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Sept. 12, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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A Somber Time - September 11th, Hour 2
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I'm filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah.
Charlie inspired millions and all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror.
Charlie was a patriot.
Charlie was also a man of deep, deep fame.
And we take comfort in the knowledge that he is now at peace with God and have freedom is back in style.
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This just into our newsroom, a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
Another plane seems to stay.
An airplane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
Oh.
There appears to be a gaping hole.
Oh, there it goes.
There it goes.
There it goes.
Here it goes.
I know The whole side has collapsed The whole building has collapsed Not alone Tower 2 has had a major explosion and a complete collapse By the light The way to collapse is one of the soldiers She stands.
Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center.
We're not gonna be coward by it if we're not afraid.
Faithful friend.
The freedom-loving nations of the world stand by our side.
Crowds are the red, white, and blue.
This country will not blend.
So away.
Proud to be a part of this country.
I think about the families, children.
Freedom itself was attacked and freedom will be defended.
I can hear you.
The rest of the world hears you.
Just when you think it might be over.
Come on!
Just when you think the fine is gone.
Someone will reuse this life to race.
The resolve of our great nation is being tested.
Then she stands.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America And to the republic for which it stands One nation under God and the world For ever the end of the flag There she lies We will not forget the 2800 people.
Please and fire.
Not only were heroes at the beginning, but they're still heroes.
We're gonna come out of this emotionally stronger.
And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.
I don't think any button for good officials of everything.
Those guys did more than anyone ever expected of a in this tree.
They messed with the wrong city.
They messed with the wrong station.
And I just don't want people to forget.
We become money.
They all had a sense of duty to protect us all.
When all your moms die.
We'll be steadfast in our determination.
Someone won't fall the rest of the country now understand who the true defenders are.
She stayed.
May the Irish hills caress you.
May her legs and rivers blush you.
We see the fly so they said.
We've seen the stamina test of time May the blessings of St. Patrick behold you.
And through it all the fools have fought me God bless Ireland and God bless the United States of America.
She stands.
Now America's embracing a new ethic and a new creed.
Let's roll.
The phrase New York's finest and New York's bravest means something now, doesn't it?
This is a time to reflect and be thankful for where we are today.
through the fight.
We will rebuild New York City.
She was Still.
Yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves.
Anyway, of course, that was Michael W. Smith.
There she stands.
It is the 24th anniversary.
2009 77 of our fellow Americans murdered that day.
Many died in the aftermath, the wars that followed, and of course, 9-11 related illnesses.
Later on, we'll talk to Frank Siller, the founder of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
If you don't know the story about his brother, it's pretty incredible.
He just finished his shift.
He makes it to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.
Uh, the tunnel's closed.
He puts on 60, 70 pounds of equipment, runs through the tunnel, runs to the towers, and he died that day.
And that was the foundation of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
Uh, we're gonna get an update on the investigation in just a second with our friend uh uh John Solomon, just the news.com.
I will tell you there is more vile putrid, disgusting, cancerous hatred online than ever before.
I mean, I actually saw uh a friend of mine sent me a screenshot of an ex post of all these, you know, I call them these keyboard warriors in their in their parents' basement in their underwear or naked, uh, that uh you know anonymously put out the most despicable, disgusting things.
Now, with you know, other uh uh venues like Instagram and TikTok, you know, you can hear some of the vitriol.
They they actually came up with a list of who's next.
Who do you think was number one?
Donald Trump.
It's so sick out there, and there's so much hatred out there.
Let me just give you just a small sampling of it so you understand how cancerous social media can be.
He probably made like thousands of trans kids kill themselves.
I literally could not give a f if they can get a stepfather.
I'm not sad.
It's about time karma took out that trash.
So, in light of this beautiful news, I would like to propose that we turn Charlie Kirk into a verb.
For example, I think that Stephen Miller needs to be curbed.
We have tried, we've done peaceful protesting, we've wrote into the government, but no, these red-sided people don't care.
So what do you think?
We're gonna do the red-colored people are like, he was such a good person.
Why did he get shot?
If you've seen the video on Twitter, please listen to the last ten seconds of what he said before he went.
And if you honestly, yeah, he had it coming.
I'm so sorry.
We got Charlie in the neck, in the neck!
The bubble.
The girls are like DHS.
We got Charlie in the neck.
Woo.
Anyway, joining us now, he is the founder, editor in chief, and chief investigative reporter, JustinNews.com.
Our friend John Solomon is with us.
So yesterday during this broadcast, I had on my friend Rod R. Kellett.
We've been friends for decades.
He's uh host on our affiliate in Salt Lake City, KNRS.
And during our conversation, he said, Oh John Solomon, just the news dot com is is reporting that Charlie had died.
And I I I said to Rod, I said, uh I I it just it took my breath away.
Uh and I said, you know, there's no better reporter that I know than you.
And then I said, I hope this is the one time you were wrong.
Unfortunately, you were right.
Uh you spent the weekend recently with Charlie.
Tell us about it.
Yeah, it was an amazing time.
And it's funny, I was grouchy, like, I don't want to give up a week and go all the way to Colorado.
And I was grumpy on the plane, and then I got there, and I remembered how extraordinary and dynamic Charlie was.
And I spoke at his donor conference in Colorado about three weeks ago.
And in the moments we had together, we were on stage for most of it, but we had some private time offside.
And I was talking to him, and I'll never forget this conversation.
I said to him, you know, Charlie, I'm looking at the polling data, and Gen Z is moving more conservative.
moving more common sense and yeah you I don't think you realize what a tsunami you created you know how um how profound what it is you did and he stopped me in the classic Charlie Way it really wasn't that profound John really here's what it is.
There were these kids that had these values like me and you and everybody else, but they weren't allowed to speak.
They were too afraid they would get kicked off campus or they were too afraid they would be turned down for their first job and wouldn't be able to support a family.
And all they needed was people to line up shoulder by shoulder.
And all I did was create a really big friends club and said, it's OK to be conservative.
You don't have to change your values to fit in.
You can hold your ground and still fit in.
And I thought, what a profound statement to describe the 12 or 13 years that he put together at TPUSA and with all the things he did.
He was an intellect.
He loved to debate, but he was never demeaning.
He was a person that even if he disagreed with you 100 percent, if you were in need, he would have probably done something for you.
He was a man of faith, a man of family.
But he also was a man of vision.
And he realized that building a shoulder to shoulder army of people who would just say, you're not going to silence us.
We can disagree.
You're not going to silence us because that's not the American way.
That legacy is extraordinary.
He's the ultimate defender of free speech in the last 15 years.
And no bullet will silence what he started and no bullet will end what he began.
This movement that he started is going to have a profound impact for a long time to come.
We started today's program thinking we were going to hear from law enforcement.
It has been delayed.
They say that they have made significant progress.
My source is saying that the suspect is still at large.
There's a lot of speculation online.
I'm not going to share with with this audience.
But the law enforcement that I'm talking to that they believe they are getting closer to identifying the person.
They have a person right now of interest that they are, you know, diligently searching for.
That's right.
Yeah, that's a very good summary.
So they don't know the name of the person.
And that is a big clue because they have very good imagery.
And in America today, when you have good imagery, usually you can match someone with facial recognition very quickly.
So there's no driver's license record.
There's no student ID record.
There's no social media record that matches this person's face.
And so that's why the FBI escalated by putting the photos out saying, if you know this guy, you've seen this guy speak up.
That's why they put a hundred thousand dollar award up.
But they don't know who this person is.
They just simply know what he looks like in what he did.
Just before noon Utah time, he walked up a stair set.
He had a gun hidden somewhere.
He picked the gun up, went out to the roof of a building, fired a gun.
a single shot hit Charlie in the uh uh throat uh from a long distance away he took that single bolt action a high powered hunting rifle with him a few waves down as he jumped off the building, ran into a neighborhood, he dumped the gun in a neighborhood, and then kept fleeing.
And that path where he got off has become an intensive focus of forensic gathering.
They're looking for everything.
My sources have confirmed they have a palm print, they have a shoe print, they obviously have his facial print, but none of those have provided any identification capabilities.
Now, when you get to that point, one of the things that U.S. intelligence in FBI will do is start to consider is this a foreigner?
Is this somebody that's left across the border?
No indication one way or the other, but they're expanding the realm of possibilities.
Meanwhile, there is some foreign intelligence government assistance that is focusing on a domestic group in America that might have ties to other regimes, uh regimes that don't love America, and they're looking at it.
It had a chapter in the um Utah area, and so we'll see if that turns into anything, but all leads are open.
Uh FBI director Cash Patel, who we saw in New York today commemorating the 911 24th anniversary, is on his way to Utah to be on the ground with his men and women until they get this killer.
And I think he'll show up shortly.
There'll be a news conference when you get there.
I I think there's a lot of developments as they expand the potential circle of who could be behind this and what's been done that will drive the next 24 hours.
I think the first 24 hours, every piece of forensic evidence you could possibly palm prints on a fair banister became important evidence.
They got that.
They got the gun.
They've got some inscriptions on on two of the uns uh three of the unfired uh uh bullets or canisters in the gun uh that suggest that some far left ideology, transgenderism, fascism, or anti-fascism may be on the bullet.
Now that doesn't mean that that was the true motive.
It could be a false flag to mislead investigators until this person could escape.
But there are some big questions.
Why did he drop why would he leave the not leave the gun at the scene?
Why didn't he carry it with them all then drop it?
Why did he go to that neighborhood?
Uh how did he know to get on the roof so well?
Why can't we find any facial recognition?
Those are very big.
And why do the bullets have these inscriptions that uh have a far left ideology?
All of that is being sorted through, and there's a lot of possibilities.
You said it wise, it's it's important not to jump to any one conclusion.
Let the evidence go.
They're gonna get this guy, but they don't got him yet.
Could be a headphag.
I I I've heard that from a a number of people on the trans issue, and we're just reporting what's out there, and we'll know more.
I have every confidence that they will get him.
Uh John, we do appreciate you.
You're a good man and a great reporter, and we always appreciate you taking time to share with your your information with us.
John Solomon, founder, editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter, just the news.com, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sean.
Good to be with you.
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I mean, it's hard to comprehend.
It's 24 years since 911-01.
2,977 Americans died.
We still have 9-11 related illness deaths on a daily basis, uh, more than we ever thought.
And it is very real.
Um it's just, you know, I go back to that time and that day, and it it seems like yesterday.
And on the heels of Charlie Kirk's assassination, it is it it's it's I I feel like I did 24 years ago today.
Um felt like it all last night, felt like it all day yesterday.
I saw that video, and it just I'll never forget that moment, like when I got a call from my you know, John Gomez, my best friend from childhood, telling me, are you watching this?
Meaning the towers just got hit by an airplane, and we didn't know what that day would bring, and and now we know.
Um anyway, speaking of which, I want to remind you, I I spent time recently with Frank Siller, and he lost his brother on 9-1101.
That led to him creating the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
And he had no idea when he started it, how big it would become, how many people that they would help, how incredibly generous the American people would be, and he has turned this into a an incredible, incredible charitable organization that helps America's heroes.
I mean, first responders, those that have fought America's wars, uh, those that have either given up their lives and their families helping them, uh, those that have been incapacitated, he builds their smart homes.
One example of that U.S. Air Force technical sergeant Jesse Clark's military service, it came to an end after a chemical exposure, caused a very large tumor to form in his brain.
As a result, he's paralyzed on the left side of his body, he's legally blind, he's prone to memory loss.
He will be in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.
Now, thanks to your kindness, your generosity, your appreciation for all that he did for our country, you were able to help the Tunnel to Towers Foundation build this hero, a new smart home to help him live a more independent life.
So many more families like the Clarks need our help.
And since Tunnelton Towers founding, you know, right after the events from 24 years ago today, America's heroes have given so much, and this is the way we get to say thank you in a lasting and meaningful way, and not forget them and never forget.
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Uh, I know so many of you want to uh speak out, and uh I want to give you that opportunity.
Um I have so much more To say and so much that I will be saying in the days to come.
There has been so much vile, putrid, disgusting, repulsive rhetoric that is almost we've become inoculated to it.
We've become immune to it.
You know, it's become the the norm.
Um, and it is having it's like a cancer that has grown on society from the minute, and we have Don Jr. on tonight, from the minute Donald Trump came down that escalator with Milani at Trump at Trump Tower and announced he's running for president.
It's not stopped things I never thought I'd ever see in this country.
It doesn't stop John in Arizona.
John, thanks for checking in.
Uh glad you called, sir.
Yeah, hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good in a way.
I mean, it's a rough time.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
This is pretty rough.
I I guess my question is, you know, with all this, what's going to get done?
I mean, the president, I saw his oval address yesterday, but at the end of the day, it's just words.
You know, we want something done.
We want something done.
We're we're tired of our people getting assassinated and killed by the radical left.
We want action.
Well, we do want action, and it's gotta stop.
You know, and the thing is you call out the left and they don't care.
They don't they do not care.
I would love to be able to give you a sense of hope that the the virulent hatred, rage, insanity of the left is gonna stop, and it's not.
You know, um anybody that's a conservative that's in the public eye, you know, uh things that we don't really talk about often.
I've never really wanted to.
I've always taken the advice of security people in my life not to talk about stuff that you go through.
White powder being mailed to me, uh fatwas on my head, and stuff like that.
I'm I'm I'm just I'm not gonna not talk about it anymore.
Because that is the life of the average conservative.
And Charlie was particularly brave.
I mean, I've been on these college campuses.
I've I've been heckled.
It sucks.
I'm like, who needs this crap?
And and he was able to turn it into an art, prove, you know, to show me where I'm wrong.
What a brilliant idea.
Look at the size of that crowd in Utah yesterday.
Thousands of young people flocking to him.
My own kids admired Charlie Kirk when I did an event at turning point, you know, a couple of years ago.
My my kids never want to see their dad speak.
They wanted to see Charlie.
So they, you know, they came and they met him and got a picture with him.
And it meant a lot to them.
And trust me, they were they, you know, they were upset yesterday.
They've been I've been talking to them all throughout the day.
I don't want to tell you the rest of the conversations, but getting yelled at by a 26 and uh and a 24-year-old's not fun.
And I was getting yelled at a lot.
To fund the universities.
It's time to defund the universities.
Oh my gosh, yes.
I'm so tired.
Why do we give one red cent to Havid, Columbia, you know, Brown, Cornell, any of these liberal indoctrination centers, stop.
They don't deserve a penny.
You know who deserves it?
Let's give it to the community colleges.
Let's give it to the the trade schools.
Let's give it to people, you know, that work hard every day and don't have you know a political agenda, you know, that is studying, you know, the the most inane and insane, you know, topics in school and learning nothing except how to be a crazy radical leftist.
Anyway, John, I appreciate your call, man.
Thank you.
Um, let's say hi to George.
He's in my free state of Florida.
George, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Um I'm this uh distraught uh yesterday and today, my friend.
Um just uh Charlie was the person that if I was scrolling through the my internet or anything, I would stop to listen to him.
His heart, and and he just had that that uh ability to talk over the heads of the the mainstream media directly to the students and the people, and he was uh he was a force to be reckoned with, and he was a fighter for a First Amendment, Sean, just like you are, and that's why I'm worried a little bit about you.
Um I just I just think that uh I'm just really sad, but I I think we gotta play up, boot up, and let's roll after this, and we gotta make more Charlie Kirk.
There's no time to retreat in the in the in the academic sp uh fear um uh Sean, and we need to make uh we just gotta make more uh alternative media greater because our media, our mainstream media song all over today as you say that you're talking about will not change.
So we have to ignore them and create our own media where they will have no power if and they won't if if they take out a Charlie Kirk, there will be 20 more to take his place.
And that's where I think uh what we need to do.
And I again I just I mean I love seeing you in clear water, Sean, but you know, I would I would just watch your back, my friend.
I appreciate your kind words.
You know, I like Charlie.
Charlie was really a young man of very strong faith.
And you know, I've I I do not I do believe with all my heart we need to learn the lesson that Donald Trump comes within a millimeter of losing his life.
How many other people do you know that would stand up and say fight, fight, fight, and and and push his fist up in the air like that in that moment.
I mean, that really has gotta be a rallying cry.
And that is we're not gonna cower, we're not gonna back down, we're not gonna be intimidated into hiding.
I mean, look, there might be prudent moments where, you know, for the time being, you know, there I I know that some events are are being canceled with people that I know that are conservative.
I don't fault them at all for that.
I think everybody needs to get their bearings and make sure that they up their security.
I don't know how you stop a guy on a roof, you know, that's you know, 200 yards away firing you know a high-powered rifle.
Um, unless you have secret service protection.
I don't know if you can do it.
George, I appreciate your kind words, man.
Thank you.
God bless you.
Quick break, right back.
We'll get back to our phones 800-941 Sean as we continue.
All right, back to our busy phones.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh Don in Iowa.
Don, how are you?
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm a truck driver driving through Cincinnati right now on my God bless you uh of Huntsville.
Yes, sir.
God bless you.
I appreciate all that you truckers do.
Thank you.
You uh you fill every store we have with great stuff that we want, need, and desire.
We appreciate it.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
I actually just got through with a shipper who gave me a gift basket on the way out the door.
Amazing.
I I was uh that that made my year.
That's awesome.
That's very cool.
That was very cool.
I hope she's listening and I hope she knows who she is.
But uh I called you, you know, like everybody else about Charlie Kirk today, because I had only recently in the past few years started watching Charlie Kirk, and I found his messages to be profound.
He he didn't tell you, you know, this is the way you have to think.
He just he was so intelligent.
I mean, just listening to to where he'd pick up uh on scripture, on scripture from other religions, uh just astounded me.
And the way he was with people, always talking about love, and uh he just really hit home for me.
I've got it was real.
What you saw was real.
God faith, family, country was real for Charlie Kirk.
He lived it every day.
I uh we had we had recently a number of amazing discussions.
I'll keep them private.
It was about you know life and and our business, and and he would ask profound questions and I'd give him the best answer I could.
But he was smart as he was smart as hell and courageous as hell.
And you're right about everything you're saying.
I'm just up on the constraints of time here.
Uh listen, we please be safe on the road.
Uh crazy drivers everywhere, crazy people everywhere, crazy drivers everywhere.
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