Right, Thanks Scott.
You had an hour two Sean Hannity Show eight hundred and ninety four one Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, our final show in our nation's capital. And then I escaped back to the Free State, the warm, warmer state, not as warm right now. They had snow in Pensacola and Tallahassee. For crying out loud, I mean South Carolina has snow, and Georgia I think had snow, and everybody's getting snow, and guess what, you can all keep it. And I prefer no snow in
South Florida, but that's neither here nor there anyway. So we have our interview with the President in the Oval Office tonight.
It'll air nine Eastern.
Actually we went long, so it'll air tonight and part two tomorrow night, which is going to be great. Some really really reflective moments of the President and things that you've never heard before, and I don't want to give answers.
And then I asked a bunch of stuff that I thought was interesting.
And you know, you're going to release the JFK files, the RFK files, the MLK files, and why you know, things that you normally don't talk about. And then we talked about the economy and foreign policy in Putin and Chi and the Mullahs in Iran and the economy and energy and all the things that you might expect. We also, I'm not sure if there's going to er tonight, but we went into a long, long discussion. He was very relaxed, very dialed in, very focused, and it was just a great experience for me.
And I think you.
Really get to see more of the person that I've known for thirty years, I think in this interview than any other interview I've done. And anyway, so part one of that will air tonight. It will be the full hour on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Let's go back out, and we do talk a lot about Los Angeles and California and forestry and him and Gavin Newsom in twenty eighteen, which we played that clip numerous times
on this program. And I mean, there really is no excuse for not having the water from northern California flow down to southern California. There's no well, what's the purpose of having a hydrant if there's no water in the hydrant? What is the purpose of having a reservoir if it's not full of water. And what is the purpose of getting a degree in forestry if you're not going to practice management of areas that are known for wildfires and for drought. It's insane and that known for Santa Ana
wins well. This has now resulted in a petition. It's at change dot org dot petition demanding the resignation of the La Mayor, Karen Bass. In two days, they got one hundred and fifty two thousand signatures. That's how bad this has been for people out there. I've never met anybody that's not true. There are politicians that are that bad and that incompetent, and she is one of them. Here she addresses reporters questions about the impact of the budget cuts to the LA Fire Department.
And meanwhile, keep in mind, as you.
Hear this, they allocated federal state dollars six hundred and fifty million dollars to make the Port of La green, and they advocated even more money if you can believe it, for wind turbines.
I mean, it's insanity. Ay, Well, here she is.
Can you address the criticism now over the budget issue and the slashing seventeen million dollars.
No.
I think if you go back and look at the reductions that were made, there were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days. And then there was a little bit there was a little bit of confusion because money was allocated to be distributed later on, which was actually going to support salaries and other parts of the fire department that were distributed a little later.
I think it's most important to understand that we were in tough budgetary times. Everybody knew that, but that the impact of our budget really did not impact what we've been going through over the last few days. Again, back to the unprecedented wind storm when at such verocity that we haven't seen in years.
Okay, you want to blame Santa Anna wins. They're predictable. They happen quite often out there, and she was warned by the fire chief specifically that they had half the manpower if they ever had a major fire in Los Angeles. Joel Pollock, who's going to join us in a minute, says he has spoken to the White House Advanced Team for Donald Trump on what they need to do to help the Pacific Palisades. The President did confirm that he's going to North Carolina.
He is going.
We talked a lot about that, Linda, which is the right thing to do, And we talked a lot about the help and whether or not I won't give it the answer that that help should be contingent on actions that are taken. Anyway, Here's what Joel Pollack said.
Hi, everyone, this is Joel Pollack from Breitbart News. As I was driving down Sunset Boulevard today, I noticed a group of cars parking. I thought it was a local or state official, but it turned out to be the advanced team for the Trump White House, twenty four.
Hours after he took the oath of office. He is already.
Planning a visit to Pacific Palisades and other areas that are affected by the wildfires.
And I spoke to his advanced team.
You can see them there behind me, and I told them what they need to look at when they come to Pacific Palisades and what the issues are here. The lack of water pressure, the lack of leadership from the city, the traffic jam that happened on Sunset Boulevard because of a lack of traffic officers on scene. We love our police, we love our fire fighters, but there was a lack
of leadership and coordination by city officials. And I've talked about the other issues as well, and I am confident that when they visit on Friday, they're going to talk.
To those of us who live here.
And who understand the issues, and to understand that much more could have been done to save the Pacific Palisades.
All right, Joel Pollock, Senior editor at large at bright Bart News and also Kiarra Davis, LA, Resident author of Drawing Lines, Why Conservatives must begin to battle fiercely in the arena of ideas. Thank you both both you know live out there, Joel, let me start with you, based on what you saw out there, I mean Donald Trump, it told me personally he's going out there. I asked him extensively about the issues involving Gavin. Gavin has been
trying to Trump through California. I think the state legislators putting aside twenty five to fifty million dollars for lawsuits against the federal government, which only costs the taxpayers of California more money. And you know, all this money spent on green energy and they cut back on the fire department, they don't practice forestry, they don't have any water.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
It is ridiculous, and people are really upset about it. There are areas where private property owners were not able to clear brush on state land or land in the Santa Monica Conservancy, which is in the mountains here near the upper part of the Pacific Palisade. That's where the fuel for the fire came. And this city did not coordinate the emergency response. Again, we have great firefighters and great police, but there was nobody quarterbacking the emergency effort.
The agencies weren't talking to one another. Rudy Giuliani on nine to eleven had a command center. It was hit, it was destroyed. You set up another command center. There was one person in charge, one point contact through which everything could go. Somebody knew what to do and how to keep everybody talking to each other. And that did not happen here. And it's a miracle. More people weren't killed because of that traffic jam that you heard me
talk about in the clip. People had to abandon their cars and run for their lives because there was nobody directing traffic in the evacuation, and that is a failure of city leadership, and we have yet to hear anybody take responsibility. The Ela County fire chief, not the city fire chief, but the La County fire chief apologized to the residents that as far as we've had any kind of accountability, but nobody else is.
And in fairness to that fire chief, the fire chief is the one that said we only have half staff to go and fight a wildfire, and that warning was given well in advance of this fire.
That's correct, and all that we've seen from everybody else is patting themselves on the back for what a great effort they've done. And that's why Trump needs to come here and he needs to intervene and tell California to get it act together because this is not acceptable, not just to those of us who live here, this is becoming a drag on the nation. We're going to ask
the nation to bail us out. Then we have to make sure that we take measures to stop this from happening again, because it cannot happen over and over again. Florida has a snowstorm coming. Ron De Santis is out there with all the emergency vehicles you need, with all the power teams, power companies, whatever. He's got everything in place. Gavin Newsom, where is he?
You know?
I did a story about that. Today. I got an email from Newsom's office. They want me to correct the story because they say, well, we did send sixty five engines throughout southern California. Yeah, maybe you sent sixty five engines for one of the most extreme wind events in local memory. But there were none here and this town burnt down. So I'm not correcting my article. And that's the thing. They want to look good. They don't want to do the right thing.
I think it raised a lot of great points and I don't think there's any excuse on anybody's part. And the one guy that took responsibility, frankly, was the one that I was warning about what would happen and how unprepared they were.
Kiera Davis, your reaction.
To this, well, I want to point out that everything we learn moving forward makes the situation worse. I reported a story over my sub sect this week. I got a tip from a friend in Arizona who said their neighbor worked for LAFD but lives in Arizona. So I did a little poking around and it turns out that even as resably as twenty twenty, the La Times reported that La City is missing up to three percent of
their fire force. They live in other states and they commute in for work, So there were a lot and on the night of the firestorms that Joel was talking about so passionately, every off duty LAFD officer.
Was called to duty.
How many of those people weren't even living in the state to get here. I'm not blaming anyone for taking advantage of these loopholes, because this is a difficult state to live in and thrive in. I'm blaming the government, Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and the supermajority in Sacramento for making it impossible for people to live and thrive here,
especially the people who serve our citizens. And as Joels, I just want to echo with Joel said, because being here and having to watch these idiots give their stupid press conferences every day, they never give information. All they do is congratulate each other and what a great job they're doing.
Well. I mean it, it is amazing.
Actually, it's sort of like and this actually came up in my conversation with Donald Trump at Alire tonight. You know, the two assassins would be assassins. You know what did the what did the Secret Service say, Oh, that was a slope roof.
No, it was not a slope roof. That was a lie.
So we put them inside the building. What you can't see anything inside the building. You needed people surrounding the perimeter of the build bilding so nobody can get on the roof of the building one hundred and thirty yards with a scope AR fifteen and nearly assassinate a former president and top presidential candidate.
But they allowed that to happen. They made that excuse.
Then Trump International, the same story occurs a known area where paparazzi hang out, a treat area surrounding Trump International. They never swept the area, and if it were not for one eagle eyed, sharp shooting Secret Service agent, Donald Trump would have been killed. Then he got within three hundred yards of the president with an AK forty seven and a scope on it. I mean, you can't miss that shot. I mean we're just lucky it didn't happen. Now, Joel,
they're saying that these fires are continuing to burn. As you know, Santa Ana wins have returned to strength and fuel fires near San Diego this point.
Yes, there is a fire burning today at Lake Hughes and it is moving rapidly in strong winds, and they've just sent eight helicopters over there to try to deal with it. It's not as the incident as we expand from the seventh of January, so hopefully they can get those airborne assets up there to dump water on the fire and do what's to do. But a lot of what you're seeing right now in California is shutting the
stable door after the horses have bolted. So they're all coming out with press releases about how they're preparing for the next wind event. And this weekend we have rains, they're preparing for the rain event because there could be landslides. So now they want to be seen to be doing the right thing. But they did not do it before
January seventh. And they were actually having press conferences on January eighth, three hundred yards away from where I'm standing, further down on the beach, while the town was still burning up above, and people watched their houses burn, while the governor and the mayor were going to be press conferences, and they couldn't get fire here, So there needs to be accountability, and it's not going to come from California.
It's got to come from, first of all, the Republicans in Congress, who need to investigate California's failure and Los Angeles' failure effect everybody. We're supposed to have the Olympics here in three years. We can't do that if we have this level of incompetence in city management. And then the Trump administration needs to take charge of the rebuilding effort and make sure that the agendas of the Democratic Party
to cover itself don't complicate the agendas. This is an area that is more conservative than other parts of LA. They voted for Rick Caruso for mayor in twenty twenty two, not Karen Bass, and he managed to save his mall using private fire fighters. Nobody blames him for that. People say that to the evidence of what could have been done if there were more fire trucks, if there was more water. But there's also a lot of Democrat agenda stuff happening here where the Democratic Party wants to control
the rebuilding. We're going to try to impose all their own priorities. They want zoning for low income housing, or they want environmentally friendly, climate friendly whatever.
Well, look you know to that, I say this, take a look at the skies over La even today and tell me how's the air quality out there and how good is that for the environment. I'm just running out of time. I do appreciate both of you, Kira Davis, Joe Pollock, Thank you both, and to all our friends that have suffered here.
Our prayers are with you. But you better change your government.
But unless you want more of the same to our phones, we go, Paul, my free state of Florida. I can't wait to get back. It's very cold in DC. I hope my state misses me because I miss it.
What's going on?
We miss you terribly too. But it is a little cool for us, for a Ridians down here right now.
I've been reading about it. But I'm a little more south probably than you are.
Where are you?
About fifty miles south of Jacksonville.
Okay, point of Jacksonville got snow, is my understanding.
The north side of Jacksonville got a little flurries, yes, sir.
And so did the panandle I mean Pensacola got snow.
Pensacola got a lot of snow.
Yeah, crazy John, I wanted to miss mention.
The hypocrisy of the Democrats center in office is chilling me. Back in twenty twenty, you mentioned mister Trump, President Trump, you should pardon your family and yourself. They're going to hunt you. What did they do? And then today here we are with mister Biden pardoning his family with everything that crime family has done, and the Democrats act like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. I just don't understand it. They have to hear themselves saying these things.
Look, I could play it for you. I played it yesterday. Maybe it's worth playing again. But you know, you have Chuck Schumer and the media and Democrats and Adam Scheff will end with Adam Scheff, you know, slamming Trump in twenty twenty over the issue of preemptive pardons. And now they sit idly by and silent, and if anything, they just justify the fact that Joe did it because what they really fear that they'll never express. They know what
they did to Trump was wrong. They know they weaponized justice. They know that they tried to use law fair to prevent him from ever becoming president. They threw everything they possibly had at this man, and they failed. And so what they fear is, and this is where the preemptive pardons come up, is that what they did would be done to them. And that's what the origins of this is. Listen to this montage.
President's reportedly asking his staff whether he can issue preemptive pardons for himself as family members. Rudy Giuliani, there's a simple answer. No, No, mister president, that would be a gross abuse of the presidential pardon authority.
Do you say thos pardons are appropriate? Do you think they would be legal?
I don't think they are appropriate at all.
This is an administration that came in drifting, and it appears it's going to lead the same way.
Is there an innocent explanation for someone to seek preemptive pardons.
For family members? Would you do that if you knew you.
Were innocent and just worried about outside forces?
The answer to that is going to be no.
And you know, if you haven't done anything wrong, you sit there and go, what do you need a preemptive pardon for. It's an effort not only to prospectively pardon people for things they have not yet been charged with and may never be charged with. But also it's the president's own family, its people that had been covering up from the president, in addition to his own family, and so there is a self interest at play as well, and I think that makes this quite unique.
Oh what a change in heart. What's your reaction, Paul. And then you have, you know, the Rachel Maddows of the world. Joe Biden said it, Chucky Schumant Schumer said it. Adam Schiff who got a pardon, a preemptive pardon, he said it, you know, and these MSDNC, fake news CNN people said it. And it's just it's pretty amazing to me. And then you know, Joe Biden said he wouldn't do it,
and he did it. One thing I'll say about Trump a lot of people, and I asked him about this tonight, you know, he ran and he said he's going to get pardons to the people convicted about January sixth. He said, they've they've spent enough time in jail and they were unfairly targeted a lot of them.
And he said, no, I'm sorry.
Yet, people can burn down cities and it's a peaceful protest, and let's make accounts for him, so we can we can bail them out of jail.
I mean, exactly five hundred and seventy four riots in the summer of twenty twenty. We had dozens of dead Americans, thousands of injured cops, billions in property damage. We have videotape evidence. They never prosecuted these people. And remember, Kamalo, they're not going to stop. We're not going to stop. They shouldn't stop anyway, my friend, thank you. Eight hundred nine to four one, Shawn our number of Richard, Massachusetts. Richard, how are you glad you called?
Sar.
How are you doing, mister Hannity.
I'm good, sir. What's going on, mister Hannity.
I'm so glad that Trump won. You know, when he lost, I almost had a het attack. I didn't think I was going to be able to live through it. And all the time when he was gone, I was thinking, why don't you run for like president or something really big. You're a very intelligent man. You're very honest. When people are being killed in the world, you always say get their names, you know, on TV to show how much
you care about the people. And I personally myself, you know where you're such a big fan of mister Trump. I believe that you'd have a lot of followers. I believe whatever you wanted to run for, I believe you would win.
I don't know if if I could win dog Catcher. I mean, I don't think Linda would ever vote for me number one, for anything.
I would vote for you two or three times, like a.
True vote early vote office and vote under many different names. Forget about voter integrity that we that we fight for every day. You know, I've just never felt a calling to run for higher office.
You know.
I spent a lot of time with these congressmen yesterday, and I did see Senator John Thune last night as well, and.
I had an interview with him. We're going to air that later in the week.
And I can only tell you this, and I'll be very blunt with you. I'm although I got to admit, being in the Oval office is a very very cool experience, and all of you in this audience make that possible for me because you watch Hannity the TV show, and you listen to the Sean Hannity radio show, and I never forget that part of it, but it is, you know, and I won't reveal. Had a private conversation with President Trump. We talked a lot about about being back there, and
we'll air a lot of it. We talked about it on air and then we talked about it more personally off air. And today happens to be his twentieth wedding anniversary, which is pretty cool. And anyway, it's a special place. I wish every American got a chance to go there and to sit there and to see how hard the job is. The weight of the world is on your shoulders.
That is not an easy job at any moment. And we talked about, you know, terrorists being in this country, and I said, mister President, you know, at any moment, your whole the trajectory of your presidency can shift and we can be in a war footing, and you know it's that has to be in the back of your mind at all times. Anyway, I appreciate the call. Well, you're very kind, Richard. If God calls me to do something, then I'm not going to say no. I'm just hoping
he doesn't knock on that door. Quick break right back. We'll get to your phone. Calls eight hundred nine four one shaw on number if you want to be a part of the program as we continue final hour my town hall with Congress last night and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Straight ahead, all right, we continue back to our busy phones. Let's say hi to Carolyn in California. Carolyn, so sorry for all that you guys have suffered through.
Yes, Sean, I was calling about if President Trump has something in mind for the senior citizens, because we're taking that one two punch between Social Security and Medicare. I waited day by day and through the voting and the outcome. That was more important to me than Christmas, that Trump would make it through.
I don't know if election day should be more important than Jesus's birthday. I'm not sure, but it was pretty dark important. I'll tell you that I was.
I was with Jesus and talking to him at the same time. But I'm just talking about the typical presence and that type of thing that didn't That was not important to me.
What was important to.
Me was that I make it through Christmas and through the nomination of Trump running and his actual winning. And I was on pins and needles the night that he went through the voting process. So I just want to know. I know he said some things about Medicare and how the administration had put a real dent in our medicare, which is true, and we're taking a pounding when it comes to that for seniors and every since count that we.
Get each month.
So and I'm retired, so I don't want to end up going to Walmart.
You know, well you should go to Walmart, and I like Walmart, but putting that aside, you should not have any benefits cut. And one of the things again we got into a lot of specificity in detail, but you know, we talked about how rich this country can be if we just tap into our energy resources. Guess what, we'd be able to give everybody a bigger, a larger cost
of living adjustment increase in Medicare, social Security. We'd be able to salvage that from insolvency, stop robbing from our from future generations and our children and grandchildren, pay down our debt and live within our means. And there's so much that can be done if we just if we just apply simple common sense to governing, and we're much
better than what we had the last four years. I mean, I promise you Joe Biden could never do an interview like Donald Trump did with me today, and I wouldn't have cared if it was with a you know, liberal. I want to know what the president's thinking. I'll tell you what. What I think makes my interviews with Donald Trump different than most other people is I let him talk.
I want to hear him talk, and you know, at the right time, I'll interject and maybe move the interview along a little bit of you know, we're talking about a topic too long, as you only have a limited time frame to do it. But I want people to hear what their president is thinking, what he's believing, what he's saying, because it matters. Carolyn, Thank you, Tim, and Colorado. We have a minute for you.
Tim. How glad you called.
Hey, Shaun a longtime listener, first time caller, Thanks for having me. You know, I wanted to see what President Trump's thoughts are on addressing Chinese landownership in this country since TikTok's on top of mind the Panama Canals being run through proxy from a company they own. If there's anything on the table to address that.
I talked to him about China. He did have a conversation with President she I got one little tidbit off the record, and then what he said on air. I think his plan ultimately is to have a good relationship with all these countries. But I think he knows he's dealing with bad actors and that it's going to take strength, and they're going to have to believe he means it if he's gonna put tarifs on these countries, and I have no doubt he will be successful. He's a very
strong human being. America got to see that. They saw Donald Trump stand up after nearly dying, and we spent a lot of time on the assassination attempt on his life, and he stood up and he said fight, fight fight. That is not your average person. That is not that is not you know, people ask all the time, who's the next Donald Trump. I'm like, there is nobody, there will be. Nobody doesn't mean there aren't good conservatives, there aren't people that won't push the MAGA agenda.
There was never another Reagan. There was only one Reagan.
There's never gonna be another guy like Trump. And that's why these four years matter. That's why I took the time to go to Congress last night and make sure they're on the right page so that they can implement the Trump Agenda, which by the way, we're going to air in the final hour of the program today anyway.
But I appreciate the call. I really do.
We have to deal with China, Russia. We mentioned Russia earlier in the program today, Iran. We got big challenges ahead of us this country. And the good news is, I think all of these problems we have we're going
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