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Jan. 23, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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Church Invasion Arrests, DOJ Action, and the Fight for Religious Freedom
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Ensuring Citizen Voting Rights 00:09:05
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If you want to join us, I see an ex-pose from Senator Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania.
It says, voting is a fundamental right and responsibility that is reserved for U.S. citizens.
Since day one, I have always supported protecting our elections from illegal voting.
and ensuring only American citizens are voting in our elections.
Now, there's something called the SAVE Act, and the bill would require individuals to provide documents and proof of U.S. citizenship when they do register to vote in federal elections.
Now, this may shock you.
It's not happening everywhere, but specifically, the bill would prohibit states from accepting and processing an application to register to vote in a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.
And that specifies what documents are considered acceptable proof of citizenship, such as identification that complies with the Real ID Act of 2005 that indicates citizenship.
The bill provides states from, prohibits states from registering an individual to vote in federal elections unless at the time the individual applies to register to vote, that the individual provides documentary proof of U.S. citizenship and requires states to establish an alternative process under which an applicant may submit other evidence to demonstrate such.
Each state must take affirmative steps on an ongoing basis to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote, which shall, by the way, include establishing a program to identify people who are not in the U.S. citizens using information supplied by certain sources.
Remember, you know, you can have a legal driver's license if you live in a sanctuary city or state that makes it seem like you are a U.S. citizen.
That would make you eligible to register in that state to vote.
Anyway, Senator Mike Lee has been a great voice on the president's agenda.
He's calling out members of the GOP, the U.S. Senate.
They're doing everything but passing the bill for whatever reason.
And anyway, nine months, there's been no action on this bill.
I don't know why.
Anyway, Senator Mike Lee, Utah joins us now.
Senator, how are you?
Doing great.
I will be much better off once we get the SAVE Act passed.
That needs to happen now.
Okay, what's the problem?
The problem is inertia coupled with what I sometimes refer to as the zombie filibuster for reasons that are increasingly indefensible.
Democrats seem to be opposed to the SAVE Act.
And so as long as we stick with the zombie filibuster, as long as we have senators saying, well, we're not sure if it can pass because we're not.
Well, explain what the zombie filibuster is.
Most people don't know.
Sure.
The filibuster is a long-standing Senate tradition borne out by Senate rules that allows for and encourages open, unlimited debate.
You can secure what's known as closure, where you bring debate to a close with 60 votes.
A lot of people artificially conflate that into assuming that you can't pass any legislation in the Senate without 60 votes.
Not really true.
It's just true, given the way that we've applied the filibuster rule and the closure standard.
Meaning there are other ways of getting to final passage on a vote without having 60 votes to do it.
You exhaust those who want to speak against it and you wait until no one eligible to speak or speaking in debate on that bill.
And then you call the question, you pass it at a simple majority.
So that's what I mean when I refer to the need to abandon the zombie filibuster.
My point is that if senators want to debate this, they should have to actually speak.
What we've been allowing them to do is be silent and for their silence effectively thwart legislation that can't get to 60 votes.
I would add here that this is a the SABE Act is like a 75-80% issue in America, and it cuts across all party lines, demographic lines that you can imagine.
There's overwhelming support for this legislation.
I actually believe that if we pulled it up for a vote, I mean, there's a chance we would get to 60.
The point is, we've got to put it on the floor, and we've got to try to get this passed.
And I think the best way to get it passed is to no longer respect the zombie filibuster, make senators debate if they're opposed to it, and make them explain why to their constituents.
Can you tell me, is there any estimate how many illegals are on the voting rolls at all?
Nobody has an estimate, but as recently as a few months ago, we were still being told by the Democrats that this never happens.
You don't need the SAB Act.
Why?
Well, because we all know that non-citizens don't vote.
Well, we don't know that.
And in fact, increasingly, we're seeing evidence that many of them do and in fact have voted.
Remember, Sean, the whole reason the SABE Act has become necessary is because Congress in 1993 passed a law called the NVRA, the National Voter Registration Act, and it's also known as motor voter.
Fast forward a couple of decades, the Supreme Court later interpreted that wrongly in my view, and over the dissent of my former boss, Justice Alito, to say that states may not, when processing an application, somebody goes to get their driver's license, all they have to do is check a box and sign their name saying, yeah, I'm a citizen.
And with my driver's license application, I also want to register to vote.
Supreme Court interpreted the NVRA to say that a state may not in that circumstance ask for any documentation, any proof of citizenship, even if they have affirmative doubts that someone is not a citizen of this country.
So that's why it became necessary in order for us to push the SAVE Act.
Now, since we've introduced it, we've gotten all kinds of evidence indicating that in many instances, non-citizens have, in fact, applied for, received a driver's license.
And under the NVRA, they checked a box, signed their name without any documentary proof of their citizenship, and they have voted.
So we don't know how many times this has happened, but we know, number one, that it has happened.
It's not all that rare.
And number two, it's going to become a lot more common unless we close this loophole immediately.
Why is it even possible that in sanctuary cities and states that illegals can obtain a legal driver's license?
How is that even possible?
How is that not viewed as aiding and abetting in lawbreaking?
No, it's crazy.
Now, I suppose if we had one of those states that issues driver's licenses to illegal aliens and we had their state legislatures in front of us, some of them might demure the whole thing by saying, well, you know, it's not really our job to enforce federal immigration law.
We're just here to make sure that we know who the driver is behind it.
The problem with that is, again, because of the NVRA and the motor voter law, make it really easy, given that there are a whole bunch of states, nearly every state is willing to issue a driver's license to non-citizens.
And a whole bunch of states, a little more than half, as I recall, are willing to issue driver's licenses even to illegal aliens, people they know are in this country illegally.
That's just unpennable to maintain that without fixing this problem.
And that's why the SAVE Act is so necessary.
So if you took a vote today, how many senators do you believe would go along with you?
Do you know of any Democrats besides, say, John Fetterman who would join you?
Okay, as to the first part of the question, I think every Republican in the Senate would probably end up voting for it.
You might have one or two no's, but we would at least be able to establish a simple majority with Senate Republican votes.
Even some who have expressed concerns in the past, when the question came up, I don't think they would vote no for it.
I think we may well, if we're all Republicans voting for it.
And I think Fetterman would join us.
I suspect there might be other Democrats who would join us.
No one knows right now that Democrats do tend to vote as a block on things that they have decided are important to their party.
But just the same, Sean, if they were to do that, it's not going to bode well for them.
Again, this is an overwhelming majority.
It's like an 8020 issue.
It's really hard to find something like that these days, where the American people overwhelmingly believe that, especially considering that it's already illegal for non-citizens to vote, we should actually make that enforceable by closing this loophole under the NVRA.
Al Gore Predictions Missed 00:10:50
And the SAFE Act is the only way to do that.
I hope you get this done.
Keep us in the loop, Senator Mike Lee.
We appreciate your time.
Will do.
Will too.
And I post radio updates on this on text at my base Mike Lee account, if anybody wants to follow along.
Mike Lee, thank you.
BusyPhones, 800-941-Sean, if you want to join us.
We say hi to Julius in New Jersey.
Julius, how are you?
I'm calling about yesterday.
You were talking about how Al Gore's predictions didn't happen.
And I'm like thinking, tell me something.
Do you take into account how variables, like I know, like how the U.S. didn't sign, didn't sign on to a couple of agreements, but other countries did, and they did follow suit, and they are investing in cleaner energy, including China.
I know we could go into this whole thing of like how they still use coal and they're relying on oil.
But at the same time, you know, they are building wind farms and solar panels for themselves so that they could use.
And maybe that's the reason why the dire predictions of Al Gore didn't happen.
I mean, the ice caps are melting.
I mean, that's the whole purpose.
That's the opening of, that's an opening reason of why they want to take Greenland.
All right, Julius, what is your point?
My point is, do you know anything at all about science?
Do you know anything about cause and effect?
Yeah.
So what's your point?
My point is, I'm asking you.
You're asking me what?
Ask the question.
Why?
I mean, I'm asking you, do you understand why the predictions from Al Gore's movie didn't happen?
Or do you think that was just off luck?
Well, we know it didn't happen.
We know he was dead wrong.
We know his predictions of doom and gloom were false.
We played all of that yesterday.
We played it on TV last night.
What's your problem?
He was wrong.
Do you know why?
Manhattan is not underwater.
Why?
You know, polar bears are not extinct.
What else do you want me to tell you?
That's a nice non-answer on your point.
I'm glad.
No, it's not.
It's a specific answer.
Al Gored made those predictions, and Al Gore has been proven wrong over time.
No, no, no.
Kilimanjaro still has snow on it.
So what's your point?
You don't do anything.
Do you understand that?
It's sort of like how the ozone layer is growing if they didn't do stuff to deal with it.
Do stuff.
Do what?
Like Al Gore flying around in his Gulf Stream?
Is that what you're talking about?
Got a heart on to hate.
Al Gore, I don't care.
I'm talking about the reasons why.
Well, the point is he has made predictions that would have happened.
Kilimanjaro wouldn't have snow.
Polar bears would be extinct.
Manhattan would have sunk into the ocean and the polar ice caps and so on and so forth would be eliminated.
And none of it came true because it all would have happened by now, according to Al Gore back in the day.
And now Al Gore, you know, heads on out to Davos.
And by the way, hardly anybody showed up to hear him, but putting that aside, and he's making more dire predictions because this is his livelihood.
Climate alarmism that is false.
You go back to the 1970s, you look at Time magazine, you look at Newsweek, the next ice age is coming.
It didn't come.
Then it became global warming, and we were all going to burn up.
It didn't happen.
And the oceans were going to rise, and literally New York City would be underwater.
It didn't happen.
Polar bears are not extinct because they don't have ice to stand on.
None of it happened.
Kilimajaro still has snow.
He lied.
He lied spectacularly because he has another agenda behind it.
That agenda is called radical socialism.
And that's what you really want to support here.
And when I confront you with the truth and the facts, you can't stand to hear it.
You can't handle the truth.
Period.
You're not Jack Nicholson.
Bring it on.
I think it was actually a pretty good imitation myself.
No, you're just.
Oh, it wasn't.
You suck.
Come on.
You're really tough.
You suck, Henry.
You really suck.
You know why?
Because I just hit you with facts and you look like a moron because you are a moron.
You weren't addressing anything I stated.
And you have bought into the climate alarmism cult and you're brainwashed and you won't accept the fact that all of their predictions have been wrong.
And you probably buy the underlying motive behind climate alarmism, which is radical socialism.
For example, don't you think that rich people need to give over more of their income to the government to give it to other people?
You support that, right?
You know what?
Billy's.
You support that.
Yes or no?
Pay taxes.
Do you support it or not?
What?
Pay taxes?
Yeah, they should pay taxes, dingleberry.
Okay.
So you support wealth confiscation.
You think every American should be equal in terms of the amount of money they have, don't you?
No, no, no.
What is wealth compensation?
I want to hear you.
You're against property ownership, aren't you?
What?
Are you so stupid?
Where am I talking?
Here I was talking about the reasons why the Arctic didn't.
No, the underlying incentive behind climate change is radical redistribution, socialism, the new Green Deal.
You support all of it, don't you?
Yes or no?
Universal health care.
Do you support the new Green Deal or not?
Yes or no?
I mean, I never read it, so I don't know.
Okay, so when you get informed, call us back.
No, no.
Okay?
Because you're too ignorant and our audience is way too intelligent on this program to deal with this crap.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Linda, I can now do this, and my blood pressure doesn't go up at all.
I'm looking at my whoop right now, and my resting heart rate is at 71.
Not bad, right?
Pretty impressive.
By the way, Linda, did you hear this woman, Rachel Ann?
I don't know how you say her last name, a cruise or well, I don't know.
Who cares?
Just another idiot with Mamdani.
Okay.
Apparently, a Mamdani mentor apologizing for liking anti-Semitic comments.
This should not shock anybody.
Listen.
So I thought I deleted a comment and I accidentally hit like and hide.
Don't know how or why I've done, I've accidentally liked comments before.
It happens.
Like, I'm a human who makes mistakes.
I would never agree with an anti-Semitic thing like the comment.
We have Jewish family.
A lot of my friends are Jewish.
I delete anti-Semitic comments.
I have proof because yesterday somebody messaged me.
There was a comment that said that.
So I said, Yes, I saw that and I deleted it because that's what I thought happened.
And then I said, I hate anti-Semitism.
And so the internet, I guess, has picked it up, believing that that's what happened.
I feel like we can't be human anymore online.
Like we can't.
And I'm so sorry for the confusion it caused.
I'm so sorry if anyone thought that I would ever agree with something horrible and anti-Semitic like that.
I don't want to say that it is okay to be human and it's okay to make mistakes.
And I'm old, so I am not as good with touching things online, I guess.
I have liked things by accident before it's happened.
And I've been like, oh my gosh, let me unlike that.
I can't believe I accidentally liked that.
Like it's happened to me before.
And my advocacy is wonderful and beautiful.
And I'm so proud of it.
And there's nothing wrong with it.
And it shouldn't be controversial to say how kids deserve to be treated.
Like everyone who knows me knows that I would never like that.
And the message shows that I said, I deleted that.
That's what I thought happened.
That was yesterday.
And my husband just came here and said, came in here and said, look what I found that people are posting.
And I was like, oh my God, oh my God, my God.
I thought I deleted that.
Okay.
If you look at the team of radicals around Mamdani, I mean, this will get interesting.
It's sad for my friends that have stayed in New York City.
And now I'm my third year out of there.
Thank God.
I got out just in the nick of time, to be very honest with you.
I'm just telling you, it is a disaster in the making.
I was telling people last night, I was on a conference call with a number of people in New York, and they're all scared to death.
They're worried about what Mamdani is doing.
And I'm like, you guys are screwed.
There's really only one option, get out.
And a lot of people can't for whatever reason.
Maybe their job is there.
Maybe their family is there.
There were a lot of years I had to stay because my kids and they needed the stability of me being there because that's where they grew up.
That's where their friends were.
But I had been wanting to get out forever before that.
I've had property in Florida, you know, for over 25 years.
And once I was able to make the move, I made it.
My kids are now down here with me.
And thank, they're not living with me, but they live nearby and they're doing great.
And I couldn't pay them a fortune to go back to New York.
They want no part of it.
It's amazing.
You know, let's go back to that last caller for a second, Linda, because they're so dumb and ignorant, these people on the left.
And they don't want to face the fact that Al Gore is just a climate alarmist that has lied and been proven a liar over and over again.
And I brought up another, a number of cases, you know, a predicting polar bears will no longer exist, that, you know, Mount Kilimanjaro will no longer have snow and the polar ice caps will no longer have snow and, you know, the earth is going to burn up and every other bizarre prediction.
White's Climate Claims 00:10:15
Manhattan, here's him saying Manhattan could be underwater.
He did this back in 2006 in his stupid book/slash movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
Here's Manhattan, the World Trade Center Memorial would be underwater.
Think of the impact of a couple hundred thousand refugees and then imagine a hundred million.
Oh, that never happened.
And by the way, it's not close to happening.
And guess what?
It's not going to happen.
And then he talked about avoiding a climate recession in Davos.
Here's what he said.
We're all going to have to be very brief.
The forum has chosen the title for this session, How Do We Avoid a Climate Recession?
We don't have a recession in the movement toward this energy transition, in my opinion.
But we do appear in many countries, not all, a climate policy recession.
How many times does somebody have to make a timeline prediction that is wrong before people stop giving this idiot a platform?
You know, there's a lot of talk about deplatforming people.
I'm not in favor of de-platforming anybody.
You can listen to whoever you want.
I would urge people to be selective in who they choose to listen to.
If you want to listen to white nationalists and anti-Semites and Nazi sympathizers, go right ahead.
But it is not in your best interest to do so, in my humble opinion.
There are certain telltale signs.
If you should be listening to a show or not listening to a podcast or whatever it happens to be, you know, if people are virulently anti-Semitic, if people don't understand the President Trump, they don't understand the might of the U.S. economy and the need for surgical U.S. military strikes for long-term national security and American first interest.
I tell you, probably that person's not that intelligent, not worth listening to, but you do what you want.
By the way, let's get to our busy phones.
What did you want to add, Linda?
I could tell you want to add something.
I can hear it without you saying it.
I'd like to actually add something to the woman who works for Mamdani.
May I for a moment?
I just want to say one thing about it.
Yes, ma'am.
So we all know, and this is me just speculating, and I want to just caveat, but we all know that Mamdani's mom was in movies and making films and all these things.
And each of these people, when they're caught, right?
And I call it caught because it's like they assume that nobody's looking at all of the things they've said posted.
When people get caught, when they get caught, all of a sudden they're crying.
They're very sad.
Like the idiot who runs the housing, she's like, I want to take housing away from white people because white people shouldn't have houses.
You know, OPS, my mom's house is worth $3 million.
She lives in Delaware.
Oh, I'm really sorry about that.
And then she starts crying.
And now this idiot is crying because she didn't know that she's reposting anti-Semitic stuff.
Like you're all full of, you know, and it's all a lie.
And we all know.
And it's infuriating to me.
Like, I'd actually be happier if somebody would say, oh, yes, we know we're blasting the call to prayer five times a day in Brooklyn and then it irritates the crap out of everybody that doesn't practice Islam.
And we know that we're stealing houses from white people and it's racist.
And yes, we do hate all Jewish people and we admit it.
Like I would actually be more comfortable if they just said it out loud so we could all hate each other and get this over with.
I can't stand the fake like, oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't, I didn't know that that was a slur or I didn't know it would offend you if I took your house away because you were white.
It's starting to get on my nerves that people are getting away with this crap.
They're actually not.
I mean, look, there is a big test this year.
And I keep saying to people, this is the most important midterm election year we will probably have in our lifetime.
Because what is at stake is whether progress that President Trump has been making on the economy on making the world a safer place continues or whether it comes to a screeching halt.
But that's why we need to say that.
God bless Senator Lee, who was on with you just ahead of time.
I agree.
I mean, God bless him.
Okay, but the point I'm making here is, is if every person listening to this show goes out and vote, and this is every person, because everyone has a congressman or a congresswoman, everybody has a senator, and you have to make a pledge in your mind now that this is too important an election year to sit it out.
And you have to tell your friends, your family, your coworkers, your neighbors about what is at stake.
And I'm hoping, I really am hoping that we defy historical trends, we win the midterms, and American progress continues at a level we've never seen before.
Donald Trump is a force of nature for good.
He's making the world a safer, more secure place.
He's making the country prosperous and a more safe and secure place.
And if people want that to continue, the only way to continue that is to vote in the midterms.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Ransom is in Ohio.
What's up, Ransom?
How are you?
I'm doing good, Sean.
Hey, thanks for taking the call.
Hey, Matt.
I was hearing on the news today that Pam Bondi wanted to arrest Don Lemon and a Minnesota magistrate, federal judge, denied that opportunity.
Just another example of how much we need these federal judges for Donald Trump because they're killing our society and they're upheading everything he's trying to do.
And I just want to hear what you thought about that.
Maybe bang the drum really loud because I know the president listens to you and talks with you.
And we need to get these federal judges for him.
Okay.
Look, let me give everybody an update on what you're talking about.
A Minnesota federal magistrate judge has refused to sign the complaint charging so-called journalist Don Lemon in connection with the protest inside that church in St. Paul on Sunday.
Three people, though, have been charged.
The Attorney General is enraged at the decision, according to a source familiar with the matter.
And the Attorney General Pam Bondi has been in Minnesota for two days as the DOJ now is seeking to surge prosecutorial and law enforcement resources there.
A different source is stressing that the process is not over.
The DOJ could find another avenue in the case of Don Lemon to charge him.
He didn't go in there and seeming like an independent journalist to me.
He went in there as an advocate, part of the group that, in fact, in my view, very clearly violated provision 247, 248 of the FACE Act.
And I'm just telling you, we'll see what happens.
I don't wish for people to get arrested, but I do believe that people should have the right to worship in peace without being disrupted and insulted the way these people in this church in Minnesota were.
And, you know, that's why we have this act on the books.
And, you know, that is the law of the land.
And if they want to violate it, then there's consequences for their actions.
Let's see what happens.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, back to our phones.
Matt in Georgia.
Matt, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean, I'm doing great.
First time, long time.
May, May Moons, Ditto Head, former Ditto Head.
Love the show.
No, you're never a former Ditto head.
We just miss Rush.
We know what Rush would want.
Rush would want all of us to engage at the highest level to save our country.
Amen.
I'm glad your resting heart rate was low after that from Canada.
My chest was just in a knot.
Honest to goodness.
But hey, I wanted to get your thoughts and understanding of something.
My wife and I are looking at home defense.
We're trying to figure out: do we want to go lethal or non-lethal?
And we're all up and down the technologies.
So my question is: on the burnout technology, if it renders a perpetrator, if it incapacitates them, renders them like immobile for a period of time, why aren't the feds using those against the rioters, the felons in Minneapolis?
Well, you ask a good question.
There's over 500 government agencies that use it and police departments.
I think you will see more of that technology used in the future.
I know more than I can talk about.
Here's my charge to you.
Stay tuned.
All right.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern, Fox News Channel.
Dan Bongino, his first interview since he left the FBI.
Also, Jim Jordan's beatdown of Jack Smith.
He'll join us tonight.
We'll have a Hannity shootout with this PETA spokesperson.
That ought to be fun.
The latest legal issues with Greg Jarrett, Riley Gaines, Katie Miller.
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