Sean tackles escalating protests aimed at ICE in Minnesota and reports of coordinated efforts to obstruct federal operations. He speaks with 33-year law enforcement veteran Randy Sutton of The Wounded Blue, who describes depleted staffing, low morale, and the risks officers face on the ground. Sean also revisits his heated exchange with Michigan Congressman Sri Thanedar over deportations for convicted offenders and support for victim's families. He highlights a post from President Trump warning Minnesota officials about potential intervention and invites listeners to weigh in as the public safety debate intensifies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I had a big shootout on Hannity Friday night with Michigan Congressman Sri Fanadar.
I think I'm going to play it at the bottom of the half hour before we get to your calls because it just illustrates how absolutely insane the left has gotten, not just their rhetoric, but their policies.
I mean, this idiot voted, and a lot of Democrats did not vote for this, but this one did, to allow convicted sex, illegal immigrant sex convicts to stay in the country.
That's how insane the left has gotten with all of this.
Over the weekend, you had anti-ICE rioters.
I mentioned this earlier, storm a church in Minnesota, Democratic Party's illegal alien lobby now, spending months complaining about ICE agents.
And, you know, it's just ridiculous what these ICE agents now have to go through.
And I've been scrolling the names of all of the people, the victims, American citizens, victims of murder and rape and child molestation and the worst crimes imaginable.
And I have 16 pages.
I'll post them if you want.
And you can, you know, share it with your friends in Minnesota, Minneapolis, and send it to Mayor French Fry and that idiot governor, Tim Walz.
But ICE heroes have arrested 10,000 illegal aliens being harbored by Minnesota officials so far, according to the New York Post today.
And they're committing the worst of the worst crimes.
And lefty TikTokers are orchestrating groups of women to entice ICE agents, find them, identify them in a scheme, and I guess be flirtatious with them and act like they like them and want to meet with them, et cetera, et cetera, and try to bait them into sending naked pictures of themselves.
In New York City, for example, socialists there are mustering an army of thousands of anti-ICE activists to form activists to form a rapid response and rapid response battalions to obstruct the feds and prevent them from doing their job.
And they're teaching classes on how to be disruptive and how to stay loud.
And they put together an anti-ICE hotline and manuals are being written to help people make it hard.
Now, it went pretty viral, a video of an ICE agent telling protesters, let me tell you who you're protecting.
We're here to arrest a child sex offender.
Listen to this.
We're here to arrest a child sex offender.
And you guys are out here honking.
That vehicle right there is honking and impeding our investigations while we're trying to arrest a child sex offender.
That's who you guys are protecting.
Insane.
That's who you guys are protecting.
I mean, and it gets worse there.
And I mentioned, you know, Don Lemon apparently has been put on notice by the DOJ as he joined anti-ICE agitators that stormed that church in Minneapolis.
We'll see what happens with that.
We'll have a full report on Hannity by the time we get on the air tonight, but we'll look at that.
But, you know, these anti-ICE mobs storming this Minnesota church because they didn't like the fact that the pastor believes in the rule of law.
President Trump's being very clear, warning these Minnesota officials that he may have to step in to end the chaos if they won't.
And he put this up on Truth Social.
The troublemakers, agitators, insurrectionists are in many cases highly paid professionals.
The governor and mayor don't know what to do.
They have totally lost control and are currently being rendered useless if and when I am forced to act.
It will be solved quickly and effectively.
Philadelphia's Democratic DA is threatening to arrest ICE agents.
They have no authority to arrest ICE agents, none at all.
Call the supremacy clause, and state and local governments have no authority to prosecute a federal agent that is doing their job in the line of duty.
They have none.
They have no authority at all to do such.
And, you know, all these officials are standing by because they think this radical left-wing base in Minnesota, you know, they love this stuff.
But it's pretty, you know, pretty insane.
Now, there is a group of people that are trying to assist and help ICE agents.
And they're on the ground and they're out there fighting every day.
And anyway, we'll talk to one of them in a second, Randy Sutton.
And he's a 33-year law enforcement veteran, founder of the Wounded Blue and author of Rescuing 911 and the Fight for America's Safety.
He's now been in Minneapolis on the ground, working with agents on the ground, and he's saying that it is almost impossible for law enforcement to do their job.
And here's what he said in a recent interview.
Kevin Roffer at the Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police, the FOP.
And we're here with Randy Sutton with Wounded Blue here in Minneapolis.
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He joins us now.
He's with the group Wounded Blue.
Randy Sutton is with us, 33-year law enforcement veteran, sir.
Welcome.
Thank you for your service.
Glad you're here.
You've been on the ground in Minneapolis and Minnesota.
What's going on?
Sean, it's a pleasure to be back on your show.
Yeah, there's a lot of disturbing things taking place here.
You know, the Minneapolis Police Department was once a proud and effective law enforcement organization.
Since 2020 in the insanity of the George Floyd years, they have been diminished in every single way.
First of all, the numbers of law enforcement have diminished incredibly.
They have an authorized strength of almost 900 people.
They're down to about 600, but there's only, believe it or not, only about 256 police officers that are actually on patrol to handle this entire city.
Now, add to that, the fact that the morale is in the toilet because of the leadership here.
You know, these officers are seeing their brothers and sisters from other agencies, including ICE, CBP.
They're watching them basically in combat with the insurgency of these leftist mobs who are attacking them.
And yet they are being told basically to stand down, do nothing.
The state police, you don't even see them here under Governor Walsh.
And I have been here with a team of Wounded Blue Pure Team members doing what we can to try and alleviate some of the stress.
What goes on over a period of years with an agency that has seen the issues that this law enforcement agency has seen is demonstrable in their morale, in the fact of the suffering of post-traumatic stress.
And so that's why we are here.
But it's a very dangerous situation, Sean.
We're seeing an absolute abdication of responsibility by Mayor Fry and Governor Walsh to protect their people.
Instead, they're not only embracing the violence, they're encouraging the violence.
I've never seen a...
But the question is, why?
You know, for example, we watched 574 riots in the summer of 2020.
The media lied and said it was mostly peaceful.
My favorite videos come from fake news, CNN, and MSDNC that have reporters on the ground in whatever city the violence was taking place behind them.
You would see an entire city or a street, you know, ablaze and nothing but violence.
And they'd go on the air with a straight face and say it's been mostly peaceful.
Meanwhile, buildings are ablaze behind them.
It's insane.
We lost two dozen Americans in the summer of 2020.
They're dead.
We had 574 riots.
We had cops, over 2,000 injured.
They were hit with bricks, rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, frozen water bottles, you name it, and they ended up injured.
We had billions in property damage.
And then we had a vice president, a vice presidential candidate at the time tell Stephen Colbert, oh, the rioters aren't going to stop.
They shouldn't stop, and we're not going to stop supporting them.
Now, to me, by definition, that's insurrection.
I don't know what else to do if we're going to restore law and order.
And I keep scrolling the names of Minnesotans victims that have been murdered and raped and child molesters, you know, the people that they've been arresting.
And it's a long list.
And they're arresting the worst of the worst and they're being opposed by these lunatics.
How can they possibly do their job under those circumstances?
Well, it's exceedingly difficult and dangerous.
And, you know, the left media has portrayed ICE as going around and doing raids on restaurants and just roundups.
And it isn't even true, Sean.
They have a list of the worst people, the worst offenders that have been ordered out of this country, that have faced criminal prosecutions for murder, for rape, for all kinds of horrendous crimes.
They're not going after the individuals who are here and they're working and they're doing what they, you know, working with their families.
They're not going after those people.
But you can't tell the media to tell the truth.
There are no consequences for their lives.
And so they're ginning up this hatred, this animosity, which makes it exceedingly difficult for these officers to do their jobs.
But especially when you have the mayor and the governor and the city council here on the side of the insurrectionists.
And I don't know what else to call it either, because when you see the insanity of the hatred here and the way the I mean, I was down at the federal building the other day watching in like 10 degree weather.
It's freezing here.
And yet these individuals are standing there.
They're loud.
They're obnoxious.
They're insulting.
And then when they interfere with the ICE officers, then there's nobody there to protect those officers.
I can't even begin to venture a guess why a mayor and a governor would be stoking the flames of this type of conduct against police officers and why they don't see the benefit.
Well, first of all, why are they, you know, why do they not want these murderers, rapists, gang members, in some cases, known terrorists, cartel members, violent criminals, why don't they want them out of their city?
Why are they championing the so-called rights of people, number one, that didn't respect our laws, border sovereignty, but then also are the worst of the worst?
You know, like, for example, this one cop got in this confrontation and he shot this guy in the leg, but he had three people pounding on him with a snow shovel and with a broomstick.
What is he supposed to do in a situation like that?
He's doing his job.
I mean, they're leaving them defenseless here and somebody's going to die.
Well, there's no doubt that you're right.
There will be more violence and law enforcement.
What the public does not understand is that law enforcement officers of any stripe, whether they're federal, they're local, it doesn't matter, they not only have a right to defend themselves, they have a duty to defend themselves.
And that means that if they believe, and this is what the law says, if they believe that they are in danger of death or serious bodily injury, they have a right to use deadly force to protect themselves.
And the unreasonable accusations that have now followed this ICE officer who was struck by this vehicle, who did exactly what the law allowed him to do, and to put yourself in his position and then announce that it was a murder, as we saw Mayor Fry do, literally within minutes of this shooting taking place,
what it does is creates more divisiveness.
It is wrong.
It is absolutely legal for an officer to defend themselves.
They're going to end up getting officers killed.
And I pray to God I'm wrong, but they are creating an environment where they are allowing the inmates to run the asylum and it's spiraling out of control quick.
And that's why I will not be surprised that President Trump does, in fact, invoke the Insurrection Act.
Listen, I just have to run for the constraints of time.
Randy Sutton, thank you, sir.
We appreciate you being on the program.
I appreciate it, Sean.
And please, any ICE officer or law enforcement who needs help, 833-TWB talk, reach out to us.
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All right, so I had this big fight on Friday night on Hannity with Sri Fanadar, and he's a congressman from Michigan.
And I am just sick and tired of these people and their vile, vicious, hateful rhetoric against ICE.
In this particular case, this congressman, of course, calling for the impeachment of Trump three months into this administration.
But beyond that, I think one of the worst votes anybody could ever make is illegal immigrants that committed sex crimes.
He votes to let them stay in the country.
And all of this and more comes up in this, well, it went pretty viral interview, if you want to call it that, battle shootout that I had on TV with him on Friday night.
Let me play it for you.
Michigan Congressman Sri Thanadar is with us.
All right, just to be clear, the president's joint session speech when he honored the family of Lake and Riley, murdered 24-year-old nursing student, murdered by an unvetted illegal immigrant, and honored little Jocelyn Nungarry's family, brutally raped and murdered a 12-year-old girl.
Did you stand?
Did you give honor to that family that lost so much?
Look, Sean, thanks for having me.
I'm not there.
I don't need to say thanks.
Did you stand or not?
Did you stand to honor the president?
I did not stand because the president was just sick of the Sarah.
I did not.
You sat on your ass and you wouldn't stand for families that lost children, a 12-year-old girl raped and murdered, and you couldn't stand for them because you were playing politics.
Is that right?
I want this audience to know.
Look, I would not stand for this president.
I would not stand for this president.
He presented the story.
You were standing for the families that lost little girls that were murdered by the illegal immigrants that you want to remain in the country.
Is that true or false?
Look, look, this president was using a tragedy.
I'm not talking about it.
Riley's death.
What about those families?
Have you ever picked up a phone?
Because there are thousands of Americans that have been murdered and raped and victims of violent crime.
Have you ever spoken to any?
Have you ever called them?
Name one family.
Name one family.
Look, every immigrant, every one of you.
Have you ever picked up a phone and called a victim's family?
Look, I talked to my constituents.
Not a hard question.
Not hard.
Yeah, I do picked up your phone and called them.
Have you done that one time?
Look, I talk with my constituents all the time.
My constituents have been terrorized by ICE.
Have you ever called an American family that has been a victim murdered, raped, tortured by an illegal immigrant?
Yes or no, Congressman.
I am sure I have met people.
I am sure.
I am sure I have met people.
I'll take that as a no.
All right.
You actually said this.
And, you know, I could talk to you all night about the dumb stuff you say.
You voted against the bill mandating the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes.
Can you explain that to me?
Well, look, look, anybody who breaks U.S. laws, an immigrant that breaks U.S. laws, should be deported.
Anyone that commits exceptionally, sir, sir.
You voted against the bill that mandated the deportation of illegals convicted of sex crimes.
Do you regret that vote now?
No, I don't regret that vote.
Look, no bill is perfect.
And many times.
But if it was your wife, your sister, your daughter that was raped, that's a sex crime.
You want that person to stay?
Look, there are multiple things in a bill.
If it was your wife, sir, you got to answer the question.
If your wife, your daughter, your girlfriend, mother was raped by an illegal immigrant, you voted against the bill that would deport these illegals convicted of sex crimes.
You're perfectly fine if they stay in the country.
Sean, look, I serve in Congress.
I don't think you ever signed on, though, right?
Most of the bills.
Look, look, why did you vote?
Why did you vote for that?
Why would you allow sex crime convicts to stay in the country that entered the country illegally?
Why would you vote for that?
It was not, the bill did not just include that issue.
There were other things in the bill.
And so I cannot pick and choose.
I don't have a veto where I can strike out one portion.
So you will.
You would have voted against it otherwise.
What was the big provision that prevented you from kicking these people out of the car?
Look, I don't memorize.
I vote on thousands of people.
I don't memorize.
You don't know what it is.
Look, I do believe, I do believe that such criminals must be deported.
There is no doubt about it.
Well, you voted against it.
So obviously you don't.
I got another question for you.
In the first case in Minneapolis, where this woman accelerated her car at the ICE agent, that ICE agent was injured.
Did you know that?
Do you know what the injuries were?
Look, that do you know what the injuries were?
The only source of that information is DHS.
And DHS secretary lies.
She lied to me on my face.
You're accused.
So you're saying that the internal bleeding reports are lies.
You don't believe them.
I have seen no evidence of that.
It is only coming from DHS.
Let me ask you this.
If you're a lawmaker, do you believe in the rule of law and that a person's innocent until they're proven guilty, sir?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But look, why did you call this ICE agent?
Why did you call him a murderer?
Because there was a 4,000-pound vehicle that was being driven right at him.
Why did you call him a murderer?
Look, lots of people saw that video.
America saw that video.
Why did you say that?
If you believe in due process, why did you say he's a murderer?
Well, she was, see, her last words were, I have nothing against you, dude.
She said it in a very civil manner.
This person pulled out and then accelerated right at the officer, clear as day.
She was trying to do that.
The problem is, Congressman.
He was trying to open a wall.
I'm going to tell you something.
It's people like you and your rush to judgment and your language.
And you're defending an oh, even his own wife called him a wife beater, Kilmar Brego Garcia, your buddy.
It's people like you that don't care about the American people.
And then you attack the brave men and women.
I was scrolling all of the victims of crime, and you never lifted a phone to call one victim, one family.
You call ICE agents murderers, and they're out there.
They're putting their lives on the line.
They are arresting murderers, rapists, cartel members, drug members, known terrorists, and you have zero appreciation.
And now the threat level against them is up a whopping 8,000%.
And I blame people like you for that.
You incite them to incendiary comments.
I find it nauseating.
And you should be ashamed of yourself.
Well, look, ICE is murdering people, murdering American citizens.
They murdered an U.S. citizen, Imam, with three children.
That's not acceptable.
You know what, sir?
I see a very different tape than you.
I saw a guy whose life was in jeopardy and he defended himself.
That's the difference between us.
All right, that was Congressman Sri Panadar.
What did I get?
An A rating from Linda?
That's like, that's never happened before.
I enjoyed every minute of that.
I would love if actually you should just re-air a little piece of it every day because it was just wonderful.
Okay, every day in your honor.
Bob South Carolina.
What's up, Bob?
You're on the Sean Hannity Show.
I'm good.
Thank you for all.
Thank you to your and your staff for all the good work you guys getting all these issues out and making sure we get the right perspective on it.
I had a comment on the justified use of force in the Renee Good shooting.
Now, by the way, this congressman, I only had one person call me and criticize me for being too tough on that guy.
You know, it was Stephen A. Smith.
And I'm like, why?
He goes, because he could barely defend himself.
I mean, he's the one calling for President Trump's impeachment.
He's the one out there saying that illegal immigrants convicted of sex crime should stay in the United States.
I shouldn't hold him accountable.
He's an elected official.
No, absolutely.
You should hold him accountable.
And I think it's great that you do.
I think that these folks think that they just because they have a feeling or they say what they want, it all comes down to protecting the rights of the majority of the citizens instead of taking the other side.
Agreed.
All right.
What else is on your mind, my friend?
No, the use of the justified use of force in the Renee, a good shooting.
I think it's ridiculous that the legacy media is holding law enforcement officers to a higher standard of the law than they do those that break the law.
The other thing is in this situation, whenever you're pulled over by an officer, the law police officer or whatever, you need to give the police officer assurance that you're not, you're going to be, you're going to comply with what he does.
You're going to do with what he says.
These two created an environment of hostility.
So the police officers could not count on what they would do.
The officer in front of the car was obviously hit, but he also had a duty to protect the other officers who were around the car.
One, I believe, who had to actually pull his hands away.
And then the one in the back who, you know, we don't know what he's, what the front officer saw, but could have gotten one over.
So he had the right to defend himself, and he also had the duty.
Well, he did.
He did withstand internal bleeding injuries.
I mean, he was hit.
He was clipped.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's a 4,000-pound weapon, you know, accelerating right towards you.
What are you supposed to do?
You know, I've just had it.
And that's why I played this interview.
I had it with these people.
You know, not once do they ever mention Lake and Riley, Jocelyn Nungari, Rachel Morn, any of these people.
They don't even know the names of anybody that's ever been a victim of murder, rape, violent crimes by these unvetted Harris Biden Majorca's illegal immigrants.
They don't know what the hell they're talking about.
They're so ignorant and their priorities are so there's never been a protest by any of these lunatics, this rent a mob crowd in Minneapolis.
Never been a protest about the people in Minnesota murdered and raped and victims of violent crime.
I've been scrolling their names now for the last couple of days on TV to make people aware of what's going on.
They don't know.
They didn't stand for Lake and Riley's family.
They didn't stand for Jocelyn Nungari's family.
I've had enough.
Enough is enough.
These ICE agents deserve our support.
They're risking their lives and they are arresting the worst of the worst because we have the list of people that they've arrested.
Child molesters, murderers, rapists, gang members, other violent criminals.
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And they never mention the victims, American victims, of this unbelievable disaster that was caused by Democrats that lied to us for four years.
I'm sick of all of it.
I really am.
I've had it.
I'm at my breaking point here.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Man, the things around the world are just going crazy.
We're getting reports that a lot of radical groups now are moving in all over the state of Minnesota just for the purpose of causing chaos and trouble and confrontation.
They're going in with their manuals, they're going in prepared just to make life miserable for these ICE agents.
And all this is going to do is create a dangerous atmosphere.
And if French Fry and Timmy Walls don't budge, I don't think President Trump's going to have much of an option in terms of cracking down.
And we'll talk about whether or not you can invade a church and interrupt church services.
Is there a balance of free speech?
We'll get to that.
Also, the latest out of Iran, now they're threatening to go back to executions and assassinating all these people protesting.
And what impact will that have on President Trump?
I think the answer is probably pretty obvious.
We'll get to that.
We're going to travel around the globe.
The economic news coming in is phenomenal.
And we'll hit that and all the other news of the day.