WEBVTT - Last Man Standing 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:05.480 This is the Sean Hannity Show podcast. I'm not sure 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.680 what I'm gonna talk about, slow news day, anything happening 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:13.960 out there, Lynna, anything news worthy, anything worth talking about. Anyway, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.080 Glad you with us Sean Hannity Show. Right down our 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.599 toll free telephone number. We'd love to hear from you today, 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.520 eight hundred nine four one. Sean, you want to be 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.240 a part of the program. Let me start because I am. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.760 I'm taking this seriously because I know a lot of 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.920 you today are disappointed. I know a lot of you 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.600 are upset. I know a lot of you are angry. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.919 I know a lot of you feel frustrated. I get it. 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:42.120 I pay very close attention to what my audience says, 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.520 and I want to address this head on. I want 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:50.279 to start in Indiana. You know um I and I've 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:55.120 got to say, the amount of effort that people have 0:00:55.280 --> 0:01:01.880 put into their decision to choose a candidate is beyond admirable. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:07.200 I don't question anybody's motives here. You know, I have friends, 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.640 we have listeners to this program that supported any one 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:16.360 of the seventeen original candidates. I understand firsthand because I 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:22.000 hear from people every single solitary day, how you feel 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.200 about things that I I take it all to heart. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.480 I understand how strongly many of you supported Ted Cruz, 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.399 who got out of the race. Last night, I'm watching 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.880 what some people are saying that up this is the 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.000 end of the Republican Party. O. They're saying they're not 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.160 gonna vote for Trump. Uh, the never Trump people, They're 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.800 gonna stay home. Others pledging to vote for Hillary. I 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:53.280 am extraordinarily appreciative and sympathetic to how you're feeling, and 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.600 appreciative of the amount of effort that you have put 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:02.720 in two picking candidates. Some of you have literally you know, 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.960 when your candidate lost or got out of the race, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.400 you would switch to another candidate. That candidate loses, you 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.920 go to another candidate. And it's it's the fact that 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.280 you're so involved and care so much about the direction 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.760 of the country is what we probably all agree on, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.040 even regardless of which of the seventeen people maybe originally 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:28.080 you were supporting. Now I have watched up front and 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.799 close and personal what it takes to run for president. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:40.240 I have beyond um. I just respect, a deep, abiding 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:45.600 respect for what it takes for somebody to put their 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.959 hat in a ring to vote. In the case of 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.760 Senator Cruise, over a year of his life. It takes courage, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.560 It takes commitment. It is a blood sport. It is 0:02:55.600 --> 0:03:01.240 an ugly, ugly profession. By every stretch. Ted Cruz ran 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:06.320 as hard, He ran as tough a campaign as any 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.960 candidate I have ever witnessed. And the end he was 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:14.280 taking risks. I love risk taking. He played the ground 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:19.160 game better than anybody else. He was thinking ahead and 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.359 he just did by the By the end of the day, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.640 he concluded he couldn't get to where he wanted to 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.959 be and he fell short. That doesn't mean that Ted 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:32.280 Cruz is out of the presidential race or presidential running 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.400 business forever. One of the things that's so impressive, I 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.680 can go back and make the case, I think a 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.480 compelling case for all seventeen of these guys from the 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:47.360 very beginning. Now, I want to take you back. If 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.400 you want to understand how did we get to this point, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.960 How did Indiana? Why did Indiana vote the way they 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.400 did yesterday? If you want to understand this election, there's 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.880 only one way to do it, in my mind, is 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.360 you got to go back to day one. You gotta 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:09.160 go back to the conditions on the ground, people's perceptions. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.920 How did this become a massive insurgency year. I've said 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:18.200 it many many times. We look the stage was set. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:24.120 The two finalists in this election, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:30.120 You've got two very different people, both outsiders, both hated 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.960 by the establishment, and together they were able to blow 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:42.080 away really very solid, seasoned politicians. I think what was 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.320 the strongest Republican field in my lifetime and the largest, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:53.799 and literally they crushed some wonderful people. I stand behind 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.960 a statement I've I've made many times on this program. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.160 I think Rick Perry would have been a great president. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:03.920 Bobby Jendle is an intellectual rock star. Scott Walker has 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.520 done miracles in the state of Wisconsin. John Kasich, same story. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.440 Nicki Haley didn't run, but same story with her. Then 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.400 you've got senators that have have done a fabulous job, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.760 starting with tedor Senator Ted Cruz. The reason Ted Cruz 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.120 has done so well in this election as he had 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.200 the strength and courage and I said it many times 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.279 in interviews with him to stand when the rest of 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.440 those Republicans were too weak and timid to follow up 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.039 and take seriously the promises they made. To you, the 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.360 American people. But the question here is how did how 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:44.600 did a guy that has zero political experience like Donald 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:52.520 Trump defy all conventional political gravity and beat sixteen of 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:57.560 the best Republicans in the country. How did that happen? 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.440 What happened here? What's what's been going on here? Now? 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:06.000 I'm reading some comments that are rather shallow and uh interesting, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.080 But you know, some blaming talk radio, some blaming Fox News. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.800 By the way, I wish I had the power some 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.400 of you think that I had, because if that was 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.120 the case, I promise you Barack Husayin Obama would never 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.839 have been elected the president of the United States. I 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.440 wish I had that much influence. I don't, and by 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:29.000 the way, neither does anybody else. And frankly, that analysis 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:34.159 is so shallow and frankly predicated on a a belief system, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.440 a premise that people are stupid, that the people of 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.719 Indiana must have been stupid, that they were bamboozled, that 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.960 you know, they have no clue what they're doing, they 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.359 have no idea what they're voting for. I'm not buying 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.160 that for a second. I don't believe that for one minute. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:59.479 This is and has been a voter rebellion, probably unlike 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.520 any we will ever see in politics again in our lifetime, 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.240 and I really believe that. In other words, do you 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:13.080 really think the people that were in Indiana yesterday again 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:18.080 another record state record numbers voting for Donald Trump? Do 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.560 you think they had no clue about Donald Trump's you know, 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.760 many controversial statements or flaws if you want to call 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.480 him flaws, or that he was unconventional. Do you think 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.240 they didn't know that? Do you really believe they didn't 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.200 see these things? You really believe they didn't see his mistakes? 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.679 You know, all of these things were talked about in 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.960 in in detail minutia on a regular basis throughout the 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.880 whole campaign. So the voters, let's just stick with Indiana 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.240 for a second, but it was other states as well. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.680 But the voters still chose him. And we've got to 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:59.920 ask a question that very few analysts, media types are asked, 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.400 because they've been wrong from the beginning on all of this. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.640 Why Why did the voters choose him? There's gotta be 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.200 a reason. Well, it's the media's fault. No, it's not 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:15.400 the media's fault. The media, if anything, they didn't want 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:21.080 Cruise or Trump the establishment didn't want Cruise or Trump. Now, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:26.800 I contend that the voters of Indiana knew exactly what 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.920 was at stake last night. They knew it was do 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.560 or die for Senator Ted Cruz. They knew that they 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:38.160 had more influence in deciding whether this was gonna be 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:44.040 a contested convention or Republicans in Indiana allowing Trump to 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.880 go forward, probably with the nomination. So the question is, well, 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.679 why did they vote that way? Well, I'm gonna try 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.200 and answer that question because I have a theory. I 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.080 have said from the very beginning, if you look it, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:05.200 the Trump phenomenon, an outsider, no experience, a businessman, et cetera, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.880 he is a direct result of what I would describe 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:17.640 as the institutional failure of Republican and democratic governance, especially 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.120 Obama's governance, if you even want to call it that. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.760 All the things that I have laid out for the 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:30.840 Republican Party as of late, I suggested Republicans run on ideas, 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.200 run on a vision. I suggested that they secure the 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.560 borders first. I suggested that they adopt the Penny Plan 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:42.240 and challenge Obama's reckless spending and and building up of 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.520 our nation's debt. I suggested that they advance and help 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.960 people understand what health care savings are about. I suggested 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.480 that they used the power of the purse. I suggested 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:59.200 at the time that they also stick with their promises, 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:04.199 which was at least the fund parts of Obamacare. They resisted. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.440 They resisted every step of the way. And as a 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:13.000 matter of fact, they Republicans facilitated the Democrats and especially 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.280 the Obama agenda because they were too timid, and too 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.000 weak and too afraid, and they were they were so 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.360 paranoid they would be blamed for a government shutdown. That 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:28.640 essentially they conceded every single solitary step of the way. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.720 More recently, they took a stand against the president's Supreme 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.040 Court nomination. I'm shocked they haven't caved on that yet. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.880 That doesn't mean they won't. So they've lacked an agenda 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.600 for a long time. They've shown nothing but weakness. They've 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.839 allowed Obama's entire radical agenda to be passed. They cared 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.040 about their own power. That's why they wouldn't shut the 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.440 government down. That's why they wouldn't use the power of 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.240 the purse. That's I think the final the straw that 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.960 broke the camel's back was the promise on executive amness. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.280 D I think that was the straw that broke the 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.600 camel's back. What have I said every day that this 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.559 election is going to be about. We now know that 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.360 of American families do not have a single member of 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.640 that family in the workforce, not one. How many times 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.679 have you heard me say ninety five million Americans are 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.640 out of the labor force. That is a forty five 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.200 year high. It's ridiculous the amount of people that can't 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.680 find a job. How many times have I mentioned fifty 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.679 million Americans and poverty, forty six million Americans on food stamps. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.320 And then when Republicans given the power of the purse, 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.040 what did they do with it? Nothing? They ended up 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.360 being complicit and racking up under John Bayner nearly five 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.920 trillion dollars in new debt. They didn't fight for fiscal austerity, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.520 They didn't fight for balanced budgets. They didn't fight, you know, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:01.480 Republicans didn't want the wall built. Every single exit poll 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.839 from every single state, including Indiana, last night, showed that 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:10.640 people care about jobs and the economy. They care about 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.920 trade deals that have hurt American manufacturing and taken away 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:19.120 American jobs. They care about illegal immigration that has allowed 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.000 what fourteen million people in the country, which who are 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:27.200 all competing for American jobs and driving down wages. And 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.720 the truth is Republicans, let's be honest here, they never 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.240 wanted a wall. You know why, because they cared too 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:41.360 much about appeasing their business buddies that donate to their campaigns, 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.520 that thrive on cheap labor. Democrats they just want a 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.840 long term demographic shift that's gonna keep them in power 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:53.520 for generations. Now, fundamentally, all of those millions of people 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:59.600 are fed up, they're disgusted collectively, they're angry, they're frustrated. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.880 Rightly so with Washington d C. Every pole exit pole 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:09.680 showed between fifty five and six of Republicans feel betrayed 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:14.120 by d C. Republicans And to be honest, Americans, the 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:19.800 hard working American people have been screwed royally. And this 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:25.200 primary why you saw record numbers, why you saw an 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:31.000 outsider chosen, is because the only real interpretation that you 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:35.600 can get is people have had enough. You can add 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.120 to this the wars they we send the sons and 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.640 daughters of of children in Indiana to go fight and 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.959 bleed and die, only to have another war politicized, and 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.440 and then gains of Mosl and Ramadi and Felucia and 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.800 to crete, and then we give it back to even 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.120 a worse enemy, just like Vietnam. Fifty eight thousand people. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.800 How in God's name could we ever do this again? 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.920 You've got a you know, huge wealth, job creation markets 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.800 sitting there. It's called energy. Hillary wants to put the 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.240 cold business out of out of business. She doesn't allow fracking. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.040 We can't drill anywhere. You know how many millions of 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.360 jobs could be created as America became energy independent. We 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.360 don't do it, you know, shut down because of government 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:27.160 bureaucrats and regulation. We have schools that just suck. We 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.280 play more, we pay more per capitive per student with 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.920 the worst results. A health care system destroyed, and a 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.960 Republican party that wouldn't use any political capital to stop it. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.680 Inner cities destroyed. You know. Add to that a government 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.040 that gives a hundred and fifty billion dollars to the 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.840 number one state sponsor of terror. And I think what 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:53.280 happened here is simple. People have just said, with full 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.400 knowledge of who Donald Trump is, they said, screw it. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.480 We'll take our chances with him with an our cider, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:05.320 with a non politician, with a successful businessman. After what 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.920 do we got to lose? Even with his imperfections, people 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.760 chose him, and they chose him knowingly, and they chose 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.720 him in the biggest numbers we've ever seen in a 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.880 Republican primary. Now there's a reason for all of this. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.600 And for those that say, oh, Trump's not a conservative, 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.560 Trump's not, well's I'm gonna go over the many interviews 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:26.800 that I've done with him, and I'll tell you what 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.080 his agenda is, what he's told me. Can I vouch 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.600 for his sincerity, No, but I can tell you what 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.880 he's promising versus what Hillary is promising. A couple of 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.760 bits of news here. Trump has tapped Ben Carson to 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.440 help with the VP search. Hillary Clinton gets what she 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:50.680 outspent Republican candidates, all of them to stop Trump. In 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.280 other words, they spent five point two million on ads 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.240 with anti Trump messages. Wow, already here we go, the 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.400 billy the trillion. They'll spend a billion dollars trying to 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.239 with negative ads. None of them work so far. Judicial 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.000 watch me get the green light to grill Hillary before 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.240 the FBI. That's an interesting development and I think one 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.160 we ought to pay attention to because I think a 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.000 lot of people have been ignoring. It's Sanders supporters are 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:23.000 starting a movement to dump Hillary. That's interesting. Uh, You've 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.480 got a pro life group applauding Trump's new higher you 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.480 got Huckaby says he's all in to help beat Hillary. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.080 Scott Walker endorses Donald Trump, and Bobby Jindal has jumped 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.360 on board, joining us now with his unique analysis. You're 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:39.880 gonna be mad at me in a second, and I 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.920 don't really care because it's just the way our relationship works. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.760 You get mad at me and I just keep going. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.560 You want to do you want to know? Do you 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.880 want to know what it's about? Oh? I'm I'm reasonably 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.160 certain I can guess. But go ahead. So I put 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.560 your name on a pole at Hannity dot Com. I 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.800 put you Marco, Ben Carson, other, Ted Cruze, John Kasig, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.560 Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jendle, Rick Scott, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.679 Rick Santourman, Rick Perry. In terms of who should be 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:14.119 Trump's VP, I want to take a guess who's winning? Um, So, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:19.760 Scott Walker, Scott Walker has hang on, that would be 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.800 the wrong answer, not Scott Walker. Okay, why don't you 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.520 tell us? Uh new king Rich. This is a sign 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.480 that my sisters have been calling in and voting over 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.040 and over and over, but they didn't even know it 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:36.800 was up there. I just put I didn't even announce 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.720 it yet. So anyway, if anyone wants to vote, they can. 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.960 It's it's it's it's very flattering in a long way 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.840 from where we are right now, that's maybe very flattering. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.359 You want to know why I actually liked the idea? 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.200 Can I tell you? And you're not getting other than 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.040 other than that we're very very close friends. It's not 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.159 that it's not has nothing to do with friendship, although 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.360 that would be maybe a small part of I can't 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:05.560 deny that. But there's two moments where conservatism advanced in 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.520 a great degree and was most successful, the Reagan in 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.560 our life, in my lifetime anyway, the Reagan presidency, and 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.000 when you became the Speaker of the House with a 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:19.000 contract with America and you ended welfare as we knew it, 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:23.080 the era big government ended. You gave us surpluses when 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.200 we had deficits. As far as the eye can see 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.320 when you first became Speaker, and I just think that 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:29.879 you know how to get the job done, and you 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.520 know how to fight, and I think you could do 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:36.479 the spine transplant that Republicans need. Well. I think Trump's 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.040 going to do a lot of the spine transplant him. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.480 I'm very impressed with the way he's handled this whole 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.920 thing so far. But but you raised a different question, though, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.640 which is I've been thinking about this. Someone to write 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.439 about this in the near future, you know, I've been 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.479 thinking about I was very privileged as a very junior 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:00.800 congressman to be part of the Reagan take over, and 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.960 then obviously as Speaker of the House, I was given 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.880 the great opportunity by the American people to be part 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.320 of the takeover in And I've been thinking a lot 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.639 about we have this extraordinary opportunity which which nobody in 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.600 the elite media understands yet. But you could have a 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:23.840 Trump tidal wave by November that increases our our votes 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.560 in the Senate, increases our votes in the House, has 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:31.560 a president whose message has resonated and strengthens us at 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.520 the state legislature and governor's level. And the question then is, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:42.960 given everything we learned of what is the maximum amount 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.440 of change you could get by Easter of two thousand seventeen, 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.240 and how would you go about doing it? Because when 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:54.440 I look back, Reagan accomplished a lot, the House Republicans 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.360 accomplished a lot, but we never really quite broke through. 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:01.640 I mean, the bureaucracies in the Union and the lobbyists 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.800 all managed to slow everything down to a point where 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.240 we didn't quite get the scale of change we should 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.199 have in those two moments. And so I begun to 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.399 really think a lot about if we could win a great, 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:19.440 decisive victory in November, how do we maximize our impact 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:23.679 so that by Easter we really have put America on 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.080 the road to being great again. And we really have 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.800 put America in a road to creating jobs and helping 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:34.240 the poor and really creating a new era of optimism 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.040 and opportunity and positive thinking. You know, I've asked you 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.000 if the the statistics I give out are too insurmountable, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.879 the debt, the deficits, the number of people out of 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.560 the labor force, in poverty, on food stamps, And you 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.359 always say no, And I sometimes it's the numbers to 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:57.000 me are so overwhelming. Sometimes I go through. I've ascalate 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.160 back and forth. Can this really happen? Can it really 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.480 be fixed? I don't really know the answer. I think 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.640 it can. Of course it can. When when we came in, 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.680 everybody thought you were gonna get deficits forever. It took 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:13.040 us four years to turn around. With John Kasi's leadership 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:18.520 at the Budget Committee uh by Jack Lou who is 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:22.119 now the Sector of the Treasury, was then Clinton's Director 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.880 of the Office of Management Budget and Lou in August 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.359 of nine holds the press conference and says, at the 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.520 rate we are currently going, we will pay off the 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:38.320 national debt by two thousand and nine. Now that that's 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.200 a fact, that's that's not a theory. We know how 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.920 to do this. With a leader like Trump, we can 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:47.080 actually get it done. If you take the amount he 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:52.439 saved on the woman skating rink, which he got done 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:59.320 in uh literally such a short period of time and 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:01.600 for so lo all money that if you took that 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:05.920 exact same formula and applied it to, for example, building 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:09.800 a high speed train from Washington to Boston, not under 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:16.040 federal bureaucracy programs, but under entrepreneurial programs, you could afford 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:18.919 to do things that that are unimaginable with the federal 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.679 bureaucracy because they make everything five times more expensive than 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:25.840 they should be. I talked a lot about how did 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.400 we get here? I think a big factor and Trump's 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:32.399 success has been the failure of Republicans and d C. 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:36.080 All these exit polls and all the states and territories 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:40.320 all say the same thing. Republicans feel betrayed by d 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.920 C Republicans. Do you think that's a big And Obama's 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:45.960 failure obviously is a part of it, but they didn't 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.480 stop the Obama agenda. Do you see it the same way? Yeah, Look, 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:53.320 there's no question that, Uh, you don't get an insurgent 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:57.040 like Trump unless you have people really angry. And you 0:22:57.080 --> 0:22:59.480 don't have people really angry if they think their leadership 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.560 is effect So what you've had buildings starting in two 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:06.080 thousand and ten is a steady increase year after year, 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:09.880 this sense that Washington is totally out of control. I'm 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:15.440 working on a on a project to take back Washington, uh, 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:17.359 and looking at what would it really take, not not 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:19.920 just to win the presidency or to win the House 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:22.120 or Senate, because we're all sick and tired of being 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:24.159 promised things and having them that happened. But if you 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:28.320 really wanted the American people to run their national capital again, 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:32.120 if you really wanted to bring under control the corrupt, 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:36.399 in some cases criminal bureaucracy at the Veterans Administration, if 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:39.640 you really want to bring under control the State Department, 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:42.679 which so often does not represent American interests. You know, 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.120 these are really big changes. And I think we need 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.080 to have a program for this fall of the size 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.080 of change. And then we need to remind everybody all 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.719 the stuff you're really sick of. Are the people who 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:58.560 support Hillary Clinton. There's an idea that I'm gonna I'm 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:00.720 stealing right out of your playbook that I think would 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:03.840 be wise for Trump to use, and Paul Ryan to use, 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.160 and every Senate candidate and every House member to use. 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.480 And that is because the trust level is so low. 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:13.960 If Republicans want to accomplish these things, they gotta get reelected. 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:16.800 You gotta have a Republican House, Senate and a Republican president. 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.840 But why not put those ideas down on paper? In 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:24.720 other words, promised to build the wall, promised to reform immigration, 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:27.600 that if the Director of National Intelligence, as isis, will 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:30.399 infiltrate the refugee population. You don't let him in until 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:34.520 it's safe. Repeal and replace Obamacare with health savings accounts 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:38.919 that you will negotiate better trade deals, pursue policy of 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:43.040 energy and dependence within four years, work towards a balanced budget. 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.439 How you gonna deal with isis, how you rebuild the military, 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:51.160 how you make a commitment to veterans. Undo the the 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:55.400 Iranian Deal? Why not put it down? Support the Second Amendment. 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:58.560 You know Trump is gonna name the justices of which 0:24:58.560 --> 0:25:01.000 a pool of justices, which each is for the Supreme Court? 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:04.000 Do that? Why not do this ahead of time and 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:05.960 then check off the list? You did it, it worked, 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:07.639 Why not do it again? I would? I think I 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:09.600 would do it in two phases. I would do it first, 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:13.359 taking the kind of list you're describing, I would build 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:17.240 it into a platform that is really dynamic and really 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:21.840 exciting and really forward looking, and pass it in Cleveland. 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:25.560 And then I would take the ten biggest ideas, the 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:28.200 ones that moved the most votes, the ones that that 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:30.960 build the most momentum, and I would turn those ten 0:25:31.040 --> 0:25:34.760 into a contract, and sometime in late September, I would 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:39.000 bring the entire Federal Party together, House, Senate, President and say, look, 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:41.480