Speaker 1: All right, our two Sean Hannity Show eight hundred and
Speaker 1: nine four one Sean, you want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program. There are estimates anywhere between ten and
Speaker 1: eighty plus thousand Americans, and I mean yeah, in the interpreters,
Speaker 1: those that America had promised that if they assist us
Speaker 1: on the ground, that if God forbid, anything ever went
Speaker 1: south or we were to leave and their lives were
Speaker 1: in jeopardy, that they would be helped out. That's a
Speaker 1: promise that was made by America to the individuals that
Speaker 1: were supposedly helping us to fight and win a war.
Speaker 1: You know why we're fighting wars that we don't win.
Speaker 1: I will never understand how Isis was allowed to build
Speaker 1: out the way they were. I will never understand how
Speaker 1: Donald Trump systematically drove the Caliphate into the ground. Is
Speaker 1: just a case in point. With modern military technology, the
Speaker 1: capability we now have we've never had before obviously could
Speaker 1: have been employed here had anyone had the will to
Speaker 1: do it. But they decided not to. There was a moment,
Speaker 1: actually a guy by the name of Matt Zeller is
Speaker 1: his name, passionately just just pounding Brian Williams, and I
Speaker 1: guess former CIA director Brennan was on there as well,
Speaker 1: but I didn't hear a peep out of him in
Speaker 1: the clip that I saw about all of the Americans
Speaker 1: and then those that were our closest allies in this
Speaker 1: whole conflict over twenty years that are being left behind.
Speaker 1: Listen to what he says, Oh, I'm curious to hear
Speaker 1: your reaction of this consequential speech by the American President.
Speaker 1: Didn't run from it. He owned it. He owned his decision,
Speaker 1: He owned the fact that, as he put it, the
Speaker 1: buck stops with him. I hope he gets to hone
Speaker 1: their deaths too, don't. I feel like I watched a
Speaker 1: different speech than the rest of you guys. I was
Speaker 1: a Paul. There is such a profound, bold faith lie
Speaker 1: in that speech, the idea that we plan for every contingency.
Speaker 1: I have been personally trying to tell this administration since
Speaker 1: it took office. I've been trying to tell our government
Speaker 1: for years that this was coming. We sent them plan
Speaker 1: after plan on how to evacuate these people. Nobody listened
Speaker 1: to us. They didn't plan for the evacuation of our
Speaker 1: Afghan wartime allies. They're trying to conduct it now at
Speaker 1: the eleventh hour. The thing that they were most concerned
Speaker 1: about was with the optics of a chaotic evacuation. Well,
Speaker 1: they got exactly that they were most concerned of by
Speaker 1: failing to do what was right when we could have
Speaker 1: done it. We had all the people in equipment in
Speaker 1: place to be able to save these people months ago,
Speaker 1: and we did nothing. I'm appalled that he thinks that
Speaker 1: we only need to take two thousand people. There's eighty
Speaker 1: six thousand people who are currently left behind in Afghanistan alone.
Speaker 1: We've identified all of them for the government. I have
Speaker 1: no idea why he claims that people don't want to
Speaker 1: leave Afghanistan. I have a list of fourteen thousand names
Speaker 1: right now, but people who want to get out of Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: and the idea that the Afghan military should be blamed
Speaker 1: for this. Do you know how many casualties the Afghan
Speaker 1: military took in an average year, more than the United
Speaker 1: States did in twenty When you're not getting paid on
Speaker 1: a regular basis, when you're not getting fuel, when no
Speaker 1: one is supplying you with ammunition, and yet you're still
Speaker 1: showing up to the fight, How dare us for having
Speaker 1: to blame these people for not having the audacity to
Speaker 1: be able to survive a Taliban onslot. No, no no, no.
Speaker 1: What we need to be doing right now? And what
Speaker 1: I am appalled that the President didn't say was we
Speaker 1: need to be talking about how we're going to get
Speaker 1: every single one of these people out, because let's be
Speaker 1: abundantly clear, people like me look at these people in
Speaker 1: the eye and made them a promise. We promised them
Speaker 1: in their time of need, we would take care of them.
Speaker 1: How do you ever expect anyone to ever trust us
Speaker 1: again if we don't do that now while we can.
Speaker 1: And I'm stick and tired of trying to defer the
Speaker 1: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on what we're going to do.
Speaker 1: Were the United States of America, they're terrified of us.
Speaker 1: I have Afghans on the ground right now who are
Speaker 1: telling me they're going door to door and cobble and
Speaker 1: making lists for people who used to work with us.
Speaker 1: They're telling them with smiles on their face, evil smiles,
Speaker 1: that they're going to be back from them once we leave.
Speaker 1: So we either take them now or these people are
Speaker 1: going to die. I've been trying to tell anyone who
Speaker 1: will listen, this is a never again moment in the making.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a stunning rebuke of this idiocy of
Speaker 1: the likes of Brian Williams. Um Well, he owned it.
Speaker 1: You know, this was a consequent, consequent, consequential speech, and
Speaker 1: he owned it. He didn't own it. He blamed Trump.
Speaker 1: He didn't own it. He blame the Afghan president that fled.
Speaker 1: He didn't own it. He blamed the Afghan military that
Speaker 1: he was praising two weeks ago as one of the
Speaker 1: best militaries in the world. And they're we're prepared for
Speaker 1: anything that the Taliman throws at them because they've got
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand trained people in an air force and
Speaker 1: the Taliman only has seventy five thousand. How could you
Speaker 1: be so spectacularly wrong? And now where what we're watching
Speaker 1: and learning is at the Pentagon. They warned Biden for
Speaker 1: months and months about this debacco potential. The Taliban now
Speaker 1: beating people who try to reach the airport. They've now
Speaker 1: surrounded the perimeters so nobody else can get out. And
Speaker 1: the hope is that you can get the people at
Speaker 1: the airport out in the tens of thousands. And the
Speaker 1: Taliban is now consolidating their control in Afghanistan's capital. And
Speaker 1: on top of everything, when I mentioned earlier, is the
Speaker 1: top Taliban terrorist. Yeah, Obama and Joe let him go
Speaker 1: from Gitmo. We had him in our we had him
Speaker 1: captured already. Great job, Joe, former Speaker of the House,
Speaker 1: new Ingrich is with us to react to all of
Speaker 1: this and how maybe possibly we can save these American
Speaker 1: lives and the lives of our those that risked everything
Speaker 1: there that we had promised to help. Oh, look, God,
Speaker 1: I think we can save a lot of lives if
Speaker 1: we're prepared to bring massive air power into the region.
Speaker 1: I think the minute you had six or eight or
Speaker 1: ten B fifty two's flying over various Taliban headquarters, you
Speaker 1: would have sent the signal that they need to stand
Speaker 1: down until we get done leading. And if they're not
Speaker 1: going to stand down, I mean, they're not in a a
Speaker 1: position to tell us we have two weeks. We're in
Speaker 1: a position to tell them that we're gonna you know,
Speaker 1: they would like to be in the seventh century. We
Speaker 1: can help bomb them into it if they're really serious.
Speaker 1: We know that very very few Americans combined with air power,
Speaker 1: collaborating with a lot of very gutsy Afghans had fought
Speaker 1: the Taliban basically to a defeat where they were able
Speaker 1: to operate in the rural areas, but they couldn't capture
Speaker 1: and keep any of the provincial towns. This is entirely
Speaker 1: a function of the Biden left wing. You know, have
Speaker 1: a week, America. Be nice to your enemies, be bad
Speaker 1: to your your your allies. And frankly, one of the
Speaker 1: most despicable things any president has said in my lifetime
Speaker 1: was Biden attacking the Afghans for not being willing to fight.
Speaker 1: As your last guest said, or the tape you played,
Speaker 1: we lost sixty sixty thousand troops in a situation where
Speaker 1: they weren't always That's not what Biden, sir. I don't
Speaker 1: mean to interrupt, I apologize it, but but Biden said
Speaker 1: that this is one of the most capable armies ever
Speaker 1: on the face of the earth, and that they destroy
Speaker 1: the Taliban. How do you make such a dramatic miscalculation? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the things Congress ought to do
Speaker 1: is dig into what was the real advice. I mean,
Speaker 1: was the advice that Biden got three or four or
Speaker 1: five weeks ago from the Pentagon, from the intelligence community,
Speaker 1: from the State Department. Was it accurate enough? I mean,
Speaker 1: how does he go from uh, we're clearly going to win.
Speaker 1: You remember the promise. I think this would be, by
Speaker 1: the way, a devastating commercial where he says, you're never
Speaker 1: going to see helicopters leave the American embassy like happened
Speaker 1: in Saigon. Of course he was a senator when they
Speaker 1: left the embassy in pigon Um. You know, of course
Speaker 1: you could play Biden saying that, and you could put
Speaker 1: next to it at the footage of the American helicopters
Speaker 1: leaving the embassy in Cobble and it just it just
Speaker 1: proves this isn't this administration. They can't control the border,
Speaker 1: they can't control spending, they can't control crime, and they
Speaker 1: can't defeat our enemies over can I beg to differ?
Speaker 1: It's not that they can't, they don't want to. Well,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't I accept that? I think I think in
Speaker 1: fact they are they have a commitment to a weaker America.
Speaker 1: I think these are mostly you know, Biden is surrounded
Speaker 1: by anti American left wingers who don't want America to
Speaker 1: be strong. That's why they kill the pipeline in the
Speaker 1: US and then go and beg Opec to Pallemor oil
Speaker 1: and gas while giving the Russians permission to build a
Speaker 1: pipeline to Western Europe. I mean, you can't explain this
Speaker 1: administration except as a deep commitment to winketing and underlying America.
Speaker 1: Quick break more with former Speaker of the House New
Speaker 1: King Rich. By the way, does anyone stopped to think
Speaker 1: at all about how gold Star families are feeling today,
Speaker 1: those that lost loved ones. Anyway, we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: We'll get to your calls as well. Eight hundred nine
Speaker 1: four one, Shawn is our number. All right, we continue.
Speaker 1: Former Speaker of the House, New King Rich is with
Speaker 1: us analyzing this a mitigated disaster in Afghanistan. So now
Speaker 1: my next question is very simple, because we're now being
Speaker 1: told by our State Department, Mister Speaker, that Americans that
Speaker 1: are there need to shelter in place. Then we're told
Speaker 1: Defense officials they're saying they to be able to extract
Speaker 1: about five thousand Americans a day from Cobbo, when we've
Speaker 1: got up to forty thousand plus stranded in Cobbol right now,
Speaker 1: many of them at the airport and many that can't
Speaker 1: get to the airport, and Taliban fighters now have closed
Speaker 1: in on the airport and have created a perimeter preventing
Speaker 1: anybody from getting anywhere near it if they wanted to.
Speaker 1: What are we supposed to do about that? Well, remember
Speaker 1: Cobbo's only one city. I mean, how many Americans were
Speaker 1: scattered across the countryside, how many o them are in
Speaker 1: provincial capitals, and how many of our allies. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think we should focus only on the Americans.
Speaker 1: How many interpreters who are marked for death and their
Speaker 1: families are marked for death. How many Acan pilots whose
Speaker 1: entire family is marked for death. I mean, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of folks out there at risk because of
Speaker 1: Biden's cowardly withdrawal, and I think it's clear that they
Speaker 1: didn't do any kind of serious planning. I think you
Speaker 1: need to explain to people because they probably likely don't
Speaker 1: know and they're thinking, oh, here we go, We're going
Speaker 1: to be the world's welcome center for refugees around the world.
Speaker 1: It's to me it almost takes on as the gravity
Speaker 1: and significance of for example, those people refugees from Cuba,
Speaker 1: that they know that they will be killed if they
Speaker 1: went back to Cuba at the time, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about early in the Castro regime. And okay, the significance
Speaker 1: of these interpreters. The Taliban knows who they are. They
Speaker 1: will die because they were actively assisting us in our
Speaker 1: military efforts. Their families will die as well. They're dead,
Speaker 1: they're marked for dead, right And I think the two
Speaker 1: parts of it. One is just honor, so we have
Speaker 1: a moral obligation to people who risk their lives to
Speaker 1: help us. The other is practical. We want to send
Speaker 1: it singing around the world that if you've got the
Speaker 1: guts to stand with the US, the US is going
Speaker 1: to stand with you. I mean, we aren't sit anyway
Speaker 1: now a terrible signal of weakness. If you were in
Speaker 1: Taiwan or South Korea, or if you're in Western Europe,
Speaker 1: are you going to trust the United States? Are you
Speaker 1: going to think, oh, yeah, this administration's got real guts
Speaker 1: and they're going to stand firmly with me. Are you
Speaker 1: going to say, boy, I sure hope nothing happens, because
Speaker 1: I don't think I could count on Joe Biden for anything. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a beyond a little bit scary here.
Speaker 1: But the Taliban now this was in the UK mirrors
Speaker 1: now drawing up killless for the afghanis that helped the US.
Speaker 1: It shows the level of dangerous incompetence here the fact
Speaker 1: that I don't know if it's an intelligence failure or
Speaker 1: you know, or if Joe just didn't listen to the military.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's yet to be determined. The Pentagon is
Speaker 1: claiming very loudly that they warned Biden for months and
Speaker 1: months about this debacle and what would happen if it
Speaker 1: was handled this way and on the other end of it.
Speaker 1: And I'll know more because I'm interviewing President Trump on
Speaker 1: Hannity tonight. I'll know more later tonight. I am told
Speaker 1: that the big distinction in the President's withdrawal planned withdrawal
Speaker 1: from Afghanistan was that the Taliban and the President spoke directly,
Speaker 1: and the President said, did you see what I did
Speaker 1: in Syria and how I destroyed the Caliphate? And apparently
Speaker 1: about the sternest warning you could ever give any group
Speaker 1: of people was sent out loud and clear that they
Speaker 1: will be blown into oblivion if they dare get in
Speaker 1: the way of any city. Never mind the fact that
Speaker 1: as of late last week they had sixty percent of Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: or I guess we should say Islamic emirates of Afghanistan
Speaker 1: under now Taliban control, and nobody seems to have the
Speaker 1: same fear of Joe Biden. They seem to walk with impunity.
Speaker 1: I think they're as shocked as everyone. One of the
Speaker 1: early steps of the Trump administration was to drop the
Speaker 1: largest bomb we've ever used, that the largest non nuclear
Speaker 1: bomb we are used on a site to send a
Speaker 1: signal that there's no place you can hide, there's no you.
Speaker 1: If we come after you, we're going to get you.
Speaker 1: And I do believe in I've had a similar conversations
Speaker 1: you have with the President Trump. I do believe that
Speaker 1: he communicated the great force that if they if the
Speaker 1: Taliban broke their word. Remember he had a very principled
Speaker 1: set of negotiating steps, and if the Taliban broke any
Speaker 1: of the steps, then he reserved the right to use
Speaker 1: massive air power to punish them until they got back
Speaker 1: in line. And so this this wasn't a one time
Speaker 1: simple conversation. This was a here is a roadmap by
Speaker 1: which we can end the fighting, save a lot of lives.
Speaker 1: But you guys aren't going to get to occupy all
Speaker 1: of Afghanistan, and there was no break in the Afghan
Speaker 1: army during the period that Trump was doing this, even
Speaker 1: though people knew he was doing it, but they trusted him.
Speaker 1: They believed that he would They trusted him. But also
Speaker 1: the Taliban feared him right well, the Afghan the Afghans
Speaker 1: on our side trusted him, and the Afghans and the
Speaker 1: Taliban side appeared him. All right, mister speaker, we always
Speaker 1: appreciate having you. Eight hundred nineful one sean is our
Speaker 1: number if you want to be a part of the
Speaker 1: program or full coverage of this with President Trump tonight.
Speaker 1: What is different? What was different in his planning? What
Speaker 1: was different in his planning at the border? What is
Speaker 1: different in his planning with energy and with COVID and
Speaker 1: inflation and everything else they were experiencing. Makes you kind
Speaker 1: of miss those mean tweets, doesn't it? All? Right? Twenty
Speaker 1: five to the top of the hour, eight hundred and
Speaker 1: nine four one sean, if you want to be a
Speaker 1: part of the program, I know so many of you
Speaker 1: been wanting to get in here, and we got a
Speaker 1: lot of ground left to cover, including Yeah, how do
Speaker 1: gold Star families field today? How does. Our friend Billy Vaughan,
Speaker 1: he lost his gold his Navy Seals son Aaron, and
Speaker 1: our friend Israel del Toro. Eighty percent of his body
Speaker 1: burned and it's very severe burns that he suffered when
Speaker 1: his m V rolled over and improment the nied. Anythink
Speaker 1: everyone's feeling today? What are we gonna do to extract
Speaker 1: these Americans? Let's say hi to Eric and Alabama. Eric, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you glad you called? I am doing great, sir,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm good? What's going on? Well? First off,
Speaker 1: I've been following you since about nineteen ninety six on
Speaker 1: Fox News, so I'm forty four years old. I'd like
Speaker 1: to say thank you for being such a meaningful and
Speaker 1: instrumental part of my life. Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. It means a lot to me.
Speaker 1: It really goes you know. I was. I spent years
Speaker 1: in Alabama, had a great time. So oh, I'm down
Speaker 1: in the Gulf Coast. It's have you never been down here?
Speaker 1: It's a little bit better. But um to my question,
Speaker 1: I would never ask anyone to speak for the late
Speaker 1: great Rush Limbaugh, but I had been listening to him
Speaker 1: slightly longer than I was following you, and he always
Speaker 1: said that don't panic. I will tell you when it's
Speaker 1: time to panic. And again we don't have him to
Speaker 1: answer that question. So I know that you were a true,
Speaker 1: true friend through James Golden his comments on your show.
Speaker 1: You weren't just a colleague, You weren't just similar career
Speaker 1: as you were a true dear friend. So you're prob.
Speaker 1: I'm friends with the entire family. His brother's been my
Speaker 1: attorney for over thirty years. Nobody could ever replace this man.
Speaker 1: He was a patriot beyond words. And we learned a
Speaker 1: lot about Rush in the last year of his life,
Speaker 1: not that I really didn't know it already. We know
Speaker 1: what his bucket list was not. His bucket list was
Speaker 1: eric to be on the air, get well enough what
Speaker 1: he was doing every day. His bucket list was to
Speaker 1: get what you know, both through the hell of chemo
Speaker 1: and cancer treatment, to get just well enough, barely most days,
Speaker 1: not really there. But he did it anyway, to be
Speaker 1: on the air with the people, and that he loved
Speaker 1: most his audience and his family. You wore his family. Amen.
Speaker 1: So you want are you asking me? Is have we
Speaker 1: hit that inflection point? Where Um, I'll let you know
Speaker 1: when it's time to be there. Um it's I guess
Speaker 1: kind of like what how how would you think Rush
Speaker 1: would be feeling with Rushi be telling it's time to panic.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean in the literal pull your hair out,
Speaker 1: go crazy sense, of course. I mean the delta variant,
Speaker 1: the lambda lambda lambda variant, you know, the revenge of
Speaker 1: the nerds, what's going on in Afghanistan, the border, the inflation,
Speaker 1: just everything that's going on. I personally don't think twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two is gonna matter because I think uh Biden,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a stroke of a pen away from
Speaker 1: doing something to take that away from us too. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if twenty twenty two truly I'm trying
Speaker 1: to hold on to hope. I'm praying every night, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if twenty twenty two is truly going
Speaker 1: to be the turning point, because we're not far away
Speaker 1: from one poor decision or one backhanded deal and we're done.
Speaker 1: One of the things I loved about Rush and don't
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even begin to think that I could speak
Speaker 1: for him or in a way that he would articulated
Speaker 1: himself and nobody could match it. Yeah, but but I
Speaker 1: would say this, am I at the point that I
Speaker 1: think it's over. No, I'm not am I at the
Speaker 1: point that I'm as worried as I've ever been. I
Speaker 1: am am I at the point, you know when when
Speaker 1: I very specifically repeat um by design the things that
Speaker 1: need to happen now, so that we can have elections
Speaker 1: with integrity, that we'll all have confidence and the results
Speaker 1: in that being point number one. Anytime leftism, authoritarianism, socialism,
Speaker 1: or Levin calls it American Marxism or a postconstitutional America.
Speaker 1: Anytime we hit these moments, it's amazing America snaps back
Speaker 1: because we see the failure unfolding on every level. I
Speaker 1: said it in my opening monologue. Guests today, can you
Speaker 1: name one thing that Joe Biden has done that is successful?
Speaker 1: And I can't. I don't care. If it's the border,
Speaker 1: I don't care. If it's COVID, I don't care. If
Speaker 1: it's energy, I don't care. If it's the economy, I
Speaker 1: don't care. If it's inflation. I don't care if it's China, Russia, Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: or Ran. I can't cite a single thing where it's
Speaker 1: working now. The hope I have is that states have
Speaker 1: come to the conclusion that as a result of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: laws were ignored in the twenty twenty election. We know
Speaker 1: that for a fact. It's indisputable. When you have laws
Speaker 1: that say partisan observers can observe the vote count and
Speaker 1: you don't abide by them, that's not abiding by the law.
Speaker 1: And we know these the flurry of last minute editions
Speaker 1: that would even in the case of Pennsylvania, circumvent their
Speaker 1: own state constitution. We know that happened too. We read
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, you know, three or four decision, the descent,
Speaker 1: a stinging descent by the Chief Justice and the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court of Wisconsin. But the good news is is people
Speaker 1: are making those changes. That's step one. What Biden is
Speaker 1: doing is it's like you just watch it unfold and fail.
Speaker 1: I think we're talking about it because it's so important.
Speaker 1: We've got Americans now that have no idea if they're
Speaker 1: ever going to make it home, that are left in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: And I don't say that lightly. They don't know if
Speaker 1: they're coming home. And yes, we see China now threatening
Speaker 1: the US regularly when they're not lecturing US on human rights.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think the Chinese communist newspapers admonition
Speaker 1: that you know, they're saying that the US will abandon
Speaker 1: Taiwan just like they did Afghanistan. I think that probably
Speaker 1: is an accurate assertion that that is what they see.
Speaker 1: Then that they don't they don't see Biden through the
Speaker 1: rose colored filtered glasses of the medium mob protection program.
Speaker 1: But I do have hope how to see things. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they see Biden for who he is,
Speaker 1: and their description matches yours of mine. That he's weak,
Speaker 1: frel he's a cognitive mess and not in charge. That's
Speaker 1: what they say that allowed on the radio, sir. Neither
Speaker 1: is mine. You know, I could write a great book
Speaker 1: everything I would say and the way I would say it,
Speaker 1: but can't say it because it would get me fired. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can write that book, Sign me up. I'll be
Speaker 1: first in line to buy that one. So but the
Speaker 1: answer is, I'm not at the inflection point. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you why, because I know that the heart
Speaker 1: and soul of this country is full of good people. America,
Speaker 1: as flawed as it is, always strives and has made
Speaker 1: incredible strides towards the more perfect union, and that was
Speaker 1: the beauty of our founders and framers. Is it as
Speaker 1: at risk as much as I've ever seen in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: The answer to that question is yes. You know, I'll
Speaker 1: bring you into a private conversation than Russia and I
Speaker 1: had what you used to have. And I used to
Speaker 1: ask him, I said, I am not optimistic, and he
Speaker 1: said I have to be. And I thought a lot
Speaker 1: about that answer. Potential's passed away, and at one point
Speaker 1: said I hear exactly where you're coming from. I'm there
Speaker 1: a lot meaning that you wonder if our better days
Speaker 1: are behind us. But I just believe in the people
Speaker 1: in this country that they will. We're going to fix
Speaker 1: this and we're going to get it right. It starts
Speaker 1: with election reform. It starts with the election in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, and then twenty twenty four, and if we
Speaker 1: if we just look at that short term window, and
Speaker 1: it'll happen very quickly. You know. Look, I've been on
Speaker 1: radio thirty three years, I've been in TV twenty five.
Speaker 1: I have no freaking idea how that happened. So time flies.
Speaker 1: My kids are now ones, graduated from college, ones, that's
Speaker 1: you know, finishing college. So I just have faith and
Speaker 1: that the American people see what you and I see
Speaker 1: and that we will that there will be a course correction.
Speaker 1: And I hope it's now because we really don't have
Speaker 1: much time. I'm worried about the time frame now, so
Speaker 1: um the panic button now, I'm not ready to hit
Speaker 1: the jack button yet. Okay, does that help you? But
Speaker 1: like I said, I just felt you were the quote
Speaker 1: your relationship with Rush. If it was going to come
Speaker 1: from anybody, I feel that people would need to hear
Speaker 1: it from you because since we don't have the great
Speaker 1: wrestling ball to answer the question, you know what I
Speaker 1: missed the most? I'll tell you what I missed the
Speaker 1: most about him this and I never I didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of time to listen to him because I
Speaker 1: have to prepare and quiet every day. It's just the
Speaker 1: way my mind works. I have my papers, I have
Speaker 1: to organize them, I have to put them in piles.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm I'm like very regimented all week long.
Speaker 1: I live my life like a marine and barely I
Speaker 1: just have a routine workout, study, do a show, work
Speaker 1: out more, eat, do a show. You know, right, do
Speaker 1: a show, Okay, then try and sleep. And you know
Speaker 1: what Rush had that I think was so unique to
Speaker 1: him is a take on everything that I'd always say
Speaker 1: I wish I thought of that. It's like Levin has
Speaker 1: a gift. Levin's gift is his constitutional expertise is he's
Speaker 1: a constitutional scholar. It's his passion. He studies it whether
Speaker 1: he's writing a book or not writing a book, because
Speaker 1: he shares it with me all the time. We talk
Speaker 1: all the time. And I think that's angry on the
Speaker 1: radio and making it sound but how we all agree
Speaker 1: with say it nobody else. I'll say it there. I
Speaker 1: said it. I used to, I used to do used
Speaker 1: on stage occasionally do Rush. Sean Hannity dropped the golden
Speaker 1: eib Mike, what a great broadcaster? Also, did you not? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what you know? I feel like going all Mark,
Speaker 1: get off my phone, your creep anyway. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we're all spokes in a wheel. And let me just
Speaker 1: tell you this, Eric, no one spoke is more important
Speaker 1: than the other. This isn't about me, It's not about Mark.
Speaker 1: It's Rush would want us to fight that. I can
Speaker 1: tell you Rush loved this country His passion was this country.
Speaker 1: His passion were the people of this country. And you
Speaker 1: are as important as spoke as he was. Mark is
Speaker 1: whatever I am, I'm a spoke and you know we
Speaker 1: need every spoke in the wheel to make this thing work.
Speaker 1: And I don't care if the only thing you do
Speaker 1: is call your state representatives and get integrity and election laws.
Speaker 1: Just integrity, just fairness, that's all you're asking for. Voter
Speaker 1: id thinknature verification. If you just get out and vote
Speaker 1: and make sure that it's important to you. If you
Speaker 1: make sure that we get the right candidates to run,
Speaker 1: if nothing else, if you donate to people that really
Speaker 1: need to get a message out. Sometimes I'm not allowed
Speaker 1: to do it because of what I do. And you
Speaker 1: know that wheel will turn back around and we could
Speaker 1: turn the country around. It's not just the United States
Speaker 1: that needs the United States. It's our kids. It's our grandkids.
Speaker 1: That's the first and foremost in our mind. We I
Speaker 1: don't know how old you said, you're younger than I am,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, oppress about okay? For me at
Speaker 1: this point in my life, it's less about me and
Speaker 1: more about my kids, my grandkids, and your kids and
Speaker 1: your grandkids. I have to I have five kids myself here. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's zone defense and then some good luck to you.
Speaker 1: I don't know how the hell you do it. Um well,
Speaker 1: I was. I was in a band when I was
Speaker 1: younger too, So what did you did? You sing? Or
Speaker 1: play guitar? The drums? Would you do? I played bass
Speaker 1: and I was like a co lead singer. The style
Speaker 1: of of the music at the time in the early
Speaker 1: nineties before I joined the Corps. Uh percent for Fidelis Marine. Listen,
Speaker 1: just remember this. All of us matter here. You know,
Speaker 1: there might be ten percent, fifteen percent of disagreement at times.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that. Reagan address that if you're
Speaker 1: eighty percent in agreement with me, you're not You're eighty
Speaker 1: percent my friend, You're not my enemy. We have enough
Speaker 1: enemies out there. We have enough people that want to
Speaker 1: silence us, cancel us. We have enough people that want
Speaker 1: to indoctrinate and brainwash our kids. We have enough people
Speaker 1: that have no problem in the middle of a pandemic
Speaker 1: with open borders. Enough people that are perfectly satisfied to
Speaker 1: have Joe Biden beg OPEC to increase oil production. Other
Speaker 1: people perfectly find the hell with the people that are
Speaker 1: stuck in Afghanistan. Joe did the right thing. No, he didn't.
Speaker 1: Perfectly fine to be threatened by China. Let China take
Speaker 1: over Taiwan, perfectly fine with the Iranians getting a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: I'm not fine with any of it. And I just
Speaker 1: know that living in this country, it is the last, greatest,
Speaker 1: best hope for man on Earth. And as much as
Speaker 1: it's important for us and our kids and our grandkids,
Speaker 1: we are that important to the world. That's how deep
Speaker 1: this is. That's how concerned I am. I'm not hitting
Speaker 1: a panic button after election Day twenty tw four. I might,
Speaker 1: I'll let you know. Please don't, please, don't let me
Speaker 1: let that happen. Don't let it happen. We can prevent
Speaker 1: it from happening. God, bless your marine, Thank you for
Speaker 1: all you do. Years. All right, all right, easy, you
Speaker 1: know I'm trying to get through one day at a time.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred ninety four one. Shawn is our number.