WEBVTT - Defending America - January 2nd, Hour 1 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.400 Well, we have come in to your city. 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.320 Wanna way I gets and saying you a conscious. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.319 Un will be desired. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.000 And if you want a little bang in Uni. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:17.680 I come along. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.040 But the media has tamed down a little bit. They're 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:21.200 liking us much better now. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.000 I think if they don't have to just take them 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:25.600 on again, and we don't want to do that. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.440 Violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.880 who's allegedly killed the CEO of United Health. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.360 But you can only push people so far. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:42.479 People interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:43.840 act of violence against them. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.680 Freedom is back in style. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.640 Welcome to the revolution. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.880 We have coming to your. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:01:00.840 Going the way I get Tizan saying you a conscious Zin. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.319 New Sean Hannity Show, more Me I'm the Seas information 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:12.000 on freaking news and more bold inspired solutions for America. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:13.039 Welcome everybody. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.920 This is Joe Kanca in for Sean Hannity on this 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:21.639 January second. It's still weird to say twenty twenty five. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.240 This century is going by fast, and twenty twenty four 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.600 is probably the fastest year of all time. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:29.039 Of course, you guys know me. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:30.679 I'm on the show all the time, whether it's radio, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.160 whether it's television with Sean. I am a Fox News 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.559 contributor and author of the upcoming book, The Greatest Comeback Ever, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:43.720 Inside Trump's Bold, Beautiful Campaign, unburdened by what has been 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.520 available for pre order. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.680 Now You're gonna love the cover has. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.640 Donald Trump, not the assassination attempt, the first one, not 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.000 a serious stoic picture of the forty fifth and forty 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.240 seven president, but Donald Trump at McDonald's waving goodbye to 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.040 a customer. Came up through a drive through, and I 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:06.360 can say on New Year's Eve, I was with the 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.840 future president and former president at mar A Lago. They 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.040 were nice enough, the Trump people were to invite my 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.119 wife and me to not only attend this huge gathering, 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.960 but to actually sit at the president's table. Malanya of 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.880 course was there, Elon Musk right next to the president. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.440 To his right across from him, jd Vance, Vice President 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.520 jad Vance, his wife Usha. I could go down the 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.000 list as far as all the people, but you get 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.600 the point. To be seated at the president's table on 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.480 New Year's Eve, that was something special. So I just 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.919 wanted to thank the President and his team personally. It 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.200 was a night that well, let's put this way beat 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.800 doing like that one hundred dollars all you can drink 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.239 thing that I used to do in Hoboken with my friends. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.640 This slightly was better than that. So and a beautiful night, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.639 by the way, and now it's like twelve degrees here 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.080 back in New York City. So that was reality striking 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.639 when we came back quickly on yesterday afternoon. So let's 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.080 get to the big news here, guys, And that obviously 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.360 is twenty twenty five came in, and it came in 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.119 with chaos, and it came in with death and destruction 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.959 and just horrible to see on your screens. I'm sure 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.760 when you woke up on New Year's Day expecting, Okay, 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.960 I'll watch the Rose Bawl, I'll catch up on some things. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.200 Maybe I'll just kind of hang out and you know, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.600 get over whatever I may have done the night before, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:28.680 and you turn on your TV and then you have 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.600 to see that a mad man decided to take his 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:36.040 truck and drive down Bourbon Street. I was in New 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.200 Orleans last year for a speech, and obviously you know 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.960 Bourbon Street. It's like one of the first places you 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.320 visit when you're down there. My hotel is basically right 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.080 next to it, and it's not a very wide street. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.560 You know, people can get quartered in pretty easily, and 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.520 if a truck gets in there, there's nowhere to really 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.520 get out of the way to you know, obviously protect yourself. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.640 And now we hear that fifteen people, at least fifteen 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:05.800 people had been killed, dozens injured. This radicalized man who 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:11.680 was at least alleged to ISIS, he actually served in 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:16.280 the military here, he was from Texas. He rented a truck, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.600 he put an ISIS flag on the back of it, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.240 he had IEDs in the back of the truck, and 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.400 then even after he was done mowing down people, he 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.000 got out and started firing at law enforcement. Two police 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:32.200 officers were hit. They are expected to be okay. But 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.279 this was something that perhaps could have been prevented on 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.520 two levels. For starters, the red flags were there, and 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.440 how many times do we see this where you suddenly 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:45.760 see the social media posts of somebody who clearly has 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.120 mental issues, clearly could be a threat, and somehow got 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.000 under the radar here. And then obviously the barricades that 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.440 should have been in front of Bourbon Street, they were 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.800 in the process of being improved or built whatever language 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.400 that you want to believe coming out of New Orleans, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.719 those absolutely should have been completed, especially in front of 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.640 like the number one street that you have to protect 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.920 that's in the French Quarter, that is Bourbon Street. And 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:18.600 obviously this truck was able to get around some temporary barricades. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.240 Police down there were using police cars to try to 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.760 prevent this sort of thing from happening. We see those 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.880 large concrete blocks that are used or barricades I should say, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.760 we see in New York City, for example, Times Square. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:32.560 They're put in. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.840 You're not going to get anywhere near Times Square, no 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.800 matter what sort of truck or even tank that you 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.159 have when these things are in place. And that's what 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.200 should have happened in New Orleans. So that's what we 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.919 know right now. The FBI has been all over the 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.720 place when it comes to this particular story. First, they 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:53.520 came out rather quickly before an investigation possibly could have 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.720 been done the right way, and said they didn't think 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.679 it was a terror attack, which you know, a truck 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.960 mows down people and the guys starts shooting at police. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.680 I'm not you know, in the FBI or even never 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.119 served in law enforcement, but just as a guy watching 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.520 this on his couch, you come to the conclusion pretty 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.640 quickly that that's exactly what happened here. So then the 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.320 FBI walks this back and says, no, it was a 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.359 terror attack. The New Orleans mayor actually said from the 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.720 onset rightly that this was a terror attack. And now 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.640 we're hearing, Look, we're only thirty six hours after this happened, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:30.719 that the FBI is concluding that this suspect must have 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.840 been a lone wolf, that he wasn't working with anybody else. Well, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.440 after thirty six hours, how do you really know that 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.040 he's dead? So he's not talking, and you don't know 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.320 who he may have worked with beforehand. He came from Texas, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.080 he rented, he just knew right where to get to the 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.719 Bourbon Street and there wouldn't be any barricades there. And 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.080 then there were reports of IDs being found in other 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.440 parts of the city as well. I just think, how 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.159 do we know so quickly, Just like the shooter in 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:00.400 the first Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, thirteen July, 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.800 they came to a conclusion so quickly, not this kid 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.440 doesn't working with anybody. Yeah, I's just a twenty year 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.640 old who just happened to outflank the entire Secret Service 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.480 and local law enforcement, was able to hide a rifle 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.440 behind an air conditioning unit at a building one hundred 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.680 and fifty yards from the stage where the candidate and 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.680 President Trump was set to speak, and then was able 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.200 to get up on a building which had the perfect 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.800 line of sight to that stage, was able to fly 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.679 a drone the day of to scout out the place. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.280 I mean, I could go on and on as far 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.760 as like the failure's there, but the fact that we 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.160 hear after a very short investigation, it felt like that 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.840 Thomas Crooks, twenty years old, once again just acted alone 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.760 and nothing to see here, And now if it feels 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.000 like this is happening all over again, nothing to see here. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.440 I mean, of course there's something to see here, But 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.160 for them to say that this was alone wolf a tactle, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.160 do we really know that? And I think ten years ago, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.440 if the FBI told me something, I believe it, I'd say, Okay, Well, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.119 these guys are the experts, and these are the people 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.200 protecting us, and I don't think that it's politicide. To 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.560 a certain extent, this is before again James Comey in 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.520 the twenty sixteen election, so FBI was largely trusted at 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.400 that point. So if they told you this, you would 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.120 believe it. And now it's like, well, wait a minute, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.640 you're saying it's a lone wolf. Thirty six hours after 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.080 this happened. I think a lot of people in twenty 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.640 twenty five are saying, I don't know if I believe you. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.200 I mean, we saw the head of the FBI office 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.360 down there in New Orleans, DEI higher, clearly she takes 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.679 off her nose ring before she goes to the podium. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.480 I mean that was strange as well. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.559 And then we had Senator Kennedy down there of Louisiana 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.520 and basically he was fed up yesterday during that presser, 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.760 and clearly it showed. So let's play the Kennedy clip, guys, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.720 And I think it's really telling that not many people 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.800 are truly aware of exactly. 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.440 What's going on down there in New Orleans. Cut goat. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.959 Oh, there's just too much stuff we don't know, and 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:03.640 it's just mountain. But I guess my final point is 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.079 I will promise you this. I will, when it is 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:13.440 appropriate and this investigation is complete, you will find out 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:19.200 what happened and who's responsible, or I will raise fresh 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:24.120 Hell and I will chase those in the federal government 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.360 who are responsible for telling us what happened, like they 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.120 stole Christmas. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.640 I believe him he will raise Hell. Kennedy is an 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.520 honest broker. You see him on Fox all the time, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.480 and this isn't a guy who there's no bs there. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.800 So I'm good that he's calling this out at this 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.920 point because obviously the American people deserve answers, as do 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.520 the people going to the Sugar Bowl that starts in 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.200 forty five minutes. It was supposed to be played last night, 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.760 Notre Dame Georgia college football playoff that's over at the 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.920 Superdome again, having been to New Orleans last year for 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.000 the first time to super Dome isn't exactly near the 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.800 French Quarter. It's kind of when you're coming into the 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.280 city right off the highway. But still, when we talk 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.080 about soft targets again, you're going to have seventy seventy 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.000 five thousand people at this game in parking lots, tailgating. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.080 I would hope that security there is going to be 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.760 a lot better than what we saw on New Year's night. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.800 So the suspect's name, by the way, is shamsud Din 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.800 Jabbar and he is from Texas. Apparently according to a 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.120 series of videos that we're just seeing now, he said 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.720 in these videos that he was planning to kill his family, 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.920 and he had dreams that inspired him to join ISIS, 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.920 and he was going to kill his friends as well, 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.840 But then wasn't sure how the media would report on 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.880 that this is somebody who's clearly deranged, Like, Okay, I'm 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.000 not going to kill my family and friends, so I 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.319 think I'll just plow into a bunch of dinis and 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:00.360 people on Bourbon Street instead. So again, this is a 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.160 very strange situation, which is probably the wrong word to 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.400 use here, but we need more investigation here and not 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.559 just conclude that this was. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:09.360 A lone wolf. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.839 Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, you've all seen the video by now, 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:16.840 tesla blows up a couple of hours later in front 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.199 of a Trump property the Trump sign you see right 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.599 out of it. The tesla was built in such a 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.640 way where it actually contained the explosion basically to the 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:30.559 car itself, and Ela Musk actually spoke to authorities as 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.120 far as where the tesla had come from the last 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.760 charging station it used. For example, Tesla had all this 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:42.680 information and Musk readily shared that with authorities. Several people 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:47.120 were hurt in that blast, however, but there for right now, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.040 from what we're hearing, they should be okay because again 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.199 it was only contained to the actual Tesla itself. The 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.280 person that carried this out actually shot himself in the 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:02.640 head reportedly before ignoring the explosion. And that was the 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.760 one person that was killed in this situation. But you know, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:10.640 you see reactions online after situations like this. As far 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.360 as just these trolls, it's the only way to put it, trolls. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.440 And I'm including like the Washington Post and the whole 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.600 trolling thing. All right, democracy dies in darkness. The paper 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.920 of Woodward and Bernstein and all those Pultzers that they've won. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.360 This is the headline that they decided to run. As 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:28.920 far as if you just go back to New Orleans 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:34.480 for a second, truck rams New Orleans crowd truck rams 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.680 New Orleans crowd. Wappo, was this a self driving truck? 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.120 What do you mean the truck just did it? Was 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.200 there someone in the truck? 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:42.720 Perhaps? 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.559 I mean that that headline is intentional. I'm sorry you 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.000 have all these editors. You know, I'm a writer. I've 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.520 written three books. I've written hundreds of columns and stories, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.800 whether it be news reports, media reports for The Hill, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.520 for other publications like The New York Post where coming 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.880 out in literally like two hours, I think at this point. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.040 But the point is that when you see truck rams 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.120 New Orleans crowd, that if you're teaching a class in 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.960 media bias, is the top of your syllabus for the 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.280 class that's called the bias of omission. All right, terrorist 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.960 Rams New Orleans crowd, not truck, because truck implies that 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.760 the truck was out of control and the truck just 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.520 happened to do it without anybody behind the wheel. So 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.640 that was just, you know, beyond disgusting to see that 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:33.400 particular headline. And then obviously there's this guy named Ron 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:38.040 philip Kowski, and he is one of those people that 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.120 has probably stage five TDS, which you know, if you 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.440 have stage five TDS for for more than four hours, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:45.640 definitely see your psychiatrist. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.439 But in this case, this clown puts up a photo. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.240 And now we're going back to Las Vegas for a 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.200 moment of the tesla that blew up, and again the 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.280 suspect also former army served in the same base as 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:03.000 the suspect that carried out the New Orleans attack. So coincidence, 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.880 that's a little bit. That's a little bit too much. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:06.400 Of a coincidence. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.120 But they're saying they're completely separately, says what authorities are 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.160 saying for now. And Philipowski says this in this particular tweet. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.280 And this is like three hours after again, dozens of people, 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.600 I mean several people injured, one person obviously who carried 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.560 it out dead and a burning tesla in front of 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.400 a Trump property, a real photo and a perfect metaphor 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.720 heading into twenty twenty five. And literally it's a picture 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.760 of the tesla on fire, a person burning to death 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.120 inside of it, and then a picture of the Trump 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.680 property and the Trump logo prominently featured, a real photo 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.200 and a perfect metaphor heading into twenty twenty five. This 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.560 guy's celebrating terrorism for a cheap laugh. But that's the 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.360 type of thing that we see here. It's the same 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:51.040 thing with this Luigi Mangioni. I could not believe that 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.560 when that CEO of United Healthcare, a father of two, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.520 a guy about my age husband gets shot in the 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.320 back and killed. And then what do we see for 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.920 the next week. We hear from Jimmy Kimmel, the insufferable 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:07.960 Jimmy Kimmel or CNN how hot the shooter was. I mean, 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.040 we're sick as a society. I mean, social media does 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.960 not help things because we got to read every inane 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.080 thought from every inane person down there. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.600 But that's where we are. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.800 It's January second, and already we have several of these 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.560 horrible incidents happening. And we're now eighteen days from Donald 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.800 Trump and his inauguration and him becoming the forty seven president. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.520 And quite frankly, I think for most Americans, even many Democrats, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.360 that day cannot come soon enough. Your phone number eight 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.600 hundred nine to four to one, Sean eight hundred ninety 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.480 four to one, Sean Sea n your calls coming up next. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.080 This is Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, back with 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:43.240 more in just a moment. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:45.880 Welcome back, everybody. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.520 This is Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, The Sean 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.680 Hannity Show. I hope you had a tremendous New Year's Eve, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.560 wherever that may have happened. I think one of the 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.360 best parts of New Year's even I couldn't see it 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.680 because you know, I was at the aforementioned party that 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.360 I was telling about before at mar A Lago for 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:10.600 my book. But you had on a comedian that would 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:16.440 joined Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in that ridiculous New 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.840 Year's Eve show that they have on CNN where you know, 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.400 they they drink and make fools themselves, and you know, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.560 whenever they do a shot, they always have these like 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:26.480 horrible reactions to them, as if it's like the first 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.200 time they ever like put alcohol into their system. Well, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.040 at one point they had a comedian on I want 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.680 to say her name was Whitney Cummings, and she made 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.280 like some tremendous jokes at CNN's expense, as far as 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.320 propping up Biden, propping up Kamala, like doing all of 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.800 these things and talking about how basically they have more 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.000 employees now than they have actual viewers. And this was 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.120 happening on CNN, like right to Anderson Cooper's face. We're 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:55.480 gonna try to get that clip for you when we 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.320 come back, but it's one of the greatest things you'll 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:57.720 ever hear. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:59.960 Given where it happened. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.520 This is Joe knca in for Sean Hannity, got some 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.680 great guests coming up for you today. Stick around, Hey, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.520 welcome back everybody. Eight hundred and nine to four one 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.120 Sean eight hundred ninety four to one Sean. To steal 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.960 a line from the late great Rush Limbaugh, it is 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.760 open line, not Friday. Okay, we're gonnadjust her a little bit. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.080 It is Thursday. It's weird right this week, like the 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:25.120 last two and a half weeks because Christmas, Christmas Eve, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.640 hanka New Year's, New Year's. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.119 Eve have fallen in the middle of the week. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.959 When those events are over, like the day after Christmas, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.440 you don't quite know what day it is, like, oh yeah, 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.239 it's Thursday, or it's is it Friday? Is at much 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.800 like everything's kind of blending in the one But people 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.240 got a lot of time off, right If you're not 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.680 back yet to work. I know a lot of people 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.720 are not back to work today. Might as well just 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.159 go through the weekend another four days. You got one 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.439 of the longest breaks probably ever, So I hope you 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.320 enjoyed it. We all work hard and we all deserve 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.800 our time off. So eight hundred ninety four one Sewan, 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.440 it is open line. Friday, I do want to bring 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.600 in our first VIP guest. We haven't spoken in a while, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.159 Jeff Lord. You are an author at The American Spectator 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:12.000 and the host of Word of the Lord. I love that, 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.760 and you take us through the life and times at 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.679 Jimmy Carter, which I want to talk to you about 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.520 real fast, but just want it because I promised this 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.560 to our listeners. Jeff, what happened on CNN on New 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.480 Year's Eve this time round was absolutely glorious because instead 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.640 of us watching Don Lemmon get overserved in the most 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.280 annoying and sufferable way possible, we had Whitney Cummings, who's 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.879 a great comedian, just go off on CNN. On CNN, so, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.320 as a former CNN guy, I thought you would appreciate 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.520 this roast. Let's play the Whitney Cummings clip to Anderson 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.880 Cooper and Andy Cohen got I love going around. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.040 The country because you see that Americans really are more 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.480 reasonable than they would be portrayed. ABS pretty great, and 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.920 I'm playing bigger and bigger venues now. I thought being 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:58.879 a mom would mean that less people want to come 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.680 see me. I'm not playing like three thousand feet Peter 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.520 asked me about the viewership of CNN these days, not 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.920 this show. Die'm all on this show. Twenty four election 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.040 fried our brains. The Democrats couldn't hold a primary because 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.240 they were too busy holding a body up right, Oh 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.399 are we still rolling on my off rove for it? 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.040 It was amazing that the pro choice party didn't give 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.560 their voters one When it came to the presidential candidate. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.200 Toma was forced on us so hard. You think she 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:30.200 was patented by Vizor for Maderno, which everyone's said, oh god, 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:31.399 and he just gave me a. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:32.120 Very scary look. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:36.760 I mean that fifty seconds is some of the best 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.520 programming CNN has had, probably since like the Persian Gulf War. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:40.720 JA. 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:43.879 Having spent so much time there, I got to know 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.080 and be friends with. I maybe the only person in 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.040 America who's friends with both Sean Hannity and Anderson Cooper. 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:52.960 One of the things I've learned with working with Anderson 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.399 is he is a master of the poker face. And 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.680 I was watching you know, this sort of thing as 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.120 this incident, and I kept looking in Anderson and I said, yeah, 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.640 you still come to your porker face. But what he's 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.199 really thinking is Oh my god, will she stop? 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.399 Because Okay, you're live. It's not like get dumped out 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:13.879 or it's a pre tay to get edited out. You know, 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.639 that's live and that usually, and I'm not exaggerating here, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.040 their New Year's Eve broadcast is probably their highest rated 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.760 broadcast of the year. Now that's not saying a lot, 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.160 because the network is only averaging three hundred and fifty 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.080 thousand viewers a day, which is you know, if I'm 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.040 doing a math on that, that's seven thousand viewers on 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.359 average per state, which is really hard to do for 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.200 a network that's in ninety five million homes. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:34.840 But that's what's happened to see. 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.120 And you know, if we could just recount real quick 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.600 before we discussed Jimmy Carter for a bit, and obviously 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.320 these terrorttacks that I wanted to talk to you about 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.760 as well, But the way you were fired, I think 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.160 it's just kind of it bears repeating because I think 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.280 it was one of the most classless things I have 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.680 ever heard. You were coming from Pennsylvania going into do 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.160 a hit that's basically like a segment where you're you're 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.200