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Department of War - September 5th, Hour 2

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Hour two Sean Hannity Show, 800, 941 Sean on number.
If you want to be a part of this program, we're awaiting a announcement from the president.
We expect he will rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War, as we have been telling you.
Also, this just basically crossing the wire at the bottom of this half hour.
This could get very, very interesting.
It has been announced that Eric Adams will make an important campaign announcement.
it.
What?
Mayor Adams will make an important announcement regarding the future of his campaign.
Let me interpret for you.
Sounds to me like he's getting out.
That's what it sounds like to me.
Now there's been a lot about this.
I mentioned uh earlier in the program that if you look at the front cover of the New York Post today, it's very clear that Donald Trump uh certainly has weighed in on the issue.
It actually is is it's kind of a riff-off, an old um New York uh post cover that said Ford to New York City, drop dead.
New York City wanted to be financially bailed out.
Trump to City drop out, tells GOP donor, he's talking about businessman, John Castamatides.
Uh he owns a huge grocery chain all throughout New York City.
He's a billionaire.
Um anyway, that he apparently Trump told Castamatides in the Post uh got word from him that Trump called him and told him to help winnow the field winnow the field to one candidate that can be uh Marxist Kami Mamdani, and I think he thinks that one person would be Andrew Cuomo.
Uh Andrew Cuomo seems to have gotten a ceiling in the polls.
There have been polls that have been bro broken out if the Eric Adams were to get out of here.
Eric Adams has been in single digits.
I mean, the three candidates that have been getting, you know, in order, it's been Mom Dani Cuomo and Curtis Lee has been coming up, you know, pretty dramatically.
Uh Sliwa uh quoted in today's New York Post as saying he won't leave.
Uh and he said the same to Charlie Gasparino, who confirmed that in his column in the New York Post as well today.
But anyway, we'll find out what Adams' announcement is.
My guess is he's getting out.
Andrew Cuomo clearly is not.
He was uh according to the New York Post huddling earlier this morning with the Reverend Al Sharpton.
And anyway, Cuomo requested the Regency Hotel Breakfast Sit Down, asked Sharpton to have an open mind if the raids get race gets winnowed down to a one-on-one matchup between the ex-governor and socialist democratic mayoral nominee.
I'll be the first to tell you it would be in New York City's much better interest to have Sleewa first.
Andrew Cuomo second, not Mondami.
But you know, we'll see what happens.
Um, I'm very impressed with Momdani, but I've known Andrew for 40 years.
Sounds like Reverend Al might be open to endorsing the former governor.
But we'll see what happens.
Uh anyway, we uh do have another story that I think is a bombshell report, new memos that have been discovered by just the news.com, our friend John Solomon, founder, editor-in-chief, and chief investigative reporter.
And the headline is Biden aides believe that he should sign par pardons by hand.
He outsourced the approval to vice president at the time, Kamala Harris.
Now, this is on the heels of John Solomon's breaking news report.
That in well, first the New York Times had reported that he only set up criteria and standards for co for pardons and commutations, uh, not actually signing off specifically on each one, which questions the validity of all of this.
Uh and then in a previous report, John Solomon pointing out that there's more evidence that he knew absolutely nothing about it.
He joins us now.
Sir, how are you?
I'm doing well.
If you were in New York City, I'm guessing you'd vote for Kami Momdani.
I'm just guessing.
You know, ever since I became a reporter, I've never voted because I've made the decision that uh voted an ultimate expression of uh opinion.
So I won't vote until I hang up my spurs as a journalist, but I know a lot of people in New York are worried about what this outcome of this race will be.
And and uh uh I think we have to trust the good people of New York will make the right decision after they have all the facts.
Uh I don't trust the people in New York City to make the right decision.
Uh I lived in New York.
I I I I for whatever reason, every single poll shows that Mom Dani has legs and that he's doing better.
Now, there's a difference between voting in a general election and a primary.
I'm sure that's right.
Big business in New York is going to probably dump billions of dollars in the hopes of supporting if they can make this a one-on-one race or a three-person race.
They're hoping that they can get anybody but Mom Dani.
But I don't know.
He's getting money from all over the country.
Every radical extreme socialist in America is all on board for Kami Mamdanny.
Yeah, and listen, I think what you see here is that this liberal urban base at the far left part of the Democratic Party now is owned by their anti-capitalists, they're anti-American, they're anti-Semitic often, uh, and uh they are anti-capitalism.
Uh there's just not a doubt about it.
Now, it's a small segment of America.
It's centralized in these big blue cities uh favored by liberals, and this is going to be this shining moment where America is going to look and say, what New York did, let's suppose they do elect Mondani, what New York did, do we really want that to be the face of capitalism of the greatest city in America?
Um I think it's gonna be a big debate.
And one of the things Democrats have to be worried about, and by the way, they are worried about it, people I'm talking with on the Democratic Party side, that Mam Dani becomes a boomerang that really hurts the Democratic Party in the 2026 elections, because he'll be doing things that Democrats in moderate districts that will decide control of Congress aren't going to be happy about.
Listen, it's in it's in America's best interest and in New York's best interest, especially New York City's best interest, not to have this guy elected.
But if you're asking me politically, who benefits the most?
Republicans, because he will be the face of the radicalized Democratic Party.
I don't know if you notice the AOC, and I know we're a little off topic here.
We'll get to your report in a second.
But AOC taking on Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries calling them out for not supporting Mom Dani.
Um I think that may be the first salvo in an attempt to unseat Chucky Schumer.
If there is a primary between AOC and Chuck, uh, I'd take AOC in that bet every day.
Yeah, no, listen, I think that's right.
Uh there are listen, whether you agree with the uh the mindset of these new young liberal candidates like an IO AOC or Mondani or others that are coming up squad, um, they are dynamic characters.
They're smart, they're magnetic, they have lots of energy and charisma.
Uh, and what has to be done is you have to look if you're a Republican or you're someone who cares about the country, you have to look beyond that charisma.
You have to get voters to look and say, Don't don't be uh uh distracted by their stardom.
Look at what they're talking about doing.
And I think that that's gonna be a really big challenge for Republicans in 26 and 28, because this young base of the party has a lot of dynamic characters who on the face of it are lovable when you first hear them talking like, oh, that's an impressive person.
But then when you start to study what it is they want to do to America, that is the point where most Americans go, well, wait a second.
Uh do over.
And I think that that's gonna be a great opportunity for the Republican Party to get beyond the the personality of some of these players and drill down to some of the anti-American, anti-capitalist concepts that these Democrats are now espousing.
Let's get to your bombshell report.
Biden aides believed he should have he should sign pardons by hand.
He outsourced the approval to the VP on the heels of your previous report that two days before he left office, uh the second in charge of the DOJ warned him uh that he had to individually sign off on everything, and we believe that didn't happen, which means that all these pardons and commutations may not be valid.
Yeah, that's I believe what is going to be uh the substance of a Trump White House council office report that is likely to be transmitted to the Justice Department soon, saying that based on the review of documents that are At the National Archives, there are real questions about the legality of some of the or the enforcement of some of the commutations and clemency that Joe Biden issued at the end of his uh presidency.
Now, what we do know for sure, no matter where the Justice Department comes down on this in the future, uh at the beginning of uh Joe Biden's president, his staff secretary wrote a memo saying it is our belief that legally President Biden must fix his own personal handwritten signature on things that are clemency letters basically pardon letters.
That set the standard.
There wasn't any doubt in the Biden White House what the standard should be.
Four years later, as Joe Biden is mumbling and bumbling his way through the end of his presidency, not having cabinet meetings anymore, really uh disengaged in many ways.
Um you see a very different practice in the Biden White House.
In in these are Biden aides' own memos preserved at the National Archives.
They say, hey, Joe Biden told Kamala Harris, you make the decisions for me.
Now that's the if that turns out to be true.
those members are an accurate representation of what happened.
Vice President Kamala Harris does not have the commutation power under the Constitution Nor is the commutation part par uh uh power transferable.
Joe Biden can give it to someone else.
Only he can do it.
So under the standards set for him, he needed to personally sign it.
A lot of them are signed with an auto pen.
And under the standards of the Constitution, he couldn't outsource it to someone.
There looked to be some very serious issues.
And I think these new documents, I wouldn't be surprised if you see James Comer in Congress very soon.
Subpoena Kamel Harrison demand to know did Joe Biden outsource pardon decisions to you.
This could become a really big deal this fall.
I think it's gonna be a massive deal.
Great reporting as always, just the news.com founder, editor, and chief chief investigative reporter.
Uh we'll have more on this tonight.
John will be joining us on Hannity Nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
John, thank you.
Uh for stations along the Sean Hannity Show Radio Network.
Uh we are likely going to uh go right through the next break and continue coverage.
The president now in the Oval Office, about to announce that the Department of Defense is being renamed to the Department of War.
Let's go to the Oval Office.
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But with your signature today, we're gonna put an end to that so that when Americans try to realize the American dream of owning a home, they're able to do so without being harassed.
Good job.
Good.
It's a great honor, John.
Okay.
There it is.
And that's gonna help a lot of the homeowners of our great country.
Wanna hold that?
Sure.
Thank you, John, very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Okay, Will, you go ahead.
And I'd like to leave you with this tip from uh constituent back in Tennessee.
Oh, I could use that at night.
It's an American flag.
That's very nice.
I like it.
Thank you, Mr. President.
That's very nice.
Next, we have a number of executive orders for your attention, sir.
Uh, from 1789 until 1947, our nation won some of its greatest military victories uh under the direction of a secretary of war uh operating within a Department of War.
Uh today with this executive order, you will authorize uh the current Secretary of Defense and the current Department of Defense to once again to once again embrace this great lineage uh and once again be named the uh Secretary of War and the Department of War.
So this is something we thought long and hard about.
We've been talking about it for months.
Uh Pete and I and Dan, Dan came into the floor, by the way, a great general.
He headed up the I wouldn't call it an attack.
I'd almost almost call that one uh maybe even more than an attack.
What he did with uh Iran, you saw the success of that operation, it was perfect.
In fact, we have this was said to me by the great company that makes that particular B two bomber.
And it was flawless.
It was actually flawless.
They flew for thirty seven hours back and forth, and there wasn't uh a bolt that was at a condition.
There wasn't an engine failure.
There was no problem.
It was a perfect uh attack, and it knocked out any possible nuclear capability for Iran, which nobody wanted to see, and we weren't going to put up with.
So uh great job, Dan.
And we've been talking about this uh Department of War.
So we won the first world war, we won the second world war, we won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense.
So we're going Department of War, and uh I'd like to ask our uh Secretary of War to say a few words.
Uh Pete Hex said, I think it's a much more appropriate name, especially in light of where the world is right now.
We have the strongest military in the world, we have the greatest equipment in the world, we have the greatest manufacturers of equipment by far.
There's nobody to even compete, and you see that with this and so many other things.
Uh the Patriots are the best.
Every element of the military, we make the best by far.
Uh so Peter, I'd like to ask you and maybe Dan, Dan Raising game to say a few words, please.
Mr. President, thank you.
Uh after winning a war for independence uh in 1789, George Washington established the war department, and Henry Knox was his first Secretary of War.
And this country won every major war after that, to include World War I and World War II.
Total victory, Mr. President, as you said.
Then 150 years after that, we changed the name after World War II from the Department of War to the Department of Defense in 1947.
And as you put it out, Mr. President, we haven't won a major war since.
And that's not to disparage our war fighters, uh, whether it's the Korean War or the Vietnam War or our generation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
That's to recognize that this name change is not just about renaming, it's about restoring.
Words matter.
It's restoring as you've guided us to, Mr. President, restoring the warrior ethos, restoring victory and clarity as an end state, restoring intentionality to the use of force.
So at your direction, Mr. President, the war department is going to fight decisively, not endless conflicts.
Uh it's going to fight to win, not to lose.
We're going to go on offense, not just on defense.
Maximum lethality, not tepid legality, violent effect, not politically correct.
We're going to raise up warriors, not just defenders.
So this war department, Mr. President, just like America is back.
Thank you for your leadership and your clarity.
We're going to set the tone for this country, America first, peace through strength, brought to you by the war department.
We're back.
Thank you very much.
Very well stated.
And really, it has to do with winning.
Uh we should have won every war.
We could have won every war, but we we really chose to be uh very uh politically correct or wokey, and uh we just fight forever, and uh then we you know win, lose we wouldn't lose, really.
We just fight to sort of tie.
Uh we never wanted to win.
Uh wars that every one of them we would have won easily with just uh a couple of little changes or a couple of little edicts.
You know, uh I was told that ISIS would take five years to win, and Dan Cain, when I told him how long would it take, he said, I think about four weeks, or I said, What do you mean, four weeks?
I was told five years by the people in Washington.
You know who they were, five years.
I said, You can't do it in four weeks.
I actually flew to Iraq to meet with him, and I met him at a big air base.
And remember that famous day, right?
It turned out to be a famous day for our country because you're now the joint head of the joint chiefs of staff, which is the biggest deal.
And he is because he did things that everybody said couldn't do.
So they said it was gonna be five years, and he knocked them out in about four weeks total, 100%.
We took over, and ISIS was gone, and uh pretty amazing.
But we never fought to win, and now we uh if we have to fight it at all, you know, we solved seven wars.
We have the one that I thought was gonna be probably one of the easier ones, and that's uh with President Putin and Ukraine, and uh that turned out to be one that's a little bit more difficult, but uh the seven are done.
They were supposed to be much more difficult to solve.
I solved every one of them, and uh, we're gonna get the other one done too.
But it turned out to be a little bit more difficult than I thought.
And uh it'll get done or there'll be held to pay.
But because they're losing six to seven, it used to be five.
I used to tell you five.
Now it's almost seven, I guess seven thousand uh people last week.
7,813 people, young soldiers died, Russian and Ukrainian, not American soldiers, but it's a shame.
And it's just uh, you know, it's the human lives, and I want to see it stop.
But uh General Kane's done a fantastic job, and again, defeated ISIS, which uh they said would take a long time, and it didn't take a long time at all, and did other things that uh people said really couldn't happen.
We have the greatest equipment in the world, we have the greatest soldiers in the world.
Uh Dan, say a few words.
Yes, sir.
Thank thank you, Mr. President.
It's uh it's a true honor for me today to represent the incredible men and women of America's joint force.
Today and every day, the 2.8 million service men and women uh stand ready to fulfill our sacred duty to protect America at home and abroad.
As the president said, America's military is the single most powerful fighting force in the world.
The mission you and the secretary have given us is clear and unambiguous to deliver peace through overwhelming strength.
And I remind everyone that the U.S. military can reach any adversary at the time and place of our choosing.
Service to this nation is an incredible gift, and we're grateful and honored every day to do so.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you.
It's an honor to sign this.
And we will do that right now.
All right, the president announcing the Department of Defense now going back to its original name uh up until what, right, 1947, I believe they said.
Uh the Department of War uh and everything in between.
We're gonna continue with the president.
He's now taking questions.
We are also we are also awaiting a press conference and a campaign announcement from New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
I have to imagine he's thinking about getting out of the race.
Uh we'll cover that as well for stations along the Sean Hannity Show Radio Network.
We will continue our coverage to the bottom of the hour break.
Uh some of you along our station network may be taking breaks.
we will continue our coverage yeah That's a big one.
It's a big one, Mr. President.
Do you have any questions on this subject?
We're gonna be discussing the G20 in a couple of minutes, but yes, please.
Yeah for this rebranding question for you and the newly minted Secretary of War.
What message does this send to our enemies, to our allies, to the American people?
And again, what gave you the idea for this rebrand at this moment?
I think it sends a message of victory.
I think it sends a mess really a message of strength.
We're very strong.
We're much stronger than anyone would really understand.
Uh and again, you know, having having the great equipment, we have just so much better.
You look at all of the uh just any of it, uh submarines as an example.
We're 20 years ahead of anyone else.
Nobody even compares, and I let a lot of this happen in my first term.
You know, we totally rebuilt our military.
Then of course you had that catastrophe in Afghanistan, where they gave up a lot of the equipment, but a relatively small amount, but a lot.
It was a lot in Afghanistan.
I think it was the most general, I'd say it was the uh most embarrassing day in the history of our country, the way that happened.
Uh the way they went to the wrong airport, they should have gone to Bagram, not the local little airport with no security with tight quarters, etc.
You know what happened.
I think it was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, frankly.
That was under the Biden administration.
That was terrible.
And we were gonna be leaving, but we were leaving with strength and dignity.
We were gonna keep Bagram because Bagram's one hour away from where China makes its uh nuclear weapons.
We're gonna have that all to ourselves, a big, beautiful place built many years ago for money that uh today would be the equivalent of you know many, many billions of dollars.
You couldn't build it.
Uh the longest runways, the most powerful runways in terms of load capacity.
And we just walked away from it.
So stupid.
And uh they were fools.
The people were fools.
No, we're uh we have the strongest military, and I think that indicates we have the strongest military.
And you know, we had it, and we uh won World War One, we won World War II, we won everything before, and as I said, we won everything in between.
And we were very strong, but we never fought to win.
We just didn't fight to win.
Uh we didn't lose anything, but we didn't fight to win.
We could have won every one of those wars quickly.
But uh they went a route that I think was probably uh politically correct, but not correct for our nation.
So uh I think the Department of War sends a signal, yeah, please.
Mr. I you uh alluded to this a little while ago.
You said that this reday is a quote, a good reflection of where the world is at right now.
How do you square naming it the Department of War when you've been pursuing peace in so many different parts of the world?
Well, I think I've gotten peace because of the fact that we're strong.
If we weren't strong, those seven deals I told you about, the seven wars, uh, a majority of them wouldn't have happened.
Uh they happened for two reasons trade and our strength.
Those are the two reasons.
And uh probably strength may be more important than trade.
So if we uh I was very proud of all those wars.
Those were wars that could not be settled, and I settled all of them, and we'll get the other one settled also.
That'll get settled.
But without the strength, we wouldn't have settled any of them.
Yeah, please.
Mr. President, is your is it your expectation that Congress will codify this name change in the law?
I don't know, but we're gonna find out.
But I'm not sure they have to.
Uh we're signing an executive order today.
Uh, but we're gonna find out.
I'm gonna see.
Uh if they do, we're going with it, and we're going with it very strongly.
Uh, there's a question as to whether or not they have to, but we'll put it before Congress.
Do you know how much this rebrand will actually cost?
And are there any concerns about you know the Pentagon's mission of actually cutting back on spending?
But not a lot.
You know, we know how to rebrand without having to go crazy.
We don't have to recarve a mountain or anything.
We're gonna be doing it uh not in the most expensive.
We're gonna start changing the stationary as it comes due and lots of things like that.
We're not gonna be doing uh things like have been done in the past when they changed the name of forts that shouldn't have been changed, those names of the forts should not have been changed, at least for the most part.
Uh, and as you know, many of them have been changed back already.
At the request of the communities, every one of those communities said we want our name back, like Fort Bragg is an example.
The people in that community wanted that name back.
They refused to call it anything else but Fort Bragg.
So uh we're not gonna be spending very much money on that.
Yes.
When you spoke with the Europeans in Zelensky earlier this week, did you preview this for them and did you say what security guarantees they might be involved with?
This is nothing to do with anybody but the United States of America, the people of America.
This is who I talked to about changing a name.
This is a very important change because it's uh it's an attitude, and we know how to win.
We've been winning, and we're gonna win like you've never seen.
When do these uh factories start to open up that are being built all over the country?
You're gonna see things happen in this country that nobody uh expects.
We have over 17 trillion dollars in investment coming into the country.
We never did anything even remotely close to that.
We've never, no other country has either, by the way.
Uh so you're gonna see things that are pretty amazing, but uh it's really about winning.
And what about the security guarantees aspect of that with Ukraine, sir?
Well, we'll work that out.
We'll we'll help them.
Look, we want to save a lot of lives, so we'll do something with that.
I think people expect that we'll help them.
Well, Europe will be first in by far, and they want to be first, and they want they want to see it end.
Europe wants to see it end.
Uh, and it'll end.
It'll end uh all of a sudden, it's gonna come together.
You watch.
Uh, yeah, did you want something right?
Right here.
Yeah, behind you, please.
Yes.
Yes, sir.
You have shall uh bold, decisive, offensive action to protect American values, strikes in Iran, the strikes this past Tuesday had the positively ideal trend to Iraq.
Narco terrorists.
Is that gonna be a critical function of the department of war moving?
It depends on the individual instance.
You know, we don't want drugs coming in from Venezuela or anybody else or any place else, and we'll be tough on that.
And we don't want uh human trafficking.
We don't want to see people coming in where they open their prisons from all over the world and they dump their prisoners into our country, which is what they did in the Biden administration, where they took insane asylums and uh places of that held people that were seriously mentally ill, mentally incompetent, mentally dangerous, and they dumped those people into our country, and we're trying to get them out now.
Uh what they've done, what the Democrats and Biden have done to this country will go down in infamy.
What they have done to our country, and especially that, you know, they created the worst inflation we've ever had.
That's nothing compared to what they did with the people in our country right now, and we're getting them out, and it's not easy when you have the liberal judges destroying our country.
But uh we've won them all, we've won it all, ultimately won it all.
Hard process.
It should be easier.
We know who it is, we know exactly who we're looking for.
We had 11,000 murderers dropped into our country.
We've gotten a lot of them out.
Uh, or in some cases, they're so dangerous, we were afraid to get them out because they'd come back in.
But for the last uh 120 days, zero people came in.
Can you imagine?
This is me speaking, but these are uh figures developed by they say a pretty liberal group of people.
They admit that zero people came into our country.
Think of that.
Uh a year ago it was millions of people were coming in, millions.
They were coming in.
Uh you could look at them and you could say, big trouble.
And that's what we have in our country.
But we're getting them out, and despite that, we're doing really well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, the recruitment's the most exciting thing.
So uh when I was campaigning for the office, numbers were coming out that the recruitment numbers, generally, you can speak to it better than anybody, the recruitment into the military, all branches of the military, and police and firemen and everything else.
Anything having to do with like a public service, the numbers were horrible, record setting bad.
And now they're record setting good.
We're setting every record every month for recruitment.
We're we're packed in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard.
My beautiful uh air I love Space Command.
I love space, I see space command, but Space Force has been uh we've got a waiting list of people wanting to go in.
Uh a year ago, especially a year and a half ago.
You know, when I took the lead in the polls, which was very early, it really helped with the recruiting.
And when I won from November 5th on, it's been amazing.
And over the last uh four or five months, it's been we're just packed.
Uh it was very hard to get police officers.
Now the departments are loaded up.
Everyone wants to be a policeman or a woman.
So it's been a great thing.
Jennifer, do you want to talk about that?
Sir, as you said, serving our nation is an incredible gift uh that we give, and the reward on that gift pays back exponentially year over year, and I think the young people of America are seeing the importance of service, and whether it's in any of our armed services or in local police, fire and rescue service is an important thing that I personally encourage, and I know uh everyone else in government service sees that same reward.
And Peter recruitment I was down at uh Fort Benning, the newly properly renamed Fort Benning yesterday.
Watching Army basic training, and they're they're so full they can't barely handle the throughput.
It is truly historic across all the services, as you said.
It's been a surge in into the, I was gonna say the defense department, but I will say the war department.
Uh, and that it it you might almost call it a vibe shift, an attitude shift, a feeling that the country is back, that service is back.
And you there were military families last year, Mr. President, That said, I don't know if I can recommend.
I mean, I wrote a book on this.
I don't know if I can recommend service to my son or daughter, given what's been done to our military.
You heard it over and over and over again.
And I hear from those same military families right now, sir, and they're saying, I recommend to my kids that they go into this this department, this Pentagon, under this commander-in-chief, who they know you'll have their back, and they want to serve.
So it is historic, and it's the biggest reflection of how motivated Americans are by your leadership, sir.
You know, it really it's nothing more than spirit, love for the country.
I guess the uh spirit of corps, as they say, you have more of that than we've had, maybe ever, frankly.
But uh to see a turn over a period of less than a year, I would say, but to see a turn, nobody wanted to go into the military.
Now everybody wants to go into the military.
Uh Jennifer, you want to Yeah, there's some new reporting on North Korea and this Navy SEAL incident in 2019.
Can you say if the administration has engaged with North Korea on that incident since it happened recently?
And then can you share some records?
I don't know anything about it now.
Can you have to I could look, but I know nothing about it.
Can you confirm that it happened?
I don't know anything about it.
You I'm hearing it now for the first time.
Okay, great.
And then on the Hyundai incident in Georgia with the arrests of some uh workers, construction workers at the plant.
Have you heard any feedback from Hyundai or I just heard about that a little while before the news conference, and I would say that uh they were illegal aliens, and ICE was just doing its job.
But I know nothing about the instance that happened a little while ago.
There has been some pushback on that, though, from South Korea already, and of course, you know, they pledged to invest 150 million in the U.S. and they were just here, you know, last week.
Are you considering it?
Well, and they have the right to sell cars and things in our country, you know.
It's not like a one-sided deal.
Are you concerned at all about you know your immigration agenda potentially clashing with these economic goals?
Well, we want to get along with other countries, and we want to have a great stable workforce.
And we had, as I understand it, a lot of illegal aliens, some not the best of people, but we had a lot of illegal aliens working there.
So, you know, look, they're doing their job.
That's what they have to do.
These are people that came through with Biden.
They came through illegally.
They came into our country.
So we have to do our job.
Mr. President, the now Department of War has been involved in the crime cleanup in D.C. You've tasked Congress with proposing and passing a crime bill.
What are some things that you would really like to see codified in that crime bill?
Well, I think one of the things is the cashless bail that's killing it.
When that came out originally, when that came out the first time, that's when you saw the real big crime start to happen.
Cashless bail, what a disaster that is.
You murder somebody, you don't have to put up bail, and you go out in the street and you murder somebody else.
That's what's happened.
It happened so often, and that's one of the things, and other of the things you're reading about, you know, as a standard, but just a certain toughness.
I I have to say, one of the elements of fascination for people over the last period of time has been what's happened to DC.
So we've gone from a one of the most dangerous cities in our country to a what they call a safe city.
It's a totally safe city.
In fact, I set up dinner in Washington, D.C. next week.
I wouldn't have done that, to be honest.
I I would have had an obligation not to do it uh before I came into office or even at the very beginning when things were so corrupt and so dangerous out on the streets.
So Washington, D.C. has had virtually no crime.
We even have a mayor that's admitting to it, and she's a you know liberal democrat, in all fairness.
She's a person that uh hasn't gotten exactly along with Republicans over the years, and she said she's never seen anything like it.
So Washington, D.C. is a totally safe city.
We have virtually no crime.
Uh one of it's gone from the most unsafe city in the United States, almost just about, to one of the safest cities, maybe the safest city in the United States.
That's a tremendous compliment to our military, what we did at the National Guard said a fantastic job.
Yeah, please.
Can I ask about Florida real quick?
Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez was at the White House yesterday at part of the leadership summit.
Yes.
We understand you met with him separately, Mr. President, what you should talk about, and also did you explore him running for Florida from the UN?
I didn't.
We didn't talk about that, but he's done a fantastic job.
He's uh respected all over the country, really.
He's a leader, and he's done a just a fantastic job.
We didn't discuss any thing having to do with his future.
I'm sure he'd be very good at that.
My second question, Albiter Alcatraz, uh sticking with Florida, a major ruling appeals court, locked the federal judge's order to close it, and it can remain open for now.
Your reactions.
I think they've done a fantastic job in building it.
The governor and everybody else that's been involved.
Uh it's an incredible facility.
It's uh housing people for usually a very short period of time before they get brought back to their countries.
Uh as you know, we're we focus on criminals before we focus on anybody else, and we're taking thousands and thousands of criminals out every month out of our country, some of them murderers.
And uh I think Florida's done a great job by building it, and uh whether it's Alligator Alcatraz or anything else you want to call it.
I was there, I visited with the governor with other people.
I guess uh Nikki was there, and Tom Holman's been there a lot.
A lot of people have been there from it's it's an amazing facility for what it is.
It's not a hotel, it's not supposed to be a hotel, but they've done a great job with it.
I'm very happy with the judge's decision.
You also mentioned Venezuela.
I want to ask one more follow-up question on that.
Uh on the U.S. trying to vote time with Venezuela drug cartel.
The Maduro regime is pushing back today.
In fact, they say the U.S. seeks regime change through military threat, your reaction to the forwards, and also would you like to see regime change in Venezuela?
Well, we're not talking about that, but we are uh talking about the fact that uh you had an election which was uh a very strange election, to put it mildly.
I'm being very nice when I say that.
I can only say that uh billions of dollars of drugs are pouring into our country from Venezuela.
The prisons of Venezuela have been opened up to our country.
They've taken their prisoners, the worst prisoners, murderers, trendyragua, uh the worst prisoners that you can ever imagine are now happily living in the United States of America.
Now many of them we've gotten out.
Uh it's not easy to get them out because of the liberal system that we're working with in many cases, not in all cases, but uh millions and millions of uh dollars and billions of dollars of drugs are pouring out of Venezuela and other countries.
Look, China, what they're doing with fentanyl is a terrible thing.
It comes through Canada and it comes through Mexico, but uh a lot of it's coming through Venezuela.
Venezuela's been a very bad actor, and we understand that.
And when you look at that boat, you look at the you see the bags of whatever it is there, those bags were you know what those bags represent?
Hundreds of thousands of dead people in the United States.
That's what they represent.
Yeah, please.
Well, I'm gonna talk about that in a minute.
We have our great people here, so I'll talk that in a minute.
Let's talk about this.
We'll give a couple of the because these two people want to get to work on the Department of War.
So let's keep them first.
Mr. President, the DOJ is reportedly considering a ban on transgender people owning guns after the Minneapolis shooting.
Do you think we should are we talking in the military?
Okay, I thought you were talking about in the military.
I'll be down.
I'll refer to that then differently.
Because it's not a military question.
I'll be able to pass on that very nicely unless you'd like to talk about it.
Pete doesn't want any part of that question.
Yes, please.
Well, Mr. President, who do you blame for losing India to China in your post yesterday in the morning you didn't put that out?
I don't think we have.
Uh you know, I've I've uh been very disappointed that India would be buying so much oil, as you know, from Russia.
And uh I let them know that we put a very big tariff on India, 50% tariff, very high tariff.
Uh I get along very well with Modi, as you know, he's great.
He was here a couple of months ago.
In fact, we went to the Rose Garden and it was the grass was so soaking wet.
It was so such a terrible place to have a news conference.
I said, well, let's use a beautiful white stone emblematic of the White House, okay?
And it's been very well received.
But uh, we had a news conference in the in the on the grass.
It was my last news conference I had on the grass because everybody sunk in.
You probably sunk in.
Every reporter out there, they ruin their shoes.
We made that change.
It's it'd been a really well-received change.
Yeah, please go.
I'm Venezuela.
All right, for stations along the Sean Hannity Show radio network, we'll continue with the president and his impromptu press conference at the Oval Office after renaming.
The Department of Defense now officially is the Department of War, going back to its original name up until uh 1947.
We are also awaiting a campaign announcement uh from Gracie Manchin in New York City from the current mayor of New York City, Eric Adams.
Uh I would anticipate that he is likely getting out of the race.
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Uh the anti-Mondami vote.
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...to the Caribbean.
You're concerned about drug...
Drugs being legally uh sent in the how do you describe this build-up, this situation?
Well, I just think it's strong.
We're strong on drugs.
We don't want drugs killing our people.
I believe we lost 300,000.
You know, they always say 95, 100,000.
I believe they've been saying that for 20 years.
I believe we lost 300,000 people last year.
I know families that lost their son.
Those families will never be the same.
I know a family lost a daughter, beautiful daughter.
In fact, it was like she took something that she thought was like a minor deal, and it turned out to be riddled out with fentanyl, uh the size of the head of a pin, and you're dead.
And uh no, we we're stopping the drugs.
We're gonna save a lot of people.
Look uh whether it's a hundred thousand, but it's not.
It's three hundred, three hundred and fifty thousand people died last year from drugs.
And we're not gonna let that happen to this country.
Think of that.
Think if you're in a war and you lose three hundred thousand.
Well, a six hundred thousand in the uh pretty much between Gettysburg and all of that, and the civil war.
We lost what, six hundred thousand.
So we're losing half of that every year to drugs.
We're not gonna do it.
We're not gonna allow it to happen.
You think of the wars.
If we lost six hundred thousand people in a war, but we lost we lose that every two years, more than that.
So it's 300 to 350,000 people.
And when I see boats coming in, like loaded up the other day with all sorts of drugs, probably fentanyl mostly, but all sorts of drugs, and we're gonna take them out.
And if people want to uh have fun going on the high seas or the low seas, they they're gonna be in trouble.
I will tell you, boat traffic is substantially down in the area that happened.
And that they called it the runway.
It's a runway to it's the runway to the United States.
And boat traffic is very substantially down on the runway.
You can imagine why.
I think anybody that saw that is gonna say I'll take a pass.
I don't even know about fishermen.
They may say, I'm not getting on the boat.
I'm not gonna take a chance.
What happens if Venezuela flies jets over a U.S. naval vessels again?
Well, I would say they're gonna be in trouble.
Uh we'll let them know about that.
We heard that happen, but it wasn't really over.
Not like they described, but I would say, General, if uh they do that, you have a choice of doing anything you want.
Okay.
If they fly in a dangerous position, I would say that you can uh you or your captains can make the decision as to what they want to do.
All right, sure.
Sir We have one husband.
You said they didn't go over.
Say it.
How close did they get?
You said the claims didn't.
Well, I don't want to talk about that, but if they do put us in a uh dangerous position, they'll be shot down.
Thank you very much, everybody.
So we're gonna now cover uh the G twenty, and I'm gonna let these people go back to the Department of War and figure out how to maintain peace.
Okay?
Thanks for the congratulations, General.
Thank you very much.
Great job.
Sir, just before G20, we do have one more EO for you today.
And I should also say that the Department of War EO that you signed was actually your 200th E.O. since you came back into office on January 20th.
That's more than uh Joe Biden did in his entire term in office, more than Obama did in either of his two terms in office.
So it's a momentous accomplishment, and congratulations.
That's good.
But Biden never signed one.
No, yeah, you've done every one up in your own.
They've been signed by the autobad, right, didn't he?
So we really beat him by much more than you think.
This uh the 2001st executive order, sir.
This relates to uh hostages and wrongfully detained Americans.
This provides a new legal mechanism to declare foreign countries uh to be countries that engage in those sorts of practices uh and gives your administration powerful tools uh to get American hostages out.
This has been a focus of your administration this time around.
Adam Bowler's here, and uh he's he's done incredible work already.
This will give him even more.
I think it's great that Adam's amazing.
So, Adam, do you want to describe how many hostages we've gotten out together?
You and I, and you and uh a couple of other people that we know, and me and a couple of other people that you don't know, but we've gotten a lot of hostages.
Do you want to describe it?
Mr. President, you brought back 72 hostages since her terms.
Uh if we compare that to President Biden, he has gotten 20 taken.
So he is negative 20.
20 taken.
They don't take our people so often.
So, Mr. President, let's go.
When we spoke, you said that that was a primary focus, and I'll tell you the job is easy because of you.
And we paid nothing, too.
We pay nothing.
They pay six billion, they always paid six billion for five people, six billion.
Uh it was just a number I kept hearing.
Not only that, six billion plus we'd get like uh one person, and they'd get six.
They got one uh the uh Prince of Doom, they call him, he was the number one arms merchant anywhere in the world ever.
And they got him out, and on top of that, we paid money.
So uh, no, we don't do that.
You know, once you pay money, and then a lot of people start disappearing, they start grabbing reporters too.
They think the reporter is gonna get a lot of money, and to me they would.
You would be you'll be well taken care of.
I want to I better stress that because otherwise we have headlines.
He said this, or he said that.
No, I'm not smiling about it.
But they would.
They'd be grabbing reporters, they'd be grabbing everybody.
Uh, and especially when you pay the kind of money that Biden and Obama, they used to pay money that was crazy.
We don't pay.
And if you don't pay, they find it to be not a lucrative business anymore.
That's fantastic.
Would you like to say something?
Sir, um, it's really Spiha, special envoy, Bola, it's Rick Grinnell, it's Steve Whitcoff who brought Americans home.
But with this EO you are signing today, you are drawing a line in the sand that U.S. citizens will not be used as bargaining chips, and it provides your sector of state marker Rubio the same tool set to punish states who take our citizens wrongfully, the same way that we can punish those who sponsor terrorists.
This is a very significant EO you are signing today, sir.
Thank you, Sebastian.
Very good.
You're doing a great job, too.
And uh, this is your director for hostage affairs at the NFC.
So Julie was seminal as well to all of this.
I heard you're doing unbelievable.
Would you like to say something?
Absolutely.
Uh, it's it's an outstanding EO, absolutely unprecedented action against those foreign adversaries who would take our people.
They now know they are on notice.
And and it's not acceptable.
And if you take our people, now you will pay.
You know, Adam gave up a job where he was making tremendous amounts of money.
Big, big stuff.
Top of the line, Wall Street.
And he wanted to do this.
He wanted to do hostages.
I offered him other jobs too, very big jobs.
He said, I was shocked, actually.
He didn't want to, he wanted to do hostage negotiation.
And uh pretty amazing.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Appreciate it.
Thank you all.
Do you have any questions for them on this very important subject?
I think it shows a lot of your leadership as far as fighting for America and fighting for humans, and to think that you know Joe Biden uh with the negative territory.
Oh, he went way negative.
Way negative, and you're actually making progress on this.
I think this does send a message to the world that we don't negotiate.
We're we're gonna stay strong in that type of uh would they call business.
Well, one little uh anecdote that maybe of interest.
We were told by numerous families who had missing loved ones during the Biden administration that this building, Biden's National Security Council, told those families Not to talk about their missing loved ones.
To be quiet, not to create any pressure on Biden and on Drake Sullivan, the key propagator of the Russia hoax.
This administration has met with those families on a weekly basis.
People like Adam, yourself, sir, your envoys are doing everything to get every single American home.
Not to tell them not to talk about their loved ones, but bring them home.
Well, you know, I can tell you one story that uh was amazing a few weeks ago.
Uh very little written about it, but there should have been.
But it was a very nice gesture.
The head of Belarus, who's a very respected man, strong, strong person, strong leader.
Uh he released uh 16 hostages.
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