Why don't Democrats want to investigate potential election fraud?
House Judiciary Committee members Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz call for full inquiry into 2020 election results on 'Hannity'
This is a rush transcript from “Hannity ” November 18, 2020. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: And welcome to HANNITY.
We begin with this FOX News alert.
All right. Tonight, the deadline for Georgia's recount is less than three
hours away. Still at this hour, voters in the Peach State have more
questions than answers and thousands of uncounted ballots, most of which
were cast for President Trump, they've just been turning up all week.
Fayette County, 2,755 ballots just unearthed. Another 284 were discovered
in Walton County. This all in addition to the 2,600 uncounted ballots in
Floyd County that were discovered just a couple of days ago. If you're
keeping track, that's over 5,600 uncounted votes located in the past week,
two weeks later.
Now, in a state with a razor-thin margin of now just over 12,000, that is a
serious problem. Always want to have faith, trust, confidence in our
election system.
But the issues in Georgia don't end there. One county, a purported human
error during the recount, might have given thousands of extra votes to Joe
Biden if not for one extremely attentive observer.
According to Georgia's Republican Party chairman, it was a 9,000-vote
discrepancy that was signed off by two officials in DeKalb County, Georgia,
and would not have been discovered but for the Republican observer. Well,
we didn't have observers that most of the states that's -- whose legal
statutory language says you can have one.
Yet another perfect example why election observers are critical if we want
free and fair elections in this country. But in almost every state where
the law guarantees partisan observers, the right to watch the votes start
to finish and the vote count, the law was never followed. State after
state, we saw partisan observers blocked from performing their important
legal duty and their right to do and what was a clear violation of law,
many observers were reportedly only admitted to monitor poll workers --
let's see, 6 feet, 20 feet, 100 feet.
Let's say you have perfect 20/20 vision. Catch a mathematical error in fine
print from six, 20, or 100 feet away. Impossible.
Now, this was one of the many serious issues in the all-important swing
state also of Michigan. According to numerous now sworn affidavits in Wayne
County, quote, allegations include workers coaching people on how to vote,
peeking at the ballots to see how people voted before processing them, and
preventing Republican poll inspectors from being able to effectively watch
the counting process.
And last night, because of all these irregularities and accusations of
fraud, well, there were two Republicans on the county's board of canvassers
that said, you know what, we can't justify certifying the election result.
That is, until -- well, they did that and they were called racist. Families
threatened.
They were outing where their kids went to school and during a public, you
know, comment period, all on a Zoom call -- you can't make this up. Take a
look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your grandchildren are going to think of you like Bull
Connor or George Wallace.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shame on you for leading to this level of corruption!
You have disavowed your right to even sit in the seat that you occupy! You
are a disgrace!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tonight, it is as though the 15th Amendment was never
passed.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was then disingenuous to assert that this is
anything other than two members using their positions to cast doubt both on
the votes of African-American voters and the work of those who counted
them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because what the both of you are doing right now is
adding to systemic racism.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANNITY: Just a small example of the truly vile smears leveled against the
two GOP members in Wayne County board of canvassers and, unfortunately,
this kind of hysteria, vitriol is not unique to Detroit. All over the
country, Democrats, their allies, the media mob, completely apoplectic that
Republicans are attempting to verify the election results.
According to them, it is unpatriotic, even treasonous, to investigate sworn
affidavits of their fellow citizens alleging real election misconduct. Take
a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Breaking overnight, American democracy. Actually, it
didn't break but it wasn't for lack of trying for president Trump. A
dizzying 12-hour period where the president assaulted dedicated civil
servants while simultaneously trying to undermine the outcome of an
election.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The losers in the Republican leadership should take a
page and don't lecture us anymore about patriotism or about putting country
over party, or rather putting party over country, which is what they did.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I never thought I'd see a day where you saw pretty much
an entire party in this country refused to accept election results.
This is like a sick childish fantasy that these Republican Republicans --
okay -- are basically tiptoeing around Donald Trump.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANNITY: We could just replay their four years of craziness -- are they
that out of touch with who they really are? Fake, phony, faint selective
outrage, pretty much something to behold.
Sean Davis, "Federalist" rights on Twitter: Democrats, the media accused
Georgia W. Bush of stealing the election that he was involved in in 2000.
They spread a conspiracy theory, Bush was involved in 9/11. They accused
Bush of intentionally lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
claiming electronic voting machines stole the election for Bush in '04.
That was Democrats.
And, of course, they spread the hoax that President Trump was a Russian
agent. They spread those lies and slander for, what, three straight years.
Justice Kavanaugh pretty much called a rapist and everything in between.
They said violent riots in the summer were peaceful.
Remember the banner from fake new CNN? Fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
That was the background. Take a look at that.
They accused Republicans, especially President Trump, Nazis, you know the
names they say.
And let me add, by the way, Stacey Abrams in Georgia, still has not
conceded her gubernatorial race in Georgia from 2018. Loved by the
Democrats and the media.
Now, the president wants to take a few weeks, count every legal vote,
investigate every claim of fraud and abuse, and the media acts like the
world is ending. Obviously, with amnesia the last four years.
They don't care about the thousands of previously uncounted votes we're
discovering just this week in Georgia.
They don't care about the two men charged in California. Why? Submitting
8,000 ballot applications for fake or dead voters. Don't seem to care about
the impending possible recounts in Wisconsin after allegations over voter
fraud they are carried by election officials in two heavily Democratic
counties.
In fact, breaking tonight, Democrats are trying to change -- get this --
the state's recount rules in Wisconsin to actually make it more difficult
to review mail in ballots, after the vote.
Clearly, they don't care about the validity of any of those ballots. They
don't care about partisan election observers blocked from polling
locations. They don't care about the chaos causing widespread made in
voting, and by the way mail-in voting. And they don't care about outdated
voter rolls and the lack of voter ID.
And that leaves states vulnerable to fraud and to abuse and how can anyone
have confidence in any of this? They don't care about security, they don't
care about the accuracy of voting machines that they themselves and "The
New York Times" and Princeton professors, and the "A.P.", all criticized.
They don't care about any of it because they got the result they wanted.
And for them, that's all that matters.
Now, the left in this country, they are not valuing freedom, fairness,
truth, equal justice, or the rule of law. We watched that for four straight
years. What they want is power and, of course, to slander Donald Trump
every second of every day.
By the way, the coming weeks and months, you know, fundamentally could
alter this country, our way of life.
All right. Here with the very latest, of what's going on in his varying
states, Kayleigh McEnany.
So, let's start with Georgia again today, so we have three counties where,
oh, magically, this week, we find all these votes. Now I guess then we have
the verification signature double standard. We've talked at length about
that.
And then what's the latest on the ground there?
KAYLEIGH MCENANY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Yeah, that's it, Sean. You
hit the nail on the head. You know, as they're finishing up the recounts by
midnight tonight, they will submit those results, but as President Trump
had noted and he's absolutely right about this, if you're not verifying
signatures, if you're following the rules of Stacey Abrams, who refused to
concede, who still thinks she's the governor of Georgia, how good in fact
is your recount and recount which in fact, as you noted, found three
tranches of ballots previously undiscovered, all of which happen to favor
Donald Trump's -- chances eventually and increases vote total.
So how good is that recount is the president has noted?
HANNITY: You know, when a poll observer now found a 9,000-vote discrepancy
in Georgia, and then you think that all of the states that didn't have the
partisan observers that the legal statute allows, it makes you wonder, you
know, how did you put trust in that?
What I'm trying to understand, if the law says clearly, partisan observers
get to see the vote counting start to finish and they're not allowed to see
it in the law is not followed, then you're never going to have the
confidence that the law was meant to instill, right?
MCENANY: Yeah, Sean, that's exactly right. And in particular, in a place
like Pennsylvania, I was contacted today, I found out about a few cases and
there are declarations that support this, that there were multiple
individuals in a state like Pennsylvania. And this is going to back up your
point, who went to the polls and said, I'm here to vote in person and they
were told, oh, wait, you already voted by mail.
Well, they never requested a mail-in vote, nor did they ever return a mail-
in vote and they cast up provisional vote in that instance in their vote
was never counted. This is why you need poll watchers to verify that that
mail-in vote is actually the person whose name is attached to it. It's why
having poll observers a football field away, as they proceed to count
627,000 votes in Pennsylvania. It's such a travesty.
HANNITY: Let me go to Wisconsin. I had a long discussion, Reince Priebus
will be on the program tomorrow, that the election committee and admissions
committee is trying to change the rules to review absentee ballots, trying
to change it in terms of showing the actual application, which the rule
calls for. They're trying to do it now at this late date, which means --
uh-oh, that means they sensed trouble.
People claimed they were indefinitely confined. That went up like three or
fourfold from the last election. Clerks then allowed people to vote early
apparently and vote absentee early, which the law doesn't allow also.
Is that all going on? Is that all proven?
MCENANY: That's exactly right. So we filed this petition in Wisconsin for
a recount into counties. It's exactly as you described it.
One of those counts says in the state of Wisconsin, if you are indefinitely
confined, you can cast an absentee ballot without showing voter ID. Last
election, 72,000 people did that. This election, 240,000 people did that,
presumably using COVID and fears of COVID as an excuse. So, it's a way to
circumvent voter ID.
But at the very top of your question, you hit a key point, Sean. You have -
- we filed this recount -- excuse me, the recount petition and in it, we
alleged that we need to see the absentee voter applications because it's an
important aspect of Wisconsin law and they weren't doing these
applications, they were just giving people ballots.
And as we speak right now, you have the election board trying to change the
way the recount laws work to make sure that we're not able to count those
applications for absentee ballots because they see just how strong this
petition is. We'll see how they vote. It will probably come down during
your program.
HANNITY: And what's the latest out of Nevada?
MCENANY: Out of Nevada, we filed a complaint yesterday. There are a lot of
irregularities there, and particularly needed machine to verify signatures,
which is very inaccurate and, in fact, that machine found that only 30
percent of the ballots should be counted because only 30 percent of the
signatures matched, which is a highly unlikely probability. So there are
some issues there that we are looking into as well.
HANNITY: All right. Kayleigh McEnany, thanks for the nightly update. We
appreciate it.
As I said many times, this is America, right? We developed two COVID
vaccines, the first identified case was January 21st of this year, and we
did it in less than a year. Pretty amazing, right?
You wouldn't know it by our election systems because they now represent a
train wreck, but only in certain states. So how do you fix it? How do we
count every legal vote in a fast, secure, verifiable way like they do in
Florida and Ohio?
How do we prevent fraud, abuse, changing laws after the game is played?
Because we the American people, you deserve better than the chaos that we
see. And we've been watching unfold now over the past two weeks.
Congressman Jim Jordan will be here with some news on that in a minute.
But first, breaking only a couple of minutes ago, two Republican led
committees in the Senate, they released more finding surrounding the Biden
family 'a sketchy international business ties. I'm sure that the media mob
protection program will protect zero-experience Hunter again, but
apparently Hunter was attempting to capitalize on his family name,
negotiate business deals out of China and Russia as late as 2017.
According to the report, quote: These new records confirm the connections
between the Biden family and communist Chinese government, as well as the
links between Hunter Biden's business associates and the Russian government
and further support the committee's September 23rd, 2020 report and their
findings that such relationships created counterintelligence and extortion
concerns.
Here with reaction, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim
Jordan, along with Florida congressman -- he's got a great new book out.
I forget the name of that book again, what was the name of that book?
REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL): "Firebrand".
All right. Jim, let's start with -- well, we've got Ron Johnson-Grassley
update. We wish Senator Grassley the best. I heard he tested positive.
REP. JIM JORDAN (R-OH): Yeah.
HANNITY: Let's get an update on that and also where you see all these laws
that are being obeyed.
Why do we have laws if we're not going to even pay attention to them or we
are going to change them after the election or two days before the
election?
JORDAN: Yeah, the fundamental question on your latter point is why? Why
don't Democrats want to get to the bottom of all the irregulars, all the
problems we saw on the 2020 election? I mean, for goodness sake, Georgia
just found three counties where they hadn't even counted thousands of votes
in 60 days after the election.
So, ranking member Comer and I today first call for an investigation. We
sent a letter to Mr. Nadler and Chairwoman Maloney. Why don't you guys
investigate?
The committees aren't even meeting this week. Why not? Why not look into
this? So that to me is the fundamental question.
These same Democrats who told us that the rioters and the looters all
summer long were peaceful protesters are now the same ones telling us we
can trust the vote when everything shows all the problems, Kayleigh just
went through `em all.
Let's look at that information and when it comes to the Tony Bobulinski and
the hunter Biden story, Bill Barr should name a special counsel. That
simple, name a special counsel to look into that situation.
HANNITY: Joe? I'm sorry, Matt?
GAETZ: Yeah, I would suggest that the president isn't fighting for his own
political fortunes in these legal battles. He's fighting for the rest of
us. We all deserve elections where we don't have people voting in more than
one state. We don't have people voting after they changed their address.
And the scale is now reaching some significance. In Georgia, these mistakes
aren't in the tens or hundreds of votes. They are in the thousands of
votes. Maybe we have to put the people who ran Operation Warp Speed in
charge of counting the ballots in Georgia, they'd be able to get us a
result by now.
But here's the thing, Sean -- if we can flip Georgia by showing that there
was not accurate counting there, then I think it pulls back the whole
veneer that the media and others --
HANNITY: Hey, Matt --
GAETZ: -- have tried to put on these -- on these mail-in ballots.
HANNITY: Have you been watching the secretary of state? That secretary of
state in Georgia is more interested in lying and attacking Lindsey Graham
and Doug Collins than he is about the thousands and thousands of votes
we're finding a couple of weeks after the election.
And the governor who should be --
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: What's that?
GAETZ: Yeah, like this is just the beginning of that audit. It's not as if
they have completed a review and it's 9,000 ballots in the discrepancy
category. That's just DeKalb County.
So, when you get to moving well beyond that, we have an expectation that
there could be other errors that literally could flip the outcome in
Georgia and once Georgia flips, we got a lot of questions about
Pennsylvania, whether it's the spike in 90-year-olds, more of them
registering in the last year to vote than in the prior four years combined,
including two election years. I think that when we really dig into the
circumstantial data and the real data, we will find out that there was
ballot laundering going on here and when you pair that with a lack of
observation, it really raises more questions.
Observation of ballots should not be a game of hide and seek, right? You
shouldn't have to be 100 feet away trying to engage in a signature match.
This ought to be precise and it ought to be clear and we're getting
anything from precision and clarity out of Georgia, and Pennsylvania in
particular right now.
HANNITY: Now, Florida had problems but, boy, Ron DeSantis straight of them
all out and it went perfectly, same with Ohio.
Jim Jordan, so what are the next steps here? I mean, you -- look at what
they're trying to do in Wisconsin. Yeah, let's change the law now just
before we do all of this investigation, right?
JORDAN: Yeah, the main thing is let the process work out. We've got 26
days, Sean, until the Electoral College has to meet. That is enough time
for us to look what happens and see what happens in the legal cases, see
what happens with the recounts, with the audits.
And in Georgia, you've had three counties. There are 156 other counties in
the state of Georgia. You've got a secretary of state that obviously
doesn't know what he's doing.
Frankly, I think Doug Collins should challenge the secretary of state and
run against him in two years. I think that would be better for the state of
Georgia and better for the whole country, so let's let the process play
out.
Let's let -- let's let the law, the process, and the Constitution work
exactly like it's supposed to, let's get to the bottom of all this, as Matt
said, for the good of the country, for the good of this election, for the
good of the United States of America. That's what we got to focus on.
HANNITY: But why only a couple of states? Both your states did great. Why
these important -- why here? Why only here and here, and not in other
places?
JORDAN: Well, it seems to be the states that stopped counting on election
night that our swing states that have all the problems. The ones that kept
like Florida, like Ohio, we didn't have any problems.
So all the states of sort of halted accounts for a while and picked it up
later, that seems to be all the states that have the problems. So, let's
make sure we get to the bottom -- I thought Pennsylvania was the worst.
Now, I think Georgia is giving Pennsylvania a run for the money just how
bad, how inefficiently they ran this selection.
HANNITY: And you know what, Matt, Democrats are going to want more mail-in
ballots, more early voting, maybe we'll have elections that go on in
perpetuity. You know, maybe three months, four months, and then maybe we
will count them for another 12 months and make sure that they get the
outcome that they want. It seems that --
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: We've got -- we should have Election Day.
GAETZ: Dead people don't always vote, but when they do, they prefer to
vote by mail.
You know what I mean? Like when we all showed up at the town center, at the
local elementary school and voted in person, we know the results of the
election that night and if it was super close, maybe early the next
morning.
But now as Democrats have separated the verification process from the
voting process, we start to see these irregularities like in Wayne County
where there are concerns that there are more cast ballots than there are
actual voters.
And that is only exacerbated by a system that reduces the ability to have
real-time verification like a human being standing there actually voting
and I do predict that if the Democrats get more power in Washington,
they'll do everything they can to try to keep that power by eroding the
integrity of the votes.
Jim and I will have a role to play fighting back against that, but so do
state legislatures and secretaries of state and chief election officials,
we need them to buck up and realize that our democracy is at stake.
HANNITY: Do me a favor, go to Georgia, talk to the governor and secretary
of state, they could learn something from you.
All right. Thank you both.
When we come back, speaking to Georgia, the runoff race there could not be
more critical -- balance of power in the Senate at stake. Senator David
Perdue, Karl Rove will break it down, next.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HANNITY: All right. Like I've been saying, we need to do everything we can
to support Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue in a January 5th Georgia Senate
runoff to stop this far left power grab in its tracks or get ready for two
new states. That means four Democratic senators and Democratic Senate in
perpetuity, a packed Supreme Court, abolishing the Electoral College, end
of legislative filibuster.
Tonight, we're learning even more about the extremism of this new crop of
Georgia Democrats. For example, Senator Perdue's opponent, Jon Ossoff, is
still trying, out promoting the app TikTok despite partisan concerns about
national security involved in the Chinese communist party. Not only that,
but Qatar-owned Al Jazeera paid thousands to Ossoff's media company,
according to records.
Two pretty radical, extreme socialist Democrats, reliable votes for Biden
and Kamala Harris, or rubber-stamp Chuck Schumer's agenda. That's pretty
much what's at stake and raise taxes, open your borders, abolish fossil
fuel, pack the court and end us -- put us into bankruptcy.
Here to explain, Georgia Senator David Perdue.
You know, you got so close, but this -- those are the rules. Talk about the
governor and the secretary of state and all these votes we're finding in
Georgia.
SEN. DAVID PERDUE (R-GA): Well, first of all, Sean, I have to tell you, I
think President Trump has every right to demand that every legal vote be
counted and every illegal vote be removed, and that's what's at stake here.
We are in the fight of our lives here. This is -- we are the last line of
defense in Georgia. That's what makes every vote count right now in this.
If we win Georgia, we save America.
But, right now, we are in the process of trying to find out. We just found
a few thousand votes that have disappeared for the last week and a half
that just showed up and now, President Trump is within 10,000 votes of
Biden in Georgia, and I'm right now 10,000 -- even though I won by two
points, I'm still about 10,000 votes away from the 50 percent margin that
you have to get in Georgia or go into this nine-week runoff.
HANNITY: Well, you know, I lived for years in Georgia, had -- love the
state, love the people of the state, and I cannot believe what's unfolding.
How is it even possible that this could happen two weeks after an election?
And when you identify the differences between you and your opponent and
what these two Senate races mean -- are the people of Georgia keenly aware?
Did they understand how big this is? This is it, all eyes on Georgia.
PERDUE: Well, Kelly Loeffler and I are the Republican candidates for these
two seats and as I said before, the majority of the Senate comes down to
these two seats. It's our job to make sure that the people of Georgia know
just what's at stake.
But we know what the Democrats want to do. You've just highlighted most of
it. But they want illegal immigrants to vote. They want to defund the
police. They want to take away our private health insurance and they want
to stack the courts.
That's not what our government has always been about. It's been about
checks and balances.
And what Schumer said the other day, he said, we win Georgia, we change
America. AOC said, look, we're all about -- we want to win those two seats
because we do not want to negotiate. She wants the Green New Deal without
compromise.
And so, we've got to make sure that people in Georgia turn out again. If we
do, we win. We've already beaten the Democrats, 52.5 percent, Sean, of
Georgia voters rejected this liberal left move that the Democrats are
trying to perpetrate, and I think that's a big sign that nobody is talking
about.
HANNITY: I hope the people -- are you talking to the people in Georgia,
and how are they reacting to this unfolding mess there and do they -- in
other words, do you -- is there a groundswell of anger that is going to
push people to the polls, or maybe they throw their hands up, why bother
after I'm watching this Adam Schiff show?
PERDUE: Well, it could -- it could go either way. I think there are a lot
of voters were Trump voters in Georgia who are disheartened, they're angry
because they think the president did not get a fair shake in Georgia.
We know there are in proprieties in Georgia and they are being investigated
right now. What we are trying to do is make sure that those same
opportunities for impropriety are not there for the January 5th election.
I mean, this is what -- we've got to convince people that their vote is
going to be counted and it's going to be accounted for accurately. And so,
that's the biggest thing.
Our job right now is to make sure that the base gets out and votes and
knows how important this is.
Look, this is the fight of our lives, Sean. As you said over and over this
week, if we lose these seats, we may not get another shot at this because
Schumer will get a perpetual majority, and we won't be able to break
through their when he adds two new states and four new Democratic seats.
This is the fight of our lives to make sure that we continue to have a
balanced approach to government in America.
HANNITY: Senator, I can't -- I cannot even put enough emphasis on how
accurate you are.
All right. Senator Perdue, we'll keep following it. I hope the people of
Georgia -- the country needs you badly.
Here to break it down, the state of Georgia, the race there, the architect,
former White House deputy chief of staff, FOX News contributor, Karl Rove.
I've read that you might be involved in some fund-raising efforts there. If
you are, good, you're good at that. You're good at a lot of things.
Break it down for us, Karl.
KARL ROVE, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I am involved, the national finance
chairman of the Joint Fund Committee between the Perdue campaign and the
Loeffler campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. So,
full disclosure, I am deeply involved.
Let's not kid ourselves. This is a real race. Biden won the state of
Georgia, so Republicans can't take it for granted. Democrats demographics
change. The state is changing, particularly the Atlanta area. It's
different than when you lived there. It's increasingly people from out of,
younger people, more liberal people.
Stacey Abrams, she has spent -- say what you will about her -- she spent
tens of millions of other people's money to build up a giant GOTV machine
and it's revved up and going in the votes start on December 7th when you
can mail in ballots.
And then Chuck Schumer, he wants to -- he has spent every -- think about
this, spent $84 million to try and defeat Lindsey Graham. Spent ungodly
month of money, similar amount of money to defeat Mitch McConnell. You
don't think is going to pour money into the state?
So, those are the advantages the Democrats have.
On the other hand, we got some advantages. Purdue with 87,000 votes ahead
of Jon Ossoff and the rest -- and only failed to get 50 percent because
there was a libertarian candidate. Libertarians are not going to come out
and vote for the socialist, let me tell you that.
We got Republicans in the jungle primary. The Republican candidates
outnumber the Democratic candidates and the winner of the Democrat
sweepstakes there, Raphael Warnock, ran behind what people anticipated he
would run.
Best advantage -- these Democrats are on the left, particularly Warnock.
This guys like -- you can't serve God and the military? If you're in the
military, you can't serve God?
I mean, socialism is getting a bad word, as a youth minister, hosted Fidel
Castro. As a minister in Atlanta, hosted Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and then
when his anti-Semitic comments came out, defended him.
This guy is a lefty in favor of any nostra in the Bernie Sanders playbook.
And then GOTV.
Both these candidates, David Perdue, whom you just saw, and Kelly Loeffler
both understand GOVT, they are building a state of the art, get out the
vote operation using lots of Georgians and plenty of volunteers coming in
from outside of the state.
And then, finally, the argument that Senator Perdue laid out. The only way
to rein in the excesses of a Democratic White House and the Democratic
House of Representatives is to have a Republican Senate.
He put it right. This is the last line of defense for conservative values.
If we don't control -- have a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, then
they are going to have come as you said earlier, a clear path to this nutty
agenda, get rid of the 60 vote rule, and pass every nutty nostrum and lock
in a governing Democratic left majority for decades to come.
So, money marbles and chalk as we say in Texas.
HANNITY: Two things -- I'm not -- it got to give Stacey Abrams credit. She
has built up a powerful mail-in ballot, you know, force for the Democrats.
The Republicans ready to match that, number one.
Number two, how are Georgians going to react to oh, we just found 6,000
ballots this week and the mess that has been created down there? I think a
lot of them are probably ticked off. Does that -- do they feel
disenfranchised? And want to throw their hands up, or are they motivated,
can't get to the polls soon enough?
ROVE: Well, the Republicans are going to build a big get out the vote
machine. They briefed me on it. They've already begun -- people started --
HANNITY: As big a Stacey Abrams? Because she's got -- she says she's got
over 600,000 ready to go.
ROVE: Well, she may have come up with the Republicans are heading for
bigger numbers and I've got to tell you, they've got to do some catch up
because she's been spending -- what's interesting is, tax-free dollars.
She's been doing political work with tax-free dollars for years when I
think in violation of the law.
But she is now the supposedly nonpartisan voter registration get out the
vote effort and put it into a partisan context. There were all kind of
problems with that.
But the Republicans are going to have a good machine to get out the vote,
but you put your finger on it. How do people feel? Are people going to say,
you know what, I voted for Donald Trump, he didn't win reelection, he
didn't carry our state, I'm staying home, or do they say, I voted for
Donald Trump because I believed in a conservative agenda and I want that
agenda advanced, I don't want it demolished, I don't want what he has done
an office to be -- you know, the tax cuts, the policy put in place, the
conservative judges -- I don't want that wiped out and I'm going to turn
out and vote?
And that's going to be the message that David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are
going to have to get across here in the next 40 some odd days, 40 days --
47 days, excuse me, they're going to have to get them across.
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: I'm not trying to be insulting -- do they have the right team in
place? And I'm asking honestly because there's no time enough to play
around here. Do they have --
ROVE: Look, I --
HANNITY: -- our best people behind the scenes that do the best ads, the
best ability to get mail in votes and build up that base and get people to
the polls? Are you confident?
ROVE: You know what, one of the things that happened as they both took a
look at their operations and said, you know what, we did good, but we can
do better, and they brought new people in, they brought their teams
together. There are a bunch of adults down there, which I really like.
You get in a situation like this and a lot of times, there's so much
pressure and so much controversy and people start going up against each
other, sharp elbows start going and then you start seeing it being leaked
to the press, this guy's an idiot, that guy is not, this person is really
good, that person is not.
None of that. Instead, what you're seeing is a group of adults who say, you
know what, we were in a tough fight in November, we are going to be in a
bigger fight in January. We need help, and so they brought people in will
have the confidence not only of the candidates but of their colleagues, and
I'm pretty optimistic that it's going to be a hard fight, but I think we
can prevail.
HANNITY: You got Thanksgiving coming. You got Christmas week. You got New
Year's week and then you come back on Monday, you vote on Tuesday. --
ROVE: Yeah, start voting -- right, better than that, start voting now by
mail.
HANNITY: Agree, now.
ROVE: When the early vote period votes, when the early voting gets, get to
the polls, because the last thing we want is an ice storm on January 5th in
north Georgia and all those good Republican voters not able to get to the
polls. So, vote -- get your mail ballot, send it in immediately, go to the
poll -- the polls when they open up early, get your vote cast. Bank that
vote before Election Day, that's exactly what the Democrats are doing, the
Republicans better do the same.
HANNITY: And, by the way, I've been the -- called black ice on the
pavement, asphalt, not good. You're right. Vote early and everyone in
Georgia, there's a lot here on the line.
When we come back, more examples, liberal leaders not following their own
draconian COVID restrictions. New York Governor Cuomo got pretty testy with
reporters when asked if schools are going to shut down or remain open. Wait
until you see this tape, straight ahead.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HANNITY: All right, in New York, New York City schools will shut down
tomorrow after coronavirus tests positivity rates hit the 3 percent
threshold. But well, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo apparently missed the
memo because he was suggesting schools would stay open, had an absolute
meltdown on reporters when pressed to answer key questions about the future
of in person learning.
Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REPORTER: And for the millions of parents who want to know, schools can
open tomorrow in New York City?
GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D), NEW YORK: All right. First of all, let's not try to
be obnoxious and offensive in your tone, because you're 100 percent wrong.
We announced the orange zone law over a month ago. I don't know if you were
here or if you are paying attention. What are you talking about?
You're now going to override -- we did it already! That's the law! And
orange zone and a red zone. Follow the facts!
REPORTER: I'm just so confused.
CUOMO: Well then you're confused!
REPORTER: I think Jimmy is correct in asking that question. I don't think
it's obnoxious at all.
CUOMO: Well, I don't really care what you think.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANNITY: Right after that, they announced it.
Anyway, now, we're learning more tonight about California Governor Gavin
Newsom's fancy dinner party where he was caught breaking his own draconian
COVID-19 restrictions.
Look at this, new photos obtained by FOX 11's Bill Melugin showing Newsom
seated with a large group. They looked pretty close together. Not a lot of
social distancing. California's famous French laundry restaurant. Never
heard of it.
No masks, no social distancing, elbow to elbow and it gets worse because of
the same dinner where California Medical Association officials -- you can't
make this up -- which exposes all the rampant hypocrisy even more, but they
want you to think about no Thanksgiving.
Over in Pennsylvania, far left Governor Tom Wolf now ordering ridiculous
new rules requiring masks in your home, when people from other household
are gathered.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein, she was seen on Capitol Hill -- oh, my
gosh, -- without her mask.
Ask yourself, why is it that the decision-makers, those who are supposed to
be the experts are, well, defying their own rules for us only? Totally okay
imposing draconian lockdowns, breaking their own COVID restrictions, and
it's way past time that they are held accountable.
But also tonight, more good news in the race for that vaccine. Pfizer now
says it's vaccine candidate shows a 95 percent efficacy rate and plans to
formally request emergency authorization within days, thankfully.
Here with reaction, radio talk show host Larry Elder, along with FOX News
legal analyst Gregg Jarrett.
Larry, 1.0, I still haven't seen the hat yet. Okay --
(LAUGHTER)
HANNITY: Look, I happen to be a believer -- like all these kids are coming
home from college, right? OK, kids don't even know a lot of times that they
have it. A lot of kids from school, they are going to see grandma and
grandpa, mom and dad.
I personally would recommend you do everything possible to protect them.
That's my view.
But the idea the government is going to mandate all this is never going to
happen, especially with great leadership like I just mentioned.
LARRY ELDER, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Right. You know, Sean, I'm born and
raised in California and I am shocked at the way people have just fallen
over and follow these guidelines. I would've thought there would have been
massive civil disobedience, but I am shocked, shocked, to find out that
hypocrisy here in California.
As you pointed out, there were members of the California Medical
Association at this dinner and they said that they were there and they were
following the guidelines, but the governor apologized for not following the
guidelines. So, you have the top medical officials disagreeing about what
the guidelines are.
And in New York, you've got Cuomo saying the schools are not going to be
shut down. You got de Blasio saying they are in Donald Trump has not given
us clear guidelines. These guys are clueless and as you pointed out, Dr.
Fauci as late as March 8th was talking about doubting the effectiveness of
masks and Donald Trump is accused of -- Carl Bernstein said homicidal
negligence, that the blood of a quarter of a million Americans are on his
hands, when you have all these Democrats who are confused giving us
inconsistent advice and not following their own guidelines. My goodness! I
can't make it up.
HANNITY: You know, Gregg -- you really can't.
All right. You got the law, which I want to get your thoughts on -- okay,
that's number one. The sad thing is Operation Warp Speed was Donald Trump
and a lot of money and he did build the hospitals that were never used in
New York and California, and the hospital beds that he built and the
ventilators that we never ran out, and the PPE, the mask, the gowns, the
gloves, the shields, all of it because none of these governors were ready.
He did all that, never seems to get any credit.
And remember, original estimates two and a half million people are going to
die from this thing.
GREGG JARRETT, FOX NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: You know, this was one of the
greatest scientific achievements in American history, maybe world history,
and Democrats and the media hate Donald Trump so much, all they can do is
criticize him for engineering and funding and pushing relentlessly
Operation Warp Speed in eight months, a 95 percent effective vaccine, what
would otherwise take a decade.
Think of the millions of lives that will be saved. And yet Democrats in the
media, all they can do is criticize Donald Trump, Governor Andrew Cuomo
even threatened to sue President Trump over this.
And, Cuomo, this is the guy whose reckless order to send COVID patients
into nursing homes directly caused the deaths of thousands of people. He
won't take responsibility for it.
In fact, he won't admit he ordered it, although it there it is in print in
black and white. Instead, all he does is yuck it up on CNN with his brother
Chris Cuomo, cracking jokes and making fun of it all as 33,000 New Yorkers
died as a result of COVID.
But the biggest fool and hypocrite award clearly --
HANNITY: All right. Let me ask you this --
GARRETT: -- goes to Gavin Newsom. I mean, you know -- go ahead.
HANNITY: I want to -- just because -- I've been having this battle on my
radio show. Half my friends think I'm nuts because I get a flu shot every
year, and I said, I absolutely would take the vaccine.
Both of you have libertarian leanings. Larry, where are you on this?
ELDER: I'm going to take the vaccine. Absolutely I will.
HANNITY: Me too.
ELDER: I took the flu shot every year. It isn't that I trust the
government, it's that I'm trying to minimize the possibility that I
contract the flu.
HANNITY: Yeah, half my friends think I'm nuts. The other half agree.
Greg, I'm curious.
JARRETT: Yeah, I took the flu shot just last week. I do it every year. I
will absolutely take the vaccine.
There are some countries that are in fact considering making it mandatory.
Everybody has to take the COVID vaccine.
HANNITY: What are you going to do, tie people down and put the shot and
then, really?
JARRETT: Then you've got Kamala Harris, who is suggesting in a debate that
she might not take the vaccine because Donald Trump was behind the
development of the vaccine, even though it was done by highly regarded
scientists and pharmaceutical companies --
HANNITY: How about we believe in freedom?
JARRETT: And the FDA will have to approve it based on safety.
HANNITY: I believe in freedom.
All right, people can choose -- do your own reading, talk to her own
doctors.
When we combat, a group of Harvard students reportedly announced -- seeking
to ban any members of the Trump administration from even speaking on
campus.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HANNITY: All right, so now, during the phony calls for unity, the letter
continues to demonize the president and his supporters, conservatives. In
their latest stunt, a petition reportedly circulating at Harvard seeking to
ban all former Trump administration officials from attending, teaching, or
even speaking at the university.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to fight amongst themselves following major
house losses, but as Utah Republican Congressman-elect Burgess Owen
recently said, the Democratic Party's pivot to the far left is what
ultimately hurt his opponent in his swing district.
Joining us now, Congressman-elect Burgess Owens and Trump 2020 director of
press communications, Erin Perrine.
Burgess, number one, I think my endorsement tipped the balance, I don't
know. Maybe, I don't know --
(CROSSTALK)
REP.-ELECT BURGESS OWENS (R-UT): Thank you so much.
HANNITY: Well, congratulations. Really happy --
OWENS: Thank you.
HANNITY: Was that -- do you like this better than winning the Super Bowl?
OWENS: This is the biggest game in town right now, and for our country. So
I am thankful to be a participant on the field. This is awesome.
And I thank everyone out there who not only supported me but pray for our
success. Thank you again for that.
HANNITY: I was watching you, Erin, this weekend, and I really wanted to
hear what you had to say. You had an analysis of what had happened in the
race, all of the improprieties. You're watching it unfold.
You see the biggest increase in African-American voters for Trump, and
Hispanic-Americans, and other demographics.
Nobody seems to want to talk about that part.
OWENS: Well, I tell you what, first of all, we've had --
ERIN PERRINE, TRUMP 2020 DIRECTOR OF PRESS COMMUNICATIONS: No, they don't
want to talk about it.
HANNITY: Oh, I'm sorry. Erin, first.
OWENS: OK.
PERRINE: No, they wouldn't want to talk about it. Why would they? Because
it doesn't fit their narrative, it doesn't fit who they believe Trump
supporters are or who Republicans are. You have an incredible incoming
freshman member of Congress, and every Democrat that was unseated in the
House of Representatives in this election was done so by either a
Republican woman, a minority, or a veteran, or a veteran of the Super Bowl,
as well.
We talk about the incredible incoming class on the fact Democrats and some
in the mainstream media want to try to silence us, it's no wonder Harvard
is trying to have students say that we shouldn't be there. If it's up to
them or AOC with a list, personally threatening text messages I received my
phone, they don't like what they see in the Republican Party because it's
not what they expected under Donald Trump. They want to silence that
success.
Unfortunately, they're not going to be able to do that. We're not going to
be intimidated. If they want to try to launch fireworks at our people, or
sucker punch them at a peaceful protests, or shut us down on TV, we're
going to stand strong in the fact that Donald Trump delivered a booming
economy, multiple vaccines for the coronavirus, a better America now than
ever before.
And it's too bad for them that they felt so left behind that they thought
this was the Republican Party they could put in one corner, and every time
they turn around, we're a bigger, better, more inclusive party, because of
Donald Trump and the incredible Republican leadership, not only in the
Senate, but in the House with the incoming -- well, hopefully, someday
speaker -- Kevin McCarthy.
HANNITY: Burgess, I think these voters, 11 million more, 12 million more
than the last time for Trump. You've got the Democratic Party like the
coastal elite party -- California, San Francisco, L.A., New York, D.C.,
right?
All right.
OWENS: Yeah.
HANNITY: Then you've got Donald Trump's coalition of the new Republican
Party, which would be working men and women, the people that really, truly
make America great. And also with record low unemployment for African-
Americans and Hispanic-Americans, you see this dramatic increase in the
vote among these demographics for the -- really, for Donald Trump. I
wouldn't even argue for the Republican Party.
What does that tell you, what is now the future?
OWENS: The future is going to be great for our country, because what the
left doesn't understand is the DNA of the American people. We don't like
bullies, we don't like cowards, we don't like being attacked for trying to
be free, and Americans are waking up.
This last election, with so many more millions of people saying this is the
way to go, and we are not going to stand by and let these guys -- take us
in a different direction.
So, I'm excited about what will happen coming in. And this freshman class,
Sean, is going to be remarkable. Just get ready for a remarkable, powerful,
patriotic class coming aboard.
HANNITY: Congratulations on your great win, Congressman-elect.
Erin, keep fighting, great job. Thank you for being with us.
When we come back, more HANNITY right after this.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HANNITY: All right. Unfortunately, that's all the time we have left on
this program tonight.
A special message to the people of Georgia, I lived there four great years,
from '92 to '96. Love Georgia.
"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" at the end of '96 said, 1996 was a great
year, the Olympics came and Hannity left. I was coming to FOX News.
Anyway. There is a lot at stake, and you're going to have an opportunity to
get your mail-in ballot early. We, as a country, we'll get on our hands and
knees and beg, you can help save the country. All eyes on Georgia.
Hope you set your DVR, never miss an episode.
Let not your heart be troubled because butterball turkey fryer Laura
Ingraham is next.
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