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It's 800, 941, Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, there was in Axios yesterday this idea, this posture that Democrats are taking publicly, and that is that they want to abolish ICE.
They're demanding Christy Noam get fired, that a whole list of conditions, you know, to get beyond the short-term two-week continuing resolution for funding the Department of Homeland Security, which funds FEMA and a whole variety of government agencies that matter and would impact probably every American on levels you can't even begin to think of.
But that is the posture they're taking publicly.
The Axios report says there are two things that are putting a great deal of fear into Democrats.
They don't want to be on record, number one, supporting sanctuary cities in states, which they already support.
They're already on message, Gestapo Nazi fascist, and have no problem with inciting language and insightful language and with dehumanizing ICE agents that have been out there risking their lives, arresting, as we repeat, often known terrorists, murderers, rapists, child molesters, drug dealers, gang members, cartel members, et cetera.
And over 700,000 deported in an entire year of the first year of Donald Trump being back in office.
That makes our towns more safe and secure.
And that brings back law and order, which is unbelievable.
The other thing they don't want to deal with is an up and down, up or down vote on the issue of whether illegals can, in fact, vote in elections.
71% of polled Democrats think that voter ID is appropriate.
It's in the 80% for Hispanic Americans and African Americans and 91% among Republicans.
Now, it's simple, basic election integrity.
Both Republicans and Democrats over the years have claimed there's been a lack of integrity and outright fraud.
Stacey Abrams, Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side.
So it's an issue that they say they care about, but it's very basic.
If you want integrity in our election system, you should have law.
You should have voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls, partisan observers in every precinct in the country.
They watch the voting all day, the vote counting all night.
I don't think voting should go on for weeks and weeks in advance of an election.
I think you should make exceptions for the elderly, the infirmed, for the military.
And that's about it.
And when those ballots are mailed in, they should be on a camera surveillance 24-7.
And, you know, you have the vote counting online.
If I had my way, I'd also have paper ballots.
Democrats don't even want voter ID.
Chuck Schumer calling it Jim Crow 2.0.
But polling does suggest, there's a new Pew Research poll that 95% of Republicans, but also 71% of Democrats like this idea.
So why do you not?
It's Jim Crow 2.0.
And I called it Jim Crow 2.0, and the right wing went nuts all over the internet.
That's because they know it's true.
What they're trying to do here is the same thing that was done in the South for decades to prevent people of color from voting.
For instance, if you change, you're a woman who got married and changed your last name, you won't be able to show ID and you'll be discriminated against.
If you can't find a birth certificate or a proper ID, you'll be discriminated against.
This is vicious and nasty.
And I said to our Republican colleagues, it will not pass the Senate.
You will not get a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
We're not reviving Jim Crow all over the country.
I mean, it is outrageous that he would make that statement just for voter ID.
But if they want to be the party that wants to defund ICE, wants no voter ID, voted for the largest tax increase in history.
Republicans voted for the largest tax cut in history.
They voted against cutting taxes for working men and women on tips and overtime.
They worked against seniors getting no tax on Social Security.
They're the party that thinks it's the cost of democracy to pay higher gas prices, energy prices, the lifeblood of our economy.
That's what Kamala Harris famously said.
You know, the party of defund dismantle, no bail, reimagine the police.
I'll take these issues head on every single day of the week.
Anyway, joining us now to discuss all of this, Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Scott Pressler, founder of Early Vote Action, two of the loudest voices, if not the loudest voices, getting the word out to the American people about the SAVE Act.
Anyway, Senator Mike Lee, good to have you back.
Let's start with you, Jim Crow 2.0, to have voter ID and have election integrity so people have confidence in the results.
This is absurd.
Look from the party of Jim Crow to call this Jim Crow.
You've got to have an ID to pick up prescriptions, to board an airplane, to go to the doctor, to get a hunting or a fishing license.
You've got to have a photo ID to get something out of your bank account.
Every human endeavor these days seems to require it already.
There are good reasons why we require that because fraud happens.
It happens in our banking system.
It happens with prescription drugs or health care or whatever else.
So it's a part of life.
Now, to call that Jim Crow is really disingenuous.
It's also insulting to the whole lot of people that he's claiming simply can't be expected to have ID.
That isn't true.
This is just sort of race baiting by Chuck Schumer.
It doesn't make any sense.
Oh, that's something we both know happens every two years and every four years.
However, the overwhelming 80% of African Americans, Hispanic Americans agree that voter ID should be mandated so we can have integrity in our voting system.
Scott Pressler, why do you think the Democrats would double down on another 80-20 issue when they're on the 20% side?
The Democrats are petrified about having safe and secure elections because they know that our Congress and our Senate would look much different today if we had secure voting.
We look at Minnesota.
We broke the story that this is according to the SOS.
Sean, one registered voter in Minnesota can vouch for up to eight other persons without an ID.
So having a trust me bro election system in Minnesota is the reason why it's been blue even since Mondale.
And in Michigan, we have non-citizens that are on the voter rolls and we have record of them voting.
In California, we had two members of Congress, Steele and Duarte, that lost their respective congressional elections in 2024 by fewer than 1,000 votes.
It's simple.
The Democrats care more about power than people, and we are working tirelessly to move forward with the Save America Act.
Now, Senator Mike Lee, I don't think that Chuck Schumer is accurate.
I think Chuck Schumer is going to lose people like John Fetterman.
Do you see any other Democrats going our way on this?
And, you know, do you see an actual vote happening?
Look, if it's going to happen because it has to.
We're going to insist on it.
We're going to demand it.
So as President Trump, I spent several hours with President Trump yesterday on this.
He is as determined on this as I've seen him on any other legislative matter.
We are going to have a vote when this thing gets put on the Senate floor.
And when do we debate it?
I hope we are ready and willing to enforce the talking filibuster.
If senators want to filibuster it, they must have to speak.
Once we do that, and I believe in any event, once we cast votes on this, it's a lot easier said than done for Democrats to say, well, I don't like this.
Why?
Well, because we know that the Trust Me Bro arrangement that the Democrats have arranged is a problem.
And we know that it's indefensible.
And we know that this bill, the Save America Act, is overwhelmingly popular.
It's hard to find anything these days that unites, you know, three out of four Americans.
Some would say four out of five Americans.
Either way, these are very high margins and they stretch across regional demographics against party registration, all kinds of things.
This is popular.
So I believe in the end, I'll be surprised if we don't get at least some Democrat support.
But I believe that we've got to be prepared to put this on the floor and enforce the talking filibuster so that we don't simply defer again and again every time to Democratic obstruction without them having to work for it.
We can't give them the prize if they're not willing to earn it.
Oh, I agree.
Now, what is the process, Senator Lee?
Because I'll ask you, you're in the Senate and you know process as well as anybody.
Do we need a 60-vote threshold to get an up or down vote on this?
The way we've been doing things for the last few decades, people anticipate that you would.
Now, cloture hasn't always been filed, but the filing of cloture has become far more common in recent decades.
The way it used to work, both before we adopted the cloture standard, that's the means by which you take a supermajority vote.
Currently, it's at a three-fifth margin or 60 votes.
You can bring debate to a close, even if there are a few senators who want to continue debate.
You can force it that way.
You don't used to have to have that vote.
You would instead operate on the basis of what we refer to as exhaustion and consent.
You eventually can get people to consent to teeing it up for a vote.
And one of the ways that you get there is you work by exhaustion.
If people want to delay the bill's progress toward a vote, if they want to continue debating it, they may do so, but they have to actually stand on the Senate floor and speak and take their turn one at a time speaking.
Eventually, they grow tired of doing it.
In some cases, they can exhaust their right to speak.
It is each senator during one legislative day may give a maximum of two speeches on the same distinct legislative proposal during the same legislative day.
And a legislative day can be drawn into multiple calendar days.
And this is one of the ways that you enforce the talking filibuster.
The fact that we haven't done this in a long time doesn't mean that it's not completely compatible with our rules.
It is.
It doesn't mean it couldn't work.
I believe it would.
It just requires more effort on our part and on the part of those who don't want the Save America Act to pass.
But fortunately, the American people are with us.
Let's get your take, Scott Pressler.
Yes, I need the people to take action right now.
Everyone that's listening to the Sean Hannity show, please, members are at their offices right now.
Call 202-224-3121.
That's the Senate Capital Switchboard.
And here are two acts that I have of you.
Call your senator, let them know your name, your zip code that you're a constituent of the senator.
And you're asking them to co-sponsor Senator Mike Lee's Save America Act, which is the proof of citizenship plus photo voter ID.
And then part two, for the 36 senators that are already co-sponsoring this act, ask them to make a public statement that the Save America Act must be brought to the Senate floor for debate.
The exact process that Senator Mike Lee was talking about.
We are very close to getting this legislation passed.
Chip Roy's mirroring bill is going to be voted on as said by Mike Scalise, Congressman Scalise, this next week.
And then let's bring it to the floor in the Senate.
This has President Trump's approval.
This has 80-20 support.
There is no reason why we can't secure our elections and get this passed into last.
And I will say that if we had 100 Senator Mike Lee's, our country would be secure overnight.
So we thank you, Senator, for all the work that you're doing to secure our election.
Well said, Senator, we do thank you very much for everything you're doing.
And Scott Presley, thank you to 800-941-Sean, our number.
you want to be a part of the program.
Keeping an eye on Chuck and Nancy and their minions.
John Bones.
Kathleen is in Minnesota.
I'm so sorry to hear that, especially with what you're living through.
Thanks for checking in.
How are you?
That's exactly why I'm calling you, Sean, because what we're living through in Minnesota.
And I've got a list of hot things on my list.
And to coincide with everything you've been talking about, the first thing on my list is the voter fraud that goes on in Minnesota.
Because you know, Obama dumped 70,000 Somalians here.
Then we got Omar.
Omar has the largest illegal, fraudulent voting scheme than any place across the United States.
And Somalians in other areas of the country, as I understand, are trying to replicate it.
And this is what they do.
They drive around Minneapolis, pick up all these Somalians in their vans, take them to the polls, register them same day.
Of course, voter ID in Minnesota is not required.
They register them at the same address as though they all live in one apartment building or one apartment themselves.
And then they all vote Democrat.
And that's how we get Walls and Frey and Ellison and all these people running our state of Minnesota and they're running us into the ground.
And I'm so frustrated with it.
I mean, my husband and I doorknock.
We were Trump Force 47 captains.
You know, I'm involved politically.
I'm a leader.
But, you know, we that live in the rest of the, well, we're only 15 minutes from downtown Minneapolis and 10 minutes from downtown St. Paul, but the outer skirts of Minneapolis or of Minnesota is Republican.
But everything that's, everyone that votes, it's got all this voter fraud going on in Minneapolis and St. Paul with the Somalians, and they're the ones that carry the vote.
What I don't understand is it's well known.
So why isn't something done about it?
It's not going to be done there.
Well, it's going to be done in spite of them.
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Maybe that's a better way to put it.
There's going to be, you know, there are going to be people held accountable.
I actually believe this time that people will be held accountable because the amount of money we're talking about is just astronomical.
We had Ozan later earlier in the program today.
And I'm, you know, the idea that 80% of kids in Minnesota, in the Somali community, are autistic is complete BS.
You see that, you know, 80 plus percent are on some welfare of some kind is, you know, unbelievable.
John Solomon had reported, you know, piles of cash being taken by, and by the way, known by TSA out of the country, millions and millions of dollars.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
And we get into, when we get into Illinois, California, New York, it's only going to get worse.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Thanks for checking in.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
By the way, we're going to get into this tonight.
I have both Kash Patel and Pam Bondi.
Remember when Benghazi happened, Ambassador Stevens and others lost their lives?
Remember the reaction of Hillary Clinton when she was asked about what difference does it make at the Benghazi hearings?
With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans.
Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk when Nighter decided they'd go kill some Americans?
What difference at this point does it make?
Now, I mean, such callousness is beyond any comprehension.
You know, we ended up, there was a CIA annex very closely related, very in very close proximity to where this attack was taking place.
They knew inside the annex that something was going down, and rightly, brave agents armed, prepared, they were ready to go.
And they were ordered to stand down.
And they're like, Paul, I've interviewed these guys, great guys.
And then they went back and they're like, they need our help.
Something's going on here.
They're under attack.
We've got to go help out our fellow Americans.
Stand down.
It's, you know, lives could have been saved.
You know, and it's just, it goes against anyway.
They eventually left and risked their entire careers in doing so.
And anyway, so they made this announcement today.
The U.S. arrested this guy, Zubair Al, how do you say his name?
Bagaus, alleged to be one of the leaders in this 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
The Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and U.S. Attorney Janine Pirro announced the arrest today.
And this guy will now face American justice on American soil.
That's how much difference it makes.
We'll ask Kash Patel about it.
We'll ask Janine Pirow about it tonight on Hannity.
And then here's Pam taking a shot at Hillary Clinton over her idiotic comments.
Hillary Clinton famously once said about Benghazi, what difference at this point does it make?
Well, it makes a difference to Donald Trump.
It makes a difference to those families.
And 14 years later, it makes a difference to law enforcement who made the difference in this case.
Thank you, President Trump, for supporting all of our agencies around the country and around the world.
Finally, there's going to be some justice for all the victims that died that day.
All right, 800-941, Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Noel is in Long Island, New York.
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What's up, Noel?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Happy Super Bowl weekend.
Happy Super Bowl weekend, Sean.
It's Noelle.
Yeah, so I was listening to you guys last night and I heard you going back and put the window.
I actually agree with Linda.
I think air fires are the best thing.
I actually mean fires.
Okay, I'm sure they're fine.
Let me ask you a question, serious question.
When's the last time you had McDonald's french fries or Wendy's french fries?
I have kids, so you can't really go based on that.
Okay, so the thing is, now, be honest, because when my kids were younger and we'd go to McDonald's and I'd get them their chicken nuggets or their quarter pound of a cheese, my son could eat like everything.
He'd have a quarter pound of cheese, a fish sandwich, two large fries.
You know, he'd go crazy.
And to this day, he can.
And he's fit, but he doesn't eat that way anymore.
He eats very, both my kids are very healthy.
But the point is, when you get in the car and they, you go to the drive-up window and you take the food and you're handing it back to the kids.
Do you or do you not slip a couple of fries in your mouth?
No, I don't because I don't like them.
Okay, that is impossible.
Everybody loves McDonald french fries.
They're delicious.
I'll even take time to put extra salt on it.
I'm saying it Linda's way.
Salt.
No, but she's right.
They don't taste the same.
They don't taste good.
So you get better and you get more calories from something that tastes like crap.
It doesn't matter if I'm going to eat potatoes, which I don't eat regularly.
And I'm going to have a French fry.
I want a good one.
I don't want an air-fried fry fry.
Yeah, you know what a good one is.
They taste nice, crispy, healthy french fry.
No.
Actually, let's reset.
Have you ever had an air-fried fry fry?
Okay, when did you have that?
Because you don't own an air fryer.
Actually, I do own an air fryer if you want to know.
No, you don't.
You're so full of crap.
I swear.
I can take a picture of it.
I do.
Okay, take a picture of it.
I want to see it.
It's in my kitchen.
I mean, I'm not going to.
What do you want me to do?
Go home and take a picture of it now?
I do, actually.
I want to see it tonight.
Noel, let me just say this.
You know, there have been times occasionally late at night, I'm exhausted and I'll order food that I shouldn't eat.
And I've ordered McDonald's, quarter pound of a cheese, frying a coke.
Very rare.
Or if I'm on the road sometimes, I'll eat food that I normally wouldn't eat.
And when I eat those McDonald fries, they're so delicious.
Wendy's french fries, so delicious.
If I can get a White Castle, you know, belly buster with some fries, delicious.
But it's not what I eat every day.
You know, I'm pretty disciplined in my eating.
That's how I keep my beautiful figure for TV.
But I'm pretty disciplined in how I eat because I want to be healthy.
I want to, you know, stay at my healthy weight, but they taste great.
On Super Bowl Sunday, I think you should try McDonald's this Super Bowl.
How's that?
Something, well, let me tell you something.
I've actually, I'm from Long Island.
I've never had White Castle.
I won't do it.
Oh, good grief.
I don't know how you do it.
I don't know how people eat that.
It is so delicious.
I get double burger, extra onions, extra cheese.
Nope.
You go though, because I know you got it.
And extra pickles, too.
All right, Noel.
Thank you.
Appreciate you.
800, 941, Sean.
You want to be a part of the program.
So, all right, you said your family's getting together on Sunday.
Okay, I don't want to get into the whole football thing because you're driving me up a wall.
I'm watching this game.
I want to see the Patriots win, period.
So, but the point is, you're going to be cooking this Sunday.
All right.
You say you're going to be making spinach dip, air-fried French fries.
No, You don't miss one.
You're going to have brunch.
I said if I'm having brunch, those are things I would make if I was watching a game.
But we watch college ball.
That's what we watch.
But for Sunday, we have two birthdays in our house.
So we're having a birthday brunch because it's in between the kids' games.
So we're doing a brunch and I'm making all the things that you have in brunch, which I think is a very nice thing to do.
Well, I occasionally go to brunch near me and it's a buffet and it's got, you know, baked ham and prime rib and eggs any way you want them.
It's got seafood.
It's got crab legs and crab.
But that's not brunch.
Brunch is when you get to have breakfast for lunch.
No, that is breakfast.
That's what brunch is.
I get onions.
Here's what I get.
You eat onions at breakfast?
Oh, yeah, every day.
Oh, my God.
Grilled onions.
Lovely.
I hope you got a lot of toast.
With grilled asparagus chopped up with grilled broccoli chopped up and a little bit of jalapeno peppers and two eggs over medium.
And then I get either prime rib or ham, and that's my breakfast.
Uh-huh.
Well, that sounds more like dinner to me, but all right.
I mean, listen, potato potato, you do it, rocks your socks.
But as far as I'm concerned, breakfast is French toast and indoctrinated your family into eating crickets.
No, I haven't.
My first of all, I've been in the studio with you, and thank God you're in Pennsylvania and I'm in Florida.
I'm not eating brushes in the studio with you, watching you eat that disgusting Linda Blair exorcist projectile vomit, disgusting green kale puke that you drink, or the orange puke drink that you have.
What is that made out of?
Wash?
Carrots, carrots, ginger.
Yeah, carrots.
Sometimes sweet potatoes.
Depends.
Sometimes sweet potatoes.
Okay.
And those things are good for you.
Just imagine the exorcist projectile vomit scene and imagine that puke green or puke orange mess.
And that's that's what it looks like to me.
Listen, that's not you.
You could throw up from anything.
By the way, kale is inflammatory.
How stupid is it to have kale?
You used to love kale.
You used to bake kale in the oven and put salt all over it.
No, I never made kale chips.
Yes, you did.
Baby James.
No, it is not.
You're slipping.
You are going totally Joe Biden.
That lightning storm is coming in big time.
I have never liked kale.
Sweet baby.
I watched you eat.
Kale chips.
You, by the way, you introduced me to kale chips and I went, no, and then you made them at home and you like them.
And I never made a video.
No, I never made a kale chip in my meat ever.
Oh my God, you so never.
Kenny and Indiana.
What's up, Kenny?
I like creek fries myself, but you know what kind of fries you like?
Indiana.
Crick fries.
What are they?
Slice up potatoes.
You slice up potatoes.
Put bacon, onions, salt, a little salt and pepper, wrap them in aluminum foil.
You can cook them on a grill or bake them in the oven.
All right, Kenny's in my camp.
Kenny's a real man.
He's a real guy.
No, he's not using oil.
He's wrapping it in foil with bacon, which has natural, you know, moisture for the past.
You can put butter or any kind of oil on it.
He didn't, I didn't say butter.
I said oil.
I'm asking, do you put anything on it, Kenny?
You can put butter on it, but mainly we just put a lot of bacon on top of it.
And oh, you don't even know.
See, most people don't understand, but being the chef that I was at 13, I can tell you the key to cooking perfect meat is moisture.
The moisture can come from either olive oil or avocado oil.
Or bacon and crick fries.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See that?
You know how you learned something new today.
How about that?
All right.
How do you like your bacon cook?
I like you.
I bet you like it crispy, don't you?
No, I like it a little soft.
Okay, how do you like it, Linda?
Crispy, right?
I make it crispy.
I make it on the grill.
Okay.
I like undercooked bacon.
Oh, bro.
Lightly cooked bacon is what it's called.
This is some Silence of the Lamb stuff.
I'm out.
Oh, my gosh.
Last word, Kenny.
We'll give it to you.
Anyway, I called in about the Save Act.
A little update on that.
It's easy to get a photo ID.
A little backstory.
My ex-wife left me and my son when he was 18 months old.
I was a single parent for a long time.
She started trying to come back into his life and wanted to take him on vacation with her when he was about 10 years old, somewhere in that neighborhood.
I took him, his birth certificate, and went to our local license branch in Indiana and got an Indiana state-issued photo ID for a 10-year-old.
So when Chucky Schumer says it's too difficult, he's thinking people are stupid or imposing that people are stupid and they're not.
A photo ID is simple to get.
Well, I mean, honestly, it's pretty remarkable to me that, you know, you need a photo ID.
You get pulled over by a cop.
You go, you get a passport.
You go through TSA to get on an airplane.
I mean, it's used in every aspect of our life.
It is not where, you know, and now on this issue, they're turning it into racism because it's voting.
The only reason I can think you don't want voter IDs, signature verification, all the things I talk about all the time is that you have nefarious intentions.
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And that is you don't want honest elections with integrity so everyone can have confidence in the results.
Everybody should agree on this.
As a matter of fact, most Americans do.
It's another 80-20 issue they're on the wrong side of.
Anyway, my friend, I do appreciate the call.
Have a great Super Bowl Sunday, you and your family.
And one day I'll cook for, maybe one day I'll do a big cooking extravaganza.
We'll do a cook-off, Linda.
How's that?
I'll tell you what, that will go viral.
Go viral.
I'm going to win.
We'll go air fryer to air fryer.
And we'll have like a, you know, I'll make like a buffet.
You make your own little buffet with your little spinach dip and your kale shakes and your carrot shakes and your air-fried french fries versus my french fries.
You're done.
It's over.
Game set match will continue.
All right.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
All right.
We have big news today as it relates to another major arrest for Trump's DOJ and FBI.
The Benghazi terrorist suspect has now been extradited to the U.S. Kash Patel, the FBI director, Janine Piro, U.S. Attorney for D.C., will join us.
We'll update you on Nancy Guthrie.
All coming up Setty DBR, 9 Eastern, Hannity on Fox.