Faith, Freedom and Morale Clarity dives into the SAVE Act’s stalled Senate push despite 84% public support, with Rick Scott warning procedural traps could delay midterm elections. It contrasts Iran’s nuclear defiance—ignoring U.S. demands post-Switzerland talks—with Obama’s "stupid" cash release under the 2015 deal, now paired with a massive military buildup unseen since Iraq. Paralyzed radio host Dennis Prager’s recovery fuels a debate on morality’s divine roots, while his critique of Democrats’ State of the Union snubbing victim families underscores their perceived moral collapse. Upcoming guests—Cotton, Levin, and even Clinton—will dissect Iran’s deadline-driven threats ahead of potential military action. [Automatically generated summary]
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If you want to be a part of the program, we have been covering at length, and it's important, the U.S. Senate.
The House already passed it, the SAVE Act, proof of citizenship, for example, and voter ID, simple, basic fundamental stuff.
The president talked all about this at the State of the Union and talked about how Democrats don't want basic integrity in our elections.
They don't want the SAVE Act.
And you think about it, why would you not want voter ID?
I mean, to be an emergency snow shoveler in New York City, you need five separate forms of ID, you know, pictures and social security cards, et cetera.
But you don't need ID in New York State to vote.
How do I know?
I used to live there.
Key word, used to, no longer in the free state of Florida.
Here's the president from the state of the union.
They don't want identification for the greatest privilege of them all voting in America.
No, it's no good.
No good.
Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that we just enunciated.
And Congress should unite and enact this common sense, country-saving legislation right now.
And it should be before anything else happens.
And the reason they don't want to do it, why would anybody not want voter ID?
One reason, because they want to cheat.
There's only one reason.
They make up all excuses.
They say it's racist.
They come up with things.
You almost say, what imagination they have.
They want to cheat.
They have cheated.
And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat.
And we're going to stop it.
We have to stop it, John.
Now, what Republicans in the Senate, and I know this is getting a little complicated deep in the weeds of something in the Senate called cloture.
And that means to get a piece of legislation passed, you need, you know, 60 votes to move it on the floor.
Unless, of course, you do a real filibuster.
And this is what Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have been pushing on this show, where they actually have to do a real filibuster.
Like Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
And what that simply means is that the Democrats would have to take to the floor, stand there as long as they possibly can, talk, There is a downside to it.
The downside is, is they can hold on to the floor for as long as they want, and they would probably start pushing votes on Obamacare funding, et cetera, et cetera.
And that becomes problematic, especially in a midterm election year.
I understand the argument, but the House next week is going to take up the Sanctuary City and State Bill.
And that too will go to the Senate.
So Republicans are going to have to make a decision.
Here's what one of my senators, Senator Rick Scott, had to say about it this week.
I loved it.
I love that the president was so on board at the State of the Union address for the Save America Act to secure elections.
All right.
Now, if you support this, you should share this and also call every politician you know and say, pass the Save America Act.
Now, they do have 50 votes in the U.S. Senate, and the tiebreaking vote would be the president of the Senate, which is the Vice President, JD Vance.
All right.
However, you have Mitch McConnell and Lisa Murkowski and Senator Tillis of North Carolina and Senator Curtis.
They are standing in the way of this.
Anyway, pleased to say he's my senator.
Thank God I have good senators now, Ashley Moody and right now joining us, Senator Rick Scott.
Rick and I have been friends for a long time.
Senator, how are you?
Sean, it's great to talk with you.
This is so common sense.
And the American public, Republicans, Democrats, Independents want it because it's so simple.
Show an ID.
You have to show an ID to get on an airplane to be a snow shoveler in New York, buy certain medicines, apply for a job, bank accounts, check in at a hotel, buy a lottery ticket.
So why would you have a lower verification standard for the sacred right to vote?
So it's not racist, as the Democrats claim.
It shouldn't be controversial.
The president's on board.
The House has passed it.
We got to whatever process we have.
If we can't get the 60 votes, we can attach it to a must-pass bill.
Or we're going to have to, we have to do the filibuster.
We have to say, you know what?
If you want to block it, then start and explain it.
And I agree with my colleagues.
We have got to use whatever means possible to get this passed.
Well, I've got to tell you something.
It really is remarkable to me.
Now, here's the issue.
And, you know, I've had it explained to me by a lot of different people.
There are people that are voting to move on the bill that also have this fear of turning over the Senate and forcing the stand-up filibuster, the Mr. Smith goes to Washington filibuster, a real filibuster.
Usually what happens is one party will threaten to filibuster and that stops the other party from proceeding.
And the one little complication, and it's not insignificant, I'll be fair about it.
And that is that you hand the floor, the Senate floor over to Democrats, and then they can have a vote on a variety of issues that they deem will be divisive to Republicans heading into a midterm election year.
What is your answer to that argument?
Well, we do it.
We did it with reconciliation.
We took all their votes.
Now, here's the difference.
The difference between that is that this could go on for weeks.
The reconciliation, it's as long as people, there's just one time.
You don't get to, in theory, they could do it forever.
Nobody's willing to do that.
But here's the way I look at it.
Let's say we spend a month on this, right?
If we do it, and the whole election is about why the Democrats want to allow legal people here illegally to vote, and we want to preserve them, I think we win.
84%, I think, of the Americans agree with this.
So I think we got to use every power we have to get this passed.
Now, here's the negative.
The negative is part of government still not opened.
So if we do it before that, then we can't go to that issue.
So that's a negative.
We will take a lot of bad votes.
But guess what?
When I was governor, whatever this legislature sent me, I either had to veto or sign.
They didn't ask me all the time about what they were sending to me.
So that's part of what you have to do in this job.
So I'm willing to do it.
Well, I know, of course, you're willing to do it.
I mean, it's frustrating to me.
I want to be a little sympathetic.
There are people in marginal states that have tough races ahead of them.
I get it.
I hear it.
But, you know, the American people, even 71% of Democrats, 71% of Democrats, 80% of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, this is an 85-15 issue across the board for the country.
And sometimes you just got to take a stand and take whatever, you know, pain might go along with doing the right thing.
Let me ask you this bizarre question and tell me if I'm nuts.
If the House is able to pass a sanctuary penalties for sanctuary cities and states, frankly, I think that's just codifying, by being a sanctuary city or state, you are aiding and abetting in lawbreaking, as far as I'm concerned.
That's my interpretation.
And you're obstructing justice because we know that the supremacy clause is clear.
It's the federal government's role to enforce federal laws.
Immigration laws are what they are.
They're federal laws.
And by allowing sanctuary city state status, et cetera, you are aiding and abetting people that didn't respect our laws, our borders, our sovereignty.
Is there a way to put those two bills together if they come out of the House?
I know you'd have to send it back to the House, but if you use the same language, I'm sure Mike Johnson can get it over the finish line again.
Probably.
I think Mike can put it, the Speaker can put it together, but I guess in theory, we could.
But if the House doesn't put it together, I think when it goes back to the House, it would have to be voted on again.
So probably easiest is for the House to put it together and send it over.
And then we've got two options.
We can do just the Save America Act by itself or the Save America Act plus the Sanctuary City Bill.
We could do either one.
So we've got to preserve these elections.
It's pretty simple.
Chuck Schumer, he wants illegals to vote.
That's why he allowed with Biden all these millions and millions of illegal aliens to flood into our country.
So we have to win this.
I totally completely agree with you.
Let me ask you, it seems like the meeting yesterday, and it's kind of been widely reported with the Iranians in Switzerland did not go particularly well.
The Iranians now saying even on state TV that they refuse to give up enrichment of uranium.
The president has drawn a very clear line in the sand.
He's also promised the protesters that help is on its way.
Well, help has arrived.
It's there.
And then the president gave a 10-day notice.
What part of not listening to Donald Trump are these mullahs?
You know, what are they thinking about?
They've got to be pretty dumb if they want to take on Donald J. Trump and the U.S. military, in my opinion.
I don't think they'll survive it.
I don't think you have to pass an IQ test to beat Khomeini, to beat the Ayatollah, because here, I mean, the bottom line is, look, he already did it once.
He already destroyed their nuclear weapons once.
He'll do it again.
He doesn't have a choice, actually.
If you're the president of the United States and the commander-in-chief of our military and you have a country that says they're going to destroy you if they get a weapon, then you don't have a choice but to destroy their ability to do that.
And on top of that, it's going to help our ally, Israel.
So the president actually doesn't have a choice.
When they say they're going to get this nuclear weapon, they're going to use it to destroy the United States.
A president that doesn't destroy their nuclear weapons is not doing his job, his or her job.
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Rick Scott, from the Great State, my Free State Of Florida, is with us.
You know, in Kuwait we have five destroyers, three combat ships, uh.
Then if you look at the Arabian Sea, off the coast of Omam, you have the Us, Abraham Lincoln and three destroyers, uh.
And then you look off the coast of Israel and and Lebanon, you have the Uss, Gerald R Ford and three destroyers, uh.
On top of all of the, you know, fighter jets that we have in the region.
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I mean, they're basically surrounded with the most firepower.
This is the largest military buildup since the Iraq War, uh.
So obviously the president knows the risk and the president, you know, wants this to be, you know, in keeping with the Trump doctrine, no forever wars, no boots on the ground, but massive firepower, strategic strikes.
And the world cannot risk a nuclear-armed Iran.
And you know, I know there are a lot of people saying well, why are we getting involved in this?
Well, what is Iran going to be like six months from now?
Because they have proven they are just hell-bent on getting a nuclear weapon they've been building.
You know they first had 2,000, you know pound ballistic missiles.
Now they're going to 4,000 pounds.
Uh, there's only so much Israel is going to be able to withstand, even with the latest greatest, newest generation of missile defense systems.
It does become overwhelming at some point, and they're threatening the continental U.S. If they get that weapon?
Oh, absolutely so.
Prior presidents have appeased them.
It doesn't work right, appeasement of a bully does not work.
These people are despicable, all right um, I mean, this is it.
This is good versus evil, do you?
Do you want to continue to live the life of freedom?
Then we have no choice.
Um, the president is doing exactly what he needs to do to protect America and protect our ally Israel, and Israel can't do this by themselves.
Um so I, you know look I, this is going to happen because they've been, you know, prior presidents have have given in, constantly given in, this stupid Obama Iran deal, things like that Biden um, you know, always pacify by the two of the dumbest deals on earth.
They never abide by the deal.
They they never even insisted on any place anywhere, Anytime.
American inspectors, they drop cargo planes full of cash and other currency, billions and billions of dollars, and say, pretty pleased with sugar on top, you know, don't build out your nuclear program.
And oh, by the way, this expires in 10 years.
How stupid is that deal?
That was, it was, it was the most, it was, it was, it's like, whose side was Obama on?
And where were all these Democrats, all right, that are supposedly pro-Israel?
I mean, they all just sat on their hands.
So Obama, everything he did, it looked like he hated Israel and he loved Iran.
And all he did was he put Americans, our livelihood, our way of life, our lives at risk by giving all that money and pacifying Iran.
So it's despicable what Obama did.
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Really is.
It put us in jeopardy.
Can you believe I'm my third year now in Florida?
I mean, all those, I got to know then Governor Rick Scott because you were up in New York along with Bobby Jendel and Rick Perry.
And all of you were competing and successfully competing in luring New York business to your respective states.
And you guys did a great job.
That's how I got to know you so well.
Martin Dame would make it even easier.
I think Governor DeSantis is going to be up in New York quite a bit.
I think he's also recruiting law enforcement too.
Yeah, yeah.
But I mean, think about it.
You have to have an idea to be a snowshoveler up there.
And he's raising taxes 9.5%.
That couldn't be good for anybody.
We appreciate you, Senator Rick Scott, my free state of Florida, sir.
Thank you.
Best decision I made is moving down here.
And thank everybody for their warm welcome.
But in fairness, I had property down here for decades.
So I always came to Florida.
Now I get to stay here.
Appreciate you.
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So I have a story to tell that's a little embarrassing, but I'm just going to, I always tell this audience the truth.
I've been friends with Dennis Prager for decades, nationally syndicated, radio host with Salem Media for so many years.
He is the co-founder of Prager U, which has done a phenomenal job, especially educating young people about our founders, our framers, about what has made America great, unique, and different.
He knows so much about Judeo-Christian principles that, you know, he puts me to shame.
And I didn't hear about it.
And it's so odd because all I do all day is read, but I don't read social media.
You know, I gave up that cancer a long time ago.
Hannity, you suck.
I'm tired of it.
And unless I want to feel horrible about myself, I'm not going to read a lot of social media, although my team monitors it.
But I didn't know that he had had a fall.
And I didn't know that he was paralyzed from the neck down.
And I found out from a friend, and I said, what?
I couldn't believe it.
And I knew his wife, Sue, but I didn't have her number.
Remember, Linda, we were desperately looking for a way to connect with Dennis.
So I wrote Dennis on his phone.
And one day his wife, Sue, picked it up.
And then she wrote very graciously wrote me back.
And then we were able to FaceTime.
But he's paralyzed, but he's still working.
And he's still a genius, as he always has been.
And the doctors in his case have described the fact that he is talking, and he told me this when we were FaceTiming with each other, as quote, a miracle.
And he's a not religious people.
And he's a man of deep faith and conviction, has been an incredible, incredibly successful talk show host all these years and been a longtime friend.
And we kind of got out of touch for a while.
I was so happy to make a reconnection with him.
And anyways, come out.
In spite of all of this, he was able to put out another brilliant book.
And I just got a copy, If There's No God, The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil.
And very thought-provoking.
And it takes on the dangers of secularism and perhaps the most important issues in our lives.
And I'm very honored and pleased and proud and happy that he's with us.
Dennis Prager, sir, welcome to the program.
And I humbly apologize for not knowing until much later.
I'm actually glad you didn't know.
It's not something I want the whole world to know.
It's not happy news, but I have been able to maintain a happy disposition.
And I wrote why in today's Wall Street Journal, an article on why I have been able to maintain a level of happiness despite being paralyzed from the shoulders down.
So I'm sure your listeners will find it very interesting.
And yes, I also was able to finish in the hospital the book, If There Is No God, the battle over who defines good and evil.
And the book, I am proud to say, got to number two on all of Amazon books, number two on the day it was published last week.
And it was the number one was a stripper's autobiography.
And I can't.
Well, if you're going to lose to something, Dennis, you know, I mean, I totally get where people's heads are at, unfortunately.
Yeah, exactly.
That's right.
Let me ask you this, if I can.
For the first three months, you could not speak at all.
And you were on a ventilator.
And I think you're still on a ventilator at night sometimes to help you.
And it was a dire, dire situation for a long time.
And you have a loving wife, Sue, so supportive, so amazing.
And I'm so glad that she's in your life.
And I'm glad you're in ours.
And then you said you had to make a decision about how you're going to approach this because here you are so full of life, you know, a syndicated radio show that's kicking ass, doing great, you know, Prigger you, killing it, crushing it.
And now all of a sudden, you're paralyzed from the neck down.
And they're telling you, oh, the fact that you can talk is a miracle.
And you had to approach that from a psychological point of view.
How did you approach it in a spiritual point of view?
I realized from the get-go, I had only three choices, and they were death, depression, or perseverance.
And therefore, the choice was clear.
I was going to persevere and I was going to go on with life.
I didn't want to die and I didn't want to be depressed.
So what was my choice?
I'm a very rational thinker.
It's not a spiritual answer.
It's a rational answer.
And that's what I chose.
I have so much to live for.
I have a wife and two sons that I love.
And I have friends that I love.
I have a mission that I've never abandoned to influence people to the good, as I wrote in my diary when I was in high school.
So, you know, it's not a question for me.
I would like to believe that I would approach this as logically and rationally as you have.
I do believe, knowing you for all these years and knowing your love of God and belief in God, that that probably contributed to your common sense and your logic and reason.
I believe all of that.
You know, we always try to put ourselves in other people's shoes.
I don't know if I would be as strong as you are.
I think your choice, while you say there was really no choice, I think other people wouldn't be as courageous as you.
You know, this thing about if there's no God, the battle who defines good and evil, God is, to me, I believe we are nothing without God.
I believe every man, woman, and child was created by God.
I believe God put talent in every human soul, just like we all have our unique fingerprint.
I believe the Bible verse that every hair of our heads are counted.
In my case, some are black and some are white, and that God knows.
I believe that with all of my heart.
You know, for so many years, you would, at PragerU, you asked a question, and you would ask the simple question, who would you save first?
And your beloved dog and a stranger are drowning.
And what you discovered is one-third of the audience would vote for the dog, one-third for a stranger, one-third not sure.
And your conclusion is we live in an era when people increasingly make moral judgments based on emotions.
But if feelings determine what's right and wrong, then whether murder, rape, and theft are wrong is no more than an opinion, which I thought was, it's just such a brilliant way.
It's such a Dennis Prager way to put things and so thought-provoking on the other hand.
You know, like I can't understand, Dennis.
I watched the State of the Union, and you have from last year, Lake and Riley's family.
Democrats wouldn't stand for her family, this nursing student that was murdered by an illegal immigrant.
They wouldn't stand for little Jocelyn Nungarry's family, 12-year-old girl brutally murdered and raped by an illegal immigrant.
It wouldn't stand for all these people the president recognized on Tuesday night.
I don't know what to think about that.
To me, I concluded last year, and I said when I started my TV show after the State of the Union, that, you know, I can report tonight that what I said last year, that the Democratic Party has lost their heart, their conscience, and their soul.
You know, they're still soulless.
You know, in the context of your question, do you see similarities?
Absolutely.
In fact, that question, would you save your dog that you love or a stranger you don't know?
By definition, it's a stranger you don't know.
Who would you save first?
I know people want to save both, but you have to save one first if both are drowning.
I've asked this question, Sean, for 50 years, five zero, and for 50 years, I've gotten the same response.
One-third, the stranger, one-third, the dog, and one-third don't know.
So two-thirds of Americans for 50 years would not vote to save the stranger.
That's pretty powerful.
That's when I realized that good and evil were really, for most people, at least in our society, for most people, they were an opinion and there was not an absolute at work.
The only time there's an absolute good, absolute evil, is if there is a God.
God said, human beings are created in God's image.
And therefore, I who love my dogs would in fact save a stranger because of a value that is rooted in God and therefore has an absolute value, is an absolute value.
It is not a matter of opinion.
And that's why the founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by our creator.
All men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
And among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
So they understood only if the creator endows us with rights, do we have any rights?
If we are endowed by the government with our rights, then government can take it away.
I got to be honest, Dennis, I'm listening to you, and your wisdom just blows me away.
It's unbelievable.
You know, in the book, by the way, you talk about, and you've talked about throughout your career, if God exists, why doesn't he punish the unjust?
Or why does he allow innocent to suffer?
I have a thought, like, you know, my friend Dennis Prager, why did this happen?
Why is he paralyzed from the neck down?
And my conclusion, and why did he give you the heart and the motivation to persevere, as you said?
And my simple answer, and it's simple, is that he's not finished with you.
You have too much to offer.
We're all going to get called home.
But this book is an example of you continuing your life's purpose and mission for which he created you for.
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And I'm urging everybody, please push this book to number one on Amazon.
I really, you know, we've got to beat the stripper book.
You got to.
Anyway, it's called If There Is No God, the battle over who defines good and evil.
And it is a must read for everybody.
It's on Hannity.com.
Go to amazon.com and now in bookstores around the country.
It's an honor to call you a friend.
You are a great inspiration to all.
And this is, God willing, not the last time we're going to be having you on the air.
And you're always welcome on this program, my friend.
Thank you.
Bless you, my friend.
God bless you too.
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Officially on Iranian watch tonight, as the deadline now nears and the Iranians are stubborn, we'll have also Senator Tom Cotton, Mark Levin, James Comer deposed Bill Clinton today.
Jason Chaffetz was there.
We'll get reaction from both of them.
The great one, Mark Levin, as I said, Jimmy Phelan, Nancy Grace, Nine Eastern.
We got a jam-packed show, and it's Iranian watch night.
Anyway, 9 Eastern on Fox Set Your DVR, and we'll see you tonight back here on Monday.
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Let's put it that way.
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