WEBVTT - Looking to Midterms - March 18th, Hour 2 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:03.840 All right, thanks Scott Shannon, and thanks to all of 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.120 you for being with us hour two Sean Hannity Show, 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.800 tot Free. Our number is eight hundred and nine four 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:10.280 one Sean if you want to be a part of 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.600 the program, less than two hours, and we expect the 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.560 astronauts that had been stranded for two hundred and eighty 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:22.480 six days to return to Earth just as the end, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:28.680 as this program ends today. The flight plan began with 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:35.080 a half minute de orbit thruster firing that started. You know, well, 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.239 this will happen later today, but they began. It's a 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.440 seventeen hour journey and with Crew nine commander and a 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.560 cosmonaut involved, launched to the station last September aboard the 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.800 same space X crew Dragon capsule, carrying all four of 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.960 them home. Now it called for an automated seven and 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.760 a half minute the orbit thruster starting at five to 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.440 eleven PM to slow down for a re entry. After 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.840 what is called or described as a twenty seven minute 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.120 free fall, the spacecraft is expected to plunge back into 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.279 the discernible atmosphere for the final twelve minutes of descent, 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:13.000 making a parachute assisted splash down off the Florida Panhandle 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.280 Gulf Coast a few minutes before six pm tonight, as 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.440 we're basically going off this radio program. Elon Musk will 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.640 be on Hannity tonight. We'll talk about all of this 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.520 with him. A SpaceX recovery ship will be stationed nearby. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.480 They will haul the spacecraft on board so the crew 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.039 can be helped out of the crew dragon's cabin and 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.679 onto stretchers for initial medical checks. Now there are just 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:40.080 for your awareness, astronauts have a lot of health issues 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:45.640 that they face. As Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore are 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:50.200 finally getting their unexpected nine months stay in space, but 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.600 their health journey will just begin on Earth. This is 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.840 not an easy transition. They may face a variety of 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:00.840 health problems. They may face weaker bones and muscles. They 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.600 might have vision issues, baby feet. I'll explain what that 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.280 is in a second. As their bodies now adjust to 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.720 getting back to the planet's gravity and anyway, the expected 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.400 arrival is five point fifty seven pm Eastern Time. It 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.880 is now four to eight Eastern time, now four nine 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.720 Eastern time, and they arrived at the International Space Station. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.799 They were only supposed to be there eight days. It's 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.400 two hundred and eighty six days that they have been 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.840 up there, and it's one of the longest periods of 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.280 time on board the International Space Station. Immediately they will 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.000 get checked out by doctors. When they splash down, they'll 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.760 undergo a very thorough medical exam at NASA's Lyndon B. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.880 Johnson's Space Center in Houston. They won't be allowed to 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.839 go home until the doctors clear them. Astronauts often say 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.320 they feel wobbly nauseated when they return to Earth because 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:58.680 of the ears vestibular system has to Readjust interesting side note, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:03.200 bones become about one percent less dense for every month 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.000 you spend in space. They were there for nine months, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.920 especially bones in the legs and hips and spine, which 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.600 do the heavy lifting on Earth. Muscles don't need to 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.960 work as hard in space, so they begin to atrophy. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.919 All of that could lead to falls, bone fracture, osteoporosis, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:25.680 other medical problems. So this is not over if and 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:30.440 we all pray that they splash down successfully and now. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.560 To counteract these effects, astronauts they exercise two hours a 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.240 day in space, including cardio and resistance training. It's all 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.240 part of their job to keep their bones and muscles strong, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.880 but they still feel the impact when they return home. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.440 It's a big shock. When they get back on Earth. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.480 They have to get used to gravity once again. Astronauts 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.240 grow in space, believe it or not, because the spinal 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:03.200 column will expand out without the gravity. One astronaut, literally, 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:07.720 Scott Kelly, became two inches taller. On Earth's spinal disks 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.600 will again compress and that can create back pain upon 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.720 coming back. Astronauts eyes and brain structure change in space. 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.200 Not being with gravity, fluids and the body shift upward 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.920 to the head that puts pressure on the eyes. It 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:26.400 can cause visual problems. That condition is known as spaceflight 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:32.640 associated neuroocular syndrome. Changes include swelling the optic nerve, folds 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.839 in the retina, the flattening of the back of the eye, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.400 and blurry vision. Some changes. You know. Unfortunately, it's very 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.600 risky what they do, very courageous what they do. It 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:48.799 could be permanent. In some cases. They have what's called 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.599 baby feet. They're designed to, you know, on Earth, to 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.679 bear the body's weight, so the skin on the bottom 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.039 of is tough and sturdy and people walk around, but 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.880 astronauts float in space. You know, their feet don't support much, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.440 and the souls become very delicate. You basically lose the 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.520 thick part of the skin on your feet that develops 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.880 and the callouses that develop, and those calluses fall off, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.599 and one astronaut said described it as the softest feet, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.840 according to a masseuse, that they ever felt in their 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.359 entire life. Anyway, so researchers report that the astronauts, you know, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.479 there have been astronauts that developed rash and skin sensitivity 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.719 when they come home. In that case, it was a 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.320 three hundred and forty day trek into space. The symptoms 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.520 lasted six days after he landed on Earth, successfully treated 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.800 with medication, hydrotherapy, massage. So anyway, here to talk about 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.760 all of this is Luis Elizondo. He's the former head 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.159 of the Pentagon program, responsible for the investigation of UFOs, 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.800 author of Imminent Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for such and 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:59.760 joining us as Sarah Carter investigative journalists. And maybe you 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.840 don't know this about us, she knows an awful lot 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.280 about the space program. Was there for the Falcon nine 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.760 and re entry of the North Grumming invitation red Wire 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.479 to see it up close and personal. Sarah you're pretty 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.640 obsessed with this. I am. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:13.280 I am. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.160 I'm glad to admit it. I'm a bit of a nerd. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.920 I wish I wish I knew as much as Elon 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.839 Musk about all of these aspects of space. I do 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.560 believe that we are going to be a space faring species. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:26.960 We are. I mean, I think we're going to go 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.000 far beyond the Moon and the ISS. I think that's 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.800 very exciting. But I think, you know, a situation like this, 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.400 you described the serious nature of it sean for the astronauts, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.320 they really are putting everything on the line. Their lives 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.240 are on the line. They went up there, they were thinking, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:44.880 you know, I'm going to be up here for a week. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.400 It's been nine months. It was unplanned, so they're going 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.200 to be going through a recovery all year. I think 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.000 they're so excited they have to be to know that 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.800 they're going to be coming back to Earth. Everyone here 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.120 on the planet is praying for them. I was so 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.840 excited to see Falcon nine launch earlier this year. It 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.960 was a Northrop Grumman launch. They were taking supplies with 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.679 red wire for our scientists at the ISS. At the time, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.320 the astronauts were actually on board during that time, of course, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.520 still stuck up in space. And when I saw the 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:26.960 booster come back down, it was the most astonishing human 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.920 feet that you can ever imagine. My son was there, 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.160 my daughter, our two youngest, and our son is studying 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.320 right now robotics at the university. He is way smarter 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.680 than all of us and he wants to build specifically 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:45.200 robotics for space for Mars. His dream is to warhead JPL. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.080 So it was. It was really one of the most 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.400 amazing human feats ever. And right now SpaceX have completed 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.240 four hundred and forty six of these missions. They've done 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.160 a total of four hundred and one of these landing 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.840 and for those of you who haven't seen this booster 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:08.560 come back down into re entry, it is absolutely extraordinary. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:13.120 It reminds me of watching, you know, something on science fiction, 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.680 and to say that humanity has reached this point is 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.679 pretty awesome times. So, I have a lot of faith 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.119 in SpaceX, I have a lot of faith in Elon Musk, 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.760 and I'm very excited to see these astronauts a return 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:26.200 to Earth. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:31.240 I'm very excited and our prayers are with them. Louise Elazanda, 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:32.000 what's your take on. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.400 It all, well Son, You're absolutely right. We're dealing with 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.439 a lot of different issues here. I'm not sure people 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:42.160 really appreciate exactly what's going on right now. First and foremost, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.120 there we are going to be an are a space 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:49.320 faring species. But as it stands today, there's nothing about 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.319 going to space. It is still a very very dangerous, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.400 very very risky endeavor, and there's all sorts of risks involved. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.920 It's not just a telemetry and speed and earing issue, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.840 but there is there's significant health consequences biologically. My background 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.480 actually was in the field of medicine and biology microbiology, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.439 and there are some distinct morphological changes that occur. And 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.559 you talked about baby feed and some things like that, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.160 but there's actually some other issues too. There's issues to 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.280 the vascular system because our veins are designed to have 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.120 little valves in there in order to counter the effects 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.720 of gravity, and when you don't have gravity now the 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:30.160 circulatory system behaves differently. Right. You talked about muscle atrophy. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.280 You know what most people probably realize, The heart is 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.200 a giant muscle and that too is prone to muscle atrophy. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.640 You have bone degradation where you lose a percentage, as 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.240 you said, a bone density, and that is really really significant. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.640 And so I talked to an astronaut a couple of 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.800 years ago, and he gave me a little bit of 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.760 an analogy here that it kind of makes sense. He said, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.040 if you want to know what it's like to come 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.679 back to Earth, imagine being putting a jellyfish in a slingshot. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.160 And that's what it feels like. Because you're used to 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.000 a microgravity environment when you are in orbit, and all 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.160 of a sudden, now you're thrust back into reality of 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.800 a nine point eight meters per second squared environment where 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.640 your body, every part of your body is constantly being 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.160 tugged towards towards the surface of the Earth. And that 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.640 puts a tremendous strain on the body, especially when you 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.360 have to reacclimate, and then you have just the sheer 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.520 feet of engineering. I try to explain to people, this 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.280 is not like just shooting a rocket in a space 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.800 and kind of maneuvering to a space station. It's more 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.160 akin to firing a bullet. Shooting a bullet into the 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.920 sky at seventeen thousand, five hundred miles an hour and 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.800 then oh, by the way, hitting another bullet that's traveling 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.560 one hundred and twenty miles above your head, that's also 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.640 traveling at seventeen thousand, five hundred miles an hour, right, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.400 and it's there's a tremendous amount of engineering that goes 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.600 behind this these types of missions. And by the way, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.800 this mission is in routine itself. This one might even 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.480 argue that this is actually a rescue mission. So if 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.760 anybody's ever seen the old movie of Apollo thirteen, you know, 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.440 I think we're dealing with something potentially very similar to that, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.800 and where you have the lives of astronauts frankly that 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.280 could be at risk here and their health, but also 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.600 the fact that you have a space capsule that's going 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.920 to be rear entering back to Earth coming in from 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.040 four point think about this, four point seven miles per 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.319 second right when these spaces the Dragon space capsule comes 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.240 back in through reentry roughly about thousand feet in altitude. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.080 Is really when the atmosphere of the Earth can really 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:36.560 begin to become a serious effect on the spacecraft, where 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.679 temperatures can range anywhere between three thousand degrees to five 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.520 thousand degrees fahrenheit. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.320 Well, let me ask you both this because we've all 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.360 you know, every part of this is dangerous. We've all 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.880 watched the launch of this rocket. We've all watched the 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.560 rocket actually land back, and we have the video of 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.480 it landing and being saved, which is incredible in in itself. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.880 We watched the docking video, we now have the return 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.880 and the takeoff video. And now the final dangerous part 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.800 of this mission is the splashdown. Based on your experience, Sarah, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:13.839 how dangerous is that? 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.959 I think it's going to be extraordinarily dangerous. I think that, 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.960 like lou is describing, there's so many elements that have 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.800 to happen all at once. I love the description of 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.600 the bullet right, you know, shooting a bullet off into 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:32.040 space just to hit another bullet that's up there. It's significant. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.520 I mean, so we're looking at physics, mathematics, making sure 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.640 everything is in tune, making sure that everybody is on 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.640 the same page, and ensuring the safety of the astronauts. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.920 Come first, you're going to have to look at weather. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.319 Weather is extraordinary. I mean you can imagine being out 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.760 there getting ready for a rocket launch and then they 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.760 got to shut it down within the last five minutes 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.680 because of cloud coverage because of something that is happening 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.080 with the weather because of high winds. So they're going 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.800 to be monitoring the weather. They're going to be monitoring 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.400 every aspect of that re entry into Earth's orbit for 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.840 those astronauts, because the most important thing, of course, we 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.040 want to see them come back home. We want to 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.600 see them come back home safely. We want to see 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.760 them come back home and celebrate that their safety and 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.960 that they're back with us and back with their families 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.280 and give them the heroes welcome that they deserve. So 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.720 they're going to try to make sure Sean that every 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.559 single aspect of that re entry is working like a 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.520 perfect concerto, like a perfect musical concerto. And I can 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.200 tell you based on what Elon Musk has been able 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.480 to do, based on the fact that research and development 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.160 in the private sector is extraordinary, we would have never 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.080 seen anything like this. I don't believe if it was 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.960 just government run, you know, research and development R and D. There, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.160 everything's really slow. In the private sector, we're able to 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.240 see extraordinary advances. And I think this is where Elon 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.640 Musk shines, this is where space shines, and working together 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.760 with the government is essential. And I think we're going 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.040 to get those astronauts safely home as long as everything 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.360 is working together, like I said, like a insurto, so 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.480 that they can get back in and be home with 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.040 their family safely and be backrun Earth about. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:22.240 An hour and thirty seven minutes we expect splash down. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.200 I appreciate your time, Sarah, thank you, Luise Elizondo, thank you. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.160 We'll get to your calls coming up straight ahead. We 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:33.000 have what might be the most important election of the year, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.600 and it is for the Republican Party. Now take you 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.600 back to twenty twenty and the election of twenty twenty 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.920 and one of the arguments I made is, for example, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.520 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, they have a constitution. The 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.760 constitution limited the ability of voters to vote by mail, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.560 and rather than go through the arduous process of going 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:02.200 for a constitutional amendment, they just decid to legislatively, you 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.280 pass a law which does not negate the constitutional provision. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.520 I believe that was unconstitutional. You had similar issues arise 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:15.600 in Wisconsin. There was a three to four decision. It 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.120 went against my point of view in this particular case, 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.000 with a stinging dissent at the then Chief Justice on 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.840 the Wisconsin Supreme Court talking about if we don't follow 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.560 the rule of law in this state, it will forever 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.040 be this way. So it really does matter. Now there 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.800 is a lot at stake, including redistricting. You have two 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.040 candidates that will be on the ballot, and I don't 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.840 think most people in Wisconsin or the country are focused 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.160 on it. And this is going to be an argument 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.440 I will make to you long before the twenty twenty 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.840 six elections get here. If Democrats ever get a hold 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.840 of the House and or the Senate, they're going to 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.640 be impeaching Donald Trump ten twelve to fifteen times. It's 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.400 not going to stop because that's the only thing that 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.920 they can cling on to. That and of course their 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.240 defense of men's rights to play women's sports, and putting 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.400 the rights of illegal immigrants over the safety of Americans 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:16.960 and somehow calling it a constitutional crisis if you identify waste, fraud, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.080 abuse and corruption and government spending well over one hundred 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:24.120 billion dollars identified now and we're just getting started. But anyway, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.560 it would also you know, they will decide the fate 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.160 of the Republican twenty eleven law that ended collective bargaining 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.600 for most of Wisconsin public employee unions if parts of 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.960 it were struck down by a lower court judge this year. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:43.520 The candidate's only debate took place Wednesday night, last Wednesday, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.920 in a modest sized lecture hall at Marquette University Law School. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.680 And at the end of the day, voters you know, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.520 have now begun to cast their ballots as of today 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.680 in this pivotal Supreme Court case that will determine whether 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.120 liberals keep this limit majority on the highest court in 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.040 what is a critical battleground state. Anyway, here to weigh 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:09.280 in on the ramifications of how important this is is 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.600 former Governor of Wisconsin. Friend of the program Scott Walker 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:18.360 is with us now president of the YAF Young American Foundation, 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.760 warning us about how important this election is. Governor, great 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:22.840 to have you back, How are you? 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.480 Thank you, Sean, Thanks for me on and thanks for 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.040 as usual being on top of the most important things 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.359 out there in this case that probably most people listening 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:31.240 don't even know about. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.359 Yeah. The polling as of March ninth and tenth showed 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:41.200 a forty seven forty seven split Now for the Conservatives 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.240 to have a majority on the court. That means that 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.520 that means that Trump Republicans in Wisconsin are going to 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.320 have to show up. This is going to be that 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.840 kind of election, a base election, that's going to be 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.320 you know, who gets more of their people out to 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.000 the polls. And again I'm worried that most people are 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.760 aren't aware of what's happening in two weeks. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.600 Well, that's exactly right. Anybody listening, not just those of 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.520 us from Wisconsin, but anyone who knows anybody, a business friend, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.920 an ally, an old schoolmate, whoever it might be, needs 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.240 to tell them how important this is. Because we know. 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.000 The good news is we know that if all are 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.560 nearly all of the people who like me voted for 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.760 Donald Trump here in Wisconsin last November, if we show 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.000 up to vote, we will win this election. But historically 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.760 there's a big drop off. And that's particularly true in 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.399 the research we've done of people who cast about for 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.040 Donald Trump and Jdvan's last fall. Many of them, several 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.720 hundred thousand of them are people who don't traditionally vote 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.680 in the spring elections. And so our case has been 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.520 made in why it's such a national issue, not just 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.640 the things you mentioned in state, certainly the reforms I did, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.560 school choice, voter I d all those things are at 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.159 stake in this election, because they'll all go away if 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.800 there's four radical activists on the court. But just nationally, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.320 if you care about ensuring that Donald Trump can continue 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.280 to do the final animal job he's doing, just look 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.680 at this weekend the loan as an example. We saw 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.200 what one judge can do to try and stop President 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.360 his administration or trying to send back some of the 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.600 worst people in the world, the worst criminals out there, 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.440 back to the countries of origin. Imagine Susan Crawford Deliver 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.879 running in this race and three others on the Wisconsin 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.840 Court blocking that from happening in the state of Wisconsin. 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.160 Then on top of that, she said, I mean her. 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.679 The people campaigning for her, they sent out of Nailing 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.160 for one of these fundraising calls. She appears on it, 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.920 and they actually said in the invitation that their plan 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.639 with her winning is to take two House suits currently 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.280 held by Republicans and Jerry Manner them in the Democrat 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.960 controlled seats. This is what it's all about. So why 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.080 George Searles, Rex Hoffman, J. D. Brisker and others are 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.160 spending millions of dollars here we can win we can 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.160 counter that. But if we get the right people out, 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.320 and that means everybody voted for Trump, he's got to 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.120 vote this spring for Brad Shimmel. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.760 All right, So it's very very important now, is there 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:04.840 is is there any you know, centralized organizational effort to 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:09.560 get conservatives to the polls for this election that's going 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.240 to take place on April first, and early voting had 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:13.040 just started today. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.800 It started today. My wife and I live in Waukeshat 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.160 County and the town of Delop who we're voting today 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.080 and made the pitch. The good news is the movement 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.240 has woke up. So besides the Republican Party Wisconsin, besides 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.640 the Shimel campaign, which is Shimmel for Justice dot Com, 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.320 besides the RNC and others, you've got every major group here. 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.560 Elon Musk has got his super pac invested, who helped 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.640 us out win this last fall. You've got Turning Point Action, 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:44.320 You've got Heritage Action, You've got Americans for Prosperity, You've 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.960 got all these groups and so many others out there 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.560 like the out plowing away. But it's going to take 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.120 all that and more, because again, why does George Soros 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:54.960 Carrerots not just because he wants to get rid of 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.919 the reforms I did years ago as governors. It's because 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:00.920 they want to stop the Trump agenda dead in its tracks. 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.280 And they know if they put one more not just 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.880 a liberal, but an activist justice on the Supreme Court 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.719 in Wisconsin, they will do everything in their power to 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.560 block the Trump agenda and to flip the House majority, 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.840 potentially even before the twenty twenty sixth elections. We cannot 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:18.520 let that happen. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:23.120 You know what's amazing about this is the fact that 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.920 you know, this election has taken place, and so few 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.240 people know about it. I'm glad that all these groups 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.879 are now mobilizing, and I think they're going to pay 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.720 a play a very critical part if we're going to 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:39.920 win this, you know, win those runoff basically. And why 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.640 did they schedule it at such an odd time? I mean, well, 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:44.160 that's just the. 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:47.000 Case with these spring elections, and you know right now 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:49.880 there's a four three split. The last several years since 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:53.360 President Trump's been in office, Eric Holder and the liberals 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.960 and Soros funding and all this have systematically gone after 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:00.560 our Supreme Court. But that this race is even more 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:05.720 critical because the fourth Justice who's left of center is 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.080 someone who's been on the bench for twenty five years. 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:11.200 She still believes in some degree in president, but she'll 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.479 be gone after this election if they elect the fourth 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:19.240 truly activist one. This is just critical in terms of 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.400 what can be done here. I was just last night, 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.359 for example, with Donald Trump Junior making the case nearby 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:26.919 my home in Waukesha County. My hope is in the 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:29.120 next two weeks we'll get President Trump in here because 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:32.440 I think the president being here is president forty seven 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:34.880 forty seven. You mentioned that poll done by the state 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.760