Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript Interview with John Kennedy

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Here with reaction to the DNC so far, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy.

Senator, they're actually saying it. Green New Deal, redistribution of wealth, by the way, how did Obamacare work out? They're not -- they're mostly trying to hide it like AOC gets a minute. We're going to carry the whole minute, but you see what they're doing.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA): Yes, and I didn't watch the whole convention last night but I watched the news report, Sean.

Here's what I learned from last night. Vice President Biden may be the nominee of the party, but Bernie Sanders is the head of the party. That's clear.

And really what Senator Sanders has done is pretty breathtaking. I mean, he and -- he and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez have almost physically lifted this party up and moved it to the left. I hardly -- I hardly recognize it.

I mean, their message to America is now -- finish school, get a job and work hard so we can take the money you earn and give it to somebody who didn't. Redistribution and race underpins all of their policies and I don't recognize this Democratic Party.

HANNITY: Now, we're going to take some of Bill Clinton's speech tonight because I want to make a point and I'll go into more detail. I have a Hannity mini-monologue, Senator. I hope you won't miss it.

And we're going to talk about, because we'll hear Bill Clinton. By the way, had a little bit of problems with The Daily Mail today, pictures they uncovered that are beyond disturbing. But, you know, there's Bill Clinton typical him. I wouldn't imagine that if there was well, equal application of the rules that he'd even be speaking there based on what we know his past conduct has been, but we'll put that aside.

But his policies -- the era of big government is over, the end of welfare as we know it. He wouldn't -- he wouldn't even be allowed in this party today.

KENNEDY: No, and I thought the clip you played of Senator Schumer shows how far he has moved politically. Look -- I'm very fond of Senator Schumer, I get along with --

HANNITY: Senator, I don't mean to interrupt you. I want to take this because I'm going to compare this Bill -- it's only about three minutes, I'm going to compare who the real is and then I want to get your comments on the other side. Let's listen.

FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: -- Donald Trump respond?

At first, he said the virus was under control, and would soon disappear. When it didn't, he was on TV every day bragging on what a great job he was doing, while our scientists waited to give us vital information. When he didn't like the expert advice he was given, he ignored it.

Only when COVID exploded in even more states did he encourage people to wear masks. By then, many more were dying. When asked about the surge in deaths, he shrugged and said, "It is what it is".

But did it have to be this way? No.

COVID hit us much harder than it had to. We have just 4 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of the world's COVID cases. Our unemployment rate is more than twice as high as South Korea's, 2-1/2 times the United Kingdom's, more than three times Japan's.

Donald Trump says we're leading the world. Well, we are the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate tripled. At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center.

HANNITY: By the way, let me remind Bill Clinton as he says this about COVID, that the travel ban, subsequent travel bans and quarantine for 50 years, that was Trump because your party was busy impeaching him.

It wasn't Donald Trump, it was your Democratic friends that put COVID patients and ignored the beds that Trump built, converted to COVID-19, manned with all the PPE, he built them. Not his fault that, well, dopes like Cuomo and Murphy and Wolf didn't use the hospital beds Trump built. No, they sent COVID. "A.P." says today, 11,000 people just died because of that.

But we digress. Let's go back to, well, ever thoughtful Bill.

CLINTON: -- respond to any of that. To beat it, you've got to actually go to work and deal with the facts.

Our party is united in offering you a very different choice, a "go to work" president, a "down to earth, get the job done" guy. A man with a mission to take responsibility, not shift the blame. Concentrate, not distract. Unite, not divide.

Our choice is Joe Biden.

Joe helped bring us back from a recession before and he can do it again. In 2009, Barack Obama and Joe Biden started with the worst economy since the Great Depression. And when they were done, they delivered more than six straight years of job growth.

What did Joe do? He accepted responsibility for implementing the Recovery Act. His work created a lot of new jobs and started many new companies in communities across our country.

Now, Joe's committed to building America back again.

How?

He's given us smart, detailed plans to invest in areas vital to our future, innovative financing for modern factories and small businesses, good jobs in green energy and conservation to combat climate change, a modern infrastructure that brings small town and rural America --

HANNITY: By the way, Bill Clinton there he goes lying again because after eight years, Biden and Obama, Barack and Joe, 13 million more Americans food stamps, 8 million more poverty, lowest labor participation rate since the "70s, worst recovery since the "40s, lowest homeownership rate in 51 years and accumulated more debt than all presidents, including him before them combined.

Back to Bill. I have a monologue in a second.

CLINTON: Better for families working and raising their kids. Better for people who lost jobs and need new ones.

Better for farmers tired of being collateral damage in trade wars. Better for workers caring for the sick, elderly and people with disabilities. Better because of a living wage and access to affordable higher education and health care, including prescription drugs, and to childcare, a secure retirement, and for the first time, paid family and medical leave.

Joe won't just put his signature on a check and try to fool you into thinking it came from him. He'll work to make sure that your paycheck reflects your contribution to and your stake in a growing economy.

In this job interview, the difference is stark. You know what Donald Trump will do with four more years -- blame, bully and belittle. And you know what Joe Biden will do -- Build Back Better.

It's Trump's "us versus them" America against Joe Biden's America, where we all live and work together.

It's a clear choice. The future of our country is riding on it.

Thank you.

HANNITY: We're going to go back to Senator Kennedy in just a moment.

But, first, let me set the record straight. Remember, 13 million more Americans food stamps, 8 million more in poverty, lowest labor participation rate and they're the ones that dumped $150 billion in cash and another currency on the tarmac of mullahs that chant "death to America".

Bill Clinton, you got to remember the Democratic Party that you're talking to tonight, well, at the DNC, totally completely unrecognizable from your views not that long ago. Bill Clinton would never survive as a candidate today. That's a fact.

Bill Clinton worked across the aisle, what, the end of welfare as we know it. The era of big government is over. By the way, are you really going to make the case bill that in fact Obamacare promises were kept because they weren't?

He supported a border wall. Bill Clinton supported deporting illegal immigrants. Bill Clinton signed the now infamous Clinton crime bill -- you know, that's when Joe mentioned predators and stuff like that. That contributed to the mass incarceration of minorities in this country.

Joe Biden supported and championed -- don't forget Clinton praised, oh yeah, like Clinton, Biden, let's see, Hillary, Pelosi and Schumer, they all praised the former Klansman Robert KKK Byrd, the guy that filibustered the Civil Rights Act and was against the Voting Rights Act.

Bill Clinton's mentor, his name you might not know. His name was J. William Fulbright, a known segregationist. And now, today, things got even worse for Clinton's tarnish legacy.

Never before seen pictures, go watch thedailymail.com, go take a look there, showing Clinton getting a massage from a victim of Jeffrey Epstein back in 2002 while he was on a trip on Lolita Express with Epstein to Africa.

So, Bill, you can save us the lectures and the lies, which you're known for, and the fact that you're still being celebrated by the Democratic Party. That's mass hypocrisy too.

We continue. We're going to give the final word to Senator Kennedy.

Senator, I just felt compelled to tell the truth.

KENNEDY: Well, actually, Sean, I was -- I don't mean to disrespect him, he was president of the United States. But I was very surprised that they -- they kept by -- President Clinton on the schedule. I -- I mean, I don't know what this means. Does this mean we're not doing #metoo anymore, or that it's just suspended for the night? I hope not.

I think we also know and again I don't mean disrespect, but President Clinton has a -- how shall put it? He's very selective in the reality that he accepts.

HANNITY: That's well said.

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