Policy Changes Are Making an Impact - September 5th, Hour 1

Donald Trump is expected to officially announce today the renaming of the Department of Defense back to its historic title, the Department of War, along with several major policy alterations. Sean Hannity frames this as a return to Reagan-era prioritiesâhighlighting the development of new missile defense systems, advancing technologies like AI weaponry and hypersonics, and preparing the military for future threats. Hannity draws parallels with Reagan's "Star Wars" initiative and argues this move is both forward-looking and grounded in lessons from past presidential legacies. The guest spotlight falls on investigative reporter John Solomon, who breaks news on Biden's controversial outsourcing of presidential clemency decisions, showing why presidential authority and transparency remain crucial in turbulent times.

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And thank you Scott Shannon. Thanks to all of you
for being with us. Right down our toll free telephone
number its eight hundred and ninety four to one, Sean
if you want to join us. The President, by the way,
we'll make an announcement. We already know what the announcement is.
In the Oval Office today he'll make it official, and
we fully expect that the Department of Defense is now

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going to be renamed the Department of War, which is
what it used to be called. I'm sure this is
outrageous now. This comes after the President indicated that he
will make several alterations to defense policy. Renaming the Department
of Defense is one of them. Moving forward with the
Golden Dome missile defense project, which it probably like Reagan,

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I think you can make an argument. As successful as
Reagan was as president. Remember he gave us, at the
time the longest period of peacetime economic growth. He dropped
the top marginal rates again battling left wing arguments, Oh,
it's going to reduce revenues to the government. Never happened,
and he went from seventy to twenty eight percent and

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ended up in an eight year period doubling the amount
of money brought into the federal treasury. Unfortunately, Congress spent
a dollar and thirty for every new dollar he brought in,
and of course adding to the deficits. And we now
see the problem culminating where it is today, and unfortunately

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that has to come to an end. I wish we'd
get to a balanced budget amendment. I wish we'd get
to line item vetos things like that, tools that a
president can use. But you know, if you remember when
Reagan walked away from the table with Garbachov at Reikievek,
it all had to do with the issue of strategic
defense that was mocked by the left, and they described

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it as Star Wars, and because at the time it was,
you know, Star Wars was like the biggest thing out
of Hollywood. And you know, then you look at the
skies recently over Israel as they were being bombarded with
ballistic missiles from Iran, as they've been attacked by you know,

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Hamas and at a Gaza in the south and his
Bulah and Islamic Jihad out of Lebanon in the north,
and the Uti Rebels, et cetera. What is so bizarre
about it? Nobody ever really focused on it. Is when
Reagan discussed this and the media legacy media mob at
the time, which actually did have more influence, they mocked it,

(02:37):
made fun of it, and then they would make these
these graphics and they'd put them on television. And yet
it's you watch in real time the Iron Dome and
their new missile defense systems taking these these rockets out
of the sky saving countless lives, and you realize, wow,

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a lot like the graphics that were made by a
media that was making fun and mocking the odds of
that technology. I would argue it probably is Reagan's greatest legacy,
and I think that President Trump is right to move
forward with the idea and the understanding that unfortunately evil
does exist, has always existed, will always exist in the world.

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And you know, you create a sword, you have a shield,
all right, So yeah, we should develop the next generation
of weaponry that should include hypersonics, whatever AI generated weaponry
we can think of. Again, I think future wars are
not going to be fought on battlefields. You see it
beginning to play out with Ukraine and Russia and you

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see the use of these drones. You saw the same
thing in the Middle East. That is only the beginning
of this next generation of weaponry, and we've got to
be on the cutting edge of it, and we've got
to stay ahead of our adversaries and our geopolitical foes
if we want to, you know, defend the cause of
liberty and the cause of freedom. And Reagan rightly warned
that freedom has always but one generation away from extinction.

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He was not wrong, and it's every generation's responsibility to
do so. So it may very well go down, but anyway,
the President will announce that in an hour and authorizing
the Defense Secretary Pete haig Seth and the Pentagon and
subordinate officials to use secondary titles such as Secretary of War,

(04:26):
Department of War, Deputy Secretary of War, and official correspondence,
public communications, ceremonial contacts. I'm not sure if we will
cover it or not. I mean, because we kind of
know everything that happened is going to happen. It just
I just told you now. And we do have breaking
news with John Solomon, which I'm going to get to
also in a second. The President currently enjoying the highest

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approval rating of his presidency new Exclusive Daily Mail JL
Partner's poll. It's one tenth of a point higher than
Matt Towery, Robert Kahley. It's a fifth five percent approval.
They had him at fifty four. You know, if you
look at all of the polling companies that have never
polled Donald Trump right in ten years, is approval rating

(05:11):
is at thirty seven or thirty eight percent. No, they
couldn't be more wrong. That's why I never trust them.
That's why I don't talk about them. I don't trust them.
They're wrong every single time. You know, the posters that
get it right and have consistently got polling Trump right
are Trafalgar Kahley, Insider Advantage, Matt Towery, John McLaughlin and associates.

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They've gotten a right, Rasmussen's gotten a right Atlas Polling. Oh,
I don't even know who they are, Linda, do we
know who they are? Because they show up every presidential
election end up being pretty accurate. But we don't even
know who they are anyway. The Daily Mail has his
approval rating at fifty five percent according to the latest poll,
only forty five percent disapproval, which for this point in

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his presidency is light years ahead of any modern day president.
We'll get into great specificity in details at the top
of the next hour. We're going to have to kind
of juggle how we handle this with the president's announcement
and this new discovery, because this is massive news. Just
thenews dot com founder investigative reporter and editor in chief

(06:22):
John Solomon breaking this news. He has obtained internal memos
that show and indicate the President Joe Biden likely was
outsourcing clemency decisions to then Vice President Kamala Harris in
the last year of his presidency. Now stop right there,
that's the headline. What does that mean if true? The

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power of the Look, the power of pardon clemency is absolute,
but it's not the vice president's power. It's enumerated. That
is the president's power. Anyway, those clemency decisions, remember we
had the New York Times article. The New York Times
went into a great specificity in detail, how Joe Biden
just set up standards and criteria for clemencies and pardons

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and didn't involve himself in the ultimate decisions. This could invalidate,
you know, thousands of clemencies and pardons that he did
at the last minute. These decisions, the piece goes on,
included preemptive pardons for the Biden family members, as well
as commutations for federal death row sentences. This coupled with

(07:31):
the previous news that John Solomon broke right here on
this radio program and on TV about how you know
Joe Biden was even being warned by his number two
at the Department of Justice they did not feel that
it would be valid, and they said, so, you know,
just a day and a half, two days before he
left office. National Archives Record Administration told the Trump White

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House Council's Office, quote, we did not find specific meet
notes that clearly mention or note that the President was
present for any of the four clemency meetings. According to
these documents, president Biden's decision memo on commuting federal death
row sentences. The piece then goes on and says was

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unmarked and NARRA cannot find Archives Administration cannot find a
version indicating Biden's approval. The documents added a draft memorandum
circulated by Biden's own White House Counsel's office in February
of twenty twenty four, shows that by the president's last
year in office, he was increasingly relying on Vice President

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Harris's assessment rather than his own. In the approval process.
Given the president's schedule, it can often take days or
weeks for the president to review and approve the clemency package.
The lawyer's memo reads, that's called the cya the way
I interpret it, he previously asked the White House Council
to discuss the candidates with him, although in the last

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round of the vice president's approval was sufficient to obtain
his approval, The lawyers noted. The Trump White House concluded
that the memo shows the former president was effectively outsourcing
clemency decisions to Harris during the final year. And further,
the review found scant contemporaneous evidence that Biden had actually

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attended four key clemency meetings in the waning months of
his term, and turned up no record of the President's
briefing books as it relates to addressing pardon's commutations or
clemency's I'm telling you this is now headed for a
court challenge, and I would not at all be surprised
if a lot of these quote pardons commutations end up

(09:46):
being ruled invalid. The president now and this is the
speed of Trump. We saw what the President did with
Venezuela and this Narco terror group and just blew them
out of the water. Because these drugs are coming into
our country. We saw this massive haul of materials this

(10:06):
week that are used to make fentanyl. I don't know
if most of you are a where we have discussed
it in the past, but if you have the equivalent
of three grains of salt, three grains of salt and
it's fentanyl and not salt, that is enough to kill
a three hundred pound guy, that's enough to kill anybody.

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And they have enough. Fentanyl has made its way into
this country to kill every American citizen many times over,
which is very chilling and frightening. Anyway, the US will
now deploy ten F thirty five fighter jets to Puerto
Rico as part of its drug cartel fight. According to sources,

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it's just days after the strike by US forces wiping
out nearly a dozen Venezuelan narco terrorists. The F thirty
five is the military's most advanced fighter in service. They're
due to arrive next week. So clearly the president is
now taking on another massive issue, and that is the
influx of drugs into our country. One House Republican, by

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the way, issued subpoenas yesterday to top Democrats, top lawyers
at Democratic fundraising powerhouse Act Blue, amid an ongoing probe
of allegedly fraudulent donations from domestic and foreign sources in
the last election cycle. This is something John Solomon has
been telling me privately and writing about publicly. The New

(11:33):
York Post picked us up and the former general council
for Act Blue, an ex director and associate associate council,
were both compelled to come before House investigators for depositions.
And we're going to watch that case very very closely
as well. Anyway, so it's going to be a pretty
interesting afternoon for sure. We'll get the latest, we'll get

(11:53):
the run down from the president. New York Post reports
today that the Trumpet administration projects five trillion dollars in
a reduction in costs because of their deregulation policies. That's massive. Now,
I want to address this, the idiocy and the comments

(12:13):
of people on the economy, because it's obvious they don't
know much about the economy. It's kind of frustrating to
be honest at times because if you look at the yeah, okay,
the job numbers were not what anybody would want them
to be. Today by any stretch of the imagination. Here's

(12:34):
one little, itsy bitsy tiny weeny problem that they have,
and that is, if you look at the job numbers,
they're not factoring in all the government jobs that have
gone away. Number one. Number two, if you think just
because the President's been able to secure fifteen trillion dollars

(12:55):
in manufacturing commitments and investment in manufacturing for pharmaceuticals, semiconductor chips,
automobile bials, rare earths. If you think that that is
kicked in yet, you don't understand business. You have to
come up with things called blueprints and plans and architectural

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designs and approvals so you can build out manufacturing centers.
Number one. Number two, you factor in the president giving
us the largest tax cut in history, including one hundred
percent bonus appreciation for manufacturers that will incentivize them to
move as quickly as possible to spend the fifteen trillion dollars.
Then you factor in the economy and the impact that

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energy dominance will have, including the one trillion and committed
monies in the European Union trade deal. They're not going
to buy their energy from Vladimir Putin anymore. They're going
to buy it from America, as will other countries. And
I don't know why some people think you can just
snap your fingers and wow, this is the greatest economy

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we've ever had in history. No, it hasn't proved dramatically actually,
frankly surprisingly You know a lot of people have contacted
me about the hearings yesterday with RFK Junior and a
lot of frustration because of Republicans that were on the
committee and not coming to the defense of RFK Junior.

(14:24):
More Knowing RFK now as well as I do, I've
spent a significant amount of time with him and doctor Oz,
having pretty deep in the paint conversations about health, wellness,
nutrition and fitness. And RFK Junior and mem and Oz

(14:45):
are really into both of them, I mean in a
major way. And there is conventional institutionalist mindsets in DC
that never want a question the status quo. It's the
antithesis of Donald Trump. He questions everything. I mean, you know,

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Donald Trump sees a problem and he deals with it.
That that is not your average politician. I doubt most
of you, up until yesterday knew that the average child
has seventy six jabs before the by the time they
reach eighteen years of age. I'm sure most of you
are now pretty familiar, especially if you listen to this

(15:28):
show that you will promised things by the government about
the COVID JAB that never turned out to be true.
We were lied to, and there's a lot of information
that and a lot of anecdotal evidence of prima facia case.
I would argue that all these people were very well
aware that this came from the Wuhan Virology Lab, and

(15:50):
it was very evident from the onset based on text messages,
emails back and forth between NIAH members. They were scared
to death and writing each other deep, you know, late
into the night about whether or not it was their
money that was funding the research that created coronavirus. I mean,

(16:12):
that's an institutionalist mindset, and there was a systematic effort
to prevent you from knowing the truth. This whole wet
market argument. You know that, well, it probably came from
bats at a wet market, because in China they have
these wet markets with exotic animals and people eat them,
and that's likely where this came from. When they knew,

(16:32):
damn well, that wasn't where it came from. They knew
coronavirus research took place at the Wuhan Virology Lab. They
knew the gain of function research also took place there.
They were very very aware of it. And the NIH
also was aware that they gave monies to the Eco
Health Alliance that helped fund the Wuhan Virology Lab. Hate

(16:55):
to tell you in case you don't know, but American
taxpayer dollar went to pay to create the coronavirus which
led to this worldwide pandemic and every horrible negative thing
associated with it, and it was all preventable. And you
have doctor Fauci back in what twenty twelve it said
even if gain of function you know, research led to

(17:18):
a worldwide pandemic, he's still in favor of it. How
he ever got in that position is beyond any understanding
I have. So incomes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And he's
throwing out statistics about infant mortality rates that are higher
or that life expectancy is lower. Are talking about chemicals

(17:43):
in our food products or hormones in our meat products,
and you know, make America healthy again lifestyle. And it
didn't matter how many times he said during this hearing
yesterday that He's not taking away people's options or availability
for vaccinations. He's just trying to inform people so that

(18:07):
they can make good decisions. You know, he mentioned hepatitis
A hepatitis B, for example, and how young babies are
given the vaccinations for these two things in particular, and
yet it only impacts one out of every seven million
children born. Is it really necessary? And maybe it is

(18:28):
necessary in your mind, maybe you want all seventy six
vaccinations for your kids. I mean, the information I've been getting,
you know, on a regular basis, from both OZ and
RFK JUNR, It's made me rethink a lot of how
I live, eat, et cetera. Jillian Michaels, who again is

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in the health wellness, fitness nutrition space, I mean, nearly
rip my head off because of my use of nicotine.
Nearly rip my head off because I don't eat you know,
grass fed organic beef. And she asked me, well why not?
And I she didn't like my answer. Did I tell
you the answer? Ever, Linda? I said, well, I don't

(19:11):
like the smell of it. When do you take it
out of the package? And she didn't like that. I
didn't eat enough fish. Now I eat more fish. Than
I have before. Especially I love little netclams. I'm obsessed
with them. I like shrimp. I do like lobster too.
I'm not a big, you know, wild caught salmon guy.
But it's okay. I can, I can get through it.

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But you know, but they're so you know, deeply invested
in all of this, and they know so much about it.
But if you are an institutionalist, and you have an
institutional mindset, then it's very hard for you to hear
something different. It didn't matter that RFK repeatedly said he's
not gonna take your choice away. It didn't It didn't

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matter anyway. I understand people's frustration, even with Republicans on that.
I think we've got to rethink everything. You know, It's
sort of like the President comes up with an idea
like Alligator Alcatraz and that detention site can stay open
after a federal appeals court ruled. I mean, this is

(20:13):
happening time in and time out. Now we have, you know,
federal court judges, activist judges. You know, remember Democrats often
go judge shopping, and they're frustrated that the Supreme Court
is ruling time after time after time. That what they're
doing is unconstitutional because it is unconstitutional, and they're taking
on roles that they shouldn't take on. It's insane the

(20:36):
times we're living in. Looking a little bit ahead to
the midterm elections, President Trump is now talking about a
mid term election convention. I think it's a great idea, again,
thinking out of the box, and he's calling for a
twenty twenty six pre midterm convention, which will energize and

(21:03):
frankly reinforce. I mean, he's moving so fast that it's
kind of hard for people to keep up. And heading
into the fall next year, having you know, fresh in
your mind all of the things that they've accomplished, I
think would be a good thing anyway, with the GOP victories.
If he's if we don't hold onto the House and Senate,

(21:27):
it's gonna be one impeachment after impeachment after impeachment, you know,
and you know it's it's gonna be very very hard. Now.
Democrats have never been in a more chaotic state as
they are right now. I mean, we're watching New York
for example. It's interesting because I saw that Andrew Cmo
was huddling with Al Sharpton in an apparent bid for

(21:51):
an endorsement. Okay, maybe he gets the endorsement. Maybe not.
The New York Post Today on their cover has Trump
to New York City drop out, kind of a playoff
words of a very famous post cover forward to New
York City drop dead. Uh, he's saying, tells GOP donor
and he's talking about John Casta. Mattids, who owns a

(22:15):
big grocery store Tade in New York City, doesn't like
the idea obviously obviously of Marxist COMMI, Mom, Donnie, you know,
having government run stores, which is insane. But anyway, the
plan is, and it says his top he's telling a
top GOP donor that you know that he has a

(22:35):
plan to stop Mom Donnie. Have a plan to stop
Mom Donnie by Wednesday or I'm gonna step in. I
don't think I don't think there's any stopping Mom Donnie. Linda,
you know you occasionally are in New York City. You know,
Ethan is is there every day, Katie is there every day,
Jason is there most days too. I mean, I don't
see any stopping it. But the plan is, you know,

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somehow offer a job to Eric Adams to bow out
somehow persuade Curtis Lee would a bow out. I know
Curtis Sliwa. Curtis Lee was not getting out. He's now
pulling it around twenty percent, and he thinks he'll do
better if the other people leave, and I don't see
him doing it. He Charles Gasparino in his column in
The New York Post today, kind of confirms that you

(23:20):
know no spells noo Charlie Sliwa sending a message to
Charlie Gasperino, I now have four million of matching funds.
The money's flowing in. I've raised more in the last
two quarters than Andrew Cuomo and Adams combined, and that
might might be a lane for him. I don't know.
If I had to put my money down, unfortunately, I

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would put it on Mamdani if I if you were
asking me straight up, even odds, who I think is
gonna win. I don't think the polls are that far off.
I've got to get Matt Towery, Robert Cahelly, John McLaughlan
and others. Rasmusen to get in the field and find
out what they have to say. But it's really that bad,

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and I I here's something else we found out, which
is pretty interesting. Since twenty twenty one New Yorkers. New
Yorkers have been rightly puzzled by what's called on point
n YC. Now, I don't think there's anything that you
can rightly call a safe injection site, but liberals like

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safe injection sites. If you are shooting fentanyl heroin, if
you're using needles to shoot up every day and you're
a drug addict, you there's no such thing as a
safe injection site. You're slowly committing suicide. In this case,
you're doing it with you know, supervision and the approval

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basically or a tacit approval of the government to do it.
But it's where hardcore drug addicts shoot up and they
get you know, some testing and supervision, et cetera, et cetera.
But we now found out and this is what the research.
Howard Hussack wrote about this in his column today that

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the President Joe Biden and the Federal Substance Abuse Mental
Health Administration quietly awarded a program for safe injection sites
for New York City of two million dollars. Why are
taxpayers contributing to the death and demise? An article too

(25:27):
about Mamdani and it was an agenda long list of
pledges made by Mamdani and other Democratic socialists. The agenda
for that they put forward radical proposals the full elimination
of cash, bell taking the state's disastrous bail reform even
further outright decriminalization of drug possession and prostitution, eliminating mandatory

(25:53):
minimum sentences, retroactively lowering all maximum sentences, fighting construction of
the Borough based jails meant to replace these soon to
be closed Rikers Island, which I think they're not going
to end up closing as a means of cutting the
prison population by a third. It spells out in this

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document that Mumdanni signed onto a deep commitment to destroying
the state's incarceration program that exacerbates interpersonal violence and communal harm,
and does so in the strongest possible language. Instead of
consigning people to the violence of incarceration, the agenda says,
in closing, we can create space for them to heal

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and to thrive, defund dismantle no bail, and reimagine the
police and send in the social workers. This is madness.
Is a part of me that says, you know what,
let the left win. Let them win. Because if this
is the left, then let the world see how crazy

(27:01):
they've gotten. Let them understand how crazy they are, because
it's insanity. Out in California, a full time podcaster, full
time trumpeter, full time tweety bird, Governor Gavin Newsom as
his agricultural equity advisors finalizing recommendations for the state to

(27:21):
redistribute farmland to quote non white Californians and Native American
tribes through land transfers and financial assistance programs that exclusively
benefit racial minorities. Well, does that mean they're going to
confiscate people's farmland? I mean, if only Gavin. Gavin wants

(27:41):
to fight with everybody, But now that we were asking
him tough questions, Gavin's gone eerily silent. I wonder why