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June 28, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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How's Defunding Working? - June 27th, Hour 1
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I will tell you what is emerging, and I mean, nobody really cares about New York City politics.
They really don't.
I mean, everyone's kind of that I know, even my friends in New York, and I still have colleagues that still work in New York, and uh, you know, they don't that they're caring about Zon Mam Dani and this primary victory.
Uh the only you know, there's only two people that have been somewhat critical, one John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and you know, he isn't looking at Mam Dani's victory in New York as you know, at as through rose colored glasses.
Quote, I describe it as Christmas in July for the GOP, one of Mom Dani's fellow New York Democrats also like Fetterman is unsettled by his victory.
Lauren Gillen, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Long Island announcing the win in a statement posted on X, Socialist Mam Dani is too extreme to lead New York City.
His entire campaign is built on an unachievable promises and higher taxes, which is the last thing that New York needs.
Beyond that, Mr. Mam Dani has called to defund the police, has demonstrated a deeply disturbing pattern of unacceptable anti-Semitic comments, which stoke hate at a time when anti Semitism is skyrocketing, is the absolute wrong choice for New York.
Still Mom Dani was backed by a number of their colleagues, including Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC, and now Chucky Schumer apparently is weighed in on my and Jerry Nadler are now supporting Mam Dani.
I I I mean, it's breathtaking, and that just shows you how afraid the old guard in the Democratic Party.
Schumer is absolutely powerless now.
Schumer is scared to death of AOC.
And Schumer knows that if there's a primary and she challenges him for the U.S. Senate, he's gone.
He's done.
He will lose.
I don't think there's any doubt about it.
Got interesting yesterday because uh it appears that Governor Cuomo is gonna stay in this race, even though he lost the primary to Mondami.
Now now we're talking about four contenders.
Uh you have Mam Dami, well, actually five.
You have Mondami and you have Eric Adams and you have Curtis Lewa and you have Andrew Cuomo and some other guy that I don't even know who the person is, uh, that are all going to be running.
I I don't know how that plays out.
You know, do all the Democrats, you know, split the vote, and I don't know.
Uh but if you look at this guy's position, it is and and this is what I've been saying about the Democratic Party in general.
They have become radicalized.
What do you think the new Green Deal has been about?
It is about cradle to grave, womb to the tomb, government guaranteed everything from the minute you're born to the minute you die.
And, you know, I ask those that put their fate, their hope, their trust in government a couple of simple questions.
What do tell me what government is doing so well right now?
Now, I would argue you can make an argument that our military does a great job.
Look at what they pulled off last Saturday night.
I think we could say, okay, there's an area, and and there is a lot of waste in the in the Pentagon and the defense area, but you know what?
They got the job done.
Uh, but there's ways we still have a lot of catching up to do because it's been neglected four years by Biden and Harris.
But what have they done?
They did they couldn't even secure the border.
And then lied and told us the border was closed and the borders secure, and now we know they let in known terrorists, murderers, rapists, violent criminals, cartel members, gang members.
And and how many Americans have been murdered and raped?
You know, how many known terrorists are in this country plotting, planning, scheming?
I mean, that's the Democratic Party.
If they had their way, the new Green G deal would be government guaranteed everything.
I mean, it's it's pretty much a ripoff.
You know, Mom Donnie is the manifestation of the Green New Deal, and he's running in that liberal enough of a city that this guy can absolutely win.
And that's the chilling part.
You know, this is a guy that wants, you know, no he doesn't believe in free market capitalism because you can't if you believe in a rent freeze.
And, you know, uh, whatever happened to free market capitalism, supply and demand crisscrossing, dictating the price.
Whatever happened to that.
And well, I well, not everybody can afford it.
Well, then maybe you're gonna have to live in one of the outer boroughs of New York and not have the convenience of living in New York City.
I can tell you early in my life, I lived in apartments that weren't as nice as where I'm living now.
And that's just what I could afford, and that was the end of it.
Um I was grateful that I had a roof over my head, to be honest, and a kitchen of cooking, and a TV to watch that sat on a box that I got from a grocery store, and that's I'm not kidding, and a 75 dollar couch and a chair that I bought used for $75 I paid for it.
You know what the problem was, Linda?
When I got that, this was in Huntsville, Alabama.
I didn't have I didn't want to waste money on furniture.
And and it seemed okay.
Like, all right, I'll buy used it was a couch and what do you call those you know, chairs that go back and forth?
I don't know.
There's no love in that seat.
I bring it home, I bring I bring it home, and it reeked of smoke.
Oh, that stinks.
Gagging.
Oh, it was horrible.
It was disgusting.
But so I had one television set and I put the television set on top of, you know, when you go to the grocery store if you want to get like old boxes, I got the sturdiest one that they had, and I was able to put my TV on top of it, and that's that was my TV stand.
And then I passed like this roadside, this guy that made a pine wood table and chairs and just stained it and maybe put like one coat of polyurethane on it, and the chairs all broke very quickly.
But anyway, I paid a hundred bucks for that.
And that was my dining room.
That was my beautiful dining room set of how many chairs did you get?
It had four.
Oh, wow.
Tiny.
For a hundred bucks?
That's a good deal.
A hundred bucks.
Yeah.
Well, they didn't they didn't last very long.
They broke pretty quick.
I think I took a dive or two off of them when I sat in them.
But I didn't want to spend my money on it.
I didn't have any money to spend on.
I was gonna, you know, the little money I had, I wanted to save.
Anyway, um, and you know, I keep saying that this this is the modern radicalized Democratic Party.
But how just ask yourself, what is government doing well when you look especially at blue states and blue cities?
How are things working out with with defund dismantled no bail laws?
Do you feel safe and secure?
Is there law in order in your town and city?
How is your school system doing?
We spend more per capita per student than any country in the industrialized world with the worst results.
You know, especially considering the money spent.
How's government working there for you?
Let's look at how did government do under Biden and Obama uh on the issue of open borders and Kamala Harris.
Didn't work particularly well.
You know, now we have known terrorists in the country and Iranian assassination squads and murderers and rapists and other violent criminals in the country and carteling gangmen.
How's that working?
How is Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid?
How's that all working out?
Because all the predictions have been now for a while that they're heading towards insolvency.
I'd say, you know, I'd give them a poor grade there too.
And, you know, well, let's go over it when we'll do more of this in the next hour.
But, you know, Mom Dani wants a rent freeze.
Get this.
In the most extreme cases where an owner demonstrates consistent neglect as defined by the government for their tenants, the city will decisively step in and take control of their properties.
In other words, seize buildings from owners.
And he says that he will address this deeply inequitable system of property tax using the full power of the mayor's office to address the property tax system directly working with legislators at the state level to win Necessary reforms and abolish real property tax law, Section 581 that compares condos and co-ops and rental properties, etc., etc.
He's gonna wants to replace police with social workers and create the Department of Community Safety and deploying dedicated outreach workers to subway stations and medical services and vacant commercial units, increasing transit ambassadors.
Yeah, okay.
What do you do when you have a drug crazed lunatic that's that is suffering from mental illness?
What do you what do you do in that case?
Mr. Bamdani, that this is now this is now the modern Democratic Party.
Chuck Schumer's not going to stand up for me.
He's now endorsed the guy.
It's pretty incredible.
But I'll continue quick.
He wants he wants government grocery stores, government operated food distribution.
Oh.
Government's so good at running everything else.
I mean, what does the government do that well?
He wants free buses, permanently eliminate the fare on every city bus, make them faster by rapidly building priority lanes for buses.
They already have them in New York.
You know, make life hard for corporations.
He's going to fight misleading advertising and predatory contracts as defined by who?
And, you know, he will ban noncompete clauses which suppress wages and allow employers to take advantage of their workers.
He'll end secret corporate handouts where tax dollars are given away to companies in agreements protected by NDAs.
He wants free childcare, free gifts for each new parent in New York City, essential goods, he calls them, diapers.
Now, can I ask you a quote?
Why is the government in the business of providing diapers, baby wipes, nursing pads, postpartum pads, swaddles, and books?
Gonna spend millions of dollars a year.
Add a 2% New York City income tax for anyone making more than a million dollars a year.
What are rich people?
How do they get rich?
Not by being stupid.
They're gonna look at leaving New York and Droves.
I mean, Governor DeSantis, my governor's salivating at this.
He's thinking this is gonna be a financial boom for Florida, and he's not wrong.
Three new deal for schools and renovate 500 public schools with quote renewable energy infrastructure and HVAC upgrades, and they're gonna transform 500 asphalt schoolyards into vibrant green spaces and create 15,000 more union jobs.
Oh my gosh.
Promote the trans agenda and protect gender affirming care citywide, raise the minimum wage $30 and $30 an hour and shut down ice.
Good luck going up against Donald Trump on that.
You're gonna lose.
His words, not mine, queer liberation means defund the police.
Am I am I ignorant or I don't even understand what that means?
Do you understand what that means, Linda?
I do not.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Quote, there's no queer liberation under occupation, not for the queer Palestinians murdered by the IDF.
He wants to arrest Netanyahu, but not Hamas leadership.
BDS is a righteous movement of liberation.
We need to ban all guns.
I wonder if the people that surround him are going to be armed with a gun, protecting, which I think every I think every elected official should be.
Protected by armed police.
Yes.
I said that to De Blasio when I debated him.
I said, you don't want me to have a gun.
I can't have it.
But what about those guys in the corner over there?
They're policemen, they're armed.
So, you know, oh, one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us.
He wants free abortions and free contraception on demand.
We are the birthplace of the global socialist feminist movement.
I don't even know what that means.
Do you know what that means?
No idea.
Climate change.
Climate change is the central issue of our time.
The climate crisis isn't separate from the crisis of capitalism.
Decarbonize our economy, oppose all new fossil fuel infrastructure.
If we don't get it done, shut it down.
When we tax the rich, we're reclaiming the wealth bosses, the wealth bosses and corporations steal.
Oh.
So you're going to empower the government to take money from one group of people, give it to another group of people that hopefully will elect him.
We can build the socialist New York.
New York should exercise eminent domain and acquire four thousand plus unsold luxury apartments for homeless people, sex workers.
Uh by the way, it should be decriminalized, open up, you know, we we continue to fight today for a better world than a free Palestine.
We will support I don't even end cash.
He's gonna end cash bail, permit safe injection sites, says Israel's committing genocide by protecting themselves.
White supremacy is many faces from the police and prison system in America to occupation and apartheid in Palestine.
I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare.
We're showing up in Bryan Park to say no to Trump's union busting anti-immigrant anti LGBT agenda.
I mean I I really don't know.
Abolish medical bills.
What does that mean?
Doctors don't get paid.
Everybody now understand why I mean when I say I left New York, I left.
Moved my company offices, everything down to New York.
Hired accountants and lawyers out the yazoo.
So it's it's very interesting what's going on with the Supreme Court and the left's reaction to it.
You know, the the one big story today is the court restricted the ability of federal judges to issue broad freezes on executive orders.
And this decision really, you know, that this had a lot to do with birthright citizenship, but it could reshape not only the way U.S. citizenship is granted even temporarily, but it really has broader implications as well.
But they limited the ability of federal judges to pause the president's executive orders, which is a major victory for Donald Trump.
We're gonna play his comments and Pam Bondy's comments later in the in the show.
It was a six three decision.
Interestingly, in this case, they didn't rule on the constitutionality of the move to end birthright citizenship.
Uh uh, but the six three decision written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and split along ideological lines may dramatically reshape how citizenship is granted in the U.S. I mean, there are people that come to this country and give birth to children for the purpose of giving them citizenship.
I d I don't believe that's what birthright citizenship was supposed to be about.
Um anyway, so that we we have that ruling that took place uh six to three, and you know, it's interesting to watch the back and forth between the different justices.
Uh, in another decision, Maryland parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that stories with gay and transgender themes are discussed.
The court ruled parents with religious objections to storybooks with LGBTQ themes may withdraw their children from public schools when the books are discussed, according to this ruling that came out today.
Uh this on the heels of the Supreme Court decision in in South Carolina that they don't have to fund planned parenthood and abortion on a state level.
Anyway, this ruling in a case by Maryland Parents objected to books with gay transgender characters.
Sam Alito analyzed the messages that the books conveyed.
If you remember oral arguments, he was he was pretty pretty graphic and reproducing colored uh images uh from an appendix to his opinion and noted that they were written for young readers.
Anyway, the majority opinion, uh six to three, seems to sweep quite broadly, allowing parents with religious objections to demand that their children not be instructed about gay and transgender themes.
Now, remember, people like Tim Walls wanted you know, wanted gender affirming care without parental consent on the on just on the surface of this.
You know, parental rights have been restored and codified by the Supreme Court.
Parents are not potted plants.
You know, and if we're gonna send our kids to school, we have failing schools to begin with.
Why don't we focus on reading, writing, math, science, you know, and the basics and computers, and how about let the parents do their job and instill their values in their own children and not get indoctrinated by leftist educators that have an agenda.
Just as Sotomayora announcing her descent from the bench and a sign of profound disagreement and a written dissent, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and uh Katanji Brown Jackson.
She wrote that public schools offer to children of all faiths, backgrounds, and education and an opportunity to practice living in a multicultural society.
I mean, this is them if inf in literally forcing their values upon people.
Anyway, adding that experience is critical to our nation's civic vitality.
Okay.
It's not the role of the government.
It just isn't.
The lawyer for the parents, Eric Baxter, he's with the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, welcomed the decision.
This is a historic victory for parental rights in Maryland and across America.
Kids shouldn't be forced into conversations about drag queens, pride parades, or gender transitions without their parents' permission.
Yeah, sorry, parents are not potted plans.
Linda, you're not a potted plan.
I know that you're showing up at these school board meetings.
Oh, yeah.
Um they Linda's one of the people that was probably being investigated by the FBI during the Biden years.
Uh now earlier, and I I think all of these decisions are pretty fascinating, by the way, is the Supreme Court, you know, does this late day dump, but they also upheld a Texas law requiring pornographic website uh websites to verify users are at least 18 in a case that fitted concerns about protecting minors against worries about violating the First Amendment rights of adults again, 6'3 uh decision.
The majority said that the Texas law advances an important interest in shielding children from sexually explicit content and doesn't overly burden adults because it relies on established methods of providing government-issued identification and sharing transactional data.
And the use of pornography has always been the subject of social stigma.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority.
The social reality has never been a reason to exempt the pornography industry from otherwise valid regulation.
Elena Kagan said the court should have required Texas show that there's not another way to block miners.
I mean, they're just looking for ways.
Again, I mean, why don't we just protect children?
Can we just protect the kids?
I don't give a flying rip what you do with us as an adult.
It's none of my business.
It really isn't.
I don't care.
You know, short of assault and and things like that.
Um, but in terms of consenting adults, you want to look at pornography, all right, have at it, go do it.
You know, I think you're weird, especially, you know, if you're not a college-age kid, you know, with your friends laughing at something.
But people get addicted to this crap.
If you're if you're like 45, 48 years old in your basement, you're looking at porn, you're to me, you're just strange.
You know, I mean, would it be really bad of me to say that, Linda?
That bad.
I don't think so.
I think that's kind of strange.
You know, I would advise people to maybe get involved in a real relationship with a real person and not be looking at, you know, whatever they're looking at all day.
I think the amount of people that are staring down at their phones when they should be doing things that require their eyes, their ears, and their hands, like I don't know, operating a motor vehicle, walking down the street as opposed to walking into other people.
How many people have we seen fall into the freaking manholes because they can't lift their head up and then they walk into you and they're offended that you didn't get out of their way.
I don't care what you're looking at at TikTok.
In fact, I hope you drop your stupid phone so that maybe you come back to reality for a hot second and get out of your stupid pretend world that it's only your phone.
Uh, did you ever see, and and I'm not gonna lie, I have actually taken a stand in my own family.
Like we'll all be around at a table and everyone's on their phone.
I'm like, Put your phones down.
That's it.
Agreed.
Now, I actually have a I have a system because I'm in the news business.
I will I will put the phone under my leg on vibrate.
If there's anything, and I will check if just to make sure that there's not something happening that I need to deal with immediately.
That's just the world I live in and part of my job.
Like a I would assume that a doctor, a nurse, others, you know, might need to do that as well.
But I'm like the obsession with being on your phone when you're all at dinner and everyone looking at their own phone.
How about you talk to each other?
Well, who are you missing?
Who is it that you wish was at your dinner that you can't talk to the people you're with?
It's just we get addicted to these electronic devices.
You just do.
Agreed.
The president, we'll play this later in the program, said that the Supreme Court decision knocking down nationwide injunctions will give him full range, the full range he needs to proceed with his agenda.
I mean, we've had these, you know, this has been a problem.
What Democrats can't get done legislatively, meaning by winning elections.
What they can't get done I'm sorry, electorally by winning elections.
What they can't get done legislatively because they're not in power.
They try to race and go judge shopping to activist liberal justices to try to slow down and thwart and stop the duly elected agenda of a president.
That's really at the heart of this decision.
And, you know, because of this decision, you know, now the president, as he pointed out today, can properly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship and ending sanctuary city funding and uh suspending refugee resettlement and freezing unnecessary funding.
I mean, the Supreme Court decision, too, that came out that said, yeah, they have the right to send illegal immigrants to any country.
Brago Garcia's begging to stay in jail, apparently.
Doesn't want to leave the United States, doesn't want to go back to the El Salvadorian jail.
Anyway, and you know, now we're paying, you know, a fortune in taxpayer money constantly to fight this nonsense.
And you know, the president says freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people.
This is why he was elected.
He says he has an entire list, and and again, I'll play this later in the program today.
And I do agree that this is a threat to the constitutionality and the powers given to the president, and now the Supreme Court has weighed in very strongly on presidential powers.
And the president also argued that nationwide injunctions were an abuse of power, and that meant that, you know, one of the nearly 700 federal judges that disagree with this policy that don't care about the law or want to legislate from the bench, have been given way too much leniency and power over the constitutional authority of the president.
Now it's interesting, Chucky Schumer, haven't seen seen Chucky this mad at Supreme Court justices, you know, since he went to the steps of the Supreme Court threatening.
Yeah, you will ruin the day, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Remember the Schumer?
They are gonna reap the whirlwind.
They don't know what's gonna hit them.
Looks like the Senate's top Democrat is having another meltdown because after the Supreme Court decision today, the this ruling hands Donald Trump yet another green light in his crusade to unravel the foundations of American democracy.
I want to tell you, Gorsuch.
I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.
threatening judges i thought that was bad liberals tell us that his plan to end birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional no that's Chucky, you're wrong.
Not what the Supreme Court said.
Democrats now on Newsweek report at a press conference earlier today, civil rights groups announcing that they had filed a class action lawsuit and a motion for a temporary restraining order to halt the enforcement of Donald Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship.
Anyway, uh Conchita Cruz, co-founder of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, said that the new court followings are aimed to protect families nationwide after the Supreme Court's recent decision limiting the use of nationwide injunctions.
We're now awaiting a decision from the district court judge in our case.
William Powell, senior counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, explained that the Supreme Court's ruling requires plaintiffs to pursue alternative legal strategies.
We have to get that order struck down using different procedures.
Well, you have here Democrats looking for alternative legal strategies to accomplish that which they can't get done electorally or legislatively.
They just don't give up.
Why don't they just try and win elections and then persuade the American people that they have the right agenda I guess that's too much to ask.
By the way, uh, and the president rightly praising this decision today, rightly praising it.
I mean, celebrating it, and as as he should.
By the way, Doge, we find canceled 312 wasteful government contracts saving you, the taxpayers, 500 million dollars.
Doge continues.
And you know, the amount of fraud, despite claims of how much money the agency was doing, it recently discovered that an influential contracting officer at USAID named this one individual was able to carry out a massive long-term bribery scheme dating all the way back to 2013.
This guy by last name Watson pleaded guilty to a bribery of a public official.
Government is so corrupt.
By the way, interesting developments.
Donald Trump, you know, if you go back to his victories, Hispanic Americans, by the way, voted for the president in 2020.
In 2010, they voted 6136 Biden.
Now Trump got 48%.
I mean, this is Pew Research Analysis.
Trump carried 15% of African Americans up from 8% in 2020.
Uh, and he maintained the same 55% of white voters he received four years earlier.
In other words, people are figuring out that the party of hardworking men and women and not the coastal elites is now the Republican Party.
No tax on tips, social security, largest tax cut in history, hopefully coming your way.
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What does this mean for the Democratic Party?
And what does it mean for the country?
Straight ahead.
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