Jim Jordan joins the Sean Hannity Show to condemn DHS funding breakdowns and the SAVE Act, citing 17,000 illegal releases in 2025 that enabled crimes like the murder of Sheridan Gorman. He attacks sanctuary jurisdictions in Chicago and Illinois while accusing Jeffries and Schumer of political obstruction regarding voting integrity. The discussion also addresses John Brennan's alleged lies about the 2016 Russia dossier, TSA pay disputes, and potential reconciliation bills for Minnesota and California fraud, concluding that systemic policy failures and political self-interest are driving America's border crisis. [Automatically generated summary]
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The House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, well, he this morning told Senate Democrats to screw off with their ridiculous ICE reforms proposed in this DHS deal and that this will face a brick wall in the House that is not going to happen in the House.
And this idea of a judicial warrant for every illegal.
Anyway, here's Jim Jordan from earlier.
I don't think it's going to happen in the House.
I don't think you're going to see us.
I mean, that list that Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Schumer put out four weeks ago with all their demands.
I think they had 10 different bullet points, but like 16, 17 different demands.
There's just some of those things there you should not do.
This whole idea that you got to have a judicial warrant, every time you're going to go, you're going to apprehend a migrant who's maybe committed some crime and you're going to go get it.
You have to get a judicial warrant.
That means you won't deport anyone.
It just stymies the entire process.
That is crazy.
But that's the number one thing on their list.
So there are certain things on that list that just make no sense.
So no, we can't give into that.
We've got to continue to enforce the law and put in common sense policies and get rid of this.
I said now, I guess, three times, this crazy sanctuary jurisdiction policy.
Well, that's something that we've been talking about at length on this program forever.
And to me, it's simply aiding and abetting law breaking.
Anyway, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan is with us now.
How are you, sir?
I assume there's been some consultation with the Senate.
I know this deal has been put forward.
I know that the president at least has been signaling he might be open to it.
The two restrictions they would have on funding the Department of Homeland Security because things have gotten so bad, you know, with TSA.
We're not funding the Coast Guard.
We're not funding Secret Service.
We're not funding TSA.
We're not funding ICE.
Although we do have the money for ICE thanks to the One Big Beautiful bill, the two restrictions that seem to remain are one, Democrats want to not fund ICE.
I don't think that's as big a problem because of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
But two, they want this idiocy of mandating that ICE agents that have seen an 8,000% increase in threat level, that they can't wear a mask.
And I think they have every right to prevent them and their families from being doxxed.
Thoughts?
They've been, yeah, because they've been doxed.
They've been tracked.
They've been spit on.
They've been sworn at.
They've been harassed.
They've been assaulted.
Their families have received death threats.
They've received death threats.
Oh, but Democrats say take off the mask.
That is the environment that's out there.
And Sean, we've talked about this.
One of the things that's creating that is this stupid, and that's the only word to use for it, stupid sanctuary jurisdiction policy that the left has embraced where 17,000 times, 17,864 times last year alone, 2025, people with a detainer note of sent by local law enforcement, because of left-wing political leadership, refused to honor that detainer.
And many of those people, many of that 17,000 number, were released to the streets and committed a crime against an American.
That is how dumb this policy is.
That's one of the things that needs to change more than anything else.
But no, no, that's not on their list.
Well, we saw this very thing happen, unfortunately, in this case that happened with this Loyola student.
I mean, it's so heartbreaking.
You know, this 18-year-old woman has killed a freshman, gotten killed last week, and her name is Sheridan Gorman.
And, you know, then you have J.B. Pritzker, the dope that he is, is he's blaming Donald Trump.
Then you have the, you know, Brendan Johnson, the dopey mayor, not owning the fact that Sanctuary City policies of his are partly responsible.
Then you have a local alderman saying, well, sounds like a case of wrong plays wrong time to me, which is insane also.
Well, yeah, particularly when this guy, I mean, this is sanctuary jurisdiction at its worst.
And understand, it's not just Chicago.
This is a tragic thing that happened there.
It's all over the country, 18 cities, 11 states, three counties, and the District of Columbia.
And because those are big, blue cities, and because those states are big blue states, that represents almost a third of the population lives in a sanctuary jurisdiction.
Where again, left-wing political leadership prevent local law enforcement from working with federal law enforcement when it comes to enforcing federal law.
And they will not honor those detainer notices.
Instead of just calling up ICE and saying, we're getting ready to lease this guy, can you come get him?
They go, no, no, no, we're going to release him to the streets.
And they do bad things.
Or it takes 10 or 12 agents to go find him on the street when it would have taken one agent to apprehend him at the jail or the detention center.
That's how crazy this is.
And you get these tragic, tragic instances like we have with this young lady in Chicago.
All right.
So there are two separate, although they are definitely related, two separate issues that we're dealing with here.
One is the funding of the Department of Homeland Security.
And for the sake of knowledge for this audience, the funding bill should have been passed.
Our fiscal year for the government begins October 1 of 2025.
So here we are heading into April, and they still have not funded this.
Democrats now have allowed this to expire.
We see what's happening at airports.
We see the TSA agents have not been paid in 40 days.
450 have quit.
Over 11% of the workforce didn't show up on Monday of this week.
I really can't blame them.
What's the point of showing up if you're not going to get paid for the work that you do?
Now, TSA, I'm sorry, Department of Homeland Security ICE agents have gone in to help.
That has expedited the process of getting people to their gates so they can get on their airplane and travel in a more secure fashion and making sure that safety and security is paramount.
All right.
But there's two separate things in play here.
One is funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which, by the way, the House has done.
The second is the SAVE Act, which the House now has passed three times.
Now, we're dealing with two separate issues, and we're dealing with the Senate that seems incapable of getting either one of these issues across the finish line.
Now, the president apparently met with Jon Thune, the budget GOP committee, and now they're talking about a second reconciliation bill as a means of getting both of these priorities over the finish line, albeit it's not the ideal way, but I'm looking at the political reality whether I like it or not.
And it seems like that might be the only path to go at this point.
I would rather they all just stand their ground and fight for the SAVE Act and fight to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
No, it's going to be the way we have to go, no doubt about it.
Now, we should do a second reconciliation bill anyway, because we may need to do it, frankly, to get to replenish the troops with this conflict we're in in Iran.
We may need that a supplemental for the Pentagon.
So that may be the catalyst for reconciliation as well.
But all these things I think play into reconciliation, we need to fund GHS and any element of the SAVE Act that we can get on reconciliation, we should do it.
But also, never forget, I think a key focus of this reconciliation package will be a way to address the fraud that we saw that's unfolded in and that unfolded over the last couple of years in Minnesota.
And then also the fraud we're now seeing exist in California, and we know it's other places.
So all those things should go into a reconciliation package.
We definitely should do this.
And instead of having one big beautiful bill, we can now have a second one.
And we should do that to deal with the things that I think are concerned to the American people and to get our government functioning, particularly DHS.
You know what's pathetic to me?
I mean, you have a leader in the House in name only, and you have a leader in the Senate in name only, their respective names, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck E. Schumer.
Hakeem Jeffries is saying that the SAVE Act has nothing to do with ensuring elections are conducted with integrity.
Now, we all know that's a lie because if you want to get into the Democratic National Convention, if you want to drive a car, if you want to buy a six-pack of beer, a pack of cigarettes if you smoke, a jewel pod, or even a nicotine pouch, which I like, if you want those things, you need ID.
If I go to the Democratic National Convention, I need picture ID.
And the last time I went, I think I was checked three or four times before I was allowed in.
And he's saying that it has nothing at all to do with election integrity.
All they're asking for is proof of citizenship and voter ID.
Why would they reject that, Jim Jordan?
I think you know the answer, and I think this audience knows the answer.
We know the answer.
It's pure politics.
They think it helps them win by not having actual they want to cheat.
They want illegals to vote.
Isn't that the honest answer?
Because there's no other reason to oppose this.
Yeah.
Now, I think maybe the reason that at the Democrat National Committee they checked you three times and multiple times is because you were Sean Hannity.
Maybe they were harassing you.
But you're right.
Everything.
Oh, you mean the same people that suppressed my social media, the same people that release my private personal text messages, but actually treat me differently?
I'm shocked.
Yeah, the same thing.
The same people that spied on you apparently got warrants to get your phone records and where you were when you made a call or received a call and who called you and so on and so forth.
Those people?
Getting your text messages, getting Sean Hannity's text messages, Jim Jordan's phone logs, who I called, when I called him, how long the call lasted, where I was at if I initiated the call.
By the way, the problem is probably half of the calls that they picked up are between me, you, and Mark Meadows.
Maybe so, particularly that timeframe they were going after.
That's a whole I don't know why I'm laughing because it pisses me off.
Well, I hear you, but at some point you have to laugh because it's so ridiculous.
But I do think there's some justice coming.
I know this wasn't the subject we were necessarily on, but you may have seen where we now had Odi and I, who's on a referral on Brennan.
The CIA director has released material on John Vernon.
We did a referral to the Justice Department for John Brennan because he definitely lied to us.
And then, of course, last night, the House Intel Committee released transcripts of John Vernon.
So I do think there may be some accountability finally coming for the guy who was one of the key architects of this entire episode, clear back in 2016 with the dossier and how they changed the intelligence community assessment.
And so if it means our phone records got grabbed and this, but someone's going to be held accountable, then maybe there's some justice after all here.
All right.
Let me ask you, because I want to stay on this whole thing.
First of all, let's talk about the transcripts of John Brennan.
What are we learning?
Well, Intel just released those.
Voters who released those last night.
Those are going to be sent over to the Justice Department.
Like I said, we did a referral six months ago because John Vernon most definitely lied to us about the dossier.
We know he lied because of the material Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, and John Ratcliffe have made public last summer because it directly, that material that they declassified and made public, directly contradicts what Brennan said to us in a hearing.
And it was all about the dossier and when they started back in 16.
So down in the Southern District of Florida, there's this investigation going that is looking at this broader conspiracy type effort between Comey and Brennan and all those folks who were going after President Trump in his first term.
And you also saw where Comey was subpoenaed by the folks down there in the Southern District of Florida.
So I do think there's now movement for people.
And remember, Vernon signed the letter that he was one of the 51.
Comey was the 8647.
You know, the seashell suddenly got arranged in this area, and he took a picture of it on the beach down there.
These are these guys who were from the get-go trying to undermine President Trump's first term and change what's called the intelligence community assessment.
It said one thing, they have a meeting in the White House and they change it to create this false narrative that somehow Russia wanted President Trump to win and there was collusion going on.
It's all baloney and now there may be some, as I said before, some accountability for these guys.
I've been saying this now for days.
There's been so much chatter and so many referrals that I think it's him and John Brennan, by the way, is the idiot that actually proclaimed on MSDNC that he trusts the Iranians more than he trusts President Trump, which is madness.
Let me go back to Hakeem Jeffries.
Can you believe after the murder of this young 18-year-old Loyola student, Sheridan Gorman, and he was asked about, you know, if the illegal that murdered her should be deported, and his answer is, oh, I'm going to look into that.
Let me play this for you.
An illegal immigrant has been charged with murdering a college student in Chicago last week.
Do House Democrats believe if he's convicted, he's someone who should be deported?
I'll look into the case.
What do you mean I'm going to look into the case?
It's been all over the media.
I mean, what about this same party wouldn't stand for Lake and Riley or Jocelyn Nungari's family?
They wouldn't stand with the president for the premise that the first role of government is to protect the American people, not illegal immigrants, Jim Jordan.
No, again, it underscores just the crazy positions they take.
And you've highlighted this so well on your show.
You know, it's crazy to have an open border, which we had for four years.
It's crazy to defund the police.
It's crazy to abolish ISIS.
It's crazy to shut down the government 43 days in the fall, 40 days here in the now spring.
It's crazy to have sanctuary policies.
It's crazy to take the position that they take when you have a violent, illegal immigrant who did something terrible to an American citizen.
And somehow you got to look into that before you can say, no, no, no, make this person pay the and get him out of the country.
I mean, that's just the crazy position they take.
I said this the other day.
I think this midterm election is real simple.
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It's about two sentences.
They're crazy, we're not.
And go tell the voters all the examples of where they take a crazy position.
And President Trump demonstrated that in the day of the union address when he called them out for not even standing for something so basic, so common sense.
And so that's, in my mind, what this election comes down to.
They take crazy positions.
We take common sense positions.
And oh, by the way, we've actually done what we said in cutting your taxes, securing the border and making sure Iran is not going to get a nuclear weapon.
That's what this campaign is going to be about, in my judgment.
We just got to go tell the American people that.
And if we do, I think we can win.
All right, Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, sir, thank you.
You're always doing great work.
We always appreciate your time.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue on the other side.
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I...
Um, you...
You know this woman, Cheryl Minter?
Linda, have you followed this case?
This guy, what did he have?
30 priors, an illegal immigrant, I think it's a Biden-Harris mayorkus illegal, right?
It is.
Yep.
30 prior, 30 run-ins with law enforcement.
30 times they had him in custody.
30 times they could have deported this guy.
And tell me if I'm getting any of my facts wrong here.
You're not getting anything wrong.
And the sad part about it is that Cheryl Minter, who is Stephanie Minter's mom, just spoke out and she was like, you know, I don't understand what is going on.
Like my daughter was at a bus stop and somebody with 30 previous arrests stabbed her to death.
And her point in what you're about to hear in this cut is her saying they've stopped serving the citizens.
Like she is at a complete and utter devastating loss because she has nowhere to turn.
I mean, Spamberger has no interest in helping an American citizen like her whose daughter was taken from her in the most violent and horrific way.
How many more times can I say that when the president came back into office and gave a joint session speech and they wouldn't stand for Lake and Riley's family or Jocelyn Nungari's family or Daniel, that young man that became a Secret Service agent, and this year they wouldn't stand when the president said, stand with us if you think the role of the government is to protect American citizens first over illegal immigrants.
They wouldn't stand for that.
And here is yet another example.
How many more Americans will be murdered, raped, victims of violent crime?
How many more children will be molested?
How many more people will die of drug overdoses because of drug cartels in this country, drug dealers in this country from foreign countries, on top of the fact that we have known terrorists in the country?
This is one mother, the mother of Stephanie Minter, murdered in Virginia by an illegal and slamming lawmakers, rightly so, for failing her daughter.
Change has got to happen with this.
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It's just got to.
I don't know where all these political people are.
I mean, they stopped serving citizens.
They've just stopped.
And I'm not quite sure how they get voted in.
And can I add one thing to that, Sean?
Go right ahead.
It's in Fairfax County.
The prosecutor there is this guy, Steve Descano.
The federal judge in the case gave a removal for him, gave an order for him to be removed six years ago, but they wouldn't honor the ice detainer.
So this guy, Descano, who's a Democrat, wouldn't honor it.
Well, but this is happening in every sanctuary city.
That's why that slob of a governor, J.B. Pritzker, blaming Trump for the death of this Loyola student is so disgusting.
And Brandon Johnson, you know, ducking and dodging.
And we played that.
And then we have the older woman.
Well, this guy was, you know, this woman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The only person in the wrong place at the wrong time was the illegal immigrant that came into this country, allowed him by Biden-Harris Mayorkis, a month later arrested, set free again, and then murdered this 18-year-old freshman.
Unbelievable.
Vince Vaughn, the actor, I don't know who he was on, I think with Theo Vaughn on Theo Vaughn's podcast and just slamming late night talk show hosts for not being funny and their anti-Trump agenda.
Good for him.
Listen.
The podcasts have gotten so much more popular with less production, less writers, less staff.
People want authenticity.
Yeah.
And I think that the talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based.
Yeah.
They were going to evangelical people to what they thought.
You know what I mean?
And so people just rejected it because it didn't feel authentic.
It felt like they had an agenda.
It stopped being funny.
And it started feeling like I was in a class I didn't want to take.
Yeah.
I mean, it's so true.
It's unbelievable.
Not really hard to figure out.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
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John in my free state of Florida, John, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm not sure if you caught our governor on my video podcast hanging with me, but he was great on this podcast.
You can get it wherever, you know, YouTube or wherever you get your podcast.
We're lucky to have such a good governor.
I'll tell you that.
Oh, absolutely, Mr. Hannity.
I mean, he is an icon.
He's done so much for this state and for the young men and women in education in the state.
He's a model, and we're lucky to be here.
And I've been lucky to be here for 16 years, but I think I really appreciate what you do, you say, and your voice to the American public.
So thank you.
Well, I appreciate your vote of confidence.
It means a lot to me, and I can't do it without you.
What's on your mind?
Well, you know, I look and hear all these things.
I am an instructor of Less Than Lethal, which you talk about a lot.
And I think and sincerely believe that the only one that's going to defend you is you.
That's what I teach my students because the average critical encounter is over in 40 seconds.
So nobody is really going to be there to help you but you.
And with less than lethal and some other things for certain people, you can defend yourself.
I mean, I tell all my students or tell me, you know, you need to leave every day.
People depend upon you.
You need to come home every day in one piece.
And a lot of the stuff you talk about with different systems and different programs and different types of things will get you home.
My number one premise is there's two things.
You need to get time and distance away from a threat.
You can have that, you survive.
It's pretty simple.
Listen, this is why I believe that we need national security.
I mean, personal security strategies and plans.
Everybody needs one because the world is unfortunately extraordinarily dangerous.
It just is.
And we've got to be very, very, very careful and on guard.
It's that simple.
And look, I don't think it's complicated.
I think a lot of people, unfortunately, they just don't prepare for this worst case scenario.
That's dangerous.
And anyway, I urge people, that's why I support pyrna.com.
Go look at the non-lethal self-defense option.
I think there's a reason so many government agencies, police departments have adopted it.
There are situations where somebody wants to kill you and your family.
At that point, you don't have any other option but the lethal option, but you want to avoid that at all costs and only if it's absolutely necessary.
I tell people my first strategy, and tell me if I'm wrong, you're an instructor.
My first strategy is to try and get out of any situation that might be getting tense before anything ever happens.
I try to de-escalate every situation.
I don't think people look at the situation before they walk into it.
The FBI said, what's the most dangerous place?
Gas station, later night, ATMs, dark parking lots.
Stay out of, you know, I kind of laugh and say, stay out of the zone.
You know, stay out of those things where the critical situations occur.
And like you said, unfortunately, I've had to use the Burnout type system twice professionally because I'm also a specialized security person for individuals in our lovely area here.
I've had to use it twice.
Kept me from dealing with the aftermath of pulling out the nine millimeter that was strapped to my other hip and saved a lot of aggravation from that.
So you're preaching to the choir here, sir.
I appreciate what you do.
I think everybody, please have a safety and security plan for you and your family.
It's a dangerous world.
You keep hearing all these cases, all of this violence that's in small towns and big cities, and you've got to be on guard.
You know, the amount of effort that I put into security is way more detailed than anyone would imagine, unfortunately.
And in part, it's because of what I do.
But anyway, I appreciate it, John.
Thank you.
Jill in Gavin Newsom, Socialist Communist Utopia of California.
What's up, Jill?
How are you?
Hey, and believe it or not, Mr. Hannity Sean, I was born into a very democratic family.
And I thank you and rush because you have put me on the straight and narrow change in the grace of God.
So I thank you for that.
Long time caller since the mid-1990s.
Not caller.
Thank you.
Listener, this is actually the very first time I called in.
And I wanted to let you know, I know you're a true patriot.
My son is serving this great country of ours up in Alaska in the Air Force.
So I just wanted to let you know that.
And we're praying for our troops.
Pray for our troops and your son, and God bless them.
And thank God that we have them.
Amen.
Amen.
So I just wanted to let you know about a solution for this, the TSA agents that are not getting paid.
It's an abomination.
Shame on Congress.
My daughter flew in last night from Seattle.
So at CTAC, she went through the TSA line in less than 10 minutes.
Okay.
She said the Starbucks line at the airport was longer than the TSA line.
And what she told me is, and I think this is a solution for a lot of airports.
They have a rainy day fund.
Every ticket sold, they tag on the fee and they put it in a fund so that when governments shut down, they hire independent contractors.
So that's why she didn't have to stand in line for four or five hours.
And I just think that is some positive news that should be shared with this great country of ours because I've told many people about this and they're like, that is good to know.
That is worth sharing.
So I just thought it's a positive.
Tell me how that works again because I think I don't know if that's applicable in the busy airports.
What airport did she fly out of?
She flew out of SeaTac.
It's in Seattle, Seattle, Washington.
I would imagine that's a pretty busy airport.
It is.
It is a very busy airport.
And like when my son flies to Reading or to Sacramento, California, he always has a layover because he's in Alaska.
So he has a layover in Seattle all the time.
It's not as busy as Atlanta or Chicago or LaGuardia, but it is a busy airport.
We appreciate the tip and the insight.
I'm sorry you live in California.
My sympathies go out to you and all the money that goes out the door with you.
Back to our phones.
Tony in Rhode Island.
What's up, Tony?
How are you?
Hey, good afternoon, Sean.
Well, you know, I'd like to say that if Iran hated Israel in the United States before, they hate us even more now.
And what concerns me is I can't see how.
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I'm playing, I'm wrong.
How it's going to be, the whole process is going to be successful without the people of Iran rising up against the IRG.
I know our Marines are on the way to that area.
Perhaps maybe they're going to spearhead the locals to start going in there and eradicating the extremists.
You know, it's a really concern, quite frankly.
I mean, let's face it, eventually the Democrats are going to get back into office.
And along with that, I can guarantee you the borders will be open again, people.
And we're going to have other people coming into this country that do not have America's interest at hand.
And talk about sleeper cells.
I mean, we may just end up having Iranian terrorists in this country, possibly causing a lot of may.
I think they're already here.
I know you've been saying that for quite some time, but you know, Sean.
Well, it's not just that I think they're here.
Our government believes they're here.
Right.
They've got to be right one time.
And we have to write 100%.
We have to be perfect.
One mistake, and it could be a potential disaster.
Yeah, you're right.
The most preventable national security failure in the history of the country.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Alejandro Mayorkas, and their complicit fellow Democrats around the country and all those sanctuary, city, state, governors and mayors, all responsible, all have blood on their hands, all of them.
I've got to run, Tony.
Love our friends in Rhode Island.
Go get some clam chata at the Black Pearl of Newport for me, okay, buddy?
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