WEBVTT - Debunking The Myths - July 1st, Hour 2 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.040 Well, we'll come in. 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.800 To your city, gonna. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:10.039 Play our gears and saying you a consciousse will be 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:16.640 desire jail and if you want a little banging. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:17.680 Union, I come along. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.479 I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly, 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.759 it is so much money in a moment of such inequality. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:25.640 This isn't just. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.680 About mister mom doniy as an individual. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.360 This is about the message that the people of New 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.000 York City are trying to send to our party. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:35.400 What do you think the message is? 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:36.239 Uh? 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.120 People want to be able to afford to dream and 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.000 they want a government that bets on them. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:48.760 Freedom is back in style, welcome to the revolution. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:56.000 Were coming to your city, don't play again and saying 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:02.840 you a conscious silt On Hannity Show, more I'm the Scenes, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.760 information on breaking. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:09.600 News and more vote inspired solutions for America. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.800 Like Power two, Sean Hannity Show Toll Free. It is 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:14.759 eight hundred and nine point one shown if you want 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.160 to be a part of the PROGRAMM right. So, with 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.720 the one big Beautiful bill being passed in the Senate, 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.320 now we'll go to the House. Plans now as of 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.520 today are that it will be debated and voted on. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:31.120 Hopefully tomorrow, uh, and hopefully passed. And UH, there's more 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.040 good in it. But as I said both on radio 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.360 yesterday on TV last night, there are a lot of 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.080 provisions policies I don't like, uh, and there's a lot 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.080 more cutting that I want to see. And I think that. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.920 But with that said, this legislation, you know, the it'll 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:53.120 be the largest tax cut in American history, and Democrats 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.640 will be voting for the largest tax increase in American history. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.760 The bill also eliminates taxes on tips, and over time, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:05.680 eighty eight percent of seniors will not pay taxes on 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.720 Social Security as a result of this bill. There is 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.200 a misnomer and a myth, Oh, these tax cuts, we 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.520 can't afford them. We've got to pay for them, which 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.840 is the argument that some of my friends make. And 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.520 I'm like, no, you're wrong, because Reagan cut taxes from 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.480 seventy to twenty eight percent the top marginal rate, and 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:28.400 revenues to the federal government actually doubled. The bill not perfectly, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.200 but it eliminates you know, it tackles waste, fraud and 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.440 abuse of Medicaid, creates a new work requirement for able 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.359 bodied Americans. You know, just to fact check it. There's 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.760 been a lot of demagoguery going on, and thank god, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.480 most Americans, unlike me, were sleep last night. You know, Oh, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.560 only the wealthy benefit from the tax cuts. Well, we're 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.560 going to introduce shit a Kurt Couchman, a senior fellow 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.680 in Fiscal Policy for Americans for Prosperity, and he points 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.560 out it doesn't make it true because they say it. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.480 The twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act helped all Americans, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.359 not just a fortune a few, and lower taxes across 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.760 every income level and simplified you know, filing by doubling 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.240 the standard deduction and adjusting it annually annually for inflation. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.480 The bill cuts Medicaid for people who rely on it. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.200 That's another lie. The reforms to Medicaid and the One 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.640 Big Beautiful Bill aren't about cuts. They're focused on fixing 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.639 a broken system to better serve the people that need 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.839 it most, and you know, and putting in work requirements 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.400 for able bodied people. You know, I thought, we're you know, 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.920 it is the reform that has been necessary for a 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.280 long time. The idea that Medicaid and medicare you get 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.320 the same service you literally paid nine times more in 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.400 some cases for the exact same medical procedure, if you're 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.880 getting Medicare versus Medicaid. It's insane. And the idea that 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.320 tax cuts somehow, Oh, no, it's going to explode the deficit. Well, no, 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.960 hopefully it's not going to explode the deficil because again, 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.640 Reagan doubled revenues by cutting taxes, and that's what happens 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.080 every time he cut taxes. But Trump's first three years 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.560 in office, when he cut taxes, it created record low 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.280 after record low unemployment for every American, for African Americans, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.799 Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African American 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.279 youth unemployment. That would be inclusive, that would be one 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.000 that's helping working men and women. Democrats voted against what 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.679 they want to keep taxing tips to the maximum level 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.960 and tax overtime to the maximum level and not incentivize 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:41.760 people to work harder. That's insane, and this is a 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.359 great first step. I want to see other things. I 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.919 didn't like the salt deduction in the bill, but on measure, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.080 it's the having been up all night, we did not 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.240 have the votes by eight am this morning because I 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.359 was up talking to senators all night. They did not 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.359 have the votes as of eight am this morning. And 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.880 then people say, well, you know, this is unfortunately the 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.080 way the swamp works, but it is the most conservative 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.520 bill I've seen in my lifetime. Kurt Couchman with US 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.760 Senior Fellow Fiscal Policy at Americans for Prosperity. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.599 How are you, sir, Hey San, I'm doing well. That 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.120 was all very well said, and I'm glad to be 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:20.760 with you today. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.240 All right, you have studied all of this, and you know, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.640 a lot of the demagoguery that we heard is like 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.520 the typical, you know, language that we hear every two 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:36.000 and four years during elections that Republicans of racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.880 is lamophobic. They want dirty air and water, and they 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.000 want grandma and grandpa ty dog and cat food before 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.880 Donald Trump throws them over a cliff in a wheelchair. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.080 And when they say, and they were out there saying 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.320 this only benefits the wealthy, that's a lie. When they 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.800 said this bill cuts medicaid for the people who rely 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.920 on it, that's a lie. That it will explode the deficit. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.520 You point out all three of those of major lies. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.320 Yeah, absolutely true. The tax cuts in this bill build 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.960 on the twenty seventeen tax cuts, and those have benefited 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:11.080 all Americans, sometimes directly through your personal income taxes, but 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:16.840 also through making investment more profitable and more investment going 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.960 into the economy increases our productivity and also our wages. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.720 There are provisions in this that will improve healthcare for 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.440 all Americans. It will shift resources from the inefficient, low 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.880 value green energy nonsense into the energy resources that will 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.240 make electricity cheaper for all Americans, and drive manufacturing and 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:38.920 innovation all across the country. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.200 Well, there's other things that the President's doing that will 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.240 benefit the economy also. It seems to have gone unnoticed 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.520 by most in the legacy media, but nobody really pays 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.520 attention to them anymore anyway. But I think it's a 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.800 big deal that the President has made this push and 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.479 as part of this build to push America towards energy dominance. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.960 Not only will that make us an energy rich country 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.279 and result in a lot of revenues that we're really 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.040 not planning on, but similarly create high paying career jobs 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.080 in the energy sector. The President was able to secure, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.040 through his trade policy and tariff policy, over ten trillion 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.280 dollars in manufacturing commitments for the next four years, and 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:27.520 in critical national security areas like pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips, 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.000 but also auto manufacturing. That's a big win again for 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.240 American workers, and that's high paying career jobs and they 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.840 won't be competing with Biden Harris, the illegals that are 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.120 being deported every day. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.440 Yeah, there are a lot of things going on right now. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.840 The administration is doing many, many different things that are 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.840 good for the country, good for growth. This bill also 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.400 includes a lot and it's not the only effort to 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.920 restrain spending. I get the spending and the debt under control. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.040 We had a full year continuing resolution that reduced appropriations 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.480 compared to the economy has requested recisions, which is canceling 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.960 appropriated spending, this wastehold that we don't need. The House 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.960 has past that, it's sitting in the Senate. That should 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.120 be the next thing they take up and pass. Cut 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:15.239 wasteful spending. There's more recisions requests coming. There are savings 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.320 the Trump administration could do on its own just by 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.880 changing some of the regulations for some of these programs. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.920 And then there's fixing the whole system. You know, the 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.400 federal budget system is totally dysfunctional and broken. It's amazing 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.840 that we can get the good things that we're getting 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.160 this year given that, But imagine if we had a 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:38.640 functional budget system, like all the incredible things that Congress 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.120 could actually deliver along with President Trump for the American people. 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.920 Let me ask you about this. I know that there 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:49.360 are some Congressmen and maybe justifiably so, and I understand it. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.719 But on the other hand, it is what it is 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.280 that are frustrated. They weren't up all night talking to 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.240 senators as I was, and I'm just telling you, I'm 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.280 giving you, you know how the sausages. We did not 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.079 have the votes at eight am this morning, and then 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.080 finally push came to shove and it was like, okay, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.439 finally they got the last vote that they needed. I'm 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.920 not going to get into personality. So the changes that 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.360 were made correct me if I'm wrong. This bill in 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.160 the Senate, which never in my lifetime, can I think 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.320 of another instance where this happened, saves more money than 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:29.920 the House bill, and some Republican Congressmen are upset that 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.600 any changes were made. But the problem is the Senate 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:38.679 has this parliamentarian and this process called reconciliation, which caused 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.080 them to have to make some changes, not really much 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.760 different in my view from what the House passed. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.120 Yeah, there are a lot of great savings in the 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.720 House past version. There are a lot of great savings 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.360 in the Senate past version. There have been so many 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.400 changes that we're still digesting what they've all been, and 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.440 of course we need to wait for the scorekeepers to 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.600 come out and say how much each provision saved costs 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.559 or whatever. But there's a lot of really good important things, 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.160 and that you touched on the border security and the 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.720 other defense pieces. One of the things that's really important 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.360 about that is that it avoided having to make a 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.839 deal with the Democrats when we did the full year 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.079 continuing resolution earlier in the year. That would have been 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.839 crazy expensive, and so we were able to get those 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.400 resources where they were needed without having to make a deal. 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.679 There are a lot of things that will have dynamic effects. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.920 There are expansions in health savings accounts and direct primary 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:34.120 care that will help to transform our healthcare system over 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.160 the coming years and decades. And of course there's just 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.080 so much more that needs to be done. We do 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.520 have too much spending, but there are narrow margins in 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.440 the House in the Senate, and so this was probably 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.120 the best that could have been agreed to under these circumstances. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.720 And it's also important to compare that to what would 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.599 have happened if these tax cuts had to be extended 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.960 in a bipartisan deal at the end of the year. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.319 A lot of the great reform that we're seeing would 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.040 be totally impossible. There'd be no way you could get 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.200 rid of the Biden green energy stuff. You couldn't make 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.760 the substantive changes to healthcare, you couldn't overhaul the student 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.480 loan program, you couldn't expand the provisions that will lead 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:20.520 to more investments that make Americans better off. So passing 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:25.160 or not passing this bill would end up being would 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.320 end up leading to a far worse deal because it 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.560 would have to be done with Democrats, and on every dimension, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.120 whether it's fiscal or the policies or anything else, it 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.840 would be inferior to what is currently on the table 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:37.679 and going to the House. 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:42.640 No, I totally agree with you, And again, there are opportunities, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.600 and I'm not going to count on it. I'm not 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.080 going to be naive because I've followed this process for 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.360 far too long. But there's a window of opportunity here 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.280 to get all these good things in the bill, from 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:58.640 border security and deportation money and defense spending that is 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.719 desperately need, did for the next generation of weaponry, to 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:07.080 energy issues, to tax cuts that are permanent, to really 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.280 looking out for working men and women in the service industry, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.000 and it just it has a lot of good things 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.160 in there. The energy sector is another one. Those are 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.120 things that are desperately needed. I'll take those as a 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.160 win now and hopefully they'll come back and do even more. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.720 That's right, Take the win, keep coming back, and there's 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.200 just a lot more work to do. But this is 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.920 something that is right there, ready to go. So let's 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.480 do it right now, and then let's keep working at it. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.920 I mean, Congress is not you know, we've done the 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.720 one thing and now we're done. No. No, there's a 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.720 lot more on the agenda that we'll need to be 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.920 done in the coming months and years. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.800 I totally agree with all of that. We appreciate your 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:51.920 time anyway. Kirk Couchman, Senior Fellow Fiscal Policy Americans for Prosperity, 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.079 Thank you, sir, Thanks. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.200 For having me. Sean good to be with you. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.679 All right, let's get to a busy, busy telephones. All right, 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.880 let's say hi to Cody and Alabama didn't like the 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.440 big beautiful bill. What's up, Cody? How are you glad 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:04.840 you called? 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.400 Oh, thank you Sean for taking our calls. My first 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.960 time I've ever gotten on. I'm just concerned about the 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.240 increased deficit and I hear up to four trillion and 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:18.800 that the spending cuts are delayed after supposedly after Trump's 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:19.400 second term. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.600 But no, that's not actually true, because the spending cuts 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.160 are ongoing with DOZE and they're trying to weed out 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.800 in every department. And DOZE has not stop since Elon 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.120 Musk left. Always fraud, abuse and corruption. And you know 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.480 last week, for example, they came up with billions of 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.440 dollars in discoveries. I mean, it's insane. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.080 Well, concerns of me for when my reading is that 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:48.320 so security will be cut by twenty three percent for everybody. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.640 And who told you that that's not true? Eighty eight 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.240 percent of seniors. No, they're not getting cuts, they're getting increases, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.280 and they won't pay taxes on Social Security. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.920 Why now they're talking eight years in the future. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.160 It'll be well, I'm asking a question, where did you 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:04.560 hear this? Who's telling you this? 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.320 Wall Street Journal? And a check it out The New 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.160 York Times. Both of them said the same thing. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.240 The New York Times isn't worth the paper it's printed 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:13.520 on number one, number two. 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:14.640 I agree with that. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:15.520 I agree with that. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.560 But yeah, you know, look, there is an assumption, and 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.640 I think this is where a lot of people make mistakes, 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.000 is that when you cut taxes, and I think you 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.600 would agree, cutting taxes on hard working Americans is a 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:32.240 good thing, right. I believe that eliminating tax on tips 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.760 and social and overtime, or at least reducing them greatly, I 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.400 think that's a good thing. Would you agree with that? 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:38.120 Yes? 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.560 Yes, And making the tax cut permanent, that's a good thing, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.360 rather than the largest tax increase in history, which would 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:45.760 happen if this bill expired. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.880 My biggest concern is increasing the death of another four 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.000 trillion dollars about it. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.720 But here's here's you're right, and I see the numbers 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.960 like you do. Let me tell you what's not factored in. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.920 Tell me what happened when Reagan dropped the top mark 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.120 general rate from seventy to twenty eight percent, what happened 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.800 to revenues to the federal government while he was president? 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:06.280 Do you know? 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.000 Yeah, they increased, No. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:13.120 They didn't increase, They doubled, Okay, and we ended up 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.880 with twenty one million new jobs and the longest period 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.560 of peacetime economic growth in history. When Trump first implemented 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.560 the tax cuts in twenty seventeen, what happened to the economy. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.320 We had three incredible years with record low after the 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.240 record low unemployment because of all the money that was 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.040 being invested because it was saved. And then that results 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.120 in more revenues to the government. The problem is they 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.560 take in more money, and then Congress spends more money. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.600 Now there's more that they can do. But to not 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.800 take the tax cuts, and to not take the money 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.880 invested in securing our border, getting rid of criminal illegals, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.200 not putting reforms in medicaid, et cetera, not bringing out 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.400 the next generation of weaponry, and investing in defense and 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.600 energy dominance, I think would be a mistake. The opportunity 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.120 would be missed, and I would you can just tell you, 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.000 having been up all night, that this is the best 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.720 they were going to get out of the Senate or 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.680 your calls on the other side. All right, let's get 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.280 to our busy telephones. Kelly in my free state of Florida. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:19.160 Alligator Alcatraz, the Big Donald Trump and Ron De Santis 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.120 were there today. It was great. What's going on? How 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:21.800 are you, Kelly? 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.600 Hey, I'm doing great. I'm here in red, the red 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.120 of Fort Myers. Anyways, I just want to call it. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.720 I love Fort Myers. I know you guys got whacked 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.680 really hard. As has the city come back after that 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.880 hurricane wiped out a lot of the coastal areas. 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.480 A lot of it. Surprisingly, Yes, it taken. It's going 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.080 on two years now, but the downtown area is back 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.640 up and running. Lot business centers are going on. 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.240 I'm glad to hear that. I really am. The people 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:50.320 in Fort Myers are great. 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.200 Yes, So I just called to sit there say hey, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.240 your show was great on Saturday night. I enjoyed it. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:03.800 Thank you, I said, two rows behind this wonderful bombshell blonde. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:04.399 I think. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.800 I wonder who, but yeah, it was. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.960 It was an excellent show. It's a shame they have 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.280 people on the East coast Clint see it. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.880 But yeah, Saturday now we're going to be We're rescheduling 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.200 that we're gonna we'll probably do it because a lot 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.879 of people go away for the summer. We'll probably do 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.240 it in the early fall. But we're definitely doing it. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.040 Just had unforeseen circumstances. Life happens, unfortunately, and I feel 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.960 bad that people were you know, I just feel I 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.840 never want to let anybody down. Ever, we're doing it. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.119 We're we're definitely going to do it. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.720 Great. Yeah, and you know, hey, maybe next time down 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.199 here in Fort Minors, I'll tell you it's this light 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.399 ever read and you'll handle You probably won't have the 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.200 two protesters which were sitting out there Saturday night. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:51.239 Hey, you had it. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.160 Oh there were two protesters outside. 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.840 Yeah, you had two protesters. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.000 We had the one liberal inside. I kept kept going 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.199 at him until he finally said, all right, I give up. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.240 I'm a conservative. I agree with you. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.840 That was funny. But yes, excellent, excellent show. And I 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.720 hope that poor guy got his jacket back from Jimmy 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.560 after Jimmy moudom for it. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:19.800 That's probably Jimmy's Jimmy is a pro and and uh uh, 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.560 look I did my level best on the comedy side 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.400 and had fun doing it and loved being around great 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.359 Americans like you that make the country great every day. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:31.080 Hey, you're very welcome. 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.160 You know what, what a beautiful what a beautiful hall, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.800 Ruth Eckert Hall was beautiful back to the brim, you know, 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.720 I don't know. It wasn't an empty seat in the house. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.720 It was great, all right, all right, my friend, God 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.320 bless you appreciate it. All right. So, well, this is 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:49.080 going to be interesting. Mac in Texas. I'm a Marxist 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.679 Mandani supporter. Uh, what's up? Mac? Tell me why you 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:58.119 support the Marxist and global entifata And there shouldn't be 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.720 any billionaires and we should take over the means of production. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.320 I've got a new cup we're gonna play on TV tonight. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:09.080 Apparently wants to buy up large parcels of land and 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.119 have community you know, communes for people. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.480 He well, sir, the uh, the reason I called in 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.000 is I think you were being way too hard on him, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.160 because he at least he comes out and he tells 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:26.240 you what he is. He tells you that he's a socialist, communist, 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:34.679 anti Semite, anti capitalist guy. And too many Rhinos in 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:36.880 the Republican Party that they don't you don't know who 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.960 they are. Until they get elected and then they screw 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.399 up the works. I am not a supporter of around 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.639 mom Downey. I just I just I do admire him 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.760 for coming straight out and saying what he is. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.560 Yeah, but he really doesn't come straight out. I mean, 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.560 he had three opportunities over the weekend taking them Like, 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.199 for example, if I asked you macint Texas, do you 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:00.360 condemn racism. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:01.199 Him, Yes, I do. 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:05.160 Of course, of course you do. If I asked you, 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.440 do you condemn anti Semitism? 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.639 Yes I do. But also here in America. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.160 Well, why well, he was given three opportunities to do so, 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:18.040 and based on some of his other previous remarks and 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.400 events that he attended, I think it's pretty obvious where 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.920 he stands, and that makes him as far as I'm concerned. 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:30.399 You know a guy that is radicalized and extreme to 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:35.600 the maximum level, and you're just applauding his honesty. But then, 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.800 you know, here's the danger we have as a country 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.720 is that this is what the Democratic Party as a 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.320 whole now is evolved into. That scares me. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.320 That is true that there are a lot of anti 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.879 Semites in the Democratic Party. That's why he doesn't denounce it. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:53.840 Those people are voting for him. 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.720 And well, that's that's the bigger picture I'm trying to 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.400 get people to understand. But his party is now run 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:07.880 by Donnie Marxistmondami. It's run by aoc Kasamine Crockett, the Squad, 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:13.520 Grandpa Bernie Pocahontas. And and there's a reason why you 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:19.760 don't hear from Hakeem Jeffries or Chucky Schumer is because 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.920 they're scared to death of their own face. And where 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.560 they would previously in a past life, they would have 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:29.800 condemned it outright. The party now is just owned by 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.520 the radicals, which maybe is a good thing. The American 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.600 people see it. We learned a lot about Kamala Harrison. 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.919 You know, in the last election, we saw Joe Biden 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:42.800 leave wide open borders and then lie to us, lie 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.480 about his cognitive state, lie about the economy. And we 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:50.520