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December 1, 2025 • 29 mins

In this episode of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean dives into the implications of radical leftist rhetoric, highlighted by the tragic shooting of National Guards personnel in Washington, D.C. He also discusses the upcoming special election in Nashville's 7th Congressional District, featuring Republican candidate Matt Van Epps, who faces off against a candidate with ties to the Democratic Socialists of America. As the stakes rise in Nashville and across the nation, Sean emphasizes the importance of voter turnout in these off-year elections. Tune in for insights on the political climate, community concerns, and what this means for America's future.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being one of us.
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and left lots of
doggy bags doggy eat doggy bags for your liberal relatives,
as Linda suggested, although I guarantee you she didn't leave
one doggy bag on her front steps and tell a
relative that you're not allowed in. But I'll leave you

(00:20):
a doggy bag because I hate your politics. Well, I
hope the discussion will help some people. You didn't leave one,
did you. You didn't. Just tell me you did not
do that, Jason, do you want to hit the breaking
news sounder for me? Well, that's gonna take forever. I didn't,

(00:40):
all right, So what's the point. The point is you did,
You absolutely did not do it, and you're gonna lie
and tell me you're lying. We'll get into this later
in the program.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
We got a lot coming up today, not the least
of which I'm gonna talk about the National Guard Guards people,
twenty year old National Guards woman's who was shot and killed.
Why this is happening, the rhetoric of the radical left,
and how extreme it has gotten. I spoke to the

(01:13):
parents of a twenty four year old Anthony, and he
is clinging to dear life. We have an update on
his condition I'll get to in a second as well.
There is a special election in Nashville, the seventh Congressional
district there. Later we will talk to the Republican candidate,
Matt Van Epps, and he's with Speaker Johnson today. My

(01:36):
understanding is the President called in to an event that
they were doing. It is hard to imagine. I'm actually
glad that this has taken on some national attention only
in recent days, really because Democrats have poured tens and
tens of millions of dollars into Nashville. I know Nashville well.
I lived in Athens, Alabama, which is right down sixty five.

(01:59):
I can think it's about an hour, hour and so
on minutes to Nashville. I used to go to Nashville
all the time, Music City, USA. One of the great
honors of my life is I got to host the
Grand Old Opry and spent many years at you know,
the Gay Lord and Opry. You know, I just I mean,
the Grand Old Opry is just its history. He's going

(02:21):
up against a candidate that is running on nothing. I mean,
that is so radical. I'm shocked that this is even
an issue for discussion in Nashville. And if you're in
Nashville or have friends and family in Nashville, please give
them a call and make sure that they go out
and vote tomorrow, because I in these off year elections,

(02:44):
turnout is everything, and I don't think most people. I
think now they might be. It might be hitting the
the consciousness of the people in Nashville. Who this you know?
Aten ben is Anyways, she's just a radical leftistus. It's
really running on nothing. She's going to shake up Washington.
That's what she says in every yad. The issue section

(03:06):
has next to nothing. I fully commit to eliminating super packs.
She's supported by the Democratic Socialists of America. Those are
the people that's endorsed Mamdani. She herself endorsed Mamdannie. You know,
if you look at her background, her job. Oh, she
was a community organizer. This sound familiar, and not only
a community organizer social worker. She also said that she

(03:31):
got inspired to get into politics get ready for it
sounds familiar by Saul Olinsky's Rules for Radicals that she
discovered in her college library while a grad student and
spent innumerable hours into planning, protesting strategizing, canvassing, lobbying, and
advocating that that is her big background. She was removed

(03:52):
from the Tennessee State Gallery in twenty nineteen for interrupting
proceedings during a protest over gun violence. She's a self
described trans organizer and activist. She says she's spent time
with others discussing on how to develop a world without
any police. Nashville, You're paying attention and even gets more extreme.

(04:16):
I mean, this is a lady on tape saying she
hates the city that she's running to represent. I have
it the audio. I hate Nashville. I hate can you
imagine in Nashville Music city USA? I hate country music.
This is the democratic radical running in Nashville.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Is it heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race? Because
I hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes, I hate
the penal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all
of the things that make Nashville. Fairly, it makes city
to the rest of the country, but.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I hate it. And she she was involved in a
seminar centered around the world without police. I'll play that
later in the program to but I mean, she just
hates her home. She says, you know, it's unacceptable for
her to be around people that have Christian values. Says

(05:11):
she has a recurring dream where she stands up in
a cafeteria screaming at the top of her lungs. I
don't want children, I want power. He puts on social media.
Good morning, especially to the fifty four percent of Americans
that believe burning down a police station is justified. She
admits I'm a very radical person. He said. Rioting is

(05:32):
a way for people to express themselves. This is great.
We've got our girl squad. We're bullying the ice vehicles
and the state troopers. She called for the Nashville Metropolitan
Police Department to be dissolved. And the key to organizing
is maintaining steady pressure on those in power so they
can't ignore you or become complacent. For decades, I've been

(05:54):
at the heart of a long term political project to
take back Tennessee. Is that who you want in Nashville Tennessee. Now,
there's only one way. This is where it gets a
little scary, and this is a preview of what's going
to happen. We come back on the air after Christmas Holidays.
I know everyone starts getting in after Thanksgiving in a

(06:17):
Christmas holiday mode, et cetera, et cetera. You know you
want time with your family and your friends, et cetera.
But we are going to head into twenty twenty six,
and I'm going to tell you the minute I come
on the air in the new year, exactly what is
at stake in this year, meaning twenty twenty six. And
I'm giving And this is a preview of what's happening

(06:38):
in Nashville tomorrow. If you have friends, family, if you
live in Nashville, you have co workers, neighbors, get out
and vote this. I know people tend to be complacent
during these off yr elections. Don't be complacent. If you
elect this radical in Nashville, Tennessee, you'll have nobody but

(07:00):
yourself to blame. And you've been warned. The saddest thing
that happened over the vacation was the shooting of these
two National guardsmen in Washington, d C. It is so sad,

(07:20):
it is so preventable, and there's nobody that's going to
convince me that the insightful rhetoric against ICE ICE agents
doing their job did not contribute to what happened. And
by the way, if you want some statistics, I have
some for you. In all the coverage I noticed in

(07:42):
last week and the attacks on our National Guard heroes,
one dead a twenty year old woman and one twenty
four year old. And I talked to his mother last night.
I think she's going to join us on TV tonight.
I didn't hear anyone mention the miracle that they've managed
to perform in DC. Even the Democratic, pretty radical mayor

(08:03):
Muriel Bowser is grateful for Donald Trump for helping to
protect her city. And how many of you might have
heard about the remarkable accomplishments of National Guard heroes, including
US Army Special Sarah Beckstrom, who gave her life to
keep Washington, d C safe, or US Air Force staff

(08:26):
Sergeant Andrew Wolf, who's now you know, according to the governor,
he was asked if he can hear him, and he
wiggled his toes. Today he is clinging to life. I
talked to his mother, and I talked, you know, the
coolest thing is that a lot of the guardsmen are
now volunteering their time after they work all day to
guard the family and protect their their fellow guardsmen. And

(08:49):
there are dozens of DC residents that are alive today
because of the heroic actions and basic common sense policing,
because violence had gotten so out of control in our
nation's capital. And if you look at DC and the
violence there in the shootings in DC, it is plummeted
a staggering sixty two percent. Because President Trump believes in

(09:09):
law and order, in safety and security is a prerequisite
towards the pursuit of happiness. In the homicide rate in
DC is down a whopping seventy percent. And I say
that at the start of all of this, and there
is no way, you know, when we look at the
individual involved, which I'm going to get into here, and

(09:31):
when I give you numbers and statistics these you've got
to pay attention to this. All of this could have
been prevented. I have been on these airwaves and I've
been on TV regularly warning people that what Biden, Harris
and Mayorcus have done to this country has put every

(09:51):
American at risk. They have allowed into our country known terrorists,
known murderers, rapists, other violence, criminals, cartel members, gang members,
drug dealers, and it's a matter of when not if
there's going to be tragedies. This is one of them.
And then when we looked very specifically at the case

(10:14):
of the vetting in terms of allowing these Afghan nationals. Now,
if you remember the debacle that happened at Cobbo International Airport,
go back to when Donald Trump was president. He's an
interview after interview he has said he said to me,
he told the story before he would even consider American

(10:36):
troops pulling out, he called the leader of the Taliban
and he said, if you move one inch, I will
know and you will die, and said it would not
be tolerated. And then in the lead up to the pullout,
the Taliban was on the march and Joe Biden did
into a thing and then they had to speed up

(10:57):
a hasty, you know, exit out of there. We saw
the results. What was it, twelve people that died at
Kabo Airport, American troops and he abandoned Americans behind enemy lines.
And we did make promises to Afghan nationals that had
helped us that we would help them. It didn't. We
didn't say they'd come to America, but we were told

(11:18):
that they vetted them. It turns out, just like the
big lie that the borders closed, the borders secure well,
they told other big lies. And I'll play this in
the course of this hour, you know, Jen circle back. Saki,
I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming
into the US it has not been through a thorough
screening and background process. Alejandro Majorcus I have multiple cuts

(11:43):
of him, you know, saying that the vetting of Afghan
evacuees is robust, and him saying how proud they are
that the of the Afghan refugee program at a house hearing. Well.
It turns out that not only did they not properly
vet them, they allowed over seventy six thousand Afghanis unvetted

(12:04):
into the country. Six eight hundred and sixty eight were
flagged for derogatory information. Let me translate that that they
could represent their clear and present danger to you, the
American people. They let them in any way. Over five
thousand were flagged for national security concerns. They let them

(12:25):
in any way. Nearly a thousand flag for fraud, they
let them in any way. Nearly a thousand flag for
public safety problems and risks. They allowed them in any way.
You know, we still have over a thousand cases open,
and we have eight hundred and eighty five that we
know of national security risks that Biden, Harris may Orcus

(12:47):
allowed into this country. You know this has been and
this remains a ticking time bomb for our nation, and
it is it is absolutely preventable. Now we lost this
young twenty year old National Guards woman, this woman that
was willing to put her life on the line and

(13:07):
protect people that both from West Virginia, and we now
have one other guardsman twenty four, clinging to dear life
at this very time. This was a preventable tragedy. Barn
terrorists that Biden and company failed to properly vet ambushing
these two West Virginia National Guards people. They were tried,

(13:31):
They were successfully keeping the people of Washington, DC safe,
And it is unconscionable that this has been allowed to happen,
and there were going to be more attacks against our
homeland when you allowed known terrorists and known murderers and rapists,
and you don't vet people, and you let them into

(13:53):
our country, and then you light to the American people
and you tell them that the borders closed, and you
lie to the American people and say these refugees have
been vetted and they haven't been. This is the predictable outcome.
Tens of thousands evacuated in the wake of this hasty, ridiculous,
insane withdrawal of Biden, and then they assure us everything's

(14:17):
going to be okay. And then the next predictable thing
is they want to blame Donald Trump for their failure.
That's what that that's the worst news that happened. We're
going to place some of the the promises and reassurances
we got coming up. And I'm predicting right now, and
I pray to God that I'm wrong, but it's not
going to be the last, but it is. It is

(14:40):
going to continue to happen. The national security, the preventable
national security threat that has been you know, thrust upon
this nation by open borders Biden, Harris Mayorcis and the
lies they told us is an unprecedented and that's why
it makes this next or a little bit, you know

(15:02):
that much more impressive. America's homicide rate is now dropped
thanks to the new FBI. I'm not sure why everyone
wants to go after you know, Cash Mattel, Dan Bongino,
and Pam Bondi all the time, because you know, if
if this ever happened in a democratic administration, they'd be
touting us all over the world. But remember they're the

(15:24):
defundismantle you know, reimagine the police no bail law party.
But he said, the FBI is going to be releasing
murder rate statistics this month, in December, actually, which will
be the lowest it's been in modern history by double digits.
Approximately seventeen thousand people murdered in the US in twenty
twenty four, representing a drop of about fifteen percent from

(15:47):
the prior year, but an increase of nearly seven percent
from twenty fifteen. Now we are over double the amount
of arrests of violent offenders this calendar year, thanks to
you know, the police sing of them. He also says
it includes the recovery of approximately six thousand children by
the FBI this year, a twenty five percent increase from

(16:09):
twenty twenty four. They recorded forty percent more espionage ures,
including from China, Russia, Iran. I mean, they're actually working,
trying to get their job done in spite of you know,
never ending criticism. But let me get back to this
issue of what happened here. This has been a ticking
time bomb for a long time, just like the you know,

(16:34):
whatever the number is twelve million unvetted Harris Biden mayor
is illegals that they've led into the country. The big
lie that the borders closed and the border is secure.
We played that over and over again. This too is
a ticking time bomb because you add, you know, nearly
one hundred thousand, you know, Afghan refugees. I mean, it

(16:55):
was a disaster. If you go back in time, you
know it was. Josh twenty two revealed that a whistleblower
said three hundred and twenty four individuals had entered with
derogatory information, while a twenty twenty two report from the
Department of Homeland Security and Office of Inspector General found
the department failed to properly vet these Afghan evacuees entering

(17:20):
the US, presenting a massive security threat. Individuals being that
were not being recommended to come here were being overridden
by the Biden State Department, and the Office of Inspector
General noted that during the evacuation, the Pentagon moved Afghan
evacuees to a network of temporary staging in other countries.

(17:41):
They stayed there for a couple of days or weeks,
and there was rapid screening, and there was no real
vetting that took place. So was it any surprise that
you know, in spite of having people flagged for derogatory information,
flagged as national security threats, flagged for fraudulent applications, flagged
as a public safety threat, and we still have all

(18:05):
these people in the country. We don't know who they are,
where they are. Well, what do you think is going
to happen? It's not good. The Afghan terrorists who gunned
down our National Guard members entered the US under a
program that Team Biden pledge would be swift and secure.
Department of Homeland Security under Joe Biden promised swiftly and

(18:27):
safely to resettle Afghan allies into the US. Meanwhile, remember
that the hasty withdrawal that resulted in thirteen dead Americans.
I said twelve before. It's thirteen thirteen dead Americans. And
it was a direct result of their failure. They allowed
over five thousand to pour into the country even though

(18:48):
they were identified as specific national security threats. Why would
you ever let those people in this country? Another Biden
backed Afghan terror threat we found out after this incident
had in last week. Investigators said an Afghan national who
made a social media post about building a bomb and
threatening to blow up a building in Fort Worth, Texas. Anyway,

(19:11):
put in an expo posted a video of himself on
TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended
target in the Fort Worth area. Thankfully they were able
to find that and arrest that guy. But this entire
network has just gotten completely out of control. This was
a botched you hasty withdrawal from the get go, one

(19:33):
of the most embarrassing moments in history. Joe Biden allowed
the Taliban to march all the way through Afghanistan up
into Combole and thirteen American heroes were murdered at that
airport at that time, and Americans were abandoned. And yeah,
we did make promises to Afghans that helped us during
the twenty year run we were there, which is why

(19:55):
we should never have forever wars because they don't work.
The Trump doctrine works perfectly well, as evidence by Solomani
Beg Daddy. The Isis Caliphate the mother of all bombs
in Afghanistan, and last I checked, the ranstill had that
nuclear program wiped out. I'd be a far better national
security strategy for our country now. The Trump administration is

(20:20):
re examining, rightly so, all the Afghans that Biden allowed
into the country. The President has already permanently paused migration
of foreign nationals from third world countries that pose a
potential risk to our country and the people and the
citizenry of our country. You know, I mean, it is
so self destructive. This is a predictable outcome. New York

(20:44):
Times reported on this idiot Governor Tim Walls and how
Somalian migrants defrauded nearly a billion dollars taxpayer funded dollars
and benefits under walls leadership, and the President's trying to
clean up this mess that they left. I won't replay
the many times we've replayed all the times they told

(21:05):
us the border is secure and the borders closed, But
I will play for you circle back. Jensaki of MSDNC
fame on the Afghan refugees, and she absolutely assuring every
American that no one is coming into the US who
has not been through a thorough screening and background process.

(21:26):
All of this is a complete lie. Listen.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
There are, of course concerns among lawmakers experts with practice
to saying previous arrivals of large numbers of refugees from
different parts of the world, and that only there may
be a handful, small handful who are eventually deemed a
security risks of some kind. What reassurances can you make
about the screening process and the attempts to make sure

(21:52):
that somebody like that doesn't make his or her way here.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming
into the United States of America who has and through
a thorough screening and background check process. And there are
many individuals, as you noted, who have not been through
that process, and they have gone to lily Pad countries
as that process has been completed.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
The lily Pad countries turned out to be a fraudulent
program also because they were let into the country again,
just like all the illegals twelve whatever the number is
between gotaways and the people we know that came in.
Remember it was Biden that was sending bulldozers to open
up fences that were built to allow illegals into the country.

(22:34):
And Alejandro Mayorcus out there. You know, the vetting of
Afghan evacuees is robust. Not so robust, it turns out.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
Listen, Operation Allies Welcome is the ongoing effort to bring
Americans home and to bring vulnerable Afghans to the United
States and support their resettlement. First, the federal government has
been focused on the screening and vetting of individuals evacuated
from Afghanis. The Department of Homeland Security remains ever vigilant

(23:04):
against attempts by foreign adversaries to exploit vulnerable populations as
a means of gaining access to the US for nefarious purposes.
We have a robust screening and vetting process. If and
when we obtain derogatory information, we know how to address that.

(23:25):
Those muscles are very well exercised. In fact, we have
and we deny access to individuals whose derogatory information is
not resolved and we do not feel confident in the
safety and security of the American people.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Uh huh. Here's more. Mayorkas saying, you know how proud
they are of the Afghan refugee program.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
You're referring to what we termed Operation Allies Welcome, a
program that we are very proud of that we instituted
to provide refuge for individuals, many of whom Will you
be reviewing those they came in on parole?

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Will you be be reviewing them on a case by
case basis.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
We reviewed them on a case by case basis, and
when those parole periods are subject to renewal, we will
do so. It certainly is Operation Allies Welcome, which we
led in a coordinated effort across the government, is a
great source of pride for us to bring to safety
in the United States. Individuals who stood alongside are armed

(24:29):
forces in Afghanistan. We support the Adjustment Act and we
are indeed looking at the period of parole it's upcoming
expiration and whether indeed that should be extended.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Are you still proud of it today, mister Mayorcus, Are
you proud? We tragically lost US Army specialist Sarah Beckstrom.
She was only twenty years old. She died of her wounds.
Andrew Wolf, twenty four years old, both from the West
Virginia National Guard, is clinging to life, severely wounded. Our

(25:07):
prayers are with him and his family. I spoke to
his mom last night. I mean, they're just it is,
they're devastated. How would you feel? But the big lies,
the lies continue. And what is the left's response to this?
Oregons governor, leftist governor, you know, Tina Kotek threatening to
investigate and prosecute federal agents who enforce US immigration laws.

(25:31):
And what about the rhetorica the left. You know, if
you remember, let's go back in time, at least Sluckin
claiming the National Guard was about to start shooting American civilians,
you might recall this.

Speaker 7 (25:45):
Did these videos coming out of places like Chicago. It
makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see people
in law enforcement, people in uniform military, get nervous, get stressed,
shoot at American civilians. It is very, very, very stressful
situation for these law enforcement and for the communities on
the ground.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, you have a Dante Mills democratic strategist saying, you know,
five hundred more National Guard troops in DC that might
create more targets for these radicals.

Speaker 8 (26:17):
Listen, well, I think the President is going to you
and his administration is going to use this incident to
further their calls of having these guardsmen on the street.
The issue that we have is if you add five
hundred people to this equation of five hundred soldiers, it
doesn't It wouldn't have stopped what happened today. He walked
up on soldiers and opened fire. It would have just
been more targets there. These people are there. Their assignment

(26:39):
is high visibility patrol, so people know where they are.
They're uniformed, so people know what they look like, and
if they want to approach them or harm them, they're
in harm's way. So why add to that and put
more people in harm's way when it wouldn't have changed
the outcome in this particular matter.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Claudia Tenny, congresswoman, New York National Guard shooting result of
democratic rhetoric? How could it not be at least Slotkin
demonizing National Guard troops three days before they're shot, you
know in Washington, d C. You know, look at the
videos coming out of places like Chicago. Makes me nervous

(27:18):
or about to see people in law enforcement uniform, military,
get nervous, get stressed and shoot at Americans. Oh well,
they're the ones getting shot. And what I won't even
play for you. We have it, but it is so
bad what you hear on social media, and it is
so sick, and it is so twisted, and it is

(27:39):
so disgusting and it is so ugly what the radical
left is doing to they're celebrating this as they always do.
I have said for the longest time. It's not a
matter of if it is. When this is one of
the wins, there'll be many more wins. And I always

(28:00):
I pray to God I'm wrong. But when you let
in unvetted refugees from Afghanistan the way they did, and
you let in millions of unvetted illegals the way they
did from over two hundred countries, including countries with known
terroortize and stuff like, what has been happening happens, you

(28:21):
should not be shocked or surprised. It's as simple as
a squared B squared C squared one plus two equals
one plus one equals two and that's it. This is
predictable and preventable, unbelievable. But they're trying to say, oh, oh,
Pete heeg Seth ordered a you know the warrior, we

(28:43):
need war client crimes. He said, kill everybody. Does anybody
remember the Washington Post? You know they did the story.
Anyone remember back in August of twenty twenty one, ten
members of one family, including seven children, dead after a
Biden drone strike targeting a vehicle and of residential neighborhood
in Cobble. Yeah, they were dead. I don't remember the

(29:04):
media getting all worked up over war crimes and he
calls for it. There's such hypocrites.

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