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Nov. 13, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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New York City's Future Unclear
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And Linda, what does that mean?
All things Bill O'Reilly.
That means allthingsbilloreilly.com.
By the way, number one New York Times bestseller, confronting evil, assessing the worst of the worst.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, I've got two topics that we are going to get into today.
First, did I or did I not warn you you're wasting your time going on Bill Maher's show?
Did I not warn you?
Well, that was your opinion, but boy, I got a lot of currency out of that.
All right.
Well, you know, your definition of currency in mind.
All right.
Let me play one segment, and then I'm going to go over your analysis of the election, which usually we are in full sync agreement, and I'm going to tell you why I think you're wrong in the nice way because we're friends and we can have a discussion.
But here's part of the discussion that you had with Bill Maher.
I like your program.
And you were disenchanted, and correct me if I'm wrong, which I very rarely am, so you probably won't have to do that.
You're disenchanted with the far-left wing of the Democratic Party, okay?
Because you believe that it's poisoned the well for everybody else, like the congressman here.
Because they never meant anything that was counterintuitive that they didn't love.
Right.
So they want to put trans people in here and they want to do this.
And it just dilutes the message that the Democratic Party has traditionally had, that we're for the workers.
We want to improve the lives of the backbone of the country.
Now you're into all this fringe garbage that Americans don't want.
I think that's your posture.
And I wouldn't put it that way, but go ahead.
Okay.
But you might want to rethink because that's a good way to put it.
Well, I'm still on the air and you're not, but go ahead.
I expected that.
All right.
First, I got to tip my hat to you.
I thought you were very funny, very glib.
I tip my hat to you.
You did a great job.
But the problem when you debate a comedian, and there's something about Maher I like.
I think there's a level of honesty in him and Jon Stewart that does not exist in the rest of these late night comics.
And like Jon Stewart just eviscerated Democrats on the shutdown.
Here's my point, though, is that it just, for me, I'm like, as well as you did, I'm like, why?
You have to fly out to California.
Why?
Now, if he would go to your place, I could see, you know, maybe doing it in that environment.
But the crowd is on his side.
You won the Mova more than I thought you would.
You have this side of you that enjoys getting pounded by the opposition.
But I didn't get pounded.
The joust was, went my way.
And as you pointed out, the crowd, which was his crowd, at the end, they were my crowd.
But I didn't even care about that.
The reason I went to the West Coast was to sell Confronting Evil.
So we did Marr.
Well, it's already a number one New York Times bestseller.
I mean, you already have been crushing it with selling that book because it's honestly, because it's a great book.
I read it cover to cover.
Thank you.
And I have an obligation, and I take it seriously, to my publisher who pays me a lot of money to sell as many books as I can.
That's what I do.
But I did Hallie Mandel.
I did Dana Carvey.
I did Billy Bush.
did all of these programs in a day and a half.
And they went all over the world and are on billowrelly.com, we, as you know, have premium membership through the roof because we can't reach everybody, particularly people who don't agree with us, our point of view on life, through our own vehicles.
You have to go into the enemy camp.
And I'm pretty confident I can hold my own with anyone.
So anyway, that's why I did it.
It worked our way.
I thought it was worthy.
It was entertaining.
It's not the Hannity radio program, but, you know, that's the top.
So I go down from there.
All right.
So now let's go to your analysis of Election Day because you were very, very, very critical of the losses that took place.
And here's my argument back to you.
If you read the New York Post yesterday, it had that New York, over 2 million New Yorkers have fled in the last number of years.
You had in the last three years in New Jersey, a quarter of a million people have left, over 500,000 have left in recent years.
And that's from the last election that Chitterelli came very close to winning.
He got 150,000 more votes than he did the last time.
I would argue all of those people that left would have been inclined to vote for Chittarelli, not for Mikey Sherrill.
And so migration has played a very, very big role in shaping, making these blue states, deep blue states, even deeper blue.
And I don't think there's any coming back from it.
And you seem to think that in what is a typical off-year election cycle where we were expected to win nothing.
And I would argue that the one outlier four years ago was Glenn Young, but it was a great candidate, way super above average.
And the issues and the timing could not have been more perfect for him.
And Winsome Sears, I did not feel ran a good campaign.
So I'm trying to understand why anything surprised you on election night.
Didn't surprise me.
My analysis is based on going forward.
So I made three essential points.
Number one, that the vote last week doesn't have anything to do with the midterms coming a year from now on November 3rd, 2026, because it'll be a completely different country then.
That's how fast things are moving in America.
Number two, that the reason the Jersey thing shifted, and you make an excellent point about demographics, is because of high prices in the Northeast, particularly for insurance and not all food, but a lot of food.
And if you look at and study the exit polling in Jersey, the Republicans lost a lot of Hispanic votes, and those are working class votes.
We're having trouble now with the exorbitant amount of insurance premiums they're being faced.
The Republicans have got to deal with that.
And the third analysis was that when you have a system where people are angry, and there were two drivers of that anger.
One was the government shutdown, and people didn't understand it.
And they didn't really know what the Democrats were doing by manipulating Obamacare this way.
They didn't understand it.
And I'm not being supercilious or arrogant.
They just didn't get it.
But they were angry about that.
And they were angry about paying a lot for hamburgers.
And when you have anger, the incumbents always take it.
Those are the three points that I made.
Okay.
So you acknowledge what I'm telling you.
And here's where the country is going to change dramatically, is when we have the next census data come in, which is 2030, which will impact the 2032 election, you're going to see a dramatic decrease in electoral votes in blue states because they have driven people out.
I believe in the end, Momdani is going to drive people out.
There are more JP Morgan Chase.
Is there anything more identifiable with New York City than J.P. Morgan?
There are more employees in the state of Texas than there are in New York City.
You heard, you know, JB, you heard the head of Goldman Sachs, they're building out an 800,000 square foot facility, Citadel, Ken Griffin, multi-multi-billionaire.
He is headquartered in my free state of Florida.
Every major bank, every private equity firm, every Wall Street firm now has major office space in South Florida.
Period, end of sentence.
That migration now that Momdani's been elected is only going to accelerate.
And I would argue it's going to happen in New Jersey.
It's going to continue to happen in California.
It's going to continue to happen in Illinois.
What's going to happen?
We're going to have a census.
This time, we're not going to include illegal immigrants.
And guess what?
You're going to see a massive change in terms of the electoral map in this country.
There might not be a need for a future Republican candidate to sweep the blue wall to win the election.
Yeah, you're looking out a lot.
I mean, I think that Hogel in New York is going to lose to Stefanik next November.
And that will stop a little of the hemorrhaging here.
I think Mandani is going to fail.
Bill, you're dreaming.
As of today, and I love Elise Stefanik.
I think she will make it close.
I think Kathy Hochl is hated.
But as of now, odds are that Democrats win that election because if in fact she does what I expect, which will be to capitulate to Mamdani and give him what he wants to get his support, he will drive out the vote in the city that will overcome all of the rest of the state that would vote against her.
I see it differently.
I don't think that the, if you look at the vote in New York, half of the voters didn't show up.
Half registered voters didn't vote in a mayor or election, if you can imagine that.
And that's going to go down and down and down and down because you have low awareness voters.
But in the rest of the state, people are fed up.
And I think that a good campaign is going to dethrone her because she's going to be attached to Mandani, who's going to fail in a very spectacular way.
This is not going to be a quiet failure here.
This is going to be a blood in the street failure.
And once people see that, non-ideologues, and that's most Americans, they're going to recoil against it.
You're basically saying that the people that were perfectly fine with the summer of 2020 riots, 574 of them, where dozens of Americans were killed and thousands of cops injured and billions in property damaged, and they didn't care one lick, you're telling me that all of a sudden that base is not going to be emboldened.
Everybody that was going to vote against Mamdani went out.
They did.
And a lot of them switched from Curtis to Cuomo, thinking, all right, well, combined Mamdani beat Curtis and Cuomo.
Correct, because they were bad candidates.
But I'm telling you that the people who ordinarily wouldn't bother with politics.
I don't think they were bad candidates.
Well, I think Cuomo's damaged from his previous tenure as governor.
I think the problem is that New York is so radical left that this is what you would expect as an outcome.
I didn't look if you had a charismatic independent running against Mandani, I think it would have beat him.
But you did like a Bloomberg?
Go see Andrew Cuomo, who'd look like a vampire out there, and Curtis, who, you know, look, I like Curtis, and I agree with what his point of view is, but he just didn't have it.
But anyway, I think that the worst things get in.
It's simple math, Bill.
There's no Republican that can be mayor of New York City.
It's not happening in our lifetime.
It's over.
Listen, I'll put big money on this for you.
I think the Republicans will take Albany, and that'll turn things around.
But here's the most important thing.
I'll take that bet today.
How much do you want to go in for, Bill?
All right.
You want to go 10 grand to your best charity?
Done.
Amen.
Okay, everybody.
Mark this, Linda.
Write it down.
Mark it.
Listen, but I'll say that.
Nothing would make me happier than to give money.
I know we both are aligned with a lot of charities.
Nothing would make me happier than to cut you that check.
And vice versa.
But I'm going to tell you that there's a lot of anger in the air.
And if President Trump can turn the economy in the next three or four months into a much more favorable price situation.
Second quarter of next year, if he does it by then, it's a game changer for the midterms.
That's everything.
And that will infect New York City.
That will.
Let me tell you what.
Listen, go look at the date that Reagan passed his tax plan.
It was too late into his first term to have any discernible impact that people felt in the economy.
And he lost 26 seats in the midterm.
He came back two years later.
The economy turned around.
21 million new jobs.
Longest period of peacetime economic growth.
He won 49 out of 50 states.
Once the economy turns, we have all of the manufacturing, the trillions of manufacturing that is going to get online, energy money online, largest tax cuts in history.
Reagan doubled revenues, cutting taxes.
It's all got to hit at once, and we'll have a new Fed chair.
That's the hope for the Republican Party and for President Trump's legacy, that it has to kick in, I would say, by April.
The trends are that way.
100%.
Down on the Nosebin News tonight about every blank and product you could think of in the grocery store, and 75% of them are down.
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.
I want to get to the bottom with Bill O'Reilly here on this issue.
Apparently, he was invited on, what is the name of a Bill Maher's podcast?
It's called Club at Random.
Okay.
I've seen it, and he does smoke weed on the show.
Did you smoke weed with Bill Maher?
That's an interesting question because he wanted me to do his podcast in addition to the show, but he smokes pot on the podcast.
You weren't going to join?
You didn't want to get a contact high?
No.
As you know, Hannity and I, listening audience, doesn't know this.
We don't drink or take drugs.
We're not in that world at all.
And Trump is.
I don't think you don't drink at all, right?
No, but I've never seen you buzzed.
No, I'm really, I can drink, you know, and I don't really feel it.
I mean, I have this weird reaction that nobody else has, but I don't really bother then.
What's the point?
I remember being at dinner once, and at the dinner was you, President Trump, Mark Levin, the great one.
Thank me.
God bless us.
Another mutual friend of ours and Geraldo.
And we all had dinner together.
And the only people that had a glass of some wine was me and Geraldo.
And I looked around the table.
You might recall this.
And I said, none of you drink, do you?
And you all said no.
And I said, of all the people in the world that I know that really probably should drink, it's all four of you.
And I think it got a little chuckle out of everybody.
Yeah.
And then Geraldo got naked and ran around a White House.
I think he did something.
I don't remember.
I don't recall.
I was not a part of any of it.
Anyway, Bill O'Reilly, all things simple man, all things O'Reilly at BillO'Riley.com.
Bill, we appreciate you.
Thanks, Evany.
All right, simple man, Bill O'Reilly, going where most people wouldn't dare go.
Who's conservative anyway?
Although I give him a lot of credit for doing that.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Meg in my free state of Florida.
Meg, hi, how are you?
Thanks for checking in.
Glad you called.
Yes, thanks, Sean.
I just wanted to say, as much as I love you, and I really do, and I'm glad you're here in Florida, please stop inviting people here because you are all pricing us.
All the New Yorkers are pricing us natives and people who have been here for like 30 years, like right out.
I hate to tell you, it's just the, if you've been here and you're a native, and I've had property now in Florida, I probably go on 30 years myself, right?
I've always wanted to be down here.
It just was a matter of timing and where I had to work and my kids being raised and all that.
No, just the opposite.
If you've been here a long time, your property values have skyrocketed through the roof.
People have benefited financially because of people coming.
Now, registration among Republicans, you know, we're now net advantage like one and a half million.
It used to be a purple state.
Trust me, the liberals, the left is not coming here.
They're staying in their beloved New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California.
God bless them.
Let them stay there.
If you're liberal, stay where you are.
You're not allowed to come.
I don't want you to come.
Let me just say, we had a sinkhole property and we had the, eight years in court was a long story, but we sold it through a remediator.
We took a break from buying because it was just like, oh, we need a break.
We rented, moved closer to where we worked.
Trying to get back in the market.
We're retired veterans.
I'm disabled veteran.
We are not finding anything that we could comfortably afford.
It's ridiculous.
And because price of my neighbor's house was $89,000 five years ago, then it went to like $200,000.
Now they're selling that same 1950 block construction home, three bedroom, one bath for $575,000.
And there's nowhere people who don't have the kind of means that some people in New York have.
And let's get realistic.
New York money goes a little farther down here.
What you can sell for up there, you can still find cheaper stuff down here in comparison.
But people who live here with the wages we have here, if you're not making, you know, $700,000 a year, you're about price out of most of these areas.
Let me give you some numbers and then I want to address your individual situation.
New York lost because of migration out of New York over $517 billion.
California, $370 billion.
Illinois, $315 billion.
Florida gained as the number one gaining state with over a trillion dollars in revenues in terms of new income to the state.
Now, with that said, you're describing a very real problem.
Now, I have to ask a couple of personal questions if you want me to help you.
However, if you don't want to answer them, I totally understand.
And maybe we'll talk offline one day.
But here's my question.
What part of Florida do you live in?
We're in the Tampa Bay metro area.
Okay, Tampa's very expensive.
Tampa Clearwater.
I know the area very well.
I have friends there.
How close are you to the water?
We're pretty close within a mile and a half.
And the reason is because we work on McDill Air Force Base.
So we work there.
The further out that you're able to commute.
For example, when I first bought my first house in Long Island when I started at Fox, I had an hour and a half commute each way.
And the reason is I wanted a nicer house that I could afford.
And I was willing to make that sacrifice.
Now, I don't want you to travel an hour and a half to get to work every day.
And you might not be able to based on what you do for a living.
And thank you for serving your country.
Have you ever gotten your VA loan, which I believe you get a one-time shot at.
Have you guys gotten that?
We have, and you don't necessarily get a one-time shot.
And we lived at the time, it was a 30-minute commute.
We actually lived in Pasco County for 10 years.
That was where the sinkhole home was.
And we moved down here to be closer to work because the commute went from being 30 minutes to get down here in the morning to taking over an hour and a half to two hours each way, going down here and going home.
And that's just 20 miles away.
It is far worse now than it was eight years ago when we moved down to this part of Tampa.
Yeah, I mean, the insurance company didn't make you whole on that sinkhole house.
No, we actually offered us $1,000 for a settlement, which of course we rejected.
We sued them in court.
That process took about eight years.
And we won our case, but it was not enough to cover what was left on the house.
So we actually put a lot of it aside, gave some to the kids, you know, stuff like that that they needed for college and stuff at that time.
We were fine here.
We thought we're just going to squirrel stuff away.
And I'm 100% disabled veteran, so I get a little more benefit with the VA loan than some.
However, looking at what's out there to buy, we don't need a giant McMansion.
We don't need that.
But we actually would have to.
You're looking for a nice home in a safe neighborhood, just a nice house which you deserve and I want you to have.
I really, you know, I know a lot about real estate, which is why I'm getting a little in the weeds here.
I get you.
You know, what you're describing is unique and very challenging.
It's not unique that a lot of people breaking into the home market.
It used to be most people got their first home at 30.
Now it's up to 40.
And I think under President Trump, when interest rates come down, you're going to see a huge uptick in sale of pre-existing homes and new home construction.
We're down about anywhere between four and a half to six million homes, residences that need to be built in the country.
I wish there was something I could do to help you or give you some more confidence in it.
I know you probably don't want to be a lifelong renter.
I get that.
But I will tell you overall, and again, you're a very specific case with the sinkhole, but generally speaking, lifelong Floridians benefited from the influx of a trillion dollars in migrating money.
But in your case, it just worked against you because of the timing and eight years in court and a decade of migration.
It was just a perfect negative storm for you, which I'm so sorry about.
Well, just one more comment.
And that is true that we have benefited in some ways, but I will tell you there are certain areas like this area where we live next to the base.
It was, I mean, these are families who are working class families from decades back.
Most of them still live here if they haven't moved into nursing homes or moved out or passed away.
But what's happening is homes that if you were to drive down the neighborhood, Sean, you'd look at and go, okay, that house might be $200,000, $400,000.
No, one million dollars.
Trust me, I follow real estate very closely.
I get it.
So, but I appreciate you telling people how great we are.
We are a great state.
My only other beef with people coming down here is we're building a lot of houses quickly.
We're taking up every piece of green area.
There's no more green areas really down here in Tampa Bay anymore.
Everything is pretty much house upon house upon house.
And you've got to escape New York.
I get it.
But we have 49 other states to go to.
I'm not telling everyone to come to Florida.
I'm just saying escape from the state you're in.
I just happen to like Florida the most.
Obviously, I made that choice, but I think Texas is a great option.
Let me ask you one last question.
Is there any way you can get a transfer to a base that you'd be happy at?
Or is family commitments keep you here in this area?
Family commitments, but also we're both contractors.
So we actually the government.
We're not active duty.
So it's kind of a matter of where our contract needs us.
Okay.
Well, I'm praying for you.
I hope the right solution comes your way.
And, you know, there's just, there's going to be a transformation in the home industry.
I've seen it.
I've met with the people that are building it out.
You're going to see most homes now are going to be built by robotics or at least 70% of those homes, if not more.
And it's going to drive down the costs of building in terms of labor, which is the main cost.
It's going to be built faster and more efficiently.
And then you hire a contractor to finish out 30% of it.
There is a new transformational time.
AI is transforming every single industry.
And it's not the future.
It's today.
I'm glad you called.
I'm wishing you the best.
I hope you can turn this around and find the right solution for you.
It sounds tough.
That's so, you know, you buy a house, sinkhole, you fight in court for eight years, it's a disaster because she could have gotten another home in the meantime.
All right, when we come back, we'll hit the phones toll-free.
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All right, let's go to Mike in California.
What's up, Mike?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
I'm glad you allowed me on.
A couple things I noticed.
I was watching Fox News this morning.
They had a map of all the states that did not get SNAP benefits.
And at a glance, something occurred to me, and maybe you can correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the Democrats were able to hold out so long because the states that got SNAP benefits were all blue states.
California, Washington, Oregon, New York.
They all got their benefits.
I didn't notice that states were bifurcated out that way.
My understanding was that, you know, when they first cut, they were able to pay half the normal benefit to everybody.
And I didn't see that any one state was cut off completely.
I thought every state just got half their benefits.
That's what I had read.
No, no, in full disclosure, I'm in California and I'm a retired veteran.
I got my in full.
In full.
Okay.
And when I saw that map this morning, it dawned on me that the reason the Democrats were able to hold out so long is they, for all their bluster, their people were not affected.
They were.
You know what?
The good news is I'm hoping.
I mean, there's no guarantee.
I mean, there is still some mystery.
We'll know tonight when I'm on the air whether this thing is going to get through the House.
The margins the majority Republicans have is small.
And, you know, if I had to guess, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tom Massey are not going to vote for this new CR.
And if they don't, I think they can lose two.
Now, some Democrats may cross over.
If they're smart, they will and they'll buck their party leadership, but we'll see.
You know, but anything can happen.
And I pray to God we get this open.
It's really the longest in history.
Democrats, for what reason?
Never made sense from the beginning.
Anyway, my friend, thank you.
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