August 14, 2026 • 31 mins
Sean Hannity is joined by political analyst Mark Halperin for a detailed look at the races that could determine control of Congress. They discuss Michigan, Texas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and other battlegrounds, along with the unusually large financial advantage Republicans may have heading into the final stretch of the campaign. Halperin explains why candidate quality, advertising strategy, presidential approval and the economy could all determine whether Republicans retain the House and Senate. Hannity also revisits Massachusetts’ abortion law, Bruce Blakeman’s tightening race for New York governor, and the broader ideological divide between Republicans and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. With 81 days remaining, the hour focuses on where the electoral map stands and what could still change before November.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, news round up and information overload. Our Our
(00:02):
toll free telephone number this Friday is eight hundred and
nine foot one Sean if you want to be a
part of the program. We had a good discussion with
Mark Penn about this radicalization of the Democratic Party and
about the pending upcoming election. I mean, I thought it
was interesting. Bruce Blakeman Sianna Pole comes out today. He's
only down by three, Kathy Hochel. When you factor in
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all the mass migration out of New York, it's it's
kind of a spectacular number. And it really gives me
hope for my friends that I left behind years ago
that maybe he I think Bruce Blakeman's your last shot
to fix New York. Same with Steve Hilton out in California.
And but you know what impact. We do have one
poll out today, it's way too early, and it has
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Mike Rodgers up by four in Michigan against Abdullah say Ed,
and of course he has this sick friendship with Hassan Piker.
I am. I am contending that at this point, you know,
eighty what do we eighty one days away till election day?
I cannot tell you which way this election is going
to go. However, I am wanting conservatives, I am wanting
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Trump supporters. I am warning Republicans you better take all
of this seriously because these people, while they may be
trying to you know, laugh off, Oh that was woke
one crazy, they believe all this stuff. They stated all
of it. Their internal polling tells them to shut up
and stop saying it. So there's a reason they're they're pivoting. Remember,
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almost everything a politician does and says is often poles driven.
So it's just too early for me. I see warning signs,
and I see hopeful signs, and but I again, I
think it's too early. What happens with the ran, what
happens with the price of oil? Where's the economy?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Headed?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Had a long conversation with Scott Bessen. He gave me
a lot of hope on the economy, But time will tell.
I don't know the answer. I don't have a crystal ball.
But you know what impact you know the fact that
so many people will not like elsaiaed and Michigan will
not condemn Hassam Piker. Here's you know, let's go through
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some of Hassam Piker and why would any Democrat, you know,
and there are many of them that have sought his
support that he has been out campaigning for. Listen, we
are in the heart of the imperial for this is
a country that defeated the USSR, unfortunately, and the.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Reality of the matter is there's a lot of antagonists
and there's.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
No class consciousness in the United States of Americas.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Empires never die quietly, and we must end the American
empire regardless. No more to trump Ism, but no more
to the Democrats who compromise, who conciliate, and who betray us.
No more to the Democrats who will collaborate and cooperate
with the fascists, who will fund Dice, who will fund
Israel being like Abdullah's a ton.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of work to do, mending bridges. Here's the take nuke
for you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Okay, you are all unbelievably Islama for all pieces. Okay,
they'll say, oh, dsay, your candidate was Oh Francesca Hong
was bad.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
She was a bad candidate. Oh she didn't like Thanksgiving
and Thanksgiving too. And you know, maybe my favorite is,
oh the streets will run red with the blood of
capitalists and landlords. Pretty sick stuff. But he says all
of it, proudly displays newspaper showing the Twin Towers burning
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on nine to eleven. America deserved nine to eleven. I
don't know. I can't stand people like him. I can't
stand white nationalist extremists. I can't stand anti Semitic people
and both parties. I don't like any of them, and
I want nothing to do with any of them. It's
not who I am. I have a heart, a soul,
a conscience, and I'm sorry this is crazy. You know,
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all the years I've known Mark Alpert, I don't know
where he stands politically. I know that he he analyzes
information in a very smart, effective way. We communicated a
lot before the twenty twenty four presidential election. He was
one of the very few people that had the information
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that I had about early voting and a bunch of
things nobody was factoring in. On election night, everyone's looking
at the New York Times needle. I'm like, you're wasting
your time. You know. For Kamala Harris two have won
in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, she would have had to have
a day of voting that never existed before. And I
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was checking in all day in every liberal area in
all three states, and they were not getting the kind
of turnout that she would have needed. And Mark was
right the whole time too. Mark, welcome back. He's the
editor in chief of Two Way. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Very good, Sean, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You want to tell me if you're a Republican or
a Democrat. You're not going to tell me, are you.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm neither. I'm for the American people. I'm an old
fashioned reporter just for trying to understand the country through
the prism of our policy. So, you know, I like
everybody like you. I don't like the mean spirited people.
I don't like the races, so I don't like the extremists,
but I like everybody else. And I'm just here to
try to inform everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You know, Hassan Piko, you know when my friend Lindsey
Graham passed away, actually said he was a demonic entity,
which was, you know, just typical of this guy. What
impact do you believe this radicalism, this DSA, these stated
positions are going to have on this pending midterm.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, I think they'll have an effect in the Michigan
Senate race. I think they'll have an effect on the
Minnesota Senate race. Otherwise, I think it will be up
to the ad makers and message meisters of James Blair
and the other political lieutenants of the President to spend
what I believe will be potentially at least an unprecedented
financial edge to try to convince voters that this is
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the Democratic Party. It's not just a few isolated candidates.
So potentially I think it could be i'd say dispositive
in terms of make or break the majorities, make or
break whether Republicans have a good night or not in
the midterms. And like I said, in those individual races,
I think it's quite important we see the data from
that Fox poll, and again that Box poll is not
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an outlier based on what I know about private polling.
In the race, It's not just the association with Piker.
It's some of the issue positions that the candidate in
self doctor, the candidate's South doctor outside has, that Saya
it has that are that are going to be make
it difficult from to assemble a winning coalition against Mike Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You know, I know there were polls that showed that
sixth gender uh tell a Rico god is non binary.
Championing the rights of women to play in men's sports,
and you know, even you know, saying that that transgender people,
even biological men, should have access to abortion. I might
have to I might have to go back to school
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mark because I don't know what the other four genders are.
And I have no earthly idea, had no earthly idea
that any biological man wouldever need access to an abortion clinic.
Never mind the vegan campaign, you know, in a cattle state,
and his opposition to oil and gas in an oil state.
I think what all is said and done, and you're
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right about the money, it's about eight hundred million. Republicans
never had that kind of money going into a midterm
I think, yeah, I think the kind of ads that
are done are going to have an impact.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well, Texas is a special problem because you can't say
you're going to help Paxton win by putting in five million.
If you want to help him win, you're going to
have to put in at least ten times that. And
it's a little bit of a game of chicken because
until the candidate proves to folks that he's going to
do his part to win this, it's going to be
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a challenge for him to get folks to pony up.
I have been as staunch a skeptic of a Democrat
winning statewide in Texas for the last three decades as
anybody I know, truly, I've just laughed at it. It's
just math, isn't.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There Even the first Beto Bozo run against Ted Cruz,
because nobody knew how crazy he was during that race.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's just a math does not work for a Democrat
to win stay wide in Texas. It just doesn't. And
the notion that the first Democrat to win stay wide
in Texas would be this guy with seventeen positions we
currently know about and past statements that would be disqualifying.
The notion that he'd be the first one I would
have thought until recently is far fetched. But Paxson is
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doing a horrible job. He's not raising the money, and
he's not giving anybody a reason to say, yeah, here's
fifty million of our nine hundred million for just to
begin twenty media markets super expensive. In the end, history
and logic suggests that Paxson will win, but I will
tell you things will have to change dramatically or he
will lose to Tall Rico.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I don't disagree. I think up to now they have
not taken this seriously. I would, but I do know
I have a little internal knowledge that of fortune is
going to be spent and things are going to change.
So I'm pretty confident in saying that to you. You know,
you and I have an honest relationship. So now, if
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I would to say what states Republicans, maybe I don't know.
Georgia ain't looking good, North Carolina ain't looking good. I'm
not sure what to think about New Hampshire. And if
you underestimate Susan Collins run again against the platnir wannabe
in Maine, I think you are foolish to ever underestimate
Susan Collins. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Look, if you believe the Fox poll from last night,
and there's reason to believe it's accurate, Democrats will be
plus two with Ohio and in North Carolina. Although again
I don't think you can say Ohio is over because
it's a red state. So let's say Democrats go plus
two there, they need to net two more and if
they don't win Maine, and I don't believe they will
win Maine as of now, where can they net to more? Well,
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First of all, they got to win Michigan, and I
don't believe today they will win Michigan. Then they wouldn't
have to net three. So if it goes like that,
they take North Carolina, they take Ohio, but they don't
take they don't take Maine, and they lose Michigan, then
they have to win all of Texas, Iowa, and Alaska.
Could happen, but it's unlikely. So I think people are
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currently currently based on the office of the major nine races,
and I think New Hampshire, I think Samina has got
a chance, and that would obviously make it even harder
for Democrats. Currently, I think people are way over at
stating Democrats' chances of taking the Senate.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
How do you feel about the House? One thing that
gives me a little hope. I mean, it's so razor
thin the margin, but again, the money advantage is something
new to Republicans. The one thing that gives me a
little bit of hope is, you know, Republicans finally have
caught up to decades of Democratic jerry mandering, and they
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got plus twelve by my math in terms of you know,
solidly read seats that they would have otherwise, you know,
been underwater On.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I think there's there's two variables that if they go
to the President's away, make it still possible to take
the House. The baseline variable, which you said, barring a
huge blue wave, there just aren't that many seats in play,
So Republicans can take their financial advantage, apply it to
twenty five districts and try to save enough of them
to win them to keep the majority. One variable is
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how do people feel about the two parties, not just
the President's party. Come you know, the post Labor Day period.
I don't think the Iran conflict is going to end,
but it could be in a more manageable position. So
how do people feel about the economy, how to feel
about the performance of the two parties? And then second
said before we've never seen this spend. I think the
AI folks and the other tech folks are going to
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kick in a lot. Elon's going to kick in a
lot here at the end, because it's going to be
it's going to be a clear thing. You pay enough,
you may see Republicans keep the majority. So the financial
advantage could be a billion and a half spread over
nine Senate races in twenty five House districts. And then
the question Ms Ken James Blair and the consultantc he
works with make ads not just for TV, but TV
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is still important, make ads for radio, make ads for
the Internet, make ads for social media, pay per organ
content on social media that drives the message of competent
and common sense versus crazy and communist. If they do
that effectively, I still think they can keep the house.
But they're gonna have to execute on that, and they're
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gonna have to hope for at least some improvement in
the president's approval ratings.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
All right, quick break, right back more with Mark Halpern
on the other side. Eight hundred and nine four one
Sean this Friday our number if you want to be
a part of the program as we continue.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Are you sick of fake news?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Well we've got you covered.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Kennedy watches here and has the news you need.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Sean Hennedy.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Final one once with Mark Halprin, who is with us,
by the way, editor in chief of two Way, talking
about what's going on. And I'm telling you this so
much happening. Why is it that very few people like
I know based on the things you say, who you're
talking to I know, based on the things you say
that you look at the same things I look at.
(13:46):
Why don't more people that are in our business do this?
I mean, I know I'm a loser. You know. All
I do is three hours of radio, hour TV, two
podcasts a week. I'm a loser, I admit it, you know.
But why don't other people work a little bit?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
The great question? I think a lot of particularly the
younger reporters, are just not trained to actually do reporting.
They're trained to aggregate on social media and and of course,
as you know, a lot of people only talk to
people in one party, which is never going to give
you a three hundred and sixty degree view of what's
going on. And it's you know, again, I have such
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an admiration for you, because it's easy. If you have
to do as much content as you do in your
tethered to microphone and camera, as much as you are,
it's easy to just sort of read the wires and
make it up and repeat other people's stuff. But you
and I have the same attitude, which is there's stuff
to know, and you can't do your on camera work,
and you're on.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Michael, But you're not as big a loser as I am.
I'm a total loser.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Well, I'm currently doing twelve hours a week that I hope.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I know you are. I know you're doing a lot
and you do a lot of those shows too, but
I don't know. You know what it is. I think
we both love it. It's a passion. We feel blessed
to do what we do.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, we get paid to do something we do for free.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You know, I've had the I don't never say that
trump one said that to my bosses. I'm like, will
you shush up?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
We wouldn't do it for free. You need a lot
more money. I've traveled. People have paid me to travel
to forty nine of the fifty states to cover America.
That's as incredible blessing and honor and privilege and you know,
and I just I wish I could do more of it.
I've got a nine year old now, so I don't
travel quite as much as I used to. But I'm
first you'd understand the country, and the only way to
do that is to talk to people. Part of why
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my job's good now is on two way with people
from all over the country on every every morning and
every night telling us what they think, so I can
short circuit the time spent at LaGuardia.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I love that too. You can find out anything.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Appreciate you man. We'll check in with you all throughout
this election season. We really appreciate your time and you're insight.
Thank you. Take care eight hundred and nine four one
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PREYIFCJ dot org. That's PREYIFCJ dot org. Today there's just
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a bill o'reiley brought this up earlier in the week
and we discussed it with him during the show and Massachusetts.
Now correct me, Linda if I'm wrong. They're allowing abortion
up to the minute of birth. Now, at that point,
when you get to month seven, eight and nine, we know,
with modern technology and modern science that that baby can
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live outside of a mother's womb. This is not an
issue of you know, somebody saying nope, sorry, you know,
life begins a conception. That's not what this is saying,
because at that point the embryo later becoming a fetus
is not viable on its own. I personally wish people
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would just take individual responsibility and I don't care what
you do in your private life, that's going to be
up to you, not up to me, and I wish
people if you're going to engage in behavior that can
have consequences like a pregnancy, you know there are precautions
out there if you want it. Now people might be
mad that I say that, Well, I'd rather that than
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the choice of an abortion. Now when you get to
month seven, eight nine, and this was the whole debate
we used to have, you know, about partial birth abortion,
because now we're talking about late term abortion and in
many cases viability is real. In other words, you take
that baby bo you know, at that stage of what
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it called gestation, and you take that baby and you
take it to another part of the hospital. They will
save that baby's life. That baby will grow up, put
it in what do they call those things, an incubator.
I don't know what they call them, but they have
the means of, you know, having premies and saving them
when they're very, very tiny. It's incredible technology. The idea
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that you're going to allow an abortion up to the
moment of birth is nothing but infanticide. There's no other
way to put it. Remember you had that discussion. Who
was it that said Linda, Well, first the baby will
be born, and then the mother will have a discussion
with the doctors and then they'll decide it with somebody
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in Virginia. I forget where it was. It was the
former governor of Virginia. Yeah, maybe we can pull that
caught up too, But this is the governor of Massachusetts,
you know, defending this in this moment.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
It is up to the states to lead, and as governor,
I promise that no matter what Donald Trump or Republicans
in Congress or the Secre Court does, We're going to
continue to make sure that women and families have access
to the healthcare that they need.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Right here in Massachusetts. We're going to make.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Sure that women in particular, are able to make their
own health care decisions, not the government. It's why I
took steps to stockpile for PRISTO three years ago when
it first came under attack. It's why I signed the
strongest shield blaw in the country to protect patients and
doctors and nurses who provide that care.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
And it's why I'm signing this bill today.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
We believe that healthcare decisions should be made between women
and families and their doctors, not politicians. Abortion will remain safe,
it will remain legal, and it will remain accessible.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Here in Massachusetts. That's my commitment to you.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I don't know. I mean, this is where they just
lose me left, right and sideways. Democrats, they just do
you know, remember who was it? It was Ralph? Was
it Ralph Norman? I'm trying to remember then, Virginia, No
Nor I'm sorry, Ralph Northam. Let's play this cut. First,
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we'll make the baby comfortable. Then the mother will speak
to the doctor. Remember that this became a huge story.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Third trimester abortions. These are done with the consent of
obviously the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more
than one physician, by the way, and it's done in
cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be
a fetus that's non viable. So in this particular example,
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if a mother is in labor, I can tell you
exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered, the
infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated
if that's what the mother and the family desired, and
then a discussion would ensue between the physicians.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And the mother. I don't know, I mean, at what
point are you losing your soul and your heart and
your conscience? You know, there are so many people that
even with you know, IVF treatment, that can't have children,
they would love to adopt a baby. And you know,
I know it might be difficult, but in many cases
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you can make a deal. They'll pay for all the
medical expenses and pay you, you know, for the time
and effort. You know, maybe maybe they can extract eggs
from the woman and spur them from the man and
put it together whatever. I don't know that at some
point if the baby's viable, at that point it is
to me a human life. All right, let's see Malia
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my state of Florida. What's up, Malia?
Speaker 9 (22:43):
How are you anticipating being on the air? I just
called because I wanted to find out, like which candidates
were the best ones to choose from, because there's so
many different names, and I don't want to select the
wrong ones that you know aren't going to do a
good job for us, because they're going to be in
for a long period of time. And so I heard
you're talking this morning about it. But when you work
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a lot, you can't really listen. I do listen to you,
and I did pick some of the most prestigious ones
that you had on here that I thought would be
really good. But there's so many different ones and it's
hard to know which one we do a good job.
And that's why I just wanted to make sure that
I picked the right candidate that would be best.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, let me let me ask you a question. Do
you consider yourself more of a Republican or a Democrat?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Definitely Republican.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay, Well, you can really start there, and it's very simple.
Don't vote for a Democrat. Let's start there. Vote, but
definitely take voting seriously this election cycle because there is
a lot at stake. You've heard me list. For example,
there's two hundred and fifty DSA politicians that have been
elected since twenty nineteen. There's forty more, forty plus more
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that will be on the ballot in the midterms. Forty more.
That's a lot of people. Eliminate the Senate, you don't
get to pick the president anymore. Change the judiciary, amnesty
for illegals, abolished borders and I and uh, you know,
end all deportation and defund the Department of War, wealth tax,
get rid of cash bell, abolished prisons, police, et cetera,
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et cetera. Right right now, that's a lot of candidates,
So I'd say just off the top of my head.
You know, I tried not to get involved in primaries
because usually I know five people in a primary. I mean,
it's hard, and Reagan's old rules. He didn't he didn't
endorse in primaries. I make exceptions, like I really, I
really wanted Darlene Graham to win number one. I know
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her number two. I think she showed enormous courage and
she has. She has blown the doors off of how
she performed in the debate and conducted herself under the
most difficult circumstances after losing my friend Lindsey Graham. So
I'm supporting her. Tim Scott is supporting her. She got
another endorsement earlier today. One of the other candidates in
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the race said, you know what I'm all in for? Okay,
for who is it? Russell fry said it good for
Russell Frye. So I'm really pulling for her in this runoff,
and I think if she wins the runoff, don't take
it for granted, but I think she'll easily win the
general election. But you know the answer, I think you
answered it. You're a Republican vote Republican this year more
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than ever this year. This party's too crazy.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
There's a lottery book for the primaries there, like, you know,
you just want to put yeah Republican.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Maybe look at their websites? Do you do diligence? There
are so many good people running. I feel bad when
you know, I'm friends with numerous people. But I just
whoever the you know, have a fair fight. Whoever wins wins,
and I'll support the winner. Okay.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
It's just there's some of it out there saying that
they do a good job, and then I hear you like,
when it comes on that you find out things that
they did do wrong and they weren't that good of
a person. So you just don't know who to believe
or what not.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Every Republican, I like, I'm going to be very honest, Malia.
There are some weak Republicans out there pathetically week However,
compared to the Democrat that they're likely running against, you know,
in that case there is there is a lesser of
two evil concept that comes into play. All right, appreciate,
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appreciate the kom Lee. You have a great weekend. Okay,
thank you. Greg in Kentucky. Have you seen Mitch McConnell.
I understand he's out of his rehab center.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I have not nobody's seen him.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Nobody's seen him. I don't know where he is. Heid like, Joe,
what's on you? What's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Well being from Greater Cincinnati? Are your person? Thing I
just say is, Hannity, you're a great American.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham here, God bless you, God bless America.
I want a full report. That's not too bad? Is
it great that because Cunningham will listen to the show
and he'll call me after the show? Do I really
sound like that? Is that closer? Though?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
It's pretty close?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
What's going on? How are you? What's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Calling after listening to you last week and especially that
woman calling you yesterday about touching the dead body thing?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Oh no, you're you're not going back here. You're gonna
freak me out. That poor woman. I felt terrible because
she touched the body of her husband of thirty plus years.
I'm like, oh, I feel like I feel awful. And
I wasn't talking about her. I was talking about like
the relatives that you know hang out at the body
holding the hand kissing the cheek and the forehead and
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the lips. I'm like, oh stop, well, I can't take it.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
When my dad's brother died, my sister's suck him the
men's warehouse and buy a suit and asked him what
he wanted to spend. He said, not much. I'm going
to wear it to my brother's funeral and mine.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
And that's a good answer. Listen, we're all going home.
One day when Jesus calls.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Us and his brother's funeral, people kept walking by and
I was standing next to the dad, and they kept
looking at my uncle saying how good he looked. And
Dad turned around and looked at me, and he said,
if anybody says that at my funeral, I want you
to turn around. Slapped the hell out of him.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I know these people make these ridiculous comments. You know
you're at a week I am never going to have
an open coffin. I mean they made the oh don't
they look good? I mean, he's in a coffin, he's dead.
He got makeup on. Although I probably will look the
same as I do in life, because they put makeup
on me for TV every night. I'm like, good grief.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Well, my dad died. I went to the nursing now'm
to see and he looked absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So yeah, that sucks, man, doesn't that suck? It just sucks.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
It does. And at the funeral I put my hand
on his chest number one because I wanted touching one
last time. And number two, I didn't want him to
sit up and slap me when I said, Dad, you
look at held a lot better than the last time
I saw you.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Did he really look better because he looked that bad
in the nursing home?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Yeah, yeah, he really.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know what I believe In Paradise, Jesus on the
Cross said to the one guy that said I I
deserve what's happening to me. You don't deserve this, And
he said, this day you'll be with me in Paradise.
When I gave Lindsey Graham's eulogy, I quoted scripture, let
not your heart be troubled. In my father's house are
many mansions, and I go to prepare a place for you,
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and I'll come back for you, so that where I am,
he shall also be. I just believe in it. And
you know, I don't care if people don't agree with me.
You don't have to you're entitled to your own religious beliefs,
and your dad's in paradise. He's probably laughing that you
called this radio program on seven hundred and sixty stations
and all around the country and many around the globe,
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and that you told this story. I bet he's happy.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
He's probably laughing.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, he's probably happier than all of us down here.
I just interviewed a bunch of people for the pod
Heaven is Real. Oh my goodness, Linda, you got to
hear the stories of these people that I interviewed. I mean,
and their descriptions are almost ident of Jesus, God, the Father,
the Holy Spirit. Colors that don't exist on earth, Choirs
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of angels. You know, there's a million of them, and
you can discern each one individually, seeing past relatives, people
that have passed on. It's it's so fascinating to me.
All Right, that's gonna wrap things up for today. We
got a great Hannity tonight nine Eastern on the Fox
News Channel, rare appearance, the Great One, Mark Levin, Steven
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Miller Tonight, Oh Brandon, Gil Bruce Blakeman big rally with
the President today. Can he be the next governor? In
New York. Is there a chance I think there is.
Paul today three point race, Nancy Grace tonight, Jimmy Fayala tonight,
nine Eastern. Set your DVR, Hannity on Fox Seed tonight.
Back here on Monday. Hope you and your family have
a great weekend. See you that
All right, news round up and information overload. Our Our
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toll free telephone number this Friday is eight hundred and
nine foot one Sean if you want to be a
part of the program. We had a good discussion with
Mark Penn about this radicalization of the Democratic Party and
about the pending upcoming election. I mean, I thought it
was interesting. Bruce Blakeman Sianna Pole comes out today. He's
only down by three, Kathy Hochel. When you factor in
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all the mass migration out of New York, it's it's
kind of a spectacular number. And it really gives me
hope for my friends that I left behind years ago
that maybe he I think Bruce Blakeman's your last shot
to fix New York. Same with Steve Hilton out in California.
And but you know what impact. We do have one
poll out today, it's way too early, and it has
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Mike Rodgers up by four in Michigan against Abdullah say Ed,
and of course he has this sick friendship with Hassan Piker.
I am. I am contending that at this point, you know,
eighty what do we eighty one days away till election day?
I cannot tell you which way this election is going
to go. However, I am wanting conservatives, I am wanting
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Trump supporters. I am warning Republicans you better take all
of this seriously because these people, while they may be
trying to you know, laugh off, Oh that was woke
one crazy, they believe all this stuff. They stated all
of it. Their internal polling tells them to shut up
and stop saying it. So there's a reason they're they're pivoting. Remember,
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almost everything a politician does and says is often poles driven.
So it's just too early for me. I see warning signs,
and I see hopeful signs, and but I again, I
think it's too early. What happens with the ran, what
happens with the price of oil? Where's the economy?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Headed?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Had a long conversation with Scott Bessen. He gave me
a lot of hope on the economy, But time will tell.
I don't know the answer. I don't have a crystal ball.
But you know what impact you know the fact that
so many people will not like elsaiaed and Michigan will
not condemn Hassam Piker. Here's you know, let's go through
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some of Hassam Piker and why would any Democrat, you know,
and there are many of them that have sought his
support that he has been out campaigning for. Listen, we
are in the heart of the imperial for this is
a country that defeated the USSR, unfortunately, and the.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Reality of the matter is there's a lot of antagonists
and there's.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
No class consciousness in the United States of Americas.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Empires never die quietly, and we must end the American
empire regardless. No more to trump Ism, but no more
to the Democrats who compromise, who conciliate, and who betray us.
No more to the Democrats who will collaborate and cooperate
with the fascists, who will fund Dice, who will fund
Israel being like Abdullah's a ton.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of work to do, mending bridges. Here's the take nuke
for you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Okay, you are all unbelievably Islama for all pieces. Okay,
they'll say, oh, dsay, your candidate was Oh Francesca Hong
was bad.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
She was a bad candidate. Oh she didn't like Thanksgiving
and Thanksgiving too. And you know, maybe my favorite is,
oh the streets will run red with the blood of
capitalists and landlords. Pretty sick stuff. But he says all
of it, proudly displays newspaper showing the Twin Towers burning
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on nine to eleven. America deserved nine to eleven. I
don't know. I can't stand people like him. I can't
stand white nationalist extremists. I can't stand anti Semitic people
and both parties. I don't like any of them, and
I want nothing to do with any of them. It's
not who I am. I have a heart, a soul,
a conscience, and I'm sorry this is crazy. You know,
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all the years I've known Mark Alpert, I don't know
where he stands politically. I know that he he analyzes
information in a very smart, effective way. We communicated a
lot before the twenty twenty four presidential election. He was
one of the very few people that had the information
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that I had about early voting and a bunch of
things nobody was factoring in. On election night, everyone's looking
at the New York Times needle. I'm like, you're wasting
your time. You know. For Kamala Harris two have won
in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, she would have had to have
a day of voting that never existed before. And I
(04:34):
was checking in all day in every liberal area in
all three states, and they were not getting the kind
of turnout that she would have needed. And Mark was
right the whole time too. Mark, welcome back. He's the
editor in chief of Two Way. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Very good, Sean, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You want to tell me if you're a Republican or
a Democrat. You're not going to tell me, are you.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm neither. I'm for the American people. I'm an old
fashioned reporter just for trying to understand the country through
the prism of our policy. So, you know, I like
everybody like you. I don't like the mean spirited people.
I don't like the races, so I don't like the extremists,
but I like everybody else. And I'm just here to
try to inform everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You know, Hassan Piko, you know when my friend Lindsey
Graham passed away, actually said he was a demonic entity,
which was, you know, just typical of this guy. What
impact do you believe this radicalism, this DSA, these stated
positions are going to have on this pending midterm.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, I think they'll have an effect in the Michigan
Senate race. I think they'll have an effect on the
Minnesota Senate race. Otherwise, I think it will be up
to the ad makers and message meisters of James Blair
and the other political lieutenants of the President to spend
what I believe will be potentially at least an unprecedented
financial edge to try to convince voters that this is
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the Democratic Party. It's not just a few isolated candidates.
So potentially I think it could be i'd say dispositive
in terms of make or break the majorities, make or
break whether Republicans have a good night or not in
the midterms. And like I said, in those individual races,
I think it's quite important we see the data from
that Fox poll, and again that Box poll is not
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an outlier based on what I know about private polling.
In the race, It's not just the association with Piker.
It's some of the issue positions that the candidate in
self doctor, the candidate's South doctor outside has, that Saya
it has that are that are going to be make
it difficult from to assemble a winning coalition against Mike Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You know, I know there were polls that showed that
sixth gender uh tell a Rico god is non binary.
Championing the rights of women to play in men's sports,
and you know, even you know, saying that that transgender people,
even biological men, should have access to abortion. I might
have to I might have to go back to school
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mark because I don't know what the other four genders are.
And I have no earthly idea, had no earthly idea
that any biological man wouldever need access to an abortion clinic.
Never mind the vegan campaign, you know, in a cattle state,
and his opposition to oil and gas in an oil state.
I think what all is said and done, and you're
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right about the money, it's about eight hundred million. Republicans
never had that kind of money going into a midterm
I think, yeah, I think the kind of ads that
are done are going to have an impact.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well, Texas is a special problem because you can't say
you're going to help Paxton win by putting in five million.
If you want to help him win, you're going to
have to put in at least ten times that. And
it's a little bit of a game of chicken because
until the candidate proves to folks that he's going to
do his part to win this, it's going to be
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a challenge for him to get folks to pony up.
I have been as staunch a skeptic of a Democrat
winning statewide in Texas for the last three decades as
anybody I know, truly, I've just laughed at it. It's
just math, isn't.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There Even the first Beto Bozo run against Ted Cruz,
because nobody knew how crazy he was during that race.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's just a math does not work for a Democrat
to win stay wide in Texas. It just doesn't. And
the notion that the first Democrat to win stay wide
in Texas would be this guy with seventeen positions we
currently know about and past statements that would be disqualifying.
The notion that he'd be the first one I would
have thought until recently is far fetched. But Paxson is
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doing a horrible job. He's not raising the money, and
he's not giving anybody a reason to say, yeah, here's
fifty million of our nine hundred million for just to
begin twenty media markets super expensive. In the end, history
and logic suggests that Paxson will win, but I will
tell you things will have to change dramatically or he
will lose to Tall Rico.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I don't disagree. I think up to now they have
not taken this seriously. I would, but I do know
I have a little internal knowledge that of fortune is
going to be spent and things are going to change.
So I'm pretty confident in saying that to you. You know,
you and I have an honest relationship. So now, if
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I would to say what states Republicans, maybe I don't know.
Georgia ain't looking good, North Carolina ain't looking good. I'm
not sure what to think about New Hampshire. And if
you underestimate Susan Collins run again against the platnir wannabe
in Maine, I think you are foolish to ever underestimate
Susan Collins. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Look, if you believe the Fox poll from last night,
and there's reason to believe it's accurate, Democrats will be
plus two with Ohio and in North Carolina. Although again
I don't think you can say Ohio is over because
it's a red state. So let's say Democrats go plus
two there, they need to net two more and if
they don't win Maine, and I don't believe they will
win Maine as of now, where can they net to more? Well,
(09:55):
First of all, they got to win Michigan, and I
don't believe today they will win Michigan. Then they wouldn't
have to net three. So if it goes like that,
they take North Carolina, they take Ohio, but they don't
take they don't take Maine, and they lose Michigan, then
they have to win all of Texas, Iowa, and Alaska.
Could happen, but it's unlikely. So I think people are
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currently currently based on the office of the major nine races,
and I think New Hampshire, I think Samina has got
a chance, and that would obviously make it even harder
for Democrats. Currently, I think people are way over at
stating Democrats' chances of taking the Senate.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
How do you feel about the House? One thing that
gives me a little hope. I mean, it's so razor
thin the margin, but again, the money advantage is something
new to Republicans. The one thing that gives me a
little bit of hope is, you know, Republicans finally have
caught up to decades of Democratic jerry mandering, and they
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got plus twelve by my math in terms of you know,
solidly read seats that they would have otherwise, you know,
been underwater On.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I think there's there's two variables that if they go
to the President's away, make it still possible to take
the House. The baseline variable, which you said, barring a
huge blue wave, there just aren't that many seats in play,
So Republicans can take their financial advantage, apply it to
twenty five districts and try to save enough of them
to win them to keep the majority. One variable is
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how do people feel about the two parties, not just
the President's party. Come you know, the post Labor Day period.
I don't think the Iran conflict is going to end,
but it could be in a more manageable position. So
how do people feel about the economy, how to feel
about the performance of the two parties? And then second
said before we've never seen this spend. I think the
AI folks and the other tech folks are going to
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kick in a lot. Elon's going to kick in a
lot here at the end, because it's going to be
it's going to be a clear thing. You pay enough,
you may see Republicans keep the majority. So the financial
advantage could be a billion and a half spread over
nine Senate races in twenty five House districts. And then
the question Ms Ken James Blair and the consultantc he
works with make ads not just for TV, but TV
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is still important, make ads for radio, make ads for
the Internet, make ads for social media, pay per organ
content on social media that drives the message of competent
and common sense versus crazy and communist. If they do
that effectively, I still think they can keep the house.
But they're gonna have to execute on that, and they're
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gonna have to hope for at least some improvement in
the president's approval ratings.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
All right, quick break, right back more with Mark Halpern
on the other side. Eight hundred and nine four one
Sean this Friday our number if you want to be
a part of the program as we continue.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Are you sick of fake news?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Well we've got you covered.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Kennedy watches here and has the news you need.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Sean Hennedy.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Final one once with Mark Halprin, who is with us,
by the way, editor in chief of two Way, talking
about what's going on. And I'm telling you this so
much happening. Why is it that very few people like
I know based on the things you say, who you're
talking to I know, based on the things you say
that you look at the same things I look at.
(13:46):
Why don't more people that are in our business do this?
I mean, I know I'm a loser. You know. All
I do is three hours of radio, hour TV, two
podcasts a week. I'm a loser, I admit it, you know.
But why don't other people work a little bit?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
The great question? I think a lot of particularly the
younger reporters, are just not trained to actually do reporting.
They're trained to aggregate on social media and and of course,
as you know, a lot of people only talk to
people in one party, which is never going to give
you a three hundred and sixty degree view of what's
going on. And it's you know, again, I have such
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an admiration for you, because it's easy. If you have
to do as much content as you do in your
tethered to microphone and camera, as much as you are,
it's easy to just sort of read the wires and
make it up and repeat other people's stuff. But you
and I have the same attitude, which is there's stuff
to know, and you can't do your on camera work,
and you're on.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Michael, But you're not as big a loser as I am.
I'm a total loser.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Well, I'm currently doing twelve hours a week that I hope.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I know you are. I know you're doing a lot
and you do a lot of those shows too, but
I don't know. You know what it is. I think
we both love it. It's a passion. We feel blessed
to do what we do.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, we get paid to do something we do for free.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You know, I've had the I don't never say that
trump one said that to my bosses. I'm like, will
you shush up?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
We wouldn't do it for free. You need a lot
more money. I've traveled. People have paid me to travel
to forty nine of the fifty states to cover America.
That's as incredible blessing and honor and privilege and you know,
and I just I wish I could do more of it.
I've got a nine year old now, so I don't
travel quite as much as I used to. But I'm
first you'd understand the country, and the only way to
do that is to talk to people. Part of why
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my job's good now is on two way with people
from all over the country on every every morning and
every night telling us what they think, so I can
short circuit the time spent at LaGuardia.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I love that too. You can find out anything.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Appreciate you man. We'll check in with you all throughout
this election season. We really appreciate your time and you're insight.
Thank you. Take care eight hundred and nine four one
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a bill o'reiley brought this up earlier in the week
and we discussed it with him during the show and Massachusetts.
Now correct me, Linda if I'm wrong. They're allowing abortion
up to the minute of birth. Now, at that point,
when you get to month seven, eight and nine, we know,
with modern technology and modern science that that baby can
(17:52):
live outside of a mother's womb. This is not an
issue of you know, somebody saying nope, sorry, you know,
life begins a conception. That's not what this is saying,
because at that point the embryo later becoming a fetus
is not viable on its own. I personally wish people
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would just take individual responsibility and I don't care what
you do in your private life, that's going to be
up to you, not up to me, and I wish
people if you're going to engage in behavior that can
have consequences like a pregnancy, you know there are precautions
out there if you want it. Now people might be
mad that I say that, Well, I'd rather that than
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the choice of an abortion. Now when you get to
month seven, eight nine, and this was the whole debate
we used to have, you know, about partial birth abortion,
because now we're talking about late term abortion and in
many cases viability is real. In other words, you take
that baby bo you know, at that stage of what
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it called gestation, and you take that baby and you
take it to another part of the hospital. They will
save that baby's life. That baby will grow up, put
it in what do they call those things, an incubator.
I don't know what they call them, but they have
the means of, you know, having premies and saving them
when they're very, very tiny. It's incredible technology. The idea
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that you're going to allow an abortion up to the
moment of birth is nothing but infanticide. There's no other
way to put it. Remember you had that discussion. Who
was it that said Linda, Well, first the baby will
be born, and then the mother will have a discussion
with the doctors and then they'll decide it with somebody
(19:38):
in Virginia. I forget where it was. It was the
former governor of Virginia. Yeah, maybe we can pull that
caught up too, But this is the governor of Massachusetts,
you know, defending this in this moment.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
It is up to the states to lead, and as governor,
I promise that no matter what Donald Trump or Republicans
in Congress or the Secre Court does, We're going to
continue to make sure that women and families have access
to the healthcare that they need.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Right here in Massachusetts. We're going to make.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Sure that women in particular, are able to make their
own health care decisions, not the government. It's why I
took steps to stockpile for PRISTO three years ago when
it first came under attack. It's why I signed the
strongest shield blaw in the country to protect patients and
doctors and nurses who provide that care.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
And it's why I'm signing this bill today.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
We believe that healthcare decisions should be made between women
and families and their doctors, not politicians. Abortion will remain safe,
it will remain legal, and it will remain accessible.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Here in Massachusetts. That's my commitment to you.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I don't know. I mean, this is where they just
lose me left, right and sideways. Democrats, they just do
you know, remember who was it? It was Ralph? Was
it Ralph Norman? I'm trying to remember then, Virginia, No
Nor I'm sorry, Ralph Northam. Let's play this cut. First,
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we'll make the baby comfortable. Then the mother will speak
to the doctor. Remember that this became a huge story.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Third trimester abortions. These are done with the consent of
obviously the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more
than one physician, by the way, and it's done in
cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be
a fetus that's non viable. So in this particular example,
(21:38):
if a mother is in labor, I can tell you
exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered, the
infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated
if that's what the mother and the family desired, and
then a discussion would ensue between the physicians.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And the mother. I don't know, I mean, at what
point are you losing your soul and your heart and
your conscience? You know, there are so many people that
even with you know, IVF treatment, that can't have children,
they would love to adopt a baby. And you know,
I know it might be difficult, but in many cases
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you can make a deal. They'll pay for all the
medical expenses and pay you, you know, for the time
and effort. You know, maybe maybe they can extract eggs
from the woman and spur them from the man and
put it together whatever. I don't know that at some
point if the baby's viable, at that point it is
to me a human life. All right, let's see Malia
(22:41):
my state of Florida. What's up, Malia?
Speaker 9 (22:43):
How are you anticipating being on the air? I just
called because I wanted to find out, like which candidates
were the best ones to choose from, because there's so
many different names, and I don't want to select the
wrong ones that you know aren't going to do a
good job for us, because they're going to be in
for a long period of time. And so I heard
you're talking this morning about it. But when you work
(23:03):
a lot, you can't really listen. I do listen to you,
and I did pick some of the most prestigious ones
that you had on here that I thought would be
really good. But there's so many different ones and it's
hard to know which one we do a good job.
And that's why I just wanted to make sure that
I picked the right candidate that would be best.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, let me let me ask you a question. Do
you consider yourself more of a Republican or a Democrat?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Definitely Republican.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay, Well, you can really start there, and it's very simple.
Don't vote for a Democrat. Let's start there. Vote, but
definitely take voting seriously this election cycle because there is
a lot at stake. You've heard me list. For example,
there's two hundred and fifty DSA politicians that have been
elected since twenty nineteen. There's forty more, forty plus more
(23:48):
that will be on the ballot in the midterms. Forty more.
That's a lot of people. Eliminate the Senate, you don't
get to pick the president anymore. Change the judiciary, amnesty
for illegals, abolished borders and I and uh, you know,
end all deportation and defund the Department of War, wealth tax,
get rid of cash bell, abolished prisons, police, et cetera,
(24:11):
et cetera. Right right now, that's a lot of candidates,
So I'd say just off the top of my head.
You know, I tried not to get involved in primaries
because usually I know five people in a primary. I mean,
it's hard, and Reagan's old rules. He didn't he didn't
endorse in primaries. I make exceptions, like I really, I
really wanted Darlene Graham to win number one. I know
(24:31):
her number two. I think she showed enormous courage and
she has. She has blown the doors off of how
she performed in the debate and conducted herself under the
most difficult circumstances after losing my friend Lindsey Graham. So
I'm supporting her. Tim Scott is supporting her. She got
another endorsement earlier today. One of the other candidates in
(24:55):
the race said, you know what I'm all in for? Okay,
for who is it? Russell fry said it good for
Russell Frye. So I'm really pulling for her in this runoff,
and I think if she wins the runoff, don't take
it for granted, but I think she'll easily win the
general election. But you know the answer, I think you
answered it. You're a Republican vote Republican this year more
(25:17):
than ever this year. This party's too crazy.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
There's a lottery book for the primaries there, like, you know,
you just want to put yeah Republican.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Maybe look at their websites? Do you do diligence? There
are so many good people running. I feel bad when
you know, I'm friends with numerous people. But I just
whoever the you know, have a fair fight. Whoever wins wins,
and I'll support the winner. Okay.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
It's just there's some of it out there saying that
they do a good job, and then I hear you like,
when it comes on that you find out things that
they did do wrong and they weren't that good of
a person. So you just don't know who to believe
or what not.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Every Republican, I like, I'm going to be very honest, Malia.
There are some weak Republicans out there pathetically week However,
compared to the Democrat that they're likely running against, you know,
in that case there is there is a lesser of
two evil concept that comes into play. All right, appreciate,
(26:13):
appreciate the kom Lee. You have a great weekend. Okay,
thank you. Greg in Kentucky. Have you seen Mitch McConnell.
I understand he's out of his rehab center.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I have not nobody's seen him.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Nobody's seen him. I don't know where he is. Heid like, Joe,
what's on you? What's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Well being from Greater Cincinnati? Are your person? Thing I
just say is, Hannity, you're a great American.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham here, God bless you, God bless America.
I want a full report. That's not too bad? Is
it great that because Cunningham will listen to the show
and he'll call me after the show? Do I really
sound like that? Is that closer? Though?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
It's pretty close?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
What's going on? How are you? What's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Calling after listening to you last week and especially that
woman calling you yesterday about touching the dead body thing?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Oh no, you're you're not going back here. You're gonna
freak me out. That poor woman. I felt terrible because
she touched the body of her husband of thirty plus years.
I'm like, oh, I feel like I feel awful. And
I wasn't talking about her. I was talking about like
the relatives that you know hang out at the body
holding the hand kissing the cheek and the forehead and
(27:26):
the lips. I'm like, oh stop, well, I can't take it.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
When my dad's brother died, my sister's suck him the
men's warehouse and buy a suit and asked him what
he wanted to spend. He said, not much. I'm going
to wear it to my brother's funeral and mine.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
And that's a good answer. Listen, we're all going home.
One day when Jesus calls.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Us and his brother's funeral, people kept walking by and
I was standing next to the dad, and they kept
looking at my uncle saying how good he looked. And
Dad turned around and looked at me, and he said,
if anybody says that at my funeral, I want you
to turn around. Slapped the hell out of him.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I know these people make these ridiculous comments. You know
you're at a week I am never going to have
an open coffin. I mean they made the oh don't
they look good? I mean, he's in a coffin, he's dead.
He got makeup on. Although I probably will look the
same as I do in life, because they put makeup
on me for TV every night. I'm like, good grief.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Well, my dad died. I went to the nursing now'm
to see and he looked absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So yeah, that sucks, man, doesn't that suck? It just sucks.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
It does. And at the funeral I put my hand
on his chest number one because I wanted touching one
last time. And number two, I didn't want him to
sit up and slap me when I said, Dad, you
look at held a lot better than the last time
I saw you.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Did he really look better because he looked that bad
in the nursing home?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Yeah, yeah, he really.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know what I believe In Paradise, Jesus on the
Cross said to the one guy that said I I
deserve what's happening to me. You don't deserve this, And
he said, this day you'll be with me in Paradise.
When I gave Lindsey Graham's eulogy, I quoted scripture, let
not your heart be troubled. In my father's house are
many mansions, and I go to prepare a place for you,
(29:17):
and I'll come back for you, so that where I am,
he shall also be. I just believe in it. And
you know, I don't care if people don't agree with me.
You don't have to you're entitled to your own religious beliefs,
and your dad's in paradise. He's probably laughing that you
called this radio program on seven hundred and sixty stations
and all around the country and many around the globe,
(29:40):
and that you told this story. I bet he's happy.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
He's probably laughing.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, he's probably happier than all of us down here.
I just interviewed a bunch of people for the pod
Heaven is Real. Oh my goodness, Linda, you got to
hear the stories of these people that I interviewed. I mean,
and their descriptions are almost ident of Jesus, God, the Father,
the Holy Spirit. Colors that don't exist on earth, Choirs
(30:08):
of angels. You know, there's a million of them, and
you can discern each one individually, seeing past relatives, people
that have passed on. It's it's so fascinating to me.
All Right, that's gonna wrap things up for today. We
got a great Hannity tonight nine Eastern on the Fox
News Channel, rare appearance, the Great One, Mark Levin, Steven
(30:30):
Miller Tonight, Oh Brandon, Gil Bruce Blakeman big rally with
the President today. Can he be the next governor? In
New York. Is there a chance I think there is.
Paul today three point race, Nancy Grace tonight, Jimmy Fayala tonight,
nine Eastern. Set your DVR, Hannity on Fox Seed tonight.
Back here on Monday. Hope you and your family have
a great weekend. See you that
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