All right, news roundup and information overload hour toll-free on numbers 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, we're onto the issue of narcoterrorism.
Sarah Carter is back, now confirmed director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, also referred to affectionately as the drug czar.
I can't think of a better person to be in this position for many, many years, both on this radio program, Hannity the TV show.
She has been all over the globe and chronicling not only drug trafficking, sex trafficking, been down to the border more times than we can count, and has done a phenomenal job and will be phenomenal in this position.
We're so pleased.
We're so proud of you.
We're so happy for you.
And I can't think of anyone more deserving or better to be in this position.
Congratulations, Sarah Carter.
Thank you so much, Sean.
Thank you so much for having me on the show.
It's great to be back.
It's great to be confirmed.
And it's even better to be working for the greatest president in U.S. history, in my opinion.
There has never been a time in modern political history where we've had a president that does what he says, means what he says, is bold and decisive.
It's changing the trajectory, the geopolitical trajectory of our planet, has brought back the focus to the Western hemisphere.
I have to agree with you wholeheartedly.
And of course, with Secretary Marco Rubio, I think he explained it quite well.
It's putting America first as we look at what is happening in our hemisphere and the most dangerous, and I've said this to you so many times, Sean, on the show.
When we've been out on the border, we've been reporting to the American people.
And now, as a U.S. drug czar, there is no greater threat to the American people, to our children, to our families than these narco-terrorist organizations that have operated with impunity, particularly under the Biden administration, even under the Obama administration.
We have a president now that has shown that it will no longer happen.
I stand directly by his side.
We are going to be a hammer.
These people will not sleep another restful night.
They will be awake for the rest of their lives, wondering when the hammer is going to drop on them next because of what they've done to our country and to our children.
So I just wanted to say thank you for having me back on the show.
You're the first right now.
This is it.
I haven't done any other media.
I've come on the show because you and I have worked so diligently in the past together.
And I know how much you care about the American people.
And I want you to know that I am working day and night.
And for the last eight months, I've been working day and night to ensure that the president's national strategy is effective and that we can implement it.
And we'll be releasing that strategy actually in February alongside the president's budget.
So I'm looking forward to that.
I am tired of needless Americans.
And they're in the hundreds on a daily basis that are dying from these drug overdoses, this poison, this evil that people have been profiting on.
And I think one of the best ways to do it is to go directly to the source.
I think it also is, you know, there's another side of it.
How do you combat addiction issues?
But more importantly, for $10, these dealers and these narco-terrorists, that they would kill any American.
They've flooded this country with more fentanyl, for example, that could kill every American 10 times over.
And I know you've been there.
You've been at interdictions.
You've been there when these drug busts have taken place.
I've been down to the border.
I went to a drug warehouse once.
I mean, the biggest warehouse I'd ever been in.
And it's just wreathed to high heaven.
It just stinks.
But more importantly, I mean, Florida's healing.
I mean, just this is what they were able to confiscate.
That doesn't include everything that gets through.
And that causes this horrible, you know, cycle of addiction and death.
You're absolutely right.
You know, I can't even begin to explain the heartache that I feel.
And we felt it personally in our own lives with my children's friends.
We've had two actual Sentinel poisoning deaths.
One in my son's high school shortly after graduation, a close friend of my son.
Another was my son-in-law's a very close friend after graduating from college.
And what I want to warn everybody in the audience about, and I want you to take this to heart, please speak to your children and family members.
These cartels are lacing everything.
We have seen Sentinel in cocaine.
We're seeing it, you know, laced in vapes and marijuana, you know, in the pills that are fake on the street.
Sean, this is not about overdose deaths.
This is about poisoning, the poisoning of the American people.
It is absolute murder.
And this is the reason why the president in his fantastic mindset and policy and with a team like we have never seen before from Tom Holman, Christy Noam, Terry Cole at the DEA, Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice, all across the bow, Pete Hegst at the Department of War.
This is the reason why we are all working together.
We are hyper-focused on ensuring that we are protecting the American people and we are not going to back down.
When I spent all that time in Central America or traveled on the border in Mexico or went to Saqqat, you know, to interview the prisoners there in El Salvador, I did that because I knew and I believed and I've spent the last 25 years of my life, Sean, covering that border and working in Afghanistan, actually mapping the terrorist organizations, which, by the way, use the same money that they make from the, you know,
from selling illegal and illicit drugs to target our U.S. military, to target our troops on the battlefield.
I've seen it with my own eyes, and I did this because I believed the American people, and I do to this very moment, deserve to know the truth.
And they know.
And when I meet with families, angel families, last week I actually just met with a Sam Chapman, who is fighting for Sammy's law right now up on Capitol Hill every day fighting to bring awareness for our lawmakers and funder who spoke at the RNC, who lost her child every single day that I meet a family member and my door is open to them because they're on the front lines of this battle and they've suffered the most.
And I see that willing to get up in the morning despite losing a child.
I can't even imagine, despite losing a child.
Sarah, I know you recall this because we were at the same event together and all these families coming together that had all lost loved ones to these overdose deaths and the evil of addiction.
And you listen to the pain in their stories.
I don't think these parents will ever be the same again.
And it's happening all across the country.
We're losing hundreds of Americans a day.
We have lost, we have lost.
Put this into perspective, Sean.
We lose 22, a full classroom of children a week, a week.
We have lost 500, up to 500,000 people in the last five years, in the last five years, which is more than what we've lost in lives since World War II, all the wars since World War II.
Think about the magnitude of this.
And yes, there is addiction.
And look, we want to make it easier.
We're focused both on the supply and the demand side, right?
Here at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, we're focused on both sides.
We want to make it easier for people to get treatment than to get a pill off the street.
That's what we want.
We want to make it easier for them to find treatment, to find hope.
But we are also here to send a message.
This president is changing the trajectory.
He is saying you are no longer allowed to operate with impunity in our hemisphere.
We have a Secretary of State that is a hammer, just like our Secretary of War at the Department of War, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio, and everybody else who's working here, and Terry Cole with the DEA.
You are no longer able to operate with impunity because it's not just about addiction, Sean.
It's about murder.
And we are watching our adversaries as well.
We could see it in Mexico.
Look, we're watching what the cartels are doing in Mexico.
And I'm ecstatic that President Trump has sent a very clear message to the Mexican cartels.
Hey, look, this is not just about Venezuela and Maduro.
This is about you too.
And we are going to come and get you as well.
You are not going to be immune to the wrath of the United States.
So every time that I talk to a family member or I meet a mother or a father, I can make that promise.
This isn't just talk.
This is action.
They know that we're not just words anymore.
This isn't a check the box for me.
And you know that, Sean.
I feel honored and humbled that President Trump has given me such duty to fulfill for my nation, to be there, to stand alongside the families.
And by the way, alongside our law enforcement, so many of our law enforcement officers, federal, state, local, have lost their lives in this war on drugs.
But we are here to ensure that their lives, that they're lost, that their death was not in vain, that we are here to fight for them, that we are here to stand alongside them.
And if there is anybody out there that is listening that is involved in selling this poison on our streets, involved in delivering that poison from overseas, yes, I'm Sarah Carter.
I am the drug czar, and I promise you that this president is going to hunt you down and bring you to justice.
We are no longer going to allow you to operate with impunity.
So get ready.
Your days are numbered.
It is over.
I don't know if you've ever watched any of the series on Nad Geo where they actually interview the drug dealers and they show police enforcement action as well.
I mean, it's very well done.
But the saddest part of all of this, you watch these drug dealers and they purposely will put in fentanyl, giving what's known, they call it a hot shot because addicts apparently want the most effective drug and it's almost guaranteed to cause an overdose or death.
And that for addicts, in some cases, is appealing.
And then they'll seek out that specific brand of whatever the drug is that they're shooting up.
I mean, this is madness.
This is like evil, the embodiment of evil.
Well, it's a tragedy, Sean.
You're absolutely right.
It is the embodiment of evil.
I'll never forget, you know, when I met Heidi Riggs, her daughter, Marin Riggs, passed away from heroin, and she was only 20 years old.
And it was devastating.
Of course, it destroyed their family at the time.
Their daughter was just this beautiful, wonderful, you know, all-around.
They thought she was the all-around American girl, sports, you know, loved sports, did great in school, got involved with the wrong people, ended up hooked.
And I'll never forget what her mother said when Heidi, when Marin begged, you know, her mother to take away this evil out of her, this addiction, right?
She said, Mom, could you please, please, please, with tears in her eyes, get it out of me.
Just make it stop.
Because she felt that after doing it the first time, it was just impossible.
She didn't live many more months after she started using heroin.
She died.
She succumbed to her addiction.
So I want everybody out there that's addicted to know: look, we are here.
We are listening to you.
You are not forgotten.
You are a part of us.
You're our children.
You are our country.
We want, though, to get prevention programs out there to teach people and to give parents and all families the tools and resources, Sean, that they are going to need to join us in this fight so that their children never have to face what Marin Riggs had to face.
We want to give you those tools.
Remember, it's each and every one of you that you're on the front line of this battle with us.
We have President Trump.
We have, you know, our Department of War, our DEA, our federal, state, and local law enforcement, and everybody battling these cartels, battling the bad guys, trying to take them out of commission.
But it's going to be up to the parents, to the moms and dads, to the brothers and sisters, and by the way, to your friends to say, hey, look, we want to be there to help you.
And as my duty, my job here as the drug czar at ONDCP is to ensure what is going to be the best way forward to give you the tools and the resources that you will all need from our schools, to our churches.
By the way, our strategy, we're talking about the importance of faith.
I think it's the first time that we have ever done this.
I'm so excited about this, but the importance of faith in your life, 83% of Americans believe in God or, you know, have or a spiritual force.
And so this is very important in rehabilitation and rehab and treatment.
So we want to be able to give that to the American people.
And I mean, I really do, Sean.
I feel blessed.
I also feel the burden of this job, and I understand the enormity of it.
And I'm willing to take that on.
We wish you all the best in this new position, now recently confirmed, fully confirmed, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, better known as the Drug Czar, friend of this program, Sarah Carter.
Wish you all of Godspeed and success in saving lives.
We appreciate you, Sarah, more than you know.
Oh, thank you, Sean.
Feelings mutual.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Stephen, Florida, you're next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Happy New Year, sir.
Hi, Sean.
How are you?
Stephen here in Miami.
What's up, Stephen in Miami?
What's going on?
I have a lot to say, so I hope you go with me here.
Yesterday you spoke to a woman.
I believe she was Jewish regarding Iran.
Okay.
Is that correct?
You're talking about the guest that we had, Sahar Tartek.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
Well, first of all, I'm going to try and be stoic and not get emotional.
But as far as that woman saying what she did, I'm sure she's a very nice person, everything.
As far as us getting involved with Iran, I think it's a big mistake, big mistake, like in Iraq, because it's not going to go anywhere.
You're dealing with a different president at a different time.
I agree with the Trump document.
No forever wars, no boots on the ground.
And I don't think that the president.
Let me speak.
Well, I am letting you speak, and I'm just telling you, I don't think you're describing it in a way that's false.
No, let me speak.
I'm a Jew.
I was born a Jew.
I will die a Jew.
I'm proud to be a Jew.
Okay?
We're talking here about the biggest hypocrites, the worst, the abhorrent, vile, evil country of Iran, okay?
All they've ever done for years and years and years.
I'm 73 years old.
I've been around a long time.
I have some wisdom here.
All they ever did.
All the people, I'm putting a blanket over the country.
They burned our flag.
They burned the Israeli flag.
Death to America.
Death to Israel.
Most of this came after the revolution in 1979.
Let me ask you.
Videos came out yesterday of people.
But no, no, no.
Of hundreds of people slaughtered and murdered by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Now, do you think the world is better off without the Ayatollah and a chance of democracy or not?
Because that's what the choice comes down to.
In other words, or does the world turn a blind eye to mass murder?
Are you in favor of that?
I'm in favor of them destroying themselves.
Answer my question.
Are you because right now mass slaughter is going on?
Mass slaughter.
President Trump's saying help is on the way.
Do you think the president is wrong to help stop mass slaughter?
Of our people.
It's not mass slaughter.
They are evil people killing evil people.
Okay.
Okay.
I don't think innocent people that want freedom are evil.
I think the people have been oppressed by a Islamo-fascist regime, and they're being slaughtered.
And I'm asking you, should we just, as a world, just stand back and let them get slaughtered?
It sounds to me like your answer is yes.
You believe we should not get involved.
They should be slaughtered.
Yes.
Okay.
So you support the mass slaughter and we shouldn't lift a finger to help them.
It's not mass slaughter.
It's what.
It is mass slaughter.
Go look at the videos.
I'll show them on TV tonight.
Open your eyes.
Don't lie.
The difference between a quagmire, and I'm the first to say that we could never, ever go back to a situation like Iraq or Afghanistan.
We just can't.
And that's not what the Trump doctrine calls for.
The Trump doctrine, take out ISIS, take out Soleimani, take out Baghdadi, mother of all bombs in Afghanistan, take out Iran's nuclear sites.
And now the president is telling the freedom fighters, the people that want freedom and want to get rid of this Islamo-fascist regime.
He's being very clear that help is on the way.
And you're saying, let them die and don't lift a finger to help them.
Do you think the world is better off with an opportunity for a free and fair government that is not like this repressive regime?
Or is the world better off keeping the Ayatollahs that have, you know, have been the number one state sponsor of terror and threatened not only Israel, but America?
Which do you think would be better?
Sean, can you let me talk now?
Which do you think would be better?
If you'll answer the question, yeah, then you can talk.
Israel went in to Gaza to get the Hamas.
Everybody was calling, that's mass murder.
That's genocide.
You answer my question.
Was that mass murder?
Was that genocide?
No.
That was called self-defense.
What's the difference?
Because the difference is, is they attacked.
Well, first of all, in the lead up to October 7th, you have tens and hundreds of thousands of rockets that have been fired from Gaza into Israel.
I've been to border towns inside of Israel.
One town in particular had been hit with 10,000 rockets in 10 years, and kids play in underground playgrounds because they're so close proximity to Gaza and leading to 1,500 dead Israelis, then those kidnapped and those raped and those tortured.
That would be the equivalent.
They have less than 10 million in their population.
That'd be like 40,000 dead Americans in a day.
What would you want your government to do?
if 40,000 Americans died in a day?
What would you want them to do to the country that did that to us or the group that did that to us?
I'd want my government to obliterate them.
Absolutely.
Okay, Israel has the right to defend itself and they've been defending themselves.
But why is the world calling all this mass murder, the Jews, the mass murdering?
Because anti-Semitism is running rampant around the world.
Do you not open your eyes?
Do you not read?
There you go.
Anti-Semitism.
That's my point.
Anti-Semitism is institutionalized among some people.
That's what I'm saying.
It's exactly what I'm saying about anti-Semitism.
Everybody hates the Jew, but when it comes, not everybody hates the Jewish people.
I don't.
Many Americans don't.
The biggest supporters of Israel are evangelical Christians and that believe in the Judeo-Christian ethic, the founding principles of this country.
Look, you can turn a blind eye and say, oh, okay.
Now, let me ask you a question.
Did the world wait too long to stop Adolf Hitler?
Did the world wait too long?
Of course they did.
They waited way too long.
Okay.
So why would we not learn from history?
Why would we not learn?
Because it's a different enemy.
They are an enemy of the world, okay?
They're the number one state sponsor of terror, and using no forever wars, surgical strikes, no boots on the ground, and giving aid and comfort and support to freedom fighters is something that I think is worthwhile and would make the world a safer place.
Taking out their nuclear sites made the world a safer place.
Taking out the converter die ISIS caliphate made the world a safer place.
Taking out Soleimani made the world a safer place.
And meanwhile, you're just your attitude is let them die.
It's sad.
I got to go.
You know, Linda, when people say just let innocent people die, why does that irritate me to no end?
That just bothers me.
That was a weird call, I have to say.
I'm like, if anybody should understand the plight of the oppressed, you would think somebody who's like, I'm Jewish.
I'm here for the Jewish people.
I believe in the plight.
I'm like, okay.
So you don't hate the Iranian people.
You hate the IRGC and the clerics that are out of their minds.
These people are desperate for freedom.
I mean, women getting beaten and even put to death if they don't dress the right way.
Or they wear a lipstick or they sang a song or they look like they were thinking something or a husband wants to cheat.
So he says they cheated.
It's all nuts.
It's nuts.
I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you.
Exactly.
That's amazing.
Hollywood's there attacking ICE.
ICE is enforcing the laws of the land.
They've ignored the slaughter in Iran.
Where are all the free Palestine protesters?
What about the Free the Iranian people protesters?
You know, I played hockey as a kid, and, you know, every single day we played hockey or whatever sport we were playing, we fought every single day.
Did you see the story about these eight-year-olds brawling?
You know, they're looking into the incident.
The Hershey Bears expressed disapproval of the conduct that put participants at risk.
Youth hockey organizations are looking into a brawl involving an eight and under squad from Pennsylvania that was playing scrimmage on Saturday.
And anyway, the competition, Mites on Ice, it's called.
And for at least a minute, the video that was shared on social media, the kids continued fighting with no apparent intervention by coaches or referee or officials.
In one clip, you know, people in the stands could be heard cheering, particularly when a goalie delivered a hard hit to an opponent, you know, who was tussling with one of the goalies' teammates.
And, you know, does not reflect the values of sport or standards we expect from young people on ice.
Listen, I go to hockey games.
I used to, you know, when I was in New York, I'd go to Rangers and Islanders games.
Now I'm a Florida Panthers fan.
I have been.
I'm all Florida now.
I'm done with New York.
Just done.
And when a fight breaks out, the crowd loves it.
I love it.
You know, I mean, why are we at this point?
You know, just don't, it's a normal, it's a part of the sport.
Don't ruin hockey.
Leave hockey alone.
And part of hockey is fighting.
And part of young kids playing is they like to mimic the people they look up to, the bros.
I love the Broad Street bullies back in the day.
Your old stomping grounds, the territory there.
Listen, the Flyers and the, I mean, first of all, and I know that Katie and Jason and Ethan, we talk about this a lot in the studio is Philly fans are tough.
Pennsylvania people are tough.
You know, we're not raising weak little kids.
You know, we, my, my kids are all in UFC and in boxing.
And we have a rule in the house, which is you don't hit first, but you hit last.
Somebody hits you, you hit them back, you knock them out.
Now, hockey is known as a brawler type of sport.
It just is.
Now, I don't know that I would let them fight for a minute as eight-year-olds because it's different as grown men and hockey being a professional sport, and that's a choice you make, and they're kicking the crap out of each other, fine.
But as eight-year-olds, I probably would be a little bit nervous just because they're kiddos.
But by the same token, I don't think it needs to be looked into.
You just tell your kids have good sportsmanship.
You know, that wasn't what we're looking to do.
This is not the status quo, and you keep them moving.
But to have an investigation, do you not have better things to do with your time?
Really?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's absolutely crazy.
By the way, Whoopi Goldberg walked back comments suggesting ICE agents were violent criminals.
Probably got yelled at by ABC Disney.
You know, Bill Maher laughed at these idiots at the Golden Globes wearing these good pins.
And, you know, this is what the left does all the time.
This virtue signaling nonsense.
What about, did they ever wear a Lake and Riley pin, a Jocelyn Nungari pin?
Did they ever wear a Rachel Morin pin?
I doubt it.
I mean, it's just pathetic.
They're so selective in what they're outraged about.
You know, has anybody ever spoken up about the Minnesota synagogue arson?
By the way, the guys, the kid responsible was turned in by his father.
Good for his father.
Unreal.
Teen charged in the fatal New York stabbing of a 17-year-old boy had been cut loose without bail and a gang assault.
When are these politicians going to be held responsible?
These judges held responsible for this idiocy.
No, reimagine the police and no bail and defund and dismantle.
Now they're talking about disarming the police.
Do you watch Landman by any chance?
Do you ever watch that series?
I haven't.
I've seen it, though, like the teaser for it, but I have never seen the show.
The guy that created, oh, what's that one with Kevin Coss?
Yellowstone, the guy that created also Tulsa King with Sly, Taylor Sheridan, he's involved in this project.
Anyway, Billy Bob Thornton's in it.
It's really great.
Billy Bob Thornton, you know, he does risky oil deals, et cetera, et cetera.
Anyway, he has a crazy wife and a daughter that drive him up a wall, but they're really fun characters.
Anyway, she's going to a cheerleading camp at a Texas Christian University attending, and then she goes and meets her roommate named Pagan, who goes by they, them, and they took on this issue, and they took on the view.
And they had the funniest comments about the view.
And I always wondered about why they them.
But, you know, pronouns, I just, you know, because there's just one of you, and those are plural pronouns.
They're probably going to get, you know, smashed by the left for daring to take on this.
Good.
Agreed.
I like the show more now.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
All right.
John Fetterman tonight, Charles Payne tonight.
Janine Piro, the argument before the Supreme Court, Men and Women Sports, the AG of West Virginia will join us.
Also, Riley Gaines, Kristen Cinema tonight, and James Comer, Sety DVR tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow.
Thank you for making this show possible.
And our prayers for the people that want freedom in Iran.