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Best of Hannity: Backbone of America - August 9th, Hour 1
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One of the things that I've always wanted conservatism to represent is I want conservatives or conservatism to be looking out for working men and women.
And that's why I think it is so phenomenally important and the it and frankly an opportunity we've never seen in our lifetime.
What is being put in place for working men and women and opportunities for them to achieve the American dream.
Maybe, maybe, maybe it's because of how I grew up.
Maybe it's because my grandparents, all four of them came from Ireland and they were dirt poor.
Maybe it's because my my parents both grew up very poor.
Maybe it's because my valedictorian and high school mother, you know, couldn't go to college and became a prison guard and worked 16-hour shifts pretty much her entire adult life until she died at a relatively young age.
Uh, or my father that worked as a family corps probation officer and fought in World War II, lost his mother when he was born from complications for his birth, and then worked as a waiter on weekends.
Maybe it comes from that or my own working roots, which started at eight with a paper out, 12 years old, every Friday, Saturday, Sunday night, washing dishes, then becoming a cook and a busboy waiter, bartender and 10 years in construction.
Um, but I really care about working men and women.
I I view them as the backbone of this country.
I mean, we're very proud of the fact that we have so many so many truckers that call this program.
They're they're out on the roads every day.
Every single store you go to, they'd be the store shelves would be empty, but for their contribution to the supply chain.
Uh every, you know, I'd love go I love going shopping.
I don't know why when I go to shopping, people always stop and ask me, why are you here?
And I look at them, look at me.
I like to eat.
We all like to eat, but I like to go to shopping, and I actually it's it's a great barometer because I I get to talk to people.
And but you think of the every single person that serves us in our lives, the farmers that do the farming, and and we have such a small percentage of our population that feeds the entire country and frankly feeding half the world, then our ranchers, they they do a great job producing the meat that we all like to eat.
And uh, and I just like where we're headed economically.
Uh, I like the fact that you know, 13 to 15 trillion dollars in committed manufacturing money, Donald Trump has been able to secure after being widely panned for his tariff trade negotiations and everybody predicting doom and gloom, and none of which happened.
None of which happened.
Just the opposite happened.
We have trade deal after trade deal after trade deal after trade deal, and after we've been taken advantage of and abused, frankly, and ripped off, frankly.
You know, now the president's fighting for farmers and and fighting for everybody in between.
But you know, that twelve, fifteen trillion dollars, whatever the money is in committed investments in manufacturing.
Well, that that's gonna be we're gonna make our own pharmaceuticals.
We've been far too dependent on other countries for that.
God forbid we have uh some type of COVID-like emergency again in our lives.
Uh it's also good we're we're producing our own rare earth minerals and magnets, which are going to be very critical.
It's critical to manufacturing, it's critical for our Pentagon, it's critical for national security and national defense.
Same with semiconductor chips, we're bringing automobile manufacturing back 15 trillion dollars.
What does that mean to all of you?
It means high paying career jobs in industries that we've pretty much given up on, and we're bringing all these jobs home.
And then we cannot even begin to calculate how many high-paying career jobs will be created in the energy sector.
Anyway, how deep, how profound is this, and how is it going to impact your life?
Anyway, we invited on U.S. uh State Department of Agriculture uh Secretary Brooke Rollins is with us.
One of the things that nobody really took note of, and we'll get to the European Union trade deal in a second.
Uh my understanding is Australia now has agreed to take American beef, which is great for American ranchers, and they had not they had not imported American beef since Mad Cow, which was what, in what year?
Two thousand and three?
That's right, about twenty years ago.
Crazy, right?
That's insane.
Um, and that every single one of these deals, the president is thinking about American agriculture, American beef, American products made in America, uh, American manufacturers.
Give us some of the details and specificity on how this is going to impact really the people that do make the country great, the people that work hard every day.
Well, that's right, Sean, and I I love the intro on that.
I I couldn't agree with you more.
I think when President Trump came down that escalator almost 10 years ago and began to talk about returning power to the people, um, draining the swamp and ensuring that we are putting America first.
I don't know that really many of us who'd been working in this world for a long time really understood how to execute that, really understood that you know what he brought to the table was a game changer.
What he brought to the table was frankly saving the American dream and the American experiment, and that's that's what he's doing, and that's what he's done.
And having been his first White House as his domestic policy chief, building the America First Policy Institute and the intervening four years, and now serving as his Secretary of Agriculture, I've really had a front row seat to almost the entire journey.
And I will tell you firsthand that it is truly revolutionary.
I think what his leadership has brought and what he is doing to your point for the real average American man and woman, and to take that American dream into every corner of this beautiful country.
And that's what he's done.
So on the ag side, you know, he called me about being a Secretary of Agriculture.
I'll never forget it was a Saturday morning right before Thanksgiving.
I was on my way to an Aggie Auburn football game and uh and got the news that he wanted me for this slot.
And I was so excited to fight for our farmers to make sure agriculture gets a seat at the table and continues to drive the narrative.
What I didn't realize, Sean, at the time, was I had obviously always supported his.
We need to realign the world economy.
We need to renegotiate the trade deals.
What I didn't realize on November 23rd of last year, before I took this job, was just at how extraordinary a disadvantage our farmers and ranchers and our products have on the world stage, leading up to Trump term two.
The average tariff across the world on American products, American ag product is about 15%.
What we charge agriculture products coming into America is only on average five percent.
The men and women who are most hurt by that are those that feed and fuel and clothe the nation and frankly the world.
So as he has rolled out when after when the UK, the EU, South Korea, the uh Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, I mean, it's one win after another, but I sincerely believe, well, the American people obviously are the most have the most to gain from from his leadership and his bold vision.
But our farmers and ranchers are the ones who will ultimately be able to build a life that they have been we've been losing our farmers and ranchers for so long.
But that changed on the president's liberation day.
It really changed when he came down the escalator ten years ago.
But then when we really began to fight, which was Liberation Day, February in the Rose Garden of this year, and now we're beginning to see the results of that.
It's it's gonna change the trajectory of the country forever.
Let me juxtapose this with the uh another argument and another i uh initiative that the president is involved in, and that's the Maha movement.
And and one of the arguments that have been made is that maybe America has historically used too many pesticides and hormones.
Um but we're making a lot of changes in that uh in that area as well, are we not?
And we're at least giving people choices, right?
Absolutely.
Well, and it's funny you bring that up.
I I don't know that was on our slate to discuss.
Bobby Kennedy and I are doing another press conference together announcing another six states that have submitted and I have approved waivers to stop using taxpayer dollars in our food stamp program to buy sugary drinks and junk food to feed ourselves when you've got a chronic health epidemic in this country where three out of four of our adolescents can't even pass the military readiness test.
Like this is not just about breaking our health care system, it's not just about eating healthy, it's now a national security issue.
So Bobby's leadership has been extraordinary.
We don't agree on everything, but we agree on most things.
And to your point, he has said over and over, my job is to help make America healthy again, but we can't do that without our farmers, and we have to protect our farmers.
So moving in the direction of healthier food, uh ensuring that our food processors, et cetera, aren't using all the stuff they've been using forever, but doing it in a way that supports our farmers, ensure ensuring that they actually can make money, can support their family, can turn it over to their children and their grandchildren.
I I I think Bobby is a great partner in all of that, and really he he's talk about changing the game.
I mean, the president is uh the lead game changer, but Bobby Kennedy is right behind, and he's been very open and very willing to learn about our crop protection systems, about how important fertilizer is to feeding the world, but how we can potentially begin to move toward healthier alternatives that will be good for the farmers and hopefully even make them more profitable in the future.
There's got to be a balance to all of this, because you're right.
I mean, we have what percentage of uh farmers and what percentage of the world do we actually feed.
Well, that's right.
I mean, listen, I'm I'm sitting in front of my USDA building right now in Washington talking to you.
I'll go in in just a minute.
This US Department of Agriculture founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 is the people's department.
At that point in America, I think you had almost eighty percent of the country involved in the agrarian in the agriculture industry.
Today it's closer to five percent.
So part of what we're doing at USDA is ensuring that all Americans understand how important this is, but also that we're opening the aperture, we're opening the market to new farmers.
We're ensuring that rural America has the opportunity to thrive, that the American dream can live there as well.
And just a few weeks ago in front of USDA with Pete Heggseth and Pam Bondy and Christy Gnome and some of our great governors, I announced that farm security is national security.
Unless we can feed and clothe ourselves, America will no longer be the world superpower.
That's how important this is.
And that's what we're working to change and to build the infrastructure, not just for the next two or four or ten years, but for the next two hundred and fifty years for this country.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue more with Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins on the other side.
Then your call's coming up on this Monday, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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You know, you have one guy over there shouting.
Ever wonder if these people ever go to work.
Me too.
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All right, we continue now with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is with us.
Let me let me ask this question because the when there was resistance or questions that were brought up with with other countries during these trade deals, and I have had conversations with Howard Lucknick and Scott Vessen, and the the issues came up about American food and and how it's produced, et cetera, et cetera.
Um at the end of the day, I think almost every country opened the door to American farmers and dairy and our ranchers and our meat and and so on and our poultry, et cetera.
Um what were some of their concerns uh, or were they really kind of irrelevant and overblown, and they were just used as as an excuse to keep American products out of their markets?
Well, I love the question, and let me answer it with an anecdote.
I went over to the UK within 48 hours of the first big deal being announced, which as you know is with the United Kingdom.
And their press over there, you know, we we don't we don't love our mainstream media here, but their their press over there may even be slightly worse, which is saying a lot.
And they had warned me, they said, Brooke, when you go in and do all the press gaggles, just be ready for the onslaught and the attacks you're gonna get.
And so sure enough, you know, I have the first press gaggle in London.
Um I just met at 10 Downing talking to my counterpart, the Secretary of Agriculture of the UK, how we can continue to ship our beef and ethanol and pork, et cetera, into the UK.
And the first question, well, but you know, your your chicken is all chlorinated, and we don't want your chicken here in the UK.
And I said, Listen, only five percent of our total poultry production is using any kind of chlorinated water for disinfectant.
So what and and even then that has been proven safe and reliable over and over and over again.
So this narrative, A, that you all are feeding your people in the United Kingdom, just couldn't be more false, and it has to stop.
And so at the end of the day, what America does do, we have the most rigorous, the strongest regulatory systems in the world to keep our people safe and make sure our food is safe.
So for example, we started the conversation on our beef in Australia.
You know, for more than 20 years, Australia has said no thanks to American beef, which is the best, the tastiest, the most impressive beef produced in the entire world.
Well, it took Donald Trump to come in and say, listen, your non-tariff barriers, your fake news that you've been using to keep our American beef out of your country, that's not gonna stand any longer.
I am the president of the United States.
I know how to negotiate deals.
I'm gonna change this.
And sure enough, they changed it, and now we're shipping American beef again into Australia.
Now, again, does that mean we can't do things better here?
Of course it means we can do things better.
But to even begin to say that our beef, our poultry, our wheat, our soybeans, our corn, our tree nuts, our blueberries, that they aren't safe, that they aren't good quality food.
The best arguably in the world is just false.
And that's a big narrative that I'm pushing back against too as I'm traveling internationally to all these countries.
Oh, I think it's great.
Uh I'm very happy.
It's very cool when we got truckers that call this program.
We get ranchers that call this program, uh, farmers.
I've I've people on tractors calling this program.
And I just know, and I'm grateful because I know how hard they work, and I know that our store shelves would be empty uh without each piece of of that supply chain.
So and we make the best products in the world.
And and I'm a I'm pretty much a meat and and egg guy.
That's that's about my whole diet.
Uh we appreciate it.
Brooke Rollins uh agriculture secretary.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Uh Sean, it's an honor.
God bless you.
Thank you so much.
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Always a privilege and a pleasure to invite a friend of ours back to the program, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is with us.
By the way, he's got a new book out.
It's going to be in bookstores as of tomorrow.
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Senator Scott, how are you, my friend?
Well, Sean, I'm doing really well.
Thank you so much.
And let me just say, thank God you vacation sometimes in South Carolina because many folks see you out on the golf course or walking around, and they say that you are humble, that you are approachable, and they just can't believe it.
So thank you for the way you represent conservative values in my home state.
I listen, I was born and raised in New York, but I left.
I was like a radio nomad for many, many years of my life.
And I'm definitely a Southerner by heart uh at heart.
Now I'm totally a Southerner because I live in the free state of Florida, but I I realized you know what, this this is more in keeping with my values.
I don't know if we should tell this story or not, and and I'll let you clean it up because I'm sure that I'm not going to tell it as well as you would.
Um, but uh you go to a church, it's uh in in Mount Pleasant in South Carolina called Seacoast, right?
Yes.
Twenty-eight.
Okay, so what's up?
Twenty-eight years in county.
Okay.
And yeah, and I've been to that church on a number of occasions when I've been there, and it's a great, great, great church.
And I knew you were there, and I I met you there one time, and I I said hello to you, and I got to actually go out to to dinner with you and the pastor and your mom, and man, your mom's a force of nature.
Love her.
She's awesome.
And uh, and but it started out with one day, I'm listening to one of the pastors.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna call him out by name.
And he starts saying, turn off your TV and all these, all these people on TV giving their opinions, and they're only doing it for one reason money.
I was so pissed off.
I was so angry.
And I wrote you, and then it ended up uh and it developed into a friendship with the pastor.
I'm like, uh no, I don't give opinions for money.
I give opinions because uh they're heartfelt and sincere, and I believe them.
And when I started in radio, I worked for free, and I'm and then my first paid job was $19,000 a year, and I never thought I'd be successful.
And I think one day somebody's gonna wake up and pull me off both radio and TV anyway.
You know, uh, one of the things I'll say, Sean, is that was such a good lesson for all churches, but specifically for my church, to use generalization when talking about any group of people or anyone is just not the way you should do it.
Matthew 7 1 reminds us to be careful how we judge because it will be measured against you as well.
And what you did, though, showed what I talked about at the beginning of the show, your humility.
You were willing to listen to the pastor who wanted to make sure that we mended the fences by telling the truth, and he was not targeting you, but anytime you have a broad brush that captures a lot of people, it's not the way to minister.
And you were kind enough to listen to them, sit down, break bread, and frankly, I think you've been back since then because you understand that C Coast.
Well, I actually watched Seacoast this weekend.
I I thought it was a great sermon this weekend.
I'm I um I think it's a great church.
They have great music, they have a great message, they have a great outreach program.
They do a lot for the community.
Uh they built uh they're wonderful people.
Um I don't agree with everything of anybody in any church, but I but I've I've come to you know greatly admire what the ministry that they have there.
I've been there for 20, almost 28 years, and I'll say without any question, a founding pastor Greg Surratt who had lunch with you and and uh Josh Surratt, the lead pastor, really listen to you.
I tell you what, sometimes the hardest thing to do in life is to take constructive criticism.
We call it a critique.
But it's so important to take it from the people that come to your church so that you can get better.
And it's one of the reasons why when I wrote the book about courage, profiles, and Christian courage.
A part of it is looking in the mirror and taking responsibility for what you do.
And you allowed my church to not use this broad brush about people on TV wanting to do something for a paycheck.
But in fact, anyone who knows Sean Hannity, anyone who's watched your show, anyone has listened to you on the radio, the one thing we all conclude.
You do your homework.
You don't come out and spout on crazy things.
You do your homework, and frankly, let me give you one example for your listeners, because it is so important to drill down into this message of hope and opportunity with the truth, because the truth will set you free.
You were years ahead on the Russia collusion craziness and crap.
You called it for what it was.
It was a disinformation campaign, and it took over eight years for the information and frankly the evidence, the facts to bubble up as they have been under Tulsi Gabbard.
We now know you were right.
The homework you did was reinforced by the investigation, and frankly, the information that Obama had that Biden had, but they refused to let it go because that's the actual corruption, the swamp, The bottom of the swamp is this, I don't think the American people can make decisions for themselves.
So we're going to lie, we're going to cheat, and we're going to deceive the American people.
You knew it.
You could smell it, and then you did the homework and you uncovered the truth.
Years before all the evidence percolated to the top.
You know, uh it was us in an ensemble cast.
I can't take all the credit for it, but we uh we did work very hard on it.
You know, there was an interesting piece on Fox News this weekend, and the headline was Trump 1.0 alums share chilling Google message from before their second term uh return, and talked about people like Dan Scavino and and others, and they described the matter as Biden lawfare kicking in.
And anyway, Google received and responded to a legal process by the FBI compelling the release of their personal information.
So I've been through this now twice in my life, Senator, where my personal private text messages and at the time emails, I have not had an email account in years and years and years, were released publicly, and it was big news all over, it was everywhere.
It was fake news CNN, we're going wall to wall, Hannity's messages, uh just released with Paul Manafort, Hannity's messages, with Kaylee McEnaney, Mark Meadows, all released.
And what's so amazing about this is you know what their main criticism on uh criticism, MSDNC, fake news, CNN, and all these other channels and and in press is they would read my text messages, and they're like, Wow, it sounds like his monologues on TV.
Man, he really believes this stuff.
That was their main criticism.
And I'm like, Well, does that imply you don't believe what you say?
Because I I couldn't believe that that was their main criticism.
What amazing uh journalism and journalistic integrity that we are yearning for in this country.
Once again, I stand where I stood at the beginning of this show.
You have been a true patriot, and I don't say that.
Listen, you and I are friends when we're not on TV, when we're not on the radio, we talk about we've done a Bible study together.
So let me just say it very clearly.
You are a man of integrity, and one of the most important uncovering of absolute governmental democracy at its worst, political scandals at the highest levels, perhaps one of the greatest cover-ups in American history, Russia collusion.
And you got it right.
And I just think what do you think's gonna happen with all of this?
Uh because I hate to overpromise and underdeliver, and there's been too many times where we get very, very close, and people think that people are going to be held accountable and then not held accountable.
I think the evidence here is overwhelming, it's incontrovertible.
They made the whole thing up.
I think everything they've done to Donald Trump for ten years is is falls under this umbrella.
Um, people have abused their power at these three-letter agencies.
Uh, I think they put they they put cinder blocks on the scales of elections.
What happens?
We have to hold them accountable.
This is one of the reasons why I'm excited to see the leadership of Senator Chuck Grassley.
Here's a man who's been through the grinder, and he is always playing it straight.
This is not a political animal, nor is he a political guy.
He calls balls and strikes, and one of the things he has said very clearly, and he said it with with disgust in his voice.
This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions, and this is one of the greatest political scandals of our time.
And the new administration has a tremendous responsibility, tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and to do so with maximum speed and transparency.
I will add to that.
You've got to hold the people accountable, or no one will trust this government as they should.
Because they shouldn't trust the government they can't have confidence in.
And when you are involved in election engineering, that's exactly what it was.
When you're putting cinder block after cinder block after cinder block on the scale, and you have the memo that says Hillary Clinton approved.
She approved, and she followed the advice of a foreign policy advisors like Julianne Smith to smear Donald Trump by magnifying a scandal that wasn't real.
It's that kind of nonsense that speaks to the depth of people committed to power, not American progress, but power.
So if we don't hold them accountable, uh our the people won't not trust us.
We have a responsibility to bring all the information to light, trace it back to its source, and then hold accountable the source of election engineering, because that is the most disgusting thing in the last 30 years of political history, and one of the worst in American history, according to Chuck Grassley.
All right, quick break more with Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina.
Brand new book out today, one nation always under God.
Profile in Christian courage, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
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Music Music We continue with our friend, uh South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.
He's got a new book out today, One Nation Always Under God.
Profiles in Christian courage, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
Let me go back to your book.
Um you chose certain people to focus on in this book and inspiring stories of American Christians and and the and what they did and what they were able to accomplish.
Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, for example.
He faced an angry mob that were trying to destroy him and his newspaper.
You talk about Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, whose faith sustained him while up in space, or uh Darthea Dix who revolutionized how America dealt with mental health and and many others.
How did you and these are not people that are often well known or often written about?
What made you choose these people in particular in this book?
Yeah, Sean, one of the things I I wanted to make sure the readers uh took away from this book is that the good Lord so often uses ordinary people, not the Ivy League educated, not the power brokers of the day.
He so often uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Think about your background, Sean.
You have not always been on radio and TV.
You were a blue-collar guy.
The good Lord Gave you a gift that had to be uncovered.
And my hope is that the future of this nation depends on ordinary people having the courage to respond to the call of an extraordinary God to make sure that every single institution in our country is completely covered by faith.
From our journalists to our astronauts to retail folks like Hobby Lobby, the story of David Green, powerful story.
Think about in healthcare, the story of Danny Thomas and St. Jude's Hospital, how it came to be a praying Catholic.
We need to understand that every single institution in this country, when it works right, it worked upon the foundation of a Judeo Christian rock and ethos that led people to do the right thing.
And that's one of the reasons why I started this show off by celebrating your praises when you were just walking on the streets of Charleston.
How you uncovered the Russia crap, the collusion that was nothing but the election engineering of the left, and why it is that we can celebrate integrity and character.
I'll finish with this, Sean.
Too often in the days time that we live, people want to celebrate the wrong people doing the wrong things.
And instead, my book, One Nation Always Under God, available right now at Amazon or where books are sold.
We're going to celebrate people, true patriots and warriors who changed their institutions within this country for good because they had the courage to stand for the right thing, just like you did with this Russia collusion nonsense.
We need more Americans standing in the gap when it counts the most.
And when we do that, our greatest days are absolutely ahead of us.
This book is phenomenal.
It's one nation always under God.
Profile in Christian courage, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
Uh Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina.
We always appreciate you being with us.
God bless you.
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