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Feb. 5, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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ICE Under Fire: When Rhetoric Meets Reality
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I don't know if you know the story.
Linda, do you know how Nancy Grace became like the premier crime person in the country?
It is heart.
Oh, one of the most heart-wrenching stories of all time.
I mean, and what she went through in a personal life and how it, you know, out of darkness, I mean, real darkness, she lost somebody she was engaged to that was murdered.
And I'll ask her about it if she wants to talk about it.
And then she's so good on the issue of crime.
It's like scary good.
If you think of like the best detectives in the country, she's right up there with them.
And she's analyzing every single possible angle as it relates to Savannah Guthrie's mom.
I mean, you know, we have new details.
It's scary.
We have the ransom note.
We mentioned that went to TMZ.
It went to a local LA TV station as well.
There is a request for a ransom to be paid for in Bitcoin.
The evidence seems to be mounting.
Pima County Sheriff doesn't know where she is.
They're looking for her.
They believe she was taken from her home against her will.
We don't know if multiple people were involved.
That's what they're saying now publicly.
I'm sure they know more than they're saying publicly, which would be standard operating procedure.
Last seen around 9.30 p.m. Saturday night when Savannah's sister dropped her at home and was reported missing on Sunday morning after she failed to arrive at church.
The problem as time goes on is she is on a lot of medications.
She has a pacemaker that was in sync with her Apple Watch and is no longer in sync with her Apple Watch.
But a 911 call when Nancy was first reported missing urgently noted she had high blood pressure, a pacemaker, and cardiac issues.
And now, you know, I mean, what does it appear to me?
It appears to be a ransom of some kind.
I mean, famous people, wealthy people.
If you look at countries like Mexico, I mean, over the years, if you had money in Mexico, you needed like an army outside of your house because they would target family members of wealthy people for ransom.
And you either paid or you lost your loved one.
And that's what it came down to.
Latin America, many of those countries, I mean, the lawlessness, I mean, is wild.
I knew, for example, somebody that came from El Salvador legally.
And this person would tell me stories how all the time, I mean, these gangs and cartel members, they ruled entire towns and cities.
And everybody had to pay.
And either you paid or you died.
And it was, I mean, I know it's not common to us, but it does highlight a lot of things for me.
And I think it really brings the reality of crime home to all of us.
And I think there's a lot of lessons we can learn that are applicable to, you know, headlines that we're talking about every day, especially as it relates to illegal immigration and the people, you know, the disaster, the most preventable national security disaster in our nation's history.
Because I mean this with all my heart.
I want Savannah Guthrie.
I had met her only on one occasion.
Couldn't have been nicer.
He apparently is a very devout religious person and doesn't mean she's perfect when you say, well, these Christians think that they're the, no.
Christians think that they Christians have been humbled, know that they have failed in life, and ask God for forgiveness, repentance to change their heart so they can be better people with the help of God.
That's simply what Christianity is.
And other people try and distort it and, oh, they're self-righteous and whatever.
I mean, maybe there are some of those people.
I have no idea.
But I really sincerely wish and hope and pray that they find her mother.
And this kind of does dovetail.
It's separate.
It's a part.
I'm not trying to politicize the issue in any way, but it does, you know, one issue can kind of highlight the issue of crime in general.
And this is what frustrates me is that, you know, we've laid out the statistics on this program and on TV, how many people in the month of January have been shot?
How many people have been shot and killed in Chicago?
And how many names do you know?
Because I think every life matters.
Every human being has their own unique fingerprint.
You know, the Bible will tell you the very hairs of your head are counted.
And the word education comes from the Latin derivative educare, to bring forth from within, which is predicated on a notion of belief that God puts talent in every human soul.
And I believe that with all my heart and soul.
And that's why when we don't pay attention and we get numb to the idea, oh, how many people were shot in Chicago this week?
How many people were shot and killed in Chicago this weekend?
It is frustrating to me because this is something that I've been highlighting both on radio and TV for over two decades.
When Barack Obama became president, we started scrolling names that Americans never heard of of people shot, shot, and killed in Chicago.
This was his home city.
And we went back and looked.
I think it was two or three.
I don't remember exactly.
In eight years as president, only two or three times did he ever mention what was going on in his home city and state.
And how is it you have mayor after mayor, governor after governor, and they don't lift a finger to resolve the issue of lawlessness and murder and shootings that are taking place every week,
every weekend in Chicago, and the same in New York City and the same in Los Angeles and the same, you know, this tends to be more prominent in blue cities and blue states, and they keep electing these same Democrats that don't put the lives and security of people first and foremost.
And then that dovetails into what we've all been discussing out of Minneapolis.
I have scrolled the names of the worst of the worst criminals, murderers, rapists, child molesters, drug dealers, other violent criminals that have been arrested by ICE because these agents have been so willing to put their ass on the line to protect the people in Minnesota, Minneapolis in particular, St. Paul in particular.
And they do that.
And the thanks they get is a rush to judgment.
We're talking really about two specific cases here.
And the thanks they get is being called Nazi and Gestapo.
The thanks they get are organized, well-funded groups that are stalking them and following them and creating as much turmoil as possible around them, preventing them from doing their job and making their jobs not only more difficult, but more dangerous because they take away the element of surprise.
And the left in this country now has adopted the mantle of defunding ICE.
And two weeks from now, we're going to have a battle over whether or not we're going to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Now, if liberals want to die on that hill, I guess I'm okay with it.
Linda, does that not sound nuts?
Yeah, it's insane, but they're liberals.
What else do you expect?
Oh, they're liberals.
You mean I should expect more from liberals?
Let me tell you what defunding the Department of Homeland Security would mean.
That would be no pay for TSA agents.
Let me interpret that for you.
That means that the airlines will have to shut down.
That'll mean no money going to FEMA.
That means emergency management money will not be available.
That will mean no money for the cybersecurity agency.
That means that makes Americans less safe and secure.
That means no pay for DHS agents running security at major events.
That means funding will be cut to our own Coast Guard.
That means funding will be cut to the Secret Service, which Donald Trump will never allow to happen, allow to have happen.
That's what their reckless rhetoric is going to lead to.
And that's where they want to take this.
And again, it's separate.
It's apart.
I think it's the right thing, to be very blunt with you.
I don't know why some cases become more prominent than others.
In the case of Savannah Guthrie, I'm glad that this case is getting the national attention that it frankly deserves.
I'd love to see Savannah reunited with her mother.
I don't want this poor woman going much longer without her medication and without the help and support.
I hope the police are closer to finding the people or person responsible and that this can get resolved.
But I also hope that every American in every town and every city in this country is safe and secure in their homes.
And the reality is evil does exist.
I tell people all the time: have a personal safety security plan.
I'm not saying it for my health.
I'm saying it because it is real.
I don't like what I'm reading, but this is where Nancy Grace is so brilliant.
I mean, she's analyzing, okay, well, there was blood found on the scene.
It looks like it's drops of blood.
It's not a lot of blood.
That tells her a lot.
That tells her that this was not, you know, somebody being stabbed to death.
And if somebody really wanted to kill Savannah Guthrie's mom, why would they not just kill them right in the house and then walk out?
So the ransom argument seems very, you know, it seems viable to me, but I don't want to be, you know, Inspector Clouzeau here.
I just hope that we get the right result in all of this.
But if you look at where we are in the country and the things that we're debating currently in the country, it is mind-numbing to me.
It really is.
It's sad to me because I don't think that we should be debating issues involving all of these unvetted illegals.
And I want to say something in this.
If you look at the four years of coverage we have had on this radio program and the four years of coverage we've had on TV and all the videos we've shown people and you see what we believe to be estimate Estimate to be around 12 million plus unvetted Harris Biden Maorca's illegals.
And among them, again, from over 200 countries.
And among them, known terrorists, murderers, rapists, child molesters, other violent criminals, gang members, cartel members, drug dealers.
And now the Trump administration inherits this.
They've got to clean up this Adam Schiff show.
They've got to clean up this mess.
And if you just think for a second and you just ponder for a second the magnitude of that job to track down and find all of these people.
And in the interim, you have all of these instances where you have sanctuary cities and states that not only protect illegal immigrants, this is what Democrats are fighting for.
You know, here they are in custody for committing crimes in our country, and they're protected by the government.
I mean, this is why I think Lindsey Graham's bill, although you would think that the laws are applicable already, you know, just codifying into law absolutely no benefits and it makes it illegal and a crime in and of itself to be a sanctuary city or state.
Because, you know, look at, for example, in Minneapolis, or Minnesota, they have 1,360 known criminals in their justice system today.
And Tom Holman is just saying, will you please hand them over?
Please hand them over so that we can take care of this issue and we can get rid of these people and make the people in our state and our city more safe and more secure.
That would be basic.
But all they've gotten is opposition and more opposition and more opposition.
And then they take it another step further.
Not only do you have these well-funded organized groups that are harassing ICE agents and obstructing in their work, but now they want to take, you know, Democrats in Washington, you know, these people are being doxxed.
We've gone over the percentage of people, you know, 8,000% threat increase, you know, over 1,300% increase in vehicular attacks against ICE agents, you know, assaults against ICE agents of a whopping, you know, 1,300%.
And then you get the insightful rhetoric of people like Tampon Tim and people like J.B. Pritzker and people like Mayor Small Fry and people like, you know, full-time Tweety Bird podcaster, author, zero show governor, Trump stalker, Gavin Newsom.
Gavin Newsome can't even balance his budget.
Why?
Because he spends all the money on benefits for illegal immigrants in the sanctuary state of California.
And this guy wants to be president.
Okay.
J.B. Pritzker wants to be president.
Any of these people want to be president?
God help us.
Why?
Because they think, oh, over time, and Chuck Schumer said this and we played it last night.
You know, Chuck Schumer said, well, you know, our goal is to make all these illegals legal.
Oh, you give something of great value.
What do you expect in return?
American citizenship, great value.
Maybe, well, if we give that to you, we expect you're going to support our party for the rest of your life, right?
Unprecedented Cooperation 00:06:39
Now, because they've been so successful in Minneapolis, and again, we've been giving you the names on radio, scrolling them on TV, the worst of the worst criminals that have been arrested because of brave ICE agents.
Tom Holman did announce that there is a drawdown of several hundred federal agents from Minnesota after the administration secured unprecedented cooperation.
This is all that they wanted from the get-go.
They created this fight for political purposes.
And unfortunately, they did so with the wrong president.
Had they just agreed to cooperate, you know, Holman said, I had a productive, I had productive discussions with state and local officials, including the governor, the attorney general, Mayor French Fry, and law enforcement officials about increasing coordination in a lawful way between county jails and ICE to avoid public safety threats being released back into the community.
We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us, allowing ICE to take custody of illegals before they hit the streets.
All right, so Tom Holman, you finally got cooperation.
An unprecedented number of counties communicating with them, allowing ICE to take custody of illegals before they hit the streets.
And he said, given this increase in unprecedented collaboration, I have announced effective immediately they're going to draw down 700 law enforcement personnel effective today.
That wouldn't have been necessary if they just would cooperate in the beginning.
And this is a word to the wise to Gavin Newsom and the people of New York State that are so hostile towards ICE.
You know, why don't you cooperate now and get these criminals that are in your, that, that are being detained by you and transfer them to ICE so that they can deport them?
I mean, what part of that is complicated?
Keeping your citizens safe and secure, restoring law and order.
Anyway, Holman said the president fully intends to achieve mass deportation during the administration.
Immigration enforcement actions will continue every day throughout the country.
And he said that smart law enforcement is the administration's goal, not less law enforcement.
I'll give you an example.
ICE issued a detainer to prevent a California to prevent California from releasing a Mexican illegal accused of raping a 14-year-old Autistic Girl.
This is in the post-millennial.
Department of Homeland Security said a Mexican national, Enrique Bautista Vasquez, has been arrested in Cathedral City, California for allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old Autistic Girl.
This should be a no-brainer.
It shouldn't be complicated.
Federal prosecutors say foreign nationals in Chicago were running a $1 billion Medicare scam.
Even as Somali-linked fraud cases in Minnesota dominate the headlines, this prosecution suggests the scope of Medicaid, I'm sorry, Medicare fraud is far broader.
And wait till we get to California.
I mean, federal prosecutors in Chicago say foreign nationals exploited Medicare and supplemental insurance systems on a massive scale, filing more than $1 billion in fraudulent claims for medical equipment, diagnostic tests that were never delivered, in some cases, never authorized by either a patient or a doctor.
They're robbing from the American people.
Democrats now wouldn't fund ICE in this deal that they made, and they gave a two-week CR, which means they're perfectly okay with what?
No pay for TSA agents?
They're not going to show up to work.
You know what that means?
Good luck flying.
No money going to FEMA.
God help us if we have a national disaster.
No money for the cybersecurity agency, because that's all under the headline of DHS.
You know, no pay for DHS agents running security at major events.
Cut the funding to the Coast Guard, cut funding to the Secret Service.
These are not options that are available here.
Linda, did you get this guy?
You sent me a letter from this guy, the veteran City Hall Chicago reporter by the name of William Kelly.
Yeah, we have it.
Okay, so apparently he asked Mayor Brandon Johnson my question.
He said, I'm a veteran City Hall reporter in Chicago.
I posed Sean Hannity's question about Chicago's murder rate to Mayor Brandon Johnson yesterday, given his exclusive fixation on ICE activities in Minnesota and how he has failed to voice any concern over murdered people in Chicago for years.
His response, well, let's play.
In Chicago since the first of the year, there have been 40-plus people murdered in Chicago since the first of the year.
What would you say to the people, the families of the victims of these shootings and murders?
Why they want to know why you're focused on federal agents who are trying to clean up their neighborhoods and make their neighborhoods safe, their streets safe?
Why are you worried about, you know, so myopically focused on the, you know, the shooting death of a citizen in Minnesota when you don't seem to care at all about the shootings and the murders of real Chicago people.
Yeah, well, look, you know, I'm multitasking.
That's what the people of Chicago want me to do.
We can do both at the same time.
You're not doing both at the same time.
You're failing miserably like every other mayor before you and every governor before you, including the current governor, J.B. Pritzker, who wants to be president.
Afghan national accused in D.C.
A National Guard shooting pleads guilty.
Prosecutors there may seek the death penalty.
ICE rearrested two Venezuelan men after a federal judge released these nationals accused of assaulting immigration's agents.
Why don't we ever hear about all the assaults on immigration officials?
A judge who blocked Trump's Haitian deportations.
Oh, look at this in the New York Post today.
Federal judge that blocked the Trump administration from deporting 350,000 Haitians donated more than 38 grand to Democratic Party campaigns.
Harvard Poll on Manufacturing Impact 00:02:57
Wow.
How nice of this person, this judge.
I keep saying, you know, a lot of times justice in this country has nothing to do with the rule of law.
It has everything to do with whether or not you have a judicial activist on the bench.
And remember, that's part of the Democrat strategy.
What they can't get done at the ballot box, what they can't get done legislatively, they try to use activist justices for.
New York's Sun, local police departments in sanctuary cities are now rebelling against Democratic mayors and governors and their anti-ICE orders.
Now, that sounds like law enforcement as I know it.
In other words, they're being told, don't help ICE agents.
Okay, that goes against the grain of every law enforcement officer I know.
It's in their DNA.
If an officer is in need of assistance, you help protect your fellow law enforcement officers.
Period, end of sentence, no questions asked.
That's the way it works.
We'll get back to this issue.
We'll check in with Bill O'Reilly and also Nancy Grace in the next hour.
I want to tell you about a Harvard poll that came out, a Harvard Harris poll.
One year into the Trump administration, a rising share of voters now saying the economy is on the right track and more say their household finances are improving.
I've told you this is going to happen.
It's just the beginning.
I was watching some pundit like two weeks ago saying manufacturing is terrible.
Okay.
Well, we do have some new numbers that came in for January.
The one economic indicator that seemed to have trouble bouncing back after four years of Biden's inflation nightmare.
And of course, President Trump now, you know, putting on steroids and human growth hormone with 100% depreciation in year one manufacturing for pharmaceuticals, for semiconductor chips, for automobiles, for rare earths, et cetera.
But one economic indicator has to do in manufacturing and economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in January for the first time in 12 months, preceded by 26 straight months of contraction.
Not only did it go up, it registered 52.6% in January, a massive increase from the month before to the seasonally adjusted reading from last December.
But what that means is all of this money, the trillions and committed monies, are now getting into and being infused into the economy, and that will directly impact the ability of Americans to get high-paying career jobs and get America's economy growing.
That's why the Atlanta Fed is smart.
A lot of people rely on that.
5.4% growth for the fourth quarter.
I can't wait to the second, third quarter of this year leading into the midterms.
Voter ID and Its Impact 00:04:18
That's why you can't rush to judgment on the midterms.
Speaking of which, I don't know if you saw this, Linda, poll shows Jasmine Crockett now leads the Texas Democrat Senate primary.
I'm very happy for her.
He's running against this guy, Tallarico, well liked among Texas Democrats.
So Crockett is well known.
Crockett now viewed favorably by 69% of Democrats and only unfavorably by 8%.
I want her to get the nomination.
I'm voting for her.
What do you think?
Really?
I am surprised to hear that.
Why do you want her to win?
I want her to win the nomination.
Pay close attention.
Keep up.
Copy.
Got it.
Why do you want her to win the nomination?
You think she's going to get her butt kicked?
How many master's degrees do you have?
I'm just asking a question.
I'm making a conversation.
This is a talk show.
Am I not allowed to talk to you?
You can talk to me all you want, but I'm asking, how many master's degrees do you have?
I have two.
The audience knows.
So, okay, so what is the conclusion?
Why?
Answer your own question.
Why I want her to be the Democratic nominee?
If I wanted to answer my own question, I never would have turned my mic on.
Anyways, I know you wouldn't have to.
What do you think my answer is?
I got your ass kicked, but you know, I just thought it would be fun.
Well, I wouldn't have quite said it that way, but in essence, yes, that's my position.
She's going to lose and lose spectacularly.
You know, Democrats now are trying to die in another hill.
Defund dismantle Nobel.
They want to defund ICE.
They voted against the largest tax cut in history, and in doing so, voted for the largest tax increase in history.
They are beholden to the climate alarmist religious cult.
And now Chuck Schumer is saying about the SAVE Act, which is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
All this requires is voter ID.
Even fake news CNN pointed out 80-some-odd percent of Americans across all demographics in the 70s or higher, you know, Democrats, 71%, African Americans, Hispanic, they all support voter ID.
They don't want illegals voting in our elections.
And voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls, you know, partisan observers in every precinct watching the voting all day, the vote counting all night.
What's wrong with any of that unless you want to cheat, unless you have nefarious intentions?
That's another dumb issue that they're out of touch with the American people on.
By the way, the Clintons are now demanding that they be allowed to testify about Epstein in public.
I'm all in favor of that too.
They can do whatever they want.
Make it public.
Because I don't think anybody, you know, I want to hear Bill's explanation for the hot tub pictures, the pool pictures, the many plane rides, you know, all with pretty young women and Donald Trump, who threw him out of his club 25 years ago.
Let's compare and contrast.
That's why, you know, anyway, huge majorities of both Democrats and Republicans support voter ID.
Let me give you the numbers.
I was looking for it when I was talking about this.
But anyway, they went all the way back at fake news CNN, where 75% of Americans supported voter ID.
Now it's 83% of Americans support it.
71% of Democrats support it.
95% of Republicans support voter ID.
Minorities all support in the 70s or 80s voter ID.
You know, do they, and if Democrats, there was an article, Issues and Insights had this article.
Do Democrats think they can skate on the issue of defunding ICE to win an election?
Because if they do, it's going to backfire spectacularly.
You know, look how much people, everybody's so invested in the law, you know, Savannah Guthrie's missing mom, who we're praying for.
But people don't like Americans being victims of crime.
Period.
End of sentence.
They just don't.
Swalwell in the hot seat after spending over 200 grand in campaign cash.
You know what he's running on, Linda?
He's running out there in California on I'm going to take away the licenses of ICE agents.
Iran Talks Collapse 00:01:49
Okay.
So ridiculous.
He's such a moron, it's actually scary how dumb he is.
It's true.
Now, we do have some Iran news that I want to share with you.
I think this is important.
Now, apparently, Wall Street Journal is reporting that Iran is now playing hardball with the U.S.
Okay, here's the problem.
Oh, by the way, one last thing: 61% of illegal immigrant households now are on welfare, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
Can you believe that?
61%.
And Washington Post is having massive layoffs.
President Trump has now canceled talks with Iran scheduled to take place on Friday.
Linda, how many master's degrees do you have?
Two.
What do you think?
How do you interpret that?
Because there's only one way I'm interpreting that.
Buckle up.
The president promised help.
He promised help, and I believe the president is a man of his word.
Plans for Iran talks have collapsed.
Apparently, they've gotten very angry.
The Iranians and think they can push Donald Trump around.
And, you know, if you look on the World Front, we had Sergio Gore, the ambassador to India on.
Now, because of that negotiation, now India's prime minister agreed to buy American at much higher levels and will not be buying Russian oil.
Oh, all good stuff.
Everyone's worried about the midterms.
I'm not there.
We've got 10 months to go.
Economy.
Oh, and a Native American tribe did respond to Billie Eilish.
Now that she admits she lives on stolen land, I think she should give it back.
Don't you, Linda?
I do.
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