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Shutdown Fallout

Nov 14, 202528 min
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Sean Hannity leads a critical discussion on the aftermath of the government shutdown, joined by Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan. They analyze failed healthcare reforms, Democratic Party dynamics under Chuck Schumer, and the economic consequences, including a $1.5 trillion hit and comparisons of Trump vs. Biden economic policies framed by Sean as a battle for family empowerment over government power. Jordan highlights DOJ and FBI overreach, naming Jack Smith and referencing surveillance of GOP lawmakers, including Speaker McCarthy and potentially Jordan himself. Hannity spotlights Jordan's consistent push for oversight as House Judiciary Chair and teases exclusive insights into recent investigations, underscoring why privacy and political weaponization matter for American democracy.

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Speaker 1

Two Sean Hannity Show eight hundred and nine point one.

Speaker 2

Shawn our number if you want to be a part of the program, coming to you from the Washington Swamp, where we have JD. Vans, the Vice President on Hannity tonight. Also Big breaking News with Pam Bondy, the Attorney General, and Robert F.

Speaker 1

Kennedy Junior.

Speaker 2

We've got a great show tonight, say ADBRT nine Eastern Tonight on Fox. The government shutdown is over AOC claiming that Trump voters are pulling her aside, saying they want to join democratic socialism. I don't believe this, and then dodge the question if Schumer should be replaced not exactly a vote of confidence.

Speaker 3

Listen conversation you mention Mr Stay as minority leader.

Speaker 4

I think what is so important for folks to understand is that this problem is bigger than one person, and it actually is bigger than than the minority leader.

Speaker 1

And I think what's important is.

Speaker 5

That we understand that this is actually this is not just a leader is reflected as a reflection of the party, and Senate Democrats have selected their leadership to represent them, and.

Speaker 4

So the question needs to be bigger than just one person.

Speaker 1

And joining us.

Speaker 2

Now, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan is with us. All right, the long national nightmare is over. But you know, but for eight Senate Democrats, and but for six Democrats in the House, they were all voting to keep this chaos going.

Speaker 6

Yeah, And I don't know if I buy all that what we heard from my colleague there, Miss Ocasi Cortez, because when I talked to voters in our district, they actually said just the opposite that they said, don't get into these demands of the Democrats, this idea that you got to deal with something that's not that doesn't actually come due until next year. Don't hold firm on your position, which is exactly what we did. And of course they

decided to open the government. And as you said, by signing your showsham, which you said, what was it all for? What they do it for? I mean, because they got nothing. They didn't change anything in the big beautiful bill. They didn't change anything on this subsidizing of this Obamacare that was supposed to be the end all be all, saved everything in healthcare. So what was it all for? To put military families, people who depend on the air traffic

controllers put them in jeopardy. I heard the economy, heard American families. What was it all for? It was simply to go after President Trump. And that's the only unifying thing the other party has. That's the one constant over the last decade that the Democrats have to go after Trump and do whatever it takes, even if I mean shutting on the government for forty two days.

Speaker 2

Well, they didn't get anything out of it, and I don't think they're going to get anything out.

Speaker 1

Of it moving forward.

Speaker 2

I mean, and we potentially looking in January thirtieth, round two of these shutdowns.

Speaker 6

You know, we talked about this last I don't know, I mean this with this crowd and you know, humor taking so much heat like he did six months ago, Who knows what they'll try and stick that in what two and a half months? Who knows what they will do. The Left now unfortunately controls one of the two great parties in this country. They have control. They drive the energy, they drive it. So we'll see what they do. They

may intact do that. I hope not, and I hope we can pass the bills that are actually control spending and allowed the big beautiful bill to really take effect and make our economy improve even more than it has under President Trump.

Speaker 2

Well, you know, Americans are suffering, and by the way, the economy overall has taken a one point five trillion dollar hit as a result of all this, which might

slow growth in the short term. I'm pretty optimistic in the long term for a lot of different reasons that I've gone over in great specificity in detail earlier in the program, and I talk about often, and that includes you know, literally, you know, trillions of dollars in manufacturing investment moneys committed that you know are going to be expedited because of the one big, beautiful bill and something one hundred percent depreciation in a single year, which is

like putting high octane into the economy because that incentivizes companies to build out what they're going to build sooner rather than later. And that means in pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips and automobiles, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1

So I love all of that.

Speaker 2

And you know, there's a couple of things though, that I would like to see before we get to the midterms in a year. And you know, the government shutdown is one thing, but there's been under Joe Biden, there was a decline of affordability of twenty six percent. Since Donald Trump has become the president, it's a ten percent improvement, But for average Americans there's still sixteen percent down. And a lot of people are saying, oh, okay, Well, the price of exit are way down, the price energy is

way down, the price of gasolines down. And you know, when that happens, that'll filter into the economy the trillions, and it committed investment money and manufacturing money, which is going to help states like yours in Ohio a lot that's important, Energy in the in the pipeline and adopting energy friendly policies. The President was right last night saying that's like getting a tax cut. That that's key, that's critical,

that's crucial. And then of course when Reagan cut taxes, you know, ended up creating twenty one million new jobs, double revenues to the government, and was the longest period of peacetime economic growth. But that all takes time. How long do you think this is going to take? And in the meantime, what are the people in Ohio are what are they saying to you about their thoughts on the economy.

Speaker 6

Well, no, they trust what the president's doing it on affront, so what he's on the boarder, what he's done with taxes, what he's done with tariff. They trust the objectives and the goals that he wants to get to. And I think most most Americans realize that this does take a little time, as you pointed out, But you're right, inflation prices have come down, but inflation was so done why under Joe Biden. Even with how President Trump's economy has come down and improved, it's still way too much for

families to pay. So I think once this Therapi issue gets settled out, which I think it will in the next couple of months, and the Big Beautiful Bill really gets to kick in those tax cuts. You know. I always say to Sean that the left hates the Big Beautiful Bill because it empowers families. It lets them keep more of their money, which is good for them, their kids, their family, their goals, they're objectives. It empowers families to

school choice, we put that in the task. It empowers individuals who are in our welfare system who never had to work this work requirement. It empowers families, it doesn't empower government. And once that thing really gets to kick in. I think it will really help our economy and bring these prices down even more. And then you add to it where you describe the regulatory relief that's coming, the pro energy policy that we have that's good for you know,

President always talks about drill, baby, drill. All those things come together, but it takes a little time. And that's why the Democrats, I think part of the reason they want to sit down the government so we can't keep doing some of these good things that will help the economy because it hurts them politically.

Speaker 2

All right, let me move on to a topic near and dear to your heart. I have in front of me a letter that you sent to the Acting Inspector General. And in this letter and I think this is extraordinarily important. I think people need to understand weaponization was more deep, more profound, more scary than ever before. Let me first start by saying, you know, Jack Smith, what we learned. It targeted then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his private

phone records in a probe. Also sought the personal phone records of now former Representative Louis Gomert. And I'm not sure if you know this yet. Congressman Jordan a little Birdie told me your name's on that list too, Are you aware of that?

Speaker 6

I'm not. And we're going through documents. We're going through the document that has our friend, our friends, Speaker McCarthy and conress Man Gohmert. We're going through all those documents. There's other people that we know, good great Americans who are on there. I talked to someone them yesterday as we were working through these documents. We continue to get from the Justice Department. But yeah, this was serious. And then as you point out, we've actually we're going to

contact everyone everyone who was involved. Jacksmith was working with the United States Postal Inspection Service, he was working with the Inspector General, he was working with the National Archives and Records Administration, and of course he was working with the FBI and the BOJ They're all working together. So we're going to go to every one of those entities and get any information they have related to this subject matter.

And we want all that information. And then, as you know, we're in the process of bringing Jacksmith in, but we want that information before we bring him in. We've already deposed his deputies. They took the fifth multiple multiple dozens and dozens of seventy one and seventy three times, respectively, two of his top deputies. So we want all that information before we bring him in. And one the letter was stout today to the Inspector General. Remember the Inspector

General was involved in imaging Congressman Scott Perry's phone. The Spectry channalists to provide oversight of the Justice Department from within, not help the Justice Department engaging this weaponization of the government. So that's why we sent them the letter, and we'll get all the information, but.

Speaker 2

Explain the importance of this because these reports, and you put this in your letter, the Justice Department, you use the laboratory in Northern Virginia to assist the FBI in conducting a forensic review in this case of Representative Perry's cell phone, and reports indicate that the phone was also imaged after the search. In other words, they copied everything

that was on that phone a forensic copy. By the way, are you allowed to have a private text with your wife or your children, or your mother or your father? And they just they don't care about anybody's privacy. Did they get the necessary search warrants? I do believe I read somewhere learned something in school about unreasonable search and seizure.

It seems like we might have crossed the line here, and you are requesting that they provide all documents communications between or among employees at the OIG, DOJ FBI referring or relating to the seizure of cell phones from any member of Congress.

Speaker 1

By the way, you will be on the list.

Speaker 2

That's my prediction, all documents communications between or among employees of the OIG, DJ and FBI. And by the way, I'm glad I can return this favor. And this is an inside joke only Jim Jordan will understand, considering Jim Jordan had to inform me once about well, let's just say, a little activity going on against your favorite talk show host, and you even said it on live TV ones that you know they suppressed my social media, but it was

worse than that. So when you get these documents, what are you looking for and what laws might have been broken here?

Speaker 6

Well, again, we don't know that we want all this information because you know, for example, one of the questions we asked one of Jack's deputies was how many other members of the United States Congress, Did you surveill, did you get phone logs of and everything else? They took the fifth of that question because this we deposed this gentleman after we had learned about the initial what happened

with the United States senators. So we want to get all the information and then walk through it with with mister Smith. But the information we get will determine exactly the type of questions we need to ask them what we need to get. But when you referenced yourself, seante to think about this, that's how widespread this net was.

When Senator Grassley said this was a giant fishing expedition against the Republican Party, against conservatives, against people who happened to be supporters of President Trump, that's truly what it was. You look at this, this ten page document we got yesterday which Speaker McCarthy's name of the Louie Gomer's name, rarown, the people they were going after. It's unbelievable what they did. So that's we just want to keep getting this in and then bring in mister Smith for his deposition.

Speaker 2

I quick break right back more with Jim Jordan, Ohio, Congressman, Chair of the Powerful House Judiciary Committee just referred John Brennan for criminal investigation to the DOJ. More on the other side, as we continue from the DC swamp straight ahead, we continue now with Ohio Congressman. He's the chair of

the all important House Judiciary Committee. Jim Jordan is with us, honestly, all the work that we did, beginning with the Russia hoax, all the way through all the investigations into and the witch hunts against Donald Trump, all the impeachments. You know, you've been one steady, strong, consistent voice to seek out truth and facts. You know, when you really think about it. One time we had a discussion and we started making

a list and writing it down. You know, our ensemble cast, you know John Solomon and named Greg Jarrett, and Sarah Carter and Catherine Herridge, and there were others, and if I'm not mentioning their names, And then there were maybe five or six of you in Congress that we could rely on that would tell us truth, that would verify reports, public knowledge, nothing untoward, and that allowed us and gave us the confidence to report things to America that nobody else in the media.

Speaker 1

Went along with like that. They went along.

Speaker 2

With the idea that Donald Trump was in a riz carton in Moscow, you know, with hookers urinating on him.

Speaker 6

Yes, and Sean. They made fun of us. And it turns out the only thing we had wrong, The only thing we got wrong is that it was worse than we thought. That is the only thing we got wrong. It was much worse than we thought, because we now know from what Tulsey released this summer that John Brennan changed the intelligence community assessment and when he came to Congress, she told us that he wasn't involved with the duncia, when in fact he was, and he put it he was.

He's got pushing it to have it in the intelligence screen the assessment to create the credit for the Moller investigation to go after President Trump. I means, that's how ridiculous this all was. And when you were talking about it, they were common after you, they were common after us, And the only thing we had wrong is it was much worse than we ever said at the beginning.

Speaker 2

One day, I'm going to bring us all together and maybe we'll do like a three hour show and we'll just tell the behind the scenes.

Speaker 1

Jim Jordan, Ohio. We appreciate you, sir, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 7

John take care all right.

Speaker 2

Eight hundred nine four one seawn our number. You want to be a part of the program, We'll get to your calls when we come back. Also, we're going to check in with the Great, the One, the Only. Matt Towery is going to join us. He is in studio. We're in the Washington Swamp today. VP Vance on tonight, Pam Bondy on tonight, and RFK Junior on tonight. You know, if there was ever a Republican Nancy Pelosi now is announce that she's not. I know, this is heartbreaking. Linda's

heartbroken running for reelection now. I think she's about as cognitively aware at this point in her life as Joe Biden was, let's say, in year two of his presidency not very good, and it got worse from there. And she's out there now moralizing. Now, could you imagine if you go into Congress and you have a net worth of three million dollars and then you leave. Now she's claiming,

this is my husband's investments, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, I'm a big believer in capitalism, and a seventeen thousand percent return on your investment and three million grows to two hundred and eighty million dollars.

Speaker 1

That was in the New York Post the other day.

Speaker 2

Again she said, I don't do the investing, and no, I would never use inside information. It's so good the results that there are people that when she puts out a public financial disclosure reports, they look at what she's investing in and they follow whatever Nancy's doing, and they have been making money. They're a little later than Nancy, so not quite seventeen thousand percent increase anyway, So here's her moralizing on the issue of climate change as a moral and affordability issue.

Speaker 8

Some of us on the immigration issue had traveled to the Northern Triangle a few years ago, and what we found there is one of the reasons people were migrating to the United States is what has been mentioned, and that is they had a drought that people couldn't farm, so they didn't have a job and they didn't have the food that farming would produce. Hence they were coming to the United States. So this is again as Ares the congresswoman mentioned, a migration issue, which is an economic show.

So this is again economic, as congresswan Caster said, it is not only a moral issue, but it is affordability issue as well.

Speaker 2

Ah okay, all right, let's get to our busy phones as we say hi to Sarah. She's in Colorado. Sarah, Hi, how are you glad you called? Thanks for checking in.

Speaker 4

Hi.

Speaker 3

Doing all right? Very busy today. Life is always busy. As a single mom.

Speaker 2

Oh well, being a single mom is hard. Being a mom period is hard. Being a parent is hard. Yeah, you know what, Can I just tell you how stupid I've been in my life?

Speaker 1

I want to tell you how dumb I was.

Speaker 2

Once in my life I actually thought if I got my kids off to college, I felt, Mike, my job was done.

Speaker 1

How dumb was I?

Speaker 3

You were unaware?

Speaker 2

Unaware I would say, you're being charitable. I would say dumb, naive, but in all the best ways. Because you kind of go through this period where you know they your kids love you, your daughter wants to hold your hand, and all of a sudden doesn't want to hold your hand in public anymore.

Speaker 1

You know they're off with their friends.

Speaker 2

Then you have to be careful that they're not hanging out with the wrong people, doing the wrong things. Then they go off to college. You totally lose them in the college years, then they come back, and when they finally come back, and then all of.

Speaker 1

A sudden, one day you sit down and you're.

Speaker 2

Like, oh, I got a peer, I have an adult here now. Oh, life feels pretty good. Anyway, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 3

Yes, well, you know, just looking at everything that's been going on, and I've tried to speak with my teenage kids about this, but what I'm seeing is a little bit of political slight of hands and game playing that's been going on at the surface. You know, the Democrats are saying that the Republicans are responsible for the shutdown when they actually created an Affordable Care Act and then put up these subsidies that were set to sunset now,

and they want to blame that on the Republicans. And so there's this slight of hand that's going on where you're looking at this. You're noticing this same thing with the Epstein files and everything. But in the meantime, what's really going on in the background is how AOC has been basically shaming Schumer and I think she's wanting his position. And then we've got Mandami that has now been elected mayor in New York, and you know, there's this thing

going on this undercurrent. That's like pay attention to the surface stuff. Everybody never mind what the man behind the curtain is doing. And that is slowly the Democrat Party, which is now no longer what JFK had run under it is now actually become the Communist Party.

Speaker 2

I'm just telling you right now that this party is adrift. The key for Republicans now is that they really get out and do everything humanly possible to make sure that we get our economy in the best shape possible. What I am most concerned about is there is a lag time by the time when you cut taxes. There is a lag time until the average American begins to feel

the positive impact in their lives. When you open up energy production, it doesn't happen because you snap your fingers and you opened up you know the Arctic, you know, Alaska Arctic refuge, wildlife refuge. It doesn't happen immediately when you open up energy dominance policies. When you have trillions and trillions in manufacturing you know, destined to get online, you don't cut you know, ribbons and start digging dirt on day one. It takes planning, and it takes architects

et cetera. So it's going to be a little bit of time. The good news is all of this is in the pipeline and I feel very good about it. And if Democrats want to shut down the government fighting for one point five trillion, you know, for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal immigrants, and they want to defend the Affordable Care Act Obamacare, which is not affordable, which they wrote the bill to make it temporary anyway,

just to get us through the pandemic. They want to refund MPR and PBS, and that's the hill they want to die on.

Speaker 1

Let them die.

Speaker 3

And unfortunately, you know, like you said, it does take time. It used to be that one a president did something, it took a whole entire presidency to then start to see the effects of it or five years later. Then that president would then benefit from or be held accountable for the mistakes that the previous president had made. I think we saw that shift when Obama was elected president and then we started getting the bailouts and all of that stuff going on that the economy sped up in

a way. But you're right, we still have the red tail that we have to go through, have to apply for all the permits for drilling and so forth to see any effects coming forth. President Trump has been moving at the speed of light. I hope that that it continues to be the case. I read something this morning saying that he wanted to take all the money that has been going to the Unaffordable Care Act and put

it into something like an HS waiting for people. Well, that would be wonderful, except for not everybody's employer, if they are employed, offers something like that, and so will. He has been moving at the speed of light. I think that Republicans need to come together and make sure they're moving forward in a unified way so that those

things can continue to happen. So that way, when we have our next election coming up, you're very very shortly, we can start to see some of those positive effects and that starts to shore up the Republican majority in the House and Senate.

Speaker 1

Well, I love your state of Colorado. It's beautiful.

Speaker 2

You make more sense than probably the vast majority of people in Colorado. It sounds to me like you need to move to Texas, Nevada, Arizona, or Florida or the Carolinas. Sarah, you'd make too much sense for Colorado. Quick break right back, we'll continue more of your calls coming up straight ahead. Eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean. If you want to be a part of the program, we continue from our nation's capital. It's not as big as swamp, but

bad as swamp as it was. Jd vance HAMBONDI also RFK Junior and Doctor Oz together nine Eastern so DVR on Fox tonight.

Speaker 6

The final hour roundup is next.

Speaker 2

You do not want to miss it, and stay tuned for the final hour free for All on the Sean Hannity Show.

Speaker 1

I would get back to more busy busy telephones.

Speaker 2

Eight hundred and nine point one, Sean, you want to be a part of the program, as we come to you from Washington, d C. Gary in New Jersey, what's up?

Speaker 6

Gary?

Speaker 2

How are you glad you called Saram? By the way, I'm not hopeful about New Jersey's future.

Speaker 5

Yeah?

Speaker 7

Right you too? Huh Yeah. I had talked to you back in May. I think I think you were talking about Bill O'Reilly about all the people that were coming across the border, and I told you that they didn't have to fire any bullets it, mister Fitan, All that was come to cross killing all these kids.

Speaker 6

And.

Speaker 1

It's terrible.

Speaker 2

I mean, the opioid crisis, the fatanyl crisis. Kids are died every day, and know year, you know, every year, we're losing hundreds of thousands of people.

Speaker 7

Okay, what's with Stephanie Miller? She doesn't know any of this stuff.

Speaker 2

If I spent an entire year trying to convince her that she's wrong, I'd waste my time. However, I respect the fact that she has beliefs, she's passionate about them, believes them. And if she wants to kiss Jasmine Crockett's feet, go have at it, because I'm not going to do it. All right, my friend Gary, God bless you, buddy, appreciate it. Let's say hi to Joel in New York. Joel, we got about a minute, but it's all yours. What's on your mind?

Speaker 9

Hi? How you doing? I was just calling because I was the biggest thing I see in the news we had to shut down was all these airlines being canceled. We got to cancel all these flights. Why wouldn't they start canceling flights with trains that have twenty five or less people on them?

Speaker 2

Well, I mean I'll give you the rea. I'll give you the simple version of it is there's far more volume at these big hub airports like LaGuardia, Kennedy, O'Hare, Hartsfield, Lax, San Francisco, et cetera. So the volume of planes that need to take off is that much greater. You know, private aviation is private aviation, and you're talking about a small number of planes taking off in obscure airports with free airspace. So it's a very different formula for them.

And by the way, I'm in I love aviations. I just happened to know a lot about it. You can get for example, they have like a Honda jet you'd be shocked at you know, how low the prices are. You know, if you got to use one and seats I think maybe four or five people.

Speaker 9

I was just thinking, you see a lot of the people, the more wealthy people that you know, G sixes and whatnot, they don't fly out of those airports.

Speaker 1

No, they do not fly out of them.

Speaker 2

Well they can, and they do, but they also fly into more you know, there's a lot of the smaller airports that don't have anywhere near the volume or traffic that the big airports do That's that's a big that's a big part of your answer. It may not be the one you want to hear.

Speaker 9

No, No, it ain't that. I was thinking. It's not just the fact that we'd be saving the air like airport.

Speaker 2

Well, you're saying that if they if you want to take if you have a private aircraft and you want to take off from Laguardi, you should not be prioritized over somebody that is in a commercial aircraft.

Speaker 1

I agree with that one hundred.

Speaker 9

Right, understand.

Speaker 2

But but those people in private planes have the option to land at an obscure airport where there's no air traffic, but they.

Speaker 9

Don't fly like through our radar systems and things like that.

Speaker 2

Well, I mean, as every plane flies in the air, you go from section to section to section, right, So that's just part of the process. But once you're up in the air, usually you're given a flight pattern that's been approved by the FAA and you stay on your your path until you you know, are wheels down. Uh, I got to roll my friend, appreciate it. Eight hundred and ninety four one seawn. If you want to be

a part of the program. One thing I have noticed in DC is Since Donald Trump's crackdown on crime, things are, I mean, demonstrably better.

Speaker 1

It really is,

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