Sean Hannity addresses King Charles's state dinner and Keir Starmer's legacy before reporting James Comey surrendered on an indictment for case 8647, dismissing his "sand numbers" claim as political theater. The show details Iran's economic collapse, UAE's OPEC exit, and FBI raids on Minnesota welfare fraud, criticizing Tim Walz while highlighting a Supreme Court ruling allowing GOP redistricting in eight states. Hannity concludes by exposing 34,000 dead voters in North Carolina and luxury cars among SNAP recipients, framing these as evidence of systemic Democratic corruption and election integrity threats. [Automatically generated summary]
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Assimilation and Sharia Courts00:04:27
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If you want to join us, Linda would have disowned me if I went to the state dinner last night.
King Charles.
And why would you have disowned me?
You said that to me today.
That was very mean.
If I made a decision.
Well, if you want to be a traitor to God and country and go dine with Chucky and Camilla, that's what you deserve.
I'm not going to be a traitor to my country if I go to a state dinner.
Although I will tell you this, I don't believe in bowing to anybody.
You know, the tradition is that you bow and you.
Well, I would not have bowed to the king.
I would have shaken his hand.
I would have extended my hand.
I got so many emails yesterday about us playing this and people saying I should have played My Country Tis of Thee instead of this.
I can't, I don't even know where people get my email.
I love that.
The fact that this triggers you is more entertaining to me than anything else.
I had a lot of friends.
A lot of people from Fox went to it.
I was invited to it, but I, you know, I have work to do.
I mean, I did the radio show, I did a podcast, and then I did TV.
I mean, I have work to do.
And I did cover work last night.
Chucky hasn't worked in a long time, boss.
He can't relate, you know.
He sits around and people serve him.
I mean, look, I mean, can any of us relate to a king?
No.
I did have our friend Piers Morgan on afterwards.
And, you know, all of my criticisms of.
Europe as a continent and Great Britain in particular, I did bring up with him.
And I, you know, we have Neville Chamberlain Starmer now that wouldn't even allow our planes to land at bases in the UK, which to me is unforgivable.
And I think between the UK and France and Spain and Italy and other countries, I think the NATO alliance is headed for, you know, a collapse.
And I don't think that we're going to pay two thirds of the freight moving forward.
And then I brought up the issue of Sharia courts.
He did not really dispute anything that I.
I was saying, although he said, well, they don't really have any lawful recognition in Great Britain.
I would argue in the world, if you're separating yourself from a country that you have assimilated, that you refuse to assimilate into, it's a problem because you are clinging to, you have no desire to be a part of the country that you have now chosen to be in.
And I think that's a massive problem.
And I think unfettered illegal immigration, And even legal immigration without assimilation is going to end up biting them all in the you know what.
And I also think that, you know, on top of embracing radical socialism and climate alarmism has hurt these countries.
And I think neglecting national security and national defense issues, not paying their fair share to NATO, I think there's going to be a very dear price to pay.
I think as a continent, the continent of Europe is in a precipitous decline.
And I'm not sure if they're even going to be able to save it.
And it's not just Sharia courts in Great Britain.
It's no go zones in France and other parts of Great Britain.
I think it's going to be a big problem.
I don't wish it for them.
We have had a special relationship with Great Britain for many, many years.
And ideally, it would continue.
However, it's not ideal when you have a defense alliance.
And at one point during the conversation, you know, Piers brought up, well, I think one of the reasons that.
That Neville Chamberlain Starmer didn't engage or want any part of the conflict with Iran is because of the way the Iraq war turned out.
And I said, well, number one, it's a different president.
Number two, he has a different doctrine.
Number three, he's not for forever wars.
And number four, where is the moral clarity of Great Britain standing up against the number one state sponsor of terror?
And that part really frustrated me.
And I said, wouldn't a more appropriate analogy be negating, mitigating the threat of Nazi Germany before millions of people died?
And it's almost like the continent of Europe learned nothing from World War II.
I think it's more appropriate.
Oil Storage and Nazi Analogies00:07:16
We have some news today.
As a direct consequence of this morning's Supreme Court decision against racial gerrymandering, Republicans now in eight states have a chance to redraw more than a dozen congressional districts, all of which are held by Democrats, and its effects will be felt far beyond Congress.
And maps for state legislatures, county boards, city councils, and countless other government bodies have since the Voting Rights Act passage in 1960.
They have been required to comply with this act, and the House of Representatives now will experience the most high profile impact of today's Supreme Court ruling.
This is a big deal.
If you believe in equal justice, equal application of our laws, you don't draw congressional districts based on people's race.
Anyway, given how closely the divided chamber is in the House, alterations to a handful of seats could tip the balance of power.
So we'll see how this ultimately plays out.
But this is the final say so here.
We'll get to this later with John Solomon and Greg Jarrett.
James Comey turned himself in at a Virginia courthouse.
Indicted presidential, you know, 86 47 suspect, James Comey decided not to wait until a squad car showed up at his house this morning to haul him off to police headquarters.
He turned himself in at a Virginia courthouse.
I guess he probably wanted to avoid a perp walk, but, you know, there's no word as to whether he was immediately put in leg irons, which is what Comey, Chris Ray, And their FBI did to Trump advisor Peter Navarro.
And anyway, Comey turned himself in, federal authorities, Alexandria, Virginia.
But, you know, I will tell you this, and I don't want to dismiss the importance of this.
And I think it was a great lie that Comey told.
Isn't this interesting?
Wasn't that the post that he put up or something to that effect?
Isn't this interesting?
8647.
The guy's a former FBI director.
He knows exactly what he was posting on Instagram when he put that up, he knows exactly what it means.
And, you know, oh, I have no idea what this means.
I have none whatsoever.
I don't know what it means.
Yeah, you can put it up if you want to play it, sure.
I don't know if you do this on purpose just to get attention here, but you, is this Instagram?
Instagram.
You grammed this.
You were walking down the beach.
What happened?
You were walking down the beach and you saw this on the beach?
Yeah, my wife and I, Patrice, were walking on the beach and saw those numbers in shells on the beach.
You didn't do this.
Somebody else did this.
Yeah, somebody else did it.
We were on a walk preparing for this week.
Right.
Roll out of my book.
Yeah.
She looked at it and said, Why'd someone put their address in the sand?
All right.
And then we stood at it, trying to figure, looked at it, trying to figure out what it was.
And she'd long been a server in restaurants.
And she said, You know what I think it is?
Yeah.
I think it's a reference to restaurants when you would 86 something in a restaurant.
Right.
It's off the menu.
Yeah.
I said, No, I remember when I was a kid, you'd say 86 to get out of a place.
This place stinks.
Let's 86 it.
I was a bartender.
You would 86 a customer if they were getting drunk.
Like, let's 86 them.
Like, give them a low proof alcohol or something like that.
Yeah.
And so I said, I think it's a.
Clever political message.
And she said, You should take a picture of it.
I said, Sure.
And then she said, You should Instagram that.
And boom.
I don't believe that for a second.
That's my own personal point of view, Mr. Higher Honor.
I think he knew exactly what he was doing.
So, where to believe that the term 86 somebody, 86 47, Donald Trump being the president, that he had no earthly idea what that meant?
I just don't buy it.
But I just want to remind people this is not, you know, that's the low hanging fruit as it relates to Jim Comey.
Mr. Higher Honor, it's not the stuff that I think that ultimately he's going to have to worry about.
Wall Street Journal reporting today that the Iranian economy has descended into a death spiral.
Iran's economy now in a full blown collapse.
They are reporting war has imposed a heavy cost on the Iranian economy, widespread unemployment.
We've talked about this.
Half the workforce is out of work, 200% inflation rate.
Their currency is worth zero, soaring food prices, prolonged internet shutdowns.
It has slammed online businesses.
The war now has thrown about a million people out of work, more than that, directly, another million indirectly, according to estimates cited by Iran's Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, which I don't believe.
I think it's far worse than that, as others have estimated.
The cost of living up nearly double.
Now, the president did make the comment he's instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran.
But I am told that the president's patience on Iran is running very, very thin.
And I would not at all be surprised if he brings back military strikes on top of the blockade, on top of the anticipated now end of.
I mean, they're running out of storage for their oil.
What does that mean?
That means their oil producing wells will have to be shut down.
What does that mean?
That means that whatever level of production they may be at, if they reconstitute those wells in the future, at best, you can hope for maybe 50 to 60%.
Production rates of what it once was.
Once you shut down a well, once you cap that well, experts have told me, and I've read it extensively, that the production goes down significantly.
But this is a republic that's been at war since its inception.
But I think the combination of this blockade, what it's like for Iran's economy to be shut down, coupled with more military strikes, strategic ones, I think will be the end of it.
But we'll see.
But There's an interesting side note to all of this.
OPEC and their stranglehold over the global economy is now finally coming apart at the seams, which I think is a good thing in the end.
There was a good New York Post editorial about this today.
And the efforts of the president, both home and abroad, the result will be freer markets, long term lower energy prices, less debt for developing nations.
And when on Tuesday the United Arab Emirates.
You know, along with frustrated that are frustrated with OPEC's limits on their oil production, they declared their intent to leave the consortium within days to be free to meet demand on their own terms.
That's going to end up being great for consumers because the production and price of oil should be set by supply and demand.
In other words, global demand, not the whims of people that are organizing so they can artificially increase the price of such.
Now, OPEC began flexing.
Their muscles after the Yom Kippur War, that was 1973, when it refused to sell oil to any nation that supported Israel, and the ensuing oil shock saw prices triple.
Toilet Paper Panic and Gas Stations00:02:47
I mean, Linda, you don't remember this.
When I was growing up, I mean, during the Carter years, we had to wait in line just to be able to fill up our car.
It was terrible.
It was awful.
It was like what we did with toilet paper during COVID.
Same thing.
No, that's what you did with toilet paper.
I didn't do that.
No, no, no.
I didn't lose my mind.
I had connections.
I got all the toilet paper I wanted during COVID, everything I needed, everything I wanted.
It just so happened my father knew a gas station owner, and this guy blockaded an area where you could just sneak your car in, fill up your gas tank, and get out of there.
And he only used it for his regular customers, which was a pretty cool thing for us.
We didn't have to wait on those long lines.
People would wait online and they'd be, you know, at most allowed to, you know, put $5 worth of gas in their car.
I mean, oh, God, who would ever want to go back to those days?
Thank God I have my Tesla just in case.
I've got a gas car and I've got an electric car.
The electric car goes much faster than the gas powered car.
So we'll see what happens.
Obama's gaffe about the White House correspondence dinner shooter Cole Allen.
Is the latest in the former president's legacy of lies.
And anyway, his post presidency has kind of been a bit of a disaster.
Do you read all the stories online about him and him and Michelle and him and Michelle and the kids?
I mean, it doesn't sound like the greatest emerging image picture that you would expect.
But anyway, we haven't got the details of the motives behind the shooter, he said, began Obama's Sunday evening statement about the gunman.
He said, Except by the time Obama got around to acknowledging the attack, the entire world knew why Cole Thomas Allen had attempted to storm that ballroom where President Trump and much of the administration were breaking bread with the quote, Fourth Estate, meaning the liberal legacy media mob.
And anyway, I am no longer willing to permit, you know, and he goes on and attacking President Trump in his manifesto, et cetera.
He's getting hammered because of what he said.
You know, James Carville, he can't be the Antichrist.
He's too dumb.
An Antichrist would be smarter.
I can see that the left has really calmed down their rhetoric in light of what happened Saturday night.
That didn't take long at all.
Can't make that up either.
The FBI has raided over 20 locations in Minnesota as the DOJ's investigation into Somali welfare fraud has now hit the ground running.
We'll give you details on that coming up.
FBI raiding more than 20 locations in Minneapolis today in connection with the ongoing fraud investigations.
Florida Governor and Supreme Court00:15:33
The raids.
Said to be largely impacting the Somali linked businesses.
Today, the FBI with federal, state, local law enforcement involved in court authorized law enforcement activity, part of an ongoing fraud investigation.
My prediction watch out for California after California, watch out for New York after New York, watch out for Illinois.
It's not going to stop.
And Tim Walz has a shocking reaction to all of this.
He said he was putting criminals on notice and the FBI was working with state officials.
No, they're doing this in spite of him.
The FBI Director Kash Patel actually called him out on this.
He writes, Come again after Walls claimed that Tuesday's raids happened because of his state agencies.
No, I'm not true.
I told you about the Supreme Court ruling this morning.
This is a big deal, as the Supreme Court decision against racial gerrymandering is probably going to have a huge impact on the 2026 elections, especially in the state of Florida.
Anyway, as a consequence of this decision, Republicans in eight states now have a chance to redraw more than a dozen congressional districts, all of which are held by Democrats.
Now, Governor Ron DeSantis in my free state of Florida has already said that he plans to redraw these districts, and it could very well result in four or more seats that would be safer for Republican candidates.
This is going to be a big deal, especially in light of the fact, as I told you, I didn't think.
What happened in the Commonwealth of Virginia would ever hold constitutional or judicial review or constitutional muster.
But anyway, the impact of this is far beyond Congress.
Maps for state legislatures and county boards and city councils and other governmental bodies.
You know, since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by the way, historically, it was Lyndon B. Johnson that relied on Republicans to get this over the finish line.
Because people like Al Gore's father and people like Robert, former Klansman KKK Byrd, and Joe Biden, who once partnered with the former Klansman to stop the integration of public schools, just a little history.
It took Republicans to get the 64 Civil Rights Act passed, the Voting Rights Act passed in 65.
But anyway, the House of Representatives now will experience the most high profile impact of today's Supreme Court ruling.
And given how closely divided the chamber is, this could have a big impact.
What does it mean, especially in the state of Florida?
Well, it's too early to determine, but I think in light of what Governor DeSantis has said, this is probably going to be a state that is highly watched by everybody.
And I think probably the most impactful, Jim Swartzell is with us.
He's in the 19th district, which would comprise Naples and Bonita Springs, and I assume places like Fort Myers as well, is with us.
Sir, welcome back to the program.
Glad you're with us.
How are you?
Hi.
Thank you, Sean.
Yes.
District 19 is all of Southwest Florida from Cape Coral to Naples, Florida, your former home.
No, I live there.
I had a place in Southwest Florida for over 20 plus years and love Southwest Florida.
I could tell you the best restaurants in Naples on Fifth Avenue, Chops, Regina's.
And if you want the best people watching in the history of mankind, go to the Blue Martini, which I'm sure you don't frequent.
I do not.
No.
Most normal people would not.
But anyway, so what do you think the impact of this is going to be?
And what do you think the Tallahassee's impact is going to be on this on top of it?
Well, I'm pleased to report that the Florida House and the Florida Senate just passed it.
So the redistricting bill is making its way to Governor DeSantis' desk.
And I'm really proud of both President Trump and for Governor DeSantis for calling the special session and pushing this.
I think the ruby red state of Florida will be properly reflected once this is done.
Yeah, I mean, we have a big radio presence there, as you know, on 925 Fox News Radio, which does extraordinarily well.
And people in the area really love news, talk, information, et cetera.
And I think that the people in Southwest Florida are definitely going to pay attention to this.
And I think it could be more impactful than people have any idea about.
What do you think?
Well, that's why I started 925 Fox News.
And, you know, I'm proud to be one of your first affiliates in the country.
And I remember when you even recorded, not recorded, but when you did some of your shows live from our studios in Fort Myers.
I do.
And I still remember DeVoe Cadillac.
I think I had more Cadillac Escalades than anybody in the history of buying Cadillacs because I bought one after another, after another, after another, after another.
And they're great people down at DeVoe.
And I know they're a big advertiser of yours.
Let's talk about I mean, the beauty, it's so interesting because Florida to me is kind of bifurcated.
You have in Southwest Florida, you have more people from the Midwest.
In Southeast Florida, you tend to have more people from the Northeast.
There's way too many.
Former New Yorkers and people from New Jersey in Southeast Florida, there's a big difference.
There is, yeah.
We have a lot more of people that are leaving the sanctuary cities of Chicago and Minneapolis and so forth and coming to Southwest Florida.
And we're happy to have those strong Republicans that are distraught with their former hometowns here.
You know, the only thing I say to people, and I don't care if you come from the Midwest, And by the Midwest, I mean Ohio and Indiana and even Illinois, people that are moving to Southwest Florida or people that are from the Northeast that move to Southeast Florida.
The only thing I have to say is there should be one mandatory requirement.
Don't bring your dumb liberal policies with you and ruin Florida the way you ruined the state you left.
Since COVID, we've added over a million and a half Republican registered voters.
So the state's now ruby red and getting stronger every single day.
Now, have you gotten the support of the governor or where do you stand with that?
Well, the governor is not weighing in on this race.
What I'm doing is I'm supporting Byron Donald and his race to be our next governor.
He will be our next governor.
And he's going to win this race hands down.
I haven't even paid that much attention to it because it's like a no brainer.
Yep.
And we need a strong, local, rock solid conservative like myself to support President Trump like Byron did 100%.
Now, there's no doubt.
Do you worry at all about where we are at this moment?
Now, I'm making the argument that the issues that will impact us in November have not even happened yet.
In other words, if the war with Iran winds down, if we have enough runway time for the president, he's laid an economic foundation for the country.
We're talking about trillions of dollars of manufacturing investment, the largest tax cuts in history, energy dominance, all of these things combined, once the war with Iran has.
Has had the time to wind down a little bit.
I expect all of those policies now will begin to kick in, and I think people will see a significant increase in economic growth in the country, although they're feeling it already.
I mean, the average American, I think, is getting $3,500 more in their refund check than they were getting prior to the one big beautiful bill.
I agree.
And even further, so what this Iran war has done is it's created a fracture in the Middle East.
We're seeing the alliance that used to.
All be together, where you had all the Muslim countries from Iran to Saudi Arabia, they all kind of protected each other.
And so that relationship has been fractured.
They no longer support Iran.
And just today, the UAE dropped out of OPEC and OPEC, meaning if that cartel falls apart in this process, it could have a wonderful impact on fuel prices plummeting.
You know, it's amazing that people live in these other states and they have no idea how good.
They have it in Florida.
It is such a decided, it's such a distinct difference.
The infrastructure is better.
You don't have a state income tax.
You have very low gas taxes.
Property taxes now are going to be dealt with.
Where do you stand with the governor's idea of rolling back property taxes to pre COVID levels or maybe even more, maybe even eliminating them?
Well, there are so many proposals on the table.
We have to get one of the proposals through so that we can get it.
I mean, there's 10 or 12 different proposals of how to address property taxes, but it is an important issue in the state of Florida.
And that's why we call it the free state of Florida.
So we try to lower our taxes and we try to keep term limits and we try to do all these things to help make it what our federal government should be.
No doubt about it.
We do appreciate your time, Jim Schwartzel.
Thanks for running one of the best radio stations in the country, 925 Fox News Radio, and letting me be a part of it.
We do appreciate you more than you know.
Thank you so much, Sean.
All right, 800 941 Sean.
Our number, if you want to be a part of the program today.
Now, we have other issues we're going to get to in a stunning new generic ballot poll.
It shows Republicans now tied with Democrats.
And again, the Supreme Court decision will play into this for this year's midterm elections.
Here's a headline you won't be seeing in the New York Times Midterm shocker, GOP tied with Democrats in latest stunning House poll.
Now, this new survey from Harvard Center for American Political Studies and Harris found that Republicans and Democrats are tied in the generic congressional ballot roughly six months out of November's midterm elections.
And I keep reminding you really, all of you listening to this program have one thing to commit yourself to this year that come hell or high water, you're going to commit in your mind, your heart, and your soul that you're going to go out and you're going to vote in this election year.
And you're going to view this as the most important midterm in your lifetime.
We know what Democrats want to do.
They already have a plan, and they've already stated it publicly that there is a plan to impeach Donald Trump on day one in the House of Representatives if, in fact, they get power.
If, in fact, they ever got the House, the Senate, and the White House, James Carville has said the quiet part out loud, and that is that they will make D.C. a state, Puerto Rico a state, and they'll pack the U.S. Supreme Court.
And I can promise you this if you think weaponization during the Biden years was bad during the years leading up to Donald Trump being president was bad, it's going to be that on steroids and human growth hormone.
So, you know, we'll see what happens.
By the way, I don't know if you noticed this, Linda.
I'm sure you'll find this very interesting.
The North Carolina Board of Elections identified 34,000 dead people on the state's voter rolls following a comprehensive data comparison with a federal database.
34,000.
Dead people.
Anyway, they submitted 7.3 million voter records to the federal systematic alien verification entitlements database, and that's what they found.
I mean, this goes to the heart.
Why don't Democrats want voter integrity?
Why did they not want the SAVE Act?
Why don't they want proof of citizenship?
Why don't they want voter ID?
Why don't they want signature verification?
Why don't they want chain of custody controls for people that send in mail in ballots?
Why don't they want updated voter rolls?
Why don't they want partisan observers in every precinct in the country as people vote all day?
Why don't they want paper ballots?
Why do they want widespread early voting?
I mean, you don't even know what the issues might be if you're voting a month before the election.
They don't want it because, in their minds, they think that won't give them the greatest opportunity to cheat.
It's that simple.
The Agricultural Secretary, Brooke Rollins, identified 14,000 food stamp recipients who were driving luxury cars.
Linda, you're going to love this.
I've never wanted a Bentley.
Do you like Bentleys?
I don't like Bentleys.
I think it's too pretentious.
100%.
Okay, so what they found 14,000 individuals that have SNAP benefits driving, well, three of them were found driving Bentleys, three had Ferraris, 11 had Lamborghinis, 59 had Maseratis, 141 had a Porsche, 244 Alfa Romeos, 306 Land Rovers, and 2,098 Teslas.
And that's just in one state.
You can't make this up.
And I bet they all work very hard in the existing hospice system.
Centers that are currently located in burrito stands and in Ilhan Omar's restaurant.
Is that what you really believe?
I sure do.
By the way, London's real estate market.
Did you see me with Piers Morgan last night by any chance?
I did.
What did you think?
I think that you and he have a very interesting, almost brotherly, you know.
I like, I'm not hiding my truck.
My truck is bigger than your truck.
No, you guys are friendly, but you go at it.
Well, I mean, I did call him out on Neville Chamberlain Starmer.
I think the fact, and he did acknowledge that I was right.
I don't think anybody likes Starmer.
I don't think Starmer's family likes Starmer.
He's awful.
What does Macron's family like Macron?
Oh my God.
Macron doesn't like Macron.
I don't think Macron.
We are watching the death of a continent before our very eyes.
And I'll be honest, my hope and optimism doesn't exist.
That they could actually step up and solve the major issues that they have.
Look at everybody who showed up in our own Congress yesterday.
They showed up to see the king, but they won't show up to pass the Save Act.
It's funny how they can make time for one thing and not the other.
Yeah, by the way, why were Democrats so giddy to see a king?