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Jan. 21, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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What Is the FACE Act?
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Don Lemon Attacks White Christians 00:12:44
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When you look at the law of the land, it is very, very clear.
The FACE Act, it's a federal crime to use or threaten the use of force to injure, intimidate, or interfere with a person trying to exercise their First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.
The Attorney General in Minnesota, Keith Ellison, denies anti-ICE protesters that stormed that church and harassed those parishioners, did anything wrong.
They, in fact, did intimidate.
They did scare.
They did scream at parishioners trying to exercise their religious freedom at the church.
Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi, and others, Harmee Dylan, all say the same thing, that we're investigating this as a civil rights violation.
You're not allowed to stop people from worshiping, intimidating them, or impeding them.
That would be a crime.
And then it raises the question of Don Lemon's role in all of this.
Now, he claims like so many others, again, fired from fake news, CNN, that he is a citizen journalist.
Okay.
Let's listen to Don Lemon attacking white Christians.
And you ask yourself, does this sound like an objective journalist to you?
I think people who are, you know, in the religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy.
I do understand that I'm the biggest name there.
And I'm also, as I was on with my producers this morning, you know, you and Kylie talk all the time.
My producers were saying, I said, how did I become the face of this?
And my producer said, Don, you're a gay black man in America and you have a platform and you're the biggest name.
Of course, you're going to be the person that they single out and they're going to make the headline because it plays to their base and their base is full of racist, bigot, bigoted homophobes.
Racist, bigoted, homophobe, Nazi, fascist, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
It just goes on and on.
No, that's not the question.
The question is a matter of law.
Now, as you move on, then he goes on with Jennifer Welch, some radical leftist podcaster describing the churchgoers as entitled white nationalists.
Okay, these are Christian people on a Sunday that would like to go to church.
And most Christians, I know they're misunderstood.
Usually to be a Christian, you have to admit that you're imperfect and that you have sinned and that you are humbly asking God to change your heart from the Latin means repentance and become a better person.
But this is how the left describes Christians all the time.
Listen.
So that is one of those white evangelical churches that turn out to vote for Donald Trump, 80 plus percent of that sect of Christianity.
These are the don't tread on me folks.
These are the people who feel like America is for Americans and American only.
These are white nationalists.
And the DOJ got their panties in a wad because these protesters went straight to them and addressed their hypocrisy.
You, a gay black journalist, are, I mean, prime bait for them to drum up these charges.
But so that's one issue.
You went right into the most entitled white nationalists there are, and they feel that ICE is 100% justified.
Okay, let's listen to the people that invaded this church and were screaming at parishioners in the middle of a church service.
As you can see, all these pretend Christians, all these comfortable white people who are living lavish, comfortable lives while children are dragged into concentration camps.
You're living real life, nice lives with your lattes, doing absolutely nothing for your Latino and Somali brothers and sisters.
You come here to a man wearing a suit as a preacher?
Did Jesus wear a suit?
Wow.
Anyway, here to get into the legal aspect of all of this is Fox News legal analyst, our friend Greg Jarrett, is with us.
But if you look at the FACE Act, it, by the way, was passed in 1994, intentionally injuring, intimidating, or interfering with or attempting to injure, intimidate, or interfere any person by force, threat, or force, or physical obstruction exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.
Seems pretty clear to me, Greg Jarrett, but you're the legal expert, not me.
Well, it fits like a glove, doesn't it, Sean?
Not only the FACE Act, which is 248 in the criminal codes, but the Companion Act, which is 247, which criminalizes obstructing free exercise of religious beliefs by intimidation and threats and harassment, which is exactly what happened.
On top of that, I would throw in trespass, disorderly conduct, disturbing a religious meeting, which were normally state crimes.
Look, Don Lemon could be prosecuted as a willing participant.
He committed trespass.
He appears, as you and I discussed last night, to have embedded himself in the mob.
He knew full well what they intended to do, commit those crimes I've described.
And, you know, calling yourself a journalist, that's not a defense.
And the First Amendment is not a shield.
And, you know, when you listen to Lemon on his church videotape that he recorded as it was happening, he argues, wrongly, of course, that he has a constitutional right to be there, as well as the thuggish group.
They do not, as I've explained.
And Lemon's statements not only show a stunning ignorance of the law, but an intent to break the law.
And by the way, ignorance is not a defense.
I mean, Lemon admits they intended to interfere with the religious worship and obstruct the service.
And then Lemon actively did just that.
He participated by confronting the pastor, confronting parishioners with contentious questions.
Well, that's interference, as the laws describe.
All of it is highly incriminating.
Then to make matters worse, he further incriminates himself by claiming, and you played the clip, that the church worshipers are entitled white supremacists, which somehow justifies the attack on them.
And of course, he resorted to his standard lie that the only reason he's being criticized is because he's black and gay.
I mean, this is a guy who seems determined to prove that he's a complete dope, and he's succeeding.
Don Lemon's entire career is composed of one episode after another where he says shockingly stupid things and acts like a moron, which is why he got fired from CNN.
He's a pompous, pretentious, obnoxious person.
He will shamelessly do just about anything for attention.
And now, of course, it's coming back to haunt him with potential criminal charges.
And if he had a good lawyer, the attorney would have told him to put a sock in his mouth because he's only digging the hole he's in deeper and deeper.
What I find amazing about this is he's trying to claim that he has some type of First Amendment privilege.
But yet, I mean, you hear all opinion in everything that he's saying there.
Why do you think there is this hatred, this contempt, this judgment even of people that are just practicing their faith?
Look, I was raised Catholic.
I'm a non-denominational Christian.
My faith is very important to me.
And fundamentally, to be a Christian, and this is just basic understanding of it, and it's not that complicated.
And I think that people purposefully distort what it means to be or want to be a Christian.
It means that you first have to admit that you're flawed, that you are false, that you have sinned, and that you want redemption, you want forgiveness, you want repentance.
Repentance, as I said from the Latin, means to change your heart.
It means you want to be a better person, and you believe that you are sanctified through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
That's what Christianity is.
It is getting on your knees and admitting you're a piece of garbage and that you want God's help to become a better person.
I don't know why that somehow that narrative got turned into, oh, they're a bunch of sanctimonious, self-righteous, proselytizing, you know, entitled bigots that are white nationalists.
How did that happen?
Well, it's reverse racism.
I mean, you know, Don Lemon is the racist here, raging against white people because they were exercising their First Amendment constitutional right to freedom of religion, freedom to worship and practice their own faith.
And, you know, people like Lemon see the Bill of Rights and our Constitution as really just a convenience.
They embrace it when it's convenient for them politically.
But, you know, they are more than happy to see it violated if that also extends to their political beliefs.
And, you know, that's what he did.
You know, Don Lemon, you know, violated the law on numerous fronts.
And, you know, there's an investigation already underway.
Look, the people who did this, I guarantee you, they will be prosecuted.
And, you know, the FBI is there.
The DOJ is there.
They're going to find all of these people and they're going to prosecute them.
And if convicted, they'll throw the book at them.
And, you know, it could be Don Lemon who shares, you know, a jail cell with some of the people that he joined on Sunday.
Well, I guess they'll have his champions.
I think that at this point in his career, I don't think most Americans, I think most Americans are like me.
I think they're fairly libertarian.
Nobody cares.
Most Americans are not racist.
99% of them are not.
Are they racist?
Yes.
Do conservatives view them as ignorant and idiots and naive?
And by the way, that's not very Christian of them.
Yes, we do.
Do most people really care what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom?
It's none of our business.
Nobody cares about any of that.
Why does he always bring up that identity politics thing?
Oh, because it's the canard that he loves.
He loves bragging that he's both black and gay, and therefore, if you dare to criticize Don Lemon, you are, to quote him, racist, bigoted, homophobe.
And, you know, of course, all of that is nonsense, but, you know, he wears that on his sleeve for all to see, and he uses it as a defense for every act of stupidity that he engages in.
And, you know, you're only attacking me because of this.
No, we're attacking you because you violated the law.
We're criticizing you because you embrace a double standard at every turn.
And, you know, Don Lemon should keep his mouth shut, as I said before.
Hennepin County Conundrum 00:07:10
He should lawyer up and try to figure out how to get out of the mess he put himself in.
I don't know if he can at this point.
I mean, what's Don has done, right?
Yeah, I mean, you know, I could just see the conversation he is either going to have with a lawyer or already has, in which the lawyer said, you know, you incriminated yourself in more than one videotape.
You know, you not only showed your president's presence there, but, you know, you were joining in, insisting that, you know, we have a right to be there.
And of course they don't.
You know, read those two statutes, 247 and 248.
The latter is the FACE Act, and it makes it abundantly clear that you can't do what they were doing.
And there are criminal consequences for doing that under the FACE Act.
And by the way, Keith Ellison, who said, oh, the FACE Act has no application.
It's only about abortion clinics.
Well, that's sections one and three.
Keith, you might take the moment to read section two, which is about houses of worship and how they're protected.
But of course, Ellison has his own woes because he's under investigation for pay-to-play by virtue of leaked discovered audio tape with the Somali fraudsters.
So, you know, he's in legal jeopardy.
Unbelievable.
Incredible times we're living in.
And we appreciate your great analysis.
Is there anything about the law you don't know?
I mean, I think you're probably one of the most informed lawyers out there today.
And we appreciate your analysis and always sharing it with us.
Greg Jared, thank you so much for being with us.
Always happy to be with you, Sean.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Quick break, right back.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Let's head to where the world is paying a lot of attention, Minnesota.
Paul is standing by.
Paul, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
How's Small Fry, French Fry, your mayor, doing?
How's Timmy Walls doing?
Well, luckily, I live two hours north of Minnesota and don't have to deal with those clowns, Sean.
You know, I wanted to talk about Don Lemon and all the rest of the leftists doing what they do.
The Constitution only allows the Department of Justice to move the venue for a grand jury or a trial if it's a conspiracy charge.
It's really frustrating listening to these people talking about the FACE Act that we should prosecute.
This is Hennepin County that we're talking about, Sean.
You'll be very lucky to get an indictment, but if you do, the chances of you getting one leftist on that jury are very good.
And they're going to, it's just like the guy in Seattle that was charged with him just recently for ramming an ice vehicle.
That's what these juries are going to do.
Pam Body needs to go ahead.
Look, they've already admitted there's money in it.
They don't even have to accept the money for it to be part of a larger conspiracy.
They have to move this out of Hennepin County if they're going to have any hope of prosecuting these people, no matter what.
Well, remember, it's a federal crime.
I'm not sure the jurisdiction or the makeup of the federal judges.
I would imagine the area being what it is, that they're probably liberal.
But with that said, that doesn't negate the obligation that I think the DOJ has in the Civil Rights Division to go forward and prosecute.
I just, you know, what they did to the people in that church is unconscionable.
And I'm sick and tired of people getting away with everything.
And, you know, look at what they did to Donald Trump and look at the venues that he had to face.
I mean, Donald Trump is never, ever going to get a fair trial in New York ever.
If I lived in New York, I would never get a fair trial in New York, ever.
It wouldn't happen.
I can't.
And I just recognize that fact for what it is.
And unfortunately, the judicial system has been weaponized.
Liberals, what they can't accomplish at the ballot box, what they can't accomplish legislatively.
They try to go through activist, judicial activist judges, and get it done that way.
I mean, it's been a long-standing practice of theirs.
Yeah, I would just encourage the Justice Department to keep their powder dry and go after the conspiracy charges.
Charge them all with conspiracy, move the venue, get them out of Hennepin County.
Yeah, I don't disagree at all.
By the way, I'm sorry about all you're living through.
Have you and your family thought about maybe, you know, getting out of Minneapolis and getting out of Minnesota?
No, like I said, you get outside of the Twin Cities, Sean.
I live two hours north.
This is Trump country.
As soon as you get out of the cities, within 15 minutes, you're seeing Trump signs.
This is all concentrated in that sewer known as St. Paul and Minneapolis and spilled over into St. Cloud.
All the Somali crap, all the leftist ICE agitating fools.
We don't have to deal with that up here.
Thank God we don't.
There are great people in Minnesota.
I love the fact that Minnesota loves hockey.
I like that part of Minnesota.
I like your part of Minnesota, but you're right.
Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Twin Cities.
It's sort of like New York City.
You got this densely populated island that dominates the politics of all of New York.
In California, it's Los Angeles and San Francisco and Oakland.
They dominate the politics of California.
You know, there are very conservative parts of California.
If you look at the map, it's mostly red.
If you look at the map of New York, it's mostly red.
It's only deep blue in these densely populated urban areas.
And, you know, I mean, when you're talking about, you know, 11 million people on one island, that's a lot of votes you have to overcome in more rural areas.
It's difficult.
It's just sad.
I mean, you have just pathetic people.
And I think what they have done, these elected officials in Minnesota, you know, everything from the Somali fraud scandal to, you know, inciting and encouraging people, you know, to battle and confront ICE the way they have.
And that's Timmy Walls and, you know, Small Fry, your mayor over there.
I mean, it's a disgrace.
And if one of these ICE agents gets hurt, I'm sorry.
If they get killed, they're going to have blood on their hands.
Trump's Greenland Gambit 00:06:09
I blame them.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate it.
Thank you for the call.
Appreciate you being with us.
Back to our phones.
Let's say hi to Jim in my free state of Florida.
Jim, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, I'm doing great.
Thank you.
So let's talk about Greenland.
Trump, I believe, is pushing very hard right now to get Greenland because I think he wants out of NATO.
And I think he wants to get it before he makes and plays that card.
It's just too much money.
He needs to fund the Golden Dome.
And with regards to NATO's security, he's already told them, listen, if you guys need us, we'll be there for you.
The Cola Peninsula, for one of the reasons why we really need Greenland, the Cola Peninsula is really, really heavily armed.
If you go over the pole, I used to fly the Rivet Joint RC-135 as a crew member, the Air Force plane, and I spent some time up in that neck of the woods.
You've got the Plasesk Missile Space Center right there, Vercuda.
There's a number of different air bases and threats there.
It's all going to come right over Greenland.
If you take a look at the polar projection map, which finally people are finally starting to talk about rather than just looking at a Mercator map, that polar projector map shows everything coming out of that Cola Peninsula, coming right over top of Greenland.
And I spent seven years in Europe, and I missed a lot of holidays, lots of Christmas, lots of Thanksgiving, protecting them.
It's time to come home.
I like to say, Yankee, come home.
So that's my thoughts on it, Sean.
Well, I think you're right on the money in as much as I think that the president understands that NATO without the U.S. is a paper tiger.
I mean, he had to, you know, force them, will them to up their fair share of NATO spending and defense spending.
And without the U.S., there is zero fear from Putin, zero fear from President Xi.
And the problem with Europe is Europe now has gotten weakened.
They have gotten soft.
They have gotten woke.
They've become DEI.
They have had unfettered immigration.
They've become so liberalized that even Great Britain has 85 Sharia courts throughout areas in Western Europe.
They have no go zones.
And they're allowing societies to live separately within their own country rather than enforce assimilation demands on people that want to live there.
And as a result, I think it has weakened these countries.
I can tell you right now from my perspective, I just don't have any faith in the NATO alliance in terms of their ability to contribute much to us.
I think it's us contributing to them.
And I think because the president has so little faith in them that he sees, rightly so, as presidents before him have seen, the geopolitical importance of Greenland.
And, you know, I suggested last night that, you know, and the president had mentioned this.
And remember, everything with President Trump is a negotiation that he offer every person in Greenland.
If you actually look at the people in Greenland, they're not exactly living high on the hog.
I mean, I guess for Greenland, maybe it's a good salary.
The average, you know, the average income, annual income of people in Greenland, I think is about $60,000 a year.
And of that, $10,000 comes in a welfare payment from Denmark.
But Denmark cloaks itself in virtue.
But I talked about last night and on the show yesterday, they have dark chapters in their history with Greenland.
Thousands of native-born women in Greenland were secretly implanted with IUD devices by Danish doctors, and they never apologized about it until December of 2024.
Now, that's pretty sick and disgusting and repulsive to me.
And I can't believe they actually got away with that, but that's what they did.
I think if the president makes them an offer they can't refuse, first I would say, how about Greenland independence?
And then Greenland can choose.
And I think their best decision and what would be in their best interest and what is in America's best interest, especially if they can't rely on NATO.
And if the Italian prime minister wants to look at the U.S. as an enemy of Europe, okay, good luck without us.
But if Greenland were to partner with the U.S. and they can get a payment to do so, and then America would have the unique ability to tap into their vast natural resources and they could profit and benefit on a very high level that probably every person in Greenland, all 56,000 of them, will be multi-millionaires by the time all is said and done.
So I think it would be in their best interest to do so, national interest to do so, but we'll see.
Yeah, and Trump has another card here in that if he threatens to leave NATO, they may say, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, I'll tell you what, we'll give you Greenland.
Don't leave.
It's like the horse's head.
Make them an offer they can't refuse.
Anyways, making my calls.
All right, Jim.
Appreciate it.
Quick break right back to our busy phones, 800-941-Sean.
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All right, back to our busy phones.
Toll-free, it's 800-941-Sean, if you want to join us.
Rod is in Kansas.
Rod, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Gig, Sean, I'm doing great.
A couple of points, but Greg Jared basically covered a lot of it.
Investigations And Frustration 00:03:11
I mean, with regards to the church tax and lemon.
But my overriding point is, is that we have illegals attacking the federal law enforcement with shovels, doxing, Omar.
The list just goes on and on.
And what I want to know, and I don't know whether you can do this or not, but all we hear is about investigations.
Then there's a one or two day news cycle and then nothing, no follow-up, no updates.
And it's just really frustrating.
I know the legal system is slow.
And you had the guy that talked about, you know, New York and the St. Paul, Minneapolis area and the issues there.
But I just would like to get some clarity from Pam Bondi as to how we're going to deal with all this because it's all over the top.
You explained it, Jared explained it, et cetera.
Well, I think that the Civil Rights Division, we know for a fact, has people on the ground.
The FBI has people on the ground.
I'll get an update tonight on Hannity from Kash Patel, the FBI director.
I know that Harmee Dillon, the head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, is on the ground and her people are on the ground.
I think they're taking it seriously, and I think they will move swiftly.
I hope so.
I know a lot of people over time have been disappointed that we talk about these things and they don't get done.
But I would imagine that Tim Walz is in legal jeopardy and legal trouble.
And I think these people that, in fact, violated the FACE Act, I believe they violated the FACE Act.
Time will tell.
I think there should be swift justice for them.
But, you know, let's wait and see.
I was just going to say, even just look at the Minnesota Statute 609.713, threats of violence.
I mean, none of those people have gone to jail.
I mean, again, I know there's no clear answer to this, Sean.
And I appreciate all that you do, especially your testimony.
And I just pray to God that we can get some action because I think people are just at their wits' end with regards to all of, I mean, just go back three, four, six months about all the investigations, and we don't hear anything about what they did or how it came to be.
So that's my thought with Bondi is to get, you know, some stuff of some information with regards to what they've done with some of this old stuff.
I know a lot of this is new, but anyway, thanks for all you do, Sean.
Well, thanks for giving me this microphone every day and that camera every night.
And we'll continue the fight every day.
I think this is a very critical moment in American history.
And I keep telling people, I think this is the most important midterm election year in our lifetime.
And I think that everybody has got to understand the stakes are high.
All progress will stop and this country will come to a screeching halt.
Show Up in Force 00:00:58
And we'll see nothing but, you know, rage and a divide in the country that we don't need.
And I'm hoping that, you know, we get to the bottom of all this and we prevent it from happening.
And the only way that's going to happen is if all of you make the commitment now that you're going to vote in this midterm election, that you're going to make this the most important midterm election year in your lifetime.
And the only way to prevent these radical leftists from getting control is to make the vote too big to rig and get out and vote and show up in force and shock the world again.
That's the only way we prevent them from doing what we know they will do, impeach, impeach, impeach, and stymie any and all progress.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend, 800-941-Sean.
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