they do about these little brats that they've been letting get away with anything they want.
	Anyway, let's get to our busy phones.
	Robert in Oklahoma's been very patient.
	Robert, how are you?
	Robert's our trucker friend.
	What's going on, Robert?
	Another awesome day on the highway, sir.
	What's going on?
	I called is is uh uh I bought the burners for me and my girls.
	And uh we got them this weekend and we're able to practice with them.
	Now I think I may have to go back and buy the lasers for my two daughters because being that they're not military like me, they need a little bit more practice.
	Oh, really?
	Well, burners are easy to use.
	I mean, and the beauty is you can go out there and you can get inert rounds and you could fire it out of tree in your backyard and not put anybody at risk.
	Well, I bought the inauguration package, and it comes with a target that has the stuff in it and everything.
	I got them the Hannity packages, but I got the inauguration package because I wanted the Trump hat.
	But uh uh yeah, we were firing them in the house down the hallway, and if you hit the target, it doesn't do too bad.
	But when your girls hit the uh cabinet behind it, it kind of puts dents in it.
	Well, it depends.
	You must be using the kinetic rounds, but you uh or are you using the you they have inert rounds that kind of just it has powder inside, like baby powder, and it just you know it shows you that you hit your target.
	Oh, okay.
	I'll have to order some of them.
	I did not see those on there, but I'll have to find Yeah, you can get those.
	I mean, that's just for practice, actually.
	Oh, well, the inert rounds, if you hit the targets, you or the kinetics, if you hit the target, you can reuse them.
	So you just gotta hit the target so that you know.
	But uh uh no, I like them, I enjoy them.
	They're a little bit bigger than I thought, but still, they're really comfortable to use, no problems with them, both the girls enjoy them.
	They're gonna carry them so that now, like you say, they got the non-lethal weapon, and I would rather them have that than something else happen, you know, and be in trouble with the law if they uh had to use uh listen, it's very, very effective.
	BYRNA.com.
	I think everybody, you know, the this it's not just a sponsor, it's a passion of mine.
	And uh when I met these guys for the first time, I had no intention of of doing anything except helping them.
	But you gotta look at the videos, you could incapacitate people.
	The beauty is it's legal in all fifty states.
	You don't need a background check, you don't need any of that, and it really is uh an effective non lethal option.
	Now that does not dismiss the possibility that one day you may need the lethal option, depending on the distance, depending the situation.
	And I have both.
	And you know, I if I have a choice, I would use the non-lethal option first every single time.
	Yep, I agree with you.
	That's why I got that for my daughters instead of the nine millimeter.
	Now I do carry it because I've been trained with it being mil being a marine, it's different than somebody that doesn't know how to use or when to use it.
	So that's the other thing.
	And then the other thing I do have to tease you about real quick is uh with China.
	They don't have a marine corps, sir, so they have no chance.
	Well they do have a chance because they've spent a lot of money developing military technology, and they definitely have started an arms race using that technology, and we we have got to be on top of and spend the money needed for the next generation of weaponry so that they'd never ever dare consider messing with the U.S. of A. Period under Sentons.
	Yeah.
	Um anyway, we love our truckers, Robert.
	God bless you.
	Will you please stay safe on the road and we thank all you guys for what you do?
	And uh we wouldn't have anything in any store we ever went to without you.
	We appreciate it.
	Have a great day.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	800 941 Sean.
	Dave in Florida, my free state.
	What's up, Dave?
	How are you?
	Hi, Sean.
	Uh I'll be brief.
	Um I just wanted to say that I think it's time that we release some of the names of the people that Doge has found that sent money uh overseas and to these NGOs to uh you know commit fraud.
	And once these people have to defend themselves a little bit, maybe they'll leave Elon alone and some of the other people uh spend more little time um defending themselves.
	Uh I gotta tell you something.
	Doge has done nothing but save us 150 billion dollars.
	There's a ton of doge news today that I I just haven't had time to get into ri great specificity and and detail, but um all of it is good for American taxpayers, and if you are against getting rid of waste fraud and abuse, I don't know what's wrong with you.
	I mean, you know, they're they're now targeting sixty, three hundred undocumented illegals with criminal records on the FBI watch list.
	And anyway, the administration is finding that they're now finding, you know, three democratic states, California among them is paying fraudulent unemployment benefits to criminal illegals.
	And Gavin Newsom, congratulations, you're number one.
	Great job, Gavin.
	They accounted for 68% of unemployment benefits paid to parolees identified by CBP on the terror watch list or with criminal records.
	I think they should have to pay that back.
	And Doge saving is climbed to a whopping hundred and fifty billion so far, and they're just getting started.
	Americans are witnessing crippling federal regulations, can go directly to Doge and get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse with all of it.
	But all of this is happening.
	All of this is unfolding, so just stay tuned.
	And as I say, I've been telling people just be a little patient because every one of these things is a heavy lift.
	All right, quick break, right back.
	More of your calls straight ahead.
	800-941-SHAWN if you want to be a part of the program.
	Final hour roundup is next.
	You do not want to miss it.
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	All right, back to our busy phones.
	Uh Dave, Arizona.
	David, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, uh, first first time, first time caller.
	Uh, thanks for taking my call.
	Um, I appreciate first I appreciate everything that you've been doing.
	It's fantastic.
	Um definitely never stop.
	Um, I I appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate you giving me the opportunity.
	You're welcome.
	Um I want to talk about uh I want to talk about tariffs.
	And uh I'd just like to say something to your audience that um we're all gonna have to be patient.
	I mean this is 40 years in the making, Sean, that we've we've had uh, you know, where this whole thing is started, and uh we we haven't had any presidents except for Donald Trump, um, I think because he's a businessman, has not even remotely done anything about these tariffs that have been ripping off this country, ripping us off, our jobs are gone.
	Um but there's gonna be it's gonna be a little bit, I wouldn't call it pain, Sean.
	I would call it like probably some uh prices could go up a little bit, but I'd rather do that, okay, than being ripped off and pay for cheap goods over in China.
	I would rather get this issue solved once and for all.
	We have allowed the establishment institutionalized class in DC to allow us to accumulate trillions of waste fraud abuse and corruption, and they've institutionalized other countries, ripping us off, even allied countries that depend on us for their very security.
	And the time to stop it is now.
	Now the good news is the president being strong and willing to take the hits, laid it all out on the line.
	Now we've got 130 countries that want deals, and my my prediction is you're gonna see day after day after day, deal after deal after deal, which means win after win after win, and the old way of doing things will forever be gone.
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	I appreciate the call, my friend David.
	God bless you.
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