1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: All right, news rounds up, information overload our eight hundred 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: and ninety four one, Shawn our number. We'll get to 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: your calls coming up this hour. If you haven't heard 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell announcing that he is stepping down as the 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Republican leader in the Senate in November after the elections. 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: Here's part of his announcement. 7 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 2: One of life's most underappreciated talents is to know when 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: it's time to move on to life's next chapter. So 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 2: I stand before you today, mister President, and my colleagues 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: to say, this will be my last term as Republican leader. 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 3: Dissenter. 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. I'll complete my job 13 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: my colleagues has given me until we select a new 14 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: leader in November and they take the helm next January, 15 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: I'll finish the job that people of Kentucky hired me 16 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: to do. As well, Paul would be it from a 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 2: different seat, and I'm actually looking forward to that. 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: All right, joining us now to discuss this and many 19 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: other issues, his fellow Kentucky Senator, and that is Ran 20 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: Paul's back with us, a senator, a doctor, medical doctor, 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,279 Speaker 1: Ran Paul sar glad you're with us. How are you very. 22 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 4: Good, Sean? Thanks for having me. 23 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 1: Look, I've always observed that I think you're two very 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: very different people. I think you have a very different 25 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: set of a very different political ideology. Yet in the 26 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: years that you've been in the Senate and Mitch McConnell's 27 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: been the leader, you've been able to have a I 28 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: think healthy and strong relationship with him and disagree with 29 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: him frankly often, and there seems to be no hostility. 30 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, But what's your reaction to this? 31 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 4: You know, I think it's the safe. It's quite safe 32 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 4: to say that we've had our differences over the years, 33 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 4: from the very beginning. You know, when I ran, he 34 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 4: supported my opponent in the primary, and so we've come 35 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 4: from different wings of the party. But yeah, we've had 36 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 4: a sort of a detunt I guess this is the 37 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 4: best way to put it over the years. And you know, 38 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 4: my comment today has been that I compliment him for 39 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 4: his longevity and his tenure, and there are still battles 40 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 4: that are ongoing between his part of the party and 41 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 4: my part of the party. I think we don't have 42 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 4: the money to be sending money overseas, particularly to Ukraine 43 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 4: at this point, I think that our debt is actually 44 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 4: the greatest threat to our national security and we can't 45 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 4: be just you know, printing up money like it's gone 46 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 4: out of style. So I've disagreed with him on that 47 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 4: and will continue to push within our caucus for people 48 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 4: who are you know, wanting to take care of our 49 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 4: border first, and frankly, would secure our border before we 50 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 4: start sending money overseas. 51 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: I tend to agree with you completely. There was a 52 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: meeting yesterday at the White House. The Speaker of the House, 53 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, was in this meeting with Biden and Schumer 54 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: and McConnell, and, according to a rapport so all three 55 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 1: of them ganged up on him and basically said to him, 56 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: you've got to abandon your conservative base in the House 57 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: and we can't have a government shutdown, which is always 58 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: the quote fear and he felt from reports it sounds 59 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: like he got beaten up pretty bad in there. I'm 60 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: kind of disappointed that McConnell joined in with Schumer and Biden. 61 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 4: Yeah, on this issue, you would hope that the Senate 62 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 4: Republican leader would side with the Senate or with the 63 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 4: House Republican speaker and instead it is really that. Unfortunately, 64 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 4: Senator McCall is more aligned with Biden and with Schumer 65 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,839 Speaker 4: on the issue of getting more money out the door 66 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 4: as fast as they can. The more money we give them, 67 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 4: the longer the war lasts. Actually, the worst Ukraine looks 68 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 4: over time, the longer this war goes on, and so 69 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 4: I think there is going to have to be some 70 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 4: kind of negotiated settlement. Zelenski got rid of their commander 71 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 4: in chief a week or two ago because he said 72 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 4: the same thing, that the war was at a stalemate. 73 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: Well, the war's been at a stale mate in part, 74 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: I would argue because o'biden has put handcuffs on Zelenski 75 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: from the beginning. One emerging I guess narrative or solution, 76 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: if you will, has been the idea of lending money 77 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: to Ukraine and Israel as opposed to giving them money. 78 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: Do you have any faith if that happened that the 79 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: money would ever be paid back? 80 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 3: No. 81 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 4: I don't think Ukraine is going to have assets to 82 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 4: pay back anything for the near future, so it might 83 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 4: be giving it away under a different name. But the 84 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 4: bottom line is this is that one of the answers 85 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 4: to so many of the problems of so many countries 86 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 4: where they have different parties. So part of eastern Ukraine 87 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 4: has ethnically Russian people and some of the cities are 88 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 4: ruled probably by a majority of people who actually want 89 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 4: Russian ethnic rulers as mayors of their towns. And so 90 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 4: I think when you have that, the more autonomy you 91 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 4: give to local towns, same as you have in Iraq 92 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 4: where you have the Kurdish population that is an uneasy 93 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 4: part of the coalition with the Shia government of Iraq. 94 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 4: Allowing the Kurd's autonomy allows them to control some of 95 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 4: the oil revenues and things, has allowed there to be 96 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 4: somewhat of a peace in Iraq. It's the same way 97 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 4: in Ukraine or any of these countries that have disparate 98 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 4: people ethnically disparate people, that one way of allowing them 99 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 4: to get along is not to force them to all 100 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 4: be part of one massive, big central government. Have a 101 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 4: small central government, allow regional government that has its ethnic 102 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 4: origines to take place, and people feel more at home 103 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 4: if they're ruled by mayor that they've chosen rather than 104 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 4: a president who's from the opposite ethnic group. 105 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: What did you think of mccrohn's proposal that Europe and 106 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: European nations, which I would also backtrack and argue, have 107 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: not stepped up and paid their fair share. As usual, 108 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: the United States beares the bulk of the financing of 109 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: these conflicts, which always irritates me. I mean, it's their continent, 110 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: it's their backyard. They should have been leading the effort 111 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: from day one. That was never the case. Maybe they 112 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: see now that money coming from the US may not 113 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: be as easy as it had been. But he talked 114 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: about actually sending troops into Ukraine and from other European countries. 115 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: What would your reaction to that be. 116 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 4: Well, if I were a European, I'd be concerned about 117 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 4: having European troops in there, because I think the war 118 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 4: could sit and spread. Many of people made this argument, Oh, 119 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 4: if we don't check him in Ukraine, the dominoes will 120 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 4: fall and he'll be invading you into Poland next. I 121 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 4: think the opposite is true. Actually, I think Boutin has 122 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 4: from most military viewpoints, has strategically been a failure of 123 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 4: the war. The whole world's united against him. He's stuck 124 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 4: in a part of Ukraine. He can't seem to move 125 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 4: I don't seem going into any other country, but I 126 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 4: do see if Europe were to come in, then he 127 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 4: might look for a weakness in another small country, perhaps 128 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 4: the Baltics, to invade, and so I think the war 129 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 4: could very quickly spread and become more I think the 130 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 4: ultimately the answer is is that someone's got a broker 131 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 4: and negotiations, and there are negotiations that end up occurring 132 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 4: between the warring parties where they never come to an agreement, 133 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 4: but they do come to a piece. Korea is probably 134 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 4: the best example of that, where they're still bitterly opposed. 135 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 4: It's a bitterly divided country and both countries claim the 136 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 4: whole country. Nor Korea claims they have the whole peninsula. 137 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 4: South Korea claims ownership of the whole peninsula, and they 138 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 4: sit at this uneasy piece. But it's an uneasy piece 139 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 4: that's lasted seventy years now. And you know, if you do, 140 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 4: you can live to fight another day, or you live 141 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 4: like Germany did, to hope that in the end socialism collapse, 142 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 4: and when it did, Jeremy reunified and became incredibly strong 143 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 4: in Europe. The hope would be that one day the 144 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 4: sort of cronyism of foodin will fail and Ukraine will 145 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 4: reunite again, But I don't think it's gonna happen militarily. 146 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: The number one state sponsor of terror is Iran. According 147 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: to the the UN's quote nuclear watchdog group, the IAEA. 148 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: They have now concluded that Iran has the capacity to 149 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: build quote several atomic bombs. And why does that cause 150 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: great consternation concern? 151 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 5: In my mind? 152 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: I think if you marry the sick, ugly twisted ideology 153 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: of the Mullows in Iran with weapons of mass destruction, 154 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: why do I believe believe them when they say they 155 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: want to wipe Israel in the US off the map. 156 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, without question, all that's true, without question, 157 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 4: any sane minded person doesn't want them to have nuclear weapons. 158 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 4: But it's also true that once they have enriched uranium, 159 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 4: say to ninety five ninety eight percent what it takes 160 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 4: to have weapons, that there is no military solution at 161 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 4: that point, because to make an atomic weapon may take 162 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 4: like a cupful of uranium I maybe even smaller than 163 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 4: that to make a bomb, it's a very small amount 164 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 4: once it's almost one hundred percent enriched, and so you 165 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 4: can hide that in dozens and dozens of places. It 166 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 4: becomes almost impossible to bomb away someone's nuclear program once 167 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 4: they have the technology, the skill, the centrifuges. And this 168 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 4: is the disappointing thing that has happened, is that, you know, 169 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 4: as bad as the Iran agreement, you gave away too 170 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 4: much without asking for verification. They were enriching US uranium 171 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 4: under the agreement. Once the agreement was breached by the US, 172 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 4: Trump put on the maximum pressure campaign. As much as 173 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 4: people wanted it to work and were sympathetic to it, 174 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 4: it actually led to a ran getting closer and closer 175 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 4: to the enrichment necessary for a bomb. And that's where 176 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 4: we are now. 177 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: We continue now with Kentucky Senator Ram Paula is with us. 178 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: Let's get your assessment of the twenty twenty four presidential race. Obviously, 179 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden has a lot of issues. I don't think 180 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: he can run on his record or are you better 181 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: off than you were four years ago and successfully convinced 182 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: anybody that we are. His cognitive state has declined dramatic 183 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: in my view, especially in the last year. I think 184 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: it's obvious for anybody with ice to see. And you've 185 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: got Donald Trump. Now it looks like he will wrap 186 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: up this nomination probably, you know, a week from yesterday 187 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: on Super Tuesday. How do you see this race going forward, 188 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: and especially with all of the potential trials that the 189 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: Left would like to dump on Donald Trump during the 190 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,599 Speaker 1: election season, how do you see that unfolding? 191 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 2: I think the. 192 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 4: Left miscalculated sort of their anger and hatred for Trump, 193 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 4: their Trump derangement syndrome, caused them to think that we'll 194 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 4: just sick all of these local Democrat strongholds, sick the 195 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,719 Speaker 4: law people on the law fair, we'll sue him everywhere. 196 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 4: But I think the lawsuits have looked so partisan and 197 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 4: so beyond the pale of justice that it's embittering people 198 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 4: even in the middle, who are saying, you know, even 199 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,599 Speaker 4: as Trump said, people who've sometimes been abused by the 200 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 4: legal system themselves are been involved with it. See a 201 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 4: kinship now with Trump, who's being abused by the system 202 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 4: the same way some poor people have been. 203 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: Well, he said that about African Americans, and we've heard 204 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: for years about disparit sentencing in our court system and 205 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: longer prison sentences for minorities in this country. And he 206 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: made the analogy, and boy, the our word came flying 207 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: out of pretty much everybody's mouth, including the head of 208 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: ABC News. 209 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 4: I think the reason they did is because it struck 210 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 4: a nerve because he talked about something. Look, I've been 211 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 4: active in the criminal justice movement. I was active in 212 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 4: lobbying Trump to get the First Step Act. I do 213 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 4: think that, particularly for drug crimes, there's been a disproportionate 214 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 4: amount of African Americans affected by the drug war, and 215 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 4: I've done everything I can to try to get non 216 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 4: violent drug people who have had thirty and forty year 217 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 4: sentences out. I've celebrated, like Trump, some of the successes 218 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 4: of pardoning some of these people who are in jail 219 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 4: for forty years. Some of the disparate sentencing between crack 220 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 4: cocaine and powder cocaine. They're both bad, they're both awful, 221 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 4: but more African Americans were using crack cocaine at one 222 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 4: point in time, and they got a lot longer sentences. 223 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 4: So I've tried hard to fix that. And I think 224 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 4: Trump making a point, having been one of the reformers, 225 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 4: making the point that you know, he's being treated unfairly, 226 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 4: and he is sympathetic to the flight of blacks, has 227 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,719 Speaker 4: been treated unfairly. I think it resonated. That's why when 228 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 4: anything resonates or you mentioned anything about race, if you're 229 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 4: a Republican, you're just called a racist. But we have 230 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 4: to be brave enough to stand up for it. And 231 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 4: like I say, I've got a ten year history of 232 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 4: standing up for people I think were unfairly treated, non 233 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 4: violent criminals who are unfairly treated by the court system. 234 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 4: But I think he's got a real point. But the 235 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 4: other point I've been making in speeches, and I think 236 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 4: this is without question true, is that one of the 237 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 4: worst times in our country, which almost led and did 238 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 4: lead to some civil strife, was when people weren't treated 239 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 4: equally under the law. When people who are black in 240 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 4: the forties, fifties, thirties, twenty all back, you know, the 241 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,839 Speaker 4: last seventy or eighty years ago, we're all we're not 242 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 4: treated fairly because of the color of their skin. We've 243 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 4: now transformed to a new culture where people are not 244 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 4: being treated fairly because of the shade of their ideology. 245 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 4: If you're a homeschooler, if you don't want to vaccinate 246 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 4: your kids, if you're a Christian, if you're pro life, 247 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 4: if you're a Republican. If you're pro Trump, you're being 248 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 4: treated with a different standard of justice. And they see 249 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 4: Trump being treated with a different standard of justice, and 250 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 4: people don't like unfairness, but it leads to strife. If 251 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,599 Speaker 4: people who support Donald Trump don't believe they're going to 252 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 4: get a fair shaken court, it's going to lead to 253 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 4: real problems in our country. And so I'm doing everything 254 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 4: possible to make sure that everybody talks about that equal 255 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 4: justice under the law means equal justice, whether you're a Republican, Democrat, Christian, 256 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 4: non Christian conservative level, we need to be treated the same. 257 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 3: By the law. 258 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 5: Oh, I tend to agree with you. 259 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: Do you think if you had to look into your 260 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: crystal ball, how do you see the selection you're playing out? 261 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 4: So far, all the winds seem to be blowing in 262 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 4: favor of Trump, in favor of a Republican Senate, in 263 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 4: favor of keeping a Republican House. That you can't predict 264 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 4: how things turn out the end. It's a very closely 265 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 4: divided country. But you're polling from like Michigan that we've 266 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 4: lost the last couple of times. But when we win 267 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 4: Michigan to a presidential race, we tend to win, and 268 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 4: you have Trump pulling ahead eight points in Michigan. So 269 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 4: I think that the winds are blowing our direction. But 270 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 4: the thing is is that we do need to expand 271 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 4: the party. I've been as harsh as any saying that 272 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 4: we've got to stop the flow of illegals coming across. 273 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 4: I would say zero the illegals coming across. But I 274 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 4: also say at the same time that I'm all for 275 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 4: legal and lawful immigration. Some of my best friends are 276 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 4: first generation Americans, and I always say, and I believe this, 277 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 4: some of the best Americans just got here, and if 278 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,359 Speaker 4: we don't acknowledge that we're never getting them to consider. 279 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: I say exactly the same thing. I don't think it 280 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: could be any more correct. Senator Ram Paul. By the way, 281 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: if you've not read his book Deception, the Great COVID 282 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: cover Up, you really need to get a copy of it. 283 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: It is probably the most detailed book on COVID and 284 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: the absolute fraud that perpetrated on the country in so 285 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: many different ways, exhaustively researched by Senator Paul. We appreciate 286 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: you being with us. Senator, thank you for your good 287 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: work and thanks for being with us. 288 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 2: Thanks Sean. 289 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our busy phones. Let us 290 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: say hi to Michelle Is in Texas next on the 291 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show. Hey Michelle, how are you. 292 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 6: I'm fine, sim thank you for taking my call. I 293 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 6: appreciate it. 294 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 5: So thank you. 295 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 6: I'm a longtime fan. Actually had an opportunity to meet 296 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 6: you one time several years ago here in Texas with 297 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 6: Uncle Ted. 298 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 5: Oh is that right. 299 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to be down in Texas come Thursday, 300 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: that would be tomorrow. I'm going to be down there 301 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: with President Trump. Joe Biden. We've invited. He's not going 302 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: to join us. 303 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 5: I don't know why. I've really tried. 304 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: I gave him a nice invitation and everything. Maybe if 305 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: I send an engraved one with gold from Russia, maybe 306 00:15:59,360 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: then he'd come. 307 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 6: Maybe maybe So so No, the reason for my call 308 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 6: is that with the Biden inflation and bidonomics and all 309 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 6: that jazz and everybody, you know, it's such a joke 310 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 6: because we all know, going to the grocery store, we're 311 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 6: having to pay three times the amount we had to 312 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 6: pay three years ago to even get out out the door. 313 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: And it's the highest we're paying since nineteen ninety one 314 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: food as a percentage of people's income, unbelievable. 315 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 5: People can't afford it. 316 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 6: My husband was twenty one years military and we were 317 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 6: I remembered the late eighties, early nineties, four children, and 318 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 6: we were this. It feels like I'm back in that time. 319 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 6: Try and you know, I'm sixty one now, but it's 320 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 6: like I'm right back in that time, scraping to make 321 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 6: ends meet. And yet I used to keep saying, oh, well, 322 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 6: everything's fine, thing is good, and you can't see this 323 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 6: and that, YadA YadA. But every night on the news, 324 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 6: I talk about these food banks and people having to 325 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 6: wait in line to get food. And you know, we've 326 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 6: just you know, Terrent County just opened up a new facility, 327 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 6: a larger facility, so that they can bring in fresh 328 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 6: fruits and vegetables and other things to add to their 329 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 6: food bank for people who need to stand in line 330 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 6: to get food. 331 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: I got to tell you, and I don't say this 332 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: to pat myself on the back. And I believe that 333 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: any generosity at any charity you should do privately. 334 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 5: I don't. 335 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: I don't think you should see credit for it. But 336 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 1: I'm the only reason I mentioned it is when I 337 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: lived in New York. You might have heard I moved, 338 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: but when I lived there, and I lived in a 339 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: town where I would say it's maybe, you know, middle 340 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: class to upper middle class. And I had friends of 341 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:01,719 Speaker 1: mine that were part of the food bank, and they 342 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: there were It would open one day a week and 343 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 1: the line of cars was massive, and I said to 344 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: them often, I said, well, if you ever run into trouble, 345 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: you're running out, just call me, you know, when you're stuck, 346 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: and I'll always be there. And there were a number 347 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: of times they called. They were stuck. They needed money 348 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: to fulfill a need that had not existed before Joe 349 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 1: Biden became president. And then there were people that would 350 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: show up. I went down there once. I didn't actually 351 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: go in and hand out the food. I don't like 352 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: to make a spectacle of myself. I just I live 353 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: a pretty private, quiet life. And I went down there, 354 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: and a lot of the people are nice cars. You 355 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,479 Speaker 1: might think, well, well, well that's outrageous. Look at this 356 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 1: guy's driving a really nice car. Why is he going there? 357 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: Because well, people have mortgage payments, rent payments, they have 358 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 1: college tuition payments. They've got all these bills and it's 359 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: not so easy to even sell a car, and the 360 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 1: car probably for most people is their mode of transportation 361 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: so they can work. And yet they were they didn't 362 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: want to go to a food bank for their food. 363 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 5: They didn't have a choice. They went there. 364 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 6: You know thing we're seeing here in the DFW, I mean, 365 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 6: through the holidays on almost the nightly on the news, 366 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 6: the line of cars and nice cars at that you know, 367 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 6: over in Dallas picking up turkeys and a box for 368 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 6: their Thanksgiving dinner or for their Christmas meal. And I'm like, 369 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 6: this is outrageous because Bidenomics. 370 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: Is a joke. 371 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 6: You know, well, this shrink flation is a joke. I 372 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 6: bought the. 373 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 1: He caused shrink flation. He caused that. Biden Inflation caused 374 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: shrink flation. You notice they want to blame everybody but themselves, 375 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: big oil, big corporations, big big, big, this, big that, 376 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: you know, greedy corporations. I'm tired of all of it. No, 377 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: it's your economic policies that have caused all of this. 378 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: Your energy policies caused the price energy to you know, 379 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,959 Speaker 1: rock it through the roof, and everything we pay for 380 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: and every store we go to was impacted by Joe inflation. 381 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: Now quietly they have been, I guess maybe trying to 382 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: keep it from the climate alarmist religious cult. All of 383 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: a sudden, now they're realizing an election is coming up, 384 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 1: and in twenty two they just started releasing you know, 385 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: half plus more than half of our strategic petroleum reserves 386 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: to drive down the cost of energy and the lead 387 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 1: up to an election. Now they're just now they're actually 388 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: producing more. And it's frustrating because it's all a mirage 389 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: because the minute the election is over, if they win, 390 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: they're going right back to their climate alarmists religious cold 391 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: policies and they'll give into the radicals and their party. 392 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: We all know that's what's going to happen. And it's 393 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: frustrating that, you know, they're not responsible for the border, 394 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: really the border that they said was closed and secure 395 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: for three years. Now they're saying it's the Republican's fault. 396 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 1: Soh you differently, But you know, Joe does get more 397 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: in an done in an hour than most Americans doing 398 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: a day. 399 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 5: You know that, right? 400 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 6: M Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm like, yes, I'm sure 401 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 6: you do. It's sitting in your rock and sher eating 402 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 6: ass cream. 403 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: By the way, I would love to let Joe Biden 404 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: if he doesn't want to come on with me. I'm 405 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: offering Joe Biden an opportunity to fill in on this 406 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: radio show. You think he'd be capable of doing a 407 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: three hour radio show. 408 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 6: I don't think so, No, sir, not a clear not no, 409 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 6: he would not. He wouldn't. 410 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:30,479 Speaker 5: Do you ever go to Walmart and Target? 411 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: I love this example I use, and you ever meet 412 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: those very nice people the greeters when you walk in 413 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: the door. 414 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 5: All right, And usually they're older people. 415 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: That either want extra income or they're kind of bored 416 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: and they like helping people. Nicest people in the world. 417 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: And I'm the kind of shopper that walks in. I'm like, 418 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: all right, where is the electronics department? Where is the 419 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 1: shoot a bartment? Where's this? And they always I say 420 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: can They'll say can I help you? And I said, yeah, please? 421 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: Can you show me where the what you McCall department is? 422 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: And they he said, yeah, let's right over there, go 423 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: down that aisle, make a left end, you'll be right there. 424 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, thank you, sir, thank you, ma'am. I appreciate it. 425 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: They're very helpful. I don't think Joe could be a 426 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: greeter because he'd never remember where all the different departments are. 427 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: Those stores are pretty big. 428 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 6: I can tell you that I've seen it since when 429 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,360 Speaker 6: he started running, because I worked for home care agency. 430 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 6: I managed a home care agency for a few years, 431 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 6: and I could see it in twenty fifteen that he 432 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 6: was headed toward the dementia state. And that's where he's at. 433 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 6: He now lives in the state of dementia, and people 434 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 6: refuse to see it or even acknowledge it. 435 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to tell you something. A lot of people, 436 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: I don't think they're even in denial. I think they know, 437 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: darn well, darn well what is going on here, and 438 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: I think that they have been you know, they do 439 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: their typical dance and they just try to cover like 440 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: they covered for Hillary. You know, she gets special treatment, 441 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 1: no reasonable prosecutor secute Joe Biden. You know, you know, 442 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: four different locations, top secret classified documents, but we only 443 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: read more a lago. That doesn't sound like equal justice 444 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: under the law to me, sounds like corruption anyway, Michelle, 445 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: I wish you the best. We love our friends in 446 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 1: the Free State of Texas. Thank you for checking in 447 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: with us. 448 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 6: Thank you, Sean I appreciate it, you too, have. 449 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 5: A great day. 450 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: All right, John in Kentucky wants to talk about Mitch McConnell. 451 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 5: What's up, John, how are you Dane? 452 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 3: Idiot's an honor, sir, it. 453 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 5: Was all mine. What's on your mind today? 454 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 3: Well, as a Kentuckian, our motto is united, we stand, Divided, 455 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 3: we fall and uh well, I understand one of our 456 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 3: Kentucky AND's, Mitch McConnell, is leaving, and I am uh 457 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 3: bidding him farewell and hope he does uh well from 458 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 3: here on out to the finish line. But I can't 459 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 3: imagine walking the tightrope that man has walked for so long, 460 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 3: and have a tendency degree with Senator Paul about him 461 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 3: in certain cases, but to say I hope he does well. 462 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: Well, Just look, I've been more. I've been disappointed at 463 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell a lot. I think the time has long 464 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: since come and gone. And I'm not sure why he's 465 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: waiting to November. It is what it is. I'm not sure. 466 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: I mean, we do have different factions within the Republican Party. 467 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: You have a party institutionalist of which or establishment members 468 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: of the party like Mitch and others, and then you 469 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: have people that want the Republican Party to fight and 470 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: stand for principles. And I don't think there's been too 471 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: many times over the years that that has not happened 472 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 1: under his leadership. And I found that part disappointing. And 473 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: if the story that we heard from yesterday is true 474 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: that Mitch joined with Schumer and Biden and tried to 475 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: beat up Mike Johnson on the issue of Oh, ever, 476 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 1: so dangerous government shutdown, a government shutdown is not as 477 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: dangerous as they portray it. Essential services continue, you know, 478 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: older people get their Social Security checks, Medicare continues, We 479 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: pay our veterans, we pay our active military. And then 480 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: usually the people that end up getting furloughed end up 481 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: getting paid, get a paid vacation at the end because 482 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: they get back pay. 483 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 5: That's what usually ends up happening. 484 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: But we better get a hold of of fiscal responsibility. 485 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 1: We better do it in short order, because it's now 486 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 1: running away to the point where we're spending more on 487 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: interest than we are on national defense. And they have 488 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: both parties, you know, they have done this to us, 489 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: and we've allowed it to happen. We need to be 490 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: better than that. Anyway, appreciate the call. Love our friends 491 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: in Kentucky. Let us say hi to Mike and New Jersey. 492 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: What's up, Mike, how you doing? What's going on in Joysey? 493 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 5: Sean? 494 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 7: How you doing? Mike Knights to speak to you. 495 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 5: Finally nice to talk to you. What's going on? 496 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 7: Somebody mentioned the Phiza Court. Why wouldn't the PISA Court 497 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 7: go after anybody for being lied to? 498 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 5: Good? Good question. There's no answer for that. 499 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: And if I was a PISA Court judge and they 500 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: put out information that turned out to be false because 501 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: the bulk of information was based on quote that other 502 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: trusted FBI source named Christopher Steele, and it turned out 503 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: to be garbage. And it was exactly what Bruce Or 504 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 1: warned about in August of twenty sixteen. It was a 505 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 1: political document bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and 506 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: she hired used a law firm to funnel money to 507 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: an op research firm that hired Christopher Steele. And it's 508 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 1: been a debunk dossier. But that was the foundation of 509 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: four separate visa applications. And only you know, three years 510 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: after the fact, did we get the people that signed 511 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: off on those warrants to say, oh, knowing what we 512 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: know now, we never would have done it. But this 513 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: was another trusted FBI informant, you know. Charles Grassley actually said, 514 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: as it relates to the FBI in the ten twenty 515 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: three form, which is only a small part of the 516 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: Biden family syndicate story, it doesn't negate most of the 517 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: other facts that we know in the case. But he said, 518 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: the FBI is consistently and publicly vouch for their source. 519 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: He said, then the other week the Biden Justice Department 520 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: made their sources name public for the world to see. 521 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: This is with the ten twenty three form, but it was, 522 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: but it actually was the FBI director. Oh yeah, no, 523 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: this is a long term, trusted, well trusted FBI source. Well, 524 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 1: how do they keep getting it wrong? Because it's impacting 525 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,959 Speaker 1: our presidential politics. They can't make mistakes like that. We 526 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,679 Speaker 1: can't have people that are not credible that the FBI 527 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: is using his informants and paying his informants. 528 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 5: We can't have that. 529 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 7: I have one other question for you. Yeah, we all 530 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 7: had free vaccination and free testing and everything else was free, 531 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 7: but somehow another big farmers got their their profits are 532 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 7: thousands percentage instead of one hundred percent and people actually 533 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 7: full for it, that this is a. 534 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 5: Free It wasn't free. The government paid for it. 535 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: The government told you that if you got the shot 536 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: the JAB, that you would never get COVID. That turned 537 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: out not to be true. If you got the shot, 538 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 1: you would not infect other people. That was not true. 539 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: So much of what they said. The largest COVID study 540 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: ever done post as it relates to the vaccine, it 541 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: shows that, yeah, there are significant side effects for many people. 542 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: You know, and I can tell you anecdotally, I've seen 543 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 1: it myself. And yet they didn't want anybody. This was 544 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: all This was all emergency authorization stuff. Even the founder 545 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: of the mr NA technology said he would never have 546 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: given it to the vast majority of population. The only 547 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: people he might have allowed the technology to be used 548 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: on because it wasn't perfected, would be the elderly population 549 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: that were disproportionately really impacted by COVID. Why were we 550 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: vaccinating young kids going to school? It was insane. Why 551 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: do we shut down society? That was insane too. They 552 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: didn't do it. In Florida, kids were back in person 553 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: learning in August of twenty twenty. Appreciate the call my 554 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: friend Mike and New Jersey eight hundred ninety four one. 555 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 5: Shawn is our number, right, that's gonna wrap things up. 556 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: But today Hannity Tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel, 557 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: we have Committee Chairman's James Comer, Jim Jordan, Jason Smith. 558 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: On Hunter's appearance on Capitol Hill, we have Speaker of 559 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: the House Ron Johnson will join us. Also Sarah Carter, 560 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, Tommy Laryn, Ronnie Jackson Say DVR nine Eastern. Tonight, 561 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: Hannity on Fox News. You'll never get from the mob 562 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: and the media, nine Eastern. 563 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 5: See you tonight. Thank you for making this show possible.