1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Freaking news and more bold inspired solutions for America. This 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: is a special edition of the Sean Hannity Show America 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: Trap Behind Enemy Lines, Day number two oh nine. Coming 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: up next our final news round Up and Information Overload hour. 5 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: All Right, News round Up, Information Overload Hour eight hundred 6 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: nine for one, Shawn. If you want to be a 7 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: part of the programs our Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm you 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: might remember this moment. I think it was back in 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,319 Speaker 1: November of last year, asked about high gas prices. Now, 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: remember we were pretty close to up about a buck 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: fifty a gallon, depending what state you lived in before 12 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: Russia ever invaded Ukraine. But now they're blaming the high 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: gas prices, record high gas prices and inflation. It's all 14 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: because of Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, we've had a forty year 15 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: high of inflation now for month after month after month 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: after month, and even the most recent numbers did not 17 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: include but four days of fighting in Ukraine after the invasion. 18 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: That's it, and they're just trying to make one excuse 19 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: after another. It's pathetic, but this is Jennifer Granhome. Jennifer Granholme, 20 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: your Energy secretary when she was asked about the high 21 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: cost of gasoline. Listen, what is the grandhome plan to 22 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: increase oil production in America? It's hilarious. Would that I 23 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: had the magic wand on this. As you know, of course, 24 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: oil is a global market. It is controlled by a cartel. 25 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: That cartel is called OPEC, and they do made a 26 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: decision yesterday that they were not going to increase beyond 27 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: what they were already planning. Oh yeah, I don't know 28 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: who's worse. Who has the giggles more her or you know, 29 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: our giggling vice president. There's nothing fun about it. The 30 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: impact on especially poor and middle class Americans is profound. 31 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: We've had five straight days of record high gas prices 32 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: and it's only getting worse. So she goes back on CNBC. 33 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: It says, oh, we should be boosting our energy supply 34 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: by moving to green energy, and then she shoots down 35 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: the idea of drilling, saying Keystone wouldn't have helped well. 36 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: According to the Premiere of Alberta, Canada, this Keystone Excel 37 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: pipeline would have been done by now and we would 38 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: be able to get Canadian oil from little justin nine 39 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: hundred thousand barrels a day, where would you rather get 40 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: your oil from little Justin or the Ayatolas and the 41 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: Mullas and Iran or Maduro, the murdering thug in Venezuela, 42 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: or how many more times is Biden gonna beg and 43 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: get on his hands and knees and bige opec nations 44 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: that hate us. I mean, it's beyond it's incomprehensible anyway, 45 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: here she is Should we not be boosting energy production 46 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: right now in this country to me demand both domestically 47 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: and in place as like era. We should be boosting 48 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: all around the world, end in the United States, and 49 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: we should be investing in moving toward clean energy as well. 50 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: That's what our messages here at Sarah Week. We want 51 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: to see increased supply. We want to see it in 52 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: the United States to the extent that the industry can 53 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: do that. We want to see us move as well 54 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: toward solutions that don't have us relying on fossil fuels 55 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: from countries that do not have our interest at heart. 56 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 1: We have to do both, and we have to accelerate. 57 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: We are in an emergency. We have to increase supply 58 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: so that we cannot we can make sure that people 59 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: are protected at the pump, and we have to move 60 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: to clean energy solutions with great accelerating both right now. 61 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: But clean is in the end where we should be 62 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: so that we don't find ourselves in this position again. 63 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: There is nothing that would have increased production. If the 64 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: Keystone pipeline had been approved, it wouldn't have been and 65 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: been built by now. So that is just a talking point. 66 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: There is this administration. Under this administration, oil is almost 67 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: at record production by the end of this year, be 68 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: at record production. Natural gas is at record production. Liquefied 69 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: natural gas is at record production. Every molecule that we 70 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: can liquify we are exporting in terms of natural gas 71 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: if there is a facility to liquify it. There are 72 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: six to me nine thousand permits that have been issued 73 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: that are not being taken advantage of. And I say 74 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: that to encourage the oil and gas sector to take 75 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: advantage of the permits that they have. There are twenty 76 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: million acres of public line, the line underlease right now 77 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: by the oil and gas industry that are not being used, 78 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:52,679 Speaker 1: that are not being produced on. And remember that ninety 79 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: percent of oil drilling is on private lands and not 80 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: public lands. So this is not about that are talking points. No, 81 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: they're not talking points. Because all of those restrictions you 82 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden put on energy companies, they can't even 83 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: get insurance, they can't even get loans because of the 84 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: restrictions you put on the industry. You're just lying. Now 85 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: the proof that this is all by design. Let's go 86 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: to candidate Joe Biden saying this will be his policy, 87 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: This is all by design, this is what he promised 88 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 1: to do. This is why Donald Trump predicted it would 89 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: be a disaster and you'd be paying four or five, 90 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: six seven dollars a gallon for gasoline. And Trump was right. Again, 91 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: we SuDS, we're all dead. Do anywhere with any subsidies 92 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 1: for fossil fuels Number one. Number two, holding them liable 93 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: for what they have done, particularly in those cases where 94 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: you're underserved neighborhoods and you know the deal. Okay, And 95 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: by the way, when they don't or they deliberate, will 96 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: put them in jail. Kiddo, I want should it just 97 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: take a look. Okay, you don't have to agree, but 98 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: I want you to look in my eyes. I guarantee you, 99 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: I guarantee you We're going to end fossil fuel, and 100 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: I am not going to cooperated. Would there be any 101 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking in a 102 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: Biden administration, No, we would, We would work it out. 103 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: We would make sure it's eliminated. Oh, we'll work it out, 104 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: make sure it's eliminate. So that's been their plan. Michael 105 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: O'Neil is joining us. He serves as the Assistant General 106 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: Counsel and the Barbara Kolson Legal Counsel at Landmark Legal Foundation. 107 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: That's the Great One. Mark Levince Foundation has written an 108 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: article explaining just how much control the EPA has over Congress. Mike, 109 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: thanks for being with us. How are you? I'm well, Sean, 110 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: how are you? How's the Great One? How's our buddy? 111 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: He's doing great. It's an honor to work with him 112 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: all these years. It's been an honor to talk. Thank me, 113 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: God bless us. It's fantastic working with him, and it's 114 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: it's an absolute honor, and it's an honored speaking. He's 115 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: a genius. We love him. That's why we call him 116 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: a great one. I'll say it, nobody else will say it. There. 117 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: I said absolutely, all right, let's get to the heart 118 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: of this issue here, because now we're in a situation where, 119 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, we have a forty year high end 120 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: of inflation, in large part because of the high rising 121 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: cost of gasoline long before Putin invaded Ukraine. That was 122 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: only a few weeks ago. And now we have a 123 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: problem where Joe Biden is willing to cut a deal 124 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: with the Iranian mullus an import gas from Iran. He's 125 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: sucking up to and willing to lift sanctions on Venezuela 126 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: and Maduro, murdering thug. He's already been begging OPEC repeatedly 127 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: to increase their production in Saudi Arabia, to increase their production. 128 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: They don't even want to take his calls anymore because 129 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: the answers no. And meanwhile, we have all the vast 130 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: natural resources that he inherited, because he inherited energy independence. 131 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: I don't think you can be any dumber than this 132 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: group of people. Well, you're absolutely right. All the while 133 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: he's cowtowing to dictators around the world, all the while 134 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: hamstringing and completely kneecapping the American energy the American energy sector. Look, 135 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: let's talk about what happened last week at the Supreme Court. Here, 136 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: the court heard oral arguments in an important case that 137 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: will determine how our nation generates electricity. You know, we're 138 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: talking about gas for our cars, but an important part 139 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: on the energy sector is also how is electricity generated 140 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: in this country. The electrical grid relies on coal and 141 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: natural gas in addition to nuclear and renewables. So coal 142 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: and natural gas plan an important part in how our 143 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: nation generates electricity. And we all know what do we 144 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: have an abundance in our country. We have coal and 145 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: natural gas in abundance. You don't have to go to Venezuela, 146 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: you don't have to go to Saudi Arabia, you don't 147 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 1: have to go to Russia to find it. It's it's 148 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: in our country. We have an abundant resources. And yet 149 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: the Left and the Democrats are committed, you know, they're 150 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: committed to destroying that resource and destroying our reliance on 151 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: those proven sources that have served America so well. So 152 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: in this case, it's called West Virginia versus EPA, and 153 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: under the thinnest, very thinnest of legal pretenses, EPA is 154 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: again wants to drive coal and natural gas power companies 155 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: out of business and forces into wind and solar. Let 156 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: me just take a little bit of a background here 157 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: on this, because it's a little bit of a complicated case, 158 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 1: but i'll boil it down to brass tacks. In two 159 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen, the Obama administration released what was known 160 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: as the Clean power Plant And this is a massive 161 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: regulatory framework cooked up at EPA and by the bureaucrats 162 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: edited EPA that was designed to drive traditional power plants 163 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: out of business. And I mean traditional power plants, I 164 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: mean coal and natural gas. And when I say massive, 165 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: I really mean massive. And again, this is all pre 166 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: This is two thousand and sixteen numbers. This is in 167 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty two war in Europe, inflation, all 168 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: of that stuff you were talking about. The estimates were 169 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: that it would cost the American taxpayer over two hundred 170 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: billion dollars and energy consumers in some states would see 171 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: their electric bills increase upwards of an additional twenty five percent. 172 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: Now keep in mind again those numbers were generated pre 173 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: all of this inflation that we've seen in the past 174 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 1: few months. Well, what did Trump's EPA. Did They set 175 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: that ridiculous Clean power Plant aside in favor of much 176 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: more modest regulatory framework, And of course what happens Biden 177 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: comes into office, any attempts to revive it. Well, there's 178 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: two huge problems with this. Now. First of all, there's 179 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: the legal and constitutional problem. What do you do. You 180 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: have the EPA Again, as I was saying before, you 181 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: have these unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington, DC trying to impose 182 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: this massive and costly regulatory framework on the American people 183 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: without any kind of authority delegated to them from Congress. 184 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: Congress hasn't spoken on this with any kind of specificity 185 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: or anything, and yet they want to take this massive 186 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: and consequential regulatory framework that will impose hundreds of billions 187 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: of dollars on the American taxpayer and increase energy bills 188 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: upwards of twenty five percent through this just barest pretense 189 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: of legal of legal analysis. And again, Congress never spoke 190 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: on this. Congress never gave EPA this authority to impose 191 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: this kind of major rule upon the American people, and 192 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: these decisions should only be made through Congress. Number two, 193 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: this is bad policy. As you just said, energy costs 194 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: or skyrotting across the board, How and why would it 195 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: put it with a Biden administration want to impose additional 196 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: costs in this terrifying new reality that we're all facing 197 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: in America where every day you look out at you 198 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: you look to your gas station and you see that 199 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: costs of increased twenty five cents gallons of gases are 200 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: going five six dollars a gallon. We don't know what 201 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 1: the future holds, and yet we're discounting reliable, traditional source 202 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: of power for our own country. It's it's what you're 203 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: describing is incomprehensible. All right, quick break, we'll come back 204 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: more with Mike O'Neil as we continue to talk about 205 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: the insanity of Joe Biden's energy policies by bowl with 206 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,719 Speaker 1: Mike O'Neill, assistant General counsel and the Barber Chaos and 207 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: legal counsel at the Landmark Legal Foundation. That's the great 208 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 1: one Mark Levins Foundation. Look, once you artificially, this is 209 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 1: simple economics, one on one. Once you artificially reduced the 210 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: world's supply of energy, and even if even if demand 211 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: remains constant, the price will go up. If demand increases, 212 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: then the price will really go up. Now we're at 213 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: a point Joe's policies and restrictions on the energy sector, 214 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: well that has forced our European allies right into the 215 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: arms of aout of mere Putin, and it's created a 216 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: huge energy dependence problem for them because they're reliant on 217 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: Russian energy that is then increased the prices to record prices. 218 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: Putin is getting billions, which is helping to fund this 219 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: invasion of an innocent sovereign country. And as you know, 220 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: you have precious innocent you know, children and women and 221 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: men that are being slaughtered, entired neighborhoods, just blown to pieces. 222 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: We're now seeing images of I saw the image yesterday 223 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: of a mass grave of seventy people. I mean, these 224 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: are human beings that are being slaughtered because of this 225 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: guy's territorial ambitions. And a lot of this is funded 226 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: because of our stupidity in terms of economic and energy policy. 227 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: It's it's absolutely incomprehensible how in this time, in this 228 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: day and age, right now, in this moment in history, 229 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: we are casting aside our resources in favor of implementing 230 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: this radical environmental agenda of the left. And you could 231 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: just see that that really is the commitment here. And 232 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: Biden didn't make any pretense of hiding that fact when 233 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: he was running for office. Obama didn't make any pretense 234 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: of hiding it. They will do whatever they can, even 235 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: if that means having to drive up or energy prices 236 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: through the roof, continue to drive up energy prices, drive 237 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: out coal power plants, drive out natural gas generating power plants, 238 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: in order to effectuate their radical environmental agenda, because that 239 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: takes precedent over anything and everything. It doesn't matter if 240 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: they're trampling on the rights on the Constitution, if they're 241 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: trampling on the rights of states. They don't care. They 242 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: will do whatever it takes to implement their radical environmental agenda. Well, 243 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: it's insane to me that this is even allowed to happen, 244 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: and it's insane to me that people think this is 245 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: smart politics. Now we're paying the highest we've ever paid 246 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: for a gallon of gasoline, and will pay more for 247 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: every product we've ever buying. Any story we go to. 248 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: It is disrupting the economy on a level that nobody anticipated. 249 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: And this mysterious reluctance and resistance to producing energy and 250 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: dependence once again and begging, you know the world's thugs 251 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: and most unsavory characters and dictators beyond any comprehension I 252 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: have is It is sad, and it's also avoidable. But anyway, 253 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: I'll give you a quick last word. We have about 254 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: twenty seconds. Sure, what's imperative? It's imperative that the Supreme 255 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: Court reign in agencies like EPA who want to unilaterally 256 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: impose these enormous costs on the American people. And Congress 257 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: also needs to act and step up and do its 258 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: job and reign in these agencies. If you want to 259 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: check out more about this, I encourage anybody to go 260 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: to our website Landmark Legal dot org and you can 261 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: read up on some of our work regarding this issue. 262 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Sean, I really appreciate the opportunity to 263 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: talk with you about it. I really appreciate you being 264 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: on our best. To the great one, Mark Levin Landmark 265 00:15:48,080 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: Legal quick break, right back, this is what's right with America. 266 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Sean Hannity Show. Twenty five to 267 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Eight nine, Sean is a number. 268 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: We'll get to your calls. I want to play an 269 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: extended cut though, before we get to calls, of my 270 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: interview with President Trump last night. He was on for 271 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: about forty minutes, and he was on fire on every topic. 272 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: And as I'm listening to him last night during a 273 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: live show, is a live call, no tape, and I'm 274 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: just thinking, could Joe Biden last three minutes doing this? No? Anyway, 275 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: here's this interview. Well my reaction is that so sad 276 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: because this would have never had happened if we had 277 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. There was no chance that this would happen. 278 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: And I know him well and this was not something 279 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: that was going to happen at all. And next you'll see, 280 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: I mean, let's see what happens. Let's just watch. But 281 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: when this happened, this horrible, horrible situation happened in Afghanistan, 282 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: It's not even believable, how incompetent it was. The way 283 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: they withdrew or surrendered or whatever you want to call it. 284 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: Bad things started happening for our country. The borders bad, 285 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: A lot of things are bad in Facious Bed, but 286 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 1: the way they got out of Afghanistan looked like a 287 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: complete surrender. And I'll tell you, Potinho was watching, and 288 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: President she was watching, and the leaders that Iran were watching, 289 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,239 Speaker 1: and Kim Jong wun was watching North Korea. They were 290 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: all watching Sean and I'll tell you bad things started 291 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: to happen. They no longer respect our country, and that's 292 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: how this came about. It would have never ever happened. 293 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: And then he understood that we talked about it. It's 294 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: a horrible thing to watch. It would have never happened, 295 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 1: and it never should have happened. I just watched on 296 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: your show. I just watched the vice president laughing about 297 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: the immigration. That's this horrible situation with the immigration, and 298 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: I just watched the laugh and it was almost like 299 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: the laugh of a mad woman to be laughing about that. 300 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: It's a sad situation. We have people in there that 301 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: are grossly incompetent, and you know it, and so does 302 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: everybody else. And by the way, and so does the 303 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 1: Democrats know it. I'm going to get back to the 304 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: issue a why Putin wouldn't do it? If you are president, 305 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 1: you came under some fire when you said that Vladimir 306 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: Putin's very smart. I think I know you a little 307 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: bit better than most people in the media, and I 308 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: think you also recognize he's evil, do you not, well. 309 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,880 Speaker 1: I was referring to the fact that he said this 310 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: is an independent nation talking about Ukraine, and I said, 311 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: that's something said. This is before there was any attack. Attack, 312 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 1: he's calling it an independent nation. A lot of things 313 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: are changing when you look. This doesn't seem to be 314 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: the same boot that I was dealing with. But I 315 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: will tell you he wouldn't have changed. If I were 316 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: dealing with him, he wouldn't have changed. You know, I supplied, 317 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: and I know Biden is trying to take credit, and 318 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 1: they're all trying to take credit about many of the things, 319 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: the incredible things that we did in the Trump administration. 320 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: But we supplied the anti tank busters. They're called javelins, 321 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: and without them, you wouldn't have if you wouldn't have 322 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: anything like what's happening. They're knocking out the tanks one 323 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 1: after another after another, and this has become a much 324 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: tougher situation. Much much stuff are also gunnery for the aircraft. 325 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: If knocking out aircraft, you know, a lot of aircraft's 326 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: been knocked out of the air. That's why everyone's saying, 327 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: how come there aren't very many Russian planes overhead? Well, 328 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: we hit him with the stingers and all of the 329 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 1: other things that we supplied. We supplied tremendous amounts of equipment, 330 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 1: so they could defend themselves, and they've done it. They've 331 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: done a great job. You look at what's happening. However, 332 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: with the planes that's all botched up, the planes from 333 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: Poland that's all botched up, and watching well, I would 334 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 1: have done it a lot differently than they've done it, 335 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 1: and that what they've done is just terrible back and 336 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: forth between the United States. Look Biden, every time he 337 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,439 Speaker 1: gets up, he says they are a nuclear nation. He 338 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: should say, we are a nuclear nation, and you know, 339 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: I rebuilt our whole nuclear arsenal, stronger, bigger, better than 340 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: ever before. It's better, and it's bigger than Russia. He 341 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: should say, we are a nuclear nation, and we don't 342 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: want war, and we don't want to wipe out anything 343 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 1: to do, and we don't want to wipe out Russia. 344 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 1: This is the way he should be talking. Instead, he's 345 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: saying we don't want where we're we're not. You know, 346 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: he doesn't talk about our nuclear capability. He keeps saying 347 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: that they are a nuclear nation, we don't want war. 348 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: And he's playing right into Putin's hands when he does that. 349 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: But Putin's having a lot of trouble right now. He's 350 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: having big big trouble because he thought this was going 351 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: to be a forty eight hour deal. And the Ukrainians 352 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: are good fighters and largely to a large extent or 353 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: certainly a big help was the fact that we gave 354 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: them a lot of javelins. You know, they say, I 355 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: don't know if you know, they say that Obama Biden 356 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: gave them blankets, and Trump gave them anti tank busters 357 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 1: and javelins. Abdul knew that he would be hit so hard, 358 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: like they've never been hit before if they kill any 359 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: American soldiers, because they killed a lot of soldiers under 360 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: the previous administration, as you know. And eighteen months we 361 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: went and there was no reason. I'm the one that 362 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,239 Speaker 1: got it down to two thousand and we were going 363 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: to pull out, but we were going to keep Bogram, 364 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: and not because of Afghanistan, but because of China, one 365 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. We 366 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 1: were going to keep it. Billions of dollars spent, massive 367 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: air force space, We're going to keep Bogram and we 368 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: were going to be the last out. They took the 369 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: military out first, So I don't know. You play it 370 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,239 Speaker 1: every night and you talk about the hostages that are 371 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: left in Afghanistan. It's a very sad thing. We have 372 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 1: American hostages right now, people American citizens and others that 373 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: shouldn't be there, that should have come out. They're right 374 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: now in Afghanistan and it's a it's a terrible thing. 375 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: But but they knew that they can't play games, they 376 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: can't play around, and he understood. And we didn't have 377 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: one soldier killed. That one military person that was killed 378 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: at eighteen months. And actually Biden was the one that 379 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 1: admitted that. He said, whether you like it or not, 380 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: there's been no soldier killed in eighteen months now. As 381 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: people were not happy when he said it, but it 382 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: was he said it, and let me go, that was 383 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: very unusual. Actually Putin is for Russia, and you see 384 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: what happened, and that's all because they didn't respect our leader. Look, 385 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: there was nobody and Putin would tell you this if 386 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: he if he was telling the truth. And I'm sure 387 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: he sold it to all of his interstanctum. Nobody was 388 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: tougher or Russia than me. I closed down the pipeline. 389 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 1: Biden came in incredibly. He opened the pipeline, closed the 390 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: American pipeline and pipeline by the way burd suit. You'll 391 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: be seeing that. But I closed the pipeline going into 392 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: Germany and other parts of your nord Stream two. Nobody 393 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: had heard of nord Stream two until I came along. 394 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: I closed it down. It was a dead deal. And 395 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: then he opened it up. I was sanctioning everybody, nobody ever, 396 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: as we said, I gave them the javelins, the anti 397 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: tank busters, I gave them weaponry in Ukraine. Nobody was 398 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: ever tougher on Russia than me. Nobody was ever even 399 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: close to being tough like I was on Russia. And 400 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: then you hear the Russia Russia Russia hooks, you know, 401 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: the whole hoax made up by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. 402 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: And frankly, that was very bad for a country. I 403 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: said it very often, very very bad, very dangerous, very bad. 404 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: And hopefully a lot of things are going to happen 405 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 1: with those people because they created a false startup. But 406 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: nobody was ever tough on Russia. Black guy was, and 407 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: Putin will tell you. But Putin will also tell a 408 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 1: very small group of people that he would have never 409 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: gone in while I was president, and he didn't. You know, 410 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: the fact is he didn't. They went into Georgia, and 411 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,360 Speaker 1: they went into Crimea, and they went into Now they 412 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: want the whole ball of wax. Well, four years, showed 413 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 1: him to four years. They did nothing as far as 414 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 1: the pipeline is concerned. I told Uncle Lemurco loud and clear, 415 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: and everybody knew. It was a lot of reporting on it, 416 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: and they sort of laughed at me when I said it. 417 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: But I said, you are going to be a hostage 418 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: of Russia if you don't do something with this pipeline. 419 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: You should never ever make this deal. And by the way, 420 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: the previous Chancellor of Germany heads up the company, the 421 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: pipeline company, but nord Stream too. I said, if you 422 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: make that deal, you are literally at the mercy of 423 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 1: Russia and Germany shouldn't make the deal. I had an argument. 424 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: There are those people that say I sent her a 425 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: white flag of surrender, which I did because they said, 426 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: as soon as you have a problem, did I hear 427 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: you right? You sent angela Merkel a white flag of surrender? 428 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: Oh yes, I did, said I said it to her. 429 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: What did you say, trying to send it in humor? 430 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: You know, at that point you could have humor because 431 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: nobody believed it was possible that what I said was true. 432 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: When you look at NATO, what we did with NATO, 433 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: they were not paid up. They were delinquent. You have 434 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: twenty eight countries, there were only eight of them that 435 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: were paid, including the United States, which was far more 436 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: than paid up. We paid for all of the people 437 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: that weren't paying and I said, you have to pay 438 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: you bills, and if you don't pay you bills, we're 439 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: not going to protect you. They asked me that question. 440 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: We're not going to protect you. If you're delinquent, we're 441 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 1: not going to protect you. And as soon as I 442 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: said that, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars right 443 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: into the till of the Secretary General, who was a 444 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: wonderful guy, Stoltenberg. He's my biggest fan. Because he never 445 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: thought it would happen. Obama would go, they hit make 446 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: a nice speech. Everybody went there at Bush. They all 447 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: went there and made a speech. Nobody said, hey, wait 448 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: a minute, you guys aren't paying your bills. We're protecting you. 449 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: So they took advantage of us on trade, and on 450 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: top of that, we took care of their military protection 451 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 1: and that stopped. So NATO now has at least the money. 452 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: But it's a little bit of a It has been 453 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: a little bit of a paper tiger. Now we'll see 454 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: whether or not they hold together. So that was the 455 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: President of the United States forty five from last night 456 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 1: on the TV show. You think Joe Biden can talk 457 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 1: like that for forty five minutes? Forty minutes? No, I 458 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: don't think so. Anyway, eight hundred and nine for one, Sean, 459 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program, 460 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: let us say hi to Andy as in Alabama. What's up? Andy? 461 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: How are you? Sir? What part of Alabama are you in? 462 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: Mobile book? But old deal, roll Tide or War Eagle? 463 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 1: Which is it? You gotta be a nixt Saban guy, 464 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: I'm just guessing roll Tad, Buddy, rolled Tad all the way. 465 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: There's no better coaching football. Sorry for you War Eagle people, 466 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: but there's no better coaching college football. The next Saban 467 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 1: period in a sentence. You got that right, buddy? What's 468 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: going on? So hey, Sean, you're a true American patriot. 469 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: But I appreciate everything you do. Thank you. So I 470 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: want to go. I'm You're welcome. I'm a formal truck driver. 471 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: I was owner operator I can tell you all the 472 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: ins and outs of what goes on when fuel prices 473 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: go up. Back in a later two oh three, when 474 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: fuel prices were a dollar nine and out a gallon 475 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: of diesels, we threw a fit. I mean, all these 476 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: most of these trucks carried three hundred gallons of fuel, 477 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 1: So you imagined five and a half dollars six dollars 478 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,479 Speaker 1: a gallon, you're looking about sixteen hundred dollars, well, fourteen 479 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: to sixteen hundred dollars to fill up a truck. Plus 480 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: you got these trucks with these riefe units with sixty 481 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: gallon tanks on, so you're looking about a little three 482 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: hundred dollars more to fill up them. So I mean 483 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: when your fuel prices go up for a trucker for 484 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: a trucking company, that means you're shipping rights you're going 485 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 1: to go up. Well, listen to the truck truck drivers. 486 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: They're not going to work and get paid less. They're 487 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: just not I have too many really close friends people 488 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: in my life that are in the trucking business, so 489 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: I know a lot about it. So what's happening is, 490 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: you know, the cost is not passed on to the 491 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: truck driver or the trucking company or the owner operator. 492 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,919 Speaker 1: It's passed on to the consumer. But it's not like 493 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: you have a choice in this. You know, when you're 494 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: paying two to three times what you are paying, guess 495 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: you have no choice but to raise prices. No, that's right. 496 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: It's a domino effect goes all the way down to 497 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: consumer that suffers. But the trackers can suffer too if 498 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: they can afford. If they can't afford these fuel prices, 499 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: they'll have no choice but to part trucks. That means 500 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: drivers lose your jobs. And that's well, I'm at this 501 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: moment in time because of the supply chain crisis. It's 502 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: just the opposite. And I'll tell you why. Because they 503 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: can't get spare parts that you cannot find a new 504 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: truck anywhere in the country right now, you can't buy one. 505 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: And let's say you are on a least program, you're 506 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: barely you know, keeping the trucks that you have. It's 507 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: and I know because my friends are you know, literally 508 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: on the phone every day for hours trying to do it. 509 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: Demand is so high and we can't They can't get 510 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: enough trucks on the road, and when they break down, 511 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: it's hard to get a spare part. It's very difficult 512 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: right now for everybody in the business. But demand has 513 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: never been greater. No, But thing is about buying a truck. 514 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: But it's not like buying paying a whole mortgage or 515 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: a car note. You pay that truck note every week 516 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: and that insurance and you're looking about eight hundred dollars 517 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: a week. And it's not easy. I mean, you take 518 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: ten percent off the top for maintenance, and you gotta 519 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: pay fuel, you gotta pay tolls, um, scale tickets, whatever else. 520 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: It hard. Man i'tually bringing anything home, and he's got 521 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: a fan support. But my thing is about this clean 522 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: energy that's great real quick. When I drove out the 523 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: California you can see about fifty windmills are fully heel 524 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: about three turning. And the thing is where they need 525 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: to run. They have fossil fuels, all in grease to run. 526 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: It's a lifeblood of the world's economy. Windmills and solar 527 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: panels won't cut a buddy. But listen, God bless you, 528 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: thank you for all you do and you've done in 529 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: your career. Um, it's it's amazing. I think one thing 530 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: that's come out of this. That's a good thing. People 531 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: now appreciate how important the truckers are to our economy. 532 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 1: I think that is that is definitely in people's you know, 533 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: awareness at this point. Maybe before they didn't realize it. Anyway, 534 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Eight our number. All right, that's gonna wrap 535 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: things up today. The best coverage as it relates to 536 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: the economy, which is a disaster. The disaster that is 537 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: Putin invading Ukraine, Joe Biden blaming Putin for everything that 538 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: went wrong, even though it always going wrong before Putin 539 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: invaded Ukraine. Anyway, your ducy Senator Tom Cotton. 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