July 14, 2026 • 28 mins
Dan Bongino joins Sean Hannity for an in-depth discussion on U.S. policy toward Iran, Operation Midnight Hammer, and why he believes President Trump faced difficult national security decisions. Bongino also reflects on his time as Deputy FBI Director, discusses the Russia investigation, intelligence gathering, and ongoing accountability efforts inside the federal government. Sean and Dan examine national security, law enforcement, and the future of American institutions before Sean takes listener calls on the political issues shaping the country. The hour concludes with updates on the latest headlines and the road ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The News round Up, Information Overload Hour. Here's a telfree
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telephone number if you want to be a part of
the program. It's eight hundred nine to four one Sewan
if you want to join us. Dan Bongino, who's going
to join us in a second, has become a very dear,
close personal friend. He has been for a long time,
and I'm honored that this man is my friend. This
guy is a lover of the cause of liberty and freedom.
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He believes in law and order and safety and security,
and he's just a warrior. There are not a lot
of podcasts that are must watch for me. Dan is
at the top of the list. Patrick bed David's up there,
Benny Johnson's up there. I don't have a lot of
time to watch other shows, but I always want to
hear what Dan has to say.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It was very reassuring.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Dan was on my podcast, one of the highest rated
podcasts we ever had, by far, and I asked him
about President Trump and the decision. This is after Midnight
Hammer on Epic Fury, and you know we had had
Steve Whitkoff on this program. He talked about the sixty
percent of riched uranium, commonly referred to as nuclear dust
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that could be turned into weapons grade ninety percent enriched
uranium in less than twelve days, and the clear and
present danger that that represented. Dan is the only one
now that was in a position to see this information
himself and has been willing to talk about it, and
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everybody needs to hear it because it frustrates the hell
out of me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's so many.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
People, you know, even the new woke conservative right, if
you will, the isolationists that have no idea what the
Trump doctrine is are out there just repeating lie after
lie about Epic Fury and Midnight Hammer and it pisses
me off. And I know it pisses Dan off because
I watched this podcast. My friend, love your podcast. Everybody's
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got to watch it. Go to rumble dot com. How
are you doing, I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm I'm humbled by Uh. That's just so nice of
you to say. I mean, you're the by far the
hardest working guy in the business, who's got the most longevity.
And I mean a podcast, radio show, TV. I mean
I did that for about three years and was dying,
and now you've been doing it for decades. So I
really appreciate that and I'm really glad we got to
discuss that we had a blast on the show. I
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remember on the show we looked up and really two
hours just go by. We're to talk for about it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I think it ended up being close to the three
by the time we stopped talking.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I was I know, it was like, gosh, that just
went by like that. I had, I had a blast,
but I was glad you brought that question up, and
and hearing you talk about that, you know, I'm not
one of these guys who says, hey, listen, I saw
the Intel. You're all morons. You're not a lot of people.
You know. You can read the Wall Street Journal, geopolitical
online and hard copy magazines and get a pretty decent
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knowledge of what's going on. The thing with the Iranian
threat is you don't have to read too much, Sean.
You just have to ask them, like, you know, how
do you feel about America? And they put up like
the number one foamy finger death to America a number one,
Like they tell you it's not hidden, that it's not
some cryptic message. You don't need visible ink. I mean,
they tell you, and then when you see it buttressed
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and backed up by clandestinely gathered sing in signals, intelligence, interceptions,
and human intelligence. And you're on the other side of it.
You know, you're stunned that there were still people out
there arguing that this not only is a threat, there
are a lot of threats. There are a lot of
countries owners that would threat in the United States. That's
not the point. The point is the threat plus the
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capacity and the will was all there. There's zero doubt,
zero in my mind. I'm not even zero p zero
doubt President Trump made the right call.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But is it the answer I got not just from you,
but from everybody that would have the access that you had,
and that and the sentence that kept coming back to
me is that president had no choice. Is that a
fair assessment because a lot of people lying about this,
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a lot of people that don't even know what the
Trump doctrine is.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yes, that is accurate. He had no choice because here's
the issue. There's an assumption built in with a lot
of folks who just have this inclination to defend the
Iranian leadership. You're not necessarily the Iranian people, they're a
different body, but there's an assumption built in that there
was going to be some warning something like I see
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this question from a lot of hacked Democrats on the
other side who just you know, anything Trump does, they
say the opposite, they'll chier for, you know, they know
they'll cheer for the opposite of the Trump team no
matter what it is. So the thing was you hear
them say, like, well, was the threat immediate? And there's
a presumption there that there were going to be redline
warning signs if we allowed this to continue, and like
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the Iranians were just going to advertiseing, hey, you guys
have ninety days before we set off a prety bomb
in Times squares if that was going to happen. We've
seen intelligence failures throughout you know, modern American history, and
President Trump was not going to be one of them.
We saw it with the Al Keeda threat. You know,
we saw warning signs in the black Hawk down incident
as far back as then about al Qaeda, and what
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did we do? They weren't necessarily ignored, but it was
like the kind of hate cliches, but you know, kick
the can down the road, We'll let the next president
deal with it. This president understood that there's not going
to be two planes flying into the World Trade Center
and it's all looking around and go what signs did
we miss? He's like, I see the signs, The red
lines are already there. The flights are flashing, and I'm sorry,
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but I'm just not out of political expediency going to
kick this can down the road and let the next
guy handle it because it's easy for my poll numbers.
He wasn't going to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Let me go back to your infamous tweet that you
put out while you the deputy FBI director. And by
the way, there's one thing that needs clarification too, when
you went in. We had a private conversation when you
were going in as the deputy FBI director to help
Cash get up and running and started. By the way,
eight out of ten of America's you know, most wanted
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pretty damn impressive, like every other statistic. And it frustrates
me that Cash always comes under fire. You came under
fire when you were there, but you told me personally,
I'm just going in for a year. I'm going to
get this started. And you sacrificed a lot to do it.
But it was never gonna be the long term career
for Dan Mangino. But you did it because you've had
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a calling, and then you find yourself, you know, working
on a Saturday, which is not unusual for guys that
were working at the FBI and government and trying to
clean up the mess you inherited. And then all of
a sudden you find some burn bags, and you find
these burn bags in this location, apparently a room that
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nobody had known about.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Right right, yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I'm glad you allowed me to explain that on their
show as well. But you know, I get that a lot, like,
you know, why did you leave us? And I didn't leave.
That was my term that I had agreed to. I
had figured initially when I told the boss the president,
I would take the job that I had about one
hundred days to go in there and use my name
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and cachet to go in there and break stuff and
then make it better and build it back better, you know,
go in there quickly and change stuff. I told them
I'd stay to the end of the year because I
knew at the end of the year my name was
going to bring headlines and everything we did was basically
going to distract from the mission. So I figured I
could use my name positively. But after a while and
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you saw it happened, Like I went and grappled with
the guys at the training center. It was like a
story about how my elbow was sore or something like.
It was just it became. I knew it would be
a distraction, so I saw the years being the sweet spot.
But yes, I did send that tweet out just one nuclear.
I mean, that was all over the place, and as
I had explained to you, but I'll tell your audience
here if they missed it. I had seen a bunch
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of classified documents that have been we had been exposed
to for the first time about the extent of the
collusion conspiracy. I don't even want to call it a
hoax because it wasn't a hoax. Like the collusion thing
was a conspiracy to create the story. So I don't
even like calling it a hoax, because it was real
and in their minds, the whole conspiracy to said President
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Trump up was real. And I got to tell you,
I had said, you know, in that tweet, that one
extremely viral I said, you know, we can't run a
republic like this. And I was honestly, candidly, like genuinely
anxious about what my country had done in our names
and having two young daughters, I thought, you know, we're
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all next if this is allowed to proceed. And I'm glad.
You know, between the Grand Conspiracy case and the stuff
we opened up and are looking into that, there are good, detailed,
solid investigations. And you got Joe Degeneva and Todd's team
over at DJ working on it. And it's you know,
it's I told people just becau. You don't see things happening,
don't mean they aren't happening. And you keep consistent nothing
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is happening, You're going to look foolish when things happen.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, I mean that's the scary thing. But you know
you said a republic cannot survive. And I just you know,
because we've been friends for so long and I knew you,
I feel I know you so well. I think we
know each other so well. I remember I remember just
reading it, reading it again, reading it a third time,
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and then thinking, OMG, to quote a kid, right, Dan
would never ever put this out unless he just saw
something so devastating that that it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Was my numbing.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
How much do we now know about the things that
you were seeing? Like I know the president is going
to speak on Thursday, My understanding is he's going to
talk about the largest voter data breach in the history
of this country by a foreign adversary, a top geopolitical foe.
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And I think of that, and that is only the
tip of the iceberg, apparently, of things that they have found,
things that I know you were working on when you
were there, or at least I'm suspicious you were. You
never told me anything that was inappropriate when you were
working there. You just said, Sean, if you knew what
I knew, you would not believe it. You said that
to me often, and it was hard to get you
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out of a skiff and on the phone back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, Yeah, the whole floor was a skiff. So people
would text me, I get back to eight hours later,
what were you doing. I'm working. You're not allowed to
bring our phones in. Yeah, what bothered me so much?
And the reason I wanted that tweet out there, I
just wanted dis memorialize on the my FBI account, wasn't
on my personal accounts on the FBI account at the time,
is because it's not that this that's happened, that's all
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that's bad enough. We get it. This whole collusion hoax
and conspiracy to take out President Trump. It's that there's
still people in the media, lessling diehards who were insisting
that somehow there was a there there that no, there
was surely one thing. I don't know. President Trump had
Russian vodka once and run. I'm telling you that there's
nothing there and everybody knew it. There is anyone in
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the media holding on to this nonsense. There's going to
be made a fool of. This entire thing was a
just fictionalized like Hardy Boys novel they made up to
take the president out. And when you read it and
you see how clearly clearly it was laid out by
just about everyone involved that they had to know this
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was all fake. There's going to be three things that
jump out of you when all this comes out. Because
this is an active case, I have to be light
on the details, but there's going to be three specific things.
And when it all comes out, I hope to come
back on your show and be able to talk about
these three lines that described me and did three words
basically to described the whole thing. And I'm telling you
it describes everything. You don't need any more than the
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three things. There's three lines in the document I saw
that lay out everything. How they just fabricated this entire
thing and repeatedly warned off and just said it's more
important to take this guy out, you know, than it
is to actually then do the do the right thing,
but even do the legal thing. That's why I said, like,
you can't run a republic like this. You can't. The
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whole place will collapse if this isn't you know, this
isn't properly a judicatd.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You have this time within government, but I mean you're
a former NYPD officer, You're a former Secret Service officer,
then you're a deputy FBI director. I mean, you've taken
on all these different roles. You just have this unique
perspective that other people never have.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Never will have.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Why are you so happy to be back to doing
what you love?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well? You know, I tell you I do miss it
a lot. I was in a perfect world. You know,
my name was like Don Bonjooro instead of Dan Bongino,
because I could have continued to do the job without generating,
you know, headlines. Because the thing is, Sean, listen, you
know the president better than I do. And the thing
about administration is you always have to remember it is
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never about you. If you're the story, like, something's probably wrong.
So my name drew a lot of attention. It's not
some statement of ego. It's just true. Like the media left,
we need to just hate me. So, like I said,
I knew I had that relationship with the president where
we could move fast and break stuff. And I mean that
in a positive way. I go in there and fixies,
broken things and build them up better. But after that year,
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I knew, you know, I knew that when I told
my disease, I knew it was time for me to
move on and you know, give it to an operational
guy who could take everything we fixed and ran with
it and run with it. But yeah, getting back on
the air. You know, I say to people all the time,
the greatest superpower in the world is the power to
command attention. And I think someone in the space like
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you are and I've been in a maybe a fresh
the times you but do you understand.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That you've become You've become a force of nature. And
as your friend, I couldn't be happier for all your success.
And I enjoy your podcast. When you're pissed, it just
I laugh. It makes me laugh. I'm like, I better
never piss off Dan. He's gonna rip my head off.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh you're kidding, friends so long, you're getting me.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's just you know, but I know you, and I
know it's coming from a real place too.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You're you're you're a national treasure.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We appreciate you more than you know and a dear friend,
appreciate you taking time as always as you always do
to be on my shows.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Thank you, Thanks, buddy, you sir.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones. Let's
say hi to Mic in Texas. God bless Texas. What's up, Mike,
Harry you I'm.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Doing well, Shan, thank you so much for taking my call.
I considered an honor to be on your show and
appreciate all the hard work you do.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, it's my honor to have you. Thank you for
being out there.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Thank you very much, Sean. I have something that's been
a big concern of mine. I've wanted a platform to
speak on, and I can't think of a better platform than
yours to say this, but it's amazing to me on
conservative media, on the conservative media outlet and particularly television,
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that there is so much there's so much airtime given
to the socialist left and the Democratic left, liberal crazies
out there. Of all, as you were just saying earlier,
of all the lies that they just get up and
say on TV, the absolute flat out lies that they
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talked about. And it's gotten to the point to where
it's so upsetting that when my wife and I are
watching watching the news, it gets to a point where
I just have to earn it all because it infuriates
me so much. It's not working.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Can I ask you a question, Mike, you sound like
a great guy, you do. Do you think it's important
to voters in Texas to know that the Democratic Senate
candidate in your state so believes that there are six
genders and that God is non binary, and that he's
on tape advocating for the right of biological men to
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have access to abortion, or that he wants to run
a vegan campaign in the cattle state of Texas and
doesn't want any energy. You know, he's one of these,
you know, environmental extremists. Is that important for the people
at Texas, every voter in Texas to know before there's
election when they go vote.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Absolutely, it's important. Sean there's no way in the world
that guy's going to get elected in the state.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But they have.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But everybody has to know. You know, do you think
everybody in Texas knows? I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I think I think the majority of people know. And
that guy's joke, I mean, he is an absolute joke.
But it's important to get the stuff out. But the
amount of it, in the absurdities of some of these
stories with gays parading down in Seattle, nude in these parades,
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with children in the streets, I mean, that kind of
stuff does not need to be on TV. And my
theory is, and I could be wrong, but my theory is,
if there's less of that and more of the positive,
good stuff that's going on in this world, that President
Trump and his administration are doing the amazingly positive things
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that I'll never see in my lifetime again after this,
you will have well.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You know, let me ask you another question.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And you know, and I've been criticized rightly, So there
is a method to my madness, you know, Hannity, you
repeat yourself sometimes I don't like, Yeah, I do. I
do it by design, especially during election years. And why
do I do that? Because not everybody's listening three hours
a day. And I'll tell you another part of my
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strategy is when I talk about remind people that Graham
Plattner had a Nazi tattoo that he called the US
hero soldier. He said he didn't deserve to live an
avowed communist, you know, attack sexual assault and rape victims,
had this weird kick account known to cater to miners
where he's in a towel.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He said that he couldn't pass a port a potty
without pleasuring himself, you know, made racist comments, called rural
people and Maine stupid and racist, mocked a girl's suicide attempt,
calls cops bastards. Okay, I've repeated that a lot. Now,
if somebody says Hannity, you're repeating yourself. And there's truth
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to it. And here's here's the method. If I say
it once, nobody's going to remember it. If I say
it regularly in the course of an election year, my
hope is that by the time we hit Labor Day
that people will have it etched in their memories so
they can tell their friends, their family, their neighbors, their
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co workers, they can give them the Hannity list.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Now, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I mean, I've been.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Highly criticized for that strategy. I think people have to
hear things. And I'll give you the example. We did
a test on this program. I remember when we were
in the middle of COVID. Remember that, and remember I said,
one of the pieces of advice. I learned very quickly
that the one treatment that showed the most promise was
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something called monoclonal antibodies. Did you ever hear me talk
about it? I did, so Linda's given me a hard time.
Linda is like, oh my gosh, stop with the monoclonal antibodies.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I've heard this for two straight months. I'm sick of it.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Linda directed, then, tell me at any point if I'm
wrong here in the story, and I said, the problem
is if I don't repeat it, nobody's going to remember it.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I do want people to ask their doctors.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That was the one thing that I've truly believed was
effective in treating people that got COVID and had a
positive test.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And I'm not it was not. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I'm not a doctor. I'm not advising people what to do.
I said, to ask your doctor that's all I said,
ask your doctor. And then that day, Linda, you want
to pick it up from there and explain what we did.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
So that day, Sean decided to go through the five
callers that happened to be up at that exact moment
and ask them what is the one thing that he
says would be a good resource if they could gain access, go.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Ahead and only to ask your doctor.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
No, but you were asking them what do I say
all the time, and only one person was able to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
This is one person half got it?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Imo something something that's I think that was the answer. Yes,
nobody else got it right? And what was your reaction
after that?
Speaker 5 (21:07):
I was shocked, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
And you let you. I think you said boss your right,
so something to that effect.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
I don't think I said that. That would be a
bridge too far, but I think I said I was shocked,
which was fair because I was shocked.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So you know, I'm pleading guilty to if I think
something is important, you're asking and you're getting frustrated because
we are highlighting what I believe is the greatest vulnerability
this election season for Democrats. I would like to Republicans
to keep the Senate and I like them to outperform
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historical precedents. And I think the Democrats are giving us
an opening with their radicalism and maybe hold the house too.
That's a very heavy, heavy, heavy lift. That's why. Now
to answer your question, that's why I do it. And
maybe I'm wrong, tell me if you think if you
think I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
No, no, no no. The examples you gave are perfectly valid.
They're not wrong. I'm glad you're doing that. I'm with
you. Your motives are that. I'm with you, and I know
the majority of people are with you on that. But
it's the excessive trivial stuff where you have you have
these Democratic leaders that are getting on and and and
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you know, talking bad about Trump and how Trump's a liar.
And I was in The Joy Bears of the World
and the Joy Read and all that bs.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You know that I have listen, I've kind of there's
very few Democrats I really ever want to talk to
because I think they're stupid.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm just going to be blunt. I think many of
them are not.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Particularly bright excuse so it's like I'll put them on
the show. Like we had a caller earlier today, wasn't
it Thomas from New Mexico. I heard he spent the
whole twenty minutes with this guy and he's claimed he
was a democratic socialist, and I walked him through all
belief system and I'm not sure if I made progress
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with him.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, you did, you did, You made vallot points and
even he even complimented you on that. He was very
gracious about it, and you did a great job.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
But these I was able to convince him he's not
an atheist in about ninety seconds.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That might be a record.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
You did a great job. But these, these these people
that on these other shows, no one cares what they say.
Only the people that care about it are them. It's
it's just it's just such a drain and such an
And I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about conservative
meeting in general.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I know, and I will tell you that's one of
the reasons.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, if you want to hear stupid democrats talking,
there's so many outlets you can go to.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I have.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
My attitude is there's too many of them, and I
get sick of hearing with exactly the same you know
babble that you're here and I get sick of it too.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It's the same thing. They get their marking orders from
the top, and they all repeat the same thing over
and over.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know, yeah, Mike, I know a lot of people
feel the same way as you. But you know what,
we kind of keep this show fairly pure and as
much as I'm really trying to bring on people that
are interesting, that you're gonna want to hear from and
that have some insight.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
We had Mark penn On earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Mark penn a Democrat, worked for Clinton, and he just
is looking at his own party saying what the hell
is going on? And he doesn't think this is a
winning strategy. And he's right and he's honest about it.
Like John Fetterman. I love John having John Fetterman on
the show. I like John Fetterman. I was wrong about
John Fetterman. I told him in my podcast. I said
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I was wrong about you, and I apologize. I apologize
straight to his face.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well, all right, my friend, I'll give you the last word.
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
No, thank you, thank you for your time. I greatly
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
All right, God bless you, God bless Texas. My friend
Rick is in Idaho. Rick has an interesting question. Apparently,
what's your interesting question?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Rick?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Well, good to talk to you, Sean. I just love
listening to your show, and I'm a little bewildered or
I I have a question. And my wife says, I
can't believe this stuff keeps you up at night, because,
like you, I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic school
for nine years, church all that stuff. Well, I'm always
hearing about the Muslim religion and how when they die
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they get seventy two virgins and all that crap. And
I'm like, okay, wait, wait, wait a minute, what do
the women get? Do they get seventy two Chippindale answers?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I didn't expect that point, No, not that I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Do I think this is a death cult?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I do you know there's one interesting phenomenon maybe you've
noticed this too, is all of these Mullahs and the
moms that you know advocate that young people strap bombs
on themselves and that they're going to be rewarded by
Allah with seventy two virgins in heaven. Did you ever
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notice that none of the people that send these people
off to their death. Have you ever seen a case
where they've done it themselves.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
No, absolutely not. This is it's a make believe belief.
And you know, I guess you know there's whack jobs
and everything. You know, you can take it too far.
But I just it baffled me. Though. Seventy two virgins.
I don't think women that are Muslims are Hey, I'm
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going to get seventy two eight year old boys when
I get to heaven.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I haven't heard of that either.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
But there's a big controversy too about the quote prophet
Mohammed and the age of his wives. I've asked many
moms about it over the years, and you know, actually
it's pretty spectacular some of the answers I've got. But look,
here's the thing, and you do have to delineate, in
my view, the people there are there. There are people
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that are Muslim and that believe in Islam, and I'm
a believer in freedom of religion that do not subscribe
to radical Islamism. I wish they were a little louder
in their criticism generally and against the radicalized faction which
is loud and dominant. But they're not oftentimes, I think
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in large part because of fear.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
If you want my gut feeling. I'm just guessing, but
that's my feeling.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So I just think that, you know, any religion can
be perverted.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I constantly find myself, you know, really trying to get
to the truth, to the true, the true roots of
my faith, which is Christianity. And as I get old,
I become my faith gets stronger and deeper and more
vital and important in my life. And I can tell
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you that it has been a difference maker in my
life and that, you know, when people say, well, why
are you successful, and I said, because God gave me
an undeserved life, and people will you worked hard, I'm like, well,
God gave me a work ethic and gave me great
role models and great parents and so on and so forth.
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That's going to wrap things up for today. Hannity Tonight,
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telephone number if you want to be a part of
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if you want to join us. Dan Bongino, who's going
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and I'm honored that this man is my friend. This
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He believes in law and order and safety and security,
and he's just a warrior. There are not a lot
of podcasts that are must watch for me. Dan is
at the top of the list. Patrick bed David's up there,
Benny Johnson's up there. I don't have a lot of
time to watch other shows, but I always want to
hear what Dan has to say.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It was very reassuring.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Dan was on my podcast, one of the highest rated
podcasts we ever had, by far, and I asked him
about President Trump and the decision. This is after Midnight
Hammer on Epic Fury, and you know we had had
Steve Whitkoff on this program. He talked about the sixty
percent of riched uranium, commonly referred to as nuclear dust
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that could be turned into weapons grade ninety percent enriched
uranium in less than twelve days, and the clear and
present danger that that represented. Dan is the only one
now that was in a position to see this information
himself and has been willing to talk about it, and
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everybody needs to hear it because it frustrates the hell
out of me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's so many.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
People, you know, even the new woke conservative right, if
you will, the isolationists that have no idea what the
Trump doctrine is are out there just repeating lie after
lie about Epic Fury and Midnight Hammer and it pisses
me off. And I know it pisses Dan off because
I watched this podcast. My friend, love your podcast. Everybody's
(01:56):
got to watch it. Go to rumble dot com. How
are you doing, I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm I'm humbled by Uh. That's just so nice of
you to say. I mean, you're the by far the
hardest working guy in the business, who's got the most longevity.
And I mean a podcast, radio show, TV. I mean
I did that for about three years and was dying,
and now you've been doing it for decades. So I
really appreciate that and I'm really glad we got to
discuss that we had a blast on the show. I
(02:23):
remember on the show we looked up and really two
hours just go by. We're to talk for about it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I think it ended up being close to the three
by the time we stopped talking.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I was I know, it was like, gosh, that just
went by like that. I had, I had a blast,
but I was glad you brought that question up, and
and hearing you talk about that, you know, I'm not
one of these guys who says, hey, listen, I saw
the Intel. You're all morons. You're not a lot of people.
You know. You can read the Wall Street Journal, geopolitical
online and hard copy magazines and get a pretty decent
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knowledge of what's going on. The thing with the Iranian
threat is you don't have to read too much, Sean.
You just have to ask them, like, you know, how
do you feel about America? And they put up like
the number one foamy finger death to America a number one,
Like they tell you it's not hidden, that it's not
some cryptic message. You don't need visible ink. I mean,
they tell you, and then when you see it buttressed
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and backed up by clandestinely gathered sing in signals, intelligence, interceptions,
and human intelligence. And you're on the other side of it.
You know, you're stunned that there were still people out
there arguing that this not only is a threat, there
are a lot of threats. There are a lot of
countries owners that would threat in the United States. That's
not the point. The point is the threat plus the
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capacity and the will was all there. There's zero doubt,
zero in my mind. I'm not even zero p zero
doubt President Trump made the right call.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But is it the answer I got not just from you,
but from everybody that would have the access that you had,
and that and the sentence that kept coming back to
me is that president had no choice. Is that a
fair assessment because a lot of people lying about this,
(04:11):
a lot of people that don't even know what the
Trump doctrine is.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yes, that is accurate. He had no choice because here's
the issue. There's an assumption built in with a lot
of folks who just have this inclination to defend the
Iranian leadership. You're not necessarily the Iranian people, they're a
different body, but there's an assumption built in that there
was going to be some warning something like I see
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this question from a lot of hacked Democrats on the
other side who just you know, anything Trump does, they
say the opposite, they'll chier for, you know, they know
they'll cheer for the opposite of the Trump team no
matter what it is. So the thing was you hear
them say, like, well, was the threat immediate? And there's
a presumption there that there were going to be redline
warning signs if we allowed this to continue, and like
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the Iranians were just going to advertiseing, hey, you guys
have ninety days before we set off a prety bomb
in Times squares if that was going to happen. We've
seen intelligence failures throughout you know, modern American history, and
President Trump was not going to be one of them.
We saw it with the Al Keeda threat. You know,
we saw warning signs in the black Hawk down incident
as far back as then about al Qaeda, and what
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did we do? They weren't necessarily ignored, but it was
like the kind of hate cliches, but you know, kick
the can down the road, We'll let the next president
deal with it. This president understood that there's not going
to be two planes flying into the World Trade Center
and it's all looking around and go what signs did
we miss? He's like, I see the signs, The red
lines are already there. The flights are flashing, and I'm sorry,
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but I'm just not out of political expediency going to
kick this can down the road and let the next
guy handle it because it's easy for my poll numbers.
He wasn't going to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Let me go back to your infamous tweet that you
put out while you the deputy FBI director. And by
the way, there's one thing that needs clarification too, when
you went in. We had a private conversation when you
were going in as the deputy FBI director to help
Cash get up and running and started. By the way,
eight out of ten of America's you know, most wanted
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pretty damn impressive, like every other statistic. And it frustrates
me that Cash always comes under fire. You came under
fire when you were there, but you told me personally,
I'm just going in for a year. I'm going to
get this started. And you sacrificed a lot to do it.
But it was never gonna be the long term career
for Dan Mangino. But you did it because you've had
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a calling, and then you find yourself, you know, working
on a Saturday, which is not unusual for guys that
were working at the FBI and government and trying to
clean up the mess you inherited. And then all of
a sudden you find some burn bags, and you find
these burn bags in this location, apparently a room that
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nobody had known about.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Right right, yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I'm glad you allowed me to explain that on their
show as well. But you know, I get that a lot, like,
you know, why did you leave us? And I didn't leave.
That was my term that I had agreed to. I
had figured initially when I told the boss the president,
I would take the job that I had about one
hundred days to go in there and use my name
(07:19):
and cachet to go in there and break stuff and
then make it better and build it back better, you know,
go in there quickly and change stuff. I told them
I'd stay to the end of the year because I
knew at the end of the year my name was
going to bring headlines and everything we did was basically
going to distract from the mission. So I figured I
could use my name positively. But after a while and
(07:39):
you saw it happened, Like I went and grappled with
the guys at the training center. It was like a
story about how my elbow was sore or something like.
It was just it became. I knew it would be
a distraction, so I saw the years being the sweet spot.
But yes, I did send that tweet out just one nuclear.
I mean, that was all over the place, and as
I had explained to you, but I'll tell your audience
here if they missed it. I had seen a bunch
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of classified documents that have been we had been exposed
to for the first time about the extent of the
collusion conspiracy. I don't even want to call it a
hoax because it wasn't a hoax. Like the collusion thing
was a conspiracy to create the story. So I don't
even like calling it a hoax, because it was real
and in their minds, the whole conspiracy to said President
(08:21):
Trump up was real. And I got to tell you,
I had said, you know, in that tweet, that one
extremely viral I said, you know, we can't run a
republic like this. And I was honestly, candidly, like genuinely
anxious about what my country had done in our names
and having two young daughters, I thought, you know, we're
(08:43):
all next if this is allowed to proceed. And I'm glad.
You know, between the Grand Conspiracy case and the stuff
we opened up and are looking into that, there are good, detailed,
solid investigations. And you got Joe Degeneva and Todd's team
over at DJ working on it. And it's you know,
it's I told people just becau. You don't see things happening,
don't mean they aren't happening. And you keep consistent nothing
(09:04):
is happening, You're going to look foolish when things happen.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, I mean that's the scary thing. But you know
you said a republic cannot survive. And I just you know,
because we've been friends for so long and I knew you,
I feel I know you so well. I think we
know each other so well. I remember I remember just
reading it, reading it again, reading it a third time,
(09:27):
and then thinking, OMG, to quote a kid, right, Dan
would never ever put this out unless he just saw
something so devastating that that it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Was my numbing.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
How much do we now know about the things that
you were seeing? Like I know the president is going
to speak on Thursday, My understanding is he's going to
talk about the largest voter data breach in the history
of this country by a foreign adversary, a top geopolitical foe.
(10:06):
And I think of that, and that is only the
tip of the iceberg, apparently, of things that they have found,
things that I know you were working on when you
were there, or at least I'm suspicious you were. You
never told me anything that was inappropriate when you were
working there. You just said, Sean, if you knew what
I knew, you would not believe it. You said that
to me often, and it was hard to get you
(10:28):
out of a skiff and on the phone back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, Yeah, the whole floor was a skiff. So people
would text me, I get back to eight hours later,
what were you doing. I'm working. You're not allowed to
bring our phones in. Yeah, what bothered me so much?
And the reason I wanted that tweet out there, I
just wanted dis memorialize on the my FBI account, wasn't
on my personal accounts on the FBI account at the time,
is because it's not that this that's happened, that's all
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that's bad enough. We get it. This whole collusion hoax
and conspiracy to take out President Trump. It's that there's
still people in the media, lessling diehards who were insisting
that somehow there was a there there that no, there
was surely one thing. I don't know. President Trump had
Russian vodka once and run. I'm telling you that there's
nothing there and everybody knew it. There is anyone in
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the media holding on to this nonsense. There's going to
be made a fool of. This entire thing was a
just fictionalized like Hardy Boys novel they made up to
take the president out. And when you read it and
you see how clearly clearly it was laid out by
just about everyone involved that they had to know this
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was all fake. There's going to be three things that
jump out of you when all this comes out. Because
this is an active case, I have to be light
on the details, but there's going to be three specific things.
And when it all comes out, I hope to come
back on your show and be able to talk about
these three lines that described me and did three words
basically to described the whole thing. And I'm telling you
it describes everything. You don't need any more than the
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three things. There's three lines in the document I saw
that lay out everything. How they just fabricated this entire
thing and repeatedly warned off and just said it's more
important to take this guy out, you know, than it
is to actually then do the do the right thing,
but even do the legal thing. That's why I said, like,
you can't run a republic like this. You can't. The
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whole place will collapse if this isn't you know, this
isn't properly a judicatd.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You have this time within government, but I mean you're
a former NYPD officer, You're a former Secret Service officer,
then you're a deputy FBI director. I mean, you've taken
on all these different roles. You just have this unique
perspective that other people never have.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Never will have.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Why are you so happy to be back to doing
what you love?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well? You know, I tell you I do miss it
a lot. I was in a perfect world. You know,
my name was like Don Bonjooro instead of Dan Bongino,
because I could have continued to do the job without generating,
you know, headlines. Because the thing is, Sean, listen, you
know the president better than I do. And the thing
about administration is you always have to remember it is
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never about you. If you're the story, like, something's probably wrong.
So my name drew a lot of attention. It's not
some statement of ego. It's just true. Like the media left,
we need to just hate me. So, like I said,
I knew I had that relationship with the president where
we could move fast and break stuff. And I mean that
in a positive way. I go in there and fixies,
broken things and build them up better. But after that year,
(13:35):
I knew, you know, I knew that when I told
my disease, I knew it was time for me to
move on and you know, give it to an operational
guy who could take everything we fixed and ran with
it and run with it. But yeah, getting back on
the air. You know, I say to people all the time,
the greatest superpower in the world is the power to
command attention. And I think someone in the space like
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you are and I've been in a maybe a fresh
the times you but do you understand.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That you've become You've become a force of nature. And
as your friend, I couldn't be happier for all your success.
And I enjoy your podcast. When you're pissed, it just
I laugh. It makes me laugh. I'm like, I better
never piss off Dan. He's gonna rip my head off.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh you're kidding, friends so long, you're getting me.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's just you know, but I know you, and I
know it's coming from a real place too.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You're you're you're a national treasure.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We appreciate you more than you know and a dear friend,
appreciate you taking time as always as you always do
to be on my shows.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Thank you, Thanks, buddy, you sir.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones. Let's
say hi to Mic in Texas. God bless Texas. What's up, Mike,
Harry you I'm.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Doing well, Shan, thank you so much for taking my call.
I considered an honor to be on your show and
appreciate all the hard work you do.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, it's my honor to have you. Thank you for
being out there.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Thank you very much, Sean. I have something that's been
a big concern of mine. I've wanted a platform to
speak on, and I can't think of a better platform than
yours to say this, but it's amazing to me on
conservative media, on the conservative media outlet and particularly television,
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that there is so much there's so much airtime given
to the socialist left and the Democratic left, liberal crazies
out there. Of all, as you were just saying earlier,
of all the lies that they just get up and
say on TV, the absolute flat out lies that they
(15:46):
talked about. And it's gotten to the point to where
it's so upsetting that when my wife and I are
watching watching the news, it gets to a point where
I just have to earn it all because it infuriates
me so much. It's not working.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Can I ask you a question, Mike, you sound like
a great guy, you do. Do you think it's important
to voters in Texas to know that the Democratic Senate
candidate in your state so believes that there are six
genders and that God is non binary, and that he's
on tape advocating for the right of biological men to
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have access to abortion, or that he wants to run
a vegan campaign in the cattle state of Texas and
doesn't want any energy. You know, he's one of these,
you know, environmental extremists. Is that important for the people
at Texas, every voter in Texas to know before there's
election when they go vote.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Absolutely, it's important. Sean there's no way in the world
that guy's going to get elected in the state.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But they have.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But everybody has to know. You know, do you think
everybody in Texas knows? I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I think I think the majority of people know. And
that guy's joke, I mean, he is an absolute joke.
But it's important to get the stuff out. But the
amount of it, in the absurdities of some of these
stories with gays parading down in Seattle, nude in these parades,
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with children in the streets, I mean, that kind of
stuff does not need to be on TV. And my
theory is, and I could be wrong, but my theory is,
if there's less of that and more of the positive,
good stuff that's going on in this world, that President
Trump and his administration are doing the amazingly positive things
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that I'll never see in my lifetime again after this,
you will have well.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You know, let me ask you another question.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And you know, and I've been criticized rightly, So there
is a method to my madness, you know, Hannity, you
repeat yourself sometimes I don't like, Yeah, I do. I
do it by design, especially during election years. And why
do I do that? Because not everybody's listening three hours
a day. And I'll tell you another part of my
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strategy is when I talk about remind people that Graham
Plattner had a Nazi tattoo that he called the US
hero soldier. He said he didn't deserve to live an
avowed communist, you know, attack sexual assault and rape victims,
had this weird kick account known to cater to miners
where he's in a towel.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He said that he couldn't pass a port a potty
without pleasuring himself, you know, made racist comments, called rural
people and Maine stupid and racist, mocked a girl's suicide attempt,
calls cops bastards. Okay, I've repeated that a lot. Now,
if somebody says Hannity, you're repeating yourself. And there's truth
(18:52):
to it. And here's here's the method. If I say
it once, nobody's going to remember it. If I say
it regularly in the course of an election year, my
hope is that by the time we hit Labor Day
that people will have it etched in their memories so
they can tell their friends, their family, their neighbors, their
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co workers, they can give them the Hannity list.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Now, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I mean, I've been.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Highly criticized for that strategy. I think people have to
hear things. And I'll give you the example. We did
a test on this program. I remember when we were
in the middle of COVID. Remember that, and remember I said,
one of the pieces of advice. I learned very quickly
that the one treatment that showed the most promise was
(19:43):
something called monoclonal antibodies. Did you ever hear me talk
about it? I did, so Linda's given me a hard time.
Linda is like, oh my gosh, stop with the monoclonal antibodies.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I've heard this for two straight months. I'm sick of it.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Linda directed, then, tell me at any point if I'm
wrong here in the story, and I said, the problem
is if I don't repeat it, nobody's going to remember it.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I do want people to ask their doctors.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That was the one thing that I've truly believed was
effective in treating people that got COVID and had a
positive test.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And I'm not it was not. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I'm not a doctor. I'm not advising people what to do.
I said, to ask your doctor that's all I said,
ask your doctor. And then that day, Linda, you want
to pick it up from there and explain what we did.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
So that day, Sean decided to go through the five
callers that happened to be up at that exact moment
and ask them what is the one thing that he
says would be a good resource if they could gain access, go.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Ahead and only to ask your doctor.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
No, but you were asking them what do I say
all the time, and only one person was able to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
This is one person half got it?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Imo something something that's I think that was the answer. Yes,
nobody else got it right? And what was your reaction
after that?
Speaker 5 (21:07):
I was shocked, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
And you let you. I think you said boss your right,
so something to that effect.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
I don't think I said that. That would be a
bridge too far, but I think I said I was shocked,
which was fair because I was shocked.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So you know, I'm pleading guilty to if I think
something is important, you're asking and you're getting frustrated because
we are highlighting what I believe is the greatest vulnerability
this election season for Democrats. I would like to Republicans
to keep the Senate and I like them to outperform
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historical precedents. And I think the Democrats are giving us
an opening with their radicalism and maybe hold the house too.
That's a very heavy, heavy, heavy lift. That's why. Now
to answer your question, that's why I do it. And
maybe I'm wrong, tell me if you think if you
think I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
No, no, no no. The examples you gave are perfectly valid.
They're not wrong. I'm glad you're doing that. I'm with
you. Your motives are that. I'm with you, and I know
the majority of people are with you on that. But
it's the excessive trivial stuff where you have you have
these Democratic leaders that are getting on and and and
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you know, talking bad about Trump and how Trump's a liar.
And I was in The Joy Bears of the World
and the Joy Read and all that bs.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You know that I have listen, I've kind of there's
very few Democrats I really ever want to talk to
because I think they're stupid.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm just going to be blunt. I think many of
them are not.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Particularly bright excuse so it's like I'll put them on
the show. Like we had a caller earlier today, wasn't
it Thomas from New Mexico. I heard he spent the
whole twenty minutes with this guy and he's claimed he
was a democratic socialist, and I walked him through all
belief system and I'm not sure if I made progress
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with him.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, you did, you did, You made vallot points and
even he even complimented you on that. He was very
gracious about it, and you did a great job.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
But these I was able to convince him he's not
an atheist in about ninety seconds.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That might be a record.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
You did a great job. But these, these these people
that on these other shows, no one cares what they say.
Only the people that care about it are them. It's
it's just it's just such a drain and such an
And I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about conservative
meeting in general.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I know, and I will tell you that's one of
the reasons.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, if you want to hear stupid democrats talking,
there's so many outlets you can go to.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I have.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
My attitude is there's too many of them, and I
get sick of hearing with exactly the same you know
babble that you're here and I get sick of it too.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It's the same thing. They get their marking orders from
the top, and they all repeat the same thing over
and over.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know, yeah, Mike, I know a lot of people
feel the same way as you. But you know what,
we kind of keep this show fairly pure and as
much as I'm really trying to bring on people that
are interesting, that you're gonna want to hear from and
that have some insight.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
We had Mark penn On earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Mark penn a Democrat, worked for Clinton, and he just
is looking at his own party saying what the hell
is going on? And he doesn't think this is a
winning strategy. And he's right and he's honest about it.
Like John Fetterman. I love John having John Fetterman on
the show. I like John Fetterman. I was wrong about
John Fetterman. I told him in my podcast. I said
(24:40):
I was wrong about you, and I apologize. I apologize
straight to his face.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well, all right, my friend, I'll give you the last word.
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
No, thank you, thank you for your time. I greatly
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
All right, God bless you, God bless Texas. My friend
Rick is in Idaho. Rick has an interesting question. Apparently,
what's your interesting question?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Rick?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Well, good to talk to you, Sean. I just love
listening to your show, and I'm a little bewildered or
I I have a question. And my wife says, I
can't believe this stuff keeps you up at night, because,
like you, I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic school
for nine years, church all that stuff. Well, I'm always
hearing about the Muslim religion and how when they die
(25:24):
they get seventy two virgins and all that crap. And
I'm like, okay, wait, wait, wait a minute, what do
the women get? Do they get seventy two Chippindale answers?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I didn't expect that point, No, not that I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Do I think this is a death cult?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I do you know there's one interesting phenomenon maybe you've
noticed this too, is all of these Mullahs and the
moms that you know advocate that young people strap bombs
on themselves and that they're going to be rewarded by
Allah with seventy two virgins in heaven. Did you ever
(26:09):
notice that none of the people that send these people
off to their death. Have you ever seen a case
where they've done it themselves.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
No, absolutely not. This is it's a make believe belief.
And you know, I guess you know there's whack jobs
and everything. You know, you can take it too far.
But I just it baffled me. Though. Seventy two virgins.
I don't think women that are Muslims are Hey, I'm
(26:39):
going to get seventy two eight year old boys when
I get to heaven.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I haven't heard of that either.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
But there's a big controversy too about the quote prophet
Mohammed and the age of his wives. I've asked many
moms about it over the years, and you know, actually
it's pretty spectacular some of the answers I've got. But look,
here's the thing, and you do have to delineate, in
my view, the people there are there. There are people
(27:10):
that are Muslim and that believe in Islam, and I'm
a believer in freedom of religion that do not subscribe
to radical Islamism. I wish they were a little louder
in their criticism generally and against the radicalized faction which
is loud and dominant. But they're not oftentimes, I think
(27:35):
in large part because of fear.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
If you want my gut feeling. I'm just guessing, but
that's my feeling.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So I just think that, you know, any religion can
be perverted.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I constantly find myself, you know, really trying to get
to the truth, to the true, the true roots of
my faith, which is Christianity. And as I get old,
I become my faith gets stronger and deeper and more
vital and important in my life. And I can tell
(28:08):
you that it has been a difference maker in my
life and that, you know, when people say, well, why
are you successful, and I said, because God gave me
an undeserved life, and people will you worked hard, I'm like, well,
God gave me a work ethic and gave me great
role models and great parents and so on and so forth.
(28:30):
That's going to wrap things up for today. Hannity Tonight,
nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Our friend Dan
Bongino joins us, Steven Miller joins us, The one and
only Victor Davis Hansome will join us, Greg Jarrett, Clay,
Travis Say DVR Tonight, Hannity nine Eastern on the Fox
News Channel. I promise news you'll never get from the
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(28:53):
you for making this show possible.
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