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In this hour, Texas Governor Greg Abbott joins Sean Hannity to discuss his legal battle to defend Texas redistricting and his efforts to expose the double standards of Democrat-led gerrymandering. Governor Abbott outlines legal actions against Democrats who fled the state to block a quorum and highlights urgent flood recovery efforts in central Texas. Hannity also takes listener calls, covering generational work ethic, the decline of trade skills, and heartfelt stories from working Americans.

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Speaker 1

I thank you, Scott Channon. Thanks to all of you for being with us.

Speaker 2

Write down our toll free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program. It's eight hundred nine to foot one Sean if you want to join us now. The President, Donald Trump has said today that he has directed the Department of Commerce to launch preparations for a new and highly accurate national census. According to a post that he put on his truth social account,

I'll read it to you. It says, I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate census based on modern day facts and figures, and importantly, using the results and information gain from the presidential election of twenty twenty four. He said, people who are in the country illegally will not be counted in the census. Thank you for your attention to

this matter. Now, what is interesting in all of this Under the US Constitution, in the US Census Bureau is required to conduct account every ten years of every resident of the country, regardless of citizenship or legal status. Now, the census is used to determine how many members of Congress are elected from each state. And there's one little problem when you get to all of this, illegal immigrants should not be counted and used to create congressional districts.

They're not in the country illegally. Now, all of this stems from the fact that what the Democrats have mastered, which is gerry mandering, what they have been experts at, which is gerry mandering, what they have done in every blue state has been effective in taking away representation from Republicans in all of these states. I've been giving you the numbers. I won't stop giving you the numbers. New York, for example, in that particular state, and I think New

York is representative of many. If you look at Republicans for House seats, they won forty two percent of the vote. They only have statewide twenty seven percent of the seats available, but it's a nationwide trend. California Republicans for House votes they win thirty nine percent of the vote. They have only seventeen percent of the states. In Connecticut, Republicans won a respectable forty percent of the House vote. They have zero seats. Illinois, the most jerrymandered you know, map or

state in the country. Republicans won a very respectable forty seven percent of the state wide vote, but they only have eighteen percent of congressional seats. Maryland they won thirty five percent, but they only have twelve percent of representation of Republicans. Massachusetts, and this is what's funny about the governor of Massachusetts say, well, you've got to fight fire with fire, Okay. In the state of Massachusetts, Trump won

thirty six percent of the vote. They don't have one Republican have not had a Republican congressional seat going in back to the nineteen nineties. New Jersey Republicans get forty five percent of the House vote. They have twenty seven percent. In Nevada, Republicans won the state white House vote by ten points, walked away with one single House seat in

the whole state. New Mexico forty five percent state white House votes, zero seats, Oregon forty two percent state white House vote, seventeen percent of the seats, Washington state forty two percent state white House vote, less than fifty less than half of that twenty percent of the seats.

Speaker 1

That's it.

Speaker 2

And now the Massachusetts governor is actually heal. He's threatening a redistrict or state even though it now has zero

Republican House members. One Texas Democrat comparing Republican redistricting and jerrymandering to the Holocaust, and then James carvel is going full scorch to Earth and talking about if Democrats get back empowered, they will unilaterally add Puerto Rico and the DC and declare them and give them statehood, which would give Democrats in their minds for additional Senate seats and more congressional representation. Also talked about expanding the Supreme Court

to thirteen members, packing the court. Now, all of this in response to the fact that all that the Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants to do is followed the same rules that have been applied in blue states to his red state of Texas, and this is sent the Democratic Party spirally. Anyway, Texas Governor, friend of the program, Greg Abbott is back with those. Governor, I love everything you do.

It's like when the borders were wide open and you said, okay, well you're a sanctuary city or state, We're going to send all of our illegal immigrants to your state. That was political jiu jitsu at the highest level.

Speaker 3

Well, Sean, I'll tell you you're done a great job exposing the jerrymandering that's taking place across the entire country. I got to be honest with you, I think if Texas were not doing redistricting right now, most of America would not know about the facts you just articulated. And it must be reemphasized. All of the large blue states in the country have been jerrymander to the maximum amount. And all Texas is really doing is based upon a

change in the law. We are no longer requiring coalition districts, and we were able to ensure that voters in the state of Texas who are voting for Congress get to vote for their Canada choice. We're creating five new seats where the residents and voters in those districts they voted for Donald Trump, but they were also against their will, packed in a district where they had to exist under

a Democrats member of Congress. We're just redrawing the lines as fully authorized by law, and Texas is nowhere near drawn to the extreme ways that you see Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, California and so many of the Blue states.

Speaker 2

All right, and by the way, I want to emphasize here this is perfectly legal. I had on your Attorney General, Paxton he was on, I had Dan Patrick on again, both emphasizing that this is perfectly legal, there's nothing Democrats can do. Instead, they picked up their toys and they went to, of all places, I thought, somewhat ironically, Illinois, where you know, it's the most gerrymandered state in the.

Speaker 3

Country, which is amazing unto itself. They're flaying. So Texas is known as a state where you state and fight. But we're known because of the Battle of the Alamo, where everybody chose to state and fight even though they faced our outcome. And now we have Democrats who turn and flee whenever they don't get their way. And I got to tell you this is hurting them back in their home district. For one, every one of their voters they have to go to work. If their voters don't

show up to work, they'll get firs. These Democrat members of the Texas House, they think they don't have to show up to work, their voters will remind them. Their voters will also remind them they don't like Texas legislators cutting and running. The last thing I'll say, Sean is this we are still grappling with the devastation of the floods that ripped across central Texas and especially the Kerville area.

I put on this thirty day special session agenda helping to address the victims of this horrific flooding and the Democrats turn their back on Texans and repairing from the floods. The reparation from the floods has been slowed because Democrats chose to go to Chicago and New York and other leftist areas.

Speaker 2

All right, let's talk about what options you have available to force them back either into the state so you can get a quorum and you can have the vote take place, and of course the emergency moneies that are needed for the victims of the flood. By the way, again, Governor will express to you my sincerest, you know, prayers and regrets of all that you've gone through there. It's

been very tough for the people of Texas. I know a lot of people that were very close to the camp in that that I think it's what Camp Mystic and all the people that lost loved ones. It's heartbreaking what happened there.

Speaker 3

Well, it's horrendous. We are still searching for two people who remain missing around the Camp Mystic area, including one of the campers there. And while that search continues, while we continue the process of rebuilding those communities, we're trying to implement reforms such as warnings and things that would actually save lives. And these Democrats have chosen to play politics over saving lives by running to Illinois. And you got to understand this, Sean, It's a feudal exercise the

Democrats are going through. They've done this before. Every time they break the war and run off to some of the state. They eventually come back, and they will come back, whether it be tomorrow, the next day, or next week, whatever the case may be. But what they did in the meantime, they slowed the recovery process with the people

who desperately needed the most. And the people who can remember that here in the upcoming elections will be the voters too knew they had a Democrat who was a chicken, a coward, and they run off to some other state as opposed to taking care of business.

Speaker 2

Let's talk about you going to the state Supreme Court. What are you asking them to do and when do you expect a decision?

Speaker 3

I found in a lawsuit in the Texas Supreme Court two days ago requesting the removal of the ring leader of the Democrat operation. He's the chair of the Democrat Caucus and there's plenty of evidence to show that he has abandoned his office. There's a legal term called co wronto, and that proceeding has brought before the Texas Supreme Court. I'm allowed to go directly to the Supreme Court, as

opposed to a trial court to seek the removal. The same night that I filed the petition in the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court issued in order to this legislator his name is Jean Wu, telling jin Wu he had to respond by tomorrow to the legal action that I've taken. My point is this, the Supreme Court of Texas has taken this very serious, looking very closely at the possibility of removing from office the ring leader of the Democrat operation that runs a runaway from Texus, abandon their duty

and is preventing the Texus Legislature from taking action. One last point about this. The Texas Constitution is clear. It says that the legislature shall conduct business and take up bills as they arise, and take action on those bills. And it doesn't say that you can cut and run and prevent action. They must take action. So they are in direct violation of the Constitution. They should be removed from office. And that's what I'm seeking the Texas Supreme Court.

Speaker 2

Let's just imagine a scenario and I hope it doesn't come to fruition where they maybe the court doesn't go your way. Whenever you get before a court, you never know how it's going to turn out. And these people just stay away and stay away, and stay away, and stay away and stay away. At some point, there's got to be some mechanism to compel them to do their job and show up.

Speaker 3

Well, let's talk about what is possible, and that is as we're talking on the phone right now, there are Texas law enforcements who are scouring the state of Texas. We have a drag net going on around the state looking for some of the Democrat House members who are still here in the state of Texas, and we will seek to arrest them and bring them to the Texas Capitol.

And we may have enough votes or a quorum sometime soon without even having to worry about these people who run away from doing their job.

Speaker 2

In other words, as a matter of law, you have the ability to pick up elected officials and bring them to the state capitol and their very presence is enough to create the quorum that would allow.

Speaker 1

For the vote to go through exactly right, Well, I hope that happens.

Speaker 2

Maybe you can ship them off when it's all said and done, to New York like you did the illegal immigrants, or California, any sanctuary city or state in the country, and maybe they can stay there if that's where their views are. I don't know if you saw the article that came out this week, did you see one hundred thousand Californians annually or are headed to your state of Texas. That's a pretty high number.

Speaker 3

I know. I'm thinking about maybe putting a tariff on them or something like that to raise more revenue for.

Speaker 4

The state.

Speaker 2

Of tariff if you want to come to the free State of Texas.

Speaker 1

Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 3

Exactly is such a big import we need a tariff all of our imports. But all kidding aside to tell you something that's very important, that is, yeah, well, there are a lot of people leaving California because they cannot stand of the leftist government out there. What some people don't know and that is, there's actually a large number of people leaving Texas and moving to California. And before they go to California, they know the crazy government they

have out there. So here's the point. We have a massive exchange program going on. But we are getting conservatives from California and California's getting liberals from Texas well.

Speaker 2

I think that's a fair exchange. I keep saying, if you want to go to Texas, if you want to go to Florida, if you want to go to Tennessee or the Carolinas. It's fine if you come from one of these deep blue states, but don't bring the policies that ruin the state that you're coming from to your new state.

Speaker 1

Otherwise you're not wanted exactly.

Speaker 3

And I mean, look at some of the people who have come here. We've got Elon Muskill, Lonesdale, people like that who are heavily involved in what is now Republican politics. And so we've got some people who are making a difference here in a way it's good for the state, while at the same time we're losing some leptists who were deciding to move out to California. That's a fair truck.

Speaker 2

And You're going to be a huge beneficiary. This announcement that took place in the Oval Office yesterday with Tim Cook of Apple, Texas is getting a huge chunk of the billions of dollars. They're going to build a massive manufacturing center in Texas.

Speaker 3

That's exactly right. So Apple already has massive operations in the state. They're about to expand it even more with the announcement yesterday. And it's just part of the way that Texas is leading the innovation age because Texas ranks number one for semiconductor manufacturing we've been number one for more than a decade, and number one for semiconductor exports. We're number one for space, we're number one for artificial

intelligence advancement. And so everything that's going to be huge important to the future is taking place right here in the state of Texas. And now Texas we have created our own stock exchange, and that created a competition now the New York Stock Exchange and the NAS deck they've set up operations in Alice, Texas to compete with the Texas Stock Exchange.

Speaker 2

Well, I loved my friends in Texas. God bless Texas again. We're playing praying for the families is that lost loved ones during that terrible flood. I mean it was a flash flood at the worst hour of the day. Maybe it was one in a hundred year flood. And our prayers are with the families of the victims and all Texans that have been impacted by this governor. You always show a lot of innovation, a lot of courage. You think out of the box. I know you'll get over

this hump. And thank you for your political courage that you always show. We appreciate you.

Speaker 3

You got it. God bless you, and God bless your audience.

Speaker 2

All right, let's get to our busy phones. All right, let's say hi to Lauren in Colorado. Lauren, how are you glad you called?

Speaker 5

Thanks Sean, Thanks higging my call.

Speaker 1

Thank you, sir, I first time caller.

Speaker 5

That I have a question for all of those powers Estinian protesters that I believe is a rhetorical question, and the question goes like this, there's one hundred and ninety eight countries in the world, and to the best of my knowledge, there is not one country that is offering, let alone allowing the citizens of Gaza to seek refuge. And the question tells the protesters. Is so, why is that? I want to get your take on that.

Speaker 2

You mean, now you're asking me why countries, the surrounding countries have not absorbed the Palestinian population over the years to give them a home of their own.

Speaker 5

Well, that's so much that. But during the war right now, they're talking about all this starvation and everything like that. And historically in the world, when there's been war and famine like that, people leave the country and they seek refuge in other countries.

Speaker 2

Well they well, And so that basically is what I was saying to you, and that there is a reason. And I can tell you the reason, am I you is that if you and we we've covered this now for a long long time on both radio and TV. If you look at how young Palestinian children are raised and how they are radicalized, and you have cartoons that that talk about killing the Jews, and you know they go to they go to first second grade, they're learning basic fundamental math.

Speaker 1

Okay, you have five Jews? You killed two?

Speaker 2

How many more Jews are left to kill? I mean, we've shown these books and they are that bad. This is not hyperbole on my part, and so do if you're in Egypt or Jordan or Saudi Arabia. Are you real the Emirates or any of the Gulf nations, are you really going to want to absorb that population.

Speaker 1

I don't think so.

Speaker 2

Most of those countries on their own have issues with radicalism and extremism. Anyway, appreciate the call, but at this point, you know, there's always been one solution of this whole problem, and the fact that people have forgotten what happened on

October seventh is kind of mind numbing to me. You know, the fact that you can see a guy that looks like he's, you know, in one of the terror tunnels, that is so emaciated and believes he's digging his own grave, a hostage that has been held since October seventh, twenty twenty three. Desperately. He's dying on this propaganda videotape. And I understand why a lot of networks don't want to air it because they believe it's some moss propaganda and

they want to scare people. And I respect their decision. I understand it's a tough moral issue for people, but all you lost the equivalent of forty thousand people. If you extrapolate out and compare the population of Israel versus the population of the US forty thousand people in a day,

and there was murder, rape, torture, hiddenapping, and beheadings. I've seen the videotapes that the would show certain members of the media, And at this point, when does Israel have a right to exist without having in close proximity like Gaza. You can see it with the naked eye. The leaders that were put into power Hamas that in their charter

calls for the destruction of Israel. And when I'd been there, they had fired tens and tens of thousands of rockets, at over ten thousand in the one city I went to start, and I went to the police station. I saw the varying the level of sophistication of the rockets. They've become more lethal every year, because they would have the remnants of them. They'd have rockets that had fallen into the city, or the underground bunker playgrounds that kids play in, or the number of people that have died

as a result of this. So at some point you got to realize that Hamas, if you want to know all starvation, all death, all dying, is because Hamas has been at war with Israel entire time, and they of course being supported by the number one state sponsor of terror Oran And if you don't take out the cancer at its root, then it's going to come back. Do I think that all the Palestinian people, I think a lot of them want to live in peace, but they

are too deathly afraid of the leadership. And this is where a lot of the food and humanitarian aid has been stolen, but still one hundred plus million meals have been given out to people and Israel at that point. I don't know why people don't understand murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, and beheading. I have a hard time understanding the argument or the fact that they want to blame Israel. Let's say, how to Rebecca Arkansas next Sean Hannity Show. Hey Rebecca, how are you?

Speaker 4

Hey Sean, I'm doing great.

Speaker 6

How are you?

Speaker 1

I'm good? Thank you for calling.

Speaker 4

Okay, So I'm this is a reference to reference to you and Mike ro talking on the phone the other day. I hung I had my own business back in the nineties, and I just wanted to tell you I was like five foot three plit, one hundred and thirty pounds terrified of heights that I had no choice because I was single mom and I had to make money for my three daughters and myself. So I started. I got a little internship from a friend of mine that hung paper,

and I started my own business. And what wild tales do I have to say about that I came up.

Speaker 2

No, it's funny you say this because when I was in Rhode Island those in my early twenties, I got a big job at Itt Greanelle and I had a painting company at the time that evolved into a construction company. And part of the job was I had to bid on hanging wallpaper. And I'm, oh, yeah, we hang wallpaper too.

And I mean, while I never had hung wallpaper in my life, I was fortunate in a friend of mine, Andy Fian, that I went to high school with, went to the Vermont School of Wallpaper hanging all tim he came up, and when he came up, not only did he do a great job, he taught me how to do it. And then I ended up adding that to my repertoire. And I made a fortune hanging wallpaper because they are really good at it.

Speaker 4

Yeah, yeah, I did too, except I was short and afraid of heights, so I had to come up with all kinds of creative ideas on how to reach the walls, like in like tall kitchens.

Speaker 1

Like you were afraid of getting on a ladder, well.

Speaker 4

I was afraid of heights. I mean I didn't mind, you know, like no more than nine feet elevation, but when I got into you know, ten and eleven and stuff like that. So when I couldn't reach places like in a kitchen, I put my ladder on top of the refrigerator and move the refrigerator around the kitchen and

to hang the paper. And yeah, so many crazy stories, like one lady had a bunch of birds and she had a mccallu named Katie, and that bird would squeak and holler at me if he couldn't if she couldn't see me, So I had to move her cage into the kitchen where I was hanging the wallpaper so she'd shut up.

Speaker 1

Listen.

Speaker 2

I'm I would be able to hang a kitchen or a bathroom usually in just a few hours.

Speaker 1

I got that fast at it.

Speaker 2

I tell you where I made a lot of money was was removing wallpaper. You know, most people have no clue how to remove wallpaper and if it once you know how to do it. I mean I could go in and strip a room down an hour and a half walk out with three hundred dollars in my pocket. People it would be amazed, but also happy that they

didn't have to do it right. Remember, you would use DIFF, you remember the chemical, and then you'd use a remember that, one of those garden hose sprayers, and you'd spray the wall and it would just basically fall off, unless you had to scour it because it was plastic and the DIFF wouldn't penetrate behind the wallpaper. In that case, you either were able to strip it off, strip off the cover,

and then take off the under lying wallpaper. But I did a lot of that work, and there was a great sense of satisfaction because you get in there, you're going through your day, you focus, you dialed in, and then at the end of the day you take a look at the room and it's totally transformed. And I always had a very high sense of satisfaction doing that.

Speaker 4

I did too, and people just loved it. I mean people would lead me these nice little love notes.

Speaker 5

You know.

Speaker 4

If I didn't get it all finished in one day, and how wonderful it looks and stuff. If I couldn't get the paper off, I learned that I would paint it with kills and then I would float out to see the wallpaper, stand them down and then put kills on them. Then I hang over it, and I mean I came up with.

Speaker 2

Tons of Okay, they brought up kills. Do you remember the oil based kills? Not that they don't even make it today, You remember that?

Speaker 4

Yeah, oh yeah, yep, yep, okay.

Speaker 2

I was stupid enough to spray kills because the walls were a mess. It was in New England. Spray an entire room because I had a pain sprayer, uh huh, And the walls were a mess, and kills would prevent stains from coming through the wall. It was just very It was very powerful. I sprayed the room and I came out of that room. I only had one of those you know, white masks on that we used during COVID, and I was high as a kite. I think I was wasted for twenty four straight hours.

Speaker 1

Oh lord, oh it was.

Speaker 2

You did not want to get in a room full of kills being sprayed. It was I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 1

I was.

Speaker 2

I was high as a kite. It was so bad and probably destroyed half my lungs.

Speaker 4

Well probably, yeah, but I you know, it's something like remember those metallic wallpapers that only would come off like in gum rapper sizes.

Speaker 1

Oh yeah.

Speaker 4

So I finally decided it's like I'm going to paint the whole thing with kills flowed out the seam, repaint those and hang over it. It took me a while to figure that out, but you know, I just.

Speaker 1

Well, here's another trick too.

Speaker 2

If you had pre pay stood wallpaper, if if you didn't put what was kind of like the equivalent of a paste with with Elmer's glue on it, If you hung that paper pre pasted wallpaper and you didn't prepare the walls with the Elmer's glue where the seams would be, they would split apart. You'd leave and three days later you get a call, excuse me, this job is horrible because the paper dried out and it's split. But that would prevent the splitting. So that was another trick that we had to use.

Speaker 4

Well, I also had like a like an animal they called, you know, needles with a tube, And so if I had any bubbles or anything. I would go ahead and use that and punch it and then squirt squirt it in workings were coming up, and I don't know, you just get really creative, you know, help, But.

Speaker 1

You made a good living.

Speaker 2

And I think the moral of the story here is a lot of young people don't want to work hard. And if you are willing to work hard and learn a craft, it's very easy to learn how to do the paint. It's very easy. I could teach people out of paint. I could teach people how to hang wallpaper. I could teach people to strip wallpaper. And the only thing you need is a desire to learn, and you could then make really good money doing it. Because that is a job. I promise you nobody wants to do.

It's a job that they're not going to do well on their own. To do it yourself is not going to do well.

Speaker 4

Nope, nope, looks like cra yep it does. Yeah.

Speaker 2

So all right, well, I'm glad you call Rebecca. God bless you. All right, quick break right back to our phones. It's eight hundred nine sean. If you want to be a part of the program, as we continue, eight hundred ninety four one Sean. Uh, and we'll get back to your call straight ahead on the biggest stories of the day for solutions to help move America forward.

Speaker 3

This is a Seany show.

Speaker 2

All right, let's get back to our busy phones fuel free. It's eight hundred and ninety four one Sean. If you want to join us, we have a minute left. Trina in Florida. Hey Trina, you got the last minute.

Speaker 6

Hi, thank you for the call, for taking my call, and I'm so grateful for what you do on the radio.

Speaker 1

Thank you.

Speaker 6

I just wanted to make a mention about today's generation of kids. And I'm talking about even the twenty five thirty five year olds. They don't want to use any elbow grease. They lack self esteem to the point where they have no ambition, I mean, to get up and go to work every day. It's like, are you serious?

Speaker 5

You know, It's just it just boggles the.

Speaker 6

Mind to think this is the upcoming generation that's right here looking at us. And automation is kind of like owning an exclusive automobile. When it runs, it's terrific, and when it doesn't, it's a piece of crap, you know. And they're they're added to are just so gives me get me I got to have and that generation is just.

Speaker 2

I listen, I can tell you I see it all the time. And here's the last part I'm going to say. And I have to run only because of the constraints of time. You know, we can tell right away on radio and TV when we hire somebody if they're gonna make it or not. And you either have the desire to put in the time, learn the culture, put your head down and work hard, or you don't it. And there's an entitlement and mentality that I'd never seen before. And but it never works. You're not gonna You're not

gonna be able to survive in my business. If you do that. You just can't h Anyway, I do appreciate you called Trina. You're right about that. But the good news is if you're willing to work hard, there's more opportunities for you.

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