sorry. maria from west palm beach. we are thankful for jesse watters prime time and trumps massive landslide. fight fight fight and john from dallas what are you most thankful for. i'm thankful for my family and health and for living in the greatest country on the face of the earth. that's it for us tonight dvr the show and always remember i am waters and this is my world. >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to a special edition of hannity happy

thanksgiving we have so much to be thankful for. we will highlight some of our big interviews over the past few months first president-elect donald trump wasting no time to assemble a team for a second term here are a few of my exclusive interviews with some of those candidates. are you planning on reporting americans dozens. >> no. the view is an island of misfit toys we will target national security threats first with 1.5 million convicted criminal aliens and thousands of gang members. if you are in a legally. you shouldn't feel comfortable.

you shouldn't be comfortable here either because when you enter the country illegally you have committed a crime and you are a criminal. >> cartels and gang members with dozens of americans who have been murdered. dozens of americans including children being sexually assaulted by illegals with hundreds of americans victims of violent crime. we have a fentanyl and opioid crisis with cartels and gang members. 13,000 illegal immigrant murderers inside our country with known terrorists in the country and more than 15,000 convicted and sex offenders in the country with kidnappers in our country as well. all told 400,000 criminal illegal immigrants including known terrorists however we

going to find them and get rid of them? >> we have a targeting system that i can't talk about on air but we are going to find them. we will go get them. i saw numerous governors from shanks you a state saying they would step in the way but to get the heck out of the way. ice is going to do the job we will take the handcuffs off of ice and let them do what they do best. let me say this they promised to concentrate on criminal aliens there was a priority and i looked at the statistics today the removal a criminal aliens is down 74 present from president trump we have more criminals here than we've ever had and the minimum and that this new administration going from century city to saint

sherry city i will double the workforce in the same choice city and we will do our job despite politics. so get used to it. >> do you like the idea of giving a grace period where people who didn't respect our laws borders or sovereignty maybe give them two or three months and you say self-report and we will help deport you and send you back to the home country and if you do that we'll put money in your pockets so you can rebuild your life which would be a lot cheaper than paying for three nights at a four-star hotel in new york and giving them a debit card. and after two years or three years or whatever it is applied to come into the country legally if you don't self report deport then you will never be given an opportunity at citizenship and when you leave you'll never be

invited back or able to apply to come into the country. sound like a good idea or no? >> criminals and gang members get no grace period but as we prioritize national security threats a few self deport you should because again we know who you are and we are going to find you. if you want to self deport fine but criminal and gang members will get no favors. you committed crimes against the united states citizens and for the nine criminals role for. and it puts everything in order and with that order and leaving all together. it makes perfect since. we've got our next person so you're partnering with the smartest guy in the country no doubt about it and richest guy

if you could find a way to save those astronauts lost in space i could never figure that out in 500 lifetimes. so i admire that. he's talking about $2 billion in cuts by identifying waste fraud and abuse. is that a realistic number? >> 2 billion is a big number. 2 trillion i stand corrected. i want to be clear about the scale and we are thinking big here as we have a once in a generation mandate right now. the american people voted for drastic reform of the government and federal government is broken. and the administrative states that makes the most of the rules secretes a federal bureaucracy of tampering of the economy. we want to slash and burn the bureaucracy to help americans

and stimulate the economy and restore self-governance. the people we elected to run the government they aren't even the ones who run the government anymore. it's unelected bureaucrats republican politicians talked about fixing this for a long time with not much progress so it will take some outsiders heel on and i who built up a good friendship working together intensely and won't stop until we get the job done. >> sean: when reagan became president on issue a defense he called it a gap of vulnerability. china and russia have hypersonic missile technology we don't we left to spend money on defense to catch up and surpass enemies. social security and medicare heading to insolvency we need to spend money there so to me the money needs to be made up for energy dominance that's where i think her greatest opportunity is what are your thoughts? >> what's holding back energy dominance is at the

administrative state look at regulations out of the department of interior and slow permitting requirements opening new refineries that is a root cause of our failure as a country this unelected fourth branch of government. you look at affect -- elected officials as q puppets the coming go every little while not anymore a new sheriff in town donald trump as president he mandated us for dread radical reform of the bureaucracy with learnings of the first-term and elon musk to solve major problem's of physics i came from the world of biology what we are solving is not a national problem -- natural problem it's a man-made problem so you need a man-made solution that's what we bring to the table assembling the brightest minds in the country the equivalent of a modern manhattan project to take on the major problem called holding our country back. save them money and we did something pretty novel we want

to be done done by july fourth, 20261 that's designed to be finished when his work is complete on the 250th anniversary of the decoration of independence we want to give them a gift and that birthday they didn't do so in the reagan years what are the first things you look at? >> it's a long list so stay tuned for what comes on junior a 20th simile want to come out swinging on friday one but i will give you examples most federal employees don't even show up to work. if you tell people you have to affirm you want a job you have to show it to work five days a week how many of them quit out the gate that's a question we should ask those are the kind of

inefficiencies low-hanging fruit that democrats and republicans can agree on. we shouldn't be wasting that kind of money is a federal government. so tackling that waste and fraud and abuse bureaucratic bloat we go for the stuff basic common sense that most americans agree on and i hope we can help unite the country they eliminating waste something all americans regardless of partisan affiliation can get behind. >> congressmen have known you a long time i think nobody could be better for this position let's talk about it. we really do have a crisis abroad and i believe it's under harrison biden we've allowed iranians to get rich bringing terror across the middle east is real or ally's fighting multiple front war with the ongoing war in ukraine and europe. what advice. what do you view as your top

mission heading into this position which is very important? >> in terms of the role it is really presenting decisions and options to the president and helping him make those decisions and ensuring the inner agency of the executive branch executes on those decisions in line with his vision. in terms of a broader vision what i appreciate so much about him is a "yes" of course we need to rebuild and have the strongest military in the world but our true strength is the prosperous economy and underscoring that is energy. he just announced the national energy council blessed with liquid gold as he says so that is what he will unleash first

and foremost not just solving economic problem send inflation problem's but it puts our adversaries on the back foot. number 1 and number 2 borders are sovereign we will defend them we want have spy balloons coming around anymore or isis terrorists walking across and that's part of a broader focus on the western hemisphere. third we would go back to maximum pressure on iran which is the core of all evil in the middle east right now president trump has been clear about that and we need to bring an end to the war in ukraine and compete and to deal with the threat which is the chinese communist party. promises made and promises kept we've been clear about these items on the campaign trail. >> i'm not a big lover of the united nations historically they have been anti-semitic and anti-american or globalist organizations. the w.h.o. as well nothing but

propaganda for the communist chinese i don't like the world economic forum didn't like the iranian deal i'm sure trump will get out of that and i don't like the paris climate accords all is that compromises national security in some way do you grieve that. >> i think the president he's focused on americans and american interest. but defending those and we can have allies we can have friends and tough conversations ones with that burden at their adversaries our adversaries will respect that will be donald trump in the white house and at those institutions you

can work alongside and work with and through with those core interests will be at the top of the america first agenda. >> at least stuff antics going and you are going in. the sooner you resign the quicker there will be an election to replace you in the house. have you set timetable on that? >> we are working with speaker and the governor desantis to set those timetables in accordance with florida law but also to get those seats filled as quickly as possible with the republican agenda. >> anybody in particular like to replace you or will you stay out of that?

>> i think it will be fantastic sean and making sure and with what the president needs. in the white house she was staff our you? and after nine years we are here let this like the world has never seen before and prepared under president trump's leadership to implement historical transformative long-awaited change to make this government accountable to the people of the country once again will be a strum set a new golden age for america. >> sean: i want to go for how dramatic this will be because when i hear what the president is proposing a look at elon musk

for example setting up this new department and getting rid of waste and fraud and abuse they pledge cut by july fourth $20,262,000,000,000,000 in federal spending a monumental task one thing to do is to increase revenue for energy dominance which is a separate topic for the first time we've heard conservatives for years talk about limited government cutting waste and fraud and abuse and for the first time in my adult life if you will i am believing it will happen. how realistic is that the cut to that extent? >> the president put together the dream team and you mentioned two members see if the department to government efficiency that from the outside is going to organize an

extraordinary effort to remove the waste and corruption from the federal government. so they will do that in concert and in league with the white house and president trump and the office of management and budget. the departments do not have any clue where dollars are going. how many audits has the pentagon failed who has any idea how much waste and abuse there is in the trillions spent by the federal government. who has any idea how many hundreds of millions are stolen from taxpayers by fraud rings and scammers and foreign operatives? the government is not watching how dollars are being spent and president trump commissioned yill on musk and many others across the government to get to the bottom of this so that the money you earn as an american citizen will be treasured and guarded and not wasted any longer. we will go to these agencies and

find everybody not performing on behalf of the american public and say if you are providing that service and not serving the public you can go. >> the borders been a big wish issue how quickly do you thank you can get secured and we have known terrorists in the country people who have murdered americans we have a trial going on right now in dozens of dead americans unvented illegals and dozens of americans and hundreds of victims of violent crime. gang members and cartel members in this country." quickly do we assert here the border and deport those who are criminal aliens in the country? >> it will be at light speed. the moment president trump puts his hand on the bible and take the oath of office as said the occupation ends and liberation day begins he will sign executive orders sealing the border shut beginning the

largest deportation operation in american history finding criminal gangs and drug dealers and monsters who have murdered citizens and send them home. nobody will be allowed to enter illegally and ice will be empowered in partnership with fbi and atf and the national guard to fully seal and secure the border and find and identify criminal threats inside the country and send them home we saw heartbreaking testimony with riley who fought for her life against an illegal alien importing by biden-harris for 18 harrowing minutes fighting and we will honor that extraordinary woman and every victim who has suffered under president trump's leadership we honor that suffering by unleashing a righteous wave of justice sending these criminal migrants back home. >> who go to caroline levitt her

first interview since being tapped to be press secretary a spokesperson for the trump vance transition did i read you will be youngest to hold that position. >> that is correct. >> sean: congratulations and you're walking into hostile territory right? >> certainly do. i think i'm well prepared for that and i'm incredibly honored president trump has instilled confidence in me to speak on his behalf behind the white house podium it's been an honor to have a front row seed to the greatest political comeback in history and as mentioned in your monolog president trump is putting together a brilliant cabinet of fantastic america first fighters from elon musk and viv 2 ramaswamy cutting the waste from bureaucracy to susie wilde's serving as first female chief of staff take that

mark cuban and then tom homan nobody better to secure the border than hymn i make excited to speak on behalf of a president who received a resounding mandate from the american people to deliver on promises he made on the campaign trail. we have the house and senate he will get to work on day one implementing real change delivering real relief and support for the american people struggling under the harris biden administration. >> with the death of legacy media and if think of that as major networks "the new york times" washington post" los angeles times" usa today" against the president all of these liberal cable channels every late-night comedy show with the exception of greg gutfeld the only one that's funny and has ratings and why don't you punch the old legacy media that nobody is really

listening to anyway when don't you put new media in the front of the room? you have the ability obviously to make seating arrangements right? >> we sure do and i will say there's no greater advocate for free and fair preston donald trump during a first term as president he was the most transparent president in american history and it continued on the campaign trail despite that he is exposed media for being incredibly hostile and fake. they pushed allies and hoaxes about him for years taking his words out of context this election taught us many things but one of those is that the american people are no longer buying allies from the legacy media and americans are digesting their news in various forms. we saw president trump owned that lane on the campaign trail sitting down with the number 1 podcast in the world and ratings bonanza every time he did that's how americans consume their news

these days so we will look at options on how to respect the tradition of the white house while ensuring the press briefing room reflects the media habits of the american people today and just like we did on the campaign trail trump's serving the american people and we want to make sure we get the message out as effectively as possible to the american people he is serving. >> in trump's first term i believe it changed somewhat dramatically as nobody speaks to the press about donald trump better than donald trump so it is a tough position you're being put in. have you given thought as to whether they will be daily white house briefings or occasional white house briefings are on a need-to-know basis? >> that is certainly something to be discussed with president trump ultimately he is the decision-maker that so it went his first white house term and that was how the campaign goes and i will defer to him but in his first term he was the

most transparent president in history often bringing the press into the oval office when signing bills. he did rows garden per press. during the pandemic he briefed the press 72 days in a row. i know a lot of fake news reporters will tell you behind-the-scenes they missed that transparency and access to the leader of the free world and a nope president trump will provide that again. >> sean: coming up my interview with stephen a. smith after trump's decisive election win

>> a fox news update in new york the holiday season is upon us and with that comes the winter weather storm packing and hit

northeast parts of the country with impacts widespread stretching from new england to the mid-atlantic with a winter storm warning issued to alban he and surrounding until 1:00 a.m. friday morning with accumulations expected to between 1-4 inches. australia approved a social media band for children under the age of 16 today with tech giants such as instagram and facebook and tiktok to stop minors from logging on. they could face fines up to around 32 million it's one of the toughest regulations targeting big tech for trial of methods to enforce will begin in 2025. back to hannity. >> ♪ ♪ i spoke to stephen a. smith days after trump's landslide take a look. >> he is a rock store and as far

as i'm concerned there is no espn without my friend stephen a. smith i saw you on the view today how are you doing? >> every doing shown congratulations on the election results you called and said it would happen. i can't refute the fact the president of the united states and president-elect is well deserving of it it was in annihilation i know some people are trying to label it like he took it up a little bit in a lot of different places i don't want to hear that he won and in convincing fashion so much so that in light of those results we need to look at this election as a referendum on a democratic party that america doesn't feel where you are or try to go we want no part of it we aren't having it ended they made their choice we have to accept that. >> sean: and you are gracious

privately we have our own conversations and you said that ton and they loss and you know what i go on. i plough through and do my job. there won't be retribution none of the hosts of the view will be taken off i used to go and that show. they wouldn't accept a conversation with me at this point is that pathetically used to like whoopi goldberg joyless behar and. >> i would ask you don't look at the show. what you should look at is the ideological tilt taking place in the country. we are getting to a point where god forbid somebody has a difference of opinion or different form of ideology then you are the antichrist and that's not what makes the country grate the reality is we can say what we want and

everybody has their different opinions about donald trump you know how i feel and know i didn't vote for him i don't like how he behaves i think it's a statesmanship positions and at that level of hubris he's accustomed to showing needs to be doubt back significantly having said that the bottom line is simple you look at things on the right or left she talked about the economy and buys an inherited one point 5% in terms of inflation and it got to over 9% before it got dialed down a bit we looked at open borders obama was once considered it to porter and chief deporting more folks than donald trump abiding comes into office in in the first thing he does day one executive order and that created so much tension look at the culture wars and identity politics some of the transgender issues that people brought up with individuals transitioning from mail to female wanting to

produce a patent female still sports and stuff like that. all that other stuff. america said, hey, we are down for that in the matter what you throw in our direction and and they're going crazy and they're making sure they can march forward and work with whatever candidate ends up being an office and winning and find a way to work with one another and get a degree of compromise so we have civility in the country instead of chaos that's up to trump to contribute to that no doubt but the way i see some

democrats reacting since harris lost to be honest with you it's a bit ridiculous it won't get into any names but it's been utterly ridiculous. >> when i'm on your show i do all the talking. and we have this unspoken agreement. together only of conversation you tell me to stay my lane and politics i tell you to stay in your lane and sports but you make a lot of sense tonight it be wise to listen to you what the spirit is what you're telling this here's where i see it and tell me what you agree on this the current run on one thing and they can point to things are better off than they were four years ago. and the campaign ended with you

are are racist on nazi you are a fascist a misogynist obama and stacy abrams calling african american men and they are racist and such. and a lot of what they said was all eyes. they told them that was secure she said inflation was transitory denied we have an inflation problem and she told merrick woman that trump will sign a national of abortion ban that was alive. said trump would limit your access to contraception that was a lie. and said they were to go your social security and met the care

and you're going to go to the lowest level not nice either and a don't know if you're accurate in every thing you saying because i can think of other lies on the other side. if you are harris what you could've done it's not a good place compared to wear was you can acknowledge it was a bit wrong. i was wrong in the position i took on the border. obviously it's not about flip-flopping it's about me correcting the error of my ways. she didn't do that but in the end i will do you a favor and tell you where the biggest problem came for the democratic party. he had a situation with biden who promised to be a transitional president rate. labeling them a stopgap somebody

who would come in there and then move out the way and get into the fray and be the next president of the united states. it was supposed to be a red wave and didn't happen and what is he due he's incumbent and get comfortable and says i'm not going anywhere and that put everything in flux. so these debilitative a bit the cognitive decline we witnessed and people were noticing at the didn't want to speak about it. they let him go on stage and get embarrassed june 27th three and a half weeks later you elevate her never went for a primary which raised? 's and what you do from then on and felt they needed to do whatever they could and that's what you have to applaud the american people have spoken we're looking at policies. >> one last thing and she never

had to explain one time when she cosponsored the green new deal 92 trillion she never had to explain any of her positions are why rioters in 2020 won't stop shouldn't stop and never had to explain why were going to pay for free sex change operation and giving them amnesty when they don't respect our laws. would you agree with me as we have 30 seconds red answer that legacy media is dead do you agree or disagree. >> i want said it's dead because i'm holding out hope that it can be resuscitated. but hold on to the moment it's a rarity hold on to this for the rest of your life okay i will agree if you from the standpoint

it was inexcusable. and my interview with jillian michaels of how the left became so woke and everything else. >> ♪ ♪

i recently spoke with fitness guru jillian michaels of why she fled california take a look. i listen to this and he grew up in new york and i did all this stuff including california but when you said i hold a million cars so you're woke victim game and when i leave california may be foster dang mind it blew me

away and here's the thing as i said i grew up in california and i have all the reasons to be a liberal in the classic sense of what that means it means to live and let live but where the left is gone it's antithetical to that it's almost fascist on the extreme left and that is what i was running from in california. it's descending into disrepair and the other irony of california is it's ridiculous i'm talking to you only because i don't have knowledge of politics i shouldn't be commenting on this but the fact that health has also become a political football.

gone are the days of me being on lighthearted mar ending shows talking about six pack abs and for people's ability to question kids vaccine schedules ridiculous. won't even allow conversations to happen. we look at the homeless crisis in los angeles i have friends who are experts on what's going on and explain to me there is no such thing as homelessness because these people are either addicts or have mental health issues. and $24 billion and with the homeless part going up. and it's empathetic -- if if you think it simply empathetic to allow people to die on the streets it isn't it's so many things of that nature i'm outraged with and i can go on

and on. >> it's interesting because i'm fairly libertarian and i believe in freedom and want the government off my back and out of my life get away from all of us. we feel the need to control every aspect of her life and she raised of this and that podcast as it relates to children. and you are open-minded rate i know parents who were living through this as well their kids think maybe they have gender identity issues. okay but the idea they are 10-11-12-13 making a life changing decision and disagreeing politically. and with experts in their for many different talk shows and

big food trying to literally push all of this on their kids and you can't siege junk food in schools and it's racist and pushing this gender affirming ideology and win a child is trends great support the child but what i mean by that is i will let my kids explore i won't judge them i will talk to them about it might get them help to deal with what's going on is there something underlying them when we look at things like the cash review in my opinion which is a seminal work on this. the doctor in the u.k. go ahead. >> let me ask you this because i contend as a conservative the left has especially in big

cities where they dominate and had the power for decades from a state like california i don't disagree for anything gavin newsom does politically. but you see people like yourself leaving california i left new york i'm in florida now probably the best decision of ever made for a lot of reasons some i agree with you on. and if you look at these big cities like at the educational system paying market per capita per student how was with "law & order" in safety and security. and defund dismantle nobel laws and away they keep electing these people. not asking who you are voting for not dragging you into that and with the question is i don't want to implement or suggest they have influence on people there jumping into the arena

enjoying in that conversation because i don't want to think they feel my opinion matters and we judge them for that. but we don't know sean and i've had a talk with so many of my friends and the ones that god it get it god have left. >> sean: and the best of jimmy fail a straight ahead (holiday music) a puppy! everyone loves to find surprising presents under the tree. i love him! and weathertech gifts are always special too. vehicles are protected with laser measured floorliners for the front and middle...

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los angeles. but i have cleaned up my act. i'm not leaving them like the other human beings. that is the disgusting part of the story. in l.a. the dogs no longer poop on the sidewalks, the human stew which is bad. but they should have just used the white house dog. remember commander that was biting everybody? if you want a dog to clean up l.a., turn him on. and i still forgive that dog. because that dog was fighting people but in that dogs defend their so much cocaine in the white house you would be helped -- hopped up to if you had a dog knows. >> sean: you want to make a terrible production that you know was going to be true? because they shoot police officers how much do you want to bet that spot the police talk ends up getting shot? you watch mark my words. i don't say that to try to be funny. that is how things are.

help me out with this i'm having a hard time periods. >> yes. >> sean: there is a chinese zoo that has had to admit that its pandas were actually just dogs painted to look like a panda. and zoo goers claim that they realized the scam when one of the pandas started panting and barking. help me out, jimmy. can you explain that to me? >> i just want to give you some context. we are laughing at china. we are laughing to china because they are pretending a dog is a panda. but china is laughing at us because we are pretending biting is president. but this is ridiculous of. i just love the story. it is like wow that panda share is chasing a lot of tennis balls. i do not expect that to happen. this is china and a knot child. everything is a fraud and rip-off. >> sean: if zoo is lets say in

need of a lion i'm going to getr -- the lion from "the wizard of oz" and put you in the zoo and you will pass off as a real lion any day. >> that would not be the worst assignment that you have given me. i will be fine. >> sean: more of the special addition of "hannity" right after this.

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