July 3, 2026 • 31 mins
The final hour features a conversation about the Freedom Truck initiative and efforts to expand access to American history through museums and educational exhibits. Sean Hannity then opens the phones to discuss patriotism, education, socialism, immigration, and the direction of the Democratic Party. Listeners also share their Independence Day traditions and thoughts on America’s founding principles. The hour wraps up with a preview of Hannity’s live Independence Day coverage from Mount Rushmore.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
News roundup and information overload hour. Here's our toll free number.
(00:03):
It's eight hundred and ninety four one Sean. If you
want to be a part of the program. We're in
South Dakota. We are here to cover all the festivities
tonight at Mount Rushmore. If you've never been to Mount Rushmore,
I went through some of the history of this earlier
in the program today. It's it's so stunning and so
fascinating and its history so amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's definitely worth a trip.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know, if you think of vacations, if you ever
want to take a vacation with your family and places
you want to go see. This is definitely great for
your kids. Well, my kids were younger, they used to
play sporting events here, so you know, once a year,
for a couple of years, we'd go to Mount Rushmore
and it became a little bit of a you know,
annual tradition in the family. And I'm glad we did.
(00:49):
Glad to be back to The people here are unbelievably nice.
Went out to dinner last night when we got here.
It was unbelievable nicest people you'd ever want to meet.
They're only about there are less than a million people
in the entire state, and anyway, really wonderful people. So anyway,
so I'm reading this article and the headline was on
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Breitbart and said, Soros funded Pro Publica attacking Museum and
Library agency for what for honoring America?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I mean, here we go again.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's like story after story after story that's like never ending. Anyway,
they attacked Pro Publica did, according to this article, the
Institute of Museum and Library Services, for encouraging grant applications
for projects that actually foster an appreciation of the great
country of America that we live in. Anyway, here for
(01:45):
an update on this is the acting Labor Secretary Keith
Sonderling is with us now. He funded the creation of
the Freedom Truck while acting director of the Institute of
Museum and Library Services. All right, so explain to me
what happened here, So that you have this one group
attacking your group for encouraging grant applications for projects that
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foster and appreciation of the country.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, I mean, it's true, and you won't be surprised,
nor would your listeners be. President Trump asked me to
take for the Institute Museum and Library Services, an agency
where most people have never even heard of.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
You know, we were astonished what we found. We went
in there and we saw that this was the agency
that was giving.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Out your federal tax payer dollars to museums and libraries
to promote hateful things of America. I know you've covered
on your show many times about how during the Biden
administration they were having those cross stressing sayers and libraries
and the books about kids having sex and trands, and
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
For the museum side too, federal dollars were.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Going to applicants who wanted to have exhibits about why
America is not great and why we were, you know,
why we are not a great country, and why we're
a racist country. So, as you said, all the requirements
to get this federal dollars, which is supposed to promote
American cultural it's supposed to promote American museums and libraries
about American history and how great we are, had DEI requirements.
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So you couldn't get a federal grant unless you proved
how you would be using that grant in a library museum.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
To promote the EI. These are your fat federal tax peremony.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
The agency gives up three hundred million dollars a year.
And as you know, President Trump really took an interest
into our museums and libraries, into our American cultures.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And as we entered this two hundred and fifty this year,
it was an honorary.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
They asked me to go in there and make some
serious changes.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And that's what we did.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
You know, this is why when people tell me that
they think that the you know, they believe in, for example,
the Great New Deal or cradle to grave or womb
to the tomb or whatever they believe in, that the
government is going to solve every problem they have in life.
This is when I point to government. How are government
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run schools, you know, working out for people? Because we
pay more per capita per child than any industrialized country
in the world, and we have the worst results. You know,
it's it's the biggest, you know, failure on the face
of the earth. And you have this unholy alliance between
Democrats and teachers' unions and they donate to Democratic candidates
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and they get money and they just stay in power,
and our kids are failed at a spectacular level. I mean,
this seems now to when democrats are in power, they
seem to institutionalize these things.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Correct, they do a better job than we do, but
we're taking that over. And under President Trump's leadership, we
went in there and we completely changed and revitalized the agency.
We fired the entire board. There was a board of
all Democrats that Biden and put in there that.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Allowed all these grants to go out.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
We wanted to, you know, instead of just eliminating this agency,
how do we use it to promote America. How do
we use it to get kids inspired to love America again,
especially this year when there's so many great stuff in there.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And we believe that libraries and museums for.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Children for adults around the country can be that place
where they go to and they learn about the founding fathers,
they learn about why this country is so great, museum
exhibits about American history and the impact we've had being
the greatest country in the world.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And exactly what we did, Sean.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
But the most important thing we did, which we've been
attacked on, you name it, New York Times, Washington Post,
every newspaper has come after us, we created, in partnership
with Prager, you and Hilldale, we created the Freedom Trucks.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Now, if you remember in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Six, they had the Freedom Trains that went around the
country promoting, you know, at that time two hundred years
of American greatness.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, the Freedom trucks they're not.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
On railroads, so they're eighteen wheelers that expand and there's
two on the National Mall right now for the Great
State Fair and what it is, it's a history of
the United States. It starts you walk in and you're
greeted by George Washington AI, and he talks to you
and he explains everything that you're going to see. Then
you learn about some of the early pilgrims who came here,
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and then it starts at the Revolutionary War, and there's
so many interactive stuff. There's always great AI. But you
start by taking a quiz are you a patriot or
you're a loyalist? Which George are you going to be behind?
And then it goes through each step of the Revolutionary
War to signing the Declaration.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Of Independence, and there's this massive.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Visual Declaration of Independence that kids get to sign, and.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Then it goes through today.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So then you learn about each step of our amazing
country with pictures with AI, with computer screens, with iPads,
you get to take a citizenship test to see how
much you know about.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
This great country.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And then there's a wall of Fame which highlights modern
American heroes like Mark Twain or the Rose of br
for Rosa Parks, the Wright Brothers, Andrew Carnegie. And of
course when it ends, you're greeted by a message by
Donald J. Trump, who talks about how we are revitalizing
our cultural institution, how we're taking American history and we're
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promoting it, how we're taking back libraries and museums and
having a safe place for people to go and learn
about our country and not hate our country, and that's
why we're getting attacked.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Do you have a list of places around the country
where people can look it up where they might want
to be able to take their kids?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Absolutely a Freedom two fifty dot org and you can
go in there and there's a big suck section for
the Freedom truck and they're going around the country.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So there's six of them.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And as you know, President Trump is very passionate about
the forgotten men and women of this country and the
reason we're doing these in trucks. We're sending them to
very remote locations that don't have libraries that don't have
museums because we want all Americans to be able to
share in this. But right now through next week, there's
two of them on the national all but they're traveling
all this year to cities across the country. At Freedom
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to Citty dot org, you can see all their locations
where they're going. But it's just truly spectacular and we
couldn't have done it without our friends at Prager, you
and Hillsdale. They really made the graphics, they made the content.
I'm sure you've been to the White House and have
seen some of the pictures and digital QR codes they
have there that relive the founding father's story. So it's
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that same kind of technology, but it's really unbelievable. And
when you walk in there, George Washington is talking to you,
you know it just kicked off an amazing journey through
the Freedom trucks.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, I got to tell you partner with great people.
When you talk about Dennis Prager and Larry Yarn and
Hillsdale College, they're they're all amazing people. We appreciate your time,
Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderland, appreciate the update, and we'll
put that up on our website so people can just
link on it themselves and get that list.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Thank you, sir for being with us.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
We can walk together together.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back
on the other side.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
We'll get to your phone calls for the rest of
the show as we continue from South Dakota. Don't forget
a special edition nine to eleven Eastern tonight on Hannaday
as we broadcast from South Dakota. They've got an incredible
lineup of events. It's just going to be spectacular tonight
at Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
We will cover all of it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
We got a great lineup of guests again, nine to
eleven tonight from Mount Rushmore, Hannity on location. Hope you'll
join us, quick break right back, your calls next. All right,
let's get to our busy phones toll free. It's eight
hundred and nine four one, Shawn. If you want to
(09:44):
be a part of the program, let's go to New
York and say hi to John. John, Welcome to South Dakota.
Happy Friday, sir, How are.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
You Happy Friday? Happy to fiftieth to us and amen
on you hanging out there at the Mount rush More.
I think about Hitchcock's movie whenever I hear about Mount
Rushmore with the carry Grant north by Northwest. Very exciting
film and a great interview by the way you just
(10:11):
did with those two guys. My main point, Sean, I
want to get to it's very, very aproposed to what
you're talking about today with the education and the trucks
and everything, and that is that ground central for the
Islamic Communist Party, I believe is right in the center
of every university in most.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, why do you call it the Islamic Communist Party?
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Well, well, I think there's a difference because I believe,
well I believe that there is a communist movement. But however,
you have to think about how simpatico all of these
democratic socialists are to the Islamic situation, About how they
were very simpatico to what happened in Israel, to how
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they're simpatico with the Iranian war.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
This is to me, you mean the fact that the
left is anti Israel, The left has has you know,
supported radical groups like Hamas and has Balah and Iran.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Is that what you're referring to.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's much Yeah, I think it's
much more nefarious than just socialism. And then those hard
and communists. I think that there is a big Islamic
influence that's coming in here, that's hiding and embedded in
our academia. And I think what we all got blindsided
by with all of these elections in Momdami's neighborhood was
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because they perfected the way to herd. As Rush would say,
those skulls full of mush, the eighteen to twenty eight
year olds who don't know what the heck is going on,
and they just put them all in buses, all lined
them up and said you're all voting for this primary. Now,
don't forget seven percent of the people who are registered
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voted in the primary. That's nothing. So you could really
manipulate that if you're clever, and they are clever, So
we got to really watch that. They think they're going
to do it. Of course the country they think they're
going to do it in the national elections they are going.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
To really they're feeling their oats. Then I was saying
it publicly. They're saying publicly they're going to challenge all
of these incumbents and all these establishment Democrats.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
They want to take over the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
How are mainstream Democrats going to react to this, you know,
after losing to them on Donnie Back candidate for example,
a Democratic socialis of America candidate Dan Goldman says something
pretty interesting. He said he's concerned the mayor may be
encouraging anti Semitism. Between what the mayor has said himself
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and between what his wife had put thumbs up on
and a seal of approval on post October seventh, I
don't think it's too far of a stretch to say
that this guy is not particularly fond of Israel.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
There's my title of Islamic communism that's exactly correct. And
pretty soon they're all going to feel a punch. Anybody.
These these people of the Jewish persuasion who are Democrats
now are really their eyes are glassy. They don't know,
they can't believe what's happening. You know, you got guys
like Schumer and you know all these people that are
(13:32):
said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but israel Is and Israel ap.
Now now all of a sudden they see, they see
what's really going on, and they don't know what to do.
They are really getting stomped on.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They they think their silence and will will buy them
favor with these radicals. They cannot be more wrong. I
am arguing politically that Chuck Schumer's days are numbered. Akeem
j these days are numbered. I think that these radical
democratic socialists will go to Congress, they will create more havoc,
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more chaos.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I think they'll be targeting.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
More and more quote mainstream Democrats whether they look.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
There is a reason none of them are speaking out.
All of them are afraid.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And what that means to me is they're not really
people that are principal. They're people that only care about
their own power. If they cared about principle, they wouldn't
care about the outcome of an election. This is one
of the problems about you know, people that go to
Washington from many people that get elected. That becomes the
best job they'll ever get in their life, and they
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don't ever want to lose it, so they're not going
to put that in jeopardy. And they think that, you know,
being silent somehow buys them some grace. With these lunatics,
it does not, because they're going to be next on
the list of people to be replaced. Mark my words.
I've got a roll. I got to take a quick break.
Good news is we have more of your calls on
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the other side. Eight hundred nine one, Shawn is on number.
We are in South Dakota Tonight Hannity Special to our edition.
We're covering all the events at Mount Rushmore. It's really
going to be a special night tonight. I have the
entire rundown. I don't want to give it away. I
want it to be a surprise. Nine to eleven Eastern,
(15:27):
seven to nine Local. President Trump will be speaking during
my show. Obviously, we'll be covering that as well as
we continue South Dakota, Mount Rushmore. Hannity Tonight at nine
will continue all right twenty five now till the top
of the hour. Are toll free numbers eight hundred ninety
four one, Shawn. If you want to be a part
of the program. We are in South Dakota. The people
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couldn't be nicer. I've met a lot of people since
I've been here, taken a lot of selfies since I've
been here. They're just nice, down to earth people. I mean,
you have open spaces. Went to a restaurant last night.
It had elk Bison. What else did it have on
the menu? Had it had wallet, which is a local
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fish that apparently is really good.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I'm not a big fish eater. What does elk taste like?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well, it's interesting. I had elk? What did I have
the elk mushroom soup?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And the lady's looking at me like come on, I'm like, ah,
I'm not very I'm not really experimental when it comes
to food. And she looks at me and she goes,
come on, you gotta try it. There's nothing wrong with it.
I'm telling you you're.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Gonna love it. Is it like bison? I didn't try
the bison. I just had a steak. Of course he did.
Of course I did. I mistake.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So anyway, we have two hours tonight. I'm tempted to
tell everybody what's gonna happen tonight, but I don't want
to because I wanted to kind of be a surprise.
I mean, if you want to look it up, you can,
But we're going to cover all of it. We have
a great lineup of guests. We're gonna be on from
nine to eleven Eastern President Trump will be speaking during
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our time on the air tonight. But they got a
great fireworks display. They got, they got a lot of
cool stuff happening. If you've never been to Mount Rushmore,
and I talked about this at the beginning of the
show a little bit, there's about two million people. The
population here is under a million people in South Dakota,
but over two million people come to see, you know,
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all these famous faces carved on Mount Rushmore. If you
seem to be aware that there is this mysterious rectangle
opening that hides behind President Abraham Lincoln and behind his image,
what I've learned, I did a lot of research on
Mount Rushmore because I didn't know it. To be very
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blunt with you, I just didn't know a lot about it.
It's in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and it
has the carved heads of for US Presidents Washington, Jefferson,
Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham lincol And what's fascinating is it
was carved with dynamite. It took fourteen years of work.
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It started in October of nineteen twenty seven. It ended
in October of nineteen forty one. Over four hundred workers,
mostly miners laborers. Remarkably, not one person died during construction,
despite were extremely dangerous conditions, workers being lowered, you know,
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by chairs on steel cables, and the proportions of each president.
Each president's head is about sixty feet tall. It was
originally planned to be bigger. They intended to carve you know,
presidents from head to waste, but they didn't have enough
money in the end. Here's an interesting factoid. The entire
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cost of the project was one million dollars about seventeen
to twenty million today, and on the onset of World
War Two, it halted work for a little while. But
you know, a lot of people ask, well, why were
those presidents chosen? You know, Washington because of America's founding. Jefferson,
you know, for a lot of different reasons. He's the
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author of the Declaration Louisiana Purchase, Roosevelt for his development conservation.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I'm just giving you their reasons. I'm not giving you mine.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Lincoln obviously, his role in keeping our nation united during
a civil war. Jefferson at one point was relocated. His
face originally started to Washington's right, but then moved to
the left due to unsuitable rock that they found. So
that's a little factoid that you've probably never heard of.
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Before there is a secret haul of records. Let me
go back to this issue. Behind Lincoln's head, there's what
they call an unfinished chamber.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's about seventy feet deep.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And you know, the people that built this envisioned this
to be a time capsule with important US documents like
the Declaration of Independence and other historical records. In nineteen
ninety eight, a titanium vault with porcelain enamelo panels contained
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historical texts and project details that was actually sealed inside
under a granite capstone.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And it's not.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Accept it's not accessible to the public. The land is again,
as I mentioned, part of the Black Hills, and it's
just it's just an amazing history. I mean, you look
at that, You're like, how that heck? You know, do
people do stuff like this?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
But I look at like the Empire State Building or
any big building, or you know, the Twin Towers when
they were up, or the Freedom Tower or any big building,
and I'm like, how the heck do people build these things?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I think I think the Empire State Building, if my
memory serves me right, was built in thirteen months.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I mean a.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Short the shortest amount of time. In that case, a
lot of people did die putting that together. Anyway, So
the bronze and glass cabinets do whole key cabinets. But
you know, it's pretty cool, and I'm sure there's going
to be a debate should Donald Trump be at it?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
If I just bring that up.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I just know it's like alka Seltzer and water, and
liberals heads will bust open.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I'm not advocating it.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I'm just messing with you because some of you just
have Trump arrangement syndrome. All right, let's get to our
busy phones. Let's say, how to Al He's in Yonkers,
New York, Al. How are you welcome to South Dakota.
Happy Friday, sir, Thanks a lot, Sean.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I'm nice speaking to you. Yeah, Sean. You know, I'm
just concerned because you know, as you know, in the
twentieth century, we had two Red Scares. You know, we
had one that was brief and then the second one
which was longer. You know, communists infiltrating our government or
attempting to from the late forties into the fifties, you know,
in Hollywood they were somewhat successful. We saw Algerhiss, who
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perjured himself. He was a spy and he went to prison.
We saw the Rosenbergs who were treating this against our
country for espionage and they were executed and sink sing.
So I'm concerned because fast forward to this year, in
a matter of two weeks we've seen four safe Democratic
seats where the Democratic Socialists basically the primary was the
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election we're going to go to. It's just window dressing
in November. And what's concerning to me is these social
Democrats have so much sympathetic tendencies towards the communist way
of life that to me, they are like communists that
you know, is just going to be a domino effect,
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a silent majority in this country. I hope we're well
aware that this could be a dangerous situation in the future.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Look, anytime radicals or extremists get in power, I mean,
you got to take it seriously, right, So do I
take the threat of radicals taking over the Democratic Party seriously?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Of course I do.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Look, there there are always extremist movement that popped there.
You know that their head pops up here there, and
you know, but there's never been a moment like this
where there's been such complicity and such silence from the
rest of their party, no matter how radical, no matter
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how extreme, no matter how insane their positions are. I
don't care if it's defund dismantle the police, no borders.
You know, look at what Tim Walls did with a
you know, a convicted illegal immigrant of a ten year girl,
and he gives this guy a pardon. I mean, if
the right of men to play women's sports, you know,
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tallar Rico running for the Senate in Texas, and then
this lunatic wants, you know, wants to champion not only
the rights of men to play women's sports, but the
right of biological men to have access to abortion. Never
mind is belief that God is non binary or his
belief in six genders. If anyone knows the answer to
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what the other four genders are, please call the program
eight hundred nine four one show because we can't get
an answer, or Graham Platner. You know, for all the years,
eleven years they've been calling Trump a Nazi, now they
have a real Nazi tattoo guy and they're voting for
this guy with the most atrocious, despicable, repugnant, disgusting you know,
history and comments even about women's women of that are
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victims of sexual assault. Then you got el Sayad campaigning
just like this woman out in colleg Dorado with Hassan
Piker that says America deserved nine to eleven. You know,
I went through the track record of the three candidates
Mamdani supported that one that beat incumbents, and these people
are just absolutely you know, looney tunes, They're nuts. So
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do you take it seriously? Of course, anybody on the
ballot I'm going to take seriously. But do I think
they're going to be able to convince independence and mainstream Democrats?
And I do believe people are mainstream Democrats that this
is the future of their party. I think they're going
to have a hard time convincing them.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So, I mean, and that's look, that's what Look.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Historically, the party in power tends to lose seats in
the House and Senate. Historically, trends show that there have
been a few times that has not happened. The last
time I think it happened was you know, George W.
Bush after nine to eleven. So you know, let's see
what happens. Appreciate it. My friend eight hundred and ninety
(26:03):
four one Seawn our number. You want to be a
part of the program, Linda, my free state of Florida,
Linda High, How are you glad you called?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Happy Friday? Welcome to South Dakota.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Happy fourth of July, or in your case, happy third
of July. Before I get to why I actually called,
I'm told I've got to share my Fourth of July
plans with you. I'm in a bagpipe band, City Mount Dura,
pipes and drums. There's a Fourth of July parade tomorrow
morning at ten. The band goes right behind the mayor.
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We basically are leading the parade. It's Florida, it's July.
The kilt are heavy and who cares? This is the
perfect thing small town America.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well what part of Florida are you in?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
I'm in the greater Orlando area, Lake County.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That's awesome. It sounds like a great day. Well, how
did you learn how to play the bagpipes?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Well, it helps if you join the band, because they
typically train their beginning pipers. Because this is not Scotland,
it's not They can't assume that you grow up with
bagpipes in your hands.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Right, I'll tell you where bagpipes are the most impactful.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Either you're got irish.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Funerals or in the movie Braveheart. Those are times that
peg pipes really get to me. Well, I hope you
have a great time tomorrow. I hope it's not too hot.
Make sure you hydrate, get some electrolytes in you, and
you'll be fine.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
It's ten in the morning. But I got something more
serious to bring up. And this is a suggestion on
birthright citizenship. And it's based on my knowledge of the
rules applicable to children born abroad to one parent US citizen,
one parent not US citizen. It's the rules of in
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effect when I was born. The only reason I have
any knowledge of it is because I was not born here,
although both parents or US. And the interesting part for
the peap children of mixed citizenship parents, at least when
I was born, is that when they turn eighteen, they
would lose the citizenship unless they completed a residency requirement.
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And as best as I recollect, it was five years
in this country, but it had to be during a
specific part of the child's life, like age eleven to
seventeen something like that. Basically, you've got to be an
American teenager. Subtext if you're an accidental citizen, you want
to make it real, do some work. It's I would
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love to see that applied in some way, shape or
form to the accidental birthright citizens like products of birth time.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Well, look, I can give you a list of a
thousand reasons why every America needs to vote in this midterm.
One I think Justice Kavanaugh laid out a roadmap where
Republicans legislatively can end birthright citizenship. Number two the Save
Act and election integrity would be another big reason. If
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we can't get the US Senate to do their job,
I got a role. I appreciate the call. You have
a great day tomorrow, Linda. Thank you for checking in
with us. We're in South Dakota. We have all the
events tonight on Hannity nine Eastern.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
We'll be at Mount Rushmore. We have a great lineup
of guests.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
We'll show you all the incredible events as they unfold,
including President Trump's speech, the fireworks, you name it, We've
got it all. Nine Eastern, two hour show, nine to
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seeing everybody out at Mount Rushmore. If you haven't been here,
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Speaker 2 (30:06):
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today. Remember
Hannity Tonight's special two hour edition. We're in South Dakota.
We'll be broadcasting live from Mount Rushmore. I mean we're
loaded up tonight, not only the events as they're unfolding
and President Trump's speech. We have both Governor DeSantis his
wife Casey. We've got Jeremy Hunt, We've got Doug Bergram Clay, Travis,
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Brett Baer, and so many other great people.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
We're gonna try and get everybody in.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Harris Faulkner, Trey Goudie, Kid Rock for vek Ramaswami.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
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Speaker 1 (31:08):
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We'll see you tonight. It's gonna be a fun night.
You don't want to miss it. And then we'll also
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seven to midnight.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Thanks for being with us. Thanks for making the show possible.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
See you tonight from Mount Rushmore and thank you for
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News roundup and information overload hour. Here's our toll free number.
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It's eight hundred and ninety four one Sean. If you
want to be a part of the program. We're in
South Dakota. We are here to cover all the festivities
tonight at Mount Rushmore. If you've never been to Mount Rushmore,
I went through some of the history of this earlier
in the program today. It's it's so stunning and so
fascinating and its history so amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's definitely worth a trip.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know, if you think of vacations, if you ever
want to take a vacation with your family and places
you want to go see. This is definitely great for
your kids. Well, my kids were younger, they used to
play sporting events here, so you know, once a year,
for a couple of years, we'd go to Mount Rushmore
and it became a little bit of a you know,
annual tradition in the family. And I'm glad we did.
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Glad to be back to The people here are unbelievably nice.
Went out to dinner last night when we got here.
It was unbelievable nicest people you'd ever want to meet.
They're only about there are less than a million people
in the entire state, and anyway, really wonderful people. So anyway,
so I'm reading this article and the headline was on
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Breitbart and said, Soros funded Pro Publica attacking Museum and
Library agency for what for honoring America?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I mean, here we go again.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's like story after story after story that's like never ending. Anyway,
they attacked Pro Publica did, according to this article, the
Institute of Museum and Library Services, for encouraging grant applications
for projects that actually foster an appreciation of the great
country of America that we live in. Anyway, here for
(01:45):
an update on this is the acting Labor Secretary Keith
Sonderling is with us now. He funded the creation of
the Freedom Truck while acting director of the Institute of
Museum and Library Services. All right, so explain to me
what happened here, So that you have this one group
attacking your group for encouraging grant applications for projects that
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foster and appreciation of the country.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, I mean, it's true, and you won't be surprised,
nor would your listeners be. President Trump asked me to
take for the Institute Museum and Library Services, an agency
where most people have never even heard of.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
You know, we were astonished what we found. We went
in there and we saw that this was the agency
that was giving.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Out your federal tax payer dollars to museums and libraries
to promote hateful things of America. I know you've covered
on your show many times about how during the Biden
administration they were having those cross stressing sayers and libraries
and the books about kids having sex and trands, and
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
For the museum side too, federal dollars were.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Going to applicants who wanted to have exhibits about why
America is not great and why we were, you know,
why we are not a great country, and why we're
a racist country. So, as you said, all the requirements
to get this federal dollars, which is supposed to promote
American cultural it's supposed to promote American museums and libraries
about American history and how great we are, had DEI requirements.
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So you couldn't get a federal grant unless you proved
how you would be using that grant in a library museum.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
To promote the EI. These are your fat federal tax peremony.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
The agency gives up three hundred million dollars a year.
And as you know, President Trump really took an interest
into our museums and libraries, into our American cultures.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And as we entered this two hundred and fifty this year,
it was an honorary.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
They asked me to go in there and make some
serious changes.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And that's what we did.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
You know, this is why when people tell me that
they think that the you know, they believe in, for example,
the Great New Deal or cradle to grave or womb
to the tomb or whatever they believe in, that the
government is going to solve every problem they have in life.
This is when I point to government. How are government
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run schools, you know, working out for people? Because we
pay more per capita per child than any industrialized country
in the world, and we have the worst results. You know,
it's it's the biggest, you know, failure on the face
of the earth. And you have this unholy alliance between
Democrats and teachers' unions and they donate to Democratic candidates
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and they get money and they just stay in power,
and our kids are failed at a spectacular level. I mean,
this seems now to when democrats are in power, they
seem to institutionalize these things.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Correct, they do a better job than we do, but
we're taking that over. And under President Trump's leadership, we
went in there and we completely changed and revitalized the agency.
We fired the entire board. There was a board of
all Democrats that Biden and put in there that.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Allowed all these grants to go out.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
We wanted to, you know, instead of just eliminating this agency,
how do we use it to promote America. How do
we use it to get kids inspired to love America again,
especially this year when there's so many great stuff in there.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And we believe that libraries and museums for.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Children for adults around the country can be that place
where they go to and they learn about the founding fathers,
they learn about why this country is so great, museum
exhibits about American history and the impact we've had being
the greatest country in the world.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And exactly what we did, Sean.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
But the most important thing we did, which we've been
attacked on, you name it, New York Times, Washington Post,
every newspaper has come after us, we created, in partnership
with Prager, you and Hilldale, we created the Freedom Trucks.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Now, if you remember in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Six, they had the Freedom Trains that went around the
country promoting, you know, at that time two hundred years
of American greatness.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, the Freedom trucks they're not.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
On railroads, so they're eighteen wheelers that expand and there's
two on the National Mall right now for the Great
State Fair and what it is, it's a history of
the United States. It starts you walk in and you're
greeted by George Washington AI, and he talks to you
and he explains everything that you're going to see. Then
you learn about some of the early pilgrims who came here,
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and then it starts at the Revolutionary War, and there's
so many interactive stuff. There's always great AI. But you
start by taking a quiz are you a patriot or
you're a loyalist? Which George are you going to be behind?
And then it goes through each step of the Revolutionary
War to signing the Declaration.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Of Independence, and there's this massive.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Visual Declaration of Independence that kids get to sign, and.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Then it goes through today.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So then you learn about each step of our amazing
country with pictures with AI, with computer screens, with iPads,
you get to take a citizenship test to see how
much you know about.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
This great country.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And then there's a wall of Fame which highlights modern
American heroes like Mark Twain or the Rose of br
for Rosa Parks, the Wright Brothers, Andrew Carnegie. And of
course when it ends, you're greeted by a message by
Donald J. Trump, who talks about how we are revitalizing
our cultural institution, how we're taking American history and we're
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promoting it, how we're taking back libraries and museums and
having a safe place for people to go and learn
about our country and not hate our country, and that's
why we're getting attacked.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Do you have a list of places around the country
where people can look it up where they might want
to be able to take their kids?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Absolutely a Freedom two fifty dot org and you can
go in there and there's a big suck section for
the Freedom truck and they're going around the country.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So there's six of them.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And as you know, President Trump is very passionate about
the forgotten men and women of this country and the
reason we're doing these in trucks. We're sending them to
very remote locations that don't have libraries that don't have
museums because we want all Americans to be able to
share in this. But right now through next week, there's
two of them on the national all but they're traveling
all this year to cities across the country. At Freedom
(08:05):
to Citty dot org, you can see all their locations
where they're going. But it's just truly spectacular and we
couldn't have done it without our friends at Prager, you
and Hillsdale. They really made the graphics, they made the content.
I'm sure you've been to the White House and have
seen some of the pictures and digital QR codes they
have there that relive the founding father's story. So it's
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that same kind of technology, but it's really unbelievable. And
when you walk in there, George Washington is talking to you,
you know it just kicked off an amazing journey through
the Freedom trucks.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, I got to tell you partner with great people.
When you talk about Dennis Prager and Larry Yarn and
Hillsdale College, they're they're all amazing people. We appreciate your time,
Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderland, appreciate the update, and we'll
put that up on our website so people can just
link on it themselves and get that list.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Thank you, sir for being with us.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
We can walk together together.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back
on the other side.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
We'll get to your phone calls for the rest of
the show as we continue from South Dakota. Don't forget
a special edition nine to eleven Eastern tonight on Hannaday
as we broadcast from South Dakota. They've got an incredible
lineup of events. It's just going to be spectacular tonight
at Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
We will cover all of it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
We got a great lineup of guests again, nine to
eleven tonight from Mount Rushmore, Hannity on location. Hope you'll
join us, quick break right back, your calls next. All right,
let's get to our busy phones toll free. It's eight
hundred and nine four one, Shawn. If you want to
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be a part of the program, let's go to New
York and say hi to John. John, Welcome to South Dakota.
Happy Friday, sir, How are.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
You Happy Friday? Happy to fiftieth to us and amen
on you hanging out there at the Mount rush More.
I think about Hitchcock's movie whenever I hear about Mount
Rushmore with the carry Grant north by Northwest. Very exciting
film and a great interview by the way you just
(10:11):
did with those two guys. My main point, Sean, I
want to get to it's very, very aproposed to what
you're talking about today with the education and the trucks
and everything, and that is that ground central for the
Islamic Communist Party, I believe is right in the center
of every university in most.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, why do you call it the Islamic Communist Party?
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Well, well, I think there's a difference because I believe,
well I believe that there is a communist movement. But however,
you have to think about how simpatico all of these
democratic socialists are to the Islamic situation, About how they
were very simpatico to what happened in Israel, to how
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they're simpatico with the Iranian war.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
This is to me, you mean the fact that the
left is anti Israel, The left has has you know,
supported radical groups like Hamas and has Balah and Iran.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Is that what you're referring to.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's much Yeah, I think it's
much more nefarious than just socialism. And then those hard
and communists. I think that there is a big Islamic
influence that's coming in here, that's hiding and embedded in
our academia. And I think what we all got blindsided
by with all of these elections in Momdami's neighborhood was
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because they perfected the way to herd. As Rush would say,
those skulls full of mush, the eighteen to twenty eight
year olds who don't know what the heck is going on,
and they just put them all in buses, all lined
them up and said you're all voting for this primary. Now,
don't forget seven percent of the people who are registered
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voted in the primary. That's nothing. So you could really
manipulate that if you're clever, and they are clever, So
we got to really watch that. They think they're going
to do it. Of course the country they think they're
going to do it in the national elections they are going.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
To really they're feeling their oats. Then I was saying
it publicly. They're saying publicly they're going to challenge all
of these incumbents and all these establishment Democrats.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
They want to take over the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
How are mainstream Democrats going to react to this, you know,
after losing to them on Donnie Back candidate for example,
a Democratic socialis of America candidate Dan Goldman says something
pretty interesting. He said he's concerned the mayor may be
encouraging anti Semitism. Between what the mayor has said himself
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and between what his wife had put thumbs up on
and a seal of approval on post October seventh, I
don't think it's too far of a stretch to say
that this guy is not particularly fond of Israel.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
There's my title of Islamic communism that's exactly correct. And
pretty soon they're all going to feel a punch. Anybody.
These these people of the Jewish persuasion who are Democrats
now are really their eyes are glassy. They don't know,
they can't believe what's happening. You know, you got guys
like Schumer and you know all these people that are
(13:32):
said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but israel Is and Israel ap.
Now now all of a sudden they see, they see
what's really going on, and they don't know what to do.
They are really getting stomped on.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They they think their silence and will will buy them
favor with these radicals. They cannot be more wrong. I
am arguing politically that Chuck Schumer's days are numbered. Akeem
j these days are numbered. I think that these radical
democratic socialists will go to Congress, they will create more havoc,
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more chaos.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I think they'll be targeting.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
More and more quote mainstream Democrats whether they look.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
There is a reason none of them are speaking out.
All of them are afraid.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And what that means to me is they're not really
people that are principal. They're people that only care about
their own power. If they cared about principle, they wouldn't
care about the outcome of an election. This is one
of the problems about you know, people that go to
Washington from many people that get elected. That becomes the
best job they'll ever get in their life, and they
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don't ever want to lose it, so they're not going
to put that in jeopardy. And they think that, you know,
being silent somehow buys them some grace. With these lunatics,
it does not, because they're going to be next on
the list of people to be replaced. Mark my words.
I've got a roll. I got to take a quick break.
Good news is we have more of your calls on
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the other side. Eight hundred nine one, Shawn is on number.
We are in South Dakota Tonight Hannity Special to our edition.
We're covering all the events at Mount Rushmore. It's really
going to be a special night tonight. I have the
entire rundown. I don't want to give it away. I
want it to be a surprise. Nine to eleven Eastern,
(15:27):
seven to nine Local. President Trump will be speaking during
my show. Obviously, we'll be covering that as well as
we continue South Dakota, Mount Rushmore. Hannity Tonight at nine
will continue all right twenty five now till the top
of the hour. Are toll free numbers eight hundred ninety
four one, Shawn. If you want to be a part
of the program. We are in South Dakota. The people
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couldn't be nicer. I've met a lot of people since
I've been here, taken a lot of selfies since I've
been here. They're just nice, down to earth people. I mean,
you have open spaces. Went to a restaurant last night.
It had elk Bison. What else did it have on
the menu? Had it had wallet, which is a local
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fish that apparently is really good.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I'm not a big fish eater. What does elk taste like?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well, it's interesting. I had elk? What did I have
the elk mushroom soup?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And the lady's looking at me like come on, I'm like, ah,
I'm not very I'm not really experimental when it comes
to food. And she looks at me and she goes,
come on, you gotta try it. There's nothing wrong with it.
I'm telling you you're.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Gonna love it. Is it like bison? I didn't try
the bison. I just had a steak. Of course he did.
Of course I did. I mistake.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So anyway, we have two hours tonight. I'm tempted to
tell everybody what's gonna happen tonight, but I don't want
to because I wanted to kind of be a surprise.
I mean, if you want to look it up, you can,
But we're going to cover all of it. We have
a great lineup of guests. We're gonna be on from
nine to eleven Eastern President Trump will be speaking during
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our time on the air tonight. But they got a
great fireworks display. They got, they got a lot of
cool stuff happening. If you've never been to Mount Rushmore,
and I talked about this at the beginning of the
show a little bit, there's about two million people. The
population here is under a million people in South Dakota,
but over two million people come to see, you know,
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all these famous faces carved on Mount Rushmore. If you
seem to be aware that there is this mysterious rectangle
opening that hides behind President Abraham Lincoln and behind his image,
what I've learned, I did a lot of research on
Mount Rushmore because I didn't know it. To be very
(17:47):
blunt with you, I just didn't know a lot about it.
It's in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and it
has the carved heads of for US Presidents Washington, Jefferson,
Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham lincol And what's fascinating is it
was carved with dynamite. It took fourteen years of work.
(18:08):
It started in October of nineteen twenty seven. It ended
in October of nineteen forty one. Over four hundred workers,
mostly miners laborers. Remarkably, not one person died during construction,
despite were extremely dangerous conditions, workers being lowered, you know,
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by chairs on steel cables, and the proportions of each president.
Each president's head is about sixty feet tall. It was
originally planned to be bigger. They intended to carve you know,
presidents from head to waste, but they didn't have enough
money in the end. Here's an interesting factoid. The entire
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cost of the project was one million dollars about seventeen
to twenty million today, and on the onset of World
War Two, it halted work for a little while. But
you know, a lot of people ask, well, why were
those presidents chosen? You know, Washington because of America's founding. Jefferson,
you know, for a lot of different reasons. He's the
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author of the Declaration Louisiana Purchase, Roosevelt for his development conservation.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I'm just giving you their reasons. I'm not giving you mine.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Lincoln obviously, his role in keeping our nation united during
a civil war. Jefferson at one point was relocated. His
face originally started to Washington's right, but then moved to
the left due to unsuitable rock that they found. So
that's a little factoid that you've probably never heard of.
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Before there is a secret haul of records. Let me
go back to this issue. Behind Lincoln's head, there's what
they call an unfinished chamber.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's about seventy feet deep.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And you know, the people that built this envisioned this
to be a time capsule with important US documents like
the Declaration of Independence and other historical records. In nineteen
ninety eight, a titanium vault with porcelain enamelo panels contained
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historical texts and project details that was actually sealed inside
under a granite capstone.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And it's not.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Accept it's not accessible to the public. The land is again,
as I mentioned, part of the Black Hills, and it's
just it's just an amazing history. I mean, you look
at that, You're like, how that heck? You know, do
people do stuff like this?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
But I look at like the Empire State Building or
any big building, or you know, the Twin Towers when
they were up, or the Freedom Tower or any big building,
and I'm like, how the heck do people build these things?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I think I think the Empire State Building, if my
memory serves me right, was built in thirteen months.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I mean a.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Short the shortest amount of time. In that case, a
lot of people did die putting that together. Anyway, So
the bronze and glass cabinets do whole key cabinets. But
you know, it's pretty cool, and I'm sure there's going
to be a debate should Donald Trump be at it?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
If I just bring that up.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I just know it's like alka Seltzer and water, and
liberals heads will bust open.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I'm not advocating it.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I'm just messing with you because some of you just
have Trump arrangement syndrome. All right, let's get to our
busy phones. Let's say, how to Al He's in Yonkers,
New York, Al. How are you welcome to South Dakota.
Happy Friday, sir, Thanks a lot, Sean.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I'm nice speaking to you. Yeah, Sean. You know, I'm
just concerned because you know, as you know, in the
twentieth century, we had two Red Scares. You know, we
had one that was brief and then the second one
which was longer. You know, communists infiltrating our government or
attempting to from the late forties into the fifties, you know,
in Hollywood they were somewhat successful. We saw Algerhiss, who
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perjured himself. He was a spy and he went to prison.
We saw the Rosenbergs who were treating this against our
country for espionage and they were executed and sink sing.
So I'm concerned because fast forward to this year, in
a matter of two weeks we've seen four safe Democratic
seats where the Democratic Socialists basically the primary was the
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election we're going to go to. It's just window dressing
in November. And what's concerning to me is these social
Democrats have so much sympathetic tendencies towards the communist way
of life that to me, they are like communists that
you know, is just going to be a domino effect,
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a silent majority in this country. I hope we're well
aware that this could be a dangerous situation in the future.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Look, anytime radicals or extremists get in power, I mean,
you got to take it seriously, right, So do I
take the threat of radicals taking over the Democratic Party seriously?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Of course I do.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Look, there there are always extremist movement that popped there.
You know that their head pops up here there, and
you know, but there's never been a moment like this
where there's been such complicity and such silence from the
rest of their party, no matter how radical, no matter
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how extreme, no matter how insane their positions are. I
don't care if it's defund dismantle the police, no borders.
You know, look at what Tim Walls did with a
you know, a convicted illegal immigrant of a ten year girl,
and he gives this guy a pardon. I mean, if
the right of men to play women's sports, you know,
(24:08):
tallar Rico running for the Senate in Texas, and then
this lunatic wants, you know, wants to champion not only
the rights of men to play women's sports, but the
right of biological men to have access to abortion. Never
mind is belief that God is non binary or his
belief in six genders. If anyone knows the answer to
(24:29):
what the other four genders are, please call the program
eight hundred nine four one show because we can't get
an answer, or Graham Platner. You know, for all the years,
eleven years they've been calling Trump a Nazi, now they
have a real Nazi tattoo guy and they're voting for
this guy with the most atrocious, despicable, repugnant, disgusting you know,
history and comments even about women's women of that are
(24:53):
victims of sexual assault. Then you got el Sayad campaigning
just like this woman out in colleg Dorado with Hassan
Piker that says America deserved nine to eleven. You know,
I went through the track record of the three candidates
Mamdani supported that one that beat incumbents, and these people
are just absolutely you know, looney tunes, They're nuts. So
(25:17):
do you take it seriously? Of course, anybody on the
ballot I'm going to take seriously. But do I think
they're going to be able to convince independence and mainstream Democrats?
And I do believe people are mainstream Democrats that this
is the future of their party. I think they're going
to have a hard time convincing them.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So, I mean, and that's look, that's what Look.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Historically, the party in power tends to lose seats in
the House and Senate. Historically, trends show that there have
been a few times that has not happened. The last
time I think it happened was you know, George W.
Bush after nine to eleven. So you know, let's see
what happens. Appreciate it. My friend eight hundred and ninety
(26:03):
four one Seawn our number. You want to be a
part of the program, Linda, my free state of Florida,
Linda High, How are you glad you called?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Happy Friday? Welcome to South Dakota.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Happy fourth of July, or in your case, happy third
of July. Before I get to why I actually called,
I'm told I've got to share my Fourth of July
plans with you. I'm in a bagpipe band, City Mount Dura,
pipes and drums. There's a Fourth of July parade tomorrow
morning at ten. The band goes right behind the mayor.
(26:35):
We basically are leading the parade. It's Florida, it's July.
The kilt are heavy and who cares? This is the
perfect thing small town America.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well what part of Florida are you in?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
I'm in the greater Orlando area, Lake County.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That's awesome. It sounds like a great day. Well, how
did you learn how to play the bagpipes?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Well, it helps if you join the band, because they
typically train their beginning pipers. Because this is not Scotland,
it's not They can't assume that you grow up with
bagpipes in your hands.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Right, I'll tell you where bagpipes are the most impactful.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Either you're got irish.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Funerals or in the movie Braveheart. Those are times that
peg pipes really get to me. Well, I hope you
have a great time tomorrow. I hope it's not too hot.
Make sure you hydrate, get some electrolytes in you, and
you'll be fine.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
It's ten in the morning. But I got something more
serious to bring up. And this is a suggestion on
birthright citizenship. And it's based on my knowledge of the
rules applicable to children born abroad to one parent US citizen,
one parent not US citizen. It's the rules of in
(27:53):
effect when I was born. The only reason I have
any knowledge of it is because I was not born here,
although both parents or US. And the interesting part for
the peap children of mixed citizenship parents, at least when
I was born, is that when they turn eighteen, they
would lose the citizenship unless they completed a residency requirement.
(28:17):
And as best as I recollect, it was five years
in this country, but it had to be during a
specific part of the child's life, like age eleven to
seventeen something like that. Basically, you've got to be an
American teenager. Subtext if you're an accidental citizen, you want
to make it real, do some work. It's I would
(28:39):
love to see that applied in some way, shape or
form to the accidental birthright citizens like products of birth time.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Well, look, I can give you a list of a
thousand reasons why every America needs to vote in this midterm.
One I think Justice Kavanaugh laid out a roadmap where
Republicans legislatively can end birthright citizenship. Number two the Save
Act and election integrity would be another big reason. If
(29:10):
we can't get the US Senate to do their job,
I got a role. I appreciate the call. You have
a great day tomorrow, Linda. Thank you for checking in
with us. We're in South Dakota. We have all the
events tonight on Hannity nine Eastern.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
We'll be at Mount Rushmore. We have a great lineup
of guests.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
We'll show you all the incredible events as they unfold,
including President Trump's speech, the fireworks, you name it, We've
got it all. Nine Eastern, two hour show, nine to
eleven Eastern, seven to nine Local, and look forward to
seeing everybody out at Mount Rushmore. If you haven't been here,
(29:50):
take a trip. It's worth it quick break right back,
will continue Owther's talk about the news. We bring you
the people who made the news every day, every day.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today. Remember
Hannity Tonight's special two hour edition. We're in South Dakota.
We'll be broadcasting live from Mount Rushmore. I mean we're
loaded up tonight, not only the events as they're unfolding
and President Trump's speech. We have both Governor DeSantis his
wife Casey. We've got Jeremy Hunt, We've got Doug Bergram Clay, Travis,
(30:57):
Brett Baer, and so many other great people.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
We're gonna try and get everybody in.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Harris Faulkner, Trey Goudie, Kid Rock for vek Ramaswami.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Anyway, all happening.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Say you DVR nine Eastern from Mount Rushmore, Hannity on location.
We'll see you tonight. It's gonna be a fun night.
You don't want to miss it. And then we'll also
be broadcasting tomorrow from seven till midnight from Washington, where
it's gonna be four thousand degrees anyway, from I think seven, yeah,
(31:29):
seven to midnight.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Thanks for being with us. Thanks for making the show possible.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
See you tonight from Mount Rushmore and thank you for
making the show possible.
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