Insurrection Act Debate - October 20th, Hour 2
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity tackles the government's role in curbing violence as House Republicans face a government shutdown and President Trump signals readiness to invoke the Insurrection Act. Legal experts Greg Jarrett and Horace Cooper join Sean in framing Trumps claim that half of all presidents have used the Act, debating its historical use and the urgent situations in cities like Chicago and Memphis. Sean argues that Democrats have failed to ensure law and order in minority communities, questioning whether the federal government should intervene when local leaders resist. Both guests stress the Presidents constitutional power to protect citizens, even over objections from courts and local politicians. The segment matters as it spotlights the balance between federal authority, public safety, and local autonomy with real-world consequences.
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| 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. |
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| 0:23.9 | What difference at this point does it make? |
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| 0:34.4 | Hour to Sean Hannity Show, 800, 941. Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, the president warned Democrats. |
| 0:44.5 | He will use the Insurrection Act to counter ice resistance. |
| 0:49.5 | You know, you see what's happening now. |
| 0:50.8 | Ice agents are literally, there's a bounty on their heads uh you have |
| 0:56.7 | governors saying oh they can't wear a mask and signing that into law you see fences that have had to be |
| 1:02.7 | constructed to protect ice from all of these insane protesters and and crazy left-wing radicals you know |
| 1:10.0 | you have democrats wanting to tear them down. |
| 1:12.3 | So the president is saying, okay, we've got to protect ICE agents, number one, number two. |
| 1:18.6 | What are you going to do when you have 4,000, you know, dead people in Illinois because J.B. Pritzker |
| 1:24.6 | doesn't want law and order, safety, security, and to protect the people of a city. |
| 1:30.8 | You know, at some point, do you want your federal government to step in and protect your safety, your security, your kid's safety, your kid's security? |
| 1:43.1 | Look what the president's been able to do in D.C. |
| 1:45.4 | Look what he's now been able to do in Memphis. |
| 1:48.5 | Dramatic turn arounds when you actually police areas, |
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