All Episodes
Previous Next
May 16, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
36:54
The Diddy Trial - May 15th, Hour 2
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
This is an iHeart Podcast.
You want smart political talk without the meltdowns?
We got you.
And I'm Carol Markovich.
And I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently.
Normally is about real conversations.
Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
Join us every Tuesday and Thursday, normally on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes, inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So Dow, verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Well, we're coming to your city.
Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song.
We'll all be dying.
And if you want a little bang in your yin yang, come along.
It's people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noam.
You lay a finger on them, we are going to have a problem.
Does is nothing but a cover-up.
Like it's a scam.
Let me save myself some money while also enriching myself at the same time.
It was a complete sham, Kennedy.
Today you're gonna follow Jesus.
And by 10 o'clock, I still want to follow Jesus, but I also want to slap the hell out of somebody.
Freedom is back in style.
Welcome to the revolution.
Yeah, we are coming to your centaur.
Sean Hannity Sean Hannity Show.
More behind the scenes information on breaking news and more bold inspired solutions for America.
Hey, it's Mark Simone here for uh Sean Hannity.
Sean, uh well, he's been with the president on this trip.
They were in uh Dohart, Doo Who, uh, Baba, where all these different I can't keep track of all these places.
And uh the president uh actually coming back, they call it deliverables before you go on a trip.
They make sure that you're gonna get something done, a deal, uh treaty, uh they call that a deliverable.
Well, uh, normally you try to come back with one of those.
He's come back with uh dozens and dozens and dozens and lots of money.
So and we'll hear uh Sean interview President Trump.
That's coming up in the show, so don't go away.
Uh with us right now is Carol Roth, best-selling author.
You should get her book, You Will Own Nothing.
And make sure you follow her on uh Twitter, X, whatever it's called now, and uh all of that stuff, and you see her all over television, and she's with us right now, Carol Ross.
How are you doing?
Always good to be with you.
How are you?
I'm good, I'm good.
Uh you've been following the Diddy trial uh closely.
It's certainly uh the sleaziest stuff I've ever heard, but uh I'm I'm not hearing a definite crime yet.
I know it's there, but uh I don't think they've got another cross, have they?
Well, it's interesting that you say that I've been following every detail.
The thing that stands out to me, Mark, about this, is that there haven't been that many details compared to all of the other celebrity trials that we've lived through.
If you think about the circus that was around Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and all the the memes and the coverage of that, and then the one that sort of defined our generation, the OJ Simpson trial, where do you remember uh on Jay Leno that he would have the dancing idos?
Yeah, you know, right?
So I feel like there was so much pomp and circumstance around that.
And you know, now it's pretty quiet.
And given the fact that this is a celebrity and it's got sex and it's got salacious details and violence, you know, you kind of have to ask the question, is it's almost like what is the media hiding by not covering this.
Well, it's a little more difficult.
The trials you mentioned in California, they allow cameras in the courtroom.
They don't allow it here in New York, so we can't see it.
That makes it tougher.
And uh it's too long also.
It's uh I mean we got to point with uh with the freak-offs and all that, like get to something else.
Don't you think they're moving a little slowly?
Well, I do.
Well, first of all, I I have to say that the one thing that has come out is some very grotesque uh courtroom sketches, and you almost feel like the person who's doing those is weighing in by the fact that they're just so absolutely awful.
But yes, unfortunately, um I've learned the difference between what a white party and what a freak-off is, and A, I I've never thought I would be discussing that on a radio, but B, it's more than I I ever wanted to hear, I have to say.
Yeah, let me just point out you saw, you know, a million big stars celebrities all at his parties.
The white party was the presentable party uh in the evening, everybody would come for that.
The freak off was later, the disgusting stuff.
But by most all those big names you hear, they all left after the white party.
They weren't there.
Or or were they?
Were there a couple there, a couple of exceptions that stayed for the freak-off?
Well, I think that's the the question, right?
Is that you know, certainly the the high profile celebrities, and we're talking everybody.
We're talking about business people, political figures, uh film, television, music, anyone who's anyone, you know, this was sort of a a cultural moment.
If you were invited to this party called the white parties because they would dress all in white and it would be in a fancy location like Beverly Hills or the Hamptons and everyone wanted to be a part.
And then so we've been told I I have to say I've never been invited to one of these, but uh so we've been told that yes, that late later on would be when all of the bad stuff happened.
That's at least the narrative, but you do see a lot of celebrities that have distanced themselves, the leading social media posts, you know, trying to, you know, not be in the circle that they were so desperate to be a part of later.
And that just sort of begs the question is, you know, why, even without the cameras, are we not getting more information?
There were so many people who were in and around this, you know, do we believe that nobody else was taking part o in what was going on here given what we know about Hollywood and politicians and whatnot?
Um and and why is it, you know, so quiet uh on the home front.
Yeah.
But just to be clear, at the white party died down the uh like Martha Stewart would go home.
She wouldn't stay for the orgy because you know her, she'd put placecards everywhere.
It wouldn't work.
She had th she had good things to attend to.
She had to attend to her garden and and other things.
Yeah.
Now they d you know, P. Diddy's a handsome guy, always well dressed, so for the trial they got him uh his hair's all gray and white now and he's wearing a rumpled sweater.
Is that a good tactic or does the jury not fall for that stuff anymore?
I I mean, you know, he's one of the highest profile celebrities.
I've got to imagine, you know, even as they were going through the jury um, you know, t to say, do you know who this person is?
I've got to gotta believe that they've seen him somewhere.
And yes, he's known for being impeccably dressed and and you know, looking very suave.
So um I'm not sure, particularly given the charges that looking more disheveled and and out of the ordinary, it seems like a good tactic.
I don't think that that's going to um you know, create any sort of of feelings of, yeah, okay, this this guy I'm I'm feeling more empathetic towards him.
I don't know, does that work on you?
No, no, not at all.
But um again, you look at everything that's being presented.
He's a disgusting, immoral, awful guy.
But again, w when do they get to the actual crime and how do they prove that?
It's a good question.
You know, I'm not a lawyer, I don't want play one on TV or the radio, but you know, we do have these videos that have been leaked that we've seen on social media um that showed some pretty horrible violent acts.
And I think that, you know, some of the um sexual issues may be questionable whether the uh you know whether Cassie was was uh pressured into these and par you know a willing participant or she was uh you know under duress and groomed but the the violent acts you know that is what it is and it does seem um like they're taking far too long to kind of get to um the point and you know you know how it is these days people's attention
span spans are so short the jurors aren't going to be any different so you think you want to quickly get to these key moments to make your point because the longer it takes the more likely it is that they're gonna zone out and forget what you've said along the way.
Yeah hey that the hotel video where he's beating her up in the I mean that's not New York.
They can't do anything here.
Why wasn't he ever tried and convicted for that?
Statute of limitations.
I don't know.
I don't know why, but it certainly was sort of that pivotal moment that came to social media.
And that does seem like when everything started to unravel.
So even if that wasn't sort of center to the conviction, that's what caused everything to be looked into.
Because before, while there had been allegations and rumors and nothing that seemed provable, here you have something concrete to me move on and that's you know when you saw sort of everything else kind of it was the first domino to fall so to speak.
Yeah.
So how this trial's supposed to be like eight weeks it looks like it's gonna go longer.
Uh it's gonna lo it's gonna last longer than the tariffs we're gonna have a polymarket on you know which which is gonna fall first we're gonna get the the next you know twelve Trump deals are we going to get to the end of the the Diddy trial and certainly it seems like President Trump is making deals at a much more uh quick pace than these prosecutors so maybe they need to to learn something from the president.
Now Carol Roth was an investment banker that's why she said the polymarket we all nod like we know what that is.
What is a polymarket polymarket sorry to go into my uh my wall street speak.
No, it's um it's this fascinating thing that's come a along with social media that it's a betting market and the betting market where you can sort of bet on any outcome of anything a lot of them have with like political figures and things like that, different chances of somebody becoming president.
So just another you know point of degeneracy for our uh for our society but that's uh you know a good place if you're looking for odds on something what's going to happen versus something else uh a lot of people will turn to poly markets to figure out the odds make it you used have to go to a bookie for that and now you can just do that on how far we've come if I go to the poly market right now who's uh got the best odds for being the Democratic nominee.
Oh that's a good question.
I don't know let's do should we look that up?
Yeah it's probably uh I hate to say it's probably AOC.
I know it's it's very d it's very depressing.
I'm pulling it up right now and see if I can get an answer.
But they've got the NBA champions.
They've got Fed decision in June.
Let's see if we can get the Democrats.
Now, Pete Buttigieg is running around like a lunatic trying to get some traction here.
But with the air traffic controller disaster, the antiquated system, he's there four years, didn't even notice.
How does he run for anything?
You know, he's like the Peter principle, right?
That, you know, you just keep failing upwards.
And so far, you know, he's managed to just do a bad job at everything that he's been given, yet man.
moved on to the next stage.
I mean I guess that happens uh quite a lot but you know certainly um you know he's uh he's been doing that and the nice thing is with a lot of these these guys is you know they have no shame.
So for them it's just a way for them to raise their profile, maybe sell some books, get um you know campaign contributions and and whatnot and um you know they they're able to take advantage of it even if they have no sort of real belief that they're going to to become president.
Yeah that's a good point.
Yeah people forget you you can just run uh and take in massive donations and you know you're not gonna win but at the end of the day you got uh five million, ten million in the bank and you can keep that and spend that forever uh as long as you say you're gonna run again.
But in other words you could use it to pay for a car, a driver, an office a secretary to care of the expenses with it.
Uh a lot of people uh right now that uh that's what they're doing for a living living off that money.
Well Carol Roth uh great stuff.
What's best place to follow you?
X probably market up, but everyone can go there and uh and check out.
They got a lot of a lot of good things up there for you to check the ads on.
All right.
Follow Carol Roth on X. If you haven't read it, it's a big bestseller.
Get her book.
You will own nothing.
You will love it.
And Carol Roth, thanks for being with us.
My pleasure.
Talk to you, Sam.
All right, take care.
Hey, we'll take some calls in a minute.
800, 941 Sean is the number.
800 941 Sean.
It's Mark Simone here.
Don't forget uh coming up.
We'll hear uh Sean with President Trump.
And make sure you watch Hannity tonight, 9 o'clock, Fox News Channel.
Uh if you want to listen to me and get my podcast, iHeart or anywhere.
And uh we'll take some calls next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey there.
I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes, inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Janice, how are you doing?
Hey, hey, Mark and Linda.
Good.
Thank you.
How are you doing?
Good.
You know, I'm just wondering why there's no conversation around the surrounding folks around Diddy who were complicit, like the cameraman or the guard.
You know, he couldn't have done what he did without some sort of collusion from others.
And to me, it's no different than a murder um cover-up from people that get arrested if they did the driveway car from a bank robbery or whatever.
Yeah, well, I don't know.
If you're the cameraman, you're just the cameraman.
If you're the guard you know, there were um a couple of guys that said uh uh he kind of threatened them.
He said, give me your driver's license.
And he had somebody do that.
Give me your driver's lesson.
They took a picture of it.
You remember the movie Good Fellows?
Where De Niro they're robbing the truck and they take the guy's driver's license, and he says, You may know who we are, but we know who you are.
So, you know, the threat.
So uh that guy could uh get arrested.
But the cameraman lighting guy, I'm sure they brought in makeup artists.
Uh yeah, and it's got to be uh somebody that did the threatening.
So that'll come out at some point.
I know there were recruiters.
You know, Epstein had that woman, uh, Ghlaine uh Maxwell.
Jis Lane Maxwell.
Gallane.
Jis Lane or Gislane, depending on where you're from, but it's just Lane Maxwell.
I always called her Gallane.
Well, that's weird because it's not a name.
Oh, I actually knew her.
I mean, Well, let's clarify that again.
She was like the Linda of that operation.
Oh, take it.
Easy Mark.
Oh my God.
No, what I mean was if you talk to him, he was kind of a sleaze ball.
Like as soon as you saw him, you knew he was a sleeve.
So who is the sleaze ball in this situation?
Is that you?
No, no, no, no.
I'm just saying the Glaine.
Oh my God.
No, she was classy.
She was like the boss.
She was she was good at recruiting, organizing.
She made the uh uh what do you call it?
He was the executive producer of child trafficking.
Fantastic.
Well, no, one thing about him, it wasn't all uh some of those guys liked uh young girls.
In most cases, it wasn't young girls, like Bill Clinton liked 40-year-old floozies.
They would get him that.
Uh Bill Gates liked uh Mousey librarian types, older ones.
So it was whatever you wanted.
And that's I'm not gonna ask why you know any of this.
I didn't get to it.
And you know who used to warn me?
Don't get involved with that, don't talk to Epstein?
Donald Trump.
I know Donald Trump, honestly, God bless that man.
He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke.
The worst thing he does is he eats McDonald's.
Yeah, and uh when Epstein went to Palm Beach, he became a big guy and he joined Mar-a-Lago.
At one point he uh went after a young girl who worked in the locker room, daughter of a member.
Trump threw him the hell out of there and warned everybody, stay away from this guy and don't go near him.
But uh I would imagine uh Diddy had a bunch of uh they all have them recruiters go out and uh find him of victims.
Listen, at the end of the day, if you do not say something, you are complicit.
If you see somebody being hurt and you know that they're there against their will, you have to say something.
You have to.
You gotta be a snitch.
Well, Ethan looks like he wants to go home.
Ethan does want to go home.
He has two children that are five and under.
So you're holding this poor guy here.
I'm being held here till uh You are against your will.
You're welcome.
Yeah, well, we'll take some calls in a minute.
800 941 Sean is the number.
800 941 Sean.
It's Mark Simone here for uh Sean Hannity.
Hey, make sure you follow me on Instagram.
It's Mark Simone, NYC at Instagram.
Forget that TikTok.
I don't like it.
I don't know.
Let's wait and see if it actually is gonna stay.
Back in a moment on the Sean Hannity show.
Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
We'll hear uh Sean with President Trump coming up later on in the show.
Hey, uh Memorial Day.
Can you believe it?
It's right around the corner.
And I don't want to see you flying a faded flimsy overseas made flag with frayed edges.
No.
Get yourself a durable, high quality American flag that truly honors the day.
One that was hand-sowned right in Charleston, South Carolina by real patriots who love the country.
That's right.
It's uh allegiance flag supply.
Allegiance flag supply, Sean as one.
Uh a lot of people have these beautiful allegiance flags.
And you still have time to get yours before Memorial Day.
It's a flag that you can really revere, a flag you can be proud of.
It's a great gift, too, especially if you have a military member in your family.
Or a great Father's Day gift is right around the corner, too.
You won't find handcrafted uh allegiance flags in a big box store.
The only way you can get one is at showallegiance.com.
Hey, make sure you use the code Hannity and you'll get free shipping.
ShowAlegiance.com.
Use the code Hannity, get free shipping.
But order yours today.
May's the busiest month, so make sure you get it in time.
Go to showAlegiance.com.
Make sure you use the promo code Hannity and get free shipping.
ShowAlegiance.com for American Flags Made the American way.
Uh speaking of breaking news, Janine Pierrot just sworn in as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Now, I know she gives up a lot here.
They're on the five, one of the biggest, biggest shows in television here.
Uh big TV.
Give all that up to go the be the U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia.
But now she's got a lot of uh practice and experience as a prosecutor.
She was a great uh district attorney in uh Westchester County.
In fact, to her office for years, very innovative, copied by a lot of other offices, so she's great at this.
But you're giving up a lot to go be the U.S. attorney, District of Columbia.
I have a feeling that there's gonna be some very big cases she'll be handling.
And that's why this was important.
There are a lot of guys there, dirty swamp creatures, uh lawfare guys.
Uh there's that Andrew Wiseman who was the guy running the Mueller investigation.
I know they got a lot of stuff on him.
These guys, and who knows that uh I'm blanking out.
What is this?
Oh, Jack Smith, that awful uh awful prosecutor, special counsel, somebody needs to go after him.
Remember the pictures of those boxes at Mar-a-Lago?
All you saw were these pictures.
A hundred and fifty boxes.
Here's another seventy-five boxes in the bathroom.
Here's another fifty-two boxes in the storage.
You know, and he never made this clear.
None of those boxes had classified documents.
He never made that clear.
In the end, they found 35 classified documents.
If you put them in a folder, it's about an inch and a half thick, maybe two inches at the most.
That's two inches of one box.
All those boxes you saw, no classified documents.
Somebody needs to go after that guy.
But I have a feeling Janine Pierrot is going down there to do some very, very, very important cases.
Uh she'll be back.
She's the interim uh U.S. attorney there.
And when that's all done and fixed and things are cleaned up, uh, she'll come back.
But uh Linda, you're looking at me funny.
What's the matter?
I don't know.
I'm just curious.
I would I mean listen, Jack Smith, the fact that Jack Smith had anything to do with anything, given the fact that his wife was the documentarian that worked with the Obama family.
So you know, they're completely in that whole very elite liberal world.
He's you know, he's not a uh a person that is operating strictly as a as a man of the law.
I mean, if anything, he's looking to abuse and misuse the law in any way possible so that he can hurt his enemies, right? 'Cause the enemy of anyone of his wife, you know, that's his enemy.
I mean, he was ridiculous.
Yeah, and also I need to get technical here.
He's a bug-eyed weirdo.
I mean, those pictures those pictures of him with that weird bug eye.
You know what I thought was very strange, and this is this is obviously being I'm I'm meticulous, so we'll start there.
But he shows up to this huge press I the here's the weird part.
We were watching it, we were in California, Sean was interviewing Governor Newsom at the at the gubernatorial mansion, and Governor New uh Jack Smith is like, Yes, I'm gonna release these documents, and we're all sitting there like, okay.
And he had nothing.
He had absolutely nothing.
It was a 400 page document that said nothing.
Nothing was found, nothing was in the boxes, everything was exactly as they had asked President Trump to keep them.
You know, the vault that they asked him to create.
The FBI had already had all the codes.
It was absurd.
Yeah.
And also, anybody that's ever been in the White House with classified documents will tell you the same thing.
Ninety percent of them are absolutely nothing.
They just overclassify everything.
There's things like uh weather report for a battlefield.
Well, unless you're coming, then you give it to your friend who works at the New York Times.
Yeah.
And Jack Smith, remember that picture with him with the cape on?
Any guy that owns a cape.
He's absurd.
I mean, like if you want to be a Marvel character, go audition.
I'm sure they're looking for weirdos like you.
So I have a feeling there's gonna be a lot of people uh in courtrooms down there in uh listen, Janine Piro's tough, man.
She's not taking any prisoners.
Yeah, no, no.
She and she's given up a lot to go down there.
So I'm I think they've discussed what possible things she could do down there.
So that'll be interesting to see.
Uh and then uh you got the president uh wrapping up the trip tomorrow.
I'm looking at the schedule for tomorrow.
It is one busy day tomorrow.
He's got a lot of stuff to do.
Then he comes back to the White House, he'll be back in uh DC.
Uh it says 1035.
I guess that's uh Washington time.
This is a seven hour time.
Yeah, that's Washington time.
Well, actually it's an eight-hour time difference with UAE.
Yeah.
So uh that's right.
He's not in the he left uh Dabu Pabu or wherever he was.
He went from Saudi Arabia in Riyadh to Doha Qatar.
Doha Kara.
And then now he's an Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
Yeah.
It's a lot, it's complicated stuff.
But uh now watch when he comes back.
He's got I guarantee you got a lot of ideas and a lot of inspiration from the decor there.
You're gonna see exchanges.
A lot of gold.
You're gonna see even more gold at the White House.
It's gonna get fixed up even more.
Hey, uh we already did that.
We did, but it's an amazing product.
Thank you for thinking about it.
I'm like Joe Biden here.
Uh uh the site media it.
I know you guys all listen.
What the hell did you do to the site?
You changed the graphic.
It looks terrible now.
Go back to that.
It's not it's not easy.
That first of all, let's be honest.
That site is not functional.
It's it's not as it's not easy to follow, in my opinion.
It's all over the place.
There's a million things on it.
I know, but it looked better before it.
I don't like this new graphic.
And I love media because everything is so slanted to the left.
It's the most slanted site.
And there's two things.
Uh, if you don't speak media language, uh anytime you see this in a headline, bombshell revelation.
Whenever it says bombshell, it means it's nothing.
It'll go away in a week.
Check the record.
Every time they ever said bombshell uh it's going away in a week.
So for those of you who don't know Mark Simone, Mark Simone is the equalizer.
Yeah.
This is a man who comes into any room, any conversation, and you think you've got news.
You've got something to share.
You've got something to say, and then he goes, meh, came out a week ago.
Meh.
That guy's an idiot.
Meh.
Nobody knows.
Nobody cares.
This is quintessential, Mark Simone.
Look who's talking.
Miss diplomat in there.
Oh, forget about it.
Everybody knows where I roll.
There's no secret.
Uh oh, here's the other one.
If you ever see this word, explosive.
That means it's nothing.
So the big story here is What if it's huge?
I know somebody uses the word huge a lot.
Yeah, well, that's the problem with the medite.
You know, if we talk about Donald Trump.
If you ever really had a big story, but this one, look at this.
Jake Tapper's explosive Biden book.
Yeah, nobody knew that he had cognitive problems.
I gotta be honest, I didn't even know Jake Tapper had a book.
Yeah, oh yeah, he's the guy with the I know, but I didn't know.
Yeah.
Uh but don't buy it.
I gave you the revelations.
Whenever you see uh in fact the media the other day, here's the five revelations.
There's nothing else in the book.
Even the New York Times said, no news here.
Uh oh, here's the other thing if you ever want to read media.
Whenever they say meltdown, it means the guy made a joke or something.
Like uh it says uh I had the story yesterday.
Donald Trump's meltdown during the ABC interview.
That's where he made a joke about uh Terry Moran.
He said, I don't even know who you are.
That's called a meltdown bombshell explosive uh well look at Scott Jennings on CNN.
I mean, every other story is about him on CNN on Mediaite.
Yeah, because they're so upset that there's a a conservative voice on CNN that's I like him.
I think he's good.
He's great, but they CNN, they I and I guess they're uh he's like the token guy, just to say they have a conservative on it.
100%.
I gotta be honest though, to your point.
I'm not watching him on CNN.
I'm getting all of Scott Jenny's clips on X. Yeah, that's a good thing.
Again, you don't have to watch CNN.
Nobody does.
It's like uh 200,000 viewers.
You know, they're in uh over in the Hudson Yards there in the middle of Manhattan.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Actually, if you're listening to CNN, they move from Columbus Circle?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
You i uh you're over there, it's in the middle of Manhattan.
You could just open the window and yell, you'd be reaching more people than you are on the air.
Hey now, I want you to think about this.
You're right.
They were at Columbus Circle.
They moved to Hudson Yards, which is right on the water.
These left-wing cooks have been telling you for years that the sea level's gonna rise and that the water is gonna come the meantime, they move to the waterfront.
CNN has moved to the waterfront.
Obama buys another mansion on the water every week in California in the world.
Well, look what they did during the Hawaii fires.
They were the first ones down there.
We had the Rock, Oprah, Obama.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, let's build out Zuckerberg.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, but they keep telling you the water levels uh the whole coast will be gone.
You know what we don't hear about anymore?
The Palisades fires.
Yeah.
How's Mayor Karen Bass doing with her $500,000 a month reconstructive architect?
Yeah, if you get the liberal media behind you, just remember, like the fires, Garcia.
About two weeks later, they're gonna go, eh, enough with you.
Next.
Next thing.
Moving on.
Now it's the plane.
Actually, there's no plane coming from Qatar.
He is furious, and he's right, and he's fuming at Boeing.
They've been so bungling in a net the last couple of years.
They can't get Air Force One built.
It's ridiculous delays.
So the idea of the Qatar plane is to troll and humiliate Boeing publicly.
There's no plane coming.
Uh and I think uh left wing media, fake news.
I think they're starting to figure that out because I noticed they no more plane story today.
They've cut back on it.
Well, it's like the Medicaid story, right?
So you've got all these congressional representatives.
I was talking to Newt Ginkrich about this the other day, and they're showing up on the floor of the Capitol, and they've got these big signs like your children will die, the elderly will die, everyone is dying because of Medicaid cuts.
Meanwhile, it doesn't affect med the the seniors.
It doesn't affect children.
It doesn't affect babies.
It's utter and complete nonsense, but they're expecting and they know that the average Joe is a headline hero.
They're not getting to the weeds of the article or listening past the first three minutes.
I mean, look at these people on C-Span.
They put everybody to sleep.
Yeah, but the hoaxes, one hoax after another.
And uh what's the last remember the blue suit?
He violated protocol at the Pope's funeral.
He wore a blue suit instead of a black.
You're supposed to wear a black suit and a black tie.
How hard was this?
I googled the pictures and looked at the crowd.
I saw like 14 blue suits.
Joe Biden was wearing a blue suit.
I'm looking at the ties.
I saw a red tie, a green tie, a purple tie, a blue tie.
I'm sure Pope Parances was really outraged.
He was like, oh, can't believe he wore that to my funeral.
Yeah.
It's disgusting.
I think you're supposed to wear a black tie and a black suit, but I think that was just a big thing.
Yeah, traditionally you wear it's like it's like not wearing white to the wedding, because you know the brides in white.
That's rude.
And then you see there's always one dumb lady that shows up in a white dress to somebody else's wedding.
Like, hello.
It's understood.
Well, when they said protocol, they meant the Vatican people in the Exactly.
That's all they meant.
And listen, don't even get me star.
And I'm a Catholic.
What those people did in the those ceremonies leading up, some weird stuff going on with the hats and the cloaks and the I don't I I really don't understand all the procedural and ceremonial effects.
It was a lot.
Oh these are these are not right.
These are not the people I pray with on Sunday.
I'm just telling you right now.
Yeah, and we wish the new Pope great uh success.
But when I see a guy like that has a Twitter account and he's tweeting about uh Vance and Trump and oh my what why would you even be treating about that?
Yeah, I'm not a fan.
Yeah.
Uh so I said we'll take some calls.
We should actually take some.
Let's go to uh Dave in Florida.
Dave, how are you doing?
Um fine, sir.
How are you?
Good.
Yeah, I was just wondering now.
Uh Trump, of course, has been uh catching a lot of hate for years.
And uh I don't know if anyone's ever done this.
Uh maybe it's something that uh you could do uh interview um psychologist, uh sociologist, something like that, to you know, maybe try and figure out what what is the root cause behind all of the hate that comes his way.
Yeah, we could do that, although I found most psychologists, psychiatrists don't know what the heck they're talking about.
They ever have the answers.
But um I saw it long before he got into politics, even here in New York, when he was a big business guy, uh some of the business guys loved him, but there was a whole bunch of these business guys, and it wasn't this wasn't about politics.
He just set them off.
They just went nuts.
You know, uh that there was a psychologist once said, a lot of times if somebody hates you, it's because you have things they want.
It's like they hate what they see in you what they'd want to be.
So it could it be because even back then he had an incredible personality, be the star of any room he walked into, he'd get a ton of attention.
Uh he does know about this hatred and he plays on it.
That's why the plane and all this stuff.
He knows that uh these crazy hate-filled Democrats, he loves to just send them into a rage every day with something else.
That's why sometimes he'll you know you say, Well, why did he have to say that?
And that's why he says it.
Well, there's not going to be any plane, but what did he make such a big thing of that plane?
Just to get them just going nuts.
You know, it's like a bad kid at the zoo.
He's always like rattling the cage trying to get the uh animals to start yelling and screaming.
I he does that with the fake news.
Hey, uh, we'll take some more calls in a minute.
800-941 Sean is the number.
Coming up, we'll hear Sean Hannity's we'll hear part two of his interview with President Trump.
And of course, check out Hannity.com.
Back in a moment, Mark Simone here on the Sean Hannity Show.
You want smart political talk without the meltdowns?
We got you.
Now I'm Carol Markovich.
And I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
We've been around the block in media, and we're doing things differently.
Normally is about real conversations, thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
Join us every Tuesday and Thursday, normally on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
I'm Ben Ferguson, and I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict With Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
▲
Export Selection