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Speaker 1: You ever had happy New Year? Glad you're with us
Speaker 1: right down our toll free number that has not changed
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four one sean if you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program. Here's why I
Speaker 1: take my two week vacation every year. This is that
Speaker 1: this is my big vacation of the year. Even my
Speaker 1: own family says, what's wrong with you? You work too much?
Speaker 1: Just take more time, take more than I'm like, Ah,
Speaker 1: I go, there's something happening. I gotta go in. Um.
Speaker 1: What happens though, is and I did not watch a
Speaker 1: lot of TV. I did a lot of reading. I've
Speaker 1: been reading Taylor Callwell novels and a bunch of other
Speaker 1: stuff that's important in my life. And you just, after
Speaker 1: like a week, this whole adrenaline life that I live
Speaker 1: on radio and TV, I start becoming like a self
Speaker 1: that I remember from last Christmas. Because that's that's about
Speaker 1: the only time the adrenaline is not racing totally and
Speaker 1: completely and utterly through my entire body system. I basically
Speaker 1: become human being again. Yeah, and you know, I get
Speaker 1: a little more thoughtful, a little more soulful. I used
Speaker 1: to go ski every year, but I don't do skiing
Speaker 1: much anymore, not that I don't want to. When Sun
Speaker 1: broke his leg when he was eight, and that was
Speaker 1: it for me, I would just I couldn't go back
Speaker 1: and know what a whimp? Right, No, but I skied
Speaker 1: my whole life. But to something like I find God
Speaker 1: on the mountain, it's just that moment where you're looking
Speaker 1: out and you've just it's just majestic and anyway. So
Speaker 1: I did watch some TV, not a lot, not a
Speaker 1: lot of news. I kept up with the news, but
Speaker 1: mostly online. And I have started just thinking and thinking
Speaker 1: and thinking about what this year is gonna be. Like
Speaker 1: it's culminated in what I am going to describe to
Speaker 1: you as a mission statement for both this show on
Speaker 1: radio and the TV show Hannity on the Fox News channel.
Speaker 1: And it's like things have gotten to a place that
Speaker 1: it's so bad that the forces of hatred against this
Speaker 1: president are so aligned, they're so out of their minds,
Speaker 1: they are so fixated on destroying the president, that there
Speaker 1: is in my mind, it just started coalescing in my
Speaker 1: mind that there's got to be another focus in this
Speaker 1: country on far more important things than well, what did
Speaker 1: President Trump and Melanie had stay to seven year olds
Speaker 1: calling in about Santa. That became a big controversy. I
Speaker 1: turned on the news and there, well he said, is
Speaker 1: seven about the age where maybe you know, kids believe
Speaker 1: in the sand and lesser. Oh, you know, you think
Speaker 1: it's the biggest sin of the century, and they turn
Speaker 1: it into the biggest deal. Or the stock market fluctuations,
Speaker 1: they turn that into the biggest deal. This is what
Speaker 1: they'll never tell you. Tonight. To make my point that
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal pointed out total US retail sales rose
Speaker 1: five point one percent for the holiday season. So, I
Speaker 1: mean serious, eight hundred and fifty billion dollars was spent
Speaker 1: this holiday season. Real middle class wages. Just in the
Speaker 1: last year, this is the President's accomplishments. Middle class wages
Speaker 1: went up their hourly earnings, eclipsing the three percent growth
Speaker 1: mark for the first time in twelve years. That means
Speaker 1: the working men and women in this country they benefited
Speaker 1: from the Trump economy. They've benefited from the Trump policies. Economically,
Speaker 1: we already knew about, you know, four point two percent
Speaker 1: GDP growth, three point four percent GDP growth. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are things we hadn't been seen. I know that
Speaker 1: there are a lot of you. Look, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big stock market person, but my buddy who does the
Speaker 1: stock market, my financial guy, sometimes writes a column for us.
Speaker 1: You know. He always says, if you're not willing, if
Speaker 1: you need the money, you're putting in the stock market,
Speaker 1: and within ten years, don't put it in the stock market,
Speaker 1: put it in something, you know, like a treasury or
Speaker 1: a muni. I don't know. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: these things are. Honestly, I pay so little attention to
Speaker 1: this crap. I just don't care. It's not my area
Speaker 1: of interest. I always I've always felt in my heart,
Speaker 1: wall streets raked. I've always felt it's a betting game.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it goes up and people are just made
Speaker 1: so much on this stock and so much on this stock. Okay,
Speaker 1: well what about when the stock goes down. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go through the emotional ebb and flow. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of about wealth, not protect You want your money
Speaker 1: to grow and there are far safer investments. You just
Speaker 1: have to do your due diligence that sort of thing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So we have record holiday sales this Christmas season. The president.
Speaker 1: Here are his top ten accomplishments in one year. Remember
Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh mentioned him as a candidate. Well, he's now
Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court. He kept that promise. The President
Speaker 1: confronted China. Now, China's capitulating on tariffs for automobiles, soybeans, vegetables,
Speaker 1: and other products that they will be importing from the
Speaker 1: United States. That is a big win for the country.
Speaker 1: Middle class wages rising again, eclipsing three percent for the
Speaker 1: first time since the Great Recession. The President got the
Speaker 1: US Mexico Canada trade deal. All those people saying, well,
Speaker 1: Mexico is never going to pay for the wall. That
Speaker 1: was another controversy. I'll play it later. I asked the President,
Speaker 1: you don't think Mexico's gonna write you a check and
Speaker 1: pay for the wall, do you? And he said no,
Speaker 1: I'm going to negotiate a better trade deal so it'll
Speaker 1: pay for itself. Well, that's exactly what he did with
Speaker 1: the Mexico Canada trade deal. He ended that horrific Iranian
Speaker 1: nuclear deal. That was another success. Last year, he moved
Speaker 1: the embassy to Jerusalem. That was another promise made in
Speaker 1: a promise kept. We see that he's been able to
Speaker 1: smash the ISIS Caliphate in Syria to the point now
Speaker 1: the JV team is under control. Of course, the JV
Speaker 1: team was what Baracusain Obama called them, just the JV.
Speaker 1: We see record low unemployment for Hispanic Americans, African Americans,
Speaker 1: women in the workplace, youth unemployment are vets, are getting
Speaker 1: back to work in numbers that we haven't seen in decades.
Speaker 1: The President held the line on migrant caravans and one
Speaker 1: of the things I am most excited about that I
Speaker 1: don't think people understand how huge this is. But because
Speaker 1: he opened up drilling in Alaska, we haven't even started
Speaker 1: yet in Anoir and the President ending burdensome regulation. Well,
Speaker 1: we now had in twenty eighteen record American oil production,
Speaker 1: and the US has now surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 1: and we are now the world's largest producer of crude oil.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even talking about natural gas and clean coal.
Speaker 1: You add those jobs to the American economy when they'll
Speaker 1: be coming online as the expansion capabilities rise. What's gonna
Speaker 1: happen is you're gonna have millions of Americans get high
Speaker 1: paying career jobs. Well, that's gonna mean new homes for them.
Speaker 1: And new cars and trucks. For them. That's going to
Speaker 1: mean an increase in their lifestyle and dramatic improvement in
Speaker 1: their lifestyles, better lives for themselves, more opportunities for their kids,
Speaker 1: and then we're not dependent on far and oil as
Speaker 1: the lifeblood of our economy. So I'm on vacation and
Speaker 1: I'm realizing you're never ever ever gonna get that news
Speaker 1: except from a few locations, some talk radio host summer phonies,
Speaker 1: a few cable TV shows, mostly on Fox, and that's
Speaker 1: about it. You got all of these forces. First, you
Speaker 1: got the crazy Democrats. They hate Democrats, they hate Trump.
Speaker 1: Maxim Waters hates Donald Trump. Nancy Pelosi hates Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Adam Schiff hates Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer, the flip flopper
Speaker 1: himself on immigration, they all hate Trump. The news media
Speaker 1: in this country again, I'm watching the president in Iraq
Speaker 1: and they're criticizing him because he's visiting the troops. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: we've gotten this low. And then he's talking to kids
Speaker 1: on Christmas. He didn't go tomorrow lago. He says, I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to do a deal. It's Christmas Eve. Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be funny. Then you add to this,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got these five forces of hate against
Speaker 1: the president. I just said the five forces, but now
Speaker 1: I would say the five forces of hate. He got
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. If Donald Trump cured cancer and gave
Speaker 1: every American a million dollars today, they'd still hate them.
Speaker 1: Then you got their willing accomplices, an extension of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. That's the hate Trump media and probably the
Speaker 1: most obvious haters. And it's every second, every minute, every hour,
Speaker 1: every day, a NonStop loop of hating Trump. And most
Speaker 1: of the American newspapers are a part of it. The
Speaker 1: networks are a part of it. You got two cable
Speaker 1: channels just dedicated to hating Trump every minute of every day.
Speaker 1: And then you got the deep state. By the way,
Speaker 1: watch that boomerang come back this year. Oh it's coming back.
Speaker 1: What we've reported to you is all going to happen.
Speaker 1: I won't get into that now. But they hate Trump.
Speaker 1: Remember you are a We are smelly Walmart people. According
Speaker 1: to Peter Struck. We are irredeemable deplorables. According to Hillary,
Speaker 1: we are bitter, angry Americans that cling to God, uns, Bibles,
Speaker 1: and religion as Barack Obama once described us. But here's
Speaker 1: the problem, is any of what they're going to do
Speaker 1: or say they're gonna do this year gonna help the
Speaker 1: men and women in this country, the forgotten men and women.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be fixating all of their hatred on one man. Well,
Speaker 1: we're not going to do that this show and on
Speaker 1: Hannity of the TV Show, We're going to go in
Speaker 1: a different direction, and we're gonna we are going to
Speaker 1: watch out for the things that matter to you, protecting
Speaker 1: your security, making sure the economy grows to help you,
Speaker 1: and the decisions we need to make as a country
Speaker 1: so that we are strong and prosperous, not only for
Speaker 1: this generation but for future generations, Which means we have
Speaker 1: a lot of people to watch. So we're gonna add this,
Speaker 1: you know, new segment of the program. We're gonna have,
Speaker 1: well call it Hannity Watch. Hannity Watch on the economy. Okay,
Speaker 1: statistics you're never gonna get anywhere else. Hannity Watch on
Speaker 1: the government shutdown? What deal is being offered? Why won't
Speaker 1: they take the deal? Right now? There's a deal on
Speaker 1: the table. You give the money for the wall for
Speaker 1: the president, which is good for our security to stop
Speaker 1: drug trafficking, human trafficking criminals from crossing over the border,
Speaker 1: and they'd get protection for some of the DOCCA kids.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a reasonable deal. We're gonna have Hannity Watch
Speaker 1: on the hate Trump media, Hannity Watch on the hate
Speaker 1: Trump deep State, We're gonna have Hannity Watch on the
Speaker 1: hate Trump Hollywood gang, Hannity Watch on the socialism push
Speaker 1: in the country. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we're gonna cover the things that no other show, that
Speaker 1: no other no members of the media seem to want
Speaker 1: to cover. And we'll cover the lies and the double standard.
Speaker 1: And we're going to stand up for equal justice under
Speaker 1: the law, and we're going to stand up for equal
Speaker 1: application under the law. And moving forward, what I have
Speaker 1: concluded is there's got to be one show in America
Speaker 1: that's that wants to help protect and look out for you,
Speaker 1: the American people, And we're going to watch these forces
Speaker 1: of hate. We're going to chronicle it, and we're going
Speaker 1: to offer solutions that they're not capable of. We got
Speaker 1: to protect the country against forces that would shred our constitution.
Speaker 1: This is about protecting core values, due process, equal justice,
Speaker 1: equal application. We're gonna be your watchdog. We're going to
Speaker 1: expose corruption and lies and double standards. We're gonna expose bias,
Speaker 1: and we're going to expose who the real haters in
Speaker 1: this country are. They're not people that care about you.
Speaker 1: They're not people that care about your kids. You're few
Speaker 1: your generations jobs, protecting the economy, protecting you know. Look
Speaker 1: what happened with this cop that was killed by any
Speaker 1: illegal immigrant? Well, hello, maybe any do we have a
Speaker 1: do we have an obligation to protect the people of
Speaker 1: this country. So We're kind of going to be an
Speaker 1: island and I'm going to tell you more about it Tonight.
Speaker 1: We've got Hannity Watch on the border battle, the shutdown battle,
Speaker 1: and Hannity Watch on the deep state. All coming up.
Speaker 1: New Gangridge joins us today. Also, well, the latest we've
Speaker 1: watched missed a lot of deep state news. John Solomon
Speaker 1: will check in. We'll get to your calls today. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this differently. They're going in one direction,
Speaker 1: and I'm going in the direction of we will look
Speaker 1: out and watch all of this hatred and expose it
Speaker 1: and offer the solutions that will hopefully make the country
Speaker 1: a better, say first, stronger, and more secure place. We'll continue. Hey,
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Speaker 1: finish this thought then, we'll get to the government shutdown
Speaker 1: and the why the border battle is worth fighting for,
Speaker 1: because it is worth fighting for, and we have a
Speaker 1: lot of deep state news. We know that Mary Juliani
Speaker 1: accused Muller of some pretty serious stuff during the holiday,
Speaker 1: and I think that he's probably right accusing him of
Speaker 1: destroying the evidence as it relates to struck and page
Speaker 1: his phone. So we'll get to that very simply. I
Speaker 1: see a media landscape with just one message hating Trump.
Speaker 1: I mean, they's this is not dislike they hate him.
Speaker 1: They think they're gonna impeach him. They're not. You're never
Speaker 1: gonna get two thirds of the Senate. They may impeach
Speaker 1: him in the House, because you gotta in ninety days,
Speaker 1: America is gonna know what a bunch of lunatics Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi and her team is. I'm telling you it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun covering them. And we have plans that we
Speaker 1: can't reveal because there are people that don't think in
Speaker 1: this business and they copy everything I do. But we
Speaker 1: have good plans. But I'm gonna tell you what this
Speaker 1: show is going to be about going forward. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be your watchdog. They can hate the President all they want.
Speaker 1: They can create false hysteria, impeachment, impeachment all they want,
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. And we're going to evaluate
Speaker 1: the important issues of the day as a show that
Speaker 1: is a separate island dedicated to protecting are deeply held
Speaker 1: American values and fighting what it's good for you and
Speaker 1: you're in the American family in general. Simple. So that's
Speaker 1: basically it. We're calling you Hannity Watch, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be different, and we're gonna literally now cover the news
Speaker 1: and information that you can't get from the hate Trump media,
Speaker 1: the hate Trump Democratic Party, the hate Trump, deep state
Speaker 1: hate Trump, never Republicans. I honestly could care less what
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney has to say about Donald Trump. You know
Speaker 1: what I care about. I care about record low unemployment
Speaker 1: for women in the workplace is an Americans, African Americans,
Speaker 1: and the fact that you don't want Donald Trump's style
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me. We're now the biggest producer of
Speaker 1: oil and energy on the planet. I like that because
Speaker 1: that means high paying career jobs for my fellow Americans.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that the President's fighting to build
Speaker 1: the wall to protect our southern border from human trafficking,
Speaker 1: drug trafficking, and those that would want to bring harm
Speaker 1: to our American family. I think we have a right
Speaker 1: to vet people. Democrats sounded that way four years ago.
Speaker 1: Now they change their two and why just because Donald
Speaker 1: Trump wants it. I don't care that they think Robert
Speaker 1: Muller's stupid report is going to be the most interesting
Speaker 1: thing in the year. It's not. There is no evidence
Speaker 1: of Trump Russia collusion that never has been and all
Speaker 1: these processed crimes that they get, you know, all worked
Speaker 1: up about, don't mean a thing. So we'll have things
Speaker 1: like look at the bottom line is both here on television,
Speaker 1: this show is going to be an island unto itself.
Speaker 1: We're going to be very different than anything else you
Speaker 1: can get anywhere else on TV and on radio except
Speaker 1: for my fellow conservative radio hosts that do a great
Speaker 1: job every day, and there are many of them, and
Speaker 1: I you know what, thank God they're doing what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna we're literally dedicated. We want to protect
Speaker 1: and preserve American values, American principles. We're not going to
Speaker 1: be governed by this what is now a pathological hatred,
Speaker 1: an irrational hatred of fixation of focus that's never ending
Speaker 1: on one person, not even about the person as much
Speaker 1: as it is about the policies. He just happened to
Speaker 1: have a personality that fights for the things that he
Speaker 1: ran on, and he steps on toes and he breaks
Speaker 1: dishes and he makes people uncomfortable. Okay, well, too bad.
Speaker 1: He's on a conoclastic person and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot's writing on him getting this wall built and
Speaker 1: holding out. I think it is an important thing to do,
Speaker 1: you know, but we there's so much more to it.
Speaker 1: This is what I realized over a vacation. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got American values and principles, and there's got to
Speaker 1: be some people out here that are dedicated to bringing
Speaker 1: you the truth and a different point of view. That's
Speaker 1: what Hannity Watch is all about. Hannity Watch on the economy.
Speaker 1: How are things going to impact your family in your pocketbook?
Speaker 1: Hannity Watch on healthcare. Okay, how do we get the
Speaker 1: best care at the lowest cost for you and your family.
Speaker 1: That's where doctor Josh Umber comes in Atlas MD, Healthcare Cooperatives,
Speaker 1: health savings accounts. Hannity Watch on media bias. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's like that's like fishing in a barrel. Honestly, you
Speaker 1: just you can't miss. If I wanted to do a
Speaker 1: Hannity Watch on the media bias segment every second of
Speaker 1: every day, I could fill the hour. We saw the
Speaker 1: President signing a campaign hat, a red hat, his make
Speaker 1: America Great Again hat. Troops are not supposed to be
Speaker 1: involved in political activities. The US military is not a
Speaker 1: political force. And there's no question the same Trump twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and make America great again. Those are political slogans
Speaker 1: of a Trump campaign. They are not governmental sayings to
Speaker 1: put to say the least, a president seems to have
Speaker 1: confused in some way this troop to point, this troop
Speaker 1: visit with a campaign rallies. You told me I'm getting
Speaker 1: a ten percent raise, and I'm only getting a two
Speaker 1: point six percent raise. I'd be pretty pissed off, especially
Speaker 1: if I was in a war zone risking my life
Speaker 1: every day. Abassador Rice is right. The man does not
Speaker 1: believe in what America stands for. What did you make
Speaker 1: of that address that Donald Trump gave in front of
Speaker 1: US troops in I Rock. I thought it was obscene.
Speaker 1: We turned on CNN and we saw the President politicizing
Speaker 1: a Christmas message was like if we kept saying he's
Speaker 1: like the Grinch. Every time he's around military audiences, he
Speaker 1: tends to politicize it. Mister Trump once again used a
Speaker 1: captive audience of American heroes to push his unpopular domestic agenda,
Speaker 1: this time the Wall. There's an important step, albeit one
Speaker 1: that took a long time from to do, or after
Speaker 1: two years in presidency, visiting a soldiers in a rock
Speaker 1: this was kind of over the edge. Did the president
Speaker 1: from what we know, get a good sense of what
Speaker 1: the situation actually is there on the ground. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know how you can't after three hours, But that's
Speaker 1: just me. Yes, it's just another flash over substance type
Speaker 1: of thing. Of everything with this president is staged, it events.
Speaker 1: It seems very disingenuous. It seems so contrived and so disingenuous.
Speaker 1: You should have made it earlier. He only made it
Speaker 1: because Maddis Quinton. He had a lot of pressure saying
Speaker 1: he had gone anywhere doom and gloom and hatred and
Speaker 1: it's a it's now really a mental condition. They can't
Speaker 1: help it. Path a litegical. I don't think they can
Speaker 1: help themselves. They wake up every day and work themselves
Speaker 1: up into a frenzy. By the way, the President intervened
Speaker 1: to make sure the Coastguard gets paid during the government shutdown.
Speaker 1: I personally advocate. I hope that they're able to and
Speaker 1: they always do it, so I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to be a problem. I want those people that have
Speaker 1: been furlough to get their money back. I know that
Speaker 1: that is. You know, there's importance around Christmas time. People
Speaker 1: have bills to pay. It's hard, and I think he
Speaker 1: will hang on. I gotta say one quick note, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and yes, all right, I'm back to the show, and
Speaker 1: I will tell you that. You know, it's seventy five
Speaker 1: million dollars payroll. You know the President will do that.
Speaker 1: The President's got to hold out for his wall. Democrat
Speaker 1: if they want to wait three months, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: Essential services will continue, people will get their Social Security checks.
Speaker 1: The military is standing by, Department of Homeland Security standing by.
Speaker 1: The Democrats wanted this wall themselves just a couple of
Speaker 1: short years ago, but now because Trump wants it and
Speaker 1: their derangement syndrome kicked in, now they don't want the wall.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got a lot. We've got a Hannity
Speaker 1: Watch on national security. This is about protecting our homeland
Speaker 1: and literally keeping Americans safe both home and abroad. Hannity
Speaker 1: Watch on border security. The country needs to stop the
Speaker 1: flow of illegal drugs on our southern border, human trafficking
Speaker 1: on our southern border. I believes taken the time to
Speaker 1: go down there, have these people to talk about it.
Speaker 1: They've never been down there, their whole life down there
Speaker 1: at thirteen times from the Rio grand to San Diego.
Speaker 1: So we've got news that really needs to be covered,
Speaker 1: and more importantly, policies need to be put in place
Speaker 1: that are good for the you, we, the people, and
Speaker 1: for the country America. And that's what that's that's the
Speaker 1: minor adjustment that we're making in light of what is
Speaker 1: now the biggest information crisis in American history. So what
Speaker 1: Colin and Hannity watch. If you think they're going to
Speaker 1: report that the president you know, intervened to make sure
Speaker 1: the Coast Guard gets paid. No, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Do you think they're gonna give you
Speaker 1: the top achievements from last year? Promises made promises? Can
Speaker 1: I doubt it or that we had a record Christmas season,
Speaker 1: holiday season, or that the president's approval rating, but forty
Speaker 1: seven percent happy with the job he's doing. After all
Speaker 1: he's been through and all the horror that's been spewed
Speaker 1: his way, you would think it's a lot worse. And
Speaker 1: remember the Constitution, Article two, section four about impeachable offenses, treason, bribery,
Speaker 1: high crime, misdemeanors. Let me make a prediction. All the
Speaker 1: Russia stuff is gonna go away, and they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to move the bar because they can't get them on Russia.
Speaker 1: But they'll figure out something that they think they can
Speaker 1: get them on. And if the Democrats here's another prediction,
Speaker 1: if they want to go down this road, and the
Speaker 1: deep state aligns with them, and the media aligns with
Speaker 1: them and Democratic lunatics, you'll you will know how crazy
Speaker 1: the Democrats are. I promise you listen to the show
Speaker 1: for the next hundred days, watch Hannity for the next
Speaker 1: hundred days. You will know how insane they are. And
Speaker 1: it's not gonna it's honestly the easiest job in the
Speaker 1: world to All you gotta do is show them in
Speaker 1: their own words, and they will expose themselves anyway for
Speaker 1: that to happen the House of Representatives. If they do it,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a purely sure, it's purely going
Speaker 1: to be a political act. That's it. They'll find some
Speaker 1: you know, he's spit on the sidewalk. That's what it's
Speaker 1: going to probably be like. And if that happens, anybody
Speaker 1: can bring charges of impeachment in the House. Did you
Speaker 1: know that anybody can do it. Any member of the
Speaker 1: House can propose charges and then they just need a
Speaker 1: simple majority. But then it gets kicked to the Senate,
Speaker 1: and then you need two thirds of the Senate to
Speaker 1: vote to convict on the impeachment order. And at that
Speaker 1: particular point, I think the bar is way too high.
Speaker 1: And here's my prediction. The president'sproval rating will go even higher.
Speaker 1: It'll go higher by the day. That's how interesting that's
Speaker 1: going to get. You know, there is a lot that
Speaker 1: took place. You know, we're having a battle over the borders, right,
Speaker 1: so you can go back and look at you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't have some statistics from a number of years
Speaker 1: ago the Government Accountability Office. There had been twenty five thousand,
Speaker 1: sixty four homicide arrests of criminal aliens since nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: there were fifty two twenty nine criminal aliens incarcerated in
Speaker 1: federal prisons. Those numbers have gone up. We now know
Speaker 1: that the average cost is seventy thousand dollars for every
Speaker 1: illegal immigrant in the country, as it relates to use
Speaker 1: of the criminal justice system, the healthcare system, our educational system.
Speaker 1: But putting all that aside, what do you say those
Speaker 1: that don't want some border protection, what do you say
Speaker 1: two families that lose loved ones. We all know about
Speaker 1: Kate Steinley. That's only one person they've been Look at
Speaker 1: what happened this weekend. We had this murder out in California,
Speaker 1: this police officer, and I'm thinking, Okay, if you're a
Speaker 1: part of that family, what are you thinking, because I
Speaker 1: know what I'd be thinking now. The local police are
Speaker 1: blaming California's sanctuary city and state laws for allowing a
Speaker 1: violent illegal immigrant to evade capture until gunned down, until
Speaker 1: he gunned down a cop, a hero cop. Last weekend. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Perez Aragia, who was in the country illegally at previous arrest,
Speaker 1: taken an a custody Friday on suspicion of killing Newman
Speaker 1: police corporal Ronel Singh, who was thirty three years old,
Speaker 1: husband and father of a five month old baby boy,
Speaker 1: killed by an illegal immigrant. The sheriff Adam Christiansen, who
Speaker 1: led the investigation, rightly, I think, is blaming California sanctuary
Speaker 1: laws for preventing local authorities from reporting this illegal immigrant
Speaker 1: to US immigration officials for deportation after two previous drunken
Speaker 1: drunken drive and arrests. The shariff also said this guy
Speaker 1: had gang affiliations. Spokesman for Governor Brown said that police
Speaker 1: could have informed federal authorities if the suspect was a
Speaker 1: known gang member. Oh okay, that's your excuse. Now you
Speaker 1: have people that not only break the law, but then
Speaker 1: they kill other Americans. Now what do I want in
Speaker 1: terms of immigration, Well, we saw what happened on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve when the border got rushed again. Remember we
Speaker 1: saw before vacation bottles and rocks being pelted at our guys,
Speaker 1: our ice officers. This particular case, this five month old
Speaker 1: boy will never see his father because we don't enforce
Speaker 1: the laws of the land. You know, we have another case.
Speaker 1: Looks like California police officer Ronald sing isn't the only
Speaker 1: American who might be alive today if we had a
Speaker 1: border wall. We know. In Knoxville, Tennessee, police have charged
Speaker 1: the man accused in a deadly crash on Chapman Highway
Speaker 1: Saturday night with criminally negligent homicide. Knoxville Least Department said
Speaker 1: that Franco Cabrani Francisco at Guardo forty four now faces
Speaker 1: homicide charges in addition to charges of not having a
Speaker 1: driver's license and having no proof of financial responsibility, which
Speaker 1: means he didn't have insurance. Arrest Wreckers also showed that
Speaker 1: he was that there was a hold placed on him
Speaker 1: by ice. But when you have sanctuary cities and sanctuary states,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean a thing. Well what about these families.
Speaker 1: So if we have a wall, well, okay, that means
Speaker 1: that people can come into the country. We don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think most Americans care where you come from. We
Speaker 1: want to check out your background. We want to know
Speaker 1: that you come here with the best of intentions. I
Speaker 1: say nine percent probably want a better life for themselves
Speaker 1: and their kids. We want to make sure you're not
Speaker 1: associated with criminal activity or we gang activity, that you
Speaker 1: have the means of taking care of yourself when you
Speaker 1: get here, so you're not a burden on the American taxpayer.
Speaker 1: And if you want to come in, we'll allow a
Speaker 1: certain number of people to come in every year based
Speaker 1: on our needs. Maybe we need temporary workers more years
Speaker 1: than others. And then they can apply for green cards
Speaker 1: and go through the process. But do it legally. Why
Speaker 1: is that such a hard concept? And the idea if
Speaker 1: you don't have a wall, that people could just walk
Speaker 1: across with drugs and be involved in human trafficking is
Speaker 1: a form of insanity to me. Where do you think?
Speaker 1: Where do you think those drugs are headed? Towards every
Speaker 1: small town in little city in America and big city?
Speaker 1: All right, don't forget our mission statement tonight on Hannity.
Speaker 1: Desperate times call for desperate adjustments, and that is we
Speaker 1: are going to be the news outlet that you need
Speaker 1: that they will never provide. All right. Also, when we
Speaker 1: get back Hannity Watch on the Borders, we'll have the
Speaker 1: latest Hannity Watch the Deep State, a lot of news
Speaker 1: you did not hear out over the holiday. An hour
Speaker 1: two Happy New Years, Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred nine.
Speaker 1: Pot one, Shawn is our toll free telephone number you
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program. So I've
Speaker 1: got to lay out this mission statement tonight. We're not
Speaker 1: going to give away all our secrets, but one thing
Speaker 1: is certain. In the year of twenty nineteen, you know,
Speaker 1: these times deserve a different approach. And there's so much
Speaker 1: that is going on that is not being covered by Well,
Speaker 1: you have this alliance basically of you know, deep state bureaucrats,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, you know, the hate Democratic Party, the
Speaker 1: hate Trump media, the deep state that hates Trump week,
Speaker 1: Republicans that hate Trump, met Romney hates Trump. And meanwhile,
Speaker 1: I just gave you in the last hour a list
Speaker 1: of ten of the most massive successes we had in
Speaker 1: the last year that nobody pays attention to. Holiday sales.
Speaker 1: Biggest in six years. We had Brett Kavanaugh promise made,
Speaker 1: promise kept on the Supreme Court, the President confronting China.
Speaker 1: They've now lated on tariffs as it relates to automobiles
Speaker 1: and soybeans and a bunch of other American products. You
Speaker 1: have middle class wages. I know you're thinking about the
Speaker 1: stock market, but for the middle class, they're not. They're
Speaker 1: thinking about wages. Well, that went up over three percent
Speaker 1: for the first time since the Great Recession. We got
Speaker 1: the US Mexico Canada trade deal, and yeah, we're benefiting
Speaker 1: so much. Some of that money is going to go
Speaker 1: to pay for the wall. We ended the Iranian nuclear deal,
Speaker 1: we moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. We've smashed the
Speaker 1: Isis Caliphate, and the President now has put an end
Speaker 1: to the JV team that Obama once referred to them as.
Speaker 1: We got record low unemployment for Hispanic Americans, African Americans,
Speaker 1: women in the workplace, Asian Americans, youth unemployment. You know,
Speaker 1: the President held the line with migrants. We now are
Speaker 1: energy independent. America had record American oil production because the
Speaker 1: President got rid of the bureaucracy. And finally last year,
Speaker 1: we surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's
Speaker 1: largest producer of crude oil. Add natural gas to that,
Speaker 1: and we're going to create millions of high paying career
Speaker 1: jobs for Americans. Resident ends with a fifty two percent
Speaker 1: approval rating. I'm sorry, forty seven percent approval rating as
Speaker 1: it relates to Rasmussen, about the same level that Obama had.
Speaker 1: But yet all you're gonna hear this year is NonStop,
Speaker 1: never ending Trump. The rangement. Hatred, not syndrome. It is
Speaker 1: a hatred powerful forces, the media, the Democratic Party, weak Republicans,
Speaker 1: never Trumpers, and the deep state, all in unison, just
Speaker 1: trying to destroy the president and make no progress for
Speaker 1: the American people. So that's why we're creating Hannity Watch
Speaker 1: on the economy, Hannity Watch on the hypocrisy, Hannity Watch
Speaker 1: on the media, Hannity Watch on border security, Hannity Watch
Speaker 1: on the deep State. And we're gonna cover the news
Speaker 1: and give you the information you can't get anywhere else
Speaker 1: because they have one agenda, hate Trump every second, every minute,
Speaker 1: every hour of every day. New Gingrich is here with
Speaker 1: his preview at twenty nineteen. How are you? How are
Speaker 1: you doing great? That's actually pretty exciting, And then can
Speaker 1: quite a program you've outlined. You know, I spent the
Speaker 1: two weeks so I'm watching TV over the holiday, right
Speaker 1: every time I turn on any news program, it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all it was is I hate Donald Trump. That's all
Speaker 1: it is. And then I began to realize this is
Speaker 1: an environment we've never lived in before. So I think
Speaker 1: it is so bad that there's got to be a
Speaker 1: counter program to this, an account of program who's going
Speaker 1: to look out for the forgotten men and women and
Speaker 1: keep the economy rolling and keep energy jobs so they
Speaker 1: can be created, and fight to keep the country safe
Speaker 1: and secure and secure the borders. And I just think
Speaker 1: it's an opening because nobody else is going to do it. Well,
Speaker 1: I think, I Look, I think it's great. In fact,
Speaker 1: my one suggestion for to think about I lay it
Speaker 1: out and it's already changing it go ahead of your
Speaker 1: package each day? No, well always Look. I thought it
Speaker 1: was brilliant, but it sparked my creative juices. Okay, can
Speaker 1: I tell you? I think you want to take the
Speaker 1: essence of every day, put it into a newsletter or
Speaker 1: an email format and offered anybody who wants at the
Speaker 1: talking points from that day of all the key news
Speaker 1: items you just outlined, so that they have it to
Speaker 1: go to work the next day, or to go to
Speaker 1: the local bar, or to go to coffee Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: and they've got your talking points in their hand. And
Speaker 1: I think you'd be surprised how many people sign up
Speaker 1: for it. And you know what, I'm going to do
Speaker 1: that and we'll do it for free, and we'll put
Speaker 1: it up on my website. We'll put it up on
Speaker 1: social media and then everybody can have it. Because here's
Speaker 1: what's missing. As I watched them criticize the president and
Speaker 1: Milannium will go into a rack that was like the
Speaker 1: last draw for me. And then they criticized the president
Speaker 1: because he was he and the first lady were talking
Speaker 1: to kids about Santa and he didn't do it the
Speaker 1: right way according to the media. And then I just
Speaker 1: realized the only words were gonna hear this year are impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
Speaker 1: The president is not getting impeached this year. I can,
Speaker 1: I can. I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure there's
Speaker 1: no Russia collusion. There was Hillary collusion with Russia, but
Speaker 1: not Trump um. And I think they're going to be
Speaker 1: very disappointed moul the goalpost, but they're not going to
Speaker 1: be talking about or thinking of policies that are going
Speaker 1: to help the American people. That I can assure you, No,
Speaker 1: that's right. I thought it was instually by the way
Speaker 1: that Giuliani said, you know, put up a shut up.
Speaker 1: The Muellers had all this time. What she got, show
Speaker 1: your hand, and I don't think they have a hand.
Speaker 1: I think I don't think what about all these other
Speaker 1: issues though, because this is part of this is part
Speaker 1: of what my coverage is going to be about too.
Speaker 1: What about the abuse of the powerful tools of intelligence.
Speaker 1: What about the fact that they exonerated Hillary when she
Speaker 1: was guilty of crimes. What about the fact that they
Speaker 1: committed fraud against Beiser court judges. What's going to happen there? Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's a whole range of those things, and
Speaker 1: I think the depth of corruption when you look at
Speaker 1: the FBI, for example, it's astonishing how many different people
Speaker 1: are now involved. And I think again and again you
Speaker 1: see this happening across the system, and that to me
Speaker 1: was a surprise when I knew that there was a bias,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know that it had gotten so bad
Speaker 1: that people were willing to break the law and cover
Speaker 1: for each other. And you're exactly right, there is a
Speaker 1: pattern out there that we're going to have to continue
Speaker 1: to put pressure on. And of course, the other story here,
Speaker 1: which is going to be fascinating, as I noticed this
Speaker 1: afternoon that the left wingers are already met at Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi because the rules package that she's proposing doesn't give
Speaker 1: them everything they want. And I think that the Democrats
Speaker 1: may find that they have a lot more problems among
Speaker 1: themselves and they expected, and the life is not going
Speaker 1: to be nearly as easy and clear sailing as the
Speaker 1: New York Times as the Washington Post would like. You see.
Speaker 1: I think something's going to happen this year, and it's
Speaker 1: going to be fascinating for me to watch and you
Speaker 1: to watch. Is they're gonna they've already started overplaying their hand.
Speaker 1: And if they think that they're going to issue a
Speaker 1: million subpoenas on a million different topics and not have
Speaker 1: pushback and not do what Obama did in that slow
Speaker 1: walk at all, I think they're delusional. You know, the
Speaker 1: idea that they're going to try and turn the next
Speaker 1: two years into destroying one man and not think about
Speaker 1: the American people as a mistake. For example, you know
Speaker 1: we're now in the middle of a so called government shutdown.
Speaker 1: Government shutdowns don't bother me. I do want the people
Speaker 1: that are furloughed to get full back pay. I don't
Speaker 1: want them to suffer. But essential service has always keeping.
Speaker 1: But the idea that they're not going to fund the
Speaker 1: border wall, I don't see the president caving on that.
Speaker 1: The President's going to get the money for his wall,
Speaker 1: one way or another. And I think stopping drug trafficking
Speaker 1: and human trafficking and having the ability to vet people
Speaker 1: to come into this country is a good thing for
Speaker 1: our safety and security, and I think the American people
Speaker 1: it's a winning issue for the president in the end. Look,
Speaker 1: every time you see, for example, as we saw in
Speaker 1: California the days and the legal alien killing a policeman, yep,
Speaker 1: it just reminds everybody that that those who are opposed
Speaker 1: to protecting America just are totally out of touch with reality.
Speaker 1: I think in the long run, being against national security,
Speaker 1: interviewing against public safety is a losing hand. All right,
Speaker 1: Quick break more with new Kingridge on the other side,
Speaker 1: as we continue our new year edition of The Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity Show. The one thing I think we can agree
Speaker 1: on is we shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute.
Speaker 1: And you want to shut it down. You're not talking
Speaker 1: about the last time, Chuck, you shut it No, no, no,
Speaker 1: And then you won't wait quickly. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to do what you did twenty times you will have
Speaker 1: called for. I will shut down the government if I
Speaker 1: don't get my wold none of us. If you want
Speaker 1: to know something you said, you want to put them said,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. Okay, good, you know what, I'll say. Yes,
Speaker 1: if we don't get what we want one way or
Speaker 1: the other, whether it's through you, through a military, through
Speaker 1: anything you want to call, I will shut down the
Speaker 1: government absolutely. And I am proud and I disagree. I
Speaker 1: am proud to shut down the government for border security
Speaker 1: each other because the people of this country don't want
Speaker 1: criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs
Speaker 1: pouring into our country. So I will take the mental
Speaker 1: I will be the one to shut it down. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna blame you for it. The last time you
Speaker 1: shut it down, it didn't work. I will take the
Speaker 1: mantle of shutting down and I'm going to shut it
Speaker 1: down for border. But we go you shouldn't shut it down,
Speaker 1: all right? As we continue with new Gingrich on our
Speaker 1: newsmaker line, what do you think is going to happen
Speaker 1: as it relates to the shutdown? Because my position for
Speaker 1: the president would be, and I know the administration invited
Speaker 1: over the Democratic leaders. They didn't really want to spend
Speaker 1: time with the president. They want to do it their way,
Speaker 1: They're going to offer a package tomorrow with zero wall funding. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the unacceptable deal. So the president is going to
Speaker 1: keep the government shut down, right, I assume they'll be
Speaker 1: continuing resolutions to fund the essential aspects of government until
Speaker 1: they come to a deal. How do you see this
Speaker 1: playing out? I think it depends on how much nerve
Speaker 1: the president has, I think in the end, first of all,
Speaker 1: and I as you know, I wrote an op ed
Speaker 1: about this about two weeks ago. I think that there's
Speaker 1: a deal for the Dreamers, which over eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the country agrees with. If she came here as a
Speaker 1: young child, we all to find a way to make
Speaker 1: you legally comfortable, not necessarily have citizenship, but legally comfortable.
Speaker 1: And there's a deal to combine that with funding for
Speaker 1: the southern border. And I think the Democrats, every day
Speaker 1: they turn that down, are saying to the Hispanic community
Speaker 1: that they dislike Trump more than they care about helping
Speaker 1: people who overwhelmingly Americans think got to be helped. I
Speaker 1: don't see why the President should give in, And I
Speaker 1: think that if he's continuously willing to talk, and he's
Speaker 1: continuously looking for some reasonable compromise. They could pass, for example,
Speaker 1: two and a half billion this year and committed two
Speaker 1: and a half billion in appropriations. Next year, he get
Speaker 1: five billion, and the Democrats will say, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: even going to do that. I think currently they backed
Speaker 1: off even from the original billion six stata. There's a
Speaker 1: point where it becomes silly. And I think one of
Speaker 1: his jobs and he intuitively, you can watch him, he
Speaker 1: intuitively knows that the more the country gets to see
Speaker 1: of Nancy Pelosi, the better off it's going to be
Speaker 1: for Republicans. Well, so I think he wants her out
Speaker 1: there in public. He wants her being herself. You know,
Speaker 1: if you look at the sheriff out in California, you
Speaker 1: have a local sheriff blaming you know, California is not
Speaker 1: only San Francisco, not only a sanctuary city, but California
Speaker 1: is a sanctuary state. And the local sheriff, Perez Aragaya,
Speaker 1: you know, literally is saying now that those laws, blaming
Speaker 1: those laws for the illegal alien murder of a hero
Speaker 1: comp I mean, that just happens this weekend, And how
Speaker 1: do you justify one American dying. I'm going to see
Speaker 1: more of this, well, and I think what it does
Speaker 1: is it makes the Democrats look like they're totally out
Speaker 1: of touch with reality, and of course the left when
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party is totally out of touch with reality.
Speaker 1: That's a key thing to understand about this. You're not
Speaker 1: having a debate between two sides about the same world.
Speaker 1: You have a debate where one side lives in a
Speaker 1: fantasy and which everybody's nice, we don't really need borders.
Speaker 1: MS thirteen isn't a threat, etc. And I think as
Speaker 1: the country comes to understand that the future of the
Speaker 1: Democrats will diminish accordingly. You know, I look at what
Speaker 1: the President is doing here on this. I just think
Speaker 1: that closing the government down and not making any deal
Speaker 1: but being open to the president stayed home as Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi was in Oye and Maxim Waters I read was
Speaker 1: in the Bahamas or somewhere, and everybody else is on vacation,
Speaker 1: and he's saying, I'm here, I'm willing to make a deal.
Speaker 1: For going that vacation, I think was a smart thing
Speaker 1: to do. But more importantly, I don't know how any
Speaker 1: reasonable person with the numbers of Americans that have been murdered,
Speaker 1: and I've been from the Rio grand to San Diego
Speaker 1: thirteen times, helicopter's boat, all terrain, vehicle, horseback, you name it.
Speaker 1: I've been on it. I've been there when gang members
Speaker 1: were arrested. I have the videotape. I've seen the you know,
Speaker 1: drug warehouses, floor to ceiling, drugs, but drugs, human trafficking,
Speaker 1: the dangerous element that want to cross our borders. To me,
Speaker 1: it seems like something worth fighting for. And one of
Speaker 1: the things I don't like about a lot of politicians.
Speaker 1: And there it is, right yeah, yeah, But also it
Speaker 1: was deep in right now, you're engaged in the contest
Speaker 1: of Will Pelosi feels her oasts she got to be
Speaker 1: speaker again, and she thinks that she's tougher than the president.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a certain importance to Trump and
Speaker 1: frankly forcing a victory here. I don't care how long
Speaker 1: it takes. And again, those of our audience ought to know.
Speaker 1: I helped close the government twice in ninety five early
Speaker 1: ninety six, for a total of twenty seven days, and
Speaker 1: as a result of that confrontation, we ended up getting
Speaker 1: a welfare reform, the largest capital gains tax cut in history,
Speaker 1: and we balanced the federal budget for four straight years.
Speaker 1: So I'm not afraid to get involved in a collision.
Speaker 1: And I think it's really important that the President not
Speaker 1: backed down because this is the first test of two
Speaker 1: solid years of the Democrats trying to come at him,
Speaker 1: and if he gives in on this, who knows what
Speaker 1: their next demand will be. Yeah, I think you're going
Speaker 1: to see a lot of bars being moved, mister Speaker.
Speaker 1: Happy new Year, and we'll be seeing you, hopefully a
Speaker 1: lot through out the year and hearing from you on
Speaker 1: the show regularly. We always love having you and all
Speaker 1: the best to you in Kalista, and I hope you're
Speaker 1: enjoying Italy, the fine wine and dining while I'm working
Speaker 1: hard every day, you know, trying to save America. I
Speaker 1: just hope you're enjoying it. McClean, Virginia. I'm talking in
Speaker 1: from McLean, Virginia, and I'll tell you I am really
Speaker 1: I am really looking forward to your new program. I
Speaker 1: think it's a brilliant insight and I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be historic and very important. All Right, Thank you,
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, New Kingbridge, eight hundred nine for one,
Speaker 1: Shawn is our toll free telephone number. You want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the program. Well more on this
Speaker 1: immigration debate coming up at the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: Our Border Watch segment comes up later in the program.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have our mission statement on Hannity tonight nine
Speaker 1: Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We'll have our Deep
Speaker 1: State Watch also coming up in the next hour as well.
Speaker 1: Seeing conduct by the Muller team or are you aware
Speaker 1: of actions that they've taken that you think should be
Speaker 1: independently investigating by the destroying the nineteen thousand texts of
Speaker 1: Struck in page I told you at the beginning this
Speaker 1: thing began illegitimately. It began was Struck and the Steel dossier,
Speaker 1: which is totally false eight four by Hillary Clinton. Imagine
Speaker 1: the search wire is based on a board and paid
Speaker 1: for piece of uppo research, paid for by a political candidate,
Speaker 1: a piece of garbage, and they don't properly alert the
Speaker 1: court to that. A lot of deep state news. Hannity
Speaker 1: Deep State Watch continues as Juliani accusing the Mueller team,
Speaker 1: Muller himself of destroying key evidence and he made this
Speaker 1: over the Christmas break. The media of course pretends not
Speaker 1: to notice. But if you think how the magnet, how
Speaker 1: what that would do to this case. If true, why
Speaker 1: were those nineteen thousand techs. Why were the phones of
Speaker 1: Page and Struck cleaned? White cleaned? How is it that
Speaker 1: the left always gets away with wiping stuff away? But
Speaker 1: you know, then look at the case of General Flynn.
Speaker 1: General Flynn, you don't need a lawyer, says the deputy
Speaker 1: FBI director mccabee. Now, just you're guys gonna come over.
Speaker 1: A couple of guys going to talk to you. Had
Speaker 1: no big deal. James comey hah, pragging about the fact
Speaker 1: that he on day four the Trump administration sending his
Speaker 1: FBI agent something he never would do if Obama was
Speaker 1: president or if Bush was president, but he wanted to
Speaker 1: take advantage of Trumpian president. They all had an agenda.
Speaker 1: He knew about the dossier being unverified and sallacious and pony,
Speaker 1: but he's still signed off on it. And one of
Speaker 1: these people are going to be held responsible. And so
Speaker 1: Juliani said that Muellers should be investigated for destruction of evidence,
Speaker 1: for allowing those text messages from Struck to be erased,
Speaker 1: messages that would show the state of mind in the
Speaker 1: tactics of the lead anti Trump FBI agent at the
Speaker 1: beginning of this entire probe. By the way, Ken Starr
Speaker 1: said that Muller's team may be guilty of obstruction of justice.
Speaker 1: You have now a pull that came out just two
Speaker 1: days ago. The majority of Americans want Trump to declassify
Speaker 1: documents from the Russia investigation. That would be the things
Speaker 1: we've been telling you about. That would be the FISA
Speaker 1: warrant applications themselves, again unverified, uncorroborated, a lot of it debunked,
Speaker 1: and yet all these people put their signature on it.
Speaker 1: Frauds committed against four FISA court judges. Look at the
Speaker 1: oddity of how they handled the FLYNT interview, told him
Speaker 1: he doesn't need a lawyer doing things they'd never do
Speaker 1: in any other administration. On top of that, we have
Speaker 1: a you know, we have fusion GPS by Christopher Steele's
Speaker 1: admitting he was hired by Democrats to sabotage Trump and
Speaker 1: his campaign and post victory, that also happened. So you know,
Speaker 1: at the end, where does his end. Well, we know
Speaker 1: we've got a group of people that are going to
Speaker 1: be screaming impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, every single day. But
Speaker 1: yet there's no evidence of any Trump Russia collusion, but
Speaker 1: we have plenty of evidence of Hillary Clinton and her
Speaker 1: crimes that have yet and she's yet to be brought
Speaker 1: to justice. Anyway, has been working real hard over the
Speaker 1: holiday while I was off trying to recharge my battery.
Speaker 1: John Solomon of the Hill is back with us. How
Speaker 1: are you happy New Year? Sean? Good to be with you. Well,
Speaker 1: I think Julianni is right. He did the wide arranging interview.
Speaker 1: Is with you tell us about Yeah, it was an
Speaker 1: amazing interview in and you know, there are so many
Speaker 1: things now when we look back, you know, part of
Speaker 1: the problem with the Russia cases is complicated in two
Speaker 1: Some of the revelations that are exculpatory or helpful to
Speaker 1: the president are so scattered that no one's pulled them
Speaker 1: all together. And I think the mayor did a great
Speaker 1: job of looking at thirty thousand feet all the problems
Speaker 1: with his investigation. You've got the nineteen thousand text message
Speaker 1: the FBI destroyed, only the ig went to the effort
Speaker 1: and got him reinstated when he found him. Do we
Speaker 1: know if we got all of them, because without the
Speaker 1: ighing we are missing some important ones. Yeah, the most
Speaker 1: important ones that were not recovered were the ones that
Speaker 1: Page and Struck exchange while they were working for Robert
Speaker 1: Mueller's investigation. So those first three months from May to
Speaker 1: June before they left or were fired from the from
Speaker 1: the Mueller investigation, those text messages remarkably are wiped and
Speaker 1: gone and never to be retrieved, and we'll never know
Speaker 1: what they were talking about and how they were trying
Speaker 1: to steer that investigation in the first three months of
Speaker 1: Robert Muller's tad. But Mueller had to know at that
Speaker 1: point because Struck and Page were working for him and
Speaker 1: he had discovered that they were so virulently anti Trump,
Speaker 1: so he had an obligation. Didn't need to preserve these
Speaker 1: text messages, preserve these phones. It's it's funny. It's the
Speaker 1: same obligation Hillary Clinton had to retain those work related
Speaker 1: emails on her server and didn't comply with. There's a
Speaker 1: there's a law called the Federal Records Act, and it
Speaker 1: says anything that you creating your government work that's substantive
Speaker 1: a relative to government work, needs to be preserved. One
Speaker 1: of the things the IG pointed out in his December
Speaker 1: report was the FBI didn't really end. The Justice Department
Speaker 1: in Muller's office didn't have a policy for complying consistently
Speaker 1: with that law. And so right off the bat you
Speaker 1: got the investor gaters not complying with laws, and you
Speaker 1: have they're investigating other people for potentially breaking the law.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the sort of hypocrisy that drives
Speaker 1: everyday Americans crazy. All right, as we continue our Hannity
Speaker 1: Deep State Watch, because this is going to be an
Speaker 1: ongoing story throughout the year, the question is, remember when
Speaker 1: I said facetiously and I said, it's not going to
Speaker 1: work out well for you, and I don't recommend it.
Speaker 1: But if you were to do the things that Hillary did,
Speaker 1: and you were to erase subpoened emails and then acid
Speaker 1: wash or hard drive with bleach bit and bust up
Speaker 1: your devices with hammers, knowing they also had information that
Speaker 1: had been subpoened, I wouldn't recommend it. And everybody said
Speaker 1: Hannity's advising people to obstruct justice. Hannity was doing no
Speaker 1: such thing. I was saying, if you did what she did,
Speaker 1: it would be pretty dumb. Now, how do they get
Speaker 1: away with the people ask all the time, when is
Speaker 1: there I mean, do we expect the next attorney general,
Speaker 1: Do we expect the inspector general? Do we expect the president?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna? You know, the had an article saying,
Speaker 1: most people want this information, the three zero two's, they
Speaker 1: want the original applications, they want the Gang of Aid information.
Speaker 1: They want this so called fourth bucket of information. You
Speaker 1: could tell us about that. Are we ever going to
Speaker 1: get to see this stuff? I do. I have a
Speaker 1: high degree of confidence that the President, when the time
Speaker 1: is right, when the opportunity is no longer there for
Speaker 1: Democrats to say, you release that information to obstruct Bob
Speaker 1: Muller's investigation, When that time is right, I believe the
Speaker 1: President will release all that information. And when we see
Speaker 1: it in its entirety, everything we've been talking about up
Speaker 1: to this point will not only be confirmed, there will
Speaker 1: be new revelation. I am certain that the FBI had
Speaker 1: evidence that was exculpatory to Carter Page that they kept
Speaker 1: out of the FISA warrant. I'm certain of something because
Speaker 1: I'm going to report it tonight, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: review it on your show tonight on Fox. But tonight
Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to report that for the
Speaker 1: last two years, the United States intelligence community had exculpatory
Speaker 1: information about Mike Flynn's trip to Moscow December twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: when he sat alongside of Vladimir Putin at the RT dinner,
Speaker 1: the Television Network dinner. It turns out that Mike Flynn
Speaker 1: notified the government advance, got a protective, defensive briefing how
Speaker 1: to avoid being compromised when he was in Russiam, and
Speaker 1: then he came back and reported everything to the United
Speaker 1: States government that went on there and who he talked
Speaker 1: to and what he observed. That's not the Act of China.
Speaker 1: And every time I've interviewed Carter Page, he said he
Speaker 1: was often debriefed. He willingly was debriefed and shared all
Speaker 1: the information with our intelligence community. So they got to
Speaker 1: Mike Flynn doing the same thing. Now you got Mike
Speaker 1: Flynn doing the same thing. Chuck Rassey tried to get
Speaker 1: this information release on and the United States government, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's own administration, the bureaucrats and his own administration wouldn't
Speaker 1: allow that information out. And you have to ask the question,
Speaker 1: why why can't we know the truth about these things?
Speaker 1: General Flynn. That act was, that meeting was portrayed as
Speaker 1: like the beginning of this conspiracy, which by the way,
Speaker 1: never happened. Right, But if you knew in the beginning
Speaker 1: of this that Mike Flynn did the right thing, he
Speaker 1: got a defensive briefing, he cleared it, he told people
Speaker 1: in advance, he came back and got to brief. It
Speaker 1: changes the whole context of the meeting. And we were
Speaker 1: deprived that for more than two years. It's really remarkable.
Speaker 1: I was shocked at what was supposed to be the
Speaker 1: Flynn sentencing hearing and the judge ended up calling a
Speaker 1: three star a traitor, and they made the case they
Speaker 1: were letting the court know that certain things had happened.
Speaker 1: One that the deputy FBI director said that he doesn't
Speaker 1: need a lawyer. Meanwhile, this was an investigation they weren't
Speaker 1: telling him, and it was an investigation that in and
Speaker 1: of itself to me, would be a violation of miranda.
Speaker 1: And certainly if you use that information after you told
Speaker 1: him not to have a lawyer, would be not admissible
Speaker 1: to me. Then of course, James Colemey bragging about how
Speaker 1: we bypassed normal process and procedure not go through the
Speaker 1: White House Council, but walked right into General Flynn's office
Speaker 1: or sent his agents in knowing that he wouldn't do
Speaker 1: it the other administration. How did we get to the
Speaker 1: point where he was supposed to get no jail time
Speaker 1: and now the judge wants to throw the book at
Speaker 1: this guy. Well, it's an important thing to remember because
Speaker 1: a lot of the media didn't cover this with the
Speaker 1: same fervor that they recovered the judge's first remarks. But
Speaker 1: there was a recess in the middle of that hearing.
Speaker 1: When the recess ended and the judge came back, he
Speaker 1: recanted his remarks thing. I did not mean to suggest
Speaker 1: that General Flynn was a trader, and in fact he
Speaker 1: acknowledged he misunderstood the timeline that they were talking about
Speaker 1: this Turkish representation where he was representing a client tide
Speaker 1: to Turkey, and the judge had conflated that as having
Speaker 1: occurred when he was a national security advisor. That representation
Speaker 1: ended long before Mike Flynn became president. Yeah, but then
Speaker 1: he also went on to say, don't expect you're going
Speaker 1: to get a better sentence the next time you're in
Speaker 1: my court room. I think that the judge made clear
Speaker 1: that he'd like to send Mike Flynn to prison. But
Speaker 1: let me tell you something else important that occurred during
Speaker 1: that hearing that I don't think anyone covered. The prosecutors
Speaker 1: Muller's team were asked, do you think Mike Flynn committed
Speaker 1: treason or would you consider charging him with the treason?
Speaker 1: And they said, no, there's no evidence to support that.
Speaker 1: That's very very important admissions. You never hear that stuff.
Speaker 1: You only hear the other things in the media. But
Speaker 1: that was a very important moment in that court hearing.
Speaker 1: And when you go back and you look at the
Speaker 1: media coverage, we've now debunked the media coverage. The prosecutor,
Speaker 1: who knows everything about Mike Flynn says there was no treason.
Speaker 1: That's an important part that we need to focus on
Speaker 1: a lot of the expectations and allegations and made up
Speaker 1: narratives at the beginning, O Wayne. But the whole predicate
Speaker 1: for the Lyne to the FBI charge against General Flynn
Speaker 1: was based on the fact that those agents that calmly
Speaker 1: bragged about bypassed normal procedure and got in and did
Speaker 1: an interview after they said you don't need a lawyer.
Speaker 1: They already had the transcript because they had illegally surveiled,
Speaker 1: they never minimized. Then they unmasked, and then they leaked
Speaker 1: the raw intelligence about General Flynn. Now maybe he or
Speaker 1: maybe I didn't remember it perfectly because they had a
Speaker 1: transcript in front of them. Yeah, they would, they would,
Speaker 1: they had. By the time they went to interview him,
Speaker 1: they knew what the Mike Flynn had said. And I
Speaker 1: think they were checking his his reliability, his willingness to
Speaker 1: be honest about it. Remember, the agent who first interviewed
Speaker 1: him concluded that he wasn't deceptive, that when he gave
Speaker 1: the question, he didn't feel like Flynn was intensely trying
Speaker 1: to mislead the FBI. Nonetheless, seven months later they wrote
Speaker 1: a report that said he was lying and they rang
Speaker 1: him up at a quick break. More with John Solomon
Speaker 1: on the other side. Right as we continued with our
Speaker 1: Deep State Watch investigation, John Solomon as with us from
Speaker 1: the Hill. All right, so how is all this so
Speaker 1: we're going to get a Muller rapport for sure this year? Right?
Speaker 1: How do you see this? And the media is if
Speaker 1: we count I get, I think we'll reach at least
Speaker 1: a million times this year. And it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: They're not going to convict the president and impeach him.
Speaker 1: They're not going to ever get two thirds of the Senate.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, the question is how is this gonna end,
Speaker 1: especially since there's no Trump Russia collusion and what happens
Speaker 1: on the other side of the equation, the abuse of
Speaker 1: power by Struck and Page and McCabe and Coomi and others,
Speaker 1: and Bruce Or and others. There were two amazing moments
Speaker 1: over the holidays that really struck my nerves when when
Speaker 1: I saw them. One was when Mike Kisikoff, one of
Speaker 1: the lead reporters who first broke the stories about the
Speaker 1: DOSSI and pedaled the dossier story at the beginning. In fact,
Speaker 1: it was his story that was used to support the
Speaker 1: affidavit or support the warn't. When he came out and said,
Speaker 1: I think the Steel doss is going to turn out
Speaker 1: to be unverified. When the reporter who peddled it starts
Speaker 1: to talk that way, I think you know one thing
Speaker 1: right away, right the origins of this case are eroding
Speaker 1: so much show that so that means of FISA court.
Speaker 1: FISA court fraud was committed and perpetrated on a FISA
Speaker 1: Court multiple times. What happens to the people that lied
Speaker 1: to the judge that was supposed to verify and corroborate. Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about one of those people. Because the second
Speaker 1: thing that caught my nerve in the middle of the
Speaker 1: holidays was James Coomy's second interview where he said he
Speaker 1: was asked twice do you think the FBI has an
Speaker 1: obligation to give exculpatory information to the FISTU court when
Speaker 1: you're applying for a fist In both times, Comey said,
Speaker 1: I don't know. How could the man who signs the FIST,
Speaker 1: who's in charge of the fist program for the FBI
Speaker 1: not know his obligations to the court. Those two things
Speaker 1: are setting up. I think what's going to happen in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. You're going to see the acknowledgement that the
Speaker 1: dossier was the main evidence and that it was flawed
Speaker 1: and everybody knew it knew its flawed from the beginning,
Speaker 1: and two that the FISU court was misled. Now what
Speaker 1: happens from that? The IG will lay out some facts
Speaker 1: and the president, the new Attorney General is going to
Speaker 1: have to decide accountability. I think the second political thing
Speaker 1: that's beginning to happen already. Sean Democrats are changing the
Speaker 1: goalposts in the football field. Right it was about collusion.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you by the middle of nineteen, they'll be
Speaker 1: talking about something entirely different, has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: Russia collusion, because they got to keep the narrative going.
Speaker 1: But they have to change the facts because all those facts,
Speaker 1: what is it going to be a paying finance violation?
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see pay to play. I
Speaker 1: think they're going to move I think HR one, their
Speaker 1: first bill that you're introducing in the House tomorrow's designed
Speaker 1: to set up a new argument that early in the
Speaker 1: Trump administration there was a pay to play mentality of
Speaker 1: people working for him. We're just going to move the
Speaker 1: field and the goalpost to an entirely different stadium and
Speaker 1: play off. Okay, then the artillery get in that game,
Speaker 1: because we know the pay to play that took place
Speaker 1: at the Clinton Foundation. Yeah, great question. I think that
Speaker 1: you know the Justice Department has not been able to
Speaker 1: answer that question. The best thing I've heard was Mark
Speaker 1: Meadows talking on our show recently saying, I believe there's
Speaker 1: good reason to think there's an FBI investigation looking at
Speaker 1: criminality of the Clinton Foundation. That's the first time I've
Speaker 1: seen somebody in the know, theoretically, someone who's been briefed
Speaker 1: saying that allowed to John department his mom on that
Speaker 1: that's the place to look. I think it's Little Rock, Arkansas.
Speaker 1: If there's any justice for the Clintons that's going to
Speaker 1: come out of Little Rock, Arkansas. All right, John Solomon
Speaker 1: will continue to follow we call it Hannity Deep State Watch,
Speaker 1: as we're going to be following all the corrupt and
Speaker 1: that the rest of the media will be ignoring on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. Somebody's got to be do some honest reporting,
Speaker 1: and we're taking it upon ourselves. Anyway. Eight hundred nine one,
Speaker 1: Sean is our number. Stay right here for our final
Speaker 1: news round up and information overload in the final hour
Speaker 1: of the Sean Hannity Show. Now they're saying they're not
Speaker 1: going to pay for it. They will pay for the world.
Speaker 1: We're gonna build the world. We're gonna pay for the wall.
Speaker 1: We're going to stop businesses from leaving our country, and
Speaker 1: we are. They are being and they are being drained
Speaker 1: out of our country, our jobs, our money, our base,
Speaker 1: and our factories. We are, we're going to stop it.
Speaker 1: You don't expect he's going to write a check. But
Speaker 1: what you're saying is that they will have to make concession. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's many different ways. So in other words, you don't
Speaker 1: expect Mexico to say, Trump, here's a check for techolically
Speaker 1: not feasible. It wouldn't look good. So you think the
Speaker 1: deals that you make were more than compensate for the wall.
Speaker 1: Even if we tax him. We may tax him, Okay,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make any difference. People who enter the United
Speaker 1: States without our permission, our illegal aliens, and illegal aliens
Speaker 1: should not be treated the same as people who entered
Speaker 1: the US legally. President's decision to end DOCCA was heartless
Speaker 1: and it was brainless. When we use phrases like undocumented workers,
Speaker 1: we convey a message to the American people that their
Speaker 1: government is not serious about combating illegal immigration. Hundreds, hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of families will be ripped apart. If you
Speaker 1: don't think it's illegal, you're not going to say it.
Speaker 1: I think it is illegal and wrong. Ends of thousands
Speaker 1: of American businesses will lose hard working employees, and the
Speaker 1: argument them as the President is Americans don't want to
Speaker 1: do the work. Wait, just can't find American workers to
Speaker 1: do the work. But the president that is a cruck
Speaker 1: in many instances, it's just not true. In my view,
Speaker 1: From's decision to end a doccer program or some eight
Speaker 1: hundred thousand young people is the cruelest and most ugly
Speaker 1: presidential act in the modern history of this country. I
Speaker 1: cannot think of one single act which is uglia and
Speaker 1: more cruel. We've got to do several things, and I am,
Speaker 1: you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants. People have to stop
Speaker 1: employing illegal immigrants. Come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk
Speaker 1: and Nassau County. Stand in the street corners in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: or the Bronx. You're going to see loads of people
Speaker 1: waiting to get picked up to go do yard work
Speaker 1: and construction work and domestic work. You know, Idy, this
Speaker 1: is not a problem that the people who are coming
Speaker 1: into the country are solely responsible for the coming if
Speaker 1: we didn't put them to work. My proposal will keep
Speaker 1: families together, and it will include a path to citizen
Speaker 1: show you notice with all these Democrats, by the way,
Speaker 1: gladual with us. Happy New Year eight hundred and nine
Speaker 1: for one Sean is a tofree telephone number. You want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program. As we now
Speaker 1: began our Hannity Border Watch segment, our top story of
Speaker 1: the day, the government shut down, disaster which it is not?
Speaker 1: And are there things in life if this is in
Speaker 1: it worth fighting for? I give you all the numbers.
Speaker 1: You know, look at the Government Accountability Office as goes
Speaker 1: back numbers of years. Now, We've got almost thirty thousand
Speaker 1: homicide arrests of criminal aliens. You know, if you go
Speaker 1: back a few decades, how look at the drugs that
Speaker 1: pour over into America from our southern border. I've been there,
Speaker 1: been to the drug warehouses. I've seen the confiscated drugs.
Speaker 1: I've seen them all. They're all aimed at making it
Speaker 1: to your small town or your big city, right into
Speaker 1: the hands of your vulnerable kids. And the same thing
Speaker 1: with human trafficking and the people that are abused and die.
Speaker 1: You put the wall up. You put a border wall
Speaker 1: up and protects people on both sides. Is it really
Speaker 1: too much to ask that we have the ability as
Speaker 1: a country to vet those people that would like the
Speaker 1: honor of coming into our country to join our family.
Speaker 1: I don't care where you come from. I just want
Speaker 1: to know that you're safe. We saw the caravan. We
Speaker 1: knew that over six hundred criminals had infiltrated the caravan,
Speaker 1: including gang members, including MS Third Team members, including others
Speaker 1: that had committed violent crimes. So you have the shutdown,
Speaker 1: and well it's we never have a government shutdown. Essential
Speaker 1: services always continue. Democrats, for whatever reason, think they're on
Speaker 1: the winning side of this. Now for the President, to me,
Speaker 1: this is a moment where he is saying, I'm going
Speaker 1: to stand on a principle, and the principle is for
Speaker 1: national security purposes, We've got to secure the southern border.
Speaker 1: That means there's a little pain in the interim, then
Speaker 1: so be it. House Democrats announcing their plans to end
Speaker 1: the shutdown without funding the border wall as soon as
Speaker 1: they're sworn into tomorrow. Okay, well that's not a plan
Speaker 1: that's dead on a rival. President graciously inviting congressional leaders
Speaker 1: to the White House for security briefing today. Democrats don't
Speaker 1: want to go White House, calling their plan the White
Speaker 1: House said that if they're not going to give and
Speaker 1: look at what the president's offering. Look what Lindsay Graham
Speaker 1: is offering. He saying, Okay, well, you've cared about Dacca
Speaker 1: kids all these years. You care about the children, as
Speaker 1: you always say, Well, here's a great deal to allow
Speaker 1: them to stay for three years and then have a
Speaker 1: renewal for three years. That's what they're offering. And this
Speaker 1: whole issue I played at the beginning of this an
Speaker 1: interview during the time the President Trump was in Candidate Trump,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, do you expect them to give
Speaker 1: you a check, meaning Mexico, to pay for the wall. No,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna have new trade deals with Mexico, which
Speaker 1: we now have, and it will be so beneficial that
Speaker 1: will ultimately pay for itself. And that's exactly what much
Speaker 1: of the trade deal is about. Better trade deal for obviously,
Speaker 1: the better deal for the American people anyway, joining us
Speaker 1: so with more we have Maria a virus. She's a
Speaker 1: Cuman American journalist broadcaster in her own right. She ran
Speaker 1: for Congress. She's worked for CNN, Univision, and Telemundo. Jessica
Speaker 1: Vaughn is with US Director of Policy Studies for the
Speaker 1: Center for Immigration Studies. Let me start with Jessica Vaughan. Jessica,
Speaker 1: all right, so we're watching all of this. We saw
Speaker 1: last night a violent immigrant mob launching a New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve border attack. So my question to you is, let's
Speaker 1: go over the numbers. What is this costing the American
Speaker 1: people in terms of the criminal justice system, the educational system,
Speaker 1: the healthcare system, what does it mean in terms of
Speaker 1: the importation of drugs, human trafficking, And then of course
Speaker 1: those criminal elements, not ninety eight percent of them, ninety
Speaker 1: eight percent want a better life. We get that, but
Speaker 1: how many people have died in the last couple of decades.
Speaker 1: That tells us we need security for the American people. First, well,
Speaker 1: you're right, illegal immigration is enormously costly to our country. First,
Speaker 1: there are the fiscal impacts. According to the National Academy
Speaker 1: of Science, which is the premier research academy in our country,
Speaker 1: the net fiscal cost of the average illegal alien is
Speaker 1: seventy four thousand dollars over their lifetime. And that's not
Speaker 1: including the costs of kids that they have. So that's
Speaker 1: each one over their lifetime costs more than seventy four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. So you know, if you do the mass,
Speaker 1: that means every five billion we spend on a border
Speaker 1: wall would only have to stop not even seventy thousand
Speaker 1: illegal aliens before it starts to act to pay off.
Speaker 1: This is an investment we would the effect on reducing
Speaker 1: illegal immigration would have the wall pay for itself very
Speaker 1: very quickly. And that's why it's such a good investment,
Speaker 1: besides the fact that it works. But there is a
Speaker 1: huge public safety impact of illegal immigration. Also, we know
Speaker 1: the number of Americans or legal immigrants who are killed
Speaker 1: by illegal aliens because no one keeps track. They don't
Speaker 1: want to know. Law enforcement agencies don't inquire about immigration status,
Speaker 1: they don't keep track of it, even though they track
Speaker 1: all kinds of other details about people who get arrested,
Speaker 1: but they don't want to know about the number who
Speaker 1: are here illegally because it's too politically uncomfortable and they'd
Speaker 1: have to do something about it. And then we have
Speaker 1: other problems terrorists and gang members exploiting our catch and
Speaker 1: release policies at the border. That is undermining all the
Speaker 1: progress that are state, local and federal law enforcement agencies
Speaker 1: have made over the years in fighting terrorism, fighting transnational gangs,
Speaker 1: and fighting other kinds of violence and drug trafficking in
Speaker 1: our communities. And you know we cannot keep undermining their
Speaker 1: very good work in this way. We need border security
Speaker 1: and it needs to happen now. The only reason it
Speaker 1: isn't political on the part of the Democrats, mareal Viral.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is part and parcel. You even see,
Speaker 1: for example, that large percentages of the Hispanic American community
Speaker 1: they want border security. They don't mind the process being legal.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, And it's true. And I was listening
Speaker 1: to all the different soundbites that you were presenting at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the segment, and I didn't hear anybody
Speaker 1: from the Hispanic community talking. So I thank you very
Speaker 1: much for giving me the opportunity and explain to you
Speaker 1: what we think. Remember that we are the largest minority
Speaker 1: in the country. We're almost at eighteen percent of the population,
Speaker 1: almost sixty million people. And those people basically, and I
Speaker 1: can assure you, mister Hannity, that many millions of Hispanics
Speaker 1: believe that we need to take care of those who
Speaker 1: do not have a criminal record at our in the country,
Speaker 1: not necessarily to give them citizenship, but to give them
Speaker 1: some type of legality. We don't have any farms with
Speaker 1: a border because we want people to come in with visus.
Speaker 1: The border needs to have very big gates for those
Speaker 1: who in because at the same time, and just to
Speaker 1: comment to what the lady was saying, is that you
Speaker 1: have a lot of illegals that are paying Social Security
Speaker 1: benefits and will never claim them because they are paying
Speaker 1: under a dead person's name, and that stays in our
Speaker 1: Social Security or in the treasury of the United States.
Speaker 1: That needs to be taking account of. Also, we have
Speaker 1: to come to realize that many of the business owners
Speaker 1: of America are paying those people less wages an hour.
Speaker 1: And then the products the Halopenia peppers or the tomatoes
Speaker 1: here in Hampstead where I am very close to Miami,
Speaker 1: or the berries in Ohio, those berries cost to less
Speaker 1: because those people are picking them up. So there are
Speaker 1: no there are everybody's responsible for this party. Well, I
Speaker 1: think you've got a couple of things going on. I
Speaker 1: think politically, you've got one party that's looking at a
Speaker 1: generational political shift in the country. I think you have
Speaker 1: another party that wants cheap labor, which is unfair to
Speaker 1: those that would come here. I think we would have
Speaker 1: a need in this country for migrant labor at different points.
Speaker 1: As long as we have a chance to vet everybody,
Speaker 1: and maybe if you do that for a certain number
Speaker 1: of years and you want to apply for a green
Speaker 1: card or citizenship. I don't have a problem with any
Speaker 1: of that. All I want is this, let's make the
Speaker 1: process legal. I think we have a right to protect
Speaker 1: the American people. First, let's vet those people that want
Speaker 1: to be our visitors and make sure that they're coming
Speaker 1: here with the right intentions. And then secondly, let's make
Speaker 1: sure that when they get here, they can take care
Speaker 1: of themselves. I don't think that is standard criteria for
Speaker 1: most countries have that, and they even have it, like
Speaker 1: in Australia New Zealand. You better be willing to contribute
Speaker 1: a significant amount of money or skill that they need
Speaker 1: in their economy or you're never getting in and they
Speaker 1: agree with you. I'm surrounded by illegals. I talk to
Speaker 1: them all the time because I want to come to
Speaker 1: your show well informed. Do you really think they want
Speaker 1: to be Americans? Oh? No, They're proud to be either
Speaker 1: Guatemalans or Hundurians. And good for them. They just want
Speaker 1: to come here. They want to work, they want they
Speaker 1: don't want to get into trouble because I'm talking about
Speaker 1: those illegals that do not have a criminal record. If
Speaker 1: you have a criminal record, you're out. That's and we
Speaker 1: all think the same way in the Hispanic communities. Ever
Speaker 1: since the Maria, ever since I was twelve years old
Speaker 1: and working and restaurants. I can tell you that many
Speaker 1: of the places that I worked had the illegal immigrants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. Eisenhower Park had a place called Salisbury on
Speaker 1: the Green. It was like a wedding factory. I did
Speaker 1: five weddings every weekend as a bartender. And I can
Speaker 1: tell you that they these guys come in, they work,
Speaker 1: they're fourteen, sixteen, eighteen hours shifts, and they work really hard,
Speaker 1: and and and they live in fear that they're going
Speaker 1: to be sent back. I've and they think my Spanish
Speaker 1: is awful. Um, I'll bla porquito Espaniola used to always say.
Speaker 1: But I mean I became friends. All I saw were
Speaker 1: people work in their asses off. Now, if we need
Speaker 1: work workers in the country, there's got to be a way.
Speaker 1: If we don't have a wall, what's gonna happen is
Speaker 1: the drugs continues, the human trafficking continues, the high costs
Speaker 1: associated with the illegal immigration continues. The impact on our educational,
Speaker 1: criminal justice, healthcare system all continues, you know. And the
Speaker 1: Democrats sounded like Donald Trump four years ago. Now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he wants the wall, so they don't
Speaker 1: want it just because he wants it. But don't you
Speaker 1: see that it's all politics and that the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: and I can say this loud and clear, they have
Speaker 1: played political football with Hispanics for thirty years. They're ruling
Speaker 1: us and now they are the saviors. They're the ones
Speaker 1: who want to be moral rarely, but you know when
Speaker 1: they have the opportunity to save the Hispanics. In two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, when President Obama told Spanish television that
Speaker 1: he was going to do an immigration reform law the
Speaker 1: first year of his presidency, and what did he do.
Speaker 1: He put all that political capital into Obamacare, which was okay,
Speaker 1: but he lied it to us. To get the last
Speaker 1: word from Jessica, go ahead, yeah, I mean we all
Speaker 1: should be able to agree that we can't have a
Speaker 1: legal immigration system with any integrity at all unless we
Speaker 1: have border security and unless we're enforcing the rules on
Speaker 1: legal immigration. I mean, Sean, you and I did these jobs.
Speaker 1: I worked for carnivals in restaurants and retail. These jumps
Speaker 1: simply aren't available in many cases to American teenagers anymore
Speaker 1: because employers have had the option of a steady stream
Speaker 1: of illegal workers, and that hurts legal immigrants, it hurts
Speaker 1: young Americans and others as well. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think most Americans are against immigration. Most Americans
Speaker 1: just wanted to be illegal exactly, and they have legal
Speaker 1: immigrants the only way. We've got to stop it. And
Speaker 1: haven't been I've been down there more than anybody else
Speaker 1: I know in the media, from the Rio grand to
Speaker 1: San Diego. I've seen it all from every every vantage point,
Speaker 1: and especially how do how many more families? And again
Speaker 1: it's it's a half of one percent. But if one
Speaker 1: if the ninety nine point nine percent of good people,
Speaker 1: but you got one one group of people that come
Speaker 1: here and commit murders, Well, what if it's your family.
Speaker 1: You're gonna feel differently if it's your family, as we
Speaker 1: should feel as an American family. Anyway, Thank you both, Maria,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jessica, Thank you. When we get back your calls.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred and nine p one. Shaun is on number
Speaker 1: at twenty five now till the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: So we're going to start a mission statement tonight, as
Speaker 1: we did earlier in the program today. And I didn't
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time watching TV over the Christmas holiday,
Speaker 1: there's my long break every year. But I did spend
Speaker 1: some time, and as I watched the insanity that is
Speaker 1: now called news, there is no real news that exists
Speaker 1: on television or in newspapers anymore. They don't exist. I
Speaker 1: was kind of even a little shocked to hear a
Speaker 1: former executive editor or The New York Times saying that
Speaker 1: their pay news pages, you know, their home of the
Speaker 1: part about straight news coverage supposedly is unmistakably anti Trump.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, what do you think fake news
Speaker 1: CNN is it's literally every second, every minute, every hour,
Speaker 1: every day, and the MSNBC is even worse, and you
Speaker 1: can't get honest, truthful coverage. They've all got an agenda.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got an agenda, and their agenda is in sapotago,
Speaker 1: it's in it's it's an extension of all things liberal, socialist, democratic,
Speaker 1: And you know, the President of the United States and
Speaker 1: the First Lady can't even go visit our troops in
Speaker 1: Iraq without being criticized. They can't talk to kids about
Speaker 1: Santa without character assassination and hate and all the hate
Speaker 1: that's against them. I mean, this has really moved on
Speaker 1: to something that I've never thought i'd see in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about five powerful forces that are
Speaker 1: out there to destroy the president. Well, what they are,
Speaker 1: it's it is a sewer of hatred in basically everywhere
Speaker 1: we go. Now, if you the president fifty two job
Speaker 1: approval rate to end the year by Rasmussen, many Americans
Speaker 1: that voted for the president, they're happy with the job
Speaker 1: that he's doing. No president's ever going to be perfect.
Speaker 1: I think the president's doing the right thing standing up
Speaker 1: for border security. We've given out the numbers and the
Speaker 1: statistics often enough, the cost to our criminal justice system,
Speaker 1: our healthcare system, our educational system, Americans that are losing
Speaker 1: their lives because people enter this country illegally, the drug importation,
Speaker 1: the human trafficking, the toll is massive. But again, we're
Speaker 1: nothing but smelly Walmart people, as Peter Struck called us,
Speaker 1: or irredeemable deplorable people as Hillary called us, or bitter
Speaker 1: Americans that cling to our God Bibles and religion, as
Speaker 1: Obama described us. So you have what is now these
Speaker 1: forces of hatred of Donald Trump. It is, it's beyond,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really sick. At this point, they wake
Speaker 1: up every day. What can we hate Trump about today?
Speaker 1: How can I sound more outrageous than my competitor on
Speaker 1: radio or TV? Today? What can I do to he
Speaker 1: really really, really a big, big, big, big big super liar.
Speaker 1: No no, no, He's a big big, big big big
Speaker 1: super super super duper liar. And that's how they try
Speaker 1: to outdo themselves. I have a lot of information about
Speaker 1: the Trump agenda that I guarantee you you haven't heard
Speaker 1: anywhere else. And that's what we're gonna do every day
Speaker 1: on this program and every day on television. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have Hannity Watch on the economy news you won't get
Speaker 1: anywhere else. We're gonna have Hannity Watch on hypocrisy. Look
Speaker 1: at the Democrats. They sounded just like Donald Trump a
Speaker 1: few short years ago. They're not going to point that
Speaker 1: out on any of these others so called news channels.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Hannity Watch on. We're gonna call out
Speaker 1: their bias. We're gonna have Hannity Watch on campus indoctrination
Speaker 1: and insanity. We're gonna have Hannity Watch on the culture,
Speaker 1: Hannity Watch on the deep state, Hannity Watch on border security,
Speaker 1: Hannity Watch on the advancement of socialism. You name it,
Speaker 1: We've got it. Look at the holiday sales report we
Speaker 1: now have Wall Street journals. Shoppers delivered the strongest holiday
Speaker 1: sales increase for the US retailers in six years, according
Speaker 1: to Early Data Now. Total US retail sales excluding automobiles
Speaker 1: rose five point one percent during the Christmas season from
Speaker 1: a year earlier. According to MasterCard Spending Pulse, which tracks
Speaker 1: both online and in store spending with all forms of payment, Overall,
Speaker 1: US consumers spent over eight hundred and fifty billion dollars
Speaker 1: this holiday season, according to MasterCard Now. The figures suggest
Speaker 1: the stock market swoon the partial government shutdown didn't curb
Speaker 1: consumers confidence in spending. That's good. Here's something you won't hear.
Speaker 1: What about the president's accomplishments in the last year alone.
Speaker 1: Let's see, he kept a promise. Brett Cavanaugh's name was
Speaker 1: on his list when he was a candidate to be
Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court. A conservative or originalist constitutionalist. He
Speaker 1: kept that promise. President kept his promise with China. China
Speaker 1: now has agreed to get rid of a lot of
Speaker 1: our automobile imports, take in our soybeans and other crops
Speaker 1: that they need to feed what a billion people we had,
Speaker 1: middle class wages rising. I know a lot of you
Speaker 1: probably lost money in the stock market. I've told you
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a stock market guy. Stock market
Speaker 1: to me is gambling. I don't trust it, never have
Speaker 1: never will. I think the people that benefit from the
Speaker 1: stock market are the people that work on Wall Street
Speaker 1: and have all the insider knowledge that they need to
Speaker 1: make good decisions. I'm not one of them. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be one of them. I think there are
Speaker 1: other investments that are safer, more secure. Maybe not as
Speaker 1: big a return, but it's certainly I don't want to
Speaker 1: lose the money that I earned. And to me, if
Speaker 1: you're willing to put it in the stock market, well,
Speaker 1: stocks go up and down. Now, my stock market friends
Speaker 1: will tell me, well, if you have money you want
Speaker 1: to invest, you shouldn't want that money for at least
Speaker 1: ten years because of the ebb and flow of the
Speaker 1: stock market. I'm not interested in the eb and flow
Speaker 1: of the stock market, but real wages for the middle class, Well,
Speaker 1: that one up three percent. That sounds pretty good if
Speaker 1: you're a middle class American. The people that are the
Speaker 1: forgotten men and women in this country that make the
Speaker 1: country great. You're not going to hear about that on
Speaker 1: any newscast or the US Mexico Canada trade deal that
Speaker 1: the President promised that benefits us and became a better
Speaker 1: deal for the United States. It's good for our cars,
Speaker 1: it's good for our farmers. It's good for Wisconsin, it's
Speaker 1: good for Michigan, it's good for the industrial Midwest. We
Speaker 1: know the President kept a promise and ended the Iranian
Speaker 1: nuclear deal. President kept a promise and moved the usmbassy
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem. We know that the President has pretty much
Speaker 1: pretty much smashed the ISIS Caliphate and is now pulling
Speaker 1: out of Syria again in time. Very different than the
Speaker 1: Obama belief that it's the JV team. We see major
Speaker 1: increases in records and minority jobs in America. We have
Speaker 1: the lowest unemployment record ever for Hispanic Americans, African Americans,
Speaker 1: women in the workplace, youth unemployment, our vets are getting
Speaker 1: hired in bigger numbers than they've ever been hired. President's
Speaker 1: been holding the line to keep his promise on securing
Speaker 1: the borders, held his line on the migrant caravans. America.
Speaker 1: Also for the first time last year, record America American
Speaker 1: oil production surpassing Russia Saudi Arabia. We are now the
Speaker 1: world's largest producer of crude oil. Never mind all the
Speaker 1: natural gas and coal that we have. We're now exporters
Speaker 1: of energy, which means high paying jobs for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. You're not going to hear this from anybody
Speaker 1: in the media because they're fixated on hating the president.
Speaker 1: So we'll have Hannity Watch on the economy. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have Hannity Watch on the abusively biased media. We'll hold
Speaker 1: them accountable. We're gonna have Hannity Watch on hypocrisy. They
Speaker 1: sounded like Trump on the border. Now they have a
Speaker 1: very different tune. We'll have Hannity Watch on every and
Speaker 1: any issue that impacts your life because they're not gonna
Speaker 1: do it, but they're incapable now of anything that represents
Speaker 1: real news. And we'll watch the deep state Hannity Watch
Speaker 1: of the deep state. We're gonna have Hannity watch for
Speaker 1: equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws.
Speaker 1: Will watch the Democratic Party. In ninety days, all of
Speaker 1: America will know how crazy all the Democrats are. Just
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. They're gonna lose their minds collectively, and
Speaker 1: the media will champion all of it. So we'll watch
Speaker 1: it all very closely and moving forward, this show is
Speaker 1: going to be about the people that matter in the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen because why they're busy hating Trump every second minute,
Speaker 1: hour of every day and every week. Well, this show
Speaker 1: is going to protect the forgotten men and women in
Speaker 1: this country that they ought to be focused on and
Speaker 1: fighting for the policies that will make your life better,
Speaker 1: that will make your homes more secure, that will grow
Speaker 1: the economy so it impacts you and your family and
Speaker 1: your kids will in other words, will be your watch talk.
Speaker 1: We're going to expose corruption and lies and double standards
Speaker 1: when we see it, will expose those that are the
Speaker 1: real haters in this country. It's not hard to do.
Speaker 1: I was probably Obama's biggest critic. I never hated the
Speaker 1: guy like these people hate this man. I've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like it. I mean, if Donald Trump cured cancer today,
Speaker 1: he'd still be hated. If Donald Trump gave every American
Speaker 1: ten million dollars, they'd still hate him and manufacture some
Speaker 1: reason or another. So we're gonna watch out for your family,
Speaker 1: your pocket book. We're gonna watch out for what's in
Speaker 1: the best interests of your family. We're gonna watch and
Speaker 1: call out this media bias that exists. We're gonna show
Speaker 1: you all these Hollywood phonies and their agenda. We're gonna
Speaker 1: look at all the political correctness that exists in the world,
Speaker 1: and the indoctrination of our kids, and how the deep
Speaker 1: state are literally abusing the tools of intelligence that we've
Speaker 1: given them. We're gonna stand up for free markets and
Speaker 1: liberty and freedom and the Constitution. We'll watch out for
Speaker 1: socialism and the push to destroy free markets. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do this year, but we're
Speaker 1: going to be very, very different. We're redesigning the shows
Speaker 1: for this purpose and this purpose only. These are you know,
Speaker 1: difficult times demand a different approach, and it's like I
Speaker 1: can't if I focus on one topic, there's no way
Speaker 1: I can get it all in. You want to know
Speaker 1: how crazy they are, Let's listen to some of the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Just listen. This is just a small sampling of what's coming.
Speaker 1: I'm trying really hard to find something positive. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is a job loser. Republicans wrote a bill that abandons
Speaker 1: farmers of farming families that weekends weekends the farmers. Peasant's
Speaker 1: fitness for office is something that is being called into questions.
Speaker 1: I'm very worried about his fitness in terms of the
Speaker 1: bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they
Speaker 1: are giving to workers to kind of put schmooz. One
Speaker 1: is so pathetic. They're going to say that, do you
Speaker 1: give them bump stock. It's been a silvery slope. I
Speaker 1: certainly hope so. I mean I wanted a I love
Speaker 1: a single pair, but we're not. First he tries to
Speaker 1: charm you, President Bush tries to charm you. That's it's
Speaker 1: a President Bush. I'm sorry. I meant to say the
Speaker 1: priorities of the American people and they are not with
Speaker 1: President Bush. Excuse me, so sorry. We have to pass
Speaker 1: the bill so that you can find out what is it.
Speaker 1: We are a nation that will not stop until every
Speaker 1: child is born with the opportunity to go to college
Speaker 1: or trade school free of costs. Would you push for
Speaker 1: a Trump impeachment? I would, I would, I would support impeachment.
Speaker 1: You use the term the occupation of Palestine? What did
Speaker 1: you mean by that? Oh Um? I think what I
Speaker 1: meant is like the settlement. I am not the expert
Speaker 1: jee politic. We need to occupy every airport, we need
Speaker 1: to occupy every border, We need to occupy every ice office.
Speaker 1: Medicare for all is actually much more, is actually much
Speaker 1: cheaper than the current system that we pay right now.
Speaker 1: Just last year, we gave the military a seven hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars tap, a budget increase which they didn't even
Speaker 1: ask for. Shouldn't leader police to become the next Speaker
Speaker 1: of the House. We need to tell her that we've
Speaker 1: got her back and showing in pursuing will progressive energy
Speaker 1: agenda that this country has never seen. With this kind
Speaker 1: of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight.
Speaker 1: This is a bunch of scumbacks. I will fight every
Speaker 1: day until he is a page page funny bye with
Speaker 1: the House claiming my time, reclaiming that time, claiming my time. Okay,
Speaker 1: reclaim her at that time. They say, Maxine, please don't
Speaker 1: say impeachment anymore. And when they say that, I say impeachment. Impeachment,
Speaker 1: the fact that he is wrapping his arms around Putin
Speaker 1: while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea. Anyway, We'll
Speaker 1: have a lot more on that tonight, ninety start on
Speaker 1: Hannity on the Fox News Channel. We'll call it like
Speaker 1: our mission statement, Hannity Watch. We're watching out for the
Speaker 1: forgotten men and women of the country because they're obviously
Speaker 1: not going to do it. They're watching out for themselves,
Speaker 1: they're watching out for their agenda. They're singularly focused on
Speaker 1: hatred of the president. I mean, it's it's, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's almost pathological at this point. It's beyond derangement syndrome.
Speaker 1: It's psychotic derangement syment. All right, that's gonna wrap things
Speaker 1: up for today. Hannity Watch. What does it mean? We
Speaker 1: have a mission statement as the rest of the biased,
Speaker 1: abusively biased media, the Democrats, the deep state, week Republicans,
Speaker 1: never Trumpers. But we've got a plan for them in
Speaker 1: the next one hundred days. We'll outline it tonight Hannity
Speaker 1: nine Eastern on Fox DVR. We'll see you then, and
Speaker 1: we will be back here tomorrow. Happy New Year. It
Speaker 1: is great to be back