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	Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program, coming to you from the Washington swamp, where we have JD Vance, the vice president on Hannity tonight.
	Also, big breaking news with Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	We got a great show tonight.
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	The government shutdown is over.
	AOC claiming that Trump voters are pulling her aside, saying they want to join Democratic socialism.
	I don't believe this.
	And then dodge the question if Schumer should be replaced.
	Not exactly a vote of confidence.
	Listen.
	Congressman.
	Can you mention Schumer Stey as the minority leader?
	I think what is so important for folks to understand is that this problem is bigger than one person.
	And it actually is bigger than the minority leader.
	And I think what's important is that we understand that this is actually, this is not just a leader is reflected as a reflection of the party.
	And Senate Democrats have selected their leadership to represent them.
	And so the question needs to be bigger than just one person.
	And joining us now, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan is with us.
	All right, the long national nightmare is over.
	But, you know, but for eight Senate Democrats and but for six Democrats in the House, they were all voting to keep this chaos going.
	Yeah.
	And I don't know if I buy all that, but what we heard from my colleague there, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, because when I talked to voters in our district, they actually said just the opposite.
	They said, don't give in to these demands of the Democrats, this idea that you got to deal with something that doesn't actually come due until next year.
	Don't hold firm on your position, which is exactly what we did.
	And of course, they decided to open the government.
	And as you said last night on your show, Sean, which you said, what was it all for?
	What'd they do it for?
	I mean, because they got nothing.
	They didn't change anything in the big, beautiful bill.
	They didn't change anything on this subsidizing of this Obamacare that was supposed to be the end-all be-all save everything in healthcare.
	So what was it all for to put military families, people who depend on the air traffic controllers, put them in jeopardy, hurt the economy, hurt American families?
	What was it all for?
	It was simply to go after President Trump.
	And that's the only unifying thing the other party has.
	That's the one constant over the last decade that the Democrats have is to go after Trump and do whatever it takes, even if it means shutting down the government for 42 days.
	Well, they didn't get anything out of it, and I don't think they're going to get anything out of it moving forward.
	I mean, are we potentially looking in January 30th, round two of these shutdowns?
	You know, we talked about this last.
	I don't know.
	I mean, with this crowd and, you know, Schumer taking so much heat like he did six months ago, who knows what they'll try and stick in, what, two and a half months?
	Who knows what they will do?
	The left now, unfortunately, controls one of the two great parties in this country.
	They have control.
	They drive the energy.
	They drive it.
	So we'll see what they do.
	They may, in fact, do that.
	I hope not.
	And I hope we can pass some bills that are actually control spending and allow the big, beautiful bill to really take effect and make our economy improve even more than it has under President Trump.
	Well, you know, Americans are suffering.
	And by the way, the economy overall is taking a $1.5 trillion hit as a result of all this, which might slow growth in the short term.
	I'm pretty optimistic in the long term for a lot of different reasons that I've gone over in great specificity and detail earlier in the program and I talk about often.
	And that includes, you know, literally, you know, trillions of dollars in manufacturing investment monies committed that, you know, are going to be expedited because of the one big, beautiful bill and something called 100% depreciation in a single year, which is like putting high octane into the economy because that incentivizes companies to build out what they're going to build sooner rather than later.
	And that means in pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips and automobiles, et cetera, et cetera.
	So I love all of that.
	And, you know, there's a couple of things, though, that I would like to see before we get to the midterms in a year.
	And, you know, the government shutdown is one thing, but there's been under Joe Biden, there was a decline of affordability of 26%.
	Since Donald Trump has become the president, it's a 10% improvement.
	But for average Americans, they're still 16% down.
	And a lot of people are saying, oh, okay, well, the price of eggs are way down.
	The price of energy is way down.
	The price of gasoline is down.
	And, you know, when that happens, that'll filter into the economy.
	The trillions in committed investment money and manufacturing money, which is going to help states like yours and Ohio a lot.
	That's important.
	Energy in the pipeline and adopting energy-friendly policies.
	The president was right last night saying that's like getting a tax cut.
	That's key.
	That's critical.
	That's crucial.
	And then, of course, when Reagan cut taxes, you know, ended up creating 21 million new jobs, doubled revenues to the government, and was the longest period of peacetime economic growth.
	But that all takes time.
	How long do you think this is going to take?
	And in the meantime, what are the people in Ohio, what are they saying to you about their thoughts on the economy?
	Well, no, they trust what the president's doing on all fronts, what he's done on the border, what he's done with taxes, what he's done with tariffs.
	They trust the objectives and the goals that he wants to get to.
	And I think most Americans realize that this does take a little time, as you pointed out.
	But you're right.
	Inflation, prices have come down, but inflation was so darn high under Joe Biden.
	Even with how President Trump's economy has come down and improved, it's still way too much for families to pay.
	So I think once this tariff issue gets settled out, which I think it will in the next couple of months, and the Big Beautiful Bill really gets to kick in those tax cuts, you know, I always say, Sean, that the left hates the Big Beautiful Bill because it empowers families.
	It lets them keep more of their money, which is good for them, their kids, their families, their goals, their objectives.
	It empowers families through school choice.
	We put that in the tax cut.
	It empowers individuals who are in our welfare system, who never had to work this work requirement.
	It empowers families.
	It doesn't empower government.
	And once that thing really gets to kick in, I think it will really help our economy and bring these prices down even more.
	And then you add to it what you described, the regulatory relief that's coming, the pro-energy policy that we have that's good for, you know, President always talks about drill, baby, drill.
	All those things come together, but it takes a little time.
	And that's why the Democrats were, I think part of the reason they want to shut down the government is so we can't keep doing some of these good things that will help the economy because it hurts them politically.
	All right, let me move on to a topic near and dear to your heart.
	I have in front of me a letter that you sent to the acting inspector general.
	And in this letter, and I think this is extraordinarily important.
	I think people need to understand weaponization was more deep, more profound, more scary than ever before.
	Let me first start by saying, you know, Jack Smith, we learned it targeted then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his private phone records in a probe, also sought the personal phone records of now former Representative Louis Gomert.
	And I'm not sure if you know this yet, Congressman Jordan.
	A little birdie told me your name's on that list, too.
	Are you aware of that?
	I'm not.
	And we're going through documents.
	We're going through the document that has our friend, our friends Speaker McCarthy and Congressman Gomert.
	We're going through all those documents.
	There's other people that we know, good, great Americans who are on there.
	I talked to some of them yesterday as we were working through these documents we continue to get from the Justice Department.
	But yeah, this was serious.
	And then, as you point out, we've actually, we're going to contact everyone, everyone who was involved.
	Jack Smith was working with the United States Postal Inspection Service.
	He was working with the Inspector General.
	He was working with the National Archives and Records Administration.
	And of course, he was working with the FBI and the DOJ.
	They were all working together.
	So we're going to go to every one of those entities and get any information they have related to this subject matter.
	And we want all that information.
	And then, as you know, we're in the process of bringing Jack Smith in.
	But we want that information before we bring him in.
	We've already deposed his deputies.
	They took the fifth multiple, multiple, dozens and dozens of 71 and 73 times respectively, two of his top deputies.
	So we want all that information before we bring him in.
	And the letter we sent today to the Inspector General, remember, the Inspector General was involved in imaging Congressman Scott Perry's phone.
	The Inspector General is supposed to provide oversight of the Justice Department from within, not help the Justice Department engage in this weaponization of the government.
	So that's why we sent them the letter, and we'll get all the information.
	But explain the importance of this because these reports, and you put this in your letter, the Justice Department used a laboratory in Northern Virginia to assist the FBI in conducting a forensic review, in this case, of Representative Perry's cell phone.
	And reports indicate that the phone was also imaged after the search.
	In other words, they copied everything that was on that phone, a forensic copy.
	By the way, are you allowed to have a private text with your wife or your children or your mother or your father?
	And they don't care about anybody's privacy.
	Did they get the necessary search warrants?
	I do believe I read somewhere, learned something in school about unreasonable search and seizure.
	It seems like we might have crossed the line here.
	And you are requesting that they provide all documents, communications between or among employees at the OIG, DOJ, FBI, referring or relating to the seizure of cell phones from any member of Congress.
	By the way, you will be on the list.
	That's my prediction.
	All documents, communications between or among employees of the OIG, DOJ, and FBI.
	And by the way, I'm glad I can return this favor.
	And this is an inside joke only Jim Jordan will understand, considering Jim Jordan had to inform me once about, well, let's just say a little activity going on against your favorite talk show host.
	And you even said it on live TV once that, you know, they suppressed my social media, but it was worse than that.
	So when you get these documents, what are you looking for and what laws might have been broken here?
	Well, again, we don't know that, but we want all this information.
	Because, you know, for example, one of the questions we asked one of Jack Smith's deputies was, how many other members of the United States Congress did you surveil?
	Did you get phone logs of and everything else?
	They took the fifth of that question because we deposed this gentleman after we had learned about the initial, what happened with the United States senators.
	So we want to get all the information and then walk through it with Mr. Smith.
	But the information we get will determine exactly the type of questions we need to ask and what we need to get.
	But when you reference yourself, Sean, think about this.
	That's how widespread this net was.
	When Senator Grassley said this was a giant fishing expedition against the Republican Party, against conservatives, against people who happened to be supporters of President Trump, that's truly what it was.
	You look at this 10-page document we got yesterday, which was Speaker McCarthy's name and Louis Gomer's name, Ron.
	The people they were going after, it's unbelievable what they did.
	So we just want to keep getting this in and then bring in Mr. Smith for his deposition.
	All right, quick break, right back more with Jim Jordan, Ohio Congressman, chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
	He just referred John Brennan for criminal investigation to the DOJ.
	More on the other side as we continue from the DC swamp straight ahead.
	All right, we get to you now with Ohio Congressman.
	He's the chair of the all-important House Judiciary Committee.
	Jim Jordan is with us.
	Honestly, all the work that we did, beginning with the Russia hoax, all the way through all the investigations into and the witch hunts against Donald Trump, all the impeachments.
	You know, you've been one steady, strong, consistent voice to seek out truth and facts.
	You know, when you really think about it, one time we had a discussion and we started making a list and writing it down.
	You know, our ensemble cast, you know, John Solomon and Greg Jarrett and Sarah Carter and Catherine Herridge and there were others.
	And if I'm not mentioning their names, and then there were maybe five or six of you in Congress that we could rely on, that would tell us truth, that would verify reports, public knowledge, nothing untoward.
	And that allowed us and gave us the confidence to report things to America that nobody else in the media went along with.
	Like they went along with the idea that Donald Trump was in a Ritz Carton in Moscow, you know, with hookers urinating on him.
	Yeah.
	And Sean, they made fun of us.
	And it turns out the only thing we had wrong, the only thing we got wrong is that it was worse than we thought.
	That is the only thing we got wrong.
	It was much worse than we thought because we now know from what Tulsi released this summer that John Brennan changed the intelligence community assessment.
	And when he came to Congress, he told us that he wasn't involved with the dossier when in fact he was.
	And he put, he was the guy pushing it to have it in the intelligence community assessment to create the predicate for the Mueller investigation to go after President Trump.
	I mean, that's how ridiculous this all was.
	And when you were talking about it, they were coming after you.
	They were coming after us.
	And the only thing we had wrong is it was much worse than we ever said at the beginning.
	One day, I'm going to bring us all together and maybe we'll do like a three-hour show and we'll just tell the behind the scenes.
	Jim Jordan, Ohio, we appreciate you, sir.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Sean.
	Take care.
	All right, 800-941-Sean, our number, you want to be a part of the program.
	We'll get to your calls when we come back.
	Also, we're going to check in with the great, the one, the only Matt Towery is going to join us.
	He is in studio.
	We're in the Washington swamp today.
	VP Vance on tonight.
	Pam Bondi on tonight and RFK Jr. on tonight.
	You know, if there was ever a Republican, Nancy Pelosi now has announced that she's not, I know this is heartbreaking.
	Linda's heartbroken.
	Running for reelection.
	Now, I think she's about as cognitively aware at this point in her life as Joe Biden was, let's say in year two of his presidency.
	Not very good.
	And it got worse from there.
	And she's out there now moralizing.
	Now, could you imagine if you go into Congress and you have a net worth of $3 million and then you leave?
	Now, she's claiming this is my husband's investments, et cetera, et cetera.
	Okay, I'm a big believer in capitalism.
	And a 17,000% return on your investment and $3 million grows to $280 million.
	It was in the New York Post the other day.
	Again, she's saying, I don't do the investing.
	And no, I would never use inside information.
	It's so good, the results, that there are people that when she puts out a public financial disclosure reports, they look at what she's investing in and they follow whatever Nancy's doing.
	And they have been making money.
	They're a little later than Nancy, so not quite 17,000% increase.
	Anyway, so here's her moralizing on the issue of climate change as a moral and affordability issue.
	Some of us on the immigration issue had traveled to the Northern Triangle a few years ago.
	And what we found there is one of the reasons people were migrating to the United States is what has been mentioned.
	And that is they had a drought.
	The people couldn't farm.
	So they didn't have a job and they didn't have the food that farming would produce.
	Hence, they were coming to the United States.
	So this is, again, as the Congresswoman mentioned, a migration issue, which is an economic issue.
	So this is, again, economic.
	As Kathy, Congresswoman Caster said, it is not only a moral issue, but it is an affordability issue as well.
	Ah, okay.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones as we say hi to Sarah.
	She's in Colorado.
	Sarah, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thanks for checking in.
	Hi, doing all right.
	Very busy today.
	Life is always busy in a single mom.
	Oh, well, being a single mom is hard.
	Being a mom, period, is hard.
	Being a parent is hard.
	Yeah.
	You know, can I just tell you how stupid I've been in my life?
	I want to tell you how dumb I was once in my life.
	I actually thought if I got my kids off to college, I felt like my job was done.
	How dumb was I?
	You were unaware.
	Unaware.
	I would say you're being charitable.
	I would say dumb, naive.
	But in all the best ways, because you kind of go through this period where, you know, your kids love you.
	Your daughter wants to hold your hand.
	And all of a sudden doesn't want to hold your hand in public anymore.
	You know, they're off with their friends.
	Then you have to be careful that they're not hanging out with the wrong people, doing the wrong things.
	Then they go off to college.
	You totally lose them in the college years.
	Then they come back.
	And when they finally come back, and then all of a sudden, one day you sit down and you're like, oh, I got a peer.
	I have an adult here.
	Now, oh, life feels pretty good.
	Anyway, what's on your mind today?
	Yes.
	Well, you know, just looking at everything that's been going on, and I've tried to speak with my teenage kids about this, but what I'm seeing is a little bit of political sleight of hand and game claim that's been going on.
	At the surface, you know, the Democrats are saying that the Republicans are responsible for the shutdown when they actually created the Unaffordable Care Act and then put up these subsidies that were set to sunset now.
	And they want to blame that on the Republicans.
	And so there's this sleight of hand that's going on where you're looking at this, you're noticing this.
	Same thing with Epstein files and everything.
	But in the meantime, what's really going on in the background is how AOC has been basically shaming Schumer.
	And I think she's wanting his position.
	And then we've got Mandami that has now been elected mayor in New York.
	And, you know, there's this thing going on, this undercurrent that's like, pay attention to the surface stuff, everybody.
	Never mind what the man behind the curtain is doing.
	And that is slowly the Democrat Party, which is now no longer what JFK had run under.
	It has now actually become the Communist Party.
	I'm just telling you right now. that this party is adrift.
	The key for Republicans now is that they really get out and do everything humanly possible to make sure that we get our economy in the best shape possible.
	What I am most concerned about is there is a lag time by the time when you cut taxes, there is a lag time until the average American begins to feel the positive impact in their lives.
	When you open up energy production, it doesn't happen because you snap your fingers and you opened up the Arctic, you know, Alaska Arctic refuge, wildlife refuge.
	It doesn't happen immediately.
	When you open up energy dominance policies, when you have trillions and trillions in manufacturing, you know, destined to get online, you don't cut, you know, ribbons and start digging dirt on day one.
	It takes planning and it takes architects, et cetera.
	So it's going to be a little bit of time.
	The good news is all of this is in the pipeline and I feel very good about it.
	And if Democrats want to shut down the government fighting for $1.5 trillion, you know, for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal immigrants and they want to defend the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, which is not affordable, which they wrote the bill to make it temporary anyway, just to get us through the pandemic.
	They want to refund NPR and PBS, and that's the hill they want to die on.
	Let them die.
	And unfortunately, you know, like you said, it does take time.
	It used to be that when a president did something, it took a whole entire presidency to then start to see the effects of it.
	Or five years later, then that president would then benefit from or be held accountable for the mistakes that the previous president had made.
	I think we saw that shift when Obama was elected president.
	And then we started getting the bailouts and all of that stuff going on that the economy sped up in a way.
	But you're right.
	We still have the red tape that we have to go through, have to apply for all the permits for drilling and so forth to see any effects coming forth.
	President Trump has been moving at the speed of light.
	I hope that that continues to be the case.
	I read something this morning saying that he wanted to take all the money that has been going to the Unaffordable Care Act and put it into something like an HSA for people.
	Well, that would be wonderful, except for not everybody's employer, if they are employed, offers something like that.
	And so while he has been moving at the speed of light, I think that Republicans need to come together and make sure that they're moving forward in a unified way so that those things can continue to happen.
	So that way, when we have our next election coming up here very, very shortly, we can start to see some of those positive effects and that starts to shore up the Republican majority in the House and Senate.
	Well, I love your state of Colorado.
	It's beautiful.
	You make more sense than probably the vast majority of people in Colorado.
	It sounds to me like you need to move to Texas, Nevada, Arizona, or Florida, or the Carolinas.
	Sarah, you'd make too much sense for Colorado.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	More of your calls coming up straight ahead.
	800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we continue from our nation's capital.
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	Final hour roundup is next.
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	And stay tuned for the final hour free-for-all on the Sean Hannity Show.
	Let's get back to our busy,
	busy telephones, 800-941-SEAN.
	You want to be a part of the program as we come to you from Washington, D.C. Gary in New Jersey.
	What's up, Gary?
	How are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	And by the way, I'm not hopeful about New Jersey's future.
	Yeah, right.
	You too, huh?
	Yeah, I had talked to you back in May.
	I think I think you were talking about Bill O'Reilly, about all the people that were coming across the border.
	And I told you that they didn't have to fire any bullets.
	It was the fentanyl that was coming across, killing all these kids.
	And it's terrible.
	I mean, the opioid crisis, the fentanyl crisis, kids are dying every day.
	And, you know, every year we're losing hundreds of thousands of people.
	Yeah, what's with Stephanie Miller?
	She doesn't know any of this stuff?
	If I spent an entire year trying to convince her that she's wrong, I'd waste my time.
	However, I respect the fact that she has beliefs.
	She's passionate about them, believes them.
	And if she wants to kiss Jasmine Crockett's feet, go have at it because I'm not going to do it.
	All right, my friend, Gary, God bless you, buddy.
	Appreciate it.
	Let's say hi to Joel in New York.
	Joel, we got about a minute, but it's all yours.
	What's on your mind?
	Hi, how you doing?
	I was just calling because the biggest thing I see in the news when we had the shutdown was all these airlines being canceled.
	They got to cancel all these flights.
	Why wouldn't they start canceling flights with planes that have 25 or less people on them?
	Well, I mean, I'll give you the re, I'll give you the simple version of it is there's far more volume at these big hub airports like LaGuardia, Kennedy, O'Hare, Hartsfield, LAX, San Francisco, et cetera.
	So the volume of planes that need to take off is that much greater.
	You know, private aviation is private aviation, and you're talking about a small number of planes taking off in obscure airports with free airspace.
	So it's a very different formula for them.
	And by the way, I love aviation, so I just happen to know a lot about it.
	You can get, for example, they have like a Honda jet.
	You'd be shocked at how low the prices are, you know, if you got to use one and seats, I think, maybe four or five people.
	I was just thinking, you see, a lot of the people, the more wealthy people that, you know, G6s and whatnot, they don't fly out of those airports.
	No, they do not fly out of the, well, they can and they do, but they also fly into more, you know, a lot of the smaller airports that don't have anywhere near the volume or traffic that the big airports do.
	That's a big part of your answer.
	It may not be the one you want to hear.
	No, no, it ain't that.
	Was thinking it's not just the fact that we'd be saving the air, like the air.
	Well, you're saying that if you want to take, if you have a private aircraft and you want to take off from LaGuardia, you should not be prioritized over somebody that is in a commercial aircraft.
	I agree with that 100%.
	Right.
	But those people in private planes have the option to land at an obscure airport where there's no air traffic.
	But they don't fly like through our radar systems and things like that.
	Well, I mean, as every plane flies in the air, you go from section to section to section, right?
	So that's just part of the process.
	But once you're up in the air, usually you're given a flight pattern that's been approved by the FAA and you stay on your path until you, you know, are wheels down.
	Got to roll, my friend.
	Appreciate it.
	800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	One thing I have noticed in DC is since Donald Trump's crackdown on crime, things are, I mean, demonstrably better.
	It really is.

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