WEBVTT - O'Reilly on Shutdown Antics - October 1st, Hour 2 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.360 All right, Leonard Skinner, simpleman. That can only mean one 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.240 thing on this radio program. That's all things. Self proclaimed 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.080 simple man. That means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:13.360 Bill O'Reilly or billoreilly dot com. Mister O'Reilly number one 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.520 New York Times bestseller of the new book Confronting Evil 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:19.520 and there is evil in the world. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:22.040 Mister O'Reilly, sir. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.520 How are you you? You are thrilled to know me? 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:31.240 Right in some ways? Yeah, I mean twenty straight. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.480 Whenever we go to breakfast or lunch, and I pay 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.800 for it every single time. But whatever I mean, I 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:36.360 don't mind. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.400 You got more money than But I do want to 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:44.560 say this sincerely. When you read a book of mine 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.760 or probably anybody else's, and you tell your audience you 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.320 like it, that's huge for the author. That's big because 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.120 you got what four thousand radio stations. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:59.160 Here is something pretty close. We're up there, you know, 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.600 it's amazing. Before we get into the topic that I 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.360 want to discuss with you, which is the government shutdown. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.600 You know, there is a phenomenon back in the day 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.080 when I started my talk radio career, believe it or not, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.560 nineteen eighty seven, mister O'Reilly. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.440 And I would. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.840 I would listen to other hosts and I would hear them, 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.880 you know, let me give you the toll free telephone numbers. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.720 You know, they're the nine four one wwww, right, And 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.160 they'd give out the phone number and they wouldn't get 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.160 any calls. And we have one open line at eight 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.600 hundred and nine four one wwww. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.160 You still have one open line, eight undred nine vote. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.959 And they get more incendiary and more incendiary and more incendiary, 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.480 until finally they pissed somebody off one of the few 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:53.320 listeners enough that somebody would call the show right right, right, Okay, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.560 So now we got everybody in their mother And I 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.720 said this years ago, by the end of my career 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.400 one day and I, well, it's not anytime soon. I 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.920 hope that everybody's gonna have their own talk show. And 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.640 I watch these people that have their podcasts, their quote, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.080 their media networks, they're this, they're that, and it's like 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:20.680 they all crave and need a click, they need attention, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.359 So they get more incindiary, not for the purpose of 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:31.600 espousing something they're passionate about or believe, but because they 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.079 want to get noticed. Now you and I can make 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:39.160 a headline in five seconds right now if we wanted to. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:40.760 But we don't do that. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.080 And I'm watching this game go on and I'm like, 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.720 I'm laughing at it. I think it's funny because I 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.320 don't think it's I don't think it is something that 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.680 works in the long term. One thing both of us 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.600 have in common is longevity in this business. And I 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.239 don't think that gives you longevity. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.320 It also cheapens you, you know, And I made a 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:10.239 few mistakes early in my career by you know, going 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:15.000 after George Clooney maybe too hard or somebody like that 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:19.079 that really didn't matter very much. But when you make 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:20.680 it all personally. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:21.600 Well, well please stop here. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.280 You cannot go after that jackass, George Cloney hard enough, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.320 ra and him and his wife, their comments about bb 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.520 nets and Yahoo were so over the top. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.480 Well, you can go after them, but you have to 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.400 go after them on policy and on statements, not on 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.400 personal And these people who do this on the podcast front, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:46.160 going after people personally, they're diminishing themselves and they will 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.360 not be successful. Now I'm going to make a stunning 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.440 transition into the story of the day. What you just 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:57.080 described as far as podcasts and clicks and people trying 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.160 to get attention on the internet is exactly what that 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:09.360 Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is doing, exactly the same thing. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.119 Humor knows that there's no way on earth that President 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.520 Trump and the Republican Party are going to acquiesce to 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:23.640 pay for the healthcare of illegal immigrants. He knows that 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.640 every Democrat knows that, any more than IQ over fifty 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.119 knows that. Yet he walks into the White House. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.800 By the way, Bill, do you think I have an 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.120 IQ of over fifty? I've never had a test. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.880 You got four thousand radio stations. You don't need an IQ. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.640 I'm kidding. Keep going, all right. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.200 So Humor knows, he walks in, and he knows that 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:53.080 this is never going to happen, yet he does it anyway. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.599 So what does that tell you? It tells you didn't 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.400 want a deal. He wanted to shut the government down. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.839 It's exactly what happened. Now, you then advanced the story 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.480 why why would the Democratic Party want to shut down? 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.320 There's a number of articles about one in the Washington 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.000 Post today saying, Oh, this is going to hurt the 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.280 Democratic Party, this is going to do this, This is 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.640 going to do that. That's not true. The Democratic Party 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.520 is at it's low ebb. It has nothing. It's losing 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:26.360 on every single front except for the radical left urban centers, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:32.159 all right. And so Schumer is trying to get negative 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:37.440 attention by the government shutdown by saying no, no, no, no, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.839 it's all Trump's fault because he knows that people don't 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.400 pay attention. They don't really know what the big issue 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.600 is here. All they know is that the services are 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.960 being shut down. Some people are panicking, Oh, I won't 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.600 get this or I won't get that, and that's what 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.400 the Democrats want. Now. You and I have been around 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.600 long enough to know that this shutdown is going to 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.000 get solved, all right. It always does, and they'll come 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.200 to some kind of compromise which will not include healthcare 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.600 payments for illegal migrants. It will not. But this was 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:14.200 by design. The leadership of the Democratic Party wanted to 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.440 go in, wanted to shut it down, and are hoping 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.720 that this will reignite some kind of support for the party. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.440 So that is a simple man's analysis. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.960 It's even deeper. I mean, I play this montage I'm 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.960 going to play for you. I don't know if you've 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:37.080 heard it. Interestingly, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.120 put it on a loop on a TV outside of 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.960 his office in the Halls of Congress, which I find hilarious. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:48.719 And this is the Democrats in past years talking about 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.680 how horrible government shutdowns are, and this is the Schumer shutdown. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.640 Listen, it is not. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.039 Normal to shut down the government, but we don't get 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.600 what we want. If the government shuts down, it will 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.960 be at Americans who suffer most. A government shutdown means 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.479 seniors who rely on Social Security could be thrown into chaos. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.000 Families will be hurt, Farmers will be hurt. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.720 It's the service members who will work without a paycheck. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.400 It's the firefighters who will be furlough the shutdown. You 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:20.440 know who's gonna feel the pain. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.120 You know who it hurts you, everyday people and the 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.000 most vulnerable. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.240 Seniors, veterans, working, families, hungary, kids off. 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.400 Democrats are signalings that they're ready for a fight this time, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.280 Stumor tells the Associated Press. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:36.800 Both things have changed. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.440 It is not normal to shut down the government when 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:40.239 we don't get. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:40.680 What we want. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.360 Now, you got to admit that's damn good and amusing 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:46.800 as hell. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:52.720 Yeah, sure, I mean, I'm not sure it furthers the debate, because. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:58.160 The Democrats further the debate. It shows what raging hypocrites 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:58.840 they are. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.320 All right, but you can make a case that almost 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.440 every politician has ever lived as a hypocrit. But what 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:10.240 this reflects is desperation. And Schumer's got a personal agenda 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.080 here too. He's at the end of the line, Schumer, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:18.360 and he's absolutely desperate not to get primaried by Cortes, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.280 all right, because she could beat him in New York. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.800 See them, She will kill him, she will destroy him, 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.560 and he will get wiped out and embarrassed. Okay, your 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.760 state of New York, by the way, is going You're 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.240 not doing a good job. By the way, I'm blaming 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.440 you for the decline of New York. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.440 You're bill O'Reilly. You live in New York. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.600 You should be doing a better job of managing your state. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.720 My free state of Florida is doing much much better. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.960 By the way, let me reply to that, my home field, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.600 Nasau and Suffolk County has followed my lead. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.480 No, you can't bifurcate out the state and say, well, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.520 what I live in particular is fine, but the rest 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.439 of New York sucks and and and take no responsibility 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:03.160 on your shoulders. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:04.960 I'm not letting you off the hook, all right. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.600 I'm telling you that we're trending blue. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.400 And now there's Bruce Blakeman is great. I love Bruce Blakeman. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.640 Yeah, I mean, I can't do anything about New York 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.800 City because I don't live in New York City. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:21.640 You're copying out. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.199 Your entire state is a woke you know, it's in 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:29.120 a woke state of insanity and madness and you haven't 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:29.520 fixed it. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.360 Bill, that's your home turf. Uh. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.839 Stefanic is gonna beat Hogel next year, so you're gonna 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:36.880 eat your words. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.960 Listen, nobody would be happier if if, in fact Stefanic 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:43.800 could win that race. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.360 I'd be very happy. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.960 He's gonna problem is too many, too many smart people 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.240 like me have said goodbye. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.000 Well, yeah, I mean, look at California. My god, that's 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.720 worse than New York. A million and a half are gone. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.880 But anyway, I'm doing the best I can do here, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:03.040 and I'm making progress on my home field, and I'm 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.040 not taking credit for it. Of course, you get very 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:10.040 fine people here, but New York City dominates the state. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.080 And that is got to blow up, and it will 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.480 if Man Donnie is elected, it will absolutely blow up. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.600 And then you'll see the fire storm. And that's really 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.160 the only way that the state is ever going to change, 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.480 and the body count is going to be horrific. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:28.080 Pick break right. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.920 Back more with all Things simple Man, Bill O'Reilly all 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.440 Things O'Reilly of Bill O'Reilly dot com, and later Senator 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.880 Haggarty of Tennessee will join us as well. We'll get 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.719 the latest in Washington and much more as our coverage continues. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:54.400 Sean Hannity show a thermonuclear mma assault on Baby News. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.160 Hannity is on right now. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.880 All right, we continue now with all things self proclaimed 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.560 simple man. That means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.440 O'Reilly or billoreilly dot com. 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.280 Did you see what he said in the press conference yesterday, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.600 Man Donnie, He's gonna. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.080 Watch him every day. I mean, he's great material. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.440 But this is the worst. He wants to take the 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.880 authority away from the New York City Police Commissioner discipline 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.880 officers and give it to civilians. That means that there 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.120 isn't going to be any police. They're all gone. You 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.520 can't work under a system like that, which is what 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.400 he wants. He hates the police calls him races. He's 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:00.720 going to cut a bill. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.920 He wants to open up the prisons and let all 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.680 the convicts out. He wants to take felonies and turn 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:12.960 them into you know, misdemeanors, which guarantees that these you know, 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.120 career criminals will be on the street. I mean, it's 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.400 a disaster in the making. I mean you can see, 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.080 you know, two trains heading towards each other on the 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.200 track and it's going to go. They're going to crash. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.040 Your state is going to crash. And you're gonna call 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.920 me and you're gonna say, Hannity, your buddy, O'Reilly, I 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.480 need I need a place to stay, and can you 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.160 take me in? And I'm going to say yes, I 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.120 will tell you ahead of time, I will accept you. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:45.360 The important thing for your listeners to understand is that 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:50.520 all of this uh government shut down, hate Trump, all 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.200 of this stuff, lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits. It's all out of 0:12:55.360 --> 0:13:03.040 desperation because the progressive left is losing badly and they 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.280 know it. So it's like you know, the Hail Mary 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.920 Pass or whatever cliche you want to use. They are 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.880 going to do irrational things to try to write the ship. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.320 But it's not going to work, because probably will. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:26.080 The one thing that not even considering is a re examination, introspection, 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:32.239 self reflection, of course, correction in terms of their policies 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.319 that are out of sync with the American people. That 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.480 would be the answer for them, and they just that 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.200 that's not even part of the process. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:46.320 Because the mindset of the progressives is that we are noble, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.079 We are the good people and the maga trump of 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.600 the evil people, and we're not gonna We're not going 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:58.720 to walk away from our nobility. These are fanatics, These 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.800 are people who you know, you point out the fact 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.160 that the fact Phitsker is the best example, and this 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.160 is the most vivid example I could ever give any American. 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.960 Here's a man who's been in office almost eight years, 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.600 I think, and there have been literally thousands of poor 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:23.600 African Americans killed in Chicago, murdered by drug gangs. He 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:29.880 has done nothing to mitigate that now one thing yet 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.600 offered a blanket of protection by the federal government to 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:39.160 bring this murder rate down so that poor African Americans 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.280 are not shot dead. He not only says no, I 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.000 don't want the extra protection. But the people that are 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.240 offering in, including the President, are racists. I mean, how 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.720 irrational and hateful and destructive is that point of view. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.720 That's the best example I can get of anybody. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.160 Mister O'Reilly. We appreciate your. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.120 Time, sir, Thanks very much, John, I really appreciate you. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:08.680 Reading the book means a lot. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.240 By the way, you do need a simply save home 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.400 security system, you especially, do you know that. All right, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.119 let's go to Chucky Schumer. This is the Schumer shutdown, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:24.320 and it's getting interesting, and this is Schumer attacking the 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.920 New York Times. This was maybe the funniest moment I've 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.080 ever seen on the center floor of my lifetime. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.160 Now, when I know the leader is going to show 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.920 a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed for 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.800 the shutdown, there are many more polls that show Republicans 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.840 are blamed. The question in that poll is biased, biased 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.000 in the New York Times, but it's biased if you 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:46.960 turned the question. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:52.960 That's true. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.040 I don't always believe the New York Times. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.040 You can be sure of that, even you know, all 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.440 good humor is rooted in the truth. I mean, for 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.640 Shumer to claim that the New York Times is biased 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:11.560 against Democrats. Is beyond laughable. But he tried to make 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.000 that case. Now, let's take a trip down memory lane 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:20.480 and let's play Chucky Schumer against government shutdowns over the years. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.280 It's sort of like this, someone goes into your house, 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.280 takes your wife and children hostage, and then says, let's 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.720 negotiate over the price of your house. You know, we 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.000 could do the same thing on immigration. We could we 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.720 believe strongly in immigration reform. We could say we're shutting 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.800 down the government. We're not going to raise the debt 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.000 ceiling until you pass immigration reform. It would be governmental chaos. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.320 And what if I persuaded my cause to say I'm 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.840 going to shut the government down, I am going to 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.360 not pay our bills unless. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:48.680 I get my way. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:53.400 It's a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis. We're 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.160 now only a week away from a government shutdown, which, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.840 to remind my colleagues, could cost our economy thousands of 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.080 jobs and billions of dollars, as it did in twenty thirteen. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:08.040 I think a government shutdown is something we desperately want 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.320 to avoid, all of us. I don't know if they 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.240 can pass the three week bill. We would much prefer 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.080 they do a full funding bill, but we're not going 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.280 to shut the government down. Senator McConnell wanted me to 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.639 negotiate the wall with President Trump. I said to him 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:23.160 two things. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:24.000 First, it's not a. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.920 Negotiation, no wall. And second, I said, only you can 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.920 persuade him that he shouldn't do the wall because it'll 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.040 cause a government shutdown. The White House has done nothing 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:41.040 but so chaos and confusion, division and disarray, and it 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.920 may just lead to a government shutdown that no one 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:48.159 wants that all of us here have been striving to avoid. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.600 And we do not want to let a Trump temper 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.879 tantrum govern our policies or cause the shutdown of a 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.520 government which everyone on both sides of the aisles knows 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.480 is the wrong idea. Speaker McCarthy needs to stop letting 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.120 the MAGA radicals drive his decisions and do the obvious 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.520 and sensible thing, follow the Senate's lead and pass a 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:16.840 bipartisan CR to prevent this reckless shutdown. CR means continue 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:21.400 the government spending a shutdown. The alternative is cut off 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.960 the government spending. And here's what we would what would 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.159 happen if we cut off government spending. It would be 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:31.359 devastation like we have never seen. We're saying now much. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.720 And now we find ourselves in the midst of the 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.920 Schumer shutdown. Now, what changed? The only thing that has 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:46.919 changed and changed dramatically is the radicalization of the Democratic Party. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:52.080 Chuck Schumer, like Hakem. Jeffries, is leader in name only. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.080 He's not a leader. He doesn't have control of his caucus, 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:01.000 and he is scared to death of the radicals that 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.520 dominate his party and that they are insisting that the 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.240 government shut down. So everything he's ever stood for, every 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.200 position he's ever taken as it relates to government shutdowns, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.439 is now turned upside down on its head. And it 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:23.040 just reeks of nothing but Schumer hypocrisy because he's got 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.879 to give in to the radicals and his party and 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:27.960 he's got to do what they tell him to do. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.520 Otherwise he's so desperate he still wants to cling to 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:39.000 his personal, blind political ambition that will transcend any desire 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.000 to simply do what he believes is right. 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.159 And that's the difference. That's what has changed. Now. 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.600 Our friend Senator Haggerty, who we like a lot on 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.080 this program, put out an ex post and said Republicans 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.000 are committed to keeping the government open with a clean, 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.920 r short term funding bill, radical left Democrats and an 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.000 a tempt to get a ridiculous Democrats now are asking 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.399 for one point five trillion dollars for a seven week 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:12.960 continuing resolution one point five trillion and a wish list 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.520 of liberal priorities, and they've now shut down the government. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:18.600 That's why it's the Schumer shutdown. 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:19.280 Now. 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.560 As far as I'm concerned, I don't care how long 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.040 it goes on. I feel sorry for the people that 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.760 won't get their paychecks that probably won't happen till mid October. 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.840 I would expect this is going to extend out, probably 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.680 until then, that's my best guess. And I think Democrats 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.080 are just you know, they've they've now they've now cornered 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.679 themselves and getting out of this hole they've dug is 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:44.280 going to be nearly impossible. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:46.720 Uh. And this may go on for a while. 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.680 But if they think they get one point five trillion 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.800 dollars for the insane policies that they're demanding out of 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.480 Donald Trump, they don't know Donald Trump, nor do they 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.960 know the Republican Caucus. Right now, it's not going to 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.800 happen anyway. Senator Bill Haggerty of Tennessee joins us, sir, 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:04.760 how are you welcome back? 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:05.479 Glad to have you. 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:07.679 I'm great, Seawan, It's good to be back with you 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:11.000 as well. An interesting time. Indeed, you did a wonderful job. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.159 That collage or trux humor statements was just fascinating. And 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.600 to hear him but they play victim to the New 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:18.160 York Times bias, that was just. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.560 Too rich to That was maybe one of the best 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:23.919 moments I've ever seen on the Center floor. 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:25.960 I was on the floor when it happened. We all 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.840 just just cracked up to hear him say that. 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:30.960 But it gets back to, by the way, when even 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:36.200 when he started laughing because he knows it's complete bs true. 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.680 It's so true. He was laughing as well. You're exactly right. 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.679 All right, let's talk about how we got here, what 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.400 they're demanding, and why it's not going to happen, and 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.159 how this gets resolved eventually. 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:48.560 You know, I think you hit the nail on the head. 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.360 Their party has changed dramatically. I would just add one 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.440 more thing to it. The party certainly is being run 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.960 by the radicals, and the radical left and the Democratic side. 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:02.399 But the elect dynamics in New York State have also changed, 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.600 and if you look at the polling, you've got a 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.679 situation where Chuck Schumer would be defeated today by AOC. 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.760 We're a primary election to be held. What Chuck Schumer 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.600 is trying to do, and I think this is the 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.080 root of the hypocracy, is he views this as a 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.600 test of his political manhood and if he doesn't step up, 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:25.040 he allows if he doesn't shut the government down, I 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.480 should say, then he's going to allow AOC. And the 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.919 radical left claim that he's taken a knee to Trump, 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.800 he's bowing to Trump, he's caving to Trump. That's the 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.199 argument that he's trying to avoid, and he's paining himself 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:39.399 into a corner in the process. So they found themselves 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:43.280 in an impossible situation. This is certainly not helping anybody. 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:45.399 You heard him go through all the reasons not to 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:48.080 shut the government down, Yet here we are, because this 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:51.320 is political theater, just so Chuck Schumer again can demonstrate 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.960 his political manhood to the far far left. 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:54.320 Of his party. 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:58.520 Well, I don't really see how they get out of this, 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.480 except that at some point they're going to have to capitulate. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.760 The reason I think it goes on through mid mid October. 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:09.359 Correct me if I'm wrong, is that the payments to 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:14.720 the military of other government employees, uh, that will that money, 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:20.639 those moneys will go out forthwith and then the next 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.600 the first payment that they miss will be in mid October. 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:24.879 Is that about the right timing. 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:27.879