January 6, 2026 • 28 mins
Hour 2 continues the News Roundup as Sean tracks Iran’s unrest, the post-Maduro domino effect for Cuba, and the political reaction in the U.S. Sean is joined by Rep. Lance Gooden (Texas) to break down the policy and security implications, including energy, stability in the region, and the hypocrisy of Democrats criticizing actions they previously demanded. The hour also pivots into domestic headlines, including the widening fraud story out of Minnesota and national political stakes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and nine point one, Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program, Well,
following multiple stories today, One is we're seeing the first
defections of Iranian police and we have video of it.
Is around now on the precipice of falling itself. Iranian
security forces did open fire on an anti regime protest
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that was going on inflation. They're wopping forty two percent.
Reports now that the Ayatola Kamani has plans to flee
to Moscow in Vladimir Putin's arms. He has a plan
B in place. Some protesters clashing with security forces in
Tehran's Grand Bazaar and the government cannot handle what's going
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on at this point seem things seem to rapidly be
deteriorating out of control. The Iranian government offered a whopping
seven dollars monthly stipend to people, I guess to somehow
placate them.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I don't think that's going to be the case. Then.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Of course, with the fall of Maduro and Maduro being
captured by US forces, what does that mean for Cuba's future.
I mean, there's a lot going on in a lot
of different ways. And you know the liberal left, they
are championing, you know, Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
As evidence in Seattle this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Pans up fed as well, pans up fed as well.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Good president made okay, and what's amazing about this? I'm
going to play Schumer back to back, Schumer condemning the
president's actions, but in twenty twenty, a very different Schumer
saying Trump is not getting rid of Maduro.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Figure this out.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
This is first, it is reckless, it is dangerous. Whenever
our country has gotten involved in this kind of regime
change in nation building, American families pay the price in
blood and treasure. And the president brags about his Venezuela policy,
give us a break. He hasn't brought an end too
the Maduro regime. The Maduro regime is more powerful today
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and more entrenched today than it was when the president began.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
He didn't bring an into the Maduro regime. But that's then.
Now Trump gets rid of Maduro, and now he's upset.
We have the same thing. Mark Warner last year saying, well,
the Biden administration did not put enough pressure on getting
Nicholas Maduro out, and then he's complaining President Trump got
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Maduro out. Anyway here to weigh in on this insanity,
and it is insanity. And again, we're now in the
middle of a midterm, you know, the most pivotal important
midterm election, I think in our lifetime, because all progress
will stop and you know, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment would
follow if Democrats get control of the House and Senate
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Congressman Lands Goodin of Texas sits on the House Armed
Services Committee supports the president's agenda.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Congressman, great to have you back. How are you happy
New Year?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Hey, Sam to you, Happy New Year. It's great to
be here.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Let's get your take on all of this.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Well, the hypocrisy that you just mentioned is really mind blowing.
I mean, I know Democrats are good at being hypocritical
for the Biden administration to put a bounty out on
Maduro and criticized Donald Trump many years ago for not
doing anything with Maduro, and now that he's actually executed
and delivered their outrage it makes no sense to me.
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And I think this is one of these moments where
Democrats would be wise to just keep their mouths shut.
Maybe they say they don't love the way it was
handled at the most. But I think John Setterman is
the only Democrat I've seen that's actually spoken the truth
and admitted that this is actually great for the world
and it is in fact America first.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, I mean that's the point of it, isn't it.
I mean, at the end of the day, it's very
consistent without any forever wars. Now there are going to
be at challenges. We're not going in, you know, starry
eyed here thinking that this transition is going to be easy.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
At the top of the next hour, I had her
on TV last night, Maria Corrino Machado, who is the
leader of the opposition in Venezuela, will join us. There
are challenges ahead, but in the interim, what's the best course?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well, I think the best course is to lean on
the guy who's so far delivered and not failed us,
and that's Donald Trump. I don't know that it will
be challenging. I mean everyone's saying it's going to be challenging,
but maybe this new vice president turned president down in
Caracas is going to play ball. She's certainly changed her
tune in the last two days. She started off for
pretty anti Trump, and then some words were spoken, and
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she seemed to have an olive branch extended to the US.
So let's just see what happens. If if you'd have
said a month a week ago, if you'd just said
a week ago that hey, we're going to fly into
Caracas and take President Maduro out and he's going to
be in a New York courtroom, people would have said,
that's nuts. There's no way that's going to happen. So
maybe this won't be difficult. If this new president that's
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been installed via Maduro's departure plays ball, then this may
be easier than we thought.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, we can always hope.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I think the key to this and I know that
the Energy Secretary is meeting with American oil companies and
they're talking about a year, year and a half timeframe.
I mean, they have the largest oil reserves in the world,
but yet it's it's considered what we call dirty oil.
It needs a lot of refining, but we have the
ability to do it. But that could be a huge
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benefit for the people of Venezuela ultimately when we get
that back up and online. Meanwhile, American companies paid all
the money to build out those facilities.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's right. And the American companies lost their investments many
years ago, and no one is going to get rich
off of this. When folks say, hey, this is all
about the oil, there's an aspect of the oil being
a part of this, but the United States is not
going to make a bunch of money off this. What's
important is that the supply that this will provide to
the market will keep prices down in the long term
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and take away the advantage that places like Iran, in
Russia and the Middle East have had over the years.
And so this new supply hopefully will keep prices low,
which is good for us. With respect to our adversaries
who have capitalized on this dirty cheap oil, China is
no longer hopefully going to be getting cheap oil from Venezuela.
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They're going to have to pay for it, and they're
not going to be in charge. It's going to be
a big blow to Cuba, which is ultimately going to
help the state of affairs in the Caribbean. And I
think that overall we're going to see quite a bit
of good come from this.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You'd think as a consequence of what happened in Venezuela
and the fact that Cuba was getting most of their
oil from Venezuela, and that oil now is going to
be cut off. Do you think as a natural consequence
of this, Cuba falls.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I think it is a natural consequence because they're having
electricity and clean water issues as we speak. In the
weeks prior to Maduro's removal, they were in dire straits,
and I think they're very bad off in Cuba. I'm
not even sure anything needs to be done. It may
fall on its own.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And what about Iran, I mean, you see what's happening.
The image is coming out of there. Police are putting
down their weapons and standing in solidarity now with the
people of Iran that are protesting. Those crowds get bigger
and bigger by the day. We are reading that the
Ayatola company has now got a plan B to go
to Moscow.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Wouldn't surprise me a bit. And he's running out of friends.
Who's going to come and save the Iranians. No one
saved Maduro, and I don't see anyone coming to their rescue.
Sure there may be a plane to Moscow for their
supreme leader and the top dogs that at the end
of the day don't forget You've also got Israel interested
in what happens there, and I think the cards are
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being read. I think the people of Iran know that
if there is a time to overthrow their government and
have regime change, it has to be from within, and
it has to be now. I think this could be
a once in a lifetime opportunity for their Iranians, and
I don't think they'll let it go to waste.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Let me go and switch gears on you a little
bit here and go to Minnesota and this massive fraud
that we know Governor Tim Walls was warned about. Many
whistleblowers had warned him, and we're talking about billions of dollars.
And now this fraud has been more institutionalized. We're realizing
other states are involved, like Ohio and New York and California.
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God only knows how many billions will be, you know,
ultimately discovered that have been wasted, and how much fraud
has taken place. Here's let me play a few Walls
announcing he's not going to seek re election and then
going on a rant about Donald Trump and his allies
and how they want to poison our people against each other.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's what he says, I.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Don't want to mince words here. Donald Trump and his
ally in Washington and in Saint Paul and online want
to make our state a colder, meaner place. They want
to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbors,
and ultimately, they want to take away much of what
makes Minnesota the best place in the country to raise
a family. They've already begun trying to withhold funds that
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were meant to help families afford childcare, and they have
no intention of stopping there. In September, I announced that
I would seek a historic third term as Minnesota's governor,
and I have every confidence that if I gave it
my all, we would win the race. But as I
reflect on this moment with my family and my team
over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I
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can't give a political campaign my all. Every minute that
I spend defending my own political interest would be a
minute I can't spend defending the people of Minnesota against
the criminals who pray on our generosity and the cynics
who want to pray on our differences.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So I've decided to step out of.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
This race, and I'll let other worry about the election
while I focus on the work that's in front of
me for the next year.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What's your reaction to Tim Walls.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I think he's juvenile in a clown and I want
to thank him for being the nominee was Kamala Harris,
because he certainly didn't do her a favor. And I
think I think, you know, from Mogadishu to Minnesota, the
criminality and the crime and the fraud is just perhaps
a little bit different in Minnesota. Maybe the violence isn't there,
but the fact that they're defrauding us taxpayers and people
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like Tim Watts, maybe he didn't know about it. He
certainly turned a blind eye to everyone else that said
we've got a problem. They're too worried about offending a
group of refugees that have, in my mind, run the
whole state of Minnesota into the ground. Tim Waltz was
a National Party nominee on the Democratic ticket. He should
be cruising to re elect in his home liberal state
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of Minnesota. And the fact that he can't even keep
his governorship after a presidential vice presidential run, I think
is a testament to how bad they really are.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, it seems that that's going to open up a possibility.
I mean, is there really a possibility that Walls lieutenant
governor progressive Senate hopeful, you know, left wing radical could
now lose that race for the US Senate.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Do you see that as a possibility.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I think sure, sure could. I think that could happen.
I think he could be toast. I think that he's
going to House Oversight Committee in the coming weeks and
the American people are going to see just how terrible
he has been at oversight of his state's finances and
the stewardship of the taxpayer dollar. And I think the
American people aren't going to reward him with a trip
to Washington as a United States Senator.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Now let me ask you this, Nick Shirley, is this
citizen journalist who went to all of these daycare centers
in Minnesota that we're getting, you know, all these you know,
millions and millions of dollars, and discover that there were
no kids there and there was no daycare being taken place.
Doctor Oz has said on this program that the quote
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registered autism rate and the Somali community of Minnesota was
as high as eighty percent, which is mathematically impossible.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And now this guy.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Apparently he has become a target of potential political violence
on the left because he exposed this fraud for what
it is. I give him a lot of credit for
doing it. He went on Riley Gaines's podcast and talked
about this, and I think he did the country a
great service.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I totally agree. I think he deserves the medal, and
I hope he keeps it up. I suspect there's more
fraud than just what he discovered in Minnesota, and I
really do applaud him and the fact that this wasn't
on our radar in Washington until a few weeks ago.
I mean, we knew we had a refugee and immigration
problem years ago, but I don't think anyone knew how
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bad things were in Minnesota, of all places, until the
last week. And my constituents are furious about it, and
Americans across our nation want something done. They want justice,
and they want people to be held to account, people
to be either shipped out of the country for good
or put in prison or both.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
How do you view the midterms this year? I mean,
obviously waiting on a very very critical Supreme Court decision,
but where do you see the midterms? So far as
we start out.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
The year, well, President Trump spoke to our Republican caucus
just this morning about it, and he said, only twice
in the last ninety years has the party in power
won the House in the midterms, and he plans to
be a third times. A charm trend breaker. With respect
to that, I think we have a great chance. I
think that policy is on our side. The policy of
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keeping the border secure, the policy of being opposed to transgenderism,
and all the political correctness that helped get Donald Trump elected.
These are things that Americans hate it and when it
comes to policy, we have the advantage of Democrats may
be able to kick and scream and make a lot
of noise that at the end of the day, policies
on our side. It's not an eighty twenty issue. With
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respect to this transigen your crazy culture that the left
is pushing, It's a ninety nine to one issue. Ninety
nine percent of Americans don't want men playing in women's sports.
They don't want them changing in their daughter's dressing room
at school. That is not a liberal or a conservative idea.
That's every American on the streets believes that. And I
think that policy will win the day come November, and
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the Americans will reward Donald Trump with a re elected
Republican majority.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh, we could only hope.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Congressman Lance Good in the Texas of the House Arm
Services Committee. We appreciate your time, sir, and you it's
going to take everybody to get involved and to vote.
All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones. Don
in Iowa, Don High, how are you glad you called?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Hi Sean, thank you for taking my call. I'm not
actually in Iowa right now. I'm a truck driver running
through the Rockies. I'm also a Marine Corps veteran with
signal intelligence, and I wanted to call to congratulate not
just President Trump for this great deed that they pulled
off this weekend, but Pete Heiksith and Marco Rubio and
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everybody else that was involved. Because they exposed Chinese defense systems,
Russian defense systems. They made it. Look they've got Beijing
shaking right now.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I promise you, well, I don't think there's any doubt
about that at all whatsoever. You know, there's a lot
of spectacular things that we really haven't spoken about here.
Maduro's Chinese and Russian built air defense systems.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
They crumbled.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
They were completely you know, immobile, they were completely rendered
useless by the US military crumbling of under American superior
war fighting technology.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
That that's kind of an untold story.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Maybe we shouldn't put a lot of emphasis on it
because you don't want them to improve it.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
China is now linked.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
There's a story just thenews dot com John Solomon, China
is now linked to US protests against trump decision to
remove Maduro. You know, some of my best national security
contacts and intel contacts have been very very clear with me,
and this is why I warn people about what you
read on social media, the voices that you listen to.
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You know, people have to be very selective because what
they are telling me is a lot of racism, anti semitism,
you know, propaganda, pro Chinese propaganda, pro Russian propaganda. A
lot of this is all coming and originating from enemy
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countries of the United States. In other words, some of
our top geopolitical foes are trying to influence, especially young
people on social media with bot accounts that are designed
to doctrinate them. And then you get a few dumb
people that have platforms that you believe this garbage and
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echo this nonsense. And that's why I'm urging people to
be very selective in who you choose to listen to.
If they look if somebody is a racist, white nationalist,
maybe not somebody you want to associate with. If somebody
is a virulent anti semi yeah, maybe you don't want
to listen to what they have to say. If somebody
claims that they love Adolf Hitler, not exactly my cup
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of tea, and I doubt anybody in this audience's cup
of tea. Now they get propped up by a corrupt
media establishment, legacy media establishment in this country, and then
they try to portray them as as loyal voices in
the mag of movement. And if you look into their
history you find at best their fairweathered friends of Donald Trump.
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Johnny Come Lately is to conservatism and the MAGA movement,
and just just people that are looking for clicks and
algorithms and money.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's what I see.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Well, I couldn't have said that any better, because Americans
need to wake up and learn who is asking them
to protest against their own country. Because what President Trump
does is in the best interests of this country. Every
single thing he does. You point that out beautifully every day.
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I want to thank you. I also want to thank
all the military that served in this operation, the sailors,
the airmen, the Marines, the soldiers, Delta Force. They were
all exceptional and they showed what professionalism can look like
if done properly and legally, you know, with good purpose.
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It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
All of these military operations are you know, full of danger,
and but President Trump knew the danger Mid nine Hammer,
this operation in Venezuela. You know, they're all dangerous. But
our military is the best on God's green earth. We
have a lot of work to do to turn the
economy around eighty six percent of the people living in poverty,
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but I think we'll get there anyway. Don God bless
you be safe on the road. Simplify my friend. Appreciate
your call and what you do for a living.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
All.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Right, back to our busy phones. Let us say hi
to Charlie. He's in Alabama. Charlie, how are you glad
you called?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Hi? Jean, I'm glad I called too about this fraud
up in Minnesota. I know they're looking at the politicians,
but they need to go even deeper to look at
who gave him the idea, what permitting office overlooked, the
gross negligence of the buildings, what local inspectors kept signing
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off on the thing every year, and you know then
the local politicians that get involved, and then you know,
all the way up the ladder. So it's not just
you know, Tim Walls, but everyone under him.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The thing that stands out that's most glaring to me
in this is that Tim Walls there were a number
of whistleblowers that were telling him that there's money, that
there was institutionalized fraud. And it's very clear to me,
and I believe over time will be proven in great
specificity in detail, how he was warned, he did nothing,
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And I think that the only conclusion I can come
to at this point will get more information, maybe it'll change.
I doubt it is that he did not want to
alienate a large voting block as he was preparing to
run for reelection, which he's not planning to do anymore.
By the way, this is now growing way beyond Minnesota.
President Trump announced this morning that the Justice Department now
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launched an investigation into you know, uh, the possible welfare
fraud and this type of fraud being widespread in California.
There's similarly an investigation into Ohio, an investigation into New York.
I think this is gonna spread wide and the amount
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of hundreds of billions of dollars will be staggery. And
it's frightening. Anyway, I appreciate you being with us. Thank you,
my friend Jonathan Arkansas. Next Sean Hannity Show, How are you?
Speaker 9 (21:28):
I am wonderful and it is an honor to speak
to you. I've called so many times. It's my first
time ever getting through and it means so much to me,
as like the honor of a lifetime. I was in
your great state of Florida for the holidays, and uh,
you know, I was wanting to get my my mother
h Berna. My stepdad said, no, I fear. I think
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he feared that she might use it on him, So
I got her the double bubble blanket instead. I'm gonna
get my wife.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
The double bubble you can. Why would your dad be
against her having a burner? It's it's non lethal, it
is it can keep it could savor life one day.
I mean, it's great technology. It's safe. I mean I
I carry one every day along with I have I
have a six hour PETE through sixty five I carry.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Well, that's what I try to tell him. I said,
worst terms, the worst, you're out of commission for about
forty five minutes. But you just have to know my family.
So but uh, you know, I don't know when it
comes to all this fraud stuff though, you know, especially Minnesota,
because that's that's where the light is right now, I
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don't I don't know if Tim Wallas is a criminal
that that remains to be seen. I think maybe he's
just Elmer Fudd and and not not too bright up there.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
No, I'm not giving him that benefit of the doubt,
no way. I think honestly, he was straight out warned,
according to whistle blowers, that this was going on, and
he made a decision not to do anything about it.
That's what I believe happened, and I believe over time
will be proven.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
We'll see if I'm right, and and you know, if
there if there's foul play there, then you know, he
needs to spend time in prison, you know. And that's
another issue is none of these people are being held accountable.
These people need to be held accountable, and the government
needs to stop doling out money like it's like it's nothing.
It's our taxpayer dollars. It needs to be it needs
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to be handled like a single mom on a strict budget,
and there needs to be accountability, and there needs to
be auditors involved. You know, I do think it's widespread
because you know, cash for clunkers, the moonshot for cancer,
you know COVID, you know, I mean, there's so much
money that's wasted.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Every day.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
I work in and out of hospitals all the time.
I see fraud, waste and abuse all the time. And
until they start cracking down on this and holding states
responsible and taking that money away when it's when it's
used irresponsibly, it's going to continue.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We have to get a control of waste, fraud, abuse,
corruption and stop abusing the people taxpayers, hardworking taxpayers in
this country. Well said Jonathan, appreciate it, gold star break call.
All right, quick break right back to our phone calls.
Eight hundred and ninety four one Shawn is our number.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Up, next our final roundup and information overload hour.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
All right, let's get back to our busy phones. Eight
hundred and ninety four one Seawan David in Utah. David,
You're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Hey, what a great honor it is to be on
your show, Sean. And I think, just at the risk
of being patronizing, isn't nice to be saying happy late birthday?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Okay, I don't celebrate birthdays anymore, so thank you, though
I appreciate the thought, but I just don't celebrate it.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Well, listen, I really appreciate being on your show. I
just want to say real quickly that President Trump and
our incredible world class the best in the world on
this planet military did an excellent job and they had
every constitutional legal right to carry out the order by
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our chief executive officer of the President of the United States.
I mean, anyone that doesn't understand that they haven't read
the Constitution, well.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I'm going to tell you something. It is.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You know, look for those people I actually read comments.
I don't know who made these comments. It was so idiotic.
Well this was done so that they can have gay
rights in Venezuela. I'm like, Okay, this is no intelligent
person would believe that, but the idea that and and
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I'm he is everything that we know him to be.
Two hundred Americans die day from drug overdoses. This is
a narco terrorist, you know, regime profiting off the death
of Americans. Not a difficult call. They robbed American companies
of billions and millions of dollars. And it's in our
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hemisphere and in our best natural national interest. And they
were being influenced by the Chinese and the Russians and
the Iranians. Case closed. Anyway, Let's get back to our
busy phones. Virginia, Lori next, Hi, Virginia, have Laurie from Virginia.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
How are you.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
I'm good, Thank you, going on.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Happy New Year.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Happy New Year to you. So I'm excited to be
on your show. And I have been really worked up
about listening to the to the senators complaining that they
weren't part, they weren't in the loop to discuss the
plans for going in and getting the Duro, and I
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just I want to give them the reason in a
very simple way that they will understand. And it's I
think most people know the book. If you give them
out a cookie, and Trump didn't want to be the
one that authored the sequel to it. If you give
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a rat a shred of intel, are.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
You kidd, it is we lose operational control and we
put our troops at risk. There's a reason you have
a chain of command. There's a reason we have a
commander in chief. These are Article two powers. They're not
in dispute. The president was well within his constitutional authority
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to do it. He doesn't need the approval of Chuck
Schumer to take military action like this, And if he
ever had to tell them, it would probably put soldiers'
lives in jeopardy, and you just can't have that. You
have one commander in chief. Kamala Harris lost, Donald Trump won.
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And you know when, for example, Obama even killed in Americans,
guess what. And you hear a lot of criticism from
Democrats when he didn't inform Congress, and every other president
is acted in the same way. So there's just rank
hypocrisy all across the board.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Got a role. Appreciate your good call, Laurie, God bless you.
Happy new year.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Maria Carino Machado, leader of Venezuela's Democratic opposition.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Next
Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and nine point one, Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program, Well,
following multiple stories today, One is we're seeing the first
defections of Iranian police and we have video of it.
Is around now on the precipice of falling itself. Iranian
security forces did open fire on an anti regime protest
(00:22):
that was going on inflation. They're wopping forty two percent.
Reports now that the Ayatola Kamani has plans to flee
to Moscow in Vladimir Putin's arms. He has a plan
B in place. Some protesters clashing with security forces in
Tehran's Grand Bazaar and the government cannot handle what's going
(00:45):
on at this point seem things seem to rapidly be
deteriorating out of control. The Iranian government offered a whopping
seven dollars monthly stipend to people, I guess to somehow
placate them.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I don't think that's going to be the case. Then.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Of course, with the fall of Maduro and Maduro being
captured by US forces, what does that mean for Cuba's future.
I mean, there's a lot going on in a lot
of different ways. And you know the liberal left, they
are championing, you know, Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
As evidence in Seattle this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Pans up fed as well, pans up fed as well.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Good president made okay, and what's amazing about this? I'm
going to play Schumer back to back, Schumer condemning the
president's actions, but in twenty twenty, a very different Schumer
saying Trump is not getting rid of Maduro.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Figure this out.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
This is first, it is reckless, it is dangerous. Whenever
our country has gotten involved in this kind of regime
change in nation building, American families pay the price in
blood and treasure. And the president brags about his Venezuela policy,
give us a break. He hasn't brought an end too
the Maduro regime. The Maduro regime is more powerful today
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and more entrenched today than it was when the president began.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
He didn't bring an into the Maduro regime. But that's then.
Now Trump gets rid of Maduro, and now he's upset.
We have the same thing. Mark Warner last year saying, well,
the Biden administration did not put enough pressure on getting
Nicholas Maduro out, and then he's complaining President Trump got
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Maduro out. Anyway here to weigh in on this insanity,
and it is insanity. And again, we're now in the
middle of a midterm, you know, the most pivotal important
midterm election, I think in our lifetime, because all progress
will stop and you know, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment would
follow if Democrats get control of the House and Senate
(03:00):
Congressman Lands Goodin of Texas sits on the House Armed
Services Committee supports the president's agenda.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Congressman, great to have you back. How are you happy
New Year?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Hey, Sam to you, Happy New Year. It's great to
be here.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Let's get your take on all of this.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Well, the hypocrisy that you just mentioned is really mind blowing.
I mean, I know Democrats are good at being hypocritical
for the Biden administration to put a bounty out on
Maduro and criticized Donald Trump many years ago for not
doing anything with Maduro, and now that he's actually executed
and delivered their outrage it makes no sense to me.
(03:37):
And I think this is one of these moments where
Democrats would be wise to just keep their mouths shut.
Maybe they say they don't love the way it was
handled at the most. But I think John Setterman is
the only Democrat I've seen that's actually spoken the truth
and admitted that this is actually great for the world
and it is in fact America first.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, I mean that's the point of it, isn't it.
I mean, at the end of the day, it's very
consistent without any forever wars. Now there are going to
be at challenges. We're not going in, you know, starry
eyed here thinking that this transition is going to be easy.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
At the top of the next hour, I had her
on TV last night, Maria Corrino Machado, who is the
leader of the opposition in Venezuela, will join us. There
are challenges ahead, but in the interim, what's the best course?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well, I think the best course is to lean on
the guy who's so far delivered and not failed us,
and that's Donald Trump. I don't know that it will
be challenging. I mean everyone's saying it's going to be challenging,
but maybe this new vice president turned president down in
Caracas is going to play ball. She's certainly changed her
tune in the last two days. She started off for
pretty anti Trump, and then some words were spoken, and
(04:49):
she seemed to have an olive branch extended to the US.
So let's just see what happens. If if you'd have
said a month a week ago, if you'd just said
a week ago that hey, we're going to fly into
Caracas and take President Maduro out and he's going to
be in a New York courtroom, people would have said,
that's nuts. There's no way that's going to happen. So
maybe this won't be difficult. If this new president that's
(05:09):
been installed via Maduro's departure plays ball, then this may
be easier than we thought.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, we can always hope.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I think the key to this and I know that
the Energy Secretary is meeting with American oil companies and
they're talking about a year, year and a half timeframe.
I mean, they have the largest oil reserves in the world,
but yet it's it's considered what we call dirty oil.
It needs a lot of refining, but we have the
ability to do it. But that could be a huge
(05:41):
benefit for the people of Venezuela ultimately when we get
that back up and online. Meanwhile, American companies paid all
the money to build out those facilities.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's right. And the American companies lost their investments many
years ago, and no one is going to get rich
off of this. When folks say, hey, this is all
about the oil, there's an aspect of the oil being
a part of this, but the United States is not
going to make a bunch of money off this. What's
important is that the supply that this will provide to
the market will keep prices down in the long term
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and take away the advantage that places like Iran, in
Russia and the Middle East have had over the years.
And so this new supply hopefully will keep prices low,
which is good for us. With respect to our adversaries
who have capitalized on this dirty cheap oil, China is
no longer hopefully going to be getting cheap oil from Venezuela.
(06:33):
They're going to have to pay for it, and they're
not going to be in charge. It's going to be
a big blow to Cuba, which is ultimately going to
help the state of affairs in the Caribbean. And I
think that overall we're going to see quite a bit
of good come from this.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You'd think as a consequence of what happened in Venezuela
and the fact that Cuba was getting most of their
oil from Venezuela, and that oil now is going to
be cut off. Do you think as a natural consequence
of this, Cuba falls.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I think it is a natural consequence because they're having
electricity and clean water issues as we speak. In the
weeks prior to Maduro's removal, they were in dire straits,
and I think they're very bad off in Cuba. I'm
not even sure anything needs to be done. It may
fall on its own.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And what about Iran, I mean, you see what's happening.
The image is coming out of there. Police are putting
down their weapons and standing in solidarity now with the
people of Iran that are protesting. Those crowds get bigger
and bigger by the day. We are reading that the
Ayatola company has now got a plan B to go
to Moscow.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Wouldn't surprise me a bit. And he's running out of friends.
Who's going to come and save the Iranians. No one
saved Maduro, and I don't see anyone coming to their rescue.
Sure there may be a plane to Moscow for their
supreme leader and the top dogs that at the end
of the day don't forget You've also got Israel interested
in what happens there, and I think the cards are
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being read. I think the people of Iran know that
if there is a time to overthrow their government and
have regime change, it has to be from within, and
it has to be now. I think this could be
a once in a lifetime opportunity for their Iranians, and
I don't think they'll let it go to waste.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Let me go and switch gears on you a little
bit here and go to Minnesota and this massive fraud
that we know Governor Tim Walls was warned about. Many
whistleblowers had warned him, and we're talking about billions of dollars.
And now this fraud has been more institutionalized. We're realizing
other states are involved, like Ohio and New York and California.
(08:35):
God only knows how many billions will be, you know,
ultimately discovered that have been wasted, and how much fraud
has taken place. Here's let me play a few Walls
announcing he's not going to seek re election and then
going on a rant about Donald Trump and his allies
and how they want to poison our people against each other.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's what he says, I.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Don't want to mince words here. Donald Trump and his
ally in Washington and in Saint Paul and online want
to make our state a colder, meaner place. They want
to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbors,
and ultimately, they want to take away much of what
makes Minnesota the best place in the country to raise
a family. They've already begun trying to withhold funds that
(09:20):
were meant to help families afford childcare, and they have
no intention of stopping there. In September, I announced that
I would seek a historic third term as Minnesota's governor,
and I have every confidence that if I gave it
my all, we would win the race. But as I
reflect on this moment with my family and my team
over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I
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can't give a political campaign my all. Every minute that
I spend defending my own political interest would be a
minute I can't spend defending the people of Minnesota against
the criminals who pray on our generosity and the cynics
who want to pray on our differences.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So I've decided to step out of.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
This race, and I'll let other worry about the election
while I focus on the work that's in front of
me for the next year.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What's your reaction to Tim Walls.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I think he's juvenile in a clown and I want
to thank him for being the nominee was Kamala Harris,
because he certainly didn't do her a favor. And I
think I think, you know, from Mogadishu to Minnesota, the
criminality and the crime and the fraud is just perhaps
a little bit different in Minnesota. Maybe the violence isn't there,
but the fact that they're defrauding us taxpayers and people
(10:29):
like Tim Watts, maybe he didn't know about it. He
certainly turned a blind eye to everyone else that said
we've got a problem. They're too worried about offending a
group of refugees that have, in my mind, run the
whole state of Minnesota into the ground. Tim Waltz was
a National Party nominee on the Democratic ticket. He should
be cruising to re elect in his home liberal state
(10:51):
of Minnesota. And the fact that he can't even keep
his governorship after a presidential vice presidential run, I think
is a testament to how bad they really are.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, it seems that that's going to open up a possibility.
I mean, is there really a possibility that Walls lieutenant
governor progressive Senate hopeful, you know, left wing radical could
now lose that race for the US Senate.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Do you see that as a possibility.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I think sure, sure could. I think that could happen.
I think he could be toast. I think that he's
going to House Oversight Committee in the coming weeks and
the American people are going to see just how terrible
he has been at oversight of his state's finances and
the stewardship of the taxpayer dollar. And I think the
American people aren't going to reward him with a trip
to Washington as a United States Senator.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Now let me ask you this, Nick Shirley, is this
citizen journalist who went to all of these daycare centers
in Minnesota that we're getting, you know, all these you know,
millions and millions of dollars, and discover that there were
no kids there and there was no daycare being taken place.
Doctor Oz has said on this program that the quote
(11:59):
registered autism rate and the Somali community of Minnesota was
as high as eighty percent, which is mathematically impossible.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And now this guy.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Apparently he has become a target of potential political violence
on the left because he exposed this fraud for what
it is. I give him a lot of credit for
doing it. He went on Riley Gaines's podcast and talked
about this, and I think he did the country a
great service.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I totally agree. I think he deserves the medal, and
I hope he keeps it up. I suspect there's more
fraud than just what he discovered in Minnesota, and I
really do applaud him and the fact that this wasn't
on our radar in Washington until a few weeks ago.
I mean, we knew we had a refugee and immigration
problem years ago, but I don't think anyone knew how
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bad things were in Minnesota, of all places, until the
last week. And my constituents are furious about it, and
Americans across our nation want something done. They want justice,
and they want people to be held to account, people
to be either shipped out of the country for good
or put in prison or both.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
How do you view the midterms this year? I mean,
obviously waiting on a very very critical Supreme Court decision,
but where do you see the midterms? So far as
we start out.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
The year, well, President Trump spoke to our Republican caucus
just this morning about it, and he said, only twice
in the last ninety years has the party in power
won the House in the midterms, and he plans to
be a third times. A charm trend breaker. With respect
to that, I think we have a great chance. I
think that policy is on our side. The policy of
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keeping the border secure, the policy of being opposed to transgenderism,
and all the political correctness that helped get Donald Trump elected.
These are things that Americans hate it and when it
comes to policy, we have the advantage of Democrats may
be able to kick and scream and make a lot
of noise that at the end of the day, policies
on our side. It's not an eighty twenty issue. With
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respect to this transigen your crazy culture that the left
is pushing, It's a ninety nine to one issue. Ninety
nine percent of Americans don't want men playing in women's sports.
They don't want them changing in their daughter's dressing room
at school. That is not a liberal or a conservative idea.
That's every American on the streets believes that. And I
think that policy will win the day come November, and
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the Americans will reward Donald Trump with a re elected
Republican majority.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh, we could only hope.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Congressman Lance Good in the Texas of the House Arm
Services Committee. We appreciate your time, sir, and you it's
going to take everybody to get involved and to vote.
All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones. Don
in Iowa, Don High, how are you glad you called?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Hi Sean, thank you for taking my call. I'm not
actually in Iowa right now. I'm a truck driver running
through the Rockies. I'm also a Marine Corps veteran with
signal intelligence, and I wanted to call to congratulate not
just President Trump for this great deed that they pulled
off this weekend, but Pete Heiksith and Marco Rubio and
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everybody else that was involved. Because they exposed Chinese defense systems,
Russian defense systems. They made it. Look they've got Beijing
shaking right now.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I promise you, well, I don't think there's any doubt
about that at all whatsoever. You know, there's a lot
of spectacular things that we really haven't spoken about here.
Maduro's Chinese and Russian built air defense systems.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
They crumbled.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
They were completely you know, immobile, they were completely rendered
useless by the US military crumbling of under American superior
war fighting technology.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
That that's kind of an untold story.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Maybe we shouldn't put a lot of emphasis on it
because you don't want them to improve it.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
China is now linked.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
There's a story just thenews dot com John Solomon, China
is now linked to US protests against trump decision to
remove Maduro. You know, some of my best national security
contacts and intel contacts have been very very clear with me,
and this is why I warn people about what you
read on social media, the voices that you listen to.
(16:25):
You know, people have to be very selective because what
they are telling me is a lot of racism, anti semitism,
you know, propaganda, pro Chinese propaganda, pro Russian propaganda. A
lot of this is all coming and originating from enemy
(16:47):
countries of the United States. In other words, some of
our top geopolitical foes are trying to influence, especially young
people on social media with bot accounts that are designed
to doctrinate them. And then you get a few dumb
people that have platforms that you believe this garbage and
(17:08):
echo this nonsense. And that's why I'm urging people to
be very selective in who you choose to listen to.
If they look if somebody is a racist, white nationalist,
maybe not somebody you want to associate with. If somebody
is a virulent anti semi yeah, maybe you don't want
to listen to what they have to say. If somebody
claims that they love Adolf Hitler, not exactly my cup
(17:32):
of tea, and I doubt anybody in this audience's cup
of tea. Now they get propped up by a corrupt
media establishment, legacy media establishment in this country, and then
they try to portray them as as loyal voices in
the mag of movement. And if you look into their
history you find at best their fairweathered friends of Donald Trump.
(17:55):
Johnny Come Lately is to conservatism and the MAGA movement,
and just just people that are looking for clicks and
algorithms and money.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's what I see.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Well, I couldn't have said that any better, because Americans
need to wake up and learn who is asking them
to protest against their own country. Because what President Trump
does is in the best interests of this country. Every
single thing he does. You point that out beautifully every day.
(18:26):
I want to thank you. I also want to thank
all the military that served in this operation, the sailors,
the airmen, the Marines, the soldiers, Delta Force. They were
all exceptional and they showed what professionalism can look like
if done properly and legally, you know, with good purpose.
(18:49):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
All of these military operations are you know, full of danger,
and but President Trump knew the danger Mid nine Hammer,
this operation in Venezuela. You know, they're all dangerous. But
our military is the best on God's green earth. We
have a lot of work to do to turn the
economy around eighty six percent of the people living in poverty,
(19:13):
but I think we'll get there anyway. Don God bless
you be safe on the road. Simplify my friend. Appreciate
your call and what you do for a living.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
All.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Right, back to our busy phones. Let us say hi
to Charlie. He's in Alabama. Charlie, how are you glad
you called?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Hi? Jean, I'm glad I called too about this fraud
up in Minnesota. I know they're looking at the politicians,
but they need to go even deeper to look at
who gave him the idea, what permitting office overlooked, the
gross negligence of the buildings, what local inspectors kept signing
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off on the thing every year, and you know then
the local politicians that get involved, and then you know,
all the way up the ladder. So it's not just
you know, Tim Walls, but everyone under him.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The thing that stands out that's most glaring to me
in this is that Tim Walls there were a number
of whistleblowers that were telling him that there's money, that
there was institutionalized fraud. And it's very clear to me,
and I believe over time will be proven in great
specificity in detail, how he was warned, he did nothing,
(20:33):
And I think that the only conclusion I can come
to at this point will get more information, maybe it'll change.
I doubt it is that he did not want to
alienate a large voting block as he was preparing to
run for reelection, which he's not planning to do anymore.
By the way, this is now growing way beyond Minnesota.
President Trump announced this morning that the Justice Department now
(20:57):
launched an investigation into you know, uh, the possible welfare
fraud and this type of fraud being widespread in California.
There's similarly an investigation into Ohio, an investigation into New York.
I think this is gonna spread wide and the amount
(21:17):
of hundreds of billions of dollars will be staggery. And
it's frightening. Anyway, I appreciate you being with us. Thank you,
my friend Jonathan Arkansas. Next Sean Hannity Show, How are you?
Speaker 9 (21:28):
I am wonderful and it is an honor to speak
to you. I've called so many times. It's my first
time ever getting through and it means so much to me,
as like the honor of a lifetime. I was in
your great state of Florida for the holidays, and uh,
you know, I was wanting to get my my mother
h Berna. My stepdad said, no, I fear. I think
(21:52):
he feared that she might use it on him, So
I got her the double bubble blanket instead. I'm gonna
get my wife.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
The double bubble you can. Why would your dad be
against her having a burner? It's it's non lethal, it
is it can keep it could savor life one day.
I mean, it's great technology. It's safe. I mean I
I carry one every day along with I have I
have a six hour PETE through sixty five I carry.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Well, that's what I try to tell him. I said,
worst terms, the worst, you're out of commission for about
forty five minutes. But you just have to know my family.
So but uh, you know, I don't know when it
comes to all this fraud stuff though, you know, especially Minnesota,
because that's that's where the light is right now, I
(22:40):
don't I don't know if Tim Wallas is a criminal
that that remains to be seen. I think maybe he's
just Elmer Fudd and and not not too bright up there.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
No, I'm not giving him that benefit of the doubt,
no way. I think honestly, he was straight out warned,
according to whistle blowers, that this was going on, and
he made a decision not to do anything about it.
That's what I believe happened, and I believe over time
will be proven.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
We'll see if I'm right, and and you know, if
there if there's foul play there, then you know, he
needs to spend time in prison, you know. And that's
another issue is none of these people are being held accountable.
These people need to be held accountable, and the government
needs to stop doling out money like it's like it's nothing.
It's our taxpayer dollars. It needs to be it needs
(23:29):
to be handled like a single mom on a strict budget,
and there needs to be accountability, and there needs to
be auditors involved. You know, I do think it's widespread
because you know, cash for clunkers, the moonshot for cancer,
you know COVID, you know, I mean, there's so much
money that's wasted.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Every day.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
I work in and out of hospitals all the time.
I see fraud, waste and abuse all the time. And
until they start cracking down on this and holding states
responsible and taking that money away when it's when it's
used irresponsibly, it's going to continue.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We have to get a control of waste, fraud, abuse,
corruption and stop abusing the people taxpayers, hardworking taxpayers in
this country. Well said Jonathan, appreciate it, gold star break call.
All right, quick break right back to our phone calls.
Eight hundred and ninety four one Shawn is our number.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Up, next our final roundup and information overload hour.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
All right, let's get back to our busy phones. Eight
hundred and ninety four one Seawan David in Utah. David,
You're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Hey, what a great honor it is to be on
your show, Sean. And I think, just at the risk
of being patronizing, isn't nice to be saying happy late birthday?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Okay, I don't celebrate birthdays anymore, so thank you, though
I appreciate the thought, but I just don't celebrate it.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Well, listen, I really appreciate being on your show. I
just want to say real quickly that President Trump and
our incredible world class the best in the world on
this planet military did an excellent job and they had
every constitutional legal right to carry out the order by
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our chief executive officer of the President of the United States.
I mean, anyone that doesn't understand that they haven't read
the Constitution, well.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I'm going to tell you something. It is.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You know, look for those people I actually read comments.
I don't know who made these comments. It was so idiotic.
Well this was done so that they can have gay
rights in Venezuela. I'm like, Okay, this is no intelligent
person would believe that, but the idea that and and
(26:18):
I'm he is everything that we know him to be.
Two hundred Americans die day from drug overdoses. This is
a narco terrorist, you know, regime profiting off the death
of Americans. Not a difficult call. They robbed American companies
of billions and millions of dollars. And it's in our
(26:40):
hemisphere and in our best natural national interest. And they
were being influenced by the Chinese and the Russians and
the Iranians. Case closed. Anyway, Let's get back to our
busy phones. Virginia, Lori next, Hi, Virginia, have Laurie from Virginia.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
How are you.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
I'm good, Thank you, going on.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Happy New Year.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Happy New Year to you. So I'm excited to be
on your show. And I have been really worked up
about listening to the to the senators complaining that they
weren't part, they weren't in the loop to discuss the
plans for going in and getting the Duro, and I
(27:21):
just I want to give them the reason in a
very simple way that they will understand. And it's I
think most people know the book. If you give them
out a cookie, and Trump didn't want to be the
one that authored the sequel to it. If you give
(27:43):
a rat a shred of intel, are.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
You kidd, it is we lose operational control and we
put our troops at risk. There's a reason you have
a chain of command. There's a reason we have a
commander in chief. These are Article two powers. They're not
in dispute. The president was well within his constitutional authority
(28:09):
to do it. He doesn't need the approval of Chuck
Schumer to take military action like this, And if he
ever had to tell them, it would probably put soldiers'
lives in jeopardy, and you just can't have that. You
have one commander in chief. Kamala Harris lost, Donald Trump won.
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And you know when, for example, Obama even killed in Americans,
guess what. And you hear a lot of criticism from
Democrats when he didn't inform Congress, and every other president
is acted in the same way. So there's just rank
hypocrisy all across the board.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Got a role. Appreciate your good call, Laurie, God bless you.
Happy new year.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Maria Carino Machado, leader of Venezuela's Democratic opposition.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
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Two Guys (Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers). Five Rings (you know, from the Olympics logo). One essential podcast for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Bowen Yang (SNL, Wicked) and Matt Rogers (Palm Royale, No Good Deed) of Las Culturistas are back for a second season of Two Guys, Five Rings, a collaboration with NBC Sports and iHeartRadio. In this 15-episode event, Bowen and Matt discuss the top storylines, obsess over Italian culture, and find out what really goes on in the Olympic Village.