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All right, news roundup information overload hour this Friday, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
If you look to the lead up to the president's hundred days, which occurred this week, and I'm actually going to focus a lot on this tonight on Hannity Nine Eastern on Fox because it's a hundred days of political shock and awe.
That's there's no other way to describe it.
There's there's never been anybody that has taken up taken on the established way of doing things and rethinking everything the way Donald Trump has.
And that's from securing the border, deporting criminals.
That is from Doge, that is from energy dominance.
Uh, that is, oh, okay, I'll I'll take on the issue of peace in Europe, peace in the Middle East.
No one else is willing to do it.
Sure, it's a heavy lift, but I've I gotta give it a shot.
And uh, and he's he's working his ass off to try and accomplish both those things, and it's gonna get hard.
I think things are gonna get very tense now with Russia in the days to come because they've been so obnoxiously fierce in in their brutal attacks and killing innocent men, women, and children.
I would expect that probably sometime next week.
Oh, by the way, quick diversion here.
Uh Linda, how big would you say on a scale of one to ten the announcement are making next week will be?
Uh 37.
37 out of one to ten.
It's a major pain in my ass, so you know, it's huge.
It is.
And and the only thing I can say is that while you're working hard on it, part of it you're not going to be a part of.
That's right.
And that's for your own good.
You agree with that, right?
I feel like it's for the good of others, but yes.
It is for the good of others.
Of course, you have to turn yourself into a martyr, but we'll avoid it.
I'm definitely a martyr on this one.
I'm, you know, I'm doing it for the greater good.
No question about it.
Okay.
Uh whatever, whatever makes you feel better about yourself.
I'm all in favor of it.
The audience is gonna agree with us when they find out what it is, and be like, oh, yeah, you you can't do that.
Let's just say uh uh Linda can't be there because I I the odds of an international incident are probably astronomically higher than I'm comfortable or anybody would ever be comfortable with.
Fair and accurate statement.
Yes, indeed.
There you go.
All right.
I said it the right way.
Um, but anyways, we've been hearing the the lead up to this.
Oh, the president's poll numbers are terrible.
Now, the problem is almost every single poll that has been cited are by polling organizations that never got the 2016 election right, the 2020 election right, or the 2024 election right.
And it's frustrating.
I mean, you know, ABC, great case in point.
I think they're off by seven.
And and they they want to put Trump's approval rating like at 39 or whatever crazy number it was.
And it's frustrating because they just lie.
And then you look at the internals and the methodology of their polling, and you realize that they're just full of crap.
They do it because they have a political agenda.
Um I thought it was hilarious yesterday when Chucky Schumer, and this this was just pure gold is trashing Donald.
The worst polling numbers of the hundred first hundred days ever.
Ever.
Okay.
And then somebody asked the question Well, you're polling at 17%, the lowest of any any minority leader in history.
How do you explain your poll numbers?
Well, polls come and go, not a big deal.
I mean, it was just it was funny and pathetic at the same time.
Uh, let me play that for you.
The polls this week show Trump has the lowest hundred-day approval rating since they started polling eighty years ago.
The lowest.
Yes.
There's a poll up there that has Europe's lower than any other congressional reader at 17%.
Are you concerned that you may be a liability for your party?
Polls come and go.
Our party is united.
We're on our front foot.
We're stepping forward and going after Trump and having real success.
And the irony is Trump and even in his lowest polls is two and a half times higher, three times higher than Schumer thought all this out.
We have Matt Towery, Insider Advantage.
I am so tired of these polsters that get everything wrong, and they get quoted and quoted endlessly, and they've never gotten Trump right.
You, Robert Cahaley, John McLaughlin, a few others, not many, always get him right.
Um by the way, uh weren't you where where were you in terms of accuracy in 16, 20, and 24?
I was in the top three in each one of those.
Top three in each one.
And one year you were number one, right?
I was number I was number one.
And there's a the the the new rankings from real fair politics haven't come out yet.
But um I certainly would expect we would be in that area with another group, active vote just at a ranking, and we were number two in the country.
This is ahead of all the networks and all the newspapers and all the other stuff.
It's just uh, you know, Sean, it's very frustrating because at least conservative viewers and listeners ought to hear polls from both sides.
Uh, you give your audience the opportunity to hear that.
But news organiz even conservative news organizations don't run our polls or or Robert Haley's polls or Rasmussen, or it's just insane.
And it's a great disservice to I'll be honest.
I I'm really only use you guys at McLaughlin, and that's basically it for me.
I I don't use any other polls because you guys had cons it's not an accident when you get it right, you know, three presidential cycles in a row.
That you can't say that's luck or an accident.
Well, it's also a matter of I think there are a group of us, John, myself, Robert, some of these other firms that we talk about that in a minute, but they've consistently been able to find that shy Trump vote, and in this case, that shy Trump approval, and put together better polls and and perform better.
And yet what happens is you have these polling mavens, these experts who are hooked in with these various newspapers.
They find ways to say, well, but they really aren't good pollsters.
Well, the proof is in the pudding.
We weren't great in twenty-two.
That's the only time I think I wasn't in the top five.
But every time Donald Trump has been on the ballot.
22 is an anomaly year, and I'll tell you why.
Because of the overturning of Roe v.
Wade.
I don't think people could factor in that quiet vote that showed up that year.
And I'm not making an excuse for you.
You're right.
That was not your best polling year, but every presidential polling year and polling Trump, they've been incapable of polling Trump.
And meanwhile, you've nailed it every time.
Sat back and looked at these polls were rolling out over the last two weeks, particularly the ones arranged for the hundred days.
And you know, eleven down, twelve down, whatever.
It's it just didn't make any sense.
So Robert Cayley and I decided to poll ourselves.
We conducted a poll.
We're going to reveal it later tonight.
I just to give you a little preview, not the numbers themselves, but I can tell you polls.
Um I don't see anything like what these other pollsters uh were showing.
We polled it exactly the same way we polled the election, where we nailed every state by like one or one point or less, maybe two points.
But we always had the winner.
So we're very good at finding Donald Trump and his supporters, and we were able to find the people who are proving them.
Those better numbers, and I think I will tell you this also.
Our poll found a lot of undecided.
Well, undecided, when they start moving, they move very quickly in another direction.
I think that Trump's going to see even stronger numbers as we get into the next few weeks, because this this hundred-day nonsense has now passed by.
And now they have to deal with the realities of what he's getting accomplished.
It's sort of like, okay, we could see obvious success on his border policies.
He's right, and J D are uh is also right in pointing out that we're still living under the Biden Harris economy.
Now, with that said, the president is making significant changes.
He's making cuts to doge.
We expect by the 4th of July this reconciliation bill will be passed.
That'll free up a lot of money.
That'll make the the Trump tax cuts permanent.
It'll eliminate taxes on tips, Social Security, and and uh overtime.
Add to that the president's energy dominance policies, the eight to ten trillion dollars in new investment based on companies pledging to build manufacturing in America.
I think that it I've never heard a number like that committed over four years.
I mean, I think the foundation has been set for economic prosperity, probably the likes of which we've never seen before, and I just hope it kicks in sooner than later.
Well, I I think it will.
I, you know, he needs to uh get some agreements uh with regard to the tariffs with some of these countries so they start following like dominoes.
But but the the public isn't really obsessed with these tariffs.
It's the media that's obsessed with the tariffs.
The the public elected this man because he said he was going to do certain things.
He's gonna really shake things up.
That's why they voted for it.
That's what he's doing, and that's why his public numbers have not dropped, and I think they're gonna start to continue to increase.
So we're getting a false view of how the public views him.
That that's to try to wrap into a narrative that he's falling apart.
What they want to do is they want to produce polls because Republican members of Congress and candidates running in states to say, oh no, we can we can't be with Trump now, we gotta get away from him.
It's not working.
If it does work, woe be to the to the Republicans who fall for this stuff.
Because in reality, I I can guarantee you, Sean, he is on the rise and he's gonna continue on the rise, unless there's something unforeseeable that I don't know about.
I think he's gonna continue to rise.
Now there's a limit to where he can go because we're a very polarized nation.
And we know there's a certain like 40% who just will not say anything good about Donald Trump.
But there are a whole lot of people out there who are seeing what he's doing, and these nonsense polls.
Think about it.
If I have a poll, let's say one, two, three, four, five, whatever, uh, more approval than disapproved.
And someone else has a poll that says he's 12 points down, that's a massive spread.
Yeah, and then you go back and you look at their track record uh polling Donald Trump over three presidential cycles, I can guarantee you uh that they got every single cycle wrong and and you were able to nail it.
Again, it's not an accident when that happens.
And you know, there also is a scorecard in the first hundred days for Democrats, and and those numbers are in, and they're not particularly favorable.
Chuck Schumer at 17%.
The Democrats in general consistently polling in the 20s.
The verdict has kind of been rendered on how the Democrats are reacting.
Even fake news CNN said the other day that if the election were held again, that Donald Trump would win hands down uh against Kamala Harris.
I guess that the American people are not that unhappy with their choice.
In fact, he would win against any of the names that you hear being floated to run, including, I might add, the governor of California.
So I I who I know is out there, you know, getting himself ready as well.
Right now, Donald Trump is politically strong.
And this nonsense that we've heard, by the way, I have a proposal.
Why don't we create a new average for the approval rating for the president of all of the pollsters who got it right for the last three times, and then you can have all the other pollsters have their average of where they think it is.
And let's report both of them to the country.
Quick break, right back more with Insider Advantage or Polster, but now one of the top pollsters by far in the country, three presidential cycles in a row, Matt Towery.
Uh, we're gonna show you how bad some of these other pollsters are tonight on Hannity.
I'd some we got to expose this.
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More with Matt on the other side as we continue than your calls 800-941 Sean straight ahead.
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Alright, we continue with Insider Advantage uh pollster.
Matt Towery is with us.
Why don't you do me a favor?
Why don't you send me these polling rankings and where they all are and I'll put it up on the screen tonight and show the American people?
How's that?
Can you do that?
Yeah, you got it.
You got it.
We we keep them, we keep them in our back pocket.
Did you did you ever poll Sean Hannity?
That's the question.
Could Sean Hannity be elected dog catcher?
Uh Sean, well, you don't want to hear it because you don't want to run for office.
Yeah, you could do very well.
That's the scary part, right, Sean?
You could do very well.
And by the way, Linda, thanks so much with the 38 off a scale one to ten.
That sort of took all my thunder away.
Everybody That's impossible to Matt.
That's just impossible.
Everybody's one what's the 38.
Well, wait a Matt, wait, wait till you hear this announcement next week.
And you'll know exactly why, and you'll know that I'm right, and you'll know that why she agrees with me, because she she has some level of self-awareness, thankfully.
Matt's gonna agree too.
Matt knows me very well.
More than you we'll we'll give you a preview.
Uh I don't know.
So what office could I run for?
Because there's enough Republicans running for president.
What could I what could I achieve beyond dog catcher if I could even win that?
Well, I'm not gonna say a position because it's just gonna get you and me both in trouble.
But let's put it this way.
You're well, we spend all half our lives getting in trouble.
Why stop now?
Okay, dude.
You're very popular in the state of Florida.
Very Oh, so I could I could do well Ron DeSantis wanted to make me the head of the chamber of commerce and get in and out burger to move their move some of the you know, build some of their they don't have a franchise, make some uh in and out burger places in Florida.
And I I've made the call.
I reached out, I just wasn't successful.
Well the owner's the nicest person in the world.
Here's the bad news.
Uh you haven't lived here long enough to qualify to run for governor.
But uh you many years do you have to live here?
I think it's seven.
Uh I'm almost positive.
I might be wrong, but I think it's seven.
I've lived here long enough, but nobody wants me to run for dog catcher, so I'm just gonna stay upholstered.
Well, people may not know this about you.
You once ran for lieutenant governor in the state of Georgia.
Oh the nominee.
I mean, that's when I first got to know you when I was a local host in Georgia.
And then I was in the Georgia House of Representatives, and then of course we involved with new very heavily.
And uh yeah, but I you know, what happened is I got religion, decided to get out of politics, and now what am I doing?
Talking about politics.
I want to play golf.
That's all I like to do.
I may choke on the golf course, Sean.
Okay.
We know I know a particular uh d uh weekend you were playing a tournament and you were are uh uh in first place after the first round.
What what what what place did you end up coming in in that tournament?
So did I tell you that I'm one of the top three pollsters in the country?
You you were you were playing a tournament.
I think it was best ball, or you had a partner in every other shot or whatever whatever the format was.
And you were you were in the lead on day one, and you bragged to me what a great day you guys had had, and you feel confident you can win this thing.
How did it how did that tournament end up?
I didn't hear the answer.
Did I tell you that one of the top three?
Matt Towery, we appreciate you, man.
Thank you, buddy.
Talk to you later, Sean.
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Oh, by the way, Linda, uh, I want to go back to the Marylander Abrego Garcia.
Now remember, his wife, for some reason, is trying to champion him coming back to the country also.
This is a guy, two judges determine MS uh 13 gang member in the hearing this week with Lindsey Graham.
Uh, guess what?
Uh he had an expert that said, Yeah, those tattoos are real, and yeah, that would signify MS 13.
That's what we now know for sure.
Now, the first complaint, then we found out there was a second domestic abuse complaint that Abrego Garcia, his wife, in her own handwriting, chronicled how he beat the hell out of her.
We just happened to discover audio of Abrego Garcia's wife pleading with a judge for temporary protection because he hit her.
Listen.
I came to fill out a protective order.
I think it was in December.
Um, but I didn't show up to the court because his family like washed my brain telling me that his dad was sick and not to do it.
Um, so it's I I didn't do anything.
But after that, it was like um I would call the police.
I have a lot of police reports, and I kept trying to get to the door basement to try to open the door, and then like he pushed me.
So then when I was able to go outside to get a um a phone, I call 911 from a disconnected phone.
Um now they took a long time to get to the house.
It was probably like 20, 30 minutes.
So I saw a neighbor um walking his dog, and I opened the door and I was like, help.
And then when he heard me, like he grabbed me from my hair and then he slapped me, and then the neighbor, like, he didn't know what to do, he didn't know what to react.
I have pictures of the evidence, like all the bruises.
Because isn't even on Wednesday, he hit me like around like three in the morning, he would just wake up and like hit me.
And then last Saturday for my daughter's birthday party, before I went to my daughter's birthday party, um, he slammed me three times, and then last week I did call the police.
My sister called the police because he hit me in front of my sister.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, let's bring this guy back to the country.
Brilliant idea.
Who thought of that one?
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Terry, Indiana, next on the Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Terry?
How are you?
I'm fine, Sean.
Thanks a lot for uh taking my call.
Thank God for your voice of patriotism across the country.
I don't know what we'd do if we didn't have somebody like you because there doesn't seem to be any other voices.
And listen, thanks a lot for having Newt Gingrich and Bill O'Reilly on your show.
They always add an interesting perspective.
But listen, what I called for is I'm really ticked off about the Tesla thing.
Now I don't have a Tesla, so I don't have a dog in this fight.
Well, we can't allow people to attack a business, whatever it is, and not have any repercussions.
Now I know that they've arrested a couple of people, and that's a good start.
What we need is some conviction and a couple of these guys going to jail for twenty years.
That'll cut it down to zero.
So that's my input.
What's your comment?
What can we do to get somebody convicted and in jail?
It it's it's terrible.
They're letting these people off the hook.
What they've done to these Tesla dealerships you know, they're firing bullets into them.
Somebody's gonna get killed.
They're firebombing the cars in the lots of these dealerships.
They're firebombing the charging stations.
Somebody's gonna die.
By the way, the first person, a nearly die, was one of these idiots that was firebombing and throwing Molotov cocktails at charging station and then set himself on fire.
And look, it so motivated me because uh it was so fundamentally unfair.
All this man has done is expressed who he supports for president, save the taxpayers a hundred and fifty billion dollars when needed and called upon.
He helped people like after Hurricane Helene and in North Carolina and Tennessee, helped people in California after the wildfires.
He rescues astronauts.
What has this man done to be hated?
And that's what motivated me.
You know, I said the hell with this.
I'm I'm buying one myself.
My friends had been telling me, a couple of my friends have been telling me it's the best car ever.
You're missing out, you're missing out.
And now that I have one, and in all truth, it is to me the greatest engineered car ever.
Imagine this.
Have you ever like go to a mall or like I went recently to a m to see the movie The Chosen, and I hadn't been in a movie theater in a long time.
And I parked far away.
I don't park far away.
And then I come out of the movie and it has an app, and you open up the Tesla app and you press the button come to me and you watch your car back out of its parking spot safely and drive directly to you.
Then you then they have this feature, auto drive, and you hit that as well.
And by the way, auto drive is like I I think there's I have the statistics somewhere.
Let me see if I find this here.
Hang on.
I had the statistics yesterday.
Here it is.
I think I got it.
All right.
So if you look at the average car, this is the latest U.S. crash data, NHTSA.
One crash per se overall.
One crash per 1.4 million miles on the highway.
Now, if you look at Tesla, year-ending, you know, uh quarter one of this year, it's one crash per 1.3 million manually driven.
Now, if you put it on auto drive, one crash per six eight million.
And other let me explain that a different way.
You would have to drive six point eight million miles on average before having an accident on auto drive as compared to seven hundred and twenty thousand miles in a regular car.
How cool is that?
Well, obviously that's terrific.
But the point still remains.
We gotta stop the attacks, and the way to a stop the tech is make there be a consequence that nobody wants to suffer.
And that's why I'm saying I know Pam Bondy is doing her thing, but she's got to do it faster, and we got to get a couple of these guys in jail, and then it'll stop.
It will stop.
Yeah, agreed.
Uh anyway, it's gotta stop.
Um somebody's gonna die.
And and this is domestic terrorism.
Pam Bondy's on it and Cash Patel.
Don't underestimate those two.
I know them both well.
Uh anyway, my friend, uh, Terry, Indiana, you have a great weekend.
Uh let us say hi to Jim in Louisiana.
Hey, Jim, how are you?
Glad you called Happy Friday.
Jim, Louisiana, are you there?
Once, twice sold Brian, Georgia, next, Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, good afternoon, Sean.
Uh, thanks for taking the call.
A long time listener, first time ever calling in.
I appreciate it.
Um what's going on?
I love that story at the beginning of uh giving back.
I think a lot of times with everything being so polarized, people vilify what they see on TV, whether it's President Trump or you, and they don't know the real people behind the scenes, but um thanks for what you do.
And um, but uh just calling in uh yesterday, I think there was a conversation y'all were talking a little bit about um the A-10s that were featured uh when the president was up there uh in Michigan, and uh I was a crew chief uh in the Air Force on those on that particular airframe.
And um, you know, they were first uh commissioned in 1975, so they're uh they've kind of reached uh all they can do.
I mean, it's uh it's a heck of a machine uh the gun on the front.
I mean, it holds eleven hundred and fifty, thirty millimeter rounds, and you can empty that in about eighteen seconds uh if you hold down the right figure the whole time, and It it's just an amazing airframe.
It's it's done.
I went with it to uh to Afghanistan oh five and Iraq and oh seven.
And um you know, as far as close air support and just uh an amazing design, amazing machine, but unfortunately the things they were designed for about 8,000 hours, and when I was deployed, we had several aircraft.
There were over 9,000, and you're talking 20 years ago.
So they have uh you know what though, I mean, a lot of people don't know this about about airplanes.
Um and probably most of you listening to me right now don't know it, but you probably have flown on an airframe that was originally purchased in the 70s, maybe even the sixties, depending on how old you are.
But the 70s, 80s, 90s, I mean what what what people don't understand about aircraft is they're constantly rebuilding them.
That's right.
Constantly.
Yeah, just so we we went through two wing rebuilds um uh on the A10 to keep it flying.
That that extended it um to about twelve thousand hours, but but most of them are well over that now.
And I mean it's it's a great I I I can't say enough about it.
I spent a lot of hours on the flight line with my hands on that aircraft and uh as far as the military goes, we're the best in the world.
And it's not I don't I don't like the idea of retiring things.
I like the idea of maybe reconfiguring them, maybe advancing them, maybe increasing their capacity and and and not just uh I until we have the next generation of weaponry ready, and I don't know if it's ever gonna be fully ready.
I wouldn't I wouldn't retire any ships, I wouldn't retire any airplanes.
I would I would be looking to modify, make better and more contemporary.
That's that's just my personal belief, but what do I know?
I'm just a dopey talk show host.
Um anyway, you're the crew chief.
That's pretty cool.
Um anyway, thanks so much for calling in.
Thanks for your service to your country, my friend.
I hope you have a good weekend, Brian.
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Adam, Minnesota, next Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Adam?
How are you?
Hey, good afternoon.
I just uh wanted to call in.
Thanks you for taking my call.
I appreciate your uh positive screeners.
Um I wanted to talk about the the fair trade.
Uh you brought it up yesterday.
I own several manufacturing businesses, and I'm just getting kind of worn out of the politicians not acknowledging the center road related to how it impacts manufacturing and products made in the U.S. Mm-hmm.
Look, I I I do feel for people.
I I I know people that are negatively impacted by this, and it's an adjustment.
And China in particular has been so egregious in their treatment of not only us but the entire world.
Um we had two choices here.
And I think the president made the right choice, and I think he was the right guy to do this, even though the there's gonna be some short-term adjustment pain associated with it.
I think there's long-term financial benefits, especially when you when you factor in the president's policies on energy, making the tax cuts permanent, no tax on tips, social security, uh and overtime uh the energy dominance is is you it's incalculable what it will do for the economy, in my in my view.
But if we also get free and fair trade at the end of this, and I think in China even announced that they're open to a deal as long as they're not taking advantage.
China's been hurt.
And apparently there's there's reports now that Chinese workers are absolutely apoplectic and livid, and that their factories are shutting down.
So, you know, nobody's benefiting from this.
I have a fairly high degree of confidence that these deals are going to be struck in in fairly short order.
I it's always gonna take too long.
But the other option was to just allow America to get ripped off, abused, taken advantage of by friend and foe alike, or challenge a system that has is institutionalized unfairness towards us.
And I think the president made the right call.
And you know, we'll w uh you know what, uh everyone wants to give him a great, a great, a great.
On the economy, it's incomplete right now because he he's not been able to influence.
We haven't passed the reconciliation bill.
You know, yeah, he's he's moving forward with energy dominance, but it's not like we're pulling all that we started to get liquefied natural gas out of the ground more than ever before.
But it did this all of these things take time.
$10 trillion committed in in investments in the next four years in manufacturing.
I mean, this is unprecedented and never happened before.
And I just believe combined with the economic policies of low taxes and helping working men and women out, it's gonna be an economic boom that we can only, you know, maybe maybe experience once in a lifetime.
Anyway, my friend, I appreciate your call.
And I this is where you're gonna have to, everyone's gonna have to be a little patient.
Or you just you just say, uh no, just keep ripping us off.
I don't like being ripped off.
I hate when people are unfair.
That's gonna wrap things up for today.
And we got a great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
We have a Hannity shootout uh with Leslie Marshall and Steve Hilton that you're not gonna want to miss.
Judge Denim Pierrot tonight.
Uh, we're gonna show you how corrupt polling is in America.
Uh we're calling it uh a hundred days of political shock and awe.
Senator Mark Wayne Mullin will join us, and Robert Cahaley at Towery, Nine Eastern, Setya D VR, Hannity on Fox.
See you tonight.
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