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Oct. 3, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Party in Turmoil - October 2nd, Hour 1
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And those remarks there, I counted, called you a communist eight times.
Are you?
No.
I'm a Democratic socialist.
I've said that time and again.
I mean, his to-do list, I think, just says, golf, attack black women, attack enemies, alienate our allies.
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There is no threat to national security.
And there is no need for military troops in our major city.
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If you want to be a part of the program, government shutdown live stream hosted by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week received at moments just a few dozen viewers, according to a report.
What an embarrassment.
Anyway, Jeffries' live stream featured a rotating cast of Democratic House members and, quote, influencers, including one person with more than 13 million followers on TikTok.
And it became an almost instant joke among Republicans and a huge source of embarrassment among Democrats as Jeffries has struggled to pull in even a handful of viewers on Tuesday, according to Politico.
Look, Jeffries is just, he's not resonating.
I can say for a certainty that this is Chucky Schumer's last rodeo.
He's been outmaneuvered by AOC.
And we'll get to this later because AOC scoffs at the idea that this is about her or that Chuck is acting in the way he's acting and going against everything he's ever stated publicly in terms of how he feels about government shutdowns.
And it is about her.
It's all about her.
It's all about the radicalization of this extreme Democratic Party.
And Chuck Schumer, you know, so desperately wants to cling on to power and relevancy and has just this blind political ambition that he will do and say anything for the purpose of staying in power.
It says that people are just not interested.
I mean, to have just a couple of dozen viewers watching the YouTube stream, according to a politico senior national politics correspondent, Adam Wren, later in the evening, Democrats said 35,000 people tuned in to watch Jeffries, but based on YouTube, Democrats peaked at around 1,000.
And at times, there was only a couple of dozen others.
One of the big issues that has emerged here is the big lie.
And the big lie is that Democrats are out there saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Absolutely, we are not in any way fighting to fund health care, taxpayer-funded health care for illegals.
As Senator Mike Johnson, he just schooled Georgie Stephanopoulos.
Georgie Stephanopoulos has always been a political hack.
I mean, go back, watch the show, The War Room.
It was about Bill Clinton's rise to power.
And there's Georgie in his denim jacket, long hair, acting cool, thinking he's cool.
And he's yelling at a reporter, you know, God forbid they tell the truth about Clinton.
And I think it was Jennifer Flowers at the time.
They'll be ruined.
They'll never be able to work in that town ever again.
What is Natalie?
I'll send you facts with names, addresses, phone numbers of who you had an affair with.
It wouldn't make it true.
I guarantee you.
But if you do this, they might not even be able to do it until 8 o'clock.
You'll never work in Democratic politics again.
Maybe you don't want to.
I'm not saying it matters.
You will be embarrassed before the national press.
Sounds like a threat to me.
Anyway, so there is a big lie that is going on.
There was a great moment on Fox and Friends this morning.
My friend Lawrence Jones, LJ, as I call him, LJ, was interviewing Democratic Senator Janine Shaheen.
I'd play it, except it's not really, it's not really audio-friendly.
We can show it on TV tonight.
And she says, I haven't heard anybody in my party saying illegals should get taxpayer-funded health care.
Well, then Lawrence Jones rolls a tape of all the Democratic nominees that wanted to be the candidate.
asked the question, how many of you support taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants?
They all raised their hand, all of them.
More importantly, not only did Speaker Johnson go on with Georgie on ABC Disney, but then he went on fake news CNN and said CNN is not a news organization.
They caught off Republicans' press conference to censor the truth from the American people and lie about indisputable facts.
And he points out on page 57 of the Democrats' own bill, they insist we restore $200 billion in health care subsidies for illegal immigrants.
I mean, he says it.
RoConna says it.
Maxine Waters says it.
They're all letting the cat out of the bag.
I don't think they're doing it purposefully.
I think they're doing it.
You know, you have Pocahontas.
It's a flat-out lie that illegal immigrants get assistance.
No, they do.
And this is what they've advocated for, and they can't hide from their very own, you know, policy requests.
Another funny moment, and I'll play it later.
It's not worth playing now and interrupting the flow of our monologue, but Hakeem Jeffries was asked and sidestep a question about withholding his own paycheck.
I mean, understand here.
They claim that they care about the people.
They don't claim about the people.
They don't care about the people.
And then when asked about it, well, the question is not even a right one because we're anticipating this shutdown will be resolved well in advance of our next paycheck, which is, as you know, members of Congress are paid on a monthly basis.
Now, the earliest thing that I see stopping, and although there may be enough Democrats that understand that the Schumer shutdown is a disaster.
I mean, the fact that the Speaker of the House has a TV screen outside of his office with Democrats on a loop, you know, talking about the dangers and the horrors and how wrong and reprehensible it is to have a government shutdown is hilarious.
Now, this is why it's kind of a joke that AOC is saying that the Schumer shutdown is, it's not about me.
But then she further goes on to say, but if people want to negotiate with me, you can come to my office and we'll negotiate.
Nancy Pelosi had a fit over that.
I'll play that later in the program, too.
He snapped at a reporter after being asked whether the GOP should negotiate the shutdown with AOC.
What have I been saying for years is that Nancy Pelosi back in the day was speaker in name only.
The real power within the Democratic Party as a caucus did lie with AOC and the squad.
Now we can expand it out, and you can add, you know, people like Jasmine Crockett, but the squad, AOC, the radical left, the Democratic Socialists, that they are, they are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.
And now Chuck Schumer, if he wants to even temporarily remain in his position as the House Speaker, I'm sorry, as the House minority leader, not the House Speaker, as the Senate minority leader, he has to do something he never wanted to do.
You know, the idea that they think that they can get the support of the American people by demagoguing it.
No, that's not how this is going to work.
You know, when you think about what their demand is, $1.5 trillion in new government spending.
We're going on $38 trillion in debt in this country.
Donald Trump is trying to get a hold of reckless spending.
That's what Doge 1.0 is all about.
I think we're entering a phase that I rightly characterize from the beginning, what would likely turn into Doge 2.0.
And they have no compunctions about robbing from future generations.
And they don't even want to discuss that aspect of it.
But it is the results of politics-driven demands by the far left in this country.
And they were not elected for this.
Now, when I said that this has the opportunity and all the possibility of turning into Doge 2.0, I was not wrong.
Even the Washington Post later, like the next day, echoed my comments in an editorial that they put out, and that was yesterday, that the Democratic Party may have been led right into a trap by their far left wing for refusing to avert this government shutdown, and how the Congressional Progressive Caucus and other progressives forced Senator Chucky Schumer to abandon a deal that could have kept the government open, leaving Democrats at the mercy of President Donald Trump.
And then they go on to further explain in detail what this means.
Although the Democratic base may be tempted to play hardball politics, it should see that the Freedom Caucus' tactics, you know, because this is something that they would do.
And I'm not saying it was right or wrong.
I think they were rooted in principle.
Like, I assume the socialist, you know, radicals that run the party, you know, that they really believe this crap.
But, you know, how is this going to end any differently than they're going to have to give in and they're going to have to capitulate?
But back to the preposterous claim that Democrats are not trying to provide taxpayer-funded health care benefits.
It's just a lie.
The vice president, J.D. Vance, said Democrats want to reinstate Biden-era federal funding for emergency health care that will include illegal immigrants.
That was ended under the one big beautiful bill under the Trump administration.
They say we're not actually trying to give health care benefits to illegals.
And he said, this is why it's not true, is that the Biden error programs explicitly gave taxpayer health care money to illegals, and that was turned off when President Trump took office in January.
The first Biden error program, which was supposed to be temporary, it was supposed to be emergency health care during COVID.
You know, provided illegal immigrants have provided everybody and anybody.
We turned off that funding because we want American citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to be taxed, and then have those services given to people that are illegally in this country.
And that's what the one big beautiful bill did.
It tightened who could receive federal payments for emergency treatment and reduced the federal match.
Now, by the way, this does not stop illegal immigrants.
This does not stop, sorry, Democratic radicals.
I mean, they could always, you know, create their own fund for illegal immigrants and not through the force of government take your money and spend it on people that don't respect our laws, our borders, and our sovereignty.
But that's never an option for them.
I pointed this out many times.
Liberals, the left, they're only generous with other people's money.
You know, Nancy Pelosi, if you go to her house in her multi-million-dollar mansion, I have no problem that she's successful.
I'd like to know how she has one of the best track records of anybody ever investing in Wall Street history with her husband, but that's a separate issue for a different day.
But she lives in a multi-million dollar mansion, and one mile from where she lives is one of the worst open-den drug markets.
We've sent our cameras there, needles everywhere, people shooting up in the streets, people defecating in the streets, people urinating in the streets.
It's a hellhole.
And a mile in the other direction, away from this encampment, is where her office is.
And I just wonder, you know, why wouldn't somebody like Nancy Pelosi, with all the money that she's been able to make off Wall Street, why didn't she put together a fund?
And why didn't they build out on their own a facility for people that are addicted to drugs and that are homeless that are shooting up, you know, build them a place where they can go to the bathroom, maybe take a shower, maybe provide 24-7 drug counseling, maybe, you know, provide clothing and other items for people.
They're so generous with your money.
Why don't they be generous with their money?
But, you know, this is now what we're up against.
Democrats demanding $200 billion for illegal aliens.
And this is the thing: it's $1.5 billion.
And this is for a seven-week extension of government funding.
I mean, the Republicans are offering a clean, continuing resolution.
What is a clean?
That's what Democrats always said they wanted.
But what they're missing here is the federal government shut down.
And in the lead up to this, President Trump warned the administration could make irreversible changes to the federal workforce through a new wave of fresh layoffs.
In other words, this may give him that window of opportunity to actually cut back the size, the scope, the influence, the bureaucratic nightmare that has become Washington that is bankrupting this country.
It is an unprecedented opportunity.
And President Trump is now openly speaking about using this moment to go ahead and, in fact, cut back the size of government and not restore funding for a lot of this.
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In New Jersey, I want everybody in New Jersey to listen very closely.
Jack Chittarelli could win this race.
There are enough polls out now that show that this is a dead heat.
Most of these polls came out before the information on Mikey Cheryl came out about her being involved in a cheating scandal and not walking with her class at the Naval Academy and charges now allegations of nepotism with her two kids getting into the Naval Academy now beginning to resonate.
But if you're in the state of New Jersey, this is maybe your last shot.
You know, how did she personally profit while in office the way she did?
How do you feel about the cost of living, taxes, your electric bills in New Jersey?
This is your chance.
Same in Virginia.
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You know, this is not going to surprise any of you that follow media in any way.
It's just simply not.
And this is Gallup.
Trust in media is at a new low, 28%.
Now, here's the interesting part.
Republican confidence in mass media to report news fully, accurately, fairly, is 8%.
I wonder who would the 8% of Republicans that trust the legacy media mob because you can't trust them.
I mean, we have seen time and time and time again.
They have an agenda.
We have gone through it all.
Look at the legacy media mob.
Look at what they did with Donald Trump since the moment this man came down the escalator at Trump Tower with his wife.
Look at the three plus years of peddling lies and conspiracy theories about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Where in the mainstream legacy media mob did they ever tell you the real value of Mar-a-Lago?
Where in the legacy media mob, did they ever tell you that the statute of limitations had run out on a legal NDA, which is very common in business, and that Alvin Bragg came up with a novel legal theory to create 34 felony counts, something that had never been done before.
When did the legacy media mob say that it's wrong if you're running for attorney general or district attorney to run on a platform to destroy one man, one family, and one organization?
When did the legacy media mob, you know, complain or point out or protest the double standard when it comes to top secret classified information as it relates to Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump or Joe Biden versus the treatment of Donald Trump and the raid at Mar-a-Lago?
You know, when did they ever care about any of these things?
They never did.
You know, it goes back to very early in my career.
The media rushed to judgment, as we call it.
Richard Jewell, he fits the profile of the lone bummer.
He lives with his mother.
I was on the air at the time, and I'm like, well, maybe he's trying to save money.
That doesn't make one a domestic terrorist.
Ends up, he was listening to my show, didn't know it at the time.
And he said, you were the only, he told me later, you were the only one that didn't rush to judgment.
And I got one of the first interviews with him.
It taught me such a valuable lesson not to rush to judgment.
And it's paid off because when Duke LaCrosse came up, I just, I don't have to be first.
I just want to get it right.
And how did I find out that it was very unlikely this happened?
Well, I went to meet with a couple of the families that were involved in that case in Garden City, Long Island.
And I met with them and I learned in that meeting that they had exculpatory evidence that proved their innocence and that it would be forthcoming.
Therefore, I was able to stand apart from a mob and a mob both of professors on campus in the Duke LaCrosse case and a mob in the media that wanted to convict these kids, you know, without the benefit of a trial and believe the worst.
You know, how did I, then I followed suit, the UVA case or the case in Ferguson, Missouri, and Darren Wilson and this narrative, this lie, hands up, don't shoot, that was repeated over and over and over again.
Well, I do what you're supposed to do.
I got in contact with sources on the ground.
In this case, multiple law enforcement sources, a lot of them, and they all corroborated and confirmed to me that there were multiple, in this case, because a lot of people made it about race, African-American witnesses that would corroborate Officer Darren Wilson's story that Michael Brown reached into the car.
That's when the first shot went off.
And that Michael Brown, there was no hands up, don't shoot.
But Michael Brown, you know, ran at Officer Darren Wilson.
His life was ruined.
His career was ruined.
The media, you know, never retracts, never apologizes.
When does NBC, ABC, CBS, MSDNC, fake news, CNN, when did they ever say they were wrong on Russia collusion?
Had Carter Page on the other night.
This guy's life was ruined.
You know, it turned out Carter Page was actually a hero, and he would travel abroad, and he was a teacher, and he'd come back, and he'd share intelligence.
He would work in behalf of a government as a patriot.
Not that he was a spy, not that he was paid, because he could pass along information that our government wanted to know.
And he always cooperated because he wanted to be a good citizen.
Now running for Congress, by the way, we fully support his efforts there.
But because he was a volunteer to the Trump campaign, that warrant against Carter Page, of which they used the dirty Russian disinformation dossier bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton, that was never verifiable, totally debunked for the basis of four FISA applications.
That's why I think there should be, you know, other, you know, I think certainly investigations into James Comey signed three of the four of them.
The bulk of information presented to that court was that debunked dossier.
When did we know it was debunked before he signed the second warrant?
He signed three altogether.
And, you know, years later, Lindsey Graham asked all the people that signed the FISA warrants.
Knowing what you know now, would you sign the warrant?
No.
Well, why didn't you go back to the court and tell the court that the information you provided as evidence turned out to be bogus, which the law requires you to do?
Never happened.
You know, Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
I had friends of mine that literally sources telling me, Sean, I promise you, not one of these cops is ever going to be convicted, and here's why.
And they gave me the background.
You know, the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, the narrative was that George Zimmerman was, you know, okay, maybe you can argue he shouldn't be, you know, getting involved.
He should have just called the police.
Put that aside.
But I knew and learned early on that there would be an eyewitness, and I learned from law enforcement sources that there would be a witness that would testify that, in fact, the ground and pound was George Zimmerman's head into concrete, and that he was the one that was screaming, which ultimately led to that acquittal.
So it shouldn't surprise anybody, and I'm not patting myself on the back here.
I'm just saying, you know, when trust in the media is at an all-time low, when conservatives see 8% that the news media, the legacy media mob fully, accurately, fairly, you know, reports the news and their confidence in mass media is at 8%.
That should tell you everything you need to know.
When Gallup began measuring trust in the news media in the 1970s, between 68 and 72% of Americans expressed confidence in reporting.
The next reading in 1997, public confidence had fallen to 53%.
Media trust remained just above 50% until it dropped to 44% in 2004.
It has not risen to the majority level since.
The highest reading in the past decade was 45% in 2018.
There's two years after confidence had collapsed amid the divisive 2016 presidential campaign.
You know, it's fascinating to look how, you know, when you break this down among party lines, Democrats and Republicans continue to express different levels of trust in the legacy media.
Percentages with high confidence in reporting are at low points among all party groups.
Republicans' confidence, which has not risen above 21% since 2015, is now 8% for the first time in the trend.
8%.
Independence trust has not reached majority levels since 2003, and the latest numbers, 27%, a historic low.
For Democrats, the narrowest majorities, 51%, they do trust the media.
Why is that?
Why did Democrats?
Because the media slants so rock solidly left.
How could they not?
There's also a generational divide in the trusted media, which I can get into, but I think you get the gist of this.
Pretty amazing, actually.
A Times Sienna survey, Americans worry divisions cannot be overcome.
New York Times.
I find these polls fascinating.
I really do.
Anyway, they interviewed or polled 1,313 registered voters between September 22nd and 27th.
And it is impossible now to have a policy discussion said Amber Yang of Boston, who works in the finance and identifies as a Democrat.
Here's the problem we have with this, and that is divisions cannot be overcome.
Tell me how you reconcile the following: How do you reconcile those of us that believe in law and order and safety and security as a prerequisite to pursue happiness versus a mentality that supports defund, dismantle, no bail laws, reimagine the police?
Tell me where the middle ground is there.
Who's going to compromise?
Where is the compromise?
I don't see one.
You know, for those people that want open borders, for those people that want no vetting, for those people that want sanctuary cities and states, for those people that would protect those that did not respect our borders, our laws, our sovereignty, want to provide taxpayer-funded benefits like the Democrats do now and now have shut down the government in part because of this.
They want $1.5 trillion to keep the government open for seven weeks.
Not going to happen.
But how do you reconcile those that want open borders and benefits for people that are in the country illegally?
And that call Republicans enforcing the law.
They're protesting all over the country outside of ICE offices all over the country.
Now, I have story after story.
How do you reconcile that?
How do you reconcile those people that want the rights of men to play women's sports and be in women's locker rooms?
You know, how do you reconcile Kamala Harris wanting taxpayer-funded sex change operations or Tim Walls wanting taxpayer-funded college tuition or tampons in grade school boys' bathrooms?
How do you compromise on these issues?
You had a refugee, by the way, from Tanzania, been released by Colorado Democrats after being arrested for murder, caught on a college campus carrying a rifle.
You know, David Marcus, my run-in shows that in Portland, it's the cops who are handcuffed 100 nights in a row.
Antifa thugs have taken over the streets in front of U.S. immigration and customs enforcement facility, hooting, hollering, and waving any flag that wasn't old glory.
It goes on to say that, and it was clear, not the hapless handful of police on hand, that they were in control.
I later learned officers were told by their higher-ups not to engage the black-clad, masked radicals.
And if you have never seen Antifa at night in their natural menacing environment, I describe it as a mental asylum, meeting a Batman movie.
And it's almost, you know, hard to imagine these characters are real.
Well, now the National Guard is there.
Democrats don't want it.
You have all the murders in Chicago.
You can predict on any given weekend how many people will be shot, shot, and killed.
You know, and you have Democrats complaining that the president would like to restore law and order for the law-abiding citizens in Chicago so they can live in a peaceful environment and pursue their dreams in life.
Again, a prerequisite to happiness.
I don't know how you're going to reconcile these things.
Those that would spend us into oblivion, those that want to balance the budget, those that want energy dominance, those that don't.
Those that want a border wall, those that don't.
Those that believe in free market capitalism and those that believe, like, you know, Zoron, Kami, Marx's Mondani, that, you know, we're going to tax people more.
We're going to defund the police.
We're going to open the prisons.
We're going to take over property.
We're going to, you know, we shouldn't have billionaires or successful people or that we should put a limit on their success.
I don't know how you find middle ground there.
Yeah, it's a divide.
All right.
Three races we are watching in this off-year election year.
One, the Commonwealth of Virginia for governor and Winsom Sears.
The other, Jack Chitterelli, he'll be on TV tonight.
He's dead even in the state of New Jersey, the deep blue state of New Jersey.
And yes, the New York City mayoral race with Kami Marxist Mondami.
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