October 17, 2025 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity covers the nationwide "No Kings" rallies, examining Public Citizen's claims of democracy defense and digging into the protests' funding sources. Sean frames the issue as one not just of rhetoric but real danger, citing research from Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute and firsthand reporting from Andy Ngo, who details personal encounters with violent extremists. Both guests expose over $300 million in funding from high-profile billionaires including Soros and Zuckerberg fueling these demonstrations. The conversation highlights why this matters: as the normalization of left-wing political violence escalates, drying up funding and raising awareness is vital to protecting public safety and democracy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My news round up and information Overload hour. Here is
our toll free telephone number if you want to be
a part of the program. It's eight hundred and ninety
four to one Sean if you want to join us.
So around the country this weekend in towns and cities.
Least I've read the number twenty five hundred. There are
going to be what they're calling the No Kings rallies
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that are going on, and the progressive watchdog group called
Public Citizens say they're no Kings demonstrations are meant to
defend democracy. I mean, it's like a broken record. It
really works so well for them in the twenty twenty
four election, didn't it in terms of oh, a threat
to democracy? Now we're learning because of the deep state
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everything we had spent years and years and years and
years on this program, unpeeling every layer of every onion.
I'mpealing that the real threat to democracy was a deep
state that was putting cinderblocks on the scales of presidential election.
I'll save that for another day. But so all these
demonstrations are going on as a public service. I will
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just warn most of you that I would stay away
and keep your families away from any location where these
rallies have taken place. For a long time, we have
supported the Government Accountability Institute. This is Peter Schweizer's group.
If you're a call. We did the first interview with
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Peter way way back in the day, and he wrote
a book called It was number one New York Times bestseller,
Secret Empires. And in that book he was the first
to reveal, you know, all the Biden family syndicate and
their business and and a lot of other corruption that
all turned out to be true, but it didn't come
out till years later. Will we be able to get
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to the bottom of all of it? And anyway, the
Government Accountability Institute has been looking into what is now
the funding of these radicals. You know, we hear about
astro turf, we know about paid protesters. You know, how
widespread is this and is it a danger to the
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country now? Anyway? Jamis Bruner's with us, Director of Research
at the Government Accountability Institute, with Peter author of Controller
garcs Andy Noah's a journalist well known online, best known
for reporting on Antifa and far left extremism. He authored
a book Unmasked Inside Antifa's radical Plan to destroy Democracy
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it's fascinating we've been hearing from Democrats. Oh, antifa is
not real, it doesn't exist. Now, both of them were
invited to President Trump's roundtable on antifa, I think it
was last week, and both of them were questioned extensively
about their knowledge, what they know about the funding of
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these organizations, and we welcome both of them to the program.
Seamus Bruner, good to have you back. Andy No, good
to have you. Welcome aboard both of you. Thank you
all right, Thanks Samos. Let let look if there's no
money behind it, and in a lot of these instances,
you have astroturfer paid protesters, and then you have groups
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that have other agendas that want to agitate crowds and
create a violent environment. I mean that is that is
a clear and present danger to cities and towns around
the country.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Your thoughts, Yeah, exactly right, Sean. The Protest Industrial Complex,
or riot Inc. As we're calling it, And thank you
for the shoutouts for Peter Schweitzer. You know, Sean that
we follow the money. Riot Inc. Is extremely networked, it's
very coordinated, and it is flush with cash. Over one
hundred million dollars is what I told the President last
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week We crunched the numbers at a full cash analysis
on this No King's Day of defying this weekend. Of
the dozens of organizations that are either official organizers or
official partners, we have found almost three hundred million dollars
coming from the very top. And it's extremely ironic that
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these protesters they hold up signs that say no kings,
no billionaires. Well, that is who is backing the entire thing.
We found, you know, people of course, like George Soros,
but then you've also got Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark
Benioff of Salesforce, and even some foreign billionaires, people like
Hans jorg Vis.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Wait a minute, Mark Zuckerberg told me personally that he
was no longer going to be funding this crap. Well
is he is he backfunding it because he told me
after twenty twenty and he told Jim Jordan in that
letter that he wrote that he was out of that
business and he felt like he was manipulated and lied to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, he may not be funding right now this weekend,
but the money that has flowed from his personal foundation,
it's still in the coffers. I mean, this is over
fifty million dollars over the past five years. So if
he stopped, and I know that Bill Gates has also
said he stopped giving ten million dollars, twenty million dollars
thirty million dollars to the Tides and Soros and Arabella
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funding networks, that money still can go a long way.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. Andy, I know you've been very active, You've been
out and about and your star has risen dramatically, and
congratulations to you, in part because you courageously go out
there and go amongst these groups of people, and you
paid a very dear price for it back a while ago.
You want to remind people what happened.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
In twenty nineteen, whilst reporting in downtown Portland, I was
ambushed and I'm all beating, robbed and punched repeatedly in
the face and head and so I heard a brain
bleed from that and nearly died. In twenty twenty one,
also in downtown Portland, I was tackled to the ground
and strangled, nearly choked out, barely survide that. And in
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both of those instances, nobody was ever arrested by the
Portland police.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Andy, I got a question, are you staying away from
these protests this weekend?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I have I've unfortunately, have learned through these near death
experiences that these militants are willing to kill people that
they mark as so called fascists or Nazis. They lie
about their targets so that one of their unhinged comrades
will take actions to kill. And that's the danger of Antifa.
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And I think people have a misperception that because they
are really fat or really skinny, that they're not dangerous.
But they carry weapons and they work as a group
that conspires to carry out crimes. I mean to alleged
Antifa members in North Texas were just federally indicted yesterday
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with federal terrorism charges, which is the first time that's
happened in the US, by the way, amongst people accused
of being part of the Nancifa South.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now shame as they have officially been designated a terrorist organization,
a domestic terrorist organization, and I believe rightly so. Will
that deter them? And do you fear what I fear
could happen this weekend?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think it would. Well, it won't have turred the crazies,
but what it will deter is the funding mechanisms the
people who have been involved in this, And I applaud
President Trump's leadership on this designation, because, like you said,
Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to not be funding these types
of activities, these unrest in the streets and the protest
orgs and stuff like that. Bill Gates just six months
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ago or so said he would not be funding the
Arabella funding network anymore, and he had provided a couple
hundred million in years past. So what this is And
then you might might have seen recently Mark Benioff, the
Sales Force CEO, called for National Guards to come into
San Francisco. That is a huge reversally. Got a lot
of heat from the left for that. And so what
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President Trump's leadership is doing is drying up the funding sources.
Now as far as the chaos actors on the ground,
the people who are unemployed or maybe secretly employed, No,
I think there's still going to be hotspots. I am
in the free state of Florida. I don't worry about
it here. But up in Portland, in Seattle, in Chicago,
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where these anti ice violent demonstrations have been going on,
They're probably going to pop off just as they have
been in the week's past.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And Andy, let me go back to you, Fox News
reporting today federal grand jury indicted too alleged ANTIFA members
with terrorism related charges for a July fourth attack on
the ICE facility in Texas. For the first time ever,
the FBI arrested anarchists, violent extremists and charge these ANTIFA
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aligned individuals with material support to terrorism. According to the
FBI director Cash Battel, Political reports today, it's not only
Jay Jones, the Virginia Attorney general candidate, that is caught
advocating for political violence. Graham Plattner, who is running as
an insurgent Democratic candidate for the Senate in Maine, once
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suggested online that violence is a necessary means of achieving
social change and worse, Don Lemon this just broke on
Fox News before suggesting that quote black and brown Americans
quote of all stripes, quote unquote should legally arm themselves
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in case Immigration and Customs enforcement agents show up at
their doors. He said, you know the left hook, clarifying
he's not condoning or promoting violence, but he was tired
of the niceties while ICE agents are rounding people up
off the street. If you believe in the Second Amendment,
you believe in the Constitution, Black people, brown people of
all stripes. Whether you're Indian, mat American, Mexican, American, whoever
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you are, go out in your place where you live,
get a gun legally. Well, I mean, what's the implication
behind that. I read deeper into what he's saying. He
has a little caveat to protect himself, but I don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The implication is that left wing political violence has become
normalized in mainstream In the last twelve months, there have
been so many deadly attacks and attempted killings that people
either aren't awar because of the lack of mainstream media coverage,
or they've forgotten, or worse, they may think it's normal.
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You know, Trump supporters have been killed like in Butler,
Tesla stores were shot up and sat on fire. There
was the ice facility in July in North Texas that
was shot up in ambush shooting. There was the killing
of Charlie Kirk, there was the deadly attack on the
ice facility in Dallas. And I can go on and
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go on and go on, and I just wonder, at
what point is it enough?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All Right?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
We continue our preview of all of these protests rallies.
The No King's rallies is expected around the country all weekend.
Please be safe and secure well more. With Seamus Brunner
and Andy No on the other side, then we'll get
to your calls this Friday, eight hundred and nine four one.
Sean is our number, our final moment. Camus Bruner is
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with US Director of Research Government Accountability Institute Andy No,
journalists best known for reporting on Antifa. We continue, you know,
our lead up to what is going to be probably
a scary weekend and a lot of towns and cities,
and that is the No King's protests around the country.
Famous all these years I've known you, and all these
years of known Peter, and it just keeps getting worse.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You would think after the twenty twenty four election, the
closing argument racist Nazi, fascist Hitler Stala Mussolini, that they
might have learned something, but they don't, you know, and
it just seems to be getting worse every day. If
you're listening, listen to Pritzker and Brendan Johnson and you
know a lot of these these other elected officials, I'm like,
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what part of the environment we're living in a you
people not understanding, you know, because there comes a point
where we got to say that they are inciting this
in people by doing it. I always hold the people
accountable to do it, But I mean, at what point
are they being motivated by elected officials that are insane?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You're completely right, Sean, and I mean, unfortunately, the problem
is even bigger than what we're seeing here on the surface.
It goes very deep, all the way down into the
school system. I mean, kids are being radicalized by these teachers.
You saw them celebrate after Charlie Kirk's assassination. It starts
at you know, the confusing of kids, the instilling Marxist
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value starts at a young age, and then once they're
at the age of rioting, then that Yeah, they're being
activated by the political officials, by these groups that are
you know, they're not doing the groups are not doing
violence themselves, but they are enabling this entire ecosystem of
the protest industrial complex, like groups like the ACLU. I mean,
an ANTIFA member out in Portland just admitted on video
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coordinating with the ACLU. And so it's a huge problem
and it's really big. And the Trump administration, i know,
is every tool in the toolbox has it has a
whole of government approach here. But it's going to take
years to sort of deprogram the radicalization that it begins
at a young age.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We'll give you Andy the last word.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I just I just wonder how many more people need
to die before we wake up and say this is enough.
I through all my I originally went out years ago
with the videos because I wanted the public to see
the brutality of what was happening on the streets, because
if it were not for the videos, we would continue
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to be gasolt just as we are right now. If
you turn on liberal media.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know what. We've got to expose it and you
guys getting to the root of this, which is has
a lot to do with the financing of it. I
can't wait to read your next book and Peter's next book,
and Andy your investigative work. I appreciate both of you
more than you know. You're doing the country a great
service by doing it, and I want to thank you
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both for being here.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Thank you, Thank sure.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones here
as we say hi to Jerry saiyast Long Island, New York.
What's up, Jerry? How are you glad you called?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Thank you San, Thank you for having me. I was
watching the debate last night, and Mom, Donnie is just
like a wolf in sheep clothing, and you just miles
like a like an idiot, and just and that I
believe that if Schumer had could have stopped this a
long time ago to bring in this progressive left socialists
(15:11):
on into this, if he had stuck up against coffiocrities
and a line and you know, the whole group there.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
And if this world, if.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
The New York wants to have a socialist, we're going
to be like Venezuela and Cuba.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
And you see how well that works out.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well, you know, the smile just drives me up a
wall because it's fake and it's phony, and it's you know,
the quintessential slickness that a lot of these politicians have,
and in his policies are an unmitigated disaster. His hatred
(15:52):
of Israel is clear. It is a parent you know,
can't condemn the global end to fat. I doesn't want
MOS to disarm all, you know, playing word games constantly.
I'm just sick and tired of it. And unfortunately, you know,
the odds are very high that this guy's going to
be the next mayor of New York City. We Linda
(16:14):
hates as we discussed earlier in the show, Linda hates
it when I just I don't. I'm not Pollyannish, and
I don't you know it's possible to beat him. I
hope they beat him, but I can't tell you they're
going to beat him.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
He hates he hates you. We really have to change
the word.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
It's non anti Smitica, it's non anti Zionism, it's jew hating.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
That's what it boils down to.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Do you realize polls show that that Jewish New Yorkers,
about a third of them are voting from Mamdani according
to the polls.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
It sickens me. It sickens me.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I don't know where they were not brought up the
way I was. My mother was a Holocaust survivor. My
father the law and my father both were in World
War Two and in the Korean War, and they my
funnel was in Germany and they saw the tude.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
I think we're just so removed from really what happened
is the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Now.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
New York State took out the Holocaust section in the
history section, which is another incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It was said to me it's you know, the rise
of anti Semitism is it's actually chilling, and it's getting louder,
and it's more commonplace. And you know, I'll tell you
what my analysis of it is. It is all based
in ignorance, not just ignorance of the Holocaust, it's ignorance
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of what Israel as a state is enduring and has
had to endure for decades and decades. I mean, what
would you expect the American government to do of hundreds
of thousands of rockets were being fired regularly in our
towns and cities. You know, what would you do? The
equivalent based on our population size versus theirs? Are forty
thousand Americans killed in a day. You know, what would
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you want your government to do if if innocent women
on video taken by terrorists raping women and ripping women
and children away from each other and kidnapping and torturing people,
you know, what do you expect them to do. It's
got to end a moss It's got they've they've got
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to disarm. It must be demilitarized or they will be obliterated.
Israel can no longer. I've always said that their missile
defense systems are a band aid and at some point
they're they're going to come up with a way to
bypass these missile defense systems. It was imperative that Donald
Trump take out Around's nuclear sites. I think we'd see
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a modern day hall. I would think we would have
seen a modern day holocaust.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
It's I don't think it's a hatred. I think it's jealousy.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
What zero point two percent of the world are Jews
and what we have done and we survive in every
circumstance that we survive and we prosper. I think it's
all about jealousy is rolled with sand and look what
it is now. I think that's what it is, and
I think it's a misnomer. It's a hatred, well jealous.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
For the first time since the UN Partition Plan in
nineteen forty eight, Arab nations that have either been hostile
or not wanting anything to do to be a part
of the solution. Now we're committing themselves to be part
of the solution. And that gives me hope that we've
never had before. The reuniting of these families with the
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hostages is hope for me. It's all based on one man,
Donald Trump, Gerry, I got to run ac You know
a lot of friends in sias at Long Island and
the home of ice works. Spent many a day there
when my son used to play hockey. Appreciate you being
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with us. Back to our phones, Michigan. Mark next on
the Sean Hannity Show. What's up? Mark? How are you good?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Sean o'h good man, Happy Friday.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Happy Friday to you too. So the reason I'm calling
is about this old John Bolton thing.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I love how everybody wants to say it's retribution from Trump. No,
what it is is a crime is a crime, and
if the crime was committed, it needs to be punished.
But it seems like the left only wants to acknowledge crime,
you know, certain crimes by certain people.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Well, no, the left is actually you know, made up
crimes so they don't exist. They have abused the legal system,
they have abused government you know, powers, and targeted individuals
to an unprecedented level that we're really getting to the
bottom of. Now. Look, either John Bolton had top secret
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classified information that he shouldn't have had and shared it
as he shouldn't have, or he didn't. It's kind of
cut and dry to me, and you know, that's the
case that it will have to be proven before a
jury beyond a reasonable doubt. And I think it's a
pretty you know, it's a simple case. Either Letitia James,
you know, lied on her mortgage applications and claimed this
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to be her primary residence in Norfolk, was she's the
Attorney General in New York, or she didn't, you know.
And either she she corroborated that lie on multiple occasions,
or she didn't. So, you know, I think those are
pretty difficult. The sad thing with the call Me case
to me is that's the low hanging fruit because that
was the only one that had not hit the statute
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of limitations. But I think what he did with Hillary Clinton,
the servers, what he did with the dirty Russian disinformation dossier,
signing three of the four Piza applications, you know, to me,
is far far worse. And I think we're only beginning
to touch the surface of weaponization.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Brought up the statute of limitations because in my eyes,
it's very hard when you have, like we all know
what took place from twenty to fifteen and on, but
anytime you have a change in parties at the top.
You essentially almost lose four years of investigation.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I totally understand what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I get it so and you know, thank you for
the time. But I want to leave on one party note.
I've been trying to push this amongst in you know,
state senators and things like that, but I think it's
a novel idea. If any federal like lifetime appointed judge
either side, if they get overruled by a higher court,
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say ten times, they should lose their lifetime appointee because
they're not acting constitutionally from the bench m and something
like that as a check in balance to make sure
that people, you know, once you set a few examples,
then I think you might get people towing a.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Line a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It is. It is scary to me how the left
is using the courts and have politicized the courts as well.
And that's what you know, when we talk about you know,
judicial activism, that's what we're referring to. Rather than those
that follow the law of the Constitution, they take on
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these you know what, Democrats can't get done legislatively, but
they can't get done at the ballot box. They try
to get done through judges. It's pathetic. Anyway, my friend,
I appreciate you being with us. Mark, thank you. Have
a great weekend. Christy and Alabama. Next on the Sean
Hannity Show, Happy Friday, Christy. How are you?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I'm great?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
How are you doing? I'm hanging and then how are
you doing? Good to talk? When I went to Huntsville,
I was showing New York talk radio. I didn't realize
how thick my New York accent was it.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
And it is because I lived in Huntsville when you
were on the air, and I'll listened to you all
the time and you didn't have that accent.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Then, Oh what the thick New York accent?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I tried. I worked hard at trying to minimize it,
unlike Linda New York Coffee talk radio. But when I
was in Alabama, people and how you doing, shun Man,
you talk funny, and I'm like, are you talking about it?
You talk funny? You know it was funny.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I have a few questions about the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yes, ma'am. By the way, you must be in the
Huntsville area. Congratulations to Rocket City USA. You guys are
about to have a major economic boom there.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
It's gonna be on bo. But Huntsville has changed so much.
If you haven't been there in a long time, it's
really changed.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
It's grong.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
No, I'm very aware of the change. It changed when
Jimmy's Lounge ended up in Madison County. I don't know
if you remember that controversy.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Oh my gosh, yes, yes, absolutely, Okay, So my question
is okay to shut down, we can continue to rock
and roll. So what do you think the core change
or reform will be that justified them continuing to shut
it down? What do you think you know? We all
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know it's not healthcare? And are there any statistics on
how many illegal immigrants are still receiving services.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
We know that they are demanding over two hundred billion
dollars four but remember the one big beautiful bill said
no more, and they're demanding two hundred billion in the
restoration of funds for healthcare for illegals. We know that
they want to refund MPR and PBS. We know that
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they have these crazy DEI initiatives all over the world,
in the Balkans and elsewhere. That's what they're fighting for.
One point five trillion dollars. I prefer we not rob
our children to reward people that don't respect our laws,
borders and sovereignty.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Simple, I agree.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
And another question is okay, so let's say they agree
to go back and do this claim, this claim bail. Well,
there's only is the timeline going to start with the
amount of time that is actually left or it will
be this seven weeks and then they'll go through this
rigmarole all over again.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You know, I guess it's probably only for seven weeks
so that they can go through the appropriations process. Look,
I don't know if you're aware of this, but Sending
Democrats tanked the Republican plan just to pay our troops. Yes,
it's on the Pentagon. I'm like, you know, the shutdown
is now on day sixteen. If they think they're getting
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one point five trillion out of Trump and they they're
gonna out last Donald Trump in this negotiation, they picked
the wrong guy. You know, I've known this guy for
thirty years. Man, you picked the wrong guy to pick
that fight with. He just did, like there are certain
people I'm never gonna get in a fight with because
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I know I'm gonna get my ass kicked. You're not
gonna win. Shumor's not gonna win. They want to get
past this No King's Rally weekend so they don't get
brutalized themselves. Eventually they will cave when I don't know,
but you know, for the sake of government workers and
essential workers and our troops. I hope it sooner than
later for their sake. Although I've never really feared these
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government shutdowns because they always end. Christy, Alabama all my
best I had two wonderful years in Huntsville, and the
people there are assault of the earth. We appreciate you,
Thank you. That's gonna wrap lagus up to today, Caroline Levin.
Tonight we get the White House briefing from Caroline. Also
(28:04):
Greg Jarrett on the indictment of John Bolton Marsha Blackburn
targeted by Jack Smith. Did he violate the law? What
do they plan to do in terms of getting to
the bottom of this. Also, at least the phonic is
rising in the polls because Kathy Hoakle supports bum Donnie.
(28:26):
It's a one point race in New York. Unbelievable. And
Jimmy Fayla, he'll put a smile on your face, say
you DVR Hannity tonight nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow. Thank you for
making this show possible.
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four to one Sean if you want to join us.
So around the country this weekend in towns and cities.
Least I've read the number twenty five hundred. There are
going to be what they're calling the No Kings rallies
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that are going on, and the progressive watchdog group called
Public Citizens say they're no Kings demonstrations are meant to
defend democracy. I mean, it's like a broken record. It
really works so well for them in the twenty twenty
four election, didn't it in terms of oh, a threat
to democracy? Now we're learning because of the deep state
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everything we had spent years and years and years and
years on this program, unpeeling every layer of every onion.
I'mpealing that the real threat to democracy was a deep
state that was putting cinderblocks on the scales of presidential election.
I'll save that for another day. But so all these
demonstrations are going on as a public service. I will
(01:08):
just warn most of you that I would stay away
and keep your families away from any location where these
rallies have taken place. For a long time, we have
supported the Government Accountability Institute. This is Peter Schweizer's group.
If you're a call. We did the first interview with
(01:29):
Peter way way back in the day, and he wrote
a book called It was number one New York Times bestseller,
Secret Empires. And in that book he was the first
to reveal, you know, all the Biden family syndicate and
their business and and a lot of other corruption that
all turned out to be true, but it didn't come
out till years later. Will we be able to get
(01:51):
to the bottom of all of it? And anyway, the
Government Accountability Institute has been looking into what is now
the funding of these radicals. You know, we hear about
astro turf, we know about paid protesters. You know, how
widespread is this and is it a danger to the
(02:14):
country now? Anyway? Jamis Bruner's with us, Director of Research
at the Government Accountability Institute, with Peter author of Controller
garcs Andy Noah's a journalist well known online, best known
for reporting on Antifa and far left extremism. He authored
a book Unmasked Inside Antifa's radical Plan to destroy Democracy
(02:36):
it's fascinating we've been hearing from Democrats. Oh, antifa is
not real, it doesn't exist. Now, both of them were
invited to President Trump's roundtable on antifa, I think it
was last week, and both of them were questioned extensively
about their knowledge, what they know about the funding of
(02:57):
these organizations, and we welcome both of them to the program.
Seamus Bruner, good to have you back. Andy No, good
to have you. Welcome aboard both of you. Thank you
all right, Thanks Samos. Let let look if there's no
money behind it, and in a lot of these instances,
you have astroturfer paid protesters, and then you have groups
(03:19):
that have other agendas that want to agitate crowds and
create a violent environment. I mean that is that is
a clear and present danger to cities and towns around
the country.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Your thoughts, Yeah, exactly right, Sean. The Protest Industrial Complex,
or riot Inc. As we're calling it, And thank you
for the shoutouts for Peter Schweitzer. You know, Sean that
we follow the money. Riot Inc. Is extremely networked, it's
very coordinated, and it is flush with cash. Over one
hundred million dollars is what I told the President last
(03:53):
week We crunched the numbers at a full cash analysis
on this No King's Day of defying this weekend. Of
the dozens of organizations that are either official organizers or
official partners, we have found almost three hundred million dollars
coming from the very top. And it's extremely ironic that
(04:14):
these protesters they hold up signs that say no kings,
no billionaires. Well, that is who is backing the entire thing.
We found, you know, people of course, like George Soros,
but then you've also got Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark
Benioff of Salesforce, and even some foreign billionaires, people like
Hans jorg Vis.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Wait a minute, Mark Zuckerberg told me personally that he
was no longer going to be funding this crap. Well
is he is he backfunding it because he told me
after twenty twenty and he told Jim Jordan in that
letter that he wrote that he was out of that
business and he felt like he was manipulated and lied to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, he may not be funding right now this weekend,
but the money that has flowed from his personal foundation,
it's still in the coffers. I mean, this is over
fifty million dollars over the past five years. So if
he stopped, and I know that Bill Gates has also
said he stopped giving ten million dollars, twenty million dollars
thirty million dollars to the Tides and Soros and Arabella
(05:14):
funding networks, that money still can go a long way.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. Andy, I know you've been very active, You've been
out and about and your star has risen dramatically, and
congratulations to you, in part because you courageously go out
there and go amongst these groups of people, and you
paid a very dear price for it back a while ago.
You want to remind people what happened.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
In twenty nineteen, whilst reporting in downtown Portland, I was
ambushed and I'm all beating, robbed and punched repeatedly in
the face and head and so I heard a brain
bleed from that and nearly died. In twenty twenty one,
also in downtown Portland, I was tackled to the ground
and strangled, nearly choked out, barely survide that. And in
(06:01):
both of those instances, nobody was ever arrested by the
Portland police.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Andy, I got a question, are you staying away from
these protests this weekend?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I have I've unfortunately, have learned through these near death
experiences that these militants are willing to kill people that
they mark as so called fascists or Nazis. They lie
about their targets so that one of their unhinged comrades
will take actions to kill. And that's the danger of Antifa.
(06:32):
And I think people have a misperception that because they
are really fat or really skinny, that they're not dangerous.
But they carry weapons and they work as a group
that conspires to carry out crimes. I mean to alleged
Antifa members in North Texas were just federally indicted yesterday
(06:53):
with federal terrorism charges, which is the first time that's
happened in the US, by the way, amongst people accused
of being part of the Nancifa South.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now shame as they have officially been designated a terrorist organization,
a domestic terrorist organization, and I believe rightly so. Will
that deter them? And do you fear what I fear
could happen this weekend?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think it would. Well, it won't have turred the crazies,
but what it will deter is the funding mechanisms the
people who have been involved in this, And I applaud
President Trump's leadership on this designation, because, like you said,
Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to not be funding these types
of activities, these unrest in the streets and the protest
orgs and stuff like that. Bill Gates just six months
(07:42):
ago or so said he would not be funding the
Arabella funding network anymore, and he had provided a couple
hundred million in years past. So what this is And
then you might might have seen recently Mark Benioff, the
Sales Force CEO, called for National Guards to come into
San Francisco. That is a huge reversally. Got a lot
of heat from the left for that. And so what
(08:05):
President Trump's leadership is doing is drying up the funding sources.
Now as far as the chaos actors on the ground,
the people who are unemployed or maybe secretly employed, No,
I think there's still going to be hotspots. I am
in the free state of Florida. I don't worry about
it here. But up in Portland, in Seattle, in Chicago,
(08:25):
where these anti ice violent demonstrations have been going on,
They're probably going to pop off just as they have
been in the week's past.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And Andy, let me go back to you, Fox News
reporting today federal grand jury indicted too alleged ANTIFA members
with terrorism related charges for a July fourth attack on
the ICE facility in Texas. For the first time ever,
the FBI arrested anarchists, violent extremists and charge these ANTIFA
(08:53):
aligned individuals with material support to terrorism. According to the
FBI director Cash Battel, Political reports today, it's not only
Jay Jones, the Virginia Attorney general candidate, that is caught
advocating for political violence. Graham Plattner, who is running as
an insurgent Democratic candidate for the Senate in Maine, once
(09:17):
suggested online that violence is a necessary means of achieving
social change and worse, Don Lemon this just broke on
Fox News before suggesting that quote black and brown Americans
quote of all stripes, quote unquote should legally arm themselves
(09:38):
in case Immigration and Customs enforcement agents show up at
their doors. He said, you know the left hook, clarifying
he's not condoning or promoting violence, but he was tired
of the niceties while ICE agents are rounding people up
off the street. If you believe in the Second Amendment,
you believe in the Constitution, Black people, brown people of
all stripes. Whether you're Indian, mat American, Mexican, American, whoever
(10:01):
you are, go out in your place where you live,
get a gun legally. Well, I mean, what's the implication
behind that. I read deeper into what he's saying. He
has a little caveat to protect himself, but I don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The implication is that left wing political violence has become
normalized in mainstream In the last twelve months, there have
been so many deadly attacks and attempted killings that people
either aren't awar because of the lack of mainstream media coverage,
or they've forgotten, or worse, they may think it's normal.
(10:37):
You know, Trump supporters have been killed like in Butler,
Tesla stores were shot up and sat on fire. There
was the ice facility in July in North Texas that
was shot up in ambush shooting. There was the killing
of Charlie Kirk, there was the deadly attack on the
ice facility in Dallas. And I can go on and
(10:59):
go on and go on, and I just wonder, at
what point is it enough?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All Right?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
We continue our preview of all of these protests rallies.
The No King's rallies is expected around the country all weekend.
Please be safe and secure well more. With Seamus Brunner
and Andy No on the other side, then we'll get
to your calls this Friday, eight hundred and nine four one.
Sean is our number, our final moment. Camus Bruner is
(11:40):
with US Director of Research Government Accountability Institute Andy No,
journalists best known for reporting on Antifa. We continue, you know,
our lead up to what is going to be probably
a scary weekend and a lot of towns and cities,
and that is the No King's protests around the country.
Famous all these years I've known you, and all these
years of known Peter, and it just keeps getting worse.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You would think after the twenty twenty four election, the
closing argument racist Nazi, fascist Hitler Stala Mussolini, that they
might have learned something, but they don't, you know, and
it just seems to be getting worse every day. If
you're listening, listen to Pritzker and Brendan Johnson and you
know a lot of these these other elected officials, I'm like,
(12:25):
what part of the environment we're living in a you
people not understanding, you know, because there comes a point
where we got to say that they are inciting this
in people by doing it. I always hold the people
accountable to do it, But I mean, at what point
are they being motivated by elected officials that are insane?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You're completely right, Sean, and I mean, unfortunately, the problem
is even bigger than what we're seeing here on the surface.
It goes very deep, all the way down into the
school system. I mean, kids are being radicalized by these teachers.
You saw them celebrate after Charlie Kirk's assassination. It starts
at you know, the confusing of kids, the instilling Marxist
(13:05):
value starts at a young age, and then once they're
at the age of rioting, then that Yeah, they're being
activated by the political officials, by these groups that are
you know, they're not doing the groups are not doing
violence themselves, but they are enabling this entire ecosystem of
the protest industrial complex, like groups like the ACLU. I mean,
an ANTIFA member out in Portland just admitted on video
(13:29):
coordinating with the ACLU. And so it's a huge problem
and it's really big. And the Trump administration, i know,
is every tool in the toolbox has it has a
whole of government approach here. But it's going to take
years to sort of deprogram the radicalization that it begins
at a young age.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We'll give you Andy the last word.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I just I just wonder how many more people need
to die before we wake up and say this is enough.
I through all my I originally went out years ago
with the videos because I wanted the public to see
the brutality of what was happening on the streets, because
if it were not for the videos, we would continue
(14:10):
to be gasolt just as we are right now. If
you turn on liberal media.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know what. We've got to expose it and you
guys getting to the root of this, which is has
a lot to do with the financing of it. I
can't wait to read your next book and Peter's next book,
and Andy your investigative work. I appreciate both of you
more than you know. You're doing the country a great
service by doing it, and I want to thank you
(14:36):
both for being here.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Thank you, Thank sure.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones here
as we say hi to Jerry saiyast Long Island, New York.
What's up, Jerry? How are you glad you called?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Thank you San, Thank you for having me. I was
watching the debate last night, and Mom, Donnie is just
like a wolf in sheep clothing, and you just miles
like a like an idiot, and just and that I
believe that if Schumer had could have stopped this a
long time ago to bring in this progressive left socialists
(15:11):
on into this, if he had stuck up against coffiocrities
and a line and you know, the whole group there.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
And if this world, if.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
The New York wants to have a socialist, we're going
to be like Venezuela and Cuba.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
And you see how well that works out.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well, you know, the smile just drives me up a
wall because it's fake and it's phony, and it's you know,
the quintessential slickness that a lot of these politicians have,
and in his policies are an unmitigated disaster. His hatred
(15:52):
of Israel is clear. It is a parent you know,
can't condemn the global end to fat. I doesn't want
MOS to disarm all, you know, playing word games constantly.
I'm just sick and tired of it. And unfortunately, you know,
the odds are very high that this guy's going to
be the next mayor of New York City. We Linda
(16:14):
hates as we discussed earlier in the show, Linda hates
it when I just I don't. I'm not Pollyannish, and
I don't you know it's possible to beat him. I
hope they beat him, but I can't tell you they're
going to beat him.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
He hates he hates you. We really have to change
the word.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
It's non anti Smitica, it's non anti Zionism, it's jew hating.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
That's what it boils down to.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Do you realize polls show that that Jewish New Yorkers,
about a third of them are voting from Mamdani according
to the polls.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
It sickens me. It sickens me.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I don't know where they were not brought up the
way I was. My mother was a Holocaust survivor. My
father the law and my father both were in World
War Two and in the Korean War, and they my
funnel was in Germany and they saw the tude.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
I think we're just so removed from really what happened
is the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Now.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
New York State took out the Holocaust section in the
history section, which is another incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It was said to me it's you know, the rise
of anti Semitism is it's actually chilling, and it's getting louder,
and it's more commonplace. And you know, I'll tell you
what my analysis of it is. It is all based
in ignorance, not just ignorance of the Holocaust, it's ignorance
(17:49):
of what Israel as a state is enduring and has
had to endure for decades and decades. I mean, what
would you expect the American government to do of hundreds
of thousands of rockets were being fired regularly in our
towns and cities. You know, what would you do? The
equivalent based on our population size versus theirs? Are forty
thousand Americans killed in a day. You know, what would
(18:10):
you want your government to do if if innocent women
on video taken by terrorists raping women and ripping women
and children away from each other and kidnapping and torturing people,
you know, what do you expect them to do. It's
got to end a moss It's got they've they've got
(18:32):
to disarm. It must be demilitarized or they will be obliterated.
Israel can no longer. I've always said that their missile
defense systems are a band aid and at some point
they're they're going to come up with a way to
bypass these missile defense systems. It was imperative that Donald
Trump take out Around's nuclear sites. I think we'd see
(18:55):
a modern day hall. I would think we would have
seen a modern day holocaust.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
It's I don't think it's a hatred. I think it's jealousy.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
What zero point two percent of the world are Jews
and what we have done and we survive in every
circumstance that we survive and we prosper. I think it's
all about jealousy is rolled with sand and look what
it is now. I think that's what it is, and
I think it's a misnomer. It's a hatred, well jealous.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
For the first time since the UN Partition Plan in
nineteen forty eight, Arab nations that have either been hostile
or not wanting anything to do to be a part
of the solution. Now we're committing themselves to be part
of the solution. And that gives me hope that we've
never had before. The reuniting of these families with the
(19:49):
hostages is hope for me. It's all based on one man,
Donald Trump, Gerry, I got to run ac You know
a lot of friends in sias at Long Island and
the home of ice works. Spent many a day there
when my son used to play hockey. Appreciate you being
(20:10):
with us. Back to our phones, Michigan. Mark next on
the Sean Hannity Show. What's up? Mark? How are you good?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Sean o'h good man, Happy Friday.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Happy Friday to you too. So the reason I'm calling
is about this old John Bolton thing.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I love how everybody wants to say it's retribution from Trump. No,
what it is is a crime is a crime, and
if the crime was committed, it needs to be punished.
But it seems like the left only wants to acknowledge crime,
you know, certain crimes by certain people.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Well, no, the left is actually you know, made up
crimes so they don't exist. They have abused the legal system,
they have abused government you know, powers, and targeted individuals
to an unprecedented level that we're really getting to the
bottom of. Now. Look, either John Bolton had top secret
(21:06):
classified information that he shouldn't have had and shared it
as he shouldn't have, or he didn't. It's kind of
cut and dry to me, and you know, that's the
case that it will have to be proven before a
jury beyond a reasonable doubt. And I think it's a
pretty you know, it's a simple case. Either Letitia James,
you know, lied on her mortgage applications and claimed this
(21:28):
to be her primary residence in Norfolk, was she's the
Attorney General in New York, or she didn't, you know.
And either she she corroborated that lie on multiple occasions,
or she didn't. So, you know, I think those are
pretty difficult. The sad thing with the call Me case
to me is that's the low hanging fruit because that
was the only one that had not hit the statute
(21:48):
of limitations. But I think what he did with Hillary Clinton,
the servers, what he did with the dirty Russian disinformation dossier,
signing three of the four Piza applications, you know, to me,
is far far worse. And I think we're only beginning
to touch the surface of weaponization.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Brought up the statute of limitations because in my eyes,
it's very hard when you have, like we all know
what took place from twenty to fifteen and on, but
anytime you have a change in parties at the top.
You essentially almost lose four years of investigation.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I totally understand what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I get it so and you know, thank you for
the time. But I want to leave on one party note.
I've been trying to push this amongst in you know,
state senators and things like that, but I think it's
a novel idea. If any federal like lifetime appointed judge
either side, if they get overruled by a higher court,
(22:55):
say ten times, they should lose their lifetime appointee because
they're not acting constitutionally from the bench m and something
like that as a check in balance to make sure
that people, you know, once you set a few examples,
then I think you might get people towing a.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Line a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It is. It is scary to me how the left
is using the courts and have politicized the courts as well.
And that's what you know, when we talk about you know,
judicial activism, that's what we're referring to. Rather than those
that follow the law of the Constitution, they take on
(23:37):
these you know what, Democrats can't get done legislatively, but
they can't get done at the ballot box. They try
to get done through judges. It's pathetic. Anyway, my friend,
I appreciate you being with us. Mark, thank you. Have
a great weekend. Christy and Alabama. Next on the Sean
Hannity Show, Happy Friday, Christy. How are you?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I'm great?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
How are you doing? I'm hanging and then how are
you doing? Good to talk? When I went to Huntsville,
I was showing New York talk radio. I didn't realize
how thick my New York accent was it.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
And it is because I lived in Huntsville when you
were on the air, and I'll listened to you all
the time and you didn't have that accent.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Then, Oh what the thick New York accent?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I tried. I worked hard at trying to minimize it,
unlike Linda New York Coffee talk radio. But when I
was in Alabama, people and how you doing, shun Man,
you talk funny, and I'm like, are you talking about it?
You talk funny? You know it was funny.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I have a few questions about the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yes, ma'am. By the way, you must be in the
Huntsville area. Congratulations to Rocket City USA. You guys are
about to have a major economic boom there.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
It's gonna be on bo. But Huntsville has changed so much.
If you haven't been there in a long time, it's
really changed.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
It's grong.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
No, I'm very aware of the change. It changed when
Jimmy's Lounge ended up in Madison County. I don't know
if you remember that controversy.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Oh my gosh, yes, yes, absolutely, Okay, So my question
is okay to shut down, we can continue to rock
and roll. So what do you think the core change
or reform will be that justified them continuing to shut
it down? What do you think you know? We all
(25:29):
know it's not healthcare? And are there any statistics on
how many illegal immigrants are still receiving services.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
We know that they are demanding over two hundred billion
dollars four but remember the one big beautiful bill said
no more, and they're demanding two hundred billion in the
restoration of funds for healthcare for illegals. We know that
they want to refund MPR and PBS. We know that
(26:00):
they have these crazy DEI initiatives all over the world,
in the Balkans and elsewhere. That's what they're fighting for.
One point five trillion dollars. I prefer we not rob
our children to reward people that don't respect our laws,
borders and sovereignty.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Simple, I agree.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
And another question is okay, so let's say they agree
to go back and do this claim, this claim bail. Well,
there's only is the timeline going to start with the
amount of time that is actually left or it will
be this seven weeks and then they'll go through this
rigmarole all over again.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You know, I guess it's probably only for seven weeks
so that they can go through the appropriations process. Look,
I don't know if you're aware of this, but Sending
Democrats tanked the Republican plan just to pay our troops. Yes,
it's on the Pentagon. I'm like, you know, the shutdown
is now on day sixteen. If they think they're getting
(26:58):
one point five trillion out of Trump and they they're
gonna out last Donald Trump in this negotiation, they picked
the wrong guy. You know, I've known this guy for
thirty years. Man, you picked the wrong guy to pick
that fight with. He just did, like there are certain
people I'm never gonna get in a fight with because
(27:18):
I know I'm gonna get my ass kicked. You're not
gonna win. Shumor's not gonna win. They want to get
past this No King's Rally weekend so they don't get
brutalized themselves. Eventually they will cave when I don't know,
but you know, for the sake of government workers and
essential workers and our troops. I hope it sooner than
later for their sake. Although I've never really feared these
(27:41):
government shutdowns because they always end. Christy, Alabama all my
best I had two wonderful years in Huntsville, and the
people there are assault of the earth. We appreciate you,
Thank you. That's gonna wrap lagus up to today, Caroline Levin.
Tonight we get the White House briefing from Caroline. Also
(28:04):
Greg Jarrett on the indictment of John Bolton Marsha Blackburn
targeted by Jack Smith. Did he violate the law? What
do they plan to do in terms of getting to
the bottom of this. Also, at least the phonic is
rising in the polls because Kathy Hoakle supports bum Donnie.
(28:26):
It's a one point race in New York. Unbelievable. And
Jimmy Fayla, he'll put a smile on your face, say
you DVR Hannity tonight nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow. Thank you for
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