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Nov. 25, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Senator Mark Kelly Under Fire
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If you want to be a part of the program, Linda, how long has it been since I've had this compressed nerve in my neck?
Too long.
Too long time.
I know.
I'm finally getting it dealt with today.
Oh, God, today?
Yeah.
Like, you already went or you still got to go?
I still got to go.
Oh, sorry, man.
You mean you actually feel sorry for me?
I can't believe it.
I got to be honest.
Back and neck pain is not a joke.
It's very painful.
It's not anything serious.
I mean, it just is, you know, it's, and it's stupid because I did it with, you know, training and lifting.
And, you know, it just is, you know, you think it's going to go away when that type of inflammation just sticks around and stays around forever, which is a pain in the neck.
And I hate strangers touching me or else I would have taken the sports massage route a long time ago.
What are you laughing at, sweet baby James?
Why are you laughing at that?
That's not funny.
You know, this is the guy that lives at the chiropractor.
Last thing I'm ever doing in my life is going to a chiropractor and go, you know, prank.
Well, if it's a good chiropractor, it's, it's not, you know, Dr. Kraken.
I'm not against people going to chiropractor.
I'm only against me going to a chiropractor.
I want no part of it.
Okay.
You want to go to a chiropractor?
Knock yourself out.
You know, I've given Sweet Baby James the answer, but Sweet Baby James doesn't listen to my answer.
Do you, Sweet Baby James?
And then he lied.
You know, Sweet Baby James just lies about little things, and I catch him at these little lies all the time.
You know, like, for example, I had, I, I, with my guidance, he lost like 16, 17 pounds.
Then he gained more than half of it back.
And then, like, there's little things I'll ask him, well, you know, okay, give me an update.
What's your weight?
He goes, oh, this morning it was 184, 185.
I said, no, there's no such thing as 184, 185.
It's either 184 or 185.
And he said, well, it was 185, but 0.0.
That's not 184, is it, Linda?
No, it's not 180.
I think you're very hard on James.
And I think I make him breakfast every single day.
Yeah, definitely.
I'll give you another example.
You want another example?
Sure.
So I just like olives.
I don't know why.
I love olives.
Because you're a smart man.
Olives are wonderful.
They're awesome.
I love them.
But I like them with the pits in them.
Most people don't like them with the pits in them.
I like them any way I can get them.
I'm with you.
Great Italian olives.
You can order them online.
You can find them in a grocery store.
And so I ordered two jars of them, and they arrive, and they arrive on a Monday.
And I go to grab one on Wednesday, and all but two have been eaten.
The entire jar of olives are gone.
There's only one person that lives here that could have, or that's here, that could have eaten them.
And that's sweet baby James.
And I said, you got to be kidding me.
You ate yesterday the entire jar of olives?
I didn't have one olive yesterday at all.
Nothing.
But what's wrong with eating olives?
Okay.
It's not the fact that he ate them.
I said, you ate the whole jar, and he left me two.
And then I said, but then he denied that he ate them.
And then he starts playing Bill Clinton word games with me.
But you're laughing.
It's not funny.
He lies about little things, and I catch him all the time.
So then Uncle James goes, Sweet Baby James goes, well, I did not have a single olive yesterday.
Not one.
And while I said you must have.
He pulled a Bill Clinton, huh?
That's his Bill Clinton.
I never took it.
It turns out he ate the whole jar except for two on Monday.
But he denied it, denied it.
It took me six weeks to get the truth out of him.
You know, rather than him just saying, yeah, I don't know.
I just, I had a bad day.
I was just eating olives.
I don't know.
The berries.
I don't see how that's a bad day.
I mean, if I could only eat olives for the rest of my life, I'd be a very happy girl.
Oh, just.
I'd buy olives for everybody.
We'll all have olives together.
It's wonderful.
Why don't you tell the truth about in a little bit?
Tell the truth.
Just tell the truth.
He lied to me when he said, oh, I didn't have them yesterday.
Is that not Bill Clinton-ish?
That's like a Bill Clinton thing.
It definitely is a blue dress moment.
But listen, at the end of the day, Olives never killed anybody.
No.
All right, so we have a lot of news that we are going to get to in the course of the day here.
Not the least of which is we've got to go back to this issue of the senators and congresspeople telling the military and pitting the military and our intelligence community against the President of the United States.
Now, there is on justthenews.com, John Solomon's website, the Pentagon announced an investigation into Arizona Senator Mark Kelly related to him and a handful of fellow Democrats participating in this video urging troops, you have an obligation to defy illegal orders.
Let me play it again.
We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe.
We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.
Americans trust their military.
But that trust is at risk.
This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.
Like us, you all swore an oath.
To protect and defend this Constitution.
Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.
Our laws are clear.
You can refuse illegal orders.
You can refuse illegal orders.
You must refuse illegal orders.
No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
We know this is hard and that it's a difficult time to be a public servant.
But whether you're serving in the CIA, the Army, or Navy, the Air Force, your vigilance is critical.
And know that we have your back.
Know that we have.
You must refuse illegal orders.
Pretty amazing.
Now, the Pentagon today announced an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly and others, a handful of these Democrats.
One is Elise Slotkin of Michigan.
Now, she was on one of the Sunday shows, I believe ABC this weekend with Martha Raditz and was asked, well, can you name one illegal order that President Trump that you believe that he issued?
Listen.
So let's talk right now.
Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?
To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela.
I never heard her or any prominent Democrat ever talk about the drone strikes of Obama.
I believe Biden did.
I'm pretty sure he did.
Certainly George W. Bush did.
Nobody complained then.
The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly.
The DOD posted on X, in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice 10, USC 688 and other applicable regulations.
A thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.
This matter will be handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality.
Further official comments will be limited to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.
And the Department of War reminds all individuals that the military retirees remain subject to the military's, what they call the Military Code of Justice, the UCMJ, for applicable offenses and federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. 2387.
Let me tell you what that is.
2387 is 18 U.S.C. 2387.
It's activities affecting armed forces.
And this statute, it is a federal crime under this statute to do any of the following.
One, advise, urge, or attempt to cause one, insubordination, two, disloyalty, three, mutiny, four, or refusal of duty among members of the U.S. military.
Two, obstruct or attempt to obstruct recruiting, enlistment, or general military operations.
Three, distribute written materials advocating for any of the above.
This law does not require advocating the overthrow of the government.
That is 2385.
Section 2387 is specifically about undermining a functioning United States military.
Now, the Pentagon is going to investigate this.
And, you know, I would imagine, you know, in his case, it's a little bit different, but in the case of everybody else, now, the president, you know, everyone's angry at the president, but he's pointing out that the Democrats, you know,
if this is deemed, you know, sedition or a violation of law, I mean, it really, whatever you want to call it, it is extraordinarily dangerous what they have done here.
It is unbelievably, spectacularly reckless and irresponsible.
And we'll see how this plays out.
But when you can't name a specific illegal order, because to do so, they would then have to implicate past presidents as well that have used drone strikes, just like the president is using strikes to take out, for example, these narcoterrorists that are bringing drugs into the United States.
But now, I know a lot of you are worried and concerned at other news today.
Let me just deal with this up front.
You had a Clinton-appointed federal judge has thrown out the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James, finding that they were illegitimate because they were brought by an unqualified U.S. attorney, which I don't agree with this assessment at all.
Judge Cameron Curry dismissed the false statements charge against Comey and bank fraud charges against Letitia James without prejudice, meaning that the charges could be brought up again, meaning that the statute of limitations is extended out for six months.
Curry nominated by President Bill Clinton.
So you have a case of another liberal judge is what you have here.
And the problem that they have in the case of Letitia James, this is going to be a cut-and-dry case.
She's the Attorney General of New York.
What state was it, Linda?
She buys this house.
I forget where it was.
And, okay, in Virginia.
And she claims, the allegation is that she claims that that was her primary residence, which would be impossible if she is the Attorney General of the United States.
That is going to be cut and dry.
She either signed those documents claiming that it was her primary residence or she didn't.
And there would be probably multiple areas in which she reaffirmed that that in fact happened.
Okay, that's number one.
So I think in her case, I do believe these charges will ultimately be reinstated.
In the case of Comey, you know, again, most of the charges that you would otherwise have thought that James Comey would be held accountable for, and that includes what he knew about, for example, the Pfizer warrants, three of the four of which he signed using as its predicate the dirty Russian disinformation dossier that was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and whether or not he was warned by it.
Statute of limitations ran out for all of that.
And if you recall at the time, I said this is the low-hanging fruit that remains where the statute of limitations have not run out, barring any grand conspiracy investigation as discussed by the FBI director Cash Battelle.
The problem for Comey is, and we'll play it later in the program, is in 2020, he testified before the U.S. Senate, and we played the cuts, and we'll replay them of his exchange with Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham.
But unfortunately for him, you know, in the five burn bags that I'm sure he thought was long gone and completely never to be seen or heard from again, one damning note in particular confirms what many of us have known and argued all along.
At the outset, the Russia collusion narrative that it was all fiction, that they knew it was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton, that they were warned about it.
If you go to the Durham report, you know, to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services, then you add to that Tulsi Gabbard's declassification when the Intel community career senior intelligence officials determined after 2016 that there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
And then, again, the declassified documents show that it was Obama himself that ordered a reassessment, a new intelligent assessment.
This is now very problematic.
But Comey's testimony contradicts his own handwritten material that they found in these burn bags.
He's got a problem legally.
I think they'll be reinstated.
I know a lot of you don't like the fact that you think, oh, here we go again.
They're all getting away with it.
Yeah, the big stuff they're all getting away with.
Sorry to be the one to tell you.
I wish it wasn't the case, but it is.
Linda, I do have a question for you because I had a couple of people ask me if you really meant it, what you said last week.
Well, you said this on Thanksgiving that you're having Thanksgiving at your house, right?
I am.
I'm hosting.
I'm not making my butterball turkey this year.
I don't know why.
I don't know.
I thought I'd change it up a little bit.
I'm looking at Tomahawk ribeyes.
What do you think?
I mean, listen, you can't say no to a tomahawk.
Who am I?
A tomahawk.
Whatever.
Whoever you say in Florida.
No, so what you said is that, I mean, because now it's like a big deal, and it's like very viral.
Actually, you know who I give credit to?
Bill Maher was really spectacular.
He took on Jimmy Kimmel's wife.
And Jimmy, we reported on this, and I don't have anything against Jimmy Kimmel's wife.
Apparently, she's the executive producer for his show.
Anyway, she revealed that before the 2024 elections that she reached out to members in her family, conservative members, in a last-ditch effort to convince them not to vote for Donald Trump.
And she said on this podcast, she had emailed conservative relatives a list of 10 reasons that she believed they shouldn't vote for Trump.
And she said and admitted she's lost relationships with a lot of these family members over their differing political views and their support of the current president.
And while speaking about cutting off their family members over differences in political views, Mark took this on and he addressed it and he kind of slammed her for ending relationships with family members who, quote, he put it was pretty funny.
He goes, who wouldn't obey her plea to not vote for Trump?
And, you know, he went on, you know, and he said, so I feel it's fair to comment respectfully in public.
He says she lost relationships with relatives because she wrote them an email before the election with her reasons why they shouldn't vote for Trump and some didn't obey.
So, you know, he said, and he was kind of gesturing a slicing motion, you know, across the neck.
And he's like, okay, off with it, you know, we're done.
And he said, look, 10 reasons, I can think of 100.
Now, we know he's more of a traditional Democrat.
He's been very outspoken against woke and DEI and the failures of the Democratic Party, but he still hates Donald Trump, although he said he'd like to go and have dinner with him again.
And anyway, he remarked that somewhere along the way, my values became code for I'm the only one with a moral compass before continuing to criticize what he saw as this ultimatum.
You know, quote, write at a top 10 list to yourself where you try to imagine 10 reasons why 77 million Americans didn't want to trust you with taking power.
And I say, as someone who votes Democratic, as I like to remind my very pure friends, we voted for the same person.
You're just why we lost, he pointed out, which I think there's a lot of truth to this.
You know, the only thing I would say is, and you fell into this trap, I think, yourself in a way.
It's like you said last week on this program that you will not allow people that you disagree with politically to come to Thanksgiving dinner.
I think that's a little hardcore.
Listen, turkey has a wonderful thing in it called tryptophan.
Trypt to fame makes you sleepy and relaxed.
The last thing I need is some dumb liberal at my table pissing me off.
I'm trying to relax.
We don't get a lot of time off on this show.
So if I'm sitting around having a nice glass of whatever, eating some turkey and potatoes and all the things that I'm going to work on making all day long, the last thing I want is somebody telling me is why I'm wrong or why they're right.
I don't want to hear it.
Be quiet.
I had to suffer through Biden.
And if you don't like Trump, you know, it'll be fine.
We'll all have another election soon enough and we can decide what's right then.
As for Thanksgiving, shut your mouth, eat some turkey.
And if you don't want to shut your mouth and eat turkey, you can pick up your phone.
Oh, so they can come as long as you don't get into this long, drawn out political battle with them.
Yeah, you know, I have an issue with people who like to say things and be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
By the way, if anyone's having the same problem, I'm going to interrupt you for a second, then let you finish.
And you want my advice, you can call because I've been trying to give advice because apparently this year is more intense than in past years.
But if you find yourself in this situation, you want to give us a call, I'll try to offer you my best counsel.
We'll try to keep Linda's to a minimum because we haven't.
I'm just going to send everybody Ziploc bags.
Ziploc bags are the way to go this year.
800-941, Sean, if you want advice how to deal with your crazy relatives.
All right.
So, okay.
So, but this is the worst part of what you said.
You said that you're going to leave them doggy bags outside your house.
That's right.
So, in other words, you're going to make them doggy bags, but they can't come in the house because they don't agree with you politically.
That's right.
And they should love it.
It's like you say on Halloween.
Some people give out handy candy.
I'm going to give out turkey, and they're going to be wonderful.
It's going to be a very nice day.
So any liberal relative is not invited to your house for Thanksgiving.
And if they want to partake in your dinner, what you're going to do is you're going to leave them a doggy bag on the, I guess, the steps of your house.
Yeah.
I'll even leave it on the mudroom table.
I'll elevate it.
Oh, come on.
You don't see this as a little bit too hardcore, seriously?
No, I mean, I don't wish them any ill will, but I don't have to break bread.
I can leave the bread outside.
You break it on your own.
You'll be fine.
Oh, my gosh.
Now, I do have like extended relatives that I know hate my guts.
I do.
And would you invite them to your Thanksgiving dinner?
I can tell you one year, there was a nephew of mine, and the whole family did not agree with a single thing that I said.
And they weren't in my house for a full minute before they started in.
And did you say that for me is at that point, it's like kicks and giggles.
It's like, I do this professionally, and I can handle anything they're going to throw at me.
And it's like, but it was obvious they came in.
You were there, sweet baby, James.
They came in, loaded a bear, and they wanted to come at me.
So why don't you?
I'm not leaving them a doggy bag.
I'm going to leave.
Because I just.
Okay, let's do it a different way.
Have you invited them back since?
Well, I'm in a different state right now.
So it's not as easy, but the answer is.
I mean, invitations are, you know, they cross the state lines.
It's a wonderful thing.
We got the USPS.
We got digital.
We got Evite.
You know, I'm just asking for a friend.
I think you're just saying this for hyperbole.
I don't believe you would do that.
No, I really would.
I'm really not interested.
I have to tell you.
I'm really not interested.
Here's the problem with liberals, and I think you will agree with me on this because you've had plenty of callers call the show and say this.
When a liberal comes in and they say to you, I can't believe you support this man.
He is a racist.
He is a misogynist.
He is a bigot, whatever it is.
I always say the same thing.
Oh, my God, really?
Why?
What happened?
What did he do?
And then they say, don't antagonize me.
Don't patronize me.
No, I want to know what you know that makes you think all these things are true.
And you know what?
They never have the answer because there isn't.
I can't believe I'm agreeing with Bill Maher.
You know, have a drink, sit down, eat turkey, and we don't have to talk politics.
And you can say that to them.
Yeah, I am going to do that.
Most liberals do not have to do that.
There are many situations that people try to bait me.
They purposely go out of their way.
They see me and they want me to engage with them.
All right, hang on a second.
Here's his Victorian Vegas agrees with you.
So I will go to a caller that agrees with you to start.
Victoria, how are you?
Hi, Sean.
How are you?
Hi, Linda.
Hi.
Happy holidays.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Yes, I totally agree with her.
You guys, like, nobody should have to deal with that.
One day, a Christmas, a Thanksgiving.
You have your relatives over and they want to bait you and try to get you to argue when you're trying to relax and you've cooked all day.
Linda just said she's going to cook all day, and that's all it should be.
And if they want to come for that reason, they probably want to come for that reason just to argue.
That's right.
Well, there are some people that want to, I can tell you based on what I do for a living, that there are people that absolutely positively are looking to pick a fight with me if they can.
Right.
I mean, but it's pretty cold to say, you can't come to dinner and I'm going to leave a doggy bag on the door and you're going to have your freezing cold turkey or go heat it up in the microwave.
That's cold.
I just think she's saying that it's available and just in, and isn't that nice that she's actually cooking for them?
I think that's nice.
It is now you're going to turn this into some type of virtue.
I'm not buying that, Victoria, but I appreciate the call.
Tim in Ohio, what's up, Tim?
How are you doing?
How you doing today, Sean?
I was just calling because for the past 10 years, my dad is ultra, ultra-left Democrat.
I am the only Republican in the family on that side.
But the thing about it is, is that he'll make these Facebook posts about how people who voted for Trump are scum.
Look what you guys are doing to our country, blah, blah, blah.
And I'm like, dad, that's that's me.
You're talking about your son.
And I just, I just don't know how to deal with it.
I kind of avoid all situations over on that side just because my presence alone is enough to set some people off.
Not him.
He'll still invite me to things, but it's like you're saying this stuff on Facebook.
Why don't you just ask your dad, send him a note before Thanksgiving and say, Dad, can we just not talk about politics and enjoy our time together?
I don't know how old are you, Tim?
I'm 38, Sean.
You're 38?
Okay.
Yep.
So, okay.
I don't know how old your dad is, but my dad's been dead for 30 years.
Okay.
I'm just telling you, is it really worth it?
Is it really, you know, wouldn't you, don't you want, you know, when one day he passes, won't you be glad that you went the extra mile to get along with your dad, even if he wanted to, you know, like I can tell you right now, I mean, I have like an impenetrable skin on this stuff.
I don't care.
You know, why don't we be make it like water off a duck's back?
I look at them and they want to pick a fight and they think they're going to get me upset.
And there's nothing that they can say that's going to bother me.
There's nothing that they're going to say that's going to upset me.
You know, and they, and the harder they try and the more I don't give in to what they want, the more angry they become.
And then it becomes a bit of a joke to me.
Right now, I love them with all my heart.
I'll still go to functions.
I don't bring up politics on purpose, but it's when I see this stuff on Facebook as, and I'm 38, I know, I'm a grown man, but it's still my father.
And seeing the turnaround is what really gets me.
Listen, I get it.
I understand.
I mean, I think some people are going to have a hard time with this.
But a doggy bag on the porch rather than inviting them in and just, you know, maybe gently requesting, let's just have a nice day.
Let's make it a political free day.
Let's watch some football and have a drink and have a great dinner together and spend time together.
And I don't know.
Look, there are some people that you just look.
I've lost friends over President Trump, but not because of me, because of them.
They made that decision.
I've told a story about John Kasich.
John Kasich, you know, and I used to be friends.
And then I called him before one of the elections.
I don't remember what year.
And I said, and I texted him.
I said, you have a minute.
He goes, if it's about Trump, no.
And I'm like, I wrote back.
I said, okay, so we can only talk about our friendship is basically superficial, and we'll only talk about, oh, how is your golf game?
How are your children?
And we can't have a significant discussion about the future of the country.
Okay.
That's on him.
That's not on me.
All right, last call.
Doris in Michigan.
Doris, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi, Linda.
It's Doris.
Hi, Doris.
You're loving this.
She's loving this.
Everyone's giving her affirmation for doggy bags.
It's ridiculous.
This Thanksgiving, we are wearing our MAGA hats and our MAGA shirts.
And whoever likes it, likes it.
Whoever doesn't can leave with no.
I love it.
I love it.
Okay, that I'm in full.
You can wear whatever you want.
And if they want to come in with I Love Kamala, let them wear an I Love Kamala t-shirt.
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Now you're going to have burn that shirt.
You're going to be like, you're going to say, take off that shirt.
I'm burning it out in the back.
I'm going to spill turkey gravy on it.
They'll never wear it again.
All right, there's no, there's no hope for some of you.
I'm afraid of being bring about a little bit of peace and love on Thanksgiving.
Forget it.
You know, there's going to be turkey legs and mashed potatoes flying all across, you know, tables all across the country.
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