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Speaker 1: am I being taken out of here? This man is evil?
Speaker 1: Your evil? Do not? I said? Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being here for people? We what do we have
Speaker 1: to do. But you can't arrest me on work like
Speaker 1: people don't get arrested. Wait a bit, what will But
Speaker 1: as attorney general? I just wanted to sit. They were
Speaker 1: still listening. No, it's about gett MO. But but but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. Now does not feel good? Yeah, you're familiar
Speaker 1: with Canada. We are America. You're all right that from
Speaker 1: the UH confirmation hearings in the Senate. You'd dish arry
Speaker 1: earlier today for Senator Jeff Sessions to be the Attorney general.
Speaker 1: What did I predict yesterday? I predicted exactly every single
Speaker 1: solitary argument that the left and liberals would make. It
Speaker 1: is so predictable, it is so mainstream now, it is
Speaker 1: the only thing in their playbook. You know, there's one
Speaker 1: interesting moment there because a lot of code pink ladies
Speaker 1: got thrown out of the hearings today, and you've got
Speaker 1: people trying to put on white sheets and acting like
Speaker 1: their clan members and they got thrown out of there,
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. And but that one
Speaker 1: guy that said you're evil, You're evil. Now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: The only reason I highlight that is there are democrats
Speaker 1: in their heart of hearts they think if you are
Speaker 1: a conservative and you don't believe in bigger government and
Speaker 1: a cradle to grave mentality and and wound to the tomb,
Speaker 1: that there is evil in you. And in spite of
Speaker 1: all of the data that we have from the Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter years and and the bombing years have been so
Speaker 1: atrocious for every single demographic group in this country, millions
Speaker 1: more in poverty, food stamps, out of work, not buying homes,
Speaker 1: where it's recovery, no growth, lowest labor participation. They can't
Speaker 1: see that their policies failed. They will not be able
Speaker 1: to recognize it. I mean that's You're gonna see the
Speaker 1: President tonight. I'll start the show tonight and I'll say everything,
Speaker 1: this is what the President didn't tell you, and he'll
Speaker 1: talk about all his economic success and and he will
Speaker 1: whittle away, well, you know, one statistic while private sector
Speaker 1: jobs or this sector job, or that sector, or this
Speaker 1: age group or that demographic, it's just all nonsense. Because
Speaker 1: the reality is all those numbers I gave to you
Speaker 1: all last year are as relevant today as ever. One
Speaker 1: of the most fascinating, fascinating developments since the election, or
Speaker 1: all of these companies that are deciding. You know what,
Speaker 1: I like the sound of what Donald Trump is saying.
Speaker 1: I like going from one of the highest corporate tax
Speaker 1: rates in the industrialized world to one of the lowest.
Speaker 1: And as a result of that, you know, you see
Speaker 1: all of these car companies now deciding forward. And uh,
Speaker 1: I guess what was the other one? Fiat Chrysler and
Speaker 1: of course Carrier. And then we told you yesterday the
Speaker 1: story of this this billionaire guy, what's his name, um
Speaker 1: the Ali Baba executive chairman Jack ma He's chatting with
Speaker 1: Trump how to create one million US jobs over five years.
Speaker 1: Trump is talking about allowing corporations to repatriate their money
Speaker 1: at a low tem percent rate, not the thirty five
Speaker 1: percent rate that we currently have. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: we're literally now all everything's on hold, and it's having
Speaker 1: an impact in other ways. Now Mexico is scared to death.
Speaker 1: Mexico now has seen three major companies in America now
Speaker 1: pledged to stop producing their cars, their air conditioners, their
Speaker 1: products in Mexico. And they're taking those factories and they're
Speaker 1: going to build in Michigan. They're going to build in Detroit,
Speaker 1: They're going to build in Wisconsin. And Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: And then if once you open up energy independence on
Speaker 1: top of that, there's no telling how big this could get.
Speaker 1: So now, immediately, immediately, what did Donald Trump say? I
Speaker 1: played it last night on TV. I said, Donald Trump said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna appropriate money for the wall. But I asked
Speaker 1: him during the campaign, I said, well, you don't expect
Speaker 1: Mexico to write a check to you. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: pay for the wall. I said, no, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: pay for it that way. They're gonna pay for it
Speaker 1: this way. And then he talked about renegotiating NAFTA and
Speaker 1: other trade deals, and he talked about how much money
Speaker 1: we would save and by incentivizing companies to stay, how
Speaker 1: that will increase our our tax based money coming into
Speaker 1: the country, putting more people to work, less people dependent
Speaker 1: on government. And it just works. It's called the free market.
Speaker 1: So Mexico's new Farm Relations secretary he wants to start
Speaker 1: talks with Donald Trump immediately about NAFTA and about the
Speaker 1: wall all and he wants to talk about the wall
Speaker 1: because he sees all of these companies now being incentivized
Speaker 1: with the hope that that our federal government is going
Speaker 1: to be a partner, you know, the guy from Carrier.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna have a problem if there's
Speaker 1: a bureaucratic regulation that's killing the air conditioning business. To
Speaker 1: get on the phone directly with the President of the
Speaker 1: United States and say, hey, remember me, I'm the guy
Speaker 1: that made a deal with you, and I said, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna send those jobs to Mexico. I need your
Speaker 1: help because this is becoming cost prohibitive what they're doing
Speaker 1: to the economy, and then hence jobs will be able
Speaker 1: to remain here. You know, Apple announced now they are
Speaker 1: seeking to expand manufacturing in Arizona. Good for Arizona. They
Speaker 1: deserve it. You know, you've got the You've got all
Speaker 1: of these federal workers. Now they're preparing for cuts under Trump.
Speaker 1: I love Rand. Paul's going to join us later on
Speaker 1: the program. Rand has produced a budget unlike I have
Speaker 1: no idea why. He only got fourteen of his colleagues
Speaker 1: to support a deal that would balance the budget in
Speaker 1: five years, which included, by the way, a freeze on
Speaker 1: federal spending. It with some flexibility. If you want to
Speaker 1: spend more on defense, you'd have to cut in this area. Instead,
Speaker 1: there's certainly a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
Speaker 1: Why would Republicans when they have control of all three
Speaker 1: branches of government. They have the House, they have the Senate,
Speaker 1: they have the presidency in the White House. Why are
Speaker 1: they over ten years going to raise the debt by
Speaker 1: ten trillion dollars. I thought they were the party of
Speaker 1: limited government. I thought they were the party of balanced budgets.
Speaker 1: Now there is a way to pay for infrastructure, but
Speaker 1: you gotta pay for it as you go. Maybe some
Speaker 1: of that money comes from energy and the jobs that
Speaker 1: are created and the taxes that are involved. Maybe some
Speaker 1: of that money comes from repatriated money back into the country,
Speaker 1: and you can take a certain percentage of that and
Speaker 1: earmark that towards whatever infrastructure spending you want. But I
Speaker 1: hope they so dramatically change and shift how we do
Speaker 1: things in Washington will be so awesome. Imagine you take
Speaker 1: any any project that you want for infrastructure, and rather
Speaker 1: than allowing that money to go through Congress in their
Speaker 1: greedy hands in the bureaucracy, you know what if we
Speaker 1: had an independent board of business people that would prioritize
Speaker 1: what the projects are in all fifty states, and then
Speaker 1: from there appropriate the funds and take it away from
Speaker 1: the federal government, give it directly to the states, with
Speaker 1: a mandate that they complete the task on time, under budget,
Speaker 1: or they don't get any more federal money. There are
Speaker 1: ways to incentivize, incentivize people to do it well. Fiat
Speaker 1: Chrysler announced the huge US investment they're pulling out. They're
Speaker 1: gonna invest a billion dollars in two US factories in Michigan,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna start producing their pick up trucks and
Speaker 1: and hot selling SUVs and get out of producing small
Speaker 1: and mid sized cars. Ford is going to move their
Speaker 1: plant back to the United States that they were sending,
Speaker 1: but a billion dollars is going to be spent by
Speaker 1: Fiat Chrysler in Michigan. Ohio, by the way, is gonna
Speaker 1: get another two thousand jobs out of this deal. Here's
Speaker 1: an interesting side note. I want to know about the economy,
Speaker 1: want to know about liberalism and it's spectacular failure. It's
Speaker 1: not that hard. There's a story in the Fiscal Times
Speaker 1: that says, oh, Chicago and New York, two of the
Speaker 1: most liberal cities, two of the most big government liberal
Speaker 1: cities in the country are in the worst financial shape
Speaker 1: among large US cities. Now why is that because they
Speaker 1: spend more than they take in. You look at the
Speaker 1: amount of money as for example, eight million people living
Speaker 1: in New York and just the amount of money they
Speaker 1: get in city taxes and state taxes. And you know,
Speaker 1: I mean they taxed you everywhere but loose in New York.
Speaker 1: There's a death tax federally, a ten percent death tax
Speaker 1: in the state of New York. I think even have
Speaker 1: a city death tax. And you end up with like
Speaker 1: forty cents of every dollar that you already paid taxes
Speaker 1: on the first time. And government feels they can take
Speaker 1: their greedy hands and put it in your pocket. You know,
Speaker 1: l A Los Angeles and other liberal city they need
Speaker 1: to borrow millions of dollars to cover all the legal
Speaker 1: payouts that they're paying. Who can afford this? Anyway, back
Speaker 1: to the everything that I predicted, I'm not as um
Speaker 1: alarmed as I might have been yesterday. But after I
Speaker 1: played Clarence Thomas, and after I played Robert Bork, and
Speaker 1: after I played a history of the Democrats, playing the
Speaker 1: race card, and watching the hearings today, I mean, it
Speaker 1: was every single thing that I predicted, and it all
Speaker 1: happened before your eyes today. Notice how the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: the left wing of this party is so worked up
Speaker 1: over the ku Klux Klan. Remember last summer, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: didn't announce David Duke fast enough. I honestly don't think
Speaker 1: he knew who David Duke was. I really he believed that.
Speaker 1: But and you say, well, why didn't he know? He
Speaker 1: should have known? Not really? You know who follows what
Speaker 1: these these idiots radicals are saying and doing. Nobody cares.
Speaker 1: That's pretty old news, David Duke. Anyway, you got the
Speaker 1: Code Pink demonstrators showing up at Jeff Sessions and the
Speaker 1: confirmation hearings dressed up in white sheets and hoods. You know,
Speaker 1: where are all these crusaders for racial tolerance when Democrats
Speaker 1: made a genuine card carrying former clan member President pro
Speaker 1: tem of the U. S. Senate. Where were they when
Speaker 1: Robert KKK Bird was third in line for the presidency.
Speaker 1: I don't remember any protests by Code Pink when that happened.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the Reverend Al Sharpton calling it a
Speaker 1: nightmare when his fellow left wingers made a one time
Speaker 1: clan recruiter, the most powerful Democrat in Congress. Where was
Speaker 1: code pink this election season? When Hillary blurted out that
Speaker 1: former Klansman Robert Bird had been her mentor in the
Speaker 1: US Senate, referring to her first year as a senator
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one. The same year, by the way,
Speaker 1: that Robert Bird blurted out the N word to Tony
Speaker 1: Snow on national TV, not once, but twice. Where was
Speaker 1: the Congressional Black Caucus when that happened. Where was Jesse Jackson?
Speaker 1: Why were they all silent? Here's a guy that actually
Speaker 1: prosecuted the clan successfully on multiple occasions, Jeff Sessions, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't get credit. Here's a guy that stood up
Speaker 1: for the freedom marchers and Rosa Parks and every instance
Speaker 1: that is like voting rights going back to the seventies
Speaker 1: and eighties, and he did so successfully. And yet he
Speaker 1: asked to answer these assinine questions and this dog and
Speaker 1: pony show at the Senate Judiciary Committee. You know, where's
Speaker 1: the outrage? You see what I always call it selective
Speaker 1: moral outrage by the Democratic Party. Anyway, eight nine one,
Speaker 1: Shawn is a to free telephone number. All right, So
Speaker 1: Corey Booker yes, he makes up little green men in
Speaker 1: his head. What is that? How do you make up
Speaker 1: a composite of all these different people that you've run
Speaker 1: into and tell a story with such passion as he
Speaker 1: has been telling. Anyway, what we played for you earlier?
Speaker 1: That was back in February of what when Jeff Sessions
Speaker 1: partnered with Booker to award the Congressional Gold Medal to
Speaker 1: those that participated in the sixty Voting Rights Act and
Speaker 1: march from Selma to Montgomery. And just like he did
Speaker 1: for the Freedom Writers in nine six one, and just
Speaker 1: like he did for Rosa Parks, and Booker said, I
Speaker 1: feel blessed and honored to have partnered with Senators Sessions
Speaker 1: and being the Senate sponsors of this important award. This
Speaker 1: is truly one of my life's greatest moments. I am
Speaker 1: humble to be able to participate here and paying tribute
Speaker 1: to some of the extraordinary Americans whose footsteps paved the
Speaker 1: way for me and my generation. I feel blessed an
Speaker 1: honor to have partnered with Senator Sessions in being the
Speaker 1: Senate sponsors of this important award. Okay, so what's he
Speaker 1: gonna say tomorrow to contradict that and that's the funny thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got Pat Lahey, and you got Dick Durbin,
Speaker 1: and Dick Turbin worked with Senator Sessions too, so you
Speaker 1: can get as equal as possible. There's this disparity in
Speaker 1: sentencing crack cocaine versus powder cocaine. All the experts I
Speaker 1: remember interviewing at the time just said the crack was
Speaker 1: that much more insidious and evil, a much harder drug,
Speaker 1: a much more concentrated level of the drug, but it
Speaker 1: was disproportionate and as much as it tended to impact
Speaker 1: the black community more, and they reduced the sentencing together.
Speaker 1: And then he went after Jeff Sessions on the fact
Speaker 1: that he doesn't think people with the three strikes you're
Speaker 1: out law ought to get it. These pardons that Obama
Speaker 1: has been given out is though that somehow that must
Speaker 1: be racist, and he highlighted one particular individual. Does it
Speaker 1: matter that black pastors are in Washington rallying for the
Speaker 1: Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions? Apparently not to a lot
Speaker 1: of people. You know, when this and you when we've
Speaker 1: played those protesters earlier in the Republican theory, Jeff Sessions
Speaker 1: is evil I really think that Democrats believe that. I
Speaker 1: think democrats think Republicans in many ways are evil. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you they're gonna have a very hard time
Speaker 1: coping in the next two d days. And what do
Speaker 1: I mean by that? What most people haven't figured out
Speaker 1: yet on the Democratic side is is Donald Trump already
Speaker 1: has planned on day one, in the opening hours of
Speaker 1: his presidency, to undo every executive order that is hurting
Speaker 1: the country, hurting businesses in America, hurting the economy in America,
Speaker 1: and is going to go after this with a vengeance
Speaker 1: and with a passion. He'll spend the first hours of
Speaker 1: his presidency undoing all of the regulatory burdensome, regulatory, you know,
Speaker 1: disasters that have been put on the economy since Obama
Speaker 1: has been the president of the United States. It's gonna
Speaker 1: go fast, and that's probably of the agenda of Obama's
Speaker 1: You know, there's an upside. I guess if you're ruled
Speaker 1: by executive fiat, you get things done with a stroke
Speaker 1: of a pen. But there's also a downside. And the
Speaker 1: downside is it can be undone just as simply. You know,
Speaker 1: Obama's touting his great success, you know, we he gave us,
Speaker 1: He doubled the national debt. He gave us a trillion
Speaker 1: dollar tax increase in Obamacare over a decade, one trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: That will be the next thing that goes. By the
Speaker 1: time you get rid of Obamacare and executive orders, about
Speaker 1: of the Obama presidency has done gone wiped away off
Speaker 1: the books. It's almost as if he never lived there,
Speaker 1: like he never existed, and the only thing that really
Speaker 1: remains is his horrific foreign policy, the horrific state of
Speaker 1: the economy, the judges that he's appointed, and the record
Speaker 1: debt that he's accumulated. You know, there's an estimate that
Speaker 1: is out Regulation Rodeo and American Action Form. They assessed
Speaker 1: eight hundred and seventy point three billion dollars the cost
Speaker 1: of all the new federal government regulations finalized since Obama
Speaker 1: took office seven hundred and fifty billion dollars our trade
Speaker 1: deficit last year. It's interesting to watch Mexico. They can't
Speaker 1: get in the negotiating room fast enough to meet Trump,
Speaker 1: which puts Trump in a in a great position just
Speaker 1: by just by picking up the phone, making phone calls
Speaker 1: and pressuring companies and incentivizing companies to stay here more
Speaker 1: of an incentivizing through getting rid of regulation and and
Speaker 1: better tax policies for corporations, he's incentivizing them to stay.
Speaker 1: I don't think most corporations like the idea of taking
Speaker 1: their corporations to Mexico. I think if if they can
Speaker 1: make a healthy profit here, they don't mind paying their
Speaker 1: fiftcent corporate tax rate. Every one of their employees will
Speaker 1: pay income taxes. If you get rid of the regulations
Speaker 1: that are burdening them with billions of dollars in costs,
Speaker 1: you take away that now they can make a healthy profit,
Speaker 1: and then then you can put Americans back to work,
Speaker 1: and we can revitalize cities like Detroit and Milwaukee and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and all these other cities that desperately need help,
Speaker 1: and and places around Cleveland, another city. Anyway, you have
Speaker 1: a six hundred ninety billion dollar increase in in student debt. Well,
Speaker 1: what our government does, I as we do, the estimated
Speaker 1: cost of all the new ep A regulations finalized since
Speaker 1: Obama took office three billion. The projected cost of Obama's
Speaker 1: finalized Clean Power Plan regulations three hundred billion dollars. And
Speaker 1: this is insane. The amount of money that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: This is real money, millions and billions of dollars that's
Speaker 1: holding back this economy. And then Obama literally said he
Speaker 1: goes well, he admitted Sunday that he never imagined Trump
Speaker 1: would become president because he's out of touch with the
Speaker 1: American people because he lives in a bubble. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's saying a lot, you know when you really
Speaker 1: look at it. Because the President is going to speak
Speaker 1: tonight and he's not going to give you the statistics.
Speaker 1: I won't regurgitate them because I made a promise I'll
Speaker 1: stop using them. But I did it for effect last
Speaker 1: year during the election. Here, he's not going to tell
Speaker 1: you all those things. He's not going to tell you
Speaker 1: that Iran is better off because do you realize since
Speaker 1: we gave money to a rank guess, what do you think?
Speaker 1: What do you think Iran is spending that money on.
Speaker 1: Obama is now paid a ran more than ten billion dollars. Well,
Speaker 1: there's an article out today how Iran is spending the
Speaker 1: nuclear deal money on troops, on missiles and arms for terrorists.
Speaker 1: We had to have earlier this week or over the
Speaker 1: weekend the country that Obama showered with these billions of
Speaker 1: dollars in sanctions relief. Well, they can't resist launching attacks
Speaker 1: on our warships. So a U. S. Navy destroyer had
Speaker 1: to fire three warning shots at four Iranian fast attack
Speaker 1: vessels after they closed. We're closing in at a higher
Speaker 1: rate of speed near the straits of Hormones, to U. S.
Speaker 1: Defense officials told Reuters. You may remember back in September,
Speaker 1: Trump vowed that any Iranian vessel that harasses the US
Speaker 1: Navy in the Gulf in this particular case will be
Speaker 1: shot out of the water. And I bet you the
Speaker 1: Iranians believe him. We'll see over time how that unfolds.
Speaker 1: And Trump's Defense secretary, this will be interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: The man that he tapped to be the next Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense literally wanted to launch air strikes against Iran
Speaker 1: after Iran built missiles that were used in several deadly
Speaker 1: attacks on US troops in Iraq. Mad Dog Matdis wanted
Speaker 1: to do this, He had a plan to retaliate. The
Speaker 1: Obama administration denied his request. Things are gonna change, and
Speaker 1: these countries will learn very quickly that there is a
Speaker 1: new sheriff in town now. I think it's his goal
Speaker 1: to get into foreign conflict. Of God, I hope not.
Speaker 1: Who wants to foreign conflict. We know that it's eventually
Speaker 1: going to be politicized. But I'm telling you what the
Speaker 1: left goal is. You're hearing it, you're seeing it at
Speaker 1: the Jeff Sessions hearings today. Their goal is to delegitimize
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Their goal is to create a caricature. Their
Speaker 1: goal is to create an image. They're not going to change.
Speaker 1: Their talking points are predictable. Republicans are mean spirited. Republicans
Speaker 1: only care about the rich, they don't care about the poor.
Speaker 1: Republicans are racist. Republicans are sexist. Republicans are homophobic, their
Speaker 1: Islamic phobic. There's xenophobic. Every single agenda item of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is going to be is going to be challenged
Speaker 1: by the left, and today is only a small sample
Speaker 1: of what's to come. If Trump tries to lower the
Speaker 1: tax rate. I am concerned about what seems like a
Speaker 1: willingness to spend too much money without a I have
Speaker 1: not seen a how do we pay for the infrastructure
Speaker 1: for the trillion dollars they're talking about. There is ways
Speaker 1: to do it. Rand Paul, I know, put forward a
Speaker 1: budget that would be balanced in five years this week,
Speaker 1: and that's sort of a knockoff of the Penny plan.
Speaker 1: He just wants to free spending. In other words, you'd
Speaker 1: eliminate baseline budgeting and you don't have these built in
Speaker 1: increases for every government department every year, and you you'd
Speaker 1: have some flexibility. Maybe you want to spend more on defense,
Speaker 1: less on on the e p A, more on defense,
Speaker 1: less on the Interior Department. So there are ways to
Speaker 1: do it. There's certainly a lot of fat to be cut.
Speaker 1: But then Republicans on the other hand, go around and
Speaker 1: this frustrates the living daylights out of me. Why did
Speaker 1: they raise the debt ceiling nearly ten trillion dollars, the
Speaker 1: same amount of debt that Obama took on in the
Speaker 1: last eight years. That means it's status quo. They've got
Speaker 1: the house, They've got the same in it. I thought
Speaker 1: they were the party of limited government, balance budgets. They've
Speaker 1: better take into consideration that we cannot as a country,
Speaker 1: as an economy, keep bringing on this level of debt,
Speaker 1: these high deficits without paying a very dear price. At
Speaker 1: some point down the line, interest rates are gonna go up.
Speaker 1: They're starting to creep up now, and that means that
Speaker 1: we're gonna eventually have to pay for it. So there's
Speaker 1: a there's a lot happening here. I think when Trump
Speaker 1: goes forward and any appoints a Supreme Court justice, you've
Speaker 1: never seen demonization like it's coming. It doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: he picks. Whoever he picks, Chuck Schumer's pledged to oppose,
Speaker 1: So if he picks from any of his list, they're
Speaker 1: going to be opposed. When he puts an originalist on
Speaker 1: the bench, then we're gonna see if Mitch McConnell has
Speaker 1: a backbone, whether or not Mitch McConnell will play by
Speaker 1: Harry Reid's rules, how committed Mitch McConnell is, And the
Speaker 1: same charges, the same repetitive if bumper stickers and slogans
Speaker 1: will be used in those hearings, and probably for every
Speaker 1: other cabinet official that goes before whatever appropriate committee they
Speaker 1: have to go before. When Donald Trump wants a tax
Speaker 1: plan that lowers the corporate tax to fifercent, allows the
Speaker 1: tem per cent repatriation for trillions overseas, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Republicans hate the poor, and they want to want to
Speaker 1: help only their their buddies that are rich. I never
Speaker 1: got a job from a poor person. And if those
Speaker 1: people continue this process of what we see unfolding with Fia,
Speaker 1: Chrysler and Carrier and Ford and all these other companies,
Speaker 1: and this Ali Baba guy who wants to create a
Speaker 1: million jobs in the US in the next couple of years,
Speaker 1: well then we're gonna see all of those Americans that
Speaker 1: have been suffering the camp by cars and homes and houses,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna now have money to to to see
Speaker 1: their dreams come to fruition. That's the whole point. If
Speaker 1: these companies don't invest in Detroit, if they don't invest
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, if they don't invest in Cleveland, if they
Speaker 1: don't invest in Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, in Philly, how are
Speaker 1: you gonna save these cities? The number what liberals have
Speaker 1: tried hasn't worked. The one thing they may think Republicans
Speaker 1: are evil, but they'll never look at how they have failed.
Speaker 1: National debt nineteen trillion, nineteen point nine trillion, national debt
Speaker 1: increase under Obama nine point three trillion, increase in regulation
Speaker 1: paperwork five hundred and eighty three million hours. Obama administration
Speaker 1: payment to a RAN in the hostage deal four hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars. Criminal illegal aliens released by Obama eighty six
Speaker 1: thousand two d for fiscal year through new federal regulations
Speaker 1: finalized since Obama took office two thousand, nine hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty eight average increase in college tuition costs under Obama
Speaker 1: four thousand, eight hundred and fifty seven bucks at four
Speaker 1: year public colleges. Economic costs of regulations eight hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy three point six billion dollars since Obama took office billion?
Speaker 1: How does business compete with that economic environment? US global
Speaker 1: trade deficit seven hundred thirty two point two billion. Increase
Speaker 1: in student loan debt as I said, six hundred nine billion.
Speaker 1: Manufacturing job losses since the president took office three hundred
Speaker 1: and one thousand. Bureau of Labor Statistic Statistics estimated cost
Speaker 1: ep A regulations three four billion, Economic costs regulations eight
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three point six billion. Homeownership rate is
Speaker 1: down dramatically, lowest home ownership rate in fifty one years.
Speaker 1: Number of Americans on food stamps under Obama from thirty
Speaker 1: one million to forty three point three million. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to look at Democrat, how is this
Speaker 1: fared for the Democratic Party? Not well? Since two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine Obama's in office, They've lost the president and
Speaker 1: see thirteen Senate seat, sixty four House seats, thirteen governorships,
Speaker 1: and thirty three state houses nearly a thousand seats total.
Speaker 1: How's that hope and change? The thing working out for everybody?
Speaker 1: Doesn't look too good. But that's not what you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear tonight. I'm gonna hear. Iran has failed, i Rack
Speaker 1: has failed, Afghanistan has failed, Benghazi, North Africa has failed,
Speaker 1: the Russian reset failed, our our relations with China, North
Speaker 1: Korea has failed. We've had the worst relationship with Israel
Speaker 1: in our history. Where do we have any success? Isis
Speaker 1: is on the move with the money that was provided
Speaker 1: by pulling out of Iraq early. I want you to
Speaker 1: clarify exactly where you stand and based on your conversation
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump where he spends stands on repealing and
Speaker 1: replacing Obama here, because my understanding is you don't want
Speaker 1: to repeal it until exactly that day there is a
Speaker 1: plan in place to replace it and you've said that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is with you on that, we're exactly is
Speaker 1: he and where are you as a physician, as an individual,
Speaker 1: as a patient. I'm very much opposed to Obamacare and
Speaker 1: think it's been a disaster for our country, and I
Speaker 1: will vote for a repeal. I do think, though, that
Speaker 1: we should vote on replacement the same day. I'm putting
Speaker 1: together a bill. It's virtually completed. It will be full
Speaker 1: of the consensus opinions on replacement, basically that we need
Speaker 1: to ensure the most amount of people at the least
Speaker 1: amount of cost. It will involve three main areas for replacement.
Speaker 1: One that we legalize the sale of inexpensive insurance so
Speaker 1: everybody can buy it. We help people save so they
Speaker 1: can buy insurance through help savings accounts. And then we
Speaker 1: help individuals to associate with groups of individuals through health
Speaker 1: association plans so they can spread their risk and get
Speaker 1: a cheaper product. If you put those three market reforms together,
Speaker 1: as well as some tax changes, I think you can
Speaker 1: get something that virtually every Republican agrees to. But we
Speaker 1: also help soften the blow as we go from Obamacare
Speaker 1: to a more market oriented UH type of industry. Again,
Speaker 1: all right. That was Senator Ran Paul Our two of
Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show. Right down our toll free telephone number.
Speaker 1: You want to be a part of this extravaganza, eight
Speaker 1: hundred nine for one, Shawn, if you want to join us.
Speaker 1: You know it's somewhat odd and a bit bizarre. I know. Look, look,
Speaker 1: I know there are nine specific plans Republicans have out there,
Speaker 1: and November nine came and went a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and we knew that this was on the Trump agenda,
Speaker 1: was going to be the number one item. It was
Speaker 1: the number one pledge of almost every candidate that ran
Speaker 1: for office in the House and Senate. That's Republican. And
Speaker 1: I'll echo the words of Senator Rick sam Torham of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: former senator, who said, I'm stunned that they don't have
Speaker 1: a consensus plan yet at this point. Now, Tom Price
Speaker 1: was going to be the Health and Human Services secretary.
Speaker 1: He in fact has a plan. We have interviewed him
Speaker 1: a number of times on this program about what that
Speaker 1: plan is. Donald Trump talked at length with me in
Speaker 1: interviews about health care savings, accounts, portability, taking your insurance
Speaker 1: job to job co ops, as as Rand Paul was
Speaker 1: talking about and health care savings accounts. Um. I think
Speaker 1: all of the different items and the nine separate bills
Speaker 1: are are pretty much in line, but they need one bill.
Speaker 1: And the idea that you're gonna maybe within the next
Speaker 1: year I'll come up with a replacement sounds insane to me,
Speaker 1: and Senator Ram Paul of the Great State of Kentucky
Speaker 1: joins us. How are you, Senator Hey Sean, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. I mean, it's a little bewildering to me
Speaker 1: that we don't have a consensus plan at this late date.
Speaker 1: Why don't we have one? You know, in some ways
Speaker 1: we do have a consensus plan. There are consensus ideas
Speaker 1: helping individuals to save through health savings accounts, legalizing the
Speaker 1: form of all insurance sales, including inexpensive plans, and letting
Speaker 1: people group together in associations. Those are agreed to by
Speaker 1: probably ninety nine point nine percent of Republicans who are
Speaker 1: elected in Congress. They just have tactically said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get around to it sometime. So I've taken the
Speaker 1: ball here and I've put them together into a bill,
Speaker 1: and about an hour ago, apparently the Speaker of the House,
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan came forward and said, we can do them simultaneously.
Speaker 1: And that's what I've been saying all along. We have consensus,
Speaker 1: we already of the bills written. Let's put them together
Speaker 1: and let's vote on it. And let's before something, not
Speaker 1: just against something. Let's before something that will provide insurance
Speaker 1: to a lot of people at a very inexpensive price.
Speaker 1: I have been stopped by more people that obviously no
Speaker 1: him in news, and I'm supporting. I supported Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in the election, and I want this country to repeal
Speaker 1: and replace Obamacare. There are a lot of people afraid
Speaker 1: right now that somehow they think they're going to be
Speaker 1: kicked off their plan this year. Can you assure them that,
Speaker 1: in fact, that's not a part of anybody's strategy. I
Speaker 1: know that's a democratic talking point, but that's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. No, our goal is to ensure more people
Speaker 1: and at a cheaper price. Obamacare's disaster is it actually
Speaker 1: ensured less people, and it caused the prices to rise,
Speaker 1: and that's why less people bought it. So in the
Speaker 1: individual insurance market, this is about eleven million people, about
Speaker 1: six percent of the whole insurance market. That's where their
Speaker 1: disaster lies. The premiums are going through the roof, and
Speaker 1: they made the insurance policies too expensive for young healthy people.
Speaker 1: So young healthy people are not buying them because they say,
Speaker 1: you know what, we get sick, we can just buy
Speaker 1: it after we get sick. That's what Obamacare says. So
Speaker 1: bombacare set up the perfect storm, the perfect nightmare. And
Speaker 1: as a consequence, some companies like North Carolina Blue Cross
Speaker 1: lost four hundred million dollars last year in the individual market.
Speaker 1: So we've got to stop the bleeding, and the way
Speaker 1: to do it is to legalize inexpensive insurance. Let insurance
Speaker 1: companies sell high deductible plans that are inexpensive that young
Speaker 1: people will be attracted to. Then you get young people
Speaker 1: into the insurance market, which counterbalances the people who are sick.
Speaker 1: Let me explain this market. I'm not sure if everybody
Speaker 1: fully completely understands what you're talking about. Some of the
Speaker 1: more inexpensive plans that are out there. In other words,
Speaker 1: they're called catastrophic plans. Let's say you're young, you're in
Speaker 1: your twenties or early thirties, you're generally healthy, and you
Speaker 1: maybe need to check up every year or two years
Speaker 1: at that point in your life. Because you have just
Speaker 1: generally healthy, you work out, you're not subject to what
Speaker 1: we experience here in old age, which as a pain
Speaker 1: in the neck. But anyway, but you could buy a
Speaker 1: catastrophic plan with a fairly high deductible. That would mean
Speaker 1: that God forbid you ever got cancer, God forbid you
Speaker 1: ever had a heart attack, God forbid you had a
Speaker 1: bad accident. You would be covered. But you're not paying
Speaker 1: for services that you're never going to need. In other words,
Speaker 1: because of your youth and vitality. You're exactly right, and
Speaker 1: you've described them well, Shawn. But what's important to note
Speaker 1: is that Obamacare made those policies illegal in America. It's
Speaker 1: illegal to buy a catastrophic plan now because Obama said
Speaker 1: he did not like those plans. He said they were inadequate,
Speaker 1: and he thought he knew better than anyone everyone else.
Speaker 1: But when he made those illegal, he greatly increased the
Speaker 1: price of health insurance for young people. They quit buying it,
Speaker 1: and the insurance pools became full of sick people, and
Speaker 1: then the insurance companies are going bankrupt as a consequence.
Speaker 1: So you have to legalize freedom. You have to let
Speaker 1: people make their own choices, and you have to give
Speaker 1: them inexpensive choices. We can help them, say, we can
Speaker 1: give them tax credits. We can of the health savings plans,
Speaker 1: and the health savings plans. We should let you buy
Speaker 1: your insurance out of that tax deductible money. We should
Speaker 1: also let you pay for you know, if you need
Speaker 1: a diet plan, or you need an exercise plan, or
Speaker 1: you want vitamins, or you want some kind of other
Speaker 1: preventative care, and you're you're you're calling me fat. I
Speaker 1: just heard you say, Hannity, you're fat. You need a
Speaker 1: diet plan? Is that some people shown? Some people might
Speaker 1: need this. But we do have a replacement plan. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna insist that we vote on it the same day.
Speaker 1: There's no reason the world we cannot have this together
Speaker 1: by the time we I don't want to delay repeal.
Speaker 1: I'm all for repeal immediately. As soon as we can
Speaker 1: get to repeal, let's do it. But we should vote
Speaker 1: on a replacement plan that involves freedom and the marketplace
Speaker 1: and expanding the number of people who can get a
Speaker 1: Really those three components that you talk about. We have
Speaker 1: these illegal plans, these catastrophic plans, that are relatively inexpensive
Speaker 1: but have a high rate of coverage. Again, for younger
Speaker 1: people in particular, they would be really I think appealing
Speaker 1: because you get a lot of coverage that if God
Speaker 1: forbid bad things were to happen to you, then you
Speaker 1: would be covered. But you pay a little bit of
Speaker 1: a deductible maybe five, six, seven, eight thousand dollars, but
Speaker 1: you're you're banking on your own health and your own
Speaker 1: lifestyle choices and safety. For example, you don't drive fast,
Speaker 1: you don't drink and drive, certain decisions you make, and
Speaker 1: then that would be available for anybody. Health Care savings
Speaker 1: accounts would be where you're putting money that is tax
Speaker 1: deductible into your own account, and it would probably incentivize,
Speaker 1: I would think, getting a yearly check up, and then
Speaker 1: if you don't use that money, that money builds up
Speaker 1: for future years in case God forbid, you get sick
Speaker 1: or you get cancer, you have a heart attack. And
Speaker 1: then we fixed one final thing. Nobody in America should
Speaker 1: have to be out there buying insurance by themselves. Everybody
Speaker 1: in America should be allowed to join with other people
Speaker 1: to buy their insurance. So if you're a mom and
Speaker 1: pop pest control business, and there's only two of you,
Speaker 1: you and your spouse. People live in fear that their
Speaker 1: spouse or themselves will get cancer or get very sick
Speaker 1: and then be dropped for their insurance. Rates will go
Speaker 1: through the roof. If you join together with the people
Speaker 1: in association, and if a hundred thousand people joined together
Speaker 1: in association, you have leverage to demand lower prices for
Speaker 1: your insurance. And you have leverage that says, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're not buying insurance if it can cancel us or
Speaker 1: raise our rates when we get sick. We want group insurance.
Speaker 1: This can all happen voluntarily if you will just let
Speaker 1: the plans developed by freeing them up from government. Let
Speaker 1: may give you an example of this. There's a guy
Speaker 1: that we interview fairly regularly on the program. You should
Speaker 1: bring him into some of these hearings. His name is
Speaker 1: Dr josh umber of Atlas m D out of Wichita, Kansas,
Speaker 1: and what he's done in his own community is that
Speaker 1: he and other doctors have created a co op. And
Speaker 1: the co op is you pay X number of dollars
Speaker 1: per person per year, and it's a very very modest rate,
Speaker 1: and you get all the care that you need short
Speaker 1: of surgery or cancer treatment. In other words, you get
Speaker 1: all your preventative care. He'll take care of your blood pressure,
Speaker 1: he'll give you a stress test, he'll do all those
Speaker 1: things that most of us get. And then if you
Speaker 1: have to move on to a specialist, that's where maybe
Speaker 1: at astrophic plan would kick in. But more importantly, he
Speaker 1: purchases his cooperative purchases directly from the pharmaceutical companies at
Speaker 1: ridiculously low rates. He dispenses the medicine directly to his patients.
Speaker 1: They save money on pharmaceuticals, they save money on doctors visits.
Speaker 1: They have a doctor seven on call available for them,
Speaker 1: and the patients love it. He's doing well financially and
Speaker 1: it works for that community. Capitalism and freedom of choice works.
Speaker 1: If we will let it work, all kinds of innovative
Speaker 1: solutions would happen. So you might get a doctor that
Speaker 1: provides for the first ten thousand dollars with a care,
Speaker 1: and then you get a very very cheap policy above
Speaker 1: ten thousands. But realize that of the public never spends
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. Insurance companies make money because you're prepaying
Speaker 1: for all of this, so they are all kinds of innovative,
Speaker 1: innovative ways. We can do this, but we've got to
Speaker 1: get Obamacare rules and regulations that prevent innovation from occurring.
Speaker 1: We have to get rid of those rules. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you. All right, let me ask you why
Speaker 1: is why are they talking about raising the debt ceiling
Speaker 1: nine and a half trillion dollars for the next ten years.
Speaker 1: I thought Republicans were in charge of the House and
Speaker 1: Senate and spending. Now, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1: Nothing disappoints me more. We're in charge of all three
Speaker 1: branches of government. Told the country, if you put us
Speaker 1: in charge, you'd have conservative government. And the first thing
Speaker 1: they did out of the block was to introduced a
Speaker 1: budget that will added nine point seven trillion. Now, if
Speaker 1: they were on the phone here, they'd say, oh, we
Speaker 1: had to do that to repeal Obamacare. Well, my response is,
Speaker 1: why couldn't you have introduced a good budget, one that
Speaker 1: balances in the near future and also repeal Obamacare. So
Speaker 1: I did just that. I introduced an amendment yesterday that
Speaker 1: would have replaced the Republican budget with a conservative budget
Speaker 1: that freeze is spending for five years. Remember, we've talked
Speaker 1: about the Penny Plan. This is actually one step less
Speaker 1: than the Penny Plan, just simply a freeze. And I
Speaker 1: only got fourteen of my colleagues to support it. So
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump told me in a lot of interviews
Speaker 1: that he supports the Penny Plan, And maybe not for defense,
Speaker 1: maybe not for nondiscretionary spending, but certainly you can stop
Speaker 1: the rate of increases or cola increases for some of
Speaker 1: these programs with The interesting thing is, my budget would
Speaker 1: have let you cut it anywhere you had to. You
Speaker 1: had to end up with an overall freeze. But if
Speaker 1: you thought military needed to go up fifty billion, you
Speaker 1: could have gotten rid of the corporate welfare in the
Speaker 1: Department of Commerce, and then you would have wound up
Speaker 1: with your freeze by increasing military by fifty billion and
Speaker 1: decreasing Department of Commerce by fifty billion. All kinds of
Speaker 1: ways you can get to a freeze. But only fourteen
Speaker 1: of my colleagues thought that really the debt was important
Speaker 1: enough to put forward a conservative budget that actually balances.
Speaker 1: So they voted for a budget that never balances and
Speaker 1: will add nine point seven trillion dollars on the debt.
Speaker 1: This is the Republican Congress that's doing this, the Congress
Speaker 1: that has the power of the purse um. I know,
Speaker 1: for example, I'm look, I know we need infrastructure spending,
Speaker 1: and I know that the incoming the president elect, Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: has talked about a trillion dollars. I know Democrats are
Speaker 1: going crazy about it. To them, it's not another stimulus bill. Well,
Speaker 1: i'd like, if we're gonna spend that money, I think
Speaker 1: you need to pay as you go system. And if
Speaker 1: we're gonna, I don't think the country can afford an
Speaker 1: the ten trillion dollars in debt. Why why only fourteen
Speaker 1: Republicans said, It's hard to explain, but things getting grained
Speaker 1: up here. The status quo is so strong. But on
Speaker 1: infrastructure spending, I have a plan that would get his
Speaker 1: more money for infrastructure. I would let all of the
Speaker 1: American profit two trillion dollars of American profit overseas. I'd
Speaker 1: let it come home at five percent, but I'd take
Speaker 1: that five percent tax and I would put it all
Speaker 1: into the road fund, and that would be a new
Speaker 1: source for building roads in our country. And I just
Speaker 1: leave it in place five percents a low tax. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's thirty five percent so you could actually lower attacks dramatically.
Speaker 1: But this will bring back the repatriated money that multinational
Speaker 1: corporations parked or sure because they would be taxed at
Speaker 1: such a high rate. Let me ask you this. You
Speaker 1: talked to Donald Trump. He agreed if we repeal, we
Speaker 1: should replace and do it the same day. At least
Speaker 1: you're quoted in a in an interview, was doing that.
Speaker 1: Have you talked to him about the need to balance
Speaker 1: the budget? Because I talked to him at length during
Speaker 1: the campaign about it, And if you did, what did
Speaker 1: he say? You know, we didn't have that conversation directly,
Speaker 1: but we did talk. I have talked about with several
Speaker 1: of his cabinet members that the only way you can
Speaker 1: tackle the debt and not explode the debt as you do,
Speaker 1: have to do entitlement reform. And uh, his at least
Speaker 1: his cabinet members that have come before me have acknowledged
Speaker 1: that we do have to look into entitlement reform. I
Speaker 1: think this is still an object for discussion. It's not
Speaker 1: as popular, obviously as other things that are going to
Speaker 1: get done, and I think in the first hundred days
Speaker 1: you're gonna see regulatory repeal, repeal of regulations that are
Speaker 1: costing us jobs. And I'm hoping that we will see
Speaker 1: a tax bill in the first six months, but I'm
Speaker 1: hoping it does not get lost in the shuffle that
Speaker 1: the debt has a Really, isn't it pretty despicable what's
Speaker 1: on display in the United States Senate and the Senate
Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee today and all the same old talking point
Speaker 1: that if you're a conservative, you've got to be a racist,
Speaker 1: And this character characterization of of Jeff Sessions is just
Speaker 1: it just discussed me. It's really insold and the people
Speaker 1: who know Jeff Sessions. You know, one of his former
Speaker 1: staffers is now the chief of staff for a congressman.
Speaker 1: He's the first African American to be a chief of
Speaker 1: staff for a Republican in the House, and they asked
Speaker 1: him about Jeff Sessions, and his points were that he
Speaker 1: never saw any of that, that he promoted people based
Speaker 1: on their talent and their merit. And I think it's
Speaker 1: just really unfair because nobody in our society wants to
Speaker 1: be called something you're not, and it is unacceptable to
Speaker 1: treat people based on their race or to be a racist.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe Jeff Sessions is and I think
Speaker 1: it's really just sad that he has to spend time,
Speaker 1: you know, defending himself against scurrilous accusations like that. It's
Speaker 1: it's pathetic, but it's it's wholly predictable. Senator Paul, I
Speaker 1: like everything you're talking about here, and I hope, in
Speaker 1: fact that we can get this done. Thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us. Thanks Sean alright, eight hundred nine for one.
Speaker 1: Shawn are told free telephone number if you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the program. Barbara streisand Barbara, thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us. What did you think and feel
Speaker 1: when you watch Merrel Streep last night talk about a
Speaker 1: man who's going to be our president mocking someone's disability.
Speaker 1: I thought that she said what she said beautifully and
Speaker 1: it's easy enough to see the video online of Trump
Speaker 1: mock and you just showed it actually, and I completely
Speaker 1: agree with Meryl. It was a heartbreaking moment and so
Speaker 1: beneath the the dignity of the presidency, let alone any
Speaker 1: respectful person. I mean, what we need more in this world,
Speaker 1: I think is kindness and common decency and um, what
Speaker 1: he did and how he reacts and how he needs
Speaker 1: he has the need to uh talk back and insult
Speaker 1: anybody who doesn't agree with him, and that's pretty disgraceful.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the critique that Meryl Street
Speaker 1: made last night that you can push this thing and
Speaker 1: it becomes the norm that it's like Daniel Patrick Mona
Speaker 1: in the Senator once said, you did you define deviancy downward?
Speaker 1: This kind of behavior becomes the normal political conversation. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what it does. I mean, what's the signal to
Speaker 1: little children, you know who watch television and see this
Speaker 1: is the behavior of the soon to be president of
Speaker 1: the United States. You know, little girls were heartbroken when
Speaker 1: Hillary didn't get to be president. So I think it's
Speaker 1: what they seem. Children will listen. I sang that in
Speaker 1: a song once, you know, and they will see, and
Speaker 1: they will learn and and you know, I'm in the
Speaker 1: middle of having my teeth cleaned. Chris. You caught me.
Speaker 1: When Donald Trump needed to find an attorney general, all
Speaker 1: he had to do was look to his alt right
Speaker 1: Republican Senator Jeff Sessions was a U S attorney in
Speaker 1: Alabama when then President Ronald Reagan nominated him for the
Speaker 1: Federal Court, but the appointment broke down at Sessions confirmation
Speaker 1: hearing when allegations over his alleged racial remarks took center stage.
Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions is a man ahead of his time. He
Speaker 1: was also right when it was still just called racism.
Speaker 1: Thomas Figures, a black former assistant U S attorney in Alabama,
Speaker 1: testified Sessions called him boy, joked about the Ku Klux Klan,
Speaker 1: and warned him about the way he spoke to white people.
Speaker 1: That was that, But who is Jeff Sessions now? Session
Speaker 1: is still a racist. Jeff Session has shown both in
Speaker 1: his career as a U S attorney but also in
Speaker 1: his career as a United States Senator, has been on
Speaker 1: hostility to the enforcement of civil rights, particularly in the
Speaker 1: area of voting rights. He's also opposed to same sex marriage,
Speaker 1: rov Wade, equal pay, the Violence Against Women Act, and
Speaker 1: universal background checks for gun purchases. Plus he's voted to
Speaker 1: defund Planned Parenthood. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General even for Trump.
Speaker 1: This guy's extreme. Alright, So there you have Barbara streisand
Speaker 1: of course she's going to defend Meryl Streep. Of course
Speaker 1: that is the top priority the liberal left, and then
Speaker 1: the Democratic Oh, Jeff Sessions is so extreme? Are they
Speaker 1: going to condemn this MTV culture writer joking that Sessions
Speaker 1: had had stolen his Asian American granddaughter from toys r US.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot happened today. I mean, you've got
Speaker 1: people dressed up in white sheets, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: right out of the old style Democratic playbook. Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, zenophobic,
Speaker 1: is homophobic and any other phobia you can talk about. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's get to our phones as we say hi to
Speaker 1: Lewis the Liberal in Houston, Texas ktr H. What's up,
Speaker 1: Lewis the Liberal? How are you? Sir? Hey? Mr Handley,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? A long time? No here from Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's going on? It's been a long time, Louis, what's
Speaker 1: going on with you? You have a good year last year.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard from you in at least a year. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's been probably about four years. It's it's it's been.
Speaker 1: Let's put it the way. The last four or five
Speaker 1: years have been rough for me. So for me be
Speaker 1: able to be just in one position, one spot, to
Speaker 1: listen to know what challenge you're gonna be on and
Speaker 1: listen to you and call in has been practically impossible. Well,
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question, what's going on in
Speaker 1: your life? Could I help you out? What is the matter? Oh?
Speaker 1: Mr Hanney, No, no, no, no, no, no no no no. Economic.
Speaker 1: My issues were economic, and I have to Let's let's
Speaker 1: put it this way. After two thousand if you were
Speaker 1: called back in two thousand, uh, aid, we talked and
Speaker 1: you were trying to get me to go on to
Speaker 1: Michael Barry's show, etcetera. Well, what happened was due to
Speaker 1: do due to our scheduling calm confusion. I wasn't able
Speaker 1: to be on the show. However, right after two thousand
Speaker 1: and two thousand nine, because of the hope and change
Speaker 1: that President Obama promise in the hopes of keeping my
Speaker 1: house in my cars, I had to change where I
Speaker 1: was working at. So I ended up having to start
Speaker 1: traveling across the country to keep my to keep just
Speaker 1: to keep the just to keep things in perspective, life
Speaker 1: is life is very, very hard. You would not believe
Speaker 1: how many conversations I have with all these young kids
Speaker 1: that work for me about saving their money and being
Speaker 1: responsible and uh and understanding that money equals freedom in
Speaker 1: their life and you gotta take advantage of the opportunities. Um.
Speaker 1: That comes your way and not spend recklessly. So anyway,
Speaker 1: well listen, well know, So basically what this boiled down
Speaker 1: to is that um I was working mostly local jobs here,
Speaker 1: but too because of his possible I work in the
Speaker 1: oil and gas industry, so so you can do the
Speaker 1: math instead of something. To be able to do a
Speaker 1: lot of work around here, I had to go on
Speaker 1: the road and start finding work because everyone was holding
Speaker 1: on their money on which way the penlum was gonna
Speaker 1: swing with regard to his energy policy. And we've seen
Speaker 1: which way they wit. So I had to stay on
Speaker 1: the road about the last six seven eight years. Listen.
Speaker 1: That makes it really hard. I'm not disagreeing at all.
Speaker 1: And but here's the good news. Because of the way
Speaker 1: the country voted, it would have been very different of
Speaker 1: Hillary one. I'm pretty confident that energy independence is a
Speaker 1: big part of the Trump agenda. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of this can be done by removing executive orders in
Speaker 1: terms of fracking and in terms of coal mining, in
Speaker 1: terms of drilling, and I think if we make a
Speaker 1: commitment whether or not the saudiast try to try to
Speaker 1: bid down the price of a barrel of oil to
Speaker 1: drive us out of business. If we're still committed to
Speaker 1: energy independence. Ultimately, this is gonna be a win win
Speaker 1: where millions of Americans like yourself, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: lifelot of our economy. You're gonna be producing more oil,
Speaker 1: more energy than we've ever produced in our entire lives,
Speaker 1: and we'll probably have more natural gas available for our
Speaker 1: Western European ally is him more. So just hang in there.
Speaker 1: It help is on the way. And I admire the
Speaker 1: fact that, Okay, opportunities went away for you in Houston,
Speaker 1: but that didn't stop you. It made life harder, it
Speaker 1: made life more difficult, but you didn't wine and and
Speaker 1: moan and complain, and you got out there and you
Speaker 1: found work wherever it was. I admire your your stick
Speaker 1: tutive nous. I admire your strength. I admire your your
Speaker 1: ability to survive. This is This world is hard. This
Speaker 1: world is tough. This world will knock you down to
Speaker 1: the ground. And as Rocky said to his son and Balboa,
Speaker 1: it's not how hard you get hit, it's how you
Speaker 1: get hit and you move forward. This is not an
Speaker 1: easy thing life. My belief is that it's not how
Speaker 1: it's life. Life people. Life is easy. People make it hard.
Speaker 1: It's not I disagree. I actually think life is hard.
Speaker 1: I think life is hard. I don't think life is easy.
Speaker 1: I think life is difficult. If you ever read the
Speaker 1: book The Road Less Travel, it starts out with that line,
Speaker 1: life is diff of cold. Once you recognize that truth,
Speaker 1: it does make it easier because you're not expecting everything
Speaker 1: to get handed to you. You know, maybe you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: But by that same talking, like I said, I just
Speaker 1: I believe this leads me into my reason why I
Speaker 1: called concerning a Senator Sessions, Um, Senator Sessions, I don't
Speaker 1: believe he's racist. And the reason I don't believe he's
Speaker 1: racist is simplest. He believes in the rule of law,
Speaker 1: as we all should as Americans. And I say that
Speaker 1: because if you were if I cannot sit up here
Speaker 1: and say, well, you know what, I know, I was
Speaker 1: going thirty five and a thirty miles Uh, Mr officers,
Speaker 1: but guess what, I'm late for work, So that should
Speaker 1: be an excuse for you to go ahead and not
Speaker 1: give me a ticket. I can't say that because it's
Speaker 1: I broke the law. So for you to say as
Speaker 1: an example for the immigration is what they were talking
Speaker 1: about with regardless. Senator Sessions that, um, he would want
Speaker 1: to deport all of these people, and he would want
Speaker 1: to uh stop all of their services and such. Well,
Speaker 1: the whole thing is this, It's not a problem for
Speaker 1: you being here. It's a problem for the way you
Speaker 1: came in. You broke the law. If I were I
Speaker 1: could not go into Spain and just sneak in and
Speaker 1: stay there and they not have an issue with me
Speaker 1: being there. The same thing with Germany, the same and
Speaker 1: and and the same thing with our Mexican government, our
Speaker 1: Mexican neighbors, same thing with Canada. It is interesting why
Speaker 1: to let you go because they got a lot of
Speaker 1: people waiting on the line here. But you know all
Speaker 1: this talk, Well, Donald Trump asked for appropriations to build
Speaker 1: the wall. Last night on TV, I played the cut
Speaker 1: where I asked one of the many times I would
Speaker 1: ask Donald Trump sort of the Trump town Hall archives
Speaker 1: of the Sean Hannity Show, and I said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna write you a check, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that. But when we negotiate new trade deals
Speaker 1: and we do a B and C, they're gonna more
Speaker 1: than pay for that wall, because we have much better
Speaker 1: deals anyway. Now, Mexican's government announced today that they want
Speaker 1: to be again negotiations with Trump as soon as possible
Speaker 1: on trade, immigration, and the construction of Trump's border wall
Speaker 1: and the thuds you've probably heard his poor vicecent A
Speaker 1: Fox killing over over the holidays, that we're not paying
Speaker 1: for that blanking wall. Anyway. Mexico's new form Relations secretary
Speaker 1: said that his country isn't just willing to negotiate changes
Speaker 1: to NAFTA, it wants to start talks as soon as possible,
Speaker 1: and he said there's an enormous uncertainty. What's happening is
Speaker 1: Donald Trump by telling the business community that he is
Speaker 1: going to create a better business environment, as resulting in
Speaker 1: all of these companies now willing to stay here. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I digress, Uh, back to our busy telephones. Louis the Liberal,
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend. Let's go to who's there? Nina
Speaker 1: is in Sara Sota, Florida. How are you, Nina? Glad
Speaker 1: you called? Hi? How you doing? Sean? Happy New year,
Speaker 1: Happy new year to you. I'm calling them in regards
Speaker 1: to jet session confirmation hearing. And you just touched briefly
Speaker 1: before the tire collar with the empt b News tweet
Speaker 1: that went out. Um, this was just so I was
Speaker 1: just taking back because here we have these people standing outside,
Speaker 1: we have a confirmation hearing going on for a Jeff
Speaker 1: Session and they are accusing him of being a racist.
Speaker 1: And then you have this guy from MTV news and
Speaker 1: nobody watches MTV news. I know that, but you know
Speaker 1: who does. Our children do, unfortunately, and they're the ones
Speaker 1: that are most impressionable. They're the ones that are picking
Speaker 1: up on all this racism and this anti Trump stuff,
Speaker 1: and they're the future of our of our of our country.
Speaker 1: And I just I find this extremely appalling that this man, um,
Speaker 1: what's his name, Ariy Madison could actually put out a
Speaker 1: tweet with the picture of Mr Jeff Session sitting there
Speaker 1: with his innocent, beautiful grand baby, regardless of what her races,
Speaker 1: and to call her a prop in his second post,
Speaker 1: first he said return out the toys, raz but then
Speaker 1: he called her a prop that he was you think,
Speaker 1: I mean, can you only only a liberal can do this?
Speaker 1: If we us conservatives, we would never say something like that.
Speaker 1: We would never be allowed to say. You know, and
Speaker 1: it's funny when you say this, because liberals have this
Speaker 1: so called monopoly on compassion um. If if Jeff Sessions
Speaker 1: had ever said it, I mean, it would be remarkable
Speaker 1: the amount of coverage that would have. But this happens
Speaker 1: all the time. Just just think back Joe Biden. I mean,
Speaker 1: here's the first African r It's it's storybook man. He's
Speaker 1: he's clean, the first articulate stream African American who is
Speaker 1: articulate and bright and clean. I mean, it's a story articulate, bright, clean,
Speaker 1: nice looking guy. This is like a storybook fantasy. Wow.
Speaker 1: Is that not racist? I mean, it's it's just I
Speaker 1: can't imagine a Republican saying that ever and getting away
Speaker 1: with it. And this is the party the claims that
Speaker 1: that the masses love them, that they are the Party
Speaker 1: of compassion, and Conservatives are racist and sexist and homophobic,
Speaker 1: islamophobic and xenophobic. It's all not true. It's a myth,
Speaker 1: it's a lie. It's a talking point that's used every
Speaker 1: election year. Anyway, John and upstate New York, John High,
Speaker 1: How are you glad you called? Hey, Sean, Thanks for
Speaker 1: taking my call. How are you doing today? I'm good?
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm great? Thanks? Hey, Sean. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: hearing you debate Chris Han yesterday. Actually, I've enjoyed seeing
Speaker 1: him over the years on Fox as I went to
Speaker 1: college with Chris and debated him quite extensively in Professor
Speaker 1: Goldstein's class. So we had a couple of political science
Speaker 1: classes together in Albany. And it's interesting to me that
Speaker 1: all these years later, over twenty five years later, he's
Speaker 1: still just as misguided as he was then, even if
Speaker 1: he is still just as passionate. But it's unbelievable to
Speaker 1: me that he hasn't learned anything. Well, you know, you're
Speaker 1: just some people that are just so ideological and political.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't have a problem admitting that Republicans
Speaker 1: are weak, Republicans are feckless, Republicans have been visionist, Republicans
Speaker 1: are lost, Republicans have disappointed. Um so many people that
Speaker 1: Republicans have lost their way. Um. My hope for Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is, I know he's going up against not only
Speaker 1: a democratic and media establishment, but also a Republican establishment
Speaker 1: that is gonna They're gonna coward, they're gonna buckle, they're
Speaker 1: gonna want to and it's gonna be Trump that holds
Speaker 1: them up. I hope when you don't vote, you let
Speaker 1: another church explode. When you don't vote, you allow another
Speaker 1: cross to burn. When you don't vote, you let another
Speaker 1: assault wound a brother or sister. When you don't vote,
Speaker 1: you let the Republicans continue to cut school launches and
Speaker 1: hit start. The first sort of man Americans who is
Speaker 1: artiiculate and right in and clean bice looking guy. I
Speaker 1: don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from
Speaker 1: where I started from. Nobody told me that the road
Speaker 1: would be easy. You cannot go to a seven eleven
Speaker 1: or Duncan Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
Speaker 1: I'm not chuckle. I'm actually hold not to remember the
Speaker 1: good old days, and they weren't all that good in
Speaker 1: many ways. That message where y'all give you America great
Speaker 1: again is if you're a white Southern you know exactly
Speaker 1: what it means, don't you. He's speaking to a population
Speaker 1: of this segment of the population who does not like
Speaker 1: to see people other than a white man in a
Speaker 1: white house, in any other elected position. I don't know
Speaker 1: how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican. Okay,
Speaker 1: going need to say Moromney wants to let the he
Speaker 1: said in the first hundred days, he's gonna let the
Speaker 1: big banks once again write their own rules. Unchained Wall Street.
Speaker 1: You're gonna put you all back in cheese. Don't tell
Speaker 1: me we live in a color bland society. The Republicans
Speaker 1: know that there is the wrong agenda for African Americans.
Speaker 1: That's why they don't even want to count you in
Speaker 1: the census. They're doing everything they can to stop black people, Latinos,
Speaker 1: poor people, young people, people with disabilities from voting. It's
Speaker 1: a blast from the Jim pro past. I thought we
Speaker 1: had won that battle back in the nineteen sixties. No,
Speaker 1: I think that they played the race card on me,
Speaker 1: and we now know from memos from the campaign and
Speaker 1: everything that they planned to do it all along intens
Speaker 1: My father was cute. He was beaten, chained and stained
Speaker 1: clean mouth Tuesday, all because he was black. So when
Speaker 1: Governor George W. Bush refused to support hate crimes legislation,
Speaker 1: it was like my father was killed all over again.
Speaker 1: Called George W. Bush and tell him to support hate
Speaker 1: crimes legislation. We won't be dragged away from my future.
Speaker 1: Why am I being taken out of here? This man
Speaker 1: is evil. You're evil, do not over good? Don't the way?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being him bole We what
Speaker 1: do we have to do? Wait, but you get arrested
Speaker 1: on work. White people don't get arrested. Look a minute,
Speaker 1: what will one day imbody as attorney general? I just
Speaker 1: wanted to sit. They were still listening. I think they're
Speaker 1: on the fence about get MO, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Does not feel good? You're familiar with Canada? Um, we
Speaker 1: are all right, News round up and information overload. Our
Speaker 1: here on the Sean Hannity Show, will get to your
Speaker 1: calls at the bottom of this hour one, Shawn. Those
Speaker 1: were at the end some of the sounds of what
Speaker 1: happened at the Jeff Sessions confirmation hearings from earlier today
Speaker 1: and leading up to that, a history that has become
Speaker 1: all too familiar, and that is a Democratic Party that
Speaker 1: is void of ideas, consistently constantly reflexively almost hypnotically with
Speaker 1: their bumper stickers, slogans, and their mean spirited attacks that
Speaker 1: Republicans and Conservatives are racist? Do you like Republicans? Black
Speaker 1: churches are going to burn the Democratic Party and Missouri
Speaker 1: said in a radio ad in night, They're gonna put
Speaker 1: all back in change. Joe changed. Joe Biden said, Republicans
Speaker 1: have the wrong agenda for African Americans. They don't even
Speaker 1: want to count you in the census. A blast from
Speaker 1: the Jim Crow past James Bird. It's like my father
Speaker 1: was killed all over again because George Bush didn't support
Speaker 1: hate crimes legislation, but he did support the death penalty
Speaker 1: for the people responsible for the evil, horrific dragging death
Speaker 1: of this this man, James Bird. Um. It is typical,
Speaker 1: it is predictable, it is repugnant, and it's on display
Speaker 1: for all the world to see. Pastor Daryl Scott, founder
Speaker 1: and Senior Pastor of the New Spirit Revival Center. Pastor
Speaker 1: Charles Christian Adams or the Reverend Charles Christian Adams, presid
Speaker 1: dating Pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan,
Speaker 1: welcome both of you to the program. Mom. Pastor, I'll
Speaker 1: ask you Adams, do you do you find any of
Speaker 1: what you just heard repugnant and untrue? I mean, I assume,
Speaker 1: as a pastor, you believe the truth shall set us free,
Speaker 1: right absolutely, and the truth is that, and the truth
Speaker 1: is is that Republicans are not racist. Isn't that absolutely?
Speaker 1: I don't think that they are fundamentally racist. No, I
Speaker 1: know many African American Republicans. So when the when the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party says, if you like Republicans, black churches are
Speaker 1: gonna burn, or Joe Biden says they're gonna put you
Speaker 1: all back in chains, and when Al Gore says they
Speaker 1: don't want to count you in the census, and Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton says, this is a blast from the Jim Crow past,
Speaker 1: and they're trying to compare Jeff Sessions, who actually put
Speaker 1: clan members in jail as a klansman. It's it's evil,
Speaker 1: isn't that. Isn't that one of the big ten that
Speaker 1: will shall not bear false witness? Isn't that one of
Speaker 1: the big ten? The important thing is to remember the
Speaker 1: context and these comments were made, and as they relate
Speaker 1: to uh Jeff Sessions, it's simply his past that they are. Well, specifically,
Speaker 1: you have to if you're going to make that accusation
Speaker 1: specifically some of some of the mistakes that he has made,
Speaker 1: Well tell me what the mistakes are, because can you
Speaker 1: please tell me specifically? What what what are you talking about? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about in UH nine when he tried to
Speaker 1: prosecute the voter fraud case in Alabama, in which it
Speaker 1: was not successful, but he still sticks by it. He
Speaker 1: says that you know, he prosecuted today just like he
Speaker 1: prosecuted it then. So somehow even though he put clan
Speaker 1: members in jail, fought on multiple occasions, multiple occasions for
Speaker 1: civil rights and voting rights and voted you know, in
Speaker 1: all these instances, I mean, I have a whole list
Speaker 1: of him here delivering for all the people in this country.
Speaker 1: African America is included. So even though he tried to
Speaker 1: fight for voting rights for all, you somehow hold it
Speaker 1: against him that he didn't win a case, but he
Speaker 1: targeted specifically the African Americans and their behavior around the purpose.
Speaker 1: Just the opposite is true. If nobody else though, then
Speaker 1: and that's what the concern is as far his his
Speaker 1: application of the law. I'm trying to understand your logic here,
Speaker 1: because you know, he was the top civil rights enforcement case.
Speaker 1: He was the one that in one worked with the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice, the FBI and to solve the murder
Speaker 1: of a nineteen year old African American Michael Donald and
Speaker 1: his U S. Attorney's office prosecutor Tiger Knowles as an accomplice,
Speaker 1: and he is spending the rest of his life in prison.
Speaker 1: And he shifted the case of the KKK murder Henry
Speaker 1: Hayes to a state court where he got the death penalty.
Speaker 1: And it's the same Jeff Sessions who successfully prosecuted the
Speaker 1: Alabama Ku Klux Klan Great Titan Jacks. And it was
Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions that brought the first lawsuit in the history
Speaker 1: of the Department of Justice to stop the suppression of
Speaker 1: African American voting rights in the US versus Connage County.
Speaker 1: The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, along with Sessions
Speaker 1: sued that county and white officials and by the way
Speaker 1: they had to settle, and by the way he won.
Speaker 1: So I ask you, Pastor Darryl Scott, listen, this race
Speaker 1: card is being played out. It's being overused to the
Speaker 1: point that all of America is sick of it. And
Speaker 1: they have a number of allegations without any real proof
Speaker 1: and willing will know truth to Democrats are the ones
Speaker 1: that demonstrated straight racism. The Curtains privatized prisons that enabled
Speaker 1: harshest then they enabled harshest sentences to bring black folks
Speaker 1: to heal in prison after they privatize them. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is the Republican Party has being profiled
Speaker 1: by the party that claims to embrace diversity and to
Speaker 1: be against profile. They ever trying to profile all Republicans
Speaker 1: as a racist. But when you go down and begin
Speaker 1: want again to examine Jeff Sessions passed. He voted for
Speaker 1: the extension of the Civil Rights Act. He voted to
Speaker 1: confirm Eric Holders, the first black attorney General. He co
Speaker 1: sponsored legislation to bring possession for crack cocaine more in
Speaker 1: line with the punalty for a possession of powder cocaine.
Speaker 1: He spearheaded up as to a roll award Rolls of
Speaker 1: Parts to Alabama. She was an Alabama native. He wanted
Speaker 1: her to get the Congressional Gold Medal. Even campaigned against
Speaker 1: George Wallace, the face of racism for the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: in Alabama when he was younger. Now, from what I understand,
Speaker 1: then these guys must be skizoid racist or something, because
Speaker 1: you know, one minute you guys claimed they're racist, and
Speaker 1: then on another minute we see all of these instances
Speaker 1: where they champion the campaign for civil rights. You either
Speaker 1: racists or you are either he is or is, and
Speaker 1: if he is, then he would demonstrate all of the
Speaker 1: UH symptoms of racism, when in fact he does it.
Speaker 1: It seems as if the Democrats, as all the Democrats have,
Speaker 1: they don't have anything tangible or substantive to deny these appintments,
Speaker 1: to deny these votes. So the simple to say, don't
Speaker 1: vote for him, don't take him, don't do anything. Why
Speaker 1: because he's a racist? What is your reaction? You have
Speaker 1: a lot of examples. I don't think Jeff Sessions is
Speaker 1: a friend of Eric Holder, and I think he voted
Speaker 1: for him, whether he voted for Blair hated black people
Speaker 1: did when we not vote for a black person. But
Speaker 1: Congress has stood as an obstructionist to Barack Obama's policies,
Speaker 1: and they stood within uh airic Holder's term as a
Speaker 1: constant UH threat to what they were trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1: Is the Congressional Black Congress. Is that a racist organization?
Speaker 1: Because Congressional Black Caucus do not in an office one
Speaker 1: day and they've already pledged to oppose whatever he tried
Speaker 1: to do. Now they're doing that because he's white. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what you said, I and what will
Speaker 1: you say, you're saying they have not fled to obstruct
Speaker 1: with the same vigor President elect Trump as UH Congress
Speaker 1: obstructive President Barack Obama. It was unprecedented the level of
Speaker 1: obstruction that we saw under President Barack Obama. It was
Speaker 1: all right, let me, let me ask this question. I
Speaker 1: want to ask these important questions for racial reasons. That's racist.
Speaker 1: Can you name any any statistic, pastor Adams, any one thing,
Speaker 1: any one economic telltale sign that shows that in the
Speaker 1: eight years Obama has been president, that black Americans are
Speaker 1: better off because we have millions of more Black Americans,
Speaker 1: increase of Black Americans out of the labor force, We
Speaker 1: have a massive increase of Black Americans on food stamps
Speaker 1: and in poverty. Tell me where Barack Obama's agendas helped
Speaker 1: Black America. Well, you know I've said it before that
Speaker 1: the property give me a specific, give me one specific,
Speaker 1: give me one specific measure where Black Americans are better off.
Speaker 1: Obama has been president eight years. I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you the poverty rate under President Barack Obama was continued
Speaker 1: to shrink. No, do we have eight million more excuse me, sir,
Speaker 1: we have eight million more Americans on poverty since Obama
Speaker 1: has been elected. Yes, but we were it was growing
Speaker 1: at a higher rate under so that's not true. So
Speaker 1: eight million more Americans and poverty is a success for you.
Speaker 1: Thirteen million more Americans on food stamps is a success
Speaker 1: for you. The lowest labor participation rate Americans out of
Speaker 1: the labor force is successful to you. But the question
Speaker 1: is what was it before Barack Obama was elected. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm giving you the numbers. Since I'm giving you the
Speaker 1: numbers since Obama has been in office, he accumulated more
Speaker 1: debt than all forty three presidents combined. That success to you, Well,
Speaker 1: he had to reinvest in the infrastructure of the United States.
Speaker 1: I mean with took money. It took money to stem
Speaker 1: the tide of the of the political I mean that
Speaker 1: the economic downturn that we had taken under Bush. But no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the downturn that was taken under Bush was simply the
Speaker 1: house of guards that collapsed. That was built by the Clintons.
Speaker 1: The Clintons were in control when the banks were deregulating,
Speaker 1: and stop privately was in that. It was the house
Speaker 1: of cards built under under Clinton that collapsed. On the
Speaker 1: bus all right, I gotta leave it there. Thank you
Speaker 1: both for being with us. When we come back. Wide
Speaker 1: open telephones, toll free our numbers eight nine for one. Sean,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program
Speaker 1: to the top of the hour. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to our busy telephones. We'll start with Kate. She's in Houston. Kate, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you? And welcome to the program. Hey, Sean,
Speaker 1: how are you. I'm good. Happy new Year to you,
Speaker 1: and and thanks for listening to KTRH. Happy new Year
Speaker 1: to you. I just want to thank you so much
Speaker 1: for things kind to send me my awesome Trump pen.
Speaker 1: I love it so much. You know what I have?
Speaker 1: People man that they didn't get him. I mean, how
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Speaker 1: we have that, we have to have that. I'm so thankful.
Speaker 1: I think we had like a hundred thousand plus requests.
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Speaker 1: so but not also because it's from you. You know,
Speaker 1: it's at your golden touch, so anywhere from So today
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about with your help here Trump's media farcities.
Speaker 1: That just made that word up. You like it? I
Speaker 1: like it? Tell me why? All right? So Number one,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Putin because of your awesome interview
Speaker 1: that you did with the Suns, which we were just
Speaker 1: glued to the TV, completely riveted. I mean back in
Speaker 1: two thousand. Don't you don't know this about me? My
Speaker 1: degree was post Soviet East European Studies. That's my degree.
Speaker 1: I studied that in college. So Putin has been on
Speaker 1: my radar since back in two thousand when he took power,
Speaker 1: and then you know, we've watched him sort of the
Speaker 1: imaginations of how he's continued to keep this power. And
Speaker 1: now the whole media is, oh, you know, he's this,
Speaker 1: this is something that he everyone's been colluding, which the
Speaker 1: Trump Chris campus colluded to get him into power, and
Speaker 1: they're best friends, and all he can do is to
Speaker 1: flatter him. You know, that's just the biggest farsity ever.
Speaker 1: And you and I know that this is because Trump
Speaker 1: can read people. Trump knows his number. He wants to
Speaker 1: have an advantageous relationship with somebody. He doesn't want to
Speaker 1: create another Cold War. But he's not stupid. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Listen, I think the world will respect
Speaker 1: him more, and the world fearing and respecting America is
Speaker 1: better for the world because that that means, Look, there's
Speaker 1: this Fear is a great motivator in life. Like, for example,
Speaker 1: one of the things in the last five years of
Speaker 1: my life is I've worked hard on learning self defense. Now,
Speaker 1: Linda and Lauren and Jason and Ethan and sweet baby James,
Speaker 1: they kind of make fun of me and my son
Speaker 1: used to make fun of me until I showed him
Speaker 1: some moves. And he's not making fun like he used
Speaker 1: to anymore. Nina, Well, I don't think I'm a ninja,
Speaker 1: but it's it's very it's a very very violent art
Speaker 1: that I'm learning. It's a combination. It's full body contact.
Speaker 1: It's it's everything from from grappling to boxing, to crowdmagad
Speaker 1: to kempo to jiu jitsu. But basically how to win
Speaker 1: a street fight. There's blade and and and weapon training
Speaker 1: involved in this, and gun training involved in this, and
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of repetition, and it basically is
Speaker 1: how to win a fight in thirty seconds and break
Speaker 1: a lot of bones. Right, Well, I mean, and the
Speaker 1: thing about the thing about Trump is that he has
Speaker 1: the ability to win a verbal fight here. You know,
Speaker 1: he knows looking into the future that this is not
Speaker 1: it is not in East West world anymore. We are
Speaker 1: a North South world. We need to be able to
Speaker 1: have advantageous relationships. It is like you were saying, it's
Speaker 1: back from the world to be able to continue to
Speaker 1: pick fights with Russia. We don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: And I just have to say I'm so proud of
Speaker 1: you you. I know you say you're not a journalist,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, but you are a journalist of the
Speaker 1: A plus category. You went twenty two hours back and
Speaker 1: scores on this plane. You interviewed the source of what
Speaker 1: has been going on for the past three weeks as
Speaker 1: one of the biggest media farcities about this whole stupid
Speaker 1: thing with the Russia. You had every question, point blank,
Speaker 1: third completely, and yet people are still trying to pull
Speaker 1: that interview apart. You know that it's it's hilarious to me.
Speaker 1: And then I'm also informing everybody of every government agencies
Speaker 1: but that it has been hacked. And then I'm pointing
Speaker 1: out that in the Podesta case, it's because he felt
Speaker 1: for a stupid fishing scam. It's not because we were
Speaker 1: hacked anyway. And the fact that Wiki Leaks released it
Speaker 1: is there stupid fault. It's not. You know that there's
Speaker 1: some reality here. And some people say, well, Hannity's friends
Speaker 1: with with Putin. I don't trust him as far as
Speaker 1: I can throw. I mean, it's crazy. Alright, Well listen,
Speaker 1: God bless you, k you made my day, and um,
Speaker 1: I think I appreciate it. Listen, I want to say
Speaker 1: to all my irredeemable, deplorable friends out here, like Kate
Speaker 1: and Houston, We've got a big fight ahead of us.
Speaker 1: We have a major battle on every front. The Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: the economy, tax cuts, repatriation, repealing, replacing Obamacare, energy independence,
Speaker 1: I love Ted Cruz's proposal for term limits, great idea, education,
Speaker 1: back to the states, building the wall, vetting refugees. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a fight. You can't walk away. Trump won
Speaker 1: the election. Oh okay, everything, He's gonna snap his fingers
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be fixed. No, every one of these
Speaker 1: issues will be a major fight. And your help and
Speaker 1: your support and the pressure you're gonna put on your
Speaker 1: congressmen and women and women and senators are gonna be crucial. Alright,
Speaker 1: my good friend, to Varus in Greenville, North Carolina, what
Speaker 1: are you whining about today? Let me get my point
Speaker 1: shine about you wicky leaking all over yourself in this interview.
Speaker 1: Did you think of that all of yourself? That's sort
Speaker 1: of like the best line Trump had in one of
Speaker 1: the debates is when he goes, you're gonna use honest.
Speaker 1: I'm not wiki leaking. I'm not wiki leaking. Over anything.
Speaker 1: All I did was to an interview. I did an interview.
Speaker 1: What you literally, you apologize to a criminal? I didn't
Speaker 1: apologize to anybody. I asked him questions. Did you said,
Speaker 1: I apologize to you about you? No? No, let me
Speaker 1: tell you because I believe he's done a good service
Speaker 1: for this country. And let me, excuse me, excuse me,
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, listen, I know more about Wiki leaks
Speaker 1: than you do. But the fact that he exposes America's
Speaker 1: cybersecurity weaknesses, if you look at it the right way,
Speaker 1: it's a favor. Now we can fix it. Now we
Speaker 1: can be CyberSecure. Number two. He also exposed the level
Speaker 1: of corruption. They're not even liberal to Varus in Greenville,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. That's that's racing around the country and his
Speaker 1: eighteen wheeler day in and day out. Uh, even you
Speaker 1: should be glad that we found out how corrupt John
Speaker 1: Podesta is. And nobody, nobody hacked into John Podesta. He
Speaker 1: gave it up himself through a fishing scam because he's
Speaker 1: an idiot. Okay, Sean, was he did? Did did uh?
Speaker 1: Julian Assaze crack into the Pentagon? Or defense? Was he
Speaker 1: was he given access when he did that when he
Speaker 1: was sixteen years old. No, I'm saying, if a sixteen
Speaker 1: year old listen, listen, listen, that's against the law. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't. But but you're missing you're missing my
Speaker 1: bigger broader point here. Look, I don't trust criminals. Okay,
Speaker 1: you need to You need to follow the bouncing ball here.
Speaker 1: If the Department of Defense, the White House, Department of State,
Speaker 1: the Department of Office of Personnel, China hack twenty three
Speaker 1: million people there, and all of this happened since two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, and and nobody in Washington fixes it,
Speaker 1: then at what point does it become our fault for
Speaker 1: being stupid? Government was established? Okay, so then so then stopped.
Speaker 1: So then at some point you've got to say, we've
Speaker 1: known all these hacking incidents occurred, they didn't fix it,
Speaker 1: and now they're only concerned is to use as one
Speaker 1: incident where John Podesta is an idiot to de legitimize Trump.
Speaker 1: If they really cared about hacking, they would have since
Speaker 1: ten years ago, they would have secured, they would have secured,
Speaker 1: they would have secured our emails and secured our topsy
Speaker 1: gret documents. They didn't do a thing, and the only
Speaker 1: reason you're hearing about it now is for pure political purposes. Checkmate, checkmate,
Speaker 1: don't get checkmate, don't get mad at me because I'm
Speaker 1: not waking leaking on myself like you, uh the right.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you questions? Why send you to college?
Speaker 1: And this is the things I get. Didn't I send
Speaker 1: you to college? Of you didn't, I say, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I pay out of my own pocket for you to
Speaker 1: go to college. So I pay because because why did
Speaker 1: I do that? Because I wanted you to have a
Speaker 1: better life. Why so you can call in and attack me. No,
Speaker 1: you did that because you love me. No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't love your best friend. I took big baby
Speaker 1: James the spot and now I gotta worry about you
Speaker 1: being best friends with Donald Trump. I'm not gonna take
Speaker 1: this anymore. Show you can't. You can't put me a
Speaker 1: second field to anybody. I still love you. You Listen,
Speaker 1: you go wiki leaking handle handle. I'll handle the cyber
Speaker 1: security issues that we're stot wiking looking on yourself, searn.
Speaker 1: I love you to brs God blush you. Uh. Justin time,
Speaker 1: our friend from Silver Spring, Maryland, justin now, justin By
Speaker 1: the way, it's been a long time caller. He goes
Speaker 1: to bars and he meets women and he goes, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you. My name's Justin. I'm just in time
Speaker 1: to save your life and show you the romance you've
Speaker 1: been dreaming of. True or false? You do that, don't you?
Speaker 1: I have never done that. That would be cheesy, except
Speaker 1: when I had seen you fled up to the bar
Speaker 1: and go I'm gonna hanitize my baby. Happy New Year,
Speaker 1: halfy new year, Happy new Year? Man, what's going on?
Speaker 1: But but Sean, I gotta tell you what's up. There
Speaker 1: is a situation. The interview that you did with the
Speaker 1: with the Farge absolutely fantastic. But let me tell you
Speaker 1: about I heard that Joe Scarborough had made some comments
Speaker 1: about you and this interview and this supposed to be
Speaker 1: some special love affair that you've got going on. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you Joe Scarborough does not maintain strict conservative principles.
Speaker 1: He sings as though he is just what she was.
Speaker 1: She's going back and forth, and I really don't appreciate
Speaker 1: him not being true. He should say what he means,
Speaker 1: means what he says. But here is the part that's
Speaker 1: really important. If he was all that concerned or Jenny
Speaker 1: of the of the network, why didn't they for food
Speaker 1: an interview with this man they have concerns with? Does
Speaker 1: that make sense for you? Listen, I think this is
Speaker 1: repulsive Joe. First, nobody watches the show. His radio show flopped,
Speaker 1: you know, repulsive Joe flips and flops and flowers. He
Speaker 1: is the poster child of what it is to be
Speaker 1: an establishment person. He can't be Look, if he's proud
Speaker 1: to work at MSNBC, then why is he always begging
Speaker 1: for jobs elsewhere? And Joe, but my goodness, you didn't
Speaker 1: just drop drop some information? Oh yeah, listen, I dropped Listen,
Speaker 1: I dropped that bomb on Twitter. And by the way,
Speaker 1: by the way, I have at least ten more bombs
Speaker 1: in my verbal bombs. Of course, I'm talking about ten
Speaker 1: more verbal Now, let's just say, um attacks that I
Speaker 1: have ready for Joe if he wants to keep this going.
Speaker 1: If Joe wants to keep this going, if he wants
Speaker 1: to go there, I'll go there. Well, you know what
Speaker 1: what I'd like for you to do. Now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you this is very important. Now I want you
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna hold your feet to the fire, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: if if Trump messes up, and if he doesn't do
Speaker 1: what he says, if he flip flops it, if he
Speaker 1: does something, I am gonna call you out. If you
Speaker 1: don't bust him, let me go. This is an opportunity
Speaker 1: for him to do what he says, and so if not,
Speaker 1: he would have just simply been a con man the
Speaker 1: way all the people ever choosed him would be it. Listen,
Speaker 1: Mike Penn said the other day before the Republican Caucus,
Speaker 1: this is a time for promise keeping. Here are Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's promises that I want kept. I want originalists on
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. I want refugees vetted. I want the
Speaker 1: wall built. And by the way, he did say to
Speaker 1: me that now Mexico is not going to give me
Speaker 1: a check Mexico, but there will be a price for
Speaker 1: them to pay, so I'm not worried about that. I
Speaker 1: do want the corporate rate lowered, like he said. I
Speaker 1: do want the repatriation opportunity given. I do want healthcare
Speaker 1: savings accounts in Obamacare repealed. I want executive orders repealed.
Speaker 1: I want energy independence advanced in the next four years
Speaker 1: that I want education sent back to the States. If
Speaker 1: he doesn't follow through on those promises. I promise you
Speaker 1: I will call him out. You have my word of honor. Okay,
Speaker 1: I love it, I appreciate it, and I'm gonna always
Speaker 1: tell you one more thing I still have and still you.
Speaker 1: The soda stream that you sent me, Oh man, that
Speaker 1: goes back a ways. It's good, isn't it. I loved it.
Speaker 1: It absolutely is that. You know what I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: Thank you, God, bless you. Getting ready. I'm just in
Speaker 1: time to change your world. That would be a good
Speaker 1: line at the Bar Jason. He used that at Coyote
Speaker 1: Ugly