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Dec. 17, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, as we continue our conversation, our discussion, our analysis, and news and information you won't get from a corrupt, you know, legacy media mob.
But, you know, here we are again dealing with radical Islamism.
I keep saying we've gone back to a pre-9-11 mentality.
In the course of 24 hours, a radical Islamist killing three Americans in Syria, five Muslims arrested for plotting a massacre at a Christmas market in Germany.
Paris, what is, you know, where millions of Parisians, if you will, had to cancel their biggest Christmas New Year's light celebration because of the rise of radical Islamists and the terror that they are fomenting and the violence being fomented all throughout Paris.
They're scared to death to have an event like this for fear of terrorism.
You have 15 people murdered at this Hanukkah party in Bondi in Australia.
But of course, if you listen to liberals, it is Islamophobia that is getting out of control.
Last night was maybe, as I said earlier, one of the most frustrating press conferences I've ever had to cover as, you know, they're talking about gun control laws and barely want to deal with the issue of a broken immigration system that has allowed in radical Islamists that have no interest in assimilation.
And of course, nobody wants to take it on.
The Australian prime minister, you know, it's so pathetically weak, it's unbelievable.
Now you have the New South Wales police commissioner revealing the attackers in Bondi Beach and the shooting there recently traveled to the Philippines.
They also found IEDs, two ISIS flags in the attacker's truck.
It was a father and son team.
And this is what the police commissioner said.
It's been really important to give our investigators in the joint counterterrorism space time to investigate this matter before releasing too much information.
There has been reports in the news about our two offenders traveling to the Philippines last month.
I can confirm that they did travel to the Philippines.
The reasons why they went to the Philippines and the purpose of that and where they went when they were there is under investigation at the moment.
I also confirm that the vehicle which is registered to the younger male contained IEDs, but I also confirm that it contained two homemade ISIS flags.
We continue to work through the motive of this tragedy and we'll continue to do so.
And I think it's really important that our investigators continue to be given time to do that.
Now, if you go back, and I read this in the last hour, talked about this in the last hour.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, you know, openly, publicly criticized the Australian Prime Minister, Albanese, for failing to curb virulent anti-Semitism that has been on the rise in this country, warning them that this is the predictable result.
By the way, Western Europe needs to learn a lesson, although I think they're too far gone.
And this is why it is imperative that Donald Trump be looking for all the unvetted radicals that Biden-Harris mayorkas allowed in our country.
Here's what Prime Minister Netanyahu said.
On August 17th, about four months ago, I sent Prime Minister Albanese of Australia a letter in which I gave him warning that the Australian government's policy was promoting and encouraging anti-Semitism in Australia.
Instead, Prime Minister, you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement.
Your government did nothing to stop the spread of anti-Semitism in Australia.
You did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country.
You took no action.
You let the disease spread.
And the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today.
Last night when we were doing our live coverage and the press conference happened, I think it was noon Australia time when we were at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
And I don't know, Linda, you saw, we talked about it, Lindsey Graham last night, he went absolutely bonkers.
I mean, just laid out Obama Biden for this insane, ridiculous capitulation to radicalism.
You know, of course, cargo planes full of cash and other currencies and billions of dollars, you know, and a policy that would have allowed the Iranian mullahs to get weapons of mass destruction is insane.
Listen.
Obama and Biden have a lot to do with this.
I blame the terrorists, but Obama allowed ISIS to come about when he withdrew from Iraq.
Trump destroyed the caliphate, killed Soleimani, and got out of the Iran nuclear deal.
And the dumbass Biden, the biggest dumbass on the planet, withdrew from Afghanistan, obliterated our borders, and rejoined the Iran nuclear agreement, making the Ayatollah flush with cash.
And you're wondering what we're dealing with.
Trump had him in a box.
He killed Soleimani, the chief architect of terrorism in Iran.
He destroyed the caliphate.
He had him in a box.
We had the Abraham Accords where people were recognizing Israel, and dumbass Biden comes along and tears it all up.
And now we're fighting these bastards again.
And this gets to the heart.
Anybody that did, oh, we can't hit Iran's nuclear site.
No, we can't do that.
No, that's a bad idea.
They don't understand the Trump doctrine.
Of course, I agree with the president, no forever wars.
I've talked about it extensively.
But that doesn't mean we don't use the might and force of the United States military to knock out a threat before it becomes a clear and present danger that could wipe out millions of people.
If you go back to Bondi, Australia, you know, and the sounds of everything that was happening and the shooting sounds, just listen.
This is what happens.
This is what terrorism is.
They're just having a good fight.
This shit is good.
I hate him.
I hate that.
The preview of coming attractions that Prime Minister Netanyahu was warning about was all on display.
A massive crowd two days after October 7, 2023.
And the...
And the brutal attack on Israel by Hamas and the kidnapping and the rape and the torture and murder and beheadings.
Oh, there was all the chanting about gassing the Jews, F the Jews, you name it.
They were saying it.
Where's the Jews?
All right, joining us now to react to all of this, Chris Paihota is with us, and he is the retired executive assistant director of the FBI, oversaw the technology and science division.
And it's interesting, he put up a post on X that said YouTube does not like this video.
I call out the BS they suppress.
And your support for honest media discussion would be appreciated.
In this case, you're talking about the Brown attackers who are criminal.
But I don't care.
You know, every instance we have here, you know, one has to wonder, you know, why we've allowed so many people into this country and what connections they may have.
And nobody's allowed to ask the questions without being called a horrible name.
Anyway, Chris, welcome to the program.
Thanks for being with us.
Glad to be with you, Sean.
Let's start with Brown, then we'll go to Australia and then we'll make our way around the world.
You know, I'm pretty disheartened that we don't have more information about what happened to Brown.
Yeah, it's kind of been a very vague and I would say almost incomplete investigative effort.
It seems they did not have a good handle on the situation.
And I think the locals were overmatched by the intensity of what happened.
Well, let me play the university president for you then, and then you respond to this.
President, with all due respect, six hours after this shooting, and you said you don't know what was going on in that classroom, how does that happen?
Were they taking an exam?
Were they meeting for a club?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Six hours later, and you're the president, and you don't know.
I do not know.
Well, that's kind of concerning.
You know what's so concerning to me is everybody has home security cameras.
And I have AI cameras that are so sophisticated.
I mean, it has facial recognition.
You have the capacity to zoom in.
You can record it 24-7.
You're telling me that a college like an Ivy League college like Brown University with all their endowment money couldn't have better security than this?
Well, it certainly begs the question of how they secure their facilities and make a safe environment for their students and faculty.
The lack of quality video footage is surprising in today's day and age.
And what I do also hear in those interviews, hers and others, is a lot of political wrangling and what I consider to be like ideological kind of hedging.
So I think that that's interfering also with the police investigation.
All right, quick break right back.
We'll continue more with Chris Piota on the other side, retired executive assistant director for the FBI.
800-941 Sean is on number.
We'll get to your calls coming up as well straight ahead.
All right, we continue our final moments with Chris Piota.
He is a retired executive assistant director of the FBI.
We see the same phenomenon playing out not only in Australia, but in Western Europe.
And that means Great Britain has Sharia courts.
I never thought that'd be possible.
We've talked about the French and no-go zones.
Those are very real in spite of reports.
Oh, no, that's fake news.
Well, we actually had reporters that went into them.
But as Miranda Devine put it, unchecked anti-Semitism, cowardly appeasement, lax policing, foolish immigration decisions for now a half a century.
And it happened especially under Biden and Harris.
We have 18,000 known terrorists, suspected terrorists in our country right now, over 2,000 Afghan terrorists that we believe are in the country.
I mean, doesn't it seem like it's a matter of when, not if, that we're going to get hit?
And I pray to God I'm wrong.
Absolutely.
I think you're starting to see a preview of the threat environment is maturing.
And as the world becomes a little more polarized and people are becoming more extreme in their views, unfortunately, I think we're going to see more of these low-tech type of attacks where, like in Germany, the rest of those five people, and they were going to use cars, I believe, as ramming devices into crowds.
Doesn't get any more low-tech than that.
And I'm afraid that's coming to the U.S.
Well, the scary part is, did you watch the press conference last night and all the talk about gun control?
You know, please tell me any instance in your years in the FBI where, you know, criminals obeyed gun laws.
Right, they don't.
And when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
And I think this is not a gun control issue.
I had made another post on YouTube saying that this is an issue for criminals.
Criminals do criminal things, and law enforcement has to get tough and get assertive and get out there and start engaging with these people without the continued fear of offending people.
We're overly focused on offending people and not focused on keeping our communities safe.
It's going to be a problem.
I fear that Western Europe is gone.
I fear that unchecked immigration and the rise of virulent anti-Semitism and this cowardly appeasement that we keep talking about has forever changed Europe.
And I don't know how they ever remove people that have no desire to be part of Western civilization, people that want Sharia courts, people that want to be separate and apart, not assimilate.
Am I wrong?
No, and I'll tell you what, Sean, I feel that we in the West, in the United States and our European brothers and sisters, we have started valuing external cultures over our own.
And we're willing to do so at the cost of our own societies.
And we don't want to be called names by the leftists.
We don't want to be called racists or Islamophobes.
So we're willing to pay the cost of our societies.
So we're not called names.
And again, it goes down to risk of offending people is more valuable now to us than keeping our communities safe and looking out for the well-being of our society.
I mean, what you're describing is really chilling.
I mean, if Biden had four more years and unchecked, unvetted illegals from over 200 countries, if that continued, I'm not sure we'd ever be able to resolve the problem.
I think even now it's looking for like a needle and a haystack.
Am I wrong on that?
No, no, absolutely not.
I believe that I did an exercise one day with some folks, and I figured out with some very conservative numbers based upon the border, the southern border disaster.
We've allowed between five and seven battalion strength level groups of people into our country that are criminals, gang members, or terrorists.
Well, I appreciate all that you are sharing with us.
You know better than most, having been in that business for a long time.
Thank you so much, Chris Piota.
Thank you.
We appreciate it.
800-941-Shawn is on number.
We'll hit the phones when we get back.
Let's go to Canada, John on the Sean Hannity show.
Hey, John, how are you?
What do you think of little Justin, who's no longer your prime minister, dating Katy Perry?
Is that big news?
Is that big news in Canada or nobody gives her a rip?
I don't give a rat's ass, but I didn't like Justin no matter what.
He was a traitor to me.
He was the worst.
He was the worst.
Don't even get me started because I go all day.
Let me tell you something.
The one thing I disagree with the president on, I did not want Canada to be the 51st state.
I don't.
You want to know why?
Because that would pretty much ensure two liberal U.S. senators.
No, thank you.
Well, I don't want 51st State either, but I don't want the Liberals.
How's that?
I fly it.
Well, and then when I watch a hockey game, my Florida Panthers are playing the Toronto Maple Leafs or the Montreal Canadians or whoever they're playing.
I kind of like your national anthem.
Oh, Canada.
Yeah.
Our home and nature.
It was in French, too.
We stand on guard.
We stand on guard for thee.
It's pretty cool.
I didn't like when we were booing each other's anthems, to be honest.
I do think we should remain best friends.
But to be very blunt, the trade conflict we had was Canada's fault.
They were screwing Americans left, right, and sideways and taking advantage of us.
And finally, Trump fought back.
I agree.
I take a bullet for Trump.
How's that?
And I would probably divert it to Justin if I could.
Wow.
No, I don't.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I still like being in Canada, and I just hope we can get a Trump-like guy for sure.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you're due for one.
Australia has to get rid of this prime minister.
And I'll be honest, the only one that I think gives me any hope potentially in Europe is in Great Britain, and that would be Nigel Farage.
And I'm not sure he could even pull it off at this point.
I think, you know, decades and decades of, you know, unbridled open borders, I don't know how you deal with that.
I don't.
And, you know, the fact that Great Britain has Sharia courts, as I've been saying, I mean, no-go zones in France and elsewhere, it's chilling.
I mean, France canceling one of the biggest events of the year because they're so terrified of the rise in violence from radical Islamists in their country.
That's scary to me.
What's scary is that it doesn't even make any sense that they're doing this, that it gets to that point.
You know, it's almost like the United Nations is now Muslim-dominated and is pushing their agenda for a mass migration in order for them.
And, you know, Islam is a world-dominating ideology.
To me, that's the only thing that makes sense because nothing else makes sense.
Why are these governments doing this?
I can't answer your question intelligently because there is no intelligent answer to it, to be very, very specific here.
There's no, you know, it's devoid of any and all common sense, to be blunt.
Yep.
Anyway, my friend, God bless Canada.
Glorious and free.
Stand on guard for the.
Okay, brother?
Thank you.
Bye.
800-941, Sean Eduardo, my free state of Florida.
What's up, Beduardo?
How are you?
Yeah, Sean.
Good afternoon.
Yeah.
Two years ago, I moved from Chicago to Tampa.
The best decision I made.
I love Tampa.
I have a lot of friends.
Did you ever in Tampa go buy the chicken salad chick?
You ever take my advice and eat there?
Yeah, sure.
I mean, mom is the big chicken.
I got mom over here, too, because I relocated with mommy, you know.
She loves the chickens, sure.
Oh, so you've been to chicken salad chick?
There are a number of locations.
A friend of mine owns those locations in Clearwater and Tampa.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great.
Yeah.
Lunch, sure.
Every time I see them, I'm like, can you please bring me free food?
Because I can't get it here where I live in Florida.
And I'm like, can you please open a store nearby?
I spoke to once the lady that runs In and Outberg.
I'm like, will you please come to Florida?
Pretty pleased with sugar on top.
And I was turned down flat in both cases.
Can you believe that?
Nobody cares what I think.
Yeah, but moving on to the story, the topic here, like Chris was talking about, we have car rammings in the Christmas markets, like in Germany.
So what are we going to do?
Ban cars?
They want to do gun control.
So it's ridiculous.
Last night I was so pissed off.
And after we carried the press conference, then we went to Lindsey Graham and Lindsey Graham was so pissed off.
I mean, we almost have a bet how many times he's going to say the word BS on air live.
He's right.
Here's what pisses me off.
You want to know something that pisses me off?
Is there are people that even claim to be conservative?
It claimed to be MAGA.
You know, if you look at their backgrounds, either they're intermittent MAGA or convenient MAGA, but they were never big supporters of President Trump.
And then they act like the most MAGA at different times.
And it just angers me.
And the people that don't understand the Trump doctrine are purposefully manipulated and misinterpreted.
The Trump doctrine is not isolationism.
Now, you understand this, right?
No.
It's not.
We're going to get rid of Mr. Maduro.
Yeah.
Okay.
Why did we drop the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan because of radical Islamists?
Why did President Trump in his first term take out Soleimani, Baghdadi, and all his friends?
Why did he, you know, why did he beat and defeat and bomb the living hell out of the ISIS Caliphate and defeat them?
Why in his second term did he take out Iran's nuclear sites?
Is it because he's a warmonger or he sees the ideology that is radical Islamism and he sees the nature of the threat, understands the nature of the threat, and understands the wisdom of acting before you allow radical Islamists to have weapons of mass destruction.
It's that simple.
Yeah.
It's not isolationism.
All right, my friend.
God bless you.
Thank you very much.
And the rise of virulent anti-Semitism makes me sick to my stomach.
You know, what would you expect our country to do if hundreds of thousands of rockets were fired into our country?
Their population versus ours.
October 7th is like America losing 40,000 Americans in a day.
What would you want your government to do?
Oh, it's genocide because they're annihilating and obliterating the people that attacked us in an unprovoked fashion that have in their charter, the destruction of America?
I don't think so.
Let's get back to our busy phones.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Janet in Georgia, next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hi.
I can't believe I got through to you.
Glad you did.
What's going on?
Well, I wanted to kind of talk about the Rob Reiner situation.
I personally have a brother who is 63 years old and has been on drugs since he was preteen.
We have taken him through rehab.
The family has done everything they can.
And we're estranged from him now.
He refused to go to my mother's funeral.
He blamed it on me that I didn't get him up and get him ready to go.
Now, mind you, he was 60-something years old at the time.
He has caused so much havoc in our family.
And his own children will not have anything to do with them.
They're now in their late 20s.
I have contact with them.
But it hits particularly hard at this time of the year, you know, with it being Christmas time.
And he's one of my only living family members that I have.
And to not, we don't even know if he's alive, dead, what he has done.
And to see this situation with the Rob Reiner family, I have so much sympathy for them.
And I feel so sad for them that their family's having to go through this.
Well, I'm listening very closely to everything that you're saying.
And what I'm going to tell you is this, because I think this is very important.
There's hardly a person listening to this program right now that has not had to deal with the scourge of addiction in some way, shape, manner, or form.
And, you know, I read more details about the relationship with this kid.
I mean, apparently he's been, you know, in and out of rehab.
I read in the Daily Mail today, I think it was 17 times.
And, you know, and at times he was homeless because the parents said either go to rehab and work on your problem or we're not going to support you.
But I mean, 17 times is a lot of times to be in and out of rehab.
At the end of the day, it's the person themselves that has to make the decision when they get up in the morning that they're not going to slowly commit suicide, destroy their lives and destroy the people around them.
There is an insidious pull of addiction.
I have seen it in my own life.
I have dealt with it on levels that I don't even want to go into explaining.
And I have tried many, many times to help people when it comes to rehabilitation, sometimes successfully, sometimes with no success.
And I, you know, I can't stand the guy's politics, but, you know, I feel terrible for him and his family.
And the whole thing is just a terrible, terrible, horrible tragedy.
And, you know, it's just, it is the scourge of addiction.
You know, President Trump's come under a lot of fire for taking out these narco-terrorists.
He took out more of them last night.
And I'm grateful he's doing it because those people are profiting off of death and destruction.
I'll give you the last word.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, it's just, I mean, I cannot imagine having walked in and found my parents because when my parents were alive, oh, what he put us all through trying to keep him away from our parents, he was bleeding them dry money-wise.
And then when they did pass, he held up the inheritance for, I think it was close to two years before we got our inheritance because he thought it all belonged to him.
Did the parents leave any money to him or no?
Oh, yes.
It was divided four ways.
It was divided.
That was generous on their part, considering I'm sure they contributed a lot to help support this person and send this person to get help.
By the way, these rehab places are not cheap.
And I'm just telling you, you don't want to get addicted to anything.
The one addiction that I see that really is beginning to frighten me.
And I talked to a friend of mine who's an addiction specialist.
He's the one that's been warning me, is gambling addiction.
He says it's getting worse and worse and worse.
You can't watch a sporting event without getting odds on something.
I mean, you can bet on falls and strikes for crying out loud.
You can bet on one point in a tennis match.
And people that love that dopamine hit that you get from betting, they get so wrapped up in it, they can lose their home.
They can lose everything.
And it's happening a lot.
I just, you know, addiction is real.
It's horrible.
Anyway, I got a role.
I do appreciate your call.
I pray for all these families that are involved in this.
It's just heartbreaking.
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