Exclusive Hannity Event with Benjamin Netanyahu - 2.17

Published Feb 18, 2017, 1:52 AM

Sean sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the challenges to peace in the Middle East.  Hear the entire interview here! The Sean Hannity Show is live Monday through Friday from 3pm - 6pm ET on iHeart Radio and Hannity.com.

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Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to the Shawan Hannity Radio show podcast. All right, so I have insomnia, but I've never slept better. And what's changed just a pillow. It's had such a positive impact on my life. And of course I'm talking about my pillow. I fall asleep faster, I stay asleep longer. And now you can to just go to my pillow dot com or call eight hundred zero nine zero use the promo code Hannity, and Mike Lindell, the inventor of My Pillow, has the special four pack. Now you get off to my Pillow premiums and to go Anywhere pillows. My pillows made here in the USA has a sixty day unconditional money back guarrantee and a tenure warranty. Go to my pillow dot com right now or call eight zero nine zero promo code Hannity to get Mike Lindell's special four pack offer. You get to my Pillow Premium pillows and to Go Anywhere pillows for forty percent off. And that means once those pillows arrive, you start getting the kind of peace full and RESTful and comfortable and deep peeling and recuperative sleep that you've been eving and you certainly deserve my pillow dot com promo code Hannity, you will love this pillow. All right, Happy Friday, and we're glad you are with us. Eight nine for one, Shawn, if you want to be a part of this extravaganza and so much to get to today, I have in front of me. A January twelve New York Times piece headline n s A gets more latitude to share intercepted communications. It reads, in the final days of the Obama administration, they expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications. In other words, signet exactly the information that they used too to leak and break the law and commit a felony eighteen US Code seven and the Espionage Act against General Flynn. Anyway, they expanded it that they could share it with the government sixteen other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections. Why didn't they do it the last eight years? Why did they do it with while they're walking out the door? Why was a trap set? Why was it was it purposely designed so that other people would have access to intelligence so they could leak it who leaked this intelligence, who violated the Espionage Act, There's no doubt. And by the way, the insanity. How great was that press conference? Yes, it is the greatest moment ever and the media doesn't get that. So anyway, we're gonna get to this story in the New York Times from January twelve. We're gonna get to the big beat down yesterday, which was incredible. I had a pretty amazing day yesterday and I went to Washington. I had meetings and that went very long, much longer than I thought they were gonna be, with a lot of people. I interviewed the House Speaker, Paul Ryan, and I interviewed the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Yeah who. We aired a lot of it on TV tonight. But I want to tell you about a new segment that I am beginning both here on radio and on Televison should and I think you'll understand it as soon as I tell you what I'm calling it. It's it's basically holding them accountable, meaning everybody. In other words, this probably is the only opportunity. You see the fierce opposition in the media, and you see the swamp is rising, and you see that it's getting louder and the blood is in the water, and they've got General Flynn, and they don't care about the fact that, you know, we create a police state when we can take without any warrant whatsoever, we can go out there and take anybody's phone calls, and then if we don't like them or like their point of view, we can just leak them. You know, there's a whole process by which at the espionage there's protocol, there's laws, there's felonies, there's very specific protocol if you're gonna record somebody's conversation, you know, and once, for example, let's say I want the n s A to be spying. I want the CIA to be spying. That's what their job is. In part, it's designing to keep all of us safe. But we can't have rogue intelligence agents going out there linking information about individual citizens for political purposes and destroying their lives, which is what they did here with General Flynn. And of course that's the big story that nobody in the media has talked about. I don't think besides talk radio and besides the Fox News channel, as anyone told you what eighteen US Code seven or read to you what the Espionage Act is all about, and we'll get back into it. We have Joe de Jennifer coming back on, and we have j Secular coming back on. I don't think you realize how really serious this is, because if they can do it till General Flynn without a warrant, without a five quarter approval, then they can do it to anybody once they in the process of doing their job. In this particular case, they were doing their job. They were monitoring a call. It happened to be a Russian ambassador in this particular instance, and General Flynn was on the phone. As soon as they recognize an American is is talking in that conversation. Should there are laws and protocol that they're supposed to follow to minimize the recording of anything, The American says, Why, because they don't have a warrant, it's illegal. You know, some states have one consent record laws, others have to person consent, others have but there's none that has zero consent. That's called the violation of the constitution. Very simple. How come the media doesn't care at all? And you know, watching the news conference, they trying to make create an allergy here as it relates to Hillary Clintons, Well, you didn't mind. You have no credibility on this issue. Of course, the Clinton News Network was asking the question of the time. You know that CNN actually put together they think they're Saturday Night Live. I put it on my Twitter page at John Hannity if you want to see it, and maybe we'll put it up on the website. They actually put together a montage of Donald Trump's hand movements during his epic takedown pressler yesterday, and they put it to classical music. I mean, your news network or you Saturday Night Live or your news network. It's pretty pathetic. I actually tweeted it out to Jim Acosta, who got more time yesterday than anybody, and he's the one that said you have no credibility because of the Hillary issue. Hillary Clinton put her emails in jeopardy. Why does circumvent congressional oversight in the Constitution and separation of powers and checks and balances. She did it for entirely different reasons. She created the vulnerability by having a private server in a bathroom of a mom and pop shop company, and not only in the bathroom, but in the closet. And this wasn't leaked by the government. There's no evidence that the Russians leaked it either, although if you listen to the Clinton News Network or any other places, they will tell you definitively. It was just like they'll tell you definitively on NBC and Chuck Todd. Oh, it's a religious litmus test. None of these things are true. It's amazing how corrupt they are. The beat down yesterday was amazing. I'm gonna get to that in a minute. So I'm in Washington yesterday and I'm I honestly had on my schedule to do the radio program. I gotta send out a special shout out thank you to my buddy Mark Simone, and uh I love Mark. He's awesome, great guy, great host, doing tremendous work at our affiliate station here in New York. And uh, I literally got caught in these meetings. Um a lot of which I can't divulge right now. I just can't. And there are private meetings with people that you want to know the truth. That's me doing my job for you and finding an understanding a lot more about what's going on, and and sometimes it takes a long time to to get to the bottom line. Of these things, and that was the case yesterday. I'm not a meetings person. I hate Linda do I like meetings. I hate meetings. Linda comes into my office, I really need to talk to you, and I got thirty seconds go what is it? Or says we really need to have a meeting about this. I said, no, we don't. What's the problem? Tell me now, I'll fix it. I'm not a meetings person. I don't like to sit in meetings. Was a boring thing in the world. Okay, let's go. You're a turn to talk, and everyone thinks they're funny, and everyone's telling jokes. Everybody's wasting time. But anyway, one of the things part of the interview that I met with Paul Ryan about I did a monologue in this radio program and I did a similar one on television about how Republicans it was unforgivable to me that they didn't have a consensus replacement plan for Obamacare, and I just my numbing And since then, we've heard, oh, there's nine plans and we're gonna put the nine plans together and okay, whatever, and I'm like, eight years this has gone by, and then I've heard throughout the course of the debate, just on Obamacare. Well, we'll get it done in January. We'll get it done right away day one. We'll get it done in the spring. We're gonna get it done in the summer. We'll get it done sometime by the fault. We'll we'll get it done by the end of the year. All of those things were said. And then I really lost my you know what when I heard, oh, we're gonna repair Obamacare, because that's not what the promise was. So I do this very hard hitting take down of the Republicans, and they need to get their act together and get up with the speed of Trump and get off their ass and stop eating their lunches and do some work. This is a this is the opportunity to stop, to stop this precipitous decline in the country. Here's what I care about. I want my country safe and secure. I want you to be able to get a job, if you're one of the nine million Americans how to work. I want you to be able to get off the food stamp roles, if you're one of the fifty million Americans on food stamps, and if you're one of the fifty million Americans in poverty. I want you to be able to get out of poverty, get a good job, live in a safe neighborhood, finally by the house of your dreams, and and raise your kids in a safe neighborhood. Maybe go to dinner once in a while, maybe one vacation a year Disneyland when your kids are seven or six or whatever something. And too many of our fellow Americans are suffering. I want a border secure. I want to say, for Isis and radical Islamis, it's not complicated what I want. And I think everybody should want that pursuit of happiness, and everybody should have their fair shot at the American dream. So Republicans got in trouble because they didn't keep their promise. They voted all these phony votes show votes to repeal and replace Obamacare, but they didn't even have a replacement plan ready. And then when Ted Crew stood out put his stuck his neck out there, you know, he was excoriated by Republicans because he wanted to actually keep the promise. And then we've got a situation now where then the teen comes in, can you grab my bag over there? And teen comes in, and what happens? They promised that they're gonna stop the president's illegal, unconstitutional immigration law. Okay, well they didn't do that either. You know. It's it's unbelievable to me. So you know, I've been it's really amazing that we find ourselves and at this particular point in our history, and and I just want to hold these guys accountable. I want them to serve review the American people. The news media is not gonna do it, you know, then they're they're just not anyway, I'm trying to pull this up on my phone and I can't do it. All right, I'll figure it out. Um, they're just not gonna do it. The news media in this country is corrupt. The news media. You know, I'll give you an example. The first hundred days have been a disaster. Chuck Todd and two other people, right, And I'm like, okay, but they didn't include all of Trump's successes. So when we come back, I had a series of questions for the speaker. Does he support the Obama? Does he support the Trump agenda? How fast, how expeditiously can we get it done? Because I want to hold these guys accountable, and hence the news Hence the news segment. Like they. And I said to Paul Right, I said, here's the here's the Trump agenda, extreme vetting. Do you support it? Building the wall? Do you support it? Neil Gorsuch an originalist? Do you support them? The Economic Plan seven brackets to three? Do you support it? Do you support you know fifteen corporate text? Do you support repatriation at a low rate? Bring brought back into the country. Do you support repeal and replacing? Do you support energy independence? Do you support you know, education being sent back to the States, And I asked he said yes. I said, well, why isn't it getting done? Why didn't you have a bill ready? Because and he gave an explanation. I'll play it for you, but the bottom line is I left feeling better. I'm not gonna lie, but I'm a Reagan guy. I'm a trust but verify guy. And I said, so, if you come back and if I come back in two hundred days, He's given me two hundred days. And he said, legislatively, all of this is going to be done. And I said, okay, So the headline of this interview is that at the end of two hundred days, you support the Trump agenda and legislatively everything you can do and needs to be done is going to be done. And he said yes, and he said he even building some cushion time, cushion room for himself. That's why he made it two hundred days. And there are complicated side issues regarding repealing and replacing it's it's it is difficult, and they do have a desire to pass two two budgets and reconciliation. The way they passed Obamacare does complicate everything. And for example, he wants to he'd rather have the fifcent corporate tax cut, but it's got to be scored revenue neutral if you're gonna use the reconciliation process. That those are just the rules of the House and the Senate and the government. So he faces real challenges here with all of this. But I still want to know that they're gonna get it done because they didn't get it done in the last eight years. They weren't fighting in the last eight years. And we've got a guy moving at the speed of Trump, and I want Congress to keep up with them. I'm gonna play this when we get back eight hundred nine four one, Shawn. If you want to be a part of the program, we'll also get into the n s A. Why did the president President Obama passed that executive order, you know what, seventeen days before he left amazing. We'll talk about the intelligence, the laws that were broken, We'll talk about the Espionage Act violation, and of course this beat down media press conference yesterday. We'll get to all of that and your calls eight hundred ninefold one sewn. The forgotten man is forgotten no more. This is the Sean Hannity Show just because of the just because of the attack of fake news and attacking our network. I just want to ask you, sir, I'm changing it from fake news, though, doesn't that under very fakeness? But aren't you tell real news? Mr? Pressent real news? And you're not related to our new I am not related, sir. No. I do like the sound of second. You know. I looked at that name. I said, wait a minute, is there any relation there, Alex. I'm sure you checked that out. Now I checked it. I said, they said no, Sir, I said, do me a favorite, go back and check the family tree. You know, it's so amazing about that press conference. And I don't think I've ever in my entire life seen anything quite like that. It was amazing. It was such an amazing It was funny, it was informative, it was hard hitting, it was truthful, and it was a beat down. And he even predicted in this. He had a very measured presidential tone the entire time. Not man, if you gotta look, if I do something wrong and everybody messes up, call me on it. It's fine. I'm not I'm not against negative news. And what do we get. He's unhinged, he's insane, he's out of his mind, he's losing it. After just twenty seven days in office, the Trump administration, which promised change, has delivered chaos. I think there's a lot of confusion. Um, there's a lack of detail, and really what we see from this administration and really this Congress so far is a lot of chaos and confusion. After what can only be described as an afternoon and evening of confusion at the White House over the fate of General Michael Flynn, the National Security Adviser been talking about Michael Flynn since he was chosen for this job as a problem and a problem that would end up spinning out of control. The media, of course, did not fire General Flynn. President Trump did and what the media did do was revealed to the nation that General Flynn had lied to the country and to the Trump team, including Vice President parts. President Trump's enemies within the administration continue an unprecedented level of leaking for a presidency that is not yet two weeks old. The second shot, you get the idea, you get the idea, Darnce, That's not what I saw. I saw a president calmly, very answer everybody's questions with a sense of humor. And none of these people did. They go through their accomplishments in thirty days as federal agencies minimizing the burden of burden of Obamacare promise made. Promise kept you know, the streamlining, expediting you know, infrastructure projects and approvals, suspending federal dollars for sanctuary cities, directing the government to build the border wall. Promise kept and acting the first step in extreme vetting. Promise kept creating new ethics to limit lobbying. Promise kept mandating the elimination of two regulations for every new regulation, kept UH indefinitely suspending the mortgage rate reduction for the Federal Housing Administration, kept you know, federal agencies stopped creating new regulations, you know, going forward with the military rebuild, da CODA pipeline, Xcel pipeline, UH, going forward with everything he said he would do with business. Everything is in place to fulfill his economic plan, his healthcare plan, his energy plan, his immigration plan, his military plan, the v A plants all in place. They don't talk about it. The intelligence leaked. This not the Meatia You what is the point of winning elections if these people do not do their job and keep their promises? Why do we fight so hard? Why are we so emotionally invested? Why do we go to war? And and after two long, hard, driving political years we come up with everything that we wanted and not take advantage of the opportunity to stop the precipitous decline that this country's And look, as I was saying in the last hour, and it's funny how people don't, Linda, you say this all the time. People don't really know me, especially media people. I think it's they don't want to know me. They don't want the facts. They're always playing gotcha. They want to portray everybody in the administration is Satan. They want to portray anybody that any conservative is racist, sexist, homophobic xenophoe because homophobic misogynists. I mean, I can't even remember everything that I'm supposed to hate. If I hated this much, I couldn't get out of bed in the morning. It would be debilitating and be halfway to being where Linda is. I mean, well, you do have a pretty long list. I'm sorry, what did you just say? I said, Hi, how is your What are you planning for? Right? That's what I thought you said. I'm trying to get your attention because you're not listening. I am listening to you. I am editing things for you. Okay, But the more important thing is when I mentioned your name, is supposed to listen, and I did. And I'm sitting right here looking at your beautiful mug, which you care to bring to work today since you didn't show up yesterday? Wow? And how often has that happened in the eleven years that we've been together? Yeah? Okay, this is called dead air talk. Nodding your head and putting your finger at your head. Let me think, Let me think how many times has this happened? Breaking news? Exactly? How long is it? How many times have I done that? I don't know? Five and didn't we have a radio studio set up for me? Yeah? I wonder why we had all that together. I mean, since time so distracted and hateful. I don't know how all that stuff with the standby patting, But what do we know? I'm not I actually had to get my other hand. Are out patting yourself on the back? All right? But my bigger point is what I want is simple. Don't we all want a safe country? Don't we all want to be safe and secure in our homes? Now? We want to stop crime in Chicago and murder in Chicago? Did we want to turn on the news again and hear another San Bernardino Pulse night club in Orlando? Do we want to hear about Chattanooga ford Hood? We want to watch the Boston marathon bombing thing again? No, normal people don't want that. Normal people would do we want to do? I want to read for another year statistic ninety six million Americans out of the labor for it's fifty two million Americans in poverty and on food stamps. No, it's simple. We need a safe country. We need to protect ourselves. We need the meanest, toughest military. And you got a president that has done a lot. I just went over all of his accomplishments, and yet the media portrayal of this is one of, oh, this is nothing but chaos. It's not chaos, it's this is more in a month that he's gotten done and put in place the pieces to follow through on his promises. So, if we want to get to the point where Americans are off of food stamps, out of poverty, if Americans are back to work, that we have safer neighborhoods, that people can get a home, drive a nice car, send their kids to good schools, we want to get there. You gotta If you get the power and you win the election, you've got to do what you promise. Conservative principles will work with Donald Trump is laid out. Originalism is good for the future of this country, for the court, okay, promise kept Vetting refugees from countries that have connections to terror is just smart common sense. Building a wall on the border to stop drugs and illegal immigrants and human trafficking and gangs and murder and everything else pad that's going on there and jobs being taken from a Americans, that's a smart thing to do too. All this is smart. Lowering the corporate tax rate to fift cent. So corporations build their factories and manufacturing centers here is smart. Smart if you build them in Detroit, because you've got more people out of work in Detroit, you'll have more labor that will be ecstatic to get them back in the labor force. Or Cleveland or Milwaukee or any struggling inner city. If you tell multinational corporations that park trillions of dollars offshore, hey, bring it back here at a really low rate. We're not going to attack you to death at thirty. We'll do it at ten or seven or five. Bring your money here, and please build your factories here, and we're gonna get rid of burden some regulation of what's on the books. Now, that's smart. If you come up with a better plan for healthcare, then we don't bankrupt the country and and don't have a top down government penalizing you if you don't have their plan, and they don't even allow you to get a catastrophic plan, which for young people as the smartest plan to have because they're healthy and incentivizes a checkup every year, and god forbid, you have a heart attack, you getting an accident, you get cancer, you still covered. Why do you have to pay a pay for a premium rate you're never gonna use. It's illegal to buy a catastrophic plan because they wanted to fund the young and healthy, were supposed to funnel their money to the old, the sick and the dying. Well, if we don't fix it, eventually will be like the National Health Services in Great Britain and will be you know, well, what is your life expect Oh man, I'm sorry, you broke your hip. We can't replace it. You have now exceeded your life expectancy. Go home and die. Do you think I'm kidding? I am not. You're laughing. I am not kidding. That is reality and that's truth. So here's what I want to do. And I'm starting today on radio and today on TV holding them accountable. From my perspective, this is our last shot to get accomplished those simple things that I think we all want and we all share. And and in spite of all the opposite, you could see the intensity they want Trump politically politically follow my words here, debt. They want them done, they want to stop him, impeach them, they want him out of the way. But I want these promises kept because we'll have a better country. So I went to Washington yesterday and I met with the Speaker of the House, and I've been very critical why these Republicans can't get their act together. The President's moving at the speed of light, and they're so slow, and they didn't even have a consensus plan. So I'm holding him accountable. This is going to be the first of many series, because for eight years, you guys had a plan. You kept saying, I promising you will repeal, replaced Obamacare, And I guess what people want to know is when are these things gonna get done. We're exactly on the timeline that we designed for ourselves. Obamacare is coming next. The reason starting today really well, our bill is coming in March. So the reason we're doing regulatory reform right now is we have a certain window of time where we can go back into the Obama administration and cancel their regulations. It's a law called Congressional Review Act, and it has a shelf life for just a couple of months, and so we've been consuming February and March as regulatory reform, going back into the Obama administration and canceling their regulations, and so First, it's regulatory reform because we had this window of time to cancel bad Obama regulations. Then we're doing Obamacare. After we're done with Obamacare, then we're doing our budgets. And our budget is what the second budget, which will be tax reform. So we're doing two budgets in one year, which has never been done before. This is faster than has ever been done before. So you have to understand there's there's there's a legislative process, and we have all of these things we ran on that we said we would do. We're now in the middle of doing those things. And January and February is the regulatory stuff because the clock on the ability to go after Obama regulations ends soon. Because I heard everything from Obamacare will be done day one to the spring, to the summer to the by the end of the year. And so it's been all over the map, not just from you, but from other people. I also heard people say, hasn't been all over the map from us for me, Well, for the press, it's been all over the map from from rumor Mills, but from us here in Congress were exactly on the timeline that we laid out for oursel When I heard repair, my head nearly explode. That's not the plan. The plan is to repeal and replace this law. Like we said, we ran on a plan to repeal and replace it. Tom Price helped write that plan. He is now Donald Trump's secretary of a consensus plan that's now being scored by the CBO. Correct. I just listed his agenda what he ran on for the Forgotten Men and went that voted for him. Do you which just meet That's the agenda we're working at right now. That's the That's the item that I mentioned that you disagree with. No one, not at all in the two you're saying to the American people and conservatives that are impatient, including myself, and you've heard my modelogue. I would love to do this yesterday. But getting Congress to act on all those things you just said in just in one year's time unprecedented. This we do these things. This would be the most productive presidency and Congress in our lifetimes. That's my question. You agree with every item I mentioned, even extreme vetting. Yeah, we passed that bill a year ago in the House. I know I don't now agree with building the wall. Yes, you have, by the way, I did back then too. That wasn't That wasn't the plan of the House Republicans right now, that was in Donald Trump's plan. It's actually it was supposed to be done on a six. It's actually a bill I voted for in two thousand and six. But the problem we had since two thousand and six was Barack Obama was our president. Now we have a president who's actually serious abou securing the border. Here's my headline of this interview that you're in pretty much full agreement with with what Donald Trump ran on. And number two, in two hundred days from the legislative side, you are going to be implementing every aspect of that agenda that we talked about. And just as a big headline, we have and we have cushion in our schedule if if anything slips, because it's really because the Senate issues, we still have time to accommodate all of this stuff in between evens. I have cushions built in the schedule to make sure this all gets done in in case something happens and go sideways on the Senate. I'm pretty sure that will stimulate the economy, get people back to work, and and get the economy movement again, which I think we need what we're hired to do, all right, all right, that's holding them accountable. I'm gonna do this a little bit tonight on Hannity on the on the Fox News Channel. Now, I went in there kind of piste off. I'm not gonna lie. I mean, I'm I don't fake it here on this program. I was not I'm not happy that they weren't prepared. I'm not happy in the interim period between election day and the inauguration that this plan wasn't done. I I learned a lot that I had to know. It's not really being reported that they have are having a consensus plan scored. You know, I understand, I have a look. I can tell you in all its intricacies, the difficulties about healthcare, and you know, there's a lot to do on the regulatory front, every regulation put forward, doesn't you know. Tom Price addressed Congress today. He made clear the president wants for appeal and replace, he wants it done expeditiously. He said, let's not miss this opportunity. Let's go shoulder to shoulder, arm to arm, and he went through all of you know, the two reviewed reconciliation bill and how they have to use that and it has to score with the CBO, and it has to be revenue neutral. There are real problems that they've got a face here. Look they're now plowing ahead with it and there and in fairness to them, I gotta be fair. In fairness to them, they're deep obstacles, bureaucratic crap, obstacles that get in the way. And Democrats are no help whatsoever, because you know, we keep getting distracted every day and everyone spending half their time doing everything rather than focus on making these things better. Now I know that Ram Paul and Mark Sanford, they put out a plan as well. We've had Rampaul On talking about it. I like his idea a lot. I like the fact that he talked about euro baseline budgeting, meaning no increases built in every year. I like the fact that he agreed with the President on vetting, he agreed on the originalism he agreed on. He said to me, I said, well, you support corporate Texio knew. The reason I said twenty is because we had it scored as revenue neutral. I'd prefer fifteen if we can get it scored as revenue neutral and and loining the tax i said, Okay, now it makes sense. I understand. So I'm giving him a lot of credit here. Now on the downside, I'm also hearing, Hey, you guys are not communicating very well because I follow this news as close as anybody, and you're telling me things in this interview that I didn't know. Supporting the wall. Education is gonna be a little later, Okay, fine, tell us that the energy independence, He's all over it. Healthcare repeal replaced, yes, we not repair. Okay, all over it. So I'm gonna do this tonight on TV two. But there is no point in fighting and winning elections if we don't get the job done and we don't make the country a better place. The best thing privately that Donald Trump has ever said to me, I'll share with you, and I know I don't think you'd get mad. If he gets mad, he'll get over it. It's well, I'm just being honest. He said to me, I've got to do a good job for the American people. I made them promises, and he said it just like that. Not the He's not a perfect person. He's gonna make mistakes. The meat he's gonna, you know, smell blood in the water a hundred times a week, now, I guess, but he said that. So that's where my head is at. And these guys, we don't have a second chance here. This is our moment. Do your job, get the bills done, keep your promises. You've given us a two hundred day window, and I am going back in two hundred days and I am going to hold them accountable, you know. And I'd like to get some other answers too. How is it that eight years that you couldn't share signal at information the likes of which way they got Michael Flynn. How come Obama with seventeen days to go, seventeen days to go, change the rules that this information intercepted personal communications could be shared with sixteen other agencies. Was that so they would be able to organize leaking like we're seeing? This is a shadow government of Obama? Is this is the tentacles of Obama reaching into the Obama the Trump administration of sabotage. M We're gonna get to that when we get back, and then we'll have more on this great press conference from yesterday. All of this is on Hannity tonight and Eastern Bold Inspired Solutions for America Sean Hannity is on right as we roll along, News Round Up Information Overload coming up in the next hour. Why did the president, then President Obama, which is seventeen days left in his presidency, passed an executive action that allows the national security He didn't allow it the entire eight years he's president to share these intercepted personal communications like they did with General Flynn, with the government's sixteen other intelligence agencies. Why would they do that for any other reason but to sabotage the incoming administration and potentially damage anybody they want at any time. This is a pretty frightening thing. Mike Flynn is a fine person, and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who, uh, there was a certain amount of information given to Vice press and and pensives with us today and I was not happy with the way that information was given. He didn't have to do that because what he did wasn't wrong. What he did in terms of the information he saw. What was wrong was the way that other people, including yourselves in this room, were given that information. Because that was classified information. It was given illegally. That's the real problem. And you know, you can talk all you want about Russia, which was all a you know, fake news, fabricated deal to try and make up for the loss of the Democrats, and the plus press plays right into it. In fact, I saw a couple of the people that were supposedly involved with all of this that they know nothing about it. They weren't in Russia. They never made a phone call to Russia, they never received a phone call. It's all fake news. It's all fake news, all fake news. And the President is a thousand percent right. You know it's here. I guarantee you haven't heard. But because all this narrative, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians, Well, this was his job. I was so glad to hear the presidents say what I've been saying this. If you're an incoming national security advisor, your job is to reach out to your counterpoint. You don't wait wait till he gets sworn into. Your job is to establish a rapport so you can hit the ground running when you start serving the American people. That is a reasonable thing to do. The President was not shy saying that he had disagreements with President Obama's actions against Russia which were punitive and meant to advance an agenda. Oh, they impacted the election when there's zero evidence that in fact they have. But they keep repeating the same lie, just like they keep saying seven countries the ban is a Muslim band, and they ignore the fact that of the world's Muslims are not included in the band. It is a lie, you know, it's it's all propaganda. That's why I call all left propagan and the media their radical left. They're lazy. They advance false narratives, they tell outright lies, just like Chucky Todd saying it's a religious litmus test. No, it's not a it's a terrorist test. If your country has deep ties to terror, then we're gonna vet you before we invite you into our country and and allow you to be in in our family and around our family members. Look at it that way. What you haven't heard from the media is that the FBI is not pursuing any criminal investigation involving General Flynn's phone call. So with all the hype and all that we have been hearing now for the entire week, you know, it's the screaming headlines, the breathlessness is all undercut by the fact that there's no evidence, has never been evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence. It's never been found, nor has it ever been found that any election, any single vote, was impacted in any way. But there is a bigger story. We have a daily callerpiece how xpies say Obama loyalists in the intel community or out to topple Trump. Now I have sources within law enforcement and elsewhere that are very clear to me they're getting close to finding out who these people are that have been leaking this intelligence. And we do have an act that's called the Espionage Act, and it's very clear what it says, whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense, with intent or reason to believe that information is being used to the injury of the United States. Well, it was used specifically to injured General Flynn, and we have specific laws preventing that. Number one, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, etcetera, etcetera. The Espionage Act deals with this in its all specificity eighteen US Code seven ninety three. Read it anyway here to help us sort through all of this, Joe Jenniva's with us founding partner of the firm to Jenneva and Tunsing and j Secular chief counsel for the American Center for Law Injustice. Guys, welcome back. Do you do either of you disagree with anything that I've just said? Absolutely not. You got it right, exactly correct, Yeah, Joe, no disagreement here. Okay, So now the question is, my sources tell me it's not gonna be as hard as we may think to find the people that are likely to have leaked this. Your reaction, Joe to Jenneva, Well, there's no question that the given the limited number of people with access to transcript of intercepts of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act phone calls, that the universe of suspects is very very small compared to the usual leak investigation, so that within a relatively short period of time, with the issuance of grand jury subpoenas and FBI inquiry letters, you could get the number down to fifteen or twenty. People then are interviewed and if they lie to the FBI that's a felony, or if they tell the truth, you begin to find out how it all got out. This is not a complicated case because of the limited number of people with access to this type of signals intelligence, which is the most sensitive type of intelligence other than human intelligence, which the United States government possesses. The leak of leaks of this information are so stunning and so bold, and so devoid of any public interest whatsoever that I was delighted to hear the President say that he had called the Justice Department and they asked them to conduct a criminal investigation. This is the stuff that's been long overdue. This is the stuff of a police day, because what they did, Jay Secular, tell me what I'm wrong? Is my reading of the espionage If an American they were not targeting General Flynn in this in this wire tap, there's no warrant to do what they did here. But they got the intelligence, and it's always been the highest level of protection and very few people are supposed to have access to it. And they're also supposed to stop the recording when they know the American is speaking. Is that not wrong? Is that not right? Right? That's called minimization, and that was a procedure evidently in this situation that evidently was not followed. Here's another aspect of this shown that relates to it. On the waning days of the Obama administration, on January three of seventeen, Loretta Lynch signed off on a procedure for the availability or dissemination of raw signal intelligence information by the National Security Agency. It was signed also by James Clapper on December fifteen, sixteen. Loretta Lyne signed off on seventeen. On January three, seventeen days later, a new president is put in for eight years. The Obama administration did not in any way change n s A information, being uh the way it was handled it was the n s A. Raw data was given to the n s A. The n s A made the determination as to where it went. The president in the last moments of his presidency as he's leaving office, locking the doors, shutting off the lights changes the rule and provides a procedure that allows sixteen agencies to have access to that data, which then of course provides more leak capability. Still I agree with you and Joe, still limited, but it increased at sixteen fold, and that happened with literally two and a half weeks to go to the Obama administration. So this we uncovered a few days ago. This was a rule change that the Obama administration. I talked about this because it was covered by the New York Times at the time. Alright, so I I found the exact same thing that you did. That would mean that Then with seventeen days to go, they opened it up that signet. Information that is obtained that would normally go to a very limited number of people could potentially go to what sixteen agencies, exactly sixteen agencies, So it increases the pool. Now again, the Attorney General, with the subpoenas and a grand jury and panel can get to the bottom of this really quickly. And I was very glad to see the President say it was going to do that as well. The crime here are those that engaged in the leak. It's an a violation of Section seven. It's a felony. It's serious, and that needs to be the focus, and it needs to be focused quickly. And I changed this n s A sharing executive order. I changed it immediately. If I was the president, I would too. I think that's really really important, And I think you know the exact number of it. Yeah, it's uh, it's it's an exacutive section the executive order. It modifies as twelve three three, and this document is two four seven six six eight zero. That is the actual I'm holding the document in hands about Okay, that's really important. So Joe, what is your take that Obama then therefore purposely set a trap that this type of intelligence linking can happen. Well, what we would really have to know what the purpose of this was, given the sensitivity of this information. Uh, something like this being done at the very last minute as the president exits exits is highly questionable. Uh. Usually with this type of information you want to keep it as closely held as possible. Changing the standard to make it available not necessarily actually distributed, but making it technically available to sixteen additional agencies is mind boggling. Uh. It flies in the face of all known restrictions on the availability of this type of sensitive information. Um and as Jay said, even though this increases the universe of people who might have access to the intercepted phone calls, Nonetheless, uh, as I said, with grand jury, subpoenas and a singular purpose to find out who had access, and then you simply start interviewing them, very few of these people are ever gonna lie about whether or not they spoke to a reporter or an unauthorized person about this, and if they do, it's another crime. So I I think it's I think the question about why President Obama did this as he was leaving is perhaps more important than than any other question at all. What was the purpose, right, what is the underlying public policy reason that the that you increase the number of distributees of something so highly sensitive. And they did it, Joe, And they did this with for eight years. They didn't bother to do this. They do this as they're walking out the door. It's as almost as they have in England, like they've set up a shadow government here so more people can get more loyalists of the Obama administration can get access to information. Well, I think the words shadow government is right, but it's also to me, Joe, it seems like they purposely he designed this for the very purpose of doing exactly what we see unfolding. Well, I think it's pretty clear that there's a coup data underway by a group of civil servants who are either still in the ad in government or have left recently and have connections with people still in government. There probably is some sharing of information with current employees with former employees. You certainly would interview John Brennan, you would interview Ben Rose, you would interview Sally Yates, you would inview a series of other people who were their deputies who might very well have spoken with those three principles about this. There just isn't any question that the onslaught of disclosures of classified information since the election has been staggering, and it clearly points to a criminal conspiracy to violate the espionage laws. Does that sound coup? That's what it is, a soft coup. You're saying basically the president. You're saying, basically, the president of the United States did this by by design, for the very purpose of of tripping up and leaking information, and probably conspired with other people to do it. Or is winking? What's what other explanation is there? I mean, he does this on the seventeen This is on the third of January. He's got seventeen days left in his administration. Why didn't they do this the last eight years? If they thought this was such a great idea, why did they do it with seventeen days left to go? Two and a half weeks. I'd like to ask the prison in the United States hang on both of you. Hang on there, we got one more segment we've gotta do. Hang on one second, Joe to Jennifer, Jay Sekula, We'll get back to this, uh in just a second. Here on the other side, we've got a lot of your calls coming in and the media hysteria after what was the biggest beat down I've ever seen in my life. Joe Concho checks in. Stay up to date with the latest news and expert opinions as Donald Trump takes office. Stick right here, Sean show. Yeah, leaders, the president, We're gonna find the leakers. We're going to find the leaders. They're gonna pay a big price to leaking. All right. That was President Trump responding to the fact that the intelligence keeps leaking against him. And we continue with Jay Sekulo and Joe de Geneva. And look, I mean, if this is what seventeen days before the transition of power, that this trap is set where this signet information which never gets leaked out, it tells me that the president did it by design? Does that make him part of a conspiracy? Meaning President Obama? Former President Well, I can tell you this the suspicion that one would have about why this was done is not a rational It's an important question to ask why, at the end of eight years, when it was not thought to be so important, and when there is publicity about an alleged relationship between the Trump some Trump campaign officials and the Russian government, why would this change be made? Because remember, they knew at that point when they signed this order that there were intercepts allegedly of people that were involved, including Flynn. And I would think that the prosecutors investigating this case would want to interview all of the people responsible for this change in the executive order and the distribution of the signals intelligence and find out why it was done. Okay, Yeah, And I think what we're gonna do, Sean, is we're going to file a Freedom of Information Act request, not to get to the intelligence that would be privileged, but to get to the process of what was the lead up to all of this discussion. In other words, they decided to do this on January third. There is no reasonable explanation that would put such a significant change in place, literally in the way any hours of a presidency. They could have done this for eight years, but they thought this was so important to get this raw data and it's the raw data Intel Intel missing. Tell to these sixteen other agencies, why now, why did you do it? And I think those questions have to be asked. What Joe said is right. I would ask Ben Rhodes, I would ask Sally Ates, the acting Attorney General. I would go through the list of this leadership and find out what happened here, who authorized this, and a penalty on grand jury, subpoenas on the whole leak information. This can be incorporated into all that. But by the way, Sean, you should know that we have been told there are people at the CIA who actually know who and the number. I haven't been given a set number of people who were leaking information to the press prior to the election and after the election. There are people inside the agency who are sharing this information with outside people and are willing to talk to people in law enforcement if we don't get to the bottom of this. You're right, both of you. Anybody is really subject to this type of leak because they're capable of on anybody, right, absolutely, and they gave him the roadmap to do it. Unbelievable, right, and and it's it's the equivalent of a political assassination. It is extremely dangerous. I think what Jay has said, is it really important here? Why was this done? What was so important to have this done at the waning hours of this administration that they couldn't have done it over eight years. It's just smacks of political intrigue and of trying to make it easier to cover up the leaks. If you increase the number of people that had, of course, it makes it more difficult. Extremely it was, it may have very well been done for that very reason, you know what. And if they were really smart, they might have just handed it out by person. They might have just passed it on anonymously and not over the internet. That's a possibility to that. You have to figure out who printed it out. All Right, I gotta go. You guys are the best. Thank you both, Joe, Jennifer, Jay Secular. When we come back. All Right, the media beat down of the century yesterday, and now the media has just doubled down on trying to take the president out any way they can. That's next after just twenty seven days. In opposite the Trump administration, which promised change, has delivered chaos. I think there's a lot of confusion. Um, there's a lack of detail, and really what we've seen from this administration and really this Congress so far is a lot of chaos and confusion. After what can only be described as an afternoon and evening of confusion at the White House over the fate of General Michael Flynn, the National Security Adviser been talking about Michael Flynn since he was chosen for this job as a problem and a problem that would end up spinning out of control. The media, of course, did not fire General Flynn. President Trump did, and what the media did do was revealed to the nation that General Flynn had lied to the country and to the Trump team, including Vice President Pence. President Trump's enemies within the administration continue an unprecedented level of leaking for a presidency it is not yet two weeks old. Ray as a result, the second shake up in a week on that team that has not yet been gone. Trump's quote transition operation has plunged into disarray as a result, the second shake up in a week on that team that has not yet begun to execute the daunting task of taking over the government. Now they'll take this news conference. I'm actually having a very good time, okay, But they'll take this news conference. Don't forget. That's the way I won. Remember I used to give you a news conference every time I made a speech, which was like every day. Okay, No, that's how I won. I won with news conference and probably speeches. I certainly didn't win by people listening to you people, that's for sure. But I'm having a good time. Tomorrow they will say Donald Trump Ranson raves at the press. I'm not ranting and raving. I'm just telling you, you know, you're just honest people. But but I'm not ranting and raving. I love this. I'm having a good time doing it. But tomorrow the headlines are going to be Donald Trump Ranson. If I'm not ranting. He wasn't ranting and raving. He was measured, he was straight for ward, he was direct, and he was also right, and they hate him for it. And you know, I watched the coverage about all of this, and I gotta tell you something. All they did was doubled down on stupid in a hundred different ways. There's such a a lack of self awareness introspection. These guys have no awareness what's happening is a lot deeper than I think what most people understand here. The media, they're in a full panic after wiki leaks in the election. They've been exposed. The President keeps pointing out time and time again. I'll give you the latest example, the the ap botching National Guard called in to round up illegal immigrants. That's just not true. Was never true, our religious test not true, was never true. Russian influencing the election story. There's never been a single iota of evidence in any way by anybody that proved that point. That's not true. And you have to ask you why is this happening here? Why are we at this point? And you know, I think if you look at you know, there's where's the media. Well, they have the Donald Trump has much higher numbers than him. They are at an all time low in terms of what their approval rating is. They arrogantly think that they are the the estate. Now, maybe Donald Trump's running a big risk here, you know, because by creating the the atmosphere that the Flynn incident was blood in the water, and and all of a sudden, all of the of Americans that voted for Hillary, they think they have blood in the water. They're not gonna stop. They are dedicated, committed leftists. They have an ideology and they have an agenda. And that's why I keep saying they're lazy. These people, they're not working hard. I'll give you an example, the MRC there was eighteen times more coverage on a White House versus the Intelligent Leaks, eighteen times more coverage and it wasn't for us. I don't think you'd know that. I don't think you'd know about the Espionage Act. I don't think you know the story that I had now referred to. I don't think you would know that seventeen days before leaving the presidency. How is it that the Obama administration felt it was so imperative to expand the power of the National Security Agency to take these intercepted signet personal communications, even though when they know it's an American on the line, they're supposed to stop recording. They're supposed to do what's called a process called minimizing and um get these sixteen intelligence agencies now have access to it, but they never had access to it beforehand. Well, that increases the pool dramatically of people that potentially could have leaked this information, and it makes it that much harder. So the question is, well, why did Obama do it is, it's sabotage. Did Obama want to run a shadow government? As some articles have suggested. Is Obama colluding with others to leak information that they deem is damaging or distracting to Donald Trump? So we can't get as agenda complete? Is it? Because they knew General Flynn was was deeply committed to getting rid of the Iranian deal and they feared him and needed to take a mount. Okay, if you're gonna let the government do that, well who's next? Who were going after next? Whose calls that are recorded? Are we're gonna go after next by the government? Met Ethan's pointing at me, Well, that's what they do. Is that would that would be a police state. That would be a government police state. If we're gonna record innocent people, no suspicion whatsoever, and then leak the intelligence which should be highly classified and protected to individuals, Well it wouldn't be the first time. And look at what the FBI did to Martin Luther King Jr. For example. Frank, it's pretty disgraceful. Remember that letter. I tweeted it out on Martin Luther King Junior's holiday and the birthday the holiday we celebrate, and in that he was basically told to kill himself. Scary government at that level is scary. I watched. You may not like Malcolm X, certainly his life is pretty fascinating, and if you haven't studied Malcolm X, you should. And you know, yeah, he did say blue eye devils and all this other craze nonsense, chickens have come home to roost after assassination. All of that's all true. But then he changed and separated himself from separated himself from the nation of Islam and started speaking out on his own. Anyway, here to William Moore on this is Joe Concho. He's with the Hill and he's probably the only honest media reporter in the country. And as much as he is not obsessed with, you know, following the rabbit that the greyhounds of following around the track, how are you? How's it going? Eighteen times more coverage of the crisis at the White House versus the danger of signet intelligence leaks, which are a violation of the Espionage Act and a felony punishable by jail and a fine, because that's the juicy narrative, and that's one that takes down that is negative towards Donald Trump and is exactly what he talked about yesterday Sewan, where he talked about in anger, in the coverage, in the tone, how horrible it is. And it's true. I mean, you look at the reactions yesterday where people are calling and it's not even Pundon's like you calling him unhinged, saying it's a bitching session. All these things. Uh, it just shows you that he exactly proved the right point yesterday that anything negative towards Trump is going to get a big play, and anything else that's important, like what you just mentioned as far as leaks gets hidden under the rock and lessons, it's on Fox. I don't even think that they covered it at all. And and then that's the amazing thing to me, it's you know, here it is, where does this intelligence come from? And then then they make a false comparison. Well, Donald Trump didn't mind Wiki Leaks releasing information because it was damaging to Hillary Clinton. That's not the government doing that. This is our government intercepting phone calls, violating the Espionage Act, not following protocol and practice in the law as it relates to minimizing as soon as they identify an American citizen on the phone call with the person that they've targeted for for listening, meaning a foreign operative and in this particular ace a Russian ambassador, and they didn't minimize it. Not only that they got the information, then they leaked it out because they didn't like him and they wanted to damage him. I was surprised at that question, Sean, that that you just mentioned it was from Jim Acostasy and then where he said, you have very little credibility on this issue because you asked for Wiki leaks to release Hillary Clinton's emails. But you know you're you're all against the leaks, as you Those are two completely different apples and oranges things. John Podesta's personal email getting hacked doesn't have classified information on it. It has John podestas showing that media members are colluding with the Clinton But it's even deeper than that. Again, it's that question was answered asked that way. Well, again, it's a certain shallowness. I always say the media is lazy. You hear me say this. You hear me say journalism is dead and buried, And they're not only lazy, but their agenda driven and Wiki Leaks proved all of that because they were discovered to have colluded with the Clinton campaign. And I look it that kind of question, But it was Hillary that created her own vulnerability. It wasn't the government. It wasn't either the c i A or the National or National Security Advisors, or it wasn't the FBI. Whoever did it leaking the information? What did you think of this story in the New York Times. This goes back to January twelve of this year that in the final seventeen days of the administration, that the Obama administration expanded the power through executive orders of the n s A signed off by Loretta Lynch and others, to take the signet intercepted personal communications. And now for eight years they never allowed it to be shared with sixteen other intelligence agencies, but now they're allowing them to do it. Why would Obama do that? Why would he do that to set a trap, obviously for the next administration? And that should be front page news. And I don't hear almost anybody talking about it. I see instead unsoreced stories about whether Donald Trump wears a bathrobe and wanders around the White House at night while his cabinet works in the dark as they don't know how to work light switches. That was in the New York Times made the front page completely unsourced, completely on named sources. And look at today Sean with with this this whole leaked memo right uh, that that the AP put to put out as far as a hundred thousand National Guard troops, we're gonna start rating homes and against aliens and sending them back to their their country. It was so responsible. They didn't even try to get comment from the White House. They said they did, But why they have to rush it out? Why not make sure you get comment from a Seawan spicer or somebody to say if that document is real, and it turns out that document could have been a proposal from a hundred different people that wasn't signed off by anybody, it's lazy. It's not only lazy, it's a rush to be first instead of accurate. And that's the whole problem strong because that gets more clicks when you get something out first. Screw the fact that something like that has no credibility or integrity. Let's just get it out. We'll get our ad revenue. We're wrong, Well, who cares. We're just gonna move on because everybody has a d D anyway. Uh And unfortunately there's some truth to that. And now they got their first trophy and that was General Flynn. Who's next, boy? I mean, they try to get Betsy Devaus, they're able to pass her. Who's next? Boy? What is in the real target? If they can't get the president of peach the least they want to stop as agenda. I'll give you the last word, okay. And they're not stopping his agenda because the biggest news story yesterday Sewan was the fact that the c l c i O President Richard Trumpka, who you know well, uh, gave a very strong endorsement, no endorsement, but he said that Alexander Acosta, the Labor Secretary, deserves strong consideration. Everybody's missing that story shown the fact that unions are starting to back Donald Trump. James Happa Jr. Said the same thing when TPP was torn up, and that blue wall in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin is going to become a red wall if Donald Trump continues to save jobs there, keep companies from leaving, carrying up TPP. If he gets unions behind them, it's lights out for the Democrats because they can't get those states. They can't win. Well, So Joe Concha from the Hill, thank you one Shawn toll free telephone number. News round Up and Information Overload our coming up at the top of the hour are we'll get a lot of your calls in as well. One sewn in my interview with Bebe Nut and Yahoo's coming up and he knows you're entirely government overreach and Big Brother watching your every move. Now it's time to take back America. This is the Entity Show. I think there's a change. The change is coming because of the rise of radical Islam. Radical Islam it has to fountain ends. One is the radical as soon as led by isis before that by al Qaeda, and the radical Shia, it's led by Iran. The ab countries are threatened by both. And when they look around and they say, well, who's who's going to help us against these these twin threats, And they say, well, there's one country in the region that's powerful, that's determined, that's resolved to fight this common enemy, and that's his role. So they don't view us anymore as their enemy, but increasingly they see us as their ally against the common threat in the great alliance between Israel and the United States. We've had a hider differences. We also had and I got to give credit to President Obama. We had this memorandum of understanding, you know, of ten years support for Israel. I appreciate that. But we also had our differences, and the most important difference was on Iran. The Arab country sort of whispered things in the dark. You know, they wouldn't say it out right. I had to sort of speak out for everyone in the region. But right now I think it's not merely in the region. People understand that Iran is a is a malevolent force. And the nuclear deal with Iran, uh, if it's kept, the Rangitas just walk in. The deal essentially said this. It said no bomb today, a hundred bombs tomorrow in ten years. That's what it says, because Iran can go for the enrichment of Iranian which is the keys. Only two years ago you said that in the time March. Now, the assumption was people at Hope, well, okay, we're kicking the can down the road. But this nuclear cannabis single bomb then becomes a capacity to make dozens and dozens of bombs, and Iran doesn't change its attitude. In fact, since the since the signing of the deal, Sean, this is what has happened. Iran has become more aggressive, more deadly, sponsoring more terrorism. Al Right, when we come back, my sit down, pretty historic week with the Prime Minister of Israel basically saying this never been a closer relationship, our number one friend and ally in the region, and we're gonna play that coming up. Then we have our our Friday fun fgl concert series coming up in our final half hour of the program Hannity. Tonight, we got a great show ten Eastern a biased and abusively corrupt news media exposed. We'll get into the press conference tonight at ten. Also, we have full coverage of holding Republicans accountable to their promises, a new segment that we will be doing regularly both on radio and TV. You don't want to miss that tonight. Also more in the Net and Yahoo interview, the immigration crisis and the vetting crisis, and why did Obama put in place an executive order that allowed the n s A to pass on such information like they did with General FLYNT to sixteen other agencies. Why did they do it with only seventeen days left, and they didn't do it the entire eight years he was there. What's up with that? Of you? And I've known each other a long time. A smart man, great negotiator, and I think we're gonna make a deal. It might be a bigger and better deal than people in this room even understand. That's a possibility. So let's see what we do start. It doesn't sound too optimistic that this says good negotiating. That's the art of the deal. I also want to thank all right. That was the epic, I mean, and really historic. I can't really tell you what a dramatic shift and change has occurred with the relationship between the United States of America and Israel. And I think the bigger story is what I got to in my interview with the Prime Minister, which I want to play here. Uh, this was yesterday at Blair House. I watch yesterday and what I said on television last night is this is history in the making. I thought it was very profound. I think it was an historical meeting. It was a meeting of the minds and a meeting of the hearts. Interesting, you know, it was interesting to watch the President say, you know what a cherished ally israel Is, and you just say, there's no better supporter of the Jewish people and the State of Israel than Donald Trump. And you've known him for how long? How do you know that I've I knew him from the time that I was serving as as ambassador to the U N And you know, we would sort of bump into each other here and there in New York City, But we've got to know each other over the years, and most recently obviously. And look, we've always had a great alliance between Israel in America through successive presidencies. I feel we have now, as the President says, an even stronger alliance. A new Day called it maybe a new age. Yeah, I felt a cryptic message being sent. And I want to just actually read what you said here for the first time in your life, for the first time in the history of your country, you said that the Arab countries, your neighbors in the region, right, do not see as real as an enemy, but as an ally. And then President Trump talked about newfound uh or you talked about newfound Arab partners. And he talked about maybe one state, maybe two states, but maybe a bigger deal, a more important deal. So I'm listening, and this is my take is that you had once said that one of the benefits of the Iran Deal, if there was only one benefit, is it brought you and your Arab neighbors together. So my read on this is that Israel now has a stronger relationship with the United States, maybe a strong relationship with Great Britain, but also Jordan's, Egypt, maybe the Emirates, maybe Saudi Arabia as that that never existed before. Is that true. I think there's a change, and the change is coming because of the rise of radical Islam, radical Islam. It has to fountain ans. One is the radical soon he is led by Isis and before that by al Qaeda, and the radical Shiites led by Iran. The app countries are threatened by both. When they look around and they say, well, who's who's going to help us against these these twin threats, And they say, well, there are one country in the region that's powerful, that's determined, that's resolved to fight this common enemy, and that's Hiss. Well, so they don't view us anymore as their enemy, but increasingly they see us as their ally against the common threat. And I have to say that. In my conversation yesterday with their President Trump, he sees the things in the same way. That opens up opportunities, no question about it. Can I get into a little more deeply what has happened in the interim? You have forged a closer alliances. I know you can't divulge everything, but what can you tell us about these particular countries, the saudiast the Egyptians, there, Jordanians, Because I gotta believe none of those countries want Iranian hegema in the region. That's an understatement. They think Iran will cut their throats and they're right. They're right, and they're right, and they are you know. Look, I had uh in the great alliance between his and the United States. We've had a hard differences. We also had and I got to give credit to President Obama. We had this memorandum of understanding, you know, of ten years support for is well. I appreciate that, but we also had our differences, and the most important difference was on Iran. The Arab country sort of whispered things in the dark. You know, they wouldn't say it out right. I had to sort of speak out for everyone in the region. But right now, I think it's not merely in the region. People understand that Iran is a is a malevolent force. And the nuclear deal with Iran UH, if it's kept the range just walk in. The deal essentially said this. It said no bomb today, a hundred bombs tomorrow in ten years. That's what it says, because Iran can go for the enrichment of uranium, which is the key component. Two years ago you said that. Yeah, in the time March now, the assumption was people at Hope, Well, okay, we're kicking the can down the road. But this nuclear cannabis, single bomb then becomes the capacity to make dozens and dozens of bombs, and Iran doesn't change its attitude. In fact, since the since the signing of the deal Sean, this is what has happened. Iran has become more aggressive, more deadly, sponsoring more terrorism and in fact also with more money, with more money, a lot more money. And people are saying, wait a minute, this roaring tiger, if it's not stopped, it will devour all of us. We're all prayed to this, this this UH, this militant Islamic regime that will arm itself with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that could reach you. They've killed Americans all over the place, they sponsored terrorism against Americans all over the place. Now they're going to build I, C, B M INTERPRET continental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States and have the multiple warheads to do that. That's horrible, dangerous for America, dangerous for dangerous, worthy apps. Everybody now understands it, and there's an American president who understands it, and we're talking about what to do about this common threat. Agree with me. Radical Islam is the evil in our time, and Iran represents the biggest threat because it would couple a radical Islamic cr resim with nuclear weapons. There's there could be evil that is uh not threatening because it doesn't have the powers of mass murder. But when you couple a radical Islamic resim that says death to America with the weapons of mass death, then you have a much much bigger problem. A squared B, squared C, squared radical Islamic terrorists weapons of mass destruction equals of modern day holocaust. It's up to us to prevent it. That's the important issue. It's the one thing that President said yesterday is that will not happen and I'm just assuming with a new coalition that very possible. I don't think a lot of people fully understand. I watched all these years since the Iranian Revolution in seventy nine, death to America, death to America, death to Israel, burning the American flag, burning the Israeli flag. I think now after all of the incidents of terror, but we have this whole immigration problem where so many refugees have gone to Europe, and parts of Europe have culturally shifted dramatically. And if you look at countries under Sharia that oppressed women and they killed lesbians, and there are sixteen countries that don't accept Jewish passports, six and America is supposed to take in the world's refugee population. Explain, how does America and Europe, based on your experience in the region, how do they ascertain if they're taking in immigrants, if they're taking in refugees, whether or not ISIS will infiltrate the refugee population. How can you possibly vet what's in somebody's heart. It's very hard to vet. But every country tries, to one degree or another, tries to do that, and every country has to have the freedom to do so. And I won't get into your considerations of doing so, but I will say that, uh, you know, I'll say this. You know, I'm a great believer in uh you know, in human exchanges and markets and so on. But uh, I think it's very important two be able to prevent the infiltration of terrorists. That is, because terrorism is so disruptive, you know, doesn't necessarily kill that many people. Although you suffered a terror attack that killed thousands of people. I interviewed you, and you were one of our strongest allies at the time. I remember that very very well. That was a moment of great tragedy. So as as the weapons become more sophisticated and more deadly, and the threat of terrorism becomes more deadly, and therefore the need to prevent terris and flotation becomes greater. And this is something that I think it applies to all countries today. There's a thousand pound bomb on a missile that Iran currently has can reach your country in less than seven minutes. It's pretty scary. Yeah, and I went to Israel. I want to have I c b ms. It could reach your country and that's what they're working on right. Remember, you were the great sating. We're just the small Satan, they say, and we're just on their way, on their way to what you know, Henry Kissingers said, and I think very um, very intelligently, he said, uh. He said, Iran is not merely a country. It's much more of a cause. It's a cause more than a country. What is that cause is global domination. Their brand of radicalist like caliphate this it's uh, it's more than. They believe that they're destined to govern the world. Anybody who doesn't agree with them, they'll be able to subjugate or kill. And they're working on the means to achieve that. Their greatest enemy, they think is the United States. They don't think they think everyone else is a derivative. Uh. And they're developing the capacity to deliver on their on their slogans death to American, death to Americans in between. So we have we are, we have a grand mission. And it's not a mission that we invent. We didn't invent these i c b ms. We didn't invent their nuclear program in which they seek to create nuclear weapons. We don't invent the terrorists that they sent throughout the Middle East and the world. You know, Iran is a terror network of dozens and dozens of countries that they operate with their own operatives and their henchmen's proxy wars for for decades. But I'm talking about terrorists selves that they are building, planning them, preparing them throughout the world, in Asia, in Africa, in the Indian and in this in this hemisphere as well. It's a that's a pretty scary thought. You know. Let me go to the Palastinian issue on this one point you said, the President said one state to state, maybe a whole new paradigm um, and then talked about settlements briefly. It might be helpful not to for now. I don't want to pop on that point so much as I want to ask this. If it's coalition can be built, does that solve that problem too? Could help, could help. Maybe it'll maybe absorb a population or well begin to affect this persistent refusal to recognize as rule in any boundary, which is what is the source of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The reason goes on is because the Palestinians continued to agitate for as little destruction. They don't care about this territory or that boundary or that settlement. They say everything is a settlement. Tel Aviv is a settle. In Jerusalem is a settlement. High a settlement. You have to get rid of everything. And I think that some normalization in the Arab world could help us begin to change attitudes there. But even if we did, and I think they have to come and recognize the Jewish state. I've said always, you know you want peace, the first thing is you've got to get rid of the thing that prevents peace. The thing that prevents peace is the persistent refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people for a state of their own. That's what the pain is. A similar preconditions. They don't recognize you. I don't say it's a precondition for talks, but if you want to end the conflict, that is a prerequisite for peace. All right. That was my sit down interview yesterday with the Prime Minister of Israel. What a fascinating possibility is that there's a new emerging potential and possibility and alliance, maybe the likes of which we haven't seen since World War Two against evil in our time. Who would have thought Israel, Egypt, George, the Saudis would unite together and who knows where this ends. Will it end with taking out their nuclear sights? I mean that's certainly a possibility. All right, quick break right back, and we will continue stay up to date with the latest news and expert opinions as Donald Trump takes office. Stick right here will the Shawn Show. All right, let's get to our busy telephones here eight nine for one, Shawn. If you want to be a part of the program, then we have our Friday fund f gl Consol series, which it's always at the bottom of the half hour in our final hour on Friday. Brian, North Carolina, how are you, sir? Glad you called doing well? Thank you when I got a favor to ask. I keep hearing you and a bunch of other conservative pundits repeating the phrase repeal and replace. That's not why we voted the Republicans in I would prefer that you say repeal and revert. Revert back to the system that we had before Obamacare, Revert back to one based on exploreal sciences and the free market, and get the government out what you're doing by saying repealing replaces basically saying, hey, government, go back in there and tell us how we should do it. Right this time. That's not what we want. I just know what the promise was. The promise was a repeal and replaced. Now, there certainly were a lot of problems beforehand. The health insurance is one of the biggest budget busters we've got, and it is one of the biggest fears and concerns that people have. We can come up with a far more intelligent, more effective system, you know, the great news. I mean, everybody keeps I know, we need twenty six year olds to be covered by their mom. Okay, great. Let instruance companies decide for themselves whether or not they want to old. Okay, that's what the that's what the replacement plan is. Why do you have to call it another name? They why we change the name now one? For eight years we've been saying repeal and replace. That's why I didn't like when they said repeal and repair. That's not what they promised. You know, when I do this segment holding them accountable, I mean I'm holding them accountable, and that means to their promises. Their promise was to repeal and replace health savings accounts, portability, dealing with pre existing conditions, which is a big problem for people. The reality is we better deal with it because the costs are skyrocketing, the population is aging, and you're gonna pay one way or the other. So if we can get people as independent as possible, and that's why for young people the process of beginning to build their own health savings accounts that incentivizes that they got to check up every year and also takes care of them if God forbid, they get cancer or have a bad accident or get a heart attack at a young age, which is very unlikely, and they will be paying lower rates and they'll be insured and will get the treatment they need. And for older people, now, well we've got the system that's broken as Medicare, but we better get weaning off that system fast because it is unsustainable. We can't afford it and it won't work. And eventually they'll just do what they do in Great Britain and with the National Health Services and they'll deny care and they say, you reach a certain age, you're beyond the the age expectation. You've exceeded your limit. No, you're not getting your hip per place. Go ahead, walk around with a broken hip for the rest of your life. Good luck with that. The chances of healing it or zero. All right, let's go to our busy telephones. Dana St. Louis in Missouri. How are you? Happy Friday? Dana? And welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. Thank you, Sean. I just love you, and I just want to let you know I saw your interview last night. And let me tell you which one did you see? I had? I had B B and I had Paul Ryan? Which one? And yeah, I watched thank you, I watched everything. I adore you because you are a true patriotic and you are fortron and for us people of America. I just want to let you know you are terrific and I listen to you every day and I can watch your show every night, and so does my whole family. Sana. Can I just tell you what I want? I want. I want our country safe and secure. I want every American to feel safe in their neighborhoods. I want every American to have a shot at the American dream. I want our fellow Americans, million of them that want jobs, to get jobs. I want I want people in poverty to be able to climb out of poverty, get their first home, buy a nice car, live in a safe neighborhood. I want people on food stamp. Same thing. I don't think you know, and I don't care how we get there. Just do your job, That's exactly, and that's why I loved you holding Ryan's feet to the fire, saying, now you're really going to do this? Are you really going to get this done? And that's the American people. That's why we voted for Mr. Trump the because we finally want somebody that's going to get in there and get the job done. We're so tired of both the Republicans and the Democrats pussy putting around and always worried about their careers. It's not about that. It's about us, the American people, and this beautiful country that we live in. I agree with you. Listen. I'm doing a segment now on radio and TV, and as we mentioned earlier in the program today, it's holding them accountable, holding Republicans accountable, holding Democrats accountable, holding the president accountable. You know, and so far, to his credit, he is keeping up with his promises. So um, if I see a change, I'll let you know. But I actually felt better after speaking to Paul Ryan yesterday because I asked, very pointed specific questions, are you on board with this is the agenda that Donald Trump brandon you aren't really with them in the election? Are you now on board with this agenda? And that I laid out what the president's agenda is and he said absolutely yes. Okay, why didn't you have a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare? Okay, we've got the planets being scored CBO. There's certain legislative complications, which, by the way, is all true. He's he's not lying. It is more complicated because of the way it was past, etcetera. And undoing this mess is very hard. So we've got to give them some latitude, but we've got to make sure it gets done. And I any, he said, give me two hundred days and it's all gonna be done. So I think we give them the two hundred days, and if it's not done, I'm gonna be screaming bloody murder. Okay, all of us will be the same, all right, But you you know, you've got to understand the one thing that in this process is all of us, that there are irredeemable deplorables that cling to God, our bibles, our guns, our religion, all of us and um, all of us we need to understand. We just can't vote walk away and expect it to be done. You know, we We've got to stay engage. Right now, the left is doing everything they can do to tear down the president all of those around him, and a lot of Republicans are gonna get very weak in the process because they're seeing all the crowds and all the media coverage and they're afraid of their own shadows. So the people that are going to stiffen their spines and hold them up and hold them accountable as us. Ye, And so that's our job. You stay right there, Dave. I'm gonna give you a Trump pen. We have a couple left. I want to give it to you. Our good friend, Kathleen Saucier, her son Christian Saucier spending a year in jail because of six pictures he took on a submarine, which is ridiculous. I'm hoping that the President at some point will give the pardon that is well deserved. Here, Kathleen, my prayers, my thoughts are with you your family, and I'm hoping that comes in. Thank you, Thank you so much again for giving me the opportunity to speak out you know, I heard what you were just talking about with the last caller, and you know, your hopes and dreams for the American for our country are the same as mine. I feel that, you know, we should all have that opportunity at the American dream to be safe here in our country. UM, to be able to go forward with our future as we choose is onever whatever level that is. And right now and over the past many years, as Donald Trump said, he inherited a divafter a mess. Um, we aren't able to do that. So I'm hopeful that that will happen with this administration as well. As you know, you mentioned hopeful that Donald Trump, you brought it to his awareness, um when you did that interview a couple of weeks ago. Um. One of the things I mentioned last night on Risk and Reward on another Fox channel is that you know, he's spending so much time, his administration has spent wasting so much time on putting out these fires instead of being able to do what he should be doing every day, all day, like he did with the coal miners yesterday. That's what he should be able to do and his people should be able to do. Listen, He's he's doing it today. He spoke earlier in South Carolina, and when when he spoke today, you know, he was telling all these people are boeing that you know, jobs are coming back, were getting good prices, You're doing a great job. And then he's going to Melbourne, Florida tomorrow. I think he realizes that the best path for him, and he did such a good job. He kicks so much as yesterday in that press conference, and the media is coverage of this is that they're now bordering on insane. That's how this is a derangement that they're never going to get over. Their egos have been shattered. They're the very essence of who they think they're they are. You know, the Trump has been an iconoclass exposing media corruption and so the blowback is predictable. But he's still just doing his job. Just keep doing I would doing your job. But what you mentioned too, he's one man. He's the president of the United States. It's our responsibility, top responsibility to the media because they have such power and what they present, but to us, the American people, to stand behind him and this administration and say, what can we do to make America great again? How can we come together. That's our responsibility, Kathleen. If we don't stay on these guys, I am predicting here, Republicans are going to buckle. The Republicans are getting weak. You know, we've seen little signs and evidence of it. You know, where did the word repair come out from repeal and repair not? It's not what you promised, and so that went away quickly. But it has to be challenged. That's why holding them accountable is now my job, and it's also the job of anyone that wants the country to be fixed. Listen, We'll stay in touch, Kathleen. I will. I will update you anything that I hear. I promise. Okay, thank God, bless you. Alright. Eight one, Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program. Lenny is in Staten Island and New York the All New Am seven ten w R. What's going on? I'm good? How are you? Let you know my nephew Tool Island where they had a homework assignment and not only did the teacher in the homework pretty much bash Trump. And then the next question, here's the here's the question question eight and they have the kids fill in the blanks. President Trump speaks in a very superior end. The kids supposed to pick a word, maybe it's out of a vocabulary to something and manner insulting many people. He needs to be more blank. And it says question nine. Barack Obama said a blank when he became the first African American president. No, that's not We're not indoctrinating kids. We're not. We're not imposing our views on them, not at all. Of course, there you know what. This happens in every school. And here's the problem. We spend more per student than any other industrialized country, eleven thousand, six hundred dollars per student, and we have the worst results of any of these industrialized countries. Now, are we teaching them reading and writing and math. No, we're propagandizing them. We're turning him into little liberal robots. And it's all done by design, which is why the Democratic Party in the n a A have this unholy alliance, because they want to keep their power, they want to keep their tenure that I want to be held accountable and being eighteen when we spend more money than anybody else is just fine with them as as long as they're a good, little, good little Olynsky disciples. That's what they're trying to do. That's funny. Sorry, Lenny. Find another school and that's the sad part. Most people can't afford another schools. Are you ready to get out of the media spin room? Will you come to the right place? This is the Sean Hannity Show.

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