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Jan. 23, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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Trump Takes Davos: Greenland, NATO, and the Global Power Shift
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Peter Navarro's Contempt Case 00:03:47
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By the way, nine Democratic lawmakers voting with Republicans in the House Oversight Committee to advance a resolution to hold former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying his subpoena to testify before the panel.
The House panel voted in a 34 to 8 split to advance the resolution to the House floor.
It also voted to advance a resolution to hold former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt for the same reason.
That passed 28 to 15.
Now, it's a very simple decision you have if Congress subpoenas you and they're demanding that you testify.
You have every right to go before that House committee and plead the fifth, and then you walk out of there and they have no legal recourse at all whatsoever.
The Clintons chose not to, you know, avail themselves to that option.
If you go back just a couple of short years ago, the same decision was made by people like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, and they were held in contempt of Congress.
And the Attorney General at the time, the idiot Merrick Garland, decided to prosecute both of them, and both of them spent time in prison.
Peter Navarro in his 70s, it's horrible.
He's been on this program talking about it.
And they did it because they believed in the principle of executive privilege and the right of a president to get advice without having those advisors one day have to explain everything that they said to a president.
Look, if you are a presidential advisor and you're giving the president advice and one day you have to explain to the entire world and Congress what advice you gave a president, you're not going to feel uninhibited in giving the advice you believe you need to give a president.
There's a reason we have executive privilege.
And Peter Navarro sucked it up and he stood on principle for constitutional reasons.
I admire him for it and he paid the ultimate price.
I mean, they put him in shackles.
They put him in handcuffs.
They threw him in a jail cell.
I mean, this happened to far too many innocent people.
But if that's the standard that Democrats used, why would it not be applied to the Clintons?
If that's the standard that they want, and if that's going to be the punishment for people that are held in contempt in Congress, the Clintons had every opportunity to go there, and all they had to do was plead the fifth, and they could have walked away.
That's all they needed to do.
They chose not to.
Now, I've seen a lot of pictures.
All these Democrats, and I'm really pissed off at some so-called conservatives too.
They're usually fair weather conservatives.
They're convenient conservatives.
They are not historically loyal Trump supporters, not really as MAGA as they want to appear to be at this particular moment in time when things are going well.
They're fair weather friends, and it's frustrating because these very people, you know, they come and go.
NATO's Wake-Up Call 00:15:48
I call them grifters and, you know, convenient Trump supporters, et cetera.
It doesn't really matter.
But I'm just telling you, at this point in time, we do need equal application of our laws.
You know, do I think that if you go to Congress and invoke the fifth, that that is an honorable thing to do?
I actually, I'm fine with that.
I have no problem at all whatsoever.
By the way, we have new statistics out.
And one of the most remarkable achievements, we had Kash Patel on TV this week in history, in the history of the American presidency, the U.S. homicide rate under President Donald J. Trump has now dropped to its lowest level in 125 years.
So when you walk away from defund, dismantle, no bail laws, reimagine the police, and you enforce the laws of our country, guess what?
You keep Americans safe and secure, and you restore law and order, which means that is a prerequisite for the pursuit of happiness, and it actually works.
Anyway, murders fell 21% last year in 35 large U.S. cities, according to Axios, the biggest one-year drop ever and likely the lowest rate since 1900, according to Axios review data that they're showing.
Just amazing.
You know, this week it was the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump being president.
You just think of, you know, where were we one year ago when Joe Biden was president?
Incoherent, out of touch, dazed and confused, mumbling, bumbling, stumbling.
You know, the political coverage.
Look, some of the political players and some of the let me ask a rhetorical question.
No, I will.
Anyway.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Our borders are now closed.
There's no longer, you know, unvetted illegals coming into our country.
Criminal, illegal aliens are being deported in massive numbers.
Voluntary deportation because of incentives by the Trump administration has been a tremendous success.
You look at the crime rate, you look at the FBI statistics.
I mean, imagine this: 197% increase in arrests by the FBI under Kash Patel and up till recently, Dan Bongino.
It's remarkable.
You know, they have a top 10 most wanted list.
They got five of the top 10.
One more this week.
A remarkable achievement.
Now we have criminal illegals.
That means, you know, we have known terrorists in the country because of Biden, Harris, Mayorkas.
They are being deported.
They're being found.
They're being discovered.
It's going to take forever to finish the job, but they're doing their job.
They're trying to do their job in spite of all the obstacles that are put in place by radical leftists, and they're getting it done.
And then you look at what the president has done on the world stage.
He's played a role in peace around the world in nine separate regions, starting with, I mean, India, Pakistan is a big deal.
Cambodia, Rwanda, Vietnam.
I mean, all over the world, the president has involved himself and used the leverage of the desire for access to our economy as a leverage point to bring peace around the globe.
And he's trying to do even more.
That's what this whole Greenland play is all about.
It's about long-term national security, geopolitical security against Russia and China, the world's top geopolitical foes.
And, you know, and this is why Europe is so impotent and dumb and stupid and ridiculous.
As I reflect on a lot of the takeaways of the president and Davos and his speech, it is more historic and more profound than I think most people, you know, understand.
And, you know, I was saying this in the lead up to the president going to Davos.
I said, you people, I can't believe after 11 years of Donald Trump being on the world stage, you have no comprehension or understanding of him because if he says one thing, the left just bubbles and fizzes like Alka-Seltzer in water and they just freak out because it's Donald Trump.
That is their go-to reaction and response.
But, you know, then the president goes there and he says, no, he's ruling out the use of force in Greenland.
And, oh, thank you.
Thank you, God.
Oh, thank Jesus for all of this.
And then he makes a deal with NATO that, in fact, the U.S. will, in fact, take control of Greenland.
The U.S. will use its military might to protect the world.
As the U.S. now develops its golden dome, it will be deployed in Greenland.
It will protect Europe.
It will protect the people of Greenland.
It will protect the United States.
And it will be a strategic location for national security and national defense for many years to come.
Oh, thank God.
He's rolled back the threat of tariffs.
I mean, this is by the way, why the tariff issue before the U.S. Supreme Court is so important because this president uses it as leverage for national security negotiations.
And anyway, so the president did, in fact, talk about the emerging deal that would involve the Danes with the golden dome and mineral rights.
He added that it would lock the U.S. into a permanent relationship with Greenland.
And the president, you know, went into a long lecture that Europe is heading in the wrong direction.
And if you look at European policy on, frankly, unfettered open borders and immigration without assimilation, it is a self-inflicted, you know, burgeoning disaster.
And you can see it in the form of Sharia courts that have emerged in Great Britain, no-go zones in parts of Europe, etc.
The fact that they have embraced radical socialism, Marxism, redistributionism, it is killing Europe's economy.
The fact that they've adopted climate alarmism as a big part of their agenda and windmills over the lifeblood of the world's economy, which is natural gas and coal and oil.
It's a form of suicide over time and just a financial disaster for Europe.
And he's talking about the American dream and how they really, if they were smart, they would duplicate what it is that we're doing here because the U.S. is seeing economic change we've not seen in decades.
And we're now seeing the benefit of all of this.
The Atlanta Fed predicting 5.3% GDP growth, which is spectacular.
I mean, you think about the inflation rate under Joe Biden over his four-year period.
It was nearly 6%.
It was in the fives.
You know, under Donald Trump, we're now at 2.6%.
Inflation now at a record low.
Interest rates now at a record low.
Gas prices at a record low.
I mean, reversing everything that Biden has done the last four years.
You see trillions in committed manufacturing investment money accelerated by 100% depreciation in the one big beautiful bill that they passed.
You see the president opening up the lifeblood of the world's economy, energy in every way, fashion that he possibly can.
That is now benefiting every American right now.
You have states now that are selling a gallon of gasoline for under two bucks a gallon.
Most states are under three bucks a gallon.
That never happened under Joe Biden.
Kamala Harris famously said it's the cost of democracy.
Well, lower gas prices means that impacts everything you buy at every store that you go to.
So between lower gas prices, inflation, and now the president's economic plan kicking in.
And that means for working class Americans, no tax on tips, overtimes for elderly Americans, senior citizens, that means no tax on Social Security, included in the largest tax cut in American history.
And you combine all of these forces together, trillions in committed monies for manufacturing, energy dominance, the largest tax cut in American history.
Yeah, there's a reason why, and deregulation, there's a reason why, you know, the third quarter of last year, we had 4.3% GDP growth, and now the Atlanta Fed is saying they're expecting 5.3% GDP growth for the fourth quarter.
I mean, I can honestly see GDP growth, you know, hitting 7% at some point this year.
And he's trying to go to Europe.
He went to Davos, delivered hard truths to the assembled, you know, elitists in Europe who need to be reminded of what a disaster their policies are causing their own continent, and then give them a stark reality check that without the U.S. being a part of NATO, without access for them to the U.S. economy,
they are dead in the water and how much they need the U.S. economically, how much they need the U.S. also for national security and defense.
And when he said, okay, I'm not going to invade Greenland, oh, thank God.
Okay, now you can have it.
It's sort of like Europe, you know, had a collective, you know, temper tantrum when Donald Trump first said they got to pay more than double what they're paying for their own national security through NATO.
But then they paid it.
And when Donald Trump said, you're not going to abuse American citizens anymore with your unfair tariffs, and they balked and they whined and complained, and then they agreed to pay tariffs to us.
Similarly, they were complaining about Donald Trump and standing up to Donald Trump over his knowledge that Greenland is strategically important against our top geopolitical foes.
Well, now all of a sudden he can have it because he said he's not going to invade it.
They needed this wake-up call.
I don't know if they're going to fully embrace it, but it doesn't matter what they do because we're going to prosper in spite of it all.
It's all up to them.
So, I mean, it just was shock and awe.
I don't even know any other way to put it to watch Donald Trump take on Europe and excoriate them.
You know, the president said that the fireworks for a future deal with NATO over Greenland would include access to mineral rights for the U.S. and its European allies, as well as collaboration on the Golden Dome missile defense system.
If you look at the geopolitical importance of Greenland, it is so strategic.
And especially with China and Russia knocking on the door, remember, Vladimir Putin and President Xi, without the U.S. and the might of the U.S. military, they don't really respect NATO nations.
They don't view them even as opposition.
They don't view them as a geopolitical threat.
And this is where Europe as a continent has failed and failed spectacularly.
They have given up on real national security and defense.
And it's, you know, when the president said many of you would be speaking German or maybe a little Japanese, it's funny in the sense that, you know, all good humor is rooted in the truth, but he's not wrong.
And the U.S., you know, came to the defense of Europe.
You know, honestly, Winston Churchill, I think, you know, such a heroic figure, historical figure, preserving Western civilization in his time.
And as Reagan reminded us, you know, but we are one generation away from extinction.
Freedom is.
And Winston Churchill would not let up.
He was unrelenting in pursuing and knowing and understanding that America's involvement in World War II was imperative.
And when he finally got the opportunity after what happened in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor, he went to the White House.
He would not leave until he got a commitment from FDR that American help would be on the way and it would save the continent of Europe.
And in fact, we did.
And we did it at great sacrifice.
The American treasure, you can see it on display in Normandy and Americans slamming the beaches of Normandy to help Europe survive at that time, their great weakness.
But to just go back, before the president left on that trip on Monday, I think it was Monday, and the president was asked at, maybe it was Tuesday, when the president was asked at this press conference, what are your plans?
Are you willing to invade Greenland?
He goes, you'll see.
And then he goes and he gives this speech as he did in Davos and says, no, I'm not going to invade Greenland.
And anyway, the Secretary General of NATO, he said in a post on Truth Social that we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic region.
The solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the U.S. and all NATO nations based upon this understanding.
I will not be imposing the tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February the 1st.
Additional discussions are being held concerning the Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland.
Further information will be made available as the discussions progress, blah, blah, blah.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, which is what he always says.
But top NATO officials reveal the details of this stunning meeting with Trump that produced this framework.
Because after the president announced the framework and it was agreed upon, the NATO Secretary General telling Fox News, the U.S. forcibly taking control of Greenland from Denmark was not discussed.
However, the issue, he said, while that didn't come up, he was very focused on what we need to do to make sure that the huge Arctic region where change is taking place at the moment, where the Chinese and Russians are more and more active, how we can protect all of that and the framework that has been agreed upon.
Greenland's Long-Term Strategy 00:00:47
And, you know, that was the focus of their discussions.
And, you know, I know that Greenland was not on most people's radar, you know, a month ago, but this president is thinking long-term and strategically about geopolitical configurations and about America's long-term national security interests.
I can tell you right now that the odds that the Golden Dome will be deployed during the Trump years are probably pretty low.
Israel's Missile Defense Revolution 00:02:18
Maybe it will be the technology will be in its infancy, but it will be his legacy.
It will be his initiative.
It will be his drive.
It will be the fact that he got the ball rolling.
I mean, when you watch the conflicts, I don't care if it's in the Middle East and the Iranians firing 2,000-pound ballistic missiles into Israel and Israel's missile defense system taking them all out of the air or most of them out of the air or all of the, you know, thousands and tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of missiles fired into Israel from Gaza, from Lebanon, from the Houthi rebels.
And, you know, you watch, I mean, it almost looks like the simulations that the legacy media mob made when Ronald Reagan proposed strategic defense, they labeled Star Wars to mock it.
But had Reagan not done that, a lot of this missile defense technology would not exist today, and Israel probably would have been wiped off the map without it.
And it took America, and we created the first missile defense system.
We shared it with Israel, and it has, I've said for a long time, it's a band-aid, but now the next generation of missile defense is going to be far greater.
I already have spoken to a lot of national security experts and defense experts.
I mean, they're going to be using lasers to take missiles out of the sky.
And there's not going to be an ability of any foreign entity to fire a missile into the U.S. without it being shot down.
It's just not going to happen.
You can see the beginning of the next generation of warfare unfolding before your very eyes.
You see it in the Middle East.
You see it with Israel and their conflicts with enemies surrounding them from all sides and how they have been able to fight back by keeping these, very damaging weapons from ever landing in their territory.
Updates On Church Invasion 00:07:29
And it's only going to get more sophisticated, and it's going to keep the world a safer place.
Eventually, I would imagine that we'll be able to stop any missile from landing anywhere in the world.
We have some updates as it relates to the situation on the ground and the invasion of this church in St. Paul over the weekend.
Federal authorities now have arrested a third person, one of these anti-ICE agitators when they storm this church service in St. Paul.
Harmee Dillon will join us at the top of the hour.
She's with the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
We'll talk to her about it.
Pam Bondi has been on the ground now for the last 48 hours, and she just arrested a third person.
The FBI director says these people are being charged with violating the FACE Act, which prohibits, and we've gone over this in detail, provisions 247 and 248 with interfering with the exercise of religion at a place of worship.
And anyway, that announcement has been made, and now a third arrest has taken place as well On the issue of Don Lemon, a Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign the complaint charging, you know, he's calling himself an independent journalist, Don Lemon, in connection with the protest inside the church.
Let's go back to what happened.
And again, you go through the FACE Act.
It's very, very clear.
And in terms of what the restrictions are, and Keith Ellison's interpretation of it is insane because the law itself bars conduct that injures, intimidates, or interferes with a person seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.
And there are other federal statutes that likewise can be applied by the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, and I'm sure they're going to pursue it.
Now, Keith Ellison tried to make the case, and he's just wrong on the facts, that it really was only designed to protect abortion clinics when the statute expressly extends to places like of religious worship, making it a federal crime to prohibit all these things from happening.
As it relates to Don Lemon, the Attorney General is enraged at the magistrate's decision, according to a source.
But let's go back and listen, and we'll get into this in more detail at the top of the hour with Harmee Dillon from the DOJ.
But let's remind you of what was being done to people whose only crime was they were trying to practice their faith and exercise their First Amendment to freedom of religion.
Rene Good! Rene Good!
Rene Good!
Rene Good!
Shame! Shame on you!
Where are you?
Where are your people?
Why are you not at Whitble every day fighting for the humanity, standing for our people?
Where are you?
You drink your coffee, you got your jewelry, you have your nice clothes, but what do you do?
What do you do to stand up for your Somali and Latino communities?
I'm not going to comment.
You have no comment.
you 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 is a preacher?
Did Jesus wear a suit?
Did Jesus profit off the words?
No, Jesus would die with anybody.
Do not touch me.
Touch me again and see what happens.
You are a fake Christian.
Why are you not standing within your Somali and Latino communities?
Why do I not see you out at Whitbull every day protesting this attack on humanity?
Where are you?
You're sinners.
You're pretending to be Christians.
But we know you live an easy life, don't you?
A very easy life while people are starving.
Shame.
This is now the face of the radical left in the country.
Don Lemon, well, he claims that he is an independent journalist.
That'll be up to the courts to decide.
But he sounds like an advocate and part of the group and part of the organization with his commentary.
But I'll let you decide if you think that.
Listen.
This is the beginning of what's going to happen here.
When you violate people's due process, when you pull people off the street and you start dragging them and hurting them and not abiding by the Constitution, when you start doing all of that, people get upset and angry.
And if you remember what the civil rights movement was about, the civil rights movement was about these very kinds of protests.
For some reason, in our modern era, people think that in order to have protests, you got to be, you know, cordoned off to a certain area.
And, you know, what time you can protest.
There's nothing in the Constitution that tells you what time you can protest.
You can protest at any time.
That's the whole point of it, is to disrupt, to make uncomfortable.
And that's what they're doing.
And that's what I believe when I say everyone has to be willing to sacrifice something.
You have to make people uncomfortable in these times.
If you see how uncomfortable people, uncomfortably, and how harsh people are being treated on the streets, you have to be willing to go into places and disrupt and make people uncomfortable.
Oh, that's except there are laws that protect people's right to worship.
That's going to be problematic for them.
Interesting moments.
Jack Smith on Capitol Hill today.
We'll play some of this later in the program.
He says he stands by his decisions as a special counsel and he would prosecute Trump based on the same facts today.
Jim Jordan just tore him to shreds today.
And he went through the history of Jack Smith's activities.
And then he specifically, remember Cassidy Hutchinson?
She was a hearsay witness.
And meanwhile, they had on record the driver.
Remember, the narrative was that Donald Trump tried to commandeer the vehicle that he was being driven in and forced that vehicle to drive to the Capitol.
The driver said it never happened.
So instead of using that testimony, remember in the predetermined outcome primetime hearing, Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, and of course their records have been destroyed.
We don't know where they are.
But Jim Jordan just laid into Jack Smith if he thinks Cassidy Hutchinson was lying about lunging towards the steering wheel a story.
She was not there.
And he gets Jack Smith to say that he would have precluded Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony because it was hearsay and slammed Jack Smith over him considering even using this woman as a witness, even though everyone knew she, he said, was lying and wasn't telling the truth.
Good Moments Ahead 00:00:24
She wasn't there.
She doesn't know.
And Lance Gooden was amazing today.
There were so many good moments.
We'll play that for you coming up.
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