WEBVTT - Callers Share The Future - December 27th, Hour 2 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:04.640 All right, this is Jeffrey Lord filling in for our 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.840 friend Sean Hannity. And our phone number here is eight 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:11.239 hundred ninety four one seven three two six or eight 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:15.000 hundred ninety four to one Sean. So let's, uh, let's 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.400 spend a little time on the phones here. And what 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.640 I see up here is our friend Claire from Florida. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.600 And Claire, why don't you tell us a little bit 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:26.520 about why you called? 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.840 Okay, Well, I'm a lifetime Republican and I could rattle 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.440 off all the names to prove that, but so I 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:35.360 am a Republican. 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:35.839 Hi. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:41.240 I think that Biden pardoning Hunter was the right thing 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.440 to do as a father. That's his responsibility. If Biden 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.519 had not pardoned Hunter, he would be castigated about it 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.720 for the rest of his life. Now. I hope people 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.880 will call in and discuss that with you. But that's 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.600 my opinion. I'm not improving. I don't approve of Biden, 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.280 but I approve of pardoning his son because he is 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:00.800 the father. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.160 Well, you know, you might it might surprise you, Claire, 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.800 but I tend to agree with you on that. I 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.240 just think that I think there's so much more and 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.880 I think we will find out as we move away 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.480 from the Biden era that memoirs will come out and 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.680 investigative reports will come out. I think we will learn 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.240 a lot that is not very favorable to the Biden family, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.960 or as they've been mimicked, to the Biden crime family. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.120 I think that is important to get to. But I 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.040 think in this situation and remembering in terms of family history, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.200 I was not to date myself, but I was in 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:41.039 college when Joe Biden was elected to the United States Senator. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.120 He was twenty nine years old, soon to turn the 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:48.000 required age of thirty, and this to be elected a 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.520 United States Senator was a big deal. And within a 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.400 matter of weeks after that, there was a car accident 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.840 that killed his wife and little girl, and I think 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:05.240 injured Hunter and brother bo and I suspect. And then then, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.880 of course, a number of years later, Bo draw passes 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.800 away from cancer. I think, if you're the father in 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:19.160 that situation, that's enough, and you wanted Hunter has I 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.520 think unquestionably made a mess of things. That's his problem. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:24.920 He'll have to He'll have the rest of his life 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.160 to get his acting gear. But I do think that 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.240 I don't think that Joe Biden could have done or 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.079 would have done anything else, and so you know, on 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.360 we go and I and I think just in terms 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.040 of the bidens in general, I think now the time 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.639 is here to move on, to move forward. And having 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:52.160 studied presidents enough from you know, George Washington on and 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.160 having worked for a president, I worked for President Reagan, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:03.919 what happens is the men their successor is elected. It's 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.480 kind of it sounds kind of harsh, but wow, people 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.799 just turn their attention from that person who had been 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.080 president and turn it to who the new guy is. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.280 So I think that process has already started. I think 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.360 you saw it at the international level, as I was 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.560 saying earlier when President Trump President elect Trump went to 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:30.440 France to celebrate the Notre Dame source. So okay, Claire, well, Claire, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.399 thank you very much. I think that was a good 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:37.160 thing to get cleared up here. I need to turn now, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.040 want to turn now to my old friend mattch Slap 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.080 of the American Conservative Union. Hello there, Matthew, how are 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:44.960 you hey? 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.400 Jeffrey, Merry Christmas. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:52.200 Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah and all the rest. Yeah, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.320 I think it's great, Yes. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:55.720 It is. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.560 Indeed, it is indeed, and I was sort of wondering, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.720 what's your take now that you know twenty twenty four 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:09.560 is behind us, twenty twenty five is beginning to take shape. Matt, 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.560 for those who are unaware, is also the head along 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.960 with wife Mercy. And by the way, Matt, something some 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.640 little bird told me there was something going on with 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.359 missus Schlapp today. I don't know what that might be. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.840 She got a little bit older today, just a little bit. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.679 Uh oh, that means she's finally eighteen. Well, that's that's good. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:36.760 That's good. Well, I think that you know, Sea Pack 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.120 and the Conservative Union and all this, we have our 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:41.960 work cut out for us, and it's going to be 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.839 very interesting to see as we move into twenty twenty 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.880 five and presumably the next four years. What's your take 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.080 on what lies ahead for us? 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.640 Well, first of all, I have to say DETI thinks 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.960 and gratitude to you, Jeffrey, because you saw what was 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.000 going on in the country. You were a Reagan guy. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.600 I was a push guy, and you saw what was 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.560 going on with Donald Trump and you were with him 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.320 early and you stuck by him. I'm very proud of 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.080 SEAPAC no matter what happened. We stuck by Trump. We 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.240 put him on our stage in Orlando, Florida when they 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.800 closed this down in Washington, DC. Yes, and we put 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.720 Donald Trump on the stage about fifty days after January sixth, 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.280 and you know, caused the controversy at the board. Some 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.880 of our people said, you can't invite Donald Trump after 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.560 j six and I said, no way, He's going to 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.440 be on our stage. He's our president. And you guys 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.600 have J six all wrong. And so now we're to 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:44.880 today after all of that, and all I can say is, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.360 I don't know if there's a more important year than 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.479 twenty twenty five, and probably I don't know the last 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.880 eighty years. This is a big one. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.280 Yes, I think that's absolutely right. I think it's absolutely right. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.040 There's all kinds of things that can gonna happen here. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.760 And I'm led to believe that Mercedes is on the line. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:05.480 Is that true? 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:08.440 Do we have mercy? 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.280 I hope they're telling me that she just vanished. Don't 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.280 you love twenty first century technology? 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.119 Man, end the phone over to her when you're ready 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.520 for her. Here's my take on this year. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.080 Yeah, you. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.000 We've got this first year of her presidency is awfully important. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.960 It's critical we have these small majorities in the House 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.920 and Senate, and and for those of us who are 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.560 insiders and know too much, it's easy to get discouraged. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:44.080 But for everyone else who's just rooting Trump on, I 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.159 think the key is is we got to keep these 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.520 congressional Republicans, the Senate Republicans on the Trump train. They 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.400 got to get a plan on this budget. I read 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.200 lots of theories and talk to a lot of people 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.120 that have different theories about what they can do on 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.800 the budget. But I'd just want them to get on 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.560 the same page on the budget, between Speaker Johnson and 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.800 John Food and the President and his team. And my 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.560 advice to them would be keep it simple stupid. Not 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.560 that any of them are stupid, but you know, Republicans 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.320 have a hard time sticking together, and in this case, 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.360 I think if they try for one budget resolution, get 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.480 the taxes in there, get all the border stuff you 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.440 need in there, at a few other policies that we 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:33.360 all are on board, get one done, and don't be 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.560 too worried about how fast you do it, and then 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.360 let's see how much time we have left on the 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:38.360 clock to do a second one. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:39.880 Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:40.360 You know. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.680 One of the things that I remember vividly when I 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.120 was starting out my career in Washington, I was working 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:51.960 for Congressman Budd Schuster from Pennsylvania. Oh yeah, legendary, legendary indeed. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.280 And while he was particularly famous for serving as later 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.880 as Chair of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.560 as was then called, he also served on the House 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:08.080 Budget Committee and as his legislative director. And I was 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.560 assigned to, you know, do the staff work and go 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.360 to all these budget committee meetings and read the federal budget, which, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.880 as you know, was thousands of pages and all of 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:19.520 this kind of thing. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.080 Yeah, but you could do it back then. I don't 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:21.800 think you could today. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.800 Yeah, I think that's I think that's about right. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:24.240 Well. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.560 One of the things that I learned which sort of 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.160 took me aback, and I have remembered this, oh is 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.320 is it wasn't just liberal Democrats on the committee who 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.600 were putting stuff in this budget. It was Republicans. And 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.280 I thought, oh, my goodness, what you know, what what 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.040 is going on here? And you know, all these years later, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.880 I can see why so many Americans who sort of 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.280 caught on to how this works, are making complaints about 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.720 the so called uniparty and that kind of thing. What 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:54.560 are your thoughts on that? 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.520 Yeah, I will tell you the birthday girl has joined us. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.760 Ah Mercy is here, and I'll give you a quick 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.320 answer because I know you're gonna want to talk to her. 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.280 But my view is this, which is it's a pox 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.000 on both their houses. They are both parties, both major 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.760 parties are responsible for outrageous decision making around the budget. 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.959 Most Republican presidents haven't helped the matter. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:16.800 I mean, the. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.600 Problem is when Reagan was president and we actually had 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:24.400 budget fights closed down the government or the government was closed, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.960 as you'd say, and then Nuke Ingridge tried to do 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.960 the same thing. When we got the majority in the 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.720 House for the first time in foury or whatever years, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:36.720 it was the the and the Republicans over corrected. They thought, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.360 oh my god, we lost the shutdown fight with Bill Clinton, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.520 We'll never win a budget fight again. We might as 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.319 well just join them on the spending front, with our 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.160 Republican pork joining the Democratic pork. And it's resulted in 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.040 a very precarious financial situation for America, which means the 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.120 free world is in a very precarious position, and I 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.560 really applaud those Republicans who were saying, look, enough is enough. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.880 We've got to kind of rein in the spending. And 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.120 it's not just the CRS. This is like a little 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.320 fraction of the budget. You know, when you were working 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:08.800 on the Hill, that was a big part of the budget. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.480 Now it's a tiny little part because we've put almost 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.320 all the government on autopilot with the mandatory spending, which 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.680 is kind of a made up title, and we've got 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.520 to get into all that spending. You know, I don't 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.360 know if President Trump wants this to be a focus 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.720 of his but the fact is we don't have much 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:29.400 time left, and Republicans better starting like the Reagan Republicans. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.520 Yeah, Marcy, what are your thoughts on where on where 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.840 President Trump goes with all of this that we're coming 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:37.400 along with. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.000 Yeah, no, Look, I think it's very important for President 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:47.080 Trump to remain the top. How can I say, spokesperson 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.600 leader of talking about these budget fights. I think that 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.440 you know, of course Elon and they have an important role. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.760 They're leading the DOGE efforts, but you know, they really 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.280 have never worked in Washington the day and I think 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.960 it's important for them to understand that they will have 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.600 to work closely with the Office of Management and Budget 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.560 and uh and figure out, you know, yes, strip out, 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.400 take out all these DEI initiatives throughout all of the government, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.760 figure out where this all this misspending is happening. I mean, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.480 you're talking about that the Pentagon couldn't even you know, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.720 they failed their audits seven times. You know, there there 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.000 needs to be major fixes in the government. With that 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.400 being said, Uh, you know, I do think that the 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.840 that the American people are expecting tax cuts, they're expecting 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.480 tax cuts quickly, and I think that has to be 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.880 the top priority in addition to securing the border and 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.640 making sure that if they move forward with this sort 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.240 of deportation plan, that it's not going to be come 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.840 into a you know, public relations fiasco, but really hone 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.320 in on these criminal aliens. So I think that there 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.320 that is where the top priority has to be. I 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.840 do think that, you know, I've been watching uh, you 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.959 know X yesterday and today, and I see the Veke 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:06.439 commenting about you know, the immigration visas and and and 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.120 elon as well, and I'm like, dude, guys, stay out 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.600 of immigration, stay in your lane. Focus on cutting the government. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.520 Don't get off message because at the end of the day, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.440 it is President Trump, it is President Trump's agenda, and 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.720 we all just have we have to support him to 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.000 make sure that his agenda gets accomplished. And he's going 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:30.280 to have a very short window because as you know this, Jeffrey, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.600 that your political capital, you start losing it after a 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.160 year or two, right. Uh, And and he's got to 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:36.760 move quickly. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:37.960 Uh. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.800 Just as a matter of curiosity, are Elon and k 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.840 are they coming? Have they especially any interest in coming 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:45.600 to Sea pac. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.880 We have and Eve has been uh, you know, he's 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.520 come very regularly last couple of seapacks. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:53.840 Yeah. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.520 So when we've actually worked really closely with and uh, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.240 I don't have a relationship with Elon musk As then 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.679 Mercy and I had a wonderful conversation with him in 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.520 marrow Ago a few weeks ago when we had the 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.120 event down there. And we've talked with some of these 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:08.920 people and they say he wants to come, and we 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.640 of course love to have him. But you know, our 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:16.200 focus is two things. Number one, what's the best way 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.200 to use ce Pack to push the Trump agenda? And 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:20.760 we'll be right in the middle of the first one 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.400 hundred days when SEPAC starts in February and Washington DC, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.040 so like it's almost like the midterms, right, Like, how 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.320 are we doing so far? How many cabin secretaries have 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.040 been confirmed? Where are we on this agenda? How many 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.400 of these day one executive orders are being fought out 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.120 in courtrooms, which I think one hundred percent will sadly, so, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:44.600 I think we have to use spack to leverage all 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.480 the people around the country who are so excited that 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.720 Trump won. But the second thing CEPAC has to do, Jeffrey, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.120 is what it's done really well in the last few years. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.360 We've broad in this effort. People say, big ten, I 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.320 don't really love that analogy, but we've expanded this coalition. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.080 We are the first people to invite Tulfa Gabbert, We 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.000 were the first people to invite Donald Trump. We were 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:08.080 the first people to invite Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Like 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.040 when these new voices popped up on one issue area, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.800 we didn't say, oh, you can't join our club because 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.120 you don't agree with us on everything. We said, hey, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.400 why don't you come over to our club. We'd like 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.680 to hear your thoughts. And it's a great ride. As 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.880 we expand this coalition, it's less about parties. Now. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.400 Yeah, I think that's right, and I think alas we're 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.520 running out of time here, but I do think that 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.320 the parties have switch positions, if you will. I think 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.560 the Republican Party is the party of working class Americans, 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.360 working Americans, and I think that's a good thing. That's 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.800 a good thing. I think this started with President Reagan, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.960 and President Trump has taken it to the max. So well, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.000 Matt Mercy, thank you very much. I will make plans 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.480 to see you at sea pack and happy birthday. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.200 There to the missus Mary Christmas. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.200 Merry Christmas, and happy New Year. Right, okay, thank you 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.320 very much, and we'll be back. This is Jeffrey Lord 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.120 in for Sean Hannity, and if you want to call in, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.840 our number is eight hundred and nine four one seven 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.200 three two six. All right, welcome back. This is Jeffrey 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:16.400 Lord filling in for our friend Sean Hannity. Our number 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.160 here is eight hundred and nine four one seven three 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.640 two six, And let's take a call from John in 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:23.600 North Carolina. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.080 Hey, Jeffrey, how you doing. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.600 I'm doing great, and you happy New Year. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.800 You know, and all the rest, Yes, sir, I'm enjoying 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:40.080 the time off. My comment is I've been following politics 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.680 and you know, listen to talk radio for many, many, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.960 many years, and about fifteen years ago I started. I'm 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.280 an independent voter. I'm not a member of any party, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.840 but I do vote. I use common sense. I back Trump. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.680 And what I don't understand is about fifteen years ago 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.000 I looked at everything and I said, you know what, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.240 the behavior of these Democrats, they're just like organized crime. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.040 And I felt and it's not meant to be an attack. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.480 It's not meant to, you know, be name calling, except 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:18.840 it it aptly identifies what we're up against. And if 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.680 you if you look at the traits of organized crime 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:28.280 such as tax evasion, which Hunter Biden does, uh or 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.120 and you're on people are on the take. We're always 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:36.320 finding and I'm not saying Republicans or you know that 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.480 avoid any of this. But the con men, you know, 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.480 the term con men comes from confidence men the people 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.000 that can go out and right. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:45.840 We fool you. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:51.360 So I what I'm saying here is I think the 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.160 media commentators that are trying to be as truthfuls as 0:16:55.200 --> 0:17:00.720 they can really It's like when Trump got that got 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.520 the term fake news to stick. I think we should 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.919 try to get the term organized crime to stick whenever 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.520 we're talking about either deep state. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.560 Well, i'll tell you, you know, I don't know whether 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.840 the organized crime thing will fit or not, but I 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.600 think you're onto something. And I was thinking about this, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.920 and I'm of an age that I remember vividly as 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.000 a child. My parents were very active in Republican politics 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.240 and Massachusetts, so they were always very interested in what 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.920 was going on, and together we watched in January of 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.040 nineteen sixty one, I was in the fourth grade, Hello 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:44.520 President Kennedy being sworn in and giving us inaugural address, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.720 which was very memorable. The phrase that's stuck asked, not 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.879 what you can do what your country can do for you, 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.919 ask what you can do for your country. And I know, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.040 without question, and I was one of them. It inspired 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:01.800 young people to get into politics. Now that said, I 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:06.760 think that the problem eventually became that young people who 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.160 were doing this, that's all they were going to do, 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:15.840 and it was a limited experience. Looking back, they didn't say, well, 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.680 I'm going to go build a business, or I'm going 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.040 to do this or I'm going to do that that 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.959 has nothing to do with politics. They just stuck with 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.119 politics all the time, and this is what encouraged I 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.959 think a lot of you know, or fair share of 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.360 elected officials. It's just, you know, that's all they do 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.520 all the time. And I think over time that that 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.320 is not a good situation here for them or for 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.119 the country. I think that they get so wrapped up 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.679 in this. I think Joe Biden, frankly, is a perfect 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.959 example of this. He was twenty nine years old when 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.280 he was elected to the United States Senate and makes 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.680 what I don't know whether it's one hundred and fifty 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.680 or two hundred thousand dollars something as a United States senator. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:05.160 How in the world to afford multimillion dollar houses and 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.320 all of this kind of thing. Well, he affords it 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.960 because he so go the allegations he was the big 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:16.920 guy peddling you know, political influence in return for money 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.080 in Ukraine and these other places. I don't think that 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.159 Joe Biden is alone. He may be a standalone in 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.200 terms of the size and the amount and the offices 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.000 he held, but I'm willing to bet you could find 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:35.960 people in public office alas unfortunately at much lower levels 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.879 of government, a local or state, who were doing some 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.640 version of the same thing. And that's where I think 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.920 this has gotten off the rails here. 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.359 Yeah, you have to be you know what that said. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:53.040 You have to come from an honest foundation. I've worked 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.639 for major corporations, I've lived overseas in the Middle East, 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.840 I've worked with high I was not in a military, 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:07.880 but I worked on big dollar Middle Eastern in the 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:12.360 private corporations and I saw I would I dealt directly 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:17.600 with corporate officers that were less than honest. They were lying, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.080 and I knew it. I couldn't say anything at the 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.120 time because I didn't have the power. But the corruption 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:27.520 and people's people are too dishonest. Everybody's got to look 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.040 into the soul mirror and you know, make sure that 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:31.760 you're doing. 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:32.120 The right thing. 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.160 Well, you have to be raised by parents who are 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.880 raising you with a sense of integrity. I think that's 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.920 that's number one, and sometimes I think that that sort 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.840 of falls down and that is definitely not a good thing. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.840 So well, John, thank you very much for calling. Let 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:53.879 let me see do we have some time here. I 0:20:53.920 --> 0:21:00.200 think we're going to move on to Josh in Minnesota. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.680 Welcome to Sean Hannity Show. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:05.480 Thanks taking the call. 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:10.320 Absolutely absolutely, So what do you want to talk about, Josh? 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.280 Well, first, I was going to talk about Biden, but 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.280 they need to start talking about this shift in the 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:16.960 in the political parties. And you know, I grew up 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:21.320 in northwest Minnesota. My grandmother was a DFL delicate but 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.040 was also a strong believer in pro life wow. And 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.639 my grand my grandfather was a brick layer president of 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.040 the brick Layers Union. And I grew up in this area. 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:37.040 You know, we were strong Democrats, and our state representative 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.200 was a Democrat, and and we had Colin Peterson from 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:46.320 this area going to Washington, and it all shifted about 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:48.960 I don't remember exactly what time, but about you know, 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:54.280 the Obama administration. You know, those representatives kind of retired 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:59.160 and since then, this whole area has voted Republican. And 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:01.840 you know, we said shell fishbock to Washington and we've 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:05.639 got a Republican local rep. And it's just, you know, 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.760 we grew up with those values that you know, I'm 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:11.639