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Oct. 30, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Shutdown Gamble Backfires
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All right, Leonard Skinner, it's Simple Man.
That could only mean one thing on this radio program.
That is all things self-proclaimed, simple man.
That means all things, Bill O'Reilly, all things.
Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com, author of the number one New York Times bestseller, seller just out, confronting evil.
Congratulations, Mr. O'Reilly.
This book is legs and it's staying right at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
Eric Trump did bump you out of the number one spot, but I think after the run you've had, you're doing pretty well.
Yeah, I feel sorry for Eric, so that's okay.
What do you mean?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What do you mean you feel sorry for Eric?
No, you don't.
You're so freaking competitive.
Even though you were number one for weeks, it irritates you.
Admit it.
No, really.
I'm absolutely fine with free competition.
You had Eric Trump on your show.
I had him on mine.
I like him because he's feisty.
He gets involved in whatever the conversation is.
We're on to L.A. next week because they bought Confronting Evil for the movies.
And we're trying to figure out who the narrator is going to be.
Might remember that I'm killing Link in the film.
It was Tom Hanks who did a very good job.
All right, Mr. O'Reilly, I got two big, big topics for you.
Number one is the Schumer shutdown.
And by all indications, Democrats are getting very, very nervous and they're starting to crumble.
Let me play the fake news CNN data guru even admitting that Republicans have been rising in popularity because of the Democratic shutdown.
Listen.
Take a look here, the shift in net popularity versus pre-shutdown.
When we're looking at the Republican Party overall, that brand actually up two points.
That's within the margin of error, but clearly it hasn't dropped.
Come over to this side of the screen.
Look at the net approval ratings for Republicans in Congress.
It's actually up five points since pre-shutdown.
So what we're seeing here is the Republican brand in Congress has actually improved somewhat compared to where we were pre-shutdown.
All right.
The exact opposite of what happened in 2018.
Now, last week they had an opportunity, the Democrats did, to pay the military.
They passed on that.
Yesterday, they had an opportunity to extend SNAP benefits, which impacts 42 million Americans.
Those are food stamps.
Now today, they decided, uh-oh, maybe this is bad, and they're going to propose their bill to do exactly what they voted against yesterday.
And they've now been saying the quiet part out loud.
We have congressmen and women that we played on this program that have said it.
Now, Chris Koons, the senator, said the quiet part out loud, that the shutdown is their only, quote, leverage.
Listen.
Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House.
Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage.
And although a very unpleasant tool to use, it's gotten us focused on what we have to do to change direction on health care.
So if it means 42 million Americans lose their benefits on Saturday, that's their leverage, and they've said it openly.
How do you see this playing out?
And I think rightly so.
Chuck Schumer's been against shutdowns his whole life, and we've played montage after montage.
And now here he is giving into the radical wing of his party, and they're admitting they're only doing it for leverage.
We have to look at the big picture.
So the Democrats are getting really hammered on pretty much every front with one exception, higher food prices.
But everything else is going pretty well for the Trump White House and the Republican Party.
So they had to make a stand, and that's what Schumer has done about health care, that they're the party that are more generous in providing health benefits to Americans.
The problem is it's a bogus story because Obamacare, which this is based on, is totally out of control financially.
And what the Democrats want, this is what people don't understand.
They want something very specific.
During COVID, there were price rises for people that didn't have a lot of money.
There were extensions of Obamacare, higher brackets, lower deductibles.
All that cost the federal government billions of dollars.
Those were supposed to roll back after COVID expired.
And that's what the Democrats don't want.
They want those COVID extensions to continue, adding almost a trillion dollars to the budget that wasn't there.
Okay?
And we have a $38 trillion debt.
That's what most people don't understand.
It's a very specific play.
But they're also in their proposal, because it's $1.5 trillion that they're demanding to keep the government open for a whopping seven weeks.
Included in that is hundreds of billions for health care for illegals.
Yes, you're right about extending what should have been temporary, you know, the added COVID benefits.
That's people above 800% above the poverty line, Bill.
That's a lot of money we cannot afford, as you rightly point out.
But then they also want to fund PBS and NPR.
That's part of their package as well on part of the demand as well.
But here's the most important thing about what you just raised.
Shuma knew the Republicans were never going to okay that ever in a million years.
You couldn't be in the Republican Party and vote for that.
Now, there's a new study I'm leading with it on the New Spin News tonight.
Welcome PAC, PAC.
Have you ever heard of that?
Yes, they did a study.
And they did hundreds of thousands of people, and they concluded, after interviewing all these people, 70% of the country views the Democrats as out of touch and extreme.
Right.
But why?
Because exactly what you said, that the Democratic Party continues to push benefits for undocumented migrants and does not want any immigration reform.
So most Americans recoil on both of those fronts.
So 70%, not just Democrats, so everybody that was surveyed by this group, this group, say, look, Democratic Party is just out of touch with America.
We want relief at the grocery store.
Oil prices are already coming down.
Gas prices are coming down.
And that looks like a good trend.
I think that's going to hold.
And we want affordable health care.
We don't want trillions of dollars being spent on these politically correct woke programs, which the Democrats love, the progressive movement loves.
And that is going to destroy them next week.
I think the Republicans are going to win the governorship of New Jersey next week.
Well, I will be in New Jersey tomorrow, Mr. O'Reilly, and I'm doing a town hall with Jack Chitterelli.
And the only reason, you know, look, I admit when I make a mistake, and I made a mistake.
I saw the polls.
I believed them four years ago.
I didn't see a shot for Jack Chittorelli, and I basically ignored the race.
I talked about it a little bit, not a lot.
I didn't go all in.
And there are two polls that have it a one-point race, including people I really respect, like Matt Towery and Robert K. Haley.
So I'm going to do a town hall in New Jersey tomorrow.
And by the way, if you want to come, I'll make sure you get a free ticket.
Although I think all the tickets are taken, it's in Point Pleasant, New Joise.
Shore you're going down there, right?
Dude, I'm going to get tatted up and I'm going to hang out at the Jersey Shore.
Yeah.
I'm going to give out pork rolls to everybody, too, because apparently Mikey Sherrill has no idea what they are.
She has no idea where she got $7 million and no idea why she didn't walk with her graduating class at the Naval Academy.
Well, it's really interesting to see, and I wish you the best with your town hall.
If Chitterelli wins the governorship and Mandani wins the mayor race in New York City, you're going to have a tremendous tension between the two entities because about 500,000 New Jersey ads commuted to New York every day.
I don't think there's going to be a tension.
I'm going to tell you it's going to be the beneficiaries.
Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County executive, the Nassau County, Suffolk County executive.
Westchester will benefit.
Upstate New York will benefit, and New Jersey will benefit when Momdani wins, which is my topic number two.
Bill O'Reilly, correct me if I'm wrong, but there were two polls in two days that came out this week.
One had Mamdani up by 10, and the other had him up by 15.
You tell me.
It seems pretty inevitable at this point.
Yeah, I predicted yesterday that he's going to win.
And I had a very serious conversation with my daughter, who's 26 years old, who's on the Upper East Side, an attorney.
And I said, look, if this guy wins, your lifestyle has to change because crime, violent crime, is going to be a factor in your life.
You're not going to be able to go out by yourself at night or even twilight.
You're going to have to.
I'm curious.
I'm not trying to get into your personal life at all.
And you do have great kids.
I know your son better than your daughter.
Your son's a great kid, and he's very bright and very smart, very athletic, good kid.
But from all, you've told me she's an amazing girl.
And I mean, that scares me to have any young woman or any woman in the city right now.
That scares the hell out of me.
And she lives in a fairly affluent part of Manhattan.
And I don't understand the people living in the poor areas how they think that this is not going to affect them and their children directly when the police, the NYPD, are 10,000 down from where they should be.
And Mandami wants to cut a billion dollars out of their budget.
That means they're not going to be able to respond to 911 calls.
All right, quick break, right back.
All things simple man Bill O'Reilly on the other side.
Then we'll get to your calls, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Congressman James Comer coming up as well.
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This is infuriating to me.
All this last-minute pressure, you know, and panic that is set in by people.
Oh, Curtis has to get out of the race, et cetera, et cetera.
And I'm like, well, where was the panic after Mamdani won the Democratic primary?
I'm like, all of a sudden, two and a half weeks out of the election, all of a sudden, now you're realizing that this guy's about to be the next mayor.
To me, all of these people that have, you know, this last-minute panic are not credible to me.
Because I'm like, what part of this are you?
Have you not been able to see?
Are your eyes, you know, blind?
Are you your eyes closed?
Do you not see Homo's been lazy in his campaigning?
Well, 50% of the New York electorate were born out of the country.
And that separates me.
By the way, that is a true statistic.
I cited it myself.
Well, if you hear it from me, you know it's true, Annie.
Oh, good grief.
Can you ever stop?
Can you just stop for a minute?
That's the difference.
Look, there are strongholds of progressivism in this country, but the rest of the country is rejecting it.
It's very interesting to watch the strongholds.
That's Boston, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, L.A., the big urban centers.
But the rest of the country, including it looks like New Jersey, all right, is saying, you know, this is dangerous.
All right.
Here's the broader question, bigger picture.
I want the, you know, the view from 40,000 feet.
I think this is going to be one of the most single, most destructive things for the Democratic Party.
They will misinterpret the results.
They think they will think this is now the direction the party needs to head, and they will ignore the fact that New Jersey and Virginia should not be close as they are.
Yeah, Virginia, I'm worried about because the center of that is Northern Virginia.
They all work in D.C. But let me give you one thing that you can take away from Ma'am Adani.
Governor Hochul is a terrible governor.
All right.
He's not as bad as Pritzker and Newsom, but she's close.
She posed for a picture with Mandani, arms raised.
Did you see that picture?
I saw her get booed off the stage and she didn't realize she was being booed.
She thought they were saying, let's go, Bills.
Okay, yeah.
You'll see that picture next year when she's up for reelection.
She'll lose.
That picture is going to assure her defeat.
By the way, it doesn't mean a Republican can win New York.
There's too many people like me that have packed and left.
Wall Street South is real.
We have had many discussions about this.
And I'm telling you right now, I know companies and people, if this guy's elected, they're out.
While they may move to the suburbs.
I live eight months from the Queen border, and my home value has gone up 20%.
Sell it now at its high before, and otherwise you're going to regret it, O'Reilly.
I'll find you a nice place where I live.
And Nashville County is the safest county in the country, so I'm okay.
Bruce Blakeman's awesome.
He's awesome.
Love Bruce Blakeman.
Good job, and so is the police commissioner.
Patrick Riley.
Yeah, agreed.
All right, Mr. O'Reilly, appreciate you.
Thank you.
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I meant to get to this yesterday.
It is.
It is beyond frustrating that the left in this country has the constant dehumanizing and insightful comments and comparisons to Hitler don't stop.
But the worst, worst part of it is they're lying about even saying it.
I mean, they're so disconnected from reality.
Here's Nicole Wallace.
Now, remember, she used to run John McCain and Sarah Palin's presidential campaign.
What happened to her?
I don't know.
Maybe she's like Liberal Joe and wants a career in television.
I have no idea, but she's not the person that I once knew.
And she say, oh, no, I don't know a single person that's ever used a Hitler analogy.
Listen.
I haven't suggested that Donald Trump is Hitler.
I wouldn't say that.
I don't think any Democrat has.
I actually, and I think it's a smear that they project back on to critics.
Oh, I don't think any Democrat has.
Really?
She was interviewing that idiot, J.B. Pritzker.
You know, five times the murder rate in Illinois, the homicide rate in Illinois over New York City.
Now that's saying a lot.
And anyway, let's just play J.B. Pritzker and all the times he has made this idiotic analogy himself.
Listen.
I studied the Holocaust.
I've helped to build a Holocaust museum.
This is what happened in the early days of the Nazi regime in Germany.
Everything that he has done has been tearing down constitutional democracy.
And that's what happened in Nazi Germany.
It doesn't take very long to tear apart a constitutional republic.
Indeed, the Nazis did it in 53 days.
And our democracy is almost as fragile.
And we're seeing it right now.
The dangers that we saw in Nazi Germany, especially in the earliest days of Nazi Germany, are the dangers that we need to react to now.
People have criticized me for talking about the Nazi regime.
It's the one I know most about because I helped to build a Holocaust museum.
This is what happened.
People's rights started getting taken away.
People got accused of being immigrants.
This is before the Holocaust really took place.
There are lots of authoritarians that I could point to.
It happens that I know best because I helped build a Holocaust museum sitting next to Holocaust survivors.
Let me tell you something.
It used to be, you don't make Nazi comparisons.
You don't call somebody a Nazi because you're talking about a mass murderer and you don't hide behind, well, I helped build a Holocaust museum as a means of justifying the false use of that term because that is the embodiment of evil.
And it's not just Pritzker.
You know, you would think that over at MSDNC that maybe they might do a little homework before they're interviewing somebody like J.B. Pritzker and about the rhetoric and the language, as insightful as it is and as dehumanizing as it is, while we're living in assassination culture.
But it's not just Pritzker.
It's all the Democrats.
Listen.
We have a Timu Hitler in the White House right now.
I don't even know what to call him.
I've called him so many things, but this wannabe Hitler for sure.
Comparing the tactics of Donald Trump to Mussolini and Hitler is a very legitimate thing.
Let me ask you tonight.
Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
Yes, I do.
Donald Trump's modern-day Gescapo is scooping folks up off the streets.
He is paving the way to become a Vladimir Putin or to become an Adolf Hitler or a Kim Jong-un.
That's what he wants to be.
Is that not going too far to make a comparison between the president of the United States and the Nazis?
Find me a better analogy.
Well, Hitler was duly elected, right?
Okay.
Can we be any more clear?
Frank in New York.
What's up, Frank?
New York, New York.
What's going on?
Hello, Sean.
I wanted to continue on with the conversation regarding Mandami.
So as I understand it, and it's been said many a times, the Marxist agenda that he may try to push as mayor in New York City, there's state, city, and federal laws that are literally going to fizzle this thing out.
But I noticed that there's a lot of talk in the media, among politicians, that actually show the worry about this guy being in office.
And I'm curious as to why that worry exists if he can't really.
Let me ask you a question.
Why, if somebody tells you what they're going to do, why do you not believe that that's the agenda they're going to push hard to fulfill?
Why would you just say, oh, he can't do that?
I'm not so sure that you're right, and especially with Kathy Hochul now scared to death that her re-election is coming, and she's getting booed off the stage by Mamdani supporters, and she knows her political future like Chuck Schumer knows his political future is hanging in the balance like Hakeem Jeffries in New York knows his political future is hanging in the balance.
So what you're saying is relying on the law and the courts and his limitation of what he can do is not something we should necessarily lean on.
No, not in New York, New York, the state of New York.
No, I don't believe that for you're going to count on liberal New York justices, the guy that valued Mar-a-Lago at what, $18 million when it's a billion and a half dollar property, and it wouldn't even allow real estate experts to testify?
The state that allowed Alvin Bragg to take a statute of limitations case that was long expired and turned it into 34 felony counts, you're counting on those courts?
Because that's what that, that's where that these issues will go.
You're trusting that?
That's an incredible, that's insane, that's the definition of insanity.
I'm telling you, believe them when they say it.
That's what he believes in.
That's what he's fighting for.
That's what he wants for New York City.
And I can tell you right now, and I have article after article in front of me today about Mom Donnie, and I'm telling you, companies, people that own property, they are preparing their exit.
They want no part of this.
Do you think this is going to affect upstate as well where I live, Sean?
No, I actually think it's going to help upstate.
I think it's going to help Nassau County.
Bruce Blakeman's running on a campaign, you know, get out of New York and move to Nassau County.
I mean, we just heard from Bill O'Reilly, he says his property values since Mom Donnie ran are up 20%.
That's a lot.
Interesting stuff.
Look, I'm just telling you, the idea that you don't believe when he says something, I think is naive.
And, you know, buckle up, because, you know, the last two polls had him up 10.
Another one had him up 15.
Do I still hope Curtis Sleba pulls it out?
Sure, I do.
But the idea that everybody in only the last two, two and a half weeks has woken up to the idea that, oh, my God, he's going to be the next mayor is ridiculous to me.
We saw this coming a mile away.
I appreciate your explanation, Sean.
That makes a lot of sense.
It's something that's been on my mind.
So thank you for that.
No, I appreciate it, buddy.
And listen, I'm saying this in all sincerity as somebody that grew up in Long Island that worked a lot of years in New York City.
And it just got so bad, I had to go.
I'd walk in a restaurant and I could see I'm triggering half the room.
You know, if you have eyes to see, and you know, people might say, well, your fault.
I've been on TV 30 years.
I'm very recognizable.
And when people get disgusted at my very presence, I'm putting innocent people with me in jeopardy.
And I didn't feel comfortable doing that anymore.
All right, my friend.
God bless you.
Florida is a free state.
You're welcome.
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Let's go to Pete, North Carolina.
What's up, Pete?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, thank you for taking my call.
I understand all the people that are trying to leave states like New York, California, Illinois.
I'm just hoping that they don't bring their politics with them.
I say that all the time.
If you're going to move to Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, Tennessee, don't bring your idiotic, left-wing, radicalized policies with you and destroy the state you're moving to.
There ought to be a political litmus test.
Seriously, because those states are thriving.
My free state of Florida is thriving.
I mean, now they're going to put a referendum on the ballot to reduce property taxes because they've gone up exponentially since COVID.
And if they cap that, forget it.
I mean, Florida is golden, good to go.
They've dealt with the insurance issue that's been a problem down here, and that's going to get better.
So, you know, every state has their issues, but law and order is real down here.
I'll give you an example.
I was driving one night, and they had a random stop, and the police, you know, just making sure everybody's okay.
That's it.
And you might be in the country illegally, and you don't get a driver's license from Florida if you're an illegal immigrant.
You know, you get that in other states.
So it's not that we're targeting people, it's just we're demanding that people obey the laws and respect our borders and our sovereignty.
We're enforcing the law of the land.
It's very different.
If you come into this country legally, I say, God bless you.
We just need to vet you, do a background check, a health check, make sure you're not going to be a financial burden on the American people.
That's all we want.
Then I don't care where you come from.
Welcome to our country.
Absolutely.
All right, my friend.
Hang in there.
Back to our busy phones, 800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Brian, California, what's up, Brian?
How are you?
Good day, Mr. Hannity.
I had a little comment and a little history on this Mom Donnie character that the Democrats have as their mayor, nominee for the mayor of New York, and has soaked the rich to pay for it.
On November 5th of 1990, the day before the midterm elections, Congress passed a luxury tax surcharge on things that rich people bought.
If you bought a boat over $100,000, a car over $30,000, a plane over $250,000, or jewelry over $10,000, there was a 10% surcharge on it.
It was designed to raise about $9 billion to help offset some of the federal budget deficit.
And Dan Rostenkowski, who was the congressman from Illinois.
He was the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee back in the day.
Arguably the most powerful man in Congress had come up with the plan and rushed it through.
100%.
Very powerful.
So it went into effect on the 1st of January, 1991.
At that time, the boat building industry in the United States was the best in the world.
Okay.
It tanked.
I'll jump to the conclusion.
It tanked afterwards.
People stopped buying boats.
Well, the rich people have options.
In the first quarter, they dropped by 80%.
So who gets hurt in that situation?
Because is it the rich people that say, I'm not giving you that money?
Or is it the people that build the boats, hardworking men and women that benefit when rich people buy these?
I don't know.
I hate boats.
I can't stand them.
I've had two little boats in my life.
I gave them both away.
In the first six months, 19,000 jobs were lost.
By the end of two and a half years, over 50,000 jobs were lost.
These were middle-class families.
Yeah, they're getting hurt.
Listen, I'm going to add to what you're saying because you're 1,000% right.
And anyone with basic common sense understands you and understands what we're saying.
But I'm going to say this.
I am telling this audience, it's like we're a family.
I'm giving you family advice.
There's nearly $18 trillion in committed investments in manufacturing that are in the pipeline for the next three years.
And the one big beautiful bill was 100% depreciation for manufacturing.
That's semiconductor chips.
That's pharmaceuticals.
That's rare earth minerals.
That's automobiles.
You couple that with the largest tax cut in history.
When Reagan cut taxes, we created 21 million new jobs.
You add to that the wide open industry now that is energy dominance, and there's going to be all high-paying career jobs.
What I'm saying to people that I love and care about, and that's all of you in this audience, look at these opportunities and make a decision.
You might find a career job that's going to double or triple your pay, give you great benefits, and you'll have a great future for you and your family.
Get ahead of the curve.
Get your applications in now, okay?
Because that money's being spent.
It's going to be spent quickly.
So whatever field of endeavor you're most interested in.
Anyway, you're right.
100%.
The people that are going to get hurt are working men and women.
I hate to see that.
I hate it because I lived that life for two decades of my life.
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