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Sean, if you want to join us, interesting developments.
California, of course, Minnesota, Congresswoman Omar that we're going to get to.
A House Democrat now referring to America as the great Satan.
No, the radicals don't rule this party at all, do they?
We are going to hit the economy very, very hard.
I'm tired of the very people that screwed up our economy and brought inflation up to decades high, the people that drove gas prices and everything associated with every product you buy in every store that you go to, lying about the Trump economy and lecturing us on the issue of affordability when it's their policies that made everything not affordable.
So we'll hit that hard today and much more that's on my mind.
Not in the best mood today, Linda.
Not there.
I'm not.
I can hear it.
I can hear it.
What do you mean you can hear?
Linda has this theory that she thinks I do a better show and I'm pissed off.
And I'm pissed off at little things, not big things.
There's nothing really that's bothering me.
You're always old.
You've been irritating me on purpose all day because you like to do it on purpose.
Tell the audience what you love to do.
You like to get me all riled up before a show.
You think I do a better show if I'm pissed off.
I don't want to live my life angry.
I guarantee if we gave people the phone number right now and they called in, they would say, Sean, you sound fired up.
You sound like you're ready to go.
And you know what?
Every day you're ready to go, but I don't need the emotion, the negative emotion of anger driving my show.
I don't.
Well, it's not driving the show.
It's driving you.
It's giving you motivation.
You're taking hold of it.
This is not a left-wing show.
I mean, you know, the best thing.
Well, no, if it was a left-wing show, it would be, you know, it's just nonsense.
You're actually saying words.
So good on you.
The putrid, the lies, the misinformation, the conspiracy theories.
I'm sick of all of it.
Let's start in the great state of California.
Now, remember, we've heard two comments from Gavin Newsom recently.
One, he claimed during the Pacific Palisades fire that while he was there, that his hair went on fire.
Now, he's claiming, too, that there's a video of it.
I've yet to see the video.
I've asked my social media team to dig deep and see if there's any images of Gavin's hair.
I don't know.
I mean, is hair gel a retardant in any way?
It is a flammable item, yes.
I mean, a hairspray.
It's a hair gel.
It's flammable.
Okay.
That would have meant that he'd have to actually be close to something that's happening in his state, and I'm sure he would.
I'm not saying he's lying.
I'm not saying it didn't happen.
I'm saying that I doubt it.
Oh, we're just saying that I liked.
I'm saying, show me the money.
There in the history of the world.
There's a video of it.
And they threw me in the car.
That guy gets my hair and throws me in the car.
He says, get the f ⁇ out of here.
There's a video of it.
I want to see the video of it.
I want Gavin to post the video.
Now, if he wasn't so nasty to me in this last text to me, I might write him and ask him, where's the video?
But I don't think Gavin likes us anymore.
Let me tell you something.
If there was a video, he would put it everywhere.
Okay.
I did share with you what he said to me in that last text he sent me because he was pissed off at what you and our social media team put up about him when he made the claim that he grew up very poor.
Now, when he was with his mother, apparently they did struggle.
But his father apparently was managing, I got what, the Getty estate, you know, the Getty, you know, of Getty oil fame, you know, billionaire.
And apparently the Getty family kind of half adopted him, according to reports that I even shared with Gavin after he sent me this very mean text, very mean.
But I don't want to share it publicly because I'm not going to be able to do that.
Well, I don't think you could.
I think it's an FCC violation.
No, it would be an FCC violation for sure.
And then Gavin, you know, remember, I think Gavin has, if you go back, there's been this evolution of Gavin Newsom.
Gavin Newsom, he was going to try to get along with conservatives and he started his podcast and he put on people like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk.
And that was one Gavin, but that was not getting him any attention or any traction because we know that his ultimate ambition is to be the 2028 Democratic Party nominee.
He's a lot of things.
I would argue stupid is not one of them.
Although you can argue that being as hardcore, left-wing, radical as he is, that is not intelligent, but that's a separate issue for a separate day.
He is slick to a fault, in my view.
And so he's gotten more radicalized, more intense.
And as I say, he's become like a full-time podcaster, full-time tweety bird, full-time, I don't know what, I mean, he's traveling the globe.
He's going to, you know, climate change conferences in Brazil, and he's, you know, trying to make statements, even though he ended up losing in Texas, the Texas case on gerrymandering.
And he is getting more hard radical left.
And as evidenced this week by these comments about trans.
Listen.
Contradictions, but that I think I can explain.
Perhaps the evolutions that we didn't get into trans sports.
That's an issue no one wants to hear about because 80% of the people listening disagree with my position on this.
But it comes from my heart, not just my head.
It wasn't a political evolution.
I don't think it's fair.
I want to see trans kids.
I have a trans godson.
There's no governor that signed more pro-trans legislation than I have, and no one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBTQ minute.
But you have to accommodate the reality of those whose rights are being taken away as we advance the rights of the trans community in terms of the fairness of athletic competition.
I don't even know if he knows what he's saying.
I just don't.
But I do think that what he's going to have to do to get this nomination is go hard deep in the paint, radical AOC, Bernie, Jasmine Crockett, Mamdani left.
And I think he's in the process of doing that.
This is the one thing that seems to be missing from his thinking or his thought process.
And this is where his brain is bifurcated and blinded by ambition.
He has a record.
He is mayor of San Francisco.
He's lieutenant governor for eight years.
By the time it's all said and done, he'll be governor for eight years.
And what is the net result after eight years of being governor in California?
The largest deficits, the highest poverty rate in the country, highest homeless rate in the country, highest income taxes in the country, state income taxes, the highest sales taxes in the country, the highest gas taxes in the country.
Not exactly a track record of success, highest illegal immigrant population in the country.
And he has a track record of saying the most extreme radical things.
Now, okay, maybe these radical positions will help him get the nomination in 2028.
Maybe they will.
Maybe they won't.
I would say that he's probably, polls are probably right.
He's the odds on favorite.
I really don't want to spend a lot of time on 2028, but he's got a track record of saying all of these extreme things, and they will be used against him in a campaign.
And if he thinks I'm not going to be prepared to make sure that every single American knows every radical position and failed policy he's ever advocated for and supported and put in place, then he's blinded by his own ambition.
I'll give you another example.
If you look at the FBI active shooter report, it shows, oh, California led the nation in active shooter incidents for the five-year period of 2020 to 2024.
Now, dubious achievements, according to these figures from the FBI's active shooter report, but apparently, you know, they're the most pro-gun control state in the country.
An assault weapons ban, high-capacity magazine ban, universal background checks, red flag laws, bump stock bans, ghost gun regulations, 10-day waiting period for a gun purchase, gun registration requirements, a concealed carry permit requirement, a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can buy every month, a ban on college campus carry for self-defense, a ban on K through 12 teachers being armed in a classroom,
gun storage laws, ammunition controls.
I don't even want to go into the state, you know, for fear.
It's like I used to drive from Rhode Island to Massachusetts.
You know, they had this big sign.
Yeah, one-year mandatory minimum if you were caught with a gun at the time in Massachusetts.
Now, I've lived in these states.
When I did live in California, Linda, shockingly, like when I lived in New York, I had a New York City pistol carry permit, and not easy to get.
You have to prove a need for it.
My need was a lot of death threats.
That was what put it over the top.
And it can't just be.
I can't tell the audience how many?
I can't even count them.
You had to have, no, the requirement in New York.
It's.
You have to have over 2,000 death threats.
Realize when I handed over like a folder full of them.
I mean, these are the ones in writing, not even the ones that were called in.
I mean, I remember.
One isn't enough.
You need 2,000?
It's crazy.
Well, I remember one officer looked at me and said, why don't you have full-time security?
That's what they said at the time.
But anyway, we have an update.
You know, Jonathan Turley's very smart.
I like Jonathan Turley a lot.
He's a legal scholar.
He's a Democrat, interestingly.
He's now asking the question, if the allegations, and again, New York Post has written about it, the Minneapolis Star Tribune raised these questions back in 2019.
We've hit on it this week.
If the allegations that Congresswoman Omar committed marital immigration fraud are not true, here's how he asked the question.
Then why isn't she suing for defamation?
Now, that is a very good question.
Now, I've been very clear.
I don't know what really happened in these marriages.
I know it's bizarre, and I'm not going to regurgitate everything that we brought to your attention this week.
He says in defamation, truth is a defense.
The truth of the matter, however, has never been easy to establish.
I mean, he's using his legal mind in his analysis here.
He says, in fairness to Congresswoman Omar, it's not her obligation to prove that she's not a fraud or that she did not marry her brother.
Her critics have never produced compelling evidence to support the claim.
I have no idea if she did or not, but I know it's being investigated.
Tom Holman said it this week.
However, despite years of such statements by various people, Omar has never sued for defamation.
And he said, you know, it is a curious omission since such a successful lawsuit would dramatically reduce such claims.
And even as a public official, she could likely show actual malice in many of her critics.
I don't disagree at all with his legal analysis.
Conversely, such litigation would also expose Omar to a lengthy discovery process regarding a family's immigration history and related family issues.
He says, I've taught defamation for over three decades, and it is rare for such an allegation to linger without some legal action by the subject.
On its face, this would be a strong defamation case if the allegation is false.
The publication of DNA results would disprove these allegations.
If such evidence exists, it would not just be conclusive, but compelling for a jury.
The question is why Omar has not elected to bring such a case given the vast array of choices of potential defendants within the statute of limitations.
He points out, rightly so, it's a target-rich environment for a defamation lawyer.
And I think he's accurate here.
Anyway, we'll get to all of this.
Also, you know, there's one other thing about Gavin I didn't bring up.
I want to hear his explanation why the fire hydrants didn't have water and why the reservoir was empty and why he has the highest property tax, I'm sorry, the highest income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes.
I want to hear why he has the highest homeless population, highest poverty rate.
I want to hear his answer to why people in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, you know, should go along with his extremely left-wing positions on social issues.
I want to hear why he has massive deficits with the highest taxes, why he has the largest migration out of his state than any other state in the country.
I'd like answers to those questions.
I don't know.
Inquiring minds want to know.
So you'll find this interesting, Linda.
We did reach out to Congresswoman Omar's team, as we always do.
We look for all sides.
Accusations that the Congresswoman married her brother are absurd and offensive.
This is right-wing fodder with no basis in reality.
It is disgusting that the right-wing continues to spread falsehoods for clicks.
Now, that's not what we were just saying in the last segment.
Jonathan Turley's column was very clear that if it's not true, I think I agree with his legal analysis, and that is that, you know, she's not obligated to prove that she's a fraud or not a fraud.
She's not at all.
However, despite years of statements by various people, Omar has never sued anyone for defamation, and I think he's right.
He's taught defamation for over three decades, and it's rare that this kind of allegation, if it's false, if it were made, would linger, be allowed to linger without some legal action on the subject.
He points out on his face this would be a strong defamation case if the allegation is false.
I have no idea.
I mean, I'm just telling you what all sides are saying.
I'm telling you, Tom Holman says there's a full-on investigation.
Actually, he's quoted today as saying the fraud investigator that is looking into this, who he says he knows personally, is one of the best fraud investigators in Homeland Security investigations.
A lot of fraud problems over there, huh?
It's a tough time in Minnesota.
Very tough time.
I'd like to get to the bottom of all of it.
You know, we're talking about the money.
I mean, it's confusing.
Which husband do you list on your tax return?
It is confusing.
I mean, accidents can happen.
I think you're being very judgmental.
As I said previously, I am incredibly judgmental, and I own that.
So, yes.
I have some good news.
The West Virginia governor, Patrick Morrissey, has given us an update on Melody Wolf is the mother.
I've talked to her of Andrew Wolf.
She's a lovely lady, by the way, very, very devout.
And she is reporting to the governor that her son is now smiling, moving more of his right side and able to sit in a chair for a few hours.
You might recall that he was the National Guardsman that was severely wounded when shot.
His fellow guardsman, a guardswoman, actually lost her life.
We've talked about that at length here.
But, you know, I'm just praying for his full and complete recovery for the family.
I'm sure these are very difficult times for all of them.
The radical left, you know, we got a preview of coming attractions from the radical left this week.
And it really shouldn't surprise anybody because, you know, if you look at the impeachment vote that took place in the House, you know, all right, the one in June, a little lopsided, 128 Democrats voted with Republicans to block the impeachment.
They had another impeachment vote yesterday.
Only 23 Democrats voted with Republicans this time around.
What does this mean?
This is a preview of coming attractions.
What Democrats cannot do at the ballot box legislatively, they race to the courts, and they want to, as soon as humanly possible, if they ever get back power, they want to impeach Donald Trump another 10 times.
They want to set the record for impeachments.
If they're in power and they're in control, that is what they will do.
Now, I'm not telling you that it's time for you to be worried or concerned or engaged at all in what is happening with the 26 midterm elections.
But I will tell you, I mean, we're all getting ready.
We're going to have the holidays.
We are working most of the next week, by the way.
I want you to go home.
I want you to spend time with your family.
I want you to enjoy Hanukkah.
I want you to enjoy Christmas.
This is not a public school.
We're allowed to say these words on national radio still.
It's amazing.
We don't live in Great Britain, but they have all these free speech restrictions.
We're actually arresting people for posts that they put up.
And I'm not talking about threatening posts, just controversial posts.
I'm pretty much a free speech absolutist, but I will tell you that there is in this country, there's a reason.
Linda, remember I used to spend hours and hours late into the night battling on Twitter at the time the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and Alec Baldwin.
And then finally, I just said, Enough is enough because it became a full-time job.
And I will admit, there was a part of me that enjoyed those fights.
I enjoyed Twitter fights.
But I don't do it anymore.
Those were very fun nights at two in the morning when you're like, look at this that I just posted.
I'm like, oh, God, what did you write?
What happened now?
And then there'd always be those people that were like stoke in the fire.
Fight, fight, fight.
You know, absolutely.
And, you know, for pure entertainment purposes, people liked it.
Social media, unfortunately, has devolved and it has a base of people that live on it.
And unfortunately, some people can't discern what's true and what's not true.
And unfortunately, there are people that make their living putting out very strange, bizarre, and at times very hateful comments, commentary, conspiracy theories that are not proven, and that's how they make their money.
And what I'm telling this audience, which is way more intelligent, sophisticated than the average audience out there, is that you've got to be discerning in what you watch, what you listen to, and how you spend your time.
Understand that a lot of the rancor that is an animosity and hatred is either built up by people that make their living doing it or people that don't work, live in their parents' basement, have the blessing of anonymity.
People don't know who they are, where they are, and they're sitting there all day naked in their parents' basement or in their underwear.
And anonymously, these keyboard warriors are throwing out every toxic thing they could possibly think of about every single person.
Now, the problem is, and this gets to the issue of Australia banning social media for kids under 16, I don't really think it's a bad idea.
It may be like one of those bad ideas whose time has come.
I've often said that about term limits.
It's like you don't want your kids involved in this toxicity constantly.
I mean, I can't tell you, and this was kind of the beauty of, you know, Charlie Kirk's new book, which I highly recommend reaching for it.
Stop in the name of God while honoring the Sabbath will transform your life.
I mean, because part of it is shutting off all the noise, turning off your devices for 24 hours in a week, and that's it.
And being present and remembering and getting back to your center and yourself and God and principles that matter in your life.
And I think that people should pause, you know, should reflect, should be introspective, should shut down, should be present with their children.
And we probably all get caught up in it.
I know I do.
I mean, Linda knows that I do because she can get a text, you know, about show ideas and things that I'm reading, you know, any hour of the day, 24 hours a day.
And maybe that's not as healthy as it should be.
I don't know.
Whatever.
Well, I don't know if it's the healthiest thing, but I don't know that it's the worst thing ever if it's your job.
It's also my job.
I mean, that's the point.
It is my job.
I mean, this is what I do.
And I don't think you can be halfway good at this job if you don't immerse yourself in it.
I don't.
Doesn't mean that on my weekends when I'm with my kids or with friends and family and the people I love that I don't shut down because I do.
Doesn't mean that when I sit at a table, even if it's in a restaurant that doesn't let phones don't let you have phones, that phone is right between my legs underneath one of my legs.
Isn't that terrible?
All the time.
Because if it's well, the problem is, if it starts because I have it on silent, I will excuse myself and go to the bathroom because that tells me something may be happening that I need to know about.
If it's an occasional buzz, I ignore it.
Or maybe I'll sneak a look when nobody's looking.
You're definitely sneaking a look.
I think you should be honest about that.
I've never not seen you check your phone.
There's never been a dinner where I've not been sneaking a look.
There never has been one.
But I actually, what do you mean?
What is the just like, oh, God.
Don't put me in a good mood.
I'm in a foul mood.
I don't want to hear this crap today.
I really don't.
You're starting on me.
But the reality is, I'll give you a perfect case in point.
You know, when the incident happened at Trump International, I had gone to breakfast with Steve Witkoff, now the Mideast envoy.
And I like Steve a lot.
And he's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet in your life.
Well, very, very personable and very generous.
You know what he loves?
Steve loves Joe's stone crabs.
He's like the biggest Joe Stonecrab person I've ever met in my life.
Now, they are amazing, but I mean, he loves them.
It's like his favorite thing in the world.
We go to breakfast.
He's in the right city for it, that's for sure.
Okay, then he's trying to convince me to go play golf with him.
And, well, then the election hadn't occurred at the time, I don't think, if my memory serves me well, with President Trump.
And he's like, come on, come play with us.
I want to play with you.
Meanwhile, you know, he's like a professional golfer.
He's like a scratch golfer.
Trump is like a scratch golfer.
I hadn't picked up a stick in like five, six years.
I've since done so maybe about 10 times.
And I played like nine holes.
I actually am not too bad for somebody who hasn't played in seven years, but I don't want to play with people and care if I'm not playing well.
I want to be able to drop another ball and hit another one.
I don't care.
All you purists out there, you go play golf your way, and I'm going to play with Hannity rules and have fun.
If I'm not having fun on a golf course and distracting myself from everyday stress and pressure, then, you know, what's the point?
Anyway, but that day, it was like an hour and a half, two hours later, I got a call from Steve telling me, you're not going to believe this, but, you know, I think somebody tried to kill the president again and shots had been fired.
We didn't know exactly at the time what had happened.
Anyway, why am I looking at this?
You're telling me to look at my phone.
I was just saying that that happened on September 15th ahead of the election.
Yeah, it was before the election.
I thought so.
Okay, hang on.
Tell Tiff I'll call her in about two minutes, okay?
I will tell her.
But that day, if I was practicing the Sabbath, I would not have gotten that call.
And then I immediately got on the phone.
I got then candidate Trump on the phone.
It was all okay.
And then we didn't find out until thereafter, I think before I went on the air, I immediately went, you know, called the people of Fox and said, okay, this just happened.
It's not broken anywhere yet.
I'm headed to the studio.
And while I'm headed to the studio, I'm getting as many details as I can.
I mean, that's part of what the job that I do.
Anyway, that was a scary day, just like Butler.
It sure was, just like Charlie.
And we've heard so many details about that.
Oh, yeah.
Hank Johnson describing the U.S. under Donald Trump as the great Satan during a recent podcast.
We are the world's number one bully.
We're using our immense, unrivaled power to rule over those who have less power and who are doing it with impunity.
I'll quote the great Barry Farber, one of the great pioneers of talk radio.
There has never been in the history of this world a country that has accumulated more power and abused it less than the United States of America.
And I add my line to it.
Not that, you know, I should, but I do.
There's never been a country in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power, abused it less, and used it for the advancement of the human condition than the United States of America.
And that's all because of freedom, all because of liberty, all because it fosters an environment where the individual can be their best self, the person that God made them to be, and the talent that God put within every individual.
By the way, Breaking Tulsi Gabbard says at least 2,000 of the Afghan refugees brought to the U.S. by Biden have ties to terrorism.
Good grief.
Nearly 100,000.
2,000?
Wow.
Sean Duffy's going to yank $73 million in transportation funds from New York State because they keep issuing truck drivers' licenses to illegals.
Same thing needs to happen to California and Washington state.
ICE operations in L.A. rounded up 10,000 illegals since June, including murderers, rapists, kidnappers, and child predators.
How's Gavin going to answer that?
Oh, and Kilmar Obrego Garcia, the left's favorite poster child.
You know, he's now free thanks to a liberal judge.
I stand before you as a free man.
You think the world's safer?
Confirm Trende Arago, according to government officials.