September 9, 2026 • 28 mins
Broadcasting from Dallas at the first-ever Republican Midterm Convention, Sean sounds the alarm with just 55 days until Election Day. He argues that control of Congress will determine far more than individual races, framing the midterms as a choice between two fundamentally different visions for America. Sean looks at Bruce Blakeman’s tightening race in New York, competitive Senate contests across the country, the growing influence of the Democratic Socialists of America, and why even Republicans voters may not love could become critical votes against that agenda.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Write down our toll-free telephone number if you want to
be a part of the program. It's 800-941-SHAWN if you
want to join us. We are in beautiful Dallas, Texas
for the very first Republican midterm election convention.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We're here for an important reason. And we're going to
be broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We have a lot on our plate and excited to
be here.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The people of Texas are great. God bless Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The hotel we're in is packed with MAGA normal people,
which is very nice. You know, it's nothing like New York.
That would not have been a good site selection, in
my humble opinion, for the Republican Midterm Convention. So looking
forward to going over and seeing everybody tonight. And we're
doing two hours on Hannity, 9 Eastern, 9 to 11.
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The president will be speaking during that hour. And as
soon as the president is finished giving his speech, Vice
President Banz will be.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
With us. We've got a great.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Lineup of guests that will all be on set with us,
which is a lot of fun. So anyway, looking forward.
Great to be in Texas. God bless Texas and God
bless the people of Texas. I'll get into this later.
I landed and the first thing I see is a
copy of the Dallas Morning News article. And on it,
it's about Gavin Newsom versus Greg Abbott. And immediately I
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contact my team and I'm like, can you please put
this up on X? Because I have no access to
my social media accounts. My team does not trust me
to have such privileged information. I did become a little
bit of a Twitter freak addict for a while, and
I'd be up till three and four in the morning
having massive Twitter fights at the time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Now, X fights back.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Then with Jimmy Kimmel and Alec Baldwin. Who else did
I fight late into the night? A lot of people
I have these classic fights with who start trending.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Huge fight. Huge fight became very bizarre. All right. A
lot to get to.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And we're now 55 days before the single most important
election in my life. I spent a lot of time
thinking about this. And O'Reilly actually has a new book
coming out. What's at stake in this election? And the
premise of it is, and he'll explain it in the
top of the next hour, and I don't want to
steal his thunder, but it's basically what we've been saying.
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There's not a single Democrat on the ballot that is
not going to be in line with the squad.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
If you're voting for....
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Sherrod Brown in Ohio for as an example, you know,
I don't know why the polls are close in Ohio,
even though I know I'm the one telling you, don't
pay attention to any polls, commit yourself and your heart, mind,
and soul that this is the most important midterm in
your life, because what you need to realize is so
far out of elected Democrats has only been one that
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has been willing to take on the extremism, radicalism, state ism, socialism,
communist takeover of the Democratic Party. And this madness of
people like Abdul El-Sayed and James Telefrico and, you know,
this idiot Troy Jackson and every other candidate that they've
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got running around the country. If you vote for any
of them.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You might... If you're in Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
and you vote for Tallarico, or let's say you're in
Iowa and you don't vote Republican, you basically are giving
a vote to Tallarico and to El Sayed and to
Pocahontas and Grandpa Bernie and the squad and AOC because
they control the party. So you've got to understand it
is a collective effort that they've all signed on to,
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although they don't want to express it publicly. That's why
you see them starting to distance themselves from the very
agenda that remains on the DSA website. Now, I'm speaking
out of both sides of my mouth. If you want
to call me out on it, fair. I've been saying
don't pay attention to the polls.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
However, I can't help myself. I'm a political addict.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's like, you remember Richard Pryor once described being addicted
to crack cocaine as like, I put the crack pipe down.
I said I wouldn't touch it for 10 minutes. And
a minute later, I'm holding the crack pipe and I'm
back using it again.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You know, I say don't listen to the polls. Now
I'm quoting a poll. I mean, I'm an idiot. But
so you have every right to call me that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But there is a poll showing, and it is hopeful
to me, that Bruce Blakeman, I think Bruce Blakeman is
the last great hope for New York, the state of
New York. He has now closed the gap on incumbent
Governor Kathy Hochul, who desperately has been bowing at the altar,
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desperately needs Mamdani's help and the squad's help. Mamdani turns
on Hochul as game over for Hochul. So she's got
to appease him and give in to his every financial demand,
which she has been doing You know, regularly. And the
state of New York is going bankrupt, just like the
state of California is going bankrupt. And and it's it's
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inevitable all of that will happen. But this is now
right now we have Hochul leading the current Nassau County executive.
I know him personally. He's a wonderful human being. He
is a public servant servant. His name is Bruce Blakeman.
He's been on this program. He's been on TV. We'll
have him back. But he's the Nassau County executive. That
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was the very county that I myself lived in when
I lived in Long Island in New York, which I
left three years ago. And anyway, it's now forty nine
point six to forty five point seven. It's it's a
four point race here. I mean, he's got less than
a four point.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
He couldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That is within the margin of error. You know, my
fear has always been that too many people like me,
too many Wall Street firms, financial firms, institutions, institutional banks,
you know, they've just pulled out in droves and they've
pulled up stakes and now they're, you know, moving Wall
Street south and my home state of Florida is real.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
All of the big banks, all the.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Investment firms, all the private equity firms, they're all down
there everywhere, you know, up the southeast coast from Miami
and in Southern Florida, all the way up to West
Palm Beach, Florida, and everywhere in between. However, I think
Bruce Blakeman, number one, the best way to fix New
York is to start fracking. Pennsylvania has been fracking. It's
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been an enormous financial boom for the state of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Linda's state. So anyway, that's good news.
And by the way, the same admonition goes for the
people out in California. I just think the numbers... It's
so dominated out there by lunatics. I don't know what
to tell you. I mean, but Steve Hilton would make
a great governor. It might be your last chance out
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in California. I don't want to give people false hope.
These polls have been atrocious. Francesca Hong was supposed to
win by anywhere between 20 and 30 points, and she
lost by 3,000. And Abdul El-Sayed was supposed to win
by 20 points, and he barely won by 1%. So
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the polling has been just absolutely, completely atrocious, and you
can't trust it because polls do have a way of
impacting people's motivation to get out and vote. You think
your candidate has it in the bag, and you're like, oh,
I don't need to vote. They don't need my vote.
This thing's over. Don't ever think that way. And it's
a matter of understanding. I think we have to fundamentally
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understand a vote for any Democrat for the House of
Representatives or the U.S.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Senate.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You might as well be voting for AOC herself because
she basically is now the leader of this movement and
the Mamdani's of the world and the Pocahontas of the
world and the Bernie Sanders of the world. This guy,
Troy Jackson, with this vile temper, according to everyone around him.
We do have a poll showing Mike Rogers in a
close race, but ahead of Abdul El-Sayed. And I'm not
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trusting it because look how off they were in the
primary for El-Sayed.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Now, this convention is an opportunity for Republicans to lay
out what is at stake for the country. I won't
repeat it now. I think I've gone over it quite
a bit. And that is all of the things that
most people don't know that Donald Trump has been able
to accomplish in the last year and a half.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It is significant.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And if the Democrats get back in power, we know
what their stated agenda is. I won't repeat it today.
I'll give you a day off today. But I've been
repeating it on purpose so that you will be able
to regurgitate it from memory today. And tell your friends
and family and coworkers and neighbors and strangers that you
run into, what is at stake here? But, you know,
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hopefully there will be clarity brought to what this election
is all about with the understanding is they vote as
a block. You know, I will say this, Republicans over
the many, many years I've covered races and watched the
Republican Party, you know, they tend to create circular firing squads.
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And they go after each other. Democrats, they circle the wagons.
Right now, Democrats are circling the wagons. The one outcast
is John Fetterman. And John Fetterman, as a caller last
week or the week before pointed out, is not exactly
conservative on issues about men playing, biological men playing women's sports,
on abortion, on the Second Amendment. And I did actually
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take that listener's request and I asked Senator Fetterman about it. However,
he does believe that the president is doing the right
thing with Iran and preventing the radical mullahs in Iran
from ever getting nuclear capability. He does support the authority
of the commander in chief to use military action when
he sees our national security is in jeopardy. He does
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support the state of Israel, which has been under fire
their entire existence. October 7th would be like losing 40,000
Americans in a day.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Unreal.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So this is, you know, we're seeing also, too, there's
an interesting article, Graham Platner's replacement, this guy Troy Jackson,
I call him Graham Platner 2.0, Troy Jackson running for
the Senate, the guy that is being accused of having
a vicious temper and throwing a water bottle at one
of another state legislator, didn't even want to stay in
office as a result, and one guy that That said
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in an interview that he witnessed him years ago slapping
a woman with, you know, an open hand across the face.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
He denies it. But, you know, the guy said he
saw it. Who do you believe? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
This guy has a vicious temper, according to everybody that
knows him. They all say the same thing. But anyway,
so Jackson, you know, is now suggesting the government should
be able to take over private property when necessary. We
do have eminent domain laws. Is it for the public good? OK,
that would usually be the standard. But anyway, so what
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they're saying is they now have dubbed him Maine's Mamdani as,
you know, as this now has become front and center
as a major issue in Maine and that race against
Susan Collins.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Susan Collins. And let me say something here.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Not every Republican you're going to vote for is going
to be one that you love all.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Or even maybe even like.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Maybe your Republican's a bit of a rhino. Maybe your
Republican is not willing to fight. Maybe your Republican just
goes along to get along and he's one of these
guys that the best job he's ever going to have
in his life is being a member of Congress. And
that'll be the most money that they'll ever make in
their life.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
But if he's not supporting this DSA radicalism, that's not
the uniparty that Linda and I were arguing about last week.
There is a clear line of demarcation there. And it just, yeah,
sometimes you vote for the lesser of two evils. Be
very blunt. Keep it simple, stupid. I'm keeping it simple.
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And that is, but they're going to vote as a block.
This is a team sport. Republicans often, you know what,
they don't play as a team. The president was not
wrong on the SAVE Act. The president was not wrong,
you know, to try and push his spine of steel
onto Republicans to motivate them. to take stronger stances. I
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don't think the president's wrong in his prediction either. If
Democrats ever get back power, they will pack the courts.
They will push for DC and Puerto Rico statehood, and
they will try to implement their stated DSA goals. You know,
so we'll, we'll see what happens. But anyway, um, we
have a Trump back candidate winning a high stakes GOP
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primary for New Hampshire district. Um, And that's going to
be interesting to watch. The president now on Sunday renewed
their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal
judge blocked new restrictions on mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm.
There are rival court rulings that leaves Missouri's congressional map
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a little bit in limbo. We're still following that particular case.
We're going to give you the latest on the radical
left when we get back, but You know, I'm really
enjoying Texas, the people of Texas. I met the nicest people,
by the way, from all over the country. People are
coming in from everywhere. And every hotel is pretty much packed. And,
you know, I do have one complaint about the hotel
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I'm staying in. If you want to order food, you
just can't get a person. You have to order a
QR code to order food. I don't want to use
a QR code. It's too much work. And you have
no room for commentary. Can I please have a little
more onions and no peppers with that, please?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
No, forget it. Special orders do upset us. Forget about
the old Burger King line.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know, just to kind of illustrate what I'm trying
to convey to you is that is, if you would vote,
ask yourself if you would vote for Mamdani, would you
vote for him? Okay, maybe some of you listening would.
Ask yourself if you would vote for a guy that
believes there are six genders, not two. Six-gender Telerico. Just,
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you know, ask yourself. A guy that claims that God
is non-binary. We have a new clip of him today.
We'll play it later in the show. Of him making
the case that, saying that God, Yahweh, Allah all lead
to the same divine truth. I studied theology in Latin,
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and I've interviewed and read the Koran and interviewed many
imams over the years, and I try to ask them,
what does it mean when it says, take neither Christians
nor Jews for your friends?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
What does that actually mean?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Just interesting, inquiring minds want to know. Would you vote
for somebody that thinks that God is non-binary? Would you
vote for somebody... that wants a doormat, a welcome mat
at our southern border that is running a vegan campaign
in a cattle state? Would you vote for somebody against
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drilling in an oil state? Would you vote for somebody
that is that radical? Because if you vote for any
one of these Democrats, now maybe you're in Ohio, and
maybe Sherrod Brown is saying things a little differently, not
taking his radical position. Sherrod Brown will be a loyal squad,
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radicalized Democratic vote, period, full stop. And you won't be
able to stop it for six years because he gets
a six-year term if he's elected. This is why these
elections matter.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
They all matter.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
This is why if you're in Alaska, this is why
if you're in Michigan, this is why if you're in Ohio.
This is why if you are in Texas, this is
why if you are in New Hampshire or North Carolina
or Georgia, understand that you might as well be voting
for Mamdani, AOC, the squad, Congresswoman Omar and company, and
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Pocahontas and Grandpa Bernie all in one. Because they're not
going to deviate because the party now is dominated by
the radical left. Here's another example. If you live in Arlington, Virginia,
wait till you hear this. Local Democrats there, they're spending
your tax dollars. They have now approved the creation of
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a $ 50, 000 fund to provide families of deported illegal aliens
with taxpayer dollars to cover costs. Very nice of them.
We have a clip of Gavin Newsom today. Gavin Newsom
bragging to Don Lemon, that he provides free health care
to illegals, the people that didn't respect our laws, borders, sovereignty.
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Now they kind of get a reward for breaking the law.
They get paid for breaking the law. And he brags
about it. Here's what he said.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What they will say on Fox News is, why is
Gavin Newsom out here in South Carolina? His status is
in shambles, and he's not serving the people of South Carolina. Well,
I mean- I mean, he's serving the people of California,
excuse me. I think they deserve more than a $ 7. 25
minimum wage here. I think they deserve more than a
governor refuses to expand Medicaid. We not only expanded Medicaid,
but we only stayed in.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
America, providing universal health care regardless of pre-existing condition, ability
to pay, and your immigration status.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I know how offensive that is to people, and I
get how controversial that is. We delivered that.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We delivered that. He says it proudly and he wants
to be president. He didn't mention in that little that
little diatribe tirade of his that Californians pay the highest
income state income taxes in the country. The highest sales
taxes in the country is gas taxes in the country
have the worst quality of life in the country. Didn't
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mention that the homelessness population is soared under his leadership.
Didn't mention the massive amount of debt because he's paying
and offering free benefits to illegals in his state like Medi-Cal, etc.
And how much borrowing he's had to do in spite
of all the high taxes and money that he accumulates
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and has in his coffers every day.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But anyway... Arlington County.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Board approved the creation of a $ 50, 000 fund to provide
families of deported illegal aliens with taxpayer dollars to cover
the costs. Very nice of them. In Pennsylvania, if you
want to know what the radical left is doing, I mean, remember,
Josh Shapiro was sold to us as a moderate. He's
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not a moderate. One thing Linda's been dead accurate on.
And that is that Josh Shapiro is not a moderate.
Fetterman knows it. Talk to him about the guy. You
people want to relive the lockdowns, I don't think. of COVID-19,
but Josh Shapiro... who leads the nation's largest swing state
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and often hints at his presidential ambition, seemed nostalgic for
those draconian policies that defined the era. And remember, 2021,
after suffering a year of pandemic lockdowns, voters passed two
amendments that capped the governor's emergency declarations to 21 days.
They also gave the legislature the power to extend or
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end them without his signature, which was smart.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Rare.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Resounding statement that the good people of the Commonwealth do
not want a single office holder governing by decree. That
was not stupid. Shapiro wants to circumvent that mandate. And
now he's quietly been advancing 500 pages of changes to
Pennsylvania's health code, claiming expansive disease control powers through executive
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regulation without the legislature's approval.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So he wants the power to do it again.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
By the way, Fetterman leans on an unlikely GOP ally
as Democrats sharpen their knives over an explosive report. But
he's under fire over leaked text with disgruntled staff members.
I heard Dave McCormick defending him. And I'm just telling
you what this is. And Fetterman finally broke his silence
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following this report on him about leaked text messages between
him and his staff, etc.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
and these are disgruntled former employees.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
What they are are radical leftists that work for him
and don't like his policies. It's not any more complicated
than that. One New Mexico Democrat had to resign after, well,
this naked hotel scandal. Maybe more information than you want
to hear. New Mexico Democratic State Representative Joseph Hernandez entered
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his reelection campaign following an alcohol-related incident at a Chicago
hotel in which police responded to reports of a man
running naked through the hallway and knocking on guest doors.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Hello? Happy birthday to me. It's unreal.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
James Carville has a theory. And he thinks he's cracked
why Trump is making Republicans sweat before midterms. And his
theory goes like this, that Trump might want Republicans to lose,
claiming he aims to torture the party despite publicly supporting
their midterm campaigns.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
No.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I pray in the name of Jesus I get more
Trump hate and Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's what I want, more Trump derangement syndrome. I'll say it. Yeah,
I said it. There, I said it. I want it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
God bless me. May the spirit of the Lord come
upon me. Give me more Trump derangement syndrome. Anyway, Trump's,
you know, all this, he thinks he's cracked the code. Okay,
he hasn't cracked the code. You know, it's pretty unbelievable.
You know, Mamdani won't listen to anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Mamdani... Doesn't care. It's almost like.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He doesn't care about well over 100,000 people, even city
council people, 9-11 families, begging him to stay away from
these anniversary events.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
So what does he do? He's attending eight of them. Zoran, Marxist, Kami, Mamdani.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You know, his own wife celebrating terror and putting her
seal of approval on that. I don't know if I
really want to get Linda pissed off this early in
the show, but.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Maybe. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
She tries to get me pissed off before the start
of a show, so I think it's only fair.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Linda, do you not think that's fair? My resting place
is annoyed and pissed off, so it's not a hard leap.
But go ahead. Give it your best shot.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You know that a lot of these jurors in the
Lindsay Clancy case are speaking out. And. You know, you know,
one says the majority of the jurors were trying to
sway the one holdout from the very beginning. Yet another
juror contradicts that. And then one juror defended the holdout juror.
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The worst thing that was said in this, though, is
by Kevin Reddington, the guy that attacked me and Nancy Grace. Apparently,
he only likes people that agree with him. I felt
that the prosecution in this case. met the standard and
were able to prove what was the burden on them,
the legal requirement that you show intent. And I think
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when she sent her husband out shopping at the CVS
that she called to make sure it was open so
that he could, quote, get children's Miralax, what showed a
lot of intention on her part and that she was
of sound and of mind to have some premeditation here.
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It's unbelievable. And then now Reddington is lashing out, saying
these other jurors, this one holdout stole their time, robbed
them of what they wanted. He didn't rob them of anything.
It's called the jury system. It's not a perfect system,
but I can't think of a better one. I mean,
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do you want this guy to go against his own
personal convictions?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He swore an oath. He did listen.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
He specifically under oath said to the judge, yes, I
understand your instructions. Yes, I understand your definition of reasonable doubt.
He's saying, well, he expressed that he had some reasonable doubt.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
He said, no.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You know, because reasonable doubt doesn't mean that you don't
have any doubt at all. And the judge in that
case was very clear on that, too. Reasonable doubt. He
defined it again and again and again. I don't feel
like relitigating it. You know, we'll see what happens here.
But the worst part is, is now we got the
copycat cases coming up. I told you about the case yesterday.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I think we're going to hear more and more about this.
And that scares me. A female jury in the trial
defending the loan holdout. The woman spoke to WBZ-TV on
the condition of anonymity, juror number five in this case.
You know, here's the bad part. When Reddington makes these comments,
he's putting a target on... the back and in the forehead,
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a bullseye on this one holdout juror who stood by
his convictions, which is what you're supposed to do if
you take on the responsibility of being a juror. Anyway,
this one woman, at least on WBZ-TV, she didn't want
to be identified.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Don't blame her.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She said that the start of deliberations, the majority jurors
made up of nine women and three men were trying
to convince the lone holdout to change his vote. The
majority of the people, it doesn't matter what side it
was on, were very firm in their stance and their
beliefs from the beginning. And the standout alone juror was
not the only one unwilling to see things from the
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other side. So I'm going to be I'm going to
be kind of I want to defend the individual in
a sense. There were some big personalities in that room.
But at the end of the day, I feel like
it just came down to an inability to move past
one's convictions. OK, they tried. They gave it their best shot.
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Thirty six, thirty seven hours of deliberation and they couldn't agree. OK,
so now the prosecution will determine, you know, what to
do moving forward.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
They probably learned a lot in their presentation in this case.
The unnamed female juror admitted she initially believed Clancy should
face justice for killing these three kids. But she kind
of said originally I thought she was guilty. And she is,
you know, criminally responsible for it. Maybe I still believe
that in a certain way, she even said. It's not
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like this was such a slam dunk that Reddington's trying
to make. Anyway, 800-941-SHAWN is our number if you want
to be a part of the program. We're in Dallas
for the first ever Republican... midterm convention.
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Write down our toll-free telephone number if you want to
be a part of the program. It's 800-941-SHAWN if you
want to join us. We are in beautiful Dallas, Texas
for the very first Republican midterm election convention.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We're here for an important reason. And we're going to
be broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We have a lot on our plate and excited to
be here.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The people of Texas are great. God bless Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The hotel we're in is packed with MAGA normal people,
which is very nice. You know, it's nothing like New York.
That would not have been a good site selection, in
my humble opinion, for the Republican Midterm Convention. So looking
forward to going over and seeing everybody tonight. And we're
doing two hours on Hannity, 9 Eastern, 9 to 11.
(00:53):
The president will be speaking during that hour. And as
soon as the president is finished giving his speech, Vice
President Banz will be.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
With us. We've got a great.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Lineup of guests that will all be on set with us,
which is a lot of fun. So anyway, looking forward.
Great to be in Texas. God bless Texas and God
bless the people of Texas. I'll get into this later.
I landed and the first thing I see is a
copy of the Dallas Morning News article. And on it,
it's about Gavin Newsom versus Greg Abbott. And immediately I
(01:30):
contact my team and I'm like, can you please put
this up on X? Because I have no access to
my social media accounts. My team does not trust me
to have such privileged information. I did become a little
bit of a Twitter freak addict for a while, and
I'd be up till three and four in the morning
having massive Twitter fights at the time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Now, X fights back.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Then with Jimmy Kimmel and Alec Baldwin. Who else did
I fight late into the night? A lot of people
I have these classic fights with who start trending.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Huge fight. Huge fight became very bizarre. All right. A
lot to get to.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And we're now 55 days before the single most important
election in my life. I spent a lot of time
thinking about this. And O'Reilly actually has a new book
coming out. What's at stake in this election? And the
premise of it is, and he'll explain it in the
top of the next hour, and I don't want to
steal his thunder, but it's basically what we've been saying.
(02:29):
There's not a single Democrat on the ballot that is
not going to be in line with the squad.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
If you're voting for....
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Sherrod Brown in Ohio for as an example, you know,
I don't know why the polls are close in Ohio,
even though I know I'm the one telling you, don't
pay attention to any polls, commit yourself and your heart, mind,
and soul that this is the most important midterm in
your life, because what you need to realize is so
far out of elected Democrats has only been one that
(02:59):
has been willing to take on the extremism, radicalism, state ism, socialism,
communist takeover of the Democratic Party. And this madness of
people like Abdul El-Sayed and James Telefrico and, you know,
this idiot Troy Jackson and every other candidate that they've
(03:22):
got running around the country. If you vote for any
of them.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You might... If you're in Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
and you vote for Tallarico, or let's say you're in
Iowa and you don't vote Republican, you basically are giving
a vote to Tallarico and to El Sayed and to
Pocahontas and Grandpa Bernie and the squad and AOC because
they control the party. So you've got to understand it
is a collective effort that they've all signed on to,
(03:52):
although they don't want to express it publicly. That's why
you see them starting to distance themselves from the very
agenda that remains on the DSA website. Now, I'm speaking
out of both sides of my mouth. If you want
to call me out on it, fair. I've been saying
don't pay attention to the polls.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
However, I can't help myself. I'm a political addict.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's like, you remember Richard Pryor once described being addicted
to crack cocaine as like, I put the crack pipe down.
I said I wouldn't touch it for 10 minutes. And
a minute later, I'm holding the crack pipe and I'm
back using it again.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You know, I say don't listen to the polls. Now
I'm quoting a poll. I mean, I'm an idiot. But
so you have every right to call me that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But there is a poll showing, and it is hopeful
to me, that Bruce Blakeman, I think Bruce Blakeman is
the last great hope for New York, the state of
New York. He has now closed the gap on incumbent
Governor Kathy Hochul, who desperately has been bowing at the altar,
(04:58):
desperately needs Mamdani's help and the squad's help. Mamdani turns
on Hochul as game over for Hochul. So she's got
to appease him and give in to his every financial demand,
which she has been doing You know, regularly. And the
state of New York is going bankrupt, just like the
state of California is going bankrupt. And and it's it's
(05:20):
inevitable all of that will happen. But this is now
right now we have Hochul leading the current Nassau County executive.
I know him personally. He's a wonderful human being. He
is a public servant servant. His name is Bruce Blakeman.
He's been on this program. He's been on TV. We'll
have him back. But he's the Nassau County executive. That
(05:40):
was the very county that I myself lived in when
I lived in Long Island in New York, which I
left three years ago. And anyway, it's now forty nine
point six to forty five point seven. It's it's a
four point race here. I mean, he's got less than
a four point.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
He couldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That is within the margin of error. You know, my
fear has always been that too many people like me,
too many Wall Street firms, financial firms, institutions, institutional banks,
you know, they've just pulled out in droves and they've
pulled up stakes and now they're, you know, moving Wall
Street south and my home state of Florida is real.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
All of the big banks, all the.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Investment firms, all the private equity firms, they're all down
there everywhere, you know, up the southeast coast from Miami
and in Southern Florida, all the way up to West
Palm Beach, Florida, and everywhere in between. However, I think
Bruce Blakeman, number one, the best way to fix New
York is to start fracking. Pennsylvania has been fracking. It's
(06:46):
been an enormous financial boom for the state of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Linda's state. So anyway, that's good news.
And by the way, the same admonition goes for the
people out in California. I just think the numbers... It's
so dominated out there by lunatics. I don't know what
to tell you. I mean, but Steve Hilton would make
a great governor. It might be your last chance out
(07:08):
in California. I don't want to give people false hope.
These polls have been atrocious. Francesca Hong was supposed to
win by anywhere between 20 and 30 points, and she
lost by 3,000. And Abdul El-Sayed was supposed to win
by 20 points, and he barely won by 1%. So
(07:29):
the polling has been just absolutely, completely atrocious, and you
can't trust it because polls do have a way of
impacting people's motivation to get out and vote. You think
your candidate has it in the bag, and you're like, oh,
I don't need to vote. They don't need my vote.
This thing's over. Don't ever think that way. And it's
a matter of understanding. I think we have to fundamentally
(07:50):
understand a vote for any Democrat for the House of
Representatives or the U.S.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Senate.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You might as well be voting for AOC herself because
she basically is now the leader of this movement and
the Mamdani's of the world and the Pocahontas of the
world and the Bernie Sanders of the world. This guy,
Troy Jackson, with this vile temper, according to everyone around him.
We do have a poll showing Mike Rogers in a
close race, but ahead of Abdul El-Sayed. And I'm not
(08:20):
trusting it because look how off they were in the
primary for El-Sayed.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Now, this convention is an opportunity for Republicans to lay
out what is at stake for the country. I won't
repeat it now. I think I've gone over it quite
a bit. And that is all of the things that
most people don't know that Donald Trump has been able
to accomplish in the last year and a half.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It is significant.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And if the Democrats get back in power, we know
what their stated agenda is. I won't repeat it today.
I'll give you a day off today. But I've been
repeating it on purpose so that you will be able
to regurgitate it from memory today. And tell your friends
and family and coworkers and neighbors and strangers that you
run into, what is at stake here? But, you know,
(09:09):
hopefully there will be clarity brought to what this election
is all about with the understanding is they vote as
a block. You know, I will say this, Republicans over
the many, many years I've covered races and watched the
Republican Party, you know, they tend to create circular firing squads.
(09:30):
And they go after each other. Democrats, they circle the wagons.
Right now, Democrats are circling the wagons. The one outcast
is John Fetterman. And John Fetterman, as a caller last
week or the week before pointed out, is not exactly
conservative on issues about men playing, biological men playing women's sports,
on abortion, on the Second Amendment. And I did actually
(09:53):
take that listener's request and I asked Senator Fetterman about it. However,
he does believe that the president is doing the right
thing with Iran and preventing the radical mullahs in Iran
from ever getting nuclear capability. He does support the authority
of the commander in chief to use military action when
he sees our national security is in jeopardy. He does
(10:17):
support the state of Israel, which has been under fire
their entire existence. October 7th would be like losing 40,000
Americans in a day.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Unreal.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So this is, you know, we're seeing also, too, there's
an interesting article, Graham Platner's replacement, this guy Troy Jackson,
I call him Graham Platner 2.0, Troy Jackson running for
the Senate, the guy that is being accused of having
a vicious temper and throwing a water bottle at one
of another state legislator, didn't even want to stay in
office as a result, and one guy that That said
(10:53):
in an interview that he witnessed him years ago slapping
a woman with, you know, an open hand across the face.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
He denies it. But, you know, the guy said he
saw it. Who do you believe? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
This guy has a vicious temper, according to everybody that
knows him. They all say the same thing. But anyway,
so Jackson, you know, is now suggesting the government should
be able to take over private property when necessary. We
do have eminent domain laws. Is it for the public good? OK,
that would usually be the standard. But anyway, so what
(11:27):
they're saying is they now have dubbed him Maine's Mamdani as,
you know, as this now has become front and center
as a major issue in Maine and that race against
Susan Collins.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Susan Collins. And let me say something here.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Not every Republican you're going to vote for is going
to be one that you love all.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Or even maybe even like.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Maybe your Republican's a bit of a rhino. Maybe your
Republican is not willing to fight. Maybe your Republican just
goes along to get along and he's one of these
guys that the best job he's ever going to have
in his life is being a member of Congress. And
that'll be the most money that they'll ever make in
their life.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
But if he's not supporting this DSA radicalism, that's not
the uniparty that Linda and I were arguing about last week.
There is a clear line of demarcation there. And it just, yeah,
sometimes you vote for the lesser of two evils. Be
very blunt. Keep it simple, stupid. I'm keeping it simple.
(12:35):
And that is, but they're going to vote as a block.
This is a team sport. Republicans often, you know what,
they don't play as a team. The president was not
wrong on the SAVE Act. The president was not wrong,
you know, to try and push his spine of steel
onto Republicans to motivate them. to take stronger stances. I
(12:59):
don't think the president's wrong in his prediction either. If
Democrats ever get back power, they will pack the courts.
They will push for DC and Puerto Rico statehood, and
they will try to implement their stated DSA goals. You know,
so we'll, we'll see what happens. But anyway, um, we
have a Trump back candidate winning a high stakes GOP
(13:19):
primary for New Hampshire district. Um, And that's going to
be interesting to watch. The president now on Sunday renewed
their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal
judge blocked new restrictions on mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm.
There are rival court rulings that leaves Missouri's congressional map
(13:42):
a little bit in limbo. We're still following that particular case.
We're going to give you the latest on the radical
left when we get back, but You know, I'm really
enjoying Texas, the people of Texas. I met the nicest people,
by the way, from all over the country. People are
coming in from everywhere. And every hotel is pretty much packed. And,
you know, I do have one complaint about the hotel
(14:05):
I'm staying in. If you want to order food, you
just can't get a person. You have to order a
QR code to order food. I don't want to use
a QR code. It's too much work. And you have
no room for commentary. Can I please have a little
more onions and no peppers with that, please?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
No, forget it. Special orders do upset us. Forget about
the old Burger King line.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know, just to kind of illustrate what I'm trying
to convey to you is that is, if you would vote,
ask yourself if you would vote for Mamdani, would you
vote for him? Okay, maybe some of you listening would.
Ask yourself if you would vote for a guy that
believes there are six genders, not two. Six-gender Telerico. Just,
(14:55):
you know, ask yourself. A guy that claims that God
is non-binary. We have a new clip of him today.
We'll play it later in the show. Of him making
the case that, saying that God, Yahweh, Allah all lead
to the same divine truth. I studied theology in Latin,
(15:16):
and I've interviewed and read the Koran and interviewed many
imams over the years, and I try to ask them,
what does it mean when it says, take neither Christians
nor Jews for your friends?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
What does that actually mean?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Just interesting, inquiring minds want to know. Would you vote
for somebody that thinks that God is non-binary? Would you
vote for somebody... that wants a doormat, a welcome mat
at our southern border that is running a vegan campaign
in a cattle state? Would you vote for somebody against
(15:52):
drilling in an oil state? Would you vote for somebody
that is that radical? Because if you vote for any
one of these Democrats, now maybe you're in Ohio, and
maybe Sherrod Brown is saying things a little differently, not
taking his radical position. Sherrod Brown will be a loyal squad,
(16:15):
radicalized Democratic vote, period, full stop. And you won't be
able to stop it for six years because he gets
a six-year term if he's elected. This is why these
elections matter.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
They all matter.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
This is why if you're in Alaska, this is why
if you're in Michigan, this is why if you're in Ohio.
This is why if you are in Texas, this is
why if you are in New Hampshire or North Carolina
or Georgia, understand that you might as well be voting
for Mamdani, AOC, the squad, Congresswoman Omar and company, and
(16:57):
Pocahontas and Grandpa Bernie all in one. Because they're not
going to deviate because the party now is dominated by
the radical left. Here's another example. If you live in Arlington, Virginia,
wait till you hear this. Local Democrats there, they're spending
your tax dollars. They have now approved the creation of
(17:20):
a $ 50, 000 fund to provide families of deported illegal aliens
with taxpayer dollars to cover costs. Very nice of them.
We have a clip of Gavin Newsom today. Gavin Newsom
bragging to Don Lemon, that he provides free health care
to illegals, the people that didn't respect our laws, borders, sovereignty.
(17:43):
Now they kind of get a reward for breaking the law.
They get paid for breaking the law. And he brags
about it. Here's what he said.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What they will say on Fox News is, why is
Gavin Newsom out here in South Carolina? His status is
in shambles, and he's not serving the people of South Carolina. Well,
I mean- I mean, he's serving the people of California,
excuse me. I think they deserve more than a $ 7. 25
minimum wage here. I think they deserve more than a
governor refuses to expand Medicaid. We not only expanded Medicaid,
but we only stayed in.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
America, providing universal health care regardless of pre-existing condition, ability
to pay, and your immigration status.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I know how offensive that is to people, and I
get how controversial that is. We delivered that.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We delivered that. He says it proudly and he wants
to be president. He didn't mention in that little that
little diatribe tirade of his that Californians pay the highest
income state income taxes in the country. The highest sales
taxes in the country is gas taxes in the country
have the worst quality of life in the country. Didn't
(18:45):
mention that the homelessness population is soared under his leadership.
Didn't mention the massive amount of debt because he's paying
and offering free benefits to illegals in his state like Medi-Cal, etc.
And how much borrowing he's had to do in spite
of all the high taxes and money that he accumulates
(19:06):
and has in his coffers every day.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But anyway... Arlington County.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Board approved the creation of a $ 50, 000 fund to provide
families of deported illegal aliens with taxpayer dollars to cover
the costs. Very nice of them. In Pennsylvania, if you
want to know what the radical left is doing, I mean, remember,
Josh Shapiro was sold to us as a moderate. He's
(19:33):
not a moderate. One thing Linda's been dead accurate on.
And that is that Josh Shapiro is not a moderate.
Fetterman knows it. Talk to him about the guy. You
people want to relive the lockdowns, I don't think. of COVID-19,
but Josh Shapiro... who leads the nation's largest swing state
(19:55):
and often hints at his presidential ambition, seemed nostalgic for
those draconian policies that defined the era. And remember, 2021,
after suffering a year of pandemic lockdowns, voters passed two
amendments that capped the governor's emergency declarations to 21 days.
They also gave the legislature the power to extend or
(20:17):
end them without his signature, which was smart.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Rare.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Resounding statement that the good people of the Commonwealth do
not want a single office holder governing by decree. That
was not stupid. Shapiro wants to circumvent that mandate. And
now he's quietly been advancing 500 pages of changes to
Pennsylvania's health code, claiming expansive disease control powers through executive
(20:46):
regulation without the legislature's approval.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So he wants the power to do it again.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
By the way, Fetterman leans on an unlikely GOP ally
as Democrats sharpen their knives over an explosive report. But
he's under fire over leaked text with disgruntled staff members.
I heard Dave McCormick defending him. And I'm just telling
you what this is. And Fetterman finally broke his silence
(21:15):
following this report on him about leaked text messages between
him and his staff, etc.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
and these are disgruntled former employees.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
What they are are radical leftists that work for him
and don't like his policies. It's not any more complicated
than that. One New Mexico Democrat had to resign after, well,
this naked hotel scandal. Maybe more information than you want
to hear. New Mexico Democratic State Representative Joseph Hernandez entered
(21:50):
his reelection campaign following an alcohol-related incident at a Chicago
hotel in which police responded to reports of a man
running naked through the hallway and knocking on guest doors.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Hello? Happy birthday to me. It's unreal.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
James Carville has a theory. And he thinks he's cracked
why Trump is making Republicans sweat before midterms. And his
theory goes like this, that Trump might want Republicans to lose,
claiming he aims to torture the party despite publicly supporting
their midterm campaigns.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
No.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I pray in the name of Jesus I get more
Trump hate and Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's what I want, more Trump derangement syndrome. I'll say it. Yeah,
I said it. There, I said it. I want it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
God bless me. May the spirit of the Lord come
upon me. Give me more Trump derangement syndrome. Anyway, Trump's,
you know, all this, he thinks he's cracked the code. Okay,
he hasn't cracked the code. You know, it's pretty unbelievable.
You know, Mamdani won't listen to anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Mamdani... Doesn't care. It's almost like.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He doesn't care about well over 100,000 people, even city
council people, 9-11 families, begging him to stay away from
these anniversary events.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
So what does he do? He's attending eight of them. Zoran, Marxist, Kami, Mamdani.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You know, his own wife celebrating terror and putting her
seal of approval on that. I don't know if I
really want to get Linda pissed off this early in
the show, but.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Maybe. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
She tries to get me pissed off before the start
of a show, so I think it's only fair.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Linda, do you not think that's fair? My resting place
is annoyed and pissed off, so it's not a hard leap.
But go ahead. Give it your best shot.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You know that a lot of these jurors in the
Lindsay Clancy case are speaking out. And. You know, you know,
one says the majority of the jurors were trying to
sway the one holdout from the very beginning. Yet another
juror contradicts that. And then one juror defended the holdout juror.
(24:22):
The worst thing that was said in this, though, is
by Kevin Reddington, the guy that attacked me and Nancy Grace. Apparently,
he only likes people that agree with him. I felt
that the prosecution in this case. met the standard and
were able to prove what was the burden on them,
the legal requirement that you show intent. And I think
(24:43):
when she sent her husband out shopping at the CVS
that she called to make sure it was open so
that he could, quote, get children's Miralax, what showed a
lot of intention on her part and that she was
of sound and of mind to have some premeditation here.
(25:03):
It's unbelievable. And then now Reddington is lashing out, saying
these other jurors, this one holdout stole their time, robbed
them of what they wanted. He didn't rob them of anything.
It's called the jury system. It's not a perfect system,
but I can't think of a better one. I mean,
(25:25):
do you want this guy to go against his own
personal convictions?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He swore an oath. He did listen.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
He specifically under oath said to the judge, yes, I
understand your instructions. Yes, I understand your definition of reasonable doubt.
He's saying, well, he expressed that he had some reasonable doubt.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
He said, no.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You know, because reasonable doubt doesn't mean that you don't
have any doubt at all. And the judge in that
case was very clear on that, too. Reasonable doubt. He
defined it again and again and again. I don't feel
like relitigating it. You know, we'll see what happens here.
But the worst part is, is now we got the
copycat cases coming up. I told you about the case yesterday.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I think we're going to hear more and more about this.
And that scares me. A female jury in the trial
defending the loan holdout. The woman spoke to WBZ-TV on
the condition of anonymity, juror number five in this case.
You know, here's the bad part. When Reddington makes these comments,
he's putting a target on... the back and in the forehead,
(26:28):
a bullseye on this one holdout juror who stood by
his convictions, which is what you're supposed to do if
you take on the responsibility of being a juror. Anyway,
this one woman, at least on WBZ-TV, she didn't want
to be identified.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Don't blame her.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She said that the start of deliberations, the majority jurors
made up of nine women and three men were trying
to convince the lone holdout to change his vote. The
majority of the people, it doesn't matter what side it
was on, were very firm in their stance and their
beliefs from the beginning. And the standout alone juror was
not the only one unwilling to see things from the
(27:10):
other side. So I'm going to be I'm going to
be kind of I want to defend the individual in
a sense. There were some big personalities in that room.
But at the end of the day, I feel like
it just came down to an inability to move past
one's convictions. OK, they tried. They gave it their best shot.
(27:30):
Thirty six, thirty seven hours of deliberation and they couldn't agree. OK,
so now the prosecution will determine, you know, what to
do moving forward.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
They probably learned a lot in their presentation in this case.
The unnamed female juror admitted she initially believed Clancy should
face justice for killing these three kids. But she kind
of said originally I thought she was guilty. And she is,
you know, criminally responsible for it. Maybe I still believe
that in a certain way, she even said. It's not
(28:05):
like this was such a slam dunk that Reddington's trying
to make. Anyway, 800-941-SHAWN is our number if you want
to be a part of the program. We're in Dallas
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