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Sept. 25, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Newsom vs. ICE - September 24th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, you know, Gavin Newsom, you know, just out there, you know, attacking me again today.
You would think his mind might be with the three people that were shot.
One of which was killed at a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas.
It's not about me.
You know, anti-ICE messages found on shooters' rounds and this deadly attack.
We played for you, Democrats, and their demonization of ICE.
I mean, we played you two and a half minutes.
Nonstop, Nazi, Gestapo, et cetera, et cetera.
And it goes on and on.
And, you know, I had been texting with Gavin, and it was actually, we were getting back to some civility because it's been kind of hostile for a while between us.
And then all of a sudden, then he comes out with the Christy Gnome is going to have a bad day, you know, comment.
Then he came out with this bill that ICE agents in California can't wear masks.
And I wrote him, how do you think your comments, do you not understand the moment we're living in?
How do you think your comments about Christie are going to be interpreted?
How are you making ICE, you know, how, why would you make ICE agents more vulnerable to attacks?
I told him, I texted him.
Attacks on ICE agents are up a thousand percent.
And I wrote, if God forbid something happens, and I wrote, dot, dot, dot, seriously?
It's kind of hard to understand.
But Gavin went ahead with his bill signing banning ICE agents from wearing masks in California, which will not be constitutional.
Listen.
I'll be signing a bill, the first in the nation, saying enough.
It's ICE, unmask.
What are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of?
You're going to go out and you're going to do enforcement.
Provide an ID.
Tell us what agency you represent.
Provide us basic information that all local law enforcement is required to provide.
Anyway, joining us now is Steve Hilton.
And Steve, of course, is running for governor as a Republican in the great state of California.
He's a candidate for it.
I really have a very hard time understanding what they're thinking out in your state, your socialist utopia out there, beyond the fact that you're running record deficits, providing all these services, including Medi-Cal for illegal immigrants, et cetera.
Demonization of ICE agents, I believe, has created this massive increase in threats.
Signing this bill, I mean, I don't know if it's the equivalent of doxing, but pretty much you want to identify who these ICE agents are, knowing that there's so much hostility towards them and all they're doing is enforcing the laws and doing their job.
Very troubling to say the least.
What's your reaction to all this?
Exactly, Sean.
And then you hear him saying, what are they afraid of?
What are they afraid of?
Well, now we know.
They're afraid of getting shot, you absolute buffoon.
That's what they're afraid of, and rightly so, because it's Gavin Newsom and his cabal in California that have whipped up all this hatred against ICE since right from the beginning of the year.
All this language, Gestapo, secret police, kidnapping, all of this language designed to whip up hatred, exactly as you say, of people who are bravely enforcing federal law.
And here's the most disgusting thing, hidden away in the bill that he signed banning ICE agents and federal law enforcement from wearing face protection masks, any kind of covering.
Guess what the loophole is?
His own protection officers in the California Highway Patrol, they are explicitly exempted from this law.
So it's not for his people to protect him.
Yet again, it's rules for thee, not for me.
I mean, I don't know how low they can go.
And all the while, he's sort of parading around last night in New York, Stephen Colbert, puffing himself up, the great kind of taking it to Trump and all the rest of it.
His state, my home state, falling apart.
The highest unemployment rate, the highest poverty rate, crime and homelessness out of control, highest gas prices, you name it, the worst in America on everything that matters.
He hasn't got a clue what to do about any of that.
So he just runs around playing politics.
But meanwhile, when you're talking about this issue, it's actually putting people's lives at risk, and it is disgraceful.
How are the people in California reacting to this, especially considering all of this took place on Saturday and this event took place, you know, today?
Yeah, I mean, people are just, look, the vast majority of Californians, like every other, they just want law and order safety, and they support law enforcement.
It's a tiny group of leftist activists, and that's who he's pandering to.
And you see that in these protests that are all, as the president and from the president on down have been pointing out, they're all organized.
You see the signs.
They're all printed, funded by Soros and others.
And the vast majority of regular people just want peace and quiet and order and get on with their lives.
And for years now, Newsom and the rest of them have just been undermining law enforcement generally.
I mean, they may not be defunding the police literally anymore, saying it anyway, but they've been demoralizing the police constantly.
He's been closing prisons.
It's a huge reason why we have the crime explosion in California.
He's shut four state prisons.
A fifth is about to close.
Tens of thousands of violent, dangerous criminals let out onto the streets or into county jails, which are now completely overwhelmed.
So they don't have any room to put people in jail.
So there's even more criminals on the streets.
I mean, there's no other way to look at it than these people are the enemies of law enforcement and safety on our streets.
You know, let me ask you this, because politically, we had this discussion the last time you were on.
So many people have basically escaped California and they have a mass, you know, migration out of California.
It's leading the nation in that.
I would argue high taxation is one reason.
Quality of life is another reason.
You know, ridiculous bureaucracy is another reason.
And I've been challenging Gavin, you know, all over social media that, you know, questions he won't answer.
Why does his state have the highest taxes, income taxes in the country, sales taxes in the country, gas taxes in the country?
How is that possible?
And is he proud of that?
Why is it that the people in the Pacific Palisades, what is it, nine, 10 months later?
Yeah, I think just a little over 100 permits were issued, I read, yet they were going to streamline this and help people rebuild.
That doesn't look like that's happening either, Steve.
And do you think enough people have stayed or are enough people going to rise up and say they've had it?
You're running massive budget deficits and you're providing all of these services for sanctuary state status for illegal immigrants.
And they're not vetted.
We don't know who they are.
We do know in the country we have, you know, known terrorists, murderers, rapists, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members.
I mean, I can't believe one would purposely make their state less safe and secure.
Because this is the truth about them.
They are so captured by ideology.
Practicality doesn't matter to them, the real effects.
And they are so arrogant.
They assume they're going to be in power forever.
So they don't care what happens to real people in real communities because they assume that they're going to cling to power regardless of that.
But your question is the right question.
What can we do about it?
And here's the simple answer.
Yes, there are enough.
Republican voters in California to bring about the change that we need and to elect me next year.
And the simple way of looking at that is looking at the votes, the number of votes that the president got in California last year without really campaigning here.
He got 6.1 million votes in California.
That is enough votes to elect me governor in the midterm election if we get that kind of turnout or close to it.
And so that's what it's all about, is actually mobilizing the Republican vote, the Trump vote, to get out in California to elect me governor.
And I've got to say, this is the first time we've spoken, you and I, Sean, since Charlie was assassinated.
And that's why his support was so important.
I mean, he endorsed me.
He supported me from day one.
And one of the things we talked about, and we talked to, I spent a whole day with him in Phoenix, you know, months before I announced my campaign about how we could specifically work together to use the turnout machine that he built and deployed so effectively for the president in Arizona, especially.
Bring that to California to get the vote out.
That's the key to this.
Turn out the Trump voters, the basic Republican voter.
That's before you even get to persuading independents and Democrats, which I think I've got a strong chance of doing because my whole message is very practical.
$3 gas, cut your bills in half, lower your taxes, end the crime and homelessness explosion.
These are common sense things that everyone can get behind.
So we definitely can do it.
I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but it's not impossible.
And that's why we've got to fight hard for it.
Well, you are fighting hard for it.
I wonder, it's sort of like Charlie's death.
I don't think we're going to know the true impact and magnitude and positive effect on the country this moment has had.
And there's a mobilization of so many people that they have just had it with this assassination culture that's going on.
You know, Steve, I could play for you, and I played it earlier in the program, if it didn't take so long.
You know, every Democrat, prominent Democrat, you know, calling ICE agents Gestapo and Nazi and fascist and on and on and on.
And the most incendiary rhetoric you'd ever want to hear.
Do you believe it has a dehumanizing impact on people's minds, especially those that might be, you know, might begin to believe, oh, they're really evil.
And then in their minds that are twisted, they think they're doing good by assassinating people.
It's insane.
Exactly.
That is the exact word, dehumanizing.
That's exactly what they've been doing.
And by the way, this is not just some fringe.
I mean, you've got the clips, and we can add to the list Gavin Newsome.
I mean, he's running around cursing the whole time.
I mean, just before September the 10th, he was out there with this event he was doing, F-A-N-F-O, that acronym.
I'm not going to spell it out on the radio.
That was the name of his event.
He was talking about, let's punch these MFers in the mouth.
That's Gavin Newsom quoting him.
I mean, last night on Colbert, he was similar language, calling the president an SOB.
You know, like, this has just gone way out of control.
And he is contributing it to it.
Gavin Newsom, personally.
And the reason he's doing it is because the only thing he cares about is his own political career and becoming president.
And he can see that it's working for him because he's getting notoriety.
He's the one that the Democrats are looking to now.
At the beginning of the year, when he was taking the opposite approach, reaching out to Republicans, he had Charlie on his show.
He had Steve Bannon on his show.
The Democrats hated that.
He got a lot of pushback.
So now he's gone all the way in the other direction and they love it.
And that's why he's doing more of it.
But in the process, he is doing deep damage to our country.
He's got to stop.
All right.
Quick break.
Right back more with Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton out in California.
We'll get to your calls.
I know so many of you want to respond straight ahead.
800-941-Sean as we continue.
All right, we continue with Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is with us, which is the real Gavin.
Would you please stand up?
I mean, it's certainly not authentic because if his goal originally, and you're right, he was reaching out and had Bannon, had Charlie Kirk on, but that didn't work out particularly well because he has this habit sometimes not telling the truth.
I don't know where the word Latinx came from.
I never supported, you know, men playing women's sports.
And now he knows to get the Democratic nomination for president, he's got to take all of those radical positions.
Now, he's slick.
He thinks he's clever.
I don't think he's that clever.
And he's really good at BS.
I've seen it up close and personal.
And maybe he thinks that'll get him the nomination and maybe it will.
I don't think it'll get him to the White House.
I don't think it gets him over the finish line.
And, you know, being a full-time tweety bird and ignoring the problems in his state, you know, the mundane, you know, process of governing, and I don't think it's going to help people.
Exactly.
The country witnessed, how do you have empty fire hydrants?
How do you have an empty reservoir in an area known for wildfires and Santa Ana winds, which are predictable events?
How do you explain that?
I know.
And I could add to that.
Less well known because, you know, it's not concentrated in one place.
Right now, I'm speaking to you, Sean.
I'm just about to do an event in Fresno in the Central Valley.
I'm here all the time.
A great agriculture area.
I'm a massive supporter of our farmers.
In the Central Valley, especially, not just here, but if you add it all up, right now in California, there are nearly 1 million people without access to clean drinking water.
Nearly a million.
And Newsom is running around bragging about, oh, we're the fourth biggest economy in the world.
But people are living in third world conditions.
And he's done nothing about it.
This has been a problem for years.
In fact, he made an announcement a few years ago how he's going to fix the problem.
Nothing's been done because he's no good at actually doing his job.
Steve, honestly, I'd love to see you win in California.
I would love to see common sense return to California.
Used to be one of the greatest states.
It's one of the most, in terms of geography, one of the most beautiful states in our country.
And we really wish you all the best.
We'll have you on often.
And if people want to get in touch with you, how do they do it?
Thank you, Sean.
I appreciate that.
It's Steve Hilton4Governor.com, F-O-R.
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Please sign up if you're listening in California.
Steve Hilton for governor.com.
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We'd love to see you.
Steve Hilton, we appreciate it.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Chris is in Maryland.
Chris, hi, how are you?
Thanks for checking in.
Glad you called, sir.
Good.
How are you, Sean?
I've had better days.
This is so sad.
I hear you.
You know, my first thought, two thoughts.
My first thought is, I honestly think this is the left deflecting with all this fascist Nazi talk because for a long time the right's been calling them, you know, communist, for lack of a better word, for a lot of their tactics on things.
I think that could, you know, possibly be one reason.
The other thing I was going to say is, you know, if 25 million people are allowed to be let in here unvetted, then there has to be a system of removal, you know, and the ICE agents, that's their job.
That's what's happening.
So it shouldn't be this big shock to everybody.
But understand where we are.
A thousand percent increase in threats against ICE agents.
If you're telling me there's not a direct link to the never-ending rhetoric, Nazi, fascist, racist, Gestapo, et cetera, then you're naive beyond belief, you know, or that Christy Noam had to leave her house because of threats, or that Tom Holman has been assigned 24-7 security detail in response from Democratic-inspired anti-ICE threats.
And then Gavin Newsom, he didn't do it for apparently CHP, according to Steve Hilton.
He didn't do it for his own detail.
But only ICE agents have to take off their masks and show your face.
He's so tough.
Oh, okay, with threats up 1,000%.
If that's not reckless and irresponsible, I don't know what is.
Anyway, I digress.
I'm sorry.
No, I completely agree with you.
I mean, there has to be a system to remove all the 25 million people that were let in here, which is called ICE.
And since we know there's so much bad elements out there, yeah, they have to wear these masks.
But then people are crying like, you know, secret police, Gestapo, and all this stuff.
No, this is just the answer to the problem that was created from the last four years before Trump.
Well, and Trump inherited it.
Trump is enforcing the law.
Gavin's law that he had such great fanfare over is not constitutional, in my opinion, will be ruled unconstitutional, in my opinion.
And it's just sad.
It's, you know, you would think that reason and common sense would dictate whether you like the law or not.
And obviously, he doesn't like it.
Obviously, I would argue if you have sanctuary city and state policies, you are aiding and abetting people that did not respect our laws, our borders, and our sovereignty.
I have said many times on this program that I think Biden and Harris have blood on their hands because they lied to us.
They said the borders were closed, the borders were secure.
And how many Americans were murdered and raped and victims of violent crime as a result of their unvetted illegal immigrants that they let into this country?
It was reckless, dangerous, irresponsible, and there have been the most tragic consequences as a result.
If Congress makes the immigration laws, then how can an entire state just ignore them and still get federal funding?
Why hasn't this gone to the Supreme Court yet and let them basically just say, no, you cannot get federal funds?
I'm sure it's on its way, like everything else.
I mean, there's been how many legal actions against Trump and the administration to stop him from doing the job he was elected to do.
He keeps winning at the Supreme Court level in particular, and he's going to continue to fight.
But the supremacy clause is clear.
The jurisdiction is with the federal government to enforce federal law.
Period.
End the sentence.
And this is what people need to realize.
Congress, who we elected, has made these laws that ICE is now enforcing.
So for all these people that are calling everybody fascist and Nazi, no, we're just upholding the laws of the land designed to protect us, guys.
It's not that hard to figure out.
Chris and Marilyn, we appreciate the call.
Thank you.
Phil and Pittsburgh PA.
What's up, Phil?
How are you, sir?
Good, Sean.
How are you today?
I'm good.
How are your Steelers this year?
They're two and one right now, Sean, but we're hoping that the defense gets it together and Rogers gets together, gets it together, too.
Well, we'll see.
I mean, he's got a lot of potential.
He looked good in one game I saw, man.
Yeah.
But I'm just wondering, like, how in the world, and I explained this to Katie, can we, you know, deflect all this noise and everything else that goes on and extend the olive branch to the left and somehow get some of their people to work with us?
Because at the end of the day, we're all fighting a battle here.
We're all trying to win the battle and win the war.
And at the end of the war, we're still looking across the same table at the same people.
How do we work together, Sean?
How can we stop bashing each other?
How does it come to some sort of agreement, some sort of compromise?
Because Charlie Kirk, he tried.
He did well on college campuses.
He was wonderful.
He was bringing the youth vote to the conservative side.
He was a star.
I mean, I think Charlie could have been president one day.
I really do.
I said that before President Trump said it.
Then he said it.
I'm like, yeah, he could.
Yeah, and President Trump, you know, as much as they bash him, this man is a man of compromise and deal making and getting two sides together to agree on one point.
So how do we do this, right and left, Democrat and Republican, whatever you want to call us?
I don't know how you answer your own question.
How do you argue with people that constantly call you a Nazi, a fascist, a racist, compare you to Hitler, the Gestapo, Brown shirts, Mussolini, and Stalin?
How do you possibly have an where do you begin?
And by the way, Bill Maher and Rob Reiner, you know, had this discussion.
Rob Reiner doesn't want to talk to anybody that's conservative unless they agree to certain things that he's demanding first.
I'm willing to have the conversation with anybody.
I am.
But it's very hard, you know, when you're being called a Nazi, you know, where do you go from there?
How does that conversation end?
We have to find some midstreamers in the Democratic Party who do not want to go that far left.
I compare politics to a golf course.
The farther left you go, you're more at risk of being completely out of bounds.
The farther right you go, the more at risk you're being completely out of bounds.
Common sense is straight down the middle of the fairway.
Shortest distance between two points, Sean.
Are you a golfer?
I stopped for about seven years.
I picked it up a little bit.
I played like seven or eight times, like nine holes.
I don't have time to play golf.
I wish I did.
My son wants me to go out with him and play, so I go.
I'm playing pretty decent for somebody that doesn't play a lot.
Yeah, but it's probably not a good comparison.
But, you know, all I'm saying is the far left is way out of bounds.
The far right is way out of bounds.
There's people within the boundaries that can come together and can come to a compromise like Trump does, like Charlie Kirk does.
He listens to people.
How in the hell?
Heck, sorry, do we get this together?
I mean, I'm so sick of the noise on both sides.
I want to get people together and not bashing each other.
Listen, I won't divulge all the details of the conversation that I had with Gavin Newsom after on text.
Just to tell you that immediately after what was a good conversation with him, then he pulls this crap with Christy Noam and this bill.
And I'm like, I said, there's no, I can't even, I can't help you.
I can't discuss things with you.
He just is so, and then he's out attacking me on Colbert last night and attacking me on, well, I went at him on X today, and I'm not going to stop.
This is no point.
You know, you would think that he would put one and one equals two together.
He can't.
All he cares about, he's blinded by his ambition.
I'm going to run.
I appreciate it.
Phil in Pittsburgh.
God bless you, man.
Appreciate you.
Walter, we'll go to the United Socialist Utopia of Gavin out in California.
What's up, Walter?
How are you?
I'm well.
How are you, Sean?
Hanging in there.
Better days.
Prayers are obviously with the families of all these people that are victims today.
Exactly.
So I'm long-term Californian.
Been here almost 60 years.
I came here from New England.
It was the pride of the nation.
I've lived in Northern California, Orange County, and now I'm in San Diego County.
And I've just watched one part of the state be destroyed by the liberals after another, after another, which is part of the reasons why I've moved a few times.
But what I would like to point out is that, and I listen to you on the radio every chance I get, and my wife and I watch your show every night religiously.
But there's a lot of talk about how bad the politicians are.
But really, I think the focus should be more on the voters.
They're the real culprit.
We have people that continually vote for these insane politicians year after year after year, and they've led us into this mess that we're in.
And I don't want to reiterate all of the things that are wrong in California because I think you've pointed them all out.
But one thing is we have a third world situation going on in Imperial Beach.
And we have for many, many years with the Tijuana River polluting the ocean.
You can't even go in the ocean there.
And Gavin, he just ignores that.
We could do something about it, but we don't.
Well, he ignores a lot of things.
He's ignoring the people that 13,000 people lost their homes in the Pacific Palisades.
Why aren't those permits issued?
Why isn't that rebuild going on now?
Because they don't.
I mean, Governor Tweety Bird, Governor Podcaster, part-time Governor Newsom, I guess, has no time for this because he's too busy trolling Donald Trump and me on TV shows and on X.
I mean, it's inexplicable.
Anyway, my friend, I appreciate the call.
Let's say hi to Patrick in Colorado.
Patrick, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, how are you doing, man?
I'm good, sir.
Glad you called.
Thanks for taking my call.
I just wanted to get your opinion on something.
Now, Donald Trump and Charlie were both put in a situation that they should not have been put in.
Both of them were in open venues, surrounded by strangers, with basically in a fishbowl with buildings around them that a sniper would have a great shot from any building.
Why weren't there good guy snipers on top of the buildings?
Why weren't these guys behind bulletproof glass?
Why are they making it so easy for someone to take a shot at them when they have the money to afford better security?
What you're really talking about, what you would need for an outdoor event.
And I've done events indoors and outdoors my entire life and career.
And I'm urging my conservatives to rethink that fellow conservatives, whether you like me or agree with me or not, to rethink.
I'm not saying don't do them.
I'm saying be courageous and do them, but be smart about it.
And I would move events indoors because the amount of money that you need for its secret service type level security, if you want to secure a perimeter, if you want to secure roofs, there's no way that any one speaker is going to be able to afford that type of protection.
So, but if you move it indoors and everybody gets magged coming in, you have to have security around you at the event in the crowd and near the stage.
I always recommend an elevated stage for people.
And then go do your thing and be prepared and have people nearby that are able to defend you with the use of their hands.
I'm not saying this to blame them for what happened.
I'm saying this because...
I'm telling you, it's cost prohibitive what you're saying.
I hear you.
These are two very important people, and Donald Trump can afford it.
And Charlie had money, and all it would take was one or two rifles.
Charlie wasn't a billionaire.
No, I mean, I'm sure he's okay financially.
I've actually inquired about it.
But I'm just telling you, the amount of money doing the number of events that he would do, it is cost-prohibitive.
It's very expensive.
You're talking about, you know, if you want former Navy SEALs and people that are trained, you know, in martial arts and people that are licensed to conceal carry, and then you want them to cover an entire campus, I mean, that's virtually impossible for somebody that's not president.
And, you know, Donald Trump as a candidate had, you know, campaign funds to do it.
It just, I don't think, I hear what you're saying.
I think my solution is a good one.
Have security with you.
Have security in the venue.
Everyone gets magged before they come in.
You do a sweep of wherever you're speaking.
If it's an arena, a room, whatever, you got to have a sweep of the area so somebody to implant a weapon in there beforehand.
Then you also, I urge people, they've got to be elevated.
You can't be at the same level as the audience that you're talking to.
Anyway, my friend, I've got a roll, 800-941-Shauna's on number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We've got a great show tonight, 9 Eastern Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
We'll have the very latest.
Tom Homan will join us tonight.
Also, Steve Hilton will join us tonight.
Joe Concha, Isabel Brown, Lawrence Jones, Guy Benson.
News you'll never get from the legacy media mob.
We'll also examine Gavin Newsom and his idiotic bill that he signed on Saturday and the comments he made about me last night and on Twitter today or an X today.
All coming up tonight at 9.
We'll see you then.
Back here tomorrow.
Thank you for making this show possible.
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