1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Thanks Scott can An Hour two Sean Hannity Show, eight 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: hundred and nine four one, Shawn is one number you 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program. We've got 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: to start with the news of the day and what 5 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: Plan B might be. And I'm only thinking ahead. I mean, 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: my hope is is that if Putin and Zelenski get 7 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: together and they have bilateral meetings that lead to a 8 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 1: trilateral meeting with Donald Trump, that you know, maybe they'll 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: be peace in Europe and that will be the eighth 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: piece deal Donald Trump has had of hand it. That 11 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: would be the best case scenario. However, what would plan 12 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: be be? What would Plan B look like if in 13 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: fact Putin, as many suspect, you know, might not really 14 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: want this deal to happen. But I don't know the 15 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: answer to that anyway. Here's world leaders yesterday praising President 16 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: Trump for his role in the Ukraine rush of peace talks. 17 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: Er, you want to thank you President of the United States, 18 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 2: the Donalds for the fact that you, as I said 19 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 2: before it broke the detlom basically the President putting best 20 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: starting their dialogue. And I think it was a February 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: that you had first a phone call and from there. 22 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 2: We are now very are today, and that is I 23 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: think if we played this well, we could enter. 24 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 3: I think it is an important day, a new phase. 25 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 3: After three years and half that we didn't see any 26 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 3: kind of sign from the Russian side that there was 27 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 3: a willing for dialogue. So something is changing, something has 28 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 3: changed thanks to you. 29 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 4: I think in the past two weeks we've probably had 30 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 4: more progress in ending this war than we have in 31 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 4: the past three and a half years. And I think 32 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 4: the fact that we're around this table today is very 33 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 4: much symbolic in the sense that it's team Europe and 34 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 4: team United States helping Ukraine. 35 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: All right, And here is the President saying this motivation. 36 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,639 Speaker 1: What is his motivation? He wants to stop the killing 37 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: about five to seven thousand people a week. 38 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 5: Listen, we've had a very successful day, though far important 39 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 5: discussions as we work to end the killing and stop 40 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 5: the war in Ukraine. We're all working for the same goal, 41 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 5: very simple goal. We want to stop the killing, get 42 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 5: this settled. 43 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: And then of course the president calls out the corrupt 44 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: legacy media mob and they're abusively biased coverage. But remember, 45 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: no world leader, none could have accomplished what he so 46 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: far has been able to accomplish. That's meeting Putin in 47 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: Alaska on Friday, having you know, all the European world leaders, 48 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: en Zelensky at the White House yesterday, and at least 49 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: there's a window of opportunity to end the killing and 50 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: end the war and bring peace to Europe, which would 51 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: be in everybody's best interest. The most amazing thing is 52 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: to me, Joe Biden never picked up a call as 53 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: Putin is amassing troops and military equipment on the border, 54 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 1: just like you know, they didn't lift a finger Obama 55 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: or Biden when Crimea was annexed. And secondly, I think 56 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: you know the most important thing is he never picked 57 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: up the phone either and said, you know, let's let's talk. 58 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: Let's see if we can find a negotiated settlement here. 59 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: Only Donald Trump does it and nobody in your bothered 60 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: to do it either. Senator Eric Schmidt, great to have 61 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: you back. Congratulations sir on the book. Let's get your 62 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: reaction all this. 63 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 6: I think it's we're just so grateful, I think, to 64 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 6: have a president that has the strength and the courage 65 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 6: to fight for peace. You know, it's such a contrast 66 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 6: from what we saw. You talked about it the last 67 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 6: four years where there was no plan, there's no dialogue. 68 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 6: And I think President Trump one of his great legacies, 69 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 6: certainly from his first term, was there were no wars. 70 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 6: You know, we weren't involved in any as a great legacy. 71 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 6: Now he's extending that, taking it step further. He's trying 72 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 6: to solve these problems around the globe. He's already got 73 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 6: a great resume on that just in six or seven 74 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 6: months now. But this is the one now. I mean, 75 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 6: who knows where this ultimately goes, but the idea that 76 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 6: he would open up this conversation to have the confidence 77 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 6: to meet with President Putin in Alaska and then again 78 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 6: have all the European leaders and so lend and you 79 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 6: can just see in the room, this is what American 80 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 6: leadership looks like. It's what's supposed to be. We're the 81 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 6: United States of America and we have a president now 82 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 6: we can be very proud of his all his capabilities 83 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 6: and is convening people. The power to convene is an 84 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 6: underrated power that the president has, and President Trump is 85 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 6: a master at this. And we'll see where this goes. 86 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 6: But I just think we should be very proud of 87 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 6: our president that he's willing to go down this road here. 88 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: If you look at everything that the president is doing, 89 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: I mean we've talked about, you know, for example, Azerbaijan 90 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: and Armenia and Israel in Iran and Egypt and Ethiopia, 91 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: and you know, seven different piece deals that he's had 92 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 1: to hand it. And I'm not saying that he's responsible 93 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: totally for Rwanda, the Congo, you know, conflicts that have 94 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: gone on for many, many years. And I asked him 95 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: about this in my interview with him on Friday, and 96 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: I said, how does how are you able to pull 97 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: this off? He's he's tying everything into the economy and 98 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: and the trade deals that he's doing with these individual countries, 99 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: which I think is pretty clever. And he seems to 100 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: understand something that most American presidents have not understood, and 101 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: that is the power and might of America's economy and 102 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: the impact it has on all of these countries and 103 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,679 Speaker 1: their need to do business in the United States. 104 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 6: That's right, and I think so many people I see 105 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 6: this in the Senate and others. So many people just 106 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 6: really like being welcomed and the red carpet rolled out 107 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 6: and being flattered and all that President Trump is really engaged, 108 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 6: I think, in the real hard work of diplomacy, and 109 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 6: he understands the levers of power. He understands that forty 110 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 6: percent of all the consumer spending in the world comes 111 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 6: from the United States of America. And so one of 112 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 6: the things that nobody ever adjusted from Sean after the 113 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 6: Cold War ended was that we had all these bad 114 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 6: trade deals and NATO was kind of essentially subsidized by 115 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 6: the United States. But President Trump has said is, look, 116 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 6: you guys need to kind of stand up on your 117 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 6: own two feet, and we're not going to get ripped 118 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 6: off anymore. We understand that we want to defeat Soviet communism, 119 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 6: but that era now we're shifting, So you guys need 120 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 6: to be more self reliant. And also these terrible deals 121 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 6: that we had to sort of protect you after as 122 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 6: you could build up after World War Two, that's a 123 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 6: different era. So he's using that. He's going to and saying, look, 124 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 6: we're not going to get ripped off anymore. What can 125 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 6: you do if you want to have access to our 126 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 6: markets and we're getting great deals. I was just at 127 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 6: the state fair in Missouri. The farmers and the ranchers 128 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 6: are really appreciative the fact that they can now sell 129 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 6: beef in Australia. There's all these kind of things that 130 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 6: are unfolding that the President understands what the levers are, 131 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 6: he's not afraid to use them, and people respect that. 132 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 6: You look at the respect that was in that room. 133 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 6: They know there's a strong leader in charge of the 134 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 6: United States of America now and he's using that power 135 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 6: for good, which is to try to bring about peace. 136 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: If you look at everything the president's doing, look at 137 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: the economy for example, I mean, the president has fifteen 138 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: trillion dollars in committed moneies for manufacturing. That's going to 139 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: create a lot of high paying career jobs for many Americans, 140 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: but also things that impact on national secure Everything from 141 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: rare earths and semiconductor chips and pharmaceuticals and automobile manufacturing 142 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: is coming back fifteen trillion between companies and countries that 143 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: are are are planning to invest in the next four years, 144 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: and probably it will be expedited because of what was 145 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: in the One Big Beautiful Bill, which is one hundred 146 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: percent bonus appreciation that incentivizes companies to build out very quickly. 147 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: So I think that's going to help the economy. I 148 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: think his position on energy dominance and freeing up you know, 149 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: fracking and drilling and also coal mining, that's going to 150 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: help the economy. I think the biggest tax cut in 151 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: American history and no tax on tips or overtime, that's 152 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: going to help the economy. Then you look that the 153 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,119 Speaker 1: president has been able to secure our border, bring even 154 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: you know, some stability and peace to DC and end 155 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: fundismantle NOBIL laws, and he's deporting illegal immigrants in the country. 156 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: Pretty transformational, pretty big things. And I'm not so I'm 157 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: not sure we'll ever see this in our lifetime again. 158 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: A president that just works around the clock and takes 159 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: on every big issue and is willing to expend the 160 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: political capital. I think most presidents would never dare go 161 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: near Ukraine in Russia. 162 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 6: That's right. And I and you know, spent a lot 163 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 6: of time with him, and I have to traveling around 164 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 6: with President Trump, whether he's on Air Force one or 165 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 6: Trump Force one. And which you're struck by as a 166 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 6: man is his energy and his love for the country. 167 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 6: You know, he just he's doing this because he really 168 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 6: believes in America and he thinks that he can, you know, 169 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 6: help save it, and he is. I mean, you just 170 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 6: rattled off a bunch of accomplishments just in six months. 171 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 6: I was there on in the White House Rose Garden 172 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 6: there on Liberation Day, and I remember telling Jim Banks 173 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 6: is another center from Indiana, tell him just we're never 174 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 6: going to see anything like this ever again. I mean, 175 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 6: his his willingness to take this on. I mean, no 176 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 6: president in my lifetime has been willing to do that. 177 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 6: And it's he's understood for a long time this deep 178 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,719 Speaker 6: connection he has with working class America, so called fly 179 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 6: over country. They know he goes and fights for them. 180 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 6: And yes, there are the jobs, but there's also this 181 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 6: investment and a sense of pride and a sense of 182 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 6: patriotism that comes when we know that we have a 183 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 6: leader that's fighting for America we've had and by the way, 184 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 6: from a national security perspective, it's so important. You can't 185 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 6: have eighty percent of the pharmaceuticals come from somewhere else. 186 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 6: You can't have ninety percent of the chips high functioning 187 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 6: chips come from somewhere else. You can't have since napped 188 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 6: that ninety thousand factories, ninety thousand factories leave the United 189 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,119 Speaker 6: States of America. So what this is about is reposition 190 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 6: in our economy, so we're more resilient, more we're mores, 191 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 6: We're more resilient, we're more self reliant, and we're going 192 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 6: to continue to trade and we're going to open up 193 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 6: trade markets around the world. But if we're trying to 194 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 6: build F forty sevens, which we are in Saint Louis now, 195 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 6: is like the next gen fighter, we can't be relying 196 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 6: on other countries for critical minerals to build those things 197 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 6: from iPhones to fighter jebs. So he understands that uitively, 198 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 6: and he's actually using the tools necessary to bring those 199 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 6: jobs home. 200 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: People have no idea how important rare earth minerals are 201 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: towards our national defense. All right, quick break more with 202 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: Senator Eric Schmid of Missouri. He has a new book out, 203 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 1: by the way, it's called The Last Line of Defense. 204 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: We have it up on Hannity dot com. It's on 205 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: Amazon dot com, bookstores around the country. Eight hundred and 206 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: nine one. Shawn is a number. We'll get to your 207 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: calls coming up as well as we continue. We continue 208 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: now with Missouri. Senator Eric Schmid is with us. He's 209 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 1: got a new book out. It's called the last line 210 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: of defense. Don't forget. We'll be getting to your phone 211 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: calls after the bottom of the hour eight hundred and 212 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: nine four one Sean, what other idea. The President brought 213 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: it up in my interview in Alaska after the summit 214 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: with Putin, but he brought it up in the pool 215 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: spray yesterday, and that is that he wants Republicans to 216 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: get on the issue of voting integrity. For me, it's 217 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: it's a pretty simple formula. It's not really that complicated. 218 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: Paper ballots, voter ID, signature verification, paining to custody, and 219 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 1: cameras for any mail in votes, which I believe should 220 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: be limited to the military and people that are sick. 221 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 1: I think every state has to have updated voter roles 222 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: for every election. Partisan observers and every precinct in the country. 223 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: They watch the voting all day, the vote counting all night. 224 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: We get an answer at the end of the night 225 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: and a winner has chosen, and we have integrity in 226 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: the system. First, let me play the President saying it, 227 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: and then well, I'll ask you that question. I would 228 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: love to see election reform. 229 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 7: We have to do it. I don't know why we're 230 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 7: not doing it. Bring it up. The Democrat idea want it. Look, 231 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 7: the Republicans want it, but not strongly enough. I mean 232 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 7: they gotta want us strong because it can't be it 233 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 7: can't be honest. It goes through a postman, it goes 234 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 7: through somebody else, somebody else, somebody. You know, when you 235 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 7: go to a really well run voting booth, you go in, 236 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 7: you have to hand a card, a picture of this 237 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 7: or that. 238 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: You don't have everything perfectly, you get. 239 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 7: Sent back, go get it. It's really it's very hard 240 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 7: to do something for rigulent with a vote paper, valet, 241 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 7: mail in voting. It's they give you boxes of stuff. 242 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 7: You have no idea where they came from. This mail 243 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 7: in voting. You can't have a great democracy republic, you 244 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 7: can't have it. Well, maybe that's why we're going to 245 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 7: end up with a communist mayor in New York. 246 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: Anyway, get your reaction to it, and my list, I 247 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: think is as comprehensive as we'd need. And I think 248 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: everybody can have confidence in the process and confidence in 249 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,959 Speaker 1: the integrity and in terms of the results, and nobody's 250 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: going to be questioning elections. Democrats have questioned that Republicans 251 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: have questioned the outcomes. So I would think in the 252 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: spirit of fair elections, you know, those measures would go 253 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: a long way to to instilling integrity in the system. 254 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 6: Yes, and Sean, this used to not be a part 255 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 6: of an issue, which is kind of amazing. There was 256 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 6: something called the Carter Baker Commission about twenty years ago, 257 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 6: and it came out with a recommendation of ten things 258 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 6: you could do to secure our elections, and limiting mail 259 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 6: and balloting was one of them. There's a lot of 260 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 6: the voter ID is another one, and all these things 261 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 6: that for a long time were just sort of common sense. 262 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 6: But what President Trump's putting his finger on is something 263 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 6: that's I think important to note is the left doesn't 264 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 6: believe in any of these things anymore. It's just about 265 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 6: power and control. And one of the things in the 266 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 6: Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court, 267 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 6: which is available on Amazon right now. The book that 268 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 6: is launching today is we took this on in Missouri. 269 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 6: You know, Mark Elias came in twenty twenty for all 270 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 6: these election laws, including in Missouri. We fought back and 271 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 6: we won. But he wanted a few states like Georgia 272 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 6: and in Pennsylvania and their voting laws were up ended, 273 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 6: and they used COVID as a reason. We can't ever 274 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 6: forget how dedicated the left is to upending America as 275 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 6: we know it. You know, I brought the Missouri versus 276 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 6: Biden lawsuit, the censorship lawsuit, taking the deposition of Elvis Chan, 277 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 6: the FBI agent that was pre bunking the Hunter Biden 278 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 6: laptop laptop story, taking the deposition of Anthony Fauchia. I 279 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 6: wanted to write this book so people get an inside 280 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 6: glimpse of what this terrain really looks like. The left 281 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 6: is not only at the highest level of government trying 282 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 6: to censor speech, but also this kind of woke indoctrination 283 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 6: in our schools, and we have to have the courage 284 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 6: to stand up and fight back. President Trump, I think 285 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 6: has given Republicans one of the ways he's changed the party. Sean, 286 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 6: and I'm so happy about. Coming from a working class neighborhood, 287 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 6: I know you feel the same way as the courage 288 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 6: to fight. I think for a long time we sort 289 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 6: of lamented how Democrats were and all the things that 290 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 6: they did. But now we have a leader who's stared 291 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 6: down the law there, He's stared down all the attacks. 292 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 6: He came back and sort comeback. He's winning, and that's 293 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 6: a good reason for us all to. 294 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: Continue to fight the last line of defense. That goes 295 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: into everything from censorship and the digital age, to opposition 296 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,479 Speaker 1: to the vaccine and mask mandates, and fighting woke ideology 297 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: in school and border security, and separation of powers and 298 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: the abuse of activist justices on the courts and the 299 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: weaponization of government agencies our Second Amendment rights. Anyway, it's 300 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: called the Last line of Defense, Senator Eric Schmidt. We 301 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Congratulations on the book. It's on Amazon 302 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: dot com. We'll put a link on Hannity dot com, 303 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: and it's in bookstores around the country. Thank you. 304 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 6: Thanks Sean Soon. 305 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: Eight hundred and nine four one showing is a number 306 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program. 307 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: Is kind of interesting if you if you really listen 308 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: to democrats and you pay very close attention. We learned 309 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: a couple of things about Barack Obama and David Axelrod 310 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:29,479 Speaker 1: is that privately they are talking to and obviously supporting 311 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: uh Coami or Marxist Mondani in New York City. Remember 312 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: when that moment Joe the Plumber, when Obama was running 313 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: for president. He talked about spreading the wealth around. You know, 314 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: Obama always held these radical views. We talked about the 315 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: Community Organizer. We talked about Acorn at the time. We 316 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: talked about the Chum Gang. We talked about Frank Marshall Davis. 317 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: We talked about Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn. We talked 318 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: about Reverend Wright. After nine to eleven. No, no, no, 319 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: not God, bless America, g d America. It's in the Bible, 320 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and that's who he always was. But 321 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: the difference between say Obama and Mom Donnie and the 322 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: modern Democratic Party and Obama. Obama I would argue and 323 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: always believed, you know, shared these views. But the political 324 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: environment at the time would not allow him to be 325 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: as honest as say a Mom Donnie in AOC A 326 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett, of Bernie Sanders, a Pocahontas or squad member. 327 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: It wouldn't allow him to do it. But I think 328 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: he really believed it. I think if he had the 329 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: opportunity to be more radical, he would have done it. 330 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: You know, the disaster of Obamacare, the one example, you 331 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: know that the one thing that he hangs his hat 332 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: on is is an utter disaster. I don't know why 333 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: people put their faith in government. All of you that 334 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: listened to this program, I am telling you, don't put 335 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: your faith, your hope, your trust in government anything. Just 336 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: don't do it. I mean, we need a strong military. 337 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: I would argue we do the military well, but we'll 338 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: probably not cost efficient in terms of Medicare, Medicaid, social Security. 339 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 1: They're going to have to come up with ways to 340 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 1: save it. And I think the best way to do 341 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: that is grow the economy. And that's what President Trump 342 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: is in the process of doing. I think he's got 343 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: all of the building blocks put in place for a 344 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 1: boom economy, which would be great for every American, especially 345 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 1: as shifting economy with artificial intelligence and everything that President 346 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 1: Trump does. The left is against. I mean, they champion 347 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: the rights of men to play women's sports. That's a 348 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: ninety ten issue, but they're on the ten percent side. 349 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: They'll champion the likes of Abrego Garcia or the so 350 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: called rights of illegal immigrants over the safety and security 351 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: of American citizens. You know, many of whom have been 352 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: murdered and raped and victims of violent crime. They don't 353 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: seem to care that known terrorists are in the country, 354 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: gang members, cartel members, and all these other violent criminals, 355 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: and they complain about, oh, well, they're actually arresting people 356 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: that broke the law. This is outrageous. I can't believe it. 357 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: What about the treatment. Oh they're deporting people that didn't 358 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 1: respect our law's border sovereignty. It's just the radicalism now 359 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: is more exposed, and they're just more outspoken about it. 360 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: And I'm not sure why they, you know, after the 361 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: last election in particular, why they would double down on 362 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: policies that didn't resonate with the American people. But that's 363 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 1: what they're doing, and that is the state of the 364 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. So when David Axelrod makes these comments they 365 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: don't want Trump to succeed. He's not saying it outright, 366 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: he's just saying that. You know, world leaders now think 367 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: of how profound this is. Donald Trump is able to 368 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: accomplish that which nobody else was able to accomplish, and 369 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: that to get Vladimir Putin to the table, you know, 370 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: didn't work. Joe Biden calling Putin a murdering dictator thug, which, 371 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: by the way, I think he is putting that to 372 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: the side. Neither here nor there. The Joe Biden that 373 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,439 Speaker 1: never picked up a phone as Putin's amassing troops and 374 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: military equipment on the border with Ukraine. The guy that 375 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: was Vice president when Obama did nothing when Crimea was annexed. 376 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: Remember it was the Democratic Party that and Bill Clinton 377 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: that forced Ukraine or talked Ukraine. I don't know why 378 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 1: Ukraine ever did this. After the breakup of the former 379 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: Soviet Union, they had nineteen hundred or thereabouts nuclear weapons 380 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 1: and they were convinced to give them up with security 381 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: guarantees that were never fulfilled by anybody. And Russia never 382 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: respected the agreements that were signed at the time in 383 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: terms of borders. And hence we find ourselves in this 384 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: situation a vulnerable Ukraine because they were stupid to give 385 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: up those nuclear weapons. They never should have. So Donald 386 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: Trump meets with Putin in Alaska on Friday. Has every 387 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: European leader and NATO leader that matters at the White 388 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: House yesterday. And this is what David Axerod's comments are in. 389 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 8: The world has learned, and Vladimir Putin above all has 390 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 8: learned that flattery is a very very effective tool with 391 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 8: this president, and all of them are tripping over each 392 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 8: other to do that. You know, Putin, who's a master manipulator, 393 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 8: I'm sure, is giving Trump the impression that they are 394 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 8: special friends and he wants to be cooperative to help him. 395 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 8: That is not who Vladimir Putin is. Vladimir Putin is 396 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 8: everything that has been said. He's a killer and a thug, 397 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 8: and he is pursuing his own agenda, which is for 398 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 8: you know, this Russian expansionist agenda. 399 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: It was under his friend Barack Hussein Obama when Crimea 400 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: was annexed. And what did Obama do? Nothing? I mean, 401 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: maybe maybe he's right. Maybe Putin is trying to flatter 402 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Doesn't matter. He showed up in Alaska and 403 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 1: the fact that no European country, no European leader, or 404 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: no American president besides Trump could get him to the 405 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 1: table speaks volumes, or can get all these European leaders 406 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: and NATO leaders at the White House. Anyway, Let's get 407 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: to our busy telephones. Eight hundred nine four one show 408 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: is our number. If you want to be a part 409 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: of the program. Joe in New York, Joe, how are 410 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: you glad you called? 411 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 2: Yes? 412 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 9: Hey, thank you Sean for taking my call. I really 413 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 9: I really appreciate it. So I just wanted to touch on 414 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 9: the Ukraine situation here, so you know my opinion, like 415 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 9: I get before, you know, was costing US money to 416 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,360 Speaker 9: give weapons to Ukraine, and there was this whole narrative about, hey, 417 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 9: we don't want to be you know, spending money to 418 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 9: help another country and so forth. But right now, the 419 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 9: way it's set up is that basically, you know, they're 420 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 9: going to be buying weapons from the US. They're going 421 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 9: to basically you know, NATO's going to buy from the US. 422 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 9: It's going to go to uh, you know, to NATO, 423 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 9: and they're going to disperse it. So, you know, I 424 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 9: just think that if we're basically saying to Ukraine or 425 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 9: we're basically seeding or we're allowing Ukraine to see territory 426 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 9: to Russia, that's just from the perspective of America and 427 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 9: who we are as the people, I just think that's 428 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 9: pretty weak. I think what we should do is if 429 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,479 Speaker 9: they're willing to fight, if they're willing to fight and 430 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 9: they're buying the weapons from US, then we should just 431 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 9: allow it to We should allow them to do that 432 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 9: and not basically put demands on them about you know 433 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 9: that they should, you know, see territory. You know, I 434 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 9: heard President Trump this morning say something about, uh, you 435 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 9: know Ukraine. You know, they're taking on a nation that's 436 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 9: ten times bigger than they are. And I look, in 437 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,959 Speaker 9: my mind, I'm saying, well, we did during the Revolutionary 438 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 9: War when you had the British Empire. I mean maybe 439 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 9: the British Empire was like fifteen times bigger in terms 440 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 9: of the land area. So I don't know where these 441 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 9: ideas are coming from. It's just I just find it's 442 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 9: the wrong approach for me. We should just it's not 443 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 9: costing us anything. We should just let them find them out. 444 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 9: So you know this thing about oh, I. 445 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: Mean what you're saying is we should we should just 446 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: stand back, let the killing continue, not care at all 447 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: that it could lead to a wider conflict in Europe. 448 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: It's you know, look, at the end of the day, 449 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: we benefit the least. I will concede your point. We 450 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: benefit the least of any country that is involved in 451 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: these discussions. 452 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 9: Right now. 453 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: However, America is taking the lead. 454 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 9: You know. 455 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: I look, I kind of agree with the Trump doctrine, 456 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: and the Trump doctrine I would define as this is 457 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: no forever wars. We're not going to fight a proxy 458 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: war like Biden was fighting with you with Russia by 459 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: providing hundreds of billions of dollars in military equipment that 460 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: you know, at our expense. He'll sell them the weapons 461 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: so that they can defend themselves against an invasion. I 462 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: think America, you know, has to be that shining city 463 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: on the hill and advance the cause of freedom when 464 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: at all possible, but without being the world's policeman. I 465 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: know it's selective at times, you know. I don't think 466 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: we'd lose a lot of capital if President Trump it 467 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: helps Armenian Azerbaijan, or Egypt in Ethiopia, or Iran in Israel, 468 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: or you know, the Congo and Rwanda or any of 469 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: these other places where he's played a role, or Indian 470 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: Pakistan for example. So I don't think we're any worse 471 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: off for it. But I do believe that there is 472 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: a time and a place for military force, and it 473 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 1: doesn't in flicked with the idea of no forever wars. 474 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: And the President showed that in his first term by 475 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: beating Isis and taking out Solomani and taking out bag 476 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: Daddy and associates and even dropping the mother of all 477 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: bombs on Afghanistan and in his second term knocking out 478 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: Around's nuclear sites. So you know, if you want them 479 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: to fight it out, okay, but if you have a 480 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: chance to stop the death and stop the conflict and 481 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: maybe in the end actually even helped save Ukraine as 482 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: a country, because if it the longer this goes on, 483 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: I say the odds are greater that although you know, 484 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: if President Trump, if Ukraine is able to get enough 485 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,239 Speaker 1: money through rarers to NATO and European countries, you know, 486 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: they could fight on for a long period of time. 487 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: But then we are also it's like a cancer that 488 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: could spread throughout the continent of Europe. So I think 489 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 1: it's worth a shot, and I kind of support the 490 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 1: Trump doctrine in and what the President's doing. Let's see 491 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: how it plays out. If it doesn't work, then the 492 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 1: president plan B would be to punish Vladimir Putin economically. 493 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 9: I guess those arguments are all valid and I get 494 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 9: all that, But at the bottom of this is, like 495 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 9: you said, President Trump signed the rare earth mineral deal, right, 496 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 9: so there's an incentive for Ukraine to become free. And 497 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 9: the other thing is freedom isn't free, whether we're talking 498 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 9: about the Revolutionary War, the American Revolutionary War, or World 499 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 9: War two, Like what did we do? We fought to 500 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 9: the end. Like, yes, there's lives, there's death, but there's 501 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 9: no Americans involved in this. You know, we're trying to 502 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 9: support you said, you know, America is the light on 503 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 9: the hill. Yeah, we all agree on that. So my 504 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 9: thing is, yes, death is bad, but my thing is 505 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 9: they're going. 506 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 2: To fight it out. 507 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 9: We're basically saying that, you know, America is like, we 508 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 9: don't have the capability to help them, and we're not 509 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 9: even they're not even we're not even paying anything for 510 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 9: it at this point. They just want to get to 511 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 9: their borders. We should allow them to do it. You know. 512 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 9: Basically President Trump today was saying, you know that you 513 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 9: know Ukraine, like, who would want? Who would want? You 514 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 9: know Ukraine a part of NATO that's bordering them. Well, 515 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 9: you know, I don't know what's going on in the 516 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,679 Speaker 9: Senate and the Congress, but there's already four countries that 517 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 9: are part of NATO that are basically bordering Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Norway, 518 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 9: and Finland. I believe is even part of NATO. So 519 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 9: this whole notion about, hey, we you know, they don't 520 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 9: want Ukraine part of NATO. If Ukraine wants to be 521 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 9: free and they want to join, they want to join 522 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 9: the freedom loving people of the world. It shouldn't be 523 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 9: up to Russia to dictate to us what a free 524 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 9: a free country should be. I mean, we're not losing 525 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,199 Speaker 9: anything here, like Trump did all the right steps. You know, 526 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 9: we're talking about Biden. You mentioned Obama about you know, 527 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 9: seeding the CRIMEA. Yes, I agree with that. But we 528 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 9: are where we are now, so you know, all good 529 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 9: points you're saying. I just think that they should be 530 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 9: allowed to fight for themselves the way we did during 531 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 9: our revolutionary. 532 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: Okay, but they're fighting for themselves and they're out of 533 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: point now where they're drafting sixty euros into their army 534 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: because they don't have enough people to fight. That's the reality. 535 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: So at some point you got to ask yourself, what 536 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: are you going to have left at the end of 537 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: this conflict. You know, the amount of rubble and wreckage 538 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: and death and dying has been and the cost has 539 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: been enormous. I'm not saying they at the end of 540 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: the day, they may end up fighting it out. But 541 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: if you can take a window of opportunity and at 542 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: least give it a shot, why not. We have nothing 543 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: to lose here, nothing, and the only thing we have 544 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: to gain is maybe lives can be saved and maybe 545 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: we prevent a broader conflict in Europe as a result 546 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: of the President's actions. That that I think is a 547 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: noble cause and a noble thing for America to do. 548 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: And it's it's it is in no way contradictory from 549 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: my perspective of the President's own doctrine. But I hear 550 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: what you're saying. 551 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 9: I do. 552 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: I think America has this unique role in the world 553 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: and if we can do good with you know, we've 554 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: accumulated more power, abused it less, and advanced the cause 555 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: of good more than any other country in history, and 556 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: I think we should continue that tradition without getting involved 557 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: in forever wars. So anyway, appreciate the call, my friend, 558 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: God bless you. Eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn 559 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: is a number you want to be a part of 560 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: the program.