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Dec. 2, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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I've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I hate the city.
I hate the Bachelorettes.
I hate the pedal taverns.
I hate country music.
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Sean, if you want to join us, there is a very important election, congressional election happening tomorrow for all our friends on WLAC and in the Nashville area, surrounding area.
If you have friends, you have family there.
Look, every seat now matters in the House of Representatives for Republicans.
I've never seen a candidate, especially in Tennessee, this radicalized as the Democratic candidate.
There's one Democratic consultant that even said, this person has no business running in this race at all whatsoever.
Her name is Afton Ben, and she, you know, every ad says, oh, she's going to shake up America.
That's shake up Washington.
If you look at her issue section, she barely uses it.
This is a person, community organizer, social worker, said she got inspired to get into politics by Saul Lalinski's rules for radicals.
Sounds like, you know, right out of the school of Barack Obama, has spent innumerable hours, you know, planning, protesting.
You know, she's just a radical, hard left-winger in what is a conservative area.
A self-described trans organizer activist says that her partner has a trans son.
She says she spent time with others discussing how to develop a world without police.
Now, if you're running in a district that includes Nashville, Tennessee, and we have her on tape just a couple of years ago saying, I hate Nashville and I hate country music.
Why would you be running in that district?
Listen.
I've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I hate the city.
I hate the Bachelorettes.
I hate the pedal taverns.
I hate country music.
I hate all of the things that make Nashville barely in its city to the rest of the country.
I hate it.
It's everything that I love about Nashville, to be very blunt.
Another clip of her, she was involved in a seminar centered around a world without police.
Here's what she said.
Well, I'm currently involved in a transfer transformative justice seminar.
And so it's how to imagine a world without police and what that looks like and what community mechanisms look like, how people can not police themselves.
But what, for example, if you experience sexual assault, like what is the reconciliation process and what does transformative justice look like?
Because as we know, like you can't take those things to court, like, you know, our legal system is terrible when it comes to retribution.
So anyways, all that to say is that like, I, you know, I hope all of you, so one, I'll have a podcast on it.
And I highly recommend like if it's been difficult for all of you to imagine a world without police, please tune in to maybe not this episode, but the next one, because I'll talk about, you know, things I'm learning and growing as an organizer, because I think, especially for those of us, you know, that are young, like, you know, talking to our parents about what police abolition looks like, that, you know, we can do it and there is a world.
Good morning, she writes, especially to the 54% of Americans that believe burning down a police station is justified.
And she admits I'm a very radical person and that rioting is a way for people to express themselves.
Wow.
You know, this is great.
We've got our girl squad and we're bullying the ICE vehicles and state troopers.
She called for the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department to be dissolved.
For the past decade, I've been at the heart of a long-term political project to take back Tennessee.
Anyway, joining us now is her opponent in this race, Matt Van Epps, is with us.
He's running for the Tennessee 7th District, along with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who has been out there supporting him.
Welcome both of you to the program.
Mike Van Epps, is there anything that I'm missing from her record?
Because I don't know.
I think it's a little odd to say you hate Nashville and you want to represent Nashville and you want to dissolve the police in Nashville and that she admits she's radical and she believes, you know, good morning to the Americans believing in burning down police stations is justified.
And I hate country music, which I happen to love.
Hey, Sean, well, thanks for having me on.
Matt Van Epps here.
I mean, you're absolutely right.
This is extreme.
It's radical in her own words.
She's very radical.
She wants new and higher taxes to fund her socialist agenda that will skyrocket our cost of living.
She's been endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
She endorsed Mamdani in New York City.
I mean, we're talking about someone who is very far left.
And the contrast here could not be more clear.
I'm a West Point grad, was an Army combat helicopter pilot.
I flew Apaches and then Chinooks with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment out of Fort Campbell, went on to be a small business leader, served in state government most recently as the commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services.
And I'm still serving in the Tennessee Army National Guard today as a lieutenant colonel.
And it just, the distinction here could not be more clear.
We support law enforcement.
I back the blue.
Chiefs and sheriffs were some of the first groups that we met with in the primary.
Just met with them again a couple of weeks ago about how we can best support our law enforcement who put their lives on the line every single day to protect our communities and our country.
And so that's what we stand for, as opposed to our radical opponent.
Yeah, Speaker Johnson, great to have you as well.
You know, in many ways, the media, in my view, has been trying to boost the candidacy of this radical, which in a really strange way, I think is a good thing, because now I think the people of Nashville have, by the time they go to the polls tomorrow, will be fully aware of how insane and radicalized this Democrat is.
And that gives me confidence that a lot of people will show up tomorrow and say no to this.
But with that said, I think fear of losing in an election is a good thing.
I want the people of Nashville to understand there's a lot at stake here.
Deshaun, you're exactly right.
Thanks for having us.
I'm here in Tennessee with Matt.
We're campaigning all day because this is a fateful election tomorrow.
It really is for the future of the whole country.
It's not just about Tennessee's 7th district.
It's about what direction we're headed as a country, because as you know, we have a razor-thin margin.
We cannot afford to have a far-left, momdani-like Marxist liberal come and represent a district from Tennessee.
So we absolutely have to win this one.
You said some of her crazy positions.
It gets even worse.
I mean, not only is she for defunding the police and abolishing prisons and she endorsed burning down police stations, she bragged about bullying ICE agents, you know, when they're facing threats like never before.
She also said she's not in line with Tennessee values at all.
Okay.
This lady said she feels uncomfortable around colleagues who pray.
She brought a transgender reverend to the Tennessee legislature.
She pushes DEI.
She believes men can give birth, Sean.
These are her public positions.
You could play the greatest hits all day long.
Everybody needs to understand this is a special election and they are special by design.
Voter turnout is typically low.
We cannot take this for granted.
Even though this is a deep red district, we need every single person to go out and vote tomorrow.
Look, I have an attachment to the area.
I don't know if you know this, Matt, but years ago, you might not have been born yet in 1990 to 92.
I was a local host in Huntsville, Alabama.
I was on a big 50,000-watt stick at the time.
And I just was a local radio guy, but I would spend many weekends in Nashville.
I've come to love that city.
I love Music Row.
One of the great honors of my life is I hosted the grand old lottery.
And I have such a special place in my heart for the people of Nashville, salt of the earth.
Do you feel people have gotten the message about how insane these views are?
Has it gotten out?
Sean, I think it has.
And I was young at that time, but I was alive back then.
But I think it has gotten out.
We've seen really good results in early voting, and we're up right now, but we need everyone to put the jersey on, get on the field, and get out and vote for us tomorrow.
It's so critical.
I love Nashville.
I live in Nashville.
I met my wife.
Well, imagine that.
A candidate that's running in a district that they love, in a city that they love for people that they love and agree with, that doesn't want the city taken over by radicals.
What a shock.
Absolutely.
I met my wife on Broadway.
We're raising our family there.
It's in addition to the other 13 counties.
Nashville-Davidson County is great, but we have such an amazing district across the 14 counties.
And we'll serve for those folks to represent them, our families, our farmers, hardworking folks that we're going to work to make their lives better.
That's what we have to do.
And they're communities that I love and will be honored to represent.
You know, I used to go to Nashville.
I lived right next to Highway 65.
You'd go up north and I'd be in Nashville in less than an hour.
It was great.
And I used to go there all the time.
Speaker Johnson, and I got to tell you something.
It's one of the most beautiful cities, and you have some of the nicest people.
I hope that there is a great get out the vote effort tomorrow.
And my message to the people of Nashville, and I want yours, is take this election seriously.
And this is a preview of what I'm going to be saying all next year.
This is going to be the most important midterm election in our lifetime.
And you have to defy historical trends for Republicans to stay in power.
And Democrats, you know, have become so radicalized, it's hard to believe they even ran a candidate like this.
It really is hard to believe.
Sean, you and I love Nashville and Tennessee far more than this far left candidate running against our friend Matt Van Epps.
But I'll tell you, this is a special election is perilous because, you know, our voters tend to be blue-collar workers, hardworking Americans.
They don't typically vote as frequently in midterm or special elections.
And meanwhile, Matt is running against this radical liberal.
She's an organizer.
So Democrats have spent millions of dollars in this district.
I mean, they are trying to steal this seat away, and we cannot take it for granted.
So, Sean, I'm so grateful you're helping us draw attention to this.
The president called us a few hours ago.
We were on a big stage at a rally this morning.
I called him on my phone, Fox News broadcasted live, and I was talking to him, and he was revving the crowd up.
He's going to do a telephone town hall tonight.
And with the technology, you know, we can get 40,000, 50,000 people on one call with Matt and the president to talk about the importance of this race.
But it is for all the Marbles.
And as far left as his opponent is, Matt is a perfect fit.
Van Epps is a perfect fit for Tennessee.
He's a husband, a dad, America First Patriot, a combat veteran, West Point graduate, lieutenant colonel in the Tennessee Army National Guard.
He's a helicopter pilot, air mission commander, Army Special Operations.
He served in a statewide office.
You cannot get a better patriot to reflect Tennessee values in Nashville and all the surrounding counties in Congress.
We need him desperately.
We do need him desperately.
All right, quick break more with Speaker Mike Johnson and also Matt Van Epps.
He is in a runoff election tomorrow.
This is critical against a radical, hardcore, extreme leftist.
His military background is beyond impressive.
Matt Van Epps, every vote in and around Nashville.
Imagine running against somebody again that says in Nashville they hate country music and they hate the city.
That's what's on the ballot in Nashville tomorrow.
News and bring it to you first.
Sean Hannity.
You know it's speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson, also joining us.
Matt Van Epps.
He is running for Tennessee's 7th District.
This is a critical seat to hold on to for the Republicans running against a radical leftist who's saying she hates her district, hates being around Christians praying, that supports not only defund the police, but, you know, says good morning to 54% of Americans that she believes burning down a police station is justified.
Can't believe we're even having this discussion.
My message to everybody that hears my voice in Nashville, please, I want you to call your friends, your family, talk to your coworkers, your neighbors, everybody in your life, and tell them this is a tipping point for Nashville.
Do not allow Nashville to get mamdanied.
I can't believe I'm even saying that, but this woman is to the left of Mandani.
It doesn't get any worse than that.
How would you ever elect somebody that says they hate your city?
How would you ever elect somebody in Nashville that hates country music and is uncomfortable around people with Christian values that says good morning to the 54% of Americans that want to burn down a police station because it's justified?
Because that's what you'd be allowing to happen in Nashville.
So I hope this is enough to energize the people of Nashville to go out en mas tomorrow.
It is, I want a massive victory, a massive turnout tomorrow for the people of Nashville.
And, you know, I can't think of a bigger choice election than what's going on down there.
And this is what we're going to be facing, I think, Mr. Speaker, you'd agree in 26.
Absolutely.
And President Trump needs four full years of a majority so he can continue to fix the high costs and open borders and the mess that's left behind by Biden and Harris and the Democrats.
And, you know, the Democrats in Congress shut down government for 43 days just for leverage.
If they were able to win here and next year, they'd shut America down for two years with impeachment and obstruction, inflation, open borders, just total chaos.
We cannot let that happen, and every single vote's going to count.
You know, I've been telling this audience that this is going to be the most important midterm in our lifetime.
Matt, your last word to the people that do listen to us in Nashville, and I hope they're hearing us loud and clear.
I hope they understand the choice that is before them tomorrow.
Well, Sean, thank you so much for amplifying our message.
I need everyone to get out.
For more information, my website's matt4tn.com.
That's matt-f-o-r-t-n.com.
They can find their polling location.
They can find information about the election so they can get out tomorrow.
There might be a little bit of bad weather, but that's okay.
They need to be safe, make a plan, get out there.
We need every single vote and would be honored to have it.
We appreciate you.
Your background is impeccable.
Very inspiring.
Matt Van Epps, we're going to be watching closely tomorrow.
We'll cover this on TV tonight as well.
We appreciate you being with us, Speaker Johnson.
We always appreciate you being with us.
Thanks for being out on the road.
And as you're out there in and about and around Nashville, tell everybody I send my regards, and I hope they're all out voting tomorrow.
Thank you both for being with us.
Thanks, brother.
Thank you.
It was interesting.
I still cannot get over these senators and congress people.
And granted, I'll tip my hat to Senator Mark Kelly and the service to his country.
But the idea that he is trying to hang his hat on this idea that it's perfectly acceptable to tell our troops and our intelligence community to defy illegal orders, but then can't identify a single illegal order is breathtaking to me.
It is the height of recklessness, irresponsibility.
It is meant to disrupt the chain of command in a best case scenario, in its worst case scenario.
God only knows what they really intend.
Anyway, he was pressed, apparently was on NBC, thinks now he's a TV star.
If he would refuse orders today, if he was still in uniform, notice him dodge, duck, and weave.
If you were still in uniform, if you received an order to strike the suspected drug boats overseas and kill everybody on board, would you refuse that order in real time?
Well, let me start by saying I've sunk two boats, two ships.
I sunk an OSA two missile patrol up here.
Stop the tape.
Notice he doesn't answer the question.
Let me start here, meaning let me give you a different answer.
Again, I'll applaud his military service.
I'm not applauding what he's telling our troops and our intel community to do, which is to break the chain of command without being able to identify any single illegal order given by President Trump.
Listen.
The troop carrier in the Persian Gulf during the First Gulf War.
Never once did I question whether those orders were legal or illegal.
Answer the question.
People can tell the difference, should be able to tell the difference between something that is unlawful and something that is lawful.
And if I was ever given an unlawful order, I would refuse.
I would, you know, if you have time, you can certainly go to the judge, advocate, generals, the lawyers, and have a discussion about it.
If you don't have time, you just say simply, I'm not going to do that.
That's against the law.
So would you refuse these specific orders to strike drug boats if you were still in uniform?
Well, the difference between the initial strike and what is being reported.
Dodge number two.
He won't, you know, he's talking about, by the way, and I've been reassured again and again that this report of a second strike was not true to kill people clinging to a boat.
But putting that aside, he and neither of the other five ever identified an illegal order given by President Trump.
Continue.
The second strike.
And those things are different.
I think this administration has tied themselves in knots, the explanations that we have received on how this is all legal.
Another deflection.
He doesn't answer the question.
And meanwhile, you know, these are people that are supposed to be in positions of high responsibility.
These are people that should know better.
These are people whose words matter.
I got to tell you, I got to give props to my buddy Stephen A. Smith.
He called out Mark Kelly for this idiotic video.
Here's what he said.
Respectfully, Senator, what the hell are you doing?
Looking into the camera and telling military men and women to ignore the commander-in-chief.
How dare you?
How dare you do that?
That's right.
I'm calling out.
I never served in the military.
That's true.
I have family members who did.
Some of my best friends have Marines, Air Force, Navy, Army.
I haven't heard one of them, not one of them, say that was okay.
How dare you do that?
Is it treason?
No.
Is it punishable by death?
It shouldn't be.
So the answer is no.
But you know better, Senator Kelly.
You know better.
How dare you do that?
Pretty powerful.
He's right.
This is so reckless, so irresponsible, so dangerous.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's say hi to Don in Iowa.
Don, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
Happy, snowy Monday.
We're pretty inundated.
Well, I hate to tell you, it's not snowing in Florida.
It's about, hang on, let me look at my phone right now.
I'm sure you're interested in hearing this.
Let's see.
I bet you're wondering what the temp is.
77 degrees.
Nope, 78 degrees and sunny.
A little overcast right now where I'm living.
I'm on my way as long as Linda promises a doggy bag from Christmas.
I'm on my way.
She didn't give out one doggy bag.
That's all bluster on her part.
No, Linda being Linda, just being funny, and I appreciate her.
So that's awesome.
Sarah Bextram and Andrew Wolfe were the two National Guardsmen, and that's what I called about.
And my condolences to Sarah's family and my prayers for Andrew's family and for Andrew, of course.
He's 24.
It's Anthony.
He's 24 years old.
She's 20 and dead.
And how do you console a family, you know, living through this?
By the way, this came out about a little over an hour ago.
And I will give a lot of props to the West Virginia governor, Patrick Morrissey, said that the West Virginia National Guardsman, Andrew Wolf, remains in serious condition.
Quote, Andrew was asked if he could hear.
He did respond.
He wiggled his toes, and we take that as a positive sign.
But he's been clinging to life since this all happened.
Yeah, well, like I said.
I talked to his mother last night.
We want to know, I think I can share this with you.
I don't think they'd mind that I share this with you.
Do you realize there are National Guardsmen all over that hospital protecting him on their own time?
They're doing their shift, and then they're going to the hospital to protect the family and protect their mate, their fellow guardsmen, on their own time.
They're not getting paid.
They're doing it just out of love and respect.
That is fantastic.
I spoke to some of those guys last night, too.
Well, again, thank them all.
So that's amazing.
The reason I called is concerning the shooter because it's, is it a coincidence that it happened right after the Democrats come out and start telling people that President Trump's orders are intimating that he's giving illegal orders?
I don't think so.
I think that, again, words matter, and their words were intended to inflame Democrats and Democrat sympathizers.
And I think that it's quite possible that they instigated this whole event.
And that's really tough to see because I wasn't all of the rhetoric, Gestapo, Nazis, fascists, you know, all of this is, I've been saying this for a while.
It has the effect of dehumanizing real people, real heroes, law enforcement, and preventing them from being able to do their job, putting their life at risk doing their job.
And it also has an incitement quality to it.
But I'll tell you, the broader issue here is: Jensaki lied, Mayorkas lied.
We know that Biden and Harris lied.
They all said, oh, no, no, these people from Afghanistan have been vetted.
Lie just like the border secure.
Lie, lie, and another lie, one after another.
Well, it's sad that people that are not as educated on politics, that just listen to politics in the periphery, get inflamed by the sound bites that they put out.
Instead of putting out proof, they throw innuendo in everybody's faces.
When you have to bite your tongue every time you have an opinion, that's a shame.
And we should have people being able to speak their mind.
And too many people are afraid to speak their mind.
But again, I appreciate your thoughts.
And oh, by the way, I'm a truck driver out here driving around in the snow.
So drivers, be careful out here.
Slow down.
Take your time.
There's nothing worth your life in that trailer.
Let me tell you something.
If you're driving in the snow and you're in an 18-wheeler, you've got to be really careful.
It's very, very dangerous.
Those roads get slick.
I saw there was an accident that took place somewhere when I was away.
It was a 45-car pileup.
Wow.
Oh, Indiana.
Yes.
Yeah.
Man.
It was horrible.
I couldn't believe it.
Anyways, drive safe.
Thank you for what you do every day.
Our shelves would be empty at every store we go to without guys like you.
We appreciate your hard work.
All right.
Let's go to our busy phones.
Mike in Arizona.
Hey, Mike, how are you?
Glad you called.
I have no problem with two narco-terrorists who are too dumb to put their life jackets on and dying.
I do have a problem with all of the people that the Democrat Party domestic agenda has murdered.
There's about 17 that we could name off the top of our head.
But, you know, what that was treason.
It's called aiding and abetting the enemy that that senator said.
But I'll tell you the.
I would like to have it tested in the courts.
I would like to know.
I mean, if they had a specific example, and none of them do, because they've all been asked, where they say, well, Trump gave this illegal order, therefore you would have, then they might have a case to be made.
They've all been given the opportunity to present that case, and they don't have one, which means I can only suspect that they had nefarious motives to create disruption.
And I think it causes a danger that is incalculable.
Well, that is treason.
That's putting our soldiers in harm's way by making those statements on behalf of the enemy.
It's pretty unbelievable.
But I'll tell you some unlawful orders that were given by James Comey to struck stroke, and he followed through on them.
Obama to struck stroke and he followed through on them.
Hillary to struck stroke and he followed through on them.
Those are illegal orders.
And those were treasonous, what they did was trying to take out a president.
Oh, you mean tip the scales of an election or grand conspiracy?
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
We have to, you know, Ram Emanuel has this, has the mantra: never let a crisis go to waste.
And that's what's what they're doing about these three cartel guys who are too stupid to put a life jacket on and going into the ocean.
I've been told that this, what they've said is not true.
And the media lie so often, I never believe what they say.
I just don't believe it.
They'll report it.
I don't believe it.
Let's say hi, Kirk, to Missouri.
Kirk, we have one minute.
It's all yours.
Heart goes out to the National Guard families.
And I just wanted to thank Linda for her tips on the doggy bags for Thanksgiving.
She didn't give out one doggy bag.
She was full of it the whole time.
She was full of it.
She'd never do that.
You're absolutely right.
I did not give out one.
I gave out three.
She had me laughing.
She did not give out three doggy bags.
She's lying.
Nobody would, by the way, why would you ever go pick up a doggy peg if that's how you're being treated by your relative?
The food is very good.
I would get a doggy bag.
By the way, Katie is like the greatest, sweetest phone screener I have ever talked with in my life.
She deserves a paid day vacation just for having her.
Okay, she's very lenient.
Let's put it that way.
Why are you sucking up to everybody?
You're sucking up to the whole staff.
Because you pick on everybody so much, but it's just your show.
You guys get me laughing all the time, but you're so informative on everything that we need to know as conservatives because you won't get with any other deuce network.
Well, we appreciate you being out there.
We do.
Linda did not give out any doggy bags.
That's fake news.
It's complete Adam bullshift.
You know that.
Why don't you just come clean and admit it's fake?
You know, I hear Simply Safe is really good home security.
Why don't you admit it's fake?
You did not leave doggy bags on the on the steps for your liberal relatives.
You didn't do it.
I cannot tell a lie.
You did not leave doggy bags.
I did.
Why would I lie about that?
Listen, they got shooting.
Stop crying.
Kicks and giggles of complete updates on the sad, tragic, preventable attack against two National Guardspeople, the mother of Andrew Wolf, who's clinging to his life, and the sister of Andrew will join us on Hannity tonight.
Caroline Levitt will join us tonight.
Also, Jonathan Alpert, LJ Lawrence Jones, Kevin Cork.
We got a lot of news information we will be giving you.
You'll never get from the state-run legacy media mob and the lies we were told about these Afghan refugees.
As far as I'm concerned, they all have blood on their hands for the lies they told.
All coming up tonight, 9 Eastern, set your DVR.
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