Speaker 1: Coming up next, our final News Roundup and Information Overload Hour.
Speaker 2: All Right, News round Up, Information Overload Hour. Toll free
Speaker 2: odd number is eight hundred and nine four one sean
Speaker 2: if you want to be part of the program.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: In keeping with spreading false lies and peddling conspiracy theories,
Speaker 2: the left seems fixated on this notion, this idea that
Speaker 2: the only reason Stephen Colbert got fired is because of
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. No, he got fired because his show sucks.
Speaker 2: He's not funny. The audience attrition levels have been massive.
Speaker 2: He is very, very low viewership. And the worst part
Speaker 2: is he's losing forty to fifty million dollars a year. Now,
Speaker 2: you don't survive in television. I will have completed thirty
Speaker 2: years on the Fox News Channel as of October, assuming
Speaker 2: I live that long, and I can tell you that
Speaker 2: that's the formula, the way it's always been, the way
Speaker 2: it always will be. He failed. Jimmy Kimmel similarly is failing.
Speaker 2: He's on official cancelation watch. And that would go the
Speaker 2: same for Jimmy Fallon, and that would go the same
Speaker 2: for those that hard hitting news show. The view their
Speaker 2: ratings are in the toilet. And I'm sure they're probably
Speaker 2: losing money too. So that's what happens in television, like
Speaker 2: it or not. Now, the question with Colbert is he
Speaker 2: says that they came to a mutual agreement that his
Speaker 2: last show will be in May of twenty six.
Speaker 3: That's next year.
Speaker 2: But if he keeps going out there night after night
Speaker 2: after night, trashing the company that gives him a paycheck,
Speaker 2: that's going to lose forty to fifty million dollars this year,
Speaker 2: they may just cancel it sooner. I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 2: if it happen by next week. Listen to what you're
Speaker 2: saying about his new bosses.
Speaker 4: Wow, hold on, Plus, they're paying his legal fees. Sixteen
Speaker 4: was twenty thirty. That means by bending the knee they
Speaker 4: lost like forty mon million dollars this year.
Speaker 3: They better watch out. They better watch out. They might
Speaker 3: get canceled.
Speaker 4: For purely financial reasons, purely the present owners, the president
Speaker 4: owners are denying that additional twenty million.
Speaker 3: Dollars, which I hope is true because could you.
Speaker 4: Imagine how angry people would be? Last year, Paramount laid
Speaker 4: off two thousand employees, then cut another several hundred just
Speaker 4: last month, firing that many people, and then handing over
Speaker 4: thirty six mil to a guy who's putting your neighbors
Speaker 4: in alligator camps all because of a lawsuit that your
Speaker 4: own lawyers said was completely without merit. If that's true,
Speaker 4: it would make CBS look morally bankrupt, also.
Speaker 2: Bankrupt anyway, joining us now, I have no idea why
Speaker 2: I like this guy. I really don't, you know, on paper,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't even like him at all. Firs Han of
Speaker 2: the ever growing Chris hanshow now with a whopping fifteen
Speaker 2: affiliates nationwide. He's the host of the Aggressive Progressive podcast.
Speaker 2: You're still on radio stations?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: How many stations know?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you're right. I'm fifteen or twenty
Speaker 1: something like that, mostly in the Northeast.
Speaker 2: But he's better known as a former aide who one
Speaker 2: of the angriest people in Washington who if he got
Speaker 2: primaried by AOC, would get clobbered. And that is a
Speaker 2: Senate Minority leader Chucky Schumer. You know he'd get clapberd. Right,
Speaker 2: you do understand that. We'll get to that in a minute.
Speaker 2: So think hard about your answer.
Speaker 1: We do, all right, take on that, I believe, So you.
Speaker 2: Know So you've been a guest over the years many
Speaker 2: times on this program, and you know that how TV
Speaker 2: and radio works.
Speaker 3: You have your own radio program.
Speaker 2: And if you have a show and you're being paid
Speaker 2: money to do that show every day, and your show
Speaker 2: is losing money for your partners, for your network or
Speaker 2: your syndicator, whatever it happens to be, and your ratings
Speaker 2: are going progressively down because you're not funny and you're
Speaker 2: supposed to be a comedy show, and people don't watch
Speaker 2: your show anymore, and you've lost a massive amount of audience.
Speaker 2: What happens in that scenario.
Speaker 1: First of all, you would take a hit.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you know, slow down, Slow down?
Speaker 2: What happens in television if your ratings sink so drastically
Speaker 2: and dramatically like colbts have.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a number one show get canceled and
Speaker 1: it's the number one showing.
Speaker 3: Ding Ding Ding.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's not the number one show. Greg Guttfeld
Speaker 2: smokes him.
Speaker 1: He smoked thirty.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the numbers.
Speaker 2: That he has compared to Letterman and Leno when he
Speaker 2: inherited the show, he's lost two thirds of the audience
Speaker 2: that that Letterman formerly had on that show. He's losing
Speaker 2: forty to fifty million dollars a year for the network.
Speaker 2: And guess what the worst thing you can say about
Speaker 2: a comic and I can admit I'll tell you who's funny.
Speaker 2: I think John Stewart can be very, very funny, bitingly,
Speaker 2: so the same thing with Bill Maher can be funny.
Speaker 2: He's very smart. I disagree with a lot of what
Speaker 2: he says. Both of them have gone after me and
Speaker 2: I have actually laughed at what they've said because they're funny.
Speaker 3: Stephen Colbert is not funny.
Speaker 1: Well, look, I'm glad that you could take a joke.
Speaker 1: I wish we all could take jokes. I could take
Speaker 1: a joke. I mean, I come on here, your joke
Speaker 1: on me. But look, I mean everyone in broadcast media
Speaker 1: has lost market share because people don't watch TV the
Speaker 1: way they used to. They can scream it.
Speaker 2: Is Donald Trump responsible for his firing or is it
Speaker 2: low ratings and loss of revenue responsible?
Speaker 1: I think that it's a combination of the two.
Speaker 2: I think they if his ratings were high or higher
Speaker 2: than or as high as it was when David Letterman
Speaker 2: had the show and he was making fifty million dollars
Speaker 2: a year often for the network.
Speaker 3: Would he have been fired, of course not.
Speaker 1: But nobody is doing David Letterman, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Hate well, I hate to tell you. We're doing better
Speaker 2: than we were doing years ago on the Fox News Channel.
Speaker 3: We did this.
Speaker 2: It's like every year we just keep growing thanks to
Speaker 2: this great audience that we have. So uh, but you know,
Speaker 2: have we had down years? Yeah, but nothing that resembles
Speaker 2: the precipitous decline in audience attrition numbers that he has.
Speaker 2: Why can't you just acknowledge a simple truth?
Speaker 1: I think late night viewing is very, very different than
Speaker 1: prime time viewing. At this point, people are watching Colbert
Speaker 1: on YouTube the next time.
Speaker 2: But why have people tuned out late night comedy? Why
Speaker 2: are they tuning out in droves?
Speaker 1: Well, people don't people viewing habits of changing.
Speaker 3: You don't stay up till wrong, they're not funny.
Speaker 2: If Johnny Carson were alive, or Johnny Carson took over
Speaker 2: that show, that show would do much better.
Speaker 3: You agree with that? Or a Jay Leno.
Speaker 1: I am a comic myself. You know this, and I
Speaker 1: happen to think that.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, you're an Now that's a joke, right, Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm an in prop comic. Or do you think I
Speaker 1: did so well on your show all these years?
Speaker 2: Because you got to go watch my gig that I
Speaker 2: did with Jimmy Fayla Punchlines on Patriots. It's on Fox
Speaker 2: Nation dot com, and tell me how you think I did.
Speaker 1: I will take a look and I will let you.
Speaker 2: We sold that Ruth Eckert Hall in Clearwater, Florida, and
Speaker 2: we had a rip roaring, fun, fun night.
Speaker 1: What was the average age of the audience member, like
Speaker 1: seventy five or no, it was We.
Speaker 2: Had young people, middle aged people, older people, had everybody,
Speaker 2: just like the demographics of this show.
Speaker 3: It's all across the spectrum.
Speaker 1: My grandmother retired to Clearwater. It's a beautiful beach.
Speaker 3: I love it well.
Speaker 2: She should have come to my show. I would have
Speaker 2: given her a free seat. When you're a liberal, you
Speaker 2: love free stuff.
Speaker 1: She died four years ago. But my mother is.
Speaker 2: All right now, now you're making me feel like crap.
Speaker 2: My mother moved to Clearwater. Oh but she died. I mean,
Speaker 2: tell me after the fact. Make me sound like a jerk.
Speaker 2: I'm so, I am genuinely sorry. I lost my mother
Speaker 2: a long time ago too. It sucks, all right, next.
Speaker 1: Question, Sean, that was my grandmother the time. My mother's
Speaker 1: still very much alive, Lizzie Ke, Oh.
Speaker 2: Your grandmother moved there. Okay, I misunderstood. I'm sorry you
Speaker 2: lost your grandma. Listen, it's going to be thirty years
Speaker 2: next March when I lost my father, and my mother
Speaker 2: are not long thereafter. It sucks to lose people you love.
Speaker 2: All right, let's let's concede that point. Let's move on.
Speaker 2: Chucky Schumer, Kathy Hulkel, Hakeem Jeffries, I argue, are deathly
Speaker 2: afraid of Zoran Mom Donnie Marxist mom Donnie as we
Speaker 2: refer to him on this show. They are afraid to
Speaker 2: speak out against global Entafada. They're afraid to speak out
Speaker 2: about him wanting government run grocery stores, and that billionaires
Speaker 2: shouldn't exist, and that he wants to raise taxes, especially
Speaker 2: in wider neighborhoods. Why won't they speak out about those
Speaker 2: fundament things because I know the answer, and I know
Speaker 2: you know the answer, but you're not going to tell
Speaker 2: me the truth because you're a Chucky Schumer acolyte and disciple.
Speaker 1: Well, you know there are government run grocery stores in
Speaker 1: red states where there are food deserts, and there are
Speaker 1: food deserts in New York City, and everybody's been talking
Speaker 1: about having to fix it. And he says, look, I'll
Speaker 1: subsidize a grocery store in areas where there are food deserts. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that happens. It happens in slaws.
Speaker 2: Okay, You're you're missing my overall point, and you're diverting
Speaker 2: on a purpose, which is what you do. And I'm
Speaker 2: trying to get you to answer the question. You and
Speaker 2: I know that in real life deep in his heart,
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Kathy Hulkel, all of these New
Speaker 2: York politicians want nothing to do with Mom Donnie, but
Speaker 2: they're scared to death to take him on. They're scared
Speaker 2: to death to call out the squad, you know, squad members,
Speaker 2: in my view, virulently anti Semitic. Why why are they
Speaker 2: so afraid of their own radical in their party?
Speaker 1: Well, look, first of all, mon Donnie hasn't won anything yet.
Speaker 1: He won a primary. There is still an election to
Speaker 1: be had. It's right now, a four way race, and
Speaker 1: in a four way race, anything canse so.
Speaker 2: Right now would be the time to speak out if
Speaker 2: you had moral clarity and courage, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Actually, if you're a big time politician and you speak
Speaker 1: out right now, you give more oxygen and more legitimate
Speaker 1: see the candidates who might want to be so.
Speaker 2: If Chuck Schumer says, I can't vote for somebody that
Speaker 2: won't condemn the global antifada and that wants to tax
Speaker 2: people based on their race, that's a bad thing for
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer to do.
Speaker 3: Is it okay?
Speaker 2: You okay with his unwillingness to condemn global antifada? Are
Speaker 2: you okay with his willingness to tax white neighborhoods more
Speaker 2: than other neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: Chuck has condemned globally.
Speaker 3: I asked you if you're okay with it?
Speaker 1: Am I okay? With what? Him? Not? A see?
Speaker 2: All you do is run out the clock, pay close attention,
Speaker 2: keep up. You're a talk show host?
Speaker 3: What okay? Will you?
Speaker 2: Will you speak out against Mom Donnie yourself? And will
Speaker 2: you speak out against his refusal to condemn global antifada?
Speaker 2: And will you speak out against his plan to tax
Speaker 2: whider neighborhoods more money?
Speaker 1: I believe if he does not condemn global antifada, He
Speaker 1: should not be mayor of New York City.
Speaker 2: Are you okay with his position to tax people based
Speaker 2: on their race?
Speaker 1: Well, he didn't say he was going to tax people
Speaker 1: based on his on their race, he says, no.
Speaker 3: He said he's going to tax the wider neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: More, the richer, whier neighborhoods, and the property tax issue.
Speaker 2: He was, well, that's is that or is that not
Speaker 2: taxing people a factor of which based on race.
Speaker 1: That was a very dumb thing to say.
Speaker 3: But would you is what would you call it? There's
Speaker 3: a word for it, isn't there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It is a what is what is the word that
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of?
Speaker 1: Your suggesting that it was a racist quote?
Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you.
Speaker 2: If a candidate ran and they said they're gonna, uh,
Speaker 2: they want to tax African American neighbor neighborhoods more, or
Speaker 2: Hispanic neighborhoods more, or Asian American neighborhoods more, would that
Speaker 2: be racist in your view?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just as if somebody said I bet that air traffic.
Speaker 2: So you're saying, mom, Donnay's policies are racist, I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying that seglecting things based on race can be racist,
Speaker 1: like saying that an air traffic control.
Speaker 2: I'm not asking if you think it can be. Is
Speaker 2: his policy as stated racist.
Speaker 1: No, it's not. He's talking about neighborhoods. It's you know it.
Speaker 2: Is okay, So if you say you're you're gonna tax
Speaker 2: richer African American neighborhoods more, would that be racist?
Speaker 1: Again, if you're talking about the value of the property
Speaker 1: and not the people who lived there. I thought, Look,
Speaker 1: I think it's a dumb thing to say. Is it boorderline?
Speaker 1: Is it race? I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: You really don't think so.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think when he said he was going
Speaker 1: to tach richer, whier neighborhoods at a time.
Speaker 2: Would you advise Chuck schumertists to have courage of his
Speaker 2: convictions and speak out against this guy. Would you advise
Speaker 2: Kathy Hokle to speak out against this guy? Would you
Speaker 2: advise the King Jeffries to speak out against this guy.
Speaker 1: I think they've got to view the landscape for this
Speaker 1: election and see where it's going, because I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think his victory is a short in New York.
Speaker 1: I think Cuomo coul win. I think Slela Coin Sleewa
Speaker 1: can win. I do not believe Adams can win, but
Speaker 1: I do believe that there's a path for Pomo and
Speaker 1: Sliwa to get elected.
Speaker 2: Here quick break right back more with Chris Han and
Speaker 2: on the other side of the break eight hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety four one, Shawn is a number also your calls
Speaker 2: coming up this Friday as we continue.
Speaker 3: You know the old friend Chris Han.
Speaker 2: He is the host of the Aggressive Progressive podcast and
Speaker 2: he also was a former aide to US New York
Speaker 2: Senator Chucky Schumer.
Speaker 3: How great would it be if Sleiewa won? That would
Speaker 3: be awesome.
Speaker 1: You know, he was my radio partner for many years,
Speaker 1: and I was the regular Koobie fill in on Curtis
Speaker 1: and Koby in New York. So, I mean it'd be
Speaker 1: funny think about.
Speaker 2: All hard to fill in for. He's pretty hardcore. I
Speaker 2: always liked him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Curtis is an easy guy to do
Speaker 1: radio with. He's funny as hell, smart as hell. I
Speaker 1: would feel bad for New York City people who work
Speaker 1: at Grazie Manchi because he's going to be bringing his
Speaker 1: hundred cats with him if he moved in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does, definitely. I got to get on him
Speaker 2: about this crazy cat thing. It's not good. That's the
Speaker 2: only thing I disagree with him on.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate Chris Han, Chris Um, you know, deep
Speaker 2: down in your heart, what's the right thing is. I'll
Speaker 2: give you credit for loyalty, but I can't give you
Speaker 2: credit for you know, how you defend it.
Speaker 1: Hey man, we all got to do what we gotta do. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's going to be an interesting election. I do think that.
Speaker 1: I don't think his victory is guaranteed. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: do think he's got all find out Jewish He's problem
Speaker 1: with Jewis voters in New York City, and you better
Speaker 1: fix it or he can't win.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to our busy phones. Jack is
Speaker 2: in Long Island, New York. What's up, Jack? How are
Speaker 2: you glad you called?
Speaker 7: Sir Hi Sean, Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: Thank you for calling. What's going on? What part of
Speaker 3: Long Island? You're from?
Speaker 7: Blue Point?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Bluepoint?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I lived in Bay Pointe Bayport rather for a while
Speaker 2: in my life.
Speaker 7: I saw you in a local restaurant once, but I
Speaker 7: didn't want to disturb you, but I saw you.
Speaker 3: By the way.
Speaker 2: Let me let me, let me just get this out
Speaker 2: of the way, because I find this out from people now.
Speaker 2: People are very very gracious. Understand. I don't have this
Speaker 2: microphone without your support. Understand I don't have that camera
Speaker 2: at night on the Fox News channel without your support.
Speaker 2: And people I know are a little hesitant sometimes if
Speaker 2: they want to come over, get a picture, say hello.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 2: I am giving everybody except crazy left wing lunatics that
Speaker 2: hate me, permission at any point wherever I am come
Speaker 2: and say hi, shake hands, take a picture, do whatever
Speaker 2: you want. I'm grateful for your support. So let me
Speaker 2: just clear the air on all of that so nobody
Speaker 2: feels bad saying hello. I'm very grateful.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Sean.
Speaker 3: So what's on your mind in Long Island? You know
Speaker 3: I grew up in Franklin Square, Long Island.
Speaker 1: Sean.
Speaker 7: I've always admired and respected the deference that you show
Speaker 7: Trump with regard to your friendship. You never abuse your
Speaker 7: friendship with Trump, and I think that's wonderful. But I'm
Speaker 7: asking you to use your influence this time to ask
Speaker 7: President Trump to do the eulogy for Hulk Hogan. I
Speaker 7: would love to see President Trump do the eulogy, invite
Speaker 7: Linda McMahon and Dana White. I would only point to
Speaker 7: the convention. Could you have asked for a more compelling
Speaker 7: or impassioned speech that Hulpe gave to help Trump get
Speaker 7: over the finished Well, Hulk just crossed the finish line,
Speaker 7: and we need Trump to help Hulk's family heal from
Speaker 7: what they've gone through, and I would love to see
Speaker 7: the President do that. I also have a personal circumstance
Speaker 7: with my son. He was five years old. We're watching
Speaker 7: Hulk pick a three hundred pound guy up and slam
Speaker 7: him down on the canvas, and my son, he's sitting
Speaker 7: on my lap and he looks up at me and
Speaker 7: he goes, hey, Dad, do you think you could beat
Speaker 7: Hulk Hogan? And I look back and forth at the
Speaker 7: TV and my son and I look at him and
Speaker 7: I say, yeah, I think I could beat him. And
Speaker 7: my son looks up at me, five years old, and
Speaker 7: he goes, I think you could beat him to dad,
Speaker 7: my son.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good, you know what he made. I love
Speaker 2: when life is fun. We don't talk about this enough,
Speaker 2: you know, there's so much we always talk about the
Speaker 2: bad things. We always talk about the stressful things, you know,
Speaker 2: what about the moments in life. Life When you're bonding
Speaker 2: with your five year old son over his love of
Speaker 2: hul kogd and talking about dad, do you think you
Speaker 2: can take him?
Speaker 3: How cool is that? You know? I think back.
Speaker 2: My son is now twenty six years old, but I'll
Speaker 2: never forget the hours and hours and hours we would
Speaker 2: spend a playing PlayStation and a lot of people thought
Speaker 2: it was a bad idea, but I always said, no,
Speaker 2: it's a great idea because you really had to think
Speaker 2: to get to the end of Scooby dooe Night of
Speaker 2: one hundred Frites. And for those of you that ever
Speaker 2: played it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You
Speaker 2: got to get Scooby snacks and then you go that
Speaker 2: has thirteen different layers. It was my four year old
Speaker 2: son that figured out how to beat the game, and
Speaker 2: even after he showed me how to beat the game,
Speaker 2: I still couldn't beat the game, which infuriated me, but
Speaker 2: in a good way because I was kind of proud
Speaker 2: of the fact that he figured it out himself. It's
Speaker 2: moments like that, you know, people that do entertain us
Speaker 2: make us laugh that have a good time. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: grateful to all of them, and they use their talent.
Speaker 2: In his case, he sacrificed his body to do it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it took a toll on his health. I
Speaker 2: have no doubt. I never talked to him about it.
Speaker 2: But every former professional athlete that I know, especially you know,
Speaker 2: if you play any of our gladiator sports, I mean
Speaker 2: they're the hockey players, football players, I mean they're they
Speaker 2: get beaten up pretty bad, and usually they end up
Speaker 2: with lifelong injuries and those joints don't work like they
Speaker 2: did when they were kids, and they get knee replacements
Speaker 2: and hip replacements and shoulder replacements, and and they're out
Speaker 2: there to entertain all of us. And we love great champions,
Speaker 2: and we love our fighters on the field and on
Speaker 2: the ring and the rink and and every other sport.
Speaker 2: So I have kind of have a rule that I
Speaker 2: don't ask President Trump for any favors. I have to
Speaker 2: do my job.
Speaker 8: So I asked for interviews, Well, are we are so
Speaker 8: lucky to have Trump? We were about to go off
Speaker 8: the cliff and Trump has rescued us from that. And
Speaker 8: it's amazing how badly they've abused him for ten years now.
Speaker 8: He is not only the most powerful man on earth.
Speaker 7: He's also the toughest. Look what he's gone through. And
Speaker 7: back to the moment with my son. We are our
Speaker 7: children's protector. And I convinced my son that I'm the
Speaker 7: strongest daddy in the world, just like you did when
Speaker 7: your children were babies. And that's our job as their fathers.
Speaker 7: We have to have fatherhood come back. Fatherhood has to
Speaker 7: come back. The women are doing great jobs, but we
Speaker 7: need fatherhood to come back, and.
Speaker 2: That we need fathers them mothers. We just do I mean,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't agree with you more. You know, I
Speaker 2: actually thought that, you know, once my kids graduate college,
Speaker 2: that most of my job was done. I couldn't have
Speaker 2: been more wrong. I find that at this stage in
Speaker 2: their life. And I'm very proud of both of them,
Speaker 2: both my kids, and they're great kids. And I'm not
Speaker 2: going to get into what they do, but they're very
Speaker 2: successful at what they do. And and I'm grateful they
Speaker 2: didn't choose the public arena. I really am, because I
Speaker 2: wouldn't want them to go through half of what I've
Speaker 2: gone through. Never mind, you know, it's a level time
Speaker 2: a dimension. I can't even comprehend what Donald Trump's been through,
Speaker 2: but I'm glad that there are people that go through it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, the good news is you go
Speaker 2: through this period. You know, it's great when kids are toddlers,
Speaker 2: it's great when they're really young, it's incredible stages. Then
Speaker 2: you hit this age I don't know, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, and then your kids like the last
Speaker 2: person they want to hang out with is you. And
Speaker 2: then they go off to college, and then they come
Speaker 2: home and then guess what the dream is. What's happened.
Speaker 2: In my case, they become your best friend, and I
Speaker 2: love that part of it. But they'll also but you're
Speaker 2: also a parent. You'll give them advice and counsel whether
Speaker 2: they want it or not. And they were all their
Speaker 2: eyes when I tell them what it was like when
Speaker 2: I grew up. But there's you know, all of it's
Speaker 2: really special. I'll put it that way. Well, anyway, my friend,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna move on. I could talk to you all day.
Speaker 2: You're the best. Have a great day. Eight hundred and
Speaker 2: nine four one Sean. If you want to be a
Speaker 2: part of the program, Austin he's in Missouri. Why did
Speaker 2: I I had one aunt that referred to Missouri as Missouri,
Speaker 2: Missouri Missouri. To me, it's Missouri. It's always been Missouri.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we call it misery, but you can call it Missouri.
Speaker 3: You call it misery. Well, you got two good senators
Speaker 3: from there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, No, I know him personally, but it's
Speaker 6: hot out here. It's miserable. No, but actually, thanks for
Speaker 6: taking my call. I grew up watching you and Alan
Speaker 6: Combs back in the day when I was eight years old.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't know any other eight year old
Speaker 6: watching Alan Combs and Hannity.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm getting that more and more in
Speaker 2: my life. And I don't know whether to take that
Speaker 2: as a compliment or like, man, I got to look
Speaker 2: in the mirror a little more deeply.
Speaker 3: I'm getting old.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you're good, and I appreciate your service.
Speaker 2: The thing is that I love doing what I do,
Speaker 2: and I don't even think about doing anything else. Linda
Speaker 2: keeps to saying, well, there's all this online chatter. Is
Speaker 2: Hannady going to run for president? I don't even know
Speaker 2: where this came from. Didn't come from me.
Speaker 3: I'll be your first vote.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, don't didn't know you're encouraging her. Stop
Speaker 2: don't encourage her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I'll be quick. I know you got other guests,
Speaker 6: but I regarding the Obama gate, I don't see any
Speaker 6: accountability happening with this. Nothing happened with with Hillary, with Fauci.
Speaker 6: You know, it seems like once you step out of
Speaker 6: Congress and into the executive branches, you become untouchable. I mean,
Speaker 6: unless you're a Republican like Trump. You know, the the
Speaker 6: Democratic Party, they seem like they're so powerful that they
Speaker 6: can get away with literally everything. And I want to know, honestly, Sean,
Speaker 6: I want to know what your expectations are out of this,
Speaker 6: because if we continue going down this path with no standards,
Speaker 6: no accountability, it's going to continue to happen.
Speaker 3: I am telling you right now.
Speaker 2: And I do agree with Jonathan Turley that Brennan and
Speaker 2: maybe a couple of others. You know, Brennan now is
Speaker 2: officially lawyered up, as he should. But if we don't
Speaker 2: hold these people accountable for abusing power in these spectacular ways, uh,
Speaker 2: then we're just going to continue to have more of it.
Speaker 2: You know what I really want and hope for with
Speaker 2: the intelligence community and with the FBI. I want they
Speaker 2: used to be the world's premier law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Speaker 2: I want to restore them to their former greatness. And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that we haven't had moments, you know,
Speaker 2: go back to the Church Committee or go back to
Speaker 2: Jed Hoover.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I've not talked about the MLK
Speaker 2: files that were released. Are you Are you even aware
Speaker 2: they were released this week?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons is I don't like how the
Speaker 2: FBI MLK JR. I think they used many of the
Speaker 2: same tactics that they used against Donald Trump, illegal wire
Speaker 2: tapping and spying on him and putting cameras in hotel rooms.
Speaker 2: And they did get information, and that information is pretty salacious,
Speaker 2: and I've known about this for some time, but I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I feel like it was gotten in a nefarious way. Therefore,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's fair to him, his memory, the
Speaker 2: good work he did in his life. Nobody's perfect and
Speaker 2: his family for them to go through that, And I
Speaker 2: support the family and what they're saying, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't want it released, it had to be released.
Speaker 3: If you have it, you release it.
Speaker 2: But I agree with them that, you know, considering the
Speaker 2: circumstances under which some of this material was gotten, I
Speaker 2: believe personally my view violating his rights. This has to
Speaker 2: stop or will continue. You anyway, my friend, God bless you.
Speaker 3: Get some air.
Speaker 2: Get in the air conditioner while the heat's blazing over
Speaker 2: there in Missouri today. Back to our phones. Let us
Speaker 2: go to Jack in South Carolina. What's up Jack?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 5: Hi? Hi? Sharon? You know, I know we all wanta transparency.
Speaker 5: I say, everybody's begging for it. I go back to
Speaker 5: Watergate here, that's how That's how old I am. And
Speaker 5: I've watched Benghazi and Oliver North and you name it.
Speaker 5: And it's a bunch of grand standing. It's a bunch
Speaker 5: of speeches. And the only thing they can do in
Speaker 5: cardress is do a referral. And now we get Gabbage,
Speaker 5: God bless her, and she's she's making all these press
Speaker 5: conferences about what she's doing as a referral. Why don't
Speaker 5: we just stop hyping us up, getting our expectations up.
Speaker 5: Send this stuff to a green and let's hear about
Speaker 5: the indictments and be done with.
Speaker 2: Well, remember the one person that they actually brought all
Speaker 2: this to fruition for was all based on, you know,
Speaker 2: a bunch of lies and phony arguments.
Speaker 3: Was Donald Trump. So it has come to fruition number one.
Speaker 3: Number two. You're right.
Speaker 2: They often over promise, under deliver, and you're right people
Speaker 2: that have done wrong have gotten away with wrong things.
Speaker 2: And you're right, expectations sometimes are set too high. As
Speaker 2: of right now, we see that they corrupted the intelligence
Speaker 2: on purpose. Right now, it was referred to the Department
Speaker 2: of Justice. Right now, there's a strike force that has
Speaker 2: been formed. Right now, there's a grand conspiracy investigation within
Speaker 2: the FBI as it relates to the ten years of Trump.
Speaker 3: So you're right on every front.
Speaker 2: And my hope is is that all the pieces are
Speaker 2: in place and that this time will be different. I'm
Speaker 2: not guaranteeing that as a matter of fact, I'm worried
Speaker 2: as you are, but you know, we can't. We've got
Speaker 2: to try. I'll go to my favorite, one of my
Speaker 2: favorite scenes in Braveheart. What we've been doing these three years.
Speaker 2: We got to try. You got to try, and we
Speaker 2: got to try our best. And we have a responsibility
Speaker 2: to our country and our children and the rule of
Speaker 2: law and not trying is not an alternative.
Speaker 3: I got to run, my friend. I do appreciate your call,
Speaker 3: every one of you.
Speaker 2: Please right, that's gonna wrap things up at Today Hannity
Speaker 2: Tonight nine eastern on the Fox News Channel, the definitive
Speaker 2: Hour on one of the biggest scandals, certainly bigger than
Speaker 2: Watergate in our lifetime, with the release of these the
Speaker 2: classified documents. We'll check in with Senator Tom Cotton, John Solomon,
Speaker 2: Greg Jarrett, Kimberly Strassel, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Trey Gowdie, Hugh
Speaker 2: hewittt and thank me God, bless us the great one,
Speaker 2: Mark Levin. All happening tonight, nine eastern, say our Fox
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Speaker 2: great weekend.