Sean Hannity kicks off the show reflecting on his epic radio rivalry with Neil Boortz a fierce competition that drove both hosts to greater heights and even sparked a close friendship. He highlights recent political controversies, such as Jasmine Crockett's biting commentary and viral moments, the Seattle mayoral race won by socialist Katie Wilson, and internal DNC upheaval as staff are forced back to the office. Framing it through his signature combative-yet-humorous lens, Hannity draws lessons from personal challenges and spotlights guests ranging from liberal powerhouses to conservative icons. These stories matter because they showcase how media rivalries, party infighting, and rising polarization shape America's political and cultural discourse.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Linda came up with a great idea.
We're going to do this later in the program today.
We were talking about old radio war days, and I'm going to bring on my number one competitor, who I credit for making me.
He was so good.
He's a legend in talk radio.
He's now retired.
His name is Neil Bortz.
And the radio war that we were engaged in for four years.
And the odd part is, we became friends.
And the guy that hired me in Atlanta, Eric Seidel, I got hired by Bill Donovan in Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama at the time, before that.
And if it wasn't for going up against a legend who was so gifted and talented, I would not be on the air today.
I would not have survived.
It was a fight for survival.
And, you know, there's lessons I think that we could all learn from it.
Certainly, I learned a lot from it.
And I'm very grateful to both of them.
You know, when I hear Neil, I'm like, man, I'm just, I'm not up to this.
I've got to get better.
And we'll tell you some of those stories coming up.
I don't know what's going on.
The Democrats are just cracking up.
AOC, I fully welcome Trump voters into our coalition.
Former supporters of Trump are telling me, I've learned from you.
I'd really like to meet some of those people.
I'd like to interview some of those people.
Who are those people?
I just don't know.
Then you have Jasmine Crockett mocking MAGA women, making fun of how MAGA women look like, you know, they're standing next to a six-foot-five dude wearing a dress.
You know, a MAGA woman, when you see one, they all have that look, right?
Like the lips.
What did she say?
Like they lips be up to something like that.
But anyway, they don't even know.
You have the New York Post reporting that Jasmine Crockett, you know, not only had her feet kissed by our friend Stephanie Miller.
If you knew Stephanie, this is not out of character for her.
And I saw, I read that somebody had kissed her feet.
I'm like, what the hell is this?
And this is the kind of week this has been.
And then I realized that's Stephanie Miller.
Okay.
This totally makes sense.
She's a comedian.
She actually is very funny and just irreverent as hell.
And I guess she's very good friends with Jasmine Crockett.
I don't know why Jasmine Crockett won't come on this show.
We've invited Jasmine Crockett, Linda, right, to be on the show.
I'd love to have Jasmine Crockett.
And I keep saying she's like my favorite congresswoman.
Why won't she come on the show?
I'm not saying bad things about her.
Well, you have that in common with Charlemagne the God, then Charlamagne the God had agreed to come on Hannity on Monday, and then I found out this morning that he pushed it off till next year, but he said he'd do it.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you mean that I have in common with Charlamagne, the God?
He said this week that she was his favorite congresswoman and that she was the leading voice in the Democrat Party.
I was like, oh my God.
Well, you know Charlamagne better than I do, right?
You know his team.
You run into them.
I wouldn't say that I know him.
We have passed each other.
Charlamagne and I have talked when we're both, you know, outside walking in and out of the building at the station.
Okay, so the head of our company, because they do his show too.
They syndicate his show, once put us on a phone call together, and we had a very pleasant call.
I mean, I wished him all the best.
I said, you know, congratulations on all your success.
And it was a pleasant call.
He couldn't have been nicer.
I have seen him and his team go after conservatives in ways that I don't like and bring up false perceptions about conservatives and conservatism that I don't like that I argue, you know, with, you know, deep in my soul.
I know are not true.
Jasmine Crockett is actually what the Democrats should be leaning into, like, because she is a phenomenal messenger.
And some people just got it.
Like, some people just have a different anointing on them.
You don't know why certain people, you know, cause folks to gravitate towards them.
She got you by just saying, Donald Trump is racist, and this administration is racist.
And let me tell you why.
And then you get into all of the issues.
I'm like, yo, you need somebody like Jasmine Crockett.
She is the most effective messenger that the Democratic Party has right now.
And they need to be using her as a Trojan horse.
And you know what?
I hate how Democrats treat her.
I do too.
All right.
So obviously a different point of view, but.
This is a woman who called Abbott Governor Hot Wheels.
Really?
That wasn't cool.
And then denied what she was really saying.
Yeah.
Not cool.
Just come on.
Let's be real.
NBC poll, Republicans more likely than Democrats to say they have a good friend in the other party.
I don't dislike people on the left.
It's not personal for me.
Now, I do think some of them on the left are dumb.
I don't think they're very intelligent.
I don't like their policies.
You can have policy disagreement.
Like, for example, I don't know if you read about Jimmy Kimmel's wife.
She sent this note to family members and she won't talk to them because she was trying to convince them not to vote for Donald Trump.
You know, he's an existential threat, all the threat to democracy and all this.
Now, I have lost friends because I like Donald Trump and I'm friends with Donald Trump and support Donald Trump.
I have.
People want nothing to do with me, but that's on their end.
That's not on my end.
I don't care that they disagree with me.
That's not a defining issue for me in my life.
But for some people, it is.
For people on the left, why do I care?
If you have different thoughts than I do, then let's talk about them.
Let's have a discussion about it.
Not that big a deal.
Let's see why.
Apparently, Obama and Biden's relationship has deteriorated to the point they don't even talk.
We'll get into more of that in a minute.
We'll get into this issue.
This incumbent Seattle mayor concedes to the Mamdani-style socialist who tapped her parents for money while running.
Wow.
Go to Mommy and Daddy.
I love that.
That cracks me up.
Mamdani Democratic Governor's plot to how to stand up to Trump.
Did you see this?
Somebody caught a photo of the campaign offices of Zoran, Marxist Kami Mamdani.
And apparently, Tami Mamdani was meeting with Pocahontas.
They were having a big, what they thought was a private meeting.
I guess somebody was in another building that overlooked the building that Zoro Mamdani's campaign office was in and snapped a pick.
I mean, isn't that the worst part of New York that you can see into anyone else's room?
You know, there are creepy people, you know, peeping toms everywhere.
At least, don't you believe that?
I mean, we're right across the street from a bunch of apartments, you know, here in the radio studio.
And I can honestly tell you, we pull the blinds down.
I don't want to see nothing.
I'm like, you know what?
Well, I don't want to see anything, but I don't want to be seen either.
I mean, I'm finding.
You know what Pocahontas doesn't want to be seen?
She doesn't want to be seen when she's getting off private planes and she hides behind her staffords.
That's what that does.
But that is most liberals.
They're limousine liberals.
You know, the whole fight the oligarchy tour was on a private jet.
I'm not against private jets.
I've been in private jets.
They're the coolest things ever made.
It's the most convenient thing on earth.
They have small ones.
None of them are inexpensive because the technology is what it is, but they have small ones that are relatively inexpensive that can get you from point A to point B that are safe and the technology is amazing.
Honda makes one, for example.
I think it's like a four or five seater.
I watched the whole development of it.
I was kind of amazed by it.
I know people that I know somebody that owns one, loves it.
DNC employees, by the way, Linda, they are very, very angry today.
They're seething after being told that they actually have to show up for work in person five days a week.
They're very angry.
DNC chair Ken Martin informed workers during an all-staff meeting Wednesday that the Democratic Party apparatus will require its entire DC-based staff to return to full in-person work starting in February.
Shocking to see the DNC chair disregard staff's valid concern on today's team call.
DNC staff worked extremely hard to support historic wins for Democrats.
They're not historic wins.
They're predictable wins.
You know, people's analysis of this election is unbelievable.
Senator Federman, by the way, you know what happened apparently online?
MAGA conservatives went online.
It shows you the difference between conservatives and liberals.
And they wished him well after he had a fall.
And he was very funny about it.
And we talked about it yesterday.
Well, if you think my face was bad before, and apparently he hurt himself, all indications are he's going to be okay, thank God.
But the day before he was hospitalized after falling because of complications of a cardiac condition, he revealed that he's getting death threats from members of his own party.
Anyway, he told somebody on Fake News CNN, I asked my digital team, and I said, we're on all platforms.
What's the harshest?
What kind of things are the most personal?
And the answer was immediate.
They said, Blue Sky, which is like the Democratic version of X.
And Federman said, referring to the media platform of the left.
And he said, the difference is the right would say really rough things and names and some names I won't repeat on TV, but on the left, it was like, they want me to die.
We're cheering for your next stroke.
Why couldn't you have the depression back again?
And I hope your kids find you.
It's just sick stuff.
What is wrong with people?
Here's an interesting study that came out.
Atlantic Magazine admitted left-wing violence now has spiraled out of control since President Trump entered the political realm in 2016.
Now, they compiled data of 750 attacks between January 1st, 1994 to July 4th, 2025.
They found left-wing terror attacks are currently outnumbering violence coming from the political right.
I'm not saying everyone on the, there are lunatics on the right, and I can name them all.
You know, I know they want me to name them.
I know they love me to engage in them.
And the media would love to make certain people the poster child of the MAGA movement.
They're not MAGA.
And if you don't believe me and you think somebody's MAGA, just, you know, if you have artificial intelligence, chat beat GPT, I prefer Grok.
I think Groka is the least politically correct and the most honest and the most accurate.
And it's in real time based on the headlines of this minute.
Just, you know, take a look and you'll see and you can find out all of this and find out your own information.
But anyway, so people that claim they're mad, how many times have what have they said negative about Donald Trump?
Put that in Grok.
What did so-and-so say?
You know, what are the extreme comments made by person A, B, C, D, E, F, and G?
You can do it on people on the left and right, and you'll come up with a whole bunch of stuff.
Anyway, they found left-wing violent extremism accounted for 37 incidents from 2016 to 2024, most of them motivated by either anti-government or partisan sentiment.
By July 4th of this year, far-left extremists have already been responsible for five terrorist attacks and plots.
Now, what bothered me about this, you know, they're not really including the summer of love, the summer of 2020, which really annoys me.
This is fascinating to me because you have Adam Schiff, the congenital liar.
You have Letitia James, you know, on a mortgage application, according to the allegations against her, put down while she was DA, I'm sorry, AG of New York, she put down that, what was it, Virginia was her main residence.
That would be impossible to get more favorable loan terms.
Whoopsie daisy.
Now, it was first Adam Schiff got caught.
Now it's Letitia James.
Now, Mr. Fang Fang got caught and is under investigation for mortgage fraud that may have an impact on the California governor's race.
Do you remember that they wrote this big article that they thought that, you know, I'm in business with people and we got, I guess, a Fannie Mae loan, which is what everybody does with these loans.
I don't know.
I have nothing to do with that part of that business.
I don't do any of it.
But anyway, but they tied the property to me and I was part of the property.
And they said he refinanced his loan and Donald Trump approved it.
Yeah.
Well, the only problem was the approval came in the Obama years.
Didn't come during the Trump years.
Oopsie daisy.
Sorry.
I work with people that have the highest ethical integrity, all gone over by lawyers, every I dotted, every T crossed.
But anyway, according to two sources familiar with this matter, Swalwell, Fang Fang, Mr. Fang Fang has all but decided he's running for governor.
And one of the sources is saying he's even discussing an announcement as early as next week, but he declined to comment.
We're reached by MSDNC about the issue involving whether or not he might be involved in some type of mortgage fraud.
We're going to watch this very, very closely.
But the new details that have emerged that when he was hit with this purchase of a $1.2 million home in D.C. that he claimed as his primary residence, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, Bill Pultey, in Wednesday, in a letter to the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, requested an investigation on Suoho based on allegedly false, misleading statements he made about the purchase.
Because if it's your primary residence, you get a more favorable loan in terms of the terms of the loan.
Man, oh, man, so much to get to today.
I don't even know where to go.
Now, Seattle's newly elected socialist mayor vows to Trump-proof her city.
Linda, have we not talked at length in great specificity on this program about a document that's called the United States Constitution?
Have we talked about that a lot?
Maybe not as much as Levin.
Just a little.
That's in a little here and there.
We've talked about the Constitution quite a bit on this show.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Does the Constitution have something known as the supremacy clause?
I'm just asking.
We could always ask Rock and get away from the.
Listen, you're asking for a friend, you know?
Just asking for a friend.
Yeah.
All right.
So, and the supremacy clause means that federal laws are enforced by who?
This is a quiz.
I have no idea.
Enlighten me.
The jurisdiction lies with the federal government to enforce federal law, not with the states.
Okay, so, you know, so the reason I bring this up, yesterday, socialist Katie Wilson declared victory in the race for a Seattle mayor, where she wasted no time outlining a progressive agenda aimed at shielding the Emerald City from what she called federal overreach from Donald Trump's administration and wants to Trump-proof the city.
Remember Gavin Newsom after Trump was elected, you know, wanted to build up his legal fund to battle Trump and fight Trump.
I'm like, yeah, great way to introduce yourself to the president.
I actually said to Gavin, I was very frank with him, I said, why don't you try a different approach?
Why don't you just put aside the things you disagree on and maybe work on the things you do agree on, and maybe that'll work out on California's behalf?
Now, we had Pam Bondi on last night.
There are so many lawsuits.
Now they're suing against this ridiculous Prop 50 deal to circumvent what the voters have put in place.
And we'll see how that works out.
But they're suing over sanctuary city status.
I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
And the people of California are going to end up paying a fortune just on the legal fees of all this.
Anyway, Wilson, 43, considered her narrow upset over the Democratic incumbent as a mandate from the people.
During a press conference, she vowed to implement universal child care, rent controls, social housing, and stating her desire to have more land and wealth be owned by steward communities instead of corporations.
Can you tell me, Linda, what a steward community is?
I don't know what a steward community is.
I do not speak socialism.
I'm actually super grateful for that skill.
As a progressive and as a socialist, she said, I believe in good governance.
All right, more cradle to grave, womb to the tomb, insanity.
That goes on and on and on.
By the way, did you see this horrible interview with Katie Couric and John Fetterman?
Oh, it's unbelievable.
I mean, it infuriates me.
I mean, I know we have a cut of it, but am I wrong to say it's more visual than it is?
It is, but I think what's weird about it is it's so odd to me that these people, to use the socialist words, are stewards of freedom and uniqueness and individuality and all the other BS stuff they sell.
And then the second that you say, yeah, you know, I may not have liked what somebody said, but they have the right to say it.
And obviously, the left is out there burning things, breaking things, hurting people, attacking things, breaking in.
It's unbelievable.
You never see them board up all the store windows when a Republican or, you know, a right to life march is happening.
But you see Antifa out there and they may support their movement, but they're boarding it up because the left is violent.
They hate anything that opposes their way of thought.
It's unbelievable.
I am getting a lot of kicks and giggles over the fact that Democrats at the DNC or staffers are apoplectic and fuming because their work from home status is going away as of January.
Oh, poor babies.
Look, I'm just a believer that, for example, I have a radio team and I have a TV team, and I know if people are doing their job or not.
That's it.
I can tell instantaneously if somebody's doing their job or not.
And if you're not doing your job, you're just not cut out to be in this business.
By the way, a new campaign spending report with the federal government shows that far-left representative Jasmine Crockett has spent tens and tens of thousands of dollars living the high life in 2025.
$4,175, Ritz Carlton.
Have you ever stated her Ritz?
Ritz are nice.
They're really rich.
I have never stated a Ritz.
You've never stated her Ritz?
I have not.
I guess I got to become a congresswoman and steal from my constituents like Jasmine Crockett.
Well, think back to Braywell.
I guess we'll have to change that, won't we?
We'll have to change it.
What we've been doing all these years.
Yeah, well, here at the Hannity Show, we actually earn our pay and then we spend our pay that we actually earned on like the left.
$3,160 at the Coco, also in Martha's Vineyard.
$2,703.14 to the Edgartown Inn in Matha's Vineyard.
$2,000 to the Cosmopolitan Area Resort in Vegas.
$1,173 to the Times Square Edition in New York City.
$5,326 to the West Hollywood edition in Los Angeles.
I don't know.
I mean, she's doing good.
Very proud.
She was getting ready to have her feet kissed by Stephanie.
She had to get pretty.
i'm not mad at stephanie for doing that and then once i found out it was her i just i'm not mad at stephanie either but i do think it's pretty funny Oh, it's very funny.
One of Zoron Comrade Marxist Mamdani's signature socialist policies is already failing.
This is actually pretty funny.
It was in the New York Post today.
He wants, of course, social workers to respond to 911 calls, but the early results of a program dubbed Be Heard spelled trouble for this $1.1 billion department community safety, one of his signature initiatives.
And it was launched in 2021.
It's not a new idea.
A pilot program only operates in some city neighborhoods, but a bleak audit conducted in May by the city comptroller found it was limping with a whopping 60% of calls deemed ineligible, while more than 35% of eligible calls from mental health professionals, they never got a response, Linda.
The government failed 35% of the time.
And what is a social worker going to do?
I'm going to kill everybody that is on this train right now.
I am a social worker.
I work for Zoron Marxist Kami Mamdami.
I've been sent down here to help you.
Is there anything in your past that perhaps has brought you to this moment of deep, deep anger and resentment that you want to kill everybody on the train?
I think the question might probably tip the balance.
We'll see.
By the way, traders are betting on Zoro Mamdani's deportation odds.
Can you believe that?
Considered a long shot, but the fact that traders are waging on it, I think is pretty interesting.
You know, polymarket, all those different websites.
You can bet on anything today.
And you see what's happening in baseball, the two guys indicted for throwing balls instead of strikes.
I mean, woof, because massive amounts of money are put on it.
I mean, it's just crazy.
The whole thing is crazy.
But this is where we live.
Portland socialist disaster should be a wake-up call for Zora Mamdani in Seattle.
And it was interesting.
Charles Gasparino writes a column.
If the travails of a certain left coast city, Portland, or any guide about what New York City is going to be like and Seattle is going to be like, the mayor-elect wants to hand out everything from pros and rents, free buses, subsidized trans surgeries for kids.
He wants so-called 1% wealth tax.
No billionaires can exist, confiscate property if they don't like the way the property is being taken care of.
Oregon is one of the most progressive states in the country.
Portland has embraced various forms of socialism, the same stuff spouted by the mayor-elect of New York.
67% of Oregon's economy is pretty seriously off on the wrong track because of the mountainous taxes, regulations, homelessness, independence, the largest voting block.
73% believe the state is on the wrong track.
And never mind the summer of love.
Do I need to remind everybody of that?
Not exactly.
Now, Kathy Hochl, the latest Democrat, to kiss the feet, to use Stephanie Miller's analogies, of Zora Mamdani.
And she's now looking at raising the corporate tax so that Zoron will get his money for his little pet projects.
And that means hopefully the odds of her getting an endorsement from him will go up.
And she knows without Zorhan Mamdani's support, she's cooked.
Now, that gives Zora Mamdani all the leverage in New York.
It may actually make him more powerful than Kathy Hochul because Kathy Hochul just cares about power.
So it's going to get very, very interesting in a very short period of time.
That part I can absolutely tell you.
So she's going to raise the corporate tax rate because she, like Chuck Schumer, it hasn't worked out good for Chucky.
It just hasn't.
White House announcing that trade deals are expected to lower U.S. food prices.
This is good news for you consumers.
They agreed to a framework for trade deals with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador aimed at reducing the cost of certain groceries.
That's all good news.
You know, I wish I had time to go into greater specificity and detail.
There was a great column written by Victor Davis Hanson.
I'll touch on it here in a second.
Retail sales posted solid gains in October, no doubt after the cost of living jumped 21% while Joe Biden was in office.
Affordability is a real issue for Americans.
Now, I went over all these numbers a bit yesterday.
So under Joe Biden, when he became president, unfortunately, things went up 26%, a whopping 26%.
So far, since Donald Trump has been president, guess what?
Things have gone down very, very substantially, 10%, but there's still a 16% deficit.
Affordability, affordability, affordability.
Okay, that is the Biden-Harris hangover, as I call it.
And by the way, the Trump administration rescinded Biden-era drilling bans on National Petroleum Reserve.
So Victor Davis Hansen writes this piece, and he says, very strange logic the left Democrats are making.
It's that for four years, hyperinflation reaching 9.1% in 2022, but averaging over the Biden years 5%, Donald Trump's president, and they're going to blame him for having 2.6, 2.7 inflation for the first 10 months because he didn't arrest hyperinflation and fix all of this immediately.
No, but he put in place the building blocks.
That's the trillions and investments, energy policies, and everything in between.
So in other words, as Victor Davis Hansen points out, they want to blame Trump for not correcting quickly enough all the horrible impact and mistakes they made on the economy.
And he points out the Trump economy, what I would call right now, is a race.
And he's not wrong in his analysis.
And this is what I said.
Reagan didn't get his tax cuts to kick in fast enough for his first midterm.
So this is what the race that Victor Davis Hansen is talking about, the race to the midterms.
And he said the Trump economy is going to completely impact the midterm elections.
And it's going to be different than most other midterms because the Democratic Party's different.
And if the economy turns around, you know, let's say, you know, everything they've told us in the media is wrong about the economy and incorrect.
You know, the tariff war didn't destroy our international commercial system, just the opposite.
We didn't have a trade war with China, you know, that would have been, frankly, I don't know, mutually assured destruction.
10 months ago, if you look at the average price of gasoline, it was $3.46 under Biden.
The average under Trump is $2.98.
And things are going in the right direction.
Now, once the Trump tax cuts, once the trillions in manufacturing is spent, once energy production is online, then, yeah, you're going to see massive results.
It has to happen, though, before next November.
That's the race against the clock that he's rightly pointing out.
He's not wrong.
He's very actually, very smart.
I like Victor Davis Hansen.
Don't you like Victor Davis Hanson?
Great guy.
So smart.
So smart.
Reminds me a lot of Charles Krautheimer, but a little more conservative, maybe even.