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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, it is pretty outrageous.
We see now judges and federal officials, you know, literally putting the lives of ICE agents, law enforcement, in jeopardy by doxing them and giving out their names, in some cases, their addresses.
Now, Tennessee is a very red state.
I think 65% of the state voted for Donald Trump.
Nashville happens to be a little bit more liberal.
They have a Democratic mayor.
His name is Freddie O'Connell.
And anyway, it's unbelievable what he's been involved in, apparently exposed for potentially endangering the lives of ICE agents trying to do their job.
And we do have the supremacy clause that gives the authority and jurisdiction to the federal government to carry out the laws of our land, even though they are aiding and abetting in lawbreaking.
Anyway, it's another story of a blue city and a leader, quote, quote unquote leader, protecting illegals and criminals and burdening the community.
Now, two federal committees are conducting an investigation into the Nashville mayor for aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
And Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles announced this on Monday.
We had Marshall Blackburn on TV last night.
The congressman, along with a group of other Tennessee elected officials at the state level.
and representatives from law enforcement agencies announced that Homeland Security and the judiciary committees will be looking into the mayor, his conduct, whether or not the city used federal dollars in a criminal enterprise related to immigration.
Now, put aside all of that, why, number one, are you aiding and abetting in law breaking?
Let's say I were protecting illegal immigrants, what would happen to Sean Hannity?
And I never would.
I wouldn't violate the law.
I believe in the rule of law.
But what would happen to me if I was doing that?
What would happen to me if I went to the border and I picked up people and I said, hey, what state would you like to go to?
And I drove them there.
Would I not be held accountable for human trafficking if I got caught?
And this idea that we're going to put law enforcement, ICE agents in this particular case, at risk by putting out their names and in some cases, addresses, which has been going on, or act like the judge that walked out this one perpetrator out the back door to escape and evade ICE agents, even though the judge knew that ICE agents were there to arrest this guy.
I mean, they have to be held accountable.
And those that, I think doxing of any law enforcement, any judge has got to be against the law.
We saw the left do this to Supreme Court justices.
It is extraordinarily dangerous, and people are going to get killed.
We now see the threat incidents against ICE agents, you know, up like a whopping 413% as a result of all of this.
Anyway, Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee is with us.
Look, as far as I'm concerned, this mayor, he did all of this, should be found guilty in a court of law and put in jail, and they should literally give him years in jail.
You don't get to put officers, law enforcement officers' lives in jeopardy like this.
No, it's incredibly reckless.
You know, to your point, Sean, you know, when you're releasing the names of law enforcement agents, and keep in mind, you know, so Nashville is the jewel of the South or the economic engine of the South.
It's a great destination.
But because of that, with that influx of prosperity and population, you're going to have some bad actors as well.
And as a member of the Homeland Security Committee, I've received a classified briefing on the network that the cartels out of Mexico, the gangs out of Central and South America.
And when you use the word gangs, you need to put air quotes around that because these aren't gangs.
These are corporations.
And their distribution networks across the United States of America would rival FedEx.
And when you're talking about MS-13 or Trina Wagger or some cartel out of Mexico, they have touch points all across this nation, even rural cities in Tennessee.
And so if you're going to stand with illegals who are guilty of murder and rape and human trafficking, drug smuggling, the mayor of Nashville has done that.
I, for one, am going to stand with the people of Nashville.
And it's quite frankly absurd that a member of Congress has to step in and defend the people from the city, the people of Nashville, from a local activist radical mayor like Freddie O'Connell.
All right, so where do we go from here?
I guess the investigation is beginning, but sometimes that could be slow.
Have you looked at the evidence?
To me, it looks overwhelming and incontrovertible.
Well, so obviously there's a process here.
We're a deliberative body in the House.
And so I took this to my chairman, Chairman Green.
From there, I took it to Chairman Jordan Judiciary.
We agreed that we needed a joint task force and launch an investigation of the House.
So I'm leading charge on this, the Pitbull, if you will.
But, you know, I think this is going to be something that, and I'll tell you what, Sean, what this does is this puts the city of Nashville on notice, but it also creates the opportunity where the Homeland Security Committee and the Judiciary Committee could extend this investigation to a Chicago, to a Denver, to another woke city where they're literally subverting federal authorities, doing their job, and quite frankly, putting law enforcement in harm's way.
And I will always stand with ICE.
That's why I held a press conference with ICE agents in solidarity to say, look, if you want ICE, you have to come through us first.
We, the people, have had enough of this nonsense.
No, I tend to agree with you.
And what should the penalty be in your view if anybody, especially a judge or an elected official, are caught aiding and abetting and protecting illegal immigrants and putting law enforcement in jeopardy?
What should the penalty be?
It should be severe.
I don't know what the statute says, but what we'll do is we'll collect the evidence.
We'll turn that over to Pam Bondi and then we'll let her run with it.
But that being said, I mean, I'm appalled that the mayor of Nashville, and again, look, he's a woke activist.
He has a right to his own opinion.
What he doesn't have the right to do is to bring that to work.
He has a job to do.
It's not my job to run the city of Nashville.
But right now, if it weren't for me and my colleagues in the House, he would be running roughshot over Nashville.
And he's literally trying to turn it into a sanctuary city.
So technically, Nashville wouldn't qualify as a sanctuary city.
But because of the mayor's actions and the mayor's actions alone, he is now qualified as a sanctuary city.
And that's on him.
I agree.
Andy Ogles, Congressman Tennessee, we appreciate you.
I appreciate it very much.
Thank you, Sean.
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Hello.
Okay, Sean, here's the thing on due process.
Nobody is arguing correctly.
Due process means you cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property.
That means the due process is predicated on the punishment, not the crime or the person.
Illegal aliens do get due process if their punishment is prison, execution, or fine.
If your punishment is deportation, you do not qualify for due process.
It's that simple.
And these lawyers need to stop trying to be clever and try to use the Alien Invasion Act.
That's not the point.
That's not going to win.
You can't argue what doesn't exist in the Constitution.
It is the due process clause simply deportations don't count.
And as far as these sanctuary cities go, the mayors of these sanctuary cities are violating eight U.S. Code 1324, harboring aliens, and Tom Holman needs to quit messing around and arrest them.
Well, I think Tom Holman will.
I mean, but, you know, it's all over the place.
You have the Massachusetts Democratic governor, Maura Healy, blasting ICE for removing illegal alien criminals from Matha's Vineyard.
One Democratic County executive is dinging Trump over the sanctuary jurisdiction that he has.
You know, it's become a big deal.
The Justice Department's decision to bring a sitting House lawmaker after a scuffle with ICE officers has launched the first track to stardom in Democratic politics.
This Representative LaMonica MacIver, whatever her name is, the Biden administration failed to probe more than 7,300 reports of migrant child trafficking, according to new information that has come out.
You have, you know, the D.C. Mayor Bowser flip-flopping on immigration, moving now to repeal the sanctuary city law.
That's only because of Donald Trump.
Then I can keep going.
But I mean, at some point, I mean, this is why I keep saying the Democratic Party, they now are the party that championed the rights of men to play women's sports, the rights of illegals, including gang members and all these violent criminals over the safety of Americans.
This is now the party that thinks we have a constitutional crisis because we're weeding out waste, fraud, and abuse.
And the party that won't stand or ever talk about moms that lost their children.
I mean, you had a teen, the illegal immigrant who killed a woman in Colorado in a crash, only got probation and didn't get kicked out of the country.
They're in the country illegally.
How many more people have to die?
Why?
So Democrats can sit on their hands when the president speaks to a joint session of Congress.
Their priorities are so skewed.
It's hard to understand.
It really is.
It's heartless.
It's cold, hard.
It really is.
Not standing for Lake and Riley's family, not standing for Jocelyn Nunngarry's family, her mother, Alexis.
It's unbelievable.
Appreciate the good call, John.
Glad you're out there.
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Oliver, Arizona, next, Sean Hannity Shaw.
Hey, Sean, great to talk to you.
I just wanted to get your opinion on the latest injunction that's been filed by these three judges.
I guess one was appointed by the Trump administration, one was appointed by the Obama administration, and then I'm not sure about the other one, but you think this is going to hold any weight or if it's just going to be another one of these deals that's going to get overturned or whatever your well-actually, that ruling has already been overturned.
The very next day, actually, the appeals court reinstated the Trump tariffs.
Oh, wow.
However, well, I mean, it's my job.
I'm supposed to be on top of this, right?
I'm sure you work probably, how many hours you work a day?
You're kind of busy, right?
My job is to keep you informed when you have a few spare minutes.
Yeah.
Just in the truck.
But what they're trying to do is use judicial activism and activist judges to get done, to get their agenda passed, things that they'd never win at the ballot box, things they'd never win electorally or legislatively.
And so far, they've been fairly effective at it.
And the Trump administration is fighting back hard.
And they keep winning.
The Supreme Court backed Trump on ending Joe Biden's illegal alien parole pipeline.
And the Supreme Court let Trump revoke temporary legal status of 500,000 illegals granted by Biden.
But it's a fight every step of the way.
And it shouldn't be a fight.
What are they fighting for?
You know, to the Obrego Garcias of the world.
I mean, that stupid trip to El Salvador by Senator Van Holland and then three congressmen thereafter that were hanging out at the four seasons in El Salvador, you can't even make it up.
It's terrible.
You know, it's like, when are you going to stand up for the American people?
When are they ever going to pick up a phone and call the families of Lake and Riley?
I talked to the parents.
I've talked to Lake and Riley's family.
They never did an interview with me.
I never really, I said, if you ever want to, you're welcome, but I'm never going to pressure you to do one.
I just, it's wrong.
I just wanted to say I'm sorry.
I'm in the public eye.
I don't know why it makes a difference if you're in the public eye and you make a phone call sometimes.
It actually, it means something to people.
And I learned that actually from Donald Trump because he calls everybody.
I got to know Jocelyn Nungari's mother.
I got to know Rachel Morin's mother.
And I mean, understand this.
When you lose a child, in most cases, you will never be the same again.
Some people are super resilient.
Their faith usually gets them over the hump.
I would tell you that I don't think I'd recover after what they've all been through.
And the scar for the rest of your life, there's not a day that will go by that you don't think of that child, in my view.
And yet nobody in the Democratic Party ever picked up the phone.
Joe Biden never apologized.
Mayorkas never apologized.
Kamala Harris never apologized.
And Democrats, you know, keep pushing for the same stupid policies.
And the AOCs of the world want to abolish ICE.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
You're dead on.
Susan, Texas.
God bless Texas.
We have about a minute and a half.
It's all yours, Susan.
Hi.
I just want to know what we can do as the public as far as with all these judges that are trying to shoot down everything President Trump tries to put in place.
Who can we contact, call, write?
Congress, I have the answer.
Congress can act and stop the Democrats' use of judicial activism so they can't go to these, they can't go judge shopping to these judicial activists, as Mark Levin would famously call them, you know, men in black and people that they know will rule in their favor to get done that which the American public would never vote for or never support legislatively.
That is the answer.
Congress can act, and I hope after they pass their one big, beautiful bill, that these are things that they'll take under consideration immediately because all they're doing is slowing down the Trump agenda, which is their agenda.
Anyway, I do appreciate your call.
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So Elon Musk has done an amazing job for this country.
He has rescued astronauts.
He's created an I, that's why we gave away a Tesla.
I think the greatest car ever designed has nothing to do with the fact that it's an electric vehicle.
And it is self-driving.
It's in a parking lot.
You hit a button come to me.
It'll literally driverless come right up to where you are, pull up to you.
It's incredible.
I mean, it's the fastest car I've ever driven.
It goes zero to 60 in literally 1.9 seconds.
It's got over a thousand horsepower, the S-PLAT.
It's just the greatest design vehicle ever.
And, you know, then, of course, SpaceX, he's launching communication satellites left, right, and sideways.
And he's helping the world be able to connect with each other better.
Then on top of everything, he rescued the astronauts, never got enough credit for it.
He only gets, you know, people threatening to kill him and firebombing his dealerships and his charging stations and firing bullets into them and threatening his employees.
And then, of course, he's working on Neuralink, which would use AI to maybe help the blind see one day and help those with spinal cord injuries walk one day.
And then he partnered with Donald Trump to weed out waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption in our government.
Over $200 billion.
Doge continues, but he's got other work to do.
He really only signed up as a special employee for 130 days.
However, he's going to stick around.
The president was clear.
Anyway, they had a long announcement and press conference that followed.
Let me play part of it for you because it was just, we should all be grateful to this guy.
We really should.
And we need more people with brain power like Elon Musk.
Let's go to the White House and the president and Elon.
Elon willingly, with all of the success, he willingly accepted the outrageous abuse and slander and lies and attacks because he does love our country.
I know that very much.
He loves our country.
He comes from another country, a country that's going through trials and tribulations, I would say.
But he's all about the USA, and Americans owe him a great debt of gratitude.
So I just want to thank Elon for his time as special government employee.
Can you imagine?
They call him an employee, but it's a special government employee for coming and helping us.
And he really has changed the mindset of a lot of people.
A lot of people thought, you know, maybe we'll cut 1% or 2% or 3%.
Then they said, well, we can cut a lot more than that.
And we're going to do it very surgically.
We're going to continue on the march.
And I gave him a little special something we have here.
Thank you.
A very special that I give to very special people.
I have given it to some, but it goes to very special people.
And I thought I'd give it to Elon as a presentation from our country.
Thank you, Elon.
Thank you.
Take care.
The luck in this is amazing.
Thanks.
Love your luck.
Well, let me say, perhaps a few words that this is not the end of Doge, but really the beginning.
My time as a special government appoint necessarily had to end.
It was a limited time thing, 134 days, I believe, which ends in a few days.
So that comes with a title bit.
But the Doge team will only grow stronger over time.
The Doge influence will also grow stronger.
I liken it to sort of boost up Buddhism.
It's like a way of life.
So it is permeating throughout the government, and I'm confident that over time we'll see a trillion dollars of savings and a trillion dollars of waste of port reduction.
The calculations of the Doge team thus far, in terms of an FY25 to FY26 delta, are over $160 billion, and that's climbing.
We expect that will probably go over $200 billion soon.
So I think the Doge team is doing an incredible job.
They're going to continue doing an incredible job.
And I'll continue to be visiting here.
And I look forward to continuing to be a friend and advisor to the President, continuing to support the Doge team.
And we are relentlessly pursuing $8 trillion in waste and port reductions, which will benefit the American taxpayer.
So that's it, really.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you.
Great job.
Thank you, President Trump.
The president mentioned that you like to deal with all the slings and arrows during your time at Doge.
There's this media organizations in this room, the slingers.
So there is a New York Times report today that accuses you of blurring the way between.
Is the New York Times?
Is that the same publication that got a Bulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russia Gate?
Is it the same organization?
I got to check my bullets or bullets or counter it.
It is.
So I think the judge just ruled against the New York Times for the lies about the Russiagate hoax and that they might have to give back that Pulitzer Prize.
That New York Times, let's move on.
Okay, thank you.
I got one for you.
I got one for President Trump.
President Trump, Biden AIDS, who used to work here, are in talks with Republicans in Congress to go and testify about what they did or didn't do to possibly conceal President Biden's decline.
Do you think that Dr. Jill Biden should also have to come in and testify about what she did or didn't do?
Well, I hate the concept of it.
It's the wife of a man who was going through a lot of problems, and everybody that dealt with him understood that.
And I guess it came out during the debate loud and clear.
That was the biggest signal of all.
They have to do what's right.
And the country was, there was a lot of dishonesty in the election, as you know, of 2020.
That's been now caught.
People understand.
It was a rigged election.
And when you go further out, when you see the auto pen, I mean, I think the auto pen is going to become one of the great scandals of all time because you have somebody operating it or a number of people operating.
Because I knew Joe Biden.
Joe Biden wasn't in favor of opening up borders and letting 21 million people into this from prisons and mental institutions and gang members.
He wasn't into that at all.
And, you know, who signed these orders, proclamations, and all of the different things that he signed that set our country so far back that was so bad for our country.
You said just now that you look forward to being a friend and advisor to the president.
So do you expect to continue advising the president and Doge informally, or are you going to sort of shift your focus entirely to your companies?
Well, I expect to continue to provide advice, whatever the president would like advice.
I hope so.
I mean, yeah, I expect to remain a friend and an advisor.
And certainly, if there's anything the president wants me to do, I'm at the president's service.
Mr. Moss.
Professor, on Doge, you said that there was a trillion-dollar promise for cuts from Doge.
Yes, I think we do expect over time to achieve the trillion dollars.
But what have you found in your time here was the biggest roadblock to getting those cuts?
Was it the cabinet or was it Congress or something else?
What was the biggest roadblock from your work?
It's mostly just a lot of hard work.
It's really not any one personal Congress.
It's going through really millions of line items and saying, does each one of them make sense or does not make sense?
Obviously at times when you cut expenses, those who are receiving the money, whether they're receiving that money legitimately or not, they do complain.
And you're not going to hear someone confessing that they received money inappropriately.
Never.
They're going to always say that they received money appropriately for an important cause, naturally.
That's what you'd expect.
But so we just got, it's just a lot of work going through the vast expenses of the federal government and just really asking questions.
What's this money for?
Are you sure it's actually being used well?
Many times we can't even find anyone who defends it.
So for a lot of the expenses, there is actually no defender at all.
And then we have to just work through the process of stopping the spending where there's often literally no defender.
Nobody even knows why the money's being spent.
It's truly absurd.
I mean, we find situations where there are millions of software licenses with zero people using them.
Zero.
Exactly.
This is the quizzical expression.
You're like, surely if the $5 million is software licenses, someone should be using it.
No, and then we just got to go through the process of saying, okay, look, if no one's using the software, we can discriminate this software license payment.
That's everywhere in the government.
Mr. Musk, what do you think would be easier, colonizing Marx or making the government efficient?
It's a tough call.
But I think colonizing musk and making life multi-time is honor.
And as I said, we do expect to achieve over time the trillion dollars of savings.
We can't do it in like a few months.
But if you say by the, I think the official end of Dover, the President may choose to extend, is the middle of next year.
Say by the middle of next year, with the support of the President and Congress, could we achieve a trillion dollars of savings?
I think so.
We're on track to do so.
Democratic Party plan to avoid being swept in every battleground state again by spending $20 million to study how to speak to American men.
You know, they spent $2.8 billion.
We spent $1.5.
We spent much less.
We spent about half of what they spent.
And at the end, they were $28 million short.
They had to be, they spent $2.8 billion.
It's a lot, but they couldn't get $28 million at the end.
And now they want to spend, I read that, they want to spend money to learn how to talk.
That's fake.
You don't want to be fake.
You shouldn't have to hire consultants to say what America needs because the consultants should be running the deal, not them.
But I read that they want to spend a lot of money in each state.
So we won all seven swing states, seven out of seven.
We won a lot more than that.
We won the popular vote.
We won everything.
And they want to spend money to find out what they did wrong.
And I mean, I can tell you what they did wrong.
I can tell you every one of their programs, when they say men playing in women's sports, I would say that's not a winner.
When they say transgender for everybody, I think that's not a winner.
When they say open borders so the entire world population of criminals can pour into our country, I don't think that's a winner.
I mean, I just gave them that for free.
But I don't know if they'll change their ways.
I see them all the time.
I see people that I know in Congress, Democrats, they're trying to justify some of the things I just said.
You can't justify them.
I always hear the 80-20 issues.
I say they're not 80-20, they're 97-3.
They might be 99 to 1, but they're not 80-20.
They wish they were 80-20.
And they're wasting a lot of money if they're going to continue with that nonsense.
Elon Musk was once idolized by folks on the left in this country before joining your administration.
Now he's considered a hero by conservatives.
Why do you think this man, what he's done in American life, has been so politicized?
Oh, his life has been amazing.
When I look at so many different things, I look at that rocket being guided back into position.
I've never seen that before.
I thought it was a space movie.
I thought it was a movie.
You look at what he's done in terms of communication.
It's been unbelievable.
So many different, even tunnels going underground, not having to go through all the process of going, you know, he's got a company that does that.
He's got so many different companies.
Starlink, as an example, he saved a lot of lives, probably hundreds of lives in North Carolina.
I don't even know if you remember, but I called you.
They needed Starlink in North Carolina.
And I didn't know what the hell Starlink was.
I said, what is it?
Who owns it?
He said, do you know Elon Musk?
I said, you happen to know the gentleman.
This was before his government stayed.
And they said, we really need it because North Carolina was literally, became an island.
People had no communication.
They had no access to anything.
And they were dying.
And I called up Elon, and you can't get it because it's so successful.
It's very hard to get.
And he had so much of it brought over there.
And they told me it was unbelievable.
It saved a lot of lives.
So, you know, he's just done a lot of things.
I don't think, frankly, I don't think he gets credit for what he's done.
All right, that was President Trump and Elon Musk earlier today.
He really is a national treasure.
He did not have to do this.
He's got way more important things to do, and it's cost him, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars.
It's sad.
I have no idea how much money it's cost him, but it's cost him a fortune.
And threats against his life, threats against his employees.
It's just unreal.
What has he done to deserve that?
Nothing except weed out waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, rescue astronauts, and work on ways to improve society.
Mankind has visions of going to Mars, has visions to help the blind see and people with spinal cord injuries walk.
Unbelievable what they've done to this man.
I mentioned it on TV last night.
And, you know, I became really fond of Bernie Carrick, and he passed away.
And I saw him about a month ago.
We had a great conversation.
After 9-11, he, Rudy Giuliani, they really were heroes to this country.
They nearly died that day.
And I just want our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.
Always so nice to me.
Probably the best NYPD commissioner in history is certainly right up there with the best of them.
And he will be missed.
Anyway, we'll see you tonight on Hannity, Josh Hawley, Ram Paul, New Kingrich, Jimmy Phela, Doug Schoen, 9 Eastern.
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Our prayers to Bernie Carrick and his family as we head into the weekend.
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