Sliwa Remains Defiant - September 5th, Hour 3
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity dives into the latest drama surrounding the New York City mayoral race, featuring Curtis Sliwa's live reaction to Eric Adams' campaign announcement. As Sean frames, the stakes have never been higher with speculation about Adams' potential exit, Andrew Cuomo seeking Sharptonâs endorsement, and the rise of progressive candidate Zoran Mamdani. Sliwa highlights his surge in polls, grassroots fundraising success, and his law-and-order message, while Hannity underscores the ideological clash threatening New York's future. This episode matters because it spotlights how internal party divisions and surging crime could reshape city leadership and set a national tone.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | It's being pushed in harm's way. |
| 0:12.1 | Here, news roundup information. |
| 0:14.4 | I was asking you for the call-in number, because Curtis is about to call in. |
| 0:19.2 | Curtis Lee, what we're expecting any |
| 0:20.9 | moment now a press conference for Merrick Adams it's supposed to be campaign |
| 0:25.6 | related I'm guessing I am texting with Mr. Slewa and I will get that to him |
| 0:30.7 | sir that is my job yeah he wants to call in and be on the show so we'll find |
| 0:34.9 | out get his initial reaction I can't think of any |
| 0:37.6 | other reason why this would happen. Anyway, the shot is up for Adam's announcement. They had |
| 0:45.2 | delayed that. My guess is they probably delayed it because of the president's press conference. |
| 0:50.3 | By the way, I'm getting a lot of people texting and a lot of people calling. |
| 0:56.5 | If you, Linda, can send me the number for Curtis to call and he's texting me. |
| 1:03.0 | You may not have the same number I do. |
| 1:05.0 | So if you send it to me, I'll send it to him. |
| 1:07.6 | Might as well air all of our dirty laundry. |
| 1:14.9 | But anyway, the president changing the Department of Defense's name to the Department of War, which had been called throughout every war that |
| 1:22.1 | we've ever had, World War I, World War II, et cetera, et cetera. So, you know, it's going to be very interesting. If you want to react to any of this, you can give us a call, 800941, Sean, is our number on a Friday. You talk about a Friday news dump. I mean, this is it. It's like all of this coming out of nowhere. We weren't expecting a lot of this, although we did tell you at the beginning of the program today that President Trump would in fact be renaming the Department of Defense to the Department |
| 1:50.0 | of War. As it relates to whatever Eric Adams is going to announce, I can't imagine that they would |
| 1:57.2 | put out that we have a major campaign announcement if it wasn't about him getting |
| 2:02.9 | out of the race. |
| 2:03.7 | Now, the front cover of the New York Post today says Trump to City drop out tells GOP donor. |
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