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We 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: need more than a plan for the big banks. The 31 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: middle class needs a raise, and we need more jobs. 32 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: We need jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced, 33 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: jobs that provide dignity and a future. We can do 34 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: it by unleashing the innovation of our entrepreneurs and small businesses. 35 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: We could do it with new investments in manufacturing infrastructure. 36 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: Moments ago. The number is for America's Economic Growth or GDP, 37 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: were just released and I am thrilled to announce that 38 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: in the second quarter of this year, the United States 39 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: economy grew at the amazing rate of four point one percent. 40 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: We're on track to hit the highest annual average growth 41 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: rate in over thirteen years. And I will say this 42 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: right now, and I'll say it strongly. As the trade 43 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: deals come in one by one, we're going to go 44 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: a lot higher than these numbers. And these are great numbers. 45 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: During each of the two previous administrations, we averaged just 46 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: over one point eight percent GDP growth. By contrast, we 47 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: are now on track to hit an average GDP annual 48 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: growth of over three percent, and it could be substantially 49 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: over three percent. Each point, by the way, means approximately 50 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: three trillion dollars and ten million jobs. Think of that. 51 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: Each point you go up. One point doesn't sound like much. 52 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: It's a lot. It's three trillion dollars and it's ten 53 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: million jobs. All right. As we continue Sean Hannity Show, 54 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 1: there was Obama saying, yeah, in his own words, that 55 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: some of these jobs in never coming back. The only 56 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 1: president in American history never to hit three percent GDP 57 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: growth in a single year, and he's accumulated more debt 58 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: than every other president before him combined, including thirteen million 59 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, 60 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: and we've gone from the lowest labor participation rate in 61 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: history now to the highest. And that's only part of 62 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: the economic story of today. Explosive four point one GDP growth. 63 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: Joining us now is the President of the United States, 64 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: Donald Trumps the President. Congratulations. And on top of that, 65 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: I think one of the more underreported stories is that 66 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: we now have a trade deficit that dropped by more 67 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: than fifty billion dollars. Well, thank you very much, John, 68 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: and you're right, that's to me is so important your 69 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: phase two of the question. Fifty two billion dollars drop 70 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: in trade deficit that hasn't happened in decades, and it's 71 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: really something very special, and a lot of that is 72 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: because of the policies that we're putting in place, and 73 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: it's going to get better shown it's totally sustainable. I 74 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: look so forward to next quarter. I look forward to 75 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: watching what happens over the years. It is something very 76 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: special that's taking place. How is that the trade is 77 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: so interconnected to all this And a lot of people 78 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: thought you're going to start a trade war with Europe. 79 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: Well that was put to rest pretty much this week, 80 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: and you said you found a new favorite word which 81 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: is reciprocity. Well, reciprocal is very important to me because 82 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: you know, we have countries out there, Sean, and most 83 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: of your folks know exactly what I'm talking about because 84 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: they'll watch and they'll see we have countries to charge 85 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: us a one hundred percent tara for attacks, and we 86 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: charge them nothing for the same product coming into our country. 87 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: We have countries charging us far more than that, close 88 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: to three hundred percent in certain cases. And yet when 89 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: I say, well, we're going to attack them, or we're 90 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: going to be reciprocal and charge them the same three 91 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: hundred percent, everyone goes crazy and they say, oh, you 92 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: can't do that. It's not free trade, which is sort 93 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: of laughable when you think about it. In other words, 94 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: they can do it, but we can't. So those days 95 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: are over, and I think that's had a huge impact, 96 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: even though it's very early. I've only been doing this 97 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: a little more than a year and a half. You know, 98 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: with some of these and the policies, really it takes 99 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: a while to get them enacted, but it's having a 100 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: tremendous impact. And if we can straighten our trade, which 101 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: I'll do absolutely, and it's already happening you see what 102 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: happened with Europe yesterday. But as we straighten our trade, 103 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: we can pick up a lot of points GDP. To 104 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: be clear, though, you don't want a trade war. You 105 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: want free trade, but you want fair trade, right. I 106 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 1: want fair trade. I don't want a trade that people 107 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: think is fair and free. But we're being charged fifty percent. 108 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: As an example, China and I have great respect for 109 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: a president she I think he's a friend of mine. 110 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: He may not like me so much anymore, but we'll 111 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: be friends again. But China charges us twenty five percent 112 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: when we send a car to China to be solved. 113 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: When they send a car to us, we charge them 114 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: essentially nothing. They say two and a half, but it's 115 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: not even collected, so they get twenty five percent. We 116 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: get like nothing, And it doesn't make sense. It's not fair. 117 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: You can't compete. That's like a baseball game. I give 118 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 1: it an analogy. That's like you're having a big game 119 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: with a very good team and they score fifteen runs 120 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: in the first inning, so the score is fifteen to nothing. 121 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: Now you're going into the second and it's not looking good. 122 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: That's what happens when they charge twenty five percent, and 123 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: we're charging two and a half percent and not collecting. Essentially, 124 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: that's what's happening, and we can't do that, and we 125 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: don't do that anymore. You know. One of my criticisms 126 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: often a theme on both radio and TV, is the 127 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: fact that the media is so corrupt and so one sided, 128 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: and it's like every day they have a breathless thing, 129 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: negative thing to say about the president. We're one hundred 130 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: and one days away from the mid term elections. I'm 131 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: arguing in my view that it's the most important midterms 132 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: in our life. But if we go back to twenty sixteen, 133 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: the Gateway pund And actually actually picked up some really 134 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: interesting headlines that if you would have become president, you 135 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: would lead the economy off the cliff. I'll read you 136 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: a few of them. CNN Money said Trump promises four 137 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: percent growth. Economists say no way. The La Time said 138 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: if Trump thinks he can get more than three percent 139 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: economic growth, he's dreaming. The Wall Street Journal said Trump's 140 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: three percent growth target looks out of reach. Hill wrote 141 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: Trump's growth projections leave economists and disbelieve, and you got 142 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: your Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman Trump's election means 143 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: we are probably looking at a global recession with no 144 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: end in sight, and I can keep going. And Barack Obama, 145 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: who never reached three percent growth in a year, said, 146 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: what magic wand does Trump have to revive the economy? 147 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: Usually the answer as he doesn't have an answer. I 148 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: guess their predictions were wrong, sir, Well, we've had the 149 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: answers during the debates, and I think we were very 150 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: strong in the debates and what we want to do. 151 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: And if you look at the predictions, they've all been wrong. 152 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: I mean, we are far ahead of what anybody thought 153 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: except me. We can go a lot higher than this. 154 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: You know, if you look at regulations, nobody talked about regulations. 155 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: Had my opponent won the Democrats, you would have had 156 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: an economy that instead of being up close to forty 157 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: percent in the stock market, they would have been down 158 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: forty or fifty percent because the regulations were choking this country. 159 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: And I'm all for regulations between their clean water. We 160 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: want to have great environmental control. But they had ten 161 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: regulations when you could have used one. And as you know, 162 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 1: I've been cutting twenty two regulations for every new one 163 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: new regulation that's put in which are very few. Because 164 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: we were totally overregulated. You couldn't do anything. Highways were 165 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: taking twenty years to get approved. They have a highway 166 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: that's really important. It would take from seventeen to twenty 167 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: years to get your approvals. By that time, the highway 168 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: system is different than the roads are being built a 169 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: different way, and you couldn't make changes. Now this is 170 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: we're doing great. We could do a lot better. The 171 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: fact is that if I can cut the trade deficit 172 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: from eight hundred and seventeen billion, think of that. We 173 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: have a trade deficit with other countries, that's trading with 174 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: other countries, eight hundred and seventeen billion. If I cut 175 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: it at half right there, we'll pick up three to 176 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: four points. So you could add that to the four 177 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: or five, and so it would be at eight or nine. Now, 178 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to say that too much, and I 179 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 1: didn't want to say it too much during the campaign 180 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: because I would have been criticized. People wouldn't have believed it. 181 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: But now they're starting to believe. And you're right. You 182 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: look at a guy like Krugman, he doesn't nor thing. 183 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: I mean, the predictions were they were so bad. A 184 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: big factor though, Sean was regulation, and obviously a big 185 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: factor was to taxes, but a lot of this really 186 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: the taxes are going to help in the future. I 187 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: look so forward to seeing the next quarter because this 188 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: is so sustainable. This is going to go for a 189 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: long time. You know, we have numbers that are in 190 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: now and all. During the twenty sixteen campaign, I gave 191 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: statistics out. I did it every day because I wanted 192 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: people to know what eight years of the Obama economy were. 193 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: And you know, lowest labor participation rate, thirteen million more 194 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty. He 195 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: took on more debt than every other president before him combined. 196 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: You now have accumulated your track record. We have nearly 197 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: four million new jobs in the country. We have the 198 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: largest labor participation rate in history. We have literally nearly 199 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: four million new jobs created in manufacturing, jobs that people 200 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: thought weren't going to come back. Well, that's nearly seven 201 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: hundred thousand. Then we've got two or three million fewer 202 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: people on food stamps. Record low unemployment in fourteen states 203 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and a sixty 204 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: five year low for women in the workplace. That's pretty impressive, 205 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: and now four point one percent GDP. I think that 206 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: we can make a comparison that some economic policies work 207 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: and others do not. Well, you're really right, and I've 208 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: heard those statistics from you for even a long time. 209 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: And now when you look back, it's hard to believe 210 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: that we put up with it. And much of it 211 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: was caused by bad trade deals. People don't want to 212 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: say much of it was caused by regulation and over 213 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 1: tax to mean you're overtax think of it. In the 214 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: election coming up in now just a little more than 215 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: three months, the Democrats want to raise everybody's taxes. They 216 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: want to give back these massive tax cuts that we 217 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: got and reforms that are so good for everybody, but 218 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: the tax cuts. So they want to raise people's taxes. 219 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: They want to open up borders, they want to get 220 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: rid of ice. I mean, the things you're doing are 221 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: so destructive. We won't have a country. So they want 222 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: they want their crumbs back. Well, they want their crumbs 223 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: back that they want open borders, they want Obamacare, they 224 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: want to impeach you, and they want to stop all 225 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: investigations into deep corruption. Yeah, no, there's a lot of 226 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: corruption out there, but it happens to be on the 227 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: other side of the ledger, the Democrats. And if you 228 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: talk about collusion, the collusion is there, There's no question better. 229 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: But with only a kite, a house key, and wet hempstring, 230 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin captured lightning in a bottle over two hundred 231 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: and sixty years later. With a little resourcefulness ingenuity in 232 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: grit we're not only capturing energy from the sun and wind, 233 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: we're storing it, ensuring Americans have the energy they need 234 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: whenever they need it. Learn more about the nation's leader 235 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: and energy storage at next Era Energy dot com. We're 236 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: gonna have more with the President coming up in just 237 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 1: a minute, an exclusive interview he gave us after these 238 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: four point one percent GDP numbers. Huge win for the 239 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: American people, bad news politically for Democrats. But I want 240 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: to play something that is really important. All these Democrats 241 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: that predicted nothing but failure, and the same ones that 242 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: supported Obama's eight years of failure, some of those jobs 243 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: of the past are just not going to come back. 244 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: And when somebody says, like the person you just mentioned 245 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: who I'm not going to advertise for that he's going 246 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: to bring all these jobs back. Well, how exactly are 247 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: you gonna do that? What are you going to do? 248 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: There's there's no answer to it. He just says, well, 249 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna negotiate a better deal. Well, how 250 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: how exactly are you going to negotiate that? Magic? Wand 251 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: do you have? Imagine him being in charge when your 252 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: jobs and savings are at stake. Imagine him trying to 253 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: figure out what to do in case of an emergency. 254 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: So it's no wonder is it that? Risk analysts listed 255 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump a Donald Trump presidency as one of the 256 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism. He 257 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: has no real strategy for creating jobs, just a string 258 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: of empty promises, and maybe we shouldn't expect better from 259 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: someone whose most famous words are You're fired. Trump and 260 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: conservatives in Congress are planning a big tax cut from 261 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: millionaires and billionaires. To justify it, they're using the oldest 262 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: song in their playbook, claiming tax cuts on the rich 263 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: will trickle down to working families in the form of 264 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: stronger economic growth. Balogney, This isn't just about the unemployment, 265 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:06,119 Speaker 1: it's about wages rising in our country so that consumer 266 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: confidence is restored, because our economy will never fully reach 267 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: its possibilities unless we increase the consumer confidence, and that 268 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: can only be increased by the better deal, better jobs, 269 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: better wages, better future, and lowering cost to families. Frankly, 270 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: even on the economic front, he got a lot of 271 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: grief about trade from even fellow Republicans while traveling in 272 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: the Midwest. So today felt like an attempt, and you 273 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: could even hear it. He kept veering from his remarks 274 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: and then going back to the remarks and extending them 275 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: even longer, but all in a sense of trying really 276 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: hard to say, hey, please pay attention to the economic 277 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: story and ignore the all the other stuff. I get 278 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: it politically he needs to do this, Savannah. But I 279 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: can tell you there is a sense of where you 280 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: overhype something, and there were so many times and that 281 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: in those remarks that it felt overhyped, and how he 282 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: was talking about the economy. I feel like the bottom 283 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: has to fall out at some point, and by the way, 284 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: I'm hoping for it, because I think one way you 285 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please 286 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: bring on the recession, all right, unbelievable, All right, we'll 287 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: take a quick break and more of my interview with 288 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: the President right after the release of the GDP numbers 289 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: from earlier today, the economy, and so much more. As 290 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 1: we continue and you're listening to the best of the 291 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show, we'll have more of your favorite guest 292 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: topics and memorable moments. That's all coming up. You are 293 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: listening to the best of the Sean Hannity Show, you'll 294 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: hear what everyone really thinks in DC. This is the 295 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show. Veterans unemployment is at its lowest level 296 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: in eighteen years, and that number is rapidly going up. 297 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: On top of which we just received and won from Congress, 298 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: Choice where veterans can go out and see a doctor 299 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: if they can't get service, the service that they deserve. 300 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: Unemployment for disabled Americans has hit a record lowest in history. 301 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: More than three point five million Americans have been lifted 302 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: off food stamp, something that you haven't seen in decades. 303 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 1: Three point five million Americans have been lifted off food stamps. 304 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: That's because they were able to go out and get 305 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: a job, and they're going to love their jobs. Nine 306 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: of American manufacturers are optimistic about their company's outlook. And 307 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: that's the highest level also in history. And that's an 308 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: old survey. I've been around a long time. Manufacturing wages 309 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: are expected to rise at the fastest rate in over 310 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: seventeen year year. Business and consumer confidence has reached historic highs. 311 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: So far this year, American exports are up nearly twenty percent. 312 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 1: I've only been here a little more than a year 313 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: and a half. Over the same period in the year 314 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 1: before I took office, we've become a net exporter of 315 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,479 Speaker 1: natural gas for the first time since nineteen fifty seven. 316 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 1: When I came into office. One point five million fewer 317 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: prime age Americans we're working than eight years before. We 318 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 1: had lost almost two hundred thousand manufacturing jobs under the 319 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: previous administration. And you all know they say, well, you 320 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 1: have to lose manufacturing jobs, it'll get worse and worse. 321 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: Manufacturing jobs are obsolete. No, they're not obsolete. They're the 322 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: greatest jobs. We have. More than ten million additional Americans 323 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: had been added to food stamps past years, but we've 324 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,439 Speaker 1: turned it all around once again. We are the economic 325 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 1: envy of the entire world. When I meet the leaders 326 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: of countries, the first thing they say invariably is mister president, 327 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 1: so nice to meet you. Congratulations on your economy. You're 328 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: leading the entire world, all right, the president from earlier today, 329 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: GDP growth at four point one percent. As we continue 330 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: with the President of the United States, I was with 331 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: you in Singapore. I was also in London and in Helsinki. Now, 332 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 1: one of the promises that Kim Jong un made to you, 333 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: and we still have not had rockets fired over Japan, 334 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: our hostages were released, We're talking about denuclearization. One of 335 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: his launch facilities has been dismantled. But now the remains 336 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: of Americans have come home, are coming home, and we 337 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: saw that earlier today. But also NATO is also paying 338 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: more money. Well, a lot of things have changed since 339 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: I became president. And when I was with President Obama 340 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: in the Oval Office, which I guess is something that 341 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: presidents do, that have a meeting, and I had a 342 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: very interesting meeting. But he did say the biggest single 343 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 1: problem that our country has is the problem with North Korea. 344 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: And he was very perplexed that I can understand that 345 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: and it could have led to war. And I did ask, 346 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: have you spoken to him? And the answer was no, 347 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: And I said, you know to myself, it would be 348 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: a good thing to speak. We did meet. We had 349 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: a great meeting, very very great meeting. I mean, I 350 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,640 Speaker 1: think you could have lost fifty million people more if 351 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: you think the soul is twenty eight million people, that's 352 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: right on the border. You know, people say hundreds of thousands, 353 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: one hundreds of we're talking about fifty sixty one hundred 354 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: million people could have been wiped out at lost. We 355 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: had a great meeting. Historic and among other things, where 356 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: the remains are starting to come back. Missiles have been stopped. 357 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: We don't have rockets and missiles shot over Japan. The hostages, 358 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 1: we got them back, even before I left, we got 359 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 1: them back. Nuclear testing no more, rocket testing no more. 360 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: So many things have changed. And you know, one thing, 361 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: all of their propaganda material and the propaganda which has 362 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: been up for years, propaganda, the signs, the music, it's 363 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: all stopped. It's all been taken down. So many positive 364 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: things have happened, and you know, we have time. There's 365 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: no rush. I told by people, don't rush. We have 366 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: sanctions on. We haven't taken any sanctions off, and we 367 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: hope I look forward to the time when we do 368 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: think the sanctions off because when that happens, a lot 369 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: of good things will have happened on the other side. 370 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: But so we're very proud of that, are very proud 371 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,239 Speaker 1: of the fact that with NATO they were taken in 372 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: less and less money every year. But last year, which 373 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: was my first meeting, they took in forty four billion 374 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: more because they said you have to pay your bills. 375 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 1: We were paying for everybody else. And this year we 376 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: raised by at least hundreds of hundreds of billions of dollars. 377 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: So we took in forty four billion last year, and 378 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: all of that goes toward protecting most of it toward 379 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: protecting against Russia. And then they say I'm friendly with Russia. 380 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: Russia is not happy about what I did with NATO. 381 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: Russia is not happy about all of this tremendous amount 382 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: of money that now is flowing into these countries who 383 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: weren't paying their bills. I mean they were delinquent in 384 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: many cases, and certainly bringing up the pipeline where Germany 385 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 1: is paying. As you know show in Germany, nobody brought 386 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: this up. It was nobody even knew about it. But 387 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,199 Speaker 1: Germany is paying to Russia billions and billions of dollars 388 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: for energy coming out of that pipeline. And I said, 389 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: wait a minute, we're protecting against Russia. You're paying billions 390 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: of dollars toward Russia. Nobody brought that up at me, 391 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: and I'm very unhappy about it, and I told them 392 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: that I hope we can eventually because we have more 393 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: energy resources than anybody in the world. Last question, circus, 394 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: I putting Sean that was part of the deal I 395 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: made with the European Union. They're opening up lots millions 396 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: of jobs for Americans and the energy sector. That would 397 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: be right. Let me ask you last question because I 398 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: want to go back to the election in one hundred 399 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: and one days and I see the agenda just as 400 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: you described, and I've been saying it as well, that 401 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: they want to impeach you. We know, they just tell 402 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,679 Speaker 1: everybody to stop saying it. They want the tax cuts reverse, 403 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: they want their crumbs back, they want to eliminate ice, 404 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: open borders, keep Obamacare, stop investigations. I don't think, I 405 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: don't hear anything that is going to help the American people. 406 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: But in mid term elections, historically, the party in the 407 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: White House in power usually loses seats, and I know, 408 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 1: to prevent that from happening, you kind of have to 409 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: buck the trend. There's usually about a fifteen seat loss. 410 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: What do you say to people in this audience that maybe, 411 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: well you're not on the ballot, that support you but 412 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: don't particularly like their rhino congressman of senator. Well, my 413 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: endorsements seemed to have a lot of weight. If you 414 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 1: look at Georgia, the governor of Georgia, he was down 415 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 1: five to ten points and he won seventy thirty, so 416 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 1: he won by forty points. Many others. I mean, you 417 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: could look at the York Congressman. You can look at 418 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: all of these different endorsements. And what I told my 419 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: people just now, I said to General Kelly, I said 420 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: to a whole group of people, we have to get 421 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: our group together. Give me the top twenty five congress 422 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: people that are you know, could go either way, and 423 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: I want to go out in campaign for those people. 424 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: Likewise with the Senate, because we're going to fix everything 425 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: once we have the vote. You know, we really don't 426 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: have When they say a majority, it's fifty one forty nine, 427 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: but it's not really because you lose a couple and 428 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: people are sick, people are ill, people can come to vote. 429 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: So in the Senate, where really don't have a majority 430 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: at all, and it's a very small In the House, 431 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 1: it's a very small majority. So I think we can 432 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: actually because of a couple of things that are happening. 433 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 1: Very special things are happening for our country. You mentioned 434 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: North kore you mentioned our military as being rebuilt, so 435 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: many other But look at the economy. The economy may 436 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 1: be the strongest it's ever been in the history of 437 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: our country. Now you know the famous quote, it's the economy, stupid. Well, 438 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: if it's the economy, then we should do very well. 439 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: I just don't know any reason why we shouldn't do well. 440 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: We're doing well with our military. We knocked out IIS. 441 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: We've done so well and so many and ISIS would 442 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: have never been knocked out. Now, you got to keep 443 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: on it. I don't want to be saying we knocked 444 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: it out. You got to keep on it. But we 445 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: have decimated ISIS. So many things have taken place. But 446 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: the economy is the strongest ever and I think that's 447 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: going to have a very positive impact. And I am 448 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: going to work very hard. I'll go six or seven 449 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,199 Speaker 1: days a week when we're sixty days out and I 450 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: will be campaigning for all of these great people that 451 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: do have a difficult race, and we think we're going 452 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: to bring them over the line. So I really believe 453 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: that because we're doing so well as a country and 454 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: so well with the economy, I think we're going to 455 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 1: be surprising a lot of people. All Right, mister President, 456 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: I know you're busy. Thank you for taking the time. 457 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: Congratulations four point one percent GDP growth. Thank you sir 458 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: for being with us, and hopefully we'll talk soon. Thank you, 459 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Jean, thank you. All right. Eight 460 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: hundred and nine for one, Shawn is our number if 461 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the program bringing 462 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: jobs back to America and getting America back to work. 463 00:26:30,880 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: This mister Sean Halley show. Allright, we're gonna hit our phones. 464 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: We have a very special guest today and we're very 465 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: honored to have him. Ellwood Or his name is really 466 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: Woody Snell, and today is his one hundredth birthday. Born 467 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: July twenty seventh, nineteen eighteen, raised on a farm in 468 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 1: Ohio and literally was a hero, went to fought in 469 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: World War two for this great country. Has an incredible life, 470 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: and we wanted to say happy birthday to Woody. Woody, 471 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Happy birthday, sir. And 472 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: you're a great American, Yes, sir, thank you very much. Again, 473 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: I think you're a great American too. Thank you so much. 474 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 1: You're very kind. I mean, did you ever in your 475 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: life think you'd make it to a hundred years old? Well, 476 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,479 Speaker 1: I'd never thought about it. I just kept plugged it along. 477 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: And it's funny. It's funny. When I got up to 478 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: the tiny nine, I got to wondering about us, and 479 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: I thought maybe I might make now your health day 480 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 1: here is very good. Obviously your mind is very sharp. 481 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: Is there anything special you've done to keep yourself healthy 482 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 1: and so strong these years? Well, I tried to walk 483 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: as much as I can, which is getting shorter all 484 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: the time. And I'm quite a vitamin freak. I take 485 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: a lot of vitamins. And I had a wonderful, wonderful 486 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: wife for six or three years, since she took good 487 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: care of me. Let me ask you about this. So 488 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: you grew up, as I understand it, on a farm 489 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 1: in Ohio, and you graduated from high school in nineteen 490 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: thirty eight. I read your whole bio. And then you 491 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 1: went to fight in World War two. Tell us about it, well, 492 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: I graduated in nineteen thirty six, Okay, and then and 493 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: then I didn't. I didn't go to war to fight 494 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: a war. I went to the Air Corps to learn 495 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: how to be an airplane mechanic. I thought that was 496 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: a coming thing in this world. And then then the 497 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: war came along, and I was very, very fortunate in 498 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: the war I was sent. I was finally became a 499 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: crew chief on a C forty seven and a troop 500 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: carry outfit. And then and I got to when I 501 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: got to be a crew chief, I got to flying 502 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: all over the United States holding different things to different 503 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: air bases. And then in January January forty three, we 504 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: were sent over to India and we went into the 505 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: northeastern area of India and we had to fly into 506 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: China through a valley and the Himalaya Mountains called the Hump. 507 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 1: And the reason we had to do that was because 508 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: China was completely blockaded by the Japanese and the only 509 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: way the fourteenth Air Force could get any material was 510 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: through this Hump by us taking it over by plane. 511 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: And we did that, and we also flew down into Burma. 512 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: You're a member of the India China Burma Wall of Fame. 513 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: And by the way, you even got a medal from 514 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: the government of China honoring your service in World War Two. Wow. Well, 515 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: I got it all those medals, but what I got 516 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: is called the Air Metal. It's a medal from the 517 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: Air Force. Were fine. It was fifteen hundred hours. And 518 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: I'm very proud of him. I was a master charging 519 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: sergeant when I was discharged, and I'm a very proud 520 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: American and I will always being a proud American. I 521 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: want everybody to know because a high percentage of these planes, 522 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: historian crews, crashed and at that time, there was no 523 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: way to rescue any survivors. No, there wasn't. And that 524 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: was called a luminum trail. Because when you flew over 525 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: from India to China or China to India, you could 526 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: look down there and you could see these crisis laying 527 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: around different places. It didn't give you much faith in 528 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: there where you were going over there at the time. Wow. Well, 529 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: I want to say and first of all, happy birthday. 530 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: Second of all, you know, you just remind mine myself. 531 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: My dad fought in World War Two. He's been gone 532 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: a lot of years now, but all of the World 533 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: War Two vets were heroes. And you know your love 534 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: of God, family, country shines through you. I wish you 535 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: another hundred years of good health and happiness and uh 536 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: and peace, and thank you for all you did for us. 537 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: And happy birthday. Thank you. It's it's a jerry. Are 538 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: deeply honored thing to be able to talk to you, sir, 539 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: Very honored. You're a great American. Sir, You're a great American, 540 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: and the honors all mine. God bless you, and happy birthday. 541 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: I hope you have a great day today and every day. 542 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Can I say one more thing, yes, sir, 543 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: I'm very kind of upset about these famous millionaire football 544 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: players dissegrating our flag and our national anthem. I wish 545 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: I could take one of them guys over there and 546 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: show him where these people are what they did for 547 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: our country. But I am so ashamed of these guys 548 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: that can't even stand up and salute the flag. That 549 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: really bugs me. The dead bothers me too. I'm not 550 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: even gonna watch I'm watching college football now. That ought 551 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: to be the one thing that unites everybody. I think 552 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 1: so too. I'm greatly appreciate you to be able to 553 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: talk to you, sir. All right, my friend, God bless 554 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: you always. We appreciate all you did for us. And 555 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: happy birthday, sir. Thanks Woody. All right, eight hundred nine one. 556 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: Sean is on number you want to be a part 557 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: of the program, We'll take a break. We had a 558 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: really really special Hannity tonight. We're all over the place tonight, 559 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: including the President on the good economic news, Janine Pierro Bannon, Roaldo, 560 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan, and a little more of my Rosanna interview. 561 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: That's nine Eastern. Say you DVR Hannity on Fox quick break, 562 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: We'll continue. This is the best of the Sean Hannity Show. 563 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: Don't forget. Stay tuned for more right after the latest 564 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: news right here on this radio station. The best of 565 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity is on now. I called his behavior treason, 566 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: which is to betray one's trust and to aid him 567 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: at the enemy, and I stand very much by that claim. 568 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: Do you think that John Brandon's hyperbole is an issue here? Well, 569 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: I think it is. I think, um, you know, John 570 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: is sort of like a free train and he's gonna 571 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: say what's on his mind, holding them accountable. Sean gets 572 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: the answers no one else does. Freedom is back in style. 573 00:33:54,080 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to the revolution. We've been down the new Sean 574 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 1: Hannity Show. More behind the scenes information on breaking news, 575 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: and more bold inspired solutions for America D minus seventy 576 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: six days. Seventy six days until you decide the mid 577 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: term e elections to keep America great. Stay right here 578 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: for our final news round up and information overload. A 579 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: couple of years back, you gave a speech saying, if 580 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 1: we fall in love with our own virtue, we can 581 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: go sideways. At any point over the last two years, 582 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: did you fall prey to that? Did you fall in 583 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: love with your own virtue? I don't think so, but 584 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: I worried about it constantly, and the guardrail for that, 585 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,360 Speaker 1: because that's a big worry I have about myself, was 586 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: to surround myself with people who will get that hit 587 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 1: at the certainty, hit at the pride, to make sure 588 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,320 Speaker 1: I've thought about things well. But at the end of 589 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,720 Speaker 1: the day, you gotta look at yourself in the mirror 590 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: and you've got to make the decision, the right decision, 591 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,720 Speaker 1: but most of all for the right reasons. Yeah, James, 592 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: callmey's virtue and his superiority and his honor. Well, is 593 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: that exactly right? Well, we have a new book out 594 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 1: and we've been telling you about investigating the investigators, follow 595 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 1: the money and something that you know, and then it's interesting, 596 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 1: but considering that all the Trump Russia collusion as it 597 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 1: relates to Paul Manafort and his trial and all of 598 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: that that we have followed, this is the great work 599 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: of Robert Muller and his merried band of Democratic owners 600 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 1: and you know, real winners like Andrew Weissman and Jeannie Ray, 601 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: And it just is how did we get here? How 602 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,760 Speaker 1: did we start Trump Russia collusion in the twenty sixteen 603 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: residential race and end up with a tax case of 604 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 1: Paul manna for from years ago that had already been 605 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,360 Speaker 1: dispensed of that they dug out of mothballs for the 606 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 1: very purpose of putting the screws to him, so he'll 607 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 1: sing or compose in the hopes of getting the President 608 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: and Peach are prosecuted. Now we're going to raid the 609 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 1: President's attorney's office. We'll do that. Now we got, you know, 610 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:32,280 Speaker 1: a taxicab medallion issue. Oh okay, Well, we're gonna follow 611 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,720 Speaker 1: the money. This new book that we have been telling 612 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 1: you out is pretty interesting. If you remember our good 613 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: friend Peter Schwitzer. He's the one that told us about 614 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,480 Speaker 1: Clinton cash, and he wrote about secret empires, how the 615 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: American political class hides corruption and enriches their family and 616 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: their friends. He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute 617 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: and also with us as Shamus Brunner, and he is 618 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,280 Speaker 1: the author of this brand new book that is telling 619 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,879 Speaker 1: the or. It's called Compromised, How money and politics drive 620 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,640 Speaker 1: FBI corruption every Day. Welcome both of you back to 621 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: the program. Now. Peter wrote the introduction of this book, Shamus, Listen, 622 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: you work for a great guy. He's very good on 623 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: TV and radio. I hope we don't. You don't mind 624 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,800 Speaker 1: him stepping on your book a little bit here. No happy, 625 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,719 Speaker 1: happy to have Peter with me. Yeah. But so with 626 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:27,040 Speaker 1: all this talk and again Trump Russia collusion, twenty sixteen 627 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: election influence and all this, how did we spin off 628 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: into oh, Paul manaforts taxes and a tax broadcase and 629 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,200 Speaker 1: issues going back to two thousand and five? How do 630 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,239 Speaker 1: we spin off into Michael Cohn's medallions? And then we 631 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 1: look into the investigators, and this is what I see 632 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,399 Speaker 1: in your book, and tell me if any of this 633 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,879 Speaker 1: is wrong. But you're reporting in the book Compromised, How 634 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,839 Speaker 1: money and politics drive FBI corruption, which is now out 635 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,439 Speaker 1: at James Coley's net worth went over went skyrocketed over 636 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,399 Speaker 1: four thousand percent when he left the DOJ and five 637 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 1: and returned to the FBI in twenty thirteen. You point 638 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 1: out James Coomy made six point one million dollars after 639 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,000 Speaker 1: Muller's FBI granted his employer at the time. I guess 640 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,240 Speaker 1: he had a consulting firm of some kind, But James 641 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,839 Speaker 1: Coomy made six point one million from Lockheed Martin and 642 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: one of the largest contracts and contractors in American history, 643 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,960 Speaker 1: and what you describe as a billion dollar boondoggle. And 644 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,879 Speaker 1: under Muller's direction, he was the FBI director at the time, 645 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,680 Speaker 1: the FBI granted multiple spy contracts to the very firm 646 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,359 Speaker 1: that employed Comy or his team to Lockheed Martin while 647 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,600 Speaker 1: Comy is advising them on the gallery of their operations, 648 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: and that Comy received another six million working for one 649 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: of the world's largest hedge funds, and an additional five 650 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,239 Speaker 1: hundred grand for unused vacation time. Do I have any 651 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: of this wrong, Shamus? Or is that exactly corroborated? Right? 652 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,520 Speaker 1: Justin true? Because they're not getting back to me. We've 653 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 1: tried to confirm it with them. No, you haven't exactly right, Sean. 654 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:02,240 Speaker 1: This is a familiar or the revolving door, turning public 655 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: service into self service. And I think the question you asked, 656 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,440 Speaker 1: how did we get here? It's a very smart and 657 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: important question. So we followed the money. We followed it 658 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,480 Speaker 1: to the top, and we found that these choir boys 659 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,080 Speaker 1: or boy scouts as the media likes to depict them, 660 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 1: James Comey, Robert Mueller, they're really no better than anyone 661 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: else in the swamp. They use their public service, they 662 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: use their contacts, and they cash in through the revolving door. 663 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,600 Speaker 1: So we followed the money, did a full cash analysis, 664 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,520 Speaker 1: and like you said, we found James Comee's net worth 665 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: was a modest two hundred and six thousand dollars before 666 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,600 Speaker 1: he went to Lockheed Martin. And by the way, he 667 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,760 Speaker 1: wasn't just consulting Lockheed Martin. He was their general counsel 668 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,560 Speaker 1: and a senior vice president at the corporation, which kind 669 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,879 Speaker 1: of begs the question, why would you choose a young 670 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 1: James Comey. He's got no corporate experience of that kind. 671 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: So he was working directly for Lockheed Martin. And directly 672 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,800 Speaker 1: all right, and explain the six point one million dollars 673 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,359 Speaker 1: that Lockheed Martin. Who how much would they paying him 674 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,759 Speaker 1: a year? Do you know the yearly salary? Right? So 675 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,720 Speaker 1: that's it's a good point. And in fairness to James Coomey, 676 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,120 Speaker 1: he could have been making six point one million dollars 677 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,800 Speaker 1: before Lockheed Martin received a billion dollar boondoggle from Robert 678 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,920 Speaker 1: Mueller's FBI. But this is according to SEC documents, they 679 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 1: only disclosed the full compensation to James Coomey in the 680 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 1: year two thousand and nine, so it's possible he earned 681 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,839 Speaker 1: that much before then. We just don't know. Well, well, 682 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: you're saying the six point one million was only made 683 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,319 Speaker 1: in one year, just the year two thousand and nine, 684 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,560 Speaker 1: a single year, six point one million dollars. And how 685 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,319 Speaker 1: long did he work for Lockheed Martin. He worked there 686 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,839 Speaker 1: from two thousand and five until two thousand and ten, 687 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,879 Speaker 1: and then jumped over, Wait a minute, if he made 688 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,800 Speaker 1: six point one million in one year, I'm assuming he 689 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,200 Speaker 1: made a lot. Why don't you know the other years? Right? 690 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,640 Speaker 1: So it's it's the way financial disclosures work. We only 691 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,719 Speaker 1: have what they give us. We'd obviously like a lot more. So, well, 692 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,080 Speaker 1: let's say he was making three million dollars a year 693 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,920 Speaker 1: for the other how many years? Now it's five years totals. 694 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,800 Speaker 1: If it was making three dollars, it could be eighteen 695 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 1: million dollars exactly, right. And what does somebody do for 696 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,719 Speaker 1: five years to make you know, at least in one 697 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,840 Speaker 1: year six point one million dollars? What did he do 698 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: for the six point one million? That seems like a 699 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,200 Speaker 1: lot of money to me. I think most Americans are 700 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 1: gonna open their eyes and say how much? Right? So, 701 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,799 Speaker 1: in Lockeed Martin's Annual Reports, James Comey has power over 702 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,640 Speaker 1: attorney for all of the executives, so he literally signs 703 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 1: off on all of their operations, including some of the 704 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 1: invasive surveillance programs like this billion dollar boondoggle. That's not 705 00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 1: my words. It was reported in Huffington Post that it 706 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,520 Speaker 1: was called a boondoggle, and that's because it was plagued 707 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,400 Speaker 1: by cost overruns and delays. But this program, the billion 708 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:53,680 Speaker 1: dollar program to lockeed Martin was called Next Generation Identification 709 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:59,120 Speaker 1: and it was a biometric facial recognition program trying to 710 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,080 Speaker 1: mature all of the faces of every man, woman and 711 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,440 Speaker 1: child in America and turn them into a fingerprint essentially. 712 00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,480 Speaker 1: So that's that came the year before. Can I interrupt? 713 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,239 Speaker 1: Can I just go back to he worked there from 714 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,200 Speaker 1: two thousand and five to two thousand and ten? Correct? 715 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,920 Speaker 1: And you only could get his pay for two thousand 716 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,160 Speaker 1: and nine, which was six point one million dollars correct. 717 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,000 Speaker 1: Where are the other four years? That's a great question. 718 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,359 Speaker 1: What about the years before? If you can get a nine, 719 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,240 Speaker 1: I would think you can get oh eight, oh seven, 720 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,160 Speaker 1: oh six, and oh five. Why wouldn't you get those years? 721 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,400 Speaker 1: I would think they would be released first. Yeah, I 722 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,160 Speaker 1: trust me. I went through every single year and looked 723 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,400 Speaker 1: for it. They just don't nate total James Comey's compensation 724 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 1: for those years. But what we do know is in 725 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,359 Speaker 1: two thousand and four, the previous General Council made about 726 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:52,040 Speaker 1: six point one million dollars, So we used very conservative 727 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,719 Speaker 1: estimates here. We didn't want to go a bridge too far, 728 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,080 Speaker 1: so he made six point one million. And is it 729 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,680 Speaker 1: possible it could have been for the four years together. 730 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:05,840 Speaker 1: Not possible, you know, I guess, I guess anything's possible. 731 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,839 Speaker 1: But it specifically lays out the compensation for each executive 732 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,480 Speaker 1: in the year two thousand and nine, and this is 733 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:17,200 Speaker 1: a combination of cash and stock options, which interestingly, the 734 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:21,120 Speaker 1: stock options were valid through twenty twenty, so he could 735 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,520 Speaker 1: have exercised them when he returned to the FBI. We 736 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,759 Speaker 1: just don't know, all right. So if he has the 737 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,000 Speaker 1: power of attorney of all the executives at lockeed Martin, 738 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,440 Speaker 1: doesn't that mean that he signs off on this stuff? Correct? 739 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,960 Speaker 1: He signs off on all of their operations. In the 740 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,080 Speaker 1: annual reports from lockeed Martin, they state that James Comey 741 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:46,200 Speaker 1: helped successfully resolve certain litigation. They're often sued for various reasons. 742 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:50,719 Speaker 1: So he's signing off on operations, he's advising on the 743 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,640 Speaker 1: legality of them, which helps when you're getting surveillance contracts 744 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:59,320 Speaker 1: that many civil rights organizations say are too invasive. And 745 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,840 Speaker 1: he and his but Robert Mueller, it looks like worked 746 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,160 Speaker 1: like kind of like a pitcher and a catcher. So 747 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:05,680 Speaker 1: in other words, so it would have been on the 748 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,840 Speaker 1: Lockheed Martin side, you know, pushing to get the government contract. 749 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,720 Speaker 1: That would be Coomey's role. And then on the other side, 750 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,720 Speaker 1: the person that signed off on it was Robert Muller. 751 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,680 Speaker 1: Right well, Robert Mueller know that he was getting six 752 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,319 Speaker 1: point one million dollars in two thousand and nine. The 753 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,120 Speaker 1: annual report comes out at the end of the year, 754 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,560 Speaker 1: so it's not I mean, it's it's not clear. But 755 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,040 Speaker 1: he obviously would have known that James Coomey was at 756 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,000 Speaker 1: Lockheed Martin, and he obviously would have had to sign 757 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,960 Speaker 1: off on a billion dollars program. So both but based 758 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,799 Speaker 1: on what you perceive in your research shows that the 759 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,040 Speaker 1: role that Comey had at Lockheed Martin, it was his 760 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 1: job to sign off on such such projects like this, 761 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:49,560 Speaker 1: this new generation of ID and facial recognition correct and on. 762 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,560 Speaker 1: And would this be something that Congress had to sign 763 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,959 Speaker 1: off on or would it be something Muller wanted needed 764 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,000 Speaker 1: to approve within the FBI as the FNIDE director. Right well, 765 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,040 Speaker 1: James Comey and Robert Mueller have this long history together 766 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,720 Speaker 1: going back to the nineties at the DOJ, and they've 767 00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:10,280 Speaker 1: been very concerned with matters relating to surveillance, especially FEISA 768 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,719 Speaker 1: and the Patriot Act. So we see repeatedly throughout the 769 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,880 Speaker 1: early two thousands and all the way up through today, 770 00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,880 Speaker 1: Robert Mueller, James Comey wanted to tear down the wall, 771 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:24,160 Speaker 1: so to speak, between intelligence agencies and had issues with 772 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,600 Speaker 1: what they called the going dark problem where they didn't 773 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,400 Speaker 1: have enough information. So they really rapidly expanded, and I 774 00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,800 Speaker 1: call it the surveillance state, which is now of course 775 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:39,880 Speaker 1: being used against journalists, citizens, and even now a presidential candidate. 776 00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,839 Speaker 1: Gotta take a quick break. Welcome back Bore with Peter Schweitzer, 777 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:48,840 Speaker 1: Government Accountability Institute President, and also Shamus Bruner, author of 778 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:52,040 Speaker 1: the blockbuster new book it's called Compromised, How Money and 779 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:59,840 Speaker 1: Politics Drive FBI Corruption, which is now out in bookstores today. 780 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,520 Speaker 1: Now that Uncle's Joe is left ability, maybe we can 781 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:12,239 Speaker 1: get back to bringing jobs homes. That's jobs, jobs. This 782 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:38,680 Speaker 1: is the Sean Hannity Show. A right as we continue, 783 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,520 Speaker 1: Peter Schweitzer, and he is the head and president of 784 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:46,120 Speaker 1: the Government Accountability Institute. Chamus Brunner is with us. They 785 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,200 Speaker 1: have a brand new book it's called Compromised, How Money 786 00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,800 Speaker 1: and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, which is now out today. 787 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:54,360 Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like a lot of money. But 788 00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:58,920 Speaker 1: on the other hand, there is a certain expertise that 789 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:04,200 Speaker 1: one would have that I could see somebody like Martin 790 00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:08,400 Speaker 1: wanting an FBI director and his security clearance would be 791 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,480 Speaker 1: of great value to them, and the contacts that they 792 00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,080 Speaker 1: would be a great value to them. It doesn't necessarily 793 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,880 Speaker 1: mean something nefarious happened here. And if you're looking at 794 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,040 Speaker 1: a company that is getting what fifty billion dollars a 795 00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:26,000 Speaker 1: year and taxpayer funded contracts six point one million is 796 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,279 Speaker 1: kind of small potatoes, isn't it. Well, Sean, I think 797 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:34,040 Speaker 1: with this highlights is this problem. It happens at Health 798 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,680 Speaker 1: and Human Services. It happens at DoD where you have 799 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,960 Speaker 1: government officials who basically, while they're in government, create demand 800 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,239 Speaker 1: for their own services when they leave. And so in 801 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,680 Speaker 1: the case of Jim Comey, he goes to Lockeed Martin 802 00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,600 Speaker 1: from the Department of Justice. At the Department of Justice, 803 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,160 Speaker 1: he helped establish some of these very programs that Lockeed 804 00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:01,320 Speaker 1: Martin was getting contracts to implement and carry out. So 805 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,200 Speaker 1: he sets up these programs. Who is Lockeed Martin going 806 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:09,360 Speaker 1: to look for to give a paycheck too? Who understands 807 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,799 Speaker 1: this program better than anybody else? The government official who 808 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,400 Speaker 1: helped put it together. And that is sort of a 809 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,080 Speaker 1: tried and true story in Washington, d C. And the 810 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,719 Speaker 1: point is that, you know, you play that clip at 811 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,640 Speaker 1: the beginning of Jim Komi talking about, you know, how 812 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:30,000 Speaker 1: sensitive he is to the appearances of of you know, 813 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,160 Speaker 1: doing something wrong or wrong doing. The fact of the 814 00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,440 Speaker 1: matter is this is a very familiar story, unfortunately in 815 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,240 Speaker 1: the swamp and that I think is what's so troubling 816 00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,479 Speaker 1: about it. And what Shamus shows is this pattern where 817 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,279 Speaker 1: you know, when Muller is in the private sector and 818 00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:50,239 Speaker 1: Komy is in government, there seemed to be contracts and 819 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,759 Speaker 1: resources that flow in that direction as well. It's it's 820 00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,719 Speaker 1: kind of a tag team arrangement that these two have, 821 00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:01,719 Speaker 1: and so it speaks to the financial underbelly that exists. 822 00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,680 Speaker 1: Even at the Department of Justice, which is an agency 823 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,279 Speaker 1: the FBI that we expect to be focused primarily on 824 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,319 Speaker 1: enforcing the law, there are lots of ways in which 825 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,799 Speaker 1: these officials self enriched themselves. Wow, this is a mind 826 00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,200 Speaker 1: blowing episode here. By the way, if you're just joining us, 827 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,399 Speaker 1: The book is called Compromised, How Money and Politics Drive 828 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:27,000 Speaker 1: FBI Corruption, now out in bookstores, Amazon, Dot com It's 829 00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,600 Speaker 1: eye opening, and I think a lot of questions need 830 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,640 Speaker 1: to be asked by Congress of the people involved so 831 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,239 Speaker 1: that we know nothing nefarious has happened. Anyway, I want 832 00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,040 Speaker 1: to thank you both, Peter Schweitzer and Shamus Bruner, Thank 833 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,000 Speaker 1: you both. Eight hundred and nine four one. Shaun is 834 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,479 Speaker 1: on number all right. When we come back. Jim Jordan, 835 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,839 Speaker 1: by the way, he's running for speaker. We support him, 836 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,359 Speaker 1: would love to see it, and don't think that if 837 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,400 Speaker 1: in fact Republicans hold the House that he couldn't win. 838 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,359 Speaker 1: In the age of Trump, anything can happen. Of course, 839 00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,759 Speaker 1: that's seventy six days away. And remember I also warned 840 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,320 Speaker 1: you that this it is about what they want to 841 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:03,959 Speaker 1: impeach the president. They want to keep Obama care. How's 842 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:08,280 Speaker 1: that work it out? Let's see fire, ice and open borders, 843 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,600 Speaker 1: and they want their crumbs back, and they want to 844 00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:14,360 Speaker 1: stop all the investigations into the deep state and their corruption. 845 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:16,880 Speaker 1: So that's what that is all about. Anyone, we'll talk 846 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,120 Speaker 1: about the elections. We'll talk about Bruce Orr and his 847 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:23,680 Speaker 1: loving relationship with Christopher Steele. Considering they see text or 848 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:27,960 Speaker 1: email oh seventy plus times, how did that happen before 849 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,920 Speaker 1: and after the election. Also, don't forget Hannity. Tonight, nine 850 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,520 Speaker 1: Eastern on the Fox News Channel, Sarah Gregg, new Ingrich, 851 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,759 Speaker 1: Michelle Malcolm, Pam Bondi, and Ainsley Earhart with her exclusive 852 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:43,319 Speaker 1: interview with President Trump from earlier today. That's all coming 853 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:49,480 Speaker 1: up at nine on Fox. We'll continue when we come 854 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,959 Speaker 1: back more of the best of the Sean Hannity Show. 855 00:50:52,040 --> 00:51:11,759 Speaker 1: Stay tuned. You are listening to the best of the 856 00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,320 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show. Didn't the i RS scandal and the 857 00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:20,560 Speaker 1: NSA atrocities convince you you need a watchdog on Washington 858 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:25,800 Speaker 1: with insiders sources. You need Hannity every day. Do you 859 00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:29,279 Speaker 1: think that John Brandon's hyperbole is an issue here, is 860 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,520 Speaker 1: one of the reasons we're having this crisis? Well, I 861 00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:37,080 Speaker 1: think it is. I think may John is sort of 862 00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,880 Speaker 1: like a freight train and he's gonna say what's on 863 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,879 Speaker 1: his mind. I think though, that the common denominator among 864 00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,320 Speaker 1: all of us that have been speaking up though, is 865 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:51,040 Speaker 1: genuine concern about the jeopardy or threats to our institutions 866 00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:55,919 Speaker 1: and values. And although we may express that in different ways, 867 00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,560 Speaker 1: and I think that's what this really is about. But 868 00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:03,560 Speaker 1: John and his rhetoric have become I think an issue 869 00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:07,320 Speaker 1: in and of itself. You indicated that you've had lawyers 870 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,879 Speaker 1: contact you about possible legal action. It's forty eight hours later. 871 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,919 Speaker 1: What would that look like. Is that something you're serious about. Well, 872 00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:16,960 Speaker 1: I have been contacted by a number of lawyers and 873 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,680 Speaker 1: they have already given me their thoughts about the basis 874 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,600 Speaker 1: for a complaint and injunction to try to prevent him 875 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,080 Speaker 1: from doing this in the future. If my clearances and 876 00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,000 Speaker 1: my reputation as I'm being pulled through the mud now, 877 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,560 Speaker 1: if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent 878 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,600 Speaker 1: Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me, 879 00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,040 Speaker 1: it's a small price to pay. So I am going 880 00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,160 Speaker 1: to do whatever I can personally to try to prevent 881 00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,839 Speaker 1: these abuses in the future, and if it means going 882 00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:48,200 Speaker 1: to court, I will do that. This is a dictatorial 883 00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:53,839 Speaker 1: exercise of power that should frighten and call on all 884 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,480 Speaker 1: Republicans to say, mister President, you cannot do this. You 885 00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,440 Speaker 1: are trying to inhibit the free speech of people who 886 00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:05,560 Speaker 1: may be in opposition to you. To use this kind 887 00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,560 Speaker 1: of punishment to chill speak is a violation of the 888 00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:13,960 Speaker 1: First Amendment. I mean, this is a striking move towards authoritarianism. 889 00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,239 Speaker 1: You know, this is what dictators do. They shut down 890 00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,920 Speaker 1: the press, shut down descent, they jail their opponents, or 891 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,120 Speaker 1: in this case, they steal their security clearance. What happened 892 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,440 Speaker 1: here was a pure authoritarian act from an intemperate president 893 00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,960 Speaker 1: who wanted to punish one of his critics. Nothing more, 894 00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:34,600 Speaker 1: nothing less, threatening him right now. But you know what 895 00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,680 Speaker 1: he said already, rate it doesn't influence something already taken 896 00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,040 Speaker 1: away from from John Widen. So doesn't that say that 897 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,080 Speaker 1: everybody else? Shut your mouth. A lot of these people 898 00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,560 Speaker 1: that had these security clearances, and this is the secret 899 00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,880 Speaker 1: in the swampy Washington DC, they have them and they 900 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,640 Speaker 1: keep them because it's profitable for them after they leave government. 901 00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:55,960 Speaker 1: Because if you have a security clearance, especially high level 902 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,480 Speaker 1: security clearances, your contracts and your consulting gift pay you 903 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,640 Speaker 1: a lot o money because of the access that you have. 904 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,080 Speaker 1: I hope the president continues to do this, and I 905 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:05,959 Speaker 1: hope he asks i'm a Rosa to the list, because 906 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,080 Speaker 1: if she has a clearance, she too, because of her actions, 907 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:11,239 Speaker 1: should have it revoked. Well, I don't know if I 908 00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:12,759 Speaker 1: put i'm a Rosa in the same category of the 909 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:14,800 Speaker 1: seventy five people to sign those letters, but film I 910 00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,400 Speaker 1: imagine you want to react profitable Paris. When I am 911 00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,920 Speaker 1: requested to sit on an advisory board, let me ask 912 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,640 Speaker 1: you one question, how much do you think I'm paid 913 00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,000 Speaker 1: to do that? At the requestion the US government give 914 00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,640 Speaker 1: me one answer and you got ten seconds. How much 915 00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:32,880 Speaker 1: I'll give I'll ask you a question. How much are 916 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,400 Speaker 1: you paid for your answer? The question? Act and Giggs 917 00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,400 Speaker 1: for for being a for the have no contract with 918 00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,440 Speaker 1: the US government that pay more. I'm not talking here. 919 00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:42,080 Speaker 1: And this is the thing when I'm not talking about 920 00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,799 Speaker 1: real that's beyond this. I'm not talking about your role 921 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:52,840 Speaker 1: with the federal government. I'm talking about that Sultan and 922 00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,800 Speaker 1: a contractor. The consulting firms that they form and that 923 00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,480 Speaker 1: you all get is because you get more money when 924 00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,880 Speaker 1: having a consultant before having the security clearans act like 925 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,960 Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. I have zero consulting relationships with the 926 00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,600 Speaker 1: US government. Zero. I'm not talking field. That's a good 927 00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,240 Speaker 1: talking point. I'm not talking about relationship with the government. 928 00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,480 Speaker 1: I'm talking about in the private sector. When you have 929 00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,480 Speaker 1: a security fan and you killed relationships with the private 930 00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:19,439 Speaker 1: sector that involve my security clearance. Zero. I get zero 931 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,680 Speaker 1: dollars from consulting companies that deal with US government. Are 932 00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,200 Speaker 1: we clear? Well, I will be clear in saying that 933 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,719 Speaker 1: everybody in Washington, DC knows. If you don't want to 934 00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:29,680 Speaker 1: be honest about it, that's on you. That was a 935 00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:33,560 Speaker 1: phenomenal debate, believe it or not on fake news CNN. 936 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:35,640 Speaker 1: Now I wasn't watching fake news CNN. I saw it 937 00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,560 Speaker 1: on media because they had the clip up Paris de 938 00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:42,719 Speaker 1: Nard clambering this the Santy Trumper of film money. I 939 00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,880 Speaker 1: never I tell me what contracts I had with the 940 00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,520 Speaker 1: US government. Somebody's talking about I told you about this 941 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,920 Speaker 1: new book last week, and we had Peter schweitzeran and 942 00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:57,520 Speaker 1: Shamus Brunner on the program. And it's called Compromise. How 943 00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,520 Speaker 1: money and politics drive FBI corruption. Now, what are these 944 00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:05,520 Speaker 1: security clearance is worth? Now? The book points out James 945 00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:10,600 Speaker 1: Comey's net worth skyrocketed over four thousand percent between leaving 946 00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,320 Speaker 1: the DOJ and OH five and returning to the FBI 947 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,600 Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. The book chronicles how Comy made six 948 00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:20,200 Speaker 1: point one million dollars after Muller's FBI granted his employer. 949 00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,759 Speaker 1: In other words, Comey's working for Lockheed Martin, which is 950 00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:28,800 Speaker 1: the largest contractor in history in what was many described 951 00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:33,320 Speaker 1: a billion dollar boondoggle, and under Mueller's direction, he was 952 00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,920 Speaker 1: the FBI director at the time, the FBI granted multiple 953 00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:41,360 Speaker 1: spy contracts to Lockheed Martin while Comy advised them on 954 00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,120 Speaker 1: the quote legality of their operations. That six point one 955 00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,160 Speaker 1: million dollars we're talking about, it's a serious amount of money. 956 00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,960 Speaker 1: What are they paying for. They're paying for contacts, which 957 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,560 Speaker 1: by the way, can be totally completely legitimate. But the 958 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,439 Speaker 1: point is that security clearance is worth something, and that's 959 00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,840 Speaker 1: the point here. And to have Clapper even recognizing that 960 00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,839 Speaker 1: the rhetoric of Brennan is so over the top is unbelievable. 961 00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,480 Speaker 1: But this isn't the first time that this has happened. 962 00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:13,759 Speaker 1: Sean Bigley is a partner with Bigley Ranch LP, specializing 963 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:18,000 Speaker 1: in federal security Clarence defense. And you represent Adam Loveinger 964 00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:22,960 Speaker 1: who lost his security Clarence after Stephan Helper complained about him, 965 00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,920 Speaker 1: and you wrote an op ed about your client. Why 966 00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:28,680 Speaker 1: don't I just let you tell our audience what you 967 00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,080 Speaker 1: found and what you said. Hey, Sean good to be 968 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,720 Speaker 1: with you. That's right. I do represent mister Lovinger. He's 969 00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,880 Speaker 1: a long time a Defense Department employee who is a 970 00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:42,120 Speaker 1: very strong supporter of the president. And in twenty sixteen 971 00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,800 Speaker 1: he complained numerous times to his superiors, all of whom 972 00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:50,320 Speaker 1: were Obama appointees at the Pentagon, about these egregious contracts 973 00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,320 Speaker 1: that were being awarded to Stefan Helper and also to 974 00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:57,880 Speaker 1: a close friend of the Clinton families. And subsequently, several 975 00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,560 Speaker 1: months go by and his mysterious security clearance is mysteriously 976 00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:05,560 Speaker 1: revoked and he's now sitting at home trying to figure 977 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,920 Speaker 1: out ways to feed his family. All right, So now 978 00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,880 Speaker 1: this is fascinating. So when did this happen? What year? 979 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,720 Speaker 1: So the complaints originally were filed in the fall of 980 00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:17,720 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, right around the election cycle, and they were ignored, 981 00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:22,400 Speaker 1: and subsequent the administration comes in. He moves over to 982 00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:24,720 Speaker 1: the White House as a buy name request from the 983 00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:28,280 Speaker 1: new administration. They had heard about his reputation and wanted 984 00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:31,160 Speaker 1: him serving in the White House. And by May first 985 00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,720 Speaker 1: he had been recalled to the Pentagon and his security 986 00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:35,960 Speaker 1: clearance had been stripped. You know, when you look at 987 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,520 Speaker 1: all the FBI departures, for example, and the reasons why, 988 00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:43,720 Speaker 1: whether they're people are fired like James Come, Andrew McCabe fired, 989 00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:48,000 Speaker 1: Peter Struck fired. Then you got the resignations Lisa Page, 990 00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,560 Speaker 1: she got out while she could, James RUBICKI, James Baker, 991 00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,120 Speaker 1: and others. And then you look at the others in 992 00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,600 Speaker 1: the DJ the number of people that have resigned. People 993 00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,720 Speaker 1: aren't even beginning to pay attention to any of this, 994 00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,040 Speaker 1: But you've got a list between the DOJ and the 995 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:07,720 Speaker 1: FBI top people that have either resigned, been fired, or 996 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:12,200 Speaker 1: demoted twice like Bruce Orr. But the reality is these 997 00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:16,280 Speaker 1: clearances are worth money in the private sector. And I'm 998 00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,400 Speaker 1: not even saying that anything the farious necessarily goes on, 999 00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:24,080 Speaker 1: except it's all the same people all the time. Why 1000 00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,160 Speaker 1: is it COMI is getting paid all this money from 1001 00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:31,080 Speaker 1: Lockheed Martin, according to this book compromised at a time 1002 00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:33,560 Speaker 1: when Mueller is the FBI director. I mean these I 1003 00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:37,040 Speaker 1: mean we keep running into the same group of people. 1004 00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:41,280 Speaker 1: Seems to me like who you know matters in Washington? Oh, absolutely, 1005 00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,200 Speaker 1: And I mean I think a lot of people outside 1006 00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,440 Speaker 1: the Washington DC beltway may not understand it. Really a 1007 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,080 Speaker 1: security clearance is a meal ticket. It's the equivalent of 1008 00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,400 Speaker 1: a professional license for a doctor or a lawyer, and 1009 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,440 Speaker 1: without it, you're not going to work in the field 1010 00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,560 Speaker 1: in which you practice. And so for somebody like a 1011 00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,800 Speaker 1: Coomy or a Brennan who's spent their career in government, 1012 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,440 Speaker 1: who's going to go on to lucrative consulting gigs or 1013 01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:07,200 Speaker 1: sit on boards at various defense contractors without that clearance, 1014 01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,600 Speaker 1: they're not as valuable. And the same thing the reverse 1015 01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:12,800 Speaker 1: goes for somebody like mister Lovenger. He stripped of his clearance, 1016 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,120 Speaker 1: he can no longer work, and now we're fighting that 1017 01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,160 Speaker 1: on appeal, and meanwhile they are pulling out all the 1018 01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,440 Speaker 1: stops to make sure that he doesn't get his due process. 1019 01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:24,000 Speaker 1: It's really outrageous. Let's go into your original article how 1020 01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,840 Speaker 1: the Pentagon bank rolled an alleged spy inside the Trump 1021 01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:33,360 Speaker 1: campaign and other sort of tales, because you literally right, 1022 01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:35,560 Speaker 1: you know, chapter and first on this, I want you 1023 01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:40,120 Speaker 1: to explain it in detail. Sure, So back in twenty sixteen, 1024 01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:44,120 Speaker 1: mister Lovenger started to notice that mister Halper and others 1025 01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,240 Speaker 1: in this office were really getting a very very generous 1026 01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,600 Speaker 1: contracts to do what he perceived as very little. The 1027 01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,120 Speaker 1: contracts were kept very close to the vest. They were 1028 01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:57,480 Speaker 1: run by people who were ardent Obama and Clinton supporters, 1029 01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,760 Speaker 1: including one of whom was a vocal anti truer. And 1030 01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,120 Speaker 1: he started raising issues and saying, look, you know, this 1031 01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,160 Speaker 1: is a perception of impropriety. What are these people doing 1032 01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,440 Speaker 1: for the money? These are taxpayer funds. Why are we 1033 01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,520 Speaker 1: bankrolling to the tune of millions of dollars people to 1034 01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,600 Speaker 1: go out and conduct research studies on things like whether 1035 01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:18,200 Speaker 1: or not there's enough coastal elites in the National security bureaucracy. 1036 01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:22,479 Speaker 1: I mean ridiculous, patently ridiculous subject matters that do nothing 1037 01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:25,760 Speaker 1: to inform anybody, and we're being paid hundreds of thousands, 1038 01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,400 Speaker 1: if not millions of dollars to perform this work. On 1039 01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:31,920 Speaker 1: top of that, he also said, here's a specific statute 1040 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,960 Speaker 1: of specific federal law that prohibits contractors from being used 1041 01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:39,160 Speaker 1: to conduct foreign relations, which is precisely what he perceived 1042 01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:42,880 Speaker 1: them as doing. And he was completely ignored, completely shut 1043 01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,919 Speaker 1: down on multiple levels. He goes off to the White 1044 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,560 Speaker 1: House and I think they viewed him as a threat 1045 01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:49,920 Speaker 1: there and essentially did whatever they had to do to 1046 01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,320 Speaker 1: yank him back, strip him of his clearance, and shut 1047 01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:55,320 Speaker 1: him up. And you know, Sean, this is a real problem. 1048 01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:59,000 Speaker 1: It's not just mister Lovinger. It's an epidemic across the government. 1049 01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,080 Speaker 1: I have people who represent in the administration on multiple 1050 01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,000 Speaker 1: different levels, very senior folks all the way to lower 1051 01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:09,000 Speaker 1: level folks, and their experience is probably experiencing this problem 1052 01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,439 Speaker 1: right and left. It's a tool that the deep state 1053 01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,760 Speaker 1: is essentially weaponized. It's the low hanging fruit, if you will, 1054 01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,800 Speaker 1: to keep people out of government, to keep the president's 1055 01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,960 Speaker 1: appointees out who are going to effectuate his agenda. And 1056 01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:22,840 Speaker 1: it's something that they've been doing over and over. Now 1057 01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,360 Speaker 1: who are the people responsible because you wrote another great 1058 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,720 Speaker 1: column on that out the deep state is weaponized the 1059 01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:31,400 Speaker 1: vetting a trumpet appointees. And I know numerous people that 1060 01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:35,600 Speaker 1: have incredible qualifications, and it seems the only strike against 1061 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,720 Speaker 1: them is that they recognize that there are either holdovers 1062 01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:42,200 Speaker 1: from the Obama administration or people that are at odds 1063 01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,120 Speaker 1: with the current administration that are inside these important jobs. 1064 01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,320 Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And you know the DoD is the tip 1065 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:49,880 Speaker 1: of the spear on this. I mean, let's be clear, 1066 01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,840 Speaker 1: there are a good half dozen folks at the Department 1067 01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:56,040 Speaker 1: of Defense who are actively out to thwart the president's 1068 01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:58,640 Speaker 1: agenda and who are using this process as the means 1069 01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:01,360 Speaker 1: to do it. But it's also happening in the State Department, 1070 01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:04,000 Speaker 1: it's happening at Homeland Security, it's happening in a number 1071 01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:07,560 Speaker 1: of places government wide, and they're doing it in very sneaky, 1072 01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:11,240 Speaker 1: very technical ways that they used to sort of keep 1073 01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,760 Speaker 1: people out. And you know, here's another irony too. Under Brennan, 1074 01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,840 Speaker 1: the CIA was one of the worst and remains one 1075 01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,360 Speaker 1: of the worst defenders as far as due process. I 1076 01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,680 Speaker 1: have people who have literally put their lives on the 1077 01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:26,080 Speaker 1: line for this country who have been frozen out on 1078 01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:29,520 Speaker 1: bogus security clearance concerns, one of whom has been sitting 1079 01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:32,200 Speaker 1: since twenty fourteen and is now working to drive through 1080 01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:35,200 Speaker 1: a Chick fil A to make ends mean So, you know, 1081 01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,760 Speaker 1: for him to turn around and whine about essentially him 1082 01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,960 Speaker 1: being mistreated is really ironic. Well, let me go through 1083 01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:43,520 Speaker 1: because you went through all of this, our friend, well, 1084 01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:45,160 Speaker 1: I gotta take a break here. I'll ask you. My 1085 01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,280 Speaker 1: friend Roland Scarborough had a great piece on this that 1086 01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:50,040 Speaker 1: we'll get to as well. Eight hundred and nine for one. 1087 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,360 Speaker 1: Seawan is our toll free telephone number. You want to 1088 01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:59,240 Speaker 1: be a part of the program. The lift once a 1089 01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:04,240 Speaker 1: silent sanity, don't let it happen. Make the commitment now 1090 01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:09,120 Speaker 1: three hours every day at three pm. This is the 1091 01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:38,880 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show. And as we continue with Shawn Bigley, 1092 01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:42,400 Speaker 1: and by the way, he represents Adam Lovinger, he's the 1093 01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:45,720 Speaker 1: guy that lost the security clearance after Stefan Helper complained 1094 01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:49,440 Speaker 1: about him. You know, I read the piece your pieces, 1095 01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:51,400 Speaker 1: and then I also read Rowan Scarborough. I've known a 1096 01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:54,080 Speaker 1: long time in respect a lot from the Washington Times, 1097 01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:58,160 Speaker 1: and he's pointing out your client, which, by the way, 1098 01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:02,880 Speaker 1: Pentagon analysts stripped of his security clearance by Obama appointed 1099 01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:07,920 Speaker 1: officials after he complained of questionable government contracts that Stefan 1100 01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:10,840 Speaker 1: Helper had. Now this is what over four hundred thousand 1101 01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:14,640 Speaker 1: dollars which we're talking about. And anyway, Adam Lovinger, your 1102 01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:17,400 Speaker 1: client is a twelve year strategist at the Pentagon's Office 1103 01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,840 Speaker 1: of Net Assessment, and he complained to his bosses about 1104 01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:25,880 Speaker 1: these Helper contracts and then they yanked his security clearance. 1105 01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,440 Speaker 1: How often has this happened? That we don't hear about it. 1106 01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:32,240 Speaker 1: Maybe not a slide profile as say John Brennant. Yeah, 1107 01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:35,800 Speaker 1: it's it's definitely happening on a pretty consistent basis, not 1108 01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,960 Speaker 1: so much in the whistleblower retaliation context as it is 1109 01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:42,200 Speaker 1: in the could be political sphere. In other words, if 1110 01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:46,360 Speaker 1: you are somebody who identifies as a supporter of the president, 1111 01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:49,360 Speaker 1: somebody who maybe the president has selected to fill a 1112 01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:53,520 Speaker 1: specific role. We've seen case after case where there are 1113 01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:57,880 Speaker 1: entrenched bureaucrats, many of them Obama holdovers, at various agencies, 1114 01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:00,720 Speaker 1: who are pulling out all the stops a security in 1115 01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,400 Speaker 1: a vetting standpoint to prevent people from getting in. And 1116 01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:06,480 Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple examples. We've had some agencies 1117 01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:10,080 Speaker 1: where they have essentially instituted a policy that says, we're 1118 01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:13,520 Speaker 1: not going to give what's called interim clearances anymore to 1119 01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:15,920 Speaker 1: political appointees. We're going to give them all day long 1120 01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,520 Speaker 1: to career officials, but we're not going to give them 1121 01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,840 Speaker 1: to people who the president appoints because we just don't 1122 01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,200 Speaker 1: trust them. We've had other agencies that have essentially a 1123 01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,840 Speaker 1: year after somebody has been onboarded and started work, come 1124 01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:31,000 Speaker 1: back and said, you know, what that little minor thing 1125 01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:33,400 Speaker 1: that you self reported, maybe you had a dy a 1126 01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:35,840 Speaker 1: few years ago, or some other minor thing that we 1127 01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:37,800 Speaker 1: didn't think was the problem when we hired you. Now 1128 01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:39,400 Speaker 1: it's an issue, So now we're going to kick you 1129 01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:42,320 Speaker 1: out to the curb. So it's that kind of behavior 1130 01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,120 Speaker 1: that's happening over and over again. And really the only 1131 01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:48,440 Speaker 1: conclusion that you can draw on a systemic level is 1132 01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,840 Speaker 1: that this is a coordinated effort to essentially prevent the 1133 01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:55,760 Speaker 1: President from effectuating his policy agenda, because as we know, 1134 01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:58,800 Speaker 1: can't you don't have people to execute the policy, you 1135 01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,200 Speaker 1: can't execute it. And I think that's precisely what the 1136 01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,120 Speaker 1: what the idea is. All Right, Sean Bigley, keep up 1137 01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:06,200 Speaker 1: the good work. We'll continue to follow the story, and 1138 01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:10,160 Speaker 1: we're going to continue to investigate the investigators and follow 1139 01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,680 Speaker 1: the money, which now is becoming more interesting by the day. 1140 01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,960 Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine for one Seawan toll free telephone number. 1141 01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:20,640 Speaker 1: News round Up, Information Overload is next, and then we'll 1142 01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:25,800 Speaker 1: check in with Greg and Sarah. Straight ahead. This is 1143 01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:27,920 Speaker 1: the best of the Sean Hannity Show. Don't forget stay 1144 01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:30,640 Speaker 1: tuned for more right after the latest news right here 1145 01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:38,840 Speaker 1: on this radio station. The best of Sean Hannity is 1146 01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:56,480 Speaker 1: on now. The Department of Justice and the FBI put 1147 01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,760 Speaker 1: something together that is completely fraudulent. No, I don't agree 1148 01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:01,800 Speaker 1: with that at all. I think there's plenty of evidence 1149 01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,800 Speaker 1: of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight. And you're the 1150 01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,960 Speaker 1: smartest people. You're the smartest people. You know what they 1151 01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,680 Speaker 1: talk about. They talk about the elite, the elite. Do 1152 01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:13,520 Speaker 1: you ever see the elite? Not elite? You're the elite. 1153 01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:18,240 Speaker 1: You are the elite holding them accountable. Sean gets the 1154 01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:23,840 Speaker 1: answers no one else does. Freedom is back in style. 1155 01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:41,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Revolution New Sean Hannity Show. More behind 1156 01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:46,360 Speaker 1: the scenes information on breaking news, and more bold inspired 1157 01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:55,040 Speaker 1: solutions for America. Tea minus ninety days ninety days until 1158 01:08:55,400 --> 01:09:01,439 Speaker 1: you decide the mid term elections to keep America great. 1159 01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,160 Speaker 1: Stay right here for our final news round up and 1160 01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:09,800 Speaker 1: information overload in the final hour of The Sean Hannity Show. 1161 01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:16,600 Speaker 1: I'm honored, very honored for the opportunity to represent the 1162 01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:20,200 Speaker 1: voters of the twelfth Congressional District and who have bestowed 1163 01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:22,880 Speaker 1: on me. I have so many people to thank tonight. 1164 01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:27,360 Speaker 1: I'm behind me right here. My son Joshua his fiancee Chelsea. 1165 01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:33,840 Speaker 1: We're getting married next to April, my girlfriend Malanie. I 1166 01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:37,559 Speaker 1: want to thank God, more importantly my mom, my mom, 1167 01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:39,880 Speaker 1: and dad who aren't be able to hear with us 1168 01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:47,720 Speaker 1: this evening. I'd like to thank President Trump tonight. I'm 1169 01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:51,560 Speaker 1: going to promise to you that I'm going to work relentlessly, 1170 01:09:52,360 --> 01:10:05,439 Speaker 1: relentlessly for this twelfth Congressional District. America is on the 1171 01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,160 Speaker 1: right path, and we're going to keep it going that way. 1172 01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:15,000 Speaker 1: It's time to get to work. Over the next three months. 1173 01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:17,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do everything I can to keep America great 1174 01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,840 Speaker 1: again so that when we welcome, when we well, we 1175 01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:25,560 Speaker 1: come back here and November get ready, we got to 1176 01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:33,479 Speaker 1: come back here in November. I have earned your vote 1177 01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:36,639 Speaker 1: for a second time. Danny, Can I ask you real quick? 1178 01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:41,000 Speaker 1: We're live on CBS and what's your status tonight? Have 1179 01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:43,400 Speaker 1: you conceded? Are you waiting to say? We feel great? 1180 01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:46,840 Speaker 1: This is too close to call. We're fighting for every vote. 1181 01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:50,160 Speaker 1: You know, this this fight continues. Where can people need 1182 01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:52,240 Speaker 1: a voice? They need a champion. What's your understanding of 1183 01:10:52,320 --> 01:10:55,240 Speaker 1: how many votes remain out standing at this point? Too 1184 01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:57,439 Speaker 1: few to you know? Call this a night. I think 1185 01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:00,479 Speaker 1: we need to make sure that this process is respected 1186 01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,840 Speaker 1: because too many people have worked too hard. Too many 1187 01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:05,320 Speaker 1: people want to have a real voice in Washington, too 1188 01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:08,519 Speaker 1: many people want to congressman that's going to represent every county, 1189 01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:10,479 Speaker 1: and we need to make sure that we're doing this 1190 01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,559 Speaker 1: the right way. All right. That was the important Ohio 1191 01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:17,519 Speaker 1: twelve yesterday, which was held by a Republican and what 1192 01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,720 Speaker 1: was a tight race. There's still our votes out to 1193 01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:25,240 Speaker 1: count and some provisional ballots, etc. Absentee ballots. What was 1194 01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:29,519 Speaker 1: really fascinating about it is the early voting. I talked 1195 01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:32,360 Speaker 1: to a friend of mine who knows Ohio politics so well. 1196 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:38,400 Speaker 1: It was devastating. This guy was going to lose anyway, 1197 01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:43,240 Speaker 1: meaning Troy Balderson. Trump went in on Saturday, and it 1198 01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:47,520 Speaker 1: was day of voting that ended up saving his opportunity 1199 01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:49,679 Speaker 1: here or certainly would have been a seat that got lost. 1200 01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,080 Speaker 1: He made a couple of dumb decisions in the course 1201 01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:56,719 Speaker 1: of the campaign, talking negatively about one of the biggest 1202 01:11:56,800 --> 01:12:01,120 Speaker 1: counties that is in his district, Franklin Counary. We don't 1203 01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,519 Speaker 1: want to elect a guy from Franklin County. Great, I'm 1204 01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:06,479 Speaker 1: sure the people of Franklin County really loved that remark, 1205 01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,000 Speaker 1: did it about another county? And then he also talked 1206 01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:11,839 Speaker 1: about the third rail taking, you know, changing and shifting 1207 01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:14,160 Speaker 1: and getting rid of Medicare. I mean to it, just 1208 01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:17,000 Speaker 1: the dumbest campaign I've ever seen. So he's gonna have 1209 01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:20,160 Speaker 1: some work to do with the constituents in the Ohio twelve. 1210 01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:21,840 Speaker 1: But I don't think there's any doubt about it that 1211 01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:26,360 Speaker 1: President Trump helped him. He's now point nine percentage points 1212 01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:30,840 Speaker 1: ahead one seven fifty four votes exactly, Danny O'Connor. You know, 1213 01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:33,280 Speaker 1: we have one hundred percent of the precincts reporting. But 1214 01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:37,000 Speaker 1: the President also now declaring victory this morning after the 1215 01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:41,519 Speaker 1: candidates that he endorsed in yesterday's primaries all scored big wins. 1216 01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:45,000 Speaker 1: And he tweeted at about ten thirty this morning five 1217 01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:48,240 Speaker 1: for five, And in the second tweet, he accused the 1218 01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,479 Speaker 1: media of downplaying the Republican Party's record of success in 1219 01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:55,240 Speaker 1: special elections. Republicans now winning eight of nine House seats. 1220 01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:57,320 Speaker 1: But yet if you listen to the fake news media, 1221 01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:00,840 Speaker 1: you'd think we'd be Ben Clabert, you know, why can't 1222 01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:04,400 Speaker 1: they play it straight? So unfair? Republican Party in particular 1223 01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:07,080 Speaker 1: your favorite president, he wrote. He also claimed that as 1224 01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:10,320 Speaker 1: long as high campaign and or support Senate House candidates 1225 01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:13,519 Speaker 1: within reason, they will win, and he said Republicans could 1226 01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:17,400 Speaker 1: have a red wave in November. In November's elections. We're 1227 01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:20,599 Speaker 1: now ninety days out. It is to me, the most 1228 01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:24,440 Speaker 1: important mid term elections in our lifetime. I see absolutely 1229 01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:27,200 Speaker 1: nothing from the Democratic Party in terms of helping the 1230 01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:30,880 Speaker 1: forgotten men and women, except they would stop the progress 1231 01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:33,960 Speaker 1: that the president has made in eighteen months. And by 1232 01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:37,640 Speaker 1: that time it'll be two years. And you know, this 1233 01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:41,400 Speaker 1: is an important election. We know that Democrats have stated publicly, 1234 01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:44,040 Speaker 1: although now they're being silent, but they want to impeach Trump. 1235 01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:47,920 Speaker 1: We know that Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren have said 1236 01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:50,960 Speaker 1: the tax cuts are crumbs, and well, that's a thousand, 1237 01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:54,800 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars for working families, and excuse me, if 1238 01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:57,559 Speaker 1: they're just crumbs, why are they demanding to have them back. 1239 01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:00,360 Speaker 1: They want to rescind the tax cuts. They want to 1240 01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:03,240 Speaker 1: keep Obamacare that has not exactly worked out well for 1241 01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:06,320 Speaker 1: people and keeping their doctors and their plans and paying less. 1242 01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:08,880 Speaker 1: And we know they want to eliminate ice, and they 1243 01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:12,679 Speaker 1: want open borders. I don't think that's a good idea either. Anyway, 1244 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:17,120 Speaker 1: here to discuss. John McLaughlin, poster, founder of McLaughlin an Associates. 1245 01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:20,959 Speaker 1: Doug shown, also a poster political analyst, Fox News contributor. 1246 01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:25,040 Speaker 1: Welcome both of you back to the program. Let's get 1247 01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:29,400 Speaker 1: a headline from you. John McLaughlin, I'll tell you. Having 1248 01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,360 Speaker 1: pulled for the President in Ohio during his campaign and 1249 01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:35,160 Speaker 1: set up a strategy where he could win the rust 1250 01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:37,800 Speaker 1: belt by bringing in millions of new voters in a 1251 01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:43,400 Speaker 1: record turnout, the president saved the GOP establishments. But yesterday 1252 01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:46,519 Speaker 1: by bringing out Trump voters, Trump got two hundred and 1253 01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:50,719 Speaker 1: six thousand votes in that district. Baldison got one hundred 1254 01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:54,840 Speaker 1: and four thousand votes less than the president. Now here's 1255 01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:58,160 Speaker 1: a fun fact from the Gateway Pundit article. Eighty seven 1256 01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:01,320 Speaker 1: percent of the Democrats of vote in twenty sixteen turned 1257 01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:04,600 Speaker 1: out in this race only forty percent of the Republicans. 1258 01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,200 Speaker 1: The Republicans were losing until the President and went in there. 1259 01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:11,880 Speaker 1: They better get on his agenda and get things done, 1260 01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:15,599 Speaker 1: like immigration, like making the tax cuts permanent. They better 1261 01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:17,840 Speaker 1: get with the President's agenda or they're going to get 1262 01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:20,679 Speaker 1: a shock in November because the president can only pull 1263 01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:22,400 Speaker 1: so many of these guys out of the fire. And 1264 01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:24,560 Speaker 1: that's what you know. And by the way, this he 1265 01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:28,200 Speaker 1: really can't do a transplant of charisma. I mean, I 1266 01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:30,400 Speaker 1: watched this guy on Saturday night. I was like, oh 1267 01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:34,840 Speaker 1: my gosh, this is not going to be easy. Doug 1268 01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:38,160 Speaker 1: shown you know that from years past as well I do. 1269 01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,320 Speaker 1: But what you haven't said is that there's been at 1270 01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:44,880 Speaker 1: least an eleven percent swing because of the absent voters 1271 01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:47,760 Speaker 1: to the Democratic Party, and if we get that in 1272 01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:51,120 Speaker 1: the mid terms, we'll have a Democratic pickup of far 1273 01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:53,960 Speaker 1: more than the twenty three seats they need to put 1274 01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:58,839 Speaker 1: the House in the Democratic column. So they were harbin 1275 01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:01,800 Speaker 1: years of ill. I wrote a piece for Foxnews dot 1276 01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:04,120 Speaker 1: Com which I said, it was a good night for 1277 01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:06,800 Speaker 1: the Democrats and a good night for Donald Trump. That's 1278 01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:09,240 Speaker 1: how I see it. All right, let's now look at 1279 01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,040 Speaker 1: you know, there had been predictions of a massive blue wave. 1280 01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:16,880 Speaker 1: I think the senatorial map in particular looks good for Republicans. 1281 01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:20,760 Speaker 1: I certainly see a pick up in Florida. I think 1282 01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:23,080 Speaker 1: Rick Scott is a very popular governor, and I think 1283 01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:26,280 Speaker 1: he'd beat Bill Nelson there. I think Claire McCaskill is 1284 01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:29,320 Speaker 1: in a heap of trouble in Missouri. You've got Heidi 1285 01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:32,000 Speaker 1: hike Camp, You've got Joe Manchin, and you got a 1286 01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:34,920 Speaker 1: bunch of others. I would imagine that the Republicans have 1287 01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,680 Speaker 1: an advantage in the Senate. Doug, what do you think? 1288 01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,880 Speaker 1: I think there is a slight advantage. But John McLoughlin 1289 01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:45,120 Speaker 1: is pointing to what the issue really is in the election, 1290 01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:48,640 Speaker 1: not so much a Democratic wave in the sense of 1291 01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:53,560 Speaker 1: people rallying to the Democratic Party. There's enthusiasm among Democrats 1292 01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,560 Speaker 1: to come out and vote for change, and the Republicans 1293 01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,320 Speaker 1: not so much. And that's really the issue. I think 1294 01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:01,400 Speaker 1: John put it exactly right. But what do they want 1295 01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:03,439 Speaker 1: to change too? Let's be real here, what are the 1296 01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:07,080 Speaker 1: Democrats give me a specific program that they're advocating that's 1297 01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:09,640 Speaker 1: going to make our lives better? Because I don't see it. 1298 01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:13,080 Speaker 1: But they want policies other than drump They don't want 1299 01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:18,400 Speaker 1: to wall, they don't want the kind of immigration policy 1300 01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:22,440 Speaker 1: the President is pursued. They want different policies. It's unfocused 1301 01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:25,400 Speaker 1: on I'll be the first to agree. Is it unfocused 1302 01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:27,840 Speaker 1: or they basically want us to go back to the 1303 01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:31,360 Speaker 1: horrific eight years of Obama. Even you acknowledge they were horrible. 1304 01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:34,719 Speaker 1: I've said it many times on your program. A large 1305 01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:38,640 Speaker 1: percentage of the Democratic primary voters disagree. I disagree with 1306 01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:41,960 Speaker 1: heartily their socialist I'm not, I'm a capitalist, but you 1307 01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:44,160 Speaker 1: know what, you can win elections by voting fourth thing 1308 01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,600 Speaker 1: and against things, and this is going to be a 1309 01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:50,000 Speaker 1: negative election of that. I am certain. What do you think, 1310 01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:55,000 Speaker 1: John McLaughlin, I would say historically, just a matter of fact, 1311 01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:58,240 Speaker 1: that yeah, it's going to be very difficult as it 1312 01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:02,080 Speaker 1: relates for any Republican. Well, you've got you know, in 1313 01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:06,439 Speaker 1: this race in Ohio twelve, the Democrat rejected Pelosi, so 1314 01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:09,880 Speaker 1: the Democrat ran to the right, if not the center, 1315 01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:13,320 Speaker 1: and you've got the senator like Donnally in Indiana today, 1316 01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:16,840 Speaker 1: was talking about supporting the border wall. You're going to 1317 01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:20,920 Speaker 1: see Democrats trying to blur that distinction that Republicans really 1318 01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:23,800 Speaker 1: need to vote on and make the Democrats have a 1319 01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:26,800 Speaker 1: clear contrast. And by the way, the primaries are still 1320 01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:30,559 Speaker 1: going on like yesterday and yesterday's primaries, Chris Kovac comes 1321 01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,200 Speaker 1: out of nowhere to look like he's going to beat 1322 01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:36,360 Speaker 1: the incoming governor in Kansas because President Trump supported him. 1323 01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:40,280 Speaker 1: Yet John James up in Massachusetts, who is Michigan Partment, 1324 01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:44,080 Speaker 1: Michigan running for US Senate, he won decisively in the primary, 1325 01:18:44,479 --> 01:18:49,719 Speaker 1: and the Trump like candidates, like you know, I'm running 1326 01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:53,320 Speaker 1: races for candidates to support who are like President Trump, 1327 01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,400 Speaker 1: Like Bob Stefanowski in Connecticut's running for governor. He's got 1328 01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,040 Speaker 1: a plan to phase out the income tax, and he's 1329 01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:01,799 Speaker 1: he's on the on the ballot on Tuesday, and everybody's 1330 01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:05,519 Speaker 1: attacking us because they Donald Trump has put his imprint 1331 01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:08,160 Speaker 1: on this party. And the Trump candidates are winning the 1332 01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:12,200 Speaker 1: primaries and with that, hopefully they can carry an agenda 1333 01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:15,639 Speaker 1: that can that will basically create the red wave instead 1334 01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:17,720 Speaker 1: of having a blue wave going on, you know, because 1335 01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:20,600 Speaker 1: right now the Democrats are blurring the issues. Yeah, I 1336 01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:22,880 Speaker 1: think there's some truth to that, but they seem to 1337 01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:25,040 Speaker 1: always go back to the same playbook. And we know 1338 01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:29,640 Speaker 1: what the playbook is. Republicans are racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, 1339 01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:34,240 Speaker 1: is lomophobic, misogynistic, They want dirty air water, they want 1340 01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:36,320 Speaker 1: to kill children, and they want to throw Granny over 1341 01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:40,920 Speaker 1: the cliff. It doesn't change very much now on our side. Yeah, 1342 01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,920 Speaker 1: you do that very well. I listen, I've been in 1343 01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:47,880 Speaker 1: this business too long. It's every single election cycle. It 1344 01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:52,240 Speaker 1: never changes ever. And you know the sad part is is, 1345 01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:55,760 Speaker 1: you know, then the America forgets you know how how 1346 01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:59,320 Speaker 1: bad it was under people like I mean, thirteen million 1347 01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:02,200 Speaker 1: more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, 1348 01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:06,160 Speaker 1: accumulated more debt than every other president before him, combined, 1349 01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:09,519 Speaker 1: lowest labor participation rate since the seventies, and then you 1350 01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:11,320 Speaker 1: compare it to what Donald Trump has done in a 1351 01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:13,719 Speaker 1: short period. I mean, I would say if I would 1352 01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:17,120 Speaker 1: say to Republicans that their biggest problem is they've been weak, yep. 1353 01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:20,080 Speaker 1: And I agree with you one hundred percent them because 1354 01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:23,960 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what if the Doug shown Republicans Democrats 1355 01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,800 Speaker 1: who almost Republicans done a lot of issues. If we 1356 01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:29,679 Speaker 1: ask no, no, he's let me tell you something, he's 1357 01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:33,439 Speaker 1: not a Republican. He's got still conservative. I don't go 1358 01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:36,360 Speaker 1: for all this debt shot. I'm listen, I agree with 1359 01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:38,720 Speaker 1: you on that too. But you know, if we get 1360 01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:40,680 Speaker 1: the GDP growth to where we need it to be, 1361 01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:42,600 Speaker 1: you and I both know that it's going to be 1362 01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:46,479 Speaker 1: great for the American people in the economy. I gotta 1363 01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:49,360 Speaker 1: take a break. Hope, we'll just stay tuned. I mean, certainly, 1364 01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:51,519 Speaker 1: we have four million new jobs. We got two or 1365 01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:55,320 Speaker 1: three fewer million on food stamps. We got manufacturing jobs 1366 01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:58,720 Speaker 1: that Obama said would never coming back, coming back. We've 1367 01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:01,360 Speaker 1: gotten rid of burden some right elation companies now are 1368 01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:05,240 Speaker 1: incentivized to actually build their factories and manufacturing centers in America, 1369 01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:10,040 Speaker 1: and we see dramatic increases in those jobs all across 1370 01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:12,800 Speaker 1: the Rust belt. And it's looking good for people. All Right, 1371 01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,360 Speaker 1: Quick break, eight hundred nine pot one, Sean tell free 1372 01:21:15,520 --> 01:21:16,920 Speaker 1: telephone number. You want to be a part of the 1373 01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:28,320 Speaker 1: program making America first, safe and great again. This is 1374 01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:54,240 Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show. As we continue with our posters, 1375 01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:57,800 Speaker 1: John McLaughlin and Doug Shown. All right, so one of 1376 01:21:57,840 --> 01:21:59,960 Speaker 1: the other thing is all right. So it wasn't Trump 1377 01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:02,200 Speaker 1: sweep in terms of the people that he endorsed, which 1378 01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:05,600 Speaker 1: is good for him. Washington Post has a headline, Democratic 1379 01:22:05,760 --> 01:22:10,000 Speaker 1: Resistance hit a wall in last night's election. The Democratic 1380 01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:14,320 Speaker 1: Party's left wing insurgency found its limits. We know that, 1381 01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,920 Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood nut jobs are now blaming Vladimir Putin 1382 01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:20,880 Speaker 1: for last night's loss in Ohio, which is little nuts. 1383 01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:28,760 Speaker 1: Every single candidate endorsed by the rising Democratic star Casio Cortez, 1384 01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:31,479 Speaker 1: they all went down to defeat. What does that say, 1385 01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:36,000 Speaker 1: Doug Show? I hope it says that the Democrats flirtation 1386 01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:39,559 Speaker 1: with democratic socialism is over and that we'll have more 1387 01:22:39,720 --> 01:22:44,920 Speaker 1: Danny O'Connor's and Connor lambs who are centrists, who vote 1388 01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:50,760 Speaker 1: against Nancy Pelosi explicitly, clearly and unabashedly to set the 1389 01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:54,840 Speaker 1: party in a new centrist, fiscally conservative and the odds 1390 01:22:54,880 --> 01:22:58,400 Speaker 1: of that happening, Let's be real, here are zero. Where 1391 01:22:58,439 --> 01:23:01,000 Speaker 1: you got a bridge for you to part Yeah, I mean, 1392 01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:03,120 Speaker 1: you know, and I know, and John knows that the 1393 01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:06,680 Speaker 1: party's going solidly left, which I actually think helps Republicans 1394 01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:09,679 Speaker 1: in the end come this mid term election in ninety days. 1395 01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:13,479 Speaker 1: John absolutely, because like most of these Democrats were in primaries, 1396 01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:17,880 Speaker 1: they're supporting like Medicare for all, single payer, government run healthcare. 1397 01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,439 Speaker 1: The Marcadis Center fan out that's going to course, there's 1398 01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:24,040 Speaker 1: three point two trillion dollars over ten years and would 1399 01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:27,759 Speaker 1: double the personal income taxes, all the personal income taxes 1400 01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:31,200 Speaker 1: and all the corporate taxes in the country, and that's 1401 01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:33,439 Speaker 1: why you don't have it. The Democrats who tell you 1402 01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:35,720 Speaker 1: they want to repeal the Trump tax tech, guess what 1403 01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:38,439 Speaker 1: that means. You cut the child taxcare credit in half 1404 01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:41,240 Speaker 1: from two thousand to one thousand, you cut the personal 1405 01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:44,040 Speaker 1: deduction in half from two thousand to one thousand, and 1406 01:23:44,160 --> 01:23:48,000 Speaker 1: you raised the rates on ninety percent of the taxpayers 1407 01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:51,280 Speaker 1: and most of them middle class advanced majority. So we 1408 01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:54,840 Speaker 1: ought to make the Democrats vote on this wet let 1409 01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:58,840 Speaker 1: those votes percolate so the doug shown Democrats will bail 1410 01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:02,040 Speaker 1: on these crazy idea is that are just nothing more 1411 01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:06,080 Speaker 1: than socialism? Is it a good idea, John to demand 1412 01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:09,439 Speaker 1: while funding up front before the election and maybe shut 1413 01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:13,000 Speaker 1: down the government. I don't like to see the government 1414 01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:14,880 Speaker 1: sit down, but you know what, that funding order to 1415 01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:17,000 Speaker 1: be in must be the only person that doesn't care, 1416 01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:19,639 Speaker 1: because we all know the government doesn't shut down. It's 1417 01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:22,320 Speaker 1: just a big game that Washington plays. And a few 1418 01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:24,960 Speaker 1: people that get paid holidays, you know what, they're happy 1419 01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:28,400 Speaker 1: as can be. Well, the last time Schumer misplayed it 1420 01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:31,439 Speaker 1: because you know what happened, The military didn't get paid 1421 01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:34,920 Speaker 1: because they hadn't passed that appropriation bill. So they're willing 1422 01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:39,160 Speaker 1: to shut down the government for illegal illegal aliens and 1423 01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:42,200 Speaker 1: not pay the military. That's how crazy these Democrats are. 1424 01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:45,439 Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna let you both go here. We 1425 01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:48,200 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Will ninety days, we'll be having you guys 1426 01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:50,559 Speaker 1: on regularly, looking at the polls, looking at the numbers, 1427 01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:53,080 Speaker 1: seeing which way this important mid term election is headed. 1428 01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:56,200 Speaker 1: Doug Shan, thank you for being with us. And John 1429 01:24:56,280 --> 01:24:59,599 Speaker 1: McLaughlin eight hundred nine for one Seawan Tolfree telephone number. 1430 01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,639 Speaker 1: We'll come back on the other side. You're gonna meet 1431 01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:06,880 Speaker 1: an individual that is trying to work. Iran is in 1432 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:11,040 Speaker 1: deep trouble. We now see a restlessness that is taking 1433 01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:14,240 Speaker 1: place among their very high youth population. And with the 1434 01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,040 Speaker 1: president's new sanctions, does that mean a change could be 1435 01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:19,559 Speaker 1: on the horizon? That's next Hey, there's still a lot 1436 01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:21,920 Speaker 1: more ahead on the Best of the Sean Hannity Show. 1437 01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:41,040 Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more. Right afternoons on this station. You 1438 01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:43,639 Speaker 1: are listening to the best of the Sean Hannity Show, 1439 01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:49,960 Speaker 1: working every day to remember the forgotten man. This is 1440 01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:54,120 Speaker 1: the Sea Show, all right, twenty five to the top 1441 01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:56,680 Speaker 1: of the hour, Happy Friday, and we're gonna have our 1442 01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:59,080 Speaker 1: maid An America series in just a second. You're gonna 1443 01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:01,400 Speaker 1: love this guy, the president and of nine line. I'll 1444 01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:05,559 Speaker 1: explain in a minute, Tyler Merritt. But first, it's Friday. 1445 01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:08,920 Speaker 1: These weeks are long, these weeks are hard. It's what 1446 01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:13,280 Speaker 1: eighty one days now untill election day, Labor days coming up. 1447 01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:16,719 Speaker 1: That means everyone's going back to school and work schedules 1448 01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:21,120 Speaker 1: remain go back to normal. Little vacation stops and you know, 1449 01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:23,960 Speaker 1: we get back in the grind full time. That also 1450 01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:26,439 Speaker 1: means that we're getting ready for the most important midterm 1451 01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:29,479 Speaker 1: election in our life. But this Friday, well you can 1452 01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:32,280 Speaker 1: put your hands up, fire a few bullets in the air, 1453 01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:36,120 Speaker 1: and uh put your party hat on our Friday Florida 1454 01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:40,000 Speaker 1: Georgia line Zach Brown concert series. Let's hit it. This 1455 01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:58,760 Speaker 1: is Howie, this is how we do. We've been down, 1456 01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:08,720 Speaker 1: It's day. This is how he and a little bit 1457 01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:13,320 Speaker 1: of chicken cry don't be here on Friday nighting a 1458 01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:19,360 Speaker 1: parent teas to fit just right and the radio. But 1459 01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:23,920 Speaker 1: I see song, see the love, and my woman's eyes 1460 01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:27,840 Speaker 1: fee a touch of a precious child and do what 1461 01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:34,040 Speaker 1: mother's love. It's funny how it's a little things in 1462 01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:39,600 Speaker 1: life that means she come on and beat it. It 1463 01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:45,080 Speaker 1: blows me away. She's everything I wanna say to a woman. 1464 01:27:45,520 --> 01:27:49,720 Speaker 1: Could find the worst. She got on and get it. 1465 01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:55,360 Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Every time I'm trying 1466 01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:59,640 Speaker 1: to turn around, fee comes out. I love you, you 1467 01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:10,559 Speaker 1: got I'm one, believe. Keep me in mind, summer down 1468 01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:17,639 Speaker 1: the road to might getting lonely. Keep me in mind 1469 01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:22,559 Speaker 1: and praise some day that you will love me. Only 1470 01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:30,559 Speaker 1: thing about your sundays in the way I will nay 1471 01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:41,040 Speaker 1: waste to day after day. Sweet can't stay with you 1472 01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:48,960 Speaker 1: while because this road has been putting miles on my heart. Sweetheart, 1473 01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:54,280 Speaker 1: I've been living in a fantasine. But one day and 1474 01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:59,360 Speaker 1: then will strike and my barbe will lose his bibe. 1475 01:28:59,520 --> 01:29:06,120 Speaker 1: But don't give up on me, steat. I got some 1476 01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:11,840 Speaker 1: good down, moved down the street, got a girl in 1477 01:29:12,120 --> 01:29:17,600 Speaker 1: mama her arm down, giving a small time there. It 1478 01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:22,799 Speaker 1: is like I got it everything I need and loving 1479 01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:36,920 Speaker 1: that I don't. I got my hues in the water, 1480 01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,559 Speaker 1: ass in the sand, not a word in the world 1481 01:29:40,720 --> 01:29:43,679 Speaker 1: of gold be in my hand. Lib is good today, 1482 01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:52,880 Speaker 1: Live is good today. How do you'll send vil come down? Yeah? 1483 01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:59,400 Speaker 1: I'm leaving Ja. And if there weren't both Key love 1484 01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:16,920 Speaker 1: the senior loving you. You're the healing hands where it 1485 01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:19,880 Speaker 1: needs to her. You are my saving grace, You are 1486 01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:31,240 Speaker 1: my kind of terms you holy all right there. It 1487 01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:35,040 Speaker 1: is our Florida Georgia Line Friday Concert Series, Zach Brown 1488 01:30:35,120 --> 01:30:37,479 Speaker 1: Concert Series eight hundred nine for one. Shawn he want 1489 01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:39,439 Speaker 1: to be a part of the program, so he started 1490 01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:43,479 Speaker 1: to made an America series on the program, and we 1491 01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:46,040 Speaker 1: want to do this every other Friday or so. And 1492 01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:49,400 Speaker 1: the whole purpose of it is is every company that 1493 01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:54,000 Speaker 1: succeeds in America, well those are also jobs being created 1494 01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:57,759 Speaker 1: for Americans. And I like the idea that we support 1495 01:30:57,760 --> 01:31:00,839 Speaker 1: American companies. We see a lot of these these veteran 1496 01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:04,120 Speaker 1: companies now taken off Black Rifle Coffee dot com slash 1497 01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:07,120 Speaker 1: on it's the best coffee you've ever had, and it's amazing. 1498 01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:09,280 Speaker 1: It was put together by vets that when they were 1499 01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:11,880 Speaker 1: serving over in Iraq and Afghanistan, they didn't like the 1500 01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:14,960 Speaker 1: coffee they were being given and they'd order coffee beans 1501 01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:19,280 Speaker 1: where they were into a war zone, and they experimented 1502 01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:21,720 Speaker 1: and they came up with a better product. And now 1503 01:31:21,760 --> 01:31:23,439 Speaker 1: we have the benefit of being able to buy it. 1504 01:31:24,120 --> 01:31:26,880 Speaker 1: And anyway, today we bring in the co founder. He's 1505 01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:30,960 Speaker 1: the president of nine line. Tyler Merrit is here and 1506 01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:33,519 Speaker 1: he's going to talk to us about how great it's been. 1507 01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:36,760 Speaker 1: He runs a veteran owned and operated company right here 1508 01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:39,760 Speaker 1: in the US. Now they hire, they make, they buy, 1509 01:31:39,880 --> 01:31:44,000 Speaker 1: they sell American and the company is doing great. And 1510 01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:46,720 Speaker 1: welcome to the program, sir. How are you. I saw 1511 01:31:46,760 --> 01:31:50,840 Speaker 1: you recently donated thirty grand to Young Marines. Yes, sir, 1512 01:31:51,120 --> 01:31:54,680 Speaker 1: that's an incredible organization. You mentioned a few other awesome organizations. 1513 01:31:55,760 --> 01:31:59,720 Speaker 1: That very very flattering introduction to us. You know, we 1514 01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:01,360 Speaker 1: were with Black Rifle. We work with a lot of 1515 01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:06,000 Speaker 1: different organizations, that veteran community. You know, they've done a 1516 01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:08,160 Speaker 1: lot of great things in business, and you guys highlighting it. 1517 01:32:08,280 --> 01:32:10,000 Speaker 1: It really doesn't mean a lot too. Why don't you 1518 01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:13,200 Speaker 1: explain exactly what it is that you do. And by 1519 01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:15,479 Speaker 1: the way, and I saw that you were ranked as 1520 01:32:15,640 --> 01:32:18,519 Speaker 1: one of the top hundred fastest growing companies in the 1521 01:32:18,760 --> 01:32:22,280 Speaker 1: US for the past two years thirty one and eighty 1522 01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:26,080 Speaker 1: five respectively. That's huge. Yes, sure, yeah, it's one of 1523 01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:29,280 Speaker 1: those incredible blessings. You know, we just kept on growing. 1524 01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:31,880 Speaker 1: I was active duty military till about eleven months ago. 1525 01:32:32,320 --> 01:32:34,519 Speaker 1: So watching this thing go from my garage while I'm 1526 01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:38,000 Speaker 1: deploying with Special Operations to try to grow that staff 1527 01:32:38,080 --> 01:32:40,240 Speaker 1: here in Savannah to where I am right now. I'm 1528 01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:43,200 Speaker 1: standing on my facility overlooking over one hundred and sixty 1529 01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:47,439 Speaker 1: people as they're printing flag, Faith, Firearm and Friends, one 1530 01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:50,120 Speaker 1: of our best selling designs. We just can't keep these 1531 01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:53,000 Speaker 1: things in stock. Well, let's talk a little bit about it, 1532 01:32:53,120 --> 01:32:56,160 Speaker 1: because at a growth rate of what five thousand percent 1533 01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:59,000 Speaker 1: per year, and that's year over years since I guess 1534 01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:01,400 Speaker 1: you began this in twenty twelve, and you started this 1535 01:33:01,880 --> 01:33:06,040 Speaker 1: company in your garage, let's talk about the origins. Yeah, 1536 01:33:06,200 --> 01:33:09,360 Speaker 1: I would in the one sixtiest Special Operations Aviation Regiment, 1537 01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:13,200 Speaker 1: some of the finest pilots in the nation. Who's in 1538 01:33:13,280 --> 01:33:15,640 Speaker 1: honor to serve there? And I got to learn, you know, 1539 01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:18,799 Speaker 1: about the importance of timeline target plus or minus thirty seconds. 1540 01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:21,679 Speaker 1: That's our mantra, you know, and we deliver our Special 1541 01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:25,000 Speaker 1: Operators everywhere to support and defend us to this day. 1542 01:33:25,400 --> 01:33:27,720 Speaker 1: And that's an incredible challenge. You take all of that 1543 01:33:28,280 --> 01:33:31,200 Speaker 1: expertise that you've gained over the last decade in military 1544 01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:33,600 Speaker 1: servitude and you apply it to the civilian world and 1545 01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:37,759 Speaker 1: it has incredible handovers. You know, you take that mentality 1546 01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:40,320 Speaker 1: of mission men me and you hire veterans who have 1547 01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:43,080 Speaker 1: that same understanding. You know, there's a lot of initiatives 1548 01:33:43,080 --> 01:33:45,960 Speaker 1: out there to encourage people to hire veterans in different states. 1549 01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:48,160 Speaker 1: And I get to work with Secretary Kemp, who should 1550 01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:52,320 Speaker 1: be our next governor of Georgia hopefully, and there's there's 1551 01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:54,960 Speaker 1: a lot of really incredible initiatives that business can take 1552 01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:57,280 Speaker 1: advantage of. We just did it early on, and the 1553 01:33:57,400 --> 01:33:59,320 Speaker 1: veterans and the spouses that work for us, that's the 1554 01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:01,599 Speaker 1: reason we grow so fast. That's great. You know, one 1555 01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:04,679 Speaker 1: of the we keep talking about employment records in fourteen 1556 01:34:04,800 --> 01:34:08,960 Speaker 1: states and for Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, but 1557 01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:13,000 Speaker 1: also women in the workforce and vets now are their 1558 01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:15,720 Speaker 1: employment levels and we now have a fifty year low 1559 01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:18,680 Speaker 1: youth unemployment number that just came out yesterday. But you know, 1560 01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:20,519 Speaker 1: one of the things I know you focused on is 1561 01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:24,640 Speaker 1: textile and manufacturing and the interesting things. Those are the 1562 01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:27,240 Speaker 1: jobs that Obama said we're never coming back, but we're 1563 01:34:27,280 --> 01:34:31,679 Speaker 1: seeing a massive growth in the area of manufacturing. Yeah, 1564 01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:33,479 Speaker 1: I think I think it goes back to leadership. I 1565 01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:35,320 Speaker 1: think it goes back to what you hit on earlier 1566 01:34:35,400 --> 01:34:37,719 Speaker 1: before we came on of the importance of this upcoming 1567 01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:40,719 Speaker 1: election to make sure that we continue in the right direction. 1568 01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:43,640 Speaker 1: There's a lot of initiatives out there that I've been 1569 01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:46,320 Speaker 1: able to take advantage of, you know, working with our 1570 01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:49,080 Speaker 1: heart stake government, you know here in Georgia, which is 1571 01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:52,960 Speaker 1: very pro business in the internal workforce, training, all these 1572 01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:55,920 Speaker 1: other initiatives and tax cuts to allow us to really 1573 01:34:56,040 --> 01:34:59,520 Speaker 1: reinvest back in our own company. And you know, the minorities, 1574 01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:05,600 Speaker 1: the spouses, the veterans, all those initiatives and they just 1575 01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:09,040 Speaker 1: take off and and here in Georgia, it's it's been incredible. 1576 01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:12,640 Speaker 1: All right. Let's talk specifically about the companies that you 1577 01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:15,840 Speaker 1: work directly were with. You work with one of our advertisers. 1578 01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:18,599 Speaker 1: We love our friends at Black Rifle Coffee dot com. 1579 01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:23,479 Speaker 1: Um they're by the way, they're amazing guys. And you 1580 01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:27,920 Speaker 1: know what, from everything I hear, their company is exploding. Absolutely. 1581 01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:30,479 Speaker 1: I would say that we are the T shirt equivalent 1582 01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:33,080 Speaker 1: that they are on the coffee space. And Evan and 1583 01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:35,400 Speaker 1: I met about a year ago. I the day I 1584 01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:38,120 Speaker 1: left active duty, actually flew out to Colorado and I 1585 01:35:38,240 --> 01:35:40,280 Speaker 1: get to hang out with Evan and Matt and got 1586 01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:43,120 Speaker 1: to know if we want to do business together, and 1587 01:35:43,240 --> 01:35:46,640 Speaker 1: these are some really awesome guys similar background. We ended up, 1588 01:35:46,680 --> 01:35:49,160 Speaker 1: you know, going out shooting some guns, throwing some hatchets, 1589 01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:51,920 Speaker 1: having fun, riding dirt bikes and realize, you know what, 1590 01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:54,639 Speaker 1: not only do we like working together, hanging out together, 1591 01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:57,639 Speaker 1: we like working together. And we have their first full 1592 01:35:57,720 --> 01:36:03,280 Speaker 1: scale franchise here in Savannah, Georgia, and the mutual partnerships 1593 01:36:03,320 --> 01:36:04,960 Speaker 1: that we've been able to curry. You know, we've got 1594 01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:08,799 Speaker 1: a car and NASCAR together with Extreme Concepts and Jeffrey Earnhardt, 1595 01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:12,280 Speaker 1: you know, the grandson of Dale Senior. You know, a 1596 01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:15,360 Speaker 1: lot of these these companies that you mentioned, the synergies 1597 01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:18,320 Speaker 1: that we have together, and how we all recognize, you know, 1598 01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:21,720 Speaker 1: the added benefit we give to one another us. It 1599 01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:24,600 Speaker 1: allows us to all grew at the same time. You know. 1600 01:36:24,720 --> 01:36:26,600 Speaker 1: That's and one of the things that I love is 1601 01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:29,599 Speaker 1: when people actively seek to hire veterans is the point 1602 01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:32,599 Speaker 1: is is they've got more discipline than the average bear. Um. 1603 01:36:32,920 --> 01:36:34,680 Speaker 1: They know how to deal with stress better than the 1604 01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:38,479 Speaker 1: average person. They've been tested under the most difficult to 1605 01:36:38,560 --> 01:36:42,040 Speaker 1: circumstances and no matter what they're going to face. In 1606 01:36:42,120 --> 01:36:44,600 Speaker 1: the business world, it's it's not quite the equivalent of 1607 01:36:44,680 --> 01:36:47,680 Speaker 1: having U I eeds blowing up near by you or 1608 01:36:47,840 --> 01:36:50,400 Speaker 1: your friends, you know, having their legs blown off or 1609 01:36:50,439 --> 01:36:53,920 Speaker 1: being shot in the face. So, um, I just see 1610 01:36:54,040 --> 01:36:57,479 Speaker 1: that the amazing accomplishments that they've made, and I think, 1611 01:36:57,880 --> 01:37:00,360 Speaker 1: you know the fact that they're focusing now on building 1612 01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:03,080 Speaker 1: their own business so that they can be owners and entrepreneurs. 1613 01:37:03,160 --> 01:37:06,200 Speaker 1: I love that. It's true. I mean, the purpose of 1614 01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:08,240 Speaker 1: our brand is trying to close the gap between those 1615 01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:10,639 Speaker 1: who serve and those who don't, you know, so there's 1616 01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:13,240 Speaker 1: a mutual respect and understanding. And in the employment world, 1617 01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:16,000 Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to looking at a veterans resume, 1618 01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:19,200 Speaker 1: they don't understand it. You look at a special operations resume, 1619 01:37:19,280 --> 01:37:21,599 Speaker 1: it says, hey, I'm Air mission commander as to fly 1620 01:37:22,320 --> 01:37:24,120 Speaker 1: you know, two countries we're not supposed to be in 1621 01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:27,720 Speaker 1: in the most austere conditions and had to land. You know, 1622 01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:33,360 Speaker 1: people plus or minus thirty seconds. Timeline said, I when 1623 01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:35,040 Speaker 1: I went over to Iraq, I went on a C 1624 01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:39,800 Speaker 1: one thirty ones and with two mid air refuelings, and 1625 01:37:40,360 --> 01:37:43,400 Speaker 1: the pilots were like in their young twenties, and you know, 1626 01:37:43,439 --> 01:37:45,680 Speaker 1: I'd set up there in the in the cockpit and 1627 01:37:45,760 --> 01:37:50,880 Speaker 1: I'm just stunned at their their flying ability, their professionalism. 1628 01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:52,760 Speaker 1: And then you know when you've when you at the 1629 01:37:52,840 --> 01:37:55,200 Speaker 1: time it was a war zone and you would quark 1630 01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:58,479 Speaker 1: screw down. It pretty much means you know, you're going 1631 01:37:58,520 --> 01:38:01,800 Speaker 1: straight down. It's almost like a vertical descent. You don't 1632 01:38:01,840 --> 01:38:03,720 Speaker 1: take a lot of time to get to the so 1633 01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:05,920 Speaker 1: the ground in case somebody's going to fire a surface 1634 01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:08,880 Speaker 1: to air missile. Absolutely, but how do you translate that 1635 01:38:08,920 --> 01:38:11,559 Speaker 1: to your resume and the employees that there have. I'm 1636 01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:13,960 Speaker 1: really good at corkscrew landings. I'm really good at that. 1637 01:38:14,120 --> 01:38:16,880 Speaker 1: I'm amazing at it. It's incredible. But the skill set 1638 01:38:16,960 --> 01:38:19,680 Speaker 1: that they have to be able to calculate, you know, uh, 1639 01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:21,720 Speaker 1: to the to the nats butt to make sure that 1640 01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:25,120 Speaker 1: everyone on that plane survives it translates to almost every 1641 01:38:25,200 --> 01:38:27,840 Speaker 1: aspect of business. Attention to detail, you know, the grit, 1642 01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:31,599 Speaker 1: the determination, the not giving up on a task. Because 1643 01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:33,640 Speaker 1: it's five o'clock on Friday, my guys will be here 1644 01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:35,920 Speaker 1: till midnight. Or they'll be gone at four if there's 1645 01:38:35,960 --> 01:38:38,240 Speaker 1: nothing else to do. But they don't know how to fail. 1646 01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:41,360 Speaker 1: And that's when you hire a veteran. You know, I 1647 01:38:41,479 --> 01:38:43,519 Speaker 1: actually think that's the thing. I mean, it's a lot 1648 01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:45,360 Speaker 1: of it is about attitude. What are the companies are 1649 01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:48,360 Speaker 1: you working with? By the way, man, there's a longer 1650 01:38:48,479 --> 01:38:53,600 Speaker 1: list between sig Glock, USCCA, nra Field and Stream Cabela's 1651 01:38:53,680 --> 01:38:56,880 Speaker 1: bass Pro. I mean, all these organizations see the value 1652 01:38:56,920 --> 01:38:58,840 Speaker 1: in what we bring, you know, in our name brand. 1653 01:38:59,120 --> 01:39:01,960 Speaker 1: You know the fact that we're we're making conscious efforts 1654 01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:04,760 Speaker 1: to move to US manufacturing when it's not you know, 1655 01:39:04,960 --> 01:39:07,040 Speaker 1: technically that's the cheapest route, but you know we can 1656 01:39:07,160 --> 01:39:10,240 Speaker 1: leverage technology and get the cost down. But you know, 1657 01:39:10,479 --> 01:39:15,400 Speaker 1: all of these organizations see the value and recognize wanting 1658 01:39:15,400 --> 01:39:17,600 Speaker 1: to partner with us. Our problem is I can't I 1659 01:39:17,680 --> 01:39:20,280 Speaker 1: can't deliver fast enough. You know, we growed way too fast. 1660 01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:23,080 Speaker 1: I've got a laundry list of people waiting to get 1661 01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:27,120 Speaker 1: products line. What about people that maybe you would want 1662 01:39:27,120 --> 01:39:30,160 Speaker 1: to employ, people that are looking for a good jobs careers. 1663 01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:32,320 Speaker 1: You know, what are the states that you're working in 1664 01:39:32,479 --> 01:39:35,360 Speaker 1: and where might people go up? They're interested in either 1665 01:39:35,479 --> 01:39:37,880 Speaker 1: helping you in one of your projects, or maybe working 1666 01:39:37,960 --> 01:39:41,320 Speaker 1: for one of your companies or what. Absolutely, we're in Savannah, 1667 01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:43,840 Speaker 1: Georgia right now. We're headquartered here. We're actually starting up, 1668 01:39:44,200 --> 01:39:46,600 Speaker 1: you know, one of our first franchise locations in the 1669 01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:49,120 Speaker 1: next few weeks. But we do have plans very similar 1670 01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:51,799 Speaker 1: to Black Rifle, to expand and grow all throughout the country. 1671 01:39:51,920 --> 01:39:54,200 Speaker 1: Have one hundred and sixty people right now, about thirty 1672 01:39:54,240 --> 01:39:57,640 Speaker 1: people short. So if you're interested in joining my organization, 1673 01:39:58,120 --> 01:40:00,880 Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun. We work card, we play hard, 1674 01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:04,439 Speaker 1: and head on down to Savannah. Give us your website 1675 01:40:04,479 --> 01:40:07,839 Speaker 1: and then we gotta run here on a Friday. Yeah. Absolutely, 1676 01:40:07,880 --> 01:40:10,600 Speaker 1: it's a Nineline Apparel dot com. And for some of 1677 01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:14,080 Speaker 1: our philanthropic endeavors, we have Nineline Foundation dot org. We're 1678 01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:18,920 Speaker 1: building a homeless village for veterans. It's a it's a 1679 01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:20,639 Speaker 1: hand up to try to get them off the street, 1680 01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:24,360 Speaker 1: get them educated with Georgia Southern and certified and specific 1681 01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:26,920 Speaker 1: skill sets, and then get them employed. That sounds great, 1682 01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:29,479 Speaker 1: all right. We really appreciate you being with us. My 1683 01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:31,840 Speaker 1: best to you and all the guys you're working with 1684 01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:35,080 Speaker 1: in the great work you do. Tyler Merritt, Thank you, 1685 01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:38,280 Speaker 1: President of Nineline. Eight hundred nine for one. Sean is 1686 01:40:38,320 --> 01:40:47,240 Speaker 1: our number, from the coast to coast, from horn to horner, 1687 01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:53,920 Speaker 1: from sea to shining Sea. This is the Sean Hannity Show. 1688 01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:21,400 Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna wrap things up for us today. Manaphort, 1689 01:41:21,479 --> 01:41:25,080 Speaker 1: two days no verdict. How do you interpret that? And 1690 01:41:25,240 --> 01:41:29,439 Speaker 1: can you redefine what reasonable doubt is? Well, I would 1691 01:41:29,479 --> 01:41:32,160 Speaker 1: say that it's hard to look, it's hard to interpret, 1692 01:41:32,240 --> 01:41:35,480 Speaker 1: but it's certainly it sounds like it's not bad for Manaphort. 1693 01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:38,600 Speaker 1: Sounds like there is some doubt in that room, but 1694 01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:40,800 Speaker 1: there's also a lot of charges and it's a ninety 1695 01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:43,639 Speaker 1: plus percentage, you know, conviction rate in federal court. We'll 1696 01:41:43,680 --> 01:41:46,519 Speaker 1: find out. We're gonna be what seventy eight days away 1697 01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:48,479 Speaker 1: from the most important mid term in our lives. Have 1698 01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:51,000 Speaker 1: a great weekend. We'll see you Monday. Thanks for being 1699 01:41:51,040 --> 01:42:01,040 Speaker 1: with us. Four