Speaker 1: All right, this is Jeffrey Lord filling in for our
Speaker 1: friend Sean Hannity. And our phone number here is eight
Speaker 1: hundred ninety four one seven three two six or eight
Speaker 1: hundred ninety four to one Sean. So let's, uh, let's
Speaker 1: spend a little time on the phones here. And what
Speaker 1: I see up here is our friend Claire from Florida.
Speaker 1: And Claire, why don't you tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about why you called?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm a lifetime Republican and I could rattle
Speaker 2: off all the names to prove that, but so I
Speaker 2: am a Republican.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 2: I think that Biden pardoning Hunter was the right thing
Speaker 2: to do as a father. That's his responsibility. If Biden
Speaker 2: had not pardoned Hunter, he would be castigated about it
Speaker 2: for the rest of his life. Now. I hope people
Speaker 2: will call in and discuss that with you. But that's
Speaker 2: my opinion. I'm not improving. I don't approve of Biden,
Speaker 2: but I approve of pardoning his son because he is
Speaker 2: the father.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you might it might surprise you, Claire,
Speaker 1: but I tend to agree with you on that. I
Speaker 1: just think that I think there's so much more and
Speaker 1: I think we will find out as we move away
Speaker 1: from the Biden era that memoirs will come out and
Speaker 1: investigative reports will come out. I think we will learn
Speaker 1: a lot that is not very favorable to the Biden family,
Speaker 1: or as they've been mimicked, to the Biden crime family.
Speaker 1: I think that is important to get to. But I
Speaker 1: think in this situation and remembering in terms of family history,
Speaker 1: I was not to date myself, but I was in
Speaker 1: college when Joe Biden was elected to the United States Senator.
Speaker 1: He was twenty nine years old, soon to turn the
Speaker 1: required age of thirty, and this to be elected a
Speaker 1: United States Senator was a big deal. And within a
Speaker 1: matter of weeks after that, there was a car accident
Speaker 1: that killed his wife and little girl, and I think
Speaker 1: injured Hunter and brother bo and I suspect. And then then,
Speaker 1: of course, a number of years later, Bo draw passes
Speaker 1: away from cancer. I think, if you're the father in
Speaker 1: that situation, that's enough, and you wanted Hunter has I
Speaker 1: think unquestionably made a mess of things. That's his problem.
Speaker 1: He'll have to He'll have the rest of his life
Speaker 1: to get his acting gear. But I do think that
Speaker 1: I don't think that Joe Biden could have done or
Speaker 1: would have done anything else, and so you know, on
Speaker 1: we go and I and I think just in terms
Speaker 1: of the bidens in general, I think now the time
Speaker 1: is here to move on, to move forward. And having
Speaker 1: studied presidents enough from you know, George Washington on and
Speaker 1: having worked for a president, I worked for President Reagan,
Speaker 1: what happens is the men their successor is elected. It's
Speaker 1: kind of it sounds kind of harsh, but wow, people
Speaker 1: just turn their attention from that person who had been
Speaker 1: president and turn it to who the new guy is.
Speaker 1: So I think that process has already started. I think
Speaker 1: you saw it at the international level, as I was
Speaker 1: saying earlier when President Trump President elect Trump went to
Speaker 1: France to celebrate the Notre Dame source. So okay, Claire, well, Claire,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I think that was a good
Speaker 1: thing to get cleared up here. I need to turn now,
Speaker 1: want to turn now to my old friend mattch Slap
Speaker 1: of the American Conservative Union. Hello there, Matthew, how are
Speaker 1: you hey?
Speaker 4: Jeffrey, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah and all the rest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's great, Yes.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Indeed, it is indeed, and I was sort of wondering,
Speaker 1: what's your take now that you know twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: is behind us, twenty twenty five is beginning to take shape. Matt,
Speaker 1: for those who are unaware, is also the head along
Speaker 1: with wife Mercy. And by the way, Matt, something some
Speaker 1: little bird told me there was something going on with
Speaker 1: missus Schlapp today. I don't know what that might be.
Speaker 4: She got a little bit older today, just a little bit.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, that means she's finally eighteen. Well, that's that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. Well, I think that you know, Sea Pack
Speaker 1: and the Conservative Union and all this, we have our
Speaker 1: work cut out for us, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: very interesting to see as we move into twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five and presumably the next four years. What's your take
Speaker 1: on what lies ahead for us?
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I have to say DETI thinks
Speaker 4: and gratitude to you, Jeffrey, because you saw what was
Speaker 4: going on in the country. You were a Reagan guy.
Speaker 4: I was a push guy, and you saw what was
Speaker 4: going on with Donald Trump and you were with him
Speaker 4: early and you stuck by him. I'm very proud of
Speaker 4: SEAPAC no matter what happened. We stuck by Trump. We
Speaker 4: put him on our stage in Orlando, Florida when they
Speaker 4: closed this down in Washington, DC. Yes, and we put
Speaker 4: Donald Trump on the stage about fifty days after January sixth,
Speaker 4: and you know, caused the controversy at the board. Some
Speaker 4: of our people said, you can't invite Donald Trump after
Speaker 4: j six and I said, no way, He's going to
Speaker 4: be on our stage. He's our president. And you guys
Speaker 4: have J six all wrong. And so now we're to
Speaker 4: today after all of that, and all I can say is,
Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a more important year than
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, and probably I don't know the last
Speaker 4: eighty years. This is a big one.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's absolutely right. I think it's absolutely right.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of things that can gonna happen here.
Speaker 1: And I'm led to believe that Mercedes is on the line.
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 4: Do we have mercy?
Speaker 1: I hope they're telling me that she just vanished. Don't
Speaker 1: you love twenty first century technology?
Speaker 4: Man, end the phone over to her when you're ready
Speaker 4: for her. Here's my take on this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you.
Speaker 4: We've got this first year of her presidency is awfully important.
Speaker 4: It's critical we have these small majorities in the House
Speaker 4: and Senate, and and for those of us who are
Speaker 4: insiders and know too much, it's easy to get discouraged.
Speaker 4: But for everyone else who's just rooting Trump on, I
Speaker 4: think the key is is we got to keep these
Speaker 4: congressional Republicans, the Senate Republicans on the Trump train. They
Speaker 4: got to get a plan on this budget. I read
Speaker 4: lots of theories and talk to a lot of people
Speaker 4: that have different theories about what they can do on
Speaker 4: the budget. But I'd just want them to get on
Speaker 4: the same page on the budget, between Speaker Johnson and
Speaker 4: John Food and the President and his team. And my
Speaker 4: advice to them would be keep it simple stupid. Not
Speaker 4: that any of them are stupid, but you know, Republicans
Speaker 4: have a hard time sticking together, and in this case,
Speaker 4: I think if they try for one budget resolution, get
Speaker 4: the taxes in there, get all the border stuff you
Speaker 4: need in there, at a few other policies that we
Speaker 4: all are on board, get one done, and don't be
Speaker 4: too worried about how fast you do it, and then
Speaker 4: let's see how much time we have left on the
Speaker 4: clock to do a second one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I remember vividly when I
Speaker 1: was starting out my career in Washington, I was working
Speaker 1: for Congressman Budd Schuster from Pennsylvania. Oh yeah, legendary, legendary indeed.
Speaker 1: And while he was particularly famous for serving as later
Speaker 1: as Chair of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee
Speaker 1: as was then called, he also served on the House
Speaker 1: Budget Committee and as his legislative director. And I was
Speaker 1: assigned to, you know, do the staff work and go
Speaker 1: to all these budget committee meetings and read the federal budget, which,
Speaker 1: as you know, was thousands of pages and all of
Speaker 1: this kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you could do it back then. I don't
Speaker 4: think you could today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's about right.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I learned which sort of
Speaker 1: took me aback, and I have remembered this, oh is
Speaker 1: is it wasn't just liberal Democrats on the committee who
Speaker 1: were putting stuff in this budget. It was Republicans. And
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, my goodness, what you know, what what
Speaker 1: is going on here? And you know, all these years later,
Speaker 1: I can see why so many Americans who sort of
Speaker 1: caught on to how this works, are making complaints about
Speaker 1: the so called uniparty and that kind of thing. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will tell you the birthday girl has joined us.
Speaker 4: Ah Mercy is here, and I'll give you a quick
Speaker 4: answer because I know you're gonna want to talk to her.
Speaker 4: But my view is this, which is it's a pox
Speaker 4: on both their houses. They are both parties, both major
Speaker 4: parties are responsible for outrageous decision making around the budget.
Speaker 4: Most Republican presidents haven't helped the matter.
Speaker 3: I mean, the.
Speaker 4: Problem is when Reagan was president and we actually had
Speaker 4: budget fights closed down the government or the government was closed,
Speaker 4: as you'd say, and then Nuke Ingridge tried to do
Speaker 4: the same thing. When we got the majority in the
Speaker 4: House for the first time in foury or whatever years,
Speaker 4: it was the the and the Republicans over corrected. They thought,
Speaker 4: oh my god, we lost the shutdown fight with Bill Clinton,
Speaker 4: We'll never win a budget fight again. We might as
Speaker 4: well just join them on the spending front, with our
Speaker 4: Republican pork joining the Democratic pork. And it's resulted in
Speaker 4: a very precarious financial situation for America, which means the
Speaker 4: free world is in a very precarious position, and I
Speaker 4: really applaud those Republicans who were saying, look, enough is enough.
Speaker 4: We've got to kind of rein in the spending. And
Speaker 4: it's not just the CRS. This is like a little
Speaker 4: fraction of the budget. You know, when you were working
Speaker 4: on the Hill, that was a big part of the budget.
Speaker 4: Now it's a tiny little part because we've put almost
Speaker 4: all the government on autopilot with the mandatory spending, which
Speaker 4: is kind of a made up title, and we've got
Speaker 4: to get into all that spending. You know, I don't
Speaker 4: know if President Trump wants this to be a focus
Speaker 4: of his but the fact is we don't have much
Speaker 4: time left, and Republicans better starting like the Reagan Republicans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Marcy, what are your thoughts on where on where
Speaker 1: President Trump goes with all of this that we're coming
Speaker 1: along with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, Look, I think it's very important for President
Speaker 5: Trump to remain the top. How can I say, spokesperson
Speaker 5: leader of talking about these budget fights. I think that
Speaker 5: you know, of course Elon and they have an important role.
Speaker 5: They're leading the DOGE efforts, but you know, they really
Speaker 5: have never worked in Washington the day and I think
Speaker 5: it's important for them to understand that they will have
Speaker 5: to work closely with the Office of Management and Budget
Speaker 5: and uh and figure out, you know, yes, strip out,
Speaker 5: take out all these DEI initiatives throughout all of the government,
Speaker 5: figure out where this all this misspending is happening. I mean,
Speaker 5: you're talking about that the Pentagon couldn't even you know,
Speaker 5: they failed their audits seven times. You know, there there
Speaker 5: needs to be major fixes in the government. With that
Speaker 5: being said, Uh, you know, I do think that the
Speaker 5: that the American people are expecting tax cuts, they're expecting
Speaker 5: tax cuts quickly, and I think that has to be
Speaker 5: the top priority in addition to securing the border and
Speaker 5: making sure that if they move forward with this sort
Speaker 5: of deportation plan, that it's not going to be come
Speaker 5: into a you know, public relations fiasco, but really hone
Speaker 5: in on these criminal aliens. So I think that there
Speaker 5: that is where the top priority has to be. I
Speaker 5: do think that, you know, I've been watching uh, you
Speaker 5: know X yesterday and today, and I see the Veke
Speaker 5: commenting about you know, the immigration visas and and and
Speaker 5: elon as well, and I'm like, dude, guys, stay out
Speaker 5: of immigration, stay in your lane. Focus on cutting the government.
Speaker 5: Don't get off message because at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: it is President Trump, it is President Trump's agenda, and
Speaker 5: we all just have we have to support him to
Speaker 5: make sure that his agenda gets accomplished. And he's going
Speaker 5: to have a very short window because as you know this, Jeffrey,
Speaker 5: that your political capital, you start losing it after a
Speaker 5: year or two, right. Uh, And and he's got to
Speaker 5: move quickly.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Just as a matter of curiosity, are Elon and k
Speaker 1: are they coming? Have they especially any interest in coming
Speaker 1: to Sea pac.
Speaker 4: We have and Eve has been uh, you know, he's
Speaker 4: come very regularly last couple of seapacks.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So when we've actually worked really closely with and uh,
Speaker 4: I don't have a relationship with Elon musk As then
Speaker 4: Mercy and I had a wonderful conversation with him in
Speaker 4: marrow Ago a few weeks ago when we had the
Speaker 4: event down there. And we've talked with some of these
Speaker 4: people and they say he wants to come, and we
Speaker 4: of course love to have him. But you know, our
Speaker 4: focus is two things. Number one, what's the best way
Speaker 4: to use ce Pack to push the Trump agenda? And
Speaker 4: we'll be right in the middle of the first one
Speaker 4: hundred days when SEPAC starts in February and Washington DC,
Speaker 4: so like it's almost like the midterms, right, Like, how
Speaker 4: are we doing so far? How many cabin secretaries have
Speaker 4: been confirmed? Where are we on this agenda? How many
Speaker 4: of these day one executive orders are being fought out
Speaker 4: in courtrooms, which I think one hundred percent will sadly, so,
Speaker 4: I think we have to use spack to leverage all
Speaker 4: the people around the country who are so excited that
Speaker 4: Trump won. But the second thing CEPAC has to do, Jeffrey,
Speaker 4: is what it's done really well in the last few years.
Speaker 4: We've broad in this effort. People say, big ten, I
Speaker 4: don't really love that analogy, but we've expanded this coalition.
Speaker 4: We are the first people to invite Tulfa Gabbert, We
Speaker 4: were the first people to invite Donald Trump. We were
Speaker 4: the first people to invite Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Like
Speaker 4: when these new voices popped up on one issue area,
Speaker 4: we didn't say, oh, you can't join our club because
Speaker 4: you don't agree with us on everything. We said, hey,
Speaker 4: why don't you come over to our club. We'd like
Speaker 4: to hear your thoughts. And it's a great ride. As
Speaker 4: we expand this coalition, it's less about parties. Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's right, and I think alas we're
Speaker 1: running out of time here, but I do think that
Speaker 1: the parties have switch positions, if you will. I think
Speaker 1: the Republican Party is the party of working class Americans,
Speaker 1: working Americans, and I think that's a good thing. That's
Speaker 1: a good thing. I think this started with President Reagan,
Speaker 1: and President Trump has taken it to the max. So well,
Speaker 1: Matt Mercy, thank you very much. I will make plans
Speaker 1: to see you at sea pack and happy birthday.
Speaker 5: There to the missus Mary Christmas.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, and happy New Year. Right, okay, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, and we'll be back. This is Jeffrey Lord
Speaker 1: in for Sean Hannity, and if you want to call in,
Speaker 1: our number is eight hundred and nine four one seven
Speaker 1: three two six. All right, welcome back. This is Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Lord filling in for our friend Sean Hannity. Our number
Speaker 1: here is eight hundred and nine four one seven three
Speaker 1: two six, And let's take a call from John in
Speaker 1: North Carolina.
Speaker 6: Hey, Jeffrey, how you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, and you happy New Year.
Speaker 6: You know, and all the rest, Yes, sir, I'm enjoying
Speaker 6: the time off. My comment is I've been following politics
Speaker 6: and you know, listen to talk radio for many, many,
Speaker 6: many years, and about fifteen years ago I started. I'm
Speaker 6: an independent voter. I'm not a member of any party,
Speaker 6: but I do vote. I use common sense. I back Trump.
Speaker 6: And what I don't understand is about fifteen years ago
Speaker 6: I looked at everything and I said, you know what,
Speaker 6: the behavior of these Democrats, they're just like organized crime.
Speaker 6: And I felt and it's not meant to be an attack.
Speaker 6: It's not meant to, you know, be name calling, except
Speaker 6: it it aptly identifies what we're up against. And if
Speaker 6: you if you look at the traits of organized crime
Speaker 6: such as tax evasion, which Hunter Biden does, uh or
Speaker 6: and you're on people are on the take. We're always
Speaker 6: finding and I'm not saying Republicans or you know that
Speaker 6: avoid any of this. But the con men, you know,
Speaker 6: the term con men comes from confidence men the people
Speaker 6: that can go out and right.
Speaker 3: We fool you.
Speaker 6: So I what I'm saying here is I think the
Speaker 6: media commentators that are trying to be as truthfuls as
Speaker 6: they can really It's like when Trump got that got
Speaker 6: the term fake news to stick. I think we should
Speaker 6: try to get the term organized crime to stick whenever
Speaker 6: we're talking about either deep state.
Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you, you know, I don't know whether
Speaker 1: the organized crime thing will fit or not, but I
Speaker 1: think you're onto something. And I was thinking about this,
Speaker 1: and I'm of an age that I remember vividly as
Speaker 1: a child. My parents were very active in Republican politics
Speaker 1: and Massachusetts, so they were always very interested in what
Speaker 1: was going on, and together we watched in January of
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty one, I was in the fourth grade, Hello
Speaker 1: President Kennedy being sworn in and giving us inaugural address,
Speaker 1: which was very memorable. The phrase that's stuck asked, not
Speaker 1: what you can do what your country can do for you,
Speaker 1: ask what you can do for your country. And I know,
Speaker 1: without question, and I was one of them. It inspired
Speaker 1: young people to get into politics. Now that said, I
Speaker 1: think that the problem eventually became that young people who
Speaker 1: were doing this, that's all they were going to do,
Speaker 1: and it was a limited experience. Looking back, they didn't say, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go build a business, or I'm going
Speaker 1: to do this or I'm going to do that that
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with politics. They just stuck with
Speaker 1: politics all the time, and this is what encouraged I
Speaker 1: think a lot of you know, or fair share of
Speaker 1: elected officials. It's just, you know, that's all they do
Speaker 1: all the time. And I think over time that that
Speaker 1: is not a good situation here for them or for
Speaker 1: the country. I think that they get so wrapped up
Speaker 1: in this. I think Joe Biden, frankly, is a perfect
Speaker 1: example of this. He was twenty nine years old when
Speaker 1: he was elected to the United States Senate and makes
Speaker 1: what I don't know whether it's one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: or two hundred thousand dollars something as a United States senator.
Speaker 1: How in the world to afford multimillion dollar houses and
Speaker 1: all of this kind of thing. Well, he affords it
Speaker 1: because he so go the allegations he was the big
Speaker 1: guy peddling you know, political influence in return for money
Speaker 1: in Ukraine and these other places. I don't think that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is alone. He may be a standalone in
Speaker 1: terms of the size and the amount and the offices
Speaker 1: he held, but I'm willing to bet you could find
Speaker 1: people in public office alas unfortunately at much lower levels
Speaker 1: of government, a local or state, who were doing some
Speaker 1: version of the same thing. And that's where I think
Speaker 1: this has gotten off the rails here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you have to be you know what that said.
Speaker 6: You have to come from an honest foundation. I've worked
Speaker 6: for major corporations, I've lived overseas in the Middle East,
Speaker 6: I've worked with high I was not in a military,
Speaker 6: but I worked on big dollar Middle Eastern in the
Speaker 6: private corporations and I saw I would I dealt directly
Speaker 6: with corporate officers that were less than honest. They were lying,
Speaker 6: and I knew it. I couldn't say anything at the
Speaker 6: time because I didn't have the power. But the corruption
Speaker 6: and people's people are too dishonest. Everybody's got to look
Speaker 6: into the soul mirror and you know, make sure that
Speaker 6: you're doing.
Speaker 3: The right thing.
Speaker 1: Well, you have to be raised by parents who are
Speaker 1: raising you with a sense of integrity. I think that's
Speaker 1: that's number one, and sometimes I think that that sort
Speaker 1: of falls down and that is definitely not a good thing.
Speaker 1: So well, John, thank you very much for calling. Let
Speaker 1: let me see do we have some time here. I
Speaker 1: think we're going to move on to Josh in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 3: Thanks taking the call.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, So what do you want to talk about, Josh?
Speaker 3: Well, first, I was going to talk about Biden, but
Speaker 3: they need to start talking about this shift in the
Speaker 3: in the political parties. And you know, I grew up
Speaker 3: in northwest Minnesota. My grandmother was a DFL delicate but
Speaker 3: was also a strong believer in pro life wow. And
Speaker 3: my grand my grandfather was a brick layer president of
Speaker 3: the brick Layers Union. And I grew up in this area.
Speaker 3: You know, we were strong Democrats, and our state representative
Speaker 3: was a Democrat, and and we had Colin Peterson from
Speaker 3: this area going to Washington, and it all shifted about
Speaker 3: I don't remember exactly what time, but about you know,
Speaker 3: the Obama administration. You know, those representatives kind of retired
Speaker 3: and since then, this whole area has voted Republican. And
Speaker 3: you know, we said shell fishbock to Washington and we've
Speaker 3: got a Republican local rep. And it's just, you know,
Speaker 3: we grew up with those values that you know, I'm
Speaker 3: a veteran and you grew up with loving your country
Speaker 3: and just kind of you know, middle moderate conservative type
Speaker 3: values and what was once. You know, what my grandmother
Speaker 3: would have sported as a DFL delegate would have been
Speaker 3: more Republican views. Now yeah, no, And as a fifty
Speaker 3: year old white male, I almost feel like a minority now.
Speaker 3: And I'm really scared for my kids the way, you know,
Speaker 3: the state of the political parties in the country have
Speaker 3: taken over.
Speaker 1: You know, well, I noticed it says here that you
Speaker 1: were you were appalled that Biden was making false comments
Speaker 1: on his way out of office, And.
Speaker 3: Yeah, saying that, you know, he wholeheartedly believes he left
Speaker 3: the country in a better states right he took over,
Speaker 3: is just absurd.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you something about President Biden. I personally
Speaker 1: have long since come to the belief that he's just
Speaker 1: kind of sloppy about what he does and boasting when
Speaker 1: he does that. And I had a personal experience in
Speaker 1: the longe ago. When I was a kid, a teenager,
Speaker 1: I was a big Bobby Kennedy fan. This would be
Speaker 1: the father of the current RFK junior And when he
Speaker 1: died it was tragedy. They put out these long playing records.
Speaker 1: I was in high school. I bought the records and
Speaker 1: memorized his speeches. Now, that's nineteen sixty eight. In nineteen
Speaker 1: September of nineteen eighty seven, I was working in the
Speaker 1: White House for President Reagan as a political director, and
Speaker 1: Joe Biden had just finished chairing the sort of disgraceful
Speaker 1: Robert Bork hearings for the Supreme Court, really not doing
Speaker 1: a good job of it. But he was also running
Speaker 1: for president, and he got caught by Governor Michael Ducacus,
Speaker 1: his Democrat opponent, plagiarizing from the British Labor Party leader.
Speaker 1: His name was Neil Kinnick, and the campaign said, oh,
Speaker 1: was misake or whatever, he didn't do this that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Well, I knew differently, and the reason was
Speaker 1: that back in February of that year, we'd had a
Speaker 1: big snowstorm in Washington, and Washington is terrible in snowstorms.
Speaker 1: Everything shuts down. I live relatively nearby, so I walked
Speaker 1: to my office in the White House totally alone in there,
Speaker 1: nothing going on, the phone isn't ringing, So I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I'll see what's on c SPAN, since you know, I
Speaker 1: can't do anything, And there was Joe Biden giving a
Speaker 1: speech to the California Democratic Convention, and I thought, well,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. He's supposed to be a good speaker. I'll listen.
Speaker 1: I listened, and what did I find. I was getting
Speaker 1: to the end of his sentences before he was. And
Speaker 1: why was that? Because he was plagiarizing from Robert Kennedy,
Speaker 1: and I, you know, had the presence of mind to
Speaker 1: pick up. I called a reporter at the New York Times,
Speaker 1: Maureen Dowd by name, and brought over my records, lung
Speaker 1: playing records to the New York Times, and within a
Speaker 1: matter of days there was a front page story about
Speaker 1: questions being raised by his speeches and quoted, among others,
Speaker 1: my much younger self and all this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But I just was I was amazed. I thought, how
Speaker 1: can anybody think? I mean, Robert F. Kennedy Senior was
Speaker 1: one of the most famous people on the planet at
Speaker 1: that point, now deceased twenty years by by the time
Speaker 1: this incident happened. But still in all, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: here in New York and I go best signs for
Speaker 1: the RFK Bridge. The Justice Department in Washington is named
Speaker 1: after Bobby Kennedy. So to think that you could sort of,
Speaker 1: you know, take something from him and nobody would notice
Speaker 1: I thought was just you know, wow, yeah, but typical.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it just sloppy in terms of
Speaker 1: how this how he sort of operates here, and I
Speaker 1: think I think we're paying a price Afghanistan, that kind
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I grew up listening to Paul Harvey of
Speaker 3: the radio.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, you know, you know.
Speaker 3: Eithers don't have shows like that anymore. Anyways, We've got
Speaker 3: family members that are far right, and I got family
Speaker 3: members that are I just kind of keep my mouth set.
Speaker 3: You know. I believe in I believe in Trump's policies,
Speaker 3: but sometimes I wish you'd just stay off Twitter.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, that's a modern thing, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that's ever going to go away, whether it's Trump
Speaker 1: or anybody else. I think that, uh great, you know,
Speaker 1: this is this is ingrained. You know, I remember reading
Speaker 1: historically that I think it was nineteen twenty that there
Speaker 1: was the first radio broadcast of a national political convention,
Speaker 1: because radio was itself brand new, and you know, over
Speaker 1: time this the technology changes, and then we got to
Speaker 1: television and you had that famous nineteen sixty television debate
Speaker 1: with Kennedy and Nixon, and the question became how to
Speaker 1: use makeup and all this kind of thing because Kennedy
Speaker 1: took the makeup Nixon didn't, and people thought that those
Speaker 1: who watched on television thought Nixon lost, and those who
Speaker 1: listened to it on the radio thirty one. But my
Speaker 1: point is the technology changes, and we are in the
Speaker 1: twenty first century, so buckle in. It's more or less
Speaker 1: what we've got to do here.
Speaker 3: Long for the old bees.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, things were much simpler in those days now,
Speaker 1: and I always am sort of, you know, simultaneously horrified
Speaker 1: and amused. You see somebody who commits a crime and
Speaker 1: they have no recognition that there are cameras all over
Speaker 1: the place like this knit with who killed the healthcare executives.
Speaker 1: So well, Josh, thank you very much for calling. And
Speaker 1: this is Jeffrey Lord filling in for Sean Hannity. And
Speaker 1: give us a call at eight hundred nine for one
Speaker 1: seven three two six and we'll be back. All right.
Speaker 1: This is Jeffrey Lord in for our friend Sean Hannity,
Speaker 1: and uh we are going to uh be reached here
Speaker 1: at eight hundred and nine four one seven three two six.
Speaker 1: And let's go to Greg in Iowa, who wants to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about Hunter.
Speaker 7: Good afternoon, sir, Good afternoon. So my point is with Hunter,
Speaker 7: and I know it's a terrible deal, you know, especially
Speaker 7: for his dad, even though it's you know, it's Joe Biden.
Speaker 7: But if you love your child, discipline him.
Speaker 6: If you your child.
Speaker 7: Don't, and you know now that he's been given a
Speaker 7: free pass, you know what, what's what's it going to
Speaker 7: be like for the next ten years. I think we
Speaker 7: all know what the outcome is going to be. You know,
Speaker 7: he's gonna he's gonna end up in the in the
Speaker 7: gutter again, and they'll probably you know, an unfortunate outcome
Speaker 7: that comes along with that. But all that being said,
Speaker 7: Biden had to pardon him to take all the legal
Speaker 7: troubles off the plate, because if Hunter went to court,
Speaker 7: Biden was going to end up in court.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's I think that's a considerable situation there.
Speaker 1: I think you're you're absolutely right that I mean the
Speaker 1: infamous reference to the big guy ten percent for the
Speaker 1: big guy who might that be? And I do think
Speaker 1: that they were as long as Hunter was out there,
Speaker 1: that they were in a position to find themselves very
Speaker 1: much in trouble here. And so I think he's done
Speaker 1: what he's done to you know, in part because it's Hunter.
Speaker 1: I don't have any doubt about this. And you're you're right,
Speaker 1: he's he's walked away with excuses his whole life. And
Speaker 1: you know the question is now, what is he fifty
Speaker 1: years old something like that? Is he going to fifty eight?
Speaker 1: You know, get his actica there and change his uh
Speaker 1: his operation here and and get us act together to
Speaker 1: be decided. We will see. So, uh well, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, great for calling. We are going to go
Speaker 1: into another break here. This is Jeffrey Lord filling in
Speaker 1: for Sean Hannity at eight hundred and ninety four one seven, three,
Speaker 1: two six