Sean Hannity Show - Iran, Deterrence, and the Fight Ahead
Aired: 2026-03-19
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=== 2020 Election Interference Secrets (14:09) ===

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[00:00:08]  Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, there's now a new investigative report.
[00:00:13]  Our friend John Solomon, founder, editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter of justthenews.com.
[00:00:19]  And it's breaking on the 2020 election and interference from nefarious foreign actors, top geopolitical foes.
[00:00:28]  And for example, the U.S. Intel hid, you know, election meddling in the 2020 election from Trump because they opposed his policies.
[00:00:38]  You know, I don't want my intelligence going to the White House where it will be used with that Vulgarian in the Oval Office to support policies against China with which I personally disagree.
[00:00:50]  That is not up to them.
[00:00:51]  They're not elected to anything.
[00:00:53]  Donald Trump is the commander-in-chief.
[00:00:54]  The idea that anybody in the Intel community could ever think that they can't pass this information on.
[00:01:00]  Anyway, we'll get more details of this from John Solomon.
[00:01:04]  And it's not the only piece of evidence pointing to the Chinese government and their election influence efforts in this country.
[00:01:13]  Although much of China's activities remains classified, justthenews.com was able to conduct a thorough review of publicly available intelligence assessments.
[00:01:23]  In other words, there's more info.
[00:01:25]  They have it under wraps right now.
[00:01:28]  And federal indictments, foreign government warnings, cybersecurity from analysis that's out there, incredible evidence that the Chinese government also wanted to get a look at all of the voter roles in this country.
[00:01:44]  Anyway, John Solomon, editor-in-chief, founder, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com.
[00:01:49]  This runs deep and wide, and it has a lot of different aspects to this.
[00:01:54]  Yeah, no, you're exactly right, Sean.
[00:01:57]  It's pretty remarkable.
[00:01:58]  So what do we know?
[00:01:59]  First, I want to take people back in history just two years.
[00:02:02]  In 2024, one of our allies, Great Britain, learned that China had accessed and hacked into the voter registration database of Great Britain.
[00:02:12]  It created an enormous moment of national alarm.
[00:02:16]  There were firings.
[00:02:17]  There were election security measures.
[00:02:19]  There were hearings in independent commissions.
[00:02:21]  And Great Britain treated this as something of grave concern to the future election integrity of their system.
[00:02:29]  And not only that, the Biden administration reacted with anger.
[00:02:33]  They actually punished China on behalf of Great Britain.
[00:02:37]  But when they took those actions and when Great Britain was in alarm, our own intelligence community harbored its own deep, dark secret.
[00:02:45]  It has known the CIA, the DNI, the Homeland Security Department, and the FBI has known since early 2020, spring of 2020, that China had also gained access to U.S. voter registration data in America.
[00:03:00]  The very data that right now Democrats say they don't even want that to be shared with the Trump Justice Department.
[00:03:06]  There are several blue states trying to block Trump's Justice Department from reviewing that data to make sure we don't have illegal aliens or non-citizens on the voter roll.
[00:03:14]  So it's so sensitive.
[00:03:15]  We don't trust our own government.
[00:03:16]  But it turns out China penetrated it in America.
[00:03:19]  And for the last six years, we've all been kept in the dark.
[00:03:23]  The way we know this is true, we were able to get a declassified document.
[00:03:27]  Ironically, a document declassified by the Biden administration before it left office.
[00:03:32]  It lays out the fact that China had gained access to this.
[00:03:35]  We then talked to some of the intelligence analysts on the record who did this work in 2020.
[00:03:40]  And they confirmed that, in fact, China did gain access to multiple states of databases.
[00:03:48]  Then we learned that the FBI had evidence that China sent a bunch of driver's licenses into the United States months later.
[00:03:55]  So in early 2020, China hacks the databases or gains access to the databases.
[00:04:00]  In the summer of 2020, they were sending fake driver's licenses to Chicago airport with the intention, according to the FBI documents, of creating fake ballot registration and ballots that would help Joe Biden win the election.
[00:04:13]  That's what the FBI's intelligence source told them.
[00:04:18]  Is this Joe Biden's FBI that first determined this?
[00:04:21]  No, this was the Trump one because it's still 2020 when it occurred.
[00:04:25]  So Trump won as FBI.
[00:04:27]  So Chris Ray is doing this.
[00:04:29]  And so all of that's been kept a secret from us.
[00:04:32]  And then today, we just put out the last piece of it.
[00:04:35]  And you mentioned it so brilliantly in your opening statement there, Sean.
[00:04:39]  The CIA and intelligence community decided they weren't going to tell President Trump.
[00:04:44]  They weren't going to tell the Congress.
[00:04:46]  They weren't going to tell the American public, contrary to how Great Britain reacted, solely because the analysts who handled China believed that this would help President Trump's policies.
[00:04:56]  They disagreed with President Trump.
[00:04:57]  They considered him a quote-unquote Bulgarian.
[00:05:00]  So they put their political beliefs, their political party, ahead of the national interest.
[00:05:06]  It is such a remarkable story.
[00:05:07]  Now, we know that part because there's a little-known office called the Ombudsman for Analytics.
[00:05:13]  That ombudsman's job is to watch the CIA and the DIA and all the intelligence community to make sure that their analytics are honest.
[00:05:20]  And in this case, the ombudsman said they were not.
[00:05:24]  That while the community was very aggressive, intelligence community, in saying China was involved in the election, they ignored, underplayed, hid, and suffocated evidence of China doing the same thing.
[00:05:36]  And then he concludes, quoting from the emails of the CIA analysts, that the reason China's meddling in the election was suppressed was because the analysts in the intelligence community did not like Donald Trump or his policies, and they decided to thwart them by not telling our president, our commander-in-chief, our Congress, or the American people of these intrusions by China.
[00:05:57]  It is such a remarkable story.
[00:05:59]  We spent a decade, you and I, talking about the deep state.
[00:06:02]  Here is perhaps one of the most cogent examples of how dangerous the deep state can be.
[00:06:07]  It can keep actionable intelligence, intelligence that made Great Britain go to DEF CON 5 on election integrity from a president, from a Congress of the American people purely because of their political beliefs.
[00:06:18]  That has got to be very concerning to everyone listening today.
[00:06:22]  I'm trying to understand who knew what and when.
[00:06:25]  In other words, this is one intelligence official who comes up with the assessment.
[00:06:30]  We only have one commander-in-chief at a time.
[00:06:32]  We only have one president at a time.
[00:06:34]  You don't get to pick and choose what information, and especially when it deals with national security, that you're going to pass on to the president.
[00:06:42]  And this one individual did this.
[00:06:44]  How many other people likely knew?
[00:06:47]  Oh, we know for certain from the reporting we've done that China experts in the FBI, the Homeland Security Department, and the CIA had concluded with certainty that China had penetrated the voter registration databases of United States American voters by April of 2020.
[00:07:08]  It is irrefutable.
[00:07:09]  It is in a document that is shared community-wide.
[00:07:13]  Now, what's remarkable about that is the president is briefed twice on external election threats, once in February, once in May.
[00:07:20]  It does not appear that he gets that level of detail.
[00:07:23]  It's kept from him.
[00:07:24]  At least that's what the ombudsman is suggesting in his work.
[00:07:28]  So it is well known across multiple agencies, across scores of analysts, and there's consensus.
[00:07:35]  They agree.
[00:07:36]  They assess that this happened.
[00:07:37]  They just simply don't want to tell us.
[00:07:39]  Why would they be stupid enough to put this in writing?
[00:07:42]  I mean, I find that kind of spectacularly stupid.
[00:07:45]  It is remarkable.
[00:07:46]  It is quite remarkable.
[00:07:48]  And so they create these products.
[00:07:49]  Now, in fairness, there were analysts who were very concerned that this was being buried.
[00:07:54]  One of them is a guy named Christopher Porter.
[00:07:56]  I interviewed him on the record in my story.
[00:07:58]  Chris Porter believed that there was a cover-up going on.
[00:08:01]  He went to the inspector general, went to the ombudsman, and clearly was trying to get this out.
[00:08:05]  But despite his efforts, it remained a secret until just a few short weeks ago or just until recently.
[00:08:13]  The intelligence analysts will write their products knowing that they're going to be highly classified, never read by Joe Sikpack, you and I, or the president, unless someone briefs the president.
[00:08:22]  The president doesn't have time to go through the CIA library and read things.
[00:08:26]  And so even though you write it down, because it's important to collect what you put in, it's legally required that you collect the information and write it, you can control who knows what by just determining who gets it.
[00:08:37]  And they kept these things off the books.
[00:08:39]  They kept them from the beginning to the president, the Congress.
[00:08:42]  I've talked to dozens of senators, excuse me, more than a dozen senators in the last week, people who are currently debating the Save America Act.
[00:08:50]  They're like, John, we never heard this.
[00:08:52]  We looked at the document.
[00:08:53]  We're in disbelief.
[00:08:54]  We weren't told.
[00:08:56]  But that's how powerful a bureaucracy can be.
[00:08:59]  It can find things, write them, and then keep them from being discovered by people because of the way they bury documents.
[00:09:05]  It's what Kash Patel keeps talking about with all of these SCIFs and secret documents and code-named investigations.
[00:09:12]  The deep state is very powerful, and sometimes it may come at the expense of the American public.
[00:09:17]  Do we know how high up it goes, or is this just the work of one or a few analysts?
[00:09:24]  To be determined, there is a large body of evidence that we are asking Director Radcliffe, Director Gabbert to declassify that would allow us to see how high up and who knew what when.
[00:09:37]  It is highly likely that the CIA director at the time, Gina Haspel, would have to have known, given that this was a National Intelligence Council assessment.
[00:09:48]  Usually the CIA director is brought to that.
[00:09:50]  And I have photos, I may have share these some with your staff, of Gina Haspel sitting in a meeting with President Trump in February of 2019.
[00:09:59]  And again, in May of 2020, sorry, February 2020 and May of 2020, where these two election briefings were given.
[00:10:06]  We need to find out whether they kept it from her, but most likely the CIA director almost certainly would have been told of this assessment, given the fact that there's an official product.
[00:10:15]  We don't know about Christopher Wray.
[00:10:17]  We do know that when the FBI discovered the driver's licenses and the alleged plot by China to maybe fake some ballots that would be voted for Joe Biden to try to help Joe Biden win the election, that they knew that this evidence ran contrary to what Chris Ray told Congress.
[00:10:36]  He had said no foreign intrusions by China.
[00:10:38]  They actually say it in an email.
[00:10:40]  They write, hey, this is going to contradict Chris Ray, the director's testimony.
[00:10:44]  Let's pull it back.
[00:10:45]  And they pulled the intelligence report back so that people can't talk about it.
[00:10:49]  We do know at least the people below Chris Ray knew it.
[00:10:51]  Now, whether Chris Ray knew it or whether they kept him in the dark to be determined, but it is pretty widespread.
[00:10:58]  I've interviewed many intelligence experts and people who were in the community at that time.
[00:11:03]  They're like, oh, yeah, we all knew it.
[00:11:04]  We just kept quiet about it.
[00:11:06]  And I interviewed some Biden-era people, and they're like, we were kind of amused that President Trump's own team kept this from him while he was in office, given his concerns about China.
[00:11:16]  So the Biden people knew it.
[00:11:18]  They kept quiet.
[00:11:19]  Lots of career people knew it because I've interviewed those people.
[00:11:22]  It is remarkable that it stayed a secret for six years.
[00:11:26]  Unbelievable.
[00:11:27]  Unbelievable.
[00:11:28]  I mean, I just, I cannot believe that we have what we call the deep state, and these are people that are supposed to be patriotic.
[00:11:37]  They shouldn't be serving a political agenda.
[00:11:39]  And it's time and time and time and time again.
[00:11:42]  And I know what frustrates my audience because I'm in tune with what they're saying.
[00:11:46]  And I feel their frustration because you have come on this program time after time.
[00:11:51]  You've broken story after story.
[00:11:53]  You show evidence upon evidence upon evidence, and then nothing usually happens to the people involved.
[00:12:00]  Or we find out in the case of like James Comey statute, limitations have long since passed.
[00:12:05]  And then they go for, you know, whatever remaining low-hanging fruit unless they can somehow eventually put together a grand conspiracy case.
[00:12:12]  Right.
[00:12:13]  That frustrates people at an incredible level.
[00:12:17]  The last time you were on this program, you were telling that it wasn't just Arctic Frost, that there were how many separate separate investigations with various code names that are, in fact, you know, looking into the people that are opponents of a particular political agenda or those that support Donald Trump.
[00:12:40]  What's the status on that?
[00:12:41]  Well, we hope soon the most interesting of them, the one that's really the most murky and dark and well kept secret, is soon to be declassified.
[00:12:50]  Round River Kash Patel, the FBI director, a little busy today.
[00:12:54]  He's up on the hill testifying alongside of Tulsi Gabbard and John Rackoff, the CI and DNI directors.
[00:12:59]  But if those get declassified, that I think will be one of the most shocking investigations because that investigation was driven by speech delimiters, meaning what you said, what you spoke with your words in a country that's supposed to have a First Amendment determined whether the FBI considered you a threat and subject you to potentially.
[00:13:19]  And in other words, if you went after zero experience Hunter and Burisma and no experience in oil, gas, energy, but got paid millions and the quid pro quo, you're not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor.
[00:13:33]  If we talked about that, were we targeted?
[00:13:35]  Was I targeted?
[00:13:36]  Were you targeted?
[00:13:37]  We don't know the names who were targeted yet, but we do know that some of the speech delimiters involved Hunter Biden, the Biden family in Ukraine.
[00:13:44]  Hopefully soon we'll know that.
[00:13:46]  Now, I know personally that I was subjected to a criminal investigation because in 2022, my lawyers had.
[00:13:52]  A criminal investigation for what?
[00:13:54]  There's no more honest human being on earth.
[00:13:57]  Yeah, for reporting on Hunter Biden.
[00:13:59]  And they believed I was getting my information from Russian sources, laundered through Rudy Giuliani and the lawyers around President Trump.

=== Taxing the Rich vs Leaving (08:40) ===

[00:14:09]  They got a little lesson.
[00:14:10]  They got a schooling that day because they realized I got my stuff from the FBI's files.
[00:14:13]  And the second they realized I got my stuff from very concrete sources, government documents, they closed that down.
[00:14:21]  And thankfully, they were going to bring me before the grand jury.
[00:14:23]  They said, oh, you don't need to go for a grand jury.
[00:14:25]  You're done.
[00:14:26]  And I walked away.
[00:14:27]  But I had to hire a lawyer to defend what turned out to be very accurate, honest reporting.
[00:14:32]  Tell you what, when you get this information, we're just on the clock here, but we'll bring you back and we'll give a full accounting of it.
[00:14:39]  Why do I suspect your name's at the top of the list?
[00:14:41]  And I'm probably down by like number 12.
[00:14:43]  I don't know.
[00:14:44]  Well, your name's been on.
[00:14:46]  Maybe I'm.
[00:14:46]  What's that?
[00:14:47]  The department was monitoring you.
[00:14:48]  So we know that's true.
[00:14:51]  People only knew half of what we have to deal with that we don't talk a lot about.
[00:14:56]  But anyway, John Solomon, justthenews.com.
[00:14:59]  Great reporting as always.
[00:15:00]  We'll continue to follow the story and any updates you have.
[00:15:03]  All right, quick break, right back.
[00:15:04]  We'll continue straight ahead.
[00:15:06]  800-941-Sean is a number.
[00:15:13]  The Dems want to stand on the steps singing terrible songs and cursing out Trump.
[00:15:19]  You know, you have one guy over there, shouting.
[00:15:21]  Ever wonder if these people ever go to work?
[00:15:24]  Me too.
[00:15:25]  Roll them out.
[00:15:26]  This is the Sean Hannity Show.
[00:15:38]  Linda, we've been spending a lot of time in California.
[00:15:41]  You know, their insane taxes, the mass exodus, this referendum that's coming up in California that would be retroactive to January.
[00:15:50]  All these billionaires are making a mass exodus.
[00:15:54]  I mean, the top six alone are going to cost that state tens and tens of billions of dollars.
[00:16:00]  We have talked at length about the state of New York and this latest proposal, 50% death tax for the city of New York only.
[00:16:12]  I mean, New York City, not New York State, New York City has a higher proposed budget under Marxist Kami Mamdani than the entire state of Florida.
[00:16:24]  And they have lousy schools.
[00:16:27]  They have lousy infrastructure.
[00:16:29]  They don't have law and order.
[00:16:30]  He's all part of the defund dismantled, no bail law madness.
[00:16:35]  Of course, I don't like his views or his wife's views when it comes to Israel and the Jewish community and how his wife in particular saw October the 7th, pretty repulsive to me.
[00:16:49]  But with all that said, you know, New York, and I'm going to play for you in a minute, Kathy Hochul, the governor.
[00:16:56]  Now all of a sudden, she's like, well, we'd like the people to come back to New York.
[00:17:00]  And they're all going down to Palm Beach.
[00:17:03]  But this is her saying, Lee Zeldon, go down to Florida and all these other conservatives.
[00:17:08]  Trump, go down to Florida where you belong.
[00:17:10]  She tells them, listen.
[00:17:11]  And we're here to say that the era of Trump and Zeldon and Molinaro, just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.
[00:17:22]  Okay?
[00:17:22]  Get out of town.
[00:17:23]  Get out of town.
[00:17:25]  Because you don't represent our values.
[00:17:29]  You are not New Yorkers.
[00:17:31]  And then, of course, famously, then Governor Andrew Cuomo made the statement, you're not a New Yorker if you're pro-gun and pro-life and anti-gay.
[00:17:43]  I'm no conservative I know is anti-gay.
[00:17:46]  Okay, put that aside.
[00:17:48]  You know, you're not a New Yorker.
[00:17:49]  There's no place for you in the state of New York.
[00:17:52]  Here's what he said.
[00:17:54]  Their problem is not me and the Democrats.
[00:17:57]  Their problem is themselves.
[00:17:59]  Who are they?
[00:18:01]  Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life, a pro-assault weapon, anti-gay?
[00:18:12]  Is that who they are?
[00:18:14]  Because if that's who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.
[00:18:21]  Because that's not who New Yorkers are.
[00:18:24]  Then he said, tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
[00:18:27]  We did.
[00:18:28]  And the rich start leaving, God forbid.
[00:18:31]  Here's that cut.
[00:18:32]  We have one of the most progressive tax codes in the United States, which is a good thing, which means the richer you are, the more you pay.
[00:18:44]  However, that presents a very fragile economy because then you are relying on a very small number of people for the vast amount of your tax dollars.
[00:19:01]  1% of the taxpayers pay nearly half of all the taxes.
[00:19:09]  1% pay nearly half of all those taxes.
[00:19:13]  Those 1% are the richest people in the state.
[00:19:17]  They're the richest people in the country, and they are the most mobile people in the country.
[00:19:23]  And you see the chart on the bottom.
[00:19:26]  Top 1%, about 46%.
[00:19:29]  Top 5%, 63% of all the revenue.
[00:19:33]  Top 10%, 74% of all the revenue.
[00:19:37]  Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
[00:19:40]  We did.
[00:19:41]  Now, God forbid, the rich leave.
[00:19:44]  Now, this is what's fascinating.
[00:19:46]  They chase everybody out.
[00:19:48]  They beg you to go.
[00:19:49]  People leave, you know, when you have, you know, JPMorgan Chase, more employees in Texas than you do in New York, and it's so identified with New York, it tells you everything.
[00:19:59]  Now, this guy's proposing dropping the estate threshold from $7.5 million to $750,000.
[00:20:06]  You can't even own a closet to live in in New York City for that amount of money.
[00:20:11]  And he wants 50% of all the money you've been taxed on, and he wants to confiscate it when you die into the death tax on top of a 40% federal death tax, on top of our 10% state tax.
[00:20:24]  And, you know, Kathy Hochl, our tax base is eroding.
[00:20:28]  Businesses are leaving because of the tax rate.
[00:20:31]  I'm like, oh, you're just figuring that out now?
[00:20:35]  Because Wall Street South, every big business, every private equity firm, every investment firm, every big bank has a massive presence in South Florida.
[00:20:48]  And all these companies are escaping.
[00:20:51]  And they're taking with them a massive amount of money.
[00:20:56]  And these states are going to be going bankrupt.
[00:20:58]  The city of New York, I'm telling you, is going to be headed towards bankruptcy.
[00:21:02]  It's a matter of when, not if.
[00:21:04]  Here's Kathy Hokel, you know, now finally identifying the problem, but she was begging, you know, conservatives to leave.
[00:21:11]  What I want to make sure we are smart about is having a system in place where it's not just taxing for the sake of taxing and being conscious of the facts that I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state.
[00:21:30]  Right?
[00:21:31]  Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up.
[00:21:35]  Okay, cut me the checks.
[00:21:37]  I mean, just if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.
[00:21:47]  So I philosophically don't have a problem.
[00:21:49]  It is like I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals.
[00:21:58]  And I would say remote work changed everything.
[00:22:01]  There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan or work in New York State, and they were captives to our state.
[00:22:07]  They were going to stay.
[00:22:08]  We saw that that's not the case.
[00:22:10]  I mean, you know, Wall Street businesses looking at Texas, they're not going there because they have a nicer governor.
[00:22:17]  I know that for sure.
[00:22:18]  But they're going there because of the tax rate.
[00:22:20]  No, they're going because they like the governor too.
[00:22:22]  Like they like my governor, Governor DeSantis, two of the best governors in the country.
[00:22:27]  He still doesn't get it.
[00:22:28]  I'm just asking high net worth people to please support our social safety net and go down to Palm Beach and ask all your friends to come up here so we can take more of their money.
[00:22:40]  There comes a tipping point, Governor.
[00:22:43]  And with all due respect, you begged people to leave.
[00:22:47]  And now you want their money.

=== Please Stay in Your Homes (03:28) ===

[00:22:50]  And guess what?
[00:22:50]  You're not going to be able to get your hands on it because there's not one wealthy company or person that I know that doesn't have a complete exit strategy, hiring accountants and lawyers to make sure that the cut is so acute that you can't come in there with your tax people.
[00:23:12]  That's why, Linda, when people say to me, well, you only have to spend six months in a day and you're a resident of Florida, right?
[00:23:17]  I'm like, wrong.
[00:23:18]  Well, in fairness, Sean, you might be a little bit wrong here because as memory serves, you were asked to stay.
[00:23:26]  Sean, we know you're mad at us, and you have every right to be.
[00:23:30]  Occupy Wall Street, Governor Cuomo, that weird smell.
[00:23:33]  New York has made a lot of big mistakes, but we're going to change.
[00:23:37]  Just please stay.
[00:23:39]  Stay.
[00:23:40]  Stay.
[00:23:41]  We can't lose you.
[00:23:43]  Stop.
[00:23:44]  Yo, Sean, man.
[00:23:45]  You can't leave.
[00:23:45]  We need you, dog.
[00:23:48]  I will lose my accent if you stay.
[00:23:50]  Let's grab a beer and what's the game?
[00:23:53]  How's that?
[00:23:54]  We'll make sex in the city tours, Sean and the city tours.
[00:23:58]  If you stay, we'll cut off our hoodies.
[00:24:00]  We're in love.
[00:24:01]  But we'll marry women instead.
[00:24:03]  We'll stop selling halal food.
[00:24:05]  We will sell Abu Pi.
[00:24:06]  That keys on pipeline, we'll run it through Central Park.
[00:24:09]  No problem.
[00:24:12]  Yeah, it was a hoodie without hoodie.
[00:24:14]  The city depends upon jock breeders like you, Sean.
[00:24:17]  So we're going to give you the perks you deserve.
[00:24:19]  We'll name a street after Reagan.
[00:24:21]  Hell, we'll name them all after Reagan.
[00:24:23]  Worried about your commute home?
[00:24:25]  No problem.
[00:24:26]  This A-train is now running directly to Sean's house.
[00:24:30]  T. Shayer, Po.
[00:24:31]  Take a note.
[00:24:32]  Please stay, stay, stay, stay, stay, Mr. Hannity, stay.
[00:24:41]  How do we do?
[00:24:45]  Who would we tax till his money was gone?
[00:24:48]  Who would we impose socialism upon?
[00:24:51]  Stay, stay, stay, Mr. Hannity.
[00:24:54]  Stay for life and can't talk.
[00:24:57]  Stay in your first and second homes.
[00:25:00]  Don't disappear forever like Alan Cole.
[00:25:04]  Please, Mr. Hannity, please, Mr. Hannity.
[00:25:07]  Please appeal to your infinite vanity.
[00:25:10]  Keep your unique friend of far-right insanity.
[00:25:14]  Safely away from the rest of humanity.
[00:25:18]  Stay, Mr. Hannity, stay.
[00:25:22]  Whatever you want, say, remain in the state that fills you with hate.
[00:25:28]  That's the stay if you remember anyway.
[00:25:31]  Stay.
[00:25:32]  Stay, Mr. Hannity.
[00:25:35]  Stay.
[00:25:36]  Won't you stay?
[00:25:39]  On second thought, who gives a f what you do?
[00:25:42]  I mean, right?
[00:25:44]  Broadway stars, Nathan Lane.
[00:25:46]  Stewart ever did, Nathan Lane, and all those wonderful people.
[00:25:50]  They were begging me to stay.
[00:25:51]  And then he says at the end, get the hell out of here.
[00:25:53]  We don't care.
[00:25:54]  We'll name every street after Reagan.
[00:25:57]  It was pretty funny.
[00:25:58]  That actually is pretty funny.
[00:26:01]  And that was the Jersey Boys that were singing, which is pretty cool, too.
[00:26:04]  That was see, I do have a sense of humor when people make fun of me.
[00:26:10]  Well, you actually have a great sense of humor when people make fun of you.
[00:26:13]  Other people get very bent out of shape, but you do not.
[00:26:17]  I don't care.

=== Free Speech Alive and Well (03:34) ===

[00:26:18]  And for those of you who don't remember who are listening, I have been here long enough that Sean used to have a hate hotline, and we used to get calls and then he would play them on the air.
[00:26:29]  Some of them were too vile to play, but I was like, really?
[00:26:33]  This is what we're doing?
[00:26:34]  Yeah.
[00:26:35]  By the way, we should bring back the hate Hannity Home.
[00:26:37]  No.
[00:26:37]  What do you think?
[00:26:38]  No.
[00:26:39]  The world is, it's got enough hate.
[00:26:40]  Let's do something positive, please.
[00:26:43]  You're the one with the hate list, not me.
[00:26:45]  Yes.
[00:26:46]  I have 13 people I hate.
[00:26:47]  Doesn't mean I want to spread that around to millions.
[00:26:50]  All right.
[00:26:50]  Quick break to our phones.
[00:26:52]  We'll go when we get back 800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
[00:27:01]  You're on the Sean Hannity Show, a place where free speech and the First Amendment are still alive and well.
[00:27:08]  Liberalism is a failed ideology.
[00:27:11]  Get your dose of independence and liberty every weekday right here with Sean.
[00:27:47]  as he phones.
[00:27:48]  800-941-Sean.
[00:27:51]  Roberto, my free state of Florida.
[00:27:53]  Roberto, how are you?
[00:27:55]  Great.
[00:27:55]  Thank you.
[00:27:56]  Thank you, my call, John.
[00:27:57]  I appreciate it.
[00:27:58]  Just two things I wanted to run by you, if I may.
[00:28:01]  One is our founding fathers and our framers, when they created the Second Amendment, they were geniuses in doing that.
[00:28:08]  If you look at all these countries like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, all these socialist communist countries, they don't allow citizens to possess weapons.
[00:28:20]  And that's where the citizens are so oppressed and they can't do anything unless the United States sell them out.
[00:28:26]  And so the Second Amendment, to me, is one of the brightest ideas that our founding fathers ever had, even though I was born in Cuba, but I'm an American citizen.
[00:28:35]  I arrived here in 1959.
[00:28:38]  Once they disarm the people, remember, and we're seeing this now a little bit, it's problematic for the people that are standing up against the Iranian regime, is you can't win a revolution with a slingshot.
[00:28:54]  And whether there's plans to arm the people, I don't know.
[00:28:57]  I'm not that in the know on it.
[00:29:00]  I would imagine there probably is.
[00:29:03]  But there's coming a moment, and I would say, you know, watch the next two, three, four weeks.
[00:29:07]  And I think this thing's going to wrap up.
[00:29:09]  And then it's going to be in the hands of the people in Iran.
[00:29:11]  And then they will decide.
[00:29:12]  They will be the masters of their own destiny.
[00:29:14]  And this will be the opportunity of a generation.
[00:29:18]  As President Trump said, seize it.
[00:29:20]  And as Netanyahu said, be ready for it.
[00:29:23]  And my hope and prayer, I do believe God created every man, woman, and child for the purpose of living free and fulfilling the talents that he put inside all of us.
[00:29:34]  And that is the natural state of mankind.
[00:29:36]  It was our framers and founders talked a lot about it, that we're endowed by our creator with inalienable rights.
[00:29:43]  And it is that natural inclination, desire, it's in every human's DNA to be free.
[00:29:49]  And so many people on the face of this earth don't live in freedom.

=== Seize This Opportunity of a Generation (00:45) ===

[00:29:53]  Anyway, my friend, I appreciate your call.
[00:29:55]  800-941-Sean is on number.
[00:29:57]  You want to be a part of the program.
[00:29:59]  All right, when we come back, the latest on the SAVE Act, we've been checking in with a lot of senators, and I'd love to see this happen.
[00:30:06]  I'd love to see Republicans fight.
[00:30:08]  I'd love to see them convince people.
[00:30:11]  And hopefully the American people will get behind those people that see the importance of proof of citizenship and voter ID if you're going to vote.
[00:30:19]  And it's just voter integrity.
[00:30:21]  Both Democrats, Republicans have complained about not having both over the years.
[00:30:26]  This is the chance to fix it.
[00:30:27]  And Chuck Schumer's losing his mind as per usual.
[00:30:30]  Anyway, we'll get the latest update from Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri on the other side.
[00:30:35]  We'll also get your calls in 800-941-Sean as we Continue.