July 3, 2026 • 30 mins
Broadcasting from Mount Rushmore, Sean Hannity previews America’s 250th birthday celebration while sharing the history behind one of the nation’s most recognizable monuments. He discusses recent Democratic primary results and the growing influence of progressive candidates within the party. The program also examines national political trends, voter sentiment, and upcoming Independence Day events featuring President Trump. The hour concludes with a look ahead to Hannity’s special live coverage from South Dakota.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All of you for being with us. Right down our
toll free telephone number. You want to be a part
of the program, It's eight hundred and ninety four to one,
Sean if you want to join us. We are in
beautiful South Dakota. We are here because of all the
festivities tonight that will be taking place at Mount Rushmore.
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It's really beautiful here. The people are phenomenal here. I
got to talk to a lot of people, the you know,
salt of the earth, the people that make America great,
the people that go unrecognized, you know, the people that
get up every day, work hard, play by the rules,
pay their taxes, obey the laws, raise their kids, taking
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a church on Sunday. I mean, that's what makes America great.
I mean, it's it's it's this, it's those values that
have helped this country endure for two hundred and fifty years.
And of course now it's our responsibility to leave to
the next generation a country better off than that which
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we found. You know, how many times does every one
of you listening to my voice right now? Every one
of you has a story, and I'm sure you stand
on the shoulders of your parents and your grandparents and
your great grandparents, and their hope has always been that
their children, their grandchildren, their great grandchildren will have better lives.
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And so far America has been able to do that. However,
it does take vigilance. As Reagan famously always reminded us,
is that freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
And now it's our responsibility. And in many ways, what
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you see happening and unfolding before our eyes with the
rise of radicalism that we've never seen that I can
think of in the last one hundred fifty plus years. Now,
now you may say, well, it's a small movement, is
it really? You know, how widespread is it? How many
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people are indoctrinated into it? You know how many kids
have been indoctrinated in government run schools that suck anyway.
I mean, you think we pay more per capita on
education per student than any other industrialized country and we
have the worst results.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We have Governor Ron DeSantis, he's here, he's in South Dakota.
He's going to join us on the program today, also
will join us on Hannity tonight. Now, just to let
you know a little bit, I don't want to give
away the whole night, because I do have a rundown
of all the events that are happening. We are doing
a special two hour edition of Hannity from Mount Rushmore.
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It's really going to be spectacular. You won't miss a
thing if you're watching at home. I do understand it
was a ticket event, and apparently they ran out of
tickets because I ran into a bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Do you have any tickets? Can you call Donald Trump
for me? I'mly sure.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Let me get on that right away, mister President, Do
you mind if I have a few extra tickets for
this person? I just meant in beautiful South Dakota's is
it is pretty spectacular. Now, I have a couple of
things I want to share with you before we get
the show started today. One I thought was stunning and
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I hope it's real. Apparently mediaite reporting that the UK
and their National Archives found a fascinating treasure this year,
just in time for America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
and that is a previously unknown copy of the Declaration
of Independence.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
This discovery was announced on the Department's website today, sharing
the news of what is the most famous maybe breakup
in his and according to their National Archives. The document
was found by a volunteer helping to prepare an exhibit
entitled America two fifty Royal Navy Admirals and Captain's Letters.
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While he was reviewing and cataloging some one hundred and
four boxes of correspondence. He made the exciting find while
reviewing a box of letters from Captain Thomas fitz Herbert
and finding the letter dated January tenth, seventeen seventy seven.
That goes into the details. Now, if that's real and
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can be authenticated, I mean, that's a pretty big discovery.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
If you've never been to Mount Rushmore, I urge you
to come. If you have children, and you have grandchildren,
I urge you to take them. It is well worth
the trip.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It just so happened that my kids would travel for
or sporting events, and for whatever reason, for a number
of years they ended up playing, you know, events in
South Dakota, and we always we kind of made it
an annual trek to Mount Rushmore. When you see it
for the first time, you're just kind of blown away
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when you know the story behind it. And I don't
think most people know the story behind Mount Rushmore. But
for a state that has under a population under a
million people, about a little over eight hundred thousand people,
I mean, over two million people come visit Mount Rushmore
every single year, and it's got this incredible, mysterious history
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that I don't think most people know about. And among them,
for example, you might not know that there's this mysterious
rectangular opening behind President Abraham Lincoln's image. And you know,
when I found that, I thought that was pretty interesting.
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And then you learn the history of how they were
able to create this artistic masterpiece, and that's even more fascinating.
The sculptor's name is Gutson A.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Bull Glum.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
How do you say it, boor Glum. He designed it
as a grand repository, a time capsule for future generations
to understand the monument and American history, which is why
he built this sort of secret area. I'd never known
that before. You know, you would think all the years
you go to school, you probably know something like that.
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I'm sure the people of South Dakota are listening, rolling
their eyes and saying, hannay, you're an idiot. But I'm
promising you that eighty five percent of the country does
not know this anyway. He envisioned a large hall about
eighty by one hundred feet inside the mountain that was
accessible via a grand entrance with a cast glass door
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and bronze and glass cabinets that would hold key documents
he thought, like the Constitution and our declaration of independence.
And then you look at the history of all of this,
the inscriptions on the walls, the detail of US history,
et cetera, et cetera. But you know, you just look
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at the entire story of how they were able to
build this out. But a lot of people may not know.
Also is you know a lot of this was blasted
out by dynamite. How many people know that? I never
knew that before. I thought it was sculpted. Now that
there was some grand you know, somebody got up there,
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you know, hammering away. It's not It's absolutely not what happened.
And I look at the history of this thing, I'm like, wow,
this is so much. Why don't why don't I know
all of this? So you know, what I learned is
it's located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. About
ninety percent of the carving was done using dynamite to
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blast away the rock, followed by what's called honeycombing, which
is drilling closely spaced holes and then hand finishing with
chisels and bumpers. It took fourteen years of work to
get this project finished, from nineteen twenty seven to nineteen
forty one. One remarkable factoid nobody died during the construction,
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despite obviously dangerous conditions, including workers being lowered in chairs
on steel cables.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You look.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
For example, I know the Empire State Building had a
lot of people that died.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
In the building.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Of that, I think, and I can double check this
on rock, but I think that the Empire State Building
was built in thirteen months, which is an incredible amount
of time. Every president's head at Mount Rushmore is about
sixty feet tall, the height of a six story building.
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Their noses are around twenty feet long, their eyes are
about eleven feet wide, their mouths are about eighteen feet wide.
And the original you know, originally they planned this to
be bigger. Originally the plan was to have the president
from the head to the waste, but at that point
they ran out of money. The total cost for Mount Rushmore,
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again this is back in the day, was under a
million dollars, which would be millions and millions today.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
God only knows how much.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
There are reasons that they chose Washington and Jefferson and
Roosevelt and Lincoln. Washington obviously, you know, for the founding
and birth of a nation, Jefferson obviously the author of
the Declaration Louisiana Purchase. Roosevelt interestingly for development and conservation,
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which is important to people I can tell you in
South Dakota. And then Lincoln obviously for his role in
keeping a nation united, you know, in a Civil war,
one of the most difficult periods in our history. One
other little factoid is, originally Jefferson, you know, his face
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was to be to Washington's right, and then ultimately they
moved it to his left because they found the rock
to the right unsuitable and the initial carving was blasted away.
The mountain was named after a guy by the name
of Charles Rushmore who visited in the eighteen eighties for
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mining claims and had dubbed it, you know, Rushmore when
locals said it had no name. But this secret hall
of records, to me is probably the most fascinating thing
that I learned. And behind Lincoln's head is this unfinished chamber.
It's about seventy feet deep, and they vision this as
a time capsule. And anyway, there is a little bit
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of a controversial context to it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I don't want to get into all that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
No fifth president was carved, although there is and has
been over the years discussions about whether or not they
should add to Mount Rushmore. I'm sure if I mentioned
Donald Trump, every liberal listening to this program would say,
Hannity just said he wants Donald Trump and his face
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on Mount Rushmore. I didn't say that at all. I'm
just saying if I said it, the left would bubble
and fizz like alka seltz are in water, and you
would lose your frickin mind. And just to just to
take up space rent free in your head, it would
be interesting to do. But I'm not proposing any other
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president be put on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I kind of like it the way it is.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Maybe when individual presidents go and visit, you know, maybe
they should put like holograms up. That'd be pretty cool.
I mean, technology today would make all of that possible.
Somebody sent me today a Facebook post. Somebody you know
created an AI version of Mount Rushmore that had my
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face on it like great people are gonna see this.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And say, yeah, this is the last person who want
to mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Anyway, I'm excited to be here. If you've never come here,
if you've never taken your family here it is, if
you've never taken your kids and your grandkids here or
your great grandkids here, I strongly advise you to find
the time, take the trip.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Just like you have to go see the Grand Canyon.
There's certain things in this great country that you have
to see, and this is definitely one of them. The
events that we have that will be covering again, We're
doing a two hour special of Hannity tonight nine to
eleven are just gonna be spectacular. The planning that has
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gone in to this is unbelievable. The presentation will be remarkable,
The fireworks are going to be remarkable. The President will
be speaking during at some point during the two hours
that I'm on the air between nine to eleven Eastern
that's seven to nine local time, and when that happens,
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obviously will we'll cover all of that. We have a
lot of news we're going to get to. We have
Governor DeSantis is going to join us. He's here with
us in South Dakota. Everything we have now been telling
you for the last number of weeks is pretty much
going mainstream, and that is that these radical democratic socialists
are no longer on the fringe. Democratic infighting is now growing.
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Radical leftists like Mamdani and others are no longer anomalies
in the party. Hakeem Jeffries is now being asked questions
about how he's going to deal with these socialist Democrats
that want to remove him. I said this on the
program yesterday, I repeated today, whether or not Chuck Schumer,
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Hakeem Jeffries want to admit it. Their days as leaders,
their days probably in Congress and in the Senate, they're
coming to an end. It's sob for them. They are
not going to be the leaders of the Democratic Party
minority leader, majority leader. God forbid. I don't think in
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the future. I don't see any way that they survive
what is now unfolding before a rise. We'll go into
the details of all of that on the other side. Also,
get your calls in today, right Donald toll free number
if you want to join us. We're in South Dakota.
We have two hours tonight nine to eleven pm on
Fox News. All the events unfolding. It's a really special
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night tonight, and we're honored to be a part of it.
Nine to eleven Eastern on the Fox News Channel set
you DVR quick Break from South Dakota Mount Rushmore. It's
The Sean Hannity Show broadcasting from South Dakota. Tonight, Hannity
two our edition. We are covering all the events at
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Mount Rushmore. I'm looking at the rundown. There's a part
of me that wants to share it with you, but
there's a bigger part of me that would rather you
watch it and be surprised by all the incredible things
that are gonna unfold during this two hour period of time.
If I have one challenge tonight, I mean, we have
so many great guests that are that are planning on
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joining us. It's going to be to get them on.
I'm excited to do it. I'm excited to be a
part of it. I'm also working on Saturday from seven
pm to midnight. We'll be working in DC. I'm told
it's going to be about one hundred degrees. If Fox
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thinks I'm wearing a tie, that's not going to happen.
I hope they don't make me wear a jacket. Watching
the guys on the five YA today, they're all wearing
golf shirts because it's so hot there. And by the way,
we you know, you got to laugh at at how
the left, you know, kind of does things, and you know,
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it's sort of like we played yesterday, Jimmy Carter reminding
people you've got to wear a sweater and in the
middle of winter, you know, put your thermostat down to
sixty eight degree. I don't want to be freezing in
the middle of winter, and I don't want to alter
my lifestyle because you're so stupid that, you know, you
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buy into this climate alarmism radicalism, and you know, meanwhile,
we have more energy reserves when it comes to oil
and gas and coal than any country on the face
of the earth, and enough for hundreds and hundreds of years.
And then you're telling us, you know, to put our
thermostats down. In this case, you have, for example, New
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York City, like Washington, d C. Is in the middle
of a massive heat wave and temperatures apparently inside City
Hall apparently plunged as low as fifty to four degrees
yesterday during this heat wave, despite you know, Mayor Marxist
zoron Kami mam Nani urging other New Yorkers to set
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their air conditioners to seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Now, seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Does not give you a lot of comfort when it's
one hundred degrees outside. I like it at like sixty
nine or seventy you know, when the temperature is that
hot anyway, So The New York Post reported today that
reporters that were armed with infrared thermometers tested twenty spots
within city Hall and other municipal offices and buildings in
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New York City, and all but five of them were
below seventy eight decrease. I mean, it's sort of like,
oh okay ac for me and the elite, but not
for the You know, at that temperature, if you're an
older person, you need to stay cool.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You need to have air conditioning. He just need it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
But yet inside Mamdani City Hall, you know, more than
twenty degrees cooler than his heat wave order allowed for
the For the rest of the people in New York anyway,
by four point thirty, temperatures even plummeted more in the
Mayor's office building with air in one room testing at
fifty four degrees. Now, at that point it's probably too cold,
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and I don't know, maybe at that point they put
the heat on, but then you're still using electricity. Mamdani
gave a July fourth address, and of course he blasted
capitalism and you know, condemned America for defending liberty and freedom.
He said, I see America when we spend our tax
dollar on bombs and bailouts, and then we sell our
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elections to the highest bidder. Isn't this the party that
gets money from you know, George Soros and all these
other billionaire leftists that want to radically change America anyway,
decried capitalism and US involvement in foreign wars. Now, I
asked this question, and we brought this up many times before.
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Every single source I have within government, and I do
have more than the average person in media.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm gonna be blunt.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
There's not a single person that I have talked to
that would know that has told me anything other than
what Steve Whitkoff told us on this radio program, the
Mid East Envoy, and what he said to me on TV,
and that is we didn't have a choice when it
came to epic fury that if the Rainge Indians ever
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got near the sixty percent enriched uranium, that they can
turn it into weapons grade ninety percent enriched uranium in
under twelve days with four hundred and sixty kilograms, that's
about eleven or twelve nuclear weapons. So the president had
no choice. He did that, which nobody else would do anyway.
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Mamdannie is getting, you know, mocked, after urging New Yorkers
to limit their ac us. One Massachusetts woman stepped in
stepped in it after a shameful Democratic governor boycott of
the Great American State Fair. Why would you you know,
I've I played this the other day. I don't play
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it again, and it was on fake news CNN. Ninety
three percent of Republicans are proud of this country. Only
one percent of Republicans said they're not proud of this country.
When it comes to Democrats, they're at a whopping low
twenty seven percent. If you go back a decade or two,
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that was never the case in this country. I mean,
whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent didn't matter. You know,
you kind of had a fundamental understanding that we live
in a very special country. You know, the premise that
this country that rights come from God, not from man,
and that elected officials govern at the consent of the government,
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meaning we the people. But listen to CNN report on
how radicalizes Democratic Party is, and it's across the board
because people keep saying, well, only seven percent of people voted,
you know, for these three lunatics in New York that
beat these incumbents, or that lady out in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
No, it's way bigger than that.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Listen, there is such a polarization partisan split on this issue,
the largest that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Just take a look at this.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
This is where it really gets interesting, and I would
dare say a little bit nutty. How to how proud
to be an American? You know, among Republicans, ninety three
percent are extremely or very proud.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Just one, a single one say they.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Have little to no pride in being an American. But
look over at the Democratic side. This is where we've
seen this extremely or very number. It's been taking a
tumble at twenty seven percent. But look at this, the
little or no proud to be an American actually among
Democrats eclipses is greater than the extremely or very proud number.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So how do we interpret these numbers, so ninety three
percent of Republicans are extremely or very proud of America.
Only one percent or not Democrats is twenty seven percent. However,
that number eclipsed by the number of Democrats that are
not proud of the country. So when you look at
these stories and you look at these elections, you just
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can't dismiss this as some type of anomaly. You know,
when Mamdani endorses well, first of all, you know who
now represents the Democratic Party. We keep talking about this
Graham Platner, a lunatic twenty years Nazi tattoo. For eleven years,
Democrats have been, you know, claiming that Donald Trump is
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a Nazi. Now they're electing a guy that, for twenty
years had a Nazi tattoo and has said the most despicable, disgusting,
repulsive things, even about women that are victims of sexual
assault and rape, even to young girls on social media
that are threatening to commit suicide. Never mind that he
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thinks the people in his state are stupid and ignorant
and racist or sixth gender, tell a Rico and tell Rico,
you know, thinks that God is non binary, and he's
championing not only the right of women of play men's sports,
but he's championing the of biological men to have access
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to abortion.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I need to go back to school.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I must have missed something in biology class because I
didn't know that was possible. I didn't know there were
six genders either. We have been you know, I'm actually
going to offer a prize. I don't know what the
prize is. If somebody can name what the other four
genders are, I'd like to know.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What they are.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And if a biological man can have a child, please
call the program and let me know how that's how
that's biologically possible, because obviously I need an education. So
if you think that these incumbent democrats, you know, especially
you know this lady out in Colorado who's just her
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name is Melot Kiros and everything that she espouses which
is absolutely insane, which is you know, radical insane socialism.
And then you got the you know, all the people
that Mamdani endorsed in New York. I mean all I
need to say, they're all the same in terms of
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what their belief system is, you know, calling for you know,
government to seize the means of production, government to seize
private property, government to take people's private homes, calling for
the complete abolishment of the police. They want to abolish
America's prisons, they want to get rid of America's borders.
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In this case of this lady in New York, she
doesn't even want anyone deported ever, not even criminal illegals
convicted of rape and murder. And that you know, that
follows up on tampon Tim Walls. And you know, here
they have a guy convicted, an illegal immigrant, convicted of
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sexually assaulting a ten.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Year old girl multiple times.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And what is what does tampon Tim do the guy
that puts you know, feminine hygiene products in boys' bathrooms
in grade school. His answer is to give that guy
a pardon, and then the pardon board goes along with it.
Why for the purpose then you can't deport them. And
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I've always said the power of the pardon is as absolute.
I stand by it. But that's a problem, that's a
big problem. Hakim Jeffries was asked about how he's going
to deal with these socialist democrats.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Now that want to remove him.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Now, remember, after that lunatic that I just mentioned in
New York won her primary he you know, he put
up on X you know, a congratulatory note to this woman,
and the thanks he gets from that woman is, oh,
I'll never support him for leader of anything.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I thought it was, you know, divine justice.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Anyway, So MPR reported that in an interview that he
gave with them this morning, Jeffries tried to make the
case for party unity while also of course trying to
dodge questions about you know, the radical socialists that celebrated
their recent victories and anyway, So he was on NPR,
and every time, you know, Jeffries was asked about the
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candidates that defeated incumbent Democrats that he had backed in
these primaries, you know, he changed the subject to President Trump,
you know, and the GOP agenda, saying Democrats have focused
on flipping Republican health seats in November. That's sort of like,
you know, the five times in a row that Chuck
Schumer is asked about what he thinks about Graham Plattner
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with his Nazi tattoo. We're going to beat Susan Collins
and we're going to take over the Senate.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What do you think about Graham Plattner.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
We're going to beat Susan Collins and we're going to
take over the Senate. These guys are scared to death
to give an answer, because there is no answer for them.
If they dare speak out against them, it's just going
to expedite their exit out of the Senate, out of
the House, and out of leadership, which, by the way,
is now inevitable.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It's only a matter of time now.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
The New York Post had an article today these Democratic
Socialists are now planning to primary congressional Democrats all across
the country, all throughout the heartland. And with these recent
upset victories, they're now eyeing more political breakthroughs. They're looking
at states like Missouri and Michigan, Wisconsin. They're even looking
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at my free state of Florida. By the way, good
luck in Florida. You're not going to do well, just
like Tall Rico. If Tall Rico wins in Texas, I
will be stunned.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I will be shocked.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I can't see the people of Texas voting for a
guy that wants to welcome out on the border, that's
running a vegan campaign in a cattle state that doesn't
want oil or gas, you know, production, in an oil
and gas state. A guy that believes in six genders.
A guy that finds a complicated finds the American flag complicated.
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This is Texas. Texas is proud of their country. Good
luck well. Ken Paxton has some controversy around him. Ken
Paxton's controversies are nothing to compare to this guy. So
the Democrats now, I guess obviously the radicals are now energized.
One House Democratic staffer said, we are so cooked even
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they're beginning to figure out they're in deep trouble anyway.
So we have more on that. We'll get to that.
We have a Governor, Ron DeSantis. He's here in South
Dakota with us. We're in South Dakota. We'll be covering
the events tonight Hannity nine to eleven PM, Eastern DVR
seven to nine o'clock local time. President Trump will speak
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during that two hour period at some point when he
does well cover that. We have great guests tonight. When
we come back, we'll check in with my governor from
the Free State of Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis. As we
continue from South Dakota Tonight, Hannity from Mount Rushmore. As
we continue
All of you for being with us. Right down our
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Sean if you want to join us. We are in
beautiful South Dakota. We are here because of all the
festivities tonight that will be taking place at Mount Rushmore.
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It's really beautiful here. The people are phenomenal here. I
got to talk to a lot of people, the you know,
salt of the earth, the people that make America great,
the people that go unrecognized, you know, the people that
get up every day, work hard, play by the rules,
pay their taxes, obey the laws, raise their kids, taking
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a church on Sunday. I mean, that's what makes America great.
I mean, it's it's it's this, it's those values that
have helped this country endure for two hundred and fifty years.
And of course now it's our responsibility to leave to
the next generation a country better off than that which
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we found. You know, how many times does every one
of you listening to my voice right now? Every one
of you has a story, and I'm sure you stand
on the shoulders of your parents and your grandparents and
your great grandparents, and their hope has always been that
their children, their grandchildren, their great grandchildren will have better lives.
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And so far America has been able to do that. However,
it does take vigilance. As Reagan famously always reminded us,
is that freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
And now it's our responsibility. And in many ways, what
(01:48):
you see happening and unfolding before our eyes with the
rise of radicalism that we've never seen that I can
think of in the last one hundred fifty plus years. Now,
now you may say, well, it's a small movement, is
it really? You know, how widespread is it? How many
(02:09):
people are indoctrinated into it? You know how many kids
have been indoctrinated in government run schools that suck anyway.
I mean, you think we pay more per capita on
education per student than any other industrialized country and we
have the worst results.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We have Governor Ron DeSantis, he's here, he's in South Dakota.
He's going to join us on the program today, also
will join us on Hannity tonight. Now, just to let
you know a little bit, I don't want to give
away the whole night, because I do have a rundown
of all the events that are happening. We are doing
a special two hour edition of Hannity from Mount Rushmore.
(02:52):
It's really going to be spectacular. You won't miss a
thing if you're watching at home. I do understand it
was a ticket event, and apparently they ran out of
tickets because I ran into a bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Do you have any tickets? Can you call Donald Trump
for me? I'mly sure.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Let me get on that right away, mister President, Do
you mind if I have a few extra tickets for
this person? I just meant in beautiful South Dakota's is
it is pretty spectacular. Now, I have a couple of
things I want to share with you before we get
the show started today. One I thought was stunning and
(03:28):
I hope it's real. Apparently mediaite reporting that the UK
and their National Archives found a fascinating treasure this year,
just in time for America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
and that is a previously unknown copy of the Declaration
of Independence.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
This discovery was announced on the Department's website today, sharing
the news of what is the most famous maybe breakup
in his and according to their National Archives. The document
was found by a volunteer helping to prepare an exhibit
entitled America two fifty Royal Navy Admirals and Captain's Letters.
(04:13):
While he was reviewing and cataloging some one hundred and
four boxes of correspondence. He made the exciting find while
reviewing a box of letters from Captain Thomas fitz Herbert
and finding the letter dated January tenth, seventeen seventy seven.
That goes into the details. Now, if that's real and
(04:35):
can be authenticated, I mean, that's a pretty big discovery.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
If you've never been to Mount Rushmore, I urge you
to come. If you have children, and you have grandchildren,
I urge you to take them. It is well worth
the trip.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It just so happened that my kids would travel for
or sporting events, and for whatever reason, for a number
of years they ended up playing, you know, events in
South Dakota, and we always we kind of made it
an annual trek to Mount Rushmore. When you see it
for the first time, you're just kind of blown away
(05:17):
when you know the story behind it. And I don't
think most people know the story behind Mount Rushmore. But
for a state that has under a population under a
million people, about a little over eight hundred thousand people,
I mean, over two million people come visit Mount Rushmore
every single year, and it's got this incredible, mysterious history
(05:40):
that I don't think most people know about. And among them,
for example, you might not know that there's this mysterious
rectangular opening behind President Abraham Lincoln's image. And you know,
when I found that, I thought that was pretty interesting.
(06:00):
And then you learn the history of how they were
able to create this artistic masterpiece, and that's even more fascinating.
The sculptor's name is Gutson A.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Bull Glum.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
How do you say it, boor Glum. He designed it
as a grand repository, a time capsule for future generations
to understand the monument and American history, which is why
he built this sort of secret area. I'd never known
that before. You know, you would think all the years
you go to school, you probably know something like that.
(06:37):
I'm sure the people of South Dakota are listening, rolling
their eyes and saying, hannay, you're an idiot. But I'm
promising you that eighty five percent of the country does
not know this anyway. He envisioned a large hall about
eighty by one hundred feet inside the mountain that was
accessible via a grand entrance with a cast glass door
(07:00):
and bronze and glass cabinets that would hold key documents
he thought, like the Constitution and our declaration of independence.
And then you look at the history of all of this,
the inscriptions on the walls, the detail of US history,
et cetera, et cetera. But you know, you just look
(07:20):
at the entire story of how they were able to
build this out. But a lot of people may not know.
Also is you know a lot of this was blasted
out by dynamite. How many people know that? I never
knew that before. I thought it was sculpted. Now that
there was some grand you know, somebody got up there,
(07:42):
you know, hammering away. It's not It's absolutely not what happened.
And I look at the history of this thing, I'm like, wow,
this is so much. Why don't why don't I know
all of this? So you know, what I learned is
it's located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. About
ninety percent of the carving was done using dynamite to
(08:03):
blast away the rock, followed by what's called honeycombing, which
is drilling closely spaced holes and then hand finishing with
chisels and bumpers. It took fourteen years of work to
get this project finished, from nineteen twenty seven to nineteen
forty one. One remarkable factoid nobody died during the construction,
(08:29):
despite obviously dangerous conditions, including workers being lowered in chairs
on steel cables.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You look.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
For example, I know the Empire State Building had a
lot of people that died.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
In the building.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Of that, I think, and I can double check this
on rock, but I think that the Empire State Building
was built in thirteen months, which is an incredible amount
of time. Every president's head at Mount Rushmore is about
sixty feet tall, the height of a six story building.
(09:02):
Their noses are around twenty feet long, their eyes are
about eleven feet wide, their mouths are about eighteen feet wide.
And the original you know, originally they planned this to
be bigger. Originally the plan was to have the president
from the head to the waste, but at that point
they ran out of money. The total cost for Mount Rushmore,
(09:26):
again this is back in the day, was under a
million dollars, which would be millions and millions today.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
God only knows how much.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
There are reasons that they chose Washington and Jefferson and
Roosevelt and Lincoln. Washington obviously, you know, for the founding
and birth of a nation, Jefferson obviously the author of
the Declaration Louisiana Purchase. Roosevelt interestingly for development and conservation,
(09:56):
which is important to people I can tell you in
South Dakota. And then Lincoln obviously for his role in
keeping a nation united, you know, in a Civil war,
one of the most difficult periods in our history. One
other little factoid is, originally Jefferson, you know, his face
(10:19):
was to be to Washington's right, and then ultimately they
moved it to his left because they found the rock
to the right unsuitable and the initial carving was blasted away.
The mountain was named after a guy by the name
of Charles Rushmore who visited in the eighteen eighties for
(10:40):
mining claims and had dubbed it, you know, Rushmore when
locals said it had no name. But this secret hall
of records, to me is probably the most fascinating thing
that I learned. And behind Lincoln's head is this unfinished chamber.
It's about seventy feet deep, and they vision this as
a time capsule. And anyway, there is a little bit
(11:04):
of a controversial context to it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I don't want to get into all that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
No fifth president was carved, although there is and has
been over the years discussions about whether or not they
should add to Mount Rushmore. I'm sure if I mentioned
Donald Trump, every liberal listening to this program would say,
Hannity just said he wants Donald Trump and his face
(11:30):
on Mount Rushmore. I didn't say that at all. I'm
just saying if I said it, the left would bubble
and fizz like alka seltz are in water, and you
would lose your frickin mind. And just to just to
take up space rent free in your head, it would
be interesting to do. But I'm not proposing any other
(11:50):
president be put on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I kind of like it the way it is.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Maybe when individual presidents go and visit, you know, maybe
they should put like holograms up. That'd be pretty cool.
I mean, technology today would make all of that possible.
Somebody sent me today a Facebook post. Somebody you know
created an AI version of Mount Rushmore that had my
(12:15):
face on it like great people are gonna see this.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And say, yeah, this is the last person who want
to mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Anyway, I'm excited to be here. If you've never come here,
if you've never taken your family here it is, if
you've never taken your kids and your grandkids here or
your great grandkids here, I strongly advise you to find
the time, take the trip.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Just like you have to go see the Grand Canyon.
There's certain things in this great country that you have
to see, and this is definitely one of them. The
events that we have that will be covering again, We're
doing a two hour special of Hannity tonight nine to
eleven are just gonna be spectacular. The planning that has
(12:59):
gone in to this is unbelievable. The presentation will be remarkable,
The fireworks are going to be remarkable. The President will
be speaking during at some point during the two hours
that I'm on the air between nine to eleven Eastern
that's seven to nine local time, and when that happens,
(13:19):
obviously will we'll cover all of that. We have a
lot of news we're going to get to. We have
Governor DeSantis is going to join us. He's here with
us in South Dakota. Everything we have now been telling
you for the last number of weeks is pretty much
going mainstream, and that is that these radical democratic socialists
are no longer on the fringe. Democratic infighting is now growing.
(13:46):
Radical leftists like Mamdani and others are no longer anomalies
in the party. Hakeem Jeffries is now being asked questions
about how he's going to deal with these socialist Democrats
that want to remove him. I said this on the
program yesterday, I repeated today, whether or not Chuck Schumer,
(14:07):
Hakeem Jeffries want to admit it. Their days as leaders,
their days probably in Congress and in the Senate, they're
coming to an end. It's sob for them. They are
not going to be the leaders of the Democratic Party
minority leader, majority leader. God forbid. I don't think in
(14:28):
the future. I don't see any way that they survive
what is now unfolding before a rise. We'll go into
the details of all of that on the other side. Also,
get your calls in today, right Donald toll free number
if you want to join us. We're in South Dakota.
We have two hours tonight nine to eleven pm on
Fox News. All the events unfolding. It's a really special
(14:49):
night tonight, and we're honored to be a part of it.
Nine to eleven Eastern on the Fox News Channel set
you DVR quick Break from South Dakota Mount Rushmore. It's
The Sean Hannity Show broadcasting from South Dakota. Tonight, Hannity
two our edition. We are covering all the events at
(15:10):
Mount Rushmore. I'm looking at the rundown. There's a part
of me that wants to share it with you, but
there's a bigger part of me that would rather you
watch it and be surprised by all the incredible things
that are gonna unfold during this two hour period of time.
If I have one challenge tonight, I mean, we have
so many great guests that are that are planning on
(15:33):
joining us. It's going to be to get them on.
I'm excited to do it. I'm excited to be a
part of it. I'm also working on Saturday from seven
pm to midnight. We'll be working in DC. I'm told
it's going to be about one hundred degrees. If Fox
(15:53):
thinks I'm wearing a tie, that's not going to happen.
I hope they don't make me wear a jacket. Watching
the guys on the five YA today, they're all wearing
golf shirts because it's so hot there. And by the way,
we you know, you got to laugh at at how
the left, you know, kind of does things, and you know,
(16:14):
it's sort of like we played yesterday, Jimmy Carter reminding
people you've got to wear a sweater and in the
middle of winter, you know, put your thermostat down to
sixty eight degree. I don't want to be freezing in
the middle of winter, and I don't want to alter
my lifestyle because you're so stupid that, you know, you
(16:35):
buy into this climate alarmism radicalism, and you know, meanwhile,
we have more energy reserves when it comes to oil
and gas and coal than any country on the face
of the earth, and enough for hundreds and hundreds of years.
And then you're telling us, you know, to put our
thermostats down. In this case, you have, for example, New
(16:56):
York City, like Washington, d C. Is in the middle
of a massive heat wave and temperatures apparently inside City
Hall apparently plunged as low as fifty to four degrees
yesterday during this heat wave, despite you know, Mayor Marxist
zoron Kami mam Nani urging other New Yorkers to set
(17:19):
their air conditioners to seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Now, seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Does not give you a lot of comfort when it's
one hundred degrees outside. I like it at like sixty
nine or seventy you know, when the temperature is that
hot anyway, So The New York Post reported today that
reporters that were armed with infrared thermometers tested twenty spots
within city Hall and other municipal offices and buildings in
(17:49):
New York City, and all but five of them were
below seventy eight decrease. I mean, it's sort of like,
oh okay ac for me and the elite, but not
for the You know, at that temperature, if you're an
older person, you need to stay cool.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You need to have air conditioning. He just need it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
But yet inside Mamdani City Hall, you know, more than
twenty degrees cooler than his heat wave order allowed for
the For the rest of the people in New York anyway,
by four point thirty, temperatures even plummeted more in the
Mayor's office building with air in one room testing at
fifty four degrees. Now, at that point it's probably too cold,
(18:39):
and I don't know, maybe at that point they put
the heat on, but then you're still using electricity. Mamdani
gave a July fourth address, and of course he blasted
capitalism and you know, condemned America for defending liberty and freedom.
He said, I see America when we spend our tax
dollar on bombs and bailouts, and then we sell our
(19:03):
elections to the highest bidder. Isn't this the party that
gets money from you know, George Soros and all these
other billionaire leftists that want to radically change America anyway,
decried capitalism and US involvement in foreign wars. Now, I
asked this question, and we brought this up many times before.
(19:27):
Every single source I have within government, and I do
have more than the average person in media.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm gonna be blunt.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
There's not a single person that I have talked to
that would know that has told me anything other than
what Steve Whitkoff told us on this radio program, the
Mid East Envoy, and what he said to me on TV,
and that is we didn't have a choice when it
came to epic fury that if the Rainge Indians ever
(20:01):
got near the sixty percent enriched uranium, that they can
turn it into weapons grade ninety percent enriched uranium in
under twelve days with four hundred and sixty kilograms, that's
about eleven or twelve nuclear weapons. So the president had
no choice. He did that, which nobody else would do anyway.
(20:25):
Mamdannie is getting, you know, mocked, after urging New Yorkers
to limit their ac us. One Massachusetts woman stepped in
stepped in it after a shameful Democratic governor boycott of
the Great American State Fair. Why would you you know,
I've I played this the other day. I don't play
(20:45):
it again, and it was on fake news CNN. Ninety
three percent of Republicans are proud of this country. Only
one percent of Republicans said they're not proud of this country.
When it comes to Democrats, they're at a whopping low
twenty seven percent. If you go back a decade or two,
(21:08):
that was never the case in this country. I mean,
whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent didn't matter. You know,
you kind of had a fundamental understanding that we live
in a very special country. You know, the premise that
this country that rights come from God, not from man,
and that elected officials govern at the consent of the government,
(21:32):
meaning we the people. But listen to CNN report on
how radicalizes Democratic Party is, and it's across the board
because people keep saying, well, only seven percent of people voted,
you know, for these three lunatics in New York that
beat these incumbents, or that lady out in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
No, it's way bigger than that.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Listen, there is such a polarization partisan split on this issue,
the largest that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Just take a look at this.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
This is where it really gets interesting, and I would
dare say a little bit nutty. How to how proud
to be an American? You know, among Republicans, ninety three
percent are extremely or very proud.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Just one, a single one say they.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Have little to no pride in being an American. But
look over at the Democratic side. This is where we've
seen this extremely or very number. It's been taking a
tumble at twenty seven percent. But look at this, the
little or no proud to be an American actually among
Democrats eclipses is greater than the extremely or very proud number.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So how do we interpret these numbers, so ninety three
percent of Republicans are extremely or very proud of America.
Only one percent or not Democrats is twenty seven percent. However,
that number eclipsed by the number of Democrats that are
not proud of the country. So when you look at
these stories and you look at these elections, you just
(23:00):
can't dismiss this as some type of anomaly. You know,
when Mamdani endorses well, first of all, you know who
now represents the Democratic Party. We keep talking about this
Graham Platner, a lunatic twenty years Nazi tattoo. For eleven years,
Democrats have been, you know, claiming that Donald Trump is
(23:21):
a Nazi. Now they're electing a guy that, for twenty
years had a Nazi tattoo and has said the most despicable, disgusting,
repulsive things, even about women that are victims of sexual
assault and rape, even to young girls on social media
that are threatening to commit suicide. Never mind that he
(23:42):
thinks the people in his state are stupid and ignorant
and racist or sixth gender, tell a Rico and tell Rico,
you know, thinks that God is non binary, and he's
championing not only the right of women of play men's sports,
but he's championing the of biological men to have access
(24:04):
to abortion.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I need to go back to school.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I must have missed something in biology class because I
didn't know that was possible. I didn't know there were
six genders either. We have been you know, I'm actually
going to offer a prize. I don't know what the
prize is. If somebody can name what the other four
genders are, I'd like to know.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What they are.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And if a biological man can have a child, please
call the program and let me know how that's how
that's biologically possible, because obviously I need an education. So
if you think that these incumbent democrats, you know, especially
you know this lady out in Colorado who's just her
(24:49):
name is Melot Kiros and everything that she espouses which
is absolutely insane, which is you know, radical insane socialism.
And then you got the you know, all the people
that Mamdani endorsed in New York. I mean all I
need to say, they're all the same in terms of
(25:09):
what their belief system is, you know, calling for you know,
government to seize the means of production, government to seize
private property, government to take people's private homes, calling for
the complete abolishment of the police. They want to abolish
America's prisons, they want to get rid of America's borders.
(25:32):
In this case of this lady in New York, she
doesn't even want anyone deported ever, not even criminal illegals
convicted of rape and murder. And that you know, that
follows up on tampon Tim Walls. And you know, here
they have a guy convicted, an illegal immigrant, convicted of
(25:53):
sexually assaulting a ten.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Year old girl multiple times.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And what is what does tampon Tim do the guy
that puts you know, feminine hygiene products in boys' bathrooms
in grade school. His answer is to give that guy
a pardon, and then the pardon board goes along with it.
Why for the purpose then you can't deport them. And
(26:21):
I've always said the power of the pardon is as absolute.
I stand by it. But that's a problem, that's a
big problem. Hakim Jeffries was asked about how he's going
to deal with these socialist democrats.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Now that want to remove him.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Now, remember, after that lunatic that I just mentioned in
New York won her primary he you know, he put
up on X you know, a congratulatory note to this woman,
and the thanks he gets from that woman is, oh,
I'll never support him for leader of anything.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I thought it was, you know, divine justice.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Anyway, So MPR reported that in an interview that he
gave with them this morning, Jeffries tried to make the
case for party unity while also of course trying to
dodge questions about you know, the radical socialists that celebrated
their recent victories and anyway, So he was on NPR,
and every time, you know, Jeffries was asked about the
(27:19):
candidates that defeated incumbent Democrats that he had backed in
these primaries, you know, he changed the subject to President Trump,
you know, and the GOP agenda, saying Democrats have focused
on flipping Republican health seats in November. That's sort of like,
you know, the five times in a row that Chuck
Schumer is asked about what he thinks about Graham Plattner
(27:42):
with his Nazi tattoo. We're going to beat Susan Collins
and we're going to take over the Senate.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What do you think about Graham Plattner.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
We're going to beat Susan Collins and we're going to
take over the Senate. These guys are scared to death
to give an answer, because there is no answer for them.
If they dare speak out against them, it's just going
to expedite their exit out of the Senate, out of
the House, and out of leadership, which, by the way,
is now inevitable.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It's only a matter of time now.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
The New York Post had an article today these Democratic
Socialists are now planning to primary congressional Democrats all across
the country, all throughout the heartland. And with these recent
upset victories, they're now eyeing more political breakthroughs. They're looking
at states like Missouri and Michigan, Wisconsin. They're even looking
(28:37):
at my free state of Florida. By the way, good
luck in Florida. You're not going to do well, just
like Tall Rico. If Tall Rico wins in Texas, I
will be stunned.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I will be shocked.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I can't see the people of Texas voting for a
guy that wants to welcome out on the border, that's
running a vegan campaign in a cattle state that doesn't
want oil or gas, you know, production, in an oil
and gas state. A guy that believes in six genders.
A guy that finds a complicated finds the American flag complicated.
(29:13):
This is Texas. Texas is proud of their country. Good
luck well. Ken Paxton has some controversy around him. Ken
Paxton's controversies are nothing to compare to this guy. So
the Democrats now, I guess obviously the radicals are now energized.
One House Democratic staffer said, we are so cooked even
(29:35):
they're beginning to figure out they're in deep trouble anyway.
So we have more on that. We'll get to that.
We have a Governor, Ron DeSantis. He's here in South
Dakota with us. We're in South Dakota. We'll be covering
the events tonight Hannity nine to eleven PM, Eastern DVR
seven to nine o'clock local time. President Trump will speak
(29:57):
during that two hour period at some point when he
does well cover that. We have great guests tonight. When
we come back, we'll check in with my governor from
the Free State of Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis. As we
continue from South Dakota Tonight, Hannity from Mount Rushmore. As
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