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Speaker 1: Sean if you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 1: I have been telling all of you that this is
Speaker 1: the single most important midterm in our lifetime. And I'm
Speaker 1: only asking one thing of the twenty plus million listeners
Speaker 1: that we have to this radio program on seven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty sixty stations whatever the number is, and that
Speaker 1: is this year. I am asking one thing that in
Speaker 1: your mind, you make a commitment that you are not
Speaker 1: going to sit out this midterm election. This is the
Speaker 1: biggest choice election you'll have in your lifetime. You elect
Speaker 1: Democrats and the result is going to be predictable, and
Speaker 1: that is that there's going to be endless investigation, rancor, hostility,
Speaker 1: madness the radicals now run this party, I mean the
Speaker 1: Mamdani Party. Or you're going to want America to continue
Speaker 1: to progress economically, to achieve a golden era of prosperity
Speaker 1: for every American, and you're going to want to progress
Speaker 1: and create freedom around the world with the Trump doctrine
Speaker 1: that I think is the perfect doctrine. You know, all
Speaker 1: of that is on the ballot. Now, I'm not really
Speaker 1: looking closely at polls. There was a good poll by
Speaker 1: inside or advantage last week Matt Towry our friend fifty
Speaker 1: forty six. The approval rating of the president. If you
Speaker 1: look at the mainstream media and the legacy media mob
Speaker 1: that that have never pulled Donald Trump right, they would
Speaker 1: tell you Donald Trump is at historically low levels for
Speaker 1: any sitting president. I don't believe them. I think they've
Speaker 1: been wrong again and again. Let's go to fake news CNN.
Speaker 1: Harry Enton says, no clear Democratic front runner or president.
Speaker 1: It's a downright clown car. That is what I said.
Speaker 2: This is just a downright clown car at this point
Speaker 2: on the Democratic side. I mean, just take a look
Speaker 2: here top choices for the twenty twenty eight dem pres nominee.
Speaker 2: You have a leader, but it's not really a clear leader.
Speaker 2: It's within the margin. Mary, I've news him at nineteen percent,
Speaker 2: and you have former Vice president Kamala Harris at eighteen percent.
Speaker 2: Quite a weak number for her, given that, of course
Speaker 2: she was the nominee last time around. Pete pou To Judge,
Speaker 2: who of course has run before, thirteen percent. Alexandi Arcasio
Speaker 2: Cortez at twelve percent. This is just a total clown car.
Speaker 2: It is a total mess. There is no clear front
Speaker 2: runner at this particular point on the Democratic side. Who
Speaker 2: the heck knows who the nominee is going to be
Speaker 2: in three two years.
Speaker 3: It's been a long time since we've had a Democratic
Speaker 3: race like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has been a long time. This is very
Speaker 2: unusual for the Democratic side to not have a clear
Speaker 2: front runner at this point, national early pole leader at
Speaker 2: least twenty five percent. Look at this this year we
Speaker 2: get the giant question mark no.
Speaker 4: One, no one, no one, no one.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, there was no incumbent.
Speaker 4: It was Joe Biden who.
Speaker 2: Was there, Hillary Clinton in both eight and sixteen, and
Speaker 2: Al gormbothousand and two thousand and fourth this point where
Speaker 2: at least at twenty five percent in the early ones,
Speaker 2: you have to.
Speaker 5: Go all the way back, all the way.
Speaker 2: Back from when I wasn't even an elementary school yet,
Speaker 2: not even in pre k yet to nineteen hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety two. That was the last cycle in which there
Speaker 2: was no clear front runner at this point.
Speaker 1: Very unusually, and what's interesting, after my big fight with
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, yesterday, Linda, did you notice after I kept
Speaker 1: hitting him and hitting him and hitting him, he was
Speaker 1: he went away all of a sudden, he got very quiet.
Speaker 1: I don't think he wanted to engage with me anymore.
Speaker 1: You think that maybe he realizes I am unrelenting when
Speaker 1: it comes to Twitter fights. I won't stop. And if
Speaker 1: you don't believe me, look at my history with ALC.
Speaker 1: Baldwin and with Jimmy Kimmel. Is it true if you
Speaker 1: engage in a Twitter war with me, it's over or
Speaker 1: an export to be more?
Speaker 6: I mean, I remember the Acosta days.
Speaker 4: They were rough. Oh yeah, bake news Acosta.
Speaker 1: But the event about him because they quit, they cry uncle,
Speaker 1: they give up.
Speaker 6: Well, I think, if we're being honest, we both know
Speaker 6: that de Niro and Newsom went home last night and
Speaker 6: gave each other a big hug and cried together.
Speaker 4: They cou'd probably right about that. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Mike Lee put up a post what is the best
Speaker 1: thing the GOP could do to boostp voter turnout in
Speaker 1: twenty six And you know, I think these are really
Speaker 1: good questions we need to ask, and I'd rather be
Speaker 1: asking them now than asking them the day after the
Speaker 1: midterms and saying, well, what went wrong? And I think
Speaker 1: to be introspective, self reflective, making course corrections is always
Speaker 1: a smart thing to do. For the first time since
Speaker 1: early voting began, the GOP has outvoted Democrats, you know,
Speaker 1: in this one particular district in the state of Texas,
Speaker 1: and I think that's very very important. Over five hundred
Speaker 1: and forty two thousand Republican primary ballots in just six days,
Speaker 1: and it's dramatically higher than twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: That's going to be very interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: And anyway, here's Harry Enton talking about how Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: is flailing. I don't think his little fight with me
Speaker 1: dropping f bombs on me and me dropping him back
Speaker 1: helped him.
Speaker 4: But here's what he said.
Speaker 2: It seems to me that Gavin Newsom is flailing a
Speaker 2: little bit, at least compared to where he was prior.
Speaker 2: Because just take a look here, okay, chance Newsom is
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty eight Democratic nominee three months ago according
Speaker 2: to the cash prediction market. Look at that, it was
Speaker 2: a thirty seven percent chance. Now it's just a twenty
Speaker 2: eight percent down. He goes, he's definitely flailing a little bit.
Speaker 2: And I will note, John, I will know that. It
Speaker 2: also seems to me people are a little less interested
Speaker 2: in Gavin Newsom than they used to be. Look at
Speaker 2: this Google searches for Gavin Newsom down sixty three percent
Speaker 2: from the August peak. You remember back then it was
Speaker 2: when he started that social media right going after President Trump,
Speaker 2: there was a lot of interest from Democratic voters. But
Speaker 2: maybe that interest is waning off just a little bit.
Speaker 2: And of course you don't necessarily want to wane it off,
Speaker 2: chick Jeff, because I think we still have a lot
Speaker 2: of time.
Speaker 7: To the votes.
Speaker 4: Anyway, here to weigh in on all of this.
Speaker 1: And as we head into the State of the Union tonight,
Speaker 1: don't forget our coverage eleven o'clock right after the President
Speaker 1: and Abigail's span Berger. Don't worry, she'll speak for less
Speaker 1: than ten minutes and be boring as hell.
Speaker 4: But VORDA.
Speaker 1: Turnout for early voting in both Texas and Georgia are
Speaker 1: incredibly strong right now, in many cases also for Democrats.
Speaker 4: But what does it mean?
Speaker 1: Democrats historically vote early vote more than Republicans do, but
Speaker 1: I hope Republicans are turning out in numbers two. John
Speaker 1: McLaughlin's brother, Jim or with us from the McLachlan Associates group. Gentlemen,
Speaker 1: welcome back, Jim. It's nice for you to show up
Speaker 1: on time. I can't believe.
Speaker 7: It only for you, Sean, will I show up on time?
Speaker 1: Great to be here, yeah, but because John always shows
Speaker 1: up on time, I'll start with him. What do you
Speaker 1: make of this early voting? And where do we stand?
Speaker 1: You know, now what eight months away from these midterms.
Speaker 8: Well but by the way, thanks for the opportunity, and
Speaker 8: it's great to be here. But with Linda, this is
Speaker 8: really like a three on one McLachlin match with Sean
Speaker 8: Hannity's we get ready for Saint Patrick's month.
Speaker 4: That's what it takes. Three on one if you're going
Speaker 4: to battle against me, Oh my god.
Speaker 7: Oh well we have Linda on our side. That's when
Speaker 7: we have a chance.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 1: Now, Notice the two McLaughlin brothers hoping that the other
Speaker 1: McLachlin can bail them out, you know, the female McLaughlin.
Speaker 4: See, that's what that speaks. That speaks volumes about toxic masculinity.
Speaker 8: Yes, but to your point originally, there's a lot of
Speaker 8: fake poles out there right now. I mean when you look,
Speaker 8: the economist Yugo put out a poll today of one thousand,
Speaker 8: five hundred and fifty one adult citizens that you know,
Speaker 8: God knows who these adults are. They have only thirty
Speaker 8: five percent Trump voters in their poll. They have actually
Speaker 8: thirty nine percent Harris voters. They have They put out
Speaker 8: a poll with more Harris voters than Trump voters. And
Speaker 8: then we get fifty percent? Did we get fifty percent
Speaker 8: in the last election. They are submarining us with these poles,
Speaker 8: trying to convince us that Trump has the lowest numbers ever. Now,
Speaker 8: Matt Towery offered tracks close with ours, like our January
Speaker 8: poll had Trump with fifty percent job approval, forty seven
Speaker 8: percent disapprove, and Adams.
Speaker 1: It's almost a direct match of Matt Towery and you.
Speaker 1: Matt Towery, Robert Kahelly, the three people for three presidential elections,
Speaker 1: and rask me of some by the way, I got
Speaker 1: to give them a tip of the hat, the four
Speaker 1: people that tend to poll Donald Trump accurately.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and then thank Heaven for Jim and I because
Speaker 8: we got to deliver those poll numbers to him, and
Speaker 8: he still tells me those aren't right. I have my
Speaker 8: best poll numbers ever, and I'm like, nah, you were
Speaker 8: best on election day. But that was the good That
Speaker 8: was good timing when he swept all seven battleground states
Speaker 8: and we won the popular vote because he made our
Speaker 8: polls right and right now, by the way, November, he's
Speaker 8: not on the ballot. He's not on the ballot. The
Speaker 8: Republicans for Congress are and they think that Donald Trump's
Speaker 8: going to lift him to get re elected. No, I mean,
Speaker 8: Donald Trump is succeeding as president. But they better draw
Speaker 8: a contrast election with the Democrats in November because you've
Speaker 8: got I mean, think about Donald Trump went after Joe Biden,
Speaker 8: Kamala Harris straight up was the better president. Won on
Speaker 8: issues where there was tax cuts, whether it was strengthening defense,
Speaker 8: securing the borders.
Speaker 7: He did it.
Speaker 8: The Republicans in Congress better go after the Democrats because
Speaker 8: the Democrats they voted against the Trump tax cuts for
Speaker 8: the largest tax cuts in history. They are now they
Speaker 8: are now defending illegal immigrants to stay in this country
Speaker 8: by going after ration enforcement officers. So that's an issue
Speaker 8: that analys Paul eighty seven to ten Americans favored deporting
Speaker 8: illegal immigrants, and the Democrats are shutting down the government
Speaker 8: precisely to keep criminal legal immigrants in this country. So
Speaker 8: the Republicans and the save AC voter id to vote
Speaker 8: in the United States, it's an eighty twenty issue and
Speaker 8: Republicans need to get that through the Senate. So it
Speaker 8: has passed. But the Republicans better have an agenda like
Speaker 8: Neuke Gingrich had in ninety four with the Contract for America,
Speaker 8: or like Donald Trump had in twenty twenty four versus
Speaker 8: Kamala Harris that we were able to win that election.
Speaker 8: It's a contrast election, and right now in the polls
Speaker 8: I was talking about, the Republicans are losing the generic
Speaker 8: ballot for Congress forty four to forty seven. We need
Speaker 8: to go. We need to go to Warwick. The Democrats
Speaker 8: have a good contrast election and win in November and
Speaker 8: bring the Trump owns back out.
Speaker 1: All right, we continue with our posters heading into tonight's
Speaker 1: State of the Union. Remember our coverage right after the
Speaker 1: President speaks at about eleven o'clock Eastern time. Of course
Speaker 1: we have the Democratic response Abigail Spanberger, but that's less.
Speaker 4: Than ten minutes. That'll be boring as well.
Speaker 1: But stay there because we're going to have great coverage
Speaker 1: analysis that you'll never get from anyone else in the
Speaker 1: legacy media mob right after the State of the Union
Speaker 1: around eleven o'clock Eastern time. Look forward to that tonight
Speaker 1: from Washington. I do think that Trump, in one way
Speaker 1: is on the ballot and that it will be a
Speaker 1: little bit of a referendum. And I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people need to understand that the president's agenda will
Speaker 1: be stopped right and its tracks if in fact Democrats
Speaker 1: got control of Congress, they'll be endless investigation, impeachment, and
Speaker 1: the country's progress will stop and will have nothing but
Speaker 1: endless distractions. And I think that that should be top
Speaker 1: of mind for voters. Also, Jim, what are you think?
Speaker 7: Oh, without a doubt. And I think Susie Wiles she
Speaker 7: gets it better than anybody because she said, we're putting
Speaker 7: President Trump and his common sense, successful agenda, We're putting
Speaker 7: that on the ballot in this election. And that's one
Speaker 7: of the reasons why the Republicans underperformed back in twenty
Speaker 7: eighteen during the midterms, because we literally had millions of
Speaker 7: Trump voters that didn't come out for the midterms. We
Speaker 7: need to make sure we get these folks out, and
Speaker 7: the best way we're going to get them out there
Speaker 7: is a contrast with these Democrats on the issues that
Speaker 7: people care about most. Just think about this. I mean,
Speaker 7: the Democrats are the party they want open borders. That's
Speaker 7: what they want. Literally, as John said, the first shutdown,
Speaker 7: it was all about giving welfare benefits to illegals. Now
Speaker 7: the new one is they want to They literally want
Speaker 7: to defund ice. It's just like you know, first they
Speaker 7: wanted to defund the police. Now they want to defund ice.
Speaker 7: The other thing is this is look, if God forbid
Speaker 7: we put the Democrats in power, Look what's going on.
Speaker 7: I think the Democrats are making a huge mistake tonight
Speaker 7: by having Abigail Spamberger give the response, because look what
Speaker 7: she did. She quote unquote ran as a moderate. Now
Speaker 7: she's governing as probably the most radical left wing governor
Speaker 7: in the history of the state of Virginia. She's come
Speaker 7: out supporting over a hundred new tax increases. And that's
Speaker 7: the kind of stuff that the Democrats are going to
Speaker 7: give us right now.
Speaker 1: And look, the American people are also going to see Democrats,
Speaker 1: many of them don't show up in the room, but
Speaker 1: that's great because he gives room and seats for American
Speaker 1: hockey players, the ones that won goal for the first
Speaker 1: time since nineteen eighty. I'm glad they're going to be
Speaker 1: in the room tonight. They deserve it. They make our
Speaker 1: country proud. And if they're not going to stand at
Speaker 1: all or cloud for the president at all part of
Speaker 1: their strategy, or at least telegraph strategy, what then we
Speaker 1: have another moment where they look like they have no
Speaker 1: conscience or soul because they wouldn't stand for the family
Speaker 1: of Lake and Riley or Joscely and Nungary.
Speaker 4: Good luck with them with that strategy.
Speaker 7: It's crazy and it shows the extreamism that we have
Speaker 7: right now in the Democratic Party. And you know, one
Speaker 7: of the things that's interesting was when we used to
Speaker 7: do focus groups during the campaign, we'd ask swing voters.
Speaker 7: We'd have swing voters, Okay, what's Joe Biden's greatest accomplishment?
Speaker 7: They would laugh at you, They would literally laugh at you,
Speaker 7: and they couldn't give you any of his accomplishments. But
Speaker 7: with Donald Trump, even some voters that voting Democrat for Congress,
Speaker 7: they will give you real accomplishments. When it comes to
Speaker 7: Donald Trump, they'll tell you, well, you know, he cut
Speaker 7: our taxes, or he secured the border, or he's making
Speaker 7: you know, city safer and whatnot. And that's going to
Speaker 7: be the contrast tonight. And I think, by the way,
Speaker 7: I think the Democrats are making a big mistake by
Speaker 7: with their counterprogramming and they're boycotting the State of the Union.
Speaker 7: I think it's really bad for the country, and they've
Speaker 7: said a horrible precedence.
Speaker 1: I don't really care if they come or not. I mean,
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump announced I am here to announce that
Speaker 1: we have come up with a cure for cancer, they
Speaker 1: would sit there. They wouldn't clap, they wouldn't applaud, they
Speaker 1: wouldn't celebrate a scientific breakthrough that's going to save how
Speaker 1: many millions of lives.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't care.
Speaker 1: Anyway, We're going to be watching tonight and we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. Our coverage begins at eleven o'clock Eastern. But John,
Speaker 1: Jim McLoughlin, we appreciate both of you.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank you, Suan.
Speaker 1: Every time we play that bumper music from John and
Speaker 1: Rassic Superman Hi for fighting. I just love that song.
Speaker 1: And he's a good friend of the program. He apparently
Speaker 1: was in Washington, d C. Didn't tell us why. He
Speaker 1: said he would share it after the fact, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to find out why. Unfortunately, I will miss him
Speaker 1: while I'm in DC tonight for the State of the Union,
Speaker 1: and I wish i'd see him because I think the
Speaker 1: world of him and I love his music. But every
Speaker 1: time we play that bumper music, I want to play
Speaker 1: more of the song because I really like it. Play
Speaker 1: a little bit of Superman.
Speaker 5: I can't stand to fly. I'm not dead nice, I'm
Speaker 5: just now to find the better part of me. I'm
Speaker 5: more than a bad a, more than a plane, more
Speaker 5: than some prettyfice beside a train. And it's nat.
Speaker 2: Easy to be he me.
Speaker 7: Wish the head I could.
Speaker 5: Cry fall upon my knees. Final wait life, but a
Speaker 5: home I never see. It may sound absurd, but to
Speaker 5: me nive even hears him not to leave.
Speaker 4: You don't.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's wont you can see even hear us have
Speaker 5: the rot to dreams.
Speaker 6: It's not easy, super.
Speaker 1: You can BLEEPU.
Speaker 5: Or anything. I can't stand fly.
Speaker 1: By the way, is it you know what's amazing? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the story of Superman. From Superman's perspective, I mean,
Speaker 1: and he takes it, he turns it into this beautiful song,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those moments. I never really wish
Speaker 1: that I had another life. I love the life that
Speaker 1: God gave me, but every once in a while, I
Speaker 1: wish I could do what he can do and be
Speaker 1: a great musician, songwriter and singer. But we both know, Linda,
Speaker 1: that I can't sing. You can sing. I don't know
Speaker 1: why you'd ever pursued professional singing, because I think it
Speaker 1: would have been amazing at it.
Speaker 4: You're really good at it. I mean, you did cover.
Speaker 1: Band singing for decades in your life, and you're good.
Speaker 4: You're great at it. How come you never pursued it?
Speaker 6: I did, Actually I did. I got a record contract,
Speaker 6: and I gave up my job and my car and
Speaker 6: my apartment and I bought uh stuff to move to
Speaker 6: LA And the day before I left, they pulled the deal.
Speaker 4: And that's a to the deal. You never told me
Speaker 4: that story all these years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a very depressing story. But yes, I got
Speaker 6: the deal and all the things, and then they pulled it.
Speaker 6: They decided to go with a boy band and the
Speaker 6: label only had room for me.
Speaker 4: Did you curse at them and make them mad. No,
Speaker 4: that was a dark time.
Speaker 6: But I went back to school and got my masters
Speaker 6: and just went a different.
Speaker 4: Direc forty master's degrees after that.
Speaker 6: Just I channeled it positively.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's so funny because we do have
Speaker 1: parallel lives in this sense. Is that I used to
Speaker 1: tembar at a wedding factor. I do five weddings every weekend.
Speaker 1: I became so cynical of weddings. It was terrible. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'd sit around with other bartenders and we'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this couple's gonna last like five minutes.
Speaker 6: I mean it was well, listen, it's worse for me
Speaker 6: because I had to work with them all as the
Speaker 6: MC and the lead singer. And I would do people's
Speaker 6: first weddings, and I would do their second weddings, and
Speaker 6: I would do their third weddings because they liked me
Speaker 6: from their.
Speaker 4: First and their seconds. The whole the whole America was.
Speaker 6: Like, I recognize that dress, that's awkward, Okay, just you
Speaker 6: know weird.
Speaker 4: Oh they'd wear the same dress.
Speaker 6: There's so many things, Sean, honestly I should do like.
Speaker 4: All, isn't it terrible?
Speaker 1: I mean, I honestly wish that I did not have
Speaker 1: that experience of my life because you get so cynical.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know the cake.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And the good thing is I went from that
Speaker 6: to politics, which really lifted me up.
Speaker 4: That's a good point.
Speaker 1: And then you see like both families and you make
Speaker 1: judgments about the families. I know this is terrible, but
Speaker 1: I but I would do we would do this. And
Speaker 1: every family, I always say, has an Uncle Joe. Uncle
Speaker 1: Joe is the guy that would come up to the bar,
Speaker 1: you know, right after either the ceremony or right after
Speaker 1: you know, right is the receptions beginning.
Speaker 4: He'd hit you with a twenty and keep him coming, kid,
Speaker 4: keep him coming all night.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 1: And I'd be like, okay, I'm going to keep them coming.
Speaker 1: By the time that night ended, I had two hundred
Speaker 1: bucks from Uncle Joe. And he'd be the guy with
Speaker 1: the tie around his neck, his shirt half open, you know,
Speaker 1: sweating like a slob, and you know, to the song
Speaker 1: celebrate good times.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean what I will tell you. You've
Speaker 1: observed that I love a.
Speaker 6: Good uncle Joe, though, because he gets the potty started
Speaker 6: on the dance floor. People get a little nervous sometimes,
Speaker 6: and Uncle Joe already has his tie, you know, it's
Speaker 6: wrapped around his forehead. He's ready to go, and everybody
Speaker 6: else gets up. So sometimes I'm a big fan of
Speaker 6: that guy.
Speaker 1: All right, Because you want people to dance and be
Speaker 1: into music, I get it, of course. Okay, I just
Speaker 1: wanted people to come to my bar and give me money.
Speaker 4: That was it.
Speaker 6: Well, shout out to John Andrasic because he's back on twice.
Speaker 6: If you've never seen him in concert, go see him.
Speaker 6: He's fantastic. He puts on an.
Speaker 1: Immense So Democrats, there are some. David Axelrod is one.
Speaker 1: I think, m Rambo Deadfish is another. Jim Messina another.
Speaker 1: These are you know, former Clinton, some Obama people warning
Speaker 1: Democrats against this idiocy of defunding and trying to abolish
Speaker 1: ICE and with it the Coastguard and FEMA and a
Speaker 1: bunch of other government agencies. And here's what he had
Speaker 1: to say in his warning.
Speaker 10: People do want accountability for ICE, they want people held
Speaker 10: to action. They want smart enforcement of our immigration laws.
Speaker 10: What they don't want is to get rid of the
Speaker 10: federal agency that they think is responsible for keeping our
Speaker 10: borders safe.
Speaker 1: All right, So he's warning Democrats don't abolish ice. Then
Speaker 1: you have this idiot, mister Fengfang Eric Swolwell, there's nothing
Speaker 1: but a fraud to me, and he wants to be
Speaker 1: the next Gavin Newsom. I mean, could you imagine that
Speaker 1: your goal in life is to aspire to be Gavin Newsom?
Speaker 1: It was like that idiot of fake news CNN is
Speaker 1: his only aspiration in life was to be the next
Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty, which nobody except really a few of us,
Speaker 1: know who I'm talking about. But you know, here's mister
Speaker 1: Fangfang talking about ice, and this is what he said,
Speaker 1: that he's not aware of any federal agency responsible for
Speaker 1: keeping our borders safe. Are you really this stupid?
Speaker 4: Listen?
Speaker 3: So, Jim Messina, who ran Barack Obama's twenty sixteen campaign,
Speaker 3: has a warning for Democrats who's say they want to
Speaker 3: see the abolishment of ice. Listen to what he says.
Speaker 10: People do want accountability for ice, they want people held
Speaker 10: to action, they want smart enforcement of our immigration laws.
Speaker 10: What they don't want is to get rid of the
Speaker 10: federal agency that they think is responsible for keeping our
Speaker 10: borders safe.
Speaker 3: What do you say to that?
Speaker 11: I'm not aware of a federal agency that is responsible
Speaker 11: for keeping our border safe. I have seen a federal
Speaker 11: agency who has publicly executed a nurse named Preddie and
Speaker 11: a mom named good And I see Californians that I
Speaker 11: represent terrified.
Speaker 1: Well, if you don't have people keeping your borders safe,
Speaker 1: you dope, then you're going to have known terrorists, murderers, rapists,
Speaker 1: child molesters, other violent criminals, gang members, cartel members in
Speaker 1: our country. Oh that's right, we've been arresting them. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to our busy phones. Mike is in Kansas. Mike,
Speaker 1: how are you glad you called?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 9: Hey, Sean, it's a gorgeous day in south central Kansas.
Speaker 9: We've got that.
Speaker 4: Means it's freezing cold. How bad is it?
Speaker 9: Well, we got sixty five degrees and hardly any wins, so.
Speaker 4: It's not bad at all. That is a gorgeous day.
Speaker 4: Good for you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, hey, I thought you'd be interested in some data
Speaker 9: because I got my taxes done early this year. I
Speaker 9: got them back a few days ago, and I'm a
Speaker 9: retired educator, and so I got to take advantage of
Speaker 9: the of the Social security no tax on social Security.
Speaker 9: So I was just real curious. My twenty five taxes
Speaker 9: came back with a tax liability of five two hundred
Speaker 9: and fifty dollars.
Speaker 4: And that hurts, doesn't it? I hate that?
Speaker 9: What your boy? And what? But wait, it doesn't hurt
Speaker 9: their as bad as what it used to. Because I
Speaker 9: just got curious. So I went back to twenty fifteen
Speaker 9: and I plugged in my night. My twenty five income,
Speaker 9: the same income that I just got back, and I
Speaker 9: used the twenty the two thousand and fifteen rates, the
Speaker 9: twenty fifteen standard deduction, and I would have owed twelve
Speaker 9: thousand and twenty dollars. So wow, the two Trump cuts
Speaker 9: of seventeen and twenty five basically saved me six eight
Speaker 9: hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad. Let me tell you something that's real money. Now,
Speaker 1: think of it this way. You know, the average price
Speaker 1: of a gallon of gasoline is down significantly since Donald
Speaker 1: Trump became president. The lowest the last I've read was
Speaker 1: what four years, five years, whatever, whatever period of time
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 4: And now, do you drive a lot?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 9: I chase grandkids?
Speaker 1: Okay, chasing grandkids can be expensive. I don't know what
Speaker 1: kind of car you have. I have a gas powered car,
Speaker 1: and I have my my Tesla. And but all I'm
Speaker 1: saying is when I used to go to the gas
Speaker 1: pump and I can afford it now at this point
Speaker 1: in my life. But when I would fill up my
Speaker 1: car and it was one hundred bucks, it drove me
Speaker 1: up a wall. And I could afford it, it still
Speaker 1: drove me crazy because my mind's in my in my
Speaker 1: mind's eyes still think like I did when I didn't
Speaker 1: have any money. I mean, that's a lot of money
Speaker 1: for people.
Speaker 9: Filled up for two thirty four today, and I still
Speaker 9: fill up. Every time I fill up for an amount
Speaker 9: like that, I think, Dang, I'm glad it's not four
Speaker 9: dollars four to twenty five like it was years ago.
Speaker 4: It was terrible. I mean, I don't know everybody.
Speaker 1: Just this is why I hope people are paying attention
Speaker 1: and they go out and vote. Anyway, my friend, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred and nine foot one, Sean, if you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program.
Speaker 6: So, Sean, I just wanted to say, I just wanted
Speaker 6: to say one thing to you before. It's actually perfectly
Speaker 6: with that last caller. We have been getting tons of
Speaker 6: phone calls about the no tax on tip, no tax
Speaker 6: on Social Security, no tax on overtime. And I just
Speaker 6: wanted to say, for all of you that are calling
Speaker 6: in and cursing out Katie because Sean didn't say it right,
Speaker 6: please talk to your tax you know person, your accountant,
Speaker 6: whoever you used to do your TAXI.
Speaker 4: I mean I didn't say it right.
Speaker 6: Well, what they're saying is it's not true that there
Speaker 6: are tax and so up to a certain amount it's
Speaker 6: tax free. There are still a percentage of Social Security
Speaker 6: that can be tax based upon your current income, if
Speaker 6: you have some sort of other income, if you have
Speaker 6: other things on your tax return. So it's not a
Speaker 6: hard and fast rule across the board. There are there
Speaker 6: is fine print, as there is with everything. The no
Speaker 6: tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, tax.
Speaker 1: Goes up to a certain I think it's twelve dollars,
Speaker 1: but I may have gone into Well maybe I just
Speaker 1: haven't said it recently, right, I mean.
Speaker 6: We're saying, we're saying the platitude. I'm just letting the
Speaker 6: audience know. Nobody's trying to put it to astray. You know,
Speaker 6: talk to your tax you know person, talk to your accountant,
Speaker 6: and please.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm being criticized by Gavin Newsome again today.
Speaker 6: I'm not criticizing you. I'm just asking folks, was.
Speaker 1: Enough yesterday getting you know, the F word dropped on
Speaker 1: my head by a governor.
Speaker 4: Data Califordia hurt my feelings and everything.
Speaker 9: It's turt.
Speaker 1: I hope you can get over It didn't hurt at all.
Speaker 1: And that's when wrap things up for today. Don't forget
Speaker 1: President Trump is State of the Union tonight, nine eastern
Speaker 1: Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Democrats will be penchiling children.
Speaker 1: Those that show up. They have promised to sit in
Speaker 1: their chair anyway. That's more room for the Olympic gold
Speaker 1: medal hockey team. The men's hockey team is going to
Speaker 1: the State of the Union. All right, that's nine eastern.
Speaker 1: We'll be on right after pan Berger gives her five
Speaker 1: minute lecture about radicalism. But we'll have the best post
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Speaker 1: around eleven o'clock Eastern. We got a great lineup of guests.
Speaker 1: We'll see you tonight. Back here tomorrow. Thank you for
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