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Feb. 7, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Price America Pays for Denial
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Parental Rights Under Siege 00:14:56
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If you want to be a part of the program, it is infuriating to me that we spend more per capita on education per student in this country with some of the worst results.
We historically come in 39th, 40th, reading, math, et cetera.
And when you think of the amount of money spent per student and what a waste it is, you just have to scratch your head.
And how can you institutionalize mediocrity at best?
And that would be charitable, but really institutionalize failure at such a high level.
I mean, you have states like New York that spend, you know, more per capita than 98% of states in the country.
Same with California with some of the worst results.
Then you look at my free state of Florida and don't get mad at me.
Some people write, oh, Hannity's always talking about how great Florida is.
Well, they have some of the lowest taxes in the entire world, less per capita spending per student, and they're usually one or two in terms of test scores, standardized test scores for students.
And you wonder why.
One of the things that infuriates me, while they're not educating our kids, they are indoctrinating our kids.
There is a place in Washington called Cascade Middle School, and they literally, without parental consent, without parental knowledge, took kids to an anti-ICE protest during school hours.
They didn't tell mommy and daddy.
I mean, it's infuriating.
One dad went to get his son, and now his son was told to stay home because he was receiving threats.
The kids, because the father is like, this is so inappropriate.
I mean, imagine if they were handing out MAGA hats in a New York City public school.
That is about the equivalent.
And, you know, let me play for you, for example, one angry father talking about how a teacher in Cascade at the middle school there in Washington State took kids to this protest without informing parents.
But my son just called and said that his school just brought him to a protest.
So he's currently at a food protest.
I'm fitting to go rage.
Who the f said you could bring my child to a protest?
Any of our kids to a protest?
They see what's happening today.
Forget kids out there now.
Purposely.
Schools.
Washington state.
Send this out.
Washington state sending their kids to protest.
Let me give you a little rundown on the way there.
White Center, we call out here Rat City.
If anybody from Washington State knows this, this Rat City is not an area.
Bring kids, let alone bring kids to a protest in this piece of city.
If anybody knows White Center, you know Rat City is dangerous.
Why are you bringing our kids into dangerous territory with protesting going on?
We got the blue hairs, everything.
Are you serious?
Yellow hair?
Oh my God, my kid is at a woke school.
What is going on?
This is Cascade Middle School, everybody.
Cascade Middle School in Washington State.
Did you consent to that?
I didn't want to.
He didn't want to do that.
No, that was like cost camera.
One of the guys was like, like the guy with the megaphone, like a kid.
He's like, do not talk to the federal thing, Bob, whatever it is.
So I've gotten word that my son can no longer go to school because people were threatening to press him and jump because of my post, because I was concerned for my child's safety, was not informed that he was attending a protest that ended deadly.
Now, on this program, we kind of have always kidded Linda for being, you know, one of those moms that shows up at school board meetings.
But in all honesty, I really respect it because if you don't get involved as a parent, I mean, you have you have school districts in this country that are offering gender-affirming care to children without parental consent.
If Democrats win the midterms, this is part of their agenda.
Understand, you know, I call Linda the tiger mom, but honestly, if you don't get involved and you don't show up, this is the type of thing that can happen.
You think it can't happen?
It's happening.
Mahek Cook is with us, CEO of Frontier Strategies, Greg Jarrett, Fox News, legal analyst, New York Times, best-selling author.
Greg, I want to ask you from the legal perspective first.
The idea that they think they can do this to our children instead of focusing on reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers is so beyond the pale to me.
I mean, can you make a case that it's illegal?
Oh, absolutely, 100%.
Look, taking middle school students who are ages 10, 11, and 12 off the safety of school premises to attend an anti-ICE protest is potentially criminal if the teachers and administrators can be shown to have knowingly and willfully exposed those children to an inherently dangerous situation,
which these anti-ICE protests have notoriously become.
They've become violent.
So at the very least, it's an incredibly stupid, reckless, and grossly negligent action by the teachers.
They have a legal and ethical duty to protect students to ensure their safety, supervision, and welfare while under their care.
I mean, the law calls that in loco parentis in place of the parent.
That duty requires reasonable care to prevent foreseeable injuries.
It's foreseeable somebody could get injured at these protests because people are getting injured, particularly ICE agents in the CPV.
So if a teacher breaches the duty I've just described, and I think they've done that here, they're generally liable in a civil lawsuit for money damages brought by parents, particularly if a student suffers injury.
You know, the teacher who did this, at the very least, should be investigated by the school, suspended for extremely poor judgment.
But as you point out, Sean, is anybody surprised?
I mean, schools have increasingly become indoctrination camps where students are taught liberal, progressive ideology on everything from critical race theory to gender identity and anti-government, anti-American dogma.
And, you know, this is likely a perfect typical example.
Let me get to Mahek Cook is with us.
This infuriates me as a parent.
I can tell you a story when my son was in sixth grade.
I heard that they were going to show Al Gore's Earth in the Balance in science class.
I got on the phone with the science teacher.
I said, my son will not be attending.
It's indoctrination.
And I said, his score better not suffer.
And that was the end of the conversation.
He ended up getting an A in the course.
He didn't show up that day for school.
And I also let the administration know I think it's inappropriate.
You know, unfortunately, my son was in a position.
He didn't want to leave the school he was in at the time.
I wish he would have left the school he was in.
Yeah, Sean, I think the times have changed today.
And I can tell you as a proud mother and an attorney and a fighter for parental rights, this has been going on now for a decade.
COVID exposed what was happening in our schools because our children were in our homes.
And when you look at just this school district, for instance, I'm thinking child endangerment, blatant violation of trust.
And this is the latest step.
We talked about DENI, right?
That's still raging in many schools.
Now we're turning innocent children into anarchists.
And I'm not shocked because we've seen pornographic books like Gender Queen just shove down kids' throats, policies and practices to conceal and facilitate gender transitions, medical interventions like vaccines at schools without even parental consent.
Remember what happened in California and Washington cases where they were hiding kids' identities.
So this is just the latest turn to completely dismantle what education was meant for, science, reading, and math, and indoctrinate our kids to become anarchists.
My biggest issue today is there was no parental consent.
They took these children into the worst of the worst neighborhoods.
I actually looked this up, 118% above the national average.
That's how dangerous Rat City is, unsanitary with rodents, homeless encampments, and so much more.
I would say without consent, you have to look at what the Supreme Court has ruled.
Parents, this is a parental right infringement under the 14th Amendment.
We should be pushing and actually elevating this, not just in terms of a state issue and complaining to the school boards, but we should be appealing this all the way to the Supreme Court because if we don't win here, it's going to happen increasingly in schools.
I saw in Cincinnati, Ohio, that kids were being pushed to go and protest for ICE.
And it is just despicable to teach this to little children today.
We're coercing them.
And by the way, this child never wanted to be there.
He said that on his father's video.
What about First Amendment violations?
There are so many civil rights violations I'm seeing today as an attorney.
We cannot take this lightly.
And I'm worried the midterms, this could be all for nothing if we continue to fight and then lose the midterms because the left is planned and coordinated and will be attacking every fundamental of American democracy and the family unit as we know it.
Been telling everybody it's the most important midterm in our lifetime.
And if you don't want all progress in this country, positive progress to stop, you better make a commitment now.
You're voting.
And if you don't want Donald Trump and you don't want investigation after investigation, impeachment after impeachment, you better vote.
All right, quick break.
More with Mahek Cook, CEO of Frontier Strategies.
More with Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst on the other side.
Your calls this Friday coming up, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
All right, we continue now.
Believe it or not, you have Cascade in Washington State middle school kids that were taken to an anti-ICE protest without informing and getting consent from parents.
It's outrageous.
We continue with Mahec Cook, CEO of American Frontier Strategies, Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst.
Your calls are coming up, by the way, 800-941, Sean.
You know, look at the instances, Greg, of gender-affirming care for children without parental consent.
Look at the issue of allowing children to pick their pronouns and have both teachers and other students address kids a certain way, but they don't inform the parents of any of this.
You know, to me, that is just outright, you know, it's almost as if parental rights don't exist in these cases.
Well, you're right.
And thankfully, parents have brought a number of cases, some of which now are making their way through the federal appellate courts and ultimately will reach the United States Supreme Court.
And I would expect the high court to overwhelmingly say the obvious, that you cannot do this with children without parental consent.
I mean, it's common sense more than anything else.
And fortunately, we've seen the Supreme Court increasingly exercise some common sense in their rulings on this subject.
What do you advise them to do?
And I've given Linda on this program a hard time, but really mostly in fun because she just, she constantly is pushing my buttons on purpose.
So I push hers.
But she shows up at these school board meetings.
And when she walks in, I mean, she's a tiger mom.
She goes in there and they're like, oh, no.
Linda, what's the reaction you get when you show up?
I think they're really excited to see me all the time.
Just thrilled.
When you walk in the door, it's like, uh-oh, here's the thing.
I'm going in next week for a meeting.
I guarantee they're already setting an agenda.
They're like, yes, we're so stoked.
Okay, but in all seriousness, when you come in, it's like, uh-oh.
Yeah, I'm hated.
It's a great meeting.
And I don't care.
I'm not there to be their friend.
You are hated.
I mean, let's be honest about it.
You are.
Absolutely.
I don't give a rip.
And Mehek, this is the problem.
Moms that care, you know, remember, during the Biden years, they were being investigated for caring.
Well, but here are the solutions, Sean.
It's okay to be hated because you're hated by the wrong side.
These are the people that are on the wrong side of history.
And my best advice to parents, it's something that I do.
My mother was a public, private, and charter school teacher, and she taught me this.
And it's a lesson I'm going to take until my kids graduate.
I always show up to school.
I sign all their paperwork and I sit in classes unannounced.
I've gotten permission to do that.
I think every parent should say, we'd like to visit during normal school hours.
We'd like to see what our kids are learning from time to time.
And as long as you pass a background check, you are able to do that.
Like Linda, go to school board meetings, start looking to see what kids are learning.
And the most important conversation, Sean, we got to get back to the dinner table with our families.
We have to get off of our iPhones.
We need to turn off the televisions.
And we need to really start asking our kids, how was your day?
And start asking for information about what they're learning, reading, and writing.
That's the path to success.
And at the end of the day, if you're not getting what you need from your school district, pull your kid out of school.
Homeschool, push for school choice.
That access is coming.
President Trump has fought for it.
And there's so many very strong governors.
I know Governor DeSantis in the state of Florida and so many others that are pushing for 100% of school choice so that parents can pull their kids out of these woke liberal indoctrinating schools and put them in to a place where we know reading, science, and math, because that's the future.
That's how we're going to beat our foreign adversaries.
Well, computers, artificial intelligence.
I mean, instead they're going to, you know, ICE protests.
I mean, it infuriates me.
Taking Liberties With Privacy 00:07:48
It does make my blood boil.
And it's so outrageous that they think they have the right to do this and supersede parental rights as if we have no say and that the kids, we might as well just hand them over to the state when they're born.
I mean, that's how nuts this is.
Mahek Cook, thank you.
We appreciate you.
And Greg, as always, I mean, I don't think there's a topic that Greg Jarrett is not conversant on in terms of the knowledge of the law.
We always appreciate you, my friend.
Thank you.
Thanks.
800-941-Sean is on number.
You want to be a part of the program.
You know, I almost feel a little guilty.
I don't quite feel guilty because you spend so much time on this program.
I mean, every single day is, is it, is it a true statement that you try to piss me off every day before the show?
Is that fairly accurate?
Yes, that is very accurate.
And you do it on purpose.
I do.
And I enjoy it.
And you pay me for it.
So it's a win-win-win.
Oh, yeah.
I don't enjoy it.
I'd rather not be paying attention to it.
Secretly, you do.
I don't know what I don't do.
I don't enjoy getting pissed off.
Anger is a horrible emotion.
Admit these things.
Just say, yes, I am Sean.
I don't like getting, but you do it purposely.
You stick it to me or you tell me something that you know is a pep peeve of mine just to aggravate me.
You do.
Or like I'll just say that.
We were talking about Super Bowl food yesterday and you just, you just, you just have to tell me you're a better chef than me when you know it's not true.
First of all, that is fake news and the tape proves it.
You started the segment saying, by the way, I am a better chef than Linda.
That's how you started the segment.
You put that.
No, no, no.
No, you're not giving the whole history of this.
That's not true.
You brought up that, well, I'm a better cook than you.
That happened behind the scenes.
And I didn't on the air.
So it seems like I brought it up on the air.
You brought it up on you brought it up first.
Watch out for that lightning strike.
I don't want you to get hurt.
All right.
I don't see any lightning.
I see clear blue skies.
Clear skies.
Lots of sunshine and sunny.
It's a cold front coming in.
Be careful.
Well, actually, we've had a cold front, but it's gone away.
No, there's a big one coming in this weekend.
It's going to be like minus 10 here.
Yeah.
You want to know what it's going to be this weekend here?
It's cold in Florida.
I have friends in Florida.
They said they're wearing sunny days.
That's true.
Right now, it's 63, 63 degrees sunny.
That's cold for Florida, right?
To me, it feels a little chilly.
Tomorrow, though, 72, Sunday, 69, then all next week.
We even get up next Friday, one week from today in the 80s.
Jeez, that is very lying.
You know, I mean, we've made fun of the fact that you're a tiger mom.
Okay.
It's true.
I'm not denying it.
All right.
But you show up at these meetings and is it true or false when you walk in?
They're like, oh, no, here she is.
Listen, during COVID was when I started to go to the meetings.
And as I went to more, I would come in and I would bring, you know, paperwork and facts and I would cite, quote unquote, their favorite word, the science.
And I would have, you know, my, my moment.
I was definitely one of those people that, you know, people were filming like, oh, she's about to go off.
Here we go.
And, you know, it was, it became something where I was, I was infuriated because the people that were sitting at the dais and were members of the school board have kids.
So I was like, I don't, have you guys all like, have you lost your mind?
What you're saying makes no sense.
There's nothing to factually back it up.
So yes, they definitely started to recognize me, get annoyed with me.
And I just went to home.
Why don't you run for school board and sit on the board?
I did.
There was a position.
No, no, no.
I was going to win.
I just decided that, you know, it was like four days a week.
It was mornings.
It was evenings.
It's hard to do that work full-time, have four kids.
It's not a thing.
You can't do it all.
You got a thousand kids now.
I mean, that's hard.
Well, I mean, life is busy.
You know, I think there are people, if you're somebody who has more time in your life, it's great.
I still am a big part of the board.
I'm still active in the district and I am very active in what they're teaching, what they're saying.
I go, I see the classrooms.
I mean, it's, I'm definitely involved.
Well, I, I know I've given you a hard time about it, but that's more for kicks and giggles and to kind of, it's like a reverse Linda.
I try to piss you off.
But it's true.
You're not wrong.
I mean, I'm not sure.
You are a tiger mom.
I mean, yes, I love my children.
I love children and I love animals and everything else is awful.
You're lucky Joe Biden's still not in office because they'd probably investigate you for, you know, going to school board.
Let me tell you something.
If anybody should have been investigated, it should have been that guy for sniffing little kids.
That's true.
I'm sorry.
So bizarre.
They were bizarre.
I'm like, nobody thinks this is weird.
Nobody, nobody.
If somebody came up to you and went up to Patrick and said, I want to sniff his head, you'd be like, yeah, no problem.
I'd be out of my mind.
I'd be like, what the hell are you doing?
And these parents won't.
It used to drive me crazy when my kids were young and people just felt they had a license to go up to them and start touching them.
I'm like, get your grubby, dirty, filthy, you know, filled, virus-filled hands off my kids.
What are you doing?
Yeah, it's a weird thing.
People would just take liberties like that.
I'm like, do you mind?
Yeah, people definitely do not.
People do not have personal space and it's definitely a very weird thing.
I think that, you know, what we're looking at right now is a little bit more dangerous because they're basically, there's two things that I would love to ask Greg and Meheck or, you know, any legal panel that was available.
If you give your children to the public schools, don't they have a legal obligation to then be, you know, taking care of your children for the prescribed of that school?
Absolutely.
But I'm saying they're taking liberties.
They're taking liberties.
It's unreal.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
It's Friday, 800-941-Sean.
Our number.
Sandy is in my free state of Florida.
Hey, Sandy, how are you?
Oh, my God.
This cold snap is going away.
I'm sick of it.
Oh, I know.
And I live.
It's been some days 50 degrees here.
50.
It's ridiculous.
By the way, you know when I say that, do you know how pissed off other people in the country are?
Because they've been living below zero temperatures.
So I'm like really doing it to make everyone else annoyed.
Oh, I know.
My sister lives in North Carolina and she's just biting at her fingernails saying, I need to move to Florida.
I said, yes, you do.
I highly recommend it.
But, you know, look, it took me a lot of years to get out because, you know, I had kids, et cetera, all that stuff.
So, you know, you got to do it on your time.
What's on your mind today?
Well, I was thinking when I heard about the cameras went out, there was a case here in Florida quite a few years ago that there was a child that was abducted.
And years later, they found out that it was somebody that worked for a company that they always used.
And it was a new person that came in to that company and fiddled around with the electrical and did I, he's an IP guy, did stuff with cameras and stuff like that.
I was thinking, we don't ask enough questions about the people that are coming into our home.
Well, it's very reminiscent and it's funny because I covered the case at the time.
You remember Elizabeth Smart out in Utah and it turned out to be exactly what you're describing.
And that was somebody that had worked on the home and the father, Ed Smart, who I got to know at the time very, very well, I felt very sorry for that family because there was a period where everyone was supporting them and then all the suspicion, all the fingers were pointed in their direction and they were just a loving family.
Speaking Out Against Evil 00:06:07
And it's got to be horrible to be looked at as the potential criminal when you know you're not and you want these resources to be used to actually find, in this case, your daughter.
And I interviewed Elizabeth Smart years later.
I mean, she's remarkably well adjusted considering all she went through.
Do I think that she'll ever be the same person?
No, I don't think, I think that will always be with her, but I really admire her and her family.
Yeah, I just, my heart goes out to them.
You know, it's terrible.
And I appreciate you calling.
I think you're right.
I think anyone that this happens to, you know, Linda, apparently, I didn't know this.
I think it was Blair that told me or somebody that does, you know, that pays way more attention to social media than I do.
That when I said the other night on television, that you can see the pain in Savannah Guthrie and her sister and her brother when they released that first video.
And I said, this is not a political statement.
I said, but this is why we spend so much time and have spent so much time on the air on radio and TV highlighting all the people shot, shot, and killed in Chicago for two decades now.
This is why it's important that we also give credit to ICE and to Department of Homeland Security for removing known terrorists, murderers, rapists, child molesters, drug dealers, Artel members, gang members, you know, out of our country because we need to be safe and secure.
I don't think that's a political statement, but I got beat up for saying that, apparently.
Did you know that?
You read social media more than me.
I mean, yeah, the problem is, is that they just unfortunately, and I say this knowing that people may not like what I'm going to say, which is the greater good.
They hate me more than me.
They definitely hate me more than you.
But I think the greater good of you and even President Trump reaching out to Savannah Guthrie to attempt to help and extend the full, you know, branch of the federal government and saying, hey, we're going to put everybody we can on this to try to find your mom and so on and so forth.
Those same, those same arms of caring and openness and just like, hey, we're here to help, that is not given to conservatives.
So when conservatives try to point out and highlight all the times and all the things that they've said, it's only met with like, you know, piss and vinegar because that's all they have.
But my concern for and my hope of finding Savannah Guthrie's mom is genuine.
It is sincere.
Yes, I know.
That's what I'm saying.
Our side always is.
And you can see that video.
I mean, I met her once.
She couldn't have been nicer to me.
Apparently, she's a woman of deep faith.
And she didn't care that I was Sean Hannity, the conservative guy.
She didn't care.
It was just we had a nice conversation about our industry.
And that doesn't happen a lot with me and industry people.
I hate them and they hate me generally.
But when I say that I'm being sincere, I want this woman found unharmed.
I want her returned to her family.
There's nothing contrived about that.
It is genuine and sincere.
But I genuinely want the predictable weekly violence in Chicago to end and New York to end and LA to end.
And I want those people that were unvetted allowed into this country out to keep Americans safe and secure.
I'm not wrong in my analysis that it is, you know, you need as a prerequisite law and order and safety and security to have a chance to pursue happiness.
And this infuriates me that we have allowed crime to go unabated and has now, you know, evolved into a mentality of defund, dismantle, no bail, reimagine the police, send in the social workers, and now a fight over defunding ICE and not having a license to vote in an election.
I mean, there's something really wrong.
And, you know, I love my fellow Americans.
I want everyone listening to my voice to understand here.
That's not a political statement by me.
That is a heartfelt, that is, you want to know what it is?
People will laugh at this, and I don't care.
It's humanitarian.
I genuinely believe every single human being was created by God, God above, God the Father, God the Creator.
I'm a Christian.
I believe in Jesus Christ.
And I believe that God put in every human being their unique fingerprint and also unique talent.
And if you water that talent, if you nurture that talent, you offer sunlight to that plant, meaning that person, then they will flourish and they will become the person that God designed them to be.
But there is a propensity, the human race for good and evil.
And I'm just speaking out against evil.
That's not political.
That's not vote Republican.
It's not vote Democrat.
It's not vote conservative.
Be a conservative.
It is, I care about my fellow human beings.
But it wasn't interpreted that way.
Did you read how nasty those comments were?
Yes, of course.
It's horrible.
Those are the same people that were shouting down Christians who were mourning Charlie Kirk.
There was no love for the loss of life.
There is only left and right.
This is not, unfortunately, the land of earth is not the place for Jesus Christ.
This is spiritual warfare.
Jesus Christ is above us.
This is Satan's playground.
Well, not really.
There is goodness.
I think the American people generally are good people.
And this transcends politics.
The people are good.
You know, it's government that is corrupt on so many levels often.
All right.
Do we have time for another call?
800-941-Sean is a number.
We do not.
All right, we'll have to get to that in the next hour.
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