Nov. 18, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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| If you want to be a part of the program, as you know, the president now has brought a lot of, and I can tell you from experience, having been in D.C. last week, there is a discernible, dramatic difference in D.C. since the last time I have been there. | |
| The presence of homeless people are negligible compared to what it was the last time I was there. | |
| Crime is down by more than half of it has gone away. | |
| And even the Democratic mayor, Miro Bowser, is praising President Trump and really just showing simple things like, in fact, that policing works if you put boots on the ground. | |
| If you have policing, you know, it maintains law and order and safety and security for everyday Americans that deserve that. | |
| It's a prerequisite if you want to pursue happiness. | |
| The same thing happening in Memphis and the larger ICE police presence in Chicago has even helped in that city in spite of all the screaming and yelling by Brendan Johnson and by J.B. Pritzker. | |
| Now, the latest case that we're following, now this was happening Saturday, believe it or not, in Charlotte in North Carolina, where they're talking about the need for a federal presence and that things have gotten so crazy and out of control. | |
| And again, I go back to the language of the left. | |
| It is incitement in my view. | |
| It's dehumanizing in my view. | |
| Not shocking that after the last election, this off-year election, that 95% of the American people think that we're going to see more assassinations of political figures. | |
| That should put a chill up everybody's spine if you have a heart, a soul, and a conscience. | |
| Anyway, here are the anti-Ice protesters in Charlotte on Saturday. | |
| Of course, | |
| the predictable comparisons to Hitler. | |
| Corinne Mack is the NAACP Charlotte president says Trump's whole vision is to be like Hitler. | |
| Here we go again. | |
| We want to believe that the Constitution has protected us all. | |
| And in fact, it has not. | |
| But that doesn't mean that we can't work to ensure that it does. | |
| In the Charlotte Network area, there are people standing behind me who have committed to ensure we are going to protect the people of this residence. | |
| We hope that includes all of you. | |
| From 2016 to 2020, I will go to hearings to stop deportations. | |
| And in those hearings, there'll be no one there but myself and maybe two other people. | |
| So this is not a new concept. | |
| This is a more egregious concept. | |
| We have a little man sitting in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who really believes that Hitler was the greatest man ever on earth whose whole vision is to be just like Hitler and is trying to create a 1940s Germany right here in the United States. | |
| And like then, many people said, well, it's them, it's not me. | |
| Until eventually it was them. | |
| We can no longer be silent. | |
| No longer be silent. | |
| Don Brown's special U.S. prosecutor, JAG officer at the Pentagon, who is now currently running for the Senate, North Carolina. | |
| Congressman Mark Harris of North Carolina's 8th Congressional District is here as well to talk about the need for a federal presence in the very dangerous streets in this area, North Carolina. | |
| Welcome both of you to the program. | |
| Thank you, Sean. | |
| It's great to be here. | |
| Congressman, let's start with you. | |
| I mean, I assume this is your district. | |
| I assume you watched everything that happened. | |
| There was one post on X, and I never know what's posted on X, if it's real or not real, where apparently Charlotte, North Carolina officials confirmed that out of 900,000 residents, more than 150,000 are foreigners. | |
| Is that true? | |
| Are they in the country legally? | |
| Well, now there's a difference in saying they're foreigners and are they in the country legally? | |
| That's a great question. | |
| I don't know the direct answer for that, but that is an alarming statistic in any way, shape, or form. | |
| Okay, so tell us what's going on on the ground there. | |
| What's happening there? | |
| Well, obviously, we're very grateful from my perspective that Border Patrol is in Charlotte. | |
| You know, when you play that clip of the protest that took place on Saturday, if you saw some of the video of much of that and you saw so many Mexican flags, you would have thought you were more in Mexico City than you were in Charlotte, North Carolina. | |
| And what really, I guess, was staggering to me is they care, seem to care more about criminal aliens than they do the victims of their crimes. | |
| I mean, there's a lot of protesters out on the streets crying about these illegal criminals, but where were they when Irina Zarutska was murdered? | |
| There was no outcry that you saw in the streets at that particular time, but I digress. | |
| The bottom line is I'm thankful that Border Patrol is in Charlotte. | |
| They are law enforcement officers. | |
| They're doing their job. | |
| They're recognizing we've got a problem in the city of Charlotte. | |
| And listen, during the first two days of this Operation Charlotte's Web, they've already, as of this morning, had arrested over 130 illegal aliens who have broken all kinds of immigration laws of our country and other even more serious crimes that you see. | |
| I mean, you've got illegal aliens from Honduras who was arrested for murder. | |
| You've got one that was picked up, wanted for statutory rape. | |
| You've got one arrested for committing indecent liberties with a child. | |
| And I could go on down the list, Sean, but that's what's happening right now. | |
| And I'm very grateful that we've got Border Patrol doing their job, bringing law and order to the city of Charlotte. | |
| Well, it's worked in Memphis. | |
| It's working in Chicago. | |
| It certainly has worked in our nation's capital. | |
| Don Brown, what are you seeing on the ground? | |
| Thanks, Sean. | |
| I agree with my friend Mark Harris, as I usually do. | |
| Last time you were kind enough to have me on, it was right after that sweet sweet girl was killed, Irina, on the Charlotte White Rail. | |
| And at that time, I called for the president to send to the National Guard. | |
| I think maybe Mark has too. | |
| I'm the only U.S. Senate candidate to have called for that. | |
| Shortly after, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police joined in that request for the National Guard to be sent in. | |
| And Sean, I talked to the president of the Praternal Order of Police, and he told me that Charlotte has fewer police officers on the street than in 2018, despite the fact that the population has increased by 60,000. | |
| So our police are strained. | |
| And even the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are asking for federal help. | |
| So I was there on the ground the last part of this protest on Saturday. | |
| And what I was seeing, Sean, I was seeing these nutcased kids wearing red shirts with white lettering saying socialism is the answer. | |
| And what you just played a moment ago could have come from the George Floyd protest or any other type of radical commie protest we've heard. | |
| The question is, who is funding this? | |
| And I do also welcome the Border Patrol in. | |
| It helps our police officers, and they are targeting these major criminal syndicates, both in sex trafficking and drug trafficking. | |
| And thanks to President Trump for taking this action. | |
| How bad is it for the average person? | |
| And is anyone looking into the possibility that maybe some people that are not in the country legally are on the voter rolls in North Carolina, Congressman? | |
| Well, that's a real, real question that is definitely being looked into. | |
| I'm grateful for the U.S. attorneys that we have in place that are looking at those very issues. | |
| And are you sure they're looking at those issues? | |
| Well, I can tell you they just have announced that my predecessor in this seat, Congressman Dan, he was Congressman Dan Bishop, has been at the OMB. | |
| He's now going as a U.S. attorney to the Middle District of North Carolina. | |
| And I know Dan well, and I know his commitment to voter integrity and making sure that we are going to deal with this. | |
| I do know the Eastern District had previously gone after a number of illegals that were on the rolls as well and seeking to prosecute them. | |
| So there are some that are looking into it. | |
| And I have no doubt that Dan Bishop will do so. | |
| Oh, I hope so. | |
| Now, are the troops officially there? | |
| Don Brown. | |
| Border Patrol is on the ground. | |
| What I want to see is the National Guard come in also to stabilize this white rail system, which is still largely unprotected, despite the fact we saw this brutal murder. | |
| Since Arena was murdered, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police tells me there have been at least 40 other homicides in Charlotte. | |
| It's turned into a murder capital, and our police need more federal help. | |
| And I'll tell you one thing: if this liberal city council can't get us acted together, I hope the North Carolina General Assembly will step in and take control of the situation, which the General Assembly can do under the North Carolina Constitution and under state law. | |
| Enough is enough. | |
| All right. | |
| Appreciate both of you. | |
| Don Brown and Congressman Mark Harris. | |
| Appreciate the update. | |
| Sorry you're all going through that. | |
| I hope you can restore law and order for every person in Charlotte and all throughout North Carolina. | |
| 800-941-SHAWN is our number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| All right, let's get to our busy phones. | |
| Dave is in Maryland. | |
| Dave, hi, how are you? | |
| Glad you called, sir. | |
| Hey, Sean, longtime listener, first time caller. | |
| I just want to commend you. | |
| And one of the things I wanted to say to you is that we need you guys to stay safe. | |
| So if you guys are doing anything in the public, please be behind the same bulletproof glass that the president uses because they're crazy out there. | |
| Well, what I'm telling my fellow conservatives, whether I like them or agree with them, I mean, not all of us agree on everything either, but I would no longer do outdoor events. | |
| I think you're just too vulnerable. | |
| You'll never be able to hire enough people. | |
| You would need the equivalent of the Secret Service. | |
| That's not possible. | |
| But any venue that you're going to have an event in, I would just say make sure the venue is swept ahead of time and then it is locked down so nobody can get in there. | |
| The next most important part is you've got to mag everybody when they come in and make sure nobody's bringing in weapons or firearms, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| The next thing I would say is you've got to be on an elevated platform, a stage of some kind, so that somebody just can't be on the same level and just rush the stage. | |
| That'd be three things that I'd recommend to people, but don't not do what we do. | |
| I mean, don't stop. | |
| I mean, I've done a number of public events since, you know, what happened to our dear friend Charlie Kirk, but you definitely, look, I probably, I've had everything that you can imagine happen to me over the course of my career. | |
| I just don't talk a lot about it. | |
| And over time, you kind of become numb to it. | |
| It's like it's part of the job. | |
| I mean, but I think in this environment, you got to take it a little more seriously. | |
| Good admonition. | |
| I appreciate it more than you know. | |
| Ray is in Canada. | |
| Ray, how are you? | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Hey, Sean. | |
| How are you today? | |
| By the way, you'll be glad to know I disagree with the president. | |
| I don't want Canada as the 51st state. | |
| And we will. | |
| You know why? | |
| Because I don't need two of your liberal senators. | |
| No, thank you. | |
| I think that the odds would be high that, you know, little Justin would be the first to run. | |
| Well, I don't think we want much of America right now, to tell you truthfully, but on the point. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| You could say that all you want, but if Canada's attacked, you're going to want all of America because without America's might, military might, guess what? | |
| You're an extremely vulnerable nation. | |
| I don't think I'd be so dismissive of the United States. | |
| I'm not dismissive though. | |
| Right now we have a... | |
| Oh, that sounded kind of dismissive to me. | |
| Oh, I apologize. | |
| I don't want you to feel that way, Sean. | |
| I love America. | |
| Happy Thanksgiving to you all as well. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Already had ours. | |
| I just wanted to bring up, I don't think you guys are taking the results of that past election seriously in terms of the fact that basically the Democrats swiped the floor with everybody. | |
| You know that they were blue states, but still the polling showed minor victories in New Jersey and a smaller victory in Virginia. | |
| It was a route. | |
| It was a route in every area. | |
| And there are other headwinds that are showing right now, and I'm just wondering why the Republican Party, you as a host, and the— I'm not dismissing anything. | |
| I take everything seriously. | |
| I take everything you can learn out of every election seriously. | |
| And I always think that you need to adapt and adjust and make things better. | |
| So I'm always fine-tuning everything I do on this show and everything that I stand for. | |
| But I think the most pressing issue right now is turning the Titanic on the economy, which the president has devoted an enormous amount of time to. | |
| And I think it's going to pay dividends. | |
| That's my prediction. | |
| And people have underestimated them. | |
| And I think to their own peril. | |
| If I'm right, and by the second, third quarter of next year, the economy is where I believe it will be. | |
| I think you're going to see a dramatic difference. | |
| And I think people will have a lot more confidence in the president's plan. | |
| Like Reagan, it takes a while to get over the hangover from a horrible economy that was handed to President Trump. | |
| Let's wait, watch, see, and we'll follow it closely. | |
| Anyway, 800-941-Sean is a number. | |
| If you want to be a part of the program, more of your calls coming up straight ahead as we continue. | |
| You know, the Democrats, the left-leaning media, you know, don't fully, they're not absorbing this intramural identity crisis that is going on in the Democratic Party. | |
| I mean, you know, I went into this earlier in the program today and, you know, what's happening with, you know, Marxist comrade Mamdani in New York. | |
| And, you know, it's very, very amazing to me that, you know, when you look at liberal polls, Kathy Hochl now is governor in name only, and she is now being pressured by Democratic Socialist of America, I mean, directly and by Mamdani's office to either get on board with Mamdani's agenda or you're out or get booted from office. | |
| That's why Chuck Schumer is gone. | |
| Chuck Schumer's finished. | |
| You know, Bill Maher had an interesting point, as I mentioned earlier, that Mamdani voters, he said, look, we've run the experiment many times. | |
| The results are always obvious. | |
| Look straight in the camera, delivered a blunt warning about Mamdani. | |
| Democrats must recognize that he's the future of the party. | |
| Unfortunately, it's the Republican Party. | |
| You know, here's capitalist South Korea at night from space, he pointed out, showing up a country lit up and thriving. | |
| Here's socialist North Korea, a map that's pitch dark. | |
| He points out 1990, Venezuela, wealthier, then Poland, then Poland finally free of the Soviet Union. | |
| And that system of governance went all in on capitalism. | |
| Their economy is as big as Japan. | |
| And there they have high wages, low inflation, cars, vacations, homes. | |
| Venezuela created capitalism for Hugo Chavez's socialism. | |
| And it turned one of Latin America's richest country into one of the poorest countries. | |
| Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, 8 million people fleeing. | |
| And if you think New York can somehow reinvent the wheel, you're in for a rude awakening. | |
| He's not wrong. | |
| And it's interesting. | |
| But if you listen to the Democrats, you know, there is a certain, a lot of the hard radical left now has been emboldened. | |
| You know, you listen to AOC, you know, lecturing Chuck Schumer, the old guard to get out of the way, you know, now worrying that a shutdown deal shows the Democrats that she's furious that we open the government back up. | |
| Listen to what she said. | |
| Especially with this administration, my concern is that the lesson that they're learning is that Democrats are weak and that next time we just need to hurt working people and working Americans more to get them to follow. | |
| And I don't want them to learn that lesson. | |
| And I want us to be a party that says we're going to get ourselves for people. | |
| Then you have RoCanna, you know, doubling down that Schumer's days. | |
| It's the final straw for Schumer and he's got to go. | |
| Why do you think leader Schumer is to blame, given that Republicans have control, as Ginger Heen is saying, of the White House in both chambers of Congress? | |
| Well, there's some things I agree with both of these senators. | |
| Senator Kane said that Senator Schumer was terrific under President Biden, and he was. | |
| The question is, what is the future of Democratic leadership? | |
| Who is going to be effective? | |
| And most Democrats around the country just don't think that person is Chuck Schumer. | |
| I mean, he doesn't inspire confidence. | |
| He's not bold. | |
| He's out of touch with the grassroots. | |
| He's someone who cheerlead us into the war in Iraq. | |
| He doesn't have the moral clarity on Gaza. | |
| He couldn't say Mamdani's name. | |
| And this was the final straw where he was not strong on fighting for health care. | |
| You see a pattern emerging here that there will be no tolerance if you don't tie the Marxist-Momdani, you know, AOC squad line. | |
| Senator Chris Murphy, who's a mistake for Democrats to reopen the government. | |
| Again, they're afraid of this radical base that controls the party. | |
| Listen. | |
| Listen, Jonathan, as you know, I thought it was a mistake for Democrats to give up what was real political advantage coming off the elections that could have allowed us to reduce these premiums. | |
| In the end, I thought we had a real shot to get a continuing resolution passed that would have lowered prices for people. | |
| And I also worry that by capitulating, we have empowered Donald Trump, that Donald Trump is going to act even more brazenly and more lawlessly in the future because of how this vote turned out. | |
| And then James Carville, James Carville, identity left caused irreparable harm to the Democratic Party. | |
| By the way, I'm not saying that there aren't people that are doing, you know, trying to do damage to President Trump's agenda that, you know, consider themselves part of the MAGA coalition. | |
| You know, never underestimate the Republican or conservative movement's ability to harm itself. | |
| It has got a propensity, even during the best of times when things are the best they're ever going to be, to turn inward and to create intramural civil wars, of which I'm really not participating. | |
| I'm just like, okay, you people want to be stupid and you want to fracture the coalition. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| And then you will help basically give a lifeline to the Democrats, which are, you know, dying on the vine. | |
| But putting all that aside, it is what it is. | |
| All right, let's get to our phones. | |
| 800-941-Sean is on number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Chad in Mississippi. | |
| Chad, how are you? | |
| Hey, good afternoon, Sean. | |
| How are you today? | |
| I'm good, sir. | |
| What's going on? | |
| I wanted to call and check in with you. | |
| First, an apology. | |
| We had actually chatted all the way back in 2013. | |
| And back then, you were doing some shows where you were allowing people to call in and talk about opportunities that were out there to help people find a job. | |
| This is back when Obama was obviously the president, but they, you know, everything that was old is new again. | |
| They were, there was immigration. | |
| There was the gang of eight going on. | |
| They were spying on Tea Party conservatives, et cetera. | |
| And then, of course, Obamacare. | |
| Same stuff that, you know, is hopefully not spying that's going on today. | |
| My whole point is, I had triplet, one-year-old daughters at the time. | |
| At the time, I was 100% service-connected vet. | |
| Now I'm 90. | |
| And you actually did a show where we had called in from our graduation and you offered congratulations. | |
| And that group was called Battlefields to Oilfields. | |
| And you got behind the program. | |
| And I want to tell you, I went from a frightened dad that was worried about how he was going to feed those girls to a vet who wanted to fight. | |
| And so I wanted to call and personally tell you thank you. | |
| I keep touch with those guys on the regular. | |
| The lion's share of them are still in safety. | |
| At the time, we were doing oil field safety through that program. | |
| So I just want to call and give kind of a status update and tell you sincerely thank you. | |
| I listened to you talk to the guys that you started with in radio years ago. | |
| I really enjoyed it to get to hear that on Friday. | |
| So I don't, I think you know the impact that you make in people's lives. | |
| Maybe sometimes you're not reminded enough. | |
| So I just want to call and tell you sincerely thank you for me and our graduating class from Battlefields to Oilfields. | |
| You made a definite impact on a lot of people's lives. | |
| Well, I'm honored that you called and told me. | |
| I don't really think about, I'm just trying every day to, I'm gulping. | |
| To do this job well, you have to immerse yourself in it. | |
| And sometimes you put your head down. | |
| But I will tell you one of the things, stories like yours, Yours, you know, warms my heart more than you know, because I know what it's like when you're in that position and you live in paycheck to paycheck. | |
| It sucks, or you have debt and that sucks. | |
| And especially guys that are service, you know, have served this country and they come back and they don't have opportunities. | |
| I was very, I'm very, very, the stories that I heard about people when we started putting companies and jobs together and highlighting it on the show. | |
| Now, I'm planning to do that in the beginning of the next year because all of these jobs, these trillions of dollars that are going to be spent on manufacturing and automobiles and pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips and all the jobs that are going to be available in the energy sector, I promise you, we're going to be putting on on a regular basis people that have a lot of high-paying career jobs. | |
| And if people are willing to make the transition and make the move, then there's nothing that makes me happier than to give people awareness of an opportunity they might not know. | |
| I just have one admonition to all of this. | |
| A lot of people don't know that the economy as we know it is changing in real time. | |
| Artificial intelligence is going to change everything. | |
| I shared a video with friends of mine this weekend. | |
| I probably should put it on here. | |
| It is a building company, construction company in Australia. | |
| And it shows them building a home or building like a manufacturing center in a week with robots. | |
| Now, it's certainly going to take boots on the ground to do a lot of the finished work, et cetera. | |
| It can't do everything. | |
| But I mean, they're going to frame this sucker out in a week. | |
| And when you watch this, it is more precise. | |
| It is perfect with less waste than ever before at a cost per square foot that is unimaginable that we can think of today. | |
| 18 wheelers, if you're a truck driver and you're not near retirement in the next 10 years, I am telling you, those jobs are probably going away. | |
| If you're an Uber driver, if you are a cab driver in New York City, those jobs are probably going away. | |
| So there's going to be a need to help people and assist people in finding the opportunities that will be higher paying, more career-oriented than ever before. | |
| And I'm trying to stay on top of it so that I can pass this information on to people. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Do you ever play around with Brock or artificial intelligence at all? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| You know, it's ironic. | |
| There are some programs that are out there right now through, for example, Google that teaches AI to disabled veterans because, like, for example, I have a spinal cord injury. | |
| I can walk. | |
| I'm ambulatory. | |
| And people a lot of times are shocked to even find out, you know, that I'm a disabled veteran. | |
| But whenever I went through that portion in my life, I figured out, you know what, my hands may not work as long, you know, as long as my brain will. | |
| So as I continue to age, I'm looking for ways to integrate that into the safety programs that I do. | |
| They're all behavioral based. | |
| So it's super important that we do those things. | |
| Sean, I did want to ask one last thing. | |
| And I'm sorry, I know I'm not a segment, but I did want to, I kind of laid something on my heart. | |
| In the mornings when I drive in, it's getting darker and darker here in North Mississippi. | |
| And I passed this cemetery. | |
| It has an American flag. | |
| A gentleman is buried there that's a veteran. | |
| And as I was driving by that, I've been trying to think, you know, as a disabled vet, what is something I could do to leave a legacy, not only for my children, but other generations? | |
| And Sean, I don't know if you knew this or not, but the word veteran is not capitalized. | |
| It's not a proper noun, or I mean, it's a proper noun, not a common, but I always thought the word veteran, out of respect for the honor and their duty and their sacrifice, it should be capitalized. | |
| The Veterans Administration actually does that. | |
| So what I wanted to ask humbly is in the unlikely event that you run into the president, do you think you might ask him if we could get the letter V and veteran always capitalized as an opportunity to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice and all who have served, like my grandfather, you know, 40 years, a Nazarene minister when he came back. | |
| I don't like my father. | |
| My father spent four years in the Pacific. | |
| I love the idea. | |
| I think it's a great idea. | |
| Wish I'd thought of it myself. | |
| And I'll gladly, if given the opportunity, pass it on. | |
| No problem at all. | |
| I think it's a great idea. | |
| I love great ideas. | |
| You made a huge impact in my life. | |
| So I wanted to tell you, God bless you. | |
| And I was doing some research for whenever I was going to call back in. | |
| And I actually saw a thing all the way back from 2013 where you were on a panel up on a stage and Ainsley was actually asking some questions. | |
| So I thought that was pretty precious. | |
| So I just want to call and tell you, thank you for the impact you've had, not only in my life, but all those other veterans. | |
| Definitely my girls are 13 now. | |
| All three are 12 now. | |
| They're about to turn 13 and they're thriving. | |
| And part of that is because you motivated me to get off my behind and make my own way and not wait for the government to do it. | |
| So I'm excited to hear about your new show. | |
| Well, you're giving me more motivation to double down on what I did then and do it even better when we do this next year because these jobs are coming online. | |
| There's so much money that's going to be spent and so many opportunities in a changing economy. | |
| There are challenges that we've never had before and opportunities that we've never had before. | |
| But you're giving me motivation to really dig down deep and do this the right way. |
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