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Dec. 6, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Cost of Unmet Promises
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Sean, if you want to join us, we've got a lot of news we're going to get to in the course of the program today.
Not the least of which, this might be my favorite cut of the day.
And for all of you in the United Socialist Utopia of California, I mean, it's obvious that Gavin Newsome has been to Texas and Gavin Newsome, who's been to Brazil, and Gavin Newsom has been traveling the world.
You know, last night we did a report that in the Pacific Palisades, and we actually had a caller on this program talk about this.
You know, they lost their home.
People lost their lives.
Thousands of people lost their homes.
And, well, they tried to celebrate, at least the mayor of Los Angeles did, Karen Bass, tried to celebrate the fact that our first home has been built in the Pacific Palisades.
And most people that had their homes burned to the ground have been unable to get a permit to rebuild.
And according to this caller that owned a house in the Pacific Palisades, I asked the guy, I said, well, are you still paying taxes, property taxes on your home that no longer exists?
Yes.
And one other thing, I have to insure the property, even though there's nothing on the property, and nobody should be walking on the property considering it's private property.
So, you know, the cost for these homeowners is astronomical.
Then you have the insurance problem, which is, you know, a lot of times these insurance companies play games and you deal with one adjuster until they hand you off to the next adjuster and then you start the process all over again.
And it's just so frustrating.
But there are way too many people in this country.
And I think this is going to be a big part of the political debate heading into the midterms in 26.
And then, of course, the presidential election in 28.
And that is, what is it that you want from government?
And there are people in this country that they find it appealing.
You saw this in New York City.
You've seen this, you know, in other West Coast liberal states as well, that those politicians that promise, you know, womb to the tomb, crave to the, you know, cradle to the grave, utopia and socialism and the popularity among some of the radical Green New Deal.
That's womb to the tomb, cradle to grave, having very little, if nothing, to do with the environment.
That can be appealing to people that think and want to believe that their government is going to provide for their every need.
And there's a certain amount of pressure that life puts on all of us that causes us to become our best selves.
Pressure is not in and of itself a bad thing.
Pressure and stress is not a bad thing.
It's how you respond to it that can be a deadly thing.
But for most people, pushing yourself to advance yourself, you know, I don't believe that all of us were created for the purpose of being served all day and not having a purpose.
I know people in life, I know friends of mine that have retired, and I'll ask them six months later, a year later, how's retirement?
And in more cases than not, most of the people that retired that had dreamed about going fishing and playing golf and having nothing to do and no stress and no pressure was going to make them happy.
And they realize it's just the opposite.
It didn't make them happy.
You know, there have been studies that show that people retire, and to retire is expire is a kind of famous term because you retire, you don't have a purpose, you're bored to death, and you pick up bad habits.
The next thing you know is now you're dealing with health issues.
But I really believe that every human being was born, created by the same God, and inside of every individual is talent and ability, and that none of us were put on this earth to serve to be served, but to serve others.
And it's something that in my life, working has probably been one of the best things that I've ever done in my life.
And it doesn't matter what job I was working at.
You know, I mean, I actually put on the owner of the restaurant that I worked in when I was 12 years old, washing dishes and then later being a cook and a busboy.
And then later I went to another restaurant and became a busboy and then became a bartender when I was 17.
And I've gone through all these jobs.
And I got into construction.
I did that.
And I'm grateful that I did all of those things because it gave me a work ethic.
And for the people in my life that know me best, my work weeks are full.
And to hear my family describe me in real life is actually humorous because they're funny about it.
You know, sure, I finished my TV show at 10 o'clock at night, and then the people closest to me will say, yeah, and then you're on the phone with this person for 25 minutes and that person for 25 minutes and the next person for 35 minutes.
And usually, I think maybe one of the reasons I became friends with Donald Trump over the years is I was always the last person standing.
There was nobody left for him to call that he knew would be awake at 2 in the morning, 3 in the morning.
And, you know, this idea, this notion, this idiocy of the New York Times that he's slowing down is insane.
And I know it for a fact because I'm talking to him at all hours of the day and night, and he's always available.
And if he can, he picks up the phone.
If he's busy, he doesn't pick up the phone, but he'll usually call me back.
And we're not always talking shop.
We talk about everything.
I mean, the thing that he's most interested in doing, like, we all have distractions.
One of my latest distractions is chess.com.
And by the way, it's driving me nuts.
I've only played chess with Sweet Baby James twice, and he beat me both times.
I don't like it.
I don't like losing.
That's not going to last very long.
I will be beating Sweet Baby James at chess some point soon, but I'm still in the infancy stages of it.
But anyway, I digress a little bit.
But everything that the government has promised all of you in your life, you know, tell me what they manage well.
Because Social Security money that you paid into your entire working life, they told you would be put in a lockbox and that the people in Washington would never touch it.
And it would be there for you, growing with interest for when you retire.
And that's your money.
And yet we now know that they raided that lockbox and they squandered that money.
And now we have to worry about the insolvency problem and the future of Social Security.
The same with Medicaid and Medicare.
You know, states and the federal government, they're headed towards insolvency.
You know, again, promises made by government officials to take away all of your stress, all of your fear in life, and it doesn't work.
How are your government schools working out for you?
Because in many towns and cities, they're not doing very well.
What about the big promise of Obamacare?
Keep your doctor, keep your plan, and the average family will save $2,500 a year.
Well, I say it often.
Millions lost their doctors.
Millions lost their plans.
The average American is paying over 300% more.
That is about to go higher, which is ironic because Democrats are the ones that supported this and they passed that through reconciliation.
And yet, if it's so affordable, the Affordable Care Act, it's not so affordable if they want, you know, in perpetuity subsidies because people can't afford it.
And millions lost at doctor and plans.
And on average, again, we're paying 300 plus percent more.
And for many of you, many people across the country, over 40%, you have one Obamacare exchange option, and some have two options.
And that's bad and worse.
And it's not great.
So all these promises.
And then I asked the question: well, why would you then put your hope, your faith, your trust in government, considering this is how they have squandered your money.
And on top of it, they didn't just squander your money.
They have stolen from future generations, that being our children and our grandchildren.
But again, people put their faith, hope, trust, belief in government.
You know, that's what brings me to, you know, Gavin Newsom.
I would argue that as of today, Gavin Newsom probably is the frontrunner to get the Democratic nomination.
I don't believe for a second he's not running, but he'd be the frontrunner in my mind to get the Democratic nomination to be their candidate for president of the United States.
I don't think there's one thing he is not factored in, and that is he has a track record of failure.
Now, he's in Brazil at this climate conference, and this is what he said: blaming climate change for the Pacific Palisades disaster.
It's not climate change that caused that.
I'll explain on the other side what really caused it.
Listen.
Home values will start to decline.
You're seeing it across the spectrum right now in my state included, which is one of the most blessed and cursed states as it relates to climate.
We're on the tip of the sphere of climate change, simultaneous droughts and simultaneous floods.
The hots are getting a lot hotter, the dries drier.
You saw one of the most devastating wildfires in American history in the middle of winter in Los Angeles in January.
100-mile-hour winds attached to fire.
And as we rebuild, the number one concern people have is: how do I get my home insured?
And how do you get a developer to develop a home that can't get a mortgage, which requires home insurance?
So from across the spectrum, from financial risk to the issue of cost of living, which is universal, to global competitiveness, this is a no-brainer.
Now, he sounds slick in saying everything.
Here's what he didn't mention.
When I lived in Southern California, I lived in Santa Barbara in the 80s, guess what?
Wildfires took place in California.
It's been happening for decades and Santa Ana wins have also similarly, these are predictable environmental events.
And for decades, the state of California has steadfastly rejected.
Remember, follow the science.
That's what they told you during COVID.
They have rejected the science of forestry, which would be to cut down the kindling for wildfires, which is the brush and the dead trees and clear out areas and build firewall areas to prevent what happened in the Pacific Palisades.
He didn't mention that in his little speech.
It's not climate change that caused the Pacific Palisades.
And also, had they practiced forestry and the science of forestry, a lot of this could have been prevented.
If they had fire hydrants that had actual water in them, many of these homes, if not most of these homes, could have been saved.
If they had reservoirs that had water in them, a lot of these homes, if not most of them, could have been saved.
If they'd done all of these things and prepared for these predictable events, well, the disaster of the Pacific Palisades wouldn't have happened.
And now here we are, 11 months later, and only one home has been rebuilt.
If you want to say it was rebuilt, because it really wasn't rebuilt, this was built by a developer that apparently had a license ahead of time.
And people that are trying to get licenses to rebuild their homes have been unable to do so.
And they're acting as though this is a big deal, one home rebuilt.
Had they given people permits to rebuild their homes, then there would have been entire neighborhoods that have been rebuilt by now.
And it would have been a boom for the building industry in California.
And so many other people now have just moved away and they're losing a fortune.
And if they're having problems with the insurance company, that means the state hasn't stepped in to stand up for their tax base, their consumers, their population, and insisted that the insurance companies, if they had insurance, pay out the claims against them.
And if they didn't want to pay them out, take them to court.
They didn't do any of these things.
But yet the Democrats, the left, they now want to lecture you on affordability.
Well, California has the highest income taxes, the highest gas taxes.
Now the price of an average gallon of gasoline around the country is under $3 a gallon.
In California, it's about $5 a gallon.
If you look at the highest sales taxes in the country, and then, of course, their sanctuary state policies and Medi-Cal, they're running $10 billion annual deficits.
And all Gavin wants to talk about is California being the fourth largest economy in the world.
Doesn't want to talk about mass migration out of there.
Doesn't want to talk about the fact that it has the number one poverty rate.
Doesn't want to talk about that they're like 49th in terms of the worst public schools in the country.
Doesn't want to talk about quality of life issues or why people are migrating the hell out of there.
And it's because of government policies that has pushed people out and oppression against business.
Otherwise, California is perfectly fine.
Unbelievable.
But I'm just telling you, this is now the philosophical divide that will define 26 and 28 elections.
And it's you, affordability.
We're going to take care of everything for you.
Really?
You going to buy into that lie?
How have their previous promises played out?
Defund, dismantle, no bail, reimagine the police.
Is your city safe and secure?
I doubt it.
Most places aren't.
The left, the media are acting, as they always do, insane.
They cannot help themselves.
You know, they've been all over this freak out over this double-tap strike against these narco-terrorists that were identified as Trende Aragua that were bringing drugs into the country.
Look, when you see speedboats, and I know some of you out there may like boating.
I don't love boating.
Some people really love boating.
I tried owning a boat.
I just gave the boat away.
Then I got a smaller boat for my daughter, and I gave that boat away because it's nothing but a pain in the neck, and nobody ever ends up using it anyway.
You know, the cliché is that the two happiest days and most boat owners' lives is the day you buy it and the day you sell it and get rid of it.
In my case, I just gave both of them away to a good friend of mine who happens to really love them and is a great fisherman.
And nothing makes me happier than to be able to give it to somebody that's going to use it.
I mean, because I'd end up putting it in the water, you know, in the spring, wouldn't use it all summer long, take it out of the water in the fall, pay a fortune to get it painted and repaired, put it back in the next year.
Again, if I'm lucky, I'd use it once because I don't have time to go boating.
And plus, I just feel like it's a colossal waste of my time being on a boat.
I can't relax on a boat.
I don't know.
Other people can relax on a boat.
I don't understand the idea of laying out.
I don't get laying out.
Does anyone in there get layout?
I don't, you know, what?
And get sunburned?
It's not my cup of tea.
What about if you were doing some ice fishing?
Ice fishing?
You mean where you like drill a major hole in the freezing cold ice and you drop a line in and you build this little hut that has a fire that may melt the ice and it collapses?
I'm not saying Arctic fishing on a boat.
I don't want to do Arctic fishing.
Why would I want to be out below zero temperatures fishing?
Now, aren't you into that stuff?
Aren't you into watching it?
I'm into watching it, but I'm not into doing it.
I mean, Deadliest Catch is one of my favorite shows of all time.
I admire those guys so much.
They go in the Bering Sea and they get all these crabs and, you know, they dump their crab traps out there.
And, you know, then they're hauling them back in a day or however many hours later.
And when they don't have any crab in them, it breaks my heart.
It's like they put all that work in with no reward.
You're telling me that.
You want to be doing a Hannity challenge on TV of you trying to do that stuff?
Do you know how many people on the show Deadliest Catch have died doing their jobs?
I mean, it is really, really dangerous work.
Now, I love paying crab, colossal crab legs.
I love all of that.
But seeing how hard their jobs are, and it's all a crapshoot.
I mean, some years are better than others.
And then they have limits on how much you can catch.
Then you have a limited window when you're allowed to actually go out there and do the fishing.
And then you're fighting the Russians because a lot of this is right on the border in international waterways.
And you're fighting them, you know, to get the most crab.
I admire fishermen.
I think all the apostles were fishermen.
How can you not like fishermen?
I mean, I'm not the biggest fish eater.
I have certain things that I like.
I like shrimp.
I like lobster.
I like crab legs, crab meat.
That's about it.
That's the extent of it.
Tuna fish.
I'll eat a little tuna fish.
What about crab cakes?
I like crab cakes.
You know, good nice Maryland crab cake.
Day of it.
Not reheated, right?
No, it has to be day of.
Reheating is awful.
Everything's got to be made fresh.
You've got to make stuff fresh.
So here it is.
We have these narco-terrorists.
What are they doing?
Now, if you're in a boat and it's a speedboat and you have four, 300 horsepower outboard engines, the odds of you out there fishing or out there boating in the middle of the night are very, very low.
And this has been a main means of transportation for these narco-terrorists to bring their poison, their deadly poison into our country.
And Donald Trump is sick and tired of it.
I'm sick and tired of it.
There's probably not a person that's listening to this program that doesn't know, at least on the periphery, somebody, someone who had a family member that died of some type of overdose or addiction, opioid addiction or opioids laced with fentanyl and people die or fentanyl addiction and fentanyl death.
I mean, it's amazing that, you know, and the worst part is about these drug dealers.
They're just horrible people.
I mean, for like a $10 drug bag, you know, they'll make it more potent by putting in fentanyl and it's a hot shot and people die and they don't care for $10.
They know they're killing somebody.
They don't care.
They have no heart, no soul, no conscience.
And you would think that Donald Trump taken on the narco-terrorists.
And by the way, they've been labeled and designated a terrorist organization, Trende Aragua, et cetera.
But they've had open access to our American shores for the longest time.
Now the border's closed, and now the president has taken them out, and he's warning Maduro and any other country that's peddling drugs into our country.
You better stop profiting off the death of American citizens and especially the death of a lot of young people in this country.
And I've met too many families and talked to too many families that lost loved ones over addiction and over drug use.
And it really is like, like here's poor Liberal Joe.
Here's Mika mocking, you know, this claim.
Like, for example, the media just can never just give Donald Trump credit.
They just can't.
Henry Quayar gets a rightful pardon.
Stephen A. Smith was like the only person that's a Democrat that said, hey, you know, you're getting schooled by Donald Trump.
He invites Mamdani to the White House.
Even I was a little surprised.
He's like, he doesn't have to pick a fight with Mamdani now.
But when Mamdani wants stuff and Donald Trump doesn't like the way he's going to spend our money, he's not going to get it.
And Kathy Hochul can do all the bidding for Mamdani she wants.
It's not going to matter.
But here's Mika on Liberal Joe mocking the Admiral's claim.
Remember, they had the double-tap strike that the drug runners could continue their mission.
Listen to what she said.
I mean, if we look at the initial strike, we do have the video of that, right?
And we've all seen it, right?
Here it is.
So we're talking about potential war crimes here.
And I'm not trying to be silly, but I have to ask you, where exactly was this?
How far away from land was this?
What was the possibility that these two survivors could paddle away and continue their drug operation?
I mean, are we kidding me?
Is this guy serious talking about the potential that these two survivors could continue the operation?
I mean, we're not stupid, but I have to ask.
Could they have paddled to shore with the rest of the drugs?
No.
And essentially, this is what we heard from the Democrats who viewed this.
The Republicans can't see this.
This is our partisan divide.
What are the chances they were Olympians and they could swim to shore with the drugs on their backs?
Very few that I know of.
Let's stay with the liberal media for a minute, shall we?
Martha Raditz, ABC.
Remember she cried when Donald Trump got elected the first time?
She cried on air.
Here's her report.
Tonight, new information.
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others and salvaging some of the drugs.
Because of that, it was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
A JAG officer was also giving legal advice.
So again, David, that video will be key.
A JAG legal attorney made the call that they were still engaged.
They were trying to retrieve the drugs in communication with their drug dealer friends and getting back in the boat with the hopes of being able to salvage what they could and maybe continue the run.
I don't know the extent of the damage, but they weren't hopeless, you know, paddling away as Mika Brzezinski described here.
It's unbelievable.
And here's Tom Cotton sparring on fake news CNN over the legality of all of this.
And this is where the Democrats lose the plot.
They want to protect the right of men to play women's sports and be in women's locker rooms.
They want wide open borders.
They lied to us for four consecutive years, and we have known terrorists, murderers, rapists, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members in the country, drug dealers in the country.
And they're wrong on every single issue.
Defund, dismantle, no bail laws.
They voted against the largest tax cut in history and simultaneously voted for the largest tax increase in history.
They've lost the plot.
They're out of touch with hardworking men and women.
Here's cotton.
If they are terrorists, when did Congress pass the authorized use of force to attack them?
John, the reason why your question is not well-founded is like saying, would Barack Obama be okay droning an American citizen when he was president like he did to Anwar Al-Alaki over in the Middle East?
These are totally different categories.
Senator, that's why I asked the Constitution as our concern.
That's why I asked when Congress passed the authorized use of military force.
There was an authorized use of military force against terrorists.
I'm not saying what he did was legal or not, but that's what they based it on.
In this case, one was the authorized use of military force to attract, to attack suspected drug dealers off the coast of Venezuela.
John, the president has inherent authority as the commander-in-chief under the Constitution to protect America using our armed forces against a foreign terrorist organization.
Congress has passed laws that allows the president to designate foreign terrorist organizations.
That's what he's done with these cartels in Venezuela, who are deeply intertwined with the illegitimate Maduro regime.
The president is a very important person.
Excuse me.
Designated terrorist organization.
Bush did it.
Obama did it.
Biden did it.
Every modern president has done it.
So they didn't really care then, but it's only because Donald Trump did it.
You know, I'll give you another example.
So we learned from Pam Bondi that and Kash Patel, and we had Dan Bongino on last night.
And, you know, I love the corrupt media that tried to distort my interview with Dan Bongino.
Dan Bongino said in a post on X that, yeah, they're hiding this from us.
Now, they all admitted, you know, both Cash and Dan and Pam, they all admitted they got no new information that didn't already exist the prior four years of the Biden administration, the Biden DOJ.
But if you listen to fake Jake Tapper, you know, the guy that they have described as the RNC DNC pipe bomb suspect, this is him saying, even though we now have a picture of him as an African-American, he's a white man.
Listen.
Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosions.
CNN observed local and federal law enforcement outside his home in Woodbridge, Virginia this morning.
You know, this pipe bomber in court today, Democrats media try to spin when Biden's FBI didn't catch the guy.
They didn't even try.
You know, Dan Goldman, Biden's FBI didn't mess up by not getting the pipe bomb suspect.
That dreadful Trump FBI did.
Dreadful.
They got the pipe bomb suspect.
And apparently he had parts that they discovered that he was looking to build other bombs.
You had this other guy, what's his name?
Mehdi Hassan.
I don't even know this guy.
Why does he show up in the news all the time as if he's authoritative in any way?
You know, he made the claim the January 6th pipe bomb bomber has not been caught because the person is white.
Well, that's not the suspect that they have in custody.
You know, and then said if the bomber had been black or Muslim, he would have already been caught.
Well, it took eight months of great policing to get this guy, and I'm pretty certain they wouldn't have arrested him if they didn't have a lot of evidence to back up that it's right.
The left hates Donald Trump so much, it's almost like they have sympathy for narco-terrorists, and yet every small town and big city has experienced the loss of young people because of opioid addiction and fentanyl that's being trafficked into our country.
It's pretty remarkable to me.
You have, what, Jack Reed, Senator, Democrat, New Jersey.
Most narcotraffickers are not in those boats.
They pay people to do it.
It's how they make money.
Well, they're drug traffickers.
They're being paid to kill Americans.
What do you think it is?
Democratic Representative Adam Smith thinks it's okay for narco-terrorists to smuggle drugs into the U.S., but it's only cocaine.
Well, we're only talking about cocaine here.
Okay, do you want your kids snorting cocaine, you dumbass?
These people are so dumb.
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