Tension with Iran - April 15th, Hour 1

Sean covers the tension with Iran as military buildup puts the Middle East under intense scrutiny.  

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thank you, Scott Channon. Thanks to all of you for
being with us. Here is our toll free telephone number
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like to join us. We got a lot of news
we're going to get to today, updates on the battleover
tariffs and the president. Want to start with one interesting
side note. If you've been a long time listener to

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this show, you know we spent about three years with
a very small ensemble cast and my great staffs on
radio and TV unfeeling the onion as it relates to
the Russia hoax, and now John Solomon Washington Times has
picked up on it as well. Have gotten a hold

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of these documents and one of the things that really
interested in me. If you want to know whether or
not there's a deep state in this country, let me
go to the Washington Times. We told you about John Stalomon,
just solomon story yesterday, the top brass in the FBI
that intelligence community was so determined from the get go

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to stop President Trump from winning the White House in
twenty sixteen, and then as soon as he won, it
wasn't four months in they were talking about removing him
from office, according to newly released documents. In one newly
released memo dated May twenty seventeen, four months into Donald

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Trump's first term, the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and
acting ATBI Director Andrew McCabe, they discussed quote, the president's
capacity and the possibility that he could be removed from
office under the twenty fifth Amendment. At the time, the
Justice Department was reeling over Trump's firing of James Colemy
mister higher honor. Now just to backtrack, mister higher honor,

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No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute mister higher honor that signed
in spite of warnings and admonitions in August to twenty
sixteen not to signed them and using the Russian dirty
disinformation Hillary Boughton paid for dossier. They were warned not
to trust it, that it was a political document. He

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signed three of the four by his applications, Rosenstein signed
at least one that I recall and anyway. At the time,
the Justice Department was reeling over this and weighing the
appointment of a special counsel to oversee the FBI's probe
into allegations later proven absolutely bogus that Trump colluded with
Russia to win the election. They knew it was false.

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They knew the dossier was bought and paid for, They
were warned about it in August to twenty sixteen, long
before the election. And don't forget they used that as
the basis for four separate fys of warrants for Canadate
Trump Transition Team, Trump and Trump as president. Rosenstein said
he believed that he might have already have two supporters,

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and that would have been the Attorney General Jeff's Sessions
and Homeland Security Secretary at the time, John Kelly, who
later became White House Chief of Staff. And I don't
think either one of them are particularly fond of Donald Trump.
How early this was all happening is unbelievable. And what
do we talk about when we talk about a deep state?
We talk about those unelected people that think that they

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know better. And that's that gets into the whole, you know,
putting cinder blocks on the scales of elections in this country.
And that is exactly what they did with, you know,
the the FBI pre bunking the very real Hunter Biden
laptop that they knew in March of twenty twenty was real,
and then meeting with every big tech company on a

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weekly basis in the lead up to that election, and
every other nefarious thing that went on, and then of
course the intelligence community, the Intel community and fifty two
former Intel officials saying, oh no, no, it's all the
markings of Russian disinformation, and not one of them ever
examined the laptop. Knew a damn thing about the laptop.

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All they knew is they got a political call from
winkn Tony Blinken to sign this thing, to give Joe
Biden a talking point and the lead up to a
very important debate prior to the election in twenty twenty
with Donald Trump that would have been a game changer,
and by the way, Poles proved that to be true.
A new survey dailymail dot com Jail Partners finds that,

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in spite of what you were hearing from the state
run legacy media mob, Lowe's approval rating, ever, he's upside down.
The president's approval rating sits of fifty four percent. That
is a tie with his all time highest rating for
all the events in the past ten days. He got
the president's approval rating unchanged and add its joint highest ever.

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According to the poster James Johnson. During those ten days,
Trump planned need to implement these across the board tariffs
and that is either free and fair trader or reciprocal tarror.
Most countries will have the choice. And that created drops
and then a spike on the market. But polling showed
most voters were unfazed among the noise the criticism. There

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does seem to be a simple truth that the more
coverage there is of Trump's changes, the more voters reward
him for what they see as the pace and purpose
that many of them voted for anyway. So I mean
that's one poll. You know, do with it what you will.
But there's definitely a massive effect here, and there's definitely

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a great divide in the country in this sense. There
is Wall Street, there are the coastal elitists that would
be San Francisco, La New York, that would be DC
and versus Main Street. And the difference couldn't be any

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more stark or clear. And what's emerging now politically in
the country is pretty profound, and that is that the
movement under Donald Trump has become the party of working
men and women in this country, and that The Democratic
Party represents woke DEI obsessed and New Green Deal and

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climate change obsessed and transgender obsessed and everything woke obsessed
radical left in the country. And they're not changing. There
is no course correction, there's no introspection, there's no thought
behind where they stand, and they find themselves on the
precipice of becoming a party that is irrelevant. Now, does

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that mean that anything that Donald Trump is doing is easy,
as a matter of fact, not at all. It is
the most ambitious and most difficult, you know, agenda that
I've ever seen any president take on in our lifetime
and historically any president I can think of in the
last one hundred years. And I was a huge fan

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of President Reagan. I mean, just on the issue of
securing our borders and deporting illegal immigrants. I mean, I
can't believe that now the party that defends the right
of men to play women's sports, that puts the rights
of illegals over your safety. And we did have a
conviction in the Rachel Moren case. By the way, her
mother will be on with us on Hannity tonight exclusively

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for her first interview since the conviction of the person
responsible for killing this mother of five who will never
see her children, or children will never see their mother again.
They're the party that thinks that it's a constitutional crisis
if you discover one hundred and fifty billion dollars waste, fraud, abuse,
and corruption. And they're the party of pechelant children that

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can't stand for mothers that lost their children, or stand
for a young man that beats cancer, or the wife
of a slain hero officer, or a young man that
was commissioned to West Point after losing his father, and
they just hang up, hold up their bingo cards. Now,
there is a lot happening that's good in the economy
that nobody in the media wants to really talk about.

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Nobody on Wall Street wants to talk about. We see
that inflation, as we pointed out in the last week,
is cooled off somewhat dramatically, which I think is good
news for every American because we've had nothing but high
inflation under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Gas prices are
down pretty dramatically. Airline fares are down, hotels, motels, cars,

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truck rentals, everything down across the board. And the number
of jobs that have been created ended up coming in
more than twice of what predictions were made out there. Now,
do I think that this is going to be an
easy negotiation with countries? Some will be easy and some
will be more difficult. I think the big headline that

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most people are not understanding is that since the President
began discussing the issue of reciprocal tariffs, that you have
seen major, major movement in the marketplace, and that is
a committed Well now we're up to after Navidia yesterday,

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eight trillion dollars in investment in manufacturing around the country. Now,
if you look for those of you that think it's
a big deal about, you know, standing up to China, Well,
China's separate and apart from the rest of the world
as far as I'm concerned. But why is it that
are partners that rely on the United States for their

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security that has paid the bulk of freight for NATO.
Why is the European Union, you know, so held bent
on putting massive tariffs on American products and wanting free
access and fair trade on their end in terms of
exporting products to America. I mean, with friends like that, right,

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who needs enemies? And if you look at every single
tariff that China's gotten away with. You know, at some
point you've got it. It's pretty much everything that America sells,
and we've allowed them to get away with it. Now,
the good news is we have over one hundred and
fifty countries now I'm sorry, one hundred and thirty countries

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that have committed to investment and manufacturing here in America.
We have some updates on that. Today. Reuters had an
interesting piece out a number of these overseas companies. They
now want to shift their operations to the US to
mitigate the impact of Donald Trump's tariffs. That's a good
thing for America. BMW, for example, they now want to

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add shifts in their Spartanburg plant in South Carolina to
boost output by eighty thousand units. That's good for American workers,
that's good for prices. And Honda's doing the same thing.
They plan to move production from Mexico and Canada into
the US. They want to make sure their goal is
ninety percent of cars sold in our country are produced

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in our country. Ayyende, We've discussed them, the South Korean automaker.
They want to further localized production in the US make
hybrid vehicles, at the new factory in Georgia, and they're
investing tens of billions of dollars. Same with Nissan Motors,
and they are considering shifting domestic production of US bound
vehicles and start building those vehicles right here in the US.

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We see it happening with semiconductor companies and so on
and so forth. Yesterday we announced about nit Navidia that
they're advancing their US manufacturing infrastructure for their AI supercomputers
and semiconductors and chips into the United States, some a
five hundred billion dollar commitment over four years. So I think,

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what's gonna happen. I'm hoping what's gonna happen. I'm guessing
what's gonna happen is that America is is going to
see these deals unfold and it's going to be deal
after deal after deal, and it's going to be good
for the country, and that will be win after win

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after win for the American people. And I think that
it's just going to take a little bit of time,
a little bit of adjustment, a little bit of change,
a little bit of thinking out of the box. Otherwise
America is going to be subject to the whims of
people that don't want free and fair trade. Why is
this country allowed allies, friends and foe alike to take

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advantage of us on such a massive level for the
better part of fifty and sixty years and nobody ever
thought that maybe free and fair trade and demanding it
would be a good thing. You know, the fact that
a Chinese official is warning Donald Trump today about extremely
shameless terwer for this is a war that they've been
waging on us now for a long time. Let those

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peasants in the United Sates states well in front of
the five thousand years of Chinese civilization. Okay, so that
quote the Washington Post. And now China thinks that they
can ratchet up the pressure. Now a lot of people
don't know this only because of radical environmentalists. Have we
not been doing our own mining in this country? But

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now China thinks that they have some leverage, and they
have stopped shipping some heavy rare earth metals and magnets
critical to US production from cell phones to fighter jets,
just to up the ante in the trade war. And
China decided to halt or stop Boeing jet orders. And
Boeing has been a top US exporter, and I how's

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that going to benefit China in the long run. And
if President Chi thinks that he can go around the
world and convince people he's a good trading partner, good
luck with that. I predict that at some point China's
going to realize that they're going to want access to
American markets and they're going to want to make a deal.
The only question is how deeply they paint themselves into
a corner before that moment, you know, finally dawns on them.

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And in the meantime, I think the most critical thing
that the president can do, and his administration can do,
and his economic team can do is to get with
those one hundred and thirty countries and sign deal after
deal after deal, and Americans will be able to create
a new normal. Is that you don't no longer get
to rip off the United States, take advantage of us

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and frankly abuse the American consumer and American workers in
the country in general. And I think everybody in the
end will be better off and they'll adjust to the
new normal. It just takes a while for people to
wrap their minds and heads around a new idea. What
I'm having a hard time understanding is and I get
Wall Street people. They are naturally afraid of their own shadows.

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We'll get analysis sober analysis with a historical perspective from
New King Rich coming up later on Steve Moore as well.
I have a hard time understand what concept why people
don't understand. But fifty sixty years of America has been
ripped off, treated unfairly, abused, and nobody's challenged it. And

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that America asking for free or fair and fair trade.
Why is that complicated? And why does that scare everybody?
And why isn't the status quo, especially from countries that
count on us but their national security and defense. I
don't understand why that's complicated.

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All right, twenty five now till the top of the
hour are tot free numbers of eight hundred and ninety
four one shown if you want to join us. Israel
is still under attack and we even have news on
that issue today, which not particularly good for the Iranians. Now,
remember we have six B two bombers that are armed

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with bunker busters within range of Iran right now. We
also have an aircraft carrier that was sent to the
Middle East, and now we have news today that a
second US aircraft carriers operating in Mid East waters ahead
of the next round of talks, which is this Saturday.
The first round of talks. We had Steve Witcoff on

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last night discussing it between Iran and the United States
over what is Iran and then Mulla's rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Now the operation of the US S Carl Vinson and
its strike group is in the Arabian Sea, and it
comes as suspected US air strikes pounding parts of Yemen

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controlled by the Iranian BAC twoty rebels overnight into Tuesday.
And Steve Widkoff, who was in fauks and Oman with
the Iranians, separately signaled that the Trump administration may be
looking at terms of a deal. However is he said

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to me last night it's going to be trust to verify.
Very clear today in comments that he made that they
can't have any nuclear in Richmond at all. I asked
about US inspectors any place, anywhere, anytime, and he said, trust,
but verify. But the reality is is the world cannot
risk lunatics that believe in a caliphate of convert or

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die ever having the chance of nuclear weapons, or we
will risk and likely have a nuclear holocaust in our lifetime.
You just can't risk it. And I say this in
light of Israel being under NonStop attack even today, missiles fired.
You know, we have there fighting the Huti rebel is Ballah,

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Islamic jihad Hamas the Iranians. It's like a seven front war.
They're under their enemies are seeking their destruction around calls
for the for death to Israel, death to America. And
you know, we we thankfully we're not living under a
constant threat of radical Islamic terrorists and NonStop rocket attacks,

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Today we do have a lot of very bizarre thinking

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from the left in America. What do I keep saying
that the party that champions the right of men to
play women's sports, we saw that in the Senate vote
a couple of weeks ago. They are the party of
climate environmentalism, radicalism, by the way, which made us wholly dependent.
We have rare earth minerals that we could be mining,

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but environmental extremism has prevented us from doing so. It
was Donald Trump that brought America to energy independence for
the first time in seventy five years because of radical environmentalists,
and it's the lifeblood of the world's economy. Now he's
pushing towards energy dominance, and slowly but surely, I believe

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not well not only achieve it, but we're going to
get rich as a country as a result of it.
They're the party that you know thinks it's a constitutional
crisis if Doge and Eli Musk identify waste, fraud and abuse.
You know, they're the party that you know, obviously has
no compunctions at all when it comes to remaining silent.

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When radical leftists on campus are out there, you know,
announcing and screaming and chanting and singing about their support
for Hamas, a designated terrorist organization whose charter calls for
the destruction of Israel, they stand silent. They have people

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in the halls of Congress that are virulent anti Semites.
The leadership of the Democratic Party remain silent. You have
radical leftists supporting Luigi Mangioni, and the left leadership remained silent.
We've had all these domestic terror attacks against Tesla, and
the left remain silent. We've had the attack now on

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Governor Josh Shapiro's house, and I've yet to hear anybody
on the left say this, This virulent anti Semitism has
to stop. And we have a you know, I have
a whole pile of news here today about the radical left.
You got a new Mexico guy that was wearing black lipstick.

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What do you think I looked? Would I look good
in black liftstick?

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Linda?

Speaker 1 (21:45):
What do you think? Absolutely? And you think so?

Speaker 4 (21:51):
You I mean salt and pepper hair, nice black sweater.
I mean I could really see how the black lipstick
could work for you.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
You know, Hannity goes goth. Anyway, this guy was arrested.
This guy gets I'll get the piercings next. He's been arrested.
By the way, this is going to sound terrible, and
it was mostly done as a joke. Have you ever
talked to your kids about tattoos? Me and I don't

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have a problem with people that get tats, I really don't.
I just don't want my kids to get them. I'd
rather they not get them. Do you ever talk to
your kids about them?

Speaker 4 (22:27):
So two of my sons have tattoos.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
They I don't have a problem with them, and I'm trying.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
To make a giant christ head on his shoulders. So
we've got a lot of tattoos in our family. I
personally do not like them at all. They are not
for me. I don't care for them. And my father
told me if I ever got a tattoo would be
the last thing I ever did. So I never got one.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, that's kind of what I didn't say that to
my kids. I was a little I was a little
less severe. I just said I I'd use acid and
burn it off. Oh yeah, that's far less severe, far
less severe. Now they know that I'm half joking about it, obviously,
But anyway, I move on to the story because it's
actually a serious story. This New Mexico man with black

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lipstick arrested in connection with a string of arson attacks
on Tesla vehicles as well as local GOP headquarters. I'm
glad they got this guy arrested after he left a
trail of clues behind at the scene that matched objects
seized during a raid of his home. Thank goodness, we
got this guy. He got the Harrisburg fire chief calling

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for the Governor's mansion firebomber to be jailed in an
Al Salvador hellhole. Boy. The left freaked out when President
Trump said, well maybe some of them are Well, maybe
we'll dour sit to Salvador and these notoriously rough prisons.
The left wing firebomber of the Governor's mansion, the guy

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accused of fire bombing Josh Shapiro's mansion was out on
bail when he allegedly carried out the arson. And this
is the guy that also wanted to do this. He
had an ulterior motive, and that was to go after
and get President Trump, as we told you about yesterday.
And anyway, the former mechanic said he's now jobless, penniless,

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lives with his parents. Was free after making bail for
assault charges. According to court records. In that case, he
was accused of stomping on a ten year old his
ten year old son's broken leg, and battering his wife.
Why wasn't that guy in jail? It's inexcusable. A man
arrested in Georgia for threats against Tulsei Gabbard, her husband.

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This guy, Ali Yakbar Mohammed, called Gavard's home a legitimate target.
I mean, these threats are just you know, going through
the roof. Threats against Elon Musk's life. Just over the weekend,
two specific threats against Donald Trump. Nancy Mace targeted by

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Pennsylvania man arrested for threatening Trump. And all of this
violence and all this rhetoric is coming from the radical
left in this country, the rise of left wing radicalism.
We'll get to it later, but Piers Morgan confronted Taylor Lorenz,
the former Washington Post the New York Times person for Oh,

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he's so handsome and he's such a moral man. Where
did that come from? About Luigi Mangioni. I love that
Harvard rejected the deal with the Trump administration, which is
great because now we don't know why would we we
be funding these Ivy League institutions when they have billions
of dollars in endowment's number one? And why do taxpayers,

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Why do mechanics and brick layers and construction workers and
nurses and you know, the average hardworking American have to
pay for an Ivy League education for somebody, we shouldn't
be giving them one red cent. Now, if you want
to help people with education and maybe help community colleges out, okay,
I'd be more amenable to that. I'd be amenable to

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sending people to trade schools. Whether there was an article
about how the next generation of millionaires are going to
be people that have trade skills. And by the way,
an arsonist that the one the targeted Joshapiro claimed online
that he was a registered socialist. There is a political
component to that, but this, this is it. Now, look

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at what's happening on the immigration front. You have an
Obama appointed judge shutting down Trump's mass deportation plan for
nearly half a million across the entire US. On the
on the good news front, although there's no good news
if you're a mother and you lost your daughter and
a child and you lost your mom. Rachel Morin in

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that her case, the mother of five a Juri found
the illegal immigrant guilty of killing Rachel Morin. Her mom
will be on Hannity tonight. Now this gets very interesting
on the radical left side. It was pretty funny yesterday,
by the way, when the Salvadorian president was asked if
he would return a trende Aragua. All right, I'm sorry,

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an MS thirteen member that was sent by the Trump administration.
Now this came up in a Gago yesterday and anyway,
because you now have a top Democrat, Chris van Holland
is vowing to personally travel to Al Salvador to free
this Venezuelan gang member and bring him back to America.
He said that this guy never should have been abducted

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and illegally deported, and the courts have made clear the
administration must bring him home. Now he's fighting for a
guy that we now know was a gang member and
was found to be a gang member in court. When
this came up yesterday, the President deferred to Pam Bondi,
Marco Rubio, and Stephen Miller. Here's how it went down
to the question from this very low rated anchor and.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
To ask presidentially to help return the man who you're
going to station says was mistakenly deported, the man who
was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, let me ask Pam, would you ask to answer
that question?

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Sure? President, First and foremost, he was illegally in our country.
He had been illegally in our country. And in twenty nineteen,
two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court
ruled that he was a member of MS thirteen and
he was illegally in our country. Right now. It was

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a paperwork, it was additional paperwork had needed to be done.
That's up to El Salvador if they want to return him,
that's not up to us. The Supreme Court rule President
that if as El Salvador wants to return him. This
is international matters, foreign affairs. If they wanted to return him,
we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Stephen Miller, wait a minute, could you just also respond
to that question, because you know it's asked.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
By CNN, and they always ask it with a slant,
because they're totally slanting because they don't know what's happening.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
That's why nobody's watching them.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
But would you answer that question?

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Also, So, as Pam mentioned, there's an illegal alien from
El Salvador, So with respect to you, he's a citizen
of El Salvador. So it's very irrogant, even for American
media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador
how to handle their own citizens as a starting point,

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as two immigration courts found that he was a member
of MS thirteen. When President Trump declared MS thirteen to
be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that he was
no longer eligible under federal law, which I'm sure you
know you're very familiar with. The iron eg that he
was no longer eligible for any foreign immigration relief in
the United States. So we had a deportation order that

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was valid, which meant that under our law, he's not
even allowed to be present in the United States and
had to be returned because of the foreign terrorists designation.
This issue was then by district court judge completely inverted,
and a district court judge tried to tell the administration
that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador

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and fly back here. That issue was raised to the
Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said the District court
order was unlawful and its main opponents were reverse nine zero,
unanimously stating clearly that neither Secretary of State nor the
President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a
citizen of El Salvador from Al Salvador, who again is

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a member of MS thirteen, which is I'm sure you
understand rapes little girls, murders women, murder's children, is engaged
in the most barbaric activities in the world. And I
can promise you if he was your neighbor, you wouldn't
move right away, So you don't, Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
I have an idea. Let's move him into Chris van
Hollins House. By the way. Joe Biden will return sometime
today or tonight and deliver a speech to disability advocates
in Chicago about social security and protecting him from Republicans
who have done nothing but sworn to detect it. By
the way, article in The Hill today buzz builds around

(31:05):
AOC's future. Well, she run against Chuck Schumer in primary
him or maybe he wants to run for president. Now,
there was an interesting poll that came out in terms
of who Democrats currently want to run and it's pretty interesting.
Kamala Harris at twenty eight percent. Booker was second at
eleven percent. Pete Buddha Judge seven, AOC seven. Let's see

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Tim Walls five, Gavin Newsom at five, and then they
had John Stewart at three, and then they had very last,
which was interesting. Steven A. Smith I talked to Steven A. Smith.
Let me tell you what this is. This is the
Democrat's way of sending a message to him, to deflate
him and say we will destroy you if you run.

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Is the last thing that party wants to do is
hear from anybody that's saying, well, you need to moderate
your policies somewhat orals. You're never going to have any
election wins in the future. Anyway. He'll be on Hanniday
Tonight nine Eastern also