November 13, 2023 • 31 mins
Senator Marsha Blackburn, of Tennessee is here to talk about the tragedy of the war in Israel, our borders and the American generations to come. In addition - the Senator has spoken out against the Deep State and the democrat party who chooses to ignore the crimes in their own house, since it doesn’t fit or help their narrative.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stay right here for our final news round up and
information overload. All right, News round up and information overload.
Hour eight hundred and nine foot one. Shawn is on number.
A lot of your calls coming up straight ahead this hour.
Senate Judiciary Committee that a hearing. If you've been following
the news, there's been an all out assault, which hunt
attacks on conservative justices on the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
For example, nobody got in trouble.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You're not allowed to march in front of Supreme Court
justices homes.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's actually illegal.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But of course the weaponized, politicized Department of Justice didn't
lift a finger when that was happening. But they seem
very specifically focused on conservative justices, especially Clarence Thomas and
Sam Alito and some others. All right, So in the
Judiciary Committee and the Senate, Marsha Blackburn went after and
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rightly slammed Dick Durbin, radical leftists from Illinois for launching
this assault on the Supreme Court's legitimacy. They should be
prioritizing instead. And she did not hold back, and she
announced that she's issuing a subpoena to Justice Sodo Mayor's
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staff over her book Deals she announced a subpoenas for
Xavier Bisera over losing track of what eighty five thousand
on accompanied children, and to the DOJ by the way,
for terminating her China initiative their China initiative, and issuing
subpoenas related to the political donations by Robert Muller's staff,
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and for DOJ and the FTC to provide documents regarding
the Elon Musk investigation.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Anyway, let me play these all for you.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Senator Graham mentioned Justice Soda Mayor now this summer, what
we learned was that over the years her staff has
pressured public institutions to buy her books, and these books
and her book deal have earned her four million dollars.
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And I haven't heard you mentioned that. None of you
have mentioned that you don't want to talk about that.
Nor have you mentioned the fact that she refused to
recuse herself from not one, but two copyright infringement cases
concerning her book publisher. You clearly don't want to talk
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about that one either, So I have filed an amendment
issuing a subpoena to Justice Soda Mayor's staff who helped
to sell her books, as well as to her book publisher,
so we can fully understand the backstory of these deals.
I've also filed a suspoena authorizing Secretary but Sarah to
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come before this committee and explain to us how HHS
and the Office of Refugee Resettlement has lost track of
eighty five thousand children. In addition, I filed a subpoena
to compel the Biden DOJ to provide all documentation about
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their disastrous decision to terminate the successful China Initiative. That
was a program that was critical to targeting and prosecuting
Chinese spies in America.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Anyway, joining us now is Tennessee. Senator Marshall Blackburn is
with us. Welcome back, Senator, how are you.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I am doing well, and Sean, you are exactly right.
If they want to blow up the Supreme Court, if
they want to delegitimize the Court and start to subpoena
private citizens, then I've got my list of subpoenas. So
I drew up my amendments. I filed my amendments, and
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I think that Senator Durbin was a little bit shocked
when I saw time and I talked about these amendments,
and I'm so pleased that other members of the Republican
side of the Judiciary Committee. They've got a list of amendments. Also,
two people can play this game, and so if they're going.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To do this, well, I don't know if it's really
a game, because in the case of just a sort
of my ore, and you rightly pointed this out, we
learned over the years that her staff pressured public institutions
where she's speaking to buy her books, books that which,
by the way, have earned her You know, like four
million dollars. Is that allowed under the rules of the Judiciary.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It is not allowed under the rules that affect the
Supreme Court. And she should have disclosed the three million
dollar advance. She should have disclosed what she was making
from these books. And of course her staff cannot go
about calling these institutions and say you need to buy
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these books. She has made four million dollars off the
sale of these books. And then twice that publisher came
before her at the Supreme Court and she on infringement cases.
She never recused herself from those cases, and a Republican
would have been required to recuse themselves from those cases.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You also did one other thing that I want to
play here, and you said quote and since we're in
the business now of issuing subpoenas, here are a few
more that I have filed. And one of them was
a subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein's estate providing the flight logs
for his private plane. Given the numerous allegations of human
trafficking and abuse surrounding mister Epstein, we've got to identify
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everyone who could have participated in his horrific conduct.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Listen, and since we're in the business of issuing subpoenas,
now here are a few more that I filed. A
subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein's estate to provide the flight logs
for his private plane. Given the numerous allegations of human
trafficking and a sexual abuse surrounding mister Epstein, I think
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it is very important that we identify everybody that was
on that plane and how many trips they took on
that plane and the destinations to which they arrived.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I was glad you did that, Senator. What was the
reaction to that one?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think it was instructive to all of us that
after I started into my remark, Senator Graham went first,
and then I was the second one to seek time.
And after I did that, I think that Senator Durbin
realized we were not going to sit there and let
them delegitimize the Supreme Court. That we were going to
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bring forward all of the subpoenas that we would like
to see and the Democrats are going to have to
take a vote on this. Now do they want to
vote on subpoena ing all the flight logs for Jeffrey
Epstein's planes? And as I said in my remarks, I
want to know where people were picked up. I want
to know what the destination was. I want the length
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of time they stayedd that destination and where they were
returned to and knowing who all was on those planes,
the number of trips that they were taking. I will
tell you this. I think that shareholders of companies deserve
to know this. I think that this should be revealed
if there were people from these companies that were participating
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in some of this human trafficking and sex trafficking. It
seems like that Jeffrey Epstein and Julane Maxwell had really
quite an operation going when they took people to the
private island on the Lolita Express.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Let me ask you this, what do you think this
is really all about. It seems to me. Yet the
latest attacks on what has been an unrelenting campaign pretty
much his entire career, going back to the hearings of
Clarence Thomas, It's like they want to isolate him, attack him,
and it's never ending. Am I wrong in my belief
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that this is what this is about because they don't
like the way he votes?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You are accurate in my opinion, and the fact that
they are going specifically after Justice Thomas and they're using
this as a campaign of personal destruction. They continue to
go after him and pointing out the hypocrisy of what
they are doing, how they're choosing to go after him,
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and sam Alito choosing the fact that they are showing
the fact that they did not want to subpoena all
the information around the leaker of the Dobbs decision. We
still do not know who did that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And by the way, we don't know who did that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
We don't know who leaked the Dobbs decision, just like
we don't know who brought cocaine into the White House.
And that investigation is so extensive, Senator, it ended after
ten long days.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Wow, what an investigation that.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Is it, yes, and we need to We all would
like answers to these things, and the American people deserve
to know these answers. So I think that we are
on the right track by pushing to subpoena all of this.
We're going to continue. And if next week and the
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next week in the following week he tries to bring
up the issue to subpoena private citizens to go after
an attack two or three or four of our justices,
then of course I'm going to call for votes on
my amendments that I filed.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Let me ask you this because I think this is
an important point as well. You know, since the Dobs leak,
we know that the homes of justices like Thomas Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh,
Amy Coney Barrett have been subjected to threats on their lives,
their families. Isn't it illegal to show up at their
place of work or the place of residence and protests
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like that, and why hasn't anything been done?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
We would like to know that, and that's one of
the reasons for subpoena ing all the information around the leak.
Or because you're exactly right, our justices and their families
have all received death threats and they've been endangered by this.
And because of that, people want to know, what, how
did we start down this path? How could someone have
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leaked this document? And how is it that all this
time later, we do not know who did this and
who caused this upheaval at the Supreme Court and who
endangered the lives of our justices. There Again, when you
look at what Senator Durbin is pushing for, you see
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someone who is intent on delegitimizing the Court. There is
no reason this a US Senate should be subpoenaing this information.
We don't have control of the Court. Many people forget
we're three separate and equal branches of government.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well that's those to a lot of people in Washington.
Do you feel, after your actions today and the support
that you had with your fellow senators on the Judiciary Committee,
like Lindsay Graham, do you feel you have successfully thwarted
this effort to attack these justices.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
We we are hopeful that we thwarted that effort. We
are hopeful that Durbin well back down on this, and
we are hopeful that we can make it for the
next three hundred and sixty days and get to this
election and make certain that we end all of these
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attacks on the constitutional justices that are on the Supreme
Court and that we can return to regular business in
the US Senate.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
By the way, how refreshing it is that we actually
have somebody in Washington that understands the concept of separation
of powers and three co equal branches of government. That's
rather a refreshing Senator. Anyway, I'll be down in your
great state this week. Appreciate you being with us. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Take care by now.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Eight hundred and nine to four one, Sean our number
if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's put to our busy telephones. Let's say
hi to Eric. He's in Buffalo, New York. Eric High,
How are you glad.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You call don Thank you for taking my call. I
wanted to kind of play off of what Senator Blackburn
said about the flight logs for Epstein. The American people
have a right to know if any government officials were
also involved as well. I mean, we all know and
saw Epstein had various visits with Bill Clinton in the nineties,
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if I remember correctly, right, Sean.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
My understanding is he was on the Lolita Express that
has been printed many times.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Okay, so one of the things is that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But I'm sure his intentions were pure.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
We'll see. But to me, what's happening right now in
the country is you have you have a and you've
said this many times both on the radio and on
your show on Fox, that we have a president in decline.
We do, and we need a president to get back
in the White House to fix all of this. The
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biggest mess going on is in the Middle East right now,
and it's like all that work that President Trump did
just went completely down the drain due to the Biden
administration and the things that he's doing. I don't think
he's there physically or mentally. There's times where I see
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you I'm on TV and just like you've said, you
have to go what and to me, that puts us
in a very Let me ask.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You a question.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Do you think Joe would be up to the job
of being a You ever go to Walmart and you
have you know what, look like retired people just take
it on another job and that they seem to be
the nicest people on earth, and you ask them mind, Yeah,
I'm looking for the toy Department, the sporting goods department
or whatever. And did you ever do you think Joe
would be capable of doing that job?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Because I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
No, I totally agree with you. What's happening is you
have a situation where you have a president who and
a lot of people may know this, so may not have.
And I worked in a nursing facility. I know what
this looks like. He is in cognitive decline to a
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point where I'm beginning to wonder if the brain aneurysms
he had in his younger year caught up to him
during his time as vice president and now in the
overdrive his president. He can't handle this.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
No, and I have to end it there because I'm
just out of time. You're right, and it's obvious, and
it's transparent, at least to anybody with eyes to see.
All Right, more of your calls coming up straight ahead,
eight hundred nine one shan. If you want to be
a part of the program.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
This is a Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
By twenty five to the top of the hour. Your
calls coming up eight hundred and nine four one sewn.
You want to be a part of the program, You
know little things can make a huge difference. Right, what's
the whole story, David and Goliath all about?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, what about if you believe in the sanctity of
life and your pro life and if you agree with
me that abortion is a heart issue, then you're going
to love the Mission of Preborn. Why because Preborn uses
the science of four D ultrasound. They give it for
free to any expecting mom, and they give them pre counseling,
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and they also help them out after a baby's born.
And if they were thinking about abortion, well, all of
a sudden, they get on that ford, the ultrasound machine,
and they hear a heartbeat. Wow, they can't believe it.
They're amazed that the science afford the ultrasound. Or depending
on what point of birth they may be at what
month they're in, you know, they might see facial features
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or fingers and toes and be able to count them.
And so maybe some expecting moms were thinking, well should
I get an abortion?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Not get an abortion?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Well, almost eighty plus percent of the time, if they
were thinking about it, they're not thinking about it by
the time they leave. Here's one difference. The Mission of
Preboard doesn't get a penny from the federal government. Planned
parenthood gets millions and millions and millions of dollars. Not
one penny is the government giving the preborn. They're totally,
completely and utterly dependent to continue their mission of saving babies'
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lives by counting on you in the pro life community.
You the even the sanctity of life, You that have
a heart and compassion for the miracle of birth and
for moms that might be struggling financially and anyway. So
the only way they can continue this mission is if
you step up and help them in this mission. Every
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free for d ultrasound cost them twenty eight bucks. You know,
you can't really even put an estimate on the amount
of money they're spending on counseling and other services for
expecting moms and for moms that give birth to these babies. Anyway,
they have two ways you can get involved. I bought
two for d ultrasound machines. They just desperately need your help.
It's all tax deductible. You dial pound two to fifty
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on your cell phone, say the keyword baby, pound two fifty,
keyword baby. Or they have a website. It's called preborn
dot com slash sean preborn dot com slash Sean Sea
n all right before we get to our phone. So, Linda,
I don't know why. I saw this in the paper
yesterday and I thought of you about this. Remember remember
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years ago we had Hannah Date on Hannity dot Com.
Remember that I do. And remember we were pressured to
take it down. I do because we were just being
inclusive and all that sort of thing and trying to
let any We just didn't monitor it. And then then
my lawyers tell me, well, you may end up with
a liability risk. So you know, I thought was a
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good idea. We were ahead of the curve. I mean, look,
let's be honest. This is kind of past our generations, right,
I mean, and you're younger than me. You've never been
on a dating side, I have to believe, right, No.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I met a lot of people the old school way.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yild the way you know in person? How you doing
in bars? Lady? Can I buy you a drink? What
are you drinking? Like that?
Speaker 5 (18:43):
That kind of stuff, the old fashioned way, you know,
construction workers that used to whistle you buy you know
as you walk by.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
The old school way, by the way, you would date
some of those guys.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I'll tell you what construction workers are some of the
nicest and most polite guys. Ever, once you get past
the cow call.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Okay, I mean, whistle and at a lady walker by
is not the coolest thing to do.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I mean, I mean, what.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Else are they going to do? I mean, you know,
it's not like they got They're not off, they're work
and they see you. You look nice.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I mean, you know, the whistle.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Yeah, it's a typical whistle. You know. I'm like, thank
you for noticing. I worked very hard on this. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Have a nice day. Oh man, you are not politically correct.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
That's correct at all if so.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So, anyway, there's this jerk.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I won't even give out the dating site anyway. So
he meets this girl on this dating side, okay, and
then this jerk sends her a text message the next
day and then puts it out publicly. You know, yeah, okay,
you know, giving his assessment of the night that he
spent with this woman. Now, just put your own personal
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morality aside here, you know, all right, he gives this
woman a ten out of ten for personality, all right,
and you know, and then he goes into sexual compatibility
five out of ten. But can get it a to
an eight point five with some convincing and open mind. Idiot,
What a total jackass, right, and then he goes And
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to be totally honest, there was some misleading from your photos.
I don't want to come across as rude or insensitive
and appreciate the cause, but I'm just a very honest
and upfront person, and I was expecting to date the
woman from the photos, happy to casually stay in touch
until the weight is gone, and then we can see
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up to you if you're okay with that. If not,
I understand, I'm like, Okay, what a jackass. What is
wrong with people? That is that? That that is beyond mean,
just so cruel, so just awful.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
She she offended him with her body style and type
so much that he wasn't able to keep his clothes on.
It's amazing. I wonder how that worked out.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Amazing. Oh well, it wasn't exactly this.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It wasn't exactly amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
They didn't say. They didn't talk specifically about you know
what he had. He called it sexual compatibility. Yeah, well,
we don't know the specifics of that part. But I
don't even want to know the specifics of that part.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
The problem is we shouldn't know any of it. It
should be a text message between two people. But we
live in a time where everybody thinks everybody needs to
know everything.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That's why I don't have email, That's why I have
no access to social media. That's why I have literally
you know, I save nothing.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I tell you what, I would not want to be
a kid today. Your whole life is online. And you
know what you kids don't think about in ten years
when they go for a job interview and you're looking
at all the crap you put on Facebook, a Snapchat
and Instagram and all these other stupid things. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I just felt terrible for this poor woman. I really
did well.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I will only say one thing. Also not politically correct,
but there are a lot of people who put a
lot of photos up that are not them, or are
them you know, ten pounds ago, ten years ago, whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Should put the photo up, you know whatever months ago,
and her hair was a different style or color or whatever.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Well, it's different to have your hair different. For example,
if you have long, luxorious, curly hair and you show up,
you know, and it's all chopped off and above your ears,
like yeah, that's a little shocking. You know, if you
put a picture up and you're in a Bikinian when
you show up your three hundred pounds, Yeah, it's a
little shocking. I do think that there needs to be honest.
If you're going to online date, you better be honest.
And a lot of people aren't. That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I don't I don't think he shouldn't be, you know,
but I don't like it. I don't like any of it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I don't like the idea of meeting a stranger like this,
because you're right, these people take on pseudonyms, they lie,
you know, they're not who they say they are.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I mean it's just too much.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I mean, that's with everything digital unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, good point.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
All right, to our phoneses we go eight hundred and
nine to pot one, Shawn on number if you want
to be a part of the program. Steven Michigan, Steve,
how are you glad you called?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Good afternoon, Sean.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
What's going on? Glad you call?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I'm calling in regards to the life issue. I want
to just kind of share with you that after Striano
lost and you kind of got on this rant about
you know, every time the life issue would come up,
you would you would harangue on Masteriano, even though he's
a nice guy, as you would say, and I got
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tired of it. In fact, every time I heard you
go that direction, I'd turn the radio off because I've
I've listened to you since you were a sub for
Rush Limbaugh. Okay, so I listened to you for a
long time. I respect you, I think you're a great guy.
But I think one of the things that really needs
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to happen. And I was just really surprised up until
this last week when, or the week before maybe even you,
it seemed to me you began to change your tune
a little bit rather than you know, doing that taking
a more proactive approach to going on the offensive when
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rather than on the defensive. And the situation is that
when we talk about the life issue so many times,
the press or you know, our opposing candidate, which which
could be the Democrat, is saying, you know, oh you're
you know you're against abortion, well, rather than answering the
question on pro life. I just really think that what
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candidates need to do is go on the offensive and
start talking about late term abortion and how they suck
the brains out of the skull of the little baby,
and they turn the baby around and then they pull
their feet, you know, pull them out feet first. If
you start talking graphic like that, I think that puts
them on the defensive, because that's what the Democrats are
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in support of all the way up until even with
the former Virginia governor said he said that, you know, hey,
you have the baby there and lay lay the baby there,
and the parents and the doctor talk about what they
want to do.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
That's Governor northumb.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, let me answer your question, because maybe maybe I'm
not being maybe I'm not communicating this well enough. My
views on abortion are not changed at all, my personal views.
I think it's evidence by the fact I kind of
put my money where my mouth is. I support preborn
dot com slash Sean. I've spent my own money to
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buy for the ultrasound machines because they're having such a
profound effect. I've always said in my mind that abortion is,
at the end of the day, a heart issue. But
I can tell you this now I'm speaking politically, and
I've been very consistent going back to twenty twenty two.
Remember when they overturn row, which was always bad law.
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It goes back to the States where I think the
country is at politically, not Sean Hannity, where I think
they are. I think they're at first trimester fifteen weeks.
You're very right about the issue that the Democrats are
demagogging the issue. I would argue, I can make a
case since why we didn't see the wave that we
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might have expected in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I think abortion played a big part in it.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And I'm just saying moving forward that Republicans they can
make whatever decision they want. But if they're going to
take a hard line on the issue of abortion, I
think they're going to lose a lot of voters. So
if that's their position, I'll respect it. But I'm just saying,
I'm giving you the political reality. I would prefer to
win elections because our country's disintegrating. And I've never been
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a single issue guy.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Well, I would agree with you, Sean. If the candidate
who is being attacked for his pro life position keeps silent,
that's the problem. If candidates are quiet about it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And well, I mean it depends.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I mean, what if they're against abortion under any circumstances. Now,
I personally make exceptions for rape incests in the mother's life. Now,
I could tell you that there would be pro life
people that take, for example, Monstreano's position that would be
absolutely right, saying that if you believe life begins a conception,
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then you shouldn't have any exceptions. I would say they're
more intellectually pure in there thinking than I am. However,
I do believe circumstances should be taken into account, but
if you're looking for intellectual purity, I would not be
on the winning end of that argument.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Well, okay, and I understand, and I agree with what
you're saying if the candidate stays quiet. But here's what's happened.
And I think you know this, I think you even
mentioned it. Fifty percent of the funds that the Democrats
are spending is on the abortion issue, attacking the Republican,
putting the Republican on the defensive. And the Republicans have
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to be willing to spend fifty percent to attack the
Democrats position for late term abortion and put them every
time it's mentioned it ought to be mentioned, you know,
late term abortion, and what the what they just tacking
them to do that? Then then what happens is it
puts them on the defensive. And that's where the no
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I agree with.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Listen, I think there's and I've said that too, maybe
not as often as I should.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I would say that you're right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I would say this if if you if you look
at this in all practicality, and you know that most states,
like New York liberal states, abortion is never going to
end in America because those states are always going to
have very liberal laws. So again, now I'm not speaking
about this from a moral perspective.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I'm giving you a political reality.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So if that means that anybody that wants a late
term abortion even can go to California or New York
or wherever, or whatever state they go to, it means
it's going to happen anyway. Fifty five percent of abortions
now are done by a pill. You may not know that.
So if if I'm looking at this from a purely
political and and a practicality standpoint, and the abortion's going
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to happen anyway, why lose the election When it's going
to happen anyway. Is if people want it that bad,
they're getting it, and it's going to be gotten legally
in these other states. But yes, Republicans should focus more
on late term abortion. I've got twenty seconds or all yours.
All right, you get the last twenty.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Thank you very much. I will just tell you my
personal situation. My mother was born on a date rate.
My grandmother was my grandmother was going to have an abortion,
and my great grandmother stopped her. So my mother was born,
and now she had four kids and then us kids,
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I mean the grandkids. So for me, it's a personal thing.
But I agree with you. It's just that the Republicans
have to go on the offensive. And I really appreciate
your you know, giving me the opportunity to come on
the year and just and just take the Republicans to
ask that they're not going on the offensive and teaching
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the candidates.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
They can't allow Democrats to demagogue them and lie about them.
I completely agree, and yes there is offensive ground that
they need to go on. Absolutely, so I think we're
pretty much in full agreement. I mean, actually, you know,
I'm touched by the story of your you know, I'm
sorry about the date rape, but I'm glad obviously you
know that you wouldn't be here had your grandmother made
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that decision, right, I mean, think about that. That's pretty
profound and that impacted you personally.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Right, That is exactly right, And I think, Sean, for
you articulating the issue this way, I just believe that
this is what you should do from this point forward.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Is well, maybe I have not been good at communicating this.
I've said all of this before, but you know, maybe
I just have not explained it well enough. And you
know what, you're helping me clarify it.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Thank you. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn our number if you
want to be a part of the program, Linda, Have
I not been fairly consistent on this because people were
acting like this is a new position for me.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It has not been. I said, it's a hard.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Issue, Sean. People are real passionate about it. I don't
think there's enough explaining in the world to get people
to meet in the middle.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, but I'm saying I have been consistent in by
political views versus my personal views, and that part I've
been consistent about. That's going to wrap things up at
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A lot of your calls coming up straight ahead this hour.
Senate Judiciary Committee that a hearing. If you've been following
the news, there's been an all out assault, which hunt
attacks on conservative justices on the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
For example, nobody got in trouble.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You're not allowed to march in front of Supreme Court
justices homes.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's actually illegal.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But of course the weaponized, politicized Department of Justice didn't
lift a finger when that was happening. But they seem
very specifically focused on conservative justices, especially Clarence Thomas and
Sam Alito and some others. All right, So in the
Judiciary Committee and the Senate, Marsha Blackburn went after and
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rightly slammed Dick Durbin, radical leftists from Illinois for launching
this assault on the Supreme Court's legitimacy. They should be
prioritizing instead. And she did not hold back, and she
announced that she's issuing a subpoena to Justice Sodo Mayor's
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staff over her book Deals she announced a subpoenas for
Xavier Bisera over losing track of what eighty five thousand
on accompanied children, and to the DOJ by the way,
for terminating her China initiative their China initiative, and issuing
subpoenas related to the political donations by Robert Muller's staff,
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and for DOJ and the FTC to provide documents regarding
the Elon Musk investigation.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Anyway, let me play these all for you.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Senator Graham mentioned Justice Soda Mayor now this summer, what
we learned was that over the years her staff has
pressured public institutions to buy her books, and these books
and her book deal have earned her four million dollars.
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And I haven't heard you mentioned that. None of you
have mentioned that you don't want to talk about that.
Nor have you mentioned the fact that she refused to
recuse herself from not one, but two copyright infringement cases
concerning her book publisher. You clearly don't want to talk
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about that one either, So I have filed an amendment
issuing a subpoena to Justice Soda Mayor's staff who helped
to sell her books, as well as to her book publisher,
so we can fully understand the backstory of these deals.
I've also filed a suspoena authorizing Secretary but Sarah to
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come before this committee and explain to us how HHS
and the Office of Refugee Resettlement has lost track of
eighty five thousand children. In addition, I filed a subpoena
to compel the Biden DOJ to provide all documentation about
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their disastrous decision to terminate the successful China Initiative. That
was a program that was critical to targeting and prosecuting
Chinese spies in America.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Anyway, joining us now is Tennessee. Senator Marshall Blackburn is
with us. Welcome back, Senator, how are you.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I am doing well, and Sean, you are exactly right.
If they want to blow up the Supreme Court, if
they want to delegitimize the Court and start to subpoena
private citizens, then I've got my list of subpoenas. So
I drew up my amendments. I filed my amendments, and
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I think that Senator Durbin was a little bit shocked
when I saw time and I talked about these amendments,
and I'm so pleased that other members of the Republican
side of the Judiciary Committee. They've got a list of amendments. Also,
two people can play this game, and so if they're going.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To do this, well, I don't know if it's really
a game, because in the case of just a sort
of my ore, and you rightly pointed this out, we
learned over the years that her staff pressured public institutions
where she's speaking to buy her books, books that which,
by the way, have earned her You know, like four
million dollars. Is that allowed under the rules of the Judiciary.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It is not allowed under the rules that affect the
Supreme Court. And she should have disclosed the three million
dollar advance. She should have disclosed what she was making
from these books. And of course her staff cannot go
about calling these institutions and say you need to buy
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these books. She has made four million dollars off the
sale of these books. And then twice that publisher came
before her at the Supreme Court and she on infringement cases.
She never recused herself from those cases, and a Republican
would have been required to recuse themselves from those cases.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You also did one other thing that I want to
play here, and you said quote and since we're in
the business now of issuing subpoenas, here are a few
more that I have filed. And one of them was
a subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein's estate providing the flight logs
for his private plane. Given the numerous allegations of human
trafficking and abuse surrounding mister Epstein, we've got to identify
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everyone who could have participated in his horrific conduct.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Listen, and since we're in the business of issuing subpoenas,
now here are a few more that I filed. A
subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein's estate to provide the flight logs
for his private plane. Given the numerous allegations of human
trafficking and a sexual abuse surrounding mister Epstein, I think
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it is very important that we identify everybody that was
on that plane and how many trips they took on
that plane and the destinations to which they arrived.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I was glad you did that, Senator. What was the
reaction to that one?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think it was instructive to all of us that
after I started into my remark, Senator Graham went first,
and then I was the second one to seek time.
And after I did that, I think that Senator Durbin
realized we were not going to sit there and let
them delegitimize the Supreme Court. That we were going to
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bring forward all of the subpoenas that we would like
to see and the Democrats are going to have to
take a vote on this. Now do they want to
vote on subpoena ing all the flight logs for Jeffrey
Epstein's planes? And as I said in my remarks, I
want to know where people were picked up. I want
to know what the destination was. I want the length
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of time they stayedd that destination and where they were
returned to and knowing who all was on those planes,
the number of trips that they were taking. I will
tell you this. I think that shareholders of companies deserve
to know this. I think that this should be revealed
if there were people from these companies that were participating
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in some of this human trafficking and sex trafficking. It
seems like that Jeffrey Epstein and Julane Maxwell had really
quite an operation going when they took people to the
private island on the Lolita Express.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Let me ask you this, what do you think this
is really all about. It seems to me. Yet the
latest attacks on what has been an unrelenting campaign pretty
much his entire career, going back to the hearings of
Clarence Thomas, It's like they want to isolate him, attack him,
and it's never ending. Am I wrong in my belief
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that this is what this is about because they don't
like the way he votes?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You are accurate in my opinion, and the fact that
they are going specifically after Justice Thomas and they're using
this as a campaign of personal destruction. They continue to
go after him and pointing out the hypocrisy of what
they are doing, how they're choosing to go after him,
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and sam Alito choosing the fact that they are showing
the fact that they did not want to subpoena all
the information around the leaker of the Dobbs decision. We
still do not know who did that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And by the way, we don't know who did that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
We don't know who leaked the Dobbs decision, just like
we don't know who brought cocaine into the White House.
And that investigation is so extensive, Senator, it ended after
ten long days.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Wow, what an investigation that.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Is it, yes, and we need to We all would
like answers to these things, and the American people deserve
to know these answers. So I think that we are
on the right track by pushing to subpoena all of this.
We're going to continue. And if next week and the
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next week in the following week he tries to bring
up the issue to subpoena private citizens to go after
an attack two or three or four of our justices,
then of course I'm going to call for votes on
my amendments that I filed.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Let me ask you this because I think this is
an important point as well. You know, since the Dobs leak,
we know that the homes of justices like Thomas Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh,
Amy Coney Barrett have been subjected to threats on their lives,
their families. Isn't it illegal to show up at their
place of work or the place of residence and protests
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like that, and why hasn't anything been done?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
We would like to know that, and that's one of
the reasons for subpoena ing all the information around the leak.
Or because you're exactly right, our justices and their families
have all received death threats and they've been endangered by this.
And because of that, people want to know, what, how
did we start down this path? How could someone have
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leaked this document? And how is it that all this
time later, we do not know who did this and
who caused this upheaval at the Supreme Court and who
endangered the lives of our justices. There Again, when you
look at what Senator Durbin is pushing for, you see
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someone who is intent on delegitimizing the Court. There is
no reason this a US Senate should be subpoenaing this information.
We don't have control of the Court. Many people forget
we're three separate and equal branches of government.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well that's those to a lot of people in Washington.
Do you feel, after your actions today and the support
that you had with your fellow senators on the Judiciary Committee,
like Lindsay Graham, do you feel you have successfully thwarted
this effort to attack these justices.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
We we are hopeful that we thwarted that effort. We
are hopeful that Durbin well back down on this, and
we are hopeful that we can make it for the
next three hundred and sixty days and get to this
election and make certain that we end all of these
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attacks on the constitutional justices that are on the Supreme
Court and that we can return to regular business in
the US Senate.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
By the way, how refreshing it is that we actually
have somebody in Washington that understands the concept of separation
of powers and three co equal branches of government. That's
rather a refreshing Senator. Anyway, I'll be down in your
great state this week. Appreciate you being with us. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Take care by now.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Eight hundred and nine to four one, Sean our number
if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's put to our busy telephones. Let's say
hi to Eric. He's in Buffalo, New York. Eric High,
How are you glad.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You call don Thank you for taking my call. I
wanted to kind of play off of what Senator Blackburn
said about the flight logs for Epstein. The American people
have a right to know if any government officials were
also involved as well. I mean, we all know and
saw Epstein had various visits with Bill Clinton in the nineties,
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if I remember correctly, right, Sean.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
My understanding is he was on the Lolita Express that
has been printed many times.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Okay, so one of the things is that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But I'm sure his intentions were pure.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
We'll see. But to me, what's happening right now in
the country is you have you have a and you've
said this many times both on the radio and on
your show on Fox, that we have a president in decline.
We do, and we need a president to get back
in the White House to fix all of this. The
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biggest mess going on is in the Middle East right now,
and it's like all that work that President Trump did
just went completely down the drain due to the Biden
administration and the things that he's doing. I don't think
he's there physically or mentally. There's times where I see
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you I'm on TV and just like you've said, you
have to go what and to me, that puts us
in a very Let me ask.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You a question.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Do you think Joe would be up to the job
of being a You ever go to Walmart and you
have you know what, look like retired people just take
it on another job and that they seem to be
the nicest people on earth, and you ask them mind, Yeah,
I'm looking for the toy Department, the sporting goods department
or whatever. And did you ever do you think Joe
would be capable of doing that job?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Because I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
No, I totally agree with you. What's happening is you
have a situation where you have a president who and
a lot of people may know this, so may not have.
And I worked in a nursing facility. I know what
this looks like. He is in cognitive decline to a
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point where I'm beginning to wonder if the brain aneurysms
he had in his younger year caught up to him
during his time as vice president and now in the
overdrive his president. He can't handle this.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
No, and I have to end it there because I'm
just out of time. You're right, and it's obvious, and
it's transparent, at least to anybody with eyes to see.
All Right, more of your calls coming up straight ahead,
eight hundred nine one shan. If you want to be
a part of the program.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
This is a Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
By twenty five to the top of the hour. Your
calls coming up eight hundred and nine four one sewn.
You want to be a part of the program, You
know little things can make a huge difference. Right, what's
the whole story, David and Goliath all about?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, what about if you believe in the sanctity of
life and your pro life and if you agree with
me that abortion is a heart issue, then you're going
to love the Mission of Preborn. Why because Preborn uses
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and they also help them out after a baby's born.
And if they were thinking about abortion, well, all of
a sudden, they get on that ford, the ultrasound machine,
and they hear a heartbeat. Wow, they can't believe it.
They're amazed that the science afford the ultrasound. Or depending
on what point of birth they may be at what
month they're in, you know, they might see facial features
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or fingers and toes and be able to count them.
And so maybe some expecting moms were thinking, well should
I get an abortion?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Not get an abortion?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Well, almost eighty plus percent of the time, if they
were thinking about it, they're not thinking about it by
the time they leave. Here's one difference. The Mission of
Preboard doesn't get a penny from the federal government. Planned
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lives by counting on you in the pro life community.
You the even the sanctity of life, You that have
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for moms that might be struggling financially and anyway. So
the only way they can continue this mission is if
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expecting moms and for moms that give birth to these babies. Anyway,
they have two ways you can get involved. I bought
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It's all tax deductible. You dial pound two to fifty
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on your cell phone, say the keyword baby, pound two fifty,
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n all right before we get to our phone. So, Linda,
I don't know why. I saw this in the paper
yesterday and I thought of you about this. Remember remember
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years ago we had Hannah Date on Hannity dot Com.
Remember that I do. And remember we were pressured to
take it down. I do because we were just being
inclusive and all that sort of thing and trying to
let any We just didn't monitor it. And then then
my lawyers tell me, well, you may end up with
a liability risk. So you know, I thought was a
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good idea. We were ahead of the curve. I mean, look,
let's be honest. This is kind of past our generations, right,
I mean, and you're younger than me. You've never been
on a dating side, I have to believe, right, No.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I met a lot of people the old school way.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yild the way you know in person? How you doing
in bars? Lady? Can I buy you a drink? What
are you drinking? Like that?
Speaker 5 (18:43):
That kind of stuff, the old fashioned way, you know,
construction workers that used to whistle you buy you know
as you walk by.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
The old school way, by the way, you would date
some of those guys.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I'll tell you what construction workers are some of the
nicest and most polite guys. Ever, once you get past
the cow call.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Okay, I mean, whistle and at a lady walker by
is not the coolest thing to do.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I mean, I mean, what.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Else are they going to do? I mean, you know,
it's not like they got They're not off, they're work
and they see you. You look nice.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I mean, you know, the whistle.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Yeah, it's a typical whistle. You know. I'm like, thank
you for noticing. I worked very hard on this. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Have a nice day. Oh man, you are not politically correct.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
That's correct at all if so.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So, anyway, there's this jerk.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I won't even give out the dating site anyway. So
he meets this girl on this dating side, okay, and
then this jerk sends her a text message the next
day and then puts it out publicly. You know, yeah, okay,
you know, giving his assessment of the night that he
spent with this woman. Now, just put your own personal
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morality aside here, you know, all right, he gives this
woman a ten out of ten for personality, all right,
and you know, and then he goes into sexual compatibility
five out of ten. But can get it a to
an eight point five with some convincing and open mind. Idiot,
What a total jackass, right, and then he goes And
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to be totally honest, there was some misleading from your photos.
I don't want to come across as rude or insensitive
and appreciate the cause, but I'm just a very honest
and upfront person, and I was expecting to date the
woman from the photos, happy to casually stay in touch
until the weight is gone, and then we can see
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up to you if you're okay with that. If not,
I understand, I'm like, Okay, what a jackass. What is
wrong with people? That is that? That that is beyond mean,
just so cruel, so just awful.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
She she offended him with her body style and type
so much that he wasn't able to keep his clothes on.
It's amazing. I wonder how that worked out.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Amazing. Oh well, it wasn't exactly this.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It wasn't exactly amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
They didn't say. They didn't talk specifically about you know
what he had. He called it sexual compatibility. Yeah, well,
we don't know the specifics of that part. But I
don't even want to know the specifics of that part.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
The problem is we shouldn't know any of it. It
should be a text message between two people. But we
live in a time where everybody thinks everybody needs to
know everything.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That's why I don't have email, That's why I have
no access to social media. That's why I have literally
you know, I save nothing.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I tell you what, I would not want to be
a kid today. Your whole life is online. And you
know what you kids don't think about in ten years
when they go for a job interview and you're looking
at all the crap you put on Facebook, a Snapchat
and Instagram and all these other stupid things. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I just felt terrible for this poor woman. I really
did well.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I will only say one thing. Also not politically correct,
but there are a lot of people who put a
lot of photos up that are not them, or are
them you know, ten pounds ago, ten years ago, whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Should put the photo up, you know whatever months ago,
and her hair was a different style or color or whatever.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Well, it's different to have your hair different. For example,
if you have long, luxorious, curly hair and you show up,
you know, and it's all chopped off and above your ears,
like yeah, that's a little shocking. You know, if you
put a picture up and you're in a Bikinian when
you show up your three hundred pounds, Yeah, it's a
little shocking. I do think that there needs to be honest.
If you're going to online date, you better be honest.
And a lot of people aren't. That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I don't I don't think he shouldn't be, you know,
but I don't like it. I don't like any of it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I don't like the idea of meeting a stranger like this,
because you're right, these people take on pseudonyms, they lie,
you know, they're not who they say they are.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I mean it's just too much.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I mean, that's with everything digital unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, good point.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
All right, to our phoneses we go eight hundred and
nine to pot one, Shawn on number if you want
to be a part of the program. Steven Michigan, Steve,
how are you glad you called?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Good afternoon, Sean.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
What's going on? Glad you call?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I'm calling in regards to the life issue. I want
to just kind of share with you that after Striano
lost and you kind of got on this rant about
you know, every time the life issue would come up,
you would you would harangue on Masteriano, even though he's
a nice guy, as you would say, and I got
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tired of it. In fact, every time I heard you
go that direction, I'd turn the radio off because I've
I've listened to you since you were a sub for
Rush Limbaugh. Okay, so I listened to you for a
long time. I respect you, I think you're a great guy.
But I think one of the things that really needs
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to happen. And I was just really surprised up until
this last week when, or the week before maybe even you,
it seemed to me you began to change your tune
a little bit rather than you know, doing that taking
a more proactive approach to going on the offensive when
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rather than on the defensive. And the situation is that
when we talk about the life issue so many times,
the press or you know, our opposing candidate, which which
could be the Democrat, is saying, you know, oh you're
you know you're against abortion, well, rather than answering the
question on pro life. I just really think that what
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candidates need to do is go on the offensive and
start talking about late term abortion and how they suck
the brains out of the skull of the little baby,
and they turn the baby around and then they pull
their feet, you know, pull them out feet first. If
you start talking graphic like that, I think that puts
them on the defensive, because that's what the Democrats are
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in support of all the way up until even with
the former Virginia governor said he said that, you know, hey,
you have the baby there and lay lay the baby there,
and the parents and the doctor talk about what they
want to do.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
That's Governor northumb.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, let me answer your question, because maybe maybe I'm
not being maybe I'm not communicating this well enough. My
views on abortion are not changed at all, my personal views.
I think it's evidence by the fact I kind of
put my money where my mouth is. I support preborn
dot com slash Sean. I've spent my own money to
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buy for the ultrasound machines because they're having such a
profound effect. I've always said in my mind that abortion is,
at the end of the day, a heart issue. But
I can tell you this now I'm speaking politically, and
I've been very consistent going back to twenty twenty two.
Remember when they overturn row, which was always bad law.
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It goes back to the States where I think the
country is at politically, not Sean Hannity, where I think
they are. I think they're at first trimester fifteen weeks.
You're very right about the issue that the Democrats are
demagogging the issue. I would argue, I can make a
case since why we didn't see the wave that we
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might have expected in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I think abortion played a big part in it.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And I'm just saying moving forward that Republicans they can
make whatever decision they want. But if they're going to
take a hard line on the issue of abortion, I
think they're going to lose a lot of voters. So
if that's their position, I'll respect it. But I'm just saying,
I'm giving you the political reality. I would prefer to
win elections because our country's disintegrating. And I've never been
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a single issue guy.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Well, I would agree with you, Sean. If the candidate
who is being attacked for his pro life position keeps silent,
that's the problem. If candidates are quiet about it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And well, I mean it depends.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I mean, what if they're against abortion under any circumstances. Now,
I personally make exceptions for rape incests in the mother's life. Now,
I could tell you that there would be pro life
people that take, for example, Monstreano's position that would be
absolutely right, saying that if you believe life begins a conception,
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then you shouldn't have any exceptions. I would say they're
more intellectually pure in there thinking than I am. However,
I do believe circumstances should be taken into account, but
if you're looking for intellectual purity, I would not be
on the winning end of that argument.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Well, okay, and I understand, and I agree with what
you're saying if the candidate stays quiet. But here's what's happened.
And I think you know this, I think you even
mentioned it. Fifty percent of the funds that the Democrats
are spending is on the abortion issue, attacking the Republican,
putting the Republican on the defensive. And the Republicans have
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to be willing to spend fifty percent to attack the
Democrats position for late term abortion and put them every
time it's mentioned it ought to be mentioned, you know,
late term abortion, and what the what they just tacking
them to do that? Then then what happens is it
puts them on the defensive. And that's where the no
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I agree with.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Listen, I think there's and I've said that too, maybe
not as often as I should.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I would say that you're right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I would say this if if you if you look
at this in all practicality, and you know that most states,
like New York liberal states, abortion is never going to
end in America because those states are always going to
have very liberal laws. So again, now I'm not speaking
about this from a moral perspective.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I'm giving you a political reality.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So if that means that anybody that wants a late
term abortion even can go to California or New York
or wherever, or whatever state they go to, it means
it's going to happen anyway. Fifty five percent of abortions
now are done by a pill. You may not know that.
So if if I'm looking at this from a purely
political and and a practicality standpoint, and the abortion's going
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to happen anyway, why lose the election When it's going
to happen anyway. Is if people want it that bad,
they're getting it, and it's going to be gotten legally
in these other states. But yes, Republicans should focus more
on late term abortion. I've got twenty seconds or all yours.
All right, you get the last twenty.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Thank you very much. I will just tell you my
personal situation. My mother was born on a date rate.
My grandmother was my grandmother was going to have an abortion,
and my great grandmother stopped her. So my mother was born,
and now she had four kids and then us kids,
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I mean the grandkids. So for me, it's a personal thing.
But I agree with you. It's just that the Republicans
have to go on the offensive. And I really appreciate
your you know, giving me the opportunity to come on
the year and just and just take the Republicans to
ask that they're not going on the offensive and teaching
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the candidates.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
They can't allow Democrats to demagogue them and lie about them.
I completely agree, and yes there is offensive ground that
they need to go on. Absolutely, so I think we're
pretty much in full agreement. I mean, actually, you know,
I'm touched by the story of your you know, I'm
sorry about the date rape, but I'm glad obviously you
know that you wouldn't be here had your grandmother made
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that decision, right, I mean, think about that. That's pretty
profound and that impacted you personally.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Right, That is exactly right, And I think, Sean, for
you articulating the issue this way, I just believe that
this is what you should do from this point forward.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Is well, maybe I have not been good at communicating this.
I've said all of this before, but you know, maybe
I just have not explained it well enough. And you
know what, you're helping me clarify it.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Thank you. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn our number if you
want to be a part of the program, Linda, Have
I not been fairly consistent on this because people were
acting like this is a new position for me.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It has not been. I said, it's a hard.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Issue, Sean. People are real passionate about it. I don't
think there's enough explaining in the world to get people
to meet in the middle.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, but I'm saying I have been consistent in by
political views versus my personal views, and that part I've
been consistent about. That's going to wrap things up at
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