GOP Standing Strong - October 21st, Hour 3
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Sean Hannity dives deep into the looming "Schumer shutdown" and the federal government's fight against narco-terrorists, while challenging the runaway spending in Washington. Senator Rand Paul joins to discuss his principled stand for balanced budgets and his "penny plan," contrasting his approach with both Democrat and Republican proposals that add trillions to the national debt. Sean frames the debate as a critical choice between fiscal sanity and government bloat, emphasizing Paul's unique voice for restraint and constitutional governance. Their candid exchange on foreign policy, especially executive war powers, highlights real divides within the GOP and why strong dissenting voices in D.C. still matter for America's future.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.9 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 0:27.4 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.2 | All right, news roundup, information overload hour. |
| 0:36.4 | Here's our toll free number. |
| 0:38.5 | It's 800, 941. |
| 0:42.6 | Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, a lot to talk about, the Schumer shut down. |
| 0:49.7 | The president taking on these narco terrorists, what should the role the federal government be in all of this? |
| 0:56.3 | We have an update on the issue and the battle on the conflict out of Russia with Ukraine. |
| 1:01.9 | The president canceling this upcoming meeting with Putin because he won't agree to a ceasefire, |
| 1:03.8 | which I think is the right message to send. |
| 1:06.3 | We still have a lot. |
| 1:21.0 | You know, Hamas is not abiding by the agreement, which, as the president said, he's going to give the green light for Israel to go in there and pretty much annihilate Gaza and Hamas, if they won't do it themselves. |
| 1:23.0 | This is sort of their last chance. |
| 1:26.7 | We welcome back to the program, Senator Ram Paul of Kentucky. |
| 1:28.9 | The president's pretty pissed off of you know. |
| 1:32.4 | I wouldn't go that far. |
| 1:34.2 | We've had some spats in the past. |
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