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00:00And welcome to Hannity. And following yesterday's indictment, this morning, former National Security
00:07Advisor John Bolton, he pled not guilty to 18 counts of mishandling and sharing classified
00:13information. We've got the very latest coming up in just a moment. Also, during last night's
00:19New York City mayoral debate, both Andrew Cuomo and communist Marxist Mamdani refused to say
00:26they would support New York Governor Kathy Hochul's bid for reelection. This is big news. Take
00:31a look. Show of hands, who supports Kathy Hochul for reelection? It's a decision that should
00:37be made after this general election. So no decision. It was Cuomo. He's the one that selected
00:46Hochul to be his running mate. And Hochul just endorsed Kami Marxist Mamdani for mayor. Now,
00:52Congresswoman Elise Stefanik considered by many to be a real challenger to Hochul next November.
00:58She will join us coming up. Also, the ICE protests across the country have somehow now gotten even
01:04more bizarre. You decide.
01:10All right. We have a lot more on that coming up. And by the way, we will preview the No Kings protesting weekend that's happening all over the country. God help us. But first, this week, President Trump showed
01:20you, the American people and the world what true leadership really looks like. Take a look at some of the best moments from what was an extraordinary and busy week. Take a look.
01:27Over the past two years, I've met many of the families of the Israelis taken hostage. And those that were taken hostage, unbelievable. I've looked into their eyes. I've seen the worst nightmare of the
01:48suffering. But I've also seen something else, the beautiful love of the people, the love of people, frankly, that hold things together, the love that gives you the courage to carry on through thousands of years of persecution and repression. This is the day that people across the region and around the world have been working on the
02:18striving, striving, hoping and praying for. Together, we've achieved what everybody said was impossible. At long last, we have peace in the Middle East. And it's a very simple expression, peace in the Middle East. And we've heard it for many years, but nobody thought it could ever get there. And now we're there.
02:35In his final moments, Charlie testified to the greatness of America and to the glory of our Savior, with whom he now rests in heaven. He fought for free speech, religious liberty, strong borders and a very
02:47strong and proud America. In everything he did, he put America first.
02:54Now, fresh off the heels of securing one of the most improbable and historic peace deals in modern history, President Trump hosted the Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House today.
03:06He signaled progress towards yet another historic peace agreement, this time between Ukraine and Russia. Take a listen.
03:14We had a big call yesterday, as you know, with President Putin, and we'll be talking about it. President Zelensky of Ukraine has endured a lot. I mean, he really has. He's endured a lot. And we've endured it with him. To be honest, it's been a long time. And I think we're making great progress. So we're going to be talking about that today. We'll be talking about what took place yesterday with my phone call with President Putin.
03:40And I think that things are coming along pretty well. And while speaking with reporters, the president also issued a very strong warning to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. Take a look.
03:56You said that Maduro offered everything in his country, all the natural resources. He even recorded a message to you in English recently offering mediation. What should we do to stop that?
04:08He has offered everything. He's offered everything. You're right. You know why? Because he doesn't want to around with the United States. Thank you, everybody.
04:17I think that was a pretty clear, unambiguous message. But while President Trump shows what true leadership and strength actually looks like, Democrats, they continue embarrassing themselves with one bizarre stunt after another. Take a look at radical squad member AOC and Grandpa Bernie and their town hall this week on fake news. CNN.
04:39Do you think that taxpayers should be paying for the medical care of immigrants that are in the country illegally? Thank you.
04:48Well, we already know. And this is a common this is a common lie that Republicans have been repeating.
04:55We're sick of leaders who only want to spend their time talking about that instead of talking about real issues that affect our lives.
05:04Instead of talking about health care, instead of talking about wages, instead of talking about having air that's drinkable.
05:10I mean, air that that's breathable and water and water that's drinkable.
05:14You tell me, think it's a good idea to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the richest people in the country and then make massive cuts to health care for working class people.
05:22I think Chuck Schumer has voted for continuing resolutions 13 times in the last four years.
05:27And he has the opportunity to vote for one again. But he's refusing to come to the table.
05:31You know what this country looked like before the EPA? Rivers in rural areas were on fire because of corporations poisoning the people who lived in those areas.
05:42Are you saying that Senator Schumer should not be worried about a primary challenge from you?
05:46I mean, no, let me jump in on this one. This is what we're talking about.
05:53That's exactly what we're talking about. You have a country that is falling apart.
05:58There is your leadership of the modern, radical, extreme Democratic Socialist Party.
06:03Democrats now have repeatedly voting voted against reopening the government.
06:09By the way, they don't even want to help fund the military as they have now refused literally to cave in on their insane demands.
06:17One point five trillion dollars refund NPR, refund PBS, 200 billion dollars for health care for illegals.
06:25By the way, something that President Trump told our own Fox News Maria Bartiromo.
06:31It's a huge mistake. They may want to pay attention. Take a look.
06:35Chuck is, you know, at the end of the line. He's being beaten by everybody that they poll against him.
06:41And, you know, what he did is he did the right thing a couple of years ago on something like this.
06:47And he got hurt by his party. And it doesn't I don't think it matters to him.
06:54I think he's just so dead that he'll do anything. I think they could just stay out forever.
06:59I mean, to be honest with you now, what we're doing is we're cutting Democrat programs that we didn't want because, I mean, they made one mistake.
07:07They didn't realize that that gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans never wanted, you know, giveaways, welfare programs, etc.
07:15And we're doing that and we're cutting them permanently.
07:19And as Democrats embarrassed themselves with one bizarre performative stunt one after another, Senate Majority Leader Thune ripped into the left for their latest stunts.
07:30Once he told Fox News dot com in an interview, quote, I think there's a ton of dysfunction in the Democratic caucus.
07:38And I think this rally this weekend is triggering a lot of this.
07:42So how are Democrats trying to spin their shutdown disaster?
07:45They, of course, want to blame Trump, blame Republicans, despite the fact they are the ones voting to shut down the government.
07:53The Republicans, they want a clean CR, keep government spending at current levels while they negotiate.
07:59And they're telling you not to believe your lying eyes.
08:02In other words, they think we're stupid.
08:05This is what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had to say.
08:09We need to reopen the government and we need to reopen the government now.
08:12Part of the problem is that House Republicans are nowhere to be found.
08:17Literally have been on vacation for three consecutive weeks, have canceled votes for three consecutive weeks.
08:26They are in the legislative witness protection program.
08:28Somebody tell this guy the House already passed the CR.
08:34Now, make no mistake, shutting down the government goes against every single solitary position that Chucky Schumer has taken throughout his entire political career.
08:43Hence the Schumer shutdown.
08:45So what's changed?
08:46It's changed.
08:47He is scared to death of this new radical base, the squad and AOC and Jasmine Crockett, Grandpa Bernie, Pocahontas.
08:56He is desperately trying to appease all of them to cling on to perceived power.
09:03He has none.
09:04They're in charge.
09:05He is leader in name only.
09:06The radical base organizing more, you know, these No Kings protests all across the country tomorrow.
09:13By the way, I have a bad feeling about this and I hope I'm wrong.
09:16One of which Chucky is actually attending.
09:18I'm sure he's going to be well received.
09:20Take a listen.
09:21The vast majority of Americans want to preserve this democracy and the No Kings rally says that in a very strong way.
09:31I will join the marchers to celebrate what makes this country so great.
09:37Well, I haven't finalized my schedule for the weekend given, you know, the sensitivities around the government shutdown.
09:43But I support the right of every single American to participate in the rallies that are going to take place this week.
09:52And showing up to express dissent against an out of control administration.
09:57That's as American as motherhood, baseball and apple pie.
10:02Now, yesterday, the White House press secretary Caroline Leva called out Democrats for their unwavering allegiance to this new radical wing of the Democratic Party.
10:11Take a look.
10:12The Democrat Party's main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.
10:19That is who the Democrat Party is catering to.
10:22Not the Trump administration and not the White House and not the Republican Party who is standing up for law abiding Americans,
10:29not just across the country, but around the world.
10:31Now, these comments prompted this unhinged meltdown from the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries.
10:39Take a look.
10:40We've got Caroline Levitt, who's sick.
10:43She's out of control.
10:45And I'm not sure whether she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar or all of the above.
10:54But the notion that an official White House spokesperson would say that the Democratic Party consists of terrorists, violent criminals and undocumented immigrants.
11:07This makes no sense that this is what the American people are getting from the Trump administration in the middle of a shutdown.
11:16All right.
11:17Time now for a White House press briefing with White House press secretary Caroline Levitt.
11:23I just have a funny feeling you might want to respond to all of this.
11:28I sure would, Sean.
11:29And thank you for giving me the opportunity to do so.
11:32Look, Hakeem Jeffries is simply lashing out because he knows that I am telling the truth about the modern day Democrat Party.
11:40What I said, and it is a fact, is that the Democrat Party caters more to pro-Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.
11:49And let me walk Hakeem through the facts of that statement.
11:53When it comes to pro-Hamas terrorists, it was Hakeem's House Democrat caucus that voted against a resolution condemning the October 7th attack on Israel.
12:05It was Hakeem Jeffries Democrat caucus that supported and encouraged the pro-Hamas protests that ravaged college campuses and engaged in illegal harassment of Jewish students across the United States of America under Joe Biden's administration.
12:22When it comes to illegal aliens, the American people know the truth about that.
12:26The Democrats allowed them to flood our country.
12:29Why?
12:30Because they view that constituency as their future voters.
12:33And when it comes to violent criminal criminals, look at what the Democrats support in terms of crime.
12:40Soft on crime policies like cashless bail, like letting violent criminals out back into the streets so they can recommit violent offenses against law abiding American citizens.
12:52The Democrat Party puts Americans last.
12:55That's why they overwhelmingly lost the election to President Trump and the Republican Party.
13:00And that's why they're holding this country hostage right now from law abiding tax paying American citizens who want the government to be open.
13:09So Hakeem Jeffries should stop calling me names.
13:12He should stop trying to fight my boss, President Trump.
13:15And he should go back to doing what he was elected to do, the business of the American people in Congress, and encourage Senate Democrats to open the government.
13:24And I see Hakeem Jeffries saying House Republicans are out.
13:27They're not even here.
13:28Yeah, because they did their jobs.
13:30And they passed a clean continuing resolution at the behest of President Trump to keep the government open.
13:36And now Senate Democrats and Chuck Schumer are blocking that to fight Donald Trump.
13:41And it's despicable.
13:43Okay.
13:44I want to set the record straight here because he lied in what he's saying.
13:49And Democrats have been lying about this as well.
13:51And I watched you one day at the podium and you laid out the facts.
13:56They are demanding $1.5 trillion in new spending to keep the government open for seven weeks.
14:04Wow, that's a lot of money.
14:06Included in that money, $200 billion, healthcare for illegals, the continuation of COVID subsidies for people well above the poverty level.
14:17That was meant to be temporary in the first place.
14:20They want to fund NPR, PBS, all these DEI, you know, initiatives around the world.
14:27Or they're not going to open the government.
14:29They're not going to let our military get paid.
14:31They're not going to let Homeland Security officials that are working get paid.
14:36That's, that's where we are.
14:38And meanwhile, Republicans will fund the government at current levels while they negotiate new budgets.
14:44Because that's, they're just flat out lying.
14:46So, we're not funding illegal immigrants.
14:48Yes, they are.
14:49They are.
14:50Their continuing resolution that they proposed to keep the government open included a poison pill.
14:56That would have undone what President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill did, which is to restrict illegal aliens from receiving Medicaid benefits.
15:04President Trump fixed that in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
15:07And Democrats want to take it away because they want these taxpayer-funded benefits to continue to go to illegal aliens in our country.
15:15This has been done for the past four years under the Biden administration.
15:19And the American people roundly rejected it.
15:21And you hear AOC, who is apparently the new leader of the Democrat Party in that CNN town hall, say to a concerned American when that American asked, do you want my taxpayer-funded benefits going to illegals?
15:33She said that's a Republican talking point.
15:35Those aren't the real issues Americans are facing.
15:38That is a lie.
15:39If you look at what happened under the Biden administration, real Americans, elderly citizens, were facing an increase in wait times at hospitals and emergency care centers across the country because they were putting last in line.
15:52And illegal aliens were getting that care and that treatment first.
15:55And when illegal aliens get medical treatment in this country, who's paying for it?
15:59The American taxpayer will not anymore under the Trump administration.
16:03That's why this administration is focused on deporting illegal aliens who violate our nation's laws.
16:09And we're going to protect the rights and the benefits of taxpaying, law-abiding American citizens.
16:16OK, let's talk a little bit about world peace.
16:19The president has invested a lot of time, political resources, energy into world peace.
16:26Congo, Rwanda, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Israel, Iraq, and I can go, India, Pakistan, I can go on and on.
16:37We had this historic deal with the hostages were finally released, which was great.
16:43Now we see Hamas radicals that are indicating they don't want peace.
16:49They're killing innocent Palestinians.
16:52The president has said if you keep it up and you don't keep the terms of the agreement, you will be obliterated.
16:57Zelensky was at the White House today.
16:59And that on the heels of a phone call with Vladimir Putin and an appointment apparently to meet once again.
17:06I think probably the word tomahawks might have gotten Putin's attention.
17:12Can you give us an update on both of those situations?
17:16Sure.
17:17Well, first of all, Sean, I want your audience to know how hard President Trump is working in the pursuit of peace,
17:23not just here in our own country, on the homeland and the domestic front, but around the world.
17:28The president started the week flying to Israel and Egypt, came back within 36 hours to honor Charlie Kirk at the Medal of Freedom ceremony in the White House.
17:37And then the next day he spends three hours on the phone with President Putin trying to bring this war to an end.
17:44The following day, today, we had President Zelensky at the White House and the president had a three hour long meeting with him in the cabinet room.
17:52And in both of these conversations with both Putin and Zelensky, they were cordial, but very frank.
17:57And the president of the United States has said to both sides of this war, this has been going on for far too long.
18:04Far too many innocent people have been killed.
18:07And the United States of America is growing very weary and tired of this war.
18:11Enough is enough.
18:13Both sides need to recognize the reality on the ground right now and come to a peace agreement.
18:19Because President Trump's patience and the patience of the American people is growing very thin with this war.
18:25And so he was very frank and direct.
18:28But President Trump will never give up.
18:30And you saw that come to a resolution with the peace deal in Israel and in Gaza with the beautiful release of the hostages.
18:38That was another promise made and promise kept by President Trump.
18:42And it cannot be overstated how hard the president and his incredible national security team, Special Envoy Witkoff, Vice President Vann, Secretary of State Rubio, Secretary Hegseth, our Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
18:55There's so many behind the scenes as well who have worked so hard, but especially the president who literally does not sleep and works around the clock in the pursuit of peace.
19:05He will continue to do that with respect to Russia and Ukraine, just like he has with Israel and Gaza.
19:10And he truly believes that there can be a real chance for an everlasting peace in the Middle East.
19:15And you saw Arab leaders and European leaders from around the world gathering in Egypt with the president and thanking him for this historic accomplishment.
19:23It's a new dawn in the Middle East.
19:25And we hope that can be true as well with Russia and Ukraine.
19:28And the president is working very hard on that.
19:30We could all hope for that.
19:33I mean, what a noble goal.
19:35You mentioned patience, and I'm thinking, I don't know how you have the patience to deal with the state-run legacy media mob every day.
19:41I would not be able to keep my cool.
19:44You're very good at it.
19:45So I think that makes it a pretty hard job.
19:49Caroline, we appreciate your time.
19:51Thank you for being with us.
19:52And up next, tonight, right here on Hannity.
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20:06Buckle up.
20:08Looney left.
20:09No kings rallies all around the country this weekend.
20:12Anti-ice protestors put on a real show outside an ice detention facility in Illinois today.
20:18We've got the videotape.
20:19Also, earlier today, former National Security Advisor John Bolton pled not guilty in court to all 18 charges against him.
20:28We get analysis with Greg Jarrett.
20:30Straight ahead.
20:31Federal judge IRS to share illegal alien data with DHS in court win for Trump.
20:41The ruling came as the Trump administration continues to target criminal illegal immigrants for deportation.
20:48A federal judge on Monday denied an injunction request to prevent the Department of Homeland Security and Internal Revenue Service
20:58from parsing to permit U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, ICE, to access taxpayer information to locate illegal immigrants subject to deportation.
21:09The order by U.S. District Judge Debney Frederick came amid a lawsuit by Kentaro De…
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22:29The order by U.S. District Judge Dabney Frederick came amid a lawsuit by Centro de Trabajadores Unidos
22:37and other immigrant right groups against Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.
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22:52and Inclusive Action for the City brings the action seeking declaratory and induced relief
22:58to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from sharing personal tax information
23:02with the Department of Homeland Security DHS for immigration enforcement purposes.
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23:14The court will deny the motion.
23:16At its core, this case presents a narrow legal issue.
23:21Does the memorando of the understanding between the IRS and the DHS violate the Internal Revenue Code?
23:28It does not.
23:29The order continued.
23:30Non-profits Centro de Trabajadores Unidos and Immigrant Solidarity Du Paje representing immigrant workers in the Chicago area
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24:44immigrant workers in the Chicago area brought the lawsuit against Secretary
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24:53Melanie Croce seeking to block the disclosure of personal information of
24:58taxpayers and other confidential tax records to the Department of Homeland
25:02Security DHS for immigration enforcement purposes in a statement to Fox News
25:08Digital Tricia McLolin the DHS Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs said
25:13information sharing across all federal agencies to identify illegal immigrants
25:18is essential in order to determine what public safety and terror threats may
25:22exist so we can neutralize them scrub these individuals from voter rolls as
25:27well as identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense
25:34under President Trump's leadership the government is finally doing what it
25:39should have done all along sharing information across the federal government to
25:43solve problems she said Biden not only allowed millions of illegal aliens including gang
25:49members suspected terrorists and violent criminals to flood into our country but he also lost
25:54them due to incompetence and improper processing information sharing agencies is
26:01essential to identify who is our country and determine what public safety and terror threats
26:08may exist so we can neutralize them scrub these individuals from voter rolls as well as identify
26:14what public benefits these aliens are using at a taxpayer expense today's ruling is a victory for the
26:22American people and for common sense an earlier memorandum of understanding between DHS and IRS
26:29outlines a process to ensure that sensitive taxpayer data information is protected while allowing enforcement to
26:35pursue criminal violations a senior Treasury Department officials said at the time the deal was reached in
26:41April the deal allows DHS to ask the IRS to confirm the home addresses of illegal immigrants
26:49suspected of violating deportation orders the IRS can share data to aid criminal
26:54investigations but is prohibited from sharing information related to civil
26:58matters such as facilitating deportations the Treasury Department is committed to
27:04protecting the privacy of law-abiding taxpayers but a criminal exception obligates the
27:10agency to assist law enforcement the official told Fox News Digital at the time
27:15Fox News has reached out the IRS the AGES and legal team of the groups involved in the lawsuit
27:25the deal would allow ICE to submit the names and addresses of illegal immigrants to the IRS who could then cross-check those
27:34immigrants tax records and provide the immigration agency with current addresses
27:44the court agrees that requesting and receiving information for civil enforcement purposes would constitute a
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