. and what was the end result? what was the audience reaction by the time you got to the end of the hour? well, you know, sean, i m glad you asked that. i ve moved my entire audience up onto the stage as a focus group at this point, everybody and i encourage them to speak and i ve seen the results of the surveys like the cato institute says that 62% of americans, that s almost two thirds of americans are afraid to speak out for fear that they will say something they shouldn t say. and i asked my audience, how many of you are afraid to speak up or say something right now in this show? you can t say that. how many of you are afraid to speak up right now? and it look like the wave at texas stadium. i mean, people do say no, i listen, i m scared to death, dog, don t follow me. i don t want to say the wrong thing. it s not that i think feel or
0 better mood on this new year s,o not all is lost. there are wonderful peoplenderf making us still the greatest country there is are a lot of them. we are really happy to see theme tonight. we ll be back tomorrow night and every weeknight, 8:00 p.m.ib ,a show that s the sworn enemy of lying. pomposity, smugness and groupthink have the best night with the ones you love. we ll see tomorrow. and welcome to this special edition of hannity . and by the way, happy new year . tonight for the full hour, we re going to highlight some of our best interviews from the past few months. now, first up, i spoke to dr. phil about the out of control council culture. let s take a look now. as we have documented on this show, night after night censorship, silencing, boycotting, canceled culture, it is all becoming all too common within our political discourse. social media, college campuses, even in day to day life, even in the workplace, many americans feel forced to stay silent for fear of upsetti
isis taking americans hostage. the majority of americans now held captive are actually being held by authoritarian regimes. under president trump, egypt and north korea, since president biden took office, there were six americans released from venezuela, journalist american held in myanmar was freed and now from russia, and what i think needs to happen is a long-term strategy to punish the term is state hostage takers, governments that engage in this policy. canada announced an initiative with 50 other country, the u.s. has signed on to it, saying that they re going to start now punishing these countries, black listing them, economic sanction, and i know those have limited effect, but there has to be a long-term strategy to that makes it unacceptable for governments to do it. the u.s. has not signed on to it? the u.s. has signed on it but it is a completely toothless initiative. the chinese kidnapped, i shouldn t say kidnapped, arrested, whatever you want to
and now in brass tonight we re gonna hear on the morning show. tomorrow we ll, great return right here, within the last, our fox news lower income says on his. i shouldn t say that she was placed at donald trump. who brought us herschel walker, courtesy of the celebrity apprentice. she saying that she is mad at the establishment gop. the establishment gop has been biting their tongues, quietly hating trump four years, but never had the guts to say it. they say that, loud it is his party. it does party tell us. not as david, said they want him to go away, whatever that means, and i think to what is a party no one wants to go to. [laughter] but you know? what or 50/50 country. we talk about 50 1:49 as it gets a majority. it s two seats. but in today s america, that is a majority. republicans have a nine seat majority in the house, that is a big majority. right? we are 50/50 country.
and desantis, pence, they re not able to out-and say that we are done with this guy? but it tells me that they just waited for donald trump to die. and and think about this. [laughter] nobody s actually ready to say that now is the time to take the republican party forward? that s the time! and now in brass tonight we re gonna hear on the morning show. tomorrow we ll, great return right here, within the last, our fox news lower income says on his. i shouldn t say that she was placed at donald trump. who brought us herschel walker, courtesy of the celebrity apprentice. she saying that she is mad at the establishment gop. the establishment gop has been biting their tongues, quietly hating trump four years, but never had the guts to say it. they say that, loud it is his party. it does party tell us. not as david, said they want him to go away, whatever that means, and i think to what is a party no one wants to go to. [laughter] but you know? what or 50/50 country. we talk