Was Trump Wrong on Syria? - 4.19

Published Apr 20, 2017, 12:44 AM

As the debate over the future of Syria continues, Sean sits down with Ann Coulter to discuss the options.  Was President Trump wrong in taking action?  Is there a line in the sand that you can draw?  How will Russia's involvement play out?   The Sean Hannity Show is live from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.  

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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 eaving and you certainly deserve my pillow dot com promo code Hannity. You will love this pillow. All right, gladuate with us as we kick off a Wednesday edition of The Sean Hannity Show. Right down our toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program, It's eight hundred nine four one Seawn if you want to be a part of this extravaganza. The push for healthcare now moving forward way behind the scenes, and it looks like the Freedom Caucus is on board. There is a new group and putting America First. Donald Trump Junior will join us as they have put out ads now some three million dollars in ads and districts that are key to getting that healthcare bill across the finish line. And culture. And we might have a slight disagreement over the President's use of military force in Syria and in Afghanistan, and we'll talk about that with her. She'll join us today. Pap Buchanon will probably also have a similar disagreement. Will get his thoughts on this. Also the new rules of engagement and what do we do about the erased intelligence that was created by the Department of Homeland Security. We've got Philip Haney and Captain Roger Hill all joining us today in the course of this program. As we start the show today, I gotta tell you there is you know, it was almost pandemonium breaking out over the the Georgia sixth district last night as John ass Off, the guy that doesn't even live in the district. When you've got one Democrat running against what twelve thirteen fourteen Republicans, you think, oh, okay, this guy's got a chance. And he failed last night to get enough support to avoid a runoff to a place now Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in Congress and losing that race was bad enough. And now the Democratic Party's kiss of death, their foul Mount d n C chairman Tom Perez, who was just boot off the stage at a so called Democratic Unity rally and Maine. Oh, he's rushing down to Georgia to help campaign for Assa. And I can tell you after living four years in Atlanta in Roswell, that's not going to help the Democratic Party. Now it's not all bad for us Off at least now he won't have to move out of his girlfriend's house and relocate inside his congressional district. But anyway, d n C Chairman Tom perett Is headed to Georgia to rally support for the Democratic candidate ahead of the June twentieth special election runoff, and the d n C announced that the that Perez will speak at the Democratic Party of George's dinner in Atlanta on Thursday to try and boost and raise money. They threw a lot of money at this guy. I think they threw ten, eleven, twelve million dollars into this race as there were so many Republicans running against this one Democrat. He's a thirty year old former congressional aid lives outside the district and Perez also sent a fundraising email to Democrats around the country to support both the party and this particular campaign. He said, if we go all in and elect John will turn Georgia's sixth district blue for the first time in thirty eight years and send a big, loud message. See, they wanted this to be against Trump. Everybody in the media got on board a race because they just want Trump to look bad and to lose. You See, the one thing Democrats fear the most is that Donald Trump is going to be successful. That's the last thing that can possibly happen anyway, but as a side vote, and it was in the Hill today. The President actually put his political clout on the line yesterday seeing the polls were showing that this guy also could win without a runoff election in June, and he made a late round of robot calls on behalf of the GOP field, and the President ramped up his attacks on Democratic Democratic House candidate, noting on Twitter that he doesn't live in the district for which he's running for Congress. He tweeted out, quote, just learned John Also, who's running for Congress in Georgia, doesn't even live in the district. Republicans, get out and vote. He put it on Twitter about two hours before the polls closed in that special election, and the tweet from Trump was the second time the President attacked him on Tuesday, when voters were heading to the polls to decide who they want to fill the seat that was vacated by Tom Price when he became Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary. Earlier in the day, the President took to Twitter to encourage Republicans to vote in the election, arguing that also is weak on crime and immigration, and he would be a disaster in Congress. Very weak on crime, any illegal immigration, bad for jobs, wants higher taxes. Say no anyway, the Democrats, they put a ton of money into this. They failed. Look, I'm not saying it's gonna be easy in a runoff. I think Republicans got into this really late, warrntic anticipating any battle or any fight on this thing. But we'll see what happens. You know, I know that tax Day has come and gone, and we've got the latest numbers in from twenty fourteen. This is something you need to pay attention to. We have record collections in government. You've got fifty two million, sixty two thousand, four hundred and ninety nine income tax filers, people that work and file their income taxes that paid no taxes in the last year. We have numbers four, which is anyway of the of the one forty eight thousands, sixty eight million, six hundred six thousand, five hundred and seventy eight individual tax returns that they sent in teen. Well, you've got thirty five percent file what the i r S calls non taxable returns. That means they paid no net into visual income tax So you got the top one percent paying you know, fifty percent of the taxes or of the taxes, top ten percent paying of the taxes. And then you still hear the same old talking points that the rich don't pay their fair share. And if you actually want to break it down and days, look, you're a tax payer. Forget if you live in if you're stupid like me and you live in New York, or you live in California, and maybe it's the weather that keeps you there, maybe it's San Diego and the beach and the coastline that keeps you there. Okay, I get it, but you're paying mightily for that view if you ever get to see it. Because the average taxpayer alone spends a hundred and thirteen days just working to pay the nation's tax burden. Americans are going to spend five point one trillion dollars on federal, state, and local taxes this year alone, and what do you get for that money? Pretty much nothing. I mean, it's I think, for example, in my town, they're trying to fix a road. It's taken them three years to fix a road that should have been fixed in like three weeks. Well, we've got to build a sea wall. Will build the sea wall from the seaside of the wall, and you don't have problem, and you're not taking off an extra twenty thirty minutes for everybody that wants to get to work every day. I mean, is there really that much to ask that my roads be paid for? All the money we pay in taxes. Look, here's New York federal income tax, ten percent state income tax. Then you've got county tax. Then you can if you work in the city, you pay at city tax. Then you pay your fight attacks. It's like sixties plus cents per dollar the government takes and then you've got almost half of taxpayers to pay nothing. Anyway, I digress here. Some of the other news we didn't have a lot of coverage. You have the a P The story of this look like the American media bending over backwards yesterday, trying to minimize the terrorist threat to America, reminding us reminiscent of Obama's era. But the AP edited the word the words of a Muslim man who allegedly killed three people in downtown Fresno, and it was reported shouting Allahu Akbar, and the suspect, thirty nine year old Corey Ali, Mohammed holds fervent anti Trump all eaves, according to social media. In his social media profile, told police afterward that he hates white people. But rather than reporting the gunman's literal words, the AP reported the gunman was saying God is great. Now, why would they do that knowing that is not what he said? And Allahu Akbar is known for what it is, a call to arms, It said often that the nine eleven hijackers said it. Anyway, So the Fresno police apparently suffering from a severe case of terrorist denials syndrome, but anyway, authorities said they believe the gunman did shout allahauak Bar after he walked through Fresno randomly shooting and killing three men, committing a hate crime and not an act of terrorism. That's how they're defining this. And the Fresno Police chief Jerry Dyer, thirty nine year old, said thirty nine year old Corey Ali mohammed shooting spree was based solely on race. We don't believe it's a terrorist attack or a terrorist act. We believe it was a hate crime. It was definitely a hate crime based on his comments and his statements made by Mohammed after his arrest and officers were able to find Mohammed and take him into custody without further incident. Mohammed was being arrested, Dyer said, he held out Allahu Akbar. Now allahauak Bar does mean God is great in Arabic, but it's also the phrase that is used by radical Islamic terrorists in almost every incident that we cover. And we looked at his Facebook page. We knew he had some posts that said he doesn't like white people and also the post that he expressed some anti government sentiments. All the victims randomly targeted were white. According to the police, what motivated these crimes today was hatred. It's it's it's we're still in the man caused disaster overseas contingency operation mentality in this country. It's unbelievable, and now we've got a problem. I mean, this is what we're getting into this in greater detail later in the program with Phil Hainey and with Captain Roger Hill. But we have a bombshell account, highly decorated former Air Force captain said then chopper crash that killed seventeen members of the Navy Sealed Team six as a direct result of the Obama administration's overly restricted rules of engagement. Now we're gonna send brave men and women to fight, bleed and die, well, then maybe we ought to, you know, give them the ability to fight an enemy without putting handcuffs on them. Anyway. Circuit News and our friend Sarah Carter reported that is decorated retired Air Force officer who witnessed one of the most deadly attacks on Navy seals in US history, breaking his silence, saying that the government covered up evidence detailing the eleven downing of a Chinook helicopter gunship and the Air Force Captain Joni Marquee said that the crash could have been prevented had it not been for restrictions to the military rules of engagement that were put in place under the Obama administration. I hope somebody, I hope General mad Dog Maddis or somebody out there is changing these rules, because we certainly don't need to put handcuffs on men and women when they're trying to fight, bleed and die, and they have a right to go home to their kids. Anyway. The story goes on to say that they were working in the dark morning hours aboard an a C one third gun ship after being summoned to a mission she described as almost like a nine eleven type of situation, and the rangers had called in for assault helicopters to engage the enemy hiding in the rocky valley below. The air weapons team fired on the Taliban fighters. Not all the insurgents were killed as originally believed. They had sensor operations immediately shift to the aid insurgent helicopters had had taken out, and in the first interview that this woman gives about the incident, two are still alive, and Marquez says that the fire patrol officer aboard the A C one thirty gun ship making sure that the sensors and the weapons were aligned and allowing the crew to hone in on targets and monitoring the scene from above. She relaid the scene to the to the ground force commander. You have two enemy forces that are still alive. Anyway, permission was denied, permission to engage, they asked, Permission denied? How do you deny permission in that particular case? And she watched as two enemy fighters moved tactically through the open field, making their way to a village where they began to rally more fighters, and meanwhile, the Chinook helicopter with the call sign Extortion seventeen was called into an hour's long fight, firefight with these guys. US Central Commands official investigation concluded that the rocket launched grenade from a Taliban fighter hit the Chinook and sent the sent the helicopter in a doward spiral, and the crash killed all thirty eight, including thirty eight Americans and eight f Afghans, and seventeen of the U S servicemen were Navy Seals, and months before the Seals were made famous for killing Bin Laden. It's unbelievable to me. You know, we're having the whistleblower, Joni Marquez on the on the show on Monday, along with Sarah Carter and Karen Vaughan. They lost their kids in this particular incident. It's unbelievable. Quote. They continue to essentially gain more and more forced behind them because they just kept knocking on doors and the two personnel that initially fled ended up becoming a group of twelve. So, in other words, rules of Engagement killed American brave men and women. It's pretty unbelievable alright, eight one Sean, alright, busy newsday today and Culter Don Trump, Donald Trump Jr. We'll get into all of this as it relates to the rules of engagement and of course intelligence gathering with Phil Haney and Captain Roger Hill, who wrote the true story of American Soldiers Abandoned by High Command. Pack Buchanan checks in today. Stay up to date with the latest news and expert opinions as Donald Trump takes office. Stick right here show as we continue Sean Hannity Show eight nine one, Shawn that you want to be a part of the program. We got a lot of great guests today. We're gonna be debating the rules of engagement, intelligence gathering, a masking and leaking that's coming up with Phil Haney and Captain Roger Hill, Pat Buchanan and Coulter and I will probably disagree on the President's use of force in Syria, and we'll talk about, you know, what the conditions need to be, what Americans involvement on the world stage needs to be, what the Trump doctrine should be. Uh So that's all coming up. I want to just reiterate a point I was making on the show yesterday It's now nearly a hundred days into the Trump administration, nearly a hundred days, and the question I have is really simple, and that is, how can Congress after eight years of promising and pledging and making commitments to repeal and replace Obamacare, they can't get it done in a hundred days. My my level of anger here just surpasses any fundamental understanding I have. There's so much to do to fix the country for the better that's not getting done because they're all dragging their feet, and they were on their two week hiatus. They're on their two week vacation, which I'm sure most of you would love to have another two week vacation, which most of you probably don't get until Christmas or or maybe the summer or whenever you take your two week vacation every year, because I most people I know don't get that much vacation. I'll be honest to my contract. I have a lot of vacation, but in reality, I never take the vacation. I don't take the vacation because number one, I feel an obligation to work, and number two, it's I don't understand that particular life of people. And I'm just I've watched and I witnessed, and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, Wow, these people taking more vacation, and meanwhile they can't even get the health care bill done because they weren't prepared. It's like, if you're failing on test or exams, you double down on your study habits, you double down on on getting it right. If, especially if the class is going somewhat sideways. You know, so the President's go getting all his done, you know, Neil Gorsas is on the Supreme Court. We've have a half a million jobs added. The President's negotiating with companies like Ford and GM and Toyota and Intel and and VR Chrysler. He's getting rid of Obama era regulations. He wants to eliminate up to sevent of them. He's ended the war on call ole, that's helping the coal industry, that's saving jobs, getting rid of red tape. Illegal immigration has been reduced because now he's enforcing the law. They've taken a tough stance against sanctuary cities. President means it, we saw what happened with the Mother of All bombs. To take on ISIS and defeat ISIS. He's put plans like imposing a lobbying ban. He's sanctioned to ran over the Missle missile program. He's restoring America's leadership in the world. Look what he did in Syria. And it goes on and on. I just when did these guys Republicans do their part? Because I know the Freedom Caucus is ready. All right, let me come back wide open phones also and Coulter, Donald Trump Jr. And Pat Buchanan today to accountable. Sure gets the answers. No one else does America desserts and know the truth about Congress to the top of the hour. Toll free our telephone numbers eight nine one, Shawn. You want to be a part of the program. All right, let's get to our phones here, eight nine one, Shawn, toll free telephone number. Shawn is in Florida. Shaan, Hi, how are you glad you called? Hi? Son? Thanks for taking my call. I want to bring up the freds No shooting and the fact that we still seem to be operating under the Obama doctrine of protecting radical Muslims and protecting the terrorists in this country. And I thought that would be a thing in the past. With the election of President Trump. But still these police has been reported that the shooter he shought I think it was three people that the shooter said two or three times, Allah akabar, whatever that the name is. Anyway, it's like, why will we not admit it? Admit it? It is a threat to our country. I mean, we've even had Bridget Gabrielle, she's a former Muslim and she has said the religion of Islam directly threatens the people of the United States. And yet we're still covering up for these people. Yeah. Look, we we have brought on more people, more experts, more times explained in such specific detail what life for women and Christians and Jews and minorities and gays and lesbians are under Shariah and the horror of their lives and the discrimination that is mainstream now. Then it raises the issue if you grow up under that culture, in that society and you want to come to America, you know, are you coming here because you want to assimilate and get away from that oppressive tyranny and and treat people and offer equal rights to all individuals, or do you want to come here soletize and advance the caliphate that you have been indoctrinated into since you're a kid. I mean, it's a hard question, right, Well, I mean, and the other thing is too is the very people that Sharia law persecute are the very people there are the first ones to be standing at an airport holding signs against the travel band and against banning uh Muslims from countries to sponsored terrorism. Yeah. Well, look, I don't want a religious litmus test, because there are people of of different faiths, the Muslim faith that that don't adhere to the radicalism. But the problem is, if you're coming from Yemen, if you're coming from Saudi Arabia, or you're coming from any of these countries that practiced this very extreme form of Shariah, how is it ever possible to ascertain whether you come here in peace or you come here because you think that allah Is is guiding you to kill the infidel. I don't know how you determine the difference. Anyway, I appreciate the call, Sean. We're gonna move on, Thank you so much, Sewan. A toll free telephone number, all right, Donna's and statnild Sean. I wanted to talk about the fact that I'm so disturbed by how little decency we have in our society these days, and what kind of role models we're putting forth for our kids. I mean, when you have the head of the Democrat Party on TV using vulgar language and acting like he's involved in like a schoolyard site, that's very disturbing to me because we no longer have the kind of role models that are putting forth a better example for our children. There's ways to disagree. I'm one of the first people to say some some bad things from time to time, but I think if you're a person who is on TV and you're at the forefront of society, you should be held to a little bit of a better standard in terms of how you speak, you lead by example. I think that that's something that's very sorely missing in our society today, and I really feel bad for all of our kids. I hope that that can be turned around. I mean, you take these celebrities, the disgusting things that Actley Judd and Madonna and there As Siberman. They're just they're they're looking unhinged, they're behaving like crazy people, and it's really sad that these are the people are kids have as role models. I'd rather have somebody that speak softly, eloquently, gets their point across, conveys their disappointment, and is able to say to people, we need to change things. I don't like what's going on, but let's work together, and let's speak civilly to one another, behave like grown ups. It's kind of descending into this schoolyard fight that's very disturbing. 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 nasty 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 je ease more embarrassing than the sitting of your hair. He have even tried to convince us that we're not really interested in seeing the documents. Do you want to see in taxes? Taxes? Taxes? Mr President? What you're putting for? It's all to the facts. Get get down. We saw our taxes, said this time, let up, get down, We show our taxes. Is we look like telling me what he looks like? Whats not telling me what the box he looks like? They just like making what two three chicken down? What three chicken day? Taxi? If? Well, we start today, but we will not in are the hell who you are? Are you? Let me tell you now for job, what's the big deal about my taxes? Okay, since you guys are my supporters, I'm gonna share with you what's on my taxes because this is between us. Okay, don't let the protesters know what I'm gonna tell you. So what I owe fifty million dollars the Deutsche Bank? Who cares? Who cares? That's publicly known. But what you don't know is I know where all the Nazi gold is hidden in Switzerland and I haven't and I have it. I have, I have a so wonderful So let's release some boys, release the taxes. There we go, there we go, releasing the taxes. I told Jared to shred my taxes, but I thought shred was Yiddish. For all. I appreciate it. Donnie, thank you, You've been with us forever. We love you. We appreciate it. Let's go to christy As in Cleveland in Ohio. Hey, Chrissy, how are you glad you called hi? Son? Um? Thank you for being a great American and thank you for holding or at least trying to hold the media accountable. And the media is supposed to be holding Congress accountable, And like you, I am angry and I don't understand. You know, we've given the Republicans the houses, we've given them the presidency, and you know what is what's the big hold up? And I'm guessing that there just has to be so much corruption between you know, Congress, the media. Um, who's got what on who that? Um? I mean, there have to be bombshells out there that are keeping these people from doing what it is we want them to do. Listen, I gotta tell you, I honestly feel they don't have the work ethic and they don't have the urgency that I think the average American on their job and the pressure that everybody feels on their job every day, every job I've had in my life. Pressure washing dishes, pressure getting papers out, pressure, uh being a cook, pressure getting tables clean, and a busy restaurant. Pressure being a weight or pressure bartender, pressure building contractor pressure, roofing, pressure, you know, framing houses, pressure, painting pressure. Just you have to get the job done or you don't get paid. You have to get it done in a reasonable period of time, or you don't make money. You might as well do it for free at that point, so they don't have the same urgency that I've had my entire life. I have to be ready every day three to six eastern twelve to three Pacific to do a radio program, and I've got to be ready to come on the air with news and information that you're not gonna get anywhere else. And the same thing with the TV program at ten eastern. And I don't get to go at ten o'clock and say, you know, I think I'm gonna take a vacation today. It's just not how it works, and it's not how I want to work. You know, I have I love doing this. I want to get the job done. I want to be the best I can be, and for some reason, that motivation seems to be missing from these guys. Great for a mainstream media fake news is it's this is the Sean y Show. What's gonna happen next? We promised repeal fifty times and so we're working at out and I think within a few weeks, I think DC will be a little bit shocked. I think we're gonna get t s. Healthcare is gonna happen at some point now. If it doesn't happen fast enough, I'll start the taxes. But the tax reform and the tax cuts are better if I can do healthcare first, holding them accountable. Sean gets the answers no one else does. Freedom is back in style. Welcome to the Revolution New Sean Hannity Show. I'm the scenes, information on freaking news and more bold inspired solutions for America Right now. Sean Nity Show told free our telephone numbers eight nine, four one sewn if you want to be a part of the program. It's not often I disagree with my friend and Coulter, but um, I think we disagree on this issue involving Syria and obviously the ratcheting up of the rhetoric as it relates to North Korea. But he wrote he always writes provocative, smart columns, and she writes, war is like crack for presidents. It confers instant gravitas, capitulating them to respectability bypassing all stations stops, and they get to make macho pronouncements on a topic where every utterance is seen as august anyway, she joins, us, now, how are you, how are you look? Here's my take. I know his tweet that everybody referred to say he's changed his mind, but I don't want a rigid ideologue as president. I want somebody that thinks through the different evolving situations. For example, like I love the fact that Trump put it off with the president of China and as a result, China's renegotiating trade deals and China is also working to a resolution with North Korea. Um, what is America. I know we can't be the world's policeman, but it is in keeping with Trump, and that is that we're gonna defeat terrorism, that we're not gonna put boots on the ground, we're not looking to occupy, And I think the message that was sent is it's a line you can't kill innocent children with chemical weapons. So it didn't bother me at all, but it seems to bother you. Well, I'm glad Trump pulled back from his doctor strange love generals who want to send ground troops that McMaster is out of his mind. Um. But I mean, I just say, whether I'm right or you're right on Syria, I mean, I think we're bombing the guy who's protecting Christians. It could very well be a false flag. Um, because he's winning the Civil War, um, and so on and so forth, and he's one of the Assaude is one of the I mean, look at that region of the world. Um, he's one of the better rulers over there. But whether I'm writer or or or you're right on that, let me just say, this isn't what Trump campaigned on. And yes, you're not going to be a rigid idologue. But we have been betrayed in this exact same way so many times. Let's flash back to two thousand fourteen, when when now UM Senate leader Mitch McConnell campaigned on vote give us a Republicans senator, and we will block Obama's executive amnesty. This is unconstitutional. We didn't vote on it. Obama himself said it was unconstitutional. All the Republicans and in close races they used at Democrats would not defend that unconstitutional Dreamer's amnesty because they'd be killed. They'd be killed in elections. That's what Republicans ran on, and we gave them a majority, a a huge majority in the House and the Senate. Did they block Obama's executive amnesty. Why no, they did not, but they did meet with net and Yahoo. Well, think that's not what we asked for for our anniversary gifts. We didn't want a trip to Nascar. We wanted a trip to Paris. And to be getting the same stuff from Republicans. What what set Trump apart? And he has backed um away from I mean, it was just this one bombing. So even if it was fool already, we're not, apparently at this time, sending ground troops for Republicans. I mean, what was so great about Trump was that he was an all new reply looking it wasn't the same old and I agree with many of these policies, by the way, but but you know, pro life tax cuts, constant military interventions, I'm I'm as pro life as they come. What have Republicans given us on that that? Meanwhile, Democrats are secretly changing the country through immigration so that we'll will end up never being able to elect another Republican. Trump will be the last one. We'll have nine Ruth Vader Ginsburg's on the Supreme corp. Will never do anything about about abortion. That's why immigration is the biggest issue. And I really would prefer to have the President talking about a dangerous regime on our border and not various and his general's mostly talking and you know, military war strategist NICKI. Haley talking about war with Russia and North Korea and Syria. Could we get back to America. I listen, there's nothing you're saying here that I disagree with. I mean, no boots on the ground, no occupations. I think drawing a line in the sand on chemical weapons, that there's a price to pay, That that's a morally right thing to do. Can we do it every time? No? Now, As it relates to saber rattling in North Korea and them having I C b MS, it is a scary scenario when you have a mentally unbalanced human being in charge of a nuclear arsenal that is desperately seeking intercontinental intercontinental ballistic missile capability so his nukes can make it to the shores of America. What do you do about that? Well, for one thing, remind everyone that this problem entirely arose because of Bill Clinton and that Peace in Our Time deal made by Madeline Albright giving the North Koreans um what they needed to build nukes. Once a country has nukes, we're in a pickle. It's it's quite a difficult situation. Obviously, we can't go to war with them because they do have nukes. UM. I do think the situation is different from the Doctor Strange Love era in the sense that there is no Soviet Union anymore. I mean when Reagan came to power, it's just been one country after another falling to communism. You couldn't make a Red Dawn style movie today that that isn't our concern. Today's enemy is Islamic terrorism, and frankly, I think we could work with Russia on that. They've been fighting these Islamic loonies for thousands of years. So you know, you don't have to love Russia. We didn't love Russia in World War Two. When we allied with Stalin to defeat Hitler. There's a bigger enemy these days. And as for I'm telling this back to North Korea, so what, it's a rotten country. South Korea has to worry about that. And I promise you South Korea does not want US attack in North Korea because they will instantly launch a new concert million dead people. But you know, one of the things, like the way the media reported that Trump didn't label China a currency manipulator. You know what they're forgetting here is the president of China met with Trump, was supposed to have two half hour meetings that went on for over six hours. Number two, they hit it off. Number three, the President agreed to trade negotiations and concessions. And number four, he's helping a America deal with its North Korea problem and and that part of the world. So you know, that's a little nuanced that the average liberal media hate Trump, you know personality on TV doesn't seem to understand that. I like that to me, is the art of the deal. Well, I'd make one little correction to that. I think North Korea is a much bigger problem for China. I mean, I thought it was weird when Trump tweeted out, if China won't deal with North Korea, we will act. Why why doesn't China say? And if America won't deal with Mexico, we will act. I mean, Korea is right on their border. They have illegal aliens coming across from from North Korea. Franklin, North Korea is their problem. We can we can help. He's crazy. I don't I don't disagree, but they but the Chinese president did send back North Korean call and took an American call. No, okay, there's some trades, but they are engaging in currency manipulation in Trump did campaign on it, so I'm not wild about that. But look, as long as I can still use the pool at maral Lago and he builds the wall into ports illegals, I'll be have you used the pool at mar Lago. I've not used the plann know there was a pull down there, and that's how little I know about mar Lago. Oh, I'm glad you're enjoying it. But you live in paradise, so you know you've bend a paradise for a number of times. So all right, let me ask this question. So the left is still unhinged. You see the media attacking him every day. We saw over last weekend you Sarah Silverman telling Trump show us you're blanking taxes, and then you've got, you know, a whole tax day montage here. Listen to some of those curacy. It's it's also kind of all we have so show less your food taxes, you little shill child let profusion, and you like being a superficient Only here's one for you. You are a three at best. I've even tried to convince us that we're not really interested in seeing the documents. Do you want to see taxes Texas? Mr? President? What you're putting for? It's all to the facts? Get get down? We sure set this time. Let up, get down. We sure us. He looks like telling me what he looks like? What tell me what the he look nights like? The back? What break chicken? Do? What brea chicken? Dit? We must say it tasy and where we start today, but we will not in there right, must be protaking and who the hell who you need you are? It's a tree. That's when we are listing you you were coming from. Let me tell you now, job, what's the big deal about my taxes. Okay, since you guys are my supporters, I'm going to share with you what's on my taxes because this is between us. Okay, don't let the protesters know what I'm gonna tell you. So what, I owe fifty million dollars to Deutsche Bank? Who cares? Who cares? That's publicly known. I told Jared to shred my taxes, but I thought shred was Yiddish for kla 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 underpins. Tell me why our tampons and pads 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 fitting of your hair. All right, the left goes ballistic and cultur response on the other side, and culture continues with us, author of the best selling book in Trump, We Trust e plurab is awesome. What do you make of the vitriol that we just played for you? Well, one thing, I'm really looking forward to my speech at Berkeley next week. Wow, this is gonna we ought to go out and cover in culture at Berkeley. Yes, you should. I think I could use some backup. I start to feel sorry for the administrators and you know, the the smart liberal students, um, because you know they'd like to be able to let me speak. We're working together to try to try to make it happen. But but in these institutions of higher learning that may not be possible. We'll see. Um, what's what's what's strange about it? Mean? I mean, Sarah Silverman is historically really really funny. She's a funny actress. But none of this is funny. I mean, all this late night TV there seems to be an an endless supply of of just Trump sucks. That's that's it. They want to hear that over and over again. It's like watching a PEP rally. Our teams great, they are teams sucks and the audience is just thrilled. That's all they want to hear. There's no logic, there's no humor, there's no wit. It's just Trump sucks and they never tire of hearing. Now they have to start recycling recycling attacks. I can't believe we're back to the tax returns. That's just magnificent. I tweeted out last week. Okay, they tried Russia, they've moved on to taxes. If this doesn't work, they're gonna go back to that Hollywood Access tape. Well, I mean, look, it's just listen to Ashley Judd and and Ashley h and Madonna. I mean, but there's a certain level of unhidden this here that I don't think I've ever seen before. Well it's not so much. I mean we've probably seen this level of an unst but usually it's just a little you know, it pops out and then goes away. This is non stop. I mean, I've I've mostly read about this. I don't watch the late late night shows, um um, but all of these shows, it's just one after another, no humor, no clever, punch lines U. Um, just a long string of epithets that are difficult to say, um about you know, Trump being the orange here dumpster fire and the crowd like like trained seals are applauding wildly. Um. And then the next show comes on, it's the exact same thing. Our team's great, Trump sucks. It's just that it goes on and on and on. Is this going to go on for four years? Yeah? I think it is. Actually, I don't think it's gonna stop. I don't think it stops at all. Yeah. I mean, you can't believe some of these people that some are not smart, but some Tara Silverman isn't stupid, but she's I can't believe she's being so hacky. Oh and I don't know if you you saw this over the weekend, um that I've been seeing it replayed on Saturday Night Live, where they think it's just hilarious. Um, they're cold open sketch. Is Trump doing an apprentice? Which wins for? I thought it was going to be the happiest line of two thousand sixteen. I think it's going to be the Hackey's line of two thousand and seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. Now, um, oh, that's so clever. He's picking his staff like in The Apprentice. There's a certain amount of what do you make of the infighting the so called left liberal coalition versus the banning coalition in the White host Well, I have no idea whether whether it's who I tend not to believe in the media, the fick news, um, but from reading, from reading about what the various generals were saying about our interventions, I think I'd like Bannon back on the Security Council. Um. And I do think we've we've we've hit our limit on the number of Goldman Sachs employees we need in the Trump White House at this point. In fact, I'd like to see a lot fewer. I mean, one of the many wonderful things about Donald Trump was, and it's never gonna happen again, we have a president who was elected with zero support from Wall Street. Um of Wall Streets donations went to Hillary and that that remaining one percent did not go to Donald Trump. We we finally had a president. Wall Street had no control over, the big donors, no control over UM, the idiot establishment Republican, no control over they hysterically opposed this guy. So yeah, some of us are a little worried that an awful lot of this administration scene alight and we got establishment Republicans on Wall Street. Well the better. If he keeps his promises, he wins. If he lets other people, you know, change his views, then I think what got him elected. People are going to be frustrated. And Coulter always love having you eat plurable is awesome and Trump we trust. Thanks for being with us. Good to talk to you, Sean, behind one Shan or toll free telephone number, your calls PAP you can and coming up next. Bad for America, Sean Andy telling the truth that mainstream media likes diide alright now tilt the top of the hour. Yes, bad for America as bad as we are eight hundred nine for one Sean. It's been a while since we've had him on the program. I became very friendly with him. Well I know him before his father ran for president, and uh we have remained friends since and now is in charge of the Trump organization while his father is trying to save the world and run the country. Donald Trump juniors with us. How are you, sir, going on? Seoan? How are you listen? I tried to get you to go to d C. You wouldn't listen to me. You never you know, I sent all those information to you. When you like rip it up, you tear it up and you're like, oh, that's Hannity. Never shuts up. No, no, And I always gave you the time. It was always very good advice. Uh. Well, listen, welcome back. Um. You stayed out of the public arena though kind of on purpose, right, yeah, you know you have to stay out of the administration. But you know that said, you get a little taste of the politics stuff and you want to be involved. I mean, I thought for two years to help my father get to where he is on a platform that I think is gonna benefit everyday Americans and you know the people. Uh, certainly all the people and probably across the whole country, but certainly in that vast majority of red that you saw when you broke it down county by county. Uh. And so you know, however I can help from the outside. I'm going to you know, one of the things that I learned about your dad, and you were the first person to tell me this, is you called him a blue collar billionaire. And I think most Americans now understand that. And you know, one of my great frustrations at this moment and his presidency is, you know, I call it the speed of Trump. I mean everything and anything he can do on his own executive order wise and and reducing regulation and moving forward with the wall, and executive action on on vetting of refugees and everything in between, you know, opening up the pipeline's energy independence, moving burdens and regulation. He's gotten done. I mean, he does it, and then Congress is so pathetically slow. I'm so angry that it has taken them so long after eight years of campaigning saying we need the House in, we need the Senate in, we need a Republican president in sixteen and eight years of running on repealing and replacing, and they never had a consensus pill. Now that's not It pisses me all if I can't stand it. You know, I certainly get it as an American. I see a lot of that myself. But you know, for me, I've seen more done in the last two months than I saw in the last two administrations. Uh. You know, he's getting things done. He's executing on his promises. No one in the media is going to talk about it. They're not going to give him credit for that. But I mean when I look at small business, when I talk about running a business, which is what we're you know, I'm doing now most of the time. You know, when you see laws that are getting rid of old the old laws that no longer are applicable, that no longer makes sense. That may have made sense when you put him into effect, but you know, now, if you're going to institute a regulation, you've got to get rid of the two old ones that have been sitting on the books. And the only people that have gotten rich are the lawyers in the process. Uh, you know, those are things that make sense. Those are things that they're going to allow small business to thrive in this country. Those are things that it's going to allow the economy to grow. Those are things that make to create jobs. And that's what this is all about. This is about jobs. This is about taking care of the hard working men and women of this country who hadn't had a voice in so long. So I think they're excited. And like I said, you'll never hear about it from the media, But when I go around the country, h and I see these people, Uh, you know, they get it, and they're letting me know that they get it. You know, today he went to snap On Tools in Wisconsin, and it's you know, I thought it was a pretty great campaign he started by American higher American. But this all got started even before he took office, with Ford and Carrier and GM and Toyota and and Fiat Chrysler and all these other companies. Now that they know that help is coming via regulation reform, and and certainly when we get the President's tax plan through where a corporate rate goes from one of the highest in the industrialized world to one of the lowest. Um it becomes an environment in which these companies now feel comfortable investing the billions of dollars. Also the repatriation of of trillions that are parked overseas at a low rate to incentivize them to bring the money back to this country, whether that or whether it's there, whether it's you know, everything that's going on right now, American people are seeing resolved for the first time in almost a decade. They're seeing conviction. They're seeing resolved someone who who says something they're actually going to act, They're gonna follow through. They're not just gonna sit there and you know, pretend they're doing something and hope for something else to happen. He's out there, he's getting after it. And you know, that's why consumer confidence is an all time hime. And we haven't seen consumer competence like this since probably before reget consumer confidence. Look a look at the reduction of illegal immigration coming into the country now because we're actually enforcing the laws. It's all coming to fruition. And uh, you know, that's what he ran on, that's what he's promising. And I think you're gonna see the same thing. Uh, you know, with healthcare. I think you're gonna see him repeal and replace Obamacare, a law that is basically bankrupting the middle class in America. And I know through my outdoor pursuits and the things that I like to do, I mean, I have friends like that. They're they're making fifty sixty tho allars a year, they're paying eighteen hundred allars a month for insuring I mean, their insurances, their mortgage. Sean, it doesn't work. You can't bankrupt the middle class of the country to have you know, basically what I'll call insurance in name only, right, it's you have insurance. But when you have an eighteen hundred dollar a month premium, then you have a ten thousand dollar deductible. Guess what, unless you get hit by a bus, you don't actually have insurance. It's nonsense. Uh, we have to do something that benefits the people of this country that are paying into this crazy system that's been established and it's so broken. You know, that is the very people. Those are the very people your father appealed to in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, which obviously was the game changer this election cycle. You mentioned the media. Um, Look, I consume a lot of media only because it it's part of my job. But I I can't take the hostility that has shown towards your father if and and by the way, and towards your family. Even your ten year old brother gets attacked, nor sister is getting attacked. You've been Look, you can handle it, Eric can handle it. I just find it's so obnoxious. I actually believe that if your father gave every American family a hundred thousand dollars or every American a hundred thousand dollars cash, they would say, why is it a hundred and fifty. There's nothing he can do that's right in their minds. You know, uh, you know it's crazy. They've been pushing you know, all the conspiracy theory, you know, narratives for eight months. There's absolutely no proof. Yet that doesn't seem to matter. It is a double standard. But John, we talked about this during the election. I mean, you know, it's the same thing when they talk about even some of you know, you see the approval today, you know, some of them, you know, breaking for the first time. Then you see the other ones like, come on, guys, give me a break. You know, it's the same sampling that told us that, you know, we were gonna lose by four billion points on election day. You know, they're repeating the same as you remember the last time you were on this program was election day and I got the exit polling data at five fifteen, just like in two thousand and four when Dick Cheney called this program at five thirty five because John Kerry, according to the exam pose, was going to be the next president in two thousand and four and you were getting bad data. Look, the data showed your father lost Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and he got white week before we were gonna lose Texas, right. I mean, it's just it's that narrative that they keep perpetuating. But you know what, I think it's actually okay because the visceral reaction from the left has gone so far. It's going so crazy. When I look at these Berkeley protests, you have people in black face mask. I mean, this is the voice of the you know, the tallerant left. You know, I think that regular people, people that are in the middle, the people that you really probably actually have to appeal to, uh, that are going to be voting again in eighteen and in twenty, those people are looking at this thing. Give me a break. This is ridiculous. I you know, I hear the screaming of you know, he's worse than ex person in history, and I'm saying, I don't know, it's been a little while since I've been in school, but he's not worse than that person's absolutely well. I think, I honestly do believe knowing your father as well as I do, and haven't been out on the road with him during the campaign and interviewed him as often as I have, and you know, I don't think. I think this is a caricature. It's there's no reality, it's not based in truth. And to me, none of this noise is at the end of the day, is gonna matter because your father keeps checking off a list of promises he's made, and if he keeps those promises, I think the American people will be satisfied and he'll probably roll into reelection because that is going to be the barom by which he is viewed as successful or not. And that's what it is. And you know, for me again, I've watched enough from the sidelines to say, you know, this is ridiculous. So if I can lend my voice, you know, decent following, if I can lend my voice, if I can you know, be out there, not within the administration, I don't. I don't want to get involved in the politics, but to talk about those same common sense things to help spread that message, helping America first, policies that are you know, really getting out there and actually you know, buying ads to get to the regular people, because it's really hard to see it through the media these days. I mean, you can't turn on the TV without again the sort of crazy visceral overreaction on one side. So for to be able to get out there to talk to the people again, to talk about the things that he's actually doing, the things he's actually implementing, the promises that he's actually fulfilling, you know, that's an important thing. And so if I can use you know, the platform that I've been able to build, if I can use you know, my social platform, if I can get out there on this, you know, in the STEMP and you know, some for some of these people that are just talking about common sense, the same common sense that we talked about during the campaign and bringing that into government to make sure that the things he wants to bring to fruition come deparation. That I'm gonna do that too. You've actually you know, you're actually gonna be hitting the road again this weekend. I know, Friday, you're gonna be in Montana. Saturday you're gonna be on mon Antana. Two separate events, and there is probably about four or five separate events. But yeah, I'm gonna be the weekend basically, and uh, you know, stomping for great gn fourth they's taking a hopefully gonna win the special election, taking over a Congressman Zinky Spot who went over to the Interior and you know, he's become a friend of mine and just you know, he's a good guy. And I've known him for a lot of time, a long time. Yeah, he's a great guy. What is the what is the America First Policies Group all about? I know it's a nonprofit. It's a lot of the members are basically the team from the campaign, you know, the data guys, Katie, just a bunch of guys. I wanted to make sure that Americans are able to see, you know what, Katie, when appeal to you know, both the voters as well as you know, people in Congress and you all positive messaging, but talking about these things, you know, talking about right now, obviously the first big rollout in America First Policies is doing. It's going to be about Obamacare, talking about how the premiums are gonna go up another this year. The number of insurers that are dropping out of the exchanges, as you know, increased huge numbers. The fact that there's zero competition in many states, there's one place that you can go, and in some cases it's not even one that you have all of these insurance companies dropping out that there is no competition at all, and and people don't even have options. You know that doesn't work. Like I said it earlier, you can't tell someone who's making fifty grand a year they gotta pay eight hundred allars a month for a family of four to have insurance. And you have a ten thousand dollars last night having insurance last night on TV, yesterday, on radio, earlier today on radio. I'm doing the same thing. I'm just I'm so livid that the Republicans are so pathetically slow. I like the idea. You've got this television web web spot that you put out Repeal Now featuring a script praising the House members by taking on this bill which they had promised and your father promised and getting that done. And I think the rest of his agenda, certainly is economic agenda is predicated on it. Uh, stay right there, don juniors with us, and we'll talk more about his group that he's now a part of the campaign that they're a part of, and that is American First Policies as a nonprofit. And he'll be in Montana both on Friday and Saturday, and you can we'll find out when we get back where he's gonna be if you want to join him. The final hour of The Shawn Hannity Show is up next. Hang on for Shawn's conservative solutions. Obamacare is a disaster. Premiums up, care town, Americans forced into plans we don't want and can't afford, and it's going to get worse. That's why Congressman Gary Palmer is taking on Nancy Pelosi, standing firm opposing Obamacare. Congressman Palmer is taking on special interests and keeping his promise to the voters to repeal Obamacare. Called Congressman Palmer, thank him for his courage and for standing with President Trump to repeal Obamacare. No, alright, so Don Junior continues with us. All right, so this is part of that was the first add you guys released, as I understand what you're spending three million dollars in an ad campaign to get Washington to get off their ass and and maybe do a little bit of work, which would be not by the way, you ever seen people that take as much vacation as these people. I wonder that they're on a two week greatment. I'm wondering what do they read that I know, I say this to my staff all the time. Have you do you ever have time to go to lunch. I've never been a lunch except if my boss makes me. I'm in the building. But that's about That's about the extent, you know. And I listen. I've been to Trump Tower all these years, and you know, I would go see you and your brother Eric and your sister and I'd say hello, and You're like, get out of office. I'm busy. I don't have time for you, Hannity, You're such a jerk. Oh you know. We're working hard. But that's why, you know. For me, it's not I'm not even involved in these things. But the guys that are going to help out my father and that agenda, I'm gonna help them out however I can. So I'm not even on America first, but I see what they're doing. I see the team. I know that they know what he wants, and I think they're gonna do a phenomenal job getting that message out there, and that that's what this isn't mean. If they can do it in a positive way, reinforcing the promises that were kept, great. If they have to take it a different direction later on for other things, you know I also understand that, and you know that's what this is. But I mean, if you know, we don't think this is gonna be some sort of fight. I think we've been na because if you looked at what the left is doing, he adopted Hillary Clinton's entire campaign plant form today and implemented to the greatest ability. Ever, they wouldn't ever give him a chance. They wouldn't vote for him. I mean, that's what I call Trump arrangement syndrome. Um, I have one personal question for you. I've always thought of all of your father's kids, you are the most like him. And I've always thought that one day you would consider politics. Am I wrong? Like I said, if everyone keeps ant him? And then I I answered the question in this sense, said hey, I would never, you know, eliminate my options. And then the next day I read about it. He's running for X. I think it all started off with Juliani answer my speech at the convention that was I was like, I want you to get rid of the Blasio I'm supporting. I say, you know, I'd be much more interested in doing something else other than the New York if I ever did anything. But that's when they're always like, oh, now he's running for governor. So you know the answer is no time soon. But you know, you still hatch the bug. I mean, you know when you're out there, when you hear your real people speak, when you're doing it. You know, I was at the tip of the sphere for two years. I was a story get before we had Sorry gets Um, and I was out there and I got to see these people and I got to hear their stories and I got to see, you know, the hardships set they're facing, uh and you know, the hope that they actually had for you know, real change. And you know, so if I can dedicate some of my free time, I mean this weekend, I'm just going out for you know, Greg and Montettic just to be able to do it. You know, that's not a part of anything. But I believe in this. I know that he's the guy that can help push my father's agenda, uh, you know through and I know we did really well in Montana, so you know, it makes a lot of sense. I know a lot of those people the website. If people are in Montana, I want to see you over the weekend Friday and Saturday. Where can they find I'm gonna be doing I think an event on Saturday night in Bozeman. Then I'm going and I'll be doing an event Friday night too in a couple of the towns. I think there's actually a web page up. If you look it up online, you can see all the places. But I think we're doing four or five stops all over the state, you know. And again, it's just about making sure that people see Alright, alright, my friend, don appreciate it. Always love having you on. Good to talk to you again. Glad you're back in the mix for one. Shawn told free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program when we come back. Patrick J. Buchana News Round Up, Information Overload. That's straight ahead. What's gonna happen next? We promised repeal fifty times and so we're working at out and I think within a few weeks, I think DC will be a little bit shocked. 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Some are getting nervous after the President hit as Syria with fifty nine Tomahawk missiles and now North Korea vowing weekly missile launches and a nuclear war at any moment, as we have been following all week and anyway, So this goes back to hr McMaster and he said we'll do anything we can, sort of the military option in North Korea. Here's what he said. And every president since Bill Clinton has said the US will not tolerate a nuclear armed North Korea, and North Korea has only grown stronger and their capabilities. So why do you think President Trump will have a different outcoming? Well, as you mentioned, this is a problem that has been passed down from multiple administrations, but our president. I think it's really the consensus uh with the President, our key allies in the region, Japan and South Korean in particular, but but also the Chinese leadership, that this problem is coming to a head, and so it's time for us to undertake all actions we can, short of a military option, to try to resolve this peacefully. And so we're gonna rely on our allies like we always do, but we're also going to have to rely on Chinese leadership. I mean, North Korea is very vulnerable to pressure from the Chinese. Of North Korea's trade comes from China, all of their energy requirements are fulfilled by China. So in the coming weeks months, I think there's a great opportunity for all of us, all of us who are really under the threat now of this unpredictable regime, to take actions short of armed conflict so we can avoid the work, all right. Then the President responding when he launched the missiles at Syria, and here's what he said, my fellow Americans. On Tuesday, Syrian dictator launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent asad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many, even beautiful babies. We're cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror. Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapon Convention, and ignored the urging of the U N Security Council. Years of previous attempts at changing as Sudd's behavior have all failed, and failed very dramatically. All Right, that was the president's comments. Joining us now is Patrick J. Buchanan, who has been critical of this, and he has a new story out today. Earlier this week, he said Syria could consume Trump's presidency. I Pat, I don't see how that happens. I mean, he's not occupying, he's not talking about boots on the ground. I would I would be against boots on the ground, and I think he just said this is a line that no country can cross, and that is killing women and children with chemical weapons. And by the way, I think it does vindicate those of us that believed in the lead up to the war with a rack that those weapons were removed and brought to Syria. But that's a separate story. Why do you think this Aleskally? Well, I'm not sure it will. But I have said that he's put one one ft into the Syrian civil war, and if he puts the other in, he will not get out and he will consume his presidency. And I think that would be a mistake because I think his earlier position, no matter how evil Assad and his friends are, Assad, the Russians, the Iranian says Bala are winning the war and the losers thus far are al Qaeda and ISIS And uh, if you asked me, and it's just as Donald Trump said during the campaign, I think Isis is the primary enemy. He also said, I will say this Sean that we are not going into Syria. He said that after the strike, we are not going into Syria, and General Maddis said it was a one off operation. I just hope it is because I don't think we can. I don't see any any way out if we plunge into that war. No, well, I don't want America to plunge into the war. Look if Vietnam fifty eight thousand dead and then we retreat. But because it becomes politicized in Iraq and Afghanistan, you know, five thousand dead and many others losing their limbs and disfigured. If that and then we pull out there, we politicize that war. We don't have the stomach to see any of this through anymore anyway, through the lens of politics. But I don't see any problem with saying, don't launch him again, or you're gonna pay a very dear price without boots on the ground, because we have weaponry that is far superior to that of Syria, Russia or any of these countries. We don't want to get in the war with the Russia. No, we don't. I don't want to either, absolutely not. But there's a lot of other problems here. Take up take Afghanistan, where the Taliban are stronger than they've been since two thousand one. It's been fifteen years. We've had huge infusions of US ground troops, the Russians and the Iranians have now pretty much begun to decide that the Taliban are going to win, and they seem to be work trying to work out some deal there. We've got problems with our Pakistani alla. Now this is the first of these war sean Afghanistan, and it's in worse situation than it's ever been. And I think mc master was over there himself in the general there is calling for more troops there. And you got this thing on the Korean peninsula that we didn't start this this confrontation here. But I don't know that Kim ill Kim Jong un is going to back down from testing rockets and missiles and maybe even test I think, I think every indication is he's not going I don't think he's going to stop. I mean every indication he won't stop. But you know, the only hope that I had is that it appeared that the president of China and President Trump had a very good meeting. I know for a fact that was scheduled to meet for thirty five minutes on two occasions, and in each case they went over three and three and a half hours, so uh, and then China talked about making trade concessions number one and number two, they themselves sent back in order of coal that was sent from North Korea's ending North Korea a message and they said they would help calm the waters with North Korea, which I also think is the art of the deal with the President not calling them a currency manipulator. I believe it when I see it. I mean, the President has indicated well, they said that they sent the coal back, so I mean it happened. Well. The China's h mean, trade with North Korea has increased fifteen fold I think in the last ten years. And while they talked good, I mean, they could cut off oil and they could cut off trade, as McMaster said, a percent of trade in no time. But Chohana, I think you ought to take a look at whether or not North Korea, by putting the pressure on the Americans and building rockets and getting us to take a look at at a possible pullback from there, whether they're not working basically in concert with the long term objectives of China, which is to drive us out of East Asia and out of the Western Pacific back to the third chain of islands. Yeah, well, listen, it's only you know, I think this guy is crazy enough that if there's any escalation of any type, I would anticipate this idiot would launch a nuclear weapon into South Korea. Don't you think? H No, But I think he I don't think he's he's insane. If I thought that, Frankly, I think I would be in favor of taking some course sort of executive. You don't think Kings young owner is insane. He knows what he's doing, and he's playing a very tough, hard game. But if he used a nuclear weapon on South Korea, I mean, his all bets are off. His regime would be annihilated, as would he. But I think he's he's putting fresh on us. I think he's not afraid of a small exchange with the Americans. And I do think if you hit him, and I think, frankly, I think Congress should get back here and debate what we can do and what we should do and what the president's authorized to do. But I think if we do hit him in some way, I think you got to expect him to hit back. You know, the danger of all of these situations, and this was the big mistake in the Clinton era. I mean, you know, the North Koreans would say, all right, give us this amount of money and we won't build nuclear weapons. And they played that game again and again and again. They got all the money, they got all the concessions, and they got the nuclear weapons. When you get nuclear weapons married to either radical Islamis, which I think will happen eventually in Iran or you know crazy dictators. By the way, there's only been a hundred and five years of human existence, you know that North Korea, right starting with with with the grandpa. Then Kim Jong is mentally ill. And now this this crazy chubby son of his. I mean, it's it's insane, is that you don't have a lot of options when they've got the red button in front of them. That's well, you're exactly right. And that's what Kim Jong on. He looked at what happened to Saddam Hussein, who didn't build nuclear weapons, and he looked at Kadafi who made a deal with the Americans and the West to give up all of his w m D. And he found one of them hung and the other had a worse death than that. And so he has said the only thing that guarantees that the Americans don't do that to me is if I can hit their bases with a nuclear weapon, I can hit Japan with a nuclear weapon, Okinawa, Guam and eventually the United States. That's the only don't attack the ones with nuclear weapons. You're a little old school, so you'll understand this phrase that my mother used to use when I was growing up. You'll rue the day. I mean he told me that probably every day of my life growing up. Are we gonna rule the day that we allow this guy to potentially get the I C b ms he's he's looking for that could reach the continental United States. I think you can't let him do that. I mean, I'm I'm not a great hawk, and I'm not anxious for a second Korean War, but if you're talking about an intercontinental ballistic missile, I don't think you can let him build up that force. And well there's only one way to stop now. And now if you use military force on him, and he's as the Americans are coming to finish him, I mean his medium range nuclear missiles, and he could use him in them, whether you know in rockets traakedown along the DMZ would it could be millions dead in in South Korea, Japan, you're right. He I think he would unleash everything and then he would be annihilated and this would go down in history is one of the worst events of the human experiences. And as we continue with Patrick J. Buchannan and we're discussing I guess what the Trump doctrine is eventually gonna look like. But I think he's pretty clear. I would be very surprised in any of these circumstances if Trump wants to uh put boots on the ground number one, number two, or occupy any country. I think he's focused a lot on what is domestic policy, but he's getting pulled in the direction of foreign policy. But I don't think he's gonna change. I think he's so adamant that the Iraq War was a mistake from the get go. I don't see him taking the measures that some people are him to take. You know, like I keep hearing people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, I'm like, what are you people racing off the war for? Well, I think they've got a lot of places they want to fight. But you know, they were elated with the hit on Syria, not simply because of the hit itself, but because they thought this would draw us in against the Iranians, against the Russians, against his Bala, when our real enemy there, in my view, has always been al Qaeda and isis. I agree with you. I think Donald Trump came to the White House really prepared to focus on America first, to rebuilding US manufacturing and jobs and securing the border. But I think he has and I think you're right again he is being drawn into these conflicts. But John, I can tell you I don't have a problem though with what he did in Syria, pat because look, America can't be the world's policeman. You and I agree on that, we're not going to be able to respond every time. I agree with you there. But I do think when such weapons are used against women in children, I don't have a problem with the with the proportional response, which is don't use them again, and if you do, you pay a heavy price. Not boots on the ground, not occupation, not all out war, but you pay a heavy price. And I don't think ASA is gonna use chemical weapons again. Well now he's been, but he did fly out of that same airfield and bomb the same place he had bombed before. And I do think that. Let's take a North koreb. I don't think Syria is going to attack the United States because they're winning that war. But I do think if you hit North Korea, Sean, I don't think they'd hit us with nuclear weapons, but I think they would really take military action. Look. I was with Richard Nixon when they shot down our plane a hundred miles off the coast in nineteen sixty nine, and Nixon did nothing. And look at China what they did to George W. Bush. They shot down what was it? They crashed into that ec took it to High Anne Island, forced Colin Powe to apologize twice for allegedly the president a space who has given the president the advice to send our ships into the area. Well, I mean uh, I mean the ships into the into the Well. I have no problem with the ships going into this uh sea of Japan. I think what we're saying is if you hit us, we're going to hit you back. But if we hit them first, and I don't, here's the problem Sewan. It is I think Kim Jong on is determined to build the kind of weapons that can deter the United States from ever attacking him, and he wants to use that as a threat against South Korea, against Japan, against Okinawa, against Guam, and against the United States. And he wants to sit down and negotiate our withdrawal from South Korea. That's his goal, and I don't know how you stop him from that without using some kind of military action, because he hasn't been deterred yet. Now we're betting on the Chinese, but I don't know that the Chinese disagree with the goal that Uh Kim Jong UN's got. Well, I don't know what the Chinese what. I think they have the most influence. It impacts them the most. This is their area of the world. They should be in the lead on this. There are indications that Trump and the new president and the president of China's relationship is good and that they seem to want to get along. Well, look, I'm not surprised since Trump said, We're not going to fool around with Tina Taiwan. We're not going to force you out of those islets and reefs in the South China Sea, and I'll give you a much better trade deal if you work with us in Korea, and we're not gonna name you a currency manipulator. I wouldn't think they're probably costed him in Beijing today. All right, pat few Cannon, thank you for being with us. When we come back wide open telephones eight nine one, sewn are told free number. You want to join us holding them accountable. Sean gets the answers no one else does. America desserts and know the truth about congress alright now till the top of the hour one, Shawn, you want to be a part of the program. You know, one of the things we we have been following stories that it seems nobody in the media wants to follow, and that is leaking of intelligence and of course surveillance of innocent Americans and the lack of privacy and a masking of innocent people. And more importantly, how during the Obama years the rules of engagement as it relates to our troops has has deteriorated. I mean, the case of Clinton Laurance is a is a good case in point where you know, here's a guy that takes over a platoon and he's got to make a decision after some members of that tune earlier before his tenure were killed by guys with motorcycle bombs and they're they're racing towards his troops and he's got to make a decision. And the decision then was to kill to Afghanistan guys. And it comes out later evidence that showed that their DNA is actually on some I E. D s and other events. So the rules of engagement and and those critical. For example, of my good friend Terry Jeffrey, who I like a lot at CNS News, I just disagreed with him yesterday about the constitutional authority of the President and Commander in chief to order both the strike in Afghanistan with the Mother of All bombs and the Tomahawk missiles in Syria. So anyway, there are two people that I think I would love to see working in the Trump administration. One is Philippiney, a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security, author of the book See Something, Say Nothing. Captain Roger Hill, who we had on last week, author of the book Dog Company, the true story of American soldiers abandoned by their higher command. And I think there's an opportunity here to actually right the ship, both at the n s A and surveillance and unmasking and intelligence leaking. And it's also an opportunity to right the ship as it relates to our troops having proper rules of engagement that doesn't end up putting them in jail for twenty years like Clint Lawrence. Anyway, welcome back, both of you. Back to the program. Philip Pinni, I want to start with you, you know, the founding member of the Department of Homeland Security. You have told this audience in the past exactly all the intel that you accumulated was deleted by the Obama administration. Is there any way to recover that and get the Trump administration that information back? Yes, there are ways to recover it. I have already given it to Congress and they have it. In fact, I'm working through the Foyer process right now with Judicial Watch on the table. Ki Jamat initiative that led directly to the San Bernardino shootings, and Orlando is also involved as well. Have you spoken with anyone within the Trump administration. Is there any way we can get that information in the hands of say Ryan's previous or Steve Bannon, or you know, anybody at the White House. Well, I've been waiting until I had all the information complete from the Foyer process so I could literally go in and lay it all on the table, from the beginning to the end. And I'm quite close to doing that now. I actually have signed documents from three different branches of the administration basically saying that the Tablighi Jumat initiative that I worked on that was related to San Bernardino and Orlando never existed. Well, I gotta tell you. You know. One of the things I've always said about you, Philip Paine, and I mean this in the most complementary way possible. You're so smart it scares me. You know, you know where all those bodies are buried, and you know the fact that you are ordered to not only were adapt but literally a race. Information that the Department of Homeland Security you have accumulated over the years about people with ties to radical Islamis is beyond any understanding or comprehension I have. Well, nothing they do surprises me because those are the same people that investigated me when I was under active duty. Right now, that the summary, the way to summarize it is, there are valves that need to be closed, valves that are open that need to be closed. Those are called leaks. And there are valves that are closed that need to be open, and that's draining the swamp. I'd like to help with call leagues like mine across the country. Mr Trump, either closed valves that need to be closed, or open valves that need to be opened, and then we really can drain this swamp. Yeah, listen. I I find it amazing that you pay it a price for doing your job and for telling the truth about something to put the American people in danger. Uh. Captain Roger Hill, let me let me bring you into this as it relates to the rules of engagement. There was an article that came out. Republican lawmakers now are actually out there defending the president from criticism about quote you know, you know, it's never happened in the Obama years, with all the drone strikes he made, there's never any talk about about civilian casualties, no talk about collateral damage, no talk about the rules of engagement that basically, unless the terrorist fires that you first, you can't hit them. And here Donald Trump has two strikes and now all of a sudden, human rights groups all over the world they're speaking out. It's such hypocrisy. But what is it really like? What was it really like under Obama? For our troops to actually engage the enemy well, as illustrated in the book Dog Company, we had to beg for artillery support and quotes their support at different times. I mean, we would literally be pinned down by the enemy and some of these very difficult, very complex areas of terrain, one way in, one way out type situations, and the only way to sort of get us out of a tough spot would be to have artillery. And sometimes that artillery needed to be aimed at buildings were insurgents or terrorists or enemy fighters were shooting at you from in order to make that right go away. Um, but we would be denied time and time again. So in other words, did Americans that you know die because of Obama's rules of engagement? Not directly in my group in that case, Um, but yeah, certainly, I mean there there are certainly cases that have been well documented, Um, where a lack of support or a reluctance to provide support and a timely fashion have led to the death and certainly maiming as US service members overseas. Yeah, that's pretty scary. What should the rules of engagement be? I mean, look, I mean I think America is a compassionate, loving country that respects human rights. But also we've got to understand in war, as horrible as it is, there are going to be there's going to be collateral damage. I wish it were not the case. But I also wish that evil didn't exist. I wish Isis al Qaeda didn't exist in the past. That wish Stalin never killed all those millions of people in Russia, or the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler, or fascism, or the killing fields in Cambodia. I wish all those things never happened. I wish nine eleven never happened. But that's not the truth of the reality of life in this world as we know. It isn't. Yeah, this is actually very simple. So we've been trying to apply a rule of law construct over in Afghanistan, which is basically a fifth or a six world country, no semblance of government, really, no simons of a police state, no sionece of the judiciary system. But we're trying to enforce a framework that we're used to living amongst here in our country in the US. That's a that's a complete um. I mean, that's that's just such a stretch. It's not even realistic, right, So we need to go back to what we used to do before this global war on terror and before the last eight or ten years, which is to apply the laws of warfare, which allows commanders to execute their mission according to the realities on the grounds. And the other thing that's really important here that people need to realize is that these rules of engagements, they can be applied in different ways, but the end of the day, it's the people who send us into these complex environments where we know there's going to be collateral damage that have to step up in place of our men and women in uniform and say, listen, you're not gonna hang our troops out to dry. If you want to point a finger at anybody, you can point them at me, Mr politician, or me Mr congress or Senator, because I'm the one that was a part of the political process that put them in that situation to begin with. And that the reality is, as Philip just alluded to, is we've got a swamp full of people who lack courage, and they need to move on because those people, because they lack courage or assisting and aiding the enemy in a way that's getting our people killed. So actually this goes hand in hand, right Philip. I mean, you know, if we have the right intelligence, if we have the right database, if we rebuild that which was destroyed under Obama, and we give our troops that are putting their lives in harms way for us the ability to fight an enemy the way it needs to be fought, and they make the decision on the ground and not from you know, some bunker in in Virginia, Washington, then I think that we can have true success and minimize American casualties. It's exactly the same. It's remarkable how similar our stories are. Captain Hill operated in one arena in the military. I worked in another arena, essentially in intelligence, and every time we got on the phone and said we need backup, we're looking at it. We're being directly attacked by the enemy, or we're literally looking at somebody that intends to attack us down the road. We have the indicators we're taking fire. Back us up. And instead of backing us up in my case, they deleted the information out of the system to make it possible for my own colleagues to be able to see the same thing. If this is going to compromise you this next question in any way, don't answer it because I think too much of you. Do you know anybody that absolutely backed up this information? Do I know anybody that backed up the information? Congress has it, Congress has it all? M M. Are there specific members that we can talk to about it? Yes? Do you want to share the names with me? Public radio? Not on public radio, but you know what, if you could share it privately, I think there's a way to get it in the hands of the president and the next time I interview him all handed to him myself. Well, that's my intention. Friend. You've known me for a while now, and my story has been the same. I've been very consistent. I'm not vindictive on not doing this because I'm trying to get my own self fulfillment. I'm concerned about the country. Just like Captain Hill, he took a vow. We both found ourselves in an arena. We did our utmost helped to do our job and help protect our country from threat bill foreign and domestic. And now we're telling our story, which is very similar in a lot of waste, and what we're looking for is not to go back, but to go forward and help protect our country. We can do it if we're allowed to do it. Captain Hill, there's a story that broke earlier today by our friend Sarah Carter about an Air Force captain speaking out saying the Pentagon actually lied to the families about what caused the Extortion seventeen tragedy. And you have a decorated retired Air Force officer who witnessed one of the most deadly attacks on Navy seals in US history breaking a silence saying that the government covered up evidence detailing that the downing of that Chinook helicopter gunship that killed thirty eight fighters in Afghanistan could have been prevented had it not been for restrictions to the military rules of engagement that were changed under Obama. Did you hear that? And then you're talking about Air Force Captain Joanie Marquez, who's a hero in her own right for for speaking up and bringing truth to the American By the way, Karen Vaughan has been on his program, her son was a Navy seal died on Extortion seven. Yeah. Um, that is a a tragic story in every sense of the word. So, just for your audience, basically, Extortion seventeen was carrying a good number of Special Operations warriors on it. Um. The Air Force platform that was on the scenes at the time saw two enemy fighters crawling away from an engagement and requested to fire upon those enemy fighters and were denied. Those two NMY fighters left the objective, went and gathered more fighters, came back with a dozen more and it was that dozen fighters that led to the shooting down of Extortion seventeen. So textbook you know, Um, overly restrictive, overcome are some rules of engagement leading to the death of American soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan. Unbelievable? I mean, then this happens again and again. UM, all right. Last question, Phillip painting for you is if you could get the ear of the President, what would be the top three things you tell them? Mr? President? We can help your dream is swamp. We can help you close valves that are open, and we can help you open valves that are closed. We can restore the information and let us help our colleagues in both the military and law enforcement do their job, and they will. You will be surprised how fast we could help turn things around. If we're just giving the opportunity to do it. Captain Hell, what would you say to your top three? Yeah, I think the best um the terrence in the world is to show strength, and I think we're starting to do that. I'm really proud of that fact. The other would be when we send our men and women oversee used to fight on our behalf, we have a responsibility to back them. And uh. The third would be we need to be fighting into the laws of warfare and not the rule of law, which is just insane. It's it's easy to see why if you do any research on the subject. Thank you all right, unbelievable. Thank you both for being with us. Philippaeney, founding member of the Department of Homeland Security, and his book See Something, Say Nothing, Captain Roger Hill Dog Company, the true story of American soldiers abandoned by their higher command. We'll put both those books on Hannity dot Com. Remember Hannity regular time Tenney Eastern on the Fox News Channel. I hope you'll join us for that with all the breaking news and developments for the day.

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