WEBVTT - What's Next with China? - May 7th, Hour 3 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.760 Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.240 All right, News round Up, Information Overload hour. Here's our 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.200 toll free number. We'll get to your calls eight hundred 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:10.719 and nine four one sean if you want to be 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.920 a part of the program. Interesting yesterday watching the President. 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.959 He's a positive big announcement before the trip to the 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.880 Middle East next week, and there's a lot of speculation. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.880 I don't know the answer. I have my suspicions, but 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:30.760 here's what he said. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.839 We'll have maybe before I would want to. It's, you know, 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:38.800 the least in Saudi Arabia. We're going to Ue and Qatar, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.640 and that'll be I guess Monday night. Some of you 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.000 are coming with us. I think before then, we're gonna 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.400 have a very very big announcement to make, like as 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:49.400 big as it gets. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.040 And I won't tell you. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.840 On what, but it's gonna and it's very positive. And 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.040 also I tell you if it was negative or positive, 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.880 I can't keep that up. It is really really positive. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.960 And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.120 or Monday before we leave, but it'll be one of 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.600 the most important announcements have been made in many years. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.280 About a certain subject, very important subject. So you'll all 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:15.760 be here. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.600 That's a pretty good tease. Now, we will have an 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.880 announcement tonight on Hannity on a scale of one, two, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.600 one hundred. How big do you think that announcement is, Linda, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:27.840 you know what the announcement is. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:29.960 I do know what the announcement is, and I don't 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.800 think that it fits between one and one hundred. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.280 For what it's worth, I mean it's bigger than that 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.840 I do. It is pretty big, greater than indeed it is. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.840 And it's a good announcement. Fair enough to say that too. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:49.080 Uh yeah, sure you could pull a good I don't 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.920 know that you and I agree on that. Buttua. When 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.080 we talk about it tomorrow we talk about it, might 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:59.040 begin to understand. But we will have a big announcement 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.880 on TV, probably the biggest I've made in a long 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.920 time anyway, that's nineties to it on Fox tonight. We 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.320 have a lot of developments on the economy. US Chinese 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:14.080 officials are having a meeting in Geneva on Saturday. The 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:19.239 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen and the Chief Trade Negotiator, 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.640 James Jamison Greer will meet China's top economic official in 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:30.880 Switzerland on Saturday. Obviously, the first indication of this came 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.720 on Friday when China said, well, if America surius, we 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.200 might we might be willing to sit down and make 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:43.200 some agreements together, where they had been very, very adamant 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.480 against it, and in many ways I've said this from 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.880 the beginnings. I always had a pretty high degree of confidence. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.680 At some point, it's longer than I wish that China 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.160 and the United States will come to some sort of agreement, 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.600 just like the United States and the rest of the 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.400 world will come to some agreement. And the lead up 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:06.040 to this because the economy in China has gone down 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.880 the sewer, and more importantly the reports in the Wall 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.360 Street Journal and elsewhere that there is unrest in the 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.000 country because people are being fired and not getting paid 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.839 and they want back pay. They're now cutting their key 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.200 rates by ten points ten basis points and the bank 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.880 reserve requirement by fifty points in a bid to boost 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:30.320 the economy. Bessin said, the US doesn't want to decouple 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.560 from China ahead of the schedule meeting, and in the meantime, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.120 America is making moves that are making this country and 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.920 will make this country less dependent, and I think this 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.280 is a national security issue on things that we do 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.440 import from China, not just dolls, but things like our 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.040 pharmaceuticals and rare earths. I think America is now going 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:59.680 to become independent of any need from any country because 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.240 I think it's the way things are. It's just it's 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.520 just necessary for national security. The Trump Energy budget to 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:12.120 save Americans fifteen billion on Green New Deal scams that 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:17.640 the Biden administration have put in place, and Scott Besson says, no, 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.599 the president's policies are important. What is the president trying 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.359 to do here? Now? Nobody can dispute. For the last 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:29.040 fifty or sixty years, the establishment and institutionalists have just 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.880 gone along with the idea that friend and foe like 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.120 can rip us off and abuse us with their tariffs 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.080 that we are not putting on them. And Donald Trump 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:44.520 has decided that he's going to give countries options free 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.600 and fair trade or reciprocal tariffs. There are other things 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.360 that will be factored in, currency manipulation, the amount of 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.599 aid we give certain countries, whether or not they're cooperative, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.839 pay their fair share of native There are the factors 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.280 that will go in. But here's what the President has 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.040 laid out so not only on the issue of tariffs, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.400 but we're now approaching two hundred billion dollars in identified 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.359 savings of waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption with Doche the 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.600 very threat of tariffs resulted in countries and companies pledging 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:22.480 to spend on manufacturing and all sectors semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, auto industry, 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.720 over eight trillion dollars. That's going to create high paying 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:30.919 career jobs for Americans. The one big, beautiful bill that 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.000 we hope will be passed by July fourth that would 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.800 guarantee that the tax cuts that President Trump put in 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.839 place in his first term will remain permanent and will 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.200 include no tax on tips, social security, or overtime. That's 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.880 good for working men and women. Add to that the 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.479 President's you know, Energy Emergency Plan, which is opening up energy, 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.159 which would make America the most energy dominant country on 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.240 the face of the earth, and also we would be 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:01.760 an energy rich country. All of that combined will result 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.000 and I believe unprecedented economic growth. Steve Moore is here 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.120 to analyze all of it. Like you, I'm a free 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.240 and fair trader, but I also don't like getting ripped 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.080 off and abused, and the President, I think, is showing 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.480 that the world's gotten the message that those days are 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:20.280 coming to an end. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.039 Well, well, Sean, I completely agree with that. You know, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.200 when you talk about a major announcement that's coming, it 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.839 may be an announcement that there is going to be 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.800 a trade deal with maybe China or with maybe India. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.840 And once you get one or two of these big 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:40.440 countries to agree to lower their terroists on the United States, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.960 it's going to cause a cascade of other countries doing 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.120 the same. And I'm here to tell you as soon 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.560 as that happens, you're going to see another explosion in 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.479 economic activity and also in the stock market. Sean, I 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.000 think you and I talked about two maybe three weeks 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.560 ago on this show, and at that time things look 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.320 kind of The stock market was way down, the repears 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.919 of inflation, and just in the last three weeks. It 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.120 is amazing to me that turnaround that nobody in the 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.120 media seems to want to report. The fact is the 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.960 stock market has made an incredible comeback. That's great news. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.960 The inflation report that came out about ten days ago 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.280 was a really good report. No signs of any runaway 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.400 inflation like we had in her Biden. And then we 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.679 got a great jobs report on Friday that the media 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.360 just kind of yawned about. We have a record number 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.000 of people working today in America today, Seawan. So all 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.800 of these are positive signs suggesting that even though I look, 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.760 I have some disagreements with Trump on the tier of policies, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.200 but if he's able to pull this off, and I'd 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.560 never bet against him, I think you could see one 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.160 of the great booms in American history. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.040 I think you can too. I think all the pieces 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.880 of being put in place to do it, and I 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.360 think I do believe somehow Congress is going to manage 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.920 to get this one big, beautiful bill, even through the 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.520 prism of the arcade rules and regulations around a reconciliation. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.040 That's my hope, and I think it's such a big 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.720 part of the Republican Party's ultimate success, and especially if 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.480 the economy will play a big role in the twenty 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.680 twenty six elections, it's in everyone's best interest to do it. 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:17.480 Well. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.800 That's exactly right, And incidentally, I'm hearing that they may 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.119 even go bigger than what Trump was originally talking about, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.760 not just extending the Trump tax cuts at twenty seventeen, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.760 but then also maybe going down to a fifteen percent 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.080 tax rate on our businesses, which would be fantastic. Maybe 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.800 we could get all the stuff that he talked about 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.080 in this campaign. No tax on tips, no tax on 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.439 solid security, these kinds of things. So it's a very 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.800 exciting agenda. I've waited a long time for this. It's 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.840 the raging years for this kind of agenda that is 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.800 so pro growth, pro America. The fact that I love 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.200 the fact that he's putting our coal miners back to work, 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.480 that they've announced that they're going to start mining again 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.079 in America. We're going to start drilling in America. We're 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.720 gonna build pipelines together in America. I mean, I could. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.600 I could talk to you for half an hour about 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.559 the positive things Trump is doing. Some of it gets 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.800 overlooked because he's doing so much so quickly. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.480 All right, quick break, we'll come back. We'll continue more 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.080 with our friend Steve Moore and Steve of course, economists 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.720 and author of the bestseller Trumpnomics, and we'll get to 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.560 your calls on the other side. Eight hundred and ninety 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:27.920 four one, Shawn, If you want to join us, we 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.840 continuing out with economist Steve Moore, what do you think 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.280 the impact long term on the economy is going to 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.920 be on jobs in America with the AI revolution that 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.000 is happening now. It's not that's something that's the future. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.959 The future is now, and I think it's going to 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:50.800 be so transformational. Elon Musk thinks that that literally robotic 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:56.080 surgeons will be outperforming even the best surgeons in five 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.400 years from now. That means there's going to be some 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:04.079 disrupt in terms of the workforce in the country. What 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.360 impact have you have You given a lot of thoughts 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:06.560 to that. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.280 I have, and I think it's so exciting to think 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.240 what's happening over the next ten twenty years in terms 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.640 of robotics artificial intelligence. I'm I'm on the board of 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:22.080 a company, Sean that builds houses, but it builds houses 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.199 with robots, and it's it's almost like a scene out 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.840 of the out of the Terminator movie with these robots. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.880 You know, fascin Do they build nice houses? 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:33.600 Pardon? 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:35.840 Do they build nice houses? 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.400 Oh? Yeah, I mean it's not just the not just 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:43.040 the prefabricated houses. What happens Sean, You put the architectural 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.720 plan into the computer and through artificial intelligence, these these 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.480 robots can build you know, sixty to seventy percent of 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.600 the house. Now, of course, you still need construction workers 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.960 to put the you know, put the final touches on this. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.800 And that's happening all over the economy, and that will 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.560 mean it's very much like the trend insformation twum that 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.480 happened one hundred years ago when we invented tractors and 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.720 we went from thirty five percent out of every one 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.440 hundred Americans working on the farm did down to three 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.360 Americans working on the farm because tractors and irrigation systems 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.800 and all these other things really changed the way we 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.040 were able to produce. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.520 More and more food. You got to send me a 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.040 link to this company, and that's not something i'd even 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:22.600 heard about. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.160 I'm going to send you. I'm going to send you 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.320 this because it is and I'll send you the video. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.400 You should post it. It's really pretty incredible what these 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.720 what these robots can do. And it's it's just the 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.760 beginning stages of this. You know, my wife was saying, well, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.079 what about maids, are they can have maids that can 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:39.599 this isn't. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.439 Well, actually, the answer to that question has been answered 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.400 by Elon Musk, and I think the average family a 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.120 lot of menial tasks will be taken over by robots. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.160 That's it'll be kind of like the model t that 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.720 or maybe big television sets. You know, they start out expensive, 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.559 then they become affordable for you know, middle class Americans. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.760 Next thing, you know, everyone's going to have it. You know, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.480 I don't want to, I don't I don't clean the 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.880 dishes it is, so it doesn't matter. It's perfect for me. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.520 Well, have you watched the show sewn by any chance? 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.720 It's called nineteen twenty three, which is you know, depreaching. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.280 I haven't watched it. That was the kickoff to Yellowstone, right. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.120 Yes, well you should watch it, by the way. It's 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.280 a fantastic mini series. But one of the things that 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.200 you see firsthand in watching that is the nineteen twenties 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.160 life changed so dramatically. I mean, at the start of 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.360 the start of the you know show, everybody's riding around 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.640 in stage coaches, and at the end of the show, 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.400 everybody's got metal te's and cars. And that's the kind 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.480 of transformation I think we're going to see over there. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.679 And the most important thing, Sean is We in the 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.480 United States of America have to be the drivers of that, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.680 like we were the Internet age, like we were the 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.640 industrial age. And I think we're all teed up to 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.000 do it. You do the Trump Tash cut to encourage 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.839 more investment. Here, we get the best and smartest people 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.880 in the country. I think we're going to blow away China. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.960 You mentioned China earlier for a few minutes. I want 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.040 to make sure your listeners understand this, because the media 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.720 really isn't reporting at China's economy is a mess right now. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:13.000 It is. They've been hammered by these tariffs. Everybody talks about, Oh, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.080 it's hurting us more than it's hurting China. No, it 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:20.040 is not. China's stock market has cratered. Their factories are 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.480 running at fifty percent. You've seen the picture Sean. If 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.880 they can't get their ships out of port, I mean 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.640 hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these ships that they 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.000 usually you know, ship these goods to the United States. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.360 But because of the terrorists, they can't do it. I 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.200 don't think they can hold on much longer. I they 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:36.520 they're going to have to come on their hands and 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.240 knees to Trump and say what's make a deal here? 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.040 Yeah. Well, and I kind of predicted to what happened. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.040 Look in a lot of ways. I know it's got 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.880 a lot of people shaking up, and you know, the 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.319 stock markets skittish by nature. I've never used that it 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.600 is as my indicator. It was funny before they went 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.680 through their nine days in a row of positive growth 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.160 in the bock market, you were saying, I'm about to 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.040 I'm buying right now. So you had a good nine 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.800 days buying and making money. I don't know if you 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.480 sold it, but or if you're holding it. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.920 Yeah. Well, I always liked the idea of buying the dip, 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.120 especially when Trump is president, because you know, the media 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.080 does hyper focus on the terrorists. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:18.720 Uh. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.160 But I mean when you look at even if you're 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:22.600 not a big fan of terarirists and I'm not a 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.160 big fan of them, but I think he's going to 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.800 win here. All the every other thing that he is 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:31.120 doing for the economy is so positive. Pro American energy policy, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.120 the tax cuts. Oh incidentally, I want to mention one 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.560 other quick thing. You know there's these headlines now, oh, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.960 the medicaid cuts, the Trump that the Republicans are talking 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.280 about are going to cost a million people lose their 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.720 healthcare coverage. That's that's preposterous. You know who those million 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.600 people are. There are a million people who are not 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.600 eligible for the program. So I'm their fraudsters. Of course 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.000 we're going to cut those people off. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.840 Yeah, unbelievable. Steve Moore, You're a national treasure. And uh, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.680 let's see where we are. And just a short period 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.160 of time, it's gonna get very very interesting. And I'm 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.320 gonna I think we're gonna be watching a lot of 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:12.520 people eat. I'll eat their words and their dire predictions 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:22.840 of doom and gloom, draining the swamp, one corrupt politician 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:27.600 at a time. This is the Sean Hannity Show. All right, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.880 let's go to our busy phones. Victor is in Maryland. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.640 Next on The Sean Hannity Show. Victor, Hi, how are 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:34.560 you glad? You called? 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.600 Thank you Sean. The other day you were talking about 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:44.640 the ups and downs in life. I weighed a pound 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:49.040 and a half when I was born and survived, and 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.400 I've been blind all my life. But my father learned 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.240 to you know, made me learn to live in the 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.440 sided world. I graduated from the Maryland School for the 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:04.680 Blind in nineteen sixty eight June second, and then on 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:10.440 June third, I called the Broadcasting School because I wanted 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.280 to be a disc jockey, and they told me I 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.480 wouldn't amount to anything and don't bother. So then I 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.400 talked to my rehab counselor and the first thing he 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.480 tried to do was to put me in a sheltered 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.920 workshop making brooms and mops for fifty cents an hour. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.080 I said, I'm not having none of that. You're gonna 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.160 help me find a really good job. So I wrote 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.080 them almost all summer long, and then he said, okay, 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.400 the only agency that's hiring the blind, this is nineteen 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.560 sixty eight. The only agency that would hire the blind 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:48.080 was the federal government. And to make a long story short, 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.160 I ended up working for the Library of Congress Division 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.560 for the Blind. Started off as a technical aid and 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.560 worked my way up the ladder to quality assurance set 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:06.280 and I had a forty four year career with them, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.240 and I retired back at the end of twenty twelve. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:14.560 So my mother would say, well, you couldn't entertain people 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.840 by being a disc jockey, but you entertain them by 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.840 letting them read the books that we produced. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.720 Well, let me tell you a little story that you 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:31.080 might find interesting. When I started in radio at a 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:35.520 college radio station in Santa Barbara, California, there was a 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.080 blind DJ and I remember his name. It was Greg 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.959 Rust and that was his name, and it was one 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.639 of the nicest guys in the world, to be very honest, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.800 But anyway, he got He was on the station for 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:54.399 a long time and he broadcast his weekly show and 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.960 at the time, you know, he was spinning records. He 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.760 had all of his he had all of his albums 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.879 organized completely, and he'd be able to, you know, I 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.959 guess through Brail at the time, would be able to 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.080 pull out the record and you know, became so familiar 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.280 with the studio. He'd rack up whatever song he wanted 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.720 to play next. He did it all by himself. He 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.159 had an amazing voice, great set of pipes, and you know, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.959 the h I got to tell you, he just it 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:27.879 was an inspiration to me back in the day. And 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.000 at the time, there were very few people that were 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:31.760 nice to me at that station, and not that I 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.080 deserved it. I was kind of a jerk at that 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.040 point in my life, but honestly, I just thought it 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.840 was such a cool story, and I remember it. So 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.560 I would watch him work and I was amazed at 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.240 how he would be able to pull it off. 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.879 Okay, I'm going to tell you something that happened at 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:52.080 work one time. This is nineteen eighty two, and I 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.959 had just rejected three or four books from this one producer. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.960 And I told the guy the books because you had 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.720 static in the background in one and sides three and 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.280 four of this one cassette. The sound levels were muffled 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:15.280 and you got to do it over again. So he 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.960 wrote a letter to the director at the time. He 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.040 really complained about me. So the director called me into 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.880 his office and told me, I know you're doing your 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.000 work when the producers start complaining about you, and then 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.760 I know you're doing your doing your work. 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:37.199 It sounds to me as I listened to you, is 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:42.040 you started life with a lot of difficulties and a 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.800 lot of challenges, and you have found a way and 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.640 through the help of loving parents. It sounds like to 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.960 navigate through life without one of the most important senses 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.120 that we all take for granted, and that's the eyesight. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.320 By the way, and I'm very hopeful that nor Link 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.560 may one day be able to help you see for 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.960 the first time, and they're using artificial intelligence and science 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.639 to hopefully make that happen and help people with spinal 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.800 cord injuries walk. You know, a lot of of us 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.080 think in life we have challenges. Not seeing your entire 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.359 life is a pretty big challenge, and you obviously have 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.800 kept a great attitude about you, and I think we 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.720 can learn from you, because you know, I think I 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:29.760 wind and complained too much and I need to knock 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:30.200 it off. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:36.119 When I was being interviewed for a job, it was 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.760 a private job. The woman had the nerve to ask 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.479 me if I knew how to use the bathroom, and 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.680 I said, well, you show me first. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.000 What'd you say nothing. 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:56.200 I didn't get the job. Of course, I'm not shocked. 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.960 You've got to use a sense of humor or sarcas 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:05.199 with some of these people. Now. I rode the bus 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:09.280 from my house down Georgia Avenue to work. I did 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:13.280 it every day, and I came into work one day 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:18.119 it was a blizzard and my supervisor called me up 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:22.320 and she says, I know you're here, is what about 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.440 the rest of the staff. And I said, well, all 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.400 the blind people are here. There's no sight of people around, 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.520 and then she says, well, I'm not coming in today. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:38.640 Wow. Wow. Let me ask you, this are your other senses? 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:45.000 I would imagine that your other sensors are much keener 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.840 than the average person. Have you have you discovered that 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:53.119 that your other senses somehow compensate for the fact that 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.480 you can't see well, I have. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:22:02.040 To learn to listen carefully or I'll miss something. So 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:08.639 my sense of hearing has been incensed by uh, you know, 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:15.440 listening carefully and like I Like I said, I had 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.800 a good career. I worked for forty four years, and 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.000 my mother said, you grew up to be a useful citizen. 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.520 It sounds like it, and it sounds like you know, 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.640 I guess as I think it might be more difficult 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:33.560 if you had site and lost sight. Let me ask 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.520 you maybe another bizarre question. I hope you don't mind, 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.000 and maybe it's a dumb question in your mind's eye. 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.159