September 6, 2024 • 30 mins
Jeff Bartos, 2022 U.S. Senate candidate and 2018 Republican nominee for Lt. Governor and Salena Zito, National Political Reporter for The Washington Examiner and the best grandmother ever, discuss last night’s appearance by President Donald Trump in Harrisburg, PA. Looks like the commonwealth of Pennsylvania may surprise the liberal left that call the keystone state a sure thing for Kamala -
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thanks Scott Shannon. Hour two Sean Hannity's show,
Toll Free. It is eight hundred and nine to four one, Shawn,
if you want to be a part of the program.
We have a lot coming up today and we are
only sixty days away till election day. We have early
ballots going out to North Carolina today, Mellon absentee ballots,
eleven days voting in Pennsylvania. And here we are on
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the eve of all of this. A ton of news
breaking between yesterday and today as it relates to the
weaponization of our Justice Department. But one bit of good news.
I think it's good news. In my opinion, I frankly
think this entire you know, New York trial should be vacated,
I mean, based on the Supreme Court decision involving immunity anyway,
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Judge Mrshawn and this ruling, said, cited the unique time
frame that this matter currently finds itself in, and scheduled
sentencing for November twenty six. He had previously planned to
hand down mister Trump's punishment September eighteenth, only seven weeks
before election day. This is not a decision the Court
makes likely lightly, but the decision is in. This is
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the court's view best advances the cause and the interests
of justice. Now, this is on top of the fact
that you know, in spite of what has been a
longstanding DOJ policy not to bring political cases before elections. Well,
we saw this unfold in d C just yesterday, where
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in the DC case that the judge is likely going
to allow damning evidence not in a trial, because the
trial is not going to take place in the DC
case prior to an election, which would be very prejudicial
towards Donald Trump. And this is where we now find ourselves.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We have with US.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Attorney General Ashley Moody is with us, and by the way,
she's suing the Biden administration for documents proving the federal
government is pushing criminal illegal immigrants and aliens out of
prison and into our communities. Alena Haba is the legal
spokeswoman for President Trump. Elena, let's start with you. Let's
start with Mershaun and today, and let's go back to
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yesterday and the judge in DC in the January sixth
case that was just refiled.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, well, Sean, you know, obviously we think the judge
made the first step, which was a right decision on
the hush money as we call it case in New York.
But I agree with you completely. Number one, This case,
along with January six should never have been brought. Number two,
We can't ignore the fact that these were all brought
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as election interference cases. You just can't deny it because
the timing doesn't make sense for us to be inundated.
It makes actually perfect sense. Let me be clear, for
us to be inundated held up in court as we
have only to now be sixty days out of an election.
They've had failed Jack Smith's indictments that now he has
had the opportunity to refile only because of delays because
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of the amount of evidence that they had their hands
in the cookie jar and mess up. Okay, is so inappropriate.
That's on January sixth, and that case, along with this
hush money case in New York that we now have
a sentencing delay on, should frankly be completely wiped out.
We're hearing rumblings of issues that have come out to
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be true from Congress that there was authentic and donations
made to authentic. That is inappropriate.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Look, Sean, you and I have.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Talked about this ad nauseum. We cannot have a weaponized
justice system. The people need to believe that the dj
is there to protect the American people, not to be political,
not to be arms of the Democrat Party or frankly
any party, the Republicans either, and that is what we
need to get our country back. But what they're doing
to President Trump in the middle of election, and what
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they've done to this man for the last three and
a half years to get him off the campaign trails,
what they did taking Biden off, putting Kamala in. He
is the most resilient person I've ever met in my life.
And if you ever have any doubts about somebody who
can withstand any amount of trauma, any amount of attack,
and take care of this country, I don't know how
you could stand with anybody but Trump at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Sean, let me ask you, Attorney General Ashley Moody. I
think this if you look at this case and you
juxtaposed it with the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity,
that decision was very clear. In this case that took
place in New York. As I said, it was a
misdemeanor case whose statute of limitations had long since expired,
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and Alvin Bragg comes up with this novel legal theory
and a crazy left wing political activist of a judge
goes along with this and anyway, but evidence presented in
that case was from the time when Donald Trump was president.
How do you not vacate that verdict in that case completely?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Well, look, exactly right. This was a well documented judge
who had ties to donation to Biden's You describe him
as an activist judge, I would argue, people could say
the prosecutors were activists. And what concerns me? I think, yes,
having the sentencing delayed that, I think that is great news.
But what's concerning to me is this decision on the
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motion to vacate conviction is going to is set right
after the election, and you know as well as I do,
that the media is going to continue to talk about
all of this as it leads right up and through
that election on November the fifth, to hit that next gate.
And how can that be the case in a country
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where you have someone on the presidential ballot being the
discussion of a conviction of thirty four counts of convictions
which we will all call and I know you've called
them zombie charges. So you know, I think that it's
good news that this was set off, but the fact
that it's set off just after the election, you know
that the media is direct fund this motion to vacate
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conviction is going to draw everyone's attention back to all
of the evidence that that judge let in, which as
a former judge myself and a former federal prosecutor, I
can tell you so much of that should have never
come in. And I think it's going to be argued
that look at the witnesses they were calling Hokik others
that were directly related to his official duties. So how
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can you say so much of that evidence wasn't related
to what's going to come under that immunity ruling by
the Supreme Court. And the fact, I'll go back to
what Mizaba was saying, the fact that we're discussing this
right now, seven weeks out from elections shows that what
they have planned all along is happening. And while we're
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focusing on this stuff, these cases, the evidence that should
have never come in in those trials, the charges that
should have never been tried in court. They're talking, they're
allowing their candidate to run around and make up lies
and basically say what he said, what Trump said, She's
copying all of his policies. And meanwhile, instead of talking
about policies, we're having that the campaign is having to
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respond to these allegations that have already been discussed in
courtant now we're having to go through motion practices and
preparing for a sentencing. It's unbelievable the state that we
find ourselves as a country during this twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
There is not a legal scholar Oleina that I don't
know that doesn't see this being overturned on appeal, and
therein lies a huge problem is you can't appeal this
until sentencing takes place, and that would otherwise vindicate Donald
Trump before the election. So the law fair if you will,
or the weaponization continues through the election. That's problematic in
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and of itself.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It is the damage is done.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Look, they controlled the narrative and the radical left media
definitely had their hand in this in making sure that
it was inundated with nothing but Trump legal issues, women,
be it financial, be it their company in an attempt
to take him down. So, yeah, you can't ignore what
has happened for the last three years. I will say though,
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I think Shawn, and I know you'll agree with this.
Who else could be where he is after all these attacks.
It's impossible. Nobody could withstand this.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
The polls are.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Unbelievable considering what he's withstood. So you know, I agree
with you. The damage is done. But more importantly, the
American taxpayers have had damage. They've been paying for this
nonsense through taxpayer dollars. They've been funding these das and ags.
They elected these people and they said they were going
to get Trump and that's, frankly, exactly what they tried
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to do. And now they've got mud on their face.
So I think what I would like to do as
an American, as a mother, as a human being that
is sick and tired of this who is, get back
to policy and let the American people see and talk
about how the country was better under Trump, because this
lawfair is such a distraction. We all know what happened
Yester with Hunter Frankly is just because he knows he's
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going to get a pardon. I know that you know
that it's a joke. And to act like he's a martyr,
that was another thing I never thought i'd see, but
you know, they never cease to amaze me, this current administration.
And it's a sad thing what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Let me, I'd be negligent if I didn't get into
what you're doing down here in Florida, the Free State
of Florida. And I have no idea why you're still
in the northeast Alina, But you know that's your choice.
Everyone's free to live wherever they want. You can pay
all the taxes, and what's.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That I am moving on to the Free State of Florida.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Actually, I don't blame you, but Attorney General Moody, you
did file a lawsuit against the Biden Harris administration for
their failure to produce public documents responsive to the Freedom
of Information Act request filed by your office in March
seeking documents regarding the administration's policies permitting the release of
dangerous criminals into the US and following the release there
(10:00):
release from US prisons. But it's even worse than that,
whether those Foxnews dot Com has been trying through the
Freedom of Information Act to get details on the nationalities
and backgrounds of people would territize that Harris and Biden
have allowed into this country unvetted.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Absolutely, and so much of this is being done without
any knowledge by the American people. When I tell folks
that people that they have brought into our country specifically
to prosecute and put behind bars because they are committing
crimes against America, Harris and Biden have decided that instead
of immediately deporting these criminals out of our US prisons,
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they are just going to release some street into our community.
That is the opposite of what every administration has ever done.
So it's not just that they're letting people on the
Terraces watch List in gang members, traffickers flood into our
country over the border. They're taking those that they have
brought here and put into our prisons for criminal prosecutions,
and when they're sentences over, they're saying, no longer are
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we going to send them home. They're just going to
live among us. And you see how well that's working
out in Colorado. You're seeing how well that's working out
in New York City. In fact, Mayor Adams just said, look,
we can't work with them, We can't support these people
because the administration, even when we arrest them, they won't
support them. So when you have liberal mayors stating we're
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in a state of chaos and it's because we can't
support these people and they're not doing what they're required
by law to do. You know, we're in for a
world of hurt and my biggest fear, and I'll go
back to how we started this discussion. While we're sitting
here talking about cases. While we're sitting here talking about
presidential immunity and all of the conviction and all of
the cases that have been sought and targeted against President Trump,
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we aren't highlighting this exactly, this that they are allowing
our country to rot from within and covering it with
like a candy coateored sugar of Paris, going around pretending.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
All is well.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
And that has to be the focus of this next
sets in weeks. What do you want the country to
look like? And this is happening, and I will continue
to fight to make sure the American people know it
because it's affecting law enforcement, it's affecting our community in Florida,
and I know every state is feeling the same thing.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It really is a quick break. Will come back more
on this ruling. Sentencing in the New York case now
has been put on a delay post election. We'll continue
with Alena Habba and also Ashley Moody, the Attorney General
of Florida, Attorney General, Great State of Florida, my Free
State of Florida. Ashley Moody is with us, and Donald
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Trump's presidential legal spokesperson, Alena Hobba is with us. Elena,
let's talk about where we go from here, and if
Donald Trump wins this election, I have to imagine that
all of this has to go away.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
But am I wrong? Am I thinking?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No, You're not wrong, and you're thinking obviously in sentencing
will be null and void. And I think the judge
acknowledge is that. I think that, you know, that's a
good first step. But yeah, no, these cases effectively are done.
We know Georgia's binda and we know that they should
never have been brought. But yes, they would be completely
avoid and you know, it's what we shouldn't even have
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to do that. But yeah, that's that's unfortunately what would happen.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, what's your take?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Do you think this does have an impact on the
American people?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Attorney General Moodie will give you the last word.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I think the fact that we have the Democratic candidate
Harris running around telling people she's basically supporting all of
the policies that Trump did during office that kept this
nation safe and protected our people. I think that's indicative
that she is trying to scan the American people and
distract us with all of this other stuff so that
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people won't dig in and find out the truth. But
I'm telling you we're committed to doing that. I think
Lena is committed to doing that, and I'm hoping we
give it a final push up into November to make
that a reality so people know what they're voting for.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's all very, very important.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We'll have a lot more on this on Hannity tonight,
nine Eastern on Fox. We thank you Elina Haba. Thank
you Attorney General Ashley Moody. We appreciate both of you
being with us. Thank you so much. On this Friday. Anyway,
we proudly welcome back Tony Bood to the program. And anyway,
he's the executive director of VTA Vapor Technology Association. They're
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at the forefront of defending the vape industry. And you
might say, well, Hannity, why do you care about this,
But well, we've seen you on TV, you vape. I'm like, okay,
guilty is charged. Probably not the healthiest thing that I
do in my life, but you know what, I do
it so or I chew nicorette, I do that too,
and I kind of go back and forth between the two.
(14:45):
And anyway, long story short is I gave up smoking cigars.
You know, many many years ago. I was smoking way
too many of them. And the same with when I
was a kid. I smoked cigarettes when I was eleven
twelve in a restaurant. It's ridiculous, But this is a
different time. My parents smoked, My sisters at the time
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all smoked. They ended up all giving it up, as
it did. I gave it up when I was twenty.
It never was a big I never really liked how
to smell. But you know, I don't know why. I
like a very low I use two different vapes, one
that has no nicotine at all and one that has
nicotine just a very low zero point three percent. And however,
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I believe in freedom, and this is an ongoing discussion
that we have had that the Party of Joy and
the Party of Freedom would take away and tax you
to death on the issue of choosing to vapor not vape.
I would not recommend smoking, I would not recommend shrinking
and access I you know, for example, but I don't
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want my guns confiscated with a mandatory buyback. That doesn't
sound like freedom and joy, you know, the price of democracy.
Kamala calls high gas prices not a lot of joy
and freedom, paying you know, a buck fifty more gallon
than I was paying under Donald Trump. Not having my
private health insurance, no joy, No freedom there either, freedom enjoyed.
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Not to join a union if you don't want to.
You know, I'd like to have, for example, the right
to own the car that I want. But I believe
in freedom, and I don't think I don't think car
companies should be pressured to buy to produce vehicles that
their customers don't want and lose four and a half
billion dollars in a single year like Ford did, which
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puts at risk high paying career jobs for the people
that work in the auto industry. Those are great jobs
for people, And I don't want, you know, people messing
with my dishwasher or my stove, or my washing machine
or the light bulb of my choice. I noticed Kamala
now is flipped and flopped again and fleiled on on
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the issue of plastic straws. I mean, is there anything
she's not going to flip bond? You know, that's just
in forty days. You know, she has flipped and flopped
and flailed on nearly every major topic on Now we're
being told that the woman that cast a tie breaking
vote on taxing tips for service workers, that directly went
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after service workers and funded the irs to do it.
Oh no, no, no, I'm again. I'm not taxing tips because
Donald Trump is for that. The person responsible for the
ev mandate in twenty nineteen ers, oh no, no, no, I
don't want an ev mandate. The person that you know
says it's the price of democracy to pay high energy
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prices and says she would ban cracking and drilling. Oh
I didn't really mean that. I said it in twenty twenty. Well,
she didn't say it in twenty twenty. She lied on
CNN and that's sixteen and admitute. In twenty nine second interview,
she co sponsored Medicare for All, universal health care that
would eliminate private insurance. That's not freedom, you know, I'd
like the freedom to live in safety and security and
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not have unveil. Harris Biden criminals and murderers and rapists
and people would terroritize in the country. Either he wants
to decriminalize illegal immigration, get free housing, health care, and education.
You know, I mentioned mandatory gun buybacks and the other
all these other issues that she's flipped and flopped and
flailed on. I'm just getting tired of all of it.
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Who is the real Kamala Harris. We're dealing with a
ghost who just hied. We'll see her next week for
ninety minutes. I guess we should be so blessed anyway,
joining us now, a friend, Tony Abuddha is back and
Tony great to have you, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I'm doing really well, Sean. Thanks for having me on
this program. I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You know, I'm not recommending anybody get nicotine patches and
nicorect gum or vaping or I'm not recommending any of
that for anybody, you know, but there are zero nicotine vapes.
I have one that's a mental it's actually very very good.
But you know, a lot of these. If I lived
in New York, I wouldn't even be able to buy
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it there, right.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
That's true. But this administration is doing everything that's power
to take away your freedom to vate, and as well
as every American's freedom to choose flavored bates or any
other flavored nicotine product that you know, I know, and
the FDA notes is dramatically less harmful than smoking cigarettes.
What this really amounts to, Sean, is I view this
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as an attack on working people. I mean, who are
the people that smoke? People with low incomes now struggling
from paycheck to paycheck, not people on Wall Street, people
who work in the trades, not in Silicon Valley. But
this administration is literally ripping these bait products, which are
the least expensive and the most effective smoking cessation tool
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out in the hands of everyday, hardworking Americans. And as
you noted earlier, they're trying to tax the amount of existence. Also,
I mean, shouldn't we want a tax on less harmful
products to be lower than the taxes on cigarettes. This
is not about public health anymore, about restricting personal freedoms
and trying to convince Americans that they should quit everything,
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which isn't a realistic public policy and it's not good
for the people themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, I mean, this is part of a pattern.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They claim that they're doing this, you know, all out
of our best interests. But none of this is in
our best interest, is it.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
No, it's not. I mean, Sean, the hypocrisy on nicotine
goes beyond anything that you and I have seen in
our lifetime. The same people who are pushing legalized marijuana
are the same people that are trying to ban flavored
babes and other nicotine products from them.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
By the way, how bizarre is that? I mean, because
especially marijuana. I mean, look, I know there are some
people that use it, and I guess can be functioning,
high performing, functioning adults. But that's not the average person
that I've experienced in my life. You know, a lot
of people that I know can't. They end up wasting
their lives away, and it does lead I have found
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it to be my own personal experience and the mixed
studies on it. I don't want to get into a
study versus study debate, but in my view, it is
a gateway drug and once you like getting high, you
got to keep getting high.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Well, there's no question that has a psychoactive impact on
the person. That does impact kind of how they perform.
But nicotine, as you've experienced, is by comparison, relatively benign.
But these again are the same people who are advocating
for flavored cannabis gummies, but they refuse to even let
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adults choose a flavored vaping product which can help them
quit smoking. They're also the same folks that are using
taxpayer funds to give people tools such as free needles
to continue using heroin, but they want to tax out
of existence ethigarettes, the tool that people are using to
quit smoking. None of this makes any sense. And this
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is where Americans can smell hypocrisy very very quickly, and
even with fentanyl Sean, I mean, tax payer funded campaigns
right in New York City telling people it's okay to
use fentanyl as long as they used it safely. But
this administration's FDA has refused to tell Americans they should
even try using an e cigarette and they have to
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quit everything all together. I mean, that's just not real policy,
it's not real science, and it demonstrates a desire to
get rid of all things that are related to nicotine.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You can get you can get addicted to anything.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I mean, you know, there's an epidemic now that is
emerging in the country that people don't talk about, and
that is you know, online betting. I mean you could
you could literally be in a casino in your own
home twenty four hours a day for most people, depending
on what the state law is, and it's most states,
you could be sports betting all day long too. I'm
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not against people doing it. I believe in the liberty
and freedom to do it. But it is leading to
an epidemic of addiction that I don't think we're paying
enough attention.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Two.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah, I think that's right, And I think that the
key here is when you think about where this discussion
is gone. In twenty nineteen, the FDA tried to convince
President Trump to ban flavored e cigarette, saying that it
would protect kids. But he did something a lot smarter.
If you remember, he chose to raise the age to
twenty one to buy any tobacco product. And since that decision,
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guess what, youth vaping in this country has plummeted. In fact,
the numbers just came out again yesterday. Youth vaping year
over year is down another twenty five percent and down
seventy one percent since President Trump made that bold move
when he was being told, oh, he has to get
rid of flavored vaping. We can't trust Americans to make
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in making the correct choice. I mean, that's a huge
victory and one that we were proud to be a
part of. But unfortunately, since he left office, the bureaucrats
at FDA, they've rubbed up their bann e cigarettes machinery
and they're doing everything in their power to deny acts
us in the marketplace. And they're doing everything they can
right now. This is scary part to shut down the
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thirteen thousand small businesses that President Trump saved in twenty
and nineteen, and the way they're doing it is even
more concerning. They're going into mom and pop shops Sean,
finding one flavored bape on the shelf and issuing a
first time fine of twenty thousand dollars on a small business.
I mean, the administration cannot pretend it's trying to bolster
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small businesses in this country when its agents are taking
them down every day.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Really is amazing. Well, we appreciate you talking about the
issue of liberty and freedom from the Freedom and Enjoy
Party that is anything but the Freedom Enjoy Party. But
of course you know we can't question them because they
won't do an interview a gaggle, a press conference, anything.
They won't talk to anybody. Tonyaboud, thank you, my friend.
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Speaker 7 (26:24):
The final hour of the Sean Hannity Show is up next.
Hang on for Shawn's conservative solutions.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Hell, let's get to our busy phones.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean, if you'd like
to join us, Mike in North Carolina. By the way,
ballot's going out today in early voting ballots in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
What's going on? Mike? How are you glad you called? Sir?
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Hey, Shawn, thank you so much for taking my call. Yes,
North Carolina is kind of a fickle state.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
We have Roy Cooper as a Democrat governor, and you know,
we then we have a supermajority in the in the
House that are Republicans, thank god, because if it wasn't
for that, then he would uh uh we would be uh,
you know, California here. But my question is is that
(27:24):
we're getting ready you know they're getting ready to send
out uh mail in ballots here, you know, and I
want to do you know what you've been preaching. I'm
a creature of habit. I've always voted on the day
of voting. And how do I know, you know if
I do mail in ballots? How do I know that
my you know that I'm actually going to be counted?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Listen, I'm I'm just going to tell you this. And
I know this is for many a tough pill to swallow,
and I have been beaten up because of it. But
I'm going to reiterate my very strong position on this.
We cannot start out election day down hundreds of thousands
of votes. I'll give you a quick example. You remember
(28:07):
the George Santos race when I used to live in
New York. That happened to be my district. Okay, in
that race, he's out of Congress. They have a runoff.
The day the Democrats bank their votes. The day of
the runoff, it's hailing its leading. And it happens to
be a district with a lot of older people, older population.
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They couldn't get to the polls at a time that
would have worked for them. That suppressed day of voting.
We don't know what's going to happen in these swing
states on election day. It's not the system I want,
I believe, But the only way we're going to change
the system and get to paper ballots and proof of
citizenship and voter ID and signature verification and chain of
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custody controls and updated voter rolls and partisan observers and
every precinct in the country watching the voting all day
and the vote counting all night, is to win elections.
So it is my very very strong opinion that we
have to deal with the system we're stuck with, not
and the one we have, not the one we wish
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we had. And the only way to change it is
to win, and don't wait, vote and bank your vote.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Okay, I guess my question, let me clarify. I think
my question is is how do I know if I
vote by mail that that it's going to get to
the right people and deedical.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, you could actually drop off your mail in ballot
to the you know, to the location where your voting
takes place usually, so that's one way you can do it.
But I would urge everybody in North Carolina. North Carolina
is a very close state, and we're watching Georgia North Carolina,
two very pivotal states. There must win states for Donald
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Trump and North Carolina will It will be a bell
weather of how the night's going to go in just
sixty days. So please I or encourage everybody vote early,
embrace it, and you know, I think we'll do a
lot better than you think. That's my hope in prayer,
because if this is an inflection point for the country anyway,
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I do appreciate you called my friend.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I hope that answers a lot of people's questions. And
for those of you mad at me, I understand because
I have the same suspicions you do. I don't like it.
I want same day voting and national holiday paper ballots.
I want it all and all the integrity measures I
mentioned
All right, thanks Scott Shannon. Hour two Sean Hannity's show,
Toll Free. It is eight hundred and nine to four one, Shawn,
if you want to be a part of the program.
We have a lot coming up today and we are
only sixty days away till election day. We have early
ballots going out to North Carolina today, Mellon absentee ballots,
eleven days voting in Pennsylvania. And here we are on
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the eve of all of this. A ton of news
breaking between yesterday and today as it relates to the
weaponization of our Justice Department. But one bit of good news.
I think it's good news. In my opinion, I frankly
think this entire you know, New York trial should be vacated,
I mean, based on the Supreme Court decision involving immunity anyway,
(00:45):
Judge Mrshawn and this ruling, said, cited the unique time
frame that this matter currently finds itself in, and scheduled
sentencing for November twenty six. He had previously planned to
hand down mister Trump's punishment September eighteenth, only seven weeks
before election day. This is not a decision the Court
makes likely lightly, but the decision is in. This is
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the court's view best advances the cause and the interests
of justice. Now, this is on top of the fact
that you know, in spite of what has been a
longstanding DOJ policy not to bring political cases before elections. Well,
we saw this unfold in d C just yesterday, where
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in the DC case that the judge is likely going
to allow damning evidence not in a trial, because the
trial is not going to take place in the DC
case prior to an election, which would be very prejudicial
towards Donald Trump. And this is where we now find ourselves.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We have with US.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Attorney General Ashley Moody is with us, and by the way,
she's suing the Biden administration for documents proving the federal
government is pushing criminal illegal immigrants and aliens out of
prison and into our communities. Alena Haba is the legal
spokeswoman for President Trump. Elena, let's start with you. Let's
start with Mershaun and today, and let's go back to
(02:10):
yesterday and the judge in DC in the January sixth
case that was just refiled.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, well, Sean, you know, obviously we think the judge
made the first step, which was a right decision on
the hush money as we call it case in New York.
But I agree with you completely. Number one, This case,
along with January six should never have been brought. Number two,
We can't ignore the fact that these were all brought
(02:37):
as election interference cases. You just can't deny it because
the timing doesn't make sense for us to be inundated.
It makes actually perfect sense. Let me be clear, for
us to be inundated held up in court as we
have only to now be sixty days out of an election.
They've had failed Jack Smith's indictments that now he has
had the opportunity to refile only because of delays because
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of the amount of evidence that they had their hands
in the cookie jar and mess up. Okay, is so inappropriate.
That's on January sixth, and that case, along with this
hush money case in New York that we now have
a sentencing delay on, should frankly be completely wiped out.
We're hearing rumblings of issues that have come out to
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be true from Congress that there was authentic and donations
made to authentic. That is inappropriate.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Look, Sean, you and I have.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Talked about this ad nauseum. We cannot have a weaponized
justice system. The people need to believe that the dj
is there to protect the American people, not to be political,
not to be arms of the Democrat Party or frankly
any party, the Republicans either, and that is what we
need to get our country back. But what they're doing
to President Trump in the middle of election, and what
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they've done to this man for the last three and
a half years to get him off the campaign trails,
what they did taking Biden off, putting Kamala in. He
is the most resilient person I've ever met in my life.
And if you ever have any doubts about somebody who
can withstand any amount of trauma, any amount of attack,
and take care of this country, I don't know how
you could stand with anybody but Trump at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Sean, let me ask you, Attorney General Ashley Moody. I
think this if you look at this case and you
juxtaposed it with the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity,
that decision was very clear. In this case that took
place in New York. As I said, it was a
misdemeanor case whose statute of limitations had long since expired,
(04:34):
and Alvin Bragg comes up with this novel legal theory
and a crazy left wing political activist of a judge
goes along with this and anyway, but evidence presented in
that case was from the time when Donald Trump was president.
How do you not vacate that verdict in that case completely?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Well, look, exactly right. This was a well documented judge
who had ties to donation to Biden's You describe him
as an activist judge, I would argue, people could say
the prosecutors were activists. And what concerns me? I think, yes,
having the sentencing delayed that, I think that is great news.
But what's concerning to me is this decision on the
(05:16):
motion to vacate conviction is going to is set right
after the election, and you know as well as I do,
that the media is going to continue to talk about
all of this as it leads right up and through
that election on November the fifth, to hit that next gate.
And how can that be the case in a country
(05:40):
where you have someone on the presidential ballot being the
discussion of a conviction of thirty four counts of convictions
which we will all call and I know you've called
them zombie charges. So you know, I think that it's
good news that this was set off, but the fact
that it's set off just after the election, you know
that the media is direct fund this motion to vacate
(06:01):
conviction is going to draw everyone's attention back to all
of the evidence that that judge let in, which as
a former judge myself and a former federal prosecutor, I
can tell you so much of that should have never
come in. And I think it's going to be argued
that look at the witnesses they were calling Hokik others
that were directly related to his official duties. So how
(06:22):
can you say so much of that evidence wasn't related
to what's going to come under that immunity ruling by
the Supreme Court. And the fact, I'll go back to
what Mizaba was saying, the fact that we're discussing this
right now, seven weeks out from elections shows that what
they have planned all along is happening. And while we're
(06:43):
focusing on this stuff, these cases, the evidence that should
have never come in in those trials, the charges that
should have never been tried in court. They're talking, they're
allowing their candidate to run around and make up lies
and basically say what he said, what Trump said, She's
copying all of his policies. And meanwhile, instead of talking
about policies, we're having that the campaign is having to
(07:06):
respond to these allegations that have already been discussed in
courtant now we're having to go through motion practices and
preparing for a sentencing. It's unbelievable the state that we
find ourselves as a country during this twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
There is not a legal scholar Oleina that I don't
know that doesn't see this being overturned on appeal, and
therein lies a huge problem is you can't appeal this
until sentencing takes place, and that would otherwise vindicate Donald
Trump before the election. So the law fair if you will,
or the weaponization continues through the election. That's problematic in
(07:44):
and of itself.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It is the damage is done.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Look, they controlled the narrative and the radical left media
definitely had their hand in this in making sure that
it was inundated with nothing but Trump legal issues, women,
be it financial, be it their company in an attempt
to take him down. So, yeah, you can't ignore what
has happened for the last three years. I will say though,
(08:10):
I think Shawn, and I know you'll agree with this.
Who else could be where he is after all these attacks.
It's impossible. Nobody could withstand this.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
The polls are.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Unbelievable considering what he's withstood. So you know, I agree
with you. The damage is done. But more importantly, the
American taxpayers have had damage. They've been paying for this
nonsense through taxpayer dollars. They've been funding these das and ags.
They elected these people and they said they were going
to get Trump and that's, frankly, exactly what they tried
(08:40):
to do. And now they've got mud on their face.
So I think what I would like to do as
an American, as a mother, as a human being that
is sick and tired of this who is, get back
to policy and let the American people see and talk
about how the country was better under Trump, because this
lawfair is such a distraction. We all know what happened
Yester with Hunter Frankly is just because he knows he's
(09:02):
going to get a pardon. I know that you know
that it's a joke. And to act like he's a martyr,
that was another thing I never thought i'd see, but
you know, they never cease to amaze me, this current administration.
And it's a sad thing what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Let me, I'd be negligent if I didn't get into
what you're doing down here in Florida, the Free State
of Florida. And I have no idea why you're still
in the northeast Alina, But you know that's your choice.
Everyone's free to live wherever they want. You can pay
all the taxes, and what's.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That I am moving on to the Free State of Florida.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Actually, I don't blame you, but Attorney General Moody, you
did file a lawsuit against the Biden Harris administration for
their failure to produce public documents responsive to the Freedom
of Information Act request filed by your office in March
seeking documents regarding the administration's policies permitting the release of
dangerous criminals into the US and following the release there
(10:00):
release from US prisons. But it's even worse than that,
whether those Foxnews dot Com has been trying through the
Freedom of Information Act to get details on the nationalities
and backgrounds of people would territize that Harris and Biden
have allowed into this country unvetted.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Absolutely, and so much of this is being done without
any knowledge by the American people. When I tell folks
that people that they have brought into our country specifically
to prosecute and put behind bars because they are committing
crimes against America, Harris and Biden have decided that instead
of immediately deporting these criminals out of our US prisons,
(10:39):
they are just going to release some street into our community.
That is the opposite of what every administration has ever done.
So it's not just that they're letting people on the
Terraces watch List in gang members, traffickers flood into our
country over the border. They're taking those that they have
brought here and put into our prisons for criminal prosecutions,
and when they're sentences over, they're saying, no longer are
(11:02):
we going to send them home. They're just going to
live among us. And you see how well that's working
out in Colorado. You're seeing how well that's working out
in New York City. In fact, Mayor Adams just said, look,
we can't work with them, We can't support these people
because the administration, even when we arrest them, they won't
support them. So when you have liberal mayors stating we're
(11:23):
in a state of chaos and it's because we can't
support these people and they're not doing what they're required
by law to do. You know, we're in for a
world of hurt and my biggest fear, and I'll go
back to how we started this discussion. While we're sitting
here talking about cases. While we're sitting here talking about
presidential immunity and all of the conviction and all of
the cases that have been sought and targeted against President Trump,
(11:44):
we aren't highlighting this exactly, this that they are allowing
our country to rot from within and covering it with
like a candy coateored sugar of Paris, going around pretending.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
All is well.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
And that has to be the focus of this next
sets in weeks. What do you want the country to
look like? And this is happening, and I will continue
to fight to make sure the American people know it
because it's affecting law enforcement, it's affecting our community in Florida,
and I know every state is feeling the same thing.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It really is a quick break. Will come back more
on this ruling. Sentencing in the New York case now
has been put on a delay post election. We'll continue
with Alena Habba and also Ashley Moody, the Attorney General
of Florida, Attorney General, Great State of Florida, my Free
State of Florida. Ashley Moody is with us, and Donald
(12:37):
Trump's presidential legal spokesperson, Alena Hobba is with us. Elena,
let's talk about where we go from here, and if
Donald Trump wins this election, I have to imagine that
all of this has to go away.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
But am I wrong? Am I thinking?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No, You're not wrong, and you're thinking obviously in sentencing
will be null and void. And I think the judge
acknowledge is that. I think that, you know, that's a
good first step. But yeah, no, these cases effectively are done.
We know Georgia's binda and we know that they should
never have been brought. But yes, they would be completely
avoid and you know, it's what we shouldn't even have
(13:14):
to do that. But yeah, that's that's unfortunately what would happen.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, what's your take?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Do you think this does have an impact on the
American people?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Attorney General Moodie will give you the last word.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I think the fact that we have the Democratic candidate
Harris running around telling people she's basically supporting all of
the policies that Trump did during office that kept this
nation safe and protected our people. I think that's indicative
that she is trying to scan the American people and
distract us with all of this other stuff so that
(13:47):
people won't dig in and find out the truth. But
I'm telling you we're committed to doing that. I think
Lena is committed to doing that, and I'm hoping we
give it a final push up into November to make
that a reality so people know what they're voting for.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's all very, very important.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We'll have a lot more on this on Hannity tonight,
nine Eastern on Fox. We thank you Elina Haba. Thank
you Attorney General Ashley Moody. We appreciate both of you
being with us. Thank you so much. On this Friday. Anyway,
we proudly welcome back Tony Bood to the program. And anyway,
he's the executive director of VTA Vapor Technology Association. They're
(14:23):
at the forefront of defending the vape industry. And you
might say, well, Hannity, why do you care about this,
But well, we've seen you on TV, you vape. I'm like, okay,
guilty is charged. Probably not the healthiest thing that I
do in my life, but you know what, I do
it so or I chew nicorette, I do that too,
and I kind of go back and forth between the two.
(14:45):
And anyway, long story short is I gave up smoking cigars.
You know, many many years ago. I was smoking way
too many of them. And the same with when I
was a kid. I smoked cigarettes when I was eleven
twelve in a restaurant. It's ridiculous, But this is a
different time. My parents smoked, My sisters at the time
(15:06):
all smoked. They ended up all giving it up, as
it did. I gave it up when I was twenty.
It never was a big I never really liked how
to smell. But you know, I don't know why. I
like a very low I use two different vapes, one
that has no nicotine at all and one that has
nicotine just a very low zero point three percent. And however,
(15:29):
I believe in freedom, and this is an ongoing discussion
that we have had that the Party of Joy and
the Party of Freedom would take away and tax you
to death on the issue of choosing to vapor not vape.
I would not recommend smoking, I would not recommend shrinking
and access I you know, for example, but I don't
(15:50):
want my guns confiscated with a mandatory buyback. That doesn't
sound like freedom and joy, you know, the price of democracy.
Kamala calls high gas prices not a lot of joy
and freedom, paying you know, a buck fifty more gallon
than I was paying under Donald Trump. Not having my
private health insurance, no joy, No freedom there either, freedom enjoyed.
(16:12):
Not to join a union if you don't want to.
You know, I'd like to have, for example, the right
to own the car that I want. But I believe
in freedom, and I don't think I don't think car
companies should be pressured to buy to produce vehicles that
their customers don't want and lose four and a half
billion dollars in a single year like Ford did, which
(16:35):
puts at risk high paying career jobs for the people
that work in the auto industry. Those are great jobs
for people, And I don't want, you know, people messing
with my dishwasher or my stove, or my washing machine
or the light bulb of my choice. I noticed Kamala
now is flipped and flopped again and fleiled on on
(16:56):
the issue of plastic straws. I mean, is there anything
she's not going to flip bond? You know, that's just
in forty days. You know, she has flipped and flopped
and flailed on nearly every major topic on Now we're
being told that the woman that cast a tie breaking
vote on taxing tips for service workers, that directly went
(17:16):
after service workers and funded the irs to do it.
Oh no, no, no, I'm again. I'm not taxing tips because
Donald Trump is for that. The person responsible for the
ev mandate in twenty nineteen ers, oh no, no, no, I
don't want an ev mandate. The person that you know
says it's the price of democracy to pay high energy
(17:37):
prices and says she would ban cracking and drilling. Oh
I didn't really mean that. I said it in twenty twenty. Well,
she didn't say it in twenty twenty. She lied on
CNN and that's sixteen and admitute. In twenty nine second interview,
she co sponsored Medicare for All, universal health care that
would eliminate private insurance. That's not freedom, you know, I'd
like the freedom to live in safety and security and
(17:58):
not have unveil. Harris Biden criminals and murderers and rapists
and people would terroritize in the country. Either he wants
to decriminalize illegal immigration, get free housing, health care, and education.
You know, I mentioned mandatory gun buybacks and the other
all these other issues that she's flipped and flopped and
flailed on. I'm just getting tired of all of it.
(18:19):
Who is the real Kamala Harris. We're dealing with a
ghost who just hied. We'll see her next week for
ninety minutes. I guess we should be so blessed anyway,
joining us now, a friend, Tony Abuddha is back and
Tony great to have you, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I'm doing really well, Sean. Thanks for having me on
this program. I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You know, I'm not recommending anybody get nicotine patches and
nicorect gum or vaping or I'm not recommending any of
that for anybody, you know, but there are zero nicotine vapes.
I have one that's a mental it's actually very very good.
But you know, a lot of these. If I lived
in New York, I wouldn't even be able to buy
(18:57):
it there, right.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
That's true. But this administration is doing everything that's power
to take away your freedom to vate, and as well
as every American's freedom to choose flavored bates or any
other flavored nicotine product that you know, I know, and
the FDA notes is dramatically less harmful than smoking cigarettes.
What this really amounts to, Sean, is I view this
(19:21):
as an attack on working people. I mean, who are
the people that smoke? People with low incomes now struggling
from paycheck to paycheck, not people on Wall Street, people
who work in the trades, not in Silicon Valley. But
this administration is literally ripping these bait products, which are
the least expensive and the most effective smoking cessation tool
(19:42):
out in the hands of everyday, hardworking Americans. And as
you noted earlier, they're trying to tax the amount of existence. Also,
I mean, shouldn't we want a tax on less harmful
products to be lower than the taxes on cigarettes. This
is not about public health anymore, about restricting personal freedoms
and trying to convince Americans that they should quit everything,
(20:06):
which isn't a realistic public policy and it's not good
for the people themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, I mean, this is part of a pattern.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They claim that they're doing this, you know, all out
of our best interests. But none of this is in
our best interest, is it.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
No, it's not. I mean, Sean, the hypocrisy on nicotine
goes beyond anything that you and I have seen in
our lifetime. The same people who are pushing legalized marijuana
are the same people that are trying to ban flavored
babes and other nicotine products from them.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
By the way, how bizarre is that? I mean, because
especially marijuana. I mean, look, I know there are some
people that use it, and I guess can be functioning,
high performing, functioning adults. But that's not the average person
that I've experienced in my life. You know, a lot
of people that I know can't. They end up wasting
their lives away, and it does lead I have found
(20:57):
it to be my own personal experience and the mixed
studies on it. I don't want to get into a
study versus study debate, but in my view, it is
a gateway drug and once you like getting high, you
got to keep getting high.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Well, there's no question that has a psychoactive impact on
the person. That does impact kind of how they perform.
But nicotine, as you've experienced, is by comparison, relatively benign.
But these again are the same people who are advocating
for flavored cannabis gummies, but they refuse to even let
(21:30):
adults choose a flavored vaping product which can help them
quit smoking. They're also the same folks that are using
taxpayer funds to give people tools such as free needles
to continue using heroin, but they want to tax out
of existence ethigarettes, the tool that people are using to
quit smoking. None of this makes any sense. And this
(21:51):
is where Americans can smell hypocrisy very very quickly, and
even with fentanyl Sean, I mean, tax payer funded campaigns
right in New York City telling people it's okay to
use fentanyl as long as they used it safely. But
this administration's FDA has refused to tell Americans they should
even try using an e cigarette and they have to
(22:14):
quit everything all together. I mean, that's just not real policy,
it's not real science, and it demonstrates a desire to
get rid of all things that are related to nicotine.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You can get you can get addicted to anything.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I mean, you know, there's an epidemic now that is
emerging in the country that people don't talk about, and
that is you know, online betting. I mean you could
you could literally be in a casino in your own
home twenty four hours a day for most people, depending
on what the state law is, and it's most states,
you could be sports betting all day long too. I'm
(22:50):
not against people doing it. I believe in the liberty
and freedom to do it. But it is leading to
an epidemic of addiction that I don't think we're paying
enough attention.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Two.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah, I think that's right, And I think that the
key here is when you think about where this discussion
is gone. In twenty nineteen, the FDA tried to convince
President Trump to ban flavored e cigarette, saying that it
would protect kids. But he did something a lot smarter.
If you remember, he chose to raise the age to
twenty one to buy any tobacco product. And since that decision,
(23:24):
guess what, youth vaping in this country has plummeted. In fact,
the numbers just came out again yesterday. Youth vaping year
over year is down another twenty five percent and down
seventy one percent since President Trump made that bold move
when he was being told, oh, he has to get
rid of flavored vaping. We can't trust Americans to make
(23:44):
in making the correct choice. I mean, that's a huge
victory and one that we were proud to be a
part of. But unfortunately, since he left office, the bureaucrats
at FDA, they've rubbed up their bann e cigarettes machinery
and they're doing everything in their power to deny acts
us in the marketplace. And they're doing everything they can
right now. This is scary part to shut down the
(24:06):
thirteen thousand small businesses that President Trump saved in twenty
and nineteen, and the way they're doing it is even
more concerning. They're going into mom and pop shops Sean,
finding one flavored bape on the shelf and issuing a
first time fine of twenty thousand dollars on a small business.
I mean, the administration cannot pretend it's trying to bolster
(24:28):
small businesses in this country when its agents are taking
them down every day.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Really is amazing. Well, we appreciate you talking about the
issue of liberty and freedom from the Freedom and Enjoy
Party that is anything but the Freedom Enjoy Party. But
of course you know we can't question them because they
won't do an interview a gaggle, a press conference, anything.
They won't talk to anybody. Tonyaboud, thank you, my friend.
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Speaker 2 (26:38):
Hell, let's get to our busy phones.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean, if you'd like
to join us, Mike in North Carolina. By the way,
ballot's going out today in early voting ballots in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
What's going on? Mike? How are you glad you called? Sir?
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Hey, Shawn, thank you so much for taking my call. Yes,
North Carolina is kind of a fickle state.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
We have Roy Cooper as a Democrat governor, and you know,
we then we have a supermajority in the in the
House that are Republicans, thank god, because if it wasn't
for that, then he would uh uh we would be uh,
you know, California here. But my question is is that
(27:24):
we're getting ready you know they're getting ready to send
out uh mail in ballots here, you know, and I
want to do you know what you've been preaching. I'm
a creature of habit. I've always voted on the day
of voting. And how do I know, you know if
I do mail in ballots? How do I know that
my you know that I'm actually going to be counted?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Listen, I'm I'm just going to tell you this. And
I know this is for many a tough pill to swallow,
and I have been beaten up because of it. But
I'm going to reiterate my very strong position on this.
We cannot start out election day down hundreds of thousands
of votes. I'll give you a quick example. You remember
(28:07):
the George Santos race when I used to live in
New York. That happened to be my district. Okay, in
that race, he's out of Congress. They have a runoff.
The day the Democrats bank their votes. The day of
the runoff, it's hailing its leading. And it happens to
be a district with a lot of older people, older population.
(28:28):
They couldn't get to the polls at a time that
would have worked for them. That suppressed day of voting.
We don't know what's going to happen in these swing
states on election day. It's not the system I want,
I believe, But the only way we're going to change
the system and get to paper ballots and proof of
citizenship and voter ID and signature verification and chain of
(28:51):
custody controls and updated voter rolls and partisan observers and
every precinct in the country watching the voting all day
and the vote counting all night, is to win elections.
So it is my very very strong opinion that we
have to deal with the system we're stuck with, not
and the one we have, not the one we wish
(29:12):
we had. And the only way to change it is
to win, and don't wait, vote and bank your vote.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Okay, I guess my question, let me clarify. I think
my question is is how do I know if I
vote by mail that that it's going to get to
the right people and deedical.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, you could actually drop off your mail in ballot
to the you know, to the location where your voting
takes place usually, so that's one way you can do it.
But I would urge everybody in North Carolina. North Carolina
is a very close state, and we're watching Georgia North Carolina,
two very pivotal states. There must win states for Donald
(29:50):
Trump and North Carolina will It will be a bell
weather of how the night's going to go in just
sixty days. So please I or encourage everybody vote early,
embrace it, and you know, I think we'll do a
lot better than you think. That's my hope in prayer,
because if this is an inflection point for the country anyway,
(30:13):
I do appreciate you called my friend.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I hope that answers a lot of people's questions. And
for those of you mad at me, I understand because
I have the same suspicions you do. I don't like it.
I want same day voting and national holiday paper ballots.
I want it all and all the integrity measures I
mentioned
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