1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Stay right here for our final news round up and 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: information overload. Right News roundup, Information overload, our eight hundred 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: and nine for one Shawn, if you want to be 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: a part of the program. One of the things that 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: I felt was missing last night, especially in light of 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: eight days of America following well not really eight days, 7 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: because for the first four or five days nobody was 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: aware of it. I think it wasn't until the Chinese 9 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: spy balloon was over Montana and people in Montana recognize 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: that something was floating up there in the sky that 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: they had to finally admit to us that this in 12 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: fact was happening. But this all started off the coast 13 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: of Alaska, then over Alaska, then down through the west 14 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: coast of Canada into Idaho, straight across to Montana, right 15 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: over ICBM silos, then you know, a little bit more 16 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: south than Kansas and Missouri, and then to Kentucky and 17 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: then the Carolinas, and then I get sh shot down. 18 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: Biden didn't go into that too much, nor did he 19 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: bring up China and the territorial ambitions and their never 20 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: ending invasion of Taiwan airspace, or the threats against American 21 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: officials going to visit our ally in Taiwan, Nor did 22 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: anybody bring up the idea, why are we allowing China 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: to purchase thousands and thousands of acres of farm land, 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: ranch land and land around our military installations? Never mind 25 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: intellectual property theft and unfair trade practices, or the persecution 26 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: of minorities like the wagers and slave labor. Anyway, here's 27 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: Joe Biden seeking competition, not conflict with China, which was 28 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: kind of like a slogan or a bumper sticker to 29 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: me before I came to office. The story was about 30 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: how the People's Republican China was increasing his power and 31 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: America was failing in the world. Not anymore. We made clear, 32 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: and I made my personal conversation which have been many 33 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: with President she and we seek competitions, not conflict. But 34 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: I will make no apologies that we're investing and to 35 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: make America is stronger. All right? Joining us now with 36 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: reaction to that and so much more, Senator Tom Cotton, 37 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: Great State of Arkansas. Senator, how are you I'm doing? 38 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: Will Sean? Thank you for having me back on. You 39 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: laid out the case pretty well for how week Joe 40 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: Biden has been on China not just met speech just night, 41 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: for the first two years in office. Can you explain 42 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: why the American people weren't told about this, this balloon 43 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: that they claim wasn't really a spy balloon? Well, you 44 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: know why, why was that happening and we weren't being 45 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: told about it? Yeah, Sean, I think it's a pretty 46 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: easy explanation. In fact, I can tell your listeners no question, 47 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: this balloon could have been shot down and over the 48 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: Aleutian Islands off of Alaska, no question at all. The 49 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: reason why we didn't and the reason why the Biden 50 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: minister didn't reveal the presence of the balloon until some 51 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: amateur pilots and photographers in Montana were about to reveal it, 52 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: it's because Joe Biden doesn't want to have a conflict 53 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: with China, as he said in that if he wants competition, 54 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: as if it's like a high school sporting event, when 55 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: we're all on the same side and it's just friendly 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: competition as opposed to a struggle for mastery for the 57 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: future of the world and the American way of life. 58 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: I'm confident if that balloon hadn't been spotted over Montana 59 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: that the Biden administration probably would have let it float 60 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: on its merryway across the country and not shot it 61 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: down and it got to the Atlantic, they might not 62 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: have even told Congress about it. I think that's the 63 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: general reason why they didn't reveal it when it before 64 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: civilians identified. I think there's a second part of the 65 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: story here too, Sean. The Secretary of State Tony B. 66 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: Lincoln was scheduled to leave on a trip to China 67 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: on Friday night. It was the first trip by Biden 68 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: administration cabinet official to China. I think he and the 69 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: President we're desperate to maintain that trip because they want 70 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: to have a more positive relationship with China as opposed 71 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: to recognizing China has been waging this cold war on 72 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: us for decades. And they were within about twenty four 73 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: hours of unveiling it. Their hands were forced again by 74 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: some amateur photographers and pilots in Montana. Thank goodness it was, 75 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,359 Speaker 1: because otherwise we might not have known about this, and 76 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: Tony B. Lincoln might have gone ahead with his ill 77 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: and biased trip to Beijing. And Ward only knows what 78 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: more he would have given away if he had done that. 79 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: If everything we're reading about the Biden family and the 80 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: business dealings with China one billion becoming a one point 81 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: five billion dollar deal with the Bank of China after 82 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: a trip with Hunter on Air Force two ten days later, 83 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: reports of a five million dollar no interest forgivable loan 84 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars shopping spree. Does that raise questions 85 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: in your mind about whether or not the financial dealings 86 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: and ties with the Biden family in China could compromise 87 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: his ability to deal with this country. I think the 88 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 1: extensive financial ties the Biden family has with major state owned, 89 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: state affiliated, or state directed companies in China raises serious 90 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: questions about potential conflicts of interest. Chuck Schumer and Democrats 91 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: in the Senate may not want to explore that, but 92 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: I'm confident that Jim Jordan and James Komer and Kevin 93 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: McCarthy in the House will help us get to the 94 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: bottom of it. But again, Sean, it's in keeping with 95 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's attitude towards China going back fifty years in 96 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: his time in public life. I mean just three years ago, Sean, 97 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: on the campaign trail, Joe Biden was still defending Chinese communists, 98 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: saying that they're not competition for us, and they're not 99 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: bad folks as opposed to what they really are, which 100 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: is the gravest threat to the American way of life 101 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: that we've probably ever faced. I agree completely with you. 102 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 1: We've played that cut on this programming on TV as well. 103 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: One of the most interesting moments of the night was 104 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: when Joe Biden accused republic of having a plan to 105 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: get rid of Social Security and Medicare. Before I play that, though, 106 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: let me play you a cut of Joe Biden from 107 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five so it can add some context and 108 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: texture to what happened last night. When I argued if 109 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 1: we should freeze federal spending, I meant so Security as well. 110 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,239 Speaker 1: I meant Medicare, Medicaid, I meant veterans man, I meant 111 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: every single solitary thing in the government. And I not 112 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: only tried it once, I tried it twice. I tried 113 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time. Oh. Now, 114 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 1: with that said, here's the exchange that got the Republicans 115 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: worked up rightly. So last night, some of my Republican friends, 116 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: I want to take the economy hostage. I get it. 117 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: Unless I agree to the reckon high plans. All you 118 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: at home should know what those plans are. Instead of 119 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans, some 120 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: Republicans want medicare and SoC security sunset. I'm not saying 121 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: it's a majority of Let me give you anybody to 122 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: adopts it, contact my office, I'll give you a copy. 123 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: I'll give you a copy of the proposal. That means 124 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: cons doesn't vote. Well, I'm glad to see it now 125 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: that you know has been a lie that Democrats have 126 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: used for many, many years that Republicans have the secret plan. 127 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: They do not. And then at the end Biden said, Okay, 128 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: I guess we all agree on it, So I guess 129 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: that means it won't be used in further elections to 130 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: lie about Republicans. But in light of what he said 131 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: in ninety five, what's your reaction, Well, that's a great 132 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: fine John, by you and your team for what he 133 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: said in nineteen ninety five. Although my hunch is that 134 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: since Joe Biden has been in public life for fifty 135 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: years and he's such a weather vein without core convictions 136 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: or principle as you could probably find him on both 137 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: sides of pretty much every issue, at one time or another. 138 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: But as for what he said last night, obviously it 139 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: was a misleading distortion. I know he and his senior 140 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: White House team and a lot of Democrats are excited 141 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: about that exchange time. I'm a bit mystified by it, though, 142 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: because all he allowed Republicans to do in one of 143 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: the most viewed political moments of the year is to 144 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: get on record in a somewhat sensational and therefore a 145 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: memorable way that, as Kevin McCarthy has said, we're not 146 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: seeking cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Now. I think 147 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: that means that debates and negotiations over a debt ceiling 148 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: increase and the spending bills can go forward without those 149 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: on the table and without Democrats able to demogogic. So 150 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: in a way, you know, he attempted to score political 151 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: points against Republicans, but I think it backfired on him. 152 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: I think it backfired big time on him. Overall, As 153 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: you sat in the chamber last night and you watched 154 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: the speech unfold and you listen to Joe Biden, he 155 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: described in America that I'm not recognizing. He described one 156 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: that is, you know, on the upswing economically, etc. Every 157 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: pole going into Last Night showed the American people don't 158 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: agree with him. Pole after pole after pole, marissed. For example, 159 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: two thirds of Americans think the state of the Union 160 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: is not at all strong, ABC, Washington Post Pole Sixty 161 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: two percent of Americans say Biden has not achieved much 162 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: during his first two years in office. In October, fifty 163 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: seven percent of Democrats wanted him to run for reelection. 164 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: Now it's thirty seven percent. By more than three to one, 165 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: Americans tell CBS that they think the state of the 166 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: Union is weak. I would not say that that is 167 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: a good scorecard for a president heading into what we 168 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: assumed to be a reelection campaign. Mary Shann, It's not 169 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:57,719 Speaker 1: a good scorecard, and the American people are right on 170 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: those measures. You know why with the American people the 171 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: economy is strong despite wage gains and despite unemployment declining, 172 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: if real wages are still still falling, if wage gains 173 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: are still not matching the high inflation we have, why 174 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: would they think our communities are strong? If you have 175 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand Americans dying from drug deaths because 176 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: Joe Biden has opened our border border to drug cartels 177 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: and tractors, why would they think America is strong and 178 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: respected in the world. After Chinese communists just got away 179 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: with floating a balloon all across the heartland of America. 180 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: It was some kind of Babylon v parity in which 181 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: Joe Biden said that he would shoot down the Chinese 182 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: by balloon after it completed its spy mission. The American 183 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: people are right to have all these concerns and no 184 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: amount of distortions by Joe Biden continue with our Senator 185 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: Tom Cotton as with us. Let me ask you this, 186 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: and that's a little offbeat in terms of the question 187 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: and not really related to last night. I think that 188 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 1: the Republicans have missed something as it relates to elections 189 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: in this country. And this is what I think they're missing. 190 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: I think rejecting early voting and voting by mail has 191 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: been a mistake, and I think a lot of Republicans 192 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: have been resistant to both of those. I think that 193 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: has to change. Secondly, I would argue all these Democrats 194 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden, Katie Hobbs, and John Fetterman, they don't 195 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: campaign the way Republicans do. They're not going to town halls, 196 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: they're not shaking hands, kissing babies, doing selfies. They're not 197 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 1: doing media avails. They seem to be hiding in their 198 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: basement with endless sums of money to run negative ads. 199 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: And except for the state of Alabama, which insists that 200 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: every voter puts in their own ballot, every other state, 201 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: including your state of Arkansas, has some version of ballot harvesting. 202 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: And I think the Democrats have been in the ballot business, 203 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: Republicans have been in the ideas business. And whatever the 204 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: Democrats are doing legally in their respective states, I think 205 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: Republicans better but get their act together. Either change the 206 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: law or adopt the strategies of the Democrats, and not 207 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: only do it as well, hopefully better, and understand that 208 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,079 Speaker 1: voting has changed dramatically in the country. I would prefer 209 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: paper ballots, same day voting, and with integrity measures like 210 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: signature verification and voter ID, but that's not going to 211 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: happen by twenty twenty four. Yeah, you know, Sean, you 212 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: make a lot of good points, and you and I 213 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: would probably design a voting system very different from what 214 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: many states have. But it reminds me of the conversation 215 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: I've had with my young son after baseball games when 216 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: he complains that the umpires are calling a strike zone. 217 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: It's bigger than what's on the books. And I tell 218 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: him that, Well, he can complain about it and keep 219 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: striking out, or he can just play the games based 220 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: on how the umpires calling the game and what the 221 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: rules are, whether you like them or not, or what 222 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: the rules the rules you have to follow. So at 223 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: the state as voting by mail or if it has 224 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: not election day or election week, if it has election 225 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: month or election season, then we have to accept those 226 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 1: are the rules. We can win the elections into those 227 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: rules and then work to change them to make them 228 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: more to our liking, so we have more integrity in 229 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: our elections there. So you don't have election season, but 230 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: do you either have you know, election day, maybe a 231 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: week or two at most of early voting as we 232 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,239 Speaker 1: have in Arkansas. But you have to run the elections 233 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: based on the rules that are in place, and Republicans 234 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: can do that. You know, ten or fifteen years ago 235 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: we actually far our basons Democrats and the ability to 236 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 1: use vote by mail and absentee ballot ballot chasing as 237 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: it used to be called back in those days. That's 238 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 1: a practice as an atropheed too often in Republican campaigns, 239 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: But Republicans have to run campaigns based on the rules 240 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: as they are. We can change their rules to our 241 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: liking once we get power, but we have to win 242 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: elections to be able to make those changes. Do you 243 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: agree with me that Republicans have made a big mistake 244 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: by not embracing the laws in the states and embrace 245 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: seeing the ballot harvesting that the Democrats are doing. And 246 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the illegal ballot harvesting allowed by law. 247 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: Twenty five states allow real significant ballot harvesting and other 248 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: states have varying degrees of it. Candidates for office have 249 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: to run elections based on the laws in place, even 250 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: if they dislike those laws. So for us to say 251 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: we're not going to have an aggressive and robust vote 252 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: by mail program in states that have voting by mail, 253 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: or that we're not going to have ballot chasing or 254 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: ballot harvesting or ballot collection or whatever you want to 255 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: say in which that's permitted under some circumstance in certain states, 256 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: or tying one hand behind their back, they're letting Democrats 257 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: get a leg up on them by not playing according 258 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: to rules in place. Again, we can change those rules 259 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: from from elections. It's got to play by the rules 260 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: as you stay Sean. All right, Senator Tom Cotton love 261 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: having you on. Appreciate your time, sir, Thank you, thank you. 262 00:14:54,760 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: We'll continue. Sean Hannity talks of the people involved in 263 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: the top stories of the day every day. Sean Hannity 264 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: is on twenty five now to the top of the hour, 265 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine for one, Shawn, if you want 266 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: to be a part of the program. Well, just when 267 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: you thought you had the best night's sleep you could 268 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: ever have, thanks to all things my pillow, well they've 269 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: gotten better. And it's true, they really is better. I 270 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: just got my own my Pillow two point zero myself. Look, 271 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: Mike Lindell invented the original my Pillow. It works for me. 272 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: All these products work for me. I fall asleep faster, 273 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: stay asleep longer. You can too. Here we are twenty 274 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: years later, and he's using a new technology that makes 275 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: his pillow even better. Now they call it the My 276 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: Pillow two point zero. 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Buy one, get one free. My 287 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: pillow dot Com Sean Hannity Square, My pillow two point 288 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: zero made with temperature regulating technology and one hundred percent 289 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: made in the US and at ten year warranty in 290 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: a sixty day unconditional money back guarantee, or just call 291 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: and mention my name eight hundred nine nine six zero 292 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: nine zero to get your my pillow two point zero. Now, 293 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: all right, So two hearings going on simultaneously today, I 294 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: mean both very very very interesting. The head of site 295 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: integrity at Twitter, Yol Roth, was grilled by Jim Jordan 296 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: in the House Judiciary Committee, telling yol Roth in no 297 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: uncertain terms that these guys got played. You wanted to 298 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: take it, take it deep down. We saw it and 299 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 1: the chairman put up and said, you know, everyone in 300 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,959 Speaker 1: the White House is a fascist, and I think you 301 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: guys wanted it to be taken down. I think you 302 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: meet with these guys every week. Now, what have we learned. 303 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 1: We learned that in fact leading up to the twenty 304 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: twenty election. Now remember, put in the back of your 305 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,919 Speaker 1: mind it was December of twenty nineteen when the FBI 306 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: got ahold of Hunter Biden's laptop. They had eleven months 307 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: before election day to authenticate whether or not this in 308 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: fact was Hunter Biden's laptop, especially because we know based 309 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 1: on reports and the contents, assuming all that's true, and 310 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: pretty much everybody's acknowledged that it's true that even small 311 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: crimes and large crimes are on videotape, and then it 312 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: raises a whole lot of questions about Joe Biden the 313 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: president anyway, and Jordan pointed out, you have weekly meetings 314 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: with this guy, mister Chan. He was the one that 315 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 1: wrote the thesis in twenty sixteen about how Donald Trump 316 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: and Russia colluded so Donald Trump can win the presidency. 317 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: Now he's an FBI agent. Then he's put in charge 318 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: with this conference of other FBI agents speaking weekly to 319 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 1: big tech companies scaring the hell out of them and 320 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: telling them that they're likely going to be targets of 321 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 1: misinformation campaigns from foreign entities and to be on the 322 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 1: lookout for them. And yol Roth even admitted already that 323 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 1: one of the people that they said they might be 324 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: targeted about would be Hunter Biden. I mean, think about this, 325 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 1: you know, Jim Jordan said the information operation was run 326 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: on you guys and then by extension, run on the 327 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: American people. So that's happening in the House Appropriations Committee. 328 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: Now over at the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Well, 329 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 1: Jim Comer of Kentucky is in charge, and let me 330 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: just play his opening remarks because they were very powerful. 331 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: On October fourteenth, twenty the New York Post published its 332 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: first story based on information contained in Hunter Biden's Laptop 333 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 1: Story and Hunter's Laptop. The Post provided proof of the 334 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: laptop's legitimacy by releasing a computer repair store signed receipt 335 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,199 Speaker 1: for the laptop and the federal subpoena used by the 336 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: FBI to retrieve it in twenty nineteen. The article revealed 337 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: that a top executive at Barisma who was paying Hunter 338 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: Biden fifty thousand dollars a month had spent time with 339 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: then Vice President Biden in Washington, d C. Throughout his 340 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: presidential campaign. Joe Biden assured the American people that he 341 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: had never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealing. However, 342 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: the details exposed in the Post's article indicate that Joe 343 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: Biden lied to the American people. Immediately following the story's publication, 344 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: America witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies, mainstream news, 345 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 1: and the intelligence communities to suppress and delegitimize the existence 346 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: of Hunter Biden's laptop and its contents. That morning, Twitter 347 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: and other social media companies took extraordinary steps to suppress 348 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: that story. Twitter immediately removed the story and banned The 349 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: New York Post's account. Twitter also banned accounts who shared 350 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: the story, including White House Press Secretary Kylie mckinan, and 351 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: blocked its transmission via direct message. This episode marked the 352 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: first time Twitter directly limited the spread of information from 353 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: a mainstream news organization, and The New York Post would 354 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: not get its account back for two weeks. Twitter would 355 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: finally admit its mistake, but the damage had already been done. 356 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 1: On October nineteenth, fifty one former intelligence officials published a 357 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: letter that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, which Joe 358 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: Biden used as a talking point at a presidential debate 359 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: on October twenty second. But we all know now this 360 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: was not Russian disinformation. It wasn't disinformation. Now. That's Jim 361 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: Comer explaining how New York Posts stories about Hunter Biden's 362 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: laptop were suppressed by a coordinated campaign by big tech. 363 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: Even went on to say that Twitter and the federal 364 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: government work together to limit information and freedom of speech. 365 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: And here's what he said about that. Twitter's previous management 366 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: team d platform and suppressed not just conservative voices, but 367 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: anyone whose opinions strayed from what they deemed acceptable, opinions 368 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: such as that students could and should attend school in 369 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: person to curb learning laws. In the past, Twitter's leadership 370 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: included previous CEO Jack Dorsey claim the company did not 371 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: limit the visibility of certain accounts and tweets known as 372 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 1: shadow padding. He said this in front of Congress in 373 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, but we now know they did, even placing 374 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: such accounts on search and trend backlists. Twitter's employees made 375 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: central ship decisions on the fly, often not following the 376 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: company's own policy publicly stated policies. It worked hand in 377 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: hand with the FBI to monitor the predicted speech of Americans, 378 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: receiving millions of tax dollars to do so. Twitter, under 379 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: the leadership of our witnesses today, was a private company 380 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: the federal government used to accomplish what it constitutionally cannot 381 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: limit the free exercise of speech. We now know all 382 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: this thanks to Elon Musk and the independent journalists who 383 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 1: have contributed to what are known as the Twitter Files. 384 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: And then he pointed out rightly so and this is 385 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: the obvious. And there's a reason I'm playing this because 386 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: this is now the second election in a row we've 387 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: chronicled the first one twenty sixteen, where the FBI has 388 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: put their thumb on the scale. They could have authenticated 389 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden laptop. They could have acted on it, 390 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 1: you know. But he does point out, Jim Comer does 391 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 1: that the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story did 392 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 1: have an impact on our in twenty twenty. I want 393 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: to make sure the American people truly understand the timeline here, 394 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: because it's very important. The Hunter Biden laptop story was 395 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: published on Wednesday. Twitter did not acknowledge the mistake for 396 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,479 Speaker 1: at least twenty four hours. Then on Monday morning, fifty 397 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: one former intelligence officials published their letter. That letter was 398 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: then wholeheartedly accepted by mainstream use as proof that the 399 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: laptop was spake. Joe Biden used that letter to brush 400 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: aside the few questions he received about the story. During 401 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 1: that time, the mainstream media was more concerned about what 402 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: flavor of ice cream Joe Biden had ordered on a 403 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 1: particular day. All this happened two weeks before the twenty 404 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: twenty election. Two weeks one survey filmed that seventy percent 405 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: of Iiden voters would not have voted for the Biden 406 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: Hare's ticket if they had known about the Biden laptop. 407 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: But many Americans did not know about it because of 408 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: a coordinated cover up by big Tech, the swamp, and 409 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: mainstream use. Now mainstream media outlets have verified the laptop, 410 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: but the damage has been done. Unbelievable times we're living in, 411 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: isn't it all right? Let's get to our phones. Don 412 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: in Lake ron Concom, a big Don was at one 413 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: of our audience shows last week. How are you sir. 414 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: Great to have you. Hey, great to talk to you again, Sean. Yeah, 415 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: that was that was a great night last Friday. He 416 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: was chilly outside though, I'll tell you, but it was 417 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: a great night with great order. I know. I couldn't 418 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: believe we had a packed house. I was like, nobody's 419 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: going to come tonight. It's freezing outside. It's like zero degrees. Yeah, 420 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: it was a fourteen fourteen block walked back to Penn station. 421 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: But how did you survive that with zero degrees? It 422 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: must have been awful. Yeah, just kept walking, Yeah, just 423 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: I just kept at it. It was either that or 424 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: freeze to death right there in the streets of New York. Listen. 425 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: I was saying, it was a great uplifting speech Joe 426 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: Binds last night. If you are a miserable, ill informed 427 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: head in the sand, woke democrat devoted to big government 428 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: spending and that that speech was right up your ally. 429 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:59,199 Speaker 1: It was a great reelection speech for Joe Biden. I 430 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: will say that, and this does concern me long term, 431 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: and people don't like when I say it, but my 432 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: job is to speak to the truth to my audience 433 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: and tell people how I really feel. I am worried 434 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: and I am concerned that there is a very large 435 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: percentage of the American people that have bought into this 436 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: whole cloth radical new green deal socialism, and they want 437 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: it for this country. And it defies at this point 438 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: all logic considering everything that they have done has pretty 439 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: much failed. But yet there are people that are clinging 440 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,880 Speaker 1: to this as some type of big hope for the country, 441 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 1: and all it will result in is unfulfilled promises, more 442 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 1: poverty and a loss of freedom. Yep, Well, FID won't 443 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 1: take any responsibility for the things he's done. Blamed in 444 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: inflation on Putin and COVID. Yet know food prices are 445 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: up twenty percent, gases up for consumer confidence is down, 446 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: millions of homeless, and his speech was more just big 447 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 1: government spending, spending, spending, and it was frustrating to watch. 448 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: I gotta figure out if I have to get another 449 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 1: part time job just to pay for his Honestly, everybody 450 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: may have to get another part time job. Seriously, it's 451 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: not a joke anymore. I mean two thirds of Americans 452 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 1: living paycheck to paycheck. Anyway, I vote for Don and 453 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: Lake Ronkonkoma for president. You can go in and handle 454 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: this in a week. I probably could. And anybody's better 455 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: than this guy. I can tell you that. Thanks big, 456 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,239 Speaker 1: don appreciate it. Sam and Louisiana. Sam, I am, how 457 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: are you good? So thanks for taking my call. You 458 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: got a triple A rating from being Hajjdad way, I 459 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: appreciated my friend. Thank you. Where do we start? You 460 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: want to talk about the hearings. You want to talk 461 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,239 Speaker 1: about the balloon, or rather talk about the balloon if 462 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: you got a minute. I want to talk about whatever's 463 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: on your heart and mind. That's what I want to 464 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: talk about. Two things. Why was the payload destroyed and 465 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: not the balloon vented to bring it down softly? We 466 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,239 Speaker 1: have the capability of doing that. We didn't have the 467 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: capability to go capture it because it's so high. There's 468 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: not a helicopter. I think there was one helicopter that 469 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: it's ever been made that can go up there to 470 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 1: get something like that. And they don't even make that 471 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: anymore because the engine can't handle it right, not like 472 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: it'd have to burn an engine. And did General Millie 473 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: contact is Corona pot and Charna. Well, all I would 474 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 1: say is I would have my first option would have 475 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: been to somehow and I believe if we can send 476 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 1: people to the Moon in the nineteen sixties, and they 477 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 1: can land on the Moon and get back on their 478 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: their spaceship and fly back home or whatever you want 479 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 1: to call it, their rocketship, that we ought to be 480 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: able to recover a balloon hovering at sixties sixty five 481 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,959 Speaker 1: thousand feet above the Earth and not have too much 482 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: difficulty doing it. My first option would have been to 483 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: recover that balloon and bring it back down to Earth 484 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: so we could really examine its contents. Now I know 485 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: they've recovered parts of the balloon, are they going to 486 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: recover the parts that would show and prove that China 487 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: was spying on America? I don't know why my radar 488 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: is up. My suspicion level is high that they probably 489 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: don't want us to know that even if they found it, 490 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: they wouldn't tell us. Well, they blew up the payload. 491 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: The missile destroyed the payload. Everybody that has watched that 492 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: video that knows more than me has said that. So 493 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take your word for it, because I just 494 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: can't tell when I've watched the video so many times 495 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: slow mode it and I still can't find it. You'll 496 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: see it. That's what destroyed the balloon and brought it down. 497 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: But if you would have just vented it with one 498 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: of those twenty millimeter cannon is on that F twenty two, 499 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: you could have vented it slowly. It's been like a 500 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: slow leak in attire. And if it didn't come down 501 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: quick enough through a couple more rounds through it, we 502 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: will over the ocean. At that point it should have 503 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: been done over Alaska. Agreed, well, said my friend Sam. 504 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: Thank you, Kelly. In Georgia we have one minute. I 505 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: got to hold you to the clock Europe. What's on 506 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: your mind? Yeah? How you doing? Sean Badgets As a 507 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: part of a multigenerational farm down here in South Georgia, 508 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: I would say things aren't doing better. Everything we do 509 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: cost more money and it causes the small farmers to 510 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: struggle to stay alive. We have spoken to more people 511 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: like you, and by the way, thank you for what 512 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: you do. You feed not only this country, but you 513 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: help feed the world. And every farmer is saying the 514 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: same thing. They cannot afford to stay in business if 515 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: this continues, If the price of fertilizer remains high, if 516 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: the cost of seed remains high, if the cost of 517 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: fixing their equipment stays high, if they can even get 518 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: the parts to fix their equipment, I'm very worried about 519 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: American farmers. And if in fact that happens and the 520 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: farms are forced to shut down, we will all pay 521 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: a very dear price. You know, we take for granted 522 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: when we go into our grocery store that food is 523 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: going to be there, and everything we want is perfectly 524 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: placed on a shelf. But it only gets there because 525 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: of people like you. So I thank you for your admonition. 526 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: I hope people are listening. Hey, our friends at the 527 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: Tunnel to Tower Foundation they're building now there, let us 528 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: do good. Village. I've been telling you about it. It's 529 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: in Lando Lakes, Florida. It's the first of a kind village. 530 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: It's a community of about one hundred homes and they're 531 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: all for Tunnel to Towers Program recipients. Now, one gold 532 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: Star family, the Thornton's, moved in. They were the first 533 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: to move in. And you have Danielle the mom, and 534 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: their children, Jalen and Kinsley. And after the death of 535 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: their father and Danielle's husband, Robert, a US Army Sergeant 536 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: Well Danielle says, this is the greatest blessing ever. Now 537 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: the let Us Do Good Villa. You have gold star 538 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: families of the fallen first responders, you have catastrophically injured 539 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: first responders and service members. They're all neighbors. So you 540 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: got heroes and the families of heroes living in one community, 541 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: helping each other to heal, understanding each other, kids growing 542 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: up together, supporting each other, and with every mortgage free home, 543 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: the Foundation makes good on their promise to do good 544 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: and never forget the sacrifices of our nation's greatest heroes 545 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: and what they have done for our country and our communities. 546 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: Let us make the Do Good Village the first of 547 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: many communities just like it. 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