Future of Ukraine - January 31st, Hour 1

Russia is rebuilding his efforts to bring part II of the Ukrainian conflict to bear, and the American public are being put on the hook to pay for it all... we need to have a plan and we need it now.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks Scott Shannon, and thanks to all of you for
being with us. Toll free art number is eight hundred
and nine for one sean you want to be a
part of the program. I see Paul Sperry tweeting out
according a sweet baby James. The Liberal Columbia Journalism Review
has apparently done a study and offered a scathing indictment
of the New York Times Russia Gate coverage. It could

(00:24):
have said Hannity was right and the New York Times
was wrong, and give Hannity. You think I should get
the Pulitzer over them? Are they going to return to
Donald Trump? Is I think pursuing the Pulitzer people over
the Pulitzers they got for fake phony news. You can't
even make that up. I don't like to start with
bad news, but it is the reality, and I live

(00:45):
in reality. I don't live in some fantasy world that
I wish existed but doesn't exist, you know, And you
need to think about this through the prism of all
the pressure now that is being brought to bear on
the United States and further funding of Ukraine. You know,
Do I like seeing our number two geopolitical foe of

(01:07):
thug like Vladimir Putin trying to take over a sovereign nation,
Ukraine and in the process killing and indiscriminate bombing of
apartment buildings, infrastructure, killing you know, countless innocent men, women
and children, because he fantasizes about, you know, one day

(01:29):
returning the Russia to its former greatness, the Soviet Union. No,
I don't like it. And this is where America needed
a president that leads, because had Joe Biden gone to
NATO and Western Europe and said to them, this is
your backyard. Don't expect us to pick up the bill

(01:52):
for a fight in your backyard. Ukraine is not a
NATO allied. Now, I was not against offering support, but
it ends up we end up being you know, the
bulk of support. And all this, all we have allowed
to have happened. Here is this now to fester into
another quagmire which I predicted it was likely to occur,

(02:14):
and a long protracted conflict. And it's now given Putent
time to rebuild his his you know, his armies and
get enough people and recalibrate his strategies. And he's you know,
firing his hypersonic missiles and it's in Europe's backyard, and
now the pressure is on the United States once again

(02:35):
while we have what thirty one trillion dollars in debt
to somehow step up and pay for all this. American
people have had it with these endless wars that they
don't fight and they don't fight to win. They've had it.
You know, Biden touting is one point two trillion dollars
infrastructure spending spree, but he won't even negotiate the debt ceiling. Republicans,

(03:00):
as long as now Biden keeps saying publicly that he's
not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling, Republicans need
to sit back with a plan that is united in
the House and say we're not budgeting on the debt ceiling. Well,
the full faith and credit of the United States is
hanging in the balance, right and the guy in the
White House that won't negotiate is responsible for that. The

(03:22):
guy that said in twenty eleven that it's it's we've
got to have some compromise and get together with the
Democrats have calculated is House Republicans won't unite behind a
single plan. What I am predicting is they will, and
if they do, then they'll be able to negotiate from

(03:43):
a position of strength, and they can get whatever spending
assurances that they need, want and agree to in place.
I don't think that the Deficit Reduction Act in twenty
eleven ended up being bad at all. That was the
one that resulted in sequestration. You know, Biden now goes
on a national spending tour a week after the national

(04:06):
debt in this country hit thirty one trillion dollars. Nobody
told Joe Biden on national jet that just crossed thirty
one trillion. Because Biden's out there touting his six billion
dollar rail tunnel replacement. You know, He's now touting in
New York his two hundred and ninety two million dollars
for the Hudson Tunnel project. He's touting his two point

(04:30):
seven billion dollars to improve and expand rural electric infrastructure.
And meanwhile, it's his policies now that have impacted the
average American family last year, paying average household on average
ten thousand dollars in Biden inflation tax and then Brett
not even factoring in the new laws that went into

(04:51):
effect this year, and that is the billions and billions
and tens and hundreds of billions of dollars in new
taxes on the oil industry, the gas industry, the coal industry,
new taxes on retirements and pension plans, new taxes two
hundred and fifty billion on corporations. And they're not going
to pay that tax They pass it on to you

(05:12):
and nobody in the media. One person that I'm aware
of called them out and said, excuse me, didn't you
say you wouldn't raise taxes on people making under four
hundred thousand dollars a year. I'm telling you right now.
There's New York Post had an article about this today
about two thirds of Americans now, and that means many
of you listening to this program know exactly what this means.

(05:36):
Are now living paycheck to paycheck. I've been there in
my adult life, not for a short period of time,
many years in my early adult life. It's not fun
struggling to pay your rent every month. It's it's not
fun when you really can't even afford to go to
McDonald's because it just breaks your budget. I mean, and
that was my reality for a period of time, and

(05:56):
it just sucks. And you want to talk about bad timing,
Biden running around the country bragging about how much money
he's spending on green energy products on top of everything else.
You know, this guy caused all of this is economic
and his insane adherence to the climate alarmist cult, religious cult,

(06:18):
and his sick energy policies have literally economically unilaterally disarmed
this country and is now hurting every single man, woman
and child in this country. It's especially now hurting two
thirds of Americans because at the end of December, sixty
four percent of Americans consumers the equivalent of one hundred

(06:40):
and sixty six million Americans, said that they're living on
razor thin budgets each and every month. And by the way,
every economist is predicting that things are going to get
worse for this entire year, and many are predicting, yes,
another recession, because we did by definition of a recession,
saying that they're living on razor than budgets. And that's

(07:03):
up from sixty one percent or nine point three million
compared to the previous year's findings. People are worse off.
You listen to Joe Bayer, I did that, I did this.
I didn't do anything except cause a ten thousand dollar
tax on every American household because you care more about
this fantasy green energy of which the technology does not

(07:27):
exist now. And look, if somebody comes along and they're
able to provide cheaper, cleaner energy and we can make
the switch relatively easy, then I think Americans, sure, I
want to save money, just like the next guy. But unfortunately,
gas prices again are skyrocketing. Natural gas prices are skyrocketing.

(07:51):
Look at your heating bills this year compared to last year,
compared to the year before. You see what's happening. And
you know, even by the way, Americans that are you know,
considered high earners, those that make one hundred thousand dollars
or more a year and annual income they're living paycheck
to paycheck. And the share rose nine percent compared to

(08:13):
a year earlier, when forty two percent of six figure
earners made the same admission. Now this you said, well, Hannity,
well there must be spending too much. Yes and no.
If you have a secure job and let's say you
make it one hundred grand a year, I don't know.
Maybe you're a nurse and you work over time and
that's what you get paid. Okay, whatever, whatever job you

(08:36):
happen to be in and Okay, you make decisions not
anticipating that the government is going to artificially dramatically increase
the cost of the lifeblood of your economy, which his energy.
And that's a big part of Biden's financial and economic disaster.

(08:56):
We have unilaterally disarmed as he now has shunned all
domestic production of oil, gas, and coal, is reducing it
more every single day. I mean shutting down the Keystone
XIL pipeline that would have been nine hundred thousand barrels
of oil a day coming in flowing in Canadian oil
to our refineries, shuts down, you know, exploration on foreign lands,

(09:20):
shuts down an noir and now is taxing all three
sources of energy with multi multi tens of billions of
dollars in new taxes. Well, do you think is gonna
pay that tax? You're gonna pay that tax. Wall Street
Journal has pointed out consumers are starting to freak out
as a result of all of this. The engine of

(09:42):
the US economy is consumer spending. Well, now consumers don't
have the money that they used to have, so they're
not spending and as a result, retail purchases have fallen.
Now in three of the past four months. Spending on services,
including rent haircuts. Bulk of bill was flat in December
after adjusting for inflation. That's the worst monthly reading in

(10:06):
nearly a year. Sale of pre existing homes in the
US fell last year to the lowest level since twenty
fourteen with the rise of mortgage interest rates. The auto
industry posted their worst sales year more than a decade.
A stark turnaround for the second half of twenty twenty
when Americans lifted the economy out of the pandemic downturn.

(10:28):
Consumers now snapped up exercise bikes, televisions, laptop computers for
their kids during lockdowns. When restrictions were lifted, they were
rushing back to their favorite restaurants and travel destinations. And
now that the forces that helped keep spending high are
unwinding and inflation remains elevated. The share of monthly income

(10:48):
that Americans set aside for savings was three point four
percent in December. Well that's down from seven and a
half percent a year earlier, from a record high in
April of twenty twenty. Annual inflation is measured by the
CPI Consumer Price Index. That's about five percent in December
for the nineteenth straight month. Listen, I can go on

(11:08):
and give you all the statistics you want, but the
bottom line is you know what I'm talking about because
you're living it gas powered cars. By the way, this
study came out. We told you the other day it's
now cheaper than driving an electric vehicle. Plus you're paid
twenty two thousand dollars on average more for an electric car.
I didn't factor in Tesla's big discount that they put

(11:30):
in place recently. You know, Biden, a great American road
trip is going to be fully electrified. Well, it costs
more to charge. And by the way, it's still on
an electric grid that is fueled ninety percent of which
is fueled by oil, gas and coal. But you know
why focus on how you're actually getting the electricity to

(11:52):
power up your electric vehicle. Twenty two thousand dollars more
on average for an electric car. How do they build
those batteries? Oh, that's right. They mine mother Earth with
these diesel burning machinery. You know, these big machines that
you know, pillage the earth of nickel and coal, bolt

(12:12):
and manganese and all these other minerals that are necessary.
Then of course, we've got the meteoric rise in food prices.
You know, look at the price of eggs right now,
it's unbelievable. Where I go shopping, it's ten bucks for
a dozen eggs. I eat either four egg whites every
day or three eggs. You know, I switch every other
day I eat. I'm Keto friendly in my diet. Some say, well,

(12:36):
it's not working, hannay, will all right, keep your wise
ass mouth shut. Linda got a kick out of that.
People now opting to raise their own chickens to avoid
high egg prices. Eggs smuggling at the southern border is
now a real business. Can you believe that eight million
Americans aren't more than one hundred and grand year or
living paycheck to paycheck. Gas prices now have jump for

(12:58):
five straight weeks. I told you this was coming. And
meanwhile Biden is touting electric car vehicle credits, tax credits. Gee,
thanks a lot, and all the money that he's spending, well,
who's going to pay that back? By the way, every
one of these you know, big spending spree but basically
just robbing from our own children and grandchildren. I don't

(13:18):
want to rob for my children and grandchildren. I want
to balance our budget gas prices. Five straight weeks gas
prices have gone up and there's no end in sight.
But we're gonna get electric vehicle tax credits. Gee. Thanks,
I don't want an electric vehicle. A friend of mine
likes a testa Lee as one. I'm not convinced yet.

(13:40):
Maybe I'll have to try to write his I want
to Corvette zero six, that's what I want. I want
it built out the way I want. I have my
name on ten different lists. I've yet to get a
phone call because if one guy called me and wanted
to know what by buildout, would be all right? As
we roll along, Sean Hannity Show, thanks for being with
us eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean, if you

(14:00):
want to be a part of the program. So as
the power of subpoena now gets underway, everything that we
predicted is now coming to fruition, and that is that
there's going to be little cooperation from Joe Biden's Department
of Justice, from Joe Biden's FPI, and from it's it's

(14:24):
it's going to be a fight every step of the
way for Congress to do their job known as oversight.
Now Mark Arubo is on Kennedy last night and rightly
pointed out that the Senate also has the power of
the purse and the ability to stop funding a lot
of what these departments do. If if this is going

(14:44):
to be their posture, which is well, they're hiding behind
the the thought that, uh, it might compromise the current
investigation of the Special Council, which is a nice excuse,
but it doesn't really tell us anything that is helpful.
They don't want these committees investigating whether the FBI is

(15:06):
politicized or the DOJ's weaponized. We already know the answer
to these questions. We just found out today that some
time ago that the FBI in fact did go to
the Biden Penn Center. Why didn't they show up the
same way they showed up at mar Lago? Well, you know,
gun's drawn, you know, sirens blaring, and have a full

(15:29):
on raid and kick everybody out of the building and
take over the building like they did mar Lago. Why
did they handle it differently? Could it be we have
a dual justice system, as I've been saying now for
some time. Come on, man, it's taken me forty seven

(15:53):
years to perfect doing nothing. I had to become president
as show. Yeah, I could do that better than anybody.
Joe Biden the most dangerous man in America. This is
the Sean Hannity Show, twenty five to the top of
the hour, eight hundred and nine four one, Sean, if
you want to be a part of the program. Greg

(16:14):
Jared had a good column today. It's a headline is
incriminating via videos are the common thread in five headline
making criminal cases And he was talking about the Paul
Pelosi case, the Tyree Nichols case. There's no doubt and
we've been advocates for years of body cam and dash
cam footage, etc. This case down in South Carolina, the

(16:37):
Alex Mardo's case. I don't know if you have you
followed that at all, m Linda, This case of the
family in the small town, it's so heartbreaking. I'm really
it's just overwhelming. Oh my gosh. I was watching something
about it on one of these shows. I knew nothing
about it, nothing about the family. Um, you know, apparently

(16:59):
this guy's out for a joy ride. As the allegation
took over the wheel, putting everybody's life in risk, and
you know, one girl lost her life. Then we have
the Madison Brooks case. In that case, both surveillance and
personal cell phone videos are an important part of the
prosecution's evidence. I can't believe some of the things that

(17:20):
have been said about this girl. This girl was brutally
raped and left to die on eight It wasn't just
a street in the dark of night, knowing that she
had had some drinks. But that's every college kid does that.
That's not the issue here. Just dropping on the middle

(17:42):
of a highway and she ends up getting killed unreal.
And then but the thing is, Sean, is that there's
no accountability right for these kids. You know, they're out
there and they see that the police are not holding
criminals accountable. They also see all of this social media,
the music, the videos, the game, all of it is
about drinking and getting high and you know, the vaping,

(18:04):
and just there's no account there's there's no value on
human life. There's just none. Well, anyway, security cameras in
that case, eyewitness statements show that okay, she might have
been drinking in a bar, but at one point she
had to be helped to her feet. But one of
the men too in the car took a partial video

(18:25):
inside the vehicle, and the lawyer representing two of the
defendants claims, oh, this proves that, well, she was intoxicated,
but coherent enough and capable of consenting. And now the
judge in that case rightly said, oh, really, you think
this is going to help you. This is exculpatory. No,
this is pretty damning evidence against you. You dope. Anyway,

(18:46):
the then you have the Coldburger case, the murder of
these four University of Idaho students. In that case that's
going to turn on DNA evidence and a leather knife
sheath left behind and self own records of the accused.
You know, it's it's this, This is where science does
its best work. Forensics, by the way, is fascinating to me.

(19:09):
You know, we've had our share of forensic experts, you know,
people like Michael Boden on the program and others that
that do this for a living and mean the ability
to solve difficult cases like this is pretty amazing. You know,
look at, for example, over the years, the Innocence Project,
which I always supported, which is if you know, you

(19:31):
find DNA evidence can prove the innocence as somebody that
was convicted of a horrible crime like murder and they
get put on death row or get life in prison.
I've interviewed many of these people that have been freed
over the years. It's unbelievable how often that these convictions
take place and they end up being dead wrong, and
then DNA is able to resolve the case for somebody.

(19:53):
Although I think that the Innocence Project sadly has become
pretty political, and there's another organization that I know is
coming up that I think is going to be a
lot better. We'll find out more about that in the
days and weeks to come. Now we've got to we've
got to move on to the issue of the Biden's
here for a second, because there's a lot of new
interesting information about There's Number one, Biden goes off the

(20:17):
rails as he repeats his false story for the eighth
time about a conductor who congratulating him for logging more
miles on amtrack than Air Force two as vice president
twenty years after we retired. Now he said this for
the last eight times. Anyway, sweet baby, James is supposed

(20:39):
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got Hunter Biden. Now this is getting interesting too because
we have new emails that show Miranda Divine writing in

(21:44):
the New York Post today, and remember she wrote the
Laptop from Hell book, a bestseller. But anyway, so we're
discovering that Hunter Biden trying to sell classified information that
somehow got in the hands regarding Russia. According to the
New York Post, documents on the laptop from twenty eleven
show that Hunter offered to sell intelligence on Russian oligarchs

(22:07):
to the US aluminum company Alcoa for fifty five thousand dollars.
Now an internal discussions over Hunter's proposal, a senior executive
aut Alcoha suggested the information was valuable because it would
not otherwise be on government affairs team's radar, and he
offered to provide alco or this disinformation for this Russian oligarch.

(22:30):
How do you say his name? Derras Pasca, Dera Pasca,
Derra Pasca. Okay, ol leg is his first name. And
so watching that story really closely today. We'll get into
that more in detail in the next hour. Also, the
FBI reveals that they conducted a second search of Joe
Biden's University of Pennsylvania office for classified documents. Now here's

(22:53):
my question, why didn't they do it with the same
fanfare as when they went to Marra Lago for the
rate of marl logo. Now, this is where Jim Jordan's
investigation is critical. Is the FBI politicized? Is the DOJ
being weaponized? Do we have equal justice under the law.
Do we have equal application of our laws? The obvious

(23:15):
answer to anybody that has followed what the FBI and
DOJ have been doing under Biden and the FBI under
Trump and Biden is they absolutely have been politicized. And yes,
the DOJ has now been weaponized. And if you don't
have equal justice under the law, you don't have a

(23:35):
just society. Wall Street Journal points out another damning revelation
that they've been sitting on for months now, this revelation
about classified top secret documents. They had this information, The
DOJ had it on November second, Joe Biden knew about
it on November second. The mid term elections were November eighth.

(24:00):
They we didn't find out about it till sixty eight
days later. And now we find out about a search
of the Penn Biden's center that happened, you know, at
his you know, remember November second is the day they
discovered these documents more classified. So couldn't be determined whether

(24:20):
investigators found any additional items in the search, but anyway,
the revelations that classified material was found in that office
as well as his home in Wilmington, Delaware, raising questions
about Biden's handling of our nation's secrets. Now, the question
in all of this is, you got to be kidding me.
We now have found documents of five separate locations with

(24:43):
Donald Trump. They found it in one location, and that
location had already been identified by the FBI. Because they
were invited in, nobody kept them out of more Lago.
They were asked to search the premises. When they searched it,
they went into the story drew where they eventually found
classified materials. The FBI was in there. I don't know

(25:05):
if they saw them or didn't see them. They might
have saw something that made them suspicious. Because they called
after they left. They could have taken things with them
if they wanted to, I'm sure. But they called and
asked for a padlock to be put on the door,
and that was complied with. So if they were invited
into Moralago and unfettered access, I would assume they could

(25:25):
have had an unfettered access. Again, there's never been anything
said to the contrary. And then the question is you know,
had Hunter Biden you know, fit into all of this,
because we also learned from the New York Post that
Hunter turned his father's Wilmington Delaware mansion into a high powered,
impossibly compromised home office where a lot of his wheeling

(25:48):
and dealing was taking place. This is about the same
timeline as the point in his life when he was
addicted to crack and involved in all sorts of nefarious activities,
a lot of which I can't mention if you have
kids in the car. But anyway, Hunter Biden listed the
Wilmington home of Joe as his address following his twenty

(26:08):
seventeen divorce from his ex wife, and the home is
also listed as the billing address for a personal credit
card in an Apple account in twenty eighteen and nineteen,
and at least at least twelve classified documents, some dating
back to Biden's career in the Senate, we're found in
the premises in recent weeks. Now the dj is looking

(26:29):
the other way on what Jonathan Turley rightly points out
as the largest stash of Biden's secrets, and that's at
the University of Delaware. If you have all of these
documents in Delaware, enough to fill two tractor trailer trucks
full of documents, you know information from the Senate for
more than fourteen years ago. It appears that they have

(26:50):
transferred classified information from briefings and documents to his notebooks.
That raises the question of whether or not information is
contained in the notebooks and papers that are How is
that the university? And you know if it was Donald Trump,
that Donald Trump would absolutely would have been rated by
now they don't even show any interest in wanting to

(27:10):
go to the University of Delaware, and the Bidens have
steadfastly refused anybody to have any access to this information.
On a side note, Hunter Biden's art dealers refusing to
cooperate with the congressional investigators quote until he gets legal advice.
At the moment, I cannot comment, and I will refer
you to my legal counsel. But no, my singular focus

(27:32):
has always been and will continue to be the integrity
of our artists and privacy of art art collectors. So
whoever this art dealer is that I'm sure gets a
commission of every painting of Hunters that is sold, or
paint by numbers or however he paints. I don't know
portress of a crack dealers. I referred to them, But

(27:54):
now the art dealer is lawyering up. You just can't
make this up. Oh, we got another story about how
did you hear about this? In the Daily Mail today?
He's telling a subordinate set up your phone so I
can spy on you when you're showering. Or he threatened
to withhold a cash strapped assistants pay if she didn't

(28:18):
face time him naked. According to techs, isn't that in
the me too era? Wouldn't that qualify as being creepy?
I would think so. But what is in the you know,
Penn Biden Center? What is in the University of Delaware?
Why did all these foreign countries pay the bidens? Why?

(28:40):
Nobody seems to have an answer for that. Either the
top investigator was busted for taking Russian payoffs was turned in,
apparently by an enraged mistress. That was an interesting side
note today. Anyway, back to Biden's lies. Now he's repeating
for the eighth time about the conductor that congratulated him
prologging more miles on amtracked than Air Force was to

(29:00):
as vice president. Anyway, listen to the mini Biden lies.
You know, having had a house burned down with my
wife and it she got out safely. God Billy, it
was I remember spending time at you know, going to
uh the you know, the Tree of Life Synagogue speaking

(29:23):
with them. Man, I have known every every prime minister
Wealth since Golden May year. She invited me to come
over because I was going to be the liaison between
she and the Egyptians about Suez and so on and
so forth. I did not walk into shoe as of

(29:44):
generation of students who walk these grounds, but I walked
on the ground. Seems like yesterday the first time I
got arrested. Anyway, he said, you know, Joe rics up
to my commission to become my appointment in the academy.

(30:06):
He said, you'd still have one year and three months
active duty and I'd have no problems. Right now, this day,
thirty years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison. I
had a great honor of being arrested with our un
ambassador on the streets of Sudo trying to get to
see him on Robin's Island, getting the medals on silver

(30:28):
stars on soldiers up in the Upper Konar Valley in
the middle of up fire store. Yeah, I used to
driving tractor trailer, and so I'm a little bit about
driving the big truck. And Ange walks up to me
and goes, Joey Baby grabbed my cheek and I thought
the secrets her is gonna blow his head off. I said,

(30:49):
the swear he got true story, he said, Joey, because
they keep meticulous tabs of it to the boys that
I figured out the retirement dinner. He's needed to travel
two million I think two hundred thousand miles. There's your president,
a liar on top of everything else. Remember the mob,

(31:11):
the media. They were pressing and pushing and begging and
insisting that Donald Trump wasn't well. Donald Trump needed a
cognitive exam. So he takes the exam, and I'm told
by doctor Ronnie Jackson, now Congressman Ronnie Jackson, this is
not an easy exam. And when he agreed to do it,
Ronnie Jackson said, look, whatever the results are, we've got

(31:33):
to publish it. He's sure you want to take this.
It's not an easy test. I've since looked at them.
They really aren't based on the one the President Trump took. Anyway, Now,
reporters are interested slightly and concerned that Biden has apparently
skipped his annual physical and I have my suspicions if
we ever got the list of visitors that go and

(31:55):
see him forty percent of the time when he's away
from the White House. You have to wonder how many
of them might be doctors just asking anyway. Peline Jean
Pierre has been asked about his physical exam six times
this month. He will have one before by the end
of this month is out. We will share the information,

(32:15):
not that it's going to be meaningful.