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Dec. 16, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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The True Price of Open Borders

Join Sean this hour as he dives into the pressing issues surrounding radical extremism and open borders. With a heavy heart, Sean discusses recent tragedies tied to these themes, including the alarming rise of terrorist activities and their terrifying implications for the U.S. He passionately supports the Trump Doctrine, emphasizing the importance of striking a balance between national security and avoiding endless foreign conflicts. Tune in for a thought-provoking episode that highlights the need for understanding our enemies and the consequences of unchecked immigration policies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And this is frustrating to me, and I'm going to spend a lot of time on this today.
So I want everyone to really pay very close understanding because it is the culmination of a pre-9-11 mindset that has taken hold in this country and around the world.
And it is going to result in more tragedies over time.
And I say that praying to God I'm wrong.
And just like I have been predicting, and we had testimony last week, over 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that Biden, Harris, and Majorca is allowed into their country that we know of.
We don't know about the Godaways.
We know people from over 200 countries, many were terror ties, have come into this country.
But the 9-11 Commission report, there's really, there's a lot I disagreed with.
There's a lot that just stood out to me and stuck with me.
And one big part of it was they are at war with us.
We were not at war with them.
And please, I'm going to stop right here and tell you, I fully, completely support the Trump doctrine.
And that means what?
No forever wars.
And Donald Trump has proven with new modern technology how you can win battles against extremists and keep the country and the world a safer place.
But unfortunately, there is a mindset that wants wide open borders still to this day in this country.
Now, let's start with what happened in this 24-hour period.
You had three Americans killed by radical extremists, believed to be ISIS-related, in Syria.
The president has promised retaliation.
I would assume these ISIS camps within Syria are going, there will be retaliation.
I can almost guarantee it.
And I've not spoken to the president about it.
You have five Muslims arrested for plotting a massacre at a Christmas market in Germany.
You had, you know, Paris, France, the largest, you know, Christmas lighting celebration that they have every year.
But because of the rise of radical Islamists and Muslim violence and extremism in the city of Paris, again, rooted in unvetted immigration from around the globe with lack of assimilation, this is a predictable result.
You had two Muslims.
We saw the disaster on the first day of Hanukkah, 15 people murdered in Australia.
But I guess if you listen to the left, Islamophobia is what's getting out of control.
In this country, federal authorities say they disrupted a credible terrorist threat over the weekend, arresting four alleged members of a radical pro-Palestinian extremist group that accused of planning a coordinated New Year's Eve bomb attacks in Los Angeles.
That happened this weekend.
And this is, you know, what you see in Europe.
You know, we have over the years, and I know we haven't spoken about it as much recently, over the years we have discussed radical Islamic terrorism.
And I'll stop here and make a distinction.
There are people that are Muslim that don't buy into radicalism, but radical extremists, their numbers are extraordinarily large.
And it does dovetail into what has now become a very growing, loud sentiment of virulent anti-Semitism that is heard in the halls of Congress on college campuses.
It's all over social media like a cancer and among people that want attention.
And the Trump doctrine is probably the most misunderstood doctrine of Donald Trump that there is in Donald Trump's first.
What is the Trump doctrine?
No forever wars.
I agree completely with the president.
And there's no need for forever wars.
You know, the days of sending our national treasure, you know, to walk the streets of Baghdad in Iraq or in Afghanistan and stepping over IEDs and not even giving them the proper equipment at the time.
They didn't have up armored Humvees and kids were getting their legs and their arms blown off and their faces disfigured and their entire lives destroyed.
Those days are gone.
We're never going back with the onset of modern weaponry.
The president's proven over and over again that we don't need it.
But forever wars does not mean isolationism.
As interpreted by some, even some that claim that they are MAGA, even some that claim that they are conservative, they don't understand the fundamental thought process of Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump was very outspoken about what happened in Australia.
And I'll get to that in a minute.
But no forever wars does not mean you don't use the strength and the might of the United States military.
And if you look at Donald Trump in his first term, we saw that on display.
And almost every strike in his first term dealt with, in some way, radical Islamic terrorism, whether it's the mother of all bombs dropped in Afghanistan, whether it was defeating the ISIS Caliphate, whether it was taking out the world's number one terrorist from Iran, General Soleimani, whether it was taking out Baghdadi and associates, that was all done in his first term.
In his second term, Donald Trump looked at what was a clear and present danger, existential threat, and that was a nuclear-armed Iran and said that cannot happen, will not happen on his watch.
He gave them 50 days, and the Iranians just, you know, thumbed their nose at President Trump, you know, after being coddled and appeased by both Obama and by Biden.
Remember, cargoes of cash and other currency, you know, dumped onto the tarmac in Iran, you know, billions and billions of dollars, you know, in the hopes that maybe they can buy, you know, if I give you all this money, we hope you'll be really nice and forget about this notion of, you know, wipe Israel off the map and the United States off the map.
No, they continued their threats.
And now the threat of a nuclear arm Iran, coupled with their radicalism, has now been removed from the world and the world is a safer place.
And the sad thing is, is that there are people that claim to be, you know, make America great again conservatives.
You know, oh, no, no, no, this is a bad idea.
People like Hannity are warmongers.
I'm not a warmonger, but also when you see a threat emerging, sometimes it is wise to understand your enemy.
And there's a fundamental miscalculation that the world is going to, we're now seeing the impact of open borders in Europe, the impact of open borders in the United States.
Testimony last week, 18,000 known suspected terrorists inside our country allowed in by Biden-Harris Majorkis.
Pulsi Gabbard last week, 2,000 Afghan refugees, again, unvetted by Biden and Harris, allowed into our country.
You look at the 200 countries that people came in during the four years of Biden and Harris.
Many of them have terror ties.
Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq.
Why are we letting people in to these countries?
You know, it's sad when you see that the normally, you know, the biggest celebration, you know, in Paris every year is their celebration of what they call they dim the lights on New Year's Eve and Christmas, and they just have this massive, you know, crowd of millions of people.
And it just is something that everybody in the country looks forward to.
You have seen in Europe the Islamization that has gone on now over the years, but it has lacked a very important component, and that is assimilation.
You know, that's, you know, how did Great Britain ever get to the point where they have, you know, 60 to 70 Sharia courts?
What's the Liz Truss, I think, made the comment?
You know, everybody's Starma and everybody else, you know, making the case, oh, no, no, they don't have, yes, they do.
Just like we, you know, battled the issue of no-go zones that exist in some of these European countries.
And I had reporters from Fox saying, yes, I've been to them.
I've seen them.
And people that they have allowed into their country didn't assimilate.
So now you have 15 dead, innocent people.
And here's the worst part.
And this is a telling tale, in my humble opinion, for America and a preview of coming attractions if we don't take the threat of radical Islamists seriously.
It is a preview of coming attractions in our country.
And I've been saying that I pray to God I'm wrong, but I don't think I am, that all of these people would terrorize that it were allowed in unvetted, that it's a matter of when, not a matter of if.
They are plotting and planning and scheming an attack on the homeland.
And as Miranda Devine pointed out, in Australia, and we're beginning to see signs of it here in the United States, unchecked anti-Semitism, cowardly appeasement, lax policing, ridiculous open border immigration decisions have coalesced in this multicultural southwest part of Sydney, Australia, about an hour's drive from Bondi Beach,
where this terrible tragedy took place.
Add to that mix a toxic blend of strict gun control for law-abiding Australians, but not for the homegrown Islamist terrorists and gang members who only last month were shooting 50 rounds of an AK-47 at a house in a suburban community six miles away from where the alleged gunmen lived.
And this was a recipe for disaster in the two years since Hamas and the October 7th attacks of 2023 and since the Hamas attack on Israel's Israeli synagogues in Sydney and they have been firebombed and kosher restaurants vandalized and cars outside Jewish homes being set ablaze and rancid anti-Semitic graffiti have become,
you know, quite common, along with what happened in Bandi and kill the Jews being the mantra.
You know, remember, it's, you know, death to Israel, death to America.
That is a very real sentiment of radical extremists.
And every weekend for at least two years, downtown Sydney has been shut down by Palestinian protests.
Sound familiar?
Does it sound like what's been happening in this country?
You can go back to August, tens of thousands of people waving Palestinian flags, wearing now fashionable, you know, the clothing of the Palestinians marching across Sydney Harbor Bridge, demanding stop the genocide in Gaza.
It sounds an awful like what's been happening in the halls of Congress, college campuses, and what I see and hear from even people that claim to be MAGA in this country.
The level of ignorance is breathtaking.
You know, Israel that's been hit with hundreds of thousands of rockets over the decades.
Israel that, you know, culminating in the October 7th attacks, murder, rape, kidnapping, torture, beheadings.
I've seen the video.
The IDF shared it with me.
I wish they'd let me air it.
And people in this country want to put their head in the sand and say, no, no, no, no, America first means ignore what's happening abroad.
Well, if we ignored the Iranians that have been threatening to fire ballistic missiles into this country, and if they had nukes, they'd have nuclear warheads on it.
That would be pretty stupid.
And it's a level of ignorance that's breathtaking.
You know, at some point, when do you learn the lessons of history?
And when do you listen to the enemies that want to destroy you?
And when do you identify enemies for who they are?
It's not a matter of, you know, I don't want war.
I'd like, I'm like with President Trump.
I'd like to end war.
But there's a fundamental, and I would argue in some cases, purposeful misinterpretation of the nature of a threat that is now worldwide, and we're seeing it.
And it's not going to end well if it's not dealt with.
The only person on the world stage that is understanding it and dealing with it seems to be President Donald J. Trump.
We'll get back to this in a second.
So it's not just Australia.
It's not just Europe.
It's also America.
I think we stand today, or many Americans today, and I think it's been highlighted since the events of October 7th and 2023.
And, you know, Americans, you know, showing solidarity with radical Hamas terrorists.
And, oh, stop the genocide.
Well, the genocide's been going on in Israel, and not one of these people ever lifted a finger to stand up against innocent lives being lost in Israel or the tens and tens of thousands of rockets fired into Israel every year, nor have they educated themselves enough to know that Hamas's charter, the Palestinians elected Hamas to be in charge, calls for the destruction of Israel.
It seems like, you know, understanding radical Islamism, you know, has kind of gone by the wayside.
Time moves on, people seem to forget, and we seem to have a pre-9-11 mindset in this country.
Europe has fallen into the same trap, and they have had open borders, open immigration, and you now see the impact there in countries like Great Britain and France and Germany and many, many others.
I mean, we better wake up here and understand that we have in this country, thanks to Biden, Harris, Mayorkas, you know, we have these criminals.
Now, Tom Holman and Christy Noam and the president, you know, they are setting out to find all of them.
But to be very blunt, it's like finding a needle in a haystack.
And it is, you know, it's just sad because I can just tell you that if we don't get to the bottom of this, we're going to rule the day, as my mother used to say.
You know, thankfully, the FBI arrested five members of this far-left pro-Palestinian extremist groups on Friday in connection with this alleged plot to carry out coordinated bombings in and around Los Angeles on New Year's Eve.
I don't think it's going to be the only threat over this holiday season.
And I urge you and your families to, you know, be on guard.
Australian investigators believe the Bondi Beach terrorists had pledged allegiance to ISIS, and an ISIS flag was found in one of the terrorist cars, according to an ABC News outlet, JCTT official, and they've reported that on this.
President Trump has spoken out loudly and clearly.
You know, the one thing this president has that many others in this country don't have is moral clarity, denouncing the purely anti-Semitic attack in Australia and then urging American Jewish people to celebrate Hanukkah proudly, as they should be allowed in a country that celebrates freedom of religion.
You know, I'm not against any religion.
I'm against radicalism or those that buy into a radicalized mindset.
And when it comes to immigration, there's got to be a way and a means.
And I don't know if you can fully vet people when you really get down to it.
How do you ever figure out what's in some people's minds and hearts?
It's very hard.
You can do background checks.
You can check for any allegiance or any ties to radicals.
But is it 100% pure?
I don't know.
I don't know the answer to that.
And I think that it's only going to be a matter of time.
But, you know, we have 15 people dead, including the alleged suspect of one of the suspects.
You know, thank God you had this hero that disarmed the one shooter.
The other shooter got away.
He ended up getting shot himself.
A rabbi killed in Sydney apparently had warned the Australian prime minister about rising anti-Semitism in Australia, and these warnings were dismissed.
And, you know, in light of this, I want to play for you, the Australian Prime Minister.
It's a little shocking and ignorant.
But anyway, Anthony Albany uses his name, the Australian Prime Minister, responding to questions about taking anti-Semitism seriously.
But then he goes on to say that they have been warned about threats from right-wing extremist groups.
What does that have to do with anything?
Listen.
And then with that feeling, left arm checked.
You're just signing anti-Semitism, laser terrorism, and violence targeting the innocent.
Your government has come under criticism in claiming that it has effectively responded to the rise of anti-Semitism in Australia since October 7, 2023.
In September, your government recognized the Palestinian state.
Your ministers have attacked the Israeli government.
Senior ministers refused to visit the sites of the October 7 massacres.
And you created a special Islamophobia envoy alongside an anti-Semitism envoy.
Have you taken the threat of anti-Semitism seriously?
And can you guarantee the safety of Jewish Australians?
Yes, we have taken it seriously.
And we've continued to act.
We've continued to work with Jewish community leaders.
We've continued to take all the advice from the security agencies to put in place special measures and will continue to do so.
We take Asia's advice very seriously.
We work closely with them.
We receive regular updates as well.
The Director General of Asia has warned about a range of threats, be it anti-Semitism, the rise of right-wing extremist groups as well.
And we continue to work closely with our security agencies.
What did the right-wing, what does that have to do with what happened here?
Miranda Devine did a really, really good job of laying out how Australia has allowed this anti-Semitism and Jewish hate to fester.
And I would argue that the same can be said about Europe and the same can be said about our own country.
He writes, unchecked anti-Semitism, cowardly appeasement, lax policy, policing, foolish immigration decisions for a half a century in gestation have coalesced in multicultural southwestern Sydney an hour's drive from Bondi.
Add to the mix, strict gun control for law-abiding Australians, but not for homegrown Islamic terrorists and gang members who only last month were shooting 50 rounds from an AK-47 into the house of a suburb six miles down the road from where this all took place.
And in the two years since the Hamas attack on Israel, synagogues in Sydney have been firebombed, kosher restaurants vandalized, cars outside of Jewish homes torched and rancid.
Anti-Semitic graffiti have become prominent, along with the Bondi quote, kill the Jews becoming a mantra.
Well, it's not unlike what's happening in Europe.
It's not unlike what is happening in America in some corners from the halls of Congress, college campuses, you know, all over the internet.
It's like a disgusting, you know, campus.
You know, in Sydney, for example, the beautiful Sydney Opera House, when a mob waving Palestinian flags invaded a peaceful memorial service for the thousands of Jews murdered, raped, tortured, and kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.
This is just three days after the October 7th attacks and people screaming, F the Jews, and screaming, Allahu Akbar.
Well, we now know what globalized the antifata means in Bondi.
I mean, as you have a father and son team with, you know, that cling to this radicalized ideology and shotguns picking off innocent Jewish families at a Hanukkah celebration.
You know, it's how many more warning signs is the world going to have to learn here?
You know, it's just sad.
It's tragic.
You know, I have a video, for example, of this three days after, or it was two days after October 7, 23, gas the Jews.
People were chanting, supporters of Hamas.
The Hamas Charter calls for the destruction of Israel, wiping Israel off the map.
Death to Israel, death to America.
They are intertwined.
Now, compare that to President Trump responding to the killing of three Americans in Syria by radical Islamists and how we will retaliate.
Listen.
Three great patriots in Syria.
You know how it happened?
An ambush, terrible.
We also have three wounded.
They seem to be doing pretty well.
So we mourn the loss.
These are great, three great people.
And it's just a terrible thing.
Syria, by the way, was fighting along with us.
The president, the new president of Syria, is, as they told me, and I'm not surprised, he's devastated by what happened.
This was an ISIS attack on us and Syria.
And again, we mourn the loss and we pray for them and their parents and their loved ones.
Very, very sad.
This is why we know that U.S. retaliates against ISIS.
Yeah, very well.
And well, when you return borders back again, you're going to be killed.
We will retaliate.
Thank you very much.
You know, and for those that don't understand Israel's position and those in this country that have, you know, wanted wide open borders, those that have been spewing virulent anti-Semitism in this country, their level of ignorance is beyond appalling to me.
And I keep trying to put it in this perspective.
What would you want your government to do if one American town, one American city was hit by a rocket by radical Islamists that have in their charter the destruction of America?
What would you expect your government to do?
Israel's population is under 10 million.
Okay, we have 350 million plus in this country.
That's the equivalent.
They lost 1,500 people in a day.
That would be the equivalent of losing 40,000 Americans in a day.
Never mind the rape, the kidnapping, the torture, the beheading, even of little children.
If that happened here, what would you demand your government do?
Would there be a lot of people protesting in the streets saying, oh, stop the genocide when America obliterates, you would expect your government to obliterate any country responsible for such an attack on our country.
And then Israel fights back.
Their very survival is hanging in the balance.
And, you know, the amount of criticism Israel took on, they've been provoked.
They've been attacked unprovoked now, going on for decades.
A witness in Bondi Beach, police froze for 20 minutes as this gunman was picking off all these people celebrating Hanukkah.
How do you freeze for 20 minutes?
Now we're learning a little bit.
We don't know.
We don't have a suspect yet, but Brown University, what happened there?
We haven't even gotten to that yet.
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle is pointing out Brown University's website about this particular class, the Brown University professors whose economic class was shut up.
Now, the professor was not there, but apparently a student teacher advisor was there.
There's no doubt, you know, it seems that there's a possible anti-Semitic connection to this, and that being the driving point here has happened on Saturday.
It killed two students, wounded nine in Providence, Rhode Island.
Not getting a lot of attention on our national media from the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.
A gunman opened fire during a final exam review with this economics class by a Brown University professor who also teaches Jewish studies courses and the Judaic Studies program at Brown University.
Is there a connection?
Well, with the rise of anti-Semitism, I'd say the odds are high.
I'd like to get that confirmed.
You know, they still are looking for a suspect in that particular case.
You know, multiple dead, several wounded in this particular shooting.
And it goes on.
And then, of course, what's happened, you know, in Paris, just complete fear and capitulation.
They're canceling their biggest Christmas and New Year's celebration that attracts millions because of the rise of radicals and acts of violence in Paris and France.
And the same thing across all of Europe.
And there's been, again, the same mistakes that Miranda Devine pointed out that has gone on unabated in Europe.
And I would argue it's happening here.
Unchecked anti-Semitism, cowardly appeasement, lax policing, idiotic immigration decisions.
And, you know, add to that, if Democrats had their way, strict gun control laws for law-abiding Americans, in this case, Australians and people in Europe, they don't have anything.
Are we paying attention to the rise of the virulent anti-Semitic voices in this country?
I don't think so.
Thank God we have groups like the IFCJ.
We have proudly partnered with them, the International Foundation of Christians and Jews.
They're on the ground in both Europe and in the Middle East, helping people that have been displaced because of radical Islamists.
And they're out there fighting all of these groups: ISIS, Boko Haram, the Muslim Brotherhood.
I mean, their terror attacks, nativity scenes vandalized around the globe, live animals even slaughtered.
In Australia, Jews killed in cold blood on Bondi Beach, Jews facing threats in New York City restaurants.
I saw a tape this weekend.
It was unbelievable of a virulent anti-Semite going after a Jewish woman.
The wave of intolerance towards Christians and Jews is now deeply alarming.
Anyway, they're helping those that are displaced with humanitarian assistance.
You can help them.
888-488-IFCJ.
If you can donate this holiday season, whatever support you can offer is greatly appreciated.
All right, when we come back, Senator Markway Mullen, Oklahoma, weighs in on all of this.
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