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00:00Welcome to this special edition of Hannity. I'm Charlie Hurt, in for Sean.
00:05Kamala Harris' new book is set to come out on Tuesday, and it appears she is going scorched earth.
00:11And few Democrats will come out unscathed.
00:14Among the Democrats she is calling out are former President Joe Biden,
00:18Minnesota Governor and her former running mate, Tim Waltz,
00:22Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer,
00:25Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,
00:30California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, to name a few.
00:36According to people who have read the book, Mayor Pete was her first choice for running mate.
00:42But she worried about his liability on the ticket,
00:46an idea that Buttigieg took particular exception to.
00:50Listen to his response.
00:51I was surprised when I read that.
00:54I just believe in giving Americans more credit than that.
00:58My experience in politics has been that the way that you earn trust with voters is
01:04based mostly on what they think you're going to do for their lives, not on categories.
01:09And I wouldn't have run for president if I didn't believe that.
01:13She also called out Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro,
01:16characterizing him as too eager for the VP job.
01:20Governor Josh Shapiro joined Stephen A. Smith and made some interesting comments about Kamala.
01:26Take a look.
01:28How should we feel when we hear something that we suspected but wasn't acknowledged by politicians
01:34who were looking for our support?
01:37And then we find out later we were right and they should have spoken up and they should have
01:41shown more courage.
01:42What do you say to that?
01:43I mean, look, I haven't read the former vice president's book and she's going to have to
01:48she's going to have to answer to how she was in the room and yet never said anything publicly.
01:55Now, among her many criticisms of former President Biden, Kamala reveals one particularly bizarre
02:01story in which she says Biden called her right before her debate with President Trump and said
02:07his brother told him that her people were bad mouthing him among donors.
02:14She also said she, quote, had no idea that she had pulled the pin on a hand grenade when she gave
02:22this disastrous answer on the view, all but sinking her own campaign.
02:27You'll remember this.
02:29If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?
02:37There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of and I've been a part of of of most of the
02:43decisions that have had impact.
02:46Here now with reaction, Fox News contributors Byron York and Leslie Marshall and U.S.
02:51Senate candidate in New Hampshire, Scott Brown.
02:53Thank you all for joining us.
02:54So, Byron, you've followed politics for a long time and that particular comment about not realizing
03:04she had pulled the pin on a hand grenade when she could not think of a single thing that she
03:10would have done differently from the disastrous Biden presidency.
03:15Does that mean that she really was actually a worse political actor than we thought?
03:21Apparently so.
03:23She says her staff instantly realized that she had made a huge mistake and, of course,
03:29the rest of the planet instantly realized that as well.
03:33You know, it is very hard to see the rationale behind this book.
03:38You listed a number of the people she took shots at at the top of this show and that's most of
03:45the 2028 Democratic field.
03:46Okay, that's fine.
03:48She's going after people who might run against her if she chose to run again in 2028.
03:53But, you know, Governor Shapiro is exactly right.
03:55She is going to have to answer about the Joe Biden question.
04:00And Joe Biden is really the biggest villain in this book.
04:03She calls it 107 Days, the title of the book, because she claims she didn't have enough time
04:10to run a winning campaign.
04:12And, of course, the reason she didn't have enough time was that Biden waited until the
04:16very last second to pull out.
04:19So it's a book full of resentments.
04:21Hard to see how it helps her.
04:23And, of course, this comes after she has already said that it was irresponsible of him to run
04:27in the first place.
04:28Leslie, I have to ask you, you know, that story about Joe Biden calling her before the debate
04:34and really getting in her head and kind of rattling her by her own account.
04:38Do you think that Joe Biden really was trying to undermine her and cause her to lose the election?
04:47No, absolutely not.
04:49Former President Biden is a career politician who loves his party.
04:53And like most people in their parties, wants their party and their candidates and their allies
04:59in the party, which she certainly was as his second to him as vice president, to win.
05:03Look, I know you guys are going to be really shocked.
05:06And I know it's a Friday night and we don't have cocktails, but you'll need one.
05:09I can't stand kiss and tell.
05:12I don't care when a Democrat does it, a Republican does it.
05:14I can't stand it.
05:15One, two.
05:16I don't like when women do it more so.
05:18It makes us look more emotional.
05:19It gives credence to those arguments that we get against our gender.
05:23And then, you know, attacking my governor, Gavin Newsom, when he actually posted his endorsement
05:28hours after, and she doesn't mention that later in the book.
05:31I would agree with Byron on this.
05:32I don't think this helps her.
05:34You're attacking two of the biggest rising stars in this party right now.
05:38My governor, Gavin Newsom, and Pennsylvania's governor, Josh Shapiro.
05:41And one of the things I always say as a Democrat, that we Democrats actually can learn from
05:47Republicans, is to unite.
05:49And this is not uniting.
05:51I don't think it helps her.
05:52I don't think it helps the party.
05:55And again, you've got to own it if you messed up.
05:58My party, we didn't win.
05:59Listen, regroup, get out and do better.
06:01That's what I teach my kids.
06:02And I would say the same to the former vice president and anybody, left or right, that's
06:06ever lost.
06:07Well, in defense of Kiss and Tell Books, now, I would never write one myself, but as a lifelong
06:12reporter, I love them.
06:15Scott Brown, I was also particularly struck by this accusation that, or this claim that
06:21she makes that she couldn't pick Pete Buttigieg because he was gay and because the American
06:29people couldn't handle having a black woman and a gay person on the ticket, so she didn't
06:36give him the job.
06:37Isn't that the definition of the homophobia that these people are always lecturing us about?
06:43Yeah, well, it tells you a whole lot about the Democratic Party and the state of it right
06:46now.
06:47They believe we are all racists and bigots.
06:49They're devoid of leadership.
06:52They don't have anyone to really lead.
06:54And, you know, you look at these types of comments, she's clearly just trying to sell
06:58a book because I believe her political career is over and she's going to go on the speaking
07:02tour.
07:03And that's the only way she can really get a good fee is to try to do what she's doing
07:07exactly.
07:08But because there's no leadership in the party, you see these types of things.
07:12You see what's happening in the House of Representatives.
07:14I mean, we have a leader.
07:15We have President Trump who's doing every day and remembering America's greatness and pushing
07:21us forward on each and every day.
07:23And that's a good thing.
07:24He was obviously given a task.
07:26He knows the American public.
07:28I don't believe the Democrats are in touch with the American public right now.
07:32And they have a lot of work to do.
07:33Right.
07:34You know, Byron, you referenced this earlier.
07:36And but and I think you're probably right about it.
07:39Do you think that a lot of this is just the beginning machinations of the Democrat primary?
07:46Yeah, absolutely.
07:47She she hasn't said what she's going to do.
07:50She appears that she's not going to run for the governor of California.
07:53So if she's going to run for anything, it would be for president in 2028.
07:58Although political parties very, very seldom nominate again the person they nominated the
08:05last time who lost.
08:07Obviously, that happened with Donald Trump.
08:09But it's really, really rare.
08:11You have to go back to Nixon in 1968.
08:14And before that, there were some examples.
08:16But it's a really rare thing.
08:17Parties don't like losers.
08:19Right.
08:21That's a bipartisan thing.
08:22Leslie, real quickly, when you look at this field, who would you put your odds on favorite
08:28for?
08:30I, you know, I'll say it.
08:32I think it's going to be Gavin Newsom against J.D. Vance.
08:34And, you know, you've got definite far leaning left and far leaning right.
08:38And I wouldn't agree with Senator Brown, though.
08:42I'll say I'd like to do a little bet with him on TV.
08:45Pick the dollar amount.
08:46I think that Democrats are going to be very strong in the midterms.
08:49And I do think their messaging right now is on point because they're sending the message
08:53that we missed on in the general, which is the economy, immigration and other issues
08:58like that.
08:59When we're really not seeing that from the right side of the aisle right now.
09:02Well, we're certainly not seeing that in some of those races, most notably in New York
09:07City.
09:08Byron, Leslie and Scott, thank you so much for joining us.
09:12And yet another sign that the radical left is taking over the Democratic Party.
09:17A new report says that squad member Congresswoman AOC is now mulling a bid for Senate or for
09:25president in 2028.
09:27Joining us with reaction, Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper and Fox News contributor Kaylee
09:32McGee-White.
09:34So great to see you both tonight.
09:36Kaylee, do our Republicans, is it dangerous for Republicans to dismiss AOC so quickly?
09:47I don't think that we should underestimate her, Charlie.
09:50And I say this as a Gen Zer who knows firsthand just how big of an appeal she has on social
09:55media, especially among young adults.
09:57And several other Democrats have a similar appeal.
09:59You just look at what's happening in New York City right now with Mom Donnie, who similarly
10:03has built the foundation of his campaign on social media.
10:07And it's working.
10:08And it will work for AOC as well, especially in certain blue parts of the country.
10:13And beyond her online following, there's also the fact that her politics and the ideology
10:17she represents, they're no longer the fringe in the Democratic Party, Charlie.
10:22In fact, they're the mainstream.
10:24Today provided an excellent example of this.
10:27AOC got up on the House floor and began deliberately and maliciously smearing Charlie Kirk and his legacy.
10:33And you know what her Democratic colleagues did?
10:35Ninety-six Democrats either voted against or as present for a resolution condemning his political
10:42assassination.
10:43They agree with her, Charlie, even if they're not willing to say so out loud.
10:47So we need to stop treating her as the outlier of the Democratic Party and realize that she
10:52actually is the perfect representation of what this party has become, which is completely out of
10:57touch, dishonest and radical.
11:00You know, Horace, I think that Kayleigh makes a very important point there.
11:04In every way that you can measure, it appears that AOC is in charge of this party.
11:11Well, the real observation that I would have is that there is no leadership in this party
11:19and they need to call a political oncologist very, very quickly because the radical metastasis
11:29has set in and it's rapidly spreading.
11:32Even after beclowning herself with her comments about Charlie Kirk, her fellow members, many of them
11:43sided with her rather than logic, reason and just basic good form.
11:52The cancer that is taking over the world's oldest political party is very, very likely going
12:02to lead not to Gavin Newsom, but to AOC and her radical fringe ideas taking over the party
12:12and getting the nomination.
12:15And, you know, Kayleigh, I would think that making matters even worse for Democrats is the fact that
12:20there were still more Democrats who voted in favor, talking about the Charlie Kirk resolution,
12:26more Democrats voted in favor of the resolution than sided with AOC, which not only are they going
12:33off with the crazy train, but they're also really deeply divided.
12:37They are. And that's the one big benefit for Republicans as AOC pursues a bigger national profile.
12:43I mean, the fact is, every time she opens her mouth, a new Republican is created.
12:47And I don't think that Democrats realize what has happened, especially over the past week or so.
12:52They are isolating themselves from everyone in this country with common sense.
12:57This began back in the 2024 election cycle, and it has cemented itself this past week with Charlie Kirk's assassination.
13:03The fact of the matter is, when you have people like AOC get up on the House floor and smear Charlie Kirk
13:09as a racist, as a sexist, as you name it, et cetera, et cetera, the average American is then going back
13:15and they're watching Charlie's debates. They're looking at his show. They're watching his videos.
13:20And they're realizing that he was none of those things at all. In fact, they share many of his views.
13:26So what does that say about AOC and what she might think of them as well?
13:30Horace, putting on your political prognosticating hat, do you think that AOC is running for president
13:39or do you think she is running to pick off Chuck Schumer the way she picked off Joe Crowley,
13:45who, let's not forget, was the number three Democrat in the House of Representatives when she picked him off?
13:50When the Democrats lose ground in the midterm elections, the appeal of serving in the Senate
13:59will not be so attractive. Of course she's going to want to lead. When I was a kid, Democrats hid
14:06their far left and radical ideas and they lied and they pretended they were just like you and I.
14:13Now they tell the truth. And guess who's the biggest truth teller? AOC.
14:21Indeed.
14:22Kaylee, do you think that, do you think she's running for president or do you think she's
14:27running for, to pick off Chuck Schumer?
14:29Depends on whether she wants to win. I think she could win New York Senate pretty easily.
14:33Don't think that she's going to win the White House anytime soon.
14:36Very good. Horace, Kaylee, thank you both for joining us.
14:38Whether Democrats admit it or not, the far left radicals are now running the party.
14:46Just look at their candidate for mayor in New York City, avowed socialist Zoran Mamdani,
14:52who, according to CNN, received a phone call from Barack Obama, during which the former president
14:58reminded him that many people would be watching his ability to govern, with Democrats looking to see
15:05if a socialist could govern, and critics ready to pounce on any mistake he makes.
15:11According to the report, Obama stressed that values are important, but prioritizing good hires
15:17is even more important.
15:20Mamdani is building growing support behind his campaign, despite still missing out on a few notable
15:26endorsements, including that of House Minority Leader and New York City Congressman,
15:31Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Minority Leader, New York Senator Chuck Schumer.
15:37And as of tonight, the New York State Democratic Chairman still has not endorsed Mamdani.
15:43Here with more, Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
15:46Senator Mullen, thank you so much for joining us.
15:48You know, if you're a political nerd who likes to watch politics, this is an extraordinary race
15:54to watch in New York City. You have the capital, the leader of the, you know, the capital of capitalism
16:01in the free world, New York City, on the verge of having a full-blown communist as its mayor,
16:09and then you have the highest-ranked Democrats in the country,
16:14Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, refusing to endorse him.
16:17Well, Mamdani is definitely the leading of the Democrat Party right now.
16:23If you think about it, you have Mamdani, you have Sanders, you have AOC, you have Jasmine Crockett
16:29that's out there leading. And so you have Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries that are trying to figure out
16:34where they belong, because if he, Hakeem Jeffries is wanting to run for president in 28,
16:37so he doesn't want to get close to this communist, and we're not calling him names.
16:41He openly says he's a communist.
16:43So you have communists, you have socialists that are leading the party right now. You have Chuck
16:47Schumer that is trying to figure out which way he goes, because AOC isn't going to run for president.
16:53I don't think there's any way she does that. She is going to pick off Chuck Schumer, and he knows
16:58that. And that's why this whole government shutdown is going in the direction that it's going,
17:02because it's going to be a Schumer shutdown, because if he votes for a CR to keep the government
17:05open, AOC is definitely running against him. So you have Mamdani now that is a true communist,
17:12like he says it himself, we're not calling names, he says it himself, very proud of it,
17:17that could be leading the financial world, the city that the financial world sets in. I mean,
17:24the exodus is going to be huge. Dallas, Texas is going to end up with a stock exchange. All the
17:29corporate money that's in New York is going to leave the state, because who's going to stay
17:35when you have a guy that says he wants to socialize the grocery stores, he wants to socialize
17:40the parks, he wants to socialize the, and when I say socialize the parks, he wants to open them up
17:48for homelessness to stay in place. He wants to take the police department and literally gut it and make
17:53it into where they're just public servants, not actually law enforcement. And you go, who wants to
17:57live in a city like that? I mean, literally, who wants to live in a city like that? Not to mention,
18:01they've already taken over the schools. Right. And of course, it's important to remember that
18:05Mom Donnie is far more a rejection of Democrats and Democrat policies, the policies that have
18:10governed this city for literally decades. But I also have to say, and I know that you appreciate
18:17this because you're a fairly late newcomer to Washington, and you're very skeptical of the old
18:26Republican establishment, for which I'm very grateful. But, you know, I've seen, you know,
18:31situations where a situation looks really good for Republicans on a paper, and then the Republican
18:37Party, pre-Trump, they find new ways to lose things. And so I get a little nervous, especially here
18:44as, you know, we're in the final term of Donald Trump's presidency. You know, do you have faith that
18:51Republicans are going to learn the lesson that is needed to combat this guy?
18:57Well, we have different leadership in the Republican Party right now. I mean, just think
19:01about how close Leader Thune works with President Trump. Look what he's doing right now and just
19:07literally steamrolling Chuck Schumer every opportunity we have. I mean, just today,
19:13we are, just yesterday, we voted to change the rules, and now we have 168 of President's
19:18nominees in place. And by the end of October, we won't have a backlog at all because of the
19:22leadership of Thune. So you have a good partnership right now. You have President
19:26Trump that's leading. He has a very good partnership with Speaker Johnson. We're working
19:32hand-in-hand, and I mean this, both chambers are working hand-in-hand with the White House,
19:37pushing out President Trump's agenda. And so I don't see us getting ahead of our skis, so to say.
19:43I think in the midterm right now, there's a clear contrast between who's leading the Democrat Party
19:49and instead of them learning their lessons from getting whipped just a year ago in the presidential
19:54election, they've actually leaned into their left tendencies, and they're allowing socialists and
19:59communists to control their party. The Republicans are showing more unification than we've ever had.
20:05Now, we still have some outliers, but we're unified in what the American people mandated
20:10November of last year, and we're moving forward with President Trump's agenda of making America
20:16great again. So I think if we continue down this path, the American people have a clear contrast
20:22between what the Biden administration stood for, what the Trump administration stood for,
20:27and which leadership and which party do you want to be leading this country is very clear.
20:32Yeah. Well, and I pray that, you know, one thing I will give credit to Mamdani for is he has picked
20:40up a lot of frustrations, in particular among young voters, and obviously he gives a lie as the answer,
20:47but at least he gives an answer. And I pray that, and Donald Trump has been very good about
20:53addressing those issues, and I pray that Republicans, you keep on top of the Republicans
20:59to make sure that they give the true answer. And Charlie, Charlie, I will, but I want you to also
21:06look at what happened in just the, unfortunately, you know, what happened to Charlie Kirk and the
21:10assassination, but what happened to the country? As of today, there's over 60,000, and before,
21:16last time I checked, which was this morning, there's over 60,000 chapters that's, or people
21:21that are requesting new chapters around the country for Turning Point USA. The younger generation that
21:27Charlie Kirk was reaching out to, they've, they, they have woken up inside spiritually and with a,
21:34with a, with a fierce fight to say we're going in the wrong direction, and you don't underestimate
21:40their impact in the midterm elections. Yeah. They, they may have killed him,
21:45they didn't silence him. Mark Wayne Mullen, thank you so much.
21:47Coming up, liberal late night hosts rallied around Jimmy Kimmel last night. We'll explain
21:54and get reaction from Joe Conch and Clay Travis as this special edition of Hannity continues.
22:07Welcome back to the special edition of Hannity. As you might expect, late night hosts had quite a
22:12bit to say about Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. Jon Stewart made a special appearance on the Daily
22:17Show. Tim Waltz even weighed in for some reason. Here's how it all went down. Welcome one and all
22:24to The Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. But tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel. That is blatant
22:36censorship. And it always starts small. You know, remember like in week one of his presidency,
22:42Gulf of America. Call it Gulf of America. Sure, seems harmless, but with an autocrat,
22:47you cannot give an inch. And, and to Jimmy, and to Jimmy, just let me say, I stand with you and your
22:53staff 100%. Well, guys, the big story is that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the
23:02FCC, leaving everyone thinking WTF. And he's a decent, funny and loving guy. And I hope he comes
23:08back. I don't know who this, this Johnny Drimmel live ABC character is, but the point is our great
23:17administration has laid out very clear rules on free speech. Now, some naysayers may argue that this
23:24administration's speech concerns are merely a cynical ploy, a thin gruel of a ruse, a smokescreen,
23:30to obscure and unprecedented consolidation of power and unitary intimidation,
23:36principle-less and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance.
23:44Some people would say that. Not me, though. I think it's great.
23:49It's one of the most outrageous affronts on this. This is North Korea style stuff. And, and it's being
23:55done because this is a weak, thin skin man who's failing as a president. All of the things,
24:00he promised are not happening. And this is exactly what dictators do.
24:05But leave it to none other than John Fetterman to call out his own party and put everything into
24:10perspective for them. The Pennsylvania senator told the Daily Caller that his fellow Democrats
24:15should stop whining about Jimmy Kimmel and focus on the fact that Chuck Schumer wants his caucus to
24:21shut down the government, something that Fetterman opposes. Here now with reaction are Fox News
24:27contributor Joe Concha and OutKick founder Clay Travis. Great to see you both gentlemen tonight.
24:33Joe, I'm so amazed and I'm so relieved to hear that actually Democrats are against government
24:41censorship all of a sudden.
24:45Yeah, the government disinformation board. Remember that? The ministry of truth that so many
24:50actually had advocated during the Biden administration. That was cool then, not so
24:55cool now. And by the way, Charlie, it's the best unintentional comedy out there that Tim
25:00Walls is talking about decency and civility and censorship when literally he said two weeks
25:05ago that he hoped to wake up to news that President Trump was dead. And look, Hollywood and legacy
25:11media, they can rally around Jimmy Kimmel all they want. They can try to make him, Kimmel, more
25:16the victim than Charlie himself, who was only executed and leaves behind a three year old
25:21daughter and a one year old son and a grieving wife. But Jimmy, he's the real casualty here
25:26on your screen here, right? Look, here's the bottom line. When a Broadway show doesn't sell
25:30tickets, the show gets canceled. When a manager isn't winning ball games for a baseball team
25:36finishing a distant third in a four team division, they get fired. When a late night host like Jimmy
25:41Kimmel gets paid $16 million a year and is losing twice as much money for a network while saying the
25:47most grotesque things one could imagine, like wishing all vaccinated people, unvaccinated people,
25:53I just say, die. Or when he plays fanboy to a murderer like Luigi Mangione, or when he lies about the
25:59murderer of Charlie Kirk. And by the way, he was planning on doing it again before the affiliates
26:03set it up. Get rid of this clown. I'm sorry. You lose your job. I don't understand why this is so
26:08hard to understand. If we want to make this about free speech, fine. The affiliates, Sinclair and
26:13Nexstar, they also have a right to free speech. And when they're getting bombarded with complaints
26:18about Kimmel and what he said about Charlie Shooter or mocking the president for mourning the loss of
26:24his friend, Charlie, who was executed, Kimmel is a cancer. ABC just removed the tumor, Charlie.
26:30You know, and of course, let's never forget that one of these clowns actually dressed up as a
26:34hypodermic needle to push the government's requirement on getting those shots. Clay,
26:43John Fetterman makes a really important point here, though. And I think you and I have talked
26:47about this off camera before about Donald Trump's in this new era where Republicans are sort of doing
26:53what Democrats have always been really good at. One of those things is to sort of get them to lose
26:58their minds over some distraction while Republicans can rack up actual victories or Donald Trump can
27:05actually rack up victories. John Fetterman is not wrong here. He's not wrong. And I think, guys,
27:12let's remember how all of this started. It was with the left trying to claim that somehow Charlie
27:20Kirk's assassin was actually a far right winger, which worked its way into the premise that Jimmy
27:28Kimmel shared as a part of the show. And so I think we have to remember as we break all of this down
27:36that all of this was actually a huge campaign to try to spread a lie. And it came out of the people
27:44who claim that they care so much about being truth tellers. And yet they were unable to distinguish
27:51what everybody out there immediately knew, which was these were crazy left wing assassins. This was a
27:58guy like we saw with Brett Kavanaugh, like we saw with Trump, that was motivated by the idea of calling
28:05somebody Hitler, of calling somebody a fascist, of calling someone a Nazi. This was not a right winger.
28:11Apparently all knew that. Yet the fever dreams and all of the lies came that came together. And on
28:18Monday, I think that motivated the sentence that set all of this off, which was not part of a joke
28:24and was part of a larger campaign to try to confuse us as to who was actually responsible for killing
28:30Charlie Kirk. Right. Very important point. And, you know, Joe, you're obviously a very shrewd observer
28:36of the media. How, to what degree do you think that the FCC actually was responsible for this?
28:42Uh, and how, to what degree do you think that, uh, the, the ABC affiliates who have to run this stuff
28:49on their channels in their local, uh, cities and network, uh, areas, um, which do you think was the
28:57bigger influence? Well, just based on the numbers, Charlie numbers, only not getting my opinion,
29:04not getting emotional here. 62 affiliates of ABC said they did not want to carry Jimmy Kimmel live
29:13anymore. 62. And you see all these other people on MSNBC and CNN living in this fantasy world that
29:22says, Oh, well that should be okay. Keep Jimmy on the air more so we could lose more money for our network
29:27while our affiliates are beyond pissed off that they have to carry this guy. So in the end, the FCC
29:33had almost nothing to do with this. It was the affiliates and it was Jimmy Kimmel's own words and his
29:40responsibility that this happened. No one else's, he is not the victim. Matthew Dowd isn't the victim.
29:46Tyler Robinson, that the shooter and his roommate, uh, after that trans love story was sold on ABC
29:53news from a senior white house correspondent, right? They're not the victims. Charlie Kirk is
29:58the victim. And we're not going to lose sight of that. Despite all of these distractions, Charlie
30:02Joe Clay, thank you so much for joining us coming up as America continues to mourn the loss of the great
30:11Charlie Kirk. Friends and family are getting ready to remember his life and legacy this weekend. But some on the
30:17left can't stop their spewing their vitriol. We'll go to the late over the latest straight ahead.
30:25Welcome back to this special edition of Hannity State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona is the home of the NFL's
30:32Arizona Cardinals. It has hosted Super Bowls, college football championships, and even the March Madness
30:38final four. On Sunday, that same stadium will be the site of Charlie Kirk's funeral, an event which,
30:45like the Super Bowl, has been designated level one by the Department of Homeland Security, the highest
30:51rating there is. President Trump and Vice President Vance will be in attendance. As America prepares
30:58a final farewell to Charlie Kirk, the House of Representatives today considered a resolution
31:04honoring Charlie and condemning political violence. 58 Democrats voted against that. They could have
31:13simply abstained or voted president, and many Democrats did, or they could have just put politics
31:18aside and honored a young father and husband who was assassinated. A few Democrats did that too.
31:24But 58 voted no. They fully opposed a resolution and told the world that their votes, with their votes, that
31:34Charlie Kirk was not a man worth honoring. A few Democrats even said it out loud. Take a look.
31:42Instead, the majority proceeded with a resolution that brings great pain to the millions of Americans who endured
31:51segregation, Jim Crow, and the legacy of bigotry today. We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was.
32:01A man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake.
32:08I do believe those of you who are interested in rewriting this hateful man's history.
32:14Our full...
32:16New Jersey Congresswoman and gubernatorial candidate Mikey Sherrill voted yes, but for some reason took
32:24the time in a statement to claim, quote,
32:27Charlie Kirk was advocating for a Christian nationalist government
32:30and to roll back the rights of women and black people, end quote.
32:35Literally a complete lie.
32:38Here now with the reaction is Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt.
32:42Thank you for joining us, Senator Schmidt.
32:43So, Mikey Sherrill voted in favor of honoring a man she says is a blatant racist.
32:55Look, I think it's important in this time and place to lay out a few statistics.
32:59First of all, 85% of Democrats right now believe President Trump is a fascist.
33:04Nearly 50% of Democrats believe that fascism is the biggest issue facing our country.
33:0925% of those who self-describe themselves as extremely or are very liberal believe that
33:16political violence is acceptable.
33:1855% of those on the left believe that it is at least somewhat justifiable to assassinate
33:24President Trump.
33:26And then you have 55 or 58 Democrats today willing to vote against a resolution condemning
33:31political violence.
33:32There is a problem right now on the left.
33:35This isn't a both sides issue that they really have to come to grips with.
33:39It's a sickness.
33:40And what Charlie Kirk stood for was the ability to have free and open discussion.
33:48And in the First Amendment, he believed in that.
33:50He was murdered for his political beliefs.
33:52There can be no acceptance of this in this country.
33:55But right now, those on the left and Democrat Party believe in that.
33:58It's a real problem and hopefully an inflection point, but they don't get the memo, I don't
34:02think.
34:02Well, I guess the one good thing about this is that, of course, all of the videos, the
34:06miles and miles and miles of videos that Charlie Kirk made are still available, will be available
34:13forever.
34:14And, you know, you talk to anybody with children today, teenage children, and they're all telling
34:22the same story, that their kids are doing these deep dives of Charlie Kirk videos, which,
34:29hallelujah.
34:32Yeah, not just on, by the way, a conservative movement that he helped build, but an expression
34:36of his faith.
34:38And, hey, get married, have kids.
34:39Really important life lessons that I think he's going to live on now in the memory of
34:44so many people and a new generation who's going to see the wisdom of Charlie Kirk.
34:50And I just think it's a sad loss, and we should continue to pray for his family, but his memory
34:55will live on, I think, in the hearts and minds of young people.
34:58And, of course, he would want us to continue talking about these very issues that we're
35:01talking about here tonight.
35:03You know, one of the things that really struck me was AOC coming down, and, you know, one of
35:07the things that make Charlie Kirk so famous was the fact that he decided not to go to
35:12college.
35:13And, of course, he's one of the smartest people, most educated people I personally have ever
35:18met or talked to.
35:19And I think it's interesting that she decided to attack him for being ignorant because he
35:24didn't go to college.
35:26And it reveals something about the deep, profound contempt that Democrats have for people who
35:32don't go to college.
35:35Yeah, it's a disdain for regular folks.
35:38You could go back to Barack Obama calling them bitter clingers, Hillary Clinton calling
35:44half of America a basket of deplorables, Joe Biden in this recent election calling everybody
35:50half of America trash, the extremist MAGA Republicans that Chuck Schumer talks about.
35:54They basically hate half the country.
35:56And people reject that.
35:59They believe in a country where people can succeed, that you don't despise your neighbor
36:03and you can condemn political violence.
36:05That is not where the modern Democrat Party is right now.
36:08It is consumed with Trump derangement syndrome.
36:11And sadly, I don't think they've hit rock bottom yet.
36:15But the American people, I think, are going to weigh in.
36:17They weighed in in November.
36:19They're going to continue to weigh in.
36:20And the Democrat Party hopefully will be consigned to oblivion because they're totally out of touch
36:25with regular folks.
36:26Right.
36:26Well, obviously, midterms are always pretty cruel to any party that's in power.
36:34And Republicans are in power.
36:36And, you know, voters fired them from every lever of power in Washington.
36:41When you talk to your Democrat colleagues in the Senate, do you sense a level of nervousness
36:46about the direction that their party is going in, especially as they're heading into a midterm
36:51that should be a layup for them?
36:53I'll be perfectly honest with you.
36:56Many of them privately will tell you that they don't know how to stand up against the
37:02mob that's on the left.
37:04Chuck Schumer literally wouldn't come out of his office to negotiate with Republicans
37:08for fear that he would look like he was working with the president, President Trump.
37:14So they're in a very dark place.
37:16They're saying very dark things.
37:17They believe very dark thoughts.
37:19And I think that the American voters are going to weigh in again and hopefully give us more
37:24opportunities to make a difference.
37:25And of course, that's how they got here.
37:28Senator Schmidt, thank you so much for joining us.
37:31Coming up another day, another outrageous comment from Jasmine Crockett.
37:35We'll tell you what she said and get reaction from Jimmy Fallon straight ahead.
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