September 11, 2026 • 31 mins
Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik joins Sean to reflect on how music can preserve the memory and meaning of September 11th. John looks back on performing at the Concert for New York City, the firefighters and families who inspired him, and why his song “Tuesday” remains a plea to never let the lessons of 9/11 fade. Sean and John also discuss the rise of anti-Semitism, threats to Western civilization, and why remembering the courage of first responders and Flight 93 is about more than history. It is a reminder of what America must still be willing to defend. :::
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In a moment, we'll be joined by my friend John Andrasik. He,
of course, with Five for Fighting. You know his songs,
The Riddle, Hundred Years, Superman.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You've heard them all. You love them all.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Maybe one of the most unique voices in all of music.
And he's also a personal friend of ours. And we
think the world of him. If you go back to
October of 2009, he released a song called Tuesday. which
was a musical plea to never forget the lessons of 9-11-01.
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And in a minute, I'll play that song for you. And,
you know, is Monday coming back? That's what Mondays do.
They turn and turn around, afraid to see it through.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Welcome to Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And, you know, he was one of the performers that
you might recall, Paul McCartney, Sir Paul McCartney, had a
concert for New York City. And he was part of
that concert. He called it one of the greatest honors
of his life, spending that day and sharing the stage
with all these heroic first responders and firemen. And much
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of the audience at Madison Square Garden consisted of firefighters, police,
rescue workers, others that had spent months, you know, you know,
sifting through the rubble and the carnage of Ground Zero.
not knowing they were exposing themselves to a lot of toxins.
Many of them died as a result. 9-11 related illnesses
are very, very real. You know, it just is what
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it is. It's so sad for the families, which is
why we have, you know, our friend Frank Siller, who's
so good in remembering all of those that have been
impacted by this. But this is what he sang at
Madison Square Garden that night.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Let me play a little bit of Superman.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I wish that I could cry, fall upon my knees,
find a way to lie about a home I'll never see.
It may sound absurd, but don't be naive. Even heroes
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have the right to bleed. I may be.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Disturbed, but won't you conceive Even heroes have the right
to dream.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And it's not easy to be me.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
A broken away, away from me. Well, it's all right.
You can all sleep sound tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm not crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So that is one of his hit songs. He has
so many of them. I couldn't even list them if
I wanted to. So he writes this op-ed. And in
the op-ed, he talked about the song that he released
called Tuesday. And he released this in October of 2009.
And it really is an anthem, a musical plea to
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never forget the lessons of 9-11-01. My greatest fear is
we've forgotten. I watched the rise of virulent anti-Semitism in
this country and around the world. We see it on
college campuses, in the halls of Congress. We hear it
on the airwaves. We see it all around the world.
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And all Israel was doing after October 7th, they lost
1,200 of their citizens that day. It's a very small country.
It's about the size of New Jersey. and extrapolate out
their population versus ours. And you're looking at, you know,
the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day. And
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so he released this song is, you know, please never
forget the lessons of that day. And here's that song.
It's called Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
One year like any old other year In a week
like any week Monday lying down Half asleep People doing
what people do Loving walking and getting through No portraits
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on the walls of 7th Avenue The Tuesday came and
went Like a helicopter overhead The letter that she left One,
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one September wind, will she come again?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
The thing about memories, they're short.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
This Monday coming back. Well, that's what Mondays do. They
turn and turn around. Afraid to see it through. Tuesday
keep me awake like a helicopter overhead.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
John Andrasik, and what was another hit song of his,
he joins us now. He actually writes in his editorial,
25 years after 9-11, America finds itself in another battle.
This one for the soul of our nation. More broadly,
the future of Western civilization. The threats are not identical
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to those we faced in 01, but they are real.
Radical Islamists remain a global threat. Anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, extremism, you know,
increasingly finding expression across the ideological spectrum. Ideas once confined
to society's fringes now travel instantly and with little consequence
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through universities, political movements, and social media.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The enemy is in the.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Building and time is not on our side. That's why
never forget cannot be a slogan printed on a bumper
sticker and repeated once every September.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's an obligation. It's our obligation.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And we have a duty to teach our children what
happened on September 11th, 01, about the evil fanatics that
attacked us, why they attacked us and the carnage of
what unchecked extremism can produce. Never forget means something more.
It means remembering the best of us. It means telling
our children that, about the firefighters that climbed stairwells while
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everyone else was running down and the police officers and
the paramedics and ordinary citizens who ran towards collapsing infernos
to save people they had never met and the passengers
of flight 93 who understood what was happening and knowing
the probable cost and fought back. They represent the best
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of humanity. 25 years later, Their courage should still challenge
and inspire us. Their sacrifice should remind us that America
is not sustained merely by institutions, elections, or slogans. It
survives because generation after generation chooses to defend the principles
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that made the country worth defending. Memories fade, history becomes distant,
and Tuesdays come and go. But some Tuesdays must never
be forgotten. May the memory of those we lost and
the example of the heroes of September 11th, 01, give
us strength and courage and fortitude to fight for every
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American every single day, especially Tuesdays for the next 250 years.
Let's roll. John Andrasik joins us now, sir. Well, You know,
we've been friends a long time, and one of the
reasons we really are friends is I admire your heart,
your patriotism, your passion, and your ability to communicate through music,
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which I believe is far more powerful than any spoken word.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Well, thank you, Sean.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Always a pleasure to join you.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I can't believe it's been 25 years, and kind of
to what you were just talking about, On Wednesday, I
performed Superman at the New York Firefighters Memorial in Staten Island.
And I flashed right back to the concert for New York.
The stories, the heroes, meeting with the families. But there
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was one difference. There was about four or five 25-,
30-year-old men and women that I met. And like so
many folks there, their father, a firefighter, had been killed
in 9-11. But, Sean, those people were firefighters. They had
joined the fire department. So talking about generations continuing the
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best of us, that gave me inspiration. That gave me
hope and, frankly, brought a little tear to my eye.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You know, go back to the night of the concert
that was put on. And I think that moment did
transcend politics because there were a lot of people that
are very outspoken politically on the left saying, But they
they did attend and they did share in the experience
and they did honor our first responders and our police
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and our firefighters and paramedics. That had to be a
special night just just in that regard, because here we
are 25 years later.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
And you're right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I mean, what's on the ballot in 53 days, as
far as I'm concerned, is a battle for the future
of of this country and you know, with America, so
goes the rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And that means Western civilization.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Well, it was an incredible night. You know, any other
day in my life would have been, you know, just,
you know, the happiest day of my life to play
with every living icon on that stage with Paul McCartney
and Elton John and Billy Joel. And of course, that
night had nothing to do with that. It was about
the firefighters and about the families who lost loved ones. And,
you know, Sean, you mentioned how music can transcend like
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nothing else. And It wasn't my performance that I remember,
but it was The Who when they came out, and
they blew the roof off Madison Square Garden. And as
you mentioned, most of those 20,000 people had been down
at Ground Zero, wading through the rubble. They haven't had
a chance to release, to express themselves. And I looked out,
and there's people hugging and screaming and crying and singing
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at the top of their lungs. When I sang Superman,
I looked out, and there was this big, burly union
worker with two beers in each hand saying, crying, singing
Superman with me through the whole song. And I'm like,
all right, this is why matters. Music matters. And this transcends.
And yeah, and to your point, all of those icons,
they stood for America after Bin Laden attacked us. But unfortunately,
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after October 7th, where are they? Crickets. They're not college
students who've been indoctrinated. They know better. And that's just
another example of how things have changed and how we
have to Reverse this course of timidity and cowardice and
stand up for what's right. Those folks know. Springsteen knows.
Bono knows.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I will name names.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
And they have been quiet, and they need to speak
up or shut up because they've been telling us for
years that they're kind of the moral leaders of our world.
But where have they gone, Sean? That's what I wonder.
Where did they go? Tuesdays come and went. Seems like
they have too.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I really can't say it any better. John, we love you.
You are a national treasure. We really appreciate you. We're
going to put up both songs on Hannity.com. We'll put
it on social media so people can listen to it.
And what you do matters, and your moral clarity matters,
and your passion is infectious, and we appreciate you more
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than you know.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Well, I love you, my friend, and just want to
let folks know that tonight I will be singing Superman
between the two light beams that are shooting into the
heavens in New York City.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
On ABC.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
So that will bring a lot of hope and recognition
to our heroes and our families. And thank you for
leading every day. You never forget, Sean, and I know
you never will.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I wish I and there's a part of me that
wishes I could. I wish evil didn't exist, but I
have to face the truth. John Andrasik, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
America will never forget.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
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25 years. And then in the days thereafter, there were
a couple of amazing songs written to remind us about
what happened 25 years ago today. Here again, Daryl Worley,
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have you forgotten? And I ask all of you, have
you forgotten?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Americans do not yet have the distance of history, but
our responsibility to.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
History is already clear.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
To answer these attacks and rid.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
The world of evil.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We don't need this war.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
We protest this war, and it's not a war, actually,
it's a slaughter.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
But I say there's some things worth fighting for.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
We are very grateful and thankful that we live in
a country where there's freedom of speech, that people who
are either for or against a war can speak out.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
What about our freedom? Everything just went black. And this
piece of ground? Everything came down.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
We didn't get to keep them.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
My back and down glass are popping and people got hurt.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Oh, there it goes.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
There it goes.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
There it goes. Boy, you start your preaching. Let me
ask you this, my friend. Have you forgotten?
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh, the next building. There's another one.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Another plane just flew in.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
I feel the heat.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
The explosion is incredible.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Have you forgotten?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I saw this plane come out of nowhere and just scream.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Right into the side of the Twin Tower, exploding through
the other side.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
There's been an act of war declared upon America by terrorists.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Have you forgotten?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I can hear you.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The rest of the world hears you.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear
all of us soon. Have you forgotten about our pentagon?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
It's so hot.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I'm burning up. Help!
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Help!
Speaker 12 (19:50):
There are dozens of residents that are sitting on the
hill behind the Pentagon, almost like they're waiting for the
4th of July fireworks, but instead they're staring dumbfounded at
what looks like a war zone.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
I mean, you see bodies flying out of the sky
and you can't do nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You tell me. There's no words to describe what's going
on out there. Have you forgotten?
Speaker 8 (20:10):
America is a nation full of good fortune. We have
so much to be grateful for, but we are not
spared from suffering. In every generation, the world has produced
enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America. Because we
are freedom's home and defender.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Have you forgotten?
Speaker 8 (20:28):
And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling
of our time.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
USA!
Speaker 4 (20:31):
USA!
Speaker 8 (20:34):
USA!
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's our friend Darrell Worley. You know what?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I think, unfortunately, probably too many have forgotten. All right,
joining us now, our friend Don Lake, Ron Conkama. Don,
glad you're with us. Happy Friday, and welcome aboard, sir.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Hi, Sean. Thank you so much for taking my call
on this solemn 9-11 remembrance day. You know, every year,
we have so many memories come flooding back, the nervousness
we felt in the aftermath of 9-11. And I remember
seeing the Army helicopters flying low over Long Island, probably
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to protect Brookhaven National Labs. I remember how our air
travel was completely changed. I remember children in our neighborhood
lost their parents. I remember your reports with Alan Combs
at Ground Zero. And I remember the freedom concerts that
came afterwards to raise awareness of these brave soldiers that
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went to fight for freedom. But today, Sean, this 25th
year of September 11th reminds me that radical Islam is
still a huge part of our lives. We can't ignore it,
and we have to address it. And I salute President
Trump for doing everything he can because it's still, like
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I said, a huge part of our lives, and it's
not going away right away.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
When the president, when I was in Dallas yesterday, and
the president addressed the crowd and brought up the issue
of whether or not Iran should ever be allowed a
nuclear weapon, it was complete agreement.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Who would disagree with that?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't even consider this, quote, a war as it
is described by some. I consider this a massacre.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Did they strike here, there or strike some of our
allies in the region and the Gulf states?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yes, they have.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But at the end of the day, Iran will never
have a nuclear weapon. There's only one reason why. And
that reason is Donald Trump. And Donald Trump just said enough.
their fervor to get that weapon of mass destruction. You know,
we have been following it for decades and appeasement clearly
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did not work. JCPOA and Barack Hussein Obama was insane
because we dropped, what, billions of dollars in cash and
other currency and cargo planes on their tarmac for the mullahs. Gee,
thank you very much. We bought no goodwill with that money.
We wasted American taxpayer money in the process. So you
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can't negotiate with evil.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I wrote a whole book about it, Don.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Deliver us from evil, defeating terrorism, despotism and liberalism, because
you have to win the political wars if you want
the right mindset in charge that will will understand and
have moral clarity of of the times that we're living in.
And I just think it's hard for some good people
to wrap their arms and mind around the fact that
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there's evil. There is evil and evil exists. There's good.
There's a lot of good. There are a lot of
good people. However, and I think America generally is a
good country with genuinely good people. The heart and soul
of this country is full of good people. But, however,
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there's those that want to bring harm to you and
your children, which is why you have to be prepared
and you have to have an alarm system and you
have to have a means of protecting yourself and your family.
And and, you know, in the broader sense, you know,
we've got to understand these countries that chant death to America,
death to Israel.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
They mean what they say.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
All right, my friend, God bless you and appreciate you
more than you know. Gary is in my free state
of Florida. Gary, how are you? By the way, there's
no place like home as great as Dallas was.
Speaker 13 (24:36):
Hi, Sean.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
Thanks for taking my call. Excuse me, I'm going to
change the subject today. I did watch all of the
TV shows today. They were wonderful. But I have a
very quick question for you. Will the proposed $ 5, 000 payment
that President Trump is proposing for every adult American citizen
be means-tested? And the reason I ask you that question
is because my wife and I are a married couple.
We file jointly. We make about $ 200, 000 a year. We
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are still paying the full amount of our taxes on
our Social Security because we have hit a level where
our income is too high, so we don't qualify for
it at all. We never also got a dime from
the COVID relief funds at all because we were phased
out because our income was too high. So I just
wanted to ask you. Since you have conversations with the president,
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has he talked to you at all about is this
going to be phased out or is it going to
be means tested where some people will get it, some
will get a reduced amount, some will get none?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Well, it's not means tested.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Republicans have to win the House and Senate for this
to happen. And they they have to win it in
53 days. This is for adult U.S. citizens only. That
would exclude illegals.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
And by the way, likely U.S. citizens living abroad.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
The other caveat, which I found interesting when I looked
a little deeper into it, is the dividend that we're
talking about has to be spent in the U.S. and
the GOP midterm victory. That's what that's my understanding of it.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
How do you police spending in the U.S.? Then you
have to prove what you spent it on or you
can't bank it. You can't you can't save it or
pay off a loan or you. So you would have
to prove.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I don't think there's any restrictions if you want to
save it. As a matter of fact, I'd highly suggest
to some people if you don't have a lot of savings.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I mean, it is tragic.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
If I didn't live this way during my life, I
don't think I'd have as great an understanding as I do.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
But.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
When you are living paycheck to paycheck, which I did
for many, many years in my early adult life, it's hard,
you can't save money, you're just barely surviving. So I
think for those people, it might be a window of
opportunity to put maybe part of that money away for
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a rainy day. Most people, if you look at some
studies and statistics that have come out over the years,
show that a lot of Americans they cannot survive one
major setback financially in their life.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
If their car breaks down, for example. True.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I've lived that life. I bought cars for as low.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
As $ 200.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I remember buying a car, a van for 200 bucks.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And it was my work van for years.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I remember buying a Ford Maverick 1971 and fixing it
all myself. for 350 bucks, you know? So, you know,
for people that are struggling, I hope they'll consider saving
some money if they can, but I'm not saying they can.
And maybe they pay off debt. Maybe, maybe they get,
get rid of high interest credit card debt. That would
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be helpful too.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right, my friend got a role, man. Gary, appreciate you.
Illinois George next this Friday on the Sean Hannity show.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
What's up, George? How are you? Glad you called.
Speaker 13 (27:56):
Thank you, buddy. Yeah, I just wanted to call and
chime in on this. Yesterday I heard all the liberal media,
you know, Trump's trying to bribe for voters. And I
just want to remind them that all these illegals that
got brought here, they were bribed to get here. They
took housing and they took health care and they got
all these credit cards that they were just able to
get here. And then what did they get in return? Votes.
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So Democrats have bribed voters. So I just want to
point that out because that is not what Trump did.
We all know it's a dividend, but they want to
make an issue out of it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well, let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we,
for those people that are making that claim. Look, supply-side
economics teaches us that if you give more money back
to the American people, it increases revenues to the government.
That's not an argument most liberals want to hear.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But let's go back to, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
The cognitively impaired Joe Biden argument and him offering $ 2, 000.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Listen.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
One state can chart the course, not just for the
next four years, but for the next generation.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
By electing John.
Speaker 11 (29:03):
And the Reverend, you can make an immediate difference in
your own lives, the lives of the people all across
this country, because their election will put an end to
the block in Washington, that $ 2, 000 stimulus check, that money
that will go out the door immediately, tell people.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Who are in real trouble. Nobody then called it a bribe.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
The question I have for anybody, and I know online
there's been some criticism, you know, I can only remind
people that when Reagan dropped the top marginal rate for
70 to 28 percent, you know, the belief was that
that would decrease revenues to the government. Just the opposite happened.
Revenues doubled. The problem was that Congress spent more money.
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We've got to get a hold of spending, but stimulating
the economy is not the way to do it. That
actually results in more revenues to the government, and I'll
stand by that to the day I die.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I appreciate you, man. Thanks, George.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
America will never forget. This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Hannity Tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We
are fully remembering 9-11. We have Michael Waltz will join
us tonight. Also, Bruce Blakeman, who's doing really well in
the polls in New York, will join us.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Much more.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Set your DVR. Hannity Tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox. Have
a great weekend. Love and prayers to the families that
lost loved ones, either on 9-11 or in the aftermath.
because of 9-11 in some way, shape, manner, or form
our prayers with all of you and your families.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
God bless you all. Have a great weekend. We'll see
you on Monday.
In a moment, we'll be joined by my friend John Andrasik. He,
of course, with Five for Fighting. You know his songs,
The Riddle, Hundred Years, Superman.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You've heard them all. You love them all.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Maybe one of the most unique voices in all of music.
And he's also a personal friend of ours. And we
think the world of him. If you go back to
October of 2009, he released a song called Tuesday. which
was a musical plea to never forget the lessons of 9-11-01.
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And in a minute, I'll play that song for you. And,
you know, is Monday coming back? That's what Mondays do.
They turn and turn around, afraid to see it through.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Welcome to Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And, you know, he was one of the performers that
you might recall, Paul McCartney, Sir Paul McCartney, had a
concert for New York City. And he was part of
that concert. He called it one of the greatest honors
of his life, spending that day and sharing the stage
with all these heroic first responders and firemen. And much
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of the audience at Madison Square Garden consisted of firefighters, police,
rescue workers, others that had spent months, you know, you know,
sifting through the rubble and the carnage of Ground Zero.
not knowing they were exposing themselves to a lot of toxins.
Many of them died as a result. 9-11 related illnesses
are very, very real. You know, it just is what
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it is. It's so sad for the families, which is
why we have, you know, our friend Frank Siller, who's
so good in remembering all of those that have been
impacted by this. But this is what he sang at
Madison Square Garden that night.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Let me play a little bit of Superman.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I wish that I could cry, fall upon my knees,
find a way to lie about a home I'll never see.
It may sound absurd, but don't be naive. Even heroes
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have the right to bleed. I may be.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Disturbed, but won't you conceive Even heroes have the right
to dream.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And it's not easy to be me.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
A broken away, away from me. Well, it's all right.
You can all sleep sound tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm not crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So that is one of his hit songs. He has
so many of them. I couldn't even list them if
I wanted to. So he writes this op-ed. And in
the op-ed, he talked about the song that he released
called Tuesday. And he released this in October of 2009.
And it really is an anthem, a musical plea to
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never forget the lessons of 9-11-01. My greatest fear is
we've forgotten. I watched the rise of virulent anti-Semitism in
this country and around the world. We see it on
college campuses, in the halls of Congress. We hear it
on the airwaves. We see it all around the world.
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And all Israel was doing after October 7th, they lost
1,200 of their citizens that day. It's a very small country.
It's about the size of New Jersey. and extrapolate out
their population versus ours. And you're looking at, you know,
the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day. And
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so he released this song is, you know, please never
forget the lessons of that day. And here's that song.
It's called Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
One year like any old other year In a week
like any week Monday lying down Half asleep People doing
what people do Loving walking and getting through No portraits
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on the walls of 7th Avenue The Tuesday came and
went Like a helicopter overhead The letter that she left One,
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one September wind, will she come again?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
The thing about memories, they're short.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
This Monday coming back. Well, that's what Mondays do. They
turn and turn around. Afraid to see it through. Tuesday
keep me awake like a helicopter overhead.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
John Andrasik, and what was another hit song of his,
he joins us now. He actually writes in his editorial,
25 years after 9-11, America finds itself in another battle.
This one for the soul of our nation. More broadly,
the future of Western civilization. The threats are not identical
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to those we faced in 01, but they are real.
Radical Islamists remain a global threat. Anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, extremism, you know,
increasingly finding expression across the ideological spectrum. Ideas once confined
to society's fringes now travel instantly and with little consequence
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through universities, political movements, and social media.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The enemy is in the.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Building and time is not on our side. That's why
never forget cannot be a slogan printed on a bumper
sticker and repeated once every September.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's an obligation. It's our obligation.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And we have a duty to teach our children what
happened on September 11th, 01, about the evil fanatics that
attacked us, why they attacked us and the carnage of
what unchecked extremism can produce. Never forget means something more.
It means remembering the best of us. It means telling
our children that, about the firefighters that climbed stairwells while
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everyone else was running down and the police officers and
the paramedics and ordinary citizens who ran towards collapsing infernos
to save people they had never met and the passengers
of flight 93 who understood what was happening and knowing
the probable cost and fought back. They represent the best
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of humanity. 25 years later, Their courage should still challenge
and inspire us. Their sacrifice should remind us that America
is not sustained merely by institutions, elections, or slogans. It
survives because generation after generation chooses to defend the principles
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that made the country worth defending. Memories fade, history becomes distant,
and Tuesdays come and go. But some Tuesdays must never
be forgotten. May the memory of those we lost and
the example of the heroes of September 11th, 01, give
us strength and courage and fortitude to fight for every
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American every single day, especially Tuesdays for the next 250 years.
Let's roll. John Andrasik joins us now, sir. Well, You know,
we've been friends a long time, and one of the
reasons we really are friends is I admire your heart,
your patriotism, your passion, and your ability to communicate through music,
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which I believe is far more powerful than any spoken word.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Well, thank you, Sean.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Always a pleasure to join you.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I can't believe it's been 25 years, and kind of
to what you were just talking about, On Wednesday, I
performed Superman at the New York Firefighters Memorial in Staten Island.
And I flashed right back to the concert for New York.
The stories, the heroes, meeting with the families. But there
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was one difference. There was about four or five 25-,
30-year-old men and women that I met. And like so
many folks there, their father, a firefighter, had been killed
in 9-11. But, Sean, those people were firefighters. They had
joined the fire department. So talking about generations continuing the
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best of us, that gave me inspiration. That gave me
hope and, frankly, brought a little tear to my eye.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You know, go back to the night of the concert
that was put on. And I think that moment did
transcend politics because there were a lot of people that
are very outspoken politically on the left saying, But they
they did attend and they did share in the experience
and they did honor our first responders and our police
(11:47):
and our firefighters and paramedics. That had to be a
special night just just in that regard, because here we
are 25 years later.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
And you're right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I mean, what's on the ballot in 53 days, as
far as I'm concerned, is a battle for the future
of of this country and you know, with America, so
goes the rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And that means Western civilization.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Well, it was an incredible night. You know, any other
day in my life would have been, you know, just,
you know, the happiest day of my life to play
with every living icon on that stage with Paul McCartney
and Elton John and Billy Joel. And of course, that
night had nothing to do with that. It was about
the firefighters and about the families who lost loved ones. And,
you know, Sean, you mentioned how music can transcend like
(12:32):
nothing else. And It wasn't my performance that I remember,
but it was The Who when they came out, and
they blew the roof off Madison Square Garden. And as
you mentioned, most of those 20,000 people had been down
at Ground Zero, wading through the rubble. They haven't had
a chance to release, to express themselves. And I looked out,
and there's people hugging and screaming and crying and singing
(12:54):
at the top of their lungs. When I sang Superman,
I looked out, and there was this big, burly union
worker with two beers in each hand saying, crying, singing
Superman with me through the whole song. And I'm like,
all right, this is why matters. Music matters. And this transcends.
And yeah, and to your point, all of those icons,
they stood for America after Bin Laden attacked us. But unfortunately,
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after October 7th, where are they? Crickets. They're not college
students who've been indoctrinated. They know better. And that's just
another example of how things have changed and how we
have to Reverse this course of timidity and cowardice and
stand up for what's right. Those folks know. Springsteen knows.
Bono knows.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I will name names.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
And they have been quiet, and they need to speak
up or shut up because they've been telling us for
years that they're kind of the moral leaders of our world.
But where have they gone, Sean? That's what I wonder.
Where did they go? Tuesdays come and went. Seems like
they have too.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I really can't say it any better. John, we love you.
You are a national treasure. We really appreciate you. We're
going to put up both songs on Hannity.com. We'll put
it on social media so people can listen to it.
And what you do matters, and your moral clarity matters,
and your passion is infectious, and we appreciate you more
(14:15):
than you know.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Well, I love you, my friend, and just want to
let folks know that tonight I will be singing Superman
between the two light beams that are shooting into the
heavens in New York City.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
On ABC.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
So that will bring a lot of hope and recognition
to our heroes and our families. And thank you for
leading every day. You never forget, Sean, and I know
you never will.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I wish I and there's a part of me that
wishes I could. I wish evil didn't exist, but I
have to face the truth. John Andrasik, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
America will never forget.
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25 years. And then in the days thereafter, there were
a couple of amazing songs written to remind us about
what happened 25 years ago today. Here again, Daryl Worley,
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have you forgotten? And I ask all of you, have
you forgotten?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Americans do not yet have the distance of history, but
our responsibility to.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
History is already clear.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
To answer these attacks and rid.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
The world of evil.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We don't need this war.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
We protest this war, and it's not a war, actually,
it's a slaughter.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
But I say there's some things worth fighting for.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
We are very grateful and thankful that we live in
a country where there's freedom of speech, that people who
are either for or against a war can speak out.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
What about our freedom? Everything just went black. And this
piece of ground? Everything came down.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
We didn't get to keep them.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
My back and down glass are popping and people got hurt.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Oh, there it goes.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
There it goes.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
There it goes. Boy, you start your preaching. Let me
ask you this, my friend. Have you forgotten?
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh, the next building. There's another one.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Another plane just flew in.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
I feel the heat.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
The explosion is incredible.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Have you forgotten?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I saw this plane come out of nowhere and just scream.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Right into the side of the Twin Tower, exploding through
the other side.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
There's been an act of war declared upon America by terrorists.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Have you forgotten?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I can hear you.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The rest of the world hears you.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear
all of us soon. Have you forgotten about our pentagon?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
It's so hot.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I'm burning up. Help!
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Help!
Speaker 12 (19:50):
There are dozens of residents that are sitting on the
hill behind the Pentagon, almost like they're waiting for the
4th of July fireworks, but instead they're staring dumbfounded at
what looks like a war zone.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
I mean, you see bodies flying out of the sky
and you can't do nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You tell me. There's no words to describe what's going
on out there. Have you forgotten?
Speaker 8 (20:10):
America is a nation full of good fortune. We have
so much to be grateful for, but we are not
spared from suffering. In every generation, the world has produced
enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America. Because we
are freedom's home and defender.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Have you forgotten?
Speaker 8 (20:28):
And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling
of our time.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
USA!
Speaker 4 (20:31):
USA!
Speaker 8 (20:34):
USA!
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's our friend Darrell Worley. You know what?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I think, unfortunately, probably too many have forgotten. All right,
joining us now, our friend Don Lake, Ron Conkama. Don,
glad you're with us. Happy Friday, and welcome aboard, sir.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Hi, Sean. Thank you so much for taking my call
on this solemn 9-11 remembrance day. You know, every year,
we have so many memories come flooding back, the nervousness
we felt in the aftermath of 9-11. And I remember
seeing the Army helicopters flying low over Long Island, probably
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to protect Brookhaven National Labs. I remember how our air
travel was completely changed. I remember children in our neighborhood
lost their parents. I remember your reports with Alan Combs
at Ground Zero. And I remember the freedom concerts that
came afterwards to raise awareness of these brave soldiers that
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went to fight for freedom. But today, Sean, this 25th
year of September 11th reminds me that radical Islam is
still a huge part of our lives. We can't ignore it,
and we have to address it. And I salute President
Trump for doing everything he can because it's still, like
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I said, a huge part of our lives, and it's
not going away right away.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
When the president, when I was in Dallas yesterday, and
the president addressed the crowd and brought up the issue
of whether or not Iran should ever be allowed a
nuclear weapon, it was complete agreement.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Who would disagree with that?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't even consider this, quote, a war as it
is described by some. I consider this a massacre.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Did they strike here, there or strike some of our
allies in the region and the Gulf states?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yes, they have.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But at the end of the day, Iran will never
have a nuclear weapon. There's only one reason why. And
that reason is Donald Trump. And Donald Trump just said enough.
their fervor to get that weapon of mass destruction. You know,
we have been following it for decades and appeasement clearly
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did not work. JCPOA and Barack Hussein Obama was insane
because we dropped, what, billions of dollars in cash and
other currency and cargo planes on their tarmac for the mullahs. Gee,
thank you very much. We bought no goodwill with that money.
We wasted American taxpayer money in the process. So you
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can't negotiate with evil.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I wrote a whole book about it, Don.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Deliver us from evil, defeating terrorism, despotism and liberalism, because
you have to win the political wars if you want
the right mindset in charge that will will understand and
have moral clarity of of the times that we're living in.
And I just think it's hard for some good people
to wrap their arms and mind around the fact that
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there's evil. There is evil and evil exists. There's good.
There's a lot of good. There are a lot of
good people. However, and I think America generally is a
good country with genuinely good people. The heart and soul
of this country is full of good people. But, however,
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there's those that want to bring harm to you and
your children, which is why you have to be prepared
and you have to have an alarm system and you
have to have a means of protecting yourself and your family.
And and, you know, in the broader sense, you know,
we've got to understand these countries that chant death to America,
death to Israel.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
They mean what they say.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
All right, my friend, God bless you and appreciate you
more than you know. Gary is in my free state
of Florida. Gary, how are you? By the way, there's
no place like home as great as Dallas was.
Speaker 13 (24:36):
Hi, Sean.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
Thanks for taking my call. Excuse me, I'm going to
change the subject today. I did watch all of the
TV shows today. They were wonderful. But I have a
very quick question for you. Will the proposed $ 5, 000 payment
that President Trump is proposing for every adult American citizen
be means-tested? And the reason I ask you that question
is because my wife and I are a married couple.
We file jointly. We make about $ 200, 000 a year. We
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are still paying the full amount of our taxes on
our Social Security because we have hit a level where
our income is too high, so we don't qualify for
it at all. We never also got a dime from
the COVID relief funds at all because we were phased
out because our income was too high. So I just
wanted to ask you. Since you have conversations with the president,
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has he talked to you at all about is this
going to be phased out or is it going to
be means tested where some people will get it, some
will get a reduced amount, some will get none?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Well, it's not means tested.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Republicans have to win the House and Senate for this
to happen. And they they have to win it in
53 days. This is for adult U.S. citizens only. That
would exclude illegals.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
And by the way, likely U.S. citizens living abroad.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
The other caveat, which I found interesting when I looked
a little deeper into it, is the dividend that we're
talking about has to be spent in the U.S. and
the GOP midterm victory. That's what that's my understanding of it.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
How do you police spending in the U.S.? Then you
have to prove what you spent it on or you
can't bank it. You can't you can't save it or
pay off a loan or you. So you would have
to prove.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I don't think there's any restrictions if you want to
save it. As a matter of fact, I'd highly suggest
to some people if you don't have a lot of savings.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I mean, it is tragic.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
If I didn't live this way during my life, I
don't think I'd have as great an understanding as I do.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
But.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
When you are living paycheck to paycheck, which I did
for many, many years in my early adult life, it's hard,
you can't save money, you're just barely surviving. So I
think for those people, it might be a window of
opportunity to put maybe part of that money away for
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a rainy day. Most people, if you look at some
studies and statistics that have come out over the years,
show that a lot of Americans they cannot survive one
major setback financially in their life.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
If their car breaks down, for example. True.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I've lived that life. I bought cars for as low.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
As $ 200.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I remember buying a car, a van for 200 bucks.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And it was my work van for years.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I remember buying a Ford Maverick 1971 and fixing it
all myself. for 350 bucks, you know? So, you know,
for people that are struggling, I hope they'll consider saving
some money if they can, but I'm not saying they can.
And maybe they pay off debt. Maybe, maybe they get,
get rid of high interest credit card debt. That would
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be helpful too.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right, my friend got a role, man. Gary, appreciate you.
Illinois George next this Friday on the Sean Hannity show.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
What's up, George? How are you? Glad you called.
Speaker 13 (27:56):
Thank you, buddy. Yeah, I just wanted to call and
chime in on this. Yesterday I heard all the liberal media,
you know, Trump's trying to bribe for voters. And I
just want to remind them that all these illegals that
got brought here, they were bribed to get here. They
took housing and they took health care and they got
all these credit cards that they were just able to
get here. And then what did they get in return? Votes.
(28:19):
So Democrats have bribed voters. So I just want to
point that out because that is not what Trump did.
We all know it's a dividend, but they want to
make an issue out of it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well, let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we,
for those people that are making that claim. Look, supply-side
economics teaches us that if you give more money back
to the American people, it increases revenues to the government.
That's not an argument most liberals want to hear.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But let's go back to, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
The cognitively impaired Joe Biden argument and him offering $ 2, 000.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Listen.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
One state can chart the course, not just for the
next four years, but for the next generation.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
By electing John.
Speaker 11 (29:03):
And the Reverend, you can make an immediate difference in
your own lives, the lives of the people all across
this country, because their election will put an end to
the block in Washington, that $ 2, 000 stimulus check, that money
that will go out the door immediately, tell people.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Who are in real trouble. Nobody then called it a bribe.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
The question I have for anybody, and I know online
there's been some criticism, you know, I can only remind
people that when Reagan dropped the top marginal rate for
70 to 28 percent, you know, the belief was that
that would decrease revenues to the government. Just the opposite happened.
Revenues doubled. The problem was that Congress spent more money.
(29:54):
We've got to get a hold of spending, but stimulating
the economy is not the way to do it. That
actually results in more revenues to the government, and I'll
stand by that to the day I die.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I appreciate you, man. Thanks, George.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
America will never forget. This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Hannity Tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We
are fully remembering 9-11. We have Michael Waltz will join
us tonight. Also, Bruce Blakeman, who's doing really well in
the polls in New York, will join us.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Much more.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Set your DVR. Hannity Tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox. Have
a great weekend. Love and prayers to the families that
lost loved ones, either on 9-11 or in the aftermath.
because of 9-11 in some way, shape, manner, or form
our prayers with all of you and your families.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
God bless you all. Have a great weekend. We'll see
you on Monday.
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Dateline NBC
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The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!