happy saturday. thanks for joining me. we begin this hour with the reality of saa surge in covid cases as the holidays are approaching. the list of curfews and event cancellations are growing. the rocketts calling after their christmas spectacular. ireland is starting an 8:00 p.m. curfew. rio and paris cancelling new year s fireworks shows and health officials are sounding the warning over the threat of the highly transmissable omicron variant. in the u.s., covid hospitalizations are at levels not seen since september which was at the end of the summer surge. today a stunning add mission from kamala harris telling the l.a. times this. we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists didn t see it. she goes onto say we didn t see omicron coming. that is the nature of what this awful virus has been which as it turns out has mutations and variants. cnn is in new york. state seeing case counts breaking records. tell us more about what officials are doing there to slow the spre
persecution of ordinary citizens engage this had legitimate political discourse. again, they are talking about this, the riot at the capitol. and the riot that ultimate ared in the deaths of five law enforcement officers, the riot that featured them chanting for the execution of the vice president. prior on the of which a dozen have been charged before and look at these images. were these purposes. call what happened on january 6 legitimate political discourse? it is an orchestrated attack on our democracy. on the same day mike pence painted a different picture calling out his former boss in his most pointed language yet. i heard this week that president trump said the had the right to overturn the election. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. constit
world. and welcome to hannity and happy new year and happypy election year 2024. now, the exodus ou t of big states like new jersey, california, illinois and new york, itew jerse c continues. in fact, tonight, we are now broadcasting from my new hom ar the great free state of florida. like so manyflor americans, i li new york for good. and now in the state with, let s see, warmen r law and order, better education, more freedomr , better quality of life. and guess what? no state income tax. noe inco tw, here is my predict. this mass migration out of dee e blue statep,s like the ones i just mentioned, that will continue unless untilless a the change they change their governing philosophiesnd, that are overtaxing people, overregulating people. they re under-performing in schools and safety and issues of public importance . and that s why it s happening. but no matter what state you call home, i will say this 2024 is going to be a critical year not only for our country, but for t
this election comes down to really two positions. do you love america or do you hate america. the democrat party made it clear, not being provocative, i just listen, they hate america. tell me how they support it. i m not special leader for republican party but that is the nature of the beast. you vote for one or the other. if you vote for a third party, you are voting for a democrat. in my view, vote for all the republicans. we will deal with them later. we have got to stop what is going on in can this country, you either love america or hate america. you have to vote against the democrats. and for the republicans. again, i m not special pleader. ladies and gentlemen we re in a recession. i don t care how they try to spin it. two quarters of negative growth. that is what they call it. we re in a recession. we also have inflation teetering on double digits, we had massive deficit spending, borrowing, the printing of money, and even with inflation through the roof, democrats d