>> jesse: i was always afraid to send food back. sent my first dish back the other day. felt great. do it, it's empowering. let's do text messages. sadie from new york, i'm a woman who wasn't thrilled with the vance pick after the debate i told my daughter you need to marry a man like j.d. vance. dottie from ohio, brad pitt is also the same age as tim walz. just saying. -- from denver, i'm glad to see jillian michaels has joined our movement, the movement is large. everyone is welcome. sandy from maryland, i want you to apologize for saying that women always want men to apologize. i'm sorry, don't mean it, i'm watters, this is my world. ♪ ♪

>> sean: welcome to hannity. tonight we have a jam-packed show. eleni a trump, the former first lady, will join us with an empty out look into what the trump family has faced over the last several years and her views on this upcoming election a mere 34 days away. also big new poll numbers for donald trump who appears to be picking up momentum just a short time until election day, although early voting of course is rolling out around the country. later we will also check in with sarah carter, and -- in north carolina. north carolina has been devastated and in many ways abandoned with the death toll continuing to rise following the devastation from hurricane helene. after a weekend of star-studded fund-raisers and lavish parties with her friends on the west coast and hollywood, kamala harris finally found the time to tour some damage in the southeast. meanwhile, kamala likely regrets picking fellow radical leftist governor tim walz as her running

mate. the joy seems most definitely gone after last night's debate. now we know why the harris campaign, you know, keeps walz very far away from the media. he doesn't do interviews. we know why, because he can't. the governor is a complete and total, well, frankly, buffoon. he's in way over his head like she is, way out of his league and walz looked like a deer in the headlights, so visibly nervous he did not have command of the facts. he seemed ill-prepared, he said some pretty weird, bizarre things. art many people that call themselves a knucklehead in the middle of a debate or brag about being friends with school shooters. take a look. >> governor, you said you were in hong kong during the deadly tiananmen square protest in the spring of 1989. but minnesota public radio and other media outlets are reporting that you actually did not travel to asia until august of that year. can you explain that discr discrepancy?

>> to the folks out there, look, i grew up in small, rural nebraska, a town of 400, a town that you rode your bike with your friends until the streetlights came on and i'm proud of that. my community knows who i am, they saw where i was at, they -- look, i will be the first to tell you i poured my heart into my community, i've tried to do the best i can but i've not been perfect and i'm a knucklehead at times. i will say more than anything, many times i will talk a lot, i will get caught up in the rhetoric, but being there, the impact it made, the difference it made in my life, i learned a lot about china. >> just a follow-up on that, the question was, can you explain the discrepancy? >> all i said was i got there that summer and misspoke on this. i will just, that's what i've said. >> sean: i think another word for that is called lighting. and he didn't, by the way, even answer why he wants feminine products and boys bathrooms or gender-affirming care for

children without parental consent. his bizarre position on abortion. yeah, he lied about abortion, we will get to that. 's legal driver's license for illegal aliens in the country, fort -- free college for illegals and did i mention free sex change operations and amnesty. on the other hand j.d. vance, senator from ohio a rock star last night. upbeat, confident, smart, compassionate, he looked totally competent and this was another three on one debate. two very liberal left-wing arrogant pompous moderators who were clearly trying to tip the scales and -- in tim walz favor. almost every question tainted with democratic talking points. there was a question about climate change before any mention of the economy or illegal immigration. despite promising not to fact-check the candidates, the moderators, why play by the rules, they constantly attempted to insert their own so-called facts after answers only from

j.d. vance. in the end it did not matter, vance was able to rise above it, call them out. on x people even joked that tim walz looked ready to vote for donald trump and j.d. vance after last night's performance. i like to agree with senator vance on that, which was pretty funny. following the debate with j.d. vance headed to the spin room to answer more questions, tim walz scurried off to grab some pizza. needed a little comfort food, where he tried very hard to avoid any and all questions about his horrific debate performance. take a look. >> you said you become friends with school shooters during the debate. can you clarify what you meant? >> can you clarify what you meant when you said you were friends with school shooters? why did you say you were in hong kong when reports say you weren't? >> sean: i will take the school shooter special, please. so bizarre.

today in pennsylvania when asked to clarify his comments about being friends with school shooters and his bizarre word salad about one of his many trips to china, is outright lying, he still struggled to come up with a simple answer. take a look. >> can you clarify what you meant about school shooters? >> yeah and look you got to see me, these folks know me, i'm super passionate about this. the question about school shooting, talking everything about school shooting and i sat with the sandy hook parents and it was a profound movement. david is a good friend of mine. you've seen me do this. i've talked about meeting people where there are school shooters. look, i have my dates wrong. i was in hong kong in china in 1989. that move from hong kong into china was profound for me, that was the summer of democracy. >> sean: it looks like john fetterman, he wanted to know part of that.

smart move on his part. when a democrat is facing questions from the state run media mob you know it was a horrible night. as it turns out tim walz has a lot of trouble when it comes to telling the truth. remember last night he lied about project 25. he called it a trump plan. trump has nothing to do with it. lied about a scary no abortion registry that trip advanced do not support. lied about his own position on abortion and, yeah, you can have abortions up to the moment of birth and then there's that little post birth position that he did take in that bill, that's just a fact. also told some egregious lies about the border. walz wants you to believe that illegal crossings are down under biden and harris which as you can see from that chart there, you see that big spike increase, that's a total lie, fabrication also. he lied about taxes, pretending that only the wealthy would pay more under harris and walz when in reality it would be the

middle class that would be hit the hardest of the trump tax cuts are allowed to expire. even fake news cnn or forced to admit the obvious. take a look. >> vance clearly i think it needs to be said clearly the more experienced debater, the slicker speaker. >> j.d. vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches and he did. he landed a lot of punches in between all the niceties and all of that. the thing that really stood out to me was that tim walz did not seem prepared. >> i think the lack of interviews that he's done with national media, with local media, it showed. >> sean: two issues driving the campaign, harris has a big deficit on the economy, a big deficit on immigration and republicans were happy and democrats nervous that on those two issues vance carried it. >> it's pretty clear, vance outclassed walz tonight. i was watching this and all i

could think was walz is in over his head. >> sean: while fake news cnn is grappling with reality, the far left lunatics at ms dnc, it was an absolute fit of hysteria. it was funny. from all the -- for all the wrong reasons on their part. they lost it. take a look. >> it's the audacity. i agree with you that we are in year nine and no one covers the audacity. the audacity, someone should have said stop it, stop. are you effing kidding me? they should have dropped the bomb. this is a debate, this maybe the only chance people have to see the difference and instead j.d. vance just but one toothpick on top of the other and said i'm for this and this and i'm so sorry,. >> i think the people who want the fistfight are the base of the democratic party. democrats want to see someone get up there and give a knuckle sandwich to donald trump. that's what they want. but that is not the group of

people who need this debate. >> sean: i think they might want to consider a prexanax for the host. and the liberal viewers can always count on america's numbey theorist rachel maddow to lie straight to their faces and protect them from any and all truth. last night she delivered big time once again proclaiming a great victory for tim walz. only one in the country that thought that but take a look. >> i think the big picture take away from this is that one of these candidates is much slicker than the other, a much more practiced kind of professional debate style speaker. and the other candidate won. >> sean: hillbilly elegy, really? that's almost as believable as her year and year long obsession with the russia hoax.

meanwhile also serving up some insane propaganda, "politico" claiming that walz deer in the headlights look of terror and panic was actually a sign of passion and intensity. they had to stretch to make that one up. you know, at the same time the same "politico" reporting that j.d. vance -- j.d. vance his beard is triggering. okay conveying aggression and opposition to feminist ideals." i wonder who they are voting for? but if you really need any more evidence that j.d. vance crushed tim walz during last night's debate, take a look at this headline from "the new york times". "vance's dominant debate performance shows why he's trump's running mate. mark my words, this will have an impact on what is a very close race as senator vance pointed out, competently last night, leadership matters. and by the way, after nearly four years under biden and harris, are you better off than you were four years ago?

is the economy better off, are the borders better off, are your towns and cities safer? how do you like paying a dollar plus more per gallon of gasoline and how do you think we are doing on the world stage? how is that war in europe going. we are on the verge of a complete like a breakout of war in the middle east. we know that harris is incompetent and it looks and feels like nothing but incompetence. you are not better off than you were four years ago. our country is far worse off. the world is a far more dangerous place and under donald trump, in spite of their predictions of the death of democracy, everything was better. we did not have war in europe, we did not have war in the middle east, we did not have iranian's and their proxies, you know, creating havoc and shooting off hundreds of ballistic missiles. their proxies and iran themselves. donald trump held him in check. probably about on the verge of going under. but under biden billions of

dollars were unfrozen and deposited in the accounts of the iranian. the islamic republic made aliens and billions thanks to harris and joe biden after their sanctions were either eased or they simply turned a blind eye to them and never enforce them. harrison biden made iran rich again so that they could then foment murder and terrorism worldwide which we've been watching. in 2021, biden-harris even lifted sanctions on two iranian missile producers and of course they brought back that idiotic iranian deal which puts them on a path to becoming a nuclear power. now our closest ally in the middle east, israel, they are now fighting a multi-front war while iranian missiles rain down on tel aviv and all throughout israel and to the idiotic biden-harris plan to appease the iranian has been an abject failure. but to this day they refused to change tactics. here's biden, nearly 200 ballistic missiles, a massive

escalation in what has been going on, they are not using their proxies, hamas in the south, hezbollah in the north, the houthi rebels, they are going with missiles straight it israel. but what is joe's advice weight what it's always been, please show restraint, please show restraint. no, don't attack the nuclear facilities, i promise to them they could pursue nuclear power. take a look. >> obviously iran has gone way out of -- way off course. we are putting together a joint statement that hasn't been done yet. it will be done before too long. by the time we land. there will be some sanctions >> [inaudible question by the media] >> the answer is no. >> sean: the answer should be yes. sanctions, like the ones you lifted, you are going to put a couple back in place. here's what the united states of america if we had strong leaders, what their message

would be. joe hasn't spoken to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. donald trump has. but the message should be clear. go win your war against those radical islamic terrorists that attacked your country, murdered your citizens, kidnapped them, raped them, tortured them and beheaded them. even if kamala doesn't want you to say the words radical islamic terrorism or illegal alien. biden-harris get their way, it's only a matter of time before the world's number 1 state sponsor of terror will start producing nuclear warheads and the odds i would bet are very high they would use them. how does that benefit anybody in the world? how does that contribute to global peace? that harris biden administration is actively putting our country and the entire world at risk with their appeasement policies that are at the very least naive but far more sinister in my view. it's not too late to reverse

course. in 34 days, and sooner for those of you that vote early, you can write their ship, you can get our country back on track, you can restore america's role as the leader of the free world. here with reaction, fox news contributor and former speaker of the house newt gingrich. let's start with a debate last night and get your reaction. >> well i think it was a great moment for j.d. vance. i thought he was remarkable. it's almost a case study that people could use to say this is how you do it. including taking on the cbs moderator when she clearly was wrong. it was absolutely the right thing. he was friendly, he was personable and it was appropriate -- when it was appropriate he used things out of his own background. i thought it was remarkable. you watched walz who really is not in the right league.

walz should not be out there. he's not a national player, he's not fast enough, he doesn't know enough, he's not confident enough. i almost felt sorry for him because he had been put in a position where, at one point j.d. vance said, you know, you have to play whack-a-mole because every time you turn around something would come up where he would have to somehow defend kamala harris. i thought that j.d. won by such a big margin. i did a newsletter today and i said, you know, a star is born. i think j.d. vance now absolutely vindicates donald trump's instincts in picking him and represents the kind of clear, compassionate, genuinely conservative and genuinely tough leader that we are going to need for the future. i think it was an enormous victory for trump and vance last night. >> sean: i can't tell you

independently how many people use the analogy to me, elmer fudd. he was just out of his league. i don't think he's ready to be president and i don't think kamala harris is ready to be president. i did think that moment when j.d. took on the moderators, he might have stolen that page from you because chris wallace was moderating a debate when you ran for president and you just turned and said that's a mickey mouse question. it was extremely effective and he got very triggered by that moment. >> yeah, i don't think he ever quite got over it. i think if you are going to allow these left-wing self-important newspeople to moderate debates, you have to put them in a box. they can't screw it up, they can't be biased, they can't come out and correct you, particularly and by the way every time they try to correct him j.d. vance was right. he was right technically about

the illegal status of the haitians in springfield, it's affection that they are here illegally, it's a gimmick of the bureaucracy. -- a fiction -- he was right in taking on the law which allows a doctor to not take care of a baby if it's born and is still alive after an abortion. i think at least eight babies have died in walz's minnesota under this new law and walz was just plain lying. the law is very clear. what was impressive was that on every topic j.d. was able to talk from facts, from knowledge and to do so precisely and at the same time communicate human nature, his background. for example,, he understands the problems of the mountains of north carolina because he grew up in the mountains. he is from appalachia, that's a whole point of hillbilly elegy. i think he has a sensitivity to

what it means to these small towns that are currently cut off and are frankly the biden-harris administration has failed so badly that it should be a national scandal. >> sean: what do you think of the state of the campaign right now great we have pollsters coming out, a lot of good polls for donald trump in the last two days. your thoughts? >> i think trump -- i tell everyone who asks, make sure all your friends vote. if everybody votes who favors donald trump, he's going to win. his challenge is that he has -- we've now reversed the two parties. we now have the challenge the democrats used to have. the core base of trump's support our people who are on -- less likely to vote. he has to motivate them. this is why i favor voting early because that means you've got your vote in and they can focus on getting other people out to vote. if everybody votes, trump will win and my prediction is it will be by a much bigger margin than

anybody currently expects. i also think if you look at the longshoreman strike, you look at what's happening in ukraine, you look at what's happening in the middle east, what's happening in north carolina, i think the biden administration and harris cannot possibly cope with that many parallel crises. >> sean: newt gingrich, great to see you. 34 days to go. when we come back we will look at new swing state polling data. great news for donald trump. and part one of my interview from yesterday with melania trump straight ahead

♪ ♪ >> sean: with the election just 34 days away, it appears momentum is now beginning to build clearly for donald trump.

according to a new set of poles, donald trump is up in arizona, he leads in the state of north carolina as well. the race in georgia right now, he has as a tie but his numbers -- new numbers in a pool were even better. according to their polling trump holds a six-point lead in georgia, one-point lead in north carolina. a new set of polls by trafalgar show strong numbers for donald trump in the rust belt. pennsylvania poll released over the weekend shows donald trump ahead by more than two points. a brand-new michigan poll has him ahead by an identical margin and the new poll out of the state of wisconsin chose donald trump ahead by one point there. here with reaction, pollsters. two of the most accurate poles doors in both 2020 and 2016. let's do a whip around the country. georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona, nevada.

where are we? >> well i've got four points. i don't usually use my notes, we've been doing this a long time but tonight i will go through them quickly to cover that. first of all president trump will get credit, tremendous job by vance because he made a great pick. number 2, beware of the polls you are seeing out of the media is rolling out to say harris is gaining speed. they are rolling out poles. september 19 through 25. we have to get to the fresh poles that are showing exactly what you said in the sun belt states. georgia a little iffy. i know what well and i think i'm right about that. they need some work. but i even have nevada now going back to trump and that's a big move. i would also say that what you are seeing causing this increase is an increase in his support among african americans, his bad voters, young voters and some independent as well -- hispanic voters -- you can feel the

momentum. the democrats are trying to stop it, rolling out stuff about the indictment center and worry six and the like and that is not going to stop this. something else will have to stop trump's momentum because we see it. >> sean: robert, when you look at atlas and trafalgar and insider advantage, you are the top pollsters in 2020, let's get your take. let's do a whip around the swing states. what are you seeing? >> very much the same. we are showing a separation. one of the things that trump and j.d. vance accomplished very well was they created a sense in the voters minds of this woman is telling me what she wants me to hear and if she believes all of this she would have already done it. i think that explains why we are seeing an increase in pennsylvania which i think is separating, moving trump's way strongly.

i see the same thing in michigan. it's getting stronger. just a bit little bit less in wisconsin. i think georgia is a little more of a challenge than other people think but one of the things i don't think j.d. vance got credit for last night was how well he answered the climate change question. he gave the most rational explanation i've seen on the environment. talking about if you really truly care about the environment you would be using america's clean energy. basically giving a template of how republicans should answer the question. i think that is something that is really helping and will help with the young people. he wasn't this bogeyman he'd been pretrade. he delivered a rational argument that made sense. like you said, made sense to the common person. >> sean: you know, when you get to this point in any campaign. i think the motto has to be win every day or try to win every day.

i see this momentum shift as it relates to donald trump and i would trace it back to this network and appearance donald trump had with our own greg gutfeld, followed by uniondale. people think why would he be campaigning in new york, because a lot of congressional seats actually made a big difference back in 2022. but if it's about winning the day i would say that donald trump now has put together what is the equivalent of almost two straight weeks where he's winning every day. i don't really see anything on the horizon. there's always the possibility of an on for seen event of democrats shifting momentum here. i don't see kamala harris now going to do an interview that will blow americans away for tim walz if he's capable of doing an interview. do you agree with that idea about winning the day, do you think the momentum has shifted in terms of, you know, donald trump has an ability to make news when they do not? they are not anywhere.

>> i think momentum goes back-and-forth and campaigns. we know that. right now you've got the forces of unrest in the middle east, a hurricane that poorly addressed. i know because i was in the middle of it. there are people in north carolina who still don't have water. food, electricity. don't say that. i love my cars. it was a big pain, the whole thing. but let me just say i think the momentum has shifted towards trump. i think it will stay that way. unless the democrats try to manufacture something that we don't know about right now, and that could easily happen. at any moment they can try to shift something. but so far they are the ones facing the strike among the longshore dockworkers and they are the ones who are not able to deal with the hurricane and they are the ones dealing with the middle east and that's a big three problem prong the democrats have to deal with.

>> sean: one thing with the storm being as damaging as it's been in the very poor response by joe biden who sat on the beach and kamala hanging out with her friends in hollywood, a lot of the areas affected in north carolina and georgia, robert, are heavily red areas. is that going to be a problem for people voting down the line as they are dealing with rebuilding their lives? >> i don't know it's necessarily going to affect whether they vote but they are going to vote with some anger because they see plenty of money for everybody else and they will be frustrated when this has taken weeks to get the power back on and the federal response is so slow and they are going to see more real leadership out of graham then out of the biden administration. >> sean: by the way, it was donald trump calling elon musk and thanks to elon musk star link is up and after a week with no communication, people are finally able to communicate for the first time.

to put the hat to -- tip of the hat to donald trump. very generous of the lawn mosque and smart of trump to call him. appreciate both of you. when we come back, i spoke with a former first lady, melania trump about her new book and about this upcoming election. he's next and then we will check in with north carolina senator straight ahead

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♪ ♪ >> sean: yesterday i sat down with former first lady melania trump to discuss her new memoir called melania. we spoke about the upcoming election, the importance of this race and the law fair being used against her husband, her family. here's part one of that interview. take a look. madame first lady, great to see you. >> nice to see you.

>> sean: thank you for doing this. you don't love media interviews and i don't blame you because i watch a lot of media and i've been a part of it for 35 years. we are grateful you are here, thank you for doing this. >> thank you. >> sean: with 34 days away from the election, covered politics my whole life, it's a long hard, tough, grueling process, as you know. what is this process like for you? >> as you said, it's a long process. you just need to be in it and enjoy it is much as you can. also you need to be very focused and take it day by day. some surprises come as well. so it's very important that you prepare for those surprises. >> sean: what is election day and election night like for you? if i was on the ballot i would imagine i would probably be a

wreck. >> as i explained in my book, i'm very calm. that is maybe my personality. because i know on the election day it's all in the people's hands. people decide what they want for this country. it will be again, this year, on november fifth. >> sean: here we go again, your third run. one of the most interesting stories to me is when -- and i've known your husband for many years, long before he got into politics. and then when he was thinking about it we had a lot of late-night conversations about issues and we would kind of go back-and-forth and debate. what is so fascinating is that he was going up against 16 of the top governors and senders in our country and when he brought the issue to you that he was thinking of running, you are quoted as saying, well, you

know, if you run you are going to win. true story? >> true story. >> sean: how did you know? >> i saw how people react to him. he has a passion for this country. we travel all around the world and he was making speeches at that time and i saw what people want. i think the country was ready for change. they wanted to have somebody who was not in politics all the time. and i saw it. i saw in him as well that he really wants to do it at that time. he was talking for many, many years but he really felt 2016 was the right time. >> sean: what if anything is different this time around? >> i would think that the world,

especially the united states, is more divided than ever before. we are dealing with much more danger, especially we see what's going on in the world, and threats that we get. my husband, what he went through in the last few months. >> sean: i'm going to get to the issue of the assassination, and there are new threats as you know, and we will talk about that. let's talk about the divided country. you often talk about you want the country united. i would like the country united. some people would not believe it but i have very strong political beliefs about what the right thing to do is to get the country on the right track. putting politics aside. how do you reconcile those that want open borders and those that want secure borders, those that want high taxes and those that

want tax cuts and a free market economy, how do you reconcile those that want to defund and dismantle the police and those that believe in law and order or those that believe in energy independence and those that don't or those that believe in peace through strength and those that, for example kamala harris does not think we should use the words radical islamic terrorism. how do you reconcile such different views and be united like you talk about? >> i think we need to listen to each other. i think we need to -- we have different perspectives, we have different beliefs. we need to respect our freedom of speech, our individuality. i think is very important that ideas are heard. that we have a very

straightforward communication and we share ideas, we debate, because i think with that, we could have innovation and success in this country. i feel it's troubling in this country that we are canceling people that they don't agree on certain issues. >> sean: i want to talk to you about you've been a victim of cancel culture in ways i never knew about and i want to get to that too in the course of this interview. politics though has gotten pretty rough and tumble. again, haven't done this for over three decades. look at what you and your family have had to go through. i covered the russia hoax, is the president would say. three years, it was all based on a lie. and it was debunked.

i watched him go through not one but two impeachment's. we will get to the assassination attempt. he's been through so much, but so have you. and what stunned me is when you actually said that when they first impeached him, i'm surprised it took so long. wow. you were expecting it all. >> i did because i saw how they treat him, how the media was against him. i think they are afraid of his strength. he was leading this country with peace through strength. so as soon as he announced that he's running for the president, everything really changed. i saw it and i said, you know, this will not be very pleasant,

but i knew that he's into it, what he will need to deal with. and as soon as he announced presidency, and then when he won, they start already talking about the impeachment, the opposition newspaper head to the front-page story, impeachment is starting. so i always said to him, what is next? so in one weight you are not surprised and every event that happened i'm thinking what is next? what they are trying to do? and you always be your the worst. and it happened. >> sean: we will have part two of my interview coming up tomorrow night. by the way you can get your copy of her new book at melania trump.com. when we come back, a devastated area of north carolina today,

speaking with residents about the devastation, the lack of support and help from kamala and joe. we will show you what they said, we will get reaction from north carolina editor ted budd and he said north carolinian's are frustrated, rightly so, about the federal government's nonresponse, straight ahead. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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the state today and spoke to local residents, many are mad, rightly so. take a look. >> tell me what it was like. >> it was pretty scary. i did not really think it would be anything, just like a normal storm or something and then all of a sudden it got crazy. >> after it got started, it was on the roofs. it covered a lot of the buildings like the building over there. it was on the rooftops. >> the biggest thing is we were worried for family outside of the area that did not know we were safe and not being able to let them know we were safe. >> any supported -- any support that we needed, there's people who have nothing, who lost their families. we need anything and everything that they are willing to do or give. >> i got out immediately and i got out into the storm to see what was going on and i saw all of that and we went and the other end of the house and have been living in the kitchen actually and sleeping on the floor in the kitchen since this

happened. thank god samaritan's purse got here. >> what's been incredible to me is how the community has pulled together. samaritan's purse, this is your home. >> yes, it is. samaritan's purse is headquartered -- in north carolina and all of the staff live in the surrounding areas, the mountain towns, so we are used to deploying supplies internationally and a different parts of the united states were disasters of this level are so common. for it to hit home, it hit much more personal but the mission stays the same. >> sean: finally joe biden got off the beach and visited north carolina today. he was briefed on the recovery effort after flying over some of the worst damage further west. two days after katrina, george w. bush got vilified for. he continues to maintain that the federal government is doing all it can to support the

victims. federal troops and helicopters finally now are being deployed to help the victims. nearly a week later. according to north carolina sender ted budd, every north carolinian i have talked to his frustrated by the governments horrific response. thanks to donald trump's good friend elon musk, thankfully star link is finally available in impacted areas that have not had communications for over a week. where was joe biden when the crisis began? on the beach. where was kamala harris? and hollywood raising money from her friends there. north carolina senator ted budd is with us. first-ever condolences to the people of the great state of north carolina. you know it's amazing to me, senator, is i look at all of this and you say you are frustrated and everybody you talk to his frustrated by the slow response and then i look at, you know, you went on to say it's clear and has been clear from the beginning that federal resources were needed to access communities.

franklin graham, samaritan's purse, donald trump calling elon musk and star link, you know, i don't know if there would have been any help at all and joe biden today is talking about climate change. how about we talk about saving lives, getting communication, water and supplies to people? >> that just shows how out of touch he is but before we get into that, this is not a time for political grandstanding. this is a time first of all to let the people of north carolina no how much we love them, how much i love them, how much we are doing to work for them, to bring as many resources as fast as we can. absolutely. i've been on the ground at katrina. i was doing relief work at hurricane floyd buddy five years ago. i've never seen anything like this. this is an incident we pray never happens again. but these are resilient people in western north carolina and yes there are other states too and we are praying for them as well.

i'm talking to my colleagues in those other states. this is the worst disaster i've ever seen. but god bless groups like samaritan's purse, franklin graham, his son, others that are stepping up, bringing in the military discipline and the speed, the generosity and serving in the name of to make things better for people in western north carolina. so i would say let's reach out to these private groups. it people want to come and help, go through the american red cross, volunteer through samaritan's purse, go through a local church or organization. it's the private citizens that are stepping up right now. i saw a group the other day, operation airdrop, private citizens with small airplanes, people who saved go spend her life savings to fly smell helicopter are risking themselves, bringing their own personal equipment here and doing rescues. and they are taking these star links that elon musk has

donated, they are flying them in to isolated volunteer fire departments that are connecting neighborhoods and communities that are otherwise cut off. >> sean: unknot asking people to do something i would not do. i sent a donation to samaritan's purse. we will continue to follow the story and our prayers are with the people of north carolina. thank you. more hannity straight ahead

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