October 17, 2025 • 27 mins
On today's show, Sean Hannity spotlights President Trump's direct warnings to Venezuela's Maduro regarding drug cartels flooding the U.S. with deadly substances, underscoring the Trump doctrine: firm consequences and limited, targeted force rather than forever wars. Hannity frames Trump's message as "America First," applauding his tough stance and leveling criticism at Western Europe's weakness and U.S. isolationists. In an eventful week of diplomacy, Hannity details Trump's recent conversations with Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky, highlighting Trump's focus on pressuring Russia economically and leveraging NATO support for Ukraine. Guest Curtis Sliwa joins to discuss the chaotic New York City mayoral debate, adding to a packed episode that underscores why assertive U.S. leadership matters on the world stage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thank you, Scott Chattan, Thanks to all of
you for being one of us. Write down our toll
free telephone number this Friday. It's eight hundred and ninety
four to one Sean if you want to join us.
President Trump just sending a very loud, unambiguous, very clear
message to Maduro and Venezuela. You don't want to f
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around with the United States. And yes, he said it.
We have to bleep it out and we'll player for you.
Why should this country allow the country of Venezuela and
their drug cartels and their syndicates to be pouring in
and filling this country with drugs that are poisoning and
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murdering our children. Now you can argue, well, you know,
nobody's forcing people to do drugs. Okay, fair point understood.
But you know what, the availability of it shouldn't exist,
and the people have been making a fortune off it.
And that's why these boats that have been transporting these
drugs have been blown out of the water time and
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time again. They did have one survivor in the last attack.
I don't know how that person survived, but it is
a clear, it is an unambiguous message. They have been poisoning,
and I viewed that as an act of war against
our country personally. If you are flooding our country with
drugs to kill our people, that to me is an
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act of war. Now, Kennedy, you's saying you want to
go to war with Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I am saying that there are consequences for actions, and
if they don't stop, if their own government doesn't stop,
we're going to continue the use of military force and
taking out these boats and transportation means that they've been
using to protect the lives of our citizens. That's America first.
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That is not a forever war. That is not an invasion.
That is a message knock it off, and Badua better
get the you know message sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Reported that Maduro offered everything in it's in his country,
all the natural resources. He even recorded a message to
you in English recently offering mediation. He stopped that he
has offered everything. He's offered everything.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You're right, you know why, because he doesn't want to
walk around with the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Nobody should want to. Now, a lot of other developments today.
If you were called yesterday, Vladimir Putin and President Trump
had a conversation.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I thought it was rather amusing.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
In the middle of the conversation, President Trump truths out
that he's having a conversation right now with Vladimir Putin.
I'll let you know how it goes after and they
have agreed to meet again. And there's a lot of
reasons for this is and I was I interviewed the
President after the first meeting in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The Trump doctrine.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You need to understand, the President is going to bend
over backwards in the name of peace. He's going to
try and give people, even evil actors on the world stage,
every opportunity to pull back from their evil deeds and
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stop what they're doing and save their lives. And frankly,
military force and action are the last resort for President Trump.
And no, he's never gotten involved in a forever war.
And that is a big part of the Trump doctrine.
And I completely and wholeheartedly agree with that. But forever
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wars does not mean isolationism, as evidence by him taking
out the Isis Caliphate, which was a clear and present
danger not only to the entire world. Let's be blunt
that was allowed to grow under Obama and under Biden.
He just wiped them out. He wiped out Solomani, the
world's worst terrorist, he wiped out Bagdadian associate like the
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second worst terrorist, dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan.
And yeah, he made the decision. He gave Iran fifty
days and said come up with a plan and a
peace deal with Israel or else day fifty one, Israel
went in, took out their missile defense systems, their ballistic
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missile systems, took out their nuclear scientists. I mean, the
Israeli military and their intelligence capabilities are unbelievably impressive and
right at the top in terms of worldwide Why because
it's a necessity for them.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
They're fighting for the very every day.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's you know, that's why the rise in anti Semitism,
I always say, is based in utter complete intellectual laziness
and ignorance. If you think that people would be able
to fire hundreds of thousands of rockets into American towns
and cities, what would you want your government to do?
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Think about it, Because that's that's life in Israel, and
I've been there a number of times. They build a
network of terror tunnels to kill Israeli citizens. If that
was happening to America. What would you want your country
to do? You know, what if you lose again comparing
population size ten million versus what three hundred and sixty
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million Americans whatever the number is? Okay that the fifteen
hundred murdered on October seventh is the equivalent of forty
thousand dead Americans in a day. What would you want
America to do? You know, these border towns that I've
been to that had been hit with ten thousand rockets
one little town in ten years, and kids can't play outside.
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They play in you know, underground bunker playgrounds. What what
do you want people to do? And I find that
those on college campuses, in the halls of Congress worldwide
growing anti Semitism. That's why I cannot stand Western Europe.
They are so pathetically weak, they are so you know,
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woke and dei and just insane, and they have literally
like abandoned any sense of moral clarity. You know, well,
let's recognize the Palestinian state. Let's not sympathize with the
victims of terrorism. Radical islamis you know, convert or die.
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Understand it is an ideology. We live through it. Nine
to eleven oh one we lost two nine hundred and
seventy seven American How did our country react to that?
And just you know, use that as a as a comparison.
So now the President has clearly warned Toms. Since the
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President had this meeting in Egypt with General LCCI and
all the leaders of all these Arab nations and European
nations around the world, people came in and for the
first time in what has been since really the nineteen
forty eight UN Partition Plan, Arab nations are either not
attacking Israel, or if they weren't attacking or fighting Israel,
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they had wanted no part.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
In the peace process.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
A big part of that equation that nobody ever talks
about is they they all feared, you know, the possibility
of a nuclear armed Iran as much as the Israelis did.
Now you're getting into a Shia versus Sunni battle in
that conflict. But I mean, and that's why, you know,
it was the untold story in the first Trump administration,
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beyond the Abraham Accords is the intelligence sharing that went
on with the US and Israel and Egypt and Jordan
and the Saudis and the Emirates and all these other
countries which foundationally let you know, open the door for
where we are now is and that is okay. Iran's
nuclear sites are out, the fear of Iranian hegemonies is
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greatly reduced. They are now a paper tiger, and so
it now is it frees up these countries because they
don't have the same cult deathlike you know, leadership that
they do in Iran. I do make a distinction between
the Iranian people. I make a distinction between the Russian people,
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and it is you know, now a window of opportunity exists.
But since that day, they have been assassinating anybody perceived
as not being one hundred percent pro Hamas, pro terrorists,
pro war, pro you know, pro attack Israel and pro
chanting death to Israel. And so you know, that's going
to take Arab nations now stepping up doing that which
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they had never done before for decades, and that's going
to be part of the solution. And I believe the
best solution would be for them, you know, to all
contribute to a police force, defunding, demilitarizing Gaza and beginning
the process hopefully of investing their money, not ours, in
rebuilding that part of the Middle East for families that
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actually want to live in peace and raise their kids
and not indoctrinate them into radicalism. Now as it relates
to Russia, you know, this phone call yesterday in a
lead up to today's meeting of the White House that
concluded just a short time ago with President Zolenski was pivotal.
Why all of a sudden now putin it said, uh,
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you know, after the Alaska meeting, he had only gotten
more aggressive, and but so did the Ukrainians. And and
you know reports that the United States intelligence that helped
the Ukrainians, you know, with better pinpointing of the targeting,
and they've gone after the Ukrainians have by using drone
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technology the lifeblood of Russia's economy, which is energy, and
they've been going after their refineries and successfully taking out
many of them, you know, to the point now we're
reading that you know, many many portions of Russia have
lines for people waiting to buy gasoline. This is an
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energy rich country. Usually you wouldn't need that, but they
need to sell the energy to actually fund their war machine.
And so President Trump has gone at this now from
two ways. Unlike Biden, he's not paying for Ukraine's weapons.
He's selling it to NATO and then NATO provides it
to them, and number one and number two, he's the
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only thing in the US according to reports. I have
no independent cooperation of this, but they've been providing intelligence
though that the Ukrainians now can fight back and fight
back in Russian territory and take out the funding for
their war machine, which is always critical. I mean, that
is the acidine you know, mentality of Western Europe. You know,
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NATO is designed purposely, you know, to fight and protect
against likely Russia and Putin. And meanwhile they're making Putin
rich and funding his war machine by buying his oil
and purchasing his oil. And simultaneously the president has been
involved with, you know, pressuring other countries not to buy
Russian oil, more specifically India. I'm sure those discussions, you know,
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when the President meets on his Asian trip that is
upcoming with President Schi of China, that that will be
part of their discussions and that China will hopefully be
buying more of their energy oil from Middle Eastern countries
in the US rather than from Russia. You know, at
that point Putin has no choice. Is one other factor though,
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and the President said it today and these you know,
President Trump's always sending messages because in the lead up
to this meeting with Zelenski today, the President talked about
now it might be time to send Tomahawk precision missiles
to Ukraine or to sell them the NATO to give
to Ukraine. That would be a game changer. That would
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be the Ukraine then having the ability to strike deep
and put with incredible precision inside of Russian territory. And
there's probably not much Vladimir Putin can do about it.
Remember the Iranian missile defense systems that were in place.
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You know, we're all Russian systems and the Israelis they
know how to knock them out, so it's not like
it's food proof. So it's certainly got Vladimir's attention. And
now because of strength in each case, there is one
underlying principle. Yeah, no, forever wars, peace if at all possible.
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If it's rejected, then military force limited ways send the
message and get these guys to finally see the light
of day. And that's that's where the president is currently.
And so I don't think it's an accident when Putin
read about Tomahawk missiles, maybe going to NATO, going to Ukraine.
That he decided to get in touch with President Trump
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and they had this meeting and our phone meeting, and
then that culminated in the decision that they were going
to meet again. I mean, you got to give the
President is expending time, political energy, resources, you know, focus
and energy on bringing peace.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
To the world.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
On top of you know, Cambodia and Rwanda and Azerbaijan
and Armenia and Iran and Israel and you know, and
the list goes on and on, India, Pakistan. He's been
trying to bring peace around the world. I don't think
any other president would be capable of it. Anyway. Eight
hundred and ninety four one Sean our numbered this Friday.
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If you want to be a part of the prom well,
what's on your mind this Friday. We'll get to some
of your calls coming up here in a minute. This
is where Linda's gonna go apoplectic. Now I'm gonna start
with good news so you won't go apoplectic immediately. The
good news is Matt Towery Robert Kahley combined forces and
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they polled Virginia and they polled New Jersey. They have
the gubernatorial race in the state of New Jersey, a
one point race. This is not These are not polling
companies that I don't trust. These are the posters that
I trust. They nailed twenty sixteen, they nailed twenty twenty,
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they nailed twenty twenty four. So many of these posters
just suck and I paid no attention to them. But
I pay attention. I pay attention to Matt Towery, Robert
Kahley inside her advantage, and and Trafalgar. I pay attention
to Rasmussen. I pay attention to John McLaughlin. I don't
know Atlas does very well, but they only show up
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like out of nowhere. Nobody knows who they are. I
have no idea who they are. But anyway, so it's
one point race in New Jersey. What does that mean
If you live in the state of New Jersey. It
means that you know, you can get your taxes cut,
you know, get rid of the idiotic policies of Phil
Murphy and not elect this fraud Mikey Cheryl, you know
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who has now given multiple answers as to why she
wasn't allowed to walk with her class at the Naval Academy. First,
I was enable. I didn't rat out my friends, That's why.
And then she said I told investigators everything I knew. Well,
it can't be both, so she's lying. And then she
can't answer the question about seven million dollars. Uh, you know, Oh,
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I just yeah, I made seven million. I have no
I have to look into that. I have no idea
how I made seven million dollars. And you know, then
on you know, all the other issues, telling the people
of New Jersey, one of the highest tax states in
the country, that she won't commit to not raising taxes.
I'm like, Okay, be dumb, because that's dumb and uh.
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But you know, if you're sick and tired of it
in New Jersey, you got a shot here.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
This is not a slam dunk. It's all going to
come down to turnout. All I'm doing is disseminating information.
I am giving you a realistic scenario that this is
a winnable election. That is my objective assessment. Now onto
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the Commonwealth of Virginia. You have wins some seers and
win some seers a same posters, Matt Towery, Robert Kahley.
That race is now within two points. There was a
period where Abigail Spanberger and by the way, she's running
into major issues number one, because she can't answer a
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question and she just ducks and dodge and weaves and
and and just fumbles and stumbles and we get you know,
Kamala word salads out of her. She you know, she's
got major problems there. She won't even condemn this this ag.
Candidate Jay Jones, who you know, of course, said if
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I had two bullets and I had three people whole
pot killing Field's Cambodia and or Hitler, Holocaust or the
Speaker of the House in the House of Delegates, I'd
use both bullets on him then go after his family.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Okay, that's a little sick.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And as his opponent Mayarra said last night, and we
had him on TV after the debate, I watched both
debates last night, And Linda, did you watch both of them?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Or I know you've got other stuff going on, but
I watched.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I watched a lot of the highlight reel from the
stuff out of Virginia, but I watched Curtis and the
other two.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
All right, So I watched both of them, and I
can tell you that whoever. I don't know who the
name of the moderator. I have no idea who it
is in Virginia. I was great, did a great job,
tight ship, you know. Okay, you have two minutes to
answer two you need to give people two minutes to answers.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
They can finish a freaking thought.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's unbelievable. And then you get to you know, this
New York debate. You got Andrew Cuomol, You got Curtis Leewa,
who I'm supporting for mayor, who's going to join us later.
And you got you know, Zorn. He didn't like it
when Curtis mispronounced his name. It's Zorra Dora. All right, Okay,
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just calm down.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Not the worry. Curtis didn't do it maliciously, even said
my apologies. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So, and I'm going to place some of the highlights
of this coming up in a minute. And you have
four moderators in this debate, and this is kind of
how it went. It's like Andrew Como, you have one minute. Okay,
you're talking Andrew. The person's trying to finish this minute minute.
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Then the next person jumps in, wait, he invoked my name.
I get to the Okay, we'll get to that later.
But no, no, no, that's the rule. The da da
da da, and wait, I want to respond now, then
the third candidate wants to respond, and they're arguing with them.
I mean, it was an unmitigated disaster. It was a
ridiculous time frame that for answering questions. They didn't let
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the candidates have any discussion amongst themselves. I hate them
because it basically joint press conferences at that point. It
frustrated me also that I felt like they were really
giving short shrift to Curtis Leewa, especially in the first
hour of that debate when that was the only televised hour,
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you know, on NBC in New York.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I mean, what do you expect. It's just it's so pathetic.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And you know, while I'm giving people hope in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, and by the way, it's a long shot.
You got all these government employees in northern Virginia, you know,
ninety plus percent of them, and Democrats, you know that
a part of the DC bureaucracy. They've ruined the state
of Virginia. I mean, as great as candidate as Glenn
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Youngkin was I mean, he didn't win by a massive
margin when he became governor, and you know, there were
a lot of issues at the time. Now, the same
issues face Abigail Spanberger. And on this issue of men
in women's locker room and men playing women's sports, I mean,
it's you know, her unwillingness to condemn, you know, the
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age candidate. And on that very same poll, Mieris, the
current attorney general, Republican attorney general is leading by five
and I hope that helps.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Win some serious I think win some series.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Is a outstand would be an outstanding governor for Virginia,
outstanding governor, and it's just it's both of these are
very hard states. Then you go to New York, New
York City, and this is what Linda's gonna hate. And
as much as I want Curtis to win, putting Curtis
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on radio, putting them today, we had them on TV
after the debate last night, I want Curtis NYC dot
Com to win every day of the week. However, I
don't like our odds. And I'm saying this, you know,
I I'm never gonna be polyN with my audience. I
just think New York City is so far gone, and
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so many people have left that would otherwise never go
for this insanity and this madness of Marxist Kami Mamdani
that you know, we find ourselves in this current position.
It's it's absolutely terrible. And you hate when I say that.
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You want to be optimistic, you want no, I think
Curtis is going to win. I want Curtis to win,
but right now the odds are against him. I don't
like that the odds are against them. I wish the
odds were with him. I wish the polling was better.
But when it's double digits. All these years I've been
doing shows, you know, I've talked to candidates, and the
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candidates I asked them, and he goes, no, no, no, Sean,
don't believe the polls. I'm like, it says you're down
thirteen yeah, no, no, no, no. You should see my crowd size,
and I'm like, roll my eyes. The crowd outside doesn't
mean anything. You want to comment or are you gonna no?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I mean, listen, I'm not. First of all, I'm never
taking it. You know, Mom Donnie. The biggest problem with
Mom Donnie is he's doing something that's like straight out
of the Democrat playbook, which is the following Let's promise
them everything and you know, and the moon, and he
can't give them anything. You know. Mark Simone was here
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on Tuesday when you were at the Charlie Kirk Medal
of Freedom event, and he made a really good point
and I looked into it and he said, you know, mom,
Donnie keeps saying that he can give everybody free bus rides.
And last night the moderator asked him, well, how are
you going to do that. He said, well, I'm just
going to raise taxes to nine billion dollars. And you know,
this is how we're going to be able to afford
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free healthcare and free bus rides. I'm like, first of all,
you have absolutely no authority to do that. The people
that actually govern the MTA. There's it's an entire board.
It's twenty three seats. Four of them go to the mayor.
The rest of that goes to the governor and the
state of New York. So he has no authority on
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how the MTA is run or giving free anything.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It can't raise taxes either, I know.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But the problem is, and this is my opinion, huh,
people don't know that, But the moderators aren't calling them
on it. Like the moderator I get it is just moderating,
But there's got to be somebody there, like there's got
to be like a fact check, like a I can't
say that because that's an utter lie and you have
no authority to do that. It's not the purg the office.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think it's the job of the other candidate to
do the fact But it can't be.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It can't be because then they're just gonna think that
the other No, because they're gonna think the candidate is
talking trash. That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
No, Well, but you have to let a debate breathe
Remember I started the debate with the Santas and newsman.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I said, guys, let's work it right. But you did.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You interjected, and you had cards and you had boards
and you had things where you're like, okay, we cannot
have a legitimate discussion if we're starting from a place
of BS. You have to start from a flat level
of okay, here are the facts. Now we can go
from here. This guy is just lying and promising people
thinks that he has zero authority over and cannot deliver
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on and people.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Like, oh, that don't do it.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I can't stand that pony smile of his. By the way, Oh,
let's talk to Peter.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Peter. What do you think, Peter, Blue York. What's up, Peter?
How are you.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Hey, Sean? How are you good to talk to you? Yeah?
So my big issue is are they polling Republicans in
the mayor's race because Curtis got almost thirty percent of
the vote against Adams in twenty twenty one. Right now,
he's got all this money coming in this time around,
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a lot of more people know him. How is he
polling at fifteen? Did these people leave New York City?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Let's put it this way.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
You know. And the problem is the polling affects a
lot of things. It can't It affects the campaign money
coming in, It affects the way people vote. People could
be swinging a como because they say, oh wow, Curtis
can't win. Right. So that's my big question is are
Republicans actually being polled or is the polling.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Rig too What I fear is too many people like
yours truly have said enough is enough and they've left.
You know, you think of the men that built there's
a great series on the history Channel. The men that
built America. JP Morgan's one of them. You know, you
think of that quintessentially New York. You know where there's
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more employees for Morgan is JP morgan Chase today in Texas,
not on Wall Street I live in. I live in Florida,
in my free state. Wall Street South is right here.
And if Mom Dannie gets in, they're all going to
pack up their offices. They may keep a few people there,
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but they're they're going to base their headquarters now in Florida, Texas, Tennessee,
the Carolinas, and they're getting out. That's what's gonna happen.
I don't now for the sake of my friends that
remain there. I don't want that for them. I really don't.
You know, it would probably benefit my property value, but
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you know it's not about me. I'd rather they have.
They saved their city for Crome. It used to be
the greatest city in the world.
All right, thank you, Scott Chattan, Thanks to all of
you for being one of us. Write down our toll
free telephone number this Friday. It's eight hundred and ninety
four to one Sean if you want to join us.
President Trump just sending a very loud, unambiguous, very clear
message to Maduro and Venezuela. You don't want to f
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around with the United States. And yes, he said it.
We have to bleep it out and we'll player for you.
Why should this country allow the country of Venezuela and
their drug cartels and their syndicates to be pouring in
and filling this country with drugs that are poisoning and
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murdering our children. Now you can argue, well, you know,
nobody's forcing people to do drugs. Okay, fair point understood.
But you know what, the availability of it shouldn't exist,
and the people have been making a fortune off it.
And that's why these boats that have been transporting these
drugs have been blown out of the water time and
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time again. They did have one survivor in the last attack.
I don't know how that person survived, but it is
a clear, it is an unambiguous message. They have been poisoning,
and I viewed that as an act of war against
our country personally. If you are flooding our country with
drugs to kill our people, that to me is an
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act of war. Now, Kennedy, you's saying you want to
go to war with Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I am saying that there are consequences for actions, and
if they don't stop, if their own government doesn't stop,
we're going to continue the use of military force and
taking out these boats and transportation means that they've been
using to protect the lives of our citizens. That's America first.
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That is not a forever war. That is not an invasion.
That is a message knock it off, and Badua better
get the you know message sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Reported that Maduro offered everything in it's in his country,
all the natural resources. He even recorded a message to
you in English recently offering mediation. He stopped that he
has offered everything. He's offered everything.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You're right, you know why, because he doesn't want to
walk around with the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Nobody should want to. Now, a lot of other developments today.
If you were called yesterday, Vladimir Putin and President Trump
had a conversation.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I thought it was rather amusing.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
In the middle of the conversation, President Trump truths out
that he's having a conversation right now with Vladimir Putin.
I'll let you know how it goes after and they
have agreed to meet again. And there's a lot of
reasons for this is and I was I interviewed the
President after the first meeting in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The Trump doctrine.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You need to understand, the President is going to bend
over backwards in the name of peace. He's going to
try and give people, even evil actors on the world stage,
every opportunity to pull back from their evil deeds and
(03:33):
stop what they're doing and save their lives. And frankly,
military force and action are the last resort for President Trump.
And no, he's never gotten involved in a forever war.
And that is a big part of the Trump doctrine.
And I completely and wholeheartedly agree with that. But forever
(03:55):
wars does not mean isolationism, as evidence by him taking
out the Isis Caliphate, which was a clear and present
danger not only to the entire world. Let's be blunt
that was allowed to grow under Obama and under Biden.
He just wiped them out. He wiped out Solomani, the
world's worst terrorist, he wiped out Bagdadian associate like the
(04:18):
second worst terrorist, dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan.
And yeah, he made the decision. He gave Iran fifty
days and said come up with a plan and a
peace deal with Israel or else day fifty one, Israel
went in, took out their missile defense systems, their ballistic
(04:41):
missile systems, took out their nuclear scientists. I mean, the
Israeli military and their intelligence capabilities are unbelievably impressive and
right at the top in terms of worldwide Why because
it's a necessity for them.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
They're fighting for the very every day.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's you know, that's why the rise in anti Semitism,
I always say, is based in utter complete intellectual laziness
and ignorance. If you think that people would be able
to fire hundreds of thousands of rockets into American towns
and cities, what would you want your government to do?
(05:21):
Think about it, Because that's that's life in Israel, and
I've been there a number of times. They build a
network of terror tunnels to kill Israeli citizens. If that
was happening to America. What would you want your country
to do? You know, what if you lose again comparing
population size ten million versus what three hundred and sixty
(05:43):
million Americans whatever the number is? Okay that the fifteen
hundred murdered on October seventh is the equivalent of forty
thousand dead Americans in a day. What would you want
America to do? You know, these border towns that I've
been to that had been hit with ten thousand rockets
one little town in ten years, and kids can't play outside.
(06:04):
They play in you know, underground bunker playgrounds. What what
do you want people to do? And I find that
those on college campuses, in the halls of Congress worldwide
growing anti Semitism. That's why I cannot stand Western Europe.
They are so pathetically weak, they are so you know,
(06:29):
woke and dei and just insane, and they have literally
like abandoned any sense of moral clarity. You know, well,
let's recognize the Palestinian state. Let's not sympathize with the
victims of terrorism. Radical islamis you know, convert or die.
(06:51):
Understand it is an ideology. We live through it. Nine
to eleven oh one we lost two nine hundred and
seventy seven American How did our country react to that?
And just you know, use that as a as a comparison.
So now the President has clearly warned Toms. Since the
(07:13):
President had this meeting in Egypt with General LCCI and
all the leaders of all these Arab nations and European
nations around the world, people came in and for the
first time in what has been since really the nineteen
forty eight UN Partition Plan, Arab nations are either not
attacking Israel, or if they weren't attacking or fighting Israel,
(07:37):
they had wanted no part.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
In the peace process.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
A big part of that equation that nobody ever talks
about is they they all feared, you know, the possibility
of a nuclear armed Iran as much as the Israelis did.
Now you're getting into a Shia versus Sunni battle in
that conflict. But I mean, and that's why, you know,
it was the untold story in the first Trump administration,
(08:01):
beyond the Abraham Accords is the intelligence sharing that went
on with the US and Israel and Egypt and Jordan
and the Saudis and the Emirates and all these other
countries which foundationally let you know, open the door for
where we are now is and that is okay. Iran's
nuclear sites are out, the fear of Iranian hegemonies is
(08:22):
greatly reduced. They are now a paper tiger, and so
it now is it frees up these countries because they
don't have the same cult deathlike you know, leadership that
they do in Iran. I do make a distinction between
the Iranian people. I make a distinction between the Russian people,
(08:45):
and it is you know, now a window of opportunity exists.
But since that day, they have been assassinating anybody perceived
as not being one hundred percent pro Hamas, pro terrorists,
pro war, pro you know, pro attack Israel and pro
chanting death to Israel. And so you know, that's going
to take Arab nations now stepping up doing that which
(09:06):
they had never done before for decades, and that's going
to be part of the solution. And I believe the
best solution would be for them, you know, to all
contribute to a police force, defunding, demilitarizing Gaza and beginning
the process hopefully of investing their money, not ours, in
rebuilding that part of the Middle East for families that
(09:28):
actually want to live in peace and raise their kids
and not indoctrinate them into radicalism. Now as it relates
to Russia, you know, this phone call yesterday in a
lead up to today's meeting of the White House that
concluded just a short time ago with President Zolenski was pivotal.
Why all of a sudden now putin it said, uh,
(09:49):
you know, after the Alaska meeting, he had only gotten
more aggressive, and but so did the Ukrainians. And and
you know reports that the United States intelligence that helped
the Ukrainians, you know, with better pinpointing of the targeting,
and they've gone after the Ukrainians have by using drone
(10:12):
technology the lifeblood of Russia's economy, which is energy, and
they've been going after their refineries and successfully taking out
many of them, you know, to the point now we're
reading that you know, many many portions of Russia have
lines for people waiting to buy gasoline. This is an
(10:34):
energy rich country. Usually you wouldn't need that, but they
need to sell the energy to actually fund their war machine.
And so President Trump has gone at this now from
two ways. Unlike Biden, he's not paying for Ukraine's weapons.
He's selling it to NATO and then NATO provides it
to them, and number one and number two, he's the
(10:54):
only thing in the US according to reports. I have
no independent cooperation of this, but they've been providing intelligence
though that the Ukrainians now can fight back and fight
back in Russian territory and take out the funding for
their war machine, which is always critical. I mean, that
is the acidine you know, mentality of Western Europe. You know,
(11:15):
NATO is designed purposely, you know, to fight and protect
against likely Russia and Putin. And meanwhile they're making Putin
rich and funding his war machine by buying his oil
and purchasing his oil. And simultaneously the president has been
involved with, you know, pressuring other countries not to buy
Russian oil, more specifically India. I'm sure those discussions, you know,
(11:39):
when the President meets on his Asian trip that is
upcoming with President Schi of China, that that will be
part of their discussions and that China will hopefully be
buying more of their energy oil from Middle Eastern countries
in the US rather than from Russia. You know, at
that point Putin has no choice. Is one other factor though,
(11:59):
and the President said it today and these you know,
President Trump's always sending messages because in the lead up
to this meeting with Zelenski today, the President talked about
now it might be time to send Tomahawk precision missiles
to Ukraine or to sell them the NATO to give
to Ukraine. That would be a game changer. That would
(12:24):
be the Ukraine then having the ability to strike deep
and put with incredible precision inside of Russian territory. And
there's probably not much Vladimir Putin can do about it.
Remember the Iranian missile defense systems that were in place.
(12:45):
You know, we're all Russian systems and the Israelis they
know how to knock them out, so it's not like
it's food proof. So it's certainly got Vladimir's attention. And
now because of strength in each case, there is one
underlying principle. Yeah, no, forever wars, peace if at all possible.
(13:08):
If it's rejected, then military force limited ways send the
message and get these guys to finally see the light
of day. And that's that's where the president is currently.
And so I don't think it's an accident when Putin
read about Tomahawk missiles, maybe going to NATO, going to Ukraine.
That he decided to get in touch with President Trump
(13:30):
and they had this meeting and our phone meeting, and
then that culminated in the decision that they were going
to meet again. I mean, you got to give the
President is expending time, political energy, resources, you know, focus
and energy on bringing peace.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
To the world.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
On top of you know, Cambodia and Rwanda and Azerbaijan
and Armenia and Iran and Israel and you know, and
the list goes on and on, India, Pakistan. He's been
trying to bring peace around the world. I don't think
any other president would be capable of it. Anyway. Eight
hundred and ninety four one Sean our numbered this Friday.
(14:09):
If you want to be a part of the prom well,
what's on your mind this Friday. We'll get to some
of your calls coming up here in a minute. This
is where Linda's gonna go apoplectic. Now I'm gonna start
with good news so you won't go apoplectic immediately. The
good news is Matt Towery Robert Kahley combined forces and
(14:29):
they polled Virginia and they polled New Jersey. They have
the gubernatorial race in the state of New Jersey, a
one point race. This is not These are not polling
companies that I don't trust. These are the posters that
I trust. They nailed twenty sixteen, they nailed twenty twenty,
(14:51):
they nailed twenty twenty four. So many of these posters
just suck and I paid no attention to them. But
I pay attention. I pay attention to Matt Towery, Robert
Kahley inside her advantage, and and Trafalgar. I pay attention
to Rasmussen. I pay attention to John McLaughlin. I don't
know Atlas does very well, but they only show up
(15:13):
like out of nowhere. Nobody knows who they are. I
have no idea who they are. But anyway, so it's
one point race in New Jersey. What does that mean
If you live in the state of New Jersey. It
means that you know, you can get your taxes cut,
you know, get rid of the idiotic policies of Phil
Murphy and not elect this fraud Mikey Cheryl, you know
(15:37):
who has now given multiple answers as to why she
wasn't allowed to walk with her class at the Naval Academy. First,
I was enable. I didn't rat out my friends, That's why.
And then she said I told investigators everything I knew. Well,
it can't be both, so she's lying. And then she
can't answer the question about seven million dollars. Uh, you know, Oh,
(16:02):
I just yeah, I made seven million. I have no
I have to look into that. I have no idea
how I made seven million dollars. And you know, then
on you know, all the other issues, telling the people
of New Jersey, one of the highest tax states in
the country, that she won't commit to not raising taxes.
I'm like, Okay, be dumb, because that's dumb and uh.
(16:25):
But you know, if you're sick and tired of it
in New Jersey, you got a shot here.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
This is not a slam dunk. It's all going to
come down to turnout. All I'm doing is disseminating information.
I am giving you a realistic scenario that this is
a winnable election. That is my objective assessment. Now onto
(16:50):
the Commonwealth of Virginia. You have wins some seers and
win some seers a same posters, Matt Towery, Robert Kahley.
That race is now within two points. There was a
period where Abigail Spanberger and by the way, she's running
into major issues number one, because she can't answer a
(17:13):
question and she just ducks and dodge and weaves and
and and just fumbles and stumbles and we get you know,
Kamala word salads out of her. She you know, she's
got major problems there. She won't even condemn this this ag.
Candidate Jay Jones, who you know, of course, said if
(17:35):
I had two bullets and I had three people whole
pot killing Field's Cambodia and or Hitler, Holocaust or the
Speaker of the House in the House of Delegates, I'd
use both bullets on him then go after his family.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Okay, that's a little sick.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And as his opponent Mayarra said last night, and we
had him on TV after the debate, I watched both
debates last night, And Linda, did you watch both of them?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Or I know you've got other stuff going on, but
I watched.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I watched a lot of the highlight reel from the
stuff out of Virginia, but I watched Curtis and the
other two.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
All right, So I watched both of them, and I
can tell you that whoever. I don't know who the
name of the moderator. I have no idea who it
is in Virginia. I was great, did a great job,
tight ship, you know. Okay, you have two minutes to
answer two you need to give people two minutes to answers.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
They can finish a freaking thought.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's unbelievable. And then you get to you know, this
New York debate. You got Andrew Cuomol, You got Curtis Leewa,
who I'm supporting for mayor, who's going to join us later.
And you got you know, Zorn. He didn't like it
when Curtis mispronounced his name. It's Zorra Dora. All right, Okay,
(19:07):
just calm down.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Not the worry. Curtis didn't do it maliciously, even said
my apologies. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So, and I'm going to place some of the highlights
of this coming up in a minute. And you have
four moderators in this debate, and this is kind of
how it went. It's like Andrew Como, you have one minute. Okay,
you're talking Andrew. The person's trying to finish this minute minute.
(19:34):
Then the next person jumps in, wait, he invoked my name.
I get to the Okay, we'll get to that later.
But no, no, no, that's the rule. The da da
da da, and wait, I want to respond now, then
the third candidate wants to respond, and they're arguing with them.
I mean, it was an unmitigated disaster. It was a
ridiculous time frame that for answering questions. They didn't let
(19:56):
the candidates have any discussion amongst themselves. I hate them
because it basically joint press conferences at that point. It
frustrated me also that I felt like they were really
giving short shrift to Curtis Leewa, especially in the first
hour of that debate when that was the only televised hour,
(20:16):
you know, on NBC in New York.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I mean, what do you expect. It's just it's so pathetic.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And you know, while I'm giving people hope in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, and by the way, it's a long shot.
You got all these government employees in northern Virginia, you know,
ninety plus percent of them, and Democrats, you know that
a part of the DC bureaucracy. They've ruined the state
of Virginia. I mean, as great as candidate as Glenn
(20:44):
Youngkin was I mean, he didn't win by a massive
margin when he became governor, and you know, there were
a lot of issues at the time. Now, the same
issues face Abigail Spanberger. And on this issue of men
in women's locker room and men playing women's sports, I mean,
it's you know, her unwillingness to condemn, you know, the
(21:07):
age candidate. And on that very same poll, Mieris, the
current attorney general, Republican attorney general is leading by five
and I hope that helps.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Win some serious I think win some series.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Is a outstand would be an outstanding governor for Virginia,
outstanding governor, and it's just it's both of these are
very hard states. Then you go to New York, New
York City, and this is what Linda's gonna hate. And
as much as I want Curtis to win, putting Curtis
(21:42):
on radio, putting them today, we had them on TV
after the debate last night, I want Curtis NYC dot
Com to win every day of the week. However, I
don't like our odds. And I'm saying this, you know,
I I'm never gonna be polyN with my audience. I
just think New York City is so far gone, and
(22:06):
so many people have left that would otherwise never go
for this insanity and this madness of Marxist Kami Mamdani
that you know, we find ourselves in this current position.
It's it's absolutely terrible. And you hate when I say that.
(22:27):
You want to be optimistic, you want no, I think
Curtis is going to win. I want Curtis to win,
but right now the odds are against him. I don't
like that the odds are against them. I wish the
odds were with him. I wish the polling was better.
But when it's double digits. All these years I've been
doing shows, you know, I've talked to candidates, and the
(22:49):
candidates I asked them, and he goes, no, no, no, Sean,
don't believe the polls. I'm like, it says you're down
thirteen yeah, no, no, no, no. You should see my crowd size,
and I'm like, roll my eyes. The crowd outside doesn't
mean anything. You want to comment or are you gonna no?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I mean, listen, I'm not. First of all, I'm never
taking it. You know, Mom Donnie. The biggest problem with
Mom Donnie is he's doing something that's like straight out
of the Democrat playbook, which is the following Let's promise
them everything and you know, and the moon, and he
can't give them anything. You know. Mark Simone was here
(23:25):
on Tuesday when you were at the Charlie Kirk Medal
of Freedom event, and he made a really good point
and I looked into it and he said, you know, mom,
Donnie keeps saying that he can give everybody free bus rides.
And last night the moderator asked him, well, how are
you going to do that. He said, well, I'm just
going to raise taxes to nine billion dollars. And you know,
this is how we're going to be able to afford
(23:47):
free healthcare and free bus rides. I'm like, first of all,
you have absolutely no authority to do that. The people
that actually govern the MTA. There's it's an entire board.
It's twenty three seats. Four of them go to the mayor.
The rest of that goes to the governor and the
state of New York. So he has no authority on
(24:08):
how the MTA is run or giving free anything.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It can't raise taxes either, I know.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But the problem is, and this is my opinion, huh,
people don't know that, But the moderators aren't calling them
on it. Like the moderator I get it is just moderating,
But there's got to be somebody there, like there's got
to be like a fact check, like a I can't
say that because that's an utter lie and you have
no authority to do that. It's not the purg the office.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think it's the job of the other candidate to
do the fact But it can't be.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It can't be because then they're just gonna think that
the other No, because they're gonna think the candidate is
talking trash. That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
No, Well, but you have to let a debate breathe
Remember I started the debate with the Santas and newsman.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I said, guys, let's work it right. But you did.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You interjected, and you had cards and you had boards
and you had things where you're like, okay, we cannot
have a legitimate discussion if we're starting from a place
of BS. You have to start from a flat level
of okay, here are the facts. Now we can go
from here. This guy is just lying and promising people
thinks that he has zero authority over and cannot deliver
(25:18):
on and people.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Like, oh, that don't do it.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I can't stand that pony smile of his. By the way, Oh,
let's talk to Peter.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Peter. What do you think, Peter, Blue York. What's up, Peter?
How are you.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Hey, Sean? How are you good to talk to you? Yeah?
So my big issue is are they polling Republicans in
the mayor's race because Curtis got almost thirty percent of
the vote against Adams in twenty twenty one. Right now,
he's got all this money coming in this time around,
(25:52):
a lot of more people know him. How is he
polling at fifteen? Did these people leave New York City?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Let's put it this way.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
You know. And the problem is the polling affects a
lot of things. It can't It affects the campaign money
coming in, It affects the way people vote. People could
be swinging a como because they say, oh wow, Curtis
can't win. Right. So that's my big question is are
Republicans actually being polled or is the polling.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Rig too What I fear is too many people like
yours truly have said enough is enough and they've left.
You know, you think of the men that built there's
a great series on the history Channel. The men that
built America. JP Morgan's one of them. You know, you
think of that quintessentially New York. You know where there's
(26:46):
more employees for Morgan is JP morgan Chase today in Texas,
not on Wall Street I live in. I live in Florida,
in my free state. Wall Street South is right here.
And if Mom Dannie gets in, they're all going to
pack up their offices. They may keep a few people there,
(27:07):
but they're they're going to base their headquarters now in Florida, Texas, Tennessee,
the Carolinas, and they're getting out. That's what's gonna happen.
I don't now for the sake of my friends that
remain there. I don't want that for them. I really don't.
You know, it would probably benefit my property value, but
(27:27):
you know it's not about me. I'd rather they have.
They saved their city for Crome. It used to be
the greatest city in the world.
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