WEBVTT - Dismantling DoE - February 20th, Hour 3 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.599 I new is fround the information overload. Our toll free 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:04.720 art number is height one hundred and nine to fourt 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.520 one sean if you want to be a part of 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:11.280 the program. The President said that the Department of Education 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.280 will be shut down, but that does not mean. What 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.680 it really means is there are better, more efficient ways 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.479 to educate our kids. It's really that simple. Now, Whether 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:26.720 it's vouchers where parents are giving given money directly and 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.960 they get to choose what schools they're going to send 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.680 their kids to. I guarantee it the schools they're going 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:33.360 to want to send their kids to, the schools that 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:40.400 teach reading, writing, math, science and history and put kids 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.360 in uniforms and have discipline, and I'm pretty sure those 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.320 are the schools most parents would pick. Or whether it's vouchers, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.760 letting you know, state and local officials handle it, although 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.120 I think there'd be a lot of waste for aud 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.920 abuse on the state level, especially in big blue states. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.320 We spend more per capita for a child on education 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.480 than any industrialized country. We have the worst results, I 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.320 mean more than any other country, and we come in 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.720 like thirty seventh in reading and forty of the math. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.160 It's pathetic it is. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.399 You can't do a worse job, and I believe a 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.080 lot of it's rooted in this unholy alliance between the teachers' 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.640 unions and the Democratic Party. Here's the president calling for 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.360 the Department of Education to be shut down soon. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.640 Do you want the Department of Education to be closed? 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.160 Oh, I'd like it to be closed immediately. Look, the 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.120 Department of Education's a big conjob. We're ranked so they 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.920 ranked the top forty countries in the world. We're ranked 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.399 number fortieth, but we're ranked number one in one department 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.160 costs per pupil, so we spend more for pupil than 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.559 any other country in the world. But we're ranked number forty. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.160 We've been between thirty eight and forty. The last time 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:45.840 I looked it was thirty eight, and then I looked 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.040 two days ago it came out the new list. It 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:54.400 came out at number forty. So we're ranked forty. Norway, Denmark, Sweden. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.800 I hate to say it. China, as big as it is, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.240 it's ranked in the top five, and that's our that's 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.120 a primary competitor. We're ranked number forty. So if we're 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.480 ranked number forty, that means something's really wrong. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.600 Right, Yeah, that means something's very raw, especially with the 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.639 amount of money we're spending. Nicholas here Donald's with US 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.480 Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow and professor of political science 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.000 at Suffolk Community College that's out in Long Island, New York. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:24.960 He's the host of the PAS Report podcast. Erica Donalds 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.840 is with US faculty at the Leadership Institute, CEO of 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:34.639 Optimum ED and the America First Policy Institute. By the way, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.480 happens to be married to our friend and a friend 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.880 of the program, Congressman Byron Doneals, welcome both of you. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.040 Erica will start with you, and you know, listen to 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.200 what the President has said. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:46.320 That means to me. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:51.040 The latter to success in life is education, and we 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.639 are failing our kids spectacularly, even though we spend more 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.560 money than any industrialized country. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.079 This's got to be a better way. I know there 0:02:59.080 --> 0:02:59.840 are better ways. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.880 We've talked for decades about vouchers, I at block rants 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.919 to the states. It never happens. I think now what's 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:07.560 going to happen. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.959 It is going to happen, and I believe Donald Trump 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.000 is going to be the school choice president. I was 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.040 at the White House at his school Choice round table 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.360 just a couple of weeks ago, where he expressed support 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.760 for school choice initiatives at the federal level, including the 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.160 Education Choice for Children Act, which could show up in reconciliation. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.000 As you probably know, but the Department of Education has 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.160 done nothing to advance academic achievement in this country. It 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.040 has wasted untold amounts of money. We're finding out about 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.360 a lot of those details now as DEI programs are 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.600 being exposed and cuts, thankfully, and there are better places 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.520 for things to go in the federal department, such as 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.960 the Justice Department handling the Office of Civil Rights. Hopefully 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.600 we move the student loans off to the private sector, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.880 not even moving those to Treasury. But certainly we want 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.760 to execute on the President's vision to eliminate the failed 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.000 Department of Education and expand school choice across our country, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.640 to give parents the choices that they deserve for what 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.120 academic environment is going to work that's for their children. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.200 No, it's so important to what you're saying, and you're 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.240 right on every level. It is amazing that our state 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.440 of Florida has the number one is ranked number one 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.400 in terms of public school education, and it doesn't even 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.120 have a state income tax. It is pretty spectacular and 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.640 a great achievement of Governor DeSantis and Rick Scott before him, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.560 and I'm sure if if Byron runs, he would continue that. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.839 Obviously, Nicholas, let's get your take. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.000 Well, in your previous home state of New York, we 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.120 spend about thirty. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.000 Thousand by the way, put the keyword on previous. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.760 We spent thirty thousand dollars a year to educate a student, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.159 and yet we performed twice below the basic proficiency levels 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.960 in the national assessment. So you see where it goes. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:49.960 But the Department of. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.120 And by the way, in New York City it's even more. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.600 It's thirty six grand per student, correct, going up. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.320 To thirty nine thousand person in the next fiscal year. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.800 But when you look at it, the Department Education has 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.080 spent over a billion dollars on diversity, equity inclusion over 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.160 the last couple of years, two hundred million of which 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:12.720 went to counseling programs for microaggressions, whiteness, white privilege, anti racism, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.359 as student proficiency rates have plummeted. So it's the Department 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.200 of Education has become nothing more than a racket to 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:24.600 fund money to left wing organizations to indoctrinate our children, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.440 and I think that the American people are sick and tired. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.840 Are spending more money than any other country to educate students, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.960 and yet we keep on dropping in the proficiency rankings, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.480 and it gets even worse at the higher education level 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:41.280 campus form. We've reported how the government is funding colleges 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.920 to develop tools five point five million dollars going to 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.560 a University of Wisconsin and a few other colleges to 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.880 develop tools to silence and censor Americans. Enough is enough 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.160 with the wasting of tax dollars. We need an education 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:59.680 system that actually promotes American values. American exceptionalism teaches students 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.039 how to read and write, and getting rid of the 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.400 Department of Education is just one small piece of fixing 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.960 the problems that we're seeing. We need to get rid 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.400 of the ideologically driven curricula. We need to institute school 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.760 choice where people aren't held hostage by their zip code 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.560 and could choose a succeeding school as opposed to the 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.240 failing school. And we need to demand accountability. And I 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.920 think that's the most important thing that this administration is 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.120 seeking to do, where block grants will flow with student achievement. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.160 If the school's not performing, they should not be receiving 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.680 more money from the tax dollar from the taxpayers. And 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.599 if they're teaching anti Americanism within their schools, well why 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:39.560 are we funding that? 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.760 Yeah, I mean, you raise such a good point, and Eric, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.560 I'll go back to you. I mean the word education. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.359 And I went to a seminary in high school and 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.599 I had to study Latin, although I was never any 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.000 good at it, and I studied theology and I went 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.120 to Mass every day and then actually ended up being 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.120 a very good thing in my life. And the real 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.679 derivative of education from the Latin means to bring forth 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.719 from with it. To me, that's predicated on an idea 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.000 that God put talent and every child on this earth, 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.840 and you've got to provide the sunlight, the water to 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.679 bring that talent out of them. And this is where 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:18.960 education has failed. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:20.360 And I'm not. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.240 Saying that kids shouldn't have to study and memorize, et cetera, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.200 et cetera. I am saying that we're not finding their 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:32.760 talents and we're not building those talents and nurturing those 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.880 talents so that they turn that into a way to 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.080 be their best self. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:41.040 Later in life. Is that a fair analysis, Absolutely. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.840 And our schools are monopoly of public education has been 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.520 utilitarian for many years. It is not bringing out the 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.640 best passions of a child to help them succeed in life. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.880 It's not teaching them cultural literacy to take forward our 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.440 republic to the next generation. So it's not achieving even 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.760 the aims of education in the as you just referred to. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.360 We used to say they were test preparation factories, but 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.280 they're not even doing that anymore, as we've seen in 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.800 the NAPE scores of the national report cards, where half 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.160 of our students are failing and only a third are 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.240 actually reading and doing mathematics on grade level. So it's 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.640 failed in every sense of the term. And Nicholas hit 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.640 the point every parent needs the opportunity to choose a 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.680 school that is working best for their child. But more importantly, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.440 that will give rise to a free market that's going 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.760 to bring new innovation, access and the type of schools 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.680 that you and I are looking for for our children 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.280 and grandchildren out into the marketplace when we eliminate the 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.280 education monopoly that's currently in place. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:40.640 All right, quick break right back. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.880 We'll continue more with Nicholas Giordano and Eric adnald Is 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.480 on the other side, as Donald Trump now pledging to 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.360 eliminate the Department of Education and what does that mean 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.280 for parents? What does that mean for states. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:57.320 Education? 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.319 Oh, I'd like it to be closed and made the 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.040 look the Department of Education is a big CONJAB. We're 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.880 ranked so they ranked the top forty countries. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:07.040 In the world. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.360 We're ranked number fortieth, but we're ranked number one in 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.199 one department costs per pupil, so we spend more for 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.240 pupil than any other country in the world. But we're 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.480 ranked number forty. We've been between thirty eight and forty. 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.320 The last time I looked it was thirty eight, and 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.080 then I looked two days ago it came out the 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.640 new list. It came out at number forty. So we're 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:32.520 ranked forty. Norway, Denmark, Sweden, I hate to say it. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.720 China as big as it is, it's ranked in the 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:39.319 top five and that's our that's a primary competitor. We're 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.400 ranked number forty. So if we're ranked number forty, that 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.240 means something's really wrong, right right. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.840 Our final moments with Nicholas Giordano and Erica Donalds, as 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.840 we discuss you know, the disaster that is the American 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:55.680 educational system and President Trump's desire to get rid of 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.520 the Department of Education and block reant money and vouchers 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.400 to of families and states and let local municipalities do 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.160 a better job with it. A while back, and maybe Nicholas, 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.880 you'll find this interesting. A while back, I ran into 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.120 a young person who had a dream and a desire 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.280 for a certain profession. I don't want to give too 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.040 many clues away here. I don't want them to know 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.280 I'm talking about them, to be honest. And this person, 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.520 you know, had decent, good, you know, decent grades in 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.640 high school, went to college four years and it was 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.840 obvious that this dream was never going to come to 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:38.479 fruition based on you know, practice testing, etc. For advancement. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.040 And I literally asked this person, do you know how 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.560 to study? And I happen to know somebody that is 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.680 probably one of the greatest tutors of all time. And 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.120 here's a person that had gone through gotten a full 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:56.160 college degree, and it ended up the person's very, very bright, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.080 but the person never learned how to study, you know, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.400 twelve years of school, four years of you know, college, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:09.079 and they still couldn't study for a fundamental exam, you know, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.760 when they want to pick up a specific profession, and 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.280 it took a little outside help to get them over 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.160 the hump. But I mean, I mean, that's a lot 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.960 of kids today. I don't think I'm overstating that, am. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.679 I You're not overstating it. The truth is that our 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.120 education system has devolved into one that's simply cycle students through. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.000 Whether or not they mastered the material is irrelevant. They 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.280 just get pushed on and on and on, and then 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.640 we created this myth that in order to be successful, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.200 everyone has to go to college, when the truth is, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.920 I mean, listen, in my classroom, I have about fifty 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.880 percent minority students. Yet every student, almost every student, fails 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.320 the Citizenship exam when I give it the first day 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.840 of the semester. And it really is a sad state 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.720 of affairs when the students know little about the country 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.000 that they come from. You know. Common Core was implemented 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.720 coerce to the States by the Department of Education in 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.040 twenty ten based on the idea it's going to improve students' 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.480 critical thinking skills, that they're going to perform better on exams. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.400 We have the data. It failed. It was a miserable failure. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.400 Student proficiency is at the lowest levels. Students don't know 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.120 as much as they used to and they are unable 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.640 to think critically. So we have to get to the 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.720 root of a problem because as the world's sole superpower, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.000 how long can we remain that way? If we have 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.800 a bunch of students that are graduating yet they can't read, write, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.280 or think, they can't solve problems. And that's what it's become. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.280 That's the challenge that we face, and we need serious 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.160 people to make serious reforms and fix this problem before 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:41.800 it's too late. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.320 You know, I agree with you. You know, there was 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.720 an interesting article Eric that I think you en buyer 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.400 would find interesting about, you know, the next generation of 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.800 millionaires and you know who they were talking about, trades people. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.160 Can you imagine? I mean, and I've encouraged. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.720 Young people that don't like school, they don't like studying, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:06.120 they don't like they don't like regurgitation, they love working 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.199 with their hands. I enjoyed the ten years I spent 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.640 in the construction business. I loved my time in the 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.720 restaurant business. That was twenty years of my life doing 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.640 both and is the best thing I think I ever did. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.600 And then I got behind a radio microphone and the 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.760 light goes on and to change my life. But you 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.800 know that was serendipitous, that that was not by design. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.439 But long story short, I think that that's got to 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.720 be a consideration too. We don't ever even factor that anymore. Well, 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.040 you got to go to college. You got to go 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.280 to college. And I was as guilty as any parent 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.240 because I insisted my kids go to college, whether they 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:39.800 liked it or not. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.679 Well, and many parents are waking up this, especially with 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.960 a level of anti Semitism that is on college campuses. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.000 Parents are looking for alternatives for their children to succeed 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.360 in life, whether that means going through trades or being 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:57.319 entrepreneurs themselves. American ingenuity and capitalism is what made us 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.000 the leader of the free world. And not unleash that 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.680 ingenuity and innovation in the education space, we will continue 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.520 to fall further and further behind. As Nicholas said, we 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.040 cannot be the world leader. We cannot continue to maintain 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.800 our place in the world if we cannot educate our children. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.559 We have already fallen too far behind, and we have 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.800 to bring a free market, capitalistic principles into education, give 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.440 parents power and eliminate the monopoly and bureaucracy in order 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:26.440 to propel us forward. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.760 I appreciate what both of you are doing, and you're 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.880 raising the level of conversation. We can approach like everything else, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:40.640 national defense, peace in the world, energy, border security and safety, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.960 law and order. We have to look at everything anew 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.840 and fresh, with fresh set of eyes and innovative ideas. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.680 Nicholas Jordonald, Thank you erica' donald's. We always appreciate you 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.960 coming back. Thank you for being with us. Eight hundred 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.320 nine to four one. Sean is our number. If you 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:20.360 want to be a part of the program. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.880 Breaking news all afternoon. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.840 When you get off work, be sure to check in 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.640 first for everything you missed during the day. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.680 This is the Sean Hannity Show. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.840 Let's get back to our busy phones. So many have 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.320 you been so patient today? Doug is in Louisiana. Doug, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.360 thank you for your patience. Glad you hung in there, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:29.880 and what's on your mind today? 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.960 Thanks Sean. Look, I think we've officially moved from Trump 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:40.160 derangement syndrome to Musk derangement syndrome. It's obvious that those 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.680 on the left have just absolutely lost their mind where 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.360 Elon Musk is concerned. And I think that's nowhere more 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.200 evident than them saying that he is not qualified to 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.520 be running DOGE when I think that he's possibly the 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.880 singlely most qualified individual on the planet to be doing 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.240 this job. And I think what he did at Or 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.520 is just proof of that. You know, he comes in, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.680 he buys one of the most successful companies on the 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.160 face of the earth, and then within an incredibly short 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:13.360 period of time I analyze this, the situation, synthesizes that 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.840 information and then cuts eighty percent of the workforce. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:18.800 And I don't know. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.920 About you, my tweet still went out after eighty percent 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.960 of the workforce was gone, you know, no loss of productivity, 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.720 no loss of efficiency. So the guy obviously is very 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.080 very good at what he does, and he's doing it 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:35.440 for us, the American people. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.720 I mean, it really is amazing. And one of the 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.520 reasons I was so happy to do this interview is because, look, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.480 there were obligatory questions that if I didn't ask, the 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.840 media would go crazy. Right, what do you do if 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.480 there's a conflict. I already knew the answer, but I 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.400 have to ask it. But and it's a fair question. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.720 To be honest, that is a fair question. I always 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.360 thought it was a stupid question, but I knew if 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.880 I didn't ask. But you know, the media, Hannity didn't 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.919 ask the most important question, who's in charge. I'm like, okay, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.119 I'll ask the stupid question, but just to get it 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.120 out of the way. And there were a few other 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.240 you know, are you going to take grandma and Grandpa's 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.440 Social Security away? 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.359 And and no, the answer is no. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:23.520 And but beyond that, that's not what fascinated me and 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.920 interested me the most about him. The fact that he's 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.480 doing this for free. And we got into in this 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.919 interview which we played part you know, more of it today, 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:40.160 part to today, and that is his desire to advance humankind. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.320 You know, not many of us wake up in the 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.520 morning and start thinking about, you know, how we can 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.080 put plants on Mars and put men and women on Mars. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.560 Most of us don't wake up in the morning figuring out, well, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.800 how can we have communications in one hundred countries that 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.560 are only have you know, sporadic communication capability? 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.080 And that what starlink does. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.200 You know, most of us can never be the chief 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.720 engineer of SpaceX and figure out a way to retrieve, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.960 retrieve the rocket as it's landing on Earth, so you 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.119 can reuse this thing and save a fortune. You know, 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:20.439 nobody really has ever gone as deep into robotics and 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.560 artificial intelligence and this whole project of neural link that 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.920 he's involved in, which might be able to He's hopeful. 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:34.719 He seemed very hopeful, actually, like inspiringly hopeful, that that 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.119 might be able to help the blind to see again, 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.840 or people with spinal cord injuries to walk again. And 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.160 then he'll work for free. And the President said this 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.479 is the most important work he'll ever do, because he's 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.239 and then he went into this long explanation about how 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.680 we need to save our country. And as I'm listening 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.560 back to this, and I remember sitting there kind of like, Wow, 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.000 We're lucky to have people like him in our country 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.840 that are willing to serve in spite of all of 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.800 the name calling and cursing and singing and ranting and 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.480 raving and raging that has gone on and hysteria that 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.760 has been associated with him, you know, trying to get 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.480 this country's but budget under control so we don't rob 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.440 from our kids and grandkids and stop robbing from the 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:22.280 American people. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.600 That's what fascinated me. Did you find the same thing? 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.760 Absolutely? And you know, one of the signs of a 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.560 great leaders to surround yourself with people that are smarter 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.920 than you are. And that's exactly what President Trump has 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.960 done in this case. He's surrounding himself with the best 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.960 of the best. And the fact that the left continues 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.480 to fight against it. If we cannot agree on getting 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:48.120 way rid of waste and fraud and abuse in our 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.639 federal government, I don't know what we'll ever agree on. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:55.040 It's maddening to me that they are screaming and moaning 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.560 about this. It just shows how far they have gone. 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.320 They've they've they've They're completely off the charts. 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:01.720 It really are. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:06.360 It's unbelievable, actually it really is. Doug Louisiana. I appreciate 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.000 your patience here. You made great comments. Thank you for 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.359 being out there. We were grateful to all of you. 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.760 Let's go to Paul in Texas. God bless Texas. What's up, Paul? 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:16.520 How are you glad? 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:16.920 You called? 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.760 Are Hey? Sean? So I'm going to start out by 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:23.320 saying you migrated from New York to Florida. I migrated 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.840 from Illinois to Texas, and like you. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:26.639 You made a good choice. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.320 Texas was definitely in my eyesight, there was no doubt 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.320 about it. I just I just like being near the 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.040 water a little bit more probably than you do. 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.040 I got you. I feel like I have moved to 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:40.360 a different country. It's just spectacular. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.680 So by the way, I feel the same way. And 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.160 I explained, you know, I'll tell you what I explained. 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.600 I've had many friends now come visit me, especially during 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.959 the winter months, and they come here and they're like, 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.320 what the hell am I staying up there? 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.800 For? What am I doing? And they see and I 0:20:58.840 --> 0:20:59.600 live in a townhouse. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:01.280 I don't even live And you know, I used to 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:04.159 have this big, sprawling, six and a half acre spread 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.600 in Long Island, New York. I don't have that anymore. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.320