sean: wow, look at this crowd we ve got. [ applause ] welcome to hannity. usa! usa! sean: what a crowd. we live in the greatest, best country god ever gave man. thank you for joining us at home. welcome to all of you in studio. all right. we got a lot of news. we begin with big news out of the middle east. gaza city has been completely encircled by israeli forces. now less than a week into their ground operation. two days after hamas vowed to conduct terror attacks over and over and over again until israel and every citizen there are wiped off the planet. don t believe me, look with your own eyes. sean: as i have said many, many times, this is now a real fight for israel s very survival. according to my sources, my president, your president, joe biden, is weak in the knees and not just when he s taking steps up air force one. instead of fully supporting our ally, israel, that has been a victim of the worst terror attack in their history and leading the world with focu
be a strong strategy, may be right. they think they need to keep a tight grip on those voters. if you re republican leadership, are you getting a little anxious? most definitely. the president tends tore very unpredictable. anything at this point could be seen as a setback, at this point they are pushing jobs. this is something they are all trying to tout, cloincluding th white house because they feel this is key to lock in the votes. house and senate leadership should be concerned, they are on the ballot. he s not on the ballot until 2020. if they talk with trump and say trump will say let me help you help yourselves, let s get these agenda items passed. the base is still with me, mids terms on a base vote, you re on the ballot in 2018. explain the strategy, we saw that donald trump tweet this morning where he not so sarcastically thanked congress about russia. john mccain is responding to
so these russian attacks, probing is going to keep going. it s a question of what kind of defenses and what kind of punishment we re willing to dole out and i think the president inched in that direction but suggested that we re going to cooperate with the russians is probably not going to work. david, the backlash was pretty loud and pretty quick. oh, there s no doubt about it. as you said, he flipped on this. remember the context of how it started. rex tillerson, the secretary of state, was sent from that meeting with putin into the briefing room with reporters in h hamburg and this was the thing he was touting in response to a question about consequences. this was the thing that he went and said, look, we re going to start this dialogue and engage in this constructive ability for russia and the u.s. to work together to stop this kind of cyber attack. i mean it wasn t just a presidential tweet out of somewhere. this was the deliverable that they went in with to tout, and
and this was the thing that he went and said, look, we re going to start this dialogue and engage in this constructive ability for russia and the u.s. to work together to stop this kind of cyber attack. i mean it wasn t just a presidential tweet out of somewhere. this was the deliverable that they went in with to tout, and he threw rex tillerson under the bus as soon as he tweeted out and faced all that backlash. he didn t mind that his secretary of state was out there sort of touting this. secretary mnuchin as well. you don t have to be a foreign policy expert to see right away this is a bad idea. so you do wonder how it ever got to the point where anyone thought this was a good idea, let alone the president comes out and touts it. so the next question is, okay, so the president raised the issue with putin. he didn t raise it as well as he could have. he said it was americans who were upset about it, not him.
i think there s an opportunity here for republicans to have a little bit of me too, first off by stating we obviously are for equal pay for equal work for everyone, including women, especially women since they make up such a significant portion of the work force, but there is a certain level of political opportunism on both sides that comes into play. and the fact is what s the opportunity for republicans to fight this? why are you guys fighting this? i think there s an opportunity to put in context exactly what goes on in the workplace. there s a lot behind that 70% number that the president and others on the left like to tout. i mean, women have a lot of different choices they have to make. some unfortunate, some fortunate choices that they make with respect to their engagement in in the workplace. that part of the discussion is never really respond to that, ms. ledbetter. respond to what you just heard there. thank you. ne no, those are very rare. most of us, like, for e