Sean Hannity and Lila Rose confront alleged DOJ overreach, claiming the Biden administration weaponized the FACE Act to target pro-life activists while ignoring cartel violence. They cite cases like Mark Hawk's exoneration and Bevelin Williams' imprisonment, alleging collusion with Planned Parenthood. The discussion extends to Rose's call to ban RU486 and cut taxpayer funding, alongside Hannity's analysis of bombing Iranian infrastructure to empower moderates despite nuclear risks. Ultimately, the episode frames these issues as critical battles for faith and liberty against perceived government tyranny. [Automatically generated summary]
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DOJ Targets Peaceful Pro-Life Groups00:11:05
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If you want to join us, you know, more and more day by day, we get corroboration, confirmation that everything that we have been reporting to you over the years, especially as it relates to the grand conspiracy to get Donald Trump, weaponization of our Department of Justice, was more real.
We were more right than we ever knew at the time.
And for example, we covered exhaustively, extensively on this program how the FBI was investigating moms and dads showing up at school board meetings and investigating them for being possible domestic terrorists.
Now, meanwhile, we had real terrorists and murderers and rapists and child molesters and other violent criminals and cartel members and gang members, over 12 million of them, crossing unvetted into our country, and they didn't lift a finger to do anything about that.
But we're learning more and more just how extensively.
This has gone on, how they would target peaceful pro life groups.
And now, because of recent disclosures, we have learned that the Biden DOJ weaponized the FACE Act.
You might recall that came up in the issue of that incident involving Don Lemon, formerly of CNN, being in the church.
That law was mostly adopted and supported by the left because it gave them a way to prevent people that are pro life from, you know, they had to peacefully protest their very strict laws, et cetera.
But we learned that the DOJ of Joe Biden collaborated.
Behind the scenes with pro abortion groups to track pro life activists' First Amendment activity.
And pro abortion groups, it's been reported pretty much extensively.
The National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, and others capitalized on their relationship with the Biden DOJ to gain internal information and push targets for enforcement.
They compiled evidence, dossiers, ultimately gave rise to search warrants and charges.
You're allowed to be pro life in America.
They helped one pro abortion group even secure.
Funding.
The Biden DOJ pursued significantly harsher sentences for pro life defendants than they did for violent pro abortion defendants.
Now, remember, this is the party Summer of Love 2020.
Dozens of dead Americans, thousands of injured cops.
They were pelted with bricks, rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, billions in property damage.
They're mostly peaceful.
They weren't mostly peaceful.
Now, if you go back in time, here's Merrick Garland saying that the DOJ prosecuted more pro life protesters because their actions are during the day.
So, all of those people that we know and had evidence and we had videotaped evidence in the Summer of Love, the Chaz Chop, Summer of Love, spaghetti potluck dinner zones that were burning down cities, you know, we had all the evidence of them doing it.
They never lifted a finger to prosecute them.
I forget how many, 575 confirmed riots in that summer.
Meanwhile, they only cared about January 6th.
They're such phonies and hypocrites.
But here's Garland saying that, well, they did this only because their actions were during the day.
Forget about those people.
burning down buildings and hurting cops and killing people at night.
I will say you're quite right.
There are many more prosecutions with respect to the blocking of the abortion centers, but that is generally because those actions are taken with photography at the time during the daylight, and seeing the person who did it is quite easy.
Those who are attacking the pregnancy resources centers, which is a horrid thing to do, are doing this at night.
In the dark.
We have put full resources on this.
We have put rewards out for this.
Lila Rose, who is the founder president of Live Action, was a victim of the administration of Joe Biden and their efforts to manipulate every corner of his term with corruption.
It's just been released by the Justice Department that the Biden administration and their weaponization was used against pro life Americans, by the way, most of which, the overwhelming majority of which, were peacefully protesting.
Lila Rose is with us.
What specifically happened to you?
Hi, Sean.
Thank you so much for covering this.
So, of the over 700,000 internal records, there was a pattern detected, like you've already said, about federal power being used by the DOJ against pro life Americans.
Live Action is the organization I founded where the educational leader for the pro life movement, we advance the cause of life every day, especially the young people.
Biden's DOJ was actually asking potential jurors that were supposed to be there to, you know, in the courtroom to judge.
Ultimately, pro life activists who are being unfairly discriminated against and held to be criminally liable and being tried with federal offenses.
If the potential jurors read our website and were familiar with our liveaction.org news reporting and other publications that cover abortions, ultimately, I think to try to remove jurors from the pool that were in any way sympathetic to the cause of life.
Of course, this was not something they were asking about pro abortion groups, they're asking about pro life groups.
And when we saw this, I mean, it makes sense why people like Mark Hawk, Bevelin Williams, young mother of a toddler, Mark Hawk, he's a Catholic father of seven.
Were arrested by the DOJ, prosecuted.
Bevelin was thrown into prison for several months until President Trump pardoned her, all for peaceful pro life activism.
And they were one among dozens.
There were two among dozens of pro life activists who suffered this fate under the Biden administration.
I'm sure you have lawyers.
Is there any remedy or recourse that you're planning on pursuing?
Well, personally, no.
For liveaction.org being used as a reason to maybe remove jurors from the jury pool is a serious problem.
I'm more concerned and actually heartened by cases like Mark Hawks, who was actually a victim of the DOJ, showing up at his house to arrest him with federal agents while his seven young children are scared, cowering behind the door.
They did this at 7 a.m. in the morning when all the children were home.
They arrested Mark, they threw him in jail.
Ultimately, Mark was completely exonerated because these were phony charges that were trumped up on him.
And now he actually just won a settlement of more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Justice just a few days ago because of this atrocious treatment.
I think Bevelin Williams should sue the Department of Justice for the way that they treated her.
Again, this was a peaceful protesting mother of a toddler who was pro life thrown into prison.
There are dozens of others, but I think justice is on its way.
Settlement, his winning of this over a million dollars is a huge step forward.
We need to see more of it, though.
I think anybody whose civil rights have been abused, I think they should have a right to sue the government and pursue damages.
It really is frustrating the double standard.
Simultaneously, why they were doing this, one of the two big lies one was that Joe was not a cognitive mess.
No, he's got more energy than all of us put together and all that nonsense when it was so obvious and clear and transparent what was happening.
And the other big lie is the border is closed.
And the border is secure.
Two big lies of the Biden administration.
And by not securing the borders, while they're wasting resources.
On, you know, tiger moms like Linda, our producer, who shows up at school board meetings to make sure that the curriculum that is being taught her children is age appropriate and not contradicting her values at home.
You know, they're being investigated as domestic terrorists.
The FBI wasting resources there.
They could have been going after known terrorists and murderers and rapists and cartel members and child molesters, and they didn't do it.
Then they're going after peaceful pro life protesters.
In most cases, they were peaceful.
Now, if they're not peaceful, they deserve to get arrested.
But that's not the case, is it?
It's not the case.
And here's the thing there are peaceful.
I mean, the prolife movement is built of these incredible mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers who are just lovingly doing this work day in and day out.
The Pregnancy Care Center movement, thousands of organizations that serve women with material needs diapers, wipes, job counseling, free ultrasounds, all of that is provided.
Keep in mind that under the Biden administration, we saw Antifa and other pro abortion activists that were actually vandalizing churches.
Pregnancy resource centers that were being attacked and threatened.
We received death threats.
I received death threats.
The DOJ was not paying attention to any of that.
They were not going after Antifa or the pro abortion vandals.
They decided to go after the pro life moms and fathers like Mark Hawk, father of seven, and Bevelin Williams, the mother of a toddler, to actually prosecute them.
And in Bevelin's case, of course, throw her in jail.
That was the focus of that administration.
So, you know, it was a huge step of justice.
Toward justice for President Trump to exonerate many of these and pardon them.
I mean, Bevelin was pardoned, and several, two dozen more were pardoned, pro life activists.
But there's a lot more corruption that I think needs to be exposed.
And we have to be very aware of this because there's a whole political party, unfortunately, the Democrat Party, that not only wants to make it legal to kill babies through all nine months in the womb and have that be tax funded with your tax dollars, but they want to throw pro life activists who are peaceful and loving into jail, and they don't even want them to have the right to freedom of speech.
Pretty remarkable that all this has happened.
And we're now discovering it.
And I do hope there is accountability at the end of the day for the people that have been responsible about this.
All right, quick break.
More with Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action on the Other Side.
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Let me ask you one question.
Leadership on Abortion Pills Needed00:15:44
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Supreme Court took up the issue of the abortion pill.
And the abortion pill basically, they've codified the law that it has to be readily available to any American that wants it.
That pretty much allows a first term abortion where people can buy that pill at their local pharmacy.
I don't hear people in the pro life community talk about it.
In that sense, has it altered, shifted, changed the abortion discussion, considering the Supreme Court somewhat or pretty much codified into law that first term abortion is legal?
So it's a great question.
Our team was just on a conference call this morning about the abortion pill and our activism to try to get this lethal drug off the market.
The Supreme Court did not codify any law saying that's.
We need to have this lethal drug, the abortion pill, on the market.
They merely punted the issue, said, We're not going to actually take a case about this at this time.
I think that they should take a case about it in the future.
The reality is, right now, Sean, the abortion pill is sent via our postal mail system.
So you can send that pill to someone's doorstep, to their dorm room, to their mailbox.
Before, even before Biden under Obama, there was a doctor's visit that was required that hugely lowered the number of those abortions because women would go in and they would find out.
Oh, you know, they'd take more time to think about it.
They'd find out about other health complications they may be having.
So they would opt not to have a chemical abortion, an abortion pill.
The abortion rate has ballooned.
It has gone up to over 1 million abortions a year, with 600,000 of these abortions being done on little girls and boys in the womb because of the abortion pill, because that pill is just sent via mail.
A woman can literally press a button on her computer, ultimately make a phone call.
That pill comes to her door.
There's no doctor's visit.
There's no ultrasound to determine that the baby's actually inside of.
Her womb and not an ectopic pregnancy outside of the womb, which can be very dangerous, by the way.
And because of this, Sean, one out of every 22 women who take an abortion pill end up in the emergency room right now.
Very dangerous.
It's killed several dozen women.
And one out of every 10 of them has severe medical side effects like hemorrhaging, infection, bleeding.
And again, this is not being reported, it's not being talked about.
So we're calling, the proliferation movement is calling on the FDA, which has the power to do this, to take this lethal drug off the market because it's designed to end the life of a human being.
Which is always wrong, an innocent child.
And it is extremely dangerous and sometimes lethal for the woman, too.
So we are calling for RU486, this abortion drug, when it's used for abortion, to be removed from the market.
And guess what?
The FDA has the power to do this, and we hope that they will act soon.
Do you think you have the American people's support behind you?
I've seen contradicting polls.
I think that there are a growing number of pro-life Americans.
A recent poll came out that said more young people identify as pro-life than three years prior.
So there is good shift in that direction.
I think there is certainly a hot debate right now.
Some people are ambivalent on this.
They think, well, women need this choice.
I think people need more education and understanding this is a human life.
This is an innocent human life.
They need protection.
And there are other better options for women.
You see, we're not serving women by saying, oh, abortion is your choice.
Go have an abortion.
Abortion is dangerous.
For women, abortion leaves many women with lifelong regret, and we should be supporting moms and dads.
That's what our Pregnancy Resource Center movement does.
That's why we're also, Sean, calling for us to stop funding Planned Parenthood.
They're the biggest abortion chain.
All their health services, like pap smear tests and breast exams, have gone down.
They're providing less and less of those services, no prenatal care, but they are committing more and more abortions.
Instead of sending taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, we should be funding programs that help moms and dads.
With their young families, help moms have healthy pregnancies.
So I think the country needs more leadership on this.
I think people are making up their minds on this.
They're changing minds on this.
But if we saw more leadership, we've seen some leadership from the Trump administration.
If we saw more leadership saying, no, abortion pills should not be on the market, we need to be supporting the American family, making it easier to have kids in this country, I think that the American people will respond very positively to that kind of vision and leadership.
Well, they got this whole new.
You know, guys marrying a trad wife phenomenon going on.
We'll talk about it more in the days to come.
Lila Rose, we appreciate your time.
Thank you.
Every day to remember the forgotten man.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Nick Sortor is back in the news.
This guy does a lot of good work.
He really does.
He's a pretty brave guy.
And he went and confronted Jamie Raskin over his support of Abrego Garcia.
Listen to how this goes down.
You said kill more Abrego Garcia.
You voiced a lot of support for him originally.
Now he's been charged with facilitating the transport of illegals.
Are you still going to double down on that?
So he gets due process now?
Do you believe in due process now?
I don't think he.
Wait, was he supposed to be here to begin with?
Was he illegal?
Was he illegal?
How did Kilmar Obrego or C.S. get here?
How did the judge allow him to be here?
You know that?
How did he get here originally?
Did he come here legally?
Your girlfriend's come here legally?
Get back to your job, man.
Okay, so you can't answer the question.
Yeah, no, we can't.
You seem a little angry about it.
Is that why?
Is it because you were made to be a fool out over it?
I mean, you were supporting a man whose wife accused him of beating her.
Trump's judge allowed him to be in the country.
Did you know that?
He's not in the country.
He was allowed in the country?
And then what happened?
And then what happened?
Then he was deported back to his home country.
You keep calling him the Maryland father, who apparently beats his wife, which she said on the record that he beats her.
Go back to the QAnon meeting.
Is it okay with you?
Is it okay with you to see illegals smuggling other illegals through the country?
Is that what the people of Maryland want?
The people of Maryland, you think they want illegal gangbangers?
Go back to the people of ours, man.
Go back to whoever you think you're from.
Okay, so human smuggling, yes or no?
You get human smuggling right out of my face, you little fascist.
Get out of my face.
You little fascist.
I'm not guessing who you are.
All right, well, okay.
You know, I will tell you I don't care if it's Nick Shirley, Nick Sortor.
Maybe it has to do with the first name, Linda.
I'm not sure.
But, you know, if only they were named Sean.
Sean.
That's right.
Maybe Sean.
But the funny part is, you know, there are people that, citizen journalists, that really do a great job.
And they really are courageous.
I mean, poor Nick Shirley's a young guy.
He's 24 years old.
Now he needs security.
Now he's getting slammed online.
And, you know, he's living in our reality that we just don't care about.
It's just an average day for us.
But, you know, for a young person, It's pretty courageous.
He keeps doing it anyway and gets attacked by Gavin Newsom's machine and Tim Walz's machine.
Anyway, you got to give these guys credit.
Jamie Raskin's an ass.
Doesn't want to call the police.
Call the police.
All right, to our busy phones Dean in Gavin Newsom, Mr. No Show Governor's Communist Utopia of California, where there is a mass exodus underway of rich people.
Hello, Sean.
First time caller.
How are you?
Good, sir.
Glad you called.
Hey, my question is in regards to.
President Trump's threat to bomb Iran's infrastructure and power stations and whatnot.
I have a friend who's from Iran, and when the operation started, I reached out to see how she was doing and make sure family's okay.
And her comment was basically, let's put this regime in the ground.
So, knowing that that's the sentiment of probably the majority of the people in Iran, what will happen to that sentiment if we destroy their power plants and all?
They turn against us somewhat.
The reason the president has pushed so hard for peace is it's not something he wants to do, but militarily, it would be the best decision.
What do I mean by that?
If you wipe out the ability of the Iranians to have any incoming money, the odds will go up exponentially that whatever remaining loyalists to the former regime, the now fourth and fifth tier leadership, The odds of them being removed will go up that much higher.
Right now, they have half their workforce that are out of work, 180% inflation.
Their currency is worth zero.
The president doesn't want to do it because you got 90 million people that will be impacted by this.
However, those are the same people that have been imprisoned and beaten and tortured and murdered and oppressed for 47 years.
And unfortunately, getting rid of evil is complicated business.
And it's hard work.
You know, the amount of progress we've made in a relatively short period of time has been phenomenal.
If the president has to go the harder route, it'll take a little bit longer than we hoped.
But the president's not going to stay there forever.
And this will wrap up.
And I've been saying for days now, it's going to be the easy way or the hard way.
And it looks like, you know, the Iranians are having a power struggle the guys in suits and the guys with guns right now.
Right.
And Right now, the guys with guns have the upper hand.
And if they end up with the upper hand and we don't have successful peace talks and they don't open the straight, they don't hand over the nuclear dust, then there really is no other option, is there?
No, no.
Yeah, I'm just concerned that if the majority of the people turn against the United States, that's sort of a weapon that we've lost.
I know it's difficult, but if we can empower them to do the work for us.
There have been attempts to arm them.
And they've been disrupted many times.
Hopefully, some of that will be successful moving forward.
We're just going to have to wait and see.
If you ask me the way it's looking today, the blockade is working.
And now the Iranians can't decide.
They're fighting each other whether or not they even want to show up in Pakistan.
Yeah.
And I don't think the president is inclined to extend this ceasefire.
But we'll find out.
Well, no, it's pretty short order, I'll tell you that.
But the one thing that will be accomplished is they won't have a nuclear weapon.
And at some point, That is the.
We've got to stick true to our original purpose and mission here, and that has been the number one focus of the president.
But, you know, I pray for the people of Iran.
I want them to have a great future.
The Persian culture has historically been amazing.
And unfortunately, you know, they're killing their own people, they're torturing their own people, they're enslaving their own people.
They have taken away all liberty and freedom from their own people.
It's an oppressive Islamic regime.
That believes in this convert or die, kill the infidel mentality.
It's sad because it could be such a great country.
Thanks, Dean.
Frank, Colorado.
Next, Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
What's going on, Frank?
Hi, Sean.
Quick question because my phone's about to die.
Why doesn't Iran just buy their nukes from China, Russia, or North Korea?
I think the North Koreans would be the most inclined if they were going to sell it.
It's believed that a lot of Iranian missile technology came from North Korea.
I would assume Russia.
Maybe China, maybe North Korea combination, help them build out their enrichment capabilities.
There's no doubt they've gotten help from around the world.
And they've made a big miscalculation because radical Islamists will turn on the world.
It's not just America, it's not just Israel, it's everybody.
And this is where Western Europe and NATO allies have made their catastrophic miscalculation.
And that is that they should have involved themselves from the very beginning, they're a paper tiger.
They're a continent in decline.
They're individual nations in decline.
And when this is all said and done, there'll be a reconfiguration of NATO.
I don't think it will exist in its current form.
That's my prediction.
Appreciate the call.
Okay, Chris, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
Hey, what's going on?
Yeah, I'm just wondering like, I called you a while back and I was, you know, we're just wondering like, do you think we underestimated their missile capabilities at all?
No, well, yes.
In one sense, every time the world has.
Estimated either the nuclear capability, ballistic missile capability of the Iranians.
We've always been wrong and we've always made an error on the side that we underestimate the Iranians.
We now know when we learned during Epic Fury that they have ballistic missile range that goes far further with a greater distance than we originally knew.
We now know that they can hit Paris, they can hit London, they can hit other parts of Western Europe.
So, yeah, just like, you know, the IAEA, you know, all these globalist organizations, the UN, others have always underestimated their nuclear capability.
We make this error all the time.
It's unbelievable to me.
And I know you say not let your heart be troubled a lot, right?
One thing that's really troubling me is when we hit this school with the supposedly like 160 girls in it or so.
I mean, that's something near and dear to me.
I have.
You know, small girls around that age.
And, you know what I mean?
Like, and I understand.
Are you talking about Israel and Lebanon?
Where are you talking about specifically?
About in Iran when the U.S. hit the school that killed like 160 schoolgirls between the ages of like 8 and 12 is what they're claiming.
No, I read about the incident where there was the collateral damage.
I wish war didn't exist.
I wish we didn't have evil.
I wish the Iranians, you know, weren't the number one state sponsor of terror.
I wish they didn't chant death to America and death to Israel.
I wish they didn't fund proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis.
I wish the world were a better place.
However, evil exists.
I always reference the last century and Mao in China, Stalin in Russia, Hitler in Germany, Mussolini, fascism, Tojo in Japan, Pol Pot in the killing fields.
That's over 100 million dead people in the last century in the name of some ism, in the name of some evil.
That was being pursued by mad people.
And the question is are we better off neutralizing a threat before it can become a mass killer, or do you just let it ride and put your head in the sand?
That's nobody will ever know.
Boston Sauce and Gravy Debate00:04:26
Well, I mean, I think we do know the answer.
I think if the Iranians ever got nuclear weapons, I think the Iranians would use them.
I don't think it's any more complicated than that.
And I think, you know, President Trump has leaned on the knowledge we learned from the last century, along with peace through strength and no forever wars.
This is not going to be a forever war.
And unfortunately, in conflict, you know, we have been targeting military targets, they target civilian targets.
Hamas uses and Iran uses and Hezbollah uses, they use human beings as shields so they can foment their terror.
We have been hitting their military targets by and large.
It's not a perfect science, but we've done as well as we possibly can.
And I think the, you know, when you weigh it against the threat of a nuclear armed Iran, it's not even a question for me.
Maybe other people have a different view.
Let me ask you a question Was it the right decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
I don't know much about it, so I don't know.
You don't know about World War II?
I know.
You don't know about.
But not enough to, like, really, you know, give a defense.
Anywhere between 160,000 and 200,000 people died as a result of it.
But it ended the war.
Was that the right decision that saved American lives?
I mean, yeah, it saved Americans.
The Japanese bombed us at Pearl Harbor unprovoked.
Yeah, I mean, you got a point.
Appreciate the call.
Angelo in Boston next on The Sean Hannity Show.
Good afternoon, Sean.
Pleasure to speak with you.
Longtime listener, first time caller.
But I was.
Oh, glad you're out there.
We have about a minute.
What's on your mind today?
Well, sauce, sauce, gravy.
Anything that's red that's put on pasta is gravy.
I was 18.
Oh, good grief.
19 years old before I learned that there was a thing called sauce.
Mm hmm.
Let me ask you.
You've watched one too many episodes of The Godfather.
You've watched that movie over and over and over again, haven't you?
No, I'm afraid to say.
I've maybe seen it.
I'm going to make you some gravy.
No.
I got it.
No, all the kids, everybody I grew up with, I grew up in the North End of Boston, an iconic North End.
Seth.
The heart of liberty in this country.
And nobody spoke about sauce or sauce, like Linda was saying, but it's gravy.
My grandkids.
Okay.
Why don't you stick with chowder and then leave the sauce to us?
Oh, you mean chowder?
Boston's not exactly known for the best food in the world, just for the record.
Boston's known for chowder.
And the best chowder isn't even in Boston, it's in Rhode Island, it's at the Black Pearl.
Oh, okay.
We got some good ones up here, though.
Not as good as the Black Pearl.
It's worth taking a trip to Newport.
Okay.
All right, my friend.
It's not far.
It's like an hour, hour and a half away.
You can go to Rhode Island.
You'll have a great time.
Beautiful state.
Appreciate the call.
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Wrap things up for today.
The deadline now approaches.
It looks like hardliners are winning the intramural battle inside of Iran.
Too bad for the Iranian people.
They seem hell bent on battling Donald Trump, and they don't seem to learn a single lesson.
We'll have reporters around the globe.
We'll check in with John Fetterman, General Keith Kellogg tonight.
We'll be watching what's happening in Virginia, Jason Miaris, the former AG, Hannity on Fox.