WEBVTT - CBS In Chaos 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.520 Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.560 down are toll free telephone number. It is eight hundred 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:07.600 and ninety four one. Sean if you want to be 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.760 a part of the program before we get this, you know, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.200 more substantive issues which we will get to in the 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:18.520 course of the program. I am fascinated by the happenings 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:25.079 over at CBS and CBS News. And you know, I'm 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.520 not sure what Scott Pelley thought would happen. I mean, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.839 if you want to go against your management and you 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.280 want to attack your new manager and say you will 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:43.560 never be accepted here, and you want to go after 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.800 the person that now owns your network, have had it, 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.080 but know in advance that there's going to be consequences 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.120 for your actions. Now, if you want to take a 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.360 stand on principle, okay, I'm all for that stand on principle, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.600 but know that you know, don't don't bitch one, moan 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:05.560 and complain when it turns out that you're fired or 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.320 that you're done and they want nothing to do with 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:16.199 you anyway. So CBFS hired this Barry Weiss to run 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.920 their programming. Now, in large part it's because a sale 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.160 took place. The sale took place and they sold it 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.600 to Paramount. Okay, that's all well and men, fine and good, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.560 but it's under noon management. And that means that a 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.360 manager is going to it's their property, it's their broadcast, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.240 it's their channel and channels, and they get to decide 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.679 what programming they want. Period end of sentence. Now, you 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.520 should make yourself indispensable and of such a great value 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.200 to whoever owns it that you'd never get fired. But 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:53.560 I'm not sure what he expected anyway. So the Barry 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.440 Weiss hires this guy by the name of Nick Bilton 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:02.480 to be the Sixty Minutes executive. Okay, former tech columnist, 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:07.280 no experience producing television. I could understand skepticism. But to 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.440 tell the guy in his initial meeting that he's never 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.040 going to be accepted is not going to bode well 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.239 for the person that says that. And I don't care 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.680 if you think you're an institution and you've been at 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:24.240 CBS for thirty seven years, you don't own the network. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.400 You don't now if you choose again on principle to 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.919 bail out, that's up to you. But almost immediately out 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.240 of the box, when this new guy, this new manager 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.840 of sixty minutes, Nick Bilton started addressing the staff. Almost 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:45.120 immediately Scott Pelly decided to interject, and what is reported 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.960 as a pretty extraordinary back and forth. Pelly was kind 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:54.440 of unrelenting and impressing, built in on his boss, Barry Weiss, 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.960 who just hired him, and what her intentions are, and 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.000 she said she's committed to CBS US in sixty minutes. However, 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.560 like the rest of us, we see six We see 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.639 CBS and ABC and NBC as corrupt and abusively biased, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.760 you know, legacy media. And as a result, these networks 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:18.040 have lost viewership and in dramatic numbers. And it's not 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.079 a surprise. I mean, you know, long before by the 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.079 way this this cell took place, the decision was made. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.520 They claimed financial I have no reason to dispute it. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.320 That's why Colbert went away. But Colbert had, you know, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:35.080 audience attrition where he's lost like two thirds of his 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.560 audience what he inherited from when David Letterman was there. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.040 And they if you're losing forty million dollars a year 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.480 on a show, the show is not going to survive. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.720 Nobody's going to be a charity just to put you 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.680 on the air. You have to earn, you know, the 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.680 trust of your viewers, and you know you can go 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.920 back to Dan rather, you can go back to you 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:01.040 know how abusively biased he was. And I have watched 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.560 sixty Minutes for years, and I see bias all over 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.160 that show almost every time I've ever watched it. And 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.960 I've watched it since it's come under new management, new ownership, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.200 and I've not seen much of a difference. Anyway, So 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.960 this guy goes out, he starts reading a statement to 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.320 the staff of Sixty Minutes. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.359 It's his first day on the job. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:28.479 And anyway, now Scott Pelly got fired by his new 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.599 boss yesterday. You hijacked my first meeting with staff to 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:41.240 disparage me, my qualifications, my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.080 he wrote Builton in a letter to Pelly that has 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:45.719 now been. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.719 Leaked to the media. I'm sure it was leaked. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.240 Yesterday's performative display of hostility, enacted in front of the 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.359 staff instead of a civil, private conversation, demonstrated that you 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.320 have no interest in contributing to the future success the 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.040 show or approaching my new tenure with an open mind 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.600 to collaboration and progress. And shortly after the news of 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.360 the firing broke, Pelly spoke to The New York Times, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.280 and I've bet in combat in Afghanistan, I have bet 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.560 in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.120 zone and Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.000 happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.720 And Pelly told the Times that Weiss refused to answer 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:31.200 his questions about why that she had made the decision. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.159 He is the boss, hired by the ownership to make 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.240 those decisions. He is a correspondent that happens to be 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.480 on sixty Minutes. Now sixty Minutes is nothing like what 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.120 it was like in its heyday, with you know, Mike Wallace, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.800 Morley Sayer, Harry Reisner, what's his name, Rooney who did 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.560 commentary at the end of the show. I mean it 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.920 was it was a signature show of CBS. Now over 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.520 the years it evolved, I believe a pretty obvious bias. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.800 The one thing about bias and media is once you 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.480 identify any of it, once you see it, you can't 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.360 unsee it. And that may sound a little strange. Once 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.680 you pick up and you get hip to the fact 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.160 that these people are not fair, balanced objective that they 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.160 have opinions. I make the case all the time that yes, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.320 I'm a member of the media. Yes I report straight news. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.080 I can produce thousands and thousands of hours of straight 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.640 news on radio, television. Now, even in my podcast, we're 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:34.240 breaking news, investigative reporting. We're doing a huge investigation that 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.279 we're interspersing in my podcast. We've done it, We've covered 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.479 it for years on this radio show. We do it 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.600 on television as well. And that is, you know, everything 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.080 from the grand conspiracy to destroy Trump from the basically 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.200 the minute he came down, that escalated with Milania, and 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.320 then you work through the dirty dossier and you know, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:53.960 fake Pisa. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.120 Warrens and the. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.760 You know, the the intelligence report that said no, Russia 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.640 didn't interfere with the election, then ordered by Obama and 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.400 Brennan and Clapper and Joe Biden. They didn't like the 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.080 intelligence community assessment the ICA, so they decided to change it. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:12.520 And we're getting to the bottom of it. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:18.520 Anyway, Pelly's angry that his boss, Barry Weiss, refused to 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:24.080 answer his questions about why she fired correspondent Sharon ALFONSI 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.880 even know who these people are Linda, I barely know 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.320 these people, and not only Vega last week, and I'll 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.160 talk about I'm going to guess the reason why you 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.520 don't know their names because you don't watch this show. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.200 You gave up because you decided a long time ago 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.040 you felt they were bias true or false? 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:42.080 True? 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.840 Okay, So Americans, once you get hipped to and this 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:52.440 maybe is where Russia's greatest legacy is is he paved 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:58.120 the way, opened the door, and showed the country a 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.560 different gave the country a different point point of view. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:06.080 And as a result, oh, people realize he was very instrumental. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.360 What did he call him? The drive bys? We call 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.840 it the legacy media mob, but doesn't mask the same thing. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.280 And then people began to realize, wait, there's a whole 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.720 different point of view out here. I mean, if you 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.640 think back to Reagan's presidency, he didn't have talk radio, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.440 he didn't have Fox News, he didn't have podcasting, he 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.840 didn't have you know, these other venues where people can 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.960 selectively choose where they want to get their information. Now, 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.520 some people will choose garbage, and some people will choose 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.080 the conspiracy theorists and the people that just outright lie 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.720 and some people will choose the mean boys and girls 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.000 that are just out there viciously attacking, usually in a 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.000 bubble themselves, and they all get in this pissing match 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.400 with each other, which I have no desire to ever 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.760 be a part of. I find it somewhat amusing actually anyway, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.800 So Scott Pelley, you know, gives his big statement and 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.360 he feels like he is a martyr and a victim 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.080 in all of this. Now, maybe I don't know what's 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.640 going to happen, you know, but I really don't know 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.960 in terms of what happens with other people. I do 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.760 know this, Scott Pelly made a choice here. Scott Pelly 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:21.000 told his new boss that he will never ever ever 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.920 be accepted at sixty minutes. Now, I'm going to tell 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.480 you something here. He didn't put out the welcome Matt 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:32.240 didn't have an open mind. Doesn't like this guy's boss either, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.600 and he thinks he knows better how to run the show. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:41.640 He claimed that management is murdering sixty minutes. I think 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.839 what they're trying to do is salvage what has been 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.000 great audience attrition at all of these broadcast networks that 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.560 have led to the lowest valuations that these companies have 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.199 ever had. They used to print money at these networks. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:00.560 They don't print it anymore anyway, So he wants to 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:01.680 make himself out to a martyer. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.000 Again, I don't have a problem. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.080 Scott Pelly really believes everything he's saying, and he thinks 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.360 he's standing on principle. But apparently he refused to close 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.960 door conference instead setting the stage, you know, for this 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:20.960 grand performance, and this is how he decided to go out. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.800 He made the decision, he made the choice. I don't 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.079 think you can blame anybody here but Scott Pelly. I mean, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.920 if you know, he said, they once tried to alter 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.800 a report and he refused, and he was able to 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:34.880 just put. 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.200 On air what he wanted to put on there. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.040 But he finishes his tirade, he gets a round of applause, 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.560 according to reports, because you know, someone dutifully recorded and 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.920 promptly leaked it to press outlets. And I think that's 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.880 worth noting in and of itself. But at the end 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.200 of the day, do you really care? I mean, you 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.959 have more choices, more options than you've ever had before. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.280 And again I go back to what I was started 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.920 to tell you. I am a member of the press 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:08.000 I am. I benefit from being a member of the press. However, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.360 I am different than most people that claim to be journalists. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.679 There are people like I can produce thousands of hours 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:22.000 of fair balanced, objective news reporting radio, TV. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.440 Now my podcast. I can do all of that. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.920 I can produce thousands of hours of investigative report. Barack 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:35.840 Obama is radical associations, Russia, Russia, Russia Buyzagate, you know, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.120 Trump impeachment, go through the whole Grand conspiracy. We're now 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.840 investigating the Grand Conspiracy, which we know and has been confirmed. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.960 By the way, Cash Bettel will be on the program 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.840 later today, we'll ask him an update for an update 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:53.679 on that. I also am honest about who I am. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.960 There's nobody that watches my TV show, listened to this 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.480 radio program, or is not watch my podcast. Although we 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.240 do some fun, offbeat different topics that we don't have 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.800 time to do on radio or TV, you know, just 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.319 to things that I'm interested in. And by the way, Linda, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.800 yesterday I interviewed an exorcist. Now it does say in 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:17.600 the Bible that Jesus, you know, did exercise demons. As 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.120 a matter of fact, I would like to set up 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.680 an appointment for you to meet with this. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.360 Guy, would you be very funny? 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.920 And we've talked about you aps and I believe in 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.200 all this stuff. I think it's biblically sound anyway. So 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.600 I tell you upfront that I'm a conservative. I tell 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.240 you in elections who I'm going to vote for. I 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.319 voted for Donald J. Trump three times. I've never voted 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.200 for a Democrat for president in my lifetime, and I 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.199 don't foresee that moment coming, especially what the Democratic Party 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.200 has become. So I yes, I'm a member of the press, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.320 but I'm a talk show host who has opinions. But 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.440 I'm upfront about those opinions. If you look at a newspaper, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.480 what's in a newspaper. You get news, you get international news, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.680 you get local news, you get state news, national news, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.920 you get it all, and then you have something called 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.560 the editorial page or the op ed page, and you 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.920 get opinion, and you get sports. They have the sports section, 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.560 and then you get the cultural sections social issues that 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.000 come up that people like to talk about and debate. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.000 So is a newspaper part of the press, of course 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:35.160 it is. Well, I'm like a newspaper, and the only 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.200 difference between me and a lot of these people in 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.800 the legacy media mob, and one of the reasons fake 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:47.319 news CNN is failing. MSDNC has a very niche audience 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.520 of radicals, but it's small. The reason I think Fox 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.000 has done well is we have been the alternative. The 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.199 reason talk radio is as relevant as it is today, 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.840 in spite of predictions pretty much throughout my career that 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.960 it would not be as relevant as it really is, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.280 is because you get news and information that you're not 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.840 going to get anywhere else. And that is the I mean, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.840 I should be really grateful to all of them. I 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.000 should probably send thank you notes to all of them. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.400 I should probably send Scott Pelley a thank you note 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.680 because their bias has chased half the country away to 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:29.040 search for other sources of information, and thankfully that's turned 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.480 into a career that I love and I'm grateful for. 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.600 But you know, this idea that he's a victim as 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.840 he's screaming at his boss and telling him he's never 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.880 going to be accepted, good luck with that, and talking 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.160 about that guy's boss as somebody that's trying to destroy 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.240 his great work. Well, if it was so great, CBS 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.320 wouldn't have all this attrition, and he wouldn't have failed 0:14:50.360 --> 0:15:02.400 in the anchor seat. Just say, all right, so we 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.720 got all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly coming up. We 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:09.080 have Cash Ptel, the FBI director. It's amazing the media 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:14.440 with such incredible historic numbers that they've done, and they 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.240 don't ever give him credit. Well, we'll give him the credit. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.520 He deserves. The country safer and more secure. 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:51.640 Working every day to remember the forgotten man. This is 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.400 the Sean Hannity Show. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:16:02.080 Wall Street Journal says major corporations should consider following Exxon's 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:07.640 example and leave high tax states run by woke democrats. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.600 They're not wrong as a matter of fact of anything. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.360 They're a little bit in the curve to be honest. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:17.120 But don't be surprised if Exxon is a harbinger of 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:23.080 more shareholder driven relocations. In other words, I would argue 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.040 the Canary and the coal Mine happened a long time ago. 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:33.080 I mean to understand that Morgan Chase has more employees 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.520 outside of Wall Street and New York than they do 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:37.080 in New. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.200 York in order to tell you something. But it's not 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:41.000 just them. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:46.880 It's every investment firm, every private equity group, it's every 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.440 big bank, Wall Street South in Florida is very real. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.720 You know when Mamdanie thought he was being clever by 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.840 dosing billionaire Ken Griffin, a guy that runs Citadel, very 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.520 successful company. Never met him, don't know him, don't care 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.639 to meet him. I don't care about him. However, I 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:09.320 love what he's about to do. Now, Mam Donnie tries 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.879 to make an example out of him, and while doing so. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.439 You know, if you're a billionaire, by the very nature 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:20.680 of being wealthy, you are a target. We live in 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.840 this assassination culture. Three attempts on Donald Trump's life, the 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.640 assassination of Charlie Kirk. I mean, it is what it is, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.560 you know, I've I've and Steve Winn has told this 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.280 story publicly of the wind Hotels. Linda, I bet you 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.480 don't even know this story. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:37.080 Maybe you do. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.280 When he was running one of his hotels, this is 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.680 pre the Win Hotel and the Encore. Remember he built 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.359 out a ton of hotels on the Strip and he 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:50.920 had built that one of the success maybe it was 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:55.040 the Blagio, I don't remember which one. And he built 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.919 a hotel known to be wealthy. Casino is known to 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.400 have a lot of money. Somebody kidnapped. This guy's daughter 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.760 kidnapped him for ransom, and he made the decision to 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.639 pay the person. He made the decision not to go 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.840 to the police, not to go to the FBI. He 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.280 went to the vault in his casino and he said, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.640 this is how much money I have cash on hand 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:22.359 right now. I think it was close to two million 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.800 dollars somewhere around there. He paid the person, The person 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.720 gave them instructions. The person followed through, released the daughter, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.520 told Steve where he would find his daughter, and thankfully 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:40.879 they found the daughter unharmed. And then he then he 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.320 went to the FBI and they thankfully were able to 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.359 get the people involved in this conspiracy that would do 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.120 something that horrible. So, Mamdonnie, it's not this little innocent 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.960 act of letting the world know where a wealthy billionaire lives. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.080 You know, Ken Griffin has a right to his privacy 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.879 in this country. It's pretty remarkable that he would do 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.400 that and try to make an example out of him, 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.000 try to shame him. And now Ken Griffin, who had 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:12.000 planned to spend six billion dollars in investing in New 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:16.680 York City, has said no, I'm moving the money to Miami. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.200 I'm moving the money to Wall Street South, which kind 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.760 of goes from Miami north to West Palm Beach and 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.800 everywhere in between. And I'm happy about it as a 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.160 as a resident of Florida. That's you know, high paying 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.600 career jobs, construction jobs. That's I mean, run the gamut. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.480 They got to build the buildings, they got to hire 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.399 the contractors, they got to hire the workers. You know 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:43.479 that that's long term work at great salaries for people. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:49.040 It keeps Americans working. But you know it's exon mobile. Yeah, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.960 of course they should have left. You know, they're in 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.400 New Jersey. They have the highest corporate state tax rate 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.640 at eleven point five percent. Member during the Bumdani's campaign, 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.639 Marxist Kami Mamdani said, Oh, I just want to match 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.040 what they have in New Jersey. Now they're moving to 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.719 the state of Texas, which by the way, is an 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.640 energy state. Makes sense right anyway. Texas has no personal 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:16.040 income tax. New Jersey's top personal income taxes ten point 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:20.200 seventy five percent. Energy costs are much higher in New Jersey. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.720 Electricity rates in Texas are fifteen point four to one 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:28.280 cents per kilowatt hour compared to twenty three point one 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:32.800 two cents in New Jersey. And it's a huge difference. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.720 It's a huge savings, and it's a better way of life, 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.960 and you have better infrastructure, you have better law and order, 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:44.080 more safety and security. Another big difference is litigation risk. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.800 In twenty twenty two, the New Jersey Attorney General sud 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:52.600 axon why allegedly deceiving the public about climate change and 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.520 fossil fuels. Now that hoax has been exposed, even the 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:01.600 UN said, yeah, we were wrong. Well as a result 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:06.000 of climate alarmism. And then of course, you know the 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.359 wind farms and the solar panels and all the you know, 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.440 all the mandates that were put in place. Then we 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.560 find out never mind, I mean that's what they said. 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.359 We were wrong. They were wrong the whole time. Bill 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.919 Gates admits, yeah, I bought into it. It was wrong, 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.560 al Gore, Every prediction he's ever made has been wrong. 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:28.399 It started out as the Coming ice Age in the 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:30.679 nineteen seventies. It was on the cover of Time and 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:35.159 Newsweek that evolved into We're going to be incinerated because 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:38.960 of you know, global heat and the snow of Mount 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.760 Kilimajaro and other places are going to melt, and the 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.880 ice cap is going to melt, and Florida is going to. 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:48.720 Stick sink into the sea. If it sinks into the sea, Linda, 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:50.000 just throw. 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.800 Me a life raft. I'll be good. But I mean, 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.760 this is madness. And as a result of fake science 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:02.399 and alarmism, government has spend trillions and trillions of dollars. 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:08.360 They have wasted. It's unbelievable. We have cheap affordable energy. Now, 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.600 if we come up with a different affordable energy down 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.800 the road, I'm all for it. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:15.040 I'm an all of the above. Guy. 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:20.080 Windmills don't cut it, and solar panels don't cut it. 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.480 It's been proven to fail, and they spend a fortune 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.720 on it and they bankrupt everybody. By the way, ADP 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:29.840 reporting the economy added one hundred and twenty two thousand jobs. 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.240 As always when there's good economic news and Donald Trumps 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.480 president much better than expected. I mean, that's what they 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:40.840 say all the time. By the way, Congressman Mike Lawler 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.040 has called for an investigation into a Democratic House candidate 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:47.400 who just won his primary despite ties to al Qaeda. 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:52.919 I mean, this is how nuts this Democratic Party has gotten. 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:54.480 We've we've been spending a lot of time on this, 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.800 you know. And the Democrats, I hope they spend hundreds 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.440 of millions of dollars in their support for Tella Rica. 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:05.720 I want them to spend money in Texas because that's 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:09.040 less money they'll have in other competitive races. And I 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:10.919 won't even tell them where. I don't want them to 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.400 spend the money. Why bother. Let them figure it out 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.560 for themselves. But if they think that James tell Rico, 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:23.760 known for his radical extreme leftist stances on education, abortion, 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:29.240 LGBTQ criticizing, you know, the Christian faith, actually making a 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:33.640 dumb statement that Jesus or God isn't a Christian. You know, 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:36.480 God so loved the world that he said his only 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:41.240 begotten son, that whoever believeth in him shall have everlasting life. 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.320 I don't know, Linda, I think that's a fairly famous verse. 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:49.600 Oh the John three point sixteen comes to mind. And uh, 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.120 but you know, here's a guy in Texas that wants 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.480 to put a welcome matt on the southern border. After 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:58.480 all the Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz and others have done, 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:02.760 and Ken Packs included have done to secure that border. 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:06.679 I mean, it's pretty remarkable. You know, this is a 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:10.720 guy that thinks that there are many more biological sexes 0:24:10.760 --> 0:24:12.920 than men and women. He thinks there are six. He's 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:16.560 yet to provide the evidence or what the other four 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:19.679 sexes are. We're all waiting. This is a guy that 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:23.359 will go in church and talk about God being non binary, 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:27.520 and in the same context site the Bible to back 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:30.479 up his insanity. This is a guy that has no 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:33.840 problem with men and women's locker rooms and playing women's sports. 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:37.360 He says those against it are buying into a far 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.840