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Sept. 2, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Politics, Crime, Economy, and School Security Roundup - September 2nd, Hour 3
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On, if you look big picture, you know, I know a lot of people are going to probably put a lot in the gubernatorial races.
Again, it's kind of an off-year election, and we have Glenn Young in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
You can only serve one consecutive term.
And it's unfortunate because I think it'd be a great, but he also has Winsom Sears, who would be a great governor in my view, although she's down on the polls right now.
Then we have a New Jersey gubernatorial race, and New Jersey, like California and New York and Illinois, has experienced a mass migration, people that I believe would otherwise vote Republican.
I don't think it's going to be a harbinger of things to come in the midterms, although Donald Trump will have to defy history if he's going to win, keep the House and keep the Senate.
But I do believe the billion five that Republicans have cash on hand and the fact that states like Texas and others, Missouri seems to be next, are going to do exactly what the Democrats have done, which with gerrymandering, and that is that they're going to create more Republican districts and follow the same rules the Democrats have perfected, I think is going to be helpful.
But more importantly, I think on issues, Democrats are upside down and sideways.
On the issue of law and order and safety and security, you know, listening to the mayor of Chicago berating Donald Trump, the governor of Chicago, J.B. Pritzker, berating Donald Trump.
And meanwhile, 58 shot and eight dead over the Labor Day weekend.
What, that's not enough to encourage people to bring law and order and safety and security to the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago.
Look at the dramatic decrease in crime in our nation's capital.
I mean, it's massive by any objective measure.
And you have people in our nation's capital saying thank you.
I go back to this USA Today article.
I live in D.C. I'm glad Trump sent in the National Guard to fight crime.
And then you look at the actual numbers, and it's overwhelming.
And we have a 48% decrease in violent crime in our nation's capital.
Wow, policing actually works.
And you see the same thing.
So whether it's law and order, safety and security, illegal immigration, deporting illegal immigrants, Democrats voted for the largest tax cut in history.
And by doing so, voting for the largest tax increase in American history.
They didn't stand up for American workers and they had an opportunity to stand up for American workers.
No tax on tips and no tax on overtime.
They voted against it.
They voted against protecting seniors.
No tax on Social Security.
Then, of course, they want to tell you what car to put in your driveway.
They voted against every measure that will lower the cost of the lifeblood of the world's economy, which is energy.
And then, of course, Donald Trump has helped bring peace in seven different countries, and he's still trying to bring peace with Europe, in Europe, with Putin and Zelensky, and hopefully he'll be successful.
No guarantee, but hopefully.
So I think on issues heading into 26, it's going to be very, very different than whatever gubernatorial races take place in a blue state and a purple state.
Anyway, here to analyze all of this and why the Democrats are doubling down on dumb and dumber and stupid is former Speaker of the House, a professor in his own right, a historian in his own right, and friend of the program, Newt Gingrich, is with us.
You seem to understand this more than anybody.
And your latest New York Times bestseller is called Trump's Triumph America's Greatest Comeback.
I think we're in the middle of it.
Well, I think we are, and I think that's part of the challenge that there are so many things happening simultaneously, whether it's closing the border, fighting crime in Washington, D.C., passing the largest tax increase in history, dealing with federal spending, dealing with Gaza and Ukraine and a host of other places.
I mean, we've never seen a president act even on as many different fronts simultaneously.
And the result is, I think that there's a certain amount of confusion about what does it all mean, what's going to happen.
And many years ago, Michael Barone, who's one of the great students for American politics, noted that everywhere in the Western world, during the periods when the left-wing media and the left-wing activists could dominate, the country would seem to go towards the left.
And then as you got closer to an election, people started to pay attention.
They looked at the arguments.
They began to shift back to the right.
And so what you have, I think, right now is a period where it's not clear to people how it's going to work out.
There's so many things going on.
This is partially Trump style, which is to frontally take on every single thing in parallel.
But it also means that at some point, probably not till January or February, maybe with the State of the Union, they're going to have to consolidate the message and get across to people what they're trying to do.
My hunch is that by next summer, and this is purely a hunch, we're going to see a dramatically stronger economy.
We're going to see massive investments.
And we're going to see a level of momentum towards a better America that's going to be very, very shocking and very surprising.
But in the short run, it's the turmoil that people see and the confusion.
You know, you see this, for example, negotiating all the tariffs simultaneously.
I mean, I think they have 170 tariff negotiations underway all at the same time.
So for a normal person, this just seems like an awful lot to be happening and hard to understand the totality of it.
Well, I think that the reason I'm more optimistic maybe even than you are is I see the building blocks for economic success.
We've learned historically that when you cut taxes, in spite of predictions of doom and gloom and massive budget deficits, just the opposite ends up being true.
Reagan cut taxes, the top marginal rates, from 70 to 28 percent.
Revenues to the federal government doubled.
21 million new jobs were created.
It became at the time the longest period of peacetime economic growth in the history of the country.
Add to that, and I don't think you can actually calculate the impact on the economy, but Trump opening up energy and pushing towards energy dominance and making a deal with the European Union for nearly a trillion dollars in committed purchases for our energy is incalculable.
Add to that the $15 plus trillion dollars in committed monies in manufacturing for automobiles and pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips and rare earths, all which are going to come online very quickly because the One Big Beautiful Bill offers companies that are involved in manufacturing 100% bonus appreciation in year one, which means it will incentivize them to build these places and get these things up and running.
Well, I know I think that's all right.
And I don't, look, I'm not in any way pessimistic.
I think that by next summer, I'm simply trying to describe, I think there's a sense of turmoil.
I think there's a sense of confusion.
I think if you look at the underlying fundamental patterns, they are actually building towards a golden age in the future.
And if you look at the scale of the investment, not just investment, but the scale of sales.
I mean, the number of, if you're Boeing, Donald J. Trump is the best salesman you've ever had.
And the number of countries that are now saying, you know, I'd like to buy some more planes, just by itself would lead to a huge impact on the economy.
But as you point out, it goes way beyond that.
The natural gas sales, the fact that we're likely to have liquefied American natural gas replacing Russian gas in Europe, that's both a big geopolitical win and a big economic win.
And a lot of these different things are going on simultaneously.
And I would say that the challenge for us is that we're right in the middle of setting the stage, but the stage isn't completely set yet.
Listen, my hope and my prayer is, and I'll tell you what my hope and prayer is for, is that every American has this opportunity to prosper and to do well.
And I really believe that these manufacturing jobs, and I don't know why past presidents have given up on it, I don't know if you recall, but Obama said that it's never coming back, meaning automobile manufacturing and other manufacturing.
I'm like, why would you even want to believe that?
That makes zero sense to me.
And here it is.
And you can add to the economic equation, you know, the billions and hundreds of billions of dollars in monies that are going to be coming into the federal treasury.
I mean, they're talking about, you know, what, $4 trillion in savings over 10 years because of tariffs.
Everybody predicted that would destroy the economy.
Just the opposite ends up being true.
We saw second quarter growth jump to 3.3%.
We now have an inflation rate at the Fed benchmark of 2.0%, which means that Jerome Powell, in my view, has no choice but to lower interest rates.
He'll be gone in May.
I would imagine the next Fed chair is going to drop interest rates immediately by at least a point.
Well, I think you're going to see interest rates start down in September.
Oh, I think you're right.
But I think it's only going to be 0.25 basis point because I think he hates Trump more than he cares about the economy.
Although he did come out this week and say that he thought on balance that Trump was right on tariffs.
He did say that, which is a pretty big concession coming from him.
I agree with that part.
But it's like having the mayor of Washington explain that Trump actually had reduced crime.
Well, can you explain it?
To me, it's inexplicable.
You got 58 people shot.
You got eight people dead.
And that is a typical weekend in Chicago.
And the vitriol of the mayor and the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago, I can't explain it.
Well, look, they live in an echo chamber where you start with Trump is evil.
Therefore, anything Trump's doing is bad.
Facts cannot be allowed to get in the middle.
And I think in Chicago, to a peculiar degree, and it may almost be racist in its background, there's this sense of, well, most of the people who get shot probably deserved it.
And that's a bad part of the city.
I mean, I actually saw somebody say this whole Chicagoan the other day who was deeply opposed to Trump coming in and said, look, all these killings don't matter because they're not in our neighborhood.
Well, I think if you think everybody who's getting killed is an American, they sure as heck do matter.
And I raised the question on both Ex and Truth Social this weekend.
If a mayor can't protect the people of the city, does the U.S. government have an obligation to protect them if they're in the process of getting shot and killed?
And I think this is a very important question because most of these big cities are so anti-police and so pro-criminal.
I mean, if you go to New Orleans, for example, which has a huge crisis in crime, the last mayor, Mayor Landrew, reduced the police force from 1,500 down to 900.
And you take 600 people off the street, you're going to get a lot more crime.
That's the kind of attitude across the country that has crippled the police, increased the crime level, and is done by politicians who are, frankly, more pro-criminal than they are pro-safety.
We continue, former Speaker of the House New Kingrich, is with us.
Even Liberal Joe was challenging the mayor, Brandon Johnson.
Well, if you had 5,000 more cops, he asked him five times in a row, do you think that your city would be safer?
The mayor would not answer that simple question.
Then he called on J.B. Pritzker, apparently, to partner up with Trump after this deadly weekend in Chicago.
Now, again, I think Joe has ulterior motives.
I think Joe realizes that legacy media and hating Trump media is dead.
So I think he's trying to, you know, kind of kind of salvage his career somehow.
Good luck to him.
But even he is recognizing simple fundamental truth, which is very rare for MSDNC.
Look, as far as I'm concerned, if he can come out in favor of being a crime-fighting liberal, I'm for him staying on the air.
That will cause...
I don't have any problem with any of them staying on the air.
As a matter of fact, I'm perfectly content with them all staying on the air because they're doing so bad.
I'm happy with that.
But he might actually create a whole new niche as a liberal who's opposed to crime.
Well, he could.
But I mean, you do have a gubernatorial candidate in Virginia that's trying to be anti-crime.
I mean, it's sort of like the anti-Mamdani strategy, knowing that Glenn Young is so popular that the only way that they could win is to be something that they're probably not, which is, you know, pro-police, because the Democrats have really, really embraced defund, dismantled, no-bail laws, and reimagine the police and send in the social workers.
Well, but she's also come out and said she wants to turn Virginia into a sanctuary state.
She did say that part, too.
That is correct.
Yeah.
And that's an invitation to crime.
And she can't square the circle.
Look, it's very clear that she is a very radical Democrat who is really good at pretending to be normal.
A really radical Democrat that's really good at pretending to be normal.
The whole party's been radicalized.
You know, Jerry Nadler retired.
By the way, most.
I am predicting the odds are very high Schumer is going to retire, especially if he thinks that AOC is going to challenge him.
So we'll see what happens.
No, I agree with you.
I think Schumer recognizes that in a statewide primary now, he has a very high likelihood of losing.
Are you kidding?
He has a 17% approval rating, and AOC against Schumer in New York was almost a 30% advantage.
He's done.
And that's why he's afraid to take on the radicals that are now running his party.
Him and minority leader Jeffries are leaders in name only to me.
Well, and that's why the election next year will be fascinating because it's going to be a referendum at one level on Mondami and AOC and Sanders and the whole big government socialist model.
And I think that model's about an 18 to 20% model.
By the way, you saw earlier today in Huntsville, you know, when I was there, Redstone Arsenal, et cetera, and they're still there.
We refer to it as Rocket City USA, confirming Space Force is going to move there.
I'm happy for the people of Huntsville.
We met just outside of Huntsville in 1990 in a holiday inn when I interviewed you for a speech you were giving.
And you were a mere child at the time.
I was.
I was a little raw back then.
No doubt about it.
I needed a little more practice.
Mr. Speaker, we always appreciate you being with us.
Thank you, sir.
Take care.
Well, I noticed when I took a couple of days off, Rosie O'Donnell's back.
Rosie O'Donnell, you know, we had this shooting that took place in Minneapolis at this school and this church.
such a sad tragedy.
And you know, did you notice like I was, I love how the media works.
It's like he gets somebody on Twitter.
What a dumb idea Hennedy had.
What a stupid idea on X. You know, when I said, well, if you want to prevent school shootings, I think I have a way.
But if you I said, if you have a better way, tell me what it is.
This is why I don't read this.
It only showed up in an article that Sweet Baby James printed out for me.
Linda, I'm not sure if you saw it.
And people were trolling me for my my suggestion.
If you have a better idea, I will fall on the sword.
I'll even give a reward for a better idea.
Because I'd rather keep kids safe and alive and secure so that they can pursue the talent God put inside them.
Because the word education is from the Latin derivative educere, which means to bring forth from within.
And I'm sure all of these keyboard warriors in their underwear in their parents' basement that are anonymous on X know all about it as they're trolling me, what a dumb idea.
What a simplistic idea.
And then it's picked up by all the news services, MSN, you know, one liberal media outlet.
Again, legacy media, they're dead.
Then it's picked up everywhere.
It goes everywhere.
Then it's on the Huffington Post and it's here and there.
I'm like, James, why are you handing me this crap?
I don't care what these people think.
First of all, the people that started the narrative are a bunch of people either naked or in their underwear in their parents' basement anonymously, you know, spending all day on X because they don't have a job.
Because otherwise, they would have the intelligence to understand this is a simple, effective solution.
And what was my idea?
That was so horrible that it deserved all of these articles.
That every school in America should have metal detectors.
Every one of them.
Everyone should have retired, trained military, retired, trained law enforcement, not only surrounding the outside in the perimeter to make sure that nobody can get in the school and something can happen.
Well, they shot from outside, Hannity.
Okay, if you're outside the perimeter, you have a guy out there with a gun.
And I'm not saying to put people in military camouflage.
No, they would be plainclothes people that probably the kids would come to love and respect and maybe they'd come into love and respect law enforcement.
I wonder if these idiotic critics that have covered every shooting from Columbine on down have, if they have a better idea than I do, I'm willing to fall on the sword and say your idea is better.
This isn't about who is right.
It's a matter of what is right.
It's a matter of keeping kids in schools safe and secure.
It's simple for me.
I'd like children to go home to mommy and daddy at night.
Simple.
So I'd like metal detectors in every school in the country, every single one.
I'd like retired, trained law enforcement, retired, trained military, set up a voluntary system where they can generously donate maybe a day a week, maybe two days a week.
And as a means of compensating them, how about we take away all local taxes, state taxes, federal taxes, and if they spend long enough on the job doing that, we'll take away their estate tax, which basically means you're going to have security provided by trained professionals for free.
Why this became a viral moment, I don't understand.
Now, if you think at home listening to this radio program or you're in your car or you're in the gym, I don't know where you are.
And you think I'm dumb, call me.
I want to know why you think it's dumb.
Because I do believe the legacy media mob that obsessed over this before I took a couple of days off, didn't take a whole week off, took a couple of days off, what, three days off for the holiday weekend.
And before I, this is what I said before I went away, the last show that I did.
And then all of a sudden, Sweet Baby James has to hit me with 15 articles about he's an idiot.
Linda, you'd be the first.
You would love to call me an idiot if you could.
Do you think, you know, back in New York?
I think we were doing fake news hour in the 530 anymore.
Is that coming back?
No, I'm just, is there anything dumb about that idea?
No, I think the people, most of the people making rules and laws for our children, number one, do not have children.
Number two, have never worked in a school building, nor do they know anything about it.
They don't go to the school board meetings.
They don't know what the school looks like.
They don't go to orientation night.
They just talk out of their iss.
I will say one thing we could add to this conversation is our sponsor, Berna, has something called a shield.
I love that.
And I have one for all of my kids.
They all have one either in their cars or in their backpacks, and they take them with them to classes in schools.
And it literally will stop a bullet.
So if you have a child who's of school age, you can put this in the middle of the school.
I would put it in the backpack.
I'd put it in every school classroom.
So you have something.
If you watch the scene, there was that previous shooting.
I don't even remember where it was.
The guy that was in an office building and then they here in Columbus?
Columbus Circle?
Well, they barricaded the office buildings and shut them down.
It was two blocks away.
Well, where you are in New York.
Sorry.
Well, sorry.
But I mean, you know, here in New York, where we are, you know, where this show is, the studio, sorry, I know you love Florida, but some of us are living in the lives.
Sorry, my show originates from the free state of Florida.
Well, some of us have to live here in barricaded counties.
You choose to live here.
I don't want to hear that you have to live there.
You choose.
But you even left.
But here's the thing.
Now, let's go around the horn here.
Ethan, was this a dumb idea?
It's a great idea.
Great idea.
Okay.
JC, you know, gives me Mr. B- over here.
What do I get?
I think I gave you a B, so take it easy.
Your idea was very good.
It's an actual idea.
We're looking for people who actually have an idea.
Would it work?
Do you think my idea would work?
Yes, it would work in most cases.
Probably every case.
Because it would prevent people from even daring to try anymore.
Katie.
Yes, I think it would work.
I actually like your idea with the simply safe of having the AI cameras out there too when intruders come onto the property.
That's what I do.
Of course you use technology.
The same people that are saying it wouldn't work also said the National Guard wouldn't stop any crime in D.C.
So it's pretty bad.
Listen, I've been at this a long time.
You weren't even born when this radio show started, just for the record.
So in all truth, when Sweet Baby James hands me a pile of garbage of people attacking me, now there have been over the years legitimate listener or viewer feedback that I listen to.
And I'm like, okay, obviously this is an organized effort to prevent law enforcement, train law enforcement, and train military people from ever getting near a school.
They don't, just like they don't want the guard in D.C., just like they don't want the guard in Chicago, 58 shot, eight dead.
But they're doing a great job.
And that's a predictable weekend.
Anyway, Rosie O'Donnell, I see, while I was away, you know, jumped on this and called the shooter a Republican MAGA person white supremacist.
So about the Minnesota shooting, and it brought me right back to Columbine in 1999 when I just could not get it through my head that students in America were shooting each other in schools.
And this was a church inside a Catholic school.
And what do you know was a white guy, Republican.
White guy.
MAGA person.
Republican.
MAGA.
What do you know?
What do you know?
White supremacist.
White supremacist.
Wrong.
And then she was called out on lying and rushing to judgment, and she apologized.
Listen, I know a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days.
I didn't go online and haven't seen them till today.
But you are right.
I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement.
And I said things about the shooter that were incorrect.
I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard feelings of NRA-loving kind of gun people.
Anyway, the truth is, I messed up, and when you mess up, you fess up.
I'm sorry.
This is my apology video, and I hope it's enough.
Rosie, as long as you stay away in Ireland, it's enough.
I'm happy with that.
You can sound dumb all you want.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones: 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, Hutch is in Minnesota.
Hey, Hutch, how are you?
Glad you called.
Doing good.
Real quick, give you a quick background.
Retired U.S. infantry, combat arms.
Worked with the St. Paul bomb squad, worked with SWAT teams here in the state of Minnesota.
Right after 1999, April was when the shooting took place.
Columbine, May, I went in and I talked with some individuals in the school system, told them exactly what you were talking about last week, and the you know, of having retired military personnel on hand to confront anybody that comes in.
And they said, we don't need anything that extreme.
And that's kind of been their viewpoint ever since to this day.
Well, how's it working out for them?
Yeah, not very well.
One thing I would kind of point out, Sean, you said last week.
I'd say the whole Burna thing, great for a teacher, but you want to meet the individual that's trying to get in with firearms of superior firepower.
So, you know, same thing.
Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
Don't bring a burna to somebody that's got, you know, powder going off.
Well, listen, there are situations that I think it could be very effective.
Linda particularly was talking about the shield.
But if you have trained, armed, retired military and law enforcement people that have devoted their whole lives to protecting others, I think it would be a smart thing to do.
Oh, yeah, that'd be outstanding because, you know, but the one thing I kind of disagree with, I kind of think it's in the realm of they'd be kind of any officer in an area somewhere around the school watching a mother, and they're not really going to become super friendly with the kids.
Not mean to the kids, but they're basically there to break glass in case of a perpetrator.
You know what I mean?
Yep.
But however, if you had enough volunteers, it would be good.
Anyway, I appreciate you checking in with us.
God bless you.
Thank you for your service, by the way.
Jeff at North Carolina, what's up, Jeff?
How are you?
First off, thank you for what you do.
You have no idea.
I've been listening for 25 plus years.
And it's just great to finally talk to you.
First, Philadelphia, Nashville, Aberdeen, Denver, they were all trans, Minneapolis trans.
The Colorado Springs guy was non-binary.
From what we can establish through listening to everybody, they all take the same, almost the same hormone pills.
They're on the same drugs.
They've been through the same system.
There's got to be some kind of similarity there that something that they're taking is wrong.
No, it's wrong.
Well, first of all, we don't know what this person was on.
We don't have a toxicology report.
It'll take some time to get it.
And I don't know.
It's funny you bring this up because when I was off a couple of days, Caitlin Jenner called me about this issue and is upset that they're jumping the gun and saying it's trans-related, trans-related, et cetera, et cetera.
Let me just speak more broadly and generally because we don't have any facts about this individual in terms of whether or not they were transitioning or not transitioning medications.
You know, it could be antidepressive medicine.
It could be, we're an over-prescribed society, and we definitely need to look at prescription medications for young adults and ask ourselves whether or not there is a connection to that and this type of behavior, period.
And that means all medications.
And I don't know what answer we're going to come up with.
I think there's an appropriate time and place for everything, to be honest.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity, tonight, we got a great show, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We sent Nicole Parker to the streets of Chicago to find out, well, what do the people think?
Do they want safety and security, law and order?
She'll tell us.
Also, Tom Hovind will join us.
Oh, Stephen A. Smith in studio tonight.
You don't want to miss that.
Nigel Farage looks like he will be the next prime minister of Great Britain if the polls hold up.
Why?
Immigration.
Huge issue.
And you see in Europe now, following Donald Trump's lead, Clay Travis tonight, say your DBR, 9 Eastern, Hannity on Fox.
We'll see you tonight.
Back here tomorrow.
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