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Speaker 1: it's not the perfect bill. I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and tell you, oh, this is exactly the way I
Speaker 1: would have done. It wouldn't have happened. Sam. Part of
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party in the reality of the caucus
Speaker 1: is just very very simple, and that is that there
Speaker 1: are too many moderate Republicans that have no desire to
Speaker 1: really take on repealing and replacement. But that that's fine
Speaker 1: and so, but what there's a number of things in
Speaker 1: play here that we've got to understand that we have
Speaker 1: been lied to for so long and that we have
Speaker 1: been this has become such an unmitigated disaster and so
Speaker 1: bad for so many millions of Americans, and every promise
Speaker 1: that was made they failed you on that it is
Speaker 1: imperative that we understand what this turn now provides in
Speaker 1: terms of an opportunity for the American people, and in
Speaker 1: that case, it's a win. You know, just to talk
Speaker 1: about the spontaneity of radio I just as I was
Speaker 1: coming on the air, I got a an email from
Speaker 1: my friend Jeff Lord, who who wrote the best selling
Speaker 1: book about Donald Trump, The Case for Trump, and he
Speaker 1: actually went back and looked at Donald Trump's book Never
Speaker 1: Give Up, How I turned my biggest challenges into success,
Speaker 1: and how the book was written by Trump, and you know,
Speaker 1: the same guy that wrote the other bestseller, The Art
Speaker 1: of the Deal. And now he has finally passed healthcare.
Speaker 1: And we've learned a lot about the Republican Party, and
Speaker 1: we've learned a lot about the people that absolutely within
Speaker 1: the Republican ranks that are extraordinarily difficult to to deal with.
Speaker 1: And then we learned a lot about the character of
Speaker 1: people like Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows and Louis Garmer
Speaker 1: and all of these people that were willing to work
Speaker 1: day and night, night and day to find that ability
Speaker 1: to thread that needle, to literally find that secret sauce,
Speaker 1: to find the best that we can get and begin
Speaker 1: the process of saving what is now a precipitous, rapid
Speaker 1: death spiral, which is known as Obamacare. And what Jeff
Speaker 1: I think points out which is so interesting to me,
Speaker 1: is with all the attention during the campaign about the
Speaker 1: art of the deal book, that he rightly points out
Speaker 1: that that in fact Trump's book never gave up, gives
Speaker 1: a lot of insight into the type of guy he is,
Speaker 1: and of course which kind of leads us to where
Speaker 1: we are today. And you know, the book is forty
Speaker 1: one chapters. You know, the number of chapters ending with
Speaker 1: a closing thought like from Coach Trump. You know, failure
Speaker 1: is not permanent wholeness in the art of the comeback.
Speaker 1: You know, the Apprentice was supposed to be a big mistake.
Speaker 1: At the best advice you can then trust your gut,
Speaker 1: you know, is this a blipper catastrophe? Be prepared for
Speaker 1: things that happen outside your game plan. When the other
Speaker 1: side expects a duel, offer a partnership. That's right out
Speaker 1: of the art of the deal. And he talked about
Speaker 1: Trump International Golf Links in Scotland, just like you know
Speaker 1: the woman Rink in New York. Separate yourself from the whiney,
Speaker 1: complaining crowd. You can create your own luck. Be passionate.
Speaker 1: It's the only way to move mountains building. You know.
Speaker 1: Another golf club story. Don't let don't let fear stop you.
Speaker 1: Somebody told me once there's a book. I never read it,
Speaker 1: but I get everything out of the title, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's a really simple one, and that is feel
Speaker 1: the fear and do it anyway. I was not exactly
Speaker 1: comfortable my first day on the radio and my first
Speaker 1: day given a speech, or my first day on TV.
Speaker 1: But if you don't push through that fear, and some
Speaker 1: people don't, some people will get paralyzed by it and
Speaker 1: it stops them and they never get the advice from
Speaker 1: that that older person with prospectus, And don't worry. That
Speaker 1: fear doesn't last forever. You know, once you push through
Speaker 1: it a few times, you'll be fine. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many people in my life I have given
Speaker 1: that advice to. How many people scared to death to
Speaker 1: ever try being a guest on my television show, and
Speaker 1: that I've walked through Linda literally, you know, we will
Speaker 1: walk through callers on this radio show. I've heard her
Speaker 1: do it. That's all right, now, don't be nervous, take
Speaker 1: a deep breath, and just focus on what you want
Speaker 1: to say, not her telling them what to say. You know,
Speaker 1: one time I was on TV. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember the Terry Shivo case, and there was a
Speaker 1: very kind, wonderful, nice woman that had taking care of
Speaker 1: Terry Shivo and the thought that there was some legitimacy
Speaker 1: to the argument that Terry Shivo had some level of
Speaker 1: awareness and wanted to tell her story. And she'd never
Speaker 1: been on TV before, and she's she's pretty, she's physically nervous.
Speaker 1: It was. It was transparent, and I'm like, just look
Speaker 1: me in the eye, you know, And I kind of
Speaker 1: grabbed her hand and squeezed it, not a bad way,
Speaker 1: not in a mean way, but in a way to
Speaker 1: grab her attention and kind of shocked her out of
Speaker 1: her head. Because when you're in your head, remember, thoughts
Speaker 1: create feelings, Feelings create more thoughts. Mind begins to spend
Speaker 1: then though, those thoughts create more and more feelings, more
Speaker 1: and more feelings, more and more thoughts when you start
Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, you're shaking, and emotionally
Speaker 1: and physically. You know it can impact your whole life.
Speaker 1: So that's a very good advice. You need to look
Speaker 1: down from the high dive and see a pool and
Speaker 1: just say, I have no idea how bad this is
Speaker 1: gonna be, and just jumps once in a while in
Speaker 1: your life. And a lot of people never take that jump.
Speaker 1: And you gotta jump, you gotta dive, you gotta take risk,
Speaker 1: and and sometimes if you don't do it, you us
Speaker 1: you're just impeding any potential human growth in your life.
Speaker 1: It's really important that you take gross anyway, don't give up,
Speaker 1: be patient. You know you may have to wait twenty
Speaker 1: years for a deal to pay off, and where others
Speaker 1: fail and and all these things. So you know what
Speaker 1: The story here is this that we've learned that there
Speaker 1: were some Republicans that I don't like in this process.
Speaker 1: We've learned that there were sixties show votes by Republicans
Speaker 1: that they didn't mean it when they talked about repealing
Speaker 1: and replacing Obamacare. Just the fact now with that said,
Speaker 1: we ran into that obstacle. The friday that the vote
Speaker 1: was scheduled, it was clear they didn't have the votes.
Speaker 1: Then we learned that Republicans weren't prepared to manage in
Speaker 1: the House yet, and they didn't build a consensus bill.
Speaker 1: And this was a top down leadership bill that the
Speaker 1: rank and file members hadn't seen. No consensus was built,
Speaker 1: the varying factions within the Republican Party weren't consulted. So
Speaker 1: I remember talking and I said this, I told you
Speaker 1: other story. Yeah, today that I got on the phone
Speaker 1: with the Freedom Caucus members who they're the people, frankly
Speaker 1: in Congress that I admire respect the most, that are
Speaker 1: the most conservative, most willing to fight hard, the most
Speaker 1: willing to stand on their principles, and without which this
Speaker 1: bill never would have passed. They'll never get credit for
Speaker 1: what they did behind the scenes. Here the mark meadows
Speaker 1: the Jordan's, the brats, the go Merts, the people that
Speaker 1: worked night and day since the Friday that bill was
Speaker 1: pill pulled with the Study Group, the Tuesday Group, the moderates,
Speaker 1: and even members of the Senate that worked day and
Speaker 1: night with them. By the way, the President is about
Speaker 1: to speak. So for stations along the Sean Hannity Show
Speaker 1: affiliates UH around the country, we will be taking that
Speaker 1: when it happens, and we're being somewhat flexible in our
Speaker 1: first break here today to get the president's first comments
Speaker 1: after this, this healthcare bill of Obama's for the replacement
Speaker 1: bill was put in place today. So then what realized,
Speaker 1: all right, we've got challenges, we've got a diverse caucus,
Speaker 1: we've got a hundred people we didn't know, didn't mean it.
Speaker 1: We know all of this, all right, So but they
Speaker 1: never stopped working. I can't tell you how many phone calls,
Speaker 1: how many hours I spent, and and I was just
Speaker 1: a small piece of just trying to encourage and offer,
Speaker 1: you know, bounce ideas off of to get the bill
Speaker 1: to a point where it's going to meet the main goals.
Speaker 1: And the main conversation I had the Saturday after this
Speaker 1: was pulled with the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Mark Meadows,
Speaker 1: and he'll back me up on this, was all right, Mark,
Speaker 1: what is it that you need? Remember he was getting blamed,
Speaker 1: his caucus was getting play. Oh, the Freedom Caucus. Even
Speaker 1: the White House thought it was the Freedom Caucus. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the Freedom Caucus. It was poorly managed by the
Speaker 1: House leadership. Fact end of sentence, it was it was
Speaker 1: not the Freedom Caucus. What do we need? What are
Speaker 1: the goals here? And he said, well, we've got a
Speaker 1: kind of lower A memiums. We've got to bring in
Speaker 1: free market competition. We've got to offer Americans lower premiums,
Speaker 1: better care, more options, healthcare savings accounts emerging out of this,
Speaker 1: and healthcare cooperatives. Now we'll talk to Dr Umber. We'll
Speaker 1: get his take on this at the top of the
Speaker 1: next hour. And this is the guy that has created
Speaker 1: a model that I think can be duplicated around the world,
Speaker 1: and now there will be an opportunity to get there
Speaker 1: which didn't exist before. By the way, I think, here
Speaker 1: comes the president. Oh, there's Paul Ryan, there's Kevin McCarthy. Wow.
Speaker 1: I don't see Mark Meadows, do you, Linda, Oh, he's
Speaker 1: there already, Okay, where is he in the last row?
Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus is already in the front row. Right now
Speaker 1: you're seeing the majority of minority whip row. Wow. I'm
Speaker 1: very impressed. That's where they should be. That's where they
Speaker 1: should be. So maybe they are getting the credit that
Speaker 1: they fully and truly deserve. I still don't see meadows.
Speaker 1: He's a pretty tall guy. Where over on the left,
Speaker 1: he's the left of the screen or the left of
Speaker 1: where there as it will be. He's to the right
Speaker 1: of the President, the left of your screen. So he's
Speaker 1: to the right of McCarthy and Secretary Price. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: he's right behind Ryan. He's right behind Ryan. All right,
Speaker 1: Oh there he is. Okay, very nice. We should reverse that.
Speaker 1: But what can you do? All right? Are you done?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to explain the story, and so through a
Speaker 1: series of difficulties. Now it's made more challenging because of
Speaker 1: the parliamentary issues involving the Senate and reconciliation. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't as I said to him that day, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Most Americans don't care about reconciliation. But anyway, here comes
Speaker 1: the President and the Vice President up to the podium.
Speaker 1: We're gonna dip in now, shaking the hands of members
Speaker 1: of Congress. Two seventeen boats in the House. And Obamacare
Speaker 1: as we know it is dead and gone and thankfully buried.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of conservatives that made this
Speaker 1: day happen. There are moderates that I'm disappointed in. Though
Speaker 1: there's Mark Meadows, Paul Ryan and Mark Meadows shaking the
Speaker 1: President's hand. They're joking. I wish I knew what they said,
Speaker 1: but whatever it is, I'll find out later. And the
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Speaker 1: the principled members of Congress who are standing with us
Speaker 1: here today on behalf of President Donald Trump and the
Speaker 1: First Family. Welcome to the White House, and thanks to
Speaker 1: the leadership of President Donald Trump, welcome to the beginning
Speaker 1: of the end of Obamacare. It was March two thousand ten,
Speaker 1: seven years ago Democrats passed the government takeover of health care,
Speaker 1: and at that time Republicans in Congress promised the American
Speaker 1: people that law would not stand. Today, thanks to the perseverance,
Speaker 1: the determination, and the leadership of President Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: all the support of those gathered here, we've taken a
Speaker 1: historic first step to repeal and replace Obamacare and finally
Speaker 1: give the American people the kind of health care they deserved.
Speaker 1: So today, with heartfelt gratitude for all he has done
Speaker 1: to keep his word to the American people, and for
Speaker 1: all he will do to continue to make America could
Speaker 1: great again, it is my high honor and distinct privilege
Speaker 1: to introduce to you the President. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. Mike. That's the group. Thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. This really is the group. What a great
Speaker 1: group of people. And they're not even doing it for
Speaker 1: the party. They're doing it for this country because we
Speaker 1: suffered with Obamacare. I went through two years of campaigning
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, no matter where I went, people
Speaker 1: were suffering so badly with the ravages of Obamacare. And
Speaker 1: I will say this that, as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: your premiums, they're gonna start to come down. We're going
Speaker 1: to get this passed through the Senate. I feel so
Speaker 1: confident you're deductibles. When it comes to deductibles, they were
Speaker 1: so ridiculous that nobody got to use their current plan. Uh,
Speaker 1: this non existent plan that I heard so many wonderful
Speaker 1: things about over the last three or four days after that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's I don't think you're gonna hear so
Speaker 1: much right now. The insurance companies are fleeing. It's been
Speaker 1: a catastrophe. And this is a great plan. I actually
Speaker 1: think it will get even better. And this is make
Speaker 1: no mistake. This is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare.
Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it, make no ma said. And
Speaker 1: I think most importantly, yes, premiums will be coming down, Yes,
Speaker 1: deductibles will be coming down, But very importantly, it's a
Speaker 1: great plan. And ultimately that's what it's all about. We
Speaker 1: knew that wasn't going to work. I predicted it a
Speaker 1: long time ago. I said it's failing, and now it's
Speaker 1: obvious that it's failing. It's dead. It's essentially dead. If
Speaker 1: we don't pay lots of ransom money over to the
Speaker 1: insurance companies, that would die immediately. So what we have
Speaker 1: is something very very incredibly well crafted. Tell you what,
Speaker 1: there is a lot of talent standing behind me, an
Speaker 1: unbelievable amount of talent that I can tell you. I
Speaker 1: mean it. And you know, coming from a different world
Speaker 1: and only being a politician for a short period of time,
Speaker 1: how am I doing? Am I doing? Okay, I'm president?
Speaker 1: Hey a president? Do you believe it? Right? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's I thought you needed a little bit more more time.
Speaker 1: They always told me in more time, but we didn't.
Speaker 1: But we have an amazing group of people standing behind me.
Speaker 1: They worked so hard, and they worked so long, and
Speaker 1: what I said, let's do this. Let's go out, just
Speaker 1: short little shots for each one of us, and let's
Speaker 1: say how good this plant is. We don't have to
Speaker 1: talk about this unbelievable victory. Wasn't it unbelievable? So we
Speaker 1: don't have to say it again. But it's gonna be
Speaker 1: an unbelievable victory actually when we get it through the Senate,
Speaker 1: and there's so much spirit there. But I said, let's
Speaker 1: go out. We have a little list of some of
Speaker 1: the people, and I think after that list goes if
Speaker 1: they don't talk too long our first list, we're gonna
Speaker 1: let some of the other folks just come up and
Speaker 1: say whatever you want. But we want to brag about
Speaker 1: the plan because this plan really oh well, yeah we may,
Speaker 1: but we're just gonna talk a little bit about the plan,
Speaker 1: how good it is, some of the great features. I
Speaker 1: want to thank Paul Ryan. He has worked so hard.
Speaker 1: And I was joking, I said, you know, Paul, for
Speaker 1: the last week, I've been hearing Paul Ryan doesn't have it.
Speaker 1: It's not working with Paul Ryan. He's going to get
Speaker 1: rid of Paul Ryan. Then today I heard Paul Ryan's
Speaker 1: a genius. He's come along. I think, whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: the groups have all come together. We have the Tuesday Group,
Speaker 1: we have so many groups. We have the Freedom Caucus,
Speaker 1: we have and they're all great people, but we have
Speaker 1: a lot of groups. But they all came together. Really, Paul,
Speaker 1: I'd say in the last three or four days, especially
Speaker 1: in the last day. See Mark, and I see Kevin.
Speaker 1: I see so many people. Jim Uh. We just have
Speaker 1: developed a bond. This has really brought the Republican Party together.
Speaker 1: As much as we've come up with a really incredible
Speaker 1: health care plan, this has brought the Republican Party together.
Speaker 1: We're going to get this finished and then we're going,
Speaker 1: as you know, we put our tax plan in. It's
Speaker 1: a massive tax cunt. The biggest tax cut in the
Speaker 1: history of our country. I used to say the biggest
Speaker 1: since Ronald Reagan. Now it's bigger than that. Also, pure
Speaker 1: tax reform. So we're gonna get that done next and
Speaker 1: this really helps it. A lot of people said, how
Speaker 1: come you kept pushing healthcare knowing how tough it is.
Speaker 1: Don't forget Obamacare took seventeen months. Hillary Clinton tried so hard,
Speaker 1: really valiantly, in all fairness to get healthcare through didn't happen.
Speaker 1: We've really been doing this for eight weeks if you
Speaker 1: think about it, and this is a real plan, this
Speaker 1: is a great plan, and we had no support from
Speaker 1: the other party. So I just want to introduce somebody
Speaker 1: to say a few words who really has been I
Speaker 1: think treated very unfairly. But it no longer matters because
Speaker 1: we won, and we're gonna finish it off, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna go into a lot of other things, and we
Speaker 1: are going to have a tremendous four years and maybe
Speaker 1: even more importantly, we're going to have a tremendous eight years.
Speaker 1: But we're going to start off with just a great
Speaker 1: first year. And Paul Ryan come up and say a
Speaker 1: few words. Congratulations on a job well done. Can you
Speaker 1: get fixed in stuff? Thank uh, thank you guys, thank
Speaker 1: you uh first uh, thank you, Mr President, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for your leadership Um. There are too many
Speaker 1: people to name who played such an important role in
Speaker 1: helping us get to this part, but I want to
Speaker 1: thank of a few people in particular. I want to
Speaker 1: thank Chairman Greg Walden, Kevin Brady, Dane affiliates across the
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show network. We will stay with us through
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. If you would like to
Speaker 1: be with us, We're gonna continue to hold this press conference.
Speaker 1: The House is passed the new pass, the new GOP
Speaker 1: healthcare bill, not one Democrat supporting, and they are at
Speaker 1: the White House collaborative, consensus driven effort. I also want
Speaker 1: to thank the team here the White House. I want
Speaker 1: to thank Tom Price, I want to thank McK mulvaney,
Speaker 1: and I especially want to thank Ranks previous. We could
Speaker 1: not have done this without you, gentlemen. You guys are
Speaker 1: the best. Of course, this would not have been possible
Speaker 1: if that weren't for these two gentlemen behind me. This
Speaker 1: is the fourth presidency I've served with I have never
Speaker 1: ever seen any kind of engagement like this. I want
Speaker 1: to thank Mike Prince and I want to thank President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump for their personal involvement in working with our
Speaker 1: members and working to get this right, for getting this
Speaker 1: done and getting us to where we are. Thank you gentlemen. Today,
Speaker 1: it was a big day, but it is just one
Speaker 1: step in this process, an important step. We still have
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do to get this signed
Speaker 1: into law, and I know that our friends over in
Speaker 1: the Senate are eager to get to work. They are
Speaker 1: We're going to see that work through. You know why
Speaker 1: We're going to see this through because the issues are
Speaker 1: just too important, The stakes are just too high. The
Speaker 1: problems facing American families are real, and the problems facing
Speaker 1: American families as a result of Obamacare are just too
Speaker 1: dire and too urgent. Just this week, just this week,
Speaker 1: we learned of another state, Iowa, where the last remaining
Speaker 1: healthcare plan is pulling out of ninety four of their
Speaker 1: nine counties, leaving most of their citizens with no plans
Speaker 1: on the Obama market at all. What kind of protection
Speaker 1: is Obamacare if there are no plans to choose from.
Speaker 1: And this is a trend that we're seeing all across
Speaker 1: the country. The truth is this law has failed and
Speaker 1: is collapsing. Premiums are skyrocketing, and choices are disappearing, and
Speaker 1: it is only getting worse, spiraling out of control, and
Speaker 1: that is why we have to repeal this law and
Speaker 1: put in place a real vibrant marketplace with competition and
Speaker 1: lower premiums for families. That's what the American health Care
Speaker 1: Act is all about. It makes healthcare more affordable, It
Speaker 1: takes care of our most vulnerable, and it shifts power
Speaker 1: from Washington back to the States, and most importantly, back
Speaker 1: to you, the patient. Like I said, we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do, but one thing is now clear.
Speaker 1: Republicans are committed to keeping our promise to lift the
Speaker 1: burden of Obamacare from the American people and put in
Speaker 1: place a better, more patient centered system. It is my
Speaker 1: pleasure at this time to think and to welcome to
Speaker 1: the stage someone who helped make this so possible are
Speaker 1: very talented Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. So a big bear
Speaker 1: hug between Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump. The
Speaker 1: two have had some problems in the past, but there
Speaker 1: on al right, that was a Speaker Ryan, And you know,
Speaker 1: think about what he just said there. Iowa alone is
Speaker 1: now counties that you know, m this was a death spiral.
Speaker 1: That's how big a deal this really was for you.
Speaker 1: The American people on so many different levels. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to just how do let's go back to
Speaker 1: Ken McCarthy. A right, here, we go counties in Iowa
Speaker 1: out of We're not that they won't have very many choices,
Speaker 1: They'll have no choice. How do you care for pre
Speaker 1: existing conditions when there's no care at all? Or you
Speaker 1: read the paper yesterday and you look at ETNA pulling
Speaker 1: out of Virginia or the Tennessee next year with sixteen
Speaker 1: counties with no care, or what about those families that
Speaker 1: paid into those twenty three co ops that Obamacare created
Speaker 1: with more than two billion dollars. Eighteen of them has
Speaker 1: collapsed and the only answer that this American government gives
Speaker 1: them is a penalty. You simply look at the facts.
Speaker 1: More people took the penalty are the exemption that actually
Speaker 1: signed up for Obamacare. I did not run to this
Speaker 1: office to promote a party. I ran for this office
Speaker 1: to make this country better. Yeah, and it would be
Speaker 1: easy to say no, it would be easy to watch
Speaker 1: it collapse. But I can't look at those families. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's right. And that's the exact message I
Speaker 1: got from this administration. So, Mr President, I want to
Speaker 1: thank you. I want to thank you for your leadership.
Speaker 1: I want to thank the Vice president. You know, I've
Speaker 1: only been through a few presidents, but I've never seen
Speaker 1: someone so hands on. Walk into my office. Yesterday morning,
Speaker 1: they say the President is calling again. I pick up
Speaker 1: the phone. I happened to be the majority leader of
Speaker 1: the former whip. I know my members well. The President
Speaker 1: gives me a list of who he thinks I would
Speaker 1: be best to talk to on the list, and he
Speaker 1: was right, and Mr President, they all voted for the bill.
Speaker 1: Today is a start. Today is the start of a
Speaker 1: new beginning. Yes, it's about providing better health care. But
Speaker 1: I happen to have been a small business owner. I
Speaker 1: listened to my district. You know how many families no
Speaker 1: longer have a forty hour job and now have to
Speaker 1: take two part time jobs, Or how many small businesses
Speaker 1: told me that they couldn't expand anymore because they were
Speaker 1: afraid of what Obamacare would do for them. We're gonna unshackle,
Speaker 1: build an economy, let people have greater choice in their
Speaker 1: health care, and protect pre existing conditions. And I thank
Speaker 1: you for that word. I want to call up. I
Speaker 1: was job before being majority Whip. I never had to
Speaker 1: go through a bill like this, and I will tell
Speaker 1: you to be in the whip. Really isn't one person.
Speaker 1: The Deputy Whip should get a lot of credit as well,
Speaker 1: Patrick mckendren, But Whip Steve Steve Scalise never gave up,
Speaker 1: answered every question, and the team between Scalise and McHenry
Speaker 1: I put beyond any team we've ever had. I give
Speaker 1: you the majority, Whip Steve Scalize. Yeah, today we took
Speaker 1: the first step towards rescuing families from the failures of Obamacare.
Speaker 1: We've been seeing a play out all across the country.
Speaker 1: This isn't some hypothetical discussion. You see families struggling in
Speaker 1: every part of our country. I'm from families all the
Speaker 1: time in my district in Southeast Louisiana sharing with me
Speaker 1: stories of double digit premium increases every single year. When
Speaker 1: we had the twenty seven and a half hour mark
Speaker 1: up before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, longest they
Speaker 1: said in the history of Congress to pass this bill
Speaker 1: out of committee, we had a long and important discussion
Speaker 1: about health care policy in America and how this isn't
Speaker 1: about achieving some kind of political goal. It's about families,
Speaker 1: families who are struggling under the weight of this law
Speaker 1: that doesn't work. And so I reached out to my
Speaker 1: own constituents and I said, share with me some of
Speaker 1: the stories and how this law, Obamacare, is affecting you personally.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately I got a lot of horror stories. You know,
Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about protecting people with pre existing
Speaker 1: conditions in the context of this bill, and there are
Speaker 1: so many things, multiple multiple layers in our bill that
Speaker 1: we passed today that not only protect people with pre
Speaker 1: existing conditions, but actually focus real targeted money on lowering
Speaker 1: premiums for families with pre existing conditions. And so during
Speaker 1: the committee hearing might have been around three in the morning,
Speaker 1: I shared a story of one of those ditchents, Chris
Speaker 1: from Sliddale, who sent me a letter and talked about
Speaker 1: their family having pre existing conditions. They have a family
Speaker 1: member with pre existing conditions and how because of the
Speaker 1: problems of Obamacare, they're paying double digit increases. But this
Speaker 1: is the real story for families that have pre existing
Speaker 1: conditions that are truly being hurt by Obamacare. One of
Speaker 1: the untold stories are the dramatic increases and deductibles. So
Speaker 1: there are a lot of families across the country that
Speaker 1: over ten thousand dollar deductibles. Now, for most people, that
Speaker 1: means they really can't even use the healthcare that they
Speaker 1: have an Obamacare. And so what Chris told me was,
Speaker 1: not only when we go to the doctor do we
Speaker 1: have to pay so much for our premium, but almost
Speaker 1: everything we do we're paying out a pocket because we've
Speaker 1: got such a large deductible. So basically, I'm paying a
Speaker 1: lot of money for healthcare. Planet doesn't work for me.
Speaker 1: Please provide relief for my family. We hear these stories
Speaker 1: over and over. And what's been so encouraging about this
Speaker 1: debate is that from the very beginning, every member of
Speaker 1: Congress that's been involved and trying to get this bill
Speaker 1: past has been focused on two main things. And the
Speaker 1: first one is lowering premiums for families that are struggling,
Speaker 1: and the second is making sure that patients and doctors
Speaker 1: are the ones that make their own healthcare decisions. Unelected
Speaker 1: bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with
Speaker 1: the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor,
Speaker 1: and that ends with this bill. And so as we
Speaker 1: went through this process, and it took weeks. Some people
Speaker 1: wanted it to take a couple of days, but we said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take the time to get it right because
Speaker 1: it affects every person in this country, and every change
Speaker 1: that was made along the way made this bill better.
Speaker 1: Almost every change that was made along the way was
Speaker 1: focused on lowering premiums. Of course, you had a lot
Speaker 1: of other things we wanted to do. We reformed the
Speaker 1: Medicaid program, one of the most broken parts of healthcare
Speaker 1: anybody will tell you as Medicaid. And so we actually
Speaker 1: give governors and states the flexibility to go and be
Speaker 1: innovative and do things that will in a much more
Speaker 1: targeted way help low income families in a way that
Speaker 1: Medicare is failing them today. That's another important aspect of
Speaker 1: this bill. But we wouldn't be here today without the
Speaker 1: work and the help of the President and the Vice
Speaker 1: President United States directly getting involved. Because every meeting we
Speaker 1: had with members that wanted to get additional, additional components
Speaker 1: added to the bill, President Trump said, bring him into
Speaker 1: the White House. I want to meet with him. I
Speaker 1: want to talk to him about how we can actually
Speaker 1: lower premiums. Because President Trump's focused from the beginning was
Speaker 1: the same thing. He knows Obamacare fails, but it's failing
Speaker 1: because it's hurting families. And he said, how can we
Speaker 1: lower premiums? How can we give patients more control of
Speaker 1: the healthcare? And ultimately all of the meetings that we
Speaker 1: had along the way that made this bill better. We're
Speaker 1: focused on those objectives, and that's why it's so important
Speaker 1: that we got this first step done today. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of work left to be done, and I look
Speaker 1: forward to the Senate taking the action that they need
Speaker 1: to take, but ultimately getting a bill to President Trump's
Speaker 1: desk that he'll sign that actually rescue families for this
Speaker 1: incredibly failed law and put patients back in charge of
Speaker 1: their healthcare decisions and lower premiums. And the man that
Speaker 1: led to charge in starting this process in the committee
Speaker 1: was the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden.
Speaker 1: Want to bring him up famous place, Uh, ladies and gentleman,
Speaker 1: missed president. Mr all right, welcome back to Sean Hannity Show,
Speaker 1: where staying with US press conferences is at the White House.
Speaker 1: The Republicans have in fact now repealed and begun the
Speaker 1: process of fully repealing Obamacare. A new healthcare bill has
Speaker 1: been passed. Next stop is the Senate. I'll explain all
Speaker 1: the ins and outs and details in just a second. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think, we'll just stay with it here.
Speaker 1: If if the Freedom Caucus is called up, we want
Speaker 1: to get them up, because, as I was explaining before,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have happened without them. And how do I
Speaker 1: know because I talked to them every day. I talked
Speaker 1: to people in the White House throughout this process, and
Speaker 1: I know how difficult it was. And you know what
Speaker 1: I was saying before the break, and it's a little
Speaker 1: frustrating for me, is that you know, yes, I think
Speaker 1: that the Vice President had this is the beginning of
Speaker 1: the end of the government takeover of Obamacare. This is
Speaker 1: the beginning of the end. And the President went out
Speaker 1: there and explained he was actually the only group he
Speaker 1: didn't mention was the group that I make up, which
Speaker 1: is the Saturday night drinking group. But there is a
Speaker 1: there are coalitions within the Republican Party, and we learned
Speaker 1: that moderates had no intention of doing what they said
Speaker 1: they were going to do, which is repeated and replace Obamacare.
Speaker 1: That presented a huge challenge to the conservatives are more
Speaker 1: conservative members like Tuesday Group members and the most conservative
Speaker 1: and I think the best, the best group in Congress,
Speaker 1: which is the Freedom Caucus. But with that said, you know,
Speaker 1: to begin the process and to allow free market competition,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you argue in nine to ninety
Speaker 1: counties in Iowa no longer have a single option? You know,
Speaker 1: you can allow the death spiral of Obamacare to continue,
Speaker 1: or you've got to stop it. And I think there
Speaker 1: was some perspective that was put into all of this
Speaker 1: by the President when we rightly pointed out, Okay, it
Speaker 1: took seventeen months for Obamacare to get done and then
Speaker 1: Hillary couldn't get it done. And in reality, this is
Speaker 1: like an eight week deal or a ten week deal
Speaker 1: by the Republicans, so under very difficult circumstances. And Paul
Speaker 1: Ryan rightly saying it's the first step in the process,
Speaker 1: and there are real parliamentary things. I know, nobody wants
Speaker 1: to hear it. I don't want to hear it, but
Speaker 1: it is a reality of what they had to deal
Speaker 1: with because of how it was passed in budgetary rules,
Speaker 1: and there are parliamentary procedures and hurdles that that exists
Speaker 1: in the Senate that they had to factor into how
Speaker 1: they structured this bill. All true, we didn't need the
Speaker 1: three step process. As we learned, they never consulted the
Speaker 1: Senate Parliamentary in but you know that was it. But
Speaker 1: I want you to understand here, this is a huge
Speaker 1: win for the president because the President never stopped never,
Speaker 1: and every time I talked to anybody around him or
Speaker 1: in the White House, every time, I gotta get this stuff,
Speaker 1: gotta get this stuf, gotta get the urgency. And the
Speaker 1: push came from Pennsylvania Avenue. The death spiral of Obamacare
Speaker 1: had to be stopped. And the bill that passed the
Speaker 1: House is not perfect. The reason why is that you
Speaker 1: have these these moderate Republicans who didn't want to repeal
Speaker 1: and replace completely. That's the reality of Washington. We should
Speaker 1: identify them, maybe before and maybe we primary them. But
Speaker 1: with that said, you know what is being put forward
Speaker 1: and what they were able to get done mostly because
Speaker 1: of conservative members. And I'm speaking as a matter of
Speaker 1: fact from behind the scenes knowledge that I have personally
Speaker 1: and what has put forward is so much better than
Speaker 1: the death spiral we were in now and the final
Speaker 1: waiver I was watching somebody on TV. I don't know
Speaker 1: who blaming the Freedom Caucus. Oh, the waivers, isn't The
Speaker 1: waivers is a huge win because the waivers allow the
Speaker 1: states to opt out the labors. The waivers now allow
Speaker 1: for everything that that every decision by any conservative or
Speaker 1: the Republican Party ought to be based on, which is
Speaker 1: pre market competition. Democrats have been out to sabotage, destroy
Speaker 1: and in spite of the public proclamations, they are not
Speaker 1: happy this happened today. The signature achievement that they claimed
Speaker 1: a Barack Obama and how many times did I say
Speaker 1: this after the president was elected? It's going to be soon,
Speaker 1: and today is was one of the biggest steps. It's like,
Speaker 1: between wiping out all of the Obama executive orders, wiping
Speaker 1: out Obama era regulations, now getting rid of Obamacare as
Speaker 1: we know it, it's almost like Obama's eight years didn't exist.
Speaker 1: He just you know. The only thing we're left with
Speaker 1: is the damage, the doubling of the national debt, the
Speaker 1: transition out of Obamacare into pre market competition and health
Speaker 1: savings accounts and cooperatives, which we'll talk about these these
Speaker 1: new options that now exist according to this bill that
Speaker 1: this bill now allows, and we can we can duplicate
Speaker 1: some of these great models and medical healthcare savings accounts
Speaker 1: and cooperatives that exists. You know, but if if you
Speaker 1: look at the insanity, it's important to know that you know,
Speaker 1: the Republicans and I actually believe the President when he
Speaker 1: says this finally came together, finally built consensus. They finally
Speaker 1: show that they can actually get something done and lead.
Speaker 1: It's that they are willing to now take the risk
Speaker 1: of owning something. And Democrats, you know, all they did
Speaker 1: all day and all throughout this processes go down deep
Speaker 1: into the utter and all they have not they're not
Speaker 1: willing to accept that everything they said to you in
Speaker 1: the passing and lead up to Obamacare turned out to
Speaker 1: be a lie. Let's go back down memory lane. Let's
Speaker 1: just take a listen what they promised and keep in
Speaker 1: mind this Obamacare premiums on average nationwide went up five
Speaker 1: thousand four ars, not including the on average increase this year,
Speaker 1: which means it's over six thousand dollars. When they promised
Speaker 1: you'd keep your doctor, millions lost them, keep your plan,
Speaker 1: Millions lost their plans and save on average per family
Speaker 1: a year. No, this year alone, Arizona has a hundred
Speaker 1: increase in premiums and that was going to be the norm.
Speaker 1: This is a huge, huge, unprecedented failure that was averted
Speaker 1: to a not perfect but it was a disaster in
Speaker 1: the making, as evidenced by Iowa and Arizona and so
Speaker 1: many other states. But this is what they promised you
Speaker 1: will you hear about the Affordable Care Act Obamacare, and
Speaker 1: I don't mind the name, because I really do care
Speaker 1: a system where we're gonna work with your employers to
Speaker 1: lower your premiums by up to per family per year
Speaker 1: added all up. And the plan I'm proposing will cost
Speaker 1: around nine billion dollars over ten years. We will start
Speaker 1: by reducing premiums by as much as per family. There
Speaker 1: are also those who claim that our reform efforts would
Speaker 1: ensure illegal immigrants. This too, is false. Here's what changes
Speaker 1: saying to people who already had health insurance and the
Speaker 1: employees who are providing it. And all of those two
Speaker 1: hundred seventeen members came from different districts that represented a
Speaker 1: different kind of people. And it's a good day because
Speaker 1: of the number one, a president who wouldn't give up
Speaker 1: a president who got engaged a president who said, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't care what the mainstream media is saying. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get this done and we're gonna make it better
Speaker 1: for the American people. And Mr President and Mr Vice
Speaker 1: President for those late night calls. I'm glad that I'll
Speaker 1: get some rest, but I want to thank you on
Speaker 1: behalf of the most critical number, and that's the three
Speaker 1: eighteen million Americans who now once again we'll be able
Speaker 1: to get affordable health care, to allow those decisions to
Speaker 1: be made between them and their doctor, and once again
Speaker 1: make sure that they don't have to go begging and
Speaker 1: figuring out how to pay for their health care premium
Speaker 1: instead of their mortgage. So, Mr President, it's a great
Speaker 1: day for America. It's a great day for this administration,
Speaker 1: but it's a truly great day for the American people.
Speaker 1: God blessed. And I have the honor of introducing someone
Speaker 1: that I didn't know real well before this all happened,
Speaker 1: and I used the term gentleman in the most appropriate way.
Speaker 1: The gentleman from New Jersey, my good friend Tom MacArthur. Uh. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you behind the scenes, I'm giving you
Speaker 1: everything that I know and the insight that I have
Speaker 1: is that without Mark Meadows, I don't see this happening.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there was some great people in
Speaker 1: the White House that worked with him every step of
Speaker 1: the way, and they deserve credit too. So that's just
Speaker 1: the fact, all right. So you get the idea you
Speaker 1: were promised propell to keep your doctor, keep your pants.
Speaker 1: It's all a lie. It was all predicated on a lie,
Speaker 1: all predicated on broken promises. You know, look look at
Speaker 1: for example, headlines for this week alone ETNA to exit
Speaker 1: Obamacare and Virginia citing two million dollars in losses. Iowa
Speaker 1: maybe without individual health plans. If the insurer pulls out,
Speaker 1: that was this week alone, there was gonna be no
Speaker 1: insurance option for anybody in Iowa. You know, this is
Speaker 1: the death spiral lie of Obamacare. It's why the entire
Speaker 1: foundation of Obamacare was built, predicated on a foundation of
Speaker 1: lies that was repeated by every one of these Democrats.
Speaker 1: Oh this is there's no Republicans. They're in trouble now,
Speaker 1: and well, the country was in trouble if we kept this,
Speaker 1: probably they did Democrats a favor, but they didn't have
Speaker 1: any option to clean up the mess of all of
Speaker 1: these people. You know, since Obama became present, skyrockets, you know,
Speaker 1: premiums up, you know, overt up thirty this year alone, Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Wyoming. People buying on exchanges have only a
Speaker 1: single insure to choose from. It is almost one third
Speaker 1: of all US counties only have one option one in
Speaker 1: America today, which is why, in spite of how difficult,
Speaker 1: in spite of its imperfections, it is a massive wind
Speaker 1: and a lot of leadership. As Mark Meadow said, the
Speaker 1: President was involved. And I know this as a fact.
Speaker 1: I know so many people he called on a nightly basis,
Speaker 1: working the phones, just like he worked the phones with
Speaker 1: all these companies, Uh as well. Anyway, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: my head here to get it done and say please stay,
Speaker 1: don't bring your don't don't build factories in Mexico, keep
Speaker 1: them here, all right. We're gonna full complete analysis. Uh.
Speaker 1: Christie Ford chap It is going to join as a professor,
Speaker 1: and Josh umber is gonna join us. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the new bill and the disaster known as Obamacare
Speaker 1: now gone and a huge win for the president and
Speaker 1: a beginning of a process to really fix the spiraling,
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Speaker 1: especially on a bill like this. And as the President said,
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Speaker 1: no longer the law of the land as soon as
Speaker 1: the Senate passes in the president's signs. Thank god, a
Speaker 1: huge development today, big first step win for the president.
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Speaker 1: It is Obamacare. The Republican bill to replace Obamacare has
Speaker 1: now been passed in the US House of Representatives, a
Speaker 1: remarkable first step to undo the damage that has been
Speaker 1: so deep. As I look, I'm giving you the behind
Speaker 1: the scenes insider's view because I have a day is
Speaker 1: not gone by, not one well. I didn't talk to
Speaker 1: the people that were most active and involved, and I'm
Speaker 1: not mentioned in a whole bunch of names. I look,
Speaker 1: I will say Mark Meadows, as one of them in
Speaker 1: getting this bill across the finish line. You know, think
Speaker 1: about the consequences if we did in ninety four and
Speaker 1: the ninety nine counties in Iowa no no choice. In
Speaker 1: other way, there was no plan available for him. You know,
Speaker 1: you think about every every promise that the American people
Speaker 1: were sold by every Democrat turned out to be one
Speaker 1: big lie by the party. And you know, if you
Speaker 1: look at the headline at an exiting Obamacare Virginia, because
Speaker 1: they're losing money, just like Obamacare, and just like the President,
Speaker 1: I think it was of that said this is a
Speaker 1: death spiral and every insure now pulling out by most
Speaker 1: of them pulling out or reducing their risk. And it's
Speaker 1: the first step in the process. It's the beginning of
Speaker 1: the end of this government takeover of healthcare. And now
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell has has spoken up. Congratulator. I want to
Speaker 1: congratulate my colleague and the House of Representatives, you know,
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. None of that stuff
Speaker 1: means a thing to me. But you know, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I know that that Senator Rampaul was not happy with
Speaker 1: this because it's not a full repair and full repeal.
Speaker 1: But you know bill which he said he wanted, that
Speaker 1: wasn't a full repeal either, a little better but and
Speaker 1: there are parliamentary obstacles. Nobody wants to hear this, but
Speaker 1: you have to understand reality and facts as they exist
Speaker 1: on the ground. And there were parliamentary obstacles, reconciliation, cloture,
Speaker 1: scoring as it relates to cbo Bird rule, all this,
Speaker 1: they all mean something to them in the rules of
Speaker 1: the Senate. Now, with that said, it's just time for
Speaker 1: the Republicans to just do what they need to do
Speaker 1: and just have you win the Senate. You get a
Speaker 1: fifty one vote majority. The Democrats starting in decided to
Speaker 1: get rid of all civility in the U. S. Senate. Now,
Speaker 1: the President did say today that he is confident that
Speaker 1: the Senate will in fact pass health care Ability, will
Speaker 1: go to conference, and I assume that it will be
Speaker 1: past eventually signing the law by the President. Anyway, here
Speaker 1: to go over what this means. What options now become available,
Speaker 1: free market options, buying across state lines, portability, job to job,
Speaker 1: health care savings accounts, healthcare cooperatives. And I think I've
Speaker 1: become the biggest champion of them after. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how I got to know. Poor Dr josh Umberg
Speaker 1: probably hates me now Atlas m D. And we have
Speaker 1: Professor Christie Ford Chape and also with us to discuss
Speaker 1: all of this. UM. I agree with the Vice President,
Speaker 1: this is not everything we want. This is a real
Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the end of a government
Speaker 1: takeover of healthcare, and the American people have suffered enough.
Speaker 1: It has ravaged Americans to the two and of over
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars on average, increases which we were told
Speaker 1: we'd save a year, fewer options, millions losing their doctors
Speaker 1: and plans. What are your initial thoughts of where we are? Well, um,
Speaker 1: you know again, thanks for having me on as always. UM.
Speaker 1: I think it's uh, it's the right step. I think
Speaker 1: we're still trying to figure out what all is in
Speaker 1: the bill, but we know we want to move forward.
Speaker 1: I think that everyone can agree what we had wasn't working,
Speaker 1: and you you laid that out very nicely just a
Speaker 1: moment ago. So we do need to move forward. And
Speaker 1: the reality is, just like you said, is we can't
Speaker 1: do everything we want. UM. We won't get everything we want,
Speaker 1: but we can't let perfect stand in the way of
Speaker 1: better and I think this opens the door to getting
Speaker 1: us to better. Yeah. Look, if there's one thing that
Speaker 1: saddens me in the process is my full understanding that
Speaker 1: there are moderate Republicans that are are just absolutely you know,
Speaker 1: they're almost as bad as the Democrats. They acted one way,
Speaker 1: and every time there was a show vote to repeal
Speaker 1: replace Obama, I were there all sixty times. And unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the real conservatives that really meant what they said. You know,
Speaker 1: they actually had to put together the coalition on behalf
Speaker 1: of the leadership, which I thought was lacking urgency, and
Speaker 1: you know, they got it done. But you know, the
Speaker 1: wrong people in my view, are getting credit for it.
Speaker 1: But that's a side note. Christie, what's your take? Uh, Well,
Speaker 1: my take is that unfortunately this politically is playing because
Speaker 1: of it being rolled out in steps. This is just
Speaker 1: playing as if the big takeaways people are having their
Speaker 1: benefits taken away, and you know, you've been pushing for
Speaker 1: a while, but that's not true. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: just oh, you mean the Obamacare is taken away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Obamacare has been taking away people right. Well, what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is the way this is playing in the media
Speaker 1: is that, UM, people are concerned about, you know, people
Speaker 1: with pre existing conditions and such, and so that's that's
Speaker 1: that was the last holdout vote. That was to protect
Speaker 1: people of pre existing conditions, which by the way, I
Speaker 1: think most Americans understand and support that they would be
Speaker 1: able to get insurance. Exactly. There's concerned that the funding
Speaker 1: for the state pulls isn't enough. And so it brings
Speaker 1: me to the point that I want to make is
Speaker 1: you've you've really been pushing the idea that we need
Speaker 1: to structurally change the system or Medicare and Medicaid are
Speaker 1: going to you know, eventually bankrupt the federal government and
Speaker 1: state and state governments. And so you know, that's the
Speaker 1: difficulty here is, you know, if this is playing as
Speaker 1: you know, some people are going to lose from losing
Speaker 1: from losing benefits, UM and and it's hard to say.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it'll bring down some cosses the Republicans are saying,
Speaker 1: but without any kind of structural change. UM going to
Speaker 1: some of the things you've you've talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: I've I've told I've been on this program before to
Speaker 1: speak about the fact that healthcare pre a c A
Speaker 1: was not based on free markets um, but on this
Speaker 1: very specific insurance company model that that the A m
Speaker 1: A leaders designed back in the nineteen thirties when physicians
Speaker 1: were trying to do the very thing that Dr Umber
Speaker 1: is doing out in Kansas. And that's the kind of
Speaker 1: plan that brings down costs. Well, the big change for
Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus. And and they're the guys I rely
Speaker 1: on the most as as being the most conservative, and
Speaker 1: and they were. Remember they stopped this bill, and they
Speaker 1: made this bill better than what it otherwise would have been,
Speaker 1: and their main focus. And I remember the Saturday discussion
Speaker 1: after the Friday vote was taken back with Mark Meadows.
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, what what are your goals here? We've
Speaker 1: got a hundred Republicans that are moderates that frankly you know,
Speaker 1: discussed me, but I didn't. I won't reveal everything. I
Speaker 1: said to him, So what what are the goals and
Speaker 1: how do you get this across the finish line in
Speaker 1: a way that you know, again, counties and I will
Speaker 1: don't have any options as of next year, none, zero zip.
Speaker 1: So it's not like they could have just not done this.
Speaker 1: So and he said, I got my main goals to
Speaker 1: get premiums down, competition up, free market incentives in place.
Speaker 1: And after I spent a lot of time of him
Speaker 1: explaining this build to me and him being on the
Speaker 1: program this week, he convinced me and Jim Jordan convinced
Speaker 1: me that they're they're that this is all existing. And
Speaker 1: when you add to this the the flexibility, if you will,
Speaker 1: or the built in authority which is pretty broad under
Speaker 1: under the current law, where the Health and Human Service
Speaker 1: as Secretary gets to make significant changes himself. For example,
Speaker 1: he will defund Obamacare himself. I'm sorry planned parenthood himself.
Speaker 1: He will, he will personally. He has the ability to
Speaker 1: do that. I just wish it was more permanent and
Speaker 1: over time, I'm hoping we get there. But dr Umberg explained,
Speaker 1: how you think this is in that way? Good? Well again,
Speaker 1: we need to move to something um again, abundance mindset.
Speaker 1: What is a solution that's better than either party has
Speaker 1: come up with before as opposed to stay in old rhetoric,
Speaker 1: and that we want more care for more people, more often,
Speaker 1: and we need it more affordably. That's what the free market,
Speaker 1: that's what the direct Primary care ATLAS in D model
Speaker 1: is doing well. And there's hundreds of doctors across the
Speaker 1: country proving this. And now we just need some support
Speaker 1: from the government, which is released the restrictions on the
Speaker 1: A c A and insurance rules. Let that go to
Speaker 1: state by state and customization and just flexibility. What we
Speaker 1: realized is maximal insurance for insurance sake isn't working. It's
Speaker 1: so affordable that people can't afford the care they can,
Speaker 1: they can barely afford the insurance. Let's reverse that. Let's
Speaker 1: get to something where health insurance comes down by the
Speaker 1: savings and that helps people buy the outpatient care they need. Now, unmilily,
Speaker 1: there's's no Code Pace nine savings on mad labs other things.
Speaker 1: Now health care is affordable and health insurance is affordable.
Speaker 1: So you get your health care regardless of any pre
Speaker 1: existing condition. You can get your health insurance at a
Speaker 1: fraction of the price. This is the collective Uh. Two
Speaker 1: from the Democrats plus two from the Republicans equals six
Speaker 1: of the American people. That's what we need to get to.
Speaker 1: We need to get to a solution better than we've
Speaker 1: had before. So based on what they're saying now that
Speaker 1: you're going to have free market competition, across the state lines.
Speaker 1: It's etcetera. That does open up the options so that
Speaker 1: that cooperatives like yours, which I mean I look at
Speaker 1: your Cooperative'm like wow, that impresses me because you know,
Speaker 1: the average adult pays fifty, the average child pays ten
Speaker 1: a month, fifty a month in a month unlimited care.
Speaker 1: What do you pay for an X ray? Cents if
Speaker 1: I need an X ray in your office? Who are
Speaker 1: at forty dollars? But it is about less UM So
Speaker 1: now you don't need insurance for that. Uh, it's become
Speaker 1: so much more affordable. It's a tank of gas and
Speaker 1: stitches and broken bones are all taken care of in
Speaker 1: your office. Stitches are free, ninety days of medicine NSA.
Speaker 1: It's to the attention we've gotten from you. We've had
Speaker 1: recent talks with some of the largest privately held insurance
Speaker 1: broker in the country who are now seeing how we
Speaker 1: synergize UM and when the insurance companies combined with this,
Speaker 1: that means better care for medical better costs, better care
Speaker 1: for Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance. Yeah, and can I
Speaker 1: just make a comment on that point. We didn't invite
Speaker 1: you on for comments. Mom, kidding, how are you head, professor?
Speaker 1: I think this, and I think this is a plan
Speaker 1: that sells politically very well to liberals and progressives. We're
Speaker 1: talking about de centering insurance company power and putting medical
Speaker 1: decisions back in the hands of physicians and patients UM
Speaker 1: and not having whether it's a government fish or insurance
Speaker 1: company UM telling physicians how they have to treat patients
Speaker 1: in order to receive reimbursements. And you know, I've talked
Speaker 1: to Dr Number about this. What my reach research has
Speaker 1: shown in my publications is that this is exactly what
Speaker 1: physicians were trying to do at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century, and it was something to progressives and consumers
Speaker 1: and everybody absolutely loved. But it was the am A
Speaker 1: leadership at that time. I don't you know, don't want
Speaker 1: to beat up on the A m A now, but
Speaker 1: they did everything they could to shut them down, to
Speaker 1: provoke the licenses of physicians who are participating in these plans, UM,
Speaker 1: to destroy this part of the market and create this
Speaker 1: system that we have today that is ridiculous as far
Speaker 1: as cost go. If you see that we are spending
Speaker 1: almost one fifth of our economy on healthcare and the
Speaker 1: number two countries in the world are so far behind
Speaker 1: us at between twelve and thirteen percent, when we're getting
Speaker 1: close to twenty. Not to mention, you know, fragmented care
Speaker 1: and concerns about insurance companies controlling how well not mandating
Speaker 1: what people have to pay. Like, if I'm a young person,
Speaker 1: I'm healthy, I would join Dr Numbers cooperative unlimited care
Speaker 1: for everything I need. I probably wouldn't even need to,
Speaker 1: you know, I probably could just walk in the day
Speaker 1: I get sick and say, okay, can I pay you doctor?
Speaker 1: Would you let me do that? By the way, well,
Speaker 1: we have people who enrolled when they're sick, all right,
Speaker 1: so I would. I would walk into your place. You're
Speaker 1: gonna throw me out because I had I need a
Speaker 1: z pac. No, you're gonna take care of me if
Speaker 1: I if I need stitches and I'm laying in front
Speaker 1: of you, are You're gonna say you won't stitch me.
Speaker 1: Ductor's care for people, you know, we want to be
Speaker 1: able to find a way. So if I'm having a
Speaker 1: heart attack, you're just gonna say, we'll pay me up,
Speaker 1: pay up handed arrows, get out of you. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take care of people, and we want to do
Speaker 1: that in a cheaper, more efficient way, like it's even
Speaker 1: more all right, stay right there, We'll continue Professor Christie Ford,
Speaker 1: uh uh Chapin as with us and uh Josh Umber
Speaker 1: who probably hates us because we call them all the time.
Speaker 1: And eight nine one Sean along Sean Hannah's show one
Speaker 1: Sean Obamacare as we know it dead in the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives, A huge one for the president today, long arduous,
Speaker 1: difficult path and going forward, Well, what does this mean
Speaker 1: for you, the average American, the average consumer? Um, there
Speaker 1: were real challenges, as I've been pointing out procedurally parliamentary maneuvers,
Speaker 1: which it's just such an arcane pain in the ass
Speaker 1: if if I can just say it, I mean ridiculous anyway,
Speaker 1: But the Conservatives really were the ones that push this
Speaker 1: over the top in my opinion, for my inside of
Speaker 1: reformation talking to these guys every day, we continue with
Speaker 1: Professor Christie Ford Chapin, Dr Josh Umber of Atlas m D.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Dr Chapin wrote a book on
Speaker 1: healthcare and uh what's it called Ensuring America's Health the
Speaker 1: public creation of corporate healthcare system? Uh So, anyway, I
Speaker 1: want to just ask you this, what are the odds
Speaker 1: that this can be duplicated? Dr Umber, what you have
Speaker 1: created in Wichita around the By the way, I've ever
Speaker 1: gotten you any businesses anyone called and said I want
Speaker 1: to I want to be on your plan because I
Speaker 1: heard that doll Panity. Sure, you crush our servers. It's
Speaker 1: ridiculous that you've gotten hundreds of doctors, hundreds of patients
Speaker 1: over the last couple of months talking about direct care.
Speaker 1: But you know what, you know what I like answering
Speaker 1: phones now because it's blue collar concierge. This is what
Speaker 1: rich people get. This is what you're offering, concierge service
Speaker 1: for the for the hard working men and women in
Speaker 1: this country. That's there's no other way to put it. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and you agree, Dr Christie, I'm sorry, professor, right, that's fine. Absolutely. Uh.
Speaker 1: The great thing about uh these cooperative plans is they
Speaker 1: put the right incentives into place. We know that incentives matter,
Speaker 1: and it's the doctors who have the requisite expertise to
Speaker 1: do to think about when a patient needs care or not.
Speaker 1: Under the current model, we have a lot of problems
Speaker 1: with doctors overutilizing services for the insured. Offer in too
Speaker 1: many um in a way, they're they're over controlled by
Speaker 1: insurers on one hand, and on the other hand, there
Speaker 1: incentivized wish I had more time. We're going to continue
Speaker 1: this discussion, but also how planned parenthood gets defunded. Next
Speaker 1: reproductive care including birth control and free and postnatal care
Speaker 1: and cancer screenings. That's why we have to defend planned parenthood.
Speaker 1: We don't have prenato care here. Plant Parents offers abortions,
Speaker 1: so they don't offer prenatal care. Okay, just abortions. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Planted Parenthood has been around for a long time. They
Speaker 1: provide all kinds of of prenatal and health care screening
Speaker 1: for women. Now, we don't do prenatal services. I mean
Speaker 1: it's called planed parent and I know it's kind of deceiving.
Speaker 1: Planned parenthood is often the only option for women to
Speaker 1: get their annual check up. It provides breast exams, contraception,
Speaker 1: prenatal care. We don't offer prenatal care at Plant Parenthood.
Speaker 1: We specialize in abortions. Prenatal services go on. We actually
Speaker 1: don't offer a prenatal service pe enough license to do
Speaker 1: so in Origin or Washington. It was just asking what
Speaker 1: kind of services you offer for pregnant women, pregnant women,
Speaker 1: pregnant women who want to continue with the pregnancy. Yes, um,
Speaker 1: we don't. Our first service, planned Parenthood is about providing
Speaker 1: federal funds for care like mammograms and service called cancer
Speaker 1: screenings and prenatal care. I was hoping that I could
Speaker 1: come into Planned parent and for a mammogram. Do you
Speaker 1: guys provide mammograms? Um, we do not provide nammogram? Do
Speaker 1: you have O B du N s here? We do
Speaker 1: not know. Oh, you don't know? Okay, which is the
Speaker 1: deceptive name? Right? I think they or you know if
Speaker 1: you were looking determination actions, we can do that as well.
Speaker 1: It's an attack on every preventive health service, every safety net,
Speaker 1: everything that you care about, whether it's early childhood education,
Speaker 1: whether it's pap smears, whether it's mammograms, whether it's prenatal
Speaker 1: care when you're pregnant. No plan parent had does prenatal care, Oh,
Speaker 1: none of them. That leaves hundreds of thousands of expectant
Speaker 1: mothers without access to essential prenatal care and treatment. And
Speaker 1: that is where planned parenthood comes in. What pregnancy services
Speaker 1: do you offer? We only offer a termination services. Do
Speaker 1: you define access to referrals to other hospitals and specialists,
Speaker 1: and you deny prenatal care. No, see, we don't see
Speaker 1: pregnant women as a way of giving prenatal care. We
Speaker 1: see pregnant women. Um, you know that they are considering
Speaker 1: other options, like what other options? Like would you see
Speaker 1: the doctor for at this location? Yes? Um, so at
Speaker 1: this location, you guys do. These services that we provide
Speaker 1: through the federal programs are family planning, cancer screenings, prenatal care. So,
Speaker 1: if you're choosing to terminate the pregnancy, we can make
Speaker 1: an appointment at this office. But if you're not terminating
Speaker 1: the pregnancy, if you're going to continue their pregnancy, then
Speaker 1: we would refer you out. So I really don't need
Speaker 1: to see us here alright twenty four now until the
Speaker 1: top of the shawn. You want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program. Now, you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: with this historic final you know, first big, huge step
Speaker 1: which is so necessary as it relates to Obamacare and
Speaker 1: ultimately repealing replacement competition, pre market competition. One of the
Speaker 1: big issues involving this is defunding planned parenthood. Now you
Speaker 1: just heard that planned parenthood right there, that oh, we
Speaker 1: don't offer prenatal services. No, we only offer abortion services.
Speaker 1: We only do that. We only do that. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: but that's not what they say. Anyway. There is a
Speaker 1: group that has been active and involved in this for
Speaker 1: a long time, Live Action. Lila Rose is with us.
Speaker 1: She is the head of the Live Action group. And
Speaker 1: from what we're hearing is number one Planned parenthoods two
Speaker 1: thousand five six annual report to its most recent one
Speaker 1: and five team show. The numbers of breast exams, which
Speaker 1: they claim they do is down. PAP tests are down
Speaker 1: seventy seven percent, total cancer screening's down sixty and over
Speaker 1: the same period, forced taxpayer funding has more than doubled
Speaker 1: from five and fifty three million a year, and abortions
Speaker 1: are up. This is what this is. That sounds to
Speaker 1: me like abortion inc anyway, and then you hear the
Speaker 1: very opposite of the talking points that liberal Democrats and
Speaker 1: Planned parent whood spews all the time. I was watching
Speaker 1: on the circus the head of Planned Parenthood what's her name,
Speaker 1: Ceil Richards I think is her name on Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: out there. Oh and it's about women's health. Oh and
Speaker 1: it's about well these statistics prove otherwise from Live Action
Speaker 1: and Lila Roses with us and from what I understand
Speaker 1: the healthcare law and of course the ability of the
Speaker 1: Health and Human Services Secretary, through the discretionary powers that
Speaker 1: they have, is not going to fund Planned Parenthood, and
Speaker 1: the promise is going to be fulfilled. What have you've
Speaker 1: heard today is the big day, I mean, Sean, they're
Speaker 1: going to be they're going to be voting on the
Speaker 1: bill that would be done through reconciliation process, so that
Speaker 1: means that they can pass that filibuster in the Senate
Speaker 1: that where they're trying to stop the defunding Plan Parent
Speaker 1: with everything they've got. Pretty much every senator whose Democrat
Speaker 1: has received campaign contributions from Plan Parent. So of course
Speaker 1: they're very beholden, they're very pro abortion. They're going to
Speaker 1: do everything they can to stop it. But the good
Speaker 1: news is this process with care and with defunding Plan
Speaker 1: Parent is being done through the reconciliation process to override
Speaker 1: that filibuster, and that vote is going to come down
Speaker 1: here any really any hour now. This has been anticipated,
Speaker 1: This has been anticipated for pretty much ten years by
Speaker 1: the pro life movement, which we have been educating and
Speaker 1: getting information in front of people showing that Planned Parenthood
Speaker 1: is not about healthcare. They claim it, they lie about
Speaker 1: it their friends like ut or Diane Feinstein, and you
Speaker 1: know Hillary Clinton was out there lying about it, saying
Speaker 1: we need them for women's health care, fearmongering. But the
Speaker 1: reality is, like you just said, Shahn, their health care services,
Speaker 1: breast cancer screenings, half tests have gone down over sixty
Speaker 1: in the last ten years. Abortions are up, tax care
Speaker 1: funding is up, and they remain the biggest abortion chain
Speaker 1: in the country. And that's why this vote is happening.
Speaker 1: That's why people are excited about this, and it is
Speaker 1: a long time coming and is so we're so glad
Speaker 1: that this stay. And you've been assured that all of
Speaker 1: this has handled as long as Planned Parenthood does. In fact,
Speaker 1: uh is would you refer to them as abortion inc?
Speaker 1: Isn't it mostly an abortion business? Based on the dollars
Speaker 1: and the procedures, how many abortions a year and how
Speaker 1: much federally are they now getting Planned parent And they're
Speaker 1: doing three hundred over three hundred and twenty thousand abortions
Speaker 1: a year, So that's eight hundred and eighty seven children
Speaker 1: killed at parent of facilities every day. That's one child
Speaker 1: every ninety seven seconds at a Planned Parenthood, and they're
Speaker 1: receiving every day one point five million dollars. Repeat that again,
Speaker 1: one child every seven one one child every nineties seven seconds.
Speaker 1: Every minute and a half, another child's life is snuffed
Speaker 1: out of the Planned Parenthood. They remain the biggest abortion chain.
Speaker 1: In fact, sen their abortion numbers are have been going
Speaker 1: up to each year, even as the cancers trainings decline,
Speaker 1: as a number of patients decline, as they have no
Speaker 1: natal services, no prenatal care services, virtually none. They have
Speaker 1: no mammogram services, they've never had any, and yet their
Speaker 1: abortion numbers are growing up. You know, President Trump, he
Speaker 1: even said that if Planned Parenthood would stop doing abortions,
Speaker 1: this wouldn't even be an issue. And you know, Planned
Speaker 1: parent has been claiming only three percent of what we
Speaker 1: do is abortions. That's what they say to try to
Speaker 1: cover up that they are the biggest abortion chain and
Speaker 1: actually abortion dwarfs all their other services when it comes
Speaker 1: to the market share of what they do. But what
Speaker 1: did they say to President Trump. They said, no way,
Speaker 1: They said they were insulted by his offer, and they
Speaker 1: clung to their abortion because that's the heart of the
Speaker 1: at the heart of what they do. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, they are an abortion corporation and they
Speaker 1: are lobbyists for the most extreme pro abortion laws, abortion
Speaker 1: through all nine months, abortion, sex selection, killing girls instead
Speaker 1: of boys, abortion paid by the taxpayer directly. I mean,
Speaker 1: they are in line with North Korea and China for
Speaker 1: the most in Canada for the most extreme abortion laws
Speaker 1: that they want on the books to protect their interests.
Speaker 1: And that's why, of course even Democrats have voted to
Speaker 1: defund them in the past, try to get them defunded
Speaker 1: at the federal level. And we're going to see that
Speaker 1: legislation hit today. So the movement is really you know,
Speaker 1: excited about this. We need to see it down though.
Speaker 1: It needs to go through the House and then it
Speaker 1: needs to go through the Senate. Yeah. Well, with the
Speaker 1: passage of this repeal replaced bill and options and waivers
Speaker 1: for the city, uh, I'm sorry for the States, and
Speaker 1: and then of course the Health and Human Services Secretary
Speaker 1: pledge to defund Planned parenthood and all of the other
Speaker 1: things associated with it. There are a lot of conservatives
Speaker 1: that were angry, Lila that it wasn't done During the
Speaker 1: continuing Resolution. But we were private, we were promised privately.
Speaker 1: I know I was by many people. That's handled well,
Speaker 1: you told the same thing, we were told the same thing.
Speaker 1: You know. It has been really frustrating, Sean, because it's
Speaker 1: been a hundred plus days now of the Trump presidency,
Speaker 1: as we all know, and every single one of those days,
Speaker 1: every single one, eight hundred and eighty seven children died
Speaker 1: at the hands of Plan Parent had pre born in
Speaker 1: the womb, some of them twenty four weeks in utero,
Speaker 1: old enough to survive outside the womb. And every single
Speaker 1: day of those a hundred first days of the presidency,
Speaker 1: one point five million dollars was handed over a check
Speaker 1: from taxpayers to Plan Parented. So every day is precious,
Speaker 1: lives are depending on it. Money is flowing. So we're
Speaker 1: really excited that today looks to be the day and
Speaker 1: we were made those promises like you just described. You know,
Speaker 1: they passed that build Continuing Resolution that did include an
Speaker 1: airmark that could go to Plan Parent under titled ten.
Speaker 1: So today this process using reconciliation to defund has been
Speaker 1: what we've been promised. It can be done with the repair, repealing,
Speaker 1: and replacing of the health care law, and that's why
Speaker 1: all the her Life movement is saying, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: see this happen. But keep in mind, when this passes,
Speaker 1: it's an eight percent defunding of Plan Parent for one year.
Speaker 1: It's temporary because it's through reconciliation of the budget process.
Speaker 1: So this issue is hot. It needs to remain hot
Speaker 1: because we're not going to rest until Planned Parent as
Speaker 1: long as they're killing kids, as long as they're lying,
Speaker 1: as long as they're selling baby body parts, covering up
Speaker 1: such child sexual these all of these abuses that have
Speaker 1: been documented for over a dozen years now, they should
Speaker 1: not receive a penny of tax their funds, and they
Speaker 1: should ultimately be prosecuted and shut down, which is another matter.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to see the Department of Justice doing that.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we need to jump and see
Speaker 1: this moment to get the defund to happen for one
Speaker 1: point for one year. Well, I gotta, I gotta let
Speaker 1: it go here, But I pre sh had the good
Speaker 1: work you're doing. And yes, this is big news with
Speaker 1: the passage of the healthcare bill. I actually think it's
Speaker 1: the best thing that they also voted to make sure
Speaker 1: for once, they're not exempt from the laws they burden
Speaker 1: us with. Finally, which is my another huge win. And finally,
Speaker 1: maybe these guys in the House are waking up and
Speaker 1: Congress are waking up. Right as we continue told free
Speaker 1: telephone numbers eight hundred nine for one seawn. If you
Speaker 1: want to be a part of this program, all right,
Speaker 1: let's do. Let's say I can't even see my screen?
Speaker 1: Is it Irene in Atlanta News Talk WSB? What's up, Irene?
Speaker 1: How are you glad? You called the House passing this
Speaker 1: healthcare build today? And it's not perfect, as I said,
Speaker 1: but it is a huge start. Well, Michael, is actually
Speaker 1: about the wall that President Trump wants to build on
Speaker 1: our border with Mexico. And because so many Americans are
Speaker 1: deeply concerned about it getting this done, I wondered if
Speaker 1: there could be something like a go fund me program
Speaker 1: set up, an account set up that Americans, any American,
Speaker 1: anybody could send money to that account and help the
Speaker 1: President keep his promised. You know, that's really very very
Speaker 1: incredibly kind, generous, sweet and patriotic of you. But with
Speaker 1: all due respect, um, the American people pay enough and
Speaker 1: Congress has enough money to get this done. The only
Speaker 1: thing they need is the will. And look, they're looking
Speaker 1: for ways to get the biggest bang of their buck.
Speaker 1: And you know, people asking me, Hannity, do you care
Speaker 1: if it's concrete, doesn't matter, if it's steel, if it's
Speaker 1: American steel, and we can and people can see through it.
Speaker 1: And there's a levy, And I just wanted to work.
Speaker 1: I wanted to do its job. In other words, it's
Speaker 1: got to be strong enough to do its job, impenetrable.
Speaker 1: And I don't give a flying rip with the stupid wall.
Speaker 1: Looks like I don't care, understand that, John, But I
Speaker 1: wonder if it isn't food for thought to allow the
Speaker 1: Americans to make their own contribution volun I mean and
Speaker 1: and uh and have an opportunity to contribute and make
Speaker 1: this thing happen. Since the Congress doesn't seem to want
Speaker 1: to go with the plan, maybe the Americans could put
Speaker 1: the money out there on their own five choice. All right, listen,
Speaker 1: you're you're everything that's great about this country. Do you
Speaker 1: know that? Because I know you pay your taxes, I
Speaker 1: know you've worked hard your whole life. I know that
Speaker 1: you know probably you you would rather spend whatever you
Speaker 1: would plan to donate on something that would benefit you.
Speaker 1: And number two, I mean, I think the next most
Speaker 1: important thing is they can do the job. We shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to give them more money so that they could
Speaker 1: do the job that they were hired to do. But
Speaker 1: but I get where you're coming from. I I do
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Shannon Portland, Oregon. Hello, how are you? How
Speaker 1: are you? I'm good? What's going on? Well? I know
Speaker 1: the President Trump you mentioned a few times, um, while
Speaker 1: he was campaigning about limits, and I kind of think
Speaker 1: that we need to revisit that. I feel like the
Speaker 1: Republicans are watching out for their donors instead of the voters,
Speaker 1: and they're voting against stuff because maybe, you know, somebody
Speaker 1: in the healthcare industry donated a lot of money for
Speaker 1: the campaign, and UM, kind of you know, it seems
Speaker 1: like they're backpedaling on everything they've said when they was campaigning.
Speaker 1: And I just think that term limits would maybe putting
Speaker 1: there at all. I love term limits because then maybe
Speaker 1: they'll stop doing what is in their own best interests.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll go on the you know what, let's serve
Speaker 1: the American people and not worry about whether or not
Speaker 1: we're going to get reelected because of this controversial stand
Speaker 1: or that we may be standing on principle and blame
Speaker 1: for a government shutdown. There's so much of that. There's
Speaker 1: so there's way too much on that, and it's beyond
Speaker 1: any understanding or comprehension I have as a conservative. Go
Speaker 1: serve your country. You asked for the right to vote
Speaker 1: the on these things. Go do your job. We do
Speaker 1: our job. Go to yours. All right, quick break news roundup,
Speaker 1: information overload, our Shawn Hannity Show coming up next right here,
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Speaker 1: Hannity Show. Alright. Obama Care as we know it is
Speaker 1: dead and it's gone. And yes, close margin, tough battle,
Speaker 1: not perfect, but certainly better. And that is the big
Speaker 1: story of the day. After a long battle fight nightmare
Speaker 1: lies told, there is now an opportunity to fix America's dilapidated,
Speaker 1: broken down health care system that was nearly destroyed in
Speaker 1: a death spiral no pun intended because of all of
Speaker 1: the lies that were told and all the promises that
Speaker 1: were never kept. And this certainly paves the way for
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Speaker 1: work on some of the big boomers in New York
Speaker 1: City and big boomers maybe the ex wife, I don't
Speaker 1: know whatever, the big boomer you're on. That's awesome. We're
Speaker 1: proud of you. It is my ex wife. Alright, So
Speaker 1: and Melissa Francis, who is the Fox News host author
Speaker 1: of the By by the Way of Lessons from the Prairie,
Speaker 1: debating the big news of the day. All right, Chris,
Speaker 1: just you gotta answer some questions here before you give
Speaker 1: me your Chuck Schumer talking points, crocodile tears talking points. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I need some simple answers. Okay, did Obama promise
Speaker 1: yes or no, that we're gonna keep our doctors, keep
Speaker 1: our plans, and the average family is going to save
Speaker 1: on average dollars per family per year. That's a yes
Speaker 1: or no question. Okay. Did the Americans, millions of them
Speaker 1: lose their doctors? Did millions of Americans lose their plans. No, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that plans that didn't actually give them coverage. But yes, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: million millions of Americans. Melissa Francis backed me up. Millions
Speaker 1: of Americans lost their doctors plans? Right now? Next question, Now,
Speaker 1: did the average Americans see their premiums go up prior
Speaker 1: to this year where it went up another forty percent?
Speaker 1: But prior to this year, premiums went up for her
Speaker 1: family five thousand, four hundred dollars on average across the country?
Speaker 1: True or false? Mr? Han, True, they are increasing at
Speaker 1: low rate country. But Melissa, counter factual. I love the counterfactual.
Speaker 1: That's always the best argumentument. Melissa, did did Obama ever
Speaker 1: say I promised to reduce the rate of growth? No,
Speaker 1: he promised to save per family per year. What happened
Speaker 1: to listen the path let's talk about the future here,
Speaker 1: hang on, before we get to before we get to
Speaker 1: all your scare mongering, I just want to set the table.
Speaker 1: Is how we got here today, Melissa, So all of
Speaker 1: what we were sold was a lie. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was obviously a lie before we even got there. And
Speaker 1: that's the point. Now, um I personally am I it's
Speaker 1: a little frustrating because unlike the Democratic Party that just basically,
Speaker 1: you know, they salute and vote, Republican Party is a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a diverse party. And you've got moderates,
Speaker 1: and you've got the study group and the Tuesday group,
Speaker 1: and then you got the Freedom Caucus group, and then
Speaker 1: you got the Saturday night drinking group, and and every
Speaker 1: other group there. The American people are ecstatic today. All right, Melissa,
Speaker 1: you are really great on the economy. Tell us economically,
Speaker 1: what the waivers do here, what healthcare savings would would
Speaker 1: would create in the marketplace, What healthcare cooperatives would do
Speaker 1: to the prices, what free market competition will now do
Speaker 1: for the average consumer in terms of the premiums they
Speaker 1: pay and the services they're offered. Well, step one, you
Speaker 1: would be able to buy the insurance that you actually
Speaker 1: want to have, as opposed to being forced to buy
Speaker 1: things that you don't want, you can't afford, and you
Speaker 1: can't use. Step two. I love the idea of having
Speaker 1: money put aside for people with pre existing conditions. It's
Speaker 1: not just the eight billion dollars. There's already another hundred
Speaker 1: and forty billion dollars that the government has targeted at
Speaker 1: this group that they can take and put together. No
Speaker 1: one likes the idea that there are there's a group
Speaker 1: of people who need so much health care because they
Speaker 1: have pre existing conditions, that they're the ones that are
Speaker 1: eating up all of the everything in the system basically
Speaker 1: that needs to be used. And those people don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. That's not their choice. I mean, they're sick.
Speaker 1: We all want to find a way to pay for them. Well,
Speaker 1: you know that leads Now, hang on one second, not
Speaker 1: just forget talking points, because not in the for today, Chris.
Speaker 1: I'm I literally just had I known I was all
Speaker 1: all Melissa, I would have shaved for disappearance. I love you, Chris.
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't even know what to do
Speaker 1: with that insane statement of yours. I think you should
Speaker 1: apologize now and move on and eat your words. But whatever, um,
Speaker 1: the only thing I'm gonna say to you, Chris, is
Speaker 1: here's the thing I did. I didn't like the Upton Amendment,
Speaker 1: to be honest, but I do believe we need to
Speaker 1: protect people with pre existing conditions. Now, even you have
Speaker 1: to be happy that that is that that people that
Speaker 1: have them. That's a real problem for people that they're
Speaker 1: taking care of in this bill. If you have any
Speaker 1: intellectual honest you'll say, yeah, that's a good provision. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that they're taken care of. I think that
Speaker 1: there's still a major shortfall in that area, and I
Speaker 1: think they just needs to be protection for them, period,
Speaker 1: so that insurance coupies don't discriminate in that regard. And
Speaker 1: of course it's hard for insurance companies to cover people
Speaker 1: with pre existing conditions if you're not requiring healthier people
Speaker 1: to get into the insured, no problem. That's the exact
Speaker 1: problem that blew up the system the exact time around
Speaker 1: last time around. And you talked about insurance companies as
Speaker 1: if they're this entity out there that you know, isn't
Speaker 1: made up of people. What we're talking about here is
Speaker 1: which people are going to pay for people with pre
Speaker 1: existing conditions? Is it going to be the people themselves?
Speaker 1: We've decided no, okay, for they're going to pay a
Speaker 1: portion of it. But who's going to pay the rest
Speaker 1: of it? When you say the government, that's not the government,
Speaker 1: that's me, that's you, that's every single listener outside, every
Speaker 1: single payer and Sean, by the way, slow down. So
Speaker 1: you mentioned single payer. Why do all these people that
Speaker 1: have a lot of money in Canada that need heart
Speaker 1: surgery and cancer treatment, and it's been so well chronicled,
Speaker 1: why do they pick money out of their own pockets
Speaker 1: to come to the United States to get their care
Speaker 1: because they can't get the surgery they want fast enough,
Speaker 1: the treatment that is good enough in the under their
Speaker 1: quote care system. Uh that exists. And by the way,
Speaker 1: the same thing with Great Britain with the health uh
Speaker 1: human services uh facility over how people who hang on
Speaker 1: LASSO brings up a good point. What about the v A,
Speaker 1: How that's government run, that single payer government run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the VA needs a lot of reform. Actually,
Speaker 1: so it didn't so in anute it didn't work, did it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't bill to allow the Arizona v A to
Speaker 1: to work out this v A choice method that they're
Speaker 1: doing out they help they expanded nationwide. Melissa, did you
Speaker 1: know that in Great Britain health services down there that
Speaker 1: if let's say you're older and you need hip surgery
Speaker 1: or hip replacement or knee replacement, that they will factor
Speaker 1: in your age and if you are beyond your life expectancy,
Speaker 1: they'll deny you the care that you need because they
Speaker 1: can't afford it. I mean, talk about making cold heart
Speaker 1: economic decisions. That's normally what we throw out with Chris
Speaker 1: hang On. Chris, Chris, Chris hang On. She's talking the
Speaker 1: person you insulted earlier. Go ahead. If you hear from
Speaker 1: people all the time, there's anecdotal stories everywhere. I mean,
Speaker 1: I had a friend who's lent me a text today
Speaker 1: who's sitting at a hospital in Canada with her father,
Speaker 1: trying to get health care for him. He's very sick.
Speaker 1: She's incredibly upset, and she's like, she said, it's ironic
Speaker 1: I'm texting you on this day, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: talk about something else, and here I am. He's told
Speaker 1: the American people that this is not the way to go,
Speaker 1: that this system doesn't work. It would be great if
Speaker 1: it did. I wish it did. But the problem is
Speaker 1: that people can't be forced to make decisions that aren't
Speaker 1: in their own economic interest. So they are not going
Speaker 1: to buy health insurance if they are healthy, and you're
Speaker 1: paying more for your insurance than what you're going to
Speaker 1: get back. You can't force people to do things that
Speaker 1: don't work for them. That's why socialism failed. All right,
Speaker 1: let me go to a different topic we may actually
Speaker 1: all agree on. Let's play us, even Colbert in the
Speaker 1: controversy over his maddening and vicious and vile attacks against
Speaker 1: the president. Mr Trump, your presidency. I love your presidency.
Speaker 1: I call it disgrace the nation. You're not the potus,
Speaker 1: You're the lotus. You're the glutton with the button. You're
Speaker 1: a regular Gorge Washington. You're the president's but you're turning
Speaker 1: into a real trictator. So you attract more skinheads than
Speaker 1: free row gain. You have more people marching against you
Speaker 1: the cancer. You talk like a sign language guerrilla who
Speaker 1: got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing
Speaker 1: your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's polster.
Speaker 1: Presidental library, your presidential library, Your presidential library is gonna
Speaker 1: be a kid's men. You want a couple of Judge magazine.
Speaker 1: The only thing smaller than your hands is your tax returns,
Speaker 1: and you can take that any way you want. All right,
Speaker 1: And of course, do you think that was a homophobic
Speaker 1: slur that Colbert made? Chris, you know, as a bald man,
Speaker 1: I'm really offended by that Rogaine joke. But I think
Speaker 1: comedians need to be given a wide berth, and I
Speaker 1: give him a wide berth, and I give him a
Speaker 1: complete one. Not conservative talk show hosts. Right, look, I
Speaker 1: give you all the time. Oh okay, and last word
Speaker 1: we'll give you in this segment, Melissa, Yeah, I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I can't follow the rules. When is it okay to
Speaker 1: make gay jokes? When is it okay to make fun
Speaker 1: of someone's weight? I mean if if one group does it,
Speaker 1: if another group does it, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're the worst people on the planet. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just I can't keep track of what the rules are here.
Speaker 1: All I gotta take a break, will come back nine one,
Speaker 1: Shawn as toll free telephone number if you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the program. Right as we continue
Speaker 1: with the one and Only Chris han and Melissa Francis
Speaker 1: and of course Melissa, my colleague at the Fox News Channel,
Speaker 1: is a brand new book out and it's called Lessons
Speaker 1: from the Prairie. You know, a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know that you're on this hit television show as a kid,
Speaker 1: and you know, one of the great tributes to you is,
Speaker 1: you know, look at all of these kids that grew
Speaker 1: up in Hollywood and and more actors and actresses and
Speaker 1: ended up a mess and and look how normal you
Speaker 1: turned out? Debate, Well, I don't know you. Maybe you
Speaker 1: had me there until you said normal, because I don't
Speaker 1: know if my whole family would agree I'm normal. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure Chris would agree that I'm normal. That he's
Speaker 1: not in jail, and so that's something. And I didn't
Speaker 1: go into rehab, so that's something there. I do have
Speaker 1: a beautiful family, and I thank God for that every
Speaker 1: day I have it. It's sincere faith. And I spend
Speaker 1: the book mostly making fun of myself and making jokes
Speaker 1: so I will make you laugh. But at the end,
Speaker 1: there are some very basic lessons that I learned. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot in there about fake news. And I
Speaker 1: have kind of a different take on this whole debate. See,
Speaker 1: I think that every journalist out there, every person on television,
Speaker 1: has an opinion. If you don't have an opinion about
Speaker 1: what's going on, you are either brain dead or stupid,
Speaker 1: or you don't care. You're not engaged. Why are you
Speaker 1: in news? And the fact of the matter is that
Speaker 1: viewers and listeners are too sophisticated to be sold on
Speaker 1: the idea that these people are neutral, so it's better
Speaker 1: for journalists and human beings. Just be honest, just be
Speaker 1: forthright about where you're coming from. What do you expect
Speaker 1: that they shouldn't leave, And I think they should all expose,
Speaker 1: for example, who they vote for in a presidential election
Speaker 1: does to be honest. I don't think it's oh, was
Speaker 1: that for Chris? No, that was for you, because we
Speaker 1: don't really care what un Let's show you gotta understand,
Speaker 1: we don't care what Chris thinks a lot. I love Chris.
Speaker 1: I love Chris, and you're the only person that I've
Speaker 1: ever heard say that. But go ahead. I don't think
Speaker 1: those necessarily who you voted for. I think the idea
Speaker 1: is that if you watch me on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: you know that I think the free market works. That
Speaker 1: I believe the government waste our money. That sending your
Speaker 1: money to Washington so that they can waste and maybe
Speaker 1: do something gaycent with one is inefficient for the whole
Speaker 1: economy and doesn't make any sense. That's my guiding principle. Smarter,
Speaker 1: smaller government. Smarter government would be great, but I think
Speaker 1: that's too much to hope for. Anyway, beyond that, you
Speaker 1: know where I'm coming from. So when I moderated debate,
Speaker 1: when I participate in the debate, i can defend both sides,
Speaker 1: but I'm not lying about what my basic thinking is,
Speaker 1: so the viewer can judge for themselves, issue things there
Speaker 1: or not. It's these other people that try and hide
Speaker 1: their bias, and then they try and feed you what
Speaker 1: they call facts, and people, you know, maybe don't give
Speaker 1: it the right hard look. They would they just accept
Speaker 1: it as fact. When I was at NBC, I was
Speaker 1: very censored. You know, I was trying to talk about
Speaker 1: Obamacare the first time around, and I said, big numbers
Speaker 1: just don't make sense. If we have more people who
Speaker 1: use more stuffs, and how did they pay less, that's
Speaker 1: gonna cost more. And they said, oh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like with the widgets. If there you lose money on
Speaker 1: each one, you make it up on volume. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was the focus focus map that never made any sense.
Speaker 1: And when I said at CNBC that that did make
Speaker 1: any sense, the math just didn't work. I was called
Speaker 1: up to the principal's office and told that I was
Speaker 1: disrespecting the offensive the president and they were trying to
Speaker 1: send to me in a really false way. Not we
Speaker 1: don't like your political opinion, or we don't appreciate your math,
Speaker 1: but you're being disrespectful. See you hang on, Let's if
Speaker 1: I don't let Chris talk. I mean he's gonna go
Speaker 1: and complain to Chuck Schumer and Chuck's gonna cry again.
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, you just hold on a shot.
Speaker 1: You know ten years ago you don't like me anymore?
Speaker 1: What's going on here? A lot of stuff? Stop. I
Speaker 1: do like you, but I don't want anybody to know.
Speaker 1: You don't want anybody like Alex Jones. What do you
Speaker 1: mean like Alex Jones? Pretend battle? What do you break? Listen?
Speaker 1: I actually think Alex Jones is sincere. I mean you
Speaker 1: can't take what happens in a in a divorce or
Speaker 1: a custody battle seriously because people say all sorts of
Speaker 1: stuff they have to his radio show last week. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about Alex Jones. Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying in a divorce case. You know, you know
Speaker 1: plenty of people have through that crap that they say anything.
Speaker 1: Sure sure said? Okay, listen, this is way off course.
Speaker 1: Get focused. Good grief. What is wrong with you? I mean,
Speaker 1: this is why you only have three affiliates. Is this
Speaker 1: what you talk about I talk about? All right, listen,
Speaker 1: we do like Chris. You don't you have an ability
Speaker 1: to annoy me. But I do like you. And we
Speaker 1: love Melissa's new book. It's on Amazon dot com and
Speaker 1: Hannity dot com. All right, big win for the president today.
Speaker 1: Laura Trump is with us. We'll also talk about the
Speaker 1: censoring that's going on at CNN and now NBCs. It
Speaker 1: relates to, uh, they don't want to be exposed as
Speaker 1: fake news. Pretty fascinating. We'll talk to Laura Trump next
Speaker 1: straight a. Hess and so you would do your best
Speaker 1: to hold the ceto. Absolutely. We are the party of
Speaker 1: the opposition, and that is our job. Gets to a
Speaker 1: point where they're just not doing their job. I did
Speaker 1: not hear better ideas coming out of the Democrats, right,
Speaker 1: They were just delaying and they were saying this is
Speaker 1: just wrong. You would not sit down with President elect
Speaker 1: Trump if if, if he invited you to the White House.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I will go. I'm not gonna sit down
Speaker 1: with him. I'm not gonna go. Each new president coming
Speaker 1: into office was allowed to get his cabinet in place.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump deserves the same. The Party of Pelosi is
Speaker 1: trying to block every initiative President Trump wants institive, but
Speaker 1: will that backfire? And he said, what could you work
Speaker 1: with on with the President Trump? First of all? And
Speaker 1: we're not going with anybody says we're going to repeal
Speaker 1: the affordable Karen Donald Trump just last week he confirmed
Speaker 1: the National Review that he's again considering a run in
Speaker 1: through it who wrote you account biding check you now
Speaker 1: on the half of this country which does not want
Speaker 1: you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for
Speaker 1: president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just
Speaker 1: assumed was running as a joke. Is that people think
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is a clown. Donald Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: a clown. I mean, does anybody seriously think that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is serious about running for president? Donald Trump the clown?
Speaker 1: Which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the
Speaker 1: general election of the declared ones? Right now? Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president
Speaker 1: in the history of the United States. Exclamation point at
Speaker 1: real Donald Trump, at real Donald rupp At least I
Speaker 1: will go down as a president's Basically, this is the
Speaker 1: beginning of the end for Trump, at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the end. The beginning of the end is probably starting
Speaker 1: of the beginning of the end for for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Donald You're not gonna be able to insult your way
Speaker 1: to the presidents. The strongest person usually isn't the loudest
Speaker 1: one in the room. So right now we have Hillary
Speaker 1: is about seventy five or eight percent favorite. We have
Speaker 1: a different persons. Hillary lind up by double digits nationally,
Speaker 1: twelve points fifty a thirty eight full way race. Clinton
Speaker 1: leading in Florida, Clinton leading in North Carolina, Clinton leading
Speaker 1: in Ohio, Clinton leading in Nevada. I could go on
Speaker 1: and on and on. Uh. I continue to believe in
Speaker 1: this trum Trump will not be president. And so right now,
Speaker 1: Mr Trump, to answer your call for political honesty, I
Speaker 1: just want to say, you're not going to be president.
Speaker 1: All right. It's been fun, it's been great. I love you,
Speaker 1: But come on, come on, Bunny. We are a major
Speaker 1: projection right now, Donald Trump. We'll take a hardly project.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida. Meads for
Speaker 1: Donald trumpel Donald Trump, well, we could Jack Organ can
Speaker 1: teth me within Indiana with its eleven electoral roads, US Tennessee, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota problem with it's three electoral votes,
Speaker 1: in South Data, Texas, Arkansas, Louisia, the state of Tana,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Georgia, Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas with its six
Speaker 1: electoral votes, in Nebraska with its five electoral votes, and
Speaker 1: y'rely with its three electoral votes. Sorry to keep you waiting,
Speaker 1: complicated business. A lot of people have laughed at me
Speaker 1: over the years. Now they're not laughing so much. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you alright, twenty five now till the top of
Speaker 1: the hour, News round Up, Information overload. And you know
Speaker 1: you gotta love this ad. So what's happening here is well,
Speaker 1: Lara Trump, for example, she is the wife of Eric Trump,
Speaker 1: has joined a digital company. And what the It's been
Speaker 1: used by President Trump's successful presidential campaign. And the purpose
Speaker 1: of it is you know that they are now sort
Speaker 1: of a liaison on outside source for getting news and
Speaker 1: information out there. Now, they wanted to run those ads
Speaker 1: on NBC. They wanted to run those ads on on
Speaker 1: of course CNN, and it was sensor CNN won't run
Speaker 1: what is ostensibly an ad supportive of the president, and
Speaker 1: one has to ask why because you have you know,
Speaker 1: and rightly so. The president's supporters are saying CNN and
Speaker 1: NBC are guilty of censorship for not airing an ad
Speaker 1: that touted the president's accomplishments in the first hundred days,
Speaker 1: and they rejected it because it was sort of what
Speaker 1: they called fake news. Interesting coming from all of them,
Speaker 1: of course, Lara Trump joins us, Now, how are you, Lara,
Speaker 1: Always great to talk to you. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I heard the great news. Congratulations and of course I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry that you and Eric have to deal with
Speaker 1: the b s from an abusive group of individuals and
Speaker 1: leftists in this country. They can't even let you have
Speaker 1: a child without, you know, attacking you for crying out loud.
Speaker 1: It's really sad, but you know it's Sean. We're we're
Speaker 1: so used to it. Unfortunately, that campaign gives you dreamely
Speaker 1: thick skins. So thank you though, we're very excited to
Speaker 1: that's that's thirty years of my life too, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a baby boy and at your first child, congratulations,
Speaker 1: thank you. You know I've had a chance to be
Speaker 1: around you and Eric a lot. I mean, you guys
Speaker 1: are just like the greatest couple. It's like if I
Speaker 1: ever met two people. Every once in a while you
Speaker 1: meet these couples and you say, Wow, those two people
Speaker 1: really belong together. That's how I see you two. Well,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, but thank you. That's so nice
Speaker 1: to hear. And you know, I feel really lucky. I
Speaker 1: I sort of feel that way around the entire Trump family. UM,
Speaker 1: and this campaign of nothing else brought us all so
Speaker 1: much closer together. For as much hate and as much
Speaker 1: negativity as you know, with throwing our way, we really
Speaker 1: all learned to stick together. And UM, I'll say that
Speaker 1: I feel I feel the same way about the whole family.
Speaker 1: Everybody is um is wonderful. The one thing when people
Speaker 1: ask me, either on this show or when I meet people,
Speaker 1: they asked, well, what's Donald Trump really like? What's President
Speaker 1: Trump really like? I said, the thing that stands out
Speaker 1: more than anything else, and I've known him for a
Speaker 1: couple of decades, is he's beyond courageous. There's very few people,
Speaker 1: I think that have the ability and the desire to
Speaker 1: take on as as many hits as he's taking. And
Speaker 1: also just freely. You know, I think one of the
Speaker 1: funniest things he does is when he's out on the stump.
Speaker 1: You see all those people in the back, all of
Speaker 1: those people, they're all liars, fake news, all of them.
Speaker 1: They're all fake news. They're not going to report the
Speaker 1: size of this crowd. It just resonates. No other politician
Speaker 1: would ever do that, and it makes me laugh. I
Speaker 1: think it's hilarious. The rest of the media just doubles
Speaker 1: down on hating him and bizarre conspiracy theories. I think
Speaker 1: it's funny. Yeah, well listen, I mean, he's the first
Speaker 1: person we have ever seen run for this office that
Speaker 1: does not need the job. You know, Donald Trump had
Speaker 1: an incredible life before he became the president, before he
Speaker 1: decided to run for the presidency, and he knew going
Speaker 1: into this that he would give up a lot. I
Speaker 1: don't think he could have predicted how much. But he
Speaker 1: doesn't need them because this campaign was it was more
Speaker 1: of a movement, as we all remember, you know, it
Speaker 1: was the people of the country saying we're tired of
Speaker 1: the fake news that we're seeing happen now. We're tired
Speaker 1: of people telling us what we should think. We're going
Speaker 1: to think for ourselves. We're going to choose for ourselves,
Speaker 1: and although you can see the numbers the entire campaign,
Speaker 1: we're going to vote for the candidate of our choice,
Speaker 1: and that happened to be Donald Trump. As we saw
Speaker 1: November eight, Well, today was obviously a big legislative day.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been pretty hard lately on the Republicans
Speaker 1: in Congress. You know, the phrase I use is that
Speaker 1: they need to keep up with the speed of Trump.
Speaker 1: They're obnoxiously slow, pathetically slow, lacking an urgency that I
Speaker 1: don't understand in my own life. But they finally got
Speaker 1: it done. Obamacare is gone, and I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a huge first step towards a number of
Speaker 1: legislative successes and followed up obviously by his economic plan
Speaker 1: and this will give a trillion dollars to the bottom
Speaker 1: line of that. So this was a very critical, important
Speaker 1: piece of advancing the economic agenda of the president. What
Speaker 1: do you think of toda? Oh, I was so happy
Speaker 1: to see that it passed. And um, you know what,
Speaker 1: You're right when you say that they can't keep up
Speaker 1: with the speed of of President Trump. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a man who works tirelessly. We saw it on
Speaker 1: the campaign trail. You see it now that he's in
Speaker 1: the White House. And you know, we all know the
Speaker 1: history of government. Everything is slow. I mean, it's sort
Speaker 1: of a joke. Things take forever to get done, to
Speaker 1: get past. Legislations are extremely slow and tedious. And I
Speaker 1: think is there's one good thing that he's bringing to
Speaker 1: the Republican Party right now. It's him saying, guys, we
Speaker 1: have to get it together. We don't have time to
Speaker 1: waste on this stuff. And I was thrilled to see
Speaker 1: that it passed. And I think you're right. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a great first step for many,
Speaker 1: many more incredible things that are going to come. Let
Speaker 1: me talk about your involvement now. Um, and I know
Speaker 1: that Ivanka and Jared they went to the White House
Speaker 1: a Banka is now going to be a special assistant
Speaker 1: to the President and then she'll have an office inside
Speaker 1: the West Wing. And Jared is a top advisor in
Speaker 1: the White White House. Um, you eric On Junior and
Speaker 1: his family. You you guys decided to stay back and
Speaker 1: and run the business, but yet you're getting involved again,
Speaker 1: and and tell us what the process is and what
Speaker 1: you think about CNN and NBC and their censorship here. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: I work for Giles Parscal, which was our digital media
Speaker 1: company UM, throughout the campaign, and I've actually been hired
Speaker 1: essentially as a consultant to the campaign. So I worked
Speaker 1: day in and day out with the campaign for UM
Speaker 1: and we're still here. You know, a lot of people,
Speaker 1: I think are surprised to know that we put on
Speaker 1: every rally that the president has done since his election UM,
Speaker 1: and we still want to keep the movement strong. We
Speaker 1: want people to know that we are still here. Just
Speaker 1: because you cast your vote for Donald Trump on November
Speaker 1: eight does not mean that the campaign shuts down. We
Speaker 1: want to stay here. We want to keep this movement going.
Speaker 1: We we want to keep it alive. And so day
Speaker 1: to day I work with the campaign, And as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: we wanted to do a hundred days ad and we
Speaker 1: wanted to let the people of the country know what
Speaker 1: great things the president has done in his first hundred
Speaker 1: days in office, because quite frankly, Sean, you watch any
Speaker 1: other network than Fox News and you're hard pressed to
Speaker 1: find anything positive that they'll have to say about the
Speaker 1: first hundred days. So we said we have to do
Speaker 1: something about this, and I think, Lara, I actually think
Speaker 1: I'm the only one that actually wrote it out put
Speaker 1: it on the screen. I honestly do. And it's all
Speaker 1: the truth. It's all They're all big accomplishments, you know,
Speaker 1: starting with Neil Gorsch now culminating a couple of days
Speaker 1: later with healthcare. But you know, in terms of regulation
Speaker 1: and especially in the energy sector, such an important part
Speaker 1: of the the economic recovery that will need. But you know,
Speaker 1: I put everyone on the on the screen. Nobody else
Speaker 1: that I've ever seen in media ever did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so we really felt it was important to highlight
Speaker 1: all of these incredible accomplishments, and we wanted to buy
Speaker 1: a standard campaign ad, and we sent it out to
Speaker 1: all the major networks across the board, Fox, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC,
Speaker 1: And I actually just heard right before um I got
Speaker 1: on this show with you that CBS now has also
Speaker 1: rejected running our ad, as has follow the Loser. I mean, they,
Speaker 1: you know, one makes the decision and they're like dominoes
Speaker 1: and they all fall into place, and the reality is
Speaker 1: they it's it's censorship, and we are trying to speak
Speaker 1: directly to the American people, just like Donald Trump did
Speaker 1: the entire campaign, just like President Trump does now at
Speaker 1: all the rallies that he continues to hold because we
Speaker 1: feel it's important to let the people know what's really
Speaker 1: going on, because if you watch mainstream media, you get
Speaker 1: a very different view of the things that the president
Speaker 1: has done in this first hundred days than what the
Speaker 1: reality is. So I was really disappointed to hear that
Speaker 1: they have all come back and rejected that. And quite frankly,
Speaker 1: it's Unamerican. Its censorship and people should be outraged by this.
Speaker 1: People have a right to know. This is part of America.
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's very, very disappointing to hear this
Speaker 1: sort of saying, Um, Unfortunately, it's not that surprising. All right,
Speaker 1: let me play a part of the ad that you're
Speaker 1: talking about. And it's hard to understand the mysterious reluctance
Speaker 1: and resistance. Donald Trump sworn in as president one hundred
Speaker 1: days ago. America has rarely seen such success. A respected
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice confirmed companies investing in American jobs again,
Speaker 1: America becoming more energy independent. Regulations that kill American jobs, eliminated,
Speaker 1: the biggest tax cut plan in history. You wouldn't know
Speaker 1: it from watching the news. America is winning and President
Speaker 1: Trump is making America great again. I'm Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: I approved this message. They can't even run that ad.
Speaker 1: That's what's so Yeah, it's it's terrible. You know, the
Speaker 1: our democracy was founded on a vibrant marketplace of ideas
Speaker 1: or every American has the freedom of expression, the freedom
Speaker 1: of speech, and this is detrimental to the American public
Speaker 1: that they cannot run a campaign that tells the truth.
Speaker 1: These are all true accomplishments of the president. And it's
Speaker 1: it's really disappointing, really, you know. And and this is
Speaker 1: why I sent out tweets. I hate Stephen Colbert what
Speaker 1: he said about your father over that line with President Obama.
Speaker 1: But I also say, no boycott's no censorship. Turn your
Speaker 1: on and off, use your on and off button, use
Speaker 1: your up and down dial to click off and move
Speaker 1: to Kimmel or or whoever else you want to watch Conan. Dad.
Speaker 1: It's really sad that we live in a day and
Speaker 1: age where people have such little respects for the office
Speaker 1: of the presidency. Look, I don't care who you voted
Speaker 1: for in this election. Donald Trump is your president. If
Speaker 1: you are a United States citizen. He's your president and
Speaker 1: that demands some respect. And it's really sad to think
Speaker 1: that someone like Stephen Colbert would have the audacity to
Speaker 1: say those sorts of things. I mean, it's vile, it's disgusting,
Speaker 1: and you're right. Could you imagine if anyone had dared
Speaker 1: even come close to saying something like that. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling my conservative friends, no, don't call for a boycott.
Speaker 1: Turn the dial. Turn the dial, because they're using that
Speaker 1: tactic to silence conservatives every day. Lara, we gotta let
Speaker 1: you go. It's uh, it's great to talk to you you.
Speaker 1: I saw the interview you guys did in the morning
Speaker 1: on Fox and Friends was a great interview. Congrats on
Speaker 1: the baby. We'll run the ad and make sure people
Speaker 1: are aware of it tonight on Hannity. You're gonna join
Speaker 1: us on TV. Big health care vote for the president,
Speaker 1: big win for him today, and it shows that his
Speaker 1: hard work and and perseverance pays off because he was
Speaker 1: actively involved up to the last minute making sure this happened. So, uh,
Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. We'll see you to
Speaker 1: night on Hannity. Thanks then,