February 27, 2026 • 29 mins
In the powerful final hour, Sean Hannity welcomes longtime friend and nationally syndicated host Dennis Prager for an emotional and deeply philosophical conversation. Prager, now paralyzed from the shoulders down after a devastating fall, shares how he chose perseverance over despair—grounded not only in faith, but in reason and purpose.
They discuss Prager’s new book, If There Is No God: The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil, exploring whether morality can exist without a Creator and why absolute truths matter in a world increasingly driven by emotion. Hannity reflects on faith, suffering, and the resilience required to continue one’s mission despite unimaginable hardship.
The hour also revisits the SAVE Act debate and growing international threats, tying it all together with a broader theme: without moral clarity, nations lose their foundation. It’s a moving, thought-provoking close to a week defined by geopolitical tension and cultural battles—reminding listeners that strength begins with conviction.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, news roundup in Information Overload hour. Here's our
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toll free number. It's eight hundred nine to four one
Shawn this Friday. If you want to be a part
of the program. We have been covering at length, and
it's important. The US Senate the House already passed it,
the Save Act, proof of citizenship for example, and voter ID.
Simple basic fundamental stuff. The President talked all about this
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at the State of the Union and talked about how
Democrats don't want basic integrity in our elections. They don't
want the Save Act. And you think about it, why
would you not want voter ID? I mean, to be
an emergency snows shoveler in New York City, you need
five separate forms of ID, you know, pictures and Social
Security cards, et cetera. But you don't need ID in
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New York State to vote. How do I know? I
used to live there. Key word used to no longer
in the Free State of Florida. Here's the President from
the State of the Union.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
They don't want identification for the thet is privilege of
them all voting in America now, it's no good, no good.
Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that
we just enunciated, and Congress should unite and enact this
common sense country saving legislation right now, and it should
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be before anything else happens. And the reason they don't
want to do it, why would anybody, not one.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Voter ID one reason? Because they want to cheat.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
There's only one reason.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
They make up all excuses. They say it's racist, they
come up with things. You almost say, what imagination they have.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
They want to cheat.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They have cheated, and their policy is so bad that.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
The only way they can get elected is to cheat.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And we're going to stop it. We have to stop it, Josh, Now, Well,
Republicans in the Senate, and I know this is getting
a little complicated. Deep in the weeds is something in
the Senate called cloture, and that means to get a
piece of legislation passed, you need sixty votes to move
it on the floor, unless, of course, you do a
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real filibuster. And this is what Ted Cruz and Mike
Lee had been pushing on this show, where they actually
have to do a real filibuster, like mister Smith goes
to Washington. And what that simply means is that the
Democrats would have to take to the floor stand there
as long as they possibly can. Talk talk talk, talk talk.
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Here is a downside to it. The downside is is
they can hold on to the floor for as long
as they want and they would probably start pushing votes
on Obamacare funding, etc.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And that becomes problematic, especially in a midterm election year.
I understand the argument, but the House next week is
going to take up the sanctuary city in Stateville, and
that too will go to the Senate, so Republican's going
to have to make a decision. Here's what one of
my senators, Senator Rick Scott, had to say about it
this week. I loved it.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
I love that the President was so on board at
the City of Union addressed for the Save America actors
secure elections. All right, Now, if you support this, you
should share this and also call every politician you know
and say past the Save America Act.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Now, they do have fifty votes in the US Senate,
and the tie breaking vote would be the President of
the Senate, which is the Vice President jd Vance. All Right, However,
you have Mitch McConnell and Lisa Murkowski and Senator Tilla's
in North Carolina and Senator Curtis, they are standing in
the way of this anyway, please to say he's my senator.
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Thank god, I have good senators now Ashley Moody and
right now joining us, Senator Rick Scott Brick and I've
been friends for a long time. Senator, how are you, Sean.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
It's great to talk with you. This is so common
sense and the American public, Republicans, Democrats, independence wanted because
it's so simple. You have to show an idy down
airplane to be a snowshoveler in New York, buy some
buy certain medicines, apply for a job, bank accounts, checking
out a hotel, buy a lottery ticket. So why would
you have a lower verification standard for the sicket right
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siccred right too to vote? So it's not racist as
the immigrants claims, It shouldn't be controversial. The presidents on
board the houses pass it. We've you know, we've got it.
Whatever process we have, we can't get the sixty vote
right we get attached to a must pass bill or
we're going to have to we have to do the filibus.
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We have to say, you know what, if you want
to block it, you know, then start and explain it.
And I agree with my colleagues. We have got to
use whatever means possible to get this passed.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, I've got to tell you something that really is
remarkable to me. Now here's here's the issue. And you know,
I've had it explain to me by a lot of
different people. There are people that are voting to move
on the bill that also have this fear of turning
over the Senate and forcing the stand up filibuster that
mister Smith goes to Washington philibuster, a real filibuster. Usually
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what happens is one party will threaten the filibuster and
that stops the other party from proceeding. And the one
little complication, and it's not insignificant, I'll be fair about it,
and that is that you hand the floor, the Centate
floor over to Democrats and then they can have a
vote on a variety of issues that they deem will
be divisive to Republicans heading into a midterm election year.
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What is your answer to that argument, Well, we do it.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
We did it with reconciliation. We took all their votes.
Now here's the difference. The difference between that is that
you know this could go on for weeks. You know
the reconciliation. It's as long as people you know, it's
just one time you don't get to you know, in theory,
they could do it forever. Nobody's willing to do that.
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But here's where I look at it. Let's say we
spend a month on the right. If we do it,
and all the whole election is about why the Democrats,
you know, want to allow legal people here illegally to vote,
and we want to preserve them. I think we win
eighty four percent. I think of an American degree with this,
So I think we've got to use every power we
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have to get this pass. Now here's the negative. The
negatives part of government's still not opened. So if we
do it before that and then that, you know, and
then we can't go to that issue. So that's the negative.
We will take a lot of bad votes. But guess
what I'm When I was governor, whatever this legislature sent me,
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I either had the veto or sign. They didn't ask
me all the time about what they were sending to me.
So as part of what you have to do in
this job, So I'm willing. I'm willing to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, I know, of course you're willing to do it.
I mean, you know, it's frustrating to me, and I
want to be a little sympathetic there there are people
in marginal states that have tough rass ahead of them.
I get at it, I hear it. But you know,
the American people even seventy one percent of Democrats, seventy
one percent of Democrats, eighty percent of African Americans, Hispanic Americans.
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This is an eighty five point fifteen issue across the
board for the country. And sometimes you just got to
take a stand and take whatever you know pain might
go along with doing the right thing. Let me ask
you this bizarre question and tell me if I'm nuts.
If the House is able to pass a sanctuary city,
you know, you know, penalties for sanctuary cities and states. Frankly,
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I think that's just you know, codifying. You know, by
being a sanctuary city or state, you are you are
aiding in a bedding in law breaking as far as
I'm concerned, that's my interpretation, And you're obstructing justice because
we know that the supremacy clause is clear it's a
federal government's role to enforce federal laws. Immigration laws are
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what they are, their federal laws and by allowing sanctuary
city state status, et cetera, you are aiding and a
betting people that didn't respect our laws, our borders, our sovereignty.
Is there a way to put those two bills together
if they come out of the House, I know you'd
have to send it back to the House, But if
you use the same language, I'm sure Mike Johnson can
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get it over the finish line.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Again, probably, I think Mike can put it. The Speaker
can put it together, but I guess in the theory
we could then. But if the if the House doesn't
put it together, I think when it goes back to
the House, you'd have to be vote on it again.
So that probably easiest is for the House to put
it together and send it over. And then we've got
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two options. We can do just the Save America Act
by itself, or the Save America ac Act plus the
Sanctuary City Bill. We could do either one. So we've
got to preserve these elections. It's it's pretty simple. There's
you know, they Chuck Schumber. You know he wants he
wants illegals to vote. That's why he allowed with Biden
all these millions and millions of illegal aliens to put
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into our country, so we have to win this.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I totally completely agree with you. Let me ask you.
It seems like the meeting yesterday and it's kind of
been widely reported with the Iranians in Switzerland did not
go particularly well. The Iranians now saying even on state
TV that they refuse to give up enrichment of uranium.
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The President has drawn a very clear line in the sand.
He's also promised the protesters that help is on its way,
will help has arrived, it's there. And then the president
gave a ten day notice. What part of not listening
to Donald Trump? Are these mullas? You know, what are
they thinking about? They've got to be pretty dumb if
they want to take on Donald J. Trump in the
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US military. In my opinion, I don't think they'll survive it.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I don't think you have to pass an IQ test.
To be is to be Colemane, to be the Ietola.
Because here, I mean, the bottom line is, look, he already,
Harry did it once. Harry destroyed their nuclear weapons once,
He'll do it again. He doesn't have a choice. Actually,
if you're the president of United States and the commander
in chief of our military, and you have a country
that says they're going to destroy you if they get
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a weapon, then you don't have a choice but to
destroy their ability to do that. And on top of that,
it's going to help our ally Israel. So the president
actually doesn't have a choice when they say they're going
to get this nucle weapon, they're going to use it
to destroy the United States. A president that doesn't destroy
their nucle weapons is not doing his job, his or
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her job.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
All right, quick break, right back, we'll continue more with
Senator Rick Scott my Free State of Florida on the
other side. Your calls coming up as well. Eight hundred
and nine point one. Sean, if you want to be
a part of the program, immigration, jobs, healthcare, the news
you care about is right here.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Nity Watch is awright.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Continue, Senator Rick Scott from the Great State by Free
State of Florida's with us. You know in Kuwait we
have five destroyers, three combat ships. Then if you look
at the Arabian Sea off the coast of Omam, you
have the USS Abraham Lincoln and three destroyers. And then
you look off the coast of Israel and Lebanon, you
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have the USS Gerald R. Ford and three destroyers on
top of all of the you know fighter jets that
we have in the region. I mean, they're basically surrounded
with the most firepower. This is the largest military build
up since the Iraq War. So obviously the president knows
the risk and the president you know, wants this to
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be you know, in keeping with the Trump doctrine, no
forever wars, no boots on the ground, but massive firepower,
strategic strikes, and the world cannot risk a nuclear armed Iran.
And you know, I know there are a lot of
people saying, well, why are we getting involved in this, Well,
what is Iran going to be like six months from now?
Because they have proven they are just hell bent on
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getting a nuclear weapon. They've been building. You know, they
first had two thousand you know pound ballistic missiles. Now
they're going to four thousand pounds. There's only so much
Israel is going to be able to withstand. Even with
the latest, greatest, newest generation of missile defense systems. It
does become overwhelming at some point, and they're threatening the
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continental US if they get that weapon.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Well, absolutely so. Presidents have appeased them. It doesn't work, right,
appeasement of a bully does not work. These people are despicable, right,
I mean, this is this is good versus evil? Do
you do you want to continue to live the life
of freedom? And we have no choice. The President is
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doing exactly what he needs to do to protect America
and to protect protect our ally Israel, and Israel can
do this by themselves, so I you know, look, this
is going to happen because they've been you know, for
our presidents have given in constantly given in this stupid
Obama Iran deal things like that, and Biden, you know,
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and they're always.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Passified by the two of the dumbest deals on earth.
They never abide by the deal. They never even insisted
on any place anywhere. Anytime American inspectors they drop cargo
planes full of cash and all the currency billions and
billions of dollars to say, pretty please with sugar on top,
you know, don't build out your nuclear program. And oh,
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by the way, this expires in ten years. How stupid
is that deal?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
That was? It was It was the most it was.
It was. It's like whose side was Obama on? And
where were all these democrats all right, that are supposedly
pro Israel. I mean, they all just sat on their hands.
So Obama everything he did, it look like he hated
Israel and he loved Iran. And all he did was
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he put Americans our livelihood, our way of life, our
life at risk by giving all that money and pacifying Iran.
So it's despicable what Obama did, really.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Is it put us in jeopardy? Can you believe I'm
my third year now in Florida. I mean all those
I got to know then, Governor Rick Scott, because you
were up in New York along with Bobby Jendall and
Rick Perry and all of you were competing and successfully
competing in lowering New York business to your respective states.
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And then you guys did a great job. It was
That's how I got to know you so well.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Mondomi would make it even easier.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
So I think Governor Desanta is going to be up
in New York quite a bit. I think he's also
recruiting law enforcement too.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Yeah, yeah, may be. I mean think about you have
every idea I need to be a snowshover up there,
and he's raised he's raising taxes nine and a half percent.
That gonna be good for anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
We appreciate you, Senator Rick Scott, my free State of Florida, Sir,
thank you. Best decision I made is moving down here,
and thank everybody for their warm welcome. But in fairness,
I had property down here for decades, so I always
came to Florida. Now I get to stay here. Appreciate
you all right, Uh eight eight hundred and nine foot one, Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program,
I have a story to tell that's a little embarrassing,
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but I'm just gonna I always tell this audience the truth.
I've been friends with Dennis Prager for decades, nationally syndicated
radio hosts with Salem Media for so many years. He
is the co founder of Prager You, which has done
a phenomenal job, especially educating young people about our founders,
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our framers, about what has made America great, unique and different.
He knows so much about Judeo Christian principles that you know,
he puts me to shame, and I didn't hear about it.
And it's so odd because all I do all day
is read, but I don't read social media.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I gave up that cancer a long time ago. Hannada,
you suck I'm tired of it, and unless I want
to feel horrible about myself, I'm not going to read
a lot of social media, although my team monitors it.
But I didn't know that he had had a fall,
and I didn't know that he was paralyzed from the
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neck down. And I found out from a friend and
I said what, I couldn't believe it. And I knew
his wife, Sue, but I didn't have her number. We
remember Linda. We were desperately looking for a way to
connect with Dennis. So I wrote Dennis on his phone
and one day his wife, Sue picked it up and
then she wrote, very graciously wrote me back, and then
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we were able to FaceTime. But he's paralyzed, but he's
still working, and he's still a genius as he always
has been. And they, the doctors in his case have
described the fact that he is talking, and he told
me this when we were facetiming with each other, is
quote a miracle. And he's a not religious people, and
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he's a man of deep faith and conviction, has been
a you know, incredible, incredibly successful talk show host all
these years, and you know, been a longtime friend. And
we kind of got out of touch for a while,
and I was so happy to make a reconnection with
him and anyways come out. In spite of all of this,
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he was able to put out another brilliant book and
I just got a copy. If There's No Oh God?
The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil? And very
thought provoking, and it takes on the dangers of secularism
and perhaps the most important issues in our lives. And
I'm very honored and am pleased and proud and happy
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that he's with us. Dennis Praegerser, welcome to the program.
And I humbly apologize for not knowing until much later.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I'm actually glad you didn't know. It's not something I
want the whole world to know.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
It's not happy news, but I have been able to
maintain a happy disposition, and I wrote why in Today's
Wall Street Journal, an article on why I have been
able to maintain a level of happiness despite being paralyzed
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from the shoulders down.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
So I'm sure you're your listeners will find it very interesting.
And yes, I also was able to finish in the
hospital the book If there Is No God? The Battle
Over Who Defines Good and Evil? And the book I
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am proud to say got to number two on all
of Amazon books. Number two on the day was published
last week and it was the number one was a
stripper's autobiography. And I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, if you're going to lose to something, Dennis, you know,
I mean, I can, I totally get where people's heads
are at. Unfortunately, Yeah, exactly, that's right. Let me ask
you this if I can. For the first three months,
you could not speak at all, and you were on
a ventilator and I think you're still on a ventilator
at night sometimes to help you. And it was a dire,
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dire situation for a long time. And you have a
loving wife, Sue, so supportive, so amazing, and I'm so
glad that she's in your life, and I'm glad you're
in ours. And then you said you had to make
a decision about how you're going to approach this, because
here you are so full of life. You know, a
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syndicated radio show that's kicking ass, doing great, you know, Prigger,
you killing it, crushing it, and now all of a
sudden you're paralyzed with the neck down and they're telling you, oh,
the fact that you can talk is a miracle, and
you had to approach that from a psychological point of view?
How did you approach it in a spiritual point of view?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I realized from the get go I had only three choices,
and they were death, depression, or perseverance. And therefore the
choice was clear. I was going to persevere and I
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was going to go on with life. I didn't want
to die and I didn't want to be depressed. So
what was my choice. I'm a very rational thinker. It's
not a spiritual answer. It's a rational answer, and that's
what I chose. I have so much to live for.
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I have a wife and two sons that I love,
and I have friends that I love, and I have
a mission that I've never abandoned to influence people to
the good, as I wrote in my diary when I
was in high school. So you know, it's it's not
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a question for me.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Would like to believe that I would approach this as
logically and rationally as you have. I do believe, knowing
you for all these years, and knowing your love of
God and belief in God, that that probably contributed to
your common sense and your logic and reason. I believe
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all of that you know we always try to put
ourselves in other people's shoes. I don't know if I
would be as strong as you are. I think your
choice while you say there was really no choice. I
think other people wouldn't be as courageous as you. You
know this thing about if there's no God, the battle
who defines good and evil? God is to me. I
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believe we are nothing without God. I believe every man, woman,
and child was created by God. I believe God put
talent in every human soul, just like we all have
our unique fingerprint. Believe the Bible verse that every hair
of our heads are counted. In my case, some are
black and some are white, and that God knows. I
believe that with all of my heart. You know, for
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so many years you would at praguer you you asked
a question, and you would ask the simple question, who
would you say first? And your beloved dog and a
stranger are drowning. And what you discovered is one third
of the audience would vote for the dog, one third
for a stranger, one third not sure. And your conclusion
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is we live in an error when people increasingly make
moral judgments based on emotions. But if feelings determine what's
right and wrong. Then whether murder, rape, and theft or
are wrong is no more than an opinion, which I
thought was it's just such a brilliant way. It's such
a Dennis Prager way to put things in so thought provoking.
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On the other hand, you know, like I can't understand, Dennis.
I watched this State of the Union, and you have
from last year Lake and Riley's family. Democrats wouldn't stand
for her family, this nursing student that was murdered by
an illegal immigrant. They wouldn't stand for little Joscelyn Nungary's family,
twelve year old girl brutally murdered and raped by an
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illegal immigrant. It wouldn't stand for all these people, the
President recognized on Tuesday night. I don't know what to
think about that. To me, I concluded last year, and
I said when I started my TV show after the
State of the Union that you know, I can report
tonight that what I said last year, that the Democratic
Party has lost their heart, their conscience, and their souls.
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You know, they're still soulless. You know, in the context
of your question, do you see similarities absolutely?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
In fact that question, would you say your dog that
you love or a stranger you don't know. By definition,
it's a stranger, you know, who would you say first?
I know people want to s save both, but you
have to save one first if both are drowning. I've
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asked this question Sean for fifty years five zero, and
for fifty years I've gotten the same response. One third
the stranger, one third the dog, and one third don't know.
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So two thirds of Americans for fifty years would not
vote to save the stranger. That's pretty pretty powerful. That's
when I realize that good and evil were really for
most people, at least in our society. For most people,
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they were an opinion and there was not an absolute
at work. The only time there is an absolute good
absolute evil, as if there is a God, God said,
human beings are created in God's image, and therefore I,
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who love my dogs, would in fact save a stranger
because of a value that is rooted in God and
therefore has an absolute value. Is an absolute value, It
is not a matter of opinion. And that's why the
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Founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence that we are
endowed by our creator. All men are endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable rights and among them are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. So they understood only if
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the creator endows us with rights, do we have any rights?
If we are endowed by the government with our rights,
then government can take it away.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I got to be honest, Dennis, I'm listening to you,
and your wisdom just blows me away. It's unbelievable. You
know in the book, by the way, you know, you
talk about and you've talked about throughout your career. If
God exists, why doesn't he punish the unjust or why
does he allow innocent to suffer? I have a thought,
like I know, my friend Dennis Prager, why did this happen?
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Why is he paralyzed from the neck down? And my
conclusion and why did he give you the heart and
the motivation to persevere? As you said? And I'm my
simple answer, and it's simple, is that he's not finished
with you. You have too much to offer. We're all
going to get called home. But this book is is
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an example of you continuing your life's purpose and mission
for which He created you for and emerging. Everybody please
push this book to number one on Amazon. I really,
you know, we've got to beat the Stripper book You
Gotta Anyway. It's called If there Is No God? The
battleover Who Defines Good and Evil? And it is a
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must read for everybody. It's on Hannity dot com, go
to Amazon dot com, and now in bookstores around the country.
It's an honitor call you a friend. You are a
great inspiration to all. And this is God willing not
the last time we're going to be having you on
the air, and you're always welcome on this program. My friend,
Thank you, Bless you, my friend, God bless you too.
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Eight hundred nine four one. Sean will continue.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Say if you miss one day, you'll be out of it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Put someone please tell me what is going on here?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Officially on Iranian Watch Tonight, as the deadline now nears
and the Iranians are stubborn, we'll have also Senator Tom Cotton,
Mark Levin, James Comer deposed Bill Clinton today, Jason Chafits
was there. We'll get reaction from both of them, the
great one, Mark Levin, as I said, Jimmy Fala, Nancy Grace.
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Nine Eastern, we got a jam Pack show and it's
Iranian Watch Night anyway, nine Eastern on box set. You
DVR and we'll see you tonight back here on Monday.
Have a great weekend, and at any point this weekend
you might see me show up on Fox. Let's put
it that way. You never know. Have a great weekend
with you and your family.
All right, news roundup in Information Overload hour. Here's our
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toll free number. It's eight hundred nine to four one
Shawn this Friday. If you want to be a part
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it's important. The US Senate the House already passed it,
the Save Act, proof of citizenship for example, and voter ID.
Simple basic fundamental stuff. The President talked all about this
(00:23):
at the State of the Union and talked about how
Democrats don't want basic integrity in our elections. They don't
want the Save Act. And you think about it, why
would you not want voter ID? I mean, to be
an emergency snows shoveler in New York City, you need
five separate forms of ID, you know, pictures and Social
Security cards, et cetera. But you don't need ID in
(00:46):
New York State to vote. How do I know? I
used to live there. Key word used to no longer
in the Free State of Florida. Here's the President from
the State of the Union.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
They don't want identification for the thet is privilege of
them all voting in America now, it's no good, no good.
Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that
we just enunciated, and Congress should unite and enact this
common sense country saving legislation right now, and it should
(01:22):
be before anything else happens. And the reason they don't
want to do it, why would anybody, not one.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Voter ID one reason? Because they want to cheat.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
There's only one reason.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
They make up all excuses. They say it's racist, they
come up with things. You almost say, what imagination they have.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
They want to cheat.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They have cheated, and their policy is so bad that.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
The only way they can get elected is to cheat.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And we're going to stop it. We have to stop it, Josh, Now, Well,
Republicans in the Senate, and I know this is getting
a little complicated. Deep in the weeds is something in
the Senate called cloture, and that means to get a
piece of legislation passed, you need sixty votes to move
it on the floor, unless, of course, you do a
(02:15):
real filibuster. And this is what Ted Cruz and Mike
Lee had been pushing on this show, where they actually
have to do a real filibuster, like mister Smith goes
to Washington. And what that simply means is that the
Democrats would have to take to the floor stand there
as long as they possibly can. Talk talk talk, talk talk.
(02:36):
Here is a downside to it. The downside is is
they can hold on to the floor for as long
as they want and they would probably start pushing votes
on Obamacare funding, etc.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And that becomes problematic, especially in a midterm election year.
I understand the argument, but the House next week is
going to take up the sanctuary city in Stateville, and
that too will go to the Senate, so Republican's going
to have to make a decision. Here's what one of
my senators, Senator Rick Scott, had to say about it
this week. I loved it.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
I love that the President was so on board at
the City of Union addressed for the Save America actors
secure elections. All right, Now, if you support this, you
should share this and also call every politician you know
and say past the Save America Act.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Now, they do have fifty votes in the US Senate,
and the tie breaking vote would be the President of
the Senate, which is the Vice President jd Vance. All Right, However,
you have Mitch McConnell and Lisa Murkowski and Senator Tilla's
in North Carolina and Senator Curtis, they are standing in
the way of this anyway, please to say he's my senator.
(03:44):
Thank god, I have good senators now Ashley Moody and
right now joining us, Senator Rick Scott Brick and I've
been friends for a long time. Senator, how are you, Sean.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
It's great to talk with you. This is so common
sense and the American public, Republicans, Democrats, independence wanted because
it's so simple. You have to show an idy down
airplane to be a snowshoveler in New York, buy some
buy certain medicines, apply for a job, bank accounts, checking
out a hotel, buy a lottery ticket. So why would
you have a lower verification standard for the sicket right
(04:15):
siccred right too to vote? So it's not racist as
the immigrants claims, It shouldn't be controversial. The presidents on
board the houses pass it. We've you know, we've got it.
Whatever process we have, we can't get the sixty vote
right we get attached to a must pass bill or
we're going to have to we have to do the filibus.
(04:35):
We have to say, you know what, if you want
to block it, you know, then start and explain it.
And I agree with my colleagues. We have got to
use whatever means possible to get this passed.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, I've got to tell you something that really is
remarkable to me. Now here's here's the issue. And you know,
I've had it explain to me by a lot of
different people. There are people that are voting to move
on the bill that also have this fear of turning
over the Senate and forcing the stand up filibuster that
mister Smith goes to Washington philibuster, a real filibuster. Usually
(05:11):
what happens is one party will threaten the filibuster and
that stops the other party from proceeding. And the one
little complication, and it's not insignificant, I'll be fair about it,
and that is that you hand the floor, the Centate
floor over to Democrats and then they can have a
vote on a variety of issues that they deem will
be divisive to Republicans heading into a midterm election year.
(05:32):
What is your answer to that argument, Well, we do it.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
We did it with reconciliation. We took all their votes.
Now here's the difference. The difference between that is that
you know this could go on for weeks. You know
the reconciliation. It's as long as people you know, it's
just one time you don't get to you know, in theory,
they could do it forever. Nobody's willing to do that.
(05:56):
But here's where I look at it. Let's say we
spend a month on the right. If we do it,
and all the whole election is about why the Democrats,
you know, want to allow legal people here illegally to vote,
and we want to preserve them. I think we win
eighty four percent. I think of an American degree with this,
So I think we've got to use every power we
(06:17):
have to get this pass. Now here's the negative. The
negatives part of government's still not opened. So if we
do it before that and then that, you know, and
then we can't go to that issue. So that's the negative.
We will take a lot of bad votes. But guess
what I'm When I was governor, whatever this legislature sent me,
(06:38):
I either had the veto or sign. They didn't ask
me all the time about what they were sending to me.
So as part of what you have to do in
this job, So I'm willing. I'm willing to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, I know, of course you're willing to do it.
I mean, you know, it's frustrating to me, and I
want to be a little sympathetic there there are people
in marginal states that have tough rass ahead of them.
I get at it, I hear it. But you know,
the American people even seventy one percent of Democrats, seventy
one percent of Democrats, eighty percent of African Americans, Hispanic Americans.
(07:10):
This is an eighty five point fifteen issue across the
board for the country. And sometimes you just got to
take a stand and take whatever you know pain might
go along with doing the right thing. Let me ask
you this bizarre question and tell me if I'm nuts.
If the House is able to pass a sanctuary city,
you know, you know, penalties for sanctuary cities and states. Frankly,
(07:33):
I think that's just you know, codifying. You know, by
being a sanctuary city or state, you are you are
aiding in a bedding in law breaking as far as
I'm concerned, that's my interpretation, And you're obstructing justice because
we know that the supremacy clause is clear it's a
federal government's role to enforce federal laws. Immigration laws are
(07:56):
what they are, their federal laws and by allowing sanctuary
city state status, et cetera, you are aiding and a
betting people that didn't respect our laws, our borders, our sovereignty.
Is there a way to put those two bills together
if they come out of the House, I know you'd
have to send it back to the House, But if
you use the same language, I'm sure Mike Johnson can
(08:17):
get it over the finish line.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Again, probably, I think Mike can put it. The Speaker
can put it together, but I guess in the theory
we could then. But if the if the House doesn't
put it together, I think when it goes back to
the House, you'd have to be vote on it again.
So that probably easiest is for the House to put
it together and send it over. And then we've got
(08:39):
two options. We can do just the Save America Act
by itself, or the Save America ac Act plus the
Sanctuary City Bill. We could do either one. So we've
got to preserve these elections. It's it's pretty simple. There's
you know, they Chuck Schumber. You know he wants he
wants illegals to vote. That's why he allowed with Biden
all these millions and millions of illegal aliens to put
(09:02):
into our country, so we have to win this.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I totally completely agree with you. Let me ask you.
It seems like the meeting yesterday and it's kind of
been widely reported with the Iranians in Switzerland did not
go particularly well. The Iranians now saying even on state
TV that they refuse to give up enrichment of uranium.
(09:28):
The President has drawn a very clear line in the sand.
He's also promised the protesters that help is on its way,
will help has arrived, it's there. And then the president
gave a ten day notice. What part of not listening
to Donald Trump? Are these mullas? You know, what are
they thinking about? They've got to be pretty dumb if
they want to take on Donald J. Trump in the
(09:49):
US military. In my opinion, I don't think they'll survive it.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I don't think you have to pass an IQ test.
To be is to be Colemane, to be the Ietola.
Because here, I mean, the bottom line is, look, he already,
Harry did it once. Harry destroyed their nuclear weapons once,
He'll do it again. He doesn't have a choice. Actually,
if you're the president of United States and the commander
in chief of our military, and you have a country
that says they're going to destroy you if they get
(10:12):
a weapon, then you don't have a choice but to
destroy their ability to do that. And on top of that,
it's going to help our ally Israel. So the president
actually doesn't have a choice when they say they're going
to get this nucle weapon, they're going to use it
to destroy the United States. A president that doesn't destroy
their nucle weapons is not doing his job, his or
(10:33):
her job.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
All right, quick break, right back, we'll continue more with
Senator Rick Scott my Free State of Florida on the
other side. Your calls coming up as well. Eight hundred
and nine point one. Sean, if you want to be
a part of the program, immigration, jobs, healthcare, the news
you care about is right here.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Nity Watch is awright.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Continue, Senator Rick Scott from the Great State by Free
State of Florida's with us. You know in Kuwait we
have five destroyers, three combat ships. Then if you look
at the Arabian Sea off the coast of Omam, you
have the USS Abraham Lincoln and three destroyers. And then
you look off the coast of Israel and Lebanon, you
(11:51):
have the USS Gerald R. Ford and three destroyers on
top of all of the you know fighter jets that
we have in the region. I mean, they're basically surrounded
with the most firepower. This is the largest military build
up since the Iraq War. So obviously the president knows
the risk and the president you know, wants this to
(12:13):
be you know, in keeping with the Trump doctrine, no
forever wars, no boots on the ground, but massive firepower,
strategic strikes, and the world cannot risk a nuclear armed Iran.
And you know, I know there are a lot of
people saying, well, why are we getting involved in this, Well,
what is Iran going to be like six months from now?
Because they have proven they are just hell bent on
(12:34):
getting a nuclear weapon. They've been building. You know, they
first had two thousand you know pound ballistic missiles. Now
they're going to four thousand pounds. There's only so much
Israel is going to be able to withstand. Even with
the latest, greatest, newest generation of missile defense systems. It
does become overwhelming at some point, and they're threatening the
(12:55):
continental US if they get that weapon.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Well, absolutely so. Presidents have appeased them. It doesn't work, right,
appeasement of a bully does not work. These people are despicable, right,
I mean, this is this is good versus evil? Do
you do you want to continue to live the life
of freedom? And we have no choice. The President is
(13:18):
doing exactly what he needs to do to protect America
and to protect protect our ally Israel, and Israel can
do this by themselves, so I you know, look, this
is going to happen because they've been you know, for
our presidents have given in constantly given in this stupid
Obama Iran deal things like that, and Biden, you know,
(13:40):
and they're always.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Passified by the two of the dumbest deals on earth.
They never abide by the deal. They never even insisted
on any place anywhere. Anytime American inspectors they drop cargo
planes full of cash and all the currency billions and
billions of dollars to say, pretty please with sugar on top,
you know, don't build out your nuclear program. And oh,
(14:03):
by the way, this expires in ten years. How stupid
is that deal?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
That was? It was It was the most it was.
It was. It's like whose side was Obama on? And
where were all these democrats all right, that are supposedly
pro Israel. I mean, they all just sat on their hands.
So Obama everything he did, it look like he hated
Israel and he loved Iran. And all he did was
(14:27):
he put Americans our livelihood, our way of life, our
life at risk by giving all that money and pacifying Iran.
So it's despicable what Obama did, really.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Is it put us in jeopardy? Can you believe I'm
my third year now in Florida. I mean all those
I got to know then, Governor Rick Scott, because you
were up in New York along with Bobby Jendall and
Rick Perry and all of you were competing and successfully
competing in lowering New York business to your respective states.
(14:59):
And then you guys did a great job. It was
That's how I got to know you so well.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Mondomi would make it even easier.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
So I think Governor Desanta is going to be up
in New York quite a bit. I think he's also
recruiting law enforcement too.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Yeah, yeah, may be. I mean think about you have
every idea I need to be a snowshover up there,
and he's raised he's raising taxes nine and a half percent.
That gonna be good for anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
We appreciate you, Senator Rick Scott, my free State of Florida, Sir,
thank you. Best decision I made is moving down here,
and thank everybody for their warm welcome. But in fairness,
I had property down here for decades, so I always
came to Florida. Now I get to stay here. Appreciate
you all right, Uh eight eight hundred and nine foot one, Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program,
I have a story to tell that's a little embarrassing,
(15:44):
but I'm just gonna I always tell this audience the truth.
I've been friends with Dennis Prager for decades, nationally syndicated
radio hosts with Salem Media for so many years. He
is the co founder of Prager You, which has done
a phenomenal job, especially educating young people about our founders,
(16:06):
our framers, about what has made America great, unique and different.
He knows so much about Judeo Christian principles that you know,
he puts me to shame, and I didn't hear about it.
And it's so odd because all I do all day
is read, but I don't read social media.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I gave up that cancer a long time ago. Hannada,
you suck I'm tired of it, and unless I want
to feel horrible about myself, I'm not going to read
a lot of social media, although my team monitors it.
But I didn't know that he had had a fall,
and I didn't know that he was paralyzed from the
(16:46):
neck down. And I found out from a friend and
I said what, I couldn't believe it. And I knew
his wife, Sue, but I didn't have her number. We
remember Linda. We were desperately looking for a way to
connect with Dennis. So I wrote Dennis on his phone
and one day his wife, Sue picked it up and
then she wrote, very graciously wrote me back, and then
(17:09):
we were able to FaceTime. But he's paralyzed, but he's
still working, and he's still a genius as he always
has been. And they, the doctors in his case have
described the fact that he is talking, and he told
me this when we were facetiming with each other, is
quote a miracle. And he's a not religious people, and
(17:32):
he's a man of deep faith and conviction, has been
a you know, incredible, incredibly successful talk show host all
these years, and you know, been a longtime friend. And
we kind of got out of touch for a while,
and I was so happy to make a reconnection with
him and anyways come out. In spite of all of this,
(17:54):
he was able to put out another brilliant book and
I just got a copy. If There's No Oh God?
The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil? And very
thought provoking, and it takes on the dangers of secularism
and perhaps the most important issues in our lives. And
I'm very honored and am pleased and proud and happy
(18:16):
that he's with us. Dennis Praegerser, welcome to the program.
And I humbly apologize for not knowing until much later.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I'm actually glad you didn't know. It's not something I
want the whole world to know.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
It's not happy news, but I have been able to
maintain a happy disposition, and I wrote why in Today's
Wall Street Journal, an article on why I have been
able to maintain a level of happiness despite being paralyzed
(18:55):
from the shoulders down.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
So I'm sure you're your listeners will find it very interesting.
And yes, I also was able to finish in the
hospital the book If there Is No God? The Battle
Over Who Defines Good and Evil? And the book I
(19:20):
am proud to say got to number two on all
of Amazon books. Number two on the day was published
last week and it was the number one was a
stripper's autobiography. And I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, if you're going to lose to something, Dennis, you know,
I mean, I can, I totally get where people's heads
are at. Unfortunately, Yeah, exactly, that's right. Let me ask
you this if I can. For the first three months,
you could not speak at all, and you were on
a ventilator and I think you're still on a ventilator
at night sometimes to help you. And it was a dire,
(20:10):
dire situation for a long time. And you have a
loving wife, Sue, so supportive, so amazing, and I'm so
glad that she's in your life, and I'm glad you're
in ours. And then you said you had to make
a decision about how you're going to approach this, because
here you are so full of life. You know, a
(20:31):
syndicated radio show that's kicking ass, doing great, you know, Prigger,
you killing it, crushing it, and now all of a
sudden you're paralyzed with the neck down and they're telling you, oh,
the fact that you can talk is a miracle, and
you had to approach that from a psychological point of view?
How did you approach it in a spiritual point of view?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I realized from the get go I had only three choices,
and they were death, depression, or perseverance. And therefore the
choice was clear. I was going to persevere and I
(21:11):
was going to go on with life. I didn't want
to die and I didn't want to be depressed. So
what was my choice. I'm a very rational thinker. It's
not a spiritual answer. It's a rational answer, and that's
what I chose. I have so much to live for.
(21:33):
I have a wife and two sons that I love,
and I have friends that I love, and I have
a mission that I've never abandoned to influence people to
the good, as I wrote in my diary when I
was in high school. So you know, it's it's not
(21:57):
a question for me.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Would like to believe that I would approach this as
logically and rationally as you have. I do believe, knowing
you for all these years, and knowing your love of
God and belief in God, that that probably contributed to
your common sense and your logic and reason. I believe
(22:23):
all of that you know we always try to put
ourselves in other people's shoes. I don't know if I
would be as strong as you are. I think your
choice while you say there was really no choice. I
think other people wouldn't be as courageous as you. You
know this thing about if there's no God, the battle
who defines good and evil? God is to me. I
(22:48):
believe we are nothing without God. I believe every man, woman,
and child was created by God. I believe God put
talent in every human soul, just like we all have
our unique fingerprint. Believe the Bible verse that every hair
of our heads are counted. In my case, some are
black and some are white, and that God knows. I
believe that with all of my heart. You know, for
(23:09):
so many years you would at praguer you you asked
a question, and you would ask the simple question, who
would you say first? And your beloved dog and a
stranger are drowning. And what you discovered is one third
of the audience would vote for the dog, one third
for a stranger, one third not sure. And your conclusion
(23:32):
is we live in an error when people increasingly make
moral judgments based on emotions. But if feelings determine what's
right and wrong. Then whether murder, rape, and theft or
are wrong is no more than an opinion, which I
thought was it's just such a brilliant way. It's such
a Dennis Prager way to put things in so thought provoking.
(23:54):
On the other hand, you know, like I can't understand, Dennis.
I watched this State of the Union, and you have
from last year Lake and Riley's family. Democrats wouldn't stand
for her family, this nursing student that was murdered by
an illegal immigrant. They wouldn't stand for little Joscelyn Nungary's family,
twelve year old girl brutally murdered and raped by an
(24:16):
illegal immigrant. It wouldn't stand for all these people, the
President recognized on Tuesday night. I don't know what to
think about that. To me, I concluded last year, and
I said when I started my TV show after the
State of the Union that you know, I can report
tonight that what I said last year, that the Democratic
Party has lost their heart, their conscience, and their souls.
(24:37):
You know, they're still soulless. You know, in the context
of your question, do you see similarities absolutely?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
In fact that question, would you say your dog that
you love or a stranger you don't know. By definition,
it's a stranger, you know, who would you say first?
I know people want to s save both, but you
have to save one first if both are drowning. I've
(25:06):
asked this question Sean for fifty years five zero, and
for fifty years I've gotten the same response. One third
the stranger, one third the dog, and one third don't know.
(25:29):
So two thirds of Americans for fifty years would not
vote to save the stranger. That's pretty pretty powerful. That's
when I realize that good and evil were really for
most people, at least in our society. For most people,
(25:52):
they were an opinion and there was not an absolute
at work. The only time there is an absolute good
absolute evil, as if there is a God, God said,
human beings are created in God's image, and therefore I,
(26:15):
who love my dogs, would in fact save a stranger
because of a value that is rooted in God and
therefore has an absolute value. Is an absolute value, It
is not a matter of opinion. And that's why the
(26:37):
Founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence that we are
endowed by our creator. All men are endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable rights and among them are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. So they understood only if
(27:02):
the creator endows us with rights, do we have any rights?
If we are endowed by the government with our rights,
then government can take it away.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I got to be honest, Dennis, I'm listening to you,
and your wisdom just blows me away. It's unbelievable. You
know in the book, by the way, you know, you
talk about and you've talked about throughout your career. If
God exists, why doesn't he punish the unjust or why
does he allow innocent to suffer? I have a thought,
like I know, my friend Dennis Prager, why did this happen?
(27:40):
Why is he paralyzed from the neck down? And my
conclusion and why did he give you the heart and
the motivation to persevere? As you said? And I'm my
simple answer, and it's simple, is that he's not finished
with you. You have too much to offer. We're all
going to get called home. But this book is is
(28:00):
an example of you continuing your life's purpose and mission
for which He created you for and emerging. Everybody please
push this book to number one on Amazon. I really,
you know, we've got to beat the Stripper book You
Gotta Anyway. It's called If there Is No God? The
battleover Who Defines Good and Evil? And it is a
(28:25):
must read for everybody. It's on Hannity dot com, go
to Amazon dot com, and now in bookstores around the country.
It's an honitor call you a friend. You are a
great inspiration to all. And this is God willing not
the last time we're going to be having you on
the air, and you're always welcome on this program. My friend,
Thank you, Bless you, my friend, God bless you too.
(28:48):
Eight hundred nine four one. Sean will continue.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Say if you miss one day, you'll be out of it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Put someone please tell me what is going on here?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Officially on Iranian Watch Tonight, as the deadline now nears
and the Iranians are stubborn, we'll have also Senator Tom Cotton,
Mark Levin, James Comer deposed Bill Clinton today, Jason Chafits
was there. We'll get reaction from both of them, the
great one, Mark Levin, as I said, Jimmy Fala, Nancy Grace.
(29:27):
Nine Eastern, we got a jam Pack show and it's
Iranian Watch Night anyway, nine Eastern on box set. You
DVR and we'll see you tonight back here on Monday.
Have a great weekend, and at any point this weekend
you might see me show up on Fox. Let's put
it that way. You never know. Have a great weekend
with you and your family.
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