August 31, 2026 • 29 mins
Miranda Devine joins Sean for a wide-ranging look at the political battles taking shape in New York and across the country. They discuss Kathy Hochul, Bruce Blakeman, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, and what Sean sees as a growing effort to move the Democratic Party toward a much more radical agenda. With 64 days until Election Day, Sean argues that the midterms could determine whether that movement gains national power, while callers weigh in on the Clancy case, John Fetterman’s political independence, and how Republicans should make the case against socialism.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, News Roundup and Information Overload Hour. Write down
our toll-free telephone number this Monday. It's 800-941-SHAWN if you
want to be a part of the program. We've got
a lot of ground to cover with our friend Miranda Devine,
New York Post columnist, and she also has her podcast.
It's really well done. It's called Pod Force One. She's
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never invited me on. She's only a guest on my program.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I feel like I've been slighted here.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm only teasing, Miranda.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'm really well, Sean.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
And your ears must have been burning because I was
just talking about you with my producer this morning. But
we have to go through the right channels to get
you because, of course, you're a very hot commodity at
Fox News.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You definitely have to go through public relations. However, of course,
I would do anything you wanted. You're a good friend
of the program. Before I get to what I want
to talk to you about, which is this pending midterm election,
and it's coming upon us very, very fast, 64 days away.
I want to first ask you, first, everything that's happening
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in New York, and then it'll be relevant to the
questions I'm asking nationally about the midterms. What is going
on with Kathy Hochul? I mean, I noticed this weekend,
you know, here we are, we're two weeks away from
the 25th anniversary of 9-11-01. And I noticed you retweeted
somebody else's or re-exed somebody else's post that she was
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wearing the hijab for Muslim men. I just, this is
my own personal, I mean, some people may just want
to accommodate the religious beliefs of others.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm not willing to ever do that.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
If I was told, would you mind removing, if I
don't wear jewelry, would you mind removing a cross? I
would never do it under any circumstances. and I'm not
blaming people that decide to do it, but I would
absolutely not accommodate somebody that asked me to cover myself
up or to dress a certain way for me to
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be in the presence of people of a different faith
than mine.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
A hundred percent, Sean, especially in your own country. I mean,
I went to Afghanistan during the war and had to wear,
as a journalist, and had to wear a headscarf when
I was interviewing some of the local villagers just because,
you know, they wouldn't talk to me otherwise.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But can I defend you on that part, though? I
think those are unique circumstances because it was the only
way you could do your job.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Let's be blunt.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
100%.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
And it's their country, okay? But not in your own
country and not when you are representing New York and
you are the governor. If a mosque will not have
you in.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
In the state of New York, will not.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Have the governor in to speak to them without a
headscarf on, then she should say, forget about it. I'm
not coming in. I'm not going to do you the
courtesy of coming and talking to you. She represents New Yorkers.
She does not represent what we do not agree with,
which is the subjugation of women, which is practiced in
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these Islamic countries. And it should not be exported to
this country if you know, if some American women want.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
To wear the scarf, fine.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
You know, it's a free country, but it is a
free country and Kathy Hochul needs to keep it that
way by refusing to bend the knee to what is
really a repressive kind of ideology and especially when it.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Comes to women.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
So what is she going to, you know, are gay
politicians going to go in there and say, oh, throw
me off the rooftop? No, it doesn't work, and it's
just kowtowing and such bad optics just two weeks before
the 25th anniversary of 9-11, which, may I.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Say, her comrade, her partner, Zoran.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Mamdani, who she bends over for and will do whatever
he asks, And she's she's keeping her powder dry a
little bit before the election because Bruce Blakeman is nipping
at her heels. But after the election, if she wins,
she will just give Mamdani everything he wants. And what
he wants is money to pay for his ridiculous big
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government socialist promises.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, I am a big fan of Bruce Blakeman.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I lived in Nassau County, you know, long before I
moved to New York, moved out of New York, rather
moved to Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And I got to tell you something. He is a
phenomenal leader.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I think he is the last best great hope for
New York as a state. I don't know if they'll
ever be able to recover if New York does not
wise up in this midterm and elect Bruce Blakeman as
the next governor. I worry about numbers because many conservatives, Republicans,
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they have packed their bags and they have left. Wall
Street South is bigger than Wall Street. And that means
private equity firms, financial firms. That means all the big banks.
You know, they run from Miami all the way up
to West Palm Beach and beyond. Miranda, you've been down
to Florida enough. You know that's real.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean, it's really sad.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
And New York is not what it used to be,
but it's still New York. And, you know, it's your hometown.
And mine, too.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I mean, I was born in Queens like the president.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Not my hometown anymore. I'm Florida through and through and
have been for years.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yes. Well, you and many others, I guess. It's just
a sad indictment of the kind of leadership that we've
had in New York for a long time. But Bruce Blakeman,
bless his heart, is, as you say, the last great hope.
He would be the most fantastic governor. He would set
things straight and he would put Mamdani back in the
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box he deserves to be in. And I think Look,
there is a chance because a lot of people who
thought Namjani wouldn't be too bad and thought that they
could make accommodations and that he would just be sort of,
I mean, de Blasio is bad and.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
De Blasio have realised that, no, he.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Is a dyed-in-the-wool ideologue, a Marxist-Islamist big government ideologue, and
he doesn't understand business.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
He doesn't care. He just is all about getting.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Popularity with the TikTok crowd. And, you know, that chilling
video that he made out the front of Ken Griffin's
house was is just a terrifying indictment of, I guess,
the voters of New York, the few of them who
bothered to turn out. But I think it's woken up
the rest of us and said, I mean, I always vote,
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but it's woken up those people who sat on their
haunches and did nothing and just were fatalist, that Bruce.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Blakeman has a chance... If.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Only sensible people, you don't have to be a Trump lover,
you just have to vote for Bruce Blakeman as a
check and a balance on the untrammeled power of the
democratic socialists and their big government agenda that is bankrupting
this city.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
All right, quick break, right back more with New York
Post extraordinaire columnist Miranda Devine. We'll get to your calls
on the other side. There's Monday so much to get to. 800-941-SHAWN,
our number.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
All right, our final.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Moments with Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, bestselling author.
You see, you're on the front lines of this. And
I would argue that the same thing I'm saying about
Bruce Blakeman being the last, best, greatest hope for New
York as a state. Steve Hilton, I think, is in
the same position out in California. But you're on the
front lines of this battle of the DSA. And I
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keep telling my audience, you just need only look at
their website, the one that was praising Fidel Castro on
what would have been the anniversary of his 100th birthday,
a mass murderer, a thief that created more misery and
poverty in that country than I think anybody could have
ever imagined. But they are saying, and the AOC acknowledging
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she re-upped her membership last week, that they will eliminate
the U.S. Senate, take away from the people of this
country their ability to pick the president. We have James
Clyburn out there today saying he wants to pack the courts.
And then, of course, they want amnesty for illegals, abolish
the borders, abolish ICE, end all deportation, defund the Department
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of War, which I'm sure that China, Russia... Iran and
North Korea would just love. Eliminate cash bail. Also abolish prisons, police,
public ownership of corporations, establish a wealth tax.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
For the rest of the country now, we have since 2019, Miranda,
we've had 250 DSA people elected. There's over 40 of
them on the ballot. We know many of them. Telefrico
down in Texas. You got El Sayed, you know, all
of these people around the country. You're on the front
lines of living it in New York City with Zoran, Marxist, Kami, Mamdani.
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You cover it so often and so well. What do
you tell the country? Because I'm telling the country that
this is the most important election in your life because
they mean what they say. And when they try to
back off their positions like AOC did, they don't mean that.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
No, they don't mean it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
And they're like, you know, wolves.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
In sheep's clothing before the election.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And with these fake smiles, it's funny how Mamdani and
El-Sayed in Michigan have the same fake smiles. And I
say to people, turn the sound down when you're watching
them on television and you can tell even more clearly
how they lie. It is crystal clear, but for some
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reason the smile and the false promises seem to.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Work, or maybe they don't really work.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Maybe they're just better at organising, community organising, Obama-style, to
get out the vote among the people who are part
of their dependency class. And the problem is that the
more people... that are dependent on the government, which is,
of course, the goal of the big government socialists, the
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more likely they are to entrench their power. Because, you know,
in other countries, you see that you have a vast
number of people on welfare. Then you've got a vast
number of people who have jobs, government jobs, you know,
whether it's, you know, 10 teachers per child that don't
actually teach the child properly or healthcare jobs that don't
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exist because they're all ripped off Medicare fraud. And so
you've got all those government jobs. And then on top
of that, you have sort of private companies, but they
also rely on government contracts and nepotism for their income.
So you end up with this tipping point of More
than 50% of people dependent on the government. And then
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you are stuck with these socialists for life. And who's
paying for it? The dwindling number of taxpayers who are productive,
who are self-reliant, that are living the American dream.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Fewer and fewer of those.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
And of course, Joe Biden increased the number of dependents
on the government when he flung open the border.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Saying, to 10 million people, pretty much from the... Or
20 million.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Between 10 and 20 million, mainly from the third world.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Also terrorists and, you know... malfeasance from China and so on.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
So the Democratic Party has been taken over for a
long time and they're trying to have this demarcation between
themselves and their radical left faction, but they enabled and
emboldened those people. Nancy Pelosi allowed them to grow on
her watch and they've now taken over the Democratic Party
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and honestly, Democrats don't care. A few of them, like Fetterman,
might say they do, but they don't because all they
care about is power. They don't care about the country.
Donald Trump loves the country and that's why.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
People love him and vote for him.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
No matter what he says, he might say things that
people don't like, but he loves this country and he
really genuinely sacrificed to make America great again. And he's
doing his best against a lot of heavy opposition from
the media and from, you know, the left and from
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even turncoats in his own side. And it's incredible the
results that they've got from a really stellar cabinet compared
to his first term. You know, people like Scott Besant's
right there now at the G20 level. Just brilliant people
who are doing a good job for America.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And I hope that people's memories are long and they.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Do remember what it was like under Joe Biden. And
we cannot afford to go back again.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I can't say it any better. We appreciate you more
than you know. Our friend Miranda Devine. Miranda, thank you.
By the way, are you planning on having Hunter on
your show, considering you wrote a best-selling book?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Well, look, I have issued the invitation to him on X.
I got absolutely no response. And I've had a standing
invitation for years. two or three years with Kevin Morris,
his sugar brother, who sort of laughed at me when
I first broached it. But now Hunter is doing every podcast.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Under the sun. He should do Pod Force.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
One, but I'm someone who, unlike the other people he's
been talking to, actually knows the facts and knows that
He lies just like his dad. Every sentence contains a lie.
So he probably doesn't want to be fact-checked as we
go because I would not be able to restrain myself.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
All right. We appreciate it. Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell,
top-selling book. We appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
800-941-SHAWN.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
This Monday, you want to be a part of the program.
We hit our phones when we get back. Let's go
to Jack. He is in Massachusetts. Jack, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Sean, it's been 20 years since I've been trying to
get a hold of you, Sean. Thank God.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh, my goodness. It took you that long to get through?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, I tried, but, you know, between work and the
hours you're on, it's difficult. I tried for over 20
years to get through the rush. Of course.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I mean, I guess I'm tying Russia's record about 20 years.
But thank you for trying. Thank you for listening. We're
glad you're out there and take your time. What's on
your mind today?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
OK, Sean, I want to make two comments about two
different subjects. One is the trial in Massachusetts here. I'm
pretty close to it. I was a therapist for many,
many years. And there was I must say there was
absolutely no way, zero possibility that that when this woman
committed those atrocious acts, she was acting insane. She was
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acting not sane. She was insane. And let me tell
you why. I heard Nancy Grace, very disappointed at what
she had to say. A person can have a foundation
of insanity, but they can act sane to you and I.
They can say, well, I sent my husband out. And
the reason she sent her husband out was because she
firmly believed that that she was going to take her
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kids to heaven with her. And she believed that that
act was in God's name. And so she acted sane
to get rid of her husband so he wouldn't see
this cottage and he wouldn't prevent her from taking that action.
Excuse me, Sean, that's insanity. Can I.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Ask you a question about your comment?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
By definition, if you're capable of killing somebody, isn't there,
by definition, some degree of insanity involved in every murder?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, not really, because you have professional killers who rationalize
that they're killing somebody for money. That's their job, and
they separate their emotions from anything that they do.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, but that's not, maybe I'm phrasing the question the
wrong way.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It's certainly not normal. People, I would argue, if you
have a heart, a soul, a conscience, it would forbid
you from killing another innocent person, wouldn't it?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well, normal people think that way. You and I think
that way.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well, slow down. Key word, normal people.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Okay, but there are people that are not normal.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But there are people who rationalize, who live in a
normal world. There are professional killers out there who live
amongst us. You would never know we're professional killers. You
would never know that because they act very normally. as
you and I would paint normal. So you and I
can't put our minds around that, that you and I
would never kill somebody just to kill them. We might
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kill somebody in self-defense, but that's what any normal person
would do.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I don't want to get into a word parsing scheme. Okay,
go ahead. I got your point. I'm not disagreeing.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
In my opinion, the people to blame for what Ms.
Clancy did was the psychiatrist and the people who prescribed
all those antidepressants because she was giving way, way too
many drugs to handle her mind and her brain.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You do know that all those drugs were not in
her system, even though she had been on and off
a lot of them, right?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Correct, correct. But in my opinion, there is no way,
in my honest opinion and my professional opinion, a person
could kill her own three kids after having been a
normal mother before that for a few years. There's just
absolutely no way, in my opinion, she was sane when
she killed those three kids. On the line, that was
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a total insanity. She believed that her kids were going
to go to heaven and that she was going to
follow them. And that's what made her do the other thing.
So when they talk about— when the prosecution talks about— She
planned this, and she did this, and she was on
the right mind. But underlying that right mind that they
would call the sane mind was insanity. The whole thing
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was insane. The way she think, the way she lived,
it was insane. And nobody will ever change my opinion
about that. But can I ask you something else, one
more thing?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I've listened to you for so many years. I love
when you have these great interviews on. You're a great interviewer.
But I have a couple of complaints about you about–
A couple of times last week or two weeks ago
when you interviewed John Fetterman from Pennsylvania. It really it
really bothered me. I wanted to scream at you and
I love you, but I wanted to scream at you
because you let him get away with everything. He is
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not what you would call a moderate. He's not a
man of common sense. Have you seen his voting record
in Congress and the Senate?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I'm very aware of it. I've made no bones about it.
He votes mostly with the Democrats, but on some very,
very key issues.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
He has.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
He's been the only Democrat.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
He represents like the old style Democrats and everyone else
in his party is either adopting this DSA radical agenda
or they don't have the moral clarity and courage to
speak up. And he is challenging them on virulent anti-Semitism,
challenging them on national security issues and the right of
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the president to make those decisions based on intelligence. He's
the rational one. And I'm not saying I agree with
everything he says. He's also a very nice man. And
I like that part of him as well. I have
a personal relationship with him, but I don't agree with
everything that he says.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Now, Sean Castro, everybody loved Castro in Cuba at first.
He was a nice man. But look how what he
turned out to be. My point is because a person.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Well, he's the one that's challenging the crazy in his party.
And for that, you get a lot of props for me.
But you want me to like get in a big
fight over him, over, you know, him remaining a Democrat.
We've had discussions both on and off the air about it.
I'm never going to convince him at least. I'm not
going to convince him, but maybe time will convince him.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm going to prove my point before I hang up.
Number one, he voted against the big, beautiful bill. He
voted far higher taxes for Americans. He voted against voter ID.
He voted against Todd Blanch, and he's voted against many
of the things. He voted against... Excluding men from women's sports.
In other words, he voted for keeping men in women's sports. Now,
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tell me that's a moderate. That's a far out liberal.
But to his face, you never brought it up to him,
his voting record. I've seen your interviews with him.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
If you want me to get into areas that we
disagree on, I'll be glad to.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You know, there's been a broader conversation that maybe has
been more my focus. And I'll take this as as
constructive criticism. And that is nobody is condemning the the
rise of radicalism in the party except for him. Nobody
is criticizing the virulent anti-Semitism.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Except for him.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Nobody is championing the rights of the president of the
United States to be the commander in chief on that
in that party except for him. Yeah, I just I
just accept that he's an old school Democrat. And, yeah,
we could spend our time arguing about that. But I
don't think that's the biggest threat that we have facing
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our country right now or what it will define this
midterm election. The radicals have taken over his party. And
I think he deserves a lot of credit for taking
having the moral courage to call them out regularly by
name and stand with Republicans, not on every issue, as
you rightly point out, but on very key issues. Is
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there room for for the two of us to have
the debate you're looking for?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Sure. And will I do that in the future? I will.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But I'm just telling you that these other people are
so nuts that that is a paramount concern, especially 64
days out of an election. I'll give you the last word, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Sean, he's taking the easy way out. Everybody who wants
Israel to survive.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
He's not taking the easy way out. He's getting killed
in the polls by Democrats in Pennsylvania. There's nothing easy
about what he's doing. He's getting killed.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Men and women sports, Sean.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
You're repeating yourself. I got your point. I'm conceding it.
Why do you have to shove it down my throat?
I'm conceding your point. But I am saying one other
thing to you. He's getting crushed by the Democrats in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has paid a huge political
price for what he did. And you don't want to
concede one thing that he's done as different and unique.
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And in this day and age, frankly, he's like a
voice in the wilderness for the crazy Democrats. You don't
want to acknowledge one single point on that. I'm acknowledging
your points. I disagree with them on every issue you mentioned.
You won't acknowledge that this man is taking a massive
political hit for his stands?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
He's taken a massive political hit from his.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So you got you got it. You got to balance it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
From his socialist friends, but not from people.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
From his entire party, his entire base. He is he
is willing to put his career on the line here.
I've seen this very rarely. Joe Lieberman was a guy
like him. I like Joe Lieberman a lot, but I
didn't agree with him on social policies on anything. Foreign policy, yes.
Other policies, no. But I think you need to, I'm
agreeing with you. I'll look at the other side of it.
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But I think you need to look at what this
guy's put on the line in terms of political ambition.
He's not your typical politician in that way. Anyway, I
appreciate the call. 800-941-SHAWN if you want to be a
part of the program. You know, when I see that
people are willing to do things that they are going
to pay a huge political price for, I have a
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natural admiration for them. And I think that's what Fetterman
has done here. Agree on every issue?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Not even close.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But do I think that it has been courageous for
him to challenge the insanity that's emerged in his party? Anti-Semitism?
The right of a president to be commander-in-chief? Those are
not small issues. The right to take out Iran and
their ability to have nuclear weapons, sure. On the issue
of men playing women's sports, I wish we did agree.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
We don't.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Anyway, back to our phones. Clint in South Dakota. Clint,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
How you doing, Sean?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Well, Fetterman's pretty awesome, so I have a lot of
respect for that guy.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Got to be going through an absolute hell right now.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You look at his polls.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Democrats, if he has a Democratic primary challenger and he
will win, He will lose as of today.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That sucks.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I mean, I could see him maybe pulling a Joe
Lieberman running as an independent.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I think he'd win.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We don't have something that we need more of, which
is political courage. And for that reason, I'm willing to
have the discussions with him because you can have reasonable
debate with him. But unless we defeat crazy in 64 days,
none of this matters. Crazy is what I'm worried about.
You know, as much as I disagree and as nutty,
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I would even characterize some of his positions. He's not
one of the crazies, and that's a big deal. All right,
let's get to the other point, Clint. What else do
you want to add?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Well, AI.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I have a little problem with AI, I think. I mean,
I love the technology. I think it's pretty cool. I
think it's doing a lot of good.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
But I think people are going to use it for
the wrong reasons.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
And I think it's going to take a lot of
jobs away from the workers.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You're kind of breaking up with me. Look, AI, look,
any technology could be used for good or evil. Anything
involving the human race could be used for.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Good or evil. That was a problem.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Anyway, 800-941-SHAWN, our number. Let us say hello to Chris in,
where is he?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Maryland. Chris, how are you? Glad you called. Happy Monday.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Thank you. How are you, Sean?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I'm good, sir. Glad you called.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Hey, I wanted to– I've.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Been hearing– I don't know if the Republicans are having
trouble refuting some of the DSA people, but when I
hear them speak, I'm like, man, I wish Republicans would
push back on some of this stuff. So just the
premise would be that communism, number one, it's anti-God and
anti-Christianity because it demands your total allegiance to the state
and not to God or family. So I feel like
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if they would operate from that premise, they would have
a lot more things to say to these DSA people.
You know, people who are running for office everywhere and
getting elected apparently. So, I mean, yeah, just stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Let's see.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
What else did I want to say here?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
OK.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Also, I heard one of these DSA people. They were like, yeah,
but if you let capitalism run wild, then guess what?
We're just going to have monopolies and it's just going
to be like crazy. But the Republicans should be able
to say we already have laws against monopolies. You know,
we don't want monopolies either. So, yes, government should be
should be big enough to protect us from our enemies.
And national defense is a big part of our conservatism.
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But it should be small enough to where it's not.
And it should also be big enough to protect us
from monopolies, but small enough to where it's not interfering
in our lives and picking winners and losers and, you know,
getting in the way of us pursuing our happiness. So,
you know, really, that's that's my broader point there.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I appreciate the call, Chris. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I think that's a good admonition. 64 days out. 800-941-SHAWN
if you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
We've got a great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the
Fox News Channel. Just 64 days till the single most
important midterm election in our lives. We have full coverage
of that. We'll give Nancy Grace an opportunity. We'll show
you the tape. of Lindsay Clancy's attorney attacking both her
and myself by name. Give her a chance to react
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after seeing the tape. Brianna Lyman hitting the streets. And news,
I promise you, you won't get from the abusively biased,
corrupt legacy media mob.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
9 Eastern, set your DVR. Hannity on Fox. See you tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Back here tomorrow. Thank you for making this show possible.
All right, News Roundup and Information Overload Hour. Write down
our toll-free telephone number this Monday. It's 800-941-SHAWN if you
want to be a part of the program. We've got
a lot of ground to cover with our friend Miranda Devine,
New York Post columnist, and she also has her podcast.
It's really well done. It's called Pod Force One. She's
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never invited me on. She's only a guest on my program.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I feel like I've been slighted here.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm only teasing, Miranda.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'm really well, Sean.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
And your ears must have been burning because I was
just talking about you with my producer this morning. But
we have to go through the right channels to get
you because, of course, you're a very hot commodity at
Fox News.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You definitely have to go through public relations. However, of course,
I would do anything you wanted. You're a good friend
of the program. Before I get to what I want
to talk to you about, which is this pending midterm election,
and it's coming upon us very, very fast, 64 days away.
I want to first ask you, first, everything that's happening
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in New York, and then it'll be relevant to the
questions I'm asking nationally about the midterms. What is going
on with Kathy Hochul? I mean, I noticed this weekend,
you know, here we are, we're two weeks away from
the 25th anniversary of 9-11-01. And I noticed you retweeted
somebody else's or re-exed somebody else's post that she was
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wearing the hijab for Muslim men. I just, this is
my own personal, I mean, some people may just want
to accommodate the religious beliefs of others.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm not willing to ever do that.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
If I was told, would you mind removing, if I
don't wear jewelry, would you mind removing a cross? I
would never do it under any circumstances. and I'm not
blaming people that decide to do it, but I would
absolutely not accommodate somebody that asked me to cover myself
up or to dress a certain way for me to
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be in the presence of people of a different faith
than mine.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
A hundred percent, Sean, especially in your own country. I mean,
I went to Afghanistan during the war and had to wear,
as a journalist, and had to wear a headscarf when
I was interviewing some of the local villagers just because,
you know, they wouldn't talk to me otherwise.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But can I defend you on that part, though? I
think those are unique circumstances because it was the only
way you could do your job.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Let's be blunt.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
100%.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
And it's their country, okay? But not in your own
country and not when you are representing New York and
you are the governor. If a mosque will not have
you in.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
In the state of New York, will not.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Have the governor in to speak to them without a
headscarf on, then she should say, forget about it. I'm
not coming in. I'm not going to do you the
courtesy of coming and talking to you. She represents New Yorkers.
She does not represent what we do not agree with,
which is the subjugation of women, which is practiced in
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these Islamic countries. And it should not be exported to
this country if you know, if some American women want.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
To wear the scarf, fine.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
You know, it's a free country, but it is a
free country and Kathy Hochul needs to keep it that
way by refusing to bend the knee to what is
really a repressive kind of ideology and especially when it.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Comes to women.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
So what is she going to, you know, are gay
politicians going to go in there and say, oh, throw
me off the rooftop? No, it doesn't work, and it's
just kowtowing and such bad optics just two weeks before
the 25th anniversary of 9-11, which, may I.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Say, her comrade, her partner, Zoran.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Mamdani, who she bends over for and will do whatever
he asks, And she's she's keeping her powder dry a
little bit before the election because Bruce Blakeman is nipping
at her heels. But after the election, if she wins,
she will just give Mamdani everything he wants. And what
he wants is money to pay for his ridiculous big
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government socialist promises.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, I am a big fan of Bruce Blakeman.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I lived in Nassau County, you know, long before I
moved to New York, moved out of New York, rather
moved to Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And I got to tell you something. He is a
phenomenal leader.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I think he is the last best great hope for
New York as a state. I don't know if they'll
ever be able to recover if New York does not
wise up in this midterm and elect Bruce Blakeman as
the next governor. I worry about numbers because many conservatives, Republicans,
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they have packed their bags and they have left. Wall
Street South is bigger than Wall Street. And that means
private equity firms, financial firms. That means all the big banks.
You know, they run from Miami all the way up
to West Palm Beach and beyond. Miranda, you've been down
to Florida enough. You know that's real.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean, it's really sad.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
And New York is not what it used to be,
but it's still New York. And, you know, it's your hometown.
And mine, too.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I mean, I was born in Queens like the president.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Not my hometown anymore. I'm Florida through and through and
have been for years.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yes. Well, you and many others, I guess. It's just
a sad indictment of the kind of leadership that we've
had in New York for a long time. But Bruce Blakeman,
bless his heart, is, as you say, the last great hope.
He would be the most fantastic governor. He would set
things straight and he would put Mamdani back in the
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box he deserves to be in. And I think Look,
there is a chance because a lot of people who
thought Namjani wouldn't be too bad and thought that they
could make accommodations and that he would just be sort of,
I mean, de Blasio is bad and.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
De Blasio have realised that, no, he.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Is a dyed-in-the-wool ideologue, a Marxist-Islamist big government ideologue, and
he doesn't understand business.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
He doesn't care. He just is all about getting.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Popularity with the TikTok crowd. And, you know, that chilling
video that he made out the front of Ken Griffin's
house was is just a terrifying indictment of, I guess,
the voters of New York, the few of them who
bothered to turn out. But I think it's woken up
the rest of us and said, I mean, I always vote,
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but it's woken up those people who sat on their
haunches and did nothing and just were fatalist, that Bruce.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Blakeman has a chance... If.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Only sensible people, you don't have to be a Trump lover,
you just have to vote for Bruce Blakeman as a
check and a balance on the untrammeled power of the
democratic socialists and their big government agenda that is bankrupting
this city.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
All right, quick break, right back more with New York
Post extraordinaire columnist Miranda Devine. We'll get to your calls
on the other side. There's Monday so much to get to. 800-941-SHAWN,
our number.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
All right, our final.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Moments with Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, bestselling author.
You see, you're on the front lines of this. And
I would argue that the same thing I'm saying about
Bruce Blakeman being the last, best, greatest hope for New
York as a state. Steve Hilton, I think, is in
the same position out in California. But you're on the
front lines of this battle of the DSA. And I
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keep telling my audience, you just need only look at
their website, the one that was praising Fidel Castro on
what would have been the anniversary of his 100th birthday,
a mass murderer, a thief that created more misery and
poverty in that country than I think anybody could have
ever imagined. But they are saying, and the AOC acknowledging
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she re-upped her membership last week, that they will eliminate
the U.S. Senate, take away from the people of this
country their ability to pick the president. We have James
Clyburn out there today saying he wants to pack the courts.
And then, of course, they want amnesty for illegals, abolish
the borders, abolish ICE, end all deportation, defund the Department
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of War, which I'm sure that China, Russia... Iran and
North Korea would just love. Eliminate cash bail. Also abolish prisons, police,
public ownership of corporations, establish a wealth tax.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
For the rest of the country now, we have since 2019, Miranda,
we've had 250 DSA people elected. There's over 40 of
them on the ballot. We know many of them. Telefrico
down in Texas. You got El Sayed, you know, all
of these people around the country. You're on the front
lines of living it in New York City with Zoran, Marxist, Kami, Mamdani.
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You cover it so often and so well. What do
you tell the country? Because I'm telling the country that
this is the most important election in your life because
they mean what they say. And when they try to
back off their positions like AOC did, they don't mean that.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
No, they don't mean it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
And they're like, you know, wolves.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
In sheep's clothing before the election.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And with these fake smiles, it's funny how Mamdani and
El-Sayed in Michigan have the same fake smiles. And I
say to people, turn the sound down when you're watching
them on television and you can tell even more clearly
how they lie. It is crystal clear, but for some
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reason the smile and the false promises seem to.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Work, or maybe they don't really work.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Maybe they're just better at organising, community organising, Obama-style, to
get out the vote among the people who are part
of their dependency class. And the problem is that the
more people... that are dependent on the government, which is,
of course, the goal of the big government socialists, the
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more likely they are to entrench their power. Because, you know,
in other countries, you see that you have a vast
number of people on welfare. Then you've got a vast
number of people who have jobs, government jobs, you know,
whether it's, you know, 10 teachers per child that don't
actually teach the child properly or healthcare jobs that don't
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exist because they're all ripped off Medicare fraud. And so
you've got all those government jobs. And then on top
of that, you have sort of private companies, but they
also rely on government contracts and nepotism for their income.
So you end up with this tipping point of More
than 50% of people dependent on the government. And then
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you are stuck with these socialists for life. And who's
paying for it? The dwindling number of taxpayers who are productive,
who are self-reliant, that are living the American dream.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Fewer and fewer of those.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
And of course, Joe Biden increased the number of dependents
on the government when he flung open the border.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Saying, to 10 million people, pretty much from the... Or
20 million.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Between 10 and 20 million, mainly from the third world.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Also terrorists and, you know... malfeasance from China and so on.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
So the Democratic Party has been taken over for a
long time and they're trying to have this demarcation between
themselves and their radical left faction, but they enabled and
emboldened those people. Nancy Pelosi allowed them to grow on
her watch and they've now taken over the Democratic Party
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and honestly, Democrats don't care. A few of them, like Fetterman,
might say they do, but they don't because all they
care about is power. They don't care about the country.
Donald Trump loves the country and that's why.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
People love him and vote for him.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
No matter what he says, he might say things that
people don't like, but he loves this country and he
really genuinely sacrificed to make America great again. And he's
doing his best against a lot of heavy opposition from
the media and from, you know, the left and from
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even turncoats in his own side. And it's incredible the
results that they've got from a really stellar cabinet compared
to his first term. You know, people like Scott Besant's
right there now at the G20 level. Just brilliant people
who are doing a good job for America.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And I hope that people's memories are long and they.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Do remember what it was like under Joe Biden. And
we cannot afford to go back again.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I can't say it any better. We appreciate you more
than you know. Our friend Miranda Devine. Miranda, thank you.
By the way, are you planning on having Hunter on
your show, considering you wrote a best-selling book?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Well, look, I have issued the invitation to him on X.
I got absolutely no response. And I've had a standing
invitation for years. two or three years with Kevin Morris,
his sugar brother, who sort of laughed at me when
I first broached it. But now Hunter is doing every podcast.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Under the sun. He should do Pod Force.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
One, but I'm someone who, unlike the other people he's
been talking to, actually knows the facts and knows that
He lies just like his dad. Every sentence contains a lie.
So he probably doesn't want to be fact-checked as we
go because I would not be able to restrain myself.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
All right. We appreciate it. Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell,
top-selling book. We appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
800-941-SHAWN.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
This Monday, you want to be a part of the program.
We hit our phones when we get back. Let's go
to Jack. He is in Massachusetts. Jack, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Sean, it's been 20 years since I've been trying to
get a hold of you, Sean. Thank God.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh, my goodness. It took you that long to get through?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, I tried, but, you know, between work and the
hours you're on, it's difficult. I tried for over 20
years to get through the rush. Of course.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I mean, I guess I'm tying Russia's record about 20 years.
But thank you for trying. Thank you for listening. We're
glad you're out there and take your time. What's on
your mind today?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
OK, Sean, I want to make two comments about two
different subjects. One is the trial in Massachusetts here. I'm
pretty close to it. I was a therapist for many,
many years. And there was I must say there was
absolutely no way, zero possibility that that when this woman
committed those atrocious acts, she was acting insane. She was
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acting not sane. She was insane. And let me tell
you why. I heard Nancy Grace, very disappointed at what
she had to say. A person can have a foundation
of insanity, but they can act sane to you and I.
They can say, well, I sent my husband out. And
the reason she sent her husband out was because she
firmly believed that that she was going to take her
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kids to heaven with her. And she believed that that
act was in God's name. And so she acted sane
to get rid of her husband so he wouldn't see
this cottage and he wouldn't prevent her from taking that action.
Excuse me, Sean, that's insanity. Can I.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Ask you a question about your comment?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
By definition, if you're capable of killing somebody, isn't there,
by definition, some degree of insanity involved in every murder?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, not really, because you have professional killers who rationalize
that they're killing somebody for money. That's their job, and
they separate their emotions from anything that they do.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, but that's not, maybe I'm phrasing the question the
wrong way.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It's certainly not normal. People, I would argue, if you
have a heart, a soul, a conscience, it would forbid
you from killing another innocent person, wouldn't it?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well, normal people think that way. You and I think
that way.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well, slow down. Key word, normal people.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Okay, but there are people that are not normal.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But there are people who rationalize, who live in a
normal world. There are professional killers out there who live
amongst us. You would never know we're professional killers. You
would never know that because they act very normally. as
you and I would paint normal. So you and I
can't put our minds around that, that you and I
would never kill somebody just to kill them. We might
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kill somebody in self-defense, but that's what any normal person
would do.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I don't want to get into a word parsing scheme. Okay,
go ahead. I got your point. I'm not disagreeing.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
In my opinion, the people to blame for what Ms.
Clancy did was the psychiatrist and the people who prescribed
all those antidepressants because she was giving way, way too
many drugs to handle her mind and her brain.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You do know that all those drugs were not in
her system, even though she had been on and off
a lot of them, right?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Correct, correct. But in my opinion, there is no way,
in my honest opinion and my professional opinion, a person
could kill her own three kids after having been a
normal mother before that for a few years. There's just
absolutely no way, in my opinion, she was sane when
she killed those three kids. On the line, that was
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a total insanity. She believed that her kids were going
to go to heaven and that she was going to
follow them. And that's what made her do the other thing.
So when they talk about— when the prosecution talks about— She
planned this, and she did this, and she was on
the right mind. But underlying that right mind that they
would call the sane mind was insanity. The whole thing
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was insane. The way she think, the way she lived,
it was insane. And nobody will ever change my opinion
about that. But can I ask you something else, one
more thing?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I've listened to you for so many years. I love
when you have these great interviews on. You're a great interviewer.
But I have a couple of complaints about you about–
A couple of times last week or two weeks ago
when you interviewed John Fetterman from Pennsylvania. It really it
really bothered me. I wanted to scream at you and
I love you, but I wanted to scream at you
because you let him get away with everything. He is
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not what you would call a moderate. He's not a
man of common sense. Have you seen his voting record
in Congress and the Senate?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I'm very aware of it. I've made no bones about it.
He votes mostly with the Democrats, but on some very,
very key issues.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
He has.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
He's been the only Democrat.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
He represents like the old style Democrats and everyone else
in his party is either adopting this DSA radical agenda
or they don't have the moral clarity and courage to
speak up. And he is challenging them on virulent anti-Semitism,
challenging them on national security issues and the right of
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the president to make those decisions based on intelligence. He's
the rational one. And I'm not saying I agree with
everything he says. He's also a very nice man. And
I like that part of him as well. I have
a personal relationship with him, but I don't agree with
everything that he says.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Now, Sean Castro, everybody loved Castro in Cuba at first.
He was a nice man. But look how what he
turned out to be. My point is because a person.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Well, he's the one that's challenging the crazy in his party.
And for that, you get a lot of props for me.
But you want me to like get in a big
fight over him, over, you know, him remaining a Democrat.
We've had discussions both on and off the air about it.
I'm never going to convince him at least. I'm not
going to convince him, but maybe time will convince him.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm going to prove my point before I hang up.
Number one, he voted against the big, beautiful bill. He
voted far higher taxes for Americans. He voted against voter ID.
He voted against Todd Blanch, and he's voted against many
of the things. He voted against... Excluding men from women's sports.
In other words, he voted for keeping men in women's sports. Now,
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tell me that's a moderate. That's a far out liberal.
But to his face, you never brought it up to him,
his voting record. I've seen your interviews with him.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
If you want me to get into areas that we
disagree on, I'll be glad to.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You know, there's been a broader conversation that maybe has
been more my focus. And I'll take this as as
constructive criticism. And that is nobody is condemning the the
rise of radicalism in the party except for him. Nobody
is criticizing the virulent anti-Semitism.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Except for him.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Nobody is championing the rights of the president of the
United States to be the commander in chief on that
in that party except for him. Yeah, I just I
just accept that he's an old school Democrat. And, yeah,
we could spend our time arguing about that. But I
don't think that's the biggest threat that we have facing
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our country right now or what it will define this
midterm election. The radicals have taken over his party. And
I think he deserves a lot of credit for taking
having the moral courage to call them out regularly by
name and stand with Republicans, not on every issue, as
you rightly point out, but on very key issues. Is
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there room for for the two of us to have
the debate you're looking for?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Sure. And will I do that in the future? I will.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But I'm just telling you that these other people are
so nuts that that is a paramount concern, especially 64
days out of an election. I'll give you the last word, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Sean, he's taking the easy way out. Everybody who wants
Israel to survive.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
He's not taking the easy way out. He's getting killed
in the polls by Democrats in Pennsylvania. There's nothing easy
about what he's doing. He's getting killed.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Men and women sports, Sean.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
You're repeating yourself. I got your point. I'm conceding it.
Why do you have to shove it down my throat?
I'm conceding your point. But I am saying one other
thing to you. He's getting crushed by the Democrats in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has paid a huge political
price for what he did. And you don't want to
concede one thing that he's done as different and unique.
(23:33):
And in this day and age, frankly, he's like a
voice in the wilderness for the crazy Democrats. You don't
want to acknowledge one single point on that. I'm acknowledging
your points. I disagree with them on every issue you mentioned.
You won't acknowledge that this man is taking a massive
political hit for his stands?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
He's taken a massive political hit from his.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So you got you got it. You got to balance it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
From his socialist friends, but not from people.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
From his entire party, his entire base. He is he
is willing to put his career on the line here.
I've seen this very rarely. Joe Lieberman was a guy
like him. I like Joe Lieberman a lot, but I
didn't agree with him on social policies on anything. Foreign policy, yes.
Other policies, no. But I think you need to, I'm
agreeing with you. I'll look at the other side of it.
(24:21):
But I think you need to look at what this
guy's put on the line in terms of political ambition.
He's not your typical politician in that way. Anyway, I
appreciate the call. 800-941-SHAWN if you want to be a
part of the program. You know, when I see that
people are willing to do things that they are going
to pay a huge political price for, I have a
(24:43):
natural admiration for them. And I think that's what Fetterman
has done here. Agree on every issue?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Not even close.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But do I think that it has been courageous for
him to challenge the insanity that's emerged in his party? Anti-Semitism?
The right of a president to be commander-in-chief? Those are
not small issues. The right to take out Iran and
their ability to have nuclear weapons, sure. On the issue
of men playing women's sports, I wish we did agree.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
We don't.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Anyway, back to our phones. Clint in South Dakota. Clint,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
How you doing, Sean?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Well, Fetterman's pretty awesome, so I have a lot of
respect for that guy.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Got to be going through an absolute hell right now.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You look at his polls.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Democrats, if he has a Democratic primary challenger and he
will win, He will lose as of today.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That sucks.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I mean, I could see him maybe pulling a Joe
Lieberman running as an independent.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I think he'd win.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We don't have something that we need more of, which
is political courage. And for that reason, I'm willing to
have the discussions with him because you can have reasonable
debate with him. But unless we defeat crazy in 64 days,
none of this matters. Crazy is what I'm worried about.
You know, as much as I disagree and as nutty,
(26:01):
I would even characterize some of his positions. He's not
one of the crazies, and that's a big deal. All right,
let's get to the other point, Clint. What else do
you want to add?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Well, AI.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I have a little problem with AI, I think. I mean,
I love the technology. I think it's pretty cool. I
think it's doing a lot of good.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
But I think people are going to use it for
the wrong reasons.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
And I think it's going to take a lot of
jobs away from the workers.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You're kind of breaking up with me. Look, AI, look,
any technology could be used for good or evil. Anything
involving the human race could be used for.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Good or evil. That was a problem.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Anyway, 800-941-SHAWN, our number. Let us say hello to Chris in,
where is he?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Maryland. Chris, how are you? Glad you called. Happy Monday.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Thank you. How are you, Sean?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I'm good, sir. Glad you called.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Hey, I wanted to– I've.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Been hearing– I don't know if the Republicans are having
trouble refuting some of the DSA people, but when I
hear them speak, I'm like, man, I wish Republicans would
push back on some of this stuff. So just the
premise would be that communism, number one, it's anti-God and
anti-Christianity because it demands your total allegiance to the state
and not to God or family. So I feel like
(27:14):
if they would operate from that premise, they would have
a lot more things to say to these DSA people.
You know, people who are running for office everywhere and
getting elected apparently. So, I mean, yeah, just stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Let's see.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
What else did I want to say here?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
OK.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Also, I heard one of these DSA people. They were like, yeah,
but if you let capitalism run wild, then guess what?
We're just going to have monopolies and it's just going
to be like crazy. But the Republicans should be able
to say we already have laws against monopolies. You know,
we don't want monopolies either. So, yes, government should be
should be big enough to protect us from our enemies.
And national defense is a big part of our conservatism.
(27:53):
But it should be small enough to where it's not.
And it should also be big enough to protect us
from monopolies, but small enough to where it's not interfering
in our lives and picking winners and losers and, you know,
getting in the way of us pursuing our happiness. So,
you know, really, that's that's my broader point there.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I appreciate the call, Chris. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I think that's a good admonition. 64 days out. 800-941-SHAWN
if you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
We've got a great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the
Fox News Channel. Just 64 days till the single most
important midterm election in our lives. We have full coverage
of that. We'll give Nancy Grace an opportunity. We'll show
you the tape. of Lindsay Clancy's attorney attacking both her
and myself by name. Give her a chance to react
(28:42):
after seeing the tape. Brianna Lyman hitting the streets. And news,
I promise you, you won't get from the abusively biased,
corrupt legacy media mob.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
9 Eastern, set your DVR. Hannity on Fox. See you tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Back here tomorrow. Thank you for making this show possible.
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