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Oct. 1, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Democrats Shutting Down - September 30th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, uh now six hours and oh, what is it?
Oh, fifty four minutes, fifty-five minutes until the government shutdown is official, the Schumer shutdown, as we're calling it on this program.
Uh Schumer and Democrats, and we've been playing it all day.
I won't play it again now, you know, for years have condemned the idea of shutting down the government and how bad and horrible it is.
And because Schumer, who is leader in name only, just like Hakeem Jeffries is leader in name only.
Uh Schumer got excoriated when he went along with the CR the last time.
He is his entire career.
He is he's never supported a government shutdown, but he wants to stay in power and then rather than stand on principle and stand up against the radicals in his party, so he's not going to shut down the the he's gonna shut down the government.
It's gonna happen.
It may be longer than we usually think.
I've been pretty consistent about government shutdowns over the years.
They really don't bother me.
I know people get offended when I say that.
I'm not being insensitive to good workers.
I feel for you if you're not going to get a check, but what always happens is they eventually reopen the government fully.
Essential services will continue, uh, which is imperative.
Grandma and grandpa will get their Social Security checks.
They'll have access to their health care.
Our military will be up and running.
Homeland Security will be operational, as will the border patrol people, but there are going to be others that are called, quote, or viewed as non-essential, and they will be sent home.
What always happens at the end of the process is they get a free vacation and back pay.
Uh that part is frustrating.
The fact that people have to live without a paycheck in the interim.
I know it's inconvenient.
I do, I I am very sympathetic towards it.
However, you've got to understand where this is coming from.
Democrats are demanding 1.5 trillion dollars in reckless spending, and that means they want to rob from our children and grandchildren even more to push their radical agenda.
They are not in power when they've been in power and Republicans have made any demands or requested any negotiation, they have been shut down and shut out.
I'll quote Barack Obama.
Elections have consequences.
Uh, and I think the American people have had it.
They see through the Schumer shutdown for what it is.
He is scared to death.
He'll be primaried by AOC.
He's uh scared to death to take on the radicals that now run his party.
Uh and you know, look at, for example, in his state of New York, his city of New York City, you know, and and then you got Zoran, Kami, Marx's Mamdanny.
We will fight the Trump administration's attempt attempt to exert leverage over New York City.
Okay.
And then he's gonna raise taxes on New Yorkers, and they're gonna leave in in droves.
And if you think that Wall Street South, where I live in my free state of Florida, is gonna grow, you're right.
They're gonna do great.
People in New York City are gonna see their property values go down.
They're gonna see the crime rate go through the roof, uh, and they're gonna have the worst management in the history of that city.
Uh his uh Zoran, commie, Marx's momdami pledging to fight Trump.
So the number this year from federal government was 7.4 billion dollars to New York City.
Are you okay if New York City loses that?
No, we will fight for every single dollar that the city currently receives from the federal government.
And I look for examples across this country that showcase the best way to respond to Donald Trump's strengths, is not collaboration, is his threats rather.
It's responding with strength.
And what we see in California is an attorney general of the state has estimated that for every dollar they spent on lawsuits against the federal government's threats to withhold funding, they won more than $30,000 in what would otherwise have been lost.
And so we will take that same approach.
Good luck with that.
Become Gavin Newsom 2.0.
Uh anyway, joining us now is Congresswoman Claudia Tenney for she was from New York.
What has happened and what's gonna happen?
What's happening to Chuck Schumer?
What's happening, Hakeem Jeffries?
Uh they seem impotent and Totally paralyzed in fear of the radicals in their party.
I think you're exactly right.
And that's a they're both former members of the New York State Assembly where I served.
And uh Hakeem Jeffries used to sit next to me in the state assembly.
He's no different than the Democratic Socialists of America that are now uh embracing uh Zoran Mandami, who I think is really Marxist, anti-Semite, anti-police, I mean the worst form, but they dominate and control Albany, and Schumer is terrified, and AOC is out there with Mandami.
And I think it's brilliant, Sean, that you are actually saying what I think is going on here.
I think this shutdown talk from Schumer is a distraction from the fact that he's going to end up with Zoran as the mayor if we don't take rash action.
And he's trying to distract from this, using this shutdown because it's all Democratic spending levels, as you accurately pointed out.
And now this is a huge problem for the Democrats.
It's colossal.
It is the Democrats allowing somebody of this ilk to run the largest city in our nation, which has caused all kinds of, as you know, when you left, I'm still in New York fighting the fight.
The reason uh that things are so bad in New York is because of the Democrat policies and the weakness and the fecklessness of Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to stand up to this far left, and this is what you get.
Well, it's not just it's not New York State.
I mean, Long Island, we saw the reception at the writer cup that Kathy Hokel, your governor got.
We saw the reception that Donald Trump received.
Hokal was booed.
Trump was, you know, greeted with loud chants of Trump, Trump, Trump, and USA, USA, USA.
Uh, it's not Westchester.
It's not upstate New York.
You've got this one little strip of land called called New York City that is so densely populated with radical leftists that they're I I am pretty convinced that Mamdani's gonna win.
If I had my choice, I'd pick Curtis Sleewa.
I think Curtis Sleewe would be most like Rudy Giuliani, he'd be Rudy 2.0.
Uh, polling-wise, if you believe the polls, he can't at this point, unless things change dramatically, uh, he's not gonna have the votes in that Democratic city to win.
And it seems like Cuomo's just not liked by anybody.
Yeah, I agree, but I think there's this is a reason, Sean, that Albany is part of it.
You know, when the Democrats are all crying about redistricting, the harsh redistricting that the Democrats have always controlled, at least controlled for a long time, the last cycle, is remember, when they create districts for the Senate and the Assembly, the New Yorkers, they're very small in number.
They violate the Constitution, so they can pack in as many assembly and Senate members into the New York City and the Democrat areas, and then where I am in upstate New York, you have these gigantic districts with huge numbers of constituents, and that's how they control the legislature in Albany, even though the vast majority in my district, everyone, I mean, Trump won big here.
He won big in upstate New York when even when the governors uh are running, whether it's Cuomo or even Kathy Hokel, you know, something like out of the 62 counties in New York, you see uh 55 are won by Republican, the Republican wins.
It's those isolated areas, and they do everything they can to shoehorn as many of these Democrat uh leaders or Democrat voted uh, they're not leaders at all, but these Democrats into these positions, and that's how they retain power.
They, as you know, Sean, it's always process, it's always cheating, it's never by policy.
Policy, we'd win.
I mean, we wouldn't have a problem with that.
And I think a lot of New York City people feel that way.
I do think that it's going to be interesting, though.
I don't see how he loses.
I would love to see Curtis Lewa take the lead here, and maybe uh Adams getting out will send votes to Sliwa.
But we need uh this is going to be disastrous for not just the city, but the whole state.
Well, you know, the interesting thing is, I mean, New York could be rescued, and for a long time, when even when Andrew uh Cuomo was the the mayor of I'm sorry, the governor of New York, before he ran for re-election the first time, I had been very vocal about saying I need to get the hell out of here because I saw no hope.
And I had all these governors from all over the country very graciously, you know, kind of surprised me, inviting me to move to their respective states.
I mean, from from Texas to Florida to the Carolinas.
All these wonderful people were calling this show And saying we'd love we we'd warmly welcome you here.
And and I eventually, you know, settled on Florida because I'd always had property down here.
I'm glad I did.
The best decision I made, and it's for a whole host of reasons.
I feel bad for the people that I left behind, but many of them are making plans to escape, or they've already escaped and they've followed me down here.
And the feeling that uh uh most people are telling me, and we'll see this in the next census, New York's gonna lose a number of congressional seats.
California's gonna lose congressional seats.
I would imagine New Jersey's gonna lose some.
Illinois will probably lose some because there's been a mass migration out of these deep blue states that cling to the idiocy of sanctuary state and city policies that cling to the idiot idiocy of defund dismantle, no bail laws, reimagine the police.
In other words, that cling to the the commie Marxist Mamdani mentality, the AOC m mentality.
I tell you this, and I also think that if AOC challenges Chucky, he's done.
He's finished, he'll get slaughtered.
I agree with you.
And that but this is again the problem.
I mean, we have the highest out migration, you know.
When you talk about we had 45 congressional seats in the 60s.
We're down to 26, and a lot of it was be was because we included illegal immigrants uh wrongly on our census.
Otherwise, we probably would have lost another one to Florida.
And you're we're definitely gonna lose more.
But you know, the people, the govern the people that govern these c these states, like Schumer and Hakeem, who was gr grew out of the state assembly, he was a nothing uh in the assembly, you know, because of a lot of his is really anti-Semitic stands in his family, his racist kind of stance that he takes, his anti-conservative, uh, you know, any black who's conservative is somehow, you know, not a legitimate or credible person.
And and you know, all that stuff is the old mantra of the of the old Democratic Party, and they're even fighting that because now we have Mandami, who is basically Marxist.
I mean, this is not, and unfortunately, a lot of the immigration that went through Obama.
We've brought people in, you know, whether they were refugees or now illegal immigrants, and they get a free reign here.
The northern border, which I represent a lot of, Sean, this in in Canada, 90% of the people on the terror watch list are coming across the northern border because they have access to New York State and New York City, which has all these laws put in place by Andrew Cuomo, by the way, uh, that allow, you know, we we we are the city that had the worst uh terrorist attack in our nation's history on our soil, yet we took away and didn't listen to what the 911 Commission actually asked us to do, which is to get our police to work with us to protect our communities.
You've got a guy that's gonna work against all of that.
New York City is in peril, as is the state, because of the influence that Zoran is gonna have with the state legislature.
When I served in the legislature, it was only 2016.
There were no Democratic Socialists of America.
They're dominating the Democratic Party in the legislature now, and this will only be a big win for them.
We're right now the Democrats like Schumer should be standing up to them.
And and he will get wiped out by AOC, absolutely, because they've allowed this to happen.
And Schumer's weak.
They never have tough races, uh, Sean.
They never have tough races.
They just kind of walk in because they've got the population and everything.
But now, I mean, AOC's gonna give a run for his money, and I bet you anything he doesn't run.
Uh if she gets in, he's out.
Guaranteed.
And I bet they're having private conversations and he's trying to find out if she's gonna run or not.
Uh there's no way he would run for re-election because he he knows he'd lose.
Quick break, we'll come right back more with the New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenny on the other side, then we'll get to your calls.
800-941 Sean is on number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, we continue now with uh New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenney is with us.
The reason that Chuck Schumer, who's always been against government shutdowns his entire career, is now gonna shut down the government is because he has to give in to the radicals that run his party, and and maybe he's become more radicalized himself.
Uh Hakeem Jeffries is now gonna follow Kathy Hokel and endorse Mom Donnie.
And I would imagine before election day, so will Chucky Schumer, in spite of, you know, not condemning the global antipata forever.
Yeah, they they can't uh they can't say no.
And I'll tell you something, Sean, that I heard from a Democrat from a blue state uh several weeks ago said to me, uh, there are a lot of anti-Semitic uh uh things coming up on the floor of the House.
And I he said to me, if we put out a bill today that said globalize the intifada.
I bet there'd be 15 Democrats in the House of Representatives that would vote for it.
That's what's happened.
And that's why, you know, this election of President Trump was a godsend.
Uh us being able to keep the majorities very slim, obviously, uh, you know, ably run by Mike Johnson, and also in the Senate right now, you know, not having that 60 vote threshold, you know, is putting Chuck in a position because remember the Democrats annihilated Chuck for supporting the CR, the continuing resolution earlier.
Now he's gonna he's afraid of going down that road again, but he's making uh fool's errand, I think, because right now he's voting against himself, and he's voting against the American people.
And and this is going to be he he's gonna catch 22 when it comes to Democrats.
Uh, it's great for us, but I think he's gonna see this is not gonna have good results in the end.
I wonder how long we have a bet going on in our office how long the shutdown will really last, because Chuck has got a cave.
They got a cave.
They these Democrats are not gonna be able to risk having us take on even more seats in the next election where we actually could get a 60 vote majority in the Senate because I think it's starting to look that way.
You're seeing you know, people rejecting the far left and the Democrat Party and other parts of the country, and I'll leave New York.
Listen, Jack Chitterelli really has a shot to win in New Jersey.
He has a real shot.
Listen, I applaud you for fighting.
I'm torn because I don't want my friends that are still in New York to suffer anymore.
I feel bad for them.
On the other hand, I want my state of Florida to do even better.
Um, so I really I'm kind of torn here, uh, Claudia, but I wish you the best.
Thank you.
And uh if you want a nice break from the winner that's coming your way, just you know, let me know.
Come down to Florida.
We'd love to have you.
Uh oh, Linda, did you see Josh Hawley call out this guy today?
Oh, this was this was epic epic.
He's a defund, dismantled, no bail law guy.
And then he denied it.
And then just Hawley just rips into him, just tore him up.
I I want to play it.
It's a long stop, but it's uh it's a long, a long piece of sound, but it is it is entertaining.
Listen.
This is your report, a policymaker's playbook to reduce gun violence without policing communities.
Okay.
Community justice action fund, copyright 2023, when you were executive director.
Now you say you don't know anything about it.
Now you say that you you haven't heard of it.
Just like the Democrats who all of a sudden say, Oh, we're all for the police.
They've been advocating defunding them for years.
Okay, well, you look, you can look at documents or you can look at the question is do you do you renounce this report now?
You say you're no longer.
And my answer is that I led the efforts to invest 42 billion dollars in law enforcement.
You've advocated defunding the police as executive director of an organization that you still lead and are affiliated with.
Never see me advocate for that directly.
What you see me advocate for a comprehensive approach to reduce advisors, the comprehensive approach is decent.
And law enforcement is a part of what this is the entire time.
This is so typical of what the Democrats do now after your policies have transparently failed and led to the deaths of millions of Americans.
Now you say you've never heard of defunding the police.
Your own report recommends it on page after page after page.
Let me ask you about something else you say.
Here's what you say we ought to invest in.
Instead of funding the police, here's what we ought to invest in.
We do need to invest in programs that acknowledge the need for safe space initiatives, yes, led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people.
What's too spirit?
Well, look, I don't know exactly you guys will pull in some some interesting quote.
This is from your report.
If you look at the report, the focus is on investing in violence intervention, outreach workers.
What is you say you say that you shouldn't invest in the police, but we ought to invest in two spirit community programs that acknowledge two spirit and we are not going to disclose that.
We're not going to discriminate against any nonprofit that is spirit.
What is to spirit?
You say, don't fund the police, but do fund programs that create safe spaces for two spirit people.
What is what is I just want to know.
I don't know what that is.
I have no idea what that is.
Well, I I honestly I'm not uh completely aware of the language or I mean that was just an epic beatdown.
I mean, that was Hawley at his best.
Pretty amazing.
I don't know if you knew this.
There's a story out today, Linda.
I want to bring this to your attention.
You know that I'm big into artificial intelligence, and I just I dabble in it.
Just like I've I've been teaching myself chess by playing chess.com.
I and I am a complete loser.
I admit it.
Well, you and James play it together.
I watched that in real life.
That was interesting.
No, I I will just take he has it on a uh I don't have a computer on an iPad, I know.
Yeah, so he has it on that iPad y thing, and I play it on his because it's better than playing on my phone, which is very small.
Now, I'm a big Brock Grok guy, which is that that's Elon Musk's uh company and OpenAI, the company that developed chat GPT, announced new parental controls on Monday aimed at helping protect young people who interact with AI and AI programs.
Um anyway, in August, this company had to pledge to implement changes to their flagship product after facing a wrong wrongful death suit by parents of a 16-year-old who allege that uh the chat bot led to their son's uh taking their own taking his own life,
and apparently the controls will allow parents to link their own chat GPT accounts to the accounts of teenagers and customize settings for safe age appropriate you know, age appropriate experience.
You know, apparently these the what it's said, I what you could actually go on there.
I don't even really want to say it.
Let's put it this way.
You can ask, you know, how can you harm yourself?
How to do it.
Uh I don't like that.
They have to have some control over this.
Now, for those that say AI is the future, no, AI is the present.
You better understand it is the present.
You know, they have these new robo taxis, they're experimenting with them, for example, in New York City, San Francisco has them, a lot of other places.
They even have 18 wheelers that are driverless and that are proving to be safe.
Um, I've got my new Tesla S Plad, and I hit auto drive after you put in, you know, your destination.
You don't have to do a thing.
You don't touch the steering wheel, you don't touch the gas pedal, nothing.
And it, I mean, it's crazy the technology that's out there.
And it's, you know, we you have to be careful, depending on what line of business that you're in, that you adapt to what are going to be coming changes in pretty much every industry.
I think that's why it's prophetic.
You know, I think there's gonna be certain fields of endeavor, certain skills that there's no way that anything robotic or artificial intelligence is gonna be able to replace.
Um, you know, a friend of mine who's very into this actually has a phrase, he says, you know, don't think.
I'm like, huh?
What do you mean don't think?
I can't not think.
He goes, no, it would don't think.
Just just ask Grok.
He knows I'm a big Grok guy.
Uh, which one do you you use, by the way?
I really like Grok.
I made up some funny Chuck Schumer for the Schumer Shutdown memes today.
I had some fun with that.
That was a good time.
Uh have you ever put Grok on extreme mode?
You'll love it because you're relationship.
I have.
It was definitely um it was extreme.
It's it they have extreme uh mode, which is like, whoa, like holy moly, you know, perverted.
It's like, you know, F bombs, it's everything.
It's it's like hardcore.
It's definitely a little bit intense, but I think you know, if you're looking to laugh and you're with adults that understand that it's a joke, then it's fine, but it definitely is not for children.
Definitely not for kids.
So they're gonna have to, you know, do that.
Um by the way, I don't know if you noticed this too.
Hollywood talent agencies now are looking to sign an AI actress named Tilly Norwood.
Did you see that?
He thinks this person will be like the next.
They think this will be the next Scarlet Johansson.
It's founded by an actor comedian, and the I AI talent studio have set their sights on creating digital movie stars.
I mean, it's so real, it is chilly.
Yeah, but see, that's where it gets weird, right?
Like, I'm sorry.
I I like regular people.
I want to just know regular people.
If you want to make up funny pictures, funny memes, funny whatever, that's fine.
But when we start replacing people in like those sorts of jobs, that's just weird to me.
It's it's just a bridge too far.
There are people now dating artificial intelligence people.
Yeah, they're not dating, they're just living in their room pretending to date.
They're freaks.
But the thing is, it it's so smart, it will you can design it to to talk to you any way you want.
It's like the perfect boyfriend or girlfriend.
It's hilarious.
Obviously, physical contact.
I mean, it's it's kind of taking the whole like blow up doll thing to like another level.
It's like, oh, this is my girlfriend, and like you carry it around.
You're like, eh, it's not.
It's plastic.
And um, those people are very, very weird to me.
It's no different, man.
Now we got AI.
You know, it's not a real.
Those people, if if you're doing that, here's something really off.
Like we need to do.
There's so much old about so many things right now.
The common sense.
I mean, that it's it's almost like we've bred an entire generation.
The boomer generation has lost their mind.
The younger generation is finally getting it back, and the ones in the middle never had it.
It's just a hot mess out there.
It's very scary.
You mean you never date a doll?
No, it was never on my bucket list.
Isn't that funny?
Never on my bucket.
I I honestly, I watched this, and I don't know if you've seen any videos like online of the they have assembly lines where they make these these companions and people think they're dating them.
Yeah.
And they talk to them.
See, this is behind the fact that they have they have sex with them.
It's sick.
Here's the problem.
That is so weird.
That is so psycho bizarre to me.
I'm not sure that is the nth degree of psycho.
We we are at a special place in in the world where there has to be some sort of regular like I always say all the time, Katie and to Ethan always laughing.
I'm like, this person doesn't have one friend, not one friend in the world.
I'm like, what the hell's going on?
You don't have one person in your life to go, listen, I gotta tell you something.
This thing was made on an assembly line in China.
You know, it's not real.
It came here in a box, UPS left it at the door.
It's not a human being.
Like, let's go outside, let's touch grass, you know, let's get back to like, you know, basics.
Nobody's doing that for these people that have one friend, one family member, one neighbor.
I don't know.
I uh listen, it was sort of like unless you're like a kid in college and you go to a strip club.
There's a part of me that can kind of sort of maybe understand that part.
But my attitude is is if you're 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, and you're going to those places, you're creepy.
You're really bizarre.
I got news for you.
You go to those places.
Go get a real girlfriend.
Listen, it's all perversion.
It's all creepy.
You shouldn't be in those places creepy.
None of that is normal.
I don't care what age you are or why you're going to be.
I am talking about like the stupid frat guys uh at college.
Yeah, that's gross.
If you're a frat guy, go date a college girl.
There's plenty of them.
I alright.
I agree with you, but I I'm not they're not at the point that to me I would define them as weird and strange and psycho and creepy.
I find older guys that do this and get addicted to this crap or get addicted to porn.
I'm like, go get a real girlfriend from the city.
Why do you think that that's weird?
That's just that frat idiot all grown up.
Nothing on it.
Okay, the fr but but well, no, they didn't grow up, which is the problem.
A real frat idiot would grow up and grow out of it.
I disagree.
I think if you do that when you're young, you're gonna do it when you're older.
That's my humble opinion.
I don't think you should do it at all.
I'm not a there you go.
It's never been, it's never been my thing, and it's never been a thing for my friends either.
You know, most of my friends, they either have girlfriends or had girlfriends, or they have wives, and that's it.
Good.
That's the way it should be.
Very good.
My friends are my friends are normal.
My friends are, you know, hardcore, you know, they're usually, you know, they've got faith, family, country, you know, and and they're just they live by a code, they live honorably.
They're good people.
You know who I saw today?
One of your friends.
Guess who I saw today?
I sent you a picture of him this morning.
I don't know, I didn't see it.
Curtis Lewa.
Oh, on the subway.
I was on the subway platform.
I look across the platform, everybody's freaking out and taking pictures.
I'm like, what the hell's going on?
And sure enough, I see the red cap.
I'm like, uh, it's Curtis.
And there's no way for me to yell because it was, you know, the A-train and the E train, and it's mad loud.
But I saw him and I was like, see, Kami Donnie would never do that.
Forget about it.
He'd have an entrepreneur.
He didn't have a million security people around him.
He did not.
He just goes into the subway alone.
I know because I've been there with them many times.
But you know what was cool?
All of the people around him got up and took pictures and were hugging him and saying hello.
And they were every age, every race, women, men, he's the best retail politician I've seen.
100%.
He's great at it.
He's real.
I think he'd be Rudy 2.0.
I think he'd be the best thing for New York City.
Want him to win.
I'm but objectively looking at the polls as of now, and it's it's still yeah, it's not it's not early anymore.
It's just game time.
I would love to see uh I want to see a post Adams exit poll to see what the number where the numbers are now.
A credible one, a real one.
He's gonna win.
Anyway, I'm behind Curtis.
I am too.
I want him to win.
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All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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