love. you can ignore the noise because the people around you are way more important than the news media. that's what we've learned. we'll see you tomorrow night, the show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink, and with that we are honored to introduce our friend sean hannity who takes over. >> sean: wait a minute. so you're saying it's better to have time with the people you love, your friends, your family, and not the noise in the political world? really? >> tucker: i'm saying it's better than twitter, i'm just throwing that out there. [laughter]. >> sean: tucker thank you and welcome to hannity. what a night we have. coming up biden's far left war on women's sports. it is now ramping up big time. let me put it this way. title nine is officially in jeopardy as you have woke bureaucrats led by biden trying to cater to the trans community's pressure to allow biological men to play women's sports. we'll get to that. former kentucky swimmer reilly gaines will be here to respond to democrats that are trying so hard to erase female athletes.

later more shocking video from the breakdown of law and order in america's major cities, it's happening everywhere, every place, every day. take a look. >> sean: as mr. rogers used to say just a regular day in the neighborhood. not really. this has to end. you're not going to believe how bad these far left hell holes have become. it is getting worse every day and we'll have more in a moment but first for many today represents one of the worst days of the year. it is the official deadline today, because the 15th fell on a weekend, to file your taxes. this year, you, the american people, you have already forked over more money to the federal government than ever before in history. now, even if you reside in a deep blue city and a deep blue state, the vast majority of your tax dollars being sent to the washington sewer and swamp, the average american household is

now forking over almost $37,000 a year to the feds. wow. so what is the swamp doing for all of that hard earned money you have? under joe biden, it is not a proy picture. some would call it a dumpster fire. and today we have three major examples. our grossly, you know, undermanaged, mismanaged government is just on the prowl every single day. now it starts at the very top. you have a president that is mentally checked out. i don't care if you want to say he is incognitive decline or worse, that's up to you but certainly the world sees it, you see it, every american sees it, china sees it, russia sees it, iran sees it, north korea sees it and guess what? according to his official schedule yesterday he worked less than an hour after spending a long weekend at the beach. but while joe is dotering along the woke attorneys and academics and bureaucrats that are in the white house, they're the ones running this country, literally, into the ground on every level.

the incompetence is almost unbelievable. wait until you hear the questions we have for you today. on capitol hill that incompetence was glaring. it has never, ever been this bad. take a look at this to start. . the policy of the prior administration to separate children from their parents is one of the most heinous policies in our recent memory, most certainly. very proud of the work of the family reunification task force which i am honored to lead. what we do is we enforce the law. but let me just say this t. >> you're not. >> it is stunning to me, stunning, to hear you say that the prior administration reunited children with their parents. >> oh, i see. so this is their fault? so you're not going to take any responsibility for the indentured servitude and exploitation of children that is happening on your watch? a moment ago you were crowing about the fact that you treated children so well. and yet we find tens of

thousands of children who are forced to work as slaves because of your policies and you turn around and blame a prior administration. mr. secretary, this is par for the course for you. you do it every time you appear before this committee. you do it every time you appear before congress. i for one am sick and tired of it and thousands of children are in fallacy danger. danger, because of what you are doing. >> sean: record illegal immigration one year after another after another, six million plus to date. and more drugs, more fentanyl, more heroin, more met, more cocaine, have poured across our southern border under joe biden than ever before. more illegal immigrants have crossed into this country than ever before. more women and children have been trafficked sexually and otherwise and abused than ever before. look at this report. quote, the biden administration administration ignored warning signs, dodged blame for migrants forced into child labor. now, why would we be shocked? take a look at your screen. you might remember.

oh, remember those cages for kids at the height of the covid pandemic? those are joe biden's cages. now, we all know that biden's border czar kamala harris was never going to lift a finger. so it really was up to secretary mayorkas to fix this dire situation but he has utterly failed and tries to blame the trump administration when we had very little illegal immigration. why? he enforced the laws of the country he didn't break it like mayorkas and joe biden are doing. he didn't reward the law breaking. you have a career lawyer and bureaucrat in mayorkas who has no idea what he's doing and frankly he should be embarrassed to even show his face in public. he has no business in this position. he's not keeping our country safe and secure. how many people have we already caught on the terror watch list? but even more importantly, how many people on that list have gotten through and come into our country to create terror cells right here in america? these people have no shame. and, sadly, it's not just the

border. it's not just mayorkas. get this. you're going to love this. here's biden's alcohol tobacco and by arm director making a complete idiot and fool of himself on capitol hill today unable to say what an assault rifle is because the alcohol tobacco and firearm director says i'm no expert in firearms. then why do you have this job. >> in 15 seconds would you define an assault weapon for me? >> i will adjust interrupt you. >> i will a go shorter than that because honestly, i do think that's -- if congress was to take that up i think congress would have to do the work but we would be there to provide technical assistance. i unlike you am not a firearms expert to the same extent you may be but we have people at atf who can talk about velocity of firearms, what damage different kinds of firearms cause so that whatever determination you chose to make would be an informed one. >> sean: we want to ban assault

weapons but we don't know what they are. you would think the guy trying to regulate and ban assault weapons, firearms, would have even basic knowledge about firearms, another complete incompetent ignorant, you know, idiot working for your government. this guy is, you know, probably the worst of the worst. expertise clearly not a requirement in the biden white house. take a look, we're not done yet, at biden's education secretary, all happening in one day. he was completely incapable and unable to answer a simple question. i don't think this is a hard question. i never thought i would hear this in congress but take a look. what is a woman, that's the question. >> can you please define for me what is a woman. >> our focus at the department is to provide equal access to students, including students who are lgbtq, access free from discrimination. >> is that -- so what's the definition of a woman? you haven't given me that? you haven't answered my question. >> i think that's almost secondary to the important role

that i have as secretary of education make sure -- >> my question is not secondary it's very simple. what does hhs says the definition of a woman is? >> i lead the department of education and my job is to make sure that all students have access to public education, which includes co-curricular activity. >> sean: let's pause for a second, shall we? did you ever think this would be a real news story in the united states of america? did you ever think that? ideology always taking precedent in the biden administration? woke wins the day every day? now, here's another example. you thought i was done. i'm not done yet. secretary of state, winking tony blinken in japan today a few miles away north korea has been launching icbms right at japan for month after month after month. china is conducting hostile military drills in the pacific, the south china sea, the taiwan straits threatening to invade our us ally taiwan.

and yet tony winking blinken was more focused on japan's green energy. take a look. >> this is a tremendously exciting day to have one of the most major embassies that we have anywhere in the world make this green transition really sets the example and sets the stage to do even more across the entire state department enterprise and as the ambassador said we're fulfilling an executive order by the president, but the fact that it's happening here in japan, tokyo, is very, very meaningful. >> sean: that guy a couple of weeks ago admitted they did abandon our fellow americans in afghanistan, 175 that he knows of, and that some of them are being held hostage. they are all completely out of their realm. they have no business being in charge of anything within our government. is anybody out there, any of you watching tonight, are you missing the guy that sent out mean tweets? especially taking on china that's trying to take over the

usa as the world's sole super power? anybody paying attention to that? i guess joe is probably visiting more castles this week. it's clear that most of the officials have never held down a real job outside of dc in their entire lives. common sense be gone. nobody has any common sense in that swamp. and america's geopolitical foes, they are more hostile than ever. they're taking full advantage, americans being held hostage. let's see, in russia, in afghanistan, mexico, elsewhere. all over the world, global supply chains are still a disaster. the drug crisis worse than ever because of open borders, inflation, record levels. interest on our national debt is costing you, the american taxpayer, $400 billion, around 10% of our entire federal budget. even small things like processing times, if you want a passport or a federal document request or an application or a

permit or a visa, that's taking longer than ever before. and somewhere tonight, as biden is fast asleep, he can't stay up and watch our show, kamala's cackling away and, you know, laughing and giggling as she always does, and mayorkas raging and blaming trump for the dog biting and the bee stinging. there's a little boy or girl being trafficked at the exact same time, being abused at our southern border by mexican cartels. no one in the white house seems to give a dam, and that should tell you everything you need to know about the people in charge. they're letting this happen. all of this is preventible. here with reaction fox news contributor charlie hurt former senior advisor to president trump stephen miller, outkick host tomi lahren. tomi i'll start with you and give you the choice of which one you want to respond to. i never would think i would have to ask a guest on this program to define a woman.

maybe i'll pass on that and give that to stephen miller because he's the lucky winner. but maybe you can describe what an assault weapon is or their definition because clearly the head of ntf has no clue. >> you're right these people rend hired for that i expert tease but it stuns me how many liberals think ar15 stands for assault with won rifle. this person has even less knowledge than that. so where do we start? there's so many crisis biology up. joe was either in bed at a castle or licking an ice cream cone telling us to lick the board. i would like to talk about the border because i was there during the trump administration. the zero tolerance policy with child separation, it worked. that's why we saw record lows in border crossing during the trump administration because he did something. and now these people, who claim to care about migrants, as they

call them, are asleep at the wheel because they see these people as pawns and future voters. they don't care about their well-being. i don't see aoc down there hugging a fence or hugging one of obama's cages as she did for the photoon op during the romp romp. it shows you how disengine with us from the border to gun control to the position on the world stage. they care about none of it. none of it. but climate change and rainbows. that's it. >> sean: i don't know what to say to that. stephen miller, i'll tell you what, i'm going to be a gracious host tonight and let you choose, you want to talk about how to define a woman? do you want to define what an assault weapon is? do you want to comment on the open borders and sex trafficking that is very real, over six million people illegally entering the country with biden and mayorkas. by the way they are aiding and abetting in that effort. or maybe you want to talk about winking tony blinken and how

he's lecturing people in japan about green energy and north korea and china are creating nothing but a terror zone there. >> well, let's see if i can hit them all real quick sean. the national humiliation under joe biden never ends. we have an education secretary who doesn't know what a woman is. a homeland security secretary who doesn't know what a border is. and we have a secretary of state who doesn't know what national security is and we have an atf director who doesn't know what an assault weapon is, the very thing he's trying to ban. all common sense americans know what all of these things are. they know a border is a place, if you cross, they know that a semiautomatic rifle is a major prime weapon of self-defense in this country. they know that a woman is an adult human female that can get pregnant, that can give birth. and they know that national security is about having a strong military to protect this country not forcing a loser green agenda on foreign countries when we should be

protecting this country by drilling here and drilling now as donald trump did, who brought our energy prices to record lows and our national security stronger than it had ever been before. >> sean: okay, so they can't define what an assault weapon is or what a woman is. they're not dealing with china and japan and the real threats that exist in the world today, charlie hurt. they're not dealing with the problem at the border, over six million illegal immigrants. and my question is, with joe biden, this checked out, i now see an alliance, i call it the new action is of evil, iran, russia, china. and now they brought in the saudis the egyptians, the uae. things i didn't see happening in our lifetime. and now the iranians and the saudis are aligned. soon our saudis will be aligned with syria. we are watching the reconfiguration of the world happen right before our eyes and joe biden is looking at castles in ireland.

>> yeah. that's exactly what happens when the leader of the free world falls asleep and cedes all of american power and independence to tie rants around the world. this comes as no surprise. what's amazing, as you go through each of these buffoons in front of congress, what i think is most interesting about that is that every single one of them perfectly accurately reflects who joe biden is. you think joe biden could define for you what a woman is, what an assault rifle is? what the border is? he doesn't understand any of these things or purposely sticks his head in the sand because politically he believes it's better to weaponize all of this stuff. but the testimony that mayorkas gave today in the senate, you know, it's just further proof -- and i guess we've already had it, but it's further proof that

these people will lie about absolutely anything. they will say absolutely anything in order to weaponize the catastrophes that they have created, and to try to weaponize them into some sort of political cudgle to win the next election. and honestly because these affect people voters in very real ways, democrats and republicans, i pray people wake up and the people who supported joe biden two years ago realize that this guy's going to destroy america. i mean, even if he has two more years he might destroy the country. >> sean: yeah. tomi, everything seems to be rooted in this green new deal, radical socialist agenda, this climate alarmist religious cult as i call it. the sad part because joe biden abandoned energy independence

and we were an exporter when he became president we now have to rely on countries and making countries that hate us rich, chris like saudi arabia, opec countries, now venezuela, probably soon iran. and weaver more natural resources combined than they do. that's the shame of it all. it would be good for national security, a for high paying career jobs, it would be good for our allies in western europe that align themselves, stupidly, with vladimir putin and russia. and we've become an energy rich nation and probably pay down our debt and not burden our kids and grandkids. >> yeah, instead of sending all of our hard earned tax dollars over to zelenskyy if we wanted to stick it to russia we would be american energy independent and be exporters as you laid out. i'm from south dakota hours into his presidency he cancelled the keystone xl pipeline. those people are waiting to get

their green new jobs because we keep hearing about all these plentiful job opportunities and green energy but the people if my home state and the hard working americans out there that relied on those well-paying jobs in fossil fuels they have been left out to dry. same thing with the people in east palestine ohio the poor white trump supporters, the administration does not care about them. they learned they can weaponize this climate change conversation and it really really inspires young people to go out and vote when they're not on tik tok. that's why they continue to drive this home. because there's not really a solution to it. they just can talk about green energy and it makes they will feel like they've done something which is really the democrat agenda in a nutshell virtue signaling making people feel like they've done something and in reality they've done nothing but make everything worse. >> sean: you know, stephen miller the border problem preventible. the energy dependence probable preventible. a belief in our second amendment rights and punishing criminals that get ahold of weapons illegally like hunter biden lying on let's say a gun

application, would probably go a long way to preventing criminals from getting guns. now we have to define women and meanwhile the world is watching china aggressively create new alliances that, well, these are countries that used to like us. but they don't trust biden as president, do they? >> no. woke ideology is an ideology of national suicide. whether it's shutting down american energy to pray to the god of green energy or whether it's letting criminals who carry weapons free, go free, in our major cities like new york city again and again and again while trying to disarm law abiden citizens, or not having a border at all. and i give great credit to josh hawley today for pulverizing secretary mayorkas who along with joe biden has provided over an epidemic of modern day slavery for which they are solely and personally responsible and will be in ever lasting and eternal shame.

we need to turn the country around and restore sanity common sense trule of law, borders and true american values or i fear we won't have a country to pass off to our children and their children. >> sean: charlie hurt, lafferty word. >> yeah, no, it's absolutely true. you know, the energy independence aspect of all of this i think is one of the most important, because not only did it do so much to weaken the united states of america and our standing in the world but of course it empowered our enemies. and, you know, vladimir putin never -- you know, under the trump administration when oil prices and gas prices were low, couldn't afford to do anything. as soon as joe biden came in, destroyed our energy independence, jacked gas prices through the roof, vladimir putin had the money he needed and the first thing he did was invade ukraine. >> sean: thank you all for being with us. we appreciate it. when we come back you're going to want to here riley gaines pushing back hard on joe biden's

promise to bar states from banning transgender women, in other words biological men playing women's sports. that's straight ahead and much more as we continue. we're glad you're with us. ♪

. >> sean: earlier this month the biden administration introduced a new title nine ruling barring states from banning transgender women in sports but it has some exceptions for high school and college athletes. now former ncaa swimmer, riley gaines took aim at biden over the latest promise to veto a bill that would protect women's sports saying the administration is quote catering to a radical minority. others including trans swimmer lea thomas want beside ton take the regulation even further than that. take a look.

>> it breaks my heart to see trans kids across the country lose out on these opportunities. the department of education has proposed a new rule for title nine regarding transgender athletes. this would probe blanket bans on transgender kids especially in grades k through eight however it would not prohibit discrimination against trans kids in the high school and college levels under the guise of competitive fairness. this rule is a good start however not enough. >> sean: florida governor ron desantis pushed back on this regulation while taking a subtle shot at bud light as well. >> desantis presents -- >> real men of women's sports. >> today we recognize the men who have hacked the system. >> hacked the system. >> once mediocre in the men's division now cream of the crop in the women's. >> from mediocre to champion. >> you couldn't cut it with the boys so you pushed women off the podium. >> real men steal first place.

>> because without you, sports would be fair. without you, women's sports would be for, well, women. >> sean: here with reaction former ncaa swimmer riley gaines is with us. riley welcome back to the program. you laughing at the ad? i was laughing at it, too. here's what i want to ask you, this actually impacts not only you but it impacts my family. my daughter's an athlete. many of her closest friends are college athletes. and this now means that biological men, and you dealt with this, because you swam against lea thomas and now have to compete against biological men, which is fundamentally unfair. kaitlyn jenner has said it, other people have said it, i believe it to be true as well. and i'm trying to think why set back women so much here? why are they so passionate about this one issue? >> this question i don't -- this is something i'm trying to

understand. there's so much contributing to the eraser of women whether it be changing language. i mean it's now offensive to use the term mother it's birthing person and it's not breast feeding it's chest feeder. so what's going on with the language? there's so much that's erasing women. now how this isn't something that affects men. now how there's not going to be a biological womener trans men who will compete against the men. and i can tell you why that is it's because a female can never be competitive with the men, especially at the elite level. so this whole ban, what the biden administration is trying to do by rewriting title nine, it only affects women and affects women in a negative way. >> sean: at the beginning of the show, i showed a question on capitol hill today, it was a simple question, can you define what a woman is. they don't have an answer. there was another question, in congress, look, i've been on this show 27 years and i never thought i would be asking these questions or these questions i

would be showing to my audience being asked on capitol hill, you know, can a biological man have a woman. that was also asked on capitol hill recently. so my question is, why is this so difficult for so many people? i think kaitlyn jenner nailed it when she said, that i don't care what the hormone level of an 18 or 20 year old, what was it at puberty, 13, 14, because at that point, there are certain biological shifts and changes that would make a biological man that's transitioning that much stronger. i think that's the science behind it, is it not? >> absolutely. that's exactly what this is. and let me answer the question for you of what a woman is? it's an adult human female. >> sean: thank you i never thought i'd ask a guest that. feel free. i'm glad nobody's asking me. >> it's an adult human female. when you see these videos of typically of course the left or someone within the biden administration who can't answer this question, we have a sitting

supreme court justice who couldn't answer this question. it proves the state of our nation. we're denying objective truth. we're denying the shear essence of humanity. i hate to break it to all your viewers, but guess what we were all here because we were from man and woman and we're denying that. and it's chilling, it's unnerving. it's truthfully scary to think about. we have people in positions of power who are supposed to make these big decisions that govern the country who can't define a woman? it's mind blowing. it's beyond me. and truthfully, i don't understand why it's controversial. you know, why is this something that garners controversy? why is this something that i got attacked for at san francisco state for speaking about? it's mind blowing. >> sean: riley last time you were on the program you starteded to describe all the work, the hard work, the effort that you put into your sport. i lived it with my own daughter from time she was six years old. it was hours and hours every

day. it was traveling all over the country. there was very little free time for friends, et cetera. the sport she plays is a year round sport. but how old were you when you started swimming? i think you said four, right? >> four, yeah, and i'm 22 now so i dedicated 18 years of my life to my sport. >> sean: right. and you said you would swim three hours before you went to school every day. >> yeah, at the collegiate level you're swimming six hours every day, three hours before 8:00 a.m., five to eight, you go to class, eat your lunch come back and swim 1:30 to 4:30. >> sean: you swim twice a day, i don't know how you stay in the water that long, i don't know what you're thinking about for the six hours you're swimming every day, but it takes enormous discipline and work to get to the level you got to, top swimmer in the country, and then you tie lea thomas and even though you tied you ended up coming in second.

i don't really comprehend that. >> it's what the administration is trying to push and their rationale to me, upon tying, was they said they had to give lea the trophy for photo purposes. so what this is is they're reducing everything exactly like you mentioned we worked our entire lives for. they're reducing that down to a photo op to validate the feelings of a mail. it's a mockery. it's degrading. look at what dylan mulvaney all of this stuff is offensive to what it means to be a woman or woman hood or i guess in dylan's case girl hood. >> sean: reilly we showed what happened to you in san francisco when you were giving a speech. what is the reaction of most people? is it that extreme or is it a minority of people? in other words, i look at your life objectively and i can relate to it because my daughter's gone through it and i see somebody that is enormously disciplined, that has dedicated such a large part of her life to a sport, who has achieved the

unachievable in many ways. you got to the top level. and now you speak out about something as basic as this and you're attacked for it. how do you handle that? >> i don't let it deter me. my only -- i look at it as proof that i'm doing something right. when someone wants to silence you that bad and they do so through violence it's proof they don't have truth on their side, they don't have science or common sense orb anything to dissuade from my argument other than resorting to verbal and fallacy violence. and let me just say, i know it feels as if i've been a lone voice in this fight but i'm speaking for the overwhelming majority of female athletes and, truthfully, i'm sick of asking people with influential platforms to speak up so if this is something have i have to do on my own i'll carry the weight of every girl and woman on my shoulders. >> sean: well i'm standing with you for women and women's sports and title nine and not going

along with this insanity. i appreciate your courage, appreciate you being back on the program. thank you. >> coming up next, new examples, horrific crime, liberal cities and the violent surge is continuing to playing the entire country. we'll show you the footage. larry elder, curtis sliwa, they react straight ahead. ♪

♪ >> sean: all right, so while the left wing continues pushing their woke, soft-on-crime agenda while crime in america's cities, small towns, everywhere, it is spiralling out of control. take a look at your screen. yesterday a new york police officer hit in the back of the head with a bottle. this in broad daylight, as you can see. over the weekend a young woman was brutally attacked by a mob in chicago.

but despite the surge in crime, the left is doubling down on the idiocy of defund, dismantle and no bail. here's congresswoman ocasio-cortez. take a look. >> we are defunding safety, defunding our public schools, defunding our public pools. defunding our parks. defunding our libraries. when we are taking all of though resources and demanding that every single department except the militarized one, be cut. >> sean: here with reaction, former new york city mayoral candidate, the head of the very important guardian angels curtis sliwa is with us, and from the epic times their host larry elder is with us. curtis you know new york streets better than anybody, that's a daily occurrence and that's not the worst of it. >> the way you fight it sean you have to go after aoc and the socialists who hide behind being democrats. i was just in is store i can't,

the home of tony bennett the estoria kid, we are the people's republican of estoria. so what i've done is not take them on just verbally i'm organizing ronald reagan republican clubs and running candidates against their socialist candidates and bringing in moderate democrats and independents and sharing them the vision without public safety there can be no improvements in the quality of life and that's how you defeat the socialists because we need to teach the moderate democrats to take their party back. their party has been hijacked by the socialists. >> sean: can you name a moderate democrat? because i don't know any? >> well, they're hiding now. they're in fear. but you know what it takes. >> sean: i'm just if you know one. >> you have toening strong, sean, and there are good democrats out there. >> sean: where are they? >> they have to be empowered bring them together with republicans and independents.

>> sean: you'll find more rats in new york, because you were the temporary rat czar, than you will moderate democrats. larry, look at what happened in compton. you know the southland really well, you know la really well. look at what happened there over the weekend, look at what happened in chicago over the weekend. look at what's happening in every major city every weekend. >> yeah, you're right. and, you know, the number one responsibility of government, and we shouldn't have to say this, is protect people and property and all over america, city after city after city, neither is happening. it's a combination of the assault on crime das letting a bunch of bad guys out on the streets to terrorize the very people on the left claim they care about. sean we have to talk about this, too. a lot of this crime is being done by black people against other black people. half of the homicides in this country are by and against black people even though blacks are just 13% of the population. according to the cdc, a young black man age 10-34 is 13 times

more likely to be murdered than a young white man in the same demographic. it is because of the breakdown of the family in the black community and the hispanic community, even in the white community. we need to talk about the 10,000 pound elephant in the room which is a large number of people brought into the world without a father in the home. it increases crime, it increases dropouts and poverty and we're not talking about it. >> sean: larry how do you solve that if it begins at home? >> it's the welfare state. we've incentivized women to mary the government and men to abandon their financial and morale responsibility. we need to tell people to live up to their responsibilities. a, and b when you make it easier for people to steal and when you reduce the chance of a bad guy being caught convicted and incarcerated, crime goes up. they may be criminals but they're not stupid. they have to make sure people deal with the consequences in their action and when you have a bunch of mobs running around and a mayor elect saying well, this

is because of depravity, this is because they've been deprived, this is because store owners have taxes, that the city is imposing. i'm surprised people aren't marching in city hall in la, in chicago, in new york, in philadelphia, with pitch forks. >> sean: i've been out there with you at weird hours of the night riding the subway with you and we can tell a lot of stories together but the reality is it's never been this bad. even new york prior to rudy giuliani coming in and saving new york, crime was not this bad. now you see big box stores, now you see retailers, they're picking up, they're leaving. they can't make money curtis. why should they stay? >> right. there's no doubt. and, in fact, if you don't get district attorneys who are going to work with law abiding people to enforce the law, then anarchy prevails. and we have to go into these communities and help candidates who want to take on the

socialists. look, johnson won in chicago because bernie sanders and ao c all out crazy came in there and helped him. where were the moderates helping the moderate who had won the initial wave in the election? they were missing in action. we don't work together. i'm telling you, there are moderate democrats independents and republicans. ronald reagan brought them all together. he would never have become president if it were not for moderate democrats. >> sean: the democratic party during reagan's term was nothing like this democratic party. >> no doubt, my mother and father and grandparents time, we need to teach the democrats to fight for their party and kick the socialists out back to the countries which they so praised. like venezuela, like nicaragua, like cuba, like russia. go back to those countries because the new immigrants that are accepting america have left socialism, have left communism,

and they don't come here to relive the horrors of it in america, land of the free, the home of the brave, where democracy prevails and we love our american flag. >> sean: all right, curtis and larry, thank you both >> straight ahead, it is tax day in america. millions of you, the american people, you're opening your wallets for the government and biden is not making it any less painful. we'll tell you and give you the numbers straight ahead. ♪

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♪ >> sean: all right, time to pay up, tax day is upon us. but if you're having trouble making ends meet, you can always thank joe biden. remember, he promised he would never raise taxes on anybody making less than $400,000 a year. that was a lie. never talking to hunter about his business dealings, his foreign affairs, that was a lie.

biden inflation has been a two long year tax on all of us. on average, $10,000 for the average american household. it is squeezing americans with high, outrageously high prices. and what about biden's tax hike on corporations? they pass it on to you. and your pension and retirement if you understand and natural gas and oil and coal which gets passed on to all of us. no wonder more than two-thirds of americans now are living paycheck to paycheck, unhappy with the state of our economy, and, by the way, biden filed his own tax return today. reporting an income of about $580,000 and paying about $180,000 in taxes between himself and the first lady. i guess hunter, who about iterly complained on his laptop that half his income is going to pops, i guess pops didn't get his cut this year. here with reaction fox and friends weekend cohost pete hegseth and fox business host brian brem berg is here. pete let me start with you.

simple, if you look at the average american household $36,000 a year they're giving the feds, add a $10,000 biden inflation tax we're paying more for every item we boy in every store we go to. prices are going to go higher again because gas prices are going up because joe biden unilaterally disarmed, in terms of domestic energy production, and no now opec has cut back 1.3 million barrels in terms of production every single day, so that means that lowers the supply, that increases -- demand remains constant, increases the price. >> yeah, because it had been an assault on prosperity by democrats and this administration. it's far more difficult than ever for middle class america to get ahead. sean, i don't know if you know this. but brian bremberg and i lived two houses down from each other when we were kids in late 80s and 90s. in middle class nowhereville minnesota. >> sean: i have a question.

how many fist fights did you have. >> go ahead. >> sean: how many fights did you have? >> none, none. >> sean: no way. >> only basketball games and fastball games. no, we were buddies. >> sean: we fought every day so i'm shocked. you must have grown up in the woke generation. i don't know. >> no. >> no, no, no. good parents. good parents. >> sean: i had good parents. >> but my point is. >> sean: you're calling my parents awful, i heard you. i'm kidding go ahead. >> i'm sorry. >> sean: don't worry. >> my point is single-wage earners in a small town could get ahead because it was meant to enable to american dream. and we live in a world today, because we're going to war on the things that make people get ahead, it's almost impossible. and when inflation outpaces wages, when government policies go to war with our -- with the industries that make america great, you can't get ahead. and it's been democrats, from, you know -- clinton said the era of big government was over, not true. obama came in, biden came in and

they crushed that dream. to the families like the hegseths and brembergs don't have the opportunity to get ahead in the middle class and it's a shame. >>. >> sean: brian that is a shame your thoughts. >> pete's right. part of the problem is people's wages haven't grown in two years, sean. that's a big deal. 24 months of real wages not growing. but worse than that, people are getting into debt. we're at record levels of household debt, consumer debt, credit card debt. so you think about that 1-2 punch. that's why people feel the way they do feel. and they look ahead to the future. and i think the real problem is, everybody in this country knows, we've got to move away from china. we've got to decouple. we've got to find some way to break our dependence on china. that's just a basic reality of economic life today. this administration is moving us head long in the direction of more dependence. you know, the hegseths and the brembergs didn't drive cars that anyone wanted to write home about back in the day, but we

could afford 'em the. we could get around, we could live that middle class life and make a better life for their friends and family. that's getting harder to do under this administration, and people know it. they just want a sled of hope. we can fix this. these are not natural causes these are man made problems that we have now but we have to have somebody else in the white house who's just got the good sense to help people out instead of making life worse. >> sean: yeah. all right, i want an honest answer. so you guys lived near each other growing up and not one time, you never had a fight? because whether we were playing hockey, football, baseball, basketball, we fought every day when i grew up. you didn't have one fight growing up? not one. >> it was on the field, it was on the court could. we fought like heck on the court and then we walked off and we traded baseball cards. >> we left it there. >> sean: all right i'll leave it there. thank you both. more hannity next. ♪

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