The Nature of Evil - 4.19

Published Apr 19, 2017, 1:25 AM

Sean spends some time discussing the recent murder that occurred on Facebook Live. It's important that Americans understand the true nature of evil so that we're all prepared to stop it.  If you don't understand the damage, you won't have the will to fight!   The Sean Hannity Show is live from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.   

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Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to the Sean 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 ten you 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 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 aving and you certainly deserve my pillow dot com promo code, Hannity, you will love this pillow. All right, Glad you're with us, and Happy Tuesday. Right down our toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of this extravaganza, We're gonna get into this whole Facebook murder raping live Facebook videos that are going out there because it's getting insane. Later in the program, you know it raises a lot of questions, but how do you possibly determine, well, we're gonna allow Facebook live for this person and not that person. Now, I happen to be of the school that I want every American to understand the nature of evil and if you can handle it, it actually would be a good thing, in my opinion, to watch how evil isis is so you fully understand and comprehend what they are capable of, because then I think you're more likely to want to engage and win the war against evil in our time. That's why I want people to see it. Now. There are other people that say, Hannity, why would you want Americans to have accident? Children may be able to see it. Well, have you ever seen any of the games that kids play for crime out loud, unbelievable, unbelievable. Um, I start out today for my friends at news Talk a M. Seven in Atlanta WSP News Talk WUSP. Um, you have today a special election. It's a primary, but if anybody gets above then that person would win outright without a runoff. We now have an instance where the Democratic Party is hoping because what thirteen fourteen, there's like a hundred of Republicans that are on the ballot, and so they're all going to split their vote and it has created an opportunity where this Democrat John ass Off, dismissed concerns about the fact he doesn't even live in the district. And we didn't find out until now this is New king Ridge's old congressional seat here. Anyway, their front running annidate had to make a nationally televised confession that he doesn't actually live in the district that he hopes to represent. Anyway, he said, well, I grew up in this district. I grew up in this community, said it's my home, my family is still there now. He currently lives outside of George's sixth congressional district with his girlfriend while she is attending apparently medical school, and he said he has been transparent about the fact that he doesn't live in the district and pledged to move back to the district as soon as his girlfriend finished his school. Well, he doesn't even live in the district. It's pretty pathetic anyway. So I'm a mile and a half down the street to support my girlfriend as she finishes medical school. Okay, is that what you want? Here's what's important here is Well, let's first listen to the exchange, because it's pretty entertaining. He's really trying to avoid listening to it. That you cannot vote for yourself. Well, I grew up in this district. I grew up in this community. Uh, No one knew there was gonna be an election coming. I've been living with Alicia, my girlfriend of twelve years, down by Emory University where she's a full time medical student, and as soon as she concludes her medical training, I'll be ten minutes back up the street into the district where I grew up. But I want to support her in her career and do right by her. But I guess your point is that you don't live in your district, in which you're running, so you will not be able to vote for yourself. Well, I grew up in this district. I grew up in this community. It's my home. My family is still there. I'm a mile and a half down the street to support Alicia while she finishes medical school. Um. It's something I've been very transparent about. In fact, I'm proud to be supporting her career. And as soon as she finishes her medical training, I'll be ten minutes back up the road into the district where I grew up. Now, our affiliate radio station News Talk WSB has a sister TV station down there, and they're reporting the critical voting machines were stolen just days before the polls open for this election today, and state officials are investigating after the equipment was taken from a Cobb County precinct manager's vehicle. According to the Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the equipment was stolen on Saturday evening while the vehicle was parked at a Kroger on Canton Road. I know Atlanta well as I lived there, But Kemp's office says Cobb County Elections waited two days to tell his office about the theft. Of the voting machines. So you know, the four so called express poll machines were the computer poll workers used to check in voters and check off those who cast ballots. It's beyond shocking. And the Cobb County Elections Director Janine Evler said that stolen machines cannot be used to fraudulently vote in Tuesday's election. And she said the machines have voter information on them, but that information is hard to access. So hard to access doesn't mean it's impossible to access, does it. Anyway, She said that they will completely replace the machines at the Piedmont Road precinct and it should be as secure as banks are, you know, any other place where there's information. He said. Now. Kemp went on to say, following a statement on Monday, that it's unacceptable that the Cobb County Elections Office waited two days to notify my office of the theft. We've opened an investigation. We're taking steps to ensure it has no effect on the election. He said this yesterday. Today, that's going on today. I'm confident the results will not be compromised. Look, I'm asking all of my Atlanta friends here, this is this is something that the liberal media has made a cause celeb. They're hoping that they can get new king Rich's old seat. And of course they're over hyping the Democratic candidate in this case, not putting in perspective all the Republicans, including our friend Amy Kramer, who's on the ballot. I don't care who you vote for. At the end of the day, whoever you decide in the sixth district, I will end up supporting as new Gingridge has said he will end up supporting. But the Democrats and the all left propaganda destroyed Trump media elites out there, they're they're so desperate for just one electoral win because they want to advance the narrative that Donald Trump, our president, is on the down slide, and they have, you know, even hailed no change in special elections. Now, there was an election where was that in Kansas last week and the guy was down like four or five points. Donald Trump went in to help him and saved his campaign. He ended up winning the Republican win one. And you don't even hear a word about it. Anyway. If you listen to ABC, they're saying special election win could mean a real chance that Democrats take over Congress. That's what they all they wanna do is stop Trump, and the Republicans lose the House because they're so ineffective and so impotent and so lazy and so pathetic and so weak. Well it'll be their own fault. And that means that the entire Trump agenda stops right in its tracks. I got it. That leads me to the next point here. We now have Dave Brat of the Freedom Caucus. He's been on this program many times. I've talked to Mark Meadows more times than I can even count. Right now, he's the leader of the Freedom Caucus at the moment. Anyway, Dave Bratt is now being quoted today is saying that the majority of the Freedom Caucus, after weeks and weeks of the Freedom Caucus, not the leadership in Congress, the Freedom Caucus doing the speaker's job. They've actually worked with the Tuesday Group and the moderates in the House and varying coalitions, and they've come up with what they believe is the best compromised bill that they can have as it relates to creating free market competition, healthcare savings accounts, lower premiums, and better care, and a better bank for your health care dollar and get people out of Obamacare and the death spiral that that's currently in. Now. The question is why isn't Paul Ryan calling these guys back to Washington and getting a vote and getting this done. Because when they come back on Monday, they've got four days from the two to the eight to get a continuing resolution passed or Congress, and the government runs out of money, and then you've got all sorts of threats from the Democrats that they want a government shutdown. Which, by the way, Democrats, you want to shut it down, you go right ahead. Shut it down, save us money, and you own it too. So if you want to go down that road, go right ahead. I noticed that the Democratic chairman, the new d n C chairman, who's a nut. This guy. The only thing that could have been better for Republicans is if they had Congressman Keith Ellison elected the d n C chair But this guy's name is Tom Perez. Anyway, So the new Democratic chairman picked up where his profanity laced tirade left off last month. He's at this d n C Come Together Fight Back tour in Portland, Maine, and he went on a rant against Republicans, slamming their new s word budget and dismissing their healthcare plan and system. The GOP doesn't give a blank word about people they're trying to hurt. Here's what he said, and here's what I don't understand about Donald Trump and the Affordable Care Act. You know what, folks, he wants to brand everything. You know, you can go to the store and find Trump steaks, you know, Trump steak knives, Trump ties, Trump suits, you know, the Trump hotel. But he didn't want the Affordable Care Act branded after him. I don't know what to call it, Trump Care, Ryan Care. I'll tell you what i'd call it. I don't care, because they those Republican leaders and President Trump don't give it about the people they were trying to hurt. That's what I say, all right, And then we have no listen to the comparison because Bernie Sanders, who was absolutely ripped off and totally completely utterly cheated by the Democratic Party, and when it's Perez and Bernie, listen to the difference in the reaction of the crowd. Regardless of why you showed up today, you showed up for a reason, something compelled you to I'm the space and time to be here, and I want you to ask yourself what that reason is. Right. Maybe maybe it's because you love a certain senator from Vermont, You guys, I still have two minutes left, all right, like all right? So maybe you came though, because you're curious about the new d n C chairman and the future of the democratic polity. All right, So you see the reaction. But this is the new Democratic It is hard left, the blue dog Joe Lieberman. You know, Democrat of old is gone, Scoop Jackson. Democrats are dead. There was no such thing as a moderate Democrat anymore. And the average Democrat represents Obama. State is m massive debts, more people in poverty, burdensome regulation. But you know, you know, Trump has done everything he can do on his own. He kept his promise. Neil Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court and originalist. He singlehandedly picks up the phone. He calls Carrier, he calls Chrysler, FIATI calls GM, he calls Ford. All these other companies that snap on tools today buy American, higher American as a means of creating an American revival in the economy, so that all these millions of Americans out of the labor force, in poverty, on food stamps. They can't buy a house. That we burden their children by doubling their debt, can get to work. You know. He's gutted Obama error regulations. Jobs are being brought back. He ended the war on coal. He opened up the Dakota and Keystone pipelines. He's fighting back against sanctuary it. He's he's drafted a plan and took care of ISIS in Syria and is starting that battle and that conflict. And the same thing with the with Assad using chemical weapons. He put a five year lobby ban in place. He sanctioned I ran over the missile program. He responded a serious use of chemical weapons. He created a task force to reduce crime, executive orders to protect police officers and target drug cartels. He started building the border wall and getting plans to build it. He's moving forward with repealing and replacing Obamacare. If these idiots can get back from vacation and get their asked to work. Uh. He's moving forward with rebuilding the military. He's shrinking the government workforce. He's renegotiating trade deals, and he's made us energy independent, more than ever by removing the regulations. What the hell is wrong with these people in Congress? Why can't they get a single piece of legislation done? And now they've got the freedom calk Us and whales. Paul Ryan, where is this guy? It's pathetic. Somebody didn't They need a kick in the ass and a sense of urgency they don't seem to have. I don't understand it. They better get moving my patients. I'm about to burst a blood vessel if these guys don't get to work. I can't take it an all right, the President is in Wisconsin and he's on a campaign today which is by American higher American. Let's let's dip into this. And these are real workers. I love the workers, doing a good job for the workers, and I'm thrilled to be back in Wisconsin. The optimism in this room is the same incredible spirit that is sweeping across our country. And even greater than that great day in November when I won the state of Wisconsin and when we won the presidency. That was a year. It was a great day. Have to say, I was a great day, and thank you Wisconsin. No administration has accomplished more in the first ninety days. That includes on military, on the border, on trade, on regulation, on law enforcement. We love our law enforcement, and on government reform. Today we're building on that optimism. I'm proud to announce that we were about to take bold new steps to follow through on my pledge to buy American and hire American. I can't think of a better place to make this announcement then right here or snap On. Just took a tour of the company. Good place, by the way. It's doing well too, standing among the workers who make the tools that will rebuild our nation. Your craftsmanship is incredible. It's a pleasure to see my good friend Governor Scott Walker. He has been such a big help. He has been so incredible. Stand up Scott, Governor Walker, as well as Senator Ron Johnson. We worked hard together. Thank you Ron. And although he could not be here today, my thanks go to Speaker Ryan, who has represented the city for nearly two decades in Congress. And you know where he is. He's with NATO, and so he has a good excuse. And I said, run, make sure these countries start paying their bills a little bit more. You know they're way way behind. Run. We have to I'm gonna talk to you about that. Run. But Paul, you're over with NATO, get him to pay their bills. I think that and Run you have to work on that too. When Scott president Trump by America can hire American We'll get to that when we come back. Also the other news of the day and so much more. One Shawn told free telephone number. We'd love to hear from you today the top of the are I actually applaud what the president is doing here. You know, it's funny. I used to get Craftsman tools when I was a kid, but I always wanted snap on snap Bomb with by far the more superior product. But I go to Sears and I get Craftsmen because they were more affordable for me at the time. But I used to do all this mechanic work. I used to do everything I did. I fix every I do my brakes, do anything that needed to be done, starters, alternators, um you name it, tune ups, breaks that I did it all. And I even used to use a lot of Bondo and I painted my own cars and trucks. I had this barn I used to rent with a bunch of guys in Rhode Island, and we rented it really cheaper, like two hundred bucks a month. We all paid like fifty bucks. And we rented this barn and we used to work out of it. And most of the guys there were far more mechanically inclined than me. So I'd always start a project and I get stuck, and they'd always have to bail me out, but they never mind it. They were kind of cool guys. But I really got good at painting cars and that body work, and I just had an eye for detail, and I took my time and i'd i'd fix all these cars, and I painted myself, even though it probably would have been smarter to just go to Earld Shribe and pay a hundred bucks and get your car painted. And it Actually they didn't do too bad a job either. One time I was stupid of there was this paint called im Iron. It's probably like ten people that know what this is in my audience, but I'm gonna say it anyway. I was so dumb. I was painting a van that I had work fan for my construction company, and im iron was like glass when you painted it, it just had the glowing finish with black. It was black and it had like these gold sparkles all throughout. It was so awesome. It was really and they got this paint on right. You really had to be careful when you sprayed it anyway. So I get the van all prepped out, Diana painted, load up the Imran and I only put on a white mask. I had no idea Imran. Literally for a month or two months, burned my lungs out, this scar tissue with my lungs because I painted that van with Imran and it was so chemically powerful. And uh, I remember when I got a an X ray one time, a guy goes what happened to year long? I'm like, what it was like, there's a part burned out. I'm like, oh great, And I knew what it had to be because I remember how much it hurt. And of course I didn't have health insurance at the time, nor do I expect my government to pay for my health insurance, and so I didn't go to a doctor. But I just sucked it up. And I remember it was hard to deal with. But I always wanted snap on tools. I couldn't afford them. I wanted snap on and I loved, you know, because all the big real mechanics had snap on tools, and my craftsmen were fine. I had a big red toolbox like everybody else when I wanted to snap on one. So anyway, the first part of the executive Order by American is based on the twin pillars of maximizing made American. Now, remember when the Dakota pipeline and the President signed off on that. The President said, well, let's buy the pipe. Let's get the steel workers working in America. And he mandated that if at all possible, we buy the pipe here in America. That's a great idea. So the first part of Buy American is based on maximizing made in America and minimizing waivers and exceptions of Buy American laws. And so what he said is every agency in the government, every department of government is going to conduct a top to bottom assessment aims squarely at cracking down on weak monitoring, enforcement and compliance efforts, at rooting out every single buy American loophole. And the Secretary of Commerce is going to coordinate these agency efforts and vet them by the press for the President on how to properly close them. And for the first time, the Buy American bidding process will take into account the flagrant use of unfair trade practices. Some of you said, oh, it's only gonna start a trade. Well, what do you think these other countries do you think made in China? If they don't have to import something, you think they're importing it. Anyway, Now you know how difficult it is to get a car an American car sold abroad, and how much extra it costs. You know, look how many European cars are in America. How Look how few American cars are in America in Europe. It's such a distinction. Anyway. I look, with the exception my my wife has gotten other cars. But I, for myself, I've only been buying. I think the last ten cars I bought were American or I've never I've never bought for myself a car that wasn't an American made car. Now, by the way, if you buy in a Toyota or a Honda, I know there are a Honda plants in America. I know there are Toyota plants in America. I have no problem with people deciding to do that, none whatsoever. But I've always wanted American made. I remember arguing this when I was on the air in Huntsville, Alabama, and it wasn't long it was in you know, after the time there was there was a period of time where the Japanese were making better cars than American cars. There was a fall off period for a short time. You know. For me, I it's gotten so easy for me to get a car now, and because you're able to go and actually price out what you can pay for the car and maximize it on the internet. I mean, there's not the usual or past negotiations that go on and that used to have the haggling that went on buying a car. It's not hard for anybody to do these days. I don't even talk about price. I just called my buddy over a King o'roar Cadillac and I say I want another one and come take the old one. And then if something breaks, I just call him and say it's enough, something's not working right, can you fix it? And then they bring me a loaner car. And that's, by the way, how they keep their business running, their great customer service, and I know they're not gonna gouge me there. I've had the guys at King O'Rourke tell me, well, what if you make way two weeks. There's gonna be a deal, and you're gonna get it for this much less a month. If you get the car, then you know if you if I'm leasing it or whatever I do with the cars, because I like to kind of tournament every couple of years, every three years, so I just go to them. It's great and anyway, I just I prefer I like the idea of American made cars. I love my Escalade. I get the same car, I get the same color. I don't even have to think about it. I do like the new car smell. I wish they could really duplicate it. Not that crap that they sell at the car wash that doesn't smell like a new car that they say smells like a new car smell. It doesn't, not that I've tried, and I don't know. So I like what the president is doing here. So we'll see, if you know, Wilbert Ross, the Commerce Secretary, is gonna be able to pull that off. But I think it's a good idea. You know, the public perception of the GOP is dropping. We've got the sixth District and Orgin race that's going on today. I hope that this Democrat doesn't get the fift then there'll be a runoff, then he will be defeated. He doesn't even live in the district. Well, what's so deserving is a new poll by the Pew Research revealed the Democrats are making some inroads on issues that Americans were favoring the Republican Party on. But the Republican Party, how is it possible eight years later they can't get a repeal and replacement of Obamacare. You know, I noticed when the President mentioned Scott Walker, the crowd applauded. When he mentioned Paul Ryan. I didn't hear a peep out of them just now when he's in Wisconsin. And you know, I don't think Americans are really in tune with the fact that these guys go away for two weeks on recess. Maybe I'm making too big a deal about it. I don't get two week recesses. You know, We're gonna do our radio and TV show and fly to Israel in the in the interim, because that's the way we roll, that's the way we do our job. And I don't care what job I had in my life. I've always had a sense of urgency. I keep telling you, if I'm washing dishes and I don't move my my backside that the dishes are gonna pile up. If I'm a cook and I'm I got a line of orders in front of me, They're not going away until I get them out. When I'm busting tables and a busy busy restaurants, the same thing or tendon barr Everything in terms of the President's economic agenda is predicated on getting the healthcare bill done because the healthcare offers a trillion dollars in savings for the economic plan that the President wants to unveil, and the Treasury Secretary Steve Manuchin said that the Trump administration's timetable for tax reform that may falter because of the healthcare delay because these guys weren't ready to lead. So now the Freedom Caucus, they're the ones that actually fixed the bill. And from what I understand from what Dave brad has said and Mark Meadows has said, that the things that they were fighting for, which guaranteed lower premiums, more competition, more options for individuals, also preserving for the moderates that people with pre existing conditions and by the way, no Republican is against that or people that obviously need help and assistance with healthcare. They're gonna be taken care of, but we're still saving a trillion dollars and that has to get done before we can do the economic issues. So I mean, at some point Congress has got to do their job. I just went through in the last hour all the Trump has done. We got a originalist on the court. He's he's making phone calls begging corporations to stay because he's gonna transform regulations, which he's already doing. He's gonna lower the corporate tax rate. He's gonna allow repatriation of trillions at a very low rate, and that makes it more more, far more favorable and ironment for people to invest in this country in factories and manufacturing centers. That gets the nine million Americans out of the labor force and the fifty million in poverty and on food stamps each That gets them an opportunity to get back in the workforce, as does reducing a legal immigration, which he's done by sixty seven percent, just because he's enforcing the laws ending sanctuary cities. One city after another is going back on their fight against Trump because they know they're gonna lose, you know, he's moving forward. Everything that he's done in terms of building the wall and everything else. Every promise he's making he's keeping. The only people that aren't moving have no sense of urgency or Republicans in Congress. What do these people do? It's so frustrating. I don't I I just don't relate to not working hard. I don't relate to give me the House, give me the Senate, give us the White House, and boy will get all these things done. And they haven't gotten it done. I don't relate to it. I don't identify with it. And frankly, they're hurting the president and the country by not doing their job. And it's about time to get off their asket back from vacation and start doing some work. Why is Paul Ryan and NATO? Who cares what Paul Ryan thinks about NATO? Get back, whip your votes, get the language written, and get the bill passed. What's so hard about this? Anyway? You've got some Obama holdovers within the border patrol. Now this was on brain part, reportedly refusing to obey Trump's order to secure the border. Just like the deep stateholdovers. Fire these people, Somebody fire them. They need to go because all they're doing is sabotaging the president's agenda. By the way, there's a very scary daily mail piece out today. Thanks to the President's decision take the bomb a handcuffs off of our military, ISIS is now facing defeat on the battlefield, and they're getting desperate, so desperate that apparently you're trying to form a last stand alliance ISIS and al Qaeda. Islamic State is now talking to al Qaeda about a potential alliance to form a combined terror group. As US back to Iraqi, troops closed in on the Jihadis and Mosul we had Mosl. We gave Mosel back, which was ridiculous anyway, for one Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program. Um. Oh, by the way, Facebook granted employees a day off to protest Trump. Now what happened with this guy's what's his name? Mark Zuckerberg? The he owns Facebook is the zillionaire? And how many of our listeners and people that follow us on social media reported that articles from Hannity dot com our new website or new news website. It's up. It's of ten now, I mean, we're getting phone calls daily, and now we're getting people blasting us on Twitter and on Facebook. And then Facebook has now acknowledged our I T team and has said that they're aware of the problem and they're working to resolve it, and that the claims that were made that there was um inappropriate content in our articles that dealt only with politics and had nothing to do with nudity as they claim. I mean, what is it. We've never had any new Well. I put that one picture up of you, but they made me take it right down, Sean. I mean I was up there for like a second. You know what I'm saying. Why am I taking you to Israel? And sweet baby James? Good times? So I have to put up with all of this. Yeah, face to face, shalom, Hello, It's going to be fantastic. But the only thing is is you like hummus. I remember the last time there, every meal was hummus. Well, the Israelis they have good taste and they have good food. Nobel we had was that restaurant in Tel Aviv? Indeed, that was that was awesome? That was really good? All right? Did you make arrangements to get a good places? I always look at the upside of things. And I always make good care about They're asking me question all day? All right, do you want to take a shower before you meet with the Prime Minister? Do you want to? First of all, I ask you that question one time, and you should be very happy that I'm always thinking about the upside of things and trying to give you a shower when you need one. Okay, Can I just finish? They're asking me do you want to leave here? Do you want to do radio and Tel Aviv or Jerusalem? Do you want to do TV and Tel Aviv? And I'm like, this is not my job. You guys work it out. Do you want to look at the downside or the upside? I want to go on the trip, do my job, interview the Prime Minister. I can't tell the other things that we're doing when we're there, but we're doing some big things there and we'll be reporting from there, and all I hear from you is do you want to take a shower? I want to take a shower? I mean, when does that? Why do I have to make that decide? How do I know? I think you smelling good in Israel? Is the upside? How do I know at that time of the day if I'm gonna need or want a shower, it's eleven hour. What is an eight hour time difference? Seven? Seven hours? All right? Eight one? Sean told free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program. By the way, uh, coming up in the next hour, we shall be checking in who we doing next? In the next hour. You changed it up on me. I don't even remember. Next, we have Daniel McLaughlin and Jay Secula. We'll be talking about, Oh, this case is phenomenal. We'll get to that next. Um. I can't be ripped in Congress every minute of every day. I wrote a monologue for TV tonight that you're gonna like, though, Sean Hannity. All right, now we're to Sean Hannity's show, finally having nine members back at full strength of the U. S. Supreme Court. But there's also talk of a lot of retirements potentially in in June at the end of the session. Right now, we see that in his first case fifteen minutes in, Neil Gorsuch asked a series of four questions and one case in particular they're gonna hear on tomorrow, a case about a Missouri church's challenge to its exclusion from a state program that provides money to use ground up tires to cushion playgrounds. Missouri's among roughly three dozen states with with constitutions that explicitly prohibit using public money to aid a religious institution or even in other words, a higher wall separating church and state with us. Jay Sekulo, he's the chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, are crazy liberal friend and Yale McLaughlin attorney, constitutional expert who didn't want judge course is confirmed. How are you doing well? Thanks? Don't be nice because that ruins the entire program. I start being mean and you start being nice, and there goes the show. You're ruining my program because nobody wants to hear three people get along. Um. Isn't that my job to ram? You usually do a good job, but today you're you're being counterintuitive to what we anticipate. Um, all right, let's talk first about you know, it's very interesting. Everybody has a unique and different style on the court. Jay, You've argued what thirteen fourteen fifteen times before the Supreme Court. You know, for example, Justice Clarence Thomas, who's my favorite justice personally individually and I also liked anton and Scalia, the late Anton N. Scalia, But he rarely, if ever, talks. He does not ask questions. He just study is the issues. He takes it all in and he has an originalist value system, in other words, the way a prism in which he judges cases. What did you make? Of course, it's his questions in his first case. Well, I think he was exactly the kind of inquisitive judge that he was when he was on the US Court of Appeals for the ten Circuit. I've you know, as you said, I've appeared before the Supreme Court a lot. I had one of the few questions, by the way, where Justice Thomas actually did ask a question. It's rare. He normally wants to just hear what the lawyers have to say, and uh, he's read the literally in these cases, thousands of pages of briefs that have been filed. I think Neil Gorsuch coming in as he did about fifteen minutes and asking a question established very clearly that he is going to be a justice that wants just really wants to engage the R argument. I will say something about the R argument. I love doing them, so I don't want to take anything away from it, but I don't think you win a case at or argument. You may scare him that you could lose the case, but winning a case in oral arguments not so easy. I mean, I've I've listened to these cases that they're in your worse than a talk show host in terms of the interruptions. You got to really be on your toes when you're arguing before the Supreme Court, and they go about thirty seconds before I get interrupted. Usually about thirty seconds is about the most I've had one where I got up. I said, Mr Chief Justice of Mayor, please the court, and that there was a question from Justice Stevens as soon as I started. So it is. It's very it's a very intense one hour. Yeah, but you gotta love that. I mean, as a lawyer, that's like your dream to be arguing before the United States Supreme Court. And how many of the cases did you win? This is going to help on a lot of fronts. What's your win loss record before the Supreme Court. So we've had twenty cases at the Supreme Court, we've won sevent team it's not bad. That's a pretty good track record. I'd take that any day. Danielle, what do you make of Neil Gorsuch and his appearance and the different styles that are on the Supreme Court now, and then we'll get into this specific case, you know, to Jay's point, he asked a lot of questions, he took a little time, He'd clearly done his homework, which is what you would expect of all of the justices. I thought there was a little liberty, which was nice when he thanked his colleagues for the warm welcome. I think it's gonna be interesting. You know, this is a very technical case. He's presided over a lot of very technical cases in Colorado. I think it's gonna be interesting as we get to some of these more difficult cases. And I think actually Wednesday is going to be one of those interesting cases because it's it's about the establishment Court clause. It's about the exercise of free religion. It's about some of these founding principles of this country, which is one of them, which is, of course, let's talk about the establishment clause. I've always felt it was a penalty. For example, I pay for schools because I own a home, and part of the money that I spend goes to taxes. For the schools. Now, I for now I do have my kids in public school, but for a while I put them in a private school. And so I'm now paying twice. Am I being punished because of my religious values sending my kids to a religious school? Well, the fact is, uh, you know, that's the cost of citizenship. Here's the thing. What's interesting. Why am I mandated to pay for schools that I'm never gonna use? Because that's the way the tax system is set up. And what's so fascinating about that? You look at in the context of these schools in like in in the case in Missouri, where you basically had a very straightforward situation. The state provides excess rubber. It sounds very simple to make playgrounds safer. And they include a broad swath of educational institutions, but they specifically excluded religious institutions or schools that were Christian schools or Jewish day schools. They'll be excluded. And I ask yourself that same or action, now, would that would justify a fire department saying, well, we'll go put out the fires in every place else, But what the schools and the Christian schools and the and the synagogues We're not going to go there because it would be church money being utilized by the government to help a religious institution. That's where these cases have gotten off base. Uh, this particular case, it gives the Supreme Court and opportunity to once again say no viewpoint based discrimination against religious groups. Or in this particular case of Christian School, what about our founding document and you know our declaration which says you know that we're endowed by our Creator. Now, when you couple that with our Constitution and the establishment clause, how does helping a school that has religious values, how does that establish a religion if it's open to all religions and all people. Considering you're maximizing the impact of of money's state money in this case, being spent to protect all children, regardless of faith. To your first point about our Creator, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, some of the documents that are founders published long before the Constitution, talked about God, talked about a deity. But I found it's a very very concerned about the notion that religion and the state would become intertwined. People came across on the Mayflower, as you well know, because of religious persecution, because of their because of the fact that the church. But but you're missing my point our declaration when it talks about endowed by our Creator. I understand the establishment clause in other words, of government sponsored back specific religion. But establishment is not hostility towards religion, because our framers and our founders neither one had hostility towards God in our lives. That's absolutely right. And exactly what you're talking about is the line of palm, which so shouldn't so shouldn't so should in this case, shouldn't The The criteria be the safety of all children as long as nobody's being discriminated against. The question is whether this money will be going towards religious instruction, because it's going towards the rubber in a money ground to make it safer. You're absolutely right. Right, Let's look at the facts of the case. Okay, the facts of the case. It's not some you know, hypothetical that we all had in law school. This is the facts of the case. It was a program that provided funding to get excess rubber from the state beneficiaries to protect children in playgrounds, which is proved to be a real UH safety assistance when you have the rubber or some kind of absorption factor in playgrounds. So that's a broad based benefit being applied to in this particular case, or being denied to religious groups. That should not be the law. And I'll take it a step further. Justice O'Connor had a famous quote in one of the cases. She said, when you talk about Sean, the fact that world nation founded by religious refugees, she should said, She said this, It would be ironic, indeed, if a nation that was founded by religious refugees would sever itself from that deity, that acknowledgement of God, that has been the basis upon which it was established. So this idea that you would draw this bright line of oh, it's religious, therefore it should be excluded, I think it's absurd. Let me ask Daniel, do you think that it is okay for this church to be discriminated against like this? Because that's what this is. It's discrimination. You make a great point, and actually I don't. And what we're seeing with that many of the AMCAS briefs in this case, you're seeing interesting and unusual bead fellows. I agree with you that people are saying that this is a discrimination on the basis of religiosity. This is a discrimination against people who have whole religious views. You see the same arguments with people who advocate for same sex marriage and gay rights, the idea that the Fourteenth Amendment should protect all of us, regardless of whether it's about sexual orientation or they're about religious use. The key to this point this this case, and it's obviously a difficult case to defend because this is about the safety of children. I have a two year old. I would want this kind of a surface in my my own playground. The question is whether this will be used for religious purposes, religious teachings, And there is a sort of a slippery slope argument if we give state taxpayer funded money from people who may or may not agree with the religious teachings, which is Seawan's earlier point about his own taxpayer money. Is there next an auditorium or of fencing or something else that isn't want referee? I think this is so. What so if the religious group gets to be able to purchase the rubber through state aid to protect their their young people kids on a playground, I don't think that's a constitutional crisis. And evidently the Circuit Court of Appeals certainly thought it was, because that's why we're the Supreme Court of the United States. The case of the Supreme Court, and in full disclosure, we file a brief the case. I want to be clear in that. But to me, this is an easy case. Now you never know what the Supreme Court, John, what you're gonna get, but it should be an easy case. And I'm glad the Judge Gorsch is now Justice Corsis because he's been very good on the religion clauses. I agree with you, Javid. I think gorse which will be a proponent of your point of view, I think that's pretty clear. I actually think it's a hard case. I think it's alluring in the sense that it seems very cut and dried about children and safety. But I think there are countervailing arguments that look at the fundamentals of the First Amendment, and I think it's you know, personally, I would want it to have an elation mental loss. What is the first Why is this the violation in the First Amendment. We're gonna get this benefit to anybody, any school in the state that has kids in it, and we're gonna give it to it on a nondiscriminatory basis, Why is that a constitutional crisis? Well, it's actually not going to every single There were a limited number of grants that were given out, so the consumer issically excluding the religious groups though from that grant base. But if there are fifty churches and only twenty five get the glant, the concern is that the state will be seen is supporting one religion of the other. Thing. You don't believe. You don't believe that, Danielle. You don't believe that. I don't believe that. You think that if there's only limited funds, that if the if the Catholics get it, and and the Seventh Day had been a stone that we've got, you know it was on some neutral criteria. That's a problem. You just have a neutral criteria. That shouldn't be an issue. Al Right, guys, I gotta hang on, I gotta interrupt you both, great debate on on Jay Seculo. Danielle McLaughlan is with us, and Danielle almost sounds reasonable today. I hate when when you sound so reasonable because it makes your arguments that much more effective. But Jay and I always like you anyway, so it doesn't matter. Continue Sean Hannity Show, Jay Secular Chief counsel for the American Center for Law Injustice, Danielle McLaughlin, attorney, constitutional expert, And we are debating a case that will be argued before the U. S. Supreme Court tomorrow now that we're back at full strength and Neil Gorsich is on the court. And it has to deal with a Missouri church and their challenge to the exclusion from a state program that provides money to use ground up tires to cushion playgrounds. And of course it deals with the Establishment clause the Constitution and whether or not in somehow some way that violates that clause. You know, make the case how it violates it. Daniel, That's what you haven't gotten to today. You haven't explained to me. If every church and every faith, I don't care if you're Jewish, if you're Hindu, if your Muslim, uh Christian, and everybody has access to it. And the state's role is to help and assist in the safety of children with this particular measure. Tell me the downside, How is it an establishment of religion if every religion is included. Well, if you're a tex payer and you're an atheist, and you don't think that your taxpayer money should go to be funding religious Wait a minute, but the same ground up tires are going to be at public playgrounds as well, as I understand it right, well, there's no prohibition on using state tax payer money for a public parks or other things. So in other words, but really that's sort of the kernel there. And I'm not saying that this is like the best case in the world. I think in some ways that makes sense for this to be broadly available to The argument is and what I find which is the irony here is that I'm arguing strict construction and Jay is arguing what would normally be a progressive argument, which is what is the pragmatic result here? I think that this case in some ways everything on its head. I don't think you're arguing strict construction is at all, Jay, do you know? I mean, first of all, pragmatic is the nature of of the way you do with case. So you look, I'm looking at the facts. So I think here's a strict constructionist view and originalists and view I like that term better, but this is my view. Where is this a violation of the Constitution. I'm looking at the Constitution, and where I don't see a violation here because if if this is a violation of the Constitution, and the fact of the matter is, and I really think this is where the slippery slope would come into play, then why would you allow taxpayer money to go to a fire department that was providing aid including police or fire department aid to a church. What's the differential? And take it a step further, how can you then deny a broad based program to qualifying entities but then have an exclusion I've been arguing this at the Screen Court for three decades and then have an exclusion for one group only, and that group is because they are affiliated with the religious institution. That is in vidious discrimination, that is viewpoint discrimination. That violates the free speech Clause and Equal Protection clause. And I think it violates the Establishment claus because, as Shawn said, it shows hostility towards religion. So that's how I see the case. I think that's how Judge Justice Gorsts will see the case. The question will be will be four others? I think there will be. I agree with Jay. What's your response, Danielle. I think we will see at least a five four and maybe even a six three because looking at Anthony Kenny and the way that he has spoken about religion and the establishment clause over the last you know, decades, he echoed what Scalia said and he agreed that particularly these blame amendments, which I guess you could say increase the height of the war between church and state, were problematic and actually we're set in place originally to discriminate against Catholics. So I actually think that we might get you might get Kennedy on board with Gorsish. So I actually think that the Eighth Circuit that we will see another an overtuning of the Eighth Circuit, and probably the Church will win. All right, I'm gonna have to leave it there. I really appreciate both of you. J. Secular Chief Council, American Center for Law and Justice, Danielle McLaughlin attorney, constitutional expert, and that case is going to be pretty fascinating and when the results come. Last question for both of you, how many people do you think may retire at the end of this session for the Supreme Court? J. I think one who. I think it probably just as Kennedy. I don't know that for fact, but just based on my conversations in Washington and others. That's that I think you have to be up. The White House needs to be operating in the assumption that there is likely to be a vacancy. In that vacancy. Maybe Justice Kenny may not be. But I think you hear Ruth as is Ruth Pata ginsburgers she healthier than she's better. I think I think she's healthy. I saw her a couple of weeks back. I think she will be there for a while. Which are the best, Danielle? How many openings do you see? I think one, maybe two. I'm obviously hoping for none because I'm I'm hoping for three. I'm hoping for three. I think I want three Donald Trump appointments. That's what I want. I want more, but I guess we'll wait and see what happens at the end of the ten all right, thank you both for one. Shawn Tolfrey telephone number you want to be a part of the program. We'll take a break, we'll come back. Your phone calls coming up next. Straight ahead to the top of the r all Right, you've been hearing about this Facebook Live gruesome, horrific, evil murder. We had the case in Chicago where this young girl got raped, that was on Facebook Live, and all these other instances, and it raises a lot of questions about the freedom and the ability of people to post anything any time they want to. Now, I personally, how many times have I said I wished Obama somebody in the press would have asked Obama, hey, did you actually see those people James Foley, the people in Egypt lined up on the beach decapitated, because I've seen those videos, and I make the argument that I would rather more people understand the nature of the enemy than not know. And I think in that sense, knowledge helps and helps a lot, awareness helps and helps a lot. Anyway, um Mark Zuckerberg is saying about this, we have a lot more to do. He addressed the Cleveland murder video. But I don't know. You know they're censoring my articles, according to so many of you on Facebook, on Handity Facebook, and on Twitter, and so many people have been calling into Linda and Lauren and everybody else here on the show saying they keep taking down Hannity dot com articles. Because we've built a pretty active news site up there, and we're very proud of what we've been able to do. When we've read both the site, and we're getting a lot of traffic and we're putting up articles that you're not gonna get elsewhere in the media, and their Facebook is ripping them down. But they're allowing murders and rapes to go on Facebook Live and that makes no sense. Alright, let's get to our phones here, as I've been promising all day. We'll get to that at the top of the next hour here on the program. In the meantime, let's go to Michelle. She's out in Colorado today. Michelle, Hi, how are you? Glad you called? And welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. Hi, Son, how are you? I'm good? How are you? I'm good? You know, I just wanted to say, I know there's just so much chaos in the world right now, and uh, I feel very strongly that Donald Trump is putting in the United States first, that if we didn't have a great leader to stand up against these lunatics, it would be the end of of what we know of our country. And I know people are scared, they don't understand, but we have yet to show any strength since Ronald Reagan. And I'll tell you what you can appease these lunatics, and you can give them, you know, gold and money and and and and appease them, and we're not going to do anything to you. Eventually they bight, Okay, Eventually they're gonna bite. But last night, did you see my show last night? And I laid out the history. Bill Clinton assured us that Kim Jong Il, who's Kim John UN's father, that he wasn't gonna get nuclear weapons. And he gave four billion dollars to Kim Jong Ill, and we got the promise that he'd never get nuclear armed, but they continue to allow him to have those radioactive rods that can build nuclear weapons, which was really dumb. And even the New York Times acknowledged that was dumb at the time. And it ends up that the promise Bill Clinton made was false. It was wrong, just like Obama saying that his Red Line in the Sand or Susan Rice Singer to John Kerry saying it the Red Line in the Sand resulted in Assad giving up his chemical weapons, and that's not true. And I can promise you Obama's promise about this Iranian deal. The Iranians are going to get nuclear weapons unless we take out their nuclear sights that's right. You don't have a choice. And I'll tell you what it all comes down to you. I might be a conspiracy conspiracy theorist, but I'm telling you it comes down to big money. They got big payouts for this at the sacrifice of the United States of America. The establishment is going down and Donald Trump is the one who's going to take it down. I believe, and I'm a Jew. I know you're Catholic or Christian. I believe this is sent from God. I really do. And I think fact I was just having a conversation about this said it was John Paul, the second it was Cooke, John Paul, it was Margaret Thatcher, and it was Ronald Reagan. And if you want to talk about three angels or or soldiers from heaven coming down and taking out Communism, taking the wall down in Berlin. God will always put Israel first, and God bless America. You know it's funny, Thank God for Donald Trump. I'll tell you this. So I'm headed to Israel, as I announced later this week. Okay, and I'm going to spend some time with the Prime Minister when I'm there. And I have been friends with and have admired from Afar. I've always felt that Prime Minister net and Yah was the Churchill of our time. It's sort of the lone adult on the world stage because of the necessity of having to deal with a situation where a tiny country is surrounded by people that hate them, want to kill them and destroy them. So he's had to face a reality and a truth that most of us here in America may never ever have to really face. And you know, I was talking about kids that are members of the IDEA for three years, and my son recently met this kid and he was being recruited to play on on the school team that my son plays on. And I said, all those kids, he's twenty two years old and his beginning college and he never gave up his amateur status. He has four years of legitimate n c A A eligibility. And those kids are just so more mature than our own kids. And I'm not saying this that in in any way to be a anything other than a compliment to the kids that that have to grow up much faster because of truth and reality in their lives. And you know, whether you like to hear it or not, the world's a pretty dark, evil place and you know, when you talk about murder, that's evil. Raping a woman is evil. Beating up people for fun is evil, isis beheading people is evil. You know, a hundred million souls in the last century, Fascism, communism, Nazism, imperial Japan. It's all evil, and I think the good people have a hard time wrapping their arms around the fact that evil exists. You know, look at San Bernardino, look at the Orlando Pulse nightclub, Look at Chattanooga, look at ford Hood, look at what's been happening in France, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, and all across Belgium and all across Europe. It's it's an ideology of evil in our time that is really, in many ways not any different, although it's a different form, it's a different ideology, it's a different philosophy. It's it's all of those things, but it's still evil, as evil as Hitler was. If you want to kill innocent men, women and children, you're evil. That's it. It's simple, it's basic, it's fundamental. And that's why I like the fact that Trump took a a real line in the sand and bomb the hell out of a sad Syria and said we're not going to cross this line and use chemical weapons against women and children. But Um, and I think it showed a lot of strength and cards. The world is having a hard time adjusting that the weak and feckless and the appeasing America under Obama has now shifted. And there's gotta be some fundamental mental flip in the minds and the hearts of these these leaders that they understand as a new sheriff in town. Just like snowflakes are having a hard time of Joe things, so too are the world's leaders, especially those that got away with murder the entire time Obama was president. Anyway, appreciate the call, Michelle. Thank you eight nine for one. Shawn told free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program, Let's go to Sandy's in California. Sandy, Hi, how are you welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. Hi, Sean, Um. I want you to keep prodding the Republicans on Obamacare. I'm to get that repelled and replaced, and I hope it's going better than than what I hear. But another thing is you are awesome on providing statistics during the election and I think we've got to get the wall taken care of. And some of our Republican guys just don't seem to have the guts that they need to have. So I was wondering if you could put together statistics on the crime created from illegal immigrants, how it's harming our schools, how it impacts our hospitals, and if you get peat that on a daily basis, and some of these guys like Marco Rubio, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and on and on Mike get some guts to do the right thing and help us get the wall belt. And I'm just way pro Trump. I'm never gonna go away from him. So I just think he's the best thing that's happened in our political system in a long time. Look, I agree, Republicans, they need to step up. You know, all my life, and I'm sure this is the life of every person listening, because I don't know anybody that has the life of a congressman, a congresswoman, a senator. Are all these people I don't. I don't have expensive time for lunch every day. My I don't even eat lunch every day. Maybe I have Campbell's soup and that's my lunch for now. I buy I do buy Linda and everybody in their lunch every don't I buy you lunch every day. But you eat it at your desk. You're gonna have an heathing you want. You haven't eaten you Well, the bill came across my my iPhone today, so somebody ordered something. I'm glad somebody's getting paid well. But but there's no restriction. But everybody eats at their desk on this show. And it's not I've never said to my staff, you've got to eat at your desk. It's just the reality of this job. You want to work here, you put it all in and you look, we're on a we're look, we're on the air at three o'clock. Whether we're prepared or not. Now, we'd rather be prepared, and we're always hanging by a thread, even when we're fully prepared. It's just the nature of the business. I just don't understand Republicans. They wanted the House, they got it. They wanted the Senate, they got it, they wanted the White House. All half these people didn't even support Trump. They're so pathetic. Now they've got it, and you know, we have a chance to change the world for the good, and they're they're sitting on their hands and it frustrates the hell out of me. Right, and Trump's got a lot of us out here supporting them, and the the other Republicans just need to get some guesstoors, you know, they just need to get with it. And um, I want you to know I appreciate everything you do and just keep after them. And I want Trump to be successful because I know it's the best thing for America. Yeah, well I do too, And you know what, We're gonna try and help him. And we'll drag these Republicans kicking and screaming, and we have to got to take a quick break. We'll come back. I think everybody has learned from this. I think the people on social media kind of know the power and I think they know the harm it can do. So we've talked before about people not living their lives on social media and being truthful in social media and not harming people via social media, and you know, this is a prime example. This is something that should not have been shared around the world period. And you know, our kids, although they should not of seeing this, I'm sure a lot have you know, they need to take this as a lesson. We can't do this in this country. We just can't do it, alright. That, of course, in reaction to this man hunt that is underway in Cleveland, Ohio for this man suspected of murdering this elderly citizen and absolute cold blood and streaming his crime on Facebook live. And so many people now have seen this thing. It is beyond barbaric. And there is unique challenges now that we are facing as a result of this instantaneous news outlet. That is that everybody's fingertips. And that is all right, So what do you do when you believe in freedom of expression and freedom of speech and then you've got kids on Facebook live killing themselves and in this case, you've got this guy killing an elderly citizen in cold blood for the world to see. And does that bring up issues involving okay, censorship? I mean you got this guy posted a video of himself killing a former found reworker who had ten children. This guy had ten children that he killed and and and he said, I snapped, I just snapped anyway, shared the recording of himself announcing his plan to kill someone. Then two minutes later posted another video of himself shooting and killing good good one. Now. Facebook said a few minutes after that that he went live and confessed, and the company said it disabled his account within twenty three minutes of receiving the first report about the video of the fatal shooting, and two hours after receiving any report. Now. Facebook has since announced that it was launching a review for the reporting of a harmful content of any way. But what do you do? Ron Christie is back with us former special assistant to President Bush calumnists for Sidewire. Also with us Emily Schier Bustle dot Com. Welcome both of you to the program. Ron. I you know I'm I'm just the believer in free and open media, and unfortunately this is one of the downsides of living in a free society. I don't know how you possibly can censor any live event if anybody wants to do something that's horrific and narcissistic, isn't just awful? Sean good afternoon. I'm heartbroken, and like you, I'm a I'm a firm believer at the First Amendment to the Constitution. I believe that we should have the freedom of speech, we should have the freedom of assembly. But unfortunately our culture in this I want everything now and me, me, me, has devolved into this really cruel, really sadistic world on social media. And this is the latest example of it of how far people go to strive to get attention. Sean that we need to take a big time out as a country and recognize when don't get the soul of our country back, these sorts of things are going to be in the increase rather than decrease, and politicians of both stripes need to stand up and say this is enough. Stop it. Yeah, you know, but but on the other hand, I mean, I know this may sound horrific. I kept asking a question during the Obama years. You know when James Foley had his hey his head chopped off, or remember when they line these guys up on the beach and simultaneously took the knives in Egypt and they chopped these guys heads off. I watched it, and I want people to see what evil is in this world, because if you don't fully comprehend what we're up against and and the reality and the ugly, disgusting, hideous truth of it all, I'm not sure you're gonna have the will to fight it to the extent it needs to be fought, Like for example, TV networks have made a decision never to show the buildings being hit on nine eleven again, or the people jumping out of the building because they're burning to death that day. Those images are forever etched in my mind, you know, seeing those people lined up on the beach and getting decapitated with a knife. It's not something that ever leaves you. Now, I certainly don't want kids seeing it, and they have the ability to see it, but it's really the parents respond stability. I monitor my kids TV watching, I monitor what they get to see on their computers, I monitor what social websites they get to go to. So at the end of the day, it's going to be the parents. You know, how do you stop this and still keep the freedoms that we love and cherish. Well, let me let me put it to you this way, and those those memories are etched in my mind as well as yours and millions of your listeners. Shaun of the horror and tragedy of nine eleven. But I think in this instant case where the poor gentleman was shot, and of course we saw that video live streaming. That's me looked like more of a snuff video. This wasn't Coptic Christians being beheaded by ISIS, or this wasn't a terrorists, right, But who gets to make that decision and distinction, because anybody could start a Facebook live session anytime they want. Well in this in this case, I think that Mark Zuckerberg has got a big, big problem on his hands of people using his site in his services for really cruel and evil and just terrible things, and he's got to find a way to filter that out. I believe, how do you filter it out? Like for example, Nuke, which does a lot of Facebook live sessions, and he does them often, and a lot of people view them. They either view them in real time or they view them later when he posts them. I mean, how do you There's got to be a way between newt going and educating people and a deranged individual killing someone. I don't know what that distinction is. I mean, it's a tough question, really hard question that we're going to have to find an answer to. Emily, let me ask you, and we can add to this. Remember, Chicago police were looking for these six people involved in the sexual assault of this teenage girl that was broadcast on Facebook Live. Also, yeah, I mean I think there there is not an easy answer to this. You raise all the freedom of speech issues, um, because looked, we trust Facebook to be the arbitrator one way or the other. Clear that Facebook has you, even if it's arguably well intentioned, has censored certain things. And sometimes by the way they censor articles from Hannity dot com, I mean, they're busy censoring that. So you would think they maybe have time for somebody to monitor at real time some of these other things. But that's a side note to that. And there's another question of how much do we want them monitoring? Do we want them getting more involved? I mean when an instance like this, yes we we do want it. But one you know, I don't know if we can put the genie uh back in the lamp on this issue, because you know, so then what they take a few if it's not in real time, then someone uploads the video to YouTube or some other platform, and yes, it will be taken down I think eventually or sensored eventually. In different news organizations choose not to report on certain aspects of bustles policy is that we try we go out of our way not to give AFTRA attention to a murder. There are certain issues if you don't want to give extra credence to whatever they're stated goal or motivation. But do you understand my thinking here, because I don't know where the slippery slope starts and ends, and I don't know how you monitor content, because I can guarantee you there are a lot of people that would argue against my position. Is I want people to see evil? You know, I watched documentaries all the time on the History Channel, on the American Heroes Channel. You know, documentaries that actually show the Holocaust and dead bodies piled upon dead bodies. Is it because I have this morbid fascination with evil? No, it's that I want to understand it so we can defeat it. Because in the last century alone, when you add in Stalin and Russia and fascism and Nazism and imperial Japan and the killing fields in Cambodia, you're talking about a hundred million people slaughtered in the name of some sick, twisted evil ideology. And similarly, we face that crisis today, except it's in a different form, same evil, and it's called isis, it's called radical Islamism. It's it's called al Qaeda, you know, it's it's called hes balah Hamas Islamic Jihad, it's called the Muslim Brotherhood. And they all have the same goal, So me wanting people to view and witness the barbarity and absolutely evil of this. It's for the purpose of awakening them to understand that it needs to be defeated. There's a purpose to it. So if you but I bet people would argue Hannity, you can't show these people being beheaded. That's sick, that's twisted. Why do you want people to see it? Because if they don't see it, then they don't understand the nature of it. That's why, Well, Sean, let me just say one last thing before I have to jump here. I I totally agree with you, and this is a challenge that we're gonna have to face as a society because it's easier to talk about the Holocaust. It's easier to talk about ISIS and state actors doing these sorts of evil things. But I just don't know from a freedom of speech perspective, how you control the line. If one individual who's just totally deranged elect you just do what we saw in Cleveland time. If you have to choose to stop that, if you have to choose freedom, including the evil and barbarity of women being raped in real time on Facebook or people being murdered and real time on Facebook, what do you choose. It's a hard question. I'm not I'm not trying to not a trick question. White answer to that, Well, it actually of speech issue. I think there has to be though. That's the point. You either choose to allow all this or you choose to censor it. I think this is part of the problem. Week SPE's Facebook to be uh an orbit an arbitrator and decide, and well, who gets to be the arbitrator? You want me to be the arbitrator? You want? You want? You? Lemently you and I agree like on next to nothing you want? Do I want you to be the arbiter? No, I don't know. But and it's but your Facebook is just going to be a collection of people. These aren't government officials, These aren't people have been elected, These aren't necessarily people who have a legal or public policy expertise in what they're monitoring. So we're expecting them to do a certain job. That's of I don't think it I don't think. To me, it's either all or nothing, and I vote for all. Like there was a really And here's another sick, twisted part if you have there's a viral video originally recorded on Facebook Live that circulated showing a brutal beating of this Detroit man by a group of attackers. That occurred Eies to Sunday, and people want to see it. People it's it's clickbait for a lot of these sites. Look, I don't do it. I'm just gonna say. I mean, I think I think any site that actively uses that as clickbait it's nauseating. Um. And that's a whole separate issue from the fact that how do you stop people who have a moreau's interest or Look, I think there's a baseline human triosity. We saw this at a much lower level. But when there's your nude photos of celebrities leaked, which is doing far more innoxious, that's still deeply problematic. People want to click on it even though it's a clear violation of their privacy. Um. And there's only and I think you publications have an obligation not to make it easier for people to find it, to not include those photos and those things when they report on it. I want to I want to stay right there with that thought because I want to pick it up on the other side of this break. We've got to take a quick break here, though, we'll come back. We'll continue with Ron Christie and Emily Shyer one Shawn as our toe free telephone number. We'll get to your calls at the bottom of this half hour. All right, as we continue, we lost our friend Ron Christie, but Emily Shier remains with us. All right, Because you're lefty, I've got to ask you. I played a lot from this weekend and all these violent protests against Trump people and Trump supporters this weekend, but you got this madness that has broken out on your side of the political spectrum, Emily, and I want to ask you about it. My favorites, though, were these three by Madonna and Ashley Judd and this crazy woman that was a Bernie Sanders supporter. And to our detractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything, thank you you. But this is the hallmark of revolution. Yes, I'm angry, Yes I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. I am a nastty woman. I'm nasty, like my blood stains on my bed sheets. We don't actually choose if and when to have our periods. Believe me, if we could, some of us would. We don't like throwing away our favorite pairs of underpants. Tell me why our tampons and pad still taxed when viagra and rogain are not. Is your direction really more than protecting the sacred, messy part of my womanhood? Is the blood stain on my jeans more embarrassing than the thinning of your hair? To be a joke, Nomly, I'm literally about tell myself, and I'm not kidding you better right now, I literally am going and the snowflake meltdown continues. Emily, they're on your side of the aisle. If I ever said during the Obama years, I've thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House. Um, what do you think would have happened to Sean Hannity? I think people would have reacted that. I would like to say that no, no, no, no, stop stop. People would have reacted or Sean Hannity would be in handcuffs, mud shotted, perp walked and put in jail Look, Donald Trump said during the campaign that Second Amendment supporters could do something about Hilly. Clinton implied that, Okay, alright, that official thought. Emily, Emily, I love you, Emily. If I said when Obama was president, which I would never say, I thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House, what do you think would have happened to me? Look, Madonna got heat to up for the Women's March. I criticized her for that, and I'm still not answering my question. If I said the same thing, the exact same words, and Obama's president, what would have happened to me? I'm answering it. I'm saying that you would have gotten criticism as criticism. You don't think I would have gotten arrested. I don't think you would have gotten arrest and I don't think you would have gotten Really, I think you're wrong. I think I would have been arrested, and I think I would have been handcuffed. And I don't think you would have brought in a cake with a file to help get me out either. Oh, I'm a terrible baker, but that's a separate issue. Have money, you can always buy the cake and slip the file in um, I would hate to see you arrested. So you think it's okay for people to talk about thinking about blowing up the White House and expressing that I think said that sounds like a terroristic threat to me. She said, I've thought a lot. But then she said, I'm not and I'm here today. Uh. Look, I think this was back to a lot of the freedom of species. We were just talking about how do we define your It is a difficult decision. How do well you can't say fire in a crowded theater, and you can't make terroristic threats the last time I checked. But anyway, all right, I'm only thank you appreciate it. One Shawn told free telephone. Are you want to be a part of this extravaganza when we come back? Wide open telephone, straight ahead, alright, till the top of the hour, toll free telephone numbers eight one sewn you want to be a part of the program. All right, Let's go to dell Is in my old stomping grounds from years and years and years ago. Santa Barbara, California. What's up Dale? How's State Street in Paradise? Oh? What today? Sean? And thanks for taking my call. What's going on? Eight? Yesterday? You had a call or call in about the fact that he got censored by Facebook this past week for posting articles of years I had that happened to me on Saturday morning as well. I reposted the article the video clip of Elizabeth Warren questioning why we were bombing isis and the same thing it was. It was did you did you take the article from my site? And did you take the article from my site and you were reposting it? That is correct? All right? Now we've got murders and rapes taken place on Facebook and we're arguing whether or not they should be censored. Why is Facebook? Linda? Did you make any progress yesterday? When I asked you to call Zuckerberg? Did you make any progress with him? What did you call over there? Well? I found his assistant, but you know, she thinks that she's unreachable, so I'm still trying to reach her. But are so you can't reach the assistant? Well, the assistant is is the you know, in case you didn't know, the gatekeeper to all things. You know you have an assistant. You know she holds okay, But I thought this guy called in all these conservatives except for me. Well, what we did was we reached out to their I T people, and they have now asked us to submit all of the links and the proof that this has happened. That this we've got, well, we've got to prove to them that they've been censoring our materials on Hannity dot com, which are only news articles that we put up every day because we've expanded our news coverage on the website Hannada dot com. Right, so you're you're saying this, this happened to you. You reposted the article that we put up. I remember the article. It was confused. Elizabeth Warren asked what the overall purpose of bombing isis is, which is really a dumb statement. But and then they what do they do? They just took it down. Did they tell you they're taking it down? They told me that it contained nudity and it violated their there air conditions, of the community conditions. I immediately challenged it and told him it did not contain any And well that's what the other guy said yesterday. I mean, we had a calling up. I also screenshot at their their takedown letter. Yeah, my response, and it's showing it. It was specifically your link to her. All right, can you send that to Linda so we can we can use that. Would you mind helping us out? Just as an f y e Shawn, Our listeners and our people on Twitter and Facebook have been amazing and they've been sending tons of links. So we'll definitely get this one from Dale as well. But we've got a lot of we've got a lot of AMMO so far. It's unbelievable to me. I mean, meanwhile, and well Mr Zuckerberg, didn't he say that he wanted to reach out to conservatives and now we're trying to reach out to him and he won't take my phone call. Yeah, well, you know, when you have murders and rapes and abductions on your on your side and your platform, you might have bigger feast to fry just a thoe. Well, Dal, I'm sorry that happened to you. And no, we don't put nudity on the website. And if it's safe for your children, it's just it's actually called real news, not fake news or fake edited news like Ted Copple. All right, so it's I know, I'm bad for America. Maybe maybe Facebook paid the decision that Ted Copple made that I'm bad for America, and that's what happened. All right, Dale, thank you, We appreciate it. One Shawn, you want to be a part of the program as we get to Susan is in Lemon Cove, California. How are you, Susan. We're glad you called Hi. Hi, Sean. I'm great, you know, I'm I'm just so sick of everybody picking on Trump and this whole Facebook thing and Zuckerbrook saying, you know, take the day off to go protest. They have no idea what may day even is. But what I was really calling is about is that the Republican establishment or whoever better wake up, because when I first heard him, was running out that if he does one tenth of what he says he would do, he would be fantastic. Well, he's already done for tenths of everything he's already said he's going to do. Now it's up to Congress to do it. And I'm so worried about him with this progressive liberal financial guys like Cohn and everybody. I wish it was Larry Cutlow or somebody in there who really has the normal people's back and not these these democrats. I have an I have an update on this. A lot of this I found out last night from my top sources in the White House. A lot of it, what you're reading and hearing about is all noise and a the president hasn't changed from the promises he made you when he was running for office, and be nobody's going anywhere. Bannon's not leaving, Jared's not leaving. Avonka is not leaving. Ryans isn't leaving. Steve Miller is not leaving. Everybody is where they are right now. Now. Is there intramural squabbles, Yeah, probably, like in every corporate environment in the country, But you know, beyond that, that's not where the President's heads at. And the president seems to be singularly focused on one thing, and that is keeping his promises. And if he does that, he will be a successful president. If he doesn't do that, then he hurts himself. But I have not seen any evidence to date that he's doing that. The only thing that really pisces me off is that Congress can't get their act together and do their job that they have been promising all these years. And I can't stand people that take vacation every other day, get your ask to work right, and you make me feel better. Thank you so much for assuring the American people that that's what's going on. Because I really do think Trump has America's best interest at heart, and I think he's doing fantastic, but everybody just wants to sabotage him, and the only person who's never done that is you, because you speak the truth and you really understand what the American people want. So thank you so much. You're very kind. By the way, there are a lot of my media colleagues that absolutely hate my guts for being who I am. But I'm very proud of that, and I'm also proud. I've never been to a White House correspondence dinner ever, ever, and I'll never ever go either. And I've been threatened with my job. Listen, listen, listen. I don't know if I may, I don't know if I make it to happen. If anybody is not worthy of it, it's certainly me. I'll tell you that. So but if you're there, I'll be happy you made it, and just you know, maybe put in a good word for me. Okay, maybe I won't go to Dantes you know, it's ninth level of hell. Maybe I'll just go to the first level of hell, which would suck. And did you ever read Dante's Inferno? There's all these different levels of hell. I forget what the certain sins are, but I'm sure I fit into every category. Although the whole story of Jesus is about salvation and that he forgives our sins. But I've never understood the idea that even though you ask for forgiveness and you're you're forgiven, why do we keep sitting? Even even people that are preachers? I know? I said, well, have you ever stopped sitting? No? I sit every day. And then I reminded that Jesus said to one of his apostles, are just man, since you know seven times seventy times a day. I'm like, well, I'm screwed because I'm not half as good as these people. Anyway, I had digress for a second. What why do you give me the look? Why am I getting the car? I think you should be forgiven just for knowing that much about the Bible. I'm sure Jesus Christ is up there saying I've risen. I'm here, I hear you. You're good He's only gonna send you to the first level. Although I think once you get to Hell, every level sucks. So what's the difference, That's what I think. But he tested the apostles the average man since seventy times seven. Well, that's a lot of sinning. You did your penalty. I saw you just went to a red carpet event. I mean you're already you know, you're doing your good deeds. We're gonna go to the Holy Land. You can touch the wall, you talk to Jesus, you'll be there. Okay. Do you know anything about the Wall, the Western Wall? No? Okay? Do you know anything about the stations of the Cross that Jesus is in Jerusalem? Do you know the Alaska Mosca is in the middle of Jersey? Can't it? Do you know the Armenian sector? And us never heard of it? Oh? Good God? And why am I taking you to Israel? Because I know people that know things about the things that you're talking about. Okay, I know people that know people. I know a guy who's got a guy, and that guy's got a guy over at the Alaska Mosque. Alright, alright, my buddy to Vrus is with us. The Varus kind of turned on me. You know, we sent to Varus to college. He gets his degree. He kept his end of the bargain. I kept my end of the bargain. You call in last time and you turn on me. What was that all about? Never that, Sean, I love you. You didn't, don't you? You are loving on me the last time? Your your new name. I renamed your insanity Drogo Hannity, you know who Drogo would? Right? Yeah, I know who Drogo was. Why do you say that? Because you're You're Trump's brogo baby? Without you, without you, it would be Trump, there would be there would be Nodonald and I'm and I'm and I'm mad at the president for this one reason, because he's trying to he's trying to sneak his way in and and and take my best friend from me. It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. The president, he's already spoken for, is my best friend. And you can't have him and and and already let big baby, James. I will bring I will break you. I will break you. Listen when Rocky and when Rocky put on the trunk, it changed. It changed when you put on the trunk. It changed things, you know what I mean? And and I'm Rocky. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no. I watched Rocky. It's so funny you say this because I watched Rocky one and two this weekend, and I I identify as you know, the paperboy, dishwasher, cook, bus boy, waiter, bartender, tile layer, house painter, wallpaper hanger, rufer, framer. That's my life, man, that's two decades of my life. But here it is here. I'm I take care of my buddy. To bars, I send you to college. You and I make a deal, your life gets better, and then you turn on me. In the last time you called, you totally stab me, give me in the back. What was up with that? I would never do that because best friends don't do that. You already you already did it. The last time you called, I had to dump you what you always do. You always dumped me, and I still love you for it. But the thing is, Sean, I can't let my best friend continue to be a double agent of the Russian the whole agent of the Russians. You listen, you must be watching like MSNBC and Rachel Manner or something. What are you talking about I don't have to although I love Rachel matter, but I don't have time to watch her like like like you ought to you ought to be you ought to be watching your brother from another mother who sent you to college because he loves you. I do. I watch you, and my food can't stay up long enough to watch you, but we we I watch you, Sean, And but you know what, you know what I want. I'm still I'm still glad I helped you out. You know why, because you kept your into the bargain. I may I make the same deal with my kids, Like I said to my kids, all right, you want to go to college, you want to do this, you want to do that. Okay, you gotta do your part. And you did your part. You stepped up and you you manned up. You got it done. You did it for your family. I'm proud of you, I really am. You're a good guy, Shan and Shane. You're blessing has turned it to the blessing for three other people that I was able to get jobs. Boy with the company that I worked for. I mean, You're blessing just keeps on. So maybe maybe you ought to look at me in a new light and realize maybe your buddy here, Hannity is is looking out for the country the way I looked out for you. You know, like I always say, Shane, you all right American, I'm an alright. You know you're such a jackass. I don't even know why I like you, but I like you. You're a jackass, but I like you. Jesus rode in on the jackass. Remember that. Uh, now you're comparing yourself to Jesus on the donkey. Oh my god, yeah, I'll be that. I'll be that jackass if you just rode in on baby man. Even the jackass was blessed. Now that's actually your Hannity. Listen. I'm not listen. I'm not. I said, I'm a humble center man. I know I know where my place in this world passed the handy. That's what. Definitely not a pastor. I'm not listen. All right. So I've I've read the Bible. I believe in Jesus. I believe that God created the world. But I also know I've been incourageible since I'm I'm six days old, right, So I've been. I've been. I have been in trouble my entire life. I was the biggest pain in the asked to my parents guilty as charged. My mother would say, don't leave the house. I said, you don't leave the house, and I'd walk out the door. That's pretty bad, right, That's pretty hard with Jesus, and with Jesus. The only time Jesus question God is when he looked at the cup and saw your sins. He said, I gotta, I gotta you know, that's listen. I was watching the Passion of the Crisis weekend. I can't watch that movie without being moved and not feeling like I listen, I'm gonna tell you how I feel. I'm like, I feel sorry for my part because I agree, I'm not I don't deserve what he did for us. All right, there's I'm gonna end on that happy note because Eastern just passed and I'm I'm owning up to it. I know, I know my good, I know my bad, I know my my faults, I know my strengths. I know I look at myself. I'm far more introspective and and rooted in reality than you may think, Mr wise ass. So I still like you anyway, right, Bless you se alright, God, bless your brother God bless your family to tell us give the baby a kiss from from uncle Shawn. All right, don't forget. Uh, let's say hi to well. I cannot have to say hi because I gotta take a break here eight D nine four one, Shawn, if you want to be a part of this extravagant so don't forget. We got Hannity tonight. We got a great show tonight. I'm gonna rip Congress in my opening monologue tonight. I just can't take it anymore. I've done it before. I'm gonna do it again because they gotta wake up. And we have Monica Crowley tonight, Donald Trump Junior tonight, General Jack Keene tonight. Dr Gorka tonight, and we have a world that's gone mad. Ten Eastern Hannity

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