Speaker 1: All right, glad you with us. Welcome aboard eight one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four one Sean, if you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of this extravaganza. You know's a song
Speaker 1: by Tim McGraw and it's called Live Like You're Dying.
Speaker 1: Such a great song, and it's like, we have all
Speaker 1: these great plans in life and then something just hits
Speaker 1: you so hard, it just it makes us all pause.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I had an entirely different show book for
Speaker 1: the whole day, and I was listening to the end
Speaker 1: of Russia's show and he made this announcement, and it's
Speaker 1: that moment it just hits you on a dime. I
Speaker 1: don't think talk radio would ever be anything like it is,
Speaker 1: or I'd be here if it wasn't for all that
Speaker 1: Russia is done now. I want to be very clear.
Speaker 1: Rushi announced at the end of his program today that
Speaker 1: he has stage four lung cancer. It's being treated. Just said,
Speaker 1: I just need to be honest with your audience, so
Speaker 1: incredibly stoic and courageous because just you know, like everything
Speaker 1: else he's ever done in his career inspiring, and he's
Speaker 1: always forged a path. He said, good news that he
Speaker 1: didn't have any symptoms, which is good, just something that
Speaker 1: he noticed and they picked up on it. I know
Speaker 1: every single one of us now taking and absorbing this.
Speaker 1: We've all lived through this. Probably everyone listening. And if
Speaker 1: you haven't, thank god you haven't. I hope you never
Speaker 1: have it. When you get a call at three o'clock,
Speaker 1: three thirty in the morning and the phone rings, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's never gonna be good unless it's a
Speaker 1: you know, unless it's a call that you you know
Speaker 1: wasn't for you, it's never gonna be good. I find
Speaker 1: sickness and all of it associated with it. And my
Speaker 1: three sisters were nurses and brother in law's doctor. I
Speaker 1: know more. I have two of my best best three
Speaker 1: of my best best friends in the world are doctors,
Speaker 1: two brain surgeons literally and uh, you know, my own
Speaker 1: personal doctor. I can call him at four o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning. You'll come over my house. And doctors are
Speaker 1: amazing people. And but it is it just hit me
Speaker 1: like a dime, like a ton of bricks, like a
Speaker 1: Matt truck. I don't whatever cliche you want to use,
Speaker 1: that's it. I just as he said, let me, let
Speaker 1: me just let rush say it. In his own words.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I know about Rush, his brother David,
Speaker 1: has been my agent from my entire career now going
Speaker 1: back thirty years. I know his family, I know him.
Speaker 1: His niece is one of the best workers we have
Speaker 1: on our team. I love this family. They are incredibly
Speaker 1: brave people individually. But let me just let Rush satan
Speaker 1: his words just announcing him moments ago. I have been
Speaker 1: diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, diagnosis confirmed by two medical
Speaker 1: institutions back on January twentieth. First realized something was wrong
Speaker 1: on my birthday weekend January twelfth, and I wish I
Speaker 1: didn't have to tell you this, and I thought about
Speaker 1: not telling anybody. I thought about trying to do this
Speaker 1: without anybody knowing, because I don't like making things about me.
Speaker 1: But there are going to be days that I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be able to be here because I'm undergoing
Speaker 1: treatment or I'm reacting to treatment, and I know that
Speaker 1: that would inspire all kinds of curiosity with people wondering
Speaker 1: what's going on. And the worst thing that can happen
Speaker 1: is when there is something going on and you try
Speaker 1: to hide it and cover it up, it's eventually going
Speaker 1: to leak, and then people are going to why didn't
Speaker 1: you just say it? Why just why do you try
Speaker 1: to fool everybody? And it's not that I want to
Speaker 1: fool anybody. It's just that I don't want to burden
Speaker 1: anybody with it, and I haven't wanted to, but it
Speaker 1: is what it is. And you know me, I'm the
Speaker 1: mayor of Realville. So this has happened, and my intention
Speaker 1: is to come here every day I can and to
Speaker 1: do this program as normally and as competently and as
Speaker 1: expertly as I do each and every day, because that
Speaker 1: is the source of my greatest satisfaction professionally. Personally, I've
Speaker 1: had so much support from family and friends doing this
Speaker 1: that it's it's just it's been tremendous. And I told
Speaker 1: the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship
Speaker 1: with God that I do not proselytize about, but I do,
Speaker 1: and I have been working that relationship tremendously, which I
Speaker 1: do regularly anyway, but I've been focused on it intensely
Speaker 1: for the past couple of weeks. I know there are
Speaker 1: many of you in this audience who have experienced this,
Speaker 1: who are going through it yourselves at the same time,
Speaker 1: I am at the moment experiencing zero symptoms other than
Speaker 1: I don't look. I don't want to get too detailed
Speaker 1: in this. What led to shortness of breath that I
Speaker 1: thought might have been asthma or you know, I'm sixteen,
Speaker 1: I could have been my heart. My heart's in great shape,
Speaker 1: ticking away, fine, squeezing and pumping great. It was not
Speaker 1: that it was a pulimentary problem involving malignancy. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to be gone the next couple of days as
Speaker 1: we figure out the treatment course of action and have
Speaker 1: further testing done. But as I said, I'm I'm going
Speaker 1: to be here as often as I can. And as
Speaker 1: is the case with everybody who finds themselves in a circumstance,
Speaker 1: you just want to You want to push your head
Speaker 1: and try to keep everything as normal as you can,
Speaker 1: which is something that I'm going to try to do.
Speaker 1: But I felt that I had to tell you because
Speaker 1: that's the kind of relationship I feel like I have
Speaker 1: with those of you in this audience. I say it
Speaker 1: every Christmas, which is when I feel more thankful than
Speaker 1: at Thanksgiving. And I feel thankful at Thanksgiving, but Christmas
Speaker 1: it really gets to me but over the years, a
Speaker 1: lot of people have been very nice telling me how
Speaker 1: much this program is meant to them. But whatever that is,
Speaker 1: it pales in comparison to what you all have meant
Speaker 1: to me. And I can't. I can't describe this. But
Speaker 1: you know, I know you're there. Every day, I can
Speaker 1: see you. It's it's strange, how but I know you're there.
Speaker 1: I know you're there in great numbers, and I know
Speaker 1: that you understand everything I say. The rest of the
Speaker 1: world may not when they hear it express a different way,
Speaker 1: but I know that you do. You've been one of
Speaker 1: the greatest sources of confidence that I've had in my life.
Speaker 1: So I hope I will be talking about this as
Speaker 1: little as necessary in the coming days. But we've got
Speaker 1: a great bunch of doctors, a great team assembled. We're
Speaker 1: at full speed ahead on this and it's just now
Speaker 1: a matter of implementing what we are going to be
Speaker 1: told later this week. So I'll be back here. I'll
Speaker 1: hope to be back on Thursday. If not, it'll be
Speaker 1: as soon as I can. And know that every day
Speaker 1: I'm not here, be thinking about you and missing you.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All Right, that was Russia's moments ago.
Speaker 1: As he closed out of his show today, it's sort
Speaker 1: of like what I was saying is, you know, I
Speaker 1: have a very different show planned. And there's the Tim
Speaker 1: McGraw song. We've all experienced this where you know, a
Speaker 1: moment comes and stops me on a dime. This is
Speaker 1: one of those moments, and all of us have gone
Speaker 1: through this. And as I sit here and as I think,
Speaker 1: and I kind of absorb it, and you know, I
Speaker 1: know that when he allowed me to fill in for him,
Speaker 1: it paved the way for me one day to get
Speaker 1: my own show. It's deeply personal and his brother, who
Speaker 1: I love, and his whole family that I know and love,
Speaker 1: and obviously I know and love you is his wife.
Speaker 1: And it's just very very hard to know that somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna go through a hard time. But I think that
Speaker 1: there's a message in there for all of us. Number One, Okay,
Speaker 1: Rush as stoic as he always is, and as you know,
Speaker 1: he wants this to be as normal, talk about it
Speaker 1: as little as possible, you know, of course, right he
Speaker 1: now he talked about he has a deeply personal relationship
Speaker 1: with God. I do, most of America does, and that's
Speaker 1: where I like to put my hope, and I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that we're very clear on one thing.
Speaker 1: I know that it's never good when you hear that
Speaker 1: C word. I know when don Imus described when he
Speaker 1: had it at the time, it's like your knees buckle
Speaker 1: at the word, and it does. I lost my father
Speaker 1: from the week he was diagnosed create of cancer one
Speaker 1: week later is gone. And all of us know when
Speaker 1: those moments come and stop us on a dime, and
Speaker 1: that kind of how it was today. But I want
Speaker 1: to just ask everybody that knows how much this guy
Speaker 1: has done. You know, everyone says, well, National Review, will
Speaker 1: William F. Buckley, Okay, all credit due. But Mary Matlin
Speaker 1: once said, I don't know how I would have survived
Speaker 1: the Clinton years without Rush on the radio. You know,
Speaker 1: how would we have survived all these years? As he
Speaker 1: has educated us, entertained us, advanced the cause with a
Speaker 1: love of country and family and patriotism and all the
Speaker 1: things that we value and life too, so that deeply
Speaker 1: personal relationship in God. I would just say, Rush, we
Speaker 1: are praying for you. Everybody, everybody that knows what you've done,
Speaker 1: how you've taken a lot of hits, over the years
Speaker 1: standing up for this country, our constitution, your belief in God,
Speaker 1: your belief in life. You fighting fights every single solitary
Speaker 1: day to make this a more perfect union, a better country.
Speaker 1: And we just as you go through this, we're all
Speaker 1: praying for you. We are praying for a speedy recovery
Speaker 1: and for years more of excellence in broadcasting. First day
Speaker 1: I filled in from of course I dropped the It
Speaker 1: was a golden mic and it actually fell anyway, Sean
Speaker 1: Hennedy broke my microphone. You know, unbelievable, all of us
Speaker 1: in this business talk radio. I always talk about the
Speaker 1: pioneers because I admire them so much, because I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be doing what I do I love to do every
Speaker 1: day but for the Barry Farber's, the Barry Grace, you know,
Speaker 1: the Gene Burns, the David Brodnoy's, the Jerry Williams, the
Speaker 1: Bob Grants, you know, a serbic talk radio, hard hitting.
Speaker 1: I'm as stern. All pioneers and they made this thing
Speaker 1: called freedom of speech possible and rush for conservative talk radio.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was in a radio studio, just
Speaker 1: starting out on a college station in nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 1: and he syndicated in eighty eight. When some guy goes,
Speaker 1: you gotta listen to this guy Rush, I remember where
Speaker 1: I was. You gotta hear he does these homeless updates.
Speaker 1: They're hilarious and they were, and he paved the way
Speaker 1: for all of us. Me and Mark talked about it,
Speaker 1: Levin the great One all the time. He's going to
Speaker 1: call in at the bottom of the hour. And but
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure everybody understands here we
Speaker 1: are so lucky in this country that we have the greatest,
Speaker 1: the best scientific minds with the greatest medical advancements. I
Speaker 1: know Russia has raised money for leukemia all of these
Speaker 1: years and donated millions. By the way, if everyone knew
Speaker 1: the Rush, I knew that gives away millions, you know.
Speaker 1: And I mom putting my faith, my hope, and all
Speaker 1: of my prayers into his speedy recovery and taking his
Speaker 1: lead on this, because you know, it's just hard when
Speaker 1: you when you when you hear somebody you know and
Speaker 1: admire that also helped you in life. Rush helped me
Speaker 1: his brother's family to me. You know, his niece is
Speaker 1: one of the nicest and best people that's ever worked
Speaker 1: for me, and always gracious to me, and I know
Speaker 1: he's been that way with everybody else. And there's nobody better.
Speaker 1: Neil Boorts once called them the Babe ruth of talk radio.
Speaker 1: Wow Sports nailed it. He's it. There's only one Babe Ruth.
Speaker 1: Nobody else, nobody else comes close. Rush. We love you.
Speaker 1: We are praying for your speedy recovery. We're praying for
Speaker 1: God's blessings upon you and your health and your entire
Speaker 1: family Catherine, David, Lisa, christ and all the kids, everybody,
Speaker 1: and for what you've done so far and will continue
Speaker 1: to do for your country. Thank you for what you've
Speaker 1: done for me personally. Thank you, And I'm just praying
Speaker 1: for your quick recovery. We love you. We're sorry you
Speaker 1: have to go through this time. We'll be here waiting
Speaker 1: for the next broadcast. We'll continue, all right, as we
Speaker 1: roll along our prayers today with Russia Lambaugh as he
Speaker 1: made this announcement and he begins a treatment, of course,
Speaker 1: a treatment for his cancer. Uh. I do know that
Speaker 1: we have the most amazing people ever that work diligently
Speaker 1: every single day to make to find the cures for
Speaker 1: all of this. You know, I'm really convinced, having lost,
Speaker 1: especially I lost my father, well you know, six months
Speaker 1: after I started at Fox, and you know, the advancements
Speaker 1: are dramatic and I and and that's where we all
Speaker 1: put our hope. When you when you have family members,
Speaker 1: we all know somebody that was able to overcome a
Speaker 1: bad diagnosis. But it does hit you like a dome.
Speaker 1: It stops you on a dime. And I guess that's
Speaker 1: what makes us special, isn't it, as human beings, because
Speaker 1: we care, we love life. We know life is precious.
Speaker 1: We as a country or founding documented is God get
Speaker 1: given rights, endowed by a creator. And we only have
Speaker 1: a short time on this earth, very short time. You know.
Speaker 1: If somebody in your family is sick, we're just for
Speaker 1: the hell of it, tell everyone you love him tonight,
Speaker 1: all right, twenty five till the top of the hour,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four one Sean if you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program, just really hard
Speaker 1: hitting news for this industry, for what we do and
Speaker 1: talk radio. And Rush Limbaugh's announcement that he announced he
Speaker 1: has a stage four lung cancer or at the end
Speaker 1: of his show today so kind of took all of
Speaker 1: us by shock. I want to listen. I know him.
Speaker 1: He does not want us talking about it all day.
Speaker 1: I know him, and I want to honor his wishes.
Speaker 1: More importantly, he's going to be getting a treatment, and
Speaker 1: he says as often as he can. He's back on
Speaker 1: the air and he's gonna be out there fighting every day.
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, it's moments like this that you
Speaker 1: really remember. You know, hey, what what does his life about?
Speaker 1: We appreciate our friends, our family. You appreciate gifted, talented
Speaker 1: people that give their all for what that what their passion,
Speaker 1: their heart, their soul tells them. The great one. Mark
Speaker 1: Levin is with me. Uh we would you know, to
Speaker 1: be honest, texting and bawling before you know as well
Speaker 1: hearing it because we know what he's done for both
Speaker 1: of us prior to coming on air, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it hits you like a dime. And but I you know,
Speaker 1: this is quintessential rush stoic and he didn't even heat.
Speaker 1: You know, he wants this to be normal. He's going
Speaker 1: to get his treatment, and you know, I just put
Speaker 1: my faith in my hope, in God and in medicine
Speaker 1: and in science that has advanced Mark. And uh, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to follow his lead. That's where he wants
Speaker 1: us to go. And he's asked people to pray for him,
Speaker 1: and I'm praying for him. Yeah, that's that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, Sean, I think about Rush. I
Speaker 1: just uh what he's done. He's done for all of us.
Speaker 1: But even more than that, you know, this country do
Speaker 1: without him? What we would we what would we do
Speaker 1: without him? So we must pray and the best science possible.
Speaker 1: And um he uh, I had to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I pulled over the side of the road. You know,
Speaker 1: we knew a little bit earlier than most people. And
Speaker 1: it's a it's and you're right, there is there's all
Speaker 1: kinds of breakthroughs in science and so forth. We know
Speaker 1: Russia ill I fight like hell and in what a
Speaker 1: class act this man is um And he so loves
Speaker 1: his audience. That's not a joke. And he talks about
Speaker 1: it all the time. And I want people to know
Speaker 1: talk writer is a very small circle of us who
Speaker 1: speak to each other, very small circle. But Rush, in
Speaker 1: terms of his audience, in many ways, it overlaps with
Speaker 1: all the audiences because it's so big as a special
Speaker 1: relationship with people who listen to He's loved, he's liked,
Speaker 1: his words a meaning. He's a man of great compassion
Speaker 1: and humanity. All the people who've attacked him, he never,
Speaker 1: he rarely ever strikes back. He's got you know in
Speaker 1: that sense that's like you never strike back either, you know,
Speaker 1: you never throw a punch. He's got a lot more
Speaker 1: self control than I do. But I'll tell you now
Speaker 1: is the time to be positive and strong in the
Speaker 1: fine ways where we can help each of us in
Speaker 1: our own way. Prayer U the best doctors in the world,
Speaker 1: excuse me. And that's the way we have to think.
Speaker 1: And that has to be our focus and more much
Speaker 1: care with the left or anybody else, has to say,
Speaker 1: this is our man. Love him, the nation so much,
Speaker 1: the nation loves him and his impact on our lives
Speaker 1: and when the country has been so important and so positive,
Speaker 1: and so that is what we will do. He will fight,
Speaker 1: We will fight with him, we will pray and if
Speaker 1: and if anyone gets through this, he can you agree
Speaker 1: with me? True? Yeah, that's so true. That's so true. Well,
Speaker 1: both of us personally, I would dead to gratitue to him,
Speaker 1: gratitude to him, and are you kidding let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I mean, around this whole damn ministry would be dead.
Speaker 1: Do you know how many do you know how many
Speaker 1: talk stations the war when he started two hundred, there's thousands,
Speaker 1: thousands at the time when he saved the AM band,
Speaker 1: Now he's saving the FM band. I mean it's you know,
Speaker 1: we played such a big part of it, all right,
Speaker 1: how many national how many national talk shows? Did you
Speaker 1: love us? Rush? I never listened to War. I'd listen
Speaker 1: to local hosts. He was the first, Yeah, Larry King
Speaker 1: live at midnight going it's like lassion. That was about
Speaker 1: it exactly. But he transformed the radio. But it's more important,
Speaker 1: you know, um, and I love what Mary Mattlin had
Speaker 1: said about the time he this. You know, we talk
Speaker 1: about the impact of National Review. You know, you and
Speaker 1: I talk about how we all have our You were
Speaker 1: very different in many ways. We all have our unique gifts.
Speaker 1: You have your you know, acerbic side, your your keen
Speaker 1: constitutional intellect. You know. I always felt Russia's one of
Speaker 1: his greatest gifts was a monologue and the fact that
Speaker 1: he he'd see things and say things on another level,
Speaker 1: another dimension, and have the ability to communicate it to
Speaker 1: people and it dazzles me. And you know, we all
Speaker 1: have different gifts from God, and he brought us to
Speaker 1: a fruition. I'm just going to say this. I don't
Speaker 1: want to belabor this because I know he's He's probably
Speaker 1: going who kill you and me both for saying all this,
Speaker 1: But we wouldn't be here without him, and we are.
Speaker 1: We're just we're just taking a pause and we're just saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: our friend is sick. He's gonna get the right treatment
Speaker 1: and he's going to be in all of our prayers
Speaker 1: every single day. And you know what, if we can
Speaker 1: only hear him for a while two days a week,
Speaker 1: I'll be thankful for the two days and then until
Speaker 1: he gets back to five days a week. And you know,
Speaker 1: John's he's the energizer rush. He always the energy, He's
Speaker 1: always there, he's always fighting and I and I'm serious
Speaker 1: about this. I think if anyone can get through this,
Speaker 1: he can get through this. There are tens of millions
Speaker 1: of us. We're gonna be praying and rooting for him,
Speaker 1: and there's going to be wonderful doctors who are going
Speaker 1: to be trying, who are going to be taking care
Speaker 1: of him and you're right. He's got an enormously close,
Speaker 1: special family. It's huge family, enormously close, special Family's brother
Speaker 1: David is dear friends of ours, as are so many
Speaker 1: other members of his family. And people need to know.
Speaker 1: This is a family man. This is a down to
Speaker 1: earth man, This is a happy man. This is a
Speaker 1: humanitarian despite what his enemies have said about him and
Speaker 1: everybody else. And and I really think he'll fight his
Speaker 1: way through this because he fights his way through so much.
Speaker 1: Do you know what's amazing home? Because when you think
Speaker 1: about it, look at it like a forest, and it's
Speaker 1: there's no opening. He single handily, for syndicated conservative talk
Speaker 1: radio chopped down every tree and by doing that, he's
Speaker 1: taken every hit. And then all of us that come
Speaker 1: behind him, and we all owe under gratitude that path
Speaker 1: exists because he opened it for us, and that's why
Speaker 1: we love and appreciate him. And he took a lot more.
Speaker 1: You know, I take a lot of crap every day.
Speaker 1: I get the crappy anatomy, you get the crappy what
Speaker 1: I mean. But really, when you think about it, he
Speaker 1: took the crap. You know, he took the hits early,
Speaker 1: so it was easier for us because we knew it
Speaker 1: was coming, and we knew how to deal with it
Speaker 1: because we watched him deal with it. And but anyway,
Speaker 1: I love you, brother. We're praying for our friend. You're
Speaker 1: damn right. And I'll just say one other thing. There's
Speaker 1: really a handful of people during your lifetime who affect
Speaker 1: the world. And I'm not overstating this. A handful of
Speaker 1: everybody thinks they changed the world. There's really a handful,
Speaker 1: and he's one of the handful. And that is a
Speaker 1: remarkable thing. So we'll get the best doctors, we will
Speaker 1: pray for him, and with God's speed, he'll get through this. Amen,
Speaker 1: all right, my brother, God bless you, God bless you.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine one Sean. Somebody just sent me this
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to get into all analysis of
Speaker 1: all this, but there is one thing from Science Daily
Speaker 1: that did catch my attention that a friend's hun that
Speaker 1: lung cancer in particular. There you know, the rates have
Speaker 1: dropped fifty one percent since nineteen ninety alone, in the
Speaker 1: years I know when Rush does his radio thon is
Speaker 1: Lukemi radio thon? I mean I lost. I remember a
Speaker 1: cousin of mine many years ago to Hodgkins disease, and
Speaker 1: nobody ever dies from Hodgkins disease, hardly anymore. Somebody very
Speaker 1: close to me in my life has had lymphoma for
Speaker 1: twenty two years and the medicine state ahead of it.
Speaker 1: And look at Dick Cheney had a heart attack in
Speaker 1: his thirties, eventually culminating in a heart transplant. I remember
Speaker 1: interviewing him when he had the machine to hold him
Speaker 1: over till he got a heart is you know for
Speaker 1: these people, we have such genius in this country, and
Speaker 1: sometimes we forget, but this is this is what they
Speaker 1: do every second of every day, is they're looking to
Speaker 1: figure out how to cure disease and illness. I had
Speaker 1: that he fouc you on about the coronavirus on TV
Speaker 1: the other night, and there's and I asked the President
Speaker 1: in the interview last night we had during the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl about coronavirus, Nobody does it better than we do.
Speaker 1: Nobody does it better than America and Americans and freedom
Speaker 1: and ingenuity and advancement. I've always said Barry Farber, another
Speaker 1: great radio pioneer, always said, there's never been a country
Speaker 1: in the history of man that has accumulated more power
Speaker 1: and abused it less than the United States of America.
Speaker 1: And I very very humbly gently add there's never been
Speaker 1: a country in the history of man that has accumulated
Speaker 1: more power and used it for the advancement of the
Speaker 1: entire human race in its condition. And it's done under
Speaker 1: a system of governance. That's why government, That's why elections,
Speaker 1: that's why politics matter, because if you have the freedom,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's these gifts. If you believe as
Speaker 1: I do, we are we are all created by one God,
Speaker 1: every human being on earth. What separates us from the
Speaker 1: animals is we have this capacity to understand. We don't
Speaker 1: know fully, nor are we designed to know fully. And
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I wish I knew a lot more, right,
Speaker 1: you know, I just look at the majesty and universes
Speaker 1: within universes of creation and I'm like, I'm blown away,
Speaker 1: and that God created every every single human soul. The
Speaker 1: word education comes from the Latin that Duke Gooday to
Speaker 1: bring forth from within, and that that that is predicated
Speaker 1: on a belief that it's already there. We don't have
Speaker 1: to ram stuff into kids' heads. We need to bring
Speaker 1: out of them. The gifts that God gave them. That's
Speaker 1: why I endowed by our creator. We're not the perfect country,
Speaker 1: but we're you know, we're where the country where freedom
Speaker 1: allows us that opportunity. I have two friends of mine,
Speaker 1: fellow talk show host on our station in New York,
Speaker 1: wo R Mark Simone Joe Kanscha, media writer for The Hill.
Speaker 1: I know you've been sitting Mark, and it's just like
Speaker 1: you know Tim McGraw says, in a moment comes and
Speaker 1: stops you on a dime, and that was about ten
Speaker 1: to three today. Yeah, Rush has some things going for him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's had some real medical difficulty in the past,
Speaker 1: battled through it and won and succeeded. Obviously, you'll have
Speaker 1: the best doctors in medical care in the world. He
Speaker 1: has got some pretty good karma. He's one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Sean won't want me to mention this, but Sean is
Speaker 1: too that has done a lot of good deeds for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. That's Rush. You know, people in trouble,
Speaker 1: they need help, money, doctors, employees, ex employees, strangers he
Speaker 1: read about in the newspaper. I could tell stories that
Speaker 1: would take entire shows. So you're right, and we could
Speaker 1: tell those stories about you. But I know you don't
Speaker 1: like to mention, and that's one thing, but people to
Speaker 1: do that, they don't want credit, they don't want even
Speaker 1: anybody to know about it. But that kind of karma
Speaker 1: can really help. He's gonna hate me for doing this.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I'm fully aware. I'm I'm on his blank
Speaker 1: list right now, and I hope he'll forgive me. And
Speaker 1: nobody could ever explain to people today what he meant.
Speaker 1: You know, It's like the Beatles or Frank Sinatra. Everybody
Speaker 1: knows they were the best, the greatest, but they don't
Speaker 1: realize how they changed the whole landscape. They just changed music,
Speaker 1: and Rush did that for radio. He wasn't just the best.
Speaker 1: He totally changed everything about radio. Am talk radio. AM
Speaker 1: was dying. They didn't know what to do. They were
Speaker 1: practically going under, and Rush just saved it and created
Speaker 1: a whole new world of AM radio. And then they
Speaker 1: everybody tried to be the next Rush. Everybody filled in
Speaker 1: for It never worked until Sean came along and you
Speaker 1: you filled in for like a year for him, and
Speaker 1: everybody realized this is the other Rush. This is no. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not in the same category. But you know what,
Speaker 1: but when we build mont Rushmore YouTube, guys go up.
Speaker 1: There's only there's only one Babe Ruth, as my buddy
Speaker 1: Neil Boorts would say. But I do want to keep
Speaker 1: this positive and I want to I want to take
Speaker 1: his lead on this, and that is he's coming back
Speaker 1: to work, He's going to get his treatment. We're all
Speaker 1: going to pray for him, and we're and I just
Speaker 1: believe in that. I believe there is a God that
Speaker 1: can answer our prayers. And here's our please on our
Speaker 1: rise and our calls. Joe Concha. Yeah, he had said,
Speaker 1: Sean when he was signing off there before you mentioned
Speaker 1: around ten to three that he hopes to be back
Speaker 1: on Thursday. In other words, he's going to get treatment
Speaker 1: Tuesday Wednesday, and then he wants to get right back
Speaker 1: to work because this is something that he has done
Speaker 1: syndicated for thirty one year. Sure, but he got into
Speaker 1: broadcasting at age sixteen. I mean, he knew that this
Speaker 1: is exactly what he wanted to do. And you could
Speaker 1: tell when you listen to Rush Limbaugh that he enjoys
Speaker 1: his work. He enjoys it every day. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: to scream to make a point and drive it down
Speaker 1: your throat. He comes to work, and I've said this
Speaker 1: to people that have some influence in this business. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I always marvel at his prepped that
Speaker 1: every day he has the stack, he calls it right,
Speaker 1: and it's just so seamless one thought to the other.
Speaker 1: And you always know when you tune into Rush Limball,
Speaker 1: you're going to hear a perspective that you didn't hear
Speaker 1: from everybody else that's in this industry. And that's what
Speaker 1: made him so unique. So this is something that for
Speaker 1: me personally, unfortunately, I'm an expert in this. My mother
Speaker 1: hass Toway from lung cancer back in two thousand and twelve.
Speaker 1: If he has advanced lung cancer, you know, we want
Speaker 1: to keep this positive, of course, but it just depends on,
Speaker 1: you know, where this may have metastasized too, and if
Speaker 1: surgery can be successful in getting the tumor out and
Speaker 1: then hopefully it could be extinguished. So again you're talking
Speaker 1: about who Talkers Magazine called in two thousand and two
Speaker 1: the greatest radio talk show host of all time, And
Speaker 1: you cannot deny his influence from everybody to the president
Speaker 1: currently right now, just like he does with you. You know,
Speaker 1: it listens to what Rush has to say. And then
Speaker 1: the millions of listeners, I mean fourteen fifteen million people
Speaker 1: listening on a daily basis. There has never been a
Speaker 1: broadcaster like him. And we're not going to talk in
Speaker 1: past tense. We're going to talk in future tense. In
Speaker 1: other words, feeling that he's the type of guy who's
Speaker 1: going to beat this thing and you're gonna be hearing
Speaker 1: from Russia. Part part is when you get that call
Speaker 1: or that moment that came and stops you on a dime,
Speaker 1: go back to that phrase. It just it gives you
Speaker 1: the pause. You see life differently. You appreciate everything a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I mean in that song, it talks,
Speaker 1: you know, all right when it sinks in, all right,
Speaker 1: this is real. Gotta I gotta fight this, And what
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? I'll go, you know, skydiving, Rocky Mountain,
Speaker 1: glining at two point seven seconds on a bull name
Speaker 1: Fu Manchu. And you love deeper, you speak sweeter, You
Speaker 1: give forgiveness you've been denying. And everybody that I know
Speaker 1: that has survived cancer. And I'll end it this hour
Speaker 1: this way, and I'll get to the news in the
Speaker 1: next hour. Every single person in my life that has
Speaker 1: survived cancer is just like that. Speak sweeter, love, deeper,
Speaker 1: give forgiveness you've been denying, and then you. They live
Speaker 1: at a level that most of us don't because they
Speaker 1: came to the edge. Our prayers are with Russia's family, everybody,
Speaker 1: and we can't wait to hear him back on the
Speaker 1: air sooner than later. Thank you, Joe, thank you Mark Simone.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get to the news. We
Speaker 1: have a lot to get to and your calls to
Speaker 1: all right, as we roll along Sean Hannity's show, Toll Free,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean, you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the program our prayers for Rush today.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody writes me in the thing, Hey, he
Speaker 1: goes Hannity's two hundred and seventy four days. I know,
Speaker 1: as we're praying for Rush and we want him back
Speaker 1: on the air as soon as possible. I know what
Speaker 1: he wants. He wants us to go kick some serious
Speaker 1: ass and win this election in two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: four days. And I'm like, you're right. A ton of news. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we had the Super Bowl. I thought the President's ads
Speaker 1: were spectacular. I mean, it was a touching, terrible story
Speaker 1: in the in the Bloomberg Gad. I felt so bad
Speaker 1: for the mother of this child. I'm like, Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: if you look at the violence, what have cities been
Speaker 1: run by liberal Democrats done to stop violence and end
Speaker 1: poverty and bring solutions? Not a lot. And it is
Speaker 1: And you know, his whole lad campaign is about either
Speaker 1: hating Trump or I had my interview with the President.
Speaker 1: We'll try and get some of that in throughout the
Speaker 1: program today. You can't believe how the Democrats cannot still
Speaker 1: get over their loss in twenty sixteen. That's why in
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy four days, what do I say?
Speaker 1: I say it every day, the ultimate jury exists. Because
Speaker 1: this is a busy week. We got obviously the caucuses
Speaker 1: tonight in Iowa. We begin that process. You know, which
Speaker 1: radical leftist socialists are they gonna pick? That's what it
Speaker 1: comes down to. Then we've got the election in two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four days. You'll be the ultimate jury
Speaker 1: that can shock the world again and the people that
Speaker 1: we have now that those that have done this to
Speaker 1: this country done nothing for the American people, but have
Speaker 1: dragged this country through all of this because the acquittal
Speaker 1: schedule about four o'clock on Wednesday, all but a certainty
Speaker 1: at this point. This is all they've done, conspiracy theories, lies,
Speaker 1: a hoax after a hoax. We have some other election
Speaker 1: news stuff. I'll tell you what's happening in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: They are losing it. There is now a never Bernie,
Speaker 1: as somebody put it in an email facts to me today,
Speaker 1: apocalyps coming. You know what. They can't believe it's Bernie,
Speaker 1: and that starts from Obama straight on down all every Democrat.
Speaker 1: They're now hoping that, oh, Sanders is now up pretty
Speaker 1: much everywhere Bernie Sanders. Okay. You know Trump was funny
Speaker 1: yesterday when I was interviewing the president for the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: the interview that aired, and he goes, yeah, communist because
Speaker 1: I did a lightning round because there's only so much
Speaker 1: I can do in eight and a half minutes of
Speaker 1: airtime in the pregame of the super Bowl, and I
Speaker 1: knew people at home it was just supposed to be
Speaker 1: a short news segment. How do I get if I
Speaker 1: ask them two other questions that would be eight and
Speaker 1: a half minutes. So I figured out, all right, how
Speaker 1: can I make it a little more intro and I
Speaker 1: we dide a lightning round with the President. I brought
Speaker 1: up Bernie Sanders. He goes communist. I know they call
Speaker 1: him a socialist, but he's a communist. And he goes
Speaker 1: whoever thinks of weddings and Moscow, because I guess that's
Speaker 1: where Bernie we've reported on before. I guess went for
Speaker 1: his honeymoon, this former Soviet Union. Now let's go to
Speaker 1: communist Russia. That's her old former let's go to let's
Speaker 1: go hang out there. Great, and you could see it
Speaker 1: like you got the MSDNC crowd, Rama, Manuel Deadfish, his crowd,
Speaker 1: the Clinton crowd, the Obama crowd, the Hillary crowd. They
Speaker 1: all hate Bernie Sanders. And it's fascinating because the President said,
Speaker 1: I can see it. They're they're setting him up to
Speaker 1: steal it again from this guy. And it's so funny.
Speaker 1: I never understood and stated so many times since that
Speaker 1: whole primary it was rigged. Remember Donna Brazil in her
Speaker 1: book or and I know I interviewed her about it.
Speaker 1: You know, she said, I'm going to investigate it. This
Speaker 1: is after Wasserman Schultz was escorted out just prior to
Speaker 1: the convention. In the summer of twenty sixteen, Donna Brazil
Speaker 1: was brought in in the interim promised to get to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the Bernie thing and said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: had to cry and I called Bernie Sanders and basically
Speaker 1: it was rigged against you. Now, we were told that
Speaker 1: they had put I guess some type of safety measures
Speaker 1: in place, but that hasn't happened. But you can even see,
Speaker 1: Oh no, you got top Democrats now facing the prospect
Speaker 1: with Bernie Sanders being the top of the ticket, and
Speaker 1: they're pretty nervous about it because he's not only in
Speaker 1: the lead in Iowa, but also New Hampshire and also
Speaker 1: South Carolina. And by the way, Michael Bloomberg is just
Speaker 1: spending a fortune dropping money. Michael Bloomberg is the dullest
Speaker 1: human being on the face of this earth. You know,
Speaker 1: twelve years mayor of New York, basically a caretaker for
Speaker 1: the Rudy Giuliani policies out there, supporting the stop and
Speaker 1: frisk that Rudy put in place and fought for. I
Speaker 1: was called a racist about every day, and the murder
Speaker 1: rate dropped precipitously as a result, and here we are,
Speaker 1: you know, eighteen years later, you know him acting like
Speaker 1: he's crying that he ever supported it, because he's thinking,
Speaker 1: of course, like all Democrats think identity politics, how will
Speaker 1: African Americans you know, support me if I supported stopping
Speaker 1: frisk etc. Etc. But you got some old time Democrats
Speaker 1: like Chris Matthews. This is a disaster for the party
Speaker 1: and the prospect of having Bernie win the Iowa caucus
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna win New Hampshire and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, but I don't see anybody that's going to
Speaker 1: be able to beat Trump based on if we judge
Speaker 1: elections or reelections. Are you better off than you are? Yeah? It.
Speaker 1: Did the President lose any of his support from twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think they're more energized because
Speaker 1: of the horrific treatment by the Democrats and the media mob.
Speaker 1: Did the President keep his promises? Yeah, pretty substantial list.
Speaker 1: Does the public get famous outrage that the mob and
Speaker 1: the media over everything that Donald Trump says and does. No.
Speaker 1: The American people, they've come to understand what a disruptor is,
Speaker 1: what an iconoclast is, and what draining the swamp and
Speaker 1: the sewer is and they're used to his tweetye. You
Speaker 1: know the number one comments I got from friends and
Speaker 1: people I know yesterday. You know what he says about
Speaker 1: Sleepy Joe, Elizabeth Warren Polkahontas, communist, Hunter Biden, nobody. How
Speaker 1: does everybody literally act like Hunter did nothing wrong, He's
Speaker 1: all innocent. That's the breathtaking hypocrisy you take on as
Speaker 1: a liberal and the double standard. It reeks of just
Speaker 1: a irrational hatred of Donald Trump. You know, John Kerry,
Speaker 1: you know I'm not effing running. Let me delete that.
Speaker 1: I'm not running warning that Bernie Sanders is going to
Speaker 1: take down the entire Democratic Party, dead fish and manual
Speaker 1: announcing the same thing, and you have Bernie himself is
Speaker 1: announcing a plan to nationalize the energy industry. Says his
Speaker 1: green energy push would muscle many of the country's biggest
Speaker 1: companies out of business, nationalizing health insurance Medicare for All, said,
Speaker 1: he laid out a sixteen trillion dollar climate change plan.
Speaker 1: That's four years of income that the government has, and
Speaker 1: that's not spending another penny on anything else. It's the
Speaker 1: lifeblood of our economy. Anyway, So they're talking about a
Speaker 1: never Bernie apocalypse coming Biden. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: to say about Biden anymore. Now he's telling everybody don't
Speaker 1: vote for me. He's losing it almost on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: I mean, get more cuts of Biden saying something stupid.
Speaker 1: I think if I ran it on this show or
Speaker 1: on TV, be a never ending, you know, shift show
Speaker 1: to use a phrase, you know. Tom Brokaw weighing in
Speaker 1: that twelve Sanders twenty twenty chances hard to see how
Speaker 1: people will say I'm for socialism. Hey, Tom, I don't
Speaker 1: know where you've been. Almost, well not, almost all of
Speaker 1: these Democrats are supporting some version of this idiotic New
Speaker 1: Green Deal or Medicare for all. You know, dead fish, Emmanuel,
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, dead fish, who are you to lecture
Speaker 1: anyone on politics? What did you do to stop the
Speaker 1: violence in Chicago? Nothing? Not happy with this field MSDNC
Speaker 1: Area fifty one, Roswal Rachel Maddow's you know channels state
Speaker 1: run Democratic TV, saying the twenty twenty Democrats can't beat Trump.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden snaps oh Man at Savannah Guthrie for the
Speaker 1: Hunter question. You don't know what you're talking about. Has
Speaker 1: it occurred to you that there's a certain irony here
Speaker 1: here the president is accused of and has acknowledged, wanting
Speaker 1: to get information about your son Hunter and his dealings
Speaker 1: with Ukraine, And this process of impeachment has ensured that
Speaker 1: everyone knows about Hunter's dealings with Ukraine. It's a good thing,
Speaker 1: and no one's found anything wrong with his dealing to
Speaker 1: the Crane, except they say sets a bad image. Well,
Speaker 1: do you agree that it sets a bad image? My
Speaker 1: son said that. Do you think it was wrong for
Speaker 1: him to take that position knowing that it was really
Speaker 1: because that company wanted access to you? Well, that's not true.
Speaker 1: You're saying things you do not know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: No one said that, who said that? Don't he said that?
Speaker 1: Don't you think that? It's just one of those things
Speaker 1: where people think, well that seems kind of sleazy. Why
Speaker 1: would he have that job if not for his who
Speaker 1: his father was, Because he's a very bright guy. I
Speaker 1: guess the question I'm kind of asking is is it right?
Speaker 1: His apparent? Yeah, yeah, well he said he regretted having
Speaker 1: done it. Yeah, speak to himself. It's a gold man.
Speaker 1: I regretted, oh Man, Yeah, okay, And why do you
Speaker 1: think you got Do you have any experience in gas,
Speaker 1: no oil, no energy? No? And they experienced with the Ukraine. No.
Speaker 1: Why do you think you got the millions of dollars?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe because you're you're vice president fathers
Speaker 1: in charge. I told him you're not getting the billion.
Speaker 1: Fire the guy. I still cannot get over it. By
Speaker 1: the way, Senator Graham vowing to investigate this Ukrainian impeachment
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory hoax. But the double standard is breathtaking. I
Speaker 1: don't know how these people can buy for Kate and
Speaker 1: compartmentalize such hypocrisy and such lying to themselves. Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: calling out Joe Biden for not taking or talking on
Speaker 1: the Sunday shows. Hey, fake, Jake. Nobody gets ratings on
Speaker 1: these stupid shows anymore. Nobody watches them. I know you
Speaker 1: can convince yourself that there's all this prestige involved with it,
Speaker 1: but it don't. You're not Tim Russert, Tim Russell, David Brinkley,
Speaker 1: They're gone. They were. That's a by gone error. I
Speaker 1: have people like Michael Moore apoplectic that guys like Mayor
Speaker 1: Bloomberg might be able to buy his way onto the
Speaker 1: debate stage, which, by the way, is true. They're changing
Speaker 1: the rules just for Mayor Bloomberg so he can get
Speaker 1: on there. And he literally he was at a Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders rally in Iowa and you know, talking about how
Speaker 1: the DNC lowered the standards allowing candidates to participate in
Speaker 1: the next primary debate, saying that the rule change is
Speaker 1: just an effort for the Democratic establishment again to screw
Speaker 1: Bernie like they did in twenty sixteen. And by his
Speaker 1: way onto the stage. I watched the debate in Iowa
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and the all white debate, he said
Speaker 1: in the fact that the Democratic DNC will not allow
Speaker 1: Corey Booker on the stage, not allow Julian Castro on
Speaker 1: the stage, but they're gonna allow Mike Bloomberg on the
Speaker 1: stage because he has a billion blanking dollars. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of truth to what he's saying here, and the
Speaker 1: DNC is now I in this rule change, in this
Speaker 1: bid to block Bernie. Here we go again. This is
Speaker 1: in the Politico. Small group of Democratic National Committee members
Speaker 1: has privately begun gaging support for a plan to potentially
Speaker 1: weaken Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. In conversations on the sidelines
Speaker 1: DNC Executive Committee members meeting calls, texts in recent days
Speaker 1: about a half dozen members discussing the possibility of a
Speaker 1: policy reversal to ensure the so called superdelegates can vote
Speaker 1: on the first ballot at the party's national convention. They're
Speaker 1: trying to screw Bernie one more time. Isn't that nice
Speaker 1: of them? What a shocker. I'm literally about I'm not
Speaker 1: kidding you better right now, I literally am getting And
Speaker 1: now we know in the Hill they're reporting Bloomberg's surging
Speaker 1: past warrant. Nobody knows, Bloomberg. What you do is paying
Speaker 1: for ads. Mike is great. I hate guns. You know,
Speaker 1: Mike will get it done if Mike a chance. Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it is. They're just like throwing anything
Speaker 1: up for they couldn't impeach them. Muller report fails, Russia
Speaker 1: conspiracy lies, three years, Ukraine impeachment all falls apart. And
Speaker 1: now you got progressive groups. They're getting pissed and they're
Speaker 1: now uniting behind Bernie Sanders and he's introducing legislation that
Speaker 1: will end US energy independence. Oh, and by the way,
Speaker 1: Bernie leads the twenty twenty field in private jet spending. Oh,
Speaker 1: Bernie's a hypocrite, just like Al Gore. Shocker. All right,
Speaker 1: as we roll along, eight hundred and nine for one,
Speaker 1: Shawn is our number. We'll get your calls into in
Speaker 1: the next half hour. The only guest we have is
Speaker 1: Congressman Scalis is in the final half hour of the
Speaker 1: program today. So all of this about Bernie's announcement about
Speaker 1: the environment, and you know, he's surging in. The Democrats
Speaker 1: are freaking out and his new plan. By the way,
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna get rid of oil and gas.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, Bernie is getting screwed again, and
Speaker 1: they're trying to do it right in front of everybody,
Speaker 1: which cracks me up. But then I find out they
Speaker 1: read this, oh headline, Bernie leads twenty twenty field in
Speaker 1: private jet spending. Oh, we can't drive a caravan or
Speaker 1: an escalade or a car that uses you know whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got to fly less. The New Green Deal.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get rid of oil and gas and the
Speaker 1: internal combustion engine, and everything's gonna be free. And it's
Speaker 1: gonna be ninety four trillion or some version thereof. He's
Speaker 1: latest one is sixteen trillion. That's four years of income,
Speaker 1: assuming that our economy is still standing after they take
Speaker 1: away the lifeblood of our economy. And so he introduces
Speaker 1: legislation that will end us energy independence. But he's flying
Speaker 1: around in private jet to the tune of one point
Speaker 1: two million dollars just in the last quarter alone. Must
Speaker 1: be nice up there in the sky, not having to
Speaker 1: worry about going through TSA and having you know, your
Speaker 1: cocktails in private whatever you do up there. Progressive groups, though,
Speaker 1: are uniting behind Bernie. The New York Post never Bernie
Speaker 1: Apocalypse is coming. Democratic insiders and now you could see
Speaker 1: you got the Obama faction, you got the Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: and Bill Clinton faction. You got you know now literally
Speaker 1: trying to Then you got the DNC hierarchy. You want
Speaker 1: to talk about a swamp. Well, they already ripped this
Speaker 1: guy off once, why not do it again. They're now
Speaker 1: planning it, and even the mainstream media is picking up
Speaker 1: on it, and Joe Biden is fading in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Now they're going to change the rules. Maybe maybe it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Bloomberg all right, we'll get to that Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Latest on impeachment disaster for the Democrats on the falloup
Speaker 1: coming up. All right, twenty five now till the time
Speaker 1: of the hour, eight hundred and ninety four one. Sean,
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the program. We
Speaker 1: talked about Rush. He announced on his program at the
Speaker 1: end of his show today that he's being treated for
Speaker 1: lung cancer, and we talked about it for a good
Speaker 1: part of the first hour, and I just want to
Speaker 1: remind people our thoughts and prayers are with him. He
Speaker 1: thinks he'll be back on the air on Thursday. And
Speaker 1: what a what a what a profound impact. Mark was
Speaker 1: right when we had to live in on very few
Speaker 1: people actually really impact history. What an impact he's had.
Speaker 1: We're all blessed, and we want that impact to continue
Speaker 1: for decades and decades to come. A lot happening today.
Speaker 1: So you got the Caucuses tonight, looks like Bernie is
Speaker 1: surging everywhere at this time. There is an all out
Speaker 1: freak out within the Democratic establishment. You've got you know,
Speaker 1: the Clintons, and then you got Obama stating pretty publicly
Speaker 1: and behind closed doors, and it's been ported they're not
Speaker 1: interested and all Team Clinton doesn't seem too interested. And
Speaker 1: then you've got state run tv MS DNC in a
Speaker 1: total meltdown with Chris Matthews. These twenty twenty Democrats can't
Speaker 1: beat Trump. Then the Democrats are now DNC is now
Speaker 1: changing the rules so that Michael Bloomberg could actually buy
Speaker 1: his way into the debates, and Joe Biden is falling
Speaker 1: like a rock, as is Elizabeth Warren. And Bernie's surging
Speaker 1: pretty much in every poll that looks like, by the way,
Speaker 1: as a shot at South Carolina, and they're trying to
Speaker 1: build in a stop gap. And now the DNC, well,
Speaker 1: I think we're going to go back to the old
Speaker 1: rules where on the first ballot the Superdella gets matter again. Wow,
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. John Kerry among those freaking out as well
Speaker 1: that Bernie Sanders will take down the entire Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: You noticed they don't get nervous until he starts to win,
Speaker 1: just like the last time. That's when the whole thing
Speaker 1: was rigged. That's when Donna Brazil had to call Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders and say, yeah, that's true. I never understood why
Speaker 1: people within the Democratic Party that like Bernie. You have
Speaker 1: a right to like Bernie, you like a socialist pretty much.
Speaker 1: They're all socialist now, pretty radical socialist. And they literally
Speaker 1: rigged the system so he can't win, so the establishment
Speaker 1: candidate Hillary emerges, and I don't understand why so many
Speaker 1: people in the Democratic Party are willing to take it.
Speaker 1: And I'd say, on this program and on TV a lot,
Speaker 1: I'm like, why am I like the only one that
Speaker 1: thinks rigging an election in this case of primary is
Speaker 1: really bad and probably shouldn't be happening in the United
Speaker 1: States of America, Just you know, random thoughts, because I
Speaker 1: think if it happened and somebody I supported as a
Speaker 1: Conservative that was running for the Republican Party nomination and
Speaker 1: they rigged the system against them, I think I'd end
Speaker 1: up being pretty ticked off. But the DNC finally announces
Speaker 1: there's going to be two pathways now to qualify the
Speaker 1: New Hampshire debate, and that is one earn at least
Speaker 1: one pledged delegate from the Iowa Caucus, and then, of course,
Speaker 1: well meet the donor requirements of contributions of two twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand unique donors and one of two polling requirements
Speaker 1: two poles at seven percent or more. New Hampshire, Abada,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, and then the three early states qualifying poles
Speaker 1: for the New Hampshire debate will include national polling in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, Abada, South Carolina. But all of this now
Speaker 1: is you've got okay, maybe we were gonna have to
Speaker 1: go with Bloomberg just to screw Bernie again. And this
Speaker 1: again from the Politico. Would he paid attention to Politico
Speaker 1: January eleven, twenty seventeen when they did a long expose
Speaker 1: investigative report about Ukrainian election interference and how in fact
Speaker 1: they were successful at it separate apart from what they
Speaker 1: do with Russia. Anyway, I've got to give some to Politico.
Speaker 1: DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention now.
Speaker 1: Karl Rove has been keeping his eye on the possibility
Speaker 1: of a broker convention now for some time. I do
Speaker 1: have some friends of mine that are thinking this isn't
Speaker 1: the Clinton's Hillary wants to get in. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: you never know. I mean, I have no idea, but
Speaker 1: you do know their motives aren't particularly pure. What they're
Speaker 1: really saying is they don't like Democratic voters. That's what
Speaker 1: they're really saying. They're really saying we know better than
Speaker 1: you do. It's sort of like when you know, you
Speaker 1: watch fake news CNN and they're laughing all Trump voters
Speaker 1: ha ha, harn M lines and m map and all
Speaker 1: that stuff that they were doing the other night on
Speaker 1: Don Lemon Show. Well, I think that's pretty revealing. They
Speaker 1: don't particularly like Donald Trump's supporters because they think they
Speaker 1: know better than we do. That's why the term irredeemable,
Speaker 1: deplorable soul noxious Trump supporters. That's why smelly Trump voting,
Speaker 1: Walmart shoppers, wow, Peter Struck, it smelled them all the
Speaker 1: way far away or Obama. You know these bitter you
Speaker 1: know people in Pennsylvania that cling to God. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: I cling to God. Guilty is charged, our constitution guilty.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, our Bibles and our religion guilty, guilty is charged.
Speaker 1: Irredeemable Yeah, deplorable, Sure, if you want to call me that,
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Smelly I like Walmart, you know, I
Speaker 1: like Walmart. They have everything and it's all cheap. You
Speaker 1: got you save money. That's a good thing. Michael Moore's
Speaker 1: not standing for this. He's ticked off of this. It
Speaker 1: looks like every Birdie's supporters gonna get pissed off this time.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how that ends. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's going to end particularly well for them. M Well,
Speaker 1: the the show, if you will, is almost over now,
Speaker 1: it's all but done. And that directly has to do
Speaker 1: with the issue of this sham impeachment. This is all
Speaker 1: we've gotten from these Democrats for four consecutive solid years.
Speaker 1: Have they done a thing to make this country safer
Speaker 1: or more secure? Nothing, even those that supported a border
Speaker 1: wall soon as Donald Trump supported it. No, that's racist. No,
Speaker 1: it's a manufactured crisis. I mean, that's spectacular hypocrisy. And
Speaker 1: it was Russia, Russia, Russia, impeach, impeach, impeach, all through
Speaker 1: twenty the end of twenty sixteen. Immediately thereafter Washington Post
Speaker 1: within hours of the inauguration of Donald Trump, talk of
Speaker 1: impeachment has begun. Wow, because they don't like what the
Speaker 1: who the American people chose either. That's why I say,
Speaker 1: you have the power as the ultimate jury. You now
Speaker 1: have the power. We the people have the power. They
Speaker 1: can't stop us. They can't stop you. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you want voting information, we try to make it
Speaker 1: information friendly. Went to register in your state, who might
Speaker 1: be running for Congress in your district, early voting time periods,
Speaker 1: absentee voting process. We put it all up on Hannity
Speaker 1: dot Com for your convenience. So if you're interested in
Speaker 1: shocking the world in two hundred and seventy four days,
Speaker 1: maybe you'll go to Hannity dot Com. I was glad
Speaker 1: that Senator Lindsey Graham made it very clear today, while
Speaker 1: impeachment may be over, his investigation of these Democrats and
Speaker 1: this impeachment hoax, which is the latest hoax, they've done
Speaker 1: nothing to keep us, you know, safe or secure. They've
Speaker 1: done nothing for prosperity, having created a single job. They've
Speaker 1: done nothing but hate Donald Trump and just viciously attack
Speaker 1: him and his supporters for three years. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a good platform to run on. When you hear
Speaker 1: what they want to do, it almost makes Barack Obama
Speaker 1: look like a moderate. Obama didn't work out very well
Speaker 1: for the country, with thirteen million more Americans on food
Speaker 1: stamps and eight million more in poverty, and the lowest
Speaker 1: labor participation rate since the seventies, and he took on
Speaker 1: more debt than you know, all forty three presidents before
Speaker 1: him combined Donald Trump's Now, well, I think he's doing
Speaker 1: all the things that somebody needs to do. If if
Speaker 1: you want to be reelected, are you better off than
Speaker 1: you are four years ago? Check? Okay, did you keep
Speaker 1: your promises? Check? Like you kept up almost all of them.
Speaker 1: Did you you know? Are things better? Eight million new jobs,
Speaker 1: millions out of poverty, eight million fewer Americans on food stamps? Check?
Speaker 1: What about those trade deals? Check? China two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty billion in two years to help farmers, our service industry,
Speaker 1: our energy sector, or manufacturers, our car manufacturers. Wow, nobody
Speaker 1: thought the China deal would get done. No, he got
Speaker 1: the deal now with Canada. Mexico got the deal done
Speaker 1: with Japan. By the way, as far as Mexico, we
Speaker 1: have a better deal that means we'll making more money.
Speaker 1: They're kind of paying for the wall and a roundabout way,
Speaker 1: aren't they better deals with our Western European allies? Has
Speaker 1: he gotten us into these long established entanglements abroad? Nope.
Speaker 1: Showed a lot of restraint with Iran after they shot
Speaker 1: down two drones that people didn't think he'd show, or
Speaker 1: when they were taking tankers hostage in the Straits of Hormus.
Speaker 1: I think the President did a pretty good job, even
Speaker 1: after they tried to interrupt the free flow of oil,
Speaker 1: of market prices and take out the Saudi oil industry.
Speaker 1: He didn't respond that either, But when the Iranians killed Americans,
Speaker 1: he responded. He responded. Then he did take out the
Speaker 1: Caliphate in Syria when he just simply removed the handcuffs,
Speaker 1: which are the rules of engagement of Biden and Obama,
Speaker 1: and let the military do their job and bomb them.
Speaker 1: I'm the living hell out of them. Baghdaddy, He's dead.
Speaker 1: Solomani's dead. Around number one state sponsor terror. That terror
Speaker 1: was led by Solomani. That's a pretty big deal, I guess,
Speaker 1: except if you're a Democrat. They were too busy Russia,
Speaker 1: Russia and Peach and Peach Ukraine, Ukraine. Now I know.
Speaker 1: The Inspector General's report validated everything I told you about
Speaker 1: the dirty Russian dossier that Hillary paid for, and how
Speaker 1: that was the bulk of information, and the visa applications
Speaker 1: and the DJ affirming Yep, they were fraudulently obtained to
Speaker 1: spy on Carter page than I am, his civil liberties
Speaker 1: and his basic fundamental civil rights and that it was
Speaker 1: used as a backdoor to spy on a presidential candidate. Wow,
Speaker 1: they cheated Bernie, they tried to, you know, cheat Trump.
Speaker 1: Remember even the New York Times finally came around that
Speaker 1: Russian dossier full will full of nothing now but debunked lies, hookers, bads,
Speaker 1: urinating and Trump's rits, Carlton room in Moscow. It was
Speaker 1: all false, leaked to conspiracy theorists, the compliant, you know,
Speaker 1: state run media, the mob, the ninety nine percent of media,
Speaker 1: you know is a cough corn. Yeah, they're all leaking
Speaker 1: all this crap, you know. And what's Pelosi saying today,
Speaker 1: after knowing it's all over. Ukraine has done well, we'll
Speaker 1: see what we do next after Trump is acquitted. Oh,
Speaker 1: she wants to drag the country through more of this
Speaker 1: and more. Unhinged Pelosi suggesting Trump's impeachment lawyers should be disbarred.
Speaker 1: Why because they won, Because they did a good job,
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Because I thought Justice Roberts frankly showed more
Speaker 1: gave more leeway to Democrats than I even thought was
Speaker 1: ever permissible. All the hearsay witness testimony, he allowed, all
Speaker 1: of the opinion testimony, He allowed, even allowed the Muller
Speaker 1: Report to be dragged into this, but still there was
Speaker 1: no case. While John Bolton may say that the president
Speaker 1: said he was going to link funding to any release
Speaker 1: of funds, but the truth is he didn't, did he
Speaker 1: and neither and the Ukrainians say it, And they got
Speaker 1: all the money, every penny, and they announced nothing. They wouldn't.
Speaker 1: They never announced an investigation. All true, you know, So
Speaker 1: this is a spectacular win, but it's so sad and
Speaker 1: the damage so real for the country. We all love
Speaker 1: impeachment Democrats raging for an election interference. You know, they
Speaker 1: can't explain the dirty Clinton dossier. You got Kim Jeffries,
Speaker 1: New York Congressman, arguing on Thursday that Steele and the
Speaker 1: dossier did not constitute part medalling in an election because
Speaker 1: it was purchased. That's how nuts they got, you know,
Speaker 1: they all exonerate quit and pro and quo and Joe
Speaker 1: and zero experience Hunter being paid million, millions of dollars
Speaker 1: eighty three thousand a month. Average American family of four
Speaker 1: makes hundred fifty four grand a year. There's a great piece.
Speaker 1: Georgetown law professor, I've not heard of him before. His
Speaker 1: name is Randy Barnetti as a professor who points out
Speaker 1: that they brought an incomplete case to the Senate. That
Speaker 1: was my point, and it's not the Senate's role, he said,
Speaker 1: to finish it. By the way, the biggest loser in
Speaker 1: all this is Joe Biden, because the one that did
Speaker 1: it was Joe Biden. You're not getting the billion unless
Speaker 1: you fired the prosecutor that's investigating my zero experience sun
Speaker 1: being paid millions. They brought an incomplete case to the Senate.
Speaker 1: It's not the Senate's role to finish it. This professor's right.
Speaker 1: They're tasked in the Senate with reviewing the evidence gathered
Speaker 1: by the House and making a judgment on whether or
Speaker 1: not to remove the president. Too bad, Senator Romney didn't
Speaker 1: understand the simple basics of the Constitution. Beyond disappointing from
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney. Based on what I've seen the professor goes
Speaker 1: on with my own eyes these last few years, I
Speaker 1: am convinced the US would be very well served to
Speaker 1: intensely review every single case that Adam shift has ever prosecuted. Wow,
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. By the way, Lindsey Graham
Speaker 1: said so, said as much and Lindsey Graham's going to
Speaker 1: go forward with that. And you know, it's even interesting
Speaker 1: because in a rare moment of candor, even over at
Speaker 1: fake News CNN, they're lamenting the fact that the president
Speaker 1: and having survived the Mueller conspiracy theory hoax and now
Speaker 1: the shift show, the Schumer shift show, sham show, that quote,
Speaker 1: he will be stronger than ever good, you know what,
Speaker 1: because he's getting good things done for the country, for we,
Speaker 1: the people that they're all supposed to serve. All they
Speaker 1: seem to be serving in their own personal interests. All
Speaker 1: I desire, will Caucus stay well of the latest on this,
Speaker 1: All right, all closing arguments done. The acquittal vote is
Speaker 1: now in schedule. That will happen on Wednesday around four o'clock.
Speaker 1: During the show, the vote is scheduled. We will get
Speaker 1: to all of that. The Democratic Party and complete chaos
Speaker 1: meltdown and they're trying to again cheat Bernie. We will
Speaker 1: get your calls in and a lot of you have
Speaker 1: been been calling about Rush. Yes, our thoughts and prayers
Speaker 1: are with him as he moves towards his recovery, and
Speaker 1: we look forward to having him back on the air
Speaker 1: on Thursday. We'll get to all of that. Eight hundred
Speaker 1: nine four one sewn is our number, quick break, right back,
Speaker 1: final hour, free for all, straight ahead, all right, clad
Speaker 1: you with us, toll free eight hundred nine four one
Speaker 1: sean if you want to be a part of this
Speaker 1: extravaganza of you're just joining us. There is sad news today,
Speaker 1: but I am I just believe in medicine and science
Speaker 1: and miracles too. And I know I know what Rush
Speaker 1: means to this conservative audience because I know what he
Speaker 1: means to every conservative in the country. And as I
Speaker 1: said in the first hour of the show today, I
Speaker 1: would not be doing this job if people like him
Speaker 1: didn't pave the way for all of us that followed
Speaker 1: behind him, all of us. And anyway, he's getting treated.
Speaker 1: He announced that he had lung cancer, that he's being
Speaker 1: treated and he will be doing his show as often
Speaker 1: as he can and going through the treatment, which you know,
Speaker 1: it's just so we all know people have gone through this.
Speaker 1: It's so hard. You never want that for people you
Speaker 1: love and care about, and in his case, somebody that
Speaker 1: has almost single handedly advanced the conservative movement in modern
Speaker 1: day since he first syndicated in nineteen eighty eight, and
Speaker 1: my prayer and what his prayer was is for a
Speaker 1: speedy recovery. That's what we're looking for. That's what we're
Speaker 1: hoping for. Anyway, we got a lot happening. So you
Speaker 1: got all those chaos with the Democratic Party. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Iowa Caucuses today, we have the State of the Union tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Then you got the acquittal on Wednesday. And at what point, though,
Speaker 1: does the media mob, At what point do the Democrats
Speaker 1: ever pay the price for the damage, the destruction, the divisiveness,
Speaker 1: the wreckage. They'll lies, the conspiracy theories, the hoaxes, the slander,
Speaker 1: the smears, the besmirchment. Because that's all we've gotten out
Speaker 1: of them for three years. You know, I used to
Speaker 1: always complain every two in four years, we always get
Speaker 1: the same thing. Republicans are racist, they are sexist, They're misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic.
Speaker 1: That their plan is for dirty air and dirty water,
Speaker 1: Obama once said. And of course they don't care about
Speaker 1: old people. They want grandma and grandpa to eat cat
Speaker 1: food or dog food. Before Paul Ryan look alike will
Speaker 1: show up in a commercial, I guess now it'll be
Speaker 1: Givin McCarthy and throw your grandmother and grandfather over the cliff.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much. But now it's even worse than that.
Speaker 1: And it's never been this bad with the mob in
Speaker 1: the media. It's never been this bad because you know,
Speaker 1: look look at for example, this Schumer, this Schumer shift
Speaker 1: sham impeachment show. Now to get there, the mob and
Speaker 1: the media and the Democrats, they have to ignore a
Speaker 1: real quid pro quote with real laws in play. The
Speaker 1: good news is is that Lindsey Graham says, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm looking into this, as are other people. But we
Speaker 1: see even three years the muellerhax. All right, we got
Speaker 1: the inspector General report. Inspector General doesn't have the ability
Speaker 1: to convene a grand jury and push charges. Now, he
Speaker 1: did make referrals, and that means criminal referrals for call
Speaker 1: me and McCabe lacking candor, people like Michael Flynn. General Flynn,
Speaker 1: he ends up getting charged when is Comey gonna get
Speaker 1: charged because it sounds like the same thing or McCabe
Speaker 1: the same issue we're struck in page The only difference
Speaker 1: here is it takes forever to get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of the great injustice, And I hope we better get
Speaker 1: that fixed, because otherwise we won't have anything that resembles
Speaker 1: equal justice under the law in this country. We would
Speaker 1: never will We'll never have it equal application of our laws. Now,
Speaker 1: John Durham and the Attorney General Bart, they're not living
Speaker 1: in the with the confines that General Inspector General Harrowitz
Speaker 1: had because he could only narrowly look at what he
Speaker 1: could see within the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Speaker 1: By the way, not the ninety nine percent great people.
Speaker 1: This investigation has taken them far and wide and abroad.
Speaker 1: They now even said, yeah, a spying on a candidate, occurred,
Speaker 1: on a transition team occurred. Deep Attorney General bars words
Speaker 1: flying into the presidency. They've now even confirmed Yeah, those
Speaker 1: fives applications, Yeah, yeah they were issued. Yeah, No, that
Speaker 1: was improper, meaning laws were broken. So I'm gonna tell you,
Speaker 1: but one good piece of news on that front. By
Speaker 1: the way, there was a there was a piece and
Speaker 1: editorial board piece in the New York Post about how
Speaker 1: the case against General Flynn is now in a full collapse.
Speaker 1: This is how we treat people that serve their country
Speaker 1: for thirty one years, including in war zones. Yeah, combat
Speaker 1: guess that's how we do that. We do things. If
Speaker 1: you're a conservative, you get one set of justice. You're
Speaker 1: a liberally get a whole entire set of justice. Pretty
Speaker 1: sad and pretty sick. But more importantly, even more more,
Speaker 1: it is so dangerous. Um I was going to play today,
Speaker 1: I won't do it today. We might get to it tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll definitely get some of it on TV. I was
Speaker 1: very happy. I've been in radio thirty one years now
Speaker 1: and I'm now my twenty fourth year, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: a Fox, and I got an opportunity of a lifetime
Speaker 1: and by the way, we were up I think two
Speaker 1: and a half million viewers from whatever the interview that
Speaker 1: Margaret Brennan did with the president last year. I was
Speaker 1: pretty happy about that. Thank you for watching and the
Speaker 1: part of the pregame show. But you only have eight
Speaker 1: and a half minutes. So that's why I did the
Speaker 1: lightning round. That made a lot of news. We'll play
Speaker 1: some of it, will play some of what we played
Speaker 1: yesterday and some of what we played that we didn't play.
Speaker 1: But the interview went on a little bit longer. We
Speaker 1: gave us some extra time, which was nice. And anyway,
Speaker 1: so it was it was interesting and what a football
Speaker 1: game it was. It was amazing, wasn't it. I don't
Speaker 1: you know what football to me is like our gladiator sport.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the athleticism. And I know there
Speaker 1: was criticism of the halftime show. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: little racy. I'm kind of used to it now, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't really surprise me. It was an awarddrobe malfunctions,
Speaker 1: so I guess we're on the upside of it. I
Speaker 1: will tell you just the athleticism of you know, athletes
Speaker 1: now hard. They work to play their season, to stay
Speaker 1: strong and fit at the top of their game. Only
Speaker 1: a tiny percentage of college football players ever make the pros.
Speaker 1: And then I saw incredible athleticism during the halftime show.
Speaker 1: I was blown away. I mean, incredible athleticism coupled with
Speaker 1: the music, and that impressed me a lot. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the two ads that the President ran were pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: They'd been given our heads up from a source that
Speaker 1: this might happen and that there was going to be
Speaker 1: I was told maybe an ad on Alice Murray Johnson,
Speaker 1: but then I saw it for myself. Now, she's one
Speaker 1: of the most inspirational people I've ever known. I've interviewed
Speaker 1: Alice Murray Johnson. She's gonna be on the show to Mars,
Speaker 1: She's gonna be on TV, Amazing woman. She was sentenced
Speaker 1: to life in prison. I'll play the ad, but you
Speaker 1: gotta remember that a lot of it was actually written
Speaker 1: on the screen. And she never thought she was ever
Speaker 1: getting out of prison. And rather than just give up,
Speaker 1: she built her own prison ministry and she would counsel
Speaker 1: younger inmates and do Bible studies with younger inmates to
Speaker 1: help change their lives, and she did. She never thought
Speaker 1: she'd get out. So the ad has written Alice Marie Johnson.
Speaker 1: Alice Johnson was sentenced to serve life in prison for
Speaker 1: a non violent drug offense. Thanks to President Trump, people
Speaker 1: like Alice are getting a second chance. Then you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear the moment when she came out. I remember one moment.
Speaker 1: It wasn't part of the ad where she said, I
Speaker 1: want to thank the American people. I won't let you down,
Speaker 1: thank you for giving me a second chance. But in
Speaker 1: this at it says I'm free to hug my family again,
Speaker 1: free to start over. Politicians, you know it's written that
Speaker 1: they all talk about criminal justice reformed. President Trump got
Speaker 1: it done. Then you hear Alice again, this is the
Speaker 1: greatest day of my life. My heart is bursting with gratitude.
Speaker 1: Then it says written thousands of families are being reunited.
Speaker 1: Then you hear Alice Johnson, and Donald Trump says, I'll
Speaker 1: let you hear the rest yourself. And I'm Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I approve of this message. Listen, I'm free to hunt,
Speaker 1: I'm free to start over. This is the greatest day
Speaker 1: of my life. My heart is just bursted with gratitude.
Speaker 1: I want to thank President Donald john Trump. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message. You know,
Speaker 1: if you look at these statistics, amazing, isn't it Liberals,
Speaker 1: big cities, decades of rule. How's it working out in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore? How is it? You
Speaker 1: know we're promised, oh, you got to keep your doctor
Speaker 1: your plan and save money on average twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars per family per year. Well we're now all paying
Speaker 1: almost two hundred percent more. Almost forty percent of this
Speaker 1: country only has one healthcare Obamacare exchange option one. That's it.
Speaker 1: What happened to keep your doctor in plan? Lies. What
Speaker 1: do you think the new Greeden Deal is lies? What
Speaker 1: do you think free everything is lies? It's unsustainable. Nobody
Speaker 1: ever asked them in the mob because they just hate Trump.
Speaker 1: They want Trump out now. The second ad, well, I'll
Speaker 1: just play it and let you hear it yourself. America
Speaker 1: demanded change. Donald Trump wills the president, and change is
Speaker 1: what we got under President Trump. America is stronger, safer,
Speaker 1: and more prosperous than ever before, the best twitch growth.
Speaker 1: I think we've seen almost a decade unemployment rate sinking
Speaker 1: to a forty nine year low. I play in African
Speaker 1: Americans are well. Unemployment for Hispanics here, all time record low.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the best, and Donald J. Trump can
Speaker 1: I approved this message. Biden Obama had eight years, thirteen
Speaker 1: million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty,
Speaker 1: now millions out of poverty, about eight million off of
Speaker 1: food stamps, and about eight million new jobs, including the
Speaker 1: manufacturing jobs that Obama's that are never coming back. They're back.
Speaker 1: And then the trade deals, and then the originalist justices
Speaker 1: and then dollar amount, the largest tax cut in American history,
Speaker 1: the biggest reduction ever in the bureaucracy, ending burdensome regulations. Wow,
Speaker 1: conservatism works trade deal with China that get this two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty billion in two years only that helps
Speaker 1: farmers all across our country. Are the greatest farmers in
Speaker 1: the world. Nobody's better than us. And our service industries
Speaker 1: are benefiting. The energy sector, the car industry, manufacturing, they're
Speaker 1: all benefit from that two hundred and twenty billion dollars
Speaker 1: deal alone. Nobody thought he'd get that done. He got
Speaker 1: it done, and a new deal with China, Japan, and
Speaker 1: a deal with Mexico and Canada and our Western European allies.
Speaker 1: And then he takes out the entire Caliphate because he
Speaker 1: let the military do their job. Wow, and we're not
Speaker 1: having we don't have boots on the ground. Then he
Speaker 1: took out Baghdaddy and associates. Then he took out Solomani.
Speaker 1: Not one good word from Democrats on that either. So
Speaker 1: these are amazing times. But the Alexander a quid and
Speaker 1: pro and quote Joe, you're not getting the billion, and
Speaker 1: they'll come up with a new conspiracy theory after three
Speaker 1: straight years of lies and conspiracy theories. It's unbelievable. Some unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You know these are we have. This is beyond an
Speaker 1: information crisis. Linda, you can tell James what to bring
Speaker 1: in here. Thank you, if you don't mind, please Um.
Speaker 1: These are amazing times. But here's the good news. Two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four days, the ultimate jury is you,
Speaker 1: and you can shock the world again. Imagine for a
Speaker 1: second we at fake news CNN, we had conspiracy TV,
Speaker 1: state run TV MS, DNC can now project Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump has been reelected the forty fifth president. I can't
Speaker 1: make that happen, but you can, all right. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you've been out there. Steve Scolis at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, let me get to let's
Speaker 1: say hi to Ronda Indiana. Hey, Rohnda. We'll be watching
Speaker 1: you in two hundred and seventy four days from now.
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm great, Sean, It's so nice to
Speaker 1: hear your voice again. Hey. I want to tell you
Speaker 1: something personally. I was listening to the impeachment the other day,
Speaker 1: just here in my home, and I just was feeling
Speaker 1: the heaviness and the bruising that this whole debacle as
Speaker 1: laid on our country. And I remember something that Vice
Speaker 1: President Pence's assistant had told us recently at the White House.
Speaker 1: She just said, we need encouragement. And I thought of you.
Speaker 1: I thought of you and the way that you fight
Speaker 1: to bring truth, and I thought of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: And so here in the quietness of my Midwestern home,
Speaker 1: I got down on my knees on the floor and
Speaker 1: I prayed for you by name, and I prayed for
Speaker 1: Trump and his administration because I wanted God. I want
Speaker 1: God to encourage your hearts, to strengthen you with resolve
Speaker 1: for the battle. And I pray as the mother of
Speaker 1: four boys. Believe me, I'm acquainted with the power of prayer.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing like having a praying mother on your side.
Speaker 1: And so I pray as a mother. I pray for
Speaker 1: my fellow Americans, because even the ones who are doing
Speaker 1: their worst are still my fellow Americans. And I may
Speaker 1: disagree strongly with their ideas, and I may work hard
Speaker 1: to see them defeated, But if I allow my heart
Speaker 1: to slide into hatred for them, then it will only
Speaker 1: entrap and ensnare me, and I refuse to let that happen. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, let me, let me let me, because
Speaker 1: I don't have a few seconds. Let me just say something.
Speaker 1: I humbly thank you. I believe in prayer. Rusha's announcement
Speaker 1: today makes me pray for him. It's not you know,
Speaker 1: you worry about us taking these barbs or whatever. It's
Speaker 1: an honor for all of us to be able to
Speaker 1: do this every day. And I'll tell you there are
Speaker 1: things worth fighting for, and the future of our country
Speaker 1: is one of them. And what some have done the
Speaker 1: last three years is beyond despicable, culminating in you know
Speaker 1: what will lend on Thursday at four o'clock, two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy four days Rhonda, there you can pray for that. Too.
Speaker 1: Remarkable is you now have Republican senators coming out and saying, yes,
Speaker 1: the House proved its case. The House proved the corrupt
Speaker 1: scheme that they charge in the article's impeachment the President
Speaker 1: did withhold hundreds and millions of dollars from an ally
Speaker 1: to try to course that ally into helping him cheat
Speaker 1: in the next election. That's pretty remarkable when you now
Speaker 1: have senators on both sides of the aisle admitting the
Speaker 1: House made its case and the only question is should
Speaker 1: the president be removed for office? Because he's been found
Speaker 1: guilty of these offenses. I think it's enormously important that
Speaker 1: the country understand exactly what this president did, and we
Speaker 1: have proved it. I also think it's important that the
Speaker 1: Senate take the next step having found him guilty. If
Speaker 1: indeed that's what they have found, they need to remove
Speaker 1: him from office because he is threatening to still cheat
Speaker 1: in the next election by soliciting foreign interference. Right there,
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, it's just endless, never ending, never ending,
Speaker 1: NonStop exation, lies, propaganda, misinformation, and that, of course the
Speaker 1: congenital liar himself who's compromised in the case, the only
Speaker 1: guy we know that is colluding on tape with somebody
Speaker 1: believes to be a Russian that has compromising Man, what's
Speaker 1: the nature of the compromise? Naked pict of throm does
Speaker 1: watermir No, the only guy it is the only guy
Speaker 1: that is on tape doing it. But he exonerates quit
Speaker 1: and pro Quo and Joe and zero experience Hunter. That
Speaker 1: is the breathtaking hypocrisy that is the Democratic Party today,
Speaker 1: that is now that they ought not and can never
Speaker 1: be rewarded for this type of behavior, because I'll tell
Speaker 1: you if they are it is. It will be the
Speaker 1: biggest travesty of justice ever. Now, this, this acquittal is real,
Speaker 1: It is spectacular. This was a tail. You're from the
Speaker 1: get go. There's a I don't know the guy a
Speaker 1: Georgetown law professor's name is Randy Barnett, and he wrote
Speaker 1: this piece. It was devastating and about the articles of impeachment,
Speaker 1: and he pointed out that criticizing senators for rejecting the
Speaker 1: substance of the House case is different than criticizing them
Speaker 1: for not allowing the House to correct the deficits in
Speaker 1: the Senates in the case. And the Senate that's not
Speaker 1: their job. Quote. They brought an incomplete case to the Senate.
Speaker 1: It's not the Senate's role to finish it. They are
Speaker 1: tasked with reviewing the evidence gathered by the House and
Speaker 1: making a judgment on whether or not to remove a president.
Speaker 1: Based on what I've seen with my own eyes these
Speaker 1: last few years, I am convinced that the USA would
Speaker 1: be very well served to intensely review every single case
Speaker 1: that Adam Schiff ever prosecuted. And wow, and Lindsey Graham,
Speaker 1: by the way, agrees with that sentiment. Here, you know,
Speaker 1: did he orchestrate the whole scheme. Now you know what
Speaker 1: role did he and his office play in all of this,
Speaker 1: because look at what he's now done to the country
Speaker 1: twice because he lied for three years on Russia. Russia.
Speaker 1: Remember when Devin Newness he said, Devin Nuness didn't tell
Speaker 1: the truth. The Nunaz meant memo. Everything Newness put out
Speaker 1: was true and accurate and confirmed by the Inspector General.
Speaker 1: Everything that Shift said about, oh no, no, he stood
Speaker 1: up for the dossier as credible and said, no, no,
Speaker 1: it was not the basis of the entire AFISA applications.
Speaker 1: He's lied spectacularly again and again and again. And at
Speaker 1: some point here I would say that we need to
Speaker 1: know whether or not this guy in his office, the
Speaker 1: congenital liar in his office, coordinated with the whistleblower to
Speaker 1: create a case of impeachment against the president. And as
Speaker 1: this professor says, I would go as so far as
Speaker 1: to say he may belong in jail. Not only distracted
Speaker 1: the country, he has created further division between Americans. I
Speaker 1: find Shift to be a malevolent, dishonest figure. And it
Speaker 1: goes on from there. Anyway, we have with us the
Speaker 1: Republican whip, our good friend, Congressman Steve Scalise, Louisiana. You
Speaker 1: know I have not asked you in a long time.
Speaker 1: I need to take a minute. I know that your
Speaker 1: recovery has been long. When you got shot in the
Speaker 1: ball field that day, I know you faced other surgery
Speaker 1: since then. How are you doing, Hey, Sean, great to
Speaker 1: be back with you. Appreciate it. I'm doing really well.
Speaker 1: In fact, my New Year's resolution in twenty nineteen was
Speaker 1: to end the year not having to use my crutches anymore,
Speaker 1: and starting in January, I've been walking without a crutch.
Speaker 1: So God has been good and the recovery keeps going well,
Speaker 1: still doing physical therapy, but getting better every day. Wow.
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget one year later that incredible play
Speaker 1: you made well you're playing second base. Wow, it was amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, So look, I think this professor from George
Speaker 1: Town has a really interesting point. And you know Pelosi
Speaker 1: is now warn'ting we'll see what we do next after
Speaker 1: Trump's acquitted and saying his impeachment lawyers should be disbarred.
Speaker 1: There's something so ugly and twisted about this tempered tantrum
Speaker 1: now that has gone on three years. Yeah, it's been disgraceful.
Speaker 1: It's been such a personal political vendetta Seawan, And that's
Speaker 1: been clear from the beginning. This was never a search
Speaker 1: for truth. In fact, they hid the truth. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: let us bring the witnesses we wanted who could clearly
Speaker 1: contradict their narrative, the false narrative that Adam Shift and
Speaker 1: so many others said. But even with their witnesses, we
Speaker 1: took their witnesses one at a time, and they were
Speaker 1: asked to under oath, can you name an impeachable offense?
Speaker 1: Not one was their bribery. No was their answer under oath.
Speaker 1: And yet they still moved forward because their radical left
Speaker 1: base wanted to impeach him since the day he took office.
Speaker 1: And I think everybody has seen that through this trial,
Speaker 1: the kind of the personal, seething hatred they have for
Speaker 1: him and his president, and Trump has pointed out it's
Speaker 1: not just President Trump they're going after. These are the
Speaker 1: millions and millions of people, the hard working men and
Speaker 1: women who had been left behind by Washington, people in
Speaker 1: both parties that this president has fought for and delivered
Speaker 1: for time and time again. That's who they really are
Speaker 1: going after. And President Trump is not letting it get
Speaker 1: him down, and he keeps doing his job, keeps focusing
Speaker 1: on what he needs to do to deliver for those people.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why he's going to get reelected
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty in a few months. Well, that's why
Speaker 1: the ultimate jury speaks in two hundred and seventy four days,
Speaker 1: you know, and whatever satisfied, well, he's impeached. That's forever.
Speaker 1: We stuck compeachment on his you know, I'm like, uh,
Speaker 1: nobody really cares, Nancy. I mean, because we know well
Speaker 1: he will. He will end up going down as is
Speaker 1: one of only two presidents in history to be acquitted
Speaker 1: with the majority vote of the Senate, and so the
Speaker 1: acquittal will be forever. Two if Pelosi did this just
Speaker 1: to try to put something on him, or to put
Speaker 1: a skin on her wall so that she could go
Speaker 1: home to a radical base who who said we won't
Speaker 1: let you be speaker unless you teach him and that
Speaker 1: with the aocs of the world. You can go back
Speaker 1: and look at their tweets. They bullied and threatened Pelosi
Speaker 1: into doing this, and that's why they did it, not
Speaker 1: because there were facts. The phone call. Everybody's read the
Speaker 1: phone transcript and Zolinski himself said there was no pressure.
Speaker 1: The Foreign Minister of Ukraine said they got the money.
Speaker 1: There was never pressure. Trump did, by the way, more
Speaker 1: than Obama and Biden ever did to help Ukraine. I
Speaker 1: never heard them calling for helping Ukraine. Back when Obama
Speaker 1: was president, when he said, no, I won't sell you
Speaker 1: javelin missiles to stand up to Russia. Trump stood up
Speaker 1: for Ukraine, stood up to Russia. He's the one who
Speaker 1: delivered let me, let me go. You know, we're still
Speaker 1: in the process. We had the Inspector General report, Michael Harrowitz.
Speaker 1: It confirmed nearly three long years, congressmen of digging deep,
Speaker 1: a deep dive on this program and unpeeling every layer
Speaker 1: of the onion. And yeah, it's all true. The Espionage
Speaker 1: Act was violated. Yeah she did delete subpoena emails and
Speaker 1: bleached bit And yeah Hillary paid for a nerdy Russian
Speaker 1: dossier that even the New York Times now refers to
Speaker 1: his likely Russian disinformation from the beginning that became the
Speaker 1: bulk of information to deny an American and civil liberties
Speaker 1: and civil rights. That would be Carter page, but more importantly,
Speaker 1: using Carter page to spy on a campaign, the Trump campaign,
Speaker 1: than the Trump transition team, than the Trump presidency. And
Speaker 1: now we're looking into whether there was outsourcing of even
Speaker 1: further spying, and that will be in Durham's reign under
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess, under his umbrella. When that comes out,
Speaker 1: maybe in May, we never get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: When are we going to get to the bottom of
Speaker 1: a report all the lies of Adam Schiff, starting with
Speaker 1: what he's done and said on Russia and ending with
Speaker 1: this colossal Ukrainian lie. Well, if it would be the
Speaker 1: longest dossier we've ever seen, But you just go back
Speaker 1: to the the initial Muller report, the investigation, and the
Speaker 1: whole time throughout twenty two months, and all of the
Speaker 1: the whole time you heard Shifts saying he had more
Speaker 1: seawan more than circumstantial evidence that the president colluded with Russia,
Speaker 1: and of course there was no colluding with Russia. The
Speaker 1: report comes out and shows that, And does Adam Shift
Speaker 1: get held accountable by the mainstream media who in the
Speaker 1: mainstream media said, hey, Adam Shift, show me what that
Speaker 1: evidence was that you had, because clearly he didn't, he
Speaker 1: didn't see it Muller didn't see it because it didn't exist,
Speaker 1: and yet he was still given a free pass to
Speaker 1: go onto these other things. But the Durham report, to me,
Speaker 1: Sean is going to be really important because that goes
Speaker 1: to the heart of Durham online to the Inspector General Harrowitz,
Speaker 1: that Durham has the ability his purview goes well beyond
Speaker 1: just the DOJ and the FBI. So in many ways
Speaker 1: Harrowitz was in a bubble. Nor does he have the
Speaker 1: ability to convene a grand jury. And in diet now
Speaker 1: he did make referrals against Comy pay I, Guess Komy
Speaker 1: and McCabe and others, but nothing ever comes of it.
Speaker 1: Why you know, where's the equal justice under the law, Congressman, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there needs to be in Look, I mean, I have
Speaker 1: the full utmost respect for intelligence agencies, but there were
Speaker 1: serious problems within those intelligence agencies, and we've already uncovered
Speaker 1: some of it. Devin nunezs who you alluded to, started
Speaker 1: to expose this and that were that there were people
Speaker 1: within those agencies that were using their badge, their privilege
Speaker 1: as members of our intelligence agencies to carry out their
Speaker 1: dislike of Donald Trump, to use as they called it,
Speaker 1: the insurance policy. When you have a badge, you check
Speaker 1: your political views at the door, and you're there to
Speaker 1: just carry out the laws and administer justice. And that's
Speaker 1: not what some of those people were doing. And it
Speaker 1: gives everybody else a black eye. And so I would
Speaker 1: hope that they go back and name names and put
Speaker 1: people in jail who abused their power to try to
Speaker 1: literally take out a sitting president at the time a
Speaker 1: candidate for president. And now to this day still some
Speaker 1: of that are using their positions of power to try
Speaker 1: to take out a sitting president just because they disagree
Speaker 1: with his views, not because he did anything wrong, but
Speaker 1: because he got elected in twenty sixteen, and they're scared
Speaker 1: to death because the Democrat field is so weak. I mean,
Speaker 1: even John Kerry, for goodness, say he is talking now
Speaker 1: about getting in the race. How must Joe Biden feel.
Speaker 1: He's got John Kerry as a surrogate out there, and
Speaker 1: Kerry is now talking at Joe Biden events about maybe
Speaker 1: getting in the race himself because their field is so weak.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump's got done such a great job delivering
Speaker 1: that was very entertaining when he said not effing true
Speaker 1: and he said, not true, and he said it except
Speaker 1: apparently said it because apparently it was captured by other people,
Speaker 1: the Republicans in the House in particular. You know, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not happy with Senator Mitt Romney, and I've
Speaker 1: made my opinions known and clear, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he cannot get over that he doesn't like Donald Trump's style.
Speaker 1: And I think it's I think it's connected directly to
Speaker 1: his loss in twenty twelve. I may be wrong, but
Speaker 1: for the House, Republicans seem for the first time in many, many,
Speaker 1: many years, like they're getting their backbone back. If you look,
Speaker 1: you know how critical I have been over the years
Speaker 1: of Republicans. I'm not even a Republican. I can't stand
Speaker 1: the Publican party because at times they are so weak.
Speaker 1: But my question to you is, am I right in
Speaker 1: my perception that it's changing and changing for the better? Sean?
Speaker 1: It really is, you know, And I've been so proud
Speaker 1: of of how our conference has come together. And you know,
Speaker 1: within our Republican conference in the House, we have a
Speaker 1: lot of different factions, but all of the factions came together,
Speaker 1: and it's not only supporting President Trump's agenda and look,
Speaker 1: we worked very hard to cut taxes. Even when Democrats
Speaker 1: said they were going to make a partisan I said, hey,
Speaker 1: put me in the party that's for cutting people's taxes
Speaker 1: and making our country competitive. And it's worked. But then
Speaker 1: it's it's all of the other things that this president
Speaker 1: has done too, and then they go after him for it.
Speaker 1: They try to remove him from office for literally for
Speaker 1: following through on the promises, because they don't want him
Speaker 1: to follow through on those promises. And so to see
Speaker 1: everybody's sticking together, it's been I think it's been important,
Speaker 1: and it's it's even some other senators have cited that
Speaker 1: in the trial. They said, you know, Lamar Alexander saw
Speaker 1: the other day he cited when he said he wasn't
Speaker 1: going to call for even more witnesses as you already
Speaker 1: had where a dozen witnesses in everybody else that's given
Speaker 1: all this innuendo, he said, you know, the fact that
Speaker 1: it was a partisan appeachment that all the Republicans took
Speaker 1: together in the House, it's enough time for the I
Speaker 1: think it's time for everybody in Washington to get a message.
Speaker 1: You know, you're there to be servants, serve the people.
Speaker 1: What does it mean when you have a waiter, you're
Speaker 1: a server. I was a server. I guess you don't
Speaker 1: say waiter, waitress, whatever. Server. Serve the people, and that
Speaker 1: means getting their drinks, getting their food on time, ask
Speaker 1: them if they like more butter, can I get you
Speaker 1: something else with that? That's what politicians never do, and
Speaker 1: certainly the president's keeping his promises. I respect it and
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. In the country's better off, Democrats do
Speaker 1: nothing but hate the president. If Republicans will learn from
Speaker 1: what the President is doing, I think it's good politics.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, it's fulfilling a promise to the people
Speaker 1: there to serve. So Steve Slee and it's glad you're
Speaker 1: doing better. President in the face of this, never stopped
Speaker 1: doing his job. However, still every day goes to work
Speaker 1: and he cares about those people, the blue collar men
Speaker 1: and women who were forgotten by Washington. President Trump is
Speaker 1: standing up and delivering real results for them. We all
Speaker 1: need to be there with him and those people that
Speaker 1: don't want this for the country. They've got an opportunity
Speaker 1: in November to go make their case with whatever socialist
Speaker 1: comes out of the Democrat primary. I'm here in Iowa
Speaker 1: on behalf of the president's campaign. We're gonna be putting
Speaker 1: up a strong United front tonight at the caucuses throughout Iowa.
Speaker 1: And I think you're yeah here. Meadows and Jordan are
Speaker 1: there too, Have fun, right, Steve Scalise, All right, Steve Scalise,
Speaker 1: the House Republican Whip eight hundred and ninety four one. Sean,
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the program. Hannity tonight,
Speaker 1: nine Eastern on Fox YEP. Democratic Establishment trying to rip
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Speaker 1: Caucus night, the collapse of the latest hoax of the Democrats.
Speaker 1: We have. Lawrence Jones is in Iowa tonight. We'll get
Speaker 1: to them. Bill Hemmer is there. Our reporters are on
Speaker 1: the ground there also commentary, Eric Trump, call Rove, Ari Fleischer,
Speaker 1: Sarah Sanders, Matt Gates, Chad Program, and Mike huck We'll
Speaker 1: load it up tonight at nine. We'll see you then.
Speaker 1: Many prayers for Rush and he says we'll be back Thursday,
Speaker 1: and we will be back here tomorrow. We'll see you
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