WEBVTT - War, Wisdom and Consequences 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:03.440 Our news roundup information overload hour. Here's toll free telephone number. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.200 It's eight hundred and nine four one sean if you 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.240 want to be a part of the program. All right, So, 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:13.399 the FCC chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his argument 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.480 that the NFL could lose its antitrust exemption if they 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.040 move too many games behind streaming service paywalls, and the 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.080 DOJ apparently is investigating the league amid the outcry that 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.400 it has become too pricey, too complicated for sports fans 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.960 to watch the favorite teams. Car warning that oversight could 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:36.239 extend to the FCC in Congress if the shift to 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:41.000 streaming worsens. The experience has become frustrating for a lot 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:45.600 of Americans, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, so it's like 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.159 for you can watch games on Amazon Prime. You can 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.280 watch games on other streaming platforms now this year as well, 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.400 and a lot of fans are angry about it anyway. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.800 Mike Davis is with us. He's a founder president of 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.240 the Article three project speaking out against and there's so 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.959 many people angry at the NFL. They have you been 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.520 ready for a course correction? My biggest problem with the 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.959 NFL is that they just keep staying woke, and it's 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.040 frustrating to me. I'm glad I don't see it in 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.920 the NFL playoffs, and I don't see it that often 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.399 in other sports, like like we do see it in 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.600 the NFL. I'm surprised there hasn't been a greater outcry 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:31.240 about it. I guess the Kaepernick case was the biggest outcry, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.600 and anyway, it seems to have calmed down. But however, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.200 they do embrace woke anyway. Mike Davis, welcome to the program. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:39.000 Glad you could be here. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.640 Thank you for having me on Sean. And you're exactly right. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.600 The NFL is supposed to be accessible to all Americans, 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:51.240 real Americans in real America. And the NFL got an 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.520 exemption from our federal anti trust laws with the Sports 0:01:55.000 --> 0:02:00.880 Broadcasting Act of nineteen sixty one, which allows the professional 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:06.520 sports leagues to form essentially legally sanctioned cartels. And this 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:12.560 Sports Broadcasting after nineteen sixty one allowed the NFL to 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.000 pool their media rights and sell them to the networks 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.160 instead of having each team negotiate its media rights. But 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.760 in exchange for this cartel protection in this law, this 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:24.640 sports broadcast. 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.080 When you use a termline cartel, I mean, it just 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.680 sounds a little harsh to me. I mean they are 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.800 trying to maximize their profits, are they not. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.600 Yeah, I mean they are. But they're also getting an 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.280 exemption from our federal anti trust laws. Right, So in 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:43.880 exchange for that exemption, they are supposed to make these 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:50.040 games accessible to the broadcasters, to Americans on these on 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.760 the broadcast networks. The problem with the NFL now is 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.320 they are trying to make not only is it too woke, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.560 like you said, Sean, it's also be coming to elite 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.960 where they want to do private They want to do 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.960 streaming Paige streaming for these NFL football games, and it's 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.280 going to cost Americans over one thousand dollars if they 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.600 want to watch all of these football games. And that's 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:13.480 just not the deal. 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.200 Let me ask you this as somebody that clings really 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.080 closely to the idea of free markets unless government interference 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.800 in our lives, I really do cling to that. What 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.280 would be the alternative, In other words, if you took 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.720 away this exemption that they've had, what would that mean 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.960 for them? And they're you know, a private entity in 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.040 the sense that they're an organization of people of teams. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.760 There's nothing stopping anybody else from trying to compete with 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.560 them and trying to build out their own league if 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.720 they want as an alternative. There have been attempts in 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.880 the past. Donald Trump was part of an attempt to 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:54.680 do such. In other words, so explain to me if 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.880 they if they had the exemption polled, what would prevent 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.960 them from doing whatever they want with the team? 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.840 Right? Well, I mean if they if they lost this exemption, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.160 it would mean that the NFL would not be able 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.200 to negotiate on behalf of all the teams. Each team 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.480 would have to negotiate their media rights. And I'm with you, 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.160 I'm a free market conservative, but a free market requires 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.000 a functioning market. And when you have when you have, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.200 you say it's harsh. But if you have the NFL 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.560 as a cartel essentially that's that's negotiating on behalf of 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.520 all of the teams, then you don't have a free market. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.560 There's not real negotiations going on. It's it's the NFL 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.560 doing it. So if you got rid of this exemption, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.360 the teams would have to negotiate their own METEA rights. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.240 But if they want to, if the NFL wants to 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.440 keep this exemption, this anti trust exemption from the Sports 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.600 Projectcasting Act of nineteen sixty one. In the NFL has 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.040 to keep its side of the bargain, which means, Okay, 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.920 you get this anti trust exemption to negotiate media rights, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.160 but you also have to make the NFL games accessible 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.240 to as many Americans as you can, which is what 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.280 has been happening for the last you know, sixty plus years. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.160 It's just it's changing recently where they're trying to go 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.479 to Paige streaming and that's just cost prohibitive to real 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.920 Americans in real America. They can't afford over one thousand 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:16.960 dollars to watch football. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.320 I mean, I'm not gonna lie because I'd like to 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.920 have all the streaming services, and in the case of 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.200 the NFL, I have red Zone. I'm sure you probably 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.520 have that as well in Prime if you want to 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:33.320 watch a game. But however, I mean the amount of 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.960 money I spend for all of the different channels and 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.680 services that are available. I spend the fortune every month 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.200 through a small fortune, and I don't even watch that 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.960 much TV. However, when I do want watch TV, I 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.240 find that so much of it is crap and garbage 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.120 that just to find a show you want you have 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.960 to go through like seven different streaming services just to 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.480 find something that I'm interested in. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.520 Yeah, no, I agree. Look at we have a free market. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.920 If people want to buy streaming, they could buy streaming. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.560 But again, if we're going to do a carve out 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.640 for the NFL of our anti trust laws, if they 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.800 if they get a sweetheart deal with this Sports Broadcasting 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.600 Act of nineteen sixty one, they have to live up 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.880 to their end of the bargain, which is to provide 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.159 the broadcasting to as many Americans as possible. When they 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.720 when they have when they have this, when they're when 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.880 they're when they get this carp out. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.680 All right, explain how it works for other sports? How 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.240 does it work for MLB? How does it work for 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.520 the NBA? How does it work for the NHL for example? 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.440 Like I know the NHL Playoffs have started and and 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.400 most of those games are like on ESPN two or 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.039 somewhere like that, or TBS. How does it work in 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:49.839 those cases? 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.240 Yeah, it's it's similar. It's this Sports Broadcasting Act applies 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:59.000 to all the professional sports leagues, and it's I think 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.120 it's just the The problem is is that it's the 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.720 NFL that's being pretty aggressive about this, and they want 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:09.680 to go to Amazon Prime, Netflix and they you know, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:14.840 it's just it's becoming too expensive for Americans to watch football. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.640 And that was not the intent of this law. And 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.600 I mean again, it applies to all the leagues. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.680 It's going to be interesting to watch all of this 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.760 play out because I think you're going to see all 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.720 of these these different pay services now that have been 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.640 making a fortune. I think they're going to be more 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:37.400 competitive than networks and ESPN and and so on and 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:42.000 so forth. They're going to be extremely competitive financially in 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.400 bidding rights for you know, the rights to run these games. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:46.720 Would you agree, yeah? 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.760 Yes. And look, if the NFL wants to that, the 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:54.120 NFL does not want to follow that, they don't want 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.360 to keep their end of the bargain with this anti 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.040 trust exemption, then Congress can repeal the exemption or the 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.520 doog that Trump Justice Department, the Anti Trust Division is 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.240 looking at this right now. They're investigating the NFL. So 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.480 it's Brendon car at the FCC, as you said, So 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.400 if they want the exemption, they have to keep their endo. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:12.800 The bargain. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.920 All right, Mike Davis, we appreciate your insight into this. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.960 I know it's very tough for people get so expensive. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.000 Everything gets so expensive, Linda, do you have all these 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.200 pay channels like I do? I have all of you. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.200 It's awful. I mean, and most people I know end 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.600 up getting all of them. I mean, yeah, I want 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:29.720 to go back to the box. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.440 I want the cable box that everybody thought was too 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.880 prohibitive and too expensive. I mean, this is basically a box. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.040 Broke it into a bunch of little boxes that costs 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.640 as much as the box, if not more. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.600 All right, think about this. You have regular cable, right, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:48.200 and then you have YouTube, although in the YouTube channel. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.320 Then you have Netflix, then you have Prime, then you 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.040 have Apple. What am I missing here? I mean there's 0:08:55.080 --> 0:09:00.120 so many services. Hulu, Disney, Hulu, you have that too. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:06.760 Fubo, ESPN, ESPN plus UFC. It's ridiculous. I can't even 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.719 tell you because all the fights. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.560 And the only thing you really watch regularly is my show. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.520 That's it. I mean, it's just stuck on Hannity and 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.120 when you're not on, I just watched reruns. I'm like, 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.920 oh my gosh, what about last week's Wednesday show. That 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.679 was a killer. I'm putting that one back on. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.320 By the way, Linda is loying through her teeth, it's 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:32.880 not true. The prosecute. The defense is wrong. But don't 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:33.679 you think wrong? 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.680 Don't you think Mike is right? Like you know, Brendan 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.680 Carr has been talking about it, and some other folks 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.360 have been talking about it, and I feel like it's 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.960 one of those things where I will tell you, like 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.200 we go to watch games, even college ball, and I'm like, wait, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.160 where is that game this weekend? I thought it was on. No, No, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:49.800 this one has it. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.040 I have the I have. I have college football services too. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.120 I have NFL red Zone? Do you have NFL red zone? 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:56.400 Do you have? 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.360 Do you have all the actually college game I want? Yeah, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.160 I got rid of anything NFL. I used to subscribe 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.120 to the NFL, but I hate them, so I had 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.880 to unsubscribe and I get it through other networks. 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.880 Now, all right, quick break, right back, more coming up 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.960 your calls also straight ahead today eight hundred and ninefold one, Shawn, 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:20.520 as we continue, all right, as we continue our discussion, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.880 I have a fiance that loves University of South Carolina, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.199 So I have to be. You gotta have it, so 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.080 you have the SEC network. I do, Yes, I do 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.439 have a big ten network. I do. Yeah, Well, if 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.400 you really want the game, then then they're banking on that. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.520 You're going to You're going to pay for it if 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.320 you really wanted that? Bad is I don't have time 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.640 to watch all these games? I mean, I give my 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.400 son a hard time. I mean, he'll take entire Saturdays 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.440 and Sundays and it did just football get days with 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.920 him and his voice. That's it. And my Panthers didn't 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.080 make it this year. But to watch the home games 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.080 for the Florida Panthers, I had to purchase an app 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.199 and then it comes up on my phone and then 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.320 you you you sink it to your TV. Linda, is 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.200 that not beyond impressive that I can pull that sucker off? 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:06.800 That actually is impressive for you. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.880 And even if it's technology and I have nobody to 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.600 help me, at that point, I am just gonna dive in. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.880 It's just easier for me to say, Linda, fix it, 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.079 the sweet baby James, fix it. I just don't want to, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.320 so I try not to. I mean, that's a terrible. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.000 Now you can watch YouTube, you can literally learn just 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.040 about anything on YouTube. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.920 If you look, well, I'm sure you watch my podcast. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.679 You can watch it on your big screen TV if 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.520 you go to YouTube and just put in you know, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.720 my podcast, and you can watch it whenever you want. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.800 You know, I do have YouTube TV hang out with 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.720 Sean Hannity. Do you have a favorite episode? 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.640 Well, I'm partial to Greg and John because they're friends. 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.560 So I like that episode. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.240 He got a good SETO. Wasn't that really good? 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.640 I just love them because they're good people. So for me, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.880 it was nice to watch that. John and Greg have 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.720 years of work. But John specifically really put his neck 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.480 on the line as an undercover testigative journalist and really 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:57.960 dug deep to get no they. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.680 Want one of those sources. They they wanted, and without 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.640 going into all the details, they came after me with 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.200 the vengeance. They went after John with a vengeance. They 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.200 even went after you because you're friends with me. Yeah, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:12.840 they're just sick. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.400 It wasn't completely weaponized and gross, and that's why when 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.520 this fiend outrage comes where we're holding people on the 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.880 carpet for actual crimes, like in California and Minnesota for 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.520 all of the fraud, and they want to be upset 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:26.360 about it, or you. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.559 Get to say that again, all of the what, all 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:29.920 of the oh. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.439 Stop it? All the fraud, however you want to say, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:33.240 how do you say fraud? 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:34.440 How do you say fraud? 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:35.360 Yeah? 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:36.120 How do you say it? 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:36.720 Okay? 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:37.719 Well, how do you say it? 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.480 Okay? Listening for all of the fraud? It's not fraud. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:42.760 That's not fraud. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.280 No, w a, that that's fraud. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.040 All the fraud, that's frod. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.239 Oh my gosh, you don't even hear it. It's unbelievable. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:50.760 I'm going to have to go back and find a 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.439 nineteen ninety six video of view. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:52.839 You know what. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.240 You know you're not going to be allowed to do 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:55.760 play it, so don't waste your time. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.080 Oh I'm going to waste my time. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.120 Oh no, just like you're not allowed to go back 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.439 and play me filling in the first time I filled 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.839 in for Rush and the Golden Ei be Michael, that's 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:05.880 actually really cool. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.400 That's you know what, that's inspiring. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.720 Yes, it is, because I'm inspiring. I had a panic 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.400 attack over it. I don't want to be reminded of 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:15.079 my trauma. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.679 Let me tell you why you're wrong. This is one 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.520 of the moments. Let me tell you why you're wrong. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.840 That is a moment for other people to see and go, wow, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.480 you finally make it. You're filling in for Rush Limbaugh. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:28.400 It's a big moment. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.400 The golden Ei be mic go's crashing in the middle 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.600 of my opening monologue. But I mean, and then Rush 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:40.439 comes back the olden I be microphone. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.360 But here's the cool thing about it. From that point on, 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.160 you're going to do a great show because you've already 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.080 made the biggest screw up you can make. Now you 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.400 just got to do the show. That part's easy, and. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.680 That's a better Rush or a better live in. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:54.600 Uh, probably live in. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:55.440 That's it. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.480 You're growing up your country at the end of that 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.959 better constitution you that's it. I'm done. How's that one? 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:03.720 It was perfect? 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:04.000 You know what? 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:08.079 You should try doing your read in Mark Levin's voice. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:14.000 Now, let me tell you something. I am really disgusted 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.000 that there are groups in this country. I mean, and 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.920 this is just evidence that the President's not wrong. The 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.520 President put out this appeal to Iran that they not 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.640 execute these eight women. I'm assuming they mean what they say, 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.880 because the President said, I just got very good news. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.280 I've been informed that the eight women protesters who are 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.040 going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.000 be killed. Four will be released immediately. Four will be 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.960 sentenced to one month in prison. I appreciate that Iran 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.840 the leaders respected my request. You know, as the President 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.080 told me personally last night, Sean, I can I can 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.800 bomb them any time. And as I reported as I 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.840 went on the air last night, that this is going 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.920 to be very short lived, this extension. It was at 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.880 the behest of the Pakistani Prime Minister and at the 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.840 behest of the people in Iran because they will be 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.680 impacted by what the President is planning. This is going 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.080 to be another level of shock and all. We have 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.080 increased our military presence in the Middle East, and we 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.920 have now restocked and reloaded and we're ready to go. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.800 Our military is ready to go whatever the President's going 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.000 to ask for. And so if the hardliners in the 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:25.360 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps went out, then it's going to 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.440 be massive destruction in the end, and not going to 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.920 be able to get that nuclear dust. And in the end, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.200 the straight of horm Moves is going to be open 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.600 one way or the other. Although frankly half of me 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.400 wants the rest of the world to take care of that, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.000 not us, considering we don't even get any benefit from 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.720 it because we don't get our oil through the straight 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.640 of hormoves. We're putting that aside. But there are groups 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.720 of people in this country and I discussed this earlier 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.800 in the program today, that want this president to fail. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.320 And it's spectacular to me. It's incomprehensible to me. It 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.760 shouldn't be. Now you've got radical leftists. Nothing that Donald 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.560 Trump can do that is ever going to be right 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.640 in their eyes. Ever. You know, the poll show that 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.240 the American people are behind the president. They understand that 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.120 we can't have a nuclear arm Durant. The American people 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:16.520 are smart. Then you have the Democrats that have been 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:21.280 he's losing. It's been the most unbelievable up to this 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:25.800 point military victory in the history of warfare. It has 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.880 been such a one sided campaign, and if the President 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.640 has to re engage, it'll be again. A one sided 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.560 campaign doesn't mean when there's not risk associated with it. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.160 It doesn't mean it's easy. None of this is easy, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.320 and this won't be a forever war. That much, I 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.720 can tell you. And sometimes it might take a little longer, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.000 a little shorter. But you know what if we try 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.440 to accomplish here, we don't want a nuclear arm Duran, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.120 We don't want them to be the number one state 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.000 sponsor a TERA. The easier choice for the President is 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.320 to bomb them into the Stone Ages. But the president 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.600 is trying to trying to thread a needle to get 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.919 to where he's comfortable being for our national security. And 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.240 also think of the ninety million plus Iranian people, through 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.800 no fault of their own, that have been terrorized themselves. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.800 And then you have, you know, the isolation as lunatics, 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:20.040 the people that would have no problem doing nothing. Hear 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.720 no evil, see no evil, blah blah blah. Okay, those 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.760 people are just dumb. I don't know. I have so 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:32.720 little respect for them because they learned nothing from history. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:37.640 They have learned nothing from Mao in China and Stalin 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:42.960 and Russia and Hitler and Germany and Mussolini and fascism 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.200 and Tojo and Japan. They've learned nothing after World War Two, 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.960 and they should have embraced the lessons of history. We 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.960 didn't need to lose one hundred million people because there 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:59.040 was enough evidence of an emerging, real, clear present danger 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.920 in every one of those cases, and we could have 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.360 neutralized all of them earlier if we had so acted. Well, 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.000 we're going to repeat their eror of history and millions 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.080 potentially die. I would hope not. I would think that 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.920 would be something that would be universal, that we could 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.160 all agree on. You know, Linda said to me, Oh, 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.679 you want me to book someone that disagrees with you. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.200 I'm like, no, because there's nothing to say to them. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.880 I'm never going to convince them that preventing a ran 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.639 from becoming a nuclear power is in the best interests 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:34.960 of our children and grandchildren, because they've already made up 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.280 their mind, and I think some of them are just 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.840 outright angry the president didn't listen to them because they 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.760 thought they had such great influence with the President, and 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.960 you know, to see their fragile egos explode is kind 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.520 of hilarious. But that's separate and apart from what I'm 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:55.080 saying here. Then you've got these democrats themselves, which is 0:18:55.119 --> 0:19:00.240 so disgusting. You got Chris Murphy of Connecticut retweeting or 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:05.359 retruthing or rexing Iranian propaganda from a foreign news site, 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.960 and he that was posted by a former UN hack 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.919 and in this article of Bragg that at least twenty 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:17.959 six Iranian shadow fleet vessels bypassed the US blockade. That 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.520 was completely fake news. It was a lie. Just start there, 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:28.639 Number one, number two Senator Murphy, you know re you know, 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.399 post this on X and then adds to it the 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:37.600 comment awesome that twenty six Iranian shadow fleet vessels were 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.600 able to get through the US blockade. He's he's he's 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:46.080 cheering against his own country in a conflict against the 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.520 number one state sponsor of terror. I mean, what kind 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.560 of human being is this guy? I mean, you talk 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.480 about America, last of you. I mean, you really want 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.720 to you know, He's he's claiming, well, it's sarcastic. There's 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.600 nothing sarcastic about it. And Murphy was in Europe just 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.000 prior to this, comparing our duly elected American president to 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.160 a fascist, well speaking to let's see an audience full 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.439 of socialists and communists. And he has a long history 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:17.000 of cozying up to Iran. In twenty nineteen, during Trump's 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.800 first term, he was secretly meeting with the Iranian foreign minister, 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.240 and then he admitted for years, I have met on 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.440 occasion with Iran's Foreign Minister during both the Obama and 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:31.000 Trump administrations. Uh, I'd like to know, Chris. Inquiring minds 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.520 want to know what did you talk about? Did you 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.359 share your disdain for the Great Satan and the Little Satan, 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.359 the US and Israel. Now, this is a senator in 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.440 Connecticut that has been elected by the people in Connecticut, 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.119