WEBVTT - Confronting Evil - August 20th, Hour 2 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:32.520 I let him skin a simple man that can only 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.440 mean one thing on this radio program. That is all 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.560 things self proclaimed simple man that means all things Bill O'Reilly, 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.800 all things Bill O'Reilly or Billoreilly dot com. Mister O'Reilly, sir, 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.920 I know this is the highlight of your week. This 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.920 is the show you enjoy doing more than any other 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:51.720 show you do. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:53.800 How are you I'm. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.280 Fighting the hurricane off hand to hand out here? 0:00:58.400 --> 0:00:58.920 Is it bad? 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.560 I mean, I know, first of all, I've thought some 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.640 prayers are with everybody that's dealing with this. It Actually 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.440 the surf was way up yesterday in Florida, and I see, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.200 you know, obviously North Carolina is probably gonna get hit 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.080 the hardest, Virginia might get hit pretty hard, and I 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.160 saw that the Long Island may get some serious significant 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:20.120 impact from it. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.600 Surf is definitely up out here. I'm looking at it 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.400 right now. It's about one hundred and fifty yards away 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.120 from me, but big surf. And you know, surfers are 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.760 out there to take advantage of this kind of stuff. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.200 They take advantage of the big waves. Of course, I 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.880 could see O'Reilly out there now. If you don't know, O'Reilly, 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.039 if you're not a regular listener. Bill O'Reilly loves to 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.000 go snorkeling and scuba diving. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.039 That's because I'm a man of courage. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.560 You know, I'm not into it at all. You know 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.000 who's really good out of my son? 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.120 He does this spearfishing thing and he goes down twenty 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.320 five thirty feet, you know, and holds his He can 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.560 hold his breath forever. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.040 But it scares the crap out of me. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.520 You know, Hannity, I wish that you could hold your 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.400 breath forever. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.200 That may be the best line you've ever given on 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:09.600 this show. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:10.400 Thanks. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.360 All right, let me talk about peace around the world 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.839 and what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.600 And they didn't. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.560 He really didn't have as his goal and his stated 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.400 goal to have a ceasefire, and things have ratcheted up 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:32.720 since Monday. He has played a role in peace for India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:41.680 those twelve days, Rwanda, the Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Ethiopia. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.200 So you have to say that number two, we have 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.200 to point out that he inherited this colossal mess and 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.480 it does not surprise me that Putin is sending a 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.680 message he wants to get the best deal possible, and 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.520 NATO planes earlier today had to scramble as Russia hit 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.880 near the Romanian border in Ukraine, which of course NATO 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.960 Article five. As you know, an attack on one NATO 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.840 country is an attack on all, but Ukraine is not 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.160 part of NATO. I think that the New York Post 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.760 got it absolutely right. I think Lindsey Graham has it 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.839 absolutely right, and I think President Trump has it absolutely right. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.880 The only reason Putin went to the table was because 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:29.560 Donald Trump is squeezing Russia financially when he got the 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:34.440 EU trade deal completed. Inside that deal was nearly a 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.880 trillion dollars in committed monies for American energy that otherwise 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.640 would have gone to Putin and funded his war machine. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:47.080 He also helped the ANTE, and NATO is now paying 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.080 more than double what they were paying for their own security. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.240 He's providing weaponry to Ukraine, and he put a fifty 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.360 percent tariff on India if they continue to import Russian oil. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.920 So where we're going to go from here? I think 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.480 the only thing that Putin understands is understands his strength. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:05.640 This is my take that I'm going to give you 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.840 the floor. And I think just like there was an 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.080 article today which was very interesting to me where in 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:18.039 Iran there are moderates, a group of reformers that want 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.600 to make a deal with the US give up their 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:26.000 nuclear ambitions because the sanctions are destroying the country of Irad. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.200 And I think similarly, the way to bring Putin to 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:33.080 his knees is financially. His economy is almost completely based 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.120 on the sale of energy. If you cut off the Spickeott, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:36.920 you win the war. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:37.720 Thoughts. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.560 Oh, all right, well, the problem with that is China. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.480 Of course, it's China. Were to make a deal with 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.240 President Trump and buy US oil instead of Russian oil, 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:53.599 then Putin would be either deposed by his own military, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.280 which is what everybody should be rooting for, or would 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.840 have to make a significant adjustment. But let me give 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:05.160 you a better scenario from my point of view, because 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.200 divine providences once again descended on my head. And that 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.799 is because I have a book called Confronting Evil coming 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:18.480 out September ninth, with Putin and the I Telomane on 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.720 the cover of the book, along with Hitler and mount 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.960 What's important about this book is that Putin has changed. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.400 And that's why President Trump made a mistake campaigning and said, well, 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.720 I'm going to end this war on day one, which, 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.600 of course the Democrats who ate him are trying to 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.960 use against him. He's not dealing Trump's not dealing with 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.000 the Putin he dealt with eight years ago. It's a 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.000 whole different guy. And when you read Confronting Evil, you'll 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.720 see that all of these tyrants, all of these murderers, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:55.960 mass murderers, once they get unlimited power, they all go 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:03.159 mad mad, all of them. Mazetong, Adolf Hitler, Henry the 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:08.320 Eighth Caligula. We document the whole thing, that is what 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.479 has happened to Putin. And let me back it up 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.960 with some facts. When you're in Alaska and you are 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.920 being treated with respect by the President of the United 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.320 States in front of the whole world, Donald Trump went 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.640 out of his way to treat this man with respect 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.400 because he believed that was the best way to get 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.680 a peace arrangement in Ukraine. And I would have done 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.680 the same thing. And I'm not that kind of guy. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.560 I despised Putin. I despise people who are at other 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:39.920 people evil people. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:40.960 I'm kidding. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:47.240 While Putin was in Alaska being treated respectfully by the 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.680 most powerful nation in the world, he continued to kill 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:55.159 women and children in Ukraine. He couldn't even pause for 0:06:55.160 --> 0:07:00.200 forty eight hours to stop murdering people by sending But. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.080 Can I add one piece of context that I think 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:08.160 is appropriate. The twelve hours before he got there, Ukraine 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.400 unloaded on Russia. So both sides are equally as guilty. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.440 They're both at war, and there's not a ceasefire. So 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.160 I mean, that's what happens in war. And that was 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:19.720 literally within hours of that summit. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.440 It doesn't happen in war if you're in a peace 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:29.440 negotiation with the man who is treating you in a 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.440 way that's extraordinary. Now, Ukraine was not a part of 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.560 that conversation. I don't know why the Ukrainians. I assume 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.160 it was the disrupt Buotin or something. But that's not 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.840 the point. The point was that Putin could have stopped 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.920 for forty eight hours, and he did not. And the 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.440 reason he did not is because he likes to kill 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.080 innocent people. He enjoys it, and that's what Trump is 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.520 facing now. And the only way you can deal with 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.800 those people well is how Trump dealt with the Mullus. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.520 The only way the Mullus stopped was because they knew 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:11.320 they were next. The plans had albdy been drawn up 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:17.240 to get them a combination the CIA Massad operation. The 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.720 Mulla's got the word you are going to be killed, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.200 and that's why they stopped. And that's what you're going 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.200 to have to do to Putin. But you can't do 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:32.079 it the same way because Putin has nukes and Iran doesn't. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.920 So I think you're right. I think I understand the 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:40.800 President's strategies going into all of this. Your analysis is correct, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.959 although I would add the context that Ukraine they were 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.960 firing almost up until the moment that the summer took place, 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.400 So in that sense, it is what it is. Here 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.400 is where you beat Putin in my view, because you're right, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.000 we're not gonna we are not going to get into 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.080 a battle fight a war with Vladimir Putin and Russia. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.160 We're not going to do that, and I don't think 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.800 Putin has the ability to fight it. If anyone would 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.680 have told you three years ago, Bill O'Reilly, that Ukraine 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.320 would have fought so valiantly and lost his little territory 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:22.120 again relatively speaking against the might of Russia at this point, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.400 I don't think anybody would have believed it. I think 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.880 they have performed extraordinarily well. Now they're using other people's 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.080 money to fight this war. Now Donald Trump is making 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.360 them buy the weapons, He's not giving it to them, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.000 and it's not a proxy war like Joe Biden was fighting. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.120 But if Donald Trump continues, he said, they will be 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.360 dire consequences. The day before he went to that summit, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.160 he reiterated that to me in my interview with him 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.439 that if Putin chooses the path of war, then the 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.800 consequences that are dire will be the following what he 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.120 did to India with fifty percent tariffs will continue. Europe 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:02.160 will no longer do any business with Russia. Other countries 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:07.040 similarly will be tarriffed if they do business with Russia. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.760 And the greatest pressure is going to go onto your 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.840 good friend President chi And what side he comes down 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.360 on is going to be fascinating to watch, because they 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.360 are the biggest customer of Russian energy. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.000 That's the key. China's the key to solving at least 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:27.440 temporarily this problem. But President Trump has to be careful 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.280 now because people are trying to undermine him. George Will 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.520 did it last night on News Nation by saying Trump's 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.880 threats don't mean anything. He pushes back the deadlines. Putin 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.880 doesn't respect him. That's a bunch of who. I don't 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:48.080 believe Will's analysis at all. And Will is just like 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.760 Bolton and the others. He's a Trump hater. But the 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:56.319 president has to be cautious. His time window is closing, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.000 and I don't believe a meeting between Lensky and Putin 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.880 would lead anywhere. Putin's is going to be strutting there 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.959 like a peacock and do whatever he wants to do. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.080 It is, by the way, I think a bilateral meeting 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.480 is a bad idea. I think you need a referee. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.160 I think Trump's probably the only person that could do it, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.280 although I think Mark or Rubio could do it as well. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.200 Well, it doesn't matter what they do. Putin's going to 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.960 try to make a mockery of it. So I think 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.800 that there is a chance that Putin will pull back 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.920 from the madness. But again, I want everybody listening to 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.480 the Anni Roudio program, all eight hundred and ninety five stations, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.920 you have to understand that we are dealing with a 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:45.160 mentally ill human being here, not a rational person. And 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:45.520 that's me. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.200 But isn't that the nature of evil? 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.000 I wrote a book, Deliver Us from Evil and Defeating 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.120 Despotism Terrorism. Well, first you have to be liberalism that 0:11:55.160 --> 0:12:00.240 appeases you know, these despots, these evil people. Now, Ronald 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.640 Trump gave him a window of opportunity. Did the same 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.600 thing with Iran. He gave them fifty days. On the 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:10.000 fifty first day, Israel started at viscerating them. We finished 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.080 the job. We took out their nuclear sites. Now we're 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.360 bankrupting them. Now, if you read the paper today, they're 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.240 begging the reformers are begging the Mullahs to give up 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.760 any nuclear ambition. Now, you can't act the same way 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.840 with Russia. However, the financial pressure is great. Their economy 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.120 is not in great shape, and I think there's a 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.680 window of opportunity to the really squeeze, putin hard where 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.960 it hurts. That is the point of leveraging. You know, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.160 I do martial arts. There are specific targeted strikes that 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.640 you make in martial arts and pressure points that you 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.959 use in martial arts. Their pressure point is their weak 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.240 economy and their dependence on energy. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:52.120 Last word. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:58.800 Last word is that Americans should want the killing in 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:03.400 Ukraine to start. We have two problems with that. A 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.440 madman who won't stop. We might be able to force 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.840 him to stop, and hopefully President Trump will carry that out. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.679 And then we have a political party who doesn't want 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.720 peace in Ukraine. And that's a discussion for another time, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.000 but it's reached in my opinion. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.560 Can we have about a minute explain that. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:26.719 Okay, we did a search because I do a YouTube commentary. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.800 It's YouTube dot com slash bill O'Reilly, I do too. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.200 A week we did a search to see if there 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:38.920 was one elected, just one Democrat in the governorships or 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.640 in the House or in the Senate that said anything 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:48.760 positive about Donald Trump's attempt to stop the war in Ukraine. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.360 Not one shocking it's shocking. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.839 Well, I don't think he's gotten the credit. I mean, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.439 he played a big role in India, Pakistan. I think 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.120 he played a big role in stopping the direct conflict 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:09.079 with Iran, in Israel, Rwanda, the Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Tylane, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.320 and Egypt Ethiopia. Now, I think this is by far 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.680 the most difficult, and it's complicated for a lot of 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.400 the reasons you're articulated here. But with that said, now 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.880 it seems like we're moving into the next phase and 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.760 the next step, and the next step is going to 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:28.040 be massive, massive financial pressure on Putin and I think 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.360 that that will you know, that's what brought the former 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.760 Soviet Union to its knees. I think that'll work again, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:34.640 but it'll take time. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.440 Yeah, So I wish evil. I wish evil didn't exist, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:40.000 but it does. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.000 Yeah, when I get back from vacation, I'm giving you 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:48.240 the first radio interview on confronting evil. And by that 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.880 time Donald Trump would have to have made a decision 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.960 about sanctioning Russia and the countries enabling Russia. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.960 Bill O'Reilly, all things, o'reiley, Bill, o'reiley, Thank you. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.600 Sir, Thanks for having me quick break right back. You know, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.200 I got this story out of New York. I'm going 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:07.800 to get to in a second here. But if you 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.440 want to know how twisted and sick the left has become, 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.880 and we'll get into this more at the top of 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:20.840 the next hour, listen to Congressman Robert Garcia, of course California. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.240 Of course, a Democrat would rather shut down the government 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.240 than let Donald Trump fix Washington, d C's crime spree. Now, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.800 keep in mind, we are finding out more and more 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.520 every day that in the Washington pre beacon now has 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.160 done a lot to uncover a lot of the information 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.200 about this. A lawsuit filed by a veteran DC cop 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.000 sites four examples of obvious homicides that were classified as 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:51.760 quote accidental or cause undetermined because they're purposely cooking the books. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.240 And now we have new allegations covering up these murders 0:15:55.280 --> 0:16:00.240 because they want to lower the DC homicide rate. And again, 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.640 I go back to the numbers, and the numbers couldn't 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.520 be any more draconian and scary than we have the 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:11.040 number one capital in the entire world of our countries. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.840 That means a country's capital that has forty one homicides 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:20.200 per one hundred thousand people. The next worst country is sixteen. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.360 And we're not talking about countries that you would expect 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.920 to be known for law and order. And I've gone 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.480 through that list as well. Anyway, listen to this guy, 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.760 he'd rather shut down the government than fix the problem. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:33.360 But do you think that your. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.560 Colleagues in the Senate, Senate Democrats should refuse to fund 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.920 the government. That deadline is coming up at the end 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:43.840 of September. Should they refuse to vote on these spending 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:49.840 bills using that leverage until they see President Trump reverse 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.000 deploying troops in the seats in the streets of DC. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.480 Yes, I mean first, that should be on the table, 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.120 and I think we should be ruling that out. I 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.600 think that Democrats of the Senate, the House, mean every 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.280 all of us should be united and using everything that 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.359 we can do in all of our power to stop 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:06.760 what Trump is doing right now. I'm not just in 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.800 decebment across the country. So absolutely that should be on 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:10.280 the table. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.920 How about your refund the police? How about you keep 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.200 people safe and secure? How about you stop the madness 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.240 of defund dismantal no bad laws. It's just a thought. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.480 All right, Let's get to our busy phones. John in 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.560 Minnesota on the Sean Hannity Show. What's up, John? How 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:26.920 are you? 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:33.800 Sean? I've been a longtime friend of your network, and actually, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.360 fan I should say. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.040 Thank you very much. No, we appreciate your friendship and 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:40.680 the fact that you're with us every day. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:41.160 Thank you. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.440 Yes, And actually I just wanted to say you did 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.560 a great job on your TV show last night with 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.200 the stephen A. Smith segment. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:53.600 Steven A. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.160 Smith's one of my buddies. I love stephen A. And 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.520 you know, slowly but surely, sometimes I got to give credit. 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.480 He's doing more research on politics than he's ever done before. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.720 He's passionate about it. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.520 He he is instinctively he thinks he's a Democrat. I 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.760 keep pointing out to him, really not, because there's not 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.280 anything you're agreeing with them on. And I think that 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.520 we have we have fun discussions. But when I go 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.840 into his arena sports trust me, he runs circles around me. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.200 Yes, and I really appreciate the fact you too can 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:30.440 have such a civil discussion and still remain such good friends. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:31.080 You know. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.560 That's really he's such a good guy. I'm telling you 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.399 you'd love him. He's salt of the earth. He's a 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:36.359 good guy. He really is. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.640 Oh yeah, yeah, I can tell just from watching him. 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:43.520 But I've got a suggestion for you. Okay, we know 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.600 that Kid Rock invited Bill Maher to the White House, 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.600 and that made a great impression on Bill Maher. Could 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.880 you do the same for Stephen A. Smith. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.360 In a heartbeat, I'd be glad to you know what 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.040 I'll ask him. As a matter of fact, I did 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:00.400 bring it up with him. I said, if you ever 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.720 want to go, let me know. But I could actually 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.400 press it and push it and maybe. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:06.720 A challenge to him. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:08.480 I don't Stephen A. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:14.040 Smith will be respectful and charming and and he will 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.760 discover a side of Trump that I think will probably 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.959 shock him. I mean, I think that the media caricature 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.080 of him is so false and phony and so so 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.240 not rooted in reality that I think people have have 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.280 created false perceptions and false beliefs. But when you meet him, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.320 he'll he'll understand Donald Trump more. I've known Trump for 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.000 thirty years. I'm I wish people knew the guy that 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.920 I knew way before and now, because he's the same guy, 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:49.119 and he's he is wickedly funny, incredibly generous and kind 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.200 and smart as a whip, and uh, you know, he's 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.040 very passionate about helping save the country in the world. 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:57.440 He's this is real for him. 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.240 Well, that's why I kind of thought to it be 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.639 a great idea, because I know we've even had stories 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.240 about Greg Gottzfeld never thought he would like Trump and 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.840 Tyrus that's on his program said he never thought he 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:11.880 would like Trump, and every one of them after they 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.480 meet Donald Trump, they come away with a whole different opinion, 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.840 mainly because, just like you said, the media just you know, 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:23.239 villainizes Trump so bad that I think if you were 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.800 to meet him in person, he'd come away a whole 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:26.520 different person. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:29.560 And I think it kind of sucked that people want 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.080 to after Bill Maher for just sitting down and talking 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.200 to President Trump and then being honest that he had 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.720 a good time. I mean why, I mean, I would 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:44.200 sit down. Obama famously said, you know, I hear Hanna, 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.399 he wants to have a beer with me, and you know, 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.200 I'm always up for a beer. I would have loved 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.359 to have sat down with Obama, and I'd still like 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.119 to sit down with Obama. Obama wouldn't come anywhere near me, 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.200 and trust me, I was never invited to the White House, 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.720 never invited to do an interview. And maybe it was 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:00.560 a good thing, because you have to I'd be in 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:02.919 a very tough spot because you have to respect the 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:08.040 office of the presidency. And meanwhile, I have really serious, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.040 significant disagreements with Obama and with Joe Biden. Anyway, I 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.680 appreciate the call. Here's a reminder of what happened. Listen. 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.199 With respect to Sean Hannity, I didn't know that he 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:22.520 had invited me for a beer, you know, but I 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:28.280 will take that under advisement. Generally, his opinion of me 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:32.080 does not seem to be very high, but I'm always 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:32.800 good for a beer. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.160 And my name came out of his mouth. I think 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:37.920 we took up a lot of space in his head 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:40.320 there for a while. Don't anythink, Linda, we were living 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.679 re free? For sure, we were living rent free, but 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.560 no doubt about it. Even for a while. I think 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.639 that we counted we were up to like fifteen Obama 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:50.320 mentions of me. 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.439 It was crazy. Would you like to hear it? We 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.600 have it? Play it, think about it? 0:21:55.680 --> 0:22:00.840 Hateful if you were watching Sean Hannity system, He's a 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:02.760 common these guys. 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:03.800 They've given me a hard time. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.320 With respect to Sean Hannity, I didn't know that he 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:11.639 had invited me for a beer, you know, but I 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:17.399 will take that under advisement. Generally, his opinion of me 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:20.879 does not seem to be very high, but but I'm 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:21.920 always good for a beer. 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:23.560 How would the wife and kids doing. 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.080 You know, they're doing great now. They seem to be 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:27.679 thriving and watching Nickelodeon. 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.200 They're not listening to Sean Handy on Nickelodeon. 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.240 I'll put mister Burgess up against Sean Hannity, He'll turn 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:33.600 him up. 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.119 Is Sean Hannity suddenly gonna get on the air whis 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.120 and say, you know I was wrong about this Obama guy? 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:40.320 He's my man. No. 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:43.119 I mean I think that there's a certain segment of 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:47.760 hardcore Sean Hannity fans that probably wouldn't want to go 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:48.560