1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: All right, Thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: of you for being with us. Right down our toll 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: free telephone number if you want to be a part 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: of the program, it is eight hundred and ninety four 5 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,319 Speaker 1: one Sean if you'd like to join us. And we 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: are in the Washington Swamp once again. We are in DC. 7 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 1: We're in the sewer. We're going to be here for 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: two days. We will have an exclusive interview tonight with JD. 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: Vance on his first tan knowledge of everything that went 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: down with Zolenski on Friday. The President's been talking about 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,919 Speaker 1: it today as well, and President's strategy. The fact that 12 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: the media doesn't understand him or want to understand him 13 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: is very predictable, but it is unforgivable at this point 14 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: in my view, because they don't want to understand him. 15 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,959 Speaker 1: They don't understand what's going on in Ukraine, they don't 16 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: understand what's going on in Israel, they don't understand the 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: Middle East, and their level of ignorance is it's flabbergasting 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: on many, many levels, too many to even get into it, 19 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and it's it's kind of 20 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: a sad thing that happened, but let me give you 21 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 1: where I think this is going to go, so maybe 22 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: to give you some hope, and I think it's going 23 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: to end this way. I think so Lindsey's coming back, 24 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: maybe sooner, maybe later. He actually made the ridiculous statement 25 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: today that he thinks that this war is going to 26 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: go on for years. Well if he believes that, then 27 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: he has to believe that the funding for this war 28 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: is going to continue. And at the United States. Maybe 29 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: nobody told him, but there's a new sheriff in town, 30 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: and this sheriff wants an end to the destruction and 31 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: the death that has taken over Europe and his country. 32 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: And if it does go on for years, there's not 33 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: going to be a country that is worthy to be saved. 34 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: And I'm watching all these European leaders now following the 35 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: footsteps of Joe Biden. Joe Biden, JD. Vans was right. 36 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: He pounded his chest and calling Putin names, and how 37 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: did that stop Vladimir Putin? It didn't do a thing. 38 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: And the best solution at this point, because Americans are 39 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: not going to spend hundreds of millions more dollars in 40 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,279 Speaker 1: the next year with nearly forty trillion dollars in debt 41 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: to fund the war that Zelenski wants to fight with 42 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: our money, because that's where we are with this, and 43 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: the best case scenario for him, and this was this 44 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: was a three part deal. Part one should have been 45 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: on Friday, and we have a lot of behind the 46 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: scenes details that we'll give you in the course of 47 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: this hour. Part one was to sign the rarer mineral 48 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: deals that would have benefited Ukraine for two reasons. One, 49 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: it would have ensured a business relationship and a US 50 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: presence in Ukraine likely for decades to come. And two, 51 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: American technology would have been used to extract the minerals, 52 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: which would give them, you know, billions and billions of 53 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: dollars to build back their country, which would have been 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: a huge financial benefit for everybody involved. The President already 55 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: said that he was open to the idea of European 56 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,839 Speaker 1: troops when he would talked to Emmanuel McCrone. He said 57 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: to Macron that he's fine if European troops want to 58 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: be on the ground, He's okay with that. And I'm watching, 59 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 1: you know, Europe and their emergency meeting and the UK 60 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: Prime Minister laying out a peace deal framework and welcoming 61 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: Zelenski with open You're always welcome here. I'm like, fine, 62 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: if Europe wants to if they want to continue to 63 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: fund this war against Russia and not come to a 64 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: negotiated settlement, that would have been phase three. Phase one 65 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: is the mineral deal. Phase two is a ceasefire. Phase 66 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: three is a negotiated settlement. That negotiated settlement, as I 67 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: said to my interview with Zelensky a number of weeks 68 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,119 Speaker 1: back would include the rare Earth mineral deal to pay 69 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: back the United States and also ensure an American presence 70 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: there that would help them in terms of their country security. 71 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: That and number two, a ceasefire that would be very 72 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: good for them right now because they don't have the manpower, 73 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: and they don't have the weaponry, and they don't even 74 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: have the prospects of drafting any people because they're now 75 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: you know, they they're now forcing forty five year old 76 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: men into the battlefield, and I doubt most forty five 77 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: year old men can fight like twenty and twenty five 78 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: year old guys and at that age an unexpected war. 79 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: So Europe can you know, criticize the US and act 80 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: like they're the biggest Ukraine supporters of all time, and 81 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: meanwhile it was the US that paid the bulk of 82 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: the freight. The way Joe Biden set this up and 83 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: Harris set this up, is this war starts, he's putin's 84 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: of massing troops on the border. Biden's asked, well, you 85 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: know what's going to happen if he invades. Most people 86 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: were predicting he's not going to evade him, like that 87 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: was the dumbest analysis at the time I'd ever heard. 88 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: Of course, he was planning on invade, on invading. Did 89 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,799 Speaker 1: you not remember the annexation of Crimean what twenty thirteen 90 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 1: or fourteen, whatever year that occurred. You got to be 91 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: pretty dumb, naive and stupid not to think that he 92 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: was gonna invade after amassing all these troops along the 93 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: Ukrainian border. Well, it depends if it's a minor incursion. 94 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: A minor incursion. What is a minor incursion? That means, well, 95 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 1: we'll let him go in a little bit and we 96 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: will be okay with that if it's a minor incursion, 97 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: and then you know, then he starts with the handcuffs 98 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: on Zolenski. At the beginning of the conflict, no, Poland 99 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: can't give twenty eight megs. No, you can't use cluster bombs. 100 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: And by the time Biden's leaving office, he's giving Zolensky 101 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: ballistic missiles that can reach Russia, and he's firing those 102 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 1: ballistic missiles into Russia, which did raise the possibility or 103 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: greater possibility of the potential of a World War III situation, 104 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: because Vladimir Putin responded by changing their nuclear policy to 105 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: say that any country that fires ballistic missiles into their 106 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: country is now they're now able to nuke them in response. 107 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: Great job, Joe, on top of the hundreds of billions 108 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: of dollars that you spent. Lindsey Graham, I love Lindsey 109 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: Graham was absolutely apoplectic, and he's been a big supporter 110 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: of Zelensky, but he also sees an opportunity here for peace. 111 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: And then he tore into European leaders rallying behind Zelensky. 112 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: Be my guest, Europe, you want to defend Ukraine from Putin, 113 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: you go right ahead, he said, He said, less than 114 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: twenty four hours, and which is the right position to 115 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: be in? Now? All this said, I still think that 116 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: Zelensky will be back, and I think it's going to 117 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: be sooner than later, because at some point reality is 118 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: going to kick in. It clearly didn't kick in by 119 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: the time he went on Brett Bear Show on Friday night. 120 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: We have Brettbahar on Friday night. It didn't kick in 121 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: any point over the weekend. Although I do have sources, 122 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: I have very good sources, better sources than the state 123 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: run legacy medium on which is dead. Zelensky has been 124 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: reaching out repeatedly to President Trump directly and his team directly, 125 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: asking to come back and make this right. So hence 126 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: my knowledgeable prediction, putting two and two together A squared 127 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: B square equals C squared. I believe that Zelensky will 128 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: be back now this afternoon. The President's holding a meeting 129 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: on the next steps regarding the crisis with Ukraine, including 130 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: the possible suspension of US military aid, according to US 131 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: official with knowledge of the meeting. According to Axios, and 132 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: suspending military aid would damage Ukraine's ability to defend itself 133 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: against Russia's invasion, and I think it would also had 134 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: the would have the added impact of bringing Zelensky back 135 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: to the table. But he's got to come back with 136 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: realistic expectations here if he wants this war, as he 137 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: said today, this war is going to continue for years. 138 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: If it continues for years, you don't have to have 139 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: a HAVED or MIT degree to figure out there's not 140 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: going to be a country left. It is going to 141 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: be annihilated. It is going to be destroyed. There's going 142 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: to be more refugees, There's going to be death and destruction. 143 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: You know, I noticed JD Van so I'll have on 144 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: Hannity tonight was forced to move his family to an 145 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 1: undisclosed location because he had hundreds of pro Ukraine protesters 146 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: swarming of vermon skivers. He's got young family and he 147 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: wanted to take him for a weekend skiing. Guy can't 148 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: even go skiing. It's ridiculous. And anyway, so one little 149 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: factoid that we learn. Michael Goodwin, writing for The New 150 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: York Post, delivered a pretty bomb show report yesterday that 151 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: President Zolensky, before he met with the President on Friday, 152 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: he met with a group of congressional Democrats. He also 153 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: met with ten US senators and it's his belief that 154 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: these Democrats sabotage these peace negotiations. And before meeting with 155 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: the Zolensky before meeting with Trump. Rather, Zolensky met with 156 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: these anti Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the 157 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: terms of the mineral deal that the president was offering. 158 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: According to Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, just finished the 159 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: meeting with President Zelensky, he confirmed that the Ukrainian people 160 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets 161 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: everything he wants and there is no security arrangements for Ukraine. 162 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: That was phase three, the negotiated settlement. Phase one was 163 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: the mineral deal that was supposed to happen. That was 164 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: supposed to be a predetermined outcome. It's the third time 165 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: Zelensky said he'd do it, and the third time he 166 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: backed away from it. Case you're counting now. Forty minutes 167 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: later after this meeting and Zolensky arrives at the White House, 168 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: he President Trump goes out to meet him, and we 169 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: all know what happened thereafter. The earlier meeting with Democrats 170 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: undercuts wild claims that Trump and President van stage in Ambush. 171 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: I know for a fact that wasn't. This was a 172 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: predetermined outcome meeting, which happens all the time on the 173 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: international stage, was supposed to be predetermined they were gonna 174 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: shake hands and they were gonna, you know, smile, and 175 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: they're gonna go sign the rare earth mineral deal. The 176 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: next push was going to be for ceasefire, and Zolensky 177 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: was supposed to say he would support a ceasefire so 178 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: they can have a negotiated settlement. That didn't happen. That 179 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: was a missed opportunity. Scott Bessent revealed Zolensky turned down 180 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: two earlier opportunities to sign this rare earth mineral deal 181 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,719 Speaker 1: with the US, and he was given a chance in 182 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: Kiev by him once in Munich and Secretary of State 183 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: Mark or Rubio. And anyway, Thescent went all the way 184 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: to Kiev because he thought it was important the president 185 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: send him back there, you know, because of the shared 186 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: economic interest. And they had a private meeting, you know, 187 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: and at one point they wouldn't even they wouldn't even 188 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: wake the guy up for a meeting. And he sat there, 189 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: sat there, sat there, and then finally sent him out 190 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: of here. And why should he say, but he was 191 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: supposed to sign it. That was the predetermined outcome or 192 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: what there was supposed to be. At the end of 193 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: the meeting, he said I'm not signing this. I said 194 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: at the end of the meeting, do you want to 195 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: go out and tell the press? He said, uh, because 196 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 1: I don't want to go out and show the Russians 197 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: that there's daylight between us. And he said, well, I'm 198 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: going to go out and say I'll sign it in Munich. 199 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: That didn't happen anyway. So and by the way, if 200 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: you want to know where the Ukrainian people are, we've 201 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: got a poll number, you know, out from November. Callup 202 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: polled the people of Ukraine on whether they want to 203 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: keep fighting Russia versus ending the war now with the 204 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: negotiated settlement by a fourteen point whopping majority. The people 205 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: of Ukraine want the war to end through negotiations. And 206 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: as far as the American people, Gallup had a plurality 207 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: of Americans that support a quick end to this Ukrainian war, 208 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: even if it means Russia gets to keep some of 209 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: the territory they now occupy, which probably would have been 210 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: part And I brought this up in my interview with him. 211 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: You know, you're not going to be a member of NATO. 212 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: But the President was open to European troops being on 213 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: Ukrainian soil and the business relationship with the US would 214 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: be a pretty powerful message. So we're going to find 215 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: out what happens, Tulsea gabbered. The new DNI director you know, 216 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: pointed out Zelenski has canceled elections, taken over the media, 217 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: imprisoned opponents, and shut down churches. This guy not exactly, 218 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: you know, mister Pope innocent here by the way, I 219 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: know the Pope is on a ventilator and our prayers 220 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: are with him and anybody that's sick for that matter. 221 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: Not fun the White House now, Democrats, he's become He's 222 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: an arm of the Kremlin. He's a putent puppet. This 223 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: is the most ridiculous thing ever. Why don't you call 224 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 1: him evil and Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin? Because, as 225 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: the President explained on Friday, okay, I'll follow the idiotic, 226 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: dopey media's pressure and give in and call Putin names. 227 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: That's what Joe Biden did for years. How did that 228 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: work out? And then he ended up funding a proxy 229 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: war with the US that has cost US hundreds of 230 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 1: billions of dollars. You know, Donald Trump's trying to make 231 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 1: peace here to save Ukraine from total destruction and to 232 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: end the death. And maybe maybe Speaker Johnson's right, maybe 233 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: Zelensky's not up to that job. I don't know. Well, 234 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: we'll find out soon enough. Well, no, well know, this 235 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: is a sad story. I mean, I guess now the 236 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: president until and the President's going to address the name 237 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: should amid the Ukraine uncertainty. And he really was very 238 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: he was very short on Friday when he said that 239 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: he can come back when he wants peace. I don't 240 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: think that message is going to change. And of course 241 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: we'll hear a lot more at the State of the 242 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: Union addressed tomorrow. We are in DC. We do have 243 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: jd Vance, the Vice President. We'll get a first hand 244 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: a count from him where he thinks this is all going. 245 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: Why why he thinks this devolved into what it evolved into? 246 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: Why did Zelensky act this way? And again, this to 247 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: me was supposed to be largely ceremonial. It was not. 248 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: By the way, here's a sad state of affairs. New 249 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: York Post Gallup poll. Thirty three percent of Democrats survey 250 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: said they had a favorable view of Israel. Sixty percent 251 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: said they viewed Israel unfavorably. The first time. Ever, a 252 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: Gallup survey showed up majority of members of a main 253 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: US political party having a negative opinion of the Jewish State. 254 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: I say to anybody, any of the respondents here, what 255 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: part of murder, rape, kidnapping, torture, beheading did you not 256 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: understand what happened on our coverer of the seventh The 257 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: equivalent of forty thousand Americans died in a day. What 258 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: are you missing here? All right? Quick break from the swamp. 259 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: Jdvans tonight on Hannity. We'll continue when fake news gives 260 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: you lies, Hannity supplies the truth. Sean Hannity is on 261 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: right now, all right, twenty five now till the top 262 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: of the hour. Eight hundred ninety four one shown is 263 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: on number. You want to be a part of the program, 264 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: as we come to you from the capital, our nation's capital. No, 265 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: you don't get a point for that. By the way, 266 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: as we come to you for a nation's capital. We're here. 267 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: We're going to have Vice President JD. Van's on tonight 268 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: to talk about his first hand experience on Friday in 269 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: the Oval Office with President Trump and Zelensky in the 270 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: showdown that took place, and also my prediction. We'll get 271 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: to that in a second. I love to cook. I 272 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: find cooking and relaxing. I have a very specific but 273 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: simple diet, so now it's pretty easy. And that is 274 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: basically meat and eggs and occasional fish. That's my diet. 275 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: That's it. Maybe once in a while somebody will give 276 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: me a little chicken soup and I'll sip the broth 277 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: whether I want it or not. But anyway, I love 278 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: to cook to perfection. And when I would cook occasionally, 279 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: if I messed up, I would be so mad at myself. 280 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: I'd be so upset. You know, you cook a juicy steak, 281 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: you want a burger? I like. I like everything medium 282 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: are plus. That's how I like it. Whatever you preferred outcome, 283 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: Now it can be perfect every single time thanks to 284 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: technology that is very inexpensive, and it's called chef i 285 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: Q Sense And let me tell you what it is. 286 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 1: It's a completely wireless cooking thermometer. It eliminates any possibility 287 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 1: you can undercook your food, any possibility you can overcook 288 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: your food, no matter what outcome you want. Maybe you're 289 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: crazy and you want it well done. Not a good idea. 290 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: Don't destroy the meat in the flavor bad bad idea, 291 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: or maybe you like it rare or medium, rare or medium, 292 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: however you like it, it'll guarantee cooking to perfection. You'll 293 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: be a master chef. When you have your friends, your family, 294 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: your neighbors over to eat and you're going to cook 295 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: them a burger, a chicken, or steak or pork chops 296 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: or pork ribs or fish. It's going to be perfect. 297 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 1: And it's so simple to use, whether you're deep frying it, grilling, roasting, baking, broiling, 298 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: it'll guarantee your preferred outcome. Now it's like a toothpick, 299 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: except a little bit thicker, and just put it in 300 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: your food. Then you open the chef iq app, which 301 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 1: is the easiest app in the world to download and use. 302 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: I did it all by myself, which speaks volumes. You 303 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,439 Speaker 1: pick your preferred level of dunness and it'll tell you 304 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: when to turn your meat over and when your meat 305 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: is done to your preferred level of doneness, and it's 306 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: perfect every time. It's very inexpensive. Just go to chef 307 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: iq dot com. Now I'm going to make it more 308 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: inexpensive if you use my name Hannity at checkout you'll 309 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 1: say fifteen percent more chef iq dot com. And I 310 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: promise you you will love this technology. And your friends 311 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: and neighbors and co workers and family all think you 312 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 1: went to culinary school. It's that good. I find it 313 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: fascinating that Steak and Shake announced a major changed changed 314 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: to the Shoestring Fries and they said it's part of 315 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: the make America Healthy Again movement. And instead of using 316 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: vegetable oil the healthiest oil, you're much better with olive 317 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: oil or avocado oil, just healthier anyway. They broke the news. 318 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: By March first, all locations fries are going to be RFKD. 319 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: I think that's pretty cool. I am doing something pretty cool. 320 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:18,719 Speaker 1: I haven't even told you guys what I'm doing with 321 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: RFK coming up in the days ahead. It's actually pretty 322 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: cool and it's different. But I'm not going to tell you. 323 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you this is really a 324 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: bad radio. 325 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 2: You know that, right? 326 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: Yeah? Probably. 327 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,640 Speaker 3: I love when people say, hey, you know that thinging, Oh, 328 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 3: never mind, never mind. 329 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 2: I was just a kidding. I'm not going to tell you. 330 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: How you done. 331 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 2: Never mind. 332 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 1: Glad to see you're back in a good mood. 333 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: I'm always in a good mood. 334 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: That is a false statement, that is fake news. That 335 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: is true. 336 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 3: Flowers and sunshine all day long. It's up to you 337 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 3: to smell and see it. 338 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 2: That's your choice, Blair. 339 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: I I you know, there's. 340 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 2: A reason Blair doesn't have a microphone. 341 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 1: I'm pulling out the challenge flag and that's five points 342 00:19:58,440 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 1: to me. 343 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 2: It's under review plus Switzerland. 344 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: So I will tell you this, what do we expect 345 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 1: from the State of the Union tomorrow night? And I 346 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: think you're going to see a President Trump that is 347 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: championing the very agenda that he ran on. He is 348 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: going to champion, for the good of this country, the 349 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: policies that will give us the greatest course correction in 350 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,199 Speaker 1: the modern error. This is where I keep saying, he 351 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 1: has the opportunity to be to be the most transformational, 352 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: consequential president in the last hundred plus years, if he 353 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: if he is able to successfully get Republicans, because I'm 354 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: not I'm assuming Democrats are just going to hate on him, 355 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: but if he can get for the sake of the 356 00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: American people, the Republican Party to stand true to principles 357 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: of constitutional order, limited government, greater freedom. If he fulfills 358 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: his promise to secure our borders and get rid of 359 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: known terrorists, gang members, cartel members, murderers, rapists, violent criminals, 360 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: and people that are harming our fellow citizens. That will 361 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 1: be a dramatic shift from where we have been the 362 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,919 Speaker 1: last four years. You know, if he's going to continue 363 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: to identify tens and tens and tens of billions of 364 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption, that is going 365 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: to benefit every single American. We ought not be advancing 366 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 1: the radical green new leftist deal worldwide and promoting and 367 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: paying billions of dollars for DEI programs, wokeism, transgenderism, LGBTQ 368 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: plus while the American people have nearly forty trillion dollars 369 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: in debt. We're stealing from our children and grandchildren, and 370 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: we've got to be better stewards of their money and 371 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 1: for the sake of our children. Also, we need to 372 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: bring back law and order and safety and security and 373 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: eliminate the madness of no bail laws and this insanity 374 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: of defund and dismantled police, no refund them. 375 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: Who do you think is right in the speech? Who 376 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 2: do you think the speech writers are? 377 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: I'm sure Trump does it himself. I bet you ad 378 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: libs half of it. 379 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 2: What do you think that he'll hit tomorrow night? What 380 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 2: do you think? 381 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: I think everything Like. I think he's gonna hit everything 382 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 1: that he's said on the campaign trail. That is my prediction. 383 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: And I think he's going to give examples and of 384 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 1: exactly what it is that he's doing. And I think 385 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: when he goes directly to the American people, this is 386 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: gonna be highly viewed tomorrow night. Its gonna be a 387 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,479 Speaker 1: big deal, and Democrats will do their usual sulk. I mean, 388 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,160 Speaker 1: we even have an article out today that we have 389 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: their plans. Rank and file Democrats are shrugging off HACKEM. 390 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,360 Speaker 1: Jeffries and Chucky Schumer's directive to use the president's address 391 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: to showcase democratic resistance. Resistance to what Waltz. Voters don't see. 392 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: Democrats are inviting He's so dumb. He's like the dumbest 393 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: guy on earth. Jeffries and Schumer want members to attend 394 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: the speech. Some are not going to intend. You know, 395 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 1: it's I want to go in their plaze. I'll take 396 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: their seat, you could, you know. Chris Murphy said he's 397 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: leaning against attending because when Trump does it it's not 398 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: a serious event. Okay. Other lawmakers said they will take 399 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: their spouses as is common. And you know, nearly a 400 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: dozen House and Senate Democrats said they are leaning against attending. 401 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: Or let's see how many Democrats are going to be 402 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: lined up in the aisle seats for the twelve hours 403 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: prior to the State of the Union that want to 404 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: shake his hand and get a selfie with the president. 405 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: Because that's what happens in spite of their stated, you know, 406 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 1: vitriol and hatred of Donald Trump. You know, but look, 407 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: the there was a great article. Where was this today? 408 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: I forgot it was Politico today, That's where it was. 409 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: And it was written by Adam Wrenn and the headline 410 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: is centrist Democratic group railing against leftist identity politics and 411 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: purity tests. I mean, this is why people. And he'd 412 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: be nuts to do this, our friend Steve and I Smith, 413 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: he'd be nuts. He has no idea what would await him. 414 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: On the other side of that, I would be forced 415 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: into a position to have to just. 416 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 2: Literally, is this a Smith Hannity ticket? Are you guys 417 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 2: going to go up against Crockett and Wolves? 418 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 3: Is that what's happening? Because if it is I want. 419 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 3: I'm I'm definitely getting the popcorn. 420 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: Out Smith, Hannity, if it was anything would be Hannay Smith. 421 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: Get it right. 422 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 2: You said you don't want to be president. I want 423 00:24:59,600 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 2: to do that. 424 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: I never wanted. 425 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 2: I didn't ask you about Nobody. 426 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: Wants me to be president. 427 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 2: I think allow people want you to be president. 428 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 1: No groundswell for Hannity to be president. I'm sure there 429 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,719 Speaker 1: were better capable people to me, and you know what, 430 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: I kind of like, have you seen Jasmine Crockett. 431 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 2: I assure you you are better equipped than. 432 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: Every Democrat that they have out there, So I'm not 433 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 1: I'm not disputing whether I'm better. 434 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 3: Listen, if you want to talk about communities within communities, 435 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 3: helping communities, I think you could nail it. 436 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: Bro I think, you know, with the passage of time, 437 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: I could to pull off anything because time is passing 438 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: and we're all passing through it. 439 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 3: And then you could take back your time like Maxime Waters. 440 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, boy, you could do it. 441 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: Dozens of Democratic Operatives elected officials gathered a resort off 442 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 1: the Potomac last month, and apparently frustration boiled over at 443 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: the left wing of their party. Democrats quote, have become 444 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: too obsessed with ideological purity tests and should push back 445 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: against far left staffers and groups that exert a disproportionate 446 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: influence on policy and messaging. What are they talking about? 447 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: That is the entire party, with the exception of maybe 448 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: maybe Linda's Senator Fetterman. And when it comes to voting, 449 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: he hasn't shown me enough, you know, enough commitment to 450 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: really being the moderate he professor to be. 451 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 2: But he is showing of leg He shows a lot 452 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 2: of legs. 453 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: Does wear shorts, And my attitude is you can wear 454 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: whatever the heck he wants. It's crazy. They gathered in 455 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: Loudin County and Virginia day and a half of retreat. 456 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: They plotted their parties come back. They searched for why 457 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: the party lost in November and what to do about it. 458 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 1: One of the key ways to win back the trust 459 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: of the working class is where it gets interesting, is, 460 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: they argued, was to reduce the far left influence and 461 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: infrastructure on the party. Now here's where steven A would miscalculate. 462 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: Steven A would try to run as a more moderate Democrat. 463 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: Your Governor Josh Shapiro's probably looking at the Oval office, 464 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: maybe an attempted run from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 465 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 2: Could you not curse at me? It is three thirty. 466 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, thank you. And the problem is for the 467 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: party is he probably can't get the nomination. Neither can 468 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:20,880 Speaker 1: Steven A. If you don't sound like AOC, the odds 469 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: of you getting the nomination are going to be very low. 470 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 2: What if he ran as an independent, Well, because. 471 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, honest, I'm actually fine because that'll 472 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: put the ticket with the ticket. 473 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 2: It'll be great. 474 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: They had five pages of takeaways Politico obtained from one 475 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: of the participants, and not all attendees endorsed each point, 476 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: by the way, just in case you're interested, and anyway, 477 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: in the wake of the election loss, it became evident 478 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: that things that the left were doing and saying hurt 479 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:59,239 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, it says, and down ballot democrats, I say wrong. Well, 480 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris stood for and said was as radical as 481 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: every modern Democrat you know. Taxpayer funded sex change operations 482 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: of running mate, taxpayer funded college tuition for illegals, gender 483 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: affirming care for minors without parental consent, as if parents 484 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: don't have any rights at all, anymore anyway. So and 485 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: they go on to say one of their comprehensive and sweeping, 486 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: you know, election loss they centered on the party's disconnect 487 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 1: with the working class, weak messaging and communication, no failed policies. 488 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: They're wrong again on point two and their failure to 489 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: prioritize economic concerns. Well, they lied to us as a 490 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: party with abandonment about the borders, about economy, about Joe's 491 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: cognitive state, why would we trust them now? And over 492 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: emphasis on identity politics that defines this party. They're not 493 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: going to eliminate that. And the attachment to unpopular institutions 494 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: like academia, media, government, bureaucracy, Well they have a chance. Now, 495 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: what democrat is not screaming constitutional crisis because we're finding 496 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption. 497 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 1: You know, if Trump's first term might have energized progressives, 498 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: it looks like the early signs the second term is 499 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: going to do the same. In spite of what Politico 500 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: is saying about this small group of Democrats. Now they say, well, 501 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: with the selection of Senator Slogan of Michigan to deliver 502 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: the response to the nation after Donald Trump, Okay, those 503 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: gathered laid out twenty solutions, embraced patriotism, community, traditional American imagery. 504 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: They're acknowledging that they don't so what They're going to 505 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: fake it because it's not real. If it was, patriotism 506 00:29:55,560 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: comes out. It is raw, it is natural, it is 507 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: is unapologetic. You don't need a note from a group 508 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: of moderates in your party. Let us embrace patriotism and 509 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: community and traditional imagery that is Americana. I'm like, how 510 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: stupid are these So let's fake it. Let's act like 511 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: people would not. Candidates should get out of elite circles 512 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: and into real communities and go to tailgates and gun 513 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: shows and local restaurants and churches. Well, they haven't exactly 514 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,719 Speaker 1: been the biggest supporters of the Second Amendment, and they 515 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 1: haven't been the biggest supporters of freedom of religion. And 516 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: we know the party's position against Israel, and if they 517 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: go to a church, it's basically solds to the polls, 518 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: which has been always a big part of the democratic 519 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: strategy during presidential election years. They need to own the 520 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: failures of the democratic governance in large cities and commit 521 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: to improving. Oh decades and decades of failure. That part 522 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: I agree with. Are they going to admit that their 523 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: policies on law and order and safety and security and 524 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: borders and energy are out of touch with where the 525 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: country is and that lying to the American people and 526 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: having their allies in the media do the lying for 527 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: them failed spectacularly too. I don't think so this is 528 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: all you know what? This is smoke and mirrors. How 529 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: can we Basically, it should have been a document that says, 530 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: how do we deceive the American people into believing that 531 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: we're something that we really are not. That's what the 532 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: article should have said.