September 4, 2026 • 34 mins
Jason Chaffetz guest hosts as the Lindsay Clancy trial ends in a mistrial after days of deadlocked deliberations and a bitter courtroom fight over the lone holdout juror. Jason examines what happens next, the questions the case raises about mental health, medication, accountability, and whether prosecutors will try the case again. He also highlights stronger employment and labor-participation numbers and speaks with retired Navy SEAL Mike Sarraille about President Trump’s strategy toward Iran, the dangers of a nuclear-armed regime, and why America’s allies may eventually have to shoulder more of the burden.
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their voting so early. I'm Jason Chaffetz filling in for
Sean Hannity. Really do appreciate it. Look, we're going into a.
What I hope is for you a beautiful, wonderful Labor
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Day holiday, as some of you are already out on
the road, got the family out there, headed to the beach,
doing whatever it is that you do to celebrate and
enjoy the unofficial end of the summer. Kids getting ready
to go back to school. Lots happening in the news. And,
of course, we would be remiss if we didn't start
off by talking about this Lindsay Clancy story. trial, which
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has been kind of gripping the nation for a while.
Here we get to the mistrial conclusion. We're not going
to dwell on that for the hours that we get
to talk about, but you can't not talk about it.
So we're going to talk about that. We're going to
take your calls. The number to call in is 1-800-941-7326. 1-800-941-SHAWN.
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So we're going to be taking some calls. I'd love
to get your feedback in your hearing, hear what you
have to say, because this really does polarize people one
direction or another. I got some personal feelings. I'll probably
let those out a little bit too. But let's also remember,
we got three dead children. So that'll be interesting to
see what your take is on this and where this
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goes next, because, you know, Justice has to prevail in
this country. But let's hear what you have to say. 1-800-941-SHAWN.
The mistrial today was, I mean, all the drama that
was going on. The jury's been out there deliberating for
day after day after day. Notes going back and forth
with the judge. But there was a little bit of
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frustration along the way. So let's start with cut two.
This is Kevin Reddington, Lindsey Clancy's attorney, making some, you know, demands.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that
juror that's been working for a week now, saying that
there's one juror who refuses to listen to the law
that you've given him or her on reasonable doubt. And
I suggest respectfully that the soft instruction that you gave
them saying at the sidebar, can you listen to the
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law as I instruct you, does not focus on the issue.
The question is not sufficient enough. It does not allow
any foundation for a motion to remove the juror who
refuses to accept your instructions on the law on reasonable doubt.
And if we come back here in a half an
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hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has
just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame.
It's a real shame. And that's why I object to
the court's ruling. I request that we have further inquiry.
I request that my motion is to remove this juror
that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Really, what he's saying is remove the juror that disagrees
with the other 11. But you know what? That's not
the way our system works, unfortunately, for that attorney who
wants to see it go. Now, they were always guessing.
There was always speculation. But based on the question and
the way it was presented, a lot of people are
presuming that 11 were going one direction, one was going
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the other direction. But we don't know the specificity of it.
But certainly that attorney thought that he had clarity on
that and the judge well let's just say he didn't
take to that too well let's play cut three.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Would ask that you specifically direct their attention to proof
beyond a reasonable doubt and re-instruct them on that forcefully I.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Think I did that yesterday didn't I yes You.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Did it yesterday, you did it soft, you didn't do
it forcefully, and I'm asking you to do it forcefully.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Get a brass band?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I read the instruction as written by the SJC.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
The fact that I perhaps.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Didn't give it my full inflection, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'm not an actor.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I've just given the instructions.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Well, my point, Judge, simply, is that you're kind of
glossing over the issue.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The issue is.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
This juror will not, according to that note, apply the
law of reasonable doubt.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I am specifically not glossing over this issue. I have
thought about this issue long enough. I know the defendant objects,
but the characterization that I'm glossing over it Trust me,
that's not the situation. I've been thinking about this for
quite a while. I'm not going to reiterate the reasonable
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doubt at this point. It may come to that again
as we go through it. And I'll try and give
this with more pizzazz than I gave yesterday, I suppose.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
You know, look, I'm not an attorney. And I know
that sounds like I'm bragging, but I'm not an attorney.
And even though I was on the House Judiciary Committee
when I was in Congress once upon a time. But
I got to tell you, it's not often that you
have a judge kind of backing up a little bit saying, oh,
you know, I'll try to give it with more pizzazz.
I'm sorry I didn't bring out the brass band. I
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thought it was a bit presumptuous on that defense attorney.
But I profile case cameras in the courtroom. I think
you get a little bit different flavor and maybe a
different response with those cameras rolling, knowing that all the
networks are out there rolling on this and making it happen.
But ultimately, it ended in what a lot of people
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anticipated today because they hadn't been able to reach a
verdict earlier. And that is a mistrial. So let's go
to cut number four.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Counsel, it's my understanding that the SJC issued their order
that the emergency request for relief was denied and the
temporary stay is lifted. And so it would be my
intention at this time to call the jurors back in.
And as I indicated to you before, to declare a mistrial.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And that's exactly what happened. He came in and did
a mistrial. Afterwards, press conference happens. There are various attorneys
coming out, stating their things. The prosecutor, interestingly enough, for
Plymouth County there, decided not to tell or foreshadow what
he may or may not be doing. And also interesting
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is one of the things that came out from the
defense attorney is they weren't necessarily going to appeal. that
they wanted to get right back after another trial. So
we'll see how it plays out. I think a lot
of people wanted to see a conclusion to this. And
the conclusion was there's no conclusion. So that's the way
we leave it going into the Labor Day weekend. Again, 800-941-SHAWN.
(08:34):
Dial up 1-800-941-SEAN. Love to hear your thoughts on this.
Want to take some calls in a little bit, but
I got to touch on some other things as we're
kicking off this. And again, allowing me, Jason Chavis, to
fill in for Sean. Truly appreciate it. The thing that
probably does affect you, your loved ones, your life, and
everything else were some amazing numbers that came out today. Now,
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I don't want your eyes to gloss over, okay? But
these are really important because the economy really showed some
strength today. I mean, it was like multiple times higher
than what they were guessing was going to happen. The
employment number jumped way up The labor participation rate jumped 0.02%.
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683,000 more people involved and engaged. Here's the best thing
that I think for those that want to see success
in our government. Look, as a conservative, I truly believe
in limited government. You have to actually have limitations on
your government. Now, I remember during the Biden administration that
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And the Obama administration, month after month after month, you'd say, oh,
the employment number's up. And then you would look down
the list and you'd say, why are the employment numbers up?
And they would say, oh, well, look at all the
growth of government jobs. How they did that month after
month after month. But, you know, when you add trillions
of dollars to your spending, what do they do? They
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hire more government workers. When you get more government workers,
what do you get? You get more regulators. You get
more regulators. Now, there is a very limited role for government. But,
you know, some people don't see it that way. Certainly
the Democrats, the socialists, the communists, they don't see it
that way. They're always arguing, hey, we're one good tax
increase away from prosperity in this country. We need more money.
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The cupboards are bare. I remember Nancy Pelosi would argue.
And they want more government because they want more government workers.
But President Trump does not get enough credit for doing
one of the most important things, and that is to
cut back the federal workforce. In fact, the public workforce
number is like at a record low as a proportion
to where we've been at in the past. So that is,
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I mean, if you go out and look on the
internet and actually go through this and you say, well,
how does that affect me in my life? Well, for
every dollar that you're having to spend a government, guess what?
You're pulling one out of your wallet and it's going
to somebody else. So you want more money in your wallet.
You want less inflation. You want more purchasing power. That's
a key indicator. So I know there's this, uh, There's
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Lindsey Clancy trial. We've got a lot of other things
going on in the world. We're going to talk about
all those. But I don't know, as a guy who
kind of gets giddy over this sort of stuff, I
think it's really important that the numbers that came out
today from the White House, they were impressive. And you
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may not digest them all. You may not go back
to the kitchen table and regurgitate them. But I tell you,
there are hundreds of of thousands of families that are
now participating in the workforce and have new jobs and
putting money in their wallets and can get jobs. Guess
what happens? They go out and spend that money. That's
good for the economy. So that's really good stuff. The
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other part of this, and we're going to talk about
this Lindsay Clancy trial. Again, the number 800-941-SHAWN, 800-941-SHAWN. I
can see the Board is lighting up here. We're going
to get to some questions and comments. But at last
point here, there is a direct proportion to what President
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Trump and his administration is doing by increasing the number
of deportations. So guess what happens? Deportation numbers are up.
Labor participation is up. Number of people participating in the
workforce is up. even though some of these other numbers
are going down, like the illegal immigration population. Isn't it
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amazing how that works? You know what else that helps? Housing.
I hear about affordability all the time. Oh my gosh.
And I saw one number one time. Oh, we're 20
million homes short in America. Oh, well, we have what?
Roughly 20 million people here illegally. Amazing how that might work.
You get a bunch of deportations. What's that do to
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the housing market? It's going to drive down prices, drive
down prices, makes affordability better. They all tie in together.
All right, let's go back and talk about Lindsay Clancy,
because this is certainly, you go to the front of
any website or any social media, but let's talk about it,
because talking about it's a little bit different. So let's
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go to Margie in Michigan. Margie, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Good.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Good to chat with you.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well, I was really upset with the verdict. I had
five sons in 12 years, and anybody who's got kids
understands boys at a young age can be a little
more difficult, but my kids are my world. I would
not survive as long as I survived without them. And
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it just breaks my heart, those three little children gone
because their mom, who supposedly was a nurse and was
taking all these medications... She should know better. And I
think she was guilty. And God bless the man that
stood up and didn't change his verdict because he had
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morals enough to understand that she did it. I have
no doubt in my mind that she did it. And
the reason being is because, oh, she's searching how long
it takes to get somewhere. I'm just extremely upset. And
I just can't even understand how... any woman or any
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person would side with her and not think of those children.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, Margie, I think you, look, everybody's got an opinion.
I have one too. You may agree, may disagree with it.
I'm with you, Margie. I just, look, God bless you
for raising five boys. I can't only imagine what it
was like at breakfast time trying to get them out
the door for school. or the bathroom, or anything else.
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So five boys is a lot. So God bless you.
And there's a lot of people who do that. You know,
my wife and I were blessed with three kids, and
now we got six grandkids. I can't believe it. But
good for you. I think we need to go back
and look at psychiatrists. I think there is a deal
with it. I think we need to go back and
look at how many prescriptions she was doing. I think
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it's going to set back A lot of things, we
have to deal with the mental health aspect in this country.
I think that is real. I think both things can
be true. But I don't think sitting in that jury,
I don't think I could go out and say, no, no,
I'm not guilty. We're going to let her off. I just,
I couldn't do that. We're going to take more calls. Again,
the number 1-800-941-SHAWN, 800-941-SEAN. I'm Jason Chaffetz, felon in for Sean.
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Lots more to talk about. Stay with us. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Question, how many liberals does it take to make a
common sense statement?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yep, you're right.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Fake news, not even possible.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
You're locked in on The Hannity Show. Big news coming
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out of the WNBA, and a lot of you are saying,
I don't care. But I'm kind of usually in that camp.
I'm just being honest. I don't really follow the WNBA.
But leadership change there. The commissioner, Kathy Engelbert, saying, hey,
she's going to step down by the end of the
calendar year. This is the group that could not figure
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out the definition of what a woman is. So they're
going to have some leadership change and maybe they can
go back to the drawing board and go work on
figuring out what that is. But the bold move coming
in here, the first part of September saying, oh, by
the end of December, I'm going to go ahead and
leave my job. Probably should have left a long time ago.
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But big news out of the WNBA. Hang in there
with us. We got Mike Cirelli, retired Navy SEAL. We're
going to be talking Iran, which is kind of important.
A lot of good men and women serving overseas. Mike Cirelli,
one of the sharpest minds, recon Marine, scout sniper, retired SEAL.
You're going to love him if you haven't heard him before.
Mike Cirelli, stay with us. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
When fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth.
Sean Hannity is on right now.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Well, almost, Sean Hannity. I'm Jason Chavis. I'm filling in
for Sean. You know, we're getting ready for the big
Labor Day weekend, but I've been texting, going back and
forth with Sean because he never really, truly takes a break.
But nevertheless, I still want to take some calls. The
phone's been lighting up. The number 1-800-941-SEAN. So let's go
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to Steve. He's in Mississippi. Steve, what are you thinking
of this mistrial?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
As a police officer, I couldn't imagine being the first
on the scene and finding those three babies murdered. Then
you have to watch 11 sick individuals try to say
that she's not guilty by insanity. Of course she's insane.
It would take an insane person to kill your three children.
It's just sick to my stomach. And I worry about
where this country's going. The fact that we're even considering
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letting her off just makes me sick to my stomach.
Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
No, Steve, look, I think you're feeling what a lot
of Americans feel, certainly what I feel. I never give
enough credit. We say it a lot, but you can
never say it enough. The first responders, whether you be
a police officer working in an ambulance, certainly fire, wherever
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it might be, or just the innocent person who's just,
you know, waking up that morning, not expecting to see
the horror that they saw there in Massachusetts. And those
police officers and those personnel and those detectives and everything else,
they not only had to find it, then they had
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to clean it up.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And so.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
To go back to that whole process and then Oh,
we got a mistrial. It's just beyond me. I just,
I really don't understand. Now, this is what's also great
about the United States of America. It's why we are
different than everywhere else. We have these jury trials and
you get your peers, jury of your peers. Swift justice
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never comes swift enough, but they have to ultimately figure
this out. So we'll talk some more about this. We're
going to take some more calls.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
1-800-941-SHAWN.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
But now we're pleased to have Mike Cirelli. He's a
retired U.S. Navy SEAL, recon marine, scout, sniper, all-around good guy.
I've gotten to know him. Just a wonderful human being,
patriotic as all can be. Mike Cirelli, thank you so
much for joining us on Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Hey, Jason, good to be with you.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
No, listen, I truly appreciate your service. Can't thank you enough.
And those who have also served and are serving and
stepping up and engaging in the fight to protect the
United States of America. We have a lot of Americans
right now overseas in harm's way in a very difficult situation.
So let's talk a little bit about Iran. I don't
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think President Trump, you know, was campaigning and wanting to
start his second term by saying, hey, let's go engage
in this. In fact, he campaigned on the idea of
getting us out of these forever wars. But at the
same time, presidents, CIA directors, secretaries of war, things like that,
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they get to see intelligence the rest of us don't see.
So I think that knowing these people, having worked with
these people, There's a really compelling reason, I think, why
they probably did do this. But I think America still
has a lot of questions. What's your perspective on what's
going on in Iran right now?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Well, Jason, you summarized that well. And maybe the administration
has not handled the messaging on this to the public
to the best of their ability. So, you know, their job,
the intel community, as you said, the administration, they can't
ignore threats. even if that threat could be more damaging
five years down the road, it takes a lot of
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courage for national leaders to step up and do the
right things. And President Trump has done that. To put
this or summarize this into why we know they did
this was, one, their missile manufacturing capacity was going exponential,
which would have been a much tougher threat to take
down in the future. It would have been a much
bloodier war. But you pair that with their nuclear ambitions
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and enriching nuclear material to weapons grade, paired with those missiles,
that becomes a much more dangerous threat, not only to
the region Europe, but eventually the citizens of the United States.
So I have nothing but applause for leaders that step
up and do the unpopular thing, the right thing, even
if Americans.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Can't see it.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
I think that's where time will actually prove out President
Trump in making tough, difficult decisions. I know there's a
faction of the country that's just got Trump derangement syndrome,
no matter what he does. But let's remember this huge contrast,
because between Obama and Biden, certainly, and Kamala Harris, you know,
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their solution was just appeasement. Hey, let's send them pallets
of cash. Can we get along with them nicer? Can
we do a big group hug? I mean, that is
not what's going to make the world safer. And the
one thing that's also done is that it has dried
up the funding that has gone to Hamas and Hezbollah
and the Houthis and other would-be terrorists to fight and
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do things to the United States and to our allies
that is just unfathomable. And so there has been huge progress.
It's not over yet. I think the president does wish
he could get it behind him. I do think he
wishes he could get that open. But I'm also... I mean,
you've served, and when you're in your capacity, you go overseas.
I just still don't understand why NATO and other freedom-loving
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countries just can't step up and pull their weight and
do their fair share, because it feels like the U.S.
does everything, and these guys just kind of sit on
their hands and reap all the benefits.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
First to fight, first to fund it, first to take
the major pain. It is concerning, and I think it
just shows how how far we're growing away from our
allies in terms of our vision of the future and
in our will to actually step up and do what's right.
You know, I think pain is a great motivator. And
I think our allies are starting to experience the pain
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with the energy markets. And maybe it's going to take
to a point where they recognize they can no longer
ignore this and they have to get involved. And I
think that speaks to this war. And again, I think
the administration could have set expectations Much like the global
war on terror, the administrations didn't set great expectations that
this may not be a decade or two long fight.
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This is going to be a generational fight to stamp
out an ideology. So, you know, what we're seeing right
now is it's a test of wills. Basically, Iran has
their gun out of the holster. So do we. Their
military has been so severely degraded. Their strike capability is
not what it was. Do they still have residual missile
and drone capability? And are they conducting strikes? Yes. But
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they know they can't win against the will. And so
when I say it is now a fight of wills
of who can endure the longest, the economic pain we're
putting on them, the diplomatic alignment we're seeing in the region,
and again, eventually the allies, I do foresee when the
pain becomes intolerable to their economies, they will get involved.
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We've just got to stay the course on this. And
the election cycle is America's biggest weakness, and you know that.
Our adversaries look at that and just say, hey, we
just got to last until the next administration gets into power,
and they'll have a different vision of strategy moving forward.
What we're doing on an economic basis, they're crippled. Now,
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we can't enact regime change without ground troops. It doesn't
mean it needs to be American ground troops. Ultimately, there
has to be a covert part of this war where
we start arming, training, and facilitating the citizens of Iran
to rise up against the regime. Iran is in a
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bad situation right now economically.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
They have to look north, south, east, and west at
external enemies when they truly have to start looking inside
and fighting on two fronts. That's when regimes become brittle,
and that's what can enact or implement regime change. And
that's just going to take time. And unfortunately, patriotism and
war have a shelf life in America, which we need
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to get over that. When something is just and it
has strategic justification, we as an American people need to
align and have the will to see to the end.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah, I was going to mention, I think our enemies
in this, look, we've been fighting sometimes hot, sometimes cold,
but still had a major adversary in Iran for 47
plus years. And so I think Donald Trump, the president,
looked at this and said, we're not doing this anymore.
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We're not going to appease you. We're not going to
let you get a nuclear weapon. We're not going to
let you continue almost on a daily basis to attack, uh, pinpricks, uh,
the United States, which are real lives, right? They're not
just pinpricks. They're, they're actually real lives. Um, and, um,
and they also saw a strong, vibrant, uh, uh, president
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Trump reconstructing the middle East to be more conducive to
a safe and free world. I mean, that's the, I mean,
the Abraham accords, the promises and the, um, The calmness
that was entering in, the new trade that was going
in there, that was all in our best interest and
all part of what was out there. So I do
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think the president needs to continue to explain and show,
and a lot of times they can't, right? They can't
show the classified intelligence. But there's a reason why we
have to do some of the things we do. And
I think it's a fair thing to ask questions about it.
Nobody wants it to go on forever. I think you're right.
The adversary, though, they do want to draw out this
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as long as they can, because a strong and vibrant
President Trump is the worst thing that they want to see.
And by all accounts, you know, I think that the
Republicans have a real shot at holding both the House
and the Senate, which is sort of the worst nightmare
for somebody like an Iran, for a Putin, for President
Xi in China. They do not want this because his
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political strength internally is not good for them.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You're absolutely correct. What he's done with the Middle East
and the alignment we're seeing, I mean, even the defense
pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan is a step forward,
and we're seeing alignment between the Gulf partners that we
haven't seen before. I mean, small in the news and
didn't get much coverage, but Saudi Arabia just officially removed
all anti-Semitic material from any of their schools. We're seeing
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the potential. Abraham's 2.0, Abraham's Accord. But moving out of
that hemisphere, look what he's done in the Western Hemisphere. Venezuela,
which the left, uh you know years before we're saying
you know maduro needed to be removed but the second
trump does it they they cry foul he just removed
our adversaries from the western hemisphere he he is he
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is He's enacting victory after victory, and the left just
can't give him credit for how he's changing the geopolitical
chessboard to benefit America and to benefit the entire world. And,
you know, I wasn't the biggest Obama fan, but you
had to give him credit where credit's due on certain things.
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Even with the global war on terror, he made some
great decisions. He was aggressive in certain ways where, you know,
I may disagree with his domestic policies, but you have
to give people credit, and the left just won't do
that for this president.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Yeah, no, look, when President Obama decided to pull the
trigger and take out Osama bin Laden... It was the
right call. It was a difficult call. It was something
that Joe Biden said he wouldn't do. But I'll give
him credit for that. I disagree with him on, you know, 99%
of the other things. But where there's credit due, it
is the President of the United States, and we do
want them to succeed. And in that case, it was
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the right thing to do. Tough call. And give him
credit for doing it. Mike Cirelli, retired U.S. Navy SEAL,
all-around great American. Thank you so much for joining us
on the Sean Hannity Show. Do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Thanks, Jason.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
All right, Mike, thank you, and stay with us. We're
going to be right back. We've got a lot more
coming up, including Congressman Pat Fallon at the top of
the hour.
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Top of the hour, we're going to be talking to
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to miss that, so stay there for that. But before
we go to one more commercial break, let's go to Lorraine.
She actually lives in Massachusetts. Lorraine, your thoughts on what
happened today?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Hi, Jason.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
I'm calling from Boston, the mega medical capital of the
United States, if not the world, with the best medical colleges.
universities ever. This girl should not be the only one
on trial. The medical professionals that took care of her
should also be on trial. You can't even get an
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antibiotic in this state when you have a virus. But
this poor woman was prescribed so many antipsychotic medicines, antidepressant
medicines with all these side effects. How come the insurance
companies allow this and pay for this? when you can't
even get an antibiotic in this state.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
It's awful.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Someone needs to be accountable for the sake of those
three babies that died. There should be new bills passed
in Congress that have control over these medicines that cause
these terrible side effects on people that are normally normal,
and then get on these antipsychotic medicines and lose their
mind and kill their children. Someone needs to be accountable,
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and there's no accountability for them in Boston, in this
capital of Harvard, and all these wonderful hospitals and doctors.
They prescribe these medicines like candy.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Lorraine, I got to tell you, you make a lot
of really good points. I think mental health is a
real issue, and it takes some serious thought, and there
are too many people that are slipping through the cracks.
But somebody does need to be held accountable. You look
at the prescriptions that are going out the door, pill here,
pill there, all that. And you're right. Then somebody gets
a urinary tract infection and what? You can't go get
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a prescription, something over the counter. There's such an imbalance.
And you know what? I think psychiatry, the profession needs
to step up and say, how are we going to
prevent something horrific like this from happening again? I really,
truly appreciate it. And, you know, at the end of
the day, we got three dead kids. Three dead kids.
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And we're going to go back to the weekend and say, yeah, well,
all right, we had a mistrial. Unbelievable to so many
of us. And Massachusetts, aren't you the one that, you know,
go ahead and kill a kid right before it's born? Yeah,
they're good with that, too. I don't know what's going
up on Massachusetts, but they got to figure it out.
I'm Jason Chaffetz, filling in for Sean Hannity. Stay with us.
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What I hope is for you a beautiful, wonderful Labor
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Day holiday, as some of you are already out on
the road, got the family out there, headed to the beach,
doing whatever it is that you do to celebrate and
enjoy the unofficial end of the summer. Kids getting ready
to go back to school. Lots happening in the news. And,
of course, we would be remiss if we didn't start
off by talking about this Lindsay Clancy story. trial, which
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has been kind of gripping the nation for a while.
Here we get to the mistrial conclusion. We're not going
to dwell on that for the hours that we get
to talk about, but you can't not talk about it.
So we're going to talk about that. We're going to
take your calls. The number to call in is 1-800-941-7326. 1-800-941-SHAWN.
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So we're going to be taking some calls. I'd love
to get your feedback in your hearing, hear what you
have to say, because this really does polarize people one
direction or another. I got some personal feelings. I'll probably
let those out a little bit too. But let's also remember,
we got three dead children. So that'll be interesting to
see what your take is on this and where this
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goes next, because, you know, Justice has to prevail in
this country. But let's hear what you have to say. 1-800-941-SHAWN.
The mistrial today was, I mean, all the drama that
was going on. The jury's been out there deliberating for
day after day after day. Notes going back and forth
with the judge. But there was a little bit of
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frustration along the way. So let's start with cut two.
This is Kevin Reddington, Lindsey Clancy's attorney, making some, you know, demands.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that
juror that's been working for a week now, saying that
there's one juror who refuses to listen to the law
that you've given him or her on reasonable doubt. And
I suggest respectfully that the soft instruction that you gave
them saying at the sidebar, can you listen to the
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law as I instruct you, does not focus on the issue.
The question is not sufficient enough. It does not allow
any foundation for a motion to remove the juror who
refuses to accept your instructions on the law on reasonable doubt.
And if we come back here in a half an
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hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has
just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame.
It's a real shame. And that's why I object to
the court's ruling. I request that we have further inquiry.
I request that my motion is to remove this juror
that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Really, what he's saying is remove the juror that disagrees
with the other 11. But you know what? That's not
the way our system works, unfortunately, for that attorney who
wants to see it go. Now, they were always guessing.
There was always speculation. But based on the question and
the way it was presented, a lot of people are
presuming that 11 were going one direction, one was going
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the other direction. But we don't know the specificity of it.
But certainly that attorney thought that he had clarity on
that and the judge well let's just say he didn't
take to that too well let's play cut three.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Would ask that you specifically direct their attention to proof
beyond a reasonable doubt and re-instruct them on that forcefully I.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Think I did that yesterday didn't I yes You.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Did it yesterday, you did it soft, you didn't do
it forcefully, and I'm asking you to do it forcefully.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Get a brass band?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I read the instruction as written by the SJC.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
The fact that I perhaps.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Didn't give it my full inflection, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'm not an actor.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I've just given the instructions.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Well, my point, Judge, simply, is that you're kind of
glossing over the issue.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The issue is.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
This juror will not, according to that note, apply the
law of reasonable doubt.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I am specifically not glossing over this issue. I have
thought about this issue long enough. I know the defendant objects,
but the characterization that I'm glossing over it Trust me,
that's not the situation. I've been thinking about this for
quite a while. I'm not going to reiterate the reasonable
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doubt at this point. It may come to that again
as we go through it. And I'll try and give
this with more pizzazz than I gave yesterday, I suppose.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
You know, look, I'm not an attorney. And I know
that sounds like I'm bragging, but I'm not an attorney.
And even though I was on the House Judiciary Committee
when I was in Congress once upon a time. But
I got to tell you, it's not often that you
have a judge kind of backing up a little bit saying, oh,
you know, I'll try to give it with more pizzazz.
I'm sorry I didn't bring out the brass band. I
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thought it was a bit presumptuous on that defense attorney.
But I profile case cameras in the courtroom. I think
you get a little bit different flavor and maybe a
different response with those cameras rolling, knowing that all the
networks are out there rolling on this and making it happen.
But ultimately, it ended in what a lot of people
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anticipated today because they hadn't been able to reach a
verdict earlier. And that is a mistrial. So let's go
to cut number four.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Counsel, it's my understanding that the SJC issued their order
that the emergency request for relief was denied and the
temporary stay is lifted. And so it would be my
intention at this time to call the jurors back in.
And as I indicated to you before, to declare a mistrial.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And that's exactly what happened. He came in and did
a mistrial. Afterwards, press conference happens. There are various attorneys
coming out, stating their things. The prosecutor, interestingly enough, for
Plymouth County there, decided not to tell or foreshadow what
he may or may not be doing. And also interesting
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is one of the things that came out from the
defense attorney is they weren't necessarily going to appeal. that
they wanted to get right back after another trial. So
we'll see how it plays out. I think a lot
of people wanted to see a conclusion to this. And
the conclusion was there's no conclusion. So that's the way
we leave it going into the Labor Day weekend. Again, 800-941-SHAWN.
(08:34):
Dial up 1-800-941-SEAN. Love to hear your thoughts on this.
Want to take some calls in a little bit, but
I got to touch on some other things as we're
kicking off this. And again, allowing me, Jason Chavis, to
fill in for Sean. Truly appreciate it. The thing that
probably does affect you, your loved ones, your life, and
everything else were some amazing numbers that came out today. Now,
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I don't want your eyes to gloss over, okay? But
these are really important because the economy really showed some
strength today. I mean, it was like multiple times higher
than what they were guessing was going to happen. The
employment number jumped way up The labor participation rate jumped 0.02%.
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683,000 more people involved and engaged. Here's the best thing
that I think for those that want to see success
in our government. Look, as a conservative, I truly believe
in limited government. You have to actually have limitations on
your government. Now, I remember during the Biden administration that
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And the Obama administration, month after month after month, you'd say, oh,
the employment number's up. And then you would look down
the list and you'd say, why are the employment numbers up?
And they would say, oh, well, look at all the
growth of government jobs. How they did that month after
month after month. But, you know, when you add trillions
of dollars to your spending, what do they do? They
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hire more government workers. When you get more government workers,
what do you get? You get more regulators. You get
more regulators. Now, there is a very limited role for government. But,
you know, some people don't see it that way. Certainly
the Democrats, the socialists, the communists, they don't see it
that way. They're always arguing, hey, we're one good tax
increase away from prosperity in this country. We need more money.
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The cupboards are bare. I remember Nancy Pelosi would argue.
And they want more government because they want more government workers.
But President Trump does not get enough credit for doing
one of the most important things, and that is to
cut back the federal workforce. In fact, the public workforce
number is like at a record low as a proportion
to where we've been at in the past. So that is,
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I mean, if you go out and look on the
internet and actually go through this and you say, well,
how does that affect me in my life? Well, for
every dollar that you're having to spend a government, guess what?
You're pulling one out of your wallet and it's going
to somebody else. So you want more money in your wallet.
You want less inflation. You want more purchasing power. That's
a key indicator. So I know there's this, uh, There's
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Lindsey Clancy trial. We've got a lot of other things
going on in the world. We're going to talk about
all those. But I don't know, as a guy who
kind of gets giddy over this sort of stuff, I
think it's really important that the numbers that came out
today from the White House, they were impressive. And you
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may not digest them all. You may not go back
to the kitchen table and regurgitate them. But I tell you,
there are hundreds of of thousands of families that are
now participating in the workforce and have new jobs and
putting money in their wallets and can get jobs. Guess
what happens? They go out and spend that money. That's
good for the economy. So that's really good stuff. The
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other part of this, and we're going to talk about
this Lindsay Clancy trial. Again, the number 800-941-SHAWN, 800-941-SHAWN. I
can see the Board is lighting up here. We're going
to get to some questions and comments. But at last
point here, there is a direct proportion to what President
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Trump and his administration is doing by increasing the number
of deportations. So guess what happens? Deportation numbers are up.
Labor participation is up. Number of people participating in the
workforce is up. even though some of these other numbers
are going down, like the illegal immigration population. Isn't it
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amazing how that works? You know what else that helps? Housing.
I hear about affordability all the time. Oh my gosh.
And I saw one number one time. Oh, we're 20
million homes short in America. Oh, well, we have what?
Roughly 20 million people here illegally. Amazing how that might work.
You get a bunch of deportations. What's that do to
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the housing market? It's going to drive down prices, drive
down prices, makes affordability better. They all tie in together.
All right, let's go back and talk about Lindsay Clancy,
because this is certainly, you go to the front of
any website or any social media, but let's talk about it,
because talking about it's a little bit different. So let's
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go to Margie in Michigan. Margie, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Good.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Good to chat with you.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well, I was really upset with the verdict. I had
five sons in 12 years, and anybody who's got kids
understands boys at a young age can be a little
more difficult, but my kids are my world. I would
not survive as long as I survived without them. And
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it just breaks my heart, those three little children gone
because their mom, who supposedly was a nurse and was
taking all these medications... She should know better. And I
think she was guilty. And God bless the man that
stood up and didn't change his verdict because he had
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morals enough to understand that she did it. I have
no doubt in my mind that she did it. And
the reason being is because, oh, she's searching how long
it takes to get somewhere. I'm just extremely upset. And
I just can't even understand how... any woman or any
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person would side with her and not think of those children.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, Margie, I think you, look, everybody's got an opinion.
I have one too. You may agree, may disagree with it.
I'm with you, Margie. I just, look, God bless you
for raising five boys. I can't only imagine what it
was like at breakfast time trying to get them out
the door for school. or the bathroom, or anything else.
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So five boys is a lot. So God bless you.
And there's a lot of people who do that. You know,
my wife and I were blessed with three kids, and
now we got six grandkids. I can't believe it. But
good for you. I think we need to go back
and look at psychiatrists. I think there is a deal
with it. I think we need to go back and
look at how many prescriptions she was doing. I think
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it's going to set back A lot of things, we
have to deal with the mental health aspect in this country.
I think that is real. I think both things can
be true. But I don't think sitting in that jury,
I don't think I could go out and say, no, no,
I'm not guilty. We're going to let her off. I just,
I couldn't do that. We're going to take more calls. Again,
the number 1-800-941-SHAWN, 800-941-SEAN. I'm Jason Chaffetz, felon in for Sean.
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Lots more to talk about. Stay with us. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Question, how many liberals does it take to make a
common sense statement?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yep, you're right.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Fake news, not even possible.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
You're locked in on The Hannity Show. Big news coming
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out of the WNBA, and a lot of you are saying,
I don't care. But I'm kind of usually in that camp.
I'm just being honest. I don't really follow the WNBA.
But leadership change there. The commissioner, Kathy Engelbert, saying, hey,
she's going to step down by the end of the
calendar year. This is the group that could not figure
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out the definition of what a woman is. So they're
going to have some leadership change and maybe they can
go back to the drawing board and go work on
figuring out what that is. But the bold move coming
in here, the first part of September saying, oh, by
the end of December, I'm going to go ahead and
leave my job. Probably should have left a long time ago.
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But big news out of the WNBA. Hang in there
with us. We got Mike Cirelli, retired Navy SEAL. We're
going to be talking Iran, which is kind of important.
A lot of good men and women serving overseas. Mike Cirelli,
one of the sharpest minds, recon Marine, scout sniper, retired SEAL.
You're going to love him if you haven't heard him before.
Mike Cirelli, stay with us. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
When fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth.
Sean Hannity is on right now.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Well, almost, Sean Hannity. I'm Jason Chavis. I'm filling in
for Sean. You know, we're getting ready for the big
Labor Day weekend, but I've been texting, going back and
forth with Sean because he never really, truly takes a break.
But nevertheless, I still want to take some calls. The
phone's been lighting up. The number 1-800-941-SEAN. So let's go
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to Steve. He's in Mississippi. Steve, what are you thinking
of this mistrial?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
As a police officer, I couldn't imagine being the first
on the scene and finding those three babies murdered. Then
you have to watch 11 sick individuals try to say
that she's not guilty by insanity. Of course she's insane.
It would take an insane person to kill your three children.
It's just sick to my stomach. And I worry about
where this country's going. The fact that we're even considering
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letting her off just makes me sick to my stomach.
Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
No, Steve, look, I think you're feeling what a lot
of Americans feel, certainly what I feel. I never give
enough credit. We say it a lot, but you can
never say it enough. The first responders, whether you be
a police officer working in an ambulance, certainly fire, wherever
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it might be, or just the innocent person who's just,
you know, waking up that morning, not expecting to see
the horror that they saw there in Massachusetts. And those
police officers and those personnel and those detectives and everything else,
they not only had to find it, then they had
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to clean it up.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And so.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
To go back to that whole process and then Oh,
we got a mistrial. It's just beyond me. I just,
I really don't understand. Now, this is what's also great
about the United States of America. It's why we are
different than everywhere else. We have these jury trials and
you get your peers, jury of your peers. Swift justice
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never comes swift enough, but they have to ultimately figure
this out. So we'll talk some more about this. We're
going to take some more calls.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
1-800-941-SHAWN.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
But now we're pleased to have Mike Cirelli. He's a
retired U.S. Navy SEAL, recon marine, scout, sniper, all-around good guy.
I've gotten to know him. Just a wonderful human being,
patriotic as all can be. Mike Cirelli, thank you so
much for joining us on Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Hey, Jason, good to be with you.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
No, listen, I truly appreciate your service. Can't thank you enough.
And those who have also served and are serving and
stepping up and engaging in the fight to protect the
United States of America. We have a lot of Americans
right now overseas in harm's way in a very difficult situation.
So let's talk a little bit about Iran. I don't
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think President Trump, you know, was campaigning and wanting to
start his second term by saying, hey, let's go engage
in this. In fact, he campaigned on the idea of
getting us out of these forever wars. But at the
same time, presidents, CIA directors, secretaries of war, things like that,
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they get to see intelligence the rest of us don't see.
So I think that knowing these people, having worked with
these people, There's a really compelling reason, I think, why
they probably did do this. But I think America still
has a lot of questions. What's your perspective on what's
going on in Iran right now?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Well, Jason, you summarized that well. And maybe the administration
has not handled the messaging on this to the public
to the best of their ability. So, you know, their job,
the intel community, as you said, the administration, they can't
ignore threats. even if that threat could be more damaging
five years down the road, it takes a lot of
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courage for national leaders to step up and do the
right things. And President Trump has done that. To put
this or summarize this into why we know they did
this was, one, their missile manufacturing capacity was going exponential,
which would have been a much tougher threat to take
down in the future. It would have been a much
bloodier war. But you pair that with their nuclear ambitions
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and enriching nuclear material to weapons grade, paired with those missiles,
that becomes a much more dangerous threat, not only to
the region Europe, but eventually the citizens of the United States.
So I have nothing but applause for leaders that step
up and do the unpopular thing, the right thing, even
if Americans.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Can't see it.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
I think that's where time will actually prove out President
Trump in making tough, difficult decisions. I know there's a
faction of the country that's just got Trump derangement syndrome,
no matter what he does. But let's remember this huge contrast,
because between Obama and Biden, certainly, and Kamala Harris, you know,
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their solution was just appeasement. Hey, let's send them pallets
of cash. Can we get along with them nicer? Can
we do a big group hug? I mean, that is
not what's going to make the world safer. And the
one thing that's also done is that it has dried
up the funding that has gone to Hamas and Hezbollah
and the Houthis and other would-be terrorists to fight and
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do things to the United States and to our allies
that is just unfathomable. And so there has been huge progress.
It's not over yet. I think the president does wish
he could get it behind him. I do think he
wishes he could get that open. But I'm also... I mean,
you've served, and when you're in your capacity, you go overseas.
I just still don't understand why NATO and other freedom-loving
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countries just can't step up and pull their weight and
do their fair share, because it feels like the U.S.
does everything, and these guys just kind of sit on
their hands and reap all the benefits.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
First to fight, first to fund it, first to take
the major pain. It is concerning, and I think it
just shows how how far we're growing away from our
allies in terms of our vision of the future and
in our will to actually step up and do what's right.
You know, I think pain is a great motivator. And
I think our allies are starting to experience the pain
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with the energy markets. And maybe it's going to take
to a point where they recognize they can no longer
ignore this and they have to get involved. And I
think that speaks to this war. And again, I think
the administration could have set expectations Much like the global
war on terror, the administrations didn't set great expectations that
this may not be a decade or two long fight.
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This is going to be a generational fight to stamp
out an ideology. So, you know, what we're seeing right
now is it's a test of wills. Basically, Iran has
their gun out of the holster. So do we. Their
military has been so severely degraded. Their strike capability is
not what it was. Do they still have residual missile
and drone capability? And are they conducting strikes? Yes. But
(25:33):
they know they can't win against the will. And so
when I say it is now a fight of wills
of who can endure the longest, the economic pain we're
putting on them, the diplomatic alignment we're seeing in the region,
and again, eventually the allies, I do foresee when the
pain becomes intolerable to their economies, they will get involved.
(25:53):
We've just got to stay the course on this. And
the election cycle is America's biggest weakness, and you know that.
Our adversaries look at that and just say, hey, we
just got to last until the next administration gets into power,
and they'll have a different vision of strategy moving forward.
What we're doing on an economic basis, they're crippled. Now,
(26:14):
we can't enact regime change without ground troops. It doesn't
mean it needs to be American ground troops. Ultimately, there
has to be a covert part of this war where
we start arming, training, and facilitating the citizens of Iran
to rise up against the regime. Iran is in a
(26:35):
bad situation right now economically.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
They have to look north, south, east, and west at
external enemies when they truly have to start looking inside
and fighting on two fronts. That's when regimes become brittle,
and that's what can enact or implement regime change. And
that's just going to take time. And unfortunately, patriotism and
war have a shelf life in America, which we need
(26:59):
to get over that. When something is just and it
has strategic justification, we as an American people need to
align and have the will to see to the end.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah, I was going to mention, I think our enemies
in this, look, we've been fighting sometimes hot, sometimes cold,
but still had a major adversary in Iran for 47
plus years. And so I think Donald Trump, the president,
looked at this and said, we're not doing this anymore.
(27:28):
We're not going to appease you. We're not going to
let you get a nuclear weapon. We're not going to
let you continue almost on a daily basis to attack, uh, pinpricks, uh,
the United States, which are real lives, right? They're not
just pinpricks. They're, they're actually real lives. Um, and, um,
and they also saw a strong, vibrant, uh, uh, president
(27:50):
Trump reconstructing the middle East to be more conducive to
a safe and free world. I mean, that's the, I mean,
the Abraham accords, the promises and the, um, The calmness
that was entering in, the new trade that was going
in there, that was all in our best interest and
all part of what was out there. So I do
(28:12):
think the president needs to continue to explain and show,
and a lot of times they can't, right? They can't
show the classified intelligence. But there's a reason why we
have to do some of the things we do. And
I think it's a fair thing to ask questions about it.
Nobody wants it to go on forever. I think you're right.
The adversary, though, they do want to draw out this
(28:35):
as long as they can, because a strong and vibrant
President Trump is the worst thing that they want to see.
And by all accounts, you know, I think that the
Republicans have a real shot at holding both the House
and the Senate, which is sort of the worst nightmare
for somebody like an Iran, for a Putin, for President
Xi in China. They do not want this because his
(28:59):
political strength internally is not good for them.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You're absolutely correct. What he's done with the Middle East
and the alignment we're seeing, I mean, even the defense
pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan is a step forward,
and we're seeing alignment between the Gulf partners that we
haven't seen before. I mean, small in the news and
didn't get much coverage, but Saudi Arabia just officially removed
all anti-Semitic material from any of their schools. We're seeing
(29:27):
the potential. Abraham's 2.0, Abraham's Accord. But moving out of
that hemisphere, look what he's done in the Western Hemisphere. Venezuela,
which the left, uh you know years before we're saying
you know maduro needed to be removed but the second
trump does it they they cry foul he just removed
our adversaries from the western hemisphere he he is he
(29:49):
is He's enacting victory after victory, and the left just
can't give him credit for how he's changing the geopolitical
chessboard to benefit America and to benefit the entire world. And,
you know, I wasn't the biggest Obama fan, but you
had to give him credit where credit's due on certain things.
(30:11):
Even with the global war on terror, he made some
great decisions. He was aggressive in certain ways where, you know,
I may disagree with his domestic policies, but you have
to give people credit, and the left just won't do
that for this president.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Yeah, no, look, when President Obama decided to pull the
trigger and take out Osama bin Laden... It was the
right call. It was a difficult call. It was something
that Joe Biden said he wouldn't do. But I'll give
him credit for that. I disagree with him on, you know, 99%
of the other things. But where there's credit due, it
is the President of the United States, and we do
want them to succeed. And in that case, it was
(30:47):
the right thing to do. Tough call. And give him
credit for doing it. Mike Cirelli, retired U.S. Navy SEAL,
all-around great American. Thank you so much for joining us
on the Sean Hannity Show. Do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Thanks, Jason.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
All right, Mike, thank you, and stay with us. We're
going to be right back. We've got a lot more
coming up, including Congressman Pat Fallon at the top of
the hour.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Three hours a day of red, white, and blue.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
America Proud. This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Top of the hour, we're going to be talking to
Congressman Pat Fallon about ActBlue. You're not going to want
to miss that, so stay there for that. But before
we go to one more commercial break, let's go to Lorraine.
She actually lives in Massachusetts. Lorraine, your thoughts on what
happened today?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Hi, Jason.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
I'm calling from Boston, the mega medical capital of the
United States, if not the world, with the best medical colleges.
universities ever. This girl should not be the only one
on trial. The medical professionals that took care of her
should also be on trial. You can't even get an
(32:26):
antibiotic in this state when you have a virus. But
this poor woman was prescribed so many antipsychotic medicines, antidepressant
medicines with all these side effects. How come the insurance
companies allow this and pay for this? when you can't
even get an antibiotic in this state.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
It's awful.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Someone needs to be accountable for the sake of those
three babies that died. There should be new bills passed
in Congress that have control over these medicines that cause
these terrible side effects on people that are normally normal,
and then get on these antipsychotic medicines and lose their
mind and kill their children. Someone needs to be accountable,
(33:09):
and there's no accountability for them in Boston, in this
capital of Harvard, and all these wonderful hospitals and doctors.
They prescribe these medicines like candy.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Lorraine, I got to tell you, you make a lot
of really good points. I think mental health is a
real issue, and it takes some serious thought, and there
are too many people that are slipping through the cracks.
But somebody does need to be held accountable. You look
at the prescriptions that are going out the door, pill here,
pill there, all that. And you're right. Then somebody gets
a urinary tract infection and what? You can't go get
(33:44):
a prescription, something over the counter. There's such an imbalance.
And you know what? I think psychiatry, the profession needs
to step up and say, how are we going to
prevent something horrific like this from happening again? I really,
truly appreciate it. And, you know, at the end of
the day, we got three dead kids. Three dead kids.
(34:04):
And we're going to go back to the weekend and say, yeah, well,
all right, we had a mistrial. Unbelievable to so many
of us. And Massachusetts, aren't you the one that, you know,
go ahead and kill a kid right before it's born? Yeah,
they're good with that, too. I don't know what's going
up on Massachusetts, but they got to figure it out.
I'm Jason Chaffetz, filling in for Sean Hannity. Stay with us.
(34:25):
Pat Fallon coming up next.
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