Fraud, Power and Payoffs
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity opens the week by breaking down the latest Iran developments, the fragile ceasefire, and what he frames as President Trump’s next move in the broader Middle East showdown. He argues that the media continues to distort Trump’s strategy, while insisting the administration’s objective remains clear: stop Iran from ever becoming a nuclear power and restore deterrence through strength.
This hour also widens into a sharp look at the political climate at home, from redistricting battles and Democratic power grabs to media misinformation and the broader fight over truth in American politics. It is a fast-moving opening hour built around national security, political contrast, and Hannity’s argument that strong leadership abroad and clarity at home are now inseparable.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:21.2 | And thanks to all of you for being with us. We're to Sean Hannity Show, toll-free. It is 800-9-4-1. Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, there's a lot of articles, and we've been following this, and we had Nick Shirley on, and now they've got in California, the silence Nick Shirley Act, |
| 0:26.7 | you know, he had the unmitigated audacity to go out in Minnesota and California and find that places that declare themselves to be daycare centers that are taking care of thousands of children |
| 0:33.8 | in fact don't exist. |
| 0:36.7 | And where does this money come from it comes from all of you |
| 0:39.7 | and that's money that would otherwise be distributed to all of you now we've got a new article |
| 0:46.9 | out to uh that came out over the weekend on foxnews.com that newsom and his administration knew about |
| 0:53.7 | a two billion dollar california budget error for months and News.com at Newsom and his administration knew about a $2 billion |
| 0:54.6 | dollar California budget error for months and anyway Democrats were aware of |
| 1:00.9 | this accounting error and you know and they plan already that a projected you |
| 1:06.4 | know roughly $3 billion deficit in the fiscal year that is upcoming, the mistake is made to the |
| 1:12.6 | state's public employee retirement system. |
| 1:15.3 | And it just never, it just never ends. |
| 1:18.6 | And all of this money combined is money that would otherwise be going to you and to your |
| 1:24.5 | family. |
| 1:25.8 | There has been one voice that has been the most articulate, |
| 1:30.4 | the most informed of anybody out there. |
| 1:34.4 | And that is Mehmet Oz. |
| 1:36.4 | He is the 17th administrator of the Centers for Medicare, Medicaid Services. |
| 1:41.4 | And anyway, he was at this testimony with Secretary Kennedy today, and the secretary |
| 1:49.2 | testified before the House Education Workforce Committee on the Trump administration's policies. |
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