This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. So LaTisha James, I think it might be the biggest beatdown debate in this entire election cycle, as she went up against the Sarita, Colma, to Ready. And I mean, it was brutal. And we haven't spent a lot of time on it.
I know it's not a national race. However, it's an important race. We know that she's got a political agenda. She ran on getting one man going after one family, one organization, which never should have happened. Anyway, I want to play a couple of clips.
This is Sarita saying, my motto is just by crime. And then she talks about, as the Republican candidate for New York Attorney General slamming LaTisha James, we're failing to investigate 40 billion in Medicare fraud. Then can't name LaTisha James, couldn't name one attorney general, she admired. I think it was 12 seconds of dead air. Listen.
There's a three-word solution to affordability in New York. Just fight crime. When Crook's deal at car, your insurance goes up. When Scammers siphon money for Medicaid, health care costs go up. When Tish James forces solar and wind, electric bills go up.
My name is Sarita. I'll be a different kind of attorney general. The Tish James spent $10 million making herself a celebrity. My motto is my career, just by crime. New York spends $126 billion on Medicaid every year.
That's more per resident than any other state in the country. Twice per resident than New Jersey. That doesn't make any sense. We're both blue states with similar demographics and similar policies. There's about $40 billion of unexplained spending.
LaTisha James has failed to investigate. The reality is, we used to have one of the best Medicaid fraud units in the country. Under previous Democratic Attorney Generals, Cuomo, Schneiderman, we recovered about $250 million a year. LaTisha James came in and it took a nose dive to 19 million. Under previous Democratic Attorney Generals, we got about 100 criminal convictions a year.
Under LaTisha James, we came to an all time low of eight. She gets 2,000 patient abuse complaints a year and gets maybe one or two convictions. That means someone's punching an elderly patient in the nursing home and no one's doing anything. It's lost money, it's paying for patients, it's lost medical care, it's a total injustice. Thank you.
And the attorney general needs to go out. Ms. James, they may pass New York Attorney General that you admire. No, no, no, no. We admire others.
I admire all of the past attorney generals, because it's a difficult job and you've got to survive. Dennis Paco, at a time when New York State needed it, we had another former federal prosecutor become Attorney General and bring law and order to the state. Wow, pretty incredible. Anyway, Saritha, Coma, to ready is with us. Saritha, good to have you.
Great job in that debate. How are you feeling that? I got to imagine pretty good. Thank you, Sean. It's great to be on.
We know what we exposed with Mr. James for exactly what she is. She's a failing attorney general. She is completely obsessed with national politics. We all saw that.
She's done that for eight years. And all the while, she's totally neglected New York. And we see the result of that here in New York. We are the ones who suffered. Trying this up, homelessness is up, fraud is out of control.
And there's no one actually looking out for New Yorkers. I have to tell you, I have traveled all across New York State. People are tired of the crime and they're tired of politics. They're ready for a change. Well, when you lose people like me, I was born and raised in New York.
Although I was kind of like a radio nomad for many, many years. And then I got hired by Fox in 1996 and I went back. And we just celebrated our 30th year. But I couldn't wait to get out of there because of quality of life issues. The fact that the state has slammed so solidly left.
Look, Bruce Blakeman, I really believe has a shot. And I think he's the last great best hope for New York as a state. And this may be the last opportunity the state of New York has a chance to fix itself. Because I think if he doesn't win, I think there'll be even more mass migration. But I think one of the greatest examples of weaponization of our laws occurred until LaTisha James as it relates to Donald Trump.
Because she ran on a platform to get one man, one family, and one organization, which no attorney general should ever run on. That's right. And you're right, Sean. A million New Yorkers moved out of the state in the last five years. And that's because the quality of life has gone down.
If Bruce and I don't take over this November, we're going to see a second mass exodus from New York, one that we will not be able to recover from. That's why it's important that everyone pays attention to these races. Not just in New York, but across the country. This is about what's happening in New York. Can eat and spread across America?
We need to actually bring common sense into our state and into our country and not let the extremists take over. That means electing common sense Republicans. Will LaTisha James ever debate you again? And by the way, there is a debate tonight between the current governor, Kathy Hochl and Bruce Blakeman. It's going to be interesting to watch that.
Well, I've challenged her to another debate. Her response, as usual, is crickets. We'll see what happens. But I'll tell you what, we have gotten an overwhelming response in New York from walking down the street yesterday. People were shouting out, I hope you win.
You're what we need. We've been waiting for you. There is a huge groundswell of support and excitement in the race for this November. And I think we're going to pull off a surprise that no one saw coming. But I'll tell you what, it's what New York needs right now.
New York needs a real prosecutor. I was a federal prosecutor for 12 years. I was Chief of Staff of the DEA. I went to Harvard for college in Moscow, clerk for Brett Kavanaugh. People, New York needs someone competent in charge who's actually going to make New York safer.
You know, Cerrito, I say this all the time. If you don't have law and order and safety and security, then it is a prerequisite pre-requisite towards pursuing happiness. And I don't believe New York, especially New York City right now, has that? Am I wrong? That's exactly right.
I mean, we see people, kids are getting shot in the street. Severely mentally ill individuals are pushing innocent New Yorkers onto the subway tracks. The shoplifting is happening all across the state and it's happening because of organized theft. Rings, cars are happening. That makes New York less safe and less affordable.
It drives prices up when people feel. And it's innocent New Yorkers who are paying the price for that. We feel less safe. We're paying a crime tax. Our government doesn't do anything about it because they're totally distracted by their own personal political vendettas.
People are tired of it, Sean. That's why we're going to see a change. I think it was one of the greatest beatdowns in a debate that I've ever seen in my life. How many seconds was it exactly when LaTisha James just gave us that air during that debate? It was hilarious to me.
You know, I didn't count. It felt like forever. I was actually giving her a little bit of a grace period because that was the last question of the debate. It was supposed to be a softball feel good ending question. But you know, these debates, they reveal people for who they are.
And we saw who she was when she didn't have a teleprompter. She didn't have any notes that she had to stand there on her own. She could not defend her rep. He had no plan for the future on how to make New Yorkers lives better. That's just not acceptable.
New Yorkers is better. They deserve better. So Rita, we're pushing for you in this campaign. We're pulling for Bruce Blake, and I think it's going to be a very interesting night to watch this debate tonight. And we'll watch New York closely and hope that maybe somehow, some way, that you can reverse this horrible trend that has been destroying, you know, a once great state.
And it's sad to watch. I'll tell you. Anyway, so Rita, thank you so much for being with us. We appreciate it. Thank you.
Visit us at serita for New York.com. How about our campaign? Thank you. You bet. 800 941 Sean, our number and in my free state of Florida.
And how are you? Glad you called sir. I am doing wonderful. Hope you are too. I'm hanging in there.
What's going on? I just like the fourth and I have that I think we should change kind of the verbage or the way we talk about the desire of socialists to take over businesses. Now currently people say, yeah, here it's going to be social. I want to make them public corporations. I think we should call them corporations and socialists want to confiscate.
There's a lot of people here that have public corporations that think, oh, that's okay. It's the public that's, you know, that's us. When they hear government run businesses that they've taken over. They're talking about taking over private businesses, you know, people, blood, sweat, tears, hard work, investment money that they save, dreams coming true. And the government comes in and they want to confiscate one's business, which is the very definition of socialism, statism, totalitarianism, redistributionism, communism, communism, whatever is them you want to call it.
You're absolutely right. Yeah. If I could throw a thing in there, I'd like to, I know we always refer to the people on the far left as progressives. I think that that term needs to change. I'd like to see them call them weak refsives progressive to me refers to moving forward with something that's positive.
People want to move us backwards towards where we lose all of our freedoms and they're controlled by just a few. And it is it is the promise of false security. And it's been tried over and over and over again. And it never works. I appreciate you, man.
Thank you. Eight hundred nine for one Sean. If you want to be a part of the program Colorado Sam next on the Sean Hannity show. What's up, Sam? How are you?
Thanks, Sean, for taking my call. I'm a long time listener, first time caller. So if I thank you, well, I'm nervous, forgive me, but you are talking to friends. Let not your heartbeat troubles. Thank you.
You know, one of the things that just drives me crazy is when I talk to any liberal friend or whatever, and they just want to rave about gas being over 40 and how bad the economy is, I always tell them, you know, let's just do a visual. If you don't want to believe that the economy is doing well, do a visual. I don't care what sport you want to talk about. Every one of these stadiums are sold out. And that is discretionary spending.
I don't care how you want to look at. And so there's a visual for you. I mean, these stadiums are full and those seats are not cheap, you know, there are some of them several hundred dollars over a thousand in the thousand. So tell me this economy isn't doing well now. Sure, I can't afford to go to one of those games.
And that's fine. That doesn't mean I'm going to vote against Trump and his policies. It just, you know, I'm still going to vote. I believe where he's taking our country is in the right direction. So it's still going to go that direction.
But there's a listen. Everybody's so concerned about gas prices. Okay. Well, just we've done the math. They've been analysis of what the new Green Deal will cost.
Remember Democrats have always wanted higher gas prices. They don't want us to be energy dominant. And so the cost of energy would be more anyway, but you've got two hundred and what 12 trillion dollars is the cost of their stated Green New Deal plan. We can never afford it. These are false security promises that will never be fulfilled.
They can't possibly do what they say they're going to do. And in the process will sacrifice in the name of false security, our freedom and our liberty and will empower a bunch of radicals that are really in this for power and control. They're not in this because they care about people. Yeah, but I'm just saying there's a, I'm going to, if you don't want to take our word for it, just do a visual explain that to me, you know, if they cared about law and order and safety and security, you know, you might begin to convince me that they care a little bit about people's security, but they don't. If they cared about our security, they wouldn't want wide open borders.
Sam, appreciate you, man. Thank you. 800 941 Sean. If you want to be a part of the program, quick break right back to our phones. 800 941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
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Yes, this is the Sean Hannity show. Let's get to our busy phones. 800 941 Sean. If you want to join us, Jeff is in North Carolina. Jeff, how are you?
How you doing, Sean? I really appreciate that you encourage people not to assume their state's going to win, but to get them out to vote. I want to add to that. We got to get others to the polls. My mother's 86 years old and she doesn't drive anymore and she's a conservative.
So I'm going to pick her up because she won't take the notion to go vote. I'm going to pick her up and take her to the poll. We got close to right here in North Carolina and I want to be the winner. But like their audience, in addition to getting them to the poll, they need to get their neighbors in a wheelchair and take them to go vote and get others to the poll that otherwise can't. I think it's a great idea.
What part of North Carolina are you in? I'm in Greensboro. Great area. I know it well. My friend Jim O'Neill is running for DA in Winston and Salem.
He's a great guy too for the people there. Look, I keep reading Republicans and giving up on North Carolina. I don't want to give up on any race. I want to fight to the bitter end. I want the American people to understand what the stakes are.
We have on my website, Hannity.com, the entire DSA agenda and all of Trump's accomplishments, you can print them both out and you can put them in your pocket and you can show all your friends and neighbors and help educate them. And if we all do our part, we can shock the world. That's correct. All right, my friend. Thank you.
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You can't always believe what the other side claims. That's why there's the Sean Hannity show. All right. So when I was away for a day, James Telafrico, I look, I actually got a rebound, you know, illness as you can probably hear my voice here, unfortunately. And that happens, you know, when you use your voice a lot and it's more of laryngitis than any type of illness or virus.
And it's unbelievable to me that somebody can be off of work and off the campaign trail for 13 days, claiming that they have the flu. It is just, it's remarkable to me. Linda, how many times over these many years have I worked either injured or sick? Oh my God, like countless times when I got COVID, I got the first time and I had the alpha strain. Did I miss a single show radio or TV?
No, and you were doing a book tour. Well, I was doing a book tour. However, it was not in person. I was not mean, but I mean, like you worked. You didn't just, I mean, you were working the whole time.
Now I did sleep a little more than usual, which is not a bad thing. And it just, it never made sense to me to Telafrico. You know, Mr. God is non binary and six genders and a welcome out of the border and biological men playing women's sports and a vegan campaign in a cattle state, no drilling in an oil state. I mean, it's insane.
You know, the fact that the media polls are showing us to be a close race is so beyond frustrating to me. And here's his explanation why he was off the campaign trail for 13 days explaining he had the flu. Okay, the thought of taking off 13 days for a flu, you got to be kidding me. Listen, you were off the campaign for more than a week, roughly nine days, I believe your campaign said you had to flu. What happened?
Yeah, I got a flu and I'm feeling much better and I'm glad I had a chance to recover. You know, if you don't take the opportunity to get well, sometimes you can get even sicker. And so I'm glad we made a decision to just take a week, get better and I'm glad we back on the trip. You've talked about how you're diabetic and that has when diabetic get the flu, we could really bad. How bad was it for somebody who wants to know?
Is this just like in bed rest or did you ever have to go to a doctor or hospital? I just went to my primary care physician, but it wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu. And so I was in bed and, you know, drinking lots of liquids, unfortunately campaign may be work from home. So I didn't even get full days off. But you didn't want to be out on the trail and didn't want anyone else sick.
It's important, I think, for leaders to be responsible in these moments. And I'm glad we're doing much better. I'm glad to be back. Linda, did you ever take off 13 days for the flu? And by the way, it was not it was not a week.
It was nearly two weeks. It was nearly two weeks. He wasn't working. No one heard from him. Nobody knew where he was.
He could have put out a statement of some kind. Any kind. It's 21 days to election day. And, you know, I got a rebound of laryngitis and I'm like back at work. I don't care what I sound like right now, as long as people can hear me and understand me.
I don't want to be off work. I don't understand those that would take off work over something as ridiculous as a flu. Maybe a day, maybe two days. I just never heard of a case of a flu that bad. Even the alpha strain of COVID was not as bad as what he's describing, at least my experience unless you're one of the people that really got sick.
I don't know Sean. I just think everything that guy says is a lie. Everything he said thus far is a lie. He flip flops on everything. I'm sure next week he'll say he didn't have the flu because this week he said he did have the flu.
He's just he's not believable and he's not a hard worker, obviously. I agree with that too. Are you familiar with this actress? Salma Blair? I was not that I was I used to think she was such a great actor.
She's been in so many movies that I've seen. I'm like shocked by the story. Like what big movies? I don't even know. Oh, she was in that she was in that movie on fear like long ago from with Mark Welberg.
I'm not like a big movie person, but I've seen a few of them and she was in another movie where it was like a like a Halloween, which movie I can't remember the name of it because I like a movie's cruel intentions. She's been like a lot of movies. But yeah, so she has this complete meltdown on the plane. And anyway, some of it on tape, the air traffic controller, audio of the Delta pilot calling for medical assistance after this outburst. We have that tape.
Let's play it. Yeah. Could you pass on to the KFC? We'd like to have some medical personnel for a couple of the essays involved in the time during the meeting to get a couple of things with that. I will pass it along to get an expert.
No, anyone who's just medical personnel available for two flight attendants at the case should be fine. Now, apparently she punched one of the flight attendants hitting another on this Delta flight to JFK from LA, opened a cabin door mid flight, which is dangerous. Attack police that arrested her at the gate and her representative said she suffers from multiple sclerosis and had a medical episode.
Now I know something about MS and I don't know that it changes one's personality this way. Have you ever heard of that Linda? I have not and I have friends with MS as well. Okay. It's way beyond bizarre and I think it's an illness where she drank a lot.
Yeah. But still on something. So I was talking to our friend Carol Roth yesterday and she is like my pop culture guru. This woman knows everything that's going on pop culture and I was like, oh my God, you see what happened to some of the player and she's like, girl, do you not remember 2016? And I'm like, no, she's like same thing 2016 had to release a statement freaked out on a plane, got drunk, mixed like her medication with alcohol on the plane, ended up assaulting people on the plane was removed, arrested like literally.
That's kind of how you fly, isn't it? No. Oh, no, I never drink on the plane. Absolutely not. I am on the plane quiet.
I don't want to talk about it. Maybe you should start. I think that might be a good habit for you to. Absolutely not. People start crap with me because I'm trying to mind my business.
Oh my gosh, they start with you. Okay. It's always there for all. That's right. It is always there for you should be on my side.
Okay. Ryan is in Kentucky. Ryan, you're on the Sean Hannity show. Hi. Hey, Sean.
I'm just calling about America's energy independent. I've heard it mentioned on your show, multiple radio programs as well Fox news, but we're still being held hostage by Opiek, the straight of her moves, all that. Why if we are energy independent, do we not use that? Because the left in this country, and I can give you a chapter and verse on this if you want, have prevented America from getting to a point where we have enough refineries for all of the energy that we're taking in. And not only we've had a net loss over the last 50 years of refineries, so we don't even have the refining capacity for all of the oil we're capable of producing.
That is a huge problem. Yeah, I can understand. I mean, I figured that the refining process was a lot of a deal, but still yet even if we were to work with raw crude, then we should be able to compensate from where we're receding or refining goods from and still offset our costs. Look, I mean, that's just me thinking out of the box, but, you know, seems to me like something better if we were massing producing our natural reason. We have gone through now a couple of decades of a war on energy by the radical left.
I mean, look for all the talk about solar panels and alternative energy and clean energy. There's never been an efficient solution to oil, gas and coal, and it is the lifeblood of the world's economy. And we happen to be blessed that we have plenty of it. And unfortunately, they're there. The left and their policies have prevented us from using it.
And that is a big problem. I'll give you an example. Here's Abdul El-Sayed, a montage of him. And he just is the embodiment of the radical left and him talking about energy policy. Listen, I'm in a commitment that we need to move Michigan to 100% renewable energy.
We know that the future is not going to be fossil. I don't think the Chevron's in the exons of the world or the Saudi remcoze of the world should continue to exist. Number two, the Green New Deal. I just think that this is such a sweeping change in the way that we understand how we need to be moving as a society. I think it's extremely powerful and off to the hardest in investing.
You're taking anti-pipine stance. I do not believe that we're constructing in moving fossil fuels. I heard you say you wanted to shut it down, but then what is the alternative for moving the fossil fuels to its destination? Why do we need to be moving fossil fuels? I want to make hard to do it.
I probably agree with it. But like, cars are the modern ace of red. They're like, why are we doing this right? Well, there you go. Does that not answer your question?
Because if they have their way, look, there's four big mistakes that Western Europe has made. One is they have neglected the national security and defenses. They don't want to pay. And that has created a vulnerability for them. On the economic front, they've adopted radical climate alarmism, the likes of which Abdul El-Sayed and these DSA members support.
Number three, radical socialism, which all these DSA people support. And number four, unfettered illegal immigration without assimilation. And you are watching before your very eyes the disintegration of Western Europe. It'll happen here if these people ever get in power. I mean, they're 10 years, 15 years out of us.
These people get in power. That's the direction they try to take the country. We saw this under Biden and Harris, unfettered illegal immigration. We have known terrorists, murderers, rapists, cartel members, child molesters, other criminals, and guess what? We're still fighting to get rid of them.
Anyway, hope that answers your question. Brian, thank you. Let's say how to Brian is in North Carolina. Brian, how are you? Glad you called, sir.
I'm doing well. How are you today, sir? I'm good. Where are you from in North Carolina? Climax.
I know the area well. What's going on? I just wanted to make comment. If we could make like little 10, 15 second videos, get them out on TikTok and X showing these people what communism really is, what the Democrats really support women and women's sports showing the brutalization of when they got punched in the eye and spiked the ball interface and stuff like that, open borders. I mean, just they don't know what communism is and they need to be, they need to be taught and it's a short time to do it.
But you know, 15, 20 second videos interface would be perfect because they got the attention span of that on crack anyway. Let me tell you something. This is where what Matt Towery was saying earlier in the show is relevant. For those of us that know the dangers and the failures that is, you know, radical socialism, communism, redistributionism, statism, whatever you want to call it, it's almost, it's the responsibility of our generation to get out there and prevent the younger generation from buying into the phony promises of everything's going to be free. It's really it that burden falls on our shoulders as far as I'm concerned.
And we've got to take it seriously. Three weeks from today is going to be election day and I'm hoping that night, the next morning or whenever California counts their votes, we hear the words Fox News, you know, projects. And then the good news is everybody listening to the show will play a part in what follows that statement. They see they're going to be Republicans control the House and Senate. They've lost control of the House and Senate or they keep the Senate lose the hat.
I don't know what it's going to be, but I can tell you that this is worth fighting for. Our country is worth fighting for our way of life is worth fighting for Brian. Appreciate you, man. Thank you. He's got something new.
All right, that's going to wrap things up with today. Hannity tonight, non-Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We'll look at the race in South Carolina, darling Graham just absolutely destroying in a debate. Annie Andrews, Dan Sullivan, the shenanigans that trying to play in Alaska will get analysis, Kelly and Conway, Clay Travis, Brandon Guild tonight, Chloe Trappinato, Tommy Laren, Sadie B.R. tonight, Hannity, nine Eastern will see tonight back here tomorrow.
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