WEBVTT - Spending to Oblivion 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 All right, News round up in Information Overload hour eight 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.120 hundred and nine for one, Shawn, if you want to 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.560 be a part of the program. We've spoken at length 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:14.880 about how dumb some senate Republicans have been some to 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:22.000 go along with this ridiculous quote bipartisan infrastructure plan for 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.680 one point two trillion dollars because Democrats weren't really negotiating, 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.680 because the whole plan that they weren't even hiding it 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.960 was to write from the beginning to move towards well 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.400 planned b which is as they're going to ram everything 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.800 else through by using the reconciliation process. I mean, it's 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.080 just that that's what the plan was from the very beginning, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.640 and it was just a bad idea for Republicans to 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.960 give Biden the ability to say, oh, it's all bipartisan 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.840 twenty seven hundred pages, an awful bad bill won't pay 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.720 for itself. Only a tenth of its spending is for 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:59.160 roads and bridges and other real infrastructure projects. The bill 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.920 drops all the money on the Democratic you know, new 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:06.240 Green Deal, socialist wish list, you know, expand broadband internet 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.160 access included a new federal entitlement for low income household 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.160 seventy three billion for clean energy transmission, seven point five 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.360 billion for electric vehicle charging networks, you know, the pay 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.119 for itself stuff. Even the CBO said it was two 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.160 hundred and fifty six billion dollars in terms of the 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.280 deficit over the next decade. So that was a big lie. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.000 And right behind it, remember they already spent six hundred billion. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.800 Now they're adding another what three point five trillion dollars, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.120 which makes a four point one trillion you know. Oh okay, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.080 So what's what's what's in this, you know, spending free 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.520 for all? Well, it's the new Green Deal. This is 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:52.760 the Bernie Sanders Biden manifesto. This is the squad's great dream. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:57.320 This is free community college. This is subsidized childcare. This 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.680 is free housing. This is you know, it goes on 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.920 paid and family and sickly. This is free pre K 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.639 for three and four year olds. This is about climate change. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:13.680 It's all in these bills, child tax credit, extensions, electric cars, 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:20.800 green cards, immigration. In other words, tax hikes on business. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.280 Business doesn't pay higher tax price taxes. They passed that 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:30.119 on too, you taxes on incomes, that's there too. They 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:35.079 vaguely call for the salt cap relief well, that's to 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.799 benefit people like Schumer and Jilla Brand and California Democrats 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.840 because you can't deduct state and local income taxes. Donald 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.880 Trump stopped it. By the way, I paid a price 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:47.920 for that. As a matter of fact, I ended up 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.600 paying a lot more because that deduction was taken away 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.200 from me. I should be doing a backflip over it. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.240 But it's not fair to the states that that actually 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.880 elect politicians that balance their budgets and fund their pensions. Anyway, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.160 here to weigh in on all of this, Michelle Steelers 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.600 with US and Republican whip Steve Scalies. They put up 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.200 on foxnews dot com an op ed that when the 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.919 White House celebrated a sixteen sent decrease in prices for 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.920 select Fourth of July cookout items, Americans were left wondering 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.839 if they were, you know, making a joke because we're 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.280 now paying oh well, let's see about a dollar thirty 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.880 more per gallon of gasoline. We have five point five 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.000 percent inflation, which means we're paying more for everything we 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:38.080 buy than its costing us more to transport everything that's 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.720 in our grocery stores and in our lows and our 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.280 home depots and in our pharmacies. That's all because of 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.160 energy costs now soaring, and then of course the corporate 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.960 income tax gets passed onto you. So it's all one 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:54.720 big lie that you're not going to pay for it. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.960 Everybody's paying through the nose. Anyway, Welcome back to the program. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.360 A congressman will be in with you. Your take on 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.320 this and what else am I missing here? Yes, so 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.160 I'm going to be with you. There's so much in 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.360 this bill that has nothing to do with infrastructure, and 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.839 of course they call it an infrastructure bill. Pelosi made 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.360 it clear from the very beginning the two bills, the 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.440 infrastructure bill is directly tied to the tax hike bill. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.719 So think about this. The infrastructure is the gateway drugs 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.120 to tax hikes to more spending. And I'm talking not 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.800 talking about hundreds of billions. I'm talking about trillions of dollars. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:28.960 And that's why Michelle Steell and I wrote that op 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.960 ed because it highlights all the things people are paying 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.040 for already in inflation. And you will get even more 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.400 inflation if you had trillions more in spending, and it's 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.560 going to only hurt lower in middle income families. Think 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.840 about it, Bernie Sanders is the guy writing the bill. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:45.839 Do you really think you're not going to pay more 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.159 in your paycheck for a bill that Bernie Sanders writes 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.599 to raise taxes so that they can do the Green 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.200 New Deal amnesty over one hundred billion dollars worth a 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.160 b for amnesty for illegals. As president Board's got an 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.200 open border c that's now a super spread vs. At 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.400 our southern border. That's what this is all about. The 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:10.360 two are tied inextricably taxis with very little infrastructure. What's 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.960 your take, congresswoman, you know what there is. Actually they 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.680 are creating vehicle mileage tax on the top of gas tax, 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.800 so this is a double tax station. So this is 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.440 one point two trillion dollars infrastructure that the money that 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.960 we sent it just passed out of the five hundred 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.480 and fifty billion dollars are new funding and rests are 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.039 tax gimmicks to pay for it. So this is going 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.880 to cost next ten years, maybe more than ten years. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.280 Our kids and our grandchildren have to tapeworth. So why 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.919 under Governor News them in California. I came from California, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.600 and you know, Governor News to me call him it's 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.359 a dictator. Because he's the one shutdown that all the 0:05:55.400 --> 0:06:00.280 businesses and all the schools last year, and why we 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.159 are as as of now that we are drowned and 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:08.320 high passes and instant standing by a better government, nationalize 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.919 it because it's been already failed. That's why we have 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.760 a recalled election on September fourteen eight this set so 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.839 people are not happy about it. We have to value 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:24.920 taxpayer is hard earned, stating and prioritize the American interest, 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.800 not just raising taxes. Now. They when they talk about 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.800 going up the corporate income tax from twenty one to 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.680 twenty eight percent, Congressmen, and when they talk about, well, 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.240 this is only going to impact you know, people that 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.120 make four hundred thousand dollars a year annually. Well, first 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.920 of all, that's not true. It's not individuals, that's couples. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.359 So it's really two hundred thousand per individual. Am I 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.279 correct on that point? Yeah, San, that's exactly right. And 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.480 it's like these liberals they want to have amnesia, think 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.680 that you're going to forget about the past. Just a 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.720 few years ago, before we were able to work with 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.680 Donald Trump to cut taxes, when we had that highest 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.039 rate in the world, the highest corporate rate in the 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.640 industrialized world, Millions of jobs were leaving America. Great companies, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.600 thousands of great companies, recognizable companies were moving out of 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.040 America in droves because our tax rate was so high. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.400 Those are the middle class jobs that will leave again. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.600 And people get this, by the way, Sean, you know, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.200 the deliberals in Washington think that you're not going to know. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.880 Just like they throw their fancy parties. They tell you 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.080 to stay at home with three masks on by yourself, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.520 and they're out partying with their friends with no masks on. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.720 They're going to tell you it's not going to affect 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.160 you if you're a certain income level. Well, when that 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.200 corporation gets a high enough rate to where they moved 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.440 their company overseas, and this happened just a few years ago, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.680 then those jobs are the first things to go. That's 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.800 the CEO that's making thirty million dollars isn't going to 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.480 leave America, but he's going to ship the jobs to America. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.160 And those are the lower income middle class jobs that 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.400 we were building back. President Trump brought our middle class back, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.559 created a middle class again. He fought for those hard 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.440 working men and women who were left behind by Washington. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.480 President Biden's trying to leave them behind again by shipping 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.480 their jobs over to foreign countries with a high tax 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.600 rate and then creating amnesty with one hundred billion dollars 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.040 of their tax money to give amnesty to people I 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.320 came here illegally. You talk about an irony. People get this, 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.840 They're fed up with it, and I hopefully we can 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.920 kill it in the House right as we continue. Congresswoman 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:33.640 Michelle Steele, Congressmen Steve Scalise on this infrastructure spending spree 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.760 madness unlike anything we've ever seen in history. In the 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.160 lies behind it, Congresswoman, I mean, it's actually one hundred 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:45.839 and seven billion allocated with immigration and a pathway to amnesty. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.000 And my question is the only what need a few 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.400 Democrats to flip and not go along with this? Are 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.680 there any moderate voices in the House of Representatives on 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.760 the Democratic side that are not going to go along 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.960 with us? I hope not, because far left the progress 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.400 if it are pushing down. I hope not. You mean 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.800 you hope that they will. They won't go along with it. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.160 None of the Republican is gonna go with them, because 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.800 my question is will Democrats go along with the Republicans 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.960 and stop it, I hope. So. I'm not really sure 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.920 that you know what Democrats are doing, because it seems 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.520 like that, you know, they are working together and try 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.679 to work with the progressive episode. So I'm not really sure, 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.320 but I hope so because we really maybe maybe I 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.080 guess you're they're the whip for those people that don't 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:40.640 understand that Washington speak terminology, and um, you're the vote 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.640 counter for the Republican side. I can't imagine a single 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.520 Republican member of the House is going along with us. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.199 There's only a five seed difference my last count. Are 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.960 there any Democrats you see wavering saying that this is 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.160 not going to help me with my reelection? Too bad? 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.480 I'm not going along with us, madness Steve, Yeah, Sean, 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:05.280 there's probably about thirty to forty Democrats right now that No, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.720 they've probably already cast so many votes that we're going 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.040 to be able to beat most of them anyway. But 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:15.160 this bill, the tax hike bill especially, is incredibly unpopular. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.920 As much as they think the class warfare games working 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.040 for them, people get that when you raise taxes, no 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.160 matter who you raise taxes on, it's going to hurt 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.480 lower and middle income workers, and it's going to ship 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.400 millions of jobs out. So they right now can only 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.720 lose three votes because there's two special elections that don't 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.360 happen till November. So Sean, between now and November, Pelosi 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.280 only has a three vote majority. And if we hold 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.800 all Republicans together on the tax hi bill, which I'm 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.439 very confident we will, that means if just three Democrats 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.880 vote with us, and there are a lot more Democrats 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.439 in moderate districts than three, then she doesn't have the 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.920 votes today. She doesn't have the votes. She's working to 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.360 get them, and they're going to try to throw hundreds 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.240 of billions of dollars around to buy those off. But 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.600 right now, how many people do you think are leaning 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.040 against this bill because they know that that's the end 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.520 of their political career back in their home district. I'm 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.200 talking about Democrats, a dozen members. You have at least 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.080 a dozen Democrats right now who have expressed concerns with 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.160 the bill. Doesn't mean they'll vote no right now, but 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.040 they're not for it now, which means even if you're 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.560 you have a lot of listeners, Sean, you have millions 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.640 of people listening right now, Even if you're represented by 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.800 a Democrat, pick up the phone and call your member 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.839 of Congress and let them know how strongly you are 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.000 opposed to this bill, the bar and money from our kids. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.599 Think about it. Our kids are going to get the 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.560 dissidn't paid for. Even with the tax hikes. There will 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.600 be hundreds of billions of dollars of debt, which means 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.080 you're going to give every one of our kids in 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.079 America a mortgage, but they don't get the house. They 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.560 will have a mortgage to pay off without the house 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.959 because of the debt in this bill. That leads to 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.760 higher inflation, not least of which is going to be 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.080 less opportunity for our kids. So call your member of 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.040 Congress right now and tell them why you're against this. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.920 We can still hold at least a dozen of them 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.520 off right now, and then let's just give us time 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.560 to get more of the information about what's in the bill. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.720 There's so much bad stuff in the bill that we 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.160 just need to keep getting the information out well that 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.080 I agree with listen, I wish you both luck. I'm 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.840 not that optimistic. I've seen this movie before, but I 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.920 will tell you this, this this plan has laid out. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.320 We can't afford it, number one. Number two, the American 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.520 people won't want it. And number three that this is 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.400 the end of it. This will now put the this, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.120 this will be the rise of the Tea Party two 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.199 point zero. And Americans are going to reject it because 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.720 they're gonna be paying through the nose and all the 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.280 lies that are being told, Oh only if you make 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.760 four hundred thousand dollars a year. First of all, that's 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.640 per couple, that's not an individual. Oh, we're just gonna 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.080 we're gonna, we're gonna punish these evil corporations. Yeah, they're 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.000 gonna pass that cost on too, you. Yeah, the high 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.680 cost of energy and all this money that they're thrown 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.839 around all over the place, it's got to come from 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.240 some place. Well, that's going to come from the American taxpayer. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.640 And then we're going to pay more for every single 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:13.000 good and service we get. And listen, I can afford 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.880 all the bacon I want. I do my own grocery shopping. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.120 And you know, Oscar Meyer bacon, thick cut bacon used 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.080 to be you know, five fifty you know for what 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.560 a pound of bacon. Now it's eight fifty for a 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.320 pound of bacon where I go shopping. Now, is that 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.959 impact Sean Hannity, No, it doesn't. At one point in 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.080 my life had impacted me, I wouldn't have gotten it. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.920 But I'm at a point where it doesn't. But it's 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:38.120 impacting literally the middle class in this country and people 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.440 that don't deserve this. And we had an economy that 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.640 was just on a role, a historic role, with record 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.840 low unemployment for every demographic group, and we've thrown it 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.360 all away. We've thrown energy independence away, We've opened up 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.800 the borders for the biggest super spread event in history. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.600 You got China, you know, following through on their you know, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.319 graphical ambitions all across the China Sea and lecturing us 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:08.280 on human rights. He got putin hacking US left and right, 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.559 and he's rewarded with a pipeline waiver and a summit. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.680 Then you got the Iranian Mullas getting seven billion because 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.240 of Biden pressure to South Korea to release that money. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.240 I'm like, I wouldn't. Why are we fighting for the 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.840 Mullas and irant This is America last, This is what 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.840 it means. I hope you got the three votes. If 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.640 anybody can do it. Steve Scalisee. I know it's you, Congresswoman. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.080 It's great to have you on as well. I wish 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.280 you both success and what you're doing. But I'm not 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.760 going to sit here and tell you that I'm optimistic. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.040 I'm not, and this is going to be disastrous and 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.080 we're all going to pay the price. We're paying it now. Anyway, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.280 eight hundred nine one shuns our number. We'll get to 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.440 your calls. Final half hour of the program. All right, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.400 twenty five to the top of the hour. Let's take 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:58.640 the news of Cuomo in chronological order. Here. First, we're 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:03.880 gonna play him saying that the allegations are false, then 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.920 now today saying I take full responsibility for my actions. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.280 I didn't realize I crossed a line. I made a 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:18.760 mistake inappropriately touching a female trooper announcing his resignation. Play 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.280 it so you can hear it in kind of chronological order. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.880 The report said I sexually harassed eleven women. That was 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.880 the headline. People heard and saw and reacted to him. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:37.160 The reaction was outrage. It should have been. However, it 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.440 was also false. My lawyers, as you just heard from 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.280 Rita Glavee, and have reviewed the report over the past 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:50.680 several days and have already raised serious issues and flaws 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.720 that should concern all New Yorkers, because when there is 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:59.320 a bias or a lack of fairness in the justice system, 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:05.200 it is a concern for everyone, not just those immediately affected. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.840 The most serious allegations made against me had no credible 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.560 factual basis in the report, and there is a difference 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:24.840 between alleged improper conduct and concluding sexual harassment. At public events, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:30.119 troopers will often hold doors open or guard the doorways 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:36.040 when I walk past them. I often will give them 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.640 a grip of the arm, a pat on the face, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.280 a touch on the stomach, a slap on the back. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.920 It's my way of saying I see you, I appreciate you, 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:52.480 and I thank you. I'm not comfortable just walking past 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:58.120 and ignoring them. Of course, usually they are male troopers. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.840 In this case, I don't remember doing it at all. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:09.360 I didn't do it consciously with a female trooper. I 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.680 did not mean any sexual connotation. I did not mean 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:19.560 any intimacy by it. I just wasn't thinking. It was 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:25.000 totally thoughtless in the literal sense of the word. But 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.680 it was also insensitive. It was embarrassing to her, and 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:35.399 it was disrespectful. It was a mistake. And I think that, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:40.000 given the circumstances, the best way I can help now 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.800 is if I step aside and let government get back 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.520 to governing. And therefore that's what I'll do, because I 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:55.160 work for you, and doing the right thing is doing 0:17:55.200 --> 0:18:00.240 the right thing for you, because as we say, not 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:06.080 about me, it's about we. Jackie Hockl, my Lieutenant governor, 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:11.919 is smart and competent. This transition must be seamless. We 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.159 have a lot going on. I'm very worried about the 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.680 delta variant, and so should you be. But she can 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.040 come up to speed quickly, and my resignation will be 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:28.160 effective in fourteen days. Here is what I think tip 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.959 the balance at all of this. It was a powerful interview. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.560 I had to go over to the mansion to help 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.880 the governor with a state of the State speech. I 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.359 wasn't there late. I did my final edit, and while 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.600 I was upstairs in the office, the governor said, why 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:49.440 don't we take a selfie? So his suggestion, yes, your 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:56.240 phone with my phone. I then felt, while taking the selfie, 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.359 his hand go down my back onto my butt and 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:05.040 he started rubbing it, not sliding it, not you know, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:10.760 quickly brushing over it, rubbing my butt and did you 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.240 ask him what are you doing? Well, this was while 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.040 I was taking the selfie. I became so nervous that 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.959 my hands were clearly shaking, and a lot of the 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:25.280 photos that I was snapping or completely blurry. I showed 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.600 him them and he said, oh, you know those aren't 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.240 you know, those aren't good. And he said, why don't 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.600 make up? Sit on the couch and we can take 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.280 a better one. So you said on the couch, I 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.120 said on the couch because I thought to myself, Okay, 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.919 I don't think on the couch that he would have 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.400 a way to just do what he just did. So 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:49.040 I felt safer actually on the couch. And in the photo, 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.200 you know, I have my arm wrapped around his shoulder, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:54.800 you know, almost as if you know, we were taking 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.320 a picture with a buddy. And that is the one 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.840 that has been blurred out that it's been not released 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.360 to the public. Now, that's the second woman that's come 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:08.159 on the record. That's Brittany Camiso, so that has said groping, grabbing, fondling, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.600 unwanted touching, etcetera. Etcetera. Again, both crimes. I mean, the 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:17.560 last statement is this is criminal and it's um you know, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.439 it's it's just not going to fly anyway or anyway, 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:24.840 let's get to our phones. Uh. One thing I can 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.280 say is for those of you living in New York, 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:31.760 don't think New York is gonna change politically. That's not 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:36.679 going to happen right now. Now. Whether whether the people 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.000 of New York have just had it with high taxes, 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:46.920 Albany corruption, Andrew Cuomo, you know, at a gradical Socialist 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:53.480 Assembly and Senate, and unequal justice under the law, defunding 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.159 the police, you know, no fracking that would you know, 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.880 literally save New York in and of itself. I don't. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:07.400 My hopes aren't high. There's always a chance. I mean, 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.879 you got he got guys like you know, Rob Astrino, 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:16.399 and Andrew Giuliani and what's the name Congressman zeldn't running 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.840 for governor. He got Curtis Sleewall and running as an 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:23.320 independent Republican for mayor of New York City. He'd be 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:27.359 a great mayor. He's gonna he's running on Rudy Giuliani's platform. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.879 What worked in the Giuliani years he will implement again, 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.600 and they'll work again if they use them. And a 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.960 guy who's proven himself, you know, with a lot of 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:40.119 street credit by going out there every day in the subways. 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.680 He's done it for decades to help protect New Yorkers 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:48.520 and in the process, you know, taking even in some 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.800 cases kids that are troubled and giving them a purpose 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.360 in life and transforming their lives. I've seen it. I've 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:58.240 been there. I've seen these guys on the subway when 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.840 I'm do I go on the subway down. I'm not 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.080 really one. I'm kind of canceled in New York. When 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:06.840 do you say, Linda half canceled. Yeah, it's probably three 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:10.239 quarters eighty percent canceled. Depends on where you are, It 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.800 depends on what put, what point of the day it 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.399 might be. And then a lot of people say, well, 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:17.240 why do you always go to the same restaurants because 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.000 my friends are in the restaurants protect me. That's what 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:26.640 that's They're all family. Is there anybody that that when 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:30.720 I become friends with people and and I become a customer, 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:33.359 if I like people and owners and so on and 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:35.639 so forth, well, what do I go back again and 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:37.680 again and again Oh, yeah, I don't you love the 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.399 same place, local pizza place. I'm sorry, go ahead, what no, 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.240 I'm saying, you love all the same places. You're a 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:45.359 creature habit. Yeah, but I also, you know all you know, 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:47.960 much extra food I ordered during a pandemic. If I 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:50.920 ever added it up, it would probably rival my son's 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.480 Uber eat and Grubhub pills, which I don't know about 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:59.959 that boy. That guy can eat well. My son graduates college, 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:03.200 and you know, he's now running his own thing. He's doing, 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:06.919 you know, he's he's making his own money, and I'm like, okay, 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:09.399 that's it. You're on your own. He goes. Dad. You 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:12.240 said that I could have unlimited amount of money for food. 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.560 You're not gonna ever yell at me because I buy food, 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:18.080 I said, nope. And you have many ubers as I want. 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:22.199 You said you unlimited ubers because what parent wants in 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:25.640 the age of Uber, you know, their kids to be driving, 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:27.280 if they've been out at a party, if they've had 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:30.679 a couple of drinks whatever. U So, yeah, I said, yeah, 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:34.639 I said, you still have an unlimited you know, amount 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.240 of foods you can buy, an unlimited amount of Uber 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:40.680 that you can use. But the only difference is now 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:44.560