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Best of Hannity: President Trump and Hannity - May 26th, Hour 3
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It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
At the bottom of the hour, though, we'll hear Sean uh interview President Trump.
It's part two of the interview, and it's excellent.
So don't miss that.
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So uh hey, with us right now is uh Selena Zito, who is the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner, got a big new book coming out, Butler.
As in Butler, Pennsylvania, and she's got a great article on the uh reason for the attacks on uh Senator Fetterman and a whole lot of stuff and lots to talk to her about, but make sure you pre-order that book, Butler, and she's with us right now.
Selena Zito, how are you doing?
Oh, just living the dream.
How are you doing, Mark?
I'm good, I'm good.
And if Butler, if that had happened to anybody else, it'd be a thousand books, it'd be the most talked about thing nonstop day and night.
But because it was uh President Trump, uh the mainstream media couldn't get off that story fast enough because he was absolutely heroic.
You know, if you look at what's going on as far as looking into it, it's shockingly uh tiny this investigation.
You know, the Oswald, uh the Kennedy's we saw a million uh press conferences, interviews, everything.
What's going on with digging into this this assassin?
Well, if if your um listeners don't know, I was just four feet away from the president when he was shot at.
Um I I was in Butler, and and the reason I was so close to him in the buffer was because I was supposed to fly with him uh uh along with my daughter, who's a photojournalist who lives beside me, uh, to Bedminster to do an extensive interview about Pennsylvania because I cut I live in Pennsylvania,
I cover Pennsylvania, I've been in Pennsylvania forever, and and uh so I saw the entire thing and and even made some very powerful uh and important phone calls to me the next day and we talked several times after that.
Um but in terms of this investigation, uh, you know, the there there was a congressional task force that looked into it, and you know, a lot of the failures were institutional.
Uh there was no con there was little to no communication between the uh state police, the local police, and uh uh Secret Service.
It was one of the many failings, which I find particularly interesting considering that was one of the biggest failings of nine eleven because these larger, you know, um institutions didn't speak to each other, right?
The CIA wasn't talking to the Secret Service, wasn't talking to the FBI, um and and you just saw this on a different scale um on that day.
And and you'll you'll read a lot about that in the book.
You read a little more about Thomas Crooks um and his family, uh, but there has not been uh a lot to dig into because the family basically lawyered up right after the uh that day.
Um but even still I have some pretty striking things in there that were really make I I I suspect this new s administration, we will see something uh come out and and I you know, I suspect right now, as I took to local law enforcement, um that they're working on that currently.
Yeah, I you know, you keep hearing that well, there was a lack of coordination that was shorthanded.
But simple things like uh when you go to the area secret service standard procedure, scope out a thousand yards.
They didn't do that.
They didn't bother to check all those rooftops.
How could that be?
I I don't know, but I you know, when I went back to my car, you know, after everything they held us for a long time.
Um th those reporter there was just I was the only reporter in the buffer and and a couple photographers.
When we came back out, I realized that my car was parked right below where he climbed up and got on that roof.
Uh and and I mean it w it it was a very open event.
Uh and and I remember saying that to my daughter when we got there, thinking, Wow, there's you know, I I kept looking at the water tower because if you look at some of the photos from that day, there's a big water tower in the background um behind where the stage was.
And and I I remember thinking like, wow, I ha I there must be a Secret Service guy up there, right?
Like there has to be, right?
Uh there wasn't, but I tell you what, when I went back um to Butler in October there sure was, was a completely different um uh event and a completely different um set of securities.
Wow, which I was uh Selena Zito wants you to order her book, Butler.
The new book coming out.
So uh well shots are fired.
Sometimes it takes a second or two or three or more to realize what's going on.
When did you realize what was happening?
Well I'm a gun owner.
Um, you know, I think most of the people in Western Pennsylvania are.
Um so I knew immediately what was happening.
Um and and so uh four four shots went over my head and and I I looked to the president and I saw the blue like the red streak across his face.
And I I but when the second four shots went off at that same time I saw a sea of blue had already surrounded him.
I saw him get down on his knee.
Um and so I knew he wasn't taken down.
Oh, okay.
I it was a very obey you'd be like, remember, I'm four feet away.
I'm right there.
Yeah, because we assume they tackled him to the ground to cover him.
No, they they just covered him.
They put a protective stance around him.
He knew he kneeled down and I just happened because I was writing about the event, I had my recorder on and I picked up almost the entire conversation between him and the uh Secret Service uh as as he's down and they're around him.
Um and I I I had a understanding that he was okay.
When the second four shots went off, his campaign press advance guy, his name is Michelle Picard, like took me down.
He was like, Who are you crazy?
And he's and and there's this sort of iconic photo of me that ran on like the front page of every newspaper in the country along with the shot of of Trump, because all you see are my red, white and blue cowboy boots and him on top of me, Like, my entire family thought I was dead.
Wow.
Because, you know, they told me to not move, and I obeyed.
I didn't move.
But as a reporter, as someone that is naturally curious, I'm watching everything that's going on and I'm taking sh you know, photos with my phone, my recorder is on, and and one of the most powerful moments in the book is when President called me the next morning, first thing in the morning.
And, you know, I've interviewed President Trump about 2,000 times over the past 10 years.
I don't know how many years is it been ten years?
Yeah.
And um those conversations, uh well, the first thing he asked was, Are you okay?
And then my mom's gonna be really mad at me for swearing, even though I'm sixty-five years old.
But I said to him, Are you believing kidding me?
You're the one who was shot.
Um but but you will understand if you watch the the expediency and everything that he has done since the moment he was sworn in, including this robust um meetings that have happened in the Middle East.
You understand when you read those conversations that he has with me why he is doing things at breakneck speed.
Well, you can read it in her new book.
It's called Butler, and people can pre-order it now.
Oh, I would be absolutely lovely if you pre-ordered it now.
It comes out July 8th.
Uh, but you know, I'm not a reporter from DC or New York, so booksellers don't always stalk ru um authors like me, uh unless there's a lot of pre-orders.
Yeah.
And the president has robustly uh endorsed my work.
Yeah, pre-order the book.
And I don't know why, but if you pre-order it, you always get it first.
For some reason it comes like a week or two early.
No.
So uh pre order it, it's butler.
And it's by Selena Zito, you can get it at Amazon or wherever you get your books.
So um when he was on the ground, uh they pushed him down, they held him down below that the the bunting is uh bulletproof.
That's why they kept him down there.
But what what did you see uh that we wouldn't have known about?
I know they wanted to take him out on a stretcher and he wouldn't do that.
Uh and he wanted his shoes, but what else?
He wanted his shoes.
Actually, it's pretty funny.
At some point you hear uh he's like insistent about his shoes.
And at one point I hear one of the Secret Service agents, they're trying to get him off the stage, right?
And he's insisted about his shoes, and finally I hear one of them say fine.
Um and so, you know, it it it he you know, they they bring him past me uh as you know, uh uh I'm you know, sort of right there, and this I'll never forget this very surreal moment where his hat, which one of the Secret Service agents had in their arm, like in the crock of the arm.
I think uh I bet you there's video of it because you can see it in the corner of their arm, and I think when you see them go over by the beast, it's no longer there.
Uh well I don't know if that was the beast at that point, but whatever the the S U B. Yeah.
It it just like slowly it was it was almost like something out of a movie.
So after he was gone, they took him away.
How long did you remain?
How long did the audience remain?
You know what's really I I'll never forget this.
That crowd was so well behaved.
They just quietly left um and and filed out of there.
There was no screaming, there was no swearing.
Um people were really uh i it it it's hard to describe, just it was just this orderly exit.
And even they they kept me for about an hour in the back.
When I come back when my daughter and I come back out, uh the um the field is completely empty, which when we went in, there was fifty thousand people there.
Wow.
But when we get to our car, you know, it's sort of like over a hill.
And just a rolling hill.
This is farmland, Pennsylvania farmland.
If anybody's been in Pennsylvania farmland, you know it's very slow rolling hills.
You get over the hill and there's everyone's still in the parking lot an hour later.
And remarkably people are outside their cars, some of them.
Um hugging, talking, uh they're sharing water back and forth, they're sharing food back and forth.
It was it w it it made me so proud to be a Pennsylvanian and to be an American in that moment.
Because that could have gone very, very differently, had it been a different crowd.
But that crowd knew that they were somewhere historic, and they knew that there was something there that happened that was changed everything in the country.
And and they behave they treated the moment with the respect that it deserved.
Yeah.
And I will never I mean I still get chills thinking about it.
There was a guy across from me in in a car across from me, and if you know, we start talking, and of course, there's always zero degrees of separation between people, right?
I find out his mom who's 92 in the back of the car went to high school with my mom.
You know.
Um it was there was moments like that across this massive field.
You know, remember, there's 50,000 people there.
Nobody's blowing their horns, nobody's screaming, nobody's, you know, moaning or yapping.
It was it was really a proud moment.
Well, hey, have you ever gone back there to that field?
Have you ever thought of going back?
Oh, yeah.
So um the rest of the book is is very much looking at Pennsylvania and how I saw how much this coalition was changing.
You know, I understood the youth vote.
I remember writing saying, There are so many young people here, you guys aren't paying attention.
And of course, people would laugh at me.
And I remember saying there's a lot of minor minority voters here, you know, as as I went to each vet, or when I went across the state.
I mean, I put 80,000 miles in Pennsylvania alone.
And and and I went out to Lehigh uh Valley after the uh Madison Square Garden, and everyone's like, and this is a highly concentrated Puerto Rican city, and and everyone was saying, Oh, they're you know, he said garbage, they're not gonna vote for him.
And I go out there and they're like, uh, you what do you think?
We can't take a joke.
Um and and I kept reporting this, and for somehow it kept getting dismissed.
So it's really on the ground.
But I interviewed President Trump and Butler again on August 5th.
I I also was the only reporter to interview Elon Musk this entire um election.
Well, I wish we had more time.
I'll have to do this again, but Selena Zito's book is called Butler.
We want you to pre-order it right now.
Go to Amazon, pre-order the book.
It's called Butler.
As you can hear, it's a riveting book.
Selena Zito, thanks for being with us.
Oh, thanks so much for having me.
You guys have a great day.
All right, take care.
Order the book Butler, Amazon, where you get books.
Uh coming up, Sean Hannity Talks with President Trump.
Mark Simone here for Sean on the Sean Hannity Show.
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James Comey on Instagram.
How nuts you gotta be to follow James Comey on Instagram.
You've got to be really lonely.
He does not have a lot of followers.
Let me see.
No, it's not a lot, but uh He puts up a picture where it's uh put it's uh spelled out in the sand.
86 47.
47 meaning Trump, 47th president, 86, uh, you know, and a restaurant means gone, cancelled, gone.
Uh I don't know, is this a threat?
I'll tell you right now, for him to have ever have held the office of the highest leader in our, you know.
Policing.
What a joke.
He's saying, you know, he's telling people to go out and kill the president.
Yeah, it's disgusting.
We have a new US uh attorney for the District of Columbia.
Uh oh, Janine.
Yeah, Janine.
Uh you might want to put this on the list.
I know you got Andrew Wiseman.
They're gonna take a good look at that Merrick Garland, what a sleaze ball he was.
You got uh Jack Smith, you got a lot of dirty cops to to get to.
Comey, uh as disgusting as he is, you'd think he had half a brain.
You don't put something like that on on Instagram.
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Well now, Sean uh actually interviewed the president at great length.
Now, Linda, you've uh you've had a preview of this.
It's pretty I have he aired part one a couple days ago, part two.
He did this all on Air Force One as the president took his first trip in his second term here to the Middle East.
And he featured that second part last night.
So although he can't be with us today, he asked that we please make sure that our radio audience got to see and hear this interview today.
This is important stuff.
Sean Hannity on Air Force One with President Trump.
There are many legs to your economic plan that you're laying out.
One is one of the trade deals.
Second is tax cuts permanent, no tax tips, no tap tax social security, no tax overtime.
Interest deduction on cars.
Remember that.
So it's no tax on tips, no tax on social security benefits for seniors, which is so great.
Think of it, and no tax on overtime.
But there's a fourth leg that I think is really important of that, where middle income people, but any people, if you buy a car made in America, only I'm not interested if it's made anywhere else.
I couldn't care less.
But if it's made in America, you get and you borrow money to buy the car, which I guess eighty percent of the people do, you get a tax deduction on your interest payments.
That's a big deal.
That's never happened before.
Big deal for people that are buying cars.
But that's a huge that's a huge game changer for the car industry, too.
Huge, I think.
One part that you can't control, although maybe you really can because you have such influence with the Republican Party, is the one big beautiful bill.
You put out a big statement on that today.
Um, and how confident are you having spent time with majority leader thune, speaker of the house, Johnson?
First of all, Johnson and Thune have been unbelievable.
They've done a great job.
They're their soul is into this, their whole heart and soul, and they're working so hard.
And it's always tough when you have a very small, you know, we have a majority, but it's by in the Senate three votes, and in the Republican in the in Congress, it's seven.
Now it was one for a period of time.
We won some elections in the meantime, but it was actually one, so now it's seven.
And I would say this even before this big uh drug and uh if you take a look at the cuts that I announced today.
If you take a look at the pharmaceutical and drug cuts, they're so massive that I think a lot of democrats have to vote for the bill, number one.
Number two, even if I didn't do this today, even if there was no such thing as these, you know, fifty to ninety percent cuts.
I mean, think of it.
Where we're buying you you're selling drugs in other countries for five times more than it costs in the United States, how horrible that is anyway, but that's uh gonna be a thing of the pen.
Some of them are can't they're cancer drugs too, so everything.
It's very unfair.
Very unfair to people.
They have cancer, they don't have much money, they have enough money to get through this, but then they end up going bankrupt.
You know, people were getting themselves fixed up or not getting fixed up.
Either way, and still they were going bankrupt all over the place because they couldn't afford the drugs.
But if they lived in a different country, they would have paid just a fraction.
Think of how horrible that is.
Anyway, so I fixed that.
Nobody thought it was fixable, and I fixed it.
But even without that, I think we would have gotten the bill passed.
Uh with it, I think a lot of Democrats have to vote.
I saw that a couple of Democrats said, I'd like to be in charge of I I don't know if you saw that.
You have a couple of people that go in your show that I assume are moderate Democrats without mentioning names.
And uh both of them said, I don't know about you, but I think I'm gonna be voting for this bill.
I think a lot of Democrats are gonna be forced to vote for the bill, because you know, you add this new element that if this bill passes, you're gonna get a fifty to ninety percent reduction in prescription uh drugs and uh pharmaceuticals.
When you add that in, how does the Democrat not vote?
I I don't think they can win an election if they don't vote for it.
But even if you don't include it, I think that the Republicans are very unified, and something would happen where they will get this vote.
I think it's imperative they vote.
But look at the Democratic Party.
Look at the leadership that's emerged.
Jasmine Crockett, AOC, the squad, Grandpa Bernie.
They seem to be the most.
Well, look at Schumer.
He turned out to be a Palestinian.
I knew him right at the beginning.
And I tell you what, Schumer's turned out.
We call him the Palestinian senator.
Palestine.
No, Chuck Schumer is uh very disappointed.
Is he afraid to go against that radical base?
I think he's afraid, yeah.
I think he's I watch him.
He's lost his confidence totally.
He I just watched Chuck Schumer.
I've known him so long, and he's in the other party, but you know, I've known the guy so long, he's totally lost his confidence.
You know, you it's it's interesting.
We're we're talking about the the radicalism of the left.
And what's really fascinating is you take up a lot of space in their head.
And it's funny, you you said how could they possibly vote against lower prescription drug costs?
But in the U.S. Senate, the Democrats were championing the right of men to play women's sports.
They've been the the party of fighting for the rights of illegals, even Trende Aragua, Brago Garcia, etc.
They're the party that thinks it's a constitutional crisis, that you and Doge have had uh what, nearly 200 billion dollars in waste fraud and abuse.
They think that's a constitutional crisis.
So you're asking, how could they be that extreme?
Aren't they that extreme?
Well, not all of them.
I think you have a lot of them that um they don't know where they are right now.
I think they don't know what to do, like men playing in women's sports.
I saw a guy that I know, good guy Democrat, he's trying to justify two days ago on television, he's being hammered, and he's trying to justify men playing in women's sports, and it's sad.
I wanted to call him and say, you better get off that subject.
That's not an 80-20, that's about a 97-3.
Okay.
If they talk about, you know, the famous, they always say it's 80-20.
What's that a lot of these things are not 80-20, like uh transgender for everybody.
Let's have transgender for everybody, your kids, everybody.
That's not an 80-20.
They always say that's 80-20.
That's that's 99-1, I would say.
So, look, in one way I don't like talking about it because I don't want to talk them out of it.
Because, you know, it would be harder to beat them if they were normal and things.
It shows that they're almost insane.
And they do suffer from Trump derangement syndrome at a high level.
And I guess I'm honored by that.
But I'll say this look, we had an election.
You were so wonderful to me.
You you were really an amazing professional.
It's not, it's you did it for the right reason, you didn't do it for the wrong reason, but you were so professional, and uh we won every swing state.
We won the popular vote by a lot.
We won everything.
We won a thing called that people don't like districts.
So in the country, you have districts, thousands of districts.
We got 2,750 districts versus 525 districts.
Think of that.
That's why when you look at a map, it's actually a very important uh stat.
When you look at a map, the map shows it's practically all red, the Republican Party.
And this is a big party.
You know, we won, look how well we did with the auto workers.
We won the Teamsters.
The Teamsters were big for us.
They were the unions were big, the non-unions were big.
The right to work was massive, but the unions, we won unions all over the place.
And uh we basically won workers.
We also won people of common sense, rich people, poor people, middle income people.
We won sort of everybody, you know.
If you if you take a look at the spats, you know we did great with Hispanic.
The Hispanic people came to us like nobody's ever seen before.
Well, you think the Republican Party is now the party of working men and women.
I do.
I mean you know when you put out the threat of tariffs, it was interesting between countries and companies, and I would I would scroll the list on my TV show, pledging eight trillion dollars, trillion with a T in manufacturing.
Yeah, more chips, cars, pharmaceuticals, they're gonna manufacture Back in this country.
That was just the threat of tariffs.
Now the deals are beginning to follow.
So we're we're here for really two months because it's three and a half, but you gotta give me a month to get ready.
You know, make the make the uh oval office a little more beautiful and things like that that we're doing, right?
But so we're really here, let's say, actively for two months.
So in two months, we have probably over ten trillion dollars committed, ten trillion dollars.
Whereas most presidents wouldn't have one trillion over the course of the entire presidency.
And if you look at this poor soul, this lost soul from the last presidency.
And I say that because he was a very mean person.
They went after our people, including me, but he was a very mean person.
He was not a smart person.
In fact, if you go back 30 years ago, he wasn't a smart person.
You go back to prime time with him, he wasn't a smart person.
But but he was a very mean person.
Joe Biden's a very mean person.
People don't understand that.
They've ruined lives, they've ruined families, they've ruined so many people.
They could have ruined me, they tried to ruin me.
But we're now an Air Force One flying nicely to the Middle East, right?
But they tried to ruin me.
Uh, but some people weren't able to fight back, their families have been destroyed, and the level he knew what was going on too.
I've never been on Air Force One with you before.
And uh, but I did go to Helsinki, Singapore, and Vietnam.
I was on those trips, and I interviewed you on many of them.
Do you ever think that maybe in the end, in spite of all that they threw at you, that it was better that you had a break between terms.
Do you ever think about that?
Do you ever think did you ever really think about you took all of they were after you so hard?
You took all your chips, put them in the middle of the table, and it was either here, Air Force One, the White House, or probably someplace that I don't even want to mention.
I knew that running was very dangerous because I knew how evil these people were.
I knew how they cheat, they steal, they lie, they're a horrible group of people.
And I knew that if I ran, I I exposed myself to a lot of danger, but I felt I had to.
And especially after they started, they were so bad at running this country, they were destroying the country, open borders.
I didn't believe it.
Because I built hundreds of miles of wall, and there were some areas that they should have built, and I had the it was all ready to go up, it was going to be put up in a matter of weeks.
And they didn't do it.
They said, Wow, they really offer open borders.
They should have automatically done it.
And after doing an incredible job building literally hundreds and hundreds of miles of wall, and we were doing so good, and you know, we had we had the border really under control until he came in, and then he just opened it up.
And I said, Wow, he really wants open borders, and then he actually announced he wants to have open borders.
And you know, that means people coming from all over the world, from prisons, from mental institutions, from gangs all over Venezuela and other countries.
And uh, no, I I saw what they were doing.
I felt they had to run.
If I didn't run, I I really believe if I didn't win this election, uh, this country would be finished.
I don't think it would have had a chance of surviving.
You would have had you would have had the most radical lunatics, you would have had people rioting, it would have been the this would have been the experiment of, you know, they call it the great experiment.
The great experiment would have ended very badly.
You but you personally put it all on the line.
There was a lot, a lot obviously writing on this for the country.
I did.
And a lot writing on it personally for you, because you know what they wanted to do.
Yeah.
No, they wanted to do whatever they could.
They wanted to have me locked up for 300 years.
These are the worst human beings you you've ever seen.
It was a fight against his political opponent.
They and they they said it, but it was a fight against his political opponent.
They would have used any means possible.
Look, Comey was horrible.
They were all these were all horrible people, and I fired Comey fortunately very early.
Very early.
But you know, uh, they would have used whatever means possible.
These are vicious people, and Biden is a vicious person.
Biden's a stupid person.
He's a low IQ person, but he's vicious.
And that's a bad combination.
Last question.
We have our first American Pope.
He does seem to disagree with you on immigration.
Putting that aside, would you like to talk to him about that?
Sure, I mean I would.
And it's uh he was he was really a surprise.
Joyce.
Great interview.
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