Sept. 6, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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| I was asking you for the call-in number because Curtis is about to call in. | |
| Uh Curtis Sleewa. | |
| We're expecting any moment now a press conference from Eric Adams. | |
| It's supposed to be campaign related. | |
| I'm guessing. | |
| I am texting with Mr. Slewa, and I will get that to him, sir. | |
| That is my job. | |
| Yeah, he wants to call in and be on the show, so we'll find out, get his uh initial reaction. | |
| I can't think of any other reason why this would happen. | |
| Um anyway, the shot is up for Adam's announcement. | |
| Uh they had delayed that. | |
| My guess is they probably delayed it because of the president's press conference. | |
| Uh by the way, um, I'm getting a lot of people texting and a lot of people calling. | |
| Um, if you, Linda can send me the number for Curtis to call, and he's texting me. | |
| Um you may not have the same number I do, so if you send it to me, I'll send it to him. | |
| Might as well d air all of our dirty laundry. | |
| Um but anyway, uh the president uh changing the Department of Defense's name to the Department of War, which had been called, you know, throughout every war that we have ever had World War One, World War II, etc. | |
| etc. | |
| So um, you know, it's gonna be very interesting. | |
| If you want to react to any of this, you can give us a call, 800-941 Sean is our number on a Friday. | |
| Talk about a Friday news dump. | |
| I mean, this is it. | |
| It's like all of this coming out of nowhere. | |
| We weren't expecting a lot of this, although we did tell you at the beginning of the program today that President Trump would in fact be renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War. | |
| Um, as it relates to whatever Eric Adams is going to announce, uh I can't imagine that they would put out that we have a major campaign announcement if it wasn't about him getting out of the race. | |
| Now, the front cover of the New York Post today says Trump to City, drop out, tells GOP donor. | |
| He's talking about uh grocery store businessman, John Castamatides, who owns a lot of big grocery chains in New York. | |
| You might recall that Zoran, uh commie, you know, Marxist Van Damme uh wants government-run grocery stores. | |
| But anyway, the headline is tells GOP donor, talking about Castomatides, uh, have planned to stop Mam Dani by Wednesday, or I'm stepping in. | |
| I don't I'm not sure if anybody can stop it. | |
| Now, the belief and what what Andrew Cuomo has been arguing is that he and only he can beat Mom Badati non one-on-one. | |
| And I'm not sure I believe that. | |
| Curtis Sleewa now is up at 20% of the vote. | |
| And by the way, why doesn't Cuomo get out? | |
| Anyway, Andrew Cuomo huddling with Al Sharpton in an apparent bid for an endorsement today. | |
| Uh apparently they met at the Regency Hotel for a breakfast sit-down. | |
| And not surprisingly, uh, I guess very favorable for Reverend Al why he's getting involved in this, I don't know. | |
| I'm very impressed with Mom Donnie, but I've known Andrew for 40 years going back to the 80s with his father, ex uh Governor Mario Cuomo. | |
| Anyway, Curtis Sleewa is uh with us on our newsmaker line, and he, of course, has come up pretty dramatically in the polls now. | |
| I saw you at 20%. | |
| Congratulations, sir. | |
| That number keeps going up. | |
| Thank you, Sean. | |
| And I've outraged both Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo the last two quarters. | |
| I'm equal to the amount of money, four million dollars raised by Johan Mandami, and it's all small donors. | |
| Average donor, 110 dollars. | |
| So we're doing phenomenally well. | |
| I just committed an act of repo, Sean. | |
| You're gonna love this. | |
| I came into Brownsville, used to be the headquarters of Eric Adams, and I took it over. | |
| They gave me the keys, and all of his supporters joined Team Sleewa right in the heart of the hood. | |
| Wow. | |
| That's a big story. | |
| Now, do you know what this announcement is gonna be, this campaign announcement? | |
| I have no idea. | |
| I know he's been obviously talking to the Trump administration in different capacities, but to look in the faces of his supporters, and you know how difficult political campaigns are, Sean. | |
| Your supporters, especially your volunteers really believe in you. | |
| So for them to turn to me and say, Curtis, you always are second choice. | |
| Here are the keys. | |
| Run your operation here because Zorhan Mandami does not represent us. | |
| And uh Andrew Como spends too much time in the Ham Hamptons. | |
| You're the man of the streets, you're the man of the subways. | |
| That's why we've got a real great campaign now. | |
| I understand Eric was looking for a way out. | |
| Look, that's his choice. | |
| But I I am not looking for a way out. | |
| I've yet to receive any calls from anybody in the Trump administration or from the president himself. | |
| And Sean, you're as good as it gets when it comes to conveying a message, if asked, if I would bow out, or if I would accept the job out of state or at the White House, I would respectfully say I'd love to serve with the president under other circumstances, but I gotta tell you, my mission is to become mayor, save this city so that next year we bring in Elise Stephonic, the one-two punch, and we save the state and city. | |
| Like at one time, remembered Rudy Giuliani, 1992 becomes the mayor, and the following year George Pataki beats Mario Cuomo, and we got the state and city back on track. | |
| Let me ask you this, because you told uh my friend Charlie Gasparino no means no today, because I guess you were texting with him or DMing with him, and you in the New York Post uh today were quoted as saying, I am in this to the end. | |
| There is nothing, no circumstances at all whatsoever that would push you out of this race. | |
| Absolutely, Sean. | |
| I could never step aside for Andrew No Cash Bail Cuomo. | |
| It was the no cash bail policy that led to the the complete collapse of the criminal justice system and his continuing doubling down on that. | |
| He raised the age to 18, so that if you're a juvenile committee, hey Curtis, hang on and uh stay on the newsmaker line. | |
| If you don't mind, we're gonna go to Gracie Mansion and check in with the current mayor, Eric Adams. | |
| Why not? | |
| Yeah, well that's a mess. | |
| First of all, thanks for coming out uh to uh New Yorkers. | |
| I want to speak directly to you. | |
| There's been so much uh speculation, communications, announcements of what I'm doing, no matter what I have stated over and over again publicly. | |
| So I want to be clear with you. | |
| Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar. | |
| I am in this race, and I'm the only one that can beat Mandani. | |
| Andrew has had a career of pushing black candidates out of races. | |
| You've heard me say it over again. | |
| Carl McCall, Charlie King, David Patterson. | |
| This is his career that must stop with me. | |
| The city can't go backwards, New Yorkers. | |
| This is a city that I inherited where crime was out of control, COVID, no one wanted to be on our subway system. | |
| We watched what happened in housing. | |
| The reason people are having these conversations is because I made the city safe. | |
| I committed myself and dedicated myself to a city that I love. | |
| And I'm going to continue to do that. | |
| This polo shirt that I'm wearing that says Eric Adams, mayor of the city of New York, I'm going to wear that for another four years. | |
| We can't go backwards. | |
| We can't have a city that's filled with encampments like I inherited. | |
| We can't have a city with crime and guns are on our streets like I inherited. | |
| We can't have a city where unemployment was high across the city, but specifically. | |
| I don't think there's any reason to stick with this press conference when we have Curtis Lewa. | |
| So you're not getting out. | |
| Adams is not getting out. | |
| Uh neither one of you are particularly fond of Andrew Cuomo, but it seems very personal for De Blasio in particular and for Eric Adams. | |
| Uh, not as personal for you, but you're not fond of him either. | |
| No, and uh, in fact. | |
| Oh. | |
| Now we're not now we're having Curtis's cell phone problems. | |
| You you know, you can't make this stuff up. | |
| Welcome to live radio, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Uh, we'll try and get Curtis back on uh uh or he'll just call back on his own. | |
| Uh I did not expect that because they made Linda, they made such a big deal over the fact that he was making this announcement, and it came suddenly, and he was supposed to make this announcement about 45 minutes ago, and I'm not sure if he waited for the president to finish his press conference or or not, but the fact that he's staying in the race, uh I did not even believe, by the way, the New York Post cover. | |
| And as much as I don't think Donald Trump, I think Donald Trump understands, you know, New York City politics is what it is. | |
| I mean, even in the years with W Wolman Ring, for example, um, Donald Trump was there and working with Ed Koch and and the city was was I mean, they were angry at the idea. | |
| They spent ten years and and you know, tens of millions of dollars to build an ice skating rink. | |
| Donald Trump was looking down from his office every day, rolling his eyes, thinking this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. | |
| He came in, got it done under budget, on time, and Woolman Rink is, you know, a famous ice skating rink in Central Park for kids in the in the wintertime. | |
| Uh and he became very well known for that for getting things done because the city couldn't get it done on their own. | |
| Uh Curtis, you back uh more of your reaction. | |
| Adam's not getting out. | |
| But more the w where is so uh I would think that everybody, the three of you, would really be focusing, you know, your attention more on Marxist Kami Mamdani, because I think he's a disaster for New York City, and he does have a lead in the polls. | |
| You're absolutely right, Sean. | |
| And in fact, with Bill De Blasio emerging as the mentor and Bernie Sanders coming in to Brooklyn tomorrow to embrace Zorhan Mandami. | |
| I now can explain to the people who really don't know much about Zoran Mandami. | |
| He's the new face. | |
| But we realized that Bill De Blaggio destroyed our city in eight years. | |
| And he was basically a quasi socialist communist. | |
| He loved the socialists and communists. | |
| So now you're gonna have a Zoran Mandami on steroids. | |
| Remember James Comey, how the left hated him, the right hated him. | |
| In New York City, the left hates Bill Debrasio, the right hates Bill DeBlasio. | |
| He is the most loathed mayor in the history of New York City. | |
| And now I go on the full-scale attack because I'm the only law and order candidate. | |
| I'm the only candidate of the three who believes that illegal aliens should not vote. | |
| We should not be a sanctuary city, and we're not just going to be locking up two-faced, Sean. | |
| In my administration, we're locking up gangbangers and dugs, and if you come in and shoplift, you're going to J A I L. No doubt. | |
| And we're going after Alvin Bragg and all these DAs. | |
| We're naming and shaming them, and we're putting pressure. | |
| And like I said, I can pave the way because I win this year, at least the phonic wings next year. | |
| We bring the state back to reality so they don't have to escape, not only to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, but we keep your areas red. | |
| They won't become purple, and we'll keep everyone blue in New York State and New York City. | |
| Sean, I'll do that for you. | |
| Well, I hope so for my friends like you that remain in New York City. | |
| So many people have left because of crime issues, quality of life issues, horrible schools, high taxes, burdensome regulation and all the things in between. | |
| I'm not sure if you read the article in The New York Post today, Mamdani 101, The Pro-Crime Agenda, He Won't Disavow. | |
| And it goes into the history of his two, you know, as a two-term state assemblyman, and you know, his defund dismantle, uh, no bail, re reimagine the police uh identity that he has. | |
| He wants the full elimination of cash bail, uh, taking the state's disastrous bail reform even further. | |
| And by the way, you can, I guess, thank Andrew Cuomo for that. | |
| Outright decriminalization of drug possession, prostitution, eliminating mandatory minimum uh sentences, retroactively lowering all maximum sentences, fighting construction of the borough-based jails to replace the soon-to-be-closed Rikers Island. | |
| Um, this guy doesn't want anybody in jail. | |
| What's gonna happen if this guy wins, God help New York City. | |
| Nobody's gonna want to live there. | |
| You're correct. | |
| It'll be the sequel to the Escape from New York. | |
| We'll have to call Kurt Russell out of retirement. | |
| There will be a Sean person that can stop this. | |
| These are Democrats, all three of them. | |
| You have Zoran Mandami, the most extreme. | |
| But Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo are Zorhan Light. | |
| They believe in the same things. | |
| It's the Democratic Party that has destroyed our state, destroyed our city, and they want to come and destroy your community, a city, a county, a state near you. | |
| I can stop them here with your help, with all of your listeners' help. | |
| We've stopped the socialists and communists and anti Semites in New York City, and it will not begin to expand in other cities across America. | |
| And as I say, I swear to all of your listeners, you know Curtis Leewa over the years. | |
| I can do it and at least the Fonic becoming governor, it'll be a fabulous one two punch. | |
| Maybe the motivation to do that then in Illinois, in Massachusetts, in California, so we can return sanity, law and order, and safety to our country. | |
| People deserve that regardless of their politics, and the Democrats have forsaken them. | |
| They definitely have, uh no doubt about it. | |
| Curtis, we're gonna watch it very closely. | |
| People want to get in touch with you, how do they do it? | |
| Just go to Sliwa for NYC dot com. | |
| That's Sliwa, F-O-R, NYC dot com. | |
| And I'm not getting out. | |
| I'm saving this city, Sean Hannity. | |
| All right, Curtis Sleever, it's our hope that you do become the next mayor. | |
| You'd be the only one to clean it up for sure. | |
| Uh 800 nine four one sh uh we mentioned it yesterday. | |
| We didn't have the audio of it yesterday. | |
| Uh squad leader, AOC, uh going after the likes of Hakeem Jeffries and Chucky Schumer uh for not supporting uh Marxist Kami Mamdani. | |
| Listen. | |
| I am a Democrat, and what we do is that we use our primaries to settle our differences, and once we have a nominee, we rally behind that nominee. | |
| I am very concerned about the example that is being set by anybody in our party. | |
| I believe that we must set the example of supporting the party's nominee because it complicates if that if an individual doesn't want to support the party's nominee now, it complicates their ability to ask voters to support any nominee later, whether that is mayoral, presidential, what have you. | |
| And so I think for the good of the party, we must put our differences aside and support our party's nominee. | |
| What if Chuck Schumer wants to support Andrew Cuomo or Curtis Lewa? | |
| Well, not Curtis, uh, although he should, if you want to really save New York City. | |
| Uh maybe the same thing with Hakeem Jeffries. | |
| Maybe they both recognize that Marxist Kami Mamdani is going to backfire on the Democratic Party as I was discussing earlier in the show today. | |
| Uh but definitely they are impotent when it comes to dealing with the radical base that has taken over their party. | |
| They live in a constant state of fear. | |
| If you don't think Chuck Schumer has one sleepless night after another, you can see the stress on his face. | |
| Because he knows if AOC primaries him, his career in DC is over. | |
| And it's very possible she may do it. | |
| Peter California, the United Socialist Utopia of Gavin Newsom. | |
| What's going on? | |
| Yes, oh yeah, Sean. | |
| I can't believe it's uh crazy out there, a crazy town, but um, I think a lot of it has to do with in California anyway, with the the uh opposing party, which is the Republican Party. | |
| And I think yesterday uh on display, I I felt it again nationally with uh with the RFK Junior um hearing. | |
| Um you know, I've and thank God. | |
| Thank God that uh JD Vance came out immediately after and and said that uh he called it what it was. | |
| It was pure political theater. | |
| Anyone watching that uh the fiasco would would see that it was so obvious, and then you know he ultimately closed it by saying that the Democrats were full of Adam Schiff and it was perfect. | |
| However, my concern was where were the Republicans on that committee? | |
| I mean, they they were absolutely silent. | |
| Uh the the cr uh Crapo, Langford, uh Tillis, Bill Cassidy, John Barrasso, these guys were taking shots at at RFK Jr. | |
| And and um I I just Yeah, I got the distinct impression they don't understand RFK Jr. | |
| And and frankly, it took me a little while in fairness to get to understand him. | |
| And and you gotta understand one other thing. | |
| When you talk about something like medicine, there is an institutionalist mindset. | |
| You know, they they don't want to rock the boat if somebody thinks outside the box it's new to them. | |
| It is it is sh even even iconoclastic and shocking to them. | |
| And I don't think they were hearing RFK yesterday. | |
| RFK is not taking away vaccines. | |
| He he said it twenty times yesterday. | |
| People will have access to them, but they're also gonna have access to information. | |
| So I I kind of you know chalked it off to being that. | |
| Maybe I'm wrong, maybe you're right. | |
| Well, uh totally understand. | |
| Sean, I'm I'm also getting to underst uh know and get familiar with RFK Jr., what he stands for. | |
| I was watching your show last night. | |
| You had the FDA commissioner Marty McCarry, and he was talking about what they're trying to accomplish is radical transparency. | |
| And I and I think in the in the data they're trying to get validity in and what happened during COVID, 100% behind that. | |
| But to get radical transparency, you've got to have a team behind you that's beh that is going to fight to fight. | |
| I mean, the there's an uh a an entrenched radical bureaucracy there that's going to be fighting every single day. | |
| You cannot just sit back and basically say, Well, RFK Jr. from the Republicans, we are deeply concerned about what uh how you're approaching uh the uh the the vaccines. | |
| What that that is giving so much uh weaponry to a Democratic Party that all they traffic in are lies, deception, and the media is right along with them. | |
| You know, political today came out and said that uh the GOP was was deeply concerned about how RFK Jr. is appropriate approaching his his job. | |
| And and and the Republican Party is just feeding into that. | |
| I'm just I'm just really tired of it, Sean. | |
| One thing I would say I one thing I would ask of you, and I you may I may be wrong and you can disagree with me, but I would love, I would absolutely love to have you and and other conservative media pundits challenge these guys. | |
| You do it all the time, but when you're interviewing these people, just just challenge them on this fact that they are and uh you you've done it, but I I really do think we need to press these Republicans that are that are weak and and and John Thune, he's responsible for for selecting these people. | |
| Where is his head at? | |
| Is he really truly supporting Trump? | |
| He says he does, but if it wasn't for Donald Trump and his and his cabinet, this country would be in serious trouble. | |
| The Republican Party, I I was so frustrated, Sean, as I've been frustrated for years. | |
| I live out here in California. | |
| You can't believe I moved out here in 1980. | |
| It was a totally different world. | |
| The Republican Party in California and Harmie Dillon called them out. | |
| She'd said they're very nice people, but they don't know what they're doing. | |
| And that that the result of that is Orange County turned to where I live, turned blue, which is in 35 years, that was just unheard of here where I live. | |
| So it's just a theme. | |
| I I I know you you understand it, you've talked about it all the time, and you have guests that echo that, but that's my frustration, sir. | |
| Peter, you're you may be one of the the smartest callers we've had in a long time. | |
| You're very, very insightful. | |
| Um there are challenges. | |
| When you have people, as I was saying, with this institutional mindset, it's very hard for them to think out of the box. | |
| It really is. | |
| You know, Donald Trump has made it easier for people to do so. | |
| If you look at a lot of his proposals, they're all out of the box, they're all new. | |
| He does things his own way. | |
| Um he's not an institutionalist, he's an outsider. | |
| Uh to get these people to get on board, you're right in your criticism. | |
| I don't disagree with you at all. | |
| I think is gonna be a little bit of a heavy lift, and I think the way you do it is during elections, you know, you think about primarying some of these people. | |
| And you know, the only reason the president is able to get them on board is they just fear him to be very blunt. | |
| And they fear the wrath of him, and you know, it takes that strong a personality to make it work. | |
| Well, I mean, it and it is working. | |
| I mean, he has a uh Donald Trump has a huge following and and we support him and we recognize as Republicans and citizens here that he's doing everything possible to save this country. | |
| I mean, I can't imagine um with uh and under the leadership of uh Waltz and and Kamala Harris, where would this country be? | |
| So but the Republican Party needs to support this guy, and they need to have this learn from him. | |
| JD Vance is learning from him. | |
| I mean, I thought him coming back right away and saying that that was political theater and a basically it was even better than that. | |
| I I thought he had the line of the day yesterday when when he came out and and he talked about the left and how they you know these are the same people uh that support, you know, off uh label use of these medicines for kids. | |
| Uh I thought it was pretty powerful. | |
| Yes. | |
| Well, I mean, I'm glad he's uh he's uh in line here because I think he's he'd be a a great follow-on to to Trump's leadership. | |
| He's learning from him from him, and uh I think he's got a lot of integrity. | |
| And that is the issue. | |
| The what I saw yesterday was I saw a party that is uh the Democratic Party lacks integrity. | |
| However, the silence of the Republican Party, you could say, where's the integrity in that? | |
| What do they stand for? | |
| And and that is the problem. | |
| I think the whole key to to living a good life and having character is integrity. | |
| And when it's missing, it's obvious. | |
| And I I saw it yesterday. | |
| Obviously, uh the Democratic Party has has they've they've built their careers around around deception and and uh then and and they've been very effective with that, sadly. | |
| But you look at the Republican Party and their silence, you start to wonder what game are they truly playing? | |
| You know, are w what did what is that all about? | |
| So you start questioning their uh their integrity as well. | |
| And as a voter as a citizen, um it's discouraging, but you c we can't give up because we have a leader in the White House right now that is fighting for this country. | |
| So that that's that's all I have to say, Sean. | |
| I was uh thank you for having me on. | |
| But um I was really really uh uh really frustrated yet when I was uh watching this thing yesterday and uh following your show last night, listening to Martin McCarry and try and thinking this about this a little bit more. | |
| Uh that's my thoughts. | |
| And and uh we've got to pray for the country and you know, I mean that's that's what I think. | |
| Look, I I hope you can fix a place like California. | |
| Um I think New York City's too probably far gone. | |
| California is very far gone. | |
| Uh, but maybe when there's enough pain suffered by enough people, you know, maybe at that point people will open their eyes and realize that they can do a lot better. | |
| Uh Peter, uh appreciate it. | |
| You're always welcome in the free state of Florida, I'll tell you that. | |
| Uh let's say hi to Brian in Illinois. | |
| Oh, how are you loving your your governor, J.B. Pritzker? | |
| How do you like the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson? | |
| I think they're good to use a term. | |
| Oh, do you think it's Pozo the Clown? | |
| Is that what you're saying? | |
| It's uh Robin Williams' term, you know, the they can't think they're over the over their heads and TDS. | |
| It is pathetic to see. | |
| I mean, you have fifty-eight people shot, eight dead, and then they they seem to care they could care less. | |
| They just want to oppose Trump. | |
| You know, even David Axelrod said they that Pritzker should be begging to partner with Trump to make Chicago safe. | |
| Although the problem with, you know, David Oxelard's argument is I was calling this out all during the Obama years, and Obama, I think mentioned Chicago two or three times in the violence there and didn't lift a finger to help anybody. | |
| Yeah, I thought Mayor Life lifeboat was bad. | |
| But this guy is you know, totally off the deep end. | |
| When he's complaining about uh slavery built built Chicago and stuff. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Not getting off the subject at hand about you know people killed over the holiday weekend, yes, I agree. | |
| Yeah, it's sad. | |
| I mean, these these are lives. | |
| I believe every every single human soul has talent and ability that's God given. | |
| And you know, that's that's indicated by the Latin deriv derivative for education to bring forth from within. | |
| Guess what? | |
| You can't pursue happiness if you don't have law and order and safety and security. | |
| It is, as I've been saying and repeating. | |
| I hope Illinois's not too far gone. | |
| Well, why why do you Stay. | |
| I ask people all the time in these deep blue states. | |
| Well, you know, obviously you're out of sync with the rest of your state politic politically. | |
| Why do you stay? | |
| Well, family. | |
| My my w my uh daughter and granddaughters are living and son-in-law live in live in the state. | |
| Downstate is so much different than the rest of the north of I-80. | |
| I get it, but you're still paying those taxes. | |
| You still, you know, have that governor as your governor. | |
| Look, I'm not, I'm not uh I would never question anybody's choices. | |
| I had to stay in New York much longer than I wanted to, you know, for family reasons. | |
| Uh but as soon as I could break free, man, you I couldn't get out the door fast enough. | |
| It's just uh listen, I gotta run, my friend. | |
| God bless you, Brian, and God bless Illinois. | |
| You definitely need our prayers for sure. | |
| Right. | |
| Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. | |
| We'll check in with the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi tonight, Miranda Devine, Jason Chaffetz, John Solomon. | |
| Are all of those commutations and pardons invalid? | |
| We have a report. | |
| Also, James Comer, LJ, Lawrence Jones tonight, and we have gubernatorial candidates in Virginia, Winsome Sears, and Jack Chitterelli of New Jersey. | |
| Do they have a chance to win a blue and a purple state? | |
| Nine Eastern tonight, Hannity Fox. | |
| We'll see you then back here on Monday. | |
| Have a great weekend. |
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