December 17, 2025 • 28 mins
During the News Roundup hour, Sean Hannity examines the global rise of anti-Semitism and radical Islamist violence, drawing parallels between Israel’s security challenges and unchecked immigration policies across the West. Sean is joined by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who provides firsthand insight into Australia’s radicalization crisis following a deadly attack and years of ignored warnings. The conversation focuses on government inaction, media bias, and how ideological blind spots have allowed hatred to fester. Together, they argue that these tragedies were foreseeable—and preventable—if leaders had acted sooner.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, News Roundup and Information Overload Hour eight hundred
(00:02):
and ninety four one. Shawn is our number if you
want to be a part of the program. I could never,
for the life of me understand you know why on
college campuses. Israel has been under fire for decades now.
Imagine the United States was taking in tens and tens
(00:24):
of thousands of rockets every single year from outside countries
and forces. What would you want the US government to do?
Would you want them to selectively fight back or you know,
start fighting back and then give in to please, to
stop the genocide when meanwhile the genocide was perpetrated against US.
(00:48):
Nobody's willing to take on extreme radicalized immigration policies, wide
open borders, especially under Biden, Harris Mayorcus. The same thing
has happened for decades now in Western Europe, and they
deal with their radical Islamic problem there. You have Sharia
courts in Great Britain, no go zones. In spite of
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you know, people saying, oh, that's not true, well, we
actually sent reporters there in the past.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It is true.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You noticed that, oh, Germany has a problem, Poland has
a problem. In Paris, France, they're shutting down their largest
Christmas New Year's festival because of the rise of radical
Islamis violence in Paris, and it's getting worse all around
the country. Now, two days after October seventh, let's go
to Australia where this horrible incident took place. Fifteen people
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murdered and slaughtered. And what were they saying. There was
a large crowd in Australia and here were the protesters
chanting gas the Jews f the Jews listen. I mean,
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it doesn't really get any sicker than that.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Victoria Teblitsky is the daughter of a wounded shooting victim
in Australia, you know, says what bib Neatnyahu warned the
Prime Minister albany Is about and said that anti Semitism
has been allowed to faster. And the government there did nothing,
And they gave that ridiculous press conference the other night,
(02:28):
and they're talking about gun control. Remember terrorists, they don't
follow gun laws anyway. Here's what the daughter of this
wounded victim says.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
This was not a surprise to the Jewish community. We
warned the government of this many many times over. We've
had synagogues that have been graffiti, graffiti everywhere, and we've
had synagogues that have been bombed. This is not a
surprise to us. It's not the fact that those two
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people had a gun. It's the fact that those two
people have been taught to hate and it's the fact
that hatred has been allowed to fester against the Jewish
minority in Australia.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Hight joining us now our friend Miranda Divine, one of
the best calmness in the country for the New York Post.
He has a podcast Podforce One is what it's called, Miranda,
Welcome back, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. I think you
know a thing or two about Australia and you know
what can you tell us? If I remember right, it
was wasn't a Prime Minister Howard that said if you're
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going to go to Australia, you're going to assimilate and
become an Australian And it was considered controversial at the time.
And since that time, you know, Australia has gotten very
relaxed with their immigration laws.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And they have allowed people to come into their country
even with radicalized views, and they have tolerated you know
this virulent anti Semitism that has been obvious and on
the rise for some time.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
No, you're absolutely right, Sean, And Merry Christmas to you
and Happy New Year to you and all your listeners.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yees.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Australia has been you know, it's an immigrant country like America,
but it's just prided itself on tolerance and so on,
which worked fine until you had these radical Islamis pouring
in during the Syrian crisis. And we're now, you know,
ten years on and Isis. There were a whole lot
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of Isis officionados who went off to Syria to fight
young men from the Muslim community which is concentrated in
some suburbs in southwest Sydney where these gunmen came from,
and Jeehardi brides and the rest of it. And there's
just been a blind eye for the past two years,
actually the past ten years has been a blo I
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to this really radical rhetoric about wanting Sharia law around
the country, about wanting you know, saying that women who
uncover themselves don't wear the hijjah, basically asking to be
raped and so on. And there were a bunch of
gang rapes back twenty years ago, but they were nipped
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in the bud by strong prosecutor strong judge at the time.
But since then the will has gone out of Australia
because there was so many attacks on those of us
who wrote about it. Those brave prosecutors and judges were pilloried,
called Islamophobic, racist and so on, and that's been used
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to silence people and cow them into submission. And then
since October seven, twenty twenty three, there's just been unchecked
anti semitism, and really anti Semitism is just due hatred,
and it's been driven by this cohort of now you know,
first generation, sometimes second generation radicalized Muslims. For many years
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Muslims lived in Australia quite you know, happily checked by jow.
But now since the radicalization, the rise of ISIS nine
to eleven, et cetera, there's a new sort of mode
that's crept in that is really disturbing and very very
sort of in your face. In fact, one of these gunmen,
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one of these terrorists from this Bondai massacre, has now
been found in a video waving the ISIS flag during
that march across the Harbor Bridge where tens of thousands
of people sort of you know, protested against Israel, pro Palestine,
pro Hamas really and this guy was waving an ISIS flag.
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He was on the radar of australia equivalent of the CIA,
which is called Asio for his ISIS affiliations, and there
were ISIS flags in the car that he and his
father drove to Bondi, an hour from those southwest suburbs
that are a hotbed of radical emams, radical mosques. And honestly,
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for as long as I was working in Sydney, those
imams have been pumping out a steady stream of poison
and you know, it falls on fertile ground. It might
only be a handful of people that actually take action,
but the attitude towards the Australian way of life is
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really rancid. And you know, Australia's for instance, has topless
bathing on beaches like Bondai, and periodically there are sort
of young Muslim men that come in from the Southwest
and harass those women and basically treat them as if
they're prostitutes. And so it's the it's really been a
clash there underground. And now on that terrible night in
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Bondai Beach. It just all came to a head.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's so sad, it's so preventable, it's so tragic. I've
been quoting you all week in the piece that you
wrote in the New York Post about this. I was curious.
I know how well known you are in this country,
because you've been on TV quite a bit and you
have your own podcast now, and you're obviously one of
the best writers in the country, uh calmnists in the country.
(08:33):
You're well known in Australia also, aren't you. Yes, yeah, okay,
So what is the reaction to you calling out, you know,
this government for being so the you know, tone deaf
about what was happening.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Oh well, you know I'm called a jew, jew, lava, Zionist,
et cetera. You know. I mean, it's just the usual.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So we're all called the same thing.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I love that because you believe you stand up against
radical Islamis. I believe in convert or die and believe
that people should have the right to freedom and self determination.
And that's their intellectual response.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Pretty lame, yeah it is, but it's just so typical.
I mean, Australia is even more difficult to put forward
the conservative case for anything, or I call it the
common sense case for anything, because there's a real left
wing bias in the media and a lot of the
loudest voices, particularly at the Australian publicly funded broadcast, which
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is a real bear mass. It just overtakes every other media.
It's bigger than any other media organization, a billion dollars
a year funded by the government. It would be like
NPR and PBS on steroids being the biggest media outlet
in the country. Can you imagine that. So that's what
happens in Australia, and unfortunately that sets the tone for
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just you know, a lot of it is just soft liberal.
There's a lot of pieces have been written, you know, saying.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Oh, we're all.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Australians and you know it's really biggoty to call out Islam.
This is about guns and the unfortunately very left wing
government federally and also in the State, they've gone straight
to gun control. The Prime Minister has talked about some
you know ridiculously like right wing extremists are just as bad.
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It was the same situation when after two years of
unrelenting Jew hatred, you know, sabotage torturing of Israeli Jewish
businesses and synagogues, et cetera, graffiti, horrible graffiti, globalizing into
far de signs everywhere, and finally the Prime Minister was
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sort of shamed into appointing an envoy for anti Semitism,
but at the same time he appointed an envoy through Islamophobia,
which wasn't the problem. It's completely not there. It's a
made up phenomenon. The real phenomenon was due hatred. And
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it's only today that I'm seeing on x there are
now images of globalize the Intervada signs that were ubiquitous
around Sidney, particularly around Bondai Beach, and they're being painted
over today like a little late, as if they didn't
know what globalized the Interofata means. We saw exactly what
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it meant on the well.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I mean, look at where you're talking about. You're describing
what New York is about to become, and I know
that's your home base, and that's not good.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It is really chilling. When you know, there's a line
in a song Michael W. Smith Rowe when evil calls
itself a martyr. When people you know say they were
on a wipe Israel off the map, or it's in
their charter, like Hamas has it in their charter. People
don't ever want to report that, but it's in there.
And the Palestinian people voted for that, and October seventh happened,
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or when Iran chanced death to Israel, death to America
and Donald Trump says, no, you're not allowed to have
nuclear weapons. And there were people that even say their MAGA,
that didn't want Donald Trump to take out those nuclear sites.
Could you imagine if he didn't, we have about thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh god, I mean, that's such a great line. When
evil becomes a victim is at the.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Fun when evil calls itself a martyr, calls.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Itself a martyr. Wow, that's so good. Yeah. Look, Mamdani
has just attacked a controversial lawyer who defended al Qaed
and al Qaeda terror wether, a radical anti Israel campus
leader to be at city hall. I mean, he is
surrounding himself with the absolute worst of the worst Islamists.
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And you cannot tell me that that is an answer
to the same ranced anti Semitism that has shown its
ugly head in New York since October seven. And it
all started on October seven. It didn't start after the
war in Gaza in Sydney outside the Sydney Opera House
when people gathered for a vigil, and day after October
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seven happened in Israel, that massacre, the candlelit vigial, the
mourners there were invaded by a group of Jew haters
calling out, as you just showed us gas the Jews,
cure the Jews, you know, es the Jews, and globalize
the into fata.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So unbelievable. You know, I appreciate the fact that you
call this out. There's far too few of us, unfortunately,
that have the moral clarity to understand evil for orders,
and the level of ignorance of some people is breathtaking,
it really, And even people that claim to be on
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our side usually they're you know, they're convenient Trump supporters,
convenient Maga people. You know, they're in and out, they vacillate,
their up and down and they just I don't know,
there's some bizarre thinking going on out there. But we
need people like you that have the moral clarity and
understanding of the error and the time that we live in.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Miranda. Appreciate you, Thank.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
You, Thanks Sean, Happy Merry.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Christmas, have a great holiday. Uh eight hundred nine four
one sean if you want to be a part of
the program. There's been a lot of discussion. We've seen
a lot of the videos narco terrorists coming out of
Venezuela and Meduro's regime. I am arguing there on their
last legs, there's no way Maduro's going to survive, especially
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after what Donald Trump did yesterday, and that is order
a total blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela. Now,
what they've been doing is they have these these unmarked vehicles,
in other words, they they're not labeled as tankers, and
they're sending you oil to Cuba, oil to China, oil
to Iran and all these other countries.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
On Rand needs to import oil, which is insane, and
it's not the best oil anyway. I mean, it needs
more refining than most other oil, but putting out aside.
But now the president has taken it a step further
and he has declared the Venezuelan regime a foreign terrorist
organization and ordered this oil tanker blockade. So I would
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imagine we're probably at some point he's not going to
be able to make it or survive. And Maria Corina
Machado is remember she got the Nobel Peace Prize. And
when she got the Nobel Peace Prize impressively she said, well,
I really don't deserve it. Donald Trump deserves it. I
mean there are like eight regions around the globe where
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he brought peace to. Anyway, she is the leader of
Venezuela's democratic opposition, the strongest voice against the Maduro dictatorleadership. Sadly,
I mean, her life is in jeopardy every single solitary day.
She is a woman of great courage and conviction, a
former National Assembly member, founder of the Vente Venezuelan movement.
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She believes in free markets and the rule of law
and capitalism. Anyway, Maria, welcome to the program. Thank you
for being with us.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Well, thank you, Sean. This is such a great pleasure
and very grateful to have the chance to share with
you what's happening in Venezuela. Our gratitude to President Trump
and to the American people, and my absolute confidence that
Venezuela will turn from the criminal hob of the narcot
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terrorist networks of the world. In the heart of the
Americas into the energy hob of our hemisphere and the
strongest ally the US will have in the region. And
that's going to happen soon we have a cohesive united society.
Venezuela is. You know, it's good people, freedom, loving, hard
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work in some really loving people that we have been
oppressed by this socialist criminal regime for twenty seven years
and finally we are at the thirshold of freedom.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Well, I've got to tell you, God bless you and
what you're doing. I don't think people really understand the
risk that you're and the harms way you put yourself
in for this. You're a woman of great courage. Here's
the saddest part to me, Maria Venezuela has so much
in terms of wealth and natural resource potential. And I'll
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never forget Jorge Ramos, who I don't always agree with,
but he did a very good piece. I think it
was with Univision at the time, and he was in
Venezuela and he actually showed people in what should be
one of the wealthiest countries in the world eating out
of like garbage hands. And I offer a garbage truck
and I'm thinking this is such a shame because the
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people are put in poverty because of corrupt government. We
see the same thing in Cuba, the same thing in
many other countries in Latin America and around the world.
And it's just sad because I feel sorry for the
people that you know, rank and file every day Venezuelans
that are suffering needlessly. And you can't convince me that
Maduro had an honest election the last time. There's no
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way he didn't steal that.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
But well, everybody knows that we won by a landslide
and he was humiliated. But you know what the satisfart
of all Shani is, it's intentional. They need to have
a society in living in mystery so they can stay
in power by force, and that's precisely what they did.
Can you imagine what the pensions are right now in Venezuela.
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It's less than one dollar a month. The teacher teacher
earns one dollar a day, so children can only go
twice a week to public schools because children that teachers
need to get money from, you know, other activities. So
this is a tragedy, and that's why they have forced
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migration to a third of our population. Imagine what you
know the tragedy. Every single family in our country has
been divided because parents have had to leave and little
children behind just to send them some food back home.
So you see children alone in their very humble houses
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and their grandparents taking care of them, grandparents that are
absolutely sick because there are no hospitals and no medicine.
And as you said, this was the richest wealthy country
in the region. I mean, we have the largest oil
resources and reserves in the world. But God has one name.
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This is socialism. When you put these criminals in power,
they won't live. They won't live. Forget about elections. We
want that by landslide. But they want to stay. Why
because they need to destabilize the region. And they have
turned Venezuela into the state heaven of all the enemies
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of the Western democracies, especially the United States. We have
the Uranians freely operating in our country. They turned Venezuela
into satellite of Terehran, only three hours away from Florida.
You have the Russians, you have Hezbola, you have the
drug hotels, the Columbia Gorilla, all aligned in partnership with
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the regime. The head of the of this criminal structure
narco terrorist structure is Nicolas Maludo and you know they
formed the trend Rawa, they created Cat del Solis to
destabilize the region and the United States. They declared a
war on the Venezuelan people, and they have declared a
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war on the Western democracies. Now President Trump is finally
ending this war. It is about saving knives and that's
why we and you know, the whole Basan population totally
support and we are very grateful for his mission, his
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courage and his friend.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Do you think but Duro can survive long? Now?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I've had sources and there's a lot of rumors out
there that he may go to places like Iran or Russia.
Have you heard similar rumors? And how long do you
think his regime will survive?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Well, John, if these were a conventional dictatorship, this would
have fallen a long time ago. You know, the Venzona people,
we have done everything. We've protested, we voted, you know,
which we organize underground, We've done everything. But it is
a criminal structure. And certainly these regimes that you've mentioned, Iran, Russia, Cuba,
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they are supporting Madudo because it's an audience to the
United States. It's it's the way they have, as I said,
a front beach in the middle, in the middle of
the hemisphere. But certainly Madudo is now weaker than ever,
and finally they are understanding that this is serious, that
they're you know, theys are counted. So I do believe
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that if Madruo understands that he has no way out,
his best option is to accept one of these you know,
offers to go somewhere else. But at the end, you know,
when you have ninety percent of a population that already mandated,
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and I want to insist on this, Sean, because I've
heard some people talking about, you know, regime change. This
is not regime change. It is not you know, an
elected legitimate president that it's being changed. No, the people
of Venezuela elected a Mundo on siles Orudia with seventy
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percent of the votes, and they are staying by force,
you know, with repression. We have almost one thousand political prisoners,
including teenagers that are being portraed, sexually assaulted women. You know, relatives, parents, grandpriarents,
grandchildren are being detained and disappeared if they don't find
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the relatives they're looking for. This is, as I said,
state terrorism only three hours away from the United States.
So I do believe this is a unique moment. And
once my Dudo goes, imagine what this will mean. Of
course for the Venezuelan people. Of course for my country
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because we will see millions of migrants coming back as
soon as Maduda goes, but also for all the countries
in the Americas. We will turn this criminal HB, this
threat to the national security of the United States into
a security show.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well, let me let me ask you, because you had
to flee your country because you would have been assassinated,
You would have been killed. Anybody with a brain understands that.
And if Meduro goes, you would obviously be the most
logical and first choice, I believe of the Venezuelan people.
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But I worry for you because there are always going
to be these Maduro holdovers that would want to fill
his shoes. I mean, you know that when that moment comes,
you're going to have to be very careful and we'll
all be praying for you, and God bless you for
having the courage that you have.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Look, Sean, I trust my people. That's why where we
are right now. People told us it was impossible to
carry out a primary and I won with over ninety
percent of the votes. Then they banned me from running
for president, and we found an alternate candidate and we
managed to win again. And then they said it was
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impossible to prove the results and the whole world so
the actual original tallyships the demonstrated arbitrary. Once again, they
say it's going to be very complicated. You know that,
you know violence might come and groups will oppose each other. Look, Sean,
believe me. Nason people have fought so hard to finally
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live in freedom with dignity, to have our children back home.
The Anason people are going to take care that this
transition is orderly and peaceful.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And yes, I do believe that God created every human
being to be free, and I do support your quest
for freedom, and I wish that for the Venezuelan people
and people in tyranny all over the world. Again, as
I point out, you have such enormous courage, let me
ask you this question. You got the great honor of
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getting the Nobel Peace Prize, and when you accepted it,
he said it really should go to Donald Trump. I
don't think I've ever heard I can't recall ever hearing
anyone accept an award like that and say, really, I'm
not the right person.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You picked the wrong person. Why did you do that?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Because it's fair, because it's the truth. What we've done
is fight for truth, even if it's hard sometimes and painful,
but this is the truth, and we have Benison. People
are very grateful for what President Trump is doing for years.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Maria Carino Machado, you are a very very courageous and
brave woman. I wish you God's blessings this holiday season
and at all times, and may you guide the people
of Venezuela back into the civilized world and out of
poverty and tyranny. It's really an honor to have you
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on the program. We do appreciate your time, and Merry
Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Thank you, and God bless us all.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Thank you, I bless you. Yes, ma'am. Eight one, Shawn.
We'll continue.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Making America first, safe, and great again. This is the
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We'll carry his speech and we will have reaction immediately
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We have John Barrasso, we have Lindsay Graham, and all
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Set your DVR. President Trump addresses the nation. I'm Eastern tonight.
We'll carry it on, Hannity. That's it for us. Thank
you for being with us, and we'll see you tonight
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and back here tomorrow. Thank you for making the show possible.
All right, News Roundup and Information Overload Hour eight hundred
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and ninety four one. Shawn is our number if you
want to be a part of the program. I could never,
for the life of me understand you know why on
college campuses. Israel has been under fire for decades now.
Imagine the United States was taking in tens and tens
(00:24):
of thousands of rockets every single year from outside countries
and forces. What would you want the US government to do?
Would you want them to selectively fight back or you know,
start fighting back and then give in to please, to
stop the genocide when meanwhile the genocide was perpetrated against US.
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Nobody's willing to take on extreme radicalized immigration policies, wide
open borders, especially under Biden, Harris Mayorcus. The same thing
has happened for decades now in Western Europe, and they
deal with their radical Islamic problem there. You have Sharia
courts in Great Britain, no go zones. In spite of
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you know, people saying, oh, that's not true, well, we
actually sent reporters there in the past.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It is true.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You noticed that, oh, Germany has a problem, Poland has
a problem. In Paris, France, they're shutting down their largest
Christmas New Year's festival because of the rise of radical
Islamis violence in Paris, and it's getting worse all around
the country. Now, two days after October seventh, let's go
to Australia where this horrible incident took place. Fifteen people
(01:38):
murdered and slaughtered. And what were they saying. There was
a large crowd in Australia and here were the protesters
chanting gas the Jews f the Jews listen. I mean,
(02:04):
it doesn't really get any sicker than that.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Victoria Teblitsky is the daughter of a wounded shooting victim
in Australia, you know, says what bib Neatnyahu warned the
Prime Minister albany Is about and said that anti Semitism
has been allowed to faster. And the government there did nothing,
And they gave that ridiculous press conference the other night,
(02:28):
and they're talking about gun control. Remember terrorists, they don't
follow gun laws anyway. Here's what the daughter of this
wounded victim says.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
This was not a surprise to the Jewish community. We
warned the government of this many many times over. We've
had synagogues that have been graffiti, graffiti everywhere, and we've
had synagogues that have been bombed. This is not a
surprise to us. It's not the fact that those two
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people had a gun. It's the fact that those two
people have been taught to hate and it's the fact
that hatred has been allowed to fester against the Jewish
minority in Australia.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Hight joining us now our friend Miranda Divine, one of
the best calmness in the country for the New York Post.
He has a podcast Podforce One is what it's called, Miranda,
Welcome back, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. I think you
know a thing or two about Australia and you know
what can you tell us? If I remember right, it
was wasn't a Prime Minister Howard that said if you're
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going to go to Australia, you're going to assimilate and
become an Australian And it was considered controversial at the time.
And since that time, you know, Australia has gotten very
relaxed with their immigration laws.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And they have allowed people to come into their country
even with radicalized views, and they have tolerated you know
this virulent anti Semitism that has been obvious and on
the rise for some time.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
No, you're absolutely right, Sean, And Merry Christmas to you
and Happy New Year to you and all your listeners.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yees.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Australia has been you know, it's an immigrant country like America,
but it's just prided itself on tolerance and so on,
which worked fine until you had these radical Islamis pouring
in during the Syrian crisis. And we're now, you know,
ten years on and Isis. There were a whole lot
(04:38):
of Isis officionados who went off to Syria to fight
young men from the Muslim community which is concentrated in
some suburbs in southwest Sydney where these gunmen came from,
and Jeehardi brides and the rest of it. And there's
just been a blind eye for the past two years,
actually the past ten years has been a blo I
(05:00):
to this really radical rhetoric about wanting Sharia law around
the country, about wanting you know, saying that women who
uncover themselves don't wear the hijjah, basically asking to be
raped and so on. And there were a bunch of
gang rapes back twenty years ago, but they were nipped
(05:22):
in the bud by strong prosecutor strong judge at the time.
But since then the will has gone out of Australia
because there was so many attacks on those of us
who wrote about it. Those brave prosecutors and judges were pilloried,
called Islamophobic, racist and so on, and that's been used
(05:45):
to silence people and cow them into submission. And then
since October seven, twenty twenty three, there's just been unchecked
anti semitism, and really anti Semitism is just due hatred,
and it's been driven by this cohort of now you know,
first generation, sometimes second generation radicalized Muslims. For many years
(06:11):
Muslims lived in Australia quite you know, happily checked by jow.
But now since the radicalization, the rise of ISIS nine
to eleven, et cetera, there's a new sort of mode
that's crept in that is really disturbing and very very
sort of in your face. In fact, one of these gunmen,
(06:33):
one of these terrorists from this Bondai massacre, has now
been found in a video waving the ISIS flag during
that march across the Harbor Bridge where tens of thousands
of people sort of you know, protested against Israel, pro Palestine,
pro Hamas really and this guy was waving an ISIS flag.
(06:57):
He was on the radar of australia equivalent of the CIA,
which is called Asio for his ISIS affiliations, and there
were ISIS flags in the car that he and his
father drove to Bondi, an hour from those southwest suburbs
that are a hotbed of radical emams, radical mosques. And honestly,
(07:19):
for as long as I was working in Sydney, those
imams have been pumping out a steady stream of poison
and you know, it falls on fertile ground. It might
only be a handful of people that actually take action,
but the attitude towards the Australian way of life is
(07:40):
really rancid. And you know, Australia's for instance, has topless
bathing on beaches like Bondai, and periodically there are sort
of young Muslim men that come in from the Southwest
and harass those women and basically treat them as if
they're prostitutes. And so it's the it's really been a
clash there underground. And now on that terrible night in
(08:06):
Bondai Beach. It just all came to a head.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's so sad, it's so preventable, it's so tragic. I've
been quoting you all week in the piece that you
wrote in the New York Post about this. I was curious.
I know how well known you are in this country,
because you've been on TV quite a bit and you
have your own podcast now, and you're obviously one of
the best writers in the country, uh calmnists in the country.
(08:33):
You're well known in Australia also, aren't you. Yes, yeah, okay,
So what is the reaction to you calling out, you know,
this government for being so the you know, tone deaf
about what was happening.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Oh well, you know I'm called a jew, jew, lava, Zionist,
et cetera. You know. I mean, it's just the usual.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So we're all called the same thing.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I love that because you believe you stand up against
radical Islamis. I believe in convert or die and believe
that people should have the right to freedom and self determination.
And that's their intellectual response.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Pretty lame, yeah it is, but it's just so typical.
I mean, Australia is even more difficult to put forward
the conservative case for anything, or I call it the
common sense case for anything, because there's a real left
wing bias in the media and a lot of the
loudest voices, particularly at the Australian publicly funded broadcast, which
(09:39):
is a real bear mass. It just overtakes every other media.
It's bigger than any other media organization, a billion dollars
a year funded by the government. It would be like
NPR and PBS on steroids being the biggest media outlet
in the country. Can you imagine that. So that's what
happens in Australia, and unfortunately that sets the tone for
(10:03):
just you know, a lot of it is just soft liberal.
There's a lot of pieces have been written, you know, saying.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Oh, we're all.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Australians and you know it's really biggoty to call out Islam.
This is about guns and the unfortunately very left wing
government federally and also in the State, they've gone straight
to gun control. The Prime Minister has talked about some
you know ridiculously like right wing extremists are just as bad.
(10:31):
It was the same situation when after two years of
unrelenting Jew hatred, you know, sabotage torturing of Israeli Jewish
businesses and synagogues, et cetera, graffiti, horrible graffiti, globalizing into
far de signs everywhere, and finally the Prime Minister was
(10:54):
sort of shamed into appointing an envoy for anti Semitism,
but at the same time he appointed an envoy through Islamophobia,
which wasn't the problem. It's completely not there. It's a
made up phenomenon. The real phenomenon was due hatred. And
(11:16):
it's only today that I'm seeing on x there are
now images of globalize the Intervada signs that were ubiquitous
around Sidney, particularly around Bondai Beach, and they're being painted
over today like a little late, as if they didn't
know what globalized the Interofata means. We saw exactly what
(11:36):
it meant on the well.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I mean, look at where you're talking about. You're describing
what New York is about to become, and I know
that's your home base, and that's not good.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It is really chilling. When you know, there's a line
in a song Michael W. Smith Rowe when evil calls
itself a martyr. When people you know say they were
on a wipe Israel off the map, or it's in
their charter, like Hamas has it in their charter. People
don't ever want to report that, but it's in there.
And the Palestinian people voted for that, and October seventh happened,
(12:11):
or when Iran chanced death to Israel, death to America
and Donald Trump says, no, you're not allowed to have
nuclear weapons. And there were people that even say their MAGA,
that didn't want Donald Trump to take out those nuclear sites.
Could you imagine if he didn't, we have about thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh god, I mean, that's such a great line. When
evil becomes a victim is at the.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Fun when evil calls itself a martyr, calls.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Itself a martyr. Wow, that's so good. Yeah. Look, Mamdani
has just attacked a controversial lawyer who defended al Qaed
and al Qaeda terror wether, a radical anti Israel campus
leader to be at city hall. I mean, he is
surrounding himself with the absolute worst of the worst Islamists.
(12:57):
And you cannot tell me that that is an answer
to the same ranced anti Semitism that has shown its
ugly head in New York since October seven. And it
all started on October seven. It didn't start after the
war in Gaza in Sydney outside the Sydney Opera House
when people gathered for a vigil, and day after October
(13:21):
seven happened in Israel, that massacre, the candlelit vigial, the
mourners there were invaded by a group of Jew haters
calling out, as you just showed us gas the Jews,
cure the Jews, you know, es the Jews, and globalize
the into fata.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So unbelievable. You know, I appreciate the fact that you
call this out. There's far too few of us, unfortunately,
that have the moral clarity to understand evil for orders,
and the level of ignorance of some people is breathtaking,
it really, And even people that claim to be on
(14:01):
our side usually they're you know, they're convenient Trump supporters,
convenient Maga people. You know, they're in and out, they vacillate,
their up and down and they just I don't know,
there's some bizarre thinking going on out there. But we
need people like you that have the moral clarity and
understanding of the error and the time that we live in.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Miranda. Appreciate you, Thank.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
You, Thanks Sean, Happy Merry.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Christmas, have a great holiday. Uh eight hundred nine four
one sean if you want to be a part of
the program. There's been a lot of discussion. We've seen
a lot of the videos narco terrorists coming out of
Venezuela and Meduro's regime. I am arguing there on their
last legs, there's no way Maduro's going to survive, especially
(14:46):
after what Donald Trump did yesterday, and that is order
a total blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela. Now,
what they've been doing is they have these these unmarked vehicles,
in other words, they they're not labeled as tankers, and
they're sending you oil to Cuba, oil to China, oil
to Iran and all these other countries.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
On Rand needs to import oil, which is insane, and
it's not the best oil anyway. I mean, it needs
more refining than most other oil, but putting out aside.
But now the president has taken it a step further
and he has declared the Venezuelan regime a foreign terrorist
organization and ordered this oil tanker blockade. So I would
(15:30):
imagine we're probably at some point he's not going to
be able to make it or survive. And Maria Corina
Machado is remember she got the Nobel Peace Prize. And
when she got the Nobel Peace Prize impressively she said, well,
I really don't deserve it. Donald Trump deserves it. I
mean there are like eight regions around the globe where
(15:51):
he brought peace to. Anyway, she is the leader of
Venezuela's democratic opposition, the strongest voice against the Maduro dictatorleadership. Sadly,
I mean, her life is in jeopardy every single solitary day.
She is a woman of great courage and conviction, a
former National Assembly member, founder of the Vente Venezuelan movement.
(16:12):
She believes in free markets and the rule of law
and capitalism. Anyway, Maria, welcome to the program. Thank you
for being with us.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Well, thank you, Sean. This is such a great pleasure
and very grateful to have the chance to share with
you what's happening in Venezuela. Our gratitude to President Trump
and to the American people, and my absolute confidence that
Venezuela will turn from the criminal hob of the narcot
(16:42):
terrorist networks of the world. In the heart of the
Americas into the energy hob of our hemisphere and the
strongest ally the US will have in the region. And
that's going to happen soon we have a cohesive united society.
Venezuela is. You know, it's good people, freedom, loving, hard
(17:07):
work in some really loving people that we have been
oppressed by this socialist criminal regime for twenty seven years
and finally we are at the thirshold of freedom.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Well, I've got to tell you, God bless you and
what you're doing. I don't think people really understand the
risk that you're and the harms way you put yourself
in for this. You're a woman of great courage. Here's
the saddest part to me, Maria Venezuela has so much
in terms of wealth and natural resource potential. And I'll
(17:43):
never forget Jorge Ramos, who I don't always agree with,
but he did a very good piece. I think it
was with Univision at the time, and he was in
Venezuela and he actually showed people in what should be
one of the wealthiest countries in the world eating out
of like garbage hands. And I offer a garbage truck
and I'm thinking this is such a shame because the
(18:06):
people are put in poverty because of corrupt government. We
see the same thing in Cuba, the same thing in
many other countries in Latin America and around the world.
And it's just sad because I feel sorry for the
people that you know, rank and file every day Venezuelans
that are suffering needlessly. And you can't convince me that
Maduro had an honest election the last time. There's no
(18:27):
way he didn't steal that.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
But well, everybody knows that we won by a landslide
and he was humiliated. But you know what the satisfart
of all Shani is, it's intentional. They need to have
a society in living in mystery so they can stay
in power by force, and that's precisely what they did.
Can you imagine what the pensions are right now in Venezuela.
(18:51):
It's less than one dollar a month. The teacher teacher
earns one dollar a day, so children can only go
twice a week to public schools because children that teachers
need to get money from, you know, other activities. So
this is a tragedy, and that's why they have forced
(19:12):
migration to a third of our population. Imagine what you
know the tragedy. Every single family in our country has
been divided because parents have had to leave and little
children behind just to send them some food back home.
So you see children alone in their very humble houses
(19:37):
and their grandparents taking care of them, grandparents that are
absolutely sick because there are no hospitals and no medicine.
And as you said, this was the richest wealthy country
in the region. I mean, we have the largest oil
resources and reserves in the world. But God has one name.
(19:58):
This is socialism. When you put these criminals in power,
they won't live. They won't live. Forget about elections. We
want that by landslide. But they want to stay. Why
because they need to destabilize the region. And they have
turned Venezuela into the state heaven of all the enemies
(20:20):
of the Western democracies, especially the United States. We have
the Uranians freely operating in our country. They turned Venezuela
into satellite of Terehran, only three hours away from Florida.
You have the Russians, you have Hezbola, you have the
drug hotels, the Columbia Gorilla, all aligned in partnership with
(20:42):
the regime. The head of the of this criminal structure
narco terrorist structure is Nicolas Maludo and you know they
formed the trend Rawa, they created Cat del Solis to
destabilize the region and the United States. They declared a
war on the Venezuelan people, and they have declared a
(21:03):
war on the Western democracies. Now President Trump is finally
ending this war. It is about saving knives and that's
why we and you know, the whole Basan population totally
support and we are very grateful for his mission, his
(21:25):
courage and his friend.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Do you think but Duro can survive long? Now?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I've had sources and there's a lot of rumors out
there that he may go to places like Iran or Russia.
Have you heard similar rumors? And how long do you
think his regime will survive?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Well, John, if these were a conventional dictatorship, this would
have fallen a long time ago. You know, the Venzona people,
we have done everything. We've protested, we voted, you know,
which we organize underground, We've done everything. But it is
a criminal structure. And certainly these regimes that you've mentioned, Iran, Russia, Cuba,
(22:07):
they are supporting Madudo because it's an audience to the
United States. It's it's the way they have, as I said,
a front beach in the middle, in the middle of
the hemisphere. But certainly Madudo is now weaker than ever,
and finally they are understanding that this is serious, that
they're you know, theys are counted. So I do believe
(22:29):
that if Madruo understands that he has no way out,
his best option is to accept one of these you know,
offers to go somewhere else. But at the end, you know,
when you have ninety percent of a population that already mandated,
(22:49):
and I want to insist on this, Sean, because I've
heard some people talking about, you know, regime change. This
is not regime change. It is not you know, an
elected legitimate president that it's being changed. No, the people
of Venezuela elected a Mundo on siles Orudia with seventy
(23:11):
percent of the votes, and they are staying by force,
you know, with repression. We have almost one thousand political prisoners,
including teenagers that are being portraed, sexually assaulted women. You know, relatives, parents, grandpriarents,
grandchildren are being detained and disappeared if they don't find
(23:35):
the relatives they're looking for. This is, as I said,
state terrorism only three hours away from the United States.
So I do believe this is a unique moment. And
once my Dudo goes, imagine what this will mean. Of
course for the Venezuelan people. Of course for my country
(23:56):
because we will see millions of migrants coming back as
soon as Maduda goes, but also for all the countries
in the Americas. We will turn this criminal HB, this
threat to the national security of the United States into
a security show.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well, let me let me ask you, because you had
to flee your country because you would have been assassinated,
You would have been killed. Anybody with a brain understands that.
And if Meduro goes, you would obviously be the most
logical and first choice, I believe of the Venezuelan people.
(24:34):
But I worry for you because there are always going
to be these Maduro holdovers that would want to fill
his shoes. I mean, you know that when that moment comes,
you're going to have to be very careful and we'll
all be praying for you, and God bless you for
having the courage that you have.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Look, Sean, I trust my people. That's why where we
are right now. People told us it was impossible to
carry out a primary and I won with over ninety
percent of the votes. Then they banned me from running
for president, and we found an alternate candidate and we
managed to win again. And then they said it was
(25:14):
impossible to prove the results and the whole world so
the actual original tallyships the demonstrated arbitrary. Once again, they
say it's going to be very complicated. You know that,
you know violence might come and groups will oppose each other. Look, Sean,
believe me. Nason people have fought so hard to finally
(25:38):
live in freedom with dignity, to have our children back home.
The Anason people are going to take care that this
transition is orderly and peaceful.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And yes, I do believe that God created every human
being to be free, and I do support your quest
for freedom, and I wish that for the Venezuelan people
and people in tyranny all over the world. Again, as
I point out, you have such enormous courage, let me
ask you this question. You got the great honor of
(26:11):
getting the Nobel Peace Prize, and when you accepted it,
he said it really should go to Donald Trump. I
don't think I've ever heard I can't recall ever hearing
anyone accept an award like that and say, really, I'm
not the right person.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You picked the wrong person. Why did you do that?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Because it's fair, because it's the truth. What we've done
is fight for truth, even if it's hard sometimes and painful,
but this is the truth, and we have Benison. People
are very grateful for what President Trump is doing for years.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Maria Carino Machado, you are a very very courageous and
brave woman. I wish you God's blessings this holiday season
and at all times, and may you guide the people
of Venezuela back into the civilized world and out of
poverty and tyranny. It's really an honor to have you
(27:06):
on the program. We do appreciate your time, and Merry
Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Thank you, and God bless us all.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Thank you, I bless you. Yes, ma'am. Eight one, Shawn.
We'll continue.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Making America first, safe, and great again. This is the
Sean Hannity Show. All right, that's gonna wrap things up
for today. From the Swamp Hannity. Tonight, Donald Trump addressing
the nation. The best is yet to come nine pm Eastern.
We'll carry his speech and we will have reaction immediately
(27:46):
there after. We have among our guests Senator Katie Britt,
We have John Barrasso, we have Lindsay Graham, and all
the other news of the day, all coming up tonight.
Set your DVR. President Trump addresses the nation. I'm Eastern tonight.
We'll carry it on, Hannity. That's it for us. Thank
you for being with us, and we'll see you tonight
(28:07):
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