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August 22, 2025 • 29 mins

In this episode, Sean dives deep into the aftermath of the 2024 election and the Democrats' inability to regroup after their defeat. He highlights the curious evolution of Gavin Newsom, who seems to be shifting his tone in a bid for the presidency while grappling with his own record in California. Sean does not hold back as he critiques Newsom's aggressive rhetoric and the hypocrisy of blue states, all while reminding listeners that the fight for conservative values is far from over. Tune in as Sean offers his unfiltered take on the political landscape and why the Democrats are still struggling to find their footing.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Showing up next our final News round up and Information
Overload Hour.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
All right, News round Up in Information Overload Hour. Here's
our toll free telephone number if you want to be
a part of the program. It's eight hundred and ninety
four one sean if you want to join us. I've
been arguing that the left liberals they have never regained
their footing after Donald Trump's beat down of them in
the twenty twenty four election. In large part there's not
been any introspection. There's been noose course correction. You know,

(00:28):
in my life, if things go wrong, I usually try
to stop, stand back and say, okay, what did I
do wrong? What can I do to improve my life?
How can I change? How can I be a better person.
That's not happened in terms of the Democratic Party, and
it's very interesting to watch the evolution, for example, of
Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom, you know, from day one when

(00:51):
Donald Trump was elected, he made the decision he wanted
a legal fund so he could fight the Trump administration.
Then he seemed to moderate, he became a podcaster, and
then he's interviewing conservatives so they could we can now
begin to have a dialogue as a country interviewing the
likes of Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. And then, of
course in the Charlie Kirk interview, you know, he got

(01:12):
caught saying, I don't know where this word LATINX came from.
And he you know, we found instance after instance where
he was using the term LATINX and the same with
gender affirming care issues and men playing women's sports. But
that's not Gavin's biggest problem.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
And now he's now, he's getting very aggressive. Now he's
talking about punching people in the face. And I'm willing
to take the hit rather than go after some probably
overweight politician that doesn't know how to defend themselves in
Texas because he doesn't like what they're doing legally in
Texas with redistricting. Meanwhile, every Blue state has been Jerry

(01:51):
Manner to death. I'm offering to let him take a
swing at me if he wants, just just because I
care about other people. I know how to defend myself.
These guys probably don't know how to defend themselves. So
I'm wedding Gavin. I'm offering to be let Gavin take
the punch at me. Listen, the Republican parties. It doesn't
even reflect itself. I mean, look at these Republicans cowering

(02:14):
to this guy. Look at your Republican governor, used to
claim to be a conservative.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
What a farce.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Nothing conservative about this, by definition, nothing conservative about that.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
This is radical.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Rigging of a midterm election, radical rigging of an election, destroying,
vandalizing this democracy, the.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Rule of law.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
So I'm sorry. I know some people's sensibilities. I respect
and appreciate that, but right now, with all due respect,
we're walking down a damn different path. We're fighting fire
with fire and with a punch these sons in the mouth.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I'm sure this is all going over very very well
with moderates and independence. And I'm sure when he makes
has run for the presidency, I'm sure America is going
to choose to become California, even though it's the state
with the number one mass migration, the highest poverty rate
in the nation, the highest gas taxes in the nation,

(03:14):
the highest state income taxes in the nation, the most
regulation in the nation, record homelessness in the nation, and
the list goes on and on, and I'll get into
more specificity as we go on to this half hour.
But first we welcome back to the program, friend of
the program, editor in chief of the new interactive video
platform it's called Two Way, host of the Next Up podcast.

(03:37):
He's on Megan Kelly's network. Our friend met Mark Kalper
and his back with us. How are you good to
have you back?

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Sean, good to talk to you now.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I brought you on because I saw your comments that
you opened up with a monologue on your show on
why Gavin Newsom is misunderstood and what sets him apart
for twenty twenty eight, and you said you challenge people
to be repaired, to put aside their preconceived notions of
who this man is and what he is about. And

(04:06):
you've talked about then former Senator Mark Pryor, who joined
you on the on the Democrats structural challenges, et cetera,
et cetera. Look, I don't doubt that he could be
the nominee in twenty twenty eight at all. I don't
doubt that one bit. And I think that he's made
a political calculation that trying to be a moderate and
trying to get along with conservatives and have a conversation

(04:29):
and understand them is not something he's willing.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
To have Well, look, I appreciate your listening to what
I said in a nuanced way, because a lot of
people are misunderstanding. I'm not saying Gab Newsen is going
to be president. I'm not a fan of gabnews and
that's not my job. But this is a very weak field,
and Sean, you know because you've spent time with him,
this guy has some talent. Is he a hugely successful gouverner.

(04:54):
You could talk for three hours about why he's not.
The point is it's a weak field, and this guy
can haines multitudes. He's a complicated person. He has some
positions that are liberal, some that are super liberal, but
he's also got some ones that are more moderate in
the context of the Democratic Party. So when people want
to say he's a disaster, he's so liberal, he's so failed.

(05:14):
He can't possibly win the presidency. I'm not talking about
the general election. Can he be the Democratic nominee in
a weak field? He can't. My grandfather, my great great grandfather,
back in the Old Country, was like five foot ten
in Eastern Europe. He was the tallest man in the village,
Sean at five to ten. Because the best of the
people in the village were five eight and below. This
guy is a major, major at the political figure in

(05:40):
his party. And if you look at the other people running,
they don't have anything like his experience. So all I'm
telling people on the right is, if you want to
think about who the Democrats are going to nominate, this
is the guy to focus on today. Now, ironically, I'm
the only one I know he doesn't think he'll run
in the end. I think he'll approach the finished starting
line and then bail out. Right now, he's in a

(06:01):
class by himself because he's done. He's done what he's done,
what Barack Obama did, Bill Clinton did, George Bush did,
and Donald Trump did. He's simultaneously doing some things on
the base side and some things in the center. And
for people to say that new.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Something, what is he doing on the center, I'd take
issue with that. I mean, he tried for a brief
period to be a little bit in the center. I
don't see any center policies of Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what they are.
And again I'll say they're in the center in the
context of the Democratic Party, are they Are they in
the Center.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
For the Republicle you're talking about a radical left party
now that's about to elect a Marxist in New York
City as mayor.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
But John, that's the state of the Democratic Party. Someone
who says what he says to Charlie Kirk, someone who,
as Faz is dealing with the homeless in a more
aggressive way than the party. Someone who will talk to
Charlie Kirk. These are in the context of the.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
No somebody who would have tried to talk to Charlie
Kirk it didn't work with his polling, and then shifted
gears and like a chameleon politician, you know, decided to
go this aggressive route, talking about punching people in the
mouth and fighting fire with fire when his state is
one of the most Jerry manderd in the country.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
I agree, and that's what he's doing. And look the
whole Democratic Party of crime crocodile tears over Texas when
they then have to accept the Illinois and Massachusetts and
Maryland and all these blue states have done it. I'm
not again, I'm not here as a spokesman for Gavin News.
I'm just telling you he in his and if you
look at it.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
By the way, We're totally getting that message. You've given
enough caveats. I get it. You've just given political analysis,
which is what you're great at.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
I want your political analysis.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
So what I'm telling you is to be the nominee
in this day and age, you have to be an
aircraft carrier. You have to be able to hire great people,
raise tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. You
have to have to go on on toe to toe
with Sean Hannity. And right now there's no other aircraft
carrier in this field, in this forming field. So if

(08:08):
Republicans just want to denounce anyone who says Gavin Newsom
is the front runner, so free. But you're making a
mistake because today you would be the nominee with all
the variables out there, what states are going to vote first,
and who else is going to run? No one else.
These other people who are talking about Basher Shapiro, Wes Moore,
they are not in this guy's league in terms of

(08:30):
what you look at to say who's an aircraft carrier.
And that's not to say he's been a great governor.
It's not to say he's not super liberal on some issues,
but this is the Democratic nomination we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Right, quick break, Welcome back More with Mark Alpern. He's
the editor in chief of the new interactive video platform
called two Way and host of the next podcast More
with Mark. On the other side, we'll get to your
calls coming up as well as Friday.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I would continue our.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Friend Mark Alpern is with us, editor in chief interactive
video platform two Way, host of the next up podcast. Okay,
if we're only talking about the Democratic nomination, I can
completely and totally utterly agree with you. And but it's
you know, often people in a primary, you know this
from you many many decades of following politics, they will

(09:19):
they will run hard to the left or to the right,
and then they'll move to the center in a general election.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Gavin's got a big problem.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
He's got a Michael Ducacas problem, and that is, you know,
do you want America to be Massachusetts? Do you want
America to be California? And you know I said this
last night, and I'm going to stop and I'm going
to backtrack and just tell you.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
I know, Gavin.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
I even texted him last night during my show and
I said, please don't stop doing what you're doing It's
like it's manna from heaven for me to get this
material from him every single day of him ranting like
a lunatic, and he's going for the hard left and
he's passionate. If you meet him in real life, he's charming,

(10:02):
he is slick, he is nice. He did have courage.
He did the debate. No first, he did an interview
with me one on one, and then he did the
debate that I had with him in Ron De Santis.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
He has since pulled back.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
For me.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I tried to reach out to him.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
I said once he came out when Donald Trump was reelected,
and I said, instead of you know, funding you know,
a legal strategy against Donald Trump to Trump proof your state,
I said, why don't you go sit down with him
all arrange the meeting. I actually offered to do that.
I don't mind making that part of public. And you know,

(10:38):
he just dismissed my suggestion. And that's fine too, but
I think it would have been a lot better off
for him and the people of California. With all that said,
after the Pacific Palisades, he you know, Donald Trump stepped
up and he's helping, but they're still not giving permits
for people to build homes out there.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
It's unbelievable. Yeah, and that's his problem.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I mean, his record is so bad when America becomes
aware of it, I'm just telling you there's no way
this guy could get elected in my opinion as of today.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
And Sean and you mean you mean when the presidency
and again I share your view and that skepticism, and
that's in part why I don't think he'll run. There
are other reasons. We had a guy on two Way
last night, a dad, two young kids now lives in Oregon,
left the Bay Area, had to say he couldn't afford
to They couldn't afford to live there, couldn't deal with
all the negative impacts that he largely attributes to Gavin Newsom.

(11:28):
If Gavin Newsom does run, and again I don't think
you will, there are going to be people who run
against him from the left who will find thousands of
Californians who say, Gavin Newsom sailed us and we're on
the left. And you'll also find thousands and tens of thousands,
millions maybe on the right. If he's the nominee, who
will be in the Republican ad makers will not know

(11:51):
who to cast in the ads because they will have
sympathetic real Californians, many of whom have left the state,
who will say, if you will, if America thinks getting
a deal with Gavin Newsom and getting California, you're wrong.
I believe in the end that'll be part of why
he doesn't run. But right now, the Democratic Party value
is one thing above all else. Are you there round

(12:13):
the clock punching Donald Trump in the face metaphorically and
he's doing it. That's what the party wants.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
He's doing it now.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
This is the latest iteration, this is the latest evolution
of him and him and the social media team. I
think for him, knowing him, it's inauthentic, and I find
it embarrassing. I'm kind of embarrassed for him. I think
he's looking stupid. But he can't run away from something.
He's very sensitive. But if Trump calls him nuskam, he
hates it. He's very sensitive. If you point out his

(12:43):
failures surrounding the Pacific Palisades wildfires and they had hydrants
that had no water in them in an empty reservoir,
you know, he's very, very sensitive on issues about being
the highest taxed state, in the country and they still
have a massive budget deb He's very sensitive about all
the illegal immigrants that I've committed crimes. Although they don't

(13:05):
keep statistics out there, he's very sensitive, you know, about
the highest poverty rate, homelessness rate, highest gas taxes, income taxes.
It's to me that's why he won't run. I think
in the end, I think you're right, he's going to
get right up to that line and then probably not.
I can see the announcement, you know, at the last minute.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, and his family is a big consideration as well,
and the scrutiny he'd get. This guy has gotten. People
always say Alway's been Governor Califournie, He's been scrutinized. He
has not. There's tons of scrutiny that will come his
way or anyone else who runs, and I don't think
he wants to deal with that, and his family deal
with that. But with the reason I've been talking about
this so much this week is because you can learn

(13:48):
a lot about where's the Democratic Party right now and
what does it mean to compete with Donald Trump for attention.
You can't deny that he's succeeded by that metric. Everybody's
about him, and they're not talking about well more, you know,
and that's that is something. You may say that he's
an authentic in how he's doing it. You may say successive,

(14:08):
or it's undignified, as our friend Dana Prino says, but
it is. It is achieving what two things that Democrats want,
they want, they want.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
He's placating a very very small and dwindling base, and
he is not. He's not expanding the base that he
would need if he wanted to be a real if
he wanted to be a contender. He's not doing that.
We do appreciate your insight. Thank you, Mark Alprin. We

(14:37):
appreciate you as always. And I think you're right. I
think he is. He's the front runner for the nomination.
Eight hundred nine four one Seawan. If you want to
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Ohio Lisa Sean Hannity Show.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
How are you hey, Sean, Sean, Sean, how you doing.
It's good to talk to you again.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
It's good to talk to you again. How are you?
When's the last time you.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Oh it's been several years, but it's good to hear
your voice. On the phone, but I was calling about
our friend stephen A.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yes, ma'am, I love steven A. I will never say
a bad word about steven A.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
You know, I used to not like him until I
read his book. What an amazing man. He's really overcome
a lot of obstacles from his childhood he wrote to
become one of the most pre eminent sportscasters around, and
he just got a great perspective about people now. I
really appreciate and admire him now, so that we need

(15:32):
to keep trying to move him over to get him hannitized.
So I have a gift that I want to send
to you to give to stephen A. I had a
ball cap printed up that says stephen A two point
h So that needs to be given to him somehow.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's so funny. I will give it to him. Linda
will figure out how to get it to me, and
I absolutely will give it to him. He goes, I'll
never be hanitized, he said to me after being on
TV the other night. You know, it's funny the way
the media covers our relationship. Like when I go on
his show, I dominate, I just take over. I'm a
guest and he's like, man, I can get a word

(16:08):
in edgewise on my own podcast. When he's on my show,
I tend to let him talk and let him shine
because he's got a lot to say, and he's my guest.
And almost every time the left wing legacy medium Stephen A.
Smith schools Sean Hannity, not schooling me, I'm giving him
a chance to speak. Now, if I don't let a

(16:30):
guest speak on my show that I'm inundated with, you
need to shut up and let people talk.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I can't win for losing sometimes, but I will tell
you this about Steven A. If you don't have Fox Nation,
you may want to get you know, Fox Nation or
there actually is a new app that Fox has just
launched this week which I really strongly recommend that you
get a hold of because you can watch Fox twenty
four to seven. It doesn't matter where you are, any

(16:58):
place anywhere, and that includes Nation and it is you know,
I think it's a great, great idea. It's called Fox
One and you can check it out and then you'll
have streaming twenty four to seven. It includes you know,
NFL football, it includes Fox News, it includes Fox Business.
I think it includes Fox Nation. But you know when
I did the interview with Stephen A. Smith, and you're right,

(17:20):
I read his book and his life story. I mean,
when he was in third grade, he was held back,
but he was able to make up the work in
the summertime, and he got promoted to fourth grade. In
fourth grade, he got held back again, and he was
really held back this time, which for any kid is very,
very difficult to go through. And then he heard his

(17:43):
father tell his mother basically that he was stupid and
to forget it, and that he'd never be anything in life.
At that time, we didn't really understand something called dyslexia.
He happens to be a genius. He's very, very smart.
What I admire the most about him is when when

(18:03):
he tries to go at me, either on a text
or in an interview or a discussion we're having, I'll say,
do you know about this? Do you know about this?
Do you know about this? And he will do the
research or he'll ask me to explain it to him,
and he has an open mind. But the fact that
he overcame all of that was pretty amazing. By the way,
it was the only time in his childhood that his

(18:23):
mother ever took him to a movie because his mom
knew that he had overheard the conversation with his dad.
You know, I've had some amazing interviews on the podcast
on Fox Nation. Sylvester Stallone, for example, got the crap
beat out of him by his parents, and you know,
basically both of his parents were pretty abusive to him.

(18:43):
You know Jillian Michael's at one point, he's kind of tiny.
She's like five foot two, at one point in her life,
was like one hundred and seventy pounds. He tells that
whole story and how painful it is. Montell Williams tells
the whole story about when he was diagnosed with MS
and told he may never walk again. So I kind
of like, you know, doing those kind of interviews. But

(19:04):
I'm we're gonna put you on hold and we'll try
and get him that hat. I think it's very nice
of you to do that. Pam is in Florida, my
free state. What's up, Pam? How are you glad you called?

Speaker 6 (19:13):
I am well, Sean, I am really well. It's good
to talk to you, first time caller. I love your information.
I love what you talk about. It's so good and informative.
I got lots of weeding done the last two days
and yard work, listening to your show and enjoying it.
But what you're talking.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
About, by the way, isn't weeding like one of the
worst things in the world to do.

Speaker 6 (19:32):
Oh it's satisfying, though, because it takes a lot longer
for them to come back than a dish to get dirty.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Oh you mean, I for three years of my life
at a plot of land, and I had my own garden,
and I used to have to weed that garden, which
was the most painful, arduous, difficult, annoying thing to do
because you get out there with the woe and you
have to get underneath so they don't pop back up again.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
And I grew corn and back and.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Ye, man, kill them up and do all that nonsense,
and make sure you throw the weeds that will read
it all the way out of the garden or into
a bucket. So you got to know your weeds to
which weeds you can pull them, which weeds you can
leave where. And then yeah, that part is arduous, I
would say.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
But you know what made me stop gardening, even though
it was very cool, because I love corn. I used
to love to grow my own corn, but cucumbers and
bell peppers and watermelons, and you know, we grew everything.
But here's the worst part of it is, after three
years of doing it and all the hard work, I
realized I passed by a farmer's market on the way

(20:35):
home from picking my corn, which I work so hard
to get, and you can get like a dozen corn
for a dollar or two dollars a dozen, And I'm like,
why am I working so hard when it's only two
bucks for a dozen? And I realized it was cheaper
to do it that way.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
Yeah, I didn't know Jersey was the farm state for
a reason that it really is. It's a garden state.
Excuse me, Yeah, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
And yeah, well I didn't grow up in a jury.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I grew up and this was actually at a point
when I lived in Rhode Island in my life. But anyway,
what's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Okay, Well, you've been talking about DC and how people
aren't given Trump affair shake, our levels, our president a
great guy, a fair shake and things. But you pointed
out too that it's all the white people that don't
have the problems, but the people that are in the
lower income neighborhoods and in the parks where the kids
can't go out and play. You know, it's just not

(21:25):
fair to them to be able to not enjoy their
life the way the people that are protesting enjoy their life.
And I used to do a lot of traveling. I
used to do a lot of traveling. I went into
New York City probably from nineteen seventy eight ninety eight
ninety nine, and once a year I would go to
New York City because I had some specialty shop that

(21:46):
I needed to do. And you could see the difference
in that city because it was filthy, and then it
would get a little better. But I still loved it.
The smells were there, the homeless you could deal with
because there weren't so many, and you could. You could
walk down to a little little leier down just down
the Red to Chinatown. You could go to Washington Square

(22:07):
for a free show. You can't do that anymore. It
used to be the big Apple. You could go to
New York. You could be anybody and you could make it.
Now it's the rotten apple I've had.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
When I grew up, New York was an Adam Schiff Hall.
I mean, if you went to forty second Street, back
in the day you were confronted by nothing but drug dealers.
And I mean they had, you know, triple X rated
movie theaters and you know, peep shops and strippers and hookers.
I mean I remember going in there, you know, when

(22:38):
I was in my teens, and you know, it might
have been fun for me and my friends, you know,
just to get in the middle of quote the action,
but it was probably pretty dangerous. We shouldn't have been there.
But long story short, the person that cleaned it up
was Rudy Giuliani. Can it be cleaned up again? Absolutely
if mom Donnie wins, Is it going to get cleaned up?
Absolutely not. It's going to become worse. And it's I've

(23:00):
ever been and it's bad now, it's very bad.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
Well what was that about the gifts? Anyway, I got
back from Australia and I happen to be traveling the
subway because we would do that too. I fired up
a cigarette. I got so many dirty looks and I'd
realized the city had cleaned up, but I hadn't noticed
that there was no smoking on the subway anymore. That place.
I'm not saying you could eat off the floor, but

(23:24):
it was so nice. Every other time I'd come to
New York City, I'd either see a murder or hear gunfire.
And you would have to pay me a lot of
money to go to New York City now, and then
I would be packing in spite of stuff.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
The best part of your story is I lit up
a cigarette.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
I got dirty looks, but nobody dared speak up and
say put that cigarette out. That is a typical New
York City subway ride. Nobody looks at each other or
talks to each other. I mean, because they're all afraid.
Do you never know what you're dealing with.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
No, but back then they did. They gave me dirty looks,
and I loudly said, excuse me, everybody, I'm sorry. I
didn't allized. There wasn't any smoking on the subway anymore.
I used to travel with a circus, so when you traveled,
you weren't a tourist. You were working there. You were
part of the working people, and you got a totally
different view of what the.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
City were you with Wringling Brothers, Ringling is.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Pretty much it's a big show. But they use all
communists block acts because the Communists trained their children just
like the Chinese metal lady in Australia that from the
time she was four years old she was taught how
to be a contortionist. And she said, they came into
the nursery school and they did all these tests and

(24:37):
they told you, which, Oh it's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I mean, you know, you can get a really good
life experience, Pam. I could talk to you all day,
I've got to run. I got to get to another call.
Appreciate you being one of us. God bless you. Congratulations
on your gardening, and I hope you share some some
of those ears of corn with us. We appreciate it.
All right, Let's get to Rod in Kansas. Rod, how
are you glad you called?

Speaker 7 (25:00):
I'm good, Sean. What an honor to speak to you.
I really appreciate all you do to thank you. To
my point, so here's my deal.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Question.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
Issue is putin Russia. Why are we not putting sanctions
on him now? After he blew up that commerce factory there?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Oh we are, we are big time. Okay, I mean
Donald Trump did it before the meeting in Alaska. It
was only a week ago. Yeah, but Donald Trump is
putting on sanctions in this way. Number one, the European
Union and his trade deal are committing nearly a trillion
and energy purchases that would have gone to Putin. Now
they're going to buy their energy from US number one

(25:44):
fifty percent tariff on India if they continue to buy
Russian oil. And Trump's about to unload on Putin big time.
His patience has run out. It's over now, it's going
to be. Okay, negotiation two point zero, which is to
break Russia financially.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
Good because I just feel so disrespected and I feel
like they're disrespecting him in the United States by just
not putting the hammer down on this deal. And you know,
it's a sad.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, we'll give Trump credit. I mean, he gave the
Iranians fifty days. He was patient, He gave them time
to negotiate a settlement. They wouldn't do it now, they
don't have any nuclear program. They could have done it
peacefully and with Russia. Okay, it'll take a little bit longer.
But the sanctions bill as eighty five co sponsors in
the US Senate, and those sanctions that you know, it'll

(26:35):
cut off the funding for a Putin's war machine, and
then we'll fund Ukraine and let them buy our sophisticated weaponry,
and now Putin's life just became even more miserable.

Speaker 7 (26:44):
No, I hope so Sean, and I just hope there's accountability.
I love John Solomon. All of that reporting is awesome,
over the top.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
So thank you, buddy. Listen, you have a great weekend.
Daniel in Texas. God bless Texas, Daniel. We have the
last minute and a half and it's all yours.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (27:03):
I was just kind of curious about Bill Maher and
what he was saying in an article that you know,
most Republicans want to actually go on his show and
they're not afraid, and Democrats are running scared.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
And I know that you know him.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
I don't know if you've ever actually interviewed with him.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
I was kind of curious if you're ever going to.

Speaker 8 (27:20):
Like either team up with him and kind of get
like a lift and a right view and kind of
do something like that, or go on a show and
it's kind of something similar to what you do.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
He's been on my show a number of times, not
any anytime recently. He has invited me on his show
many many times. But to do a show, I got
to fly out to la and flying out to La
eleven hours to do a one hour TV show is
not the best use of my time. I mean, I've

(27:49):
got a seven hundred and fifty plus radio stations here
and I've got a show on Fox, and with all
due respect to build, my ratings are much higher. And
you know, why do I want to go there and
get made fun of by a funny guy. He's a
good comedian. Now, if he really wanted to have a
good discussion and really you know, go deep in the
paint and just I'm I would consider doing it. I

(28:12):
think he's very smart, I think he is funny, But
you know, I'd have to know that he wanted a
serious conversation and not not waste my time.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
That's kind of what I'm getting at, because it seems
like he's turned around, even though he won't say it,
like I actually praised him for like you know, he
went to the White House with Trump, he actually admitted
when he was wrong.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
It's kind of like.

Speaker 8 (28:33):
Changed a lot of his point of view. Now I
don't really I don't believe it.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
He's not really changing his point of view.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
He's a he's a pretty liberal Democrat, but he sees
that his party's gone radical left and it's not going
to work anyway. Appreciate the call, my friend. I'll take
it under advisement. Let's put it that way.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
All right.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's gonna wrap things up for today. I forgot to
tell you the CBO now says Trump's tariffs could reduce
the national debt by four trillion dollars, and that home
sales rose in July, defying expectations once again in US
manufacturing surge to a three year high. All right, we'll
get to some of that good news on Monday. Hope
you have a great weekend. We'll see you then. Thank
you for making this show possible.

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