WEBVTT - Standing with Stephen A. 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.680 Thanks to all of you for being with us. Hour 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.080 two Sean Hannity Show. Here's our toll free telephone number. 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.080 It's eight hundred and nine four one Sean if you 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.840 want to join us. I get attacked, probably on a 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.960 daily basis, if you are a public figure. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.840 It goes with the territory. I am used to that part. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.159 I get more angry when friends of mine, and I 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.760 mean friends of mine are unfairly attacked, and then I 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.360 get then it's personal for me. It's not personal, you know, 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:37.080 like you have keyboard warriors, you know, living in their parents' 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.839 basement and their underwear or naked. You know, they just 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.800 drop their bombs every five seconds on some social media platform. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.800 I don't read it. I don't care. They're meaningless to me. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.279 All of you and this audience that. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.479 Make this show possible, make my TV show possible, my 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.720 podcast possible. I'm indebted to you because I get to 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.400 do what I love. And I have friends of mine 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:04.080 that I know their true character. I know who they 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:04.920 are in their heart. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:05.920 They don't have. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:10.759 To agree with me politically, but we are friends in 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.200 one sense. You know, my next guest says, like a 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.240 brother to me. That's how deeply I feel about him. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.040 My love is real for this guy, and you know 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.480 the sense that you know, we have a deep, abiding, 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.360 real friendship that developed many years ago. We don't agree 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.560 on a lot some political things, and we have some 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.920 fun fights and then we move on. I admire what 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.240 he has done with his life, how he's overcome adversity. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.720 He's been on my podcast, and he had a very 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.240 tough childhood growing up. I won't give you all the 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.400 details now because it's not relevant. And then I saw 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:51.080 an unfair attack against Stephen A. Smith this weekend by 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.160 what's a group called the National Association of Black Journalists, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.520 And you read the headlines, is oh, that he gets 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:04.120 an f from this group and he, you know, accusing 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:09.040 him of a pattern of disparaging African American women, black women, 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:15.440 and he got a thumbs down, whatever that means. And yeah, 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.440 he has been critical of the likes of Jasmine Crockett, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.320 who has said a lot of crazy stuff, and Joy Reid, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.040 who said a lot more crazy stuff. I can play 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.520 it all for you on this show. And he calls 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.560 balls and strikes. He tells me what he doesn't like 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.519 about Donald Trump. He tells me what he doesn't like 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.880 about democratic socialists. He thinks democrats are destroying themselves. He 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.080 thinks Donald Trump needs to not let every thought in 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.679 his head come out. He's just blunt, and we just 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.840 respect each other. And he joins us, Now, I am 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.920 more angry about this than you are. Now, I know 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.520 what you said, and you know they attacked you. And 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:04.160 then you responded very very quickly, and you said, okay, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.120 if if this is what you want to do, you 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.160 all started something, and I'm going to respond, and I 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.399 want to give you the opportunity to But I think 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.200 it's unfair. You said in your ex post, this is 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:22.239 the epitome of Christmas arriving early. If the at NABG 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.680 wants to call folks out, fine you had your turn. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.600 Now mine is coming now, and make no mistake, I'm coming. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.160 Let's see who really deserves the thumbs down award when 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.880 it comes to the black community. After I say my piece, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.560 remember you asked for it, I've shut my mouth for years. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.240 Now you all started something. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.440 Now I could tell a lot of stories about you, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.600 your kindness, your generosity, how you give back. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.400 To minority communities. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.680 I could start listing, chapter and verse, but I don't 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.080 think you're going to want me to because you do 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.120 that stuff privately, and you do that stuff out of 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.640 the goodness of your heart, and you do that stuff 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.200 because you know you're blessed. I'm sorry that this happened 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:15.600 to you because it's unfair, it's untrue, and it's an injustice, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.240 and I don't like injustices. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.000 Well, I appreciate all that. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.000 Thank you for saying that. I think it's all accurate 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.320 what you just said. It's a bunch of bs. And 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.520 I did my you know, my show straight shoot of 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.400 receiving a on my YouTube channel and I and I 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.719 addressed it. It's a bunch of bs. There's no truth 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.000 to what they were saying. And I want to step further. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.520 I said, let's call it what it is. I said, we've. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.640 Got a whole bunch of folks out there, you know, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.320 who are liberal thinking, and you've got the liberal mob 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.720 as some people like yourself and others will call it, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.080 that have targeted me. And as far as I'm concerned, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.400 this is the this is the latest foray into that, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.240 and I don't think there's any question about it. This person, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.120 this president of the NABJ MIS game, Miss Haines is 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.640 her name, Aaron Gaines, Aaron Haines. I've ever met her. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:01.440 I don't know her. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.720 I got no heads up about what they were thinking 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.600 or why. And this notion that I've disparaged black women. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.400 I was raised by five black women, the greatest mother 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.760 on earth, who passed away in twenty seventeen. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:14.600 God rest her soul. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.159 You know how I felt about her, My four older sisters, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.680 ten nieces, two daughters. I've been around black women all 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.320 my life. I have six black women working for me. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.560 My financial advisor is a black woman, my lawyer is 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.760 a black woman, my accountant is a black woman. I 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.800 don't know what they're talking about, and so when they 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.840 say these kinds of things that they have said, it's 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.920 utterly ridiculous, and I think that when you look at it, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.479 they try to They didn't give any examples, but we 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.800 know based on what we've witnessed over the last year 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.159 or so that you know, you know, they've had issues 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.679 with some of the things that I have said about 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.479 some of these folks. And I'm like, okay, let's go, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.840 let's go down the list. Jasmine Crockett, you go on 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.159 the nation, you go on the airwaves, and you call 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.200 the president a piece of bleep, And I said, how 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.240 is that going to help your constituents. You're in Texas, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.680 the same California in New York, they ain't going for 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:06.320 that down there. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.159 That's not going to help you. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.400 What happened in the aftermath of all of that, she lost. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.920 Tel Rico is the senatorial candidate for the Democratic Party 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.960 in the state of Texas, with an opportunity to represent 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.800 thirty one million people as opposed to seven hundred sixty 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:22.760 six thousand. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.120 Which she had in her district. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:30.080 Michelle Obama, you know, I've raved about this woman for many. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:30.560 Many years. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.200 I think that she's absolutely phenomenal. And I said, hey, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.680 I think she could run for president and she would win. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.120 She said, there she calls first take a reality show 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:39.640 or whatever. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.960 I said, well, you know what, that's fine, but why 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.279 you brought your name into the equation allowed me to 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.040 say that I always had a problem during the campaign, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.279 which you saying, will vote for Trump was a vote 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.039 against women. And I said, wait a minute, what about 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.160 those who are pro life? What about those who ain't thinking. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.880 About planned parenthood and instead. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.840 They're thinking about the economy, or immigration or safety. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:04.000 In the streets. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.679 When people go to the polls, you know, they vote 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.720 for somebody based on their own individual. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.760 Interests, right, wrong or otherwise. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.280 That's how an electorate operates. You know, we bring up 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.720 you know, Kamala Harris, I said, hey, we're talking about 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:19.840 how the Democratic you. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:21.440 Know, the Republican Party in. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.680 The GOP is a threat to democracy. Well, y'all bypassed 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:30.120 the primary diffrapped at the Democratic nominee nomination to her 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.800 for the presidency of the United States. And then she 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.640 went on a view and Sonny Houston asked her the question, 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.280 would you do anything differently? Have you seen anything differently 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:41.720 from the body of the administration that you. 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:42.960 Would think do differently? 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.440 And she says, no, I can't think of anything, not 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.160 one thing that I would do differently. In the middle 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.880 a migrant crisis with folks for US and the porters 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.200 and the millions, I said, that's not going to get 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.720 a gut You're going to lose. And what happened. She lost. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.840 And so I'm pointing out these things and pointing out 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.080 stuff that has happened, and I'm like, whether you agree 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:10.000 or disagree, fine, where does misogyny come in? Where does 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:15.720 disrespect and disparaging come in, how do you say and 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.280 that I'm doing that? 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:18.520 I don't get that. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.720 And last, but not least, I made sure to make 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.320 it very very clear. I started my career at the 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.520 New York Billy News' high school reporter. I got the 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.000 job at the Philadelphia Enquirer because of a job here 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.360 at the NABJ conference in. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:33.520 Nineteen ninety four. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.400 I have religiously been a contributor to the organization, it's 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.719 sports task Force, the job fairs. I brought first take 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:46.560 to the nationally televised show to the NABJ over the 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:52.200 last three years in Chicago and then in Cleveland and 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.679 the year that I don't show up there this year 0:08:55.760 --> 0:09:00.280 because I'm I'm enrolling my daughter in the college a 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.200 thumbs down award. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.679 And conveniently, it's after all of. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.400 This stuff is happening where I'm interviewing Byron Donald, do 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:13.760 I'm interviewing Jim Jordan, or I'm interviewing to Tom Potton 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.720 or a host of other GOP of Republican members. But Sean, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.400 I've had my show on pote serious X Tom Potis 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.840 Radio every Wednesday night from six to eight pm East 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.040 since they at the time on Potus Channel one twenty four. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:31.600 Since September seventeenth, I've had it. I've had sixty political 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:38.199 guest showing thirty Republicans, thirty Democrats because I'm a registered independent. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.120 Sean Hennedy is a very dear friend of mine. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.840 We don't agree on much politically. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.880 We argue about this stuff all the time, Mark Binn. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.400 He calls me crazy all the time. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.400 I told you crazy. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:53.200 I think you're nuts. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.880 We going to order both. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.240 We're friends, and I'm sitting there going like, what are 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.880 you talking about? So in the end, what it comes 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.280 down to is you don't want to give. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.800 The other side fair shake. You don't want me to 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.800 listen to what other people's views are. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.600 You don't want me to quote on quote platform anybody 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.679 else who's ideological tillic may be different than what they 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.760 believe I should be perdent or guess what. As a 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:21.719 journalist organization, you. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.760 Ain't supposed to be making that call. You're supposed to 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.120 be objectives right down the middle. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.080 And when you consider what I've achieved in my career. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.360 On September twenty ninth, I am being inducted into the 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:39.520 Broadcast Cable Hall of Fame in five weeks before I'm 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.360 to be inducted as one of the most accomplished journalists 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:48.079 and broadcasters in this nation's history. The National Association for 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.560 Black Journalists give me a thumbs down award. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.760 You can't make it up. You can't make it up. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:56.440 You know. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.480 One of the things that is most interesting to me 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.040 about you is you want to vote Democrat. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.440 You're very open about it. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.439 You're independent, but you lean you lean a little more Democrat. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.760 And you know, we have talked about like the DSA. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.679 I mean, there's all these stories out there today and 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.680 I've covered them extensively. One lady wants to legalize stealing, 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.600 you know, in New York, one of those members, and 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.040 they have their crazy agenda, you know, Eliminate the Senate, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.280 we no longer get to choose the president. They pack 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.599 the courts, Amnesty for illegals, abolished the borders. This is 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:33.320 all on their website. Abolish ice and all deportations. Defund 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.520 the Department of War. Pretty dumb. Eliminate cash bail, abolished prisons, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.840 abolished police, a well taxed, green new deal, public ownership 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.839 for corporations. If people would listen to you, Bill Maher, 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.960 Mark Penn later we'll have Doug shown on this program 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.240 and Joe Manchin and John Fetterman and others. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:55.120 Your guy. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:12:00.560 The only reason this this election could be close historically 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.160 it never is in a mid term is because they're nut. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.840 There are nuts, and I think Americans gonna, you know, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:08.560 run from this. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:09.560 And the polls show it. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:15.320 Sixty plus percent of Democrats like socialism over capitalism. Eighteen 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.160 percent only like capitalism. You know, this is crazy stuff. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:20.520 So you know. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.680 You're you're talking about calm balls and strikes. You have 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.280 no problem calling me crazy. And I'm not insulted because. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.400 I don't know. I just know your heart. You're my friend. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.840 Yeah, you know, don't you know, I don't be much bad. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.800 I just think some of your political views are nuts. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.600 At Ton well, I think some of yours are. So 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.880 I mean, we're we're even. But I know your heart. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.000 I wish people, I wish you'd let me tell people 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.920 all the good in your life. If it was not 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.640 for your sister when you had dyslexia before they named it, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.559 and and and you had this tough experience as a 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:01.199 kid in the third and fourth grade held back. Your 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.640 sister saved you, you know, the community saved you. Your 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.400 parents saved you. I don't look at skin color. You 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.440 and I have talked about that too. Neither one of 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.280 us do. We believe God created all of us the 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.000 same God created you and me. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:17.240 That's it. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.240 I don't be anyone that is a white nationalist or antisemit. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.080 I want nothing to do with morons. And people say 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.240 a lot of dumb stuff. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:25.520 Now. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:27.920 I tell people all the time. One of the arguments 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.360 that you and I once got into was when we 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.679 talked about we talked about skin color, and I had 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.080 to explain to you, I said, I said, Sean. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.360 I do look at it, but just because I look 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:36.760 at it. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.600 Doesn't mean that it defines how I'm going to judge 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.240 people accordingly. I notice differences, but all differences ain't bad. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.920 And it's okay for somebody to hold onto their ethnicity 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.720 and whatever belief system comes with that, to sit up 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.920 there and decide how you feel or what you believe, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.959 as long as it's fair minded and it's fact based, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.520 and it's more fact than feelings. And I think that 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.080 when you talk about the DSA, for example, you've got 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.600 people out here that are democrats. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:04.120 It's no way. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.320 I am a black man raised in the streets in 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.320 New York City. And I'm here to tell you something 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.880 that the Democrats don't want folks to know that most 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.240 people don't want folks to know. I don't care how 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.560 often black folks have been voted for the Democratic Party, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.840 particularly since civil rights legislation in nineteen sixty four, the 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.480 voting rights in nineteen sixty five. Most black households have 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.920 been conservative. Now, you might go to the polls and 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.280 vote differently, but the conservative views. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.640 Well, I'm going to add one thing, and we're going 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.960 to continue this discussion on TV tonight. How are government 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:42.200 schools doing in predominantly minority neighborhoods not very well on average? 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.760 How are they doing with law and order and safety 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:45.320 and security? 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.040 Not very well? 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.040 Maybe we'll pick up on that point tonight. All I 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.040 can say is, you know you're a good man, Steven I. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.200 Smith. This is unjustified, this is not fair. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.960 This was a cheap shot, and I'm sorry. I wish 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.000 people knew your heart way I did. And I just 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.840 want people to know you have my undying support, your friend, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:05.720 You're a brother. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:06.240 I love you. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.960 I appreciate it. I appreciate it. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.640 And he didn't say I love you back, just for 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:16.120 the record saying you know that Steven Eisman, We'll see 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.960 it tonight. Eight hundred and nine four one, Linda, Is 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:24.640 that awful or what awful? We've known him for decades. Listen, 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.680 everyone needs a homes I wouldn't want to be the 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.760 Democrats today, I really wouldn't. I mean, now, you've got 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:36.840 to defend this lunatic DSA individual, the Brooklyn Socialist State 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:42.320 assembly woman, you know, declaring shoplifting. You have a right 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.800 to take any item you want from a drug store 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.040 or a store, and you ought to be able to 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.480 do so without getting arrested. Because of the biological need 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.560 to steal these these items, shoplifting should be legalized, she says. 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:02.840 I mean, okay, I'm all in on that, sure, whatever 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.000 you say. DSA offering a tribute to Fidel Castro on 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:12.040 his one hundredth birthday. Majority of Democrats now favor socialism. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.280 I mean, this is crazy stuff we're going through. We 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.160 have new news on Troy Jackson. This is the guy 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:23.720 that replaced Graham Platner, mister Nazi tattoo. Not very good 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:28.400 news on him, which we discussed earlier. And apparently you 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.080 would think that things couldn't get worse for Troy Jackson. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.560 And you know the reports that is a. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.720 Vicious temper and he's throwing bottles of water at women. Well, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.920 if you think things couldn't get worse, they just have 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.440 bangor daily news reporting Jackson broke into his girlfriend's house 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.160 started to physically push her around. After he broke down 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.720 the door and found her with a male friend, he 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.480 promptly punched in the face and tried to strangle. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:55.120 Well. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.840 As as bad as that situation got, it got uglier 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:02.960 for Troy Jackson. Another guy, and aligash Man, who was 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.200 known who has known the Senate candidate for decades, says 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.680 he personally witnessed Jackson strike his longtime partner. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:12.600 In the face. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.120 It was oh, but it was open handed and an 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:19.600 incident outside a Saint Francis retail store years ago. And 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.960 this comes as renewed scrutiny over a separate nineteen eighty 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.120 eight assault documented in a police report. He told the 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:31.040 main wire about an encounter that he witnessed outside of 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.520 the small pub and you know, he was approaching the 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.639 entrance when he saw Jackson standing outside, and he said, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.480 you know, caught him completely by surprise. Quote, he just 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:47.160 open hands slapped her besides the head. Okay, Maine, where 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:48.520 are you gonna come down on this one? 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.520 Tell me about the incident where you witnessed Troy Jackson 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.640 striking his partner or girlfriend or well. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.280 Well, it was a tom the general store and Saints 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.960 that closed up, and the owner made the pob. It 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.240 was like a walk in basement, and he made a 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.359 pub which we all used to go there quite often 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.879 on the weekends. And I was going there one I 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:12.640 don't remember it. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.879 Was Friday or Saturday. But as I approached the door 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.040 lyon and Troy was standing outside, and all of a sudden, 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.280 he just open hand slapped her beside the head, and 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.320 her head tilted a little bit and her hair flew, 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.880 and she turned and started towards whatever vehicle they had. 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.000 I didn't see what vehicle they had or and it 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.919 kind of shocked me because usually I don't let stuff 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:36.680 like that slide. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:39.440 And he turned and followed her. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.080 So I continued in the building that they left. They 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.720 never came in, so you didn't hear any yelling beforehand 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.760 or an so he just open hand slapped her right inside. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.119 I didn't hear their conversation right, because I was just 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.560 approaching the but it was the closed fist and open hand, 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.400 open hand, open hand, Yeah, just and just lacked her. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:18:59.080 Yeah. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.000 Does a guy ever is it ever appropriate to raise 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:06.120 a hand towards a woman? The answer is obviously no, never, period, 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:12.879 end of sentence, full stop. Let's go to Mark in Virginia. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.320 I'm sorry, Mark in Florida. Mark, how are you glad 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:17.880 you called Happy Monday, sir? 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.760 Hi, Happy Monday Afternoon show on a very long time listener, 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.440 since you're handing Comb's days and watch on TV and first. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.280 Time caller, thank you, glad you. I don't know why 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.680 people wait so long to call. I'm glad you're out there, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.960 Glad you're with us. Don't be so shy next time, 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:33.720 call anytime. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:34.359 I will. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.080 Hey, So, I want to go back to the conversation 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:38.960 you guys have them. Last week on the w NBA, 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.760 I had a question I haven't seen listened to a 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.600 lot of the networks and a lot of talk shows, 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:48.399 and I haven't really heard anyone discuss what a legal 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.399 recours the is for people like Kate and Clark or 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.560 Cunningham for when these cheap shots are take in the 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.080 referees the league. No one's protecting them. If I remember 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.399 correctly killing Caitlyn even hurt her back after that the 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.680 fist and the throat maneuver a couple of months ago. 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.040 What is anybody or do you have or have you 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.320 talked to any lawyers and see what potential recourster is 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.320 legally if the league doesn't protect them. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.640 You know, look, I mean, you're play in a sport 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.240 and the last thing I'd really want to have happen 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.359 is AG's get involved. Like I'm a big hockey fan 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.960 and one of the biggest parts of hockey. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.560 And you know, people people can. 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.119 Say, oh, I wish they weren't fighting in hockey, but 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:35.120 you're in any place watching a hockey game, any stadium 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:38.000 around the country. I'm telling you, the crowd loves it. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:39.840 It's a part of the game and it always has been, 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.479 and no big deal. I mean, they don't let them 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.200 kill each other that eventually the refs will separate them, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.040 but it's a part of the game. I mean in baseball, somebody, 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:52.879