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Speaker 4: This is Joe Kanca in for Sean Hannity on this
Speaker 4: January second. It's still weird to say twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: This century is going by fast, and twenty twenty four
Speaker 4: is probably the fastest year of all time.
Speaker 1: Of course, you guys know me.
Speaker 4: I'm on the show all the time, whether it's radio,
Speaker 4: whether it's television with Sean. I am a Fox News
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Speaker 4: Donald Trump, not the assassination attempt, the first one, not
Speaker 4: a serious stoic picture of the forty fifth and forty
Speaker 4: seven president, but Donald Trump at McDonald's waving goodbye to
Speaker 4: a customer. Came up through a drive through, and I
Speaker 4: can say on New Year's Eve, I was with the
Speaker 4: future president and former president at mar A Lago. They
Speaker 4: were nice enough, the Trump people were to invite my
Speaker 4: wife and me to not only attend this huge gathering,
Speaker 4: but to actually sit at the president's table. Malanya of
Speaker 4: course was there, Elon Musk right next to the president.
Speaker 4: To his right across from him, jd Vance, Vice President
Speaker 4: jad Vance, his wife Usha. I could go down the
Speaker 4: list as far as all the people, but you get
Speaker 4: the point. To be seated at the president's table on
Speaker 4: New Year's Eve, that was something special. So I just
Speaker 4: wanted to thank the President and his team personally. It
Speaker 4: was a night that well, let's put this way beat
Speaker 4: doing like that one hundred dollars all you can drink
Speaker 4: thing that I used to do in Hoboken with my friends.
Speaker 4: This slightly was better than that. So and a beautiful night,
Speaker 4: by the way, and now it's like twelve degrees here
Speaker 4: back in New York City. So that was reality striking
Speaker 4: when we came back quickly on yesterday afternoon. So let's
Speaker 4: get to the big news here, guys, And that obviously
Speaker 4: is twenty twenty five came in, and it came in
Speaker 4: with chaos, and it came in with death and destruction
Speaker 4: and just horrible to see on your screens. I'm sure
Speaker 4: when you woke up on New Year's Day expecting, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'll watch the Rose Bawl, I'll catch up on some things.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll just kind of hang out and you know,
Speaker 4: get over whatever I may have done the night before,
Speaker 4: and you turn on your TV and then you have
Speaker 4: to see that a mad man decided to take his
Speaker 4: truck and drive down Bourbon Street. I was in New
Speaker 4: Orleans last year for a speech, and obviously you know
Speaker 4: Bourbon Street. It's like one of the first places you
Speaker 4: visit when you're down there. My hotel is basically right
Speaker 4: next to it, and it's not a very wide street.
Speaker 4: You know, people can get quartered in pretty easily, and
Speaker 4: if a truck gets in there, there's nowhere to really
Speaker 4: get out of the way to you know, obviously protect yourself.
Speaker 4: And now we hear that fifteen people, at least fifteen
Speaker 4: people had been killed, dozens injured. This radicalized man who
Speaker 4: was at least alleged to ISIS, he actually served in
Speaker 4: the military here, he was from Texas. He rented a truck,
Speaker 4: he put an ISIS flag on the back of it,
Speaker 4: he had IEDs in the back of the truck, and
Speaker 4: then even after he was done mowing down people, he
Speaker 4: got out and started firing at law enforcement. Two police
Speaker 4: officers were hit. They are expected to be okay. But
Speaker 4: this was something that perhaps could have been prevented on
Speaker 4: two levels. For starters, the red flags were there, and
Speaker 4: how many times do we see this where you suddenly
Speaker 4: see the social media posts of somebody who clearly has
Speaker 4: mental issues, clearly could be a threat, and somehow got
Speaker 4: under the radar here. And then obviously the barricades that
Speaker 4: should have been in front of Bourbon Street, they were
Speaker 4: in the process of being improved or built whatever language
Speaker 4: that you want to believe coming out of New Orleans,
Speaker 4: those absolutely should have been completed, especially in front of
Speaker 4: like the number one street that you have to protect
Speaker 4: that's in the French Quarter, that is Bourbon Street. And
Speaker 4: obviously this truck was able to get around some temporary barricades.
Speaker 4: Police down there were using police cars to try to
Speaker 4: prevent this sort of thing from happening. We see those
Speaker 4: large concrete blocks that are used or barricades I should say,
Speaker 4: we see in New York City, for example, Times Square.
Speaker 1: They're put in.
Speaker 4: You're not going to get anywhere near Times Square, no
Speaker 4: matter what sort of truck or even tank that you
Speaker 4: have when these things are in place. And that's what
Speaker 4: should have happened in New Orleans. So that's what we
Speaker 4: know right now. The FBI has been all over the
Speaker 4: place when it comes to this particular story. First, they
Speaker 4: came out rather quickly before an investigation possibly could have
Speaker 4: been done the right way, and said they didn't think
Speaker 4: it was a terror attack, which you know, a truck
Speaker 4: mows down people and the guys starts shooting at police.
Speaker 4: I'm not you know, in the FBI or even never
Speaker 4: served in law enforcement, but just as a guy watching
Speaker 4: this on his couch, you come to the conclusion pretty
Speaker 4: quickly that that's exactly what happened here. So then the
Speaker 4: FBI walks this back and says, no, it was a
Speaker 4: terror attack. The New Orleans mayor actually said from the
Speaker 4: onset rightly that this was a terror attack. And now
Speaker 4: we're hearing, Look, we're only thirty six hours after this happened,
Speaker 4: that the FBI is concluding that this suspect must have
Speaker 4: been a lone wolf, that he wasn't working with anybody else. Well,
Speaker 4: after thirty six hours, how do you really know that
Speaker 4: he's dead? So he's not talking, and you don't know
Speaker 4: who he may have worked with beforehand. He came from Texas,
Speaker 4: he rented, he just knew right where to get to the
Speaker 4: Bourbon Street and there wouldn't be any barricades there. And
Speaker 4: then there were reports of IDs being found in other
Speaker 4: parts of the city as well. I just think, how
Speaker 4: do we know so quickly, Just like the shooter in
Speaker 4: the first Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, thirteen July,
Speaker 4: they came to a conclusion so quickly, not this kid
Speaker 4: doesn't working with anybody. Yeah, I's just a twenty year
Speaker 4: old who just happened to outflank the entire Secret Service
Speaker 4: and local law enforcement, was able to hide a rifle
Speaker 4: behind an air conditioning unit at a building one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty yards from the stage where the candidate and
Speaker 4: President Trump was set to speak, and then was able
Speaker 4: to get up on a building which had the perfect
Speaker 4: line of sight to that stage, was able to fly
Speaker 4: a drone the day of to scout out the place.
Speaker 4: I mean, I could go on and on as far
Speaker 4: as like the failure's there, but the fact that we
Speaker 4: hear after a very short investigation, it felt like that
Speaker 4: Thomas Crooks, twenty years old, once again just acted alone
Speaker 4: and nothing to see here, And now if it feels
Speaker 4: like this is happening all over again, nothing to see here.
Speaker 4: I mean, of course there's something to see here, But
Speaker 4: for them to say that this was alone wolf a tactle,
Speaker 4: do we really know that? And I think ten years ago,
Speaker 4: if the FBI told me something, I believe it, I'd say, Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: these guys are the experts, and these are the people
Speaker 4: protecting us, and I don't think that it's politicide. To
Speaker 4: a certain extent, this is before again James Comey in
Speaker 4: the twenty sixteen election, so FBI was largely trusted at
Speaker 4: that point. So if they told you this, you would
Speaker 4: believe it. And now it's like, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: you're saying it's a lone wolf. Thirty six hours after
Speaker 4: this happened. I think a lot of people in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five are saying, I don't know if I believe you.
Speaker 4: I mean, we saw the head of the FBI office
Speaker 4: down there in New Orleans, DEI higher, clearly she takes
Speaker 4: off her nose ring before she goes to the podium.
Speaker 1: I mean that was strange as well.
Speaker 4: And then we had Senator Kennedy down there of Louisiana
Speaker 4: and basically he was fed up yesterday during that presser,
Speaker 4: and clearly it showed. So let's play the Kennedy clip, guys,
Speaker 4: And I think it's really telling that not many people
Speaker 4: are truly aware of exactly.
Speaker 1: What's going on down there in New Orleans. Cut goat.
Speaker 6: Oh, there's just too much stuff we don't know, and
Speaker 6: it's just mountain. But I guess my final point is
Speaker 6: I will promise you this. I will, when it is
Speaker 6: appropriate and this investigation is complete, you will find out
Speaker 6: what happened and who's responsible, or I will raise fresh
Speaker 6: Hell and I will chase those in the federal government
Speaker 6: who are responsible for telling us what happened, like they
Speaker 6: stole Christmas.
Speaker 4: I believe him he will raise Hell. Kennedy is an
Speaker 4: honest broker. You see him on Fox all the time,
Speaker 4: and this isn't a guy who there's no bs there.
Speaker 4: So I'm good that he's calling this out at this
Speaker 4: point because obviously the American people deserve answers, as do
Speaker 4: the people going to the Sugar Bowl that starts in
Speaker 4: forty five minutes. It was supposed to be played last night,
Speaker 4: Notre Dame Georgia college football playoff that's over at the
Speaker 4: Superdome again, having been to New Orleans last year for
Speaker 4: the first time to super Dome isn't exactly near the
Speaker 4: French Quarter. It's kind of when you're coming into the
Speaker 4: city right off the highway. But still, when we talk
Speaker 4: about soft targets again, you're going to have seventy seventy
Speaker 4: five thousand people at this game in parking lots, tailgating.
Speaker 4: I would hope that security there is going to be
Speaker 4: a lot better than what we saw on New Year's night.
Speaker 4: So the suspect's name, by the way, is shamsud Din
Speaker 4: Jabbar and he is from Texas. Apparently according to a
Speaker 4: series of videos that we're just seeing now, he said
Speaker 4: in these videos that he was planning to kill his family,
Speaker 4: and he had dreams that inspired him to join ISIS,
Speaker 4: and he was going to kill his friends as well,
Speaker 4: But then wasn't sure how the media would report on
Speaker 4: that this is somebody who's clearly deranged, Like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: not going to kill my family and friends, so I
Speaker 4: think I'll just plow into a bunch of dinis and
Speaker 4: people on Bourbon Street instead. So again, this is a
Speaker 4: very strange situation, which is probably the wrong word to
Speaker 4: use here, but we need more investigation here and not
Speaker 4: just conclude that this was.
Speaker 1: A lone wolf.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, you've all seen the video by now,
Speaker 4: tesla blows up a couple of hours later in front
Speaker 4: of a Trump property the Trump sign you see right
Speaker 4: out of it. The tesla was built in such a
Speaker 4: way where it actually contained the explosion basically to the
Speaker 4: car itself, and Ela Musk actually spoke to authorities as
Speaker 4: far as where the tesla had come from the last
Speaker 4: charging station it used. For example, Tesla had all this
Speaker 4: information and Musk readily shared that with authorities. Several people
Speaker 4: were hurt in that blast, however, but there for right now,
Speaker 4: from what we're hearing, they should be okay because again
Speaker 4: it was only contained to the actual Tesla itself. The
Speaker 4: person that carried this out actually shot himself in the
Speaker 4: head reportedly before ignoring the explosion. And that was the
Speaker 4: one person that was killed in this situation. But you know,
Speaker 4: you see reactions online after situations like this. As far
Speaker 4: as just these trolls, it's the only way to put it, trolls.
Speaker 4: And I'm including like the Washington Post and the whole
Speaker 4: trolling thing. All right, democracy dies in darkness. The paper
Speaker 4: of Woodward and Bernstein and all those Pultzers that they've won.
Speaker 4: This is the headline that they decided to run. As
Speaker 4: far as if you just go back to New Orleans
Speaker 4: for a second, truck rams New Orleans crowd truck rams
Speaker 4: New Orleans crowd. Wappo, was this a self driving truck?
Speaker 4: What do you mean the truck just did it? Was
Speaker 4: there someone in the truck?
Speaker 1: Perhaps?
Speaker 4: I mean that that headline is intentional. I'm sorry you
Speaker 4: have all these editors. You know, I'm a writer. I've
Speaker 4: written three books. I've written hundreds of columns and stories,
Speaker 4: whether it be news reports, media reports for The Hill,
Speaker 4: for other publications like The New York Post where coming
Speaker 4: out in literally like two hours, I think at this point.
Speaker 4: But the point is that when you see truck rams
Speaker 4: New Orleans crowd, that if you're teaching a class in
Speaker 4: media bias, is the top of your syllabus for the
Speaker 4: class that's called the bias of omission. All right, terrorist
Speaker 4: Rams New Orleans crowd, not truck, because truck implies that
Speaker 4: the truck was out of control and the truck just
Speaker 4: happened to do it without anybody behind the wheel. So
Speaker 4: that was just, you know, beyond disgusting to see that
Speaker 4: particular headline. And then obviously there's this guy named Ron
Speaker 4: philip Kowski, and he is one of those people that
Speaker 4: has probably stage five TDS, which you know, if you
Speaker 4: have stage five TDS for for more than four hours,
Speaker 4: definitely see your psychiatrist.
Speaker 1: But in this case, this clown puts up a photo.
Speaker 4: And now we're going back to Las Vegas for a
Speaker 4: moment of the tesla that blew up, and again the
Speaker 4: suspect also former army served in the same base as
Speaker 4: the suspect that carried out the New Orleans attack. So coincidence,
Speaker 4: that's a little bit. That's a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: Of a coincidence.
Speaker 4: But they're saying they're completely separately, says what authorities are
Speaker 4: saying for now. And Philipowski says this in this particular tweet.
Speaker 4: And this is like three hours after again, dozens of people,
Speaker 4: I mean several people injured, one person obviously who carried
Speaker 4: it out dead and a burning tesla in front of
Speaker 4: a Trump property, a real photo and a perfect metaphor
Speaker 4: heading into twenty twenty five. And literally it's a picture
Speaker 4: of the tesla on fire, a person burning to death
Speaker 4: inside of it, and then a picture of the Trump
Speaker 4: property and the Trump logo prominently featured, a real photo
Speaker 4: and a perfect metaphor heading into twenty twenty five. This
Speaker 4: guy's celebrating terrorism for a cheap laugh. But that's the
Speaker 4: type of thing that we see here. It's the same
Speaker 4: thing with this Luigi Mangioni. I could not believe that
Speaker 4: when that CEO of United Healthcare, a father of two,
Speaker 4: a guy about my age husband gets shot in the
Speaker 4: back and killed. And then what do we see for
Speaker 4: the next week. We hear from Jimmy Kimmel, the insufferable
Speaker 4: Jimmy Kimmel or CNN how hot the shooter was. I mean,
Speaker 4: we're sick as a society. I mean, social media does
Speaker 4: not help things because we got to read every inane
Speaker 4: thought from every inane person down there.
Speaker 1: But that's where we are.
Speaker 4: It's January second, and already we have several of these
Speaker 4: horrible incidents happening. And we're now eighteen days from Donald
Speaker 4: Trump and his inauguration and him becoming the forty seven president.
Speaker 4: And quite frankly, I think for most Americans, even many Democrats,
Speaker 4: that day cannot come soon enough. Your phone number eight
Speaker 4: hundred nine to four to one, Sean eight hundred ninety
Speaker 4: four to one, Sean Sea n your calls coming up next.
Speaker 4: This is Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, back with
Speaker 4: more in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 4: This is Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, The Sean
Speaker 4: Hannity Show. I hope you had a tremendous New Year's Eve,
Speaker 4: wherever that may have happened. I think one of the
Speaker 4: best parts of New Year's even I couldn't see it
Speaker 4: because you know, I was at the aforementioned party that
Speaker 4: I was telling about before at mar A Lago for
Speaker 4: my book. But you had on a comedian that would
Speaker 4: joined Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in that ridiculous New
Speaker 4: Year's Eve show that they have on CNN where you know,
Speaker 4: they they drink and make fools themselves, and you know,
Speaker 4: whenever they do a shot, they always have these like
Speaker 4: horrible reactions to them, as if it's like the first
Speaker 4: time they ever like put alcohol into their system. Well,
Speaker 4: at one point they had a comedian on I want
Speaker 4: to say her name was Whitney Cummings, and she made
Speaker 4: like some tremendous jokes at CNN's expense, as far as
Speaker 4: propping up Biden, propping up Kamala, like doing all of
Speaker 4: these things and talking about how basically they have more
Speaker 4: employees now than they have actual viewers. And this was
Speaker 4: happening on CNN, like right to Anderson Cooper's face. We're
Speaker 4: gonna try to get that clip for you when we
Speaker 4: come back, but it's one of the greatest things you'll
Speaker 4: ever hear.
Speaker 1: Given where it happened.
Speaker 4: This is Joe knca in for Sean Hannity, got some
Speaker 4: great guests coming up for you today. Stick around, Hey,
Speaker 4: welcome back everybody. Eight hundred and nine to four one
Speaker 4: Sean eight hundred ninety four to one Sean. To steal
Speaker 4: a line from the late great Rush Limbaugh, it is
Speaker 4: open line, not Friday. Okay, we're gonnadjust her a little bit.
Speaker 4: It is Thursday. It's weird right this week, like the
Speaker 4: last two and a half weeks because Christmas, Christmas Eve,
Speaker 4: hanka New Year's, New Year's.
Speaker 1: Eve have fallen in the middle of the week.
Speaker 4: When those events are over, like the day after Christmas,
Speaker 4: you don't quite know what day it is, like, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: it's Thursday, or it's is it Friday? Is at much
Speaker 4: like everything's kind of blending in the one But people
Speaker 4: got a lot of time off, right If you're not
Speaker 4: back yet to work. I know a lot of people
Speaker 4: are not back to work today. Might as well just
Speaker 4: go through the weekend another four days. You got one
Speaker 4: of the longest breaks probably ever, So I hope you
Speaker 4: enjoyed it. We all work hard and we all deserve
Speaker 4: our time off. So eight hundred ninety four one Sewan,
Speaker 4: it is open line. Friday, I do want to bring
Speaker 4: in our first VIP guest. We haven't spoken in a while,
Speaker 4: Jeff Lord. You are an author at The American Spectator
Speaker 4: and the host of Word of the Lord. I love that,
Speaker 4: and you take us through the life and times at
Speaker 4: Jimmy Carter, which I want to talk to you about
Speaker 4: real fast, but just want it because I promised this
Speaker 4: to our listeners. Jeff, what happened on CNN on New
Speaker 4: Year's Eve this time round was absolutely glorious because instead
Speaker 4: of us watching Don Lemmon get overserved in the most
Speaker 4: annoying and sufferable way possible, we had Whitney Cummings, who's
Speaker 4: a great comedian, just go off on CNN. On CNN, so,
Speaker 4: as a former CNN guy, I thought you would appreciate
Speaker 4: this roast. Let's play the Whitney Cummings clip to Anderson
Speaker 4: Cooper and Andy Cohen got I love going around.
Speaker 2: The country because you see that Americans really are more
Speaker 2: reasonable than they would be portrayed. ABS pretty great, and
Speaker 2: I'm playing bigger and bigger venues now. I thought being
Speaker 2: a mom would mean that less people want to come
Speaker 2: see me. I'm not playing like three thousand feet Peter
Speaker 2: asked me about the viewership of CNN these days, not
Speaker 2: this show. Die'm all on this show. Twenty four election
Speaker 2: fried our brains. The Democrats couldn't hold a primary because
Speaker 2: they were too busy holding a body up right, Oh
Speaker 2: are we still rolling on my off rove for it?
Speaker 2: It was amazing that the pro choice party didn't give
Speaker 2: their voters one When it came to the presidential candidate.
Speaker 2: Toma was forced on us so hard. You think she
Speaker 2: was patented by Vizor for Maderno, which everyone's said, oh god,
Speaker 2: and he just gave me a.
Speaker 1: Very scary look.
Speaker 4: I mean that fifty seconds is some of the best
Speaker 4: programming CNN has had, probably since like the Persian Gulf War.
Speaker 2: JA.
Speaker 3: Having spent so much time there, I got to know
Speaker 3: and be friends with. I maybe the only person in
Speaker 3: America who's friends with both Sean Hannity and Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 3: One of the things I've learned with working with Anderson
Speaker 3: is he is a master of the poker face. And
Speaker 3: I was watching you know, this sort of thing as
Speaker 3: this incident, and I kept looking in Anderson and I said, yeah,
Speaker 3: you still come to your porker face. But what he's
Speaker 3: really thinking is Oh my god, will she stop?
Speaker 4: Because Okay, you're live. It's not like get dumped out
Speaker 4: or it's a pre tay to get edited out. You know,
Speaker 4: that's live and that usually, and I'm not exaggerating here,
Speaker 4: their New Year's Eve broadcast is probably their highest rated
Speaker 4: broadcast of the year. Now that's not saying a lot,
Speaker 4: because the network is only averaging three hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: thousand viewers a day, which is you know, if I'm
Speaker 4: doing a math on that, that's seven thousand viewers on
Speaker 4: average per state, which is really hard to do for
Speaker 4: a network that's in ninety five million homes.
Speaker 1: But that's what's happened to see.
Speaker 4: And you know, if we could just recount real quick
Speaker 4: before we discussed Jimmy Carter for a bit, and obviously
Speaker 4: these terrorttacks that I wanted to talk to you about
Speaker 4: as well, But the way you were fired, I think
Speaker 4: it's just kind of it bears repeating because I think
Speaker 4: it was one of the most classless things I have
Speaker 4: ever heard. You were coming from Pennsylvania going into do
Speaker 4: a hit that's basically like a segment where you're you're
Speaker 4: interviewed or you're on a panel, debating people, and you're
Speaker 4: in the car for like a good hour, and what
Speaker 4: happens next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got this call and I'm literally on the
Speaker 3: Jersey Turnpike, within sight of the skyline of New York
Speaker 3: and I'm beyond that night and I get a call
Speaker 3: from CNN telling me that I have been fired. And
Speaker 3: the reason for my firing was, of course, I had
Speaker 3: managed to upset the people at Media Matters and campaigning
Speaker 3: for my firing for months on end, just about all
Speaker 3: the time I was there, they wanted me off the air,
Speaker 3: and you know, I didn't go along with a far
Speaker 3: left anti Trump doctrine that they pushed. And finally, you know,
Speaker 3: I said something on a tweet, I think, and reminded
Speaker 3: them of their of their behavior, and they didn't like it,
Speaker 3: and that was that was it. And I remember at
Speaker 3: one point earlier on Jeff Sucker, who was the President's
Speaker 3: CNN said to me after an appearance, he said, well,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm protecting you, right, And I thanked him
Speaker 3: and everything, But I thought quietly to myself, why in
Speaker 3: the world do I need protection? You know what? The
Speaker 3: deal here, and the obvious deal was they didn't like
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, and I had just as things had evolved
Speaker 3: in sort of natural form as the campaign of twenty
Speaker 3: sixteen took shape, I had evolved into being a defender
Speaker 3: of Donald Trump, and a lot of the CNN Times
Speaker 3: did not like it and were campaigning to get me fired,
Speaker 3: and finally they did it. But you know, Selvi, I
Speaker 3: have long since learned my lesson about the liberal media
Speaker 3: as of you. And by the way, I just want
Speaker 3: to give you a congratulations. I was reading your New
Speaker 3: York Post column from the other day that about me
Speaker 3: twenty four was a year of gaslighting and the worst
Speaker 3: media lies, bingo.
Speaker 4: Everything on Biden's health, right on Kamala's record. I mean,
Speaker 4: it wrote itself. I mean, that wasn't a hard one
Speaker 4: to write at all. But yeah, that's gotten some acclaims.
Speaker 4: So I appreciate that. I just love how Jeff Zucker
Speaker 4: was the president of that network and he has to
Speaker 4: protect you. Well, you're the president of the network, are
Speaker 4: you the one who ultimately decides who is hired and fired?
Speaker 4: So I just found that it sounded very soprano like
Speaker 4: to me, you know, like, you know, I just thought
Speaker 4: it was a whole ball wrong. They did the same
Speaker 4: thing to our friend Mary Catherine ham right, they hire her,
Speaker 4: and then she was so effective on the air that
Speaker 4: they didn't fire They just kept her off the air
Speaker 4: for two years and just let her, you know, run
Speaker 4: out our contract. And now Fox is lucky enough to happen.
Speaker 4: So we're happy about that. But enough about the media business.
Speaker 4: Who wants to talk about these clowns. I do want
Speaker 4: to talk about Jimmy Carter his passing. Obviously, you are
Speaker 4: probably like one of the best people to go to
Speaker 4: for him. When I was I got called on to
Speaker 4: Fox to talk about Carter, and my basic conclusion on
Speaker 4: him in terms of legacy was that there's two legacies.
Speaker 4: There is of his presidency, which was one of the
Speaker 4: worst of our lifetimes. If you just want to look
Speaker 4: at you know, the fact that his approval writing was
Speaker 4: thirty four percent when he left office, that we had
Speaker 4: inflation above thirteen percent, Iran hostage crisis, we boycott the
Speaker 4: Moscow Olympics in nineteen eighty, which was profoundly unpopular, and
Speaker 4: he lost forty four states. So it's not like a
Speaker 4: personal thing because I was barely alive when Carter was president.
Speaker 4: But you look at the numbers and you read about
Speaker 4: it and you're like, all right, not a good presidency
Speaker 4: at all, one termer. But as a person what he
Speaker 4: did as far as his work with habitat with humanity,
Speaker 4: for example, in building homes, not just writing a check
Speaker 4: but actually putting the work in. That's why his approval
Speaker 4: went to nearly sixty percent and he eventually won a
Speaker 4: Nobel Prize as well. So post presidency, Jimmy Carter's you know,
Speaker 4: at least the perception from the public was far better
Speaker 4: than when he was actually president. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And as saying, you know, I went on to
Speaker 3: work for President Reagan, who wouldn't have been there, I
Speaker 3: sometimes think had it not been for Jimmy Carter. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because Jimmy Carter was so unpopular. And I mean I
Speaker 3: vividly remember you know, you go to the gas station
Speaker 3: and you have to wait in line for about an
Speaker 3: hour to fill up your tank, and then when you
Speaker 3: got there to fill up your tank, you were told
Speaker 3: you couldn't fill it up. There was a limit on
Speaker 3: how much gas you could pump into your tank.
Speaker 4: And wasn't it odd even license plates as well, like
Speaker 4: on certain days you could only get gas, that's right, Yea.
Speaker 3: They set up this whole regiment and all this kind
Speaker 3: of thing, you know. And I thought at the time,
Speaker 3: this is not going to go over well with the
Speaker 3: American people, And sure enough, you know, we got to
Speaker 3: And I remember what was amusing to me was in
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy six I had been involved in the four
Speaker 3: Dole campaign here in what became the Ford Dole campaign
Speaker 3: here in Pennsylvania. And I remember going to the convention,
Speaker 3: which was a showdown between then President Ford and then
Speaker 3: former Governor Reagan, and I remember all my political elders
Speaker 3: in the Pennsylvania delegation, people of some prominence here in
Speaker 3: the state, telling me that we had to be for
Speaker 3: Ford because Reagan could never carry Pennsylvania. Well, we got
Speaker 3: to the fall campaign and Ford lost to Pennsylvania. And
Speaker 3: years later they tried to make the same argument, this
Speaker 3: time when he was running for Reagan was running against
Speaker 3: George H. W. Bush, and he got the nomination, and
Speaker 3: as you pointed out, not only did he carry Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: he carried forty four states. It was a landslide. And
Speaker 3: four years later, when I had the opportunity to be
Speaker 3: involved in the Reagan Bush reelection campaign, he carried forty
Speaker 3: nine states.
Speaker 1: Could have carried a fifty.
Speaker 4: I understand like he could a campaigned in Minnesota and
Speaker 4: probably would have tipped that state, but he's like, like,
Speaker 4: I don't want to embarrass the guy completely by making
Speaker 4: him lose his home state.
Speaker 1: And then was Walter Mondale course.
Speaker 3: Discussed at the time, and he was such a decent guy.
Speaker 3: So what we settled on was sending him to do
Speaker 3: a rally in Fargo, North Dakota, where the television channel
Speaker 3: reaches into Minnesota. But he didn't go into Minnesota. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: So Walter Mondale, by a fairly narrow margin at that,
Speaker 3: wound up carrying his home state of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: Where would you rank Mondale, for example and Carter against
Speaker 4: the Kamala Harris campaign that we just witnessed, Is she
Speaker 4: the worst candidate we have ever seen? Because I can't
Speaker 4: think of one who had less authenticity, more flip flops,
Speaker 4: and just in general would just say anything to get
Speaker 4: elected and had zero political instincts. Because when you choose
Speaker 4: that goofy eighties sitcom Dad, that is Tim Walls out
Speaker 4: of the aforementioned Minnesota over somebody like Josh Shapiro from
Speaker 4: a state that you need and Shapiro's at something like
Speaker 4: sixty something percent approval.
Speaker 1: The instincts weren't there.
Speaker 4: Again, she was profoundly awkward when she was outside of
Speaker 4: a teleprompter, and you couldn't believe any position that she
Speaker 4: had because it was etcha sketch. So is she the
Speaker 4: worst candidate of our lifetimes up until this point?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she is certainly one of them. You know, Herbert Hoover,
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter's style. Jimmy Carter, though, was pretty effective in
Speaker 3: nineteen seven, but the magic was surely gone by the
Speaker 3: time he was running for reelection. And yeah, the one
Speaker 3: caution I would throw up here is she being from California.
Speaker 3: I remember when I was a kid that Richard Nixon
Speaker 3: tried to come back two years after losing the JFK
Speaker 3: and he ran for governor of California, lost and gave
Speaker 3: this press conference in which he lashed out at the
Speaker 3: media of the day and said, well, you know, gentlemen,
Speaker 3: I can assure you one thing, you won't have Nixon
Speaker 3: to kick around anymore. Years later, he gets elected president. Yeah,
Speaker 3: events can change. And I would caution, I mean, it
Speaker 3: wouldn't surprise me in the least if she ran and
Speaker 3: got elected as governor at California. I think there's more
Speaker 3: to play out with this thing here. So I don't
Speaker 3: want to get lulled into asaying that well, she's done,
Speaker 3: she's done for the moment. But who knows.
Speaker 4: And we're talking to Jeff Flordi of course as an
Speaker 4: author of The American Spectator and host of Word of
Speaker 4: the Lord. So if it isn't Kamala, because this time
Speaker 4: she'd have to go through in this time, it's twenty
Speaker 4: twenty eight. Trump is't even an office yet, we're going
Speaker 4: four years later.
Speaker 1: But that's what we do here.
Speaker 4: I guess you know, she still have to go through
Speaker 4: a primary, which she didn't have to this time the
Speaker 4: nomination was handed to her. Who would be her biggest challenger?
Speaker 4: You think on the Democratic side? Would it be Shapiro
Speaker 4: because there's an anti Semitic problem within the Democratic Party
Speaker 4: that may prevent him from getting the nomination, Or is
Speaker 4: it somebody that we're not really discussing right now that
Speaker 4: may be on your radar.
Speaker 3: No, I think avenuwsom, But I as a Pennsylvanian, I
Speaker 3: have to say I think Josh Shapiro could give her
Speaker 3: a real run for the nomination. I've met him once
Speaker 3: or twice here at various events and seeing him, you know,
Speaker 3: do his campaign thing.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 3: We have something in Pennsylvania known as the Pennsylvania Society,
Speaker 3: which was started literally about a century and a quarter
Speaker 3: ago by some sort of fascinating some wealthy Pennsylvania businessman
Speaker 3: who worked in New York who started this business of
Speaker 3: gathering Pennsylvanians from around the state to come to New
Speaker 3: York the second weekend in December every year. So this
Speaker 3: has become a big deal. And the Governor of the
Speaker 3: Moment that was there and obviously there a Governor Shapiro
Speaker 3: was there. I had a chance to talk with him.
Speaker 3: I think, I mean, it was pretty clear to me
Speaker 3: from the speech he gave that he is thinking seriously
Speaker 3: about twenty twenty eight. So don't underestimate him, is my advice,
Speaker 3: because he's done pretty amazingly here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I think he would
Speaker 1: be the biggest threat to a JD. Vance.
Speaker 4: I believe would get the nomination for the Republican Party
Speaker 4: if Trump's presidency is successful, and there's no reason to
Speaker 4: believe that will not happen.
Speaker 1: Jeff.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, the tell him that we got to go, but hey,
Speaker 4: we appreciate you joining us. I hope you had a
Speaker 4: great New Year's Eve and have a happy twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a great one.
Speaker 3: Now the recovery, take down the Christmas.
Speaker 1: Street, Yeah, all on the lights.
Speaker 4: It's gonna take me days. I know the feeling man,
Speaker 4: So thank you. Jeff enjoined Pennsylvania. This is Joe concha
Speaker 4: in for Sean Hannity, eight hundred nine to four to one. Shawn,
Speaker 4: your calls coming up next.
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Speaker 4: there are no coincidences. I think Freud said that once.
Speaker 4: The suspects in yesterday's attacks on Bourbon Street in New
Speaker 4: Orleans and Trump Tower in Las Vegas both served it
Speaker 4: for prag. Okay, we know that, but the same military base,
Speaker 4: and we're talking about brag here. Ryan Ruth visited that
Speaker 4: military base one hundred times before attempting to take Donald
Speaker 4: Trump's life. Now, remember he was the second assassin who
Speaker 4: had the snipe paper's nest. Remember that at Trump International
Speaker 4: down near Mar A Lago, and without a Secret Service
Speaker 4: agent spotting him in the bushes, he probably would have
Speaker 4: taken Trump out because there's no cover. He had a
Speaker 4: clear shot right on a green. So why did Ryan
Speaker 4: Ruth visit for Bragg and those were the suspects. That's
Speaker 4: where they actually served in both Bourbon Street and Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Makes no sense. Back with more in a moment,