Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Scott Shannon. Hour two Sean Hannity Show,
Speaker 1: Toll free. Our number is eight hundred and nine to
Speaker 1: pot one. Shawn. If you want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program, we welcome back to the show our
Speaker 1: friend Cheryl Atkinson. You might recall years ago was with
Speaker 1: CBS News and we have a lot of media news.
Speaker 1: And then I want to talk to you about what
Speaker 1: we learned how the FDA's own vaccine reviewer didn't take
Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine, which is interesting while we're firing people
Speaker 1: in the military, although Donald Trump free instated everybody with
Speaker 1: back pay. But there is a lot of media news.
Speaker 1: I don't I won't take your time, but I'll play
Speaker 1: it later in the program. You know over at MSDNC,
Speaker 1: they're losing their mind. I mean Nicole Wallace comparing Ice
Speaker 1: raids to the Holocaust. If Joy Reid is out there
Speaker 1: comparing Trump to Hitler and Nazi Germany. Now out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow has become a fiscal conservative, the conspiracy theory liar.
Speaker 1: Extraordinary that she's been, and she's gotten away with all
Speaker 1: of it, never held accountable, slamming the Trump administration, the
Speaker 1: expensive use of military planes to deport the legal immigrants. Well,
Speaker 1: we do have known terrorists, murderers, rapists, gang members, cartel
Speaker 1: members in the country. Yeah, we we have to were
Speaker 1: supposed to assume that they're the good people that just
Speaker 1: want a better life for themselves and their families, and
Speaker 1: they're not going to be a threat on a plane,
Speaker 1: and so we have to put people in handcuffs to
Speaker 1: protect the pilots, the aircraft, everybody on board. That would
Speaker 1: be normal. They've worried about the cost of it. Well,
Speaker 1: what's the cost of you know, of food and housing
Speaker 1: and healthcare and education? You know, how are our kids
Speaker 1: suffering in the classroom as a result. On top of
Speaker 1: wa Kamala wanted is taxpayer funded sex change operations? I
Speaker 1: mean this, They have learned nothing from this election. We
Speaker 1: said in seven Journalism's dead. I said after this election,
Speaker 1: legacy state run media mob is done. And if you
Speaker 1: want to be a successful media person or content provider,
Speaker 1: you better tell people the truth. As I said at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the program today. Anyway, and then I
Speaker 1: see fake Jim Acostas leaving CNN. They we're gonna move
Speaker 1: him midnight to two am. Back in twenty eighteen. I
Speaker 1: had a big fight with him. We'll get into that
Speaker 1: later in the program. And then he goes out the
Speaker 1: way that he went in. You know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty unbelievable, and he as a matter of fact, let
Speaker 1: me play this because it's really worth listening to him
Speaker 1: and his sanctimonious, self righteous, out of touch, you know,
Speaker 1: completely void from reality, delusional, you know, goodbye.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to end today's show by thanking all
Speaker 2: of the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at
Speaker 2: this network. You may have seen some reports about me
Speaker 2: and the show, and after giving all there's some careful
Speaker 2: consideration and weighing an alternative time slot, seeing an offer, Bee,
Speaker 2: I've decided to move on. I am grateful to CNN
Speaker 2: for the nearly eighteen years I've spent here doing the
Speaker 2: news as the son of a Cuban refugee. I took
Speaker 2: home this lesson. It is never a good time to
Speaker 2: bow down to a tyrant. I've always believed it's the
Speaker 2: job of the press to hold power to account. I've
Speaker 2: always tried to do that here at CNN, and I
Speaker 2: plan on going doing all of that in the future.
Speaker 2: One final message, don't give into the lies. Don't give
Speaker 2: into the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.
Speaker 2: Even if you have to get out your phone, record
Speaker 2: that message. I will not give into the lies. I
Speaker 2: will not give into the fear. Post it on your
Speaker 2: social media so people can hear from you too.
Speaker 1: He fancies himself a member of the press as a journalist,
Speaker 1: I'm a member of the press. I'm a talk show host.
Speaker 1: We do great news, investigative reporting, we give opinion, we
Speaker 1: talk about sports, we talk about culture, and we're like
Speaker 1: an entire newspaper. They claim that they're journalists, they're not journalists.
Speaker 1: Bill Maher actually called these people out over the weekend.
Speaker 1: He state took a swipe at MSDNC and their roster
Speaker 1: of ex conservatives. You may not know this Nicole Wallace,
Speaker 1: you know she she ran the McCain and Sarah Palin campaign.
Speaker 1: He worked for George W. Bush. And then he specifically
Speaker 1: called out liberal Joe. I used to know Joe. I
Speaker 1: remember Joe talking to him back in two thousand when
Speaker 1: the Florida recount was going on. He called me, I
Speaker 1: was in my backyard walking around in circles around, you know,
Speaker 1: my backyard, and he's saying they're stealing it. They're stealing
Speaker 1: the election. They're stealing it. Now he goes over to
Speaker 1: MSDNC and he's and what Mars suggested is they changed
Speaker 1: their politic politics for her paycheck. You can't be a conservative.
Speaker 1: I'm fakee news. And then they wonder why people have
Speaker 1: you know, are leaving them in droves after nine years
Speaker 1: of non stop hating of Donald Trump, spreading lies, conspiracy theories,
Speaker 1: turning a blind eye to the weaponization of our Justice Department,
Speaker 1: turning a blind eye to the double standard when it
Speaker 1: comes to top secret classified information, going along with a
Speaker 1: phoney valuation of mar A Lago, going along with a
Speaker 1: dirty Russian disinformation dossier, going along with a novel legal
Speaker 1: theory for a legal nda paid to a lawyer, labeled
Speaker 1: a legal expense with a novel legal theory, turning it
Speaker 1: into a federal crime. And nobody has a problem with that.
Speaker 1: Eighteen million dollars is not what mar A Lago's worth.
Speaker 1: It's worth over a billion. Ask any realtor in Palm
Speaker 1: Beach and you'll get the same valuation anywhere between a
Speaker 1: billion and a billion and a half. By the way,
Speaker 1: MPR PBS Voice of America eyed for defunding. That would
Speaker 1: not be a bad thing. And you have Sonny Houston.
Speaker 1: An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal because he or
Speaker 1: she is undocumented. That's xenophobic. If you enter the country illegally,
Speaker 1: you broke the law anyway, Sheryl Atkinson, it seems like
Speaker 1: they've learned nothing. I mean, you've been pointing this out
Speaker 1: for years, and I really I have no idea what
Speaker 1: your politics are to be very honest with you after
Speaker 1: all these years of interview with you, but you do
Speaker 1: point out bias, and I think you would agree with
Speaker 1: me that they are dishonest about who they are. They
Speaker 1: claim to be journalists, they're not journalists.
Speaker 3: Well, in many instances, I believe that's absolutely true, and
Speaker 3: they're in life. The problems there were some overt disclosure
Speaker 3: or labeling that people understand it's analysis or an editorial show.
Speaker 3: That's one thing. But when news is it as if
Speaker 3: it's hard news, and yet you're clearly getting either one
Speaker 3: side or biased opinion. I think that's where obviously where
Speaker 3: the problem lies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean in your years at CBS, for example,
Speaker 1: you tried to do fair, balanced, objective reporting.
Speaker 3: What happened well to be clear. For the most part,
Speaker 3: I was assigned to do that stuff, and the bosses
Speaker 3: in general were terrific, whatever their politics were. And I
Speaker 3: had a very successful career, but the last couple of
Speaker 3: years before I started my independent show Full Measure ten
Speaker 3: years ago, the last couple of years at CBS, I
Speaker 3: still won quite a few Emmys and got recognition. But
Speaker 3: I will tell you more of the stories went on
Speaker 3: the cutting room floor, as they say, than got on
Speaker 3: the air, because of selected officials there who've been either
Speaker 3: placed or won a position of power and really overtly
Speaker 3: did not want both sides of the story told, and
Speaker 3: in some cases didn't want the true facts at all
Speaker 3: told on a story. If you wouldn't been to or
Speaker 3: acquiesce to their demands to change the story in a
Speaker 3: way that I thought was dishonest, they just didn't want
Speaker 3: to run it at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty amazing. And I think Catherine Herridge
Speaker 1: experienced some of the same difficulties when she left Fox
Speaker 1: and went over there. She played a very big role
Speaker 1: as part of a very small ensemble team of us
Speaker 1: at Fox and then here on this radio show that
Speaker 1: were able to unpeel every layer and get the story
Speaker 1: about the Russia collusion hoax right when everybody else in
Speaker 1: the media got it wrong. Look at the media coverage,
Speaker 1: for example, ABC, CBS, NBC. They gave Donald Trump's pardons
Speaker 1: fifteen times more coverage than Joe Biden's coverage. For example,
Speaker 1: they combined spent three minutes on Biden pardoning his family members,
Speaker 1: the j six Committee, General Millie Anthony Fauci, and yet
Speaker 1: meanwhile they gave forty six minutes of Donald Trump's pardons.
Speaker 1: Does that sound like fair, balanced reporting to you or
Speaker 1: does that sound like the media legacy media mob has
Speaker 1: a learned a thing.
Speaker 3: Well, it's what you might expect. They are weaponized against
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, for better or for worse. That's just the
Speaker 3: way they're going to I think by the next four years.
Speaker 3: I would argue there's even a bigger lapse related to
Speaker 3: the part that you said. You know, we did cover
Speaker 3: this on full measure, but I think it was not
Speaker 3: well covered. I think you folks on Fox did, and
Speaker 3: I'm sure you talked about I'm talking about the news
Speaker 3: that some people see when they're not watching or you know,
Speaker 3: a diverse group of body of news reporters. But the
Speaker 3: iris whistleblowers who blew the whistle on the Hunter Biden case. Listen.
Speaker 3: They said early on they saw clear evidence that looked
Speaker 3: like there was crimo wrongdoing on the part of Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: and that they were not allowed to follow that trail.
Speaker 3: Hunter Biden was tipped off by the Department of Justice
Speaker 3: when they wanted to search a storage area. The leaders
Speaker 3: at IRS and boj they said, would not let him
Speaker 3: pursue any leads on Joe Biden. And then the government
Speaker 3: intentionally let this actute of limitations expire on what would
Speaker 3: have been much bigger than just a god, she didn't
Speaker 3: pay his taxes investigations, And I think that gets lost
Speaker 3: people refer to the Hunter Biden tax violations. There was
Speaker 3: much more going on there that will never be allowed
Speaker 3: to be pursued thanks to the actions of you know God.
Speaker 1: Well, actually I think it can be pursued. And Professor
Speaker 1: Dershowitz and Greg Jard agree with me inasmuch as everyone
Speaker 1: that was pardoned they no longer have their Fifth Amendment
Speaker 1: rights if they testify before Congress. We know there was
Speaker 1: a flurry of activity, which by the way, gets into
Speaker 1: your book, which has out followed the science how big
Speaker 1: farmer misleads, obscures and prevails. And you do a lot
Speaker 1: of discussion of the COVID corruption and Fauci, the fraud,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. You know, in the case of Fauci,
Speaker 1: we know in early January of twenty twenty and we
Speaker 1: only found out about COVID in late December of twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: that there was a flurry of emails among high ranking
Speaker 1: NIH officials, including Fauci, laid into the night because they
Speaker 1: were scared to death that NIH money. And it turns
Speaker 1: out NIH money did go to the Wuhan Virology Lab
Speaker 1: visa vi the Eco Health Alliance. They knew gain of
Speaker 1: function research took place, and yet they tried to hide
Speaker 1: the origins of the COVID virus from the beginning, didn't.
Speaker 3: They They did, and you know, not just through EcoHealth Alliance.
Speaker 3: I published for grant numbers a long time ago that
Speaker 3: came from the government directly for research partnering with the
Speaker 3: Chinese lab with US scientists here, and I can tell
Speaker 3: you and I reported this in early twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Of course, our government knew that this was man manipulated
Speaker 3: virus that likely came from that lab, despite what you
Speaker 3: were hearing. And I got that straight from the horse's
Speaker 3: mouth from the government military scientists who naturally dissected the
Speaker 3: genetic origins of this first thing. That was done immediately
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty, as soon as they got a sample
Speaker 3: of it and they saw clear evidence of man manipulation.
Speaker 3: I was told that on the record and reported that
Speaker 3: on full measure, so you know, it's not a mystery.
Speaker 3: It kind of bugged me this immedia weights for the
Speaker 3: sometimes crooked government officials to say something before they act
Speaker 3: like it's true. That's the new trend. I mean, twenty
Speaker 3: years ago we would have done our own reporting and
Speaker 3: said what the evidence showed, and now we're still like
Speaker 3: on data breath. Oh, the CIA now says maybe it
Speaker 3: came from the labart we all knew that, Like, we
Speaker 3: don't have to wait for the government to codify or
Speaker 3: tell us something that's been long known and pretend it's
Speaker 3: only real when the government says so.
Speaker 1: That's But think of what you're saying here is we
Speaker 1: knew this from the beginning, but they went about a
Speaker 1: misinformation campaign to try and convince us it was a
Speaker 1: wet market. They knew damn well that that US dollars
Speaker 1: funded this lab. They knew gain and research gain a function,
Speaker 1: research took place. They purposely manipulated people. They lied to
Speaker 1: the American people said if you get the shot, you're
Speaker 1: not going to get COVID. Oh, that didn't turn out
Speaker 1: very well. They also said you wouldn't if infect other people,
Speaker 1: so you should do it for grandma and grandpa. That
Speaker 1: turned out to be a lie. The guy that created
Speaker 1: the technology, doctor Robert Malone, was on this program frequently
Speaker 1: at the time, and he was saying and he invented
Speaker 1: the technology for m RNA vaccines, and he said it
Speaker 1: wasn't ready. He said, however, he would use it for
Speaker 1: emergency authorization because for older people, people with coll morbidities,
Speaker 1: people with pre existing conditions, only because they were dying
Speaker 1: at a much higher rate than other people. It wasn't
Speaker 1: designed for kids. And he was very clear about it.
Speaker 1: He got beat up in the media. Rogan had him on.
Speaker 1: After Rogan successfully beat back, he said, I threw everything
Speaker 1: at it. He threw a HCQ at it, ivermectan at it, mona,
Speaker 1: clonal antibodies at it. Instead of the media saying, well,
Speaker 1: we're glad you're okay, Joe, I'm glad you know you
Speaker 1: were able to survive it. You know they attacked him.
Speaker 1: It's pretty unbelievable anyway, Uh, don't for Cheryl Atkinson, investigative journalist,
Speaker 1: author her latest book, Follow the Science How Big Farmer
Speaker 1: Misleads Obscures Prevails on Amazon dot com, Hannity dot Com.
Speaker 1: Just prepare you for what's going to happen this week.
Speaker 1: We have Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Cash Pattel, and Tulsea
Speaker 1: Gabbard and there will be their hearings before the Democrats
Speaker 1: in the United States Senate. Let me tell you what
Speaker 1: to expect. Expect vile, vicious Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas Justice
Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh style treatment. They will smear, they will slander,
Speaker 1: they will be smirch, they will attack at and they
Speaker 1: will do everything in their power. They they want to
Speaker 1: get a scalp. They want to get you know, they
Speaker 1: want to that. They want to do rail at least
Speaker 1: one person. It might be the right time and we'll
Speaker 1: give out the number tomorrow. Won't get it started too early,
Speaker 1: you know, it might be the right time to contact
Speaker 1: your Republican senators and tell them that President Trump you
Speaker 1: voted for him, and that President Trump should have the
Speaker 1: cabinet that he wants. If people, over time show that
Speaker 1: they're incapable of doing the job, then it would be
Speaker 1: time to replace them. But this is just done at
Speaker 1: a pure petty swamp vindictiveness. And you know, especially it's
Speaker 1: it's sad that you know, you you almost have to
Speaker 1: assume you're starting without Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1: And that means there's no room, no margin for error.
Speaker 1: Every other Republican will have to support the president in
Speaker 1: his selection. All Right, we'll get to your calls next.
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Speaker 1: two day. Well, I see that little Jimmy Acosta or
Speaker 1: Jimmy is gone out of fake news CNN. He apparently
Speaker 1: was offered the midnight to two am slot. You know,
Speaker 1: I had a little rowback with Jim Acosta a while ago.
Speaker 1: He's a radical left wing democratic supporting Trump hating talk
Speaker 1: show host. And this has been part of CNN's problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's an article out. You know, we're we
Speaker 1: now on a nightly basis, are beating fake news CNN
Speaker 1: by seven, eight, nine, ten times. What their audiences are
Speaker 1: MS has a little cult audience of real radical, conspiracy
Speaker 1: believing leftists, you know that want to call Trump a
Speaker 1: Nazi and a fascist and a racist and compare him
Speaker 1: to Hitler, Stalin, a Mussolini. But there's not a very
Speaker 1: big audience for that, and Joe Concho is making this
Speaker 1: point yesterday, but you know he is leaving, and the
Speaker 1: way they say, oh, they want to throw a bone
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. No, he fired himself. And this is
Speaker 1: what I've been saying about, you know, being at the
Speaker 1: forefront of new media in many ways. When I got
Speaker 1: into talk radio, there were hardly in any talk stations
Speaker 1: or news talk stations in the country. The first foray
Speaker 1: into new media really was talk radio. And then we
Speaker 1: had bloggers, and then we had Free Republic back in
Speaker 1: the day, and forms began to pop up, and social
Speaker 1: media began to take off, and podcasting began to take off, etc.
Speaker 1: And anyway, so this goes back. I think that August
Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, he attacked me as a propagandist for
Speaker 1: profit pedaling lies every night and saying I was injecting
Speaker 1: poison into the political bloodstream. He was actually describing himself.
Speaker 1: I responded at the time, called him a liberal partisan
Speaker 1: hack and declaring that he was you know, he was
Speaker 1: accused me of I don't remember. Anyway, what was interesting
Speaker 1: about this exchange is, you know, he goes on to
Speaker 1: say and make a prediction that you know, I'm confident
Speaker 1: in the long run, the truth is going to prevail. Well,
Speaker 1: I would argue the truth has prevailed. You know. One
Speaker 1: of the things we take very seriously on this program
Speaker 1: and on Hannity the TV show, is we like to
Speaker 1: get things right. We work hard to get things right.
Speaker 1: I've told this story many times about Richard Jewel. I
Speaker 1: did not believe he fit the profile of the lone
Speaker 1: bomber at the Olympic, at the Olympic bombing in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: just because he lived with his mother. I didn't rush
Speaker 1: to judgment. We didn't rush to judgment in Ferguson. We
Speaker 1: didn't rush the judgment with George Zimmermann. We didn't rush
Speaker 1: the judgment with Duke Lacrosse. We didn't rush the judgment
Speaker 1: with Freddie Gray. We didn't rush the judgment with UVA
Speaker 1: or the Russia hoax, or or Faiza abuse or the
Speaker 1: fifty one former Intel officials. We have a track record
Speaker 1: of telling truth to our audience because that is a
Speaker 1: primary role. I believe to have any credibility if you're
Speaker 1: in the media, whether as a member of the press.
Speaker 1: I'm a talk show host that is very upfront and
Speaker 1: honest about my opinions and that's one of the big distinctions. Also,
Speaker 1: they say that they are journalists. Jim Acosta fancies himself
Speaker 1: a journalist and he's not. And all his time when
Speaker 1: Donald Trump in his first term, would go to the podium,
Speaker 1: his only goal was to get his viral moment of
Speaker 1: the day that fake news CNN would run to death
Speaker 1: of him confronting Donald Trump and being combative. By the way,
Speaker 1: Caroline Levit crushed it today her first day on the
Speaker 1: job as the White House Press Secretary. She'll be on
Speaker 1: Hannaday tonight as well. Christy Nomas on she was on
Speaker 1: that raid. As I mentioned earlier in the program, She's
Speaker 1: going to be on tonight. But he got fired. And anyway,
Speaker 1: we do have Jim Acosta announcing he's leaving. Listen, let's listen.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to end today's show by thanking all
Speaker 2: of the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at
Speaker 2: this network. You may have seen some reports about me
Speaker 2: and the show, and after giving all of this some
Speaker 2: careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot, seeing an
Speaker 2: offer me, I've decided to move on. I am grateful
Speaker 2: to CNN for the nearly eighteen years I've spent here
Speaker 2: doing the news as the son of a Cuban refugee.
Speaker 2: I took home this lesson. It is never a good
Speaker 2: time to bow down to a tyrant. I've always believed
Speaker 2: it's the job of the press to hold power to account.
Speaker 2: I've always tried to do that here at CNN, and
Speaker 2: I plan on doing all of that in the future.
Speaker 2: One final message, don't give into the lies. Don't give
Speaker 2: into the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.
Speaker 2: Even if you have to get out your phone, record
Speaker 2: that message. I will not give into the lies. I
Speaker 2: will not give into the fear. Posted on your social
Speaker 2: media so people can hear from you too.
Speaker 1: People are saying, don'ma the door hit you in the
Speaker 1: ass on the way out now. I don't take joy.
Speaker 1: I can see Linda through this microphone. You're smiling. I
Speaker 1: really don't. I know my success in radio or TV
Speaker 1: and media is not going to be based on other
Speaker 1: people's failure, but it is. That message alone just tells
Speaker 1: you everything you need to know about Jim Acosta. Jim
Speaker 1: Acosta is a radical leftist. You know Kamala Biden Trump hating.
Speaker 1: You know a talk show host that claims to be,
Speaker 1: you know, have a monopoly on truth. If he did,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be suffering in the ratings the way he is.
Speaker 1: His network wouldn't be suffering as poorly as they are.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to be successful in media,
Speaker 1: you better start telling people truth. They didn't tell the
Speaker 1: American people about the truth regarding the border and terrorists
Speaker 1: and murderers and rapists and cartel members and others coming
Speaker 1: into the country. They didn't tell the American people the
Speaker 1: truth about the economy and the high price of gasoline.
Speaker 1: All they did was they became an extension of the
Speaker 1: Biden Harris White House and that's it. And they claimed
Speaker 1: to be journalists and they used every ounce of energy
Speaker 1: and power that they had to destroy Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: the big takeaway from this election is the American people
Speaker 1: rejected them. Now he's out of a job. He's leaving
Speaker 1: a network that has very few to almost zero viewers.
Speaker 1: And this they have earned this reputation. And I will
Speaker 1: tell you, we're just going to double down on telling truth.
Speaker 1: And whether it's about Republicans, it doesn't matter anyway. Let's
Speaker 1: get to our busy phones. Eight hundred and nine four
Speaker 1: one Sean. If you want to be a part of
Speaker 1: the program. Let us go to Joe and Texas. Hey, Joe,
Speaker 1: how are you glad you called? Sir?
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. I appreciate you taking my call. Congratulations
Speaker 5: on your You're lovely future bride brightens up my morning
Speaker 5: every day when I watch her, I feel remiss when.
Speaker 1: Beginning to get a complex. Everybody likes her better than me,
Speaker 1: even my own kids.
Speaker 5: Well, I like you too. Sorry. I listened to you
Speaker 5: in the afternoons and I try to watch you in
Speaker 5: the evening time, but sometimes it's difficult because I work nights.
Speaker 5: So but I appreciate the fact that you're having these
Speaker 5: town halls, and I think it's about time, and it's
Speaker 5: been kicked around, and I'm tired of the Democrats telling
Speaker 5: me that they're going to go after the rich people
Speaker 5: to pay their fair share of taxes, which never happens.
Speaker 5: I've heard it since I was eighteen years old. I
Speaker 5: missed by one year for voting for Ford and in
Speaker 5: his re election campaign, but I've heard it all along,
Speaker 5: and we all know that they're not going to do that.
Speaker 5: They're not going to bite the hand that feeds them.
Speaker 5: So what my idea is is that. I think it's
Speaker 5: about time, and it's been kicked around for a long
Speaker 5: time for a national tax. The national tax would be
Speaker 5: something that everybody pays, we get rid of the irs,
Speaker 5: and there's all a fair share. It's figured out. I
Speaker 5: figured out probably about twenty eight percent. Now. I know
Speaker 5: the people in New York and California that pay the
Speaker 5: highest taxes, they're going to have to pay more, but
Speaker 5: at least they don't have to. They can look at
Speaker 5: it from a savings that there's no more income tax
Speaker 5: to pay for anymore. I think that here in Texas
Speaker 5: where I live, that we have the right idea, unlike
Speaker 5: some other states that charge tax for everything but staples
Speaker 5: that you have milk, bread, vegetables, meat, things like that
Speaker 5: that are non taxable, along with milk for babies. I
Speaker 5: think we ought to add diapers to that because diapers
Speaker 5: are really expensive. But when you talk to those people
Speaker 5: that you have in the town hall, it's time for
Speaker 5: a national sales tax. That way, we don't have to
Speaker 5: worry about cheaters, we don't have to worry about money
Speaker 5: going overseas. Everybody pays their fair share. There's three hundred
Speaker 5: and twelve million people in the United States are more
Speaker 5: and they can all pay. I am sorry that the
Speaker 5: little kids have to pay for their candy and other
Speaker 5: things like that. It's it's it's about time we have
Speaker 5: eight a quarter. I think it is.
Speaker 1: Anyway, well, let me let me let me echo your sentiment.
Speaker 1: I would I would you you made every good argument
Speaker 1: for the well. Neil Boortz wrote a book. He's a
Speaker 1: talk show host. He was naturally syndicated, but he was
Speaker 1: out of Atlanta, and and we're good friends to this day.
Speaker 1: And he's retired now. And and he wrote a book
Speaker 1: and became a number one best seller called The Fair Tax,
Speaker 1: making the case as eloquently as you do. And I
Speaker 1: would like to see that. And maybe that's a question
Speaker 1: I need to start bringing up, kind of like I
Speaker 1: used to talk a lot about the Penny plan. You
Speaker 1: cut a penny out of every dollar, you eliminate baseline budgeting,
Speaker 1: you get to a balanced budget in seven years. It's
Speaker 1: probably the Nickel plan at this point, considering we have
Speaker 1: so much more debt than than at the time that
Speaker 1: that was proposed. But and and then growing out of
Speaker 1: our of our debt is a big part of the
Speaker 1: equation as well. And that's growing the economy. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to help with not having a corporate minimum
Speaker 1: tax and energy dominance. But I think you're right. I
Speaker 1: think it's time to maybe bring that question back up.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll have Neilon to talk about it. You raise
Speaker 1: a good point. I'm not against it. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good idea and maybe whose time has come. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure the country. And I would say this to
Speaker 1: Neil all the time. He didn't like it when I
Speaker 1: said it, but I said, I don't think the country's
Speaker 1: ready for it, and I don't think there's enough political
Speaker 1: will for it. And maybe this time, being so transformative,
Speaker 1: may maybe it's a time to revisit it for sure. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you call my friend. I got to move on.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred and nine four one Shawn is our number.
Speaker 1: Quick break right back, will continue.
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Speaker 1: to Sally. She's in my free state of Florida. How
Speaker 1: are you, Sally, glad you.
Speaker 6: Called, hey son, thank you for having me on. I
Speaker 6: really appreciate it. First time caller, by the way, on
Speaker 6: this thank you to day in our wonderful state. So
Speaker 6: I agreed with some of the things you said yesterday
Speaker 6: and something I didn't agree with. First of all, we
Speaker 6: have to keep our kids safe. I agree with metal
Speaker 6: detectors and all that, just to take care of our kids.
Speaker 6: But I did not agree with armed school resource officer
Speaker 6: on every campus, simply because Marjorie Stoneman Douglas had an
Speaker 6: active sheriff armed at the school and thirty four people
Speaker 6: were shot, seventeen died. And that's in our state as well.
Speaker 6: So I don't know that an armed teacher is the
Speaker 6: right answer.
Speaker 1: I don't know that art. I didn't say armed teachers.
Speaker 1: I was very clearer. What I always want is in
Speaker 1: every school. I would want metal detectors. This way kids
Speaker 1: can't bring weapons into school. I would want I would
Speaker 1: want retired police, retired military, by the way, in civilian clothing,
Speaker 1: they don't have to be in military garb. And I
Speaker 1: would want them surrounding the perimeter of the school and
Speaker 1: also inside the school, so it would be a comprehensive. Now,
Speaker 1: one way to pay for it, which I've thought about too,
Speaker 1: is these school districts. You know, maybe we take away
Speaker 1: any federal income tax for the rest of their lives
Speaker 1: if they offer X number of hours of service a
Speaker 1: week to their local school. I bet you people would
Speaker 1: sign up left and right if they had no state tax,
Speaker 1: no federal income tax, and they just had to serve
Speaker 1: a few hours a week at a school, maybe a
Speaker 1: day a week, and get enough people. I bet a
Speaker 1: lot of people retired would sign up. That would keep
Speaker 1: these kids safe. And I don't think we'd ever have
Speaker 1: a school shooting again. So do you still disagree with
Speaker 1: me or.
Speaker 6: I do not disagree. I just wanted to point out
Speaker 6: we did have an armed resource officer at Marjorie Stoneman
Speaker 6: Douglas School.
Speaker 1: But there was also one instance where there was a
Speaker 1: school shooting and there was no schools allowed on the
Speaker 1: campus and one of the teachers ran out to his car,
Speaker 1: got a gun and was able to stop that shooting.
Speaker 1: So it kind of works and reverse.
Speaker 5: Too, right.
Speaker 6: Just have to have good people behind the gun. That's
Speaker 6: the big problem.
Speaker 1: That's why I want I want trained retired you know,
Speaker 1: professionals in that capacity. No, and I think, and then
Speaker 1: we won't have school shooting. We can eliminate school shootings
Speaker 1: in my view forever, and we can protect our kids.
Speaker 1: By the way, how do we protect our politicians? How
Speaker 1: do Hollywood actors and celebrities get protected? Most of them
Speaker 1: have arm guards with them. We can protect everybody, and
Speaker 1: I'd like to do that, and our kids deserve it.
Speaker 1: If our politicians have it, certainly our kids deserve it
Speaker 1: as well. The least we can do. I wish i'd
Speaker 1: more time. I do appreciate your call and thank you
Speaker 1: for disagreeing with me and telling everybody honestly, we need
Speaker 1: a good, you know, vibrant, vigorous debate in this country
Speaker 1: on all these issues. I want to solve problems. I
Speaker 1: don't want to kids have to having to worry about it,
Speaker 1: you know, lunatic with a gun, you know, coming into
Speaker 1: their classroom and just shooting up their friends,