January 2, 2025 • 31 mins
Joe Concha fills in for Sean and sits down with Brianna Lyman from The Federalist, to talk about the recent terrorist attacks and our lack of national security insurance we need.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, I re number three of the Sean Hannity's Show,
Joe kancha Fox News contributor in for Sean eight hundred
and ninety four to one Sean Sea And if you
want to be a part of the program, I've been
promising to get to your calls all show, but we've
had so many great guests it's been hard to make
the pivot. Well, now we've opened up a nice fourteen
to fifteen minutes right here to take your calls from
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all across the country. Obviously, we're on something like what
seven hundred radio station, so filling the callboard ain't hard.
So let's go with you know I've never been. I'm
gonna go with states i've never been to before first,
and that would be South Dakota I've never been to,
which is a crime, because I heard it's gorgeous. So
let's go to Dale in South Dakota. How are you Dale?
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How's a weather there?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's cold, Joe, it's only twenty six degrees, but it's
it's gonna be hitting below zero real quick. And it
is beautiful here.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I've heard, Yeah, but why why stay? I'm just curious.
It is beautiful, yes, but those winners are brutal, Like
don't you want to just be like, all right, Florida
and be done with it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
When I when I get old enough, I'll be going
to Arizona for the winner and up here in the summertime.
That's the planned.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That's a good plan. So what do you want to
talk about?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, so this is John Soon country, and and just
just quickly your subject you were talking about earlier. I
thought it was the Conservatives that that carried the water
in this last election. So I don't want the Republicans
that are the in the uniparty to think that it
was the Republicans that won the election, because it was
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the Conservatives that carried the election for the Republicans. Okay,
just my opinion on that, But.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You're right Trump really.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Right? Well now, o, Lord Sean McCormick, I don't think
wins in Pennsylvania like that Senesceee. For example, without Trump,
there were several races that he tipped the other way
as a result of his coattails. But yeah, I don't think.
I don't is there even like a base for establish
Republicans anymore, because I don't think it really exists, Like, oh,
the Mitch McConnell, you know wing of the party. There
is no wing, you know, it's it's it's a maggot party. Now,
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let's face it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh, I hope John soon has listened under this because
he's he's one of the guys that needs to realize that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Is the establishment. You think, oh.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, he's he's a mini Mitch. Oh wow, Okay, election
time unless it's election time. But I I hope, uh,
I hope John pulls through.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Okay, because I wonder, like politically, like what's the upside
if he wants to like be another McConnell right and
resist Trump on some things. Given the mandate that he has,
I just think you want political survival and even popularity.
I would I would go along with the Trump agenda
because that's what the American people voted for. Well.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I still I still got faith in him. So I hope,
I hope he does.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Article thing I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Concerned about Joe is uh. I still think that the swamp,
you know, they whoever, who's they that those whoever's been
running the government for the last four years. I still
think the only way that they can still win and
they never quit, is to take Trump out still so
I'm I'm concerned for his safety. I still think, you know,
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they tried twice. I still think, you know, I'm just
worried about them trying to take him out somehow. And
I hope you know that the powers that be are
really really watching out for him, because I wouldn't put
it past them, you know, the you know, and I
know I'm using them and they but we all know
who they are, you know. I hope that Trump's being
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really careful and that they're they're looking out for him.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I think Dale in your concerns, you know, warranted. Obviously,
there were two assassinations attempts on him in the span
of you know, less than two months, I mean, and
the second one was particularly scary. I mean, the first
one obviously it is a bullet his ear, but the
second one, I mean, for a sniper's nest, for this
guy Ryan Ruth to be sitting in it for twelve hours,
and the Secret Service doesn't do a simple perimeter check
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on a golf course that he's playing. That just floored me.
All that said, Trump doesn't have to campaign anymore, so
I'm not sure he'll be doing you know, the kind
of outdoor events that they did in Butler, Pennsylvania, middle
of a field somewhere where you know, a twenty year
old can now flank the Secret Service and local law
enforcement and leave a rifle behind an air conditioner and
somehow it doesn't get discovered. And then he's on top
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of a roof where actually there's law enforcement inside the building.
Why they're in there while Trump's out there speaking, I
have no idea or why they even send Trump out
there in the first place when they knew there was
a threat. So, yeah, your concerns are warranted. But now
that he's president and he doesn't have to campaign as
more as much, I would think that probably any events
that he does will be extremely well protected. They'll probably
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be inside. And I was at mar A Lago this weekend.
I'm writing a book on the president and his campaign,
and they were kind enough to invite me to the
New Year's Eve party, and I could tell you that
there were layers upon layers upon layers of security there
where no one was going to get near Donald Trump.
So I think, you know, now to the's president, certainly
that gives him more protection, one would think. And now
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he isn't campaigning, he won't be as exposed as as often.
So that said, I understand your concern, but I have
a feeling that Donald Trump's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, I love the guy, and I the next four
years are just gonna be incredible, and the effects that
he'll have will follow way into, you know, maybe for
the next sixteen to twenty years, just like Ronald Reagan's did.
And I witnessed that, and I just can't wait. All
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of a sudden my grandkids and my kids, all of
a sudden the future looks much brighter for them. So
and thanks Joe, great bro Joe, thank.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You, got it, Dal thank you. Yeah, there's a lot
of optimism going into this administration, rightly, so right because
I remember I was at the Trump rally in Wildwood
and they were kind of enough to actually fly me
down there in the Trump plane, which was kind of
cool because you're like, Okay, what kind of food we're
gonna have here, like lobster tail, have some steak, and
it was Wendy's. It was cheeseburger and tater Tott's friend
fries coke. But it was quite good, and plus Trump
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loves fast food, so well, why was I expecting that
other stuff. The point is that when I got down
to Wildwood, then from there he had this one line.
So I'm taking like notes like throughout the speech, and
they put me like right up front. I'm next to
Lawrence Taller and Otis Anderson, which I thought was like
beyond cool, because one's a Super Bowl MVP and the
other one's the greatest, you know, probably past Rusher, at
least the greatest linebacker of all time. So you go
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to these things and you're next to people that you
never thought you'd be next to. Anyway, the point is
that I would be taking notes throughout the speech to
see if he says something that I haven't heard before.
And the one thing that really got me where I
put a couple of asterisks around it, is he said,
you know, this movement is more popular than ever. Not
me so much, but this movement, he said, because in
twenty sixteen, you had to imagine what a Hillary Clinton
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presidency would be like, and in twenty twenty, you'd have
to imagine what a Biden presidency would be like. He goes,
Now you've seen the alternative, You've lived the alternative, you've
experienced it, you've witnessed it. It impacted you, probably directly,
and most people don't like the alternative. So that's why
we're more powerful and popular than ever. I'm like that,
that's exactly right. Now that people have experienced what a
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Biden administration, what a Democratic administration, the modern day Democratic Party,
you know, the party of coastal elites, the Party of war,
the party of censorship. Now that we've seen them in
power and what they're willing to do to keep power.
They're not your daddy's donkeys, that's certainly for sure. And
they're not the party of the working man and woman.
So that's where we're at at this point. A lot
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of optimism going into this Trump administration because they lived
his presidency. They're nostalgic for it, and this time around
it could be even better because Trump knows Washington, he
knows the players that are around him, and he probably
has a much better I know, he has a much
better team around him this time around, as far as
his cabinet selections and a House speaker that is in
line with him. And you know, to our last caller's point,
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Dale's point, John Thune, is he another McConnell or will
he be somebody who exceeds expectations and doesn't do the
establishment thing, because there is no more establishment based for
the Republican Party. It's Donald Trump's party. It's a magot party,
and you'd be wise to go along with it because
that's what voters overwhelmingly wanted as far as this election
was concerned. On November fifth, Donald Trump wins the popular vote,
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wins every swing state, Republican Senate back I'm sorry, the
Senate back in Republican hands, and obviously the House Republicans held,
albeit by a very slim majority. Let's go to our
next caller. It is another state that I have not
been to, Mississippi. Arman, I gotta get down there too.
I see an old miss game. I think that's what
I would do if I went down there.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Armon, Hey, Joe, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
What does the speaker of the House have to do with.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Making the presidential election complete?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, Mike Johnson has to survive for starters, right, he
can't be voted out because if that happens, then if
you don't have a House speaker, then you can't certify,
you can't put in the next Congress. Basically, so everything
will be on hold. Therefore Trump's agenda will be on hold.
So these folks out there that think that Mike Johnson's
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the problem, and I get it. With this whole continuing
resolution that just went through and he had to compromise
with Democrats a little bit. Okay, get Trump into office,
get the new Congress into office, and then you could
start taking these completely and totally principled stance. But until
you get Trump in, it's gonna screw everything up. If
we go into the inauguration and we don't have a
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House Speaker and we end up going through like we
did with Kevin McCarthy, where the als McCarthy, but there
was no plan after you got rid of him. And
then remember all those different House speaker candidates that we
went through and they failed this vote and this vote,
and Democrats and the media are laughing about it, and
they finally settle on Johnson. Look, Johnson, this is the reality.
Has the slimmest majority you could almost possibly have, and
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it's hard to hurt all those all those cats from
all these different fractions. So factions, excuse me. So that's
the thing you replace Johnson. I don't think there's some
magical speaker out there that suddenly can get the job
done the way every Republican would like to have it done.
So yeah, Armon, thanks for to call. I really appreciate it.
But yeah, for starters, don't get rid of Mike Johnson
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because then you're gonna have chaos going into election day.
And oh, by the way, you know, not a Congress
that could start working on the agenda for Donald Trump
that he was mandated to work with on day one.
Let's go to Georgia. I'd definitely been to because I
was in Atlanta for the debate on June twenty seventh
between Biden and excuse me, Donald Trump, which basically ended
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Joe Biden's career. I was so impressed. And with Atlanta,
I think it's a clean city. There's not a lot
of traffic, that people are really nice. I love Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well, I'm in southern Georgia. Okay, Savannah.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh, I love Savannah too. I was there a couple
of years ago. A lot of dive bars there, but
that's kind of my thing. So yeah, Big Penasavana got.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You well, twenty five years in law enforcement. Personally, though,
I truly believe and think that the reason the Democrats
didn't want President Trump back in There is one simple reason.
He tried to run our government during the four years
he was in there like a business, just like it
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should be run, balance the books, and they didn't like it.
And when people didn't do their job, he fired them.
And the Democrats just they liked to rotate their constituents
over do another job, give them more money because they
screwed up, and just keep it quiet. And I don't
think that they was happy that they were happy about that.
That's my personal opinion. But the other situation is these
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two idiots with the situation New Orleans and the situation.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
In Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, my biggest concern was the fact that and the
biggest problem you've got in our country today. I heard
an FBI agent speak earlier on on radio on Top Radio,
and my biggest concern was the fact she was talking
about that the FBI is more like fifty to fifty
right now. It's not number one, it's it's you got
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the woke situation going on, and you got people that
don't want to do their job and they want to
pass the buck and they want to you know, they've
been promoted because of who they were. You know, kissing
and not doing their job.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And the thing that I founder in my years in
law enforcement, local law enforcement is that everybody wants to
conver so nobody wants to talk, nobody wants to share information.
We need to get an information sharing system that's secure
in this nation so that law enforcement throughout the nation
can can properly talk and properly transmit and you know,
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share information. Because if they had, if they had information
on these guys, which I think is going to come out,
these guys were on somebody's radar. Somebody knew kind of
what was going on, kind of like with the ninety
three situation when the when the Isis parked their vans
underneath the World Trade Center and tried to right up
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the information that was in the net before the nineteen
Isis took over the planes and and flew them into
the towers. America needs to wake up because we are
we're acting like a bunch of sheep. If you look
at Israel, Israel's fighting for their lives each and every day.
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And from what I understand, if you get on a
plane overseas going into Israel, l Al, you wind up
with Israeli special forces on them with a machine gun.
I got now problem with that.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I don't do I they keep that country safe at
October seventh the side, of course, but for the most part, Yeah,
I'm with you. Dan. I'm sorry. We're up against the break,
so I did have to let you go. But all
great points, and you're exactly right about that. We're going
to get some more calls on the other side of
the break. Joe concent in for Sean Hannity, back with
more in just a moment. Welcome back and everybody. Joe
Concha and for Sean Hannity. I want to get to
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Ali in Louisiana real quick, ally, because you've been on
hold for some time. They have a running clock here
that tells me how long you've been on hold, so
I appreciate that you got thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Ali.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Happy New Year. By the way, floorsiers, Hey, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You've kind of discussed it, but I'm very concerned about
the Mike Johnson vote. I think he's great. He represents
my area. If anyone's listening, if you'll email, call your
congressperson and tell them this isn't the time. As Joe said,
this isn't the time we need to certify this election,
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and we need to en shows it. Hackeen, Jeffrey doesn't
come near being the speaker.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Ali perfectly said, and you're exactly right about that, because
again you replace Mike Johnson, and the next speaker that
comes in, guess what with this majority is going to
have the same exact problems. Mike Johnson should be speaking
to John Thune Thuon, should be speaking with Trump and
jd Vance and figure out a plan in terms of
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what you can get past and heard those cats where
you could bring forth the agenda that the American people
voted for. It's that simple, Ali, I really appreciate your call.
Have a grete twenty twenty five and we're gonna be
getting too a break real soon everybody. But coming up
when we come back, another great guest. I mean, it's
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been some great guests here, I mean for a holiday basically,
because it seems like a lot of people are off,
you know, hard to get the good guests. But we
have one coming up. In fact, I'm going to tease
this and not tell you who it is. Just stick
around and welcome back everybody. Joe Kanca in for the
hen Man. I hadn't heard that particular nickname before. Of course,
I'm a Fox News contributor, and well there was no
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vacation for me during Christmas. Well we'll put it that way.
And obviously that's a labor of love. So we're happy
to be here on this important day. Quite frankly, on
a day where we're met once again. It's New Year's
Day or early morning hours, and you see these reports
of a terror attack on US soil New Orleans and
then later in Las Vegas. The year is already off
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to a chaotic start. And who better to bring in
to break all this down but Brianna Lyman. She is
of the Federalists, and Brianna, great to talk to you.
I don't think we've ever met before, so good to
meet you, albeit by distance, and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Of course. So let's start with New Orleans first. As
far as what we know, these sort of terror attacks
are very difficult to prevent, right because we saw it
in Nice. I want to say it was in twenty sixteen.
B Rock been de Nice before and it's a very
pedestrian friendly type of place. You don't want to be
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in a car. It's just a beautiful city to walk around,
and there we saw somebody, a member of ISIS, drive
a truck through a crowd, killing dozens. Now we saw
it here with New Orleans with fifteen dead, many people injured.
How do we prevent these sort of things from happening,
because it seems if somebody wants to take their own
life and just mow down some people, it's a soft
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target type of situation where it could be carried out,
and they're very difficult to prevent.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Well, I would say that this particular instance wasn't that
difficult to prevent because the suspect, I'm probably mispronounced this,
but Shamsa din Jabbar, he has been posting on social
media for quite a while about his affiliations with radical
Islamis terrorists, and unfortunately, our FBI was too busy going
after grandmothers and parents of school board meetings and Catholics
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to pick up on legitimate terrorist threats that we're being
posted for all to see. It just turns out the
FBI did and see it. So one of the ways
that you could fix the system we have now and
prevent it going forward is first and foremost quickly confirming
cash fatal to take over the FBI, and second reconfiguring
the priorities of the FBI so that instead of targeting
the people I just mentioned and the other hordes of
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innocent Americans being unfairly targeted, you actually refocus to target
legitimate potential terrorist threats because had they done their job,
they may have caught this potential this suspected terrorists.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
That's a great point, Brionn. And we're talking to Breonn
alignm enough the federalists that yes, there were many red
flags here as far as social media posts. But there's
so many social media posts out there, millions upon millions.
I wonder that, yes, the FBI should be doing their job,
but should these social media companies also when they see
this sort of rhetoric and their algorithms can probably alert
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people to that internally pretty quickly. Is it incumbent upon
them to if you see something, say.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Something, Yeah, it's incumbent upon any user. You know, if
I got RIBD saw some kind of posts like that,
you know, I would definitely alert someone to it. But
I think that there is a social acceptability to allow
this type of speech and discourse to just kind of
permeate freely on the airwave, and people may not see it.
They may tend to think twice, ah, well, this is
just somebody. Nobody would actually post this on their social
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media if they planned on doing it, and less and
not least. Again, it's incumbent upon our elected officials to
hold these agencies like the FBI, DHS accountable. If their
job is to protect the homeland, they have to actually
do things to protect the homeland. They love scouring people's
social media to find you right wing people and conservative
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and even moderates, but they for some reason have a problem.
They stop short when it comes to people posting about
radical Islamic terrorism.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And it certainly has been weaponized at this point, there's
no question about it. And we're talking to Breonna Lyneman
of the Federalist Let's move to Las Vegas. We saw
a Tesla blow up in front of a Trump property.
One person the person's side of it was killed, but
many people were injured outside of it as several. So
in this case, I'm seeing posts online, for example, from
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those on the left that are almost celebrating this on
some level. Aron Philipowski, I don't know if you saw
that particular social media post. As far as when he
was basically said, well, this is like a metaphor for
the year twenty twenty four, and it shows a burning
tesla in front of a Trump property with the Trump
sign out front. And I'm just thinking to myself, Wow,
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is this like a Luigi Luigi Mangioni situation all over again,
where you know, again, people are hurt and people are scared,
they're seeing cars blow up in the middle of the cities,
and we're celebrating this. I just don't know if you
saw that post, but it's just sickening some of the
reactions you see these days.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, I saw that too. It's really indicative of the
moral rot of the left because it's not just this
incident we saw yesterda I should say this attacking say yesterday,
or the Luigi Mangiani you go back to Donald Trump
nearly being assassinated twice. The left has gotten to a
point where they have been successful in either delegitimizing, downplay
or desensitizing Americans to any type of violence, including political
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based violence, which are what those three examples all are.
And by doing that, it allows people like Ron to
feel comfortable enough to make that social media post and
not expect much backlash publicly, and that's a shame that
one that's where the left has moved, and two that
as a culture as a whole, people just say, eh,
he's an idiot. I'm going to keep ignoring this post.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Just amazing after what we saw with the United Healthcare
CEO just a couple of blocks from where we are
at the Sean Hannity Show in New York. As far
as iHeartMedia, this is two blocks south of where we were.
And the fact that a man gets shot in the
back cowardly by this Luigi Mangioni then afterwards obviously kills him.
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The fact that people responded the way they did in
terms of looking at the shooter and then deciding that boy,
he's a good looking guy. And here Light Night Comedy
SNL Jimmy Kimmel like doing jokes on this stuff. I
just can't believe where we are as a society where
a father of two and a husband gets gunned down
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in the middle of the street, and again we're having
a debate over whether the shooter should be on a
magazine cover. Brianna.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, and that's part of the left's efforts to try
and justify certain types of political violence. So after the
second year assassination attempt of Donald Trump, you had people
like Nora O'Donnell and other you know, left wing agitators saying,
you know, yes, Donald Trump was almost the victim of
a second assassination attempt, but his rhetoric. And it's the
same thing for Luigi Mangiones. Yes he killed a father
of too in cold blood, but he was upset. You know,
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there's always sub level of justification, and in the Luigi
Manngione case in particular, you know, this is part of
the lefts effort to kind of instigate that class war. Right,
even though Luigi Mangioni comes from a very wealthy family,
a lot of people who are cheering him on are
younger folks who see, you know, big corporations and people
who make a lot of money as the evil that
they have to go after. And so he became almost
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like a symbol for that movement. And that's the symbol
of the class war that the left constantly tries to
shove down our throats, the same way they did it
with the race war. Now it's a class war.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And we're talking to Brianna Lyman. She is of the federalist.
So as far as twenty twenty five is concerned, a
lot of optimism going into this year, Brianna, the Trump
administration that's coming in. You mentioned Cash Battel, who was
obviously Donald Trump's nominee for running the FBI and joining
his cabinet, Pete Hesgetha over at Department of Defense, and
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we just go go down the line as far as
a coalition that you would not expect if I told
you four years ago would be part of Donald Trump's cabinet,
like Tulsi Gabbard who ran for the Democratic nomination in
twenty twenty and actually received more delicate than Kamala Harris.
I mean, that's quite the trivia question. Than Bobby Kennedy
Junior obviously, over as far as running healthcare in this
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country in essence, you know, helping us get more healthy
from a nutritional person, especially when it comes to children.
And I could go down the line as far as
some of the nominees that Trump has put forward is
bold because it seems to be an overwhelming kind of premise,
which is that he wants to remake government in a
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way where we basically purged the deep state once and
for all, in twenty sixteen. He didn't know the players
that were involved, or some of the people on his
own team because he never worked in Washington before. In
terms of who to trust, this seems to be a
cabinet that's built on loyalty, trust and rooting out the
causes of government waste and government corruption.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah, he's remaking the administration and other bureaucratic agencies in
the image of the American people. Right. You know, Pete
Haigseth is someone who served our military. He's not a career,
you know, military industrial conflict kind of guy. Seeing for
so many of the others, and I think what people
forget is when this country has found it. I mean,
we were pulling lawyers, you know, we were pulling just writers, thinkers.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
These people didn't have, you know, rinky experience in government.
Some of them were literally just your local farmers who
were engaged at and leveled. So that's how every administration
should go forward. I'm happy you brought Pete hegg sss up.
We have heard four weeks now that he is a
threat to our Department of Defense because he's a Christian.
How dare he? If it goes to show you that
Pete haig Seth probably would have a better grip on
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rooting out potential radicalization going on in our military, because
two of the suspects in the terrorist attacks we saw
were allegedly going out what was that Fort Hood or
Fort Bragg, I'm sorry, and they were, you know, both
serving what's going on in our military, right Lloyd Austin
was too concerned about white nationalism that they found doesn't
exist and missed key markers for clear other radicalization happening
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within our ranks. So I'm hoping Pete Hegseth also has
a quick confirmation to root out what's going on in
our military.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And I worked with Pete Hegseth for many years, appeared
on his show Fox and Friends Weekend on a regular basis.
These allegations as far as and they're based on anonymous sources, gee,
aren't they all suddenly coming out of the woodwork. There
isn't one person that is on the record that has
not supported as far as the way he has conducted
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himself over the years on that show. And for actual
people who call themselves reporters to say that while they
have anonymous sources telling them that Pete would come in
before shows a four hour morning show, mind you, which
is really hard to do with alcohol on his breath.
I'm sorry. No one ever called me, no one ever
called Will Kine, no one ever called Rachel campbells Duffy,
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who are is to co host for for many years,
and he's had co hosts that have since left the
network that I'm sure would be happy to talk. And
yet they can't find one person to go on the
record to confirm any of this stuff. They're just going
after him. From a personal perspective, my question, Brianna, will
he get confirmed despite all this noise? And is that
all it is? Noise?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Absolutely? I think in fact, given what's happened over the
past forty eight hours, he has more of a chance
of being confirmed because Americans are desperate for relief right now.
No one feels safe in this country. We have a
president who was mia yesterday for hours, no one knows
who's taking charge, and so quickly confirming Donald Trump's to
have an members and other nominees is going to help
settle America. It's going to help reinforce and we are
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a safe country. Admitted our government, elected officials will take
care of us. And I can't see how you would
fight Pete hegsas when clearly people like Lloyd Austin have
done such a terrible job. So we have people being
radicalized in our military and committing terrorist attacks under their leadership.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Brianna, I believe it was two years ago where we
didn't know where Lloyd Austin, the current Secretary of Defense was, right,
he went in for I guess to get some sort
of scope on a colin, and before you know it,
they he didn't react to that particular procedure well, and
then for one week, no one, including the President of
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the United States, knew where Lloyd Austin was, nor did
austin father to tell anybody before he went under this
procedure where something could happen like this, that this would
be happening. So for basically a week, because Austin's backup
was on vacation in Puerto Rico, we didn't have a
Secretary of Defense or anybody minding the store. So yeah,
for people to go off, Pete hegseath as far as well,
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you know, is he qualified, Well, I'm pretty sure after
watching Lloyd Austin that he's immensely qualified. And by the way,
twenty years military experience to bronze stars. As far as Pete,
you think he's going to get confirmed? Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby
Kennedy Junior, are they at risk? And cash Hotel for
that matter, Of those three, who is the most at
risk or do you think all three get in?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I think all three get in. I do think that
there will be a very heavily waged media smear campaign
against them. We're going to see that rampop obviously in
the next two weeks. But people have to remember that
the American people tuned out of mainstream media. This actually
shouldn't say mainstream media. I should say the propaganda press,
because Fox Newsmaxes aren't mainstream media. Like the way the
left is. People tuned out, they didn't want to hear
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their opinions in the agendas. And the only keeple waging
these wars against Tulci and Pete and the whole nine
are the same people that Americans said, shut up and
sit down. We don't care what you have to say.
And so it's up for members of Congress to act appropriately,
to ignore the noise and to go forward. I think
John Fetterman is someone who's actually been pretty clear that
he's going to ignore the noise from the left and
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you know, vote on credentials and what have you, and
the least listen to the nominees.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
And we're talking to Brianna Lyman of the Federalist Donald
Trump will be the forty seventh president in a matter
of let's see, eighteen days. And it couldn't come quickly enough.
As far as if you were Donald Trump first day,
what would be your first three top priorities. I mean,
there's so much to get to, I'm sure, but if
you had to choose three, if you had to sign
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executive voters around them, what would they be?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Brianna, I would think it's going to be immigration focused entirely,
obviously working to close the southern border. Second of all,
I would probably go to places like New York City
rag Adams and say we need to sit down by
the end of this week and figure out what's going on,
especially in these migrant hotels where we see plenty of
young migrants coming out and you know, stealing from people,
you know, attacking them, what have you. And the last
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thing I would do is maybe this isn't immigration related,
but just crime nationwide. There needs to be a new
tone set. We see people being burned on the subways alive.
That is unacceptable. If you would have told someone twenty
years ago as this would happen, they would have looked
at you like you had two heads on it, right,
because most Americans understood at a point in time, this
is abnormal behavior to have normalized. So it's about Donald
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Trump setting the tone and normalizing normal behavior and rejecting
abnormal behavior.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Isn't that ironic, Brianna that Donald Trump jd Vance were
called the weird candidates by people like Goofy Tim Walls,
and it turns out that normalcy actually one the day
on November fifth. But unfortunately we have to go right now, Brianna,
but I again wish you a happy new year, a
great twenty twenty five, and we'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Thanks so much, Joe, Happy new Year, Happy.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
New year, Brianna Leman of the Federalists. This is Joe
Kanca in for Sean Hannity, back with more in just
a moment. Well that'll do it. That was a fast
three hours. Thank you so much for tuning into the
Sean Hannity Show. Thanks so much to our guests as well,
Brianna Lyman of the Federalist, Jeff Lord of the American Spectator,
Jimmy Fla Fox across American Fox News, my old friend,
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and of course John McLaughlin, who is the best polster
in the business. Tune in tomorrow Friday, we'll be back
once again. I am Joe Concha saying see you when
I see it.
All right, I re number three of the Sean Hannity's Show,
Joe kancha Fox News contributor in for Sean eight hundred
and ninety four to one Sean Sea And if you
want to be a part of the program, I've been
promising to get to your calls all show, but we've
had so many great guests it's been hard to make
the pivot. Well, now we've opened up a nice fourteen
to fifteen minutes right here to take your calls from
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all across the country. Obviously, we're on something like what
seven hundred radio station, so filling the callboard ain't hard.
So let's go with you know I've never been. I'm
gonna go with states i've never been to before first,
and that would be South Dakota I've never been to,
which is a crime, because I heard it's gorgeous. So
let's go to Dale in South Dakota. How are you Dale?
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How's a weather there?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's cold, Joe, it's only twenty six degrees, but it's
it's gonna be hitting below zero real quick. And it
is beautiful here.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I've heard, Yeah, but why why stay? I'm just curious.
It is beautiful, yes, but those winners are brutal, Like
don't you want to just be like, all right, Florida
and be done with it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
When I when I get old enough, I'll be going
to Arizona for the winner and up here in the summertime.
That's the planned.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That's a good plan. So what do you want to
talk about?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, so this is John Soon country, and and just
just quickly your subject you were talking about earlier. I
thought it was the Conservatives that that carried the water
in this last election. So I don't want the Republicans
that are the in the uniparty to think that it
was the Republicans that won the election, because it was
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the Conservatives that carried the election for the Republicans. Okay,
just my opinion on that, But.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You're right Trump really.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Right? Well now, o, Lord Sean McCormick, I don't think
wins in Pennsylvania like that Senesceee. For example, without Trump,
there were several races that he tipped the other way
as a result of his coattails. But yeah, I don't think.
I don't is there even like a base for establish
Republicans anymore, because I don't think it really exists, Like, oh,
the Mitch McConnell, you know wing of the party. There
is no wing, you know, it's it's it's a maggot party. Now,
(02:05):
let's face it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh, I hope John soon has listened under this because
he's he's one of the guys that needs to realize that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Is the establishment. You think, oh.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, he's he's a mini Mitch. Oh wow, Okay, election
time unless it's election time. But I I hope, uh,
I hope John pulls through.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Okay, because I wonder, like politically, like what's the upside
if he wants to like be another McConnell right and
resist Trump on some things. Given the mandate that he has,
I just think you want political survival and even popularity.
I would I would go along with the Trump agenda
because that's what the American people voted for. Well.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I still I still got faith in him. So I hope,
I hope he does.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Article thing I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Concerned about Joe is uh. I still think that the swamp,
you know, they whoever, who's they that those whoever's been
running the government for the last four years. I still
think the only way that they can still win and
they never quit, is to take Trump out still so
I'm I'm concerned for his safety. I still think, you know,
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they tried twice. I still think, you know, I'm just
worried about them trying to take him out somehow. And
I hope you know that the powers that be are
really really watching out for him, because I wouldn't put
it past them, you know, the you know, and I
know I'm using them and they but we all know
who they are, you know. I hope that Trump's being
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really careful and that they're they're looking out for him.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I think Dale in your concerns, you know, warranted. Obviously,
there were two assassinations attempts on him in the span
of you know, less than two months, I mean, and
the second one was particularly scary. I mean, the first
one obviously it is a bullet his ear, but the
second one, I mean, for a sniper's nest, for this
guy Ryan Ruth to be sitting in it for twelve hours,
and the Secret Service doesn't do a simple perimeter check
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on a golf course that he's playing. That just floored me.
All that said, Trump doesn't have to campaign anymore, so
I'm not sure he'll be doing you know, the kind
of outdoor events that they did in Butler, Pennsylvania, middle
of a field somewhere where you know, a twenty year
old can now flank the Secret Service and local law
enforcement and leave a rifle behind an air conditioner and
somehow it doesn't get discovered. And then he's on top
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of a roof where actually there's law enforcement inside the building.
Why they're in there while Trump's out there speaking, I
have no idea or why they even send Trump out
there in the first place when they knew there was
a threat. So, yeah, your concerns are warranted. But now
that he's president and he doesn't have to campaign as
more as much, I would think that probably any events
that he does will be extremely well protected. They'll probably
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be inside. And I was at mar A Lago this weekend.
I'm writing a book on the president and his campaign,
and they were kind enough to invite me to the
New Year's Eve party, and I could tell you that
there were layers upon layers upon layers of security there
where no one was going to get near Donald Trump.
So I think, you know, now to the's president, certainly
that gives him more protection, one would think. And now
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he isn't campaigning, he won't be as exposed as as often.
So that said, I understand your concern, but I have
a feeling that Donald Trump's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, I love the guy, and I the next four
years are just gonna be incredible, and the effects that
he'll have will follow way into, you know, maybe for
the next sixteen to twenty years, just like Ronald Reagan's did.
And I witnessed that, and I just can't wait. All
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of a sudden my grandkids and my kids, all of
a sudden the future looks much brighter for them. So
and thanks Joe, great bro Joe, thank.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You, got it, Dal thank you. Yeah, there's a lot
of optimism going into this administration, rightly, so right because
I remember I was at the Trump rally in Wildwood
and they were kind of enough to actually fly me
down there in the Trump plane, which was kind of
cool because you're like, Okay, what kind of food we're
gonna have here, like lobster tail, have some steak, and
it was Wendy's. It was cheeseburger and tater Tott's friend
fries coke. But it was quite good, and plus Trump
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loves fast food, so well, why was I expecting that
other stuff. The point is that when I got down
to Wildwood, then from there he had this one line.
So I'm taking like notes like throughout the speech, and
they put me like right up front. I'm next to
Lawrence Taller and Otis Anderson, which I thought was like
beyond cool, because one's a Super Bowl MVP and the
other one's the greatest, you know, probably past Rusher, at
least the greatest linebacker of all time. So you go
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to these things and you're next to people that you
never thought you'd be next to. Anyway, the point is
that I would be taking notes throughout the speech to
see if he says something that I haven't heard before.
And the one thing that really got me where I
put a couple of asterisks around it, is he said,
you know, this movement is more popular than ever. Not
me so much, but this movement, he said, because in
twenty sixteen, you had to imagine what a Hillary Clinton
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presidency would be like, and in twenty twenty, you'd have
to imagine what a Biden presidency would be like. He goes,
Now you've seen the alternative, You've lived the alternative, you've
experienced it, you've witnessed it. It impacted you, probably directly,
and most people don't like the alternative. So that's why
we're more powerful and popular than ever. I'm like that,
that's exactly right. Now that people have experienced what a
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Biden administration, what a Democratic administration, the modern day Democratic Party,
you know, the party of coastal elites, the Party of war,
the party of censorship. Now that we've seen them in
power and what they're willing to do to keep power.
They're not your daddy's donkeys, that's certainly for sure. And
they're not the party of the working man and woman.
So that's where we're at at this point. A lot
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of optimism going into this Trump administration because they lived
his presidency. They're nostalgic for it, and this time around
it could be even better because Trump knows Washington, he
knows the players that are around him, and he probably
has a much better I know, he has a much
better team around him this time around, as far as
his cabinet selections and a House speaker that is in
line with him. And you know, to our last caller's point,
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Dale's point, John Thune, is he another McConnell or will
he be somebody who exceeds expectations and doesn't do the
establishment thing, because there is no more establishment based for
the Republican Party. It's Donald Trump's party. It's a magot party,
and you'd be wise to go along with it because
that's what voters overwhelmingly wanted as far as this election
was concerned. On November fifth, Donald Trump wins the popular vote,
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wins every swing state, Republican Senate back I'm sorry, the
Senate back in Republican hands, and obviously the House Republicans held,
albeit by a very slim majority. Let's go to our
next caller. It is another state that I have not
been to, Mississippi. Arman, I gotta get down there too.
I see an old miss game. I think that's what
I would do if I went down there.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Armon, Hey, Joe, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
What does the speaker of the House have to do with.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Making the presidential election complete?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, Mike Johnson has to survive for starters, right, he
can't be voted out because if that happens, then if
you don't have a House speaker, then you can't certify,
you can't put in the next Congress. Basically, so everything
will be on hold. Therefore Trump's agenda will be on hold.
So these folks out there that think that Mike Johnson's
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the problem, and I get it. With this whole continuing
resolution that just went through and he had to compromise
with Democrats a little bit. Okay, get Trump into office,
get the new Congress into office, and then you could
start taking these completely and totally principled stance. But until
you get Trump in, it's gonna screw everything up. If
we go into the inauguration and we don't have a
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House Speaker and we end up going through like we
did with Kevin McCarthy, where the als McCarthy, but there
was no plan after you got rid of him. And
then remember all those different House speaker candidates that we
went through and they failed this vote and this vote,
and Democrats and the media are laughing about it, and
they finally settle on Johnson. Look, Johnson, this is the reality.
Has the slimmest majority you could almost possibly have, and
(10:03):
it's hard to hurt all those all those cats from
all these different fractions. So factions, excuse me. So that's
the thing you replace Johnson. I don't think there's some
magical speaker out there that suddenly can get the job
done the way every Republican would like to have it done.
So yeah, Armon, thanks for to call. I really appreciate it.
But yeah, for starters, don't get rid of Mike Johnson
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because then you're gonna have chaos going into election day.
And oh, by the way, you know, not a Congress
that could start working on the agenda for Donald Trump
that he was mandated to work with on day one.
Let's go to Georgia. I'd definitely been to because I
was in Atlanta for the debate on June twenty seventh
between Biden and excuse me, Donald Trump, which basically ended
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Joe Biden's career. I was so impressed. And with Atlanta,
I think it's a clean city. There's not a lot
of traffic, that people are really nice. I love Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well, I'm in southern Georgia. Okay, Savannah.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh, I love Savannah too. I was there a couple
of years ago. A lot of dive bars there, but
that's kind of my thing. So yeah, Big Penasavana got.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You well, twenty five years in law enforcement. Personally, though,
I truly believe and think that the reason the Democrats
didn't want President Trump back in There is one simple reason.
He tried to run our government during the four years
he was in there like a business, just like it
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should be run, balance the books, and they didn't like it.
And when people didn't do their job, he fired them.
And the Democrats just they liked to rotate their constituents
over do another job, give them more money because they
screwed up, and just keep it quiet. And I don't
think that they was happy that they were happy about that.
That's my personal opinion. But the other situation is these
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two idiots with the situation New Orleans and the situation.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
In Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, my biggest concern was the fact that and the
biggest problem you've got in our country today. I heard
an FBI agent speak earlier on on radio on Top Radio,
and my biggest concern was the fact she was talking
about that the FBI is more like fifty to fifty
right now. It's not number one, it's it's you got
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the woke situation going on, and you got people that
don't want to do their job and they want to
pass the buck and they want to you know, they've
been promoted because of who they were. You know, kissing
and not doing their job.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And the thing that I founder in my years in
law enforcement, local law enforcement is that everybody wants to
conver so nobody wants to talk, nobody wants to share information.
We need to get an information sharing system that's secure
in this nation so that law enforcement throughout the nation
can can properly talk and properly transmit and you know,
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share information. Because if they had, if they had information
on these guys, which I think is going to come out,
these guys were on somebody's radar. Somebody knew kind of
what was going on, kind of like with the ninety
three situation when the when the Isis parked their vans
underneath the World Trade Center and tried to right up
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the information that was in the net before the nineteen
Isis took over the planes and and flew them into
the towers. America needs to wake up because we are
we're acting like a bunch of sheep. If you look
at Israel, Israel's fighting for their lives each and every day.
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And from what I understand, if you get on a
plane overseas going into Israel, l Al, you wind up
with Israeli special forces on them with a machine gun.
I got now problem with that.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I don't do I they keep that country safe at
October seventh the side, of course, but for the most part, Yeah,
I'm with you. Dan. I'm sorry. We're up against the break,
so I did have to let you go. But all
great points, and you're exactly right about that. We're going
to get some more calls on the other side of
the break. Joe concent in for Sean Hannity, back with
more in just a moment. Welcome back and everybody. Joe
Concha and for Sean Hannity. I want to get to
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Ali in Louisiana real quick, ally, because you've been on
hold for some time. They have a running clock here
that tells me how long you've been on hold, so
I appreciate that you got thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Ali.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Happy New Year. By the way, floorsiers, Hey, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You've kind of discussed it, but I'm very concerned about
the Mike Johnson vote. I think he's great. He represents
my area. If anyone's listening, if you'll email, call your
congressperson and tell them this isn't the time. As Joe said,
this isn't the time we need to certify this election,
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and we need to en shows it. Hackeen, Jeffrey doesn't
come near being the speaker.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Ali perfectly said, and you're exactly right about that, because
again you replace Mike Johnson, and the next speaker that
comes in, guess what with this majority is going to
have the same exact problems. Mike Johnson should be speaking
to John Thune Thuon, should be speaking with Trump and
jd Vance and figure out a plan in terms of
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what you can get past and heard those cats where
you could bring forth the agenda that the American people
voted for. It's that simple, Ali, I really appreciate your call.
Have a grete twenty twenty five and we're gonna be
getting too a break real soon everybody. But coming up
when we come back, another great guest. I mean, it's
(15:46):
been some great guests here, I mean for a holiday basically,
because it seems like a lot of people are off,
you know, hard to get the good guests. But we
have one coming up. In fact, I'm going to tease
this and not tell you who it is. Just stick
around and welcome back everybody. Joe Kanca in for the
hen Man. I hadn't heard that particular nickname before. Of course,
I'm a Fox News contributor, and well there was no
(16:08):
vacation for me during Christmas. Well we'll put it that way.
And obviously that's a labor of love. So we're happy
to be here on this important day. Quite frankly, on
a day where we're met once again. It's New Year's
Day or early morning hours, and you see these reports
of a terror attack on US soil New Orleans and
then later in Las Vegas. The year is already off
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to a chaotic start. And who better to bring in
to break all this down but Brianna Lyman. She is
of the Federalists, and Brianna, great to talk to you.
I don't think we've ever met before, so good to
meet you, albeit by distance, and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Of course. So let's start with New Orleans first. As
far as what we know, these sort of terror attacks
are very difficult to prevent, right because we saw it
in Nice. I want to say it was in twenty sixteen.
B Rock been de Nice before and it's a very
pedestrian friendly type of place. You don't want to be
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in a car. It's just a beautiful city to walk around,
and there we saw somebody, a member of ISIS, drive
a truck through a crowd, killing dozens. Now we saw
it here with New Orleans with fifteen dead, many people injured.
How do we prevent these sort of things from happening,
because it seems if somebody wants to take their own
life and just mow down some people, it's a soft
(17:29):
target type of situation where it could be carried out,
and they're very difficult to prevent.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Well, I would say that this particular instance wasn't that
difficult to prevent because the suspect, I'm probably mispronounced this,
but Shamsa din Jabbar, he has been posting on social
media for quite a while about his affiliations with radical
Islamis terrorists, and unfortunately, our FBI was too busy going
after grandmothers and parents of school board meetings and Catholics
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to pick up on legitimate terrorist threats that we're being
posted for all to see. It just turns out the
FBI did and see it. So one of the ways
that you could fix the system we have now and
prevent it going forward is first and foremost quickly confirming
cash fatal to take over the FBI, and second reconfiguring
the priorities of the FBI so that instead of targeting
the people I just mentioned and the other hordes of
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innocent Americans being unfairly targeted, you actually refocus to target
legitimate potential terrorist threats because had they done their job,
they may have caught this potential this suspected terrorists.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
That's a great point, Brionn. And we're talking to Breonn
alignm enough the federalists that yes, there were many red
flags here as far as social media posts. But there's
so many social media posts out there, millions upon millions.
I wonder that, yes, the FBI should be doing their job,
but should these social media companies also when they see
this sort of rhetoric and their algorithms can probably alert
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people to that internally pretty quickly. Is it incumbent upon
them to if you see something, say.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Something, Yeah, it's incumbent upon any user. You know, if
I got RIBD saw some kind of posts like that,
you know, I would definitely alert someone to it. But
I think that there is a social acceptability to allow
this type of speech and discourse to just kind of
permeate freely on the airwave, and people may not see it.
They may tend to think twice, ah, well, this is
just somebody. Nobody would actually post this on their social
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media if they planned on doing it, and less and
not least. Again, it's incumbent upon our elected officials to
hold these agencies like the FBI, DHS accountable. If their
job is to protect the homeland, they have to actually
do things to protect the homeland. They love scouring people's
social media to find you right wing people and conservative
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and even moderates, but they for some reason have a problem.
They stop short when it comes to people posting about
radical Islamic terrorism.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And it certainly has been weaponized at this point, there's
no question about it. And we're talking to Breonna Lyneman
of the Federalist Let's move to Las Vegas. We saw
a Tesla blow up in front of a Trump property.
One person the person's side of it was killed, but
many people were injured outside of it as several. So
in this case, I'm seeing posts online, for example, from
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those on the left that are almost celebrating this on
some level. Aron Philipowski, I don't know if you saw
that particular social media post. As far as when he
was basically said, well, this is like a metaphor for
the year twenty twenty four, and it shows a burning
tesla in front of a Trump property with the Trump
sign out front. And I'm just thinking to myself, Wow,
(20:26):
is this like a Luigi Luigi Mangioni situation all over again,
where you know, again, people are hurt and people are scared,
they're seeing cars blow up in the middle of the cities,
and we're celebrating this. I just don't know if you
saw that post, but it's just sickening some of the
reactions you see these days.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, I saw that too. It's really indicative of the
moral rot of the left because it's not just this
incident we saw yesterda I should say this attacking say yesterday,
or the Luigi Mangiani you go back to Donald Trump
nearly being assassinated twice. The left has gotten to a
point where they have been successful in either delegitimizing, downplay
or desensitizing Americans to any type of violence, including political
(21:03):
based violence, which are what those three examples all are.
And by doing that, it allows people like Ron to
feel comfortable enough to make that social media post and
not expect much backlash publicly, and that's a shame that
one that's where the left has moved, and two that
as a culture as a whole, people just say, eh,
he's an idiot. I'm going to keep ignoring this post.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Just amazing after what we saw with the United Healthcare
CEO just a couple of blocks from where we are
at the Sean Hannity Show in New York. As far
as iHeartMedia, this is two blocks south of where we were.
And the fact that a man gets shot in the
back cowardly by this Luigi Mangioni then afterwards obviously kills him.
(21:46):
The fact that people responded the way they did in
terms of looking at the shooter and then deciding that boy,
he's a good looking guy. And here Light Night Comedy
SNL Jimmy Kimmel like doing jokes on this stuff. I
just can't believe where we are as a society where
a father of two and a husband gets gunned down
(22:07):
in the middle of the street, and again we're having
a debate over whether the shooter should be on a
magazine cover. Brianna.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, and that's part of the left's efforts to try
and justify certain types of political violence. So after the
second year assassination attempt of Donald Trump, you had people
like Nora O'Donnell and other you know, left wing agitators saying,
you know, yes, Donald Trump was almost the victim of
a second assassination attempt, but his rhetoric. And it's the
same thing for Luigi Mangiones. Yes he killed a father
of too in cold blood, but he was upset. You know,
(22:38):
there's always sub level of justification, and in the Luigi
Manngione case in particular, you know, this is part of
the lefts effort to kind of instigate that class war. Right,
even though Luigi Mangioni comes from a very wealthy family,
a lot of people who are cheering him on are
younger folks who see, you know, big corporations and people
who make a lot of money as the evil that
they have to go after. And so he became almost
(22:59):
like a symbol for that movement. And that's the symbol
of the class war that the left constantly tries to
shove down our throats, the same way they did it
with the race war. Now it's a class war.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And we're talking to Brianna Lyman. She is of the federalist.
So as far as twenty twenty five is concerned, a
lot of optimism going into this year, Brianna, the Trump
administration that's coming in. You mentioned Cash Battel, who was
obviously Donald Trump's nominee for running the FBI and joining
his cabinet, Pete Hesgetha over at Department of Defense, and
(23:30):
we just go go down the line as far as
a coalition that you would not expect if I told
you four years ago would be part of Donald Trump's cabinet,
like Tulsi Gabbard who ran for the Democratic nomination in
twenty twenty and actually received more delicate than Kamala Harris.
I mean, that's quite the trivia question. Than Bobby Kennedy
Junior obviously, over as far as running healthcare in this
(23:54):
country in essence, you know, helping us get more healthy
from a nutritional person, especially when it comes to children.
And I could go down the line as far as
some of the nominees that Trump has put forward is
bold because it seems to be an overwhelming kind of premise,
which is that he wants to remake government in a
(24:15):
way where we basically purged the deep state once and
for all, in twenty sixteen. He didn't know the players
that were involved, or some of the people on his
own team because he never worked in Washington before. In
terms of who to trust, this seems to be a
cabinet that's built on loyalty, trust and rooting out the
causes of government waste and government corruption.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah, he's remaking the administration and other bureaucratic agencies in
the image of the American people. Right. You know, Pete
Haigseth is someone who served our military. He's not a career,
you know, military industrial conflict kind of guy. Seeing for
so many of the others, and I think what people
forget is when this country has found it. I mean,
we were pulling lawyers, you know, we were pulling just writers, thinkers.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
These people didn't have, you know, rinky experience in government.
Some of them were literally just your local farmers who
were engaged at and leveled. So that's how every administration
should go forward. I'm happy you brought Pete hegg sss up.
We have heard four weeks now that he is a
threat to our Department of Defense because he's a Christian.
How dare he? If it goes to show you that
Pete haig Seth probably would have a better grip on
(25:14):
rooting out potential radicalization going on in our military, because
two of the suspects in the terrorist attacks we saw
were allegedly going out what was that Fort Hood or
Fort Bragg, I'm sorry, and they were, you know, both
serving what's going on in our military, right Lloyd Austin
was too concerned about white nationalism that they found doesn't
exist and missed key markers for clear other radicalization happening
(25:35):
within our ranks. So I'm hoping Pete Hegseth also has
a quick confirmation to root out what's going on in
our military.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And I worked with Pete Hegseth for many years, appeared
on his show Fox and Friends Weekend on a regular basis.
These allegations as far as and they're based on anonymous sources, gee,
aren't they all suddenly coming out of the woodwork. There
isn't one person that is on the record that has
not supported as far as the way he has conducted
(26:02):
himself over the years on that show. And for actual
people who call themselves reporters to say that while they
have anonymous sources telling them that Pete would come in
before shows a four hour morning show, mind you, which
is really hard to do with alcohol on his breath.
I'm sorry. No one ever called me, no one ever
called Will Kine, no one ever called Rachel campbells Duffy,
(26:24):
who are is to co host for for many years,
and he's had co hosts that have since left the
network that I'm sure would be happy to talk. And
yet they can't find one person to go on the
record to confirm any of this stuff. They're just going
after him. From a personal perspective, my question, Brianna, will
he get confirmed despite all this noise? And is that
all it is? Noise?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Absolutely? I think in fact, given what's happened over the
past forty eight hours, he has more of a chance
of being confirmed because Americans are desperate for relief right now.
No one feels safe in this country. We have a
president who was mia yesterday for hours, no one knows
who's taking charge, and so quickly confirming Donald Trump's to
have an members and other nominees is going to help
settle America. It's going to help reinforce and we are
(27:04):
a safe country. Admitted our government, elected officials will take
care of us. And I can't see how you would
fight Pete hegsas when clearly people like Lloyd Austin have
done such a terrible job. So we have people being
radicalized in our military and committing terrorist attacks under their leadership.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Brianna, I believe it was two years ago where we
didn't know where Lloyd Austin, the current Secretary of Defense was, right,
he went in for I guess to get some sort
of scope on a colin, and before you know it,
they he didn't react to that particular procedure well, and
then for one week, no one, including the President of
(27:41):
the United States, knew where Lloyd Austin was, nor did
austin father to tell anybody before he went under this
procedure where something could happen like this, that this would
be happening. So for basically a week, because Austin's backup
was on vacation in Puerto Rico, we didn't have a
Secretary of Defense or anybody minding the store. So yeah,
for people to go off, Pete hegseath as far as well,
(28:02):
you know, is he qualified, Well, I'm pretty sure after
watching Lloyd Austin that he's immensely qualified. And by the way,
twenty years military experience to bronze stars. As far as Pete,
you think he's going to get confirmed? Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby
Kennedy Junior, are they at risk? And cash Hotel for
that matter, Of those three, who is the most at
risk or do you think all three get in?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I think all three get in. I do think that
there will be a very heavily waged media smear campaign
against them. We're going to see that rampop obviously in
the next two weeks. But people have to remember that
the American people tuned out of mainstream media. This actually
shouldn't say mainstream media. I should say the propaganda press,
because Fox Newsmaxes aren't mainstream media. Like the way the
left is. People tuned out, they didn't want to hear
(28:43):
their opinions in the agendas. And the only keeple waging
these wars against Tulci and Pete and the whole nine
are the same people that Americans said, shut up and
sit down. We don't care what you have to say.
And so it's up for members of Congress to act appropriately,
to ignore the noise and to go forward. I think
John Fetterman is someone who's actually been pretty clear that
he's going to ignore the noise from the left and
(29:04):
you know, vote on credentials and what have you, and
the least listen to the nominees.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
And we're talking to Brianna Lyman of the Federalist Donald
Trump will be the forty seventh president in a matter
of let's see, eighteen days. And it couldn't come quickly enough.
As far as if you were Donald Trump first day,
what would be your first three top priorities. I mean,
there's so much to get to, I'm sure, but if
you had to choose three, if you had to sign
(29:29):
executive voters around them, what would they be?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Brianna, I would think it's going to be immigration focused entirely,
obviously working to close the southern border. Second of all,
I would probably go to places like New York City
rag Adams and say we need to sit down by
the end of this week and figure out what's going on,
especially in these migrant hotels where we see plenty of
young migrants coming out and you know, stealing from people,
you know, attacking them, what have you. And the last
(29:51):
thing I would do is maybe this isn't immigration related,
but just crime nationwide. There needs to be a new
tone set. We see people being burned on the subways alive.
That is unacceptable. If you would have told someone twenty
years ago as this would happen, they would have looked
at you like you had two heads on it, right,
because most Americans understood at a point in time, this
is abnormal behavior to have normalized. So it's about Donald
(30:12):
Trump setting the tone and normalizing normal behavior and rejecting
abnormal behavior.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Isn't that ironic, Brianna that Donald Trump jd Vance were
called the weird candidates by people like Goofy Tim Walls,
and it turns out that normalcy actually one the day
on November fifth. But unfortunately we have to go right now, Brianna,
but I again wish you a happy new year, a
great twenty twenty five, and we'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Thanks so much, Joe, Happy new Year, Happy.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
New year, Brianna Leman of the Federalists. This is Joe
Kanca in for Sean Hannity, back with more in just
a moment. Well that'll do it. That was a fast
three hours. Thank you so much for tuning into the
Sean Hannity Show. Thanks so much to our guests as well,
Brianna Lyman of the Federalist, Jeff Lord of the American Spectator,
Jimmy Fla Fox across American Fox News, my old friend,
(30:59):
and of course John McLaughlin, who is the best polster
in the business. Tune in tomorrow Friday, we'll be back
once again. I am Joe Concha saying see you when
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